Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-12
BOARD OF AIDE RnEN
Alderman Hewitt Charged With
 Having a Defective nemory.

1 Having Defective emory.
 l The board of aldermen met las
 night, there being present Chairman
 Blakeslee and Messrs Bergen, Murray
 Hurley, Filling, Stanley, Beach, Buck
 Hewitt and Callan.
 The different recommendations oi
 the board of public works were reat
 and approved. Several petitions fol
 new work were suitably referred. The report of the bureau of assessmen,
 relative to the matter of benefits and I damages arising from improvements 1 at Little, brook on Adams street ano for the layout of the Waterfown road
 from Irvington avenue southerly were 1 approved. The report of the bureau l of assessment on the question of bene-
 fits and damages arising from the lay out of the Watertown road 1000 feet
 southerly from the boundary lines of Waterbury and Watertown was read and laid on the table.
 Commissioners J. J. Mcdonald and W. J. Larkin of the department of ed ucation appeared in support of peti- tion for a new street southerly from Luke street to the Mulcahy school. Mir
 McDonald said he had looked over the
 situation in that neighborhood and
 found it much worse than he supposed.
 He was satisfied that parents of chill
 dren in other districts would not per-
 init them to attend school in the winter
 season under such conditions as exist
 there, but they wouldn't have to resort
 n hot
 opened any place else unless there
 were decent approaches to it. He said
 this condition has existed for nearly
 three years and that after waiting all
 that time and seeing no signs of relief
 coming, a big delegation from that dis
 trict waited on the board of education
 the other evening and urged the neces
 sity of doing something before the bad
 weather sets in. Mir Mcdonald con cluded by stating that 1t was not now
 a question of who was to blame for what has been done there,. but rather to make approaches to the school, which stands in the lots some distance from any public way, and appealed very strongly to the board to push the matter.
 Alderman Hewitt wanted to know if the position the school occupies on the lot was the result of accident or if somebody did 1t on purpose, to which Mir Blakeslee replied that this was al- other bridge case The huInor in this was that a few weeks ago MT Hewitt referred to the bridge at Wedges cor ner as Stupidity bridge, and evidently the chair thought it wouldn't be out of place to compare the work on the school in like manner. Commissioner Larkin explained the complications brought about on account of the pe- culiar location of the school after which MT Murray moved that the board of public works be instructed to proceed with the work of laying out the street asked for by the board of education. This didn't appear to meet with much favor on the opposite side of the house, and although it was sec onded by Mir Hurley it was not put. Finally MT Beach moved that the 1 board of public works be instructed to 1 report on the question at the next | meeting. This was put and carried.
 The proposed amendment to the po- | lice ordinances, referred to a commit- l tee consisting of Aldermen Hewitt, | Filling and Murray some time ago, | formed the basis of a snarl that threat | ened to end in fist-cuffing match. A | 1report, signed by MT Hewitt md AIr Filling, was received, recom- that the draft be passed for sngrOssment, but MT Murray came for ward with a verbal minority report. He said he had no objection to the of the gentleman whom the proposed draft was intended to pro ect but he was unalterably opposed o special legislation for the benefit of my man or set of men and that con- he could not append his lame to the favorable recon mendation ,n any such measure. "More than hat continued the alderman, ."I feel constrained to say that board of pub ic officials acting for the public good 'annot be said to have done its work we'll when 1t passes legisla ton that nables an official to faunt defiance md indifference in the face of his su- ,erlors and they cannot interfere with jim. We have too much of this kind f legislation for the good of Water lury. It was tried twice this year. In ne case it was successful, but the ther was blOcked.''
 This nettled the boys on the other idle and as soon as Mir Murray sat own Mir Hewitt jumped to his feet nd charged Mir Murray with saying e was satisfied with the report last Feek and said he would sign 1t. Mir Iurray denied the imputation and told he alderman from the third that there ras no report ready for him to sign Then the committee met. MT Filling lso claimed that MT Murray said he fould sign 1t, but the alderman from he fourth Indignantly denied 1t and informed Afr Filling that his memory ras defective.
 Alderman Beach inquired how the raft gave him special protection, and IT. Murray said that in order to an- sver that question committee secrets Tould have to be trotted out At this 1ncture somebody cried ''0rder," and hartman Blakeslee tried to stop the Herman from going farther. but he ept right on and wound up by stating nat a member of the committee had lformed him that this act was being assed to save Beach's scalp from eer- lin republicans who want to get hold [ it. Isn't that special legislationi" amarked the alderman. as he dropped ito his seat.
 'No,- replied Mfr Filling 'sThe same " will apply to Mir Beach's successor niess it should be changed. Mfr Beach ont live forever. The place may be acant after Nfew years, although ope to see Mir Beach enjoy the posi- on for the next twenty yearss
 The motion was then put and car cd, but judging by the way Alder