The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-30
Head of Barre's Fire Fight
ing Force rendered
Resignation
WHENEVER SUCCESSOR
HAS BEEN SECURED
The City Water Scarcity and
Carnival Licenses Cause
Aldermen to Talk Much

1 hiS"' 'n"V a. ni' looih hau Ieslgl A. as
chief of the Barre fire departing ne
resignation to take effect on the int
ment of an "all time" head of 4 part
ment No action was taken s. board
inasmuch as the fire comm - had not
presented recommended 81 Or the ap-
| pointment and hence : ecision had
been reached concernir eS same. 1T is
expected, however, tlA me recommen-
dation will be made at ehe regular meet
ing of the city council to be held next
Monday evening.
/ Another matter which came before the
aldermen and on which no action was
/ taken was the condition Of the city wa
ter supply, the supply having been re-
duced by the long continued dry weather.
| Alderman Keefe suggested that some ac
tion be taken warning the public against
waste of the water as long as the drouth
continues, which called for statement
| from Alderman Healy that the water in
| the Orange reservoir was between 20
inches and two feet below the spiIlway
and that the Bolster reservoir was run
ming over the top
That statement, in turn, brought out
| reioinder from both Aldermen Keefe and
Scott that the water was at least six
| feet below the spiflway in the Orange
reservoir, as they had seen the condition
within the last few days.
Alderman Healy replied that his obser-
walton was taken in the morning. He
added that Water Superintendent Lee
! ho1 To-
| sity for alarm at the present time al
though the amount of rainfall had been
abnormally small during June and July,
| being only one and one-half inches per
month as against three and one-half and
four inches, respectively, for the average
June and July.
In addition to believing that the low
ness of the water called for action to
prevent waste, Aldermen Keefe and Scott
| thought it an opportune time to clean
the reservoir at Orange. But, as before
asserted, no action was taken.
A Show License Debated.
Prolific of considerable debate, too, was
the question of granting show license
to carnival, or two carnivals, which
proposed to come to Barre during the
first week of August. Alderman Scott
was alone in his opposition to the grant
ing of a license to one concern and not
to another of like nature for the same
dates. He protested also because he had
not been consulted along with other al
dermen when the matter Of granting a
certain license was talked over. He said
| that the council could do as it wished
| to about the matter but he would have
no part in voting for a license for one
concern and not for another.
Some rather plain talk from Alder
man Scott caused Mayor Glysson, a spec
tator at the meeting TO assert that he
| himself had the power to grant the IL
cense and that the Snowman in question
had appeared at his office one night re-
| Gently and that he called in three alder
men who happened to be holding a meet
ing in the next room to get their opinion
| regarding the matter II was in no sense
a council meeting or a council action, he
said He added that he and others were
the guests of the particular show COM
pany in question at an exhibition in st.
Albans and they had pronounced the
show acceptable Others said that they
would not favor granting a license to the
that its show was satisfactory, that is
to say, above criticism.
| Alderman Scott was obdurate in his
opposition to granting a license and he
| voted an emphatic No when the motion
was put to grant a license to the Beacon
show for the week of Aug. 4 at fee of
S25, providing the company has paid a
state license for those dates
Roads and Bridges.
Considerable of the two hours devoted
to the meeting was given over to listening
to the new assistant state highway com
missioner. r. s. Currier Of Barre, wls
had been called in to give his opinioir
regarding the South Main street bridge
and who took occasion to introduce his
successor as district highway commits
| sioner, Earl Hayden, as well as to crit
cize the city of Barre for dilat0ry ac-
tion in getting at state road work and
also for failure to report once a week to
the state department. He asserted how
ever, that Barre was not the only com
munity in the state that had failed in
those two respects.
On the subject of bridges, Mr.. Currier
said that the state will assist toward
the construction OF a bridge to the eN
tent of one. third the cost providing that
apportionment does not exceed 81 500.
He did not think the state could furnish
any money on any proposed bridge for
South Main street this year but if the
city plans to build bridge there next
year it should at once draw up plans,
submit them to the state engineer for
approval as to the bridges carrying ca
pacity and then put in an application
for state aid on the construction. But
he said that state aid Of $1,000 on the
South Main street bridge would be so
small as to make the assistance almost
negligible He said that aid might be
secured on new bridge on Brook street,
| over Gunner brook The North Main
street bridge had been completed, he un-
derstood, but no bill of costs had been
| prepared so that state money was not
available.
In fact, no money can be secured from
the state until it can be demonstrated
that the work is completed and done
satisfactorily, the assistant state COM
missioner asserted, whether it be on road
construction, bridges or what not in CON
nection with state highway work
The state work on Washington street
| came into the discussion for time, and