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Plymouth
George E. and Ella M.
Andrew N and Anna
Sweden
Sweden
Tom and Mary E.
England
England
William T and Elizabeth A.
Nova Scotia
Provincetown
Jeremiah J. and Grace C.
Plymouth
Plymouth
Elizabeth Agnes McMahon
Joseph Russell Dickson
Russell L. and Sarah H.
Plymouth
Harwich
Scituate
Scituate
Daniel and Dorothy
Germany
Germany
James A. and Minnie B.
Barns able
Sandwich
Paul and Marcelina
Canada
Canada
Roger Grant Morse
Joseph G. and Leonora W.
Fairhaven
Plymouth
Doris Pricilla Kellaway
Gordon Bradford Simmons
Ernest Harrison Ginhold
James Edwin Heywood
John and Jane M.
England
John and Delia
Nova Scotia
Rutland, Maine
Russell B and Leila L.
Plymouth
Plymouth
Robert and Susan
Plymouth
Nova Scotia
Benjamin D. and Annie B.
Charlestown
Duxbury
Aldo and Rosie
Italy
Italy
William H. H. and Lina M.
E. Bridgewater
Hanson
William E. and Marion A.
Plymouth
Plymouth
Martin and Elizabeth
Willard R. and Mary B.
Germany Plymouth
Germany Plymouth
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Aug.
Frances Le Baron Shurtleff Damo Pederzani Reggina Marsetta Petit Mary Manzi
22 22 22 22 25 25 29
Julia Clongh Annie Copeland Morton Alice Rogan
Austin Shaw Fratus
Eleanor Whiting Watson
Dorothy Holmes Savery
Wolcott S. and Helen S.
Plymouth
Plymouth 1
Elmer Thomas Doten
James Osburne Everett
Percey Clegg Haigh Donald Lewis Coville
Frances Wellington Lahey
John J. and Mertie M.
Ireland
Wellfleet
Catherine Margaret Tobin Henry Ruprecht Stevens
Wilfred Gange
Arthur W. and Marian K.
Newton
Newton Plymouth
Harry L. and Berthia E.
Kingston
George and Selma
Germany
Germany Ireland
Louisa Sampson
Edward Russell Burgess Alene Richardson Bernard Delano Loring
August Govoni Ernest Wallingford Johnson
Irving Henry Wall Maier
Lynn Italy Brookline Italy
William H. and Almira A.
Roxbury
Saco, Maine
Staten Island
29 1 1 2 3 4 6
Edward J. and Mary A.
BIRTHS (CONTINUED. )
1902
NAMES.
NAMES OF PARENTS.
BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER.
BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER.
Aug. 10
Margaret Mary Shea
John F. and Josephine
Lawrence
13
Dominick Rossi
Paolo and Marianna
Italy
St. John Italy Middleboro
17
Eunice Brightman Magee
Arthur T. and Edith L.
Taunton Plymouth
Germany Italy
21
Winifred Elizabeth Brauneker Ros e Urbati
Humbert and Mary
Italy
21
Richard -Warren Adams
James P. and Ruth M.
R .. I.
Plymouth
23
James Crosby Anderson
James and Elizabeth M.
Plymouth
Plymouth
23
John Arthur Gledhill
Arthur R. and Weriam H.
Mansfield, Ohio
Canton, N. Y.
24
Gordon Shurtleff McCosh
New Brunswick
Plymouth
29
Robert H. Coolidge
Dixfield, Me.
Ireland
30
Oliver Stearns Nash
Arthur I. and Mary A.
Boston
Salem
Sept.
1
Annie Seibenlist Howard Russell Gray
Arthur G. and Lucy A.
Plymouth
Richmond, Va.
13
Ida Ortlaeni
Carlo and Mary
Italy
Italy
Mary Balboni
Antonio and Amelia
Italy
Italy Plymouth
15
Mildred Rose Downey
James M. and Susan M.
Plymouth
Rockland
16
William John McDonald
John D. and Gertrude E. Thomas J. and Susan A. Valentine and Patria
Ireland
Plymouth
18 21 23
Margaret Elizabeth Keough Mary Gavoni
Italy P. E. Island
Boston
Providence, R. I.
23 24 27 27
Oscar Merrill Morse
Charles A. and Alice M.
Plymouth
Fairhaven
Lowell
Ireland
Nova Scotia
Plymouth
5
6 Charles John Hurle
William T. and Maria L.
