The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-28

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 "A number of the measures were introduced in the form of so-calle0 blanket bills which gave no indica- tion of the amount they would 1n- yolye. They asked for the authority to issue sewer bonds, street and gen. eral improvement bonds, water bonds, bridge and slaughter house bonds"
 We will now turn to the American of Feb. IT, when the ballyhoo start e6 and which carried the follow ing story:
 Taxpayers ask pavements in surprise visit"
 "One of the largest delegations ever to appear before Q city board attended a meeting of the board of works last night to propose an ex- tensive street paving program"
 "The size of the attendance was widely discussed today, with con- siderable speculation as to how so many people, from so many differ ent sections of the city knew that the matter was coming up."
 Several persons were canvassed to- day and with the exception of 8 Brooklyn group, most of them said their presence was spontaneous"
 The ballyhoo having been started thus, Mayor Hayes was ready to proceed with the real business at hand, and we will now turn to the American of Feb. 20, for report of a meeting of the Additional Water Supply Commission which was cau- ed by Mayor Hayes on the previous day.
 Meeting yesterday afternoon to lear City Engineer Cairns proposal that the city make 8 $2,500,000 ad- Gition to its water supply facilities, the additional water supply commit tee deferred action until March 8 to order that further study be given the matter and needed information be acquired"
 Mayor Hayes presided. He sev- eral times during the meeting said that it was the additional water sup. ply committees duty to accept or reject City Engineer Cairns plan and not his
 The mayor made 1t plain to the committee that he had taken note of what he described as "censure" concerning comment on another public improvement. This was a street paving program.
 Now let us take little inventory of the situation. City Engineer Cairns was considered by those fin the know" to have been the Ego be- tween between the manufacturers and the city hall. That was why he received s;12,0W year. Hartford and New Haven, much bigger and wealthiers cities paid their city en- g1neerS $7,500 and $6,000 respectively.
 City Engineer Cairns said that the city needed to lay out $2,500, ,OOO for additional water facilities while Mayor Hayes was much more inter- ested in other improvements such as paving, etc. AS to the need of ad- dltional water facilities, the late Martin Scully told me on several CO., caslonS that our water facilities were ample for a city of 100000 people. And the final result Of the delibera- tions was that only $250,OO worth of water bonds were sold and about $1 ,800,000 of other improvement bonds were sold.
 Of that 1.800, 900 only $250, 900 was spent for paving and about $6O,OO0 for the abbattoir. Most of the re- mainder has been used to borrow" from.
 Considering all these circum- stances, isn't 1t reasonable to infer that there was an inside arrange ment between Mayor Hayes and City Engineer Cairns to put over a huge bond issue. That Mayor Hayes was to try for pavement etc. bonds and if you and MT. Goss did not agree then MT. Cairns was to insist on floating a huge water bond issue and whichever succeeded in getting by you and MT. Goss was to be used for the same purpose, to borrow from?
 Now, MT. Chase. gave both you and MT. Goss credit for hedging on the matter. It seems that gave you credit that you did not deserve. For the report reads thus: MT. GosS said that he believed that more study was needed before a decision was made. The other mem- bers agreed with him and most of them added that they also agreed with MT. Cairns that a duplicate water line appeared to be needed right away.
 MT. Chase said that the program was probably desirable as a matter of insurance.
 This indicates that MT. Goss alone was kicking over the traces.
 MT. Chase makes the statement in his letter that there was no question raised as to the city bonding itself for three million dollars for general purposes. That statement is a con- tradiction of the report in the Amer ican. That report states that Mayor Hayes spoke mainly about the other Improvements and either MT. Chase or the Report in the American must be wrong.
 We now come to the principal bone of contention. MT. Chase says that l nsinuated that he was black lacked into agreeing to the bond is- sues by the threat that the taxes O, his properties would be raised, which he claims is untrue. In certain sense he is right. Mayor Hayes dic not need to blackjack him. He was agreeable in the first place.
 MT. Goss apparently was the one who needed to be blackjacked. Anc to get at the way 1t was done, we will have to make some more infer. ences.
 We will start with this item: "At the close of yesterdays meeting the mayor called over a reporter of the American and said to him: would like ta haua x,ni,x .aa r,ax ahsolx.o ...