The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-03
BALL QUESTION TO LEGISLATURE Aldermen Will Ask State Body to Make Sunday Sports
 Local Option
 Matter. WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED Two Votes Passed to Start City Tasks Which Will Require the Hir.
 ing of Many Extra Workers.
WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED

A number of important matters came pedore the board of aldermen at the monthly meeting last night, but final decision was taken on few. The Sun day baseball question went over after a first hearing and most matters were referred to committees or set over. An effort to provide work for the unem- ployed was made in two votes which were passed at once under unanimous consent
 A petition from Anthony Carroll as candidate for the position of assistant building inspector. asking the board to Investigate the statements made in the annual report of the civil service con- mission, recently made public, was re- ferred to the committee on retrench-. ment and reform. The petitioner thinks that one paragraph refers to him inferentially, and that it is of derogatory character.
 The report of the board of compensa- ton in reference to the Pearl street extension was referred to the board of finance with the request that when the estimates for 1909 are made out, that a sum of money sufficient to put through the proposed extension be ap- propriated.
 Clerk Moran then read a resolution presented by Alderman Michael Burke requesting the director of public works to start work as soon as possible on all sewers ordered by the board, with the idea of giving the unemployed citi- zens of the city work. A wordy wran- gle over the wording of this resolution took up lot of time, and was partici- pated in by several aldermen, notably Aldermen Miller, Kenna and Mulvey.
 Finally harmony was restored, by the maker of the motion, Mir Burke, who substituted for the word ''citi- zens' the expression citizens and res- idents.' Alderman Collins asked for unanimous consent for this motion and 1t was given, and then the resolution was adopted. Another resolution of similar import and likewise present. ed by Alderman Burke was one re- questing thsrt work on the pavements ordered by the permanent paving com mission, be started at once. Also unanimous consent for this motion was asked and granted, and later the resolution passed.
 The petition of the New Haven Med- ical society, which was given in ] full in the Journal-Courier Friday morning, asking that the water sup IA t,rp1 . i tain be city water rather than water l from an artesian well was referred to ] the committee on sewers and squares. 1 This committee will hold public hearing on the question.
 A report that indirectly bears re- laton to the fountain was the unfav- oralble one handed in by the special pump committee, which decided that if the director of public works wished to purchase an electric pump for an ar tesian well, he would have to adver. tise for bids. This report was tabled for second reading
 Walter Leigh's petition in regard tc the violations of the laws concerning vestibule cars in this city was referred to the railroad and bridges committee Corporation Counsel Rogers opinicn to the effect that the matter was moi up to him, but to the state railroad commissioners was referred to the same committee To this same com. mittee goes Mir: Leigh's communica ton asking that pressure be' brough
 to bear on the Connecticut company t have them give six tickets for guar
 ter.
 The question of a sea wall for Quin nipiac park was again referred to thu
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