The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-04-28


themselves. Mr.. Theriault thought
! the amendment made at the sugges-
| ton of Mr. Senter, would cover all
the objections his clients might have,
but at the same time he did not wish
! the other parties to understand that
the Moody & Almon Company agreed
| to the contract or would sign II as II
stood. They felt that they had rather
rely on the provisions of their fran
/ chse, as granted by the city of Mont
| pelier than on this agreement.
With this understanding, it was put
on record that all parties to the
agreement accepted it as it stood and
would attach their formal sigma
lures.
The next matter taken up was
that of what part of the whole work
should be undertaken this year and
differences of the hearing. The COM
mission felt that the first work should
be done at the places where most
needed, which they found to be in
this city, with the exception of two
crossings in Barre Chairman Red
mond asked for opinions as to how
much it would be fair and right to
ask the companies to do this year,
put in matter of miles and sug
gested four miles as the amount As
an instance of the greater need of
work in this city, Mr.. Redmond stat
ed that on Bailey avenue, within a
linear distance of 200 feet, the spec
ifcations call for the removal of 26
poles. He stated that the expense
would fall mostly on the telephone
companies and the Consolidated and
Vermont Power Companies, so he
asked the representatives of these
companies for their opinions
J. f. Davidson, for the electric
companies, said that they have been
allowing from five to seven per cent
for maintenance of the overhead work
and as this is heavy allowance for
this work, he felt that they would be
willing to allow something like
$4,000 for the proposed changes this
year. He thought this should be ex-
pended on State street to Main street,
Main street to School street and Barre
street to Granite. This would be
something less than four miles.
Mr.. Jones, in stating the PROPOSE
ton of the telephone companies, said
that they understood that the prime
object of the whole matter was to ell
inmate the dangerous places in the
system, not matter of taking down
poles or wires There are some pla-
ces where high potential wires cross
the telephone lines and these situa-
tons are fraught with danger in
many ways. He regarded these as
being the pieces which ought to be
taken are of first. He did not want
, to be construed as arguing against
any other company or trying to put
an undue burden on the electric COM
panies, but he understood the object
to be the doing away with danger.
Chairman Redmond asked Mr.. DAY.
idson what he would call a fair sec
ton to change this year and he re-
toned the fact that two miles of work
would cost $4,000. Mr.. Davidson stat
ed that the work he had outlined
would be about fifth of the total
in this City. The Commission's eX-
pert set the cost per mile, on the av-
erage at 500, this being what any
one company would have to bear.
! This he called 9 liberal figure for the
! work. Mr.. Redmond said that he did
not want to impose any hardship on
anyone, but he was inclined to favor
this city and the adjustment of the
high tension crossings in this city,
in Barre and between. This would
be some Ii crossings and the chang
ing of 81 poles near the Three Mile
Bridge, on the MiddleseX road. Mr.
Jones asked if it would not be poss-
ible to divide up the work, so that il
would not all be on the lines of the
Consolidated and Vermont Companies
At this point it was apparent that
the parties were not getting together
on the question, so Chairman Red
mond asked the parties to step into
an ante-room and decide on some
agreement. A - minute recess was
taken while they were out.
On their return the agreement ar.
rived at was stated by Mr.. Sargent
TO be as follows: Four miles to bC
changed in this city in the next five
months. as follows: State, East State
Barre, Mortified, College, Elm anC
Main streets to School street, Will
the crossings. If the streets men
toned will not figure up four miles
the residue is to be picked out il
the worst places remaining.
Mr. Davidson objected to the rem
dition of the agreement He said tina
the matter of crossings and the Thre
, Mile Bridge changes was not men
toned at all. He understood Mr.
/ Sargent to say that he regarded thes
, as not as important as some othe