The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-07-24
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| ALDERMEN HALT ACTION
They Decide to Look Place Over as &
Committee of the Whole--Minor Mat
ters Were Also Considered at the
Board Meeting Last Evening.

Routine business occupied the atten.
tion Of the aldermen at the regular meet
ing of the board last evening, and the
session was of short duration. Alderman
Brown presided and the following eity
warrants for the week were ordered paid;
street department payroll $4S5.74; wa
ter department payroll, $9I.53; fire de-
partment payroll. S76.D6; police depart.
ment payroll, S7s.46; George A. Bemis,
services as janitor, $l4.
Relative to the condition of the side.
walks on franklin street, resident Of.
that vicinity, Mr.. Coffin. appeared and
complained of the condition in which
the walk was left after heavy showers.
tic declared that several times during the
present season the walks were rendered
impassable by the rain and that pedes-
trlans were compelled to walk in the
road. The earth from the dirt walk. he
said, washed away down into fremont
street from Franklin and Beacon streets.
corrugating the Franklin street walk
with deep ruts. On the motion of Alder
men Mcleod, the matter was left with
the street committee with instructions
to investigate and report
In a report concerning the sanitary
conditions in the stonesheds near the
Central Vermont station, the health com
nittee told of investigating the section
mentioned and reported that the -nealth
officer had been instructed to confer with
the several stoneshed owners with view
to improving the situation. ID will be .
recalled that attention to the conditions
existing was first called by Eugene Sui
livan, who appeared before the board last
week.
What is perhaps the last chapter III
the matter OF grading property belong
ing to Mrs. c. Bianchi on Granite street
was read when the street committee ne
port recommended that the bin presented
by n. NJ. Nelson, a Merchant street con-
tractor, be returned to Mrs. Bianchi.
The committee reported that Superin.
tendent DeBrune had accomplished ali
the grading work required of him by the
city and that Mr.. Nelson's bill for grad.
ing about the premises should be met by
Mrs. Bianchi.
In second report, the street COM
mttee recommended that Perry & Serb
ner be permitted to extend their water sys-
tenn into the house at the corner OF
Mount and Academy streets. owned by
the W. A. Boyce estate
The report of the building inspector
included favorable recommendation on
the following applications to build. ex-
tend or improve: w A. Lane, to cover
a shed over betting extending from stone
shed to polishing mill on Burnham's
meadow; c. Fl. Kenerson, to inclose pi-
aSZa on Church street. ID. NJ. Miles Coal
Co., to erect woodshed near coal shed of
Smith street shed to be covered by fire.
proof roofing and inclosed by latticed
sides; f. Lucchina. to build piazza and
cut door at Cambria street Alder.
man Ward moved that the report be ac.
cepted and the recommendations carried
out, with the exception of the applica
tion of the d. NJ. Miles Coal Co., which
was to be left with the fire committee
to investigate and report. The motion
was carried.
Chief of Police Samuel Sinclair made
his report for the months OF Nav and
June, the number of arrests for the for,
mer exceeding the latter by IA and bid
ding strongly for the record in police
court circles. The 80 arrests of MAY
were classified as follows: Intoxication,
%; keeping illegally, 4 selling illegally,
Z; search and seizure, o; larceny, 2
adultery, 2; non-support, 3. Charges in
the June arrests were divided as follows.
Is; keeping illegally, l.;
selling Illegally 4 search and seizure,
3; violation of city ordinances, l; breach
of the peace, II; lewdness, / violation
Of weights and measures laws, |. The
report was accepted and ordered filed.
The committee on water reported il
bad inspected the Orange reservoir as
recommended by the city engineer and
found that the filter should be removed
and that the old plank fume should be
replaced by one of concrete. The esti-
mated cost of these changes would be in
the neighborhood of 800, and other
repairs necessary at the reservoir would
bring the total up to $500. On mo-
ton made by Alderman Rossi and sec
1nded by Alderman Dawson. il was de-
'ided that the committee of the whole
,hofld inspect the reservoir and agres
ipon the wisest course. Superintendent
4. +. Reynolds gave his report of the
water department for the month of June.
md the report was accepted.
Before adjournment. the matter of
building a sidewalk near the Trow &
Holden property on South Main street as
Urged by w. NJ. Holden, member Of
he firm, was discussed, with the result
hat the street committee was author
zed to investigate and report. Chair
nan Rossi of the fire committee invited
he members of the board to be present
i the demonstration of the auto fire
rucks Wednesday, and adjournment fol
owed.