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Number of children lost, found and returned to their homes 10
Number of dead bodies found 5
Number of lives saved by use of the Inhalator
1
Number of doors found unlocked or open and made secure by patrolmen or reported to prop- erty owners 34
Number of windows found unlocked or open and made secure by patrolmen or reported to prop- erty owners 4
Number of street lights reported out 547
Number of occasions when all street lights were reported out 2
Number of Accident Reports filed with the Police Department 63
Number of motor vehicle sales and transfers filed with the Police Department :
Class 1 264
Class 2 8
Class 3 8
Individual 225
Automobile licenses and rights suspended or revoked 151
Automobile registrations revoked 10
71
Report of Police Officers Detailed to do police work at fires:
Date
Box
Location
In - TIME - Out
January 9
14 Sconticut Chapel
10:22A.M. 10:54A.M.
February 7
34 Washington Street and Sconticut Neck Rd.
5:32P.M. 6:10P.M.
February 27
58 Center and Water Streets
11:45P.M. 12:30A.M.
March 1
18 Sconticut Neck Road and Man- hattan Avenue 5:30A.M. 8:00A.M.
April 25
16 Sconticut Neck Road and Bonney Street
1:10P.M.
3:10P.M.
April 25
16 Sconticut Neck Road and Bonney Street
6:25P.M.
7:15P.M.
May 7
14 Sconticut Chapel
1:50P.M.
2:37P.M.
May 8
78 Cherry and Hedge Streets
2:50P.M.
4:00P.M.
May 10
13 Winnsegansett Heights
1:05A.M.
4:35A.M.
May 30
73 Main Street and Howland Road
10:35P.M.
11:45P.M.
June 20
82 Main and Bridge Streets
11:20P.M.
12:30A.M.
July 3
512 Rotch and Union Streets
12:00M.N.
2:00A.M.
August 1
74 Howland Road and Sycamore Street
3:31A.M.
5:30A.M.
August 7
62 Morgan Street and Alden Road
5:47P.M.
6:20P.M.
August 19
24 Shaw Road and Washington Street
1:45A.M.
3:17A.M.
August 25
75 Howland Road and River Avenue
8:45P.M.
10:30P.M.
September 6
71 Elm Avenue and North William Street
8:30P.M.
8:48P.M.
September 18
52 Main and Washington Streets
9:30A.M.
10:37A.M.
September 19
32 Washington Street and Mill Road
4:10P.M.
5:12P.M.
October 10
24 Shaw Road and Washington Street
3:15P.M.
5:20P.M.
October 15
73 Main Street and Howland Road
6:40P.M.
6:55P.M.
October 31
16 Sconticut Neck Road and Bonney Street
8:45P.M.
10:43P.M.
November 8
53 Center and William Streets
10:05A.M.
10:50A.M.
December 4 52 Main and Washington Streets
7:50A.M.
8:30A.M.
December 5
49 East Allen and South Pleasant Streets
5:25P.M.
6:52P.M.
December 20
14 Sconticut Chapel
8:25P.M.
11:07P.M.
November 26 at 5:57 A. M. the fire whistle went on a rampage. As no one was able to count any distinct box number, and, also, as there was a possibility of there being a fire somewhere, Officer Albert M. Gonsalves patrolled the entire town but found no fire. This incident has been recorded in the Fire Department records as a false alarm, as were the fires on September 6 and October 15.
About 25 warning tags were distributed to violators of Section 2 Chapter 306 of the Acts of 1925, namely, parking too close to fires or fire apparatus, or obstructing fire ap- paratus.
Town Clerk's Report
Births Recorded in 1931
Date
Name of Child
Jan. 5 Ruth Elsie Pacheco
Jan. 6 William Bartlett
Jan. 8 Stephen Cordeiro
Jan.
