Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-01-31
CITY MEETING
SPECIAL CALLEDBY THE
LEGAL TAX-PAY-
ERS" HELD LAST
EVENING.
The Speakers Took Advantage of the
Opportunity to Utter Strong Per.
sOnalities. es.....ResOlutiOns In.
trOduced and Adoption Re.
fused. 1.-The Acts Of the
City Government
Sustained.

Ing issued on a petition of over 80 of th
legal taxpayers of the city of Barre
Miles hall was fairly well filled at th'
special city meeting held last evening
City Clerk Wells did not appear at th'
appointed time for calling the me-sin!
20 order, and after waiting for him
while the meeting was finally called t.
:der by W. W. Lapoint. DR.. &. b
Nichols wss elected moderator to govern
lie meeting, and Mr. Lapoint was eloct
ID clerk, but declined to serve.
MIR. Wells appeared about this tim'
md assumed his official possion. Fred
erlck Bruce opened the discussion of til,
venng by reading extracts from tn,
TELEGRAM of Dec 2l, relating to thu
AIdermens meeting that voted to giv'
Mason & Co the right to use Kings
Windsor in place of Adamant, the ma
erial originally specified for plasterin.
he new City Hall, if SO recommended
" Architect Adams. After he had flu
shed reading MIR. Bruce gave a brie
history of what had been done, apply
Tag them so as to show the value of MIR
Adams judgement.
lie stated that Adams had figured tn.
cast of rock faced granite for the two
ides of the building as less than wha
rick would cost. New the Cou, Gil an.
NJ ,yor tell US that there is going to bt
difference of some $1,000 in the cos
II the bu ldiug from W hat it would have
cost of granite had been used. Here i.
discrepancy of some $4,000 in Mr.
Adams Judgement. Mayer Gordon is
Il man whose profession makes him deal
with facts and circumstanlial evidence
vet us do the same. The circumstances
'onnectrd with the letting of The con
ract and the building of the new City
.lall would seem to indicate that some
me was not getting enough money ou'
of it as first specified"
Mr. Bruce then re-read from the
TELEGRAM the report which told OF
Mayor Gordons remarks about the sus-
pension of the Adamant Company. lie
stated that he was surprised when he
read it in the paper. Saw Mr.. Quinlen
ne local agent and asked him about it
.Quinlen stated that the company had
rot suspended, for he had Just received
some stock from them.
lie, Bruce, saw Gordon on the street
and asked why the aldermen had chang
d from the plaster specifications. Cor
ION said Adamant Company had "bust'
ed" and they couldn't yet it. Bruce told
.,im there was only one company, and
tnat had not suspended. Gordon said
..Uh yes there are lots of different com
panies, but they made an inferior quality
If goods" Bruce next saw the "big
alderman from ward T." He asked Mr.
Cutler why they had changed from
uiamant to Kings Windsor. Cutler
said the adamant people had "buse ed
up' and the city could not get that kind
of stock however bad they wanted it
iruce told him the Adamant people had
not failed and Cutler was very much
surprised aud told him to have Qulnler
investigate and see if they were still do
ing business. Cutler then expressed tt
.ruce his belief that Adams was "crOok
ed"
Mr.. Bruce then proceeded with his
tory of events up to the time of the meet
ing last night. He told how the Ada
nant agent, Mr.. Banuigan, was present
1t the next meeting and explained thai
hs company had not suspended but was
financially stronger than ever. lie
guaranteed his material and would give
I good bond for it. He spoke of Adam'r
remarks in the same meeting when ut
stated that he had poor Jobs of both Ada
md X. W. but the poorest job he evtl
,a,l was X, W.
Bruce then hit the alderman and
council dig about their famous ex"cu
live smoke talks with Dornsife called III
as an expert. He told how they had
finally decided on conglomerai'n OF
lime, sand, Kings Windsor, etc, FOL
plastcring. He told how the two news
paper reporters present at the mee'lnS
wien the change was made in the plas'
tering material, himself and rs,Cut'
ler, Mcfarland, Durkee, and Patterson
M understood Gordon TO say that the
Adamant company had suspended. lie
ave a thorou III and detailed history OF
h. whole n,;ter, presenting hard facts
and some .nslantial evidence which
the people we're to take for what it wa
worth.
He then went for Mayor Gordon or
working for the best interests OF inc
nconle Told how the petition for the
meeting was presented the IA. and the
meeting was not calleo "'' 'no oo.., .,
,,fter the contractors had begun work