The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-10
ORANGE STREET PAVEMENT
SHEET ASPHALT no BE USED IND
ONLY BETWEEN ELM and ED.

Ihent sent DaCk u NOnmlttee-ACCuoa-
tions of Lobbying-0ther Business.
Despite the torrid atmosphere which
prevailed in the councilmanic chamber
last evening twenty-six members of the
lower branch of the court of common
council were present at the regular
September meeting of that body. The
heat of the room was almost unbeara-
Bile at the comn!t cement of the session,
but it was at that time cool as COM
pared with later in the evening after
the street pavement question had been
thoroughly ventilated and the heated
discussions of the adherents of the
various kind of street pavements had
been completed.
The discussion on street pavements
was precipitated upon the meeting by
the assistant city clerk reading the ac-
ton taken by the aldermen at their last
session in reference to the report of
the committee on streets recommending
that Orange street be paved its entire
length with sheet asphalt. Immediate
ly after the report had been read Coun-
Gilman Scoville introduced an amend
ment to the effect that the street be
paved with sheet asphalt only between
Elm and Eld streets.
Councilman Ullman vigorously op-
posed the amendment and gave a
lengthy review of the observations
taken by the committee on streets
during it's visit to several other cities.
He claimed further that sheet asphalt
was an excellent pavement and fully
equal to the requirements of light travel
or heavy trucking and lasted for a
number of years. He claimed that it
was the very pavement for Orange
street and ought to be laid the entire
length of the street, especially since as
residential pavement sheet asphalt
had no equal.
Councilman Scoville claimed that in
his opinion sheet asphalt was not the
kind of pavement for Orange street,
between Crown and Elm streets, be-
cause it was a purely business street
and further that the street north of
Ed street was at present in an excel
lent condition and therefore there was
no necessity for new pavement. He
also claimed that sheet asphalt pave
ments do not give satisfaction in any
place north of the city of Washing
ton and said that he hoped that the
people of New Haven would not be
bulldozed or caJoled into making sheet
asphalt the principal pavement of the
city. He also argued that a sheet
asphalt pavement was dangerous to
both bicycle riders and people driving
and was of the opinion that the brick
pavement was about as desirable as
any that could be laid. He also pre-
sented remonstrance signed by the
residents of Orange street, north of
Eld street, against the laying of a
sheet asphalt pavement on that street
| between Ed and Gamer streets.
| Councilman Dewell argued at length
| in favor of sheet asphalt and claimed
| that the people tof that street wanted
| that kind of pavement and therefore
ought to have it. On the other hand
Councilman Beaulah argued in favor
| of paving the street with vitrified brick.
| Councilman Pickett argued against
sheet asphalt pavement and claimed
| that he was NOT prepared to say that
there was only one good pavement, but
| that on the other hand there were
three good modern pavements in ex-
| istence He further said that while
asphalt pavement was good pave
ment all the residents of the street
did not want sheet asphalt, especially
those north of ED street, where the
street is comparatively new and in
| first class condition. He also favored
| the limitation of the pavement to Ed
street. "Shall we take $4,000 and put
| it on upper Orange street, where it
| is not needed, and thus rob the other
streets of any sort of improved street
pavements. There is not a street in
| the city that we can afford to pave
| from end to end. Orange street is a
good street to try sheet asphalt on, as
there are no tracks on the street, but
| I am opposed to it first, last and all
| the time where there are tracks, for it
| is we'll known that it will break away
| from the tracks. 1t is not right, nor
Just to put out $4,000 to pave the whole
| of Orange street, a portion of which
| QOeS not Heeu II, huu tlluS Ipp SHopcl,
| Wooster streets, Congress avenue and
other streets of the city of any i'm
provement. It will cost $3,000000 to
pave the streets of the city. OF this
| amount we have got perhaps one-six-
| teenth, 100000. We must be judicious
| in our expenditures and we cannot af-
! ford to pave any long street its en-
| tire length. Let us pave wnere it is
needed most. Wooster, Chapel and Elm
streets and Congress avenue and other
streets do need paving and while l
am in favor of giving the people what
| they want, 1 do not approve of giving
them more than they want"
| In reply Councilman Ullman claimed
that there would never be any perma-
| nent street pavements if the claims of
remonstrants We're listened to and al
| lowed to carry too much weight with
the city officials. He also claimed that
sheet asphalt was not an experiment,
but that on the other hand brick pave
ments were an experiment.
| Councilman Scoville next stated that
| the petitioners for the pavement on
Orange street represented something
| over 1000 feet, while the remonstrants
above Ed street represented about
| $500 feet and these remonstrants had
been secured with practically but little
] solicitation.
The motion on the amendement was
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