The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-17
CITY is ADVISED
TO PAY CLAIM
Which Town of Northfeld Presented for
Treatment of ]. E. Dow in Mont
peier Hospital Four
Years Ago.

In the opinion of the city attorney,
any court of equity will sustain the city
in putting an injunction on the wall
near Elm street which j. p. Corskie
threatened to build a few weeks ago.
The opinion was recited in report
which the aldermanic street committee
made ON the situation at the regular
meeting of the city council last night.
The committee reported second inves.
tigation of the situation and reiterated
its belief that the water, about which
Mr.. Corskie and others claim to be both
cred, is only following a welldefned
course, a natural channel which existed
long before the city was chartered.
Furthermore, the committee, quoting
the city attorney, suggests that Mr..
Corskie would be liable to injunction pro-
ceedings the moment he starts to divert
the water to fremont street by build
ing the proposed wall. In finishing the
report, the committee recommends that
the city construct a surface sewer to
drain the surface water, the work to be
undertaken as soon as the finances will
allow. Meanwhile, the committee ex-
pressed hope that Mr.. Corskie will
be willing to wait until the time arrives
when the sewer can be built. The report
was accepted and the recommendations
ordered carried out.
Mayor Ward presided at the session,
and everyone was present at the roll
call. Less than a half hour sufhced to
transact the routine business of the
week. In honor of Alderman Bancroft,
ir., who arrived in town only few days
ago, the member from ward passed
the cigars around to the city fathers and
the press representatives.
Building Permits Granted.
Building Inspector Rand reported fa-
vorably on the following applications for
building permits, and requests were
granted in each instance: Guidici Bros,
for permission to build piazza at 39-4l
Beckley street; Cooperative Association
for Consumption, to erect coal shed
near Granite street; Leclair & McNulty,
TO repair building on Blackwell street.
The street committee reported that it
had granted the request of the Vermont
Tel. 4 Tel. Co. for a hearing to be held
in the matter of consolidating wires on
North Main street. The report was ac-
eepted. A letter from Tax Commission
er C. A. Plumley of Northfield consent
ing to the councils withdrawal of, an
appeal taken last spring from the ac-
cepted Interpretation of the l9l2-l9l3
tax law. was received. The communica-
tion was ordered filed. Alderman Brown
brought up the matter of cossting on
the streets, and on the motion of Alder
man Hoban it was voted to set aside
the same streets that the youngsters
used for sliding purposes last winter,
with instructions to the police to post
the streets and to enforce the order.
Alderman Calder of the fire committee
change in the lighting
system at the fire station, as a new
system suggested by lighting experts
would reduce the cost per light per hour
from l9Ac to 61hc. On a motion made
by Alderman Patterson, the lighting
committee was instructed to make such
changes as il secs fit.
A Claim Against City.
Alderman Bancroft reported the latest
ehanfer in fhe claim of the town of