Town annual report of Swampscott 1904, Part 1

Author: Swampscott, Massachusetts
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: The Town
Number of Pages: 278


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TOWN DOCUMENTS.


FIFTY-SECOND


ANNUAL REPORT


OF THE


Town of Swampscott, Mass.


FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 26, 1904.


TLED A.D. 1629


SET


INCORP


T.A. D. 1852.


RATED


AS


SWAN


LYNN, MASS. : WHITTEN & CASS, PRINTERS 1904


TOWN DOCUMENTS.


FIFTY-SECOND


ANNUAL REPORT


OF THE


Town of Swampscott, Mass.


FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 26, 1904.


SETTLED


A.D. 1629


· INCORPORATE


TT. A.D. 1852


AS


SWAN


LYNN, MASS. : WHITTEN & CASS, PRINTERS 1904


2


TOWN DOCUMENTS.


[Feb. 20


Index.


1


REPORTS OF COMMITTEES, TOWN OFFICIALS AND PUBLIC PROPERTY.


PAGE.


Auditors' Remarks .


256


Cemetery Superintendent's Report .


I16


Fire Engineer's Report


109


Health, Board of, Report .


122


Inspector of Cattle, Swine and Provisions' Report


120


Jurors, List of .


71


Kings Beach Park Joint Committee Report


Library Trustees' Report .


114 128


Milk Inspector's Report


121


Park Commissioners' Report


II3


Police Report


IOI


Public Property, Schedule of


II


School Committee's Report


78


Sewer Commissioners' Report


I37


Sewer Engineer's Report .


144


Sealer of Weights and Measures


I26


Selectmen's Report .


Sinking Fund Commissioners' Report


73 135


Standing Committees


IO


Street Light Committee's Report


127


Superintendent of Schools' Report


82 105


Town Clerk's Records


19


Town Clerk's Statistics


68


Town Officers Appointed


6


Town Officers Elected


4


Town Warrant .


~57


Tree Warden's Report


117


Truant Officer's Report .


Inn


Water Commissioners' Report .


120


Surveyor of Highways' Report


ERRATA.


On page 235, under the head of Sewer Department should read :


Holmes & Blanchard Co., supplies Honors, B. O. & Son, fuel . .


$6,669 42 102 38


ERRATA.


On page 214, under head of Salaries in Health Department, should read :


Nies, Martin E., inspector of plumbing $353 60


Stone, Jasper H. . .


85 00


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INDEX.


1904]


Index. FINANCIAL REPORTS.


PAGE.


Assessors' Library


·


· 231


Assessors' Plans .


230


Assessors' Safe


230


Assessors' Valuation


255


Beach Bluff Culvert


208


Buena Vista Street


208


Catch Basins and Gutters


Cemetery Department .


203 221 195


Concrete and Curbstones


204


County Tax


241


Crushed Stone


202


Financial Standing of Town


253


Fire Alarm Boxes


195 190 220


Health Department


213


Highway Department


196 206


Memorial Day


223


Monument Lot, Care of


223


Notes Payable


252


Park Department


216


Phillips School Medal Fund


IS7


Police Department


IS7 223


Recapitulation


250 205 207


Roy Street


209 206 IS2


Selectmen's Department


177


Sewer Bonds .


241


Sewer Reimbursement


231


Sewer Department


232


Sidewalks


200 226


Special Fire


194


State Tax


241


State Aid, Chapter 372 .


22S


State Aid, Chapter 374 .


129


Statistics of the Town


254


Street Light Department


211


Street Crossings


201


Street Watering


211


Swampscott Water Works


237


Tax Collector's Balance Sheet


244


Thomas Road Hydrant


210


Town Hall Department


2IS


Town Warrant, July 22, 1903, Art. II .


231


Town Warrant. Art. 15


232


Treasurer's Safe


230


Treasurer's Balance Sheets


246


Tree Warden .


212


Walker Road, Water Pipe


210


Water Rates .


213


Watering Cart


210


Interest .


242


Poor Department


Resetting Curbstones


Road Roller and Stone Crusher .


