Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-19
BOARD oI PuDLIc vvoRKS
ostiaS te llassachssssts ts Ixanias
 Diasrsns Klnas of lavsnsnt.

0atinS to nAsaachasetts te 1xami1e
 Di6srsns KiAds of lAvsnsat. The board of public works held . big meeting last night, Mayor Elton presiding, and heard parties interested
 in public Improvements in different parts of the town. Plans were also perfected for an outing to Massachu. setts for the purpose of examining tho kind Of pavement in use in some 0s the cities there. The mayor and all the commissioners with the exception
 of Mir Brown, Clerk Reeves and City Engineer Cairns, will leave from the city hall building tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock in two automobiles, one
 owned by Mayor Elton and the other belonging to Commissioner Wade. They will make a short stop at Hart, ford and from there run will be made to Springfield and thence to Holyoke, Worcester and other places. If tho
 machines do their work well the tour. ists will return Friday night or Sat | urday.
 The hearing relative to the extension of Railroad Hill street to South Leon.
 ard street, brought out big crowd of
 property owners from that district,
 most of whom favored the proposition. Others had no use for it. Some had
 no objection to the project provided nothing should be taken from them and
 no assessment for benefits levied against them. It was passed along to the aldermen with a favorable recon.
 mendatiOn. The board wanted to es. tablish building, but having no au-
 thority to go ahead with the work 1t was decided to ask permission from the aldermen and a hearing on this matter will be held later.
 The hearing on. the proposed exten. sion of Round Hill street to Camp street was continued for a week to give the engineer time. to make a sketch showing how the street would look by keeping back five feet from Mir Camps building instead of coming
 within ten inches of it, as the profile
 on hand provided, Some of those
 who were heard took the same ground they did when the matter was before the board some time since. They con- sidered it public benefit and held that there was no reason why the ex- pense incident to the work should be
 assessed against property in the i'm mediate vicinity. They are right in this. but whether they will be able to talk the officials into looking at 1t from their standpoint. In this case tho
 board also asked permission to hold
 hearing relative to the establishment of huilding lines in that street. The hearing on the order of the al-
 dermen with reference to the burying
 of trolley wires in certain streets was called. and went over for a week. Mir Sewell was in the meeting room searly in the evening but he left before the
 matter was taken up. Inasmuch as he had a chat with some of the of1cia4s
 it would appear that his disappear.
 ance could have been explained by the
 board if they cared to.
 May 9 was agreed to as the date for
 hearing on the proposed widening of Grand street from Bank street to Hall
 street to a minimum width of 70 feet
 On that date bids will be opened for
 the grading of Walnut avenue. the es-
 timated expense being 5000; also for
 the grading of Silver street. the esti.
 mated expense being $1,O5O. The su. perlntendent of streets was directed to
 proceed with the widening of Maple
 street. Waterville, at an expense not to
 exceed $500. @ bnjThe, mayouowas authorized to pur- fahassf the Tompkjns property at Ham. ilton park at price not to exceed $2,50O. Bills to this amount were ap-
 proved. The mayor was also instruct.
 ed to secure the Northrup property at
 Hamilton park and pay $100 as part | consideration of the price. Another
 vote was passed authorizing the mayor
 to buy the King. mills place at the
 Branch at price not to exceed $1,37O. Action on the proposed change of
 grade on Division street was tabled to
 give the bureau of engineering time to
 look up title searches. The communi- cation from Chief Snagg, referred to the board by the aldermen, brought up
 few sharp remarks from the city
 engineer and Commissioners Wade and Jackson. It has reference to the cou. duct of the engineering department and seeks to have the flre marshal no.
 tifed whenever hydrant is opened for any purpose. Mir Cairns requested | that 1t be referred to him for report This was done but not before Mir Wade
 remarked tha the thought the chief was
 right whereupon Mir Cairns remarked
 that 1t, would cost $500 year to do it. This amused Mir Wade who hinted that | neglect to do 50 might result in losses to the amount of $5OO.OOO. Mir Jack. | son was of the opinion that there
 should be some. rule governing such
 things, but Mir Cairns brought the dis cussion to a close by stating that they
 have rules enough now. The engineer was authorized to buy gravel from the Scovill Mfg Co at . price not to exceed ten cents a yard.
 It was recommended that sewers be
 constructed in North Vine street from
 Griggs street to North Mains treet from
 in North Main street from Aetna street to North Vine street and in Washing. ! ton avenue from Charles street to Bank street. It was voted to recon.
 mend that Plaza avenue and Crescent | street he laid out and building lines es- tablished thereon. Favorable action
 was taken of several applications for license to maintain bootblack stands
 and for licenses to make excavations
 in the public streets.
 The engineer has plans under way to
 plant young trees at the reservoir on Arbor day and Superintendent John.
 son was requested to dig the holes and
 have everything ready for the work 
 PHILHARMONIC CONCERT.
 All preparations are nearly com
 pleted for the big popular concert te