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James E. Sullivan, Highland street, had . 436
Eight persons had one each.
And said Barrett, Carter, Dean, Donley, Drugan, Finn, Guild, Haynes and Morse were declared elected.
In answer to the question, Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquor in this town, the town voted :
Yes,
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No,
643
Blanks,
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In answer to the question, Shall an Act passed by the Legisla- ture of the Commonwealth in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled "An Act authorizing towns and cities to lay out Public Parks within their limits," be accepted, the town voted :
Yes,
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No,
107
Blanks,
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By reason of some unknown defect in the ballot box in which the ballots were cast by the men, said box did not correctly reg- ister the number cast, two ballots having registered two numbers each instead of one, but all said ballots were cast into said boxes and were duly cancelled thereby.
'The polls were closed, on motion, at 5.40 o'clock P. M., after which the Moderator appointed as the Committee under the By- laws, to whom were referred the remaining Articles of the warrant, the following persons :- Stephen M. Weld, Henry C. Bigelow, Don Gleason Hill, John R. Bullard, Joseph A. Laforme, John B. Fisher, Charles J. Hurley, Simon W. Hatheway, Luther A. Eaton, Charles H. J. Kimball, John Crowley, Robert H. O. Schulz, James T. Clark, J. Varnum Abbott, Heman W. Chaplin, John Dean and Samuel C. French, who with Thomas P. Murray, chair-
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man of the Selectmen and Assessors ; Howard Colburn, chair- man of the Overseers of the Poor ; Frederick D. Ely, chairman of the School Committee; and William C. Williams, Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, members ex-officiis, make the full committee of twenty-one.
Voted that all the remaining officers not voted for by ballot, except Park Commissioners, be appointed by the Selectmen. Voted that when this meeting adjourns it be to the first Monday of April next, at this place, at 7.30 o'clock p. m.
After the declaration of the vote, all the ballots cast at said election were sealed up in an envelope, and endorsed thereon by the Moderator, and the check lists used were also sealed up, and also being endorsed thereon by the Moderator and Ballot Clerks, respectively, were all placed in the custody of the Town Clerk.
And on motion, at nine o'clock p. m., the meeting was ad- journed to the first Monday of April next, at 7.30 o'clock p. m., as aforesaid, at this place.
Attest : DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
OFFICE OF THE SELECTMEN.
Dedham, Mass., Nov. 22, 1893.
At a meeting of the Board held this day, the following vote was passed :
Voted : That the petition of the Postal Telegraph Cable Co. and the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. of Massa- chusetts, of date the 15th inst., for permission for an attachment of the telephone and telegraph wires of said New England Tele- phone and Telegraph Co. of Massachusetts to poles of the Postal Telegraph Cable Co., on Washington street, between the Boston and Norwood lines, in the manner provided by agreement be- tween the petitioners, be, and the same is hereby granted.
THOMAS P. MURRAY, ) Selectmen HENRY E. FRENCH, of J. EVERETT SMITH, Dedham.
Feb. 24, 1894. Received, entered and examined.
By DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
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OFFICE OF SELECTMEN, Dedham, Mass., March 8, 1894. To DON GLEASON HILL, EsQ., Town Clerk, Dedham, Mass. :
Dear Sir :
At a meeting of the Board of Selectmen, held Wednesday, March 7th, the following appointments were made, in accordance with the vote passed at the town meeting held March 5, that "all remaining town officers not elected by ballot be appointed by the Selectmen."
Field Drivers.
John E. Kelly, Dennis Haley, Henry Bingham.
Fence Viewers.
Thomas Murphy, Eben T. Paul.
Surveyors of Lumber.
Hiram Hinckley, Francis Turner.
Measurers of Wood and Bark.
Frank M. Bailey, P. O'Sullivan, Elijah W. Bonnemort, Charles H. Ellis, George P. Goding, Nathaniel Morse, John F. Shine.
Weighers of Hay and Coal.
Frank M. Bailey, George A. French, Jeremiah Sullivan, Chauncey S. Churchill, Charles Russell, Daniel W. Bonney, Edward Moffette, J. Everett Smith.
Town Solicitor.
Alonzo B. Wentworth.
Yours respectfully,
GEO. W. WEATHERBEE, Clerk.
Attest : DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Office of the Secretary, Boston, March 8, 1894.
I hereby certify, that it appears by a return made to this office by the Selectmen and Town Clerk of Dedham, dated March 7, 1894, that Chapter one hundred and fifty-four of Our Legis- lative Acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled "An Act authorizing towns and cities to lay out Public Parks within their limits," was, at the annual town meeting, held March 5, 1894, accepted by said town.