Roy Street Catch Basin


School Department


Soldiers' Relief


Fire Department


Free Public Library


Ingalls Terrace


Chemical House


4


TOWN DOCUMENTS.


[Feb. 20


Elected Town Officers.


Moderator. EDWARD H. THOMAS.


Selectmen. JOSEPH M. BASSETT, Chairman. CLARENCE B. DELANO. MARTIN L. QUINN.


Town Clerk. MILTON D. PORTER.


Treasurer. BENJAMIN O. HONORS.


Collector of Taxes. GEORGE T. TILL.


Auditors.


JOHN B. EARP, Chairman. HERMAN F. ASHTON.


L. FRANK CAHOON.


Assessors.


GILBERT DELANO, Chairman Term expires 1906.


EDWARD A. MAXFIELD, Clerk ·


1905.


ISAAC H. ANDREWS


.


1904.


School Committee.


CHARLES A. FLAGG, Chairman


SIDNEY E. BAILEY . · DANIEL E. BURTNER .


Term expires 1904.


1905.


66 66 1906.


.


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ELECTED TOWN OFFICERS.


1904]


Overseers of the Poor.


JOSEPH F. CROWELL, Chairman


Term expires 1904


THOMAS B. P. CURTIS


1905


CHARLES A. BLANCHARD


66 1906


Water Commissioners.


WILLIAM H. BATES, Chairman


Term expires 1905


CHARLES S. HASKELL . ·


66 1904


SAMUEL M. KEHOE


I 906


Public Library Trustees.


ELIZABETH J. HADLEY, Chairman .


Term expires 1906


FRANK E. INGALLS · .


66


1905


FRANK F. STANLEY


66


1904


Park Commissioners.


JEROME PAUL JACKSON, Chairman


Term expires 1905


FRED C. MARSH .


·


66 : 1904


JOHN J. BLANEY


66


1 906


Board of Health.


DR. FRANK B. STRATTON, Chairman


Term expires 1905


MICHAEL HALEY


1904


JASPER H. STONE


1906


Surveyor of Highways. IRVING I. EDGERLY.


Constables.


SAMUEL T. HARRIS. RICHARD G. GILLEY.


EDWIN G. SPAULDING.


Sewer Commissioners.


AARON R. BUNTING, Chairman Term expires 1904


OSCAR G. POOR


66


1 906


HENRY B. SPRAGUE


1,905


Tree Warden. 1


GEORGE NEWHALL.


2


·


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TOWN DOCUMENTS.


[Feb. 20


Appointed Town Officers.


Secretary of Selectmen. CHARLES G. ROWELL.


1


Town Counsel. WILLIAM H. NILES.


Librarian of Public Library. MISS S. L. HONORS.


Assistant Librarians.


CARL BAIN. RALPH H. RUSSELL.


Engineers of Fire Department.


GEORGE P. CAHOON Chief


GEORGE H. LAMPARD .


FRANK L. CHAPMAN


Ist Assistant


2d Assistant


Forest Fire Wardens.


GEORGE P. CAHOON. GEORGE H. LAMPARD.


FRANK L. CHAPMAN.


Regular Police. CHARLES H. DUNLAP, Chief.


JOHN C. WHORF. ADELBERT S. HAMMOND.


SAMUEL T. HARRIS. JOSEPH D. SPINNEY. CHARLES CONNELL.


Superintendent of Cemetery.


NATHAN M. HARRIS Resigned April 10, 1903 ·


JAMES P. M. S. PITMAN · Appointed April 17, 1903


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APPOINTED TOWN OFFICERS.


1904]


Superintendent of Burial of Deceased Soldiers and Sailors. MICHAEL HALEY.


Care of Monument Lot. EDWIN F. WILEY.


Inspector of Provisions and Animals Intended for Slaughter or Kept for Production of Milk. JAMES T. LYONS.


Milk Inspector. J. E. O. NISBETT.


Town Weigher. THEOPHILUS W. BRACKETT.


Fence Viewer. ORLANDO R. MILLETT.


Surveyor of Lumber and Measurer of Wood and Bark. FRED H. EASTMAN.


Sealer of Weights and Measures. MICHAEL HALEY.


