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Home My WebLink About1918-Annual ReportREPORTS OF THE TOWN OFFICERS OF THE Town of Lexington For the Year 1918 THE ALPINE PRESS 32 OLIVER ST., BOSTON TOWN OF LEXINGTON LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS FROM March, 1918 to March, 1919 Town Clerk CHARLES W. SWAN Selectmen WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN (Chair- man) '20 JAY 0. RICHARDS '19 WILLIAM B. FOSTER '21 Overseers of the Poor WILLIAM B. FOSTER (Chairman) ,21 JAY 0. RICHARDS '19 WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN '20 Road Commissioners JAY 0. RICIIARDS (Chairman) '19 WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN '20 WILLIAM B. FOSTER '21 Board of Survey WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN (Chair- man) '20 JAY 0. RICHARDS '19 WILLIAM B. FOSTER '21 Assessors GEORGE H. JACKSON (Chairman) '20 FREDERICK J. SPENCER '19 HENRY E. TUTTLE '21 Town Treasurer GEORGE D. HARRINGTON Collector of Taxes BYRON C. EARLE Cemetery Committee ARTHUR A. MARSHALL (Chair- man) '21 LESTER E. SMITH '19 GEORGE W. SPAULDING '20 Town Accountant CHARLES F. PIERCE Board of Health DR. WILLIAM L. BARNES (Chair- man) Chaimman) '20 CHARLES H. FRANKS '19 WILLIAM B. FOSTER '21 School Committee GEORGE E. BRIGGS '10 EDWARD P. MERRIAM '20 HALLIE C. BLAKE '21 Park Commissioners DR. J. ODIN TILTON (Chairman) '19 EDWARD WOODS '20 WILLIAM E. MULLIKEN '21 Water and Sewer Commissioners EDWARD H. MARA (Chairman) '20 ALBERT B. TENNEY '19 WILLIAM H. BURGESS '21 Trustees Public Trusts F. FOSTER. SHERBURNE '20 FRANK D. PEIRCE '22 JOHN F. TURNER '24 • 4 Tres Warden ALFRED E. ROBINSON Moderator EDWIN A. BAYLEY Constables CHARLES H. FRANKS PATRICK J. MAGUIRE TOWN OF LEXINGTON Fence Viewers FRANK P. CUTTER CHARLES E. WHEELER CHARLES H. SPAULDING Field Drivers WILLIAM F. FLETCHER PATRICK J. MAGUIRE Surveyors of Lumber FRANK P. CUTTER EDGAR W.HARROD Planning Board FREDERICK L. EMERY '19 S. LEWIS BARBOUR '20 DR. FRED S. PIPER '21 CHRISTOPHER S. RYAN '19 HOWARD S. 0. NICHOLS '20 EDWARD T. HARTMAN '21 APPOINTED OFFICERS Almshouse, Superintendent and Matron MR. AND MRS. ROBERT H. WHITE Animal Inspector DR. HARRY L. ALDERMAN Assistant Town Clerk HELEN C. GALLAGHER Bridge Charitable Fund Trustees F. FOSTER SHERBURNE '20 FRANK D. PEIRCE '22 JOHN F. TURNER '24 Building Inspector WILLIAM GRATTO Burial Agent ARTHUR A. MARSHALL Burial Permit, Agent to Issue CHARLES W. SWAN Cary Memorial Library, Board of Trus- tees THE SELECTMEN THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND THE SETTLED CLERGYMAN OF THE TOWN Cary Memorial Library, Librarian MISS MARIAN P. KIRKLAND Cary Memorial Library, Assistants' MISS HELEN E. MUZZEY MISS KATHERINE BUCK MISS DOROTHY B. WENTWORTH MISS EMMA 0. NICHOLS (East Lexington Branch) Cary Memorial Library, Janitor FRANK E. CLARKE Cary Memorial Library, Treasurer ROBERT L. RYDER Constable CHARLES E. WHEELER Fire Engineers EDWARD W. TAYLOR (Chief) WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN BYRON A. RUSSELL Forest Warden OSBORNE J. GORMAN Fumigator ARTHUR A. MARSHALL Gammeli Legacy Income, Trustees Act- ing with Overseers of Poor LHS. WILLIAM W. REED MRS. ARTHUR C. WHITNEY APPOINTED Lockup Keepers CHARLES H. FRANKS THOMAS C. BUCKLEY Measurer of Grain MOSES F. WILBU R Measurer of Wood, Bark and Manure HENRY W. PRESTON GEORGF R TEAGUE Milk Inspector ANDREW BAIN Moth Department Superintendent OSBORNE J. GORMAN Moth Department Supervisor WILLIAM 5. SCAMMAN Odorless Cart, Charge of ERNEST W. MARTIN Police Officers CHARLES IH FRANKS Chief) PATRICK J. M A G U TRE JAMES 7. SULLIVAN JAMES IRWIN WILLIAM F. FLETCHER THOMAS C. BUCKLEY WALTER H. KEW JOHN C. RUSSELL EDWARD C. MAGUIRE Police (Park) JOHN J GARR•ITY Police (Special) MARIA DODD FRED W. JOHNSON CLIFTON E. WALKER WILLIAM P. WRIGHT GEORGE S. TEAGUE EDWARD W. TAYLOR THOMAS F. FARDY WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN ALECK OHLSON JOHN CAMPBELL CHARLES A. MANLEY THOMAS F. GRIFFIN VERNON C. PAGE GEORGE CRAWFORD FRANK E. CLARKE (Acting OFFICERS 5 JOSEPH TROPEANO CHARLES G. RICHARDS JOHN G. FITZGERALD DEXTER M. WHITEHILL WALTER S. BEATTY JOHN E. KELLEY Plumbing Inspector ANDREW BAIN Registrars of Voters CHARLES F. NOURSE (Chairman) '20 BARTHOLEMEW D. CALLAHAN '19 DAVID F. MURPHY '21 CHARLES W. SWAN (Clerk) Sealer of Weights and Measures CHARLES E. HADLEY Slaughtering Inspectors DE. HARRY L. ALDERMAN CHARLES H. BUTTERFIELD Stone Building Janitor JOHN E. GARMON Street Supervisor ROBERT H. WHITE Town Engineer J. HENRY DUFFY Town Hall Janitor JOHN E. KELLEY Town Physician DR. HENRY C. VALENTINE Town Scales Superintendent WILLIAM E. DENHAM Undertakers 'ARTHUR A. MARSHAL JAMES F. McCARTHY Village Hall Janitor WILLIAM P. WRIGHT Water and Sewer Department, Superin- tendent and Registrar CHARLES S. BEAUDRY Water and Sewer Department, Clerk FLORENCE M. BOYE 6 Weigher of Beef WILLIAM E. DENHAM TOWN OF LEXINGTON Weighers of Coal WILLIAM E. MUI,TJTZFN GEORGE S. TEAGUE JOHN E. A. MUT LIKEN GEORGE F. TEAGUE JACOB BIERENBROODSPOT Weighers of Hay and Grain MOSES F. WILBUR ROBERT E. HANAFORD FRED W.' GIVEN Weighers (Public) WILLIAM E. DENHAM GEORGE F. TEAGUE GEORGE S. TEAGUE WILLIAM E. MULLIKEN JACOB BIERENBROODSPOT Weigher at Stone Crusher MISS L. T. WHITING COMMITTEES APPOINTED COMMITTEES APPOINTED AT VARIOUS TOWN MEETINGS By-laws— EDWIN A. BAYLEY ARTHUR L. BLODGETT CHARLES W. SWAN Committee to Confer with Assessors— ALBERT H. BUIRNHAM DANIEL B. LEWIS THEODORE A. CUSTANCE WILLIAM W. REED FREDERICK 0. WOODRUFF Finance Committee Term expires in March 1920 ARTHUR L. BLODGETT (Chair- man) HUGH D. MaLELLAN JOHN CALDER JOHN C. GRAHAM EDWARD C. STONE Term expires in March 1919 EDWARD T. HARTMAN JOHN P. DAILEY GEORGE H. CHILDS JOHN E. A. M1JUJKEN W. ROGER GREELEY (Secretary) Term expires in March 1921 WILLIAM W. REED ARTHUR W. HATCH JOSEPH W. LEONARD WILLARD C. HILL WALDO P. GLIDDEN 8 TOWN OF LEXINGTON ROLL OF HONOR Names of Lexington Residents who have served in the United States or Al- lied Forces in the World War. In order that the following list may be as complete and accurate as possible and of value for historical purposes, it is requested that everybody carefully read it and notify the Town Clerk nt once o£ any names that may have been omitted or incorrectly given. Names Abramson, Charles Adams, Norman I, Jr. Armstrong, Katherine Armstrong, Robert, W. Ashley, Harold C. Austin, Howard B. Baker, Edward W. Basher, Maurice Bashian, Aram M. Benson, Leonard V. Bigelow, Helen Blake, Charles M. Blodgett, James I -I. Bornstein, Albert R. Bornstein, Jaeob Boutwell, Fred A. Bowman, Edson H. Bramhall, Eugene K. Briggs, Henry Briggs, Russell Broderic, Hubert D. Broderick, James W. Broughall, Stephen Brousseau, Harry W. Brown, Ames T. Brown, Ronald D. Bryant, Robert E. Buckle, William G. Buckley, Eugene T. Buckley, Joseph W. Buckley, Matthew H. Buckman, Bowen Burgess, George P. Enlisted .Tune 5, 1917 Ang. 23, 1917 Aug. 1918 Jr. - Sept. 11, 1918 Sept. 3, 1918 May 1917 May 14, 1918 Oct. 4, 1017 Oct. 24, 1918 July 8, 1918 Nov. 25, 1917 Oct. 17, 1018 Oct. 22, 1918 Aug. 6, 1918 Jan. 30, 1918 Dee. 14, 1917 Oct. 18, 1918 July 1917 Jan. 5. 1918 May 1917 Dec, 28, 1917 Dec. 8, 1917 April 1917 Oct. 1, 1918 Aug. 23, 1917 Dee. 20, 1916 Juh• 17, 1917 Sept. 20, 1917 In all cases when the date of enlist- ment is incorrect or not given, it is re- quested that correct and missing dates be given the Clerk at once. It is also urged that the date of discharge be sent the Town Clerk as soon as possible. The State authorities also urge that all names and dates be secured if pos- sible. Names Burke, Frank E. Burke, Leon A. Burnham, Laurence H. Butterfield, Laurence D. Cady Harold E. Campbell, Edward 0. Canty, Dennis Carroll, Edward P. Casella, 8ebastiano Cashman, John J. Cassidy, Edward M. Cataldo, Antonio N. Chatfield, Harold B. Clapp, Roger S. Clark, Philip M. Coburn, Charles L. Cohen, Samuel D. Collier, Christopher W. Rev. Colon, Gordon L. Comeau, Chester R. Comley, George E. Comley, Lester 1". Conway, James P. Cook, Charles W. Cook, Lloyd S. Cook, Roy A. Coolidge, Ralph A. Corbin, Daniel S. Cosgrove, John T. Cotton, Henry C. Cotton, Joseph R. Cowdrey, Frank E. Cronin, Timothy P. Crosby, Lillian Crowther, Stuart F. Currier, Ralph C. Cutter, Ernest F. Cutting, Winthrop B. Dacey, John H. Dailey, Frank J. Dalrymple, Ralph F. Dalrymple, William E. Darling, Alfred D. Davis, F. Langdon Day, George B. Dean, Winthrop Denham, Elmer B. DeVeau, Leo E. Doe, Freeman C. Douglass, James Loring Earle, Arthur H. ROLL OF HONOR Enlisted April 20, 1917 Der. 12, 1917 Nov. 5, 1918 July 20, 1918 July 25, 1917 Jiuie 5, 1918 Dee. 18, 1917 Oct. 4, 1917 April 29, 1918 May 9, 1917 May 20, 1918 Oet. 1910 April 16, 1917 April 20, 1917 Dee. 4, 1917 July, 10, 1917 Aug. 20, 1917 Aug. 1017 Jan. 16, 1918 July 25, 1917 Oct. 22, 1918 July 22, 1918 Sept. 3, 1018 Sept. 8, 1917 Nov. 1915 Sept. 20, 1917 Jan. 17, 1918 May 29, 1918 June 22, 1918 .Tune 4, 1917 .l.pril 27, 1918 Sept. 5, 1917 Sept. 1917 Oct. 1, 1918 Aug. 26, 1918 . Dee. 12, 1017 April 19, 1916 June 2, 1917 .Tnly 30, 1918 Sept 29, 1917 Feb. 20, 1917 June 5, 1917 Aug. 5, 1917 Out. 20, 1917 Dee. 9, 1917 Oct. 2, 1917 9 Discharged Dec. 17, 1918 Died Dee. 2, 1917 Discharged Dec. 14, 1918 Died Oct. 14, 1918 10 Names Eaton, George E. Eaton, Ralph C. Emery, Leland H. Emery, George W. Enowsky, Adam Esposito, Domenico Fardy, Joseph L. Ferguson, Roy A. Perry, Anthony Ferry, Jesse S. Fitzgerald, Thomas E. Fowler, Clarence D. Fox, Fred Joy Freeman, Sidney A. Gaffney, James J. Garmon,Roland E. Geraghty, Michael Gleason, Clarence H. Goulding, Edward Graham, Louis H. Grant, Robert 11. Grose, Archie H. Hadley, Earle L. Hall, Edwin S. Hall, Harold S. Hall, Harry J. Hall, Norman P. Harding, Marston Harmon, Roy V. Harrington, Herbert E.. Hayden, J. Willard, Jr. Haynes, Frank E. Haynes, Warren E. Headley, Domaine C. Hennessy, Win. A. Hill, Converse Hill, Stanley Hokanson, Arthur E. Holt, Robert H. Hossfield, James H. Hubbell, Roger K. Hubbell, Richard Van A. Huntington, Fred D. Isnor, Ernest S. Jackson, C. Henry Jamieson, William D. Jensen, Irving C. P. Johnson, Eric A. Johnson, Fred W. Jr. Johnson, Richard F. asteno, Karlo TOWN OF LEXINGTON Enlisted Aug. 5, 1917 Sept. 5, 1918 Oct. 9, 1918 July 31, 1917 Dec. 13, 1917 May 21, 1918 July 30, 1917 Oct. 15, 1918 Sept. 10, 1918 Oct. 10, 1918 Dec. 15, 1917 Dec. 19, 1917 Sept. 20, 1917 June 3, 1918 May 1, 1917 Oct. 4, 1917 June 6, 1918 May 27, 1918 May 17, 1918 July 9, 1918 July 31, 1918 Oct. 1, 1918 April 19, 1918 Nov. 1, 1918 June 23, 1916 May 29, 1918 April 9, 1918 Nov. 6, 1918 Oct. 6, 1917 July 7, 1918 Nov. 14, 1917 June 1917 Oct. 1917 July 25, 1917 May 18, 1917 Dee. 8, 1917 Aug. 1914 Oct. 10, 1918 Discharged Dec. 9, 1918 Died Aug. 14, 1918 Names Kenealy, William Kelley, Thomas P. KettelI, Russell H. Kilgour, Walter M. 8. Lacava, Salvatore Lassoff, Samuel Lawrence, Warren B. Leary, Joseph R. Le Blanc, Ferdinand Lee, Michael Lennon, Edward J. Lewis, G. Parker Libbey, Sam R. Locke, Clayton G. Locke, Winthrop W. Lougee, William P. Love, John 1). Lowe, Henry E. Lyons, John W. Mabey, Edson R. MaeFarland, Samuel H. Mader, Ellard C. R. Maderias, Anthony H. Maguire, Edward C. Mann, Ernest L. Manning, Harold E. Mansfield, Frank Marciano, Alfred Mark, Rev. John W. Marshall, William J. Martin, William F. Matthews, George W. MeAvoy, Daniel McCoubrey, Walter W. McDonagh, John McDonald, Herbert L. McDonnell, Michael E. McDonnell, Patrick H. McDonnell, Timothy C. McGann, Joaeph C. McGreal, Dominick McGrory, Edward McIsaac, John McKearney, James A. McKearney, John F, Jr. McKenzie, James L. McLalan, Edgar Roy McLaughlin, Patrick McNamara, Edward J. Merriam, Gordon P. Merriam, Robert C. ROLL OF HONOR Enlisted Aug. 24, 1917 June 29, 1918 July 22, 1918 July, 5, 1918 Jan. 3, 1918 April 20, 1917 Sept. 20, 1917 July 18, 1917 July 22, 1918 Sept. 25, 1917 Aug. 13, 1917 June 1917 Jan. 5, 1918 July 25, 1917 Dee. 13, 1917 May 29, 1018 Oet. 23, 1917 Oct. 4, 1917 Oct. 1, 1918 Mar. 26, 1918 July 6, 1917 April 28, 1917 Oct. 24, 1918 July 1917 April 8, 1917 Sept. 6, 1917 April 5, 1917 Sept. 2, 1918 Sept. 20, 1917 Nov. 4, 1918 July 13, 1918 Aug. 5, 1918 July 22, 1918 Dee. 10, 1917 July 25, 1918 May 29, 1918 Sept. 20, 1917 Dec. 8, 1917 Sept. 1917 Sept. 20, 1917 Mar. 29, 1918 March 27, 1918 July 30, 1917 July 11, 1917 Aug. 17, 1917 11 Died Jan. 31, 1918 Died Oct.. 18, 1918 { 12 Names Meyer, Martin J. Mitehie, George A. Aug. 5, 1917 Montague, Edward J. May 26, 1917 Montague, Thomas Moore, Harold F. Dee. 12, 1917 Moore, Walter K. Sept. 21, 1917 Mugridge, Charles H. Oct. 4, 1917 Murphy, William F. July 1, 1918 Nelles, Philip A. Jr. April 4, 1918 Norris, Harold A. July 15, 1918 Norton, Thomas K. Oct. 4, 1917 Nunn, Harold M. May 21, 1918 Nunn, Wellington C. April 6, 1918 O'Connell, Charles J. April 29, 1918 O'Connell, David F. Jr. Sept. 25, 1917 O'Connor, Edward B. Nov. 11, 1918 O'Connor, James R. Nov. 4, 1918 O'Connor, John E. July 13, 1918 O'Connor, William Sept. 6, 1918 Olson, Adolph M. O'Neil, James E. June 16, 1917 O'Neil, William June 1914 Owen, Arthur S. June 4, 1918 Page, Carl A. July 18, 1918 Page, Vernon C. Jnne 13, 1918 Parks, Alexander W. July 6, 1918 Parks, Helen A. Mar. 17, 1915 Parks, Joseph A. Sept. 20, 1917 Parks, Kathleen C. May 7, 1918 Pauley, Herman A. Dec. 23, 1917 Picarid, Raffaele Piceriello, Vincenzo Aug. 26, 1918 Pfeiffer, Albert Pierce, Harold C. Pierce, Irving B. Prentiss, Russell I. Preston, Jerome Preston, Richard G. Preston, Roger Ready, Aaron B. Reed, Harry B. Sept. 1917 Reynolds, Joseph L. Reynolds, Patrick J. Aug. 1918 Reynolds, Stephen H. Mar. 15, 1918 Riee, Joseph J. Riley, Charles W. Sept. 20, 1917 Riley, William J. Dec. 26, 1917 Robb, Guy I. Sept. 24, 1917 Robinson, Vernon T. June 20, 1917 Rouse, Richard E. Oct. 1, 1918 Rudd, John Jr. July 5, 1918 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Enlisted Nov. 1912 Aug. 5, 1917 Nov. 5, 1917 Feb. 19, 1917 March 15, 1915 July 14, 1918 Discharged Dec. 16, 1918 Discharged Dec.. 14, 1918 Discharged Dec. 31, 1918 Died Jan. 28, 1918 Names Rudd, Thomas F. Russell, Edward B. Russell, Galen A. Ryan, George V. Sachetti, John F. Saul, Herbert W. Saul, Milton E. Sears, Morris T. Sebastian, P. Seltzer, Max Sherburne, Richard R. Sherburne, Thomas R. Smith, Frank C. Smolenski, A. Sorensen, Oscar Spaulding, Edwin H. Spicer, Donald Spicer, Rolf Stacey, Robert H. Stabler, George A. Stickel, Paul J. Stevens, Rupert H. Stone, C. L. Stone, Elbridge L. Sturtevant, Leon J. Sullivan, Frank Swain, William D. Swan, Walter Sylvia, Matthew V. Thompson, George N. Thompson, Maurice R. Thurlow, Rev. George L. Tibbetts, John M. Tibbetts, Perly C. Tilton, Gardner Tobin, Frank H. Tobin, Raymond Tower, William R. Tu11ar, Frederick H. Tupper, Hugh C. Tyler, Winsor M. Viano, Ernest E. Viano, Eugene J. Viano, Fred N. Wadleigh, John W. Walker, Alton M. Walley, Harold G. Walsh .lames J., M. D. Walsh, Joseph T. Waters, Joseph Watt, Charles H. ROLL OF HONOR Enlisted Dee. 12, 1917 Oct. 21, 1918 June 28, 1918 May 1917 July 1917 Oet. 23, 1918 Aug. 27, 1918 Aug. 5, 1918 Aug. 5, 1917 Sept. 5, 1918 Mar. 26, 1918 Nov. 6, 1918 July 22, 1918 May 20, 1917 April 20, 1917 May 8, 1918 Sept. 23, 1917 Aug. 26, 1918 May 21, 1917 Sept. 20, 1917 Dee. 13, 1917 July 16, 1917 Oct. 8, 1917 Dec. 7, 1917 Oct. 5, 1917 June 10, 1918 Jan. 1, 1918 Jan. 22, 1914 Oct. 7, 1917 Oet. 10, 1918 Oet. 24, 1918 Ort. 4, 1917 Sept. 3, 1918 May 29, 1918 Dee. 7, 1917 Feb. 26, 1918 Dec. 14, 1917 June 5, 1918 June 23 1916 June 16, 1917 Dec. 12, 1917 Nov. 22, 1917 May 15, 1918 13 Discharged Nov. 7, 1918 flZ 14 Names Welib, Edmund A" Webb, Melville W. Webster, Gordon W. Webster, Walter F. Wellington, Herbert L. Wellington, Samuel W. White, Warren R. Whitney, Robert Wiggins, James A. Wiggins, Joseph H. Wilson, Donald Wilson, George S. Wilson, Leo H. Woodhouse, John Joseph Woodhouse, Richard F. Woodhouse, Robert W. Woodman, Ralph C. Woodruff, F. Scott Wright, Wallace W. Zintschuk, Marfian TOWN OF LEXINGTON Enlisted Dee. 14, 1917 Oct. 25, 1917 July 1915 Oct. 1917 June 3, 1917 Sept. 20, 1917 Oct. 1, 1918 May 11, 1917 June 14, 1917 June 14, 1917 July 25, 1917 Dee. 13, 1917 Dee. 1, 1917 Aug. 6, 1918 Oct. 5, 1918 July 3, 1918 April 16, 1917 April 28, 1917 Discharged Jan. 25, 1918 WARRANT Commonwealth of Massachusetts To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, in said County. Greeting:— In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to noti- fy the inhabitants of the Town of Lex- ington, qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall in said Lexington on Wednesday, the thirtieth day of January, A. D., 1918, at seven -thirty o'clock P. M., then and there to set on the following articles Art. 1. To receive the report of any Board of Town Officers or of any Com- mittee of the Town for the action there- on, and to appoint other Committees. Art. 2. To see if the town will author- ize their Treasurer under the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow money for any necessary purposes, in anticipation of revenue for the current year, the same to be repaid directly from the pro- ceeds of said revenue or act in any man- ner relating thereto. Art. 3. To see if the Town will make an additional appropriation sufficient to pay the amounts awarded by the County Commissioners to Katherine H. Wood, Thomas Coyle, Norman J. Hingley, Mathews Shalelis, J. Newton Frost, Leo- pold Grubis and Edith F. Lenk for lands taken by said Commissioners for a town Cemetery, said appropriation also to in - elude expenses incidental to the taking of said property, and to determine the method by which the money shall be raised, whether by the issue of bonds or otherwise, or act in any manner relating thereto. Middlesex, as. Art. 4. To see if the town will make an appropriagon sufficient to meet the cost of additional insurance, and the re- newal of insurance from time to time, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 5. To see if the town will au- thorize the Selectmen to employ a town counsel and vote to appropriate money for this purpose, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 6. To see if the town will vote to determine the salary of the Town Ac- countant and appropriate money for the same, or act in any manner relating thereto. Hereof, fail not, and make due re- turn of this Warrant with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, on or before the time of said meeting. Given under our hands at Lexington, this sixteenth day of January, A. D. 1918. WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN JAY 0. RICHARDS WILLIAM B. FOSTER Selectmen of Lexington. Lexington, Mass., January 28, 1918. To the Town Clerk: --- I have notified the inhabitants of Lex- ington by posting printed copies of the foregoing warrant in the Post Office, and in five (5) other public plaees in the town, and by mailing a printed copy of the same to every registered voter in the town, eight days before the time of said meeting. Attest: CHARLES E. WHEELER, Constable of Lexington. 16 TOWN OF LEXINGTON TOWN MEETING January 30, 1918 The meeting was called to order by the Moderator. The Clerk proeeeded to read the warrant, but upon motion of William S. Scamman itwas voted that the further reading be omitted. The Clerk then read the return on the warrant. Art. 2. On motion of Jay 0.:Riehards, it was Voted that the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen he and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of revenne of the present municipal year to an amount not exceeding in the ag- gregate $150,000.00 at a rate of interest not to exceed 6% per annum, and to is- sue a note or notes therefor parable within one year. Any debt or debts in- curred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of the present municipal year. Art. 3. On motion of William S. Scamman, it was Voted that an addition- al sum of $10,000.00 he appropriated to pay the amounts awarded by the County Commissioners to Katherine H. Wood, Thomas Coyle, Norman, J. llingley, Mathews Shalalis, J. Newton Frost, Leo- pold Grubis and Edith F. Lenk for lands taken by said Commissioners for a Town Cemetery, and for expenses incidental to the taking of said property, and for the purpose of raising the money so appropriated the Town Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to issue and sell, under the direction and with the approv- al of the Selectmen negotiable eonpon bonds of the town in serial form to the aggregate principal sum of $10,000.00 to bear interest at a rate not to exceed 6% per annum payable semi-annually and payable both principal and interest in gold coin of the United States of Am- erica of the present standard of Freight and fineness, such bonds to be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the Selectmen with the ma- turities so arranged that $1000 of the principal will fall due and payable in 1910 and 81000 annually thereafter until said loan is paid in full. 2-1 voted in favor and 0 against. Art. 5. On motion of Arthur L. Blod- gett, if was Voted that the Selectmen he and are hereby authorized to employ Town Counsel and fix the compensation of such ofllcer and further voted that the stuff of $550 is hereby appropriated and assessed for compensation and expense of said office, and farther voted, That the appointment of the Town Counsel :and the affairs and management of his o1Tlce shall he snhject to the following •onditions :---- See. 1. Except as otherwise provided by law, or by vote of the town, at a meet- ing duly called for the purpose, the Board of Selectinen shall have the full mid exclusive authority as agents of the ton n to institute, prosecute, defend, com- promise and settle all claims, suits and actions brought by or against the town, provided, however, that no suit, claim or action by or against the town, unless redueed to the form of an execution or decree of court, shall be compromised or settled by the payment of any sum of money in excess of $300.00, without a special vote of the town therefor. Said hoard shall also have authority as agent of the town to appear person- ally or by counsel before any court, com- mittee of the Legislature, or any state or county board or commission, but such authority shall not authorize said board - to commit the town to any course of ac- tion without a special vote of the town therefor. TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS Seo, 2, The Board of Selectmen shall annually and prior to the first day of May appoint some attorney-at-law as general town counsel, who shall serve for the term of one year and until his successor is appointed. Said board may, whenever it deems necessary, employ special town counsel to assist the general town counsel. Such town Counsel shall receive for services such compensation as said board may de- termine. The town counsel both special and general, may }ie removed at the plea- sure of said board, provided, however, that before such removal becomes effect- ive, the Board of Selectmen shall file with the Town Clerk a written statement set- ting forth the speeific grounds for such removal. See. 3. 'l'he Town Counsel shall give advice and furnish opinions on such le- gal subjeets and questions as may he submitted to them by any Town officer, board, Commission or committee upon any legal matter relating to their official duties, and no town officer, board, com- mission or committee shall, at the ex- pense, or in behalf of the town, employ or be represented by any other than the ton counsel. See. 4. The general town ensinsel shall 17 annnally, and not later than the fret day of Jannary in each year, make a re- port in writing to the Board of Select- men of al] actions brought by or against the town during the preceding fiscal year. Such report shall show the full name of each plaintiff and of each defendant, the nature and amount of the claims of such actions, whether the same are still pend- ing and if settled the terms of such set- tlements; such report shall be printed in the annual town report. Sec. 5. The general town eonnsel shall not, during his term of office, be a mem- ber of any elective board, commission or committee of the town. Art. 6. On motion of Jay O. Richards it was Voted that the salary paid the Town Aecountant be fixed at the rate of $1200.00 per year, and further voted that the suns of :':1200.00 he appropriated and assessed on aeeonnt of salary for 1918. Art. 4. On motion of William S. Seamman it was Voted that the sum of $3300.00 is hereby appropriated and as- sessed to meet the cost of additional in- surance and for the renewal of insurance expiring the current year. Meeting dissolved at 8.20 P. M. TOWN WARRANT Commonwealth of Massachusetts To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, in said County, Greeting: In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Lexington, c1uaLified to vote in elections and in town affairs to meet in the Town Hall in said Lexington, on Monday, the fourth day of March, A. D., 1918, at seven o'eloek, A. M., then and there to act on the following articles: Art. 1. To ehoose by ballot the fol - Middlesex es. lowing town officers: One Town Clerk for the term of one year; one Selectman for the term of three years; one Over- seer of the Poor for the term of three years; one Road Commissioner for the term of three years; one Assessor for the term of three years; one Town Treasurer for the term of one year; one Collector of Taxes for the term of one year; one Auditor for the term of one year; one Water and Sewer Commissioner for the term of three years; one member of the Cemetery Committee for the term of 18 TOWN OF LEXINGTON three years; one member of the School Committee for the term of three years; one member of School Committee for one year to fill a vacancy; one member of the Board of Health for the term of three years; one Park Commissioner for the term of three years; one Tree War- den for the term of one year; two Con- stables for the term of one year; one Moderator for the term of one year; one Trustee of Public Trusts for the term of six years. Art. 2. To see if the Town will vote for or against granting licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors, in answer to the question: "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?" Art. 3. To see if the Town will vote to accept Chap. 23, General Acts of 1917 being "An Act to provide for the licens- ing of coffee houses, so called," to take effect in any town upon its acceptance by vote of the town at any anneal town meeting or at any special meeting duly called for the purpose, and in any city upon its acceptance by the city council with the approval of the mayor. Art. 4. To see if the Town will vote to accept Chap. 254, General Acts of 1917, being "An Aet to authorize cities and towns to pay to their employees who enlist in the service of the United States the difference between their military and their municipal compensation," to take effect upon its acceptance in towns by the voters thereof at any regular or spec- ial town meeting, and in cities upon its acceptance by the mayor and city coun- cil. Art. 5. To see if the Town will vote to accept Chap. 140, General Acts of 1917, amending Chap. 291, General Acts of 1916 being "An Aet relative to the tenure of office of chiefs of fire depart- ments in the Metropolitan Fire Preven- tion District," to take effect upon its passage (April 3, 1917) in such cities and towns as have accepted the provi- sions of said Chapter 291, General Acts of 1916, or in which the provisions of the civil service Iaws are already applic- able to said chief. But in all other cities and towns included in the fire preven- tion distriat the question of accepting said Chapter 291, as amended by said Chapter 140, General Acts of 1917, shall be submitted to the voters of said cities and towns at their next respective muni- cipal elections or town meetings and shall take effect in any such city or town upon its acceptance by a majority of the voters voting thereon. Art. 6. To sec if the town will vote to accept Chapter 327 of the Acts of 1904, being an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the pensioning of perman- ent members of Police Department and Fire Departments in towns." The election officers will receive votes under Articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, on the official ballot prepared by the Town Clerk. The polls will be opened as soon as possible after the organization of the meeting and may be kept open until five P. M. In compliance with Article III of the By -Laws as amended January 29, 1900, business under the following Arti- cles will he transacted at an adjourned meeting to be held Monday evening, Mareh 11, 1918, unless the adjourned meeting shall by unanimous vote, be or- dered for some other specified time. Art. 7. To receive the report of any Board of Town Officers or of any Com- mittee of the Town for action thereon, and to appoint other Committees. Art. 8. To choose such Town Officers as are required by law and are usually chosen by nomination. Art. 9. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the proper observ- ance of Memorial Day, to be expended under the direction of Post 119, Grand Army of the Republic.. Art. 10. To provide for the support of the Public Schools the ensuing year, and grant money for the same. Art. 11. To provide for the support of the poor at the AIms House the en- TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS 19 suing year, and grant money for the same. Art. 12. To provide for the support of the Outside Poor the ensuing year, and grant money for the same. Art. 13. To provide for the support of the Highways the ensiling year, and grant money for the same. Art. 14. To provide for the support of the Street Lights the ensuing year, and grant money for the same. Art. 15. To provide for the support of the Fire Department the ensuing year, and grant money for the same. Art. 16. To see if the Town will make the usual appropriations for Town ex- penses the ensuing year, not specified in other articles, or act in any manner re- lating thereto. Art. 17. To see if the Town will in- struct the Selectmen to improve the con- dition of the Town Hall grounds, and make an appropriation for this purpose, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 18. To see if the Town will make an appropriation to construct sidewalks with concrete or other materials where the abutters will pay one-half the ex- pense thereof. Art. 19. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the suppression of Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths in accord- ance with Chap. 381, Acts of 1905 and amendments thereto, or act in any man- ner relating thereto. Art. 20. To see if the Town will ap- propriate a sum of money for the use of the Finance Committee, or take any ac- tion relating thereto. Art. 21. To provide for the support of the Public Parks for the ensuing year, and grant money for the same, or act in any. manner relating thereto. Art. 22. To see if the Town will make further appropriations of money for the sup- pression of insects, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 23. To see if the Town will vote to abolish the office of Auditor in accordance with the terms of Chapter 624 of the Acts of 1910, or take any action relating thereto. Art. 24. To see if the Town will vote to accept an extension of Muzzey Street from Forest Street to Vine Brook, and also two parcels of land situated at each cor- ner of the present Muzzey Street and Forest Street, all as laid out by the Se- lectmen for highway purposes, or act in any manner relative to the acceptance of said extension or pareels. Art. 25. To see if the Town will vote to accept a relocation of Locust Avenue from Massachusetts Avenue to Tower Street and also an extension of Locust Avenue from Tower Street to Fallen Road as laid out by the Seleetmen for highway pur- poses, or act in any manner relative to said relocation or extension, Art. 26. To see if the Town will vote to create a Planning Board of six members in ac- cordance with Chapter 283 of the Acts of 1914 and amendments thereto, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 27. To see if the Town will vote to elect a Planning Board to consist of six mem- bers as follows: -Two members for the term of one year, two members for the term of two years and two members for the term of three years, and annually thereafter two members for the term of three years. Art. 28. