The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-12-31
City Council Performs ID-
portant Act
AFTER WEEKS OF WORK
Consolidated Lighting Company Report
ed That J. r. Tisrasy HAD Refused
TO Fey Costs Of Changing
Wires as Agreed.

The city council opcncd last evening
with al Tire mcmberp smoking cifars
and inyclgidng aielinat The ,i@e of elsas.
r<tea by minors. Of coarsr. this muat
not be construed a. an Inconsistency,
because the msanbsrs, IN tLe lr.t place.
were smoking cigars. MOI cigarettes. and
ii the sec0nd case they WIRE grown ups.
and IN the thlrd case olley werc wiflnn
the law, leqnl and physical But that
Wa merely . coinciteuco Of the meeting
What WAS more important was thaf ihe
cgars sotnied 70 ensblc the council 70
wadc through - chapters OF chy osdi.
nancca and finally adopt them rs the
code Of rules 70 govern she nuniapal.
ity.
Thus a very necessary work has been
done. II has boen under way for several
months, the ortinanccs being eonc over
carefully hy City Attorney Carver and
Richard A. lloaf, attorney. and their
recommendations reported to the COUNCIL.
Then, IN turn, thc council digcsted the
ordinances, having the parts interpreted
70 them and making recommendations
hero and there. No action was taker
until last evening, when the whole "A
were adopted. There may possibly bs
some weaknesses In the ordinances na
they are reVamped, but the council and
the two attorneys who worked on them
do not know Il. In times past, weak
links have developed, and 4 haa been
the aim to strengthen them AZ this reyi-
sion.
The council ordered that the revised
document be published once in this paper
and ordninni that Il become eiIective on
March 3, when tho new administration
comes into Office. The only changes made
at the last minute were 20 make tho
peddler's fee three dollars. instead OF
five, and 70 make a precautionary re-
stricfion regarding the use OF gasolenc,
requiring that any can holding the oil,
whether II be in store or private houses,
be painted red on the outside and plainly
labeled with black letters.
Besides the. informal talk on cigar.
cites, tho council bad an informal talk
on the undesirability Of solid sessions
IN the high school and ninth grade Of
the public school. Every member ex-
pressed himself as opposed TO the idea.
mainly on the ground that It was detEi-
mental to the health Of the children to
have them partako Of hurried lunch
az noon and then 20 home to dinner at
halfpast one O'Clock They were IN
favor OF making request TO the school
commissioners that they return 10 the
two-session plan, but no action was
taken.
General Manager J. f. Davidson COM
municated to the council that when his
company, Consolidated Lighting, present
ed a bill TO John R. Tierney for costs for
changing wires necessitated when Mr..
Tierney moved the Martin house from
the government Tot to its present cite
further up South Main street, Mr.. Tier
nev had '.enphaticaIly refused to pay.
The bin was for S6l %, fully itennizei
Mr.. Davidson asked that the bill be fled
alongside the bond which Mr.. Tierney
filed with the city when he was given
permit to remove the structure The
council considered that the transaction
was wholly between the Consolidated
company and Mr.. Tierney. and 50 laid
the communication on the table
A warranty deed OF Upland avenue,
from f. Il. Perrin to the city, was ac-
cepted, and the city attorney was IN
strTcted to draw up deeds by which
James Ahern and Fred Bruce transfer d
sidewalk on the easterly side of East
street to the city In consideration of a
concrete walk, ctlrbing and maintenance.
This was an old agreement, and the city
has put IN the curbing and corcrete
The usual weekly warrants to pay
citv employees were drawn and ordered
,aid. as follows: street department.,
s53.O7. water department Sls.75, 0. g.
Russell sl0.o3, fire department s7a.s0,
police department $75.06; also Judge
Scott, city court costs, S59.ls