Secretary of the Overseers of the Poor. MRS. L. E. KENDRICK.


Secretary of the Board of Health. WILBUR B. ADAMS.


Inspector of Plumbing. MARTIN E. NIES.


Agent of Town Hall. JAMES A. MOTT. (Deceased.)


Janitor of Town Hall. JAMES A. MOTT. (Deceased.)


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TOWN DOCUMENTS. [Feb. 20


Superintendent of Sewers. IRVING I. EDGERLY.


Clerk of Sewer Commissioners. GEORGE T. TILL.


Registrars of Voters.


ANDREW OLSEN, Chairman (Dem.) Term expires 1904 GEORGE C. WEBSTER, (Rep.) 66 1905


SIDNEY M. SHATTUCK, (Dem.)


1906


MILTON D. PORTER, (Rep.) (ex officio)


Inspectors of Election, March 16, 1903.


JAMES L. TAYLOR .


Republican


WILLIS C. PAUL


Democrat


Deputy Inspectors of Election, March 16, 1903.


JOHN I. ADAMS


Republican


ABRAM G. STONE .


Democrat


Tellers of Election, March 16, 1903.


W. H. WEBSTER


H. P. PETERS


Republican Republican


J. H. WIDGER


Republican


E. M. TUTTLE


Republican


B. F. RICH


Republican


F. V. PORTER


Republican Democrat


H. B. MARTIN


F. D. THURSTON


Democrat


W. H. COLLINS


Democrat


S. M. SHATTUCK


Democrat


B. MCDERMOTT Democrat


A. D. STONE


Democrat


Special Election Officer, November 3, 1903. MARTIN NIES . Democrat


Inspectors of Elections, November 3, 1903.


ERNEST B. THING . Republican Democrat


MICHAEL J. RYAN .


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APPOINTED TOWN OFFICERS.


1904]


Deputy Inspectors of Election, November 3, 1903.


FRANK H. BASSETT


GEORGE W. CAHOON


Republican Democrat


Tellers of Election, November 3, 1903.


A. F. PINE


Republican


F. H. BASSETT


Republican


W. H. WEBSTER


Republican


HARRY P. PETERS .


Republican


FRANK D. THURSTON


Democrat


JOHN W. THURSTON


Democrat


DANIEL J. KAIN


Democrat


BERNARD MCDERMOTT


Democrat


SAMUEL T. HARRIS. JOHN C. WHORF.


Constables. CHARLES H. DUNLAP. JOSEPH D. SPINNEY.


ADELBERT S. HAMMOND.


Keeper of Lockup. CHARLES H. DUNLAP.


Special Police.


RICHARD G. GILLEY.


GEORGE R. HUSSEY.


ELIAS G. HODGKIN.


JAMES A. MOTT.


PATRICK CRYAN.


J. P. M. S. PITMAN. JOSEPH W. GLASS.


LOUIS G. CLARK.


GEORGE H. REED.


JOHN BURNETT. JOHN F. WARD.


EDWARD G. SPAULDING.


LEMUEL W. PICKARD. B. G. PEDRICK. CHARLES Q. LOUD FRANK GRIFFIN.


GEORGE M. CONNOR.


FRANK E. POWERS. MICHAEL HALEY. B. F. REED.


LOUIS F. AMAZEEN.


SYLVESTER F. DOUGLASS. HORACE W. BLANCHARD. GEORGE NEWHALL. J. FRANK MOORE. WILLIAM R. BLANEY. SETH C. KENDRICK. ELMER I. THOMPSON.


GEORGE D. R. DURKEE. WM. C. MCNAMARA.


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TOWN DOCUMENTS. [Feb. 20


Pound Keeper. JEFFERSON G. OWENS. Field Driver. RICHARD G. GILLEY. Dog Officer. RICHARD G. GILLEY.


Standing Committees.


Committee on Street Lights.


EDWIN A. FARNHAM, Chairman. FRANK J. LINNEHAN. MARTIN L. QUINN.


JOHN R. MERRITT.


FRANK L. BONNEY.


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SCHEDULE OF PUBLIC PROPERTY.


1904]


Schedule of Public Property.


