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Home My WebLink About1926-Annual ReportANNUAL REPORTS OF THE TOWN OFFICERS OF Lexington, Massachusetts Year, 1926 Medford Mercury Frees 1927 TOWN OF LEXINGTON LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS March 1926 to March 1927 Dr. John H. Kane Town Clerk SELECTMEN Theodore A. Custance '27 (Chairman) Albert H. Burnham, '28 William H. Ballard, '29 Charles H. Miles, '27 James G. Robertson, '29 Town Treasurer Collector of Taxes School Committee Cemetery Commissioners Trustees of Public Trusts Moderator Constables Planning Board ]7r. John H. Kane Byron C. Earle Howard S. 0. Nichols '29 (Chairman) Nina F. McLellan '27 James Stuart Smith '28 John E. A. Mulliken '28 (Chairman) Edward Woad '29 George H. Gibson '27 Charles B. Davis '32 Frank D. Peirce '28 John F. Turner '30 Robert H. Holt Patrick J. Maguire James J. Sullivan Frederick L. Emery '29 (Chairman) Arthur W. Freeman '29 J. Henry Duffy '27 Edwin B. Worthen '27 C. Edward Glynn '28 William D. Milne '28 Field Drivers Edward C. Maguire John C. Russell Director, Middlesex County Bureau of Agriculture and Economies Robert P. Trask Animal Inspector Assessors ANNUAL REPORTS APPOINTED OFFICERS Dr. Chester L. Blakely Assistant Town Clerk and Clerk, Selectmen Bridge Charitable Fund Trustees Building Inspector Burial Agent Burial Permits, Agent to Issue Cary Memorial Library, Librarian Cary Memorial Library Assistants Cary Memorial Library, Janitor Cary Memorial Library, Treasurer Dental Clinic Committee F'euce Viewers Fire Engineers Forest Warden and Tree Warden George H. Gibson (Chairman) Eugene Kraetzer Walter Black Charles E. Ferguson Frederick J. Spencer Miss Helen C. Gallagher Charles B. Davis '32 Frank D. Peirce '28 John F. Turner '30 John F. Tibbetts Arthur A. Marshall Dr. John H. Kane Miss Marian P. Kirkland Miss Helen E. Muzzey Miss Katherine Buck Miss Dorothy B. Wentworth Miss Emma O. Nichols (East Lexington Branch) Horace M. Howard Rev, R. Mitchell Rushton Mrs. Francis Chamberlain Mrs. S. Lewis Barbour Thomas S. Grindle John T. Cosgrove Clarence B. French Edward W. Taylor (Chief) Charles Callahan Leander Wood Osborne J. Gorman Town or LExiNOTox Gammell Legacy Incozne, Trus- tees acting with Overseers of the Poor. Health Officer Health Inspector Lockup Keepers Measurer of Grain Measurer of Wood, Bark and Manure Milk Inspector Moth Dept. Supt. Odorless Cart, Charge of Police Officers Park Police Plumbing Inspector Public Works, Superintendent Registrars of Voters Miss Helen C. Gallagher Mrs. John S. Spaulding Dr. William L. Barnes Russell I. Prentiss John C. Russell James J. Sullivan Moses F. Wilbur Edgar W. Harrod Harold I. Wellington Jacob Bierenbroodspot Miss Lillian McClure Russell I. Prentiss Osborne J. Gorman Peter Canessa James J. Sullivan, (Chet) Patrick Maguire James Irwin John C. Russell Edward C. Maguire Thomas C. Buckley William C. 'Leary Henry Harvey James Lima Forrest Knapp Edward J. Lennon John J. Garrity Andrew T. Bain William S. Scamman Bartholomew D. Callahan '28 (Chairman) Wilbur F. Atwood '29 Clarence S. Walker '27 John H. Kane (Clerk) Sealer of Weights and Measures Charles E. Hadley 5 6 ANNUAL REPORTS Slaughter Inspector Stone Building, Janitor Superintendent of Streets Superintendent of Water and Sewer Depts. Town Accountant Town Counsel Town Engineer Town Hall Janitor Town Physician Village Hall Janitor Undertakers George A. Warner John E. Garmon Robert H. White Albert A. Ross Charles F. Pierce Sydney R. Wrightington Clarence B. French Charles E. Moloy Dr. Henry C. Valentine William P Wright Arthur A. Marshall James F. McCarthy Water and Sewer Dept. Clerk Miss Eleanor M. Lowe Weighers of Coal Weighers of IIa% and Grain Weighers (Public ) William E. Mulliken John E. A. Mulliken George F. Teague Jacob Bierenbroodspot Harold I. Wellington Moses F. Wilbur Robert E. Hannaford William P. Wheaton William E. Mulliken George F. Teague John E. A. Mulliken Albert Bierenbroodspot Andrew Bierenbroodspot Harold I, Wellington TowN or LEXINGTON COMMITTEES APPOINTED AT VARIOUS TOWN MEETINGS APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE Term expires 1927. Francis Chamberlain Calvin W. Childs George W. Proctor Fred W. Miller Dr. James .L Walsh • Dwight F. Kilgour Guy E. Denison Term expires 1928. Errol 1I. Locke William R. S. Eaton Term expires 1929. William E. Mu1liken Clarence Shannon NORTH LEXINGTON SCHOOL Appointed June 30, 1919. Timothy H. O'Connor Clarence D. Fuller And the School Committee 154th ANNIVERSARY Appointed May 9, 1923. Discharged. George E. Briggs Robert P. Clapp J. Willard Hayden, Jr Catherine A. Kimball Willard D. Brown George D. Harrington Leroy S. Brown William H. Ballard Edward W. Taylor George L. Gilmore James W. Smith Christopher S. Ryan Report in 1925 Town Report Edward C. Stone Edward H. Mara Frederick L. Emery Stephen 1'. Hamblin Edward P. Merriam Charles H. Spaulding Edwin B. Worthen Dr, J. Odin Tilton Elwyn G. Preston Major Alfred Pierce Joseph R. Cotton Herbert W. Saul William F. Young • 8 ANNUAL REPORTS Gorge E. Briggs Howard S. O. Nichols William H. Ballard • '(' : 5i 11ODATIONS Ap;±u:rlt?d March 10, 1924. John Calder James Stuart Smith Howard E. Custance Nina F. McLellan VETERANS' MEMORIAL COMMITTEE Appointed March 16, 1925. Discharged. Report in 1925 Town Report George L. Gilmore Minnie S. Seaver Charlee M. Blake William F. Young William 13. Foster NAMING AIRPLANE CARRIER. "LEXINGTON" Appointed September 28, 1925. Discharged May 15, 1926. Edwin B. Worthen Mrs. Albert B. Tenney Admiral George H. Wadleigh TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE Appointed February 9, 1926. Edward Loren Fenn Edmund S. Childs William E. Mulliken Sheldon Robinson Willard C. Hill AIRPLANE CARRIER "LEXINGTON' Committee to Solicit Funds. Appointed March 15, 1926. Mrs. Warren Sherburne Roger S. Clapp Dr. John H. Kane Willard C. Hill Galen A. Russell ALMSHOUSE, Sale of Property Appointed March 15, 1926 Discharged December 6, 1926. Edward H. Mara Theodore A. Cuetancc Frederick L. Emery John A, Proctor 7. Henry Dully Arthur N, Maddison Howard S. O. Nichols Francis S. Chamberlain WIRE INSPECTION COMMITTEE Appointed March 15, 1926. Discharged May 12, 1926. Howard E. Custanoe GaIt F. Parsons William I. Brown W. Roger Greeley Walter G. Black TOWN OF LEXINGTON TRAFFIC BEACONS Appointed March 15, 1926. Discharged December 6, 1926. Rockwell C. Tenney Lester E. Smith BUILDING LAWS, Revision of Appointed May 12, 1926. Discharged December 6, 1926. Henry L. Wadsworth Charles M. Collins Sohn F. Tibbetts. 10 ANNUAL REPORTS TOWN WARRANT COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACH I f SETTS. MIDDLESEX, SS. To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, in said County, Greeting: In the manse of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Lexing- ton, qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs to meet in the Town Sall, in said Lexington, on TUESDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1926, at Seven -forty-five o'clock P. M., then and there to act on the following article: Art. 1. To see if the town will take any action with reference to the transportation facilities of the town, the pro- posed changes in train service on the Boston and Maine Rail- road, appoint a committee to investigate or oppose the same, appropriate money for legal or other expenses or act in any manner relating thereto. Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, on or before the time of sad meeting. Given under our hands, at .Lexington, this twenty-sixth day of January, A. D., 1926. J. CHESTI R IHUTCHINSON, ALBERT H. BURNHAM, THEODORE A. CUSTANCE, CHARLES H. MILES, Selectmen of Lexington. TOWN OF LEXINGTON 11 Lexington, Mass., Feb. 1, 1926. To THE TOWN CLERK :- I have notified the inhabitants of Lexington by posting printed copies of the foregoing Warrant in the Post Office and in nine other public places in 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: JAMES J. SULuvAN, Constable of Lexkgton. • 12 ANNUAL REPORTS TOWN MEETING February 9, 1926 The meeting was called to order by the Moderator, Robert H. Holt, at 7 :47 P. M. The Warrant and return thereon were read by the Town Clerk. Mr. Edward L. Fenn outlined the object of the meeting and offered the following motion "Voted, that a committee of five be appointed to investi- gate transportation problems of the town and the proposed changes in train service on the Boston & Maine Railroad, and to take whatever action the committee deem necessary to em- ploy counsel or experts' advice and to cooperate or act with neighboring towns in improving Lexington's transit facilities by joint action. Further Voted, that the sum of $2500.00 be transferred from General Revenue and Surplus Account to be expended for legal or other expenses of the committee." This motion was taken up in two sections and motions passed unanimously. In response to a request from Mr. Edwin A. Bayley about a hearing before the State Department of Public Utilities at which time some Lexington citizens were present, Mr. Holt replied calling Mr. Sydney R. Wrightington to the Chai- pro tem. Mr. Frederick L. Emery and Mr. George E. Briggs awn informed the meeting about said hearing. A resolution was then presented by Mr. Edward L. Fenn which was adopted unanimously by rising vote. RESOLVED, THAT WHEREAS the transportation in- terests of the Town of Lexington have been served for many years, and to a large extent, by the Boston & Maine Railroad, and WHEREAS such service has been a very important factor in the growth and development of the town and has TOWN OF LExiNUTON 13 furnished a very strong inducement not only to those who have made Lexington their home and place of business, but also to those who have come to reside here, whose daily bus- iness takes them elsewhere, and WHEREAS said Railroad having heretofore, at various tinges, reduced its transportation service to the town, under the plea of economy, now proposes to still farther reduce that service almost to the vanishing point, NOW THEREFORE, we, the Inhabitants of Lexington in special town meeting assembled, hereby strongly protest against any such sweeping reduction as is proposed : we fully believe that upon a fair and full consideration of the effect of the threatened reduction, not alone upon the Railroad, but also upon our town and its inhabitants, it would clearly ap- pear that there exists no public necessity for such a reduction, and that the same would be inequitable and unwarranted, WE THEREFORE HEREBY RESPECTFULLY AP- PEAL to the Department of Public Utilities of this Common- wealth to protect us against the reduction in service as pro- posed, which we believe would be a very serious and per- manent setback to the growth and development of our town, and a great and unnecessary inconvenience and financial loss to our citizens, without any commensurate benefit to said Railroad. WE HEREBY DIRECT that a copy of this Resolution properly certified to by the Town Clerk, be duly presented at the Hearing upon this matter which is to take place before said Department of Public Utilities. 414 voted in favor of the Resolution and 0 in the negative. Committee appointed: Edward L. Fenn, Edmund S. Childs, William E. Malliken, Sheldon Robinson and Willard C. Hill. The meeting adjourned at 8:45 P. M. A true record, Attest: JOHN H. RANT, Town Clerk, 14 ANNUAL REPORTS TOWN WARRANT COMMONWEALTH of MASSACHUSETTS. MIDDLESEX, 8S. 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 and in town affairs to meet in their respective places in said town, (Precinct One, Emer- son Hail: Precinct Two, Town Halt) on MONDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF MARCH, A. D. 1926, at Six o'clock A. M., then and there to act on the following articles: Art. 1. To choose by ballot the following town officers: One Town Clerk for the term of one year : two Selectmen 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 Cemetery Commissioner for the term of three years: ane member of the School Committee for the term of three years: two Constables 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: two members of the Planning Board for the term of three years. The polls will be open at 6 A. M. and will remain open until 5:00 P. M. You are also to notify and warn the inhabitants afore- said to meet in Town Hall in said town on Monday, the eighth day of March, 1926 at 7:30 P. M. to act on the following articles: Art. 2. To receive the report of any Board of Town Officers or of any Committee of the town, and to appoint other committees. TOWN of LEXINGTON 15 Art. 3. To choose such Town Officers as are required by law and are usually chosen by nomination. Art. 4. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the proper observance of Memorial Day, to be expended under the direction of Post 119, Grand Army of the Republic. Art. 5. To see if the Town will grant such sums of money as may be thought necessary for the uses and expenses of the Town the ensuing year for the following departments or accounts, direct how the same shall be raised, or act in any manner relating thereto: Public Schools: Outside Poor: Highways: Street Lights: Fire Department : Appropriation Committee: Public Parks: Town Engineer's Department : Milk Inspector : Plumbing Inspector : Inspectors of Slaughter- ing: April 19th Celebration: Street Signs: and Cemeteries. Art. 6. To see if the Town will make the usual appro- priations for Town expenses the ensuing year, not specified in other articles, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 7. To see if the Town will make an appropriation to construct sidewalks with concrete or other material where the abutters will pay one-half the expense thereof. Art. 8. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the suppression of Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths in ac- cordance with Chapter 132, General Laws, or act in any man- ner relating thereto. Art. 9. To see if the Town will make an appropriation to provide funds for the payment of pensions to retired town veterans under Chapter 40, Sections 52-55, General Laws, or aet in any manner relating thereto. Art. 10. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and assess an amount of money to be used as a Reserve Fund as provided by Chapter 40, Section 6, General Laws, or take any action relating thereto. Art. 11. To see if the Town will appropriate funds for the payment of pensions to retired members of the Police and Fire Departments under Chapter 32, General Laws, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 12 To see if the Town will authorize their Treas- urer, 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 proceeds of said revenue, or act in any manner relative thereto. 16 ANNUAL REPORTS Art. 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $300, or some other amount, and elect a director, the money to be expended by and the director to serve in cooperation with the Middlesex County Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture in the work of the Middlesex County Extension Service, under the provisions of Section 40 to 45, Chapter 128, General Laws of Massachusetts. Art. 14. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the use of the Water and Sewer Department and to provide same by issuance of bonds, notes or by direct appro- priation or by any or all of such methods, or take any other action relating thereto. Art. 15. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money to widen and deepen the brooks in the Town so as to obtain better surface drainage or take any other action relat- ing thereto. Art. 16. To see if the Town will vote to accept Section 49 of Chapter 31, of the General Laws of 1921, in reference to Chiefs of Police. Art. 17. To see if the Town will vote to accept the re- commendation of the Selectmen for the changing of the names of certain streets, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 18. To see if the Town will vote to install street lights in the following unaccepted streets: Jackson Court, Cliffe Avenue, Woodland Road, and Sunnyknoll Avenue. Art. 19. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to furnish snow plow service on the following un- accepted streets : Goodwin Road. Art. 20, To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money, either by the issue of bonds, notes or otherwise, for the construction of Highland Avenue, under the Betterment Act, providing the abutters comply with all the require- ments, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 21. To see if the Town will rescind that part of the vote passed at the Town Meeting, March 16, 1925, under Article 33, as follows: "Until otherwise ordered as hereinafter provided the fund shall be turned over to the Trustees of Public Trusts to be invested and held by them, together with the accumulations of income thereon, subject to the future vote or votes of the Town. The fund so held shall be desig- nated as Veterans' Memorial Fund." TOWN of LyarNoToN 17 Art. 22. To see if the Town will vote to make an ad- ditional appropriation of $13,000 to be expended under the direction of the Sehool Building Committee for grading. planting, furniture and equipment of the new Il.igh School property, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 23. To see if the Town will vote to have the Fire - Alarm system connected with the Town of Arlington Fire alarm system in order to have interchange of service in ac- cordance with plans of the Metropolitan District, provide money for the same, or act in any manner relating thereto: Art. 24. To see if the Town will appropriate money for the installation of five fire alarm boxes of the latest non-inter- ferenee type, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 25. ITo see if the Town will vote to establish as a town way or to accept the lay out as a town way, a portion of Chase Avenue, from Taft Avenue to Tucker Avenue, as laid out by the Seleetmen, and shown upon a certain plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, appropriate money there- fore, either by the issue of bonds, notes or otherwise, for the construction of said street under the Betterment Act, pro- viding the abutters comply with the requirements, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 26. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the unexpended balance of Forest Street Extension construction aceount, after completion of the work. to Highland .Avenue construction account. Art. 27. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the un- expended balance of Carville Avenue, Arcadia Avenue, Cliffe Avenue, and Grant Street construction account, after com- pletion of the work. to Various Street Construction. Art. 28. To see if the Town will make an appropriation to print the Town By-laws in pamphlet form. Art. 29. To hear the report of the Committee appointed under vote of Town Meeting, September 28, 1925, to take recognition of the naming after this town by the Navy Depart- went of the United States of the Air Plane carrier, "Lexing- ton," and to take action thereon. Art. 30. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to sell a portion of the Almshouse Property and contents, or act in any manner relating thereto. 18 ANNUAL REPORTS Art. 31. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a Town way. or to accept the lay out as a town way, a portion of Oakmount Circle, as laid out by the Selectmen, and shown upon a certain plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, appropriate money therefor, either by the issue of bonds, notes or otherwise, for the construction of said street under the Betterment. Act, and provide for the transfer of any un- expended balance to other construction, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 32. To see if the Town will vote to establish a wire inspection department, provide money for the same, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 33. LTo see if the Town, will vote to appropriate money either by the issue of bonds, notes or otherwise for the construction of Bedford Street, from the end of the present State Highway to the Boston & Maine R. R. crossing, and pro- vide for the transfer of any unexpended balance to other con- struction. or aet in any manner relating thereto. Art. 34. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money either by the issue of bonds, notes or otherwise, for the construction of Waltham Street from Concord Avenue to the Waltham line, and provide for the transfer of any un- expended balance to other construction, or act in any man- ner relating thereto. Art. 35. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money either by the issue of bonds, notes or otherwise, for the construction of Lowell Street from East Street to the Burlington line, and provide for the transfer of any unex- pended balance to other construction, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 36. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the widening and takings made by the County Commissioners on Waltham Street, or act in any manner re- lating thereto. Art. 37. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money to widen Bow Street, and extend same to Lowell Street, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 33. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money to purchase beacon traffic signals for the town, or act in any manner relating thereto. TOWN OF LEXINGTON 19 Art. 39. To see if the Town will vote to extend water mains in the following unaccepted. streets: Joseph Road, Spencer Street, Hillcrest Avenue, Walnut Street, Kendall Road and Oakmount Circle, appropriate money by issuance of bonds, notes or otherwise, and provide for the transfer of any unexpended balance to other construction, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 40. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the construction of a sewer in Massachusetts Ave- nue, from the Munroe Station to the High School, across private land to Bloomfield Street, to Highland Avenue, High- land Avenue from Winthrop Road to Bloomfield Street, and to provide same by the issuance of bonds, notes or by direct appropriation, or by any or all of such methods or to take any other action relating thereto. Art. 41. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the construction of a sewer in Forest Street Ex- tension, and to provide same by the issuance of bonds, notes or by direct appropriation, or by any or all such methods, and provide for the transfer of any unexpended balance to other construction, or to take any other action relating there- to. Art. 42. 4To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the construction of a sewer in Meriam Street from Stetson Street to Abbott Road, and to provide same by the issuance of bonds, notes or by direct appropriation, and pro- vide for the transfer of any unexpended balance to other construction, or to take any other action relating thereto. Art. 43. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to enter into a contract with the Massachusetts Department of Public Works, Division of Highways, for the construction of any state highway which may be laid out or constructed hi the town during the present year or take any action with respect thereto. Art. 44. To see if the Town will indemnify the Com- monwealth of Massachusetts against any and all claims for land, grade and drainage damages which may be caused by or result from the laying out, alteration or reconstruction of the State Highway or section of State Highway on Bedford Street in Lexington, and will authorize the Board of Select- men to sign indemnity agreement therefore in behalf of the town. or take any other action in respect thereto. 20 ANNUAL REPORTS Art. 45. To see if the Town will vote to include the Water and Sewer Department, on and after January 1, 1927, with other departments in the budget, and that expenditures be limited to the amounts appropriated therefore, or as pro- vided by the General Laws. .Art. 46. To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to petition the Legislature for passage of a bill relative t t improving surface and ground drainage in the Town of Lex- ington, and in adjoining towns as set forth in a bill now pending, H -No. 232. or to advocate the passage of said bill, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 47. To see if the Town will instruct the Se]eetmen to petition the Legislature for passage of a hill to change the method and rate of sewer assessment in the Town of Lex- ington as set forth in a bill now pending, H -No. 782, or to advocate the passage of said bill, or act in any manner relat- ing thereto. Art. 48. To see if the Town will amend its By -Laws by changing Article XXVII, Sections 55 to 55 A and adding a new By -Law entitled, "Article XXVII, Section 55" to read substantially as follows: "Acceptance of Town Ways, Rules of Procedure. I. All petitions for laying out, widening, altering or discontinuing any street or way shall be presented to the Board of Selectmen. II. No street or way constructed on private lands by the owners thereof shall be hereafter laid out by the Selectmen and reported to the town for acceptance as a town way unless previously constructed and completed in accordance with the following specifications, which shall constitute the minimum requirements SPECIFICATIONS (a) A plan and profile of every such street or way shall be filed in the office of the Town Engineer who shall designate the design, grades and requirements as to drainage. Said plan and profile shall be drawn in accordance with such rules and regulations as the Town Engineer shall prescribe. (b) Every street hereafter accepted by the town shall be constructed for its full length and width and shall conform accurately to a cross-section which shall be designated by the Town Engineer. TOWN OF LEXINGTON 21 (c) The entire area of the street shall be cleared of all stumps, roots, brush and perishable material and. all trees not intended for preservation. All trees intended for pre- servation shall be protected from injury by suitable boxes or fenders. (d) All loam or other unsuitable material shall be re- moved from the limits of the street, inclusive of sidewalks, to such a depth as may be approved by the Town Engineer. (e) All work in excavation or embankments shall be brought accurately to a sub -grade of not less than eight inches for the roadway and four inches for the sidewalk below the finished grade as shown by said profile and cross section. All side slopes in embankments and in earth excavation on the adjoining land shall be at the ratio of at least one and one half horizontal to one vertical to a berm not less than one foot in width outside the limits of the street. (f) Embankments shall be made of clean sand, gravel, cinders, furnace slag, broken stone or other suitable material. No perishable material shall be used for the making of street embankments. (g) Above sub -grade and to finished grade good bind- ing gravel free from an injurious amount of elay or vegetable material and satisfactory to the Town Engineer, shall be used, except along the edges of the sidewalk, where loam shall be placed in accordance with the cross section plan. Both the roadway and xidewalks shall be thoroughly rolled in a manner satisfactory to the Town Engineer and the loam spaces between the sidewalk and the edge of the travelled way shall be properly seeded or covered with good fresh sods Iaid in the best manner. (h) Side gutters on every street having a grade of five (5) per cent or over shall be paved, at least three feet wide, with stone, coal tar, concrete, artificial stone or other suitable material approved by the Town Engineer. (i) Catch basins shall be built in such locations as the Town Engineer shall designate and shall ba of the forms, materials and dimensions as approved by the Town Engineer and shall be connected by suitable drains, having manholes at intervals of not over four hundred feet, with a permanent drainage outlet duly secured to the Town by a proper legal instrument, or such drains may be constructed to the limits of a public way of the town intersecting such a street. 