Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-14
CITY vs. RAILROAD INTERESTS.

The Board of Councflmen Accept she
 Report of the Derby Commission
 After It is Amended so as to Provide
 for a Roadway Bridge at Liberty
 Street.-The Proposed New Park in
 the Western Part of the City-Peti-
 tiOns Referred.
 Promptly at o'clock last evening Presi- dent Moran rapped the board of counoilmen to order and business was proceeded with. There were many spectators present inter ested in the action the board would take on the report of the committee who investigated as to the advisibability of closing Hill, Lib erty and Lafayette streets. It will be re- membered the committee advocated the closing of Hill and Lafayette streets, but recommended foot bridge over Liberty street.
 After the reading of the report Council- man Fleischner said: 'fThe report is only company. We people of the Fourth ward were ignored in the report. Now foot bridge would be more of an inconvenience than & convenience. They claim it would cost too much to put bridge over Liberty street. A bridge could be erected at that point for less than $10,00O believe that we acted without authority in the whole mat l ter. It should have been referred to the board of public works and that body l is in my opinion the proper body to have l taken the matter in hand. A bridge if placed at Liberty street would be almost without I grade This and other railroad companies in general must be taught that the people of the city of New Haven have rights which must be protected. Once establish the wholesale closing of streets and the thing ! would never end."
 Councilman Fleischner amended by strik- ing out footway or bridge from the report and inserting roadway bridge for all traffic. Councilman Gessner, who was member of the committee that gave the hearings on the matter, said: believe that in five years the people living in the vicinity would not have | bridge there or have the streets opened for any amount of money.
 The board adopted the amendment offered by Councilman Fleischner providing for a roadway bridge over Liberty street by the following vote:
 Kelley, Lewinson, Wardell, Leighton, Keav- eney, Chatfeld, Morgan, Schappa, Boughton and Coyne.
 Nays: Councilmen Lane, Chandler, Clarke, Andrews, Bromley, Sheehan, Gessner, Crompten, Prince, Johnson, E son.
 A yea and nay vote waU taken on the &C., ceptance of the report as amended, and 1t was adopted by similar vote-16 yeas and Il nays.
 The following petitions were referred to their proper committees Hardening Of Whit ing street, between State and Meadow streets; ! top dressing or OrA0R0 BLreSb, H0LNcSA l Humphrey and Mill River streets; sidewalk on Edwards street, from No. 56 to Orange street: straightening of Miner street, between Liberty and Lafayette streets; curbing of 1 Ellsworth avenue, from Elm street to Whal~ ley avenue; sidewalk on south side of Beach l street, between East and Mill River streets; for building line on First street; amend 1 ment ordinance de Court of Common Coun- cil; of Patrick Leonard for appointment as bathhouse keeper; of Mrs. Grace Badger for l abatement of assessment on the Hamilton street sewer; amendment de ordinance ac- l counts and claims; a sewer in Ward street, ! between Congress and Davenport avenues; of George Brown, Edward Smith and Max Weiner for appointment as special consta- bles.
 The report of the board of compensation 1 upon the assessment of the sewers on Grand l street wes accepted in concurrence with the board of aldermen and laid reported. l The reports upon the assessment of sewers upon Day, Prindle, Munson, Chestnut, Nash, Veto streets and Whalley avenue were tabled for printing.
 The board concurrsd with the aldermen in passing the following:
 Resolved, That 80 much of the annual mes sage of His Honor the Mayor as relates tc l squaIes or parks in the western part of the city be and the same is hereby referred to the joint committee on squares.
 | Mayor York said in his report: "On ths western side of the city there is steep bluff overlooking the meadows between New Haver and tho town of Orange and extending some. what irregularly between Whalley avenue or the north to Kimberly avenue on the south. , His Honor recommended that steps be taken at once to acquire the title to thii land at the earliest possible moment, ant that an order be passed directing the cit, engineer to make the necessary surveys ant to lay out park at the place indicated. The board at 9:30 adjourned.
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