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It was intimated to the committee that if the Town of Plymouth did not wish to appropriate the money for the land damage the Highway Commission had ample use for its funds elsewhere. If the work is to be done under the direction of the commission they desire to have it begun early this spring, so as to have the road ready for summer travel. They propose to build an 18-foot road with the necessary shoulders and gutters, and the Town will have to build the sidewalk. Although the new layout is 50 feet in width only such proportion of this width will be worked under the present contract, as the proposed new road and grades may require.
Therefore the committee recommends that if the Town de- sires the work done in accordance with the above layout it make the necessary appropriation to indemnify the Commonwealth in accordance with the vote passed at the last annual meeting.
WILLIAM T. ELDRIDGE, ALTON D. EDES, WILLIAM W. BREWSTER, JOHN P. VAHEY.
Plymouth, Mass., February 21, 1916.
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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.
The committee appointed by the moderator at the last annual town meeting to investigate the question of Industrial schools, respectfully submit the following report.
Sixteen meetings have been held, after the first five of which, the committee was unanimous in the opinion that part-time edu- cation was the only practicable plan.
In accordance with this idea, a conference was held with a number of the leading manufacturers for the purpose of secur- ing their co-operation. This conference led us to believe that a part-time plan cannot be established here at present.
Mr. Robert O. Small, State Deputy Commissioner of Indus- trial Education, met this committee, having previously sent two of his agents to make a study of the local situation.
After this conference the Commissioner sent the following report.
(Copy.) Massachusetts Board of Education. Ford Building, Boston.
November 9, 1915.
We recommend that Plymouth take advantage of the Voca- tional School laws at the earliest possible date in the following way :
First. Establish work for women in evening practical arts classes. These classes are conducted in those occupations cus- tomarily followed in the home (sewing, cooking, millinery, care
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and nurture of children, etc.). They are open to all employed women, whatever the day employment may be, provided the can- didates are over seventeen years of age. Groups of fifteen con- stitute a class.
Second. Establish evening trade extension classes for men employed in the building and machinist trades if you can get fifteen members of any one group of artisans of not too diver- sified groups of the building trades.
Such courses as :
a. Drawing for carpenters, machinists, etc.
b. Blueprint reading for carpenters, machinists.
c. Framing plans, construction, etc.
d. Plumbers' apprentices.
e. Sheet metal workers' plans.
are typical courses which can be put up in short units and given with very little equipment.
I should think that it would be entirely feasible to offer work for textile operatives in evening courses.
Third. Establish through a department at your High School an opportunity for agricultural education.
Fourth. Establish a co-operative day school for textile workers-if possible at one of the textile factories. If you could secure the room at one of your mills and furnish the teacher, I have no doubt that ways could be devised to give all day training for short periods (say two weeks or a month) at a time to a large group of young women entering the industry. This plan would solve the economical problem of many a young worker, be economical for the town and advantageous to the employer. Here is a chance to try out a very promising and new type of vocational education. I hope that I can interest you in an attempt to secure the necessary co-operation.
Fifth. Plan to establish an all day school for boys desiring to enter the building trades.
Sixth. Plan to establish an all day school in homemaking for girls.
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Seventh. Plan to establish continuation schools for employed boys and girls fourteen to sixteen years of age.
This is an ambitious program but if attempted gradually, will be very much worth while and is entirely possible.
Yours respectfully,
(Signed)
R. O. SMALL.
In consideration of the foregoing, your committee makes the following recommendations to the town:
a. The establishment of work for women in evening practical arts classes.
b. The establishment of evening trade extension classes for men.
c. The establishment through a department at our High School of an opportunity for agricultural education.
d. That the school board consider the advisability of employ- ing a vocational guidance director.
The committee recommends that $2,500.00 be appropriated to meet the expenses of the first two recommendations, practically one-half of which will be reimbursed by the State.
We regret that it is inadvisable to recommend at this time a plan of education whereby the youth may be prepared for the industries of the town. This was our first thought, and we feel that something along this line should later be worked out.
We suggest that these recommendations be carried out by a committee appointed by the School Committee.
Respectfully submitted, CHARLES P. MARSHALL, CARROLD D. HOWLAND, ALLEN LOFT, JOHN H. DAMON, CHARLES A. HARRIS.
