Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-18

would pc olrecteQ aDoVe the TWO water mains, 20 and 12 inch, and the traffic would tend to have a harmful effect on these mains, already under terrific pressure he said. On the other side of the street was a sewer which he was informed was down IS feet ,and sewers did not have to be dug up as frequently as water mains anyway. In it's legal aspect, too, sufficient clear ance was not given to comply with the law. Then. too the farther west the switch goes. the better it would be for the equal division of the running time when the Maplewood extension goes through.
 Rutherford c. Plaut asked the chair at this point of the discussion if the discussion concerned the turnout or the extension to Maplewood.
 From the Water Board.
 Albert S. Comstock of the Water Board thought that the city ought to be protected in regard to its water mains and that the trolley company ought to be required to take up the track if the mains had ever to be re- laid. Further objection the water board would not make.
 Claims Petition and Layout Legal.
 Attorney Whittlesey defended the legality of the petition and he applied Section 3S24 of the General Statues of
 
 layout was wholly within the law. The turnout, betting over 150 feet in length came under the general provision and we are left beside 1t not 12 feet but Is feet of absolutely clear road. He mentioned conditions already existing in the city, such as on the reoad to Taftville above the Greeneville car barn whmree there is less than feet clear on one side and more than 12 on the other. And what he desired to waive was not the hearing, but the five day notice of it. in order that the public utilities commission might hold the hearing at once. He was not there with nigger in the woodpile, he maintained and was not trying to put anything over on the council. lie couldn't if he wanted to, he said The trolley road was criticized for not meeting the people half way but it seemed to be because they did not come all the way.
 Engineer Pitcher went back to the days when with Attorney Frank T, Brown he appeared before the rail- road commission at Hartford and the latter demanded a five foot clearance between the trolley track on the Taft vile trolley line and the nearest ob- Struction, and yet even now there are points where this clearance does not exist. Speaking for the fire chief of Norwich, he called attention to the udlS6T IO tue apparatus OI d AAO5 dtAd the extra track at the junction of the streets.
 Corporation Counsel Tanning sand that he had not conferred with the public utilities commission, but that President Perkins had spoken to the commission and learned that they had not made ruling on th1S particular kind of a case. At this point Mayor Murphy surrendered the chair to Sen- for Alderman Gebrath.
 Mayor Gives His Views.
 The mayor said that from time tC time he had made reports on trolley extensions, and now he was ready tC make another one. He was sorry that President Perkins was not present. IT petitioning for extensions in behalf o1 the city of Norwich he represented tural society represents about 40 peo- pie in Norwich. And yet they come and want the company to grant then a siding for three days in the yelI while the company has no intention oi granting the extensions that the city needs
 MT. Perkins told him, the mayol said, that the trolley company had no money to extend its tracks in Nor wich or elsewhere. On July IS he called on MT. Perkins for the last time. MT. Perkins said on July 21 lldI IlC "OuAO O11AS ll1C IIldNlCL DSLOt the directors of the company Since that time the mayor has not heard g word from MT. Perkins. The matter was that of extensions to MaplewooC cemetery and Mohegan park.
 The sidings that they have they dc claimed, and he spoke of the disgrace full condition of the tracks in Mair street in the past.
 He called attention to Mohegar park, where the city of Norwich hac invested $40,0O0. and he said that more Sundays, if the trolleys were extended to it. than would use the fair grounds in five years.
 R. c. PIaut Replies.
 MT. Plaut replied that any member of New London county can become 2 member of the society, whose purpos, is education and stimulation of the agricultural and industrial interests oi the county. The granting of the peti- tion would be no personal favor to the officers of the society, but they expe~t 35,o00 to 50,000 people at the fair. This is city supposed to be on the line o1 progress and proper facilities ought tC be provided for getting the people tC the fair grounds, the only place there is for sports. There is nothing in il for the fair ofhcers-only one man gets any money-he is the secretary, anC his pay is s20o a year.
 Wants credisabIe Accommodations.
 Adelard Morin said that a count, fair iS a good thing for a city and fair. mindedness ought to bring all partie: together. MT. Morin told of his ex. periences in walking in to the citJ from past fairs and Of the blockadins of cars. He desired the trolley accom-. naodations to be creditable to the city
 Mayor Murphy said that the petition if granted was granted forever, ana