Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-10
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
Attention Called to Dangerous Con-
 dition of North Willow Street.

The department of public works met yesterday afternoon, Mayor Elton pre- siding and all the members being pres ent.
 A communication was received from Charles S. Chapman calling attention to the dangerous condition of North Willow street between Plaza avenue and R0seland avenue. The tracks were removed to one side of the road bed while the city was putting iri a sewer, and although several weeks have elapsed since the work was com pleted. the company has made no move towards relaying the tracks The board voted to notify the company of the situation and request them to re- lay the tracks or lay it's turnouts be- tween these points, as soon as possible so that the city may he able to get the street in proper condition for public travel before the ground freezes up for the winter
 to recommend to the aldermen that the city attorney be requested to arL pear before the legislature and ask that the law which puts the expense of repairing sidewalks on the city be repealed. The Waterbury Hotel cor poration was granted permission to make six-inch tapping with the city main subject to the usual conditions. A communication was received from the Connecticut Railway & Lighting Go showing the location of new lights installed for the city. It was voted to recommend to the aldermen that n light be installed on North Willow street between Plaza and RoseIand avenues. This was in accordance with one of the requests in MT Chapman's communication already referred to in this article. The city engineer submit ted report regarding improveme at Grand and Bank streets. It provid-, ed for the widening of Bank street opposite the site of the rink building. Nothing denfiite was done in the prem ises.
 A conhmupication was received from John w. Gaffney asking that the time , limit for the completion of the grading of East Main street, from Silver street to the Meri5len road. be extended. The contract was awarded to Edward Mo- Manus and calls for the completion Of the work by December i of this year. Mir McNTanus employed MT Gaffney to do the job, but before this had been done three weeks had gone by and now MT Gaffney thinks that 1t would be out of the question to put 1t through within the time limit. The board took the ground that it recog- nized nobody in connection with that contract but Mir McManus, which is tantamount to telling MT Gaffney that Mir McManus and himself would have to settle that matter between them selves.
 The Baldwin street trolley was made the subject of short talk and enough was heard on the subject to show that the road will not be completed beyond Washington street for the present. The trolley people blame the city and the officials think the conn pany Is at fault and it would take a smart man to tell which is right Any way, people who supposed they would have trolley service into Simonsville this winter forgot that promise does not amount to much. The trolley com pany went as far, as suited it's own purpose and 1t does not intend to move an inch farther until 1t gets ready. The route between Madison street and Baldwin hill has not been laid out and this is being made a handle of by the company. but it isn't that at all. They're not ready to proceed with the rest of the work. If they were that little obstacle would have been over- come long ago.