The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-08
CITY FATHERS TRUST ATTY.
 CULLINAN TO MAKE BEST
 DEAL ON VIADUCT MATTER

structed, directed and given full pow CT and authority to procure from tn e sN. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Go. a, written stipulation and agreement, providing certain stone pier affected by the widening of Congress street on it's north side of a steel bridge or steel glrders supported upon a stone sub- structure not extending above the lev el of Congress street, and Congress street bridge, said steel supports not to be located south of the north line of Congress street as widened on it's north side, and said agreement to provide that as damages resultant from said widening of Congress street, said N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co. shall receive a sum not exceeding $15 5,500 in place of the sum awarded by the Board of Appraisal of Benefits and Damages.
 The layout of Congress street has already been adopted. On motion of Alderman Gould the property owners on the north side of Congress street between Main street and Housatonic avenue, and the city clerk was order ed to give notice to the property own CTS that street must be ready for widening by January 15.
 City Attorney Cullinan's report to the Common Council which they practically referred back to him with instructions to use his own judg- ment is as follows. To the Honorable Common Council
 of the City of Bridgeport:
 Gentlemen
 The city attorney would respect fully represent that at the last meet ing of your honorable body he made report relative to the cost of the removal of the stone pier of the rail- road company affected by the widen ing of Congress street As agreed, the railroad company has furnished additional estimates of the expense of removing the pier according to other plans. As you will recall, the esti- mate given by the company to the board of appraisal of benefits and damages and which was reported by that board to the council, namely $21,000, contemplated the removal of the existing pier entirely and the construction of similar masonry pier along the north line of the street as now laid out and widened. At the time of my last report to you, the company had given another esti- mate for a plan or scheme by which steel work would be substituted for the masonry pier and would be locat- ed along the new north line of Con- gress street and this estimate called for an expenditure of about 15,O00.
 Since your last meeting, the en- glneerS of the railroad company have prepared estimates of the cost of eliminating this pier under two other plans. The first of these would pro vide for a stone pier brought up to the ground level with a steel bridge or supports thereon, which work would be placed on the curb line on the north side of Congress street and stone abutment or pier along the new north line of said street. By having this steel construction on the curb line, the length of the span re- quired would .of& course, be several feet less than it would be if the only abutment or steel bridge were placed on the north line of the street as provided for in the two other esti- mates which you have already re- ceived. This decrease, in the length of the span required, materially re- duces the cost. The company esti- mates that the pier could be remov- for an expenditure of $8,065.
 The plan suggested by MT. Moses W. Manwar1ng, which we will de- scribe as the Manwaring plan, con- templates the placing of steel work on the north curb line as provided for in the foregoing scheme, but he would have the stone abutment or pier, instead of being placed along the north line of the street, located about forty feet north. His idea in having the abutment removed this distance north is to open up clear space through which drivers of vehi- cles on Housatonic avenue and on the bridge may see one another as they approach the intersection of Congress street and HousatOnic ave- nue and thus lessen the danger of collision. The company's estimate of the cost of adopting this plan is from S11,000 to s12,000.
 Respectfully submitted this 7th day of November, 1910.
 THOMAS NJ. PULLMAN,
 City Attorney.