Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-10
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
Another Trolley Company May Run
 Lines in Waterbury.

AHoIner Trolley company May HUH
 Lines in Waterbury.
 The board of public works held a meeting last night, Mayor Kilduff pre- siding, and all the members being present except MT Chesson.
 X communication was received from the Southern New England Telephone company, asking permission to open the different streets which the city has decided to pave, for the purpose of making conduits for wires, etc.
 This brought out lengthy discus sion regarding the attitude of corpor- ations towards municipalities, during which Mayor Kilduff said: -'.This leads up to another matter, which I desire to acquaint the board about While in Hartford to-day I learned that a hearing was being heard in the senate chamber on the application of one of the electric lighting companies for permission to come into Waterbury from Cheshire. I was interested to know the route, so I dropped in and listened to the arguments. There was a large crowd present, but so far as could see there was only one other man from this town. The company wants to strike Waterbury in the vi- cinity of the Plank road and reach the center by way of West Main street, thence along Silver street to Dublin street, and from here along Bridge street to Baldwin street; thence along Baldwin street through Union square as far IS Scovill street, down Scovill street to Brook street, and along the latter street to East Main street. Through the courtesy of Senator Ken nedy l was allowed to speak and in formed the committee that I deemed this matter of great importance to Wa terbury and asked that the hearing be adjourned for ten days or a couple of weeks to give our engineer time to look over the proposed route and also allow the city to be heard in the premises. I endeavored to impress upon them the importance of the sit uation to the people of Waterbury, but they wouldn't listen to me. The com pany's representative stated that they had complied with the law and that that was all that should be expected of them. I inquired if they had pub- lished n notice of this hearing in the Waterbury papers and was told that they had not, but that notice had appeared in the Hartford Courant and the New Haven Register. T thought this a strange way of notify ing the people of this town and told the committee so, but was met with the answer that the company com- piled with the law. Now, I'm not ops posed ito the trolley companies. I'm a business man in the center and I know that the more people come in here from neighboring towns the bet ter for me, but want to look at 1t from the standpoint of q public off cial and not altogether as a business man. I think the city attorney should have notified us that such hearing was to take place So that we could have been prepared for 1t and be rep resented there.''
 Commissioner Scully: The discour- tesy shown the mayor is apparent, but at the same time must say that I'm pleased to learn that the prospect for another trolley company in Waterbury is bright. The present company has a charter to operate on almost every street In the city, but it manifests no disposition to use it. We want the trolley in the South End, the people on the west side have been clamoring for it the past few years, the North End folks are looking for the trolley service, and so on in different parts of the thickly settled sections of Wa terbury. If competition compels the old company to move on or get out of the way. Waterbury should welcome it''
 Mayor Ki1duff: How do you know but this is the same company?"
 AIr Scully: T don't care about that. The trolley companies cannot ride rough shod over municipalities without the consent of those whom the