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FREDERICK S. MEAD, J. HOWELL CROSBY, PHILIP A. HENDRICK, Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.
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, in said Arlington, on Monday, the twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, and were called to order in the evening at eight o'clock, by the Town Clerk, who read the Warrant calling the meeting and the return thereon of the Constable who served the same upon the inhabitants. Article 1 taken up. (Choice of Moderator.)
John G. Brackett received four (4) votes, and these being all the votes cast, he was declared elected Moderator, and sworn to the faith- ful performance of his duties.
Article 2 taken up. (Reports of Committees.)
George A. Kimball, Chairman of the Committee of Twenty-One, reported for said committee, and it was,
Voted: That the various articles in the Warrant calling for an appropriation be now taken up.
Article 3 taken up. (Building for garbage.)
Voted: That a building be erected on the Town Yard Lot, re- cently purchased by the Town, for the use of the Board of Health, in the disposal of garbage, and that the sum of $1000 be appropriated for that purpose, the building to be located by the Board of Public Works, said sum to be expended under the direction of the Board of Health and to be payable and transferred from the interest receipts.
Article 4 taken up. (Proposed extension of Henderson Street.)
Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
Article 5 taken up. (Income from Town Yard Lot.)
Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
Article 6 taken up. (Repairs to buildings on Town Yard Lot.) Voted: That the buildings on the Town Yard Lot be shingled and repaired, and that the sum of $125 be appropriated for that pur- pose, the same to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works, and to be payable and transferred from interest re- ceipts.
Article 7 taken up. (Proposed discontinuance of Pond Lane as a public way.)
Voted: That the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Article S. No action being necessary under this article it was,
Voted: That this meeting be now dissolved. Meeting dissolved at twenty-five minutes after eight o'clock.
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The Selectmen appointed Constables John Duffy and Charles F. Donahue to have charge of the incoming turnstile No. 3057 and the outgoing turnstile No. 3056 respectively, who made a return in writ- ing at the close of the meeting, showing that 64 voters had entered the hall through the turnstile No. 3057 and that 14 voters had left the hall through turnstile No. 3056, and from these figures they deter- mined that 50 voters were in attendance at the close of the meeting.
A true record. Attest:
THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.
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TOWN MEETING-TUESDAY, NOVEMBR 2, 1909. AT 6.00 O'CLOCK, A. M.
TOWN WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. MIDDLESEX, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Arlington. 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, in said Town, Tuesday, the second day of November, next, it being the Tuesday next after the first Monday in said month, 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 Gover- nor; a Lieutenant-Governor; a Secretary, a Treasurer and Receiver- General; an Auditor of Accounts; an Attorney-General for the Com- monwealth; a Councillor for the Sixth 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 for three years; a County Treas- urer for three years.
Also, to vote "Yes" or "No" upon the acceptance of Chapter 285, Acts of 1909, entitled, "An Act relative to the School Committee of the Town of Arlington."
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 the time shall not be after the hour of sunset.
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 ineeting.
Given under our hands at said Arlington, this sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine.
J. HOWELL CROSBY, FREDERICK S. MEAD, PHILIP A. HENDRICK, Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.
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Arlington, October 30, 1909.
Middlesex County.
By virtue of this Warrant I have notified and warned the inhabi- tants 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 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 of Arlington.
Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified as the constitution requires, to vote in elections and town affairs, met in the Town Hall in said Arlington on Tuesday, the second day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, it being the first Tuesday after the first Mon- day in said month, and were called to order by J. Howell Crosby, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, at six (6) o'clock in the fore- noon. The presiding officer read the Warrant calling the meeting and the return thereon, of the Constable who served the same upon the inhabitants.
Selectman J. Howell Crosby took charge of the meeting and per- formed the duties of presiding officer.
As required by the laws of the Commonwealth, in relation to elections, the Town Hall was fitted up as a polling place, a space railed off and booths 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 instructions.
The following citizens had been appointed by the Selectmen as election officers, and were assigned as follows, after being sworn to the faithful discharge of their duties by the Town Clerk:
Ballot Clerks, Edgar Crosby and John J. Mahoney.
Inspectors, Frank F. Russell and Harold Rice.
Tellers, Arthur L. Bridgham and George C. Tewksbury:
At Ballot Box, Horace A. Freeman and George McK. Richardson. 1
Counters, Frank Y. Wellington, Henry K. Brown, William D. Gran- nan, William E. Bunton, Frank A. O'Brien, Frank B. Records, Jr., Daniel W. O'Brien and Charles B. Hurley.
A sealed package containing 2250 ballots, supplied by the Secre- tary of the Commonwealth 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 accord- ance with law, as were also cards of penalties to voters for violations of the law.
