The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-11
CARS ON TOWNSEND AVENUE
OPPOSLTION TO CARS RUNNING ON
 THAT THOROUGHFARE.

Remembrance Presented to 5electmen a
 Last Nights Meeting-Pubne Hearing to | Take Place Next Monday AfternOon--
 Other Matters Considered.
 At the meeting of the selectnen last evening a remonstFanoe against the lay- ing of railroad tracks on Townsend ave-
 nue was read. and 1t was ordered to give all the parties In interest an op-
 portunity to be heard on the subject.
 A hearing will be held next Monday afternoon at o'clock.
 All the members of the board were
 present, and Chairman Stahl presided. Among the citizens present were Judge Hobart L. HotchlEiss, L.Wheeler Beech- CT, William A Harris, Charles G. Kim berly and Frederick B. Farnsworth, Immediately after the minutes of the previous meeting had been read and ap- proved Judge HotchlKiss arose and pre-
 scented to Clerk Perry remonstrance
 to the petition of the New Maven Street Railroad company. now pending before
 the general assembly, for permission
 to lay tracks and operate cars on Townsend avenue.
 The remonstrants claim that the building of the road on Townsend ave- nue is not necessity to the New Ha- ven Street Railroad company, and that the laying of tracks on Townsend ave- nue would greatly hinder and obstruct public travel. Under these circum- stances the remonstrants pray the mer1- bers of the board to oppose the grant ing of the railroad company's petition and to protect the highway in question for the use of the citizens of the town. The remonstrance Is signed by John H. Platt, Wallace B. Fem, Herbert Barnes, E. F. Mansfield, F. L. Averillr Charles s. Lsete. A. McC. Matthewsons r. B. Farnsworth, Simeon J. Fox, James D. Dewell F. H. Brown, l.. Wheeler Beecher, Myron R. Durham, Charles G. Kimberly, Frank D. Fowler, Frank c. Bushnell, William A. Harris, John z. Mason, Leonard BostwicI, George A. Alling, George w. Lewis, F. A. Corbin William s. Beecher and Hart D. Munson.
 Judge HotchiTiss stated that the hear ing on the railroad companys petition had been assigned before the legislative committee for next Tuesday, and it was therefore necessary for the selectmen to take immediate action on the mat ter. In order to give all parties an op- portunity to be heard on the subject on montion of Town Agent Baldwin 1t was voted to give public hearing on the subject next Monday afternoon at 9 o'clock, and the clerk of the board was also instructed to notify the street car companies of the city of the rules adopted by the board in January rela- tiveto electric road petitions for amend ments to charters. These rules instruct the town counsel to oppose all amend ments to charters which have not pre- viously been submitted to the board of selectmen.
 Town Counsel Goodhart was also in- structed to oppose the bill now pend- ing before the general assembly giving the railroad companies power to ap- peal from the decision of the town governments to judge of the superior court
 The committee on construction was instructed to have necessary painting done at Springside farm and to inquire into the Feasibility of having new electric light and a new water reservoir placed on the farm
 It was at this point that the usual tilt occurred between the republican majority and the democratic minority, and although 1t was brief 1t was ex- ceedingly spicy Selectman Bretzfeld- CT started the ball rolling by moving that hereafter all bills be referred to the finance committee before they be paid He also claimed that 1t was wrong for the town agent to pay the bills. His motion was seconded by Se- lectman Forbes.
 ''The action of the town agent in this said Town Aegnt Baldwin, .is just the same as it has always been. I have paid all the routine bills of sala- ries and supplies and ordinary matters, the same as former town agents did"
 'I ask that the clerk read from page 166 of last years records" said Select man Bretzfelder.
 Clerk Perry then read: "Selectman then moved that all bills against the board be paid, mot by the town agent but by the board"
 "Weil, the fact is." said Town Agent "that at that meeting I was the only one who thought that way and now I must take the position that Seleotman Cunningham took last year"
 A vote was then taken on Select man Bretzfelder's motion, which re- suited in tie which waS dissolved by Chairman stah1 voting in the nega- i've.