New Britain herald., 1916-01-13

compensation is larger than IS gwen by any tramway company in the state.
 Consider New Lights.
 The board of selectmen at thelr regular meeting tonight will make the arrangements necessary Dor teh- year renewal of the street lighting contract with the United Electric Light and Power company in ao- cordance with the instructions gwen by the voters at the special town meeting Monday night. The new contract will call for lights of eighty candle power, instead of sixty ana the town will have to pay SIS in stead of $20 per lamp each year, pro- viding the agreement is adhered to for ten years Should the town wish to make a new contract after i've years, the agreement can be broken by reim bursting the company to the extent of $1 per light for each year the service has been given from 1916.
 The contract now in force expires on January 15 and the company will be asked to draw up new one.
 The selectmen will also consider to- night the matter of increasing the number of lights and the places in which they are to be located. The town meeting auth orized them to add not more than twenty incandescents to the number now in use. Unless the Connecticut company can be pur- suaded to use lights of at least six teen candle power on Whiting street, the town will probably have to in- stall at least five new lamps at it's own expense on that thoroughfare to keep it properly illuminated. This Uvi1 bnr of O fifteen. even should the selectmen go the limit and it will be necessary to refuse some of the petitions that have been presented, nearly thirty new lamps being asked for.
 Abstract Nearly Complete. Town Clerk R. c. Usher expects to | finish tomorrow the work of com l piling an abstract from the report of | the board of assessors and by Sat urday the books will probably be | open for public inspection. The board of relief will not meet next month and | the assessors have until the end of l January to make any changes deemed | advisable.
 While nearly three hundred notices of increases have been sent out by the board, the raise in the grand list to- tai is but $1O1,700 over l/t years. The large number of increases made is largely accounted for by the failure of non-residents to file their lists in com mpliance with the new law, mak- ing it necessary for the assessors to put on a ten per cent. addition. In an effort to equalize the valuation of land the assessors also made some in- creases, most of them not sufficiently
 
 lots assessm ents.
 The board feels that property in P1ainville is listed for its full valua- ton and that the assessmet ts are capitalized as far as possible.
 The usual number of complaints, however, will probably be filed with the relief board as increases are sell dom regarded by property owners as iustifia ble.
 Brief Items
 Sequassen lodge will hold a regular meeting tonight in Odd Fellows hall The officers recently elected will be installed by District Deputy J. H. Deiters of Bristol.
 Miss Nella Wadsworth is quite i'll at her home on Broad street
 Judge Byington will give a hearing in the probate court tomorrow morn ing on the application for admission to probate of the will of Charlotte Scott. An administrator will also be appointed, F. S. Neal, who was named in the document as executor having declined to serve.
 Walter Lambert of Forestville has accepted a place as motorman with the Bristol and Plainville Tramway company.
 Court General L.awtons card team attended a dutch supper served in Bardeck's hall in New Britain last evening. The members Of all courts participating in the recent forty five" tournament joined in arranging for the spread.