Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-28
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
The Pine Street Matter Brought Out

The Pine Street Matter Brought Out h Collectors East Night The beard Of public works held q meeting, last night. all the members, be- ing in E attendance. Commissioner scully presided. Hearings were ,giy-, en to parties interested in the proposed layout and grade of Pine street. from Hillside avenue to Cooke street. to a width of fifty feet, and for the estab- llshnent of ten foot building line quite a few of the property owners were opposed to the layout and will claim damages. " a.
 Ihemas Fitzsimmohs was one of the principal obioctors He was in favor Of the layout from Woodlawn terrace to Cooke street. but objected strenu- ouslE to any change from Hillside ave nue to Woodlawn terrace II believe" sald NIT FitZsimmOns,' in that earnest ana convincing manner peculiarly his CWn. that Pine street from Hillside avenue to. NCodlawn terrace should re- main as it is The oldslayout calls for hfty-five foot street and ! see no reasCn why we should reduce it to tfty.. We want the street as wide as possible. Pine street from Woodllwn terrace to Cooke street is but forty feet wide. and on that account I'm in favor of making it fifty. I object to reducing the present width at any point."
 Mrs W. H. Richardson. who owns about lHo feet above Woodlawn ter race. said she was opposed to the lay oUt provided any land should be taken from her to widen the street The street, she said, was laid out in S3I to width Eo fifty feet, and my rlCtAer Fcalne into ECsSCSSiOn of what | OWl tfeTe in 1851. At that time there were 1 rail fences there. showing a fifty foot street. l remember the old fences my self. Later on the fencn opposite our nlnce was torn down and a StCna wall built at least twelve feet into the street | There are people living teddy who rp- mNmhcr whore tue old rail fence stood. l think F. T. Kingshury could tell all i abort it. I believe tue street ought to 1 be fifty feet wide. but if l have to contribute anythinr towards it l shall cl"im dHma%es. The original layaut called fn" ffty feet. What has be cone of 1t ?"
 AIr Cairns: "Oh, there's nOthin" wonderful about that. I know of cn@cs where streets were laid out ten rods wide and when the city got to item it had to pay damageS ill order tc secure enough land tc make a forty fort street."
 "J think that layout is all right" said Wallace Camp. and Iin glad to see it is cnmin". We tried to get some thing like that hefore but the petition was pi@con-holed and W. never could find ont what happened it.
 Engineer Cairns tangIilyl: ''W'hats ,, tlie use making such a statement as 1Df "a ncSSjll1n member why it did not go through Mr Camp: That's what the former clerk told me.
 AIr Cairns: "Thera was no pigeon holing about it at all. The property owners objected sc strenuously to the change it was not deemed advisable tc proceed with the work
 Mr CamD: T have no recollection of being cited in to a hearing on the matter. lat I do know that l called around to inquire what had been done in the premises and the former clerk. Mir Grady, informed me that the petl- tion had been pigeon-holel
 Mr Cairns: "I don't know anything about that. but I do know that the layout ill question fell through at q nreviouS hearing because the people didn't want it.
 There was no opposition to a ten feet building line. C.. A. Temnleton. whc bought a place there recen was not notified. but if he is satisfied with the proposed changes the board Will recommend to the aldermen that the work be ordered done.
 The contract fer constructing sew CT in Grove street was awarded to Ed ward McAIanus for the amount of his bid. S355. .45 One other bid was re- ecived. that of Henry kellner, amount ing to S412.