Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-07

dlebury road question. Mir MacDon-
 aid did not think that the plans pre- pared by the city engineer showed
 much regard for abutttng property
 and was confident that men thoroughly
 schooled in that class of work would
 decide in flavor of the plans made out
 by the state. It was referred to the
 engineer for investigation and report. The petition of F. L. Cuftiss asking
 that the trees in front of his premises on West Main street be trimmed, was referred to the superintendent Of streets with power to act. A petition was received from the Scoviu Manu- featuring Go for permission to make Y 6-inch tapping on a 10-inch main for T use at the factory. It was referred to committee consisting of Superin- tendent OaBrien and Engineer Cairns Two applications from the Southern New England Telephone Go to con- struct manholes on West Main street, one near Prospect street and the other at Holmes avenue were referred to a
 committee consisting of the mayor and superintendent of streets. It was voted to hear property owners on Avon avenue relative to the establishment of building lines, on October 20. The superintendent was instructed to pro ceed with the work of grading and gut tering Aetna street. Fifth and Edward streets and to lay gutters on portion of Fatrview street; also to grade West Main street between Highland avenue and Grandview avenue. The engi-
 neer was directed to have the contrac- tor commence operations on the. change Of grade on Prospect street. The mat ter of sewer connection for a new house on Greenmount terrace was re- ferred to a committee consisting of Commissioner Mahaney and Engineer Cairns The committee. appointed to look up the cause of damage from sur ' face water on Spark street, consisting of Commissioners Mahaney and Blakeslee and Engineer Cairns failed to agree and they were instructed to bring the matter to the attention of the city attorney
 The board adjourned for week. The following is the letter received from the highway commissioner: ,STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
 Highway Department.
 Hartford, Sept 30, 1903. Board Of Public Works, Waterbury, Conn.
 Gentlemen:-In response to a re- queStsentfrom this department to your board I received the plan originally treated for the section of highway to be improved leading out from the city of Waterbury toward Middlebury lat 1:30 yesterday afternoon, and 1
 hasten to say that after having looked
 over the plan again I find no reason
 dor changing the original grades as approved by this department. On the contrary am firmly convinced that all (that is necessary for the state to do in
 regard to the matter will be to give
 the reasons for the establishment of
 the grades as they now exist.
 k The original plan sent to this office { was what We call 8 balance cut and i'll plan plan very nearly balancing
 the cut with the i'll. Upon what. con- putation. these figures were made in Iregard to the width of the road, the i shoulders or bank slopes I do not know. l simply take the figures as 1hey present themselves to me made Flupon the plan at the time they were received into my office.
 Every contractor in the state in fig- Nring up question of grading on any
 Highway will take the maximum
 Amount of that which is required eith- Ter in cut or i'll and use that as his Ybasis of computation. The grades upon the plan will show a difference
 of over 500 yards in favor of the plan
 submitted by this office to your honor
 able board over that submitted to this iof1ce by your board before it was treated by the state In addition to fhis saving of nearly 2,SOO yards in Ghe filling was made by this office
 The reason for the saving in the filling twas simply on the ground that in drop ping down the finished road, or line established for the center line of the
 road when the road has been com < pleted, the commissioner was very fa-
 niliar with the location, having gone yver the road great many times and
 had seen upon this particular section s pf highway perhaps more railings than
 ne had ever seen upon a similar strip I pf road in the state of Connecticut 9dur1ng his eight years experience l The filling which was placed to raise lfhe road up between the fence lines, 1.-the part occupied for the travel path of the road, it was necessary to have l As a protection to public travel. In *NfAACA WO40S LhC AlltR WdS uIODQCu
 down from the original line presented
 sn this office over distance of fully
 100 feet. very nearly one-half of the
 stance covered by the improvement N ae purpose of this treatment was
 mply to remove the necessity for the
 building and maintaining of railing Anpon this particular highway: also to
 add greater degree of comfort and
 safety to the travelling public using
 he road The third reason was that
 Ene road laying already low the people
 who owned this land were innocent zonenders and therefore should not be
 made to suffer. It is a principle in #Ghis office in the treatment of all ques- s1ions of this kind to so take into con-
 Saderation the a'butting owners that noI sdAmage will be incurred in any way, njeither shall there be any injury to Broperty. The additional cut over fill