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In Testimony of which I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, on the day of the date first [State Seal.] above written.
WM. M. OLIN, Secretary of the Commonwealth.
OFFICE OF SELECTMEN.
Dedham, Mass., March 28th 1894.
Permission is hereby given the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company of Massachusetts to erect and maintain poles, and wires thereon, in the following named street or way in said town : High street, between Court street and residence of H. W. Chaplin.
The above permit is granted under the conditions set forth in grant dated July 26th, 1893, for locations on High and other streets in the town.
THOMAS P. MURRAY, GEORGE W. WEATHERBEE, J. EVERETT SMITH, DAVID NEAL, F. F. FAVOR,
Selectmen of Dedham.
Received and recorded in the records of the town of Ded- ham, Mass., this 29th day of March, 1894.
Attest : DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
TOWN MEETING WARRANT.
[Town Seal.]
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS. To any Constable of the Town of Dedham, in said County, Greeting :
You are hereby required, in the name of the Commonwealth aforesaid, to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town of Ded- ham, qualified to vote in town affairs, to assemble at Memorial Hall, in said town, on Monday, the second day of April, A. D. 1894, at seven o'clock in the evening, then and there to act on the following articles, namely :
Article One-To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
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Article Two-To raise and appropriate money to meet defi- ciencies for the past year.
Article Three-To see if the Town will amend its By-Laws by adopting a by-law requiring owners or tenants of estates abut- ting them to remove snow from sidewalks covered with stone, brick, concrete or planks.
Article Four-To see if the Town will amend its By-Laws relating to driving or propelling vehicles on the sidewalks, and relating to obstructing travel on sidewalks.
Article Five-To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, to defray the expenses of open air concerts during the summer of 1894.
Article Six-To raise and appropriate money to pay the bal- ance of the cost of the new Almshouse buildings above the previous appropriation made therefor, and see if the Town will insure the Almshouse buildings.
Article Seven-To see if the Town will authorize the Selec- men and Town Treasurer to borrow money in anticipation of the collection of taxes for the current year, to be paid therefrom.
Hereof fail not, but make return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, unto the Selectmen, on or before said day and time.
Given under our hands and the seal of said Town of Dedham aforesaid, this twenty-first day of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety-four.
THOMAS P. MURRAY, J. EVERETT SMITH, FERDINAND F. FAVOR, DAVID NEAL, Dedham.
Selectmen of
GEORGE W. WEATHERBEE, -
On this warrant the following return was made :-
Norfolk, ss.
Dedham, April 2, 1894.
By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the legal voters of the Town of Dedham, aforesaid, to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes specified in said warrant, by posting attested copies thereof in each of the post offices in said town, and in twenty other public places in said town, seven days at least before the day of said meeting, and by causing an attested copy thereof to be published twice before the time of said meeting
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in the Dedham Transcript, a newspaper published in said Town of Dedham.
JOHN DEAN, Constable of Dedham.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, ss.
At a meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Dedham, in said County, qualified to vote in town affairs, held in pursuance of the foregoing warrant, at Memorial Hall, on Monday, the 2d day of April, A. D. 1894, the meeting was called to order at the time mentioned in said warrant, by Don Gleason Hill, the Town Clerk, who presided at the choice of Moderator.
Article One-Alonzo B. Wentworth was chosen Moderator, by written ballot, in receiving which the check list was used.
Article Two-Voted to raise and appropriate eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars to meet the deficiencies for the past year.
Article Three-Voted not to amend the Town by-laws under this article.
Article Four-Voted not to amend the Town by-laws under this article.
Article Five-Voted to raise and appropriate one hundred and fifty dollars to defray ths expenses of open air concerts dur- ing the summer of 1894.
Article Six-Voted to appropriate the sum of two thousand dollars, to pay the balance of the cost of the new Almshouse buildings and to pay for insuring the same. .
Voted to borrow said sum of two thousand dollars on the note of the town, payable in eight years, at a rate of interest not exceeding four per cent per annum, and that the Selectmen and Treasurer be authorized to sign said note on behalf of the town. On said last named vote one hundred and sixty-seven per- sons voted in the affirmative and two persons in the negative, and the Moderator declared the same as passed by a two-thirds vote of the town.
Article Seven-Voted to authorize the Selectmen and Town Treasurer to borrow money in anticipation of the collection of taxes for the current year, to be paid therefrom.
