New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 9, 1930, Page 17

city to have the work done NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1930. 17 LD REPAIR BILLS PERPLEX ALDERAEN Property Owners Protest Pay- ing Something for Nothing A complete study will be the situation arising out of the | fuddled accounts and an opinion | ught from the corporation coun- | | made of | be- | v the board of aldermen, sit- | s a special committee of the common council, before any decision | will be reached regarling the claims | and counter-claims ot the city | against property owners for work | on installation or .repair of s walks, A hearing was given a large number of property owners by the | special committee last night at city hall, Numerous tales of how the board of public works failed to send out | Lills to property owners for work done until six or morc years hal | passed: how people were billed for | work that was never done and| many other complaints were heard in full detail last night. More th two dozen complaints werc | during the course of the hearin, Former Mayor George Quigley was among those who appearcd. He said that he had had a sidewalk placed in front of property owned by him on West Main street and | lie paid the prvate contractor for this work in 1925. Some time lai Jie received a bill from the city thought he had never ordercd th for hin William of city hall, asked moved so that the street could be chang 1o allow the board of public works to do this and he afterwards re- ceived a bill for $28. He had been | charged for 82 fect of paving when | ade on ( liis property a frontage of only 62 feet, he said, J. Parker, representing a com- | mittee of members of the ILicelesi- astical society of the Iirst Church, | said that he had received a bill for $100 for work donc in front of the society’s property at Lexington and | West Main streets and he was posi- | tive that the work had never been | done. He re ross he from the place and would ha aware of any work done c. John Kilbourne said that he had | bought in 1925, three lots on Com uonwealth avenue knowing that sower had been placed in the | street the year before Thy ity records showed no brances on the property. L he received bills for this work now he has no recourse ave persons who ve been at law nor bought two of the lots from him dents of Itoxbury Ltoad v from Kil- ling that nents against learned last year of | old assessments for work done | while the property was held by the | former own These complaints arose out of the failure of the board of public works to send out bills for sidewalk, sew- | er and curb work completed. This e last year in the dismissal of Georg Johnson as clerk and the resigna- | tion of City v Williams, ho purchascd property 1e with the und re were no the prop | | PROPERTY FOR | Biruta street proy ed in a foreclosur was given by Jud orris . Saxe court toda he plaintift 1s | 1 Waskowitz and therc are more than 10 defendants. The principal defendant 1s Frank | Bordonaro who took out a mort note for $60C0 on November 1928, and failed to continue pay nts. Judge Saxe fixed the debt at 86430 and the attorney's fee at "LOSED v is involv- ision which $100. The redemption date 18| January 13, 1930, | Attorney Maurice W. Rosenberg represented the plaintiff. BABY KISSING CONDEMNED New Haven, Jan, 9 (UP)—Ki ing—especially baby Kissing bitterly condemned by Peter of the Cleanliness New Yo Ins 1 an address nefore of health here, o on “Policing the Mouth™ Teter declared the practice spread | disease. 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