Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-16
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
Three Foot Building Line Reported
 Favorably for Bank Street.

1 ! AC. UOdIu Ol puDllC WOIhS iuSL yes
 terday afternoon, Mayor Elton presid- i ing.
 Property owners on Bank street l were heard regarding the establish ment of a nine foot building line iu 1 that street, east side, from James street to Porter street Rev Father ] Gleeson of St Patricks church was ! the first person called. He said he was not in favor of the proposition 1 because he would not care to do any thing on others which he would not l like to have done on himself That i part of Bank street" he said, Hike 1 the other end of it, will soon be busi-
 ness center and people will want to make some use of every foot of la'tl i, they own. There will be stores along !, there and it would not be right to com { pei those who will own them to keep 1 back nine feet from the sidewalk \ Daniel Condon, represented by his {, wife, had no objection to three foot line. but would oppose nine feet. Mrs Susan Early thought such a
 meeting should be held in the evening"
 when the men folks who understand 1 such matters could call She didn't 1 think the average woman comDetent to deal with such questions. still she
 was of the opinion that she. would ! make no mistake in looking at it from 1 Father Gleeson's standpoint. She
 would mot object to three feet. Mrs Ellen Mitchell had no objection 1 to three foot line.
 John DOdds said his walk was the l first laid in that part of the town ana l the line was established by deed Tor him the same as for all the other peo- pie in that neighborhood. He has tree in his yard which he would not have disturbed for $50. His house IS back about twelve feet from the walk.
 The mayor asked if he would not like : to see law passed which would pre- vent his next door neighbor from build-
 ing out to the street, to which Mir
 Dodds replied in the negative, adding
 that because 1t suited his purpose to
 keep back from the street he didn't
 see why he should find fault with otn- CTS from going as close to it as they wanted to so long as they kept on their own property
 Mrs Kate Kelly was opposed to
 building line for business reasons. The
 nlayor told her that it would not in- terfere with buildings that are already
 up, but Mrs Kelly had a notion that
 some of the buildings in that street that are now back some distance from the street will be converted into stores
 later on and the owners will want ad-
 ditions to them which will bring the entrances to their places of business
 up to the line of the walks.
 1 Miss Erdman thought that inasmucn as most of the property will be used for stores in the near future it you'd
 be unwise to establish a building line,
 but she didn't think a three foot line would make much difference. Rocco Mancini. the petitioner. was in favor of the line. Anthony Carroll
 was opposed to change. He wanted the privilege of going onto his prop ertv without stepping over lines. The three foot line was favorably re- ported to the aldermen.
 Judge Cole entertained the meeting by description of the present condi- ton of Edward street which he consid- cred the most monumental piece of stupidity from an engineering stand point he ever witnessed. He was re- quested to reduce his complaint to writing and submit it to the board. The board voted to square up the ac- counts of South Oak street people who had no water since the middle of last January.
 J. Olin Howe was heard regarding a bill for the use of water in the build inp occupied by John J. Sheehan and the Canton restaurant on South Main street. It was metered without his knowledge and as there is but one ser vice he does not know how to adjust the cost of the water consumed be- tween MT Sheehan and the owner of the restaurant. He wanted to have the bill made the same as it was for the preceding six months and from now on he will have private meters and there will be no such confusion in the future. MT Howe was of the opinion that the owner or agent of building should be notified when a radical change in the system of selling water is made. The mayor thought it would be a nice thing to do, but added that there is no obligation on the board to do so. Mfr Howe was about to mention the. name of a man who was informed of the change, but he hesitated and af- ter moments reflection said he guessed he hadn't better mention names. No action was taken.
 Mrs Edna Santanna of Lounsbury street is buried over eight feet under the ground. Her son said so and Mir Santanna corroborated his testimony, The burial was caused by the making of the new street from South Main street to Southview street, which she supposed would not be any higher than the level of her lot, but now 1t is three feet aboveNthat. The board prom ised to look into the case.
 Mir Jackson introduced resolution which was forwarded to the aldermen requesting that the trolley company be, given permission to double track North Willow street from West Main street to q point about q hundred feet be- yond Johnson street. The commis- sioner said that the end in view was to prevent the tearing up of the pave ment in few years when the company will want to do this double tracking. He believed it would be good thing to have this done before the street is paved. Mir Wade introduced two res olutions, one calling attention to the poor hack filling the telephone company