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VOLUME 7. December 10, 1909 Number 50 
THERE is an article in the Town War- 
rant for Manchester’s special “Town 
Meeting next Monday evening ‘‘to see 
if the town will vote to instruct the se- 
lectmen to order all buildings fronting on 
any public street or way in the town, to 
be numbered in regular succession, or 
take any other action relating thereto.’’ 
It seems as if this matter ought to be fa- 
vorably decided upon by the voters. 
The cost will be slight and the money 
needed can be taken from the contingent 
fund. This matter of numbering houses 
has been gone over in the past more or 
less, but on the whole the condition is 
unsatisfactory. “The houses ought to be 
numbered. Very often during the sum- 
mer, especially, people get off the train 
and drop into the BrEEzE office to in- 
quire where So-and-So lives. Other 
places of business near the station hear 
questions of the same kind almost every 
day, and the Postoffice, particularly, is a 
regular news bureau for matters of this 
sort. Now how much better it would be 
to answer these inquirers that the party 
they are looking for lives at No. So-and- 
So street, instead of saying ‘‘Go 
down this street, turn to your right, then 
to your left, then the second street on the 
right, five houses on the left hand side, 
and its the second house after the yellow 
one with the purple blinds.’’ Let’s be 
more up to {date and have the houses 
numbered all over town! 
Editor and Proprietor. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
New Street Needed. 
As winter comes on and the annual 
Town Meeting approaches questions are 
arising as to what improvements are 
needed and for what purposes money 
will be appropriated for next year’s ex- 
penditures, in Manchester. 
The Breeze desires to suggest one im- 
provement that it feels would prove to 
be much appreciated by the summer resi- 
dents and by the townspeople, especially 
the merchants, and that is the construc- 
tion of a new street, leading from Beach 
street at a point to the west of the Mas- 
conomo stables, and running to Sea 
street at its junction with Masconomo 
street. 
The chief advantage of such a street 
would be in getting to Old Neck without 
using the steep hill that is met on the one 
hand by going over Sea street, and on the 
other by going over Beach and Masco- 
nomo streets. As most of the travel at 
present goes over the latter course a very 
bad corner must be turned in going from 
Masconomo street into Sea street. 
A street such as we suggest would be 
over level land, through a natural road- 
way, and would do away with the hills 
and with the corners. 
It could be done at this time, probably, 
at very small cost for land damages, as 
the Lewis H. Tappan property, through 
which such a road must pass, is at the 
present time in the hands of a receiver, 
and could probably be bought at a very 
low figure. 
The need of such a road has been felt 
for sometime. In fact it was talked of 
some fifteen or twenty years ago, but for 
some reason or other nothing was done 
at that time. 
Travel to and from Old Neck, which 
such a road would particularly benefit, is 
quite heavy. Many will not use Sea 
street to reach the center of the town be- 
cause of the steep and dangerous hill, 
and the railroad crossing. And in using 
Masconomo street the hill by the Misses 
Bartlett property, and the sharp turn in 
the road at that point, is counteracted; 
and then there is Masconomo hill, 
called. 
A road starting on Beach street, to the 
west of Day’s Creek, and running up 
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through the little valley, along by the 
small brook, through the trees, would not _ 
be more than 600 feet in length. In~ 
constructing the road no blasting would 
be necessary so that the cost would be 
very small, comparatively speaking. The 
road would be for most of the distance a : 
dividing line between the Mrs. J. T. 
Fields property and that of Lewis H. 
‘Tappan. 
It might be said that some $500, 000 
worth of taxable property would be ben- 
efited by this road, including the McMil- 
Jan estate, which is taxed for $200,000; | 
the George Wigglesworth estate, taxed 
for $65,000; Amory Eliot, $40,000; — 
Brownland cottages, $40,000; George 
Pierce estate, $35,000; Bullard estate, 
$25,000; Dr. John A. Brown, $13,000; © 
H. S. Grew, $50,000; the Misses Bart-— 
lett, $25,000; Pickering estate, $27,000; 
the Chase property, $10,000; Winston : 
estate, $6000. We mention the H. S. 
Grew and the Misses Bartlett estates be-_ 
cause the rear entrance to these houses — 
are from Sea street. 
The question of land damage ‘Sask to 
be small, as the landin question would — 
undoubtedly be improved, much _ less 4 
damaged, by such a move. 3 
In order to bring this matter befare the 3 
town for action it is necessary first to pe~ : 
tition the selectmen to make such a lay- 
A petition signed by ten voters is — 
all that is necessary to bring the matter to — 
the selectmen. It is for them, if they 
approve of the road, to make the layout & 
and bring the matter before the town and 
ask for an acceptance of the layout and 
for an appropriation to go ahead withthe - 
construction of the street, after proper f 
hearings have been given. - = 
We shall be pleased to have any of the — 
citizens express their views on this matter 
through our columns. 
out. 
een geile 
Tue Manchester Water Board want £ 
$1000 to buy an auto wagon to use in 
running around making repairs, turning 
on and off water, making hurried trips to _ 
the Gravel Pond station, etc. At pres- 
ent, as in the past, they use for this pur- 
pose horse and wagon which they hire. 
Well, its a step forward, and more up- 
to-date; let’s have it! We need anauto 
fire truck, too! 
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