The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-09
BRICK PAVEMENTS AGAIN
ALDERMEN TOTE TO PATE WOOSTER
 AND ASHMUN STREETS.


 Alderman Chillinsworth Outnumbered-
 No Pavement for Church Street-Top
 Dressing Ordered-East Street Ordered
 Paved-No Waiting Room on the Green
 Large Amount of Routine Business
 Transacted Last Evening by the Local
 Solons-Petitions and Other Matters Dis
 posed of
 The board of aldermen decided last evening to pave Ashmun and Wooster streets with Mack wire brick, This was in accordance with the recom- mendation of the street committee.
 Alderman Chillingworth objected to the adoption of the report and offered a resolution referring the whole mat ter to the board of public works, the contract to be awarded after a suffi- cient test of the different bricks offer ed by the contractors had been made.
 The resolution of the gentleman from the Tenth ward was amended by AL dernan Murray of the Third ward so as to instruct the city clerk to order the board of public works to proceed at once to pave Wooster and Ashmun streets with Mack wire cut brick.
 Alderman Rourke seconded the amendment. The question was put and carried. MT. Chillingworth objected and asked that the yea and nay vote be taken. His objection was not sustained. President Macdonald's decision thus received the approval of the board in the matter of announcing Alderman Murray's amendment carried. The question was then called on the report of the street committee. Alder man Chillingworth was again recog- nized by the chair. He thought if the contract were awarded to the J. E. Miles company, the Mack wire brick makers, great injustice would be done other contractors.
 Chairman Hamilton of the street committee offered an amendment to the report, making five years instead of ten in the guarantee.
 This was in accordance with the opinion of the corporation counsel The report was accepted. The work ! will begin at once, and local labor will be employed.
 The street committee reported in fa- vor of paving Church street from Chapel to Elm with block brick of standard dimensions.
 Mr Chillingworth moved to amend by substituting topdressing under the ment was adopted. A long list of property holders objected to laying the pavement.
 | The board ordered blanks to be laid at the Hazel and Ivy street crossings. i The corporation counsel decided that l the city had right to lay blanks at these places, as they have never been abandoned.
 Concurrent action was taken in that of the board of councilmen indefinitely postponing the report of the majority report of the street committee on the Boston asphalt contract. 1 The report of the board of compen- sation laying assessments for sewers l in Kimberly Edgewood and Gilbert avenues High and Ferry streets was received and accepted. The communication from the com missioners of the Tennessee Exposi- tion inviting the city to participate in | the event, which begins May 1, 1S97 was referred to the mayor Alderman Hamilton offered resolu- | ton ordering the board of public works to pave East street, between the bridges, with block brick, the work to be done by October 1. The committee on squares reported adversely on the waiting room on the green at the corner of Church and Chapel streets