The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-08
PUBLIC OPINION HEARD.
MANY SUGGESTIONS ON NEXT
 TEARS ESTIMATES.

Tuberculosis Hospital Strongly Sup
 ported by Colonel I. M. UuIIman-
 Felix ChiIIingwOrth Says People Will
 Stand Increased Tax for School Needs
 Summer Fairgrounds Estimate of
 s2,5OO submitted-Rev. Mir. Irvine
 Suggests Branch Stations of Public
 Library.
 The public hearing on the estimates given by the board of finance last evening developed support for con- siderable number of special projects. Attorney Harry G. Day, representing the prudential committee of tbe New Haven hospital called the attention of the board to the fact that shortage has existed this year. in the appEOpria- tion for the city's eases at the hos pital. He suggested that an increase should be made in the hospital account.
 Colonel Isaac M. Ullman appeared in support of the hospital account. He said that the city had appropriated A'lcAS AAOAASS = 1eSAo e1SoO MI SAA-S SSJNSS than it does to-day. Many persons, he declared, were now sent to Spring side home who should be sent to the hospital instead. This resulted in a saving on this account, but the people should not send it's poor people who were sick to the Springside hom3, CT, in other words, the poorhouse, ard then make paupers of them when it was avoidable. In answer to the clailn that the typhoid epidemic had caused | the shortage in the hospital account 1 Colonel Ullman brought out the tact i that the account was short before the epidemic at springside broke out, and would have been insufficient even an. der normal circumstances. He there fore favored a large appropriation for the charity account.
 In regard to the estimate of the board of charities and ct rreetous, l asking for money for a city hospital, Colonel Ullman believed this to be a mistake. The city hospital, when it is built, should not, he said, he located | at Springside, because it was the poor house, because 1t was a bad location, SCi1iS IOO 4cL1 lO COLI P~l'sDlAo HAAh M | cause he believed the city Hospital | should be built in the center of the | city. He did not believe the city was 1 ia a situation at present to oclld c.ly 1 hospital.
 | Colonel UIlman favored the plan for tuberculosis hospital at Springside, l saying that there was at present no I place for incurables to go.
 Attorney Day stated that the New
 Haven hospital prudential committee
 had recommended the building of a
 tuberculosis ward to eradicate the ob-
 jection of the hospital receiving bad
 cases of tuberculosis.
 Felix Chi1lingworth appeared in fa- vor of the tuberculosis hospital. He
 said that the terms poor house and 1 work house did not apply to Springside heme., He also urged an appropriation for the park commissi on to rsnd5r the
 Edgewood park playground safer for 1 children. One death has already been !. recorded there, he said. as the result oG
 insufficient fencing.
 Touching upon the school accommc- dations, he said that in his opinion ninety per cent. of the citizens would
 vote for an additional tax if necessary
 to make the school app 'o2Giation suf- ficient. Mayor Studley asked him if he
 thought 1 IA mills additional would
 be objected to if nece3, Lry. Mir. -h:l-
 lingworth said he did not think it
 would, if it was really necessary. May
 or Studley said it was.
 Judge Ullman appeared and strongly
 urged the appropriation asked for the
 bath houses In Fort Hale park. Mrs. Edward I. Atwater appeared to , ask the board for an appropriation of
 $250O for the summer schools and play ' grounds. She stated that the work
 had been carried on hitherto by pri-
 vate subscription. She said that it was now time that the city undertook this } important work, as was done in other l large cities. She set the expenses ot . managing these schools and play
 grounds at $1,825 for the past year but said $2500 would be needed by the i city.
 [ Alderman Johnson and MT. Bassett
 appeared to urge a permanent paving
 in Shelton avenue, and Deputy Regis
 trar Frederick Carlson appeared in sup : port of the Eighth ward bell tower appropriation.
 , State Highway Commissioner Jame! I H, Macdonald spoke strongly agains' r what he characterized as the patel D and plaster work method of the cit!
 in regard to it's street paving. H.
 urged a reform in this system. r Rev. Alexander Irvine was the cham,
 pion of the public library. The annua T appropriation he styled a miserabl g one. His principal suggestion was ar e appropriation for branch libraries
 Ex-Aldernaan Donovan urged th - voting machine appropriation zealous v ly.
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