Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-30
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
Superintendent Will Submit List -oi
 Buildings to Be 1etered.

Buildings to Be netered.
 The department of public works met yesterday afternoon, Mayor Elton pre- siding and all the members being pres ent.
 On motion of Mir Jackson. the sl> perintendent of water was instructed to submit list of buildings which ill his judgment should be metered. The commissioner said that he understood certain blocks are metered and others of the same character are not, and ne thought this should not remainl SO only as short as could be helped. Durins the chat on this question MT Cairns took q very diplomatic way of remind ing the board that the private schools are not metered. You mean said the engineer, breaking in on Mir Jack son., that if the parochial schools are metered St Margaret-s should" The commissioner replied ill the affirlna- tive, but added that what he had i'll mind pertained to hotels. livery sta> bles and large blocks. The superin- tendent was also Instructed to notify property owners when meters are in- stalled in their buildings.
 The combination curb and gutter laid on Grove street. opposite the prop erty of St Margaret's school. made the subject matter of. debate that lasted over half an hour 1t started off with almost all the members on one side and Mr Cairns on the other. but at the finish the engineer had clubbed t-e whole of them into submission. MT JacKson called attention to it. when the bills of the bureau of engineering were being read and the clerk men toned the sum of SIPS to Mir Riggs for a cement gutter and curb. Who's going to pay for that curb?'' inquired the commissioner Its nice job, but it isn't anything the city should pay for.''
 The engineer didn't, think it was a curb He called it an experiment ' but the commissioner wouldn't accept that kind of an explanation and want ed to know why they were not ordered to lay walk in the usual way, adding that thing like that was delicate matter to handle.
 '.why didn't you cite them ing re marked the mayor.
 T don't think anything was said about the need of a curb there re~ piled Mir Jackson.
 At this juncture the engineer ex- pIained that the work might not last and that he wouldn't want to see the owners charged for something that may fall to pieces next spring.
 q think you have done something there. MT Cairns,. chimed in Commis- sioner Holmes, s'by which the property is specially benefited and the expense or at least a portion of It should come out of it.'' af
 MT Cross q can't agree with the commiss sioner. If it is a benefit the city will profit by it. The grade of the street is such there that something had . r1 M Mir Holmes: That's all very well. but this is not the only low spot about town and if cement walks and curbs were the best eatment for such eases it would have been discovered before now. I don't think it would be well to collect the bill now, but 1 believe we should have a record of it. If it pass es unnoticed now it is apt to be lost sight of.
 Air Cairns: sThis discussion re minds me of what Father DugSan used to say about such things. If you want,to have a public improvement go through without being erftiefHed 4you' waiif to make it appear that nobody is benefited by it, he used to say, and he was right
 MT Jackson: "Oh, well, he's dead."
 AIrt Goss: .sYes. but by George, when he was alive he knew what he was talking about"
 Mir Elton: 'sWho owns that proper ty. anyway
 Mr Wade: T may be mistaken. but 1 think Miss Hillard does all the bust, ness And come to look itsoyer I'm not sure but MT Holmes is right Whats the matter with having the clerk notl. fy the owners of the property that the city has done this work at it's own ex- pense and that they will be expected to pay for it later on. :.
 Finally Mir Cairns said it was not a curb at all, and then Mir Holmes apOlo- gized for what he had said. He be- lieyed it was something which would take the place of a curb. but if this was not so then he had been laboring under misapprehension.
 The chair made two or three at tempts to put motion instructing He clerk to notify the owners of the 1 school that they will be expected to pay for the curbing, but the engineer was on hand every time with an ob~ lection, and to get it out of the way Mir Wade moved that it be tabled for further consideration. The motion was passed.
 Applications of the United Gas Im- pavement Go to make excavations in certain streets were granted. A com munication was received from r. L.. Peck calling attention to the poor con, dition of the gutter in front of his place on Field street. It was referred to the superintendent of streets. The clerk reported that at the hearing for Lounsbury street Mrs Edna Santanna claimed no damage. It will be re- membered that couple of weeks ago Mrs Santanna appeared before the board and represented that her proper. ty is ruined on account of the new grade, which rises four feet higher