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Appended will be seen a full list of our lights with their location and numbers in the order of their being put up.
Your Committee would respectfully recommend that the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7500.00) be appropriated for the maintenance of the Street Light Department the current year.
SAMUEL F. CROSMAN, - Committee on
AARON R. BUNTING, JOHN R. MERRITT, Street Lights.
SWAMPSCOTT, Feb. 17, 1897.
SWAMPSCOTT ARC LIGHTS.
. 1. Atlantic avenue, at J. C. Phillips'.
2. Atlantic avenue, opposite Ocean avenue.
3. Atlantic avenue, first past Ocean avenue.
4. Atlantic avenue, opposite John Shepard's.
5. Atlantic avenue, opposite Hotel Preston.
6. Atlantic avenue, Marblehead line.
7. Beach avenue, near Essex street.
8. Beach avenue, near Mountain avenue.
9. Berkshire street opposite Hampden street.
10. Beach Bluff avenue, first from Orient street.
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11. Beach Bluff avenue, third from Orient street.
12. Beach Bluff depot.
13. Beach Bluff, junction Mostyn street.
14. Burrill street, at Boston & Maine depot.
15 Burrill street, at Dr. Stratton's.
16. Burrill street, at Town Hall.
17. Burrill street and New Ocean street.
18. Cherry street, corner Buena Vista avenue.
19. Columbia avenue, at Norcross street.
20. Crescent street, corner Clark street.
21. Elmwood road.
22. Essex street, car-house.
23. Essex street, corner Burrill street.
24. Essex street school-house.
25. Essex street, second past school-house.
26. Essex street, third past school-house.
27. Essex street, at railroad bridge.
28. Essex street, second past railroad bridge.
29. Essex street, opposite Danvers street.
30. Essex street, next to last.
31. Essex street, last lamp.
32. Essex street and Cherry street.
33. Farragut road, top of hill.
34. Galloupe's Point.
35. Hillside avenue, corner Elliott street.
36.
Humphrey street, at car-house.
37. Humphrey street, opposite Phillips street.
38. Humphrey street, at monument.
39. Humphrey street, at Clifton House.
40. Humphrey street, corner Blaney street.
Humphrey street, beginning second beach.
41. 42. Humphrey street, opposite Ingalls court.
43. Humphrey street, hay scales.
44. Humphrey street, Roberts' barn.
45. Humphrey street, first past Roberts' barn.
46. Humphrey street, opposite Pleasant street.
47. Humphrey street, at pump.
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48. Humphrey square.
49. Jessie street, corner Roy street.
50. Jessie street, at Highland Hall.
51. King street.
52. Little estate, Little's gate.
53. Little estate, superintendent's gate.
54. Middlesex avenue.
55. Middlesex avenue, opposite Berkshire street.
56. Monument avenue, at Prof. Thomson's.
57. Monument avenue, at end.
58. 59. Mountain avenue.
Mostyn street.
60. Norfolk avenue, at bend.
61.
Norfolk avenue, opposite railroad bridge.
62. Orient street, corner Marshall street.
63. Orient street, corner Orient court.
Orient street, opposite Woodbine avenue.
68.
Orient street, corner Beach road.
69. Orient street, at Mr. Jeffrey's.
70.
Orient street, at Galloupe's gate.
71. Orient street, at Lodge estate.
72. Orient street, at Little estate.
73. Orient street, at Last Bend.
74. Orient street, first past Humphrey square.
75. Orient street, at red barn.
76. Orient street, at Phillips' station.
77. Orient street, opposite Salem street.
78. Orient street, first past Salem street.
79. Orient street, next to last.
80. Orient street, Salem line.
81. Outlook road.
82. Paradise road, corner Elmwood road.
83. Paradise road, opposite Andrew road.
84. Phillips street.
Orient street, corner Lincoln House road. Orient street, opposite Ocean House.
64. 65. 66. 67. Orient street, first past Ocean House.
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85. Pine street, at pumping station.
