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May 6. John Bottelio.
May 7. Wesley Earl Breakell.
May 8. William Correia.
May 9. Gerald Joseph Walter Chevalier.
May 9. Zofia Chmiel.
May 12. George Braga.
May 13. Anita Guyllette.
May 13. Loretta Matilda Brodeur.
May 13. Rose Gertrude Mayer.
May 15. Bertram William Hendricks.
May 17. Irene De Roza.
May 21.
Marie Louise Beatrice Lequin,
May 23. Glenn Edwin Powers, Jr.
May 24. Ethelyn Mae Vandenburgh,
May 30. Lucy May Sarmento,
June 2.
Walerja Bacrek.
June 3. Barbara Hughes,
June 4. Gertrude Nowell Reward,
June 7. Manuel Tavaris Madeiros,
June 8. Freda Stockton.
June 11. Helena Biernacka.
June 12. Norman Souza.
June 14. Raymond Ferland.
June 1 Lucyana Dlugosenski.
June 16. Mildred Whitehead.
June 17.
Ina Elizabeth McLean.
June 17.
Ruth Elizabeth Cummings.
June 18.
Francis John Thomson.
June 1
Brown (Male).
June 24. Mary Sylvia.
June 24. Sarah Ellis Champlin.
June 25. Edward DeRego.
June 25. John Ponte Cordeiro (Twin).
June 25. Manuel Ponte Cordeiro (Twin).
June 27. William Albert Gardner.
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Births Recorded in 1923-(Continued)
DATE.
NAME OF CHILD.
July 5.
Herbert Edward Jackson.
July
5. Stephan Chmiel.
July 6. Frank Machado.
July 8. Benson Morris, Jr.
July 8. Beatrice Viviane Berube.
July 8.
Welsh (Female).
July 11.
Walter Vax.
July 14.
Dorothy Elizabeth Luckraft.
July 16. Enid May Gould.
July 16. Barbara Flanders.
July
17. Anna Souza.
July
18.
Marcel Rogissard, Jr.
July 19.
- Barnes (Female).
July 20.
Normand Noli ..
July 21.
Joseph Almada.
July 22. Bernice Audette.
July 23.
Ruth Beulah Burrell.
July 26.
Marjorie Ann Edwards.
July 26.
Thelma Joanna Ashley.
July 29. Sally Webster Wilde.
July 30.
Alice Oliver.
Aug. 2. Florence Collins Heath.
Aug. 2. Stanley Elwood Pope.
Aug. 4. Warren Milton Holt.
Aug. 7.
O'Brien (Female).
Aug. 7. Teresa Gudaitis.
Aug. 8. Joseph Laurent Alcide Ross.
Aug. 8. James Correira.
Aug. 8. Dorothy Viera.
Aug. 10.
Joseph Walter Babineau,
Aug. 11. James Francis Donnelly, Jr.
Aug. 12. Margaret Ellen Hughes.
Ang. 12. Melvin Joseph Saulnier.
Aug. 13. Catherine Manghan.
Aug. 16. Bernard Earl Lortie,
.
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Births Recorded in 1923-(Continued)
DATE. NAME OF CHILD.
Aug. 17.
Jeannette St. Pierre,
Aug.
18.
Virginia Thatcher.
Aug. 19.
Robert Joseph Vieira,
Aug. 20.
Lillian Perry.
Aug. 21. Manuel Perry.
Aug. 24. Herbert Enos Sylvia.
Aug.
25.
Audrey Eva Cummings.
Aug. 26. Jean Paul Bourbeau.
Aug. 28.
Dorothy Holt.
Aug. 29. George Taylor Packard, Jr.
Aug. 29. Carolina Corey.
Aug. 29.
Duarte (Female).
Sept.
4.
Natalie Greene.
Sept.
4.
Milton F. Gonsalves.
Sept.
5.
Doris Alma Paquette.
Sept.
7.
Helen Lillian Tracy.
Sept.
7.
-Roderick (Male),
Sept. 10.
Donald Allen Kearns,
Sept.
10.
Joseph Ponte.
Sept. 11.
Allan Gifford Booth.
Sept.
