Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-02
BOARD OF ALnERMEN.

Several Petitions Read and Referred
 Another Public L1brary Petitfoned
 For-Assess1nS Benefits For Public
 ImPrOvements-Othe Matters.
 A regular meeting of the Board of Alder men was held last evening, Alderman Thom- as R. Trowbridge, jr., president of the
 Board, presiding.
 Petitions were read and referred as fol-
 lows: Of Daniel F. Reynolds for appoint
 ment as bath house keeper; of O. w. Cook
 to be appointed special constable; of Frank
 Chandler for curb and concrete walk on the
 west side of Winchester avenue, between
 Sachem and Compton streets; of George
 Baldwin ct al. for a sewer on Prince street;
 of Charles s. Hamilton for damages for in
 juries to the person of Mary E. Hamilton; of
 Horace B. Evetts for lamp on Button street,
 between Lamberten and Rosette streets; of
 Robert D. Fields for appointment as bath
 house keeper; of Horace E. Evetts ct al. for
 a sidewalk on the east side of Button street
 between Lamberton and Rosette streets. Pe-
 tition of John F. DeForest to be appointed
 Sunday watchman at Evergreen cemetery
 was tabled. Petition of Peter Stanford to be appointed Sunday watchman at St. Der nard's cemetery was referred. Communication from W. l.. Folsom, of fl Collis street, asking for 8 canvass of the city in aid of the free public library, and asking that the Third church be secured for this purpose by paying $3,000 for fifteen years. Also that a second library be established at Skiff's Opera House for down town people, to give recreation to the people, costing them nothing and improving their minds and mor- als, etc. The communication was referred to the Committee on Public Library. Report of the Street committee for 1885 was referred to the Committee on Annual Reports.
 Report of the East Rock Park commission 1 CTS for 1885 was referred to the Committee ! on Annual Reports.
 Report of the Committee on Lamps for 1 1885 was referred to the Committee on An l nual Reports.
 Report of the clerk of the City court for January, 1886, was ordered on file. Report of the Board of Public Works de layout of location for a pump at the junc- tion of Congress avenue and Washington street was read and ordered on file. Report of the Board of Public Works for
 January, 1886, was read and ordered on file.
 Report of the Board of Public Works de grading Munson street was read and ordered on file.
 Report of the Committee on Sewers in favor of sewer iR Wallace street, between Collis and Wooster streets, was adopted. Petitions of Bernard J. Quinn, Timothy Crowley and L. E. Cone to be appointed bath house keepers were referred. Petition of c. F. Demarest for concrete | walk on both sides of Linden street, between Orange and Foster streets, was referred. Report of the Committee on Licenses de petition of Charles Addlehurst for license to drive hack and recommending that the same | be granted was read.
 l After discussion, in which the petitioners police court record was brought up by Alder.
 man States, the petition was indefinitely l postponed.
 1 Resolution that the Committee on Ordi- ! nances be instructed 10 examine into the ad- | visibility of passing such laws as may cause | the removal from this city of sparrows be passed.
 l Report of the Committee Nominations
 recommending the appointment of Henry D. l Blakeman and seventy five others for special constables was passed.
 Reports of the Board of Compensation were read assessing benefits for sewer in Liberty street from Silver to Washington streets; for sewer in Pleasant street from Pearl to Clark streets; for sewer in Washing ton street from Cedar to Liberty streets; for sewer in Martin street from Kensington to Orchard streets; for sewer in York Square entrance from Broadway; for sewer in Ken sington street from Martin to Elm streets; for sewer in Edwards street from Orange to Nicon streets. The assessments were ordered l laid as recommended. Adjourned.