Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-15
LARGE ATTENDANCE AT
MEETING OF ALDERMEN.
Special Meeting to Be Held to Settle
Main Street Paving Contract.

Willimantic, Aug. 14.-The regular
| August meeting of the board of alder
| men Monday evening was the largest
attended session held within the past
three years, there being standing room
only, and the overflow from the spec
tators gallery filled the spacious cor
ridor outside. The more curious rather
, than the vitality interested citizens IF
Willimantic were the most largely rep
resentative among the assembly, await
ing the result of the recent awarding
of the paving contract by the street
committee to A. J. Langefeld rather
than to Frank Arrogoni of Middletown
or Ahearn Bros. of Willimantic, who
were lower bidders.
Attorney Thomas Kelley addressed
the board relative TO several matters
which included a petition from Villa m
E. Clark for entry to the Hayden street
sewer, as no sewer was constructed on
Mountain street in front of his prop
erty. He called attention to the con-
dition of Quarry street. that had prac-
tlcally been used as pubic hlShWay
for SO years. He referred to the petl-
ton of abutters thereon for the ac-
1870 and to the later petition to the
board in July, 1911. He urged that
the street be accepted as public
highway. He alluded to the passage
of a resolution by the board at its las
meeting authorizing the construction
OF Il SiuoWdlk dfOuIlu the lOWIi
ing and noted that nothing had been
done about it. He then said: There is
one other matter that | wish to bring
up. | am a resident of the city and.
| believe. take as much pride in it as
the average citizen. I am not going
to make any charges. but I am Going
to meet your committee fairly. | refer
to the recent award of the Main street
paving contract. BY advertising Tor
bids both within and outside of the
city yousreceived bids from seven con
tractors who submitted them in good
faith, and two of these bids We're lower
than the one to whom the contract
was awarded. The other two were
turned down without satisfactory rea-
sons. The lowest bidder Frank Arri-
gonl, of Middletown, says that this
particular work has long been his
speciality and he does not think that
he has been fairly treated You also
have citizen and d taxpayer of your
town who says that his bid was lower
than that of the successful bidder.
case: Was the committee right or
wrong? If your committee was right,
let the facts be known
He then gave four reasons why q
meeting should be held to shave the
matter threshed out. He then said
that he desired to say one thing more,
and that was to correct the rumors
that were going around. He said:
I have been connected with town
affairs since young man and l am
a pretty old one now, and don't be-
lieve that any member of the present
board, or of any previous board ever
took single penny to see Il deal put
through, and he was satisfied that no
such thing affected the present matter.
Alderman Shepard chairman OF The
street committee, said that the COM
mittee as a whole was very willing to
have the question thoroughly threshed
out. We have nothing to hide and still !
believe that we are right and that we
exer cised good judgment in making our
award.
1t was voted that the COMMON eoun-
Gil as a whole meet Monday night, |
Aug. 21, at s o'clock. to take up the |
matter Of the Main street paving cor :
tract and to hear all parties concerned. |
The various reports were accepted as |
ead.