12.
Edward Lauder Rogers,
Sept.
15.
Beatrice St. Onge.
Sept. 18. Ethel Composto.
Sept. 18.
George Nunes.
Sept. 22.
Porte (Male).
Sept.
22.
Earl Brightman Fisher.
Sept.
25.
Roderick (Female).
Sept.
25.
Silva (Female).
Sept.
30.
Oct.
1.
Margaret Austin Paine.
Joseph Leo Louis Belanger.
Oct. 1.
Vincent (Male).
Oct.
3.
John Rapoza.
Oct.
4.
Edward Foster.
Oct.
6.
Francis Swift Perry.
Oct.
6.
Manuel Mendes.
Oct.
6.
Agnes Gibson McLeod.
Oct.
7.
Anne Marie Lavoie,
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Births Recorded in 1923-(Continued)
DATE.
NAME OF CHILD.
Oct. 8.
Calvin Harvey Monette.
Oct. 8.
Shurtleff (Male).
()ct. 10. Gordon Banford Nute.
Oct. 13. Florence May Baker.
Oct. 19. Yvonne Cecile Blanchette.
Oct. 21.
Marion Jane Bold.
Oct. 22.
Constance Mendell Chase.
Oct. 24. Howard Pimental.
Oct. 29. Aurore Charbonneau (Twin).
Oct. 29. Renald Charbonneau (Twin).
Nov. 1.
Constance Evelyn Vaughn.
Nov. 5.
Lewis (Female).
Nov. 11.
Alan Cabot Gault.
Juliette Gagnon.
Nov. 25.
Edward Almeida.
Nov. 25.
Nellie Leah Stringer.
Nov. 27.
Blanche Gladys Martin.
Nov. 29.
Rita Matilda Nolin.
Dec. 1.
Reginald M. Russell, Jr.
Dec. 4.
Rosa Cabral.
Dec. 5.
Antone Jeromino.
Dec. 10.
Florence Lopes.
Dec. 11.
Arthur Rego.
Dec. 13.
Anna Sylvia.
Dec. 13.
Farland (Female). -
Dec. 16.
Ruth Winterbottom.
Dec. 19. John Dean, Jr.
Dec. 22. Barbara Laube.
Dec. 26. Francisca Rego.
Dec. 26. Francisca Rego.
Dec. 27. Gerard Tremblay.
Dec. 27.
Jean Bates Sutcliffe.
Dec. 28. Irene Wright.
Dec. 29. Anthony Perry Escobar.
Dec. 31. Thomas Lloyd Grime.
Dec. 31. Violet Cormier.
Bousquet (Male).
Nov. 12.
Doris Barrett.
Nov. 18.
Nov. 23.
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MARRIAGES RECORDED IN 1923
Date.
Groom.
Bride.
1922.
Dec. 31. Frank Roberts to Evelyn Martha Whitlow.
1923.
Jan. 1. Leland Franklin Howard to Almy Francis Bold.
Jan.
1.
Ralph Milton Perry to Laura May Theriault.
Jan. 1. Charles Souza to Frances Loretta Gagne.
Jan. 4. George Garcia to Alice M. Dyer.
Jan. 15. John Garcia Silva to Amelia Marshall.
Jan. 27. Francisco Leite Machado to Maria Menez Mello.
Feb.
3.
John Duarte Mello to Landelina Amaral.
Feb. 5. Richard E. Botway to Helen F. Kaffeman.
Feb. 8. Emery Cathcart Wood to Madelyn Mary Burns.
Feb. 12. Thomas Frederick Landry to Grace Mary Worsley.
Feb. 18. Joseph Sutcliffe, Jr., to Madge Katharine Westgate.
Feb. 22. Thomas Holt to Christina Norwood.
Feb. 22. John J. Sylvia, Jr., to Mable F. Gillis.
Feb. 23. William Ernest Heap to Winifred May Wright.
Mch. 10. Charles Morton Davenport, Jr., to Martha Reed Chadwick.
Mch. 26. George E. Jenney, Jr., to Aldea R. Craig.
Mch. 31. George Wilfred Allen to Mildred Frances Vaughn.
