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to its care, but also the consideration of the erection of a new building for High School purposes, and also as to the future needs of the Russell School District.
The Committee makes this additional recommendation as it has been brought to its notice that the question of obtaining additional room in the Russell School building will soon be pressing, and it thinks this matter should be considered in connection with the High School problem.
The Committee further recommends that an additional sum of five hundred ($500) dollars be allowed the special Committee for expenses, which they must incur in investigation.
Respectfully submitted, FRANCIS L. MAGUIRE, Chairman. CHARLES A. HARDY,
Secretary.
The matter was discussed by a number of citizens and Mr. Schwamb illustrated the proposed alterations and extension by means of lantern slides.
Professor Schwamb made a motion that the sum of $110,000 be appropriated for the alterations and extension of the High School building, substantially as shown on the drawings submitted by the Committee.
This motion was finally lost, the opinion seeming to be general that the matter should be more fully considered and that no action should be taken at this time that would, in any way, interfere with or be a detriment to the new Town Hall building, and it was,
Voted: That the subject matter of the alteration and extension of the High School building and the advisability of erecting a new High School building be referred to the same Committee, they to report to the Town Meeting in November, and that the sum of five hundred ($500) dollars be appropriated for the use of said Committee, in addition to the amount previously ap- propriated, to defray such expenses as the Committee might incur in their investigation.
The Committee declined to serve longer and it was voted,
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That the Moderator appoint within five days a Committee of five to serve under the foregoing vote.
The Moderator later appointed the following citizens to serve on said Committee: Frank W. Hodgdon, Philip Eberhardt, Clarence A. Moore; Arthur L. Bacon, and George W. Chickering.
Article 9 taken up. (Appointment of Committee of Twenty- One.)
The Moderator, Chairman and Secretary of the Committee of Twenty-one, to whom the matter had been referred, nominated the following citizens to serve on the Committee of Twenty-one for the year 1912 and through the March meeting of 1913.
Louis B. Carr
Manufacturer
56 Gray Street
Arthur F. Breed
Lawyer
7 Ashland Street
William C. Drouet
Salesman
34 Hillside Avenue
Truman L. Quimby
Journalist
132 Appleton Street
William A. Stevens
Manufacturer
184 Westminster Ave.
Augustus F. Crowley Lawyer
83 Medford Street
John W. Bailey
Dentist
Robbins Road
Ralph L. Page
Salesman
21 Walnut Street
George H. Shirley
Salesman
16 Walnut Street
Harold L. Frost
Entomologist
26 Academy Street
Charles A. Hardy Salesman
34 Gray Street
Frank W. Hodgdon
Civil Engineer
18 Wellington Street
Roger W. Homer
Merchant
143 Pleasant Street
Willis P. Howard
Bank Clerk
50 Fairview Avenue
William I. Marsters
Printer
46 Magnolia Street
M. Ernest Moore
Market Gardener
278 Broadway
William A. Muller
Insurance
231 Mass. Avenue
Herbert W. Reed
Salesman
11 Wellington Street
Walter A. Robinson
Teacher
36 Jason Street
Willard G. Rolfe
Merchant
54 Irving Street
William N. Winn
Coal Dealer
77 Summer Street
Arlington, April 9, 1912.
We the undersigned Constables of the Town of Arlington, appointed by the Selectmen to have charge of the incoming and outgoing turnstiles at the Town Meeting held April 9, 1912, on oath, depose and say that two hundred and forty-two (242) voters attended said meeting. This result we determine by
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deducting from the total number registered as entering the hall, the number registered as leaving the hall during said meeting.
(Signed) JOHN DUFFY, CHARLES F. DONAHUE,
Constables.
Sworn to before me this ninth day of April, 1912.
THOMAS J. ROBINSON,
Town Clerk.
All articles in the Warrant having been disposed of it was Voted: That this Meeting be now dissolved.
Meeting dissolved at 9.35 P.M.
A true record. Attest:
THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.
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, Monday, the twenty-fourth day of June, 1912, at 8 o'clock, P.M., then and there to act on the following articles, viz:
ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
ART. 2. To hear and act on the reports of committees here- tofore appointed.