Miscellaneous.


Swampscott Water Works


$180,779 24


Town Hall and land


23,000 00


Public Library


5,000 00


Soldiers' Monument


3,000 00


Hay scales .


200 00


Portable safe


200 00


Steel box


25 00


Piano .


75 00


Standard weights and measures


100 00


Treasurer's safes .


295 00


Town Clerk's safe


.


75 00


Collector's safe .


50 00


$212,799 24


School Department.


Phillips School and land . $57,000 00


Redington Street School and land


5,000 00


Beach School and land


.


4,000 00


Pine Street School and land


4,500 00


Essex Street School and land


8,000 00


Farm School and land


2,000 00


Land, Essex street, opposite Cemetery . Chemical Laboratory .


300 00


Laboratory supplies


400 00


School furniture . ·


·


.


·


2,300 00


School supplies . .


Soo oo


.


1,900 00


-$86,200 00


1


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TOWN DOCUMENTS.


[Feb. 20


Cemetery Department.


Receiving tomb


·


·


.


. $2,000 00


Old tomb


.


·


.


.


20 00


House . .


500 00


Implements


45 00


$2,565 00


Police Department.


Nine revolvers


$45 00


Forty-eight badges


55 00


Nine handcuffs


29 00


Nine twisters


9 00


Ten billies


10 00


Seventeen helmets


30 00


One gun


20 00


One cap


3 00


Six belts and clubs


7 50


Six lanterns .


3 50


Five chairs


7 50


One table


3 50


One gas heater


3 00


One Public Statute


4 25


Thirty-two dozen buttons


19 CO


One stop watch


7 00


·


·


$256 25


1904]


Fire Department.


Engine house, New Ocean Street . $6,750 00


Land and storage building 1,500 00


Mountain Park hose house and land 500 00


Steam fire engine .


3,600 00 .


Hose wagon .


450 00


Ladder truck .


Two crow-bars, 9 ladder hose straps, 2


hay hooks, 2 hay forks


·


One 30-foot ladder ·


Two 25-foot ladders


One 22-foot ladder


One 20-foot ladder


400 00


Two 17-foot ladders


One 10-foot ladder


.


One 50-foot ladder


.


One 18-foot extension ladder


Four fire-hooks.and poles


Two axes


Six coal baskets, 5 hydrant wrenches


19 00


One supply wagon


75 00


One syphon .


17 00


One army coat


2 50


Twenty-two alarm boxes


1,590 00


Stable tools


15 00


Fire alarm bell, Town Hall


800 00


Two fire-alarm strikers, one at Town Hall, one at Congregational church


550 00


Three gongs .


166 00


Three tappers


45 00


Four hand chemicals


80 00


Two steam whistles


500 00


Eight horses .


1,625 00


Three sets double harness


450 00


Amount carried forward


$19,134 50


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SCHEDULE OF PUBLIC PROPERTY.


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[Feb. 20


Amount brought forward, $19,134 50


One single harness


35 00


One three-horse hitch


150 00


Eight horse blankets in good order


40.00


Two old blankets ..


3 00


Furniture and bedding


75 00


Supplies for batteries


100 00


Five play pipes


100 00


Twenty-four spanners


6 00


Two wagon-jacks


6 50


Nine lanterns


4 50


Thirty-one rubber coats


92 00


Canvas life net


20 00


Life sheet


35 00


One shut-off nozzle


15 00


One shut-off gate


20 00


One plaster hook


3 00


Thirty-two badges


24.00


One repeater .


300 00


One tape register


60 00


Two indicators


225 00


One nickle iron bar


4 00


One patent horse collar


15 00


Old ladders


20 00


18 feet soft suction .


12 00


One heater for steamer


25 00


One pump


20 00


One hydrant pump


6 00


Eighty-six hydrants


2, 150 00.


One light wagon


50 00


Hose reel and 300 feet hose, wrench


and two spanners at John Shep-


ard's, Atlantic avenue


200 00


Amount carried forward, $22,950 50


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1904] SCHEDULE OF PUBLIC PROPERTY.


