Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-03
CON. HARDIE UP IN ARMS.
Wants Lighting & Power Co to
Get After Conductors.

14AouSA pOISSlSuL III oloPpAh5 OsAS
at Crossing Commissioners Also At
tackled the Resolution Calling on the
Policemen to Undergo Physical Elk
aminationlThe Commissioner Want
ed the Vote Rescinded, But the Mat
ter Was Finally Sidetracked By
Chairman Lahey Declaring the Com
missionenoOut of Order.
At last nights meeting of the board
public safety, Commissioner Hardie
sme near raising the very deuce. In
= = absence Of Mayor Kilduff, Commits
4 sner Lahey filed the chair. ALI the
other members of the board were pres
ent Commissioner Hardie's effort to
make trouble was aimed at the vote
passed at the last meeting making 1t
compulsory on the policemen to under
go a kphysical examination. He made
long statement before he was shut
of by being ruled out of order.
Business was transacted in the fol-
Rowing order: Applications from Pat
rick ]. Crowley and Thomas Griffin for
positions ON the fire call force were
received. That from Crowley was
fled for further action, as he under
went the preliminary examination,
: while that of Griffin was withheld, he
being absent Captain Dodds of the
Chemical Hose company reported that
Callman John II. Loughlin was absent
from duty during q fire. The usual
course was taken, the callman being
notified to appear at the next meeting
of the board Callman Simon Cronin
was fined 81, for being absent from
duty on August He gave as his ex-
cuse that he had changed his place of
employment and had not arranged to
be called when necessary.
A long letter from J.. Freistadter, 73
Wood street complaining of the gaso-
lene engine employed by the Bremen
Bros on road near his house.
was read He said they kept
1t running to a late hour and
some times into the morning, and that
his tenants and the neighbors in gen
eral considered the machine nuisance.
Mr. Bremen was spoken to about it,
but he paid no attention to the com
plants. Now Mr. Freistadter and his
tenants and neighbors wished the
board to take some prohibitory action.
The matter was referred to a commit
tee consisting OF Commissioners Reeves
and Beach, who will see the city at
torney about it.
A petition was received from the call
force represented by twenty-four Of
that branch of the fire department, ask
ing that their salary be increased 500
a year They now receive $50 year.
This matter evoked some discussion as
to the power of the board. Commits
sioner Beach considered the board was
powerless in the matter and then he
quoted from the rules OF the board,
which said that all members and OIL
GERS who had business with the board
should communicate 1t through their
chief
Commissioners Hardie said that mas
much as the petition could not be
granted this year, anyway, he moved
that it be handed back to the signers.
1t was so voted.
The bills and payrolls were then APP
proved and Manager Wales OF the Con-
necticut Railway and Lighting Co in
troduced himself. in response to an In;
vitation of the board. He said he was
present to hear suggestions from the
board to abate alleged noises made by
passengers on the late cars on North
Main street; also to ease the crush at
Forest park and to prevent accident on
the way down North Main street.
Commissioner Hardie said he con-
sidered it very dangerous to the public
the way the people are allowed to rush
for cars at the park, and the way many
of them come down North Main street
hanging by their teeth to. the running
board Some day he said, there will
be bad accident, and the people will
ssraise a howl" Mr. Wales said that
so far as the noise was concerned he
had given instructions to the conduc-
tors how to quell 1t. Regarding the
other matters he would be glad to hear
suggestions from the board.
Commissioners Beach said a. gateway
at the park such as is employed at
many railroad depots would be good
idea. Commissioner Reeves thought q
platform would be good thing 1t
would surely prevent people from slip
ping under the, cars Commissioner
Beach said the conductors go In very
fast at the terminus to avoid the crush
OF people who try to board the cars
some distance from the end Of the line
and outside the big crowd. This he
considered very dangerous. He
thought that by running the cars into
the park as is done in Savin Rock and
other places OF that kind would be the
best suggestion that could be made.
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a general way against the conduct of
some conductors. There ought to be a
general rule. he said directing the man
agement OF the cars. Now they stop
wherever it happens to please the con-
ductors Some stop at one side of the
crossing. while others stop at the other
side. so that a person does not know
which side the car will stop at. To
this Mr. Wales replied that when two
cars are running close to each other
the work is divided among them, so
that the rear car will not run into the
one In front Commissioner Hardie
thought conductors ought to be held
personally responsible for violations Of
the rules and the law ON their respec-
tive cars.
Commissioner Reeves thought the
cars ought to be run oftener than every
fifteen minutes. and asked Mr. Wales
If they could not be so run. Mr. Wales
said that it was impossible to do so
under the present system of sidings.
But one Of the commissioners asked
him If it were not SO that the company
was not given permission to lay as
many turnouts or sidings as was neees-
sary Mr. Wales said this was so, but
&be, conditions MORO Gu T0nTnGSiVn and