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Art. 5. To see if the town will appoint a committee of seven to carry out the vote of the town under Article Number 3. W. (). Cartwright and others.
Voted. That Articles 2, 3, 4 and 5 be taken up together and that they be laid upon the table.
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Art. 6. To hear and act upon a report of the committee ap- pointed under vote of the town Juue 14th, 1911, relating to the purchase of land on the shores of Crystal Lake.
Art. 7. To see if the town will vote to purchase any land upon the shores of Crystal Lake and raise and appropriate money therefor Thomas G. O'Connell and others.
Art. 8. To see if the town will vote to establish a filitration system for the water supply. Thomas G. O'Conrell and others.
Art. 9. To see if the town will vote to make application to the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board, to be admitted to and as a part of the Metropolitan Water District, under the authority of Chapter 488 of the Acts of 1902. Thomas G. O'Connell and others.
Art. 10. To see if the town will vote to issue notes, honds or scrip for the purpose of providing funds for carrying out such vote as may be passed under either or all of the three last preceding articles, fix the amount thereof and the con- ditions under which they shall be issued. Thomas G. O'Connell and others.
Voted. That Articles 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, having reference to the Water Question, be laid upon the table until two weeks from tonight at eight o'clock.
Art. 11. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the necessary amount of money to install and relocate the fire alarm boxes which the Board of Municipal Light Com- missioners were instructed to do by the vote of the town under Articles 14, 15, 16 of the town warrant, dated July 1 5th, 1912, said amount to be added to the appropriation for fire alarm maintenance. Edwin C. Miller and others.
Voted. That the town raise and appropriate $50 to relocate fire. alarm hox 52 as called for in Article 14 of Town Warrant of July 5. 1912. That $75 be raised and appropriated for the fire alarm box as called for in Article 15 of the Warrant
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of July 5, 1912, this money to be expended under the direc- tion of the Municipal Light Commissioners.
Art. 12. To see if the town will authorize the Municipal Light Commissioners to transfer a sum not exceeding $250.00 from the money appropriated by the town under Article 5 of the town warrant dated March 11th, 1912. to be used for fire alarm construction, to the amount appropriated by the town for maintenance of fire alarm. Edwin C. Miller and others.
Voted. That the town authorize the Municipal Light Commis- sioners to transfer a sum of money as called for by Article.
Art. 13. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $1200.00 to be added to the depreciation fund of the Muni- cipal Light Board, for their use. Edwin C. Miller and others.
Voted. That the town raise and appropriate $1200 for the depreciation fund of the Municipal Light Board.
Art. 14. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300.00 for the use of the Police Department, or what they will de about it. Board of Selectmen.
Voted. That the town raise and appropriate $300 for use of the Police Department.
Art. 15. To see if the town will raise and appropriate an addi- tional sum of money for the care of the town hall. Board of Selectmen.
Voted. That the subject matter of this article be laid upon the table.
Art. 16. To see if the town will make an additional appropria- tion for the Fire Department, raise and appropriate money for the same. William E. Cade and others.
Voted. To raise and appropriate $1075, as an additional appro- priation for use of the Fire Department.
Art. 17. To see if the town will vote to accept the provisions of Section 85 of Chapter 48 of the Revised Laws relating to reserved spaces in public ways. Board of Selectmen.
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Voted. That the town accept the provisions as called for by article.
Art. 18. To see if the town will vote to amend the By-Laws by repealing and striking out the whole of Section 2 of Art. 6 of said By-laws, relating to action at town meetings on the reports of Selectmen laying out town ways. M. E. S. Clemons.
Voted. . That the town amend fits By-Laws as called for by Article.
Art. 19. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to work and grade Armory street, and to light the same, or what it will do about it. Dennis Greany and others.
Voted. That the town raise and appropriate $167 for lighting Armory street, the same to be expended under the direction of the Municipal Light Board.
Art. 20. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of thirty-five dollars for the use of the Forest Glade Ceme- tery Commissioners, or what they will do about it. Willie R. Blake and others.
Voted. That the town raise and appropriate $35 for the use of the Forest Glade Cemetery Commissioners.
Art. 21. To see if the town will vote. to increase the salary of the Plumbing Inspector, and raise and appropriate money therefor, or what they will do in relation thereto. Charles C. Ball and others.
Voted. That the salary of the Inspector of Plumbing be $600 per annum, to take effect January 1, 1913.
Art. 22. To see if the town will vote to authorize its Selectmen to increase the salary of its Chief of Police from $2.75 per day to $1200 per year, to take effect Jan. 1st, 1913, or what they will do about it. Eden K. Bowser and others.
