Hartford Fire persuades Street Board to hold off on its hearing on the Broad Street extension

10/26/1921 |

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At a meeting of the Hartford Board of Street Commissioners, Lucius F. Robinson informed the commissioners that the Hartford Fire Insurance Company would present a second petition regarding its opposition to the planned course of the Broad Street Extension to the Hartford Court of Council.

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Robinson asked the street board to postpone action on holding hearings on the assessments for the improvement, i.e., the extension of Broad Street.
Robinson said he’d been assured by several aldermen that this second petition would be granted.
Robinson also said Newton Brainard had assured him that Brainard was in favor of a second hearing.
The street board voted to comply with Robinson’s request.
Following that vote, the board tabled a letter protesting the layout of the Broad Street Extension from the First Universalist Society

And then there's this

The aldermen, who had voted against a new hearing at the council meeting on October 24, had not fully understood the meaning of the petition the company had submitted at that meeting.
According to Robinson, Brainard had said Robinson could quote him on his position on the second hearing.

Trust but verify

Robinson did not name – or the Courant failed to report – the identities of the confused aldermen.

The past recalled

The Hartford Fire Insurance Company had indicated its intention to submit a petition for a hearing on the Broad Street Extension on October 23, 1921.

Neat little tidbit

The Broad Street Extension wasn’t the only item on tonight’s agenda:

The street board commissioners considered a report from the City’s engineering department on problems with over 1,000 street numbers in the city. The report stemmed from a complaint from the US Postal Service, which had requested that the street board utilize its authority to gain compliance from property owners who had been derelict in their responsibility to properly display their street numbers.
The board also received a request from the Northeast School District committee for a hearing on the assessment against the school district for the layout of Hampton and Naugatuck Streets.

Caught my eye

“It was an absolutely untenable position for the city to be in, in refusing a hearing to an interested property owner.”
“The board instructed the engineering department to notify the offending property owners to number their houses and to see that all public buildings are numbered and to report all failures to comply, back to the board for further action.

For the record

Lucius F. Robinson was counsel for the Hartford Fire Insurance Company.
Newton Brainard was mayor of Hartford.
The First Universalist Society was located at the southeast corner of Hartford Fire’s property, approximately where Cogswell Street intersects with Asylum Avenue today.

Source

Unattributed, “Hartford Fire to resubmit petition,” Hartford Courant, October 27, 1921, page 12.

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