Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-27
MONEY WANTED
City Departments That Havn't
 Enough to Go Around.
MORE WATER MAINS THE CRY

Candidates for Political Berths Will 1 Be Asked Some Pertinent Questions On This Point nt-Selectmen Will Be Elected This Fall as Heretofore Doran and Disley Will Be the Can- didates- Captain Fitzpatrick's Re- marks On the Outlook.
 There is a large portion of Water l bury's taxpayers who care but little about which party is ill power so long l as the affairs of the city are conducted in business-like and impartial man. ner, and for this reason there are more interested in next years appropria- tions than in what is going on among the politicians. They seem to feel sat isfied that the people will do the right thing in the end and that whoever gets the offices will have enough sense of honor to see that justice is done to all in the matter of pubic expenditures. Many public improvements in all parts of the city and especially on the outskirts have been held up this year, not because the powers that be did not want to take hold of them, but rather on account of the lack of funds to do them with. What the people seem to demand most is the extension of the water mains, with the sewers close second. These are big questions and are source of much contention in the city boards, those who have these im- proyementS not being able to under stand why such large sums should be appropriated for this purpose, and those who stand in need of them won dering why the sums are not large enough to meet the requirements of all. When the annual appropriations are being made out almost every man you meet is talking economy and low rate of taxation, and a few months later many of those economists who are up in arms because the amount ap- prOpriated for certain purposes was not larger The petitions for water mains on North Main street and North Willow street the last two years would more than use-up all that was appro- priated for the extension of water mains, and while good share of 1t went into these streets still the people, some of them, feel dissatisfied because the extension did not go far enough to accommodate them. It is so In al- l most every other section of the city. so that 1t looks as if the time had | come when the appropriation for water main extensions will have to be made l much larger than ever before, unless l the building boom on the outskirts is | to be retarded. Many are of the Opin- 1 ion that it would be wise to have l big appropriation for the extension of water mains next year, supposing 1t I had, to be done at the expense of some | thing else, paving, for example, in the ] Judgment of some of the wise heads | being something that could be let up ! on to some extent without interfering vpit tIn <af hn 0f ffxv I The Democrat has been requested to make this suggestion in the hope that Mayor Kilduff and the board of alder men may come together and talk the matters over before the appropriations
 for 1902 are finally agreed upon.
 "Who's ahead in the race for the l mayoralty nomination, captain?' ask ed Democrat reporter of ID. E. Fitz- patrick this morning. "Oh," he re- pied in that charming way to which
 he owes a fair share of his popularity,
 we're all begging away, but which
 is ahead is something that it would be hard to tell. It does not make l very much difference which is ahead
 now, though of course it is pleasant ! to be leading all through the race, but the question that concerns competi- | at the rounding up.' Then the cap- tain winked at the scribe and passed to brace prominent ward politician
 who happened along at the time. The captain is conducting q quiet but sys- | tematic campaign in his own behalf, 1 and there are many who think that he will make good showing when l the list of delegates to the city con- vention is called.
 So much is being said regarding the l candidates for mayor on both tickets l that little or nothing is heard about aspirants for selectmen, although the l board will be elected this fall as usual | and will retain all the powers now | vested in their office until the first | Monday in January, 1902. After that | date their duties will be confined to | the making of electors. It seems to l be generally believed that Mortimer | Doran will receive the endorsement of | his party to succeed himself with w. | T. Disley as his running mate. They 1 are good public servants and in all l probability the opposition will not make much effort to defeat them, though representative of the Demos crat was informed to-day that party l wise the office is as important as ever and that the republicans would dearly, I love to control it. The making of elec- l tors means a great deal from party standpoint and the republicans are sharp enough to see this and for all
 one can tell the apparent lack of in- terest about the berths on their part
 may be q part of a cleverly laid scheme
 ! to capture it. There seems to be no 1 cause for faultfinding about the meth
 | cd of conducting business by the pres ent board of selectmen so that with the
 same men now at the helm as candi-
 l dates there is no reason why they
 should not succeed themselves.