Voted. That the salary of the Chief of Police be increased to $1200 a year to take effect January 1, 1913.
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Art. 23. To see if the town will vote to instruct the Municipal Light Commissioners to install an electric light on Madison Avenue, near the residence of John Hartley, and raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money therefor, or what they will do about it. John Hartley and others.
Voted. That the town raise and appropriate $12 for the instal- lation of light as called for by article.
Art. 24. To see if the town will vote to instruct the Municipal Light Commissioners to install an electric light on Madison Avenue, near the residence of Charles Simonds, and raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money therefor, or what. they will do about it. Harry E. True and others.
Voted. To raise and appropriate the sum of $48 for the instal- lation of one light as called for by article, and that the light be installed under the Municipal Light Commissioners.
Art. 25. To see if the town will vote to instruct the Municipal Light Commissioners to install an electrie light at the junc- tion of Renwick Road and Ashland Street-one on Ashland Street at Melrose City line,-one near the residence of Frank A. Connor on Overlook Road-one at the junction of Overlook Road and Nowell Road, and one on Nowell Road at the Melrose City line, and raise and appropriate a suffi- cient sum of money therefor, or what they will do about it. Samuel H. Hellen and others.
Voted. That the town raise and appropriate $66 for the instal- lation of four lights, work to be done under the direction of the Municipal Light Commissioners.
Art. 26. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate money for the suppression of the gypsy and brown tail moths. M. E. S. Clemons and others.
Voted. That the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Art. 27. To see what action the town will take in regard to the purchase of land for a play ground. Dana Dudley and others.
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Voted. That the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Art. 28. To hear and act upon the report of the Selectmen lay- ing out a town way from Water street to Richardson street, being the private way now known as Wakefield avenue.
Voted. That the subject matter of this article be laid on the table until two weeks from tonight.
Art. 29. To hear and act upon the report of the Selectmen lay- ing out a town way from Otis street northerly, being the pri- vate way now known as Rockland street.
Voted. That subject matter of this article be laid on table until two weeks from tonight.
Art. 30. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Water and Sewerage Board to construct a sewer in Elm street between Prospect and Winn street, and raise and appropriate a suffi- cient sum of money therefor. Sidney G. Watkins and others.
Art. 31. To see if the town will vote to issue notes, bonds or scrip for the purpose of providing funds to pay for the exten- sion of the sewer in Elm street, if the same be authorized under vote of the town on the preceding article, and fix and determine the amounts of such bonds, notes and scrip and the conditions under which they may be issued. Sidney G. Watkins and others.
Voted. That subject matter of these articles be laid on table until one week from tonight.
Art. 32. To see if the town will vote to appoint a committee to examine as to the advisability of purchasing the lot of land adjoining east, the West Ward School lot, and report at the next annual town meeting in March, 1913. Lewis E. Carter. Voted. That a committee of five be appointed to consider the advisability of purchasing the lot of land adjoining the West Ward school lot. Committee to report at .he March town meeting.
Committee appointed : Lewis E. Carter, C. E. Montague, Edward B. Kelley, L. P. Gowing, George A. Cowdrey.
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Art. 33. To see if the town will vote to appoint a committee to investigate the condition of the old Franklin school house, on Franklin street, and report to the town at the spring town meeting the advisability as to its use, or what they will do about it. William A. Thursh.
Voted. That a committee of five be appointed to investigate the condition of the old Franklin school and to report at the spring town meeting the advisability as to its use.
Committee appointed : William A. Thrush, A. H. Board- man, J. J. Round, J. J. Foley, N. E. Cutler.
Art. 34. To hear and act upon the report of the Committee of Fifteen appointed to consider an improvement on the present form of town government, and to take such action as the town deems advisable, or what they will do about it.
Art. 35. To see if the town will have the report of the commit_ tee printed in pamphlets for distribution. R. C. Atkinson, Sec'y.
Voted. That the subject matter of these articles be laid upon the table.
Art. 36. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Select- men to move the bath house building to a new location on the west shore of the lake, and raise and appropriate a suffi- cient sum of money therefor, or what they will do about it. John J. Round and others.
Voted. That the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Art. 37. To see if the town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 635 of the acts of the Legislature of 1912, the same being entitled "An Act Relative to Tenement Houses in Towns." Wakefield Improvement Association and Advisory Betterment Committee.