86. Pine street, corner Huron street.
87. Pine street, corner Railroad avenue.
88. Redington street, opposite Blaney street.
89. Redington street, corner Highland street.
90. Rock avenue.
91. Rockland street, corner Highland street.
92. Rockland street, corner Rose street.
93. Rockland street, corner Greenwood court.
94. Roy street, first lamp.
95. Salem street, first from Orient street.
96. Salem street, second from Orient street.
97. Salem street, third from Orient street.
98. Salem street, last lamp.
99. Sheridan and Walker roads.
100. Stetson avenue.
101. Stetson avenue.
102. Thomas road, corner Elmwood road.
SWAMPSCOTT INCANDESCENT LIGHTS.
1. Blaney street.
2. Burrill street, at Prof. Thomson's.
3. Burrill street, corner Porter's court.
4. Burrill street bridge.
5. Burrill street bridge.
6. Claremont terrace.
7. Columbia avenue, at Potter's.
8. Elmwood road, at I. O. O. F. Hall.
9. Elmwood terrace.
10. Humphrey street, at Chas. Phillips'.
11. Ingalls court, on house.
12. Jessie street, at hose-house.
13. Lincoln House road.
14. Orient street, opposite Stanley's.
15. Orient street, opposite Orient court.
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16. Orient street, beyond Lodge's.
17. Phillips avenue.
18. Phillips avenue.
19. Phillips avenue.
20. Redington street, opposite school.
21. Redington street, opposite Sheridan road.
22. Rockland street.
23. Roy street.
Arcs
Inc.
March 1, 1896
94
20
Feb. 1, 1897
102
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Street Light Minority Report.
TO THE CITIZENS OF SWAMPSCOTT :
It is with great diffidence and sincere regret that I find myself unable to agree with my respected associates in our report to the Town.
I firmly believe, however, that he who accepts a public trust should hold himself as in duty bound to surrender that trust unencumbered; only truth, fact and honorable frank- ness, should characterize its presentation, and nothing, however minute, should be withheld from the gaze of our townspeople, who are ever called upon to pay the bills.
The accompanying report will give to our citizens what I am prepared to prove to have been the true condition of affairs in our street lighting ; and, having found where this system could be improved, I felt it my duty to lay before our citizens the result of my investigations, with such recom- mendations as seem to be in line with universally adopted methods. I believe my first duty is to my Town, and having performed that, I can then extend the hand of charity to others.
I therefore must leave my associates in full possession of what I believe to be a studied charity and generosity, at the expense of the Town.
The question of street lights is an important one, and assumes greater proportion each advancing year, not only in the matter of quality but in the matter of expense as well.
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It would seem that the latter subject might well appeal to the wisdom of this Town, in at least an investigation of the operation of municipal lighting under the general statutes recently enacted.
I found in the early part of the year much complaint with our present system, and upon investigating found these complaints to be based on very good ground. In conference with the officials of the Company, the Committee found a willingness, on the part of the Company, to remedy these evils, and which eventually was accomplished. It should be borne in mind, that the fact was brought out in the confer- ence, that the Company was using a hard carbon of poor quality for our lighting, and was using a dynamo of admitted inefficiency for the same purpose.
This condition of affairs cannot go unchallenged, in view of the fact that the Company in its contract agreed to furnish us the very best 1200-candle power light obtain- able. The Company by using these self admitted agents of weak power seem to make their position really inexcusable.
I feel that only by a rigid attention of future committees can the Town hope to gain a fair equivalent for money ex- pended. Again the danger of long term contracts, where the interest of the Town must suffer, as shown in the recent attitude of the Company towards the City of Lynn, where it proposes to make a reduction in the price of gas and electric lighting, and which under our contract with the Company, removes this benefit from us until the expiration of the present contract.
I would also recommend that the Police Department be instructed to report all inefficient lights to the proper Committee, in an official manner, in order to assist the Com- mittee in fulfilling its duty towards the Town. It would seem that no contract should be made that would not allow of a rebate in the Town's interest when the Town was called
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upon to pay for lights that had not been furnished ; and to this end, I feel that the lighting of our streets should be under the watchful eye of the police.
