The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-01-25
Receipts.
sass.0ss.5a
Disbursements.
S38s,Oss.59
Fire Escape Exits on Schoolhouse.

Considerable routine business was
transacted and batch Of annual reports
from different departments were also
read and ordered printed in the annual
city report at the meeting. Alderman
Brown reported to the board that the
exits in the school rooms in the Math-
ewson school building to the fire escapes
were very poorly arranged. He said
that he and the board Of health and
the fire chief had been investigating the
conditions, as complaints had been made,
and they found that the exits to the
escapes were through windows, and the
bottoms of the windows were so high
that il was practically impossible for
the smallest children to climb out OF
them, and also that the windows were
so low at the top that the children's
heads hit in going out
He said that some different arrange
ment should be made, and they had
thought that steps could be erected be-
meath the window stills by the removal
of two desks which are nearest the exit
windows, and the windows could be
made higher by removing the transom
which Is at the top Of each window and
extending the window The matter was
referred to the chairman of the health
committee, the secretary of the board
of health and the fire chief.
Water Rates at Stonesheds.
The water committee presented re.
port recommending a raise in the water
rates charged for air compressors and
polishing wheels. The committee recon-.
mended that the rate for polishing wheels
be raised from $40 and So to SIS, and
on air eompressors from SO and Sc to
$40 and SIS, according to the capacity
and water running to waste. Alderman
Wiley stated that at many of the stone
sheds the water, after going through the
compressors, was run through hose into
the polishing mills and it was this
feature that the committee wanted to
eliminate, as in this way the hose had
to be left running continuously, and the
firm was charged only for water used
in the polishing mill, whereas they
should be charged for both.
He said that there were AZ air com
pressors in use in the city, and of these
only ii were paying water rentals, and
the eleven amounted only TO S45 a year.
He said that this new scale of rates, as
proposed by the committee, would make
a total gain in water rentals of S943 a
year. The aldermen objected to the
clause relating TO water running to
waste, in the report, and the report was
referred back to the committee for cor
rections
Building permits were granted to F.. A. I
Drown to enlarge two front windows on
the second story Of his block on Main
street, and to c. A. Heath to erect a
twostory piazza at 100 Washington
street
The committee on lights, to whom was
referred the petition for an extra street
light on Brook street, reported that they
would recommend the changing OF the
arc light az the corner of Brook street I
and Maple avenue TO the opposite corner /
of the street. which would meet all the /
The report was accepted I
on motion of Alderman Wiley, and the |
ordered carried out
The street committee and the city en- /
gineer reported in regard 70 the paying
Of damages to A. j. Stewart and Alex I
Corey for an approach TO the temporary I
foot bridge on Prospect street, that they /
found that Mr.. Stewart had misinformed I
the council in regard to the boundary 4
lines between the Corey property and the 1
property which Mr. Stewart rents, but /
they considered be had done 50 unkuow
ingly The committee considered that I
the $40 which the city IS now paving I
SIR Stewart for the approach % the
bridge was enough for ai'ethe damages,