The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-01-11
'BARRE'S POOR
COST S1S,O52
Slight Reduction Over Ex-
penses Of Previous
Year
COST LESSENED
BY ORGANIZATIONS
Overseer's Report Submit
ted Last Night Along
With Others

The total cost Of the charity depart
ment Of Barre during the year 1927
was SIS s,052.sl, according to the annual
report submitted to the board Of alder
men last night by 0verseer II. William
Scott. This amount was approximatels
$l,7S5 less than it was for the proceed
ing year. During that perio6 the de-
partment was administered by three
different officials Miss Louise Nj. Grid
ley for the first three months, George
II. Bap for nearly two months there
after and Mr., Scott for the balance 81
the year.
In his report. Oyerscer Scott as
serted that it has been a year Of many
calls and that approximately 314 dif-
ferent persons had been helped during
the year. Il have tried to provide for
all necessities. and not to give luxury
to anyone" Mr. Scott reports.
That no small amount of credit Is
due the churches and che fraternal or
ders of the city for keeping down the
expenses of the department at time
when the need is unusually large II
freely acknowledged by the overseer
who says that "if it all depended upon
the public treasury it would be very
mdch larger than 1t now appears, but
the churches and all fratcrnal orders
are doing very much to help the
needy
One of the paragraphs of oserseer
Scott's report states "A short term in
this Office would convince anyone that
liquor is directly respon
sible for the larger part Of our eN-
pense, aud indirectly responsible for
much more"
Many annual reports were submitted
last night, several of which related to
streets and street work. Street Super
A. A. Freeman went into
some details ON the work done under
his direction. One item was the spread
ing Of 1907 loads of gravel ON seven
streets and around the city park. II
addition, 1890 loads qf ashes were
placed on streets. A new domestic sew
ar was built on Fairview street, and
the department has rebuilt Al old man |
holes and eatch-b basins. Freeman alsb
mentions the completion Of l05a5E
feet Of concrete road on North Main !
street. Heavy showers during the sum
ner cost the department much extrf |
money.
The total amount expended by the
department. during the wear was s52,
t2G.6l, according to the annual. report /
If the street committee. OF that
lmount S24.s496s came back to the
ity, leaving the net cost as $27 .l76.93.
During the year the department bought
cement mixer. street sweeper and
tractor. The committee recommends
hat permanent street work in 1922 be
n Washington street, beginning at
he junction of Main and Elm streets,
City Engineer Ruggles' report coy
red much the same ground as the 9th
RS Just mentioned He laid consider
bic emphasis on the condition of the
ridgp4. saying: "The Granite street
ridge is safe for light loads only and
hould be replaced. The Blackwell
treet bridge was found in much worse
than last year and is in a
angerous condition. The bridge was
raped and painted and a new side
ak and UNDERTAKING laid, but the
ridge itself has lost at least half its
riginal strength due TO careless paint
lg in former years. Slight repairs on
le other bridges have been brought
, the attention OF the street depart
enf.