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And on motion, at twenty-five minutes past seven o'clock P. M., the meeting was dissolved.
Attest : DON GLEASON HILL,
Town Clerk.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, ss.
At a meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Dedham, in said County, qualified to vote in town affairs, held at Memorial Hall, in said Dedham, on Monday, the second day of April, A. D. 1894, by adjournment from the fifth day of March, 1894, the meet- ing was called to order at half-past seven o'clock by the Moder- ator, and the business thereof proceeded as follows :
The 'Committee of twenty-one, through their chairman, John R. Bullard, presented their report and the same was accepted. (See report on file.)
Article Three-Voted to accept the report of the Auditors of the Treasurer's and Collector's accounts.
Article Four-Voted to accept the list of Jurors, as prepared by the Selectmen and posted according to law, the names of Moses G. Boyd, Crawford R. Brown, John P. Cutter and Charles B. Trefrey being first by vote stricken from the list. The list as amended and adopted is as follows :
Frank M. Bailey, Fred A. Baker, Edwin W. Baker, Willie W. Baker, James B. Baker, Jr., Harry W. Beal, Henry C. Bigelow, Harlan P. Bixby, George E. Brown, John D. Clifton, Allen Col- burn, John Crowley, Charles H. Crane, George A. Chute, William O. Churchill, Orin T. Clisby, Roger A. Clogher, Patrick F. Cor- bett, Arthur B. Cutter, Frank E. Draper, Charles B. Danforth, Aaron Ellsworth, Richard M. Finn, Lawrence W. Feeney, Arthur B. Farrington, Albert F. Fisher, John B. Fisher, Frank Fisher, John L. Fisher, Henry E. French, William H. French, George A. French, Samuel C. French, Peter B. Gaffney, William B. Goding, William B. Gould, Charles R. Griggs, Ernest Halbauer, Edward M. Johnson, Edward P. Kelly, Daniel V. Kelly, Henry L. Libby, Jacob Lorio, Michael J. Moloney, William A. Morrell, Thomas Murphy, Edward J. McManus, Lester A. Newcomb, David Neal, Patrick A. Nolan, Patrick O'Sullivan, John W. Perry, Ebenezer T. Paul, Henry L. Pettee, Fred E. Robinson, Matthias Ridley,
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John M. Schuler, William Schlusemeyer, Fred S. Soule, William T. Tapley, Charles W. Tucker, Horatio G. Turner, Edward A. Watson, George E. Wilson, Isaac W. White, Geo. W. Weatherbee, Joseph H. Walley, John Wardle, Jr., Charles S. Woods.
Article Five-Voted to accept the report of the Committee on the distribution of the interest of the Damon and Draper dona- tions (see Report on file). Said report showed fifty-three -36% dol- lars received and distributed during the year, and the Town chose John W. Chase and Willie W. Baker the committee to distribute the interest from said funds the ensuing year.
Article Six-Voted to authorize the Collector of Taxes to use the same means as town treasurer may use when acting as the collector.
Article Seven-Voted to appropriate the sum of forty-eight thousand nine hundred and fifteen 0% dollars to defray the inci- dental and other necessary expenses of the town, not otherwise provided for, for the ensuing year as follows :
Town Clerk,
$150 00
Town Treasurer,
350 00
Board of Health, salaries, .
150 00
Miscellaneous expenses of above,
300 00
Registrars of Voters, .
200 00
Cemetery Commissioners,
100 00
Selectmen, . .
800 00
Overseers of the Poor,
400 00
Assessors,
1,000 00
Superintendent of Streets, .
1,400 00
Abatement of Taxes, .
1,200 00
Police,
3,000 00
Printing, advertising and stationery, .
1,150 00
Poor in and out of almshouse,
7,500 00
Insane and reform school, .
2,500 00
Lock-up,
700 00
Fire Department,
3,700 00
Lighting streets,
8,000 00
Water,
5,270 00
High School note and interest,
3,120 00
Tax Collector,
950 00
. Miscellaneous,
1,200 00
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Almshouse note and interest, · 2,575 99
Furnishings for almshouse and farm, .
1,200 00
Removing snow and ice,
2,000 00
$48,915 99
Article Eight-Voted to raise and appropriate two hundred dollars for the decoration of soldiers graves.
