10 NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Manchester’s Annual Warrant 
59 Articles for Consideration of Voters, March 3. 
The Warrant for the annual Town 
Meeting contains 59 articles this year. 
Below is a synopsis of the Warrant: 
Article 1. Choose a moderator. 
Art. 2. Hear reports of town officers. 
Art. 3. Election of officers (polls 
ope at 12 noon, and may close at 5.30 
p. m.) 
Art. 4. To appropriate money for all 
necessary purposes. 
Art. 5. Appoint appropriation com- 
mittee. 
Art. 6. To take action on Highways. 
Art. 7. To appropriate $125, care of 
Central Pond. 
Art. 8. $500, care and improvement 
of Wenham road and Essex Old road. 
Art. 9. $25,000, for support of 
schools. 
Art. 10. $600, care of Playground. 
Art. 11. $400, repairing and paint- 
ing John Price Primary school outside. 
Art. 12. $100, medical inspection 
schools. 
Art. 13. $175 to complete the cop- 
ing around Priest school grounds. 
Art. 14. Edgestones on Norwood av. 
and Brook st. 
Art. 15. To see if the town will ac- 
quire by purchase or lease a suitable 
lot of land for a school garden, and ap- 
propriate money for same. 
art. 16. $16,850 with receipts and 
service for use of water department. 
ATi lite Fire department—$5200 
maintenance; $700, for purchase of pair 
of fire horses. 
Art. 18. Police department mainten- 
ance, $7500. 
Art. 19. Maintenance of and changes 
at Public library, such sums as recom- 
mended by the trustees. 
Art. 20. $1650, board of health dept. 
Art. 21. $500, district nurse asso- 
ciation. 
Art. 22. Maintenance of several de- 
partments or general govt: Legislation 
£200; selectmen’s, $1500; accountant’s, 
#1000; treasurer and collector’s, $1950; 
assessors,’ $1300; town clerk’s, $525; 
law department, $1500; election and 
registration, $500, Town hall and com- 
mon, $3800. 
Art. 23. $1200, cemetery trustees. 
Art. 24. Salaries of town officials. 
Art. 25. $5000, suppression of gypsy 
and brown-tail moths. 
Art. 26. $400, tree warden. 
Art. 27. $1000, forest warden. 
Art. 28. $1200, support of Poor-out. 
Art. 29. $3000, support of Poor-in. 
Art. 30. $1500, state and military 
aid 
Art. 31, £200, suldiers’ relief. 
Art. 32. Street lights. 
Art. 33. To see if the town will ap- 
propriate such sums of money as may 
be necessary for the purpose of dredg- 
ing the harbor, or take any other ac- 
tion relating thereto. 
Art. 34. Park Commissioners,— 
#2000, maintenance of Singing beach; 
$50, conerete wialir. $3000, Masconomo 
park; $1000, sh »xrthery, ete.; $3000, 
dredging; $200, , anting plans; $60, 
street lights. 
Art. 35. $700 and interest ($240), 
care Tuck’s Point. 
Art. 36. $500, series band concerts on 
Town common, 
Art. 37. $500, celebration July 4th. 
Art. 38. $200, Memorial Day. 
Art. 39. Regulations for Town Com- 
mon and Wharf. 
Art. 40. With reference to town 
beaches and Jandings. 
Art. 41. Sidewalk, Summer st., ad- 
joining estate of Wm. H. Coolidge. 
Art. 42. To accept lay-out of High- 
land ave., made by selectmen. 
Art. 43. Sidewalk, southerly side 
Pleasant st. 
Art. 44. Sidewalk, westerly side 
Bennett st. 
Art. 45. Conerete sidewalk, junction 
of Ocean and Summer sts., through the 
Cove woods to the overhead bridge. 
Art. 46. To appropriate such sums 
of money necessary to widen and 
straighten Pine st., as ordered by the 
County Commissioners. 
Art. 47. Concrete sidewalk on Pine 
st., from Central st. to house of Miss 
Emma Morse, and. from the end of 
present walk to Pleasant st. 
Art. 48. To see what action the town 
will take in the matter of laying out 
a public highway over the land of Mr. 