Amount brought forward $22,950 50


Hose reel and 300 feet hose, wrench and two spanners at John Palmer's stable, Humphrey street · Hose reel and 300 feet hose, wrench and two spanners at Lynn & Bos- ton R. R. stables, Essex street


200 00


200 00


Hose reel and 400 feet hose, wrench, one axe, two spanners at Mountain Park Hose House ·


250 00


Hose reel and 400 feet hose, wrench and spanners at Lincoln House . Two hundred and fifty feet hose, wrench and two spanners at Evans & Cole's stable, Orient street


250 00


Twenty-seven hundred feet cotton hose, rubber lined, two and one- half inch ·


1,350 00


Eight hundred feet cotton hose, rub- ber lined, two and one-half inch, worthless.


Chemical House, Phillips' Beach.


Chemical House and land


·


8,400 00


One chemical engine


.


2,225 00


Two hand chemicals


50 00


One indicator


90 00


One gong


45 00


Two horses


450 00


One set double harnesses


90 00


Two horse blankets


12 00


Furniture and bedding


75 00


Supplies


160 00 - $36,922 50


125 00


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TOWN DOCUMENTS.


[Feb. 20


Highway Department.


Road roller


· $3,250 00


Stone crusher plant


3,600 00


Gravel bank, Marblehead


500 00


Storage building, New Ocean street . 400 00


Land with same


400 00


Three street watering carts


750 00


Victor road machine


150 00


Six snow ploughs .


235 00


Tool house


.


25 00


Two tool boxes


10 00


· Two sets double harness


87 00


Two sets lead harness


21 00


Five horse collars


15 00


One cart harness


15 00


One four-wheel tip-cart


156 00


One-horse tip-cart


70 00


One two-horse roller


225 00


Tools


325 00


100 ton crushed stone


125 00


Supplies for crusher and roller


1 .


75 00


-$10,434 00


Assessors' Department.


Plans and maps


· $3,000 00


Safe


90 00


Desk


.


25 00


Table


25 00


Chairs .


51 00


Cabinet and cards .


55 00


.


.


$3,246 00


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SCHEDULE OF PUBLIC PROPERTY.


1904]


Health Department.


Twenty-one generators


$50 00


One wheelbarrow .


2 00


One dory


15 00


One pair oars


I 00


Two lanterns


I 50


Four rakes


I 20


Three forks


I


35


· One trowel


I OO


Four garbage pails


5 00


Three garbage barrels


9 00


Lot and house, No. 7 Minerva street


2,100 00


New Contagious Hospital


2,032 00


Household goods at Hospital


186 22


Carriage


50 00


Carriage shed


84 00


Office furniture (Town Hall)


141 00


Flash light


3 00


$4,683 27


Sewer Department.


Pumping station


. $6,862 64


· Pumping plant


.


7,634 00


Land at station


1,144 63 ·


Office furniture and Fixtures


278 32


Material on hand .


·


887 49


-$16,807 08


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TOWN DOCUMENTS.


[Feb. 20


Summary.


Miscellaneous .


$212,799 24


School Department


86,200 00


Cemetery Department


2,565 00


Police Department .


256 25


Fire Department


36,922 50


Highway Department


10,434 00


Assessors' Department


3,246 00


Health Department


·


4,683 27


Sewer Department .


16,807 08


Total


$373,913 34


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RECORDS OF TOWN CLERK.


1904]


Records of the Town Clerk.


Annual Town Meeting, March 16, 1903.


TOWN WARRANT.


ESSEX, SS.


To either of the Constables of the Town of Swampscott, in said County, GREETING :


In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Swampscott, qualified to vote in elections, and in Town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall in said Swampscott, on Monday, the sixteenth day of March, current, at six o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles, viz :-


ARTICLE I. To choose a Moderator to preside in said meeting.


ART. 2. To choose a Town Clerk for one (1) year. To choose a Board of Selectmen for the year ensuing.


To choose one member of the Board of Assessors for two (2) years.


To choose one member of the Board of Assessors for three (3) years.


To choose a Town Treasurer for one (1) year.


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TOWN DOCUMENTS.


[Feb. 20


To choose a Collector of Taxes for the year ensuing.


