The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-12-10
Prospect Hill Is First Part
of Village to Receive
Needed Attention
BLOCK SYSTEM is
BEING FOLLOWED
Practically Every Number Will Be
Changed Future Growth of Vii
tory Being Made at Same Time.

Representatives Of tile III A. Manning
company Of Springfield. Mass. have BE-
gun renumbeliing the houses in the vii
| lage, through an arrangement with the
| village commissioners as previously an
nounecd Two employees Of the company
are engaged In the work. anG ii /. cx-
pccted that others VIII come The work
necessarily Is slow and the length OF time
| that viii be required in completing the
task depends on the amount Of help the
extent Of opposition on the part at prom
crty owners and various other things
such the absence OF owners and the
necessity Of correspondence
The Manning company publishes the
city directory, and the numbering OF the
houses viii be done ia connection with
the gathering Of data for the directory 81
| 1911 f. H. Robbins a representative
Iof the company. has been in town several
days conlerring with the commissioners
and looking over the ground. doing some
preliminary work on the 1914 directory
The houses on Prospect hill will bc
numbered first, and the two men now
engaged arc working on streets there.
hey have finished Pearl street and by
tonight viii have about finished Thomas,
Washington and Prospect streets
ndcr thc system which they arc fol-
lowing which is he block system and Is
Iappovcd by the commissioners, practical
~ every house viii have a new number.
as provision win he made for the future
growth ot the village For instance: Ii
a certain house Is numbered | and there
is another house or building site in the
roar the next house on that street viii
not be numbered ,. hut allowance will be
made to} the rear lot Also, AT the inter
section al streets a block of uumhct>
VIII b. omitted Then if the houses bc
tween one intersection and another
should toe removed and a business build
ing erected in their place with the On
frances nearer together the rc-numhcln-
would affect only the street between tn,
intersections. as extra numbers could b,
nut in without regard To those hcyon.
the intersections. Unlimited growth i
thereby provided for.
! The representatives. have several differ
ent STYLES OF numbers with them. rangIn.
in price from 10 cents to - cents but II,
one Is obliged 10 buy those numbers The,
are at liberty to procure some Other de
sign SO long as they comply with the vii
lage ordinances and the post office depart
ment The owner OF tenant may sclec
amy style carried by the agents and hav
= them put on Immediately Where pay
meut Is refused the agent is authorize,
: hy the commissioners TO serve notice o
: the change of number and aiX a three
E inch aluminium number The owner Wi
: he prosecuted in each and every ease fo
I failure 10 have the number designate
!, put on his building and j. liable to a fin
/ Of 81 and the expense Of putting on In
a number. as per section 1 of Chapter q
: the village bylaws.
f The directory this year Will contain TIA
: towns Of Gmlford. Marlboro, Putne,
q Dummerston, Newfane (including WI
4 iamsyillc) and Ilinsdale, N IT,. for a
of which Brattlchoro is a trading centc
The new numbers on the houses WI
: be used in the directory Of residents {
we'll as in the numerical house gtid
business directory blocks. building
8, halls. etc. making the 1914 director
s. very valuable as an every day nece>sit,
4. and the publishers promise II will be So
= ond to none in the state.
= Tie II a. Manning Go. are puhlishe
Of many town. city and county dircctori'
in New England and New York stat
= also publish maps and are contractors f
r numbering streets, wards, etc. for mnr
re cipalities and post office delivery, havn
| covered recently Turner's Falls, Mass, Al
# Thompsonvillc and Enfield, Conn.