News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-09-13
WATER AT LAST.

rated has there been larger attend
ed and more harmonious meeting
than that of Tuesday evening. Every
voter was interested in the most per-
picking question with which we have
had to deal, namely: water to drink,
and water to put out fires; but it is
now all settled, and as Gov.-elect
Woodbury. said in his remarks after
the business was completed, "Mor-
risville is at the head of the process
sion, and sure enough, with the qups-
ton of sidewalks, of sewers, OF eipc.
trio lights and water supply wholly
and sensibly settled, where else can
we be counted but at the head
The meeting of Tuesday evening
opened with a very full and compre-
hensive report from the Board of
Trustees, read by Mr.. Whitney. This
report evinced careful and thorough
investigation by the board, and they
are to be congratulated upon the
outcome.
Hon. p. X. GIeed presented the fol-
lowing resolution, which, together
with the amendment by Mr.. Paul, was
carried with a rush, with not one dis
senting voice -
RESOLVED, That the Trustees and their
successors in office proceed at once to put in
n frst-class water system for the village of
Mornsville, supplied from he Bugbee springs,
in ace rdance with the plans suggested by
Mr.. Foster, at a total expense not exceeding
S2l 900. and to pledge the credit of the viii
Iage corporation to pay the same on or before
- years from date; said water to be supplied
fafp nj nd goil 70 To no infn
sinking fund to pay for the plant.
Amendment :-Officers of the village shall
render an itemized unit of expenditures
and income.
In connection with the presenting
of his resolution, Mr.. Geed made a
rousing speech and plea torindepend-
=, e0t action that would bring uS out
from the bondage of an outside water
company.
AS no village tax had previously
been voted this year, it was voted
upon motion of Mr.. Whitney to raise
II tax of 20 cents on dollar of the
list, with 4 per cent. discountif paid
20 the village treasurer on or before
Dec. list, 1894.
Upon motion Of j. A. Robinson, it
was voted that the village assume
6he ownership of the Bugbee farm
bought by the Trustees; that por-
ton of the farm covering all rights
forever to the springs and their sur
roundings be reserved, and the bal
ance Of the farm sold by the Trustees
to the best possible advantage.
Upon motion of Judge Powers,
u. W. Doty was made an agent to
deed for the village, and the business
was completed.
Unknown to many of the audience,
v.-elect Woodbury. was an inter-
ested listener to the proceedings of
Che meeting, and at the moment of
adjournment, Judge Powers called
out the man whom Morrisville helped
TO elect Governor but one week be-
fore. He was greeted with warm APP
plause, and responded with brief re-
marks of congratulatory character
aud expressing his long-continuing
interest in Morrisvile and all her I'M
dertakings.
WATER SPOUTs.
The Board of Trustees, who had
previously bargained for the proper
ny, took a de' d of the Bugbee farm
complete and paid over spot cash to
the administrator of the estate. At
the price paid the property may well
be considered o. X.
With the making of contracts for
the electric light plant, that portion
of local agitation somewhat abated
and then attention was turned with
renewed vigor to the water question,
and as a result the adjourned corpo-
ration meeting held on Tuesday even
) ing afforded quite an animated scene.
i Joel Foster OF Montpelier, a man of
considerable experience and good
Judgment in water matters, was here
last week at the request of the Trus-
tees and made.a thorough investiga-
ton of the probable expense of
water system from The Bugbee farm
supply.
The Bugbee springs will supply
more than four times the present
amount The reservoir contemplated
an the estimates of Mr.. Foster will
have a storage capacity twenty times
as large as the one now in use, and
at about the same elevation. With
this supply back of us we can snap
our fingers at ordinary fires.
Mr.. Foster says that he has never
yet found but one water supply from
springs as good.
The estimates include 80 hydrants
for the village, which will give us an
immense protection and ought to re-
duce insurance rates somewhat.
This enterprising move of our vii
lage can but prove a move in the
right direction. In voting this sum
for. water-works, it is with the belief
that it is not to be met by taxation
that all our citizens who have so long
lived in such an uncertain condition
with the present water company have
been paying for what they have not
received and have so long been COM
pletely bamboozled, will to a man
take the corporations water Just the
moment it is within their reach, and
then will come to an end this sending
right out from our midst a round
50 900 every year in water rents.
With our water in and taken at fair