The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-06-17
THE DUST WILL Be LAID



Resolution and Order TO Report to the
Common Councn-City to Purchase
sprinklins Carts -PubIic Hearing
Last Night.
All that now remains to be done in
order to start the city to sprinkling
streets is for the common council to pass
and Mayor Driscoll to sign a resolution
and order which was agreed upon by
the special Street sprinkltng committee
last night and which will be recon-
mended to the board.of aldermen at its
meeting Monday night. The resolution
and order are as follows:
Resolved, That the director of pub
lie works be authorized and directed to
purchase proper apparatus to sprinkle
the streets in accordance with the act
of the legislature and to cause the
streets to be sprinkled in accordance
with that act on and after July 2, 1899,
in accordance with instructions to be
given by the court of common council.
"Ordered, That the director of pub
lie works be and is hereby directed to
cause all the streets within the twelve
WdluS III WHICH, Ccl u dthS Ia e 1iOe
been laid to be sprinkled by employees
of the city, but on such streets as car
tracks have been laid he may contract
for sprinkling provided that the bids
meet with the approval of the mayor
and the sprinkling committee.
The special committee held a public
hearing last night on the matter and
heard suggestions and opinions from
citizens after the reading of the act of
the legislature, which has become law
by failure of the governor to sign or
return within the required time and
which makes it mandatory upon the
city to sprinkle streets and upon the
street railway company to sprinkle nine
feet in width from each track on such
streets as tracks are laid unon
Director Beecher was first heard last
night by request of the committee. He
thought that streets should be sprlnkled
and the sprinkling paid for by general
assessment. 1t was his opinion, while
it was not in the interest of the direc-
tors office to recommend for it extra
work, that the sprinkline could be done
cheaper by the city than by contract be-
cause there are certain days upon which
the city would not be required to
sprinkle when the contractor would be
obliged to- He thought that sprinklers
with team, cart and man could be hired
for $3.50 per day for each outfit and
that the total cost for the remainder of
the season would not be more than $1O,-
900 or $4,000. He would have the
sprinkling cars sprinkle as far as they
can and thought that it could be done
by means of them cheaper than the city
could do it with carts, as the sprinkling
arms Of the cars reach out farther than
the space which the railway companies
are required to sprinkle.
In reply to a question by Alderman
Chillingworth, member of the commit
tee, Mr.. Beecher said that he knew of
no agreement between the street rail-
way companies and third party
whereby the railroad companies should
do no sprinkling for the city and did
not believe that there was any such con-
tract. He had talked with some street
railway officials and thought that the
companies would do sprinkling. Coun-
Gilman Keane asked how many carts
would be needed in addition to the
sprinkling cars, and Mr.. Beecher
thought that at least twenty would be
required. He thought that there We're
about $50 miles of streets to be watered.
He thought that it would be the cheap
est plan for the city to purchase carts
and hire the horses needed. He thought
that carts would cost $500 or $500 each,
and that a team of horses and a man
could be hired for 81 per day. He did
not think it would be well to buy horses
as there would be four months in the
year when they would be idle unless
there were heavy SHOWS in the winter in
which case they could be used for cart
ing it away
Alderman Donovan was heard. He
said that $4,000 had been appropriated
to pay for building the Oak street
school, and as it had been decided not
to erect the school building this year
that money might be used to pay for
sprinkling and if that was not sufficient
unpaid assessments could be collected.
#. R. Bliss of 1888 Chapel street
thought that asphalt streets needed
more sprinlslirg than other streets,
probably three times as often as other
streets. He said that residents of West
Chapel street would be willing to pay
any reasonable assessment for sprink-
ling. Captain J. J. Kennedy and Alder
man Unger also spoke in favor of hav-
ing the sprinkling done by the city.
The citizens present We're called upon
individually by the members of the COM
mittee to express their views Among
those present was Anthony Carroll and
after all but he had been called upon
to speak Alderman Chillingworth NOV
ed that the committee go into executive |
session. Chairman C. F. Brennan was
about to put the motion when Mr.. Car
roll arose and said that he was a citizen |
and taxpayer and desired to be heard |