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 Registrars of Voters.
At five (5) minutes after six (6) o'clock the polls were declared open for the reception of votes, and were kept open until thirty (30) minutes after four (4) o'clock in the afternoon, at which time, after due notice, they were declared closed.
By unanimous consent the ballot-box was opened at 9 o'clock in
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the morning and at various times during the day, for the purpose of removing the ballots to be counted, as follows:
At 9 o'clock the ballot box registered 626 votes. 1.35 1012
" 3.45
1219
At the close of the polls the ballot box registered twelve hundred seventy-two (1272) votes.
The keys of the ballot box were delivered by the presiding officer, into the custody of Constable Garritt Barry, and remained in his pos- session until the close of the polls.
The names checked by the ballot clerks and the names checked by the checkers at the ballot box were counted and found to agree with the number registered by the ballot box, twelve hundred and seventy-two (1272).
The unused ballots were enclosed in a package, sealed, and deliv- ered to the Town Clerk after being counted and indorsed by the Ballot Clerks. The number was found to be 978, which added to the number cast, 1272, made the total number received from the Secretary of the Commonwealth, 2250.
The election officers canvassed the votes given in and the whole number was found to be twelve hundred seventy-two (1272), which were sorted, counted and declaration made thereof in open meeting, by Selectman Philip A. Hendrick at twenty (20) minutes after five (5) o'clock, as follows:
Whole number of ballots cast, 1272.
GOVERNOR.
Eben S. Draper of Hopedale had seven hundred eighty-four (784). John A. Nicholls of Boston had sixteen (16).
Moritz E. Ruther of Holyoke had four (4).
James H. Vahey of Watertown had four hundred twenty-one (421). Daniel A. White of Brockton had fourteen (14).
Blanks, thirty-three (33).
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.
Eugene N. Foss of Boston had four hundred forty-one (441).
Louis A. Frothingham of Boston had seven hundred seventy-eight (778).
George G. Hall of Boston had ten (10).
Ernest R. Knipe of Holyoke had eight (8).
Lawrence Yates of New Bedford had four (4).
Blanks, thirty-one (31).
SECRETARY.
David T. Clark of Williamstown had three hundred twenty-eight (328). Harriet D'Orsay of Lynn had eight (8).
Henry C. Hess of Boston had five (5).
William G. Merrill of Malden had twelve (12).
William M. Olin of Boston had eight hundred forty-nine (849). Blanks, seventy (70).
TREASURER.
James H. Bryan of Westfield had three hundred twenty-seven (327). James B. Carr of Chelmsford had eleven (11).
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David Craig of Milford had five (5). Daniel Parlin of Worcester had fifteen (15).
Elmer A. Stevens of Somerville had eight hundred forty-six (846). Blanks, 68.
AUDITOR.
Alexis Boyer, Jr., of Southbridge had three hundred fourteen (314). Charles A. Chace of Swansea had seventeen (17).
Sylvester J. McBride of Watertown had eleven (11). Jeremiah P. McNally of Salem had four (4).
Henry E. Turner of Malden had eight hundred thirty-two (832). Blanks, 94.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
Henry M. Dean of Hyde Park had twenty-seven (27).
John A. Fredrikson of Quincy had six (6).
Dana Malone of Greenfield had eight hundred twelve (812). Harvey N. Shepard of Boston had three hundred thirty-five (335). John Weaver Sherman of Boston had fourteen (14). Blanks, 78.
COUNCILLOR.
Henry G. Burke of Lowell had fifteen (15). Charles H. Callahan of Lowell had three hundred six (306).
Herbert E. Fletcher of Westford had eight hundred thirty-nine (839). Blanks, 112.
SENATOR SIXTH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT.
John J. Butler of Wakefield had two hundred forty-four (244). J. Howell Crosby of Arlington had nine hundred sixty-seven (967). Blanks, 61.
REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT.
Edwin A. Bayley of Lexington had nine hundred fifty-five (955). Blanks, 317.
COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
Patrick Conlon of Lowell had three hundred four (304). Robert J. Kelly of Lowell had fifteen (15).
Samuel O. Upham of Waltham had eight hundred forty-two (842). Blanks, 111.
COUNTY TREASURER.
Joseph O. Hayden of Somerville had eight hundred thirty-nine (839). Anson B. Hobbs of Cambridge had twenty (20).
Dexter C. Whittemore of Carlisle had three hundred eight (308). Blanks, 105.
On the question: "Shall Chapter 285 of the Acts of the year 1909, being 'An Act relative to the School Committee of the Town of Arl- ington be accepted?'" three hundred seven (307) voted "Yes," six hundred three (603) voted "No," and there were three hundred sixty-
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two (362) blank ballots, and declaration was made in open meeting that the Town had not accepted said Chapter of the Acts of 1909.
