Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-28
MUNICIPAL MATTERS.
City Fathers Trying to Induce the ScoviI Co to Lay a Walk.

Scovill Go to Lay a Walk.
 The board of public works held meeting last night, Mayor Kilduff pre- siding and all the members being pres ent except Mir Bdakeslee.
 Property owners were called and heard regarding the following pro- posed public Improvements: Side walks on Bridge street, north side, from Baldwin street to Dublin street; sidewalks on Pine street from Hillside avenue to Cooke street; sidewalks on North Main street from the present terminus of the walks in that street to North Vine street; the proposed paw ing at the junction of Hill and North Main street, preparatory to making some other needed improvements at this point. Action was deferred on the Pine street sidewalk matter and the paving at Hill and North Main streets owing to the fact that in each case two property owners had not been notified. The other matters were act ed upon favOrably and a vote passed recommending that the work be nr- dered done, the law date to be Octo- Der 15, 1901
 NJ. l.. Sperry, who appeared for the Scovill Manufacturing Go on the Bridge street question, said that he. would not oppose the walk as far as Magill street, but that he saw no need of putting it down from that point to Dublin street. Commissioner Whining took MT Sperry in hand and tried to convince him that it was an injustice to property owners on the opposite side of the street to be compelled to furnish sidewalks for all the travel on that street. He believed that public necessity and convenience required the walk on the north side and appeared | to be somewhat surprised to learn | that the Scovill Manufacturing Go l would want to have it said that pri- vate individuals were shouldering the company's burden as we'll as their own | in the matter of providing sidewalks for all the travel on Bridge street, 1 which he considered large and son. 1 stantly on the increase. Mir Sperry l could not see the question from the l commissioners standpoint and stuck to the contention that the walk was not needed. He is a good debater and considering the end of the subject he had. it was interesting to see how slillfully he handled it. MT Sperry is something like the schoolmaster 1 spoken of in Goldsmith's Deserted Village" flor cen though vanquished he can argue still.''
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 aldermen that public necessity and I convenience require that Jefferson I street be extended to South Elm street and that the work be ordered done. l The board decided to hold an outing | Saturday night for the purpose of in- l vestigating petitions for electric lights I in different parts of the city. The ap- l plicati0n of w. T. Disley to connect l Charles Fitzpatrick's two houses on
 Bridge street with the same sewer
 connection was referred to commit tee consisting of Mayor Kilduff and
 Engineer Cairns with power to act 1 The petition of the Steele & Johnson l Co for permission to make an eight l inch tapping in the main on South
 Main street opposite the factory, was l considered and referred back to the l company. accompanied by a communi-
 action informing the management that l the petition cannot be granted in its I present shape. It was stated that the
 city main at this point is but six inches
 and that it would be impossible tc
 connect an eight-inch pipe with it. Ii | seems that this was mistake. MI I Coe of the Steele &c Johnson Manufac
 turing Co informed reporter of the
 Democrat to-day that the city main | Is eight inches to within twenty fee1 | of Benedict's bridge, which is some
 distance south of the factory
 | Property owners on West Farm
 street were heard regarding the con 1 dition of the water in that street
 They represented that there is a dead
 end there with no blow off. and tha1
 the water has become so filthy that il
 is unfit for family use. The matter
 was referred to q committe consistins
 of Superintendent O'Brien and ssn
 gineer Cairns with instructions thai
 they connect the West Farm ane
 North street mains and thus give the
 aggrieved the relief they desired.
 The board then adjourned.