The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-18
STREET DEPARTMENT
FUNDS RUNNING LOW
Many Snowfalls of the Winter Held Ac-
countable in Part for the Heavy Ex-
penditure-Routin Matters Taken
Up at City Council Meeting.

on Brooklyn street. Any accountar
knowing whereabouts OF residue or part
: thereof will perform conspicuous ser,
ice by reporting to the Barre city stree
department, which at present faces prot
lem of finishing the year on beggarly al
lowance of $4 4,955. 29tf
In the darksome byways of street de
partment finances, the city council, at it
regular fortnightly session last nigh
CROPPED with the question of maintaining
the thoroughfares of Barre for the com
, ing eight and one-haIf months on tn
balance OF an appropriation that look
decidedly slim when stacked up with tn
work that remains TO be done. The cit,
! fathers took counsel with themselve
when Mayor Glysson prodded the stree
committee into giving an accounting o
its stewardship since the beginning o
the year. 1t was recalled that the sun
OF $4,000 was appropriated for the year
Fang went one lump few months agt
when $4,000 WAS set aside for a stone
crusher that hasn't been shipped yet
Fortifying Brooklyn street against pos
sible invasion on the western front Of ths
city cost s2,700 the latter item beinG
4 IItGhhHpQ ia l4lt WbRAD t&ptIluGu LII JEt
past three and one half months. The
$1,000 for the stonecrusher has not beer
disbursed, but it is pledged beyond re-
call
/ Old King Winter was the handiest alb
in the excuse cabinet and those of the
street committee who were present, Al,
derman Bruce being among the absentees
were strong in their condemnation OF
snow as an ll-powerful agent for the
dissipation of money John Greenleaf
| Whittier, apparently, had nothing on Al
derman Healy when it came to describing
Barre fast in the grip Of furious storms
and after all the arguments and explana
tions had been boiled down and sugared
off 1t was plain to be seen that much of
the money already missing had gone for
the removal of such loose and portable
substances as snow, snow, etc.
IL was not comforting condition, as
most af the councillors admitted, but aft
er the little brush over hard times in the
street department, the committee defiant,
ly tied its sponsorship 10 recommended
tion for new road machine and the
necessary authorization for its purchase
was given without whimpcr. Someone
described the situation as Something
damnable," but the case was evidently
overstated, for on the next move the
council voted to donate the use M its
street department truck for a cleanup
campaign.
A vacancy in the board of city auditors
has been created by the removal from
Barre of William b. Marion, whose res.
ignation was received and accepted by
the council. In report from the street
committee, ii was recommended that the
salary of the street superintendent be
81 900. with the stipulation that the SUI
perintendent pay the costs of his own
transportation. Talk reverted to Mr..
Marrions resignation and became more
firmly intrenched in channels that had to
do with auditing when Overseer William
Mcdonald submitted a statement of poor
department accounts as handled by him
since his appointment. 1t transpired that
the books of the retiring overseer, w. J.
Clapp had not been audited. Alderman
Milne quoted Alderman Bruce as saying |
that Mr. Clapp had been receiving daily |
request to turn over his books to the city |
and that the former overseer had indicat- |
ed his purpose to comply with the re-
guest as soon as bookkeeper has done
with them. Alderman Healy said he un-
derstood that the charity books were
not ready for the auditors. Mr.. McDon-
AIDS report was accepted.
A communication from Postmaster G.
W. German contained bill rendered for
street sprinkling in front of the federal
building with an appended statement re-
terating former assertion that requi-
'ition cannot be obtained from the gov
hat work is TO be done. Mr.. Germans
etter brought the system of street
prinkling under general scrutiny and
many complaints and criticisms were
leard. The clerk said that boy had
ucceeded in collecting only $3.50 of the
Il 500 outstanding on the assessments
nd that 800, or thereabouts, had been {
objected in his office. He received many
rotests and told of man who quoted {
member of the street committee as ad- !
Using him not TO pay his assessment. {
he question of revamping the system '
'as referred TO the street committee.
p. Gropelli, leader of the Christopher G
olumbus band, presented a communica c
ion in which he asked for share of the s
and concert money and on the motion of :
.lderman Rossi, seconded by Alderman c
.eynolds, il was voted to engage the (
oung musicians for two concerts at 500. {
tr. Gropelli said the band was in a po- +
tion to furnish even better music than
lst year C
Twenty two births, Ii of them males, Z
ere noted by DR.. J. w. Stewart in his a
Ionthly report from the health office. {
here were "a cases of contagious dis p
Use, 20 of measles and FIVE of scarlet "
'ver Fifteen deaths were due to the Il
blowing causes: Measles /, tubercular o
eningitis |, disease of the heart /, tu- o
,rculosis 2, disease Of the liver l, disease a
the bowels 2, disease of the kidneys 4, p
fantile strophy l. premature birth 2. L
is report was accepted, along with that al
Chief Sinclair, whose police depart q
ent report for February referred to l6 G
rests, IL for intoxication, two for al
each of the peace and one each for W
aud and procuring of abortion. ia
A number of granite manufacturers in al
e vicinity of Smith and Blackwell ID
reefs asked to have the stonecrusher Ol
,ated in their neighborhood and offered m
sort and cart stone chips to the plat th
rm. The request and offer We're re- th
rred 10 the street committee. On the OF
vorahle Recommendation of the build tn
? inspector permits were granted as de
lows: A Compaguari. to build a piaz- b
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