I beg leave to say that the service rendered by the Com- pany at present seems to meet the approval of our citizens. I would recommend the appropriation of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) for the ensuing year. I would also recommend that the Street Light Committee for the ensuing year be instructed to investigate the operation of the several municipal lighting plants within the limit of the State of Massachusetts. Said Committee shall keep a record of the costs of said plants, and also the operating expenses, and shall report their findings to the next Annual Town Meeting to be held in the month of March, 1898.
Respectfully submitted,
P. H. RYAN,
Dissenting Member of Street Light Committee. SWAMPSCOTT, Feb. 18, 1897.
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Report of the Library Trustees.
TO THE CITIZENS OF SWAMPSCOTT :
The Library contains 6800 volumes. 217 books have been added this year. The circulation of books has been 19,521.
Received from fines and catalogues $19.05.
We wish to acknowledge 6 volumes "Art and Artists," from Mrs. Henry Stone.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES E. PEASLEY, - F. F. STANLEY, F. E. INGALLS,
Trustees.
SWAMPSCOTT, Feb. 17, 1897.
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
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Report of the Board of Health.
TO THE CITIZENS OF SWAMPSCOTT :
The Board of Health respectfully submit the fol- lowing report of their doings for the year ending Feb. 28, 1897.
During the year we have received and investigated thirteen written complaints, several of these complaints being served by a Constable. In connection with this, we have received several verbal complaints that have been dis- posed of by the Board. In relation to the health of the Town, the Board have received notice of five (5) cases of diphtheria, three (3) typhoid fever, five (5) of scarlet fever and twenty-five (25) of measles, one case of measles proving fatal.
The contract for the collecting of house offal was awarded to Michael D. McDonough, whose duties have given general satisfaction. Mr. Allen Rowe was awarded the contract for disposing of night soil.
Mr. Benj. Pedrick was awarded the contract for clear- ing up the beaches, which duty has been carried out in the usual satisfactory manner.
We have received from our Inspector thirty-nine notices of quarantine, and we consider that he performed his duties in a faithful and impartial manner, and the Town would do- well could they retain him for another year.
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PROPERTY OF HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
One dory, $12.00; one pair oars, $1.00; one anchor, 50c ; three shovels, $2.25; four rakes, $2.00; one wheel- barrow, $3.00 ; one pair rollers, $1.00, and four forks, $3.00.
Respectfully submitted,
EDWIN F. WILEY, - JOHN I. ADAMS, of
Board
JOS. A. GLASS, Health.
Attest :
WILBUR B. ADAMS, Clerk.
SWAMPSCOTT, February 13, 1897.
Health Regulations of the Town of Swampscott.
The following Regulations have been adopted by the Board of Health :
SECTION 1. The owner, agent or occupant, having care of any tene- ment used as a dwelling-house, shall furnish the same with sufficient drain, under ground, to carry off the waste water; and also with a suitable privy, sufficient for the accommodation of all who may use it.
SECT. 2. All vaults or privies shall be so constructed that the inside of the same shall be at least two feet distant from the line of every adjoin- ing lot or street, and the same shall be kept tight; nor shall the contents of any vault be allowed to accumulate within twelve inches of the even surface of the ground, or otherwise become offensive.
SECT. 3. All waste water shall be conveyed through sufficient drains, under ground, to a common sewer, or to such reservoir, sunk under ground, as shall be approved by the Board of Health, and no person shall suffer any waste or stagnant water to remain in any cellar, or upon any lot of vacant ground, by such person owned or occupied.
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SECT. 4. Whenever, upon due examination, it shall appear to the Board of Health that the number of persons occupying any tenement or building in the town is so great as to be the cause of nuisance or sickness, or the source of filth, or that any tenement or building is not furnished with vaults constructed according to the provisions of the regulations, or with sufficient privies, or drains undergound for waste water, or from any cause has become unfit for habitation, they will thereupon issue their notice in writing to such persons, or any of them, requiring them to remove and quit such tenement or building within such time as they may deem reason- able.