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COMMITTEE ON BREAKWATER AT BEACH PARK
Under Article 25 of the Town Meeting Warrant for the annual meeting in 1915, the Town voted :
That a committee of five be appointed by the Moderator to look into the matter of building a concrete breakwater at Beach Park, and that the matter be taken up with the Land and Harbor Commissioners or the Federal Government, and the Moderator appointed Edward B. Atwood, Charles C. Doten, Alfred Holmes, John Russell and Edw. L. Burgess as a com- mittee.
The matter was taken up with the Land and Harbor Com- missioners and it was agreed by them that the State would pay one-half of the expense of a suitable concrete breakwater pro- vided the Town would pay one-half. Under the above condi- tions the Commissioners made a survey, and prepared a plan, and with the Selectmen fixed the location, and advertised for bids for the construction of the same from the southerly end of the stone breakwater just north of the Beach Park bath house to a point near the southerly line of Beach Park, a distance of 375 feet, at $5.70 per cubic yard, amounting to approximately $2,300. The specifications called for the construction as fol- lows: The bottom to begin at elevation 110 and the top at elevation 118, being eight feet high, and five feet thick at the base, and two feet thick at the top with an additional overhang, or coping, at the top of six inches, making the top surface 30 inches wide; and spurrs 20 feet long and four feet high running at right angles to the main wall and 73 feet apart. In addi- tion to the above, a concrete run was built just south of the bath house to allow teams to drive to and from the shore and the run was ended at the same elevation as the top of the wall which
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prevents the tide from doing any damage on account of said opening.
On July 10, 1915, at a special meeting, the Town appro- priated the sum of $1,150 to cover its proportionate part of the cost, and the same was paid to the State Treasurer. The con- tract was awarded to the Concrete Construction Co. of Boston and was built under the supervision of the State Inspector, and your committee is of the opinion that the Town got a first-class piece of work. They would recommend that the Town fill in back of the wall, which will add strength and also prevent the water from soaking through under the wall, if in an unusual high tide the water should wash over. A great deal of this filling can be done with material that has to be removed when cleaning the streets and gutters by both the State and the Town.
In addition to the above breakwater the abutting owners, south as far as the property of Professor Lucas, took the matter up with the State and consequently there has been built 508 feet more of the concrete wall with spurrs, the top elevation at 121 or 3 feet higher than the one opposite Beach Park, with a base at the same elevation for about 200 feet, and from that point, raised two feet to elevation 112, on account of the eleva- tion of the ground, and kind of material encountered, the same being paid for equally by the State and the abutters.
We now have a first-class concrete breakwater 883 feet long from the southerly end of the stone breakwater, to the South line of the property of Professor Lucas, formerly of A. T. Skerry, Jr., of New York, with spurrs 20 feet long, 4 feet high, at right angles to the main wall, the entire distance which pre- vents any wash at the base of the wall.
Respectfully submitted,
EDW. L. BURGESS, Chairman. EDW. B. ATWOOD, CHAS. C. DOTEN, ALFRED HOLMES, JOHN RUSSELL. 1
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TOWN WARRANT.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Plymouth, Com- monwealth' of Massachusetts :
Greetings.
In the name of the Commonwealth, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of Plymouth, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet in the Armory, in said Plymouth, on Saturday, the fourth day of March, 1916, at fifteen minutes before six o'clock in the forenoon, and in said Armory in said Plymouth on Saturday, the twenty-fifth day of March, 1916, at two o'clock in the afternoon, to act on the following articles to wit :
Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Article 2. To choose all necessary town officers. The follow- ing officers to be voted for all on one ballot, viz. : Five Selectmen, Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, one member of a Board of Health for three years, one Assessor for three years, seven Constables, one Overseer of the Poor for three years, one Water Commissioner for three years, one member of a School Committee for three years, one Park Commissioner for three years, three members of a Committee on Agawam and Half Way Pond Fisheries for one year, Tree Warden for one year, and one Cemetery Commissioner for three years : and to vote by ballot "Yes" or "No" in answer to the following questions :
"Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ?" and "Shall the town accept Section 37 of Chapter 19, Revised Laws, as to the application of the civil service to the
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police force ?" and "Shall the town accept Chapter 84, Special Acts of 1916, entitled An Act Relative to the Fire Department of the Town of Plymouth ?"
The polls for the election of officers and the votes on the fore- going questions, will be open at the Armory at fifteen minutes before six o'clock in the forenoon on said Saturday, the fourth day of March, 1916, and may be closed at three o'clock in the afternoon. Both of said days will constitute the annual meet- ing, and this call is issued in accordance with the vote of the town, passed June 5, 1897, as amended March 2, 1903, and April 2, 1904.
