Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-25
ACTION or THE TowN.

park Bonds-$I O, 900 for West River
Improvements-The Beaver Ponds
Distrfct-Change of Interest In Park
Bonds.
About $50 prominent citizens attended
the special town meeting called by the Sc
lectmen in the aldermen's chamber yester-
day afternoon. Selectman Fleischner acted
as moderator and Birdsey G. Lake was
clerk
B. Noyes presented the following paper
at the outset of the meeting:
Notice is hereby given the selectm f OF ene
town Of New Haven that this Is not Legal meet
tain warning or cali as published in the Journal
AND GounEa and the other NsrnDq IS p With
meeting is incapable of transacting any business
liabilities VIII which would be binding upon the
property Of tns issuing of boods
and action BY votes or resolutions, CONCERNING
bonds, parks, the old town trust as to the old
which, If attempted to be acted upon at this
meeting and action authorized 20 be taken cy
lead to issues and to personal. responsibility to
the extent covering the sums OF money h'oi'eo
and would be void as against the town: 80 No..
Haven is not less than ~ 500 and this room is de
signed to accommodate less than 200 persons and
the peope WHO
now being taxed SO high as TO oepress 1he sa .I
of real estate and hinder the prosperity OF the
That to call town meeting in such a room as
this to discuss propositions which invoive deDts
amounting to hundreds of thousands OF dollars,
to be expendedin ways which instead OF bring
ing new income to the town would increase IT'S
inaugurate largely increased annual expenses of
the town for purposes miscellaneous and fasten
debt, to be paid in the future, while we are
newing old debts in full for hundreds OF thou
ea neM
did not call out a bidder for one dollar and fell
flat on an already burdened market.
Thata town meeting attempted to be held IN
this room would, so far as the objects named
therein, be a farce and not a binding authority;
which will not hold 200 people, and bonds put
upon the market under such circumstances
would would be called upon for relief. ' " '' '
In view of these facts and others which might
be adjourned without day.
[Signedl BENJAMIN MOVES,
| For himself and others.
On motion of Henry T. Blake, esq.,, the
protest of Mr.. Noyes was received and or
dered to be recorded and placed on file,
| after which the order of business could be
| taken up.
This seemed to satisfy Mr.. Noyes and he
remained silent until the Beaver pond
matter came up, when he addressed the
chair and said that it was fact he ought
to state that the natural springs of Beaver
1 ponds were the best water in the town OF
New Haven, when bereft of the artificial
filth that accumulated there, and that ever
if illegal to restore them for park purposes
it ought to be done.
On motion of Assessor G. A. Baldwin
$4,000 was appropriated for the improve
ments on the Martin street and West rive
parks.
A motion that the trustees OF the OLE
town farm and the selectmen be directed
to turn over to the town for use as pub
lie park, the land bounded by Mott street
J the Martin street and West river park
and West river, was carried without de
bate
The following resolution concerning tn
change of the rate of the park bonds fror
J 81 to A per cent. was offered by Mayo
Peck and unanimously passed:
town of New Haven held June 49, 1885, the selec
men were authorized and directed to prepar
oodds Iof pa int NOT exceeahg So IN amo9 ~
per cent. per annunl, and to dispose of the sam
from time to time at not less than par and a
| crued interests in such amounts and at sue
| times as should be required by the park commi
sion;
|
1 have prepared and disposed of such bonds up
t the present time to the amount of 800, 900, ar
q are unable, in consequence of changes in FL
money market to dispose of the balance of sa
bonds at par and accrued interest; therefore,
0 Voted, That the selectmen be and they heret
a are authorized and directed to prepare and iss'
park bonds for the unissued balance Of sa
100000, bearing interest at the rate OF p
T cent per annum but in all other respects OF Z
I | same character and terms and subject to Il
= | same regulations and conditions were pr
I scribed by said vote of June 10, 1890.
Lawyer E, c. Dow submitted q resol
= ton for the purchase of the Beaver por
= site for park as follows:
! Voted, That the selectmen be and they here
b, are directed to exercise the powers conferr
r upon them by the special act Of the legislator
"a passed in 1881 and published in the ninth volur
&c provement Of the Beaver Ponds district, and
: acquire titles and rights for the town by p,
snd essse by said
, needed for the proper sanitary reformation
said district upon such terms and conditions
70 cheering and other services as may be requir
Is In the course Of such sanitarys reformation.
ing out this vote more than $500 SIS in one ye
O. without further authority from the town.
W And provided farther, That the selectm
n shall, before entering on the duties prescrib
by this vote obtain from the New Haven pa
commission an agreement to pay an addition
~ purchase of lands, conditioned the ultima
al use of the whole or a part of said district for
c. pubic park ANA IN any case OF such arranl
ment, the selectmen are authorized to make a
proper contracts or conveyances that may
I'd | necessary to carry the same into effect.
III Attorneys Dow and c. H. Fowler spo
Dr strongly in favor of it while the Farnhs
Oh brothers and c. G. Kimberly opposed
upon various grounds. Major 7. A. To
ar thought the $4,000 should be strick
y out and heamount left to the discreet
e. of the selectmen but Attorney Dow's PAL
lg was passed without opposition. The me
ing then adjourned.