The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-02-16
FIRE BOARD TRADES LOTS
COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL WILL
 VALIDATE THE DEAL.

ste or Ienth ward Ensine house settieu-
 No Money for Equipments-No Recession
 From the Rule Concerning Fire Engines
 Going Out of the City-Bond Premium
 Wanted With Which to Erect Structure.
 At a special meeting of the fire com request the court of common council at the special meeting this evening to or der the transfer of the site of the pro- posed new engine house for the Tenth ward from the lot purchased at the cor her of Ellsworth avenue and Norton street to the lot of H. A. Warner on Ellsworth avenue. The new lot is lar ger than the one originally purchased for the engine house.
 Commissioner Walker suggested that $20, ,000 had been realized in premiums from the recent sale of bridge and paw ing bonds, and that SIP, ,000 of this mon- ey should be borrowed to build an en- zine house In the Twelfth ward for the protection of the property in the Elev- enth and Twelfth wards. He then of- fered resolution requesting the court of common council to authorize the mayor, the president of the board of al dermen, the corporation counsel and the city auditor to borrow the money from the premiums of the bonds, and that it be placed at the disposal of the fire department to build an engine house in the Twelfth ward. The mon- ey, by the terms of the resolution, is to be paid back to the premium account in four installments, the last to be made January 1, 1898. If not paid by that time it is to be paid out of the appro- priations for the next year. Commissioner Mcdonald moved to ac- cept the proposition of Commissioner Walker and place it on file. This was not seconded, and Commissioner San born seconded Commissioner Walkers resolution.
 | Commissioner McDonald-"What is the use of all this? We have no avail able funds. For three years we have been trying to get an engine house in 1 the Twelfth ward. We got one in the Tenth ward but how? Why, by rais- 1 ing the tax one-half mill
 Commissioner Walker-"Oh, that's all right
 l Commissioner Sanborn-"Do not the people in the Twelfth ward want pro- I lection from fire as well as the Tenth warders?'
 President Morgan--'Well, yes; we do need an engine house in the Twelfth ward"
 | Commissioner Ames-"The trouble with Mcdonald is that he is afraid he will get left, and he is not used to it. Commissioner Walker-"We need an engine house in the Twelfth ward to protect the manufacturing interests as we'll as the residential It is only the residential property that is protected | in the Tenth ward'
 The motion passed and the commits sioners discussed the advisability of putting bay window in the new Tenth ward engine house.
 Architect Van Beren made the sug- gestion and Commissioner Mcdonald was the first to open up his batteries How much more money are you going to want and where is it to come from?" he asked 'We have but $1,045 of the s1 200 left. That will not pay for the services of the men there six months. We are now $1,O00 short on our payroll this year..
 After considerable discussion, in which suggestions of a three-story building were made, it was decided to build a bay window. The cost will be about $400 more.
 President Morgan said that Commits sioner of Public Works Kegelmeyer had been to him in behalf of the Win chester Repeating Arms company ask ing that fire protection be given them at their works near Lake Whitney. The plant is only few rods beyond the city limits in Hamden.
 Commissioner Mcdonald did not think the board should recede from it's position in the matter of going beyond the city limits with the fire engines.
 Commissioner Ames said that four hundred citizens of New Haven were employed at the works; that the Win chester company paid $1S,000 in taxes every year into the city treasury. The company was willing to pay for the use of the engine.
 Commissioner Walker asked Commits sioner Ames what he would say if No. SIS engine was working at a fire at the Winchester works in Hamden when an alarm came in from the Candee Rub- Der company's works. Would he net think that the city should not allow its engines out of the limits?
 The matter was allowed to lay on the table by common consent.