The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-11
WILL WATER THE STREETS
IMPORTANT ACTION TAKEN BY AL-
 DERIIEN LAST NIGHT.

New Ordinances Adopted-r;o Hospital for
 Contagious DIseases-Charges Preferred
 Against Plumber-Hcalth Officer
 Wrights Report-Selectmen's Short
 Session.
 Eighteen of the twenty-four members of the board of aldermen were present at special meeting of that body last evening, called for the purpose of dis posing of the unfinished business of the year, It was generally supposed that the meeting last evening had been called for the special purposes of con- sdering the estimated expenses and income of the city for the fiscal year, beginning December l, 1895, but mme- diately after the meeting had been called Mayor Hendrlck announced that there was vast deal of business to be completed before the end of the year and in view of this fact it was unanimously voted, on motion of Alder man Macdonald, to postpone all con-
  sideration. of the estimates until later, when another special meeting will be held.
 communication from the board of public works recommending that the court of common council recall an or der for the placing of suitable trap in the cellar of a resident of Oak street, David Ashmun, at the expense of the city, to prevent the setting back of the water from the George street sewer, was read and on motion of Alderman Macdonald the board refused to recall the order. The board of public works claimed that such an order would be establishing dangerous precedent. but Alderman Macdonald claimed in reply that the property had been damaged by the city in consequence of an over- flowing sewer and that under the cir cumstances, precedent or no precedent, the city should pay it's honest debts and protect it's citizens from further dam age from the same cause.
 The alderman also considered at length the report of the committee on ordinances, recommending the passage of an ordinance providing for the water ing and sprinkling of the streets of the city and finally after number of amendments had been made, the ordi- nance as amended was adopted. Among the more important amendments was one changing the time of watering from between March 15 and December 15 to March l and December l.
 Alderman Macdonald also moved that the work of sprinkling the streets be done under the supervision of the board of public works instead of the joint standing committee on water of the court of common council, as rec commended by the ordinance as pro- posed He argued that the work prop erly belonged to the board of public works and could be done more satis- factorily by that body. The board of public works, he claimed, was author ized by the charter to see to the care of the streets and that therefore that board was the proper one to have charge of the watering and sprnlSling streets He also argued that the board of pub lie works, was a continuing board while the committee on water of the court of common council changed it's membership every year. To give the work to the latter would, he said, clear ly be an unbusinesslike proceeding most unWise and unsafe to put such a work into the hands of inexperienced men.
 Alderman Blakeslee argued in like vein, while Alderman Sanborn favored the passage of the ordinance as rec ap1 o,1 0h hN- ho ,ooi +tnn lengthy debate Alderman Macdonald's motion prevailed, Alderman Sanborn alone voting in the negative.
 It was also voted to give the board of public works authority to make contracts for sprinkling the streets with any party for a period not longer than three years. The sections of the pro- posed ordinance relating to the ap- pointment of an inspector of street sprinkling and providing for his duties and compensation, were stricken out, after which the ordinance as amended was adopted.
 The following ordinance was unani- mously adopted:
 No private hospital for the care or treatment of contagious or infectious uISedS6S Sidll De erected or lIdlHldlHeO in the city of New Haven, and any person or persons, or corporation, who shall violate this ordinance shall for felt and pay a penalty of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every week during which such hospital shall be so erected or maintained.
 Just bsfore adjournment report which purported to be the report of the committee on streets relating to the hardening of Carmel street was taken up. The report was unsigned by any msrnber of the committee and was full of erasures and corrections. When the paper had been read Alderman Hamil- ton, the chairman of the street commit tee, disclaimed any knowledge of it's contents and intimated that while it was in part the report of the commit tee. erasures had been made and the intent of the report otherwise material ly altered.
 As no one appeared to know by whoss authority the changes and ensures had been made, or who had made them, on motion of Alderman Macdonald, who said that it was a serious matter and ought to be investigated, a committee