Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-08-18

and will do our best to bring in industry.
II am glad of the opportunity to state
the bald facts just as | see them"
At this point Mr.. Parmelee arose and
introduced the resolution above referred
to. ito bring the question fairly before
the meeting" be said.
When Mr.. Parmelee had read the reso-
luton and moved its adoption by di-
vision of the house DIR. s. f. Dunn said
he thought the motion was out of order
as no opportunity had been given for a
discussion of the article in the warrant.
The moderator assured him that ample |
opportunity for discussion would be given
and took a viva voce vote to see whether
the vote on the resolution, when the time
came, should be by Il division of the
house. The voters were unanimous in
deciding that the vote should be by such
Rev. Flint NJ. Bissell took the floor in
support of the resolution, speaking at
some length. Mr.. Hartman had spoken
from the financial side. he said, and he
wanted to present another side. I'VE |
are thinking of the future possibilities of
living five months in the year II miles |
from the railroad. When we want ,
specialists from the hospital, as we often
do think of driving ~ miles with the
temperature 20 to 80 below zero. Think !
of getting our daily papers day later. |
This plan means death to all our indus |
tries and to the prospects of getting |
any more. 1t means the loss of our hotel, |
one of our priced institutions. Our
high school eventually would go. Our |
store service necessarily would be poorer,
and they would have to charge more. We
could not get coal or grain or fertilizer
when we wanted it. A storehOuse has |
been suggested but it would not answer
the purpose. How would it affect our
creamery if they could not ship during
five f,., months year except by sled to
property valuations. If the road should
be discontinued they would shrink i'm
mediately 40 per cent. not only village
property but farm property as we'll"
The demand for farms, Mr.. Bissell
said was confined to city people, who
would not pay much for a place tia that was was,
Roosevelt. jr. has bought a 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, az 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" Mr.. 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 so
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. ut would hurt them
as much as us" He ventured the opin-
ion that Mr. Hartman did not expect
the town would accept the proposition
and would be very much surprised if it
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 ia
yored taking the sporting chance that
When he finished there was more APP
plause, in which Mr.. Hartman Joined.
DR.. 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 70
the dam would go out of the. state and it
only fair that something of what
the valley gave for private gain should
be returned in the way of service. He
mentioned the fact that from 800 to
1000 persons would be at the Forest &
given adequate service.
William Newton. a 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. Sturgs 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 correction from the
Ludington WoOdenware Co. of 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 1863. or an
average of sc instead of an average of IA
a year as given in Mr.. Harriman's letter.
a. ID. Howe spoke 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 unanimous vote.
Article was then taken up and dis
posed of by unanimous rising vote as
stated and n motion to adjourn was
quickly carried.
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