New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1928, Page 2

STREET CONDITIONS CALLEDDEPLORABLE (Continued from First Pua regular mecting hold Feb. | the Common Council of of New Britain adopted the | tollowing, “‘Resolved: * ‘That the Mapor €0 mittee of three mowmbers of th Common Couucil, 1o junetion with the Department of Public Works in making « inspection or ppoint vork in con- also of t tools 10ad) Concord (Ly to Carmoidy), | iy Ma inory; 1 cateh basin cleaner ud @ Fordson tractor with scraper and other resou i Hom Wi North, Sia uttl tor overhanling cductor and mh- “attuched, to assist in the grading ment of I'ublic Works, inso; cone, Sicadow avenue, Rockwell avenus, 11 laborers, cleaning pave- and turnpiking, this machine needs they might apply to the building and St avenue), Gond, armington ayii Carlton, Whit- patrol; 1 lahorer, cutting and | but one operater, is speedy and repair of nd make a Sterling, Corbin avenue (east of in av o . Glen, trees; 1 team with driver, sily handled and with the assi detailed rep. s to- ton), Belmont, Vanc M Railroaid Crossings v T o sewer beds, (Winter | tance of our present “lame duck” gether witli ~ i~ Winthrop, Lyons, Coolidze, Hurding Since the ilroad only). clianing streets and snow re- | (ractor, would be able to cover all provement o ts. at the Blake, Mcd 1 (LaSalle 0] fow yoars ugo abandoned povil 11 duborers, o0 snow and ice | of our dirt streets during a season. 1 g I Comuon Blake), A ock to Oak), | 1 of planking crossings wnd re 41y days each): 2 labor | > above program would be Derby, {1 rris (Stanley to uted macadann over hinery (3 | subject to changes and alterations Ve, the u 1ton) road (Stanley 1o our crc have 1 ¢ chy: 1 helping over- | s progress was made but your com- pointed on 1° titter Cariton) avenue s or Joss bid conditiol 10 the 1 miach | mittee believes that if an honest ef- and inin the | MeClinto o Carlton), Wellington. | thut it is impossible to lay 1 1 red canipment —1 team, clean- | fort is made to carry out this or any work. Chester Plaee, Sefton D Strat Mflw to the inside of tie navemoents, patrol: 1 truck | similar program we will find our D com- 1ord Drive, Francis (east of Stanley). | shonlder must be formed a strect repairs; 7 trucks (3 Ives within a year or two blessed committes | Amherst, Short. Miller (Parmington | channel left beside the il for tom). plowing snow, using city snow |with dirt streets that are passable . has et |ave to Burnitt), Hayes (Farminz- | flange on the car wheel. The shoul- | plows. Saturday : night months in the year. with the Board of > Works on ton avenue to it), Grove (Ly-|ocr thus formed breaks down under | only. On hired tro teams | “The 1928 budget carries the fol- one occasion, the cou € s n to Carmody), Overlook scction | 1he biows of auto w 1 other | 6Wners tur ive [lowing items: General repair of whole has ridden over seveniy-f (eutire), Thorniley, Ruena Vista av- | qrafiie, pot holes are tormed i City cauipuent— road rollers, 000; new tools and re- miles of city strects, spending enue, Market (north of Newington | qungcrous conditions ave creatod. building new roads and n grading, $13,600; equivalent of bole days at this {read), Howard avenue, Judd avenue. | The only remedy secins to be con | street : 1 cateh basin cl R R AT work, has ma ous trips to the | No Effort to R y Conditions | <iant and continuons repaivs by the | cleanin 1 Motor strect |qutos, $3,500. Total $100,006. store yard and other ces about | Your conumittee wishes it Were {pjlroad company and your commit- | SWeeper, macadam streets | “We foel that out of this amount the city w city property is jable to give the members of the | e e that this mizit well he et fand pavements; 1 tractor (poor con- | enough can be used advantageously ep s co d L superin- [connnon council ana those of our iy the 1ds of the railroad comituit- | dition), turnpiking, snow pl(n\"u\g; lin ca ng out .lh,_, above program, tond citizens who Tive m localitics fav- Jico of the common council. und made | 2 road scrapers (poor condition), | “Ior our semi-permanently paved elork Lored by fairly good stre an ade- g part of their regular duties, they turnpiking; 1 V snow plow used with !strects or macadam we )'4-rov|‘|n>-n‘d neote quate idea of the deplorable and in- {to yeeeive reports iroun the superin- fractor: 6 snow plow attachments; | no such strects be oiled until and 1 1=, and |exeusable condition of | tendent of streets showing where re- | 1V snow plow attachments, DOW | they have been leveled and made Tias tricd in « to inform |these dirt streets, deplor Pairs 10 crossing a needed and | November 1427, snow removal used {smooth us possible. This can be done themselves t regarding | cause of the inconvenience and dis- | pandle to a conclusion with tiw | on hired trucks; 1 oil fank wagon | by the use of drag or shaving ma- What in the past und | comfort caused the peope who liv *| Railroad company. | (not msed). oiling '\{Il'fil"‘h\nuv heavily weighted and hnu!