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cost is assessed upon the landowners
whose properties abut on the streets
sprinlded.
Answering questions, he said that
in Montpelier streets are sprinkled up
ON petition of a majority Of the land
owners who express preference for wa
ter or oil. The city owns four teams
and each is charged up to the expense
at the rate of $3.50 daily with driver.
In Barre the work is done by town
teams, but in Greenfield it is let bv
contract.
Henry P. Wellman then offered the
resolution which was finally adopted.
| Col. Estey moved its adoption. Ernest
y. Waterman called attention to the
/ fact that the resolution did not say
whether the work is to be done bv vii
| lage teams or others. 1t was pointed
out that the resolution called upon the
commissioners ''to arrange for the
/ laying of dust.
! George L. Durham wished to know
! if Mr.. Richmond had discovered
whether street railways elsewhere paid
anything toward the sprinkIing of the
streets and was told that they did not.
| Col. Kittredge Haskins wanted the
resolution to read landowners or oc-
cupants' so that if a landowner on a
street did not live there the occupant
of the property could join in the peti-
ton for sprinkling with authority.
! George l.. Durham expressed his dis
taste for oiling the street upon which
he resides and inquired about the pref
erence part of the resolution and this
was read once more.
DR.. Henry Tucker conceded with the
view of Col. Haskins and believed that
the petition should read "a majority
of residents of a street instead of
majority of landowners.
Commissioner John 7. Kaine pointed
out that there are few streets upon
which a majority of the residents do
not constitute a majority of the land
owners. He favored the resolution as
it stood.
DIR. Fremont Hamilton said he knew
something about the cost Of watering
streets. He said that the village should
vote either to water or to oil all the
streets for if section was oiled and
other sections watered the cost of get
ting from one to the other would be
prohibltlve. He cited the case of
Green street, where some of it was oil
ed, and, because of the expense in get
ting over that section not to be wa
tered, 1t was necessary to abandon the
sprin king of Western avenue. AMI
high street residents we're forced to
have oil for the same reason He said
there are streets in town where %
cents for sprinkling cannot be raised
when the actual cost is 50 cents.
The resolution was then put and
there was not a dissenting vote.
Article ;, to see whether the village
would vote to raise money for the pur-
pose in addition to the amount raised
lat the regular meeting. was passed ov-
er after Chairman Richmond had said
that the commissioners did not recon-
mend raising any additional funds.
Under the head of other business Mr..
Richmond called upon Agent Bailey to
tell what he knew Of the elm leaf
pest. Mr.. Bailey said that it is a seri-
Gus proposition for the elm shade trees
and that IN few years they would
be killed by the pest which is now be-
coming very preveant here The chief
remedy for this pest is spraying with
arsenate of lead with power spraying
machine. The town of Bennington has
recently bought one for $3.50, and be-
sides spraying the trees of the town
private trees are sprayed for con
slderatlon, he thought 81 each for full
sized tree. Two men are required for
the operation of the sprayer, one to
handle the engine and the other to
climb the trees and handle the hose.
Mortified has a machine which cost
either 5000 or $3.50. He thought that
machine might be sufficient for use
here.
In answer to questions he said that
the same machine could be used for
spraying for browntails. The elm leaf
beetles in the spring are very destruc-
tlve eating clear through the leaves
while the larvae eat the under side
only. A tree that has been three times
partially stripped of its leaves will
die
Col. Estey said that he could zorro
borate the statement that the beetles
were here in large numbers as he had
found that they were damaging trees
on his property. He had arranged 10
have them sprayed, but that would be
ineffective unless other trees in the vii
iage are treated in the same manner.
Mr.. Durham considered the matter
very important and offered the motion
that the street commissioner be author
lzed and instructed to purchase at once
power sprayer and arrange for the
spraying of the elm trees of the village.
the sprayer to be used ON private trees
by request and upon payment of the
stipulated price for its use The ma
chine tn cost marc ,h4-o