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VeLuME 8. Beka 29, 1910 NuMBER 30 
July 30— op tae 5 
8UN FULL TIDE 
Rises Sets ae P.M, 
30 Sa. 4 34 77. 5 10 5 36 
31 Su. 4 35 7 6 6 10 6 37 
1M. 4 36 75 7245 7 23d. 
2 Tu: 4 37 7 4 8 18 8 40 
3 W. 4 38 7-2 9 20 9 36 
4 Th. 4 39 af A | 10 15 10 30 
5 MEE. 4 40 7 0 11 07 11 22 
Tre Breeze numbered 60 pages 
last week—the largest in the his- 
tory of the paper. We hesitate to 
call our readers’ attention to the 
fact, but so many words of com- 
mendation have come to us during 
the week we feel it a duty to express 
our gratitude to the hundreds of 
North Shore summer residents as 
well as permanent residents for the 
hearty and continuous support given 
the paper. It is this assistance that 
makes such a large paper possible. 
The paper is but a reflection of the 
busy period through which the 
North Shore is passing just now. 
MANCHESTER’S TAX RATE $8.40. 
The Board of Assessors of Man- 
chester Tuesday announced the tax 
rate for the present year as $8.40 on 
$1000.—one dollar less than last 
year, and one of the lowest rates for 
a number of years. The assessment 
ix based on a valuation of $15,266,- 
760, which is $1,995,497 increase over 
last year. The rate last year was 
$9.40. 
The valuation is made up as fol- 
lows: Resident—personal $7,511,591, 
buildings, $2,034,350, land, $1,551,- 
SEWERAGE FOR MANCHESTER 
DISCUSSED AT MEETING 
YESTERDAY. 
A meeting of the citizens was held 
in the chapel of the Congregational 
church, Manchester, yesterday after- 
noon at which the subject of sewer- 
age for Manchester was discussed. 
The meeting was called by the com- 
mittee appointed at a meeting held 
last fall at Mrs. W. L. Putnam’s to 
take up the matter. Dr. George H. 
Washburn is the chairman of the 
committee. The meeting yesterday 
was attended by nearly two hun- 
dred of the townspeople and summer 
residents. After introductory re- 
marks by Dr. Washburn, Dr. George 
W. Blaisdell told of some existing 
conditions and urged the adoption 
of some remedy. 
Fred K. Swett, chairman of the 
Board of Health, told what the town 
was doing, how at the present time 
a soil cart is being used for the pur- 
pose of removing sewage and clean- 
ing cesspools and that the town paid 
out last year for this purpose about 
$800, in addition to about $600 paid 
by the citizens. He hoped something 
could be done within the next few 
years toward having a permanent 
system of sewerage. 
Edward S. Knight of the board 
was the next speaker. He told some 
of the dangers and discomforts from 
Saw Mill Brook and Central Pond. 
He was in favor of some system of 
sewerage disposal. The pond and 
the brook were sources of great dan- 
ger and nuisance, and he felt the 
town should take some action at 
onee. There was no question in his 
mind but what the town could well 
afford having this, as it has a valua- 
tion of $15,000,000 and a remarkably 
low rate of $8.40. A sewerage sys- 
tem could be built without any in- 
crease in tax rate. 
C. C. Dodge representing the man- 
ufacturing interests of the town said 
he was interested to know that the 
summer residents were more inter- 
ested in this question of sewerage 
than the natives. In whatever sys- 
tem is adopted, he felt that the town 
could not afford to pump its own 
sewerage out to sea. : 
Dr. Glendenning was heartily in 
favor of the introduction of some 
form of sewerage. The town is ex- 
. tions. 
eeedingly healthy it is true. Its 
health conditions is one of the most 
valuable assets in attracting summer 
residents, but he felt the time was 
coming when immediate and prompt 
action must be taken for handling 
the sewage of the town. The ques- 
tion in his mind was, can the town 
afford not to do it? 
Prof. Winslow, of the Massachu- 
setts Institute of Technology was 
next speaker. He spoke along a gen- 
eral line at first, telling of the need 
of handling the sewage of a com- 
munity in some form or other. Filth, 
he said, was the nurse and not the 
mother of disease. In the ease of 
Manchester he thought that there 
were two great dangers, one through 
bathing and the other of having the 
sewage deposited on the flats as 
the tides go down. He read from pa- 
pers prepared by two young men, 
graduated from Technology this 
year, on the introduction of sewer- 
age for the town of Manchester, in 
which the plan was outlined for hay- 
ing sand filter beds to the west of. 
Pine street, to which the sewage 
could be pumped. In his mind the 
sand filter system would be the best 
for Manchester. He thought such a 
system could be carried out to com- 
pletion at a cost of $62,000. He 
thought if it would eost $2,100 to 
clean out Central pond this year it 
would cost much more to do it the 
next time. The question is how long 
can you afford to wait before tack- 
ling this problem? We have here a 
very real, very solid asset, for this is 
the grandest playground in the coun- 
try. People come here to spend their 
vacations from all sections. We must. 
preserve our beauty and our attrac- 
It is folly, short-sighted kind 
of policy to let this matter of hand- 
ling our sewage go on in this way. 
Sewage disposal is just as much a 
part of the community life as the 
water supply. He thought the an- 
nual cost of filter beds would be in 
the vicinity of $500 not counting the 
cost of pumping the material to the 
beds. 
O. T. Roberts said that the special 
committee of the town appointed to . 
look into the matter of sewerage and — 
the Central pond had arranged for 
one of the most expert men of the 
country to visit the town and a re- 
port from him would be forthcoming 
at some later date. 
535, total, #14 097,476 ;non- resident— 
personal $31,114, buildings $1,872,- . 
975, land 4&9 965,195, total $4,169,284. 
Grand total $15,266,760. Less exemp- 
tions $28,495, making the total as- 
sessed valuation $15,238,265. 
The amount voted in town meeting 
to raise by taxation was $124,302. 
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