The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-11
BROAD STREET IN
 STAMFORD TO
 BE PAVED SOON
Council Votes To Use $12,-
 GOO Available on West : Broad - Sidewalks No
 Joke'-Hubbell.

"Ohi there is always something go- ing on in there, but it does not mean anything, a pretty young miss de clared to her companion last evening in an answer to the question Why are there so many men in front of the | town hall tonight ?" as they were both bal battles which have spread the | name of the town all over the coun- | try.
 Several matters came up for discus sion during the two hours amid small amount of verbal fireworks contri- | buted by the councilmen and the town | manager.
 Councilman Sherwood attempted to get over a proposition which he had been expecting the councilmen from the 2nd and 3rd districts to act upor. the oiling of South Main street. from Hard's corner down towards Lordsh1p and to continue as far as the money provided.
 The project did not stir any great amount of enthusiasm in the persons of the councilmen from those districts so the champion of the movement de- c1ared: "I am surprised to find Coun- cilmen Sammis and Sniffen 1ukewarnr on this proposition, but If they do not want to have the roads in their vicinity oiled, I am perfectly willing to drop the matter. ,.
 Councilman Sniffer in replying to the charge of being lukewarm said, 'No. I am not lukewarm. I do not lkrIow that I am warm, cold. or luke warm or the proposition. believe in a square deal for all parts of the town and I believe that our corner Of the town has had it's share of the public money and I believe the money should be used for improvements in some other part
 The question of money with which to oil the roads was brought up and Town Manager Hubbell here stepped in ard asserted that the money nee | IN Mos1 i1xy oh tai lad in vfew of the fact that the money appropriated for the Barnum avenue culvert had not been all used up on that project.
 Objections Made.
 Objections were made to the -oiling | of the road because of the poor con dition in which it now exists and the declaration was made that any oil put On the road at this time would | be drained into the many holes which | fill the road and thereby make the road worse rather than improve its condition.
 An assertion by Councilman Sniff 1 fen that work recently done on this l road section had been paid for out of the charities fund was promptly. re- | futed by Town Manager Hubben who \ said that the n1oney had been paid for out of the funds of the road depart ment and that there was little pros 1 pect of being reimbursed from the l charities fund.- I was finally voted that there be no oiling of South Main street.
 l Councilman SammiS introduced a petition from residents of West Broad street regarding the rebuilding of the | road. The street from Main street l to Barnum avenue, has been declared to be unfit for a long time, and propositions for it's repair have come up for several years past only to be laid aside.
 l The residents in their petition ask the road be rectified' The town manager was brought into the fire for a moment when it was insinuated that he was laying down on his job re can't do $19,000 worth of work for 1 S12,000.
 Three Men Available. -r | "We have only three men available for such work. The council orders | curb grading, street lines and side walk laying and what not but it must | be remembered that we have not the | facilities of a large city where they | can detail a gang of men to each job. | With 26 rainy days during the past month it is only reasonable to expect that the road work would be deiay- 1 ed.'' Councilman Albright was of the | opinion that $12,000 was not enough with which to tackle an S19,O00 job to some other purpose and to bring up the matter of the West Broad street layout at some future time when more money might be available. This proposition met with a storm of opposition from all sides with the re- suits that Albright was ''snowed un- der"
 Il Often SidetracISed.
 | Members of the council asserted that they had heard of this West Broad ! street proposition so often and that it had been Sidetracked so many times that they were ''sick of hearing about ;&S e1,o T 11A
 this year and not keep the residents
 of that section waiting until Stratford becomes a metropolis
 The work is to commence in short time and it will assure the West Broad
 street petitioners a good road. Coun-
 cilman Sherwood cited the case of
 Hartford which is endeavoring to con struct about four miles of good road
 of a permanent nature each year and
 declared: Although it will be some time before these street become Broadway or Main street 1 believe it to be a good idea for the town to
 make an attempt at the construction
 of several thousand feet of good per- manent road.'' The other members heartily endorsed the permanent roads idea
 Towns Notes Bought Chairman 'Turney reported that $40, 900 of the towns notes had been
 bought by the S. N. Bond Company on each $10O, with the notes bearing } per cent interest. The considera- tion of others of the towns notes is und erway Chairman .Turney declared and he strongly believed that the result would be very favorable. !, A bill for $50 was presented by the claims committee on behalf of g lady resident of the town who recent 7 ly tore her beautiful crepe de chine
 gown after she had worn it only three g times. While walking past Washing 3 ton school the dress caught on pro- V jecting wire which had been part ot a fence erected to keep the schoo a children from crossing the lawn al l that point. The dress was so badly s damaged that it was declared to bt = impossible to restore it to it's former [ condition and after the members ot
 the claims committee had reported
 seeing the dress it was decided to re
 fer the matter to the school commit. , tee as it was declared that the dres: , was damaged due to the probable :, negligence of the school janitor ol Il some other workman.
 The building Ene proposed for the east side of Main street was up fol