The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-12
Village Voted Last Night to
Pay One-Third of the
Expense
ABUTTERS WILL PAY
REMAINING PORTION
WORK VIII Be Done Only ON Streets
flilng Petitions Majority to Choose
Between Oil and Water -Sprayer for
Village Trees.

Village Trees.
The commissioners of the VILLAGE
We're instructed by a unanimous vote
last evening at the special VILLAGE
meeting to arrange for laying the dust
On streets where majority of the
aouttlng landowners petition to have
= aohe, the petition to specify prefer
ence Tor OIL or water. This was done
after the leader of a small faction
present had moved to dismiss, but Col.
j. Gray Estey refused unanimous CON
sent to dismiss by objecting. The usual
MINOR objections as to the wording of
some phrase We're made, but not in the
torn OF motions, so the original reso-
lutlon was adopted as follows:
Resolved: That the commissioners
are hereby authorized and instructed
to arrange for the laying of the dust
on any street or highway within the
village limits upon a petition signs by
a majority OF the abutting landowners
| OF such street or highway, which pc
utloh snail express the preference of
such abutting landowners as to wheth
er water or oil shall be used in laving
the dust. The cost of laying the dust
upon such street or highway shall be
apportioned as follows: One-third of
the same to be paid by the village and
the other two-thirds shall be assessed
hy the commissioners against the abut-
ting landowner of such street or HIGH
way in proportion to the number of
lineal feet OF land which each abutting
landowner may own upon such street
or highway
how n
voted not to raise any money for the
purpose as the commissioners did not
Recommend any, and the meeting, af-
ter listening to Agent III. L. Bailey of
the state department of agriculture.
who Is in charge of the insect pes:
determination in the state. speak ON the
danger of losing elm trees from the
elm leaf beetle, promptly voted upon
motion OF George L. Durham to have
the street commissioner buy at once
spraying machine at cost not to
exceed $3.50 and to have the village
trees sprayed, the machine to be used
for spraying trees on private property
whenever individuals request it and
are willing to pay the stipulated price
Commissioner Solon A. Richmond
called the meeting to order with pos
sibly go voters present Judge A. F.
Schwenk was chosen moderator.
Article l called for the amendment
of section II of the bylaws recently
adopted, the change being the inser-
tion of the word ''special' before
meeting in order that the question
of street sprinkling might be acted
upon at the special meeting NJ. C.
Houghton read the section as amended
and Chairman Richmond of the com
missioners explained the change. Mr..
Houghton moved the adoption of the
revised article, the motion being sec
onded by Col. Estey A few votes
were heard against it and a voice
doubted the decision of the chair and
there were calls for a ballot, but the
chair merely replied that he had ruled
that the motion was carried.
Charles 0. Robbins said that he
knew that Chairman, Richmond had
made study of the systems of LAYING
dust IN other places and asked that
he explain them. Mr. Richmond said
that at the request of certain citizens
he had gone to Montpelier Saturday
and the city officials there had made
every effort to see that he knew all
they did about laying dust
There water is used during the early
part of the dry season and about June
/ the streets are oiled, water being
used again when the effects of the oil
have worn off. Last season it cost
Montpelier to lay the dust on six miles
of streets about 1892 One-third of
the cost the city pays and the. other
two thirds is assessed upon the abut-
ting landowners. In the residential
districts each landowner pays at the
rate of one cent a linear foot, while
on Main and State streets each paws
five cents a foot. This, he explained,
means that each abutter on both sides
of the streets pays that amount, to-
tai of 10 cents, and the city pays five
cents, making the assessed cost of lay
ing the dust in the business section Is
cent foot and three cent a foot in
the residential sections
In Barre the assessments are made
on the same basis except that on an
specially wide portion of Main street
the charge is six cents a foot. They
use more water and less oil in Barre
In Burlington is cost $4,000 last year,
that city laying the dust on a far
greater area of streets.
In st. Johnsbury this year the entire
assessment has been taken from the
grand list. In Greenfield and other
towns a portion of the