History of Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor, Maine1623-1905With family genealogies . icular section to be beneficially affectedwas very largely in opposition to the movement. The groundsof opposition taken were the natural ones of taxation andexpense. Jealousy of growth and improvement at the Harbor,on the part of the outlying districts, though in the heat offeeling sometimes appearing as an accusation in those days,had not, in the authors opinion, any foundation in fact. The only proposition presented to the town was one ofcontracting with a water company and paying a stipulated sumfor
History of Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor, Maine1623-1905With family genealogies . icular section to be beneficially affectedwas very largely in opposition to the movement. The groundsof opposition taken were the natural ones of taxation andexpense. Jealousy of growth and improvement at the Harbor,on the part of the outlying districts, though in the heat offeeling sometimes appearing as an accusation in those days,had not, in the authors opinion, any foundation in fact. The only proposition presented to the town was one ofcontracting with a water company and paying a stipulated sumfor the hydrant rental, or public service. This public serviceonly extended to directly benefit a small area, though it repre-sented a considerable part of the total valuation. The indirectadvantages, that the other sections would have participated into some extent and which actually existed, were hard and intri-cate of explanation, as they always are, and were as well leftunmentioned. Private water takers, regardless of amount ofincome, could never reduce the annual rental during the life. Joseph Ross Kknniston. DIVISION or BOOTHBAY. 329 of the contract. The proposition was simply one of tax. Amere handful of Harbor citizens felt this and, consulting amongthemselves, often expressed the opinion that the proper coursewas for the town to put in its own sj^stem, selling such anamount of bonds as might be necessary, and against the costsof running the system and interest on the bonds put theincome, which these men believed would, in a few years, coverall expenses and afford free public use. But debt is shunnedlike a leper by many, and often justly so, therefore this plan,meeting slight favor when quietly suggested, was never openlyadvocated until after the incorporation of the new town. Atthe present this has been accomplished. If, in 1888, the citi-zens of Boothbay could have been convinced that this resultwas a possibility a vote for the introduction of water wouldhave been easy. T
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