8 Cecelia Theresia Tetrault
Jan. 9 Alan Davis Pierce
Jan. 9 Edward Anthony Galligan
Jan. 10 Rose Bachand
Jan. 11 Wanda Chodkowski
Jan. 12 Olivia Medeiro
Jan. 13 Dorothy Maria Souza
Jan. 15 Wilfred Charles Huggard
Jan. 21 Fransisco Marujo
Jan. 23 Paula Marie Leclair
Jan. 24 Henry Robert Stone
Jan. 29 Doris Marjorie Powers
Jan. 30 Kenneth Charles Blechinger
Jan. 30 Dennis Travers Lima
Feb. 6 Ruth Ann Porter
Feb. 9 Frederick Bancroft Nolan
Feb. 10 Catherine Tobin Nicodemisen
Feb. 12 Therese Violet Lauretta Provencher
Feb. 18 Donald Antone Lewis
Feb. 28 David Lopes Sameiro
Feb. 28 Dorothy E. Correia
Mar. 1 Florence Ayilda Marmen
Mar. 4 Viola Mello
Mar. 5 Joan Ann Rogers
Mar. 7 Edward Joseph Downey
Mar. 7 Rogers
Mar. 10 Carlos Domingos Moreira
Mar. 13 Frank Corey Maciel
Mar. 15
Grace Thumudo
Mar. 16
Manuel R. Everett
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Births Recorded in Fairhaven in 1931-(Cont.)
Date
Name of Child
Mar. 16
Carl William Holstius
17 Helen Marie Handley
Mar. 23
Oleva Moniz
Mar. 23
Alma Leona Benoit
Mar. 27 Barbara Ann Hawkins
Apr. 2
Alice Lillian Haskins
Apr. 3 Dorothy Edna Timm
Apr. 5 Helen Mendes
Apr. 5 Barbara Gast
Apr. 10
Richard Everett Horton
Apr. 11 Manuel Derosiers
Apr. 15 Mary Santos
Apr. 18 Edward Ryan
Apr. 19 Joseph March Eaton, Jr.
Apr. 23 Charles E. Cromwell, Jr.
Apr. 23 Evelyn Carmina Garcia
Apr. 25 Donald Everetè Martin
May 5 Patricia Mary Barrett
May 5 Claire Yvonne Benac
May 6
Elizabeth Grace Clayton
May 7 Anne Beedem
May 12 Carol Wright Finnell
May 14 Robert Anderson Blackburn
May 15 Frank Williams Sylvia
May 18 Blanche Jeannette Pauline
May 20 Jacqueline Christine Rogissart
May 22 Dorothy May Smith
May 22 Norma Pickford Rhodes
May 25 Bernard Flood
May 26 Allen John Haydon
May 31 Elena Lueen Swett Burke
June 1
June 5 Spencer Barclay
June 7 Arthur Clifton Junier, Jr.
June 8 Robert Allen Greene
June 16 Patricia Marjorie MacLean
June 17 Phillip Allen Silveira
June 21 Herbert LeRoy Candage, Jr.
June 26
Gertrude Rego
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Births Recorded in Fairhaven in 1931-(Cont.)
Date
Name of Child
June 26
Barbara Jane Lawton
June 27
William Patrick Hagen
June 27
Celia Rosanna Haskins
June 28 Joseph Andrew Kobak, Jr.
July 2 Stillborn
July 10 Ruth Soucy
July 14 Richard Machado
July 17 Irene Jean Fredette
July. 25 Richard Kirk Adshead
July 25 John Francis Gordon
July 26 Natalie Hale Almy
July 27 Albert Baldwin
July 28
Anne Bradford Eddy
July 28
Stillborn
July 29
Allerton Tripp Delano
July 31 Eva Marie Laura Milette
Aug. 2 Raymond Albert Covill
Aug. 6 Albert Wilfred Blouin
Aug. 7 Patricia Ann Lawton
Aug. 10 Roger Joseph Pinard
Aug. 11 Elizabeth Costa
Aug. 13 Patricia McDermott
Aug. 15 Maria dos Anjos Mello
Aug. 17
John Edward Lannan
Aug. 22 Frances Ada Briggs
Aug. 23 Arlene Rose Govoni
Aug. 23 Ann Elizabeth Govoni $ Twins
Aug. 28 Janice Louise Hadfield
Aug. 29 Everett Leonard Westgate
Sept. 1 Raymond Sykes
Sept. 2 Burton Kimball Walker
Sept. 5 John Farias
Sept. 6 Claire McCardell Costa
Sept. 7 Robert Fulton MacMillen
Sept. 7 Stillborn
Sept. 8 Dorothy Marie Alexander
Sept. 10 Milton Anthony Elliott
Sept. 14
McHenry
Sept. 18
Rose Estelle Valliere
75
Births Recorded in Fairhaven in 1931-(Cont.)
