The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-03-31
Frank 0. Lee Becomes Wa
ter Superintendent and
City Engineer
OVERSEER SHEPARD
NOT CONFIRMED
Console ~ Of First Two
C,sw Planned to De-
crease Expenses

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Consolidation of the offices Of water
superintendent and city engineer, with
view to cutting down the expenses of
both departments, was effected at ses-
sion of the board of aldermen directly
after the regular meeting of the city
council last night, the mayors appoint
ment of Frank o. Lee of Burlington to
act as superintendent of water and city
engineer having been confirmed by
vote of four to two. Mr.. Lee succeeds
II. Il. Reynolds in the water department
and George A. Reed as city engineer.
Both of the retiring officeholders have
been in the service Of the city several
years.
Mr.. Lee is graduate in the engineer
ing department of the University of YER
mont and for the past four and one half
years he has been attached to the staff
of the city engineer in Burlington. Mr..
Lees salary in the joint capacities to
which he has been appointed is not an
nounced as yet, but it is known that it
represents a substantial decrease from
the combined salaries, $500, which the
city has been paying its water superin-
tendent and engineer.
Five other appointments were made by
the mayor before the aldermanic session
ended and four of them were confirmed
unanimously. The names of William
Wishart, A. b. Lane and L. C. Beck, APP
pointed to serve as grand jurors, were
confirmed without a dissenting vote, as
was that of John r. Cook, who was ap-
pointed member of the board of health.
Last week the other two members of
the board, Dr. J. w. Stewart and C. r.
oliver. received their appointments. The
sixth appointment last night, that of
w. +. Shepard as overseer of the poor,
failed of confirmation, the vote being
tied at three in favor of reappointment
and three opposed.
One Bid for Opera House.
One bid for the lease of the opera
house in city hall was received and re-
ported by the property committee. Fox
& Eaton, the present lessees submitted
an offer of 81 200 for one years rental
of the theatre, beginning September /,
1915, the lease to cover a term of five
years. AT the present time the lessees
are paying 81 800 per year, but under the
provisions of the tentative contract which
any lessee will have TO sign, the lessee
must pay the cost of lighting the house.
In the opinion of the aldermen last night.
the Fox & Eaton bid with the lessees'
assumption of lighting expenses. is a
better price than that which the city is
now receiving. While the report of the
property committee was under considera-
tion. the aldermen examined, month by
month, the lighting bills paid by the
city in 1914.
That the call for bids was not thor
oughly advertised was the claim made hv
one OF the aldermen. Several of the al
dermen thought the call for bids should
be inserted in a theatrical paper, as for
instance The Mirror. Alderman Cooks
motion to lay the bid on the table was
not seconded. Alderman Glysson's mo-
tion TO have the property committee in
vestigate the lighting system in the thea
tire, with a view 10 having il properly
metered. met the same fate. A disposi-
tion in the matter was finally reached
when Alderman Keast moved that the
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the property committee With instruc-
tions 20 advertise for bids in outside
papers meaning journals published out
side the city. The motion prevailed.
Dogs and Their Licenses
Constable George l. Morris. who, with
Chief Sinclair of the police department,
composed a self-constituted committee
to wait on the city fathers with Second
Constable Parks new silver badge. was
put through his PAGES on the dog ques
ton before the bars were raised for the
executive session. Just a. the council
lars were about 10 retire behind closed
doors. the matter of unlicensed dogs ives
brought up. CITY Clerk Mackay made
he sweeping statement that from ~ 20
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~ offered the opinion that the constable
has the authority b. compel dog owners
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