The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-08-12
FOR STREET SPRINKLlNG
TRANSFERS NOW LACK ONLY THE
MAYORS SANCTION.

MIIOh'S SANCTION.
Aldermen Last Evening Adopted Council
man Whites ResoIution-De eficiencies In
Street Hardening Appropriations Also
Provided For-The Starr Street sidewalk
Matter-Other Business.
The business before the special meet
ing of the aldermen held last evening
was disposed of with dispatch, and the
board adjourned shortly after o'clock
The resolutions introduced at the last
meeting of the councilmen by Council
men White We're adopted, the aldermen
concurring with the councilmen.
The first of these resolutions provides
for the transfer from the $4,000, taken
from the sinking fund and placed in
| the city treasury, of the amounts of the
| items previously recommended by the
the appropriations for street hardening.
Both the aldermen and the councilmen
voted against transferring the money
appropriated for street hardening. At
ter refusing to sanction this transfer.
| the councilmen, in order to provide
money for the purposes for which 1t is
urgently needed, adopted the resolution
of Alderman Chillingworth, which pro-
vides for the transfer Of the $4,000 from
the sinking fund to the city treasury.
Having adopted this resolution, the
| %otC
luton for transfers. The aldermen at
their meeting of August 2 tabled Mr..
Chillingworth' resolution, but last
evening they concurred with the coun-
cilmen in adopting it, and then adopt
ed Mr.. Whites resolution.
The aldermen last night also concur
red with the councilmen in adopting
| Councilman Whites resolution provid-
ling that the amounts necessary to make
up any deficiencies in the amounts ap-
propriated for street hardening be
transferred from the money in the city
treasury not already appropriated. The
money which this resolution seeks to
transfer is the $4,000 which will be left
after transferring s26,652 for street
cleaning and other purposes from the
$29, 600 taken from the sinking fund.
In regard to the building of a side
walk on Starr street the board voted
to adhere to it's former action and to
call for conference committee from
the board of councilmen. The street
committee some time ago reported back
recommending that the building of the
Starr street sidewalk before September
/, 1897, be ordered. Alderman Rourke
at that time called the attention of the
board to the fact that there was not
much travel on Starr street, and that
two of the residents along the 127 feet
of sidewalk ordered built were not able
financially to pay for the building of a
walk just at present. He said that one
| of these, persons is widow and the
other blind man whose eyesight was
lost while working in Winchester's
shops, and that neither was well off in
worldly goods.
| In accordance with Alderman
Rourke's representations the aldermen
voted to extend the time of building
| the walk from September /, 1897, to
September 1, 1898.
In the board of councilmen, however,
the members from the Ninth ward
strongly opposed the extension of time.
and it was voted to extend the time for
building the walk only one month to
October next. One of the Ninth ward
members in opposing the extension as
serted that in order to get vote suffi-
cient to pass the extension through the
board of aldermen an alderman from
the Seventh ward had agreed with
those from the Twelfth ward to vote
against locating the contagious disease
hospital in that ward if the Twelfth
ward members would vote for extern
sion of time for the building of the
Starr street sidewalk.
| When the matter was brought up
| last night Alderman Rourke Of the
Seventh ward jumped up and moved
that the board adhere to it's former ac-
ton. He said that if any councilman
said that he went to an alderman from
the Twelfth with an offer of deal 1T
was a lie. The two aldermen from the
| Twelfth stated that no offer of a deal
had been made to them,
Alderman Unger offered a substitute
motion to concur with the councilmen.
The substitute was lost on vote being
taken. and Alderman Rourke's motion
to adhere prevailed.
A communication was received from
the city controller stating the necessi-
ty of issuing bonds to raise money to
meet the cost of building the Chapel
street bridge, and asking authority to
issue such bonds, which have already
been authorized by the legislature. The
communication was accepted and the
order passed.
A petition for fence to be built on
both sides of West Chapel street
| through the West river meadows was
referred to the committee on streets.
| A resolution was adopted empowering
| the park commissioners to procure in
the future as IN tha past by gift or
otherwise, lands for the parks Of the
city, but enjoining them not to exceed
appropriations for that purpose.
The recommendation from the board
of finance for the transfers of money
in the fire department and also the
transfer of 500 from the sundry ac-
count of the police department to pay
for the maintenance of q reporting sta
tion on Howard avenue was adopted
| A communication from the board Of
health asking that immediate action
be taken towards the building of a con-
10 oio11s disease hospital was accounted