The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-03-07

a matter of fact, the expenditures OF
the city exceeded the income in the
years 1894, 1896 and 1896, and the def
ciencies of those years were made up
in the year 1897. If the income for the
year is equal to the amount approprl-
ated for the various departments, and
some of the departments find it neces-
sary to contract bill to the full amount
allotted, and there were no expendi-
lures outside Of the appropriations
made to the several departments (Which
Is sometimes made necessary by judg-
ments against the city that were not
anticipated at the time the appropria-
! tons were made, and which must be
paid promptly, there would then be
cash in the treasury to the amount of
the aggregate of these savings of the
various departments.
| DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS.
Under the head department of Pub
| lie Works." the communication contains
the following:
Some of the most satisfactory work,
! both as to quality and cost done on
our streets in many years has been ac-
complished during the past year by the
use of the refuse stone that had accu-
mulated in various parts of the city,
some of which occupied valuable stor-
age room. Large accumulations, COM
posed Of mixed stone of all grades, and
dirt, which could not be used for pave
ments built under specifications, have
been used for the improvement of
streets where a gravel foundation exist
| ed and in some bad places where the
traffic is comparatively light Edwards
street is an example of the first class
named, and Summer street. between
Franklin and Hamilton streets, an ex-
ample of the latter class. Some other
streets treated with this material are:
Argyle street, from Newhall to Win
chester; Cedar street, from Columbus
to Minor; Cain street, from Wallace to
East; Dow street, from George to oak;
Edgewood avenue from Garden to Kerr
sington; Factory street, from George to
| Oak; Frank street, from Barclay north
about 200 feet; Ferry street, from Chap
ell to River; Ferry street, from Grand
to Chatham; George street, from Or
chard to Sherman; George street, from
Winthrop to Derby; High street, from
| George to Crown; High street, from
Elm to Grove; Hughes place, from
Greene to st. John; Henry street from
| Dixwell to Orchard: Locust street, from
| Hamilton to East; Oak street. from
| Porter to the Boulevard Palmer street,
| from Rose to Broad; Redfeld street,
| from Congress to Columbus; Rose
street, from Congress to Lafayette
Union street, rom Water to Fair
Winthrop avenue, from Davenport to
Sylvan.
|
in his communication says: Probably
no detail of the city's business has peen
discussed so thoroughly by the press
and the people during the past three
months than the removal of snow from
our streets, and l sincerely wish that
out of this agitation may come salts
factory solution of the problem, when
is not by any means new one. When
| | entered upon the duties of this office
two years ago, my predecessor informed
me that the protests against dumping
snow on the Green had been coming in
| thick and fast, but he could see no way
to remedy the difficulty. He further in
formed me that when he took office his
predecessor, who had held office four
years, told him that he had been Ia
bored with and criticised for allowing
| the nuisance to continue. / would re-
spectfully suggest that the question be
referred to committee of your honor
abel body to consider all propositions
that may be offered by our citizens ana
to devise or find some practical plan for
disposal of the snow elsewhere. we
have had two heavy storms this winter,
and after each of them the public works
m OF
every team that could be used to advan-
tage and removed the snow from the
central streets as quickly as possible.
Although this snow has been taken TO
the very nearest available places. 1t has
not been possible to clear these central
streets as quickly as the people using
them for traffic would have liked. Had
the snow dumped on the Green been
hauled to the water front, the time re-
uuired would have been not less than
, three times greater, which would have
interrupted traffic not only by the longer
time the snow remained, but by the in
cidental delays caused by the teams
employed, which are considerable. IN
consequence of recent changes OF street
railway management the companies
were not as well prepared for taxing
care of their part of the work as they
will be by another winter. ] have had
some conferences with the street rail-
way managers. who Informed me that
they are watching every experiment in
other cities in the hope that something
practical may be devised that will en-
able them to do this work more prompt
ly and more cheaply. All cities are
wrestling with the same problem. In
New York city the late Colonel Waring
tried various schemes for melting the
snow, and I am confident that had any
thing practical been perfected in that
line, he would have adopted it. | am
quite confident that at no distant day
large part of the superfluous snow will
be removed from the streets In dump
cars moved by electric power Wheth-
er Legislation would be practical or nee
essary to bring this about is question.
The mayors of all Connecticut cities at
their meetings during the past year,
and especially during the past three
months, have carefully discussed this
question and partly as the result of
their discussion bill has been intro
duced at the Legislature which If made
a law will require the street railway