Morning journal and courier., 1888-06-13
HORSE RAILROADS.

He Looked Twice at the Electric Electricity as a Motive Power-The West Haven Horse Railroad. President Goodrich of the Hartford and Wethersfeld Horse Railroad company was in Ansonia this week inspecting the motor road the second time.
 A prominent director of the West Haven horse railroad was inquired of by CoU- BIER representative regarding the attitude of his road as to the adoption ot electricity as the motive power on the West Haven road. He said: f'We shall not do anything about it for some time to come. We are keeping posted in regard to itand are willing to adopt it as soon as it shall be perfected. We are doing we'll enough at present with horse power, which we know all about. But while electricity is probably bound to rule some day, It is just as we'll to wait and see how it works, and to wait until certain ob- jections to it or imperfections in it's working are removed. It is pretty certain that im- provements will be made before long, and when we get it we want the best"
 The Ansonia Sentinel says: No experiments have electric currents, and no more will be made, we un-
 6of the tv @ dns I @ of the trouble in the imperfect conductor which is afforded by the nat rails or the oIccCr1c rOa0.
 The latest effort was directed towards an inn pavement in the conductor from the turntabe near the depot in Derby to the electric station % iron rails in the track and there perceptible IF that the s 9 0l @ me tsF o of the current and larger wire will be put in. when the traffic on the Electric road is light the disturbance of the drops is less than when the tions rcqure more Bower, and consequently strong currents and the quantity used is larger than the rails with their present imperfect conducvity will
 In view of what President Wood has said, we pre- sume the next experiments will be under the drec- tion of the Electric road.
 THE SMALLPOX BILLS
 Talked over by the Health Board
 The CIty's Mortality in May.
 c. L. Luddington and Fred Mansfield ap- peared before the board of health last night and complained of an open sewer on East Quinnipiac street. He said the residents in that vicinity had been troubled by it for three years. IttIRQeeds 10 be extended to the river. RsferreoS- .Otncsr committee.
 HeaItE nontn Of May. The total nn1srtelity deaths was 11O, average s1earns in core spending month for past five years 104. g.; deaths in corresponding month, 1897, 100 There were fifteen still births, an unusually large number.
 Mayor York reported that he had talk with Burr Davis, whose wife and child had died of smallpox, in relation to what he wanted the city to pay for the expense he had been put to. He had agreed to pay S2OO of the undertakers bill, which would leave $43 of that bill, besides the bill of $67 for clothing which he had previously put in. The Mayor stated that the board of finance refus- ed to have anything to do with the bills un- less the board of health should audit them. At the last meeting of the board it had left it to the board of finance to decide how much of Mr. Davis bills the city should pay.
 The board then audited the following bills: Laura s. Mercy, nurse, $56. 50; J. W. Bal lou, druggist, $S23; Silas Galpin, hardware dealer, $65; N. c. Ransom, hackman, $1; R. B. Bradley & O., hardware, $375; Dr. A. Fleischner, $1O; Edmund Elmendorf, property destroyed, S50.50; E. A. Gassner, druggist, $72o; s. w. Williston, health of fcer, $62. 13, Dr. E. L. Bissell, $420; Lewis 0. Maycock, undertaken, $43; Mrs. John White, nurse, $162.50. This makes a total of $825. 5.46. The bills at the last meeting amounted to $1,092.4 .46, but as MT. Davis agreed to compromise matters by paying s267 as his share, the amount for the city to pay was reduced.