ART. 3. To see if the Town will make an appropriation to reimburse sundry persons for sewer assessments and interest paid by them, said assessments having been illegally levied, or take any action thereon.
ART. 4. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the construction of sewers in North Union and Cross Streets, Pond Lane Extension and territory adjacent to these streets or ways, or take any action thereon.
(Inserted by the Board of Public Works at the request of the Board of Health.)
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ART. 5. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the purchase of paving blocks, to be removed from Massachusetts Avenue during the work of relaying of car tracks, or take any action thereon.
ART. 6. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the extension or replacement of the low service water main, between Mill Street and Brattle Street, and make the necessary changes in piping to admit of the use of the Arlington Reservoir water at the Town property on Massachusetts Avenue, and provide additional fire protection, or take any action thereon.
ART. 7. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the widening and construction of Massachusetts Avenue between Pleasant Street and Academy Street, or take any action thereon.
ART. 8. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the construction of a bridge and approaches thereto at the end of Henderson Street from Cross Street over Alewife Brook, or take any action thereon.
ART. 9. To see if the Town will request or direct the Board of Public Works to lay a water service pipe to the premises occu- pied by any inhabitant of the Town who may apply therefor, provided there is a water main in the street on which any such premises are located.
(Inserted at the request of Frank W. Hodgdon and others.)
ART. 10. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the purpose of repairing and restoring to its proper grade the ball ground on Spy Pond Athletic Field, or take any action thereon.
" (Inserted at the request of Arthur Birch, et al.)
ART. 11. Citizens to take action for or against the following: The locating of the New England Coke and Gas Company, or any other company of this nature in this Town on Grove Street, Arlington, Mass.
(Inserted at the request of Francis J. Williams, et al.)
ART. 12. To determine in what manner the money shall be raised for all or any of 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.
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Given under our hands at said Arlington, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1912.
JACOB BITZER, HERBERT W. RAWSON, FRANK V. NOYES. Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.
Arlington, June 22, 1912.
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 pur- poses herein named, by causing an attested copy of the same to be left at every dwelling house in Town, and also by posting an attested copy of said Warrant on the doors of the Town Hall, in said Arlington, seven days at least before said day of meeting. A notice of the time and place of said meeting was published in the Arlington Advocate June 15, 1912.
(Signed) GARRITT BARRY, Constable of Arlington.
Arlington, June 24, 1912.
Pursuant to 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- fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve, at eight o'clock in the evening, and were called to order 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 was the unanimous choice of the meeting for Moderator and he was sworn to the faithful performance of his duties by the Town Clerk.
Article 2 taken up. (Report of Committees.)
Mr. Bitzer, as Chairman of the Committee appointed to meet the representatives of the City of Somerville, relative to the building of a bridge over Alewife Brook, connecting Henderson Street, in Arlington, with Woodstock Street, in Somerville, made the following report: 1
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"The Committee appointed at the last November meeting to meet the representatives of the City of Somerville in regard to building a bridge over Alewife Brook at the end of Henderson Street, Arlington, beg to make the following report:
"'Your Committee met the representatives of the City of Somerville Government early in January. At that meeting your Committee submitted a plan made by Engineer Rablin of the Metropolitan Park Commission. This plan has the approval of the Park Board and it is estimated that a bridge built of con- crete after this plan would cost $7000.
"'The Somerville men decided to take no action in this matter until they had viewed the location.
"'Last month your Committee was invited to meet the Somer- ville men on the ground.
"'After the two Committees had discussed the needs of the locality for a bridge, Mayor Burns, of Somerville, stated to your Committee, that if Arlington would appropriate an amount sufficient to pay for one-half the cost of the bridge Somerville would meet Arlington in a neighborly spirit and help us build the bridge. -
""'The matter was then left in the hands of City Engineer Bailey, of Somerville, and Superintendent of Public Works Pond, of Arlington, to make careful estimates of the cost of building a bridge after the Park Board plan, also to make esti- mates of a foot bridge.
"'While waiting for a call from Somerville for another meeting, the call for a special Town Meeting was issued and your Committee thought it would be a proper time to insert an article in the Warrant, in order to bring this matter before the Town.
Respectfully submitted, JACOB BITZER, ROBERT W. POND, MAX H. MEYER.'"'
