Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-04
HEARINGS NEXT WEEK.
Amsndmsnts to City Charter Will Bs
 Tsksn Up at Hartford.

T
 Token Up at Hartford.
 People who want to be heard before the legislative committees at Hart ] ford on the several amendments to the charter concerning Waterbury had better commence laying plans for the trip now, for all of them with the ex- ception of the Naugatuck river Ques- tion will come up next week, the pcli- sion and tenure of office in the public schools Oil Wednesday afternoon at ? o'clock. The meeting will be held ill room ,, third floor, on the east side Of ,, the building. before the committee on education. By order of the board of aldermen, City Attorney Kellogg will be on hand to speak in favor of the bill With the exception of the row over the Naugatuck river, the pension and tenure of office proposition is about the only measure which there i appears to be much opposition to on the part of any great number of the 1 taxpayers. If put to vote of the rate payers here it would be buried out Of sight, but the men behind 1t don't care about that. 1t passed by majority 1 of one ill the board of aldermen, and l it required q lot of drumming up to get the last man. The taxpayers have l no objection to the teachers getting to- gether and organizing benefit soci- ety out of their own wages, but they object to the clause which provides l that in case the one per cent of the teachers salaries shouldn't be suffi- 1 cient to meet the demands made on the funds, that the deficit be made up by tax on the ratable property i'll | Waterbury. It accounts for some Of the missing yokes which Mir Gilmartln Inquired about in the Democrat Thursday. i1lasmuch as it compels peo- ple of limited means to pay into fund for the, maintenance of public officials that receive full remuneration for their services from the municipality while it employs them. and most citi- zens take the ground that the tax payers cannot afford to pension teach CTS and pay others to continue the work of teaching. The maintenance of the schools costs the city q great deal on the present plan and very few care to see burdens added that the people 1 have no right to bear. An official in the schools. if this act passed, after spending thirty years in the schools and receiving from the city some thing in the neighborhood of $1OO.OOO l retires on a life salary of $1.;JOO or s2.- | GOO a year. To entitle him to this he paid one per cent per annum on about onethir1 of his salary while he was employed. A man works for the city in some other capacity. but does not earn one-sixth of S1OO.OOO in thirty tires. or rather when he is discharged? !? Nothing. but he is by no means free man. Tn addition to providing for him. self he will be obliged to chip in to make up the deficit in the pension
 fund for the benefit of people who earned more in year than he received for ten years service. Some consider
 this q yoke and claim that if Mir Gil-
 martin is taxpayer in Waterbury he
 must be in his second childhood if he does not see it.
 The House Bulletin publishes mo- tices of the other hearings as follows: l Thursday. March 2. ? D. mn. R.
 No 2S6 (Rlakeslael. amending charter of the city of Waterbury. relative to building inspectors. IT. R. No 2s' (Rlataslepl. amendin" charter of city of Waterbury. re"ar1inc public parks. U R. No 2a9 (Rlakeslee) amending Waterbury charter. rerardin" fire de- Dartment. H. R. No 29O (RlakeSiee,. amending acts consolidating town and city governments in Waterbury. as to duties of selectmen reenrlinr fancns and marriage of minor females. IT. F.
 No 29t RIakeslee,. amending Water bury charter. raoardinr hoard of re- lief. II. R. No 2a:s Rlakaslee,. amend. ing Waterbury charter. concerning DO
 lice department. IT. R. No 20G (Rlakes- lee). amending Waterbury charter, re- parding assessments. Fl. R. No cS'
 Blakeslee'. amending Waterbury char. l ter. regarlin- department of public health. H. F. No 3S3 16lakesiael, amending Waterbury charter. regard ! ing water rates.
 1 All these measures with the cxcep- | tion of the one on water rates have been approved by the aldermen. This provides for an additional charge of ten per cent to consumers in the out side district. There is more merit in this than in all the others put to- gether. but the additional charge should be at least 25 cents instead of 10 cents. Tlle draft will he submitted to the aldermen Monday night. Under the present plan people in the second district pay all the cost of mainten- ance and extension of the water sys- tenn. The outside district contributes nothing to this outlay. hut they get water at the same rates as those on the inside. The unfairness of this must he apparent to everybody. no matter where they live.
 Nobody likes ihe tenure Os office scheme for building insDecior. hut he cause the present facumbent. MT Chat field. is not in had favor with build- CTS nobody cares much about if. any way. The tax for parks has host of enemies. hut whether they will he rep resente, at the hearing or not is not o,anoral;r L.,oy-u