The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-05-22
THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
STREET REPAIR ORDERS COULU
NOT BE PASSED OTER YETOES,

motive Engineers Invited to Hold
Next Convention Here Alderman
| Chillingworth's Resolution for ln-
| vestigation of Charges and CrimiM
Prosecution If They Appear to be True
| The old board of aldermen last night
held what is probably its last meeting
| before the new board organizes early
next month. The meeting was an adj
journed one and the table was cleared
of old business. A number Of vetoes OF
street repairing orders which had been
tabled for printing in the journal came
up for action and after an attempt to
pass two Of them over the mayors veto
the vetoes of the rest were accepted and.
placed on file The orders vetoed were:
For the repair of Quinnipiac avenue
with crushed stone, for the repair OF
Wolcott street with crushed stone. for
the grading and curbing of both sides
of Butler street. for the grading Of
Watson street between Bassett and
Dorman streets, for the top dressing Of
Fulton street, for the repair of Liberty
street with crushed stone, for the re-
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here in the passage of the Butler and
Fulton street orders, the vetoes not
withstanding, were made by Alderman
Unger of the Ninth ward and by Alder
man Kelsey of the Fifteenth, but were
lost the necessary two-thirds vote to
pass over the vetoes not being secured.
The order for the paving of Temple
street through the green came up for
another buffeting last night. The coun-
cilmen have voted to pass this matter
on to the next board, while the alder
men have voted to pave that section of
the street with vitrified brick. Last
night the conference committee which
had been appointed recommended that
an asphalt order be passed. Alderman
Cooley moved that the recommendation
be adopted, but his motion was not sec
onded. Alderman Chillingworth moved
that the board adhere to it's order for
brick. Alderman T. Brennan asked
who had petitioned for asphalt on the
green. He said that no citizens wanted
asphalt and he didn't see how anyone
with the best interests of the city at
heart could recommend it. The motion
to adhere was declared out of order and
Mr. Chillingworth then moved that
brick be substituted for asphalt In the
committee report. This motion pre-
vailed by vote Of 1879 on an aye and
nay vote, the two members voting
against brick being Messrs. Cooley
and Beecher.
A communication was received from
the board of finance relative to the pc
titions of Katharine Huxford and
IN14iae
the use Of the house ON Temple street
for contagious disease hospital dur
ing the illness of Student Perkins with
smallpox. The finance board recon-
mended that the petition be referred to
the committee on claims and it was
voted to let the matter go over to the
new common council. The board voted
to adhere to previous action on the Elm
street paving order.
The order for the pavement of Grown
street then was taken up. The alder
men have voted to pave the street
with brick and the councilmen have
voted to pass it along to the next COM
mon council. The board voted to adj
here and Messrs. Staub and Whitaker
were appointed members of confer
enec committee which will probably
never report.
The street committee recommended
crushed stone pavement for Wolcott
street to be paid for out of the one
mill paving tax. Alderman DOVE asked
how much of the 1000 estimated to
be realized from that tax had been al
ready appropriated. Chairman Beech
er Of the street committee replied that
about $4,000 of the amount had been
The order for Woolsey
street was then passed. Recommended
tions from the committee for brick
pavements on Ferry street between
Chapel street and the Ferry street
bridge and on River street between
Ferry and East Pearl streets were ta-
tee on appropriations.
Alderman Whitaker of the Fourth
ward offered a resolution providing that
the mayor be requested to extend to
the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engin-
GERS now in session in Milwaukee an
invitation to hold their next annual
in New Haven. The resolu-
ution was adopted and the city clerk
was instructed to communicate to the
now in session the fact OF
he passage of the resolution.
The table having been cleared Alder
nan Chilingworth rose and read from
IN evening paper of recent issue an ar
icle attacking the common council and
making grave charges. Mr.. Chilling
worth then offered the following resolu-
ion: Whereas certain damaging ru-
nors are in circulation relating to the
purchase of the sprinkling carts and the
contract between the New Haven Car
Sprinkling company and the city of
New Haven, rejecting on the good
lame Of the officers of the city and the
members of the street sprinkling COM
nittee.
Therefore, be it resolved that his
onor the mayor, The corporation coun-
el and the director of public works are
hereby constituted committee to
ully investigate the scandal now be-
ng talked about and that they be re-
uested to make their report at the ear
lest possible moment and if it should
ppear to said committee that the
tatements made are in whole or In part
rue that 1t is made their duty to re-
ort the matter to the prosecuting at
orney with a request that criminal pro-
eedings be instituted against the guilty
arties.