St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-03-29
SPECIAL VILLAGE MEETING.
Shall the village Buy More Water.


Shall the Village Buy More Water.
TEp lively caucus on Saturday even
ing s. SIS was followed by an equally
interesting village meeting at 80, pre-
sided over by DR.. G.. B. Bullard. At
the opening of the meeting Trustee
Calderwood read a copy of the essen
tial portions of the deed to the village
of what water rights they own. AS
this is matter of some interest to the
village the conditions of the deed are
herewith given :
Being the island situated in Pas
sumpsic river, in what is known as
Paddock village, lying in about the
centre of the mill dam across said Pas
sumpsic river. Also four shares of
water in Passumpsic river, being four
undivided fOrtieth parts of the water
and mill dam at ArnOld's Falls, so
called, in Paddock village the same
being part of water bought of said Nc
LeOd in the year 1873 from Hiram
Jonetgf said village of st. JOhnsbury I;
saSd HtLeod reserving the right of us
ing what water that said village may
not require for to keep up water for
domestic use, and in case of fire, said
Mcleod hereby binds himself to allow
said village to use all the water which
he owns, which is seventeen and one
half fOrtieths of all the water running
in said Passumpsic river, less what the
village of st. Johnsbury has this day
bought; said village hereby binds
themselves to be at ne-fOurth of the
expense of keeping the said dam in re-
pair.
Trustee Calderwood stated the need
of more water for village uses and the
danger of water famine in the near
future if additional supply is not secur-
ed. The proposition was to buy of M.
j. Caldbeck what was left of his par
TALLY burned shop, the real estate on
which it stands and four shares in the
Passumpsic river owned by him, for
$3500. There was a lull in the meet
ing after it was opened. The condi-
tions of the deed seemed to be sur
prise to some and nobody seemed thor
Oughly informed in relation to the
matter as whole. Mr.. Mcleod, a
large owner in the river, was frequent
ly called for but was not present.
Mr.. Pinard, in answer to a query as
to whether any changes had been made
in the race ways since the village
bought the water, answered in the neg
ative. 3. F. Rollins stated that there
had been an attempt in this direction
and that suit had been brought on
account of it though he didn't think it
affected the village supply much he
supposed the village owned more
water than the deed called for thought
supply should be increased and favor
ed reservoir. Inquiries followed by
G. p. Carpenter, E. F. Brown and 9TH
ers but not much light was elicited.'
N. p. Bowman, after calling atten-
tiOn to the dearth of water moved that
+ the trustees be instructed to purchase
of M. j. Caldbeck his real estate and
four shares in the river water. Sec
onded by E. E. Sargent who thought
it good investment as the village en-
q joyed an income of nearly $1,000 yeal
, on what was sold for other than do
mestic uses. E. F. Brown hoped moth
, ing would be done until the matter
). was more fully investigated believed
that more was wasted than was useG
at the dam thought we had good fire
, protection and that past experience
n furnished ample evidence of it. Lin
g dorf Morris, who lives by the dam, al
so thought there was great waste o.
f water at the dam. Chas. S. Hastingi
thought the purchase of Caldbeck {
;, small matter compared with the bene
:, fits to be derived. Prof. S. HI. Brack
EFT opposed the motion both on practi
cal and sanitary grounds and favored
laying 12-inch pipe to Stiles's pond
@ where pure water was to be had ant
y force enough also to put 10 fire stream
:, on the Plain.
Prof. Henry Fairbanks urged th
want of efficient fire protection, th
unwisdom of adding more money to al
d already expensive plant and the wis
'i dom of securing new source of sup
ID ply that should be high enough t.
e bring the water by it's own gravity t.
1t the village, and noted the advantage
e of the head of waters of Sleeper's rive
l. at GOss Hollow. c.. M. Stone wa
[, ready to vote for the purchase of Cald
n beck's four shares if it could be ex
% planned how it would increase tn
+ amount of water in the river, and al
IN seemed to agree that reservoir wa
al needed and something must be done.
le Finally motion to table Maj. Bow
IN mans motion was considered and pass
g, ed, the chairman rendering the decid
s. edly unique parliamentary decisio
1t that this disposed of the articles in tn
8 warrant, and the meeting adjourned.
le Meanwhile the village holds qui
III claim deed of certain shares of waite
te from the Ramsay estate, title hostil
al to Mr.. McLeod's, that it is thought b
Oh some may extend their privileges.
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They Don't XIII Easy.
The st. Johnsbury papers are de
lighted with the system of warmin
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