Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-11

The department or puDlc WOrKs Het yesterday afternoon and talked over the matter of appropriations. Nothing definite was done, but unless the board changes it's mind the sum total of the appropriations will not exceed that or last year. The board will have few more sessions before the report is ready to be forwarded to the board of finance
 In the evening the board held another meeting, remaining in session until nearly 10 o'clock. Besides Mayor El- ton there were present Commissioners Jackson, Holmes and Brown.
 hearing was given to parties in- terested in the application of the Con nectlcut Railway and Lighting Co for permission to lay line of rails in the l Thomaston road. The plan is to take l the middle of the street from the pres ent terminus of the tracks in Water vile to Fort hill, and keep to the west side from that point to the town bound ary. Attorney Garfield, representing 1 the ,Thomaston Tramway Co, said his company is ready to go ahead, but they | think 1t wise not to make commence ment until everything is settled on this end. They have five miles to build and expect to complete it by the first 1 of next July. Engineer Smith of the trolley company said the contract be- tween the two companies covered the
 matter of a time limit, and the mayor 1 said that he had received telephone
 message from Mir Paige stating that
 the c. R. and L. Co would meet the Thomaston people at the town bound
 ary as soon as they got there.
 "Did you ask Paige to reduce that to
 writing?" inquired Commissioner
 Brown. Nobody answered the query,
 but later on the mayor remarked that
 when he called Mir Paige's attention
 to some work which his company
 would be expected to do on the high
 way he hung up the telephone. Con-
 missioner Jackson thought it would be
 well to hang up the whole thing, and
 suggested that the clerk be asked to
 forward to the board so much of the
 contract entered into between them on
 this matter as relates to the time
 limit. A vote to this effect was passed.
 Only one resident of the Th0maston
 road asked to be heard in the premises.
 His name was c. L. Miller, and said
 he had no objection to offer. It was de
 cided to send the resolution passed by
 the aldermen Monday night relative to
 change of name of the Thomaston road
 back to the board with the understand | ing that the change include the entire
 roadway from West Main street to the
 town Boundary.
 The board disposed of a lot of petl- tions that have been received on and
 of during the past two years. Some of : them were ordered on file and others were kept on the table.
 When the petition of John F. Galla- , gher for the layout of the Wolcott
 road from the present termination of
 the layout to Welton's arch, was read,
 Commissioner Jackson provoked lots of
 sport by stating that Gallagher ought
 to be laid out himself, adding that while he should have been winning the
 first ward for the democrats he was 2 amusing himself at the Danbury fair t That's so," chimed in the mayor; T , hear he went over --hin1seif and tooE n two men and an OK with him." Yes, !. answered MT Jackson, with a smile ! almost enough to offset the republi can majority provided all of them re
 mained at home and voted straight. Q Whew, but didn't this create laugh : A communication from Undertaken F Gray calling attention to the annoyance n caused at his place of business at tht
 corner of North Main and Cooke streeti on account of the presence of build
 ing opposite his door for several days r created a lot of discussion in which l. F R. Carter came in for few knocks r Mir Carter is moving a building iron
 the McEvoy lot and appears to be hay > ing poor luck with 1t. He Is moving i l. in two parts and appears to be longe . at 1t than the officials expected h.
 would be- The first section is almos at It's destination, but the other wa
 reported to have just got onto the high Il way. The board was puzzled to knov e what to do when Mr Cairns suggeste' that his license be revoked and step l. taken to prevent him from moving tn if second half. Mir Brown had just oi . fered a motion to this effect when
 was stated that the second section v now clear out in the street. whereupo y AIr Brown withdrew his motion, rt d marking as he did that he didn't SC l. what could be done; Carter had th e drop on them
 ,- By George" said Commisslone e Jackson, nestling back in his chair, T "a we could beat Loren Carter I'd g = horse tradIng."
 n Beat Loren Carter" remarked Con
 missioner Holmes. If he thought an! g body in Waterbury could beat him he
 get out of town"
 Then the commissioners looked ;
 the mayor and the mayor eyed tf
 commissioners helplessly. as much .. to say, T give 1t up and think yo
 do" and not another word was sal , about 1t.
 le Commissioner Jackson said oi' thought it was time that suit Of Il Scovill Manufacturing Co relative n- water rates was settled and suggestt st that the city attorney be requested ty take it uD. The bill now amounts m 5000 or S7.OO0 and others are col nj mencing to follow suit. Mir JacksC S said that i'm time that would becon s quite a serious matter and thought A should have been passed upon long ag h- Somebody said that he understOOd u .r- city attorney was working on
 whereupon Mir Jackson fnquired ss. that was what he was doing the la
 week in Sepfember. This amused | no mayor and after casting altema .o- zIances at the engineer and the col .. missioners he said he believed |
 commissioner was right A vote VI l1i passed requesting Mr Kellogg to 1u ry, this case and also submit a copy of ordinance covering fne construction