EMMET, MARVIN & ROOSEVELT
                       COUNSELLORS AT LAW
                         52 WALL STREET
                            NEW YORK
 
 
                                             July 30, 1921.
 
Dear John:
 
          Here is something which I have been hoping to have
time to run in and speak to you about, but I have been so
busy that I have not had any opportunity.
 
          The Central Hudson Gas and Electric Company wishes
to run poles across the land on my Bennet farm. The poles
are to go back from the road along the line of the woods,
and the
location is satisfactory to me. However, I do not want to
give them in anyway a permanent license. It seems to me
that the best way in matters of this kind would be to make
the Electric Light Company annual leases for a very small
sum, say 10" per pole, withtthe right on my part to cancel
the lease on, say, six months' notice, or to compel them to
change the location of the poles.
 
          In other words. I do not want to place the kind of
a burden on the property which might make it difficult or
expensive for some owner in the days to come to compel the
company to place the poles elsewhere.  If, for instance, he
wanted to place a new house at the edge of the woods.
 
          I understand that Mr. Newbold feels as I do about
it and he may have entered into some kind of an agreement.
Will you be good enough to call up Mr. Voorhees and see
what you can arrange with the Company, and I will leave it
in your
hands.
 
          By the way, I paid my mothers' fire tax the other
day. I have not heard of any other taxes of hers being due,
but if you hear of any I shall be glad to send a check
during her absence.
 
                        Very sincerely yours,
 
                        Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
John M. Hackett, Esq.,
Union Street,
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
 
[Is this true about your running for the Assembly?  Bully
for you!
FDR]