SECT. 5. No person shall throw or put into any public place, or pond, or running stream, or body of water, or in any other place where the Board of Health may deem it a nuisance, any dead animal, dirt or rubbish what- soever, nor shall any person throw into or upon any flats or tide water within the jurisdiction of the town, any dead animal, filth or offensive matter.
SECT. 6. No person shall erect or maintain, within the limits of the town, any building or structure used for a slaughter house, or for the man- ufacture or refining of kerosene oil or soap, the trying out of lard, the busi- ness of tallow chandler, or the tanning, dressing or coloring of leather or skins, or any other noxious or offensive trade, or exercise or carry on such trade, business or employment, without a license from the Board of Health, defining the place for the same, and any such license may at any time be revoked.
SECT. 7. No person shall collect any house offal or night soil within limits of the town without a license from the Board of Health.
SECT. 8. No person shall bring into the town for sale any diseased, putrid, stale or unwholesome meat, vegetables or provisions.
SECT. 9. No person shall burn, boil or decompose in the town any bones or other refuse parts of neat cattle or other animal, without a license from the Board of Health.
SECT. 10. No person shall keep any swine within the limits of the town without a license from the Board of Health.
SECT. 11. Any person sick with the small pox, scarlet fever, diphthe- ria, membraneous croup, together with all persons in attendance upon him, will be subject to the control of the Board; and no person shall enter or leave a house wherein any person is or has been sick with the disease, or in any way come in contact with the inmates of such house, except by per- mission of the Board.
SECT. 12. All persons are warned not to approach a house or the sur- rounding premises whereupon is displayed either a health card, a red flag by day or a red light by night.
SECT. 13. When a householder knows that a person within his family 11
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is taken sick of small-pox, scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria, membraneous croup, typhoid fever, or any other disease, dangerous to the public health, he shall immediately give notice thereof to the Board of Health.
SECT. 14. When a physician knows that any person whom he is called to visit is infected with small-pox, scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria, mem- braneous croup, typhoid fever, or any other disease dangerous to the public health, he shall immediately give notice thereof to the Board of Health.
SECT. 15. No child from any family or house infected with scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria, small-pox, or membraneous croup shall be per- mitted to attend school without a permit from the Board of Health.
SECT. 16. The bodies of all persons dying of small-pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, membraneous croup, typhus or typhoid fever, must be immedi- ately disinfected and placed in a tight coffin, which shall not be reopened. No certificate of death from either of the above-named diseases will be en- dorsed by the Board of Health until above regulations have been complied with. In above cases no public funeral will be allowed without permission from the Board of Health.
SECT. 17. Notice of domestic animals or cattle suffering with conta- gious disease, or suspected of suffering from contagious disease, shall im- mediately be given to the Board of Health by those having the charge of such animals or cattle.
Extract from the Town By-Laws.
ARTICLE VII.
SECT. 6. The contents of any sink, cesspool, or privy shall only be removed in a vehicle effectually covered and water-tight, and the same shall not be emptied on any beach or into the sea adjacent to any beach in the town, but shall be carried in such cart and disposed of in the earth or other- wise as the Board of Health may by rules provide, but apart from dwelling houses.
SECT. 26. No person shall put, or cause to be put, into any catch basin in the highway any filth, sewage, slops or dirty water.
JOHN I. ADAMS,
EDWIN F. WILEY,
Board of
JOSEPH W. GLASS, ) Health.
SWAMPSCOTT, Feb. 27, 1897.
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REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF CATTLE, ETC.
1897]
Report of Inspector of Cattle, Swine, Fish, Provisions, Etc.
TO THE CITIZENS OF SWAMPSCOTT :
In presenting this, my first Annual Report, I find the whole number of cattle in Town, December 1st, 140 : Cows, 127; young, 12; bull, 1. Number of swine, 196. Number of provision stores, 5; provision wagons, 4; fish markets, 4; fish wagons, 3; vegetable and fruit venders, a " little million."
