Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-21
PRoPosED NEW oRD1NANORs.

sewer Assessments ON E0Op1e OF small
means-An Ordinance Tor the Beneflt
ofthe Public Health-Beeeer Sanitary
PlumbIng-The Hackmen at the De.
pos.
The committee on ordinances had large
amount of business before It last evening,
but succeeded and had considerable discus
sion. No less than six proposed new ordi-
nances were before it for consideration and of
these four were tabled for further considers
/ ton, one was referred to subcommittee
| and the petitioners for the other were given
leave to Withdraw. The first proposed change
in the legislation of the city to be taken up
was the amendment to section 10 of the city
ordinances, relating to assessing and paying
/ benefits and damages for city improvements.
The petitioners desire to relieve the poor
man. especially with reference to the payment
of sewer assessment In bulk. At present
many man is unable to meet q bill for sewer
benefits when it becomes due and Is taxed
the usual interest for non-peyment when the
| time for payment has expired. These men
are not disposed to ignore any claims the city
may have on them and the present arrange
ment is a burden to them. It is to tighten
this burden that the proposed ordinance is
| offered. The ordinance which was printed in
| vide the assessments into three parts, the
| first to be paid on or before May /, following
the date of the assessment, the second one
/ year from that date and the third
still another year later. The assessed
| must notify the tax collector within ffty-fve
| days following the date of assessment If he
i desires to take advantage of the apportion-
ment clause of the assessment laws. Other
wise at the end of the period of notification
the collector will place lien on the proper
l. T. j.. T. IL
| peared before the committee last evening in
favor Of the proposed ordinance. The latter
expressed the opinion that the tax collector
may now have sufficient discretionary power
/ to render the proposed ordinance unnecessa-
/ ry. On this point the judge was uncertain.
| He left copy of the statute of Rhode ISL
\ and relating to the same matter. It was
| from this statute that the new ordinance
was drafted The matter was tabled until
/ the next meeting of the committee, when a
| full hearing on the subject will be given
l with the tax collector and corporation coun
eel present.
| Prof. Brewer, of the board of health, ap.
peared in support of an ordinance proposing
l to regulate drainage and plumbing in the
| city. This is question Of vital Importance
/ to the community owing to the large number
| of typhoid fever cases and other diseases of
| like nature recently reported. It is contend
| ed that very frequently the plumbing in
houses is outrageously bad and should be
regulated. The professor said that the time
would come when such measure would
have to be passed. AS it now is cases are
continually coming to the notice of the health
board where life is being sacrificed in rented
houses because of defective plumbing. The
number of cases where worthy people come to
the Office of the health department and tell
of the loss of children due to defective
plumbing in their dwellings is very large
| The time demands the passage of an ordi-
nance relating to these matters. The pro-
posed ordinance in its present form is con-
sidered insufficient, as it refers to new houses
alone. The professor was of the opinion that
the matter could be regulated and proper
plumbing compelled in new houses that are
rented, but he doubted the eity's power to
force man to alter the plumbing in an old
house occupied by the owner. Councilman
Fleischner thought that good plumbing
should be required in old as we'll as new
houses, and that unless it could be enforced
in both there would be no use of trying
to enforce it in either. Some
people are only too glad to hire
cheap plumbers. The councilmen would give
the health board full power to regulate this
matter, which is of such vital Importance to
the public welfare. The matter was continued
to the next meeting, when it is hoped to have
the draft of a better ordinance than the one
now before the committee.
Alderman Daley, from the committee APP
pointed to draft q suitable ordinance relating
to hacks and hackmen at the Union depot
reported the following: Amend section 8,
part 8, page 50, bylaws of the city of New
Haven, so that the same when amended shall |
read: All public carriages, express wagons,
baggage wagons, omnibuses or stages, when
waiting for employment in the vicinity of the
Union depot on Union avenue in said city,
shall be located on the opposite side of Union |
avenue, to wit, on the westerly side of
said Union avenue. No driver or
person having the custody or charge
of any such public carriage, express wagon, |
baggage wagon, omnibus or stage shall allow |
or permit the same to block up or obstruct |
traffic or travel on the easterly side of said /
Union avenue opposite said depot, or block /
mp or obstruct any crosswalk in front of said /
depot for longer period of time than il alb
solute1y necessary to discharge or receive |
passengers or baggage.
AL owners, drivers or other persons when /
seeking employment at said depot, either So
hciting, receiving or negotiating for the same, II
shall stand within said depot at the northern
or southern exit of said depot, which exits
run east and west from the platform on
the easterly side of said depot to the
westerly side of said depot. Said owners,
devices or other persons seeking employment
shall stand behind an iron railing running
parallel with with such northerly or souther-
1y exists, which railing shall be Eve feet dis
tant from the wall and not less than forty |
inches high. And no such owner, driver OF
other person shall solicit, receive or negotiate
Union depot except while standing in said /
northerly or southerly exits as aforesaid
Any person convicted of violating any breach
of this ordinance, for the first offense shall
pay penalty of not more than $50, and for
the second offense against this ordinance
within twelve months his drivers license
shall be revoked and cancelled, and he shall
not receiYe another for the space of six
months from the date of said revocation.
After lengthy discussion IN which several
of the committee adksaEed strictly to the l
view that the railroad company should fur
nish better accommodation for the hackmen |
than those proposed. The matter was tabled
on motion of Councilman McHugh.
A petition praying for an ordinance TO pro-
hibit the crying of wares through the streets
during the morning hours, and stating that it
referred particularly to ag-piekers, came up
for action. Alderman Daley said that the
ordinance, if passed, referring especially to
rag-pickers, would not be worth the paper 1t |
was written on as it would be legislating
against q particular class. In his opinion the
present section A reaches any outcry or other
noise and made the proposed ordi-
nance unnecessary The petitioners were
given leave to withdraw.
A desire to lessen the dangers surrounding
elevators and elevator wells has taken form
n the shape of petition for an ordinance
providing means to minimize the perils CON-
lected Herewith. Alderman McGann.
Jouncilmen Warde1l and Manning were ap-
er.
The committee voted to table the petition !
f the board of public works for an ordinance ,
the construction of cesspool ba-
ins underneath q sidewalk or roadway or
Tered that the board be notified that there | {
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