The election returns were then filled in to be signed by the Select- men and countersigned by the Town Clerk, and were delivered to the Town Clerk to be forwarded by him to the several places of des- tination.
All business calling the meeting having been transacted, the pre- siding officer, at thirty (30) minutes after five o'clock, declared the meeting dissolved.
A true record. Attest:
THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.
Arlington, November 12, 1909.
Pursuant to law, the Town Clerks of Arlington and Lexington met in the office of the Town Clerk of Arlington on Friday, the twelfth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred, and nine, at twelve o'clock noon, for the purpose of canvassing the votes cast on the second 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 Arl- ington and Lexington, there being but one candidate:
Total number of votes case in Arlington, 1272. Edwin A. Bayley had 955. Blanks, 317.
Total number of votes cast in Lexington, 677. Edwin A. Bayley had 560. Blanks, 117.
The canvass showed that Edwin A. Bayley had a majority of the votes cast in both towns.
Two certificates were filled out, signed by the Clerks of both towns, one sent to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and one deliv- ered to the Town Clerk of Lexington, to be delivered by Constable to Edwin A. Bayley of Lexington.
A true record. Attest:
THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk of Arlington.
GEORGE D. HARRINGTON, Town Clerk of Lexington.
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TOWN MEETING-TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1909. AT 7.30 O'CLOCK P. M.
1
TOWN WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. MIDDLESEX, SS.
To either of the Constables 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, in said Town, on Tuesday, the twenty-third day of November, current, at 7.30 o'clock P. M., then and there to act on the following articles, viz :-
ARTICLE 1. To bring in their votes to the Town Clerk for a Mod- erator to preside for the transactions of Town business.
ART. 2. To hear and act on the reports of committees heretofore appointed.
ART. 3. To see if the Town will accept a gift of certain real es- tate from Hattie F. Hornblower and Henry Hornblower, for the pur- pose of using the same as an athletic field for children attending the public schools of the Town, subect to the conditions in said gift, and take appropriate action in regard thereto.
ART. 4. To see if the Town will make an appropriation to be expended from Nov. 30, 1909, and for the twelve months next ensuing, for suppressing the gypsy and brown-tail moths, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 381, Acts of 1905, and amendments thereto, and determine in what manner the money shall be raised.
ART. 5. To see what action the Town will take in reference to the enlargement of Fire Station No. 1, at Arlington Heights, and the acquisition of land for that purpose, make an appropriation for the same and determine in what manner the money shall be raised.
(Inserted at request of Wm. E. Lloyd and others.)
ART. 6. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the purpose of constructing a suitable roadway on the Town Yard giving access to and from the garbage house recently erected for the use of the Board of Health, and determine in what manner the money shall be raised.
(Inserted at the request of the Board of Health.)
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ART. 7. To see if the Town will make an additional appropria- tion to provide more adequate cell and office facilities for the Police Department, and determine in what manner the money shall be raised.
ART. 8. To see what action the Town will take towards repair- ing and strengthening the cupola on Town Hall Building, make an appropriation for the same, and determine in what manner the money shall be raised, or take any action relative thereto.
ART. 9. To see what action the Town will take to provide addi- tional accommodations in the Russell and Crosby School districts, make an appropriation therefor, and determine in what manner the money shall be raised.
(Inserted at request of School Committee.)
ART. 10. To see if the Town will make an additional appropria- tion to the Public Library for furniture and fittings for the new read- ing room in the Locke School Building, and determine in what manner the money shall be raised.
(Inserted at request of the Trustees of the Public Library.)
ART. 11. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the construction of a storm drain on Appleton Street, and determine in what manner the money shall be raised.
(Inserted at the request of the Board of Public Works.)
ART. 12. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the purchase of cast-iron water pipe and fittings, and determine in what manner the money shall be raised.
(Inserted at request of the Board of Public Works.)
ART. 13. To see if the Town will vote to discontinue as a public way a portion of the public way, known as Pond Lane, or take any action thereon.
(Inserted at the request of the Joint Board.)