Boston
Germany
6 Milton Franklin Perkins
Plymouth
Harwich
6 Frank Lee Roberts
9 Mary Ida Voght
Thomas M. and Lillian F. Thomas J. and Maud L. Andrew and Rosa
Augusta, Ga. Germany
Georgia Germany
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13 14 Marian Vaughn Sears
Walter H. and Ella M.
Plymouth
Cape Breton
Wakefield
Italy
Elveretta Maude Wood
Leonard S. and Maud E. William R. and Alice L. Alfonso and Dementria
Plymouth Italy
Italy
Doratha Frances Regan Helen Elizabeth Pitts Lavinia Louise Laundry
Timothy A. and Mary E. John L. and Elizabeth M. Simon and Marie L.
Nova Scotia
Philadelphia
27 Oct.
Abner Nelson Leonard Dora Pirani
Henry and Eva
Germany
Germany
Robert and Adelaide H. Ernest and Sarah
17
Eugene and Annie
Oct. 10 13 13 13 13 16 16 17 18 19 20 20 21 21 21 22
Nov.
John Pincelli Donald Wadsworth Morton Gladys Viola Pierce Gertrude F. Konzelman Balboni
Jacob Theodore Mueller Edith Maud Boutin Rachel Etta Resnick Lenzi
Frances Elizabetlı Zahn
Charles Herman Woods
Argenta Ardizoni
Lazero and Mary
Edmund T. and Anna W.
Plymouth
Plymouth
Emil H. and Elizabeth J.
Germany
Wales
John M. and Ella R.
Plymouth
Wareham
Frank and Helen C.
Bridgewater
Bridgewater
Caroline Mabel Ward
Lyman and Carrie M.
Carver
Sandwich
Frank and Prudenza
Italy
Italy
Herman F. and Anna F.
Plymouth
Newark, N. J.
Eolanda Malaguti
Antonio and Augusta
Italy
Italy
Elizabeth Delaney
Frederick M. and Lena E.
Wareham
Middleboro
Frederick Alton Badger
Max and Celia
Russia
Russia
1 2
Helen D. Sadow Esther Christofori
Angelo and Beninda
Italy
Italy
Walter R. and Ida R.
Boston
Plymouth
William, Jr., and Gertrude
Plymouth
Wareham
Freddie Savino
Oriani and Ginglia
Italy
Italy
Raymond Cornish Davis
Herbert F. and Margaret M.
Plymouth
Nova Scotia
Amentori and Emma
Italy
Italy
Geoffrey and Mary A.
Nova Scotia
Plymouth
Eldon Sprague Burgess
Leonard M. and Mattie F.
Plymouth
Plymouth
Elmer C. and Marcia J.
Plymouth
Plymouth
Frank Antonnetti
Louis and Erminia
Italy
Italy
Lloyd F. and Hulda M.
Fairhaven
Wareham
Louis Emery Battles
Charles Malaguti
Annahel and Augusta
Italy
Italy
Brazil
Western Islands
23
Perry
Rita E. Jones
Mich. and Maggie
Reginald and Frances M. Charles H. and Ada Lawrence and Magdalena Roberto and Argia Gotlop and Anna Joseph A. and Mary E. Morris and Sillia Fred. and Lucy
Italy Plymouth Plymouth Germany Italy
Italy
Plymouth Fall River Germany Italy Germany
Germany
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia
Russia
Russia
Italy
Italy Dayton, Ohio
Charles and Mary A.
Plymouth
Joseph F. and Elin D.
Provincetown Italy
Sweden Italy
Jeanette Morton
Harvey Gunther
Alice Winslow Kingsley Christiana Pratt Jordan
25 26 28 30 31 1
Angelo Polkari Earl Clinton Holmes
James and Catherine T.
England
Rhode Island
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2 5 5
Marjorie Atwood Bennett Beatrice Gertrude O'Brien
8 9 Celso Fortini 12 Margaret Perrior
18 20 William Curtis Dunlap
21 21 21
24
Joseph and Mary Ernest B. and Edith M.
Barnstable
Carver
BIRTHS (CONTINUED.)
1902
NAMES.
NAMES OF PARENES.
BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER.
BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER.
Nov. 26
26
Jessie Irene Sutherland Earl Wall Eddy
James T., Jr., and Charlotte L.
27
Josephine Oliver Francis
Joseph and Prudencia
27
Irene Agnes Stott
Joseph W. and Eva M.
