The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-08
MAYOR PUTS OFF.
 ASKING FOR BIC TEMPORARY LOAN
Wants tO Wait Until Clerks Can Give Better Estimate of
 Campaign Cost, ,.

Contrary to expectation Mayor Will son in his message to the common council last night regarding the health situation did not ask authority to sob- tain a short term loan of $30,000 to meet the expense of the campaign be- ing conducted against the spread of poliomyelitis here. The administra- tion has decided to wait until a more adequate idea of the expense can bo had before taking action. It may be necessary to grant the board of health la larger appropriation for its salary list in order to give permanent em- ployment to some of the additional in- spectors which have been appointed since the fight against infantile par alysis began.
 In his message last night Mayor Wilson commended the work being done by pr. Abraham Sophian, the expert on infantile paralysis who is now in charge of the preventative measures here. The mayor also com mended the work being done by local physicians to stamp out the disease and naively concluded by suggesting that more jobs be created in the health department and that more hard
 
 easier to keep clean than macadam Istreets.
 While we are on this question of health.' said Alderman Oliver c. Cole of the Eleventh district, T want to call your attention to the condition of the sewer flowing into Yellow Mill pond" The alderman then told that the wooden box through which the
 sewage is supposed to pass out to tide water, is broken in many places. The sewage is spread on the mud and the stench is unbearable at low tide. Per-
 sons living south of Stratford avenue have to close their windows when the tide is out. Mayor Wilson caid the matter would be taken care ef when the trunk sewer 3s built there. There are no funds for sewer repairs now. ''We can't afford to let people die in that section because we haven't funds to regulate these things" retorted AL derfnan Cole.
 A petition from a number of resi- dents of the neighborhood asking that the sever be repaired was referred to the sewers committee. The petition of lC N. Newman and others for the of sewer in Staples street was also referred to the com mittee. It is believed the Staples street sewer will be connected with the Wood avenue sewer.
 Petitions of the Connecticut Co to relocate the tracks on Main street be- tween Congress street and Gold street and on Barnurn avenue where the lines lie too close for the cars to pass, one relative to the North avenue and Capitol avenue crossing, a petition by the Bridgeport Brass Go. to extend a spur track along Crescent avenue, a petition for the extension of White street from the present dead end to Barnum avenue and all petitions re- lating to sewers submitted to the council were ordered referred for a
 public hearing to be held at the next council meeting, Tuesday, September
 9th.
 The mayor aud Alderman Malcolm
 MacFayden reported that after a con- ference with Vice President A. R.
 Whaley and B. I. Sprock. counsel for
 the New Haven road, the company has agreed to replace the stone via
 duct in Housatonir avenue at both
 Congress street and East Washington
 avenue with Dteel t.Dstles or concrete
 arches. s
 Edmond c. Booth was unanimously
 reelected military el,rollment regis- trar.
 The United tllumina :ing Co. was re- lieved of the tond given in 1907 in con- pecton with the laying of undea-