New Britain herald., 1925-09-12

pulihlllb uNpol hHu VI committee of the common council concerned in the matter and with nothing on the horizon but assurance of a long drawn out legal battle.
 Joseph Perrottas plan to build three hree-tenement houses on Shuttle Meadow avenue gave rise to the controversy. The building con- mission advertised a public hearing and reported less than 75 per cent of owners of neighborlng properties opposed. Thursday night the permit was issued. But in the interim that elapsed between the hearing and the actual issuance of permit. Perrot- ia had begun work. Neighbors com plained and warrant was issued, the prosecuting attorneys office act ing without complaint from the in- spector's office, which is unusual, and without consulting that depart ment according to one building of ficial.
 Perrotta's neighbors have 10 days in which to appeal to the common council, and this they say they will do.
 The common council will meet next Wednesday and adoption of zoning is expected. Such action will repeal the present ordinance under which the appeal is taken and the city will be operating under the zon- ing law. How this will affect the appeal is question. Then too, Shuttle Meadow avenue is zoned for three-family houses in this district, by order of the ordinance commit tee which order, it is understood, has been countermanded by a writ ten notice to the Technical Advisory Corporation to allow the district to remain as a two-family zone. Nu- merous other complications are pos sible and at next Wednesday even- ings meeting a slip in scheduling business might find the city having dismissed the appeal through pas sage of zoning. with Perrotta in the meantime having a permit to build, under which condition the zoning law not being retroactive would not preclude that right.
 Perrotta has engaged counsel and is determined not to be deprived of the rights given him through the permit now in his possession, he says.
 The police court matter has been postponed. the ordinance committee is sitting tight in the belief that Perrotta cannot build, and the build ling commission regards the incident closed with the applicant in posi- .tion to take advantage of the permit issued Thursday night.
 Why are dog days? What are dog days? When are dog days
 These three questions have been pumped at us recently and we gen. eralized on our answers To the first we replied "Dog days occur when the dog star Sirius is in the ascendancy. Sirius, you know, is a star and when it is in the ascendancy, well, then we have dog days" Pressed for fur ther information and being in fear of becoming lost in a morass of astronomical ignorance, we ex- cused ourselves on the plea that our dinner was waiting.
 After dispatching a nasty meal our hunger for exact information being greater than our craving for food we rushed to our encyclopedia knocking over three chairs and a fern in our haste, and consulted "The World Work"
 Plumbing the pages swiftly, we came to the heading Dog Days and learned: Dog Days, a period oi summer usually characterized by be- ing the hottest days of the year. The name was first applied by the an clients to the time of the rising oi the dog star Sirius; it covered period of about forty days in the hottests season of the year. Tha star now rises at different time bu the hot sultry summer days are stll called dog days. As dogs usually sui fer in hot weather and sometimes g mad and cause injury by the bite they inflict, in large cities laws re ouire that they be muzzled. Sc from that fact it has often been in correctly believed the term originat ed. It is interesting to note tha dogs contract the disease whicI makes them mad more frequent in cold than in hot weather"
 So that was that, But we wante to learn more and, turning to tn heading Sirius, we read: "The DO Star, the brightest star in the heaV ems and one of those nearest 70 tn earth. It is still so distant, howeVe' that its light takes more than elsf wears to reach the earth. A lin
 drawn eastward through Orton's ne
 noints at the Dog Star, the head
 Canis Major. It is a star of fr'
 magnitude and radiates AS times
 much light as the sun. A companio
 star to Sirius was discovered in 1Se
 accounting for the apparent motto
 of Sirius in a small orbit. TT
 companion gives out one ten-tho'
 sandth part of the light of Siriu
 but has a mass of two-fifths its size
 No we're glad to know all aoo'
 "dog days" aren't you?
 Amen" is our comment on II decision of the traffic bureau Of tf
 Chamber of Commerce to ask tl
 state highway department to repai
 or at least make passable, Beet swamp road, Berlin, which is a col
 tinuation of South Main street, tn city.
 If there is another stretch of higI
 way in the state of Connectic
 where automobile passengers e
 get more bumps, thumps and bla'
 and blue sports the polls are op' s for voting. Beech Swamp road is
 outrage, an eyesore, a calamity and l catastrophe rolled into one. Wor
 suitable th describe if adeduate