Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-21
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Alderman Says Thsss is 10 Way to
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 vice president Beach presided at tho
 meeting of the aldermen last night.
 It was expected that there would be a
 tussle over accepting or rejecting the
 minutes, but it turned out to be tame affair, the matter being disposed of by
 a resolution offered by Mir Hewitt pro-
 viding that the division of the vote on the park question be dropped from the journal and that the record on that question stand on the decision of the chair, that is that the resolution sub-
 bitted by the board of public works relative to library park was adopted. The object of this move was pmiii enough. It appears that ten members or the board promised to vote for the park i'll case 1t came to yea and nay vote, but it didn't get to that, and the editor of one paper being onto the deal lnyddress. yh1Sclohdpnitaear
 printed the names of the good men and true. This caused lot of trouble. All the aldermen didn't vote on the side their name appeared and then the, question came up as to what became of the missing links. Somebody who knew more about the case than any of the reporters fixed up the names as the members were pledged tOyOte and put it before the public. The accuracy of the report was challenged by every body who was at the meeting and in order to let the author of the bull down easy it was decided to drop the names altogether so that nobody could tell how the vote stood, except that it was carried.
 Alderman Murray wanted to know what was the matter. He considered the minutes all right and thought they should not be changed Unless somebody came forward and represented that he had been put on the wrong side. In the absence of anything of that sort, the aldermen said he thought it would be well to let the journal remain as it had been prepared so that in the fu- ture in case anybody wanted to know who favored the park and who opposed it the information would be available.
 
 question for anybody to tell what way the board voted on that matter. There was no yea and nay nor rising vote and as these are the only methods by which the names of the men who voted for and against the measure could have been secured he believed that the prop CT thing to do was to omit the names. There was no particular objection to the resolution and 1t went through all right. ..
 Mayor Elton submitted may show ing the plan for the new union station, of grade crossings, changes of grades and so forth. and asked that 1t be accepted and that q vOtebe pass. ed authorizing himself or somebody else to finish mp the details. The plan was accepted and the mayor empower ad to do whatever is necessary to bind the city and the railroad to the terms If the agreement, as shown on tile map. 1
 The following action was taken on 1 the various claims for damages: Jerc- | miah Murphy. fall on Walnut street, f5O: Mary Cannon, fall on East Main l street. $1O0: Mrs John Griffin fall on l Pine street, $l25; David and Mary Mc- | 'arthy David McKenna, Frank Crness. Edward Keane. Austin H. Pot | CT. Nicholas Pagan, Joseph and vir- yinia Disaboti and Edward Roach, cave to withdraw. Frank and Mary Andrews, who protested against pay ng paving assessment on Grove street. won out on the ground that they | lad not been properly notified. Their application for release of the liens filed | against them was granted. The con- of the board of education the sub-contract> of the Electric Time Co.,, on the Margaret Croft school was referred 'ack to that board with the infOrma- ion that the board of aldermen had no jurisdiction in the premises.
 Several petitions for new work were eferred to the board of public works. The application of the board of safety or authority to appoint two new pa- rOlmen was granted. The request of own Clerk Blair with reference to the rder of things to be pursued during he indexing of the records, was answered. by requesting the clerk to ii- Orm Mir Blair that he is to have ac- ess to the records at all times. The Jerk was instructed to make out the ecessary papers for the bonds of S1GO,- OO sewer sold to Perry, Coffin X Burr.
 The following applications were read pr appointment as constable to sue eed the late Thomas H. Pryor: JO- rph NJ. Darling. Everett R. Perkins, 'Ominic Manfredi and Frank Rametti. our Democrats also filed applications: ohm R. Moran, John F. O'BrieI. harles Boylan and Benjamin WitkOw- si. One would naturally think that ne plum would fall into the lap. of one ne of these applicants, but this was ot the case, the juicy morsel being pssed over to Louis Archambault Tho had no petition before the board. wo ballots were taken with the fol- 'wing result: Archambault 6, Darling Rametti ?. Moran 1. WitkOwski I. nd Perkins ]. The second ballot was ,rmal and Archambault caught F out the 13. He was declared elected. A big batch of applications for abate lent of city taxes went through. but ! all probability that is the last lot of ie kind that will pass in that shape. { the suggestion of Mir Hewitt the ty attorney was requested to see if lis abuse cannot be remedied without < hardship upon those who are not able 1 pay. His idea was to defer action such cases and let the heirs pay the Ixes when they get the property after ,
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