Date
Name of Child
Sept. 19
Stillborn
Sept. 20
Donald Charles Sylvia
Sept. 22
Robert Medeiros
Sept. 29 Carlton Ingraham Curtis
Sept. 30 Ann Babbitt
Oct. 1
Stillborn
Oct. 1 Stillborn
Stillborn
Oct. 8
John Andrade
Oct. 9 Agnes Tavares DePina
Oct. 11 Robert Eric Anneheim
Oct. 19 Mary R. Coelho
Oct. 20 Joanna Holly Poor
Oct. 21 Fred G. Sylvia, Jr.
Oct. 26 Irene Mary Clunie
Nov. 7 Joan Elizabeth Carse
Nov. 8 Irene Santos
Nov. 11 Leighton Prescott Harrington
Nov. 12
John Gordon Malcolm
Nov. 15
Rudolph Hervey Martin
Nov. 16
Dorothea Ada Mackenzie
Nov. 16 Robert Arnold Burrows
Nov. 19 Stillborn
Nov. 20 Wladyslawa Lipinski
Nov. 21 William James Kerwin Donaghy
Nov. 25 Rachel Gregoire
Nov. 26 Delores Mary Rose
Nov. 29
Joan Beverly Stringer
Dec. 5 Bradford Clinton Terry, Jr.
Dec. 14 Juliet Pacheco
Dec. 16 Donald Adrian Cadieux
Dec. 18 George Armbruster, Jr.
Dec. 19 Dolores May Silva
Dec. 21 Virginia Anne Baird
Dec. 24
Frank Morris, Jr.
Dec. 28 Victorine Mary Annette Daigle
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Marriages Recorded in 1931
Date
Groom
Bride
Jan. 1 Thomas Raymond Parker to Leonilda Soares Teixeira
Jan. 1 Manuel Flora to Mary Conceicao Arruda
Jan. 3 George Elmer Curtis to Lucy Abiah Spooner
Jan 8 Albert Edward Murray to Olive Rachel Marshall
Jan. 12 William John Maley to Katherine Agnes Murray
Jan. 17 Alvin Lewis Kay Tunstall to Hilda Mae Perry
Jan. 17 Antonio R. Coelho to Maria C. Pereira
Jan. 22 Joseph Murry Carney to Mary Elizabeth Benoit
Jan. 27 William Bradford Eddy, Jr. to Edna Sandells
Jan. 27 Abram Allen Brown to Leucetta Vaughn (Crandall) Forrest Tildon
Jan. 31 Konstanty Wolan to Anna (Powell) Biernacksa
Feb. 4 Benjamin Juskiewicz to Florence May De Young
Feb. 7 Frederick William Chase to Ethel Margaret (Clark) Mckenzie
Feb. 7 Manuel Carvalho to Mary Costa
Feb. 9 William Hubbard Sparrow to Madeliene Waterman
Feb. 10 Edward William Soares to Eleanore Peters
Feb. 14 John Joseph Silva to Olive Augusta Mendes
Feb. 17 Albert Początek to Cecilia Vanda Kubiak
Mar. 27 Chester Frederick Hathaway to Ruth Hilma Vinal
Apr. 3 Brooks Winslow Coughlin to Mildred Louise Jones
Apr. 5 Frank De Terra, Jr. to Alice Grace Riendeau
Apr. 11 Edward Francis Conery to Evelyn Doris Perry
Apr. 11 John Enos to Delfina Costa Flora
Apr. 20 Joseph Emile Armand Lauzon to Blanche Florence Pincince
Apr. 20 John Isadore Viera to Marie Blanche Ida Barriteau
Apr. 20 George Morris to Helen Costa Frias
Apr. 25 Joseph Duarte to Belmira Souza
