There is more or less conjecture 
as to the results of the vote for se- 
lectman had the 5.15 train from 
Boston been on time. There were 
ten or a dozen voters on the train, 
and they would have reached the 
hall in plenty season to vote had 
not the train been nearly half an 
hour late. But then, there is the 
usual big ‘‘IF.”’ 
Raymond ©. Allen was elected on 
the school board, to succeed EHd- 
ward A. Lane who retired this year 
after a long service. 
The license vote was very pro- 
nounced,—265 voting no, to 171 yes. 
This is a margin of 94. Last year 
the difference was 17. The total 
vote last year was 507; the year be- 
fore that it was 500. The vote this 
year is considered big, in view of 
the general lack of interest all 
along the line. 
The session of the Town Meeting 
during the morning and again in 
the evening lacked much of the old- 
time vim. There was little discus- 
sion, and what there was, was for 
the most part quibblings over the 
whys and wherefores of the action 
of the finance committee in recom- 
mending a cut in various appropri- 
ations. The fact is the committee 
did just right in most cases and cut 
off a slice here and there where they 
thought it could be done without 
impairing the efficiency of the de- 
partments in which the cut occur- 
red. Economy was their motto, and 
well it might be this year in view 
of the general financial stringency. 
As Town Clerk Jewett well said, 
Manchester has no well-to-do con- 
cerns or citizens, who can give lib- 
erally toward municipal projects, 
but rather, the town is a resort, de- 
pending on the money it receives 
trom people who come here to have 
a good time, and it is well to go 
slowly in these times when divi- 
dends are not forthcoming to such 
class of people, and when expenses 
are being cut all along the line. It 
was his remarks more than any- 
thing else that put the matter of a 
new town hall, at the suggested ex- 
penditure of $140,000 under the 
table for another year. 
Not as much business was trans- 
acted Monday as usual; many of 
the articles in the long warrant 
were not considered at all, and the 
total. appropriations were only 
$125,884.51, as compared to $203,- 
087.40 at the Monday session last 
year. Of course, the state and coun- 
ty tax would have brought this fig- 
ure up considerable, had it been 
voted upon. The appropriations 
will be far in excess of the $200,000 
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mark before the meeting is dissolv- 
ed, however. 
Highways came in for consider- 
able discussion, and there appears 
to be a strong sentiment in favor 
of making big improvements this 
year. It is likely, too, that the cus- 
tomary appropriation of $25,000 
will have to be increased in order 
to get considerable work done in the 
line of new construction. 
What was Said and Done at the 
Annual Town Meeting Monday. 
The meeting was called to order 
promptly at 9 o’clock by ‘Town 
Clerk A. S. Jewett, who read the 
sixty articles of the warrant. There 
were about 60 voters present at the 
time, but the number increased as 
as the morning advanced, to about 
150. 
Raymond C. Allen was elected 
moderator. He thanked the voters 
for their renewed expression of con- 
fidence, but regretted that there was 
not a larger attendance. He said he 
thought the committee on new by- 
laws for the town would incorporate 
an article in its report recommending 
that the first day of the annual town 
meeting be devoted to election only, 
followed on the next day by. the 
transaction of usual town meeting 
business. 
The following tellers were ap- 
pointed and sworn in: Clarence W. 
Morgan, T. C. Rowe, Walter R. Ben-. 
nett, Richard L. Baker, James Bea- 
ton, Joseph N. Lipman, G. A. 
Knoerr and W. W, Hoare. 
E, P. Stanley moved that the 
polls be closed at 5.30 p. m. 
Under Article 2 of the warrant 
the various reports of town officers 
and committees were taken up in 
the order in which they were print- 
ed in the report, and with the ex- 
ception of the park committee’s 
report, all were accepted. That re- 
port was laid on the table, on rec- 
ommendation of the board. 
EK. 8S. Knight made-a motion that 
all articles calling for appropria- 
tions of over $500 be held over to 
a meeting adjourned to one week 
from tonight. Selectman Dean ob- 
jected to this on the ground that 
most of the amounts called for in 
the warrant were appropriated year 
after year and were well known to 
the voters. The motion was not- 
carried, the vote being 36 to 19 
against. 
Mr, Knight asked what was the 
amount of cash in the treasury, the 
unpaid bills, how much of the ap- 
propriations 10 be made today were 
already expended, and what it 
would be necessary to borrow for 
the coming year. He said _ there 
probably would be an expense of 
$25,000 to $30,000 for the construc- 
tion of and land damage in connec- 
tion with the straightening of Pine 
St. “‘This should be done after the 
sewer is put in this spring,’’ he said. 
The county would stand part of this 
expense, but it would be in the na- 
ture of a rebate to the town. He said 
the state tax would be increased at 
least 20 per cent. He was also of 
the impression that the town could 
not borrow $80,000 in anticipation 
of taxes, is it has been in the cus: 
tom of doing in the past, but that 
money must now be hired for cer- 
tain specific purposes. 
_E. P. Stanley said there was then 
in the treasury $7,000, which could 
be used for immediate expenses, 
that it would take at least ten days 
to hire money in anticipation of 
taxes and it would not be wise to 
hold up the appropriations, : 
Mr. Knight said in support of his — 
motion that he thought the incom- 
ing board of selectmen might be 
able to acquaint themselves with the 
_needs for the year and could there- 
fore act intelligently in recommend- 
ing appropriations. For that rea- 
son he thought that all expenditures — 
of money over $500 ought to be held 
over to a future meeting. . 
George R, Dean strenuously op- 
posed this move and said that no 
matter how much the appropria- 
tions were gone over they could not 
be changed. The appropriation 
committee had already cut down 
everything it was possible to cut. 
Me saw no need of creating a scare 
and he said further that from what 
he could learn the state tax might 
not be raised. It would be a waste 
of time to hold up everything. 
It was voted to appropriate $200 
for four buoys in the harbor. E. 
P. Stanley thought the present 
buoys were unsafe as _ they 
leaned over so far when the tide 
was out they were a source of much 
trouble and danger. He had de- 
vised a’ kind that would obviate 
this difficulty. E. S. Knight said 
the present kind were approved by 
the lighthouse board and he did 
not think that that board would 
stand for any change in the system. 
K. P. Stanley stated that of the 
1911 taxes only $16.16 remained un- 
paid; of 1912, $57.25; and of 1913 
less than $3,000. In reply to a ques- 
tion by E. 8. Knight as to the sale 
of the burying ground lot at the 
Cove, N. P. Meldrum said that the 
matter was not yet ready to be 
closed, that the owner of the ad- 
joining property had not yet deter- 
