10 
TOWN MEETING 
MANCHESTER COMPLETES First Con- 
SIDERATION OF PROPOSED NEW 
By-Laws. 
Acknowledgement from the White 
House of the resolutions, adopted by 
the Town of Manchester at the Mon- 
day evening meeting in support of the 
President of the United States, was 
read by the moderator at the. ad- 
journed meeting last Friday evening. 
The resignation of Rev. Fr. Sulli- 
van as a member of the committee on 
public safety was read and, on motion 
of George R. Dean, was accepted. It 
was voted that the committee be em- 
powered to fill any vacancies or en- 
large its membership as it should 
deem advisable. 
F. J. ‘Merrill, in behalf of the local 
conrnittee of the Red Cross society, 
asked permission of the town for the 
use of the hall as a meeting place for 
the committee in case it should be- - 
come necessary. In event of war, he 
said, the committee would become ac- 
tive and would be in need of a meet- 
ing place for work. The town voted 
to give the use of the hall free of 
charge whenever necessary. Free use 
of the hall was also granted the pat- 
riotic orders of the town for the ob- 
servance of Flag Day on June 14, on 
motion of Jeffrey S. Reed. 
The consideration of Art. 14 of the 
proposed by-laws, relative to the oper- 
ation of jitneys did not occupy as 
much time as expected. Patrick 
Boyle asked for an explanation of the 
character of a vehicle “operated for 
private hire exclusively,” but no one 
seemed to know. exactly. Daniel 
O’Brien, attorney for the by-laws 
committee said the article, was taken 
fron the Salen jitney regulations with- 
out change. George S. Sinnicks ask- 
ed if the first -section relative to 
licensing would compel an automo- 
bile owner, who carried a party on one 
trip for hire, to obtain a license. It 
was explained that such parties were 
prohibited under the regulations of 
the highway commission. The five 
sections were adopted on motion of 
George R. Dean. Section five was 
debated somewhat. Daniel O’Brien 
atteirpted to define that elusive thing, 
the “‘jitney,’’ and succeeded in deter- 
mining that it was not a “taxi.” 
Charles C. Dodge moved to pass over 
section 5, but the motion was lost and 
the section adopted. 
Section 6, which was_ originally 
submitted as section 10 of Art. 12, 
had to do with bonding jitney drivers. 
There was some discussion of the 
necessity of bonding when the owner 
carried liability insurance. The sec- 
tion was finally adopted after amend- 
ing it to strike out the clause provid- 
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The 
summer issues of the BREEz# 
—from May to October 
so large that it is a fruitless 
policy to try longer to sell the 
magazine at 5¢ a copy, when 
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cost of manufacture. 
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ing the bonding by private individuals. 
Edward E. Knight asked if the town 
had adopted the statutes upon which 
the proposed jitney regulations were 
based: On motion of George R. 
Dean the by-laws were tabled 
while Art. 40 of the town war- 
rant, providing for the adoption of 
the said statutes, was voted. The 
by-laws were again taken up and sec- 
tion 7, providing for a license fee of 
$5, was adopted. Section 8, fixing 4 
fine of $20 for a violation of the jit- 
ney regulations, was adopted. 
It was then voted to consider the 
remaining sections as a part of the 
following article of the by-laws. Sec- 
tion rt of Art. 15 was amended to 
read, ““No person shall erect, set up, 
yy maintain any permanent structure 
extending into or upon any sidewalt:, 
street or hignway,” and adopted. Tue 
rext section provided for the remova! 
of obstructions upon sidewalks within 
one hour after notice by a police of- 
ficer. Austin Morley thought it 
would be a hardship in the case of an 
accidental dumping of building ma- 
terial upon a sidewalk on a Saturday 
afternoon when no workemen could 
be had, unless “‘you went to Glouces- 
ter after them.” The section was 
adopted. After ‘“‘re-Englishing” sec- 
tion 3 at the suggestion of the moder- 
ator, it was adopted. Section 4 was 
IMPORTANT 
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April 6, 1917. 
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This change will not affect 
the subscription price of the 
BREEZE — subscriptions (paid 
in advance, in accordance with 
postal regulations) will con- 
tinké ior the*presenttas 
$2 4 YEAR AND 
$1 FOR SIX MONTHS 
but single copies, bought at 
news-stands, will be 
TEN CENTS A COPY 
are 
adopted without opposition. Michael 
J. Callahan moved to amend the next 
section, which prohibited the throw- 
ing of stones, snowballs or other mis- 
siles or the kicking of a football, etc., 
upon a public street, to include the 
town common. It was so amended 
and voted. Sections 6 to 17, inclu- 
sive, relative to street and sidewalks 
regulations, were adopted. 
Section 18 was section 11 of the 
original Art. 13. Under its provisions 
vehicles other than motor vehicles 
were prohibited from obstructing the 
passage of pedestrians at crossings. 
F. J. Merrill wanted to know why 
motor vehicles were exempted from 
observing the regulations. After 
sone discussion, during which 
Charles C. Dodge declared the com- 
mittee never had approved the sec- 
tion in that form, the section was 
amended so that all vehicles were in- 
cluded. The following section, relat- 
ing to the obstruction of traffic by 
vehicles other than motor vehicles, 
brought out the same discussion. J. 
Alex. Lodge called attention to the 
fact that the statutes already regu- 
lated the operation of motor vehicles 
upon public highways and the sec- 
tions were probably intended to in- 
clude vehicles not otherwise regulated. 
The section was adopted as it stood. 
Mr, Dean then asked for a reconsid- 
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