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to purchase or take by right of eminent domain a parcel of land on Waltham Street, the same being the promises on which the Stone Crusher is located and adjacent thereto, and ap- propriate money for this purpose, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 30. To see if the Town will make an ap- propriation for the purpose of laying out • 20 TOWN OF LEXINGTON and developing the New Cemetery, or act in any manner relative thereto. Art. 31. To appropriate such sums as may be needed for any or all of the purposes of the Water Department, including the payment of liabilities incurred in meet- ing the extreme emergencies lately aris- ing through the freezing of ►nater mains, which involved the life and safety of the people and their property; to pro- vide for the raising of said sums by cur- rent assessment, by issuance or bonds or notes of the Town, or by any one or more of such means; and to take any other or further action related to the raising of money for the use of the De- partment, whether by borrowing or other- wise. Art. 32. To see if the Town will vote to appropri- ate money to widen and deepen the brooks in the Town so as to obtain bet- ter surface drainage, the same to be ex- pended by the Water and Sewer Com- missioners or take any other action re- lating thereto. Art. 33. To see if the Town will make an ap- propriation to provide funds for the payment of pensions to retired town veterans under Chapter 447 of the Acts of 1912, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 34. To see if the Town wilt vote to es- tablish building lines on any of the streets in the Town, and determine on what streets said building lines shall be established, and appropriate a sum of money sufficient for this purpose or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 35. To see if the Town will make an ap- propriation sufficient to meet the re- quirements of Chapter 254 of the Gen- eral Acts of 1917 provided said Chapter is accepted by this Town or act in any manner relating thereto. • Art. 36, To see if the Town will make an ap- propriation for the maintenance of the Town Engineer's Department or act in any manner relating _thereto. Art. 37. To see if the Town will vote to appro- priate and assess an amount of money to be used as a Reserve Fund, as pro- vided by Chapter 645, Acts of 1913, or take any action relating thereto. Art. 38. To see if the Town will by vote trans- fer any unexpended loan or revenue bal- ances, where the purpose of the original appropriation has been completed, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 39. To see if the Town will vote to approp- riate and assess money to provide for the following overdrawn accounts, as of De- cember 31, 1917, or act in any manner relating thereto; Overlay 1917 on account of Abatement of Taxes of 1917 Printing and Certification Bonds Forest Fires Snow Removal Interest $450.13 of 178.05 196.82 259.72 233.78 Art, 40. To see if the Town will by vote, pro- vide that from and after December 31, 1918, all unexpended balances remain- ing after the purpose for which an ap- propriation has been made, has been ae- eomplished, shall be credited to an ac- count on the books of the Town to be designated "General Revenue and Sur- plus Account," with the exception of balances of loan appropriations and balances to the credit of the Water and Sewer Departments; also to provide that ail income and revenue accruing to or received by any department of the Town, from any source, excepting all income and revenue accruing to the Water or Sewer Departments, shall be similarly TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS 21 credited to said "General Revenue and Surplus Account," from and after Jan- uary 1, 1919, or act in any manner re- lating thereto. Art. 41. To see if the Town will make an ap- propriation to fit up a room in the base- ment of the Town Hall for the use of the Milk Inspector, and provide proper equipment for the same, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 42. To see if the Town will make an ap- propriation for the salary and expenses of the Milk Inspector, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 43. To see if the Town ■Fill make an ap- propriation for the salary of the Plumb- ing Inspector, or act in any manner re- lating thereto. Art. 44. To see if the Town will make an ap- propriation for the salaries of the In- spectors of Slaughtering, or act in any manner relating thereto. Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings there- on, to the Town Clerk, on or before the time of said meeting. Given under our hands, at Lexington, this twentieth day of February, A. D., 1918. WILLIAM SCAMMAN, JAY O. RICHARDS, WILLIAM B. FOSTER, Selectmen of Lexington. Lexington, March 1, 1918. To the Town Clerk: I have notified the inhabitants of Lexington by posting printed copies of the foregoing warrant in the Post Once and in five other public places in the Town, and by mailing a printed copy of the same to every registered voter in the Town, seven days before the time of said meeting. Attest: CHARLES E. WHEELER, Constable of Lexington. ANNUAL TOWN MEETING March 4, 1918 The meeting was called to order by the Moderator at seven o'clock A. M. The Clerk proceeded to read the war- rant, but upon motion of William S. Scamman it was voted that further read- ing be omitted. The return of the Con- stable was then read. Charles G. Kauffman, James A. Hur- ley, Ralph H. Marshall and John J. Gar- rity were sworn as Ballot Clerks. The polls were declared open. The Moderator was obliged to leave and appointed William S. Seamman as Moderator pro tem. Alston M. Redman, William C. O'Leary, Fred E. Butters, John J. Mandigo, Bartlett J. Harring- ton, Samuel B. Bigelow, Wallace E. Mil- ler and Nathaniel Nunn were sworn as Tellers. At 1.30 o'clock 200 ballots were taken from the ballot box; at 4.05 o'clock 100 ballots were taken out, and at the close of the polls at five o'clock 27 ballots were removed from the box, making a total of 327 votes east at the election. Eleven women voted for School Com- mittee. At 5.50 o'clock P. M., the Clerk an- nounced the result as follows: Town Clerk Charles W. Swan Charles P. Nourse 300 1 • 22 Dennis Reardon 1 Blanks 25 Charles W. Swan was declared elected. TOWN OF LEXINGTON Selectmen for. Three Years William B. Foster Blanks William B. Foster elected. was 285 42 declared Overseer of the Poor for Three Years William B. Foster Patrick Mulvey Blanks William B. elected. 274 1 62 Foster was declared Road Commissioner for Three Years 271 1 55 declared William B. Foster Patrick Mulvey Blanks William B. Foster elected. was Assessor for Three Years Henry E. Tuttle Wm. Roger Greeley Blanks Henry E. Tattle was declared elected. Town Treasurer for One Year George D. Harrington Frank Holmes Patrick Mulvey Blanks George D. Harrington elected. 267 1 59 Collector of Taxes Byron C. Earle Patrick Mulvey Blanks Byron C. Earle was 287 1 1 38 was declared for One Year 293 1 33 declared elected. Auditor for One Year C. F. Pierce Frank Holmes Sidney Wrightington D. B. Lewis A. C. Washburn Blanks 2 1 1 1 1 321 Water and Sewer Commissioner Three Years William H. Burgess John Devine Patrick Mulvey Blanks William H. elected. Cemetery Committee for Three Years Arthur A. Marshall Patrick Mulvey Blanks Arthur A. Marshall elected. Burgess was for 270 1 1 55 declared 270 1 56 was declared School Committee for Three Years Millie C. Blake 291 Blanks 47 Hallie C. Blake was declared elected. School Committee for One Year (To Fill Vacancy) George E. Briggs 285 Blanks 53 George E. Briggs was declared elected. Board of Health for Three Years William B. Foster J. Alexander Wilson Patrick Mulvey Blanks William elected. B. Foster Park Commissioner for William E. Mulliken Philip A. Nelles Blanks William E. Mulliken elected. Tree Warden for Alfred E. Robinson Blanks Alfred E. Robinson elected. was 266 1 1 59 declared Three Years 255 1 71 was declared One Year 255 7 was declared Constables for One Year Charles H. Franks Patrick J. Maguire 266 267 TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS Patrick Mulvey 1 Blanks 120 Charles H. Franks and Patrick J. Maguire were declared elected. Moderator for One Year Edwin A. Bayley 264 Patrick Mulvey 1 Blanks 62 Edwin A. Bayley was declared eleeted. Trustee of Public Trusts for Six Years John F. Turner 263 Blanks 64 John F. Turner was declared eleeted. Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town, Yea 85 No 226 Blanks 16 The Town voted no license. Shall the Town accept Chapter 23, General Acts of 1917, being "An Act to provide for the licensing of coffee houses, so called'?" Yes 128 No 74 Blanks 125 The Town accepted Chapter 23, Gen- eral Acts of 1917. Shall the Town accept Chapter 254, General Acts of 1917, being "An Act to authorize cities and towns to pay to their employees who enlist in the serv- ice of the United States the difference between their military and their muni- cipal compensation?" 23 Yes 162 No 95 Blanks 70 The Town accepted Chapter 264, Gen- eral Acts of 1917. Shall the Town accept Chapter 140, General Acts of 1917, amending Chapter 291, General Acts of 1916, being "An Act relative to the tenure of office of Chiefs of Fire Departments in the Met- ropolitan Fire Prevention District," Yes 120 No 79 Blanks 128 The Town accepted Chapter 140 Gen- eral Acts of 1917. Shall the Town accept Chapter 327, of the Acts of 1904, being "An Act to provide for the pensioning of perman- ent members of Police Departments and Fire Departments in Towns," Yes 174 No 114 Blanks 39 'the Act was notaccepted two-thirds having failed to vote for acceptance. Meeting adjourned. Lexington, March 8, 1918. This is to certify that 1 have this day appointed Helen C. Gallagher, Assistant Town Clerk of Lexington, and that she has been sworn to perform the duties of said office to the best of her knowledge and ability. Attest: CHARLES W. SWAN, Town Clerk. ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING March 11, 1918 The meeting was called to order by the Moderator at 7.30 o'clock P. M. The Chairman of the Selectmen stated that because of reasons beyond the con- trol of the Selectmen, the Annual Town Reports were not ready for delivery, and 24 TOWN OF he therefore suggested that all articles asking for an appropriation be put off until a later meeting. Art. 26. Creation of PIanning Board. On motion of Jay 0. Richards, it was Voted, that a Planning Board be created in accordance with Chapter 283 of the Acts of 1914 and amendments thereto, said Board to eonsist of six members, two members to be elected for the term of one year, two members to he elected for the ter1n of two years and two mem- bers for the term of three years, and annually hereafter• in the month of March two members shall he elected .fur the term of three years. Vote passed unanimously at 7.47 P. M. Art. 27. On EIeetion of Planning Board. On motion of Jay 0. Richards, it was Voted, that the Moderator appoint A nominating eoniunittee of three citizens who shall Irving before this Town fleet- ing before its final adjournment n list of names front which six members of the Planning Board may be elected. Vote passed unanimonslr at 7.51 P. M. The Moderator appointed the follow- ing committee: Jay O. Richards, Frank D. Peirce, Edward 73. Ifara. Art. 23. On motion of William S. Scamman, it was unanimously voted that the of- fice of Auditor be abolished. Vote passed at 7.53 P. M. Art. 17 On motion of William S. Scamman it was unanimously voted that this article relative to the improvement of the Town Hall Grounds be indefinitely postponed. Vote passed at 7.56 P. M. Major AIfred Pierce read a letter from Governor McCall urging all towns to exercise strict economy in making ap- propriations for town expenses. Art. 28. On motion of Jay O. Richards it was LEXINGTON unanimously voted that this article rela- tive to the purchase or taking of land now occupied by the Stone Crusher be indefinitely postponed. Vote passed at 7.58 P. M. Art. 34. On motion of Arthur L. Blodgett it was unanimously voted that this article relative to the establishment of Build- ing Lines be indefinitely postponed. Vote passed at 8.00 P. M. Art. 8. Minor Town Officers. The following were elected as Fence Viewers: f'l,arles H. Spaulding ilba ries H. Wheeler Frank F. Fletcher :1s Field Drivers Patrick J. Maguire William H. Fletcher As Surveyors of Lumber: Edgar W. Harrod Frank P. Cutter Locust Avenue William S. Scamman presented a mo- tion provided for the relocation and ex- tension of Locust Avenue to Pollen Road. Mr. Scamman also offered a report for the Seleetmen describing the Iayout and lines of the relocation and extension. - On motion of Edward P. Merriam it was voted that the report be accepted and placed on file. A vote was taken on Mr. Seammon's motion to accept the relocation and extension and the same was defeated at 8.32 P. M. At 8.38 o'clock on motion of Jay O. Richards, it was voted to adjourn to Monday evening, March 25, 1918, at 7.30 P. M. TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING March 25, 1918 The meeting was called to order by the Moderator at 7.34 P. M. Art. 38. Transfer of Balances. On motion of Arthur L. Blodgett, it was Voted, that the following loan and appropriation balances be transferred, on the books of the Town, and placed to the credit of the appropriation for Town Debt, as follows: Loan Balances, viz: School House Construction New Stone Crusher New Fire Apparatns New Sehool House Fund Total Appropriation Balances, Committee on New Cemetery Contingent Repairing Mass. Ave. New fire Hose Preserving Plans Protecting Burial Grounds Fittings, Town Vault Valentine Fund Committee on Highways Total $27.35 13.43 .37 415.20 $456.35 viz: $52.03 1,286.72 164.77 15.00 5.91 222.00 11.50 381.00 500.00 $2,638.93 It was also Voted, That the appropri- ation balance of $54.04 be transferred from the account of Auditor, and cred- ited to account Town Accountant Sup- plies. Vote passed at 7.40 P. M. Art. 31. Water Department Appropria- tion. On motion of Edward H. Mara, it was Voted, that for payment of liabilities incurred by the Water Department, in meeting the extreme emergency lately arising through the freezing of water mains and connections in Lexington, which involved the life and safety of the people and their property, and for Water Departmental Equipment, the Treasurer, under the direction and with the approval of the Selectmen, is hereby authorized to issue and sell at not less than face value and accrued interest, three negotiable promissory notes of the 'Pawn for one thousand five hundred dol- lars each, bearing interest ata rate not exceeding six per rent per annum, paya- ble semi-annually, and with maturities so arranged that one note wilt become pay- able in the year 1519, one in 1920, and the third in 1921; each such note be payable, both principal and interest, in United States gold coin of the present standard or weight and fineness. And further Voted, that the Treasurer be and he is hereby directed, as pay- ments are tnade on said notes, whether for interest or principal, to charge the same against the then current revenue of the Water Department; it being intend- ed hereby to provide that the notes shall be paid out of the earnings of the de- partment. 92 voted in the affirmative and 1 against. Vote passed at 8.00 P. M. Art. 32. Voted, that the sum of $300.00 be ap- propriated and -assessed to be expended under the direction of the Board of Water and Sewer Commissionera for the purpose of deepening, widening and straightening the various brooks of the Town, or any of them. Vote passed at 8.07. Art. 7. Committee Reports. Jay 0. Richards submitted the follow- ing report for the committee appointed at the last meeting: The Committee appointed under Ar- ticle 27 to nominate a list of names for the Planning Board begs to submit the following names as its selection: Two Members for One Year Frederick L. Emery 3 Stetson St. Christopher S. Ryan 10 Bedford St. 28 TOWN OF Two Members for Two Years B. Lewis Barbour 54 Hancock St. Howard S. 0. Nichols 19 Hayes Ave. Two Members Tor Three Years Dr. Fred S. Piper 20 Clark St. Edward T. Hartman Locust Ave. Respectfully submitted, J. 0. RICHARS, EDWARD H. 1 EARA, FRANK D. PEIRCE. On motion of William S. Scamman, it was voted that the report be accepted and placed on file. Art. 10. School Appropriation. On motion of Hallie C. Blake, it was Voted, that the sum of $59,750.00 be appropriated for the support of the Public Schools during the ensuing year, to be made up as follows: Net balance on hand Jan. 1, 1918 $78.91 Estimated Revenue 3,500.00 To be assessed 56,171.09 Total $59,750.00 Vote passed at 8.13. Art. 14. Voted, that the sum of $10,000.00 be appropriated for maintenance of Street Lights, to be made up as follows: Balance Dec 31, 1917 $448.84 To be assessed 9,551.16 Total $10,000.00 Vote passed at 8.15. Art. 27. Election of Planning Board. On motion of Jay. 0. Richards, it was unanimously Voted, that the Town now proceed to elect by ballot six members of the Planning Board as follows: Two members for one year, two members for two years and two members for three years. It was also voted that ballots be dis- tributed and that the Moderator appoint Tellers to collect and count the votes. Edwin B. Worthen, George W. Spauld- LEXINGTON ing and Everett S. Emery were accord- ingly appointed. After the ballots had been counted, Mr. Worthen announced the result as follows: Two Members for One Year Frederick L. Emery Christopher S. Ryan Two Members for Two Years S. Lewis Barbour 123 Howard S. 0. Nichols 144 Two Members for Three Years Dr. Fred S. Piper 151 Edward T. Hartman 130 The above were declared elected. Various persons each received a few votes for the several terms. Result announced at 10: 21 o'clock. Art. 18. Sidewalk Appropriation. On motion of Jay 0. Richards, it was unanimously Voted, that the aum of $1,441.71 be appropriated for Sidewalks, to be made up as follows: Balance Dee. 31, 1917 $941.71 To be assessed 500.00 148 150 Total $1,441.71 Vote passed at 8.49 P. M. Art. 11. Almshouse Appropriation. On motion of William B. Foster, it was Voted, that the sum of $1,034.67 be appropriated for Support of Poor, to be made up as follows: Balance Dee. 31, 1917 To be assessed 800.00 $234.67 Total $1,034.67 Vote passed at 9.39. Henry L. Stone made an unsuccessful attempt to have the Town take different care of the inmates. Art. 39. Overdrawn Accounts. On motion of Arthur L. Blodgett, it was Voted, that the sum of $1,318.50 be appropriated and assessed to provide for overdrawn accounts, as follows: Overlay 1917 on account of TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS Abatement of Taxes of 1917 Printing and Certification of Bonds Forest Fires Snow Removal Interest Total Vote passed at 9.41. Art. 12. Outside Poor. On motion of William B. Foster, it was Voted, that the sum of $5,700.00 be appropriated for Outside Aid, to be made up as follows: Balance Dec. 31, 1917 To be assessed $460.13 178.05 196.82 259.72 233.78 $1,318.50 $2,566.81 3,133.19 Total $5,700.00 Vote passed at 9.43. Art. 9. Memorial Day. On motion of Charles G. Kauffman, it was Voted, that the sum of $250.00 be appropriated and assessed for the proper observance of Memorial Day to 27 be expended under the direction of Post 119, G. A. R. of this Town. Vote passed at 9.44. Art. 19. Moth Department Appropria- tion. On motion of William 8. Seamman, it was Voted, that the sum of $7,190.00 be appropriated for Moth Department, to be made up as follows: Balance Dee. 31, 1917 $1,140.22 To be assessed 6049.78 $7,190.00 Of this aenouut $3,394.08 is for the town's liability. Vote passed at 9.50. Art. 24. Muzzey Street. Chairman Scamman presented a re- port giving the boundaries and layout of Massey Street extension. It was voted that the report be re- ceived and placed on Me. Vote passed at 10:18. At 10.22 it was voted to adjourn for two weeks at 7.30 P. M. ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING April 8, 1918 The meeting was called to order by the Moderator at 7.31 o'clock P. M. Art. 15. Fire Department Appropria- tion. On motion of Arthur L. Blodgett, it was unanimously "Voted that the sum of $13,620.00 be appropriated for the Fire department to be made up as fol- lows: Balance To be assessed $77.46 13,542.54 $13,620.00 to be expended under the direction of the Board of Fire Engineers." Vote passed at 7.33 o'clock. Art. 29. Layout of New Cemetery. On motion of Jay O. Richards, it was unanimously Voted, that the Cemetery Committee and the Town Planning Board be appointed a committee to lay out and develop the New Cemetery and that the sum of $1,000.00 is hereby appropriated and assessed for that purpose." Vote passed at 7.34 o'clock. Art. 36. Town Engineers Appropriation. On motion of William S. Seamman it was unanimously Voted, that the sum of $4,000.00 be appropriated for the Town Engineer's Department, to be made up as follows: 28 Balance Dee. 31, 1917 To be assessed TOWN OF LEXINGTON $260.02 To be made up as follows: 3,739.98 Balanee on hand To be assessed $4,000.00 Vote passed at 7.49 o'clock. Art. 21. Park Department Appropria- tion. On motion of Arthur L. Blodgett, it was unanimously Voted, that the sum of $2,800.00 be appropriated for Park De- partment for the ensuing year, to be made up of: Balance on hand $11.77 To he assessed 2,788.23 $2,800.00 Vote passed at 7.51 o'clock. Art. 13. Highway Appropriation. On motion of Jay O. Richards, it was unanimously Voted, that the sum of $34.075.00 be appropriated for the High- way Department, to be made up as fol- lows: Balance Dee. 31, 1917 To be assessed Vote passed at 8.20 o'clock. Art. 16. Miscellaneous Appropriations. On motion of Arthur L. BIodgett, the following votes were passed: Voted, that the sum of $105.13 be ap- propriated for the eelebration of April 19, 1918, to be made up as follows: Balance on hand $58.13 To be assessed 50.00 $1,0055.79 $33,069.21 $34,075.00 $108.13 Voted, that the sum of $2,200.00 be appropriated for the Assessors for the ensuing year as follows: For salaries For other expenses $1,900.00 300.00 $2,200.00 $48.82 2,151.18 $2,200.00 Voted, that the sum of $3,327.41 be appropriated and assessed on acoount of the income deficit from bank and cor- poration tax for 1917. Voted, that the sum of $150.00 be appropriated and assessed for the Bacon Real Estate expenses for the ensuing year. Voted, that the sum of $2,000.00 be appropriated for the Board of Health for the ensuing year, to be made up as follows: Balance on hand $128.40 To be assessed 1,871.60 $2,000.00 Voted, that the sum of $212.75 be appropriated for the Board of Survey for the ensuing year, to be provided by the balance on hand of $212.75. Voted, that the sum of $4,200.00 be appropriated for the Cary Memorial Library for the ensuing year, to be made up of: Balance on hand To he assessed $5.98 4,194.02 $4,200.00 Voted, that the sum of $980.00 be ap•• propriated for Cemeteries for the ensu• ing year, to be made up of : Balance on hand $214.22 To be assessed 765.78 $980.00 Voted, that the sum of $87.50 be ap- propriated for Clerk of School Commit- tee for the ensuing year, to be made up of: Balance on hand $37.50 To be assessed 50.00 $87.50 TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS Voted, that the sum of $1,916.94 be appropriated for the collection of taxes for the year 1918, to be made up as follows: Unexpended balance on hand, Jan. 1, 1918 $116.94 To be assessed 1,800.00 $1,916.94 $1,500 of this total amount should be for the Collector's salary for 1918. Voted, that the sum of $50.00 be ap- propriated and assessed for Dog Officer for the ensuing year. Voted, that the sum of $660.00 be ap- propriated for Elections and Registra- tions for the ensuing year, to be pro- vided as follows: Balance on hand $39.95 To be assessed 620.05 $660.00 Voted, that the sum of $750.00 be ap- propriated and assessed for Extinguish- ing Forest Fires for the ensuing year. Voted, that the sum of $5.00 be appro- priated and assessed for Hastings Park for the ensuing year. Voted, that the sum of $2,000.00 be appropriated and assessed for Hydrants for the ensuing year. Voted, that the sum of $525.00 be appropriated and assessed for Inspector of Buildings for the ensuing year. Voted, that the sum of $600.00 be appropriated for Inspector of Cattle for the ensuing year, to be provided as fol- lows: Balance on hand $16.67 To be assessed 583.33 $600.00 Voted, that the sum of $782.00 he appropriated for Inspector of Meats and Provisions for the ensuing year, to be provided as follows: Balance on hand To be assessed 29 $10.00 772.00 $782.00 Voted, that the sum of $11,227.13 be appropriated and assessed for Interest on Town Debt for the ensuing year. Voted, that the sum of $4,212.60 be appropriated and assessed for general interest payments for the ensuing year. Voted, that the sum of $300.00 be appropriated and assessed for legal ex- pense for the ensuing year. Voted, that the sum of $25.00 be appro- priated and assessed for Licenses and Permits for the ensuing year. Voted, that the sum of $300.00 be appropriated and assessed for Overseers of the Poor for the ensuing year. Voted, that the sum of $9,600.00 be appropriated and assessed for Police De- partment for the ensuing year, to be made up of: Balance on hand $676.02 To be assessed 8,923.98 $0,600.00 Voted, that the sum of $600.00 be appropriated and assessed for printing town report for the ensuing year. Voted, that the sum of $150.00 be appropriated for the Sealer of Weights and Measures for the ensuing year, to be made up as follows: Balance on hand $19.74 To he assessed 130.26 $150.00 Voted, that the sum of $1,800.00 be appropriated for the Selectmen for the ensuing year to be made up of: Balance on hand To be assessed $583.78 1,216.22 $1,800.00 Voted, that the sum of $800.00 be appropriated for Stone Building for the 30 TOWN 01' LEXINGTON ensuing year, to be made up of: Balance on hand To he assessed $210.50 725.78 $800.00 Voted, that the sum of $2,000.00 be appropriated and assessed for Snow Re- moval for the ensuing year. Voted, that the sum of $300.00 be ap- propriated and assessed for Road Com- missioners for the ensuing year. Voted, that the sum of $1,500.00 be appropriated for Town Clerk for the en- siling year, as follows: For salary For other expenses To be made up of: Balance on hand To be assessed $1,400.00 100.00 $210.50 1,289.50 $1,500.00 Voted, that the sum of $43,150.00 be appropriated for Town Debt for the en- suing year, to be made up: Amount transferred from loan balances $2,638.93 Amount transferred from ap- propriation balances 456.35 To be assessed 40,054.72 Voted, that the sum of $3,085.00 be appropriated for Town Hall for the en- suing year, to be made up of: Balance on hand To be assessed $36.30 3,048.70 $3,085.00 Voted, that the sum of $109.00 be ap- propriated and assessed for Town Phy- sician for the ensuing year. Voted, that the sum of $1,450.00 be appropriated for Town Treasurer for the ensuing year, as follows: For salary For other expenses 81,100.00 350.00 To be made up of: Balance on band To be assessed $42.24 1,407.76 $1,450.00 Voted, that the sum of $76.00 be ap- propriated for the Treasurer of the Cary Memorial Libray for the ensuing year, to be made up of: Balance on hand To be assessed $25.00 50.00 $75.00 Voted, that the sum of $750.00 be appropriated for Tree Warden for the ensuing year, to be made up of: I3alanee on band To be assessed $149.87 600.13 $750.00 Voted, that the sum of $75.00 be ap- propriated for the Trustees of Public Trusts for the ensuing year, to be made up as follows: Balance on hand To be assessed $5.00 70.00 $75.00 Voted, that the sum of $25.00 be ap- propriated and assessed for the Town Scales for the ensuing year. Voted, that the sum. of $200.00 be ap- propriated for the Town Accountant Supplies for the ensuing year, to be made up: Amount transferred from ac- count Town Auditor To be assessed 145.96 854.04 $200.00 Voted, that the sum of $200.00 be ap- propriated and assessed for Unclassified Expense for the ensuing year. Voted, that the sum of $300.00 be TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS 31 appropriated for Village Hall for the en - ening year, to be made up of: Balance on hand $39.24 To be assessed 260.76 $300.00 Voted, that the sum of $75.00 be appro- priated for Vital Statistics for the en- suing year. Voted, that the sum of $400.00 be ap- propriated and assessed for Vocational School Tuition for the ensuing year. Voted, that the sum of $100.00 be ap- propriated and assessed for Watering Troughs for the ensuing year. Voted, that the sum of $25.00 be ap- propriated and assessed for the use of the Planning Board, said money to be spent under the direction of said Board. Art. 31. Water Department Appropria- tion. On motion of Edward H. Mara, it was unanimously voted, That for payment of liabilities incurred by the Water Depart- ment in meeting the extreme emergency lately arising through the freezing of water mains and connections in Lexing- ton, which involved the life and safety of the people and their property and for Water Departmental Equipment, there be appropriated and assessed the sum of forty-five hundred dollars ($4,500.00) and that the Town Accountant be and he hereby is authorized to charge the same against the current revenue of the Water Department at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00) per year for the years 1919, 1920 and 1921 respec- tively. It being intended hereby to pro- vide that the payment of the foregoing liabilities be made from the earnings of the Water Department. And. further Voted, That the vote passed at the adjourned Town Meeting, held March 25th, 1918, which provided for the payment of liabilities herein- above mentioned, be and the same is hereby rescinded. Vote passed at 9.40 o'clock. Art. 7. Voted, that the Moderator appoint a committee of five to confer with the Board of Assessors on the matter of se- curing a more uniform valuation of real estate for assessment purposes and re- port to the town. Committee is as follows: Albert H. Burnham, Theodore A. Cus- tance, Daniel B. Lewis, William W. Reed, Frederick 0. Woodruff. Art 24. Extension of Muzzey Street. On motion of Jay 0. Richards, it was Voted that the layout of an extension of Muzzey Street from Forest Street to Vine Brook and also the Iay-out of two parcels of Iand, situated at each corner of the present Muzzey Street and Forest Street, all as laid out by the Selectmen for highway purposes be approved and accepted, and that said extension and parcels be and are hereby established as a public way of this town in accordance with a plan, entitled "Plan of Muzzey Street Extension and Relocation of Forest Street at its junction with Muz- zey Street, Lexington, February, 1918, Scale 1 inch 20 feet, J. Henry Duffy, Town Engineer," and further voted, that the sum of $225.00 be appropriated and assessed for this purpose. Vote passed at 10.39 o'clock. Art. 33. Veterans' Pensions. On motion of Jay 0. Richards, it was Voted, that $842.40 he appropriated for Veterans' Pensions, to be made up as follows: To be assessed, $842.40. Vote passed at 10.41 o'clock. On motion of William S. Seamman, it was voted to adjourn for one week at 7.30 o'clock. 