The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-31
.SPRINKLING
TAX PROTESTS
Caused Aldermen to Elm
mate Upper Washing
ton Street
ABUTTERS CLAIMED
GOT NO BENEFIT
Sheriff Tracy Presents An
other Bill for Jail
Board

A flood of protest, filed singly and
collectively, against the street sprinkling
service rendered in 1916, occupied the at.
tention of the board of aldermen at its
regular meeting Tuesday evening and
the better part of an hour was spent
in going over complaints of this nature
A petition to which was affixed the sig
nature of nearly every abutting proper
ty owner on Washington street east OF
the Spaulding school criticised the al
legged poor service performed by oil and
water sprinklers and ended by asking
that no attempt be made to sprinkle in
1917. The request was promptly granted
and Washington street will be left out
of the sprinkling schedule. Among the
individual complaints was II. o. Camp,
who cited two reasons for asking to
have the service withdrawn. In the first
place, he said, the oil was mo good" ana
in the second place the sprinkler man
did not sprinkle water near his property,
as the team turned around before arriv-
ing at his premises. Other communca-
| tions of the same tenor were addressed
to the council or aldermen by C. n. Ken
yon of Merchant street and Mrs. Melvina
Gay of North Seminary street. L. NJ.
| Averill asked for an extension of time
in which to pay his 1916 assessment and
| the request along with the individual
complaints were turned over to the street
committee.
Sheriff F. H. Tracy, whose last com
munication to the aldermen contained
clerical error, gracefully acknowledged
the corn and saw to it that there was a
cigar for each member of the board when
the meeting convened. Perhaps the aro-
ma of the smokes tended to soften the
reception given bill submitted from the
county jail for $l24.50, bill contracted
by Louis Canales, who was imprisoned
last November as a result OF the action
of Norberto Garcia VS.. Canales. The bill
was referred to the charity committee
and the city attorney.
A report from the fire and health com.
mittees, which was accepted comment |
ed on an investigation of the back yards |
along Enterprise alley and recommend |
ed that the city attorney be directed to
notify tenants that the yards must be |
cleaned up or the ordinance will be en-
forced. The police department report for |
April was accepted as follows: Arrests |
40. divided as follows: Intoxcation "a, |
selling !, search and seizure |. breach OF |
the peace 2, keeping a disorderly house
!, selling cigarettes to minors /.
Il, NJ. White was given a permit to
build a piazza on Upland avenue and +. |
W. Nichols request for permission to
build garage annex on North Main
street was referred to the fire committee
Paolo Simmonetti was given permit |
to move his henhouse on Blackwell |
street, with the usual restrictions A
bond for Heaton hospital nurse, a res
ident of Barre, who is to receive treat
ment at Pittsford, was signed by the
aldermen and mayor. A request from
the Travellers Insurance Co. for infor-
nation concerning an injury received at
Bolster reservoir by I. Gabelloni was
to the water superintendent.
Warrants were approved for payment
in the following order; Barre Savings
Bank & Trust Co., $4,000, to meet water
bonds due June l. 81 500, interest on 4
per cent water bonds due june | /; school
treasurer, $4,000 to apply on 1917 |.
school tax, and $500 to apply on 1917
evening uIdNlHE stHOOi JdA v. w. Aver |
i'll & Co., Sl5s.s4, sewer pipe; street de-
partment payroll, S4l4.20, street, sprink-
ling, sewer, surface sewer and health ac-
water department payroll,
s20064;; fire department payroll,
sl3507; police department payroll,
sI00l6; G. A. Bemis, $40, services as
ianitor; Martin Riley, A. L. Noyes and
Augustus NJ. Rossi, S24 each, and An
ionic NJ. Rossi, SIS, service as assessors;
H. Cole, S20 assisting engineer.
Through Alderman Healy, ]. F. Hig-
gins reported the loss of hen, killed by
logs, and there grew therefrom an ami
mated discussion which continued for
nearly half-hour. Alderman Milne was
'or postmortem and said he would
.hink more of the claim after the re-
mains had been examined. The matter
vas finally disposed of by referring it
o Alderman Healy to investigate and
eport,
The traction company franchise was
aid on the table for another week In
he absence of Alderman Bruce, the vice