The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-08-03

vote of 10 against resembling and for,
The vote in detail was as follows:
Nays-Nicoll, Darlington, Clarke,
whitaker Lambert, Bromley, Root,
forsyth, Hull, Unger, ChillingWorth,
Flckett, Stuart, Petrie and Compton
Ayes-Guernsey Brennan, Corcoran,
Coolohan, Rourke, Ryan, Dewell and
| Toole.
After this matter had been finished,
Alderman Pickett moved that the rec
ommendation of the board Of finance for
the transfer of the money appropriated
to pay for street hardening to pay for
street cleaning and other purposes be
adopted.
| Alderman Root second the motion.
Alderman Dewen spoke strongly in
favor of adopting the recommendation.
Aldermen Corcoran, Clarke, Bren5
nan and Petrie spoke in opposition to
the transfer.
Alderman Chillingworth offered a
substitute resolution authorizing and
directing the director of public works to
use the several sums of money appro-
priated by the court of common coun-
ell to pay for the hardening of various
streets SO far as they would go In exc
cutting the orders of the court of COM
mon council In laying a four-inch har
dening, contracts for the work to be let
before September l, 1897, and all acts or
parts of acts of the common council in
consistent with this resolution to be re-
pealed.
Alderman Dewell said that If this
recommendation was adopted the rec
ommendation of the board of finance
would be entirely done away with He
thought that the members Of the board
of finance knew the situation of the
city's finances and that they had shown
that there was barely enough money
to carry the city through the year for
absolutely necessary expenses. He
said that lights, police and sprinkling
we must have. He characterized the
recommendation of the board of finance
as step to place the city's finances in
a proper condition. and then moved
that the substitute resolution be tabled,
Alderman Root seconding his motion.
Alderman Pickett spoke in favor Of
the board of finance recommendation.
Alderman Guernsey also spoke in
favor of the recommendation and said
that he regarded the matter as one In
which the whole city was arrayed
aga lst sections. He thought that the
interests of the city should stand ahead
of ward politics. He thought that the
| recommendation of the board of finance
| was a good business policy.
AS he ceased speaking Alderman
Clarke, his colleague from the Second
| ward, who had previously spoken
against the transfer, said: my col
| league had little to do with getting the
appropriation. I got 1T and now he is
trying to throw it down. He is a small
part of the Second ward. He don't live
| in the end of the ward, where / do. All
| the residents of the ward want our
streets hardened. He knows nothing
about it."
| Mr. Guernsey said that he did not
wish to reply to personal attacks that
he would like to see the street harden
4 ing done; but he believed that the in
those of any section.
Alderman Brennan made an eloquent
| speech in which he spoke against
| transferring from the appropriation for
street hardening.
| On a vote being taken on Alderman
| Chillingworth's substitute resolution it
was adopted and the order passed by a.
vote of IA to 6.
Then, in regard to the transfer Of
lstreet-hardening money, it was voted
| by vote of IA to 6 to concur with the
councilmen in rejecting the recomnen-
dation of the board of finance.
The matter of transferring $4,000
from the sinking fund to the city treas
1 ,,r,, "a he oppropriotod hy +ha hoord
| of finance to those departments Of the
city government in need of funds, was
next taken up, but the matter was
finally left as 1t was settled at previ-
Gus meeting, when it was voted to rec
ommend the transfer.
| The mayor returned without his sig
nature the order for the top-dressing of
Lloyd street, which had passed both
branches of the court Of common coun-
cM. In returning the order the mayor
explained that it could not be carried
out without violating section 40 of the
new city charter.
| On motion of Alderman Rourke it
was voted to extend the time for the
building of sidewalks ordered on Starr
street from September l, 1897, to Sep
temper 1, 1888.
| On motion of Alderman Chillingworth
it was voted to direct the director of
public works to widen West Chapel
street to thirty feet between York and
Howe streets, provided that the Fair
Haven and Westville Railroad compa-
ny deposited with him sufficient funds
to pay for the widening, which is made
necessary in order that the railroad
may double its tracks.
| The mayor explained that this was
a wise proviso, as the city has had a
bill against the railroad company for
six years for brick pavement on York
street. He announced that he had
placed the bill in the hands of the
corporation counsel. with orders to col
lect.
The recommendation Of the commit
tee on railroad and bridges that bonds
to the amount of $4,000 be issued 20
pay for the building Of bridge over
West river at Derby avenue was adopt
ed and the order passed The bonds
will run for twenty years and will be
four per cents, interest payable semi
annually.
1t was also voted to direct that the
bridge to be built shall be of iron, if
satisfactory terms can be arranged
with the town of Orange, and shall not
be built to accommodate a railroad