The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-27
COMPROMISE IS EFFECTED
TOWNSEND AVENUE WILL BE WIDENED IHIRTY-THREE FEET.

Probable End of the Suit of Beecher vs. Town of New Hnven-Win Vote on the | License ouestion-one New Case of Diph-
 therla Reported to Board of Health Other Municipal Business.
 The old suit of Beecher vs. the town of New Haven will in all probability soon be withdrawn from the docket of the superior court, or at least that will | undoubtedly be the result of the action l 1 taken at the meeting of the board of se- lectmen last evening. Several years ago | a ffty-foot layout of Townsend avenue | at Morris Cove was made by the town and was bitterly opposed by all the | property owners of that section owing | to the fact that the layout would de- stroy their property.
 The case was taken on an appeal to
 the superior court and is still on the
 docket of that court. At the meeting
 of the selectmen last night a communi- cation was received from the residents
 and property owners on Townsend ave
 nue offering to compromise the suit,
 and to give the town sufficient proper
 ty to make a thirty-three-foot roadway
 free of all expense to the town. Town
 Agent Baldwin and Selectman Brown
 favored accepting the compromise of
 fered, as a thirty-three-foot roadway
 was all that was required for travel at
 the Cove and it could be had without
 any expense to the town, whereas if an
 attempt was made to secure fifty-foot
 road it could only be secured at great
 expense and after considerable litiga- tion, if at all
 As soon as the motion to accept the
 compromise had been made Selectman
 Bretzfelder started in to object on the
 ground that it was simply plan on the part of the republican members to fa- vor the interests of w. $. Beecher, who
 is now a candidate for selectman. Af-
 ter the selectman had partially reliev- ed his pent-up feelings Selectman Brown said: q move we go into execu- tive session"
 What are we going into executive ] session for?" asked Selectman Bretz- : fielder. "In my opinion the public is } entitled to know what is being done by
 the board of seiectmen."
 Undoubtedly it will, especially if you
 remain through the session." replied
 Selectman Brown, looking significantly
 at Selectman Bretzfelder At the close
 of the session the members of the press
 will be informed as to what business has I been transacted"
 s ''Well. I have been member of this @ board for three years" said Selectman
 Cunningham, and such action is in
 my opinion, unprecedented. However, if you don't want to let the minority ,. know what you want to go into execu- l. tive session for, you have the majority with you and can do as you like"
 The motion was then carried and the
 doors of the room closed after all ex- d cept the members of the board had been }. excluded At the conclusion of the ex- It ecutive session the reporters were told k that the business considered was in ref 2 erence to the roadway at Morris Cove, n and the action taken was to instruct q the town counsel to take such meas '- ures and prepare such votes for adopr l. ton by this board as may be necessary Is to carry out the terms and provisions l. of the compromise.
 > A petition signed by Felix Chilling o worth and a number of others asking Is that a special appropriation for filling l. in the dead arms of West river be ask n ed for at the coming town meeting was n read and referred to the proper commit st fee. Another petition was also received l. asking that the electors of the town bc S. given an opportunity to vote on the H. s. cense question next Tuesday and the D. petition was granted.
 of HEALTH OFFICIALS IN SESSION st At the meeting of the board of health 'd last evening only routine business was transacted. Health Officer Wright re.
 ported that there had been reported le twenty-two cases of scarlet fever in the a- city. confined principally to the district le about Orchard street and Edgewooc Ill avenue, twenty-three cases of dtphthe Ia ria. thirteen of which were in the Nintf lh ward and the others in the Fourth ware to in the vicinity of the Greenwich avenue IT. school Seventeen cases of typhoid fe 's yer have also been reported. One new or case of diphtheria was reported yester oe day from Starr street.
 'e CONSIDERING THE ESTIMATES. q The members of the board of ffnanc ,ln helQ a SpeCldl 6NeCullNG 9CSSiOlA S~''NNA va day at o'clock and remained in session until after o'clock considering the es st timated expenses of the several depart +o ments of the city government for tn n- next fiscal year The members were
 however, unable to agree upon any o m. the estimates and finally decided t rd meet again this evening and try to fin .s some place where they can use tn " pruning knife to the best advantage ,l- SPECIAL CONSTABIES RECON de MENDED.
 W W"e Aldermen Rabanus and Well were tn 'u' only members of the committee on nom oe nations to put in an appearance at tn
 meeting last evening and but four az
 plicants for appointment as special con :" stables were present. After a brief ses r sion the committee decided to recon ,, ,u mend the appointment of the quarte 1a of applicants.
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 - Riot in Prison.
 D Jackson, Mich, Nov. 26.-The convic'
 in the shirt factory at the prison ocean
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