Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-15
BOARD OF COUNCILMEN.

BOARD OF COUNCILMEN. Numerous Petitions Referred to Appropriate COmmittees-RepOrt of
 Committees - The Deadlock Re-
 sarding Meadow Street Pavement
 Broken-JOhn Street to Re Graded
 Other Matters.
 A regular meeting of the Board of Council men was held last evening, President Wolf in the chair.
 Petitions were read and referred as follows: Of Max Mailhouse for compensation for land taken on Whiting street; of David McGahey for sewer on Washington street between Liberty street and Congress avenue; of John Sweeney for the grading of Ann street and the curbing of the sidewalk on both sides be- tween Kossuth and West streets; of Winches- ter Arms company for a reduction of the present rate of taxation; of H. W. Crawford for sewer in East Grand street from At water street to the Quinnipiac river; of James Donnelly for a sewer on Water, La fayette and Minor street and Lafayette court, from Portsea street to the Derby railroad; of Samuel R. Disbrow to be appointed special constable; of Philip Hugo for permission to lay concrete walk in front
  | fancy for appointment as special constable (passed by unanimous consent); of Mrs. M. J. Davis for 8 concrete walk on the south side of Lamberton street between Kimberly avenue and Cedar street; of $. 0. Warner | for a sidewalk on the north side of Dicker- man street between Sperry and Or chard streets; of Michael Donovan for ! a concrete walk on the east side of Poplar street between Grand and Lombard | streets; of Richard Bradley for the grading of l roadway and sidewalk on Webster street be- | tween the Northampton railroad and Win l chester avenue; of Frank Hogan for 8 con- ! crete walk on the east side of Greenwich | avenue between Third and Sixth streets; Of | John H. Brown for the establishment ot ! building lines on May street. Remonstrance of Bernard Reilly against the widening and strengthening of Liberty | street was referred.
 l Remonstrance of w. O. Montgomery against sewer on East Grand street between \ Atwater and Quinnipiac streets. Resolution authorizing the Board of Public Works to expend the sum received as insur- ance on the stone crusher works destroyed l by fire, amounting to S2,SUU, III repulIolng 1 the same Passed.
 Report of the committee on band stand ! was referred to the next Court of Common | Council in concurrence.
 l Report of the Board of Public Works de straightening and widening of Liberty street from Washington street to Congrees avenue was accepted, layout adopted and order passed. !, Report of the Street committee de walk on the east side of Howard avenue from Spring street to Fourth street was accepted and order passed.
 Report of the Board of Finance de trans fer of appropriations from "West river channel" to the item of "opening, widening and extending streets" was accepted and or der passed. Report of the Street committee in favor of l the erection of pump on Wooster Square at an expense not exceeding $500 was adopt 1 ed.
 Report of the joint special committee on ! repairs to chamber of the Board of Council men with order appropriating S1 ,000 in addi- tion to that already appropriated for repairs l was passed.
 Report of the Street committee de petition ! of superintendent of streets for the grading l of the sidewalk on the northerly side of | Brewery street from Long W harf to the an | gle southerly of Water street and recommend l ing the same was adopted.
 l Report of the Street committee in favor of i a sidewalk on the north side of Sea street be- | tween Howard avenue and Munson Court \ was adopted.
 | Report of the Street committee in favor of 1 the layout of Burtonia Place, forty feet wide, ! was adopted.
 l Report of the Committee on Appropria- l tions in favor of the Board of Finance in l cluding in their appropriations for next year ! the sum of $10,000 for the completion of Whitney avenue pavement was adopted. Report of the Committee on Appropria- tions in favor of an appropriation of $25C for the purchase of a portrait of e1-Mayol Skinner was adopted.
 ! Report of the Street committee de sidewalk on west side of Arthur street from Lamber
 ton to Rosette streets, and curb and grade or | = l. rofo -rnH
 the Street committee in concurrence. l Report of the Board of Public Works an nouncing completion of sewers in Greene
 Norton, Elm, Henry, Whiting, Homo ant
 Prout streets was accepted and ordered o1 file.
 Report of the Committee on Streets d.
 pavement on Meadow street came up on { l report of the committee of conference on tht disagreeing vote of the two boards. l Councilman Flynn reported that the con | ference committee could not agree, the Al dermanic portion of the committee being ln
 favor of granite blocks and the Counc1lmanlt
 committee in favor of trap rock.
 ! A resolution drawn by Alderman Gray
 of the conference committee, that the kind o
 pavement to be used be left to the Judgment | of the Board of Public Works was also
 read.
 Councilman Hull moved that the Counci l recede from it's former action and concu1 l with the Board of Aldermen.
 1 This opened the discussion and the value
 of trap rock over granite, and vice versa, was | all gone over again, no new arguments being
 brought out in support of one or the other After the subject had been thoroughly vent1
 lated it was moved to amend the motion to | recede by adding the resolution of Alderman
 Graves and as amended the motion passed
 It has been generally understood that the Board of Public Works have favored the | granite block pavement, and this being the
 case they will probably order the work done
 with that kind of stone. The order calli l November 15.
 Resolution that Councilmen Fahy
 Blakeslee and Whately be appointed to ac l with His Honor the Mayor and Aldermen
 Hill, Benton and Kelley and the Board O.
 Selectmen to chose a janitor for the Cit,
 Hall for 1886, passed.
 Monthly report of the Board of Publi
 Works for July, 1885, was ordered ol
 file.
 Report of the street committee in favor O
 a concrete sidewalk on the east side of Green
 wich avenue between Fourth and Slxtl
 streets; passed.
 on the west side of Mill river street be sus
 pended until the street was graded was re
 ferred to Board of Public Works.
 Resolution transferring $2, ,5OO from 1ten
 for Fair Haven bath house to contingent ex l penses in Board of Public Works.
 The conference committee on the transfe
 of &, ,OOO for the grading of John street iron
 the appropriation for "opening, widening
 and extending strests' reported that the com
 mittee had agreed on the transfer as pro l posed The report was accepted and tn
 committee discharged. Adjourned How will They Like It
 Hon. George H. Rice of Worcester, stock
 holder of the New York and New England, reported as favoring the plan of assessing tn stock $1O share to pay the floating debt which he thinks does not exceed $1 400, COG
 He is reported as confident that the ros f will easily earn fixed charges if not nor
 when once again in the hands of the corpors ton.
 Run of Hard Luck. Mir. T. V. Boyden seems to have run ( hard luck lately. Last spring he purchase , house and fine piece of land in Long Hil : and after much time and expense in ittin
 up the same for a frst-class residence we 5 taken sick and has since been unable to a C-4,,