Town of Arlington annual report 1904-1906, Part 67

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Voted : By a two-thirds vote, that the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000), appropriated for the installation of a police signal system, be borrowed, and in payment therefor there be issued three negotiable notes or bonds each for the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) payable one in the year 1910 and one in each of the two succeeding years. Said notes or bonds to be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by the Selectmen, and to be designated on the face thereof " Police Signal Loan, " and to bear interest at a rate not exceeding four (4) per centum per annum, payable semi-annually.

Voted : To adjourn. Meeting dissolved at nine o'clock.

A true record. Attest : THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.

ARLINGTON, March 15, 1906,

I hereby certify that I have this day appointed Edna C. Pierce Assistant Town Clerk, and that she has taken the oath required by Section 62 of Chapter 25 of the Revised Laws for the faithful performance of her duties.

THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.

TOWN RECORDS.

TOWN WARRANT.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. MIDLLESEX SS.

To Garritt Barry, A Constable of the Town of Arlington, in said County. GREETING : -

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified as the constitution requires, to vote in elections and Town affairs, to assemble in the Town Hall, on Tuesday, the sixth day of November, next, at 6.00 o'clock, A. M., then and there to act on the following articles, viz. : -

ARTICLE 1. To bring in their votes to the Selectmen for a Gov- ernor; a Lieutenant-Governor ; a Secretary ; a Treasurer and Re- ceiver-General ; an Auditor of Accounts ; an Attorney-General for the Commonwealth; a Representative of the Commonwealth in the Congress of the United States for District Number Eight; a Coun- cillor for the Third Councillor District; a Senator for the Sixth Middlesex District; a Representative in the General Court for the Twenty-ninth Representative District in the County of Middlesex ; a County Commissioner ; a Clerk of Courts for the County of Mid- dlesex ; a Register of Deeds ; a County Treasurer.

All the above to be voted for on one ballot. The polls will be opened immediately after the organization of the meeting, and will be kept open until four o'clock and thirty minutes in the afternoon, and as much longer as the meeting directs, provided that the time shall not be after the hour of sunset.

ART. 2. To bring in their votes to the Town Clerk for a Mod- erator to preside for the transaction of Town business.

ART. 3. To hear and act on the reports of Committees hereto- fore appointed.

ART. 4. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the observance of the one-hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the Town and determine in what manner the same shall be expended.

ART. 5. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for procuring and inserting a tablet of stone or other durable material in the monument to soldiers killed on April 19, 1775, and deter- mine in what manner the same shall be expended.

ART. 6. To see if the Town will cause the curfew bell to be rung each evening at nine o'clock, Sundays excepted, and make an appropriation for the same.

TOWN RECORDS.

ART. 7. To see what action the Town will take relative to the calling of a Town Meeting for the purpose of submitting to the legal voters the question, " Shall an act passed by the General Court in the year 1906, entitled ' An act relative to Town Meetings in the Town of Arlington,' and providing for the ratification of certain votes passed at such meetings," be accepted by the Town ?

ART. 8. To hear and act upon any report the School Committee may make, and to discuss and act upon any measures (in so far as they do not require appropriations) pertaining to the educational interests of the Town.

(Inserted at request of Melvin L. Severy and others).

ART. 9. To see if the Town will vote to insert the following article in the warrant for the first fall Town Meeting of each ensuing year, during the life of this vote if passed.

To hear and act upon any report the School Committee may make, and to discuss and act upon any measures (in so far as they do not require appropriations) pertaining to the educational interests of the Town.

(Inserted at request of Melvin L. Severy and others).

ART. 10. To see if the Town will make an additional appropria- tion for insurance account.

ART. 11 To see if the Town will make an additional appro- priation for permanent sidewalk account.

ART. 12. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the painting of the interior of Town Hall Building.

ART. 13. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the purpose of repairing the fire apparatus of the Town, causing rubber tires to be placed on its trucks and carriages, and making other necessary repairs on apparatus.

ART. 14. To see if the Town will make an additional appro- priation of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500) to be expended the current year for the suppression of the gypsy and brown-tail moths, the same to be expended in accordance with the provisions of Chap- ter 381, Acts of 1905, and amendments thereto.

ART. 15. To see if the Town will make an appropriation to be expended during the year 1907 for suppressing the gypsy and brown-tail moths in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 381, Acts of 1905, and amendments thereto.

ART. 16. To see if the Town will authorize and empower its Board of Public Works to lease, in the name and behalf of the Town, land of said Town in and about the Great Meadows in East Lexing- ton, for farming and pasturage purposes for a term not exceeding five years and for a sum not less than one hundred and twenty-five dollars per year.

