The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-12-21
Was Report Which City Light
ing Committee Presented
A SURPRISING SITUATION
Alderman Rossi Also Stated That Conf
pany Included 20 Lights in Spauld-
ing School Which Are on Meter.
Council VIII Investigate.

Reports Of committee and the adopt
ing Of a resolution on department appro-
Ipriations covering several departments,
in which the accounts had been over
drawn as shown by the clerk at the
meeting of the aldermen last week. con-
stituted most Of the business before the
city council at it's regular meeting last
evening
Alderman Rossi, chairman Of the light
ing committee, stated that the committee
had taken an inventory OF all the lights
in the city buildings and found that their
inventory showed 67 less lights in use
than the lighting company had charged
the city for in their last bin and had
been charging them for al the year
According to his inventory, the city is
using SO lights, and the company had
charged for 643 In the company's BILL
he said, they had included 20 lights in
the SpauldiHg school building which
they should not have done, as the lights
in that building are on meter lie
said that the companys superintendent
had stated that the company was willing
to settle by the city's inventory, begin-
ming November l last.
At the suggestion OF Alderman Iloyt,
il was decided TO defer any action on
the matter another week and III the
meantime have the lighting committee
look up last years inventory 10 see Il
there was one made By that lighting
committee, and compare it with tile new
inventory.
In connection with the lighting com-
pany's last bill, il was stated that there
had been an excessive number Of renew
ais Of lights in the city building and it
was intimated that the lights were being
stolen In regard TO this. Alderman
Wiley Of the property committee stated
that the jautor of the b1ilding now
had his instructions to keep q record Of
all the renewals in the bII4sg some
thing that had never been done before,
Want Cemetery Note Pad
A communication wae received rom
the cemetery commissioners stating that
they wished the city 10 PAY gate or
St.I50 on the Mertz property a0d they
also notified the city that they wanted
4 per cent interest after January /, 1911,
on all the money they had loaned the
city, on which heretofore they had been
getting 3Hs per cent Considering the
condition Of the money market now, the
council was Of the opinion that the com
missiouers' request for one-half Of one
per cent raise was justified, and on mo-
tiou Of Alderman Wiley the request was
complied with and the note for Sl,l50
ordered paid.
Tilt with Telephone Company
A communication was received from
Superintendent Gowdey OF the telephone
company, in regard to the street com
missioners' request that the company
move pole ON Granite street near the
Beck & Beck property, as Beck Il Beck
had complained it was in the way Of
their getting onto their property. The
superintendent Stated in his letter that
the pole and all of the Companys poles
in the city had been set under the direc-
tion Of the city engineer, and if there
was any moving TO be done now he be-
lieved il should be by order OF the public
service commission,
The city clerk stated that he had
already replied to the letter sendiaR the
superintendent copy of the city ordi-
nance bearing son this question, which
stipulates that any pole shall be moved
at any time that the street commits
sioners shall direct for the convenience
OF property owners. To this letter the
clerk stated that he had as yet received
no answer Tile council was agreed that
the ordinance covered the question thor
oughly and instructed the clerk to noti-
fy the company that they must move
the pole.
Robert Kerr applied through the clerk
for information as to whether he would
have to paw license ii he started
skating rink III the CITY The couucil
decided that no license was required.
A restaurant license was granted to
Daniel w. Smith to run a restaurant in
the Durkee block.
The clerk stated that most OF the
street assessment bills had not been
paid and the council voted to have
George Cook. assistant in the engineers
office, collect the bills, as he has done
in the past
The mayor stated that he was sur
prised to find that clock had nevfr
been installed in the central fire station.
He said that a place had been made for
a clock Just over the alarm indicator,
when the building was erected and he
thought IL queer that n clock had not
been installed before this time. Il was
to have the clock connected
with the Indicator so that it would stop
whenever an alarm was rung in, thus
giving the exact time that an alarm
was sounded. which time the chief is
required 70 keep a record Of The light
ing committee was instructed to bring
in a recommendation OF the matter at
the next meeting.
On motion of Alderman Hovt. the
council then went into executive session.
After the closed session, the water COM
mittee TO whom had been referred the
question OF public skating rinks, report
ed that they did not deem it advisable
10 try to run 4 rink this winter owing
TO the lateness 81 the season. The great.
est objection 10 Kinks, the committee
claims. is thar the flooding Of the Kinks
from the hydrants opens the hYdrants
ap so that they are sure to freeze MP
In cold weather. The report was nc
septed.
To ill three vacancies IN the call mem
bers of the FIRE department, G. n. Woods.
r. ID. Carpenter and W. L. Harris were