Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-11
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
CemnIssiOner Whiting Thinks Electric | Co Waits For Poles to Grow.

Eemmissioner Whiting Thinks Electric t Co Waits For Poles to Grow. The board of public works held a meeting last night there being present Commissioners Whiting, Mahaney, Chesscn, Blakeslee Scully. Engineer Cairns, Superintendent Kelley, Super intendent O'Brien and Assistant Clerk NettIeton. Property owners interest ed in the construction of sewers i'll Seymour, Bergen, Bishop and Locust streets were called and heard. No one appeared for Bergen street, very few for Locust street. but good dele gation put in an appearance from Bishop and Seymour streets. Almost all the Bishop street people opposed the sewer, the Seymour street people were about evenly divided on the question and many of the Locust street folks did not desire the improvement because their houses are connected with sew CTS in other streets or with a private sewer belonging to MT Irion.
 The board voted to recommend that public necessity and convenience re quire the construction of a sewer in Locust and Seymour strets. No action was taken on the petitions for sewers in the other streets.
 The continued hearing regarding the paving of North Main street at the Junction of Hill and Burton streets. preparatory to fixing up that square was taken from the table and D. Fl. Tierney. agent for the Coyle property, heard in the premises. He said he re- garded it as very desirable public i'm provement and that he was pleased to be able to inform the board that they had no objection to offer in the premises. The project was then fa- yorably recommended to the aldermen.
 W. P. Loefier of Seymour street ap- peared before the board regarding the condition of q portion of the sidewalk in that street and asked that the owner be compelled to repair it. The matter was referred to MT Kelley of the street department with instructions to see that the walk is fixed. Several new petitions referred to the board at Monday nights meeting of the alder men were received and placed on the list for investigation.
 The electric lights ordered by the aldermen were referred to MT Kelley NlAu lA&AL llG CA0CeNOL LO have the company install them as soon as possible. Commissioner Whiting re. marking that an interminable time had elapsed between the ordering of the last lights and getting them ready for use. so long. the commissioner thought that one would think that after the company received an order to install an electric light it had to wait for the pole to grow.
 The petition for sidewalks on North Main street near Vine street was re- ferred to the engineer for an estimate of expense.
 A communication was received from Engineer Cairns relative to the cost of the proposed improvements at the Junction of Bank and Grand streets. Blakeslee square. so-ca1led. The total cost including the granite trough which the plan calls for. amounts to S35O. If an iron trough should be used the ex-a pense would be $50 less. It was voted to recommend the matter favorably to the aldermen, the granite trough pre- ferred.
 This Is something that has been in hand for some time past and if the aldermen do not stand in the way it is probable that the work will be taken hold of and completed this season. The Democrat has always taken the ground that this square should be cared for and thought it the proper place to To- caate the watering tank the time there was such big fuss about a new site when the board of public works was talking of removing the one on West Main street at the corner of the green
 Some discussion was indulged in re garding a date for an outing to finish the investigation of petitions for lights. Commissioner Mahaney favor ed going out this week. but as some of the other members will be out of town until after Sunday it was decided to let the matter go over until next week The board then adjourned for a week.