Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-05-26
THE NEW COTTON MILL.
Tho Board of Alderman Consider the
Subject In Special Meeting.


The Board of Alderman Consider the
Subject In Special Meeting.
The Board of Aldermen held a special
meeting Monday evening, Alderman Roberts
being the only absentee. These licenses were
granted G. Il. German to erect three
houses on the corner of North and Russell
streets and to use portion of the streets
for three months for building purposes, f.
j. Booth to erect two houses on Grant street
and use a portion Of the street three months !;
j. L. Hogan to erect building on South
Willard street and to use a portion of the
street for three months; John Ready to
erect building on Maple street and to use
portion Of the street for one month; Ell
more johnson TO move building from
Peru street extension through Elmwood
avenue to Spring street. The application
of John d. Brown for license to keep a
slaughter house on O. S. Dodd's premises
on Shelburne street was ordered to lie upon
the table.
The bond of Herald Stevens as superin-
tendent of streets was read, approved, and
ordered on file.
An invitation to the City Council to take
part in the exercises Of Memorial day,
under the auspices of Stannard post was
accepted.
A petition for an electric light near the
intersection of st. Paul and Maple streets,
was referred to the street commissioners
with power
The city constable was granted an exton-
sion in time of six months from June l for
the collection of city taxes for 1889, 1890
and 1891.
A petition for a sewer in Decatur street
from Interval avenue to Winooski avenue
! 81 oiscio tA
consider and report.
a communication was read from G. D.
Shcrwin, superintendent of the fire alarm,
relative to change in the line
so as to remove the wires, as
| far as possible, from poles on which there
were other wires. The communication was
referred to the fire committee and later in
the evening Mr. Sherwin addressed the
Board on the subject
THE PROPOSED COTTON MILL.
c. W. Scarf then addressed the Board on
the subject of the new cotton mill, and read
letters from the company. It is proposed
to make the capital stool; from 500, 600 to
| $500, 600, according to the number of
spndles, the calculation for the capital
stock being based on s y per spindle Til e
building for the mill will be about
800 Y 100 and four stories in height
The number OF employees will be
about 800 for &c, 000 spindles and 1926 for
30, 600 spindles. The payroll will amount
to $40, 900 monthly. The mill will be built
in Burlington under the following condi-
tions:
Flrst-Exemption from taxation for five
years from 1894.
Second-The construction of a six-inch
water main from the source Of supply to
the mill hydrants THE service il now
through Il three-inch pipe.
Third-That the city provide for conduct
ing away the sewage of the mill
! Fourth-Ihat the citizens of Burlington
| subscribe to the capital stock $1,000 for each
1000 spindles of the mill equipment, pay
ments to be made rs folows One-fourth
when the walls of the main building are up
one story; one-lourth when the main build
ing is rooted in one.fourth when the ma
chlnery begins to arrive; one-fourth when
| the engine is started.
1t is the plan to start the mill with SO, 900
to 40, 600 spindles.
1t was stated that exception from tax
| alton could be secured only by vote of
town meeting. The second and third cond-
tions properly come under the Boards di
rection and on motion of II, W. Hall, {
special committee, consisting OF Alderman
| ii. ". Hall, w. f. Hall and Hicks, was ap
| pointed to investigate the matter and report
The Board then ad journed.