March 9, 1917. 
of a committee by the town to act 
with a committee for Allen Relief 
corps in the securing of drawings of 
a suitable monument. He said he was 
not a native of Manchester and did 
not enlist here so his name would 
not appear upon the monument, but 
he was strongly in favor of it. He 
moved the appointment of a commit- 
tee and the appropriation of $100 for 
the purpose of obtaining drawings. 
The motion was adopted and Oliver 
T. Roberts, George S. Sinnicks, Aus- 
tin” Morley, P. H. Boyle and J. 5S. 
Reed were named by the moderator. 
Mr. Sinnicks, because of his connec- 
tion with the finance committee, de- 
clined to serve on the committee. 
Article 5, set down for considera- 
tion at 8 o’clock, was next taken up. 
Edward S. Knight moved that the 
town appropriate $23,000 for the 
maintenance of highways, sidewalks, 
bridges, etc. The appropriation was 
recommended by the finance commit- 
tee in its report. The motion was 
carried. 
The appropriation for a bitumin- 
ous surface on Pine st., requested by 
the selectmen in their report, called 
forth some discussion. The finance 
committee in its report recommended 
that owing to the confused situation 
in regard to Pine st., the matter be re- 
ferred to the selectmen, they to ar- 
range matters with the county com- 
missioners and report at an adjourn- 
ed meeting. 
PINE STREET CONSTRUCTION. 
Edward S. Knight gave a bit of the 
history of the Pine st. construction. 
In 1914, he said, a contract was made 
with Morley, Flatley & Co. to con- 
struct the street to the sub-grade. 
The work was accepted in 1915. The 
original agreement with the Essex 
County road commissioners was that 
the town would finance the work and 
pay the damages in connection with 
the work with the understanding that 
the commissioners would pay $5,000 
in 1914, $10,000 in 1915 and the bal- 
ance, $6,000 in 1916. This $21,000 rep- 
resented the approximate land damage 
in connection with the construction. 
The last $6,000, however, the county 
commissioners refused to pay until 
the bituminous surface, which they 
demand, is laid. As the county com- 
missioners will not pay until the work 
is done, Mr. Knight suggested that 
the road be finished as they request 
in order that the town could get the 
money. 
Frank P. Knight asked if there 
was any dispute as to the lines of 
the street. E. S. Knight said there 
was no dispute about the lines, but 
there may have been some dispute 
about. the construction, He said an 
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effort had been made to get the com- 
missioners to visit the work and tel! 
what they wished done. 
“I. should think they ‘would Be 
ashamed to come down and look at 
it,” said F.. P.- Knight. 
Commenting on the difficulty: of 
“nailing the county commissioners 
down” to what they would accept, 
Raymond C. Allen said that the Town 
of Manchester petitioned the com- 
missioners for the building of a road 
40 feet in width instead of 50 feet 
as the commissioners wanted. They 
agreed verbally to a road 40 feet in 
width, but afterwards insisted on the 
full width, he said. They demand 
that the surface be of some bitumin- 
ous substance, but when asked what 
particular bituminous surface they 
want they decline to be specific, he 
declared. 
George 5S. Sinnicks said the reason 
the finance committee made the re- 
commendation it did was that it was 
understood the county commissioners 
would not accept the work anyway. 
Selectman Knight said he was not a 
member of the board in 1914 when 
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the work’ was done and if any mis- 
takes were made: in the ‘street: con- 
struction he could not account for 
them. 
Mistakes? No. 
“What were: the mistakes. in con- 
nection with the work?” asked Ches- 
ter.L...Craits, 
“I said, ‘it there. were: any .mis- 
takes,” answered Mr. Knight, smil- 
ingly. 
“T would call it a radical mistake 
when E. J. Semons’ house was left 
in the road,” said Frank P. Knight. 
“It looks as if we had spent a lot of 
money and got no better road than 
we had before.” 
George H..Hobbs declared that Mr. 
Semons was never. asked to move his 
house. ‘‘There is not a foot of it on 
town land today,” he said. -G.’S. 
Sinnicks wanted to know the reason 
for the damage the county commis- 
sioners paid Mr. Semons. Mr. Se- 
mons said that the money he received 
was for land ‘damage. - Austin C. 
Jones read a letter from James , 
Poor, of the aie commission, stat- 
Appropriations Made at Mancheeres Town Meeting 
Monday Morning Session. 
