The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-12-04
NOW READY FOR THE MAYOR
NEW ORDINANCES ADOPTED BY
COUNCILMEN IN CONC URRENOE.


Hour and Half Wait Last Night for a
Quorum-Councilmen Brought In by the
sherin-Fire Limits Advanced by the
Session.
After waiting an hour and a half for
a quorum, last night, the councilmen
held a ten-minute session and concurred
with the board of aldermen in adopting
the revised ordinances, the new ordi-
nances drawn up by the ordinance re-
vision committee, and the new building
ordinances. At s o'clock seventeen
councilmen were present, only two more
being needed for quorum. Those two
proved hard to get, however, and 1t
was only after City Sheriff Bunce had
hustled around the city and finally cor
rallied Councilmen Beers and Clifford
that the meeting was called to order by
President Burton at $780, the seventeen
with a patience rivalled only by that
OF Job, having waited an hour and q
half for the quorum makers to be in
weighed into the council house. Doubt
less the presence of certain genial and
| suave aldermen was the charm which
| held the law makers responsive to the
call of duty.
| Councilman Clifford was the last ar
| rival and was the required nine
| teenth man. The council was at once
| called to order and after the reading Of
| the preamble of the report of the ordi-
| nance revision committee and the en-
| dorsement of approval by the board of
| aldermen, Mr. Clifford moved concur
| renee, Councilman Carleton seconding.
| The motion was carried unanimously.
The formal vote ON adoption in their
entirety of the ordinances as revised
| and proposed was then read, and Coun-
Gilman Clifford moved it's passage in
| concurrence. Councilman Wrinn, not
understanding the purport of the vote,
| protested against hurried action being
| taken Councilman Shepard said that
since the revised ordinances had been
considered thoroughly by the aldermen,
| he thought the council should con-
| cur at once Councilman Burton Brown
| favored concurrence, but thought that
| the objecting alderman should be
| recognized and the matter explained to
him. He wanted no member gagged
| and moved that a member of the revis-
ing committee be requested to explain
the matter to Councilman Wrinn. This
motion was carried, and Chairman
| Webb of the committee on revision ex-
planned to Mr.. Wrinn's satisfaction, say
ing that after the ordinances are adopt
ed by the court of common council the
| committee will be obliged to rearrange
and number the ordinances and prepare
new index, work which will take
three months at least, and that any de-
lay in the council would still further
| delay the, completion of the work. Al
vote on the formal resolution Of adop-
| ton was then taken and it was passed
unanimously. The board then ad-
journed
The new building ordinances which
have now been adopted by the court Of
| common council, and which only re-
| quire the mayors signature in order to
become law, extend somewhat the fire
| limits. Section Is of the building or
dinances covers this matter and reads
as follows:
i Section 15-The portion Of the city in
cluded in the following boundaries shall
be known as the fire district, namely:
Beginning at the intersection Of West
| Water street with the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad, and
thence following the tracks Of said rail-
road to Howard avenue, through the
center of Howard avenue center Of
| Columbus avenue, to $50 feet west Of
the center Of Hallock street on Com
gress avenue, 150 feet west of the CEN
ter of Asylum street, 150 feet west Of
center of Day street. 150 feet west Of
center of Garden street to Whal1ey
avenue, through center of Whalley ave-
nue. to $50 feet west of center of Sperry
street, to $50 feet north Of Webster
street to Winchester avenue, through
center of Winchester avenue, Compton,
street, Mansfield street, Sachem street,
Whitney avenue, Humphrey street,
State street, James street, to the Quin-
nipiac river, to the center of drawbridge
at Tomlinson's bridge, to the end Of
Long Wharf, thence by a straight line
to the place of beginning.
Among those who from the side lines
watched the councilmen tackle the ordi-
nances was Alderman Chillingworth.