The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-07-29
DIDN'T KNOW
OF ORDINANCE
Was Plea Of Persons Accused
OF Violating its Provisions
HEARING BEFORE COUNCIL
Anoher Complaint Made Regarding Mer-
ry-go-round on No. Main Street.
Many New Buildirg Permits
Granted Last Night.

Many New buiidifg Permits
Granted Last Night
The much mootsd merry -goround
question was again brought up before
the board Of alderman at their meet
ing last evening when there was pres
ented written protest against the
eity's issuing any more licenses TO the
proprietor, r. r. Gof, on the claim
that the later has not lived up to his
agreement with the city to furnish suf-
fcient police to keep people from tres
passing on the property adjoining the
Tilden lot where tbs merry -go.round IS
stationed. The protest was signed by
a half dozen property owners and
residents living nearby the Tilden lot.
They claimed that their property was
being damaged by trespassers and that
the whole thing in general was men
ace. Alderman Campbell said that
since the last instructions had been
gwen Mr.. Gof by the aldermen he had
failed to see but that there had been
any trespassing while the merry-soi
round was in operation. After some
discussion it was finally voted on mo-
tion made by Alderman Ladd that the
protest be referred to the license COM
mittee and the committee instructed TO
use their own judgement as to grant
ing further licenses to Mr.. GcfI.
Ordinance Violation Hearing
Atthe conclusion Of the aldermen's
meeting . meeting Of the city council
was called to order by the mayor. and
what the three men charged with VOL
ating the city ordinances in not set
curing building permits had to say FOR
themselves. The first one to state bis
case was c. F. ormsbee OF Montpelier,
a contractor, who had done two jobs
of patching roofs for Patrick Brown
without permits. He said that he snp3,
posed that it was the owners business
to get the permits and that after he
had completed the first job be asked
Mr. Brown if he had got a permit. On
Mr.. Browns saying that he had not
he said he went to the building i'm
spector about it and also spoke to the
inspector about the second job which
he was about to do. He said the in
spector had told him that he (the in
spector) had not power to grant him
a permit but that it would have to
come from the aldermen.
Mr.. Ormsbee said that he went ahead
and did the work, which was the patch
ing of leaky roof, thinking that it
would be all right as long as he had
made an application and did his work
satisfactory. He admitted he had done
the same thing at other times but did
not know that he was doing wrong. I.
X. Bailey was the next man to speak
and he said that he went ahead and
built a shanty to put some hay i'll
that he had just cut and did not think
anything about getting q permit until
the shanty was built. He said he then
went to the inspector about it, He
said he was entirely innocent of any
intentional violation Of the ordinances.
The third man notified to be present
and explain his actions was G. A. Heath
but he failed to appear and on mo-
tion Of Alderman Alexander the cctin-
ell voted to defer action on all Of the
cases until the next meeting of the
council. in order that the case against
Mr.. Heath might be looked into.
Alderman McNulty reported to the
council that the contract with the city
physician had expired and the matter
OF drawing up new one was referred
to the charity committee. This finished
the business of the council.
Miscellaneous Business
Other business transacted by the
board of alderman was as follow: the
committee on streets reported that
when the sidewalk was laid on the
south .easterly side Of Jefferson street
opposite the H. F. Cutler, Mrs. G. G.
Page and Guy Varnum properties a
strip six inches wide of the street had
been left in the lawns of the three
named properties and that the steps
of Mrs. Pages house and also Mr.. Var
NUNS projected into the street. The
committee recommended that Mrs. Page
and Mr.. varnum be notified to move
their steps and that the six inch strip
Of land be concreted over TO The street
line. The report was accepted. The
committee on streets to whom bad been
referred petition for concrete side
walk on Walnut street recommended