22 ANNUAL REPORTS (j ) All corners of intersecting streets shall be rounded in a manner satisfactory to the Town Engineer and curbing of granite or other permanentmaterial approved by the Town Engineer may be required to be set on the gutter line for the full length of all such rounded corners. Granite bounds or other permanent marks shall be set at all angles and curves under the direction of the Town Engineer. III. No street or way shall be laid out or accepted by said Town at a width less than forty feet unless the same shall have been actually opened and used for public travel prior to January 1, 1922. IV. Any street or way which has been actually opened to public travel prior to January 1, 1922 the width and con- struction of which does not conform to the foregoing require- ments, niay be laid out and reported by the Selectmen to the town for acceptance: Provided, however, said layont and all other layouts of streets or ways by the Town, shall be under the law authorizing the assessment of betterment and all peti- tions for such layouts shall be accompanied by releases of damages from owners and mortgage representing at least seventy-five per cent of the property owners abutting said street and also containing agreements by such owners to pay their proportionate part of the betterment assessments in the event of acceptance of the way by the town." Hereof, fail not, and make due return 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 ninth day of February, A. .D., 1926. J. CHESTER HUTCHINSON, ALBERT H. BURNHAM, THEODORE A. CUSTANCE, CHARLES H. MILES, Selectmen of Lexington. A true record, Attest : JOHN 11. KANE, Town Clerk. TowN n' LEXINGTON ANNUAL TOWN ELECTION March 1, 1926 The following election officers had been appointed by the Selectmen and were assigned to duty at the two Precincts as follows: 24 - ANNUAL EEE'ORTS James M. Ahern - Teller Samuel B. Thompson Teller Norman Hooper Teller Jesse S. Ferry Teller Charles E. Maloy Constable 'Tile polls were declared open in each Precinct at six o'clock A. M., and remained open until five P. M. at which time after due notice they were closed . The election officers were sworn to the faithful perform- ance of their duties. The ballots were counted by the election officers in each precinet, the tally sheets and total vote sheets prepared by the PRECINCT ONE Town Clerk being used. Herbert Flint Warden Roland Garmon Deputy Warden The ballots cast were counted, enclosed in envelopes, Michael A. Pero Clerk sealed, signed by the election officers, together with the un - William O'Neil Deputy Clerk used ballots, and delivered to the Town Clerk at his office. Bartlett J. Harrington Inspector Thomas J. Doherty Inspector The Tont Clerk canvassed the result as follows: Evelyn C. Broughall Deputy Inspector Elizabeth C. Wilkinson Deputy Inspector Precinct I.—Ballots cast 90 Precinct IL --Ballots cast 322 Martin Grady Teller Clesson C. Sehoneld Teller Finley Mclsaac Teller TOWN CLERK Charles E. Hadley Teller Constable ?rec. I. Prec. II Total James Irwin John 11. Kane 76 309 385 PRECINCT TWO Blanks 14 13 27 John H. Kane was deolared elected. Jay 4. Richards Warden Ezra F. Breed Deputy Warden Patrick F. Dacey Clerk SELECTMEN David F, Murphy Deputy Clerk William H. Ballard 73 890 353 Ralph H. Marshall Inspector James G. Robertson 72 278 360 John J. Garrity Inspector Scattering 2 2 airs. Marion W. Jackson Deputy Inspector Blanks 35 74 Miss Katharine A, Kiernan Deputy Inspector William H. Ballard and James G. Robertson were declared elected. Trying B. Pierce Teller James G. McGann Teller Allston M. Redman Teller TOWN TREASURER Wallace E. Miller Teller John H. Kane 74 309 383 James L. McKenzie Teller Blanks 16 13 Ey Samuel B. Bigelow Teller John H. Kane was declared elected. Town or LEXINGTON 26 COLLECTOR OF TAXES Free. I. Prec. II Total Bryon C. Earle 73 302 375 Blanks 17 13 30 Byron C. Earle was declared elected. 26 ANNUAL REPORTS Lexington, Mass., March 2, 1926. This is to certify that I 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. CEMETERY COMMISSIONER Attest: Edward Wood 76 291 367 JOHN II. KANE, Blanks 14 31 45 Town Clerk. Edward Wood was declared elected. SCHOOL COMMITTEE Howard S. 0. Nichols 65 292 • 357 Blanks 25 30 55 Howard S. 0. Nichols was declared elected. CONSTABLES Patrick J. Maguire 72 294 366 .-James J. Sullivan 70 298 368 Blanks 38 52 90 Patrick J. Maguire and James J. Sullivan were declared elected. MODERATOR Robert H. Holt 72 294 366 Blanks 18 28 46 Robert H. Holt was declared elected. TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC TRUSTS Charles B. Davis 67 288 355 Blanks 23 34 57 Charles B. Davis was declared elected. PLANNING BOARD Frederick L. Emery 66 267 333 Arthur W. Freeman 70 277 347 Blanks 44 100 144 Frederick L. Emery and Arthur W. Freeman were declared elected. A true record, Attest: JOHN H. KANE, Town Clerk. ti TOWN OF LEXINGTON 27 ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING March 8, 1926 The meeting was called to order by Moderator, Robert H. Holt, at 7:30 P. M. On motion the reading of the Warrant. excepting the return of the Constable, was omitted. Art. 2, On motion of Francis Chamberlain, Chairman of the Appropriation Committee, it was voted that the report of the Appropriation Committee be accepted. Itwas then voted to lay Article 2 upon the table. Art. 5. On motion of Howard S. O. Nichols it was voted that the sum of $179,839.00 be appropriated and assessed for the current year for the support of public schools and for the payment of tuition at vocational schools. Art. 4. On motion of 'Theodore A. Custance, it was Voted that $250 be appropriated and assessed for the proper observance of Memorial Day, to be expended under the di- rection of Post 119 of the Grand Army of the Republic. Art. 5. On motion of Theodore A. Custance, Chairman of the Selectmen, it was "Voted thatthe following amounts be appropriated and assessed for the current year; For the support of Outside Poor $9,800.00 For the maintenance and care of highways 45,000.00 For permanent construction of highways 9,000.00 For the expense of street lights 1S,400.00 For the support of the Fire Department For the expenses of the Appropriation Committee For the maintenance of public parks 26,400.00 150.00 4,700.00 7,600.00 450.00 For salaries and expenses of Engineering Dept. For salary and expenses of the Milk Inspector (of which $300 is for salary) 28 ANNUAL REPORTS For salary aad expenses of Plumbing Inspector For salary of Slaughtering Inapirtor For the expenses of April 19th Celebration For construction and repair of street signs For maintenance and devolopment of Westview Cemetery For maintenance and devolopment of Munroe Cemetery 820.00 600.00 500.00 200.00 1,500.00 1,500.00 Art. 6. Oit motion of Theodore A. Cust•ance, Chairman of the Selectmen, it was Voted, that the following amounts be appropriated and assessed for the current year: For salary and expenses of Town Treasurer $ 860.00 (of which $700 is for salary) For salary and expenses of Town CIerk 1,550.00 (of which $170(1 is for salary) For salary and expenses of Tax Collector 2,425.00 (of which $1900 is for salary) For expenses of elections and registrations . For expenses of Town Hall For hydrant rental For the maintenance of Village Hall For salary and expenses of the Sealer of Weights and :Measures For the expense of forest fires For the salary of Dog Officer For maintenance of Hastings Park For the inspection of animals For the support of the Dental Clinic in the Public Schools For vital statistics For the expense of watering troughs For soldiers' burials For soldiers' relief For military aid to be expended under Chapter 115 of the General Laws 100.00 For the administration of public trusts 85.00 For State Aid 500.00 For salary of Town Physician 100.00 For the payment of Interest upon the public debt 37,200.00 For the payment of the bonded indebtedness of the town maturing in 1926 66,716.62 And that the sum of $30.000 be transferred from the General Revenue and Surplus account to Maturing Debt Account. 1,450.00 4,500.00 2,860.00 700.00 370.00 325.00 60.00 5.00 200.00 1,500.00 60.00 100.00 100.00 300.00 TOWN of LEXINGTON 29 For the support of the Police Department 23,500.00 For the support of the libraries 9,536.50 For salary and expenses of the Supt. of Public Works 4,250.00 (of which $4200 is for salary) For the expense of insurance 5,300.00 For salary and expenses of Town Accountant 2,650.00 (of which $2500 is for salary) For salaries and expenses of the Board of Assessors 4,280.00 (of which $400 is 'for salaries) For salaries and expenses of the Selectmen's Dept.......,.,. 3,500.00 (of which $250 is for expenses for Selectmen for 1926) For the maintenance of public health and sanitation 2:500.00 For legal services 1,000.00 P'or unclassified expenses 200.00 For the protection of public shade trees and for the plant- ing of shade trees 1,000.00 For the expense of removal of snow 25,000.00 For salary and expenses of the Building Inspector 970.00 (of which $920 is far salary) For salary of the Treasurer of the Cary Memorial Library 50.00 For the payment of the amount to become due during the current year upon the judgment against the town obtained by Mary Chisholm for the death of Daniel Chisholm, her husband 290.00 For the expense of printing and publishing the Town Report 625.00 Art. 12. On motion of Theodore A. Custanee it was Voted, that. the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of revenue of the present financial year, and to issue therefore a note or notes payable within one year. Any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of the present financial year. Art. 14. On motion of Theodore A. Custance is was Voted, that this article be indefinitely postponed. Art. 15. On motion of Theodore A. Custanee it was Voted, that this article he indefinitely postponed. Art. 3^. On motion of Theodore A. Custance it was Voted that the sum of $6000 be appropriated and as- sessed for construction of Bedford Street from the end of the present State Highway to the B. & M. R. R. crossing, pro- vided the state will take over and construct same as a State Highway. 30 ANNUAL REPORTS Art. 34 On motion of Theodore A. Custanee it was Voted that the sum of $5,000 be appropriated and as- sessed for the construction of Waltham Street from Concord Avenue to the Waltham Line, the work to be done in con- junction with the State and County. Art. 85. On motion of Theodore A. Custanee it was Voted, that this article be indefinitely postponed. Art. 36. Under this article, Theodore A. Custanee offered the following motion: Voted that the sum of $4014.90 be appropriated and assessed for the widening and taking made by the County Commissioners on Waltham Street. After discussion of this article on motion of Thomas J. Doherty it was voted to indefinitely postpone action on same. Art. 39. On motion of Theodore A. Custance it was "Voted that the Selectmen be authorized to install 6 inch water mains in Joseph Road from Massachusetts Avenue to Spencer Street and Spencer Street, subject to the usual guarantee, for a distance of approximately 550 feet, at an expense of $1700.00, and that for the purpose of raising the money, the Town Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to sell under the direction of and with the approval of the Selectmen, bonds or notes of the town bearing interest at a rate not to exceed 5%, issued and payable as provided by law." Voted that the Selectmen be authorized to install 6 inch water mains in Hillerest Avenue from Pottier Avenue north- easterly a distance of 1200 feet, subject to the usual guarantee, at an expense of $4800, and that for the purpose of raising the money, the Town Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to sell under the direction of and with the approval of the Selectmen, bonds or notes of the town bearing interest at a rate not to exceed 5%, issued and payable as provided by law. Voted that the Selectmen be authorized to install 6 inch water mains in Walnut Street from Concord Avenue south- easterly a distance of 800 feet, subject to the usual guarantee, at• an expense of $3,000 and that for the purpose of raising the money, the Town Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to sell under the direction of and with the approval of the Selectmen, bonds or notes of the town bearing interest at a TOWN OF LEXINOTON 31 rate not to exeeeed 5%, issued and payable as provided by law. Voted that the Selectmen be authorized to install 6 inch water mains in Kendall Road from Grape Vine Avenue north- westerly a distance of approximately 450 feet, subject to the usual guarantee at an expense of $2,000, and that for the purpose of raising the money, the Town Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to sell under the direction of and with the approval of the Selectmen, bonds or notes of the Town bearing interest at a rate not to exceed 5%, issued and pay- able as provided by law. All votes under Article 39 were passed unanimously. Art. 40. On motion of Theodore A. Custance it was voted that this artiele be indefinitely postponed. Art. 41. On the motion of Theodore A. Custanee it w&9 voted that this article be indefinitely postponed. Art. 42. On motion of Theodore A. Custanee it was voted that this article be indefinitely postponed. Art. 43. On motion of Theodore A. Custanee it was "Voted that the Board of Selectmen be authorized to enter into a contract with the Massachusetts Department of Public Works, Division of Highways, for the construction of any State Highway which may be laid out during the year 1926." On motion of Edwin A. Bailey it was voted that this motion apply only to Bedford Street. Art. 44. Voted that the town will indemnify the Com- monwealth of Massachusetts against any and all claims for land, grade and drainage damages which may be caused by or result from the laying out, alteration construction, or re- construction of State Highway or section of State Highway on Bedford Street in Lexington, and that the Selectmen be authorized to sign an indemnity agreement therefor in be- half of the town indemnifying the Commonwealth as afore- said, and that the sum of $100 be appropriated and assessed. Art. 45. On motion of Francis Chamberlain it was "Voted that on and after January 1, 1927, the Water and Sewer Departments be included with other departments in the budget and that expenditures be limited to the amounts appropriated therefor, or as provided by the General Laws". 32 ANNunr, REPORTS Art. 46. On motion of C. Edwin Glynn it was "Voted : That the town ratify and adopt the net of the Chair- man of the Board of Selectmen in petitioning the Legislature for passage of a hill relative to improving surface and ground drainage in the Town of Lexington and in adjoining towns substantially as set forth in House Bill No. 232." Art. 47. On motion of Edwin B. Worthen it was "Voted: That the town ratify and adopt the action of the Chairman of the Planning Board in petitioning the Legisla- ture for passage of a bill to change the method and rate of sewer assessment in the Town of Lexington substantially as set forth in House Bill No. 782." The meeting adjourned at 10:50 P. M. A true record, Attest: JOHN H. KANE, Town Clerk. TOWN or LEXItiGTON 33 ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING March 15, 1926 The meeting was called to order by Moderator, Robert H. Holt, at 7 :30 P. M. Art. 6. Under this article on motion of Theodore A. Custanee, Chairman of the Selectmen, it was Voted that the sum of $892.19 be appropriated and as- sessed for the payment of the bonded indebtedness of the town maturing in 1926. This is in addition to the sum already appropriated at the last meeting. Art. 7. On motion of Theodore A. Custanee, it was Voted that there be appropriated and assessed for the construction of sidewalks of concrete or other material where the abutters will pay one-half the expense, $1,000.00. Art. 8. On motion of Theodore A. Custance it was Voted that there be appropriated and assessed for the suppression of gypsy and brown tail moths in accordance with Chapter 132 of the General Laws $4,000.00. Art. 9. On motion of Theodore A. Custance it was Voted that $1225 be appropriated and assessed for the payment of pensions to retired town veterans under Chapter 32, Sections 52-55 of the General Laws. Art. 10. On motion of Theodore A. Custanee it was Voted that $2500 be appropriated and assessed as a re- serve fund for the current year under Chapter 40, Sec. 6, of the General Laws. Art. 11. On motion of Theodore A. Custance it was Voted that $870 be appropriated and assessed for pen - 34 AN nmL Rmirrs sions for retired members of the Police and Fire Departments under Chapter 32 of the General Laws. Art. 13. On motion of Theodore A. Custanee it was Voted that the sura of $300 be appropriated and assessed for aid to Middlesex County Bureau of Agriculture and Home Economies. It was also voted that. Robert P. Trask be elected as Di- rector. Art. 16. On motion of Theodore A. Custance it was unanimously Voted that the Town accept Section 49 of Chapter 31 of the General Laws of 1921, in reference to Chiefs of Police. Art. 17. On motion of Theodore A. Custanee it was Voted, that the following recommendation of the Select- men for the changes in names of Certain streets be accepted: Bowman Street from Bedford St. southeasterly, Manning Cedar Street from Reed St., N. L. southwesterly, Marsh Eustis Street from Asbury St., to Bellflower, northeasterly, Emerald Fairview Ave, frcm Robbins to Eastern Ave, northeast, Fairland Fern Street. Hazel to Farley, northwest, Ferndale Grove Street. B. & M. R. R. N. L. to Locust St, southwest, Garfield Hill St. Haywood Avenue north Amherst Highland Ave. Haywood Ave, north, Beaumont Hillcrest Ave. Mass. Ave. to Wood St. northeast Alpine Hillside Ave, Theresa Ave. south, Oxford Madison Ave. Independence Ave. to Lexington Ave. Independence Ave. Maple St. Beech St„ to Brook St. northeast, Myrtle Street Oak St. Centre to Pine St. northwest, Avon Street Reed St. Lowell St. to. Orient Ave. east, Haskell Street Spring St. from Reed St. to B. & M. R. R, northeast, Acorn Street Summer St. Bedford St. to Bedford Line, west, Westview Street Summer St. Grove St, to Spring St. northwest, Street Street Street Street Street Street Street Street Street Street Street Summit St. Colonial Ave. to Highland Ave. west, Vine Street, Lowe Street, N. L. northwest, Walnut St. Grove St. to Orchard St. northwest, Webb St. Reed St. to Ward St, southwest, Homestead St. Mass. Ave. Piedmont St. north, Bow St. Mass. Ave. northeasterly, Arcadia Ave. Melrose Ave. northerly, Wilson Ave. Bow St. northeasterly, Poplar Sunset Essex Birch Short Stratham Alderman Alderman Alderman Street Street Street Street Street Street Street Street On motion of Charles J. Henrieh it was voted that the above vote be amended by changing the names of Bow Street, Tows or LE$$IOTON 35 Arcadia Ave. and Wilson Avenue to Bow Street instead of Alderman Street. The amendment was aeeepted and the original motion as amended •was voted. Art. 18.. On motion of Theodore A. Custance it wa Voted that the Selectmen be instructed to install street lights in the following unaccepted streets: Jackson Ct., Cliffe Avenue, Woodland Road, and Sunnyknoll Avenue. Art. 19. On motion of Theodore A. Custance it was Voted that the Selectmen be authorized to furnish snow plow service on Goodwin Road. Art. 21. Under this article Theodore A. Custance offered the following motion; Voted that that part of the vote passed at the Town Meet- ing March 16, 1925 under Article 33 which is as follows. "Until otherwise ordered as hereinafter provided the fund shall be turned over to the Trustees of Public Trusts to be in- vested and held by them, together with the accumulations of income thereon, subject to the future vote or votes of the Town. The fund so held shall be designated as Veterans' Memorial Fund," be rescinded, so that the vote under said article 33 will read as follows: "Voted: That the sum of $3,617.89 be appropriated (the same being the amount re- turned to the Town under the provisions of Chapter 480 of the Acts of 1924) for the purpose or purposes of acquiring land, the construction of buildings or other structures, including cost of original equipment, to serve as and to be a permanent Memorial to all Veterans of all Wars who went from the Town of Lexington to serve with the Colors and hold or are en- titled to an Honorable Discharge from the United States Army, Navy or Marine Corps: Further Voted: That the present Commander of George G. Meade Post, Grand Army of the Republic, the present Commander of Stanley Hill Post, the American Legion, and a Veteran of the Spanish War with two other citizens, the last three to be appointed by the Moderator, be named as a Committee of five to investigate and report on the question of establishing a permanent Memorial, said Committee to be permanent, any vacancies to be filled by the then Moderator by the selection of a member of the organization or group in which the vacancy may occur, and in case no member of the 36 ANNum, REPORTS Grand Army Post is able to serve, its representative shall be selected from the Sons of Veterans." It was voted to indefinitely postpone this article. Art. 22. On motion of William H. Ballard it was Voted that the Town appropriate the sum of $11,500 to be expended under the direction of the School Building Com- mittee for grading, furniture and equipment for the new High School property. Art. 23'. On motion of Francis Chamberlain, Chair - of the Appropriation Committee, is was Voted that the sum of $980 be appropriated and assessed to have the Fire Alarm system connected with the Town of Arlington Fire Alarm system in order to have interchange of service in accordance with plans of the Metropolitan Dis- trict. Art. 24. On motion of Francis Chamberlin, it was Voted that the sum of $875 be appropriated and assessed for the installation of five fire alarm boxes of the latest non- interference type. Art. 25: On motion of Theodore A. Custance it was Voted that the town accept the lay -out as a town way of a portion of Chase Avenue from Taft Avenue to Tucker Avenue, all as laid out by the Selectmen under the Better- ment Act, and as shown upon plan on file in the Town Clerk's Office. And further voted that for the purpose of constructing this street under the betterment act the sum of $1450.00 is hereby appropriated and assessed. The lay out of Chase Avenue is as follows: COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. MIDDLESEX, SS. Lexington, Mass. Feb. 9. 1926 TOWN OF LEXINGTON, SELECTMEN'S ROOM At a meeting of the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Lexington, after having given due written notice of the in- tention of said Board, as required by law, to lay out as a town way a portion of Chase Avenue from Taft Avenue to Tucker Avenue a distance of approximately 410 feet, all as TOWN OF LEXINGTON 37 hereinafter more fully appears, and after public hearing thereon held this day, and no objections having been made; Now, upon consideration of the matter it is Ordered: that this Board of Selectmen is of the opinion that public necessity and convenience require that said portion of Chase Avenue from Taft Avenue to Tucker Avenue be laid out and established as a public way, as follows: Beginning at a point in the southerly line of Taft Ave- nue distant 160.0 feet easterly from the intersection of the easterly line of Baker Avenue with the said southerly line of Taft Avenue and running in an easterly direction along the said southerly line of Taft Avenue distant 40.0 feet, thence turning to the right and running in a southerly direction distant 410.0 feet, to the northerly line of Tucker Avenue, thence turning to the right and running in a westerly direc- tion along the said northerly line of Tucker Avenue distant 40.0 feet, thence turning to the right and running in a north- erly direction distant 410.0 feet to the point of beginning. Said street to be nowhere less than 40.0 feet wide. Said Chase Avenue is hereby laid out and established as shown on a plan entitled, "Plan of Chase Avenue, Lexington, Mass., Feb. 2, 1926, Seale 1 inch -40 feet, Clarence B. French, Town Engineer" which plan is on file in the Town Clerk's Office in said Lexington and a copy of which will be recorded with Middlesex South District Deeds with a copy of this order. And said Board having considered the question of dam- ages sustained by the owners of lands across and through which said way has been laid out and established as afore- said, hereby determines that no damages are sustained and no damages are awarded, and said Board hereby declares that all acts done herein are done under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments. J. CHESTER HUTCHINSON, ALBERT 11. BURNHAM, CHARLES H. MILES, THEODORE A. CUSTANCE, Board of Selectmen. Art. 20. On motion of Theodore A. Custanee it was voted to indefinitely postpone this article. 