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Destroying a Dam without right: 1 held for Grand Jury.
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Violation of Town By Law: Posting Bills on Pole. 1 discharged.
Receiving Stolen Goods: Fines imposed $150.00. Total 8.
Cruelty to Animals: 1 discharged
Truants:
5 placed on file.
Work or Fight Law:
1 fined $50.00.
1 placed on file. Total 2.
Violation of Registration Law: Total 7.
Violation of Liquor Laws: Keeping and exposing liquor for sale.
1 fined $200.00.
Illegal Sale of Liquors:
1 fined $100.00.
Lost child: 3 found:
Miscellaneous Report
31 arrests for out of town officers. 11 raids for intoxicating liquors.
Stolen property recovered $486.00. 90 complaints investigated. Amount of fines in lower courts $3,745.90.
I wish to thank the Police Officers for the able manner in which they have performed their duties during the past
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year, as there was an unusual amount of police work.
I also urge the necessity of an automobile. The depart- ment has long been in need of one, and the time has now come when this necessity should no longer be disregarded.
In conclusion I wish to convey my thanks to your Hon- orable Board for the assistance and co-operation I have received during the past year.
Respectfully submitted,
ARTHUR H. PRATT, Chief of Police.
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REPORT OF TOWN SURVEY AND ENGINEERING WORK -
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen of the town of Wey- mouth,
Gentlemen :-
I submit herewith my twelfth annual report on the town survey work, with a brief summary of other survey- ing or engineering work done during the past year.
During the year the revision of the town survey sheets to April 1, 1918 was completed and a set of prints fur- nished the Assessors, and the revision of the sheets to. April 1, 1919 is in progress.
In addition to the revision work a considerable time, principally registry and office work, was given to the area around the easterly side of Whitman's Pond, and between said Pond and Washington and Pleasant Streets. This area covered a portion of four of the town survey sheets which had heretofore been left blank. The location of parcels not recently taxed has been established and the owners over practically the entire area determined.
Looking at the approximate number of transfers during the last eleven years, we start with 365 in 1908 increas- ing each year to a maximum of 600 in 1912; diminishing during the following two years to 450 in 1914, and again increasing to 600 in 1917 with about the 'same number in 1918, giving an average for the eleven years of approxi- mately 518; for the last eight years of approximately 546; and during the last two years of about 600.
For the revision to April 1, 1919 three of the original tracings (worn by the annual erasures and changes) in Ward One will have to be replaced by new tracings, now in progress. These are the first sheets redrawn and there will probably need to be only a few (out of a total of 65 sheets) replaced each succeeding year.
Various prints of the town survey sheets and several of the town maps have been sold since the last report.
In accordance with instructions from your Board, prints covering certain parts of Weymouth, and also the litho- graph maps, have not been sold except to well known or
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local parties during the year.
In my report for 1913 I spoke of the desirability of hav- ing a system of levels run throughout the town and ele- vations taken at various extremes along the streets and adjacent lands, and have mentioned it in each subsequent report. I think this work should be started and a little done on the same each year, in conjunction with the town survey work. -
Owing to prevailing conditions quite a little work ordi- narily done each year by the town has been omitted. There has been no construction of permanent (tar con- crete) sidewalks this year, and all engineering and con- struction work has been omitted as far as possible. There was, however, during the year, some work necessary to be done among which was the following :- the relocation of a portion of Center Street, and the relocation of a part of Middle Street with the attendant survey and plan in each case; giving grades for various drains or gutters; or taking a profile of, or giving grades for a street; investigating the street line shown on plans filed for registration in the land court in cases where the town had received notice; giving street lines in accordance with instructions, from your Board where a request from an abuttor had been filed with the Selectmen; the yearly measurement of the street oiling, with schedule of same for the Assessors; and also some other work in a number of minor cases.
During the coming year there should be stone bounds set to mark the streets which have been recently accepted by the town, there having been but few placed since 1914 when 73 were set. All of the new streets should be- marked when thus accepted and it would be well to mark one or more other important streets each year.
In closing I wish to extend my thanks to the Board of Selectmen, and other officials of the town for their con- tinued confidence and courtesy; and also to all others who have in any way aided me or my assistants.
Respectfully submitted,
RUSSELL H. WHITING, Civil Engineer.
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THE FORTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE TUFTS LIBRARY WEYMOUTH, MASS. 1918
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TRUSTEES.
