Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-14

At the adjourned September meeting of the common council Monday night, which lasted little less than an hour, amend rrents to the traffic ordinances to route the public service cars in the city were Pproposed and are to be published in regu- lar form so as to make them effective in due time.
 The new ordinances, which are design ed to exclude the jitneys from doing bus mess in certain streets, are drawn in such a way as it is believed will bring them within the requirements to make them legal as indicated by Judge George E.. Hinman when he issued an injunction against previous set of ordinances pasa- | ed by the council with the same end in view of excluding the jtneys from cer- l tain streets.
 The text of the new proposed ordinance reads that "all the public streets are spe- officially designated and fixed as traffic 1 routes for all public service motor vehi- cies while operated as such except the ] streets from which they are to be ex- cluded.
 The section from which the jitneys are to be excluded by the ordinance are Main street from Washington square to Burn l ham square, Shetucket street from Main to Water. Broadway from Main street to Bath street, all of Bath street. Market kstreet from Main to Water, Franklin I street from the square to Willow street, and all of Franklin square, Ferry street 1 and Rose place. A section of the ordi- nance provides a so fine for infraction of its provisions, and another section es- l tablished 3o-minute hjarking period on l the westerly side of Franklin street from I r. | explained that this was done at the re- quest of a large number of merchants ] along the street
 Water Board Once More.
 One other matter furnished interest in the meeting outside of the routine busi- ness with which the council session was largely filled. This related to the annual report of former President Walter W Lang, covering last year, for printing with the annual journal of the council Councilman Edward Crooks, who is the councils member of the water board, re- ported the election of Reuben S. Bartlett l as president to succeed Albert S. Com stock resigned. and asked approval by the council and that the salary be fixed at $500. The council voted approval
 In response to an inquiry from Alder
 
 R- Frisbie said that the water board re. port for last year was not in his posses sion for printing with the common coun. cil journal but that he had received i once from former President Lang but MT Lang had taken it back the next day anC had never returned it. Questioned fur ther, Mir, Frisbie said that MT Lang haC given him the report at the June meetin, of the council but the next day had sen the clerk of the board after it, sayin; Fl that he wanted to look it over for E . 20 minutes, and has never returned il although Mir. Frisbie has written to hir ] for it.
 Councilman Crooks said he had aske about the report at the meetings of tn water beard, but nobody had been able { give him any satisfaction about it. Il . | thought it was important that this repoI ] l should be secured and he favored tui min T the matter over to the corporation cou1 y sel to get it, as had been suggested :
 Alderman Pendleton. This was voted l l. the council
 Il Payroll Savings in Water Department Figures were reported at the com, meeting showing that there had been ! saving of about $17O per week m | . water department since republican cJntr h. sucCeSueu- the demoCratlc on the h%St v July. For the three months up tt Ju
 the payroll figures were given as & LAO, while in the II weeks from July to Sept. II the total payrolls hac be
 s4,l30.50, which was a difference uf ! .- S71.sO in favor of republican contru!
 the water department.
 6 Mayor Herbert NJ Lerou stated fl D. this had not been accomplished throu
 any let-down in the work of the dera
 ment since it had been very active '- the past three months and Couuciim
 Crooks said that there had been o,
 work done in the past three months tn
 had been done in three years, and
 didn't say that because he was a me
 Der of the board, but on the authority
 employees of the department
 Petitions Presented.
 Mayor Lerou called the meeting to
 der at S.2o and a number of petitions
 reports were acted upon.
 The council voted approval of the
 Ice commissioners recommendation fc
 buglight on Linden parkway on the
 plication of Howard L.. Stanton and z
 CTS Alderman ". S. Murray preser
 the report
 .o5 Alderman Charles F. Wells ente = report Of progress on the petition of .37 gelo Coveilo for the acceptance of 's' summary of disbursements from May 1