The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-05
THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
PAVEMENT REPORTS WERE CON-
 SIDERED LAST NIGHT.

SIDERED LAST NIGHT.
 yitrified Brick Orders for Crown Street,
 Elm Street, Olive Street, and Howard
 Avenue Passed--A Rig Batch of Work
 Outlined for the Corporation Counsel
 A Proposition to Make m Artificial
 Lake in the Eastern Part of the City.
 At the meeting of the board of alder men held last night, and lasting until II o'clock, a number of important reso- 1utions and orders were discussed, but the greater part of the time was devot- ed to consideration of the reports of the street committee on petitions for per-
 manent pavements. The first pavement report read was the one on Crown street The committee recommended that Grown street, between State and Temple streets, be paved with vltrltled alluvial clay brick, with cement grout- ing and expansion joints, and that sum not to exceed $10,000 be approprl- ated to pay for the work. Alderman Atwater moved that the report be amended by substituting in 1t the words s'asphalt block for "vitrified alluvlal clay brick'' Aldermen Hall and Cor coran spoke in favor of this proposed amendment, and lengthy and some what disconnected discussion was held. Finally, by vote of l2 to Il, the amendment was defeated, the members ' voting as follows:
 Ayes-Messrs. Brill, Corcoran, Beech CT, Atwater, Gerner, Fertman, Wallace, Hall, w. F. Walsh, Barnes and Moore sr-11.
 5, Nays-Messrs. Baldwin Wright Me- Gill. Whitaker, Savers, Erff, Hubbard, Weiss, Unger, Alcorn, Kelsey and J. J. iWalsh--12.
 Alderman Atwater then moved that the committee report be tabled until the next meeting. The motion was lost by d vote of 15 to 8. The committee rec Ommendation for vitrified brick on Grown street was then adopted and the order passed.
 The next report received was on the petition for brick pavement on Elm street. The committee recommended that vitrified alluvial clay brick pave ment with cement grouting and ex- mansion joints, be laid on Elm street between State and York streets, and that not more than $35,000 be appropri- ated to pay for the work. Alderman Atwater again moved to substitute block asphalt for brick and he and AL derman Beecher spoke strongly in favor of such amendment. Alderman Wright presented a remonstrance against lay II ,%v, a Htrance was signed by twenty-tw'o prop erty owners on the street. City Clerk Norris began to read the list Of names appended to the remonstrance and MT. Atwater and MT. Beecher objected. AL derman Wright explained that the re- monstrance was signed by owners or property on the street and thought that at least they be shown the courtesy Of having their names read. Alderman Beecher thought that it made no diff ference whether the people who signed the remonstrance were owners of prop erty on Elm street or whether they liv- eG on East street or Garden street.
 Chairman Pro Tem. Miller ruled that the remonstrance was not properly be- fore the board, but it was voted to have the names read. The vote was then taken and the amendment was lost by vote of 16 to 7, the members voting as follows
 Ayes-Messrs Brill, Corcoran, Beech CT, Atwater, Gerner, Barnes and Morse -7.
 Nays-Messrs. Baldwin, Wright, Mc- CHI, Whitaker, Savers, Erff, Hubbard, Weiss, Unger, Fertman. Hall, Wallace J. J. Walsh, w. F. Walsh, Alcorn and Kelsey-16.
 The committee report was then &C., cepted. the recommendation adopted And the order passed.
 Next came the report on the petition for the laying of Trinidad Lake Pitch | asphalt pavement on Howard avenue between the bridge across the Consoli- dated road tracks at Kimberly avenue and the bridge across the old Derby | tracks near the police station. The committee recommended that vitrified | brick be laid on the street between the | Har tracks and two feet outside the | tracks, and that Trinidad asphalt be | laid between the tracks and vitr1fed 1 brick gutters The committee further | recommended that an appropriation of | not to exceed $40, 900 be made to pay for the work recommended.
 Alderman Savers moved to substitute In the recommended order vitrif1ed allu- vial clay brick for Trinidad asphalt. Alderman Corcoran, who had favored | and spoken for asphalt block on Crown and Elm streets spoke against the rec ommendation for Trinidad asphalt AL derman Baldwin moved to amend by substituting repairing with crushed stone, and MT. Savers immediately withdrew his amendment for brick.
 Chairman Wallace of the street com- mittee, said that although his commit tee had recommended Trinidad asphalt, he was not in favor of it, but had not time to draw up minority report. He said, however, that the committee had thought that the report carried out the the wishes of the people who own prop erty on the street. He said that of the people who appeared before the com- l. mittee those who lived between City Point and the first railroad bridge fa- vored vitrified brick; those who lived between the two bridges, or a number of them, favored asphalt. He said that the report therefore to certain extent, followed the wishes of the people.
 Alderman Corcoran caused litter to run through the chamber by saying that last evening he talked with ninety-fiv ~ rbe,y tbn l