The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-13
NICE BOARD MEETING
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 ored to show the advisability of the
 appropriation. MT. Dewell. said that he
 .shought that not only Yale but also
 the churches should pay taxes. The
 laws exempting them were passed when
 conditions were much different from 7 those obtaining at present. He said
 that Yale had, however been a great
 benefit to New Haven and he thought
 that the city had perff ct legal right
 to make the appropriation.
 MT. Atwood of the board spoke
 against making any appropriation at all for the celebration. He asked if such an appropriation would furninsh
 any inducement for manufacturers to
 locate in New Haven. MT. Curtis
 moved that $500 be appropriated and
 MT. Atwood seconded the motion al-
 though he had said that he opposed
 making any appropriation. MT. Dewell
 asked how the gentlemen could sit
 there and vote to appropriate $500 for
 a celebration for which the city ought
 to appropriate at least $15,OOO. He be-
 lieved that the majority of the tax payers of the city wanted the celebra-
 ton. He moved to amend the motion 4 NY SuO6lllQIlilS Pl,OUO lllSLSdu OI PoUV.
 The amendment was not seconded
 however. Mayor Studley evidently fa tvored it, but he as presiding officer was not in a position to second it. Controller Rowe, who is a member of the board,
 seemed for some reason to be reluctant to express an opinion on either side of the matter although he did say that it seemed that some smaller amount might be agreed upon. The mayor said that an appropriate decoration and H.
 Illumination could not be had for less than $1.2oO
 After a long discussion MT. Curtis finally withdrew his motion with the Consent of MT. Atwood, the seconder. < MT. Dewell then at once moved that $1 ,500 be appropriated on recommenda- X tion of the court of common council for q celebration during the time when < Yale holds the bicentennial celebration Mayor Studley spoke in favor of the motion, but as presiding officer could < not second 1t. MT. Frederick, the coun- cilmanic representative on the board, member of the board of councilmen which voted for the recommendation, diaregarded the wishes of the board &WIlGu IlS represents Oll IuC IllleillSS board and did not second the motion.
 Controller Rowe then moved that $750 be appropriated. MT. Dewell op- posed this because he did not think the amount sufficient but said that he would vote for it rather than for a smaller amount or permit the matter to 20 by with no appropriation. The motion was seconded and finally pre- vailed
 The board of health committee, President Sullivan and Health Officer Wright, appeared in regard to the ap- pr6priation desired by the health board to pay for inspection of the city water supply. A communication from the board of health in regard to the matter was read and contained the following:
 ssReviewing the epidemic of typhoid of last spring with it's terrible loss of life and its economic damage to the city the board of health was confront ed with the fact of it's importance by lack of financial means, to forestall any renetition of such disaster and from the new point of civic responsi- lbtlity, outrageous occurrence
 "It is the opinion of the board of | health that the contamination by dis ease germs of the water supply of the | city was the sole factor in the produc- tion of the late epidemic.
 Continuing the communication stated l xhat the health board was without | means to pay for proper supervision of the water sheds and was afraid of re- currence of another epidemic like that of last spring. It desired an immediate appropriation of funds to carry out such measures of drinking water con trol as in the opinion of the board of health the occasion may determine.
 Dr. Sullivan, president of the health board, said that there ought to be analysis of different waters at different dimes of the year to determine whether the water should be used
 Health Officer Wright spoke to the same effect. He thought that if the board of health could have an appro- priation to have water analysed epl- denies such as that of last spring could be prevented. He said that an imme- ,1iate appropriation of s2oo was desired. E5e said that this was the worst time cf the year for typhoid fever.
 The matter was laid on the table and the finance board took no action on it last night.
 President Wheeler of the police com mission appeared and said that the po- lice department would have at the end of the year a balance of $4000 in the payroll account and said that the fol- lowing transfers from this account were desired: For repair and maintainance of buildings, ssOo for harness and wagons, $2OO; for lighting, $100; for the 1undry account, $200; for forage, $50; for polling places for the special con- stitutional convention elections this eall, $55O The finance board decided to allow transfers as follows: For poll Ing places, $550; for building, repair and maintainance, $27S.20 for forage, $50; for lighting, $10O; for tin roof repairs, |5O
 Al communication was received from Coe of the department of pub- Lic works asking for the following transfers from the account for bulk head at the foot of Chestnut street. l IS00 for repair of bridge, s1,000 for re- pair of crushed stone pavements. It was decided to request MT. Coe to ap- pear and explain the necessity of these transfers and no further action on the matter was taken.