Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-02
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The NAmount Expsnd.d on tfS N6w water Supply Up to Date.

Tue Amount Expsnd.d on tfS N6w'
 -.,o Water Supply Up to Date:
 Mayor Kilduf presided at the meeting of the committee on additionaE water supply last night. The monthly bills amounting to $5.81s. "a and the payroll of $8S1 II were approved. fot
 A communication was received from Contractor MoManps stating that his men. acting under instruction of the city's in epector, had cut the conduit belonging to the Telephone Go in front of the Nor throp property on West Main street and that the company had sent him a bill of S32.02 for repairs. Mir McManus was present and said he had paid the bill to avoid costs, but held that inasmuch as the work had been done under instruction of a foreman Tn the employ of the city, the expense thus incurred should he met by the city. It was voted that Mir Me Manus be paid the amount of the bill.
 The committee appointed to consider the petition of Clark 5. Woodward that he be allowed to remain on the property which he had solL to the city, for few months longer, reported terms to be sub mitted to Mir Woodward. The conditions state that he agree to remove all manure from his barns and arrange his drains so that all waste water from his place will be diverted in its course from the West Branch, remove all the barns on or before May 1. 1895. remove the house and old mill dam and thoroughly remove all refuse on or before June'-1. 1895. The report .lso stated that Mir Woodward should pay to the city on or before April l, the sum of $100 for the use of the place from the present month until the time specified for him to vacate the premises.
 | M- ol Nka TNll ra | port in relation to the account between the city and Contractor Altman: Estimate I of April 9, 1894. S2 AIS 34. of which 10 Der cent was retained from Altman; final estimate of Edward McManus for com. plrting the work $5. 394 6l; estimate oi work done hy McManus figured at Allman't prices. $3 .059.O7; extra amount paid to McManus over Allman's prices. S2. .335 54 amount due the city from Altman, less the ten per cent retained as above S2,uSS.O1
 Thomas H. Hayes was Mir Altman bondsman. Mir Fitzpatrick said the oD'y thing he did in connection with the All man contact was that he voted to take ii away from him before the time limit "Whlle knew," said Mir Fitzpatrick, "h. never could do the work. still it gave him a chance to go about telling that he was able to do it. bat the committee would not | let nlm go ahead.
 Mir Cairns said that Allman's figures were rediculously low. "Allman bid $2. 33." he said. '.on masonry fo: which McMAnus afterwards got g and I dont think he made much money at that price,
 The board authorized the engineer tc advertise for bids for digging test pits to ascertain the best place to build the earth l or overflow dam, estimates to be received urftil 8 o'clock on January Is. After con, siderable talk on the expense of the new water supply and making measurements ot | the dam, the following vote drawn up by Mir Cairns was passed:
 ''Voted, that the city engineer be re- | quested to prepare as careful an estimate as possible of the entire cost of completing the additional water supply; first. con. sidering the reservoir to be filled to eleva. tion 40. and second. considering the reservoir to be filled to elevation 425 ae originally designed, also to furnish esti. mate of the storage which will be available at each elevation"
 The amount expended on the new water supply up to January l, was $54S, S,271 91 The committee then spent some time listening to an explanation of the new water supply. The water will be brought | into the city in about a week. It was de. cided to have the whole committed | present on the occasion and that Chief Snagg be requested to take hose car. riage to the West Main street end and see what he could do with a stream of water from the branch supply. It was shown ] that the engineer figured pretty close on the different contracts, On the Lpps sec ton the final estimate exceeds that of the engineer by 5000 aud on the Gaffney con. tract it was $1 ,500 less. There was not a dollar spent in testing the earth as is usu- ally done on such occasions and the result must be most gratifying to Engineer Cairns.