38 Annaysz REPolrrs Art. 26. On motion of Theodore A. Custanee it was Voted that the unexpended balance of Forest Street Ex- tension Construction Account, after completion of work, be transferred to Highland Avenue Construction Account. .Art. 27. On motion of Theodore A. Custance it was Voted that the unexpended balance of Carville Avenue, Arcadia Avenue, Cliffe Avenue and Grant Street Construction Account, after completion of the work, be transferred to Various Street Construction. Art, 28. On motion of Theodore A. Custance it was Voted that the sum of $100.00 be appropriated and as- sessed for the printing of the Town By -Laws in pamphlet form. Art. 29. Under this article Edwin B. Worthen offered the following report which was unanimously accepted: To THE CITIZENS OF LEXINGTON :— At a special town meeting held September ,28, 1925 the undersigned were appointed a Committee to report to the Town what action, if any, the Town should take in recogni- tion of the naming after this Town by the Navy Department the airplane carrier "Lexington" which was launched at Fore River, October 9, 1925. Your Committee are unanimous that it is most fitting that this historic old town should make some recognition of the fact that• the newestboatin the United States Navy bears our name --a name which the Navy Department has per- petuated by using it for one hundred and fifty years, for the first "Lexington" was authorized by Congress October 13, 1775. It is the general custom for States, Cities and Towns to recognize the use of their name by a navy vessel by the pre- sentation of some gift, and in the past this has many times taken the form of a pnneh bowl, or silver service. Your Committee feels, in this instance, that if this Town takes any action, the gift should be something which would in a more appropriate way perpetuate Lexington's historic name and more closely visualize that event upon which rests the fame and the honored name of Lexington. If we dismiss the small. and Less expensive gifts, such as ship's clock, we find that a ship's hell would he a proper gift: TOWN Or LEXINGTON 39 this to be of bronze and east in high relief, bearing inscrip- tions, the Town seal and designs of a local historic nature. A ship's bell for a vessel of this size is 3ft. high and 2ft.. in dia- meter. To provide such a bell with its supports, etc. would cost possibly five thousand dollars. The City of Denver pro- vided its namesake with a silver bell, placed on the quarter deck which is used when the cruiser Denver is in port. A similar bronze bell about one foot high could be prepared at a Lesser figure. A replica of our Minuteman about 2ft. 6" high can be made in bronze at an expense of not over $2000. This we presume would have to be done by Mr. Kitson as our Minute- man statue is copyrighted by him. Bronze tablets about 2ft. by 3ft. suitably inscribed and bearing either the Minute- man in high relief or the Battle of Lexington which hangs in this building, and the Town Seal would be a very appropri- ate gift. Such a tablet could he prepared at an expense of not over $750.00. Your Committee are of the opinion that it would be de- cidedly worth -while to adopt one of these suggestions and in order that the matter may come up for immediate action we offer this specific recommendation in the form of a vote, pro- vided that the Citizens accept this report. Voted:—"That the Citizens of Lexington in recognition and appreciation of the Navy Department having christened the new airplane carrier "Lexington" approve the general plan of presenting a suitable memorial to be placed upon the vessel. The Moderator is hereby instructed to appoint a Committee of five, of whom the Town Treasurer shall be one. This Committee shall have entire charge of collecting Funds from the Citizens to cover the cost of the memorial and of its design and preparation; and further the Committee shall, in cooperation with the Selectmen, present the memorial to the Navy Department in the name of and in behalf of the Town of Lexington." Respectfully submitted, G. H. WADLEIUH, EDWIN B. WORTHEN, For the Committee. February 26, 1926. The above vote offered in Mr. Worthen's report was passed unanimously by the meeting. Committee appointed: 40 ANNUAL REPORTS Williard C. Hill, Mrs. Warren Sherburne, Galen A. Russell, Roger S. Clapp, and Dr. John H. Kane. Art, 30. Under this article Theodore A. Custance of- fered the following motion: Voted that. the Board of Selectmen be authorized to sell approximately 17 acres of the Almshouse property, and the contents of the Almshouse building. J. Henle Duffy offered a substitute motion that this article be referred to a committee of seven including the Chairmen of the Selectmen, of the School Committee, of the Planning Board, and of the Appropriation Committee and three others to be appointed by the Moderator, this commit- tee to report not later than the next annual meeting. Mr. Dufy's substitute motion was passed by the meeting. Committee appointed : J. Henry Duffy, Edward H. Mara, Arthur N. Maddison, Theodore A. Custance, Chairman of Selectmen; Howard S. 0. Nichols, Chairman School Commit- tee; Frederick L. Emery, Chairman Planning Board; Fran- cis S. Chamberlain, Chairman Appropriation Committee. Art. 31. On motion of 'Theodore A. Custance it was Voted that the town accept the lay -out as a town way of a portion of Oakmount Circle from Meriani, Street, approx- imately 550 feet, all as laid out by the Selectmen under the betterment act, and as shown on plan on file in the Town Clerk's Office. And further voted that for the purpose of constructing this street under the betterment act the sum of $1900.00 is hereby appropriated and assessed. The lay out of Oakmount Circle is as follows: COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. MIDDLESEX, SS. Lexington, Mass., February 9, 1926 TOWN OF LEXINGTON, SELECTMEN'S ROOM At a meeting of the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Lexington, after having given due written notice of the intention of said Board, as required by law, to lay out as a town way Oakmount Circle from Meriam Street a distance of approximately 550 feet, all as hereinafter more fully ap- TOWN of LEXINGTON 41 pears. and • after public hearing thereon held this day, and no objections having been made : Now, upon consideration of the matter, it is Ordered: that this Board of Selectmen is of the opinion that public necessity and convenience require that Oakmount Circle be laid out and established as a public town way as follows:— Beginning at a point in the easterly line of Meriam Street at a point 67.00 feet northerly of the property line of lands now or formerly of Katie G. Reed and Mabel Gray Winlock, thence with a curve to the right with a radius of 30.0 feet distance 18.30 feet to a point of compound curva- ture, thence with a curve to the right with a radius of 386.96 feet distant, 335.20 feet to a point of compound curvature, thence with a curve to the right with a radius of 179.57 feet distant. 167.26 feet, thence turning to the left and running easterly on a radial line distant 40.00 feet to the northeast- erly line of Oakmount Circle, thence turning to the left and running with a curve to the left with a radius of 219.57 feet distant 204.51 feet to a pointof compound curvature, thence with a curve to the left with a radius of 426.96 feet distant 282.83 feet to a point of reverse curvature, thence with a curve to the right with a radius of 16.30 feet distant 38.50 feet more or less to a point in the said easterly line of Meriam Street, said point being 118.04 feet northerly from point of beginning and said street to be nowhere leas than 40.00 feet wide. Said Oakmount Circle is hereby laid out and established as shown on a plan entitled "Plan of Oakmount Circle, Lex- ington, Mass. Jan. 25, 1926. Seale 1"-40 feet, Clarence B. French, Town Engineer," which plan is on file in the Town Clerk's Office in said Lexington and a copy of which will be recorded with Middlesex South District Deeds with a copy of this order. And said Board having considered the question of dam- ages sustained by the owners of lands across and through which said Kay has been laid out and established as afore- said, hereby determines that no damages are sustained and no damages are awarded, and said Board hereby declares that 42 ANNUAL REPORTS all acts done herein are done under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments. J. CHESTER HUTCHINSON, ALBERT H. BURNHAM, CHARLES H. MILS, THEODORE A. CUSTANcc, Board of gelectmen. Art. 32. On motion of Theodore A. Custanee it was Voted thata committee of three be appointed by the Moderator to investigate the advisability of establishing a Wire Inspection Department for the town and to report at a later town meeting. Committee appointed: John A. Proctor, Howard E. Custanee and Galt F. Parsons. Art. 37. On motion of Theodore A. Custanee it was Voted to indefinitely postpone this article. Art. 38. On motion of Theodore A. Custanee it was Voted that a Committee of three be appointed by the Moderator to investigate and report the advisability of pur- chasing the traffic signals or beacons now placed in the town on trial, or the advisability of installing other traffic signals, and to report at a later town meeting. Committee appointed: William I. Brown, Lester E. Smith and Rockwell C. Tenney. Art. 48. Under this article Frederick L. Emery, Chair- man of the Planning Board offered the following motion: Noted. That. the By -Laws of the Town be amended by changing the designation of Section 55 of Article XXVII to Section 55A, and inserting before the same and under the same article, a new Section 55, reading as follows :-- ACCEPTANCE OF' TOWN WAYS RULES OF PROCEDURE. I. All petitions for laying out. widening, altering or discontinuing any street or way shall be presented to the Board of Selectmen. II. No street or way, or portion thereof, constructed on private lands by any other than the town, shall be hereafter laid out by the Selectmen and reported to the town for TowN OF tjEXINGTON 43 acceptance as a town way, unless at the time so reported it shall be constructed and completed for the length reported and for its entire width in accordance with the following specifications, which shall constitute the minimum require- ments: Specifications. (a) A plan and profile of every such street or way shall be filed in the office of the Town Engineer, who shall then designate thereon the design, grades and cross section and the requirements as to drainage and construction to be complied with. Said plan and profile shall be drawn in accordance with such general rules and regulations as the Town Engineer shall, from time to time, prescribe and which shall be furnished by the Town Engineer upon application. (b) All stumps, roots. brush, loam or other unsuitable material, and all trees not intended for preservation. shall be removed, from the limits of the street, inclusive of side- walks. to a depth required by the Town Engineer. All trees intended for preservation shall be adequately protected from damage, during construction. (e) All work shall be brought accurately to a sub - grade of not less than six inches for the roadway and four inches for the sidewalk, below the finished grades, as shown by said profile and cross section. Unless suitably retained, all side slopes of fills and in earth excavations on the ad- joining lands shall be at the ratio of at least one and one- half horizontal to one vertical to a berm not less than one foot in width, outside the limits of the street. (d) Fills shall be made of clean sand, gravel, cinders, furnace slag, broken stone or other suitable material, ap- proved by the Town Engineer. (e) Above subgrade and to finished grade, good binding gravel, free from an injurious amount of clay or vegetable material, upon a stone or other suitable foundation when necessary or. in place of such gravel, other material or ma- terials as specified by the Town Engineer shall be used, except along the edges of the sidewalks, where loam shall be placed in accordance with the cross section plan, all to be as specified by the Town Engineer. (f) Side gutters on every street having a grade of five (5) per cent or over, shall be paved, at least three feet wide, 44 ANNUAL REPORTS with stones, coal tar, concrete, artificial stone or other suit- able material, approved by the Town Engineer. (g) Catch basins shall be built in such locations as the Town Engineer shall designate and shall be of the forms, materiaLs and dimensions approved by the. Town Engineer and shall be connected by suitable drains, having manholes at intervals of not over four hundred feet, with a permanent drainage outlet duly secured to the town by a proper legal instrument, or such drains may be constructed to the limits of a public way of the town, intersecting such street. (h) Alt corners of intersecting streets shall be rounded in a. manner satisfactory to the town engineer and curbing of granite or other permanent; material, approved by the Town Engineer, may be required to be set on the gutter line for the full lengths of such rounded corners. Granite bounds or other permanent marks shall be set at all angles and curves when required by the Town Engineer and under his direction. Ili. Upon recommendation of the Selectmen when re- porting a street for acceptance hereunder, any street or way or portion thereof may be reported for acceptance if already built accurately to the subgrade specified but, in such case, the street or way shall thereafter be, brought forthwith to surface grade, including all further necessary construction under paragraphs (e), (f), (g), and (h), under the law authorising the assessment of betterments. IV. No street or way shall be laid out or accepted of a width less than forty feet. V. Any street or 'way that has been actually opened to public travel prior to January 1, 1926, the width or con- struction of which does not conform to the foregoing require- ments, may be laid out and reported by the Selectmen to the town for acceptance: Provided, however, said layout and report shall be under the law authorizing the assessment of betterments, and all petitions for such layouts shall be ac- companied by releases of damages from owners and mort- gagees of at least seventy-five per cent of the properties abutting on said street and also containing agreements by such owners, to pay their proportionate parts of the better- ments assessments, in the event of acceptance of the street or way by the town. After some discussion as to phraseology Mr. Bayley re- commended in section II that the word be in the line "unless at the time so reported it shall be" be changed to "unless LSO NMOj, LEXINGTON 45 at the time so reported it shall have been and then is con- structed and completed." The suggestion was accepted by Mr. Emery. Several citizens expressed the opinion that the vote de- manded too much of the abutters and the motion was lost. Art. 3. Under this article Edward C. Maguire and John C. Russell were chosen Field Drivers by nomination. The meeting dissolved at 10:39 P. M. A true record, Attest: JOHN H. RAN•E, Town Clerk. ANNr?AI, REPORTS TOWN WARRANT COMMONWEALTH of MASSACHUSETTS, MIDDLFfiFX, 68. To either of the Constables of the town of Lexington, in said County, Greeting: I•na the name of the Commonwealth of ellassachusetts you are directed to iaotify the inhabitants of the Town of Lexing- ton qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs to meet in the Town Hall, in said Lexington, an WEDNESDAY, THE TWELFTH DAY OF MAY, A. D., 1926. at Eight o'clock P. M., then and there to act on the following articles: Art. 1. To receive the report of any Board of Town Of- ficers or of any Committee of the Town, and to appoint other Committees. Art. 2. To see if the Town will accept Chapter 221 of the Acts and Resolves of 1926 relating to sewer assessments in the Town of Lexington. Art. 3. To see if the Town will accept Chapter 263 of the Acts and Resolves of 1926 relating to surface and ground drain- age in the Town of Lexington. Art. 4. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the construction of a sewer in Massachusetts Avenue, from the Munroe Station to the High School, in private land from Massachusetts Avenue to Highland Avenue in Highland Avenue from Winthrop Road. to Bloomfield Street, and in Bloomfield Street from Massachusetts Avenue to Highland Avenue, and to provide same by the issuance of bonds, notes or by direct appro- priation, or by any or all of such methods and provide for the transfer of any unexpended balance to other construction, or to take any other action relating thereto. Town OF LEXINGTON' 47 Art. 5. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the construction of a sewer in Forest Street Extension, and to provide same by the issuance of bonds, notes or by direct appropriation, or by any or all of such methods and provide for the transfer of any unexpended balance to other construction, or to take any other action relating thereto. Art. 6. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the construction of a sewer in Meriam Street from Stetson Street to Abbott Road, and to provide same by the issuance of bonds, notes or by direct appropriation, or by any or all such methods and provide for the transfer of any unexpended bal- ance to other construction, or to take any other action relating thereto. Art. 7. To see if the Town will rescind the vote, insofar, as it applies to the $12,000 in securities still unissued, included in authorization by the Town, May 22, 1922, of a bond issue of $35,000 for construction work on Maple and Lowell Streets and Massachusetts Avenue. Art. 8. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $785.19 from General Revenue and Surplus Account to the credit of Maple and Lowell Streets and Massachusetts Avenue Account, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 9. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Se- lectmen to install street lights in the following unaccepted streets: Wellington Lane Avenue, and Cary Avenue, and Bacton Street. Art. 10. To see if the Town will amend the Building Law by adding to Article V, or any part thereof, new sections sub- stantially as follows, or take any other action in relation thereto. "Section 4. Details of Construction. Every house built for habitation shall have for each apartment at least two rooms with a floor area of not less than one hundred and fifty square feet. No chamber or kitchen floor shall have an area less than one hundred square feet, no bathroom floor less than fifty square feet, and no toilet floor less than twenty-five square feet. No room shall be less than seven and eight -tenths feet in the clear from finish floor to ceiling. Except in those rooms used for storage the total window area between stops must be at least one-seventh of the floor area and at least one window must be made to open one-half. At least one bathroom must be located so that it may be reached from a hall or corridor and without passing through any sleeping room. 48 ANNQAL REPORTS Section 5. Excavations. Under all dwelling houses here- after erected there shall be a cellar not less than six feet and ten inches in height from the cellar floor to the underneath of the floor beams on the first floor. Under all buildings without a cellar the earth shall be properly concreted or a space of at least one foot with organic matter removed left and vented." Art. 11. To see if the Town will appropriate money for the following departments: Tax Collector, Town Treasurer, and Planning Board, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 12. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money to clear the brooks of the Town of obstructions, or take any other action relating thereto. Art. 13. To see if the Town will rescind that part of the vote pertaining to the Veterans Memorial Fund passed at the Town Meeting, March 16, 1925, under Article 22, as follows: "Until otherwise ordered as hereinafter provided the fund shall be turned over to the Trustees of Public Trusts to be in- vested and held by them, together with accumulations of income thereon, subject to the future vote or votes of the town. Art. 14. To see if the Town will authorize and direct the Trustees of Public Trusts to pay and return said fund to the Town Treasurer together with all accumulations received by them thereon, or to act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 15. To see if the Town will vote to establish a wire inspection department, provide money for the same, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 16. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning Laws of the Town by establishing a business district at the junction of Lowell and North Streets, or take any action re- lating thereto. Art. 17. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the purpose of installing a drainage system across private lands from Highland Avenue to Vine Brook, either by issue of bonds or notes or otherwise, or act in any manner re- lating thereto. Art. 18. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the purpose of installing a drainage system in Highland Avenue from Winthrop Road to Bloomfield Street, either by issue of bonds or notes or otherwise, or aet in any manner re- lating thereto. TOWN OF LEXINGTON 49 Art. 19. To see if the Town will vote to extend water mains in the following unaecepted streets: Downing Road and Wachusett Drive, appropriate money by issuance of bonds, notes or otherwise, and provide for the transfer of any un- expended balance to other construction, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 20. To see what action the Town will take with re- speet to revising the Building Laws to provide for fire proof divisions between stores and similar buildings. Hereof, fail not, and make due return 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 twenty-seventh day of April, A. D., 1926. THEODORE A. CUSTANCE, CHARLES H. Mme, ALBERT H. BURNHAM, JAMES G. ROBERTSON, WILLIAM H. BALLARD, Selectmen of Lexington. Lexington, Mass., May 5, 1926 To THE TowN CLERK, I have notified the inhabitants of Lexington by posting printed copies of the foregoing Warrant in the Post Office, and in the vestibule of the Town Hall, and in six 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: JAMES J. SULLIVAN, Constable of Lexington. 50 ANNUAL, RETORTS TOWN MEETING May 12, 1926 The meeting was called to order by Moderator Robert H. Holt at 8:00 P. M. Art. 2. On motion of Theodore A. Custanee it was un- animously. Voted that the Town accept Chapter 221 of the Acts and Resolves of 1926 relating to sewer assessments in the Town of Lexington. Art. 3, On motion of Theodore A. Custance it was unan- imously. Voted that the Town accept Chapter 263 of the Acts and Resolves of 1926 relating to surface and ground drainage in the Town of Lexington. Art. 4. On motion of Theodore A. Custance is was un- animously, Voted that the Selectmen be authorized to provide for the laying of a sewer across private land from the main sewer to Massachusetts Avenue in Massachusetts Avenue, from the Mun- roe Station to the High School, in private land from Massachu- setts Avenue to Highland Avenue, in Highland Avenue from Winthrop Road to Bloomfield Street, and in Bloomfield Street from Massachusetts Avenue to Highland Avenue, at an expense of $29,800, and for the purpose of raising the money so appro- priated the Town Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to sell, under the direction and with the approval of the Selectmen, bonds, or notes of the town bearing interest at a rate not to exceed 41h% per annum, issued and payable in accordance with the Town of Lexington, Sewer Loan Act of 1913, and further voted that any unexpended balance after completion of the work may be used for other sewer construction. The above vote was approved by the Appropriation Com- mittee. TOWN OF LE%INOTON 51 Art. 5. On motion of Theodore A. Custance the fallowing vote was passed, 112 voting the affirmative and 2 in the negative: Voted that the Selectmen be authorized to provide for the laying of a sewer in Forest Street Extension, at an expense of $2700, and for the purpose of raising the money so appropriated the Town Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to sell, under the direction and with the approval of the Selectmen, bonds or notes of the town bearing interest at a rate not to exceed 4112% per annum, issued and payable in accordance with the Town of Lexington, Sewer Loan Act of 1913, and further voted that any unexpended balance after completion of the work may be used for other sewer construction The above vote was approved by the Appropriation Com- mittee. Art. 6. On motion of Theodore A. Custance the following vote was passed, 106 in the affirmative and 1 in the negative: Voted that the Selectmen be authorized to provide for the laying of a sewer in Meriara Street, from Stetson Street to Ab- bott Road, at an expense of $7500, and for the purpose of rais- ing the money, so appropriated the Town Treasurer be and here- by is authorized to sell, under the direction and with the approval of the Selectmen, bonds or notes of the town bearing interest at a rate not to exceed 41/2% per annum, issued and payable in ac- cordance with the Town of Lexington, Sewer Loan Act of 1913, and further voted that any unexpended balance after completion of the work may be used for other sewer construction. The above vote was approved by the Appropriation Com- mittee. Art. 7. On motion of Theodore A. Custance it was unan- imously Voted, that the Town rescind the vote, insofar as it applied to the $12,000 in securities still unissued, included in authoriza- tion by the Town, May 22, 1922 of a bond issue of $35,000 for construction work on Maple and Lowell Streets and Massachu- setts Avenue. Art. 8. On motion of Theodore A. Custance it was unan- imously Voted that this article be indefinitely postponed. 