Apr. 27 Edward Hugo Arnold to Vivian Gonsalves
Apr. 28 John Francis Gordon to Mary Alberta
29 Joseph Wilkinson, Jr. to Emma Louisa Habicht
Apr. Apr. 30 Bradford Clinton Terry to Doris Selina Shaw
May 18 Manuel Moniz Magardo, Jr. to Alice Rita Silva
May 20 Manuel Fereira Silva, Jr. to Lucinda Roza Valin
May 30 Lawrence Szczepan to Genowefa Chodkowska
May 30 Herman Armand Ross to Mary Honra Daigle
June 6 Manuel Souza Costa to Sophie Correira
77
Marriages Recorded in Fairhaven in 1931-(Cont.)
Date
Groom
Bride
June 15 Robert Richard Norris to Stamislawa Kirklewski
June 18 Gilbert Leopold Suprenant to Elsie Bramwell
June 20 John Pacheco Duarte to Maria Rodriques Cailaca
June 25 Elisha Francis Haskins to Celia Frances Bumpus
June 27 Joseph Bento Mello to Lydia Eleanor Soares
June 27
Joseph Frank Langlais to Mildred Braman
June 27
John Vieira Costa, Jr. to Mary Costance Borges
June 27 Thomas Eldridge Hawes to Mildred Alice Taylor
June 29 Edward Richard to Sarah Florence Sheehan
June 29 Harrie Everett Clark to Florence Marion Galligan
June 29 Armand Peter Desrochers to Mary Irene Burgess
July 4
Louis Alberic Rogissart to Della Eva Lussier Adelino Albuquerque Ferreira to Emily Amaral
July 4
July 6 Aldas Joseph Therien to Rose Alma Benoit
July 14 John Henry Crowe to Dora Mary Richards
July 18 Gilbert Dexter Macomber to Alta Ruth MacGregor
July 22 Edgar Maurice Almy to Mabelle Leonora Hall
July 25 Per Albert Petterson to Ingrid Emilia (Holstius) Backlund
July 25 Edwardo Felipe to Maria Isabel Mattos
Aug. 1 William Catherwood Caddell to Cora Phillips
Aug. 1 Joseph Garcia Mello to Clementina Perry
Aug. 10 Aldei Joseph Montplaiser to Irene Blanchette
Aug. 19 Edward Louis Soares to Margaret Fernandes
Aug. 27
Raymond Ricketson Sylvia to Katherine Whittaker Manuel Ridriques Calassa to Annie Sylvia Duarte
Sept. 5
Sept. 5 John Silva to Julia Silva
Manuel Ferreira to Clara Audette
Sept. 5 Antone Cabral de Viveiros, Jr. to Violet Hayden
Sept. 5 Paul Henry Rainville to Mary Louise Yvonne Caron
Sept. 7 John Edward Perry to Emma Elizabeth Costa
Sept. 7 Anthony Joaquim Andrade to Anna Ponte
Sept. 7 Frank Robert Morris to Hilda Roderick
Sept. 7 George Paiva Trinadade to Emily Lawrence
Sept. 11 Ralph Walter Denham to Mary Edwina Lewis
Sept. 14 Harmas Joseph Tremblay to Germaine Alice Laurendeau
Sept. 18 James D. Alexander to Priscilla Gamage
Sept. 19 James Mello to Dorothy Louise Perry
Sept. 20 James Francis Corr to Ann Patricia Mackin
Sept. 7
78
Marriages Recorded in Fairhaven in 1931-(Cont.)
