New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 14, 1928, Page 9

REBUKE VOIGED 0 COMMON COUNCIL Members Playing Politics Too Strongly—Question of Salaries Ridiculing the both republican and council as “school boys " letting politics and prejudices play & part in their deliberations, Mayor Angelo M. Paonessa and Councilman Samuel Sablotsky took the leading part in a heated discussion of the salary question last night at the| aneeting of the council's special sal- ary committee. Criticism was directed at the council after Alderman David L. Nair, chairman of the special com- mittee said he could not vote for & salary of §2500 for Street Superin- tendent Eugene Faselli because he felt the council would not pass fave orably upon the recommendation. The other two salaries in question, t of Park Superintendent Clyde Ellingwood at $3,000 and that of City Engineer Philip C. Marian at| job. the #4300 met with the unanimous| gy 3,000 for the parti-time super- vote of the committee. ftRaine Toward the latter part of the " THIIC 1 tused to vote with| ain that the s of the com- Councilman James P. Mur-| and Councilmun & Molsk)“ mittee, phy would vote for no salaxy other than| Chuirman Nair | He fav-| $2,500 and that would not vote with them. ored $2,200 for Fasell Who Shall Report? The question arose as to whom would bring in the report of the committee at the council meeting| Wednesday ni Since Alderman Nair did not vote in favor of what the majority of the sprcial commit- tec wanted, he did not want to bring | in the report. The meeting closed | with the members still in doubt. After considerable discussion in the hallway and on the street in| swe! did | the ary, ¥ than New Britain pay their engl eers and superintendents la aries. He continued with ment that Faselli has saved his sal- ary for two years by his work in olling the streets. Councilman Sablotsky prought out ex-Mayor George A. Quigley had praised the condition of the streets and work of the superintendent, Mayor Paonessa sald ex-Mayor O. F. Cur- tis also expressed similar views, Sablotsky continued with the atate- ment concerning the pay of City En- democrat members of the common |gineer Merian: “If a city of 80,000 who were | People cannot pay an engineer $4,- 500 we ought to do away with the If an engineer isn’t worth $50 a week he isn't worth five cents. Its political spite all the way through. It the democrats work their spite it's because they did not get some ap- pointment from the present admini- stration and the republicans are do- ing it because they want to block | information that administration.” “There isn't an engineer in @ common council, yet that body lrlesilml‘ul’!e saloon keepers to determine what the qualifications of the engineer are ard it votes con- trary to the board of public works which has had him under supervi-|filance committee on recommenda- | sion every day in the year for eight years,” the councilman concluded. Councilman Murphy made the mo- tion for $4,500 for the city engineer, $2,500 for the street superintendent the other two on the salary of the street superintendent, the ed: Dave, red. When it was shown that it was the opinion of both republicans and | democrats that the. streets are good condition, the alderman said he not think it advisable to superintendent more than § the first year, but if he proved his| Agter expressing views in oppos worth Nair sald he would appear be- | fore the council's salary committee | with a request for a raise in the sal- 3efore the disc r sal- state- the the | mayor don't you think Faselli is| worth $2,5002" | *“Yes, if he does his job right he is worth more,” the alderman an-| ssion came to an STREET REPAIR Finance Board Wonld Transfer Money From Reserve Street construction work will be reopened on a broad scale if the common council at its meeting to- morrow night concurs in the vote passed by the board of finance and taxation last night which contem- piates a transfer of §: 75 from reserve funds to the street fund. Although referred to as ‘“reserve funds,” the money is actually that which had’ been set aside to pay a refund for cancelled liquor’ licenses, should there be legislative or court action requiring municipalities to re- who were legislated out of business before their | licenses expired. This preposition came before the tion of Mayor Paonessa found street operations curtailed for want of funds when he returned trom his vacation. The mayor had instituted the road building program to relieve conditions of unemploy- | ment and feels, he told the commit- tee, thero is need for relicf meas- ures for several months to come. The vote to make this appropria- tion was unanimous. Authorization to issue city notes in | contemplation of bond sales, was | | voted the mayor and city treasurer | as follows: School bond obligations to meet deficit in new buildings ac- | count, $50,000; water