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pair and the wiring and cable would 
eost about $400. 
Art. 16. $1450 and dog tax, which 
EB. S. Knight stated was $265.18, was 
appropriated for the support of the 
public library. 
Art. 17. $1200 was appropriated 
for the use of the board of health. 
Art. 12. $100 was appropriated 
for medical inspection of children of 
the schools. 
Art. 8. $100 was appropriated for 
eleaning snow from Central pond. 
Art. 42. $190 for concrete side- 
walk, Norwood ave., Vine to Lin- 
coln streets. 
Art. 43. $50 for concrete side- 
walk, Arbella street. 
Art. 53. $74,460 was appropriated 
without a dissenting vote for fixed 
charges, such as state and county 
tax, retiring bonds and interest, le- 
gal expenses, ete., as found in the list 
of appropriations. 
Art. 30. $300 for use of Assessors. 
Art. 29. $810 and interest of 
fund, $210, for care of Tuck’s point. 
W. GC. Rust thought this was a 
great deal of money for this purpose. 
He asked the need of it. Why is it 
necessary to have a caretaker there 
from April to November? 
Chairman E. 8. Knight replied 
that much of this money is used 
for keeping the grounds in repair, 
such as gravelling avenue, manuring 
lawn, painting house and cook house. 
The coming year it is proposed to 
shingle the roof of the picnic house. 
C. O. Howe thought this money 
was spent alright. 
T. W. Lamasney was of the opin- 
ion it was money well spent. 
W. C. Rust did not want to cut 
down the appropriation, if the 
money is needed. He merely asked 
for information. He was entitled to 
it, he thought. 
Art. 6. On motion of F. K. Swett, 
| $18,000 was appropriated for repairs 
and improvements of highways, 
bridges, sidewalks, etc., including 
| salary of superintendent, and $3000 
| was appropriated for crushing stone. 
| Art. 7. $2500 was appropriated 
| for clearing snow. This was $500 
| more than asked for in the warrant, 
but there had been an excess in this 
| department the present winter and 
the additional sum was to cover this 
| Cost. 
) Art. 9. $500 for care of Wenham 
old road and Essex old road. 
Art. 20. $7500 for street lights. 
G. S. Sinnicks said he saw by the 
police report that some 200 lights 
ad been reported out during the 
year. What does this mean? 
E. 8S. Knight said the police were 
instructed to notify the board of se- 
lectmen of every such occurrence, 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
and citizens generally should do this. 
The town receives a deduction for 
lights being out. The service had 
been poor the last year, he said. 
This was due largely to the Wells- 
bach Co. subletting the contract for 
lighting to another man. The five 
years’ contract with the company 
expires the coming March. 
C. O. Howe said the light near his 
home on Pleasant street had been 
out 19 nights the past winter. 
Art. 22. The care of the Common, 
Dump and Wharf was left in the 
hands of the selectmen. 
Art. 27. $400 of the $500 asked 
for was voted for care of trees. 
Art. 33. $200 was voted for the 
use of the Forest Warden’s dept. 
Art. 11. F. K. Hooper moved that 
$1500 be appropriated for improve- 
ments at the playgrounds. 
Dr. Tyler objected to this. He 
said $2000 was asked for and that 
$1500 was not enough to complete 
the work. If the town votes $1500 
the work will be uncompleted. If 
$2000 was voted the job would be 
completed by July 1 and the town 
would not have another uncompleted 
job hanging on. The town has not 
any suitable place for the young 
people to play. The Fourth of July 
sports could be held here instead of 
in the street. 
Austin Morley said he lived pretty 
close to that school. $2000 was not 
enough, he thought. The walks 
around the school building ought to 
be fixed up. 
EK. P. Stanley offered an amend- 
ment that the sum be made $2000. 
If the job can be completed for $500 
additional, let’s have it, he said. 
F. K. Hooper agreed with Mr. 
Morley that the walks around the 
school ought to be improved. As to 
the completion of the playground, 
the committee had $800 last year and 
they did a good job with the money 
at their disposal. This article calls 
for ‘‘improving,’’ not for ‘‘complet- 
ing’’ the work. The estimate was 
merely guessed at; it was approxi- 
mate. He thought it good judgment 
to appropriate $1500 this year, and 
finish the job when some definite es- 
timate can be brought in. 
Mr. Morley wanted to see it fin- 
ished. Let it go over to the next 
meeting and in the meanwhile find 
out what it will cost to complete it. 
Mr. Hooper favored letting it go 
over to the next meeting. 
Dr. Tyler. When the appropria- 
tion committee went over the 
grounds with me they said they were 
glad to see at least one piece of work 
where the cost of finishing it was 
known. He said further that he had 
consulted four contractors and that 
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three of them had estimated that the 
work could be completed for less 
than $2000. 
Mr. Morley asked the speaker if 
he had considered the walks. 
Dr. Tyler said the walks had been 
considered by the school committee 
and until the warrant was issued 
he had supposed there was a provi- 
sion for this. 
Austin Morley moved a reference 
of the whole matter to a committee 
to report at the adjourned meeting, 
with estimates, covering the walks, 
ete. 
It was voted to refer the whole 
matter to the school committee. 
Art. 13. In regard to buying ap- 
paratus for the playground, Mr. 
Hooper thought it best to wait until 
the other article had been acted up- 
on. 
W. C. Rust moved to lay this ar- 
ticle on the table until the report of 
the committee on Art. 11. 
Dr. Tyler hoped that when the 
children wanted a place to play ball 
this coming summer and couldn’t use 
the playground they would go to Mr. 
Hooper and ask him about it. 
Mr. Hooper said the appropriation . 
committee had no desire to take one 
thing from the children. Manches- 
ter can well afford to have the best 
schools and everything else, but he 
did not believe in going ahead until 
they knew just what they were 
doing. 
Art. 28. $4495.75 was appropriat- 
ed for moth work, and on motion of 
F. K. Hooper a special appropria- 
tion of $7500 was made for addi- 
tional moth work, the understand- 
ing being that the state would furn- 
ish $7500 and a like sum would be 
raised by private subscription, the 
whole to be spent under the direc- 
tion of the state. 
Art. 34 was laid upon the table 
until such time as the Tax Collec- 
tor’s report was acted upon. 
Art. 36. $3913.15 was appropriat- 
ed to cover deficiencies as they ap- 
pear in the various departments. 
Art. 46. Sidewalk between Man- 
chester Cove and Magnolia. The 
petitioners were not present and 
nothing definite as to cost was avail- 
able, so the article was indefinitely 
postponed. 
Art. 45. $365 was appropriated 
for concreting a part of the side- 
walk on Forest street this year. 
Art. 44. It was voted on motion 
of F. K. Swett that a sidewalk be 
constructed on the northerly side of 
Vine street and that the cost of same 
be taken from the regular highway 
appropriation. 
F, P. Knight wanted to know what 
was planned, where and how was | 
