The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-06-18
Paving Job on North Main
Street Awarded to Daniel
O'Connell e Sons
BECAUSE OF GORE CO.'S
FAILURE TO FILE BOND
Council Last Night Adopted
Usual Fourth Of July
Restrictions

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failed to deposit the required bond after
having been awarded the contract to
lay LOO ineal feet of paving from
{ Granite to Blackwell streets the coming
: summer the city council in regular SEES
/, sion last night reseinded subsequent
motion giving the contract to Gore q
Co. and awarded it to Daniel 0'Connell
4 Sons of Holyoke. Mass, whose bid
was S22 ,906. 1t was stated by the street
committee that Gore & Co. had been
given three extensions of time in which
to file their bond, that they had failed
on each occasion, and that a second
award would be necessary. The bid OF
I0'Connell & Sons was accepted only aft
er long discussion.
The first hitch came over the choice OF
words in annulling the motion OF May
l27. which awarded the contract to Gore
& Co Alderman Patterson moved that
the motion "be declared null and void"
owing to the contractors failure to de-
post the bond. There appeared to be
| division OF opinion, for others thought
! the word rescinded should be introduced.
The dilemma was presently settled when
Cty Attorney +. H. Scott was called
| to the council chamber He advised that
the motion incorporate the councils de-
sire to have the motion in question de
clared null and void, rescinded" and
called off flor good measurel. Both
| lexicogra phieal wings of the council hav-
| ing been thus humored by a compromise
construction, the motion went through
in jig time.
Next came the question of making a
new award. Alderman Bancroft moved
that the contract be awarded to O'Con-
nell & Sons. Alderman Dawson would
consult the next four bidders below Gore
Il Co., with a view to securing a reyi-
sion OF figures, or to see if they would
still stand by their sealed bids as for
warded to the clerk. Alderman Patter-
son favored Alderman Bancrott's molten.
and the clerk proposed that the five
lowest bidders be interrogated as to their
willingness to adhere to their original
figures and to ascertain If they would
revise their estimates. Alderman Hoban
thought all bidding firms should have a
fair deal without discrimination. Alder |
man Keefe spoke of referring the mat
ter to the street committee with instruc-
tions to confer with the competing con-
tractors
Alderman Patterson finally asked for
yea and nay vote on the motion made
by the member from ward 3. The out
come was as follows Yes-Hoban,
Bancroft. Patterson, keefe, Brown, May
Or Ward; no--Dawson. Afterwards
motion was adopted authorizing the
street committee to accept the bond of
O'Connel & Sons and to execute the
contract The original conditions made
when the contract was advertised will
obtain in the agreement with the Hol-
yoke contractors.
To the police committee was reported
the protest of citizen that one of the
regular policemen had used undue press
ure in removing him from the sidewalk.
The report was made by Alderman Ban
croft and the protestant was instructed
to reduce his grievance to writing.
Fourth" Restrictions.
The aldermanic. fire committee brought {
in a detailed report and recommendations Il
dealing with restrictio rs to be placed on ,
the Independence day observance in I
Barre. The report was accepted, and it c
was voted to have the recommendations
carried out The report constituted a /
set of rules and regulations for the sale J.
md discharge of fireworks, as follows: |
'We would recommend that the stor r
,ge, sale and firing off OF the following i
Sinds of fireworks be prohibited: Fire. a
,rackers containing chlorate of potash,
,r other high explosives. fire crackers
arger than five inches in length and one
neh in diameter, pistols. canrons, canes
II other appliances using blank cart Y
idges or caps containing chlorate of
,otssh mixture, cartridge exploders and
orpedoes larger than three-quarters of
n inch in diameter, and all caps or eN
,losives usually laid on the streets or "
ar rails. Flash powders not to be per- y
nitted in any one place in greater guam I
ity than fifteen pounds. No permit TO y
e granted for the sale of fireworks NJ
{ wholesale or retail, until the chief of u
he fire department or his authorized it
gent has Inspected the premises and lu
ecommends the same to be granted by
he city council. The setting off and sale -
t fireworks at retail shall be limited to D,
he following hours: From l2 a. m. al
uly to II p. m. July 4. And we co
.ould urgently ask of the people to use ne
,ery or,1 nreeau,;on in the discbaTge Of anv an
nd all kinds of fireworks. so that
reat deal of the danger to life and
NIB may be eliminated. and the chiefs
+ the fire and police departments are A,
erebv directed to see that the fore ~
ping rules and regulations are rigidly
lforced"
City's Health. m
Statistics furnished by Health Officer Ir
r. \. II. Woodruff in his report for May co
ere a. follows: Births. %; contagious W,
seases-measles :. whooping cough ; PT
.aths reported. Is, due to the following tn
uses: Apoplexy, accident. oonsump- tei
on. meningitis, gastritis, measles. old
re. peritonitis. premature birth. suicide. "a
arasmus. still birth. each; pneumonia pit
burial permits issued :; for tran
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The health officer reported that the scs
yner of two houses on Warren street
ID failed TO comply with his orders we
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