Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-29


 consisting of 1,294 linear feet of rip-rap work and $50 linear feet of pile and stone work has been built. It extends east from high water on Sandy Point to about six feet depth at mean low water. A T 250 feet long, extending north and south parallel with the channel has also been built. It is contem- plated carrying this part parallel with the channel 2 $50 feet further south The cost of completion is estimated at $7O,O0O Dredging in the harbor was begun in 1871 and the last examination in 1881 showed the depth of the channel at mean low water to be sixteen feet and the available width below Long wharf 40 feet. above Long wharf 400 feet and at the bend opposite Long wharf 600 feet Since 1871 $l20 900 has been ex- pended above and SAY 900 below Fort Hale. The appropriations asked for for the next fiscal year are:
 For Breakwatsr. So90OUo So o For Dits ss00V0
 Total. -'--- soV''V"V
 Which amount is granted by the United States government will go far to improve. as well as make our harbor place of refuge that is needed for the ever increasing com merce of Long Island Sound.
 PUBLIC LIBRARY.
 I'm my remarks to the Court of Common Council January 23. 1874. I brought to the attention of the Council the subject of free public library and recommended the ap- pointment of Q special committee 'whose duty it should be to examine and consider the question in all its bearings and report the result of their investigations with such facts and conclusions as they might deem of inter est;" at the same time remarking that 'ths very mention of the subject would suggest to their minds the benefits that would result from a library of we'll selected books. not only to afford popular reading. but comprising practical works in all the me- chanical arts etc., that shall be open and free to alr' and in conclusion said that "a city with the wealth and population of ours ought not to hesitate in an undertaking frauRht with so much of good to the people" No action was taken, but the question was dis cussed as it has been more or less ever since, and as it had been long before, till at last it almost seemed to those who took an interest in the matter that the city of New Haven was never to have free public libra ry, and am frank to say that I have never seen what we might term daylight upon the subject till the present time, con- sequent upon the labors Of last year, when an able committee was appointed who took hold of it with an earnestness that meant success. After holding several meetings the committee through it's able chairman, Alder man Barker, reported back to the Council in December last the result of their del1bera- tions with accompanying recommendations. In their report the committee had the honor
 
 many prominent citizens, and that mot an individual of the many appearing before them offered the slightest objection to the project under consider ation" and that ''al1 seemed to realize the ne cessity of the establis ment of such an insti tuition in our city, and regretted the fact that New Haven in the past had been less enter prising than her sister cities of this and other States" in which opinion the committee unanimously concurred, with an earnest hope that ''your honorable body would take imme diate steps for the establishment of a free public library in our city" The committee further reported that they had several con- sultations with the officers of the Young Mems Institute regarding the adsisability of the Institute uniting with the city in the enterprise, and as result the Institute through it's officers presented 8 series of propositions W hich were submitted and made part of the report. The report of the Institute committee is too long to be em- bodied in this paper, and to be fully under stood should be read entire It states, how ever, that for years it has been the hope Of the Institute to extend to our citizens the privilege of library and reading room free of cost. and offers, so far as compatible with their legal ability, under certain conditions mentioned in the report, to turn over for free public use their entire library together with all their net income, including that from future endowments. The commit tee on the part of the city unanimously rec commended the adoption of the report and the passage of an order that a committee Of uine be appointed by ths Mayor to carry out the instructions as embodied in the order for the purpose of constructing and establishing library, which order was afterwards amend ed so as 10 read the Mayor and Q committee of not less than eleven or more than thlr- l teep," all of which was approved and adopt ed by the Court of Common Council Decem Der II, 1883 In accordance with said order, and believing I do the immense benefit that will result to our people, and with an earnest wish for it's success, I here with announce the names of the following citizens ns members of said committee under said order, viz: James English, Harma' | nus M Welch, Samuel E. Merwin, jr., Joseph D Plunkett, Morris F. Tyler. John B Earle, Herbert E. Benton, Samuel A, York, Edwin & Wheeler, James P. Barker, T Attwater Barnes, Thomas R. Trowbridge. jr., Maier | Zunder.