New Britain herald., 1922-03-29

Plainville News SEWER COMMITTEE
 WILL MAKE REPORT Twelfth Annual Meeting Monday
 Evening at Town Hall
 ACCIDENT IS INVESTIGATED American Legion Auxiliary Elects New
 Coinmittrcs--Nasonic s,nr,iccs For
 William Madc,cy This Aftcrnoon- l Other I,cns.
 N The PlainNiilc Sanitary and Sewer 'n7trict committee has issued no tee to tho legal voters Of that district, Informing them of the twelfth an nnal mceing of that district, to be held Tn the court room of the Town nall, Monday evening, April 3. The meeting will open at S o'clock. Action VIII be taken on the reports sub 'nittel by tho various officers on work competed and work to be done, rev district committee will be elected.
 ! ne present chairman Of the sewer district committee is F. T. Wheeler while Joseph T, Mccarthy is 2ocretary The district committee is composed of three members, namely: Frank T.. Wheeler, Joseph Mccarthy and 'harles II. Calor. This committee will probably bc reelected.
 Just what action is to be taken at this time by the sewer district is rrobiematical. Not much work has been accomplished during the past year due to the inability of the com mittee to secure appropriations to carry on the work of expanding. Sanitary sewers in Plainvilc today embrace but small section of the town. They have been laid on West Main street, up Pierce street IS far as the Town hall; on Whiting street as lar as broad street; on East Main street down to the railroad tracks and on Hongh otreet as far as the angle of tho street.
 Proper sewerage system has been 2 morn ln tho side of Plainvile fo; many years. Ii has, on several oc caslons, prevented an influx of people 1eslring to reside in town. One of the nrst things prospective resident in. 1nlres for when intending to move into town. is the sewer system. The Cham per Of Commerce had been questioned on this matter by people out of-town ana can only give one answer:
 There is no proper sewerage sys- 'em covering the entire town"
 The Trumhull Electric company and the Standard Steel and Bearings plant nave private disposal beds. The newly erected Trumbull Flats the latest 'ti'!ilion 70 the town in the eastern S""tlon Of PiainNille. is also connected With q private sewage disposal bed of its own.
 Back in 1912. the question of the town having sewer system laid was brought before the people. Engineer Joseph N. McKernan of the Plainville water company made an excellent sfTNcy or the town and mapped out 2 prospective system which would cover q larger territory. His figures rnd maps were then placed before con- sulting engineers and contractors who were unable to find any flaw in them. They gave a price of installation which was close to that estimated by the local engineer.
 special meeting was called rnd held in the town hall. When the proposition was presented to the peo- ple and voted upon, the sewerage Bys- tenn as planned would be npprox- The cost al that time would be about Sao, ,ooo. or possibly s1oo,ooo. An easy payment plan was presented GOV ering a period of five years; or the town would have bond issue It ap- pears that the chief reason which caused the defeat of the plan was that the people believed their rents would he boosted in view of the fact that landlords would have added expense Today, the cost of installing the sys- tenn as planned would cost approx imately twice as much.
 Small Fire Today
 | Fire did Sljoht da mar thjs m 1orrinc to the home of George Tacaas of Southington road The fire was said to have started from defective electric light wiring. IL was confined to the walls of the house. The department encountered some difficulty when they found their line of hose could not reach the blaze from the nearest hy- drant and while firemen attacked the flame with chemicals the fire truck