Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-03-02
HILL STREET CLUB
Held Meeting Saturday Evening
al Home Of Andrew Andersen.

| The Hill Street Improvement club
held its regular every other week
meeting Saturday night at the home
of Andrew Anderson, corner of FILL
street and Cassidy avenue. The at
tendance was large The committee
on mail service for the upper Hill
street section reported that the pros
poets were very good for getting a
mounted carrier service in connection
with the supper Cooke street section,
| including Cottage Park and Overlook.
| All these sections are at present
| without mail delivery, while the scat
| tered houses outside short dis
lance have daily rural free delivery,
| the justice Of which the improves
| are unable to see
The club is combining its work 10 the
| needs of Hill street, as the main
thoroughfare in that section 1t has
standing committees ON grading and
sidewalks, water, sewer and lights,
whose duties are to see the city Off
Gals, especially the committees of
the board of public works, in regard
to these improvements. Frequently
however, it is voted to attend the
meetings of this board in body,
when it is thought to be the proper
time for action ON any petition. The
committee on street work has been
instructed to get Hill street graded as
FOR nc Craanuood ayop,,o tb;c cnrinU
A petition to this effect has now been
in for some years, and as the prop
erty is all in the second taxation dis
trict, the club hopes to get the work
completed from near H0tchkiss
street. Sidewalks are laid, with a
few breaks, to Pilgrim avenue and the
club is working for them to Hotch-
kiss street. The electric light company
is now removing their poles from
where they were left by the widen
ing of Hill street last year, TO the
sidewalk line, and it is rumored that
this will shortly be followed by curb
ing and sidewalks. The club has also
asked for a light at the corner Of
Hill and Hotchkiss streets, as tine dis
lance between those at Pilgrim ave-
nue and Tudor street is too great to
be lit up. The committee on water
reported that an extension of the
water main 200 feet from Pilgrim
avenue had been ordered by the
board of works. 1t is understood that
the club is greatly interested in the
proposed revision of the taxation dis
tricts and it is possible it may be
represented on the board to be APP
pointed for that purpose
The Hill Street club, with the ex-
ception of the Town Plot, is the Oldest
Improvement society in Waterbury.
1t was organized in 1901. Fo, some
years solitary light was the only
Improvement secured, owing to the
fact that the city officials took advan-
tage of the opposition of few prop
erty owners to any improvements, to
turn down all petitions. Recently
they have secured some work each
year, which has been highly appre-
ciated and the club hopes TO be again
favored this year While ON account
of long delay they are obliged to ask
for all improvements now, yet the
members point out that the improve
ments are asked for only short dis
tances and only in one street. Many
of the club own property on streets
off Hill street but they are willing
to wait for improvements until Hill
street has had proper attention. realiz-
ing that the city must spread out over
different sections the various appro-
priations.
The club officers are: President,
John Sachsenhauser; vice president,
Henry w. Clark: secretary, Albin II.
Swenson. treasurer. Albert Vrenkle.
F. Z. Lundwall. T. J. Coyle, Q. Sach-
senhauser. r. Weinning and A.. III.
Swenson comprise the executive COM
mittee. ]. Sachsenhauser and Charles
ii. Swenson are the delegates TO the
central committee of Improvement So
cieties.