28
Beatrice Collins Cole
Walter C. and Lulu R.
Plymouth Western Islands Plymouth Wellfleet Nova Scotia
Harwich Nova Scotia WesternIslands Providence Taunton Nova Scotia Germany
Dec.
1
John Emerson Keyes
William and Ellen A.
Bridgewater
Nova Scotia Lawrence Italy Azores
2
Mary Coelha
Elmer W. and Nellie M.
Whitman
Roxbury
3
Dorris Lucille Burt
Charles E. and Idella J.
Plymouth
Plymouth
3
Roland James Beytes
James M. and Nettie M.
Boston
Middleboro
3
Oliver Roosevelt Found
William H. and Clara M.
P. E. Island
P. E. Island
3
William Thomas Braunecher
Marke F. and Winifred M.
Plymouth
Ireland
4
Alfred Reggiana
Louis and Carohna
Italy
Italy
5 John Hiram Nelson
Charles and Charlotte
Sweden
Sweden
1
Harold Clifton Raymond
William W., Jr., and Ida M.
Plymouth
Plymouth
9 Dorthy Wade
Harry E. and Bessie
Carver
Duxbury
9 Miriam Howland Davie
Edward P. and Edith W.
Plymouth
Plymouth
10
Frank W. Smith
Charles A. and Bertha
So. Dennis
Harwich
11
Mary Harriet Heatlı
Michael F. and Josephine
Plymouth
Nova Scotia
15
Mary Tinti
Tony and Ambiline
Italy
Italy
17 Eveline May Erickson
Charles H. and Catherine A.
Germany
23 Carl Alloise Bolt
John H. and Mary John S. and Ruth H.
Plymouth
29
Stillborn
30
Milton Ray Millman
30
Margaret Frances Williams
David R. and Emma S. Francis A. and Annie C.
Plymouth Switzerland Washington, D. C. Western Islands P. E. Island Spain
Plymouth Virginia
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1
Sylvia Scagliarini
Leon and Ida
Italy
Antonia and Rita S.
Azores
3 Edward Harrison Wade
George A. and Hattie C.
Vermont
New Hampshire
29
Hattie May La Count Joseph Palmer
Edwin T. and Julia
Maine
29
Alice Bertha Stephan
Nicholas and Mary
Germany
29
Mary Helen White
Leo and Mary M.
Daniel W. and Hattie G.
P. E. Island
.
Austria
25 Earl Lincoln Dunn
Western Islands
1
SUMMARY.
BIRTHS.
Number registered,
235
Males,
II6
Females, II9
The parentage is as follows :
Both parents born in- United States,
96
Italy,
38
Ireland,
I
Cape Breton,
I
Nova Scotia,
6
Germany,
I5
France,
I
Azores,
2
Sweden,
5
Russia,
3
Canada,
2
England,
2
Mixed, one American,
50
Mixed, neither American,
I3
235
MARRIAGES.
Number of marriages registered in 1902,
II8
Both parties born in-
United States,
55
Germany,
4
Portugal, I
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England,
I
Ireland,
2
Italy,
I4
Sweden,
4
Mixed, one American,
24
Mixed, neither American,
I3
118
DEATHS.
Number of deaths registered 175, of which 35 occurred out of town, burial taking place in Plymouth.
Born in-
United States,
145
Germany,
2
England,
4
Ireland,
9
British Provinces,
9
Italy,
I
Norway,
I
Scotland,
2
Wales,
I
Russia,
I
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF CEMETERIES.
The following is the report of the Superintendent of Cem- eteries for the year 1902 :
During the year just past, the roads in the cemeteries have been materially improved and the general condition of the cemeteries is much better than formerly.
By following the plan of adding to the improvements each year, as much as the appropriation will warrant, while at the same time keeping in repair work already done, it will eventually demand a less annual expense.
The question of water supply has been met in a large de- gree by substituting about two hundred feet of two-inch pipe for the same length of three-quarter and one-inch pipe, and the result has fully justified the outlay.
About fifty cords of wood have been cut and the receipts from the sale of this will practically pay for the cutting and clearing the land from underbrush, thereby making the ground available for sale as lots.
The enclosing fence is, for the most part, very poor; the Samoset Street gates unsightly and not at all to the cred- it of the Town.
Some part of this fence ought to be removed each year un- til the entire work is done. Woven wire fencing, some of which is already in place seems to me the most durable as well as economical.