TOWN RECORDS.

(Inserted at request of Board of Public Works).

ART. 17. To see if the Town will make an additional appro- priation for the Fire Alarm Department.

(Inserted at request of Superintendent of Fire Alarm).

ART. 18. To see if the Town will make an additional appro- priation for Inspector of Wires Department.

(Inserted at request of Inspector of Wires).

ART. 19. To see if the Town will make an additional appro- priation for the Health Department.

(Inserted at the request of the Board of Health).

ART. 20. To hear and act on the report of the Committee ap- pointed May 15, 1906, on the question of municipal lighting for the Town, and to see if the Town will make an additional apppropria- tion of seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750) for the purpose of carrying out more fully the purposes for which said Committee was appointed.

(Inserted at request of Committee on Municipal Lighting).

ART. 21. To, see if the Town will accept and establish as a Town way Wyman Street, so-called, from Broadway to Warren Street, as laid out by the Joint Board of Selectmen and Board of Public Works under the provisions of law authorizing the assess- ment of betterments, and make an appropriation for constructing the same. Said way as laid out is described as follows :-

Beginning at a point on the easterly side of Broadway 330.47 feet southerly from a County Commissioners' bound on the said easterly side of Broadway, thence at an angle 105 degrees, 18 minutes, 22 sec- onds, with the said easterly line of Broadway, 409.71 feet to a point on the westerly side line of Warren Street, 8.10 feet northerly from the County Commissioners' bound on said westerly side of Warren Street. The above described line is the southerly side line of said Wyman Street. The northerly side of Wyman Street is parallel with and 40 feet distant from the southerly side of Wyman Street. Fur- ther description is shown on plan and profile made by G. E. Ahern, C. E., entitled, "Plan and Profile of Wyman Street between Broad- way and Warren Street, March 21, 1906," and approved by the Board of Survey May 7, 1906, now on file in the Town Clerk's office.

(Inserted at Request of L. J. Perrigo and others).

ART. 22. To see if the Town will accept and establish as a Town way Palmer Street, so-called, from Broadway to Warren Street, as laid out by the Joint Board of Selectmen and Board of Public Works under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments, and make an appropriation for constructing the same. Said way as laid out is described as follows :-

Beginning at a stake on the easterly side of Broadway 65.80 feet southerly from a County Commissioners' bound on the said easterly

TOWN RECORDS.

side of Broadway, thence at an angle of 105 degrees, 18 minutes, 22 seconds, with the same easterly line of Broadway 499.99 feet to a stake on the westerly side of Warren Street and making an angle of 94 de- grees, 30 minutes, 58 seconds, with the said westerly side of Warren Street. The above described line is the northerly side line of said Palmer Street. The southerly side of Palmer Street is parallel with and distant 40 feet from the northerly side of Palmer Street. Further description is shown on plan and profile made by G. E. Ahern, C. E., entitled, "Plan and Profile of Palmer Street, between Broadway and Warren Street, February, 1906," and approved by the Board of Sur -. vey, March 26, 1906, now on file in Town Clerk's office.

(Inserted by request of L. J. Perrigo and others).

ART. 23. To see if the Town will accept and establish as a town way the private way known as Tanager Street, as laid out by the Joint Board of Selectmen and Board of Public Works, under the pro- visions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments and make an appropriation for the constructing of the same. Said way as laid out is described as follows :-

Beginning at a stone bound on the northerly side line of Wollaston Avenue at a point 548 feet distant from the southwesterly corner of Park Avenue and Paul Revere Road, measured along the northerly line of Park Avenue and the said Wollaston Avenue; thence by a curved line of 13 feet radius 20.42 feet to a stone bound on the east- erly line of Tanager Street; thence continuing in a northerly direc- tion by a straight line 68 feet to a stone bound ; thence by a curved line of 240 feet radius in a westerly direction 344.88 feet to a stone bound ; thence continuing westerly by a straight line 255.35 feet to a stone bound ; thence by a curved line of 184.15 feet radius in a south -- erly direction 171.52 feet to a stone bound; thence continuing in a southerly direction by a curved line of 273.6 feet radius 85.95 feet to a stone bound ; thence continuing in a southerly direction by a straight line 260 feet to a stone bound ; thence by a curved line of 35 feet ra- dius 21.55 feet to an intersection with the northerly line of Wollaston Avenue, previously referred to. The above described line is the northerly line of said Tanager Street and the southerly line is parallel with and distant forty (40) feet from the said northerly line, except- ing at the intersections of said southerly line with the said northerly line of Wollaston Avenue, where curves of 13 feet and 10 feet radius respectively are laid out to make proper connections with the said northerly line of Wollaston Avenue. Further description is shown on plan and profile made by Robert W. Pond, Town Engineer, entitled, "Plan and Profile of Tanager Street, June, 1902," and approved by the Board of Survey July 28, 1902, now on file in the Town Clerk's office

(Inserted at request of Ellis Worthington and others).

