The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-26
TRUCKMEN ARE OPPOSED TO
 WOOD PAVING
Twenfy.Six Liverymen and I5 Truckmen
 Petition Street Committee.
Prayer Accompanied by IA Letters De.
 n0nnciDg Wood Surfaced Streets.
They Are Written By Boston Concerns Which Use Many Horses on Heavy Traffic - Petition is Read and Laid on Table.

The leading liverymen and truckmer of the city are openly opposed to the | laying of wood block pavement in this city, and although the Main stree
 business men and the majority of the | members of the aldernanic street com
 mittee are said to be in favor of wood pavement the largest horse owners ir the city are talking of getting out ar injunction against the pavement, the
 suit to be brought under the auspices
 of the Bridgeport Ldverymen As sociation.
 Claiming that wood block pavement
 is the most slippery pavement that car be laid and is therefore the most in humane, the association. of which Johr Heaphy is president, William Willis vice president, and George NJ. Seeley
 secretary. sent a petition to the street committee, last night, protesting against the laying of the wood block The petition carried the names of 4 lIverymen and 15 truckmen, and was
 supported by fourteen letters from Boston team owners. to whom the To- cal association has written, to see if
 the opinion of those who did heavy carting in Boston concurred in their views with the business men of Boston who have written to the business men of this city, fayoring wood pavement, because of it's noiselessness and clean Illness.
 
 chusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnTnals declares the laying of wood pavement 'inhuman-' The liverymen claim to possess informa- ton that the Massachusetts society has secured an injunction against the laying of the wood block in Boston where there is a grade.
 All of the Boston letters to the 1iv- erymen say that, in cold weather. all of the wood pavement becomes so slip haf "a oif n keen d. ed, in order that loads of any weight may be carted over it.
 The letters against wood pavement are from the following Boston firms: Burnham Coal Co.,, American Express Co.,. Stetson Coal Co.,, National Express Co.,. BlinnMorrill & O., GouIden, Smith & Hopkins, Boston Master Team sters' Association. MD. Cressey & Co-, Jackson Express Co.,, Metropolitan Coal Co.,. F. Knight &. Son, G. N. Mason and M. Barr & Co.
 The members of the Liverymen's As sociation were indignant this morning. They had heard that their petition and the Boston letters had not been read by the street committee, but had been tabled while the committee voted to lay wooden blocks when it opened its bids this evening.
 Chairman Hartley of the committee stated this noon that the petition of the liverymen and the letters had been received by the committee. read and laid on the table. He said they would be given consideration. Asked if it was so that the committee had voted at it's informal meeting last night to vote for wood block in Main street be- tween East Washington avenue and Gilbert street. in Golden Hill street be- tween Main and Water streets. he re- piled that he did not care to discuss the action taken by the committee.
 From another source it was learned that the committee voted, by a, vote of 4 to l, to lay wood block pavement providing that the cost did not exceed a reasonable figure. The Alderman who voted alone is unqualifiedly in favor of brick pavement, in view of the opposition of the horse owners. He is said to be Alderman John M. Griffin and it is hinted that he may win the other members of the commit tee over to his way of thinking if the wood block bidders have boosted the prices to an eXorbitant figure, believ- ing the Aldermen are bound to lay wood block, because of public opinion. Alderman Fletcher will not be, pres ent when the contract is awarded, and the award will therefore be made by four members. Alderman Fletcher left this morning on a trip that will consume ten days.