April 2. Herbert Kempton Parker, Jr., to Helen Louise Weeks.
April 2.
Quedime Vezina to Anais Dampierre.
April 3.
Manuel Souza Cordeira to Julia Da Roza.
Apri! 10. Walter Everett Channing to Frances Veronica McNulty.
April 12. Manuel Joseph Sequeira to Mary Emily Sylvia.
April 18.
Frank Evanson Waterman to Marion Gifford Tolhurst.
April 19. John Joseph Gallagher to Yvonne Blanche Lariviere.
April 21. Frank Enos Bettencourt to Alice Figuerodo.
May 5 Joseph Pacheco Rapoza to Mary Carmel Souza.
May 8. Harry Leon Young to Loretta Viera.
May 19.
Edmund Aldrich Ellis to Alfreda Hazelton West.
May 19. Stewart Harley Gilston to Ellen Dorothy McCracken.
May ?1. Joseph Philippe Lacerte to Rose Durant. May 21. Frederick Anthony to Mary Helen Rose.
May 26. Weber Rego Torres to Margarida Cabral.
May 30. Clifford Alison Whitman. to Grace Elenor Harrington.
June 2. Daniel Pimental to Olive Howarth.
Everett Cliffon Downing to Mary Josephine Nye.
April 9.
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Marriages Registered in Fairhaven in 1923-(Continued)
Date.
Groom.
Bride.
June 2. Whitney Jonathan Bent to Mary Arnold Tripp.
June 9. Walter James Horne to Edith Mary Bulman.
June 11. Edward Gonsalves Veiga to Gertrude Helen Campbell.
June 16. Richard Abbott Dennie to Catherine Shurtleff.
June 16. Manuel C. Gonsalves to Mary Glovia Barboza.
June 16. Domingo Francis Martin to Conceicao Frates.
June 17. Harry Austin Spooner to Edith May Francis.
June 18. Henry Conlin Bancroft to Evelyn Hannah Sparling.
June 23. Harold Upham Pierce to Etta Irene Nickerson.
June 23. Joseph Napoleon Veilleux to Marie Louise Parent.
June 30. James Thomas to Jane Macklin.
June 30. Seraphin Da Ponto to Evangelina Pacheco.
July 2. Francis Patnaude to Dora Mary Charest.
July 4. Herman William Gifford to Elizabeth Evelyn Long.
July 7. David Kendrick Snow to Marguerite Howland.
July 12. James Manning Young to Beatrice Mary Heyes.
July 14. Leroy Brownell Phillips to Mary Adeline Cummings Rogers.
July 16. William E. Mackie to Amy Vivian Ellis.
July 23. Charles Edward Sykes to Alice Jane Wilson.
July 25. Paul Arthur Sancier to Marie Ellreth Bettencourt.
July 30. Joseph Arthur Mailloux to Leona Blanch Vincent.
Aug. 2. Manuel Duart Mello, Jr., to Mary Jacintha Amaral.
Aug. 4. Albert Baron to Annie Lee Covill.
Aug. 6. Evaristo Ribeiro Silva to Mildred McMullen.
Aug. 8. James Moran to Jennie Bird.
Aug. 14.
George Rudolph Bibeau to Emma Pearl Isherwood.
Aug. 18.
Antone Da Costa, Jr., to Mary Perry Rezendes.
Aug. 20.
Joseph Francis Irene Lucas to Ethel May McMullen.
Aug. 21.
Lester Ainsworth Slocum to Elizabeth Darling.
Aug. 21.
Charles Henry Cook to Ruth Gladys Gregory.
Aug. 23. Sheldon Stone Rogers to Dorothy Barrows Hirst.
Sept. 1. Albert James George to Christina Timm.
Sept. 3. Peter G. Manganelli to Ethel Bandana.
Sept. 3. Albert Victor Rogissart to Leona Corrine Suprenaut.
Sept. 3. Arnold Whitaker Knott to Dorothy Jamieson.
Sept. 3. Joseph Souza Vital, Jr., to Roseanna Benoit.
Aug. 20.
Marianao Cabral Fernandes to Julia Duarte Mello.
Aug. 20.
