Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-10-04

The veto which Mayor ]. Holmes
Jackson put on the resolution adopted
by the board of aldermen at their last
meeting to spend $4,000 for an addi-
ton to and repairs on the Ira Allen
school on Colchester evenue was sus-
tanned at Mondays meeting by a vote
of five to four. Tit fettt,' expressing
the mayors disapproval IF the prop
osition follows in FULL:
City Of Burlington, VT.
September 20, 1917.
To the Honorable Board Of Aldermen:
I hereby return without my approval
the resolution passed at the last regular
meeting of you board, relating to the
building of an addition to and repairs of
the Ira Allen school, situated on Col
chester avenue. and / give the following
as my reasons:
Being cognizant of the fact thai the
education of our children is one of our
first essentials. I can assure you the
reasons for my above action have been
carefully thought out for the good of all.
Owing to the present price of materials,
the great scarcity of labor and the season
of the year.. l think It an inopportune
time to attempt such a project.
BY an act of the last Legislature the
school board have already received from
the city an extra ten thousand dollars
over last years appropriations: and the
State will receive as a war tax about
forty thousand, which, as we have not
the right to raise our taxes in proper.
ton Except by vote Of citizens). leaves
our finances in anything but an opulent
condition.
In view of the sacrifices which. as indi-
viduals, as a city and as a State, we are
m 11nd tN~ - ~-I ~~ -.- a. .---
on account Of war conditions. and the
urgent need for practicing the strictest
economy possible, I think the board Of
school commissioners can find some
feasible way for meeting their require
ments in this regard without the city
mourning this large debt at this time.
In other words, no matter how worthy
the object may be, I do not think we
have the right to spend so large a sum
as thirty thousand dollars at the present
time.
]. HOLMES JACKSON. Mayor.
Those who upheld the mayor were
Aldermen E. A. Luck, G.. ]. Grafton, E.
3. Bessette, c. Caisse. c.. L. Dolan. Those
against the mayor were c. L. Wood
bury, V. Bergeron, F. w. Baylies and
]. L. Hall. Those absent were A. G.
Mansur, II. l.. Wakefield and r. B
Lamson.
Many persons who were interested
in seeing that the proposition went
through were present at last nights
session. some of them waxing advan.
tage of the opportunity afforded them
to voice their sentiments on the sub.
ject. Among those who spoke were T
w. Quincy, Mrs. N. G. Clark. DR.. T. s
Brown. superintendent of the Mar,
Fletcher hospital, Professor II. F. Per.
kins, DR. Frank J. Ennis, health Off.
Ger, NJ. j. Barnes, M. d. C%hittenden, SUI
perintendent of the public schools, DIR
c. F. Dalton, secretary of the Vermont
State board of health, and a few of the
ALDERMEN.
Mrs. M. G. Clark's talk on the mat
ter under discussion was the most in
teresting of the evening. among the
many sentences that Mrs. Clark ex.
pressed her disapproval Of a veto with
was n in which she said that 1--WE
VIII have the addition to the school il
we have to change the mayor and
board of aldermen to get it," She also
sincerely lectured the members of the
board on how the women were comine
more and more into the franchise.
The most powerful plea to sustain tn,
mayor came from the chairman of thu
board. Alderman Luck. Mr.. Luck though
that the time was not the most propitious
for the erection of the addition, especially
he said. as after the war there would be 6
big recession in the prices of the materia
that would enter into the construction OF
the annex. He was of the candid opinion
that the material would be much cheaper
next year even, than it is now; also tina
the floating Of $780, 900 in bonds would en-.
tail a loss of in the n~eighborhood Of 81. 500
due to the abnormal conditions that exisr
during a war period.
The committee on school buildings, com.
posed Of Gardner Brewer, F. e. Kimbal
and NJ. j. Barnes, was present, as were
also two of the Members of the schoo
finance committee, job B. Murphy ant
John Hallinan.
An ordinance relating to the fire warder
was read the third time by title only ant
adopted. a bill to pay the town of NORTH
Troy the sum of $151. so for the care Of 6
patient was ordered paid. a resolution Il
build a sewer on Willow street between
Interval avenue and st. Louis street wa.
adopted. a permit was granted tn,
Standard Coal & Ice company to erect {
sign on College street. the sum of $40 wa