32 TOWN OF LEXINGTON ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING April 15, 1918 Meeting ealled to order at 7.47 o'clock. - Art. 22. Suppression of Insects. On motion of William S. Scamman, it was "Voted, that the sum of $800.00 be appropriated and assessed for Suppres- sion of Inserts, to be spent under the direction of the Moth Department." Vote passed at 8.00 o'eloek. Art. 16. Insurance. Voted, that the sum of $12.64 be ap- propriated for Insm'ance to be provided by balance unexpended $12.64. Art. 16. Voted, that the sum of $657.57 be ap- propriated for Repairs of Stone Build- ing to be provided by balance un- expended $657.57. Art. 16. Voted that the sum of $669.88 be ap- propriated for Repairs of Town Hall, to be provided by balance unexpended *669.88. Art. 7. W. R. Greeley Secretary of the Com- mittee on Improved Form of Town Gov- ernment submitted a report for the com- mittee and asked that the committee be discharged. It was voted that the report be re- ceived and placed on file. Art. 30. Voted that the sura of $200.00 is here- by appropriated and assessed for the use of the local company of the State Guard, the same to be expended under the direc- tion of the Selectmen. Vote passed at 8.20 P. M. Art. 20. Finance Committee Appropri- ation. Voted, that the sum of $150.00 be ap- propriated for the Finance Committee for the onauing year, to be made up as follows: Balance on hand To he assessed $16.45 133.55 Total $150.00 Vote passed at 8.21 o'clock. Art. 35. It was voted that this article relative to an appropriation under the provisions of Chapter 254 of the General Acts of 1917, be indefinitely postponed. Art. 37. Reserve Fund. On motion of Arthur L. Blodgett, it was voted that a sum of $1,000.00 be appropriated and assessed to be used as a Reserve Fund as provided by Chap- ter 645, Acts of 1913. Vote passed at 8.30 o'clock. Art. 40. On motion of Arthur L. Blodgett it was (First) Voted, that there shall be an account on the books of the Town designated "General Revenue and Sur- plus Account," to which shall be credit- ed from and after December 31, 1918, all unexpended balances remaining after the purpose for whieh the appropriation was made has been accomplished, except balances of loan appropriations which shall be disposed of as required by law, and except any balances to the credit of, or income received from any source by the Water and Sewer Departments. (Second) : Voted, there shall be cred- ited to the General Revenue and Sur- plus Account on the books of the Town from and after January 1, 1919, all in- come and revenue accruing to or re- ceived by any department of the Town from any source, excepting transfers from any other Town departments and any income the disposition of which is regulated by law, and also excepting any 'TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS 33 balances to the credit of or income re- ceived from any source by the Water and Sewer Departments. Vote passed at 8.49 o'clock. Art. 7. Arthur E. Horton moved that the meeting now consider the report of the Overseers of the Poor, but the meeting refused to do so. Art. 7. Arthur E. Horton made an unsuccess- ful attempt to have the Sewer Commis- sioners submit a comprehensive report on or before May 24, 1918, in addition to the report for 1917. Mt. 41. On motion of Arthur L. Blodgett, it was Voted, that the sum of $100.00 be appropriated and assessed for Milk In- spector's Room for the ensuing year. Art. 42. Milk Inspector's Salary. On motion of Arthur L. Blodgett, it was Voted that the sum of $200.00 be appropriated and assessed for salary and expense of Milk Inspector for the ensuing year. Vote passed at 9.15 o'clock. Art. 43. Plumbing Inspector's Salary. On motion of Arthur L. Blodgett, it was Voted, that the sum of $500.00 be appropriated and assessed for Plumbing Inspector's Salary for the ensuing year. Vote passed at 9.19. Art. 44. Voted, that the sum of $700.00 be ap- propriated and assessed for compensa- tion of Inspectors of Slaughtering for the ensuing year. Selectman Richards called attention of the meeting to the hearings now being given by the State Public Service Com- mission on the petition of the Middle- sex and Boston Street Railway Company for authority to inerease its charges for fares. No votes relative to the matter were passed by the Town. Meeting dissolved at 9.47 o'clock. WARRANT FOR STATE PRIMARY September 24, 1918 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, Greeting:— In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town who are qualified to vote in Primaries to meet in Town Hall Lexington on Tuesday, the Twenty -Fourth Day of September, 1918, at 2.30 o'clock P. M., for the following purposes: To bring in their votes to the Primary Officers for the Nomination of Candi- dates of Political Parties for the follow- ing offices: Middlesex, sa. Governor for this Commonwealth. Lieutenant Governor for this Common- wealth. Secretary of the Commonwealth for this Commonwealth. Treasurer and Receiver General for this Commonwealth. Auditor of the Commonwealth for this Commonwealth. Attorney General for this Common- wealth. U. S. Senators in Congress for this Com- monwealth. Congressman for 8th Congressional Dis- trict. Councillor for 6th Councillor District. 34 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Senator for 5th Senatorial Distract. One Representative in General Court for 28th Representative District. County Commissioner for Middlesex County. County Treasurer for Middlesex County. Register of Probate and Insolvency for Middlesex County. And for the Election of the following officers: District Member of State Com- mittee for each political party for 5th Senatorial District. Members of the Democratic Town Com- mittee. Members of the Republican Town Com- mittee. Members of the Socialist Town Com- mittee. Delegates to State Convention of the Democratic Party. Delegates to State Convention of the Republican Party. Delegates to State Convention of the Socialist Party. All the above candidates an officers are to be voted for upon one ballot. The polls will be open from 2.30 to 8.00 P. M. And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting and mailing printed copies thereof seven days at least before the time of said meeting as directed by vote of the Town. Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your doings there- on at the time and place of said meeting. Given under our hands this 11th day of September A. D,, 1918. WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, JAY 0. RICHARDS, WILLIAM B. FOSTER, Selectmen of Lexington. Lexington, Mass., Sept. 16, 1918 To the Town Clerk: I have notified the inhabitants of Lex- ington by posting printed copies of the foregoing Warrant in the Post Office and in ten (10) other public places in the Town and by mailing a printed copy of the same to every registered voter in the Town nine (9) days before the time of said meeting. Attest: CHARLES E. WHEELER, Constable of Lexington. STATE PRIMARY September 24, 1918 The meeting was called to order at 2.30 P. M., by the Chairman of the Se- lectmen. The Warrant and the Return thereon was read by the Town Clerk. Charles G. Kauffman and James A. Hurley were sworn as Ballot CIerks. The ballot box was shown to be empty and the key given to the Constable. Samuel B. Bigelow, William C. O'Leary, William E. Muiliken, Patrick F. Dacey, Allston M. Redman, Fred E. Butters, John J. Garrity and Nathaniel Nunn were sworn as Tellers. At the close of the polls at eight o'clock the ballot box was opened and 542 ballots taken therefrom. The num- ber of names checked on each list was 542. The dial on the box registered 541. The Tellers completed the work of count- ing the votes at 1.55 A. M., with the fol- lowing results: - TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS REPUBLICAN PARTY Whole number of votes cast Governor Calvin Coolidge Blanks Lieutenant Governor Channing H. Cox Guy A. Earn Blanks Secretary Albert P. Langtry Blanks Treasurer Charles L. Burrill Frank W. Thayer Blanks Auditor Alonzo B. -Cook Alonzo P. Grinnell Blanks Attorney General J. Weston Allen Henry C. Atwill Blanks Senator in Congress John W. Weeks Thomas W. Lawson Blanks • Congressman Frederick W. Ballinger Blanks Councillor James G. Harris Blanks Senator Charles S. Smith Blanks Representative Arthur W. Hatch Edward W. Taylor Blanks County Commissioner 491 Alfred L. Cutting Blanks County Treasurer 410 Charles Bruce 81 Joseph 0. Hayden Blanks 262 Register df Probate 164 William G. Andrew 65 Frederick M. Fsty Blanks • a• 1r 35 ^�T ,y. 36 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Clarence P. Johnson 362 Robert L. Ryder 109 Alfred E. Haynes Charles H. Spaulding Henry L. Stone 131 Joseph H. Cody 260 Edward Wood 100 William H. Burgess Blanks and Insolvency 124 259 108 392 State Committee Edward W. Taylor Edward P. Merriam 352 Edwin A. Bailey 49 Arthur W. Hatch 90 Edward " A. Bayley James W. Smith Alfred Pierce 346 Charles Hayden 47 Charles H. Rudd 98 Charles S. Smith Blanks 99 160 245 86 395 1 1 Delegates to Arthur W. Hatch Edwin A. Bayley Edward C. Stone Frank D. Peirce Willard C. Hill Edward W. Taylor Edwin B. Worthen Eugene Kraetzer 392 Louis L. Crone 99 Blanks State Convention Town Committee 375 William S. Scammau 116 Charles F. Bertwell Arthur W. Hatch Charles E. Hadley 385 Sydney R. Wrightington 106 Wesley T. Wadman Lewis C Sturtevant Edward L. Child 115 Willard. C. Hill 365 Arthur L. Blodgett 11 George H. Childs l 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 481 349 361 381 363 368 1 1 1 1 629 382 344 346 342 346 334 352 343 354 348 349 DEMOCRATIC PARTY Whole number of votes east Governor Edward P. Barry William A Gaston Richard H. Long Blanks Lieutenant Governor Richard H. Long Joseph H. O'Neil Blanks Secretary Charles: H. McGlue Blanks Treasurer Charles Giddings Blanks ' Auditor Francis M. Costello Blanks Attorney General Joseph L. P. St. Coeur Blanks Senator in Congress David 1, Walsh Blanks Congressman James F. Aylward John F. Daly 355 344 339 357 1 1 1 1 2,126 Edward Taylor Blanks Blanks. Councillor Blanks Senator Edward W. Taylor Blanks 2 2 16 51 1 50 51 Representative in General Court Edward W Taylor 11 Arthur W. Hatch 2 15 E. Taylor . 1 15 Edwin Willis Taylor 1 19 Edward F. Taylor 1 2 Edward Taylor 1 Blanks 34 1 7 Blanks 43 County Commissioner 51 County Treasurer Blanks 51 8 Register of Probate and Insolvency 43 Blanks 51 State Committee 8 John F. Mitchell 43 Blanks Delegates to State Convention 8 William C O'Leary 43 John J. Garrity BIanks 43 David F. Murphy Bartholomew D. Callahan William C. O'Leary John J. Garrity Arthur O'Leary Thomas F. Fardy, Jr. Philip P. Leaf Charles E. Moloy 16 Blanks 17 No Socialist ballots were cast. Town Committee 36 15 29 22 32 32 2 31 27 27 32 26 29 25 27 184 TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS TOWN WARRANT Commonwealth of Massachusetts To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington in said County, Greeting:— In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Lexing- ton qualified to vote in elections to meet in the Town Hall in said Lexington, on Tuesday the fifth day of November, A. D., 1918, at six o'clock A. IL, to east their ballots for the following officers: Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secre- tary, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney Gen- eral, Councillor for 6th Councillor Dis- trict, Senator for 5th Senatorial District, Representative for 28th Middlesex Dis- trict, United States Senator in Con- gress, Congressman for 8th Congression- al District, County Commissioner for Middlesex County, County Treasurer for Middlesex County and Register of Probate and Tnsolveuey for Middlesex County. Also to vote for or against the adop- tion of any or ail of the nineteen Amend- ments to the Constitution as submitted by the Constitutional Convention and published in the pamphlet mailed with this Warrant, and which are in brief as follows: Article of Amendent No. 1. The establishment of the popular in- itiative and referendum and the legisla- tive initiative of specific amendments of the Constitution Article of Amendment No. a The Conservation development and utilization of the agricultural, mineral, forest, water and other natural resources of the Commonwealth are public uses, and the Genera] Court shall have power to provide for the taking, upon payment of just compensation therefor, of lands and easements or interests therein, in - 37 Middlesex, ss. eluding water and mineral rights, for the purpose of securing and promoting the proper conservation, development, util- ization and control thereof and to enact legislation necessary or expedient .there- for. Article of Amendment No. 3. Advertising on public ways in public places and on private property within public view may be regulated and re- • strieted by law, Article of Amendment No. 4. The preservation and maintenance of ancient landmarks and other property of historical or antiquarian interest is a public use, and the Commonwealth and the cities and towns therein may, upon payment of jest compensation, take such property or any interest therein under such regulations as the General Court may prescribe. Article of Amendment No. 5. The General Court, by concurrent vote of the two houses, may take a re- cess or recesses amounting to not more than thirty days; but no such recess shall extend beyond the sixtieth day from the date of their first assembling. Article of Amendment No. 6. To authorize the General Court to pre- scribe, subject to certain restrictions, the manner of the appointment and re- moval of military and naval officers to be commissioned by the Governor. Article of Amendment No. 7. To define the powers and duties of the General Court relative to the military and naval forces, and of the Governor as Commander -in -Chief thereof. Article of Amendment No. 8. To provide for the suceession, in cases of vacancies in the offices of Governor 38 TOWN OF LEXINGTON and Lieutenant Governor, by the Seere- tary, Attorney General, Treasurer and Receiver General and Auditor, in the or- der named. Article of .Amendment No. 9. • To authorize the Governor to return to the General Court with a recommenda- tion for amendment bills and resolves which have been laid before him. Article of Amendment No. 10. Article IV of the articles of amend- ment of the Constitution of the Common- wealth is hereby amended by adding thereto the following words: Women shall be eligible to appointment as Notaries Public. Change of name shall render the Commission void, but shall not pre- vent reappointment under the new name. Article of Amendment No. 11. (Relative to the Retirement of Judicial Officers) Article I of Chapter I11 of Part the Second of the Constitution is hereby amended by the addition of the follow- ing words: and provided also that the Governor, with the consent of the Coun- cil, may after due notice and hearing retire them because of advanced age or mental or physical disability. Such retirement shall be subject to any provi- sions made by law as to pensions or allowances payable to sueh officers upon their voluntary retirement. Article of Amendment No. 12. Every charter, franchise or act of in- corporation shall forever remain subject to revocation and amendment. Article of Amendment No. 13. The General Court shall have power to limit buildings according to their use or construction to specified districts of cities and towns. Article of Amendment No. 14. The General Court shall have authori- ty to provide for compulsory voting at electives, but the right of secret voting shall be preserved. Article of Amendment No. 16. To limit the power of the General Court to lend the credit of the Common- wealth and to contract loans. Article of Amendment No. 16. To provide for a State Budget and the veto by the Governor of items or parts of items in appropriation bilis. Article of Amendment No. 17. To provide for biennial elections of State Ol]ieers, Councillors and members of the General Court. Ariicle of Amendment No. 18. No person elected to the General Court shall during the term for which he was elected be appointed to any office cre- ated or the emoluments whereof are in- creased during sueh term, nor receive additional salary or compensation for service upon any reeess committee or commission except a committee appoint- ed to examine a general revision of the Statutes of the Commonwealth when submitted to the General Court for adop- tion. Article of Amendment No. 19. On or before January first, nineteen hundred twenty-one, the executive and administrative work of the Common- wealth shall be organized in not more than twenty departments, in one of which every executive and administrative office, board and commission, except those officers serving directly under the Governor or the Council, shall be placed. Such departments shall be under such supervision and regulation as the Gen- eral Court may from time to time pre- scribe by law. The polls will be opened immediately after the organization of the meeting and may remain open until four o'clock P. M., and as mach longer as the meeting may direct, but not later than the hour prescribed by law. TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your doings there- on, to the Town Clerk, on or before the time of said meeting. Given under aur hands at Lexington this sixteenth day of October, A. D., 1918. WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, WILLIAM B. FOSTER, JAY O. RICHARDS, Selectmen of Lexington. 39 Lexington, Masa., October 28, 1918. To the Town Clerk: I have notified the inhabitants -of Lex- ington by posting printed copies of the foregoing Warrant in the Post Office and in eight other public places in the Town, and by mailing a printed copy of the same to every registered voter in the Town, 10 days before the time of said meeting. Attest: CHAELE E. WHEELER, Constable of Lexington. STATE ELECTION November 5, 1918 The meeting was called to order at six o'clock A. M. by the Chairman of the Selectmen; the Warrant and the Return was read by the Town Clerk. Charles G. Kauffman and James A. Hurley were sworn as Ballot Clerks and Ralph H. Marshall and John J. Garrity as Deputy Ballot Clerks. Walter B. Wilkins, Fred E. Butters, Bartlett J. Harrington, William C. O'Leary, Allston. M. Redman, Patrick F. Dacey, Samuel B. Bigelow, Thomas J. Doherty, William E. Mulliken, Na- thaniel Nunn, Willard E. Wormwood and Edward M. Tupper were sworn as Tellers. At 9.10 A. M., the Ballot Box was opened and 300 ballots were removed. At 11.50 the Box was opened and 200 ballots were taken out. At 2.50 P. M., 200 ballots were taken from the Box. At 3.50 o'clock, on motion of Arthur W. Hatch it was Voted, that the polls be kept open until five o'clock. At 4.30 o'clock 150 ballots were taken from the Box. At five o'clock the polls were Declared closed and 67 ballots were removed from the Box. The Ballot Box registered 867 and that number of names was checked on each voting list. At seven o'clock the clerk announced the result as follows: Whole number o£ votes 867 Governor Calvin Coolidge Richard H. Long Sylvester J. McBride Ingvar Paulsen Blanks Lieutenant Governor Channing H. Cox Oscar Kinsalas Joseph H. O'Neil Blanks Secretary Albert P. Langtry Charles H. McGlue William Taylor Blanks Treasurer Charles L. Berri!! Charles Giddings Mary E. Peterson Blanks 604 246 3 3 11 616 5 226 20 616 204 10 37 614 204 9 40 40 TOWN OF Auditor Alonzo B. Cook Francis M. Costello Fred E. Oelcher Blanks Attorney General Henry C. Attwill Morris I. Becker Joseph L. P. St. Coeur J. W. Allen Blanks Senator in Congress Thomas W. Lawson David I. Walsh John W. Weeks Blanks Congressman James F. Aylward Frederick W. I7al i i neer Blanks Councillor—Sixth District Janes G. Harris Blanks Senator -5th Middlesex District Charles S. Smith E. A. Bayley Joseph Tropeno Blanks Representative in General Court 28th Middlesex District Edward W. Taylor Irving Fox A. W. Hatch Arthur W. Hatch Blanks County Conunisaioner Alfred L. Cutting B. J. Harrington Blanks County Treasurer Joseph O. Hayden Blanks 609 202 5 51 617 8 201 6 35 22 275 554 16 232 596 39 629 238 635 1 1 230 705 1 2 1 168 649 1 217 646 221 Register of Probate and Insolvency Frederick M. Esty 637 Blanks 228 LEXINGTON H. L. Wadsworth 1 W. Vienna 1 Amendment No. 1 Shall the Artiele of Amendment rela- tive to the establishment of the popular initiative and referendum and the legis- lative initiative of specifie amendments of the Constitution, submitted by the Constitutional Convention, be approved and ratified. Yes No Blanks 222 499 146 Amendment No. 2 Article of Amendment: "The The conser- vation, development and utilization of the ae icit]tural, mineral, forest, water and other natural ,resources of the Com- inonwealth are public uses, and the Gen- eral Court shall have power to provide for the taking, upon payment of just eompeusation therefor, of lands and easements or interests therein, including Water and mineral rights, for the pur- pose of securing and promoting the pro- per conservation, development, utiliza- tion and control thereof and to enact legislation necessary or expedient there- for. Yes No Blanks 288 321 258 Amendment No. 3 Article of Amendment: Advertising on public ways, in private places, and on private property within public view may he regulated and restricted by law. Yes 449 No 175 Blanks 243 Amendment No. 4 Article of Amendment : The preserva- tion and maintenance of ancient land- marks and other property of historical or antiquarian interest is a public use, and the commonwealth and the cities and towns therein may, upon payment of just TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS 41 compensation, take sueh property or any interest therein under such regulations as the General Court may prescribe. Yes 414 No 185 Blanks 288 Amendment No. 5 Article of Amendment: The General Court, by concurrent vote of the two Houses, may take a recess or recesses amounting to not more than thirty days; but no such recess shall extend beyond the sixtieth day from the date of their first assembling. Yes No Blanks 311 240 316 Amendment No. 6 Shall the Article of Amendment au- thorizing the General Court to prescribe, subject to certain restrictions, the man- ner of the appointment and removal of military and naval officers to be com- missioned by the Governor, submitted by the Constitutional Convention, be ap- proved and ratified? Yes No Blanks 337 209 321 Amendment No. 7 Shall the Article of Amendment de- fining the powers and duties of the General Court relative to the military and naval forces, and of the Governor as Commander -in -Chief thereof, be ap- proved and ratified/ Yes No Blanks 352 187 328 Amendment No. 8 Shall the Article of Amendment pro- viding for the succession, in cases of vacancies in the offices of Governor and Lieutenant Governor, by the Secretary, Attorney -General, Treasurer and Re- eeiver-General and Auditor, in the order named, he approved and ratified? Yes 394 No 103 Blanks 310 Amendment No. 9 Shall the Article of Amendment au- thorizing the Governor to return to the General Court with a recommendation for amendment bills and resolves which have been Iaid before him, be approved and ratified? Yes 366 No 175 Blanks 326 Amendment No. 10 Article IV of the articles of amend- ment of the constitution of the com- monwealth is hereby amended by adding thereto the following words: Women shall be eligible to appointment as no- taries public. Change of name shall render the commission void, but shall not prevent reappointment under the new name. Yes 323 No 249 Blanks 295 Amendment No. 11 Article of Amendment: Article 1 of Chapter III of Part the Second of the constitution is hereby amended by the addition of the following words: and provided also that the Governor, with the consent of the Council, may after due notice and hearing retire them be- cause of advanced age or mental or phy- sical disability. Such retirement shall be subject to any provisions made by law as to pensions or allowances payable to such oflioers upon their voluntary retirement. Yes 349 No 183 Blanks 336 Amendment No. 12 Shall the following Article of Amend- mentrelative to the Revocation or Al- t 42 TOWN OF terations of Grants, Franchises, Privi- leges or Immunities submitted by the Constitutional Convention, be approved and ratified? Yes 350 No 189 Blanks 328 Aanendment No. 13 Article of Amendment: The General Court shall have power to limit buildings according to their use or eonstrnction to specified districts of cities and towns. Yes 372 No 186 Blanks 309 Amendment No. 14 Article of Amendment: The General Court shall have authority to protide for compulsory voting at elections, but the right of secret voting shall be pre- served. Yes 272 No 307 Blanks 288 Amendment No. 15 Shall the amendment of the Constitu- tion lireiting the power of the General Court to lend the credit of the Common- wealth and to eontraet loans, be approved and ratified/ Yes 33(1 No 202 Blanks 329 Amendment No. 16 Shall the amendment to the Constitu- tion providing for a state budget and veto by the Governor of items or parts of items iu appropriation bills be ap- proved and ratified? Yes 347 No 175 Blanks 345 Amendment No. 17 Shall the amendment of the Constitu- tion providing for biennial elections of state officers, councillors and members of LEXINGTON the General Court, he approved and ratified ? Yes 341 No 213 Blanks 313 Amendment No, 18 Article of Amendment: No person elected to the General Court shall during the term for which he was elected be appointed to any office created or the emoluments whereof are increased dur- ing such term, nor receive additional salary or compensation for service upon any recess committee or commission ex- cept a committee appointed to examine a general revision of the statutes of the commonwealth when submitted to the General Court for adoption. Yes 332 No 197 Blanks 338 Amendment No. 19 Article of Amendment: On or before January first, nineteen hundred twenty- one, wentyone, the executive and administrative work of the commonwealth shall be or- ganized in not more than twenty depart- ments, in one of which every executive and administrative office, board or com- mission, except those officers serving di- rectly under the Governor or the Coun- cil, shall be placed. Such departments shall be under such supervision and regu- lation as the General Court may from time to time prescribe by law. Yes No Blanks 358 172 337 • November 15, 1918. The Town Clerks of Belmont and Lex- ington met at Belmont this day and signed the following certificates: The Commnowealth of Massachusetts, County of Middlesex. At a meeting of the qualified voters of Representative Distriet number twenty- eight held on the fifth day of November instant, for the choice of Representative in the General Court, to be holden on TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS 43 the first Wednesday of January next, EDWARD W. TAYLOR, Lexington, having received a total of sixteen hun- dred and forty-two votes was elected to said office. Dated at Belmont the 15th day of No- vember in the year one thousand nine hundred and eighteen. ARTHUR E. HOUGH, Town Clerk, Belmont. CHARLES W. SWAN, Town Clerk, Lexington. Lexington, Mass., Nov. 15, 1918. To the Town Clerk of Lexington, Mass.: I have this day delivered at the usual place of residence of Edward W. Taylor a certificate of his election as representa- tive in the Legislature of the 28th Mid- dlesex District, said certificate being signed by the said Clerks of Belmont and Lexington. CHARLES H. FRANKS, Constable of Lexington. LAY OUT OF MUZZEY STREET We, the Selectmen of Lexington, hav- ing decided that public convenience and necessity require an extension of 111uz- zey Street from its present terminus at Forest Street to Vine Brook and the re- location of said Muzzey Street at its junction with Forest Street gave notice on February 15, 1918, to all resident owners of land over which the proposed extension and alteration is located of our intention to reloeate and extend said Muzzey Street to Vine Brook, and we now having met at the time and place and for the purposes specified in said notice, relocate said Muzzey Street and also lay out an extension of said street from its present terminus to Vine Brook. For the purpose of relocating Forest Street at its junction with Muzzey Street and extending said Muzzey Street from Forest Street to Vine Brook, the following described parcels or land are hereby taken: Parcel No. 1 supposed to belong to the Old Belfry Club, containing about 720 square feet, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a stone bound at the intersection of the northwesterly line of Muzzey Street with the northeasterly line of Forest Street; thence northwest- erly along Forest Street 32.08 feet to a point, thence bounded by a curved line to the right, having a radius of 55.00 feet, 46.30 feet to the northwesterly line of Muzzey Street, thenee southwesterly by said Muzzey Street 36.21 feet to the point of beginning. Parcel No. 2 supposed to belong to the Oriska Realty Corporation, John E. Hubbell, Presi- dent, containing about 381 square feet, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at an iron pipe at the inter- section of the southeasterly line of Muz- zey Street with the northeasterly line of Forest Street, thence southeasterly along said Forest Street 26.13 feet to a point, thence by a curved line to the left, having a radius of 55.00 feet, 32.94 feet to a point in the southeasterly line of Muzzey Street, thence southwesterly along said Muzzey Street 25.72 feet to the point of beginning. Parcel No. 3 supposed to belong to the Town of Lex- ington, eontainiug about 810 square feet, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a stone bound in the present southwesterly line of Forest Street, said stone hound marking the division line between the northwesterly boundary of land supposed to belong 44 TOWN' OF LEXINGTON to Frederick L. Emery and the south- easterly boundary of land of said Town; thence southwesterly along said boundary line 80.37 feet to its intersection with the northwesterly line of said extension of Muzzey Street extension, thence northeasterly along said Muzzey Street extension 54.95 feet to a point, thence northerly by a curved line having a ra- dius of 55 feet, 38.60 feet to said Forest Street, thence southeasterly along said Forest Street, 31.53 feet to a stone bound marking an angle in said street line, thence southeasterly by said street 5.06 feet to the point beginning. Parcel No. 4 supposed to belong to Frederick L. Emery, containing about 11,740 square feet, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a stone bound in the present southwesterly line of Forest Street, said stone bound marking the division line between the northwesterly boundary of said Emery and the south- easterly boundary of land of said town, thence southwesterly along said boun- dary 8.37 feet to its intersection with the northwesterly line of said extension of Muzzey Street, thence southwesterly along said extension about 155 feet to the center of Vine Brook, thenee south- easterly along the center of said brook about 52.8 feet to a point, thence north- easterly, paralled and 50 feet distant from the northwesterly line of said Muzzey Street extension about 193 feet to a point, thence easterly by a curved line having a radius of 55.00 feet, 50.54 feet to Forest Street, thence north- westerly along said Forest Street 70.15 feet to the point of beginning. Said parcels are shown more particu- larly by a plan, entitled "Plan of Muz- zey Street Extension and Reloeation of Forest Street at its junction with Muz- zey Street, Lexington, February, 1918. Seale 1 inch 20 feet, J. Henry Duffy, Town Engineer/' which is made a part hereof. The Selectmen having considered the question of damages sustained by abut- ting owners hereby decide that no dam- ages are sustained and no awards are made. Done at Lexington this twenty-seventh day of February, 1918, and at a meeting on April 3, 1918. WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, JAY 0. RICHARDS, WILLIAM B. FOSTER, Selectmen of Lexington. Whole number recorded Date Names BIRTHS RECORDED FOR THE YEAR 1918 January 7. Virginia Childs 9. 10. Dutra 27. James Francis Jaynes 27. Charles Emmett McLeod 28. Katherine Bunce 31. Jose Ello Merino February 5. Mary Ahearn 7. Clarence Edwin Locke 7. 12. Elsa Josephine Beatty 12. Eleanor Agnes Leary 16. Walter Edward Krakoski 16. Elizabeth Jane Fitzgerald 16. John Ilammer 18. Gardner Charles Ferguson 20. Madeline Louise Hall 21. Josephine Helen Hrones 23. Henry Young Hunter, Jr. 24. Theresa De1'leee 24. Joseph Doniinicko DeFlees 28. Ida Gertrude Armstrong 28. Ralph Lepore Parents Calvin W. and Josephine (Galloupe) Childs William J. and Philanima (Rabello) Dutra George F. and Anna G. (McNulty) Jaynes John W. and Gladys (Platt) McLeod Charles Ernest and Katherine E. (Waite) Bunce Comando J. and Gravannina (Espara) Merino Date Names . March 3. Nieoletta Santosuosso 6. Milton Alexander Matthews, Jr. 8. Silva 14. Aurelio Carmine Carota 15. Frederick Wight Allen 18. John Edwin Bryant 21. Elizabeth Moody 21. Rosie Elizabeth Modugno 21. William Frederick Cordillo 22. Robert Wallace Custance 22. William M. Bloustein 30. Vareni Ricci 31 Leslie Armstrong April 3. Elvira Nici 3. Barbara Shannon 4. Eva Vieenzina Tropiano 4. Elizabeth Helen Peake 5. Elsie Clare Nutt 5. Francis Vincent Connolly 7. Micheal Santosuosso 8. Majorie Adeline Wheeler 10. Richard Otis Brainhall 13. George Henry Wezieger 15. Veronica Adeline Delphino 19. Virginia Dandridge Hunneinan 22. George Alien Bean 22. Paul Siduey Brousseau May 10. James Manley 14. James M. and Ellen (O'Rourke) Ahearn Herbert H. and Mabel A. (Tuttle) Locke James A. and Emma K. (Carlson) Beatty William J. and Elizabeth A. (McGann) Leary Charles K. and Sophia E. (Tiehni) Krakoski John G. and Helen K. (Rooney) Fitzgerald Alex. M. and Sara (Herrick) Hammer Charles E. and Alice R. (Nordenan) Ferguson George C. and Agnes L. (Lee) Hall Edward F. and Eva (Bletsch) Hrones Henry Y. and Ethel (MaeFarland) Hunter Joseph and Theresa (Spada) DePiece Joseph and Theresa (Spada) DePiece Ernest A. and Amalei (Johnson) Armstrong Pelegrino and Philomena (Carbone) Lepore Parents Benign and Managrazia (Luongo) Santosuosso Milton A. and Helen F. (Sturtevant) Matthews Augustus J. and Lillian P. (Sears) Silva Tony and Theresa (Carole) Edward. C. and Marion L. (Gage) Allen Robert E. and Ethel L. (Milliken) Bryant .John F. Jr. and Ruth H. (Galloupe) Moody Dominic and Asunda (Pieariello) Modugno Michael A. and Alice 13. (Flemming) Cordillo Howard E. and Orra A. (Lyon) Custanee Max and Minnie (Glover) Bloustein John and Elsie (English) Ricci Johnson and Annie (Corbett) Armstrong Sebastiano and Anna (Cardio) Niei Clarence and Edith M. (Holmes) Shannon Joseph and Carolina (Fiore) Tropiano James W. and Minnie A. (Dean) Peake James B. and Annie (Insley) Nutt Micheal W. and Bridget (McLoughlin) Connolly Benjamin and Josephine (Santosusso) Arthur E. and Christine E. (Hanson) Wheeler William S. and Eva F. (Kraetzer) Bramhall Wallace G. and Grace R. (Lake) Wezinger Louis and Carolina (Gentile) Delphino Frederic B. and Louise G. (Fay) Hunneman .James A. and Louisa A. (Teague) Bean Theodore D. and Laura M. (Love) Brousseau Michael X. and Mary F. (McCarthy) Manley 135 0 a w CA NOJOAIIXarl LEO N &OL Date Names 16. Arline Constance Carpenter 18. Covell 20. Louis .Alfhonse Leturmy 20. Elizabeth Leturmy 23. Manuel Sousa 24. Henry Edgar Nicola June 1 4 • Madeline Mary Mahoney Mabel Frances Britt 4. Jean Morse 7. Ella Louise Noonan 13. Anthony Robert Cataldo 18. Irving Chester Doe 24. Donna Cole Howland July 3. Clifford Laurence Muzzey, Jr 11. Richard Leslie Reed 13. Margark Semonian 18, Manuel Anthony Cunha, Jr. 19. Elizabeth Raymond Nourse 22. Paul Gordon Matthews August 8. Eleanor Hope MacDonald 9. Shirley Robertson 10. Beatrice Ruth Kelsey 10. Gladys Irene Winlock 18. Beverly Stevens 22. Melvin Riebard hinds 28. Warren Winfield Love 30. Sletten 31. James Stymest Date Names September 2. Velmah Mosher 5. Josephine Morretti 5. Eveline Mary Dalrymple 5. Helen Louise Johnson 11. Sonja Ingeborg I<ellman 11. William Edward Russell 12. Marie Abbott 13. Wensley Barker, Jr. 14. Francis Arthur Sullivan 15. Rita McNamara 16. Agnes Virginia Houghton 16. Oliver Robertson Houghton 20. Robert Boynton Sanborn 20. Robert Hall Moore 22. Ralph WilIiatn Sehwendinman 22. Irene Mildred Prior 26. Gorden Stewart Dalrymple 28. 