The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-04
DERBY AVENUE
 HOSPITAL SITE Reported by Two of Com mittee and Report is Ac- cepted After Fight.
ATTEMPT TO RECOMMIT
Tie Vote Dissolved by Presi- dent Johnson-Many
 Matters Up.

One little step further in the the progress of the New Haven contagious disease hospital was scored in the board of aldermen last evening when, attempt to recommit the report of the committee which had the consideration of the charge, President Johnson dis solved a tie by deciding to have the report printed in the journal. The committee report was presented and read to the board last evening favoring the proposition for the hospital and rec ommending an order for the purchase of the proposed Derby avenue site.
 Immediately upon the reading of the report Alderman Homan asked if 1t was unanimous report. The clerk read the names ofAldermen Curtiss and Davis signed to the report. Alderman McKerness, chairman of the committee, stated that he was opposed to the Derby avenue site and so had not sign ed the report.
 Alderman Homan opposed accepting the report He said: Tt seems to me an unwise time to present this report. Tn the first place we don't know yet how much money the committee will have to spend on the hospital as the legislature has not yet taken action on the bond issue for it. Secondly, we should know what kind of hospital is to be built before we purchase a site.
 We have now plot of land in the Twelfth ward purchased by the city for this purpose that cannot be used, and to purchase this site now may prove a repetition of the same thing. There will be just as much opposition to this site as there was from the Twelfth ward. I am personally opposed to this Derby avenue site.
 II think that the board should not attempt to force 1t upon weaker ward or where citizens do not want it,
 tPersonallv think the center of the city is the proper place for this hos pftal. The center of the city is the center of contagion. The nearer the center of contagion the hospital is the better. Moreover, it is bound to have an effect of depreciation upon sur rounding property, if located in the outlying district while in the center 1t will not have that effect.
 "So, not that I am opposed to the proposition itself, but that we may wait until the legislature acts and we know what the plans for the hospital are. I move that the report be recommitted to the committee and held until a more favorable time"
 Alderan Curtiss thought the Derby avenue site while not ideal. was good enough and so, he said, he had voted for it. He considered the Water street site the second best and said he would vote for that rather than have none at all
 "As for this waiting until the legfsla- ture does something, that is the old story of proerastination," said he. "The opponents of the hospital simply ask us to wait. That is the story of the past fifteen or twenty years.
 Again, don't think the effect will be to depreciate property ultimately. The Derby avenue site is in my own ward. I think it would be impossible to select any site that would not meet with opposition"
 Alderman Townshend followed up MT. Crrtiss remarks Tt seems to me this board could consider itself criminally liable for putting this matter off. It doent seem to me that we ought to delay any longer. If an epidemic should break out here, I think we should all feel culpable. Derby avenue seems to me to be the ideal site"
 Alderman Loos rose to ask informa- tion as to what the legislature had done on the matter, saying he was un- der the impression that the legislature had settled the matter. He asked all derman Homan for information.
 Alderman Homan informed him that the legislature had not acted and no one knew if they ever would, as the matter had been laid on the table. "Go and buy your site and it will be oppos- ed--an injunction perhaps--in fact, I know it. Besides the site is not par amount issue" He favored the Water street site saying 1t was nearest the danger zone and could not damage surrounding property.
 Alderman Townshend said that the fact that the money had not yet been authorized should not stand in the way and that from those who were planning the matter it was known that this site was large enough.
 A yea and nay vote on the question of recommitment was called for and resulted in a tie as follows:
 Yeas Homan, McKerness, Loos. Dickerman, and Russell-5.
 -Nathanson, Townshend, Cur tiss. Davis and Woodford-5.
 President Johnson announced that as 1t was his plan to dissolve the tie he would cast his vote against recommit- ment and ordered the report printed in the journal
 The report of the joint Fourth of July and Eagles illumination committee fav- bring the illumination of the green for eight nights in July, including July 8, |, and 20 and 22 was read for the first time and ordered printed in the journal
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