Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-30
DAM HIGHER THAN STREET.
Work Must Be Stopped on Forest Park
 Road for the Present.

The board of public works held an outing yesterday afternoon for the pur- pose of looking over the condition of the streets in the vicinity of Forest park and to transact any other busi- ness that might demand their attention. They made the trip in Commissioner Blakeslee's four hand. The party consisted of Mayor Kilduff, City Clerk Ryan, Assistant City Clerk Nettleton, Commissioners Mahaney, Whiting, Blakeslee, Scully and City Engineer Cairns, Commissioner Lahey of the board of public safety, and representa- tives of the press. Ben Cooley held the ribbons and Superintendent Kelley acted as guide
 A stop was made at North square with view to considering the advisa- bility of removing one of the poles near the drinking fountain recently install ! led at the corner of North Elm and | Cherry streets. The matter was refer red to committee consisting of Com missioners Whiting and Blakeslee with instructions to confer with the owners of the pole and have one of them removed.
 | The city engineer was instructed to advertise for bids for laying water mains in North Willow street from the present termination of the main in that street to Demorest street; in North Main street 300 feet northerly from the present termination of the main in that street; in Wall street 25O feet from the termination of the main i'll that street; in First avenue from Hill 1 s5de avenue to Grove street; in Welton street from East Main street to Wal | m es+1 nd S1o UoJ, l Welton street to Ashley street; in | Woodlawn terrace from the termina- tion of the main in that street to Pine street; in Wall avenue; in Bank street from Porter street to Fourth street. l The matter of making contract with Thomaston to care for the valley turnpike road from Robarts bridge to the Litchfield line was referred to a committee consisting of the mayor and city engineer.
 I A very careful inspection was made of the roads under treatment at Forest park by the Great Brook Manufactur- ing company. The conditions that ex- l fist there have been created by the rais- l ing of the Belleview lake dam above l the grade of the streets thus throwing the water over the highways and mak-. l ing 1t absolutely necessary to raise the roads and bridges a foot or so above I the height of the dam. w B. Brooks has been doing the work according to his own notion, but it was plain to the board that what the gentleman was do- | ing was far from what the situation requires and he was so informed. The question was considered too important I to be disposed of off hand and in order 1 to give all due opportunity to consider what was best to do 1t was agreed to adjourn until 9:3O o'clock this morning l The board met this morning with the city attorney and voted to instruct the superintendent of streets to put a stop l to the work now being done and then turned the whole matter over to a committee consisting of Mayor Kilduff, City Attorney Kellogg, Commissioner Mahaney and Superin- tendent Kelley of the street department with power to act. While the board was in session Attorney Bronson enter ed and wanted to know who was re- sponsible for the condition of things in the highways at Forest park. Several hundred loads of dirt had been remoy- ed from the Chapman property without permission and MT Bronson desired to know what part the city was to play in the matter. He was referred to the
 Bucks Hall Is we'll supplied with dogs and judging by the way they l treated the board of public works, who drove through that district yesterday, 1 the canines are not of the scrappy kind With one exception the dogs en- countered on the way showed a disposi- ton to mind their own business. Tn fact the members were treated with much courtesy all around and had it not been for the conduct of a crowd of youngsters on upper North Main street who shouted, "scabs" at them they would have made the round trip
 without having heard or seen any thing to find fault with, with the ex- ceptiOn of the wall which Mir Brooks
 is constructing at BelIeview lake, But this is nothing to quarrel over It can and will be fixed without resort to arms. The worst thing about it is that in case the dirt has to be returned to the original owners Attorney Bron- son will have a hard time to deter
 mine what part of 1t belongs to Mrs l Pearsall and how much of it was taken
 from the Chapman property.
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