Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-01-31

voted to pay $50, 900 w N. cor<,ruc.
lion OF the building. ould # cos, thu,
u So'ooo' The mayt had called tn.
meeting when he gotready. Kings
Windsor cement was bLv used fnr
clustering. The wishes o,bs n.ouIs
tr" considered as of no acc,ut hv III,
Mayor. Nv " -"
Who said 70 HI wit. tbe neo
pleP' We hav" been hoodooe IN III.
two granite fronts for the CITY .ani M ' n'
the plaster question, in fact ~.
whole building and on the water u,nt
1t is u one man power that is run;nn
his city. How do the citizens like hee.
pay as you go' policyp MIR. Bruu, |
then began to talk on the water oucs.
ton, but the moderator told him tina,
came in the third article of the warning.
Mr.. Bruce then asked leave to Introduce
some resolutions, which were as fol.
lows:
WliERAS, more than thirty legal voters OF
the City OF Barre. Vermont, recently petit.
oned the Mayor, John W. Gordon of SAID
City to call City meeting for the purp osp OF
considering certain important matters pertain
ing to the City building now in process OF
erection:
And Whereas, the said meeting has been
called in manner which seems to cast
clcud OF doubt upon its legality:
And, Whereas, anv action taken by this
meeting will vet he in its moral effect sub
>tantially the same rs though the meeting had
heen without doubt legally called:
Therefore, by the citizens of said City here
assembled he it
Resolved, That the change from the origi-
nal speclhcatlon in regard to the plaster for
our City building meets with our dsaproval.
Resolved. That the rebate proposed in favor
of the City for the said charge is in our judy
ment not sufficient.
Resolved, that the City Council he, and
hereby is, respectfully requested to adhere to
the Original specification, and use Adamant
Resolved, That in constructing the two
sides of our City building-the one fronting
Main Street. and the other fronting Prospect
street.-the change made in the material used
from that of home granite, as originally d-
rected by our City voters. to that of import
Ell bricks, is unsatisfactory and meets with
our di>approbation.
Resolven, That the several mistakes which
have been made in the construction of our
City bul1ing,-espt cially that in regard to the
opera house floor, with reference to the stage
and that in regard to crppling the room on
the .tage.-are to be deplored, and that the
CITY Council be, and hereby is, respectfully
requested to obvate said mistakes in Il man
ner which shall best tit the said Hall to serve
the purposes for which it is designed.
And, Whereas, it has now been demonstrate
ed, beyond a reasonable doubt, by one OF
Barres emterpri>Ing citizens thatby Artesan
boring on West Hill, within one mile OF
our City. the very best water may be obtained
in quantity sufficient for all City purposes at
comparatively small cost:
THEREFORE,.
Resolved, That while we regret the late pur-
chase now unhappily binding on our City of
the East Barre, Peck Pond and other surface
water the Council he, and hereby is, earnest
ly requested to Iuse all diligence in the en-
ployment of every honorable means possible
to fix the price of said purchase ut the coming
hearing before the commissioners at figure
which shall not exceed, under all the circum-
stances, the actual value OF -aid water 10 our
City.
After he had furnished reading Mr..
Bruce moved that the resolutions he
and his motion was seconded
by Harvey Jersey. The moderator
called for the resolutions and the clerk
read them again. Stephen Forsyth
called for speech from Mayor Gordon,
who Immediately arose and proceeded
to deny everything Mr.. Bruce had said.
lie said 1--WE are all subject to mis-
understandings and mistakes, with the
exception Of MIR. Bruce. lie could not
be wrong. In the history he presented
there was hardly statement made bul
what was false or hi ighly colored. The
term 'mistake' could not be given as
AN excuse for some things he said. 1t
was false that lstated to Bruce that the
Adamant company had suspended. |
said 1t was their factory in Boston thnl
had stopped the manufacture. The reso-
luton adopted that night upholds me.
If the aldermen understood as Bruce
says they did not vote that way.
IL drew that resolution and pur
posrly left it so as not to debar Adanant
but to give the Architect the power to
use Kings Wind, or or something else il
on investigation, he found out that ii
was not advisable to use Adamant. The
Mayor then proceeded point by point to
dispute MIR. Bru.e's stat 'menS, defend
iny his own position after Iii. usual sill
yer tougued manner. lie gave Bruce
rakiny over for the remarks he made
about Architect Adams, coming out with
some very strong personalities.
lie had letter which he said was
from parties in Pittsford VINO claimed
that the Adamant company would meet
any other company as to prices. they
had bought it for So ton. Mason u
Co. also said they would jockey prices.
He spoke of the local lime mortar cx-
perts who had figured at the councils re-
uuest on what the cost should be for us
inc common mortar on the City Hall and
they figured it some few dollars higher
than the price for which Mason Com
pany has agreed to no the work. Both
agents had talked big. Ray claimed
that for one poor jon where k. W. was
used he could show three where Ada
mant was used.
lie spok" of the composition OF Ada
mant, calling on the stone men to prove
his statements about the effect of calcine
plaster and muriaic acid on iron. Why
did the Adamant agent present his sam
ple on wood lah when he knew that
metal lathiny was to be used on the
CITY Hall? He thought the city govern
ment had acted intellegently in the mat
ter. They proposed top'as'er the build
ing with three coats, the first black
cement lime mortar, the second coat to |
be calcine plaster and the third skim,
or finishing coat. Donsife says it will
make better work than any hard plaster
that can be bought.
He said the meeting could not posSi-
bly have been called more than four
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