NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
MANCHESTER, MASS., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1908. 
REFUSE TO PURCHASE PLANT. 
Special Town Meeting at Manchester to Act on 
Purchase of Manchester Electric Co. Plant 
Decided Against the Purchase by 
Four Votes. 
By the same small margin by which it 
was voted once before not the purchase 
the Manchester Electric Co., it was 
voted on Monday night at a_ special 
meeting called for the purpose, not to 
purchase the plant, the question being 
lost by only four votes. A two-thirds 
vote is needed on questions of this kind. 
The vote Monday night was 291; 
necessary for a choice 194. The vote 
was 190 in favor to 101 against. While 
the vote showed that the majority of 
voters favored the project theré were not 
quite two-thirds in favor of the plan. 
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THEIR FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY. 
Allen Post 67, G. A. R. of Manchester, Celebrates Anniversary ;with Outing at 
Tuck's Point. 
Old War Songs Sang Again, and Chowder 
Dinner Served. Speech Making. 
Singing their old war songs and re- 
calling in reminiscent vein the days of 
*61---’ 65, listening to speeches by the 
department officers and other guests, the 
members of Allen Post 67, G. A. R., 
of Manchester, observed the 40th anni- 
versary of the institution of the organi- 
zation, with an outing and camp-fire at 
Tuck’s Point, West Manchester, Tues- 
day. Some 125 members and friends, 
including a detegation of 26 memb_-rs_ of 
Post 45 of Gloucester, were p~esent. 
Despite the inclement tendencies of the 
weather in the early morning the day 
MANCHESTER'S NEW HIGH SERVICE STANDPIPE. 
The picture shown below is not of 
Manchester’s new concrete standpipe, 
to be builtin connection with the new 
high service system, but it will suffice to 
show ina general way what the new 
at the bottom and taper to 12 inches at 
the top. 
A concrete balcony will run around 
the top, reached by a ladder from the 
outside, and a ladder will also descend 
CoNCRETE STANDPIPE AT WALTHAM 
standpipe willbe like. “The picture is 
of Waltham’s concrete standpipe. 
The contract for building the new 
standpipe in Manchester, as announced 
last week, has been awarded to Simpson 
Brothers Corporation of Boston, at a 
cost of $29,150. Itis to be of re-in- 
forced concrete, the re-inforcement con- 
sisting of outside and inside steel hoops, 
with cement in between. 
The standpipe will be 70 feet high 
and will have a dome shape tiled roof, 
the apex being 80 feet from the founda- 
tion. The walls will be 20 inches thick 
to the bottom on the inside. 
As to capacity, the new standpipe will 
hold 1,100,000 gallons, double the cap- 
acity of the present standpipe. The 
work is guaranted against leakage for one 
year, under a bond of $10,000. 
The standpipe will be built on Moses 
Hill at a grade of 275. 
The cut printed with this article is 
loaned through courtesy of the Rockland- 
Rockport Lime Co., of 24 Milk street, 
Boston, whose Pine Cone Lime is to 
be used in the construction of the new 
standpipe. 
turned out to be an ideal one for an out 
of-doors affair. A chowder dinner was 
Depr. CoMMANDER ALFRED S. Rok. 
served at one o’clock and this was fol- 
lowed by speech-making. 
Long before noon the veterans began 
to arrive atthe Point and the hours be- 
fore the dinner was served was spent in 
renewing acquaintances, handshaking and 
recalling the days of the war. Qvuoit 
pitching was engaged in by a number of 
the veterans, too, and some excellent 
skill in this sport was displayed. 
Among the guests of Allen post were 
delegations from the W. R. C., S. of V., 
and Associates of the post. 
Alfred S. Roe, commander of the 
Department of Massachusetts, came on 
from Worcester for the occasion and 
said before leaving that he had attended 
many of the anniversaries, but none of 
them had he enjoyed so much as this 
visit to the seashore. Mr. Roe was 
formerly principal of the High School at 
Worcester and at present has supervision 
over the evening schools of that city. 
The assistant adjutant general of the 
Mass. Dept., Wilfred A. Wetherbee of 
Boston, was also present. Mr. Wether- 
bee was at one time commander of the 
department. 
Another state officer present was Ed- 
ward L. Rowe of Gloucester, the chief 
mustering officer. 
