The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-04
MEETING OF ALDERMEN.
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Your committee on streets to whom
was referred the matter of the extern
sion of Pearl street beg leave to report
that they have attended to the business
assigned and desire to report as fol-
lows:
After carefully looking over the
ground your committee are of the unan-
imous opinion that Pearl street should
be extended from Orange street to
Whitney avenue.
AT the request of the committee the
city engineer had profile and borings
made to enable him to submit an APP
proximate cost to the city of the pro-
posed work. In his judgment the bene-
fits would probably cost the city four
thousand dollars in addition.
In attending to the duties assigned
your committee has had brought before
it numerous streets, some in the center
of the city, that are in the most deplor-
able condition, in fact they are a men
ace to health, and a source of danger
to all using them, and it is the opinion
of your committee that these streets
should be attended to at once, before
any new ones be opened up, however
desirable such opening may be.
In making comparisons with other
cities in regard to expenditures for
streets your committee finds their ap-
preparation inadequate. In view of
these facts your committee would not
consider they were serving the best
interest Of all should they recommend
taking $4,000 from an already absurdly
small appropriation to open up a new
street, when it could be used to much
greater advantage in making absolutely
necessary repairs.
With the above all before them your
committee therefore recommends that
the petitioners be given leave to with
draw.
A number of petitions for the abate-
ment of taxes were read and granted
with two exceptions. A motion in re-
gard to the East Chapel street pave
ment was read and adopted as were
those from the committee on claims.
The ordinance in regard to draw
bridges with the S. penalty was adopted.
Action in regard to the report of the
committee on retrenchment and reform,
about the adoption of voting machines,
on motion of Alderman Wheeler, was
indefinitely postponed.
There were two reports returned by
the committee appointed for the pur-
pose of inquiring into the advisabilitX
of purchasing the old Halstead & Har%
mount property and converting 1t into
a public wharf.
The majority report was unfavorable,
Alderman Wheeler IF this committee
saying that it would cost the city $4,000
to procure the property and that it
would take $4,000 to suitably repair it.
This, he said, was the opinion of an ex-
pert engineer. Mr.. Wheeler thought
that the property would be of more
benefit to the city If owned by some
private business concern.
Alderman O'Keefe then made a mo-
tion that the minority report be ac-
cepted. He cited a number of reasons
why the city should purchase the prop
erty, among others that it would make
a good public market.
A vote being taken it stood II to in
favor of the adoption of the minority
report
The vote taken was as follows: Yes,
Aldermen Trueman, Conway, Frederick,
Sprightly, OKeefe, Galligan, Maley,
McGiunness Dawson and Wallace. No,
Aldermen Strong, Wheeler Logan,
Baldwin, A1ling, and Moran. Action
in regard to the artificial lake was
postponed to the next meeting, after
which the meeting adjourned.