The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-26

Committee Appointed to Urge City Ac-
 tiOn-Groove Rails for Street Cars Suggested as Improvement Over Pres
 ent RaiIs-PIan Formulating to Build Power Factory.
 Two important problems connected
 with public improvements in New Ha-
 ven were considered at the first regu- lar meeting Of the season of the Cham i Der of Commerce which was held last l evening. Mir. Scranton, secretary of 1 the committee on new enterprises told 1 of a plan which that committee has | been considering aprOpos of the diff 1 culties resulting from the cut improve
 ments. The plan is to erect a large ! power factory near the center of the city to rent to manufacturing concerns ! which will be compelled to vacate their ! present plants. A number of these firms, not being large concerns, will be l inconvenienced by trying to find new quarters, and it is the idea of the com 1 mittea to have a building erected hav- ing floor space of something like 40,- l 900 square feet. To do this it would be necessary to take subscriptions for | stock, but it is believed that the build ing would be profitable investment as we'll as a means of relieving the firms.
 General Bradley stated that in his opinion there was room for such an en- terprise. He said that he had been ask ed but during the past week If he would build a factory for a concern which desired one, and while he might not be able to do so personally this idea ap- pealed to him as offering a solution of such cases.
 The committee was instructed to for
 mulate its plans more fully at it's ear- Hest convenience.
 Mir. Kendall, chairman of the com- mittee, brought up for consideration the rails used by the street railway in this city. He declared that the T rail
 in use here was dangerous and detri- mental, causing great wear and tear to 1 carriages, damage to pavements and being liableto cause accidents. He pro-. posed the substitution of the grooved rail, which he said could be laid even
 with the street, greatly improving it's appearance and saving the wear on car riages and the danger of the T rail. He
 suggested a committee, including May or Studley, President Woodruff of the Chamber of Commerce and MT. Alex
 ander Troup, who has written articles concerning the matter. It was proposed that an ordinance could accomplish the
 desired result, but MT. Kendall did not approve of the suggestion, saying, q don't believe it would be possible to get an ordinance through the board of al- dermen if the railroad did not want it."
 A resolution was adopted to appoint committee to interview the railroad of ficials regarding the use of grooved rails. The committee will probably be appointed to-day.
 The discussion then turned to the con- sideration of the Crown street exten- sion, which was thoroughly thrashed out. Colonel Fox characterized Woos- ter street as a thoroughly bad spot and told of the difficulties he had en- countered in twenty years experience. He proposed @ committee to call the at tention of the city to the necessity of the eytension.
 Attorney Arvine then delivered a res tune of the objections to the extension.
 Mr. Arvine said: In relation to the proposed extension of Crown street there seems to be considerable misap- prehension on the part of the public. The impression conveyed by newspaper articles that have heretofore appeared is that when the cut Improvements are completed Crown street can be extend ed and bridged over in addition to
 Wooster street, which now crosses the cut on bridge. This is not the plan that is contemplated by Mayor Studley and other persons who have been active in working up the proposed extension
 of Crown street.
 It is not true that the railroad off, cials have ever agreed or will agree, as part of the proposed cut improvements, to stand the expense of a new bridge over Crown street, if extended, or the large sums which it would cost to buy the buildings for the extension of Grown street, or to pay the land dam ages resultant therefrom.
 If new bridge is placed over the new cut over Crown street there will be no bridge at Wooster street, and Wooster street will be closed up.
 What President Mellen has actually agreed to do is this: If the city is will ing to close up Wooster street and give up the Wooster street bridge the rail- road will build bridge for the exten-
 sion Of Crown street, provided it is mo- titled within six months that this is the city's desire. In other words, the rail- road is willing to build one bridge and it is immaterial to the railroad whether the bridge is placed on the present To- cation at Wooster street or on the new location at Crown street. Tn other words. the railroad will build but one bridge and will not expend anything
 additional to the cost of building new
 bridge at Wooster street, over the cut, when improved.
 If the city decides to extend Crown street the people in this vicinity will not gain any additional street facilities, 1 but will simply exchange the Wooster
 street bridge crossing for one at Crown street.
 This exchange will cost the taxpayers of the city 8 large sum, probably $780, GOO, although the cost as yet cannot be