The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-02

tile SlaIe. Alderman Pearce Sald that
 he thought the board should not go too
 fast in the matter of transfers of this
 kind He thought that the recommend
 ation should take the usual course and
 go to a committee. He said that the
 recommendation did not show that i'm
 mediate action was required and he
 counselled against precipitancy. He
 said that he was utterly opposed to the
 making of these transfers unless the
 need of them was very urgent and was
 shown to be so.
 Alderman Clarke said that he agreed
 with MT. Pearce. On a vote being talk
 en it resulted in 15 to in favor of the
 adoption of the recommendation, but
 fiYe-sixths vote being required under
 the charter for it's passage, it failed of
 adoption and it was voted to send it
 back to the board of finance for further
 information on the matter.
 The report of the bureau of compen-
 sation on the assessments for the pave
 ments on Orange street, Ashmun street,
 Trumbull street, West Chapel street
 and Wooster street was referred to the committee on streets.
 The bureau of compensation submit
 ted a report of assessments of benefits
 and damages for the change of grade
 necessitated by the building of the
 Chapel street railroad bridge and this
 report was referred to the street com
 mittee which last night reported in fa- vor of the adoption of the report. The bureau recommended damages to be
 paid by the city to the amount of $2,07S,
 but reported no assessment for benefits, I~. rrsNe, equal In the cases of other property
 owners affected.
 Alderman Shepard asked why no as- sessment of benefits had been made against the Fair Haven and Westville railroad, which, he said, had been
 greatly benefited by the erection of the bridge, since now the street railroad company was enabled to extend it's tracks over the steam railroad tracks, whereas before the building of the bridge the street railroad could not
 cross the steam roads tracks. but was compelled to transfer passengers. Alderman Cooley moved that the street committees recommendation be adopted
 Alderman Pickett moved an amend
 ment providing that an assessment of
 LOGO benefits be laid upon the Fair Haven and Westville road and Alder
 man Shepard seconded the amendment. MT. Cooley said that he thought some law whereby the street railroad com pany could be assessed would be no
 more than right, but that he had un-
 derstood that legally such an assess
 ment could not be collected.
 h1dory,,op nf I,o ,tp
 mittee explained why the committee had recommended as it did, saying that it had been informed that the franchise of the street railroad could not be as- sessed, that the street railroad was not an abutting property, and that the act ordering the construction of the bridge had provided tkat the cost be borne | one-half by the Consolidated road and one-half by the city of New Haven. Finally, on motion of Alderman Hogan, it was voted to table the matter until an opinion could be obtained from the corporation counsel, and a resolution was passed directing the corporation counsel to give an opinion as to wheth- CT the Fair Haven and Westville Rail- road company could be compelled to pay for benefits received by the erec- tion of the bridge
 The committee on claims reported tie vote in the committee on a recoIn- | mendation on the petition to have the union label attached to city printing, and the matter was referred back to the committee.
 The resolution providing for a spe- cial committee to inquire into the man. ner in which the contract for city print ing for the present year was let, and to attempt to devise some more economi-
 cal way of getting city printing done,
 was on the table from the board of councilmen without endorsement, all
 though the councilmen referred it to committee and consequently it could
 not be acted upon. A new resolution
 providing for the same thing was of- fered however, and was referred to the committee
 A resolution was passed providing for
 the appointment of committee, to con- sist of one alderman and one council man, to confer with managers of the hospitals in the city as to the facilities for taking care of diphtheria and other contagious diseases. Alderman Dove | was appointed aldermanic member Of the COIliHllILee.
 The following petitions were received
 and referred to committees as noted be- low:
 For a light on Ashmun street, be- tween Admiral street and Dixwell ave-
 nue; for arch light on the corner of Scranton and Auburn streets; gas lamp on Derby avenue at the corner of Nor ton street. Referred to the lamp con- mittee.
 Repairing of St. John street, between Artizan and East streets; cobble gut ters on Palmer street; street crossing 1 on Shelton avenue at Ivy street; cobble gutters on both sides of Commerce street; curb and sidewalk on Winthrop avenue; sidewalk on Gilbert avenue; hardening of Redfield street; report of bureau of compensation on assessments | for extension of Gibbs street; repairing | of Locust street with crushed stone; cobble gutter on both sides of Edge | wood avenue, between Park street and | Sherman avenue; for the change of | name of East street to Manila street; | for curbs on Minor street. Sachem | street and Washington street. Refer red to the committee on streets. For a sewer on Madison street, be- | tween Willow and Gamer streets; sew