Voted: That the report of the Committee be accepted as a report of progress and that the Committee be continued.
The report of the Committee of Twenty-one was then presented in printed form by Frank W. Hodgdon:
Voted: That the report of the Committee be now considered
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as before the meeting without further motion and that the rec- ommendations of the Committee be acted upon separately and as they appear in the printed report.
Article 3 taken up. (Reimbursements for sewer assessments.)
Voted: That the sum of $86.05 be appropriated for the purpose of reimbursing such persons who have heretofore paid certain sewer assessments and interest by reason of an illegal levy of said sewer assessments. Said sum to be taken from Sewer Assess- ment Collections.
Article 4 taken up. (Sewer construction.)
The estimated cost of constructing the sewers proposed under this article was $9,600, and the Committee recommended and it was
Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
Article 5 taken up. (Purchase of paving blocks.)
Voted: That the sum of $1000 be appropriated for the purchase of paving blocks which are to be removed from Massachusetts Avenue during the work of relaying of car tracks. Said sum to be taken from the tax levy of 1912.
Article 6 taken up. (Extension of low water service.)
Voted: That the sum of $5000 be appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works, for the purpose of extending the new water main in Massachusetts Avenue to Brattle Street, and make the necessary changes in the old water main, to convey the water from our old water supply to the Town property in the center of the Town. Said sum to be taken from . any unexpended balance of appropriations or other income of the water works.
Article 7 taken up. (Widening of Massachusetts Avenue.)
The Committee recommended and it was so voted that no action be taken under this article.
Article 8 taken up. (Henderson Street bridge.)
Voted: That the sum of $3500 be appropriated to construct a bridge and approaches thereto at the end of Henderson Street from Cross Street over Alewife Brook, said sum to be raised by general tax. Said sum to be expended under the direction of the Joint Board of Selectmen and Board of Public Works, with authority to do all things necessary in the premises to carry out the intent of Article 8 of this Warrant and the provisions of Chapter 240 of the Acts of 1911.
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Article 10 taken up. (Repairs of Spy Pond Athletic Field.)
Voted: That the sum of $500 be appropriated for the purpose of repairing and restoring to its proper grade the ball ground on Spy Pond Athletic Field, made necessary by the relocation of the ball field on account of the construction of the new grand stand. Said sum to be expended under the direction of the School Committee, and to be raised by general tax in 1912.
Article 9 taken up. (Board of Public Works to lay service pipes.)
Voted: That the subject matter of this article be referred to the Board of Public Works.
Article 11 taken up. (Locating of Gas Company in Grove Street.)
Voted: That the Selectmen be instructed and empowered to take all legal measures, if necessary, to prevent the creation of a nuisance on or in the vicinity of Grove Street in this Town.
No action being necessary under Article 12 and all business calling the meeting having been transacted, it was
Voted: That this meeting be now dissolved.
Meeting dissolved at thirty (30) minutes after nine (9) o'clock.
Arlington, June 24, 1912.
We, the undersigned, Constables of the Town of Arlington, appointed by the Selectmen to have charge of the incoming and outgoing turnstiles, at the Town Meeting held on this date, on oath, depose and say that one hundred ninety-four (194) voters attended said meeting. This result we determine by deducting from the total number entering the Hall, the number registered as leaving the Hall during said meeting.
(Signed) JOHN DUFFY, CHARLES F. DONAHUE, Constables. Sworn to before me this twenty-fourth day of June 1912. THOMAS J. ROBINSON,
Town Clerk.
A true record of the meeting. Attest:
THOMAS J. ROBINSON
Town Clerk.
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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 you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town who are qualified to vote in Primaries to meet in Town Hall, Arlington, Tuesday, the twenty-fourth day of September, 1912, at 12 o'clock M., for the following purposes:
To bring in their votes to the Primary Officers for the Nomi- nation of Candidates of Political Parties for the following offices:
Governor, for this Commonwealth, Lieutenant Governor, for this Commonwealth, Secretary, for this Commonwealth, Treasurer and Receiver General, for this Commonwealth, Auditor, for this Commonwealth, Attorney-General, for this Common- wealth, Representative in Congress, Eighth Congressional District, Councillor, Sixth Councillor District, Senator, Sixth Senatorial District, Representative in General Court, Twenty-ninth Repre- sentative District, County Commissioner, Middlesex County, County Treasurer, Middlesex County.
