The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-28
OPPOSED TO NEW SIDEWALKS.

Meeting of tile Committee on Streets.
 The committee rooms in the city hall last evening were much too small to accommodate the large number of citi- gems who were desirous of being heard before the committee on streets. Fully 400 persons were in attendance
 The special cause of the large atten- dance was q communication from the board of public works representing tha new sidewalks arc needed on Broadway. Dixwell avenue Goffe street, Whalley avenue, Webster street. Columbus ave- nue, Howard avenue, Washington street. Oak street, Hamilton street and wallace street The communication from the board of public works stated that the sidewalks on these streets wore in . dilapidated condition. and should be replaced with new ones.
 Sidewalk Inspector John J. Brennan reported to the board of public works l 6 list of 268 sidewalks which were in a defective condition and ought to be re- laid. Each one of these 2S0 property owners were either present or represent ed. and every one was opposed to lay ing 8 new sidewalk in front of his or her property. Some of them claimed that they could not afford to have the work done, and others that their side walks did not need either repairing or relaying.
 During the hearing Mayor Sargent stated to the committee that 1t was tho duty of every property owner to keep his sidewalk in repair for public use, and if he does not then 1t is the duty of the sidewalk inspector to put 1t in re- pair and charge 1t to the property owner. No notice whatever Is required, but the ordinance forbidding the laying of any new sidewalk or relaying any sidewalk already in use with brick has no reference to any ordinary repairs which can be made in brick sidewalks with brick.
 Councilman Frank s. Bishop was also on hand with 8 petition for the harden ing of Lyon street, from Olive to Brad ley street. and had with him quite a large number of residents and property owners living on the street. Among these were J. P. McCusker. A. Heber- ger. Alderman Shanley, and a number Of others. All the advocates of the hardening stated that 1t was an i'm perative necessity as the street was at the present time, but mere mud hole, alike disagreeable and deleterious to the public health.
 
 Lyon street was the only one among the large crowd present to oppose the petition. He claimed that there was no necessity for hardening the street, and that the signers of the petition were many of them not property owners, but tenants and boarders on the street: He also claimed that less than one half of the property owners on the street desired the hardening.
 Alderman J. H. Moore and @ num- Der of others were present and favored the hardening of Summer street, be- tween Hamilton street and State street, on the ground that itiwas public ne- cessity. A similar reason was ad- vanced by Stephen L.Maione and others for concrete sidewalk on the easterly side of Kimberly avenue, between 11S Kimberly avenue and the Boulevard.
 In executive session the committee voted to recommend that Summer street be graded between Hamilton and Franklin streets, that Lyon street be hardened, and that leave to withdraw be given to the petitioners for concrete walk on Kimberly avenue. The re- monstrants against the paving of George street were given leave to with draw. All the sidewalk matters went over until next Wednesday evening, when they will be disposed of