52 ANNUAL REPORTS so that the vote under said Article 33 will read as follows: "Voted: That the sum of $3,617.89 be appropriated (the same being the amount returned to the Town under the provisions of Chapter 480 of the Acts of 1924) for the purpose or purposes of acquiring land, the construction of buildings or other structures, ineluding cost of original equipment, to serve as and to he a permanent Memorial to all Veterans of all Wars who went from the Town of Lexington to serve with the Colors and hold or are entitled to an Honorable Discharge from the United States Army, Navy or Marine Corps: the fund so held shall be designated as Veterans Memorial Fund. Further Voted : That the present Commander of George G. Meade Post, Grand Army of the Republic, the present Com- mander of Stanley Hill Post, the American Legion, and a Vet- eran of the Spanish War with two other citizens, the last three to be appointed by the Moderator, be named as a Committee of five to investigate and report on the question of establishing a permanent Memorial, the said Committee to be permanent, any vacancies to be filled by the then Moderator by the selection of a member of the organization or group in which the vacancy may occur, and in case no member of the Grand Army Post is able to serve, its representative shall be selected from the Sons of Veterans." Art. 14. Voted that the Trustees of Public Trusts be authorized and directed to pay and return the Veterans Mem- orial Fund to the Town Treasurer together with all accumula- tions of interest or income received by them thereon. Art. 1. limier this article the Committee appointed to investigate the advisability of establishing a Wire Inspection department reported as follows. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO INVESTIGATE THE ADVISABILTY OF ESTABLISHING A WIRE INSPECTION DEPARTMENT FOR THE TOWN OF LEXINGTON After due consideration of this snbjeet, the Committee re- commends therefor that such a department be established, and cites as reasons the following : The Town of Lexington requires inspection of buildings and plumbing, whereas the almostequally important work of electric wiring may be performed without specific authority or subsequent inspection. TowN OF LEXINGTON 53 Art. 9. On motion of Theodore A. Custanee it was unan- imously Voted that the Selectmen be instructed to install the necessary street lights in the following unaccepted streets: Well- ington Lane Avenue, Cary Avenue, and Bacon Street. Art. 10. After considerable diseussion of this article it was Voted that Article 10 be referred to a Committee of five to be appointed by the Moderator to consider the advisibility of revising the Building Laws to provide for situations which have arisen since the last revision and which the Code does not eover. Committee appointed: W. Roger Greeley, Henry L. Wadsworth, Walter G. Black, Charles'M. Collins and John F. Tibbetts. Art. 20. On motion of Theodore A. Custance it was unan- imously Voted that this article be referred to the Committee to be appointed under article 10. Art. 11. On motion of Theodore A. Custance it was unan- imously Voted that the following amounts be appropriated for the following accounts, and that the same be transferred from the General Revenue and Surplus Account: Tax Collector $230.00 Town Treasurer 85.00 Planning Board 150.00 $465.00 Art. 12. On motion of Theodore A. Custanee it was unan- imously, Voted that the sum of $400 be appropriated and assessed for the purpose of clearing the brooks of the Town of obstruc- tions. Art. 13 and 14. It was voted to take up these two ar- ticles together. On motion of Joseph R. Cotton, it was unanimously, Voted that that part of the vote passed at the Town Meet- ing, March 16, 1925 under Article 33 which is as follows: "Until otherwise ordered as hereinafter provided the fund shall be turned over to the Trustees of Public Trusts to be invested and held by them, together with the accumulations of income thereon, subject to the future vote or votes of the Town," be rescinded, 54 ANNUAL REPORTS As a very considerable fire hazard is present when electri- cal wiring or associated electrical apparatus are wrongly in- stalled, we believe that the property owner is entitled to the added protection of his property, which an authorized wire inspection will give. With the rapidly increasing use of elec- trical devises in the home, many of which require considerably more electrical power than that ordinarily consumed by lighting circuits, the possibility of fire hazard is likewise increased. Not only will the property owner benefit by this proposed wire inspection system, hut the architect, builder, and general contractor will be assured of proper and satisfactory work on the part of the electrical contractor. The proposed establishment of a wire inspection department has received the hearty endorsement of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, Charles II. Tenney & Company, and C. D. Parker & Company, operators and managers of electric power systems. Onr own Fire Department through its Chief, Mr. Taylor, is strongly in favor of an adequate wire inspection department. The New England Insurance Exchange advises that the establishment of such an inspection system would have a direct bearing upon the insurance classification schedule of the town, and the Exchange most naturally favors the installation of such a. department. Lexington is one of the very few towns and cities in the vicinity of Boston that does not maintain its own wire inspection department The neighboring towns of Winchester, Belmont, Watertown, Arlington and Concord all provide this service at a cost varying between $100.00 to $3000.00 per annum paid the Inspector. The wide variance in the amounts offered as salaries depends on whether the Inspector devotes his entire time to the position, or combines it with other activities. Respectfully submitted, JOHN A. PROCTOR, Chairman, HOWARD E. CUSTANCE, GALT F. PARSONS. May 12, 1926. It was voted to accept the above report and to discharge the Committee. TowN of LsxINOToN 55 Art. 15. On motion of Theodore A. Custanee it was unan- imously Voted that the sum of $375 be appropriated and assessed for a Wire Inspection Department. Art. 16. On motion of Theodore A. Custance it was unan- imously Voted that the Zoning By -Law be amended in the following particular: namely that a business district be established at the locality of the junction of Lowell and North Streets, specifically as follows :—On both sides of Lowell Street a distance of 300 feet northerly and southerly from the point of intersection of center lines of Lowell Street and North Street northwesterly, and on both sides of North Street a distance of 250 feet from the point of intersection of the center lines of Lowell and North Streets northwesterly and on both sides of North Street north- easterly a distanee of 200 feet from the intersection of the cen- ter lines of Lowell and North Streets northeasterly, subject to provisions of section 18 of the Zoning by-law. Mr. Edwin B. Worthen of the Planning Board informed the meeting that this proposed amendment had the unanimous approval of the Planning Board. The Planning Board also recommended that Lowell Street be widened to 60 feet and North Street to 50 feet. Mr. Worthen read a Letter from Mr. Robert L. Ryder, owner of property abutting on the street, in which he stated that he would give the land for the street wid- enings. Art. 17. On motion of Theodore A. Custanee it was unan- imously, Voted that the Selectmen be authorized to install a drain- age system across private lands from Highland Avenue to Vine Brook at an expense of $6000, and that the money for this pur- pose be appropriated and assessed. Art. 18. On motion of Theodore A. Custanee it was unan- imously, Voted that the Selectmen be authorized to install a drain- age system in Highland Avenue from Winthrop Road to Bloom- field Street, at an expense of $7000, and that the money for this purpose be appropriated and assessed. Art. 19. On motion of Theodore A. Custance it was unan- imously, Voted that the Selectmen be authorized to install 6 inch water mains in Downing Road and Waehusett Drive, subject to - 56 ANNUAL, RWORTs the usual guarantee, at an expense of $7500, and that for the pur- pose of raising the money, the Town Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to sell under the direction of and with the approval of the Selectmen, bonds or notes of the Town bearing interest at a rate not to exceed 5%, issued and payable as provided by law, and further voted that any unexpended balance after com- pletion of the work may be used for other water construction. The meeting dissolved at 9:55 P. M. A true record, Attest: JOHN H. KINE, Town Clerk. TOWN OF LEXINGTON 57 WARRANT FOR STATE PRIMARY COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. MIDDIASF7j, SS 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 quali- fied to vote in Primaries to meet in Emerson Hall, Stone Build- ing, East Lexington, (Precinct One) and Town Hall, Lexing- ton Center, (Precinct Two) TUESDAY, THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1926, at four o'clock P. M., for the following purposes: To bring in their votes to the Primary Officers for the Nomination of Candidates of Political Parties for the following offices : Governor for this Commonwealth Lieutenant Governor Secretary of the Commonwealth Treasurer and Receiver -General Auditor of the Commonwealth AttorneyGeneral Senator in Congress (to fill vacancy) for this Commonwealth Representative in Congress for 5th Congressional District Representative in Congress (to f)11 vacancy) for 8th Congressional District Councillor for 6th Councillor District Senator for 7th Senatorial District Two Representatives in General Court for 28th Representative District County Commissioner for Middlesex County Associate Commissioners for Middlesex County District Attorney for Northern District Sheriff for Middlesex County Register of Probate and Insolvency (to fill vacancy) Middlesex County County Commissioner (to till vacancy) for Middlesex County Pr Fr 11 IP rp OP Pr P. 58 ANNUAL REPORTS And for the Election of the following officers: District Member of State Committee for each political party for the 4th Senatorial District Members of the Republican Town Committee. Members of the Democratic Town Committee. Delegates to State Conventions of the Republican Party. Delegates to State Conventions of the Democratic Party. All the above candidates and officers are to be voted for upon one ballot. The polls will be open from four o'clock P. M. to nine P. M. And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof seven days at least before the time of said meeting as direeted by vote of the town. Hereof, fail not, and make return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. Given under our hands, at Lexington, this seventeenth day of August, A. D., 1926. THEODORE A. CUSTANCE, JAMES G. ROBERTSON, CHARLES H. MILES, ALBERT H. BURNHAM, WILLIAM H. BALLARD, Selectmen of Lexington. Lexington, Mass., Sept. 2, 1926. To THE TowN CLERK :— a I have notified the inhabitants of Lexington by posting printed copies of the foregoing Warrant in the Post Office, in the vestibule of the Town Hall, and in six other public places in the town, and by mailing a printed copy of the same to. every registered voter in the town twelve days before the time - of said meeting. Attest: JAMES J. SULLIVAN, Constable of Lexington. TOWN OF LEXINGTON 59 60 ANNUAL REPORTS Teller Frederick TulIar Teller James McGann Teller Wallace Ferguson PRIMARY ELECTION Teller Patrick McDonald Teller Wesley T. Wadman Teller Charles Vaughan September 14, 1926 Constable Charles E. Moloy The polls were declared open in each Precinct at four P. M., and remained open in each Precinet until nine o'clock P. M., at which time after due notice they were closed. The election officers were sworn to the faithful performance of their duties. The ballots were counted by the election of- ficers in each precinct, the tally sheets and total vote sheets pre- pared by the Town Clerk being used. PRECINCT ONE The ballots east were counted, enclosed in envelopes, sealed, Warden Herbert Flint signed by the election officers, together with the unused ballots, Deputy Warden Roland E. Garmon delivered to the Town Clerk at his office. Clerk William O'Neil Inspector Bartlett J. Harrington The Town Clerk canvassed the result as follows: Inspector Mrs, Edward Davin Deputy Inspector Mrs. Byron C. Russell Precinct I. Ballots Cast: Republican 298, Democratic 19. Deputy Inspector Mrs. Elisabeth C. Wilkinson Precinct II. Ballots Cast: Republican 705, Democratic 18. Teller Martin Grady Teller Charles Hadley Teller Joseph J. Krantz REPUBLICAN Teller AAAA Carl Drew GOVERNOR Constable Charles E. Wheeler Prec. L Prec. II. Total Alvan T. Fuller 251 648 899 PRECINCT TWO Blanks 47 57 104 The following election officers had been appointed by the Selectmen and were assigned to duty at the town Precincts as follows: Warden Jay G. Richards Deputy Warden Ezra F. Breed Inspector Ralph H. Marshall Inspector John J. Garrity Deputy Inspector Katherine A. Kiernan Deputy Inspector Marion W. Jackson ,Clerk Patrick F. Dacey Deputy Clerk David F. Murphy Teller Fred E. Butters Teller James M. Ahern Teller Samuel B. Bigelow Teller James L. McKenzie !'eller Manuel Ferry Teller Norman S. Hooper LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR Frank G. Allen 237 638 875 Blanks 61 67 128 SECRETARY Frederic W. Cook 223 615 838 Blanks 75 90 166 TREASURER William S. Youngman 223 602 825 Blanks 75 103 178 AUDITOR Alonzo B. Cook 208 541 749 Blanks 90 164 254 TOWN OP LEXINGTON ATTORNEY GENERAL Prec. I. Elijah Adlow 24 Alexander Lincoln Arthur K. Reading Blanks 27 211 36 SENATOR IN CONGRESS William M. Butler 217 Blanks 81 CONGRESSMAN (5th DIST.) John Bordrnan Edith Nourae Rogers Blanks 39 224 35 Prec. II. 72 150 415 68 593 112 158 509 38 CONGRESSMAN (to fill vacancy) Sth Dia Frederick W. Dallinger 215 584 Blanks 83 121 COUNCILLOR (6th DIST.) Harvey L. Boutwell 76 270 Joseph F. Dyer 29 46 Charles A. Kimball 92 208 Blanks 1011 181 SENATOR Joseph R. Cotton Alice F. D. Pearson Blank's (7th MIDDLESEX DIST.) 150 538 131 142 17 24 61 Total 96 177 626 104 810 193 197 733 73 799 204 346 75 300 282 688 274 41 REPRESENTATIVES IN GENERAL COURT (28th DIST.) l6lliott R. Barker 124 266 390 George E. Briggs 199 614 813 Edward N. Lacey 73 171 244 Blanks 200 359 559 COUNTY COMMISSIONER Erson B. Barlow 203 Blanks 95 544 161 ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONERS Sidney L. Bishop 43 82 Sherman H. Fletcher 116 379 Daniel D. Gorman 31 47 Harry L. Easeltine 28 60 John M. Keyes 152 466 Blanks 226 476 747 256 125 495 78 88 618 702 62 ANNUAL REPORTS DISTRICT ATTORNEY Prec. I. Prec. II. Total Robert T. Bushnell 219 569 788 Blanks 79 136 216 John R. Fairbairn SHERIFF 211 Blanks 87 575 130 COUNTY COMMISSIONER Nathaniel I. Bowditch 128 443 Daniel F. McBride 39 36 Harry F. Peck 30 61 Blanks 101 165 REGISTER OF PROBATE AND INSOLVENCY William G. Andrew 61 127 Loring P. Jordan 84 270 Russell A. Wood 66 133 Blanks 87 175 STATE COMMITTEE Mary F. Daniel 177 Blanks 121 472 DELEGATES TO STATE CONVENTION Clara M. Barbour 191 George E. Briggs 207 Albert B. Tenney 194 Sydney R. Wrightington 191 Joseph R. Cotton 204 Albert H. Burnham 193 Jennie M. Partridge 193 Blanks 713 TOWN COMMITTEE William H. Ballard 192 Clara M. Barbour 191 Albert H. Burnham 192 Mahe' P. Cook 189 Joseph R. Cotton 197 Franklin S. Hunt 187 Velma 0. Collins 186 Converse Hill 191 Charles E. Hadley 191 Arthur W. Hughes 190 James G. Robertson 195 Beatrice H. Lamont 158 James W. Smith 187 233 786 217 571 75 91 266 188 354 199 262 649 354 584 775 608 815 586 780 587 778 594 798 585 778 587 780 804 1517 582 673 567 567 582 559 552 577 669 556 559 562 563 774 764 759 756 779 746 738 768 760 746 754 720 750 TOWN of LExaNOTON 63 Prec. I. Prec. II. Total Jennie M. Partridge 189 672 761 Albert B. Tenney 189 579 768 Edward W. Taylor 191 570 761 Ciearge A. Warner 188 662 750 Robert Whitney 185 563 748 Sydney R. Wrightington 189 582 771 Clarence S. Walker 188 577 765 Blanks 2166 2727 4892 DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR Prec. L Prec. 11. Total William A. Gaston 10 14 24 Blanks 9 4 13 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR Harry J. Dooley 6 6 12 Joseph B. Ely 7 7 14 Blanks 6 5 11 SECRETARY Frank W. Cavanaugh 12 12 24 Blanks 7 6 13 TREASURER Daniel England 10 12 22 Blanks 9 6 15 AUDITOR Strabo V. Claggett 8 12 20 Blanks 11 6 17 ATTORNEY GENERAL John E. Swift 11 9 20 Harold Williams, Jr. 1 3 4 Blanks 7 6 13 SENATOR IN CONGRESS David I. Waish 13 18 31 Blanks 6 0 6 CONGRESSMAN James M. Hurley 13 14 27 Blanks 6 4 10 64 ANNUAL. REPORTS CONGRESSMAN Prec. I. Pree. II. Total John P. Brennan 13 11 24 Whitfield L. Tuck 0 3 3 Blanks 6 4 10 COUNCILLOR 0 0 0 SENATOR George F. A. McDougall 13 9 32 J. Cotton 0 1 1 Blanks 6 8 14 REPRESENTATIVES George Briggs 0 1 1 Augustine D. Doyle 1 0 1 Blanks 18 til 36 COUNTY COMMISSIONER 0 0 0 ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONERS George Gibson 0 1 1 Blanks 0 17 17 DISTRICT ATTORNEY Patrick J. Delaney 12 12 24 Blanks 7 6 12 SHERIFF John Garrity 0 1 Blanks 0 17 17 COUNTY COMMISSIONER Daniel F. McBride 12 9 21 Blanks 7 9 16 REGISTER OF PROBATE AND INSOLVENCY John J. Butler 11 10 21 B1an]e 8 8 16 STATE COMMITTEE 0 0 DELEGATES TO STATE CONVENTION 0 0 0 TOWN OF LEXINGTUN 65 • 66 ANNUAL, REPORTS TOWN COMMITTEE Prec. I. Prec. II. Total Ed Mara 0 1 1 D. Murphy 0 1 1 John Garrity 0 1 1 TOWN WARRANT George Gibson 0 1 1 T. Fardy 0 1 1 B. J. Harrington 0 1 1 13, Callahan 0 1 1 Blanks 0 173 113 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSET'T'S, MIDDLESEX, SS. A true record, Attest: To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, Greeting: JOHN 11. KANE, Town Clerk, In the name of the Commonwealth. you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town who are quati- fCed to vote an Elections to meet in Emerson Hall, Stone Build- ing, East Lexington, (Precinct One) and in Town Hall, .Lex- ington Centre, (Precinct Two), on TUESDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1926, at six o'clock A. M., to cast their ballots for the following officers: Governor ; Lieutenant Governor ; Secretary ; Treasurer and Receiver -General; Auditor; Attorney General; Senator in Con- gress (to fill vacancy) ; Representative in Congress (to fill va- cancy) ; Councillor; Senator; Representatives in General Court; County Commissioner; Associate Commissioners; Dis- trict Attorney ; Sheriff ; Register of Probate and Insolvency (to fill vacancy) ; County Commissioner (to fill vacancy). And to bring in their votes on the following questions: REFERENDUMS Question 1. Shall an amendment to the constitution which au- thorizes the General Court to establish in any corporate town con- taining more than six thousand inhabitants a form of town govern- ment providing for town meetings limited to such inhabitants of the town as may be elected for the purpose, which received in a Joint session of the two Houses held May 29, 1924, 189 votes in the affirma- tive and 40 in the negative, and at a Joint session of the two Houses held March 18, 1925, received 262 votes in the affirmative and 4 in the negative, be approved? Question 2. Shall a law which amends existing law by striking out the provisions that veterans who pass Civil Service examinations TowN or LEXINOToN 67 shall be placed upon the eligible lists above all other applicants, that disabled veterans shall be placed ahead of all other veterans, and that disabled veterans shall be appointed and employed in preference to all other persons; and by providing in place thereof, that five points shall °be added to the mask of veterans who pass such examinations, and ten points to the mark of disabled veterans, which law was dis- approved in the Senate by a vote of 0 in the affirmative and 34 in the negative, and in the House of Representatives by a vote of 11 in the affirmative and 181 in the negative, be approved? 68 ANNUAL REPORTS STATE ELECTION The following election officers had been appointed by the Selectmen and were assigned to duty at the two Precincts as follows : PRECINCT I The polls will be open from six o'clock A. M. to eight o'clock P. M. Warden ..Herbert A. Flint Deputy Warden Mrs. Harriet Watkins And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting Clerk Mrs. Byron C. Russell attested copies thereof seven days at least before the time of Inspector Bartlett J. Harrington said meeting as directed by vote of the town. Inspector John S. Fanning Deputy Inspector Mrs. Evelyn C. Broughall Hereof, fail not, and make return of this Warrant, with your Deputy Inspector Mrs. Elizabeth Wilkinson doings thereon, at' the time and place of said meeting. Teller Martin Grady Teller Charles E. Hadley xe Given under or hands, this nineteenth day of October Teller Joseph J. Krantz A. D., I926. Teller Carl I. Drew THEODORE A. CUSTANCE, Constable Charles E. Wheeler ALBERT H. BURN HA M, CHARLES H. MILES, PRECINCT II WILLIAM H. BALLARD, Warden Jay O. Richards JAMES G. ROBERTSON, Deputy Warden Ezra F. Breed Selectmen of Lexington. Deputy Patrick F. Dacey Deputy Clerk David F. Murphy Inspector John J. Garrity, Lexington, Mass., October 25, 1926 Inspector Ralph H. Marshall To THE TOWN CLERK:— Deputy Inspector Katherine A. MermanDeputy Inspector Marion W. Jackson I have notified the inhabitants of Lexington by posting •Teller Samuel Thompson printed Copies of the foregoing Warrant in the Post Office, in the Teller William A. Wilkins vestibule of the Town Hall, and in six other public places in the Teller Wallace E. Miller town, and byymailing a printed copy of the same to every regis- Teller Samuel B. Bigelow tered voter in the town eight days before the time of said Teller Fred Tullar meeting. Teller James M. Ahern Attest . Teller James L, McKenzie Teller Jesse Perry JAMES J. SULLIVAN, Teller Lawrence D. McIntosh Constable of Lexington. Teller Charles Vaughan Teller Irving B. Pierce Teller Harry G. Frost Constable Charles E. Moloy 70 ANNUAL REPORTS TowN Op T+1?XINGTON 69 TREASURER The polls were declared open in each Precinct at six o'clock Prec. I. Prec. II. Total A. M., and remained open until six P, M, at which time after Albert Sprague Coolidge 7 16 23 due notice they were closed. Winfield A. Dwyer 9 9 18 The election officers were sworn to the faithful performance ]Daniel England las 404 511 of their duties. Henry Hees 5 3 8 William S. Youngman 367 1304 1661 The ballots were eounted by the election officers in each Blanks 74 130 264 precinct, the tally sheets and total vote sheets prepared by the Town Clerk being used. AUDITOR Leon Arkin 3 7 10 Strabo V. Claggett 138 703 841 Alonzo B. Cook 334 994 1328 Emrna P. Hutchins 10 8 18 John R. MacKinnon 1 2 3 Blanks 73 152 235 The ballots east were counted, enclosed in envelopes, sealed, signed by the election officers, together with the unused ballots, delivered to the Town Clerk at his office. The total registration of voters was 3019. The Town Clerk canvassed the result as follows; Precinct I. Ballots east 559 Precinct II. Ballots cast 1866 Total vote cast 2425 GOVERNOR Pres. I. Prec. II. Total Alvan T. Fuller 393 1359 1762 William A. Gaston 147 488 635 Walter B. Hutchins' 1 4 5 Samuel Leger 2 1 3 Lewis Marks 0 0 0 Blanks 16 14 30 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR Frank G. Allen 392 1374 1766 Daniel T. Blessington 6 1 7 Albert Oddie 1 3 4 Dennis F. Reagan 19 6 25 Edmond P. Talbot 109 428 538 Blanks 32 59 91 ATTORNEY GENERAL Isadore Harris 5 3 8 Max Lerner 3 3 6 Arthur K. Reading 384 1339 1723 John Weaver Sherman 2 11 13 John E. Swift 107 393 500 BIanke 58 •117 175 SENATOR IN CONGRESS John J. Ballam 2 1 3 William M. Butler 306 1199 1505 Washington Cook 3 7 10 Alfred Baker Lewis 0 2 2 David I. Walsh 236 632 868 Blanks 12 25 37 CONGRESSMAN (5th DIST.) James M. Hurley 122 282 504 Edith Nourse Rogers 374 1.312 1686 Blanks 63 172 235 CONGRESSMAN (8th DIST.—Vacancy ) John P. Brennan 115 400 515 SECRETARY Frederick W. Dellinger 376 1293 1669 Harry S. Canter 10 17 27 Blanks 68 173 241 Frank W. Cavanaugh 123 426 648 Frederic W. Cook 869 1286 1665 COUNCILLOR Stephen S. Surridge 3 2 5 Harvey L. Boutwell 363 1292 1655 Edith M. Williams 2 16 18 Blanks 196 574 770 Blanks 52 120 172 Tom; or LEXINaroN 71 72 ANNUAL REPORT$ SENATOR elected for the purpose, which received in a joint session of the two • Prec. L Prec. II Total Houses held May 29, 1924, 189 votes in the affirmative and 40 in the Joseph R. Cotton 393 1442 1835 negative, and at a joint session of the two Houses held March 18, 1925, George F. A. McDougall 104 279 383 received 262 votes in the affirmative and 4 in the negative, be ap- Blanks 62 145 207 proved? REPRESENTATIVES Elliott R. Barker 284 1005 1289 George E. Briggs 358 1417 1775 Augustine D. Doyle 112 314 426 Blanks 364 996 1354 Prec, 1, Prec. II. Total Yes 257 946 1203 No 100 385 485 Blanks 202 535 737 QUESTION NO. 2. COUNTY COMMISSIONER Shall a law which amends existing la.w by striking out the pro- Erson B. Barlow 386 1340 1726 visions that veterans who pass Civil Service examinations shall be Blanks 173 526 699 placed upon the eligible lists above all other applicants, that dis- abled veterans shall be placed ahead of all other veterans, and that ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONERS disabled veterans shall be appointed and employed in preference to Sherman H. Fletcher 3311189 1520 all other persons: and by providing in place thereof, that five points John M. Keyes 360 1281 1641 shall be added to the mark of veterans who pass such examinations, Blanks 427 1262 1689 and ten points to the mark of disabled veterans, which law was dis- approved in the Senate by a vote of 0 in the affirmative and 34 in the DISTRICT ATTORNEY negative, and in the House of Representatives fby a vote of 11 in the Robert T. Bushnell 386 1329 1714 affirmative and 181 in the negative, be approved? Patrick J. Delaney 112 376 488 Blanks 62 161 223 Prec. I. Prec. II Total Yes 215 724 939 SHERIFF No 193 740 933 John R. Fairbairn 412 1394 1806 Blankk 151 402 553 Blanks 147 472 619 A true record, Attest: COUNTY COMMISSIONER Nathaniel I. Bowditch 364 1289 1653 Daniel F. McBride 106 254 460 Blanks 89 223 312 REGISTER OF PROBATE AND INSOLVENCY John J. Butler 112 368 480 Loring P. Jordan 351 1270 1621 Blanks 96 228 324 QUESTION NO. 1, Shall an amendment to the constitution which authorizes the General Court to establish in any corporate town containing more than six thousand inhabitants a form of town government providing for town meetings limited to such Inhabitants of the town as may be JOHN H. KANE, Town Clerk. TOWN OF LEXINGTON REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION 73 November 12, 1926. Pursuant to •the law the Town Clerk of. Arlington and Assistant Town Clerk of Lexington met at Arlington this day at twelve o'clock noon, for the purpose of canvassing the votes on the second day of November for a Representative to the Gen- eral Court of the Commonwealth to represent the twenty-eighth Middlsex District. The canvass showed the following result of the votes east in Arlington and Lexington. In Arlington Elliott R. Barker had Four thousand eight hundred ten (4810) votes. In Lexington Elliott R. Barker had One thousand two hun- dred eighty nine (1289) votes• In Arlington George E. Briggs had Three thousand nine hundred eighty-five (3985) votes. In Lexington George E. Briggs had One thousand seven hundred seventy-five (1775) votes. The returns showed that Elliott R. Barker and George E. Briggs had a majority of the votes east in both towns, and a •certificate was accordingly filled out and signed by the clerks of both towns, to be delivered to Elliott R. Barker of 26 Lom- bard Road, Arlington, and George E. Briggs of Outlook Drive, Lexington. E. CAROLINE PIERCE, Town Clerk of Arlington. HELEN C. GALLAGHER, Ass't Town Clerk of Lexington. 