Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-01
APPROPRIATIONS FOR I90|.
Will Eoal to Be a Great Deal
 Larger Than Formerly.
Much City Work Under Way and a Large Amount Must Be Attended to-Some of the Needed Improve ments That Are Now Attracting At tention.

II.
 Some people will be little surprised at the size of the appropriations asked for by the different municipal boards. but any one who wants to acQuaint himself with the conditions that con front the city needs but look over the vast amount of work that will have to be attended to next year whether we like it or not and he will soon be convinced that the estimates in most cases are very conservative and will fall far short Of meeting the demands for public improvements that have heen asked for in the various districts of the. city. We want more school buildings, the need of providing against q water famine must be apparent to everybody, it is important that a cer- tam amount of permanent street pay ing he done each year. the care of about seventy-fye miles of streets in wolves quite a considerable outlay: the constantly increasing dcmand for sew CTS and the extension Of water mains. together with the care and maintc- nance of tbcse Ge,!artmentS sEould not he lost sight of with people who talk Hronomv: the surface hardened streets West Main street, East Main street. church street, IeavenWOrth street Ca nal street. Union street and ether places. will have to be recovered next year, unless the city wants to allow them to get burrowed I'D so that they will he in worse shape than dirt streets. Then there is the storm water drain ago question. which K just about as pressing as anything else, and is liable i to involve the city in endless litigation If steps are not tsfken 70 guard against of +;,n ,J cured some time ago along the line of Little and Great brooks and in the | Brooklyn district. These arc but a | few of the things the city is face to face with to-day. and if anyone knows
 how they can be met without increas- 1 ing the size of the peoples rate bills. now is the time for him to sneak. The
 items of expense mentioned herein do pct include the shout from all direc- | tiOnS for proper polit-. protection and
 the urgent requests that are heinz made in many quarters for fire alarm
 boxes and additions to the working | forces of that department by the com Ipleto Wiping out of volunteer service and the introduction of full paid
 service with the various exnenseG in
 cident to such a change. When these
 and other things that might be called
 attention to are taken into account. it will he seen that. after all. the people who are paying rent are just about as well off. and probably better than those to whom the city looks to foot the bills that will have to be met
 from time to time in crder that Wa iterhury may be enabled to keep UT
 with the procession. Many think ii would be wiser to meet some of these
 expenses by bonding the city, rathc,
 than to try to pursue the policy of pay
 as you go and in this way compel those who will walk our paved streets after we shall have been gathered tC
 our fathers share a portion of the cost
 Boyle Roche has been dubbed as a
 hlunderer because he wanted to know
 why the people of his day and time
 should tax themselves beyond their ca
 Dacitv when they could Tighten the
 load bv leaving some of it to Dosteritv
 but while the world may lau"h at the
 remark there is something in it a3l the
 same and it might not be a bad Dlar
 for Waterbury to consider it seriously
 and see if it would pay to try.