Article 3. To hear the reports of the several boards of officers and committees of the town, and act thereon.
Article 4. To see if the town will authorize the Town Treas- urer, with the approval of the Selectmen or a majority thereof, to borrow during the municipal year, beginning January 1, 1917, in anticipation of the collection of taxes of said year, such sums of money as may be necessary for the current expenses of the town, but not exceeding the total tax levy for said year, giving the notes of the town therefor, payable within one year from the dates thereof. All debts incurred under the authority of this vote shall be paid from the taxes of said municipal year.
Article 5. To make the necessary appropriations to defray the expenses of the town, and for other purposes, and to raise such sums of money as the town shall deem expedient.
Article 6. To take such action as the town may see fit in aid of the Plymouth Public Library.
Article 7. To see if the town will appropriate a sum not ex- ceeding two hundred and fifty (250) dollars in aid of the Manomet Public Library.
Article 8. To see what appropriations the town will make for the care and improvement of the various parks, and of the Train- ing Green.
Article 9. To see if the town will appropriate a sum not ex-
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ceeding two hundred and, twenty-five (225) dollars, to pay the expenses of Memorial Day.
Article 10. To see if the town will authorize the Selectmen to renew any note or notes heretofore authorized, which are now due or may become due the present year, for such time and on such terms as they may deem expedient for the interests of the town.
Article 11. To see if the town will authorize the Selectmen to transfer from time to time the money from the Reserve Fund to such other accounts as in their opinion may be necessary.
Article 12. To see what action the town will take in regard to the expenditures of the town from January 1, 1917, to the annual town meeting of that year.
Article 13. To see if the town will appropriate a sum not ex- ceeding five hundred (500) dollars, to purchase an automobile for the use of the Police Department.
Article 14. To see if the town will appropriate a sum not ex- ceeding eleven thousand five hundred (11,500) dollars, to pay the damages caused by the layout of the State Highway on War- ren avenue, including authorizing the issue of bonds or notes of the town to an amount necessary therefor.
Article 15. To see if the town will appropriate a sum not ex- ceeding ten thousand five hundred (10,500) dollars to pay the damages caused by the widening of Sandwich street by the Coun- ty Commissioners, including authorizing the issue of bonds or notes of the town to an amount necessary therefor.
Article 16. To see if the town will appropriate a sum not exceeding fifty thousand (50,000) dollars, for the purpose of building an addition to the Nathaniel Morton School Building, including the original equipment thereof, including authorizing the issue of bonds or notes of the town to an amount necessary therefor.
Article 17. To see if the town will appropriate a sum not exceeding thirteen thousand (13,000) dollars for the purpose of installing fire protective apparatus, and fire proofing in the
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school buildings, including authorizing the issue of bonds or notes of the town to an amount necessary therefor.
Article 18. To see if the town will make an appropriation not to exceed five hundred (500) dollars, for the purpose of helping to defray the expenses of a suitable celebration of the Fourth of July. (By request.)
Article 19. To see if the town will authorize the Moderator to appoint a committee of five, with power to add to its number, to take charge of the town's part of the Tercentenary Celebra- tion. (By request.)
Article 20. To see if the town will authorize the use of twenty-one (2,100) dollars in the Reserve Fund accumulations from Overlay of Taxes, to reduce the Tax Levy of 1916, as rec- ommended in the report of the Board of Assessors.
Article 21. To see what action the town will take in regard to constructing a breakwater at the head of Plymouth Beach, and make an appropriation therefor.
Article 22. To see if the town will accept and allow the lay- out of Samoset and Circuit avenues as laid out by the Selectmen and reported to the town.
Article 23. To see if the town will accept and allow the lay- out of Strand avenue as laid out by the Selectmen and reported to the town.
Article 24. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of twenty-five hundred (2,500) dollars, to conduct State Aided Vocational Education and Evening Classes in the practical arts, and to place the same under the direction and control of the School Committee, said courses to be conducted in conformity with the requirements of Chapter 471 of the Acts of 1911, and Chapter 106 of the Acts of 1912, and any amendments thereto.
Article 25. To see if the town will authorize the Selectmen, in the name and on behalf of the town, to take the contract for the construction of the highway which the Massachusetts High- way Commission proposes to construct on Warren avenue, includ- ing authorizing the Selectmen to borrow from time to time such
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money as may be necessary for the construction of the same, but not exceeding ten thousand (10,000) dollars.
