The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-04-28
CITIES BALK
AT EXPENSE
Barre and Montpelier Speak
Up at Hearing
ON THE DODGE CROSSINGS
Barre, Says city Attorney Carver, Mighl
Be Willing to Put in 81 900, and
Montpelier Would Share Equal
" in the Expense.

When the Vermont public service com.
mission met at the grand jury room
in Montpelier this morning to hear the
lpetiti6n Of TIE seleetmen Of the town
of Berlin for the abolishing of the TIVE
grade crossings On tie Montpelier &
Wells River and the Central Vermont
railroad at Dodge's bridge, between
this city and Montpelier It opened a
most spirited debate between some
twenty Or twenty-five citizens and Of
lfcials Of Barre and Montpelier, as The
llatter communities have been called on
TO assist Berlin ia sharing the town
lpoftion Of the expense.
City Attorney Carver Of Barre stated
bis municipality has nineteen grade
crossings right ii its own confines
which ought 70 be abolished before Tile
city il compelled u assist another town
10 abolish a crossing several miles out
lof the city He Thought however. that
Barre might BE willing to put IN ST.,
600 toward the proposed change. which
/ is quite extensive embracing not only
the aholishing oi the two crossings but
tne building of considerable strip Of
Highway
AT the same time Montpelier doesn't
want to pay more than one-third Of
the expense IN fact, it thinks that
Barre and Montpelier should share the
iburden alike il the burden Is 70 come
on other communities than the town
where the crossings are situated J0nn
4 III sentar as citizen of Montpelier op-
posed the demand on Montpelier to
share ID the expense as Montpelier has
q Aumber oi grade crossings which are
/ far more dangerous than the Dodge
crossings He mentioned the Three.mile
bridge and the Tabor crossings
Two sets Of plans were presented for
consideration one prepared Isl Il. A.
Walker with 4 two pen cent gfaae and
costing from S50,000 to 100000. and one
bY Engineer Morrison 81 the Central
Vermont calling for a FIVE per cent.
grade and costing approximately $4,000.
County SuperyisoF Of Roads r, s. Cur
FlN II Barre said he thought The people
of Barre would oppose amy such grade
as that propoed III tie Morrison plans
Ihe aicnwsloH *as adjourned foF tie
noon hour and was resHned again this
afternoon. The part which Barre ana
Montpelier object % in tie proposition
Is for each Of the three communities to
share the expense according to their
grand lists. leaving Berlin with much
smaller amount
Hearing On Changing Wires.
THE commissions hearing yesterday
afternoon on the changing Of overhead
wires il Montpelier and Barre resulted
in the matter going to the commission
for an order as the interested parties
were not ahle TO agree on what work
should he done, although all of them
were of tlrp belief that wires should Be
changed to make less danger The NeN
England and Vermont Telephone and
Telegraph companies. the Orange County
Vermont. Moody & Aimon and CORY,
DeaYitt 4 Frost electric companies were
represented They had reached vir-
tual agreement but 1T TIE hearing there
was Disagreement as to what work
should he done Mst
Chairman Redmond Of the commission
stated that he thought the greatest need
was III Montpelier with two bad wire
crossings n Barre also in the same da.
gree of danger To the public He sng
gested that the companies cnange fuur
miles Of wires this year, and as the
greatest expense VIII fan on the teie.
phone companies and the Consolidated
and Vermont power companies he asked
their representatives as to their opin
ion Mr. Davidson for the electric com- |
panies Thought that an allowance Of
$500 bv his companies for this year
would be fully heavy enough Or some
thing less than four miles. and that the
work be done on the principal streets
of Montpelier
Matt B. Jones for the New England
and Vermont telephone companies
thought the work onght to be done
where the greatest danger lies. ana these
places, He thought, are where high paw
er wires are near the telephone wires
When It was evident tne parties could
not agree the commission took the
point ID dispute into It's own hands and /
viii make an order where the work shall /
be done frst
The matter 81 supervisor for the
work vas next brought up and Nh. Dav. I
idsou suggested that G y. WI Jarvis.
engineer for the New England cons
pany, be selected and this was agreed I
to. Nr Jarvis win have general charge
Of the work but in case Of dispute viii +
refer matters to the commission aud
their expert
II IS probable that the order for the
work when ssuea, will demand cer
tain work this year and further state
thar annual hearings viii be held aud
orders issned It wis suggested and
agreed that the time be Six months IN
stead Of hYe, making the limit Novem
ber Mr.. Redmond stated TINT the
order would undoubtedly require that
all permanent poles ID the cities BE
painted, the color specified probably be
ing green. such as has been nsed to
some. extent.