The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-01-25
WERE UNANIMOUS
in THEIR REQUEST
Matter is Left With Mayor
Barclay and Health Officer
Jackson - Several Other
Important Matters Brought
Before City Council.

Barre Branch, Granite Cutters Nation
Ial Union, has taken up the tuberculosis
question. It has started its activity BY
petitioning he ely council TO invite mem
bers Of the State tuberculosis Com
mission to come to Barre and hold
public meeting for the purpose of educat
ing the people concerning this disease.
The petition was presented at the regu-
lar meeting Of the board Of aldermen
last evening, the vote having been unani-
mously passed BY the granite cutters
at their meeting on the evening previous.
The petition reads:
10 the Honorable Mayor and City Council
Gentlemen: At 4 meeting OF Barre
Branch, Granite Cutters National Union,
held last night, motion was mani
mously passed that we respectfully ask
the Mayor and the City Council to invite
to our city delegation from the State
Board Of Health Estate tuberculosis
Commission probably incnded1 10 deliver
q lecture on tuberculosis. lii accord
ance Herewith | submit the said re-
quest for yolr consideration.
a. Robertson. Secretary
The matter was delegated to Mayor
Barclay and Dir. Joe w Jackson, the
city health officer, and without doubt i
public meeting will BE held soon ia this
city.
The committee to look up w. Il.
Kenerson's tax reported that MIR Kener-
son Is entitled to q rebate of forty cents
on Edgewood property. And the COM
mittee on poor and charities, with the
oyerseer of the poor, reported that there
il no question that z. If GerInaine ii
city charge. It had been proved that
he resided here August /, 1896, and that
he had paid taxes here In the years
1896, 1897 and 1898; also that his nat
urafization papers were made out IN
Barre.
The custodian of the city sinking fund
reported that that fund now amounts
To S3f,6s2.s1, ~ already stated IN this
paper. This year $4,000 was added,
besides the interest Of $900Os.
The trustees OF the French library,
the Barre Public Library and the Barre
Library association, reported the eondi-
tian Of their charges, and incidentally
ridieuled the room ON Elm street, which
Is called a Library The room measures
twenty BY forty feet, and contains
about 5000 volumes all told, representing
m estimated value OF S6,5501I. But
they gave hope by stating that within q
year the books will be housed ii The
new Aldrieh Library building, for which
The city recently voted to give the lot
at the corner eli elm and Washington
streets OF the French fund there still
remains S32949.
Robert Sawyer, the city employee who
was buried in a ditch on North Main
street last summer and put into huspi-
tal condition, appeared and told the
story Of the accident. IIe said that he
went down into the ditch, protesting that
he didn't want To, as he considered ii
unsafe, but ethat young engineer told
him to "a ahead. He went. The earth
cayed iii, with him under III That han
pened July 22 he hasn't been able ia
work since, and doesn't know when he
can. lie wants the city To make Ii
right He was told that the charity
committee ii now considering his case
and he picked up hio crutchea and
walked out.
Property owner and residents near
ftoWalu ana like streets want aFl Mrn
light. The lighting committee will aeA
ii they need 1t,
The bill Of the Allen Lumber company
WINS partially approved, and the remain
der referred TO the fire and school H..
partments to investigate.
The street committee reported that
they had thought it best for the CITY fa
keep Potash Brook stream clear of iee
for distance Of four feet each side ~
the eulyerts OH Park and East streefa
and let the abuttoFs run their chances
Eas they had not been disposed I'd c|eap
ont The brook as proposed BY the civ.
Constable gomtts read letter frnn
the town clerk of Chelsea, stating fhat
w. y. Walker, who had protested e. y;s,s.
the tax Of 1908 here, had beenI ist4a II
Chelsea April /, 1908. The matter Is ]
turned over to the city attorney. ean.
stable Coutts also reported that the c;fv
attorney Ind told him that he eantd
not collect from tile city money Shiel
he had personally spent iii casie ina
taxes that Is, while going ID other
ftan4fxstn4 ~.