The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-15
Town Yard Being Moved to
South Main Street
Gravel Bank E.
MAIN STREET TO
GET ATTENTION
Road from Retreat to Dummerston Line
Selected for Improvement by State
Money-Scarifer to Be Used on Lin
den Street and Putney Road.


The highway program in Brattleboro
as mapped out by Road Commissioner
Charles j. Dube and District Highway
Commissioner David 7. Perry contem-
plates an active season of road work
The roads in many of the outlying dis
tricts already have been given atten-
tion, and in general the highways are
in good condition, but much remains to
be done. The department is cleaning
the streets and removing the debris.
and in this connection il should be said
that if abutting land owners will clean
up their premises the town teams will
| carry off the waste material without
charge. Persons ought not, however. to
place debris in the cutters after they
have been cleaned by the road men, as
the rain washes it into the drains and
clogs the surface sewers.
| 1t is expected that man will come
here Tuesday TO attach the new scarifier
| 20 the road roller, and when this Is done
Linden street from the Wells fountain
north to Chaplin street and Putnny road
| from the fountain north to the common
will be dug up and re-surfaced with
| three quarter inch stone and pea stone
and rolled. Ultimately those sections
viii be covered with asphalt, but lack
of material prevents that being done
at present.
/ Two carloads of crushed stone of
the same dimensions as those already
mentioned have been ordered for re-
surfacing Main street, and they are
expected the latter part of next week,
but just when the work of repairing
the street will be started has not been
decided. 1t is well known that new
gas and water pipes ought to be laid
before much permanent work on the
street is done, otherwise there will he
a continual digging up of the street
such as already is being done.
The frequent appearance of holes in
Main street where the new drainage
pipe was laid last winter were expected
as soon as the ground settled. Road
Commissioner DUDE plans to run the
road roller over that section of tht
street soon to break down the arches
: under which the workmen tunnelle6
when laying the pipe. The depression
/, will then be filed in and rolled.
4 commissioner DuDe Is moving tns
!. yard equipment from Flat street to tn,
, ! gravel deposit on South Main, stree
which the town recently bought anl
which will be developed, The crushed
y stone in the yard will be used on Fla
street westward from the Dewitt
grocery plant as far as it will go.
1t has been decided to expend tn
state money available for unselecte'
J roads on Ames hill, beginning where tn
e work was left last fall. The state mon
r ey for selected roads will be spent be
d tween the Retreat and the Dummersto
D line. The road viii be widened in sew
N eral places and the bitches improved
D. Nothing of permanent nature ha
n yet been done on the suspension bridg
IL road, where there was washout las
d. spring, but that will be taken care oi
rs it is understood, by the Connection
O. River Power Co.
Paschal Ricci of Rutland, who bega
last year contract job on the Mar
en- boro road, will resume work there d
r. rectly A road roller for that work a
rived in Brattleboro yesterday.