Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-02

M. S. d.. l The contract was awarded to M. S. & J. | H. Austin.
 Clark to Pearl street, were opened as fol lows:
 M' Kehoe; Saa7 M eG G A. Carroll. .................-...6 696 0C F. Maner b9OOO The contract was awarded to P. Maher. Bids for sewer in Fair street, from State street to the railroad bridge, were as follows: M: M @ ssa' ea 50 S0 P. Maher. 270.oO A. Carroll ...................... 282 50
 The contract was awarded to M. Kehoe.
 Bids for constructing plank walk on Brewery street were opened as follows:
 Charles R. Waterhouse, jr., $2 60 per line al foot. Dolph1ns SIS each or $1, 746. 50 for the entire work.
 Robert Redfeld & Son, $3 per lineal foot. Dolphins $21 each or $1 ,971 for the entire work
 The contract was awarded to Charles R Warehouse
 Philip Pond appeared as representative of the Board of Education and asked that the sewer recommended for Edwards street be constructed as possible. He said the Edwards street school building conven- fences were in bad condition and it was very necessary that it should be connected with the sewer at as early day as possible. He was informed that the order for the sewer had not yet reached this Board. When it did it would receive consideration.
 John Gibbons asked why the sewer from James street to Mill river was not built when it was ordered last fall. He was in formed that no appropriation was made for that purpose and that the best way was to %1& 1IG Go..
 John H. Futile appeared before the Board and stated that property owners were de- prived from dumping ashes at the foot of Chestnut street, right which they formerly enjoyed, but was taken from them by the Board of Public Works. He thought the Board of Public Works had no right to dis continue this dumping ground without an order from the Court of Common Council. The Board took no action.
 It was voted that the width for the flag walk on the west side of Dwight street be fixed at eight feet. The clerk will notify parties in interest and the city engineer will gives lines and grade. The work is to be completed on or before September l.
 City Engineer Hill stated that some re- pairs were needed to the pier on the city side of the Quinnipiac bridge and the work should be done before cold weather sets in. The matter was referred to the Committee on Roads end Bridges with power.
 1G was VOG0O to sell GQ0 town GQlrCy or forty loads of crushed stone as they may need it at $1 50 per yard.
 The clerk was instructed to notify the su- perintendent of stone crusher to attend the monthly meetings of the Board.
 s. A. Lewis was granted permission to connect his premises with the sewer on the north side of Whalley avenue, he agreeing not to oppose @ sewer on the south side when ordered.
 William Bradnack and J. H. Buckley were granted licenses to connect with water and gas mains.
 Bills for the month of June were approved as follows: General account, SIS, ,446. 30; sewer account, $10, 714.25.
 H. P. Hubbard appeared before the Board and stated that there was @ bad washout near the West Haven bridge, on the city side, that should be repaired. The Board in structed Superintendent Doyle to have it at tended to.
 The grading of Munson street was ordered to be made under the direction of the city engineer.
 The matter of putting Sylvan avenue in proper repair was referred to the Committee on Streets with power to act.
 MT. Reilly brought up the question of sweeping and turnpiking the streets. He said to him it seemed like heavy expense to pay $1O day for the turnpiking machine, two yoke of oxen and two men and $4 per day for the sweeper. He thought it would be cheaper for the city to own their ma chimes and horses.
 Mr. Doyle said that both machines were in use every day during the season. He thought it would be economy for the city to own all it's 1abor-saving machinery the same as other cities
 Mayor Holcomb expressed the opinion that bhe city should own it's teams and machinery and not be compelled to hire.
 After this the question of employing m sn to work on the streets came up and Superin- tendent Doyle said it was knotty question for him to settle. Men with horses and carts were clamoring for work and he had tried to divide the work up fairly, but it seemed all most impossible to please everybody.
 Mayor Holcomb said he appreciated MT. Doy1e's position and he wished some way could be devised whereby he could be re- Iieved from this annoyance.
 MT. Crawford said he favored putting the whole power in this matter in the hands of MT. Doyle, and if any member of the Board pr other city official attempted to influence him to hire certain men then he should re- port them to this Board. He did not think the commissioners ought to interfere in any way. structed to employ the best men and teams without interference by members of the Board or other officials.
 MT. Stackpole moved to lay MT. Craw- lords motion on the table.
 MT. Doyle said he would like the Board to decide whether he should hire the men on the basis of charity or on sound business principles, that is, to employ the best teams and men he could find.
 MT. Reilly inquired of MT. Doyle if he had put on any men on the ground of charity.
 MT. Doyle replied that he thought he had. I He said they had applied to him for work and the commissioners had also asked him to l put on men who were in need.
 MT. Stackpole's motion to table the mo- tion of MT. Crawford was carried.
 MT. Crawford-That leaves the superin- 1 tendent in just the position he was in be- | fore. My opinion is that some things done by members of this Board would not bear l the light of day.
 MT. Stackpole-I have done nothing that l ana ashamed of. never had man put to | work by the city because he owed me.
 The discussion was getting interesting | when motion to adjourn was made and car lied.
 After adjournment it was stated privately | hat one member of the Board had sent six | different requests to MT. Doyle within short | lime to give as many different men months | work each