The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-08-05
ENTER PROTEST.
TO STATE BOARD
Barre City Council Not Sat-
isfied With District Health
Supervision
INADEQUATE SERVICE
IN EPIDEMIC TIME
No Chief of Fire Depart
ment Named, Captain Earl
c. Cutler Quits Dept.

Toward the close of the regular meet
ing Of the Barre city council last evening
vigorous protest was made against the
district system of public health super
vision, it being claimed that under the
arrangement the city of Barre will not
be able to get the service it requires in
case of an epidemic. One suggestion was
that the city should askth state board
of health for the appointment of dep
uty health officer in Barre; but no action
was taken on that proposal, although it
was decided to send Mayor Glysson to
Burlington Wednesday of this week to
attend a meeting of the state board of
health and to present Barre's grievance
over the system which includes. approx
mately 80 cities and towns in the iuris-
diction of single district health officer.
Besides commissioning the mayor for
the Burlington trip, the council instruct
ed the legislation committee to make
haste to bring in report on the closer
correlation between the ordinances and
the state law respecting the appoint.
ment OF local board Of health, this COM
mittee 70 report at the next meeting.
This matter was considered urgent.
Another matter which was supposed to
come up last night was the proposal to
nominate a new chief of the fire depart
ment, to take the place of f. NJ. Tobin,
who resigned. A month ago the fire com
mittee was instructed TO have recon-
mendation in by Aug. 4. However, the
chairman of the fire committee, Alder
man Loranger, was not present last night
and no action was taken toward an APP
pointment.
Nevertheless, the resignation Of Mr.
Tobin as chief of the department was
read, as was also the announcement of
Earl C. Cutler that it would not be pos
sible for him to serve longer as captain
of the hook and ladder company, the
latter resignation to be effective as of
Aug. | No action was taken on either
because of the absence of the chairman
Of the fire committee.
Chief Tobin's resignation was as fol-
lows;
when Chief Gladding resigned his po-
sition in the fire department, at your re-
quest, assumed the duties of chief The
time has come, however, when | feel |
must be relieved of this responsibility in
Justice to other business requiring my
whole attention. Therefore, | tender my
resignation to take effect Aug, l."
Park Commission and the Mormons.
The park commission is not for resign
ing, but it does not propose to take upon
itself any responsibility which it believes
should rest on the city council, This re-
fers to the matter of granting a permit
to the Mormons to hold one open air
meeting week in the bandstand at the
City park. The park commission feels
that the city council passed the buck
NIT to the Mormons to expostulate in
the open air providing the arrangements
were satisfactory TO the commission. So
last night the commission politely
'passed the buck back again, declining
to assume any responsibility for grant
ing permit TO the Mormons to hold the
meetings.
Tbeir statement runs like this: "The
park commissioners fail to see under ex-
isting conditions why they should be
brought into this matter Permission
has already been given by the body
which apparently has the power in this
matter. The park commissioners refuse
to assume any responsibility in this mat
ter whatsoever and the commissioners
feel that the question of using the park
or parks for any public meeting is wholly
up to the city council"
Park Commissioner j. f. Higgins made
the statement for the commission and
answered few interrogations from the
members of the council, after which no
action was taken. 1t is understood that
when the Mormons applied to the park
commission last week they were told
that the commission would have nothing
to do with the matter, whereupon the
Mormons went ahead and held their
meeting last Saturday night So there
the bucks up in the air.
Carnival License, City Water, Etc.
Much discussion developed again last
night over the license of the Beacon
Shows company to exhibit in Barre.
The company presented its state license
to operate in Barre the week of Aug. 4,
anu OIl but DuCh VI lldb pei inllJ bHe COuH
ell found, was stipulation which said
that the company should pay local Ii.
cense fee of $40 per day. Now, the agent
of the company had been told that $25
total fee was enough, Whether to go
ahead and collect the extra S35 for the
weeks stand in Barre was one point de-
bated, but as the matter was disposed
of it was referred to the police commit
tee with power to act.
Alderman Keefe was subjected to some
quizzing from Mayor Glysson as to the
level of the water in the city reservoirs
and Alderman Keefe said his last glimpse
of the Orange brook reservoir showed the
water down five feet, seven inches below
the spillway and that the banks of the
reservoir needed a cleaning Mayor
Glysson's figures were almost identical,
his showing five feet, six inches below
the spillway at Orange and reservoir
full at the Bolster reservoir Mayor
Glysson believed in warning the people
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