Date
Groom
Bride
Sept. 23 Henry Andrew Hawes to Anna Laura Baker
Sept. 26 Wilfred Joseph Deslauriers to Mary Coelho
Sept. 30 John Hanford Bancroft to Alletta Young Allen
Oct. 11 Manuel Robert Foster to Elsie Cox
Oct. 17 Charles Fredrich Axtell to Mildred Alice Rex
Oct. 17 George Wareham Gibbs to Mary Thatcher Bryden
Oct. 22 Henry Theophilus Olden to Lillian Mary Tophanı
Oct. 24 Manuel Medeiros to Mary Isabel Piva
Oct. 26 Frederick Arthur Padelford to Victoria Sanecka
Oct. 26 Edmund Vincent Duckett to Mary Magdalen Schott
Oct. 30 Richard Henry Smith to Jeanne Therese Choquette
Oct. 31 Henry Lopes to Mary Poulette Silva
Nov. 12 Alphondo Leblanc to Eileen Mary Barry
Nov. 23 Manuel De Rocha, Jr. to Agnes Young
Nov. 24 Louis Lincoln MacMillen to Veronica Rita Harrington
Nov. 26 Francis Aloysuis Leddy to Elizabeth Dorothy Chace
Nov. 26 George Louis Schofield to Mary Hawes
Nov. 26 Theodore Mach to Millie Lillian Parker
Nov. 2 Antone Lewis to Julia Pacheco de Mello
Nov. 28 James Charles Freeman to Benvinda Teixeira
Dec. 15 Carl Ivan Russell to Claudia Cloutier
Dec. 21 Edward Caton to Antoinette Desrosiers
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Deaths Recorded in 1931
Date of Death
Name
Years
Months
Days
Jan.
1
Norman R. Perry
0
7
28
Jan. 5
Nellie J. Boynton
68
6
4
Jan. 5 George P. Randall
71
3
23
Jan. 6 Alice G. Boden
50
6
0
Jan.
24
Annie Schultz Schroeder
94
0
19
Jan.
24
Helen Avilla
18
0
27
Jan.
28
Mary Alice Fish
95
0
0
Jan.
28
Fred Richardson
50
10
20
Jan. 29
Otis B. Phinney
90
5
19
Jan. 30
Adelbert Blanchette
49
0
0
Feb. 5
Elizabeth Moorehouse Rothwell 75
5
3
Feb.
10
Catherine H. Cowen
81
8
18
Feb.
11
John Ribchester
65
0
0
Feb. 13
Walter F. Jenney
72
4
0
Feb. 13
Susan P. Guthrie
64
1
30
Feb.
15
Lena Medeiros
46-
2
17
Feb. 16
Clara Amelia Perry
69
0
0
Feb. 19
Stephen H. Aldrich
54
3
26
Feb. 25 Irena Machado
0
7
2
Mar.
6 John F. Nickerson
72
3
23
Mar. 8
Cordelia R. Gifford
83
11
0
Mar. 19
Maria Victorino
14
7
5
Mar. 23
Mary Cowell
76
0
0
Mar. 25
Louis Moquin
70
0
0
Mar. 26
Susan E. Smith
72
6
26
Mar. 26
Jennie M. Brown
61
1
7
Mar. 27
Lucina Cabral
About 80
0
0
Mar. 27
Lysander Souza
27
0
0
Mar. 28
Symon Myndrala
76
0
0
Mar. 30
Ada M. Murley
14
9
21
Apr. 5 Frank Rose Fialho
29
11
3
Apr.
7
Lydia Frances Phillips
57
4
19
Apr.
15 Stillborn
Apr. 19
Joaquine M. Soares
69
0
0
Apr. 21
Willis Jepson
64
11
6
Apr. 22
Philias H. Bessette
47
0
0
Apr. 26
Gordon Reeves
46
0
23
Apr. 28
Cornelia J. Kingsley
77
0
0
May
1 Orienne Beaulieu Fahey
65
0
0
80
Deaths Recorded in Fairhaven in 1931-(Cont.)