Voted. That the subject matter of this article be laid upon the table for one week,
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Art. 38. To see if the town of Wakefield will vote to pay J. R. Reid & Son for dressing delivered to Forest Glade Cemetery, and for the use of team in Forest Glade Cemetery, or what they will do about it. N. E. Cutler and others.
Voted. That the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Art. 39. To hear and act upon the report of the committee ap- pointed under Article 19 at meeting held Nov. 20, 1911, to purchase a piece of motor driven fire apparatus.
Voted. That the subject matter of this article be laid upon the table for two weeks.
Art. 40. To see if the town will vote to purchase the track of land on Water street, bounded on the south by Water street, on the west by Melvin street, on the north by B. & M. R. R. and on the east by the Bay State R. R. to be used for dumping purposes, or what they will do about it. Joseph W. Heath and others.
Voted. That the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted. That this meeting be adjourned to next Monday evening at 7.30 o'clock.
ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING, NOVEMBER 18, 1912
Meeting called to order at 7.45 o'clock p. m., by Modera- tor O'Connell.
Voted. That Article 15 be taken from the table.
Art. 15. Voted. That the town raise and appropriate $350 for purpose outlined by article.
Art. 30.
Voted. That Article 30 be taken from the table.
Voted. That the town raise and appropriate $2900 to cover cost of the subject matter of this article and that the work he- done under the direction of the Water and Sewerage Boards ..
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Art. 41. To hear and act upon the report of the Selectmen lay- ing out a town way from Myrtle avenue to Crystal street, be- ing the private way now known as Gladstone street.
Voted, That the subject matter of Article 41 be laid upon the table.
Art. 2.
Voted. That Article 2 be taken from the table.
Mr. J. W. O'Connell reported for committee.
Motion. That report of committee be accepted. Amendment, that report be accepted and adopted.
Motion, that question be divided.
Division 1.
That the report of committee be accepted.
Division 2. That the report of committee be adopted.
1 And motion as offered was so voted.
Division 1.
Voted. That the report of the committee be accepted. Division 2.
Motion, that action on Division 2 of this motion be inde- finitely postponed. During the discussion on this motion it was
Voted. That this meeting stand adjourned to next Monday evening at 7.30 o'clock.
ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING, NOVEMBER 25, 1912
Meeting called to order by Moderator O'Connell at 7.45 o'clock.
Art. 2.
Motion under the second division of Art. 2 being in order. Voted. That further consideration of Art. 2 be postponed until next Monday evening.
Art. 6. Voted. That Article 6 be taken from the table.
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Moderator relinquished chair and turned meeting over to Town Clerk.
Voted. That Articles 7, 8, 9 and 10 be taken up jointly with Article 6.
Mr. O'Connell ready to report for Water Committee but as report was printed it was
Voted. That reading of the report be dispensed with.
Motion, that the town accept the majority and minority reports and that the town continue to use the present supply of water until same becomes inadequate.
Voted. That motion be divided.
Division 1.
That the town accept the majority and minority reports. Division 2.
That town continue to use the present supply of water until same becomes inadequate.
Acting under Division 1.
Voted That the town accept the majority and minority reports. During discussion under Div. 2 it was
Voted. That this meeting stand adjourned to next Monday evening at 7.30 o'clock.
ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING DECEMBER 2, 1912
Meeting called to order at 7.50 o'clock by the Moderator. Art. 2.
Voted. To take up Article 2.
Voted. That the matter relating to the High School be laid up- on table.
Art. 6.
Art. 6 being in order the remainder of the evening was spent in discussing the subject matter of this article.
Motion. That a committee of three be appointed to draft a proper motion for referendum of the water question, to be put on ballot for election of town officers at the next spring meeting.
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No action was taken on the above motion, though Moder- ator O'Connell appointed the following committee :
Charles A. Dean, George L. Wakefield and M. E. S. Clemons.
Voted. That this meeting stand adjourned to next Monday evening at 7.30 o'clock.
ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING, DECEMBER 9, 1912
Meeting called to order by Moderator O'Connell at 7.45 o'clock.
Art. 6.
Motion on referendum was then voted and same committee appointed.
Voted. That all matters relating to the Water question be laid upon the table until eight o'clock.
Art. 36.
That Article 36 be taken up.
Motion. That the town reconsider the vote whereby the subject matter of Article 36 was indefinitely postponed.
During discussion of this motion the hour of eight having arrived the Water Question became the business before the meeting.
Moderator O'Connell relinquished chair to Mr. C'emons.
Reminder of evening given over to discusion of Water Question.