ART. 24. To see if the Town will accept and establish as a Town way that part of Avon Place, so-called, as laid out by the Joint Board of Selectmen and Board of Public Works under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments, and make an ap- propriation for constructing the same. Said way as laid out is de- scribed as follows :-

Beginning at a point on the westerly line of Massachusetts Avenue 134 40 feet southerly from a County Commissioners' bound on the southerly line of Massachusetts Avenue and 1,547.51 feet northerly

TOWN RECORDS.

from a stone bound at the southwest corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Linwood Street, thence north 62 degrees, 30 minutes east for a distance of 427.80 feet The above described line is the northerly side line of said Avon Place. The southerly line is parallel with and 30.90 feet distant from the said northerly line. Further description is shown on Plan and Profile made by G. E. Ahern, C. E., entitled, " Plan and Profile of Avon Place, April 7, 1906," and approved by the Board of Survey, May 7, 1906, now on file in the Town Clerk's office.

(Inserted at request of E. E. Upham and others.)

ART. 25. To see if the Town will authorize the Town Treasurer, under the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow money for any nec- essary purpose, in anticipation of the collection of taxes for the year 1907, the same to be repaid directly from the proceeds of said taxes.

(Inserted at the request of the Town Treasurer.)

ART. 26. To see if the Town will make an appropriation suffi- cient to meet the charges for filling deposited on the park lands adjoining Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, in accordance with the vote passed by the Town, May 5, 1902.

ART. 27. To appropriate and raise, by borrowing or otherwise, such sums of money as may be necessary for all or any of the purposes mentioned in the foregoing articles.

Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Selectmen, on or before said day and hour of meeting.

Given under our hands at said Arlington, this twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six ..

JAMES A. BAILEY, JR., S. FREDERICK HICKS, FREDERICK S. MEAD, Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.

MIDDLESEX COUNTY.

ARLINGTON, MASS , Nov. 5, 1906.

By virtue of this Warrant I have notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs, to meet at the time and place and for the purposes herein named, by causing a printed. attested copy to be left at every dwelling house in the Town, and also by posting an attested copy on the doors of the Town Hall, seven days at least, before said day of meeting.

GARRITT BARRY, Constable.

A true record of the warrant. Attest :

THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.

In pursuance of the foregoing Warrant the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs, met in the Town Hall on Tuesday, the sixth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, it being the next Tuesday after the first.

TOWN RECORDS .

Monday in said month, and were called to order by James A. Bailey, Jr., Chairmam of the Board of Selectmen, at six o'clock in the forenoon. Mr. Bailey then acted as Chairman

The presiding officer read Article 1 of the warrant calling the meeting and the return thereon of the constable who served the same upon the inhabitants. It was unanimously voted, by the meeting, that the reading of the remaining articles in the warrant be postponed until the adjourned meeting.

Complying with the laws of the Commonwealth governing elections, the Town Hall was fitted up as a polling place, a space railed off and booths, and shelves provided for the use of voters to examine and mark their ballots.

Each booth was supplied with suitable facilities for the purpose and with cards of instruction.

The following persons, having been appointed by the Selectmen as Ballot Clerks, Tellers and Inspectors, were sworn to the faithful performance of their duties by the Town Clerk and assigned as follows :

Ballot Clerks-Frank Y. Wellington and John J. Mahoney.

Tellers-Horace A. Freeman, George II. Peirce, George C. Tewksbury, Frank J. Rowe, Charles P. Ladd, Jr., David T. Dale, William H. Bailey, Maurice P. Ahern, Lindsay K. Foster, Michael F. Horrigan and Arthur L. Bridgham.

· Inspectors-Frank F. Russell and Arthur L. Marston, Horace A. Freeman and George C. Tewksbury were assigned as Tellers at the ballot-box and Frank F. Russell and Arthur L. Marston as Inspectors on the floor.

A package of ballots, sealed, supplied by the Secretary of the Common- wealth and containing 2,200 ballots, was then delivered by the Town Clerk to the presiding officer, who publicly broke the seal and delivered the ballots to the ballot clerks.

Specimen ballots and cards of instructions were posted in conformity to law, as were also cards of penalties on voters for violation of the law govern- ing elections.

