Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-04-28
VILLAGE REPORT.
Facts and Details OF Randolph Cor
poratlon for the Year.

: poration for the Year.
The annual meeting OF the village o
Randolph is to be held next Tuesda
evening in the high school room at Z g
O'Clock, when the affairs OF the corpora
tion will be set forth in detail by the va
rious officers.
The fire department has now three com
panes with is men each-Hose company
No. l, Hose company, No. 2, and the Hool
and ladder company, whose foremen are
respectively, r. II. Slack, B. A. Durke,
and Fred Bryant. The three engineers
N. G, Buck, j. B. Fisk and L. o. Thayer
bring the total up to as men.
Chief Engineer n. c. Buck and Fire
Wardens j. b. Fisk and Pred Bryant re
port that they have made the usual inspec
tions and found conditions the same az
usual-ashes kept in careless places, care.
lessness in regard to chimneys, stoyepipes
and caps, which in every case they have
ordered fixed in compliance with the viii
lage bylaws. 1t seems to the wardens as
4 though the people waited every year to be
| told to attend to their premises, when, as
matter OF fact, each owner or occupant
of house ought TO see to II that no fire
could possibly start from defective chin
ney or dangerous disposal OF ashes.
The department has been called out
four times in the year, once to a slight
blaze at the foundry, to Bell Brothers
store, the Lamson block on Merchants
Row and the Holman house near the COW
cred bridge. The different companies
have worked in harmony and have given
excellent service with the apparatus they
have, doing as well or better than compa-
nies in places three times the size OF this.
The fire department has cost the village
S622.9O, of which S1ss.25 went to the
Hook and Ladder men, $780, .25 to each of
the Hose companies and f94.15 to the
chief engineer and waEdens. The cost OF
real big fire can be imagined when it is
known that the burning rag which called
the department to the Holman house two
weeks ago occasioned an expenditure OF
s39.75
Street Commissioner F. L. Dudley has
expended "a, 1882 in. the year past, as
against "a, 1919 the previous year. Out
Of the amount spent the commissioner
graveled South Main street hill, Central,
School and Forest streets. II is not too
much to say that the sidewalks were never
maintained in better shape than during
last winter.
Aside from the ordinary business OF the
water department, the commissioners
have repaired and refined the large reser
voir which was leaking badly. The res
eryuir isnow as nearly water-tight as il
can be made without complete rebuilding.
The cost Of the work was approximately
s29s.62. A concrete gatehouse with iron
roofing has also been built at the large /
reservoir for s35.7s.
The Forest street pumping station has
been completed. and reservoir and engine |
covered with substantial houses to pro- |
tect the water from impurity and remove
the danger resulting from an open storage |
vault. The cost was s61S.11.
bout 9. 900 feet Of the branch supply 4
pine kom the TilsOn Fiat bridge to the
Damon Spring junction has been relaid.
The old two-inch pipe was too small to
convey all the water above II most OF the
year and had given trouble winters BY
freezing. The cost OF repiping was e., 500.
With the larger pipe it viii be possible to
bring in several more springs, and two
lew ones have been piped in. One OF
hese was in the Zeno I. Paige pasture,
lear the BrRintree Hill branch pipe. and
vas bought for s1OO, the cost OF piping
being $50 more. The other spring is situ-
tied in the pasture OF II. V. Fletcher, near !
be Morse pipe line, and has been taken !
n on trial. s
Last July, following the resignation OF ]
:. L Clafin as superintendent, an ar /
angement was made hereby the serv- t
ces OF F. L. Dudley were secured for the {
ifferent departments Of water, street and :
ever his salary OF 1000 to be borne 7
nua llv by them, Tt bap hSor fo,rd - ,,,,.t I
dvantage to have practical man like MIR. i
dudley, who could give his vi hole time to Q
be work, and especially is this true in 4
be water department since the death nt y
|. w. Mcintyre, who gave so much serv- {
le freely in this way-a thing his sucses- "
1rs cannot do. Mr.. Dudley took charge J
most Of the new work last fall (all OF a
after he camel and has made house-to-
ouse canvass and record Of the water k
Tstem. He has worked hard, put in cl
neh extra time without charge, and the v
Jard is pleased to commend him. Il
The commissioners believe that coed Il
'rings should be added to the system as a
st as they can be secured at not too u
'avy an expense. In dry times when al
rings lower or fail, there is still a hI
lance OF shortage, and the growth Of the
llage and increase in service warrants Gil
ise oullays in this direction. The COM
issioners are unanimous in the opinion fe
at the present rates should not be low pl
ed for the reasons that the system Is =
caring out and needs relaying that il Is
L yet psid for, there being $4,000 OF
nds remaining that must be taken care
at the rate of 81 900 year, and because
e rates are now lower, service for serv
J, than those OF any city or village in
rmont. u would seem safer to wait
til the system is actually paid for be-
e cutting down rates already the low
anywhere.
The water report follows:-
RECEIPTS.
IN water rates collected, sS35ss3
= ~ materials, 1851
vice % a hydrants. 5000
ck per inventory. SSH
les collected BY =. I. Clafin. f7-sQ t5l08 s5
EXPENDITURES