The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-05-18
Health Officer M. D. Lamb
Gets $40 a Month
by VOTE OF CITY COUNCIL
The Members Discuss Sewers for an
Hour and Half and DO Not
Come to ANY Conclusion.
Other Business.


The chief business concluded by the
city council last night was the raising
Of the health officers salary from SIS
a month to $50, although that was BY
no means the matter which took up the
most attention The question Of sewers
was argued for an hour and i half, start
ing from the proposition to connect
Edgewood With the system, and at the
end the council was around to where It
started The COMMITTEES Of the whole
had recommended that the sewer be laid.
4 In March, the petition for a sewer
extension was first presented, and an
Investigation BY the street committee
was made and they reported that they
would not recommend granting the re-
quest at this time. Furthermore, the
committee stated in their report that
they did not believe that Camp street
was the right way to Sewer" Edgewood;
that IL should be by fremont street or
/ Currier street. and another objection to
the Cp1Ip street route was that there
was not sufficient grade and the sewer
on Camp street was not large enough
to carry the sewage from al Of that
territory. after II had been built up to
any extent This report 81 the street
committee was accepted by vote Of the
council at that time.
Three weeks ago. the residents Of
Edgewood again petitioned the council to
extend the sewer, and the matter WAS
referred to q committee Of the whole TO
investigate and report. They reported
last evening that they found the condi-
tions at Edgewood were very unsanitary;
that the sewage was run out onto the
ground and stayed there, and they would
recommend that the Camp street sewer
be extended.
In order to act on this report, Alder
man Thurston said that ii would be nee
essary to take vote to suspend the
rules, as they were taking up q matter
that has already been disposed Of once.
Alderman Hoyt then made motion that
the rules be suspended and on a vote
being taken the motion was lost two-
thirds vote being necessary To carry 4
motion to suspend the rules. and the
three members Of the street committee
voted against the motion. The report
Of the committee Of the whole. the clerk
said, had been signed BY q majority Of the
committee.
Alderman Hoyt then asked Alderman
Thurson, the chairman Of the street
committee, what his objection was to
having the sewer extended. and the lat
ter replied that he still stood by the
report Of the street committee made on
the first petition He said that he did
not believe that there was sufficient grads
across the fat from the ravine, and he
did not want to see the city get into
the same fix that it was in now with
the surface sewers on Liberty street and
vicinity where they were hothering be-
cause of insufficient grade. He had the
city engineers estimate that IL would
cost the city about So 800 to FIX those
sewers so that they would operate prop
erly.
lie also sid that there we're many
other places in the city that needed
the sewer. and where a good many more
people would be accommodated than at
Edgewood He said that he was well
aware that Edgewood ought to have
sewer but he did not think the oondi-
tions there were any worse than on Circle
and Division streets, where the sewage
from the whole territory was running
into the river. and the same conditions
existed at Jockey hollow and Hooker
hill Mayor Mutch asked the chairman
If these places had ever applied for
sewer, and the alderman said they had
not to his knowledge
Alderman Hoyt said he thought that
if these conditions existed in the city
1t was time something was being done
to remedy them. and be certainly should
say that the petitions for sewer should
be attended to first, and that other sew
ers should be then laid by the city with
out waiting for petitions to be made.
AS Ia there not being sufficient grade w
the Camp street route Alderman Hoyt
said that he had consulted the city engi-
neer on that point and the engineer had
Informed him that there was grade
enough, and that the sewer at the lower
end Of Camp street was large enough to
accommodate a settlement of ! 800 pe0-
pie.
The mayor said that BY holding this
sewer off the city was keeping that prop
erty from being built upon. He said
that he knew Of some houses that would ,
be built there this summer, If the people
could get the sewer, and he was confident
that there would have been a good many
more houses there to-day, if there had
been sewer accommodations. Aldermen
Wiley and Even also spoke IN favor Of
the extension being made, and said that
they could not see the grounds for the
street committees objections. There the
matter rested.
Dr.. NJ. p. Lamb, the health officer. ap.
peaFed before the council and stated that
he wanted a raise Of FIVE dollars a month,
for the reason that there was now
great deal more work in the office than
there had been before; that the state
board Of health was putting more work
onto him and the people of the city called
on him more than they had IN rae past
years that he has had the Office. On
motion of Alderman Thurston. it was
voted to suspend the rules and take No
the report Of the salary committee, acted
upon IN April, and change the salary 81
the health officer. and Alderman Hovt
moved that the salary be made $50
month"; to begin from June
The fire committee reported that they
had still been unable to get anyone to