The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-13
A WRESTLE With ASPHALT


the green, Councilman
moved that the report be accepted, anG
the recommendation adopted, Mr.
Chase moved to amend, to substitute
Trumbull street for Elm street in the
recommendation, providing for the lay
ing Of asphalt not only through the
green, but also on Temple street, from
Elm to Trumbull Mr.. Chase spoke
strongly in favor of this amendment
He said that he didn't care for a sin
gle taxpayer in the central part of the
city if he objected to paying his little
assessment for permanent improve
ments. Because eight or ten people
with money enough to ride in carriages
object to pavement was no reason why
it should not be laid He said that the
people who owned property in the CEN
trail part of the city didn't live there.
Regardless of what the owners of prop
erty in the central part of the city said
he was ready to say that he wanted the
central streets paved. AS to the kind
of pavement to lay, he said that he had
been working for years against Sicilian
rock asphalt, but he believed Trini-
dad asphalt the best permanent pave
ment in use to-day. He said that the
reason why some people opposed
asphalt so bitterly was because none
had ever been laid here. New Haven
people ought not to Say that they know
more than anyone else on the face of
the earth. People in other cities all
over the country had found Trini-
pitch asphalt to make the best kind of
pavement. People here thought that
there was only one kind of asphalt and
that the kind already laid here, but
that wasn't so. When New Haven peo-
pie say that they don't want asphalt,
they don't know what they are talking
about.
Mr. Chase spoke for about twenty
minutes on the merits of the brand of
asphalt which he favored, reading
portion of the time from pamphlet.
He didn't believe that after the intelli-
gent New Haven public had one yard of
asphalt on the streets it would ever
ask for anything else.
Mr.. Dawson asked, at the conclusion
of Mr.. Chases speech, that President
Miller resume the chair. Mr.. Miller did
as requested Taking the floor, Mr..
Dawson said that he did not agree with
the gentleman when he said that the
taxpayers should be ignored. Mr.. DaW-
son had inquired of grocerymen, dellv-
erymen and others who drive horses In
Connecticut cities where asphalt pave
ment was used and they were invar1a-
bly opposed to asphalt. He had heard
the same complaints of Trinidad asphalt
as are made here against Stcilian as
phalt A stage driver in Hartford,
whose route lay over the Trinidad pave
ment, had told him that it cost consid-
erably more to keep horses shod on ac-
count of the asphalt. There was much
complaint there about horses slipping
on the Trinidad asphalt The firemen
objected to driving over it. He had in
vestigated the brick pavement here and
found that the Wooster street brick was |
in splendid condition. street which is
used for very heavy traffic. Chapel |
street needed repairing much more than |
Temple street, between Elm and Trum-
bull streets. Doctors and bushes men
had protested strongly against another
foot Of asphalt being laid in New Ha-
ven. AS for the comparative utility of
various kinds of asphalt, his investiga-
ton had led him to believe that the kind |
laid here bad as it was, was the best
kind of asphalt for paving.
Councilman Keane said that the pres
emit street committee was the best one
that had ever been in city hall. 1t had
done more for the streets of the city
than any previous committee. He was
in favor, first, last and all the time, of
good, permanent pavements. He said;
'"Try the Trinidad asphalt and don't put
it on little place through the green,
where it will be paid for out of general
mt fort on Tom
pie street, where the property owners
will have to help pay for it." He ia
yored good roads to-day as the older
Romano did in earlier times.
Councilman Tyner said that the board
had heard of the merits of Trinidad as
phalt as set forth in literature issued by
the Trinidad people. The gentleman
from the Tenth ward (Mr. Dawson) had
asked the opinion of people in cities
where Trinidad asphalt was laid. He
said: "Would you ask as to the relative
merits of any commodity the people
who use 1T or the men who sell it? 1t is
ridiculous to come here and say that we
must have Trinidad asphalt because
people walk upon the streets. 1t is high
time that we do away with experiment.
ing and adopt something that we have
found to be a good pavement
Mr.. Chase-"Mr. 'Tyner, l am also
of the common council am I
not?"
Mr.. Tyner-"Yes."
my word is as good as that of the
from the Tenth ward, isn't
it?"
Eyes"
When Mr. Chase finished questioning
Mr.. Tyner said: 1T is true the gentle
man from the Second is a member of
the court of common council, but it is
also true that he has taken his argu-
ment from literature issued by the COM
pany ITSELF" ]
Mr.. Dawson said that he didn't want
1t understood that he was opposed to
improvements, out he
thought that Temple street could be
placed in good condition without paving t
1t with brick or asphalt.
Councilman Greenfield moved to !
amend to recommit the question of paw ,
ing Temple street to the committee The /
chair ruled this amendment to be an ;;
out of order. !
Councilman Walsh spoke in favor of G
Mr. ChaSe's amendment. He thought .