_cd 1o 10 do in the fu-|on them and excusable because | Store Yard drawn: 1 oil !-mk.' &allons, | Lehind a truck. This drag shaves terment of our pub- these conditions are nothing new.! Iy an attenipt to check up on the | Store road oil; 1 -hag concrete off the tops of the ridges and tends and highways, They have existed for vears, under {{gols, machinery, laborers und oth mixer, 11 conerete jobs: 1 pave- (to fill up the hollows and can hfw commiittee has beon shown | democratic as well as republican ad- | yegources of the board of public Went miser, roads; 11-ft fmade by a carpenter and a blick- every consideration by all with ministrations and up 1o the pre e«‘m}“unm insofar as they might applys sterl forms .-m..q,\. 1 stone |smith in a very short time. It is wWhom 11 Bave come in contact | ime we Know of no healthy, honest-{1o the repairing of strects, your | spreader, n 1927, spreading stons | extensively by the state high- and ey fate e courtesy | 10-800dness effort having been made | committee made two or three visits | en macadan rouds. |way department. and paticy wecorded them by city |10 remedy them. 1o the store yard on Harvs strect l“("n>n||n|f~|‘|l|x‘lllon~ and "",2‘,""“_""’ I “We recommend 'hn{ an all-the- efficials wployes, “Conditions arc cspecially dist We met with difficulty _\\ [”v reference to the divt streets | yvear-round program ot n_m.ng up pot “We hegan our wor con- ing in the ftifth and sixth ward | were unable to carry out commitice recormmends the fol- | holes he ':m—w-l_nm‘ \x}n‘:vhpr m; sineid {Lat our report wien pre- | Where large mumbers of people arelup to your satistaction, e ot e Al el | ErEDI v‘nm:nl')nh _ml\r:;:m np.k :n'hl sented to common council, to e | €rowded into small areas and where | the gencral untidy condition of 1he UsEl e r un of .‘\ cinders that a number of light trucks he of wny value as a constructive meas. e coal team, the haka - ihedyard, tools @nd machinery. Nor l‘vu 1 gy It 2 .vm\n; New u:n- purchascd or h|‘r- v.l flor '_Iuslpur;mr-r. W, must progent fucts and condi. Wilk wagon, and even the vegetable ! o we able to got a very ¢ jdea :nl and all rlh:: .n.w])l .(;lf.l ources | Your committes ;m m; that only o 1Y as we found them ana Peddien, are foreed to extrenie ef-of the duties and the seope and cx- L xi"»m.:u;\"n“‘ f (\1‘ by meline .|3\x‘p.‘-¥.ru‘\. of 'r-.pinr's‘ a as the work and inspection pro- | [OVs inoorder to make their daily ftent of the work of some of the la- SR v’.v::* umx\h(,.(;-:‘;;i‘l ;szvulm; ’\r\":):.‘l‘;\w\“l""\‘Fr'“'r.‘:‘a:nl::fi- P it Wore nd mor. | TOUNAS, at certain times of the year. | Lorers and others on the payroll PRI S s Sners fo e 2 lyas do ain Branr ‘llmr;mw; apparent that we must give no heed | 7R other wards also, cach have | e e s TChtie of Heiviar i e ride over. 1o party lines, individuals, times or largo share of these dirt streets{store yard did not come within our P Bhps 8 year s 8 3 are SAALes ridy er. n S ® : and your committer saw street after | provinee as a committee on strects, | When it®wonld not be advisable to o true hould patrol over reg- places hut must follow the old adage *Hew to the line and let the fall where they would. “We made an ho ehips | wffort contained not know- that is not to verify all i this report aud ha ingly ineluded anything founded ou fact, Our Streets “The city and town of “in has within its boundaries 123 miles of streets, 15 miles of which are permanently paved, 55 mil nently paved and 65 ordinary dirt streets, “Naturally the comimittec s in- ted only in the last two, the New Brit- semi-paved and the dict streets and realizing that the vast wajority of people who real sufferers ar those who live on the dirt streets, we give these our first consideration. ¥or our own convenience we classi- fied these streets as ‘fair,’ ‘bad’ and ‘very bad.* “We have not 1j Nicadings all of the st It is not necossary enough to convine: 1 under these ted. Those en are any fair mindod el inspe person that there s wthing Wrong with our system of repairing ring for our streets, Nor do nyone to get the idea that the streets listed are the swiples, There are WOrst ex- D e For Paris Colors in Spring finery =use TINTEX ++..now is the the shops are filled with Spri : inthe aris shades that all <martly- dres will wear, . and how nice to know that your la=t yrar's Spring apparel or your present finery can be tinted or dyed these very same shades with Tintex. For Tintex in the Gray Box offers you the newe-t colors in vogue: from the gayest pastel <hades to the more subidued colors, And Tintex used so simply. so perfeetly—with sue a saving in the cost of vour Spriag wardrobe. oo for the 1y «ilks in your wardrobe u the Blue Box. Ittint- the pastel <had. touched. No