Date of Death
Name
Years Months Days
May 3
Edward Yastrenski
17
5
5
May
4
Joseph B. Alegre
70
0
0
May 9 Capt. Frank C. Morris
74
0
0
May
10 Delia Moreau
73
11
24
May 20
Lena Rocha Rose
43
0
0
May 21
Rhoda Mason Dolbeare Strong
83
0
0
May 27
John McCorkill
39
3
0
May
30
Sarah Hutchins
83
5
19
June
5
Spencer Barclay
0
0
30 min.
June 6 George D. Cowen
89
6
22
June
9 Mary Amaral
10
8
6
June
9 Rosanna Haskins
60
1
23
June 11
Frank William Sylvia
0
0
28
June 11
Beverly Gracia
1
8
0
June 14
Josephine da Costa
27
11
0
June 15
Sarah E. Macy
77
10
1
June 21
Charles F. Miller
55
7
17
June 27
Celia F. Haskins
19
0
0
June 29
Lois Grace Ethelyn Belcher
23
3
15
June 29
Ellen L. Knowlton
82
9
11
July
2 Stillborn
July
8
Stanley Lipinski
0
9
3
July 11
Leonard Gregoire
0
8
0
July 13 Mary (Macedo) Henriques
32
0
0
July 19 Wade F. Delano
52
8
4
July
22
George B. York, Jr.
4
7
22
July
25
Dinah E. Morgan (Bell)
61
8
12
July
28
Stillborn
July 28
Clara Martin
11
1
0
July 29
James P. Lyons
78
3
9
Aug. 2 William L. Chase
66
3
21
Aug. 2 Arthur Ousley
Aug.
3
George Albert Curtis
64
6
2
Aug. 5
Adeline Oliver
14
0
0
Aug.
6 Claudina M. Lewis
67
0
0
Aug.
6
Urbina Schneider
47
0
0
Aug. 15
Eliza J. Grinnell
82
4
1
Aug. 25
Joseph P. Avila
52
10
0
Aug. 26
William R. Fairweather
55
5
12
Aug. 28
Maria Cabral
15
8
6
58
0
0
81
Deaths Recorded in Fairhaven in 1931-(Cont.)
Date of Death
Name
Years Months Days
Sept. 7
Stillborn
Sept. 15
Constanca Teixeira
57
0
0
Sept. 17
Effa Kay Phinney
40
8
28
Sept. 19
Maria Cahouet
73
0
0
Sept. 19
Stillborn
Sept. 22
Marjorie Myra Westgate
0
10
0
Sept. 29
Carlton Ingraham Curtis
0
0
2 hrs.
Oct.
1 Stillborn
Oct.
1
Stillborn
80
2
10
Oct. 4
Fordoria Sowle Nelson
34
5
25
Oct.
6 Rebecca B. Tripp
79
6
3
Oct.
10 Richard Machado
0
3
26
Oct. 12
Joseph Francis
69
0
0
Oct. 12
Humphrey O'Leary
55
0
0
Oct. 14
Geraldine C. Fernandes
1
8
10
Oct.
