Waterbury Democrat., 1901-11-06
NAUGATUCk NUGGETS.
Board of Warden and Bursesses Held
 & Meeting Last Night.

a Meeting Last Night.
 The board of warden and burgesses held their regular monthly meeting 1n the borough court room last evening In the absence of Warden Schaner, Senior Burgess Smith presided After the minutes of the last meeting were read and accepted the regular monthly reports of Chief-of-Police Schmidt, Borough Treasurer G. T. Wigmore. Health Officer Smith and Tax Coffee tor J. E. Martin were submitted to the board and accepted. The marrer of establishing grade lines on Orcnard street, which has taken up consldera- ble of the boards time, was again brought up for discussion. Burgess Freeman stated that he was oppose to establishing a grade on This sJreet because he thought it was unnecessary expense and that the borough had all ready exceeded the appropriation for grading streets. At this juncture q much heated discussion arose among some of the burgeSSeS. and after seine time had been spent in wrangling, At- tOrney W. J. Weary, who owns proper " on this street. appeared before 1he board and stated that he thought the wiSest thing the board could do was 
 a time as they should have money enough to make good street of it and then have the matter settled. At this point another discussion more heated than the first took place principally be- tween Burgess Renslow and Mir Weary, and after it had been kept up for some time was ended by Burgess Mills inak- ing the following motion: Voted, That the grade of Orchard street, as presented by the borough engineer. be adopted" The motion was put and carried. Burgesses Mills, Renslow and Westbrook voting for and Burgessns Kenney and Freeman against il. The board received but two bids for lay ing the sewer on North Main sfreer. They were from Upson & Grannis of New Haven and Pasqua1e Contaldi of Waterbury. The board passed the fol lowing vote in regard to the matter: Voted. That the contracts for laying the sanitary sewer on North Main street from Smith to Hopkins street be awarded to P. Conta1di on the con dition that the price of siX-inch nipe Is 45 cents per foot. and that the war- den be authorized to sign the contract for the sewer with bond Of S1000. srhject to the annrova1 of the board" The board granted permission to the Haymakers to parade the straeIs on November s. The board also vcted to extend vnte Of thanks to the fire de- partment for the invitation to attend their annual concert and ball. to he held Thanksgiving eve in the opera hdtSe. At 9:20 the board voted to ad- Journ for TWO weeks.
 The election for the purpose of choos- ing delegate to the constitutional convention was held in Naugatuck yesterday. All the voting was i'll the town hall building. A very light vote was boiled. about 900 out of q possible 2,200 votes being cast. The contest was between John NJ. Page. democrat. and J. Fl. Whittemore. republican. ard resulted in a victory for the repilb!i- can candidate. J. H. Whittem0re re- ceiyed 5SS of the votes and J. M. Page received 305. thus making White more's plurality 2S3.
 Clarence Pitts of Goodyear avenue las accepted a position as general cleo tTician for the Oakyille Pin Co of Oak vile
 The Rev J. O. R. Sheridan. the Rev W. J. Cunningham. Miss Mary Burke and Miss Frances Higgins are in B9is- tOl to-day attending the funeral of John Quinn, brother-in-law of Father EduHIHS. WHO uleu at HIS uOue III Brooklyn, \. Y., Monday.
 The case of John and Gilbert Arch CT. charged with assault on l. yorslas- Ii. which was confined from Monday. was brought up before Judge Hamilton this morning. and Vorslasli. who was unable to appear Monday on account of his wounds. was present and tesIi- lied against the Archers. His tpsti- mony was in detail the same as Thoin- as Renehan's. who testified on Mon day, and in whose saloon the assault took place. Dr F. J. Futile testified as tS the nature of Vorslaski's wounds. and after he was dismissed John Arch CT took the stand. His testimony was rather mixed and Prosecuting Aft0r- nay Sweeney drew from him many things that went directly against him. After all the testimony was i1 Judge Hamilton was of the opinion that Tbe -Archers were guilty and accordingly fined Gilbert S5 and costs and John S10 and costs. Gilbert Archer'S fine amounted to S15 46 and Johns amount ed to S20.96 Both fines were paid and the prisoners allowed to depart.