30. George Francis Doe October 1. Norah Catherine Duffy 3. Thomas Frederick Bentley 6. Elizabeth Geoghegan 6. Ruth Elvira Nelson 9. Hannah Elizabeth Waite 9. MelaIan 11. William Wheeler Stevens 12. Elizabeth Simonian 17. Galt David Parsons Parents Peter J. and Anna L. (Knox) Carpenter Freeman E. and Pearl (Mollenhauer) Covell Louis J. and Eva (Valois) Leturmy Louis J. and Eva (Valois) Leturmy Prank and Cecelia (Costa) Sousa Chester and Catherine M. (Russell) Nieols Daniel and Lillian L. (Deschamps) Mahoney Michael J. and Sarah (Belson) Britt George V. and Beatrice L. (Fuller) Morse Louis E. and Ella J. (Hicks) Noonan Ciriaco and Mary (Tribune) Cataldo Chester W. and Gertrude E. (White) Doe Gerald S. and L. A. (Cole) Howland ClifOrd L. and Mae E. (Carver) Muzzey Walter J. and Clair F. (Hickey) Read Martin and Vartanoosh (Arakelian) Semonian Manuel A. and Levinia W. (Robinson) Cunha Charles F. and Elizabeth (Smith) Nourse Edward F. and Emma H. (Mayer) Matthews Alexander D. and Susie M. (Day) MacDonald James G. and Hester Vernon (Tarr) Robertson Barry S. and Mable M. (Todd) Kelsey Harvey F. and Mabel (Grebenatein) Winlock Damon B. and Abby E. (Wellman) Stevens Melvin W. and Agnes E. (Barker) Hinds Frank J. and Helen E. (Day) Love Obert and Beatrice (Gardner) Sletten Frank P. and Leona (Barrett) Stymest Parents Loring A. and Venda V. (Owen) Mother Pasquale and Camilla (Santosuosso) Morretti William J. and Annie (Grace) Dalrymple Walter H. and Mary (Collins) Johnson Adolph W. and Hildur (Henrikson) Fellman John C. and Annie L. (Quinlan) Russell George W. and Stella M. (Shepard) Abbott Wensley and Kirstine (Weyhe) Barker James J. and Mary (Spencer) Sullivan Denis and Catherine E. (Lynch) McNamara Randall B. and Mabel R. (Robertson) Houghton Randall B. and Mabel E. (Robertson) Houghton Howard S. and Bernice B. (Bersback) Sanborn Andrew L. and Edith I. (Hall) Moore Frederick W. and Amelia (Dick) Schwendinman Vernon E. and Bessie E. (Lukey) Prior John M. and Bertha A. (Mitton) Dalrymple Francis D. and Julia K. (Whelden) Doe Michael J. and Mary (Corbett) Duffy Charles E. and Elizabeth (Wilkins) Bentley James M. and Julia M. (O'Leary) Geoghegan Peter A. and Selma E. (Ekwall) Nelson Edwin L. and Ada T. (Ekwall) Waite Aubrey and Elizabeth A. (Cavanaugh) Melelan William J. and Phoebe K. (Wheeler) Stevens Peter M. and Hagarrosh (Nahigian) Simonian Galt F. and Helen (Butler) Parsons 1Oc ati Sg)2In0 NMOJ = o GO m at on A K mro P g o o ,110 m q X 0 to i 0 C7 • :o az;as ea ea ca of Arthur C. and Marion T. (Brett) Webber .0 .0 TOWN CLERK'S REPORT 0 0 r. �' m •a- .os °w as 12404 0 0 ,._,,•—' ' .1-20 0 a) S w ti as H-1 '- d 0 .a 4 Qa g E g7g�l o o lt„ c % G +a Ell 0 i Z A q lit r7 .0 N � y � y1�” id �� 7R. td .4ZaLy�a�+—°° AF' o'g.d o E wx.0;;, rti r -i N. . i M N r-1 r -I ••-i N N N 07• 49 d �m h • 000 ed • Fq w m SAS o - •d m '� rev .dz icld3�ass 0=00. a.00 50 TOWN OF LEXINGTON TOWN CLERK'S REPORT MARRIAGES Chole number of marriages recorded for the year 1918-51 Date Name January 21. Bernard J. C. Donahoe Wiyfred E. Greeley February 15. Benjamin Franklin Holt Marilla Sally Davis 24. Frederick Dudley Litton Ruth May Wynn March 5. Frank Love Mary Riley 7. Norman Lewis Lund Hazel Della Cushman 21. William James Stevens Phoebe Kate Wheeler 24. William Clinton Morton Eleanor Abigail Dodge April 3. Dr. Karl Oscar Bertling Helene Glotz 8. John 1 dw•ard O'Connor Catherine Frances MacPherson 11. William James Marshall Alice Gertrude Carew 15. Victor Roy Hughes Ethel May Hanson 27. Clifton Potter Ashley Octavia Shockley Ashley 30. Charles D'Aubre Suzette, Jr. Lucille Harriette Ladd May 26. Philip Stephen O'Dowd Rose Anna Ferry 29. Walter Edgar Whilton Annie Louise Biggins Residence Boston Boston Lexington Strafford, N. H. Medford Med ford Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Waltham Lexington Cambridge Lexington Lexington Lexington New Bedford Lexington Cambridge Bedford Lexington Lexington Arlington Heights TOWN CLERK'S REPORT June 4. Ernest Elbridge Williams Charlotte May Carpenter 5. William John McDevitt Catharine Elizabeth Fox 14. Benjamin Schofield Stoney Pearl Evelyn Wright 15. Harry Malcolm Cole Alice Bertha Cole 16. Harvey Greene Lowe Hazel Ottilea Bailey 16. Ralf]h Davis Eaton Gertrude Louise Robinson 23. James Joseph Conway Sarah Josephine Dinneen 24. Paul Wheeler Dempsey Marjorie May Brackett 29. Frederick Theodore Manning Mildred Ivy July 3. Raymond Francis Tobin Helen O'Donnell Finn 8. James Walter Corbin Helen Blanche McFarland 20. Howard Weston Burnett Cora Ethel Turner 24. Irmorenzo Palmeri Vinia Genetti 27. Warren Reed Marjorie M. Sylvester 29. William Henry Behnke Ellen Teresa Donovan August 5. Roderick James Mackenzie Gladys Viola Withrow 10. William 11. Whitfield Mercy Anderson Otis 14. George M. Dimond Elizabeth Helen Cavanagh September 1. Walter Henry White Elizabeth Agnes Moynihan 14. Malcolm Willard Reed. Dorothy Vickery 21. Lloyd William Terhune Myrtle Nellie Stevens 24. Thomas Manning Nellie Baldaro 25. Robert Alfred McAdoo Mary Janet McLalan Lexington Lexington Woburn Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Bedford Lexington Arlington Lexington Jamaica Plain Boston Lexington Lexington Norridgewoek, Me. Meriden, Conn. Newton Lexington Lexington Lexington Cambridge Lexington Norfolk Downs Bedford Bedford Revere Boston Cambridge Cambridge Lexington Waltham Lowell Lexington Bedford Bedford Watertown Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Waltham Waltham Waltham Lexington 51 • 3`. 52 TOWN OF LEXINGTON October 10. Hall B. Waring Maud P. Baekus 19. William Jackson Gladys Ward Freeman 20, John Alexander Smith Alida Bertha Greene 30. Bernard Frederick Hossfeld Ellen Harriet Falleson November 2. Edward Andrew Trotte Rose Theresa Selmesky 2. Anthony Nicholas Cateldo Concetta Tribuna 20. Frank A. Doane Margaret 1. Carson 23. Anthony Piasecki Veronica Jazefowiez 27. William Hayes Mary Ann McDonald 30. Michael John Shannon Kathryn Louise Maguire December 6. Fred Tower Boyd, Jr. Doris Perla Lyon 25. Horace Wentworth Shepard Elizabeth Frances Woods 29. Charles M. Collins Mary Helen Reed Salisbuug, Conn. Lexington Quincy Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Brockton Lexington Lexington Lexington Milford Lexington Lexington Cambridge East Boston Lexington East Boston Lexington Somerville Lexington Brookline Somerville Andover Lexington DEATHS RECORDED FOR THE YEAR 1918 Whole number recorded for 1918, including stillbirths recorded as deaths, 98. Date Name January 4. Mary Costa 11. Alice Butler Cary 18. Elizabeth S. Tenney 21. Florence E. Kimball 22. Ellen B. Lane 28. Aaron Bernard Ready 28. Thomas Harrison 31. Samuel La oti< Age Birthplace y. m. d. 3 4 Lowell 79 2 12 Birmingham, Ohio 53 5 18 Anson, Me. 47 1 6 Boston 74 2 4 filoncester 25 11 8 Lexington 83 4 7 England 22 Russia TOWN CLERK'S REPORT Date Name February 3. Harriet Howe 13. Charles H. Bacon 14. William S. Gannett 24. Abbie Louisa Hartwell 25. Elizabeth M. Doe 28. Florence A. Cavanaugh March 3. 15. 16. 18. 29. 29. Caroline Hunt Rimmer Catherine Ferguson Mary E. Woodward Melvin George Hinds Margaret McQuade Eliza Valentine Sherman April 2. Sebastian Kramer 2. George Arthur Spencer 2. Kenneth Latham 4. Harriet Tapley Richardson 12. Gladis Rowell 18. James E. Cook 18. Margaret A. Gorman 19. 20. Florence Palermo 24. Ida Louisa Davis May 4. Sarah J. VL hitcher 14. 18. 25. Gardner Aldrich 30. Martin Lynch June 11. 12. 14. 15. 19. 19. 29. July 3. 15. 20. 27. 31. Anthony J. Carey John B. Robinson George Winn Abbott Annie Margaret Roes Michael Manley Elizabeth Peaks Emma Frances Parker Charles Haven Damon Mary Silva Barbara McKay George F. Hinckley James Hapgood Wright Age 75 7 4- 82 82 2 27 81 6 21 78 8 9 60 2 6 7 27 Birthplace. Waterville, Me. Basham, N. H. Scituate Bedford Boston Lexington 66 4 17 Randolph 50 6 11 Pleasant Bay, N. S. 64 10 12 Nei' Bedford Everett 75 Ireland 68 6 New Bedford 16 2 9 83 11 27 40 11 28 Boston Arlington 1 1 1 Winchester 97 3 30 Rising Sun, Ind. 21 0 9 Somerville 50 3 6 St. Johns, N. F. 60 5 1 Sudbury 17 1 28 Boston 63 10 0 Holyoke 79 7 3 1 10 75 2 55 42 14 55 10 80 3 15 65 2 22 66 9 17 4 7 69 2 22 59 18 73 New York City Lexington Ireland Boston New Orleans Watertown Nova Scotia Ireland Lexington Lexington Lowell Lexington Prince Edward Island Brunswick, Me. Concord 53 64 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Date Name August 8. Daniel J. Chishalm 9. Annie M. Kearney 16. Melvin F. Underwood 23. Albert E. Carter September 8. Rose A. Clarke 11. Janet Sharp Niven Calder 12. Basilio Ceroni 12. Margaret Ann Steward 20. Herbert G. Locke 24. Edith I. Moore 24. Jennie Clark Kraetzer 27 Raymond Charles Considine 27. George Irving Tuttle 28. John J. Walsh 28. Annie M. Baker October 1. James McGinty 5. Michael Ma cNamara 6. Honors B. Hughes 7. James B. Nutt 10. Edith Myrtle Smith 10. Frank S. Clark 11. Annie Rushe 13. Agnes O'Connor 13. Mabel A. Locke 15. Carolina Ruocco 16. Betsy,Warner 18. Timothy McDonnell 31. -Warren R. Sherburne 31. Samuel Dudley November 3. 7. Mary Caroline Sweetser 9. Martin Trhra 13. Bessie Servinsky 13. Emma E. H. Wright 25. Philip Sims 28. Alice B. Ford :30. John Joseph Crowley December 4. Elisha Horton Tower 5. Catherine E. Burke Age Birthplace 49 11 3 Nova Scotia 55 4 8 Ireland 44 8 19 Boston 36 6 1 London, Eng. 84 9 16 Landoll, N. H. 44 9 13 Scotland 22 Italy 79 4 26 Portage Lake, Me.. 66 10 10 Lexington 25 6 6 Harper, Pa. 69 6 29 Medway 29 2 6 New York City 38 1 17 Lexington 37 Ireland 36 11 29 New York City 37 6 14 30 69 2 15 31 14 28 8 27 47 67 18 2 21 33 13 26- 80 3 13 27 2 10 58 6 77 74 21 34 10 50 66 23 9 17 34 4 18 Brockton 7 1 Boston Ireland Ireland Halifax, N. S. England Fitchburg Moncton, N. B. Ireland Lexington Atkinson, N. H. Italy Holland Lexington Charlestown Boston Newburyport Curland, Russia Russia Cambridge 74 4 4 South Braintree - 41 4 22 Easton Date Name TOWN CLERK'S REPORT 8. Nicholas Weiler 9. John R. Haynes 11. Charles Follen Butterick 11. Elizabeth J. Freeman 14. Beatrice C. Sharkey 16. Barbara Fiske 17. Gerald Allen Pease 22. Henrietta Niles Tower 25. Panayiota Karahalis 27. Esther Goodman 27. Molly Goodman 29. Willis Austin M. Stockbridge 83 82 80 57 22 7 1 East Boston 84 1 14 Germany 33 11 4 Edgartown 45 10 23 Charlestown 37 Greece 12 Boston 14 Boston 38 8 10 Gloucester Age Birthplace 6 15 Germany 9 1 Nova Scotia 6 3 Lexington 6 22 England Number of Dogs Licensed, 372. Number of Hunters' Licenses Issued, 145. 55 TOWN OF LEXINGTON LIST OF JURORS AS SUBMITTED BY THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN 1918 NAME Adams, George H. Andrews, Daniel J. Barbour, S. Lewis Barnes, John E. Bramhall, William Breed, Ezra F. Breslin, Thomas H. Brown, Samuel E. Buffum, Fred A. Bull, Leslie A. Burriil, William L. Butters Elmer F. Clteever, L. Minot Clark, Richard A. Coburn, Frank W. Cole, George P. Coolidge, Harry L. Crowther, William T Currier, Charles H. Cutter, Frank P. Dacey, Patrick F. Doe, Chester W. Doherty, Thomas J. Donovan, John J. Dwyer, William F. Feehan, Thomas S Ferguson, William Fitzgerald, Thomas Foster, Wbitney Glenn, William F. Gorman, Arthur A. Hadley, Charles E. Harrington Bartlett Hatch, Arthur W. RESIDENCE 353 Mass. ave. 13 Bedford st. Hancock st. 165 Mass. ave. S. 25 Parker st. Mass. ave. 637 Mass. ave. 10 Oakland st. Shirley at. 83 Hancock st. Bedford st. 416 Mass. ave. 11 Shirley st. Bedford st. Percy rd. Bedford at. 203 Muss. ave. • Hancock ave. Woburn st. North Hancock st. Muzzey st. 52 Fletcher ave. 185 Mass. ave. Arcadia ave. 7 Tewksbury st. • Bedford at. W. Forest st. W. Fletcher ave. Concord ave. Forest st. 48 Bedford st. Mass. ave. J. Curve st. 5 Bedford st. NAME Hayden, J. Willard Haynes, Alfred E. Hendley, Eugene D. Hill, Willard C. Johanson, Alfred Kelly, Edmund S. Kraetzer, Eugene G. Lynah, George C. Maguire, Hugh J. Mandigo, John J. Montague, Edward Otis, Elisha W. Ray, William A. Raymond, Henry S. Rice, William A. Riley, William J. Russell, Byron A. Sandison, William A. Sawyer, Fred E. Sefton, Charles H. Smith, Charles F. Spencer, Frederick J. Stevens, Edwin C. Stone, George E. Vinal, Charles H. Wilkins, Walter 13. Wood, Edward RESIDENCE Jr. Shade at. Hill et. Mass. ave. 624 Mass, ave. Slocum rd. Edgewood rd. Mass. ave. Manley et. Wood at. State rd. ' Maple et. 217 Mass. ave. 29 Woburn st. 16 Clark at. 63 Bedford A. York st. 120 Mass. ave. 117 Bedford at. St. Margaret ave_ Fair View ave. Bedford st. East A. 2 Oakland at. Bloomfield at. Ward st. Forest st. Forest st. WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, JAY 0. RICHARDS, WILLIAM B. FOSTER, Selectmen of Lexington. Lexington, June 12, 1918. • t•' SELECTMEN'S REPORT 57 REPORT OF BOARD OF SELECTMEN, ROAD COMMISSIONERS, OVERSEERS OF THE POOR AND BOARD OF SURVEY The past year has been replete with prob- lems especially in Municipal business both on account of high prices and the shortage of labor. We have succeeded in keeping within the appropriations allowed the various departments and by so doing have been obliged to disregard some mat- ters which would in ordinary times have been given more attention. The Highways have suffered by our in- ability to do sufficient work and some- thing must be done next year to prevent further deterioration. Plans were submitted and approved for Muzzev Street extension and part of the work has been done. The -work done on Massachusetts Ave. from Pleasant Street to the State Road showed very rapid deterioration caused by the lack of cohesion in parts of the binding material used. This condition was shown to the manufacturer who pro- vided more material and men (without cost to the town) to bring the street back to good condition. The work planned to be done on the south side of Massachusetts Avenue from Waltham Street to Winthrop Road was held up again this year by the high cost of labor and material. If there is a suf- ficient reduction of prices this year or if the plans of construction are changed this work may be finished during the com- ing year. No work has been done on that part of Woburn Street intended for a State Highway during the past year. The Iauk of street signs and the poor condition of a large part of those in use is very noticeable. We hope to be able this year by replacements and additions to improve these conditions to the satis- faction of every one. Sidewalks. Considerable patching has been done during the summer and a com- plete new sidewalk with curbing was laid bordering the Masonic property at the corner of Elm Avenue and Bedford Street. For a number of years the surface drainage from the Bloomfield Street dis- trict has during heavy rains, and spring Freshets, caused more or less overflow to the property adjacent to the Munroe School. This summer a large drain was laid from the school grounds to the cul- vert under the Boston & Maine Railroad traeks and we do not expect any further trouble from this source. The Moth department deserves great eredit for the fine condition of the trees on all streets of the town and has also performed a large amount of private work. The department has received the commendation of the State Forestry De- partment both for the tine appearance of the trees and for the careful way in which the work has been done. The awards made by the County Com- missioners to the owners of property which was taken for cemetery purposes have been aceepted by nearly an the par- ties interested. The Selectmen early in the year turned the property over to the Cemetery Com- mittee and the Planning Board. By vote of the Town the State system of municipal accounting was installed by the Board and has been in operation dur- ing the year 1918. This system is of greater expense to the Town and does not appear to be more efficacious than the system which it replaced. 58 TOWN OF LEXINGTON This year the citizens elected a Plan- ning Board which in our opinion, will be of inestimable service to the Town when affairs' return to normal conditions. The Selectmen wish at this time to thank the Planning Board for the assist- ance rendered them during the past year. During the past year the automobile traffie has been a serious problem in the Police Department both on account of the great amount of such traffic through the Town and the small number of polies officers. Great credit is due to several public- spirited citizens who were appointed Special Police and who performed with- out monetary remuneration, splendid ser- vice at a number of dangerous locations and without doubt thereby saved serious injury if nut fatality to a great number of people. The Board takes this oppor- tunity to thank these gentlemen for the interest t}iey have taken and the service they have so efficiently performed. The Polies Department work increases each year and it is impossible to give proper police protection with the small number of officers we now have, and the Board earnestly recommends that two officers be added to the force not later than May 1, 1919. The Board held a conference with Judge Keyes of the District Court and upon his recommendation a card sys- tem was installed in the Police Depart- ment by which a reeord of any driver of an automobile who is stopped for any reason is kept, thus being able to estab- lish in court more tangible evidence than heretofore. During the coal shortage last winter it seemed to the Selectmen that the Town could save by curtailing the street light- ing by running the lights on a moonlight schedule. This was tried out and as it appeared satisfactory it has been con- tinued throughout the year and has re- sulted not only in saving coal but also in saving money to the Town. The eost of street lighting being $1,371.03 less than in 1917 with approximately the same num- ber of street lights. The work of the Town Engineer's De- partment has been interrupted a great deal on account of his inability to pro- cure permanentassistants, those which he had having enlisted in war service, but even with this handicap, a large amount of office work has been accom- plished and during the coming season we shall be able to do considerable new work as well as the work which has been held up. It appears that the time has come for the Town to either purchase or take by right of eminent domain sufficient land for a central plant containing stable, garage, tanks, bunkers, mixing beds, and yard room for the tools and equipment of all the public works departments, as well as storage for all eoal, used in the various public buildings and a side track from the railroad. Such property may be obtained and could be properly fenced and kept in such condition that it would not be un- sightly or objectionable to any one. With t]ie work of all departments in- creasing yearly, it will be but a short time when such a plant will be absolutely necessary. We call the attention of the eitivens to the fact that the land east of the Town Hall, formerly oceupied by the Keeley Institute is for sale and may at any time he bought by individuals and used for purposes that would be unsightly and very objectionable to the citizens and an injury to the Town. It would seem that the Town should own this property even if only to hold. it until such time as it. may be of use as a site for a public building. The Selectmen joined with the repre- sentatives of a number of cities and towns of the State to protect their interests in what seems to us an unfair apportionment of the State tax and distribution of the income tax by a protest to the recess com- mittee and to earry the matter to the Legislature. Board of Survey The Board has approved a layout of streets on the property called Farmhurst SELECTMEN'S REPORT 59 on the northerly side of Middle Street but has refused to approve the layout of streets on the property on the southerly side of Middle Street. The Board has also approved a lay- out of a street from Massachusetts Ave- nue to Vine Brook Road on both sides of Vine Brook as it appears to the Board that this will make an entrance to a large area of desirable property, which will later bring in a substantial amount of money to the Town in taxes. The Board refused to approve a lay- out of streets presented on a plan by the Suburban Land Company on the O'Riordan property at East Lexington for several reasons, priueipally because a crossing witb the Boston & Maine Rail- road at grade would be necessary. The Board considers thatthere are already sufficient grade crossings in the Town. The pians also presented a scheme to take land belonging to the Town of Arlington. Land development schemes present a very serious condition which the citizens should guard against continually as it tends to lower valuations of the residential prop- erty already developed and a lowering of valuations will surely increase the tax rate. The Board intends to consult the Plan- ning Board in all matters of development and street layouts. Overseers of the Poor The high cost of necessities has been particularly noticeable in this department during the past year, both at the Alms- house and with the outside aid. The Board has investigated the methods of the Charlton Poor Farm Association which is an arrangement whereby a num- ber of towns in Worcester County have joined together and have Teased the Charl- ton Poor Farm, eaeh town paying a fixed amount each year, according to its valua- tion, whether or not it has any inmates at the farm and also paying board for each inmate it may have to send to the farm. Any profit from the farm is divided :among the towns belonging to the associ- ation. The Overseers have written a number of our neighboring towns to ascertain if they would be interthted in such a propo- sition but have not received any favorable replies, all towns stating that the idea did not interest thein except one, which asked for further particulars. Mr. and Mrs. 'White, who have so effi- ciently taken care of the Almshouse prop- erty and inmates for thirty-five years, have decided that they will not continue in these duties after April 1st, so that it will be necessary to make a change of some kind. It may be better in view of the changed conditions to dispose of the Almshouse property and to find some other way of taking care of the inmates. The members of the Board recommend that they shonld be appointed a commit- tee either with or without other citizens with full powers to definitely settle the matter. WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, JAY 0. RICHARDS, WILLIAM B. FOSTER. 60 TOWN OF LEXINGTON REPORT OF THE Lexington, Mass., Jan. 1, 1919. To the Board of Selectmen, Gentlemen: The following report relating to work done by the Town Engineer's Department for the year 1918 is respectfully sub- mitted. In general the Engineer's office fur-. nishes the various Board and Committees with such information as they may desire in the form of plans, design, estimates, etc. When requested the Engineer at- tends the meetings of the several Boards. Information has been furnished the va- rious departments in connection with the following matter: Highway Department Follen road at its junction with the State road has been completed. Follow- ing out the lines and grades of the En- gineer's office the Highway department, with the co-operation of the Massachu- setts Highway Commission has widened and resurfaced this junction point. Sev- eral trees which obstructed the view were removed, and the danger to public travel which formerly existed, because of the view being cut off and the narrowness of the travelled way, is now eliminated. In connection with the construction of Muzzey street extension, lines and grades were indicated for a new drain extending from the drain in F Brest street some 800 feet to Vine Brook. This drain is a sub- stitute for one which was formerly main- tained on private land adjoining. At the Masonic Building at the junction of Elm avenue, and Bedford street, about 300 square yards of tar -concrete side- walk and 275 feet of granite curbing were laid from plans, ete., prepared by the office. A sufficient amount of land was given by the Masonic Associates on TOWN ENGINEER tho Bedford street side of the premises to allow for a wider sidewalk. During the year a drain has been laid from the Munroe School premises through land of Alfred Pierce to a culvert at the Boston and Maine Railroad. Heretofore the surface drainage from this locality was inadequately eared for by means of two large dry wells situated in the rear of the Munroe School. The bad drainage condition which formerly existed here will be remedied by the new arrangement. Board of Survey Many plans and studies have been made at the request of the Board in connection with approval of the layout for a future street leading from Massachusetts ave- nue at Vine Brook to Vine Brook Road. In order to properly study any extension of this proposed Iayout and its connection with adjoining territory, a detailed sur- vey and plan was made of the territory lying southerly of Massachusetts avenue bounded by Waltham street, Middle street, Highland avenue and Winthrop road, to- gether with a portion of the Park lands on the westerly side of Waltham street as well as Forest and Muzzey streets. In this connection a plan was also prepared showing the territory included within the following streets—Massachu- setts avenue, Grant street, Sherman street, Sheridan street and FIetcher avenue. Information has also been furnished the Board with reference to the petition for approval of plans of ]and owned by Neil McIntosh, known as "Farmhurst" the same being a portion of the premises formerly known as the Valley Field Pam. Studies have also been made in con- nection with the petition of the Suburban Land Company for approval of plans of the development of the land formerly owned by the O'Riorden estate and situ- REPORT OF THE ated in East Lexington near the station and extending across the Boston and Maine Railroad tracks to land owned by the Town of Arlington. Park Department Stone Monuments have been set to permanently mark the boundaries of the Reservoir lot on Middle street which was surveyed at the request of the Board last year. Information has also been furnished the department with reference to the planting of shrubbery, grading, etc,, on Muzzey street and Muzzey street exten- sion. At the request of the Board a plan of the Community gardens was made divid- ing the area into lots of uniform size. Water and Sewer Board At the request of the Board a survey and pIan was made showing the water shed of the brook rising on land of the Tower estate nortbeaserly of Middle street and flowing in a southerly direc- tion through lands of Cotton, Dailey and Meek to Clematis Brook. General levels on the brook and other drainage features were also furnished in connection with this matter. New Cemetery During the spring a detailed topogra- phical survey was made o£ the new cem- etery site involving some 43 acres. Copies of the map were furnished the landscape architect, employed by the joint Plan- ning and Cemetery Board to design the new cemetery. Late in the year the pro- posed road system in the cemetery was indicated on the ground at the request of the Planning Board and Cemetery Commissioners. Special Committee on Real Estate Assessments At the request of this Committee a large detail plan was compiled showing in general the more highly developed area of the town. TOWN ENGINEER 61 Town Nap During the year about 200 plans filed of record at the Registry of Deeds at East Cambridge have been copied for subsequent use in building up a map of the town and for the convenience of the various Boards of the town, partioulary the Assessors. In the majority of cases the official plans which accompany the record of the laying out of our town ways, are not on file in the town records, but at the Registry of Deeds. As time per- mits these plans are being copied that our record may be complete here and opportunity given to consult them more conveniently. This condition is also true in a measure witli reference to other plans of the various properties owned and controlled by the town. The following streets have been sur- veyed during the past season:—Bloom- field Street, Highland Avenue, Winthrop Road, Warren Street, Eustis Street, Pel- ham Road, Eliot Road, Bennington Road, Washington Street, Slocum Road, Perey Road, Middle Street from Massachusetts Avenue, to Walthein Street, and Pollen Road at its junction with Pleasant Street atnd Massachusetts Avenue. In General A plan for record was made to accom- pany the purchase of additional land for the Center Engine House. In the matter of the proposed accept- ance of Locust Avenue, detailed plans and studies were made. A plan was also made to accompany the lease of the Stone crusher site on Waltham Street. Building Lines Attention is again respectfully directed to the matter of the consideration of building lines as touched upon in Ieat year's report. Apparently the theory of the building line statute is to furnish the method for widening streets along the lines of least resistance. In effect it permits a line of restriction to be placed on a street beyond which no substantial structures 'Fa$k a f.. 62 TOWN OF LEXINGTON shall be built so that when publie neces- sity and convenience requires it, a street may be widened without the excessive cost which would necessarily result if the area taken for widening was occupied by expensive structures. Referring to the widths of some of our main streets as noted in last year's re- port it would seem that some eonsidera- tion ought to be given to the question of providing sufficient space on some of our streets to accommodate the increased traf- fic which will inevitably come with the growth of the Town. There has been an unusual increase in automobile traffic dur- ing the last few years and especially com- mercial motor trucks, all of which would seem to indicate that we should devise adequate means of preparing for it, not only in the matter of wider roads but roads which will economically withstand the trate. Respectfully submitted, J. HENRY DUFFY, Town Engineer. REPORT OF THE TOWN COUNSEL REPORT OF THE Boston, Mass., Jan. 1, 1919. Board of Selectmen, Town of Lexington, Mass. Dear Sirs: In accordance with the provisions of the vote of the Town passed at the Town Meeting held January 30, 1918, author- izing the appointment of Town Counsel, I herewith submit the annual report pro- vided for in said vote. The necessity of a Town Counsel has been clearly demonstrated during the past year by the large number of town prob- lems that have been referred to your appointee for advice and counsel and the number of legal opinions that have been rendered. With one or two exceptions, legal opinions have been requested and rendered to every department of the Town and I don't believe that it is too much to say that a great many errors of pro- cedure have been avoided and consider- able expense saved to the Town by the officers and various departments, owing to the fact that they have consulted coun- sel before action instead of "locking the door after the horse has been stolen" as has been too frequent the case in the past. The Town has also been represented at a number of hearings before commit- tees at the State House on questions ef- fecting the Town's interests and at hear - TOWN COUNSEL 63 ings before the Public Service Commis- sion, concerning proposed raises in fare on the Middlesex & Boston Street Rail- way. There were pending against the Town January Brat, 1918, three petitions for damages for the taking of lands for high- way purposes and two petitions for taking of lands for sewer purposes as well as several other claims of a minor nature. During the year a petition was brought by Katherine Wood, one of the owners from which land was taken for cemetery purposes and who refused to accept the award of the County Commissioners. The Town has also been a party to a suit before the Industrial Accident Board, growing out of the death of Daniel Chis- holm, an employee of Contractor Louis Bills, who was engaged by the Town to repair the Fire Alarm System. There was also a petition brought by the executors of the H. P. Boutelle Es- tate for the abatement of taxes assessed on that estate for the year nineteen hun- dred and eighteen, A number of these matters are now in order for trial and will undoubtedly be disposed of during the coming year. Respectfully submitted, ROBERT L. RYDER, Town Counsel. 