The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-27
ABOUT CITY CONTRACTS
ANTHONY CARROLL,S PROTEST TO
 THE BOARD OF FINANCE.

THE bO1RD OF FINANCE. Claims That Only Favored Contractors Can
 Get City Work-Difficulties Placed in the
 Way of Other would-be- -Bidders-Trans-
 fers of Contracts Protested Agaipst-The
 Special District Tax.
 A half hour session of the board of finance was held yesterday afternoon. The chief business transacted at the meeting was the signing of bills and payrolls.
 A communication from the board of education was read, in which it was stated that the board of education or its committee would like to confer with the board of finance in regard to the the district through the remainder of the current year. The last tax laid by the district was to meet expenses of the district up to July A.. and, as is pro- vided in the new charter, there will be a. special meeting of the school district on the third Tuesday in September, 1897, for the purpose of laying district tax for the purpose of paying the ex- penses of the district from July IA to December B., 1897. This will be the last meeting of the New Haven city school district to be held, as the charter spec flies that no meeting shall be held after this one for any purpose whatsoever.
 After the communication had been read yesterday Mayor Farnsworth stated that he thought that there was no necessity of the board of education comforting with the board of finance in regard to the matter, but that 1t should call the special district meeting and lay whatever special tax was necessary for the purposes specified. The board of finance took no further action on the communication.
 Anthony Carroll appeared before the board with several complaints as to the manner in which contracts for city work are let. He referred especially to the last contract for removing decayed
 
 ling. He said that according to the terms of the printed contracts submit ted by the city to bidders, the director of public works, and. before his ap- pointment, the board of public works. had the option of extending the time within which the work was contracted to be done. He claimed that the exten- sion of time was granted to certain privileged contractors, who in conse- quence were enabled to bid lower than other contractors, who would be oblig- ed to finish the work within the time specified in, the contract
 Another provision of the city con- tracts to which MT. Carroll offered strong objection was that which states that the contracts, in addition to doing the work specified in the contract, may be also called upon to do 'tsuch other work as may be fairly implied by the terms of the contract"
 MT. Carroll claimed that if contracts were by any chance obtained by other than the favored ones this provision of the contracts was made to cover a large amount of additional work which would not be required of favored con. tractors.
 He stated that these privileges were allowed to favored contractors and the exactions made of other contractors in order that the latter might be discour- aged from bidding and that the former might have an open field.
 MT. Carroll also referred. with pro- test, to the transfer of the street. | sprinkling contract by the Worcester company, to which 1t was first award | ed to the New Haven company. He said that New Haven parties secured | the sole right to run sprinkling cars over the electric railroads of the city, and that when the Worcester company came to carry out its contract to sprinkle the streets of New Haven 1t found that it was blocked and was ob- | liged to transfer the contract to the newly organized New Haven company, the chief stockholders in which were the men who had obtained the sole right to run sprinklers over the trolley lines. He stated that these men, who thus finally secured the contract, had put in bid for the contract, naming a bid $3,500 greater than the bid of the Worcester company, which received the contract.
 After hearing MT. Carols com. plaints the board informed him that none of the matters of which he com- plained was before the board for con- sideration, and that his complaints could not be considered unless he pro- tested against the payment of specific