And for the election of the following officers:
Member of State Committee for the Sixth Senatorial District.
Members of Town Committee for this Town.
Delegates to State Conventions of Political Parties.
All the above candidates and officers are to be voted for upon one ballot.
The polls will be open from 12 o'clock, M., to 8 o'clock, P.M.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof, seven days at least before the time of said meeting, as directed by vote of the Town.
Hereof, fail not, and make return of this Warrant with your doings thereon at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands this ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve.
JACOB BITZER, HERBERT W. RAWSON, FRANK V. NOYES, Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.
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Arlington, September 22, 1912.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
By virtue of this Warrant I have notified and warned the voters of the Town of Arlington, qualified as the law directs, to vote in primaries, 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.
Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant the voters of the Town of Arlington, qualified to vote in Primaries, met in the Town Hall, in said Arlington, on Tuesday the twenty-fourth day of Septem- ber, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, and were called to order at twelve o'clock noon, by Jacob Bitzer, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, who read the Warrant calling the meeting and the return thereon of the Constable who served the same upon the inhabitants.
Under the law, Mr. Bitzer, as Chairman of the Selectmen, officiated as Chairman of the meeting.
Under the law governing primaries the law governing elections prevailed, and 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 to and penalties on voters.
The following citizens had been appointed by the Selectmen to serve as election officers:
Daniel M. Daley, Frank Y. Wellington, William E. Bunton, Joseph J. Duffy, John J. Donahue, George H. Peirce, George C. Tewksbury, Frank A. O'Brien, Michael F. Horrigan, Charles P. Ladd, Jr., Arthur C. Frost, Frank E. Ewart, John J. Mahoney, Frank A. Records, Jr., Fred G. Wilder, Daniel W. O'Brien, George McK. Richardson and William D. Grannan.
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These officers were assigned to the different positions and were changed from time to time by the presiding officer.
Sealed packages of ballots, supplied by the Secretary of State, were then delivered to the election officers by the Town Clerk. These ballots were opened publicly and given to the ballot clerks for distribution to the voters.
Specimen ballots, cards of instructions and penalties on voters were posted in conspicuous places for the guidance of voters as in State and Town 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 the election officers by the Registrars of Voters.
At five minutes after twelve o'clock the polls were declared open and remained open until eight o'clock in the evening, at which time, after due notice, they were declared closed.
Under the new law governing primaries the ballot boxes could not be opened, for the purpose of counting, until the close of the polls.
The law also required that all ballots cast for one party should be counted before the ballots of another party should be counted.
At the close of the polls the boxes registered six hundred twenty- six (626) and these upon being removed from the box were found to be as follows:
Republican, 391, Democratic, 235.
The ballot clerks and tellers at the ballot boxes counted the names checked by them and found the number to agree with the number registered by the ballot boxes, six hundred twenty-six.
The ballots were sorted, counted and announcement made at 11.45 o'clock, as follows:
REPUBLICAN PARTY (TOTAL 391).
GOVERNOR.
Everett C. Benton, one hundred thirty (130).
Joseph Walker, two hundred fifty-four (254).
Blanks, seven (7).
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LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.
Robert Luce, three hundred sixty-three (363). Blanks, twenty-eight (28).
SECRETARY.
Albert P. Langtry, three hundred fifty-nine (359). Blanks, thirty-two (32).
TREASURER.
Elmer A. Stevens, three hundred sixty-seven (367). Blanks, twenty-four (24).
AUDITOR.
John E. White, three hundred sixty-three (363). Blanks, twenty-eight (28). .
ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
James M. Swift, three hundred sixty-one (361). Blanks, thirty (30).
CONGRESSMAN EIGHTH DISTRICT.
Charles H. Brown, one hundred twenty (120).
Frederick W. Dallinger, two hundred thirty eight (238). Blanks, thirty-three (33).
COUNCILLOR. John J. Hibbs, forty (40). George E. Marchand, forty-nine (49).
G. Frederick Simpson, two hundred forty-six (246). Blanks, fifty-six (56).
SENATOR.