Fixed appropriations (Art. 30): 
Reserve Fund 
Int. on Temporary Loans 
Int. on Water Bonds 
Int. on Sewer Bonds 
Int.on Pine St. and Special 
Highway notes 
Redemption of Water bonds .. 
Redemption of Sewer bonds .. 
Redemption of Pine St. note .. 10,000.00 
Redemption of Highway notes 20,000.00 
Departmental maintenance (Art. 12): 
Legislative Dept. 
Selectmen’s Dept. .......... 
Accounting Dept. 
Treas. & Collector’s 
Assessors’ Dept. 
Town Clerk’s Dept. 
aww eDepartmiemt, 100, stlereete 
Election and Registration ... 
Town Hall and Common .... 
Certification of notes 
Memorial Library Bldg. 
Sealer of Weights and Meas- 
$3,000.00 
2,500.00 
4,480.00 
8,040.00 
1,512.50 
6,000.00 
8,000.00 
275.00 
2,100.00 
1,250.00 
2,300.00 
2,500.00 
525.00 
1,500.00 
500.00 
3,500.00 
30.00 
] 000.00 
POS 9 yaks iets ais iereie Dy ane enone re 100.09 
lar borsviastere: sce sre ts 50.00 
Overseers of the Poor ...... 100.00 
Mow Dae nOrts saceis sat serae 480.00 
Carec0t, CLOCKS etectenas ociasieee 50.00 
@are Oleh Oats wees. teers 150.00 
Ringing of, Bells: 4x cet 4.00 
Care of Central Pond Dam .. 30.00 
Snow removal Central Pond 50,00 
Maintenance of schools ....... 28,000.06 
Playground maint. and repairs 1,100.00 
Medical inspection (schools) 100.00 
Maintenance of water depart- 
ment—receipts from services 
and sales plus, ar.raee te res 17,500.00 
Maintenance of Police dept. .. 9,528.00 
Board: of Health. .5)- -ssteneves 2,700.00 
Aid of District Nurse Fund ... 500.00 
Moth suppression’ 2.530. .004.. 5,000.00: 
Special moth work (state) . 3,000.09 
Forest Fire Warden .......... 1,000.00 
Tree department v.cveccccenee 800,00 
Support of Poor-Out ......... 2,200.00 
Pupportof Poor-In’. yea, woh 3,000.00 
mttecte Lights ta... Stone oe 10,325.00 
Fire department—credits. for 
use of horses) plus: ..2.%..3,- 6,850.00 
To purchase heavier team horses 400.00 
Park ‘maintenaiee: ers. os 3,000.00 
Masconomo Park improvements 2,000.00 
Capt. John Allen right of way 500.00 
Care of Cemeteries ‘and Chapel — 1,500.00 
Cemeteries: painting fences, re- 
pairs, ete sens. DNase eka 1,350.00 
Further improvements Rosedale 
GOMVGLCTY: Weriticn (re aac ewer 362.87 
Maintenance Public Library— 
dog (tax: plisey-osie eee ee 1,500.00 
Sewer maintenance =)... ..... 3,500.00 
Care,of- Tuck's" Point -...cemaee 975.00 
State and Military Aid ..%... 1,500.00 
Soldiers” Reliefatn 7: . 2. Siew! 100.00 
Celebration of July 4th ....... 500.00 
Series of Band Concerts ....., 500.00 
Memorial Day observance 200.00 
Soldiers* Relieiver... .. eure 150.00 
Sidewalk—Bennett: st. ........ 700.00 
Essex st. and Andrews ave... 450.00 
School st., bet, Pleasant. st. 
and Windemere pEeshie 200.00 
Unpaid bill July 4th committee 15.00 
Total appropriations .... $191,032.37 
Monday Evening Session. 
Maintenance of Highways |... $23,000.00 
Highway—Pine pireet ys. of .435 7,500.00 
Tuck’s Point ,Toilet':committee 25.00 
Town Clock Repairs ........; 400.35 
Use of Monument committee .. 100.00 
Painting and’ repairs, at Alms- 
house Saag «| hPa ne 400.00 
Mosquito MEH Crgey Seg. tas eta coer ie 5,000.00 
. $36,425.35 
191,032.37 
raTobal vcccsiaclvs cecal + $227,457.73 
Total Hvening session. 
eR Morning session. : 
