The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-21
ADOPTED BY THE ALDERM EN
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 1 printed in Saturday evening paper to ] the effect that member of the water | committee was in the employ of the l Water company in 1891 and is now em- i ployed in the Constitutional Conven- ! tion. As member of the water conn mittee l want to say that l was never in the employ of the Water company nor was any member of my family. It was through no influence of the Water company that I received the position of messenger in the Constitutional Convention but through the influence of Colonel Osborn, our able delegate from New Haven"
 { Prior to the consideration of the wa- ter contract a number of other matters were considered.
 The committee on the sale of West Rock Park land recommended that Henry T. Blake be appointed com- mittee to receive $700 from l.. Wheeler and execute a deed to MT. Beecher Of the land which it is proposed to have the city sell to him. After the report had been read Alderman Alcorn, chair man of the committee, reported that Mr. Blake had notified him that he was to leave the city for three or four months and MT. Alcorh therefore nov ed that the name of Controller Jonathan N. Rowe be substituted for that of MT. Blake in the recommendation. The motion was adopted and the reconlmen- dation as amended was adopted. A re- monstrance from ex-Mayor c. T. Dris- coll against the sale of the West Rock toI
 An opinion was received from the corporation counsel to the effect that the board of health could not legally bind itself to give up it's power to erect an isolation hospital if one shall not have been built by the common coun- cii by June 20 next. The special com mittee had recommended that in con- sideration of the agreement of the board of health not to take any steps towards the establishment of an isolation hospi- tai until after the next session of the legislature, no action to that end be taken by the common council. This recommendation was adopted after the opinion had been read.
 On recommendation of the lamp com init tee 1t was voted to instruct that GOiHIllLlSC LO SCS Hiioil SOiAtl dNI iOA street lighting could be made with the United Illuminating company.
 The following protest from ex-Mayor Driscoll was presented to the board of aldermen last evening:
 To the Members of the Honorable Court
 of Common Council:
 Gentlemen-In behalf of other tax payers and myself, I protest most earn estly against the proposed sale of part of West Rock park to any person or corporation at private sale without competition.
 The land proposed to be sold was but recently condemned for park purposes, and if this proposed sale is consum mated it will establish a most danger ous precedent, as by the same means the property and home of any citizen of New Haven could be taken away from him and sold to another at pri- vate sale.
 If the park commissioners can cause one piece of property to be condemned for park purposes, and then sell it to an individual or corporation at private sale. so other pieces of property can be and sold.
 In Ike manner the board or educat1on might cause the house of any person to be condemned for school purposes and then sell it at private sale to another person desiring it at a price satisfac- tory to the purchaser.
 If this land was not needed for West Rock park, the park commissioners had no right to spend the money of the city n condemning it for park purposes. The city is not in the real estate busi- ness to buy and sell land. If. on the other hand, the land was needed for park purposes, then it ought not to be sold.
 Neither the park commissioners nor my other branch of the city govern nent should be used as an instrument o take property away from one person ind sell to another at private sale with ut competition; and I would respect ully ask that the action of the park commissioners in this matter be inves- igated. Yours respectfully,
 CORNELIUS T. DRISCOLL.