The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-20
BACK TO PUBLIC AGAIN.
ANOTHER HEARING ON HUMPH-
 REY STREET FOR JANUARY

Board of Aldermen Reconsider Former
 Vote and Decide to hold Hearing as
 Committee of the WhoIe-aIayOr Sug-
 gests Change in Advertising Project
 Public Hearing on This for Decem-
 Der 9.
 The aldermanic chamber was filled with probably the largest gallery of the season last evening at the special ses- sion held to consider the status of the Humphrey street extension proposi- tion. The session, however, was dis appointing one to any one who expect ed lively tiff over the question as the board simply voted to hold a public hearing as 8 committee of the whole on the evening of Tuesday, January ?, when it is expected that there will be lively doings according to the opinion of some of the members of the board. The action of the board is character ized as a diplomatic way of bringing the matter before the public again. The Humphrey street extension was introduced by Alderman Homan. who moved that the boards previous action on the matter be reconsidered. The mo- tion was carried, whereupon Alderman Hotchkiss moved that the matter be referred to the board for a public hear ing as a committee of the whole. AL derman Devine immediately proposed an amendment providing that the &C., tion of the board upon receiving the re- port of the committee of the whole as the result of the hearing should be final.
 This evoked considerable opposition E from members who objected to at tempts to bind the future actions of the board, and was defeated. The orig inal motion was carried, and January 2 the date fixed upon for the hearing, when everyone who is interested in the plan either for Lombard or Alton streets will be heard.
 A communication from Mayor Stud- ley concerning the contract for city ad- vertising which expires January 1 was read to the board. The mayor declares the present system of advertising in the two papers that enter the lowest bids is unsatisfactory. He proposes that the city place its advertisements in all five of the city papers instead of two and for this purpose he requested the board of finance to raise the adwer- Using appropriation from $3,000 to $6,- 900. This was done. The mayors com- n.rnication closed with a suggestion to the board that after conferring with the corporation counsel it make a yearly contract with all five papers to carry all the city's advertising for a stipulated sum.
 In view of the nearness of the expi- ration of the contract the board voted to refer the suggestion to q special committee. President Townshend ap- pointed the following committee: Alder men Johnson, chairman, Courtney, Hamilton, Woodford and Langley. The committee will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, December 2s.
 A petition from William J. Atwater was introduced for the widening, of Mill River street, between Humphrey and Walnut streets to make it uniform in width with the rest of the street.
 Corporation Counsel Daggett's opin- ion in response to the request of the board of aldermen for information as to what share, if any, the city will have to bear in the building of the railroad bridge in case of the extension of Humphrey street to Alton street was submitted. In the corporation counsers opinion the city must pay one-talf.