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present working on an underground 
supply forthe city ot Salem. He also 
spoke of the work done by the com- 
missioners in a complimentary way. 
It is a poor time to come here tonight 
and offer things, and ‘“‘suppose’’ it is 
of sufficient quantity and quality as 
needed. The proposed plan is very 
economical, and I am thoroughly con- 
vinced this is the proper thing for the 
town to do at the present time. 
R. A. Mitchell called for another 
reading. 
M. E. Gorman: “TI don’t like over- 
riding the report of the State board in 
this way.”’ He then read from the 
report of the board of health. 
The moderator asked him if this 
wasn’t exactly what the motion called 
for 
Mr. Gorman: ‘Let us go to Grav- 
elly pond and see what that is good 
for.” 
P. H. Boyle thought it would be 
well to go carefully. If we can’t get 
rid of the iron in the water at Beaver 
Dam, we certainly don't want that 
water. ‘I want pure water,” he said, 
“°Tisn’t a matter of cost; we want 
the best.” 
Mr. Merrill: ‘‘ Mr. Gormon speaks 
of overriding the State board. We 
are doing exactly what they say.” 
F. P. Knight: “The appropriation 
committee are not trying to throw 
down this well-defined piece of work. 
They are simply recommending a con- 
tinuance of the same plan as to a 
further supply.” 
-The motion was put and counted by 
the tellers—96 in favor, 8 against. 
Article 29. Park improvements. 
This was next taken up by appoint- 
ment. D.T. Beaton said he was not 
ready to give an opinion on whether 
the town could appropriate money to 
dredge. He had been unable to get 
any definite answer from the attorney 
during the day. The matter was laid 
on the table to be taken up at an ad- 
journment. 
The matter of the O’Brien lot was 
again introduced by R. A. Mitchell. 
D. T. Beaton said the commissioners 
would like to get an opinion. 
F. K. Hooper said no one could 
conduct a very extensive coal business 
on land 60x75 feet., He thought we 
need not fear this. 
W.C. Rust thought it was some 
kind of a scheme and hoped the town 
would take no action on the matter. 
O. T. Roberts agreed with Mr. 
Rust, ‘I have heard our jovial super- 
intendent (Kimball) make a remark 
about a nigger in a woodpile. This is 
what we have here, only the nigger 
is in the mud. 
The motion to Jay the matter on 
the table was put and carried. 
Article 33, relative to town land- 
ings and channels was introduced by 
Prof. C. L. Norton, who said ““We 
are called ‘Manchester-by-the-Sea,’ 
but our connections with the sea are 
rather remote. You can’t float a 7- 
inch board down the river at low tide. 
‘The condition at the town wharf is 
extremely bad. It has been estimat- 
ed the cost of dredging a 70-foot 
channel from the town wharf to Mr. 
Read’s property, where the govern- 
ment channel begins, for $13,500, 
but I think it would not be best for 
the town to do this, but to appoint 
an energetic committee to get Uncle 
Sam to appropriate this amount to 
finish their work started some years 
ago. We are remiss in not making 
every possible effort to get this.”’ 
And, in accordance with a motion by 
him, A. M. Merriam, O. T. Roberts, 
EB. P. Stanley, Prof. C. L. Norton 
and D. T. Beaton were appointed by 
the moderator to forward this matter 
of improving the channel as expedi- 
tiously as possible. 
Prof. Norton said the float at the 
wharf was not sufficiently buoyant to 
hold more than one person at a time, 
and $50 was appropriated for the pur- 
pose of improving it. He also sug- 
gested that in case the channel was 
dredged, a channel might be dredged 
to the pier at Tuck’s Point at a cost 
of $275. 
Article 65. Under this article the 
various appropriations covering town 
miscellaneous, park bonds, meters, 
and other regular expenditures, given 
in detail in the list of appropriations 
on another page were made. 
Article 60. On motion of C. O. 
Howe $3,644.82 was appropriated for 
the suppression of the gypsy and 
browntail moths, the same to be done 
under the supervision of the tree 
warden, Wm. Young. 
Article 59. $400 was appropriated 
for the care of trees. 
Article 51. Albert Cunningham 
moved that $500 be appropriated for 
the celebration of July 4 and that a 
committee of seven be appointed by 
the chair. 
D. T. Beaton said in view of the 
celebration of the last year and the 
year before the people of the town 
could enjoy themselves much better 
if the celebration was not repeated. 
Mr. Cunningham thought the town 
should be patriotic enough to celebrate 
the day and keep the people in town ; 
because one year was a failure that 
was no reason other years should be 
the same. 
P. H. Boyle. ‘ What are you going 
to do, forget the Fourth of July? I 
should be ashamed not to celebrate. 
You spend thousands, and are you go- 
ing to begrudge $500 for this? (Ap- 
plause.) 
E. P. Stanley. ‘I am something 
of an old man, I'll admit. I have 
helped celebrate the Fourth for 61 
years, and I am not going to stop 
now. It is said I began to holler be- 
fore I was one year old.”’ 
Moderator: ‘I don’t doubt it,” 
Mr. Stanley: “I used to get up at 
12 o’clock when I wasa boy, and, as 
the old fellow says, raise h——. I 
celebrated one Fourth lying on my 
back near the Confederate’s line. If 
I had a boy who didn’t get up before 
2 o’clock I’d give him a ride of shoe 
leather.”’ 
D. T. Beaton didn’t want to be mis- 
understood in the matter. He hated 
to see money spent so foolishly. When 
a committee was appointed to cele- 
brate in the proper way be believed 
in it. 
The motion was carried and the 
moderator appointed Albert Cunning- 
ham, Louis O. Lations, F. M. Garrell, 
L..W. Floyd,E: Po Stanley; HS: 
Tappan and R. L. Cheever. 
Article 52. W.F. Spry moved that 
$500 be appropriated for a series of 
band concerts during the season of 
1896 (meaning 1906). 
Supt. Kimball asked if the music 
was to be by the Manchester band, 
and upon being answered that it would 
not necessarily be, he said he hoped 
the music would not be as antiquated 
as the speaker (1896). Motion car- 
ried. 
Article 8, relative to widening and 
straightening Brook street, was passed 
over as it was not legally brought be- 
fore the meeting. 
At 10.15 the meeting adjourned to 
Friday evening at 7 o’clock. 
Friday Evening Session 
There were about 30 voters present 
last evening when Moderator Hooper 
called the meeting to order and an ad- 
journment was immediately made to 
7.30 o’clock next Monday evening. 
The Recount 
Walter R. Bell, who was defeated 
Monday at the Manchester election by 
only five votes, called for a recount 
and this was accomplished Thursday 
afternoon. The count was made by 
the registrars, W. J. Johnson, J. H. 
Rivers and Charles Danforth. W. 
R. Bell and F. K. Swett were present 
and E. S. Knight and Wm. E. Kit- 
field were represented by R. C. Allen 
and F. K. Hooper respectively. The 
only difference in the original count 
was one vote each for Messrs. Bell, 
Kitfield and Swett, a ballot being 
found with the marks beside the name 
instead of in the regular places. There 
were three such ballots, but the tellers 
missed one of them. 
The BREEZE sent by mail to ann 
part of the U.S.—1 year 1 dollar. * 
