The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-27
TUCKER ELECTED
 FORESTERS' HEAD
Court Welch Installation to Be Held a Week
 From Tomorrow
WATERViLLE


 in the Francis block. officers were elected to serve for the coming term and George Tucker was elected chief ranger. The other off, ficers named are: Sub-Chief Rang CT, George Feest; treasurer. John Humphrey; financial secretary,
 Patrick J. Brehney; recording sec
 retary, Victor Baker; lecturer, Frederick Francis; senior wood
 ward, Edward Manton: junior
 woodward, Philip Lemay; senior
 beadle, Albert Frank; junior
 beadle. David Grenier; first trustee, Francis Whelan; second trustee,
 Frank LaChance; third trustee,
 William H. Dunlavey; court physi- clan, Alfred M. Dreher, M. D.
 The officers will be installed at the first meeting of the new year, which will take place on Thurs
 day, January 4th.
 Since it's removal to its new
 quarters the activities of Court Welch have increased at 8 surpris-
 ing rate and its members plan a very busy year for 1884.
 Christmas Party The annual Christmas party of the Ladies Aid society of Grace Methodist church takes place at the church parlors this afternoon. This is always one of the pleasant
 est social affairs given by this
 ways eagerly anticipated by its
 members.
 Detour Conditions Not So Bad Although there have been occa- sional walls of dissatisfaction, most of the motorists who find it neces- sary to use the detour around the
 Thomaston avenue sewer con- struction project agree that the conditions are not nearly as bad as one would be led to believe if all the complaints were needed.
 The detour which extends from Huntingdon avenue at point be- tween the two bridges, over the private way of the Chase and Sco- will Manufacturing companies to Thomaston avenue opposite Driggs street, is dirt road and must
 therefore be driven over with care, particularly in stormy or slippery weather, but the surface, although somewhat rough, is not nearly as
 bad as many detours over much
 longer distances met with in other
 portions of the state. There are some bad curves near the store
 houses of the Plumbers Brass
 Goods division plant and a grade
 railway crossing to be crossed but these are well marked and guard
 ed and careful drivers should not
 fear accidents.
 Those who are loudest in their criticism apparently do not realize
 how really difficult the situation is for the city. At almost no other
 point in the city is it impossible to
 provide a detour over regular city stretes. Thomaston avenue, from Chapel street to the north is vir- tual bottle-neck, with no regular alternate route. Motorists should deem themselves fortunate that private corporations were generous enough to permit the city the use of their private roadways for gen. eral detOur purposes, otherwise all traffic to the north of Chapel
 street would have had to travel via
 Oakville and Watertown to Thom- aston.
 The annoyance to motorists is
 not comparable to that suffered by residents and business houses To- | cated along Thomaston avenue who
 have been greatly inconvenienccd | by the actual sewer construction work directly before their proper ties and who must still anticipate
 the highway construction which will follow within the next few months. Yet these individuals, for
 the mots part. have ben perfectly | willing to put up with the difficult ties, realizing that the ultimate
 benefits to be obtained from the | .,,,.n vtII ee
 set the difficulties necessary at this | time.
 Some of the motorists who have
 Teen loudest in their condemna- ton of the present detour condi- | tions are those who were equally | yociferous in complaining about the terrible driving conditions ex- isting along Thomaston avenue i during the past few years. Now that steps are being taken. to cor rect those conditions by inc con- struction of new hard surfaced state highway they should be will
 ing to put up with the present situ- 9tion for short time.
 The city has corrected one jus. 1 tifiable criticism in its hnadling of the present situation by statiOning an additional traffic officer at the
 intersection of Chapel street and | Thomaston avenue to instruct through traffic to return to Hunt | ingdon avenue to reach the detour. Previously cars which did not pass Directly by the traffic control at
 the Homer street intersection fol-
 lowed the old detOur over BOyden. Chapel and Welct streets mad usu-
 afiy found themselves lost in the
 yard of a local factory before they
 realized that further progress north was impossible. This situation wa