Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-16
R01 1hD OF puBLIc SAFETY
Aspirants for Brass Buttons Still in
 SuSpenSe

Aspirants for Brass Buttons Still in
 Suspense
 Not q word was said at the board of public safety meeting last evening about the subject which has kept over a Hundred young men awake nights for. the past few weeks, the matter of electing five supernumeraries to the regular police force, not q single word. The board convened promptly at s o'clock with the mayor in the chair and all the members present. Appli- cations to be appointed on the regular police force were received from the, following supernumeraries: John J. Bergin, John F. Bowling, Peter Le Cour and Samuel c. Walsh. They were filed for record. The Waterbury Athletic club was denied an extension of time to hold its postponed sparring exhibition. and it was decided to give the club leave to withdraw its petition for that purpose.
 Officer Thomas O'Hearn was grant ed full pay for five days he was off duty while being laid up with a sprained wrist. the result of fall he received while on duty one night last week.
 The Union Athletic clubs petition for the return of it's $50 license fee for holding sparring exhibition, the ex- hibition being such a failure that it was not given. The petition was granted after much discussion. Why it was granted was because the city was put to Io expense by the proposed exhibition.
 William E. Quigley's bill for $144 for rept of q small space between his shop on Jefferson street and the Sco- will street engine house was again re- ferred to the committee that has it on its hands for further investigation.
 Commissioner Kleinecke, represent ing the committee on fire alarm boxes. reported that on East Main street, from Cherry street to Wolcott street. there is no alarm box. On the south side there is none nearer than Doolittle alley on Dublin street and on the north one far up on Walnut street. lily drantS were pretty scarce. too, and the water mains were so small in some places that if a big fire took place there would surely be q scarcity of water. The committee recommended to the board of aldermen that the fire alarm box situated north of Hillside avenue on North Willow street be re- moved further down nearer to West Main street, and that an additional box be placed at the corner of Lud- low and North Willow street. The eX- pense will be about $16O. Also that q box be placed at the corner of Vel tou and East Main streets and an other at the top of WeltOn streets Hydrarts at both ends of Welton street were further recommended. Four mattresses were ordered for No 6 house.
 On the motion of Commissioner Knox, an additional horse was voted to be purchased for fire services. One horse is now laid up with a disease that may result fatally. Commission CTS Knox and D. Foley were appointed a committee to buy horse. MT | Knox thanked the mayor for the con- 1 fidence he had shown in him and sug- gested that the board draw up plan of specifications upon which the horse committee could safely proceed to buy | the horse.
 The following streets were allowed l to be used for coasting purposes: Gen. | tral avenue, Liberty, West Porter | Bridge Luke, Walnut, Wolcott, Sper- | ry. Pearl. James, Third, Franklin, Round Hill on upper part The board of aldermen will set the hours in which coasting can be indulged in. Chief Egan's seventeenth annual re- l port was then read and voted trans i mitted to the board aldermen. Commissioner Kleinecke moved that | the board be a committee to look up the matter of a police signal. The