Votcd. That this meeting stand adjourned to next Monday evening.
ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING, DECEMBER 16, 1912
Discussion of Water Question occupied entire evening. Voted. That this meeting stand adjourned to three weeks from tonight at 7.30 o'clock.
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SELECTMEN'S REPORT
TO THE CITIZENS OF THE TOWN OF WAKEFIELD :
The annual report of your Board of Selectmen for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 1912, is herewith respectfully sub- mitted, together with the reports of the several departments and committees under its control or supervision.
The Board organized March 4th, 1912, with the election of George E. Walker, Chairman ; Charles S. Young, Secretary, and the appointment of H. A. Simonds, ( lerk.
The Board has held, during the year, fifty-two regular and se en special meetings, and has represented the Town at hearings before the Highway Commission, the Metropolitan Park Commis- sion, the Middlesex County Commissioners and a large number of Legislative Committees.
The following Standing Committees were appointed by the Chairman immediately after the Board organized :
Highway Department
Nathaniel E. { utler Frank A. Long
Police Department
Andrew G. Anderson
Frank A. Long
Fire Department .
George E. Walker
Town Hall .
Charles S. Young
George E. Walker
Military Department
Charles S. Young
Andrew G. Anderson
Signing of Checks
Charles S. Young Frank A. Long
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The following appointments have been made by the Board
during the year :
Town Counsel
M. E. S. Clemons
Chief of Police .
James J. Pollard
Supt. of Streets
Oscar H. Starkweather
Janitor of Hall
Fred J . Black Harvey S. Parker
Supt. of Moth Dept.
Fire Engineers
W. W. Whittredge W. E. Cade Edw. S. Jacob Fred D. Graham
Inspector of Animals
Palmer Corbett
Inspector of Wires
William E. Cade
Inspector of Buildings
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William E. Cade
Fire Inspector
William E. Cade
Forest Warden
.
Registrar
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William E. Cade Patrick J. Kelley
Sweetser Lecture
Course
Edwin C. Miller W. S. Perkins J. Lowe McMahon H. M. Dolbeare (Harry M. Wheeler Harry A. Simonds Louis N. Tyzzer James J. Pollard
Constables
Dog Officer .
Keeper of Lockup .
James A. McFadden
Fence Viewers
Albert D. Cate
Albert A. Mansfiel d
Promoted to permanent Police Force Fred J. Black
SPECIAL POLICE OFFICERS
J. Fred Reynolds
Roy D. Jones
Lewis E. Carter
Arthur Gibbons
George F. Leach
Willie R. Blake
George O. Flanders
William G. Carley
William A. George Emil Nelson
Ernest A. Tyler James Findley
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Louis N. Tyzzer John A. Meloney R. J. Keneally John A. Logan W. H. Murray
Walter F. Carley
Charles I. Grant
Harvey S. Parker
George O. Russell O. H. Starkweather Benjamin Fisher A. P Butler Henry Hoyt John M. Cate
Harry J. Gilfoyle
INSPECTOR OF PLUMBING David Taggart
WEIGHERS OF COAL AND MERCHANDISE
Henry G. Wiggin William H. Hall Wilbur C. Crocker M. T. Findley E. C. Hall
Licenses have been granted as follows :
AUCTIONEERS
George H. S. Driver
Frederic S. Hartshorne
William H. Woodman
Edward B. Kelley Dana F. Fairbanks
Frederick M. Libbey
SECOND HAND FURNITURE F. Goldburg
POOL AND BILLIARDS James J. Nolan
BOWLING AND POOL Barnard and Godfrey
JUNK
M. Arenstein & Co. John Taylor Hyman Barron
I. Horovitz & Co. M. Lavine Israel Schlager
American Ex. Co.
PONY EXPRESS A. B. Comins
B. J. Cotter
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PEDLERS
A. B. Robinson Wakefield
Daniel Quinn Stoneham J. H. Driscoll & Son 66
John Freeman 66
Ignazio Palumbo 66 George A. Doyle 66
B. J. Cotter
Philip E. Steele 66
Guisseppi Santori
F. L. Halleron Melrose
W. P. Whitehead
Patrick Scannell 66
Edw. P. Dinan
66
George Cafantaros
Fortuno DiVeto
66
Herman Perkins Malden
A. L. Whitten 66
Harry Collen
Antonio Markros 66
Philip Glasser 66
Crosby & Russell
Harry Lipnick
Chas. E. Randall
66
Petropoulos Bros. 66
M. G. Littlefield
66
J. H. Whipling Reading
Wilbur J. Flannigan
Giavonni Crivello Revere
Edw. S. Russell 6 .
