The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-15
LOWEST BIDDER FAVORED
THE MILL EIVER BRIDGE CON
 TRICp AWARD.

Councilmen Refuse to Concur With the Aldermen Recommitting the Matter Vote to Give the Work to Clark & Co. at $6,754-Action on Bicycle Unions Request.
 The board of councilmen last even- ing refused to concur with the board of aldermen referring the matter of constructing the substructure of the Mill River drawbridge to the city en- gineer to draft new plans and specified tions to be submitted to the director of public works, and by a vote of 22 to Clark x Go. of New York at $S6,754. It was 10:30 o'clock when the board reach ed the reports of the committee on streets relating to the bridge. The res olution ordering a foot bridge was concurred in without debate. The sec ond report ordering a change of grade between the railroad bridge, which is now being constructed, and the river
  man Burton of the Eleventh ward moved to table the recommendation until the matter of contract award was settled. This was opposed by Coun- cIlman Graves, who did not think the movement to have the changing of grade emanated from a desire to serve the city.
 Councilman Shepard did not think there should be any delay.
 A lengthy discussion followed, parti- cipated in by Messrs. White, Isbell Burgess, Greuner, McKenna and Stein. Motions and amendments came thick and fast for several minutes, all of which tended to have the report adopt ed. For an hour the councilmen dis cussed, from a more or less distance, the matter in hand. Every feature of the proposed bridge scheme crept into the remarks. It was finally decided to concur with the aldermen and refer the matter to the committee on streets.
 When the matter of grade had been settled the report of the committee or dering the bridge contract to be awarded to James J. Geary was read. Councilman Fisher moved it's adoption. Councilman Greuner offered a substi- ute, striking out all after James J. Geary and insert Clark &, Co.,, and the bid of SS6,754. After considerable dis cussion the substitute was adopted by a vote of IS to 12.
 The vote on the original report was next taken and the proposition 10 award the contract to James J. Geary was defeated by a vote of IT to 19.
 Councilman Brown moved to recon sider the vote by which the contract was refused Clark & Go. The motion nreyailed. and the recommendation was adopted.
 A, petition was read from Adam Sat- tig ct ais. for the appointment of an iE- spector of meats and vegetables. The matter was referred to the committee OH ordinances.
 Andrew Allen and William E. Short were elected special constables.
 The matter of appropriating s9,5O0 to make up the deficit in the police de- partment was referred to the board of finance in concurrence with the board of aldermen.
 The special committee appointed to confer with a similar committee of the chamber of commerce for the purpose of arranging for the entertainment of the South American delegates, who wilt visit this city on June 21 and 9. reported that S200 would be a necessa- ry expenditure for this purpose, and asked that an order be passed to that effect. The recommendation of the committee was accepted and the order was passed authorizing the appropria- tion to be taken from the contingent fund of 1897.
 The following reports were tabled one month:
 Top dressing of Wolcott street; grad ing of Ridge street; repairing of State street, from Bishops Gate to the city line; hardening of Wall, High, Pros- pect and Sachem streets and Winches- ter avenue; grading of Warren place: brick pavements at the crossings at State and Elm, Church and Chapel, Church and Elm, Church, George. Meadow and Congress avenue, York and Chapel, Elm and College; in favor of setting back curbs on Chapel street. This action was takan, as there was no appropriation with which to do the work. The improvements referred to are those recommended by the New Haven Bicycle union
 The committee on claims reported fa- vorably on the following petitions:
 John E. Graham, $15O for personal in- juries; L. G. Burrows $50 for personal injuries; Margaret McQueeney, $50 for personal injuries; Sarah A. Booth, SEQ for personal injuries; Mary O'Neil, $75 for personal injuries.
 The following were given leave to withdraw: James Plunkett, Emil and Jeannette Adler, Patrick Spaine, Levy Morris.
 The ordinance concerning the sprink- ling of streets was amended and pass ed, striking out the word December and inserting instead March, so that the ordinance shall read: 'The board of public works shall on or before the fif- teenth day of March of each year deter mine the actual cost of sprinkling and watering streets" and also striking out the date of the first enactment of the bill by the general assembly, the ap- proval of the recent legislation being considered sufficient.
 Councilman Riggs objected to the re- port of the committee on streets recom- mending that the petitioners for a side walk on Ivy street, between Dixwell avenue and Newhall street be given 5 ba i1,,,o V,