WoL VI. No. 12 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1908. 
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Three Cents. 
BIG TASK 
Gypsy and Browntail Moth Campaign in North 
Shore Woods to be started at once. 
“In connection with the gypsy and 
brown tail moth work along the North 
Shore, outlined in our last issue, in a 
statement by Col. Wm. D. Sohier, who 
is raising a fund to carry out the plans, 
the Beverly Times of Thursday had the 
following to say: 
Commissioner Archie H. Kirkland of 
the gypsy moth commission, had an in- 
terview with former Representative Al- 
bert Vittum, Wednesday, in relation to 
the proposed extermination of the gypsy 
and brown tail moths in Beverly and 
Vicinity for which some $30,000 or 
$40,000 willbe spent, and at Mr. Vittum’s 
suggestion the unemployed of Bevery 
and vicinity will be given plenty of work 
for the next two months. 
The state will furnish the foremen 
and Beverly laborers will be employed in 
cutting down trees, cleaning up under- 
brush as well as work in the trees. 
The commission will start with 50 men 
and immediately increase to 150 and 
more as needed. The woods of Bev- 
erly, Wenham, Hamilton, Manchester, 
Essex and Magnolia will be cleaned 
systematically and thoroughly in order to 
save these beauty spots to the North 
Shore. 
The aldermen started the appropri- 
ation with an order for $5000 as Bev- 
erly's share and the common council 
will no doubt concur. $10,000 will be 
appropriated by the state and through the 
effort of former Representative W. D. 
Sohier $15,000 will be raised by the 
summer residents. Manchester and 
Hamilton will also contribute liberally. 
The work will be done thoroughly and 
the woods along the North Shore will be 
closely scrutinized and the pests will be 
thoroughly exterminated. 
Beverly men will be employed on the 
job, and headquarters will be opened at 
the city stables and application can be 
made any time. 
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MANCHESTER AND OTHER NORTH SHORE 
TOWNS WOULD BE HEAVY LOSERS 
Should Corporation Tax ‘be Retained by the State as Reconmended by Recess 
Commission on Taxation. 
In its recent special report to the Leg- 
islature, the recess commission on taxa- 
tion said, under the head of “‘ distribu- 
tion of the franchise taxes paid by do- 
mestic business corporations:’? ‘“The 
opinion is now quite generally held that 
no part of the franchise tax paid by the 
railroad, telephone and telegraph com- 
panies should be distributed to the cities 
and towns where stockholders happen to 
reside; and this commission recom- 
mends, as other commissions and com- 
mittees have before recommended, that 
all of this tax be retained by the Com- 
monwealth. The retention of this tax 
by the Commonwealth is, in effect, a dis- 
tribution among all cities and towns in 
proportion to valuation. Such distribu- 
tion is justified, because such corpora- 
tions are of no one city or town.’’ 
An important document, showing how 
this retention schemé would work, has 
just been compiled by State Treasurer 
Chapin. It shows the division of the 
State tax and the distribution of the cor- 
poration tax of 1907, exclusive of the 
street railway tax, to the cities and towns; 
also the gain and loss to each city and 
town if there had been no State tax for 
Higher Tax Rates Would Result. 
1907 and the corporation tax had been 
retained by the Commonwealth. 
It is shown that the result of retention 
would mean a gain of $979,081 to 256 
cities and towns, and a loss of $703,607 
to 98 cities and towns. ‘The total State 
tax of $4,000,000 would have been al- 
most wiped out since the total corpora- 
tion tax distributed to the cities and 
towns where sharebolders lived amounted 
to $3,724,526. 
Some of the figures showing how the 
retention scheme would work in gain 
and loss to cities and towns are striking. 
Of course the places were the sharehold- 
ers live would be most seriously affected, 
such as Brookline, Manchester, Milton, 
Beverly, Newton, Southboro, Webster, 
Weston and Dalton. 
Boston would make the largest gain, 
$375,609. Gloucester would gain $13,- 
214. 
The greatest loss would be sustained 
by Brookline, $ 24,675. Beverly would 
lose $13,426; Hamilton, $8305; Man- ° 
chester, $37,598. Manchester received 
through corporation taxes last year over 
$52,000, and the tax’ paid to the state 
was $15,000. 
DRIFTED OUT TO SEA. 
Two Manchester Men had Terrible Experience in Small Disabled Motor Boat. 
That Manuel S. Miguel and Antonie 
Silva, two Manchester men, are alive to 
tell the tale of their being carried out to 
sea, thirty miles off shore, in an open boat, 
and of being rescued by a_ passing 
schooner just as they had lost all hope 
and were ready to give up in despair, 
after rowing and drifting back toward 
shore again, after more than thirty hours 
torture, is nothing less than miraculous. 
It is one of those thrilling tales of the 
sea such as Manchester at one period in 
its history furnished more often, and 
such as few men live to relate. 
Silva is a fisherman, who goes out 
lobstering from Manchester. He has a 
small dory launch. Monday morning 
he invited Miguel, who owns a_ harness 
shop in Central square, Manchester, to 
go with him. | They expected to be gone 
only a couple of hours. They pulled 
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