Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-29

them condensed to a few select citi. gems who can give us some Informa- ton and not bring in everybody for if you do ] fear many will uMc who will not understand why they were called"
 Mr Fulton thought 1t would he n good idea to have City Engineer Cairny, Mir Patton aud somebody else go over the whole subject and report something definite, together with es- inmates.
 Mir Kiduff: "One of the best means of finding out what people want is to ask them. And I believe that In matter of such magnitude as the bond- ing of the city for vast amount of money the people have right to be heard. It Is only fair to give them q voice in this matter and not go ahead with the idea that all the wis dom Of this town is confined to few men. know there is enough good
 Judgment in this meeting to spend ! great deal of money in public way and do it judiciously. For my own part it wouldn't take me long to point
 where the city could put out $15.OO0 in public Improvements, but
 the people who would have to foot the bills might not feel prepared to go
 ahead on that scale. Yes think Mir
 Barlow's motion Is just right. We can
 get a dot of information from the
 people and after we have that. then
 we can make some investigation Our-
 loY.f
 instead of passing upon the matter
 without knowing what the public thinks of it." The motion was put and
 carried. Then 1t was voted on motion of Mir Kilduff that permanent i'm
 provement of streets be one of the subjects for discussion at the next meeting of the. commission. In this way MT Kilduff said the commission could go over the whole ground. be-
 come more familiar with what is needed and what each project will cost "For example," he said, if We think it would be well to pave ten
 miles of streets with different kinds
 of material let us see whether the
 whole thing will cost S5OO,0OO or more
 and then decide on that provided We are satisfied with it. Then there is
 the question of opening in streets for
 telegraph and telephone wires. which
 should be settled before all the streets are paved. The city should
 have but one conduit and let all the
 wires go into that and thus avoid the constant ripping up of pavements.' v Ex-AIayor Elton agreed with what Mir Kilduff had said, but took occa- sion to remark that the high tension wires and the other kind of wires,
 such as telephone and telegraph can not be put in the same conduit. The | former is too dangerous and have got 1 to be in conduit by themselves. I."But," continued, the chairman. we l want the whole of them underground. ] Go out on Grand street some time and take look upward and see that
 network of wires. don't thing q man could fall from the sky and come l to the ground without being caught on some of them wires"
 Mir Reach wanted to know if there are any plans and estimates on the | extension of Liberty street and also IT l1 WOul0 DP UlueH ITOUUle tO Hliu
 out how much contemplated and un- ! finished work with reference 10 streets is now on hand. The chaii ! said he didn't know. but he thought
 the engineer could impart all this in ..fornlation of hand. The clerk was,ral fquestpd to have the engiiieerc come 10
 the next meeting prepared to enlight-
 en the board on various topics. | Mir Barlow said he was of the opin. | ion that 1t wonld he well to keep T | record of what would transpire at the different hearings and with that end in view he moved that the commisH
 sion ask the board of aldermen for authority to hire stenographer for l that purpose. The motion was carried
 the chair remarking that he thought it would require the service of a
 Walsh to do iob of that character The meeting adjourned until next Tuesday night
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