The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-14
The MeddIeY
eff the coat fits you, put it on"

7 "If the coat fits you, put it on" :
During the past week The Meddler
has heard much more serious talk than
he expected would develop from the sug-
gestion that the village sell its. present
engine house and hook and ladder. prop
critics and buy the water-cure lot on the
north side of Elliot street as a site for a
central fire house. The present owner
of the water-cure property, it is under
stood, is willing to sell it for but little
more than he paid Ca remarkable fact
in these days of real estate speculationl,
and without getting down to actual fig
ures it would seem safe assumption
that the village could dispose of its
present holdings at a figure that would
furnish funds enough to buy the water
cure property and leave something over
toward the erection of the needed build
ing That the question may be brought
formally before the voters of the viii
lage it is planned to include two articles
relative to, it in -the warrant for the
annual meeting.
In connection with this discussion
there is heard no small amount of talk
High to Elliot. That such a thorough
fare would considerably enlarge the bust
ness section of the town is obvious,
while the amount of property damage
it would entail is so small that the abut-
tiers would doubtless be willing to bear
that in return for the advantage that
would come to them. Starting at
point on High street just west of the
present arch, so-called, a street of ample
width could be laid through to Elliot
without interference with any buildings
except the Brooks House annex and
boiler house and one end of the Crosby
Grain store. In the case of the Brooks
House property it is understood changes
are in contemplation that would make
the street location a comparatively sim
pie matter.
No one who has watched the Connect
cut river during its manifestations of
the past few days can help but feel that
sooner or later a combination of circum
stances will arise that will leave the
island useless for even the few uses to
which it has been put in recent years.
The time is likely to come when ice and
high water together will wreck what
property remains thereon, and about all
the island will then be good for is a con
Meeting link between the two bridges
that now join this town with the New
Hampshire side of the river. To main
tain it even for that purpose will re-
uuire constant maintenance unless the
road between Che two bridges is built
to a much higher level than it is at
present.
Fortunately an abundance of granite
chips from the Grant finishing plant on
South Main street We're available for
the emergency filling that had to be done
on the island road Wednesday, and that
brings up the question whether Brattle-
boro could not make more use of granite
for highway purposes than it has in the
past With the resumption of business
at the West Dummerston quarry there
is certain to be supply of waste stone
which the company would be glad &c
get rid of, and the problem of shipping
it to this town ought not to be difficult
to handle. While admittedly inferior to
traprock for road material, it is safe to
say that granite chips would be a great
improvement over some of the material
that has been used on the highways
hereabouts Certainly, they could be used
to advantage for foundation purposes if
they could be acquired cheaply enough. |
and at any rate the town officials might |
well look into the matter.
Townspeople may be interested to |
know that i'm the effort of the Women's |
Industrial and Educational Union of |
Boston to secure data from the gain |
fully employed women of Brattleboro |
actuaries can work out plan |
for the financial protection and benefit |
1f such women, representatives of the |
organization who were sent here to Sc
cure the data were handicapped in their
work by the Frank Barber-Orrin Hughes
alliance The young women who came
here TO make the survey, and who had
no interest in the matter further than
to do their work to the best of their
ability, ran across instances where