The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-15
TEAMS FOR SELECTMEN
TOWN AGENT B4LDWIN'S REPORT
 TO AR. BRETzFELDER.

Forbes, Cunningham and Bretzfelder--
 Petitions for Hay dening WestvilIe Streets.
 The usual weekly meeting of the se- lectmen last evening was unusually spicy and interesting and the tits be- tween the town agent and the demo- cratic minority were more frequent than at any previous meeting. All the members of the board were present eX- cept Selectman Brown. A petition ask ing that Fitch street in Westville be graded and hardened from it's junction with Blake street was referred to the committee on roads and bridges, as was also another petition for the grad ing of Barnett and Elm streets, from Alden avenue.
 When these two references were made Selectman Forbes, who is a member of the committee, said "Why should these matters be referred to us? We will never hear any more about them. The town agent will take the matter in hand, anyway, and they ought to be re- ferred directly to him. This board and the committees are run by one man power"
 T do not care to correct his opinion, !" said Town Agent Baldwin. He Is gen- | titled to it." and the matter was dis posed of without further controversy | The following petitions were also re- | ferred to the committee on railroads and bridges The layout of new road at a point easterly of Townsend ave- nue, and running 400 feet southerly from Burr street, thence parallel with the west side of Hotchkiss avenue, to the Morris causeway and ending at a point 100 feet from the southeast corner. of the Morris Cove road, the new high | way to be fifty feet wide, and for the grading and hardening of Forest street in Westville, from Fountain street to Elm street. The selectmen will visit the proposed new road in the annex Saturday at o'clock.
 Hon. James F. Townsend of the park commissioners appeared before the board and asked if some action would be taken on the condition of Tyler street, up West rock He said it had not been looked after for two years. The matter went to the road and bridge committee.
 A petition for grading and hardening Fitch street, Westville, beginning with Blake street, was referred to the road and bridge committee, and another from the residents of Barnett street, Westville. for grading that street, took the same course.
 The residents of Forest street, Vest ville, asked that that street, from Foun- tain to Elm streets, be graded and hardened, and a survey and layout for sidewalks be taken.
 A communication from the residents of Hill and Quinnipiac streets, Fair Haven, stated that the gutters leading to the Quinnipiac river were in bad shape and that they were offensive to the sight and smell. This matter went to the road and bridge committee.
 The board voted to visit Beaver ponds on Thursday afternoon to see about filling up that district. as instructed by the town at the recent town meet ing.
 Selectman Cunningham asked wheth- CT the roadmaster had power to hire help himself. Town Agent Baldwin asked him what he was driving at and MT Cunningham told of story which he had heard that Frank Bohan had been hired by the roadmaster and that he owned a house, thus violat- ing the agreement of the board to hire real estate owners for work on the roads.
 MT Baldwin denied that he was hired by the roadmaster, and stated that he knew nothing of MT. Bohan's case,
 MT. Cunningham stated that there we're several persons at the town farm who had been inmates and had been discharged. They have since, he al- legged, returned and been hired to work there. He said, q don't think 1t good policy to feed paupers all winter, then hire them to work in the spring"
 MT. Baldwin stated that, as far as he knew, there had been no persons hired at salaries of any amount to do any work for the town, after they had been inmates at the farm5
 MT. Bretzfelder said-I should like to know when I telephoned for a team to Springside MT. Baldwin forbade them to send team for me?
 MT. Baldwin-Mr. Bretzfelder, if he wishes to visit the town farm can do as I do, either foot it, or furnish his own team.
 MT. Bretzfelder-Well, te1ephoned out there for one of the town teams to meet me at the electric cars, and they said they were not to go and meet me. I hired a team for myself, and found four horses in the barn and the host1er said they had nothing to do all the morning.
 Mir Baldwin-Mr. Bretzfelder has been objecting to our buying horses and teams. Now, when we have need of them he thinks they can be used as well as not to give up the town busi- ness and cart him around.
 Selectman Bretzfelder-I think it is the height of imputance for the first seleetman to refuse another selectman a team. I don't go out there to fool away my time with the paupers. I go on business.
 Selectman Cunningham moved that the superintendent of Springside be in to have a team at Westville to meet the electric cars any time that a selectman announces that he wished to visit the farm. The vote was tie on a strict party basis, Selectman Brown being absent, and the rival factions parted.
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