The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-19
S15,044.65 WAS ADDED
TO SINKING FUND
Water Department Income
Was $14,481.41 over Ex-
penses and After Pa ~
off One $4,000 Bor ye-
cial Sinking Has
Been Established-Many
Reports In

Anticipating early calls of copy, more
copy" from the printers, the city council,
at its regular meeting last night, waded
through 22 departmental reports for 1915,
accepted the message of the mayor and
transacted budget of routine business.
With commendable diligence the various
committees and department heads worked
busily week in preparing their yearly
statements with the result that fewer
than 10 reports remain to be scrutinized.
Without an exception the reports were
accepted as submitted and the mass of
information ordered spread on the city's
year book last night is well calculated
to keep the printers, from the devil in
his ink-stained jeans to the more elite
tiekler of linotype keys, busy until the
next session of the council.
Among the reports condensed below
for quick digestion win be found the
following: Chief of police, city engineer,
library committee water superintendent,
street superintendent, trustee of ceme-
terry trust funds. cemetery commission
ers, water committee, police committee,
health committee. fire committee, street
committee, wiring inspector, printing
committee, health officer, city attorney,
and legislative committee. Essential
parts of the clerks yearly statement
concerning births and marriages and the
annual report of the building Inspector
have been printed already in The Times.
The Mayors Message.
Here Is what the mayor SAYS:
'In reviewing the year that is just
in its relation to city affairs,
| find much to encourage and a little to
regret.
~The material prosperity of Barre has
suffered from interruptions due to the
delay in making new working agree
ments between employer and employe,
while the granite industry was tied up
for nearly three months the early part
of the year. The clerks and merchants
were unable to arrive at a working agree
ment. ! believe all agreements between
employer and empoye should contain
provision for the continuation of work
bending settlement within a certain pc
-iod of time and this failing, the two
,ides to select their own court of last
'esort. whose findings should be final
md binding.
"While calling attention to these
hings. | wish to express my apprecia-
ion of the work done by Sheriff Frank
/. Tracy and his deputies in preserving
,eace during the agitation incident to
he working out of settlement of the
abor disputes last spring. With the
,F t,,pHfaa 40 all ha and
lis faithful men saw to it that all en-
Dyed their full rights without interfer-
nee or hindrance, and when the labors
t the officers were concluded there was
othing to be regretted.
BARRE has the happy faculty Of soon
its setbacks, and no sooner
-as work in the granite industry re-
umed than the future claimed our at
antion.
Building operations the past year in
ude the construction OF more dwellings
nd new granite plants than for several
ears past Four modern granite plants
ave been erected, three for new concerns
nd one to replace an old-style circular
led. Nineteen dwelling houses have been
-eeted. equal to the combined new
vellings erected in the two previous
sars. and the demand for property was
,ver greater than at the present time
beginning the year with cash on hand
S46.5S Excluding proceeds of school
,nds sold but not turned overl, your
tv council was early obliged to begin
e practice OF economy. Numerous lit
, leaks in city affairs were stopped or
[ off. Savings were made in some city
partments engineering, water and
or departments, and the city attJr-
vs. oilice-With the result that the end
the year showed cash on hand of So
PSI And this in the face Of increased
penditures in the street and police de-
rtmcnts. and a larger interest account
During the past year the city's sink
fund has been increased Sl504l .65
I'M additions made during the wear
d the income from the fund. This viii
Sc care of tie refunding bonds due
~ ] and still leave the fund as large
IL was the first Of the year.
For the first time in the citv's own
hip Of the water system. all urplus
ter earnings are to be returned n
.t department with the purpose Of
ating a fund to take care Of the water
For az least a dozen years. the CITY
ually hasn't paid anything for ht
nt service though the water deuart-
nt las been credited with receiving
BE- s3n a hydrant from tie eitv A.
! has been turned back into the city