The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-28
HERE AND THERE
ABOUT BARRE

municipal custom in the city o
Hamburg, Germany, might well be COPIED
in cities of the United States Barre
for instance. 1t is the custom which
DEGREES that no cuts may be made il
the pavement of a street without d
special permit from an official depart
ment, the building department in Ham
burg, which reserves to itself the right
to restore the street or sidewalk to It's
former condition at the expense of the
parties interested This manner of do.
ing business is said to be followed by
several American cities to their decided
advantage.
How often the street pavements OF
Barre are dug up by public service cor.
poratlons and replaced in the easiest
and least expensive manner! 1t is not
at all difficult to trace the worker OF
the despoilers-in wet weather by noting
the accumulations of water which fiji
the depressions; in dry weather by the
uneyenness of the surface of the road
or sidewalk. Rarely, if ever, are the
streets or sidewalks restored to their
former good condition, probably because
the city does not insist that they be re-
stored as they should be restored.
Here, then, is reform movement
which ought to be insisted on by the sue.
cessive city governments-that whenever
permission is given to corporations or
private persons TO dig up a street or
sidewalk, the person receiving such per-
mission shall replace the street or side
walk in as good condition as it was
prior to the digging.
BY the way, the new cement filed
granite pavement on North Main street
has come out remarkably well this
spring, so far as casual observation
shows; and the road is as ready for
the heaviest traffic as it was in the first
year of its laying.
Another feature which commends the
new pavement is the comparative noise
lessness of it-not that it is to be com !
pared with wood block pavement for
quiet traffic, for it does carry more or
less of rumble. In comparison with |
the old granite pavement on other parts |
of the same street, it is like a PRAYER |
meeting against whole brass band.
Indeed traffic at times is so heavy I
over parts of the street near city hall
that it is almost impossible to talk in
stores and offices near the street, while
is conducted with great
If ever that pavement has to
De torn up, it ought to be replaced with
granite having filing similar to that
Ised on the northern end. And Barre
will show its faith in all the other quail
ties OF granite for street pavement by
lsing the product from her own hillsides.
the noise, there is none bet
er. {
When particular quiet is required OF II
II evening in the vicinity of the city lc
all, it is necessary to station police. +
reaches in order to divert traffic to II
he less reverberating streets, just as /
! sometimes done during commencement d
xercises in the opera house. u
Strangely enough, however, there was 8
o complaint OF noise in the opera house a
t the recent appearance OF the Boston u
pera Co. singers; and that was an v
ccasion when noise would have been n
nnoying to performers and audience 7
like, for the hall was as quiet as /
ountry churehyard with the silence Il
roken only by the voices of the sing a
rs. The intense interest of the large ii
udience was shown BY the marked at p
,ntion given the singers; the drop OF CT
pin would have been audible as far pt
, the carrying powers of such a light G
Instance. ii
tc
Indeed, the opera house mice became W
treasured by the stiffness that they II
ept forth from their hiding places and U
,gan Waiting up and down the aisle, m
the discontinue of various ladi lie