Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-05
FINANCE BOARD OBJECTS.
Thinks Bill OF Blank Book Co fer
Printing City Charter High.

4 liihhS ILL III &otduk DOCK 20 A@E
i Printing City Charter High.
The board OF finance held a meeting
in the clerks office last evening and
transacted business both publicly and
executiyely. The members comprising
the meeting were Mayor Klduff, Com
missi0ners mcEyoy, Lord and Wells
and City Clerk Ryan. After the ap.
prevail of a large number Of bills. the
account Of the Waterbury Blank Book
Go came up for discussion. A bill was
sent from that company for $1,095 for
printing and binding the city charter
and ordinances. Mayor KildufR said
that he considered the bill excessive.
and in this opinion lie was backed BY
the other members 70 the board. A.
I'll. Tyrrell of the Blank Book Co was
present to state his side OF the case.
and he was called on to explain why
the bin was so large He spoke Of the
number Of tons Of paper 1t took to do
the job, and that the labor alone would
cost In the neighborhood Of $500 He
made but 10 per cent on the work. He
charged $3.50 page, and he said he
might have made that price 50 page
and charged little more for the bind
ing.
Mayor Kilduff asked him If he did
not consider it more business-liKe to
charge the So a page and then IL the
binding was more expensive to put the
price where he believed it should be.
Mr. Tyrrell replied that probably he
should have charged the SO a page and
| raised the price of the binding. but he
consluered that the price charged for
the whole work was not excessive He
was then excused and the mayor
thought committee should be an
pointed to investigate the charges be-
fore the bin was ordered paid. IT was
figured out that if 81 page Mad been
charged there would be saving Of
nearly 5000. The committee was prob
| ably appointed In the executive 4sessicn
winch came later in the meeting.
Inc bills Of Registrars Hynes and
lar for $266.64 for election expenses
from January to- September / also
came under the ban of the board The
bills We're not approved because fhe
board thought the aldermen should fix
regular price forNthe registrars. tn
the executive session later the bills
came up for discussion and 1t was re-
ported that the board would not an
prove. OF them.
Attorney e. r. Lawlor of the hoard
OF health appeared before the board in
the interest Of Miss Martha Gesaiag.
| who was employed as nurse during
the recent smallpox epidemic. Attor-
ney Lawior stated that Miss Gesar,e
had been engaged bv Health Officer
hlllnartin at a time when no one else
could be secured. She asked and was
guaranteed $40 a week. and was also
promised that she would receive her
money just as soon as her work was
over. She sent in her bill for 1885. u
for seven weeks work and day or
two more, and Attorney LawIor had
advanced her some money, as her bill
was not ordered paid when sent la.
After hearing the statement Of the case
the board voted to approve the bill
The report Of Treasurer Gibson was
presented as was the list of those who
have paid taxes by Tax Collector
Thoms, and a list OF those who owe
for assessments All were placed on
file. The mayor at this point quietly
said if there were no objections the
board would go into executive session,
and MS the reporters had no evident OBJ
ELECTIONS they went out into the corridor.
| to discuss politics and left' the members
of the board to themselves.