The ballot box was examined by the presiding officer and the Town Clerk. and was found to be empty, and the register set at zero.

A list of registered voters was supplied to the Ballot Clerks and Tellers by the Board of Registrars of Voters.

The polls were then declared open for the reception of votes and were kept open until thirty minutes after four o'clock in the afternoon, when, after due notice, they were declared closed.

By consent of the presiding officer and the Town Clerk the ballot box was opened at thirty-five minutes after seven o'clock in the morning for the pur- pose of counting ballots, and was opened at various times during the day for that purpose as follows :-

At 7.35 A. M. the ballot box registered 355 votes

9.40

66 800

1.00 P.M. 66

1,070

2.45 66

1,267

3.30 66

1,317

4.30

1,411 66

The keys of the ballot box had been delivered into the custody of Constable John Duffy at the opening of the polls and remained in his custody until the close of the polls, when they were delivered to the Town Clerk.

TOWN RECORDS.

At the close of the polls the ballot box registered fourteen hundred and eleven (1,411) votes. By comparison, this number was found to agree with the names checked by the Ballot Clerks and the Checkers at the ballot box.

The unused ballots were counted by the Ballot Clerks and found to number 789, making the total cast 1,411 and those not used 789, making the total of 2,200 as received from the Secretary of the Commonwealth

The election officers canvassed the votes given in and the whole number was found to be fourteen hundred and eleven (1,411), which were sorted, counted and declaration made thereof in open meeting, as required by law, at five o'clock as follows : -

GOVERNOR.

Gamaliel Bradford, of Wellesley, had ten (10) votes.

James F. Carey, of Haverhill, had nine (9) votes.

William H. Carroll, of Boston, had two (2) votes. Curtis Guild, Jr., of Boston, had nine hundred and eight (908) votes.

John B. Moran, of Boston, had four hundred and sixty-one (461) votes, divided as follows : Prohibition, 52; Independence League, 93; Demo- cratic, 290; no designation, 26; total, 461; blanks, 21; total number ballots cast, 1,411.

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.

E. Gerry Brown, of Brockton, had four hundred and sixty-nine (469) votes. Hervey S. Cowell, of Ashburnham, had fifteen (15) votes.

Eben S. Draper, of Hopedale, had eight hundred and twenty-three (823) votes. Walter J. Hoar, of Worcester, had nine (9) votes.

John F. Mullin, of Fitchburg, had sixteen (16) votes.

SECRETARY.

Joao Claudino, of New Bedford, had eight (8) votes.

Jonathan S. Lewis, of Stoneham, had fifteen (15) votes.

Ambrose Miles, of Lynn, had twelve (12) votes.

William M. Olin, of Boston, had eight hundred and ninety-three (893) votes- Charles C. Paine, of Barnstable, had three hundred eighty-five (385) votes. Blanks, ninety-eight (98).

TREASURER.

Arthur B. Chapin, of Holyoke, had eight hundred and ninety-four (894) votes. George B. Cushman, of Brockton, had eighteen (18) votes.

S. Frederick French, of Mansfield, had eleven (11) votes.

George M. Harrigan, of Lowell, had three hundred and seventy-five (375) votes.

David F. Richardson, of Lynn, had three (3) votes.

Blanks, one hundred and ten (110).

AUDITOR.

Albert Barnes, of Fall River, had fourteen (14) votes.

Thomas L. Hisgen, of West Springfield, had three hundred and ninety- four (394) votes.

TOWN RECORDS.

Fred L. Johnson, of Lynn, had twelve (12) votes.

James F. Pease, of Merrimac, had twenty-one (21) votes.

Henry E. Turner, of Malden, had eight hundred and fifty-seven (857) votes Blanks, one hundred thirteen (113).

ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

Allen Coffin, of Nantucket, had twenty-five (25) votes.

Dana Malone, of Greenfield, had eight hundred and forty (840) votes.

Arthur E. Reimer, of Boston, had five (5) votes.

John W. Sherman, of Boston, had twenty (20) votes.

John A Thayer, of Worcester, had four hundred and twenty-two (422) votes. Blanks, ninety-nine (99).

REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS, EIGHTH DISTRICT.

Frederick S. Deitrick, of Cambridge, had four hundred and seven (407), votes.

Orton D. Field, of Somerville, had eighteen (18) votes.

Samuel W. McCall, of Winchester, had nine hundred and twenty-seven (927) votes.

Blanks, fifty-nine (59).

COUNCILLOR, SIXTH DISTRICT.

John C. Call, of Newton, had twenty-four (24) votes.

