Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-18
BOARD OF sELECTMEN

Effort to Extend Sn Westville Frank
 lin Street to Mechanic .Street-The
 Fair Haven Road Wants . Double
 Track From the Quinnipiac Bridge
 to Its Terminus.
 The town agents office last night looked like the Yale Cooperative store when the tickets for the Ysle-P Princeton game were put on sale. A large number of Westville residents crowded the office to it's utmost to forward by their presence or their voice the effort to extend Franklin street, Westville, to Mechanic street.
 Attorney H. L. Hotchkiss presented their position. He said: came before the board late last fall and asked for a layout and an estimate of the cost when petition for this extension was before the board then. We expected to get another hear ing, but to our surprise at the next meet ing of the board the matter was indefinite ly postponed. The people living on Mechanic street are obliged to go around the hill to get to the sohoolhouse or the church. Franklin street can be easily ex- tended.
 The extension would cross the property belonging to Mr. Bristol, but have un- | derstood that in the deed he received for the property the land required for this i'm provement was reserved. MT. Bristol has put up shed in the way of the proposed street since agitation on this subject began, but it can easily be drawn to one side by 6 one-horse team. Mir. Bristol's and MT.
 Woodmansee's property adjoin the street
 and their front yards wouid have to be graded. Whatever dirt should be taken
 off the hill, in making the proposed exten
 sion, could be used for filling purposes or
 flies would be benefited by the improve
 ment.
 A half dozen or more people were pres
 ent to back up Mir. Hotchkiss' statements
 but the board summarily dismissed thu
 question by tabling the matter for a weel
 to give MT. Hotchkiss time to see if in Mir
 Bristops deed there was @ reservation O.
 land for the possible extension of Franklin
 street. The board will then set tim
 when they will go to Westville and lool
 the ground over.
 Town Agent Garrity reported that h
 and Town Auditor Cunningham had de
 stroyed Quinnipiac bonds from No. 1 t
 No. 50 inclusive, and war loan bonds fror
 No. 1894 to No. 180 inclusive.
 Miss Sarah Hughes and MT. Alfre Hughes objected to the proposed layou of Forbes avenue where the new electri , road is to be laid. She complained ths the property, which had been greatly in proved by her, was very much damage by the layout of the new street. Tn street, too, she thought, was made mo1 , crooked, and that Selectman Forbes lani } which was opposite, did not contribute g ! much to the new street as hers. "I leav it to any of the gentlemen present." sh . concluded, dramatically, Eff, at my ag' he would want his property injured in th
 way"
 l Engineer Thompson was present and e1 l plained that at the widest spot on M l Forbes place seventeen and on 7 half feet of land was el t croached upon and in the marrow 6 est place nine feet. Besides, when u g fences are in the curve will appear, as a really is, less. Miss Hughes was at lengt t satisfied that injustice was not being do1 i her and left considerably modified. 0 The Fair Haven and Westville road p a titioned for permission to extend Il l double track easterly over the Quinnipi ], or Fair Haven bridge to the terminus t it's road in Fair Haven East. The petite Il was read and tabled for week.