64 • TOWN OF LEXINGTON REPORT OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT Report of work done by the Police De- partment for the year ending December 31, 1918: To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:' Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit the follow- ing report: The number of arrests Males Females Residents of the town Non-residents Native born Foreign born Married Single Offenses for Which Arrests Were Assault and battery Adultery Bastardy Breaking and entering Contempt of court Cruelty to a horse Drunkenness Default Deserters, U. S. A. Gaming Insane Idle and Sleeping in the open Larceny Lewd Cohabitation Manslaughter Malicious mischief Non-support Not displaying light on vehicle Profanity Ran away from home Suspicious persons Trespass Unlawfully earring fire arms Violating automobile law Violating game law Violating probation Violation milk bottle law 1 3 Vagrants Disposition of Cases Fined 112 Probation 7 Committed to the House of Correction 4 Committed to State Farm 1 Committed to State Infirmary 1 1 1 224 Committed to Shirly School 113 Committed to Jail 11 Committed to Liman School .. .. .. 3 71 Committed to Insane Hospital 4 152 Committed to State Board of Charity 1 159 Discharged by court 19 69 Plaeed on file 38 88 Released by Probation Officer 3 136 Released by Police 13 Made Now pending in Court 3 13 Nol Pressed 2 2 Turned over to Ti. S. Officers 2 1 Turned over to out of town police 7 12 Given to friends to take home 3 2 Miscellaneous Work 1 Aggregate amount of fines imposed 31 $964.43 3 Amount of property reported 2 stolen 3,876.00 7 Amount of stolen property re - 5 covered 2,002.40 2 Buildings found open and seeured 18 18 Dangerous places in streets reported 13 2 Leaks in water pipes reported 11 2 Leaks in gas pipes reported 2 2 Street fights reported out 80 3 Lost children eared for 3 1 Lanterns hung in dangerous places 7 1 Sick persons assisted 3 5 Wires reported down 7 10 Vacant houses cared for 12 4 Dead bodies taken charge of and 1 Medical Examiner called 5 84 Persons taken to hospital 4 1 The Police Officers have attended court 2 169 times and done 100 extra street du- INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS ties for which they do not receive any Pay. Conclusions I wish to thank the Selectmen for the kind manner in which they have treated us and the assistance they and all others who by their co-operation and good wishes have assisted in the work of the depart- ment and I wish to thank the Police Of- ficers for the excellent work they have done. On account of the great increase in automobile travel we should have more Police Officers. If the act to pension the Police and Firemen is accepted at the March Town Meeting, I will ask to be retired next fall. I am eligible to be retired for the num- ber of years I have been in the service. Last August, while making an arrest, I received a serious injury, which is very troublesome to me. CHARLES H. FRANKS, Acting Chief of Police. REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS Office of Inspector of Buildings To the Honorable Board of Selectmen, Lexington, Mass. I herewith submit my report of the inapeetion of buildings for the year end- ing December 31, 1918. Fifty-three per- mits were granted and two hundred ninety-five calls made in connection with applications and for information. Buildings are classified as follows: Dwellings, 1 -family 12 Dwellings, 4 -family 1 Additions and alterations 10 12 16 1 1 Stables Garages Tool house Manure pit $19,100 4,000 17,050 11,100 37,535 250 1,000 Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM GRATTO, Inspector of Buildings. 66 TOWN OF LEXLNGTON REPORT OF SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES To the Honorable Board of Selectmen, Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit the follow- ing report of the work done for the year ending December 31, 1918: Scales sealed weighing over a 5,000 lbs. 4 Scales sealed weighing under 5,000 lbs. Computing scales All other scales Number of weights tested Number of dry measures Number of liquid measures Pumps Linear Measures Slot weighing machines 30 24 50 223 4 39 16 9 2 1 1 Property in the office of the Sealer of Weights and Measures Twenty 50 ib. weights Two One 10 " 4 « 2 a( 1S( 25 « 5 fa 8 oz. 4 " 2 as 1 if Brass of One 5 gal, tin measures. Two 4 qt. measures. Two 2 qt. measures. Two 1 qt. measures. Two 1/2 qt. measures. One 1 oz. Weight brass as y14 " If as as 1/ a fa fa 1/16 as (a as Two balances in ease. Set of Metric weights Set of Apothecary weights One drilling machine, drills steel and stamps. ' Two 1/2 pt. Measures. One yard stick in case. Paper seals, Red and Green, wires and leads. Two measures for measuring dry meas- ures. Record books. Receipt books. Press and measure clamp. Fees collected $34.32 Several test weighings have been made in store and found to be very satisfac- tory. Pedlers and Junk seals have been inspected. CHARLES E. HADLEY, Sealer of Weights and Measures. FIRE ENGINEER'S REPORT 67 REPORT OF BOARD OF FIRE ENGINEERS Lexington, Mass., Jan. 1, 1919. To the Honorable Board of Selectmen, Lexington, Mass. Gentlemen: We beg to submit the following report for the year 1918. The Department has responded to 12.4 alarms. It has laid and cared for 13,350 feet of hose; raised 1,424 feet of ladders, and used 2,338 gallons of chemicals. There is, at the present time, in the Department 5,550 feet of hose which has been tested as usual and is in good condi- tion. The fire loss in the Town during the past year was the smallest for many years. The number of chimney fires was about as usual, but there were very few brush fires eompared with the previous five years. The _lmeriean-La France truck and the Kissel Combination have proved their worth during the past year. These pieces of apparatus are in excellent Condition, and have thus far cost the Town prae- tieally nothing for maintenance. The Knox Pump was thoroughly over- hauled and the permanent men remodelled and rebuilt the body. They also painted this piece of apparatus, thereby saving the Town considerable expense. Very IittIe money was required to main- tain the American -La Franee Combina- tion at the Massachusetts Ave. Fire Sta- tion, and, although this piece of appar- atus has served the Town seven years, it is in as good condition today as when it was newly installed. The Fire Alarm System has been fur- ther improved in efficiency by the instal- lation of additional apparatus in the Fire Alarm Room at Headquarters. It seems proper at this time for the Engineers to speak of the good work which the firemen did at the time of the Tornado which caused so much damage in the Town of Lexington last August. The firemen did much in clearing the thoroughfares of debris, and in cutting live wires which were in many instances endangering the lives of the public. These firemen worked from shortly after 7 o'clock until long after midnight before the streets were in a safe condi- tion. Fortunately no lives were lost at that time, but on the following day a lineman, Daniel J. Chisholm, employed by the Fire Department lost his life while working on the Signal System. Necessarily this tornado cost the .Wire Department a considerable sum of money, due to the destruction of the Fire Alarm Systetu all over the Town. The Engineers feel, now that the De- partment is motorized, that the Head- quarters on Merrifm Street is sufficiently large and in such condition that it will suffice for all needs of the Department for several years to come. It 'nay be compulsory at some future date to place the Fire Alarm apparatus in a fireproof room, but otherwise we be- lieve that it will not be necessary to en- large the house to any great extent. The Engineers again remind the citizens that they will be very glad to have them call at the Engine Hooses so that they may become acquainted with the appar- atus of the Fire Department and the methods employed in fighting fires. The Houses are open to visitors between the hours of 10 A. If. and 10 P. M. daily. Respectfully submitted, EDWARD W. TAYLOR, Chief. 68 TOWN OF LEXINGTON REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH To the Citizens of Lexington: The following is the report of the Board of Health for the year ending De- cember 31, 1918: The Board organized, with no change in personnel from the previous year, with Dr. W. L. Barnes as chairman, Chas. H. Franks and W. B. Foster. The following officials were appointed: Chas. W. Swan, agent to issue burial permits, etc. Dr. W. L. Barnes, Health Officer. A. A. Marshall, fumigator. E. W. Martin, in charge of odorless east. Harry L. Alderman, D. V. S. and Chas. H, Butterfield, Inspectors of Slaughter- ing. Andrew Bain of Arlington, Inspector of Plumbing and Milk Inspector. A laboratory was fitted up in the base- ment of the Town Hall, at an expense within the appropriation, for the Milk Inspector. The usual nuisances• were abated and the routine work of the Board attended to during the year. During the first and most severe in- fluenza epidemic a number of eases were taken care of at various hospitals at the expense of the Board where it waa im- possible to get proper care at home. The advisability of opening a temporary hos- pital in the old Adams Sehoot building in East Lexington was gone into, but Lex- ington not being as hard hit as were some communities, this was not neces- sary. The epidemic soon abated, but was followed later by a new but Ieas serious outbreak. The total number of cases recorded does not give a good idea of the number of cases in town, because there were many cases before the State Board of Health made the disease report- able. The following eases of contagious dis- eases were reported during the year: Chicken Pox 15 Diphtheria 6 Dog Bite 1 German Measles 31 Measles 36 Mumps 16 Scarlet Fever 5 Tuberculosis (Pulmonary) 8 Tuberculosis (Other Forms) 1 Whooping Cough 28 Influenza 411 Phihisis 1 Pneumonia (Neuingitis) 1 Tubueular Neuingitis 1 Erysipelas 1 Grippe 3 Lobar Pneumonia 23 Total Respectfully submitted, WM. L. BARNES, M. D., Chairman. WILLIAM B. FOSTER, CHAS. H. FRANKS. 588 REPORT QF INSPECTOR OP MEATS AND PROVISIONS Dec. 3, 1918. To the Board of Health, Gentlemen: The following is a report of my in- spection and stamping of meats and pro- visions for the year of 1918: Holman, 36 beeves, 306 veals, 417 swine, and 10 sheep. Whiting, 40 swine. Private slaughtering, 94 swine. Twelve (12) swine, 19 beeves and 6 veals were condemned and rendered. H. L. ALDERMAN, D. V. S., F. M. BOARD OF HEALTH . REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF SLAUGHTERING To the Town of Lexington, Gentlemen: My report for the year 1918 as Inspee- . for of Slaughtering is as follows: Bunze1 Beeves 42 Swine 800 Veal 783 Sheep 3 Young Beeves 51 Swine 753 Veal 136 Sheep 8 3 Beeves, 7 Veal, 10 Swine, have been condemned rendered on account of tu- berculosis and cholera. C. H. BUTTERFIELD, Inspector. REPORT OF PLUMBING INSPECTOR To the Board of Health, Lexington, Maes. Gentlemen: 1 herewith submit my report as In- spector of Plumbing for the year ending December 31st, 1918: Number of applications received and permits granted Number of applications received on which work has not been completed 2 Number of calls made in connection with testa, inspections and infor- mation 186 Inspections of old buildings have been made where the sanitary conditions re- quired the drainage system to enter the sewer. The necessary changes were made at the time of construction, and they were promptly and satisfactorily attended to. Respectfully submitted, ANDREW BAIN, 56• REPORT OF BELE INSPECTOR To the Board of Health, Lexington, Mass. Gentlemen: I herewith submit my report as Inspec- tor of Milk for the year ending December 69 31st, 1918. It has been the policy of your Inspector to try to mace Lexington's milk supply clean, pure, and reasonably safe. In carrying out this policy it was neces- sary in some instances that changes be made in the construction and sanitary im- provements of some of the Dairies and Milk -plants. As to the result of these requirements I take this opportunity to thank the dealers for their co-operation and willingness in making the changes that were suggested. I . have analyzed ninety-four (94) samples of milk during the year, and the results obtained from them proved the milk to be very good quality, and re- markably low in sediment. License issued for the sale of milk Permits issued for the sale of milk Stores registered for the sale of Oleomargarine Inspection of Stores Inspection of Dairies 25 20 8 16 12 Inspection of Milk Plants 14 Well water tested for sewage contamination 1 Estimated number of quarts of milk sold daily in the Town 1,850 Respectfully submitted, ANDREW BAIN. ODORLESS CART REPORT Board of Health, Town of Lexington. Gentlemen: I submit report for work done in 1916: January 11 cesspools 24 loads 1 vault February 16 cesspools 36 " 1 vault March 18 cesspools 39 April 20 cesspools 48 4 vaults 4 May 33 cesspools 80 10 vaults 11 June 25 cesspools 42 5 vaults 5 1 a 70 July . August September October November December TOWN 01' LEXINGTON 12 cesspools 2 vaults 9 cesspools 3 vaults 15 cesspools 1 vault 13 cesspools 2 vaults 21 cesspools 12 vaults 6 cesspools 1 vault 21 " 104 cattle, 31 sheep, 18 goats, and 3,156 2 " swine. 21 " Six (6) cattle were condemned of Tu - 3 " beroulosis; they were rendered and stables 33 " disinfected. 1 " Hog cholera was reported 27 " herds causing their owners to 2 " herds immunized. 40 if Thirty-six (36) cattle and one horse in several have their 7 " came frorn other states into the town and 15 " 1 " Total 199 cesspools 426 loads 42 vaults 38 " Financial Report August 8-3 September 1-19 September 20-30 October 1-31 November 1-30 December 1-31 Total 9 loads @ .15 22 " " .15 12 " 29 " " .25 47 " f' 25 16 " °° .25 $L35 3.30 3.00 7.25 11.75 4.00 $30.65 And I enclose cheek for $30.65 in full payment for year 1918. Respectfully submitted, ERNEST W. MARTIN. REPORT or ANIMAL INSPECTOR To the Selectmen of Lexington, Gentlemen: In my annual inspection in 139 stables the following animals were inspected, 1, - quarantine released. H. L. ALDERMAN, D. V. S. REPORT OF FUMIGATOR To the Board of Health, Town ai Lexington, Mass. Gentlemen: 191. T hereby8: submit my report es Fumiga- tor for the year ending December 31, Number of cases fumigated Six (6), requiring the fumigation of Seven (7) rooms. One (1) case of tuberculosis, requir- ing the fumigation of one (1) room. Three (3) cases of Diphtheria, requir- ing the fumigation of four (4) rooms. One (1) case of Scarlet Fever, requir- ing the fumigation of one (1) room. One (1) case of Cholesytitis, requiring the fumigation of one (1) room. Respectfully submitted, ARHUR A. MARSHALL, Fumigator. CEMETERY COMIMITTEE 71 REPORT OF CEMETERY COMMITTEE Lexington, Mass., December 31, 1918. To the Honorable Board. of Selectmen: Lexington, Mass. Gentlemen: In addition to the usual care of the Cemeteries the Committee were obliged to care for sixty trees that were blown down by a severe wind storm which oc- curred August 7th. The trees were strewn in every manner on the grounds and in many eases tipped over monuments which had to be reset and repaired to the best of the ability of the Committee. The wood from these trees was sold and the receipts turned over to the general care of the Cemetery. There have been Six (6) lots sold dur- ing the year and Three (3) lots placed in perpetual care. There has been a little more than the usual amount of grading and foundation work this past year. The Cemetery Committee has had the sum of $2,256.25 to expend on the Ceme- teries and have spent the amount of $1,771.50. We respectfully recommend an appropriation of $1,800.00 for the care of the Cemeteries for the year 1919. Respectfully submitted, ARTHUR A. MARSHALL, Supt., LESTER E. SMITH, G. W. SPAULDING. TOWN OF LEXINGTON REPORT OF TREE WARDEN The work of this department has been greatly handicapped this year because it has been impossible to secure com- petent help, particularly climbers, to do such trimming and repair work that would have ordinarily been done. It requires experienced men to do this sort of work properly, and unless it is done properly, it is better left undone. Only about one- half of the appropriation for this work has therefore been expended. In August, a gale of unprecedented force passed through the town, and in consequence many large and valuable trees were blown down or broken to such an extent as to make their removal neces- sary. It has been possible to remove only such of the trees and broken limbs as were a menace to publie safety, and much remains to be done as soon as ca- pable help can be obtained. A large number of trees continue to be injured by electric wires passing through the tops, causing them to be charged and in some cases burned. This has been referred to in previous reports, and is a matter that should receive the serious consideration of the citizens of the town. There should be a clearly de- fined policy with respect to the manner in which wires carrying a high voltage can be carried through the town. A. E. ROBINSON, Tree Warden. December 31, 1918. PLANNING BOARD 73 REPORT OF PLANNING BOARD The Planning Board organized on April 2, 1918, and between this date and the close of the year held twelve meetings, eight of wbieli were joint meetings with the Cemetery Committee. Numerous in- formal meetings of various members of the Board have been held. Upon a number of occasions members of the Board of Selectmen, Board of Sur- vey and Park Board have met with the Planning Board, and upon other occa- sions members of the Planning Board have met with other Boards. The principal work of the Planning Board has been in connection with the Cemetery Committee, serving as a joint board under vote of the Town to lay out the new cemetery. At the time the Planning Board was established, the Town assigned to it in co-operation with the Cemetery Commit- tee the task of securing plans for the de- velopment of the new cemetery. Owing to the demands of this work, the Board has naturally given to the Cemetery pro- ject the major portion of its time. Meet- ings of the joint committee, conferences, interviews, visits to cemeteries in this vicinity and elsewhere have been very nearly continuous with the result that a report will soon be ready. Plans are nearing completion, and it is hoped that a full report with plan of the proposed lay -out and draft of rules and regula- tions for handling the matter may be in the hands of the citizens prior to the an- nual town meeting. It is expeeted that the plan of development will be at that time suffieiently complete to enable the Town, provided it accepts the same, to take definite action looking toward actual work of construction. Aside from the fact that the work upon the new cemetery has taken the major part of the Board's time and attention, it is to be remembered that the Planning Board is a new one with no traditional or well-defined lines laid down for its work. The inevitable result has been to require time to feel out the situation vhieh confronts the Town, and to deter- mine to what line or lines the Board could best devote its time and effort. The Board is without any real power in connection with any matter, and must content itself with recommendations and suggestions to be put into effect by the Town, and while numerous matters hav- ing to do with the welfare of the Town as the Board coneeives it have been con- sidered and gone into to considerable ex- tent, it seems wise at the present time not to dwell upon matters that at pres- ent can only he considered as possibili- ties. At the very outset of its work, the Planning Board encountered the neces- sity for an adequate map of the Town, and until such a map can be produced, cry little of real value can be accom- plished in the intended line of activity of a Planning Board. Lexington has large areas of unde- veloped land,—farms that were once op- erated hnt are now in the market for development. These areas will go to hap- hazard, cheap development, each area to he developed upon a plan largely its own and without due regard to the devel- opment of adjoining areas, unless they he considered as a whole, Iaid out with proper reference to the topography and served by a Comprehensive system of roads. The Board of Survey, upon whom devolves the responsibility for improving development ]ay -outs, cannot properly pass upon the same and should not be charged with responsibility therefore in the absence of a proper and sufficient plan of the Town. 74 TOWN OP LEXINGTON New lines of highway should be devel- oped to relieve the traffic on Massachu- setts Avenue and to open up outside areas, but here again, nothing can be done with- out a Town map. The Planning Board urges with all pos- sible emphasis the necessity for immedi- ately providing for such a map. The Town Engineer is doing what he can in this direction, but with the force at his command and other duties devolving upon him must necessarily require a long time in its preparation. In our opinion, a special appropriation is justified to in- crease the engineer's force to enable him to make immediate progress to this end. The duties of Planning Boards, as specified in the law, are "To make careful studies of the resources, possibilities and needs of the Town, particularly with re- spect to conditions which may be injur- ious to the public health or otherwise in- jurious in and about rented dwellings, and to make plans for the development of the municipality with special refer- ence to the housing of its people," The Homestead Commission and tlie Federation of Planning Boards both point out the importance of a town map, top- ographical and showing existing streets, railways, parks and undeveloped land, as a basis for a careful study of future developments; and that the board should forecast developments needed at least fifty years in advance of any given time. Such developments should be, when adopted by the town, laid down on the map as the basis of procedure. It is further pointed out that it is the absence of such planning, and the fore- sight it brings into play, which is re- sponsible for the chaotic conditions so generally found. In practically every other respect we find careful planning in advance. Municipal development is the exception, where accident or the inter- ests of a developer dictate what is tp rule the Town for good or ill for centuries. We plan our homes, which have a compar- atively short life. We have left to chance the laying out of our streets, which last practically forever. When an old es- tablished street is changed it is at a fright- ful east. The foregoing sets forth the general purposes of a Planning Board, No one can dispute the wisdom of the course out- lined. The Board hopes, without any power of its own, that it can justify its continued existence by the wisdom of its suggestions, plans and activities. Respectfully submitted, FREDERICK L. EMERY, EDWARD T. HARTMAN, CHRISTOPHER S. RYAN, HOWARD S. 0. NICHOLS. CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY 75 REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY • The circulation of books was unusually large in 1918, and seemed scarcely af- fected by the great war, and the special activities which it imposed upon all. Be- sides the routine work of the library this past year has been busy with extra ser- vices to meet wax -time conditions. The quality of service given has been note- worthy as well as the amount for the li- brary staff have an honorable pride in rendering cheerfully any help to readers and inquirers after information. In addi- tion to caring for and distributing the collection of books under their charge they regard themselves as assistants to the public in every proper way wher- ever guidance or advice may lighten the labors of readers, or make their researches profitable and efficient. Tliis kind of aid cannot he summed up in statistics, and yet it forms a considerable part of the duties of the library staff. An important per- manent addition to the group of librarians was made by the appointment of Miss Katherine Buck as Children's Librarian. As the advantages of direct contact with the children are unlimited a desk has been placed in the children's room for her use. Miss Buck had experience as substitute librarian, and took a special course at Simmons College, before entering upon her new duties last September. As "Conservation" has been the watch- word for alI for some time, we have con- tinued our conservation helps during the year. Books, pamphlets and posters have been exhibited and circulated, and quan- tities of government publications have been freely given to the public. Appreciating the aim of the modern publie library to be a common meeting ground for town activities we welcomed the opportunity to assist the work of the Red Cross. As Buckman Tavern couId be kept open but two days of each week we were very glad to receive and dis- tribute yarn and receive packages of fin- ished articles. We undertook the sale of thrift stamps, the capital with which we worked being supplied by Mr. Hallie C. Blake. At the Main Library, 632 stamps were sold, and at the Brandi 284, making a total of 916. We hope it may be continued during the current year. In the interests of fuel conservation several of the smaller or- ganizations have held meetings at the library. This privilege extended by the Trustees has been much appreciated. The many exhibitions which have been held at the Library have elicited much ap- preciation and much effort has been ex- pended to keep something of interest be- fore the public. Aside from the exhibits which come to us through our member- ship in the Library Art Club we have had an interesting collection of war trophies which have been brought or sent from the other side. Those who have so generously Ioaned us these trophies are mentioned in the report appended. Through the courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. .1. Henry Duffy we have been privileged to exhibit interesting doeuments and pos- tal cards having historical value. The coins and medals loaned us by Mrs. Henry Simonds and Mr. George L. Gilmore have been very tine specimens enjoyed by all. Believing that the various industries are little known to the public as a whole, we have been endeavoring to collect such educational exhibits as it is possible to secure. Responses to our request have been very gratifying and we hope to se- cure many more as.thev are brought t6 our attention. The most pressing needs of the library is a decided and early increase of its en- dowed funds. It is now fifty years sinee the Library was founded and although • i 76 TOWN OF LEXINGTON it has developed in importance and size, its invested funds amount only to $16,- 942.50, the income from which in 1918 was $559.26. This is a small sum con- trasted with the proper requirements of our Lexington population. To be sure, the proceeds of the dog -tax are also avail- able for library uses, and these have amounted to about $750.00 in recent years. Even with this additional fund, however, the sum actually available for the purchase of books is seldom more than $800, because the expense for sub- scriptions to magazines and periodicals, and for binding books, with other neces- sary charges, reduces the amount at the disposal of the trustees, especially as a measure of prudent management a small reserve of one or two hundred dollars must be maintained. If $1,200 could be used yearly for buying books there would be at once apparent a marked awakening of interest in the Library through the increased accessions of new books and the much wider usefullness that a more rapidly growing collection of books would assure. This is only an increase of fifty per cent but it would require a doubling of the endowment at once to provide for it. The future of the Town must also be considered and plans be laid for an ac- cumulation e-cumulation of invested funds equal to fifty thousand dollars. And if this can- not be gathered at once our citizens should be reminded that a small bequest in their wills for the Library endowment would serve as a permanent memorial to their name, and forever make them active con- tributors to the intellectual welfare of their beloved Town, This anniversary year, the semi -centennial of the founda- tion of the Library, is surely an oppor- tune time to solicit the co-operation of our fellow-eitizens in strengthening and assuring the expanding usefulness of our Library. Respectfully submitted, For the Trustees, JOHN M. WILSON, Chairman. GIFTS From Mr. Hallie C. Blake—Letter from Theodore Parker to Prof. Edward Desor of Switzerland. Interesting also because it is written on birch bark from the White Mountains. Collection of 5,000 photographs on art and arehiteeture: From Mrs. Ralph G. Wells—Auto- graph letter of Louisa M. Aleott. Auto- graph letter of Booker T. Washington. Prom Mrs. A. E. Scott—Collection of photographs and photogravures. From Mr. J. Willard IIayden—Framed portrait of Miss Alice Butler Cary. Prom Mrs. Henry Simonds—Water color painting by Miss Caroline Hunt Rimmer. Gifts of books from the following: American Ambulance Field Service— Mrs. Grace Cook—Miss Mabel P. Cook —Prof. W. M. Dixon—Miss Ellen E. Doe—Mr. Francis Deane—Mr. E. C. Farnsworth --Dr. F. S. Piper—Mrs. Henry Simonds—Mr. Hollis Webster -- Mr. G. C. Worthen. CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY REPORT OF LIBRARIAN OF CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY Statistical Report 1918 Branch Library: Accessions by purchase: New books Books to replace old copies Periodicals Main Library: Aeeessions by purchase: New books Books to replace old copies Periodicals Accessions by gift 461 36 31 528 Accessions by gift 51 Books disearded and withdrawn Net increase In Library Dec. 31, 1917 Periodicals, bound Periodicals, unbound Philosophy and Religion Biography History Travels and Description Social sciences Natural sciences Arts, useful Arts, recreative Arts, fine Language and Literature Poetry Fiction Music scores Stereographs. (Seta) • Representing 6,411 pictures 77 26 3 3 32 5 Books discarded and withdrawn 570 36 Net increase In Library Dec. 31, 1917 543 37 3 34 3,006 27,058 _ Total number of volumes in Main 27,601 Library and Branch Circulation 1918 Home use Main Library 156 3425 351 781 2330 638 352 432 612 207 185 822 301 28743 230 78 39643 Home use through Branch 5 12 27 139 32 3,040 30,641 Home use from Branch 112 353 .13 16 118 65 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Total circulation Main Library 42,784 Total cirulation Main Library and Branch 45943 Total circulation from Children's room 10,797 Number of days Library was open: Main Library 302 Branch Library 253 Registration 1918: Main Library: Adult 2,334 Juvenile 648 Temporary 248 Withdrawn: Adult Juvenile Temporary 162 149 200 3,230 511 Registration Main Library, Dee. 31, 1918 2,710 Registration 1918 Branch Library: Adult 892 Juvenile 274 Withdrawn: Adult Juvenile 666 24 32 Registration Breneb Library, Dec. 31, 1918 Total registration Main Library and Branch 14 Miscellaneous 1 66 Main Library: 16 46 Periodicals subscribed for 8 44 Periodicals given 11 Newspapers subscribed for 29 52 Newspapers given 7 10 Books rebound 2851 2253 Books repaired Books lost by borrowers 6 Books borrowed from other libraries 20 Books loaned to other libraries 4 Periodicals bound 25 PostaIs sent delinquents for over- due books 999 Pasta's sent for books reserved 825 Stereographic pictures used in Children room (Friday after- noons only) ' 12,987 Branch Library: ' Periodicals subscribed for 23 Periodicals given 1 Newspapers subscribed for 1 Newspapers given 1 Books rebound 32 Periodicals bound 3 Books repaired 126 Exhibits in Main Library: From membership in Library Art Club: Panama exposition—Longman's war pictures — Algiers — F. Hopkinson Smith's drawings—Renaissance door- ways: Italian—War pictures—No. 1 War pictures No. 2----Rbodesia—Bel- gium, No. 2—Hungary—Colonial fur- niture—Kindergarten set—Advertising posters—Marclien Bruner' (}airy tale fountain). Exhibits loaned by individuals: Soy bean exhibit—Artificial silks made from wood pulp ---Loaned by Mr. G. 56 C. Worthen. 