Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-08
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committee on the curbing and grad ing of Hotchkiss street came up Alder man Barnes opposed it. Then MT. Bushnell referred to MT. Barnes as "son of brass" and wanted to know what business he had in. telling the committee what to do. My friend from the Fifth" "You mean gentle man." spoke up Alderman Barnes. "Yes, I forgot (laughter). Alderman Bushnell re- ferred to the barns on Hotchkiss street and tried to draw simile between them and Barnes. The order was passed.
 A statement of facts in regard to the lay out of Walnut street was received and refer- red to the committee on claims. The peti- tion states that when the administrator of the B. Reilly estate was about to dispose of a piece of land on the corner of Hamilton and Walnut streets he found that the land was eighteen inches short, as MT. Fowler, in 1875, then city surveyor, inaugurated system of designating street corners by mere stones, and placed a stone in this lot and not on the corner to correspond with the original lay out For this shortage of eighteen inches $144.75 damages are wanted from the city.
 The report of the board of public works on the Lombard street extension was read and @ recess of ten minutes taken to look at the maps It was voted to table the report until the next meeting.
 The petition presented in the board of councilmen by Councilman Fleischner in re- gard to the subdividing of the various wards into voting districts was read, after which Alderman Winchell offered the following substitute resolution:
 Resolved, That a joint special committee be ap- pointed take into Consideration the expediency of view to the establishment of additional election precincts in aecordance with the resom,nendatio1 message. Said committee shall consist of four al whom from each board shall belong to the same po- Iitical party. The Mayor shall also be member of Said committee shall hold public meetings for the purpose of receiving the opinion of citizens regard make report to the court of common council, with such recommendations as it sees ht not later than the first Monday in September next.
 This resolution was passed. Councilman FIeischner's petition was indefinitely post poned.
 When the recommendation of the street committee on the curbing, grading and side- walking of Gibbs street was read there was considerable opposition to it's being passed. Alderman Lynch said that the street com mittee had tried to engineer the thing through by not giving fair hearing and also conveying false report in the published advertisements of the meeting at which it was to be considered. Mir. Lynch was sharp- ly oYerhauled by Chairman Blakeslee and others of the street committee for his words. Every resident on the street had been notified and had been heard. Alderman Kent want ed to know what Mir. Lynch meant when he said that fair hearing had not been given. The committee had had three hearings and all were willing to sit up until midnight to give full hearing.
 A motion to recommit it met with opposi- tion by the street committee, but it was so voted.
 AIl.-,.,n yKy;noL,J oTa,a5 o -o,o1-.;-,, that the board of public works be ordered to top dress and harden the remainder of Orange street, between Humphrey street and Mill river, and reasonable part of the expense be assessed and collected from per sons whose property fronts on said Orange street. Referredto the street committee.
 The petition of the police commissioners count to the account on repairs at the pre- cinct was gr anted.
 Only the report of the bath house commit tee on the appointment of John F. Crowley as keeper of the Beach street bath houses was accepted.
 Petitions referrsd-William Spittler ct al for 8 sewer in Pearl street James s. Stowe for 6 sewer in Ward street between Daven- port and Sylvan avenues; extension of Graf ton street to Ferry street sewer in Washing ton street between Gould and Liberty streets; crosswalk on the corner of Saltonstall avenue and Lloyd streets James Reilly for appointment as special constable M B. Johnson for building line on the west side of Arthur street. sewer in Carmel avenue be- tween Percival street and WhalleY avenue sewer in Ashmun street, between Bristol and Eaton streets; sewer in Exchange street, be- tween Lloyd and James streets; sewer in Columbus avenue, between West street and West river; Louisa Wallhoefer for damages for injary to person by falling icy sidewalk; N. s. Bird for appointment as lum- Der inspector; James B. Hord ct al. for crosswalk on William street, be- tween Olive and Osborn streets; John W. Wohlmaker for a license as hack driver; resolution on appointment of special constables; B. H. Douglas ct al. for an ordinance prohibiting the crying of wares in the early morning; board of public works de appropriation of $S,000 used for removing snow at the time of the blizzard; sewer on Portsea street, between Howard avenue and De Witt street; sewer in Howard avenue, between the New York and New Haven railroad bridge and Columbus avenue; gas lamp on Portsea street, between Cedar and Liberty streets; sewer in Lamberton street, between the Boulevard and Button street; sewer in Button street, from Lam berton to Rosette streets; sewer in Rosette street, from Button street to Howard ave- nue; sewer in Dewitt street, between Co., lunbus avenue and Rosette street; concrete sidewalk on Allen street, between Wash ington and Putnam streets; widening of Lib erty street; O. O. Marsh ct al. for the nam ing of the new street from Prospect street to Mansfield street as Hillside Place: w. H. Gates for appointment as special constable
 Orders passed-For sewer in Ward street between Congress and Davenport avenues; for a sewer in Exchange street between Blatchley avenue and Poplar street; for a sewer in Baldwin street between Congress and Davenport avenues; for a sewer ln Saltonstall avenue between James and Lloyd streets; for a sewer in Forbes Place between Bridge and Water streets; for naptha lamp on Winchester avenue at the head of Lilac street, for two lamps on Gibbs street be- tween Shelton avenue and the railroad; for gas lamp on Ferry street opposite the church; for electric light on Whitney avenue between State and Meadow streets; for gas lamp on Orange street be- tween Elm and Wall streets; for two naptha lamps on Ivy street; for two naptha lamps on Munson street between Ashmun street and Dixwell avenue; for three naptha lamps on Hazel street; for three naptha lamps on Mill River street; for a walk on Edwards street between No. 56 and Orange street; for side walk on the south side of Beach street -be- tween East and Mill River street; for a cross- walk on the east side of Maltby street, cross- ing Lombard street; for crosswalk on the south side of Clay street, crossing Haven street; for @ sidewalk First street. for a sidewalk on Lawrence street; for the extension of Mill street; for concrete walk cE khe east side of Hallock avenue, between AsInberton street and No. 169; for cross- walk at the corner of Frank and Lewis streats; for an electric light on the corner of Orange and Cottage streets; for an electric light corner of Kimberly avenue and Green wich avenue; for an electric light at the junction of Columbus avenue and West and Thorn streets; for 8 sewer in Foster and Cot tage streets, between Lawrence and Orange streets; appointment of Edward H. Hosmer, Isaiah Hickman, Patrick Smith. Charles Willard, Henry J. Bownes, Dennis O'Connor, Frank Turner, Lawrence Hanrahan and H. M. Johnson as special appropriation of $500 for Memori- al day; appointment of T. J. Crowley as keeper of Beach street bathhouse; curbing and grading of Gibbs street; curbing, grad- ing and walk on Hotchkiss street; walk on north side of Hazel streets
 Reports accepted-Of board of public works for the month of March; of tax eom- nittes on the abatement of Elizabeth c. Wells taxes; of monthly report of expenses of board of public works; of board of com m&sov, fAr ,1ovayaa1,f in Fair ofr