The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-06-16
City Council Put into Hard
Position Last Night
ON PRIVILEGE REQUEST
Don't Want to Hinder Erection Of Gran
its Plant Nor Lay Obstacle in Path
Of Street Car Extension--Report
conditionaIly Accepted

The city council last evening found
itself in a peculiar position when the
report of the committee Of the whole
was read, fayoring a permit to the J. A.
Martinson Est. Granite company to build
spur track Of the Barre railroad aeross
Batchelder street at grade, and the ques.
/ tion then arose whether this crossing
would not be another obstacle in the
way Of the street railway extending its
tracks to Quarry street by the Ayers
and Circle streets route, as the council
ordered them to do a short time ago.
If this crossing was allowed, it would
make another crossing for the street
railway, and although every member Of
the council was unwilling to stop this
erection Of new stoneshed in the city,
they thought it was hardly right, in
view Of the fact that they had already
ordered the street railway to extend its
tracks over this street, not to give the
railway company hearing
Mayor Robins asked Judge II. w.
Scott, who represents the granite com.
pany, if the railway company was mott.
fed Of the hearing before the public SER
vice commission on this crossing, and
he reBifed that IL was not notified.
Judge Scott said that the commissioners
wanted to get the councils opinion on
the question before they gave their deci-
sion as to whether the crossing could
be laid.
This led Alderman Alexander to say
that he could not see why the commits
sioners were 50 anxious to get the coun.
ellis opinion first, unless it was to sea
If the council cared more for this siding
than the extension of the street railway
tracks Judge Scott said that there was
formerly a siding across the street at
this point and that the tracks were tax
en- up with the agreement that they
should be replaced at any time when il
was so requested, and he thought that
if it came 70 that he had q right to lay
the tracks without asking permission Of
anyone.
After some more discussion, the report
Of thecommittee Of the whole was amend
ed to read that the city was favorable
to the crossing being laid providing it
would not influence the commissioners
adversely on tile question Of the exten-
sion Of the street railway tracks. The
report was then accepted
Cemetery COMMISSIONER Report.
The report Of the cemetery committee
on the question Of turning over to- the
cemetery commissioners all Of the land
included in Hope cemetery and not used
for cemetery purposes and the same in
Elmwood cemetery was read, and II was
recommended that in Hope cemetery al
OF the land bordering ON Brook street
except q small strip, which includes the
sand bank be turned over to the com
missioners and that the city agree to
turn over the land where the poor farm
buildings are located, not later than
June !, 1914; and that the commission
ers purchase the house near the Brook
street entrance and give ii To the city.
the CITY to remove It from its present
location onto a lot near by owned By
the city
In EImwood cemetery IL was recom-
mended that the land on the rear side
not already used for cemetery purposes
be turned over to the commissioners and
that the strips Of land on the Highland
avenue and Bolster avenue side which
could not be used for cemetery purposes
be also turned over to the commission
ers OF else the city should fence it in.
Several Of the council thought that tha
vacant strips of land in Elmwood, which
tGulU Nlb bS AHHIs hlfobA1 uUb Dt NuEUG4
over to the commissioners, as It might
sometime be very valuable to the city.
tt was finally voted to lay the report of
the commissioners on the table and
refer the matter to the committee Of the
whole to investigate the situation and
make q report
The report Of the overseer Of the poor
for the month of May was read and
cash on hand May l, S44l5; receiver
from the city, s400; paid out, $3S997:
balance on hand S54l6; received from
tie town Of Braintree and paid over to
the city treasurer $52. The monthly re-
port Of the water department was read
and accepted A petition for sewer
extension from the intersection Of New
ton street and Elmwood avenue to the
upper end Of Elmwood avenue was re-
ferred to the street committee to inves-
tigate and report.
H. Diversi made application for pool
room and bowling alley license in the
IA. Tomasi block and the license was
ordered granted. A license was alsa
granted Leon J. Carroll to operate q
pool room in the basement Of the Bol-
ster block, formerly operated By F. J.
Dunbar.
The following reports from the build
ing inspector were read and the permits
were ordered granted where recommeno-
ed by the inspectors: G. r. Hall ia
build a house on Quarry street, George
Durkee to build an addition to stone.
shed on South Main street A. +. Sort
well asked permission to reshingle the
old Aldrich house on North Main street
and the inspector recommended that 4
permit be not granted on account Of
the buildings being so near the railroad
tracks and wooden buildings
The manager Of the moving picture
show in the opera house asked for per-
mission to hang an advertising banner
over the street from the city building to
the flag pole opposite, but the council
took no action ON the request.
A resolution was drawn up and adopt-
ed, instructing the supply committee
to purchase a carload Of sewer tile. The
plans and specifications for the new Or
snge brook reservoir as drawn up bv
the city engineer were submitted to the
council and adopted.