Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-30
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS
Which Have Been Ordered by the City Fathers and Will be Recommended by His Honor the Mayor.

Which Have Been Ordered by the City
 Fathers and Will be Recommended by
 His Honor the Mayor.
 To the Editor of the DEMOCRAT:
 While there is demand for new and improved charter for municipal govern ment remedial of the great number of obiectionable features obvious to anyone connected with city affairs, there is still good work to be done by the present city administration, necessities which ought not to be delayed, duties that ought not to pass over another year. It might be easier, safer and less costly to accomplish needed city legislation and make certain public improvements under better and less com plicated system than the present charter affords
 For the coming year a far greater re- sponsibility rests on the present common council than on the incoming one, since the present boards have to recommend and the present council adopt the amount of new improvements and provide the ap- propriation for the same. They are the index and guide and judges of these affairs and practically lay out the work for 1889. Contingent on the improvement to be re- commended aside from the ordinary eX- penditures will depend somewhat the ac tion of our representatives to be elected to the general assembly at the coming election. | In conversation recently 1 understood Mayor Boughton to say that he would l favor certain Improvements and have TO doubt he will recommend the same ill his January message; that he would also urge the carrying into execution such orders as have been made by the common council from time to time and neglected either through a'diversion of public funds to Other | objects or the obstinate refusal of boards or executive officers to perform their duties.
 Among the public improvements it is said the mayor will urge are the necessary staue and city legislation to provide for an additional supply of pure and wholesome water, requiring the issuing of city bonds after a plan and system that will be op- tional with the city to redeem the same to certain amount each successive year following the issuance of the same; also to do S100, 900 worth of paving and provide for the same by bonds of the city issued in similar manner. The streets named for pay ing in addition to those previously recon mended in.theformer messages of the mayor and recommended by the board of road commissioners are Bank street, from the Naugatuck railroad station to the Brooklyn bridge South Main, from Meadow street to Benedict's bridge; Meadow street, from South Main to the New England station Exchange Place; East Main, from Ex change to Brown street, North Main tc Cook street, and Grand street from Bank to South Main street.
 The mayor will also recommend sewer! in extension of East Mainland Wall streets
 Waterville road extension, Frankly
 street the execution of existing contract
 for sewer in Bridge, Pemberton and Pleas
 ant streets, also the South River stree
 sewer in order to direct the sewage dis
 charge from the Naugatuck river at Brook
 lyn bridge to a point near the genera sewerage outlet in that river. He will als
 insist, on the part of streets, on the bridg ing of the New England railroad at Soul
 River street crossing so as to permi travel under said track a proposed by the common council Also the construction of the highway un ) der Burnham street at the New Englan, } railroad crossing also the extension o , Liberty street west to Bank street, subjec already to city legislation. In addition the mayor will, out of the funds appro
 priated for streets, claim the first outla
 in new work to be donated to fulfilling the orders of the council in completing
 Dublin street, from East Main to the Ryal
 Curly property, in filling, widening an
 grading; also the improvements vote
 for Clay Hill and South Wilson streets a 7 appears of record.
 All these matters have been repeatedl 7 urged and voted, and money appropria ted, and it yet remains for the board o
 road commissioners and the street inspect or, both under orders from the commo , council, inactivity and stubbornness t see that this work is not done. If no } done we venture the people will have n
 use for such board or such officers yer
 much longer. APEX.