74 ANNUAL REPORTS TOWN WARRANT COMMONWEALTH Of MASSACHUSETTS. MIDDLESEX, SS. To either of t•he 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, qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs to meet in the Town Hall, in said Lexington, on MONDAY, THE SIXTH DAY OF DECEMBER, A. D., 1926, at Eight o'clock P. M., then and there to act on the following articles: Art. 1. To receive the report of any Board of Town Of- ficers or of any Committee of the Town, and to appoint other Committees. Art. 2. To see if the Town will vote to transfer sums of money from General Revenue and Surplus Account to the fol- lowing accounts: Law; Assessors; Other Finance Offices and Accounts; Insurance; Forest Fires; Interest; Accountant; High- way Construction; Highway Maintenance; and Vine Brook Drainage. Art. 3. To see if the Town will accept the gift of premises at 516 Massachusetts Avenue conveyed to the Town by deed of Frederick H. Rindge, dated April 29, 1885, or take any action relative thereto. Art. 4. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to lease, or otherwise provide for the nse of the premises at 516 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, conveyed to the Town by deed of Frederick H. Rindge dated April 29, 1885, or take any other action relating thereto. Art. 5. To see if the Town will authorize its proper officers execute in its name and on its behalf the release and waiver of claims for damages with respect to the establishment of a build- Towx or LaamxaToN 75 ing line on the northeasterly side of Massachusetts Avenue from the northwesterly line of the Town Hall lot to Woburn Street and thence along the northeasterly side of said Woburn Street to Fletcher Avenue. Art. 6. To see if the Town will establish building lines on Massachusetts Avenue from the northwesterly line of the Town Hall lot to Woburn Street and thence along the northeasterly side of said Woburn Street to Fletcher Avenue, or accept build- ing lines on the said street established or laid out by the Board of Selectmen as shown in a Layout filed in the office of the Town Clerk or act in any other manner in relation thereto. Art. 7 To see if the Town will authorize the School Com- mittee to enclose the present stairways of the Hancock School Building in accordance with the regulations of the State Depart- ment of Public Safety and provide money for the same either by the transfer of unexpended balances or by the issuing. of notes or bonds, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Art. 8. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $360.00 to pay the damages allowed by the County Commis- sioners in the decree for the widening of North Hancock Street dated October 9, 1923, and to provide for same by transfer from General Revenue and Surplus Account, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 9. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Se- lectmen to furnish snow plow service in the following unaeeepted streets: Balfour Street; Harbell Street; Manning Street; La- conia Street; Bertwell Road; Dexter Road; Harding Road; Simonds Road ; Dee Road; Gleason Road; Fuller Road. Art. 10. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to furnish snow plow service in unaccepted streets wherever they deem necessary. Art. 11. To see if the Town will vote to install street lights in the following unaccepted streets: Harding Road Dee Road Simonds Road Gleason Road Bertwell Road Dexter Road Greenwood Street Outlook Drive Downing Road Prospect Hill Road Wachusett Drive Fair Oaks Drive Balfour Street Manning Street HarbeIl Street Webb Street Kendall Road Farmcrest Avenue Hill Top Avenue Wallis Court 1. 76 ANNUAL REPORTS Art. 12. To see if the Town will vote to install an im- proved system of street lighting on Massachusetts Avenue be- tween Woburn and Meriam Streets consisting of thirty-five 1000 candle power lights, or take any action relating thereto. Art. 13. To see if the Town will amend the Zoning By - Law and Zoning Map adopted March 17, 1924, by creating a new business district comprising the following lot of land: sit- uated at the Easterly corner of the junction of Massachusetts Avenue and Marrett Street, said lot is owned by Catherine F. Herbert and is bounded as follows: Beginning at a County bound on said Massachusetts Avenue and running Southerly on a curve to a County Bound on said Marrett Street about fifty (50) feet thence along said Marrett Street southeasterly one hundred (100) feet thence turning and running Northeasterly one hundred (100) feet to a point thence turning and running Northwesterly about seventy (70) feet to said Massachusetts Avenue thenee turning and running about seventy-five (75) feet along said Massachu- setts Avenue to point begun at, be said measurements znore or less, or aet in any manner relating thereto. Art. 14. To see if the Town will vote to reimburse William H. Andrews and William F. Morang the respective sums of $257.51 and $300 for water pipe laid in Highland Avenue in 1919 and 1921, and to provide funds for same by payment from Water Construction Account, Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, on ar before the time of said meeting. Given under our hands, at Lexington this twenty-third day of November, A. D., 1926. THEODORE A. CUST ANCE, CHARLES H. MILES, WrLLIAM H. BALLARD, ALBERT H. BURNHAM, JAMES G. ROBERTSON, Selectmen of Lexington. TOWN OF LEXINGTON 77 Lexington, Mass., November 29, 1926. To THE TOWN CLERK :--- I have notified the inhabitants of Lexington by posting copies of the foregoing Warrant in the Post Office, in the vesti- bule of the Town Hall and in six 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: JAMES J. SSULL1YAN. Constable of Lexington. 78 ANNUAL REPORTS TOWN MEETING December 6, 1926 The meeting was called to order by the Moderator at 8:05 P. M. Art.2. Under this article on motion of Theodore A. Cus- tance, it was Voted: That the following amounts be transferred from the General Revenue and Surplus Account to the credit of the fol- lowing accounts for the year 1926: Law $ 625.00 Assessors 15.00 Insurance - 1125.00 Forest Fires 60.00 Interest 1800.00 Town Accountant 35.00 Highway Construction 1067.00 Highway Maintenance 2700.00 Other Finance Officers & Accounts 90.00 $7507.00 Under this.article on motion of Frederick L. Emery, it was unanimously, Voted : That the following amount be transferred from the General Revenue and Surplus Account to the credit of Vine Brook Drainage Account, the same to be used for preliminary study and engineering plans. $2700.00 r 1 Art. 1. On motion of Joseph R. Cotton it was Voted: That a committee of five be appointed by the Moderator to consider and recommend to the town what action, TOWN of LEXINGTON 79 if any, shall be taken with respect to securing authority for re- presentative town meetings. Art. 1. Mr. William I. Brown read the following Report of the Committee on Traffic Signals: Lexington, Mass., September 27, 1926. To THE TOWN OF LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS. The Committee appointed by the Moderator to "Investigate and report the advisability of purchasing the Traffic Signs or Beacons now placed in the Town on trial or the advisability of installing other traffic signals" respectfully submit the following report: Investigation shows that the type of Beacons being tried out in Lexington have in other cities and towns operated satisfac- torily over a period of years and that they are a factor of safety in preventing accidents and reducing casualties. Therefore, we recommend that the Town of Lexington pur- chase the Beacons now held on trial.' Respectfully subraritted, WILLIAM I. BaowN, Rocicw t C. TENNEY, LESTER. E. SMITH, Committee. The report was accepted. Art. 1. William Roger Greeley read the following report for the Committee on the Revision of Building Laws: November 24, 1926. The Committee for Revising the Building Laws has met and recommends the following changes. Page 28. Section 2, Foundations. Add at end :— Foundations. Every building hereafter erected or altered for use as a dwelling shall have a cellar at least 6' 10" in the clear, except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, with direct egress to the outdoors and a stairway to the first floor. The inspector may 80 ANNUAL REPORTS however waive the requirements for a cellar, providing a heat- ing and sanitary system is provided and proper provision made for dry silts and floors, all to his satisfaction. Page 36. Add at end of Section 16:— Dwellings. Section. 17. Every room hereafter erected or altered to be used for habitation shall have at least one window designed to open one-half to the outside air, and with a total area of not less than 71/2 square feet. Stores. Section. 18. Every building hereafter erected or altered for commercial use shall be divided into sections of not more than two stores each by fire walls of masonry at least 8" thick continuous from the basement floor up to the under side of the roof. Page 39. Section 3. Add at end of first sentence Except that sills in dwelling houses under 500 sq. ft. in ground area and under two stories high shall be not less than 24 sq. in. in area. Page 58, Article XV. Water Closets. Fourth line after word "require" add— But unless special permission is given by the inspector to omit same there shall be in every building hereafter erected or altered for use as a dwelling at least one lavatory and water closet in a separate toilet or bath room. Add to Article VII. Section 2. Supports for girders in basement of any building shall be approved iron columns, brick, stone or concrete piers. (Wood post shall not be allowed.) Respectfully submitted, H. L. WADSWORTH, W. R. GREELEY, W. G. BLACK, C. M. CowNs, J. F. TIBBETTS. It was voted to accept the above report. TOWN of LEXINGTON 81 .Art. 1. J. Henry Duffy read the following report for the Committee on the sale of the Almshouse Property: --- Lexington, Mass., November 13, 1926. To THE CITIZENS OF Lr x[NOTON : At the annual town meeting held in March 1926 the fol- lowing Arden was presented in the Warrant: Article 30: "To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to sell a portion of the Almshouse Property and contents, or act in any manner relating thereto." Under this article the following vote was passed: "Voted, that this Article be referred to a Committee of seven, including the Chairman of the Selectmen, of the School Committee, of the Planning Board, and of the Appropriation Committee, and three others to be appointed by the Moderator, this Committee to report not later than the next Annual Meeting." In pursuance of this vote tlie following Committee was appointed: THEODORE A. CUSTANCES Chairman of Selectmen. FREDERICK L. EMERY, Chairman of the Planning Board. FRANCIS S. CHAMBERLAIN, Chairman of Appropriation Cont. HOWARD S. 0. NrCHOLs, Chairman of ,School Committee. EDWARD H. MARA, ARTHUR N. MADDISoN, J. HENRY 1DuFFY. The Committee has carefully considered the matter in hand and presents the following report: The Almshouse property is located in the Concord Hill section so-called at the junction of Hill and Cedar Streets and comprises about 22 acres of land with the buildings thereon. The buildings consist of a frame hnuse and barn together with various sheds and out buildings, all in need of considerable re- pair. The house formerly used principally as an Almshouse is now temporarily occupied by a family requiring the Town's assistance. The number of inmates at the house had decreased to such an extent in 1925 that the Selectmen found it unwise and un - 82 ANNUAI, REPORTS ceonomieal to maintain the house strictly for almshouse pur- poses with the necessary matron, equipment, etc., and since that time persons have been very satisfactorily cared for by an ar- rangement with other municipalities. The barns, sheds, etc., are utilized for stabling 8 horses, and storing wagons and other equipment for the Highway Depart- ment. We understand that about one third of the hay required for the horses is raised upon the place. In this connection we are informed that until such time as the town can secure a suitable site for establishing a much needed central location to acconmindate the various divisions of the Public Works De- partment, these buildings or equivalent roomelsewhere are needed to house suet' equipmentas is now located there. Such then, is the genera] use to which the property is now being put by the town. Situated about a mile from the Hancock School and cen- tral playground, and about a mile and a quarter from the Par- ker School at North Lexington, the property embraces a fairly uniform tract, well cleared, with a frontage of about 1400 feet on Cedar Street and about 900 feet on Hill Street, with good 'nigh building land abutting these streets and sloping gently to an area of level meadow land with a brook running through the same. This low area comprises perhaps one fourth of the entire tract. The property presents an unusual natural am- phitheater commanding a delightful view of the hills and moun- tains of Western -Massachusetts, and because of its size and gen- eral character offers unique future opportunities for municipal use such as school, playground and other purposes. The general area of high ground is well adapted for school or other general building locations, while the low ground in the central portion suggests a very practical means to provide, at small expense, a proper location for football, baseball and other sports. This arca could also, with comparatively small expense, be flooded for skating, etc., in winter. The Conunittee feels that the question of providing open areas for playground is becoming increasingly important and particularly so in view of the large use of automobiles. Child- ren naturally gravitate to some extent to the street for play, and parents view with considerable apprehension the possibility of accidents where such a situation obtains. The danger of automobile traffic upon the activities of children is becoming a vital factor in determining the location for school and play- ground areas. The property under consideration is, in our TOWN OF LEXINGTON 83 judgment, ideally situated in this respect, being off the main arteries of travel. The land in the general vicinity of the Almshouse is largely high ground, and while relatively undeveloped to any consider- able extent at present offers splendid opportunities for future residential development. The School Committee informs us that the school popula- tion in this district does not warrant the construction of a school in this vicinity at this time, but with the natural growth of the town there is every indication that a school may be neces- sary to accomodate this general area, and that this particular location might in the future be very readily adapted for such use. The Committee has carefully considered the income which might accrue by selling the property and the ultimate revenue which also might be derived from taxes if and when the plot shall have been developed with residences, etc. The character and repair of the buildings is such that the ehicf valve of the property lies undoubtedly in the land. As- sessed valuations of undeveloped tracts in this general vicinity run upwards to $300.00 per acre. Up to the present, so far as this Coinmittee has learned, no offers have been made to the town for the premises which would appear to indicate that there is no general demand at this time for developing a tract of this size. In conclusion your committee recommends that the pro- perty be held by the 'Down for the present, for the following reasons: 1st. — The tract possesses unusual merit for future town uses particularly that of school and playground. 2nd. --- Its present use represents a net saving to the town and will eontinue so until accommodations are found else- where, particularly for the Highway Department. 3rd. — The increment of value in the property will ap- preciate as other contiguous properties develop and influence its value. Because of this aspect, and in view of a lack of de - 84 ANNUAL REPORTS nand, a sale at this time does not, in the opinion of the Commit- tee, appear justified. Respectfully submitted, J. HniRY BUFFY, Chairman. FREDERICK L. EMERY, FRANCIS CHAMBERLAIN, THEODORE A. CISTANCE.. EDWARD 11. MARA, ARTHUR N. MADDISON, HOWARD S. 0. NICHOLS, Ii was voted to accept the above report. Ari. 3. On motion of Theodore A. Custance it waft unan- imously Voted: That the Town accept the gift of premises at 516 Mass. Avenue conveyed to the Town by Frederick H. Rindge under date of April 29, 1885. Art. 4. Under this article Edwin B. Worthen offered the following motion: Voted : 'That i he Selectmen be and are hereby authorized, for such consideration and on such terms as to them may seem best, to dispose of the premises at 516 Mass. Avenue, Lexington, same being the property which was deeded to the Town by Frederiek I1. Rindge. under date of April 29, 1885. Frederick L. Emery moved an amendment to this motion as follows: "and that in any event sueh authorization be conditioned upon the fixing of the same restrictions thereon as are now in force upon the other lots bordering the common, so far as ap- plicable." A second amendment was offered by Mr. Nichols as fol- lows: "And the proceeds of such sale Shall be kept intact sub- ject to the vote of the citizens in Town Meeting." Town Counsel, Sydney R. Wrightington, asked the advice of the Moderator as to whether the votes and amendments of- fered under this article would be legal. The Moderator ruled that the scope of the article was not broad enough to cover dis- posal of the property and ruled the votes illegal. TOWN OF LEXINGTON 85 Art. ii. Under this article on motion of Frederick L. Emery, it was unanimously, Voted: That the majority of the Selectmen be and they are authorized and directed in the name of and on behalf of the Town to execute a release and waiver of damages resulting from the establishment of a building line on the northeasterly side of Massachusetts Avenue from the northwesterly line of the town lot to Woburn Street and thence along the northeasterly side of Woburn Street to Fletcher Avenue which instrument is pre- sented to this meeting and that the Treasurer be and he hereby is authorized and directed to countersign the same and affix the seal of the Town thereto. Art. 6. Under this article on motion of Frederick L. Emery, it was unanimously, Voted: That the 'Town establish Building Lines on Massa- chusetts Avenue from the northwesterly line of the Town Hall lot. to Woburn Street and thence along the northeasterly side of said Woburn Street to Fletcher Avenue, as laid out by the Board of Selectmen, November 23, 1926, and shown on a cer- tain plan on file in the Town Clerk's Office, entitled, "Plan showing Proposed Building Line on Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, from. Woburn Street to Meriam Street, September 3, 1926. Seale 1 inch 40 feet, Clarence B. French, Town En- gineer.'' Art. 7. On motion of Howard S. O. Nichols, it was unan- imously, Voted: That the School Committee be authorized to con- struct smoke screens to protect the present stairways of the Hancock School Building, substantially in accord with the plans presented, and that for the purpose of this construction, the sum of $2200.00 be appropriated and transferred from the Gen- eral Revenue and Surplus Account. Art. 8. On motion of Theodore A. Custance, it was unan- imously, Voted: That the sum of $360. be transferred from Gen- eral Revenue and Surplus Account to pay the damages allowed by the County Commissioners in the decree for the widening of North Hancock Street dated October 9, 1923. Art. 9. On motion of Theodore A. Custance it was unan- imously, Voted: That the Selectmen be instructed to furnish snow plow service in the following unaccepted streets: Balfour 86 ANNUAL. H}:t'ORrs Street; ilarbell Street; Manning Street; Laconia Street; Bert - well Road; Dexter Road; Harding Road; Simonds Road; Dee Road; Gleason Road and Fuller Road. Art. 10. On motion of Theodore A. Custance it was unan- imously. Voted : 'That the Board of Selectmen be authorized to furnish snow plow service in unaccepted streets wherever they deem necessary. Art. 11. On motion of Theodore A. Custance it was Voted: !That the Selectmen be instructed to install street lights in the following unaccepted streets: Harding Road Dee Road Simonds Road Gleason Road Bertweil. Road Dexter Road Outlook Drive Downing Road Prospect Hill Road Wachusett Drive Fair Oaks Drive Balfour Street llarhell Street Webb Street Farmerest Avenue Kendall Road Hill Top Avenue Wallis Court Greenwood Street Mantling Street Art. 12. Under this article William R. S. Eaton offered the following motion: Voted: That the Board of Selectmen be instructed to in- stall thirty-five 1000 candle power street Lights on Massachu- setts Avenue between Woburn and Meriam Streets to replace the present street Lights of 125 candle power. After discussion of this artiele a rising vote was taken, 42 voting in the affirmative and 56 in the negative. The motion was lost. Art. 13. Under this article Frederiek L. Emery offered the following motion : That the Town amend the Zoning By -Law and Zoning Map adopted March 17, 1924, by creating a new business district comprising the following lot of land: situated at the Easterly corner of the junction of Massachusetts Avenue and Marrett Street, said lot is owned by Catherine F. Herbert and is hounded as follows: Beginning at a County bound on said Massachusetts Ave- nue and running Southerly on a curve to a County bound on TOWN OF LEXINGTON 87 said Marrett Street about fifty (50) feet thence along said Marrett Street southeasterly one hundred (100) feet thence turning and running Northeasterly one hundred (100) feet to a point thence turning and running Northwesterly about seventy (70) feet to said Massachusetts Avenue thence turning and running about seventy-five (75) feet along said Massachu- setts Avenue to point begun at, be said measurements more or less, or act in any manner relating thereto. Mr. Emery stated that the Planning Board were not in favor of creating this business district. A rising vote was taken 7 voting in the affirmative and 64 in the negative. The motion was declared lost. Art. 14. On motion of Theodore A. Custance, it was, Voted: That the Town reimburse William H. Andrews the sum of $257.51 and William F. Morang the sum of $300 for water pipe laid in Highland Avenue in 1919 and 1921 and that said sums be paid from the Water Construction Account. The meeting dissolved at 9:52 P. M. A true record, Attest : .Joni H. KANE, Town. Clerk. APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE Town of Lexington 1926 Report TO THE VOTERS OF THE TOWN How Each $35.70 Was Spent in 1925 Departmental revenue has been appropriately credited. TOWN OF 1,RC1NGTON [ COMM I'1" 1'EE REPORTS] APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE TOWN OF LEXINGTON 1926 REPORT 89 APPROPRIATIONS 1925 1926 Appropriated Spent Asked Approved Received & Transferred ART. 4 Memorial Day ........ ART. 5 School almshouse Outside Poor Highway Maintenance Street bights Fire Department Anpropriatlon Com Public Parks ')'own Engineer's Dept. Mink Inspector Plumbing inspector Inspector of Slaughtering April 19th Celebration :Street Signs Cemeteries (Munroe (Westview =250.00 $250.00 $157,800.00 1,760.00 7,000.00 46,798.32 16,680.00 20,750.00 150.00 7,000.00 7,000.90 400.00 750.00 ;157,192.08 1,078.251 9,988.16) 48,677.71 16,357.95 20,639.09 128.94 6,988.16 0,997.48 399.12 750.00 600.00 600.00 15.389.80 6,948.93 200.00 131.17 1,561.00 1,549.40 5.048,43 4,265.38 ;250.00 $250.00 $179,839.00 $179,899.00 0 0 9,000.00 9,800.00 52,000.00 45,900.00 18,400.00 18,400.00 28,996.00 26,400.00 150.00 150.00 5,700.00 4,700.00 7,600.00 7,600.00 750.00 450.00 1,200.00 820.00 600.00 600.00 500.00 500.00 200.00 200.00 1,567.00 1,500.00 2,500.03 1,509.00 'Poral Art. 5 $238,177.55 6277,687.12 $100,802.00 $297,454.00 SC'IIOOLS : Due to the Normal increase in the school popula- tion and the opening, of the New High School Building, it is the opinion of this committee that the amount requested is ifieti. OUTSIDE AID: The Almshouse has been discontinued, the four inmates now being hoarded at Somerville. Their expense this year appears as an item in the department of outside aid and combined with additional demands for assistance explains the increased amount asked. 