bonds for pre- liminary work on filtration job and | to straighten out complications account keeping, $150,000; repair | item in school accounts, for which | |a one-fifth of one mill tax, pavable 00| pext year has been voted, $22.8 who had | in tion to any program which might be | than a dedication of the World War memorial, the conmm mers voted to recommend that an amount “‘not | family Betz, | W1 Personals Miss Alice McCrann and Miss Dor- | |othy Mariani have |spending two weeks at the | hotel, Myrtle Beach, Milford. returned after Howard Frik and Merwin Keehner | have returned after two weeks <pent in Myrtle Beach. Miss Jasephine Olmstead of South | High street is spending a vacation {in New York city. Miss Frances Bedford of | Stanley street spent the week-end a Hewlett, L. I Mrs. George Fournier {Irene Heckman have returned from the Catskill Mountains. Mr. and Mrs. William C. Betz and Miss Dorothy have returned from a vacation spent motoring along the co: into Tortland, through itc Mountains of New Hampshire on into Vermont, down to Greenfield, | as Smith doe: Mass,, and over the Mohawk Trail. Miss Laura Anderson of 50 Everett turned from Elim Park, where she ne | week's vacation, Iyn deteetive has iors to hel old son and his sis disappeared July 28 slain. ¥Frank Grey, that while vacation his Katherine Gett with his son, Conn., they cab to drive 1t but nev Frank Grey, Jr. interpretated as a celebration rather | Visit at Twin La o1 were last seen ente o the | Detective Asks Aid of Police in Finding Kin | New York, Anz. 14 (A—A Brook- | isked his super- | p him find his seven-year- | ter-in-law and who in | fears either have been Kidnapped or the detective, said he was in Canada on a sister-in-law, Miss ens, 25 years old, left | Atlas | .male portrait in 1368 and Miss and Clifford st of the spent a who | for a r Canaan, | ture of the famous been deposited for {and will bs examined by experts. Gioconda, better known as Mona | Lisa, probably is the most famous | accepted original is in the Louvre, | p: The picture disappeared from the Louvre in August, 1911. 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Paris today ! education board of the | foundation s has Resolutions asking thut democrats of | °VeDing, August 14th at Jame: Alabama vote inst Governor Mecker's home, 77 Pleasant street Donald McCahill has returned Smith, democratic presidential |at § o'clock. from five weeks' vacation at Camp npominee, ' to preserve white | —_— Palimer, Oxford. supremacy in the south were adopted | ANOTHER ROCKEFELLER: GIFT 14 (P—L'echo De¢ id the internationa Rockefeller $200.000 to given the Parig National History museum. is or stands for | The money is | housing the valuable botanical col- | lections in a to be employed in new building. The total cost will be $250,000 with the contributing The resolutions | French govern the balance. READ ment Acid Stomach front of city hall the members re- the turned to the building and the meet- ing was opcued again in the mayor's office. None of the three council the ion carried on for an hour. c “ | do likewise in recommending Elling- It was finally voted to delegale ooy satary. 'The speciat commit- Chairman Nair to discuss the Pro-'i.. would hack up the recommenda- position with Supt. Faseli ‘and|yo Sl nto o Chairman George R. Dobson of the board of public works and the other two members of the agreed to abide by whatever may | come of the conference. Mayor Attends Meeting started the meeting was 8 o'clock with The first shortly after mayor present. Alderinan Nair read several let- ters from manufacturing concerns fn this locality. In each Street Supt. Faselli was highly recommended for his work while in their employ. When he had concluded reading the letters, Mayor Paonessa asked why it was necessary to collect the recommendations, Mr. Nair's answer was that Mr. Faselli was accused of being a sweeper fn ene of the New Britain factories. The letters proved he was not, Mr. Nalr said. “Why should you hold it agains! e man because he was n sweeper? s that anything to be ashamed of? 1 picked and shoveled in my early days and I'm not ashamed of it,” he declared. Mayor Criticizes Tt was at this part of the meet- ng that the mayor made one of his strongest statements. e urged the members to bring the salary matter to a close and when Mr. Nair pro- tested that the council would not pass on the matter, he sald: “The corporation counsel and the common council wpe maxing them- seclves the laughing stock of the city. The council might as well make the best of it. I'm going to be mayor for a year and a half longer. Fur- ther objection would only make matters worse.” He pointed out that towns smaller DRESS G00DS SHOP Wednesday Morning Specials Fruit of the Loom COTTON Reg. 25¢. l 5 c Wed. Morning .. yard 9/4 LOCKWOOD SHEETING Reg. 69c. 490 Wed. 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