Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-04
The Tax Committee.

Several Cases Heard But No Decisions
Reached.
The tax committee held q meeting last
evening, and further considered the adjust
ment of taxes
Allen Mix asked that an assessment of
$500 for the layout or continuation of Or
chard street, from George to Oak streets, be
stricken from his list. He said that the as
sessnent was reduced by order of the Su-
perior Court to 5000, and he and other heirs
had paid their proportion ($1OO) while the
bill of $500 was still sent in every year. He
said that other parties who lived in the
South were assessed but never notified, and
this bill should not be sent to him as he was
not responsible for it.
The matter was referred to Corporation
Counsel Driscoll to inquire and report.
MIR. Mix also claimed that he had connect
ed with the old drain at the corner of Hill
street and the Derby railroad at an expense
of $25, and that had now been closed he
therefore asked for an abatement of 1926 on
another sewer assessment, this amount re-
naming unpaid.
Eli Mix appeared and asked that portion
of the taxes of Thomas Colwell be abated
He asked that the assessment on So, 500 be
abated, because it was assessed in the name
of the Stonington Savings bank. He also
claimed poverty on the part of Mr.. Colwell
t. P. Merwin asked for reduction of
taxes on his business for 1879. He said he
put his business in the list at 81, 900 and the
assessors increased it to $4,000. He said he
was selling out at the time and ought not
to have been assessed for SO large an
amount.
John DAWN applied for reduction of
taxes on the ground of poverty.
The cases to be heard next meeting are
William Fairchild, Josiah A. Weed, Charles
E. Gerard Irving Bigelow and Charles Black
man.
At the next meeting the committee will
hear some cases under consideration of sewer
assessments on Whitney avenue and vicinity,
tanning if a compromise cannot be reached.
No decisions were reached last evening.
Adjourned until next Monday evening.
Broken Thigh.
Asahel Hill, aged So, employed as tally,
man at the Meriden depot of the Consoli
dated road, fell while at work Thursday
! and broke his thigh. He was taken to the
Hartford hospital and his condition is favor
| able to recovery.
/
Committee Squares.
| The Committee on Squares were to have
held meeting last evening to consider
piece of land bounded westerly on Clinton
Park, northerly on English street, easterly OF
| the Quinnipiac river and southerly on Peel
| street, which, it is said, should be laid GU
| and devoted as a public park. Some of thu
parties in interest had previously been heart
and others were present to be heard. Al
there was not a majority of the committee
| present there was no hearing and it was ad
| journed to some future time.
/ .
The RafIroadS-Ths New Train.
I The new train for the through route be
| tween New York and Boston which has beer
put on by the Consolidated road, compan
ion train to that put on the same route b.
the Boston and Albany road, goes east OF
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and al
| ternates with the train provided by the Bos
| ton and Albany road. 1t includes baggage
| and two. passenger cars. They are hand
| somely painted outside, are provided will
| steel wheels. Miller platforms and other i'm
provements. They are finished in mahogan.
| and cherry and are very rich in appearance
| Ventilating windows above the others ar
| one of the novelties. The drawing room
cars are furnished with the most comfortable
| chairs ever used in a railroad car, and tn
| seats in the passenger cars are provided will
| seats nearly as comfortable. There ar
| smoking rooms, lavatories and other conven
| fences in the drawing room cars, and retiring
| rooms in the other cars. The cars are heat
| ed by the new Baker steam heater. The car
are tifiy-five feet long. The drawing room
| cars will accommodate thirty four passenger
| and the passenger cars sixty eight.