Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-06-27
D0ARD 0F ALDERhEN
Baldwin stfsst Trolley Ixtsnsien
 Lail Up Tor Repairs.

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 The aldermen held a meeting last night, and after giving the Baldwin street trolley black eye which 1t is not likely to get over for some time. opened fire upon the department of public works and the superintendent of streets and gave them terrible drubbing.
 Almost everybody expected that the report of the bureau of assessment relative to the Baldwin street question would go through with whoOp so that the company could go to work and get the line in running order before winter, but things didn't work that way and from what was said last night the property owners on Chape, street don't want the trolley on Elder street, and one of the aldermen, MT Filling, thought the extension of the trolley to Piedmont street would meet the requirements of that district and saw no sense in going to the Pearl Lakes road When the report regard ing this matter was read Mir Hewitt moved that it be accepted and the work ordered done. and the clerk was about to put the motion when Alder man Filling, who is member of the assessment committee. asked the board to look into this matter carefully be, fore voting He thought the expense too high and believed that there was no need of fifty foot street there The people didn't want to pay for the improvement and he was of the opin- ion that 1t wasn't right to force It on them
 David Hunter was heard and de-. clared that if he lost any of his prop erty he would lose the rest in fight to protect what they intended to take. He didn't think the fifty foot street at all necessary and cited various places this side of that on the line where the travel Is greater and the street con- siderably narrower and no inconven- fence is noticed. He knew the people didn't want the improvement at the expense mentioned in the report just read. Then all hands took hold of it. the democrats Included. and hustled it about in manner which would have delighted the trolley directors had they been there, for it is we'll known fact that they don't care to build the road and would be tickled to get out of 1t.
 Mir Murray wanted 1t sent back to the board of public works with in structions to lay out the street forty feet wide. but Chairman Blakeslee re- minded him that this meant delay of seven or eight weeks and probably more. The chair suggested that the engineer be called in to explain why the street was recommended laid out fifty feet. This was done and after brief period Mir Cairns appeared. In reply to a question from Mir Murray as to what he thought about running the trolley to the Pearl Lakes road on the present layout of the street, Mir Cairns replied that all the room trolley car took up was eight feet and that the street was wider than that at all points, so that such thing was pos sible If the board wanted to do it. Finally Mir Stanley moved that the matter he rec0mmitted to the alder men with request to make a forty foot layout. Before this motion was put Mir Cairns was heard in the prem lses. He said he was born and brought up in Waterbury and had all interest in the development of the town in all lines, but especially in the matter of streets, parks, sewers, water and such things. His duties. brought him in touch with such work; steadily for the past fifteen years and he thought 1t was about as intelligent and unbiased way as one could become familiar with projects of this charac- ter. He talked of the growth of Wa terbury and called attention to the fact that when the water works was first talked of some good citizens thought 1t a useless expenditure and contended that Browns well would supply the requirements of the city for the next century, if not forever. The same thing might be said with reference to the sewers. When the question was submitted to the people 1t was turned down. We are constantly finding fault with our predecessors for so many narrow streets. but if we keep on making streets only forty feet wide twenty years hence officials will be wondering why we were SO short sighted. Mir Cairns referred to con- .putations made some years ago by Rudolp Herring, showing that five years from now Waterbury will he city of 15 900 population. and then asked what it will he ten or twenty years hence. He pointed out the danger to public travel on forty foot street with trol- ley track in the center and cautioned the board not to make the mistake of reducing the width of Chapel street. After the trolley has been in operation there he said for year or two there will he more homes in the district. more wives and more children. more grocery teams and carriages. and then the need of the wider street will be apparent to all. He didn't want any body to judge that part of Waterbury by the present conditions because he knew that with the trolley service it would quickly undergo marked change.
 Alderman Beach viewed the matter from the engineers standpoint and T.. ought that while Mir Hunter might not be getting all he was entitled to that it was too bad to delay such a work as this. and besides. he believed that no street street should he less than fifty feet wide.
 Nr Stanley: "I believe in trolley extension. but I think we have been passing a great deal of trolley matters | a.I.