The weekly examiner., 1901-06-22

mayor went to Boston and negotiated
 with it's bulls and bears over $400, 1000
 new city bonds, of lots just authorized a
 few weeks ago for other purposes, but
 none of their proceeds are to go towards
 paying for what we must have under @
 heavy penalty for failure to comply with
 the courts decree.
 Why is this slackness on the part of
 our city government? Why this haste
 to issue bonds for purposes which can,
 every one of them, safely wait quite a
 spell, when the matter of providing for
 this sewage disposal is urgent and in-
 evitable? Why place on our people
 greater and less necessary city burdens
 to the half million dollar mark for other and less pressing purposes, Cir indeed
 some of them are needed at all, either now or hereafter) when we know for
 certain that we must at once tackle this
 big sewage disposal problem, and that
 the burden of it's cost may run any
 where from half million to million and 8 half of dollars? Are our city officials incompetent and improvident 1? Do they entertain the notion that when
 the city comes to meet this question,
 the expense of any system will reach figures so astounding to our taxpayers, that they will for years afterwards stand poor chance to engineer and manipulate city bonds for unnecessary, gimcrack, and mostly ridiculous pur- poses, and consequently they thus have sought to secure in advance bonds for schemes unnecessary, ill-advised projects and personal fads, before the drop comes on the sewage disposal matter, and the taxpayers groan in dead earnest? Do they know what decree of a court means and that it is to be obeyed by city just as much as the individual? Do they realize that the city of Waterbury is today under standing, permanent injunction from the superior court of this state, absolutely restraining it from it's present system of sewage disposal in- to the Naugatuck river, after January 1, 190S-if we have the date correct? Do they suspect that, for violation of that decree if only for day after that date, this city sends it's sewage into the Naugatuck, the terms of the injunction call for $1O,OO0 cash penalty for our citizens to pay? o.
 And yet these citizens go on bonding us for other purposes and do nothing to meet this sewage dilemma now con- fronting us. They want bonds for city electric plants, bonds for water meters, bonds for every piece of nonsense and secure most of them-but still neglect making provision for. that most. vital. What can they be thinking of?
 Then, too, notwithstanding all this, in our present situation, they order new sewers, main and side sewers, they go ahead and construct them, the bureau of assessments lays assessments o1 ad- joining property holders, payable, by terms of the charter few days after the aldermen confirm them, and at once collect in on them what they are able? Do they not know that. so long as the city is under permanent injunction of our courts, not to use our present sew age disposal system single day after a year and half hence, such assessments are void, and not dollar. is legally col lectible? Do, they not know that the city, if it takes our money on, sewerage must give legal consider ation for that money, just as an indi- vidual must do in the case of 8 private contract? ? Is not a sewage disposal, which the court has pronounced illegal and order abolished on a certain day, an ! Illegal consideration on which to base a l sewerage assessment of an individual? ? Gan the city legally assess property | holder and take his money for a benefit l 1t is not in shape to give him perma- l 1ently? Is it not, then, the only legal, l business like and safe course for the board of aldermen to pursue, to attend l % the main question, proper, legal l sewage disposal for the city and desist | rom spending money on main or side l sewers with assessments illegal and therefore uncollectible from property | owners ana that' too' untlI permanent md satisfactory system has been fully l completed within the time limit of the l courts injunction upon us?
 Unique Memorial to a Pig. |
 No stranger monument ever existed l than that which was erected at the l Hotel de Yille by the inhabitants of Luneberg, in Hanover, in honor. of pig. This, which took the form of a dnd of mausoleum, contained large l