Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-06
PUBLIC WORKS BOARD
Hearing on Widening Cole Street Will Take Place Tuesday Night.

At meeting of the bard of pub-
 lie works last night Engineer Cairns
 submitted plans for the widening of
 Cole street, from South Elm street to
 Union square. One show,d fifty
 foot stt~et with the cut oi tha cast
 side and the other was cnditione,l
 on taking such land as Is nesled from
 the opposite side. Mir Cairp said it
 is hard to make n fifty foot Areet out
 of n forty-foot roadway and lot take anything on either side, consuuently
 things are not very satisfactey. st
 Mary'ss school doesn't want to pse it's
 nice lawn and Dr Hayes andothers across tha way don't want tope en- crOached upon, either. The erineer
 appeared anxious to have the itreet
 widened, but the mayor and thecom-
 missioners didn't appear very athu-
 slastic over it. At the suggesti0 of
 the engineer it was decided tocite in the property owners next Tueqay
 night and hear what they hayt to say.
 With reference to changing he names of certain streets Patrick Hl- chan wished to have Calvin stret. near Wal! street, changed to Shelly street Thomas street in the saIA neighborhood, Mir Holohan named fc his son, Thomas, who died some tim ago, but the engineer said that there Is Thomas street in Simansvillle, and Mir Holohan was asked to think out new name for this street. too. Property owners on Cassidy avenue want that name retained, and sug- gested that the name of Cassidy street, farther north, be changed.
 B. F. Rowland said that he had no ticed various names mentioned for the square at the junction of Grand and Bank streets. He wished to state that he should be pleased to see it officially designated as Meadow Gate Elm. Originally the south gate of the city was situated at that point and twenty-foot passway that tra- versed that part of the town clear onto Town Plot was known as Mead ow lane. The mayor said the propo- sition would be considered
 A representative of the American Car Sprinkler Co of Worcester talked to the board about street sprinkling. He would rent the city a car or do 1t for so much q mile. The cost either way would be about $500 a mile. The board will investigate before decid. ing what to do.
 Opinions received from the city engineer stated that the present meth- cd of notifying property owners rela-. tive to hearings for public improve ments in legal. provided the notices reach the persons for whom they are intended. He believed that safer ro- turns could be made if the notices were left at the houses by an official instead of sending them through the mail. The city attorney also advised that a receipt in full be given to tho Scovill Mfg Co for something over 5000 water rents. to settle up the H. tigation over this question. and that further investigation be made regarsl- ing the claim of the Novelty Mfg Co for damages caused by the blocking of the sewer in Maple street.
 The contract for constructing the high service water main from Dublin street to Highland avenue was awarded to Abraham Jelin of New Jersey for $5.262.50. The engineer was instructed to advertise for bids for the construction of water mains in portions of Birch. Baldwin and Hill streets and for the construction of concrete bridge over Robbins street at Grandview avenue. pro. posals to be received on March 26. On the same evening property ,wn- CTS on Elizabeth street will be hard relative to laying permanent pave. ment in these streets. It was de- cided to construct shed roof at he swimming pool at Hamilton park IS per plans prepared by Freney ( Jac5- son. The commissioners considerd the advisability of trimming tn trees on Union square park and vote, to have the job done.