The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-11-30
While Two We're Against
Proposition Last Evening
$45,OOO AMOUNT OF ISSUE
Citizens, by Closer Vote, Refused to
Ask City Council to Revise Sched-
ules in Various Departments.
Considerable Talk Offered.

One Of the most poorly attended func-
tions Of the many in town last night
was the citizens meeting in Miles hall,
where thirty-s seven men adopted reso-
luton to bond for $45,000, in order to
refund the city treasury on money ex-
pended for the Orange brook reservoir
and also turned down resolution re-
questing the city council to revise the
schedules Of the police, firemen and la
borers In the street and water depart
ments. The FIRST vote went through with
only two dissenting votes, while the
wage resolution was downed by vote
of Is to q.
It was ridiculously small gathering
which Clerk Mackay called to order
shortly after o'clock, but they prompt
~ went at their work, first electinc f. L.
Langley as moderator City Clerk Mac
kay then read a resolution embodying
the ideas of the council regarding the
bonding proposition. which was to issue
bonds for $4,000 dated December. 1910,
principal and interest payable at the
city treasurer's office, coupons of 81 900
and endorsed by the Old Colony Trust
company OF Boston; also authorizing a
temporary loan Of S45,000, or parts
thereof
Clerk Mackay explained that the total
amount expended on the reservoir was
S45,020, and S. D. Allen moved the adop-
tion OF the resolution.
After the balloting on the proposition,
the tellers, d. J. Sullivan, John Melon
old and II. G. Woodruff, counted 35 votes
in favor and two against bonding.
The Wage Proposition.
Under the section, to do any other
proper business, Alexander Ironside in.
troduced a resolution to request the city
council to revise the schedule of hours,
wages and duties of the policemen, the
iiremen and the laborers in the water
and street departments After that, Mr.
High Cost Of Living came in for some
heavy knocks from various citizens.
Down with the critter,n was the uni
versal cry, but there were different ways
of going about it, some by revising the
hour schedule downward, others by re-
yising the wage schedule upwards, and
still more were willing to let the council
do as il saw fit, trusting to its integrity
OF purpose.
Among these latter was S. D. Allen,
who said he didn't believe in grinding
down the city employees. but he wanted
to pay them only what they were worth.
He referred to some city teamsters driv-
ing so slowly about their work that you
couldn't get moving picture of them.
DO YOU want to pay 'em Si q day."
demanded the speaker Evidently there
was some doubt as to the wisdom Of pay
ing that or less, as the succeeding vote
showed John Nicholson also spoke
against raising wages, and he declared
that some OF the speakers who desired
to raise the wages were only poll tax
payers or thereabouts.
There was considerable speaking in
behalf of the resolution Mr. Ironside
championing it, declaring the policemen
We're getting only Sl3l4 week, which
statement was questioned by Peter
Muteb. and later corrected Dy Clerk Mac.
kay, who said they were getting SIS.
Mr. Ironsde also said the wages Of city
employees in Montpelier are higher than
in Barre
d. j. Sullivan was in favor of the gen
eral proposition of bettering the eondi-
tion of the city employees, and he ia
vored in particular, a reward for firemen
who remain in the department for five
years He said that wages of some of
the laborers had been scaled down from
= a day to Sl.75 which statement Al
derman Wlmam Brown disputed James
Cruickshank also spoke in favor of the
request to the council to revise the sched-
ules of the various employees mentioned
in the resolution, as did David J. Faux
ner, who said that he had been an official
for six wears and he believed they ought
to have it,
This was followed by ballot on mo-
tion Of James Adie. The ballot was
authorized only after a viva voce vote. f.
II resulted in the defeat of the resolu-
tion, as above stated and that wound
up the business of the poorly attended
city meeting.