The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-24
City of Barre to Receive
That 49,, !, for the
~ dst Year
,eN
REPORT WAS MADE
TO THE ALDERMEN
Several Sprinkling Assess
ments Were Abated
Last Night

This year the city is to receive S500,S6
as its share of the gross earnings of
the Peoples Lighting. Heating & Power
Co. for the year ending July /, 1913.
The sum is the two per cent. stipulation
made by the city when it granted
franchise to the gas company a mum
Der Of years ago. The statement of the
company was received by the auditors,
who were authorized to append their
signatures BY the board of aldermen at
its regular meeting last night.
Month by month, the company's gross
earnings were as follows: July, 1912,
S2,Il945; August, S2.30373; September,
81, ,4O947; October, S2,4O0.25; November,
S2, POI .33: December S207S.05; January,
1913, S2,056.SS; February, Sl,9s4.5l;
March, $l,73s.40; April, Sl,77S.70; May,
81, 2,l37.45; June, $ls35.l6 The total
gross earnings reached S25043.3s.
The board came together at o'clock
and less than an hour was consumed in
transacting the weeks accumulation of
business. Alderman Hoban was detained
from attending Steps are to be taken
early to award the contract for printing
the annual city report as soon as the de-
partmental reports are in after Jan. !.
The matter was brought up by Alder
man Patterson. 1t seemed to be the
sense of the meeting that the newspaper
advertisement for bids should specify
that the work must be done under un
ion conditions. IL seemed that a hitch
in the procedure followed in past years
had sometimes led to belief that the
reports were printed out of the city and
not always in a union shop. Alderman
Patterson moved that the matter of ad-
vertising for bids be referred to the
printing committee. The motion was
adopted.
Members of the street committee were
asked to consider the grievance of Park
street residents living between Averill
street and Eastern avenue intersections.
The residents of that section claimed
they had been assessed street sprink-
ling tax for sprinkling that was never
done. Chairman Patterson said that the
assessment would be withdrawn 1t was
also moved to abate the assessment lew
led on Young, Phelps and Glysson for
sprinkling the South Main street hill
just south of the bridge. 1t transpired
during the evening that the property be-
longing to the three men was of no value
and that they We're receiving little if any
benefit from the sprinkling. For the
same reason. one half of the assessment
levied on the w. A. Boyce estates prop
erty on the other side of the highway
ascending the hill was also abated.
Overseer W. T. Shepard of the poor
department rendered his monthly ac-
count of the departmental finances and
the report was accepted when read as
follows: Cash on hand Nov. l, Sl19;
received from the city treasurer Nov. 6,
$500; paid out for support of the poor
during the month, S79276;, balance.
Ss.43. The clerk read a communication
from a Boston bond house offering the
city three and one-half per cent. bonds
due July l, 1922, for S94.35. There
seemed to be a disposition to buy but
sparingly of bonds and the communca-
tion was laid on the table. Building
Inspector Rand reported favorably on
the request OF Mrs. Mary Alexander for
permission to build piazza on her
Branch street house and on his recon-
the permit was ordered
granted.
Warrants ordered paid were as fol-
lows: Street department payroll, $751;
93. streets, surface sewer. sidewalk,
bridge and culyert and health accounts;
water department payroll, S46.4S; fire
department payroll, $s229; police de-
partment payroll $685. G. A. Bemis,
Sl4, for ianitor work at city hall; Sl305,
labor; Colvin & Perkins, 1877, repairs;
John H. Johnson, S.645, labor; f. /.
Smith, S479.s7, cemetery trust funds;
S24l 81. Elmwood cemetery commission
,rs, trust funds; S326l5 Hope cemetery
,,.asa4 90
Quarry Savings Bank & Trust Co., in
terest on sinking fund; C. B. Gladdng,
chairman of the park commission. $4,000,
10 meet expenses of the commission:
'ity treasurer, $37lS, water rebates.