The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-09
Paving Commission
 Awards Contracts
 They Should Worry!
Up to Common Council to See That Funds Are Provided
 for Work

At last nights meeting of the pay ing and sewer commission contracts were awarded for paving jobs which it had been planned to pay for out of the serial bond note issue about which there is so much controversy at present. The members of the board expressed themselves as failing to see how the dispute would affect their work as they are simply acting under instructions from the Common Coun- ci1. One of the members stated, how ever, that he believed the law is such that any citizen can enjoin the board from doing the work
 William H. Arthur, the Stamford contractor who has done much of this contract to pave John street from Broad to sCourtIand street. He will do the work for $1-37 per square yard with. five year guarantee, the wood blocks to be furnished by the Barber Asphalt company at $1.SO per square yard The Burns company was award ed the contract for the paving work on Park avenue from South avenue to Austin street. This pavement will be of granite blocks and will be done for $3.20 per square yard. The other sections of Park avenue will be done by the Burns company at $1.20 per square yard
 
 mon Council, 1t being understood that the improvements would be paid for out of the proceeds of the serial note issue. Now, whether the money comes from the proceeds of the serial notes or from some other source is not for the members of the paw ing and sewer commission to worry about. They simply award the con tracts after the work has been order ed by the Common Council To use the vernacular of the street, it's up to the Common Council to see that the money to pay for the work is pro vided in some way.
 Prior to the awarding of the con tracts a petition from the John street residents asking that that thorough fare be paved with wood blocks was read and it was voted to have wood blocks laid in this street. On motion Of Frederick Atwater it was voted to five year guarantee This will save the city $500 The members of the board, the city engineer and the direc- tor of public works were of the opin- ion that as long as the city inspects the blocks before they are laid, the guarantee is unnecessary.
 The commission ordered the con structfon of the Golden Hill street sewer after a spirited discussion of the case. Attorney Charles s. Can field, representing George W. Finn, a property owner on Elm street, made a strong argument in favor of the sew CT. He stated that unless the sew CT was constructed and objectionable ceaspools done away with, property belonging to his client could not be improved. The city attorney said that the property owners of Golden Hill street could be ordered to use the new sewer when 1t is constructed and that they were liable to assessment. The contract for the sewer in question goes to the Burns company.
 Mayor Wilson was present at the meeting and he urged that work on Fairfield avenue be rushed along as rapidly as possible. He requested Col. Matthew Rogers of the comn1is- sion to confer with Superintendent Charles H. Chapman of the Connecti- cut company, as he himself intended doing, to see if the work on the com panys tracks can not be rushed along a little more rapidly than at present.