Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-07
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
Met and Heard Parties Interested in
 Public Improvements.

improvements. Layout. and Siaue or f Ashley street, curbs and sidewalks on | Cottage place, curbs and sidewalks on | Dikeman street from Walnut street to | the principal angle; curDs and side | walks on West Main street from Gil | bert to Mattatuck; the exteIsion of | Calvin street from River to Baldwin; | curbs and sidewalks on Mattatuck l street from West Main street to the l Shanley property; new street from Washington to Luke street, with lay | out and grade; and curbs and side l walks on Woodlawn terrace from North Willow to Frederick street. No action was taken on any of these matters.
 Three bids for the construction of sewers in Woodlawn terrace and Cedar, Beacon, Livery and Bergin streets were opened and the contract was awarded to Edward McAfanus for $1, ,29S.S7. The bid of Pasquale Cohtaldi was S1.325.74 and that of Patrick T. Sutton ST. 4l3.62. The petitions of L. R. Carter for permission to open the t'Old road'' in the Bunker hill district. to lay q water main, and D. L. Murphy to con- meet with g sewer at the corner of Charles and Fifth streets, were re- ferred to a committee consisting of the mayor and the city engineer. The pc tition of Abraham Lincoln camp. s. of ", for permission to erect stand at the Soldiers monument on Memorial day was granted. subject to the ap- proval of the superintendent of streets
 The following petitions referred to the board by the aldermen were placed on the list for investigation: W IT. Card ct al for an electric light at the  erick street; F. H. Humphrey It al. for an electric light at the corner of Plaza /! avenue and North Willow street; G. L. Schroeder ct al for the widening of the bridge over the waterway crossing D1- vision street; 1T. l.. Dyson for storm water drainage ill Main street, Water vile; Thomas H. Reyes ct al for q crosswalk at the corner of High and Orange streets.
 Some of the Woodlawn terrace prop erty owners gave the board of public works a call and naturally the board talked back with the result that the session was interesting from S art to finish. We quote few tilts Ids fol lows:
 John Robarts: We were told some time ago that consolidation
 would result ill better roads ill the outside district. l own houses on
 street in Waterville. but I can't get
 anything done with it. l asked the
 town to accept the street, but they re-
 fused to do it. The city hasn't done
 anything there since consolidation and
 yet I'm paying taxes right along''
 Engineer Cairns: ''If it never was
 accepted by the town it isn't city
 street. Why don't you present a pe-
 tition to the board of aldermen asking
 for grade and layout of the street
 and have it accepted in legal man.
 her as the charter provides and as
 others have to do who desire to have
 their streets taken care of by the
 city?"
 w. H. Card: eve hear q great
 deal about what has been done on
 Woodlawn terrace. What has the
 city done there, anyway
 Commissioner Whiting: "Consid-
 erably more than it has done ill other
 streets. It has laid q sewer and wa
 ter main there and now it is getting
 ready to put down sidewalks. After the walks are laid and the gutters : paved. then the city can go to work and bring the street to the established grade with the assurance that it will
 not be ripped to pieces. That street has occupied a good deal of attention on the part of this board. It is q hard place to do anything and if you : doubt that ask the two contractors who were beggared making public improvements in it.''
 John Robarts: ..Is Woodlawn ter race an accepted street? If it is. I know nothing about it.''
 Engineer Cairns: .'Yes, sir'' l G. l. Barnes: .'I was advised not : to attend this hearing because the 7 board would do what it pleased re-
 gardless of the wishes of the property
 owners. The work you propose do 7 ing is all right and I'm in favor of it But it does not go far enough. Ii should include the street leading tc the school where two hundred chiI
 dren have to wade through slush dur.
 ing the winter months. They lost = their rubbers in the mud and get we
 feet. I have gone out myself to fisl z the children's rubbers out of tht a Slush.'
 n MT Whiting: 'sI'm glad you ap s prove of what we have under advise l. ment. MT Barnes. The other mat t ters will be attended to in time. n l suppose you are aware that the 1und 0 at the disposal of this board are linn e ited and the whole of it cannot b. . spent in one section of the city. Pee !. pie think the city is spending to-
 much money now, but if it did all tha |. is asked for and that needs attention = the running expenses of the cit . would phase the most public spirite :, man i'll town
 Il There was some truth in what NJ Barnes said about the board doin Il what they think we'll of. regardless c il the wishes of the property owner:
 In many instances the city feels r duty bound to construct sewers an r. order walks laid i'll direct oppositio ? to the wishes of | majority of tn d property owners. If the city waite D. for the unanimous approval of proL d erty owners for sewers and sidewalk g. there would not be many sewers ( t. sidewalks i'll Waterbury to-day.
 most cases the bulk of those who al
 pear at hearings are opposed to sew
 CTS and sidewalks but after they gt
 them they would not have them take ;, up for ten times what they cost then
 But improvements are not forced III
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