90 ANNUAL REPORTS HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE: We recommend appropriation of $45,000 for this department from which we believe it should be able to carry on its regular maintenance work and purchase additional needed equipment including a 8111811 roll- er, a light truck and one half the Bost of a 5 -ton tractor. The other half of the cost of the tractor together with a plow we believe should be charged to snow removal account. FIRE : The request for additional appropriation of $8.246 by the fire department this year is accounted for mainly by a proposed increase in the pay of regular and call men to be re- troactive to Jan. lst, 1926 and by an amount of $1.600 for hose. The regular men request $6.00 per day and are now receiving $5.00 a day. An increase to $125. from $100 per year is being asked for call men with an increase to $137. from $100. per year for lieutenant. and $150. from $100. per year for a captain. It. is the recommendation of this Committee that the sum of $26,400 be appropriated for this department -which should be sufficient to increase the pay of the regular men to $5.50 per day ($2,007.50 per year) and to increase the pay of call men and their officers as requested provided the new schedules begin after April lst, 1926. MATTJRING DEBT: We recommend that the maturing debt be taken care of by voting a transfer of $30,000.00 from Gen- eral Revenue and Surplus Account and the application of the unexpended balance of $892.19, the remainder to be appro- priated and assessed. POLICE: The request for additional appropriation of $5,300 by the Police Department is accounted for mainly by an in- crease in the number of patrolmen and by a proposed in- crease in the pay of Chief and patrolmen to be retroactive to Jan. tat, 1926, although there was an item for special police of $2,100 in last year's budget which has been omitted this year. The patrolmen, ask for an increase to $6.00 per day and $2,600, per year is requested for salary of chief. It is the recommendation of this committee that the sum of $23,500 be appropriated for this department which should be sufficient to increase the pay of the patrolmen to $5.50 per day ($2,007.50 per year) and to increase the pay of the Chief from..$2,100. to $2,400. per year, provided the new schedules begin after April lst, 1926. TOWN OF LEXINGTON 91 SELECT11EN: The increase in the amount approved by this department is accounted for by the addition of a clerk. We are advised that this clerk will not only assist the selectmen but will act as an assistant to the Collector so that someone shall at all times be on duty in the collector's office, and shall devote full time if necessary in assisting the collector during the fall months. SNOW AND ICE: We are informed that storms to date will entail an expenditure after all bills are paid of about $18,000. We recommend that $25,000 be appropriated for this depart- ment epartment to provide for snow removal during the remainder of 1926 and for the purchase of a five -ton tractor and plow, the cost of the tractor to be shared as explained under Highway Maintenance. 1925 1926 Alal»'nlat'iAted Spent Asked Approved Her ei\-ed & Transferred Art. 6 Treasurer ;865,00 1858.92 $860.00 ;060,00 Town Clerk 2,012.00 1,832.31 1,850.00 1,850.00 Collector 2,550.00 2,518.74 3,425.00 2,425.00 Elections & Registration 650.00 570.86 1,450.00 1,450.00 Town Hall ................ 4,500.00 4,427.80 4,700,00 4,500.00 Hydrants Renta/ 2,610.00 2,610.00 2,860.00 2,860.00 Village Hall (Fire Sta.) 700.00 554.80 800.00 700.00 Sealer of Wts. & Meas, 350.00 348.06 370.00 370.00 Forest Fires 725.00 559.11 575.00 325.00 Dog Officer 50.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 Hastings Park ,,...,, 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 Inspector of Cattle 200.00 200.00 200.00 200.00 dental Clinic 1,600.00 1,498.18 1,500.00 1,500.00 Vital Statistics ..,,.,50.00 22.75 50.00 50,00 Water Troughs 100.00 300.00 100.00 100.00 Soldiers' Burial 100.00 100.00 100.00 Soldiers' Relief 300.00 180.00 300.00 300.00 Military Aid 100.00 30.00 100.00 100.00 Admin. of Trust Funds 75.00 65.00 85.00 88.00 State AId 500.00 390.00 500.00 500.00 Town Physician 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 Interest 34,900.00 34,190412 32,200.00 37,200.00 Maturing Debt 97,392.19 96,500.00 96,007.81 98,607.81 Pollee Department 21,200.00 20.456.66 26,500.00 23,500.00 Libraries 8,860.00 8,848.30 9,536.50 9,636.50 Supt. of Public Works 4,350.00 4,224.13 4,350.00 4,350.00 Insurance 10,818.14 10,806.67 5,300.00 5,300.00 Town Accountant .. 2,650.00 2,590.75 3,150.00 2,850.00 Assessors 4,250.00 4,246.84 4,280.00 4,280.00 Selectmen 2,850.00 2,831.07 3,500.00 3,600.00 Health 2,500.00 1,646.97 2,500,00 2,500.00 Law 1,500.00 1,059.39 1,000.00 1,000.00 Unclassified 200.00 21.59 200.00 200.00 Shade Trees 1,500.00 1,476.99 1,500.00 1,000.00 92 ANNUAL REPORTS Snow and Ice Building Inspector Treas. Cary Mem. L1- brary Sundries: Mary Chir.holm Town Report 7,350.00 6,275.63 25,000.00 25,000.00 780.00 777.04 1,250.00 970.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 530.00 530.00 290.00 290.00 1,500.00 1,321.85 1,700.00 1,700.00 Total Art. 6 ........ ....1221,212.33 1214,781.55 ;242,894.31 $287,064.20 1925 1926 Appropriated Spent Aslted Approved Received & Transferred A.U.T. '7 Sidewalks 12,000.00 6896.79 $2,000.00 $1,000.00 ART. H 2loth and Insect $4,500.00 84,480.94 84,500.00 34,000.00 ART. 9 Vet'ns' (Town) Penalons 31,225.00 $1,224.90 61,225.00 $1,225.00 ART. 10 Reserve Fund 82,500.00 1225.00 12,500.00 12,500.00 ART. 11 Pensions (Police) 1870.00 $066.91 1870.00 6870.00 ART. 13 Middlesex Co. Ext. Service ART. 14 Sewer Maintenance 1300,00 $500.00 $300.00 1300.00 36,96I.35 $4,572.49 0 0 u ART. 12 Lowering Brooks .... 3448.89 $410.88;10,000.00 This committee recommends that a committee of 5 be appointed to investigate deepening and widening of brooks, more particularly, Vine Brook and its tributaries. One member of this Committee to be Town Engineer. The Committee instructed to report at next 'Town bleeting, and that no funds be appropriated until Committee has so reported. ART. 33 School Construction $257,218,30 $309,892.21 113,000.00 111,500.00 This committee is advised that the additional sum of 113,000. to complete the egnipment and grading at the New High School con- tains an item of $000. for miscellaneous and an Item of $1,000. for shrubs which we believe can be omitted this year. We therefore recommend 111,500. under this article ART. 23 Fire Alarm Connection with Arlington $080.00 $980.00 ART. 24 Fire Alarm Boxes 1875.00 6675.00 ART. 2.7 Chase Ave. 11,450,00 11,450.00 This committee approves construction of Chase Ave. from Taft Ave. to Tucker Ave., as laid out by the Selectmen provided the work is carried out under the Betterment Act, and the money is appropriated and assessed. Alis'. 28 Print town By -Laws ;150.00 $150.00 ART. 31 Oakmnniit Circle 51,900.00 $1,900.00 The Committee approves construction of Oak Mount Circle for a dist- ance of approximately 550 feet as laid out by the Selectmen pro- vided the work la carried out under the Betterment Act, and the money is appropriated and assessed. ART. 32 Wire Inspection Dept.: This Committee recommends that the question of establishing a wire inspection department together TOWN OF LEXINGTON 93 with its organisation, fees and probable cost and revenue to the Town be referred to the Selectmen for further study and considera- tion. ART. 331 34; 3..1; New Highway Construction $20,000.00; $19,901.12 ;25,000.00 $20,000.00 This committee recommends the expenditure of $20,000. for new high- way construction but does not advise construction on Lowell street this year. As expressed in our 1925 report we believe that the Town should :pend this amount every year for new construction until the highways are in such shape that they can be maintained more eco- nomically than under the present system. ART. MI Waltham St. (takings) $4,914,90 This committee does not believe that they are in a position to ap- prove or disapprove this payment which has to do with taking of land for the widening of Waltham St. from Masa. Ave. to Forest St. ART. 3; Bon' St. Widening: Regardless of the general merits of this request, we do not recommend any expenditure for this purpose this y -ear, in view of other large and necessary expenditures it does not seem to us that this work can be classed 0.5 an immediate necessary, and we therefore recommend indefinite postponement, ART. 38 Trarfie Signals $2,900.00 'We ole advised that the 10 signals end 10 reflectors were installed on approval. We recommend that this matter be referred to a committee of three to he appninted by the Moderator and to report at tie next Town Meeting. Ari'1'. 315 Water Extensions (Bands) !IRT. 411; 4I; 42 Sewer Extension (Bonds) ART. 44 Bedford St. Widening (indemnity) ;11,500.00 ;40,000.00 $100.00 $11,500.00 $10,000.00 $100.00 SUMMARY If the voters abide by the recommendations of the Appro- priation Committee, the tax rate of 1926 as near as we can es- timate will be $34,70 (per thousand, which is only a reduction of *1.00 below last year. We were governed in our actions in the belief that it was the desire of the town to substantially 94 ANNUAI, REPORTS reduce the tax rate this year. In our opinion it would have been possible to have reduced the rate by $2.00, had it not been for the abnormal increase in snow removal account. Respectfully submitted, FRANCIS CHAMBERLAIN, Chaironan, JAMES G. ROBERTSON, S. LEWIS BARBOUR, CHRISTOPHER S. RYAN, CALVIN W. CHILDS, G. WALDO PROCTOR, FRED W. MILLER, ROBERT J. FAWCETT, WILLIAM R. S. EATON, Secretary, Appropriation Committee. TOWN' Or LEXINGTON 9:3 ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE ACCEPTED BY THE TOWN in 1926 C`1IA]'TER 31. SECTION 49, GENERAL LAWS. A('CEl"l'ED) MAR -CII ]5, 1926. SEc•rroti 49. This chapter and the rules made hereunder shall apply to superintendents, chiefs of police and chief mar- shals in eities which have accepted chapter four hundred and sixty-eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and eleven in the manner therein provided, and in towns which have a police force ssiibjeet to this chapter, and which have accepted said chap- ter, four hundred and sixty-eight, or accept this section, by vote at an annual town meeting. ('}IAPTER 221, ACTS AND RESOLVES OF 1926. ACCEPTED MAY 12, 1926. AN AUT To change the Method and R -ate of Sewer Assess- ments in the Town of Lexington. "BE IT ENA(" EE I) BY THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN GENERAL COURT ASSEMBLED, ANI) BY TILE AUTHORITY OF THE SAME, AS FOL- LOWS: SEC'T'ION 1. Chapter three hundred and twenty- two of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirteen is hereby amended by striking out section one and inserting in place there- of the following: SECTION 1. Whenever sanitary sewers are constructed in the town of Lexington in accordance with the provisions of chapter five hundred and four of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, as amended, fifty per cent o£ the cost, as hereinafter defined, of such sewers shall be as- sessed upon the estates specially benefited thereby. "Sanitary sewers", as used herein, shall mean all sewerage works and ap- purtenances except those constructed solely for the drainage of surface water and except works connecting estates with sewers. "Cost", as used in this section, shall be determined by multiplying the Length of sewer pipe laid in such sanitary sewer by a unit of cost per linear foot obtained by dividing the actual cost of all sanitary sewers constructed in the said town within the five years next preceding the date of completion of such sanitary sewer by the actual number of linear ft. of sewer pipe, 96 A.NNUAr, Rur'onrs other than pipes connecting estates with sewers, laid in said town during said five years. The cost shall be determined by the board of selectmen. Said board shall apportion the said fifty per cent of the said eosst upon the estates that they shall determine to be specially benefited in the proportions which the area of each such estate, for a depth not to exceed one hundred and twenty- five feet, bears to the total area included in the calculation, but the entire estate shall he subject to the lien for such assessment. No land shall be taxed or assessed hereunder more than once. No assessment hereunder shall be levied upon any estate or part thereof which by reason of its grade or otherwise cannot be drained into such new construction until such incapacity has been removed. No assessment shall exceed the amount of the special benefit to the estate assessed. No drain or sewer from an estate or part of an estate not. already assessed or not at the time liable to assessment as herein provided shall be entered into a common sewer except upon the payment of such an as- sessment or charge and upon such other terms and conditions as the board of selectmen shall determine. The prnvisions of chapter eighty of the General Laws relative to the apportion- ment, division, reassessment, abatement and collection of as- sessments, and to interest, shall apply to assessments made under this act. SECTION 2, This act shall, for the purpose of its submis- sion for acceptance, take effect. upon its passage and shall take full effect upon its acceptance within two years after its pas- sage by a majority of the voters of the town of Lexington voting thereon at a town meeting, and it shall apply to all sanitary sewers, as defined in section one, constructed in said town after the date of such acceptance." AMENDMENT TO THE SEWER ACTS A report relative to the acceptance of an Act altering the method of assessing sewer costs whereby the Town may receive a more just and equitable share of the cost of sewer construction in return for the privileges and benefits thereby extended to property owners. At the March 'l'own Meeting the Selectmen were requested by unanimous vote to urge the passage of an amendment to the Sewer Aet. Such amendment to provide for a change in the method and rate of sewer assessments in Lexington so as to lessen the burden upon the Town as a whole and to increase the amounts to be paid by those especially benefited by sewer con- struction. In view of this action by the voters, all sewer work contemplated for the present yearhasbeen held in abeyance TOWN OF LEXINGTON 97 that it might be carried out under the new and more favorable terms, if the act upon its passage, should be accepted by the Town. The Legislature has since passed, and the Governor has signed, the act, entitled chapter 221 acts of 1926, in substanti- ally the form read to the voters at the March meeting. It is now presented to the citizens for immediate acceptance under Article 2 of this warrant in order that necessary construction may be undertaken without further delay. The existing law provides that, irrespective of the total cost of any given construction or extension, the property especi- ally benefited is taxed only 50 cents per running front foot, or a $1,00 per running foot of sewer pipe, if the assessments upon both sides the street are considered. The method of assessment recommended for adoption provides that the property benefited must bear one-half the total cost and that said one-half shall be assessed upon a basis of area instead of upon frontage, The present law, while simple in principle and while fairly equitable at the time of its adoption, when construction eosts were much lower than at present, carries no provision for meeting increased cost of construction and, as a consequence, in recent years the cost to property owners directly benefited has remained at the low figure of 50 cents per front foot, while the cost to the Town; reflected in the tax rate, has very greatly in- creased. The original installment of sewers in 1915 and 1916 cost about $104,000.00 of which about $60,000.00 was for the trunk line and $44,000.00 for the street sewers in the center of the Town. Few assessments were possible with respect to the trunk line because the cost of that construction, was properly assumed by the Town. Of the remaining $44,000.00, which was for street sewers, as to which abutting land owners received the principal benefits, the Town recovered by assessment practically $13,000.00 or less than one-third. The Town records show that, during the years 1921 to 1925 inclusive the Town laid 10,417 feet of sewer mains, at an actual cost of $48,384.00. Of this cost, the abutters, assessed at the rate of 50 cents per front foot, contributed but $7,756.00 only about 17 % of the actual cost. There can be no question but what this contribution was much less than the fair share of the entire cost that should have been borne by those property own- ers who especially benefited by the sewer construction and far below what the citizens must have intended when the 1915 plan was adopted. 98 ANNUAL REPonrs Had the method of assessing provided for in the new act been in force during this five-year period, the actual cost of sewer construction during that period, $48,384.00. would have been equally divided between the Town and the specially bene- fited property owners and would have shown a saving to the Town and to its general taxpayers, of approximately $16,00000. The prososed method of assessment of the construction cost which is to be divided between the Town and the abutting own- ers is not necessarily the actual cost of the particular piece of work, because that mightnot he entirely fair and equitable, since it would permit some owners in an area where construct- ion was particularly easy and inexpensive to escape with an abnormally low cost considering benefits received, whereas others in a limited district where the construction costs might be excessively heavy—as, for instance, where continuous blasting through ]edge would be necessary,—would be burdened with an abnormally, high cost for like benefits received : nor would it be fair, in the midst of a brief period of higrh Iabor costs, to re- quire those obliged to install sewers during such periods, to pay for the temporarily excessive costs so incurred. Accordingly the new act provides that the cost of construction of every sewer extension shall be determined by multiplying the length of the sewer pipe to be laid by a unit of cost per linear foot obtained by dividing the actual cost of all sewers constructed in the Town during the five years next preceding the date of completion of the new construction, by the number of linear feet of sewer pipe laid during those five years. This will furnish a unit of cost which is an average over the preceding five years, under the varying conditions that may be obtained during such years, and may be assumed fairly to reflect any gradual change in cost of labor and materials, unaffected by local fluctuations due to temporary conditions. Thus any section of the Town in which the sewer is extended under the new act, would very properly be required to pay its proper part of the generally increased costs of construction, including both labor and material, current at the time, but would not be penalized by being charged with any purely local and temporary excess cost. So the Town, on the one hand, is assured a fair and equit- able proportion of rising costs from year to year, and the individ- ual property owner, on the other hand, is protected against an unfair charge due to purely local conditions existing only in his immediate neighborhood. The following example will illustrate the operation of the existing method of assessment as compared with the proposed method: The records of the Town show that the average cost TOWN of LEXINGTON 99 per foot of sewer work during the five-year period 1921 to 1925 inclusive was $4.64. Let us assume a piece of property having a street frontage of 100 feet and a depth of 125 feet. Adopting $4.64, the average for 5 years, as the unit of cost per linear foot of new construction, it would cost $464.00 to construct a sewer in front of the assumed piece of property (100 x $4.64 which equals $464.00) Under the existing plan an assessment of 50 cents per front foot (100 x 50 cents equals $50.00) would be levied upon the lot and a like assessment would be levied upon the corresponding lot on the opposite side of the street, conse- quently a total of $1.00 per foot of sewer, or $100.00 in all would be collected from abutting owners. Each of the owners of the abutting lots would pay $50.00, a total of $100.00, and the Town would pay the balance, $364.011 ($464.00—$100.00 equals $364.00). Thus the two abutting land owners would together pay a little over 20% of the cost of the 100 feet of new con- struction and the Town world pay a little under 80%. Under the proposed plan of the new act, one-half the total cost of extending the sewer past the assumed lot would be as- sessed as follows : the total cost being $464.00 one half this amount or $232.00 would be assessed upon the two lots on op- posite sides of the street, each lot owner paying $116.00, and the Town would be called to bear $232.00, the remaining half of the cost of construction, instead of $364.00, as under the pres- ent. method. 'Thus the Town, under the new plan, would gain toward a reduction of saxes $132.00 with respect to each hun- dred linear feet. of sewer constructed as compared with the pres- ent method. Any abutter who might be inclined to feel that, under this proposed method of assessing sewer betterments, he would be called upon to pay too large a share of the construction costs, should remember that, while the immediate cost to him would be more tinder the proposed act than under the existing plan, he and every other taxpayer would be automatically relieved of an unjust share of construction cost that, under the present plan, is borne by the Town and paid for by him and other tax- payers in the shape of increased annual taxes. As a matter of fact, therefore, the abutters whose properties are especially ben- efited by sewer construction would not, in the long run, pay much more under the proposed plan than under the existing plan, while those who live remote from the sewer district and who may never be called upon to pay for special benefits re- ceived by sewers passing their properties, will save very sub- stantially under the reduced rate of taxes. 100 ANNUAL REPORTS Acceptance of the proposed plan will effect a saving to the taxpayer of about $1.00 on the tax rate for the present year, and savings will be effected in every subsequent year where sewer extensions are made. The importance of the proposed change becomes strikingly apparent when it is realized that, according to the estimates of the Town Engineer, the citizens of Lexington 'will be called upon to expend, in the next 20 years, from $250,000.00 to $300,000.00 for sewer extensions, and the difference between a betterment assessment of 20% or less upon specially benefited property as at present, and 50% under the proposed plan,; will mean about *90,000.00 in taxes saved in the next 20 years. In our opinion, the acceptance of this amendatory act offers a solution of what has been a constantly vexatious problem, a solution clearly due the Town as a whole, and fair to the in- dividual property owners. We urge its adoption at the coming Town Meeting. THEODORE A. CUSTANCE, CHARLES H. MILES, ALBERT H. BURNHAM, .TAMES G. ROBERTSON, WILLIAM H. BALLARD. Board of Selectmen. CHAPTER 263, ACTS AND RESOLVES OF 1926 ACCEPTED MAY 12, 1926 AN ACT RELATIVE TO IMPROVING THE SURFACE AND GROUND DRAINAGE IN THE TOWN OF LEXINGTON AND IN ADJOINING TOWNS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The town of Lexington, for the purposes of surface and ground drainage and the protection of the public health in said town, may, by its board of selectmen, from time to time improve the brooks, streams and water courses in said town by removing obstructions in or over the same, by widening or deepening the channels or by constructing new channels, by diverting the water, by altering the courses, by converting, wholly or in part, any such brook, stream or water course, whether in its original channel or after the alteration of the course of the same, into a covered conduit, or in any other man- ner; may conduct the water of any such brook, stream or water course through pipes, covered conduits or open channels; may TOWN of LExINGTON 101 by the construction of drains or otherwise, divert any surface or ground water into any brook, stream, pipe, conduit or chan- nel; may conduct any brook, stream or drain across, along or under any railroad or street railway location, or across, along or under any way, without unnecessarily obstructing the same; and, for the purposes aforesaid, may from. time to time purchase or take, in fee simple or otherwise, land or any right or ease- ment in land, including any brook, stream, pond or water course, or any part thereof; may lay out and construct such walks or ways thereon or in connection therewith as the selectmen may deem neee.sary or desirable for the public convenience; may, from time to time, with or without the permission of the owner and with or without first making a taking of the right so to do, enter upon any land and make surveys or tests, or clear of ob- st.ructiovs any brook, stream or water course, which the select- men may deem necessary or desirable for said purposes; and, for the purposes of this act, may enter into any contracts or agreements with any person sir corporation. The fact that a brook, stream or water couroc is dry for a portion or portions of a given year shall not operate to remove it from the operation of this section. SECTION 2. Said town, for the purposes and in the manner provided in section one, may exercise in any other town or city with respect to a brook, stream or water Course which flows therein from or to the town of Lexington, and with respect to the waters thereof, any or a].1 of the powers which said section one confers with regard to operations in the town of Lexington; provided, that before taking such action it shall obtain the con- sent. of such other town or of the mayor and aldermen of any such city. Srr'CIoN 3. The proceedings under the provisions of the preceding sections for the taking of any land, easement or right shall he had, and all claims for damages sustained by any such taking or by any other act done under authority hereof shall be aseertained and recovered from said town of Lexington, as pro- vided in chapter seventy-nine of the General Lars. SECTION 4. Betterments for any public improvement herennder may be assessed in aeeordanee with chapter eighty of the General Laws. S1:CrloN 5. No land, water rights or other rights shall be purchased or taken as herein authorized until an appropriation has been made sufficient in amount to cover the estimated cost thereof. 