610 3,329 62 7 3 1 403 3,774 3141 3159 Trophies of the European war—Loaned by Mr. F. L. Emery—Rev. C. W. Col- lier—Mrs. Henry Simonds—Mr. G. L. Gilmore --Mr, and Mrs. J. Henry Duf- fy—Young People's Soeiety of Han- cock Church—Mrs. W. T. Crowther— Mrs. G. L. Thnrlow--Mr. S. B. Bige- low. French war posters—Loaned through the courtesy of Mr. E. G. Preston. Respectfully submitted, MARIAN P. KIRKLAND, Librarian. CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY 79 REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY Income January 1, 1918. Balance on hand Dog Tax Interest on bank deposit Investment Com. Int. on bonds, etc. Investment Coin. Int. on Brig- ham fund Pines Expenditures Bindery Books American Library Assoc. Library Art Club Express Laundry Library of Congress Music Newspapers and Periodicals $199.09 807.12 8.43 414.62 Postage Printing and supplies Cash balance in Bank 75.66 90.89 201.64 $1,752.39 EAST LEXINGTON BRANCH 100.20 January 1, 1918. 222.93 Balance on hand Investment Com. Interest $1,752.39 $247.42 805.55 5.00 6.00 20.11 1.48 30.00 13.22 255.42 Books Cash Balance in Bank $41.25 44.44 $85.69 $40.02 45.67 $85.69 GEORGE E. BRIGGS, Treasurer of the Cary Memorial Library. Examined and approved, CHARLES F. PIERCE, Town Accountant. 80 TOWN OF LEXINGTON REPORT OF TRUSTEES - CARY MEMORIAL INVESTMENT COMMITTEE January 1, 1918. Balance: Principal Funds December 31, 1918. Income for the year: Interest on bonds Interest on Saving's Bank De- posit Interest on Lexington Trust Co. Deposit Saving's Dept. $16,942.50 400.00 139.06 20.20 $559.26 $17,501.76 Payments: (leo. E. Briggs, Treasurer 559.26 Balance December 13, 1918 $16,942.50 Accounting viz: Bonds: B. & M. 41/2 due 1919 (Receiver for R.R.) Nos. 77-78-79 Interest defaulted 3,000.00 West End 4 per cent due 1932 Nos, 60-70-71 3,000.00 B. & A. 4 percent due 1933 Nos. M. 79-M 80 2,000.00 Am. T. & T. Co. 4 per cent 1929 Nos 67742, 68799, 67832 3,000.00 Bedford Town Notes 4 per cent No. 37 due Aug., 1919 1,000.00 No. 38 due Aug., 1920 1,000.00 Deposit at Lexington Savings Bank Cary Library -Robbins Fund - E. Lexington Branch -Book 1476 100.00 Gary Library. Book Purchase Fund Book 1522 1,000.00 Cary Library. Beal Fund. Book 2235 1,000.00 Wellington Fund. East Lexington Branch. Book 5123 1,000.00 Gary Library -Portion of Maria Cary Fund. Income Reserve. Book 6940 Deposit in Savings Dept. Lexington Trust Co. Cary Library, Balance of Laura Brigham Fund. Book 840. 500.00 342.50 $16,942.50 Investment Committee. HALLIE C. BLAKE, JOHN M. WILSON, JAY O. RICHARDS, Examined and approved, CHAS. F. PIERCE, Town Accountant. PARK COMMISSIONERS REPORT OF PARK COMMISSIONERS To the citizens of the Town of Lexington: In view of the conditions existing dur- ing the past year, your Board of Park Commissioners have endeavored to ad- minister their department with extreme conservatism and economy and in conse- quence cannot report any such extended development of the Parks and Play- grounds as has been their privilege in the past. We can, However, report the be- ginning of a new entrance to the Park lands at the foot of Muzzey Street, acting with the abutters in accordance with the- agreement heagreement whereby this land was given to the Town. We have moreover made a suceessful planting of 1,000 pine seed- lings which we hope to make the nucleus of a nursery from which in the future the Town may draw for its shade and orna- mental trees. We have spent consider- able time in a careful pruning and cut- ting down of the trees under our juris- diction where they were proving detri- mental to the healthy growth of others and in some cases an absolute menace to public safety bemuse of their decayed condition. The Battle Green and Buckman Park have had their usual are and attention and been kept up to the high standard that these spots deserve. The Playgrounds have been kept open omitting however, the paid supervision and instruction of previous summers. This step was taken because we could anticipate but a slim attendance owing to the enrollment of children in the "War Garden" and other war work. The Community Gardens were again the scene of great activity with a much increased acreage under cultiva- tion. In spite of the unseasonable frosts they were remarkably productive and al- ready we are reeeiving applications for additional plots for the coming season. 81 The several other tracts of Park Land have received such attention as was ab- solutely necessary and with the co-opera- tion of our Town Engineer, surveys have been made, bounds established, and maps drawn to make our record of Park Areas more complete. We wish to emphasize in closing that the brevity of the above report does not indicate any lack of interest or let up in work on the part of your Board of Park Commissioners and request your careful study of the Treasurer's report. You will note therein that nearly two-thirds of our appropriation was used for the payment of labor. 'fhe distribution of these expenditures required our constant thought and supervision that it might be most eflieient. Of the remaining thousand dollars over $500 was required to make the absolutely neeessaxy repairs to the Cottage occupied by our Superintendent and in the purchase of a motor lawn mower. Without this latter we would have been unable to keep the lawns in shape owing to the. labor shortage. An- other $100 was used to assure the con- tinued growth of the newly seeded lawn on Buckman Park, with a second hundred for trees, shrubs, grass seed, etc., for various parts of the Park system. This left us roughly hut. $300 for incidental expenses and the purchase of necessary supplies, That we accomplished what we did and kept within our appropriation is a source of gratification to us and we trust satisfactory to the Citizens of Lex- ington. Respectfully submitted, J. ODIN TILTON, WILLIAM E. MULLIKEN, EDWARD WOOD, Park Commissioners. 82 TOWN OF LEXINGTON TREASURER'S REPORT FOR YEAR Receipts Cash on hand January 1, 1918 Appropriated Rentals Sale of gravel 1918 $11.77 2,788.23 102.00 9.40 $2,911.40 Expenditures Pay roll $1,685.91 Outside Labor 173.88 Trees and Shrubs 97.27 Fertilizer 95.00 Motor Lawn Mower 280.26 Repairs to Cottage 263.36 Toboggan Slide (Labor and Mate- rial) 60.50 Playground Supplies 19.90 Lumber 11.64 Horse hire 46.25 Repairing flags 13.78 Repairing Drinking Fountain 18.90 Raising and Lowering. Flag poles 28.00 Water Department 10.93 Signs Miscellaneous Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1919 Summary Belfry Hill Community Gardens Centre Playground East Lexington Play- ground 60.00 Muzzey Street Exten- sion 208.00 Buckman Park 440.00 Supt. Cottage Battle Green 392.00 Common to all 82.00 6.55 97.15 $2,909.25 Labor $72.00 178.00 428.00 $2.15 Other Expenses 11.64 33.90 22.27 95.00 263.36 135.90 487.18 $1,860.00 $1,049.25 Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM E. MILLIREN, Treasurer. WATER AND SEWER COMMISSIONERS REPORT OF THE BOARD OF WATER AND SEWER COMMISSIONERS The Board of Water and Sewer Com- missioners herewith present their report of the operations of their departments for the year 1918: WATER DEPARTMFNT General summary of the finances for the year. ending December 31, 1918: MAINTENANCE AND OPERATING ACCOUNT Receipts Schedule A-1918 Items $24,888,79 Expenditures Schedule B -Maintenance Ex- penses 28,836.19 Excess Expenditures over Re- ceipts ,Appropriation, reimbursement on account of thawing ser- vices and mains $3,947.40 4,500.00 Balance 1916-1917 Items collected in 1918, Schedule A $552.60 1,383,34 1917 Cash balance forward 1,595.66 $3,531.60 CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNT Expenditures Schedule C 1917 Cash balance in Con- struction Aeeount Transferred from 1918 Oper- ating Account $1,971.76 $1,953.59 1.8.17 $1,971.76 CASH STATEMENT 1916-1917 Items collected in 1918 $1,383.34 1917 Cash balance forward 1,595.66 Cash, 1918 Operating Account 552.60 Less amount transferred to 1918 Construction Account 18.17 $3,531.60 In hands of Town Treasurer Cash on hand in Department $3,513.43 $3,399.55 113.88 $3,513.43 SCHEDULE "A" Detail of Revenue from WATER RATES and MISCELLANEOUS Accounts Total Collected Rebated Unpaid Committed 1917 Water Rates $1,048.13 $97.45 0 $1,145.58 Guarantees 292.72 165.42 458.14 Miscellaneous Items 42.49 10.00 52.49 $1,383.34 $272,87 0 81,656.21 84 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Collected 1918 Items Water Rates $21,553.57 Guarantees 231.15 Hydrants 1,990.00 Troughs 100.00 Repairs to Services 494.85 Sale of Junk 44.37 Turning on Water 64.00 Rent of Land 90.00 Sale of Water 38.01 Miscellaneous 282.84 $26,272.13 Rebated. Unpaid $649.92 $239.95 164.54 120.48 Total Committed $22,443.44 395.69 1,990.00 100.00 494.85 44.37 64.00 90.00 38.01 442.32 $922.79 $524.97 $27,719.89 SCHEDULE "B" Detail of MAINTENANCE and OPER- ATING Expenses Metropolitan Tax *9,398.37 Interest on Debt 4,906.00 Labor 3,269.55 Maintenance of Horse and Wagon 598.55 Maintenance of Ford Automobile 467.61 Stock 993.78 Freight 37.07 Insurance 343.33 Leak Locator 90.00 Rent of Land (B. do M. R. R. Yard) 195.00 Thawing services and mains Salaries Office Expenses Miscellaneous SCHEDULE "C" Detail of CONSTRUCTION Labor Large Iron Pipe Meters Gates Hydrants Lead Pipe Small Iron Pipe Small Pipe Fittings Other Stock Miscellaneous 4,715,34 2,736.31 354.36 730.92 $28,836.19 Expenses $1,119.63 26.24 465.75 10.00 61.70 192.48 517.41 294.05 383.98 49.51 $3,120.75 Receipts from Installing services $1,192.07 Leas excess deposits returned 43.08 $1,148.99 $1,971.76 DETAIL OF UNPAID ITEMS In obedience to a vote of the Town, passed in 1907, a complete list of those who have failed to pay their bills is given herewith, being the total amount so out- standing at the close of the books of the Department, December 31, 1918. Water Rates Norutnbega Park Company $202.01 Andrew W. Green 3.00 Fair Oaks Realty Company 11.26 Paid since books closed 20.68 Rebated since books closed 3.00 Guarantees Norris F. Cowley Henry L. Stone Louis Lawrence J. Betheldo Faria Brothers Mary Basher F. Traverse Paid since books closed $239.95 $20.60 7.67 7.00 4.77 29.93 29,93 29.93 34.71 $164.54 WATER AND SEWER. COMMISSION ERS 85 Miscellaneous Thomas E. Stretton Paid since books closed $36.48 84.00 "Not yet acquired by the Town 1916 St. Margarets Avenue 6 520 1917 Rawson Avenue 6 175 $120.48 Total Amount $524.97 EXTENSION OF MAINS There were no Mains laid during 1918. LENGTHS OF DIFFERENT SIZES OF WATER MAINS IN, USE Dee, 31, 1918 Diameter Length 12 inches 9,000 feet 10 inches 4,879 feet 8 inches 30,643 feet 6 inches 109,674 feet 4 inches 27,794 feet Smaller sizes 4,209 feet The foregoing does not include exten- sion of the mains in Private Ways, a list of which is given herewith: Year Location Size L'gth Made Inches Feet 1911 Wilbur Properties 6 5,000 1913 Mariott St. Hayes Est. 6 537 1914 York Street 6 622 1914 Webb Street 6 373 1914 Follen Road' 8 4,790 1915 Baker Avenue 6 912 1915 Locust Avenue 6 410 1916 Off Follen Road 6 455 1916 Arcadia Avenue 6 1,508 WATER METERS In obedience to the law all new ser- vices installed and placed in use were equipped with meters. The following table slows the progress made since 1906 in the installation of meters: 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 Of 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 Number of Services 702 738 780 838 910 961 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 which there were Metered: 96 1913 • 245 1914 362 1915 475 1916 615 1917 752 1918 1083 1113 1156 1206 1245 1264 843 947 1063 1139 1231 1264 Average gross income, per service, per year : 1907 $21.40 1913 $18.18 1908 20.54 1914 18.70 1909 21.60 1915 17.37 1910 22.20 1916 17.24 1911 21.36 1917 17.72 1912 19.38 1918 17.05 MONTHLY AVERAGE DAILY CONSUMPTION OF WATER PER CAPITA Year Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May 1906 71 73 70 68 74 1907 68 72 73 70 72 1908 48 56 51 58 75 1909 48 52 59 64 69 1910 58 65 59 72 78 1911 63 64 64 67 82 1912 70 75 79 80 83 1913 52 55 55 63 60 1914 59 60 58 60 77 1915 61 58 58 60 63 1916 58 60 62 64 69 1917 63 65 69 67 72 1918 77 114 106 87 92 June July 74 96 82 85 109 105 84 101 73 119 80 115 101 107 68 86 93 73 80 63 71 73 77 93 94 89 Aug. 88 105 83 90 94 93 74 82 63 63 81 90 87 IN GALLONS Sept. Get. 76 74 76 65 91 70 75 62 85 84 81 75 66 57 76 66 75 66 70 68 76 75 74 73 76 64 Nov. Dec. 65 54 62 51 65 51 55 50 71 75 77 62 56 56 63 60 63 60 62 60 69 65 71 70 63 58 86 HYDRANTS TOWN OF, LEXINGTON The following Hydrants were in ser- vice on the dates given: January 1, 1918 Public, 195; Private, 25 January 1, 1919 Public, 199; Private, 22 MOVEMENT OF THE BONDED DEBT The debt movement up to the present time is as follows: Added Paid Net Debt 1896 original bond issue $200.000.00 1896 10,000 210,000.00 1897 1,000 209,000.00 1898 10,000 1,000 218,000.00 1899 2,000 216,000.00 1900 2,000 214,000.00 1901 10,000 2,000 222,000.00 1902 5,000 3,000 224,000.00 1903 53,000 4,000 273,000.00 1904 8,200 264,000.00 1905 5,200 8,200 261,800.00 1906 2,000 19,300 244,500.00 1907 18,300 226,200.00 1908 13,000 15,700 223,500.00 1909 8,600 16,700 215,400.00 1910 17,900 197,500.00 1911 16,000 17,900 105,600.00 1912 32,000 18,900 208,700.00 1913 4,800 21,700 191,800.00 1914 . 8,500 22,900 177,400.00 1915 4,000 19,400 162,000.00 1916 3,000 20,400 144,600.00 1917 4,000 21,400 127,200.00 1918 19,700 107,500.00 Summary: Original Debt Total Additions $200,000.00 189,100.00 Total Indebtedness Incurred $389.100.00 Total Payments made 281,600.00 Balance of Debt Dec. 31, 1918 $107,500.00 Amount to be paid in 1919 $18,200.00 VALUE OF THE PLANT The estimated value of the plant at the close of 1917 as given in the report of that year was: $255,000.06 Additions in 1918 1,971.78 Value Dec. 31, 1918 $256,971.76 STOCK AND TOOLS ON HAND Stock; valued, at $2,500.00 Tools, valued at 300.00 Horse and Wagon 300.00 Automobile 400.00• $3,500.00 The Commissioners present the follow- ing estimate of receipts and expenses for the year 1919: Estimated! Receipts Unpaid forward Water Rates Guarantees Hydrants Troughs Repair Work Miscellaneous $640.85 21,500.00 200.00 2,000.00 100.00 200.00 159.15 $24,800.00 Estimated Expenses Metropolitan Water Tax $10,000.00 Interest on Bonds 4,234.00 1919 payment on $4,500 appro- priation for thawing 1,500.00 Labor 3,666.00 Stock and Tools 500.00 Maint. of Horse and Wagon 500.00 Maint. of Automobile 400.00 Office Expenses' 400.00 Salaries 3,000.00 Insurance 300.00 MiseeI1aneous 300.00 $24,800.00 WATER AND SEWER COMMISSIONERS 87 Estimated Expenses Construction Hydrants Gates and boxes Meters Other Stock Labor Tools and Repairs $250.00 500.00 750.00 599.55 1,200.00 100.00 $3,399.55 Summary : 1918 Cash balance forward. (In hands of Town Treasurer) $3,399.55 Less Dept. Working balance 2,500.00 Balance available for Construc- tion work in 1919 $899.55 Estimated Construction Expenses $3,399.55 Less amount transferred from 899.55 Operating Account Amount to be provided by bond issue or otherwise $2,500.00 On aecount of the extreme cold of last Winter, the Department was put to a most unusual expense of approximately $4,700. This being an extreme emergency which involved the life and safety of the people and their property, the Board felt that it should be reimbursed from the Tax Levy. The Finance Committee, how- ever, were of the opinion that the Water Commissioners should provide for this expense by revenue from the Water De- partment, if necessary increasing the rates charged the consumers for water. The Town appropriated the sum of $4,500 to be reimbursed from the revenues of the Water Department at the rate of $1,500 per year for the years 1919, 1920 and 1921. With strict attention paid to economy, in spite of increased costs of labor and material, the Department shows practi- cally the same eash balance with which it entered the year. By the continuation of the same policy this next year, the Board hopes that it may be able to make the 1919 payment of $1,500 from its operat- ing income; if not, the rates will have to be increased before the year is over. Inasmuch as a large part of the ex- pense was due to freeze ups on private property, the hoard believes that this part of the expense should in the future be paid for by the consumer. This policy has been adopted by the Board and the consumers notified to this effect. During the past year the Board has lowered several of its pipes where the covering had been reduced during past years by the lowering of the grades of the highway, and by doing this has re- duced somewhat the liability of freeze ups in its distributing mains. In its report in 1915, the Board dis- cussed the condition of the concrete stand- pipe. They desire that this matter be kept in mind and recommend that the structure be made permanently tight as soon as finances permit. The Board expects but few requests for extensions during the coming year. It must, however, add several gates in order that its system may be more flexible, making repairs possible without shutting off the water to a large number of con- sumers. This, by the way, is only a part of the work that eventually must be done to bring the system up to the maximum • of efficiency. The Board referred to this in its report of 1913. There will be requests for a few ser- . vices which require meters, materials and labor. The Board estimates that they will need about $2,500 and will ask the Town for an issue of Bonds to provide these additions to its water system. BROOK DEPARTMENT Financial Statement Year ending Dec, 31, 1918: 1917 balance forward $9.62 1918 Appropriation 300.00 $309.62 0 88 Expenses: Payroll Miscellaneous TOWN OP LEXINGTON $293.16 11.72 $304.88 Cash balance on hand with the Town Treasurer 4.74 $309.62 In 1914 the Town appropriated $2,000 for the improvement of the Vine, Sickle, North Lexington and Clematis Brooks and since there has been appropriated each year: 1915 1916 1917 1918 $1,522.56 500.00 300.00 300.00 The result of the work is manifested by the large amount of land which has been made available for farming pur- poses. Last year the Board requested $400 for Maintenance, but the Finance Committee recommended only $300. The result has been that on account of the increased cost of labor and the re- duced appropriation, all the brooks have not received the attention that was neces- sary to maintain the work done in 1914. The results are apparent, and if the 'town does not wish to lose what it has done, it must this year increase its appropria- tion to $700 in order that the work may be brought back to its original condi- tion. The Board receives constantly requests for help along other brooks and feels that where individuals have shown suf- eient enterprise to help themselves, that the 'l'own should in turn do its share. This is particularly true of the farms drained by the Munroe Brook between Lowell, Maple and Woburn Streets where Mr. Ryder has spent $1,400. SEWER DEPARTMENT Main Sewer Construction Financial Statement 1917 balance brought forward $2,193.22 Expenses Land Damages $31.54 0. G. Seeley 4.10 McClintock & Woo dfal l 887.27 $922.91 Balance, Cash on hand 1,270.31 $2,193.22 During the installation aY the sewer, the Commissioners were able to settle all elaims for damages except that of the Estate of James P. Munroe and the Breek-Robinson Nursery Company. These parties having brought suit against the Town, the jurisdiction of making a set- tlement automatically passed from the Board of Water and Sewer Commission- ers to the Board of Selectmen who now have this matter in hand. In its report of 1916 the Board out- lined that the extension of the sewer sys- tem should follow the plan of sewer dis- tricts rather than making individual street extensions. The Board understands, how - over, that the Board of Health will insist that a sewer be built in Sylvia Street dur- ing the coming year. It is estimated that this work will cost $1,500, and the Board will ask for an appropriation to do this work. SEW ER MAINTENANCE Maintenance of System and Construction of House Connections Financial Statement 1receipts : From Deposits $380.00 Less excess deposits re- turned 26.13 ------- $353.87 WATER Additional Payments Sewer Rentals Miscellaneous 1917 Items Collected 1917 Cash balance forward Less Expenses: Stock Office Expenses Labor Miscellaneous AND SEWER COMMISSIONERS 3.92 383.72 62.70 33.17 $821.38 35.98 $863.36 139.81 5.00 458.28 214.43 $817.52 Balance, Cash in hands of Town Treasurer $45.84 Value of Stock and Tools on hand Stock, valued at $50.00 Tools, valued at 44.00 $90.00 During the past year but eight new connections to the Sewer system were 89 made. This brings the total number of connections up to 84, of which 74 are in actual operation. At the time the Town voted to build the sewer system, there were 213 buildings which could be connected and it is a mat- ter of deep regret to the Board that only 74 connections have been made. This is undoubtedly due in part to the high cost of material and labor. To relieve this somewhat, the Board suggests that the Town give consideration to an issue of Bonds, to aid the abutter in making con- nections. Such bonds can be issued cov- ering a period of years thus permitting an abutter to pay for same over a period of time. Respectfully submitted, EDWARD H. MARA, ALBERT B. TENNEY, WILLIAM H. BURGESS, Board of Water a.nd Sewer Commis- sioners. t 90 TOWN OF LEXINGTON 1918 ASSESSORS' REPORT The Assessors hereby render their an- nual report. Real estate of resident owners $6,342,509.00 Real estate of non-resident owners 1,170,690.00 Personal estate of resident owners 793,811.00 Personal estate of non- resident owners 205,627.00 Total valuation Gain on real es- tate $52,327.00 $8,512,637.00 $52,327.00 Town grant 243,943.50 State tax 22,110.00 Eire prevention tax 77.92 County tax 10,957.22 Highway tax 1,78151 Metropolitan sewer tax 5,946.00 Metropolitan water tax 0,398.37. Auditing Municipal account tax 500.17 Overlay 2,317.24 Amount to be raised $297,031.93 From which deduet amount taken from Bank and corpora- tion tax $15,000.00 From Cambridge 313.44 From Arlington 277.82 State of Mass. in- come tax 1918 54,937.39 State of Mass. in- come tax 1917 balance 804.00 State of Mass., Con- nerney estate 52.98 Water receipts 9,398.97 $80,784.00 Total to he raised Rate of taxation $25.00 on $1,000.00 on a valuation of $8,512,637.00 1716 Polis at $2.00 $216,247.93 $212,815.93 3,432.00 Amt. committed to Collector $216,247.93 Tax on Omitted assessments, Dee. 20, 1918 416.25 Number of residents assessed on property 1,416 Number of non-resident sessed on property 1,060 Whole number of persons as- sessed on property 2,476 Number assessed for poll tax only 1,013 Number assessed for poll and property 703 Whole number assessed for poll 1,716 Number of cows assessed 966 Number of horses assessed 177 Number of meat cattle other than cows assessed 112 Number of swine assessed 033 Number of fowl assessed 4,090 Number of dwelling houses assessed 1,364 Number of acres of hind as- sessed 9,242 Value of real estate exempt from taxation , $140,600.00 Value of real estate belong- ing to town $470,325.62 Value of personal property exempt from taxation $22,000.00 GEORGE H. 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The Assessor's Publie Book shows how the tax is made up and can be seen dur- ing office hours at Town Hall. If there is dissatisfaction as to amount of Tax the Assessors should be seen. It is the duty of a Collector to follow the law in regard to payment of Taxes. Time is granted for good reasons but not later than April lst of each year. 1917 TAX Uncollected Jan. 1st, 1918 $43,840.53 Collected in 1918 $42,186.96 Abated in 1918 834.76 Tax Liens held by Town 818.81 $43,840.53 1918 TAX Amount Committed Sept. 17th, 1918 $216,247.93 93 Omitted Tax of Dee. 20th, 1918 416.25 Total $216,664.18 Collected to Jan. 1st 1919 $176,685.87 Abated to Jan. 1st, 1919 703.60 Tax Liens held by Town 405.62 Lneolleeted Jan. lst, 1919 38,869.09 $216,664.18 GYPSY AND BROWN TAIL MOTH 1917 Uncollected Jan, 1st, 1918 $302.57 Collected in 1918 302.57 GYPSY AND BROWN TAIL MOTH 1918 Amount Committed Sept. 17th, 1918 $1,683.05 Collected to Jan. lst, 1919 $1,362.86 Abated to Jan. 1st, 1919 1.66 Uncollected Jan. lst, 1919 318.53 -X1,683.05 BYRON C. EARLE, Collector of Taxes. 94 TOWN OF LEXINGTON FINANCIAL REPORT, TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC TRUSTS, 1918 Dee. 31 Eleanor S. Beals Legacy —Principal Account $2,000.00 Principal if fund invest- ed in $2,000 City of Lynn 4s 2,000.00 ELEANOR S. BEALS LEGACY—IN- COME ACCOUNT Receipts Apr. 1 Cash received for coup- ons on $2,000 City of Lynn 4s $40.00 Apr. 18 Credited by Lexington Savings Bank for interest on account 15.50 Oet. 1 Cash received for coup- ons on $2,000 City of Lynn 4s 40.00 Oet. 19 Credited by Lexington Savings Bank for interest on account 14,88 $110.38 Disbursements Dec. 31 Cash paid at various dates for charitable ob- jects $158.85 Excess of disbursements over receipts 48.47 Balance of Income De- cember o-eember 31, 1917 828.10 Balance of Income De- cember 31, 1918 779.03 Harriet R. Gilmore Legacy —Principal Account 500.00 Principal of fund deposit- ed in Lexington Savings Bank, book number 6949 500.00 HARRIET R. GILMORE LEGACY— INCOME ACCOUNT Receipts Apr. 18 Credited by Lexington Savings Bank for interest on account 5.60 Oat. 19 Credited by Lexington Savings Bank for interest on account • 25.92 $31.52 Disbursements Dec. 31 Cash paid at various dates for charitable ob- jects $33.17 Excess of disbursements over receipts $1.65 Balance of Income De- cember 31, 1917 280.81 Balance of Income De- cember 31, 1918 $279.16 Charles E, French Legacy Principal Account $4,000.00 Principal of fund invest- ed in $4,000 Town of Lex- ington 4s 4,000.00 CHARLES E. FRENCH LEGACY— INCOME ACCOUNT (Cemetery) Receipts Apr. 1 Cash received for inter- est nterest on $2,000 Town of Lexington 4s $40.00 Apr. 18 Credited by Lexington Savings Bank for interest on account 9.86 . TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC TRUSTS Oct. 1 Cash received for inter- est on $2,000 Town of Lexington 4s 40.00 Oct. 19 Credited by Lexington Savings Bank for interest on account 8.36 May 14 July 29 $98.22 Disbursements Cashpaid to A. A. Mar- shall $100.00 Cash paid to A. A. Mar- shall 25.00 $125.00 Excess of disbursements over receipts 26.78 Balance of Incoine De- cember 31, 1917 493.46 Balance of Income De- cember 31, 1918 $466.68 CHARLES E. FRENCH LEGACY -IN- COME ACCOUNT (School) Receipts Apr. 1 Cash received for inter- est on $2,000 Town of Lexington 4s Apr. 18 Credited by Savings. Bank est on account Oct. 1 Cash received est on $2,000 Lexington 4s Oet. 19 Credited by Savings Bank est• on account $40.00 Lexington for inter. 7.38 for inter - Town of 40.00 Lexington for inter - 7.14 $94.52 Disbursements June 27 Cash paid to William C. Dorrety, for medals $59.00 Excess of receipts over disbursements $35.52 96 Balance on Income De- cember 31, 1917 369.34 Balance on Income De- cember 31, 1918 $404.86 Jonas Gammell Legacy- Principal egacyPrincipal Account $500.00 Principal of fund on de- posit in Lexington Sav- ings Bank, book number 7044 500.00 JONAS GAMMEL LEGACY - IN- COME ACCOUNT Receipts Credited by Lexington Savings Bank for inter- est on account: April October $3.70 23.92 Disbursements Cash paid on account of almshouse inmates, as un- der: Aug. 23 N. J. Hardy W. K. Hutchinson Nov. 21 Lester E. Smith Dee. 31 Est. H. V. Smith $27.62 $1.27 1.06 1.10 3.72 $7.15 Excess of receipts over disbursements $20.47 Balance of Income De- cember 31, 1917 18518 Balance of Income De- cember 31, 1918 $205.65 CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS Receipts Jan. 31 Edward P. Nichols (1916) $75.00 Apr. 16 John A. Sweetser, Lot No. 195 100.00 July 17 Frederic W. Tower, Lot No. 39 100.00 '96 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Dec. 7 H. A. C. Woodward, Lot No. 387B 50.00 Dee. 18 George • Irving Tuttle, Lot No. 386V 100.00 $425.00 Amount of funds Decem- ber 31, 1917 18,010.00 Amount of funds Decem- ber 31, 1918 $18,435.00 CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS -IN- COME ACCOUNT Receipts San. 31 Received from Lexington Trust Co. for interest on accounts $66.33 Credited by Lexington Savings Bank for interest: April $49.24 October 685.68 $734.92 $801.25 Disbursements Cash paid to A. A. Mar- shall, as under: Apr. 18 July 29 Dec. 27 $250.00 250.00 6.23 $506.23 Excess of receipts $295.02 Balance of Income De- cember 31, 1917 2,080.29 Balance of Income De- cember 31, 1918 $2,375.31 George 0. Smith Legacy -Principal Account $2,500.00 Principal of fund invest- ed, as under: $2,000 Chicopee 4s 2,000.00 Deposited in Lexington Savings Bank, book No. 5887 500.00 $2,500.00 GEORGE 0. SMITH LEGACY -IN- COME ACCOUNT June 1 Cash received for inter- est on $2,000 Chicopee 4s $40,00 Dec. 1 Cash received for inter- est on $2,000 Chicopee 4s 40.00 Credited by Lexington Savings Bank for interest on account: April .54 October 21.56 $22.10 $102.10 Disbursements Nov. 21 Cash paid Field it Gar- den Club $105.00 Excess of disbursements $2.90 Balance of Income De- cember 31, 1917 47.51 Balance of Income De- cember 31, 1918 $44.61 Hayes Fountain Fund - Principal Account $862.72 Principal of fund on de- posit in Lexington Sav- ings Bank, book No. 5260 862.72 HAYES FOUNTAIN FUND -INCOME ACCOUNT Receipts Credited by Lexington Savings Bank for inter- est on account $38.22 Disbursements .00 $38.22 TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC TRUSTS Balance of Income De- cember 31, 1917 84.38 Balance of Income De- cember 31, 1918 $122.60 LEXINGTON HIGH SCHOOL SCHOL- ARSHIP FUND Balance reported in 1917 $52.27 Interest credited by Lex- ington Savings Bank 1.10 Received from Arthur H. Carver, Supt of Schools: 100 U. S. Liberty Loan 4%s (converted into 4%s from 2nd 43) 100.00 Cash for coupon thereon 2.00 Total Fund, December 31, 1918 $155.37 Invested as under: 100 U. S. 41/4s $100.00 Bruce Wellington note 50.00 Lexington Savings Bank 5.37 $155.37 97 ELIZABETH B. GERRY FUND Balance reported in 1917 $1,493.87 July 1 Received from sale of land 550.00 Total of Fund December 31, 1918 $2,043.87 Invested, as under: DeVeau note $1,400.00 650 U. S. 4%s 626.33 Accrued interest pd. 4.07 Lexington Savings Bank 13.47 $2,043.87 FRANK D. PEIRCE, F. FOSTER SHERBURNE, JOHN F. TURNER, Trustees of Public Trusts. Examined and approved CHARLES F. PIERCE, Town Accountant. 98 TOWN OF LEXINGTON REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF BRIDGE CHARITABLE FUND Principal Account *4,000.00 Invested as under: $2,000, City of Quincy 4s 2,000.00 Mortgage of Caroline Welling- ton, Tr 2,000.00 $4,000.00 Income Account February 1 Interest $2,000 Quincy 4s $40.00 April 4 Interest Wellington notes 62.50 April 18 Interest Lexington Savings Bank 16.28 August 1 Interest $2,000 Quincy 4s 40.00 October 8 ' Interest Wellington notes 62.50 October 19 Interest Lexington Savings Bank 14.96 $236.24 Income from Gerry Fund April 18 Rent of land $24,00 May 1 Interest Lexington Savings Bank 1.86 Interest Deveau note 42.00 October 19 Interest Lexington Savings Bank .26 November 1 Interest Deveau note 42.00 $110.12 $346.36 Disbursements Cash paid for charitable objects $307.58 Cash paid for legal services 107.20 Excess of disbursements Balance of Income December 1917 $414.78 68.42 31, 1,364.10 Balance of Income December 31, 1918 $1,295.68 FRANK D. PEIRCE, F. FOSTER SHERBURNE, JOHN S. TURNER, Examined and approved, CHARLES F. PIERCE, Town Accountant. Trustees of the Bridge Charitable Fund. ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT 99 REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT TREASURER'S RECEIPTS TAXES Current Year • Polls Personal property Real estate Previous Years Polls Personal property Real estate FINES Police Court $276.16 $2,468.00 $276.10 19,071.02 GRANTS AND GIFTS 155,146.25 Dog licenses $897.12 $170,685.87 $268.00 1,702.68 40,422.03 $42,452.71 k ROM COMMONWEALTH Bank Corporation Income (1918) Ineome (1917) LICENSES Junk Pedlars Milk SIaughtering Carriage Theatre and bowling alleys Park Circus All others Permits Marriage Liquor $2,724.12 5,202.41 54,186.78 1,005.00 $63,118.31 $282,250.89 $400.00 11.00 16.50 230.00 15.75 30.03 15.00 5.00 95.90 $807.12 OTHER GENERAL REVENUE City of Cambridge (tax) $326.52 Commonwealth of Mass. (tax) 54.46 Town of Arlington (tax) 289.40 $070.38 $2,622.81 SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS Moth (1917) $302.57 Moth (1918) 1,362.86 Sewer (1917) Sewer (1918) Sewer (in advance) Sidewalks Sidewalks Sidewalks (1916) (1917) (1918) $1,665.43 $1,234.76 335.71 366.82 $1,937.29 $72.51 169.99 329.37 $571.87 $4,174.59 DEPARTMENTAL 1$825.15 GENERAL GOVERNMENT Collector $42.00 Certificates 2.00 Returned premium on bond $44.00 $7.00 50.00 $57.00 100 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Town Hall Rent Rent, Masonic Hall Refund $124.50 Labor 75.00 Fire Department Alarm boxes Reimbursement thawing pipes Rent, Village Hall Apparakts at forest fires $199.50 $195.00 3.09 35.00 784.25 $1,017.34 SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Fees $29.31 MOTH DEPARTMENT Commonwealth of Mass. ac- count of work on highway Old barrels, arsenate of lead TREE WARDEN Labor Wood $45.24 23.60 .75 390.00 ALMSHOUSE Produee Reimbursement for board Board Highway Dept. horses Cow Reimbursement thawing pipes $761.62 $1,182.55 300.70 600.00 118.76 3.79 $2,205.80 OUTSIDE AIII - Reimbursement From Commonwealth Temporary Aid $50.00 Mothers' Aid 830.95 CITY OF BOSTON $880.95 $68.84 Temporary Aid $17.15 Mothers' Aid 18.00 City of Cambridge Temporary Aid 21.59 $55.42 41.50 HEALTH DEPARTMENT Commonwealth of Mass. re- imbursement Refund Cleaning cesspools $96.92 $97.14 1.75 30.65 $129.54 SEWER MAINTENANCE Receipts $853.51 HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT Watering cart Old barrels State highway labor Pipe and freight Use of roller Use of teams $50.00 94.50 40.00 128.37 10.00 48.00 $56.74 SOLDIERS' BENEFITS State aid, reimbursement Com- monwealth of Mass. $589.00 Soldiers' burials, reimburse- ment Commonwealth of Mass. 200.00 SCHOOLS Tuition, State wards Junk Reimbursement thawing pipes Vocational Schools, reimburse- ment Tuition, individuals Furnaces Town of Burlington, tuition Town of Bedford, tuition School tickets $789.00 $238.70 6.70 9.90 177.67 40.00 200.00 307.6'3 2,730.68 438.96 $4,150.29 LIBRARIES Rent, Stone building ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT 101 Deferred taxes and moth assess - $16.00 ment 1,242.01 Sewer assessment 202.49 PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS Rent of shed Rent of cottage Community gardens $55.00 20.00 27.00 $102.00 $11,414.36 UNCLASS1Ir1ED Rent, Bacon real estate $208.00 Returned premiums, insurance 122,03 Commonwealth of Mass., sol- dier's exemption 9.60 $2,673.57 LOANS Anticipation of Revenue $140,000.00 Anticipation of Bond Issue, new cemetery 6,000.00 Engine house land 1,000.00 New cemetery bonds 10,000.00 Premium on bonds 7.00 $157,007.00 TRUST AND INVESTMENT $429.63 Cemetery, perpetual care, $350.00 WAT1al DEPARTMENT Meter rates $24,200.51 Miscellaneous, services, guar- antees, eta 2,882.21 Sale of materials 14.43 Repairs, etc. 251.17 CEMETERIES Sale of lots Care of lots Old fence and wood Gradings, foundations Interments $27,348.32 $325.00 690.35 51.50 82.40 127.00 NEW CEMETERY Rent of houses Grass INTEREST Deposits $1,276.25 $133.G0 5.00 $138.00 $1,414.25 $1,229.08 REFUNDS Interest $50.u0 Total receipts $4$9,741.42 Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1918 53,865.15 $543,606.57 EXPENDITURES DEPARTMENTAL GENERAL GOVERNMENT Sel ect men Salaries Stenographer Stationery and postage Printing and advertising Auto hire Bureau of Dept. Reports (membership) $400.00 758.00 144.22 121.55 16.00 15.00 $1,454.77 ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT Accountant Salary Clerical services $1,200.00 8.00 102 Stationery and postage Steel cabinet TOWN OF LEXINGTON 14.73 168.25 Auditing Municipal Accounts tax $1,390.98 500.17 $1,891.15 LAW DEPARTMENT Salary $250.00 Legal advice 299.03 $549.13 TOWN CLERK'S DEPARTMENT Salary Stationery and postage TREASURER'S DEPARTMENT Printing Bond Express Salary Stationery and postage Printing Bond $1,100.00 90.45 81.75 80.00 $1,352.20 COLLECTOR'S DEPARTMENT Salary Stationery and postage Printing Auto hire Bond $1,466.66 189.78 72.99 1.50 100.0(1 $1,830.93 ASSESSORS' DEPARTMENT Salaries Stationery and postage Printing *Real estate transfers Carfares, teams, etc. Writing public hook $1,900.00 19.91 90.18 49 .92 28.95 100.00 $2,188.96 OTHER FINANCE OFFICES AND ACCOUNTS Certifying notes Legal adviee Printing Advertising $36.00 35.00 20.50 18.25 $109.75 FINANCE COMMITTEE Stationery and printing $116.65 $1,350.00 75.95 41.27 4.00 1.25 $1,472.47 ELECTION AND REGISTRATION DEPARTMENT lieg'istrars Election officers Stationery and postage Printing .Mals Booth lights $150.00 195.00 10.64 178.94 87.00 16.25 $637.83 ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT Salary, engineer Clerks Cases for office Carfares, etc. Printing Signals Plans, blue prints, etc. Office supplies $1,800.00 976.00 194.50 28.21 46.81 141.24 208.96 72.95 $3,466.67 , PLANNING BOARD Magazine subscription $3.75 TOWN HALL Janitors Labor, Fuel Light. Janitor's supplies Repairs Water rates $1,235.50 12.50 728.37 159.83 76.85 184.49 14.42 ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT Telephone Express and removing ashes Shrubs Furniture Ice Hags Stationery 173.22 32.06 9.00 25.84 29.70 58.72 1.84 BOARD OF SURVEY Printing Auto hire $2,742.34 $10.66 12.00 POLICE DEPARTMENT Salaries: Chief Patrolmen Special officers Matron Auto hire Equipment for men Light Stationery, printing, postage Telephones Subscription Auto Lists Legal services Hospital expense Meals for prisoners Traveling expenses Medical attendance Hardware, towels, cups, etc. Directory $22.66 $1,351.65 7,586.40 4.50 6.00 $8,948.55 65.35 53.85 53.81 03.40 202.80 36.00 25.00 94.00 35.00 4.72 30.00 19.47 2.50 FIRE DEPARTMENT Salaries and wages: Engineers Regular men Call men Horse hire $9,634.54 $250.00 6,894.14 1,587.50 $8,731.64 111.10 Equipment and repairs: Apparatus Hose Equipment for men Alarm boxes, ete. Construction Fuel Light Freight, cartage Maintenance of buildings: Repairs Furnishings Laundry work Sewer and water 103 • $1,553.74 686.15 61.07 535.99 403.50 559.24 80.93 17.71 $3,898.33 143.77 56.34 72.99 28.50 Power for blowing fire whistle 60.00 Hardware, gasoline, etc. 82.51 Cleaning cesspool Gravel and ashes Plants Rent of land and expense Thawing pipes 6.30 8.00 - 2.50 ' 55.09 3.09• $519.09 Stationery, printing and postage $35.30 Telephones 69.35 Medical services 10.15 Firemen's Herald 2.50 Hydrant service 1,990.00 Fire prevention tax 77.92 VILLAGE HALL FIRE STATION Maintenance of building: Fuel Light Building repairs Engine house land 231.93 8.25 32.04 $272.22 1,000.00 $16,717.60 INSPECTION OF BUILDINGS Salary, inspector $500.00 Printing 14.50 $514.50 104 TOWN OF LEXINGTON SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Salary Stationery Dies Auto hire $100.00 5.65 2.69 30.00 $138.34 GYPSY AND BROWN -TAIL MOTH EXTERMINATION Salaries and wages: Superintendent Labor Clerks $1,161.50 4,132.55 200.00 $5,494.05 Stationery, printing and postage 10.70 2,331.00 17.25 60.34 218.00 7.05 265.25 Insecticides Hardware and tools Gasoline and oil Teams Cartage and express Carriage hire TREE WARDEN Labor Hardware and tools Trees $8,403.64 $505.63 5.33 15.00 FOREST WARDEN Fighting fires Telephone Use of fire apparatus DOG OFFICER Collecting dog licenses $525.96 *380.40 44.81 784.25 $1,209.4'5 *50.00 $50.00 HEALTH AND SANITATION Salaries, Board of Health $150.00 50.00 6.00 35.64 38.46 112.00 Agent Stationery and postage Printing Telephone and express Medical attendance Contagious diseases: Hospitals $180.25 Cities and towns 131.64 Birth and death returns Salary, plumbing inspector Fumigation Lowering brooks, labor Repairs on cart Burying dead animals Examining cultures Ambulance service Dose Labor and material Inspection: Animals $200.00 Meat and provisions 1,109.00 Milk 200.00 Milk room 99.91 311.89 17.50 500.00 32.50 304.88 73.93 19.50 30.00 25.50 28.80 300.50 1,608.91 $3,646.01 SEWER MAINTENANCE Stationery, printing and postage $5.00 468.28 19.08 178.85 9.50 Labor Pipe and fittings Insurance Repairs Connections: Pipe and fittings Excess deposits $136.81 26.13 162.94 Metropolitan sewer tax 5,946.00 $6,789.65 SEWER CONSTRUCTION $31.54 227.68 663.69 Land damage Engineering and inspection Surveys, plans, estimates $922.91 HIGHWAYS Salaries and wages: Supervisor • Commissioners Labor ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT $600.00 300.00 15,536.17 $16.436.17 317.50 600.00 619.39 8,939.99 3,558.79 2,368.56 1,441.30 469.99 23.57 78.78 70.92 18.00 14.00 165.00 1.44 Auto hire Board of horses Teams Broken stone, gravel, tarvia, etc. Equipment and repairs Hay, grain and straw Construction Tar patching Supervision auto truck scale Freight and cartage Fuel Recording deeds Supplies and printing Rent of land B. d& M. R. R. expanse Muzzey Street repairs Watering troughs Commonwealth Highway tax SIDEWALKS Construction Cement Lumber Gravel $35,123.40 34.80 100.00 1,781.51 $1,661.67 52.0 7.70 17.50 $1,738.87 SNOW AND ICE REMOVAL Labor Teams STREET LIGHTS Street lighting CHARITIES Salaries of overseers $1,451.73 621.62 $2,073.35 $9,517.33 $300.00 105 Outside relief: Stationery, printing, post- age 8.62 Groceries and provisions 574.17 Coal and wood 181.59 Board and care 916.25 Medicine and medical at- tendance 128.55 State institutions 20.57 Cash aid 1,534.00 Hospitals 131.50 Boots and shoes 4.1.35 Auto hire 12.50 Burials 88.50 Aid for other cities and towns 76.29 Mother's Aid, by town 872.711 Mother's Aid, by other cities and towns 242.36 ALMSHOUSE Superintendent Labor Groceries and provisions Dry goods and clothing Building repairs Fuel and light Hay and grain Livestock Water Fertilizer and seeds Telephone Carriage hire, freight, cartage Repairing wagons Hardware $4,828.95 $600.00 345.01 668.04 21.05 74.88 290.14 817.39 260.20 14.88 45.09 65.52 10.17 23.48 4.47 $3,240.32 $8,369.27 SOLDIERS' BENEFITS Veterans' pensions State aid Soldiers' relief $842.40 1,406.00 42.00 $2,290.44 106 TOWN OF LEXINGTON SCHOOLS General Expenses Superintendent Secretary Truant officer Stationery, printing, postage Telephone Traveling expenses Nurse and school census Clerk of committee School physician $740.00 474.30 75.00 238.64 194.34 109.16 270.00 87.50 300.00 $2,488.94 Teachers' Salaries High School $14,064.71 Elementary Schools 22,404.72 $36,469.43 Text Books and Supplies (High) Text and reference books 465.21 [ High) Supplies 781.08 (Elementary) Text and ref- erence books (Elementary) Supplies $1,246.32 $1,144.38 1,642.19 $2,786.57 Transportation 5,574.62 Janitors' Salaries High School $1,267.31 Elementary Schools 3,013.28 Fuel and Light High School Elementary Schools $4,280.59 $2,206.14 2,399.27 $4,605.41 MAINTENANCE, BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS High School Repairs Janitors' supplies Water and sewer Hardware, express, eartage Removing tree Elementary Repairs Janitors' supplies Water and sewer Removing ashes Flag Hardware 14.07 10.00 $1,199.94 $455.88 314.10 285.20 87.85 20.12 9.15 $1,172.30 Furniture and Furnishings High School $23.59 Diplomas and graduation ex- ercises, 151.64 Dinner supervision 232.50 Vocational schools 68.26 $60,300.11 LIBRARIES Cary Memorial Library and Branch, Salaries and Wages Librarians $1,200.00 Assistants 1,662.78 Treasurer 25.00 Janitors 994.92 Buildings Fuel Light Repairs Furnishings Water rates Removing ashes Cartage Stationery, printing, Janitors' stipples Office supplies and ice Express Traveling expenses $3,882.70 $412.55 242.01 164.57 21.20 33.08 34.30 3.60 telephone 67.56 68.94 10.06 14.55 60.00 $1,132.42 $971.26 Repairs (Special) Stone building $383.88 27.86 176.75 $5,399.00 ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT Treasurer, Cary Memorial Li- brary (dog licenses) 807.12 PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS Labor Equipment Manure, seed, loam Trees Grain and salt Repairing flags and cannon Water rates Hardware and paint Signs and express Expense on flagstaffs Mason work Gasoline and repairs on mower Repairs on fountain Cottage repairs and toboggan slide Teams Lumber UNCLASSIFIED April Nineteenth Lexington Drum Corps Refreshments Powder $1,819.16 323.28 95.00 96.20 10.13 27.35 10.93 20.86 7.62 28.00 28.00 21.69 17.95 327.81 58.88 16.39 $2,909.25 $50.00 11.25 1.50 MEMORIAL DAY Post 119, G. A. R. TOWN REPORTS Printing Express Delivering reports Insurance $62.75 $250.00 $442.10 5.18 30.00 $477.28 3,164.55 BACON REAL ESTATE Water rates $13.41 Repairs 34292 Thawing pipes 81.68 -$438.01 Light Poles Telephone Printing STATE GUARD SUNDRIES 107 $21.58 7.50 7.95 3.75 $40.78. Office supplies, stationery, printing, all departments 84.35 Fireworks (Victory Celebra- tion) 80.00 $1'64.:10 $4,597.67 WATER DEPARTMENT Maintenance Superintendent Clerk Stationery and postage Printing and advertising Telephone Gasoline, ear repairs Labor Teams Pipe and fittings Meters and fittings Equipment and repairs Freight Rent of land Metropolitan water tax Fuel Interest Meals for men Analysis of water Legal services Insurance Rebates Excess deposits returned Thawing mains Manure, charcoal, etc. $1,933.32 802.99 264.62 75.99 18.00 310.53 5,427.21 951.51 251.84 427.13 1,201.75 58.11 195.00 9,398.37 98.51 4,906.00 56.10 20.00 5.00 343.33 23.42 38.79 2,042.08 25.38 $28,874.98 108 Construction Labor Pipe and_fittings Meters and fittings Repairs TOWN OF LEXINGTON Anticipation of bond issue (cemetery) General loans TOWN SCALES CEMETERIES Superintendent Labor Loam Shrubs, ete. Tools Stationery, stamps Printing Repairs Water rates and repairs Carriage hire $1,148.66 1,425.92 548.46 $3,123.04 170.83 11,127.38 $15,962.68 $31,998.02 MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS Temporary Loans $10.00 Anticipation of revenue $150,000.00 Anticipation of bond issue 6,000.00 General Loans 23,450.00 Public Service Enterprises Water bonds and notes $19,700.00 $150.00 1,277.34 62.75 51.90 50.63 18.53 15.75 28.66 114.44 1.50 $1,771.50 New Cemetery (Layout and Develop- ment of) Architect $326.31 New Cemetery (Land, Etc.) County Commissioners $39.50 14,682.50 560.25 • 5.33 14.30 9.20 Land Legal services Water rates (house) Signs Carpenter INTEREST Temporary Loans Anticipation of revenue $15,311.08 AGENCY County tax State tax $199,150.00 $10,957.22 22,110.00 $33,067.22 TRUST AND INVESTMENT Cemetery, perpetual care funds $350.00 ADMINISTRATION OF TRUST FUNDS Salary, Clerk of Trustees $50.00 Typewriting 6.00 Stationery, printing 6.78 Rent of safe 10.00 $17,408.89 Interest $4,664.47 REFUNDS $72.78 $422.78 $50.00 Total expenditures .$499,503.44 Cash balance, Dec. 31, 1918 44,103.13 $543,606.57 ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTS Licenses and Permits Finanee Committee Committee on Highways Committee on New Cemetery Selectmen's Department Accountant Treasurer Collector Assessors Law Department Town Clerk Board of Survey Engineering Department Elections and Registration Town Hall Town Hall Repairs Fittings for Town Vaults Planning Board Police Department Fire Department Fire Department (new hose) New Fire Apparatus Hydrant Rentals Village Hall (Fire Station) Inspector of Buildings Sealer of Weights and Measures Moth Suppression Insect Pest Extermination Tree Warden Forest Fires Dog Officer Health Department Vital Statistics Inspection of Cattle Inspector of Slaughtering Inspector of Plumbing Inspector of Milk Inspector of Milk (room) Sewer Maintenance Sewer Construction Lowering Brooks Salaries of Commissioners Highway Department Summer Street Extension Massachusetts Avenue Repairing Massachusetts Avenue Improvement 109 Transfers and Expenditures Receipts and Transfers Balance $894.15 $894.15 150.00 .$116.65 33.35 500.00 500.00 52.03 52.03 1,800.00 1,454.77 345.23 1,400.00 1,390.98 9.02 1,450.00 1,352.20 97.80 1,973.94 1,830.93 143.01 2,200.00 2,188.96 11.04 850.00 549.03 300.97 1,500.00 1,472.47 27.53 212.75 22.66 190.09 4,000.00 3,466.67 533.33 660.00 637.83 22.17 3,284.50 2,742,34 542.16 669.88 669.88 11.50 11.50 25.00 3.75 21.25 9,876.16 9,634.54 241.62 14,602.34 13,377.46 1,224.88 15.00 15.00 .37 .37 -- 2,000.00 1,990.09 10.00 335.00 272.22 62.78 525.00 514.50 10.50 179.31 138.34 40.97 9,72427 8,403.64 1,320.63 800.40 800.00 846.92 525.96 320.96 1,209.46 1,209.46 50.00 50.00 2,304.54 1,389.72 914.82 75.00 17.50 57.50 600.00 200.00 400.00 1,482.00 1,109.00 373.00 500.00 500.00 200.00 200.00 100.00 99.91 .09 889.49 843.65 45.84 2,193.22 922.91 1,270.31 309.62 304.88 4.74 300.00 300.00 34,836.62 34,832.80 3.82 7,180.47 7,180.47 164.77 164.77 10,000.00 10,000.00 • 110 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Woburn Street Improvement Muzzey Street Sidewalks Snow Removal Street Lights Watering Troughs Stone Crusher Salary of Overseers Support of Poor Outside Aid Town Physician Soldier's Relief Veterans' Pensions Clerk, School Committee School Maintenance Vocational Schools School Construction Land for New School Plans and Specifications Cary Memorial Library Salary, Library Treasurer Stone Building Stone Building -Repairs Hastings Park Parks and Playgrounds April 19th Memorial Day Insurance Valentine Land Preserving Town Plans Bacon Real Estate State Guard Town Report Unclassified Reserve Fund Water Department Town Scales Cemeteries Protection of Burial Grounds New Cemetery (Land, etc.) New Cemetery (Layout, eta.) Salary, Secretary, Trustees of Interest on Public Debt Maturing Debt Transfers and Expenditures Receipts and Transfers Balance 6,000.00 225.00 2,013.58 2,073.35 10,000.00 100.00 13.43 300.00 3,240.47 6,637.69 100.00 70.29 842.40 87.50 60,222.62 577.67 27.35 415.20 15.00 4,200.00 75.00 816.00 657.57 32.52 2,911.40 108.13 250.00 3,434.67 381.00 5.01 463.00 200.00 600.00 1,486.72 1,000.00 35,397.57 25.00 2,256.25 222.00 20,029.40 1,000.00 Public Trusts 75.00 18,194.60 43,150.00 5,000.00 34.80 190.20 1,738.87 274.71 2,073.35 9,517.33 482.67 100.00 13.43 300.00 3,240.32 .15 4,728.95 1,908.74 100.00 42.00 28.29 842.40 87.50 60,144.35 78.27 68.26 509.41 27.35 415.20 15.00 4,178.56 21.44 25.00 50.00 811.56 4.44 383.88 273.69 32.52 2,909.25 2.15 62.75 45.38 250.00 3,164.55 270.12 381.00 5.91 438,01 24.99 40.78 159.22 477.28 122.72 1,451.02 35.70 635.56 364.44 31,998.02 3,399.55 10.00 15.00 1,771.50 484.75 222.00 16,311.08 4,718.32 326.31 673.69 72.78 2.22 16,361.98 1,832.62 43,150.00 ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT 311 TOWN DEBT. WHEN DUE DECEMBER 31, 1918 Year Water Sewer Trust Funds Other Debt Total 1919 18,200.00 4,000.00 1,000.00 19,450.00 42,650.00 1920 15,700.00 4,000.00 1,000.00 18,450.00 39,150.00 1921 15,700.00 4,000.00 1,000.00 16,450.00 37,150.00 1922 13,700.00 4,000.00 1,000.00 14,450.00 33,150.00 1923 13,700.00 4,000.00 1,000.00 10,850.00 29,550.00 1924 11,500.00 4,000.00 1,000.00 10,850.00 27,350.00 1925 11,500.00 4,000.09 1,000.00 9,500.00 26,000.00 1926 1,500.00 3,000.00 1,000.00 9,500.00 15,000.00 1927 1,500.00 3,000.00 1,000.00 9,500.00 15,000.00 1928 1,500.00 3,000.00 1,000.00 7,000.00 12,500.00 1929 1,500.00 3,000.00 1,000.00 6,000.00 11,500.00 1930 1,500.00 3,000.00 1,000.00 6,000.00 11,500.00 1931 3,000 00 1,000.00 3,000.00 7,000.00 1932 3,000.00 1,000.00 3,000.00 7,000.00 1933 3,000.00 1,000.00 3,000.00 7,000.00 1934 3,000.00 1,000.00 3,000.00 7,000.00 1935 3,000.00 1,000.00 3,000.00 7,000.00 1936 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00 1937 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00 1938 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00 1939 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00 1940 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00 1941 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00 1942 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00 1943 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00 1944 3,000.00 3,000.00 1945 3,000.00 3,000.00 107,500.00 ' 88,000.00 17,000.00 161,000.00 373,500.00 112 TOWN OF LEXINGTON TOWN OF LEXINGTON BALANCE SHEET — December 31, 1918 GENERAL ACCOUNTS ASSETS Cash Balance:— In Banks and Office Accounts Receivable:— Taxes, Levy, 1918 Special Assessments Moth, 1918, $318.43 Sidewalk, 1916 16.09 Sidewalk, 1917 27.27 Apportioned Sewer, 1918 75.66 Tax Titles Departmental Bills :— Sewer Sewer Maintenance $26.29 Bacton Real Estate 78.00 Tree Warden 7.85 Highways 44.93 State Aid, 1918 1,406.00 Cemetery Bills 80.50 Water Bills 640.85 $44,103.13 38,869.09 $437.55 6,098.17 $2,284.42 Overdrawn Accounts :— Overlay, 1917 834.76 $92,627.12 DEFERRED REVENUE ACCOUNTS Apportioned Sewer Assessments, not due *1,999.40 ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT LIABILITIES Temporary Loans in Anticipation of Revenue $30,000.00 Tax Title Suspense • • 77.36 Department Appropriations (Loan Balances) :— Sewer Construction $1,270.31 Summer Street Extension 7,180.47 Massachusetts Avenue Improvement 10,000.00 Woburn Street Improvement 5,000.00 New Cemetery 4,718.32 $28,169.10- Water 28,169.10Water Department Maintenance 3,399.55 Sewer Maintenance 45.84 Sewer Assessment Fund. (available for Sewer Department) 12,883.90 Tax Title Reserve 6,098.17 Departmental Revenue 573.17 Sewer Maintenance Revenue 28.29 Sewer Assessment Revenue 75.66 Water Revenue 640.85 Special Reserve (Overlay Balance, 1916) 238.54 Omitted Assessments, 1918 68.75 Overlay, 1918 1,613.64 Hydrant Rentals 10.00 Lowering Brooks 4.74 Salary of Library Treasurer 50.00 Cemetery Maintenance 484.75 New Cemetery (Layout and Development) 673.69 Surplus Revenue, 1918 7,493.12 DEFERRED REVENUE ACCOUNTS Apportioned Sewer Assessments:— Due in 1919 $384.99 1920 328.68 1921 257.48 1922 209.28 1923 204.73 1924 204.73 1925 204.73 1926 204.78 $92,627.1.'1 $1,999.40 114 TOWN OP LEXINGTON DEBT ACCOUNTS Net Bonded or Fixed Debt, December 31, 1918 $373,500.00 $373,500.00 ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT DEBT ACCOUNTS General Loans Engine House and Fire Equipment Loan, 1911, 4 per cent. $3,000.00 Auto Fire Equipment Loan, 1913, 414 per cent. 3,000.00 Fire Equipment Loan, 1817, 41/2 per cent. 6,000.00 Engine House Land Loan, 1918, 5 per cent. 1,000.00 Widening Massachusetts Avenue Loan, 1916, 4 per cent. 4,000.00 Massachusetts Avenue Improvement Loan, 1917, 41/2 per cent. 9,000.00 Summer Street Improvement Loan, 1917, 41/2 per cent. 4,500.00 Woburn Street Improvement Loan, 1917, 41/2 per cent. 4,000.00 Stone Crusher Loan, 1917, 41/2 per cent. 2,400.00 Munroe School Loan, 1904, 31/2 per cent. 8,100.00 Adams School Loan, 1912, 4 per cent. 36,000.00 School Construction Loan, 1915, 4 per cent. 36,000.00 Buckman • Tavern Park Loan, 1913, 41/4 per cent. 25,000.00 Sewer Loan, 1915, 4 per cent. 88,000.00 Trust Fund (Refunding) Loan, 1910, 4 per cent. 17,000.00 Water Loans Water Loan (Metropolitan), 1903, 31/2 per cent. Water Loan (Refunding), 1905, 4 per cent. Water Loan, 1911, 4 per cent. Water Loan (Extension and Standpipe), 1912, 4 per cent. Water Loan, 1914, 41/2 per cent. Water Loan, 1915, 4 per cent. Water Loan, 1916, 4 per cent. Water Loan, 1917, 41/2 per cent. 11,000.00 70,000.00 3,000.00 18,000.00 500.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 3,000.00 118 TOWN OF LEXINGTON TRUST FUNDS ACCOUNTS Cash and Securities In hands of Trustees 357,913.64 357,913.64 ' PUBLIC PROPERTY ACCOUNTS Town of Lexington $824,005.93 Cemetery Loans Cemetery Improvement Loan, 1917, 41/2 per cent. 9,000.00 New Cemetery Loan, 1918, 41/2 per cent. 10,000.00 3824,005.93 3373,500.00 ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT TRUST FUNDS ACCOUNTS Eleanor S. Beals Charity Fund Samuel J. Bridge Charity Fund Harriet R. Gilmer Charity Fund Jonas Ganunell Charity Fund Elizabeth B. Gerry Charity Fund Lexington High School Scholarship Fund Cary Memorial Library Fund Cary Memorial Library Fund (Income Reserve) Robbins Library Fund Wellington Library Fund Beals Library Fund Laura M. Brigham Library Fund Book Fund (Library) • George O. Smith Park Fund Hayes Fountain Fund Charles E. French Medal and Cemetery Fund Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds (Income) Real Estate Water Works Sewer System PUBLIC PROPERTY ACCOUNTS 117 $2,779.63 5,295.68 779.16 705.65 2,043.87 155.37 11,000.00 342.54 100.07 1,000.00 1,000.00 2,500.00 1,000.00 2,544.61 985.32 4,871.54 18,435.00 2,375.31 $57,913.64 $470,925.62 255,000.00 98,080.31 $824,005.93 CHARLES F. PIERCE, Town Accountant. 118 TOWN OF LEXINGTON REPORT OF TOWN TREASURER Receipts Expenditures Cash ou hand January 1, 1918 7$53,865.15 Paid on warrants $499,503.44 Receipts, 1918 489,741.42 Cash on hand Jan, 1, 1919 44,103.13 $543,606.57 $543,606.57 GEORGE D. HARRINGTON, Town Treasurer. REPORTS OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS OF THE Town of Lexington For the Year 1918 THE ALPINE PRESS 32 OLIVER ST.. BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE Hallie C. Blake, Chairman and Treasurer, Oakmount, Merriam St. Tel. Lex. 631 (Term expires March, 1921) Edward P. Merriam, Secretary, 6 Stetson St. Te]. Lex. 647 (Term expires March, 3.920) George E. Briggs, Fair Oaks Tel. Lex. 27 (Term expires March, 1919) Regular meetings of the School Com- mittee are held on the first and third Tuesdays of eaeli month. ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Superintendent of Schools Arthur H. Carver, 10 Parker St. Tel. Lex. 402-M Office: High School Bldg. Tel. Lex. 277 Superintendent's Secretary Barbara M. Parks, Bedford St. Tel. Lex. 606-W School Physician. Dr. J. 0. Tilton, 1 Elm Ave. Tel. Lex. 15 School Nurse Mrs. J. Rowe Webster, Hancock St. TeL Lex. 176-M Attendance Officer Patrick J. Maguire, Bedford St. Tel. Lex. 681-W SCHOOL CALENDAR 1919 Schools open December 31, 1918. January z, 1919, holiday. Close for winter recess, February 21, 1919. Open March 3, 1919. Close for Good Friday and spring reeess, April 17, 1919. 121 Open April 28, 1919. May 30, 1919, holiday. June 17, 1919, holiday. Close for summer vacation, June 25, 1919. Schools open September 9, 1919. Close for Thanksgiving recess, Novem- ber 26, 1919. Open Deeember 1, 1919. Close for Christmas recess, December 23, 1919. Open January 5, 1920. SCHOOL DEPARTMENT Financial Statement 1918 Balance unexpended from 1917 $78.91 Appropriated 1918 56,171.09 Income 1918 3,972.62 $60,222.62 Expenses 1918 $36,203.43 sup - 10,343.63 1,800.54 3,563.87 303.39 303.69 Salaries Operation and Janitor's plies Repairs and New Construction Text Books and Supplies Athletics Health Superintendent and Enforcement of School Law 1,451.18 Supervision of Children 382.50 Transportation 5,492.12 School Physician 300.00 Balance unexpended $60,144.35 78.27 $60,222.62 Bills unpaid $52.36 Awaiting approval 78.60 GEORGE E. BRIGGS, EDWARD P. MERRIAM, HALLIE C. BLAKE. 122 TOWN OF LEXINGTON REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE The School Committee respectfully submits the following report for the year ending December 31, 1918. In the first place the School Committee wishes to acknowledge an ever deepen- ing sense of its great responsibility. It is impossible to eircnuiseribe the bene- ficent influences of a sound and well con- ducted school system. Here the moulds of master minds are made, latent powers energized, and future leaders in thought and action developed. Important as such a product is, however, the average intelligence of the mass will mainly de- termine its own rate of progress, no matter how brilliant the leaders may be. The teaching force of any well conducted public school must of necessity be chiefly concerned with development of the aver- age scholar, but to a measurable extent at least it should also give the apt stu- dent his chance for more intensive work. From the theoretical standpoint a sys- tem of graded schools might seem to be poorly designed to meet the needs of a brilliant scholar, but m actual practice it has been found entirely practicable to take care of the interests of such chil- dren by means of extra promotions from time to time. This leads us to the ques- tion as to how much encouragement should be given to this practice. The decision should rest upon the sound judg- ment of experienced educators. Some- times local conditions affect to a con- siderable degree such decisions. Some of the school rooms in our elementary grades are at present so overcrowded that extra promotions cannot be en- couraged, for in most eases additional pupils would dimply add to the burden of overworked teachers who are already caring for more than forty pupils in their particular rooms. In connection with this congested condition of our grade schools we desire to call attention to the fact that parents .should be very careful to observe without fail the rule requiring school children to be present on the opening day of each school year, otherwise serious embarrassments de- velop with respect to the assignment of seats, distribution of books, etc. Referring again to the major responsi- bility of any school policy toward the masses, there is nothing which should so much concern the citizens of Lexington at the present time as the imperative need of a new school building, to establish which the town has already voted, and in addi- tion expended considerable sums of money for a building site; also for plans and specifications which are safely deposited in the town vault in the custody of the Town Clerk. It is necessary to state here that these plans would probably have been executed and the building con- structed by this time if had not been for the war. When consideration was given to the various bids by different con- tractors it was found that the town could not put the building up without borrowing in excess of its debt limit which of course made it impossible to go ahead with the plan. The School Committee is of the opinion that this matter should not be allowed to drop, but that the town should at once begin proceedings to obtain from the Legisla- ture an enabling act which will permit the town to borrow outside its present debt limit a sum of money sufficient to erect this building whenever the town, in its judgment, shall indicate by vote its u•i]lingness to grant the necessary ap- propriation. In the meantime the Com- mittee repeats the oId, old story, and further declares that one school rooms are overcrowded, teachers are over- worked and the results secured, because of these conditions, comparatively un- satisfactory to all concerned. Transfers from both ends of the town have been necessary to suer an extent that at pres- ent over one hundred children are be- ing educated at the Munroe school who woul d naturally find their work at the Hancock or Adams school. Both of these buildings just mentioned reached SCHOOL COMMITTEE 123 their full capacity some time ago, and the Munroe school building is now filled to overflowing so that it is absolutely necessary to make some further provi- sion for the annual increase in our school population. As a temporary measure the Committee proposes to furnish two rooms on the lower of the old Adams school building in East Lexington, and within a year at least the contracts for the new High School building should be signed and the work started if the reputation of the Lexington schools is to be sustained.. The special commission on education ap- pointed at the last session of the Legis- lature reporting to the General Court on January 20, 1919, made a recom- mendation '`to establish Junior High Schools," all of which endorses our town's position on this broad question. In view of this recommendation, when shall we have a better opportunity to secure appropriate legislation for the construction of our own new building? The matter should be taken up and passed upon by our Finance Committer and a recommendation merle, if sound, to petition the present General Court for an enabling act. Among the questions which 1 he Sehool Committee has been called noon to con- sider during the past year is the so- called "one session" plan for the grade schools. The idea is by no means a new one, it having been urged upon the at- tention of the local Se•]ioul Committee by certain interested groups. several High Number of pupils 246 Pupils holding war securities 237 Value of Thrift and W. S. S. $4,521.00 Pupils holding Lib- erty Bonds 116 Value of Liberty Bonds $11,450.00 Total of war se- curities $15,971.00 times during the last decade. An oppor- tunity for the presentation of the mat- ter was afforded to a committee of the proponents who met the School Com- mittee by invitation at the High School. Later, at the request of the proponents a public hearing was held. This oc- curred at the High School on the even- ing of April 23, 1918. The question was discusser) thoroughly at this meeting, at the elose of which an expression of sen- timent secured from those in attendance showed a slight majority opposed to a change in the present practice. Later a searehing questionnaire w'ts prepared and sent out to the school departments of many towns and cities, both in and outside of. New England, where the one session plan was known either to be or to have been in operation. Nineteen inost interesting replies were received, the bulk of that testimony being with few exceptions unfavorable to the plan. The Committee are interested in receiv- ing any new light that can be shed on this question, but have concluded that up to this point the advisability of a change to the one session system in the Lexington grade schools has not been established. We have been fighting the greatest war of all times, and the citizens of Lexington may welI be proud of the fact that our school ehildren awn nearly $53,000 in war securities, as the follow- ing interesting tabulation shows: Adams I3ancoek Munroe Total 296 351 374 1,273 202 263 212 914 $2,266.50 $4,201.50 $1,693.50 $12,681.50 57 121 51 345 $12,800.00 $11,050.00 $4,050.00 $39,950.00 $15,065.50 $15,851.50 $5,743.50 $52,631.50 • 124 TOWN' OF' LEXINGTON This remarkable record speaks volumes for the wide -spread general intelligence and virtue developed in our