The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-14
City Hall Committee Plans Sweeping Changes In Ten
 ancies in the Building
NEW BANK BUILDING
 MAY BE UTILIZED
Registrars of Voters Must Leave, and Personal Col
 1ectors to Be Abolished

The board of education, one of the largest of the city departments, is to
 be moved from the city hall and also the office of the personal tax collec- tors. The office of the personal tax collectors will probably be located in the new First-Bridgeport National
 bank building at Main and State
 streets. Where the new offices of the
 Board of Education will be located
 has not yet been established. The City Hall committee, City
 Clerk Robinson and Alderman Mac Fayden, have been under the impress
 sion that the Board of Education has
 bought the Kelly house and would
 move it to some site near the location
 of the new High school where they would esta b1ish executive offices. This
 was the intention of the Board of Education but while the board was
 making its deal with Durkin & Lass for the construction of the high school, it was agreed that the con
 tracting firm take over the Kelly house as. a part of the bargain. This was done and the Kelly house moved to a new site.
 Members of the city hall commit tee do not know this, however, and they are preparing to change. offices in the city hall without regard to where the Board ef Education may find quarters. Perhaps this board, too, will go to the First Bridgeport National bank building.
 The committee plans to abolish the women's retiring room on the first floor and to give the room over to the town clerks office.
 When the terms of the personal tax collectors expire in February the may or will not reappcint any one of the present body but will appoint an ex-s tra clerk to serve with the tax col lector at a salary of S1 800 per year The present salary of the personal tax collectors is $1,45O a year each and there are three, John Temple, Patrick ] Cuddy and James Holt, Jr., each az pointed by Mayor E. T. Buckingham Collector Howard J. Smith was told today by the mayor when he present. ed his reQuisition to the board of ap- portionment to make it cover the ex trs clerks salary
 The registrars of voters have also been told to include in their requlsi- tfon from the board of apportionment an item to cover rent in some build ing other than the city hall The city nall committee plans to use the rooms now occupied bytthe board of educa- ton and does not yet know that the board has not made any arrange ments to move
 The rooms that the board of educa- tion now occupy on the top floor of the city hall will be given over to the girl clerks who are engaged in copy ing records in the town clerks office The records and books will be taken upstairs from the vaults every morn ing. The room now occupied by the personal tax collectors will be made into a cloak room for the board of al- der1nen, for which it was originally i designed.
 The present city haI1 built in 1851 was remodeled in the last year of Mayor Mulvihin's administration and at eaat time designed to house the executive offices of every city depart rnent except. the police, fire and chari- ties department. The building has served it's purpose well. There is not in all New England an executive mu- nicipaI5 building which is so easy O.; access and which possesses such light and airy offices.
 The building was remodeled in 1905 and the board of education took pos session there in the following year. For more than twenty years before that time the board had met in quar- ters elsewhere.
 Mayor Wilson refused to say who he had in mind for appointment to do the work in the tax collectors of fee. The appointment really rests with Collector Smith but it is under stood that the mayor has asked that he, be allowed to name the man in O4dC1@El 4dI sAA0 Hay h1nSel1 in a machine that he is endeavoring to build up.
 The personal tax list. for 1914 will be $28,142 according to the list which has been prepared by Miss Catherine Buckley. daughter of Pa trolman B. G. Buckley. The list is said to be one of the neatest docu- ments ever prepared and presented for a city official For 1913 the list was $26,087. This years list in con- sequence shows an increase of $2,055