The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-08

dent John !. Phelan of the Board of Apportionment last night after each departm ent head had finished answer ing questions asked by members of the tax board. But not a single c1t1 zen accepted the chance to quiz a city father It was the first series or hearings before the board this year. The closest escape of the night was while Tax Collector John M. Dounslly was before the board. Assessor Law renee J. Gill had assured the colIecr tor that he would ask him, HOW many thousands of dollars additional would you have asked for the Pur- pose of collecting the personal tax, providing that your desire to name the collectors had been granted
 The tax collector blushed so ef- fusively when Assessor Gill stood up to put the question that the big as- sessor had a change of heart and re- fused to subject his friend, Donnelly to a gruelling.
 The only questions asked during the night were those put by the members of the board.
 Registrars Get More.
 Samuel E. Vincent asked Registrar James H. Rooney why the registrars could not compile the list for the col lection of the personal tax without
 
 replied that the extra charge of $1,- 15o was allowed by the statutes. which specify that the registrars may receive extra compensation TOT com bling the list. He showed that there were about 5000 more nam names t,n on the the ing lists and that it required an extra canvass of the city.
 Court Not Money-Maker.
 .I have purposely ignored figuring out the revenue of the city court, said Judge Carl Foster of that court when asked by President Phelan for the amount which the court brought to the city The judge added: "The city court is not money making in stitution. If a thief should be brought before me for the third time I should he likely to send him to jail even money I believe that the community would be better served by giving the prisoner a jail sentence than by talk ing his money and allowing him to go."
 City Auditor Keating enlightened the board as to the financial relations of the city court with the municipal exchequer. He said that the city court would bring about $12,00o to the city treasury and that the cost of running the court would be a few hundred dollars in excess of the receipts this year.
 General Henry A Bishop who ap- peared before the board asking for the equivalent of a one quarter mill tax to conduct. the public library stitution were all fixed and only in creased as the growth of the grand list permitted.
 Assessor Lawrence J. Gill who ap- peared for his board asked for $7e0 for steel filing case to be used in preserving the block. maps already finished ana the several hundred now being made by the city engineer.
 Money for Block Maps.
 MT. Gill said there would be about s4-100 left on April 1 of last years appropriation for block maps and that cient sum so that it would have about S9.500 to begin work with at the be- ginning of the fiscal year.
 Cuts Down Expenses.
 B. D. Pierce, Jr., wanted to know why there would be so much money left City Engineer McKenna inform ed him that he was making the maps for each block. and as he got into the thinly populated sections of the city the cost decreased.
 He said that he had not been able to get started upon the maps until June l, last year. Mir. McKenna said
 
 map crew working successfully he would be able to complete the entire job next year if the money is pro- vided
 s. E. Vincent said that one of the civic organizations (The Taxpayers League) had interested itself last Spring and that the league had been concerned ir ascertaining if it is go- ing to be possible for any engineer to pick up the thread of the task should ha a in, ha Arr McKenna replied, '1t would be but 8 matter of making maps for sections of the city that had not been prev iously mapped"
 be presented to this board so we would know the business process as it is being carried out. If the maps could be brought here we might dis. cuss the matter better
 On motion of MT. Osborn the city maps before the board. MT. McKen. m and City Clerk Boucher went tC the vault of the city engineers office and reappeared with their arms filled going after more maps when Altar w Paige moved that Stephen M. Os. born be made a committee of one tc inquire into the block map problem and to report at the meeting to be held this evening.
 Police Commissioners Hallen and Miller made known for the first time the proposed location of the Third precinct police station. They ask ed $15.000 to purchase the land at the Junction of Fairfield avenue and State street owned by David w. Thompson They said that without the payment Of any commissions or the purchase of any options MT. Thompson had promised the board to reserve the property for the city until it was de cided whether or not it would pur- chase it. The proposed site has 464 feet frontage in Fairfield avenue and 41s feet in State street. All of the members of the tax board seemed tc be of the opinion that the site is ar ideal one for the city.
 We have complement of Ss men" said President Hallen, "but ii is ridiculous for us to try to cover ( or posts with one patrolman as we are doing now Hartford has 119 pa. trolmen and even though our grand list is not as large as Hartford's we have a population large enough tc demand as many policemen
 Two motorcycles will be of great advantage in protecting our highway. from law breaking motorists and tht superintendent has asked for horse. for two mounted men because one mar on a horse at the time of a parade or gathering of a crowd is equal il efficiency to 20 or 25 men afoot'
 President Hallen told the board tha Architect F. G. Southey has a bil of $500 against the police board fol drawing plans for a Third precinc station contracted two years ago whe1