Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-08-12
SHORTAGE IN FRONTAGE
Petitioners for Proposed Street
Extension Do Not Own Majority.
Bradley Place Matter quietly 1nid at
West-Alderman Murphy In nm In
curing Mood-Policcme MS
Salaries Disposed OF.
A special meeting Of the board Of alder.

A special meeting Of the board Of alder
men was held Tuesday evening
for the purpose Of hearing the
report Of the city attorney ana
street commissioners on tho proposed
extension Of Bradley place to North
willard street. After the report had been
read and accepted It was discovered that
the signers Of the petition for the extern
sion did not own a majority OK the street
frontage. lacking 1s6s feet. In order that
the board of aldermen may pass on
resolution for street extension the
signers Of the petition must own over
one-half Of the frontage; therefore no
further action on the extension was taken
last evening. NJ g. Leary stated that
when ne caused the petition to he in
PRODUCED he felt sure that tho sisners Of
the petition owned a majority Of the 'front.'
age. He only recently discovered. how
ever, that one piece Of property had been
sold. which caused shortage In tho
sufYicient number Of feet OF frontage.
The report OF the street commissioners
on the proposed extension estimated that
the damage would amount to s7loo and
that the assessments would he SO, loo maxi
Ing an estimated ultimate cost Of 5000.
OTHER BUSINESS.
A letter from the manager Of Howe s
London Shows, which recently exhibited
here. asking that part of the city license
fee be returned to them for tho reason
that they were small circus. was laid
on the table This means that the city
will retain the whole Of the license fee.
A resolution asking that University place
he sprinkled was adopted. resolution.
introduced by Alderman Murphy pro-
viding that when over 400 cubic feet Of
water Is used by one consumer the cost
re reduced to eight cents per 100 cubic
feet, was referred to the water commits
eioners.
A report from the street commissioners
on petition from the New England
Telephone & Telegraph company, asking
permission to erect poles on various
streets, was read. The matter was re-
ferred back 10 the street commissioners
on a technicality.
A resolution introduced by Alderman
ONeil. providing that 5000 be placed to
the disposal Of the street department
to replace the culvert over Potash brook,
was adopted.
The matter OF salaries claimed by Spe-
cial Policemen German and Belka was
disposed Of. City Attorney Villas report
ed that A. W. Belka was not n special
policeman because only one of the three
commissioners had signed his appoint
ment According to the city charter a
special policeman Is allowed 10 draw only
IS days work and It appeared that Relka
had worked more than that number of
days. The report Of Attorney Villas stat
ed that he was not entitled to draw pay.
Belka had previously resigned as a regu-
lar policeman.
The bill OF Officer German for work as
special policeman was ordered paid after
deducting pay for four days, when 1t
appeared that German was employed at
Dorn's cnfe.
ALDERMAN MURPHY TALKS.
Alderman Murphy talked ct length con-
corning the closing OF stores on Sundays
He wanted to know why people couldn',
buy cigar or an Ice cream soda on Sun
day II they wanted to. He also wanted
to know II Mayor Burke had Jurisdiction
is closing the various stores. The matter
OF common law was explained to Alder
man Murphy. whereupon he stated that
the old blue laws were back number The
incident was then closed.
Alderman Murphy then wanted tC
know what was being done about tn,
depot street business, where It appear.
that the property owners have encroach
ed to e large degree in the street ant
on the property OF the city
Il want to know about this matter