The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-09
FAIRFIELD AVE. SEWER WORK TO
 START AT ONCE
Paving and Sewer Commission Will Meet Friday Night to
 Award Contract For Job

Bids for the construction of sewer work in Fairfield avenue will be ad- vertised for at once. the Connecticut company will be requested to remove the south rails on the street and there is every reason to believe that some thing may be accomplished toward putting Fairfield avenue into proper commission. !, The Paving and Sewer commission last night instructed the secretary, Bernard Heating 10 adver- tise for bids to be opened Friday night and also to request the trolley company to remove it's East bound rails before July 15. The proposed sewer will extend between Broad and Courtland streets.
 City Engineer Alfred H. Terry sub- mitted a communication to the com mission srelating to the condition of Fairfield avenue after the city has finished it's paving work, with the ten MT. Terry's communication stated the following facts:
 '.The recent action of the council, ordering the immediate paving of the city's portion of Fairfield avenue, be- tween Main street and Park avenue, will bring about (until such time as the question Of. 10 foot centers is de- 'termined) certain results as to cost and physical conditions, which I feel is my duty to bring to your atten- ition.
 tIn the first place if the street is not paved as a whole, but only the city's portion paved at this time, 1t will necessitate putting in a header on both sides of the trolley tracks for the entire length of the new pave be taken out of the pavement when the trolleyis portion of the street is paved This will entail an additional cost of about $1,9p0 of which approxi- mately 22 cents per lineal foot addi- tional assessment will come upon each owner along this street
 Secondly, the grade of the tracks should be changed at the time the paving is done, In order to conform with the grade of the pavpg. I un- derstand that the council can order this done, but that the Connecticut Co. can take an appeal which could not be settled until next fall. This would leave the trolley tracks depress- ed some three inches below the level of the surrounding pavement for the greater portion Of the distance to be paved and might be the cause of serir ous accident"
 The commission accepted the com munication and voted to send a copy of it to the Common Council.
 The meeting was sometime getting started as a quorum was not present. Mayor Wilson. was sent for and ar rived at 9:15 o'clock and presided. Col: Matthew IL Rogers. w. R. Brown and J. H. O'Rourke were the other mem bers present.
 Director Courtade and City Engineer Terry were in attendance at the meet ing. The secretary read the resolu- .tions of the Common council after which Col. Rogers moved that the sec retary be instructed to advertise for bids, according to specifications on file in the city engineers office. The motion was carried and then the sug- eestion was made that when the meeting adourned it would be to Fri day night when the bids would be re- eeived
 City Engineer Terry was asked by Col. Rogers how much notice the troll ley people would require in order to rearrange it's running schedule on Fairfield avenue and change it's traf- fic so as to allow the city to do it's work Mr. Terry. said that a tempor> ary crossover could be used which wuold enable the company to use one
 ,l- Col. Rogers stated that he had expected to have the traffic on the street discontinued entirely as the city would have to lay latera1S on both sides. MT. Terry didn't think these would interfere to any extent with the operation of the cars on one track. It was then moved to notify the trolley company to remove the south rails by July 15,
 It was voted to call for bids for the construction of the Maplewood avenue and PeQuonnock street sewers which were recently ordered by the ~ pOJInci1