The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-06-19
PRESENT PLANS
TO REMODEL
TIE CITY HALL
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side Of the building just back Of the wa
ter departments office. Plans call for
the establishing of jury and witness
rooms. Space in the rear OF the build
ing will be given up to Offices and work
i rooms for the civil engineer and street
] department 1t is proposed to transform
the Office Of the postoffice into meet
ing place for the school commissioners.
board OF health and cemetery commits
sioners. Floor space now occupied by
the city court will perhaps be changed
| into an Office for the assessors and in
the same section of the building, small
rest room and lavatory for women will
| be established No action was taken
ON the draft presented by the city en-
| gineer and the matter was left open
for further discussion and consideration.
Before the real business of the ses-
sion began, the city clerk read the fol
| lowing warrants f0i the week +, b.,
| Cate, services as assessor, $3.50; Mar
| tin Riley, services as assessor, $3.50;
street department payroll for week end
| ing June Is, S696.05; water department
payroll for week ending June Is, S94.0S;
FIRE department payroll for week ending
June Is. 1881 police department pay
roll for week ending June Is. S76.4G;
G. A. Bemis services as janitor for
week, Sl4. The warrants were ordered
paid.
Disposal of Garbage.
City Clerk Mackay read the street
committees report on the disposition
OF garbage and it developed that the
members of the committee had conferred
with authorities in Burlington and North
Adams, Mass in regard to their system
of garbage disposal. The committee be-
lieyed that the sum of 81 200 per year
would cover the cost of systematically
removing garbage from the main streets
and residential districts and also thought
that $500 would be sufficient to give the
city a thorough cleaning next spring.
Owing to the lateness of the season
and the fact that grass had covered
many of the unsightlv places and rem
dered removal difficult, it was not deemed
wise to put a system in operation this
year. Alderman Patterson moved that
the report be accepted and the mem
bers Of the council sustained his mo-
ton
Later motion was passed instruct
ing the legislative committee to draft !
a tentative ordinance To cover the in
PRODUCTION of a system of garbage col |
lection. II was evidently the senti- /
ment OF the meeting that the matter |
should not die a natural death and that /
when the favorable time came next /
spring to institute some kind OF sys- /
TEN, the council would be prepared to |
act
The committee on streets reported |
that an investigation of the lighting |
facilities on Park, Elm and Cambria
streets had been made and the mem
bers were moved to recommend that an
additional tungsten light be placed on
each of these streets. The water com
mittee reported that the proposed ex-
tension of the water system on Camp
street would call for 900 feet OF 6-inch
pipe at a cost Of 81 900. The yearly
revenue from the extension would
amount to SS5. The committee recon-
mended that the extension be carried
out and stated that two residents and
one property owner whose house was
i'll process of construction would use
the water. a letter from f. H. Deavitt
of Montpelier stated that S25 would be
paid by property owners on the Averill
tract toward the yearly revenue. Al
derman Brown was inclined to object
ON the grounds that the council had
refused to extend the system on Grant
avenue. Alderman Dawson believed that
every encouragement should be given TO
builders. The report was finally ac-
cepted and the recommended tons ordered
carried out. The license committee re-
ported favorably on the petition Of John
Cayhue and A. j. Guthrie for a lunch
room license and the request was or
iered granted.
Superintendent II. +. REYNOLDS of the
water department handed in his report,
which was accepted. The report of the
overseer of the poor, read by the clerk,
stated that $50326 had been disbursed
for the care of the poor in Nav. W. b.
Stephenson had turned the sum of SS4
over to the overseer and the money
lad been paid to the city treasurer
The cash on hand totaled S63.63 Over
seer w. f. Shepard's report was ac-
,epted and ordered filed.
Building Inspector George Rand re-
ported favorably on the following appli-
'ations: A. W. Badger, to build bay
window and extend chimney at % East
,rn avenue; A. H. Wilkin, to transform
cement house at 81 Maple avenue into
lwelling house; Merlo Bros. TO change
vail of store at 81 North Main street
darr & Gordon, to reshingle stoneshed
md Office on Granite street and to build
IN addition, one story high and 9xl2
eet in dimensions; Moses Laramie. to
,uild veranda at 20 River street. AL
erman Ward moved that the request
f Merlo brothers be referred to the
ire chief and committee on fire, that
he request of Mr.. Laramie be refused
nless he promised to remove post
ear his residence from the street, and
hat the remainder of the petitions be
ranted. The motion was carried and
he permits ordered granted.
City Engineer Reed and the street