The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-27
ALDERMAN ACT CAUTIOUSLY ON
 JrTNEY MATTER
Seek Legal Advice Before Ac- tion on Ordinance For
 Regulation.

Because members of the common council committee on ordinances were unable to agree as to how the j1tney buses should be regulated and li- I censed, the ordinance proposed by AL derman Primrose was laid over for a further hearing after lengthy dis cussion before the committee last night The committee split. over the proposal of Alderman Primrose to bond the owners of cars $500 for each vehicle employed. The section cover 1 ing this in the proposed ordinance reads as follows:
 ''No vehicle shall be used or enn- ployed as a jitney, unless the owner thereof files with. the city of Bridge port a bond with good and sufficient surety for $500 for each vehicle so en- gagged, which bond shall be answer able to any judgment that may be re- covered against said owner by any | person injured by collision with such vehicle or while 8, passenger thereof | or unless said ovzrer in lieu thereof file a certificate under oath declaring said vehicle to be insured for passen- ger and pedestrian hazard in a re- sponsibIe insurance company
 Alderman Caldwell opposed this and l in fact expressed himself as opposed to any plan to regulate the j1tneys. He said he thought the jitney ques- ton was pretty well covered by ordf- nance at present All members of the committee agreed that the jitneys had forced the Connecticut Co., to give bet ter trolley service. Alderman Winter burn called attention to the over ! cro wdingl of many of the jitney cars and said he favored regulation of some sort in order that owners of cars might be held responsible in case of accidents from overcrowding or reckless driving. i Alderman Blakeslee was in favor of some regulation but thought eon- 1 ference should first be had with the lr77fx afF f f7Y7cI Ky cd fO postpone legislation until the city at torney could be consulted.
 Plans of City Engineer A H. Terry Ito systematic the sewer outlets of I Bridgeport were discussed at much length by the committee. City En- gineer Terry had sent a lengthy out i line of his plans to the committee and it was finally decided that this out line should be submitted to the city attorney and the latter requested to meet in conference with MT. Terry and frame ordinance which will cover the matter as he desires
 The principal points of the ordinance as suggested by MT. Terry are:
 sl All pipes that must be kept open to drain areas, yards or gardens shall be connected with catch basins of brick, not less than three feet in diameter and of a length below the outlet pipe of at least two and one-half feet. No private catch basin all be built with ID the I1In1CS or the street.. when meat packing hous-- slaughter houses or
 lard rendering establishments are con-
 nected with sewers, catch basins and
 grease traps satisfactory to the super 1ntendent of sewers shall be put in.
 Pipes draining fountains shall be con- nected with catch basins.
 No live, exhaust, or waste steam and no water of temperature above
 140 degrees Fahrenheit shall be dis
 charged into the public sewers or into iany drain connecting with them. Nc 1 b1ow-off from any steam boiler shall be connected without permission Tank and condenser shall be provided No roof water or surface draina ge
 sha1 be turned into a sanitary sewer nor shall sidewalks be allowed to over flow (the term sanitary sewer means sewer for sewage only; the ternt' com
 binedi sewer,'' sewer for waste wa
 ter).
 No person shall throw into any drair
 or sewer, inlet, mannole or catch ba-
 sin any earth, dirt, stones, bricks
 sawdust, ashes, cinders, shavings. hair oyster, lobster or clam shells, or any
 other substance detrimental to the
 sewers or the use thereof.
 i No persons shall make or maintain I tany connection with any public sewer
 or appurtenances thereof whereby
 there may be conveyed into the same
 any hot, suffocating. corrosive. infam.
 mable or explosive liquid, gas, vapor
 substance, or material of any kind Chat the provisions of this paragrap pt shall not apply to water from ordf nary hot water boilers of residences)