F. Harry Fish to Mary Elizabeth King.
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Marriages Registered in Fairhaven in 1923-(Continued)
Date.
Groom.
Bride.
Sept. 10. Francis Roberts to Annie Ridings.
Sept. 10. Jacob Klett to Mary Thomas.
Sept. 17. Joseph Correia to Mary Martin.
Sept. 22. John Joseph Sheehan to Marion Mead Burt.
Sept. 26. Joseph Wrigley to Margaret Brindle.
Sept. 29. Antone Figuerodo to Mary Souza.
Sept. 29. Harold Charles Pearson to Evelyn Gertrude Wilkinson.
Oct. 1. Joseph Gideon Alfred Martin to Florida Gagnon.
Oct. 1. George Joseph Berube to Rose Berube.
Oct. 3. Leo Oliveira to Laura Alfama.
Oct. (). James Eccles to Ivy Esma Bullen.
Oct. 6. William McM. Steward to Jean Smith.
Oct. 8. Arthur Winfred Darling to Beatrice Aceino.
Oct. 8. Joseph Donat Ethier to Yvonne Lea Gaucher.
Oct. S. William Sheldon Staples to Cora Alice Thurston.
Oct. 11. Eugene Gerald Howard to Gertrude Bisbee.
Oct. 13. Frank Madison Babbitt to Grace Vivian Cogger.
Oct. 15. Howard Albert Hinckley to Elizabeth Oddy.
Oct. 15. Edward Gilbert Mello to Geneva Elizabeth Sequeira.
Oct. 16. Frederick Edward Blower to Grace Lena Goode.
Oct. 20. Leon Wellington Young to Ida May Buckley.
Oct. 20. Wade Hampton Medlock to Maude Irene Hutchinson.
Oct. 23.
Raymond Clark Whitten to Doris Ellen Whittaker.
Oct. 27. Reginald Fillmore Hussey to Louise Stoddard Rounsville.
Oct. 27. Antone Jose Ramos Britto to Joanna Clara Almeida.
Oct. 29. Eric Gordon Hall. well to Evelyn Omerod.
Oct. 29.
Robert Emmet Crowley to Anna Loretta Dupre.
Oct. 30.
Sylvia Cardinal to Bernadette Prefontaine.
Nov. 3. Mariano De Ponte Medeiros to Louisa De Silva.
Nov. 8. Milton M. Goss to Evangeline Matthews Axtell.
Nov. 10. Alfred Mellor to Mary E. Marsh.
Nov. 10. John Bretto to Annie Oliver.
Nov. 11. Howard Russell Eldredge Johnson to Anna Viola Johnson.
Nov. 12. Arthur Philip Raiche to Mabel Roberts Moores.
Nov. 24. Antonio Viera Costa to Maria Mello Pragana.
Nov. 26. Frank S. Lacerda to Angelina Lewis.
Nov. 29. Henry Louis Tetreault to Marie Florette Daigle.
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Marriages Registered in Fairhaven in 1923-(Continued)
Date.
Groom. Bride.
Nov. 29. Edwin Bachelor Allard to Artemise Muzerall.
Dec. 1. Manuel Gracia Moitozo to Maria Emelia Gomes Perreira.
Dec. 3. Brayton Beals to Doris T. Allen.
Dec. 15. Henry Clay Taber to Edna Alice Dunn.
Dec. 17. Gideon Roy to Hedwige Perras.
Dec. 22. John Rose to Emma. Howard Given.
Dec. 24. Anton Marvan, Jr., to Martha Scheper.
Dec. 29. Manuel Viera to Rosa J. Roderiques.
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DEATHS RECORDED IN 1923
Date of
Death.
Years. Months. Days.
1923.
Jan. 1. Antonio P. Avila
33
2
15
Jan. 7. Eunice G. Church
89
5
1
Jan. 9. Adelard Bisaillon, Jr.
. .
.
. .
7
18
Jan. 11. Rebecca H. Daggett
86
11
10
Jan. 12. James Joseph Foley
..
3
29
Jan. 17.
Manuel Fernandes
9
19
Jan. 20.
Henry D. Geddis
about 78
. .
