The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-04-30
! Voted by Citizens at Meeting
Last Evening
THERE WAS NO OPPOSITION
Erection of Addition to Brook Street
Street School Building Postponed
Until Further information
Is at Hand.

BEGINNING June 1, next, all city en-
pl0yees viii receive their pay weekly.
This was decided upon at city meet
ing held last evening, at which the citi-
zens voted also to keep the salaries of the
mayor, clerk and treasurer, aldermen,
assessors and auditors at the same
figures as last year. Action toward
erecting an addition TO the Brook street
schoolhouse was postponed .Altil the
commissioners present plans and esti-
mates for a four-room instead of a
two room addition. This business was
transacted BY rs citizens.
Alderman Walter Williams was elect
ed chairman Of the meeting, and James
Mackay acted as secretary
At the start-off James p Marr moved
that the officials be paid the same sal
aries as last year, and the motion was
carried. The salaries are as follows.
Mayor, $3.50 per year
Aldermen, 30 cents an hour
City clerk and treasurer, $3.50 per
year.
Assessors, $3.50 per day.
Auditors, so cents an hour.
Brook Street Schoolhouse.
When the question of AN addition to
the Brook street school building was
brought up, Alexander Gordon of the
school commissioners reported that the
two-room addition would cost $4,000 or
a little over, and that the building
might tide the city over for two years.
Alexander 1ronside moved that the re-
port be accepted, but dissatisfaction
with a two-room addition at once de-
yeloped, those opposed thinking that it
would be better police TO erect a
larger structure.
Commissioners Scott and Stuart ex-
planned the action of the board in re-
commencing the smaller addition. the
former stating that they stood five to
one for it after much discussion. Com
missioner Gordon also stated that the
board thought that section of the city
was pretty well built up and that two
more rooms would be sufficient, while
other school outlay would be at North
Barre and in ward five. He considered
too that an addition Of four rooms
would not look weal on the lot and that
the structure would have TO be made
over to bear the increased weight of
roof
Some Of the speakers, notably ]. P.
Marr, George Troupe and Albert Hal
vosa, were inclined to censure the com
misioners for failing to bring in esti-
mates Of q four-Toom addition, as we'll
as for two-rooms Then two motions
were lost in quick succession, the first
to lay the report ON the table until
further information could be secured, in-
troduced by J. I. Callaghan, and the
second. BY George Troupe, to accept the
commissioners report with the substi-
tuition of four-room addition In place
of the two-room.
Then j. p. Afarr moved that the whole
matter be referred back to the commits
sioners and that they bring in plans and
estimates for four-room addition.
This was carried. The next three ar
ticles were consequently passed over,
they being ID to instruct the commits
sioners to build an additions (2) to see
il the city will levy a special tax for
the addition; and (3) to see II the city
viii issue notes or bonds to pay the ex-
pense, with the rate, time and place
payable.
A Little Furry.
The reading of the seventh article
TO do any other proper business was
the occasion for an attempt on the part
of II. X. Bush to adjourn and il led to
little furry as George Troupe said W.
II. Messer had the floor before Bush,H
and the chairman replied that he was In
position to sec and statad that Bush
had the floor first. The motion to ad-
jomn, being put, was lost by a heavy
vote
Accepting the opening. j. P. Mari
made a speech in which he said It was
an injustice for the city to make its
employees wait month before eating
their salaries while almost every other
branch Of industry in town paid weekly,
or at the latest. bi-monthly. He there
fore moved that after juno /, 1907, all
city employees be paid weekly, and the
motion was overwhelmingly carried.
The same speaker got in the last mo-
ton by moving that the meeting dis
solve. There were no opposing votes
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