Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-10

people elect to represent them in the l city boards
 1 AIr Whiting: T have heard you say 1 this before Mr Scully, but I can't see where the trolley company has ever shown willingness to be fair. Look at the case that came before ourselves, 1 where they ignored all the conditions | and did the work according to their own notion"
 MT Scully: sVery true, but you
 must recollect that after doing this | they were forced to admit that they had made a mistake and in order to
 get out of it they gave the city far more than the city dreamed of l asking from them when the plans were approved. submit that if public officials would refuse to ap- prove trolley plans unless the condi-
 tions were reasonable the company would come to time, but if it can have its plans approved without any condi- ton attached thereto it will do it, and
 don't know but what any other cor poration would do the same. The trolley companies are working for themselves, and if they can get public
 officials to turn in and help them they will not hesitate to do it.''
 Mayor Kilduff: T have one plain, bald statement to make, and l want the papers to use it.; that is, the cor porations own the state of Connecti- cuts'
 Mir Blakeslee: s'I think you will have to use that as an ad and pay well for it before some of the papers will use it'
 Mir Scully: sI don't care to discuss the subject further, but would like to ask the mayor if it is not q fact that if others had viewed the trolley franchise question from his standpoint a few years ago that Waterbury would have got more substantial conditions from the company. Isn't 1t q fact, MT Mayor, that If the city has not re ceiyed a fair compensation for the use of the streets the peoples representa- lives in the city government, and not the trolley company, were at faultY' Mayor Kilduff: "Yes; think that's s true''
 MT Scully sNel1, then, what's the use placing the blame on the com pany when 1t Is an open secret and 1t rests with some of our most influential citizens, many of whom are now heartily ashamed of the part they played in these matters.
 At this jllncture Commissioners Scully and Whiting got into an anil mated discussion over trolley fran chises, which was finally brought to 1 an abrupt termination by Mayor Kill duff calling Timer and asking what the board desired to do with the com munication of the Southern New Eng land Telephone Go. It was received | and ordered placed Oh file
 A motion was then passed to the eff 1 feet that the city treasurer be request I ed to endeavor to secure . hearing for l Waterbury on the proposed trolley route to Waterbury via Cheshire. Property, owners on the following l streets were called and heard relative to the construction of sewers in front I of their preTnises Grant street, Branch street. Mill street, Pratt place, West l Main street; Woodlawn terrace, Fred erick street, Farm street. Some of the l property owners favored the petitions, l but others were very much opposed to l them. No action was taken in any of l the cases. Sidewalk hearings were
 given to parties on Mattatuck and l Vine streets, No action was taken. City Engineer Cairns presented the I following estimate for new work, grading Howard street, $T00; storm f water drain in Green street, $7,500; l water main in Washington street, $S50; sewer i'll Mill street, $1,500;
 sewer in Pratt place, $7.5O. The re- port was accepted and ordered on file. l Mayor Kilduff and Engineer Cairns submitted a report relative to improve
 ments on Hamilton park, accompanied I by a proposition from Parsons & Pentecost, New York, landscape gar deners. The idea is: to get q map
 showing what the park will look like when it is finished and then work 1t from time to time according as appro- 1 priations for that purpose will permit. The report was accepted and the com
 mittee given full power to act in the l premises.
 The engineer was instructed to pre- pare estimates for the proposed lay outs of Green street Woodlawn ter race. Farm street. West Main street, l Walnut street and South View street
 City Engineer Cairns suggested an l outing to the Branch in the near fti-