Jan. 21.
Maria J. G. Flores
about 76
. .
. .
Feb.
4. Adeline L. Morton
59
11
11
Feb. 6. Joshua R. Delano
87
6
29
Feb. 6. Benjamin F. Stowell
3
3
Feb. 10.
Elizabeth Maley
68
6
9
Feb. 12.
John G. Dutra
about 65
11
1
Feb. 15.
John F. Perham
74
1
17
Feb. 17.
John Winterbottom
4
8
17
Feb. 19.
Mary L. Trowbridge
84
7
24
Feb. 21.
Augusta S. Thomas
. .
5
5
Feb. 21.
Edward Macedo
7
7
Feb. 22.
James Lilley
71
4
25
Feb. 26.
Rosanna P. Carleton
65
11
21
Feb. 27.
Hannah A. Church
86
5
11
Mch. 2.
Evelyn Teixeira
. .
6
3
Mch. 3.
Casemir Baillargeon
92
8
1
Mch. 7.
Angele Poyant
. .
19
Mch. 12.
Carrie B. Handy
about 69
. .
. .
Mch. 22.
Chester V. Spare Mary L. Staples
70
6
24
Mch. 28. Jose Botelho, Jr.
1
5
Mch. _ 9. Irene Richards
1
10
17
Mch. 31.
Albert A. Stoddard
44
22
April 3.
Flora Bourez
43
3
. .
2
29
Jan. 28.
Antone Souza
15
4
16
Jan. 27.
Jeremiah Sykes
74
2
16
Jan. 28.
Isaiah Gurney
73
. .
Feb. 12.
Almira C. Aikin
77
40
2
1
Mch. 22.
.
16
Jan. 10. William O'Brien
75
Deaths Registered in Fairhaven in 1923-(Continued)
Date of
Death.
Years. Months. Days.
April 4. James Rogers
66
. .
April 7. Sarah L. Baker
80
7
25
April 7. Maria Jose Ferro
about 30
. .
. .
April 7. Elizabeth E. Hankerson
66
1
1
April 8. Wallace R. Souza
. .
9
11
April 12.
Rita Lucille Desroches
. .
6
3
April 12.
Thomas M. Davies
78
8
8
April 18.
Caroline A. Jenney
88
5
21
April 19.
Nancy H. Buffington
78
3
27
April 21.
Isadora Howland
68
5
24
April 23.
Sarah J. Howard
80
4
26
April 25.
Amelia A. Ladd
72
6
18
April 28.
Lydia G. D. Seale
30
5
7
April 29.
Rosie Andrade
1
10
19
May 1.
Melissa A. Danzell
60
1
23
May 3. Roseannah Ferguson
65
9
17
May 3. Arthur Moniz
2
. .
10
May 6. William B. Simmons
65
4
27
May
8. Ella Davies
77
2
24
May 10.
Joshua H. Delano
72
4
22
May 16. Susan B. Perry
82
9
16
May 17.
Emma F. Morse
76
11
29
May 19.
Des Anges Antaya
66
3
28
May 20.
Cora L. Mendell
54
9
22
May 26.
Ida A. Marchant
66
9
29
May 29.
Joseph Messier
36
3
20
June 1.
George G. Tilton
67
3
16
June 11.
Napoleon Desjardins
64
6
. .
June 14.
James Baldwin
about 70
.
. .
June 18.
Albert L. Cummings
63
8
. .
June 18.
Sarah E. Bird
71
7
11
June 20.
Ursula B. Tyler
67
9
10
. .
. .
19
April 15. Eleanor M. Riley
April 17.
Frank P. Sullivan
47
. .
May
8. Adolphe Durant
80
4
24
76
Deaths Registered in Fairhaven in 1923-(Continued)
Date of
Death.
Years. Months. Days.
June 20. Francisca Barboza
about 62
. .
. .
June 20. Anna Milette
34
10
25
June 21. Origen D. Shattuck
about 76
June 21. Dorothy Hughes
. .
7
19
June 21. Dora C. Walter
70
10
20
June 26. Phebe A. Bowman
82.
.
