Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-21
NAUGATUcK NEWS
About Fifty Persons Attended the Bor-
 ough Meeting Last Night.

ough Meeting Last Night.
 An adjourned meeting of the free men of the town was held in the court room last night, about 90 persons were in attendance. The meeting was called to order by Borough Clerk Beardsley and \. c. Futile was elected chair man of the meeting The minutes Of the last meeting were read by Clerk Beardsley. The report of the commit tee was read by the clerk and on mo- tion of MT Kennedy the report as ac- cepted. On motion of MT Kennedy the clerk was instructed to read each item of the two reports in comparison. After this reading such items as were the same on both reports were accept ed by the meeting. The items that were not the same were then acted up on singly. The items thus acted upon ! were as follows: The appropriations acted upon in this manner were the board of education, cobble gutters, elec- tion expenses. fire department, street lighting, this latter caused a great deal of arguing which was gone into by the citizens present the first man to speak on this matter was Richard Freeman who made a motion to the effect that the committees recommendation ot $4 ,000 for street lighting be accepted. l A Morse asked to be informed If IL was the intention of the committee to cut off the lights. E. E. Stevens as q member of the committee stated that the committee seemed to think that 1t would be a good Idea for them to cut cc s<Df 4l,o oh ute fifty incandescent lights ill their places The incandescent lights 10 pe about fifty candle power. MT AenneuS at this point moved an amendment to the motion to the effect that the recon mendation of the warden ana Duf- gesses for $5, 200 for street lighting De accepted. After a great deal more ar guing back and forth the amendment was adopted by vote of thirty Ill favor of the amendment to seven op- posed The next item to come I'D for consideration was S15O for auditor re- commended by the committee to Sl2o recommended by the warden and bur gesses. The clerk informed the meet ing that this had already been paid and the recommendation of the com
  adopted. Next came the matters of schools and the meeting voted to adopt the appropriations of the con- mittee of S35,S90 for the schools tor the ensuing year. The committees re port on school supplies was also ac- cepted by the firemen. The recommen- dation of the committee that $500 be appropriated for bridges was accepted also. The report of S9,700 as the inter est account appropriation by the com mittee was accepted. The warden and burgesses' recommendation of $1,000 as the contingencies appropriation was accepted by the meeting. The warden and burgesses' recommendation of S14,- coo to the board of charities was adopt ed. The report of the committed as to $1, ,4S7 as county tax was adopted by the meeting. The report of the war den and burgesses as to $2,000 for the grading of roads and sidewalks was accepted. Pierce Freeman gave quite little speech at this stage of the game by stating that the streets on the East side. were in awful condition. He named High and May streets as an example of this and said that the board of warden and burgessas had voted to grade High street and 1t had never been done. He said he thought 1t was about time this was done and he thought that this appropriation should be made. The total appropriations amounted to $121, ,O10 the same to be met by the Scllowing incomes: From licenses, SIS 300; from school fund, ST. GOO: from log tax, $500. The rest from the taxes to De laid on the different districts as follows: District No l. an eight mill tax on the grand list of 1900, payable July l, 1901; district No ,. a six and .aire qEa.1er mill tax on tie grand list of 1900. rayable on Deec:n- Der 31, 1901 The meeting adjournaI at 9:30 o'clock.
 The oencnes were rlaced on the park this forenoon a:ter they had been given much needed coat of paint. The benches wiz be 'horoueh hly appreciated by tie public at large as the park is . favoritc place for the different pe.spl IS to congresate after supper and talk.
 The war,I en ana burgesses will rlnct tonight. ll is thought that consider able important busiress will come be- fore this meeting.
 A fair sized audience greeted the Columbus minstrels at Columbus hall last night The performance was nice ly and smoothly run and was credit to Manager John Burke who has been striving for some time past to make that performance just what it was.
 A very successful rehearsal of 'The Princess" which is to be presented by the graduating class of the N. H. S.. on June 9th was held in the opera house last night.
 Court Goodyear, E. of A, will meet tonight All members are requested to be present.
 James Dunham Of Derby was in town yesterday on business.
 The Naugatuck and Shelton High school baseball team will cross bats on Athletic field tomorrow afternoon. |. The game which was reported to be played to-day between the Y. M. c A., and the Naugatuc1 Wheel club teams will be played Thursday afternoon.
 Thomas Burke of Thomaston was in town this morning on business.