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chapel and $175 for the construction of 
a concrete sidewalk by the cemetery on 
Rosedale ave. 
Art. 22. $7500 was appropriated for 
street lights. 
Art. 23. Parks. Commissioner. F. 
A. Rowe said that $2000 was just enough 
to pay for the maintenance. If any 
dredging was to be done $1000 would be 
needed for handling the dredging material 
and throwing it on Masconomo Park for 
filling. Unless we fill in the park by 
some such means as this, not many of us 
here will ever see the park completed. 
W.C. Rust. It is economy to use 
the dredging material in this way. He 
would amend the motion that $2000 be 
appropriated, by adding that $1000 be 
appropriated for handling the dredging 
material. 
M. J. Callahan asked what park this 
had reference to, and on being informed 
that it referred to Masconomo Park, he 
moved an amendment to the amendment, 
that the matter be indefinitely postponed. 
He objected to any further expense in 
Masconomo Park. 
It was finally voted that $2000 be ap- 
propriated for maintenance of parks, and 
$1000 for handling dredging material. 
Art. 25. $250 was appropriated for 
coustructing new plank walk at Singing 
Beach. 
Art. 26. Commissioner F. A. Rowe 
moved an appropriation of $4,200 for 
dredging at Masconomo Park. 
M. J. Callahan. ‘* With due respect 
to the Park Commissioners who are en- 
deavoring to accomplish something at 
this famous park, they are trying to im- 
prove this public dump by spending all 
the surplus money they can get hold _ of. 
Of the abortions ever perpetrated and 
put onto the town of Manchester this is 
the worst. Why, we are surrounded by 
parks. We have Tuck’s Point, one of 
the best parks on the coast. And at 
Singing Beach, that beautiful spot, they 
want a bathhouse with lavatories, etc. 
The whole town is apark. You preach 
economy. ‘There was never a _ cent 
spent here to better advantage than the 
money spent on our streets. But this 
public dump! Who will ever see it 
completed? [ would like to see that 
famous boulder, so much talked about, 
and engraved in cold letters of stone the 
word ‘REST.’ (Applause.) Here in 
the rear of the Town hall ts the place to 
fill in and when you build a new Town 
hall you will have a place to put it. 
Spend your surplus money here, in the 
heart of the town, where the towns- 
people can mingle. together under the 
protection and watchful eye of our 
efficient police force. Down there (the 
park) there is no shade, no protection. 
Money spent there is thrown away. 
Spend the money in the center of the 
town.’’ 
Mr. Callahan moved indefinite post- 
ponement. 
M. E. Gorman. ‘‘ The Park Com- 
missioners not only want to spend all our 
money, but they want to také up all our 
time in town meeting. The time has 
come when we ought to abolish our park 
commissioners and put the parks in the 
hands of the selectmen, as it used to be. 
Put your surplus money in roads, wood 
drives. Carry the people out in the 
country, to the hills back of us,—that is 
what we want.’’ 
Mr. Gorman moved we abolish our 
present board of park commissioners. . 
Commissioner F. A. Rowe. ‘‘It 
makes a difference who asks for money. 
What good is there in dredging the inner 
harbor when you can’t get in nor out. 
You can’t pass under the railroad bridge 
when the tide is in, and you can’t get 
over the flats under the bridge when the 
tide is out. Ifyou dredge the outer har- 
bor you can get to a landing at all times. 
T. C. Rowe thought the channel to 
the pier at the park ought to be dredged. 
The motion on indefinite postpone- 
ment lost. 
E. S. Bradley was of the opinion that 
money spent on dredging was a good 
investment for the town. ‘There ought 
to be a means of approach to the town 
without interference by a drawbridge. 
F. K. Hooper at this time called for 
the article which, had assigned to this 
hour, but Mr. Rust waived his right. 
Austin Morley advised doing this 
dredging and dumping it onto the park. 
Mr. Hooper. ‘‘ This dredging is 
money well spent, but you can’t do it 
all in one year. What we do we ought 
to do well. 
G. S. Sinnicks. How wide a chan- 
nel and how much of a basin do you pro- 
pose to dredge? 
Commissioner Standley. The plan is 
on file at the selectmen’s office. 
Mr. Sinnicks. Can that dredging be 
done according to plan for $4200? 
Mr. Hooper said the plan: could not 
be found when the appropriation com- 
mittee wanted it. 
E. P. Stanley was of the opinion that 
the dredging was much needed. Chan- 
nel ought to be wide enough to allow 
boats to moor in it. Should wait until 
next year. 
Die he -Beaton. «Mts,«-Hooper® xis 
wrong. We havea plan of proposed 
channel. The plan we couldn’t find 
was the bathhouse. 
A. C. Needham verified Mr. Beaton’s 
statement. 
Mr. Sinnicks wanted to go sn record 
as being opposed to a higher tax rate 
The motion on dredging was put and 
was lost, 45 voting yes, 63 no. 
Art. 33. Moth suppression. 
Chairman E. S. Knight of the select- 
men offered a motion that the town ap- 
propriated $7,500 for the extermination 
of the gypsy and browntail moth, pro- 
vided $7,500 was appropriated by the 
state and that the summer residents raised 
$7,500 the whole to be paid into the state 
treasury, the accounts to be audited by 
the state treasurer. 
On motion of Mr. Knight the priv- 
ilege of the floor was granted to Col. 
Wm. D. Sohier, a member of the high- 
way commission. Col. Sohier reviewed 
what had been done in exterminating the 
moth pest, and the need of continuing 
the work this year. He said Beverly 
had agreed to raise $7,500 under similar 
conditions proposed for Manchester. 
The work was needed. He said that 
in doing the work preference would be 
given citizens of the town. 
Mr. Knight’s motion was 
unanimously. 
Art. 33. $3,838.32 was appropriated 
for moth suppression as required by law. 
Art. 66. W. C. Rust offered the 
following motion: ‘‘ That the town 
improve Central Pond, so-called to in- 
crease and maintain its purity by con- 
structing a new concrete dam and by 
constructing a concrete wall near the 
eastern side of said pond parallel with 
the existing wall onthe eastern side of 
pond, and by cleaning out the pond sub- 
wstantially as outlined on the plan sub- 
mitted to this meeting.’’ 
Mr. Rust spoke of the odor and im- 
purities at Central pond and outlined. his 
plan in detail for making the place “‘clean 
and sweet’ and do away with the chance 
for disease to spread from this source 
later. In brief his plan was to construct 
a new dam, near the police station, and 
build a sort of canal, of concrete, from 
the upper end of the pond to the dam, 
through which the refuse would flow. 
The pond had-been used for a skating 
park for young and old since 1825. 
$5500 would do the work as he pro- 
posed. 
T. C. Rowe wanted to know who the 
“we’’ was, that Mr. Rust referred to. 
Mr. Rust said it was customary for 
editors to use ‘‘ we.’’ He was not using 
it in this manner, but he had had a little 
assistance in working this thing out “‘ and 
that makes the ‘we.’ ”’ 
Mr. Rowe was satisfied. 
Daniel Sheehan didn’t know whether 
it was a natural or artificial pond, but he 
would call it a cesspool. Best way to do 
was to wall it in on both sides, and have 
only a brook. 
Austin Morley. 
hole,—worse than a cesspool. 
be walled in. 
E. P. Stanley moved the subject mat- 
ter of this article be referred toa com- 
mittee of five to be appointed by the 
moderator. 
Mr. Rust did not want it disposed of 
in this manner. No committee could 
ever agree on it. He wanted the town 
to decide. The plans had been prepared 
at his expense. 
carried 
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‘That place is a mud 
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