14
June 29. John W. Donovan
47
3
8
July
4. Sarah J. Vincelette
83
2
5
July 5. Martha L. Hanna
84
11
27
July 14. Helen C. H. Macy
51
2
7
July 17.
Georgina T. Wilson
56
8
25
July 18. Anna Sousa
July 21.
Elizabeth Tyver
55
7
24
July 23.
Mary Freitas
13
11
19
Aug. 5. Eliza N. Dana
93
4
10
Aug. 10. Gilbert Avila
1
5
. .
Aug. 10.
Bessie L. Seaman
38
11
18
Aug. 13.
Edwina A. Hammond
65
6
14
Aug. 15.
Patience Gerrish
80
8
21
Sept. 1. Lionel Dubois
. .
1
1
11
Sept. 7. Manuel S. Medeiros
52
4
7
Sept. 8. Emma D. Lawton
77
2
10
Sept. 10.
Augustus Rhumphole
68
6
26
Sept. 12. Lula A. Raymond
71
. .
. .
Sept. 18. Joseph K. Nye
65
7
10
Sept. 20.
Guilherme Moniz
...
5
3
Sept. 23. Frank Albert
18
1
1
. .
6
8
July
14. Claudia B. Amero
78
3
1
. .
. .
2
Aug. 1. Antone Lewis
11
10
Aug. 26.
Manuel J. Mara
about 67
. .
Sept. 1. Joseph F. Benoit
10
12
June 29. Gertrude V. Leary
32
. .
. .
July 15. Moses Allain
77
Deaths Registered in Fairhaven in 1923-(Continued)
Date of
Death.
Years. Months. Days.
Sept. 28. Mary E. Bisbee
59
2
19
Sept. 30, William Crompton
32
. .
. .
Oct. 3. Isabella L. Whitney
72
4
Oct. 7. Manuel Mendes
1
1
Oct. 11. Sarah E. Church
65
2
21
Oct. 22.
Eugenia Figueiredo
. .
2
23
Oct. 29, Madaleine E. Whittaker
18
2
6
Nov. 1. Sarah T. Huttleslon
86
5
15
Nov. 3. Bertha Edge
34
11
25
Nov. 12. Albert S. Gatie
28
3
4
Nov. 12. Ann R. Allen
76
7
9
Nov. 17.
Elizabeth J. Smith
52
7
21
Nov. 21.
Herman Shapleigh
73
1
20
Nov. 25. Anne D. Deane
82
10
8
Dec. 1.
Cecelia E. Spooner
72
6
13
Dec. 11. Frank Avila
35
10
2
Dec. 11.
Elizabeth Woods
about 69
. .
Dec. 11. John H. Haggerty
55
7
13
Dec. 12. Jane Hulme
77
4
27
Dec. 13. Manuel Vieira
18
6
2 :
Dec. 15. Edward Morris
. .
8
25
Dec. 16.
Anne H. Kempton
34
4
18
Dec. 20. Aldea Richards
33
7
14
Dec. 21. George E. Sylvia
. .
3
28
Dec. 21. Mary E. Taylor
45
2
16
Dec. 23. George J. Delude
. .
45
. .
. .
Dec. 27. - Bertha Hammond
24
2
8
Dec. 31. Edith J. Frawley
27
2
18
Dec. 23. John Glaser
83
8
Dec. 25. Fannie R. Lewis
about
7
17
Nov. 22. Margaret Fermino
18
.
·
. .
Oct. 25, Giraldina Fernandes
9
20
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF SEWER COMMISSIONERS
Fairhaven. Mass .. Jan. 1. 1924.
ORGANIZATION -- G. Winston Valentine, Chairman Frank W. Morse. Clerk! William J. Fitzsimmons, Superin- tendent of the Power House.
SEWER CONSTRUCTION-Authorized by vote of the Town at the Annual and Special Town Meetings :
Center Street from Summer to Hitch Street and northerly and southerly from Center Street in Hitch Street, 713 lineal feet 8 inch pipe sewer ; three manholes; cost, $1.833.45; Shone System.
