The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-10-16
When Dissatisfaction Devel-
oped Over Size of
the Bills
SOME CONTENDED
MONEY NOT EARNED
City's Grand List for 1918
Shows a Slight
Reduction

| Two weeks ago the board of aldermen
for the time being ceased to function as
city officials and those Of them who were
able to stand off the seductive approaches
OF the FLU" volunteered as relief WORK.
ers and Kept everlastingly at it until
they were released. With the school
teachers, the clergy, the granite manu-
lacturers, and merchants, to say nothing
OF many other helpers, they dismissed
such prosalc matters as sidewalk peti-
tlons and Sheriff Tracy's board bills, and
devoted themselves wholly to relief work
4 And whatever may be their defects or
qualifications as city fathers, the fact re-
mains that they were very faithful an.
gels of mercy when the angel business
was having its biggest boom.
Last night they were back on the homo
grounds for the first regular engagement
since Sept. "a. Aldermen Alexander and
Mcmillan were absent because Of Illness.
Not much had accumulated in the shape
OF municipal business, but the aldermen
fingered long enough to criticize severely
the habits of the assessors. Then. too.
they discussed epidemic expenses. but
only the surface of that interesting sub.
lect was scratched and no conclusions
were reached 1t developed, however.
that the doctors who came here at the
behest Of the state board of health and
the federal government paid their own
bills and did not expect fees. AS for
other physicians, whose services counted
so greatly in fighting the malady. other
arrangements for reimbursements NAV
be made. 1t was the unanimous opinion
OF the aldermen that the outside doctors
performed a splendid service.
Three sets of warrants had been read
when the agitation over assessors nav
first attracted attention in the Galleries
When the clerk had done with the figures
Mayor Glysson and Alderman Rizzi had
something to say with reference to pay.
ing officials for time spent at home. they
said, or elsewhere. Both quoted Assessor
Moves, who is alleged to have protested
against docking him weeks pay for
three days illness. He entered his pro-
test, according to Mr.. Rizzi and the NAV
or, conditional on the decision of the al.
dermen to use all of the assessors alike.
In other words, so Mr. Moves was quoted.
neither of the remaining members of the
assessing board had done any work since
Aug, ID. 1t appeared from the records
that all three had accepted $4 per day. or
were willing to accept it, right up to Oct.
Is, the last day on which they could le-
gally charge the city for services, as on
that day the book for the year must be
completed and report of the proceedings
filed with the city clerk.
Alderman Rizzi seemed to be in accord
with Mr. Noyes. If one assessor should
suffer a cTtailment Of pay because Of a
brief Illness, certainly those who had not
worked since Aug l. or Aug Is, should
not be paid in full. Alderman Healv
said he always had understood that the
assessors We're paid for services actually
rendered Mayor Glysson recalled the
request which the assessors made in eity
meeting for more pay and interpreted
that request as meaning that the in
crease from SD to 81 per day was to cover
the overtime, if overtime should be nee
essery Alderman Milne was even more
inquisitiye and desired to know where
the assessors thought the city was get
ting off. The mayor noted that the as
SCISSORS piled their assessing trade right
up to the day when the statutes say
they can ply no longer. He also put in
an oar against the practice Of letting the
assessors begin work ten DAYS before
April ]. He described the practice as
nonsense and non-essential
Alderman Loranger testified to having
seen an assessor working in the office re-
Gently. Whereupon the mayor declared
with some force that il wasn't necessary
for an assessor to begin shutting cards
as soon as he heard someone approaching
the office
There was quiet for moment and Just
as an alderman seemed about to pro-
pound the question that was on every
members lips it was explained that the
shutting applied to index cards and not
to authors or any other freside pastime.
The discussion ended abruptly Mayor
Glysson said he would seek d ruling in
the matter and Alderman Healy encoun-
tered no opposition in his motion to APP
prove all warrants except those drawn in
favor of the assessors Members of the
assessing board were not present to sub
NIT their side of the case.
The board of civil authority in Orange
is going to stand by the town listers in
their decision to increase the appraisal
Of city property from S2250 to S42,250.
That was the gist Of message from the
town clerk, and the city clerk, in reading
the communication said that the city at
torney is preparing to carry an appeal be-
fore the state tax commissioner In the
past six weeks representatives of the
council have appealed without success,
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