Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-03-18
ICE Ordnance AMENDED
Winters Harvest from Lake
Champlain Can Be Legally Sold.
Samples Analysed N state LebOratOr!
and Found to lie All Right-TwO
Amendments 10 City Char
ter Favored.

meeting Monday night and transacted
large amount Of business. including the
adoption Of an amendment to the city
ordinances regarding the sale Of ice In
the city, which seems to settle. in
satisfactory manner. the problem which
has arisen. Resolutions favoring two
amendments to the city charter were
also passed and were sent to the I-esis-
lature Tuesday. In addition to thesf
the stone crusher project was brought
M and disposed Of SO far as the board
can do so.
The matter of tho cty's supply OF ice
occupied the larger part of the evening
and resulted in changing the ordinance
so that 1t provides that no ice shall be
harvested and offered for sale to private
houses hotels, or restaurants II II Is
| cut inside, Of the breakwater or east OF IA
line drawn due south of the south end
| Of the breakwater or inside Of line
drawn from the north end OF the break
| water to the north end of Cranes dock
The ice which has been questioned has
all been Gu, outside Of these limits
| except some which has been cut off the
| chon,,I.i, TRANSFORMATION company's
u.h,rr aud u.bitb ia 70 be used solely for
| ,,la storapo ,urnoses and is kept i'm IL
| sanora,e too house
| Dr T. " Scars of the hoard of health
| wos mn hand and said that some COM
| nlairts had hecn received bv him to the
| erfect that tn. Consolidated Ice company
vas cutting leo inside the limits allowed
~, ~. c,tv ordinance He wished the
! hoarl +o taL, Some action which would
| ro,i.vo tbe hoard of the responsibility
, of allovin,, this to he done or else. ac-
cord,np to law they must enforce the
ordinance ,yhicb wound mean that tho
larp, barves, of ice could not be used.
! 1I.altb OFFICER Nolan was called on to
,.atit,. and said that no had visited the
,o,i,rs nlaces where loo uas being har
/ vested and had taken sa,nples which had
been analyzed at the state laboratory
of hygiene. The report had been that
ton bay by the Consolidated Ice com
pany was excellent. as was that cut off
Oak Ledge by Oliver Ouimette The Ice
cut near the wharf OF the Champaign
Transportation company was inferior to
that cut 1T the other places but was not
poor.
Doctor Stone. director of the ratorH,
SAID mat ice cut AZ the north ehd OF me
'"H was j." MS es'i,''"''"" "o''''. VI '"e
| ,al., n, ,,o.., h,s ri,,io. %, ~,
! ,,,,,.s;s ,,o. of ora ~ tu.o .,,,,,,. but
NJ several burdreds u. nointad ont that
wb;Io the CURRENT in +be lake az q rule
was north in R,r,ins%o,, hay i, ,vas south
| az tho water swirled around when il met
| Rock Point. There was no sewage north
Of the ice which was being cut and there
| was no source Of contamination He
would rather by far have 1t than ice
which was cut little way outside of
the bvcakwater farther south.
Tho board directed City Attorney Sher-
man to draw up an amendment which
would cover the case as has been related
before ana TINS was unanimously adopted.
WARD FIVE ELECTION MARCH 80.
Tn. nev, ,uo+,er which CANA ~, u,s
I'm connection with the sp.cial cIec,ion
! Tn he hold March 90 for ,h. o,c,tio,, of
an alderman in ward five. On account ot
the short time which has elansed sine,
! the last election ONLY one meeting for the
revision Of the check list will he held
and the city council will meet for this
purpose at I'D on the evening of March
"a.
STONE CRISfIER AND cP1-sI1rr
STONE
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finally accented and nI.csd nm a., n[
the matter referred back to Ia rect
commissioners, with power to a,i The
aldermen were of one accord regard
ing the sale of the crushcr, but Alder.
men Grafton, Reynolds and Boucher
ing an agreement to buy stone of Mr.
katter at 81 per ton instead of o.
cents. as had been previously charged
Alderman Kieslich also thought tina,
it was wrong to tie up 10 such ar
aSrccmeu even for one year and
thought that stone should he bought
ut the cheapest place in the market
The resolution to refer the matter
back to the street commissioners was
passed by yea and nay vote, Alder
men Walker. Hall. Iamson. Crane ant
Dwyer voting in favor of ii and Alder.
men Reynolds, Grafton, Boucher an,
Kieslich opposing 1t. The proposal i.
to sell tho crusher TO Frank Rafter fol
$500 and buy 1000 tons of crushed
stone OF him this year at 81 per ton