Maple Avenue, between Laurel and Chestnut Streets, 242 lineal feet 8 inch pipe sewer ; one manhole; 48 cubic yards of ledge excavation ; cost. $1.309.50; Southwest Gravity System, All above built under contract with Norman M. Paull.
The Board also accepted in Cottage Street easterly from Laurel Street, 100 lineal feet 8 inch pipe sewer, built by Geo. M. Quirk in 1909 and relaid by B. F. Watkins Trans. Co., 1922: cost. $410.67 : and in Cottage and Pleasant Streets, 700 lineal feet 8 inch pipe sewer ; three manholes, and 162 cubic yards of ledge excavation ; cost $5,129.64 ; Southwest Gravity System : built under contract with B. F. Watkins Trans. Co., 1922-23.
The Board also took over as authorized by vote of the Town : In Chestnut Street from Union Street southerly, 250 lineal feet 8 inch pipe sewer, and one manhole; cost $407.09; built by James N. Gifford ; Shone System. Taking over a sewer in Park Drive from Huttlestone Avenue, 242 lineal feet of 8 inch sewer, two manholes, built by A. A. Audette, Huttle- stone Avenue; Gravity System ; and about 130 lineal feet of 8 inch sewer and a contemplated manhole in Adams Street at east end of Ball Street, built by Messrs. Grindrod, Lilley
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and Livesey; Oxford Gravity System ; are matters now pend - ing. Under the direction of the Board, these have been built by private enterprise.
In Jefferson Street southerly from Bridge Street. 256 lineal feet 8 inch pipe sewer, and one manhole; expense of D. P. Valley ; Shone System ; on Pleasant Street between Washing- ton and Rodman Streets, 175 lineal feet of 8 inch sewer, and one manhole; expense of D. P. Valley; Shone System; in Pleasant Street southerly from Union Street, 175 lineal feet 6 inch pipe sewer, and one manhole ; expense of Mary Martin ; Shone System; and in Green Street northerly from Bridge Street, 218 lineal feet 6 inch pipe sewer, and one manhole ; expense of Antone Monteiro; Shone System.
Including these private sewers, there are now :
Lineal feet
In System A-Outfall north of Coggeshall St. Bridge 8,890
In System B-Outfall south of the Point. 11,020
In System C-Outfall N. B. and F. H. Bridge Abutm't 9.380
In System D-Outfall Union Wharf Shone System ..... 35.660 In System E-Outfall Union Wharf Private Gravity System 1.450
In System F-Outfall Atlas Wharf. 8.760
75,160
CONNECTIONS-During 1923, eleven connections have been repaired and 103 new connections made, making a total of 1,167 sewer connections now in use.
CLEANING AND FLUSHING-Carried on during the year as deemed necessary and advisable. Before accepting a new sewer, the Board required that its cleaning bucket shall pass through it easily. In order to facilitate cleaning, the Board have had several new manholes built during the year.
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ELECTRICAL PUMPING STATION - In November, 1922. Frank C. Taylor began construction of a station on land leased from Mrs. Ada Macomber at the southwest corner of Center and Rotch Streets. This was completed and equip- ment installed ready to start about April 25th, the Shone ejectors at that location being abandoned. The equipment consists of two 20 H.P. Lincoln Electric Co. motors, which are directly connected to two 8 in. x 6 in. Morris Centrifugal Pumps ; the motors start automatically when the sewerage reaches determined heights in the former ejector chamber, now used as a reservoir. Except for a few minor troubles which were to have been expected. this equipment has oper- ated very effectively and economically ; the cost of current from the N. B. Gas and Edison Light Company has averaged about 86 cents per day.
On the showing made by this station, which was regarded as a demonstration, the Board will ask the Town to appro- priate at the Annual Town Meeting the sum of $30,000, to be used in building three other stations to replace the three ejector stations now in use, and abandon the power house on Water Street entirely. . Savings per annum are, it is believed, conservatively estimated as follows :
Cost of operating power house on Water Street .. $7,500.00 Estimated amount necessary to make station adequate to needs. $10,000.00
Estimated amount necessary to replace
air pipe liable to occur at any time. ... 12,000.00
$22,000.00
Interest at 5 per cent on $22,000 1,100.00
Care and repair of ejectors 700.00
Repayment of $22.000 (corresponding to sinking fund) about 1,500.00
$10,800.00.
