Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-12-18
MAKING HASTE SLOWLY.

The Next Council VIII Consider the Water lQuestion-Cold Water Is | Thrown Upon the Hop Brook | Scheme-Approp1'ia for 1SS9-| | A City Tax of 5 Mills.
 The court of common council met
 promptly at o'clock last evening, every
 member being present. The special
 meeting to elect a member of the board of agents of the Bronson library was first
 called and resulted in Edward l.. Frisbie, | ST, being the choice of the aldermen and
 L. s. Davis the choice of the lower board. | Another ballot was taken with the same
 result. MT Davis positively declined to
 be candidate, and a conference of the
 members of both boards was held in the
 council chamber, over which the mayor
 presided. A ballot was then taken for a
 member of the board with the following
 result: E. L. Frisbie II; L. S. Davis ';
 c. S. Chapman 1. Mayor Boughton de
 clared MT Frisbie elected, after which
 the special meeting adjourned. MT FriSbie takes the place made vacant by
 the death of Calvin H. Carter and his
 term will expire July, 1890.
 In the council the first business was
 the reading of a message from the mayor in the matter of a new water supply, ln
 which he urged the necessity of eXcrcis- ing great care, and rather favored QuaS
 
 This communication and a suggestion in the DEMOCRAT that the Bantam lake privilege be secured brought out a general discussion in which the council men all expressed the opinion that they
 should not move too hastily in the
 matter of securing water supply.
 Councilman Noether thought that it
 would be better to go slow. MT Cross
 thought that We could issue bonds for a l nc
 where we were to get our supply. MT
 Blair knew that we would shortly need a
 water supply. but the best plan was to move with care and judgment as to the best place for getting such a supply and
 that the matter should be laid over for . the consideration of the incoming coun-
 Gil.
 2 Mir Riley also said delay would be } using good judgment. He favored Se- ' curing a better place than Hop brook as } it might be necessary in time to draw upon Quassapaug.
 Mir Davis said the cost of securing s Quassapaug would be very heavy. I Mir Riley explained further that the : city would eventually have to go to : Bantam lake; a dam is built there, and - the money saved by the dam being built
 would go toward purchasing more pipe.
 Mir King favored Quassapaug and said
 that grant could be got from the legis- lature to raise the lake. It was voted to l refer the matter to the incoming coun. n cil. The following remonstrance was
 read:
 We, the undersigned citizens and tax $ payers of the city of Waterbury, respect I fully and earnestly protest against the s adoption of the plan for additional sup II ply of water for our city, by means of thu x "Hop Brook system so called, until ; Il morethorough and exhaustive inquiryan( e investigation shall be had as to the char a acter of the water and the amount to b
 had in dry seasons. Many of the signer a of this protest from personal observation s- are able to state that the water Is no | pure and further that no such daily sup ,. ply as is estimated f1owsin that brook il 1t dry seasons. Indeed in the opinion of som r: of the signers in dry seasons lnstea' d of there being 1,000,0OO gallons f1owin; $: every twenty-four hours there would no I. be that amount flow in two weeks. w T. therefore request that more time b l. taken to get the facts before your hon ,r orable body. Signed: l.. P. Mitchell d Merritt Platt, 4. E. Rice, J. M Burrall .e Robert k. Brown, Gideon L. Platt, H e r. Bassett, s. w. Kellogg, N. Dikeman le Charles C. Root, J. w. Webster, Charle e E: Seymour; E. R. Lampson, Joh1 d Woodward. E. c. Lewis, E. l.. Bronson W L. $. Bronson, A. Granniss, F. A. Gran s- miss. N. D. Granniss. J. T. Futile and J g. B. Doherty.
 S. E9An ordinance was adopted instructin a the city sheriff to be present at all meet
 ings of the council to serve all city nc a tices and to receive a salary of S400. >,r In the lower board MT Blair obiecte r in regard to the appropriation for polio
 station, taking the same grounds tha r MT Munson did. The council voted t
 | hn iafi hn1 7. It was voted that city tax of l5 mills b V laid and by advice of City Attorney Terr n. that Lawrence Cronin be paid $50 dan s ages for injury to a horse caused by H. defect ip Leonard street accepted S Martin Gilhooley was awarded SS5 dams ;1- ges for injuries received some two year ,1 ago.
 a la In the aldermanic chamber the appr, ,e ", priations for 1889 were voted upon co e lectively. Mir Munson objected as l.
 did not favor the $l0,0O0 appropriate e, for police station as he did not like til E location. MT Rammetti also obiecte l. and suggested that each appropriate ls- be voted on separately. He thougl T. that S3,000 for a new hook and ladde o' truck was too much and the one propose u- was too heavy as it was only used c TT S1 800 would be better adapted fo u M. needs of the city. It was voted to acceI II the appropriation as whole by vol D. of five to three,
 y' Mrs Henrietta McCaul was allowe x S200 for injuries received by defecti, H. sidewalk on Cherry street. Mrs McCal g. sprained her ankle and was confined ry her house for 60 days. Some of the 6 lis dermen were 10th to vote this amour an but the city attorney favored it to pr Ia. vent lawsuits which otherwise wou lis be brought against the city.
 IS A petition from thel board of healt le asking that section 2S Of the city ord is nance be amended to read that no or lis be allowed to keep or maintain swil he within the city limits was laid on u ds table.
 'eS No Holiday for the Senate. S lS WASHINGTON, Dec 1S.-The republics .u senatorial caucus this morning decid, tse that the senate shall continue in sessie