Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-11-15
RESC|NDED
City Council Recede From
Vote on Lease Of
OPERA HOUSE
". ". Lapoint Sill in Con-
troll Of II

The city couccil at special meet.
ing held last evening voted to back
down from the stand they took Tues.
day evening in regard to the lease of
the opera house, and by vote OF to
l, voted to rescind the vote declaring
w. w. Lapoint's lease OF the opera
house vacated. This action was taken
after meeting for over an hour in the
committee Of the whole at which the
question was considered in all it's
phases and thoroughly discussed.
All the members were present, and
the first thing considered was the
granting OF sewer permits to D. M.
Hurley OF Second street and Trow &
Phelps Brothers for their houses on
Pleasant street. G. w. Averlll was
given permission to connect his house
on South Main street with the McFar
land & Boyce water system. Two city
warrants were ordered paid TO overseer
Of the poor, l.. H. Thurston, for the
support OF the poor, and one to the
Barre Savings Bank as interest.
Then came the question Of acting on
thu vote taken Tuesday evening. w.
W. Lapoint appeared before the coun-
Gil to ask that the vote taken that
evening be rescinded. He said that
f. G.. Rowland had agreed to see that
the money was paid so that he paid no
further attention to it, He explained
how he was situated as he had already
booked a number of shows to appear
here. He said that the action of the
council in declaring the lease vacated,
was illegal and intimated that the
city would be held responsible for any
damages that might arise from this
action
City Urea surer Wells said that Mr..
Rowland had come to him on the
morning of Nov. /, and said that he
would see that the sSl.a6 was paid,
although he said he would not be re.
sponsible for Mr.. Lapoint's bills. He
said: 81 will pay it to you (Mr.
Wells) that would be all right. "
He was told that it would but he did
nothing further about it. Mr.. How
land also telephoned in the morning
from Boston for Mr.. Wells to pay it
ard he would settle for 1t on bis re-
turn.
1t was explained that it was the in
tent of the lease as drawn up to secure
the back rent to the city.
Mayor Phelps said that the lease
was designed to secure for the city it's
due and nothing else. 1t was Mr..
Lapoint's lookout to see that the
money was paid and not the city's.
Alderman Mackay said that he
should consider Mr.. HowlandS agree.
ment to pay as good as payment.
Alderman Patterson said he did not
see what was the matter with the city
taking the money and Mr.. Lapoint
going ahead with the lease as it was
before.
THE council then voted to 60 into a
committee on the whole to consider
the question. When it came out over
an hour later the adoption of resolu-
tion providing that the vote passed
Tuesday evening. Nov. -, declaring
the lease OF the opera house vacated,
be reScinded as responsible parties
had agreed to make good the deticieo-
cy caused by the failure of w. w. La
point to pay $S1.66 was moved by
Alderman Patterson seconded by AL
derman Mann.
The resolution was passed, 5 to /,
Alderman Scott being the only one to
stand by his vote OF Tuesday even
ing. The meeting then adjourned.
Taken as whole the meeting was
great one for the amount of "table
talks" and the small amount of "do-
ing"