The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-19

Very Little New Matter Came to Light
 Evidently New Chemical Needed
 Many Personal Grudges Aired--Com-
 nlittee to Hold Another Session Mon-
 day Afternoon.
 Another meeting os the special al- |dermanlc committee on No 2's engine house was held in the City Hall last evening and about the same ground was gone over as at the last meeting of the committee. The feature of the ses- sion was the amount of matter brought in which had no bearing on the subject. There was a great. deal of discussion about New Britain and New York and politics and personal spite were well laired.
 Chief Fancher declared in regard to taking the chemical away from 2's house and placing 1t nearer the center that not a piece of apparatus, and more especially the chemical, could be spared ! from the locality embracing Grand ave- Inue and State street, whqre many fires i in the small stores were put out by that ipiece of apparatus alone. He recom- mended however. that new chemical engine be bought and located near the {center os the city. He was most em- lphatic in stating that the benefits acru- ling from the removal os the chemical lat present in No. 2's house to the cen- ter of the city would not cornterbal- anee the resultant harm to the district where It now Is.
 After much talk gro and con about Iother engine houses, the benefits of separatlng the companies and what fought to be done with the money when
 Fire Commissioner Pierce said that lthe duty Of the committee was to de- 1cide for or against accepting the prop- Iosition oe the railroad company as ac- lGepted by the commissioners, and that Iall this other matter had no bearing lon the subject. MT. sprightly, acting 1chairman in the absence of Alderman Langley, ruled that anything which might give the committee information on the subject of the investigation, was \ in order.
 Walter Leigh pointed out the mil- I Hons of dollars worth Of property in the lcenter, and the hundreds of pupils in 1.-the high school who were without ade- I quate fire protection. Mr. Miller, after
 much talk about other fire houses, sug- #lgested that the chemical be placed in the center. and that one of the com lbination chemical and hose wagons be
 placed in No. 2's house.
 It was at this point that New Brit ain was brought into the discussion as lapropos of the situation, following the Suggestion that the city sell the prop ierty out right and not let the rail- Iroad dictate the bargain and where the Ihouse shall be situated. This was de. l clared unbusinesslike. New Britain was i held uD as a fragrant example of a
 city existing at the good will oi 1.-the New York. New Haven and Hart.
 ford Railroad company, and as a. warn. ling to New Haven to get the best of tht
 deal if possible. as the road had tht
 power by law of setting it's own price
 for a piece os property and then hav' ing 1t condemned. .......- @
 Apropos of Commissioner Pearce's
 declaration that every cent of thu money received sor the engine hous, should be used honestly. Anthony Car, lroll started to show instances Of thu fire commissioners dishonesty as z body in the past By this time thu meeting had become a background fo political and personal grudges and tn, committee went into executive sessiol about a quarter past ten o'clock, with out having learned much of anything
 except what came to light at the ore
 vious session.
 The committee will hold another hear ling next Monday afternoon and mak lits report to the board of aldermen