George R. White and heirs of estate of 
A. A. Smith, between Beach and Proe- 
tor sts. 
Art. 49. To see if the town will vote 
to the effect that 44 hours shall con- 
stitute a week’s work for town labor- 
ers, and that the compensation therefor 
shall be 35 cents per hour. 
Art. 50. Relative to the placing of 
four street lights on Beach st., between 
Masconomo st. and the beach. 
Art. 51. To locate two new street 
lights on Magnolia ave. 
Art. 52. $100, to be applied to the 
promotion of athletics in the Story 
High school. 
Art, 53. Renewal of lease of upper 
hall to Magnolia lodge, I. O. O. F., for 
10 years, and upon what terms. 
Art. 54. To see if the town will ap- | 
point a committee to look into the sub- 
ject of a new Town hall, and appro- 
priate the sum of $1000 for the use 
of said committee, they to report at a 
meeting called for that purpose. 
Art. 55. To see what action the 
town will take in regards to the recom- 
mendation of the selectmen as submit- 
ted in their report to build a new alms- 
house, or take any other action. 
Art. 56. To fix the time for payment 
of taxes. 
Art. 57. To authorize the treasurer 
to borrow money in anticipation of 
. taxes. 
Art, 58. To appropriate and_ raise 
moneys mentioned in the foregoing ar- 
ticles. 
Art. 59. To see if the town will 
vote to accept the provisions of see- 
tions 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Chap. 101, R. 
L. of Mass., relating to the removal 
of a bunt, dilapidated, or dangerous 
building. 
INDICTING COMMON 
SENSE 
(From the Railway Age Gazette). 
The grand jury that is investigat- 
ing the New England railroad situation 
continues from time to time to indict 
President Mellen of the New Haven, 
and President Chamberlin of the Grand 
Trunk. Every time it indicts them it 
also indicts common sense. It indicts 
economy and efficiency in railway oper: 
ation. It indicts the economic opinion 
of the age. Hither that, or it indicts 
the Sherman anti-trust law, the Coa- 
gress that passed it, the Congresses 
that have failed to amend it, and the 
public opinion that has elected and 
sustained these Congresses. The Rail- 
way Age Gazette has already com- 
mented on the relations of the New 
Haven and New England. We are 
here concerned with the question of a 
competitive railroad system in New 
England versus a co-ordinated, unified 
one. 
Competition was to be produced by 
the construction by the Grand Trunk 
of the Southern New England into a 
territory practically all of which was 
already well supplied with mileage. 
The new line for a long time would 
have been a bridge across New Eng- 
land. It would have been expensive 
to build. It would have lacked ade- 
quate feeders. It would have had few 
tracks into industries. Therefore, it 
would seem that it would long have 
been unprofitable. President Hays of 
the Grand Trunk thought it desirable 
to build it. President Chamberlin, who 
succeeded him, did not. He believed 
it better for the Grand Trunk. to get 
in over the New Haven’s tracks. If 
the Southern New England should be 
built, there would be a new railroad 
which the traffic of New England 
would have to support. It is fairly 
obvious that it costs more to support 
two railways than one. If a railroad 
opens new territory the traffic created, 
and which otherwise would not he de- 
veloped, will support it. If it enters 
old territory already having a large 
mileage of railway it must live by at- 
tracting traffic already moving, or thet 
would move, by the existing lines. In 
the former case it renders a public ser- 
vice. In the latter case it causes 
economic waste. The Grand Trunk ex- 
tension seems, in the main, to fall with- 
in the latter category. 
There are some things that would 
be worse than excessive railroad com- 
petition and the economic waste that it 
causes. One of these would be an un- 
regulated railroad monopoly which was 
inefficiently managed, was arbitrary 
with the public and gave it poor ser- 
vice for which it charged high rates. 
The New Haven is not 
managed. Its rates are not excessive. 
It is not unreguleted, and if the pnb- 
lic interest requires further regnlating 
of it, this can be done. Its manage- 
ment has been somewhat arbitrary, but 
regulation and public opinion can curb 
this. Its service has been good in most 
ways and deficient in others, but will 
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