The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-11-12
STREETS WILL BE WATERED
ORDINANCE ADOPTED By COUNCIL
MEN LIST NIGHT.

Property Owners to be Assessed-Ben
Tower to be Erected in Fair Haven-Com-
mittees Appointed to Arrange for Fare
well Reunion and Banquet.
Twenty-one of the thlrty-five members
of the board Of councilmen were pres
ent at the meeting of that body last ev-
ening. The session was unusually brief
owing to the fact that at special meet
ing of the board held last Wednesday
evening all the regular routine business
Of the board for the month had been
transacted.
The most important business before
the meeting last eveningwas the consid-
GRAFTON of the report of the committee
on ordinances in reference to street
sprinklng The ordinance provides that
all the paved streets of the city shall
be watered between March 15 and NO
vember Is of each year, and the cost
thereof taxed against the abutting
property owners, the street railroad
companies and the city. The ordinance
also provides that the work shall be
done under the supervision of the joint
committee on water and creates a new
office, that of clerk of the committee,
at salary fixed at $1,000 per annum.
At the previous meeting of the board
the report was recommitteed to the
committee, the claim being made that
the proposed ordinance was illegal in
that it delegated the powers of the
court of common council to a commit
tee. At the meeting last night an opin-
ion was read from Corporation Counsel
Ely to the effect that the proposed or
dinance was in no way Illegal, and
that none of the powers of the court of
common council were by it delegated to
the committee on water.
Councilmen Pickett and Chillingwortb
opposed the report on the ground that
it only provided for the sprinkling of
paved streets, but after considerable
discussion the proposed ordinance was
adopted, Councilman Pickett alone vot-
ing in the negative. After its adoption
Councilman Chillingworth introduced a
resolution which was unanimously
adopted, asking for the opinion of the
corporation counsel as to whether or
not the city had any legal right to
sprinkle unpaved streets and assess the
abutting property owners.
The report from the committee on fire
alarm recommending that an iron bell
tower be erected at No. SIS engine house
and that the board of finance include in
the appropriations for next year a sum
not exceeding 81, 800 to be used for this
purpose, was unanimously adopted.
The report of the board of compensa-
tion assessing benefits and damages fol-
the Ashmun street pavement was refer
red to the corporation counsel for an
opinion as to the legality of the assess
ment under the circumstances, the
pavement in question having been laid
merely as an experiment.
After the regular business of the ses.
sion had been transacted, on motion OF
Councilman Coolidge committees were
appointed to arrange FOR a farewell re
union and banquet to be held some time
next month, and also to make arrange
ments for the placing upon the walls OF
the councilmanic chamber the photo.
graphs of the members of the present
board suitably framed. The committee
on reunion consists of Councilmen Cool.
idge, Ullman, ,Gompertz Unger and Dew.
ell, and the committee on pictures OF
Councilmen Scoville, Rourke and Car.
rington.
BOARD OF PUBLIC KORKS.
The members of the board of public
works held a special executive session
last evening, but transacted no business
other than to consider the estimates
for the coming year.