school chil- dren. It is the kind of intelligence that enthrones ideals of honesty, thrift, in- dustry, and patriotism in the lives of Lexington's boys and girls. Our citizens should be particularly grateful to those who encouraged the children to save their money and invest it in these war securities. Your Committee in its budget this year has made provisidn to cover in- creases in the salaries of our teachers which we ]selievo to be reasonable and necessary. In order to promote more ef- ficient and intensive work more teachers must be secured and our best talent held. In order to do this adequate provision must be made to support a steady but consistent system of salary increases. Some of the parents are rather critical in their attitude toward the school ad- ministration because of the many changes that occur each year in our teaching force. The last two years have been par- ticularly trying in this respect because of the abnormal conditions imposed upon every working organization by the war. It will be seen from the statement made below that by far the Iarger proportion of these changes are due to causes and circumstances over which the School Committee has no eontroI whatever. When these are eliminated it does not appear that, everything considered, there were more changes than might be ex- pected under the cirenmstanees. CHANGES IN LEXINGTON TEACH- ING FORCE JAN. 1, 1918 — JAN. 1, 1919 Illness 2 Change of profession 6 Better paying position 5 Married 2 Retired 1 Ceased teaching temporarily 1 17 changes Miss Emma E. H. Wright passed away on November 13, 1918. For forty years she taught the children of our public schools. This faithful teacher will ever be held in grateful memory, both by the large number of our citizens who came under her influence and by the publie at large. Respectfully submitted, HALLIE C. BLAKE, EDWARD P. MERRIAM, GEORGE E. BRIGGS. REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Lexington, Mass., January 1., 1919. To the Lexington School Committee: It is my privilege to submit herewith my sixth annual report as Superintendent of the Lexington schools, this being the thirty-third in the series of superinten- dent's reports for the Town. At this time circumstances seem to war- rant a brief survey of the progress of local school affairs during the past six years. It is always interesting to review the changes which have taken place during a Considerable period of time in any grow- ing institution. Upon particular occa- sions such a procedure becomes a real necessity if the problems of the future are to be met intelligently. The present appears to be such a time. Six years ago we had reached a point where the expansion of our school system compelled the Town to maize wider provision for the housing and instruction of our school population. The measures taken at that time ushered in a new epoch in Lexing- ton school life. Today, however, we have reached the limits of growth for which provision was then made and once again are called upon to face a similar problem. To those who have kept in touch with the situation there is nothing startling or unexpected in such a statement. It is SCHOOL COMMITTEE a question whether it has not been made so frequently as to have lost some of its force through repetition. For our years the warning has consistently been sound- ed. In the superintendent's report for the year 1914 occurs this sentenee:—"To form the habit of delaying action in any business until working conditions have approached an intolerable state is to maintain, with no ultimate saving in ex- pense, a constantly ineffective plant." Since that time no year has passed with- out every effort being made to impress the community with the fact that the time is close at hand when an extensive addi- tion to our school plant can no longer be avoided. Nor have these efforts been without results. Special committees ap- pointed by authority of the Town have investigated the question, recognized the situation, made their reports, and secured action to the extent that a valuable tract of land has been purchased for school purposes, tentative plans for a new build- ing Lave been drawn, and estimates of cost obtained. The war, however, put a stop to all building operations and, so far as practical results are concerned, nothing has been produced. All efforts to keep ahead of the growth of our school population have been frustrated by an event impossible to foresee. With the return of peace, however, and the removal of the ban upon buildings operations, the most urgent reasons exist for an immedi- ate resumption of the consideration of this whole matter to the end that the ac- tual work of construction be started at the earliest possible date. Every day that we must wait for a new building means not only increased congestion and all but intolerable working conditions for teach- ers and pupils alike butalso just that much more delay before we can begin to adjust our schools to meet the new de- mands of education. The great world war has shaken every American institution to its very foundations, revealing both strength and weakness equally unsuspect- ed. Entering, as we are, into a period of profound social, economic, and Maus - 125', trial reconstruction, we are forced to ree- ognize that the means, methods, and aims of public education, however admirably adapted to the needs of the past, must now undergo extensive modification to fit changed conditions. Our boys and girls must be prepared for the new problems of citizenship by a system of education which adjusts itself to an altered civiliza- tion. The selective draft forced home the appalling consequences which have fol- lowed our nation-wide neglect to provide for the physical education of our youth. The demands of the army and navy for young men possessing even elementary skill in the simplest technical operations involving the use of tools or machinery revealed an all but unbelievable dearth of material for which an over bookish, impractical national educational system must bear the responsibility. To ignore the obvious lessons of these experiences is to yield to the paralyzing effects of blind adherence to worn out customs and traditions. It means that education ab- rogates its rightful position of leader- ship in progress and leaves us, who are responsible, mere passive spectators of the great transition period in which we live, content to rest under the charge of sending forth our sons and daughters but poorly equipped to compete with their more fortunate fellows. The Junior High School, with its flexible curriculum and varied equipment, successfully established in hundreds of ptaces, is one of the nec- essary eo-essary agencies for meeting the new de- mands of education. It must be estab- lished in Lexington before we can hope to offer to our boys and girls the broad- ened roadened advantages which every progressive community desires today for its youth. But at best there must necessarily be a considerable lapse of time before we can possibly enjoy the full fruition of any plans involving the use of a new build- ing such as has been proposed. What are we going to do in the meanwhile! A constantly increasing army of boys and girls, already taxing our housing facili- ties to their utmost capacity, are present - • 126 TOWN OF ing themselves as claimants for their ed- ucational rights, What answer shall we give them next fall? To understand the full import of this question we must sur- vey the developments of the last few years as indicated at the outset in this report. We shall find that much, indeed, has been done to promote the efficiency of our schools, yet without fully keeping pace with the growth of the problem. We need and are entitled to some vitally important and, let us admit it fearlessly, expensive additions to our equipment and teaching force to carry us successfully through this period of enforced congestion. Un- less we ran have them we must be con- tent with mediocre sehools. On January first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, Lexington had a school popula- tion of nine hundred and thirty-five pu- pils, of whom seven hundred and twenty- seven were in the grades. The education of these pupils was in the hands of thirty- three teachers. The lianeock school was the only grade building in which there was a teacher for each grade. The Mun- roe school was a six -room building, each teacher from the fourth grade up having parts of two grades in her room. .A t East Lexington the condition was even Less favorable. The Old Adams building, a fire trap in construction, contained only four rooms, there being in use as a tem- porary makeshift a fifth room located on the second Hoer of the East Lexington Branch Library. The text -books in use throughout the town were not uniform and in many cases seriously out of date. The course of study under these circum- stances was necessarily- different in the various schools. Anything like an equali- zation of educational opportunity in the several parts of the community was im- possible. Families moving from one part of the town to another during the middle of a school year found their children seri- ously embarrassed in adjustingthemselves to the ehange. East Lexington was send- ing relatively but a small per cent of the graduates of the Adams School to the high school, and those that did come were LEXINGTON at a disadvantage in their preparation. In those days the only manual training equipment was ideated at the High School building. Once a week the boys of the seventh and eighth grades from each school journeyed thither at considerable cost in time and money and received such training in wood working as could be given them. No adequate instruction in sewing was provided for the girls, al- though a beginning had been made. At the High School confusion existed due to inexact definition of courses of study. The requirements for graduation in the college preparatory courses were such that a pupil might complete any of them and yet be somewhat short of ade- quate preparation for entrance into most colleges. Although the fact was never known to the public, our privilege of cer- tification to New England colleges had lapsed. Many parents felt obliged to send their boys and girls out of town to private preparatory schools. The commercial course took the full time of one teacher and part of the time of one other. In that department we had an equipment of ten typewriters. The courses was not well arranged, it could not compete with the husine..ss colleges, and the graduates had difficulty in securing positions. The build- ing itself:' had no general study room and no proper protection from fire. Certain valuable space was not being utilized while other parts of the building were congested. In fact the school, although considerably smaller than at present, pro- duced the effect of being over -crowded. For the maintenance of this system the Town was paying forty-six thousand and fifty dollars. On January first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, our school population numbered twelve hundred and eighty-six, of whom one thousand and thirty-six were in the grades. The number of teachers em- ployed was flirty -three. During the in- terval the New Adams building has been built and the Munroe School enlarged, Loth buildings being models of comfort, convenience, and sanitary construction. SCHOOL COMMITTEE All grade schools have uniform, modern text -books and operate under the same course of study with one grade to a room. There is a complete equalization of edu- cational opportunity throughout the Town. All schools send their graduates to the High School on equal terms and in about the same proportion. Each build- ing has its own manual training equip- ment where training in wood work is given to all boys in the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades while the girls are pursuing a graded course of instruction in sewing. The High School is attend- ing to the educational needs of practical- ly every boy and girl of proper age in the community. Our graduates are enter- ing college well prepared and are mak- ing excellent records there. Three teach- ers are devoting their whole time to the commercial department, the typewriting equipment has been doubled, and the de- mand. o-mand. for our graduates by business houses is greater than we can supply. A commodious study hall has been made out Adams Hancock Munroe Grade Total High Special Teachers Grand Total Pupils 203 300 224 727 208 935 Raised by taxation for schools in 1913 Raised by taxation for schools in 1918 Income from schools available in 1913 Income from schools available in 1918 Increase in pupils Increase in teachers Increase in income earned Increase in town appropriation From the foregoing figures four im- portant inference$ may fairly be drawn: First, we have a rapidly growing school population. Since the grade schools are 127 of practically waste space, ample fire pro- tection has been installed, and the Town is receiving a sizable income from the tuition of pupils from other communities who find the educational advantages of our High School worth paying for. The cost of the schools to the Town during -the year 1918 was approximately $56,250. The preceding comparison would seem to indicate substantial progress. But it must be remembered that this progress was made possible by the foresight of those who some years ago fathered the erection of one new building' and the en- largement of another beside improving the existing equipment in many ways. Their work was well done. But the growth for which it provided has been achieved. Meanwhile the Town has furnished neith- er the financial resources nor the teaching force necessary to offset the increased number of pupils. That this may be clear the following statistics are intro- duced at this point: 1913 Teachers 5 8 6 19 10 4 33 now Pupils 300 366 381 1037 249 1286 1.919 Teachers 8 9 10 27 12 4 43 $46,305.72 56,250.00 892.42 3,901.33 38% 30% 330% 21% full, some provision for extra room must be made before next September. Second, the increase in our teaching force has not kept pace with the increase • .r TOWN OF LEXIitiGTON in pupils by eight per cent. With a heav- ier load to carry due to the handicap of over -crowded rooms the work of instrue- - tion is being done by relatively leas teachers. Third, the income which the schools are earning for the Town has been more than quadrupled. Fourth, the increase in the amount of funds actually raised by the Town for school purposes has been much smaller than the increase in pupils, a fact which assumes added significance when the great advance in cost of every form of materials and labor is considered. In view of these facts I feel justified in recommending that provision be made for several additions to the teaching force at once. While we wait for the erection of the new building that will give us op- portunity far the full expansion of school activities to meet in adequate measure the needs of the day, there is nothing short of an imperative duty resting upon us to provide every means that will help to counteract the evils of congestion. Such a condition clearly demands more teachers in proportion to the number of pupils in- stead of less than what is considered proper in normal times. At present each grade school' suffers from lack of super- vision. Principals should have an oppor- tunity to inspect the work of the various rooms every day. Moreover, individual help is badly needed in many cases where sickness or other causes have conspired to make pupils fall behind. Both of these ends can be accomplished by the employment of a building assistant, or unassigned teacher, at each school. This would also solve the vexing question of securing substitutes when teachers are ill. Most of the better school systems around us employ such assistants with splendid results. A similar arrangement would be of great advantage at the High School. An assistant is also badly needed in the department of drawing and manual training, as the work to be done is al- together beyond the rapacity of one su- pervisor. The addition of these five teach- ers would not only bring large returns to the children, for whom the echodls exist, but would •also increase the effi- ciency of the present force by relieving them from the strain of over work. In concluding allow me to call attention to the tables found in the appendix to this report. It is to be noted that the figures showing the registration in the various schools are as of January 1, 1919, and hence do not show the whole difficulty of the problem of accommodation. Many pupils have been members of the various schools for some time during the present school year whose names are not included. This results from the fact that families keep moving both from and into the Town more or less continuously. Certain famil- ies spend the winter months regularly in Cambridge or Somerville, being in Lex- ington in both fall and spring. Observa- tion has shown that our membership is about at its minimum on January first each year. The extent of the variation may be seen from the fact that, whereas the total membership is given in the tables as being twelve hundred and eighty- six, the whole number of pupils who have actually been accommodated in our schools since September, 1918, is thirteen hundred and sixty-six. The registration is always heavy early in the fall, so that we must be prepared next September to house and instruct about fourteen hundred pu- pils. The spirit among parents, pupils, and teachers has been especially helpful dur- ing the past few months when our work has been done under the most serious difficulties. Never in reeent years has sickness worked such havoc with our school attendance. So much time has been lost that we can scarcely hope to ae- eomplish a full year's work this year. With everybody co-operating, however, we shall make the best of the situation. My personal thanks are due the School Committee for the intelligent support which has been given to the entire teach- ing force and for the willing sacrifices of tinie which each member is constantly SCHOOL COMMITTEE making in the interests of the education of our youth. Few communities are as for- tunate as Lexington in this respect,—a 129 fact which is fully appreciated by my- self yself and my associates. Respectfully submitted, ARTHUR H. CARVER, Supt. of Schools. LIST OF TEACHERS, JANUARY 1, 1919 High School Years of Ex - Elected perienee Preparation Name Arthur H. Carver, A. M., Prin. Lewis W. Newell, Vice-Prin. Dorothy Dixon Grace P. French Bertha V. Hayward Marietta L. Kirby Cora D. Leighton Inez E. Lind Effie M. Lowe Rae L. Mead Elsa W. Regestein Dorothea Waltz Name Katherine T.. Gregory, Prin. Mary A Mayeoek Esther Lane Eckiess Nay Edith M. Snow Helen M. Conroy Etta M. Taylor Mary E. Bevington Name Maud E. Adlington, Prin. Bernice H. Vickersou Harriet S. French Margaret B. Noyes Neva G. Mitchell Hattie E. Baker Jennie F. Blodgett Alice Crompton ]:pima L. Colton 1913 16 1918 7 1916 4 1911 18 1918 8 1917 8 1918 5 1917 3 1916 13 1917 3 1908 15 1918 4 Dickinson College Tufts College and Bridgewater Normal Radeliffe College Wellesley College University of Maine Boston University Radcliffe College Salem Normal Colby College Worcester Normal Mt. Holyoke College Boston University Adams School Years of Ex - Elected perience Preparation 1912 10 Farmington Normal, Me. 1917 4 Fitchburg Normal 1918 2 Fitchburg Normal 1918 6 Keene Normal 1918 0 Lowell Normal 1917 2 Fitchburg Normal 1913 18 Voohree's Normal Kindergarten 1917 2 Niel 's Training School Hancock School Years of Ex - Elected perienee Preparation 1918 10 Simmons College 1918 1 Salem Normal 1914 14 North Adams Normal 1917 3 Bridgewater Normal 1902 28 Quiney Training School 1911 8 Perry Kindergarten fiehooI 1894 24 Bridgewater Normal 1918 0 Lowell Normal 1918 11 Lowell Normal 130 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Munroe School Years of Ex - Name Elected perience Preparation Hilary C. Lusk, Prin. 1911 12 Missouri State Normal Julia B. Smith 1918 12 Westfield Normal Joanna M. Kilmain 1910 11 Framingham Normal Pearl M. Olsen 1918 2 Washington State Normal, Me. Anna F. O'Dowd 1918 1 Lowell Normal Blanche Whelpley 1915 4 Salem Normal Winifred A. Briggs 1912 15 Gorham Normal Katherine Hennessy 1917 2 Salem Normal Laura B. Chase 1916 5 Lowell Normal Grace M. Chase 1918 13 Concord, N. H., Kindergarten Sehool Name Ruth Reardon, Drawing and Manual Training 1918 3 Gertrude F. O'Brien, Music 1817 1 'Edith G. Clarke, Sewing 1917 2 Minnie E. 'Reynolds, Penmanship 1915 14 Lieut. Joseph Swan, Mil. Drill 1917 Special Teachers Years of Ex - Elected perienee Grade 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Grade 8 7 65 Preparation Mass. Normal Art School Lowell Norma) University of Maine Cedar Rapids Business College U. S. Army NUMBER OF PUPILS IN GRADE SCHOOLS Boys Girls 13 10 12 19 19 19 18... 23 14 25 20 19 24 17 24 24 144 156 Boys Girls 20 20 22 20 29 15 18 21 Dec. 31, 191.8. Adams School Total 23 31 38 41 39 39 41 48 300 Hancock School Total 40 42 44 39 Teacher Katherine T. Gregory Mary A. Mayeoek Esther Lane Eckless Nay Edith M. Snow Helen M. Conroy Etta M. Taylor Mary E. Bevington Teacher Maud E. Adlington Bernice H. Nickerson Harriet S. French Margaret B. Noyes SCHOOL COMMITTEE 131 132 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Grade Boys Girls Total Teacher 4 20 19 39 Neva G. Mitchell TOTAL MEMBERSHIP TABLE 3 21 25 48 Hattie E. Baker (Showing whole number of pupils who have been members of Lexington Schools 2 23 25 48 Jennie F. Blodgett since September 10, 1918.) 1 23 25 48 Alice Crompton Adams School 322 Special 6 4 10 Emma L. Colton Hancock Sehool 382 Munroe Sehool 400 182 174 356 Munroe School Grade Boys Girls Total Teacher Grand Total 1,366 8 15 18 33 Mary C. Lusk 7 17 16 33 Julia B. Smith 6 17 24 41 Joanna M. Kilmain ENROLLMENT BY AGE AND GRADE 5 34 20 54 Pearl M. Olsen 1918 Anna F. O'Dowd 4 29 26 55 Blanche Whelpley Grade Sex Age Totals 3 25 25 50, Winifred A. Briggs 5 0 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Katherine Hennessy 2 34 30 64 Laura B. Chase 1 M GS 27 8 1 104 1 26 25 51 Grace M. Chase F 65 24 2 k 92 2 M 4 33 30 6 73 197 184 381 F 6 41 25 6 1 79 3 M 3 29 34 13 1 4 84 SUMMARY OF PUPILS IN LEXINGTON SCHOOLS F 1 35 25 15 4 80 4 M 3 34 25 13 7 `? 1 85 December 31, 1918. F 1 27 27 7 1 3 66 5 M 2 28 25 6 7 4 1 73 Grade Boys Girls Total 18 25 43 1' 4 29 18 12 2 3 68 High Sehool Seniors 6 M 1 4 18 18 14 6 5 66 High School Juniors 20 41 61 F 2 7 17 11 13 3 1 2 56 High School Sophomores 14 41 55 7 M 3 15 25 7 3 3 56 High School Freshmen 43 44 87 F 1 9 16 20 9 2 1 58 High Sehool Specials 1 1 2 8 M 5 18 16 8 3 2 52 High Sehool Post • Graduates 1 1 F 3 21 13 7 1 2 47 9 M 6 14 8 5 2 35 Total in High School 96 153 249 F 12 21 13 2 Eighth 48 48 88 10 M 2 5 15 6 3 30 Seventh 51 55 106 F 2 24 14 9 49 Sixth 65 58 123 11 51 6 8 6 20 Fifth 70 64 134 F 1 5 12 9 2 2 31 Fourth 63 70 133 12 M 4 6 6 2 18 Third 66 69 135 Fi 4 11 5 2 22 Second 81 72 153 T First 73 74 147 Total M 72 63 70 78 70 60 55 74 53 46 28 19 6 2 696 Special 6 4 10 F 71 66 63 65 80 55 43 71 52 52 36 31 7 4 696 Total in Grades 523 514 037 Census M 91 70 73 79 70 60 55 72 53 45 28 702 1, F 87 69 66 67 82 54 43 71 52 51 35 677 Grand Total 619 ' 667 1,286 Date of School Census April 1, 1918. Total in Grades High School 1,101 262 SCHOOL' COMMITTEE 133 AWARD OF PRIZES 1918 HIGH SCHOOL Clapp Written Prize Eleanor Burtis Saxe Clapp Oral Prize Thomas Edmund Fitzgerald George 0. Smith Prizes Eleanor Burtis Saxe Marie Cecilia Maguire French Medals Helen Frances Locke Eleanor Burtis Saxe Lilian May Roberts WINNERS OF FRENCH MEDALS— GRADE SCHOOLS Adams School Nancy Mary Walsh George Coggeshall Hatch George Edward Wheatley Hancock School Fred Clarke Newhall Ardelle Maxine Terhuue Kenneth Hadden Dunham Munroe School Madelene Evans Pierce Elwyn 0. Preston, Jr. Evelyn G. Nourse HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES CLASS OF 1918 Aram Bashian, at home, Gladys E. Blake, Dana Hall, Wellesley. Eugene K. Bramhall, C. E. Loud, Boston. Frank P. Bruce, S. C. Pulsifer, Boston. Ariel C. Buckman, Herbert M. Lawrence. Paul L. Callahan, Wentworth Institute. Hester Champney, Post Graduate. Edward J. Connors, American Railway Express Co. F. Langdon Davis, Camp Library Service. Thomas E. Fitzgerald, Massachusetts Institute Technology. Mary Hautala, office work in Lowell. Gladys F. Hill,- B. U. College of Liberal Arts. Jane E. Jaclfson, at home. Richard F. Johnson, Massachusetts In- stitute Teehnology. Katherine B. Kinneen, Brown, Durrell Co. Agnes Leary, Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance Co. Helen F. Locke, Radcliffe College. Thomas 0. Lynah, B. U. School of Busi- ness Administration. • Marie C. Maguire, at home. George W. McKearney, New England News Co. Madeline V. Meagher, Middlesex Coal & Grain Co. J. Lawrence Miles„ Phillips Andover Academy. Mary E. Moulton, S. K. Mulford Co. Mildred V. Munroe, Lexington Coal Co. Eleanor M. O'Dowd, Lowell Normal School. Maybelle M. Pfeiffer, Sargent's School of Physical Culture. Dana R. Pulsifer, Automobile Club. Ruth J. Reynolds, Boston & Maine Rail- road Co. Lilian M. Roberts, Simmons College. Emil Savage, Shipping Clerk, Boston. Eleanor B. Saxe, Radcliffe College. William H. Shurtleff, Jr., Philips Exeter Academy. Osear Sorensen, U. S. Army Service. Gertrude M. Westlake, at home. Zelma G. Wetherbee, C. H. Smith & Co. Warren R. White, B. U. School of Busi- ness Administration. Helen Wilkinson, Bachrach Studio. Dorris E. Wilson, Textile World Journal. GRADUATION PROGRAM CLASS OF 1918 Music - Orchestra Graduation March Invocation Mgr. Edward F. Hurley When the Flag Goes By George Nevin High School Glee Club TOWN OF LEXINGTON THE RESPONSE OF YOUTH TO THE RECONSTRUCTION OF • AMERICANISM Part I Four Years of Chsinging Ideals Eleanor Burtis Saxe Part II War Time Activities Among High School Pupils Helen Frances Locke Part III Tomorrow's Call Thomas Edmund Fitzgerald Cantata, "Columbus" Homer High School Glee Club Address Hermon Carey Bumpus, Ph. D., LL. D., President of Tufts College Music Orchestra Award of Prizes Mr. George E. Briggs of the School Committee - Conferring of Diplomas Mr. George E. Briggs Music Orchestra GRAMMAR SCHOOL GRADUATES ADAMS SCHOOL Augusta Bornstein Leo Bornstein Muriel M. Cameron Neal L. Cobb Bessie Diekerman Howard D. Fisk Mary J. Foley Viola M. Harkins George 0. Harrington George C. Hatch Anna E Irwin Mary E. Krakoska Arthur C. Lowe Erville B. Maynard Agnes M. Monahan Harry A. Spector Doris C. Stoney Winifred E. Waite Nancy M. Walsh Lucy D. Walsh Eileen M. Whalen George E. Wheatley HANCOCK SCHOOL Barbara Ballard Nellie M. Banks Frank I. Berquist Charles E. Breslin Loraine Cloyes Grace R. Cody Beatrice L. Comeau Margaret Collieson Margaret Dailey Kenneth H. Dunham Samuel L. Fardy Wallace W. Ferguson Malcolm C. Govan William J. Hosea Eloise E. Hubbell John McNamara Fred C. Newhall John J. Rogers Ardelle M. Tcrhune Agnes F. Viano Challis Wilson MUNROE SCHOOL Alfred .1. Bevington George Broderick James J. Burton Rose E. Callahan Art]uir Collins Mary- 0. Condinho Elizabeth E. Corbett Mildred E. DeLong Robert T. Dunham Wilfred A. Emond Rosabel Fardy Edward J. Fitzgerald Grover M. Gaffney Nelson Hardy Walter E. Hrones Louise S. McKay Mary J. McKenzie Sally L. Mongeon Dorothy H. Moulton Helen M. Murphy Dorothy Norris Evelyn G. Nourse Andrew .T. Pewtherer Madelcne E. Pierce Elwyn G. Preston, Jr. James J. Ryeroft SCHOOL COMMITTEE 135 Romaine J. Shelton Bertha B. Spidel Charles R. Spidle Catherine Tower Damon Valentine Byron B. Walters Elizabeth S. Watson REPORT OF THE SCHOOL NURSE The following statement eolers the period between September 10 and De- cember 31, 1918. The School • Nurse is employed to assist the School Physician, who ex- amines each pupil at the beginning of the year. The work is followed up in the schools each morning by the physi- cian and the nurse. Children are sent home when it seems advisable, hath for ther own safety and for that of other pupils. The school rooms and lavatories are visited, and everything is done to prevent the spread of any infection. Many of the cases have to be followed up in the homes. The influenza in the fall, and again in the last four weeks of the period named above, has made the work very strenuous and it has been difficult to give ali the time necessary to the schools. A number of complaints from parents regarding the ventilation of the school rooms have been received. Every effort is being made by the teachers to keep the rooms well ventilated. Number of home visits 162 Number of children treated out of town 6 Number of children taken to the dentist 1 Respectfully submitted, ETHEL B. WEBSTER, REPORT OF ATTENDANCE OFFIOER January 1, 1919. To the Superintendent of the Lexington Schools: Dear Sir:—As Attendanee Officer of the Town of Lexington I respectfully submit the following report for the yeah ending December 31, 1918: Number of cases investi- gated 69 Left town 2 Sickness 21 Kept home by parents 10 Truants 21 No shoes 10 Working 5 Respectfully yours, PATRICK J. MAG UIRE. Assessors, Report of Accountant, Report of Accounting Department Administration of Trust Funds Agency Almshouse Almshouse Appropriation Accounts Assessors' Department Bacon Real Estate Balance Sheet Board of Survey Cemeteries Cemeteries Charities City of Boston Collector's Department Departmental General Government 99 Dog Officer 104 l:leetion and Registration De- partment Engineering Department Expenditures Finance Committee Fines Fire Department Forest Warden Froin Commonwealth Grants and Gifts 99 Gypsy and Brawn -Tail Moth Extermination Health Department Health and Sanitation Highways Highway Department Interest Interest Inspection of Buildings Law Department Libraries Libraries Licenses Loans INDEX Page 90 99 101 108 108 100 105 109 102 107 112 103 101 108 105 100 102 102 102 101 102 99 103 104 99 104 100 104 105 100 101 108 10:3 102 101 106 99 101 .Pagr Maintenance, Buildings and Grounds Memorial Day Moth Department Municipal In debted cess New Cemetery Other Finance Offices and Ac- counts -Other General Revenue Outside Aid Parks and Playgrounds Parks and Playgrounds Planning Board Police Department Refunds Refunds Town Clerk's Department Town Debt Town Hall Town Reports Town Scales Treasurer's Department Treasurer's Receipts Tree Warden Tree Warden Trust and Investment Trust and Investment Sealer of Weights and Measures Sealer of Weights and Measures Sewer Construction Sewer Maintenance Sewer Maintenance Schools Schools Sidewalks Snow and Ice Removal Soldiers' Benefits Soldiers' Benefits Special Assessments State Guard Street Lights Sundries Unclassified 106 107 100 108 101 102 99 100 101 107 102 103 101 108 102 1.11 102 107 108 •102 99 100 104 101 108 100 104 104 100 104 100 106 105 105 100 105 99 107 105 107 101 INDEX—Continued Page Unclassified 107 Village Hall Fire Station 103 Water Department 101 Water Department 107 Board of Health, Report of 68 Bridge Charitable Funds, Report of 98 Cary Memorial Library Librarian, Report of 77 Cary Memorial Library, Treasurer, Report of 79 Cary Memorial Library, Trustees, Report of 75 Cary Memorial Library, Finance Committee, Report of 80 Cemetery Committee, Report of 71 Fire Engineers, Report of 67 Fumigator, Report of • 70 Inspector of Animals, Report of 70 Inspector of Buildings, Report of 05 Inspector of Meat, Report of 68 Inspector of Meats and Provisions Report of 68 Inspector of Slaughtering 69 Inspector of Milk Report of 69 Inspector of Plumbing, Report of 69 Jurors, List of 56 Layout of Muzzey Street 43 Lexington Town Records Warrant for a Town Meeting, Jan. 30, 1918 15 Town Meeting, Jan. 30, 1918 16 Warrant for a Town Meeting, March 4, 1918 17 Town Meeting, March 4, 1918 21 Adjourned Meeting, March 11, 1918 23 Adjourned Meeting, March 25, 1918 25 Adjourned Meeting, April 8, 1918 27 Adjourned Meeting, April 15, 1918 32 Warrant for State Primary, Sept. 24, 1918 33 Page State Primary, Sept. 24, 1918 34 Warrant for State Election, Nov. 5, 1918 37 State Election, Nov. 5, 1918 - 39 List of Town Officers 3 Committees Appointed 7 Officers Appointed by the Select- men 4 Oderless Cart Report 69 Park Commissioners, Report of 81 Park Treasurer, Report of 82 Planning Board, Report of 73 Police Department, Report of 64 Roll of Honor 8 Sealer of Weights and Measures, Report of (30 Selectmen, Highway Surveyors, Overseers of Poor, Report of 57 Tax Collector, Report of 93 Town CIerk 50 Births, 45 Deaths 52 Dog Licenses 55 Hunters' licenses 55 Marriages 50 Town Counsel 63 Town Engineer, Report of 60 Town Treasnrer's Report 118 Tree Warden, Report of 72 •Trustees of Public Trusts, Report of 94 Water and Sewer Commissioners 83 SCHOOL REPORT Award of Prizes 133 Grammar School Graduates 134 High School Graduates 133 High School Graduation 133 Report of Attendance Officer 135 Report of School Nurse 135 Report of School Committee 121 Report of Superintendent 124