The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-14
STAMFORD

When the council met in adjourned session Wednesday night another | large as that at the first meeting, but large enough, probably in the neigh | borhood of 125. Some of them claim they didn't See much action. It Is even argued by some, perhaps not overly enthusiastic about the new | charter, and perhaps Just because It i is their honest belief. that the new council will not function successfully This seems a good prediction if one of the allegations is true-that some members already have declined to serve on certain committees when named by the chairman, Robert Tdr- ney.
 have been the popular alibi of at least one member. To the cacsual voter, 1 inCid ental1y taxpayer, it would seem as though a person who didn't have time to serve the town on the council should have realized this at time haven't the time they ought to resign and let someone serve who has," was a remark made on the streets yester- day by prominent resident Of Strat- ford for many years.
 All this occurred after the council in the judgment of many. didn't &C., complish much at the Monday and Wednesday meetings.
 Some members of the council ar gued differently. They point to the fact that Robert Turney was elected chairman at the first meeting and that this was considerable of an ac- compIishment. Faced by the fact that the budget, though considered at both meetings, has not been entirely passed upon as far as the council Is concerned, they come back with this, Perhaps it would have been better for Stratford in the past If more time had been taken with the budget.
 Some people too are impatient be- cause a manager has not been chosen On this matter too the council thinks that it will be just well to go slow claimed by some to be the only coun- cil members who are giving the towns affairs the time they deserve. But friends of Turney and Sammis point out that both, the former as member of the Board of Fire Com missioners and the latter as the pro moter" of the new charter, showed themselves capable of giving the town cil be given a few weeks to undo some of the damage that was years being done.
 Newcomers in stratford, who have | not been made to feel overly wei 1 come at some of the civic association 1 gatherings, are becoming disgusted l with the continued haTbitua1 disagree ment. and the disincIination to pull together after an election. forge the 1 contest and "be for Stratford." A remark credited to George Chase 1 some months ago, expresses the feel ings of a lot of the newcomers whose tax money is just as good as anyone elses. This famous remark was that 1 "Stratford people love each other but they don't trust each other
 At the Eli Whitney school on Huntington avenue next "Wednesday night, the first regular meeting of the Civic association of the Eighth
 district since election will be held
 The time is 8 D. n.. and large at | tendance Is urged as important busi- ness is scheduled to come before the | meeting. At the first meeting of this association one of the newcomers rr 3 year ago made nomination,
 Is ck as a flash one of the "old ti-.ers' wanted to know how long the
 nominee and the other principal oi the tragedy had lived in Stratford That describes the situation in Strat-
 ford. But there are more new ! corners" everyday, and lot of them
 have come from progressive com
 nunities, and they are beginning tc
 howl ever so gently, and some day
 they will roar. The new council will
 experience two long long years in the
 opinion of many.
 Aside from riding and "kidding' the council the next excitement ir
 stratford will be the fall chautauqua
 starting Oct. 22. Advertisements ot
 the coming event are scattered ir
 various parts of the town.
 The Bronze Bell' Is the feature al the Stratford theatre tonight.
 Brilliant lights visible on the new Washington bridge for the first time last evening indicate the pressHTe be-
 ing eXert"d by the contreS rl's to have the bridge in operation before
 the heavy traffic on the day of the Yale-Princeton game. However, it is srr1 ro o1x- r-S7 tIox ha 10 the Yaie-Army game next Satur-
 day, predicted to be of Yale bowl
 capacity. will have to buck the line at the old bridge.
 Standard Oil Co. of New York ad- l. vanced price of gasoline 1 cent a ga