wonder women of fashion use Tintex. It <atisfies every home- tinting and dveing need—and it » it s easy for them 10 keep in A<k vourdealer to <how vou the Tintex Color Card. +—THE TINTEX GROUP—_ Products for every Home- tinting and Dyeing Need Tinte; trimmed Tiatex in Cray Box—Tinta and dves oll materiale Tinies Blur Bos—For lacr-trimmed slke—tinta (he vk, face e, whitr, Tintex Color Remover—Removes old color from aterial oo it can be dyed 8 mew color. W hitex— A special bluing for restoring yelloned wil woolens as bad or worse Weets listed, dofof the principal bighways loading stored i orow of wooden [have the city haul away these cin- 1ot think on thut account, thut we | into our city, is dangéerons to ! by the Hardware {ders for use on city streets but the erlooked it i, as with the dint Ce. on - South Stanley |idea was never carried out to any “No notice was tuken of I conditions can not be whoily ound rental of $31 | great extent, strects or streets not aces i liid @ the door of any particular total rental for! “Your committee is prompted to city. mer did we list or giv dministration, We huve built now unounts to $557 | make this recommendation because Leed to strects where there were {macadam by have mot always |y of the cheapness of cindes com- ew houses, munless it happencd 1o { taken the best of eare of that whicl “Ilollowing is thie of the | pared with other material, the pos- beoa connecting street and subject 1o | was already b nd these impor- thent 1 3 . 1928 | sibility of saving the city $900 ex- heavy tratfic. 1t strects have dually becom 1 th « list of cquipment, ! pense and the better results already “The streets listed are as folows: { worse from year to year until nov v on hand at that { obtained by use of cinders rather * Fair'—Iound no find oursclves confronted with as furnished us by | than crushed stone on some of our g Poel Carnmody. the enormous task of repairing the clerk of the board. Ldirt serects, W noticed several Somerset D em. We have eertain recom- mployes —Acting steeet superin- | places around the city where one or Tulip, Fox verard cseostrects femdent: 1 forcman, on {the other had been used and the Very Chapran ( ] ill also b later vairs and snow removal; 1 cinders produced by far the best re- fro1 nzton road) this report. W listed the man, in charse of store sults, East (Ellis to South), Collins lowing semi-paved streets as being ler operator rhauling two rollers | “We recommend the purchase of Ash (east end) wlof inumediate repairs I mackinery: 1 strect sweeper op- fi 2.ton truck to handle these cin- ton . to McClintoo 1re many others: High, s rator. overhauling sweeper and ma- | and for other general purposes, and if yo is bud and is not own ar street that was impassable bee of deep mud holes and when the | pride we, round was frozen, b, deep ruts in our cit and gullies w 1 could not doors f Pass. s where the chinery allowed to stand out in the 1 per year and the cinders thus [help on these trucks would be neces- | sidewal been used as road- |weather and sink into the soil, rub- | are hanled away under & con- |sary after the patrol had heen well 5, where s had passed be- | bi old tools, on and worn | tract with private partics that costs ablished and the first big effort | ‘n houses, through back & eut vehieles scattored abont, and the | OUF €ity $400 per year. Our school |made, :nd across open lots, to get around g r itmosphere of rust and de- | bourd states th attempt was “Contractors and others open bad streets, and we saw other scc- |cay {hat pervaded the pla Onty | wiade while Mr. Conlon was echair- [trenches should be required to tions where, if a doctor were called, 'y of our large tools and machinis' be must needs leave his car and walk to the “So have them which we w “Th, called, mean sidered L us to we feund stored in the rage | ™ all macadam and other stone on Elm street where we wore told | dependability, economy! Rumford always surfaced strects, subject to oiling, it is stored five months of the yenr reflects credit on its user. 2 and other methods of work- at a rental of §25 per month. The | sandin ing. credit ot ke Maple, Glen, shi examyp S Blindfolded . many others just | | | | | | | | TINTS ano DYES ANYTHING ANY COLOR Ouiribatorg PARK {r TILFORD Ae»me i T —————— plite house of his much for the recommendation The ¢ semi-F stroet de e permanent streets, so- were: Most of these streets are no | large 1o onr city because the; pt in rep: Stanley, Br Whitin Shuttle My neton stroet are Tes and there {Frank On small vador dow avenue and A all terrible s iy others, boilr, w r are ma by the way, is cha | rtment but is under the | wer department, | supervision of the s e ' huilding on Rockwell avenue, 'yvear at a rental of 1se but it did not help the intercst ns, have ¥ and its property, to sce | “In len from their hinges, ma- ! as individual