Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-02
PUBLIC WORKS BOARD
Work on IhamssIou Avenue
 VIII Nol Be Tstsn Up Yei.


 The adjourned hearing on Thorn aston avenue was taken up and par ties who were not notified of the other hearing called. Nobody ap. peared and the hearing was declared closed. In view of the general op- position to doing anything on the job 1t was decided to let it stand. l NJ. ]. Donnelly, the plumber, who had some slight misunderstanding with the engineer about opening Spring street to make water con- nection, was heard. The thing dldnt amount to much and MT Donnelly was told to fix 1t up with MT Cairns.
 It was voted that no money pc raised for further work on the sew age disposal plant for the present. The weather is not right for doing that class of work and 1t was thought I best to let 1t stand until next year
 The matter of recommending to l the aldermen that a certain amount of bonds be sold to make start with on the new reservoir was discussed and was finally left in the hands or | the mayor. Attorney Kelley asked | that the per cent withheld on the contract of Kerwin Bros be paid ana Ia bond accepted instead. The matter was referred to a committee consist ing of the mayor and engineer. MT Kelley also called attention to a Dill of $2,00O from D. T. Altman TOT loam, turf and filling delivered by him at Library park. The contractor had failed to find Superintendent Walker of the public parks, conse- quently it was not approved by him. The bill was referred to MT Walker for investigation and report.
 1 A petition of J. M. Daily < Sons I for permission to make ali eight inch connection with the water main on Bank street opposite Plume & At woods and the American Ring Co, for the purpose of tying in" the fire lsystem of both plants, was referred to the engineer for Investigation. In l the near future it is thought the two concerns mentioned, the Farrel Foun- dry and Randolp-Clowes will form an | alliance for mutual protection against fire and will have things ar ranged so that the private fire com pany of each concern will turn out and do fire service at all these fac | tories.
 1 The hearing scheduled to be held regarding the application of the troll l ley company for an additional turn out on North Main street, near Tudor street, was called, but when the thing was mentioned Commissioner Hook remarked that the company is doing the job and will have 1t finished l to-day, Engineer Cairns and the company having got together on q former plan. This was new to the board and the street committee was instructed to look into it. The clerk was instructed to find out the name of the contractor who is driving teams over the sidewalk on North Willow street and have him repair it.
 John Hull and E. l.. Terrell of Simonsyille were heard regarding the condition of Baldwin street near Madison street, where water lodges They also inquired why crosswalks have not been laid on Baldwin street , at Baldwin avenue, where the flags are on the ground for over a year. These and few other matters were referred to the superintendent of streets. It was voted to recommend to the aldermen that authority be granted to hold hearings relative to a proposed change of grade on West Main street at Mattatuck street, and on Mattatuck street. The sewer com mittee was appointed to act in con- junction with the engineer in deter mining how much the railroad com pany ought to pay for certain sewer connections which they desire to make.
 Superintendent Kennedy explained the water situation in substantially the same manner as it appeared in the Democrat yesterday. The whole matter was referred to the emergen- cy water committee with power to act. MT Kennedy is $1,700 behind, all owing to conditions over which he had no control. It was decided to report to the board of finance that the comptroller be requested to look up transfer to meet that deficit.
 Superintendent Kilduff is g trife behind, too, but he said 1t was out of the question to come out even when more than one person is charg- ing up to the same item. There were some bills from the engineer one of about s1.000, that had not been ordered by the board and these added to what Mir Kilduff had to say and what the board thought about exceeding appropriations, made a pleasant five or ten minutes chat. It seemed to be the opinion of some of the commissioners that the heads of the departments, notably MT Cairns, are making football of the con- missioners. According to the char ter, all the department heads are under the Jurisdiction of the board, but this does not mean anything. The heads do pretty much as they please regardless Of what the com missioners say or do.
 Commissioner Walker, wanted to know why Superintendent Ray of the sewer department sends in so many bills for rubber boots. Mir Ray ex- plained that men cannot work with out them in certain places. and that while ordinarily they wear a long time. it frequently happens that they get cut with glass or some other sharp things in the basins and have to be replaced.
 Superintendent walkar of .ha n,,t,