17 George W. McPhail
86
4
0
Oct. 23
Albert Baldwin
0
3
4
Oct. 25
Ernestine Augusta Perry
55
0
0
Oct. 25
Jesuina T. Frates
0
2
8
Oct. 29
Luiz V. de Freitas
29
0
0
Nov. 4 Walter S. Shattuck
55
6
14
Nov. 5
Edward Morris
19
0
0
Nov. 7
Rose Costa Amaral
51
3
0
Nov. 7
Frederick H. Morse
66
0
0
Nov. 8
Samuel James Smith
68
1
8
Nov. 13
Stillborn
58
0
0
Nov. 19
Stillborn
Nov. 2
Francelia N. Leonard
65
2
0
Dec. 8 Bertha Bowman
59
1
11
Dec. 10
John A. Perry
65
0
0
Dec. 13
Edgar W. Russell
62
11
19
Dec. 17
George Ezra Ellis
61
11
0
Dec. 1
Meline Laplante Millette
50
0
0
Dec. 22
Mary H. Lawton
79
0
0
Dec. 24
Sarah L. Staples
93
0
2
Dec. 28
Henrietta J. Crowley
78
6
29
Dec. 28
Emery P. Harvey
77
1
0
Dec. 31
Maria Jesus Perry
81
0
0
. 13 Emily Sherman Austin
91
1
17
Nov. 19
Frederick Kreeb
Oct. 3
George Melvin Bassett
Report of the Highway Department
At the organization of the Board of Selectmen, Febru :- ary 2, 1931, Mr. Thomas W. Whitfield was appointed Super- intendent of Streets, under authority of Chapter 371 of the Acts of 1928 and in accordance with the vote of the Annual Town Meeting, Saturday, February 14, 1931.
The continuance of the unemployment situation is still causing a tremendous burden to the Highway Department appropriation, but in line with the general retrenchment, we are asking for an appropriation of $5,000.00 less than last year.
As per vote of the Annual Town Meeting the following activities of the Highway Department have been completed :
Street Signs-This is the second year of the marking of streets and has received much favorable com- ment.
Re-surfacing of Church and Fort Streets, also Wash- ington Street has met with universal approval.
North Walnut Street was macadamized, which com- pletes this section and makes an important improve- ment.
By vote of Special Town Meeting of Friday, July 24th, 1931, Elm Avenue, westerly from Main Street, was re-surfaced-completing the re-surfacing of this street.
A sidewalk on west side of New Boston Road, north- erly from Washington Street to north line of East Fairhaven School lot was constructed for the con- venience and safety of school children.
Many miles of outlying roads have been put in passable condition by the use of cinders,
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All of the property of the Highway Department is in excellent condition and an urgent invitation is extended to the citizens to inspect the town yard and the equipment which we have found by comparison to be second to none of any town in the state.
Although the conditions have improved slightly, I would again respectfully remind the citizens of the regulations that containers in the collection of ashes and rubbish must not be too heavy or bulky to be handled.
Respectfully submitted,
THOMAS W. WHITFIELD.
Report of the Planning Board
Report of the Planning Board to the Annual Town Meeting, 1932.
The first of the year produced much activity for the Planning Board as the consideration of the several matters referred to it at the preceding Town Meeting required much study and careful consideration. The Board was unani- mous in its approval of the altered layout of the Green Street extension, the early completion of which proved its worth in the improved traffic conditions existing there during the Summer months.
The Board devoted much time to the study of the pro- posal to rezone for business the area between Main and Middle Streets and extending southerly from the New Bedford-Fairhaven bridge to Pease Street, which is now zoned for apartments. Carefully prepared plans were made including a study of the assessed values, which proved to the satisfaction of the Board that such a sweeping change would not be feasible, in consequence of which there were presented to the Board the three petitions of Messrs. Spooner, Morton and Mrs. Parquette for a change of zone which the major project would have included.
Two public hearings were held on these petitions at which several abuttors were present. As there was no objection the petitions were granted, as was also that of Mr. John Livesey on Sconticut Neck Road. The petitions of Mr. Joseph Prefontaine to maintain a blacksmith-shop on the corner of Alden Road and Daniel Street, and that of Mr. Therrien on Sconticut Neck Road was refused.
Reflecting as it does, the inactivity of the community during these trying times the later meetings of the Board have been merely of a routine nature and without incident worthy of mention.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES A STETSON,
Chairman.
Report of the Board of Appeals
The Fairhaven Board of Appeals held five public hear- ings during the year 1931.