The past year I have quarantined and destroyed in the Town limits 32 cattle which had the disease known as tuber- culosis ; 27 have been destroyed outside the Town with the same disease. Previous to the time they were destroyed, milk was brought and sold here in Town until the Board of Health, adopting the rule June 24th, that on and after July 15th no milk could be sold in Town unless drawn from healthy cows ; consequently 58 were destroyed, nearly all of which were giving milk at the time they were condemned.
And here I wish to ask a question: Is there a conscien- tious man, who has seen one of those animals destroyed, willing to use in his family the milk from a cow having the disease ; and is there a man in Town mean enough to dis- pose of the milk from such a cow to his neighbor? If such a man can be found, he should be reported, and I think it advisable that each and every one should take hold and com- pel your Inspector to do his duty.
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I will give you a copy of three sections relating to the laws.
(SECTION 29 of 1894 as amended by Section 9 of Chap- ter 496 of 1895.) Every person, except the members of the Board of Cattle Commissioners, who has knowledge of, or has good reason to suspect the existence of any contagious disease among any species of domestic animals within the limits of this Commonwealth, or that any domestic animal is affected with any such contagious disease, whether such knowledge is obtained by personal examination or other- wise, shall immediately give written notice thereof to the Board of Health of the city or town where such diseased animal or animals are kept, and for failure so to do, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500, or by imprison- ment in jail, not exceeding one year.
SECTION 30. Upon the receipt of such notice from any person other than a duly appointed inspector of animals, and provisions for such city or town, such Board of Health shall forthwith cause such animal to be inspected by an inspector, or by a competent veterinarian appointed by them for that purpose, and if upon such inspection such Board or such inspector suspects, or has reason to believe that contagion exists, he or they shall proceed according to the provisions of Sections 7, 8, 9 and 26 of this Act.
SECTION 42. The Boards of Health for the several cities and towns, and every inspector of animals, and provi- sions appointed under the provisions of this Act, shall carry out and enforce all lawful regulations, orders and directions of the Board of Cattle Commissioners, or any of its mem- bers, to them or him directed; and any such officer or in- spector who refuses or neglects to carry out the same, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500 for every such offence.
There is other work in connection with the duty of
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your Inspector which I would like to refer to that I feel must be omitted, having taken so much space in regard to diseased animals, which should be closely looked after. I hope and trust the citizens will be more cautious in the future, and not run the risk of contracting the disease that medical science has not been able to find a cure for.
Respectfully submitted,
SAMUEL A. SPAULDING, Inspector.
SWAMPSCOTT, Feb .. 5, 1897.
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Report of the Milk Inspector.
TO THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN :
The number of licenses granted for the sale of milk in the Town of Swampscott for the season of 1896-97 was twenty-five, for which the sum of twelve dollars and fifty cents ($12.50) was received and paid into the Town Treasury as follows :
B. B. Durgin .50
W. F. Lewis .50
C. R. Sibley & Co. .50
H. C. Drisland . .50
G. F. Farrell .50
M. T. Roberts .50
R. V. Bessom .50
H. J. Pierce .50
J. Bryson .
.50
C. H. Proctor
.50
Michael Martin
.50
Freeman Baker
.50
Frank Newhall .
.50
F. A. Frost
.50
Martin Enholm
.50
Henry L. Mudge
.50
Arthur W. Demar .50
W. C. Fuller
.50
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REPORT OF THE MILK INSPECTOR.
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L. W. Waitt
.50
E. C. Stewart
.50
Wesley Marshall
.50
T. P. Rich
.50
George Melzard
.50
Frank H. Brown
.50
Allen S. Rowe .
.50
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES E. HARRIS, Milk Inspector. SWAMPSCOTT, Feb. 15, 1897.
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Report of Fire Engineers.
