The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30
KELLY CHARGES
GRAFT GAME
Ex- Park Commissioner Opens
Fire on Humphrey Exten-
sion at City Engineer
Inquiry.
CASSIUS KELLY EXPLAINS
Says There Had TO BE Angle I'm ST.
John Sirect--Thought Railroad
Would Build Retaining
Wall.

When the special aldermanic commit
tee appointed to inquire regarding the
failure Of City Engineer Kelly TO noti-
fy the city that a retaining wall was
needed In the work of extending Hum
pbrey street and the reason for the an.
gle In the widening of st. John street
came TO order last night there wer,
just five persons In the room assem-
| bled as audience but within a few
minutes there was quite a delegation
| added ard the meeting took on an as
pect Of considerable interest. The en-
tire interest of the citizens however
was confined to the Humphrey street
matter and then they did not have
very much to say regarding Engineer
Kelly or the retaining wall. In fact
that matter assumed the appearance
OF n hearing as to whether Humphrey
street should be extended to Alton
street or Lombard, n matter which nv
the way was eettled quite while ago
and part of the construction already
completed
Mr.. Kelly as the accused was the
first speaker. Regarding the Humphrey
street matter he stated that the aues-
tion of the payment for a retaining
wall was never submitted to the board
OF aldermen or to the bureau Of COM
pensetion because In his opinion he al
ways considered It absolutely certain
that If there was one the railroad
would have to pay the expense and
he did not wish to have the city by
any action put itself on record as
doubling the idea that the railroad
would pay He admitted that he knew
there would have to be a retaining wall
Of some kind but supposed the railroad
would pay for II and he said that he
did not have any idea and he did not
think the railroad dii either Of the ex-
tent of wall which pould be required
He did not think the bureau Of COM
pensation should estimate as damages
the cost of a retaining wall as that
would indicate that the city would
have to pay It.
In conclusion ON this subject he said
that the matter is not yet settled and
the court that the case has been ap-
pealed to may not confirm the decision
against the city. If 1t does he contends
that 1t will come under the same rule
as the construction Of bridges and
that the city will only have to pay
half and the railroad the other half.
In the matter of St John street, Mr..
Kelly declared that the extension had
been carried out along the original
lines as planned and asked for years
ago and that there had been no devia-
tion. He explained that unless the en-
tire Baldwin property had been TAX
en-. which would involve a great cost.
there would have to be an angle any
way near the present one and It would
be practically as great as this angle.
Then he explained that the city had
secured all 1t could as the railroad hal
Incorporated the agreement for the ex-
tension after the regular cut plans had
been approved and they would not
have done anything at all in the mat
ter except with the understanding that
the extension meet their bridge abutt-
ment as planned near the state street
side. The meeting Of this abuttment
Is the place where the angle occurs and
the angle Is caused by the fact that
the abuttment Is not wider at this spot.
AS II is this part Of the street, which
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