~ house, 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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treasurer. All checks to towns 
must be endorsed by a majority of 
the board of selectmen and town 
treasurer, and checks to cities, by 
the mayor and city treasurer. 
**T think you will readily see that 
this system better safeguards the in- 
terests of the municipalities, es- 
pecially the towns, inasmuch as 
both the board of selectmen and 
treasurer will have full knowledge 
of every transaction at time of pay- 
ment, rather than the treasurer 
alone, which is the case under the 
present system. 
*‘Inelosed with all payments will 
be a voucher giving the amount of 
the check and just what account 
the same is in settlement of, thus 
enabling the boards of selectmen to 
endorse these checks at their regular 
meeting, entering record of the same 
upon the minutes of the board. 
“Trusting that this system will 
meet with your approval, I am 
Yours very respectfully, 
ELMER A. STEVENS, 
Treasurer and Receiver-General.’’ 
Auto Fire Truck Visits Manchester. 
Manchester people had an oppor- 
tunity of seeing an auto fire truck, 
such as the town voted to buy at 
the annual town meeting, last week. 
The combination chemical and hose 
truck for the Lowell fire department 
was ready for delivery Monday af- 
ternoon and at the solicitation of 
Chief James Hoare, drove down the 
shore to Manchester and from there 
to Gloucester. At Manchester a 
crowd of about 100 people was in 
the square to see the new truck, 
which is, indeed, a handsome outfit 
and which looks capable of doing ex- 
cellent service in case of fire. After a 
few minutes stop in front of the en- 
gine house, Chief Hoare, Selectmen 
Knight and Swett, Engineer Clar- 
ence Morgan, the Breeze man and 
several other citizens—13 in all— 
boarded it for a run to Gloucester. 
As the car was to be delivered in 
Lowell that night, no chances were 
taken with it in showing its speed, 
ete. It covered the distance between 
the corner of Brook and School 
streets and the Gloucester City hall 
in 22 minutes and was going at what 
would ordinarilly be called slow 
speed. Leaving the corner of Brook 
and School streets at 2.20, the car 
passed under the railroad bridge on 
Summer street, at 2.2314; the Heath 
at the Cove, 2.2514; the 
Carnegie residence, 2.27; Coolidges’ 
Point entrance, 2.2814; Raymond 
street, 2.29; the Gloucester-Man- 
chester line, at 2.30, just 10 minutes 
from the time it started. On the re- 
turn trip it made even better time 
than this. Manchester has not as 
yet placed an order for a machine, 
we understand, though it will in all 
probability purchase a Knox, such 
as the Boston and Springfield de- 
partments are equipped with. Sa- 
lem, Beverly and Gloucester are al- 
so thinking of purchasing an auto 
fire truck. A representative from 
the Salem committee, Mr. Watts, 
and also one from the Central fire 
station, in Beverly, rode on the car 
on its trip down the shore. 
Additional Town Meeting Notes. 
In our account of the Town Meet- 
ing in Manchester last week we 
omitted to mention a resolve offered 
by O. T. Roberts, and adopted, to 
the effect that the park commission- 
ers be instructed to grant permis- 
sion to the superintendent of streets 
to take sand from any of the beach- 
es of the town for use in the high- 
way department. Mr. Roberts up- 
held the action of the commissioners 
in prohibiting the removal of sand 
from the beaches, but he did think 
it was well enough to have sand, in- 
stead of gravel or crushed stone 
dust, used on the sidewalks. For 
this purpose, he believed, only some 
30 or 40 loads of sand is used in the 
course of a year. 
In the list of appropriations last 
week we omitted to take account of 
the $1000 re-appropriated for the 
use of the special committee on sew- 
erage. This makes the grand total 
appropriated to date, $203,067.58. 
The board of selectmen made the 
following additional report in re- 
gard to claims and suits for and 
against the town. ‘‘A petition has 
been filed in the land court for a 
registration of the clay-pit lot and 
the same has been referred to an 
examiner. An early report may be 
expected. 
‘“In regard to the EK. W. Longfel- 
low controversy the bill in equity 
brought by him against the Town of 
Manchester, in the U. S. Circuit 
court, has been dismissed and there 
is pending in the Superior court, for 
the county of Essex, a suit brought 
by the town against him, against 
which he is defending that he is a 
citizen not subject to taxation. This 
will be heard at a later date. 
‘‘In the matter of Bowditch vs. 
Town of Manchester, the matter 
stands in court, without further ac- 
tion, 
‘‘In regard to the petition to the 
war department against the B. & M. 
railroad, in relation to the bridge at 
Manchester, the hearings are con- 
cluded and we are informed that the 
report by the Engineer’s department 
has been sent to the secretary of: 
war at Washington. We expect a_ 
favorable report at an early date. 
“In regard to the claim of. Will- 
iam Till and others against the town 
for damages for personal injuries 
sustained by reason of a collision 
alleged to have occurred on Sept. 9, 
1909, between a certain carriage and 
a certain water hydrant, located on 
School street, we report that after 
a careful investigation, we settled 
the same by the payment of $185, 
taking a release from all parties in- 
terested. 
‘‘We would also report that upon 
an agreement with E. S. Bradley, 
regarding the removal of certain 
steps upon the sidewalk on the 
northerly side of his estate on Cen- 
tral street, we made a payment of 
$65, and received from him a quit 
claim deed of all right and title 
acquired by adverse possession or 
otherwise to any part of the side- 
walk covered by said steps.”’ 
Selectmen Appointments. 
The Manchester board of select- 
men have made the following ap- 
pointments : 
Leonard Andrews, sergeant of po- 
lice; J. Warren Lee, Thomas Shee- 
han, Robert Stoops and George A. 
Jones, patrolmen. 
Benjamin M. Crombie, superin- 
tendent of streets, with a salary of 
$1200 (same as last year). 
KE. P. Stanley, burial agent for in- 
digent soldiers and sailors. 
Dr. J. J. Riordan (of Beverly 
Farms) inspector of animals. 
John D. Morrison, local superin- 
tendent for the suppression of gypsy 
and browntail moths. 
A. B. Dunn, caretaker of the town 
clock. 
Selectman W. R. Bell has been 
designated by the board to have 
Tuck’s Point under his charge. 
At their meeting last evening the 
selectmen appointed Frank UH. 
Crombie caretaker of Tuck’s Point 
for the coming season. They also 
appointed Byron S. Bullock a spe- 
cial police officer. It is intended 
that Mr. Bullock should serve as the 
new officer for the coming summer 
for a period of six or seven months. 
The other specials have not yet been 
appointed. 
The Chief’s degree was worked at 
the meeting of Conomo tribe of Red 
Men, Wednesday evening, the work 
being admirably performed by De- 
gree-Chief H. S. Tappan and suite. 
‘Deputy -Ellison of Lynn paid the 
‘tribe a visit this week. 
