Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-29
The Mayor. Message.
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The Mayor's Message.
 CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE. basins by the suspended silt that is dropped by the current when it's velocity is 1mpeded. The volume of water available for securing out the main channel of the harbor is dlmln- ished by the deposits and by the obstruc- tions at the bridge preventing the free en trance to the large tidal area above. The ice | is prevented from passing out Of the river ID the spring by the piles thickly driven for its support, and the moving up and down with the tides is great annoyance to all dolng business on the waters of the Qu1nnlplac ana Mill rivers.
 CITY MAPS.
 The city not possessing map from ac- citrate and exact surveys, took occasion In | 1871 to urge upon the engineer department to so perform their work in local surveys as to utilize the same in the making up of an accurate city map, showing to scale the l exact location and boundary line of all l streets, the shape and dimensions Of every l house. the dimensions of every lot as fences l or other lines may determine, the location | of all railroads, sewers, water mains, ny 1 drants, fire and police boxes, together with 1 the number of streets and such other matter as might suggest itself to their good judg | ment: all of which was brought to the at 1 tention of the Court of Common Council in January, 1872. The labor necessary to the per 1 formance of thfs work was then commenced by the engineers and has continued ever l since as a leisure hour from the discharge Of | other duties pres euted itself, as IS now near Iy completed. The result will be two maps l of uusur passed accuracy, which 1t IS pro
 posed to have published during the year as l centennial maps of the city. One will be an atlas map on a scale of 100 feet to the inch, the other wall map on 8 scale of 300 to the l inch These maps have saved to the engln- . aN-- I L GI4&A <1v1Id otherwise have been necessary Tn turn1sn1nR l during the year the sixty or more maps and l other miscellaneous work required for the Board of Public Works and the several l boards of compensation for sewers, pave | ments and streets, and will even be 9 saving | to the city and benefit to the citizen.
 1 The expenses of the department of public
 work. for the year was ,4 o oo | Amount asked for 1884. 496,764 VO Amount allowed for 1884,. -..-..--..- 2Sl,7 73o oO STONE CRUsHER.
 Early in the spring new crusher was pur- chased of the Farrel Foundry company Of | Ansonia and has been in constant use since that time and gives good satisfaction. Many | other improvements were made, and during l the year there were II S93 cubic yards of stone crushed ready for use upon our public | streets The amount expended on the works l during the year was $14 BOG S3.
 PUBLIC PARKS.
 It is not necessary to say how much of | pleasure and enjoyment our public parks and squares afford our people as places of resort and healthful recreation. There are | thirteen of these beautiful enclosures located | in different parts of the city, not, including l East Rock Park which is alluded to else | where They have all been kept neat and in good order, and many of them much i'm | proved by new fences, walks, cnrbs and | trees Their cost and maintenance for the year, including 8 new iron fence around Spireworth square, has been $7, S33 06.
 NUMBERING STREETS.
 In accordance with orders of the board of aldermen six streets have been numbered and toree renumbered. with orders still re-
 maiping for the renumbering of Grand and Capel streets. It is proposed in reDumber ing these streets to commence at the Quinni- piac river and number the streets continu ously from that point. I am utterly opposed 1 to this Han. as it does away with the accus- toned division that gives to. every schOolhoy and citizen quick perception of locality, as designated by Chapel and East Chapel Grand and East Grand. the one being east and the other west of Mill river, the natural | dividing line, at which point would much 1 prefer to see the numbers commence.
 SEWERS. -.-..st -
 Sewers were constructed in twelve streets, or parts of streets the most important one so far as the system is concerned being in Grand street. to be used as an overflow to relieve the East street main in accordance with the original plan of MT. Chesbrough.
 which contempiates another at Green street, | which is also very much needed. The length of sewers built during the year was
 l. O39 miles and varied in size from twelve to thirty-six inch, making the present total length 39 3n6 miles. The sewers are all in
 good condition excepting Chapel street from
 Franklin to Chestnut. and Grand street from
 East to Franklin, both heinz very old twen-
 tv four inch cement pipe sewers; that in
 Chapel street especially is in very bad con
 dition and should be rebuilt as soon as possi-
 ble. The number of connections made with
 sewers the past year were 351, which is thirty eight per cent more than the year
 previous, all of which were carefully noted and plotted on the sewer maps. This in- crease. as the report says. i5 evidence of an
 intelligent appreciation of the advantages of
 good sewerage; at the same time it might be
 well to say, as precautionary. that while ie ma be assumed that in the best class of dwellings proper arrangements for sewage | are made in accordance with a due regard for sanitary laws there can be no poubt but that in very many of the poorer class of ten
 ement houses can be found vast room for l improvement if not a criminal neglect of duty; it seems unnecessary to suggest that this is subject of your best thought to find l a remedy. The sewers already ordered in | various part of the city would cost vastly more to contuct than the amount appro- | pEldtou IOE bAo CuEEoAG year, anu "O take into consideration those that will be asked for and those that are needed, the amount wonld run up to the hundreds of | thousands, therefore oniy those should be | ordered that imperative necessity should | seem to demand. As ali territors lying east l of Mill river has no sewerage whatever it has been determined by the Board of Public Works in furtherance of long standing orders 1 to commence the
 FAIR HAVEN SEWERAGE sySTENF
 l The size and grades have been determined and sarly in the spring it is expected that the Poplar street main will be started. This | is the outlet for the central district, extend | tug from East Pearl to Ferry streets on the east to Blatchley avenue and Jackson street l on the west and trom the Quinnipiac river northerly to Lombard street. The sewer in Poplar E rect now ordered is from the river northerlv to Grand street, and embraces 450 feet of four by five feet brick and stone sewer on pile founda- tions, 650 feet of forty-eight inch brick, 92O feet of thirty six inches, fifty feet of thirty inches; and $50 feet of twelve inch pipe culvert fourteen catch basins and twelve manholes The James street outlet has also been ordered, but will not be com menced till the Poplar street is completed It is the outlet of all that part of Fair Haven westerly of the Popular street district and northwesterIy Of the Hartford railroad The portion ordered embraces 500 feet of forty two inch brick and stone sewer on pile foun dations. 780 feet of fol ty-two inch and 300