Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-15
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
Members Want Report from Finance
 Board on Assessments Paid.

At the special meeting of the alder
 men last night, Mir Blakeslee presidinu. tne recommendation of the department of finance that the sum of $4. 900 be ap- proprlated from unexpended resources of the city, the same to be used in grading East Main street between Sil- yer street and the Meriden road and widening West Main street from the railroad tracks to the Naugatuck river. was adopted
 me adjourned session, which fol lowed the special meeting. was inter- esting, especially that part of it which showed a disposition on the part of some of the members to force the nnance committee to trot out the re- port on assessments paid but not turned i'll, and others to stave it off stni farther. The matter came up 1 When the clerk read communication tfrom the department of finance in an- sWer to query on that subject from the aldermen, stating that the finance committee had appointed committee
 10 confer with the special committee having the work .fi hand It also add Cd mat report had been submitted 10 the board of finance some time ago With which the aldermen were fanlil- 1 iar
 The communication was in line with almost everything that has been said OH that question and the aldermen Knew It. MT Murray wanted to know l now the aldermen could be familiar with q report which they had never seen. He inquired what this report
 contained and was informed by the
 cha1r that it was only a partial report and very incomplete
 Mr Beach: II know nothing al,ou&
 that report except to hear from time
 to time that it shows that S12.OO0 or l SIoOOO has been received on behalr l or the city. but the funds have not vet Dean turned over. To Say the least I
 think that committee is mighty slow: l anyway, We don't hear much from 1 what IL IS doing. 1 have no means of | telling how much has been held back.
 but 1 do know that there is a. charge
 of S6O against me on the comptrollers l books, notwithstanding that I paid it
 long ago and can show q receipt for it.
 I'd like to Sc this whole matter settled
 up and I know others feel anxious
 over it, too.v
 The department of finance was in.!-
 structed to report from time to time ] what progress is being made iii this
 investigation.
 All the recommendations of the
 board of public works were approved l with the exception of the one psrtain- I ing to the abolition of the law which
 obliges the city to repair walks. whicit
 was laid on the table.
 Bernard F. kilGuff was heard in op.
 position of the report of the board of
 public works that fifteen foot build- I ing line be established on Hillside ave- nJle, north side, from North Willow
 street to Frederick street He said he was opposed to it because public necessity and convenience do not re- q11ire it. He charged one of the mem
 bers Of the board of public works with
 rushing it through. for his own pei. soual benefit. The man lives across
 the way from the Kilduff property and i has his own line within seven feet of the street and now he wants his neigh
 bors to keep back fifteen feet, "There l is evidence of unfair discrimination ift l that Hillside avenue question no mat ter what way you look at it, said AIr
 Kilduff "In some parts of the street
 here people have lots not over sixty
 five feet deep; the board recommended l that the building line De seven feet.
 This was done so the people could build 1 on them. My lot Is but sixty-tiye feet l deep, still tie line is made fifteen feet.
 I have no intention of putting an un- I slightly structure on that lot or doing anything on 1t that would depreciate the value of neighboring property, al- 1 though Pm sure the man who is try l ing to. put a fifteen foot line through has pictured GOODS and other kind of
 rookeries on 1t. I have two houses
 across the street either one of which
 is as good as his and there is no rea
 son why anybody should think that l would care to spoil what 1 have al-
 ready built by putting up something
 that nobody would care to see. want to say, too, that myself and my sister
 own more than half the property in-
 cluded between the points covered by the fifteen foot line. and if the voice
 of those who represent the most inter 1 ests counts for anything we ought not I to be ignored
 l MT Beach said he would not vote for Ia fifteen foot line at that point, buc l he wanted to see what the bureau of assessment would do with 1t.
 A few transfers were ordered for 1 the board of education and the de- partment of charities, and one from i the state county tax item to state coIl1-
 mutation tax
 The action taken some time ago in
 adopting the report of the board of l public works on the change of curb I line on West Main street. when 1t
 should have been sent to the bureau ! of assessment, was rescinded and the
 matter put on the right track. Tho report of the bureau of assessment on
 tho establishment of building lines on
 Hillside avenue from Fairview street ! to North Willow street, was read and l approved, benefits and damages being equal.
 The application of the Eagles for
 the appointment of Thomas Quinn as
 q special constable to do duty at theif Ihali was taken from the table. and re I ferred to the board of public safety.
 Applications were received for an
 electric light on James street and &
 water main on Piedmont street, from Baldwin hill to Tracy avenue. These
 were referred to the board of public
 works. X few petitions Tor apate- 1 ments were suitably referred. 1 Daniel T. Harrington and others pe-
 titfoned for vote of the people on the meter question. The matter was 1 laid on the table. frr,,. o,5;o,,r,,a3 1rnfi1 fhQ y1PVt