The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-21
KELLY CONFIRMED
 AS SEALER AT A
 SALARY OF $I,500
ALLEYWAY TO CONNECT CON- GRESS AND ARCH STREET WEST OF NEW HIGH
  SCHOOL. }
10 Foot Center Fight May Delay New Permanent Pavement Until Next Fall-OtIler Aldermanic Rou-
 tine Matters.

Alderman F. J. Carroll wanted to
 know what had changed the attitude
 of the Streets and Sidewalks commit west of the high school building came
 up at the Common Council meeting
 last night. The committee reported
 differently than at a previous meeting
 and desired to have the council action
 on the previous report rescinded. AL
 derman Carroll thought that to res
 cind the former action would necessi-
 tate another public hearing. He said
 thatsit was long distance from Main
 street to Washington avenue and that
 some thoroughfare was an absolute
 necessity and that the present time
 is the proper time to establish a street.
 Alderman Walker explained that
 there was objection to taking 25 feet from the school property, as previous ly proposed and to buy land from the Wheeler estate that was suggest- ed would amount to $7,50O for which there is no appropriation now. He said that the board of Education was now making an alley-way by taking eight feet from the school property Alderman Carroll said, "I can't see what the holdup there is and why we should not put street through there now. He was the only one who voted against the acceptance of the committees report.
 The stubborn fight of The Connec- ticut Go. over the ten-foot center question means that no permanent paving probably can be done in the city until late in the fall as the Iiti- gation will not be ended before then. City Attorney John S. Pullman re- ported this at the meeting last night The council voted to carry out his recommendation that the Streets and Sidewalks committee and the city en- gineer confer with the trolley com man DeForest said that he hoped the committee would be stiff with the company and not concede too much, after all the favors we have given that company He thought the fight Of the company on a mere technical ity was a display of ingratitude.
 The report of the Ordinance com mittee on the sea1er of weights and measures ordinance was adopted and ex-Alderman Dennis Kelley of the 18th district was nominated for seal CT by Mayor Wilson at an annual sal- ary of $1,500 for a one year term. The nomination was confirmed un- ed to know if the appointee was an out-of-town man. The mayor replied that he had in this instance been able to find a competent local man. The new sealer will begin his duties June
 Tn the public hearing on the exten- sion of Denver avenue to Fairfield avenue. Attorney Irving Elson repre- Sented many property owners on the street. They were all in favor of the extension but John J. Mcfarland, a large real estate owner, was opposed unless he was paid damages and no assessments were imposed upon him. In the hearing on the acceptance of Jetland place it developed that Burr & Knapp, owners of land on one side of the street, were willing to give the city enough land to make street the full legal width. w. H. Nichols, who owns land on the other side of the street was willing to do the same If the street is extended as far as the Bartrafn estate.
 Miss Bessie Harlowe was allowed. $75O for injuries she received last winter in a fall on a slippery side walkA The committee. on Claims also granted the petitions. of Mary S. Gregory, Rose Fillippo, Wladyslaus Szmanski, Joseph Marcantonfo, Mary bach. lGizella szarka, Maria. .somers. Matthias Miller. Veronica Pistey, Emily W. Brown, Dora Neissner, Giuseppe De Simone ct ux. Electric Cable Co.,, Katherine R. Lewis, Emma Gumpel, Mary A. Bond, Anna Step- hens. Timothy Sullivan. estate; Theo- These were given leave to withdraw.| James Cummings, Patrick McGrath: and Leopold Weiss.
 John M. Lund, the Wood avenue iveryman, was granted permission to change his stable into garage.