Milford chronicle., 1913-01-03
PRESIDENTS REPORT.


At the close of my term as Presiden
of Town Council Of Milford, l find tina
there has been so much to receive con
sideratiOn during the year, that it ha
been a continuous performance to lool
after the interests of the town witt
fidelity, and according to the oath whicl
all members of Council subscribe to.
have attempted to discharge the re
sponsibilities without fear or favor, ant
for the best interests of the public as
saw them.
At the opening of the year the Towr
Council found several improvement!
started and to be finished, and it ha.
been the policy of the members ol
Council to continue the work as plan
ed by precee ilg councils.
The work Of building concrete roaC
bed on the Western and Of Front Street
South Milford and fixing the grade ac-
cording to previous surveys, has been
carried out for two blocks and it now is
at the end Of the sewer line out that
street, and according to the policy of
the town, the sewer viii have to be
continued to the boundary line, one
more full block, before the concrete
road bed will be built, and thus COM
plete one Of the finest pieces of street
paving in Milford, which has been in
progress for several years.
In building the concrete street bed
and placing the curbing and cutters,
along this line, different conditions
were met than any heretofore in street
work in Milford viz the cross streets
had to be graded on each side Of the
street so as to permit vehicular as well
as pedestrian travel to get to and from
the street with ease and without danger
This proved to be a very expensive ad-
ditiOn to the main work, and it will not
have to be encountered n finishing the
balance of this particular street; in fact
the contrary will be experienced. as the
intersecting streets will have to be fill
ed, instead OF graded out. This was
not all of the unforeseen expense as will
be seen when the fact is known, that
the people on McColley Street petition
ed to have Council compel all property
owners along that street to put down
concrete pavements and bring them to
grade. This compelled the town authorl
ties to put down concrete curbing and
cutters on both sides of that street its
entire length, and it is now one Of the
best side streets in Milford.
For many years there has been a
realization of the fact, that the street
and sidewalks on North Street, from
Front to Second Street, in North Milford,
needed radical changes and improve
ments made. This street is used by
every child in Milford and surrounding
country to get to and from the public
schools, and at the narrOwest point be-
tween curb lines, it was only eighteen 1
feet wide. The owner of the property
on the west side, Mrs. Rhoda Roude-
bush, made a proposition to the Town
Council, that she would give off from
her large yard along North Street
sufficient land to widen the street to
feet between the curb lines,
f the town would not only reset the
,urb and gutter, but put Gown a
sidewalk five feet wide the en-
ire length of her property and set
1oung shade trees on its inside line.
This offer was deemed so generous by
Town Council that the Street Committee
vas directed to have the work done at
nee. All the trees then standing had 1
o be removed along the sidewalk, new I
ines surveyed and the water stops at I
he curb lines changed and now the {
YORK is completed, the results are so I
lleasing that there has not 0een an un- '
avorable expression made about it. Z
Nhen the other owner who gave moth I
lg and has done nothing, brings his {
property to grade and paves it with
oncrete, as the next council should T
ertainly require, this viii make a :
pleasing approach to the public schools, J
nd add greatly to the value of property. :
he owners of property On the eastern :
lde OF North Street opposite TO this
Improvement, are now asEing for their
lde OF that street to be made to con- o
orm to the west side. and it should be v
one this coming year. p
Inc Board of Health has been vigorous Il
looking after sanatat n and health d
onditions generally, AMI heir report v
'hich has been recently Slted. shows O.
le general health of Nj Nd to be far Il
oove that of other tow ~ ~ O
The police record shov ~ at falling
I IN arrests, and the fil. lived from v
us source certainly marked u