Article 26. To see if the town will change the number of Constables to be elected.
Article 27. To see if the town will vote to purchase additional apparatus for the Fire Department, and make an appropriation therefor, including authorizing the issue of bonds or notes of the town to an amount necessary therefor.
Article 28. To see if the town will rescind the votes of March 25, 1911, whereby the Selectmen were authorized to purchase in the name and on behalf of the town, five hundred (500) shares of the capital stock of the Plymouth and Sandwich Street Rail- way Company; and whereby the Selectmen were authorized to issue bonds of the town to the amount of fifty thousand (50,000) dollars to purchase the same; or to take such other action in the above matter as the town may deem expedient.
Article 29. To see if the town will authorize the Water Com- missioners to lay a service pipe on South Park Avenue, connected with the high pressure main on Court street, and appropriate a sum not exceeding eight hundred (800) dollars therefor. (By petition. )
And you are hereby required to serve this warrant in the man- ner prescribed by a vote of the town, by posting notices thereof in three public places in the town, seven days at least before the meeting, one of which postings shall be in Chiltonville and one in Manomet Ponds, and also by publishing the warrant in the newspapers published in Plymouth, and make return thereof with your doings thereon at the time and place above mentioned.
Given under our hands this twenty-first day of February, 1916.
WILLIAM T. ELDRIDGE, EPHRAIM D. BARTLETT, RICHMOND TALBOT, HERBERT S. MAXWELL, JOHN L. MORTON,
Selectmen of Plymouth.
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Plymouth, ss.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, the inhabitants of Plym- outh, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, are hereby notified to meet at the time and place and for the purposes therein mentioned.
JOHN ARMSTRONG, Constable of Plymouth.
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LIST OF JURORS.
Prepared by the Selectmen of Plymouth, Mass., for 1916.
Adams, James P., Chiltonville, mason.
Alexander, Carroll A., 271/2 Fremont Street, real estate.
Anderson, George F., 23 Standish Avenue, dresser tender. Anderson, Horace, Manomet, carpenter.
Andrews, Thomas H., Jr., 2 Lewis Street, mason. Armstrong, William, 370 Court Street, machinist.
Arthur, Richard W., 61 Samoset Street, barber.
Ashton, John W., 16 Vernon Street, weaver. Bachelder, John L., 95 Sandwich Street, machinist. Bartlett, Edwin P., Point Road, farmer.
Bartlett, Elston K., 58 Allerton Street, carpenter.
Bartlett, Ephraim D., 58 Allerton Street, contractor.
Bartlett, George D., 5 Brewster Street, manufacturer. Bartlett, Herbert K., 58 Allerton Street, clerk. Bartlett, Orrin C., 4 Winter Street, pilot. Bartlett, William L., 2nd., Manomet, farmer. Baumgartner, Charles J., 139 Sandwich Street, clerk. Bennett, Nathaniel B., 2 Fremont Street, clerk. Bennett, Sylvanus S., 7 Highland Place, carpenter. Birnstein, Emil C., 221 Summer Street, weaver. Bliss, Edgar F., 22 Leyden Street, merchant. Bradford, George W., 252 Court Street, contractor. Burgess, Arthur L., South Pond, cranberry grower. Bradford, Harry A., 4 Warren Avenue, clerk. Bradford, Louis K., 111 Court Street, machinist. Briggs, Laban B., Jr., Manomet, lobster catcher. Brown, Daniel G., 80 Sandwich Street, machinist.
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Burns, Alfred S., 14 Cushman Street, clerk. Bunker, Guy C., 21 Leyden Street, foreman. Carr, Patrick, 23 Centennial Street, laborer. Carver, Frank H., 20 Brewster Street, drug clerk. Cavanaugh, Thomas F., 11/2 South Spooner Street, cordage employee.
Carleton, William D., 20 High Street, station agent.
Chandler, Albert L., 118 Court Street, insurance agent.
Clark, Nathaniel T., " North Green Street, carpenter. Cobb, George A., 139 Summer Street, machinist. Cole, Albert H., 263 Sandwich Street, clerk. Cole, Charles F., Jr., 32 Whiting Street, machinist. Craig, Charles D., 11 Jefferson Street, clerk.
