The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-11
CLOSED "PENTv
 ROAD MAY BE > CAUSE OF SUIT

When s. E. PoH built bis summer
 castle at Woodmont. just inside the
 borough line towards Merwins Beach,
 a part of Milford as is Woodmont,
 what has been known So old residents
 for many years as the .tpent' road,
 was closed up forever as a, through
 road, unless the October storms in
 years of pounding crumble the PoIi
 estate to bits.
 It is understood that a we'll high
 nigh impossible road to the rear of
 the property was graded and put in
 first class shape by Poli so that travel
 part of the borough better than it
 ever did. This did not appease the
 old timers who liked the idea of re-
 taining the wagon train along the
 beach as it had been in the days when
 the site of the PcH mansion was a
 beautiful grove dear to the memories
 of many a lad who had camped there
 in summers gone by.
 The Town or Milford 1t is believed did not officially give the permission
 to close the road but sort of gentle men's agreement prevailed, and since the Poh estate has been so well kept, condition. and the Po1i property act ing as a sort of natural boundary from the Merwin Beach property, which is of a distinctly different type the matter gradually melted away, and was scarcely heard of.
 Of late years, however. other Woodmont property holders have seemed to think that what is fair for the goose is fair for the gander, and at different points strong stone or concrete sea; walls have been built out, filled in from behind, and lawns made larger in this manner. Some of the Hand grabs'' as described by many, have withstood the ravages of the fall storms, but others have not been so successively and the back of nature'' movement of the heavy seas has discouraged the progressive prop erty holder.
 Enough of the walls have held though to give heart to the occasional newcomer who has purchased prop erty. One of the latest to purchase ! beautiful shore front home was J. Willman, of 16 Fifth street, Derby, i who acquired one of the houses for years occupied by the family of Dr. l MinshalI of Northampton, Mass. He to point of land on the | of G. w. Goodse1l, and soon ! flock of surveyors brought by him | invaded the beach and their activities | would have made a thorough stranger mink a gold or oil strike was in the | ,ffing.
 Evidently unsuccessful in convinc- ng himself that the point of land, which made the approach to new l ,arage difficult, was out of order, were next made to erect retaining wall from the rear of the property to the beach, seven feet west if the boundary line, in what the old imers and some of the newcomers laim steadfastedly is part of the 'riginal IS foot "pent'' road which as never been officially done away with, and which is the only approach he people living back of the water ront have to the beach in this vicinity.
 Opposition to grabbing any more f the "pent" road will no doubt be eavy, and already Dr. M. H. Gill, 735 street, Hartford, a promi- ent specialist with offices in the Con ecticut Mutual building in the Capi- al City, has offered objections, for is property lies just the other side of he ''pent" road, and the construction the wall brought to the height Of he original Willman property, will { radically cut off his view of the Tater. Dr. Gill just a little over a ear ago built a handsome home on 1e location, but declares he will pack D and move away if he has to con end with that sort of neighborliness.
 G. w. Goodsen. who originally 'oint, before any roads other than l he pent were even thought of , nd years before the trol1eys invaded / he section, is believed to have better nowledge and better blue prints, ome made years ago, than even the : resent Milford town officials. He is e1ping straighten out those who ome to him for advice, as he still stains a goodly portion of the prop rty, and he is enjoying the spectacle / or 1t is evident that some of the ' lost positive participants in the ar ! ument, entered into at several meet 1gs attended by many property !. wners, are along ways from having 1e up and down. of where lines ' lould be if they were really where z 1ey technically ''should' be. and 'me rather hurried running for cover nd abandoning of Qualifications" tight have to be made if the matter
 not finally settled peacefully to the LtlSfaction of all instead Of being ken to the courts, as Dr. Gill may ave to do in an attempt to protect mSef, a friendly suit having |. zen mentioned