Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-25
TROLLEY EXTENSION AGAIN.
Another Hearing Will Probably
 Be Held Next Week.

The Return of the Report by Mayor
 Kilduff and the Action of the Board
 of Aldermen the Reason for It-The
 Case Has Now Developed into 2
 Three-Cornered Fight and Taxpayers
 Want to See Their End Held Up.
 It was learned to-day on excellent authority that the committee has de cided to have another hearing on the Oakyille trolley extension question some time next week. This shows that Commissioner Whiting was not wide of the mark when he asked Colonel Burpee some time ago, at an informal meeting of the board of public works, Ii there was not some likelihood of the railroad commissioners reporting on this question before the city govern ment had time to give it the considera- ton it demanded. The state attorney didn't think so, but inasmuch as the statement was made guardedly it can now be said that there was nothing definite in the reply of the attorney to the commissioners query. 1t will be remembered that the trolley company made application to the selectmen for oPPlOfd1 Ol p1duS IO lay IEdCkS the bridge at Oakyille and the select men approved the plans subject to cer- tain conditions, substantially the same as the ones recommended by the board of public works, with the exception that the work of widening the street at the bridge was to be performed before the tracks should be laid The com pany appealed from all the conditions and the whole matter has since been before the railroad Commissioners A hearing was held before that body at Hartford some time ago, but for some reason not known to the public the commissioners appeared rather slow in making report, and in the hope of pushing it through by some other means the company submitted another application to the city government and made hard fight to get it passed hur- riedly. After five or six weeks the board of public works reported condi- tions which permitted the company to proceed with the work of laying the rails pending action on the question as to whether or not the abutments of the Consolidated road are in the high way and should be removed at it's ex. pense. This and other conditions were accompanied by q bond of $25,000. pay able to the city after January 1, 1905, in case the street should not be worked to uniform width by that time. An amendment to these recommendations passed by the aldermen knocked the props from under the whole thing, and the application as amended was re- turned to the clerk by Mayor KiIduff. While nothing official has been learned on this point, still it is generally un- derstood that his honor has vetoed the amended application, and it is also thought that the aldermen will sustain him. In the event of such action the case will stand just as it did before the second application was submitted. so that the hearing which is to be held on the matter before the railroad commiS- sloners will be on the original applica- ton, which, like the one recommended by the board of public works, throws ample safeguards around the city, though it does not provide for half the cost of a bridge across the stream di- rectly north of the railroad. It is a Dig question for Waterbury and if it gets another airing before the railroad commissioners the city will have to be on the lookout and see that it is not caught mapping. It looks now as if it has dwindled down to three-cornered hght between the railroad people. the traction company and the city The Taxpayers will watch the outcome of the tussle with considerable interest.
 Everybody is in favor of the exten sion of the trolley, but nobody desires to see the expense of putting the street at that point in proper condition for trolley service at the expense of the already heavily burdened rate-payers of Waterbury.