Joseph Chase, Jr., *Louis A. Cook,
William A. Drake,
Francis M. Drown,
James H. Flint,
Joseph E. Gardner,
William F. Hathaway, John B. Holland,
Clarance P. Whittle.
SELECTMEN, EX-OFFICIO.
Henry E. Hanley,
Bradford Hawes,
Alfred W. Hastings, Joseph Kelley, George L. Newton.
OFFICERS. · Clarance P. Whittle, President. Francis M. Drown, Secretary.
LIBRARIAN. Abbie L. Loud.
ASSISTANTS.
Alice B. Blanchard,
Phyllis E. Palmer.
JANITOR. Frank D. Sherman.
*Deceased.
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INFORMATION.
The library is for the use of all residents of Weymouth.
Temporary residents are entitled to the same privileges as residents.
The library is open every day except Sundays, legal hol- idays and June 17th.
Library hours: Daily, 2 to 8 p. m., except Wed- nesday, 2 to 5 p. m., and Saturday, 2 to 9 p. m.
Summer hours: July and August, 2 to 6 p. m .; Wednesday and Saturday as above.
Two cards are issued to each borrower over twelve years of age. A white card for general use and a green special card for non-fiction, including magazines and music scores.
A white card is given to each child between nine and twelve years of age if the application is signed by a trus- tee of the library.
Teachers and students are given cards which permit the taking of ten or more books, other than adult fiction, for twenty-eight days.
The vacation privilege allows a borrower, when away from home, to take several books, not recent publications, for an extended time.
All books from the circulating department, even the new fiction, may be kept for fourteen days. Recent num- bers of magazines are limited to seven days with no re- newal.
A book cannot be transferred from one card to another, but may be renewed by mail or *telephone, unless stamp- ed THIS BOOK CANNOT BE RENEWED. The shelf num- ber or title of the book and the borrower's name should be stated when the request for renewal is made.
*Telephone, Weymouth 112-W.
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A fine of two cents a day will be incurred for each day's detention of a book after it is due. When a book is sent for by the librarian it will be at the expense of the bor- rower.
Signs and abbreviations used in booklists:
R Reference. + Gift. 1
* Not loaned without permission. j Juvenile.
Cases of contagious diseases are reported to the library by the Board of Health and all books which have been ex- posed to contagion are burned.
For the convenience of residents living in different parts of the town, books are exchanged through the de- livery stations once a week as follows:
Lovell's Corner, W. W. Pratt, Tuesday.
South Weymouth, Fogg Memorial Library, Tuesday.
South Weymouth,
Marshall P. Sprague, Tuesday.
East Weymouth, Marion F. French, Wednesday.
Weymouth Centre, Bates & Humphrey, Wednesday.
North Weymouth, H. O. Collyer Friday.
Weymouth Heights, W. J. Sladen, Friday.
Application for borrowers' cards may be made at the de- livery stations. Class lists and book lists may be consulted or purchased at these stations.
CLASS LIST No. 6 is now for sale at the library and at the Delivery Stations. It contains a list of the books which have been added to the library from August 1, 1910, to the date of publication, October 1, 1917. This printed catalogue of 132 pages can be purchased at the nominal price of fifteen cents. The set of SIX CLASS LISTS, which make a complete printed catalogue of the Tufts Library, from 1879 to 1917, can be purchased for fifty cents.
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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE TUFTS LIBRARY
The fortieth annual report of the Board of Trustees of the Tufts Library is respectfully submitted as follows:
During the year 1918, the library was open only 282 days. . The total circulation was 55,953, with an average of 198+a day. Of this total number, 30,372 volumes were circulated through the schools and the delivery stations. The largest daily circulation was 599, on February 15, and the smallest was 37, on November 7.
The number distributed through the delivery stations is shown in the following table:
PRECINCT
DELIVERY STATION
LOANS
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5,994
H. O. Collyer
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W. J. Sladen
2,373
2 & 6
Mrs. Marion F. French
5.086
2 & 6
Bates & Humphrey
1,515
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W. W. Pratt
970
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Marshall P. Sprague
708
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Fogg Memorial Library
1,057
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17,703
CLASSIFICATION OF CIRCULATION
CLASS
LOANS
PER CENT.
