The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-06-06
To AbutterS on the River Bed
Back of Main Street
WORK NEARLY COMPLETED
City Council Arranges Another Assess
ment to Cover Cost of Work Thus
Far Accomplished-A Lively
Tilt at Meeting.

i IN winch tue clty COUNCIL usuailg
grinds out its routine business oc-
Cured at the regular meeting last even
ing when a slight tilt arose between the
mayor and Alderman Thurston over
report of the street committee, of
which Alderman Thurston is chairman,
relating to petition for permanent
sidewalks on Orange and Liberty,
streets The street committee re-
ported that they found that the peti-l
tion for the walks complied in every
respect with section 0, chapter III. Of
the city ordinances, excepting its ad-
dress This was the full text of the
report, and Immediately after it was
read Alderman Thurston moved that
the report be laid on the table and his
motion was seconded by Alderman
Rossi
The mayor asked what the commit
tee meant by "its address" None of
the committee answered and the mayor
said that IL was evident that the com.
mittee did not want to enlighten him,
aud he then asked the clerk to read
the section of the ordinances referred
to- The reading of thee section re-
yealed the fact that the petition, which
was addressed to the city council,
should have been addressed to the street
commissioners The clerk said that the
I blank form, on which the petition had
been made out, was the same as had
been used for the last ten years
that he knew of, and there had
never been any different ones. The
mayor then Intercepted Alderman
Thurston asking him why he did not
explain the situation if he knew it.
"If you knew the ordinances as well
as /, YOU would know what the ex-
ocption was" replied the alderman.
The mayor then said that he thought
it was foolish piece Of business for
the committee to try to sidetrack the
petition on a little technimlty like
that. He said the committee was not act
ing honestly in the matter, and that
they either ought to report fayorably
or unfavorablv on il The mayor then
put the motion to lay the report on
the table and it was unanimously ear
ricd
The River Change Cost.
The city clerk stated that it would
be necessary to make another assess
ment on the Barre Railroad company
and the abutters to meet the expenses
of the river bed change, and he also
stated that at the request of the rail-
road lie had drawn up an approximate
estimate on what the cost would be
to complete the work He said that
there had, up to May |, been paid out
for labor and materials, etc, S26,6l47l,
and for land and damages, S13,3OO, and
that it would take S24 900 more to com
plete the work, or 2l IL per cent OF
the total estimated cost $4,000 These
figures, if they prove to be nearly cor
rect, he said would bring the actual
cost of the work up to S83,Sl4, and
lclt of this there will be taken 81 1000
Which was obtained from the sale of /,
land which was secured in the exchanged
OF property making the total cost
about $57 900 or $4,000 less than the
original estimated cost which was set
at $4,000
On motion of Alderman Wiley a res
olution was adopted, calling for an
assessment on the railroad of 22 per
cent of the estimated cost The clerk
said that 90 per cent of the estimated
cost had already been levied and that
this last statement would make 4
total of S2t per cent, levied on the
estimated cost The clerk stated that
the work would probably be com
pleted BY the first of next month.
Miscellaneous Matters.
/ L. L. Smith of the cemetery COM
lnissioners appeared before the council
in regard to laying out the entrance to
Hope cemetery, the work on which,
he said. was already under way. lie
wanted permission to lay tiling to
drain oil the road and the grade of
The road established The matter was
referred to the street committee.
Homer Fits wanted permission to
start work erecting an auto barn in the
reqr of his residence before building
permit Was granted as he did not want
to wait q week for the permit. He was
told 10 consult the building inspector.
The license committee reported that
they had investigated Abram Aliens re-
Quest for am ice cream parlor license
and recommended that he be granted
license On motion of Alderman Rossi
\ the license was granted
The following building permits were
ordered granted; Hattie J Mcfarland
70 erect a barn on South Main street;
p. Negroni to erect a chimney on his
baker building and TO Philibert Lemay
to erect barn on Perrin street.
4 written request was made by Rev.
liz. W. Barnett in behalf of the Bap-
tist. Methodist and Congregational
churches for permission to hold open
air services in the park Sunday even
ings during July and August, On mo-
ton of Alderman Brown the request
was granted.
Regarding the question of sprinkling
French street, which has been before +
the aldermen for the last two weeks,
Alderman Thurston reported that he
had consulted two residents of the street
and one of them said that he
had no objections TO the street
being sprinkled with oil and that
this man said there was only one per-
sen on the street that he knew of who
did object to oil. The second man
said that he did not want oil under
any consideration and he was Of the