The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-09-16
TO ISSUE
$4,000 BONDS
City Preparing to Raise the
Money to Pay for the
Spaulding Addition
WILL SELL BONDS
WITHIN STATE
Poor Department Expendl-
lures Questioned by
Aldermen

| Preliminary steps toward the issuance
of $4,000 school bonds were taken AZ
the regular meeting of the board OF al
dermen last night, when the clerk read
resolution incorporating provisions LOT
the preparation and sale OF bonds IN
units of $500 or 81 900 to be dated Oct /,
1914, and to expire at the end OF ~
wears. The bonds are TO cover the cost
of the new Spaulding high school annex,
| funds for which were authorized at two
special city meetings. To the sum oil
S22, 500 appropriated at meeting req,
! ~. 1918, was added $4,000 at speclal
city meeting on the oath of last April.
| II is proposed to fix 4 per cent rate OF
| interest on the bonds and to reserve iof
the city the right to call in or redeem
them at par on any interest bearing date
within the next 90 years. If the sug
pestions included in the resolution are
carried out. there will be departure
from the customary plan OF having the
issue duly certified by trust COMPANY
| 1t Is reported that an effort will be made
to sell the bonds within the state
Only a small amount OF routine Gus
! mess was transacted. In the waning
| light OF building moon that has seen
the erection of at least three large build
Iings of public or semi public character
well under way, the inspector presenter
sizeable list of building applications
for approval Permits were ordered
granted in the following cases Central
1 Vermont railroad, to reshinge building
at AZ Prospect street; G. E. lnduni, TO
erect annex to house at 40 Pleasant
street; Paul Pierson, TO build garage
annex at 80 Patterson street; i. q. How
land. to erect dwelling house on Ire
mont street; Mrs. Mary Zaneoni, to
build an addition to business block on
North Main street; Louis DeBlois, to
erect an addition to plaster shed on West
Second street; Thomas Laurie, to build
shed annex on South Main street; Carlo
Merlo, to reshingle piazza on hranlte
street.
Once again in the councils OF the ad-
ministration arises the question OF econ
omy in the poor department. Oyerseer
Shepards itemized report for August
was brought up and on q motion it was
voted to dispense with the reading OF
the account. Alderman keast, however,
noted bill for 1926 credited to the city
| farm and raised query as to whether
the support of 10 persons in single
month justified an expenditure of Sl2H.
He averred that a good many families
of 10 in the city are worrying along on
less than that sum and that closer
scrutiny of departmental requisites
might bring about a reduction Chair
man Cook of the charity committee hap
pened to be an absentee and so no one
present was really qualified to explain
the reason for the 1926 notation. Some
one suggested that sickness at the farm
might account for the expenditure and
someone else offered the supposition that
winters coal supply might be con
cealed somewhere in the report. On the
motion of Alderman Bruce il was voted
TO ask for an itemized account OF city
farm expenditures for August and that
such an account be compiled at the end
of each succeeding month.
Apparently the street committee was
imbued with desire to sugar of a
budget of overdue reports, for number
OF recommendations and departmental
doings were recorded in reports offered
for approval. According to one of the
reports the East street extension side
walk is now in good condition. Another
recommended a cement sidewalk on
Washington street when the money is
available In third report reference
was made to the location Of several
guide boards in different sections of the
CITY. Yet another noted a discovery OF
protr,ldinp stones on Elliston street and
recommended their removal. Reporting
on request for repairs on Newton
street, the committee recommended that
the abutting property owners be asked
to paw one-half the money necessary Tor
improvements and that the city accept
the street on the completion of the work.
Repairs on Pleasant street, as petitioned
for by property owners in that vicinity,
have been made, according to a commit
tee report The committee of the whole
reported the completion of repairs on
the so,ltherly side of Washington street
and also recommended that the proposal
to string the water main along the
Blackwell street bridge be tabled for
a time because of the expense incidental
to such a project. A special committee
appointed by the mayor reported that
satisfactory contract with the baiTS
Citizens band for concerts IN the sum
mer Of 1914 had been signed. All Of
the foregoing reports were accepted and
ordered fled.
Chief Sinclsir's police department re-
port for August was read as follows
and accepted: Total number Of arrests.
2s; offenses. intoxication, Is; search and
seizure, 2; selling liquor Illegally, 2;
breaches Of the peace, 3 operating autos
without lights in the night time. 2;
gambling, I; operating auto in negli-
gent manner,l; non-support !. The
chief also reported a number Of street
lights found not burning on saerited
nights. Chairman Bancroft reported a
conference with c. L. Bugbec in which,
ne claimed. the latter assumed an eva
sive attitude when questioned % 10
whether he had secured building permits
for the erection Of certain lumber sheds
Of Keith avenue The chairman said
he carried the matter 20 the city attor-
iney with instructions to make q more
thorough investigation. He did not an
ticipate ANYTHING but an amioahle settle
r,ent ~ fhe sunnosrd differences be-