Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-04
DECLINED WITH THANKS.
An Offer of SIO.OOO For the Balance of
 the Brown Property.

An Offer of S1O.OOO For the Balance Of
 the Brown Property.
 John L Sake Iresided over the center district school meeting last night and about 125 citizens were present at SIS when Clerk Moran called the meeting to order. After the preliIninarieS had been arranged the following vote was read:
 Voted, that the district committee be hereby authorized and instructed to procure at an expense not to exceed $l3,- 500 the remaining part of the Brown lot. so called, fronting tifty-elght feet on E tst Main street. said part, with the rest of the Brown homestead lot, to be used as site for the proposed high school building. and the district committee is hereby authorized, if in its judgment the same Is necessary. to borrow on the credit of the district suf- icient funds to carry the foregoing vote into effect
 NJ. J. Brztzinski offered an amend, mAnt. Tn order to avoid any legal trouble, under the opinion of Attorney Terry, that the district committee be empowered 10 buy the whole Brown property.
 In answer to a question Greene kendrick said that the deed for 14U feet front had been conveyed 70 th" district and $5. GOO paii
 General Kellogg thought the price was too high and amended the motion by in- serting $lO 900 instead of $l3. 500.
 Dr Cook thought that 40 feet front would answer all purposes. John Fitzpatrick favored the original motion and Patrick Ho!ohan also thought $l3. 500 altogether too much to pay tor the balance of the land.
 Dr Hayes said that Mir Meloy had offered to sell the whole Iroperty for $35.- 000, within two weeks. The doctor of- fered the following vote:
 Voted, that the Center district offer the Brown heirs for the entire Brown site S30, ,000 and if the heirs refuse to accept this sum the board of education and dis trict committee are hereby authorized to condemn the property for school purposes by condemnation proceedings" Then there was a discussion as to the dimensions of the triangular strip wanted by Chris Strobel. Mir Kendrick said it was six feet wide in the Tear and narrowed to nothing on East Main street. John O'Neill said it was twelve feet wide in the rear and had an East Main street frontage of two feet. Mir StrSbel said it was 1lb feet wide in the rear and nothing on East Main street. But General Kellogg said the purpose of hls amendment was to pay $10 .00O for the entire remainder of the property and if the district afterwards wished 1t could deal with Mir Strobsl. Then Mir O'Neill raised another argu- ment by advising that the meeting pass a two-thirds vote authorizing the district committee to select the Brown property as High school site. He made a motion to that effect. but it was ruled out of order.
 Then GeDeral KellogG's amendment that $10 900 be offered for the entire remainder of the property was put and carried without a dissenting voice. The motion as amended was then carried without op- position and the chairman declared the vote a unanimous one.
 The Brown heirs will not sell for that sum. so Mir Meloy says.
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