Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-18

The railroad will in all cases run underneath those streets within the city limits. As | the city is required to pay half the cost | of building the bridges, however, and | the whole cost of keeping them in repair, this is quite an important feature of the case. l it is understood that the corporation l counsel and most of the other objecting par ties will try to have the commissioners fix the location along the bank of West river.
 MT. Bryson, chief engineer of the Hart ford and Harlem, said the cut through the
 city would average 90 feet wide at the top
 and 3O feet at the bottom. In reply to Mir.
 Driscoll he said he had not estimated what
 fine cost to the city would be by change of
 the Cheesborough system to conform to the
 proposed layout. The distance, he said,
 from where the road strikes West river to
 where it leaves the city would be just two
 miles.
 In reply to Mr. Hamilton the engineer said
 that he had no idea how much wider the
 road would be where the depot is to be
 located, and had no idea where the depot would be located in New Haven.
 MT. filling asked the question whether the location of the depot had not been sub feet of conversation.
 MT. Baldwin objected and the commission CTS sustained the objection.
 Dr.C.A. LindsIey was called and in reply to Mr. Driscoll he said he was the health officer of New Haven He said the effects of build ing the road through the proposed layout so far as the hygenic aspects were considered are many, and any interference with the proper drainage of the city would be detri- mental to the public health. There was also l danger from the frightening of horses in passing over railroad bridges. Again he said ! that the deep cuts through the city were too often made 8 dumping ground of filth, which was great source of disease. The upturn- ing of new soil all sanitarians agreed was 8 1 fruitful source of disease. The doctor quo ! &al n port of the theory that the turning up of the ! soil caused an increase of malarial and other diseases.
 l Professor Brewer, president of the Board I of Health, was called by MT. Driscoll. In ! reply to questions he said he thought the l cut proposed would affect the health of the city Turning up the soil in such large \ quantities most certainly is detrimental to | health. He thought the building of sewers \ in the summer season was source of dis ! ease.- These outs are always 8 nuisance and ! railroad companies claim that they cannot \ keep their road beds clean. Then there was the complaint of dust and noise and smoke ! which follow the building of these railroads, ! which is certainly disagreeable following of | the building Then he said dead cats and ! dead dogs and other refuse matter were being | thrown into these cuts, causing disease and although the present railroad companies make fair promises they do not always carry l them out. He (the professor) said that any | thing that would in any way interfere with our present sewerage system would be a great public calamity.
 Dr. P. A. Jewett said his opinion in regard l to the proposed cut affecting the public ! health coincided with Dr. Lindsley and Prof. l Brewer. There was no question but that the | upturning of soil caused malarial diseases, ! typhoid and dysentery. Then there was the noise, smoke, etc., which was always source | of annoyance to invalids and nervous per- | Ho ha n0f ! through the city WAS disgrace, and always had been, on account of the filth that was l thrown into it.
 H. M. Welch was called. He said that in
 his opinion the cut proposed would be very | detrimental to the public health especially to the people in that portion of the city. He agreed with the other witnesses that these
 cuts were the receptacle of all sorts of filth, which was a great nuisance. Again,
 to cut through the heart of ! the city should not for one moment be thought of That portion of the I city is devoted almost entirely to residences, | and is one of the best localities in the city ! for this purpose. He did not object to the | railroad, but thought it should not go below ! the east bank of West river. If it went there ! the people would not be incommoded, and as l the tendency of the population is westward l it would finally be as near the center of the city as the present depot. He said so far as 1 he had heard there was not Q single indiyidu- | al who had expressed themselves as in favor ! of the proposed layout.
 ! l.. W. Sperry was next called. He said he h ad listened attentively to what Mr. Welch had said. He could not dissent in any par | ticular from what he had said. It seemed to ! him to be too much of burden on the peo- | pie in that section of the city to cut through that locality when they could go little far ! ther west without causing so much damage He said he had heard his neiehbors on | Tn I ton to the present layout.
 ! Nelson Adams, of 143 Whalley avenue, was called. He said his freight shipping amount ] ed to about 800 tons every year, not all by
 rail, however. He thought public conven- ! fence or necessity did not require that the l road should be built through the present lay out He did not think it would lessen the
 business of the road to build it on or near 1 the bank of West river.
 Franklin s. Bradley of 5S7 Chapel street, \ was called. He did not think it would be
 any public convenience to build the road ! where it had been laid out. He said he had heard general expression of indignation re- I garding the proposed layout. He thought it ! would very largely damage property in that l vicinity, which was almost entirely devoted ! to fine residences. He thought that section l of the city would never be devoted to manu- I factories This closed the hearing for the day and the further hearing was adjourned l until Tuesday, July 31st at 10 o'clock in the I forenoon. The commissioners stated that at
 the next meeting they would give four days | If necessary, to the hearing of evidence. It | is quite evident that more time than this will
 be required to hear all the opponents to the
 proposed layout, as they are yet numbered by the hundreds.
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