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VOLUME 6. Jan. 11, 1908 NUMBER 2 
JANUARY 15—37 
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12 Su. (ae 4.32 6.15 6.45 
13 M, (Rae 4.33 7.15 7.45 
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Monpay evening the voters of Man- 
chester wiil be called upon to decide the 
question whether the Board of Selectmen 
will be elected for a period of three 
years, or whether they will be elected 
annually as now. ‘This is brought about 
through the new law which says that the 
Board of Assessors shall be elected to 
serve three years. As the Board of As- 
sessors and the Selectmen are one in 
Manchester it must be decided whether 
the two boards shall be kept one, or 
separated. 
In our opinion the two boards should 
be separated. While we think the law 
relating to the Board of Assessors is a 
good one, we think the Town of Man- 
chester is not yet ready to elect select- 
men to serve for three years. Inatown 
like Manchester, with a valuation of 
twelve millions, the position of assessor 
is an important one, and one that only 
the very best men that can be found, 
should be asked to serve. Especially if 
this recommendation of Governor Guild 
on corporation taxes goes through, will it 
be essential for the town to have its 
best men to serve in this office as asses- 
sors. 
‘The assessors have only one function 
to perform,—that of assessing. The se- 
lectmen have varied duties, “There 
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might be varied reasons, therefore, why 
the citizens might wish to have a new 
board of selectmen. There is no reason, 
of course, why the same men should not 
serve as selectmen and assessors. For 
instance, if the present board of select- 
meh is satisfactory to the town, they 
might be re-elected selectmen for the 
coming year, and they might also be 
elected assessors, one for three years, 
one for two and one for one year. 
In his inaugural last week Governor 
Guild made a suggestion which, if 
carried out, would cause Manchester to 
suffer a great loss. He recommends 
that the corporation tax be retained by 
the state instead of being returned to the 
cities and towns where the owners reside. 
Under the present conditions the state 
collects taxes from corporations, rail- 
roads and industrial enterprises, and re- 
tains an amount representing the shares 
of stocks held by persons living outside 
the state. Inthecase of railroads this 
portion amounts to about one-third of 
the taxes collected. The remainder of 
the corporation tax, two-thirds, is dis- 
tributed among the cities and towns in 
sums based uponthe number and value 
of the shares of stock held by residents. 
These amounts are disbursed by the state 
twice a year, and the total distridution is 
about $4,500,000. 
The legislature each year apportions 
a direct tax among the cities and towns, 
to meet the appropriations, and _ the 
revenue from this is about $4,000,000. 
Gov. Guild recommended to the legis- 
lature that the law be changed so that 
all of the corporation taxes be retained 
by the state and that no direct state tax 
He pointed out that the in- 
come from the corporation tax would be 
about equal to the amount raised by the 
direct tax. 
Under the proposed change, towns 
like Manchester, containing a large 
number of wealthy residents, would lose 
more than their share of the recent 
state tax, while the cities and small 
towns especially would correspondingly 
benefit. 
last year Manchester received 
$48,151.69 as its share of the corpora- 
tion tax, while its portion of the state tax 
was only $15,360, sothat the proposed 
plan would mean a loss of $32,791.69 
to the town. 
It is to be sincerely hoped that no 
be levied. 
such measure as this will go through, as 
a loss of this kind would mean on the 
face of it that the Manchester tax rate 
would jump from $9 or $10, as it is 
now, to $14 or $15. 
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discussion of any relevant subject, we do not 
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tributors. 
Correspondents will please give their names 
—not necessarily for publication, but as a 
guarantee of good faith. 
New York, Jan. 2, 1908. 
Editor of the North Shore Breeze: 
I was very much interested in your ed- 
itorial last week on the need of a sum- 
mer hotel in Manchester and I congratu- 
late you upon the course yuu have taken. 
I want to tell you that I heartily approve 
of a high-class hotel, along the lines you 
have advocated, as a most potential fac- 
tor in the development of the social life 
of Manchester. While the enterprise 
would not effect me directly it would in- 
directly be a great benefit and I believe 
that I can say this for every summer res- 
ident onthe North Shore. Keep up the 
discussion and success should follow the 
goodwork. But that which I wish to say 
most is this: Before leaving Manchester 
in October I heard something to the ef- 
fect that a syndicate headed by a promi- 
nent Hebrew physician was investigating 
the Masconomo hotel property in view 
of opening negotiations for its purchase 
and subsequent conversion into a sanita- 
rium for the cure of a drink habit—a 
Keeley Cure,’’ or, in the parlance of 
your brother journalists of Park row, this 
city, a ‘‘dope bleach.’’ I placed little 
credence in the story when | heard it, 
but your statement that the property is on 
the market lends color to the rumor and 
there may possibly be some facts to it 
after all. I hope, however, that it is 
only idle rumor. If such a project is 
in theair,’’ I trust you will discourage 
it with the same force and vigor you are 
advocating a summer hotel. The class 
of people that make Manchester what it 
is do not want anything of this kind even 
if it caters exclusively to the inebriates of 
the wealthier class. Give us the fog 
horn on Baker’s Island to a condition of 
affairs like this. Let the Board of Trade 
enter a vigorous protest also and defeat 
the accomplishment of this undertaking 
by an aggressive canvas and campaign 
for the materialization of the former 
project. ; 
(Signed) ‘‘ KNICKERBOCKER.”’ 
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