TO THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN :
The Engineers herewith present their Annual Report for the year ending Feb. 26, 1897 :
AGREEMENT.
The agreement with the City of Lynn is the same as last year, with regard to fires.
SCHEDULE OF FIRE DEPARTMENT PROPERTY.
Two fire stations and land ; 1 storage building; 1 steam fire engine ; 1 hose wagon ; 1 ladder truck ; 8 ladders ; 3000 feet cotton hose, in good condition ; 450 feet damaged hose ; 1 supply wagon ; 2 crow-bars ; 8 hose straps; 6 coal baskets ; 6 hydrant wrenches; 4 fire hooks and poles; 3 axes ; 18 fire alarm boxes ; 2 fire alarm strikers, one at Town Hall, one at Congregational Church; 2 fire alarm gongs and 2 indicators, one each at steamer house, one each at chemical house ; 3 tappers ; 4 buzz bells ; 1 repeater ; 6 galvanometers ; 2 hand chemicals; 74 hydrants; 1 steam whistle on Mar- blehead Water Company ; 6 horses ; 3 sets double harnesses ; 6 horse blankets; 4 beds and bedding; 5 hose pipes ; 2 extra nozzles ; 20 spanners ; 2 wagon jacks; 11 lanterns; 22 rubber coats ; 2 army coats ; 1 life net; 1 sheet ; 2 siamese connections ; hose reel and 200 feet hose, 1 wrench, 2 span- ners, 1 pipe at Lincoln House ; hose reel and 400 feet hose,
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1 wrench, 2 spanners, 1 pipe at John Shepard's; hose reel and 400 feet hose, 1 wrench, 2 spanners, 1 pipe at D. P. Stimpson's ; 500 feet hose, 1 wrench, 2 spanners, 1 pipe at Evans & Cole stable ; hose reel and 400 feet hose, 1 wrench, 2 spanners, 1 pipe at Boston Railroad stable, Essex street ; hose reel and 500 feet hose, 1 wrench, 4 spanners, 2 pipes, 2 lanterns, 1 stove and furniture, 12 badges at Mountain Park.
FIRES AND ALARMS.
Feb. 28. Box 13; time, 2.40 A.M .; Hotel Preston stable.
April 10. Box 6 ; time, 7.50 P.M .; Mrs. Eunice H. Stanley, stable.
April 14. Box 23; time, 1 A.M .; Wm. F. Lewis estate.
April 15. Box 3; time, 6.30 A.M .; Wm. F. Lewis estate.
April 21. Box 4; time, 7.45 P.M .; Harry E. Ward, store.
April 25. Box 5; call to Lynn, box 57; time, 2.20. P.M.
April 25. Still; time, 10.55 A.M .; woods.
June 12. Box 5; call to Lynn, box 82; time, 7.50 P.M.
June 24. Box 5 ; call to Lynn, box 57 ; time, 5.06 A.M.
Aug. 1. Box 3; time, 12.05 ; fire in Salem.
Aug. 7. Box 5; time, 6.10 P.M .; E. G. Emmons, boat building shop.
Aug. 8. Box 6; time, 7.30 P.M .; John Roberts' estate.
Sept. 2. Box 25; time, 9.55 P.M .; Mrs. Robert Harris, stable.
Sept. 7. Box 23; time, 11.40 A.M. ; W. W. Phillips, stable.
Sept. 15. Box 17; time, 2.45 A.M .; Mrs. Jennie Chase, stable.
Oct. 12. Frank Laguerico, alarm from Lynn.
Oct. 27. Box 12; time, 12.45 ; fire in Marblehead.
Oct. 29. Box 15; time, 5 P.M. ; false alarm.
Oct. 31. Box 4; time, 9.45 P.M .; Herman F. Ashton.
Nov. 14. Box 3; time, 11.55 P.M .; Nies' Brass Foundry.
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Nov. 20. Box 25; time, 9.10 P.M .; Charles W. Sargent.
Nov. 22. Box 17; time, 1.10 A.M .; small shanty used for a club.
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