The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-01-04
WOULD BOND CITY
S 100000 FOR NEW
PERMANENT PAVING
Measure Laid Before Common
COuncil-Bonds to be Paid
Off Within 10 Years

The Aldermanic committee on Streets
| and Sidewalks sent a communication
| to the Common Council last night rec
ommending a 100000 bond issue for
| permanent pavement, the issue to be
redeemed within ten years so that
| the existence of the bonds would be
| terminated during the life Of the pave
| ment, and the city could have a long
| stretch of we'll paved streets. Only
streets where trolley tracks are. laid
are among those for which pavement
| is prescribed. The matter was laid on
| the table until the next meeting of the
| council. The consensus Of opinion
among the aldermen is that the bond
issue will be recommended.
This will give the permanent paving
| commission a busy season next year.
The communication of the committee
| follows:
1.-The Committee on Streets and
| Sidewalks would respectfully report
that in the Judgment of your COM
! mittee the necessary steps ought to
| be. taken at this time to provide a
bond issue to lay permanent pave
| ment upon some of the more impor-
tant thoroughfares Of the city which
| in our opinion badly need 1t. Upon
the streets which we would recon-
mend to be paved there are double
| trolley tracks. Under the statutes of
| the State, the street railway COM
pany will be compelled to pay the cost
| Of pavement between it's tracks and
two feet outside the outer rails there
of. One-half the cost of the paving
for the remaining part of the highway
may be assessed against abutting
| property owners, who are specially
| benefited by it. The streets which
| we would recommend to have paved
by means of a bond issue are as fol-
| lows: ~ re-
Fairfield avenue from Main street
| to Park avenue and Fairfield avenue
| from Clinton avenue, westerly to the
viaduct of the New York, New Haven
! & Hartford railroad company.
State street from Broad street wes-
| terly to its intersection with Fairfield
| avenue.
| Park avenue from State street to
Fairfield avenue. =
East Washington avenue from Will
! liam street to Noble avenue. :,
| Noble avenue from East Washing
ton avenue to Barnum avenue. Bar
| SeaView avenue.
I'VE estimate that the city's share
\ OF this expense can be met for $780,
900 and if the proceeds of the bond
issue there remains an unexpended
balance we would recommend the paw
| Ing ofsuch other streets as may be
1 specified and determined by the Conn
| mon Council! -.
+ I'VE would also recommend that the
bonds for this purpose be issued in
/ serial form and that $4,000 worth
/ thereof be paid off annually, begin
ming in 1872 We would therefore rec
ommend for. adoption the following
resolution:
Resolved. That the City Attorney
| be and hereby is authorized and in
structed to prepare a resolution to be
submitted to the General Assembly.
at its incoming session, authorizing
|. the City of Bridgeport to issue bonds
TO the extent of s100, 200 for the. pur-
/. pose OF paving said streets and that
sag resolution shall provide that
said bonds be issued In serial form
and that $4,000 worth thereof be re-
tired annually beginning in 1912"
Ihe communication was signed nv
lhe. .ennres COMMITTEES composed sof
Alderman Henry j. Clampett Patricl-
T. Brady, Daniel E.. Walker IT III.
jackson and Eugene T. Meyer