Courant reports that Hartford Fire is gearing up to fight Broad Street Extension

There were several other matters that were anticipated to be on the agenda of the next meeting of the Hartford Board of Aldermen:

1. The Hartford Board of Aldermen were expected to finally consider a petition from Travelers Insurance Company for an overhead bridge between their two buildings on Grove Street. The board had already postponed taking action twice, so it seemed “hardly possible that the aldermen tomorrow night will again defer action on the petition which has now been on the council table for several weeks.”
2. The Hartford Board of Finance was expected to submit recommendations on extra appropriations, including for the unemployment fund and in order to settle a claim by Norcross Brothers, which had worked on the construction of the new Municipal Building.
3. The Board of Finance was also expected to consider an appeal of an assessment on the Underwood Typewriter Company – the city had valued the property at $2,432,000, while an appraiser hired by the company came in with a value of $880,000.
4. The Ordinance Committee was expected to submit two proposed ordinances, one to restrict construction of “undesirable structures” within residential and semi-residential sections of the city, and the other to restrict the construction of billboards in the city.
5. The Railroad Committee would report on two competing proposals for a Maple Avenue bus line, one favored by the residents and the other favored by the company that would run the line.
6. The Pensions Committee would report on pensions for city employees.

No source was given for the reporting on the city officials who opposed reconsideration of this matter.

The Hartford Fire Insurance Company had offered the city a piece of the property it was buying in exchange for a commitment to alter the layout of the Broad Street Extension on June 11, 1919.

The Hartford Fire Insurance Company signaled its opposition to a widening of Asylum Avenue on September 18, 1921.

1. Lucius Robinson will persuade the Hartford Board of Street Commissioners to postpone its hearing on the proposed Broad Street Extension on October 26, 1921.
2. Hartford Fire would begin to prepare for its move to its new building on October 29, 1921.

The adjectival form of “alderman” is “aldermanic.”

1. Newton Brainard was mayor of Hartford.
2. The “several city officials” weren’t wrong: the Broad Street Extension wouldn’t be opened for another decade.

Unattributed, “Extension of Broad Street is again up for council action,” Hartford Courant, October 23, 1921, page 16.