To choose one member of the School Committee for one (1) year.


To choose one member of the School Committee for three (3) years.


To choose one member of the Board of Trustees of the Public Library for three (3) years.


To choose a Board of Auditors for the year en- suing.


To choose one Overseer of the Poor for three (3) years.


To choose one member of the Board of Health for three (3) years.


To choose a Surveyor of Highways for the year en- suing.


To choose three Constables for the year ensuing.


To choose a Park Commissioner for one (1 ) year.


To choose a Park Commissioner for three (3) years. To choose a Water Commissioner for three (3) years.


To choose a Sewer Commissioner for three (3) years.


To choose a Tree Warden for the year ensuing. All to be chosen on one ballot.


ART. 3. To vote by ballot "Yes" or "No" upon the ques- tion : Shall Licenses be granted for the sale of Intoxicating Liquors in this Town.


ART. 4. To hear and act upon the reports of the Auditing Committee, the Board of Selectmen, the School Committee, the Board of Trustees of the Public Library, the Engineers of the Fire Department, the Superintendent of Cemetery, the Board of Health, the Chief of Police, the Milk Inspector, the Committee on Street Lights, the Water Commissioners, the Surveyor of Highways, the Inspector of Cattle, Provisions, etc., the Park Commissioners, the Sewer Commissioners, the Tree Warden, and the Committee on the 50th Anniversary.


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1904]


ART. 5. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray Town charges for the ensuing year, and make appro- priations therefor.


ART. 6. To see if the Town will accept the list of names for Jurors, as prepared and posted by the Selectmen.


ART. 7. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Town Treasurer for the ensuing year.


ART. 8. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of taxes.


ART. 9. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Collector of Taxes for the ensuing year.


ART. IO. To see what action the Town will take in regard to the collection of taxes, and what rate of discount, if any, will be allowed for prompt payment on or before a certain date.


ART. II. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one hundred and fifty ($150) dollars to be placed in the hands of James L. Bates Post, 118, G. A. R., towards defraying the expenses of Memorial Day.


ART. 12. To get the sense of the voters of the Town as to whether it is advisable or not to lay out a Town Way from Essex street to Columbia street, conformable to plans on file in the Town Clerk's Office, or upon any other plan.


ART. 13. To see if the Town will amend Section 2 of Arti- cle 3 of the By-laws, so as to authorize the payment of money by the Town Treasurer, upon orders drawn by the Sewer Com- missioners, or a majority of the members of said Board.


ART. 14. To see what action the Town will take to fix the amount of salary for Town Officials for the ensuing year.


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TOWN DOCUMENTS.


[Feb. 20


ART. 15. To see if the Town will vote to pay George T. Till, Collector of Taxes for 1902 the full year's salary.


ART. 16. To see if members of the Board of Water Com- missioners shall be required to provide adequate bonds as is cus- tomary with all officers holding in trust the moneys of the Town, as petitioned for.


ART. 17. To see if the town will vote to give a lot of land on Pine street to the Woman's Relief Corps for the purpose of building a Grand Army Hall, and appropriate money for the foundation, as petitioned for.


ART. 18. To see what action the Town will take in regard to purchasing a safe and desk for the use of the Assessors, and appropriate money for the same.


ART. 19. To see what action the Town will take in provid- ing for and maintaining an additional or auxiliary piece of Fire Apparatus, to be stationed in the vicinity of Beach Bluff, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for.


ART. 20. To see what action the Town will take to erect and maintain a Fire Alarm Box at the junction of Farragut and Ellis roads, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for.


ART. 21. To see what action the Town will take to erect and maintain a Fire Alarm Box at the corner of Thomas and Elmwood roads, and appropriate money for the same, as pe- titioned for.


ART. 22. To see if the Town will place a hydrant at the cor- ner of Thomas and Elmwood Roads, with eight inch pipe run- ning from Burrill street, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for.


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· 1904]


ART. 23. To see if the Town will place an Incandescent Light in Mapledale avenue, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for.


ART. 24. To see if the Town will place an Electric Arc Light at the junction of Ellis road and the State Highway, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for.


