Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-06
BOARD MEMBERS WERE BUSY Town Plot People Hand Advocating Trolley Rates Touched On-Bids For Completion of 0utfaI Sewer Dis
 cussed West Main Street Asphalt

 ton offered by MT Rasmussen for being q little behind, and on hearing this the hearing was re-opened. where upon MT Rasmussen reviewed the long fight of the residents of that part of the town to get trolley service and urged the board not to let this oppor- tunity go by without doing something which will insure the service to that district. At the present time, he said, there are about 200 families up there and on Ben Mohr, Grandview Heights and Englewood over a thousand build ing lots have been sold and paid for, but people don't want to build on ac- count of the hardship in reaching there without trolley service. He considered it the handsomest residence district iI Waterbury and knew it would be dot ted with handsome cottages inside of year if they could get the trolley. Attorney Lawlor said he believed it the duty of the boards to take firm stand on these matters and not approve plans if they possibly can help it unless they are so made out that the thickly settled parts of the town may not be in need of the service Tt is rather strange he continued, fin q town with a population of nearly 10000 souls that it has but twelve miles of trolley rails when everybody knows that 1t ought to have not less than fifty. It does seem to me that the aldermen should refuse to take favorable action on further trolley ex- tensions until such time as Waterbury is fully equipped with the service. We
 have offered the company rights of way through private property and there is patronage in the district which we represent that would pay at the outset to say nothing of what it would be a few years after the Toad was built"
 At the suggestion of MT Goss it was decided to hold the hearing open for another week to give the committee an, opportunity to confer with Colonel Burpee, who is working in their behalf and also to furnish the board with time to suggest to the company that its plans be changed so as to include the building of a line on Town Plot. The matter of calling for bids for the completion of sections one and fNo of the outfall sewer was discussed at some length, and finally it was de cided to instruct the engineer to cab for proposals for the completion of section i, this being the job on which the McGoverns quit work some time ago. At the suggestion of the en- gineer it was also decided to call for proposals for the construction of sec tiOn 2. These will make up contract of over S100,000. The bids will be received on December 30. MT Wade was not quite pleased with this step because he thought it was cutting out in advance q lot of work for tile new board. It might not appear that way to others. but 1t did seem so to him The board voted to reject the offer of S10,000 of the National Surety Go ir settlement of the McGovern Construc- ton Go tangle.
 the asphalting of West Main street was settled last night in favor of the city and again the company was re. quested to do the work. Mir Reeves produced the records. away BdcR ili' days of City Clerk Richard F. Grady, which showed that the conditions i'm posed for the turnout on North Willow street near RidgewOod street included the covering of the cobbles with as- phalt from curb to curb.
 The applications to remove trees on Sperry and Mattatuck streets were re- ferred to the superintendent of streets for investigation and report. The st1- perintendent of streets was authorized to issue William II. Lowe permits to open Aurora and Dublin streets. the former for water connection and the latter for sewer. with the under standing that the work be completed and the ditched back filled by Satur- day night. Thomas D. Barlow wanted an extension of time on a few jobs ns has in hand. He was allowed to go ahead with his work on Round Hih street, but the other applications were denied on the ground that it was too late in the season to commence opeu- ing the streets. For the same reason the United Gas Improvement Go failed to secure favorable action on applica- ton to make excavations in a dozen or more streets.
 Commissioner Jackson inquired how Pine street came to be opened opposite the F. H. Carroll new block. This put Mir Wade on his mettle and he prompt ly moved that the street inspector be instructed to investigate and report what was going on up there, adding that probably somebody was doing this kind of work and not bothering about asking permission. The records showed that it is up to the trolley com pany to fix Baldwin street at the BaP- tist church and the superintendent of streets was directed to see that they do it before everything freezes up.
 On motion of AIr Goss it was voted 10 recommend to the aldermen that an electric are light he installed at the corner of Union and Cole streets. X list of sewers completed and streets graded during the present year was received and ordered transferred to the aldermen.
 An application from the American to erect an electric sign in front of their plant on Grand street was referred tc Mir Hotchkiss for investigation and re- port. Nlr Wade inquired If this wasn't just the kind Of thing they have been aiming to keep out. to which Mir Jack. | son replied that it looked something | like it.
 The manager of the spiritual end of 1 the Salvation Army intends to feed 1 1000 hungry people on Christmas day 4 and with view to raising the money to buy things with he asked peTmiS-