The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-06-11
WANTS OF THE BICYCLISTS
STREETS CONSIDERED BY THE COM
MITTEE OF THE UNION.

Complete System of Street Inspection
Being organized-Wnl Ask City Fathers
for Less Water on the Streets-Want
Brick Cutters, Also-Marked Interest
Displayed.
The Bicycle union, through it's COM
mittee on streets, is likely to become a
most potent factor in the matter of the
proper maintenance and repair of the
city's streets, if some of the work laid
out by that committee at it's meeting
may be taken as a criterion of the work
the committee will do.
In the first place, the committee has
arranged for thorough report of what
repairs the city streets are in need OF,
and of all the bad places which wheel
man finds in the streets The commit
tee Is made up Of one member from
each Of the fifteen wards, and each
member has deputies, to each of whom
is assigned the duty of making writ
ten report Of the condition of a certain
number Of streets.
Sixtythree of these cyclist censors'
reports were on hand last evening, and
many more will be received. These
sixty three reports refer to about thir-
teen miles of street, and when all the
reports are in they will be tabulated
by subcommittee appointed for that
purpose, thus giving the street COM
mittee large amount of data on which
1t can recommend the executive COM
mittee of the union to act.
The scope of these reports is seen
from printed blanks which will be Is
sued to the deputies. The form of the
blank to be filled in is as follows:
Date of Report.... ....... Ward No. .....
Street ........ from ........t to ........
Made Of what material ............ .....
Gondltlon OF street!; ;,.;..:.......
Kind of cutters and their condition?..
Crosswalks, of what kind?. d?................
Their conditioni ........ ..... .... .....
Repairs, Of what kind? ...................
Who opened the street for sewer, gas, wa
ter, steam heat, telephone or electric
In what condition was it left? ...........
What electric road on the street,. .........
Condition of Its road-bed? ....:.........
| What kind of refuse In the streetf. .....,..
Who reSpOnsblef ........ ...............
Note any remarks on watering or sug-
gestiOns.
The meeting last evening in Chair
man Butricks' store, 30 Center street,
was fully attended and the members
| manifested much interest in the work
mapped out for the committee.
Chairman Butricks made an outline
as to what he thought should be the
scope of their work. He stated that
the committee should limit itself to
finding out what We're the needs of the
streets and that the repairs on them
were made properly, and leave the
question of new streets to others.
Mr.. Butricks also laid before the
committee his plan to have system of
brick cutters on some of the unhard-
ened streets at the outskirts of the city
so that riders would not have to follow
the streets to the center of the city in
passing through adjoining towns. 1t
was voted to recommend the plan TO
the union.
1t was also voted, on recommendation
of Mr.. Butrcks, to petition that on all
the streets where new cutters were to
be laid, that they should be paved with
brick "
A general discussion followed as to
the use of too much water in the
streets and several gentlemen express
ed themselves vigorously against the
lavish use Of water on certain streets.
| The outcome of the matter was that
motion by Mr.. Herr, amended by Mr..
Guernsey, it was voted to appoint a
permanent committee on water, who
should appear before the proper au-
thorities and see if different sized hose
could not be used on the sprinkling
cars and carts. The members appoint
ed on this "teetotal" committee are w.
F. Herr. F. S. Hamilton, jr, and Ed
ward Sargent.
There was also considerable talk
about wires, bottles, boards with nails
in them and other ills which bicyclists
are heir to, and the concensus of opin-
ion seemed to be that some of the out
lying streets needed to be cleaned Oft
ener. No definite action, however, was
taken In the matter.
Attention was called to the fact by
one member that the bicyclists were In
a position to make the politicians feel
their power should the occasion (poor-
~ hepl 0tiee ueliiolu IT, Iie union
Is thought to have nearly doubled it's
membership in the last few weeks
Mr.. Sargent alone has secured forty
three new members.
Mr.. Myers expressed the intention of
securing twenty-five more within the
next two weeks.
Mr. Butricks has made considerable
study of streets the last year and has
| come to the conclusion that there is a.
great loss of money in repairing the
streets and In doing 1t at the wrong
season. An over-abundance of water
results also in damage to the streets.
Last of Harvard's vandals Expelled.
J Cambridge, Mass, June 10.-The
fourth man implicated in the painting