The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-17
CITY STONE CRUSHER
CAUSES BIC BILL
Warrants Read at Last Nights City
Council Meeting Included One Bill
for S426.so for Repairs to
Machinery.

All is not well with the city stone
crushers, the latest item of expense to ap-
pear in connection with the apparatus.
which the city council purchased year
ago, being S42650 which was represented
in the warrants examined BY the council
at its regular session last evening, being
the sum expended for repairs. Added to
the bill submitted by the New England
Road Machinery Co., was a demurrage
charge of $40 put in by the NJ. g. w. K.
railroad. The stone crusher gave the
street department no end of trouble last
season when its services were most need
ed in connection. with the South Main
street paving project. Previously it had
been whispered that the council, in cast
ing about for new crushing device, had
purchased an obsolete type of machine,
and when the breakdown came critics
who had condemned what they construed
to be peculiar proceedings in connection
with the purchase believed that their
predictions as to the efficiency of the
crusher had come true. However, in con-
sidering the budget of warrants, no one
last night questioned the wisdom of pay
ing the crusher bill
Assessors in their work hours and at
their leisure passed under the official
scrutiny of the council when Alderman
Rizzi called attention to the regularity
with which the members of the assessing
board call around for their pay. Mr.
Rizzi mentioned the matter in connection
with the reading of the warrants, which
included bill of $72 for assessors serv-
ice. The fifth ward representative specu-
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the assessors when the door to their of
fee at city hall is closed and locked. He
also intimated that the Office is deserted
rather frequently
Aldermen Healy and Loranger remind
ed their colleague that this is the year
of the quadrennial appraisal, when the
assessors, in forsaking the bad air of
their dingy quarters, may after all be
bound on legitimate errand. Mr.. Rizzi
had said that not infrequent absences
from the office seemed to be carrying the
matter bit too far, but afterward he
conceded that the quadrennial appraisal
undoubtedly kept the members of the
board out in the open good deal. AL
derman Alexander suggested that fishing
and camping were very much in order at
this time, but the suggestion was taken
no more seriously than the author meant
it to be and the subject was dropped by
someone moving that the warrants be
approved for payment.
From the fourth ward, Alderman Me-
MILAN brought echoes Of complaints reg
istered by neighbors of family named
Aiken. 1t was claimed that small boy
named Abbey is not getting the treat
ment that his case deserves, II APP
peared in the evidence that the town of
Braintree is responsible for the msinte-
nance Of the child, and to bring the mat
ter to head, it was moved that the
matter be referred to the charity com
mittee. A woman named Perantoni ap-
peared personally to urge her claim for
assistance from the city, deposing that
her husband is confined in close jail.
Members of the charity committee took
issue with the woman on the ground that
the family is self-maintaining Chair
man Alexander was even more explicit
and afterward extended his remarks by
saying that number of people are per
sistent in their efforts to impose on the
charity department No immediate ac-
tion was taken on the question Of COM
plying with Mrs Perantoni's request,
A formal petition for the commitment
lCoutinued on fourth pape,l