The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-05-29
Dr. P. 5. Duffy Nominated by
Mayor and Confirmed
CITY SERVANTS in SESSION
Pearl Street Must BE Closed So Long AS
1t Is Dangerous for Passage--Move
to Macadamize Certain Streets
Was Blocked.

The board Of aldermen and city coun.
ell both held meetings last evening which
lasted in all nearly three hours. The
board Of aldermen met first with all the
members present. a notification from
Earl q Cutler was read that his contract
for driving the city hearse had expired
and the board on motion 81 Alderman
Ladd referred the matter to the prop
erty committee with power to act. A
communication Was read from II. O.
Wheaton requesting that the street NUM-
bers be placed on the houses ON Lords
Alley, and the matter was referred to
the city engineer and street committee
w. w. Lspoint petitioned for license
70 run theatre at Castle Park The
clerk stated that q new amendment to
the city ordinance now requires that a
license must be taken out for each per-
formance and the payment Of $2 for
every license. On motion Of Alderman
Campbell this was referred to the city
attorney and the license committee with
power to act. Alderman McNulfy Of the
committee appointed to investigate the
number 33 and value Of the hers claimed
to have been killed by dogs reported 6t
hens killed and 20 chickens He recon-
mendrd that The owners be paid 75 cents
each for the hens and 10 cents for the
chickens, totalling S4775. The report
was accepted aud ordered placed on file.
A communication from the mayor was
read appointing Dr. r S. Duffy as city
physician to fiil out the term Of DR.. Mil
Ter, resigned. The appointment was
unanimously confirmed. Y b. Casellini
speaking for Mr.. Frattini wanted to
know why the city had not vet done any
thing about building the wall on Rail
road street to protect Mr. Frattini's land
from sliding off lie said Mr.. Frattini
purchased the land with the understand
ing thar the city was to put UP the wall
and II something was not done right
away now Mr. Frattini would block the
street. The board took no action on the
matter.
a. = Stewart appeared for the petit
tioners on Park street extension, who a
syear or two ago put in a petition signed
by all the abutters except two 10 have
the city sewer extended to the houses
Of the petitioners On motion OF Alder
man Cutler the matter was referred to
the street committee on the old petition
Alderman Campbell said thar he had a
complaint made to him yesterday in re-
gard TO refuse being dumped on Brool,lyn
street He said be looked over the place
and found it in very bad condition from
the decayed fruit and stuff that had been
dumped there. Referred to the street
committee with power to act. The hoard
then adjourned and the city council was
called TO order Wath the mayor in the
chair
What the Council Did. a
The mayor stated thai Pearl street
ought TO be closed Hp Tor . short time
a.. il was in a dangerous condition for
teams to pass olrr "a account Of put.
ting in the wall for the Ginberg block
After talkihg over the situation the
council decided to close up the street
as long as il was dangerous and also
70 serve q notice on the contractor, WI.
~ jackson, that he must protect the
sewer and water pipes from breaking and
leave the street in as good a condition
as be found il,
Alderman ThuTston said that the
street committee found themselves in a
peculiar situation in regard 60 paying
any land damages as no appropriation
OF funds had been made, but no action
was taken last evening in regard to
making an appropriation.
The contract between the city and the
Blanchard block company for the use by
/ the latter Of the driveway from Prospect
street to the rear Of the Blanchard block
was read and accepted According to
the contract the company pays the city
one dollar a year for the use Of the
driveway.
The reading Of resolution from the
street committee for macadamizing,
draining and curbiug North Main street
between Beekley and Sixth streets and
assessing abutters started considerable
discussion among the aldermen Alder
man Williams wanted to know why the
street committee had recommended go-
ing down SO far on North Main street
when there was SO much Of the street this
side that needed working Just as bad.
Alderman Thurston and Campbell said
that it had not yet been settled what
would be used in constructing the street
from the paving at Depot square down
TO Whitcomb Bros, and that this sec-
tion Of the street from Beckley to Sixth
street was in a very bad condition as IL
had no surface sewer drainage and the
main sewer was bursting every year.
Alderman Cutler al first made a mo-
tion that the resolution be accepted
and later withdrew his motion in view
Of the fact that he thought that if the
sewer was Ii a bad condition it should be
fixed before the road was worked Alder
man Campbell then made the motion
TO accept the resolution and called for a
roll call vote which resulted IN the mo-
tion being lost, to 9. Aldermen Camp.
bell and Thurston voting in favor of II.
Another resolution was read relating
TO macadamizing the section of Washing
ton street between the corner Of Rich.
ardson street and Hill street Alderman
Ladd made the motion that this resolu.
tion be accepted, saying that the street
was III bad condition, not being proper
~ drained and the water WAS running
down Che cor track onto thar part Of the
street which has been macalamized and
spelling that Alderman Williams iu-
quired if the width Of the street had
been determined and on being told That
L 1t had not he thought that ought Ia be
apttlpd frat Alderman Thurston thDunbt