The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-08
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warden and this motion was passed with no opposition.
 Vendors Licenses
 Burgess Burkus brought up the matter of the vendors licenses. He presented q petition from seven local druggists, George Donovan, Charles Buckley, John Leary Harry Olson, Albert Adams, Thom- as Parks and Edward Sodlosky which maintained the sale of pat ent medicines by itinerant vendors constituted "a serious menace by unfair competition an dtrade prac. tices' and asked protection against such persons who carry on with out interference.
 A letter from the Merchants Bureau, written by Eugene Sween- ey, secretary, said the bureau en- dorses the drive to make such vendors pay licenses for selling in the town. It admitted they must earn living but believes they should pay a portion of the tax the local merchants have to pay.
 Burgess Burkus suggested the vendors, and meat, vegetable. fec cream. patent medicine and other sellers will be affected, pay $50 n year with $75 for patent medicine men annually for license. He pointed out that some of the latter earn $50 a week here and they could easily afford to pay $75 a year, he maintained.
 Borough Attorney Martin F. Gormley was asked for a state. ment and he at first suggested the proposed borough ordinance be published in local papers and then action be taken on 1t at the next meeting with merchants who op. pose sections of it expressing their sentiments then. He said he did not think there was any objection locally to such an ordinance.
 $50 Not Unreasonable
 The $50 would not be unreason- able, he said. We should have some ordinance There are men in town who have been in business here for years, and why should they not be protected? We should certainly do anything to stop house-to-house peddling of paten, medicines and pills" he said,
 Warden Sheridan suggested mimeographed copies be made of the proposed ordinance which the borough attorney was authorized to draft, instead of going to the expense of publishing 1t in a pa per. The merchants would be in- formed they could obtain a copy of it and any who wished to do so could express his opposition at the next meeting.
 There will be a special meeting in couple of weeks, he announc. ed. Board members seemed unani- nous in favoring licensing such vendors.
 There is no need for a sanitary sewer on North Spring street now, owners of that section declared. They said they heard the price they would be assessed would be $2.50 a foot and they certainly could not afford to pay this, some having as much as 800 feet. Only two CT three, one at least of whom stands to benefit directly by 1t, want the sewer, they claimed.
 Sanitary Sewer Discussion The state is planning to put in a new road there and it had been delaying work so that the sanitary sewer might be laid although this is not required, he admitted.
 Borough Engineer Robert D. Beardsley said the sewer would be about 1900 feet long ending near the end of the Schiethe prop erty. There will be a demand for 1t sooner or later, he said.
 Wo t1 o,a Gh arid do coiI tha hnr- ough did not mean to try to force sider it a good thing. It would be an asset to. owners there later," he said.
 Burgess Rurkus pointed out that MT. Carroll who owns consider able frontage there has land not open to development and which won't be for years to come. He objects to expending money when he won't profit now. the official said. Burgess Tracy Noble pointed out that the state built Rubber avenue to Millville without any san- itary sewer there until later. Bor- ough Engineer Beardsley replied that was only an oiled road. where a road like the Prospect street road is planned on Spring street by the state.
 May Be FERA SIPS
 MT. Wilmot presented the side of the owners. Warden Sheridan said he had hoped it might be an EZRA project and then the owners would only have to pay SIPS q foot for materials, getting labor fpAA T at o rA av1t n al owners said that even this wns too large the way they felt about stalled septic tanks at the cost of $175 and haven't more money to put out for the same purpose, he indicated. It was decided to inves- tigate the matter more thoroughly before taking any action.
 A request from the Accident In- surance committee of the Cham Der of Commerce was read. It asked a white line be painted by the town from Webers corner to the Waterbury NAugatuck line to eliminate the hazard caused by Dead Mans Curve. It said the state claimed it did not have the funds to paint such a line, this be- ing up to the town.
 Warden Sheridan said he did not mind the town painting the line but thought the laying out of the line the biggest part. A line from Bristol's road to cover the curve was thought more advisable.
 It was decided the warden will take the matter up with the state highway commissioner, try to ascertain If the state will do any thing toward this or toward replac- ing traffic sign which has been knocked down near the curve, and will report to the board at the spe- cial meeting.
 Minor Matters
 Permission for erection of a sign at Duffy's place of business at Water street and at Todd's place on Church street to be un- der the supervision of the street superintendent, James Brophy. was granted.
 The bonds of Richard Weary and Ericson Schofield who applied to engage in the business of making connection with a sewer and con. structing drainage systems in buildings. as approved by the bor- q. AAA A