We enter the new year with a smaller balance to the credit of cemeteries than usual, in fact about one-half as much as last year, caused by a decrease in the sale of burial plots. In
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view of this decrease and the work that is really necessary, I recommend an appropriation for Cemeteries of One Thou- sand dollars.
Burial Hill, as I have suggested before, presents a pecu- liar problem inasmuch as it partakes of the nature of a park for summer visitors, and the expense of caring for the refuse caused by their presence, becomes a fixed annual charge upon the appropriation.
This year there is also to be provided sufficient funds for the repair of the retaining wall on the southwesterly side of the Hill.
Again I would emphasize the fact that it would be econ- omy for the town to make a permanent improvement upon the main walks of the Hill, either by concreting or by laying brick paving, saving as it would annual repair.
In view of the work absolutely called for this season, I recommend an appropriation of five hundred dollars for Burial Hill.
Respectfully submitted, EDWARD F. STRANGER,
Supt. of Cemeteries, Oak Grove and Vine Hill Cemeteries and Burial Hill.
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
To the Board of Selectmen-
Gentlemen-I have the honor to submit the following re- port of the Police Department for the year ending December 31, 1902 :
Total number of arrests,
179
Males,
I74
Females,
5
Residents,
I32
Non-residents,
47
Adults,
152
Minors,
27
Number of fines imposed,
107
Sent to jail,
8
Sent to State farm,
7
Sent to Concord,
2
Cases appealed,
24
Cases discharged,
9
Placed on probation, 23
Amount fines imposed,
$1,746 00
Amount fines paid, $1,016 00
Cases now in Superior Court, 5
Classified as follows :
Assaults,
19
Drunks,
70
By-laws,
5
Liquor laws,
19
Insane,
2
Larceny, 15
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Non-support,
5
Adultery,
2
Peddlers' laws,
4
Breaking and entering,
4
Disturbance of peace,
14
Bastardy
2
Stubborn child,
I
Vagrant,
3
Capias,
I
Perjury,
I
Cock fighting,
9
Setting fires, 2
Concealed weapons, 1
The force consists of four regular men as follows: Sam- uel Ferguson, Peter Wood, Augustine J. Hogan and Michael Casey.
I desire to return my thanks for the courteous manner in which I have been treated during the year.
Respectfully yours,
SAMUEL FERGUSON,
Chief of Police.
Plymouth, Mass., Jan. 1, 1903.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
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To the Board of Selectmen of Plymouth-The Board of Fire Engineers submit their report for the year 1902.
APPARATUS.
No additions have been made to the apparatus this year. Several pieces have received much needed repairs at a cost of $145.00.
HOSE.
There is in the department about 6,000 ft. of hose in good condition, and about 500 feet of poor. It will be necessary to purchase 500 feet this year.
BUILDINGS.
Quite a sum has been spent on the buildings of the de- partment, and considerable remains to be done. We es- timate $150.00 for this work.
FIRE ALARM SYSTEM.
The fire alarm system has been added to by the placing of an alarm box on Sandwich Street, opposite the Brockton & Plymouth Street Railroad Company's property, half of the expense having been borne by the Company.
The town having grown so much in the sixteen years since the system was first put in, the need of new boxes is great- ly felt, and requests are constantly coming in for them from the citizens of the town. We recommend a special appropriation of $350.00 for this work this year.
Plymouth
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HORSE SERVICE.
The horse service for the past year has cost more than ever before. Being unable longer to hire horses at $10.00 a call. the board has been obliged to hire of Mr. Chandler one pair of horses for the chemical engine at $2.00 per day ; these horses, with a driver, to be available at all hours of the day and night. For the other apparatus in the central station, Mr. Chandler is paid $10.00 for the engine and $5.00 for the hose wagon, for each call. At the South Street station $1.00 a day is paid for a pair of horses to be available nights, and day time whenever they are within sound of the alarm.
We estimate cost of the horse service for the year 1903 at $1,500.
We earnestly recommend that a suitable addition be built to the central fire station, and that horses owned by the town be kept there and worked in conjunction with the street department.
HYDRANTS.
Six new hydrants have been added to the hydrant ser- vice; three remain on hand unset.
FINANCIAL.
