Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-22
WATER. LIGHT, PAVING.

The Water Question-Two Ballots
 Taken tor Fire Commissioner.
 At the adjourned meeting of the court of common council held last evening considerable business of importance was transacted. The council accepted the report of the road board in laying out south Riverside street, and passed the resolution of Alderman Chipman asking the city attorney to draft a bill to be pre- sented to the legislature asking power to issue bonds for paving purposes and an additional water supply. Alderman
 Ramettl, chairman of the committee on lamps and gas, presented the following
 proposition from the Electric Light com pany:
 On the basis of three years contract we will supply 150 electric arc lamps, two-thirds of which shall be Thomson Houston 2,000 candle power lamps. also thirty twenty-five candle-power incan- descent lamps, to displace the present naphtha lamps if required, all of said lamps to burn from dusk until dawn not less than 3l2 nights in each year at the rate of 40 cents a night for each arc lamp and S2o per year for each incan- descent lamp. If the arc lights are re- quired additional nights the rate will be the same as charged for regular nights and no extra charge will be made for the burning of the incandescent lights for extra nights. The total cost to the city on this basis will be Sl9.57O..
 "Or if desired, we will supply 30 arc
 lamps located centrally to burn from dusk until dawn at the rate of 50 cents per lamp per night, also 100 lamps from dusk until a. m. at the rate of 33t cents a lamp per night, and thirty incandescent lamps at the rate of S25 per year per lamp. all of said lamps to burn not less than 312 nights a year. Extra nights lights, for which no charge will be made for extra nights. Total cost for the ser vice on this basis, S1S,950.
 'On the basis of a four wears contract we will supply the 150 electric arc lamps. and thirty incandescant lamps from dusk until dawn, not less than 312 nights year at the rate of 39 cents per night for each arc lamp and S25 per year for the incan- descent lamps. If the lights arerequired to burn additional nights pro rata charge will be made for the arc lights, the in candescent being furnished without charge. The total cost to the city on this basis will be S19,002. If fifty lamps are burned from dusk until dawn and one hundred until a. m. the basis of the charges will be the same as that made for sis .95O." ' "
 The proposition offered in the foregoing artlcle met with most favor in the alder mems chamber and after much discus sion that part of it which includes the burning of all the lamps all night at the total expense of S19,002 was accepted. In the lower board the matter was am- ended by ordering that fifty of the lights be of 2,OOO candle power and one hun dred of 200 candle power. The amend ment was accepted by the upper board Alderman Munson objected very strongly to exceeding the appropriation of S1s.O .OOO made for lighting the city. He thought that the city was carrying a large enough debt and things would have to come to stop somewhere. Alder man Rammettl said that it was under stood when that appropriation was rec commended that the lighs were to be ex- tlngulshed at a. m. as at present.
 In the council chamber Councilman King offered resolution citing the de- mands of the city for an additional water supply and asking that permission of the legislature be obtained to issue water bonds to the amount of S250.000 and also to give the city permission to raise the dam at Lake Quassapaug from five to eight feet should they deem it advisable sS recommended the appointment of one alderman and two councilmen. who should act in conj junction with the water board, to employ experts and analvze the waters of the several streams and to set forth the merits of the different sources and the actual cost of each. The places mentioned were Hop brook. Lake Quassapaug, Hancock brook, Lindslev brook, Chestnut hill. Bantam lake. Mad river by pumping above the shops. and the system of artesian or driven wells. MT Kings resolution also provided that the committee be paid S4 per day and all necessary expenses during the time taken i'll making such investigation. In the lower board the resolution passed but in the aldermanlc chamber it re- ceived a set back, Mir French saying it was altogether too broad that it gave power to the committee to spend large sum. It was accordingly voted to lay it upon the table.
 A resolution was passed instructing to notify the city secretaries of the sev- aral railroads leading into this city that hearing would be given on the subject of I union passenger station for this city by the legislative committee on such business at Hartford, February 12.
 Upon the recommendation of City At .orney Terry the council voted to pav Mrs M. J. Weller S4OO damages for broken leg received by a fall on East Main street January 9, 1888.
 In the board of aldermen two ballots were taken for fire commissioner. re- 'ultlng Tn no selection. The number of votes cast on both ballots were s, of which D. J. Mahaney received 8, George w. Roberts }, R. c. Manville 3, and E. I. Root 1.
 The board then adjourned