ci found at the yard, the balance | being stored in the buildings of dif- | ateh busin conerete mixer is stored in a m strect owned by one months of the $1S per month. | a wm»v| motoro, five cement nixer, compressor, er eart West Mauin stroct, on tozether i them they would he stored on |ular routes ilable city property until used. this connection we 1 public 1d plan te cover find that |times each year. Beyond help hools nse city. o which | to the Your Pet Recipes are always successful' when Rumford is used. They score on all counts—perfect leavening, texture, flavor, appearance, Speils a Baldng portable 2972 with | . . in scientific test of leading Cig rettes, W. T. Benda selects W. T. BENDA Emincat illustrator and crestor of the Benda masks. ©P. Lorillard Co.. Est. 1760 Only the heort-leares of the tobscco plant are I, in his studio...while test war being made. Tn may be seen vome of the famous Beads masks. Old Gold “I have been an inveterate cigarette smoker for years and my interest in cigarettes not only induced me to make this blindfold test, but to make it three times in succession. “Each time I selected the same ciga. rette—OLD GOLD. ‘“‘However, there was no other choite that I could honestly make. OLD GOLD was 8o superior and its delicacy of aroma, its rich, full flavor so entirely free from any hint of sting or burn that it im. mediately appealed to my taste, “Since the test I have been smoking OLD GoLDps steadily and I find that they are the most satisfying cigarettes I have ever smoked How Test Was Made Mr. Benda was blindfolded, and, in the presence of two responsible witnesses, was given one each of the four leading cigarettes to smoke. To clear the taste, coffee was served before each cigarette. Mr. Benda was unaware of the identity of these cigarettes during test. After smoking the four cigarettes, he was asked to designate by number his choice. He replied, “Number 4, which was OLD GoLD for OLD GoLD. Th a pick them in the dari SMOOTHER AND BEFTER-~NOT A COUGH IN A CARLOAD 5,000 tons of [loading we do not feel that extra the entive ¥5 miles a certain number of in ing dry wher small tools, sewer pipe fittings, | man of the board of public works o tam, pairs of this class of strects: Ma- 3 cadam $18,000; oiling of streets, semi-permanent pavement repairs, $10,800. Total, 0 e or c u $49,000, economical use be made of the shed room at the store of our machinery can he This will save the we that the $1,700 or thercabouts spent on this job can be used to better THERE s nothing quite like Bayer Aspirin for all sorts of aches and pains, but be sure it is genuine Bayer; that name must be on the package, and on cvery tablet. Bayer is genu- ine, and the word genuine—in red-- is on every box. You can't go wrong if you will just look at the box when the trade mark of P the fills instead of water tamp- ing as at present, they should also be required to watch these fills they are made and see that the sur- face is kept level with rather than leaving a high ridge as at present which later sinks below the level of the strect trench or a soft committee feels squarely up to the inspectors and others connected with the board of public works and that such defects in our paved streets are entirely un- mud hole, that The budget carries the following items that apply directly to the re- Further Recommendations “In the interests of economy and for the purpose of making available all funds possible for streets, your committce recommends: That a more judicious are now spending for It will probably be neces- to build more shed room which can be done very cheaply by build- ing onto the north side of the pres- ent shed and making back wall do for both That the job of store foreman duties are somewhat vague and of doubtful advantage in caring for and properly housing our machinery and tools. “4. The street superintendent can easily appoint one of the regular men who are about the yard most of the time, to answer the phone, ete., during the | posed of to the b superintendent’s absence. cluding the expe: forming a “3. That the floor of the black- !h! wh months, That the after Paones: the street Your [smith shop be cemented and that this item s|the work be done by the regular machine operators during the slack ! | this fine old ginger ale “1s served j and ard so that all stored. year that outside 87 pe Local Dis! ributor 1928 FISHING obtainable. We stock all the lures. See Our Windows This Week The Handy Hardware Store 336 MAIN STREET of Monoaceticacidester of Balicylicacid (the Summer Issue) closes at noon SR L L on Saturday, April 28th Orders for new installations, and changes in present listings, should be given us before that time if they are to be included in the Summer Issue of the telephone directory for this district. Will your name be in it? 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