The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-27

other kinds of pavement beside sheet
asphalt In all the letters which he had
received he said none recommended the
promiscuous use OF sheet asphalt FOR
street purposes. Water will ruin as
phaH and the gas which must necessar-
lily come up along the side of the sheet
asphalt pavement will kill the trees, SO
there YOU have your choice, an asphalt
pavement which may last two years and
no trees, or some other kind of pave
ment and your beautiful shade trees.
In closing he said he thought the citizens
should awakeIand not allow a few sheet
asphalt men to run away with the half
million dollars appropriated
At this stage of the proceedings ex-
Alderman Chatfield asked Mr.. Chase If
he might ask him a few questions, to
which Mr.. Chase replied: Certainly,
but you ought to be thankful that you
have here a right to ask questions, a
right which was denied me at the meet
ing of the street committee last month"
After this Mr.. Chatfield asked several
questions, but was unable to shake any
statements made by Mr.. Chase.
Here Attorney Charles H. Fowler in
| troduced a resolution asking the board
of councilmen at its meeting tonight to
lay the order for the paving of Orange
| and West Chapel streets with sheet
asphalt on the table until the next reg
ular meeting of that body. In sup
| port of this resolution he opposed the
| laying of any kind of pavement which
would, he said, probably not last as
| longest as the oldest man in the room
would live and that such a pavement
would be burden to posterity.
Frank c. Bushnell here gave an ex-
| planation of the visit of the street COM
mittee to Syracuse and Buffalo. In
| Syracuse, he said, they were met by
| two men in the interests of brick pave
ment and shown the streets of the city,
while in Buffalo they were met by sheet
asphalt men. Continuing he said: ST
am sheet asphalt man though at first
was strong adherent of brick, but
now l don't want any brick in mine.
| Now what was this meeting called for
tonight. Why Mr.. Chase started out
| by throwing out slurs at the commit
| tee on streets of the court of common
| council" Mr.. Bushnell then at length
| detailed how the subject of street pave
ments had been agitated from it's incip-
iency to the time the report was made
by the chamber of commerce to the
| court of common council and now, con-
| tinued he. these soreheads want you to
take that report Again out of the hands
of the court Of common council. The
court of common council don't recon-
| mend any kind of pavement except
such as the property owners want.
West Chapel street property owners of
5000 feet want sheet asphalt, while the
owners Of about 270n feet do not. II
believe" said he, that the matter of
the street pavements is perfectly safe
in the hands of the court sof common
lcouncil where it belongs. The members
of the street committee are honest.
A few soreheads have called this meet
ing to oppose sheet asphalt in the in
terest of some other kind of pavement,
but he did not believe that the court
of common council will be influenced by
a sorehead lawyer"
Attorney Chase-I want to call your
attention, gentlemen, to the fact that
I am being treated the same as I was
treated the other night at the commit
tee meeting.
Mr.. Bushnell then continued and
during the course of his remarks said
that he would like to see all the streets
of New Haven paved with sheet as
lphalt, but don't suppose I ever will
"Why?" inquired Attorney Fowler.
| ooh, there are many reasons" replied
Mr.. Bushnell.
"Well give us some of them," said
Attorney Fowler
| "a few obstructionists like yourself
will prevent it, said Mr.. Bushnell
| Attorney Fowler arose and called the
speaker to order, claiming that per
sonalities should not be indulged in
| During the remainder of the evening
there was considerable spicy repartee
between Attorneys Chase and Fowler
and Mr.. Bushnell and Simeon ]. Fox.
Mr.. Fox denied emphatically that he
or any of the other four gentlemen
E. A. Chatfield F. G. Bushnell. w. Fl
Douglass and F. H. Read, interested
in sheet asphalt on West Chapel street
had ever received any stock or promise
of Stocks bonds or anything else from
any sheet asphalt company. The Other
four men also denied the insinuating
by-rising when called upon by Attorney
Fox He also asked Mr.. Chase to with
draw his statement to the effect tha
stock had been received in return fol
work done or promised, but the latter
refused to do so, stating empha tically
that certain people had received istocl
and offers of stock in both sheet anc
block asphalt pavements.
Arguments pro and con We're mad,
by L. J. Matthews, Senator Johnson
E. P. Arvine and several others, af
ter which the resolution offered by At
torney Fowler was voted upon and tn,
resolution defeated by vote of 90 to 90
after which the meeting adjourned. II
consequence of this vote no resolution
will be handed to the board of council
men this evening.
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