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sds sn 1 o nond. _\'ln I EI THE PRIVATE BILLS COMMITUTTEE GIVEs DECISTIONX FOR THE f CITY. Toronto won out in the Private Bills Committee yesterday morning on the question of compelling the city to supply water to a portion of the town-- 1 s p ship of York. By a vote of 11 to 10, Hon. Thomas Crawford's motion that the clause be stricken out and the matter stand for another year until the representatives of both municipali.-- ties had an opportunity to reach an agreement was adopted. An amend-- ment by Mr. T. Herbert Lennorx that the clause be passed and the matteri of adjustment be left to the Ontario | ' Railway Board was rejected. | | Mr. J. K. 1.. Starr, solicitor for the' | township, stated that, by resolution of' | the City Council, Toronto supplied | | water to residents within 500 feet of l the city limits, but they might change ' that any day. 1t was a law in fa\'ur' of the rich man. When the city was required to put in a water conne('tion,l it was a case of "put up your moneyi and we will put it in anywhere within that 500 feet." The poor man (:ntlld" ' not put up the money. The only thinrgi | they could do as a tow nshin was to | ) make sure that they got water, fox'i the problem was acute. | Mayor Hocken said the position the | clly took was that this was not merely | a question of water, but of .';(-l'nuols.i roads, transportation and a lot (»t'i' other things, and they had said to rho; township, "if you let this bill stand f(»r" one yeoear we will undertake to co--| operate .with you in working out u; plan, for which we will come to """[i Legislature next year and ask con--| sent." By the end of the year they |; would have additional conduits laid. [ | and with the improvement of thetr | | waterworks they would be able to || serve those districts in the tov nship | / which were asking for water, | Mr. Goorge Syme, Heeve . of :!xez township,. said something had to be done for the general health of ihc' community. ' Mr, McNaught thought if they agreed to this they would be udom'-' ing a vicious principle to compel the j city of 'Toronto to finance such a| thing ouiside its limits. ' Mr.-- Gcary. Corporation Counsel, | said the city had no objection to SUD~' piying the water, but it could not do| it.© *'We haven't been able to 'give | water to North Toronto; it's a shame -- to put this on us jnst now," he said. Mr. Lennox, remarked that --the Railway and Municipal Board could I seltle the point. |