The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-03
AUTHORIZED TO GO AHEAD
DIRECTOR C0E TO BUILD KIM
BERLY AVENUE BRIDGE.
Aldermen Also Vote That Controller
Issus BONDS to Pay for tho Work.
Director to Resort to Courts II Noces-
sary-Two Reports Submitted BY tho
lighting COMMITTEES ON CITY Contract
-what Alderman Hosisy says.

A regular meeting of the board Of
aldermen was held in city hall last
evening.
The principal business was the con-
sideration of the lighting contract.
Yesterday afternoon the committee on
public lighting held a meeting to pre-
pare report, in reference to the bids.
After considerable discussion among
the members of the committee it was
seen that it would be impossible to
submit unanimous report, so major
ity and minority report was prepared.
The majority report was filed by Al
dermen Jacobs, Maxwell GalIigan, and
Moran. The recommends dations contain-
ed in the report were as follows:
Therefore we most respectfully rec-
ommend the passage Of the following
two requests, although they are not the
lowest bidders:
That the corporation counsel be re-
quested to draft contract with the
New Haven Gas Light company for a
term OF three years from January /,
1904 for Welsbach gas lamps and for
open burner lamps to be used for po-
lice signals according to the specifica-
tions herewith transmitted, and that
the same be forwarded to the board Of
aldermen for their approval.
That the corporation counsel be re-
New York and New Jersey Globe Light
company for naphtha Welsbach lamps
for term of three years from Janu-
ary /, 1904, according to the enclosed
specifications. And that the same be
forwarded to the board Of aldermen for
their approval.
The minority report was submitted
by Alderman Hosley, which stated that
of all the bidders the American Light
ing company's bid was the lowest of
/. all, it being $1,014 under the next low
es. to them.
He therefore submitted the following
resolutions: That the COMMITTEES on
public lighting be and it is authorized
to contract with the American Lighting
company Of Baltimore, Md, for the
lighting Of the city with open flame gas
lamps, incandescent or mantle gas
lamps and incandescert or mantle
Enaphtha lamps for three years from
January /, 1904, the price to be paid to
be as follows: For not less than 81 open
flame gas lamps, s22 per lamp per year;
for not less than 1,050 incandescent or
mantle gas lamps $24.9O per lamp per
year; for not less than 225 incandes-
cent or mantle naphtha lamps $27 per
lamp per year.
Alderman Hosley made the following
statement last evening as to his reasons
for submitting a minority report and
said that he eecould not possible see how
they could fail to appeal to all who had
the best interests Of the city at heart,
as he himself had:
THE difference in the price of the
two contracts is about $4,000. In addi-
tion to this aomunt of saving to the
city the American Lighting company,
if awarded the contract, will install en-
tire new equipment, which consists of
the latest style lamps known as the
Boulevard equipment and is the
equipment being placed in all cities
whose citizens are progressive.
"The New Haven Gas Light company
,, specifically state in their bid the pres
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