New Britain herald., 1920-01-21
TIE COUNCIL MEETING,

|rC arc several points or CACeeu Ecrest to the New Britain public arc due to be decided at thc hg of the Common Council thtS |g chief of which is the report promises to be final. upon the Ing of tue money npproprla'en ke Welcome Home t'Clcbra ton bc returns to the city from the Zal held in this connection. u I.s as thouch the recent dCmand upon the ma tier ol |,ds. as they were taken in and city got it's share, is rcSarde" dead issue and we venture to |t that Comptroller Curtis, til2 man w1io has worked upon ln will report that there arc no Iaritics apparent to hl"'' |upon. we also predict, the will be dropped.
 Ee i, no doubt but that thcr2 |e little objection to the figures lr were accounted for by th" hI com mittcC. The preliminary lon, made by Auditor spear the effect that there were II" krS or any kind submitted to but the accuracy of the con'- Is report. Tt merely stated certain amount had been re- from the carnival as it's con lon to the city and certain Nc had been expended. There |riginally, no attempt to go into 4ricate details that such an af- 6 the carnival would seem to ht. Possibly the committee has submitted vouchers. but We ! it.
 shall not. for I moment. qucS- he good faith of Comptroller I in accepting tho figures as thc% presented to him. They balance nly account for every Ceut that htioned as income and outgo. |rcnt fault is that there is no upon them; nobody knows Inc carnival actually took in and er the city got its share or not. there were checkers on the shows connected with lie af- rue, they can give a fairly ac-
 estimate of the people who ! Into the shows, even though We secn no reports from them as Mr. Curtis may have them, but
 c not in his confidence. But
 werc no checkers on thc CatCh-
 devices. the wheels, the ,.Afric;,i.
 and so forth. The money kd by these concessions must
 been great in the aggregate. Ihere were several crtCh-pcuny I to each onu which had to col amusement tax or held a city +r. There I absolutely no WaE
 of knowing what these titti" |s collected beyond Il Compari- I-ith <thc. results of the Ia ba' and a cncral approNima ton of
 each booth should have taken He may not expect Mir. Gurus ! Ick up-he has not the facilities
 ing it.
 ever, we havp au apprQNima- .pu one oC these concessions l shows that the city did not get 5rc, unless the figures were fa" truc. To start from the begin The editor of The Herald Wua |d that the city was to receive |y-llNC per cent. Oi inc pIDCCt'iH the "NotinG Contest by q mem l the local carnival committee representative Of the travelling
 We cannot quote actual lig-
 O tue penny. but we are HD~
 batclv correct ill the statements :;
 follow. The eleventh ballot oH
 bntcSt as it was issued hy thUa ,
 Is it showed Il total nf votes
 would mean that the sum of
 had been received To pay for
 There was one more ballot
 bed after this and for one O,
 kys thcrca ftcr il waE possible 10
 money in q ballot box in the
 without any statement bc;u.,
 as to how many votes each can
 in, tho several contests had rI,-
 There bad been Il contest
 many votes dropped. and tn"
 paid for the votes is not in
 in tho above sum. So, VIC ha'l bting results of three more daN x
 to the total. besides tl'" SrI'l Xtbe dropped contest But NC