The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-04
INVESTIGATION IS ORDERED
STREET SPRINKLING ADYERTISE-
MENT TO BE VENTILATED.


The meeting of the board of aldermen
last evening was attended by large
number of spectators in anticipation of
the consideration Of the matter Of ad-
vertising the street sprinkling assess
ments. The subject was brought be-
fore the board by a communication
from Mayor Farnsworth, which was ac-
cepted, and its recommendations were
adopted.
The principal topics Of interest in the
communication are the mayors views
on the matter of giving out the public
printing by contract and the recon-
mendation that the corporation counsel
be instructed to secure such addenda to
the proposed amendments to the pres
ent city charter as will prevent the re-
currence of such a state of affairs as
now exist through the operation of the
rule under the charter The communi-
cation Included the opinion Of the cor
poration counsel.
Mayor Farnsworth says:
THE MAYORS COMMUNICATION
ON THE SUBJECT.
New Haven, Conn, May 8, 1897
To the Honorable Court of Common
Council:
In view of certain allegations of ir-
regular action on the part Of city Off
cials, which have appeared in the pub
lie press during the last week, I deem
it my duty to call to the attention of
your honorable body certain facts and
also to make certain suggestions,
In the year 1892 the court of common
council asked the different papers of
the city of New Haven to hand in bids
and make offers of the terms under
which they or each of them would sup
ply the city of New Haven with the
advertisement of all public notices.
This request was refused and no bids
were offered, and accordingly upon the
recommendation of the board Of finance
the court of common council in De-
cember, 1892, passed the following or
der:
''Ordered, That hereafter city adver-
tisements shall be inserted in one even
ing and one morning paper, printed in
English, and published in the city of
New Haven, and be it ordered that all
the city advertisements for any single
month shall be inserted in the same
morning newspaper and In the same
evening paper, and that no one news
paper shall receive city advertisements
for more than one month out of three,
so that the three morning newspapers
printed in English and published In the
city of New Haven shall take and re-
ceiye compensation for the city adver-
tising a month each in rotation, and so
on, and the three evening papers like
WISE
.'Be it further ordered That after
January /, 1898, the city advertisements
shall be inserted in the Connecticut Re-
publikanner during the months Of jan
uary, April July and October of each
year only.
Respectfully submitted,
"EDWARD DOWNES, Clerk"
In accordance with such order Of the
court of common council, the city clerk
has at the beginning Of each year sent
a notice to each of the newspapers pub
lished within the city of New Haven,
specifying the months during that year
in which each paper should publish the
advertisements of the city. And in ac-
cordance with such order and custom,
the city clerk of New Haven on Janu-
ary 12, 1897, mailed to each one of the
papers published in New Haven the
following notice:
City Clerks Office,
New Haven, Conn, Jan. 12, 1897.
Sir: You are hereby notified that the
following plan for the distribution of
the city advertising, except notices of
public hearings before committees, will
be followed until further orders issued
from this office:
1897. Newspaper.
January-Leader, News, Republikanner.
February-Courier,U Union.
March-Palladium Register.
April-Leader, News, Republikanner.
May-Courier Union.
June-Palladium, Register.
July-Leader, News, Republikanner.
August-Courier, Union.
September-Palladium Register.
October-Leader, News, Republikanner.
November-Courier, Union.
December-Palladium Register.
Notices of public hearings before
committees will be published in all
daily papers.
Department officials and the manage
ments of the different newspapers are
expected to conform to the foregoing
until otherwise instructed by the prop
er authority. Advertisements inserted
at variance from the above plan will
not be paid for by the city.
Yours respectfully,
RICHARD F. LYON, City Clerk"
In 1895 the legislature of the state of
Connecticut authorized the city of New
Haven to assess against the abutting
proprietors the cost Of sprinkling GER
tain streets within the limits off the
city of New Haven, and in pursuance
of the authority conferred upon the city
by the act of 1895 contract was made
between the city and certain individ-
uals to sprinkle said streets, and the
assessment was made upon the adjoin-
ing proprietors in accordance with said
act When the assessments had been
made the question arose whether it was
necessary to advertise the assessments
made upon the adjoining properties in
the same way and in the same manner
as other assessments made by the city,
and there being some doubt about the
matter, I wrote to the corporation coun-
sci. asking for his opinion on the ques-
ton. In response TO my communica-