102 ANNUAL REPORTS SECTION 6. If, in the opinion of the selectmen of said town, it is at any time not necessary for the town to retain the whole of the land easements or water rights which may in any given case have been purchased or taken for the purposes of this act, so much of said land easements or water rights as in their opinion are no longer necessary for the town to retain may be sold and conveyed•by the town; provided, that such sale is authorized by vote of a majority of the voters of the town present and voting thereon at a town meeting duly called for the purpose. SECTION 7. No person shall, without lawful authority, disturb, injure or destroy any work of said town constructed or maintained for the purposes of this act, nor, pollute the waters of any brook, stream, water course, drain, conduit or channel in said town, nor put or maintain any obstruction therein. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprison- ment in a jail or house of correction for not. more than three months, or both. SECTION S. For the purpose of submission to the voters of said town, this act shall take effect upon its passage, and itshall take full effect upon its acceptance by vote of a majority of the voters of said town present and voting thereon at a town meeting. Chap. 263, Section 2. Approved April 20, 1926. Tow OF LEXINGTON 103 REPORT OF THE TOWN CLERK Number of Dog Licenses Issued Number of Citizen's Sporting Licenses Issued Number of Adult's Trapping Licenses Issued Number of Minor's Trapping Licenses Issued Number of Alien Sporting Licenses Issued JOHN H. KANE, Town Clerk. 627 230 6 17 1 104 ANNUAL REPORTS BIRTHS RECORDED FOR THE YEAR 1926 Whole Number Recorded 154 No noes Parents JANUARY 9 William Leroy Perry William W. and Letitia (McKinney) Perry 10 Barbara Lee Olsen Manfred and Tynne (Hansen) Olsen 10 Frances Rita Walsh Patrick and Annie (Coyne) Walsh 13 Ruth Hazel Page Vernon C. and Florence (Peckham) Page 14 Eleanor Frances Conway James P. and Margaret F. (Hegarty) Conway 15 Bernard W. and Mildred F. (Connor) Foley 17 David Nickels Hayden Arthur H. and Virginia (Jennison) Hayden 18 Marie Elizabeth Gould Charles E. and Helen E, (Turner) Gould 19 Elizabeth l5velyn Wood Ronald H. and Mildred (Mandigo) Wood 26 L1ayd Thomas Baylis Thomas W. and Elsie (Birch) Baylis 29 Harriet Spencer Stanley L. and Lois P. (Howland) Spencer 31 Albert Carmine Cuclhinello Carmine and Mary (DeFelice) Cuchincllo FEBRUARY J Itobert Marlin Emil W. and Mabel (Gregory) Martin 4 John Jame, Grammer Jame; T. and Catherine (Sweeney) Grammer 7 Winifred Marion Caldwell Aubrey R. and Sadie (Champion) Caldwell 10 Palmer Jiampa Marco and Mary (Comeiro) Jiampa 12 Mary Anne Fullerton James and Mary (McLaughlin) Fullerton 12 Fred Weston Doughty George H, and Edna (Sargent), Doughty 13 Joseph Charles Champion John and Mary (Carmo) Champion 14 Jean Oldford George E. and Julia (McAuliffe) Oldford 15 Jean Louise Jones George E. and Marion (Burke) Jones 15 Carmelo Catino Tony and Mary (BonfiLio) Catino 20 William Michael Butler Michael and Helen (McGrath) ButIer 22 George Washington Saunders. Jr, George W. and Florence E, (Dill) Saunders 25 Rosemary Jackson Hiram W., Jr. and Dorothy (Collieson) Jackson TOWN OF LEXINGTON 105 27 Ruth Mansfield Thomas E. and Elizabeth (Watt) Mansfield 28 Augelina Guisaeppifa Busa Frank and Rosana (Marline) Busa 4 Doris Marie Dooley 4 William Albert Johns 6 Arnold Milton Chernoff Ber 7 Richard Irving Battis 14 Ruth Margaret King 14 Ralph Neilson 15 Barbara Anne Collins 18 Frederick Ellis Tomlin 18 Marjorie Jean Porter 19 Rosalina Galvagno 21 24 Helen Carolyn Gott 25 Michaele Mercadante 26 Russell John Armstrong 27 William WheIden Doc MARCH Henry P. and Frances (Bogush) Dooley William A. and Agatha (Gibson) Johns nard S. and Florence (Lapidus) Chernoff Floyd R. and Myrtle E. (Davis) Battls Louis C. and Mary M. (Kenney) King Ralph and Mary I. (Welton) Neilson William G. and Rena M. (Wilson) Collins Gurley E. and Bessie L, (Libby) Tomlin William B. and Jennie (Given) Porter Carmelo and Algera (Geunna) Galvagno Chester and Helen (Schieb) Gott Antonio and Angela (Tyrone) Mercadante Silas J, and Anna (Corbett) Armstrong Francis D. and Julia (Wheldcn) Doe APRIL 1 Richard Bradford Hathaway Raymond W. and Grace (Sweet) Hathaway Michael J. and Sara (Belson) Britt Henry E. and Clara (Wolfe) Lowe 1 Helen Britt 5 Dori,: Nellie Love. 7 Frederick Brings James, Jr. Frederick B. and Elizabeth R. (Tyler) James 14 Alvin Rnaert Belahin Joseph and Gussie (Bornstein) Belshin 14 Eleanor Mary Moore Philip E. and Philomena (Staelens) Moore 15 Mario Ethr] Winship Leslie V. and Edna .T. (Dodge) Winship 18 Ruth Elizabeth MaePlice Alva and Vera (Steele) MacPhee 23 Richard Avery Mayo, Robert D. and Pauline M. (Avery) Mayo 29 30 4 7 9 14 17 24 27 Monica Cotter John M. and Bridget (Coreoran) Cotter Dorothy May Rosa Vincent AIIen Baker Calvin Lee Speer Charles Francis William Carote MAY Albert G. and Altec E. (Sim) Rosa Maurice V, and Evelyn A. (Denison) Baker Henry A. and Alice G. (Lee) Speer Tony and Theresa Carote Helen Adrian Nerecsian Simeon and Julia (Karlsos) Nersesian Norbert Francis Robertie John A. and Margaret M. (Cody) Robertle Sabatino and Annie (Boggio) lodice 29 Alfred Iodice 106 ' ANNUAL REPORTS 30 Nicholas Morello 31 Thomas Edward Neal Emilo and Pasqualene (Rosetta) Morello Frank and Margaret M. (Doherty) Neal JUNE 5 Edward Husted Aage and Marie (Christiansen) Husted 7 10 Gloria Mamie Interante Michael and Mary (Loceino) Interante 16 Charles William Durkin Robert E. and Elizabeth (Savage) Durkin 16 Virginia Marie Cook Roy A. and Marion (Gavin) Cook 17 Robert Edwin Burbidge John E. and Helen H. (Ducey) Burbidge 17 June EIizabetlh Merrick Gordon and Viola (Vernon) Merrick 20 Eleanor Margaret Doherty John C. and Margaret (Murray) Doherty 24 Robert West Booth William A. and Julia (Bur•Iingame) Booth 25 Mary Simone Boyer Wilfrid and Emma (Barriere) Boyer 30 Robert Wingate Pike Franklin H. and Alice (Smith) Pike JULY 2 John G. and Dorothy M. (Collins) Berg 9 Albert and l xarina (Barrier) Boyer 13 June Grafton LaPorte Harry E. and Gertrude (Grafton) LaPorte 14 Calvin Warren Sorenson Harry C. and Marion (Woodward) Sorenson 15 Thomas Dwyer Thomas J. and Helen M. (O'Connor) Dwyer 15 Theresa Dwyer Thomas J. and Helen M. (O'Connor) Dwyer 19 William John MacInnis Daniel A. and Anna (Madden) Machin's 20 Arthur Norman Lee, Jr. Arthur N. and Blanche C. (Thomas) Lee 21 Norman Nathan Resnick Abraham and Belle (Govenar) Resnick 22 Louise Curra Jesse and Mary (Grace) Curra 23 Joseph Thomas McGrath John J. and Gladys I. (Casey) McGrath 25 Shirley BIanche Manning Harold E. and Marguerite E. (Sawa11) Manning 26 Bertha Patricia Frame Vernon R. and Jessie (Carson) Frame 27 Wallace Ellwood Flint Herbert A. and Frances V. (Cobb) Flint 27 Richard Lewis Swinimer Willard 0. and Helen (Burgess) Swinfiner 29 John Ricci, Jr. John and Elsie (English) Ricci AUGUST 1 Ruth Black Charles H. and Ruth V. (Callahan) Black' 6 Beverley Cleare Freeman Daniel H, and Beatrice (Brennanl Freeman 6 Robert Anthony Bartlett William E. and Ella M. (Davis) Bartlett 12 Arthur E. and Mary (Dattoli) Leary TOWN of LExINOTON 107 13 14 Audrey Sherman Winlock Harvey F. and Mabel (Grebenstein) Winlock 14 Dorothy Jean Rose John, Jr. and Dorothy (Murray) Rose 15 Phyllis Emerson Hussey Warren H. and Corrin M. (Emerson) Hussey 19 Sebastiana Marashio Paul F. and Clemendina (Mercadante) Marashio 19 Shirley Etta Rushton Everett and Hilda (Wilson) Rushton 22 Mary Elizabeth Sanseverino Gennaro and Palmina (DeVenegia) Sanseverino 22 David Francis Dickerson Walter W. and Anna (Sullivan) Dickerson 25 Rudolph R. Wallburger, Jr. Rudolph R. and Hilda Wallburger 25 Phyllis Luella Dowling Alton C. and Irma L. (Morang) Dowling 26 Marion Louise Bowman Edwn H. and Lonise T. (Nash) Bowman 3 George Lewis Bai{bour SEPTEMBER 1 Janet Wigging Richard R. and Helen (Wilkinson) Wiggins 7 Jonathan Halos Henry H. and Lois (Henderson) Bales 9 Alice Josephine Morse Frederick and Mary (Barry) Morse 10 Arnold Bernard Portnoy Samuel and Rebecca (Oshinsky) Portnoy 11 Barbara Jean Baker Elvin E. and Josephine (Naylor) Baker 13 Frank Anthony Luciano Anthony and Gladys L. (Acheson) Luciano 15 Mary Bonner Clark Philip M. and Marion B. (Town) Clark 15 Thelma Young Clifford W. and Rose (Lepore) Young 16 Dorothy Graham J. Harold and Julia G. (Carter) Graham 20 Anna Theresa Carr Anthony and Susan (McBride) Carr 21 John William Miskell William H. and Estelle M. (Ballon) Miskell 28 Grace Edith Hodgdon Frank M. and Winona B. (Stone) Hodgdon OCTOBER 3 George Lewis Barbour George M. and Ethel G. (Schnare) Barbour 10 Jacqueline O'Connor John E. and Catherine (MacPherson) O'Connor 11 John Edward Lennon Edward J. and Grace M. (Johnson) Lennon 19 Henry Hamilton Harvey, Jr. Henry H. and Fannie H. (Scahill) Harvey 24 Phylis Marion Tebbetts Ralph W. and Laura M. (Chapin) Tebbetts 25 Ernest Prescott Crozier, Jr. Ernest 1'. and Grace E. (Daggett) Crozier 25 Faith Shirley Parks Joseph A. and Beulah (Dow) Parka 29 Moses Francis Carr Jr. Moses F. and Helen (White) Carr 108 ANNUAL REPORTS 31 Albert Angelo Ross. Jr. Albert A. and Alice M. (Russell) Ross 31 Richard Noah Edmunds Noah G. and Augusta (Collins) Edmunds NOVEMBER 2 Marjorie Holman Walter and Katherine (Ryan) Holman 2 Donald Phelps Merriam Robert C. and Grace (Lippincott) Merriam 4 John Patrick Dailey William J. and Sarah F, (MeCadden) Dailey 5 Lena Ruoceo Joseph and Concetta (Giordano) Ruocco 6 James Everett Cumming John E. and Lillian (Edgett) Cumming 6 Joseph Wyman Moore Robert and Hazel (Sprague) Moore 8 Joan Rudd John J. and Ann. F. (Kelley) Rudd 9 Norma May Nickerson Donald E. and Carolyn (Brainard) Nickerson 18 Beatrice Kew Harold W. and Edith E. (Truesdell) Kew 20 Gerald Alvah Gray Nelson E., Jr. and Genevieve E. (Burnstein) Gray 27 Bernard Belcastro, Jr. Bernard and Veronica V. (Ryan) Beleastro DECEMBER 5 Jean Beverly Grant Ervin L. and Vera J. (Arthur) Grant 6 Edward Christopher Johnson Edward and Mary (McInnis) Johnson 6 9 Katherine Louise Kiuneen Timothy and Martha C. (Barry) Kinneen 13 Robert Gilman Ilorton Lawrence M. and Helen (Swain) Horton 14 Mary Rudd Thomas F. and Mary C. (Conroy) Rudd 14 Ernest and Ch&rlotte (Carpenter) Williams 20 Eleauoi Geneva Knapp Forest and Anna E. (Irwin) Knapp 21 Ruth Archibald EarI S. and Mary (Regan) Archibald 24 Mary C. Eichorn Charles L. and Ruth K. Eichorn a5 Paul Howard Clark, Jr. Paul H. and GIadys L. (Farrell) Clark 27 Anita Jcan Louise Tu€Fin Percy and May (Fudge) Tuliin 30 NichoIae Joseph Dclfino Michael A. and Anna (Moskidel]i) Delfino 31 Conrad James Kit3on Arthur E. and Mabel C. (Page) Kitson TOWN OF LEXINGTON 109 MARRIAGES RECORDED FOR THE YEAR 1926 WHOLE NUMBER RECORDER FOR 1926-86 DATE NAME Jan. 18 William Joseph Dailey Sarah Frances McCadden Feb. 16 John Rose, Jr. Dorothy Frances Murray Mar. 2 John Lawrence Miles Ruth Arminta Benne Mar. 22 John Francis Canessa RESIDENCE Lexington Lexington Lexington Lincoln Lexington Marietta, Obio Providence, R. I. Melitta Marie Wilhelmina, Getss Lexington Apr. 5 Charles Elliot Hadley Gertrude Clark Rideout 5 Harold Walter Kew Edith Elizabeth Truesdell 8 Harold Eugene Cole Elizabeth Adelaide Webster 14 Raymond V. Ramsdell Eerily E. Selmer 16 Warren•B. Cooksey Susan B. V. Peeke 17 Clesson Camilbell Schofield Florence Carol Page 24 Hermano Bettencourt Wilheminia Rego 24 Harold Westhorp Burbidge Marion Gertrude Andrews May 5 Michael Angelo Cardillo Adilino Azatto 11 Alfred J. Forten Rosabel Fardy Lexington Arlington Lexington Lexington Arlington Lexington Lexington Lexington Jamaica Plain Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Arlington Lexington Somerville Lexington Lexington 110 11 16 19 19 22 29 29 June 2 6 10 12 14 17 17 19 19 22 23 26 26 26 27 28 ANNUAL REPORTS Thomas Richard Hale Teresa Gertrude Shaw Denis McLaughlin Kate McLaughlin Everett Zedeska Rushton Hilda Wilson Simon Fraser Fisher Adelaide Iva Geldart James Theron Grammer Catherine Rita Sweeney George Edward Wheatley Arline Georgia Hubbard Guy Edward Dattoli Susie Crupi Ashton Graves Little Mabelle Grant Pattee Louis Cecere Antonetta Frances MongeIli Arthur R. Towle Lavinia J. Allen Titer Kenneth Favor Clarke Kathryn Chase Collieson Francis Peabody Stymest Sadie Mary Richards Friend Wesley Richardson Laura McDonnell (Meadows) Louis Frederick Mongeon Edith Farnell Brooks Franklin Harrison Cameron Rose Frances Bailey Herman Barger Benson Gladys Myrtle Wells Frank Irving Berquist Gladys Pauline Roper Charles Mowry Blake Margaret Calloway McCready Arthur Robinson Mary Ann Brown Fred Ernest Wilson Doris Jean 'IMiacKenzie Fred AIbert Clay Gladys Eliven Buffum Judson Melvin Marion Elizatbeth Welch James Edwin Cook Grace Olive Smith Stoneham Stan ahem Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Somerville Lexington Woburn Lexington Lexington Somerville Lexington Watertown Lexington Belmont Revere Lexington Boston Dorchester Lexington Lexington Lexington Cambridge Lexington Lexington Lexington Newton Medford Lexington Belmont Lexington Lexington Lowell Lexington Winchester, Ky. Lexington Arlington Arlington Lexington Lexington Lexington Arlington Lexington Lexington Everett TOWN OF LEXINGTO 28 William Joseph Hughes Cecelia Helen O'Neil 28 Benjamin Brooks Converse Sally Veronica O'Neil July 10 Harvey Scott Merrill Helen Hutchinson 24 John Wood Mildred Martin Aug. 4 18 18 20 22 28 Reginald Darrell Edna Morley (Dean) Gordon Lincoln Kennedy Alice May Spaulding Rudolph Wallburger Hilda Emma Kuhina William A. Marshall _liargnerite Boudreau John D. McNeil Dorothy Josephine Bartlett Lyle Gardner Banks Eunice Florence Caswell Sept. 1 Robert Thomas Dunham Margaret Elizabeth Thoemmel 2 Welton Raymond Aker Selvia H. Chestley (Farron) 2 John Meandoce Reiss Clarice Emma Campbell 4 Frank L. Cheney Yvonne A. Bass (Coupard) 5 Maurice Francis White Mary Alice Lima 8 John Junior Rogers Mary Richardson Blodgett 11 Walter Harold Malinger Ruth Pingrey Spaulding 12 Roger Clark Chase Elmina Eaton 15 Ervin L. Melvin Esther Lillian Kinsman 21. Dente Roberts Sarah Catherine Klttson 21 Anthony Hudson Maderiaa Catherine Leone Cronan (Rourke) 22 Michael Edward McDonnell Annie Nora Harrington Lexington Lexington Arlington Lexington Lexington Reading Lexington Roxbury Bermuda, B. I. Lexington Arlington Lexington Lexington Lexington Rowley Ipswich Lexington Lexington Boston Lexington Lexington Dorchester Lexington Malden Lincoln Lexington Lexington Lexington Watertown Lexington Arlington Lexington Pittsburgh, Pa. Lexington Royalston Lexington Billerica Billerica Lexington Lexington Lexington Waltham Lexington Lexington 111 112 25 30 Oct. 2 2 6 Oct. 9 9 10 11 12 24 30 Nov. 4 13 14 14 2? 23 25 27 28 ANNUAL REPORTS Christopher Albert Cameron Ada Muriel Childs Joseph Havner Stoney Myrtle Emily Delong Willard Purdy Reade Gertrude Hutchings Warren E. Berquist Esther M. Bell John A MacPhail Marion S. Philips George Gould Whiting Marion Emily Robus Myron Toa ie r Bailey Helen Irene Sumner Malby Vincent Parrish Mildred May Spidel Joseph Leroy Duff Gertrude Mae Hanson Harold Robert Cullivan Mary Margaret Sweeney Francis Eugene Burke Marion Anne O'Connor Robert W. Langill, Jr. Helen Elizabeth Ferri Emilio Capone Nicolina Loungo James F. Kelly Helen Marie Ryan William Hall Shurtleff, Jr. Harriet Henry Neal Bernard Doherty Winifred Carlin Leo Parker Morrissey May Evangeline Comeau Clark Lawson Baker Marjorie Bramhall Walter Abrahamson Elsie O. Stoddard William Bernard Morgan Grace Marie Gillis Fred Trimhold Frances Canisiva John J. Coyne Anne Lynch New York City Lexington Lexington Lexington Lexington Cambridge Lexington Waltham Boston Lexington Lexington Lincoln Arlington Arlington Lexington Lexington Lexington Medford Woburn Lexington Lexington Lexington Arlington Lexington Winchester Lexington Lexington Arlington Lexington Arlington Boston Lexington Medford Lexington AIbany, N. Y. Lexington Lexington Winchester Lexington Dorchester Cambridge Lexington Lexington Lexington TOWN aF Lrfx i NCTON 28 Merl Seth Pratt Ardella Rushwick Dec. 1 22 25 31 Edward T. Harrington Gladys Imogene Terhune Edwin T. Anderson Judith Engeborg Erlandson Louis C. Bentley Barbara M. Howard Herbert Wallace Saul Margaret Nash Abington Abington Lexington Lexington Roston Lexington Lexington Medford Lexington Cambridge 113 114 Ft ANNUAL REPORTS DEATHS RECORDED FOR THE YEAR 1926 Whole number recorded for 1926, including stillbirths recorded as deaths 103 DATE NAME 2 Mathew Schiefen 3 Giragoe S. Ashjian 5 Vincent Diomede 5 Ernest Doyle Fox 5 Leland N. Parker 9 Rosamond Greeley 10 John W. Griffin 11 Mary A. Hogan 14 Michael M. Cox 15 Luise M. Condinho 18 George Walker 20 Ruth Hazel Page 23 Elizabeth S, Parker 25 Isabella Spencer 27 Mary Vollborth 17 Edward D. Sawyer 19 Lizzie Augheaton 20 Harriet M. Watson 1 Anna Elizabeth Watson 2 Edward E. Emery 2 John Joseph McDonnell 2 Helen Britt 5 John Lennon JANUARY AGE y nz d 57 0 0 73 0 0 34 6 18 28 1 2 84 0 18 13 2 17 76 4 1 59 0 0 48 0 0 68 0 0 83 9 10 0 0 7 87 3 30 50 0 0 73 0 20 FEBRUARY BIRTHPLACE Canada Armenia Italy Conn. Ireland Lexington Truro, N. S. Rockland, Me. Canada Azores, Portugal East Exeter, Me. Arlington Lexington So. Boston Ireland 62 5 14 Calais, Me. 74 8 10 London, Eng. 93 10 17 Monhegan Is. Me. MARCH 90 56 38 31 85 5 3 4 0 3 22 0 0 0 0 Phil., Pa. Bar Harbor, Me. Lexington New York, N. Y. Ireland TOWN OF LEXINGTON 13 Melrina M. Cunningham 20 Michael J. McDonnell 20 John Willard Cooke 23 Timothy J. Sullivan 23 Kate Hubbard Cheseldine 25 Ida Johnson 28 Sarah Louise Butters 29 111ary Josephine Bond. 3 William F. Chase 7 Luigi Vitale 8 Marion DeFelice 21 Frances Emma Spencer 22 Charles Edward Child 25 Paul Valliere 25 Mary Jackson 27 William C. Stickel 29 30 Jennie M. Cheney 3 Eva Lassof 3 Eugene Harrison Pattee 8 EIlen Elizabeth Harrington 10 Charles E. Newcomb 14 Frances Stewart Aker 17 Oliver E. Snow 17 17 George C. Hall 24 Catherine Winn 1 John DeVincent 2 Nellie M. Brown 8 Allston M. Redman 9 Thomas H. Hogan 12 John M. Bass 13 Thomas J. Oates 13 Kate A. Smith 16 Clara F. Jones 24 Barbara LeGraw 25 Emma L. Custer y m d 83 7 13 Chesterriile, Me. 66 8 18 England 69 5 9 New Brunswick 45 0 0 Newton 74 1 24 Worthington, Ohio 65 0 0 Sweden 86 8 25 Lexington 65 0 0 St. John, N. B. APRIL 79 0 0 Alabama 62 0 0 Italy 0 7 22 Lexington 94 7 8 Temple, N. H. 8111 4 Boston 9 0 22 Lexington 87 9 0 England 62 9 29 Cambridge 55 1 10 Halifax, N. S. MAY 54 0 0 64 11 26 70 2 23 70 7 13 76 3 0 64 1 10 Russia Springfield Lexington Berwick, Me. Nova Scotia Ifarwich 40 5 6 Sutton, Vt. 54 0 0 Ireland JUNE 115 69 0 0 Italy 65 7 10 Summerside, P. E. 1. 77 4 12 Medford 62 0 0 St. John, N. B. 44 0 0 Canada 69 11 29 England 63 11 19 Barrington, N. S. 59 7 15 Cambridge 1 2 26 Arlington 31 0 14 Butte, Montana 116 ANNUAL REPoRTs 1 Catherine Geary 9 Helen Adrian Nerseslan 9 Benjamin Palermo 13 Edwin F. Fobes 20 George Stanlislaw MacLeod 23 Annie F. Pratt 25 AIice A. Streeter 27 Alice Frances Tyler 13 15 Betty Hooper 21 Ruth Butler 5 Katie J. Learned 10 13 Florence W. Davis 15 Lydia C. H. Dean 27 John W. Drury 28 Maud Virginia Murphy 5 Annie Belie Adair 11 Mary Drummond 25 Charles E. Dale 29 Rudolph Walberger 29 Charles Watt 1 1 4 1.0 14 14 15 I5 17 21. 23 23 26 26 Alfred Crosby JULY y m d 80 0 0 Ireland 0 1 16 Lexington 56 0 0 Italy 69 7 17 Boston 18 0 0 Boston 81 4 15 North Attleboro 65 5 27 Lexington 51 8 1 Randall AUGUST 2 3 22 Woburn 3 2 8 Boston SEPTEMBER 91 1 23 73 10 27 68 5 21 65 0 0 54 1 24 OCTOBER 66 11 18 84 9 11 73 10 15 0 2 4 76 2 17 Orange Lexington Boston Roxbury Gorham, N. H. Lexington Orleans, Mass. Boston Lexington Scotland NOVEMBER 82 6 17 England Margaret Jane Remege Angelica Young John J. Haley Ella E, Morrill Joseph Sewall Kendall Agues E. Fardy Annie Theresa McCormick John Babtiste Bolduc John Buckle Mary Devine Michael Picciani William C. Hubbell 78 9 13 53 1 17 51 0 0 75 5 12 60 4 3 42 7 2 58 0 0 63 0 0 56 4 17 86 0 0 70 0 0 67 4 0 Sussex, N. B, Boston Arlington Boston Boston Arlington Scotland Canada England Ireland Italy New York City, N. Y. TOWN OF LEXINGTON 117 118 ANNUAL REPORT~ DECEMBER y m d 3 Patrick J. Britt 54 0 0 Ireland 6 20 Mary Rudd 6 Lexington 20 August Witthus 73 6 23 Germany 26 Harry E. Chandler 48 7 8 Jamaica Plain 28 Gertrude Maud Brown 20 7 29 Worcester REPORT OF TOWN ENGINEER Lexington, Mass., Dee. 31, 1926. HONORABLE BOARD OF SELECTMEN, LEXINGTON, MAs6. Gentlemen: I herewith submit the following report relative to the activi- ties of the Engineering Department during the year 1926. HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT Estimates were made for the construction of the follow- ing streets with a view to their acceptance in 1927: Taft Avenue from Baker Avenue to Ellis Street. Tower Street from Earle property to Plainfield Street. Farmerest Avenue from Waltham Street to Old Allen Street. Lines and grades were established for: 1. Granolithic sidewalks on both streets at the junction of Massachusetts Avenue and Bow Street, on Bedford Street at the Minute Man Garage, and on Shirley Street at the Perry property. 2. The curbing, and the reconstruction of Massachusetts Avenue at and adjacent to the High School property. . 3. The construction of Chase Avenue, Oakmouut Circle, Bow Street, Cliffe Avenue and Forest Street Extension. 4. The construction of Waltham Street from Concord Avenue to the Waltham -Lexington town line by the County, so the work of the Engineering Department here was to check or replace. CEMETERY DEPARTMENT Additional Iots have been staked out in Westview Cemetery so as to practically complete the present graded area. TOWN OF LEXINGTON 119 ASSESSING DEPARTMENT Two of the men of the Engineering Department were ap- pointed as Assistant Assessors on the first of April and con- tinued to work as such for a period of five weeks. DRAINAGE MATTERS Estimates and plans were made for the installation of the Storm drain in Highland Avenue extending from Bloomfield Street to near Winthrop Road and continuing through private land to the open ditch connecting with Vine Brook, together with supervision of same during the construction period. An extension of the drain in front of the High School, and laterals to same at Slocum Road disposes of the surface water at this particularly flat grade. Before the reconstruction of Waltham Street three culverts of twelve (12) inch corrugated iron pipe were laid two of which replaced old stone culverts. SEWER DEPARTMENT This department required an extensive amount of our time. We were in contact with the construction work practically every day from June until October during which time 10,993 feet of main sewers were laid. Before June, preliminary estimates of costs were made and during the construction period actual monthly estimates were made on the amount of work done for payment to the contractors. The sewer assessment for each indi- vidual owner as determined by the new Sewer and Assessment Bill required more than a knowledge of the frontage of each piece of property, because it is figured upon an area basis. In many instances we have lacked accurate information on differ- ent parcels and have spent considerable time acquiring the cor- rect data. WATER DEPARTMENT During the year a total of 14,494 feet of water mains were laid. locations were staked out for same and in some instances grades were given. A book of gate ties has been completed whieh shows locations of all main gates and some hydrant gates which were installed previous to 1926. Later extensions have been re- corded in note book form, but necessitate further ties to bring the gate book up to date. A few plans have been made of these new extensions wherein a detailed survey was not necessary. 120 ANNUAL REPoRrs PLANNING BOARD The Engineer has attended the meetings of the Planning Board, and has assisted in their work insofar as the constantly increasing routine work would permit. Plans were made and accepted for the establishment of a building line extending along Massachusetts Avenue from the Town Hall property to Woburn Street and continuing along the latter to Fletcher Avenue. Similar plans are in progress for other business sec- tions which will be completed by Marcia, 1927. We sincerely hope that from now on we shall be in a better position to assist in the important work of this Board and know that this will be possible with several adjustments which can be made in the rou- tine work of 1927. MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS Approval of land court eases. Approval of plans relative to the installation of gas mains. Thirty-two street numbering plans completed. Plans of record copied at the Registry of Deeds to March 1926. Assistance to Metcalf & Eddy in their study of the North and South Branches of Vine Brook. Data to Mr. Arthur A. Shurtleff for study of nearly the entire area drained by the North and South Branches of Vine Brook. Street lines and grades for property owners. Mr. Clarence 13. French resigned from his duties as Town Engineer October 15, 1926. Since that time the personnel of the department has remained unchanged and with the Assistant Engineer is as follows : J. Bruce Lewis, Transitman. George O. Harrington, Rodman. Respectfully submitted, JOHN T. CosGROVE, Aseistorit Engineer. TOWN OF LEXINGTON !21 REPORT OF FIRE ENGINEERS Lexington, Mass., December 31, 1926. To THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SELECTMEN, LEXINGTON, MASS. Gentlemen: -- We beg to submit to your Honorable Board the annual re- port of the Fire Department. The Department answered 259 alarms. Six of these alarms were false. We responded to one call for aid from the Town of Bedford. We answered nine alarms in Waltham, and Wal- tham answered four in Lexington. We were called to protect property endangered by fire estimated at 451,160,675. The total property loss was *22.128.37, making the loss ratio L9%, and the loss per capita $2.83, which is extremely small. As usual a great deal of property was threatened with de- struction by brush fires, but the Forest Warden's Department under the direction of Osborne J. Gorman did excellent work in fighting these fires. Work has been completed toward the interchange of alarms between Arlington and Lexington, and we expect that in a short time this system, which is similar to the one which we have in Waltham, will be in operation. Respectfully submitted, BOARD OF FIRE ENGINEERS BY EDWARD W. TAYLOR, Chief, Lexington Fire Department. 