New Britain herald., 1927-01-05

He is survived by his wife and
one son. Charles F.. Anthony. Jr., Of
thi. city and four grandchildren.
who reside in Meriden.
Printing Contract Awarded
500 copies of the city report was
awarded by the city council to the
Adkins Printing Co. OF New Brit
ain. The prices quoted were 3s.52
for each printed page and $3.50 for
blank pages. The Adkins Co. was
the only bidder.
Jury Committee Appointed
Mayor John f, Wade last night
appointed Councilmen w. Raymond
Crumb, William L. Hough and VII
liam A. Hayes as a jury committee
His appointment was ratified by a
vote Of the council body.
Approve Map Program
The city council voted to make
the necessary appropriation for the
compiling OF assessors maps, as was
recommended at the last meeting
by Assessor D. J. Heffernan. The
work will take about three years
to complete and will cost approx
mately $4,000 for the first year
City Engineer Carleton w. Buell. viii
supervise the map making.
Discuss Street Name Changes
The petition to change the nam.
of Pond street to North Main stree,
m mentioned in the Herald yesterday.
which was being circulated yester-
day by Councilman Homer H. Judd,
was presented to the city council
last evening and upon the recon-
mendation of Mr.. Judd a committee
consisting of Councilmen Charles Il.
Anderson, w. Raymond Crumb and
William A. Hayes was appointed to
look over the city and present at
later meeting other street name
changes which might be deemed adj
visable. Before any definite action
is taken, however, property owners
on the streets on which names arc
to be changed. will be given an op-
portunity to express their approval
or disapproval.
sSSNCI ASSts5IuSuLS
1t was voted by the council to
approve the sewer assessments
placed against property owners on
Chestnut, Crown. Earl and Melrose
streets and Porter Court, after a
hearing was held last evening.
The matter of sewer assessments
on Newell road and Ash street was
held up until a later meeting.
Wants Hooker Court Closed
Albert L. Sessions appeared al
the meeting and asked that, II pos
sible, his request submitted about
three months ago that Hooker
court be closed as a highway be
acted upon Immediately. He was
informed. however, that 1t would be
impossible to answer him definitely
until the next meeting which is TO
be held on January IS.
The J. Fl. Sessions g. Sons Co.
own all of the land on both sides
of the court and by their acquisition
of the property the need of high
way had passed, according to Mr..
Sessions.
Petition for Street Light
A petition was received by the
city council last night from 4 num-
Der of residents Of Grove and Oak
land streets asking that street
light be Installed at the intersec-
ton OF the two streets. The mat
ter was referred to the lighting COM
mittee for investigation and report
at the next meeting.
Bus Route Granted.
mcdonnell Brothers, who were
recently granted a franchise to oper-
ate a bus route between this city
and Pennington by the public util-
tiles commission. were authorized by
vote of the city council to estab-
fish a terminal a. the extreme west
end of the Memorial boulevard. They
were also given permission to oper-
ate their busscs from the boulevard
down Main street to South street.
over South to West street, north on
West street to Center, east on Center
to North Main street, north on North
Main street to North street and then
west on North street and Farming
tor avenue.
To prevent encroachment on the
rights Of the Bristol and Plainville
Electric company, which operates
trolleys as far as Doolittle's Cross
ing, Macdonald Brothers have
a greed not to picl: up passengers in
the city whose destination is within
a quarter OF a mile Of the terminus
of the trolley company.
mcdonnell Brothers originally
applied for permission to operate the
bus line through to Hartford. but
their petition was acted upon favor
ably only as far as Pennington by
the public utilities commission.
building Line Asked For.
A petition asking for the estab-
lishment Of building line on both
sides OF High street was received by
the city council from number OF
residents o. that street. The matter
was referred 20 the street committee
for investigation and report later.
Health Officers Report
DR.. B. r. Robbins, city health Of
fcer, III his report fer the month of
Dec mbcr submitted last night,
showed that for that period there
We're In the city two serious cases
of scarlet fever. one fatal, with one
recovering and two d!phtheria cases.
one of which aleo proved fatal and
the other patient is now recovering.
A large number Of chickenpox case.