Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-21
THE C1TY's SEW BRACE SYSTEM.

Architect Ferry Gives Some Facts on
 Se0ers-The Big Boulevard Outlet
 $125,OOO Laid Out on Sewers This
 Year-Sewers and the Men Employed
 The Grand Avenue Outlet-C1ty vs.
 Contract Work-A Good System.
 One hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars were appropriated from the city trea- sury for the sewerage system for 1886, said Architect Ferry, who has charge of the sewer plans, to COURIER reporter yesterday after noon. This amount will be laid out princi- pally in building the two big sewer outlets, the Grand avenue and the Boulevard. The present sewerage system was begun in the built as petitioned for and were very small ones. The three main ones were in George,
 State and Church streets.
 M. Kehoe has the contract for the Prince street sewer and is pushing the work rapidly.
 Major P Maher is building the Gamer street
 sewer and A. Brazos the Gregory street sewer.
 A well known sewer contractor said yes-
 terday afternoon that the sewerage system
 of New Haven was remarkably good one,
 equal he thought, to that of any city in New
 England. The city fathers, said he, are doing
 the proper thing when they appropriate the amount they QO TOT Uu0lI Sc"cAoSO SJSOOAA3
 which should be the first thing thought of in
 the way of improvements in every city Of
 any size. In regard to the laborers and ma
 sons employed on the sewers the former are
 not paid enough and the latter too much.
 The masons here come from New York and
 are paid $6 per day. The hard worked la
 borers, however, only get, perhaps, $1.25 per day.
 Fl think that the city should make prefer, ence for home labor and not import masons from out of town. Men can be obtained l here in this city that will do the work equal ly as well. If one mason who belongs here is put to work on job where the imported stock is employed there is sort of boycott put on him and he invariably leaves.
 q think that perhaps the city might occa- sionally save money by doing the work un- der their superintendent, but as general thing it will be cheaper for them to let 1t out by contract, There is but very little money made in building sewers in this city, con cluded the contractor, fon account Of the laroe number of bidders and the close hgur- ing required"
 A member of the Board of Health was asked what he thought of the sewerage sys tenn of New Haven: "I think it very good one, said he, and am glad to see the sewers now in course ot erection | placed where they are in the unprotected points, The Boulevard sewer especially was very much needed and will prove good thing for the health of that portion of the city, The Wallace street sewer will no doubt lessen the death rate in that quarter also | The city is making the best use possible o1
 it's moAoy when it is laying 1t out | on its sewerage system If 8 little more at tention was paid by the Selectmen to the garbage system of collection we could be proud of our beautiful, healthy and clear | City of Films. I think there is a gross care
 lessness on the part of someone in regard tc | our garbage system and the leak should be stopped as soon as possible"
 | The Grand avenue sewer was visited by z | COURIER reporter. Work on the new sewer l is finished, but the workmen have beer | breaking in the old sewer and making con- nections with the new outlet from the old. | The gas company have been also laying new l mains following up the completion of the sewer Then will come the horse railroad company with their double track, and last | but not least the water company will lay | their new water main. The shop keepers and pedestrians who have to pass Grand street are praying for a speedy dellverance | from the heaps of dirt, sewer workmen anc ! their carts and tools. The work on the sewer will be finished by the 1st of October, but
 the street will perhaps remain torn up til
 late in the fall.
 Architect Ferry gave his opinion as to the I relative cost of employing men by the dayh work by the city as follows: "I think 1t IS {
 very good plan, except in exceptional con | tracts, when sewer contractor could, O | course, do the job much cheaper. It ha l been tried several times by the city. Th' l Grand avenue sewer is an example, where
 if the job had been let out to contractors l they would undoubtedly have charged ex l orbtant prices owing to the uncertainty O
 the job. The city could figure such jot l much closer"
 The other sewers in process of building ol about to be commenced work on are th' Grand avenue sewer, easterly from Blatchle! 1 avenue to Poplar street; the Prince stree sewer, from Lafayette street to Libert, street; the Gamer street sewer, from Whit
 ney avenue to the Hillhouse extension; tn Webster street sewer, from Ashmun stree m stfeet westerly; the Wallace street sewer 'd avenEast street to Myrtle; the Munsol t, avenue t6, from Canal street to sheltol s: ones. 'It isrllter street sewer, from Gran' e the sewers Vii cotreet; and few smalle v with tbe excetI: Il! aH'' said MT. Ferry, "tha Gp w;cb one of AIsEIon cdH of t.ished by Decembe @ year" oe''ieVala ed outie, tSi