The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-31
NEW HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL AND COURIER THURSDAY OCTOBER 3 19o

might be unwise as IL cost So,oV0 TOT the borough streets and S9,5O0 even was small for the country roads. About police, the town got s9,O0O from liquor licenses and in 1905 had ordered the selectmen to have the shore patrolled, The $500 for the library was fixed by a bylaw and, he thought, would have to be passed.
 There was quite a little discussion as to how the various items should be passed on and it was finally voted to take each up separately. Some went by without a dissenting voice but oth- CTS caused stormy discussions.
 The matter of police patrol caused the feeling between borough and town to come out The residents of the borough did not take kindly to the | committees recommendation that they police the shore while inhabit- ants of the out side district objected to adding $2,1OO to the expenditures for the purpose.
 David H. Platt of Orange explained that there were town constables and every freeholder had the right to make an arrest of any person caught in an illegal act. He could see no req son for patrolmen. After the vote for the town to expend $3,600 for the pur- pose was passed, MT Plat gave notice that he should apply for an injunction to stop the town from employing police.
 Mir Rheinhard attacked the matter of the town giving money to public library. He said all the churches had libraries, so had at least one of the schools, and the public could not af- ford any other The tree warden, he said, was an unnecessary expense of $250 to $275 per year.
 Tree Warden Clark was on his feet at once and stated his reports showed he had never obtained one dollar for his service. As to the library, he felt | called on to state the facts. In Sep- Etember, 1906, the voters of Orange, at a legal town meeting, voted to estab- fish public library and give $500 per annum to support 1t; that was a by law and could not be repudiated with out some formality.
 MT. Rheinhard explained he had meant no personality to MT. Clark
 There was a lively scrap over the maintenance of a light in Allingtown, Just outside the borough These lights have been maintained at a cost of $500 per annum to the town Resi- dents of the borough objected and said Allingtown should pay for it's own street lights, First it was voted to discontinue these lights, but, after ward, the vote was reconsidered and $60C was appropriated for them, Allingtown was not so fortunate about Hts street being sprinkled. For several years about $4OO has been paid for the purpose, but last night motion to continue it was hopelessly lost.
 At the end it was round that every one of the original estimates of the se- Ilectmen had been adopted with the exception of the one for sprinkling Allingtown streets, The list is as fol- flows: Schools. $31,725; text books, $2,000; police, $3,600; interest, $12,- 900; library, $500; highways, $10, ltree warden $500g Kimberly avenue bridge tender, $4oo; repairs to Kim berly avenue bridge, $200 vital statis- tics, $275; state highways, $5,0O0; miscellaneous, $2,0O0; town hall, $2,- 900; lights, $500; all other items and fixed charges left in the discretion of the selectmen. Tax rate was fixed al
 8 mills on the dollar.
 The selectmen were empowered tc
 borrow money on the towns credit,
 James H. Peck said he had resolu.
 tion that he had been requested to In.
 troduce. He said he thought it a
 good thing for some reasons He
 thought that the assessors were rather
 easy on valuing farm lands and thu
 resolution he was about to introduce
 would make them more careful. Int
 resolution was: Resolved, That the selectmen as.
 certain the exact amount of money
 obtained from taxes Non property out. , side the borough limits and the money
 so obained, and nc more, shall be useC for he support of the parts of the tow
 outside the territory of the borough" The legal talent of the assembly
 Messrs. Bush and Wright, soon in f formed the others that such a resolu ton was illegal, and no matter how l admirable it's intent might be, it wa 5 impossible to take action on it, MT. Collinberg asked if the towi could take action to bring about bette street car service on Campbell ave I nue. Now, he said, street cars ar f scheduled to run every 12 minutes, bu t they are often 1S sometimes 24, min t utes late. He thought six-minut 5 service was needed mornings ant g evenings. He also stated that fence I were down on the Union street schoc 5 yard and children were endangerin l their lives by going on the railroa t track; if the town supported the fence r it should be repaired before an acci I dent occurred. Chairman Hall state v both these matters were outside tn r jurisdiction of the meeting.
 3 Adjourned.
 : CARROLL HEARING