Arts
2,034
· 3.63
Biography
1,279
2.29
Fiction
36,506
65.24
History
3,255
5.81
Literature
947
1.69
Natural science
1,396
2.50
Poetry
833
1.49
Social science
1,007
1.80
Theology
106
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Travels
1,889
3.38
Periodicals, (unbound) 5735
Periodicals (bound) 966
6,701
11.98
55.953
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Collections of books, amounting to 12,669 volumes, were circulated through 9 schools, including 2 Sunday schools. On 82 Student's cards 934 books were borrowed.
The registration of borrowers, since April, 1909, records 4705 applications, 318 of which were made in 1918.
The annual examination of the books shows that 31 books were lost, only one of which was paid for by the borrower, 9 books were burned, on account of contagious diseases; 302 books were discarded as unfit for circulation; 2 books previously reported lost were found; 9 guide books were sent to the War Department, at Washington; and 40 books are, at present, unaccounted for.
The total number of accessions, on December 31, 1918, was 35217, of which number, 449 were added during the year; including 64 replacements, 48 gifts, and 30 bound periodicals. 516 books were rebound.
One reason why the accessions were fewer than usual is that a part of the money which ordinarily would have been spent for books, was used to pay for the printing of Class List, No. 6. This Class List has been for sale at the library and at the delivery stations, since March, 1918. Further details may be found in the Information pages which precede the body of this report.
A list of books added to the library during 1918, ex- cepting the duplicates and the replacements, and those books which are listed elsewhere in this report, may be found in Appendix B-General Literature. ¿
The books purchased from the Susannah Hunt Stetson fund, the Augustus J. Richards fund, and the Tirrell Do- nation, are listed in Appendix C-Books purchased from Special Funds.
The following additions were made to the reference de- partment: American year book, 1917; Encyclopedia of re- ligion and ethics, ed. by James Hastings, and· others (v.
¿This list includes the titles of a few books which were added in December, 1917, after the publication of Class List, No. 6, and which were not listed in last year's report. With these additions, this Report completes the catalogue of the books in the library to Janu- ary 1, 1919.
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9.): Massachusetts-Journal of the House of Represen- tatives, 1917; Journal of the Senate, 1917; Manual of the General Court, 1918; General acts, 1917; Special acts, and re- solves, 1917; and Vital records of Carlisle, Charlemont, Co- hasset, East Bridgewater, Harvard, Harwich, Milford, Northbridge, Salem (v.' 2.), Shirley, Stoneham, West New- bury, Westport and Windsor; History of Norfolk county, Massachusetts, 1622-1918 (2 v.) ed. by Louis. A. Cook.
The list of periodicals, as given in Appendix D varies but little from that of last year. The Canada weekly, the Congregationalist and Advance, and the Universalist lead- er, are no longer presented to the library. America, Italy today, the Bulletin of the Japan society, and the Red cross magazine, are now given. The library now subscribes for the Pictorial review, the Proceedings of the Academy of political science, and the Unpopular review.
The collections of pictures from the Library Art club, which were exhibited in the Reading room throughout the year, were as follows: Petrograd and its environs; Re- naissance doorways; Baby beasts, birds and pets, by E. J. Detmold; Photographs illustrative of events in the year 1492; Roundabout Sante Fe, New Mexico; Francis Hop- kinson Smith; Hungary; Canadian Pacific railway, Gla- cier and its vicinity; Belgium, No. 2; Algiers; Animal kingdom; American illustrators; Boston playgrounds; Ni- agara Falls.
The Gifts of the year included: annual reports, bulletins, and other publications, from 33 libraries; and books, pam- phlets and periodicals, from individual donors and so- cieties; and publications from the State and Federal gov- ernments, many of which were published in connection with the war work of the United States.,
Among the additions made to the Fifield Collection by Mrs. Mary Fifield King is a Bulletin of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. This bul- letin is largely given up to illustrations of the antique wall paper called "A holiday in Paris" which was put on the walls of the Richards house, in Washington Square, Weymouth, over a century ago. In July, 1917, the Rich-
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ards heirs gave this wall paper to the society mentioned above. It was successfully removed and "taken into. Bos- ton to the headquarters of the society, the famous Harri- son Gray Otis house at the West End, which is being re- stored to some of its former glories in Revolutionary times. The Bulletin also speaks of the quaint little shop opposite the Richards house " A more extended account of this gift was in the Weymouth Gazette of De- cember 6, 1918. The Richards house, from which the pa- per was taken, was the former home of Miss Louisa C. Richards, who recently resigned her position as assistant at the Tufts library.
