The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-11
City Refused to Retl, Daniel
0'ConneII Sons Check
TILL END OF NEW CONTRACT
Same Firm Is to Do Paving Work About
the New Aldrich Building and the
City Square--other Matters
Up Before Aldermen.

AT the regular meeting of the board
Of aldermen last evening, the city clerk I
stated that since the meeting of the
city council last week he had written
TO Attorney G. w. Writers of the Cen
trail Vermont railroad and inquired if !
the road had made any definite arrange
ments in regard to bringing a test case
before the court on the question of the |
assessing for taxes Of property owned /,
by the road and if so, if the case
brought was under the same conditions I
as in Barre The clerk then read let (
ter from Mr.. Writers, replying to the
clerks letter, in which the attorney
stated that there had been no definite |
move made to bring case up in court |
but that there We're some towns where
the conditions We're the same as i'll ),
Barre that wanted the courts decision. !
Mr.. Writers asked the clerk to send !
him a detailed statement of the con
ditions here, and the clerk said that !
he had done so. The clerk also said !,
that he had written to the state com
missioner Of taxes in regard 60 the mat ,
ter but had not vet received reply. (,
r. S. Currier appeared before the,
board and stated that the village of Wa I
terbury wanted to hire the city's road
roller for week or ten days to roll /
gravel road which the village is put
ting in. President Thurston said that
the city was not in need OF its use
now as far as he knew, aud on motion
Of Alderman Wiley, the matter was re-
ferred to the street committee with
power to act.
Building permits were granted to Mrs. /
William Conner to erect hen house at
l2 Cottage street; Ida Pearsons to re-
shinge ell Of house on Elmore street; Mrs.
Mary Hoar to repair barn on East
street; c. D. Carpenter to build piazza
at 2S West street; w +. Lazelf to cover
roof of house with galvanized iron, and !
A. G. Coffin to erect a dwelling house
on johnson street at the head Of Frank
lin street.
The resolution appropriating the spe- I
cial school tax of S3,2llT4 to the sup.
port of the evening drawing school was !
read for a second time and adopted. !;
The clerk stated that complaint had /
been made by people, who attended the
lecture in the opera house Sunday even
ing that the Prospect street exit doorsi
of the city building We're not unloekedi !
during the evening Alderman Wiley
OF the property committee said that the
janitor had been instructed to see that
all exit doors were unlocked wheneverl
the opera house was in use. and he
thought that the ianitor must have for
gotten about these doors on that night
The matter was referred to the prop
cry committee.
The clerk said that the deeds TO the
city by G. W. Perrin and Ida ]. Mar
tinson of land occupied by Perrin street
had been corrected and executed.
At the request of the clerk, the abut-
tiers connected with the river change pre-
sented two bills, one for Sl3s.50 and
the other for Sl2S.25 to be charged upi
to the cost of the change, and they were,
referred to the finance committee
Residents on Farwell street wanted to
know why the sewer which was pc
titioned for on that street some time
ago and voted to be put in, had not
been put in. President Thurston said'
that the street superintendent had heenf
50 busy with other matters that need
ed his attention and his workmen that
he had not been able to get around to-
it, but would be at it the last of this
week.
A communication was received from
Daniel O'Connell Sons, the contractors
who put in the recent paving on North
Main street, requesting that the cer-
titled check, which they deposited when
the contract was let, be returned to
them now that the work was complet-
ed and found to be satisfactory. Pres-
dent Thurston said in regard to thist
that he had talked with the company's
agent here and had made arrangements
to have the check remain as a bond for
the completion of the work which the
contractors are now doing at the city
square.
Alderman Brown said that the Colnm-
bus day dance committee wanted per-
nit to hang a banner from the bal
cony on the front of the Rowland block,l
and the alderman moved that the per-,
nit be granted and that it be extend
ed to any one wishing to make similar.
decorations for the day
The motion was carried.
President Thurston said the the ladies't
federation wanted to have a highway
laid out in the passageway from Highs
land avenue to Elmwood cemetery. The
president said that there was no chaneel
for highway there as the passage is
only about II feet wide, but if they
wanted a walk laid out he could see no
objections to that being done. Alder
man Wiley said that he thought that
a walk was what the federation want
ed, No action was taken.