The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-26
Until April by Request.

Whitney yAVenue-HearIngC Continued
 Until April by Request.
 The committee on streets last night | held hearings on a number of referred
 petitions, including the petition of John
 M, Champion and others for the open
 ing of Pearl street, between Orange ] street and Whitney avenue John w
 Bristol, representing the New Haven | Lawn club, was the first to be heard in
 regard to the petition. He said that when the matter of opening Pearl street 1 between Orange street and Whitney l avenue was under consideration a few
 years ago the Lawn club opposed it be-
 cause the club did not then wish to sell
 any of it's land. Now, however, the
 club may desire to sell it's land there,
 and if Pearl street was opened the prop | erty could be sold to greater advantage. | He said that travel coming through Sachem street for Orange street or State street must now go around by | way of Bradley street or Humphrey street, a roundabout way, while the | opening of Pearl street would make the route much more direct.
 Attorney James T. Moran represent = ing the Fellowes estate, said that so far
 as that estate was concerned he was in- different whether the street was opened or not, but that if it was opened he hoped that the street would be put through on the boundary between the FelloWes estate property and the Lawn club property, so that no narrow strip of Lawn club property would be left between the property of the estate and the street.
 Others who spoke in favor of the
 opening of the street were John M. Champion, Dr. A. E. Winchell, Dr. Frank W. Wright, c. Berry Peets and P. J. Cronin Dr Winchell said that the extension of Pearl street was now
 more necessary than ever and ought to be made in the interests of the public.
 Attorney George D. Watrous appear ed and said that he represented, in a way, Judge Wayland and wife-in a way because he did not suppose that Judge Wayland knew that the matter was coming up, he being in the south for the benefit of his health. MT Wat rous knew in a general way that Mr. and Mrs. Wayland opposed the eXten- sion when it came up before and he supposed that they did yet. He asked the committee not to close the hearing until Judge Wayland returned from the south, probably in about six weeks.
 Some of the gentlemen present in fa- vor of the extension said that when the matter was up before Judge Wayland had opposed it, as was represented then, because of the strong desire of Mrs. Read mother of Mrs. Wayland, who owned the property that no street be put through to disturb the property in it's entirety while she lived. These gentlemen said that this appeared to be the sole reason for the opposition then, and they thought that now, since Mrs. Read was dead that ground of objection was removed.
 The committee finally decided to post pone the matter until April when 1t is thought Judge Wayland will have re- turned.
 In the course of the discussion of the matter MT. Watrous suggested that if the street was extended only nineteen feet in width of the Wayland property be taken, as more than that would ne- cessitate the removal of buildings. The suggestion was favora bly, received by the committee.
 No recommendations were decided upon in relation to any of the petitions last night.
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 ness than Moral Sense-Mne Well
 Salted.
 In a recent case n which a certain mine manager was sentenced to two obtaining money by false pretense, amusing particulars of the method in which miningshould not be conducted were given in the following letter, which was found locked in the prison CTS safe, and which was read in court:
 q am pestered with visitors, all watching progres, and my pretense both at drill and shafts is absolutely necessary. For instance, the shaft in which we obtained that splendid re- turn in gold-you know it was com pulsory that the ground should cave in'-well, that made it imperative that should do the work myself, and, after the small sized timber had been put in over night, l made the remark that the ground was running, and was afraid it might cave in.
 Tt dd-because I went down in the middle of the night and knocked ev- cry prop out. Then down it came, and what a beautiful mess it did look the next morning.
 "The man said it was not safe to work in-exactly what I wanted I had to salt the mine, and to do it care fully but I did it, and did it well too.
 q puite understand your anxiety, but the moves were made with diplomacy, and we were fully protected, Mind, old man. the mine is a payable one without salting but actual returns would not have moved the market.
 'Now, today I got the biggest stock of all. S-'s brother came. I was working on the wash and was in deuce of fix. But I professed to be glad to see him, and invited him to take out a dishful and wash it. Menatime I made a. clay pill, put a grain of gold in it, and put into my mouth. When he handed me the dish l promptly did a sneezing fit, and the pill accidently fell into the dish, and you ought to have seen his face when he washed it. He behaved like a schoolboy, shook hands with me, and generally played the fool.
 T invited him to try another dish But no he was more than satisfied had taken the dirt himself. and had