Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-03-31
FIVE COMMITTEES MEETINGS

FIVE COMMITTEES MEETINGS
In Unusually Busy Night At the City
Hall - The Committees on Or.
dinances, Claims, Nominations
streets and Monument Site ALI Hold
Sessions-The License Fee for Junk
Dealers to be Twenty Dollars Here
after-0ther Business Transacted.
Tho eve of Fast day was an exception
ally busy one In the city hall, and Assist
ant City Clerk Stanley had his hands full
of business, and was as usual fully equal
to the emergency.
COMMITTEE ON ORDINANCES.
The principal business before the COM
mittes was the consideration of petition
presented by Police Commissioner Gill
huly ct al. for the passage of an ordinance
de itinerant junk dealers. He also pre-
scented draft of proposed ordinance by
the terms of which the licenses of junk
dealers shall be increased from 50, the
present price, to SO. It is also provided
that every one collecting bottles shall be
obliged to secure license, instead of as
at present having one license and half a
dozen assistants collecting and selling bot
ties on the strength of the one license.
Police Commissioner Gilhuly, the father
of the proposed ordinance, Superintendent
Tread we'll Smith, Police Commissioner
Clancy and Bottlers Jacob Werner, Zapp
and Scovill were all present in favor of the
plan. !
Superintendent Smith favored the in
crease in the cost of licenses and said that
at present one license was often a cover
for horde of thieves, and thieves of such
q class that the police found it extremely
difficult to trace them. At present one
man takes out q license and then en-
ploys several men and boys to work
for him, and all work under the one
license. These men and boys oftentimes
go into houses and when they cannot buy
articles as cheaply as they desire they
either steal them or anything else which
comes under their notice. He strongly
favored the increase to SO and especially
that portion of the proposed ordinance
which compels all assistants to take out IL
censes. He even favored making the
license 500. He said in conclusion that
the general statutes of the state compelled
these junk dealers to keep books, but this
was now practically a dead letter, as the
ers and did not speak the English language,
nor did they keep books of any kind or de-
Commissioner Gilhuly also favored the
| proposed ordinance on the same grounds
| a. Superintendent Smith. In addition he
said that he favored it on sanitary grounds.
"To-day," said he, "many of these junk
dealers keep their bottles in filthy cellars
and out of the way places where the germs
| of disease are ever rife, and when these
bottles are sold disease is disseminated
throughout the city by means of them.
| They are also supposed to keep accounts of
sell, and this they do not do. Why, they
can't even speak English, let alone write
| It,"
The others present favored the passage
of the ordinance, after which the commit
tee went into executive session. After 9
lengthy session the committee voted to
recommend the proposed ordinance amend.
ed by making the license fee 500 instead OF
$40
| COMMITTEE ON MONUMENT SITE.
The meeting of this committee to con
slider the report of the layout of the monu
ment site at the Junction of Congress
Davenport and Columbus avenues was en-
livened last night by an interesting debat'
between Judge Rufus s. Pickett and Judge
elect julius g. Cable. Judge Pickett WA
present representing the Historical societ,
while Judge elect Gable represented him
self as one of the owners of the property
where 1t is proposed to erect the monu
ment.
Judge Pickett favored the proposed site
He stated that the Historical society ex
pected to expend from So 500 to So, 900 TO
the monument, and that It would be grea
acquisition to that section of the city.
R. E. Baldwin eaid that he owned prop
erty on the site and proposed to erect tw
houses there. Some time ago he had beel
assessed and paid $40 for sewer assess
| znent, and yet he claimed that the board U
public works had said his property was NO
worth much.
Judge Pickett explained at some lengt
the plans of the Historical society, which
he said, would erect a monument emblem
attic of cannon and cannoneers. The sit
was of unusual historic interest and wa
the one place in the city for 1t.
Hardly had Judge Pickett finished speal
ing when Judge elect Gable arose and sal
that If the monument was erected on tn
site proposed the city might as well clos
up the highway, as it would PRACTICAL
fence up Congress avenue, one of the prir
= cipal thoroughfares of the city, to whic
Judge Pickett retorted that the monumer
. would be an ornament to that section
the city and would be erected on histori
site.
Henry F. Blake also favored the pr,
= posed site, but in executive session tt
I committee voted to take no action until t.
morrow night when another meeting wi
be held by the committee.
!. COMMITTEE ON CLAIMS.
At the meeting of the committee c
: claims last evening Mayor Sargent, Adj
9 tant General Bradley, State Attorney Do
little and Thomas r. Trowbridge we
q present.
Messrs. Sanford and Trowbridge we
l. present to favor the petition of the Ne
Haven city burial grounds for abatemel
- of curb assessment. They said that tt
, unable to pay for any such assessment
Q was also brought out during the hearir
: that the cemetery was probably the fir
one laid out in the United States.
States Attorney Doolittle appeared
it the interest of Isabella Derby of Seymou
d who claims that the city took 5000 LOAF
n of dirt from her lot corner of Nicoll ar
Is Gamer streets, and asks compensation f,
|, same to the amount of 81 200. In rep
q Mayor Sargent said that her property hs
It / not been damaged 20 any such extent.
r The committee took no action on eth
:. question but will meet again one WEI
Q from next Thursday night.
COMMITTEE ON STREETS.
The committee on streets last evenir
!. voted to recommend the cobbling of gu
l. tors on State street between View sire
) and Bishops gate; the erection of &c
- wall at the southern terminus of HAM
d ton street; the laying of crosswall
d from the junction of Winthrop av'
nue. and Auburn street, and at Aubul
street and Sylvan avenue; for a crosswal
on Day street. The petitions for IL
hardening of Ashmun street and the Or
test against the passage of a proposed O
der de brick sidewalks were tabled unit
next meeting. The petitioners for eros
walk at Whalley avenue and Osborn sire
l. were given leave to withdraw.
COMMITTEE ON NoM1NATIoNs.
The committee met in the city hall la
evening, at which several applicants fl
b appointment as special oonstables WEI
d present and examined. No final actio
was taken on the matter of recommend,
J., ton nor will any be taken until next MOI
q day evening.
: HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.
t A New Idea for a Glass Picture
q Floor Committee for the Promenad
Dramatic Club Rehearsals-Ei
says.