The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-04
THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN
THE SESSION LAST NIGHT LASTED
 1WENTP MINUTES.

INVENT MINUTES.
 Comm u nication from the Mayor in Re-
 gard to New Sewer tn BiatchIey Ave-
 nue Received-CIaim of S342 90 by a
 Pequot Indian Recommended to be
 Paid by the Committee on Clatms-An
 Investigation Concerning Chief
 Wrinn's Horse and Carriage Ordered.
 The aldermen held a twenty minute session last night, but transacted con siderable business. Several petitions from the committee on streets, abate- ment of taxes, claims, licenses and rail- roads and bridges were received. The committee on water received and re- ported petition, signed by q number of citizens from the Thirteenth, Four teenth and Fifteenth wards, asking that all water for school, fire and mu- nicipal purposes in those wards be giv en free It was referred to commit tee of two aldermen and three council men.
 The reports of the bureau of compen- sation and sealer of weights and meas ures for the two months ending Febru ary 20 were received.
 The report of the committee on claims recommended a. number of payments on claims, one of which was that of Lucy A. Sarvent. It seems that she had paid s34290 for taxes from 1882 until 1892 and the committee recommended that the t,o boG shown that she was Pequot Indian and therefore exempt from taxation.
 After the hearing of the recommend ations of the committee on claims seV- eral recommendations from the commit tee on streets were heard and passed upon.
 A communication was received from Mayor Studley in regard to new sew CT on Blatchley avenue wanted by the Housatonic company, of Wallingford, which is to locate here This matter will be acted upon at the special meet Ing of the counclmen to night Last night the aldermen voted to table the communication for printing. It was as follows:
 To the Honorable Court of Common
 Council of the City of New Haven:
 Gentlemen-The Housatonic company of Wallingford which has recently con- solidated with the Eagle Spoon compa- ny, of North Haven is a prosperous concern with a capital of about $50, 0OO The Housatonic company desires to To- cate it's plant in New Haven, and pro- poser to erect two factories, each 15O feet in length. They will employ not less than two hundred hands. Through Colonel R. S. Woodruff, chairman of the committee on new enterprises, I learn that the Chamber of Commerce has satisfactorily arranged all the de- tails relating to the location of this company's plant in New Haven, and the committee has selected a site for them at the corner of Blatchley avenue and Peck street.
 The Housatonic company is now ready to proceed with the erection of it's build ings and the complete establishment of Its plant. But there is no sewer in Blatchley avenue from Lombard street northerly The company needs a sew CT that will extend from point near the railroad tracks southward on Blatchley avenue to connect with the sewer at the intersection of that avenue and Lombard street ! Unless that connection is made the company will be unable to proceed with it's business, and the establishment of the plant will be hampered. I recommend gentlemen, that this matter be referred to the proper com mittee to investigate and to report to your honorable court what should be donein regard to the sewer and the ex- penses of the same. It Is very important that the matter should be reported and acted upon iln- mediately. Respectfully yours,
 (Signed) JOHN P. STUDLEY,
 Mayor. The last piece of business to come be- fore the board was resolution by AL | derman Walter F Walsh in regard to reports that, he said, had come to him to the effect that Chief of Police Wrnn was using, for family purposes the horse and carriage that the city pays for. He stated that somebody asked l him if such reports were true, and as he could not answer the question he thought he would investigate. He said that he had heard that Chief Wrinn was using the horse and wagon for the benefit of people in his family and therefore not in business hours. He said that the money voted by the board | of finance was not for the family of the | chief, and that it was no more than right that an investigation be made Alderman Wright said that the D. propriation of $500 was made for the | Keeping of the horse to be used by the | chief in business hours, and Alderman | Miller said that he believed it was an other horse that the chief was using | for his family.
 Alderman Walsh was asked to write | his resolution, and when this was done | and read it was voted to refer 1t to a. | committee of two aldermen and three | councilmen. The matter caused quite a | stir in the chamber. The meeting ad- | journed at $50.