Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-19

Friday night, the voters of the city authorized an appropriation not to 1ex- ceed s200 900 for the purpose of pur chasing and installing at the munich pal electric plant on North Main street new 5000 k W turbine and two 800 n p boilers. As was emphasized at the meeting by those who spoke in favor of the appropriation this amount of money is absolutely essential if the rlant is to continue in operation and give the service that is demanded oi it. In voting the appropriation the citizens were well aware of the fact that none of the $200, ,000 will come out of the money raised by taxes. As Joseph T. Tanning put it in an ad' dress strongly backing the commis- sioners, the expense will be provided for by a bond issue
 New Water Gas Unit.
 Tn addition to this $2OO,O0O appro- priation the meeting also authorized the appropriation of $25,000 for the purpose of installing a new water gas unit at the gas plant to improve both the quality and quantity of the gas, which as practically everyone knows, has not been of the best during the past few months All the appropria- tions on the call went through with the exception of one for $500 which was for the purpose of securing and erecting public scales somewhere in l the city This latter item was indefi- nitely postponed The meeting was enc of the longest city sessions held | in some time for fifteen minutes after adjournment had been taken the town clock was striking the midnight hour. 1 Good Sized Attendance. | ftI was called to order by His Honor, audience was a good sized represen- tation of the city's voters. After City Clerk J.. A. Desmond had read the call 1 the items were taken up separately The first matter was that Of convey ing by deed to Albert $. Bard, subject to proper restrictions, the right to lay and maintain walks and drlveways from the roadway known as the Wash ington street entrance to Mohegan park, over a strip Of city land to cer- tain iots owned by MT. Bard and iay- ing northerlX on and adjacent to the city land. and the right to lay an6 maintain pipes and conduits in anG across the strip and the right of hay ing the strip in question kept free of permanent buildings.
 
 lution granting the above rights. An(
 then by way of explanation he sait
 the board of park commissioners asked
 the approval of the deed in question
 He said that about ten years ago MT
 Bard gave to the city a strip of lan( in that section, reserving certain right but that some time later he inadver tently waived his rights. The dee, winch was up for approval returne4
 their rights
 Wanted Deed Read. George Pitcher, civil engineer. re , quested that the deed be read Tn
 clerk read it and it required some min , utes to get through the closely type written pages. The deed was then ap , proved.
 Item No. was a $500 appropriatio
 for the purpose of erecting publi |, scales in the city. M. c. Higgins pre-
 sented a resolution authorizing the ap propraton.
 William H. Shields inquired as t
 what need there is for public scale
 and where it was proposed to locat
 them.
 Mir. Higgins spoke of the benefit that might be derived from the cree
 tion of the scales by the city. M
 
 ought to know where it was propose | to locate the scales. If they were , be erected on city property there woul e be no expense after erection but if the Q were to be put on private propert | there would probably be additional ey ', pense.
 ? MT. Higgins said it had been prt d posed to locate them on the city's iar
 at the Central fire station. The scale = would not interfere with the fire sts r tion. He also spoke of several oth, : locations where it had been propose to place them. He said the matter ha
 been brought to the attention of u
 city meeting as the result of a reque
 from Councilman J. C. Worth that u
 council take steps to provide publ
 scales.
 MT. Shields said he thought Rose a T. ley or some similar spot near u II freight tracks and the center of tl : city would be a better location if u B scales were purchased.
 Q MT. Pitcher moved that action ( > the matter be indefinitely postpone IL The motion was carried
 ss To Move Stone crusher. " The third item was one a, m thorizing the common coun. If to appropriate $2,00O for n l. cessary repairs and improvement
 the stone crusher. A resolution in f h vor of the appropriation was .presen ,d ed by MT. Higgins.
 ,s George B. Fellows, street commi ,e sioner, in explaining the need of u of money, said that the present plant h; .d been put up g years ago and h. as been running since with only such r , pairs as were essential. He said t Ch hn ic ledge. He read a list of the iter
 which make up the $2,000. One of t ,e items was an estimate of $500 for t i moving of the crusher nearer t ,a ledge.
 MT. Dodd said he did not see t
 necessity for moving the stone crush es In answer to a question from \ nj Shields he said the crusher could T ,e. be moved for $500, and that one tho he sand dollars would be nearer the fl
 ure. He made a motion that the s i'll item be stricken from the resolutit gt making the appropriation $1700. E r. motion was lost for want of SC ond
 I- The resolution was then adopted te an informal vote and then made les ,e by ballot vote. the clerk being a nS thorized to cast one ballot Ie For Insurance Premium an Then came the matter of the a n- propriation of $z, 1t0 for the purpose w paying the compensation insuraE SC premium of the public works depal eir ment. There was some question as he what this item meant and what fly surance it provided. Several questio nd in regard to the item were asked lie MT. Shields. After explanation se Street Commissioner Fellows and C. 'se poration Counsel Alofsin, in which ey was stated that the insurance W ed taken out in accordance with 1 of worknens compensation act the r, at olution was adopted as presented