The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-03-15

to connect the Church street tracks of
 the Whitney avenue line and the Chapel
 street tracks at the corner of Church
 and Chapel streets.
 MT Alcorn said that this was val
 uable concession which was asked and
 that the company In the petition made
 lot of provisions to cover up this one
 main object. He thought that the city
 should stand out against granting any
 more franchises to the street railroad
 company and that there was no reason
 why the company should not pay for
 the concession. He said that he op-
 posed any attempt of the Fair Haven
 and Westville company to get any more
 franchises from the city without pay
 ing for them.
 After recess of five minutes to per-
 init the members to look over plans of
 the layout for the proposed changes,
 Alderman Hall called for the question
 on his amendment. Alderman Atwater said that 1t was very evident from the
 talk that all the lawyers of New Haven were not retained by the railroads He
 thought that it would be public bene-
 fit to connect the tracks at the corner of Church and Chapel streets and that
 by condition to keep the cars nov ing there the public could not get aboard the cars A vote was then
 taken and MT Halls amendment to keep the cars moving was adopted On motion of Mr. Alcorn 1t was also voted to impose condition that in case the company subsequently relays the tracks which 1t now purposes to take up it shall then pay the pavement assess ments for those tracks.
 The request for permission to double track Forbes avenue from Grannis Corner to the East Haven town line next came up for action Alderman Morse moved that a condition be inn posed on the granting of the request to the effect that the company shall estab fish five cent fare on the Morris Cove line. Alderman Corcoran said that if this condition was imposed the com- pany could have the condition removed in the courts. Alderman J. J. Walsh called attention to the fact that one could ride from East Haven to Savin Rock for five cents but that 1t costs ten cents to ride from Morris Cove within the city limits into the central part of the city Aldermen Alcorn, w. s. Walsh and Atwater spoke in favor of imposing the condition and the desired permission so amended was voted upon favorably.
 On recommendation of the committee on legislation the board voted to in- struct the corporation counsel to op- pose the passage by the legislature of IL to,i11 fo " for parks shall be laid annually, that new enterprises shall be exempt from taxation The committee also recom- mended that the corporation counsel be instructed to oppose the passage Of the so-called Rowe bill to provide a plan for securing relief from unjust assess ment of real property, but the recom- mendation was not adopted. Alderman Hall said that a large number Of citl- zens desired to be heard in favor Of the bill and moved that it be recommitted to the committee for further hearing. Aldermen Weiss, Alcorn and Miller spoke in favor of recommitment and MT. Halls motion prevailed.
 The bill to require the laying of 1-5 mill tax for parks also provides that money shall be appropriated from uneX- pended balances to provide money l enough to maintain the parks this year | and the committee recommended that | the corporation counsel be instructed | to favor the passage of this part of the 1 bill.
 Alderman Beecher opposed the appro- l priation of any more money for eXpen | diture on East Rock park and said that | he would oppose it so long as the park I failed to secure at the |, parks some facilities for poor people | who do not own horses to get to the | summit of the park. He said: Poor l people have no benefit of the park. If ] any means for poor people to get to the \ top of the rock can be arranged, I 1 think that it should be established. The l park commission wants to exclude poor people from the park. They think that Sav:n Rock is good enough for them. A man who gets small days wages cannot afford to hire a team to get to the top of the Rock. Many poor women and children in crowded tene- J ments are suffering for a breath of the fresh air that they could get at East l