Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-30
HOUSE NUMBERING
Petition Will Be Presented 10
 Board of Aldermen.

ing circulated and will soon be sub mitted to the aldermen: We, the undersigned, citizens of Waterbury, represent to the honor able board of aldermen that hun dreds of our number are in constant completeness and legibility of house numbering; that merchants doctors, mail carriers, messengers, collectors, delivery clerks, by the hundreds are cons antly hampered in their work by the laxity with which the numbering is kept up.
 We therefore petition your hon. orable body:
 1. That in city ordinance con- corning buildings, you insert between the two paragraphs of section 3, a new ordinance, substantially as fol- lows:
 Sec 3. The court of common council shall have power to cause numbers of regular series to be af- fixed to or inscribed on all dwelling houses and other buildings or parts of buildings erected or fronting on any street, alley ,or public court in said city, at their discretion; and shall also have power to determine the form, size, and material of such numbers, and the mode, place and succession, and order of inscribing and affixing them on the respective houses or other buildings. Such numbers shall be either painted on glass, or shall be of brigh+ metal, Gin which case they shall not be painted over), or shall be in white upon black or nearly black ground. In all cases the number shall be three inches or more i'll height, and shall be easily legible from the mid- dle of the street.
 Tn case such numbers are so sit uated as to be obscured by blinds, shutters, screens, or awnings ,as not to be legible from the middle of the street there shall be an additional number placed outside such awning or such other obstruction so as to be legible from the middle of tho street.
 Tn case the numbered house is in the rear or otherwise so situated that the number upon it is not vis- ible from the middle of the street, an additional number shall be placed at the street entrance, upon fence. or post, or corner of adjoining building 50 as to be easily legible from the middle of the street.
 Any owner or occupant of build ing or part of building who shall neglect or refuse for sixty days to affix to the same the number desiGr hated by the court of common couns cil, or who shall affix to the same or retain thereon more than one day any number contrary to the direc' tions of said court, shall forfeit and pay penalty of not less than one nor more than twenty dollars for every such offense, and a like pen alty for every day thereafter until the directions of said court are com piled with.
 the police and prosecuting attorney the police and prosecuting attorney to thoroughly enforce these sections as thus amended.
 8. That the city engineer be in- structed to immediately number all populated streets not already num- bered, including those in Waterville, Bunker Hill, and similar suburbs.
 4. That in the interests of uni formity and convenience, the fol- lowing changes be made in street names:
 1. The portion of Cherry street west of the foot of Vine street, ito be renamed, perhaps, Wine street." or, perhaps, East Grove street." and numbered accordingly.
 2. That the portion of Wire street from Locust to Farm, having no connection with Vine street, be renamed.
 8. That North Vine street." having no connection with Vine street, be renamed.
 4. That West Sixth Street." having no connection with Sixth street, and being far distant from same, be renamed.
 5. That the diagonal street from John street to Green street, incor- rectly called "Dreyer avenue" be properly designated, and that both this street and the section of Green street west of this street be cor rectly numbered.
 6. That Round Hill street. be named Orange street, and numbered accordingly.
 '. That this action, if deemed desirable to be taken at all, he taken promptly, so that the results may show in the 1908 city directory.