Appropriation,
Reimbursements,
$6,000 00 46 00
$6,046 00
Payments,
$6,293 43
Overdrawn, 247 43
We recommend an appropriation of $7,000.00 to meet the expenses of the department the coming year. We also recommend the following special appropriations : For new building at South Street, $8,000 00
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For addition to central fire station, 4,000 00 For new boiler on steamer No. 3, 900 00
For new fire alarm boxes, 350 00
FRANK H. LANMAN, Chief.
ISAAC L. HEDGE,
Clerk.
ENGINEERS.
F. H. Lanman, G. E. Saunders.
E. D. Bartlett. I. L. Hedge. J. C. Cave.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. YEAR ENDING DEC. 31, 1902.
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During the past year something less than the average number of contagious diseases have been reported to the Board.
The following table giving the number of contagious diseases and the number of deaths from all causes for the past ten years, is interesting in view of the increase of popu- lation, probably between two and three thousand within that time.
Year.
Contagious Dis.
No. Deaths.
1893
82 I35
1894
not given II4
1895 not
given I34
1896
88.
I3I
1897
71. 123
1898
15. 129
1899
198. 164
1900
47 I50
190I
48.
I55
1902
58 140
Of the total number of contagious diseases for 1902 fourteen were diphtheria, fifteen scarlet fever, twenty-seven typhoid fever, and two measles. The occurrence of a num- ber of cases of typhoid fever at about the same time caused the Board some uneasiness and a report was made to the State Board of Health asking for an investigation. An ex- pert came to Plymouth in response to this request, who re- ported upon investigation that after eliminating the cases
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which had undoubtedly been infected elsewhere, and those which in all probability were due to these cases, the remain- ing number was so small as to cause no anxiety.
Fifty-three bottles of free antitoxin for the treatment of diphtheria have been used in Plymouth and Kingston, and eight culture tubes have been sent to the State Board for diagnosis.
The formaldehyde disinfectors purchased by the Board last year are proving very efficient, especially since the use of pastilles has been abandoned and solid formaldehyde sub- stituted.
Notice has been received of two cases of smallpox occur- ring elsewhere, the patients' having settlement in Plymouth. The first notice came from the town of Maynard, referring to Bert Horan, and the second from the city of Boston, an- nouncing the illness of Mary Moriarty with the disease.
The Board feels that the town is making a serious mis- take in not providing a suitable place for the care of such cases, should they occur here and wishes to urge the pro- priety of an immediate appropriation for this purpose. The want of such a place is a menace to the safety of the com- munity, and places the Board in a most uncomfortable posi- tion.
The number of nuisances ordered abated during the year were eleven, and in fourteen instances premises were ordered connected with the public sewer.
The Samoset Street brook, spoken of in the report of last year is now practically cleared of the sewage which in increasing amount has choked its course for years past, and it will probably be possible to pass along Court Street in its vicinity next summer, without having to endure the vile odors which have hitherto made the locality so unpleasant, if nothing worse.
It is gratifying to the Board to note that the town voted at its last meeting that all premises on the line of the public
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sewer should be connected therewith within a reasonable length of time. It is not always easy to enforce the regula- tions which the Board deems necessary for the public good and it is encouraging to have such an assurance of support.
The water of the Elder Brewster or Pilgrim Spring is kept under surveillance and occasionally analyzed on account of the opportunity for contamination which its location af- fords, but it continues to remain pure in the estimation of the State Board.
The town is now supplied with two public dumps, one located upon the town lot near the corner of Obery and South Streets, and the other on Samoset Street. Both these places are kept in good condition by the Board of Health, and all waste material not likely to decompose or be other- wise objectionable should be deposited upon them and not about town.
The time is now ripe for the town to consider a matter which. although brought to its attention at least once before, in 1893, has been neglected too long, that is, the adoption of plumbing regulations. At present work is allowed which endangers the liealth of the community and competent plumbers are obliged to put in work which is an insult to their intelligence. The result of this want of regulation is that the poorest tenement buildings, where the sanitary con- ditions are at best none too good, are piped in the cheapest possible manner, and such plumbing is far worse than use- less. Better the old regime of the privy and cess-pool than a system of public sewerage which by gross carelessness and criminal neglect becomes a public nuisance.
The Board of Health will offer the town a set of plumb- ing regulations embracing the requirements of Chapter 103 of the revised laws of the State of Massachusetts at the March Town Meeting.
