Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-11

All the amounts asked for by the finance committee in the ordinary ex- penses of the year were granted by l the adjourned city meeting Tuesday night except S5. 400 for new sewer in ] Hickory street, and of the extras only | the sum of $500 for the Shetucket ! street hill improvement and $12.000 i for new auto triple combination | chemical and pumping engine were | turned down.
 By accident or misunderstanding the ! 400 citizens at the meeting at first voted the appropriation for the new bumper, but when they found what they had done promptly rescinded the vote and then tabled the matter.
 The meeting laid city tax of 16 1-2 mills, which is 3-4 of mill more than the finance committee asked for and 3-4 of mill more than last years city tax
 The following regular appropriations were voted:
 Department of Public Works-Or- dinary repairs and expenses s45.oo0; outside work, $5,000; garbage and ash es 17,oo0: sewers and catch basins, $4,200; macadam repairs. s17,00e; oil- ing and sprinkling. sS.00o; parks and trees, $2,50o; liability insurance, $2,- 202.21; brick paving repairs, sS5o; re- pairs to barn. s1,500: repairs to Rose Place dock, $75o; street signs, s200; West Thames street sewer. s1,400; West Thames street inprovemnt. re- appropriation, s21,e47.eo; total. s127, 25011.
 New Sewers whitaker avenue sew CT. 900.
 Department of Cemeteries, s9,525. Fire Department, $50 245. Police Department-Salaries, s44 10329: salaries. additional. to provide for two days leave of absence each month, s2.250; general expense s.. 900; street lighting, sts,000; city court, s5.75o; total, $73,1o3-2s.
 1 Health Department, $3000 1 Gas & Electric Department-Oper- | ating and general expenses, s342,510; l city loan to be repaid. s27,ooo inter
 est on mortgage bonds: s2e,00e; inter
 est on s2s7, 900 at per cent, s11 ,4s0; 1 interest on $46,o0o. at 6 per cent. s2,- l 760; interest on s925 GOO at per cent, s11.250; total, $415,o0o.
 l Park Department. s5,00o. l Water Department-Interest, SEA- l e375o
 l Finance Department-Salaries and l tav commission, s5,200; court house | $7,4S5; milk inspector, sT5o; election | expenses. s1 900; interest. exclusive of water department and gas and electric
 department, 23.0o0: loan of September 14, 1917. 4th installment, general street l improvement, $5,20o: loan of Septem-
 Der 23, 1918. third installment. North 1 Main street macadan, s2,009; loan of 1 March IS, 1917, third instal1rnent l Thames street improvement, s75Go; third installment G. & E. loan. s7.000; temporary loan, 191s- 1919, s5,000 ;one-
 fifth, West Thames street improvement
 s4So0; temporary loans, s145.000; to-
 tai, $21S,s35
 Contingent, ss,so4.51. Grand total $937, ,5oo.41.
 Mayor J. J. Desmond called tho
 meeting to order just after o'clocl l with City Clerk William R. Frisbie as clerk of the meeting and City Sheriff George W. Rouse in charge of the bal . lot box, in case any votes had to bt taken that way
 . The mayor referred with some show , of warmth to a recent advertiseme n calling for citizens to join taxpayers association, and said we were all in 7 taxpayers association, whether w wanted to be or not, if we owned an,
 property that was in sight, and he ask
 ed that the business of the meeting b.
 done in fair and businesslike way
 having regard to the importance 0 :. I
 After vote to take up the items Il the order in which they were printed , the meeting proceeded to vote on tn department estimates. beginning wit . the department of public works. . When the appropriation of $2,202.2 for liability insurance was reache Meyer Blumentha1 offered a resolutio that S2.500 be placed in the hands 0 the city treasurer to pay for injurie II T to men hurt while in the employ c : the city street department. Mayor Desmond ruled the motto out of order. but Mir. BIumenthai mad a speech for cutting down city ex T penses. At one point he addressed tn , meeting as fellow democrats" rais y ing quite a laugh at his expense. H said men injured in the employ of tn s city had not been paid for their in
 juries.
 Mayor Desmond explained that tn sum was for premiums for insuranc $ and Street Commissioner James ]
 Fox challenged Mir. Blumenthal
 name a man who had been injure = but not paid,
 Il Mayor Desmond ruled this discussio Il out of order, while the crowd enjoye U the little clash.
 On the question of an appropriate .e of s5.400 for a sewer in Boswell ave t nue. Edward T. Burke explained ths u the sewer would run for 1900 feet fro1 : Hickory street and would go throus Is solid ledge for much of the distanc l. It could not be built for the SUI Il named. He moved to lay the matte le on the tae5le and this was voted. Il Martin Cassidy, a considerable prol o against the appropriation for tn U sewer.
 T. On motion of H. NJ Lerou, the n1ayt er gave the figures of last year as he req II each of the items that followed in tl ls meeting.
 -e When the item of s575o for ci ~ court expenses was reached. May l. Desmond said it was s4,200 last yea
 but we can't help ourselves. becau T. the legislature has gleetully raised u salaries of all the court officials. -e There was a raise this year in cour T; house expenses from $6.6S5 to s1,4s 10 The health departnient last year W; , $2,1oo and ss,o0o this year. 1., After all the regular appropriatio at had been made, Mayor Desmond re; IS the advertised list of estimated r T. ceipts, which amount to s711, ,3S2.S2. tts Voting the Extras. he The mayor then took up the S ,h called extras, on which ex-Mayor of c. Murphy spoke in favor of $500 a playgrounds. It was voted ds On the matter of s2.2o0 for Chur
 street improvement. G, B. Dolbea t. asked for information as to what tf mt covered.
 n- Street Commissioner Fox said 1t "
 meant to put a tar bound macadam
 the hills at each end of the street a
 water bound macadam on the lev
 part of the street. taking out t crosswa1ks. The sum was voted.