The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-25

or else he is utterly unable TO tell the diff
ference between two sets of figures, when
placed side. by side. Charles Woodhouse
distinctly made the charge, Saturday night,
that the expenses of Burlington for gas,
lighting the streets, ETC., were less than In
Rutland We have before us the report of
the city officers of Burlington for last year
we have not their report for 1873-and
show, by contrast, the expenditures In
Burlington for that year and in Rutland
for the year ending April, 1873, when 1t Is
charged there was so much extravaganza.
The first question l ask is--when was
that ''last year" to which Albert II. futile
refers? 1t must be the year ending in the
spring of 1872. To that year l did not re-
fer. had in my hand the annual report
of the City of Burlington for the year end
ing in the spring of 1873, which Mr.. Tut
tic says he Las mot got" And in that re-
port found under the head of ''strcct
lights department" that their expenses in
this department were put down at So, 1853
As, which included ''carc of the lamps"
'rcpairs," LANTERNS" and 'lamp-posts,
with the amount paid the burlington Gas
Light Co.." for gas found the amount
paid for sas alone to have been 81 1856 90,
which is less than what We paid for the
corresponding year, as orr bill for gas is
put down in our village report ut Al ,256-
81.
drew no contrast between the cost of
lighting the lamps and the care Of them
between the two corresponding years of
the two placcs--but merely stated that |
made the lamp-lightcr's bill for Burlington
from that report, to amount to about $40.
] drew no contrast of the cost of sewers,
highways, or anything else, between the
two places, except for ''strcet gas" and
for the cost of collecting taxes and dis
bursting the public funds. which said cost
Burlington $1,000, while the cost for only
the village and school district of Rutland,
to say nothing of the town, was in excess
Of that sum, though Burlington had n
much larger Grand List and double the
people of Rutland village.
What Burlington paid for street gas somc
other year than 1.-THE last year." /. c.. end
ing in the spring of 1878, know not.
Possibly Mr.. futile is right in making the
amount more than we paid last year IL
so, and as | understand il. Burlington paid
last year" less than for the year ending in
the spring of 1872, or any other year, it
shows, that while the city has been grow
ing in size, people, and wealth, far ahead
of lis, they have learned some 'hardpan
economy" which it would be well for us
to initiate. Had Burlington paid twice as
much for street gas last year as we did, and
are asked TO pay this, the proportion would
he no more for them than for us.
AS to sewers. Had our citizens on Sat
urday evening cyinced any disposition to
consider the article in the warrant relating
to the question of sewers. | should have
called the attention of the meeting to the
true and equitable way observed in Bur
lington and other places except Rutland,
in partially paying for them, by making
private parties who use the public sewer.
pay an equitable sum for entering them
with their drains, whereas as it is how in
our village, many, who from remotencss &
the main sewers, or shape of the interven-
ing land, cannot enter them, must pay Il
tax to furnish drainage for their neighbors
who do, and so far without extra cost, while
out of their own pockets and often at grea
expense, they must pay the whole cost Of
their own. And SO by this unjust policy
fish is made of one man and flesh OF
another"
village affairs have been influenced only
by desire to benefit my own town, where
| have little home, and for whose pros
perity am willing to work. If l have
made any mistake, know it has not beer
intentional, and have no false pride t
forbid me to confess it frankly when car
see it clearly. All are liable to err in gath
ering facts and even in their deductions from
them, but before shall concede that
have even made an innocent mistake,
shall want some better evidence than tina
drawn from report to which never re
ferrcd, and some better arguments thai
those which evidently proceed from re
vengeful and malicious spirit, intensified t.
raving madness by the consciousness of it
own meanness and smarting Under sens
of deserved defeat.
CHARLES WooDHOUsg.
June "a, 1873.