Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-19
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
Trolley Matters win Be Referred to q
 Committee of Three.


 Committee of Three.
 The board of public works held meeting last night and talked over con- dltlOns, Tor the application of tile trol- icy company to double track certain streets and to operate on East Main street to the town boundary, and, o,l Cole. Franklin. Baldwin. Piedmont and Chapel streets, ending at the Pearl Lake road. distance of about two miles.
 There were present Mayor kildnff. commissioners Waiting Mahaney. biakeslee, Scully, City Attorney Kel- logg, City Clerk Ryan, Engineer Lowndes and Superintendent Kelley of the street department.
 communication was received from Colonel Burpee, counsel for the trolley company. stating that if the alder X men VIII act upon the applications or. or DeIore March g. 1903, no advantage VIII pc taken of the sixty days limit. II was received and ordered on file.
 A communication was read from En. Riheer Cairns relative to the cost of maintaining streets where there are raiIroad tracks as compared with road- beds without them. It stated t,hat tr, added cost was considerable. hut that was very hard to determiDe the ex- act ngures owing to the fact that trol- icy tracks and paved streets have not peen iaid long enough in Waterbury uo IurhlSn the information required.
 superintendent Reiley Of the street department submitted a report on ti,is question which showed very plainly that the additional expense to the cIty III caring Tor streets in which the trol- iey operates Is more than one womb think. He showed what if cost for repairs and maintenance on North wil- low street for five years prior to lav- Ing the rails there as compared win what was spent in the street for tl,e same purpose during q correspondInp period since the tracks were put down. rne former being $6S5.77. and the latter $I,oll !. 94- In answer .tora question as 70 whether the street was as long for the nrst i've years and If the storms and additional travel might not nave had something to do with inc differ, ence in the cost of maintenance. Mr Kelley said that he had taken all these things into consideration. The street is little longer, but the city has laid out but very little money on the added strip. He believed the damage caused 1 by storm water the past few years was due largely to the presence of the rails. Before the tracks were laid l the street had a high crown and water rushed along in the gutters and did little or no damage, but the tracks ne- cessitated different treatment for the street, resulting in throwing the rush of surface water all over the street, which was unquestionably the cause of much of the gutting in that street whenever q heavy rain storm came up. If this was not responsible for the damage, why was 1t greater after the rails were laid than before? Mir Kelley was very positive that the added cost of caring for street after the trolley enters upon 1t would be doubled and he thought 1t would not be wide of tho mark to go beyond that, and even then, he said, the street would not be anything like what 1t was when you had no tracks to contend with. The Increased travel had something to do with the high figures for the past five years, hut this would not have amountel to much If teams had an op- Eportunity to use all parts of the streets instead of being forced to either side
 After going over the plans and sugs l gestifig what conditions ought to he imposed it was voted to refer the mat ter to committee consisting of the T mayor. city attorney and city engl- neer 10 prepare a report as outlined by the board and submit the same to 1 the members as soon as possible.