The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-15

creamery if they could not ship during
five months a year except by sled to
Nottingham? Think of the effect on
property valuations. If the road should
be discontinued they would shrink inn
mediately 40 per cent. not only village
| property but farm property as well.
The demand for farms, Mr.. BlsseIl
( said. was confined to city people, who
would not pay much for place that was
not on the map. He said Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt, ir., has bought farm In
| West Dover, in what is called the
| Handle and she had said she would
| feel much aggrieved if the railroad was
| given up as that was one of the things
that induced her to locate in the valley.
Some have said that Wilmington will
| die if it has no railroad, MIR. Bissell
| declared. but | am not so pessimistic as
that. Halifax is not dead; Searsburg
| is not dead Stratton is not dead; Will
mington will not die, but she will be 50
sick that there will be no fun living
| here" This remark was greeted with
| great applause
| Mr.. Bissell said it was pure assump-
| ton to say that the road would not pay
under the new conditions. He was
| strongly of the opinion that it would pay.
| He was not certain that the town would
| lose the road if it did not pay. He said
| the Power Co. had no intention of wreck
! ing the valley. 1T would hurt them
as much as u.s." He ventured the opin-
| ion that Mr.. Hartman did not expect
| the town would accept the proposition
and would be very much surprised If 1t
| did So He would vote the same as we
| are going to- the speaker declared. IF
we give up this road we never will have
| another" said Mr.. Bissell, and he fla
vored taking the sporting chance that
! the company would not give it up.
| When he finished there was more ap-
plause. in which Mr.. Hartman joined.
| DIR. Dunn said there were two sides
| to every question, and he gave the Power
/ Co credit for living up to all its agree
ments He said. however. that from 10
| to so per cent of the power generated by
| the dam would go out of the state and 1t
was only fair that something of what
the valley gave for private gain should
/ be returned in the way of service. lie
/ mentioned the fact that from 500 to
1000 persons would be at the Forest 4
| Stream club next season and must be
given adequate service.
William Newton, grandson of o. O..
| Ware of Wilmington and descendant of
| the Newtons who built the railroad,
| spoke with a boys enthusiasm for the
| town and said the railroad was the key
stone to property values in Wilmington
| S. w. Sturgis of Boston. speaking for
many summer residents. said they would
not have been there had it not been for
| the railroad.
At this point the moderator read from
a slip of paper a correction from the
! Iudington WOodenware Co. of a state
ment by Mr. Hartman in his letter to
the Mems club relative to the number of
cars shipped by that company the past
| three years. The total was 169, or an
average of Sc instead of an average of II
a year as given in Mr. Harriman's letter.
| A. ID. Howe spoke a few minutes in a
! humorous vein. and when he had finished
| the moderator called for a division of the
/ house. but there was no division as
/ everybody went on one side and the re
| suit was greeted with cheers.
If there is any person here who is
opposed to this resolution will he please
make it known now urged Moderator
| Porter, but nobody responded and the
| moderator declared the resolution car
| ried by a unanimous vote.
Article was then taken up and dis
! posed of by a unanimous rising vote as
stated. and a motion to adjourn was
quickly carried.