Article Nine-Voted to raise and appropriate two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars for the Dedham Public Library. Voted that it is the sense of this meeting that the Trustees of the Public Library, consider the expediency of establishing a branch library, at East Dedham, and also the committee on the Avery Schoolhouse building, appointed under Articles 14, 15 and 16 of the warrant, consider the expediency of providing suitable accom- modations for such branch library, in the proposed new Avery Schoolhouse building.
Article Ten-Voted to raise and appropriate, to keep the cemeteries in repair, the sum of one thousand dollars for Brook- dale Cemetery, four hundred dollars for the Old Cemetery, and one hundred and fifty dollars for Cemetery at West Dedham.
Article Eleven-Voted to authorize the Collector of Taxes to charge six per cent on all taxes not paid Nov. 1st, 1894.
Artice Twelve-Voted to raise and appropriate for the sup- port of public schools and the payment of the salary of the super- intendent of schools, for the ensuing year, the sum of thirty-eight thousand and fifty ($38,050.00) dollars.
Article Thirteen-Voted to appropriate the amount received from other towns tor scholars attending the public schools in Dedham for contingent expenses of the public schools.
Articles Fourteen, Fifteen and Sixteen-By vote these three articles were taken up and considered together, and it was voted : That a committee of five, consisting of H. W. Chaplin, T. P. Murray, Alfred Hewins, Jas. T. Clark, and R. H. O. Schulz be appointed to take into consideration the whole subject matter contained in Articles 14, 15 and 16; that said committee be in- structed to procure a plan or plans for a new schoolhouse to be erected for the use of the Avery School, together with estimates of the cost of the same, and to report on all matters connected .with these three articles at the earliest practicable day, either at
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an adjournment of this meeting, or to a subsequent town meeting which the Selectmen are hereby requested to call, when said com- mittee is ready to report.
Article Seventeen-Voted to indefinitely postpone this article.
Article Eighteen-Voted to raise and appropriate for the re- pairs of highways, sidewalks, and lumber for repairs of bridges and railings, the sum of eleven thousand five hundred (11,500.00) dollars.
Article Nineteen-Voted to accept as a town way the private way lying between Court street and Marsh street, as laid out by the Selectmen. (See Report, in Highway Book, p. 140.)
Articles Twenty, Twenty-one, Twenty-two and Twenty-three. Under each of these four articles the Town voted to indefinitely postpone the same.
Article Twenty-four-Voted to instruct the Superintendent of Streets to pay the laboring men two dollars per day, and nine hours to constitute a day's work.
Article Twenty-five-Voted to refer the subject matter of this article to a committee consisting of the Moderator, Alonzo B. Wentworth, John R. Bullard and Elisha Greenhood.
Article Twenty-six-Voted to indefinitely postpone this article.
Voted that it is the sense of the Town that the Selectmen at once petition the County Commissioners to widen Washington street, from High street to Bryant street.
Voted that this meeting be adjourned, to meet at this place on Monday next, April 9th, at half past seven o'clock P. M.
Attest : DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, ss.
At a meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Dedham, qualified to vote in town affairs, held at Memorial Hall on Mon- day, the ninth day of April, A. D. 1894, by adjournment from the second day of said April. The meeting was called to order by the Moderator, Alonzo B. Wentworth, at half past seven o'clock . P. M., and the business proceeded as follows:
Voted to take up Article Forty-seven.
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Article Forty-seven-Voted to appropriate the sum of five thousand dollars to continue the work of permanently improving the sidewalks in town.
Voted to authorize the Selectmen and town treasurer to borrow said sum of five thousand dollars on the notes of the town payable one thousand dollars each in one, two, three, four and five years respectively, at a rate of interest not exceeding four per cent. per annum. And on said last named vote one hundred and seventy-six persons voted in the affirmative and two persons voted in the negative, and the Moderator declared the same as passed by a two-thirds vote of the town.
Voted that it is the sense of this meeting that so far as prac- ticable said work be done by inhabitants of the town.
Article 28-Voted to accept the report of the Committee ap- pointed at the annual town meeting in 1893, under article 36 of the warrant for that meeting, relating to public playgrounds, parks, etc.
And said report was as follows:
Report on Public Playgrounds, &c.
The committee appointed at the annual town meeting, 1893, under article 36 of the warrant, "to see what action the town will take to select, purchase and maintain public playgrounds, parks, etc., etc.," beg leave to submit the following report :-
During the past year your committee have devoted consider- able time in examining the needs of Dedham in the matter of parks, playgrounds and open reservations. The time has come for the town to take this matter into serious consideration.
