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missioners and fire engineers be re- 
quested to remove the fire whistle 
trom its present location on Dodge’s 
mill to the pumping station. He 
stated that there were two boilers at 
the pumping station and that when 
one is not in use the other can be 
used, and not leave the whistle as it 
was last Sunday night. 
Mr. Howe moved that the sum of 
$200 be appropriated for the removal 
of the whistle. Both motions were 
carried unanimously. 
Article 52 of the warrant, relative 
to the Norwood avenue extension, 
was next taken up. W.H. Allen re- 
ported that, having adverused for pro- 
posals for Norwood avenue extension 
the selectmen had received the fol- 
lowing bids : Connolly Bros., $10,500; 
George S. Sinnicks, $9,000; Coolidge 
~and Merridrew, $10,313, and Morley, 
Flatley & Co., $5,450. For the foun- 
dations for the _ bridge,— Boston 
Bridge Co., $780, and the New Eng- 
gland Structural. Co., £630. Mr. 
Allen explained that the specifications 
called for a contract for building the 
road and for the abutment upon 
which the bridge is to rest. 
Upon motion of Chas. O. Howe it- 
was voted that the sum of $6,230 be 
appropriated for the same; that the 
bid of Morley, Flatley & Co., of 
$5,450 be accepted and also the bid 
of the Boston Bridge Co. of $780. 
Mr. Allen reported that the com- 
mittee, composed of Alfred S. Jewett, 
Jeffey T. Stanley and Chester L. 
Crafts, appointed to award for land 
taken from Samuel Knight, recom- 
mended that $500 be awarded for land 
taken and $300 for damage. The 
meeting voted $800 to cover this. 
This practically closed the business 
for the evening. Edwin T. Stanley 
made a motion in regard to town 
labor which provoked quite an ani- 
mated discussion. His motion was as 
follows :— 
~“ T move that any legal voter of the 
town be employed on any work of the 
town not done by contract so far as 
they can be procured. 
‘Tt amounts to just this,” said Mr. 
Stanley in explaining his motion, “I 
know one or two legal voters of the 
town who have appealed to the high- 
way department for work on several 
occasions and they have been told 
H. M. BATCHELDER, President. 
there was no work to do. At the 
same time illegal voters were working 
on the job and others were afterward 
employed. 
* 1 claim that legal citizens should 
have preference over those who are 
not legal voters. If he is not worth 
$2 a day, it’s worth that amount to us 
to keep. his family going. We can 
afford to pay him $2 rather than have 
him in the poor house.’ 
‘Do I understand the town is to 
pay a man $2 a day for one hour’s 
work ?”’ queried F. K. Hooper. 
“No; but I take the position that 
we ought to encourage sober and in- 
dustrious persons. These should be 
given preference over men who are 
not legal] voters.” 
Samuel Knight offered to amend 
the motion by ‘if they can show 
right and proper qualifications to do 
the work.” 
“ Asa public servant and an em- 
ployer of town men,” said Superin- 
tendent Andrews of the water depart- 
ment, “I hope the town will not pass 
this amendment. I don’t want the 
responsibility of saying whether or 
not these men show proper qualifica- 
tions. Let the town say ‘Kimball 
and Andrews, use these men!’ and 
we will use them.” 
“TI don’t believe in degrading the 
man who is industrious and willing to 
work,” said Mr. Knight, “in order to 
elevate the man who is an injury to 
the town.” 
Superintendent Kimball, against 
whom a great deal of the discussion 
seemed to be aimed, said : — 
“T want to get all that’s coming to 
me. Some time ago we voted that 
none but legal voters be employed on 
the highway department. I was pre- 
sented with a list of the legal voters. 
Several men had to be turned away 
because they were not legal voters. 
It was said we were hiring every old 
thing but one of our citizens could not 
get work. I was told that a certain 
boy couldn’t go to schoo] because his 
father could not get work in the 
town. I sent that boy to the shoe 
store to get a pair of shoes, and I told 
the father there was a shovel in the 
basement of the town hall any time 
he wanted to shovel snow. But he 
never shoveled any snow. 
«‘T have tried to employ all the men 
CAPITAL, $200,000. 
J. H. GIFFORD, Cashier. 
Merchants National Bank, 
ESSEX STREET, COR. WASHINGTON STREET, 
SALEM, MASS. 
SURPLUS, $150,000. 
A. P. GOODHUE, Asst. Cashier. 
that I could and have picked out. the 
best men for the kind of work I had 
for them todo. Iam willing to hire 
and want to hire just as many town 
men as [| can.” 
Mr. Stanley was asked to define 
what he meant in his motion by a 
legal resident, and he replied that he 
meant a voter. 
Selectman Swett said he agreed 
with Mr. Stanley’s remarks as tar as 
giving preference to town labor was 
concerned, but he did not agree to 
confining it to a voter, because, he 
said, there are men in the town who 
are taxpayers, good, industrious men, 
who were not naturalized but are 
waiting for final papers. There are 
also elderly men, he said, who have 
worked all their life in the town, but 
who were unfortunate in not being 
able to read; they were therefore not 
voters. Mr. Swett urged that it be 
confined to hiring residents of Man- 
chester, meaning taxpayers as far as 
possible. 
Though no legal action could be 
taken on the matter at the meeting, 
the voters gave an expression of their 
thoughts on the matter and left the 
motion of Mr. Stanley as a sugges- 
tion to the town officials hiring labor 
in the future. 
The meeting was dissolved at 9.30. 
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