The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-09-11
Barre Election Officers Petition
the Board Of Aldermen
BECAUSE WORKED ALL NIGHT
They Stated That the Night Service In
capacitated Them For Their Occu-
pations the Following Day
Election Bill is S4so.

! For twenty-seven hours continuous
service, which, of course, included one
night, the Barre election officers want
extra compensation because they were
incapaeitated for their occupation on
the day following the night service dur
ing the recent election. This came out
at the regular meeting of the board of
aldermen last night when the ward clerks
presented petition in behalf of the
ward officers The election officers
began their service at 6 a. m. on the
morning of Tuesday, Sept. 2, and were
not released until a. m. the following
Iday, when Richard Grigg was elected
city representative.
| When the petition was read before the
aldermen, it was asserted that the
| finance committee had already approved
| bills for most of the ward officers GOV.
ering the 27 hours service, at 30 cents
an hour, or $50 each; and that in
asmuch as there were sixty ward Off
GERS, the total cost of the election was
1886 an amount greater than three ordi-
nary elections. That amount looked
rather large to the aldermen, as it was;
and, moreover, they were not certain
that they had right under the char.
ter to grant allowance over and above
that spent in the actual service. New
ertheless, they voted to refer the mat
ter to the election committee to inves-
tigate and report.
More fat-footed was their action on
the petition of certain residents of Aver
iil street for concrete walk on the east
etly side of that street, the street com
mittee recommending that action be de-
ferred for another year because OF the
great expense already undergone for side.
walk construction and the board con-
curing. On the ground Of lack of le-
gal liability, the aldermen refused to
grant damages to Robert Troup for in
juries sustained when his horse stepped
on surface sewer receiver and was pre-
eiptated in the receiver until it stuck
there. City Attorney Scott rendered
opinion that the city is not liable. His
report was accepted and placed on file.
Another damage claim which the al
dermen thought they We're not liable fos
was that of Mrs. Isabella ID. Smith, who
presented bill for $50. the amount be-
ing claimed because of damage to her
grounds at the corner of Elm street
and Eastern avenue when the water in
Potash brook set back as it failed to find
an outlet through the Summer street
ellvert last Easter Mrs Smith includ
ed in the bill an amount for cleaning
ont the opening of the culvert. Although
they thought the city was not liable,
the aldermen referred the claim to the
street committee to investigate and re-
port.
1t seemed that the meeting was all
claims or allied matters, because Alder.
man Dawson asked opinion whether the
city could be forced to remove obstruc-
ton to water and make repairs on pri-
vate land in the north end where brook
threatened to do damage. The opinion
was expressed that the city could not
be holden, and there the matter rests.
However there We're a few matters
besides claims considered by the alder
men One was the payment of the
weekly warrants, the number being sur
small The bills were; street
department, s393.Sl; water department,
S9273; fire department, S76,72 police
department, sS3.a6; city hall janitor, Sl4.
On recommendation of Building In
spector Rand permit was granted Merlo
Bros to build an extension to low
building on North Main street, and on
of the license commit
tee that the application was all right,
the aldermen granted pool room IL
cense to Joseph Merlo on North Main
street.