New Britain herald., 1916-03-31
CURTIS CON ATTACKS ON RaaS Mayor on
 Fire Escapes al THE TOWN HOMI
Councilman Also CnarI With Act Of Rank
 Quigley Now Fears N Are In League fo
Councilman O.

Councilman O. F'
 noon hour talk at P.
 factory this noon, poinf
 of discourtesy that lesse
 of the office of mayor in fact any person wh0 of a letter from one Of
 ents, when he refused oz
 swer the second letter a the councilman for a de The speaker said tEat
 talk of his opponent il Ward several weeks ago,
 a letter proposing . publa which the mayor replied
 definite subjects to be disss
 missive was answered oy
 man in which he propOsfsasZ
 hall to be divided euuas their friends. ITO this d8&
 ter has never been answs
 by letter or through the s president of the United St#
 have his secretary answer VI
 letter within three days"
 said. x They Got Water "A Speaking of the claimsN
 mayor that he is responsii*
 decrease in water rates q Curtis said:
 Mayor Quigley did not k water rates. It was do1&
 the work of J. l.. Doyle. N drews, F. w. Miner, !. M K
 M. c. Webster and others 8
 through the 1911 session Of F
 lature, a charter amendmeA
 management of the Ware z
 ment in which water rataS
 be revised. This was adonN
 people at the spring electiuH The water commissioners Quigley, Lawyer and Chr5a Lsubmitted separate propol
 water rates to the comnss
 for approval and that of 1E k
 with a slight amendment. x
 ed and is the schedule nnH we are paying today. TlH cally doubled the cIst for x consumers and cut in half tl8 small user under ordinary Y far as the city governments concerned E. W. Christ is $ the main share of the crcd&
 How About Fire Escs@ E
 On fire escapes for ia cfM report of the committee oM capes, of which George 4. Q H chairman, and which he si
 not show or claim they didM M or recommended anything
 off. On fire escapes for SC
 same committee reportedM mendations for improvements buildings and that certain ot & ings were alright. The c# also made recommendation M escapes to be put on sever& etc, in the center of the common council adopted tIM and for the recommendatios carried out. From that daM I do not know of one fire eN ing put up on this order. George A. Quigley as chairnr M man and mayor to my know8 does anything show that he N any effort to have these orA forced. K
 State Secured Fire EscaN
 In regard to fire escapes O at the 1913 session Of the stat# ture, a bill was passed, see pl 1913, page 21, chapter 40, A for bill No. 23, approved May ordering the state board of to have all school building 8 state inspected in regard to & exits and fire escapes, and 6 any orders they issued comp oy the school authorities.
 Acting upon this law, t board sent an inspector to E 0 go over the school buildin H 1e did with the Chief of theN oartment. Under his orders F. were ordered and fire escapes 'n nearly every school buildirI ,ity, among them several tM Quigley and his committee haa IS alright. MT. Quigley had k o do with he State law. fl State inspector, or E chool boards action, theref& laim is groundless.
 The committee of which ns ent was chairman at the tinH nvestigation of fire escapes on% several buildings as < ,here afterward the state IA rdered the work done over. E luigley is not entitled to dS f credit for the school fire ea he speaker said.
 Town Home Fiasco. E Councilman Curtis said thaA as said two years ago in reH arty harmony in the ranks, ba lr talks is not heard so fra lis year. The speaker spol1eH ard to the aims house invess here his opponent. who wasz me an alderman, accused SH 'ndent Kibbe of selling goodA the town home in Holland 1e secured a private detectivtA also that he accus5 Iperintendent Of the home eatment toward the inmates (Continued On Fifteenth rl