Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-30
THE MAYORS MESSAGE.
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 TcoNcLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE .02 6-10 cents per square yard and for Telford 04 7-10.
 The Orange street Telford pavement, $500 feet in length, has cost the city in the last eight years for repairs $5, ,313.75
 From these figures you will see that the Telford pavement is quite luxury, even though it is more perfect, and you may well and what kind of pavements, you will have in the future. l am hopeful that before the close of the year we shall have instituted 8 better and cheaper plan for the care of our streets
 On Grand street over the tracks of the N. Y, N. H. & H. R. R. an iron plate girder bridge with roadway entirely clear replaces the old wooden structure with middle truss in roadway, which left only passway six teen feet wide for the great bulk of the trav- el to and from the center of the city, and the great thoroughfares of Grand and St. John streets, at cost to the city ot $2,6O0.
 ToMLINsoN BRIDGE. ayThrough the combined efforts of the town, city and interested citizens the General As sembly passed a bill requiring the Tomllnson Bridge company to put their bridge in prop CT repair by December 1, 1885, to widen the draw opening to eighty feet clear and the roadway of the bridge to twenty feet clear both the substructure and superstructure, using the draw span and one fixed span of the old Housatonio railroad, making two channel openings of eighty-four feet each, and the roadway of the bridge, very materi- ally improving the channel.
 MUNsoE STREET.
 A new bridge on pile foundation has been built on Munson street over the Beaver pond brook at cost of $243.2O.
 REPAIRS OF BRIDGES.
 The westerly span of the Gainesville bridge has been entirely rebuilt. The cost was S1 ,300
 One of the piers of the Quinnipiac bridge, which threatened disastrous results, has been repaired in substantial manner at a cost to the city of $1 1881 32.
 Orange street bridge over Mill silver, West bridge and some other modern bridges have required minor repairs. The details will be found in the statement of the Board of Pub lie Works.
 The total spent on bridges during the year was SIC, ,S60 B.
 Sewers have been built during the year in eighteen different streets.
 The most important were the trunk sewer and it's outlet in James street, from the har- bor line to Grand street, and it's overflow in to Mill river through Grand street, and the boulevard or intercepting sewer in Sea street. The latter is under contract from Greenwich avenue through Sea street and out into the harhor 800 feet from the shore. From Green wich avenue to little past Howard avenue 1t is completed.
 The two main trunk sewers of Fair Haven are now built wiz, James street last year and Poplar street this year.
 pba1 ,fu 11,1i14 he was S06-1000 miles, being 849-1000 miles more than last year.
 The old twenty-fou inch cement pipe sewer in Chapel street between Franklin and Chestnut streets, which was little better than q cesspool, was taken up and replaced by fifteen inch vitrifed pipe
 This gives us forty four miles of com pleted sewers now built in the city. All house connections are inspected by the City Engineers department and located on the sewer maps.
 PAVING STREETS.
 Three streets have been paved during the year, viz:
 Streets: Kind of pavement Length-Fesests Mhiansy MfaGSg ave. fsi9'ri Tsiford 4 4,s5s
 7,os1 Cost per square yard Total cost sass sa.ss sfs,e1sss sfss'ee1Issss
 Completed to Highland street More than double the area and more than two and half times the length laid last year. The total length of paved streets at present is IS 2S5-1000 miles.
 GRADING STREETS.
 The only grading of streets other than done by the superintendent of streets was Mulberry street from Day street to Win throp avenue and Munson street from Orchard to Crescent streets.
 New streets have been laid out as follows: Blake street from Whalley avenue to city line, South Water street from Sea street to Congress avenue. Union avenue extension from Carlisle street to Spring street. The extension of Union avenue will shorten the distance very materially from the depot and center of the city to Oyster Point and West Haven, and will leave very -asy grades in comparison with the Congress | avenue and Portsea street routes. The western boulevard, in which will be l ,: instructed the intercepting sewer for the l western part of the city, has been laid out l rom Congress avenue southerly to Sea street | and from the intersection of Sea and South l W ater streets to the harbor line. The total cost for land damages for the 1 western boulevard was $9,267. Although ] 5be layout of the widening of Meadow street l was made in 1883, and damages and benefits l assessed in 1884, the widening was not carried | put until 1885. The widening was about 1 five feet on each side. The street is now | fifty five feet wide, with roadwayof thirty-six l feet and sidewalks of nine and half feet l each. The new grade was made straight from | Congress avenue to Water street, having | six inch fall in each 100 feet. New layouts would be desirable in a num- l per of old streets which have no recorded 1 ayouts and where the lines are very irregular l and liable to be encroached upon owing to l heir indefniteness. This matter ought to be | ooked into without delay.
 WEST RIVER STRENGTHENING. Prior to the beginning of 1885 the channel # West river had been made straight line | rom Whalley avenue to Derby avenue, distance of a little over mile. During 1885 | he straightening was contracted for from Derby avenue 4,000 feet southerly or nearly O Congress avenue.
 About one-half of this latter contract is ompleted.
 The total cost to the city of the straighten- ng thus far, inclading the total amount of he present contract, will amount to ST. '23 S2. While the chief reason for the of the river is to remove it rom the line of the boulevard street and ewer, the work is being done in such a man Ter that nothing will be wasted or thrown way if it is ever made 8 navigable canal. s
 COMMITTEE ON STREETS.
 l meetings last year and heard 273 persons in avor of and against the 113 measures con- idered by them.
 A detailed and comprehensive analysisof the york done by this committee has been pre- pared by MT. Loomis, the assistant city clerk, or publication in the year book, from which me can easily measure the importance of the york done by this committee, and also how it is that you should place your nost watchful members on this committee. The Committee on Claims held seven meet ngs disposed of thirty-seven petitions and recommended the payment of a total of $500. The Committee on Sewers held seven meet ngs, disposed of twenty-five papers and rec sixteen sewers.
 THE LAMP COMMITTEE. The Lamp committee held about fifteen meetings, and have had fifty petitions to con- ider, of which number forty seven were re- orted favorably.
 There are still twenty-five petitions before his committee to be acted on.
 The demand for lamps is constantly in reasing, 52 having been erected during the