ART. 25. To see what action the Town will take to properly light that part of the State Highway, which is east of the Rail- road bridge, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for.


ART. 26. To see what action the Town will take to move the street crossing across Humphrey street, opposite 374 to the foot of Ingalls terrace, and that a double crossing be laid instead of a single one, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for.


ART. 27. To see what action the Town will take in placing a Double Street Crossing across Maple avenue, where it connects with Columbia street, and another at the junction of Burrill street and Maple avenue, and appropriate money for the same, as pe- titioned for.


ART. 28. To see if the Town will construct a Street Cross- ing, running from 36 to 38 Orient street, across Marshall street, as petitioned for.


ART. 29. To see if the Town will place a Street Crossing on Sheridan Road near Walker road, also at the junction of Monument avenue and Walker road, and on Walker road near Outlook road, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for.


ART. 30. To see if the Town will accept Phillips avenue as laid out by the Selectmen, and reimburse the Phillips estate the value of water pipes in said street; and appropriate money for the same.


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TOWN DOCUMENTS. [Feb. 20


ART. 31. To see if the Town will accept Chatman avenue, as laid out by the Selectmen.


ART. 32. To see if the Town will accept Ingalls terrace, as laid out by the Selectmen, and appropriate money for the same.


ART. 33. To see if the Town will accept Grant road as laid out by the Selectmen.


ART. 34. To see if the Town will accept Hardy road as laid out by the Selectmen.


ART. 35. To see if the Town will accept Outlook road as laid out by the Selectmen.


ART. 36. To see what action the Town will take to appro- priate money for the improvement of Buena Vista street, as pe- titioned for.


ART. 37. To see if the Town will appropriate money to move and repair the old Stone Crusher, or to purchase a new portable one, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for.


ART. 38. To see if the Town will appropriate money for a Steam Road Roller, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for.


ART. 39. To see what action the Town will take towards securing Road Building Material from the owner of land on Elm- wood road, near the corner of Sheridan road, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for.


ART. 40. To see what action the Town will take to place a Catch Basin on Roy street, near Hillside avenue, and appro- priate money for the same.


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ART. 41. To see what action the Town will take to procure a suitable safe for the use of the Town Treasurer, and appro- priate money for the same.


ART. 42. To see if the Town will authorize and direct the Town Treasurer in the name and behalf of the Town to borrow such sums of money as may be needed for the use of the Sewer Commissioners in the extension of the system of Sewerage, in accordance with any vote which may be passed by the Town, or for the completion of the system already authorized, and to make all necessary provisions for the issue and payment of any notes or bonds authorized hereunder.


ART. 43. To see if the Town will authorize the Sewer Com- missioners to extend the Sewer on Orient street to connect with the Private Sewer built by Mr. F. P. Farrar on the Jeffries estate, and appropriate money for the same.


ART. 44. To see what action the Town will take to reim- burse the Sewer Commissioners the sum of Three Thousand Dollars, money expended to reconstruct the drain on the State highway and Burrill street, money to be raised by loan.


ART. 45. To see if the Town will instruct the Water Com- missioners to sell the whole or a part of the land on Pine street, formerly used in connection with the pumping station, together with the buildings thereon, and empower said Commissioners to convey the same.


ART. 46. To see what action the Town will take, that any one desiring to have a Water Meter, shall be permitted to have the same, by applying for the same to the Water Board, and shall have it put in, and any person having a meter put in their house, shall pay the price of the meter, and the rates shall be the same as in Lynn, Mass. No one shall be compelled to take a meter unless they wish the same, as petitioned for.


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ART. 47. To see what action the Town will take toward purchasing land for the purpose of making a Play Ground for the Town's children, to be in proximity of the Hay Scales, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for.


ART. 48. To see if the Town will instruct the Board of Health to dispose of the house and lot on Minerva street formerly used as a contagious hospital, and empower said Board to con- vey the same.


ART. 49. To see what action the Town will take, that the stage of the Town Hall be provided with a permanent front with drop curtain and settings of scenery and suitable drops for the interior of the stage, and the arch and side partitions of the old stage be removed, and that the Town appropriate Four Hundred Dollars for the same.




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