Mrs. King also presented to the library a photographic copy of a painting of Dr. Cotton Tufts, a distinguished cit- izen of Weymouth, who was the grandfather of Quincy and Susan Tufts, the founders of the library.
In the letter of presentation which accompanied the portrait, Mrs. King wrote :-
"It has long been my wish, since I realized that Wey- mouth had no portrait of Dr. Cotton Tufts, to present a picture of him to the library.
"The original is in the Medical Library, and very highly valued. If any other exists it would certainly not be of this period. The canvas is about two by three feet and was unfortunately mounted on wood, which with the lapse of years, and heat and cold, has almost hopelessly blis- tered the surface
"An expert photographer has made repeated experiments till finally he has obtained the portrait I now send to you. For some reason pigments of the old paint would not respond to the best photographic lenses, and prints had to be made again and again to strengthen and bring up. Of course the original still has an excellent color, but it would not print.
"In any case I feel that the thing is done as well as pos- sible, and I take pleasure in giving it in memory of Dr. Noah Fifield, the beloved colleague and friend of Dr. Tufts. . "
On account of the epidemic of influenza, the library was
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closed, by order of the Board of Health, from September 25, to October 21. The library has been closed only once before for a similar reason. This was in 1902, from Feb- ruary 17, until March 10, when the town was threatened with an epidemic of small-pox.
Although the daily average of the circulation exceeded that of last year, the total circulation for this year was materially affected by this closing of the library for more than three weeks.
There was, however, plenty of work to occupy the staff while the doors were closed to the public. In order to gain shelf room, practically all of the books in the stack room were moved, and many bound volumes of periodicals were transferred to the hall above. While the primary purpose of this work was the relief of the congested shelves, it was also preparatory to the adoption of free ac- cess, which has been desired for so long a time.
As a further preparation for free access, all the biogra- phy which had been shelved previously in two, sections, was brought together under the subject and renumbered. A capital B now indicates biography, when followed by the Cutter number for the biographee and the lower case initial of the author's surname; i. e., A Life of George Washington, by E. S. Brooks, is now numbered B.W276b, while one, on the same subject, by P. L. Ford, is B.W276f. These new numbers will not prevent the use of the call- numbers of biography as printed in the Class Lists, but the new arrangement will make the books more easily ac- cessible to the borrowers when they select books for them- selves.
Free access to the stack room will probably be granted to adults, as an experiment, in the near future.
The American Library Association has taken an active part in winning the war. The Tufts Library has re- sponded to every call for service, as generously as its cir- cumstances permitted.
The A. L. A. Book Campaign for the Soldiers and Sailors, in March, was advertised by the library, with the result that 220 gift books were sent to the Naval Camp at Hing-
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ham, and 120 more to the A. L. A. Dispatch Office, Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass., for the American Ex- peditionary Forces. The Trustees thank the people who generously responded to this call.
The library will continue to forward to the A. L. A. all books which may be sent to the library for this purpose, as books are still needed, and will be needed for the men in service, until further notice.
Soldiers in hospitals need also current magazines. The Library War Service urges people "to send current maga- zines to soldiers by the simple process of putting a one- cent stamp on the front cover." '
Nine guide books were sent to the War Department, in response to its urgent request in June, for maps and guide books of "the territory in France, Belgium and Luxem- burg held by Germany and likewise in that part of Germany lying west of the line running north and south through Hamburg."
Food exhibits, under the auspices of Mrs. R. S. Hoff- man, local leader in Food Conservation for the Norfolk County Agricultural school, were displayed in the delivery room, from February to June. Some of the attractive pos- ters shown with these exhibits were the work of pupils in the Weymouth High school.
Posters and literature, both of which contributed so great a part in arousing the nation, were placed before the people as advantageously as possible. War Savings stamps and Thrift stamps were for sale at the desk, dur- ing the year.
The Trustees allowed the Special Aid society of Ameri- can preparedness, of Ward three, to use the unoccupied rooms in the library building as its headquarters.
Throughout the year the Trustees' room was used by the Legal Advisory Board, for the meetings of the reg- istrants of Ward three, who desired advice in regard to their questionnaires.
In place of Miss Louisa C. Richards, who resigned last year, the Trustees appointed Miss Phyllis E. Palmer, as- sistant librarian. Miss Palmer was graduated from the
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Weymouth High School in 1917, and successfully completed a six weeks' course, in the Summer Library Class, at Sim- mons College, in 1918.
