24 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
Adjourned Town Meeting 
Manchester Votes an Emergency Hospital Room—Urge Action on 
Public Dump. Annual Budget $341,872 
Nearly 100 voters attended the ad- 
journed Town meeting held in Man- 
chester on Monday evening. About 
an hour was consumed in the discus- 
sion of recommendations of the Board 
of Selectmen, the Park Commission- 
ers and special committees. It was 
voted to expend $2500 to carry on the 
work of developing Masconomo 
Park under Art. 26 of the Town 
Warrant. The report of the special 
committee appointed at the March 
Town meeting to look into the selec- 
tion of a site for an emergency room, 
for the care of sick or injured, other 
than the police station, was adopted. 
When the meeting was called to 
order by Moderator Raymond C. 
Allen the make-up of the appropria- 
tions committee for the ensuing year 
was announced as follows: George 53. 
Sinnicks, W. H. Coolidge, Philip 
Stockton, W. L. Putnam, F. J. Mer- 
rill, EK. -L: Edmunds, A. C. Hooper, 
A. C. Needham and A. E. Olson. 
The special committee appointed at 
the Town meeting in March to con- 
sider the recommendation of the 
Board of Health, regarding a central- 
ly located emergency room for the 
care of sick or injured persons pend- 
ing their being taken to the hospital, 
reported its findings. The committee 
consisted of Edward S. Knight, 
George S. Sinnicks and William EL. 
Sullivan. The committee recommend- 
ed the leasing of the rooms in the 
Blaisdell. block at 13 Beach st. at the 
sum of $360 per year, heat and water 
furnished by the owner. An addi- 
tional recommendation of $1roo for 
furnishings for the room was includ- 
ed in the committee’s report. Thomas 
3aker wanted to know if there was 
any need of a dispensary, now that 
the town was to have a motor am- 
bulance. He said that he understood 
that the new ambulance would save 
the time often lost under the old 
method, and that he thought the 
best thing to do was to get the in- 
jured person to the hospital as soon 
as possible. Mr. Knight said that 
the Board of Health had recommend- 
ed the establishing of the room be- 
cause people had been- left on te 
police station floor often for quite a 
long time awaiting the arrival of th» 
ambulance. The establishing of a 
handy dispensary might often be the 
means of saving life, he said. In the 
case of minor accidents it would not 
be necessary for the injured person 
to go to the hospital as treatment 
could be administered at the relief 
station. It could also be used as a 
headquarters for the district nurse, 
Mr. Knight said. He said that he 
hoped to see the station grow in time 
to a small cottage hospital. 
Duncan T. Beaton said that he did 
not believe that the necessity of the 
relief station could be questioned, but 
that there was a question of the best 
location. He favored the room of- 
fered to the town by George E. Will- 
monton at 3 School st. as a better 
site. He said it was more centrally 
located and that the -difference. 21 
cost was only $40, $400 being the 
rental asked by Mr. Willmontou:. 
This location was adjoining one druyz 
store and across the street from an- 
other. 
George R. Dean thought that afte: 
so much added expense for the Town 
it would be better to fix up the police 
station a little in order to make it 
suitable for caring for emergency 
cases. 
George S. Sinnicks said that the 
reason the committee did not take 
the School st. room was that they con- 
sidered the room too low studded fo- 
a hospital room. The room at 13 
Beach st..is large and airy, he said, 
and would not be so apt to-attract a 
crowd in case of accident as would 
the more centrally located room. 
Rev. Charles A. Hatch cited a par- 
ticular instance of the need of an 
emergency room, which came under 
his observation. A man was allowed 
to lie in a front yard on School st. an 
hour before he received attention. 
He said there should be no argument 
about the necessity of the room. 
Mr. Beaton moved to amend the 
recommendation of the committee to 
lease the School st. instead of tlic 
Beach st. property. The ammend- 
ment was lost 18 to 34. Chester I.. 
Crafts inquired about the furnishings 
for the room. 
Mr. Knight explained that the 
equipment would include a hospital 
bed supplies for emergency cases. He 
said that Dr. Blaisdell had promised 
to install an operating table. It was 
voted to accept the report of the com- 
mittee and adopt the recommend- 
ations. 
The finance committee was request- 
ed to report its findings on the recom- 
mendations of the dump committee, - 
referred to the finance committee at 
the last Town meeting. Mr. Sinnicks, 
chairman of the committee, said that 
April 21, 1916, 
he had not yet received the report o 
the dump committee and, so, his com- 
mittee had not considered it. 5 
Chester L.-Crafts, a member of the 
dump committee, made an urgent ap- 
peal in favor of some action on the 
commiuttee’s report. “It seems to be 
a joke about having a public dump,” 
he said, “but we should take it seri-— 
ously. A town is judged by its ceme-_ 
tery, its newspaper and the first im-_ 
pression anyone gets when getting © 
off the train at the railroad station. — 
What is the opinion people get of — 
Manchester when they alight from ~ 
a train and see a dumping ground ~ 
across from the station? What is = 
the opinion they get when they see 
our cemetery, covered with refuse” 
from a nearby dumping ground? If — 
they go down toward the beach they — 
see a $100,000 park on one hand and — 
a dumping ground on the other. The 
members of the Essex County club — 
have spent a lot of money to improve — 
their grounds, yet there is a dump 
nearby to detract from the appear-— 
ance of that section of town.” Mr@ 
Crafts said that people in the center 
of the town would not tolerate hav- — 
ing rubbish dumped in their back — 
yards. He asked that something be 
done with the committee’s report. He 
wanted to know if the Board of” 
Health had considered it yet. 
Edward S. Knight read the follow- 
ing recommendations of the select- 
men in regard to dredging Manches- 
ter Harbor under Art. 25> ~Weedem 
not think it advisable, for financial — 
reasons, to do any dredging this year, 
but recommend that the Board of © 
Selectthen be authorized to petition — 
the Honorable Board of Harbor and — 
Land Commissioners of the Common-— 
wealth to dredge Manchester Harbor 
next year, with the understanding — 
that the Town of Manchester will - 
contribute such sum of money as may 
be agreed upon by the Commissioners — 
and the Board of Selectmen.” 
The report was accepted and the - 
recommendations adopted. 
‘The recommendations of the fi- 
nance committee on the amended re- 
port of the Park Commissioners was 
read by the Moderator and the sup-_ 
plementary report of the commission-— 
ers was also read. The Park Board 
had considered two plans subnit-— 
ted by Olmstead Bros. for the im-— 
provement of Masconomo Park. The 
first plan treated the newly acquired 
land near Beach st. crossing as a- 
separate proposition and the second 
plan treated it as unit with Masco- 
nomo Park and provided for a retain- 
ing wall and a boat landin~ with a 
10-foot roadway leading to the same, — 
The estimated cost of the retaini 
ng 
