The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-03
NOT PLEASING TO ALDERMEN
MAYORS MESSAGE EsEVERELYc cert.
ICISED BIZ TR EN- LAST NIGHT.
Tabled Without Print ng-vote to Pave
Edgewood Avenue and BiatohIey Avenue
with Crushed Stone-Mayor Given Leave
to Withdraw Petition-Lsst Meeting

to Withdraw PetitIon-Lest Meetinp
of the Old Board of Aldermen.
At the regular meeting of the board
of aldermen held last night the mayors
quarterly message was read and was
criticised at length by various mem
bers of the board. The message ID
printed in full below. Those portions
of the message referring to the unjust
criticism Of the board of education. To
the action of the police commissioners
in regarding the police department, to
the department of charities and cor
rect1on, and to the repairing of streets
came in for especial criticism. AS City
Clerk Lyon finished reading the mes
sage Alderman Rourke took the floor
and stated that the department Of
charities and correction was not being
properly conducted. He said: mot
long ago young man in the Seventh
ward was taken Ill with pneumonia.
and as he was without means I sent
notice of his Illness to the office Of the
board of charities and correction, asking
that he be taken care Of. The health
officer was sent to see the young man
and reported that he was dangerously
sick, but he was not taken to the hos
pital and he was not taken care Of
That young god Of the board Of chari-
ties and correction, the clerk, said that
Alderman Rourke didn't cut any ice {
ther.' The young man who was sick
died soon after, nothing having been
done for him. Again, when they say
that laboring man has got to be able
to read and write before he can work
to get bread to take home to his chill
dren I say they don't know what they
are talking about. This is probably the
last chance I will get TO talk in the
board of aldermen and I am saying
what mean now"
Alderman Ryan said that citizens OF
New Haven did not approve Of the
was ALLEGED in the mayors report. He
said: "A citizen cannot talk to po-
liceman on the street without the fear
that the officer will be fined. + say
taxpayers can't talk with them ana
'taint right Men who have never
been reprimanded and who have never
been up before the board have been
cut fifty cents a day and If the mayor
thinks that the taxpayers are satisfied.
with that, 1t is not So
Alderman Dewell-"Tf his honor
thinks that the board Of education has
been unjustly criticised, I don't agree
with him. Water color painting has
been introduced into the schools when
80 per cent. Of the children leave school
to work when they are fifteen years OF
age. The criticism Is right. The
board Of education has not been crit
icised enough. The people ought to rise
up
Alderman Brennan-"One thing on
which the mayor has a hobby is street
repairing. He says now that the crit
icism for the bad condition Of streets
during the last year was made for po-
litical effect. This is not so. That crit
icism was all right. The bad condition
of the streets was a fact. The dirt and
filth was there and could have been
gotten out of the way if that snag, that
obstacle in the city's executive chair,
had not been in the way. Many other
things in the city government might
be spoken Of but in a general way
am going to protest against the whole
of it. The charter Of the city Of New
Haven don't meet with the approval OF
the citizens of New Haven; neither
does the work of the police commits
sioners.''
It was then moved that the mayors
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Rouke objected. He said that he
thought that the message was not
worth the money it would cost to print
it. Alderman Dewell moved that tho
message be tabled, and his motion pre-
vailed.
But the outbreak which occurred af-
ter the reading Of the message did not
compare with that which occurred
when the report and recommendations
of the street committee were read. The
first recommendation was that Edge
wood avenue be repaired with crushed
stone, between Park street and West
river Alderman Brennan moved that
this matter be referred back to the
street committee, stating that he did
not know what the estimated cost Of
the proposed repairing of Edgewood
avenue would be, and after a lengthy
debate it was voted to refer the mat
ter back with instructions to the street
committee to ascertain the estimated
cost of the work and report to the
board. The next matter recommended
was the repairing of Blatchley avenue.
This recommendation was about to be
adopted with no opposition when AL
derman Chillingworth, who did not
look favorably upon the recommitment
of the Edgewood avenue matter, said
that he did not think 1t fair that the
Blatchley avenue matter should go
through while the recommendations for
Edgewood avenue had been referred
back. 1t was finally voted, however,
to adopt the recommendation for
Blatchley avenue with the announces
ment that the amount expended there
shall not exceed $500. The portion of
the street to be repaired is only about
two blocks.
AS soon as this was passed a motion
was made that the Edgewood avenue
matter be reconsidered. Then a de-
bate and fire of motions began which
lasted for an hour, all concerning this
one matter Those who opposed recon-
sidering the Edgewood avenue recon-
mendation were Aldermen Dewell and