Cushing, Robert W., 128 Sandwich Street, druggist. Damon, John H., 258 Court Street, master mechanic.
Davee, Edward P., 8 Whiting Street, conductor.
Deacon, Walter A., 31/2 Sagamore Street, granite dealer.
Dixon, Edward L., Manomet, fisherman.
Davis, Albert E., 33 Allerton Street, agent. Doten, Charles R., Chiltonville, laborer.
Douglas, George W., Cedarville, cranberry grower.
Dowling, Vincent, 8 Murray Street, weaver. Eaton, Charles W., 115 Court Street, retired. Ellis, Clark, 23 Samoset Street, marble cutter. Field, Bernard, 15 Allerton Street, manager. Ferguson, John R., 22 Robinson Street, shoe dealer. Finney, John B., Sever Street, contractor. Geary, Henry T., 234 Sandwich Street, collector. Gifford, George F., 6 Allerton Street, baker. Glover, Luther F., 6 Franklin Street, baker. Goddard, Fred A., 271 Court Street, draughtsman. Goodwin, John J., 71 Samoset Street, watchman. Gould, Fred E., 34 Stafford Street, cranberry grower. Gray, Arthur G., 26 Davis Street, clerk. Grozenger, Adolph G., 16 Chilton Street, painter.
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Hadaway, Augustus S., Jr., River Street, fisherman. Hall, George W., 103 Sandwich Street, painter. Harlow, Albert T., 208 Sandwich Street, carpenter. Harlow, Porter T., Manomet, farmer.
Holmes, Edwin K., 140 Sandwich Street, carpenter. Haskell, Chester B., Cedarville, superintendent.
Haskell, James L., Pondville, stone mason.
Hayden, Charles F., 11 Cushman Street, ticket agent. Hedge Barnabus, 338 Court Street, wood dealer.
Helling, George J., 48 Allerton Street, tinsmith. Henry, Charles F., 148 Summer Street, carpenter. Holmes, Charles T., 11 Allerton Street, steam fitter. Holmes, David, 152 Sandwich Street, painter. Holmes, Truman H., Manomet, farmer. Holmes, William B., South Pond, laborer.
Howland, Arthur L., Rear 208 Sandwich Street, conductor. Irwin, Walter S., Sever Street, overseer. Johns, Ernest B., Clifford Road, fisherman. Keefe, Nicholas, 29 Nelson Street, laborer.
Kelley, Frank C., 372 Court Street, cordage worker. Kelley, Henry H., 18 Allerton Street, superintendent. Kierstead, James S., 9 Davis Street, carpenter. Kingan, Ernest A. J., 143 Sandwich Street, clerk. Langford, Zenas, River Street, road surveyor. Lavache, Thomas V., 59 Samoset Street, weaver. Lowry, Abraham, 17 Whiting Street, painter. Magee, Eugene F., 162 Sandwich Street, conductor. Manion, Thomas, 17 Lothrop Street, shoemaker. Manter, Arthur L., 8 Whiting Street, plumber. Marvelli, Joseph, 23 Hamilton Street, weaver. McLean, Laughlin D., 1171/2 Court Street, watchman. Morrison, John L., 3 Stafford Street, baker. Morton, William R., 4 South Green Street, engineer. Morse, Arthur L., 21 Mayflower Street, clothier. Nazro, William E. C., Warren Avenue, architect.
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Nickerson, Arthur S., 214 Standish Avenue, cordage employee. Nightingale, George W., 10 Mt. Pleasant Street, clerk. O'Connell, John J., 20 Hall Street, laborer. Palmberg, John A., Summer Street, painter.
Paulding, George B., 6 Oak Street, rivet maker. Paulding, Edwin S., 12 Sandwich Street, rivet maker.
Pearson, Charles S., 11 Chilton Street, machinist.
Perkins, Thomas M., Newfields Street, painter. Pickard, William S., Obery Street, conductor. Pierce, William S., 14 South Spooner Street, boss spinner.
Pioppi, Joseph, 29 Cherry Street, carpenter.
Potter, Charles D., 1 Russell Avenue, cooper. Quartz, Frank, Jr., 8 Atlantic Street, grocer.
Quartz, Henry, 283 Court Street, grocer. Raymond, Charles H., 41 South Street, rivet maker. Raymond, William H., 9 Robinson Street, janitor. Read, George R., 129 Summer Street, tack maker. Reagan, Thomas W., 108 Sandwich Street, watchman.
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