ART. 14. To see if the Town will accept and establish as a town way the private way known as Whittemore Street and Footway ex- tending from Massachusetts Avenue to the southerly side of the loca- tion of the Boston & Lowell R. R., as laid out by the Joint Board of Selectmen and Board of Public Works, under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments, make an appropriation for constructing the same and determine in what manner the money shall be raised. Said way as laid out is described as follows :-
Beginning at a point on the southwesterly line of Massachu- setts Avenue 62.5 feet northerly from a county bound on said southwesterly line of Massachusetts Avenue, said bound being 134.4 feet from the westerly line of Avon Place. The said point is on the centre line of Whittemore Street and is marked "A" on plan approved by the Board of Survey, Oct.| 19, 1909, entitled "Plan and Profile of Whittemore Street and Footway, October, 1909, G. E. Ahern, C. E.," thence, at an angle of 89° 15' with the said southwesterly line of Massachusetts Avenue a distance of 466.5 feet to the easterly location line of the Boston & Lowell Rail- road; thence, continuing on said line across said Boston & Lowell R. R. location 72 feet, more or less, to the westerly line of said Boston and Lowell R. R. location. The above described line of Whittemore Street is the centre line of said street and the boun- dary lines are parallel with and distant therefrom 20 feet on either side between the said southwesterly line of Massachusetts Ave- nue and the said easterly line of the Boston & Lowell Railroad location, and the above described line across the Boston & Lowell
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R. R. location is the centre line of the Footway and the boundary lines are parallel with and distant therefrom 4 feet on either side of said line, as shown on plan above mentioned.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will accept and establish as a town way the private way known as the Extension of Henderson Street, from Cross Street to Alewife Brook, as laid out by the Joint Board of Selectmen and Board of Public Works, under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments, make an appropriation for constructing the same, and determine in what manner the money shall be raised. Said way as laid out is described as follows :-
Beginning at a point on the northerly line of Henderson Street at the southwesterly corner of Cross Street (so-called), said point being the end of the acceptance of Henderson Street, March 8, 1891, thence, in an easterly direction on the said northerly line of Henderson Street extended 30 feet; thence, continuing in an easterly direction by a curved line of 135 feet radius about 170 feet.to the centre of Alewife Brook and the Somerville line. The above described line is the northerly line of Henderson Street Extension and the southerly line is parallel with and distant there- from 40 feet. The said extension of Henderson Street is shown on plan and profile made by R. W. Pond, Town Engineer, March, 1906, and approved by the Board of Survey, June 26, 1909, now on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will authorize the Town Treasurer, under the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow money for any neces- sary purpose, in anticipation of taxes for the year 1910, the same to be repaid directly from the proceeds of said taxes.
ART. 17. To see if the Town will make an appropriation sufficient 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, and determine in what manner the money shall be raised.
ART. 18. 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 sixth day of Novem- ber, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine.
J. HOWELL CROSBY, PHILIP A. HENDRICK, Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.
Arlington, Nov. 22, 1909.
Middlesex County.
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 of Arlington.
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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 in said Arlington on Tuesday, the twenty-third day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, and were called to order at thirty minutes after seven o'clock in the evening, by the Town Clerk, who read Article 1 of the Warrant calling the meeting and the return thereon of the Constable who served the same upon the inhabitants., By unanimous consent the reading of the remaining articles in the Warrant was dispensed with, each of the voters present being supplied with printed attested copies.
Article 1 taken up. (Election of Moderator.)
John G. Brackett was unanimously elected Moderator.
Article 3 taken up. (Acceptance of Hornblower gift of play- ground)
J. Howell Crosby, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, speaking on this article, stated that after advising with the Town Counsel it was found that owing to conditions in the deed of gift, necessary for the future maintenance of the playground by the Town legislative authority was necessary to enable the Town to make appropriations for such maintenance. As such authority could not be secured until the next session of the General Court, action under the article was indefinitely postponed.
Article 13 taken up. (Discontinuance of part of Pond Lane.)
Voted: That the Town discontinue as a town way the portion of Pond Lane which extends between a line parallel with and distant 25 feet from the westerly line of the Boston & Lowell R. R. location and Spy Pond.
Article 2 taken up. (Reports of Committees.)
Horace A. Freeman for the Committee appointed to revise the Town By-Laws reported progress and asked until the March meeting of 1910 to make a final report.
Voted: That the report of the Committee on By-Laws be accepted as progressive, and that the Committee be given until the March meeting to make its final report.
John W. Bailey for the Special Committee on High School Addi- tion and School Accommodations Throughout the Town, reported for his committee. The report was laid on the table to be later taken up under Article 9. Article 2 was laid on the table.
Article 9 taken up. (Additional school accommodations in the Russell and Crosby School Districts.)
The report as presented by. John W. Bailey, was at this time taken up. The report was accepted and the Committee discharged. Report, File No. 657.
Voted, on motion of Frederick A. Bisbee: That a Committee of Five be appointed by the Moderator to secure preliminary plans and estimates for a school building to be so located as to relieve the present congestion in the Russell and Crosby Districts and meet the growing school needs of our rapidly increasing population, or to secure plans and estimates for additions to present school buildings; and that the sum of five hundred (500) dollars be appropriated to meet the expenses of said Committee.
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