Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-23
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
1homas Dick Had Ruuin With EAsi.
 nsss Cajsns Last Nisht.

S DooAu oI puullC WOfkS SOC tO-
 gether last night, Mayor Elton presid.
 Ing, and finished up all the business on hand The principal feature of the
 session was bout between City Eng-
 .leer Cairns and Thomas Dick of the Watertown road. A hearing was held on the proposed layout of that street rom lrvlngton avenue to point about
 lOOO feet from the boundary line of Watertown and Waterbury. The sur. vey shows that the bank opposite the Dick property will be cut into and
 this is what Mir. Dick objected to. The selectmen thought they could
 do as they pleased there some years ago. said MT. Dick, but l employed
 counsel and then they kept away from me and made the wall which you in-
 tend to. tear down the street line"
 You don't own anything outside the
 line of your house," chimed in Mir. Cairns. ''the old fences show the original layout"
 That's not so,' replied Mir. Dick.
 ''The fences are set back in the lot be-
 cause you couldn't put them close to
 the road on account of the way the
 Dahk has been constantly crumbling
 down. Tbe fence has nothing to do
 with it. Do you mean to say that
 man cannot put fence any where he
 likes on his own property? Talk about wanting straight streets. Why not
 keep on the other side where there
 is lots of room and no building if you
 want straight street instead of com
 ing in where there is improved prop
 erty and getting crooked roadway"
 The engineer still cOntended that the
 wall is in the. highway, but Mr. Dick
 was firm in his belief that this was
 wide of the mark and claimed that
 he could get several old timers to
 prove he was right. ln reply to a
 query as to whether there was a hear
 ing before the selectman when that
 layout was adopted MT. Dick said he didn't recollect, and added that the selectmen did things to suit then- selves just as the city officials are now doing.
 During the discussion something was said about the TelfOrd road at that point and the grade which was ap- proved by Highway Commissioner Macdonald whereupon Mir. Cairns re- marked that the highway commls- sioner did the same kind of job there as he performed on the Middlebury road, cut down the hollows and filled up the hills. The hearing went over for one week.
 Property owners on Plaza avenue ROseland avenue. Randolph avenue Gloves terrace. Crescent street, Hew- 1 lett street and the Watertown road, were called and heard regarding the construction of sewers in these streets. | There was no opposition and the pro iects were favorably reportad to the al- dermen. A hearing w;iS lalsO heard on the proposed change of grade on Cooke street from North Main street to the | of NJ. l.. Sperry. Nobody ap- 1 peared. but the clerk said he represent 1 ed the McEvOys and Cornelius MalOney | and that they were not opposed to the work, but would claim damages. It | was favOrably reported to the alder men. New petitions were disposed of as follows: F. B. Hare for permission to maintain boOtblack's stand at 26 l Bank street referred to the superin- tendent of streets: Louis Raffel for sidewalks on Putnam street and an electric light at Willard and Putnam referred to sidewalk and light | lng committee; J. J. Macauley for water main in New street from the Watertown road to the Bunker Hill road, referred to the engineer. A con- was read from Albert Bley of Pine street stating that he cannot get any city water on the second and third stories of his building. It was to Superintendent Johnson.
 The contract for laying ten-inch water main in Grand street from Bank street to Field street, and for the con- structiOil of siX-inch mains in Plaza avenue. North Willow street. Railroad Hill street and Piedmont street, was awarded to Heating & Eagan. The different bids were as follows: Keat- ing X Allen, S2.226.65; Robert Allen. s2S1S; Pasquale Contaldi, S2S96.7O; md Edward McManus, $2.997.3j.
 X hearing was set for the layout and grade of lower Baldwin street OH April II. Property owners on Round Hill. Railroad Hill and Plaza avenue will be heard relative to layout and grades on April IS.
 It was voted to recommend to the aldermen that public necessity and con. renience require that Railroad Hill street be extended from its present ter minus to South Leonard street. This would bring the street out to the road eading to South Main street over the Ower bridge at the Naugatuck river md in addition to developing a vast .ract of property it would also be a great convenience to large number of