The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-18
ALDERMAN HINTS AT ATTEMPT TO
 INFLUENCE VOTE
STEWART ASKS POINTED OUES- TTON OF PLUMBER AT COUN-
 GIL MEETING.

Hearings on the proposed State street bridge and the ordinance creat- ing the office of plumbing inspector took up more than an hour of the Common Councils time last evening. There was a big audience on hand to boost the State street project and only one opponent. Alderman Stewart started something when the plumbing inspectorship came up and quizzed several advocates of the measure rather closely.
 Thomas Reii1. a plumber, said there was a lot of defective jobs in this city and plumbing inspector was citizens Alderman Stewart, who had taken a lively interest in the remarks of previous speakers, immediately got "Did4't you recently speak to my l brother to ask him how I stood on this question?' asked the alderman Didn't you ask him to use every influence with me to get me to favor it?'' persisted the alderman
 'I beg your pardon, alderman, but ernphatiealIy did not.'' shouted MT. Rehl
 Alderman Stewart wanted to know | the health of the city were endanger- ed by defective plumbing. He said the building inspectors could take care of the work This caused Jasper
  ure to remark:
 '.The alderman says the building in spectors can look after this work and sick, I wouldn't go to a lawyer to get cured I'd go to a doctor. It's the saaneL with this proposition; plumber and not by a mason or a | builder"
 Alderman Stewart wanted to know | if tIis advocacy on the part of the plumbers union was an honest move in favor of the public interest or a plan to create a new berth for a plumber. He was told that the pub l lie health should be conserved, and the plumbers believed this action to
 be necessary.
 J. w. Drew. of Park avenue, was the only opponent to the State street bridge project. 1 Drew offered these objections: First half of the use of the harbOr viii be lost if a bridge is built 1 Second, the U s. Government would give no permit for a bridge there. Tl1ard. the City Engineer reported
 Fourth, the New Haven Railroad would put an injunction on 1t.
 Fifth, the New @ Haven ns ..do Rad,noaa odo 4o fix the. bridge so the street could go Sixth, the two stores at the foot of States street could not be bought for what they are on the tax list for. 1 Seventh,' the damages incurred on all the property from State street 10 ! Water would equal the cost of buying ! the property.
 Eighth. the money put into this pro
 ject would build a double track tunnel The New Haven roalroad should build
 one for tunnel and the city the other, | using one tunnel for east traff1c and one for west traffic.
 ! Jacob Klein spoke at considerable
 length in favor of the project, point
 ing out that congested conditions m
 the business center should be reIlev-
 issue would allow posterity to share
 the burden of expense. Others whospoke along the same line were Judge yc "; T. Kelly. E. s. Wi1fett, A. ". Marsh, Sa1nued Dave and D. F'airchild Wheeler
 favored a fifty-yeT bond issue.
 James EmmonS spoke in favor of a
 bridge from Arctic street to Grand
 street, dec1aring that such a span would cost less and would do the ] work of g. State street bridge.
 Outside of the hearings there was lit tie business for the Common Council. Max Cohen, now head of the autono- bile department in the office of the secretary of state, resigned as city
 sheriff, his resignation being accepted without discussion. 1 AS preddcted in The Farmer, Attor- neys Joshua Meltzer and William A. Redden were confirmed, on nomina- 1 tfon of the ordinance committee, as charter amendments Two reports of the board of appraisal of benefits and l damages were returned for the ratih- cation of some supposed discrepancies. 1 The legislative committee, through
 Alderman DeF'orest, asked that the Council aid it's work by passing reso- l Iutions recording itself in favor Of measures now before the legislature.
 The resolutions which were passed,
 related to the consolidation of two
 taxings districts, increasing the salary | IoN T7o hoa off maIe-up of Park board, and favoring abolition Of the personal tax.