Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-09
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
Dynamo Not to Exceed $640 for En>
 gdneeling Department.

iue UOalu or plEDllc works met last night Mayor Kilduff presiding. It was voted to recommend that an electric arc light be placed at the june ton of Baldwin and Mill streets. near Scovill's bridge.
 Iales engineer was authorized to ex. pend a sum not to exceed $640 in put ting i'll dynamo in the engineering de- partment. The superintendent of streets was requested to see if the light recently installed on South Leon ard street is the kind ordered. A com munication was received from John Norton stating that the report of te committee appointed to investigate his claim that in making the layout of Ashley street the city took six inches off his lot is not in harmony with the facts. The committee says no land Was taken from Mir Norton. The com municatiOn was ordered on file. A claim of C. l.. Holmes amounting to So3.3S for damages on account of water from city main entering his cellar on Hillside avenue. was referred 10 committee consisting of Commits sloners Whiting and Blakeslee.Y Mir Holmes was present but as his state- ment covered all tile facts he said he
 
 wanted to be further informed on the matter. John Henderson, IT, was heard relative to grade of Washington avenue. The board did not do any thing about Washington avenue. but they appointed committee consisting. Of Engineer Cairns and Superintendent Kelley of the street department to suOb- nit an estimate of the cost of repairing hnta a,iy,re oJ1 I street, abutting upon Mir Henderson's property. The continued hearing for building lines on Luke street was taken up and James Moore, who was not cited in at the first meeting. was heard relative to the establishment of build- ing lines. He agreed with all the other property owners on ten-foot line. It was favorably recommended to the aldermen.
 A representative of Fissel & wag- her. the New York contractors who are building the new postofice on Grand street. was heard relative to blocking the street. The matter wWG referred to Mir Kelley with the under standing that he see t1at the cofftrac- tors comply with the provisions of the vote passed by taie board when the con tractors were given the right to block the walk t
 An application from the Waterbury Machine Co for permission to make a six-inch tapping with the city water main to feed automatic sprinklers, was referred to a committee consisting of Engineer Cairns and Superintendent O'Brfen. ntliis brought out good deal of discussion during which Mir Cairns said he considered the matter of too much importance to Joe referred to a committee with power to act
 That's so" replied the mayor 'sCor porations or individuals receiving such '' permission should be obliged to sign an agreement binding themselves to pay current rates for all the water they use and that they shaH not try to evade the obligation d,y praying out an injunction restraining the city from collecting water rents from. them. as some of them have done during the past year or two. Waterbury has a fine water service. 1t was built at the expense of the taxpayer in general: 1t is their Only source of revenue and it should be worked for all it is worth along legitimate lines in the interest of the whole people. I have 1t on the , authority of three as able attorneys as there are dn Connecticut that the city has no right to discriminate i'll favor of large or small consumers in it's scale of pIices; that it is obliged to dispose of 1t to all at the same rates, giving 1t to the man who uses but small qllantity a day for the same price the large consumer9pays. Private corpOra- tions may have as many prices as they please, but municipalities enjoy no such rights. We have not been doing that. We carried the system along as it came to us, and while some may say it is rather late for us to talk of changing, its does not appear 10 to me. The water question is becoming serf- ous, Almost all our big corporations want to connect with the city mains, but many of them are not willing to pay even the rates charged to large consumers. so that I am somewhat fearful Of the future of the water ques- tion so far as 1t pertains to the small consumer I see what is coming Mark my word for It. You will soon see a revision of water rates here which will act in favor of the large consumer in such way that the small consumers will feel it. We shollld be fair with the factorles and 1t is our
  is rigAlt by the city. Waterbury has water to sell and all it's citizens should get it at uniform rates. Remember, I'm not finding fault with the shops. I simply want to state that they are not doing business for their health and to show that the water department should be conducted in the interest of all and not run on "a plan which is sure to make the burden heavier right along on the small consumer
 On motion of Mr Whiting, seconded by MT Blakeslee 1t was>voted to name tIhe new fountain at Stanley square the Ixflduff fountain. MT Whiting said he was sorry fllat 1t was not larger. because if 1t were the higgest thing of the kind in the world. Mayor Kilduff would be worthy Of the honor: but it was the best they had and he didn't see what more the hoard could do. Later on he knew Waterbury worl'