Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-31
IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE.
Met Last Night and Talked of Revis- ing Taxation and Bonding City.


 The Brooklyn Improvement com-
 mittee met once more last night in the
 Lyceum, one of the subjects being discussed was that of bonding tile
 city for the sake of carrying out in- provements which have already been
 mentioned. Before the meeting ad- 1 jOurned it was voted to ask Mayor Thoms to appoint committee of fif- | teen to look into this matter and e,l- deayor to carry out the work which the committee has mapped out. At torney James M. Lynch and Assistant City Clerk Lawlor were appointed q committee to draw up suitable reso- lutions to present to- the board of al- dermen ill regard to the same.
 The scheme of bonding the city for
 some threS millions of dollars which 1 the committee has been discussing at l talked over last night. Although it ! was the intention of the committee to let this matter alone until tlie trOl- ley question had been disposed of, since some of the members wanted 1t
 launched immediately, it was accord ingly done. The plan is to issue about | $300,000 worth of bonds yearly for the ! improvements which the city is in need of The members do not expect to see some of the improvements be- gun until five or ten years have elaps- ed, but they think now is a good time l to start them. Another thing and perhaps the most ] important which the committee has yet touched upon was brought up last evening" and that is the revising of | the rate of taxation ill this city. As- | sistant City Clerk Lawlor said those I who originated the present system of taxation must have had bee in their | bonnet. He asserted that the system ! was outrageous and that it was very
 unfair that some property owners | should be compelled to pay almost q
 15 mill tax while their neighbors were
 paying about, 3 mills. The present system of taxation in regard to the inside and outside districts has been
 hanging fire for some time and if the Brooklyn people can revise it, they
 will be doing something that will be
 appreciated in all parts of the city. | It would seem that the best plan to pursue would be to change the taxa- | tion system and talk about the bond | ing of the city afterwards. Petitions will be circulated in regard to these
 things and will be presented to the
 board of aldermen. n .N't 70" The trolley matter had it's usual airing and the members of the Brook
 lyn and Town Plot societies declared | that they would not turn from the | hox rf
 Notwithstanding the promises of the
 Connecticut Railway and Lighting
 company to build line to Town Plot
 next year they will endeavor to get ! a conference with Manager Seweli as | they think the promises already made
 amount to nothing. They are not
 worrying over the fact that the re-
 port of the railroad commissioners. so it is said, will be favorable to the
 company for they expect to see an
 appeal taken by the city to the courts
 which will delay all lines for some l time.
 Charles Tyack, Attorney Lawlor. Attorney Lynch. Robert Walker and
 John Henderson poured hot shot into the Business Mems association for in- | III tht tiohVs hSSs. s.itSt the trolley question was discussed ut some length the following committee
 was appointed to try to rarahge q conference with General Manager Sewell to see if the company will do anything definite for the Brooklyn
 and Town Plot people: Messrs Hen
 derson. Walker, Rasmussen, Lynch,
 Tracy and Kelsey and the Rev Fath- | CT ]. NJ. Gleeson. .--.
 | The members also think that unless they get their demands from the Con
 necticut Railway and Lighting com- pany before it is swallowed by the
 Consolidated road, not much attention will be paid to that section. The mem-
 bers of the Brooklyn and Town Tot
 Improvement seekers seem to be as
 determined as ever to get their re- quests granted and although they
 have been working about three months
 none of the members seem to have
 lost any of the enthusiasm displayed
 when the first mass meeting was
 held.