The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-05


 to amend by substituting vitrified brick
 for asphalt. Chairman Wallace said
 that there was no question but that the owners of the larger part of the prop
 erty on Olive street had appeared before the committee and asked that Trinidad asphalt be laid there, only one owner of
 property on the street opposing asphalt
 MT. Wallace thought that owners of three quarters of the property on Olive
 street favored Trinidad asphalt. Al derman Alcorn, of Weetville, moved to
 amend by substituting block asphalt.
 Alderman Atwater said that he thought
 that the property owners on the street
 should be given Trinidad asphalt, what
 they had asked for. The amendment
 for block asphalt was lost by vote of
 13-6 and the motion to amend the com mittee report by substituting vitrif1ed
 brick was carried by viva voce vote
 of 107.
 A communication was received from
 the mayor calling attention to the fact
 that the order for the erection of pub
 lie wharf at Waterside Park made nec-
 essary the trading of Chestnut street
 in order to provide proper approach
 to the wharf and recommending that
 the necessary order be passed. The
 matter was referred to the street com mittee.
 Alderman Hall presented a remon- strance signed by Judge Samuel L.
 Bronson and nearly all the other own-
 CTS of property on Dwight street, pro-
 testing against the granting of fran chise permitting the construction of a | 1-,4.,o H1,~t r-4, SHn VA
 monstrants requested that the corpora tion counsel be requested to appear be- fore the legislature or the proper com- mittee thereof and oppose the granting of such franchise, a petition for which is now pending in the legislature. The remonstrance was referred to the com- mittee on railroads and bridges. A petition of John H. Barlow and others asking that a crushed stone pavement be laid in Bristol street was referred to the committee on streets as were also petitions for repair of the pavements on Leonard, Summer and Franklin streets.
 Alderman w. r. Walsh presented by request resolution to provide that the corporation counsel be instructed to en- deavor to secure the passage by the present legislature of an act so amend ing the city charter as to provide that the city elections shall be held in Mo- vember instead of April, as at present. This is to provide for the change sug- gested recently by the general regis trars. Unanimous consent for the con- sideration of the resolution was grant, ed and it was adopted.
 Alderman Walsh also introduced resolution to oppose the passage by the legislature of any act authorizing the board of health to have exclusive power in regard to the erection of a hospital for contagious diseases, the reason given for such desired opposition being that the act if passed would diminish the already greatly decreased legisla- tive powers of the common council Alderman Baldwin opposed the adop- tion of the resolution, saying that the matter of building the hospital had been tied up in the common council long enough MT. Walsh said that he had no objection to the board of health attending to the building of the hospi- tai, but he did not favor every board of the city government going to Hart IDIu dIu CdNOI1H HIS lo GIlAP tiiS S''AAA- mon council of all power. He said: "The boards want everything. We have a park board which because 1t cannot get all it wants now threatens to close the parks next summer" Alderman Hall said that a bill for the act re- ferred to in the resolution had not been presented in the legislature yet and | he moved that the resolution be tabled 1 until such a bill was introduced. | Unanimous consent for the consdera- ! ton of the resolution was refused and ! it was referred to the committee on legislation.
 A resolution signed by Alderman Att | water and Beecher was introduced pro- viding that the city flood the meadows between the dam at Lake Whitney and | the north side of State street so as to form an artificial lake, which would not only be an addition to the beauty of the park, but would also furnish place ofrecreation for the citizens of New Haven and their families. The pream- ble referred to the fact that all lakes adjacent to New Haven are owned or controlled by the water company, which could at any time prohibit boating, fish ing, or skating in these lakes
 The remainder of the resolution was as follows: In view of the numerous drowning accidents that have happened in Mill river and especially at a place known as Gold Spring" the forming of such lake would eliminate the dan- gerous spots which now exist and be it
 Resolved that committee consisting of two aldermen, three councilmen, one park commissioner and three citizens be appointed, the aldermen, councilmen and commissioner to be appointed by the presidents of their respective boards and the citizens by the mayor, to consider the practicability of estab- fishing such lake.
 A similar resolution was introduced about two years ago and referred to the city engineer to draft plans, but no plans have yet been submitted
 Alderman Baldwin, who is member ,f the park board, said that the land which 1t was proposed to overflow was park property under the control of the park board and that consequently the common council had no power to act. Finally, however, unanimous consent for the consideration of the resolution was given and it was adopted. A reso- ution providing that the corporation