Wilton B. Fay, one hundred twenty (120). Edwin C. Miller, two hundred fifty-five (255). Blanks, sixteen (16).
REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT.
Frank D. Peirce, three hundred sixty (360). Blanks, thirty-one (31).
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COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
Chester B. Williams, three hundred fifty-six (356). Blanks, thirty-five (35).
COUNTY TREASURER. Joseph O. Hayden, three hundred fifty-seven (357). Blanks, thirty-four (34).
STATE COMMITTEE. Edwin T. McKnight, three hundred forty-four (344). Blanks, forty-seven (47).
DELEGATES TO STATE CONVENTION.
John Q. A. Brackett, three hundred sixty-seven (367). J. Howell Crosby, three hundred sixty-one (361). Joseph C. Holmes, three hundred sixty-two (362). Edwin S. Farmer, three hundred sixty-two (362). Warren A. Peirce, three hundred sixty-four (364). Henry Hornblower, three hundred sixty-eight (368). George D. Moore, three hundred sixty-six (366). Blanks, one hundred eighty-seven (187).
TOWN COMMITTEE.
Bert S. Currier, three hundred forty-eight (348). Ernest R. Kimball, three hundred forty-two (342). Dean S. Reynolds, three hundred thirty-nine (339). William C. Drouet, three hundred forty-two (342). Edward N. Lacey, three hundred forty-three (343). George A. Bunton, three hundred forty-two (342). John G. Brackett, three hundred forty-four (344). Edward Dana, three hundred thirty-nine (339). Max H. Meyer, three hundred forty (340). Herbert L. Converse, three hundred thirty-nine (339). Frank H. Clark, three hundred forty (340). Earl A. Ryder, three hundred forty-four (344). John E. Woodend, three hundred thirty-nine (339). Thomas A. Smith, three hundred thirty-nine (339). William H. Blasdale, three hundred forty-two (342). Blanks, seven hundred forty-three (743).
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DEMOCRATIC PARTY (TOTAL 235). GOVERNOR. Eugene N. Foss, one hundred thirty-two (132). Joseph C. Pelletier, ninety-seven (97).
Blanks, six (6).
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.
Edward P. Barry, fifty-five (55).
David I. Walsh, one hundred sixty-nine (169). Blanks, eleven (11).
SECRETARY.
Frank J. Donahue, one hundred ninety (190).
Blanks, forty-five (45).
TREASURER.
Joseph L. P. St. Coeur, one hundred seventy-one (171). Blanks, sixty-four (64).
AUDITOR.
James F. Garens, one hundred eighty (180). Blanks, fifty-five (55).
ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
George W. Anderson, one hundred seventy-two (172). Blanks, sixty-three (63).
CONGRESSMAN EIGHTH DISTRICT.
J. Edward Barry, ninety-one (91).
Frederick S. Deitrick, one hundred twenty-eight (128). Blanks, sixteen (16).
COUNCILLOR.
John J. Hogan, one hundred sixty-eight (168). Blanks, sixty-seven (67).
SENATOR.
Charles S. Young, one hundred sixty (160). Blanks, seventy-five (75).
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REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT. Augustus F. Crowley, one hundred ninety-two (192). Blanks, forty-three (43).
COUNTY COMMISSIONER. Blanks, two hundred thirty-five (235).
COUNTY TREASURER.
Thomas F. Royle, one hundred forty-six (146). Blanks, eighty-nine (89).
STATE COMMITTEE.
Thomas E. Dwyer, one hundred fifty-nine (159). Blanks, seventy-six (76).
DELEGATES TO STATE CONVENTION.
Timothy F. Collins, one hundred seventy-five (175). Daniel F. Ahern, one hundred seventy-five (175). Blanks, one hundred twenty (120).
TOWN COMMITTEE.
Timothy F. Collins, one hundred thirty (130).
David T. Dale, one hundred nineteen (119).
P. Henry Casey, one hundred fourteen (114).
Daniel F. Ahern, one hundred eighteen (118). Frank J. Lowder, one hundred sixteen (116).
Daniel W. Grannan, one hundred twenty-five (125). Stephen J. Grant, one hundred ten (110).
Augustus F. Crowley, one hundred twenty-two (122).
George C. Tewksbury, one hundred eight (108).
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