Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-07
WATCHING THE PAYERS.
Engineer Cairns Keeping Tabs on the Men Who Are Bnilding Streets

the immediate vicinity of Exchange place where he is keeping an eye to the pavement which is being laid on North Main street and in the square where all the trolley cars meet once in fifteen minutes. But the engineer does not remain there all the time by any means. He has general SUI pervision over a lot of other work and makes it a point to keep an eye upon how every job is being done. On the Prospect road, near the East Mountain school house, about fifty men are delving away laying It inch main; thirty-tiye men are putting a 12-inch main in East Farm stree,, and about thirty laborers are laying q 1O-inch main in Columbia boule yard. These three jobs are on the high service and the work is progress sing very favorably. A peculiar thlng about the gang on Columbia boue- ward is that it is maue u q exclusIt e ly of Irishmen, something that hao not been seen Delore Ill waterbury tor many years. Like all the oLnel laborers they belong out ot town, De
 even so. their presence proves that we have noC yet reacneu tue passing of the Irishman as a factor ln the matter of digging trenches and per- torm1ng sinllIdr LeaIs ot mat charac- ter. They are said to be a greae crowd of workers and the local con- tractors are very anxious to coax some of them away from their pres ent employer. Besides the elevated service, work is being pushed on the laying of 6-inch man n Hign street, to replace the old cement plpv.- that have 0utlived their usefulne.
 and have been causing the depart ment considerable trouble on an>. v. for the past few years. Superintend- ent Johnson called attention to tho advisability of doing this a few weeks ago and 1t was decided to take it up. A portion of the work was attended to during the regime of the former adm1nistraH ton, but owing to lack of funds the balance went o,G
 About fifteen men are employed on this piece of work.
 Engineers are at work getting things in shape for the laying of wa ter mains in the Bunker Hill road duQ; w nOSOr sAV0uu0s
 In the matter of street grading, { force of thirty men are digging an
 shoveling on Waterville street, be- tween the residence of George Tracy a7,d Highland park. working the street to the new grade, and across the way off the Watertown road, on Robbins street, dirt is. being tossed about like dust in a violent storm by twenty-five or thirty men and half a dozen or more teams. The grading of Prospect and West Main streets, at the new hotel, together with the building of cement wall along the Merriman property, is now well un- der way, but the finishing touches will not be put on the work for some time. This is a very particular job, but unless something unexpected turns up 1t will be tided along with out any trouble, although many teamsters and great army of pri- vate citizens have been finding fault about having to step aside from the day the first step was taken toward making the changes. The next con- tract for grading on the list is Louns- bury street, from South Main street through the Boughton property to Southv1ew street. No explanation is given as to why this was not taken up earlier in the season as originally intended, but unless the funds give out the street will be cut through be- fore the bad weather sets in and then for the first time since they located there the property owners will have a suitable roadway to and from their homes. Lounsbury street, from Southview street to South Main street, is too steep to do anything with 1t, and 1t will be discontinued. Tn fact, it never was public way, and it was we'll understood when the property was being disposed of that it never would be accepted by the city, but the fact was not made pub- lie until after the bulk of the unde- 5, veloped property in that district had changed hands. But what matter about that. There will be a nice street there within a couple of years and then that part of the town will have no more inviting residence sec ton.
 Additions are being made to the WdtC1 SGEVlC0 Dy IuG installation of 30-inch drain in Rob- bins street, which will carry the wa ter under the street instead of let J ting it cut up all kinds of capers on top, which would eventually result in placing all the filling now being placed on the steep grade in one spot at the foot of the hill, thus necessi- tating the hauling Of 1t back again, only to be swept away with the next severe rain storm.
 Sewers are being constructed in ,.Brewstre and Wall streets. Brewster street is nearly completed, and the other will not be much longer in hard.
 The surface hardening of Grove street, from Prospect street to Cooke street, Is going ahead and after it is finished a similar treatment will be applied to Baldwin street from Stone street, betwtea ktcne street and the Washington school. Work on putting in tlie new hf:nrP and venri!acine system ln the Eap11 street school E