Vol. VI. No. 8 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1908. 
24 Pages Three Cents. 
CLUB MINSTRELS 
Crowded House Greeted Manchester Club 
Minstrels Last Night. 
Seldom has the Manchester Town 
hall contained such a crowd as was out 
last night to witness the Manchester Club 
minstrels. Every available seat was oc- 
H. B. HINCHLIFFE, Direcror 
cupied and dozens of persons 
were 
turned away. In fact every seat in the 
hall had been sold six days before the 
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ADDITIONAL WATER SUPPLY 
Important Question to come before Manchester Voters for Action at 
Special Town Meeting Next Monday Evening. 
The much-mooted question of ad- 
ditional water supply for Manchester 
will come before the town for action 
next Monday evening, Feb. 24, at which 
time the special committee appointed at 
the last annual meeting will be ready to 
report. 
In fact, the printed report of the com- 
mittee has already been read, no doubt, 
by a majority of the voters, as it was dis. 
tributed around town on Monday. ‘The 
special article in the warrant on which 
the voters will be called upon to act is as 
- follows: 
““ To hear and act upon the report of 
the committee appointed at the annual 
meeting of 1907, and their consulting 
engineer, said committee having been 
appointed to ‘At once petition the Leg- 
islature for permission to use the waters 
of Gravelly Pond and to report at an ad- 
journed meeting their findings;’ and 
also to ‘Investigate any available sources 
of additional supply and to report to the 
town their findings at a future town 
meeting;’ and. tosee if the town will 
ratify and approve the doings of said 
committee in presenting a petition and 
bill to the present Legislature, asking 
THOUGHTS HERE AND THERE 
BY D. F. 
All things are evidently not going to 
the bad, even if somethings are; there is 
a vast force for good at work, such as 
our fathers never dreamed of; many 
things that we deplore are of the surface, 
of the nature of eddies, back-water, side- 
long and eccentric movements, while a 
great current is sweeping onward deep 
down below. 
The event to which the poet tells us 
the whole creation moves seems some- 
times far off indeed to our near-sighted 
‘vision, but we are drawing nearer to it, 
| if imperceptibly yet surely; and we may 
expect as the goal is neared there will be 
‘ 
LAMSON. 
an accelerated movement and increasing 
momentum. 
Some persons are a bundle of con- 
tradictions; you must strike a balance 
and make an average to get any fair es- 
timate of their character; they may be 
very picturesque, but they are not in 
many respects so admirable or so useful 
as persons of a less conglomerate make- 
up. Roxbury pudding-stone has its use 
for museums, but it is not good building 
material. 
It is encouraging to be told that in the 
trade, the old standard authors hold their 
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for permission to use the waters of 
Round Pond in addition to those of 
Gravelly Pond.”’ 
Next to the installation of the original 
water plant in Manchester this question 
of additional supply is probably the most 
important question that ever came before 
the town, as it involves an expenditure 
of $160,000 or over, besides an annual 
fixed charge for a mirnber of years, at 
least, of very nearly $15,000 more. 
THe special committee appointed at 
the last annual meeting to take up this 
matter is composed of Raymond C. Allen, 
chairman; Frank P. Knight, secretary; 
N. P. Meldrum, Frederick J. Merrill, 
Jeffrey T. Stanley, Dr. G. W. Blais- 
dell, D. T. Beaton, C. L. Crafts and 
Prof. C. L. Norton, and they have 
made a very plain and concise report of 
their findings, though the salient feature 
of their report, of course, is embodied 
in the words of their consulting engineer, 
Desmond Fitzgerald, eminently and 
widely known as authority on matters of 
water supply. 
A perusal of Mr. Fitzgerald’s report 
will at once convince one of the thor- 
ough manner in which he has investi- 
gated the subject and that his conclusions 
are well founded. He enters briefly in- 
to the present supply and the capacity of 
the present works and speaks more at 
length on the quality of the present sup- 
ply. 
He does not decry the present supply, 
but rather speaks regretfully, of the fact 
that more of the water is not available to 
meet the future needs. ‘“‘ One of the 
great advantages of the Manchester wa- 
ter,’’ he says, ‘‘is its low temperature 
and freedom from color, tastes and or- 
ganisms, very high recommendations. 
If a considerable quantity of similar wa- 
ter can be found in close proximity to 
the present supply, it would be an excel- 
lent source for the town to adopt, even 
though temporary in character due to its 
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