Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-01-24
TWELVE TO SEVEN.
Weak Kneed Councilmen Adopt the
 Brook Scheme of the Water BoaI


 Brook Scheme of the Water Board.
 The special meeting of the board of councilmen last evening was presided over by President Hart, all the members being present except Councilman Can non, who is out of town. When Clerk Bolan had read the call for the meeting President Hart announced that the meeting was open for business. The old members who had debated the ques- tion many times, and who had come to look upon it as a very serious one for the future of Waterbury, sat still. The president explained the situation; a vote had been passed by the board of alder men adopting the recommendation of the board of water commissioners to take the additional water supply from the western source, or Hop brook, and the council did not concur.
 Councilman Keough moved that the vote refusing concurrence be recon sidered.
 Councilman Fitzpatrick: "The usual method is that the other board should act after this board has decided a ques- | tion. Does the board of aldermen pro- pose to stand on it's dignity and let this board do the same? My opinion is that the board of aldermen should recon slider their vote. I hope the common council will not reconsider. What is the reason of this haste for pushing westward? ? I have heard no reason ad- vanced why the council should recon sidea it's former vote. You have the opinion of an eminent civil engineer, brought here at great expense, recom- mending the eastern sources. That recommendation was adopted by the council. Everybody was satisfied with that action but the water board. After all had been done this water board says | Gentlemen, all your acts are void. We | have not been consulted m this matter This chamber has voted time after time to adhere to the eastern source. Piece by piece we are now going west because one man, the head of the water board will not go back on his opinion. He is an excellent man, but he sticks to his | judgment against all the citizens. The manufacturers would not be crippled if they were satisfied to build few reser- \ voirs. The western source will not last ten years. We can get more water from Chestnut hill and Lindley brook than Hop brook and Quassapaug com- bined. Why reverse our former deci- sion then in the face of these facts and go to the west. Three-fourths of the people want to go east, because they of water. and second. a greater quan- tity, and if you will not adopt that source the people will not vote for the issuing of any bonds. There are many here who would like to be heard on this matter, and I would like to hear Gen eral Kellogg"
 Permission was readily given and MI Kellogg said: "I did not come here tc make a speech. have the same in terest in this matter that every citizer has and have had some connection with it as was interested in bringing water into the city in the irst place. would like to see some more good water brought into the city while we live, anc the water from Lindley brook anc Chestnut hill can be brought here in { very short time. Besides. it is much better than the water from the othel side. I have known that Hop brool district for the past thirty five years and know it's yellow, sluggish water il no more like the water of Lindle,
 brook. than the mountain dew is lik,
 dish water. They say the manufac turers want too much for Mad river. have not learned that the water com
 missioners have made any effort to ge their prices. A member of the Mac r river company told me that Lindley , brook and Chestnut hill could be pur . chased very reasonably and they can b brought in and connected with our six V street. I believe that Councilman Fitz
 patrick was right, and that the peopl . will do as they did before, vote three t. , one against the issuing of bonds."
 Councilman Byron: II think if tn
 factories have enough water for the tel , hours of the day, it is certain that wate
 is going to waste the other fourteel hours. Now why not store this wate and it will be enough to supply the cit e, k@ coI
 there is plenty of water there. l woul'
 not take drop from any of the facto ries that they need, but if it is bein, , wasted why can not we use it.
 City Attorney Burpee was asked t. , express his views and he said that h. , did not feel like saying anything ex
 cept as the city's legal adviser. 'I don
 favor the western source any more thai
 any of you, but you are in just thi
 position, you can not go east for wate in the present circumstances, becaus
 the water commissioners will no recommend it and that step is neces ? sary in order to proceed legally" At torney Burpee told what could be don
 in the way of seeking new legislation
 and when he had concluded Council man Fitzpatrick moved as an amend
 ment that the city attorney be in
 structed to seek such legislation. Presi IOonC f1dTC TulSu Guo dLucuoACAU OuC U
 order.
 Councilman Brown spoke in favor o
 the eastern sources and went into tn
 report of Engineer Herring.
 The question to reconsider was thel
 put, and yea and nay vote demanded
 with the following result:
 Ayes-President Hart, Councilmel
 Brewer, Cleveland, Filling, Mueller,
 L. Sanford, H. F. Sanford, Tracy r Knox, Keough, Daily and Altman, 12. Nays-Councilmen Bolan, Field, By v ron, Hickey, Fitzpatrick, Lavigne an Brown, 2.
 The original question, which is as fol
 lows, was then read by the president:
 Voted, "That the plan recommends !, by the board of water commissioner 9 October 1, 1888, be approved an n adopted and that the board of wate
 commissioners be, and they are hereb ,- authorized and empowered to make a A Iconditional contracts and do all neces : sary acts for the purpose of carryln this vote into effect"