Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-23

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 ley conditions were the principal sub jects discussed and the majority rep
 resentation showed that they ha(
 been we'll drilled, so much so that MI
 Holmes didn't see his way clear tC ! supporting the conditions which he as a member of the department of pub
 lie works had recommended for adop
 tion. The democrats wanted little time to consider the whole matter, bu they were snuffed out by a party vote
 and swamped by similar tactics wheI they sought to hold to certain cOndi
 tions which the board of public works believed were right and which the city attorney admitted were legal anc could be enforced.
 Alderman Blakeslee left the chail and installed MT Murray in his stead
 and made plea for delay out of def | erence to the wishes of the minority who asked that for the present ac ton be deferred in the Cheshire appli
 cation until the Baldwin street one
 comes in and then both could be talk en up at the same session, but the other fellows would not listen to suct a proposition.
 The ball was started rolling by the introduction of modined plans for trol ley service on Baldwin street and fol l the double tracking-making turnouts the company call this business-al streets now supplied with the service
 It was referred to the board of pub lie works for investigation and re port. Chairman BlakesIee said that il was the intention to have the board l make q separate report of the Bald win street part of the application and it was passed along with this under standing.
 Then the recommendation of the
 board of public works came up with reference to the Cheshire line and fol an hour or so Alderman Murray en.
 gagged in spirited fight with Alder, men Hewitt, Beach, Stanley, Holmes and Blakeslee over what the city ought to get out of it. Mir Murray con tending that the board Of public works composed of such men as Mayor Fl
 ton, Commissioners Goss, Jackson Holmes, Wade and Brown, would not have recommended anything other than what they knew the city was en titled to and the others while not de nying this, aiming to lop off every thing and giving as their reason that unless this were done the company would not build the road.
 Sections 1, and were adopted as they came from the board of public works. Section 4, which pertains to the bridge over the Mad river near the plant of the Mattatuck Manufacturing company was changed so that when. ever it becomes necessary to construct new bridge there the company will have to get the aldermen together in <stead of finding itself confronted by 8 committee appointed by judge of the superior court, as the department of public works has provided. This motion, which was one of the subsd. tute blanks whittled out at the private session held in MT Kellogg's office last week, amends the one submitted by the board of public works by pro
 viding that whatever the aldermen decide that new bridge is needed al that point the company shall pay 8 reasonable part of the cost thereof AIr Hewitt said that he had shown this to almost all the members of the board of public works and they con. sidered it an improvement upon what they had recommended. MT Murray wanted to know why it would not be a good plan to provide that when the new bridge is ordered that the com pany pay a certain part of the ex' pense, two-thirds for example, but the city attorney stated that such con dition would not be legal. The amend nlent went.
 Section was amended so as to make the time limit for the completion of the road to Cheshire, July, 1905, in stead of January, 1905, with a proyis- ion that it be constructed and in oper- alton as far as Mad river in August of th;s year. There was but slight op- position to this.
 Section ( created big row an's while the fight was on Alderman Mur- ray threw his hands over his head and wanted to know who was fixing the conditions, the representatives of the people or the trolley company. The board of public works tackled on $lo condition for every turnout construct ed by the company to meet added cost of keeping the street in repair. MT Murray moved to amend this by making it $50. Here" said the al derman from the fourth, '1s conu- ton that everybody believes ought to stay. 1 have been informed there is no question regarding its legality, and 1 suppose there Is no doubt but 1t costs more to keep streets in condition about turnouts than it does where none exists" Mir Murray inquired of the city attorney if it were not true that this condition could be enforced? The attorney replied, somewhat eva siveIy, informing the alderman that the city could legally provide for the payment by the company of whatever additional cost it was put to in main taining the street on account of the presence of the turnouts. ! MT Holmes said he fully agreed with Alderman Murray, but the board of public works had no data to go by conse- quently they were not able to state just what the difference in cost amounts to for the maintainance of street with rails compared with what it is after rails are laid. He wanted the alderman from the fourth to dem- onstrate how he figured it at $50. MT Murray answered Mir Holmes by in- uuiring how the board of public