New Britain herald., 1916-10-21

1 WHeH, durlng the Dig soldier parade, 1 ne threw open his church for the pub nc, permitting them to come inside l ana watch the passing spectacle from 1 the windows. COmmendably pro-
 gressive, was this action, and appre- 1 CSated by peoples of all creed too
 
 ] Democrats had a good laugh this week at the republicans who had as l a campaign speaker a man who open 1 ly declared that he Is an expatrioted l American, a man who by his long ab- sence from his native land has lost his citizenship-J. Calvin Brown. The 1 thought of a BloOmin' Britisher tell ing the American public how to vote ] is somewhat unusual.
 l The matter of city dumps is fast ! becoming one that will require atten- 1 tiOn of the civic authorities even more than they have required the attention 1 of the fire department for so long, and that Is considerable. Especially offensive is the Lasalle street dump at the corner of LaWlOr and Lasalle streets It is a disgrace to the city. There is situated an insanitary, open sink drain, heaps of tin cans, garbage, refuse and other rubbish and this right in the populated sectiOn Every day may be seen women and children crawling over tl.is mess of filth, pick ing out bits of junk they think may prove of some small value. Condi- tions such as these should not be per- mitted to exist.
 The school board got a hot shot at the council meeting this week and II the opinion set forth by the corpora ton council is correct they deserved it. In the first place the board had $20,000 in it's building fund and de- cided to use 1000 on repairs at the Osgood Hill school. Then it devel- oped that about $15, 1000 was needed to repair faulty construction at the prevocational school as we'll as $17O,- 900 for the new Burritt school De- velopments showed that the charter will not permit a bond issue for re- pairs, so the board switched things around making it appear that their building fund money was to be used for the repair of the prevocational school and the other amount for the other works. It was brought out forcibly that the money used to re- pair the defective wall was from a balance in the building fund and as this money had been originally voted for one specific purpose it would ap- pear inconsistent if not legal to use it for any other. Then the board tried to hedge by saying that they were using this money to "complete' the structure. Mayor Quigley termed this N. G. however, by recalling the fact that the building had been finished, paid for and accepted before the broken wall was discovered. Thus it would appear that the boards criticism is justified and they spent money that they had no right to use without permission.
 At the September meeting of the council an order of far reaching i'm pOrtance was passed, yet it has not seemed to strike anyone with particu- lar significance. It is the order giv- ing the board of public works the right to order the relaying of any city sidewalks not in rroper condition Already seventy five such orders have been sent to various property owners, but if the order is enforced as it should be it will eventually call for an almost universal reform in the walks along Main street and other busy business thoroughfares Visitors notice more especially than natives the condition of the walks on the main street of this modern city of co.,, 900 people. In most instances the walks are not of the modern type, but those what were in vogue fifty years ago. All down Main street are the old fashioned flag walks set in tiers three and four deep, at all angles and of all sizes, looking more 1 like a crazy patchwork quilt design than anything else. Is there any l reason why all Main street property | owners, earning the big revenue they l do, should not be compelled to lay modern walks of concrete and in this | way bring New Britain into the mod 1 ernized style?
 William c. Wall is being mentioned l as the probable successor to the late 1 Councilman Eliot H. Porter from the l third ward. MT. Wall was a candi- | date for the nomination last spring 1 and made good run. His appoint 1 ment is the most logical one.
 
 The long talked of and much specu- l lated upon white way is not myth. | Tn proof thereof is the initial work l alrSduY DSSo otll oll oIluICIl SllSc "1IClS the subways are being put in and the 1 lamp standard bases set. There is l still faint glimmer of hope that the l new year may see the changed sys- ! tenn.
 Now that the double tracking to Hartford. has been finished let the 1 work of giving better service both in | schedule and in the cleanly condi- l tion of trolley cars be hurried right ] along Also the pavement of Dwight l and Jubilee streets where it has beer torn up for so many weeks.