The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-03-18
City Engineer Gets Incr@
to $1,000 a Year
OVERSEER OF POOR IOS5d
Regular Firemen Given One Day O
Each Month---Council Last Night
Refused to Order Macadamizing
of.North Summer Street.

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city council last evening, and the figures
remain the same as last year, with the
exception that City Engineer Reed gets
raise from 81 900 to 81 100, 0verseer
Of the Poor Shurtleff $50 additional,
making $500 year, and George Cook,
assistant in the city engineers depart
ment, gets five dollars more a mouth.
The report Of the salaries committee
was considered in secret session, and
when the council emerged, they adopted
the list as follows
Police department: chief SIS per
month, regular patrolmen SOS.
Fire department: chief $50 per month:
regular fremen 500 per month tone day
of in month";; call firemen S35 per
year; fire alarm superintendent $50
year,
Oyerseer Of poor, $500 year.
Engineering department: engineer
| 100 year; assistant $45 per month
1.-TWO weeks vacation allowed.
Water department: superintendent
$1,000 a year tcity to furnish team;
assistant, Miss LaBounty, S3s per month
two weeks off
Street department.: superintendent
$1,000 furnish own team)
Secretary, board Of health, $50 a
year.
The report was signed BY Aldermen
Thurston, Williams and Alexander
Several New Oficials.
A few new officials were secured last
night as follows. pound keeper, b. p.
Wiley, confirmed unanimously: board
Of health, Dr. AZ, d. Lamb. secretary.
William Reid Of Church street and A. j.
Baldwin, confirmed s to L; food fnspec-
tor, DR.. F. e. Ligouri, confirmed to j:
third assistant engineer Of the FIRE de-
partment, G. w. Emerson, confirmed 5
to 1.
The expected cost Of the administra-
tion for the coming year was embraced
in a resolution copied from 4 previous
report OF the finance committee, and
the resolution was ordered to second
reading The council also voted the
weekly payroll of the departments as
follows: streets Sl46s5, water S4l.73,
fire $3.50, police S7lSi.
Third Ward Street Improvement
Alderman Williams Of the third ward
put up a good fight for street repairs
IN his ward when he called up resolu-
tion authorizing the nacadamizing of
Summer street, between Maple avenue
and Seminary street. which had been
tabled last October, with the understand
ing at that time that It should be left
over until the new council came into
office. But he lost the fight, at least
temporarily, as the aldermen by vote
of three TO three refused to adopt the
resolution, and Mayor Robins declined
to vote until he had inspected the situa-
tion more closely.
In defending the resolution. Alderman
Williams said that it looked to him az
if the intention was to sidetraek the
repairs to that street Aldermen Thurs
ton and Campbell stated that they
thought It would not be wise to author
ize the macadamizing OF the street until
a survey had been made and the street
lines established, according to the in
struetions Of a resolution previously
adopted. The latter was the final deci-
sion, inasmuch as the vote resulted in
i tie.
A number Of minor matters were tran
sacted BY the council; Frank Morandi,
George G. Benjamin and Mrs. Michael
Cook asked for building permits, and
the petitions were granted, the first TO
build addition to house at SO Smith
street, the second to tear down and
remove house at South Main street
and the third to reshingle house Of Elm
wood avenue. The street committee re-
fused to grant a permit to Dr. Archam
bault to erect a sign at the corner Of
West and Summer streets.
The bonds of Aldermen Alexander and
rhurston were accepted; also the bonds
# Patrolmen Gamble and HameI, and
II Building Inspector Field Water
supt Russell's monthly report was ae-
.epfed, The property committee was
yiven power to act in the rental Of
lal IN the old city building to the
oentecostal church, which wants reduced
ent. as the light has been cut of BY
he construction of the Wood addi
ion
A pound established at Fred A. Slay-
on's, 10 South Main street The street
and city engineer were In
trueted to look up the petition Of resi-
ents of Oswald and Ladd streets for
numbering Of their houses so that
hey may have mail service. The same
was given the petition Of the
'nion Telephone company for two ex-
ensions The assessors were authorized
o take a few days to get ready for
heir annual work, and their complaint
the unsanitarv condition OF the as
essors Office was referred 10 the prop
fty committee. The matter Of repairs
b the old FIRE station on Prospect street
'as left with the same committee