The following is a statement of the expenditures made by the Board of Health during the year :
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Agent and Inspector, salary. $125 00
Secretary, salary and expenses, 26 37
Labor and material at public dumps, 29 06
Physicians, account "Free Vaccination," Vaccine points,
212 00
46 74
Issuing vaccination cards,
10 00
Printing, 6 50
Veterinary, visiting horse suspected of glanders,
2 00
Nurses in contagious diseases,
308 90
Building closet in town house, for supplies,
24 13
Horse hire,
3 00
Telegram,
25
Burying horse,
2 50
Medicine, disinfectants and supplies furnished in contagious diseases, 5:5 60
Expense account, small pox case at Prospect Farm.
Provisions, clothing, medicine, disinfectants, etc., 119 70 Bath house ( shelter for watchman) and cartage on same, 14 50
Chas. J. Behlmann, damage to furniture, cloth- ing, etc., 200 00
Appraising above property, 5 00
Rent of house for quarantine, 22 50
$1,213 75
There has been reimbursed by the State on ac- count of smallpox case above mentioned, $228 12
Received for butcher's license, I 00
$229 12 J. HOLBROOK SHAW, M. D., JOSEPH W. HUNTING, FREDERICK D. BARTLETT, Board of Health.
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FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PARK COMMISSIONERS.
To the Inhabitants of the Town of Plymouth-
The Park Commissioners herewith present the fourteenth annual report of the condition of the parks and lands under their charge.
At the outset it becomes our sad duty to record the death of Nathaniel Morton, the founder and devoted friend of Plymouth Parks, which occurred on July eighteenth. At a meeting of the Park Commissioners soon, thereafter, the fol- lowing was submitted and ordered to be placed on record : "Mr. Morton's death has removed one with whom we have been associated from the beginning of Plymouth Parks. His own connection with them, and the reasons which led him to become identified with them, are perhaps best told in his own words in his "Souvenir of Plymouth Parks," published last year, and need not be further re- ferred to here. His love for the woods and trees was per- haps inherited, for his father, the late Mr. Ichabod Morton, was instrumental in the planting of many of the shade trees now ornamenting some of our streets. It is difficult to realize, at first, to what an extent Mr. Morton cared for the woods and waters which came to be called Morton Park; but many of the trees he knew personally, and he watched and measured their growth from year to year, and cared for their development, cutting away the less de- sirable in order to make room for the better; planting new where he foresaw that the old would in a few years be re- moved or become unworthy, and again cutting extensively
NATHANIEL MORTON.
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in order to open up views of a beautiful hillside or hollow, a secluded cove or open expanse of Billington Sea or Little Pond.
As time went on his ideas of the proper management of the woods developed and he became impressed with the necessity of "more room" and "more light" for the "in- dividual tree to develop to its best estate, and he did not hes- itate to cut even although there were some who criticized such "wood chopping." The result after only a few years has justified his judgment, and it will be more and more ap- proved as time goes on.
As, in the life history of the pine tree, perhaps his most favorite tree, when, in its early years the leader is broken off, time is required for the tree, at length, to recover its nor- mal condition of growth and development, so here, the im- pulse has been given, the form has been determined, the broad principles have been established, and as years go on we shall appreciate, more and more, that the work which he began was carried forward so far and so well that it only remains for his successors to come into harmony with his ideas in order to maintain the success which he achieved.
Perhaps the best monument which he could have would be a simple tablet at the entrance to Morton Park with the inscription :
Si monumentum queret, circumspice."
The following extract from Mr. Morton's will explains it- self :
"To the inhabitants of the Town of Plymouth, two thou- sand dollars, ($2,000.00 ) to be invested in real estate mort- gages, or other securities that the Selectmen may consider more desirable; the income from which to be expended, annually at Morton Park by the Park Commissioners. One- half the income to be expended first, to place and keep in order signs to mark the roads, paths and prominent localities in said Park and to keep the paths and open places free from
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large accumulations of leaves. Second, the balance, if any, to be expended in improving the paths and making new paths where considered desirable by the Commissioners. The other half of the income to be expended at Morton Park as the Commissioners may think best.
We are informed that this bequest has been recently paid over to the Selectmen by the Executrix.
The work of caring for the Parks was carried on per- sonally by Mr. Morton, as chairman of the Board, until his decease.
MORTON PARK.
Considerable work was done in Morton Park in the way of clearing and trimming the forest growth, and in laying out and constructing new paths, especially a path along the westerly side of the Park on land acquired by Mr. Mor- ton's efforts from the "Wabasso Associates." The land was formally accepted by the town, and added to the Park at the town meeting held August 12, 1902.
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