The Board recommended that permits be granted for the following :
Erection of (and additions to) buildings or garages
nearer to lot or street lines than the required zoning law distances 3
Erection of building for business purposes in resi- dential area 1
To build a three car garage in residential area 1
The following petitions were given leave to withdraw : Use of building for business purposes in residential area 1
Erection of building in residential area for sale of kindling wood 1
Erection of building in residential area for use as blacksmith shop 1
Meetings are held on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month (instead of on the first Wednesday of the month as heretofore) provided there is business to be trans- acted.
VICTOR O. B. SLATER, Chairman, GEORGE A. STEELE, Secretary, Z. R. PINAULT, CHARLES W. KNOWLTON, THOMAS LIVESEY.
Report of the Board of Fire Engineers
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen :
Gentlemen :
I have the honor to submit herewith my second annual report of the Fairhaven Fire Department for the year ending December 31, 1931.
This Department has responded to 27 Bell Alarms and 109 Still Alarms, a total of 136 calls. This figure is 38 less than the 174 calls answered in 1930.
The two stations of this Department, one located at 273 Adams St., and the other located at 64 Oxford St. are both in good repair.
The apparatus is in good condition, with the exception of Chemical No. 1 which went out of commission on May 7, 1931. This piece of apparatus is a 1911 Pope-Hartford and has been in constant service since 1912. In responding to an alarm on May 7th last for a fire on Sea View Avenue, Sconticut Neck, a valve head dropped into the motor and before the apparatus could be stopped it had damaged the motor beyond repair, because this make of machine has not been manufactured for a number of years and the few parts available are used parts of the same age as this equipment ; the parts contained in this machine being of original design and have all done constant service in this machine over a period of 19 years. Shortly after this machine went out of service, at a special Town Meeting this Department asked for a new piece of apparatus but action was deferred until the next Annual Town Meeting in February 1932, pending a report and recommendations from the New England In- surance Exchange. This department, in way of explanation is now one piece of apparatus short of its previous strength;
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and it also means that at every call we are short 1,200 feet of hose besides a full equipment and appliances which are carried on each piece of apparatus to every fire. The effici- ency of the whole Department is lessened thereby, and our fire hazards are increasing in various ways, such as the com- pletion of our new Junior High School and other new buildings and the enormous increase in the storage and use of Oil in connection with Oil Burners.
As the sole object of your Fire Department is to cons- erve life and property, thereby, giving direct return to the citizens and taxpayers, the greatest economy that can be practiced at this time is to save what we now have by giving your Fire Department the working tools that they require.
Your Board of Fire Engineers earnestly recommends the purchase of a Triple Combination Pumping engine of at least 500 gallons capacity.
The addition of a drill tower at Headquarters, con- structed almost entirely by the members of the Fire Depart- ment at very little cost has materially added to the efficiency of the whole Department.
The Board of Fire Engineers recommends the appro- priation of $15,500.00, the same as last year for maintenance of the Fire Department for the ensuing year, and the sum of $500.00 for maintenance, extension and repair of the Fire Alarm system.
In conclusion, I wish to thank the members of this Department for their loyal and willing support; the Police Department for its efficient handling of traffic at fires and all other Town Departments for their willing assistance, and also the citizens as a whole for their support and co-opeta- tion.
Respectfully submitted,
EDWARD G. SPOONER, Chief of Department.
Report of the Superintendent of Fire Alarm
There have been 27 Bell Alarms during the year ending 1931.
We have added a new private box of latest design at the High School, underground wiring being used.
Each of the three houses occupied as Fire Stations and the home of the Chief of the Fire Department have been equipped with a telephone system of our own, independent from the regular Bell system, bringing each fire-fighting unit in close touch at all times.
One of the latest recording punch tape machines of the Gamewell Co. has been added to the equipment at the Central Station.
A new air whistle, which promises to be a very valuable adjunct to the present fire signalling devices has been in- stalled on the Fire Station in the centre. This was made necessary by reason of the intermittent supply of steam at the Atlas Tack Co. Now, even if through any cause the main fire alarm system should go wrong this air whistle could be sounded and an alarm sent out with the box numbers.
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