The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-06-17
Declares Barre City Coun-
Gil on Propose acrease
Of z >mss are
sNss
IN-4DE CITY LIMITS
IT MUST BE 5 CENTS
City Clerk Instructed to Call
Corporations Attention
to Stipulation

The first formal protest against the
! proposed increase of fares on the street
car line of the Barre & Montpelier Trac-
tion & Power Go. on July s. next, as an
nounced by the company, was made by
the Barre city council at its regular
meeting last night when the city clerk
was instructed to call the attention OF
the company to the franchise under
which 1t is operating in the streets OF
Barre and by which the fare inside the
city limits was fixed at five cents ride,
The action followed the appearances OF
a deputation from the Central Labor un-
ion which desired to know what the city
was going to do about the matter.
The deputation asserted that it consid-
cred the city of Barre the proper agent
to bring formal protest against proposed
increase of rates inasmueh as it was the
city that had given the corporation the
! right to operate in the streets of the
city; it also desired the city to use its
/ influence against proposed increase of the
workmen's tickets, so-ealed, from two
and onehalf to three and one half cents
| per ride. The members Of the delegation
also asserted that an official of the cor.
/ poration had told them that a recently
promulgated ruling by public service
commission twhat state they did mob
know had given the right to raise fares.
Several members of the CITY council,
! replying to the latter presentation. de-
elared that no law or order could give
the right to raise fares inside the city
Of Barre contrary to the stipulation of
the contract entered into between the
corporation and the municipality when
the franchise was granted: moreover,
/ that the franchise still compelled the
company to grant a five-cent fare inside
the city limits. 1t was also declared
that n similar franchise was given by
| the city Of Montpelier.
| Then followed some desutorv talk by
the council and visitors regarding the
| possibility of the corporation charging
five cents inside the limits of each citv
and then charging two cents extra in
side the limits of the town of Berlin,
through which the line runs, in order to
bring the total fare up to the proposed
IL cents. Such speculation eveutuated in
nothing except to confirm the council
and visitors in the belief that the city
has no legal control except as to the
fare charged inside the bounds of the
municipal corporation.
Therefore, acting under that belief, the
council merely ordered the clerk to make
formal representation to the traction
company regarding the stipulation of the
franchise as to the fare inside the city.
Parking" Autos on Street.
All the talk at the meeting was not
expended on trolley fares, because
great deal was said pro and con the
rights of automobile owners to cause
their cars to stand on the streets, wheth-
er North Main street or jefferson street.
or any street for that matter. Before
the matter had been exhausted as sub
jeet for controversy, Grand Juror Wish
art and Chief of Police Sinclair had been
invited to express their opinions.
Grand Juror Wishart said he had not
been looking after that phase of the au-
tomoble question because any action il
action there was to be. would have to
come through the city rather than
through the state. For his part, how.
ever, he could not see any objection to
keeping cars on the side of the road Oh
jefferson street unless the practice be.
came a nuisance.
Chief Sinclair said his attention had
been called to jefferson street by reason
of complaint of resident there who
said he sometimes couldn't get up to his
own door because of the presence of an
there. The chief of police
said he had gone over to Jefferson street
and had counted as many as Is cars
Is,,aI . bo rralo5l, I'D bn
times had seen an automobile stopped
in the middle of the road with men tink-
ering over it. This latter was in reply
TO a query from Alderman Cook if he
had seen any cars halted except on the
side of the road.
In behalf of the practice of Keeping
on the edge OF the road, it
was stated by some members of the
that most of them were driven
in bv outsiders who wished fairly
handy place to keep their vehicles while
they were shopping attending the ''mov
les" or going to the "legit" theatre. IL
also was stated by those same defenders
1f the practice that they could see no
larm i'm putting the ears on the side of
street like that named after the inn
mortal Thomas jefferson so long as traf-
ic was not impeded or the practice did
rot become a nuisance. There the mat
er rested, no action being taken.
Fourth of July Regulations.
That another Fourth OF July has rolled
round was evident when proposed re- I
friction of the celebration was taken up f
" the council-but little time was spent
N this matter because il was conceded
hat the regulations of last year regard
ng the sale of celebrating material wers
o satisfactory that they could not be
improved on this year. Therefore, the
anne set of regulations was adopted.
With Alderman Keefe limiting that il
ooked suspicious 10 see an Englishmsn
making the motion to curb the celebra-
ion OF the independence of the Upitej
,tates.
Transfer of Land Authorized.
The mayor. who by the way, was abe
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