As the years go by, suitable locations for such public pur- poses, one after another, are being improved by private owners for private occupation, thereby increasing the market value there- of, and greatly increasing the cost to the town should it desire to take these locations under the statutes passed to enable towns to provide for such public places.
It will occur to any one, if he will stop to consider the matter, that there are locations which, if they had been appro- priated by the town twenty or thirty years ago, could have been obtained at much less cost than they can be obtained at this time; and in the natural order of things, as the years go by, the value
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of lands desirable for such purposes will continue to increase, and with improvements which are likely to be placed thereon, will soon be entirely beyond our reach.
Dedham to-day has few public reservations,-the great common, as formerly called, or the old training-field, has several times been reduced in size by sales therefrom, and some years ago a public street was laid out directly through it, dividing it into two small lots. This might be greatly beautified and im- proved by the town at little expense, but it is too small and in too thickly settled a community to answer the purpose of a public playground.
A place for this purpose, of larger dimensions, should be selected not too far from this village, and if possible, one having direct communication with the river, which can be provided with suitable bathing accommodations.
It must also be borne in mind that we have two principal villages, both of which should be accommodated, either by one location which should accommodate both, or by two separate lo- cations, one for each village.
Already, by the advance of improvements, the boys have been excluded from open fields where heretofore they had free course by sufferance if not by direct permission ; but they should be provided with a place where they can go and exercise as a matter of right.
Hundreds of dollars are spent in the ventilation of our schoolhouses, because the state has taken that matter in hand and compels us to care for the life and health of the children while they are in the school room. It is as much importance to the health of the children that they should have suitable exercise out of school, and while the state has not as yet compelled towns to provide public playgrounds, etc., it has passed acts which enable towns to provide them.
Laws and by-laws are constantly being passed prohibiting the children playing in the public streets, but as yet our town has provided no place as a substitute therefor.
Other towns in our vicinity have already taken this matter in hand. Shall Dedham take rank behind them in public improve- ments, when it can now provide them at a price less than it will cost at a subsequent time ?
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We believe that it is for the interest of this town to accept the provisions of the Act of 1882, Chapter 154, entitled : "An act authorizing towns and cities to lay out public parks within their limits," also of any acts in amendment thereof ; and of the Acts of 1893, Chapters 225 and 331, the first entitled : "An act to authorize cities and towns to establish and maintain public play grounds ; the second entitled : "An act relative to leasing open spaces for gardens and playgrounds by cities and towns."
These acts should be accepted before the annual town meet- ing, so that the commissioners can be eleeted with the other town officers. This action does not necessarily require the appropria- tion of money during the present year, but it does constitute an official board, in whose hands the best interests of the town, with . regard to this matter, would be committed, and whose duty it would be to officially investigate the entire subject, and take ad- vantage of any opportunity which might arise, and whose powers and duties are fully set forth in said acts.
CHAS. H. SHRIVER, HOWARD COLBURN, H. B. ENDICOTT, JOHN H. BURDAKIN, JOHN CROWLEY,
Committee.
Article Twenty-nine-Voted to elect at the next annual town meeting, by ballot, three competent persons as a Board of Park Commissioners to hold for the term of one year.
Article Thirty-Voted that hereafter Park Commissioners be elected by ballot at the annual election of town officers, and that their term of office be fixed at one year.
Article Thirty-one-Voted that the subject matter of this article be referred to the Selectmen with instructions to report thereon to the town.
- Article Thirty-two-Voted to instruct the Board of Health to make such arrangements or contracts as they deem best for the interests of the town in relation to the removal of garbage, refuse and offal, and to authorize them to expend for such purpose a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars.
Article Thirty-three-Voted that the subject matter of this article be referred to the same committee appointed at the annual town meeting of 1893, under article 35 of the warrant for that
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meeting, namely: John R. Bullard, Thomas H. Wakefield and Heman W. Chaplin.
Article Thirty-four-Under this article the town passed the following resolution and vote, namely:
Resolved, that whereas the New York and New England rail- road and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad have provided culverts unsuitable to properly carry off the waters of Little Wigwam and Wigwam ponds and swamp, and that by reason of such insufficient provision the waters of Little Wigwam pond and Wigwam pond are held and dammed back to an extent detrimental and injurious to the surrounding territory and to the general welfare of the town : Now, therefore, the Town of Ded- ham considers it the duty of the said railroad corporations to re- pair and rebuild such culverts so that a free and unobstructed passageway for such waters may be had at an elevation sufficient to give the necessary drainage.
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