The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-09
SPEEDY COUNCIL
 SESSION DISPOSES
 ROUTINE MATTERS

hUUIINE MAIIEKS Speedily, and with only one brief pause for a five minute recess the common council last night disposed Of g, stack of routine matters, reports, pe- titions, etc, and an adjournment was taken at 9:3O when the city clerk re- ported his desk cleared Among the many matters before the council were ! the following:
 Communications.
 From Mayor Woodward of Atlanta, Ga. relative to the Fourth American Road congress.
 From City Engineer A. IF. Terry relative to the condition of the Con- gress street bridge City engineer es- inmates it will cost $1, 800 sro repair it.
 Reports.
 From the committee on streets and sidewalks:
 Granting to A L. Delaney pernis- sion to withdraw petition for accept iance Of Salem street and Mckinley avenue.
 Laying out and accepting Dover street.
 Ordering eight-foot building line on Norman street from State street to Fairfield avenue.
 Ordering hearings for September 21 on petition of w. J. Nichols ct al., for the extension Of Salem street to Iadi- son avenue.
 Ordering the paving and sewer com mission to permanently pave the city's Iqortion of Brooklawn avenue from iRooster river bridge to the Country club.
 Granting permission to the New .sHaven road to relocate it's tracks in Hast Washington avenue between Cen j GraI and SeaXieW avenues.
 Ordering curb, gutter and sidewalk on Dewey street from North avenue Ito Brooklazwn avenue. | Granting permission to Alderman V. $. Whitney to withdraw the petition. for the grading of Bond street.
 From the Committee on Claims. i Granting tax abatements to Sterling Widows home for West avenue curb Iassessmen 30; Anthony D. Phil I lips, business tax list of 1913; Mrs. Patrick Clark, taxes on house and lot ion Seaview avenue, list of 1913; George Bobko, business tax of $6.33 on list of Ea913; Archibald c. McNei1, Sr., ten per cent penalty for failure to file list of 1913 in the name of A. NEcNei1, Jr.; Theodore A. sCrofutt estate, taxes on Hist of 1913 amounting to $9.6O; I'm manuel Baptist church, sprinl<ling tax list of 1913 on property at Lafayette and Gregory streets; Clarence B. See,
 
 harbor; James and Bridget Curley, taxes on list of 1193; John Marx, 1 sprinkIing tax on list of 1913 at Com mercia1 street property amounting to $52. .32.
 Granting tax adjustments to A. R. ] Decerlo on auto tax list of 1911; Nor ris zeligmanv abatement of interest ] and expense on list Of 1909; James E2awley, taxes on lists of 1909-10-11-12 i in the name Of George H. Nler7baurer;, ] Hattie M- Augur, abatement of liens for sprinkIing on lists of 1912-13
 Granting abatement of personal tax es to Erros HeisIer, John w. Moran, j Charles E. Jones, Frank Hogan. Fred ] ericfk E1- Pratt, Henry DeBorne, Chas. IA. Miller, Francis P. Ryan, Michael Paskewitz. John Solzko, Robert Beat ty, John F'innegan, sWilaiam Rowe ; Thomas A. Dowd, John Marx, Will ] liam D. Baum, Herbert Richardson. ! Refunding to Luigi Nargi and S. Loewith & Company of taxes paid by l mistake amounting to $6.72-
 Granting to Michael H. Lilliss and Frederick c. Wordin refundmentl of personal tax.
 Refunding overpayment of taxes Of ! $75.36 to the H. L. Lewis Oyster com Pany.
 Granting abatemetn of taxes to the Second Baptist church; to St.. Luke's Episcopal church and Mary A. Bond. Granting adjustment Of taxes to w. s. Black and Susan H. Ganung i Granting adjustment of taxes to An ton and Helen cseresyne and George i s. Hawie.
 Granting refundment of taxes to i Barthas Rooney and w. D. Hyde.
 Granting leave to withdraw peti- tiors of George Sterling, for abate- 1 1nent of personal tax on lists of 1911- 12-13; s. Hirshik, for reimbursement for injuries sustained by his daughter Essie at High street school. G. B. Wood, agent for Ezra Whiting execu- tor. for abatement of assessment flor sidewalk on Stratfords avenue; Eliza beth Osterhause, agent for Emma c. :, Hopkins. flor abatement of Stratford :! avenue sidewalk assessment; Gustav and Ida Fohrholtz Nfor abatement of taxes on the list Of 1913; Jennie c. Beach, for abatement of interest on .Westfield avenue sewer assessment.
 From the Committee on Sewers.
 Ordering sewer wells constructed at the corners of Park avenue and LOT raine street
 Ordering sewer in Boston avenue from East Main street to KossIth street.
 Ordering sewer in East Eaton street.
 Ordering sewer constructed in East avenue from Boston to Barnum ave , rue.
 Ordering sewer constructed in Capitol avenue west $40 feet from Mad ison avenue. t Petitions.
 Mrs. Della Clancy, abatement of -4axes on the lists of 1912 and 1913- Francis Hurley, abatement of per- sonaI taxes on the lists of 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913.
 Vito Pace, for establishment of a grade on Logan street
 Maria Burnes, for abatement of tax ,es on the list of 1913
 George zink and V. S. Whitney for the acceptance by the city of Ford Place.
 W. wolfram ct al for sewer well at the corner of East Main and Maple