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Cost of four electric stations $40.000.00
Less sale station land and equipment
on Water Street 1,000.00
$39,000.00
Interest at 5 per cent on $39.000 1.950.00
Leases or loss of taxes 500.00
Current cost at $6.00 per day
2.200.00
Supervision
1.000.00
Repairs 500.00
Repayment
2.000.00
$8,150.00
Approximate saving
$2,650.00
Besides which better service will be secured ; flooded cellars in house connections will probably become matters of history. To begin to realize this saving, it is necessary to build all these stations this year.
FUTURE SEWER EXTENSIONS-The Board is con- ducting investigations as to the best plan for sewerage of several portions of the town of which development in the near future is most probable ; we are giving special attention to the section between Elm Street and North Street, where de- velopment is actually in progress. We ask for an appropria- tion of $15,000,00 for sewer maintenance in 1924.
Respectfully submitted, G. WINSTON VALENTINE, WILLIAM J. FITZSIMMONS, FRANK W. MORSE,
Sewer Commissioners,
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TREE WARDEN'S REPORT.
To the Citizens of Fairhaven:
The Tree Warden hereby respectfully submits his an- nual report. The trees of the town are in a fairly good and healthy condition. The spraying from year to year is successful in keeping the bug in check, but many of our trees are old and require attention by removing the dead limbs, insuring the safety of the children on the streets, if nothing else. The good old elms on Centre street are fast becoming dangerous to be left standing. From year to year we remove several and replace them with young trees, though we find it difficult to start a young tree under the
shade of the large trees. The Town planted twenty-five maples in the newer streets, with the generosity of the Im- provement Association. The Tree Warden planted twenty- five trees supplied by them and in places designated by them. To insure the beauty of the streets in our fast grow- ing town we must continue the planting of trees in the newer sections of the Town.
Your Tree Warden hereby respectfully recommends that the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500) be ap- propriated.
Respectfully submitted,
PETER MURRAY,
Tree Warden.
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REPORT OF THE PARK COMMISSIONERS FOR 1923.
To the Citizens of Fairhaven:
The Park Commissioners herewith submit their annual report. The board organized in March with Mr. H. B. Dut- ton chairman, Miss Mabel L. Potter secretary. Mr. Dutton and Miss Potter in charge of the upkeep of Cushman Park, Mr. Poor of the North End Park.
Meetings have been held from time to time, as deemed necessary and the work of maintenance has been continued on much the same lines as in previous years, with Mr. James Goggin as caretaker of Cushman Park. The cooperation of the Street Department has been of most material assist . ance in resurfacing the worn roadways, thus covering and fixing the troublesome loose stone, and in overhauling and repairing tools and seats at the department headquarters, thus insuring responsible service and adequate storage.
On the grounds there has been some rearrangement and resetting with the aim to give as naturalistic a growth of each shrubbery group as is possible in the existing design, in contrast to the clear cut trimming of the limited house plot. As shade trees cast longer shadows and shrubs outgrow dwarfing and maiming of the pruner's knife it is believed the park will become more restful and attractive as well as make possible more economical maintenance.
Increase in the use of the park as a playground and recreational centre, in line with best civic recommendations of the day, would seem to justify itself more than it can ever hope to do as an aesthetic centre. Mothers and young chil- dren find a haven from street and auto menace; older chil- dren use lawns and apparatus for legitimate play, Mr. Mr. Pidgeon efficiently directing activities under auspices of the Mothers' Club; baseball, by permit of the Selectmen and approval of the Park Board, continues to flourish, conges- tion of spectators and autos being a Sunday accompaniment ; and finally the grounds have been opened to the Fairhaven
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Band for their deservedly popular evening concerts. The utmost encouragement to such legitimate and proper func- tions is expected, and that some wear and tear accompanies all this activity is inevitable but that deliberate injury persists and continues is to be deplored. To control this is one of the problems of your Commissioners. Cannot aroused in- terest and concern for the public welfare check this maurauding lawlessness in the heart of the town ?
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