With sincere regret the death of Judge Louis Atwood Cook, on May 16, 1918, is here recorded. He became a member of the Board of Trustees of the Tufts Library in 1894, and was therefore, at the time of his death, the old- est trustee in length of service. Throughout the period of his connection with the library, he manifested a warm interest in its welfare, especially as a member of the Book committee.
In the death of Miss Emma F. Thayer the library has lost the services of one, who, during the seven years of her connection with the library as a substitute, was a faithful and interested worker.
An attempt was made this year to establish a Reading Room, or Branch at East Weymouth. An article was print- ed in the Warrant for the Annual Town meeting, in March, asking for an appropriation for this purpose, but as the Appropriation Committee did not think it wise to start new enterprises during the war, the article was passed over without action.
Although this effort failed, it opened the way for its consideration later. The desirability of such a Branch was fully recognized by the Trustees, but they realize that special appropriations must be made for its estab- lishment and maintenance.
The Trustees again invite the attention of the people of Weymouth to the need of a children's room and a hall for exhibits, lectures, club and other meetings for social im- provement and educational advancement, in the library building. This was mentioned more fully in the report of 1915.
The development of the library for the last few years has been greatly restricted by lack of funds, as the ex- pense of 'maintenance has been steadily increasing while the annual appropriations have been practically the same for many years. The advance in the price of heating and lighting, the rising cost of books, and periodicals, and
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supplies of all kinds, renders it impossible to make the dollar of today equal the dollar of yesterday in purchas- ing power. It seems fitting, also, to state here that the salaries should be increased to be in keeping with the com- pensation for services in other lines of work.
CLARANCE P. WHITTLE, By order and in behalf of the Trustees. 1
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Appendix A. Table of Statistics.
Appendix B. General Literature.
Appendix C. Books purchased from Special Funds.
Appendix D. Periodicals.
Appendix E. Donors ..
APPENDIX A .- TABLE OF STATISTICS.
Days open during the year 282
Number of volumes at beginning of year 30,608
Number of volumes added during the year by pur- chase
370
Number of volumes added during the year by gift 49
Number of volumes lost or withdrawn during the
year 320
Number of books previously reported lost, found .. 2
Total number at end of year 30,739
Number of volumes of fiction lent 36,506
Number of volumes lent to schools. 12,669
Total number of volumes lent during the year 55,953
Average circulation per day .
198+ 7
Number of delivery stations
Number of volumes lent through the delivery stations 17,703
Number of new borrowers registered during the year 318
Number of newspapers and periodicals, exclusive of government publications, currently received (Number of copies, not titles) 128
Number of volumes rebound. 516
Number of periodicals bound. 30
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RECEIPTS FROM
Town appropriation
$2,600.00
Town reserve fund
500.00
Endowment funds
1,104.22
Fines and sale of publications.
189.41
Other sources
734.69
Expended in excess
9.09
Total
$5,137.41
PAYMENTS FOR
Books
$696.12
Binding
156.29
Salaries, library service, janitor service. 2,129.90
Heat
388.41
Light
183.55
Other expenses
1,583.14
Total
$5,137.41
APPENDIX B-GENERAL LITERATURE
Aldrich. Hilltop on the Marne.
633.105
On the edge of the war zone. 633.106
Allen. Kentucky warbler. A427.10
Ancient and honorable artillery company, Mass.
Roberts. History of the Military company of the Massachusetts, now called the An-
cient and Honorable artillery company of Massachusetts. v.3. 1822-1865. 1898. v.3 of ៛616.66 Andrews, comp. From the front; trench poetry. 826.127 Appleton. With the colors; songs of American service. 826.131
Archer, comp. Gems .(?) of German thought. ៛633.128
Atherton. Living present. 633.151
Perch of the devil. A868.11 White morning. A868.12
¿Bailey. Slavs of the war zone. ៛633.78
Bancroft. In these latter days. 1315.324
¿Bang. Hurrah and hallelujah +633.83
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Barbusse. Under fire.
B23143.1
Barclay. White ladies of Worcester.
B2316.10
Beard. Outdoor handy book. j
723.135
It is thought best to issue this latest edi- tion of "The American boy's book of sports" under the title of "The Outdoor handy book." Beck. Evidence in the case; a discussion of the moral responsibility for the war of 1914. +633.123 ¿War and humanity +633.85
Beith (Ian Hay) All in it; "K(1)" carries on.
633.88
Bennett. Bookkeeping and accounting exer- cises. 2v. 734.128
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