Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-04-17
TO NEGOTIATE
| WITH Mr.. JONES.
He May be Janitor of the
City Hall. Concert by the
Trans Atlantic Band.
Listers of WilliamstOwn and Town Of
Barre on the City Water Works.
County Grand Jurors NOmin.
ated and Approved

A special meeting of the city council
was called to order at about 7.20 Satur-
das night with all members present.
The mayor read communication
from a scenic artist who wanted a job on
the scenery for the new opera house.
The company that furnished the scenery
for the old house has been requested
to send aman here TO figure this job.
The next order of business was the
consideration of bids for Janitor work.
A long list, varying from 1924 10 $640,
was read off by the chairman Of the
proprly committee who would make no
recommendations but would lot the can
didates stand on their merits
An informal ballot for choice, with
the mayor voting, resulted as follows: !:
l.. N.sGauthier 2, John Tierpey |, Chas
Jones 2, Ezekiel Drew l,eChas. Harris
/. The next ballot slsod Gauthier 8,
Jones 8, Tierney N The next was
Gauthier 8, Jones R. 8. Currier l..
They tried it againaud the vote stood
Gauthier 3, Jones 4. A resolution was
then drawn authorizing the property
committee to make contract with Mr.
Jones for the work at the price specified
in his bid, which was 5000. Mr.. Gau-
thiers bid was only $52s. The resolu-
lion was adopted by vote of 5 to l..
The leader of the transatlantic
Band, N. Rossi, accompanied by John
Jovanelli appeared to ask for the use of
the bandstand for a free concert to be
given by the band on the evening Of
May Isl. The permission was readily
granted and the city engineer is to fur
nish them with lanterns for Illuminating
purposes. After this matter was dis
posed of considerable talk was indulged
in about the contract to be made with
the new janitor.
He will have to furnish $500 bond.
Some thought he would have consider
able to do and so the city clerk, police,
liquor agent, city engineer etc, ETC.,
will each have to take care of his own
room. On account of this the council
expects that the janitor will cut his price
little. If he does not do the work as
it should be done the council can kick
him out on a months notice. He has
got 10 give his individual attention to
the work and eau not sublet. If Mr..
Jones complies with these and some
other conditions he will probably be the
next janitor of the city hall.
The question Of changes in the lookup,
police headquarters, liquor agency,
carriers room etc., etc., next came up.
but as nobody knew what to do, moth
ing was done, the whole matter being
handed over to the property committee
for another investigation. The city
clerk arrived about this time and he
stated that in compliance with instruct
ions he had notified the listers in Will
Jamestown and in the Town of Barre
that the city water works could not be
taxed according to law. Both sets of
Listers thought it could, and wanted to
know why it could not. The mayor
looked up the law and found that sub.
division 7 of section 1862 V. s. states
that property granted, sequestered or
used for public purposes is exempt from
taxation, and Mr.. Wells will 80 inform
the listers.
Alderman Kingston stated that cer-
tain man had COW he wished to have
pasturcd on the city farm. After some
discussion q resolution was adopted in
structing the property committee to fix
the fence and rent the city pasture as
best they can. A petition for 40 rods Of
sewer on Orange street was referred to
the committee on streets. A petition
for a new street from the Aver street
bridge to Orange street was referred 10
the same. A communication was read
from NJ. f. Smile about county grand
jurors. The following we've nominated
by the mayor and confirmed by the
board of aldermen, who convened espec-
tally for that action. S. ID. Allen, l.. A.
Gale and Harvey Hersey. On request
of the mayor the council voted to 60
into executive session at about 8 o'clock.
The "smoke talk" lasted till II
o'clock. the Solons having long dis.
cussion about the water question.