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VOLUME 8. February 4, 1910 NuMBER 5 
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Three towns in Massachusetts— 
Southbridge, South Framingham 
and Wellesley—appreciate keenly 
the peril that comes from lax and 
methods of keeping, 
checking and auditing town ac- 
counts. The recent misfortune 
which has befallen each of these 
towns has been the cause of much 
newspaper notoriety. The Citizen’s 
Committee of South Framingham, 
as a result of their financial diffi- 
culties, have organized a plan to 
keep a closer sight on the town af- 
fairs. Among other things it is now 
planned to have monthly trial bal- 
ances presented to the Selectmen 
and also published in the local pa- 
pers if desired, the intention being 
to bring unity and simplicity out of 
what is chaotic forms of account- 
ing, and to insure fullest publicity 
at frequent stated intervals. 
The citizens of Manchester have 
no reason to fear that any such mis- 
inefficient 
-. G. EB. WILLMONTON .... 
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law 
fortune as has befallen the towns 
alluded to will befall this town. 
Those who are in a position to state 
say that the town’s affairs are man- 
aged more efficiently than the av- 
erage towns’ in the state. 
The fact that a town the size of 
Manchester has a valuation of over 
$13,000,000, and with over half a 
million in cash and checks passing 
through the hands of its treasurer 
in the course of a year, is sufficient 
to warrant the most up-to-date sys- 
tem of accounting and auditing. It 
has been suggested in some quar- 
ters that irrespective of any troubles 
that have arisen in other places 
there ought to be some system of 
auditing and accounting introduced 
here which will place the town’s 
financial condition in a_ position 
which could not be questioned at 
any time. In fact it might be sug- 
gested that an expert accountant 
ought to be procured to go over 
the books of all the town officers at 
least once or twice a year. 
The Boston Herald commenting 
editorially says, ‘‘The moral which 
intelligent and self-respecting com- 
munities will draw from _ recent 
events is that of rigid investigation 
of present methods, and determina- 
tion to comply with the system 
which has had the approval of stu- 
dents of municipal accounting and 
of the Bureau of Statistics. If town 
authorities and their townspeople 
do not choose to profit by these ex- 
periences and to learn the lesson 
which has been demonstrated be- 
fore their eyes, it will be the duty 
of the Legislature to take action. 
Non-resident owners of property, 
purchasers of town notes and bonds, 
and the public in general, which 
has an interest in efficient local gov- 
ernment not defined by city or town 
lines, must have some recourse for 
protection against local negligence. 
There need be no legislative inter- 
ference if only towns and cities do 
their duty and appreciate their re- 
sponsibilities of self-government.’’ 
We know that the citizens of 
Willmonton’s Agency 
SCHOOL AND UNION STS., MANCHESTER OLD SOUTH BLDG., BOSTON 
Manchester and the town officers 
would feel safer if the town would 
take steps in having an expert ac- 
countant go over the books of the 
town as suggested above, at least 
once or twice a year. Town Treasur- 
er Stanley says he hopes such a 
thing can be brought about as it 
will go a long way toward making 
the burdens of his office rest easier 
on his shoulders, though he says the 
town is very fortunate in having 
such an efficient town auditor as the 
present incumbent, Mr. Cheever. 
When the town of Manchester 
granted the Manchester Electric Co. 
a franchise to dig up our streets and 
lay their electric cable conduits they 
did a good thing in one particular 
at least—in that the wires were to 
go underground and not overhead. 
To say that we wished all wires on 
our town streets were underground 
—telephone, telegraph, ete.—is hop- 
ing too much for it probably will 
not come in our day and genera- 
tion, now that the town has granted 
a franchise to the telephone com- 
pany to have their wires overhead. 
Some 15 or 20 years ago the priv- 
ilege was given to the Western Un- 
ion Cable Co. to run a special wire 
from the railroad on Beach st. to 
the Masconomo house. That was 
when the hotel was in a thriving 
condition and was one of the show 
places of the Shore. For the last 
few years, as everyone knows, the 
hotel has run down and so far as 
we can learn, the telegraph wires 
have not been used for several sea- 
sons. We may further state that 
they will probably not be used for 
many seasons more from the present 
outlook. 
However, whether they are, or 
are not to be used, the two wires 
on the poles at the present time are 
in a pretty dilapidated condition. 
The wires have been broken down 
across the street and along by the 
sidewalk on Beach street and to all 
appearances are out of condition 
entirely. The polls are so unsightly 
and in many eases so rotten that 
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