M. J. Lynch
66
P. E. Salapante 66
George Alpert Harry Levine
Chelsea
H. C. Krebbs
Geo. S Gratton '
6 6
A. M. Otash
Lawrence
M. Pokroisky
Roxbury
T. W. Kenniston
Somerville
Edw L. Phillips Lynnfield
Ira P. Nador
Lynn
VICTUALLERS
Geo. L Teague
Will H. Wiley
Chas. H. Cheever
Hotel Northrop Co.
Ralph DeCecca A. L. Whitten
Chickles & Sharmos
David Moria
Clifford Mortimer
H. T. Mitchell
Welch & Mahoney
E. D. Brackett
There have been 3397 orders drawn on the Town Treasurer, amounting to $285,907.14, for all of which proper vouchers are on file.
The Board has granted 103 building permits at a total estimated value of $210,925.00, which probably will be largely increased when this new property is assessed, so that there has been a sub stantial increase in our total valuation.
Lawrence Paon
Henry Freeman Everett
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In accordance with the authority voted by the town we selected as Superintendent of Streets a highway engineer of experience, and, although somewhat handicapped by starting in late in the season, we feel that he has handled the department well. Now that the town has an engineer, steps, we believe, ought to be taken to appropriate sufficient money to permit of his doing considerable permanent work. With this in view we shall submit a comprehen- sive plan in connection with the appropriation to be made at the spring meeting, and we ask its careful consideration.
We have continued our policy of getting all our crushed stone out at the crusher plant and have not purchased any this year, thus giving our citizens employment and securing stone of known quality.
The Board wishes to take this opportunity of expressing their sincere thanks for the loyal and generous support they have re- ceived from our citizens as a whole. There have been criticisms on the part of a few and possibly they may have sometimes been well founded ; no board is infallible. nor can it ever hope to be, but your Board of Selectmen have been conscientious in their du- ties and unanimous in their decisions during the year. It should be borne in mind, also, that there frequently are excellent rea- sons for doing certain things or adopting certain policies, which to those who are not acquainted with all the facts may seem unwise or unbusinesslike. Well-founded criticism is appreciated, but unintelligent fault-finding accomplishes nothing. Any board will improve by benefitting from just criticism. and your Board of Selectmen welcomes this source of improvement.
We are glad to report a steady growth in the matter of co-op- eration among our citizens, departments, and organizations in the town. Success for any town can only be accomplished by the he irtiest co-operation between all these parts of the body politic. Just as the various members of the human physical system, the liver, stomach, heart, etc., must work in harmonious co-operation to produce a physically well human being, so must the various departments and organizations of a town work together to make a successful and prosperous town.
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We desire in closing to offer a few suggestions, not all of them requiring immediate action but about which we hope all of us will do some thinking. One thing that needs immediate attention is the establishment of another precinct west of the railroad track and north of Broadway, to be known as Precinct 3. Voting booths could probably be installed in the basement of the Hamil- ton School, or some other equally convenient location. Precinct 1, with its 2200 voters, is too large to handle. A precinct on the west side will relieve this situation somewhat by taking out approximately 600 voters, to whom the change will also be a convenience.
At some time in the future the town should increase the salary of the Tax Collector, appoint him Town Collector, and make all bills receivable payable at his office instead of to the different de- partments as at present. It will readily be seen that this is the business way to collect our moneys, and it is also more convenient for those having bills to pay to pay them all at one place
While it would be inadvisable at present to appoint a purchas- ing agent, we do believe that some steps should be taken by the various departments who purchase like supplies to combine in buying these articles, as usually some saving can be made by pur- chasing in quantities. The departments should also make a spe- cial effort to secure lowest prices and take advantage of all cash discounts. This Board has during the year deducted cash dis- counts on several bills after they had had department approval for payment in full. This is mentioned to impress on all departments the necessity of careful buying and to suggest to the the town that at some future date a move should be made to concentrate this part of the town business.
"Rome was not built in a day," but if as a town we take one step forward from time to time, we shall arrive at that goal which
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will indeed make us what we sometimes like to call ourselves : The Best Town.
If the efforts of this Board, to serve each citizen and the town acceptably, have met with some degree of approval, we shall feel amply repaid for the time and energy expended in your service.
Respectfully submitted,
Board of Selectmen GEO. E. WALKER, Chairman,
CHAS. S. YOUNG, Secretary,
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