Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-14
|OARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
B. Kelley Gets City Contract for Grading Division Street.

presiding
 Much interest was centered in this neeting on account of the reception or
 roposals for repairing sidewalks. Three bids were offered, but owing to
 n oversight one of them, that of MT Byrnes, was declared informal. His bid was filled out all right and check
 Accompanied it, but 1t was not ceru
 ed to, and as the bank was closed he vas not able to correct the blunder III lime. He lost the contract and as a esuit the city is out quite neat pile The work was classified under the leading A, B and 0. The first being for all new work, the second where considerable filling had to be &sed. and the third for ordinary re-
 pairs. The bids were as follows:
 Andrew Allen, Pearl street, A, 70 tents a yard; B, 50 cents yard; Q, 3o Rents yard.
 Thomas Bowling, Stone street, A, SU ents a yard; B, 90 cents yard; Q, o9
 ents yard.
 M. D. Byrne & Son, A, 55 cents; B,
 b cents; c, 25 cents.
 The contract was awarded to MT
 llen. 1t was expected that MT VII pot, who did $2,700 worth of repair, hg at 54 cents a yard, would submit
 
 Y 1t was voted to hear property own ers on Hillside avenue relative to building lines on October 4. The en- gineer was instructed to prepare plans For the layout of a new street to con- hect with Ludlow and RidgeWood btreets, as per petition of George Tracy Fit al. and suggest name for 1t. The blace is now known as Weyman street
 Judge Lowe, counsel for James Emstice of Adams street. asked a few duestions about the condition of Lit ztle brook in that street and wanted to know when and how it was going to be fixed. For some time past, he said, the city has been heading water Rewards that stream and the channel hot being large enough to meet the Additional duties required of 1t, 1t broke through the wall in front of MT Eustice's house, doing considerable damage to his property. To help 8things along, contractors working for the city farther north in the stream slet small mortar tub float down on &the water and 1t kept right on until Nit got stuck in front of the Eustice Homestead The next day gang Of laborers discovered the wreck and 2set to work prying 1t out with crow bars Tn doing this they knocked down some of the retaining wall which MT Eustice had built along the < edge of the brook and since that ' time his place has been deluged every Htime 1t rains. The judge said that ' his client does not care to sue and sthat probably he would not claim damages for what has happened in the past provided something should be done now which would give him relief before the winter sets in. The engineer exhibited a map showing what the city intends to do there and informed Judge Lowe that the job would cost something in the sneighborhood of $2,500 and that his client would be expected to pay portion of this expense. The judge was very much pleased with the plan but he didn't appear very fayorably impressed with the idea of saddling any of the cost onto MT Eustice, whom he thought had already been put to too much expense and trouble on account of the delay in caring for the brook.
 Things come pretty high" re- marked Chairman Goss, breaking in on the discourse between the engi- neer and the limb of the law. "Oh, indeeA they do, MT Chair man." replied Judge Lowe, shaking his head so that the gold rimmed spectacles almost bounded off their resting place.
 Especially during election time, " added the chairman, with smile, at the same time looking across the table to see how the little pleasantly hit the judge, but the latter brushed 1t aside with remark to the effect that he supposed the chair knew all about such things, and then went on inspecting the plan of the brook. Ac- tion on the matter was deferred until such time as Judge Lowe is prepared to state whether or not in his judg- ment his client ought to pay any thing towards doing the job. While the matter was on MT Eustice came forward and holding communication from a prominent physician aloft in his hand exclaimed that he was sorry he didn't sue the city long ago and save his family from sickness and constant worries MT Eustice was about to say something else when his counsel requested him not to talk tstW 1OT tHS pTCSeuL duu CueE0 the matter ended.
 \ Superintendent Johnson of the wa ter works reported that Mir Sprague is very slow about moving bis cattle off the property recently purchased by the city from him at East Mountain His cows and dairy are there yet and there is no use trying to clean the place up. MT Sprague has another farm and has moved most of his fur nfture to the new place, but every thing else is at East Mountain MT Cairns thought that the superintend- ent would be within his lines in turn < ing the cattle onto the street and be- ] Iieyed that every COW on the place 1 should be driven off before night. At the suggestion of MT Goss the super intendent of water was directed fo notify Mir Sprague to vacate the
 premises forthwith.
 Assistant City Clerk Reeves re-
 ported that in accordance with a vote
 passed at the last meeting he searched
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