The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-24
ESTIMATES ARE CONSIDERED
ALDERMEN AGREE TO DISAGREE
 WITH THE COUNCLLMEN.

Will Meet Again Friday Night-Action
 Taken on Street Sprinkling, Hack and
 Other ordinances-severa Conference
 Committees Appointed-Other Business
 Transacted.
 For an hour last night the members of the board of aldermen wrestled with the estimated expenses of the city for the fiscal year ending November 50, 1896, and finally agreed to disagree with the action taken by the council men at their last meeting in reference to several of the items so that at least one more meeting will have to be held and the probabilities are that several will have to be held before the esti- mated expenses and income of the city is finally adopted,
 agreeing action Aldermen Belden and the aldermen appropriated $125OO for that purpose, and the item of $l,00o recommended by the board of finance for the salary of a clerk was trans ferred to the hardening of James street The couneilmen, on the other hand, decided to accept the original recom- mendation of the board of finance, and this of course made a disagreeing ac- ton and at the meeting of the aldermen last night it was voted to adhere to the former action taken by that body at it's former meeting.
 On motion of Alderman Macdonald it was also voted to transfer $1,5OO from the item of gensral repairs, etc., In the board of public works, to the grad ing of Edgewood avenue beyond the Boulevard sewer. 1n the lamp depart ment the several appropriations for the several items were amended so IS to read as follows: For electric lights, $41, ,S87.50; for gas lamps, $lS,O50; for naphtha lamps, $10,0o0; expense of lighting public buildings, $2,25O set tfng and resstting gas lamp posts, $50; getting and resetting naphtha posts, s100; street signs, $4O0; Welsbach burn CTS on gas lamps, $950; clerk and in | isrector's salary, $1,200; sundries, $15O; telephone, $4S; for illuminated dial in 1 the Howard avenue engine house, $500. Owing to the fact that in the above 1 items there are several disagreements with the action of the board of council men Aldermen Lambert and Macdon- ald were appointed a committee of con- | ference to meet with a like committee 1 from the board of councilmem and re- 1 port at a subsequent meeting of the court of common council.
 The aldermen also voted to adhere to their former action in reference to the | ordinance relating to the sprinkling of | streets. The aldermen amended the or dinance so as to place the work under l the supervision of the board of public | works, while the councilmen decided | that it should be done under the direct | supervision of the court of common council In consequence of this dis l Well were appointed a committee of street pavements made a report.
 conference.
 | The hack ordinance was last night 1 finally adopted by the aldermen after l it had been amended so that the boun- | daries of the sectionl in which the fare shall be fifty cents had been extended to Crescent street, Carmel street 1 Whalley avenue, Norton street, George street, Withrop avenue, Davenport ave- nue, Washington street, Morris street Lsmbertom street to harbor line, thence along harbor line to Quinnipiac river | The ordinance also amended fixing the fee for carrying passengers anywhere l in the city beyond the limits set forth 1 ir, the 50 cents section at 75 cents per passenger. instead of $1, as recom- mended by the committee on ordi- nances.
 The committee on conference com l posed of Aldermen Connor and Parish on the isagreeing action between the ] two boards on the proposed ordinance l relating to the tearing up of permanent 1 nation in reference~to suitable sites fol 1 A report from the committee on com mercial and manufacturing interests recommending that a bureau of infor- nation in reference to suitable sits fol manufacturing sites, similar to that in existence in other cities was read and on motion of Alderman Macdonald the report was adopted and referred tc the next court of common council. The board then adjourned to meet again next Friday night.