NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Manchester’s Sewer Plans 
Approved by State Board of Health. Can Now Begin 
Work. 
The members of the state board of 
health gave a hearing Thursday of 
Jast week on the petition of the mu- 
nicipal authorities of Manchester for 
an approval of plans prepared by the 
town for the establishment of a sew- 
age system, 
A set of plans prepared by Town 
Engineer Allen and Consulting En- 
gineer Desmond FitzGerald was pre- 
sented to the members of the board, 
showing a scheme whereby the sew- 
age is to be collected at the center 
of the town and pumped into the out- 
er harbor. 
The board had ordered an 
pendent investigation made 
inde- 
on its 
‘own account and its engineers report 
that the plan proposed is feasible in 
every detail. 
Before adjourning its session 
Thursday, the board voted to ap- 
prove the plans presented at the 
meeting, and the authorities were no- 
tified to that effect, 
The next move will be to adver- 
tise for bids for the building of the 
sewers, materials, etc. Toward this 
end the committee met Wednesday. 
It will take three weeks or a month 
for bids to be prepared, after prop- 
erly advertising for same, and then 
it will take several weeks more for 
the successful bidder to get on the 
ground and start work, so that it will 
be along toward the middle of March 
before actual work can be started. 
It must be remembered that there 
is a certain amount of red tape to a 
project of this kind, such as hear- 
ings before the state board, etc., so 
that the matter cannot be hurried. 
The local committee is doing all in 
its power to hasten the work: so as 
to commence operations just as early 
in the spring as weather permits. 
Special Town Meeting 
Manchester Voted to Use Its Land Off Pleasant Street as 
Site for New 
The special town meeting, in Man- 
chester, to take action on the build- 
ing of a new town almshouse, held 
Wednesday evening, was again post- 
poned, this time to Monday evening, 
Jan. 19, 
At the first meeting several weeks 
ago, a special committee was appoint- 
ed to report on the feasibility of a 
new site from the one at present in 
use at Manchester Cove. The meet- 
ing then adjourned until that com- 
mittee could report. At the meet- 
ing Wednesday night this committee 
recommended that the lot owned by 
the town fronting on Pleasant street 
was the most desirable site for the 
almshouse. This is the land bought 
2 few years ago frim L. F. Gorman. 
It contains 8 1-3 acres and fronts 
430 feet on Pleasant street. 
It was also stated that the lot be- 
tween this land and the road to Ham- 
ilton could be bought for $2200. This 
would give the town the entire prop- 
erty on the corner of Pleasant street 
and the Hamilton road, although the 
purchase of the land was _ entirely 
foreign to this meeting. 
It was voted on motion of F. P. 
Knight and seconded by Thomas 
Town Home 
Baker that the almshouse, if it be 
constructed, be placed on the lot of 
land recommended by the committee. 
The vote was 51 to 18 in favor, 
Under Article 4, Roland C. Lin- 
coln of the committee moved that the 
town erect a new almshouse in ac- 
cordance with the plans presented at 
this meeting. 
Mr. Lincoln spoke at length of the 
plans, saying that the architects had 
prepared plans for a_ standardized 
form of almshouse having a dwelling 
for the management in the center, 
with two ends running from it, one 
to be ‘occupied by males and _ the 
other by females. The state inspec- 
tor, Mr. Bardwell, had stated that if 
these plans were carried out there 
would be no better almshouse in the 
whole state; that Manchester would 
have a model town home, Mr. Lin- 
coln further said that many changes 
had been made from the _ original 
plans so as to bring the cost to a 
minimum. There were as few rooms 
provided for the superintendent as in 
any of the almshouses and he did not 
think that too many rooms had been 
provided for the inmates. It is plan- 
ned to have a room for each inmate. 
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The whole length of the house would 
be 116 feet and it would be of sim- 
ple construction. The estimated 
cost was about $31,000. 
Frank P. Knight did not want to 
appear in the least antagonistic to 
the report of the committee and he 
expressed his gratification of the 
work which had been done by the 
committee and especially by its chair- 
man, Mr. Lincoln. He thought, how- 
ever, that the town should consider 
well as to the cost of the building. 
It seemed out of proportion to him 
for the town to put up a $40,000 
building (which would be the cost 
of this before they are through with 
it) and then spend $5,000 a year for 
maintenance to take care of 9 in- 
mates. That means practically $500 
for each, and the proportion, he 
thought, was far in excess of what 
other towns were spending, He mov- 
ed that the committee formerly havy- 
ing in charge the matter of plans 
for a new almshouse be reappointed 
and the plans now before this meet- 
ing be recommitted to them for con- 
sideration as to their suitability for 
the new location just decided on. 
This motion was later carried by a 
large majority. 
Selectman Dean asked if Mr. Lin- 
coln could give any figures as to the 
cost of other almshouses, which 
brought the information that the 
almshouse at Essex cost $9,000; 
Middleboro, $16,000; Winchendon 
$10,000; and that the one at Stone- 
ham, built 45 years ago, was valued at 
$5,000. All of these are of wood; 
it is proposed to have Manchester’s 
rest on a stone foundation with the 
first story of brick and the second 
story in the slap-dash finish. Mr. 
Lincoln thought that if Manchester 
was to build a new town home it 
should be in keeping with the town. 
The meeting adjourned shortly 
after 8 to Monday evening, Jan. 19, 
dirt Clocks 
The navy department has asked 
the forest service to investigate 
guijo, a Philippine wood, for possible 
use in decking boats and ships, Long- 
leaf pine, sugar maple, and beech are 
the domestic woods most used for 
decks, 
The annual meeting of the Amer- 
ican Forestry Association will be 
held in Washington on January 14. 
A president, twenty-one vice presi- 
dents, a treasurer. an auditor and five 
directors are to be elected and plans 
made for an active campaign for for- 
est conservation during 1914. The 
association has 8,000 members, 
