The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-20
ASPHALT GETS A SET BACK
NRECONSIDEIs 4 OTTO "
 ON TEMPLE STREET PAYING.

Nlght-No Quorum to Act Upon thu
 Recommended Order for Paving
 Church Street and Whitney Avenne.
 The adjourned meeting of the board
 of councilmen held last evening fur
 nished another occasion for Wrestle
 with asphalt Trinidad asphalt and
 asphalt received a setback. As soon as
 the meeting had been called to order
 and few committee recommendations
 of minor importance adopted in concur
 renee with the aldermen, Councilman
 Conlin of the Seventh ward moved re-
 consideration of the vote taken at the
 last meeting in the paving of Temple
 street. Councilman F. J. Rice seconded.
 It will be remembered that the street
 committee recommended that Temple
 street through the green be paved with
 Trinidad pitch asphalt. The aldermen
 who first acted upon this recommenda- tion accepted 1t but did not adopt it, since the charter provides that no order
 for public improvements or any otlter
 work shall be passed until an appropri-
 ation of money to pay for the work Is
 made. Accompanying the recommenda-
 tion for paving was a recommended or
 der for the issue of paving bonds to pay for it. This was referred to the
 committee on appropriations. The al-
 dermen, therefore, tabled the paying order until report from the commit
 tee on appropriations on the bond issue
 was received and acted upon. The l councilmen at that meeting week ago voted to amend the street committe9
 report so as to provide for the paving
 of Temple street not only through the 1 green but also from Elm street to Trum- bull street with Trinidad asphalt
 | It was to reconsider this vote that MT. Conlin's motion was made last night, he
 having at the previous meeting voted in l favor of the amendment. This motion called forth all the argument which it of course might have been expected to. | Councilmen Walsh and Chase spoke against it. Councilmen Conlin, Daw- son and Tyner spoke for reconsidera- tion. MT. Walsh favored either adher- ing to the action taken at the previous meeting in it's entirety or rejecting the committee report. He pointed out the advantages to bicyclists In having an- other asphalt street and said that as- phalt to Temple street from Trumbull street would make a fine connection be- tween the Trumbull and Orange streets pavements and the proposed brick pave ment on Chapel street.
 MT Chase started towards the door and MT. Conlin requested that the sher- if be ordered to preserve a quorum. MT. Chase went back to his seat and made a speech in favor of adhering to previous action on asphalt He charged that those opposed to asphalt had work ed to get all the opponents to attend the meeting and had them spring the mo- tion to reconsider as a surprise. He didn't think that this was fair. He said that the members who favored the Temple street asphalt had allowed the order for brick paving on Chapel street to go through and that those who fla vored that pavement were welcome to the concession. He said: You may undo us tonight, but we will undo you at the next meeting. If we are going to pave the streets, let's do it as gen tlemen should. Don't be fools Are you going to play with thing like this or stand up like men? I believe in Trin- dad asphalt and I also believe in brick | appeal to you as men of sense. Is it | fair to juggls and lobby over thing of | this kind. If we do we won't get any | thing done. If you undo us on this | asphalt the next time we come in here | we will resurrect all pavements, Chapel | street included We will go out of off, flee without having laid a single pave ment, leaving the city to mud"
 
 had been used to kill the asphalt At the last regular meet ing vote had been taken to adjourn to last night, and all the members knew it. He said: "I admit that I voted wrong when l voted for asphalt for all of Temple street. I didn't know then that all the residents on the street op- poeed asphalt When I took office I did go to work for the interests of the tax payers, and intend to do so The gen tleman from the Second threatens to undo our action. For man of educa- ton I am surprised al him"
 Councilman Alling spoke in favor of the reconsideration and before the uues- ton was put to vote Councilman Hill nan of the First ward presented a pro- test against asphalt signed by nearly all the property owners on Temple street, including F. Hayes Trowbridge, George A. Root for the United Church society, Justus S. Hotchkiss for the First Church society, Henry T. Blake, Thomas G. Bennett, Catharine D. Bris- ol, Caroline s. Ives, William Hillhouse, 2. G. Stoddard and l.. H. Bristol Af- CT the reading of this remonetrance MT. | Conlin'e motion for reconsideration was ,arried by a vote of IT to 6, the mem ,ers voting as follows: Ayes-Messrs. Hilman, F. J. Rice, Mead, Harris, Magoohan, Burton, Con- in, Tyner, Rowland, Gerner Dawson, filing, Cronin, Greenfield, Barnes, Doo- ( lan and Rausch-17. 1 Nays-Messrs. Chase, Bohn, Erff, Hol- ( iday, Walsh and Rowe-6 s It was then voted to concur with the C ldermen in accepting the committee l eport and pending a report on the bond l ssue. On motion of MT. Aling the re- t 1onstrance was attached to the orig 1 Y nal petition signed by F. c. Bushnell.
 The street committee recommended an ! rder for the paving of Church street, etween Chapel street and Sachem d treet. with vitrified brick and Whitney f venue beyond Sachem street with h