The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-08-17
CITY AND STATE
IN CONFLICT



that they had been granted a luneh-room
license, which stipulates that they are
70 sell luncnes and not to sell goods
to be taken out Of the storei everything
TO be consumed there in The store. BY
this change, which they want. il would
seem, he said, that they thought they
had a right "a sell goods just the same
as they did through the week. Alder
man Thurston said that when the hours
were fixed the license committee had
taken into consideration the church
hours and mad intended to have the
stores closed while the churches were
holding services. Alderman Hoyt
thought II might be a good plan to
change the hours and see if they would
live up TO them then; but Alderman
Brown said that II they could not live
up 10 them now they would not to any
schedule, and he moved that the clerk
notify the dealers attorney that the
council would not consider any change
Of hours. The motion was carried
Laying Sewers.
The two resolutions which caused the
controversy were for building surface
sewers on Patterson. Nelson and the
upper part Of Washington street, which
the mayor stated should be done before
the macadam street had been built on
Washington street, as the surface water
from these streets drained down onto
Washington street and would damage
the maeadam Alderman Thurston said
that he presumed that these sewers
ought to be laid, but be thought il
ought 20 be taken into consideration
whether the appropriation for surface
sewers was going 20 hold out He said
that there were alread va lot Of sur
face sewers which the council had or
dered to be laid, and the street com
nittee would attend 70 them first. The
funds in the appropriation were balanced
up to see il there was a sufficient
amount, and ii was decided that the
money would hold out. The city en-
gineer stated that he had estimated the
costs for these sewers at about $500.
On motion Of Alderman Wiley, the
matter was referred 70 the street com
mittee and the city engineer to investi
gate and report
Next came the resolution which
brought mp the much discussed Egie-
wood sewer. The resolution called for
an extension Of the sewer from its pres
ent terminus on Camp street near the
Lincoln school building to belmont
avenue to the houses Of r. A. Walker
ard A. p. Abbott. Alderman Thurston
said that he thought the report Of the
street COMMITTEES made sometime ago on
this sewer extension was worthy OF con-
lie said that the commit
tee had reported unfavorably on the
petition on the grounds that they did not
think the sewer should 60 by the Camp
street route.
A discussion pro and con then started
between the mayor and Alderman Thurs
ton and it was an hour and a half be-
fore the council finally got around to
vote on the resolution. Alderman Thurs
ton said that he thought other routes
ought to be investigated and he thought
That the sewer should be run down
through the woods to Cliff street, a
shorter route he claimed than was Camp
street.
City engineer Reed stated to the coun
81 that he had investigated other routes
md be had decided that at the pres
ant time Camp street was the only feas.
hle route and as to Il being shorter
route down to Cliff street, he said that
1 was mu0i longer than Camp street.
The mayor stated that an appeal bad
leen made to the state board Of health
or this sewer and that the board had
been here and after investigation, had
ordered the sewer laid, giving the city
! certain length Of time to do it in or |
hey would lay it and charge the city
or II. Alderman Brown said that the
,oaFd came here and investigated and |
hey found other places worse than Edge |
rood but thew only saw iit TO order |
sewer for Edeewood which led him
o believe he said. that there was a |
rood deal Of a pull" connected with the /
question Alderman Rossi did not favor
he laying Of the sewer to benefit three /
iouss, when he claimed that there were
Of other houses needing the
ever.
The resolution as written by the may
II did not meet the approval Of Alder.
nan Wiley and tie city clerk, who said
hat they did not think it was legally
rawn up and at the suggestion Of Alder
nan Wiley, the clerk was ordered to
e.write il in legal form. After this
ras done, Alderman Wiley moved that
he resolution be adopted and Alderman
Gwen seconded the motion.
On the first vote the mayor was un.
eeided as to how it stood and called
Or show Of hands which disclosed
hat the motion was carried by vote
I 4 in favor and three against. Alder
nan Thurston, Rossi and Brown voted
gainst the motion and the mayor voted
Or il with the other three aldermen.
A 80 Year Lease.
A proposed lease Of the common"
roperty by the Congregational church
ociety to the city for term OF 90
ears at yearly rental of $40 q year
nd the city to pay the full aomunt Of
he rent, 5000, in advance; at the ex-
ration Of the lease. the society to give
full legal title Of the property on the
.eeipt of $40 Alderman Thurston
hought that the way the lease read
was not quite plain. He said that ID
luld be interpreted to mean that the
ty was to pay only $40 each year
nd not the lump sum. That this might
E remedied the lease was referred back
) the city attorney.
Other matters transacted at the meet
e were the granting Of permit to
D. Taft to erect chimney on a
ouse at 70 Washington street; the ac-
,pting Of the report Of the oYerseer
the poor for the month Of July whic
iowed that he had paid out SS70.9G
SO that he had received sll0.S2 from
mother town for money paid out IN
lpport of family which the city did
It legally have to support; petition
II the changing Of the location of the \
rect light on Spaulding street near G.