The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-13
PUBLIC GIVES ITS OPINIONS
IN REFERENCE TO ESTIMATES
 BEFORE FINANCE BOARD.

President Henry T. Biake of Park Com-
 missicn Wants s5, 1000 for Beautifysng
 tho Central Green-Board Informs
 Two Inauirsrs That They Know
 Nothing Authentic About $500, ,ooo
 Library Ofrsr.
 The board of finance held another long public hearing in the aldermanic chambers in city hall last evening and listened to what any one cared to say about the estimates which have been submitted.
 President Henry T. Blake, of the park commission. appeared and asked the board to grant his committee s5,Odo for beautifying the central green.
 MT. Leigh, formerly of the board of education, asked about sSOO.OOO for the building of a new library in this city. He was informed by the board that it knew nothing about it in an official way.
 ES-Mayor Driscoll appeared before the board in reference to the cutting down of dead trees and permanent pavements. He thought that $1O,O00 could be used very easily in these mat ters.
 Anthony Carroll spoke again last night in reference to the fire depart ment and claimed that in last years $ report there was some money which had not yet been accounted for.
 Highway Commissioner Macdonald advised the board to spend all that was possible on the streets. He said that there was plenty of trap rock which could be had, and that good roads would increase the grand list, as they made property more valuable. #
 Ex-Mayor Driscoll again spoke, and said that the city had gone as far as 1t could in the matter of permanent pave- ments. He said that not long ago some of the streets about the city were in so lad condition that the fire depart ment could not go through them with out breaking down. He then spoke about keeping the streets clean, and was informed by Mayor Studley that the city kept twenty-eight or twenty nine men on the permanent pavements keeping them clean all the time. Ex- Mayor Driscoll then said that if the city would keep a couple of men on Whalley avenue repairing the road 1t would be in a better condition than it Is at present.
 Ex-Alderrnan Trueman and MT. Rich then spoke in reference to general con- ditions, and their addresses will be pub- slished in to-morrow's s issue.
 Walter Leigh was the next speaker, and he objected to the general regis trars getting an increase in their allow ances
 Joseph R. Manning said he was the father of the permanent paving com mission, but that he was now satisfied that the only good pavement was the Telford. He further said that he would appear later before the legislature and ask for the repeal of the commission. He said the police department had all the money 1t should have, and thought that this city should have some call flremen instead of adding so many per- manent men. He also spent some time in discussing the West river marshes, saying that they should be filled in to preserve public health.
 ..l S. R. Avis, president of the library board, spoke in reference to the board appropriating money for a school lot on the east side of the railroad tracks in the Ninth ward. He said that there were over five hundred school children in that neighborhood, and he thought that it was unnecessary for them all to attend the school on the west side. He also said he greatly favored the city's acceptance of the offer of $300,000 for a new library, when it was formally
 made The board then went into executive session and voted to allow the director of public works to draw $125 from the contingent fund of the sundry account to be used in getting everything which was necessary for the opening of the new public bath house on St. John street. # #