Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-02-05
MORE PAY FOR
C|TYS POLICEMEN
Firemen, Too, Get an Increase
Mayor Jackson Vetocs Reso-
lutions for New Fire Fight
ing Apparatus and for Sale of
Ward Six Polling Place

The aldermen at their reg,nar meeting
Monday night voted to Increase tho pay of
the policemen already on ,he fo'ce to s%5
per week, while the fre.oan receive an
increase of three dollars per week fiat,
all through the department. The resou-
tons were passed unanimously and they
row await the action of the mayor. The
only other important piece OF business
transacted Monds.- evening was the ac-
! ton on numeroLa vctocs OF Mayor Jack.
son.
I The evening opened with a meeting or
! the city council for the purpose OF adding
about a dozen names to the check list. A
| few of these were women. who had paid
! their poll taxes and were left off through
accident. There were present Mayor Jack
son and Aldermen Woodbury.. Mcbride.
Beecher, Deyette. Caisse. Dwyer, Bergeron,
Hanbridge, Hall. Patrick and, part ot
the time. Ladj. There was no dispute
over the admission of any of the names.
| The board of aldermen settled down to
work about eight O'Clock. Mrs. n. +. l..
| Austin asked that hsr title be changed
/ from police matron to police woman. In
this manner the city would be credited
with woman policeman. whereas the
name police matron Is generally taken to
mean woman who takes care of ar
rests. Mrs Austin's duties are those Of
a police woman. The matter was referred
| to committee.
Then came Mayor Jacksons vctoes.
The vote Or all of these, with tie excop-
ton of the one exempting Mrs. Srookes-
Brown frcm the sprinkllng tax and the
! one relating to the street car service.
stood the SANE. Seven republicans stood
| In 10, ArriI b. l,rs 4 Is
mer Caisse. Dwyer and Bcrgcron voted
with the mayor and the ve;oes on the
purchase of the pump for the fire depart
inent the apparatus for station four and
| two and tho sale of fire station iivG were
| sustained
| Mayor Jackson's veto OF the prt posi-
ton to pay back to Mrs. Brookes- Brown
money paid by her for her sprinklng
tax awakened the interest of the alder
men right away. Alderman cambridge
wanted to know when any such action
as abatng Mrs. Browns sprinkling tax
had been taken. Other aldermen felt the
same way. 1t then developed that the
movement to get the money back to Mrs.
Brown hadn't made much noise and had
slipped through with some other bills in
a hurry. The mayors veto of this act
was unanimously sustained.
| Mayor Jackson objected to the word
| ing of the resolution providing for the
car service to Lakeside and substituted
another, which he said he would favor
at once. Alderman Beecher presented this
resolution with the words II don't think
this is any better than the other. but I
am anxious not to have the car service
to Lakeside delayed any further and I
will vote for this. This movement has
been held up too long now over nothing"
I Ttn o1,,ttN ,,,,, Il,
and is as follows:
| CITY OF BURLINGTON.
In the year one thousand. nine hundred
and twenty-resoved by the board OF al
dermen of the city of Burlington, as fol-
| lows
That the Burlington Traction company
lis hereby directed and required to cause
! its cars to be run and operated on Lake
side avenue in said city as follows; not
less than one car each way every forty
minutes between the hours of six O'Clock
in the forenoon and 1910 O'Clock in the
afternoon on each and every day for the
transportation of passengers.
| The city clerk is hereby directed to de-
! liver to both the clerk and manager of
the Burlington Traction company Il true
and attested copy of this resolution with
| i'm two days after the same has been ap-
become valid and in effect on account OF
the failure of the mayor to disapprove
the same.
The desire to increase the pay OF the
policemen was unanimous but the
board wanted to be assured that the
number of policemen would not be
increased. The policemen, who were
getting s22 per week, asked for an
increase of 90 per cent. Officer
Brothers appeared before the board
and told the aldermen what the prop
osition of working seven days every
week and sometimes eight and even
nine was One officer went home with
two pairs of shoes for his family and
he had one dollar left out of his weeks
pay. They couldn't support their fam-
lies on 1t. that was all. The resolu-
ton provided for straight pay of
every man now on duty of s25 per
week.
| The firemen were next heard from
and they wanted an increase of 30 per
cent. The fire commissioners recon-
mended ten per cent. The aldermen
decided to go right through the list
raising everybody three dollars per
week. The chief and deputy chief will
receive increases of ten per cont as
will the CHIEF ard deputy chief OF the
police department.
| Tho commissioners of the water de-
partnent appeared and wanted the
city ordinance changed so the cleo
! trio light department could furnish
them power cheaper. This change was
advanced as far as It could be last
evening. The city ordinance allows
the electric light department to sell
them juice at s115.
The usual hills in the several de-
dered that the mayors warrants be
drawn for the different amounts.
They were Water department.,
ISa,2S6,22; electric light s7,521.62;
streets, s1971.94; charity, S2,292,17;
library. s591S9; firemen's pay roll.
s2,as253, and incidentals s5o4; park
department, $672.