New Britain herald., 1916-09-21
COUNCIL WASTED
 BUT LITTLE TIME
Cleaned Slate Of Routine Matters
 and Quickly Adjourned

With little loss of time in oratory the common council carried it's busi- ness through at the September meet ing last night in just an hour and cleared the decks of a mass of routine @ business. The usual monthly debate over some absorbing topic of public interest was lacking and the various reports were approved about as fast as the clerk could present them. Mayor Quigley presided at the opening of the council but following a custom he has apparently decided upon, His Honor soon turned the reins over to President Pro Tenn M. I. Jester.
 Petitions Received.
 Petitions were received as follows: From Albert Pearson ct al. for two lights in Buell. street; from T. w. Grove for the abatement of assess ment and lien on property at the cor ner of Spring and North streets; from Peter Dobzynski ct al. for lights in Horace street; from John Stadler, Jr., for a permanent walk on the south side of Chestnut street between Bige- low street and the railroad crossing; from Franklin R. Neal, ct al., for lights in Jerome street; from Julian Adolny ct al. for lights on Silver street north of Broad street: from Charles s. Anderson, ct al., for a grade for McClintock Road north of Allen street; from the Hart & Cooley Co.,, for per- mission and price to connect property on Booth street with the sewer in Myrtle street; from c. L. Barnes for a water main in Warren street; from E. O. Kilbourne, ct al, for a curb and gutter on the west side of Stanley street from Francis street to Com monwealth avenue; from Louis Rem enco for permission to move a two- story building on the east side of Stanley street opposite to S11 Stanley street; from the Title Realty & Devel- opment Co. for sewer in COnnecti- cut avenue; from Walenty Murzen, ct al., remOnstrating against the laying of walk on Whitman street. for an 18-foot building line on the north side of Belden street; for the establish ment of building lines on Glen street from West Ellis to Brook street; for the grading and working of Cleveland street from Myrtle to Broad street; resembling the order to lay permanent walks on Burritt street from Broad street to Osgood avenue, the petition CTS considering that a cinder walk will be sufficient; for a concrete walk on the east side of Madison street; macadamizing and laying permanent walks on Norden street; for crosswalks on the north side of Shuttle Meadow avenue at Linwood street and on the south side over Lyons street; for curb ing and macadanizing of Silver street between Broad and Orange streets; for the oiling of Spring street and Kelsey streets between Fairview and East street; for a sewer in Albany avenue; for a sewer in Conn ecticut avenue between East and Market streets; for the abatement of the smoke nuisance in Pearl street; from residents of the southwest section of the city for a fire station.
 Reports were received from the mayor and aldermen as follows: rec ommending the abatement of interest and lien only, on old assessments and taxes providing the assessments and taxes are paid; abating old taxes and street sprinkling assessments, the same being uncollectible; on the petition of Fred Eherls for the abatement of the ten per cent. additional tax on his property giving the petitioner leave to withdraw; on the petition of Bridget Corliss for the abatement of interest and lien and part of old sewer as-