Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-06

police department stop increasing. lt will stop" he said, "when the city stops growing" He also stated that at tile time the five new men were elected the board of public safety asked for ten. and added that if the present board should ask for all the men they know the city needs they would make the number about fifteen. MT Beach requested MT Filling to call at the DO lice station and see for himself how regularly the officers report at the office through the signal boxes. He also called attention to the fact that the two supernumeraries now doing regu- lar duty are each receiving $2.50 day, while if they were elected as regulars they would have but 1925 per day for the next six months.
 Alderman Brophy thought the city needed the new men and was of the opinion that it would be well to ap- point them now and save 50 cents a day on them for six months. By this time Mir Filling had had a good rest and went at it again. He said he might have been misinformed about the boxes. but he knew he was right on the other things. ''The board,' he said, should remember that there is ! wide difference between employing su- pernumeraries and putting on regulars. In the first place you needn't keep them any longer than you want, while in the other you create an expense that lasts forever"
 | When the question was put all the members except Mir Filling voted for | it.
 The report of the board of public works stating that it found it iinpossf- ble to prepare a report on the trolley question for last night was received and placed on file. The report Of the board of public safety recommending the installation of a fire alarm box on Wolcott street was accepted and the recommendation adopted. The report Of City Attorney Kellogg asking that I2o electors be appointed to serve as Jurors in New Haven county was re- ferred to the committee on law. The city clerk submitted a report of action l taken in the past for the improvement 1 Of Dublin street from East Main street to point beyond the bridge 1t was voted to request the board of LubIic works to see that walks were laid on Dublin street in accordance with the order.
 The recommendation of the board of public works that a new street be laid out through the Boughton property was adopted. The reports of the brrea,l of assessment relative to benefits and damages arising from the layout of Fine street from Hillside avenue to 1 columbia Boulevard. and of Euclid avenue from Randolph avenue to Dem crest street. were approved and :he as sessment of benefits and damages con hrmed and adopted
 The board then took up the report of me committee on abatements, but they had not gone far when Ir Filling Kicked and wanted to know the why and the wherefore of the abatements All thls evidence didn't happen 10 be on hand, and the members being aboat tlred out, 1t was voted to adjourn until May 19, when the committee on law Will report its list of selections for jurors.
 All that can be charged against the board of public works said AIr Goss last night, when the sidewalk question on Dublin street was before the house. ''is that they have been neglig ent. ; 1 There may be some truth fu this. but II the Dublin street people had had the same influence In the aldermanic cham- Der when the order to lay sidewalks there was passed as MT Goss displayed when he succeeded in shelving fhe recommendation of the board of public works that sidewalks be laid in Brio Se street along the property of the Scovill Manufacturing Go. there would hare been no opportunity to accuse the E board of public works Of negIigence. for the order would have been laid on the table and the board would not be in position to do anything in the premises. Probably there ought to be sidewalks on the east side of Dublin street from the bridge to East Main street. but it is difficult to see why
 there is more need of them there than
 there is on the north side of Bridge
 street. from Baldwin street to Dublin
 street. This would top things off at
 the entrance to what Mir Filling termed ''one of the principal railroad stations , in the city, Sometimes public neces , sity and convenience is determined hy
 other than public needs, that is, people , often see justice i'll compelling their
 neighbors to pay for Improvements
 while similar order directed toward
 themselves. where the demand for the ], work has equal merit, is regarded as z hardship. This is a natural feeling ant
 no section of the town has monopoly {, on it.