Edward Gallagher, of Lowell, had three hundred and seventy-five (375) votes. Seward W. Jones, of Newton, had eight hundred and eighty-five (885) votes .. Blanks, one hundred and twenty-seven (127).

SENATOR, SIXTH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT.

James M. Marden, of Medford, had four hundred and fifty-four (454) votes. Herbert S. Riley, of Woburn, had eight hundred and thirty-six (836) votes. Blanks, one hundred and twenty-one (121).

REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT, TWENTY-NINTH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT.

Horace Dexter Hardy, of Arlington, had ten hundred and seventy-two (1,072) votes.

Blanks three hundred and thirty-nine (339).

COUNTY COMMISSIONER, MIDDLESEX.

Oscar J. Johnson, of Malden, had twenty-nine (29) votes.

Patrick E Sullivan, of Lowell, had three hundred and sixty (360) votes.

Samuel O. Upham, of Waltham, had eight hundred and ninety-four (894) votes.

CLERK OF COURTS, MIDDLESEX COUNTY.

Theodore C. Hurd, of Winchester, had nine hundred and fifteen (915) votes. Charles E. McCarthy, of Lowell, had three hundred and sixty-four (364) votes. Blanks one hundred and thirty-two (132).

TOWN RECORDS.

Edwin O. Childs, of Newton, had nine hundred and eighty-two (982) votes. Seymour J. Milliken, of Somerville, had ninety-three (93) votes. Blanks three hundred and thirty-six (336).

COUNTY TREASURER, MIDDLESEX.

Joseph O. Hayden, of Somerville, had eight hundred and eighty-seven (887) votes.

John O'Brien, of Townsend, had three hundred and thirty-eight (338) votes. William Parker of Arlington had sixty-five (65) votes.

Blanks one hundred and twenty-one (121).

Article 2 taken up (To choose a Moderator).

Voted : On motion of James A. Bailey, Jr., that the meeting proceed to the election of a Moderator.

Two of the Tellers previously sworn acted as Tellers and reported the following result : Whole number of ballots cast seven (7), all bearing the name of John G. Brackett, and John G. Brackett was declared elected Moderator and was sworn to the faithful performance of his duties.

Voted : That when this meeting adjourns it adjourn to meet in Town Hall on Thursday evening, November 22, 1906, at thirty minutes after seven o'clock.

The election returns were then filled, signed by the Selectmen, counter- signed by the Town Clerk, sealed up in open meeting and delivered to the Town Clerk to be forwarded to the several places of destination.

Voted : On motion of S. Frederick Hicks that the meeting adjourn.

Meeting adjourned at 6 o'clock P. M.

A true record Attest :

THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.

ARLINGTON, Nov. 18, 1906.

Pursuant to law the Town Clerks of Arlington and Lexington met in the office of the Town Clerk of Arlington, on Friday, the sixteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six at twelve o'clock noon, for the purpose of canvassing the votes cast on the sixth day of November, for a Representative to the General Court of the Commonwealth to represent the twenty-ninth Middlesex District.

The canvass showed the following result of the votes cast in Arlington and Lexington :

Horace Dexter Hardy had in Arlington ten hundred and seventy-two (1072) and in Lexington four hundred and sixty-eight (468), making a total of fifteen hundred and forty (1,540).

There being no other person receiving votes the total votes of both towns showed that Horace Dexter Hardy, of Arlington, had a majority of all the votes cast in both towns.

TOWN RECORDS.

Two certificates were filled out, signed by the Clerks of both towns, and one sent to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, the other delivered to Horace Dexter Hardy, of Arlington.

A true record. Attest :

THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk of Arlington. GEORGE D. HARRINGTON, Town Clerk of Lexington,

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

MIDDLESEX COUNTY.

ARLINGTON, Nov. 17, 1906.

By virtue of my office as Constable of the Town of Arlington, I have this day served, by giving in hand, the certificate of election, as Representative to the General Court to be holden on the first Wednesday of January next, to Horace D. Hardy, of 48 Irving St., Arlington.

JAMES E. WHITTEN,. Constable

A true record. Attest :

THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.

Pursuant to adjournment the citizens of the Town of Arlington, qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs, met in the Town Hall in said Town, on Thursday, the twenty-second day of November, in the year of our Lord nine- teen hundred and six, and were called to order at thirty minutes after seven o'clock in the evening by the Moderator John G. Brackett.

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Town of Arlington annual report 1904-1906, Part 67

Author: Arlington (Mass.) Publication date: 1904-1906 Publisher: Number of Pages: 1358

Author: Arlington (Mass.)
Publication date: 1904-1906
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 1358