The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-31
CONN. co. WOULD
 PARE FAIRFIELD
 AVE. SIDEW ALKS
More Room for Tracks to be Gained by Cutting Seven
 Inches Off Each Curb
GROOvED RAILS SEPT. 1


 The Connecticut Company will pe- tition the Common Council for per mission to widen Fairfield avenue by narrowing the sidewalks on both sides of the street. It is proposed to take seven inches from each walk distance between it's tracks ~Supt- Chapman announced the plan at a meeting of the peranent paving com mission held last night.
 The contempt in which the admins tration of the city is held was indi- cated when the company announc- ed that the grooved rails, which were promised in three weeks, will not be on the ground before Sept, l.
 These rails are the concession which the city gained by giving up some Il acres of the harbor to the New Haven railroad and by granting the right to the Connecticut company to cross Fairfield avenue with spur tracks. at the end of the Stratford avenue bridge.
 Engineer C. C. Elwen of the Con necticut Go. with Roy C.. Cram, his assistant, and Supt. Chapman appear from the Pennsylvania, Steel Co.,, which showed that the grooved rails for Main street would not arrive nere until Sept. 1.
 Mayor Lee, flushed and said, that the delay is unnecessary. He. said that Vice President Townley does not want to lay grooved rails, and will not lay them if he has his way. The mayor said that snow will be flying peIoTe the grooved rails come He said ine statement have made, that the rails will go down if the grooved rails do not come along had caused con siderable comment" He asked the commission what they thought or 1t. <
 Commissioner Frank T. Staples salo' "Let us hold out for grooved ra1ls. They have beaten us before with de- laws Let us stick this time The rest of the commission agreed with the commissioner about sticking
 Commissioner Lashar. informed the uayor that there was another cause of delay in sight, as Engineer Eaweh had informed the commission that ms company intended to ask the common council next Monday night for per field avenue, between Water street and Main street so that it could put It's tracks on ten foot centers.
 The mayor said that Fairfield avenue nor any other street, will be torn up until the work already started is fn- next November" he declared
 There was a dispute between iSupt. Chapman and the mayor as to Wnose fault it is that the delay occurred.
 The mayor said it was because the company waited two weeks to have a certified copy of the action of the council mailed to it.; an unheard of thing, as the legislature or no other legislative body. sends certified copies of it's action to the parties in interest.
 Supt. Chapman said that the prin- cipal delay was the wait for the mayor to sign the report. He said that IL was passed by the council on June [, and that the mayor had not signed it until July 2S.
 It was July g, Chapman said. when the mayor called upon MT. Townley about the matter. and that the certi- fled copy of the councils action was a long time il coming.
 The mayor declared that the city thought it was doing business with President Mellen, and that it was not necessary to take up the matter with Vice President Townley.
 ''I have a letter from MT. Towniey. said the mayor, Gin which he said that the grooved rails would be here in three weeks
 Engineer Elwell replied: '"The mill was probably rolling girder rails at the time the letter was sent, but since then have begun to roll "T rails. We will have to wait until they roll girder rails again
 The mayor wanted to know if the rails could not be purchased in the open market. and MT. EIwell said they couldn't. The mayor declared that he was at a loss to understand how the railroad did business as it had prom 1Sed to nave the Speclaf WorK nere TOT the corner of Golden Hill and Main streets ten days ago and it is not here yet He said the railroad company was holding dp the Golden Hill street work
 Engineer Elwell explained that he did not want it understood that the company was making application to the permanent pavement commission for permission to make changes in Fairfield avenue, but wished to inform it's members that it intended to ask the council to make some changes which he believed ought to be made in connection with the Main street per- mament pavement job. The company wants to widen Fairfield avenue and to take off several feet at the corner of Main and State street to make more room for it's cars. If it could get consent to remove seven inches of the curb on both sides of Fairfield aven,s-