Morning journal and courier., 1892-11-11
ESTIMATES CONSIDERED.

y, 70 Hoard of Finance Cut Down the
Estimates of the Board of Health
An Executive Session Held-The
Garbage Collecting Account MA
terially Cut Down.
The board of finance met last evening in
he city hall for the purpose Of consider
ng the estimates for the coming year.
Every member of the board was present.
The special business before this august
body was the consideration of the esti- |
mates of the board of health.
The salary of the health officer was fixed |
at 81 200, the same as last year, as was
also that of the clerk at $1,000. Tho
plumbing inspector asked for salary for
1892 of 81 800, an increase over last year
of $500. It took just two seconds for the
board to decide to give him the same
salary as last year. The salaries of the
sanitary inspectors were fixed at the same
sum as last year, 81, 400.
The next item which came up for con-
sideration was that of the amount neces-
sary for collecting garbage next year. The
board of health, in view of the fact that
cholera may make its appearance here next
summer, asked for an appropriation OF
| 81 500, an increase of $500 over last year.
It WAS here that the city fnanciers put in
their knife with telling effect and feeling
| sure that they knew what was for the best
l interests of the city's health better than
the members of the health board promptly
| cut the estimate down to $500, q re-
duction of $500 from last year.
| At this point it dawned upon the minds
i of some of the members of the board that
newspaper men were in the room and 1t
was possible that some of the doings of the
board might get into print. The two men who
perceived this fact were Aldermen Hillel
and Bromley, and between the two 1t wal
decided that an executive session was {
necessity. In consequence of this determ
nation one of the aldermen made the mo
ton for an executive session and the othel
seconded 1t. Ceuncilmen Macdonald ant
Fitzgerald opposed the motion vigorously
stating that they did not intend to do any
thing which they we're afraid to have tn
public know of, and they could not there
fore see any reason for excluding the re
porters.
Alderman Hitler then stated that he di'
not 80 much care about the reporters bein
present, but he did not want them to re
port anything which might be done, fes,
; member of the board would to-day be i'm
portuned by the members of the health d.
+ partment to change the action taken at tn
meeting.
After this explanation the motion wa
put, and although Councilmen McDonal
and Fitzgerald voted vigorous no, tine
were very much in the minority. III
motion was carried and the reporters wer
r out of the room. What was done afte
, this is of course matter of conjectur,
but it is safe to assume that the knife We
used freely and the estimates cut right an
0 left.
MORE NEW MEMBERS.
Young Mems Republican Club.
An unusually large meeting of the Youn
Mems Republican club was held at the clu
5 rooms last evening. Notwithstanding IL
o defeat of republican principle twenty -eigl
new members were elected, and the NEE
{ ing was an enthusiastic one. The men
@ bership of the club is now over 900.
r A Notable Visitor.
l., To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER.
The following from recent Issue of Il
q Norwalk Gazette may interest many in Il
city and we ask that it may find a place
:, your valuable columns:
Our venerated townsman, Rev. s. B. g. Bisse
was gladdened by call from his college mate
some sixty years SINCE DR.. Samuel Miles Hopk
t. | of Auburn, N. Y, son of Congressman Sam,
!. | NJ. Hopkins, and grandson of Moses and Sar
. Rogers, the former an East avenue youth Of
century and quarter ago, and the latte
o daughter of Esther Issacs who brought up
the sunny meadow now the site Of the Wo
H. Baxter, Comstock and Hubbell residences, nj
fho fho ir1 po1o Tooo
and, like the Rev. Mr.. Bisseu, herself also d
IL cendant Of Humphrey hyde of Fairfield, g
" | tier, according to acknowledged authority, Of
family "believed to have been, and there see
~. | to be no question about it, of the best blood
England
g. Miss Isaacs, marrying, at the age of eighte
Ill acres the leisure he much relished, was the h
T@otRy dwight President t E Of Yale College,
of Sarah, the grandmother Of the distinguish
n onel Woolsey R Hopkins, drove yesterday fr
:, Stamford to Norwalk, as well as the great-gral
TX mother of the exceptionally capable head to
he fhther Of ss
r. escorted to the ancestors burial plot in the
,r. regretted SO much OF history is oblterated
You'd recovery. The tombstone was there sho
Of the grandson of the bosom friend OF Cover
winthrop, and q contemporary of Major j
Mason, who was acting governor during Gov
nor Winthrop's absence in Europe, and VIII
10. brilliant Indian campaign forms such an inpt
or ant page in early New England annals, and
W kindred of whose daughter Priscilla lie all Q
he | the East Norwalk ground. The DOCTOR the
of whose affinity Is thus urned in our own
ce and that of Norwich, and New London,
70 | Waterbury, and one branch of whose family
10 in its possession pedigree OF the Woolseys fl
IFS the Cardinal down, makes but brief tarrJ
Connecticut, but it is earnestly hoped in
as walk that his visit to this place may some day