122 ANNUAL' REPORTS REPORT OF POLICE DEPARTMENT To THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SELECTMEN, TOWN OF LEXINGTON, MASS. Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit the following report for the year ending December 31, 1926. Number of arrests Offences for which arrests were made. Assault and Battery Attempt to. Break and Enter Bastardy Breaking and Entering Collecting junk without license Disturbing the Peace Drunkeness Desertion Escaped from Institutions Gaming Larceny Manslaughter Non -Support Perjury Suspicious Persons Trespassing Vagrants Violating automobile laws Violating Board of Health Laws Violating Liquor Laws 360 10• 2 1 6 7 91 1 8 • 38 1 1 10- 12 19 105 5 22 Total Disposition of Cases Appealed Committed to House of Correction Committed to State Farm Continued 360 27 5 1 Defaulted Discharged Fined Filed TOWN of LEXINGTON Lyman School Probation Released Suspended Turned over to out-of-town Police Thta1 Aggregate amount of fines imposed Aggregate terms of imprisonment -14 months. 123 1 30 191 26 1 10 20 7 32 360 $4,548.00 Miscellaneous Business Accidents reported Accidents investigated Attendance at Court by Officers Buildings found open and unsecured Complaints investigated Deaths reported to Medical Insane put in safe keeping Officers special duty Sick persons assisted Street lights reported out Examiner 168 152 380 39 162 5 8 1170 hours 7 150 48 10,950 13,000 12,200 Unoccupied houses given special Number of duty calls attention Number of miles run by Ford car Number of miles run by Motor Cycle CONCLUSION Three new men were added to the Department last year, and they make good police officers. The Motor Cycle has been ridden day and night in good weather and has given police protection to the outskirts of the town. . In conclusion I wish to express my thanks and appreciation of the assistance by officials of the Town and members of the department. Respectfully submitted, JAMES J. SULLIVAN, Chief of Police. ] 24 ANNUAL REPASTS REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS Lexington, Mass., December 31, 1926. BOARD OF SELECTMEN, LEXINGTON, MASS. Gentlemen: The past year has found us better prepared to handle the general work of the Department because of the new equipment added. This is particularly true of cleaning and grading the outlying streets and snow removal all of which work has been done more efficiently and more economically than heretofore. The new equipment includes 1 five -ton tractor with snow plow attachment, ] Fordson tractor and grader and 1 six-ton gasoline roller. This modern equipmentis in part replacing horses some of which are too old for further service. Lowell Street has been graded and rebuilt. from East Street to the Burlington Line, Waltham Street from Concord Avenue to Waltham bine and the accepted portion of Chase Avenue. Oakrnount Circle and Forest. Street Extension were reconstructed as well as Massachusetts Avenue at the High School Building where curbstones were set and dangerous trees removed. Work in progress on Cliffe Avenue and Wilson Avenue was completed this year. Following excavations for sewers it was necessary to resurface portions of Meriam Street, Bloomfield Street, Highland Avenue and Massacbusetts Avenue. Numerous outlying streets badly in need of rebuilding this season were graded arid resurfaced, among which were Concord Avenue from Belmont Line, to Lincoln Line, Walnut Street from Con- cord Avenue to Waltham Line and Summer Street from Bed- ford Street to Bedford Line. In response to the demands of modern traffic for prompt and complete removal of snow the main streets have been kept open at all times and the back streets have been broken out shortly after the storms have ceased. About 3000 feet of snow fence have been purchased and erected in the most exposed sec- Tows OF LEXINGTON 125 tions. This protection has made it possible to plow with trucks places that previously required shovelling by hand and this purchase has proven a good investment. I respectfully recommend the purchase of an additional quantity of snow fence during the coming year. Again may I call your attention to the advisability of furthering the con- struction of storm drains wherever needed and particularly on Massachusetts Avenue between Middle Street and Pleasant Street. The cooperation and assistance given this Department by the Town Officials and members of other Departments is grate- fully acknowledged. I also want to thank the members of the Highway Department who have contributed to the success of the work accomplished this year. Respectfully submitted, ROBERT H. WRITE, Superintendent of Streets. 126 ANNUAL REPORTS REPORT OF MOTH SUPERINTENDENT Lexington, Mass. December 31, 1926. To THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SELECTMEN, LEXINGTON, MASS. Gentlemen: I, herewith, submit my annual report as Tree Warden and Superintendent of Moth Department for the year ending Decem- ber 31, 1926. During the past year, the work in connection with the care of trees, and the suppression of insects and moths was carried on as usual. Dead trees were cut down and removed. As they were a danger to public safety, this was absolutely necessary. Some trees were damaged by storm and the dead branches were cut out. The trimming of the trees was done with care, as it is desirous to have our trees in Lexington in the best of condition. Young trees were set out to take the place of those which had been removed. The shrubbery and trees in the Town were treated with creo- sote for the suppression of the Gypsy Moth. The Brown Tail Moth nests were cut from the trees and were collected and de- stroyed by burning. The foliage was sprayed with arsenate of lead. I wish to thank the Superintendent of Public Works and the Board of Selectmen for assistance given to me during the last year. Respectfully submitted, OSBORNE 3. GORMAN, Supt. of Moth Department and Tree Warden. TOWN OP LEXINGTON 12 REPORT OF FOREST FIRE WARDEN Lexington, Mass., December 31, 1926. To THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SELECTMEN, LEXINGTON, MASS. Gentlemen: I, herewith, submit my annual report as Forest Fire Warden for the year ending December 31, 1926. During the past year, there were 136 grass and forest fires in the Town of Lexington. Compared with the previous year, a decrease of 45 fires is shown. The Fire Department responded to alarms for these fires, and by prompt and efficient work, the fires were put out before any serious losses had been caused. The firemen were willing to assist at all times, and were often called upon to work under unfavorable conditions. Some fires appeared to be spreading rapidly, especially on windy days. At times it was necessary to lay long lines of hose. However, by hard work, the men succeeded in getting the fires under con- trol before any serious damage to property had occurred. People who procured permits to start fires in the open ob- served the conditions under which they were issued, and tried to comply with the fire prevention laws. I wish to thank the Chief of the Fire Department for his assistance; also, the citizens of the Town for their co-operation and help, during the past year. Respectfully submitted, OSBORNE J. GORMAN', Forest Fire Warden. 12S ANNUAL REPORTS REPORT OF THE SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES To THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN, TOWN OF LEXINGTON. Gentlemen: December 31, 1926. I herewith present my annual report for the year ending Dee. 31, 1926. Scales Scaled Safes weighing over 5000 3 Scales weighing under 5000 65 And over 100 Counter 47 Beam 2 Spring 36 Computing 39 Slot Weighing 2 Prescription 4 Avoirdupois Weight 362 Apothecary 62 Measures 147 Pumps 75 Stops 269 Yard Stfcks 15 1128 Adj. Con, 2 3 3 140 148 3 3 Test weighings have been made in the stores, also the bags of coal have been inspected to contain the size as marked. The junk scales have been sealed, also a few complaints TowN of LESINorON 129 have been made and investigated and found they are all right. Five hawkers of fish and vegetables were driven out of town. There has been an increase of pumps, which takes more time. Four loads of coal have been weighed and found correct. There have been three taws passed this year which went into effect; the size of milk containers 8-20-40 qt. cans, the law on display- ing the price of ice on wagons, the bread law,; and also the law which states the small coal can't be mixed with large coal and be sold for large sized coal. Receipts for 1926 Receipts for 1925 $89.56 74.07 Respectfully submitted, C. E. HADLEY Sealer of Weights and Measures. 4 1:30 f ANNUAL REPORTS REPORT OF BUILDING INSPECTOR Lexington, Mass., December 31, 1926 To THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN. LEXINGTON, MASS. Gentlemen: The amount of building the past year shows that the town is continuing its steady growth which it has enjoyed the last few years. It is almost exclusively a one family residential town, only one two family dwelling has been built the past year. Our first class schools, churches, stores and streets make it one of the best of Boston suburbs to live in. There are several new developments which will start in the spring which gives ms every reason to believe that the coming year will be one of the best the town has ever seen. I have collected and paid the Treasurer for building permits the sum of $1059.00, The following is a summary of the building permits issued for 1926: Permits Coat One Family Dwellings 123 $729,500 Two Family Dwellings 1 8,000 Alterations and Additions 48 48,850 Private Garages 107 38,250 Public Garage 1 25,000 Auto Sales Room 1 25,000 Addition to the Belfry Club 1 15,000 Greenhouses 2: 5,100 TOWN OF LEXINGTON' 131 Stables 3 Elevator 1. Stores 13 Poultry Houses 20 Gas and Oil Station 2 Road Stand 1 Miscellaneous 14 388 Respectfully submitted, JOHN F. TIBBETTS, Building Inspector. 1,000 1,000 55,000 3.905 7,000 400 4,400 ;967,410 132 ANNUAL REPORTS REPORT OF HEALTH OFFICER Lexington, Mass., Dec. 31, 1926. BOARD OF SELECTMEN, LEXINGTON, MASS. Gentlemen: I herewith submit the following report as Health Officer for the year 1926: Contagious Diseases reported during the year : Chicken Pox 25 Conjunctivitis (infectJam ) 1 Diphtheria 7 German Measles 9 Measles 134 Mumps 4 Pneumonia (lobar) 4 Scarlet Fever 41 Syphilis 3 Tuberculosis 12 Typhoid Fever 2 Total 292 I have made 53 calls during the year investigating cases of contagious disease reported by physicians, laymen and hear- say, established quarantine where required, and examined patients and others exposed to contagious diseases before re- leasing from quarantine. Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM L. BARNES, M. D., Health Officer. TOWN OF IJr.XINGTON 133 REPORT OF HEALTH INSPECTOR Deeember 31, 1926. To THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN, LEXINGTON, MASS. Gentlemen: I herewith submit my report as Health Inspector from July 1 to December 31, 1926. All complaints relative to cesspools and other nuisances have been investigated and corrected. Inspection of places where food is stored and offered for sale have been made when- ever it was thought necessary. The most important question at present is that of piggeries that are maintained in an unsanitary and- offensive manner within the town. Steps have been taken as you already know to correct this and I want to say now that as soon as the piggeries begin to get offensive again, the regulations will be strictly enforced and legal action taken if necessary. I have introduced a bill in the legislature designed to regu- late the transportation of garbage into the town and if passed will be a great help in the control of piggeries. I recommend that no permits be issued this year, that is for the year of 1927-1928, until each piggery has been carefully in- spected and passed. Respectfully submitted, RUSSELL0. PRENTISS, Health Inspector. 13-1 ANNUAL REPORTS REPORT OF MILK INSPECTOR Lexington, Mass., December 31, 3926. To THE BOARD OF��rSF.r.FCTMEN, MASS. ASS. Gentlemen:— In accordance with the provision of the Town By -Laws I am submittingmy annual report covering the activities of this Department for the year ending December 31, 1926. {. .4 ic fig analyzed for Fat and Solids 237 " Sediment 72 " Bacteria 75 Dairies inspected 24 Milk plants inspected 18 Complaints investigated 10 Average analysis Solids -12.62% Fat --3.91% Highest Bacteria count Per C. C. 450,000 Lowest Bacteria count Per C. C. 2,000 No. licenses to sell Milk 47 Registered dealers in oleomargarine 12 Fees collected and paid to Town Treasurer $29.50 No. of samples seized and purchased 256 The above is a summary of the work done during the year. It is gratifying to point out the increased butter fat content this year, that is 3.91 per cent against 3.76 per cent last year. There is also the same comparison in the total solids 12.62 per cent against 12.36 per cent last year. There are several important bilis before the legislature this year regarding milk, the most important one being the so- called "Bigelow -Bill" requiring all milk to be pasteurized or to come from tubercular -free animals. Another bill is to re- quire pasteurization plants to be licensed by the local boards of health. I recommend that the board go on record as in favor of these two bills. As far as I can ascertain our milk regulations remain the same now as they were when they were originally adopted in 1914. It is time that they were brought up to date, and in ac- TOWN OF LEXINGTON 135 eordance with regulations adopted by other progressive towns, I am revising the regulations and will present them as soon as they are finished. From time to time there appears on the market "Special Milks" which are advertised for infant feeding and incidentally cost the eonsumer more than market milk. 1 do not recommend any special grade of milk but try to have all the milk sold in the town safe and wholsome. Respectfully submitted, RussELL 1. PRENTISS, Inspector of Milk. 1 iti ANNUAL RrpoHTs REPORT OF ANIMAL INSPECTOR December 31, 1926. To THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SELECTMEN, LEXINGTON, MASS. Gentlemen: I herewith submit my report as Inspector of Animals for the year ending December 31st, 1926. Number of premises examined where animals were kept 86 Number of cattle examined and reported upon 742 Number of hogs reported 3,125 Number of poultry reported 2,000 Number of sheep and goats examined and reported 43 One cow was quarantined and afterwards destroyed as Tu- bercular, and 23 cows reported upon and examined on account of shipment to Lexington from out of State. There has been no great demand for Tubercular Testing among the milk herds within the town this year. One herd of 48 head showed 47 re- actors and all were slaughtered. RABIES PREVENTION Although there were over three times as many dogs quaran- tined for biting people this year as there were last year, none of these dogs proved to be rabid and consequently there has been no general order of quarantine. Number of dogs quarantined for biting persona 13 Number of dogs quarantined for biting other dogs 5 Number of dogs quarantined for contact with rabies eases 20 Number of cats quarantined for contact with rabies cases 3 Number of calls on quarantined dogs 20 Number of calls on quarantined cats 3 Number of dogs destroyed as suspicious 1 Number of dogs' heads sent to Laboratory 6 Number of positive rabies cases 3 1 have made 46 calls on dogs and eats in the interest ofthe suppression of rabies, which is 10 more than made last year. TOWN OF L1,a1NGTON 137 On December 24th a mongrel dog owned by Mr. Kirsis of Arlington came to Lexington and spent the night of the 25th and the morning of the 26th on Concord Hill between Massa- chusetts Avenue and Lincoln and School Streets, fighting with all the dogs on the hill. The second attack which he made on Mr. Holman's dog caused Mr. Holman to become suspicious of him and he shot the dog and notified the Police Department. I secured the dog's head and sent it to the Harvard Laboratory Monday morning, receiving a report Tuesday morning that it was a positive ease of rabies. 1 immediately quarantined 16 dogs belonging to 10 different owners and vaccinated Mr. Holman's dog four (4) times as a protection against rabies. it seems certain that we will have a few cases of rabies within the next three (3) months in that vicinity and a general quarantine seems wise. Owners of dogs would do well to have the single dose treat- ment of rabies vaccine applied once a year to their dogs. A few of the larger cities have made vaccination compulsory. Respectfully submitted, CHESTER L. BLAKELY, M. D. V., Inspector o f Animals. y ANNUAL REPORTS REPORT OF DENTAL CLINIC December 31, 1926. BOARD OF HEALTH Gentlemen: The report of the Dental Clinic for the past year enclosed herewith shows the continued high attendance and demand for the services of the operator. Number of pupils from: Parker Hancock Munroe Adams Junior High High Total 51 35 44 44 16 8 154 Number of fillings in permanent teeth: Parker Hancock Munroe Adams Junior High 1-Iigh Total 121 62 60 74 27 11 355 Number of extractions: Parker Hancock Munroe Adams Junior High High Total 60 38 53 53 1 1 206 Number of cleanings: Parker Hancock Munroe Adams Junior High High Total 30 19 24 27 11 3 114 Number of fillings in temporary teeth: Parker Hancock Munroe Adams Junior High High Total 107 65 70 64 17 7 330 Number of abscess treatments: Parker Hancock Munroe Adams Junior High High Total 9 12 27 9 15 7 89 Total number of operations 1094 Total number of fillings 685 Total number of pupils finished 94 Total amount of money taken in $119.00 MRS. S. LEWIS BARROUR, MRS. FRANCIS CHAMBERLAIN, THOMAS S. GRINDLE, Dental Clinic Committee, TowN OF LEN INOWN 139 140 ANNUAL REPORTS REPORT OF SLAUGHTERING PLUMBING INSPECTOR INSPECTOR Lexington, Mass., December 31, 1926. To THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN. HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Gentlemen: I herewith submit my annual report for the year, 1926 as Inspector of Slaughtering: Swine Veal Sheep Cattle G. B tnsel Swine Veal Cattle A. Holman 2,381 976 207 25 1.542 188 s Eighty-one (81) swine, 43 veal, 2 cattle, were eondemmed and rendered. Respectfully submitted, GEORGE A. WARNER, Slaughtering Inspector. A �. Lexington, Mass., December 31, 1926. To THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Gentlemen :— I herewith submit my report as Inspector of Plumbing for the yeas ending December 31, 1926. Number of applications filed and permits granted 181 Number of calls made in connection with inspection and in- formation 385 On three occasions work had to be stopped owning to the contractors not installing the work properly, after consulting with them satisfactory plans were made and the work resumed. These were plumbers from out of town. Several requests for calls have been made in old buildings when sanitary conditions were poor. After consulting with the owners and pointing out to them the dangers that arise from such conditions, changes were made in the plumbing and the drains connected to the sewer. Respectfully submitted, ANDREW T. BAIN. Plumbing Inspector. TOWN OF LEXINGTON 141 REPORT OF WATER AND SEWER DEPARTMENT December 31, 1926. BOARD OF SELECTMEN, LEXIi`GTON, MASS. . • Gentlemen:— The annual report of the Water and Sewer Departments for the year ending December 31, 1926, is herewith submitted: Fourteen thousand four hundred and ninety-four feet of mains were laid, as follows: Number of feet Size Cost (inches) Adams Street 529 8 $ 1,717.08 Bartlett Avenue 1009 6 2,848.47 Cedar Street (from Balfour) 1375 6 3,924.70 Cedar Street (from Mass. Ave. to Hill) 1180 8 6,742.45 Cedar Street (from Hill to Stones) 625 6 Cherry Street 130 6 377.47 Coolidge Avenue 1090 6 2,808.90 Downing Road 608 6 1,542.80 Forest Street 229 6 641.93 Freemont Street 288 6 970.50 Grapevine Avenue 236 6 665.62 Hamblin Street 260 6 790.80 Homestead Street 175 6 522.50 Joeeph Road and Spencer Street 500 6 1,497.09 Kendall Road 400 6 1,360.00 Laconia Street 2,888 6 7,500.78 Pearl Street 300 6 898.97 Spring Street 604 6 1,389.00 Utica Street (replacement of) 572 6 1,705.95 Wachusett Drive 674 6 2,039.30 Walnut Street 888 6 2,783.28 Webb Street 36 6 288.10 Totals Average cost per foot, $2.96 14,494 $42,953.57 N kx 142 ANNUAL REPORTS EXTENT OF PIPING SYSTEM Total extent of water mains at the present time is as follows: 12" 9,701 10" 5,012 8" 36,670 6" 163,263 4" 27,890 HYDRANTS INSTALLED Adams Street Bartlett Avenue Cedar Street Coolidge Avenue Downing Road Kendall Road Laconia Street ON NEW EXTENTIONS 1 Middle Street 2 Pearl Street 4 Spencer Street 2 Utica Street 1 Waehusett Drive 1 Walnut Street 3 Webb Street NUMBER OF HYDRANTS Set to January 1, 1926 Set during the year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 286 21 Total 307 The two inch main on Utica Street from Woburn Street to the Stevens property has been replaced with a six inch, giving this section fire protection. The old main was a source of supply to seventeen families, and was in very bad condition. An eight inch main was laid on Cedar Street from Massa- chusetts Avenue to Hill Street, and a six inch main from Hill Street to the Stone property. The four inch main was left in the ground and is now supplying the Columbus Street section. A larger main had to be laid on Cedar Street to give the Lexing- ton Farms section adequate fire and domestic service. A con- tinued policy of replacing small mains in one or more sections each year should be followed. The six inch main at the junction of Melrose and Albemarle Avenues (formerly) was re -located, due to the re -location of these streets. The four inch main crossing Pierce's Bridge at Maple Street which has given considerable trouble in the past has been replaced with an eight inch main, boxed, and then packed with mineral wool to prevent freezing. Brick piers were constructed on each end to support the pipe and prevent vibration. Flanged pipe was used. TOWN OF LEXINGTON 143 Due to the reconstruction of Bedford Street, a six inch main from the coal yard to North Hancock Street had to be re -Located and lowered. This work had to be done at night so that the water takers would not be caused any inconvenience. • HYDRANTS REPLACED Four hydrants were damaged by automobiles, and have been replaced with pew ones. We have succeeded in collecting damages for one, but the cost of replacing the other three will have to be borne by the Town as we have not been successful in locating the persons who caused the damage to the other hydrants. AU hydrants received the usual inspection and flushing. Seven were completely overhauled. GATES All gates received the usual inspection, and were raised or Lowered to conform with new street grades where needed. SERVICES One hundred and fifty-five new services have been installed. Eighty-two services have been renewed in the street. Fifty- eight services have been renewed on private property. Forty- two leaks in services have been repaired. A start has been made in improving the service installation by increasing the size of the pipe, and by the use of cement lined pipe and lead lined fittings. Next year a change will be made at the curb and inside stop cocks, to eliminate the galvanic action between the brass and wrought iron. These have been the weak points in the past of the service installation. LEAKS Eighteen leaks in mains have been repaired. Three of these were found to be cracked pipes, and sixteen were located in the joints. METERS During the year there have been set one hundred and forty- six meters on new services, and eighty-six replacements. One hundred and forty-two meters were cleaned and repaired. MAGAZINES Two new magazines have been constructed on the Town Farm property for the storage of explosives. These conform with State requirements. The old magazine located near the standpipe has been abandoned. 144 ANNUAL REPORTS 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 MONTHY AVE IN Jan Feb Mar 71 73 70 68 72 73 48 56 51 48 52 59 58 65 69 63 64 64 70 75 79 52 55 55 59 60 58 61 58 58 58 60 62 63 65 69 77 114 106 56 58 66 63 62 70 59 59 63 65 66 71 52 58 57 50 49 51 64 66 62 59 55 55 RAGE CONSUMPTION OF WATER GALLONS PER CAPITA Apr May 68 74 70 72 58 75 64 69 72 78 67 82 80 83 63 60 60 77 60 63 64 69 67 72 87 92 59 62 62 64 62 65 76 69 59 68 55 58 61 66 55 62 June July Aug 74 96 88 82 85 105 109 105 83 84 101 90 73 119 94 80 115 93 101 107 74 68 86 82 93 73 63 80 63 63 71 73 81 77 93 90 94 89 87 79 76 68 67 74 84 90 68 74 71 64 66 91 74 72 71 94 15 79 78 78 73 89 61 Sept 76 76 91 75 85 81 66 76 75 70 76 74 76 65 68 74 70 75 65 75 66 Oct 74 65 70 62 84 75 57 66 66 68 75 73 64 64 66 69 65 64 69 68 65 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 TO 63 58 61 62 61 57 64 63 54 53 54 48 68 64 63 68 63 57 TOWN OF LExINcmoN MOVEMENT OF THE BONDED DEBT The Debt movement up to the present time is as follows: 145 Added Paid Net Debt 1896 --Original bond issue $200,000.00 1896 $10,000 210,00.00 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 17,000 195,600.00 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 21,500 127,200.00 1918 19,700 107,500.00 1920 9,000 15,700 82,600.00 1919 18,200 89,300.00 1921 20,000 17,700 84,900.00 1922 12,800 19,700 78,000.00 1923 1,750 24,500 55,250.00 1924 73,950 21,250 107,950.00 1925 22,000 34,500 95,450.00 1926 39,300 28,500 106,250.00 Balance of debt Dec. 31, 1926 106,250.00 Amount to be paid in 1927 32,800.00 A general summary of finances for the year ending Decem- ber 31, 1926 follows : 146 ANNUAL RF.YORTS SCHEDULE A 1925 Items Commitment Collected Water Rates $ 1,194.21 $ 1,009.17 Guarantees 373.56 142.51 Services 822,51 616.13 Miscellaneous 18.62 18.62 Totals $ 2,408.90 $ 1,786.43 Rebated $ 10.85 6.18 Uncollected $ 174.19 231.05 201.20 16.03 $ 606.44 1926 Water Rates $32,399.42 $30,867.96 $ 638.24 $ 893.22 Guarantees 3,899.08 1,899.06 984.93 1,615.09 Hydrants 2,860.00 2,860.00 Watering Troughs100.00 100.00 Accrued Interest 48.18 48.18 Sale of Stock 937.46 863.99 73.47 Repairs 966.80 565.29 146.53 254.98 Renewals 565.25 385.82 72.54 106.89 Services 6,079.19 5,583.72 92.14 403.33 Miscellaneous 1,061.76 207.06 15.00 839.,70 $48,917.14 $43,381.08 $1,349.38 $4,186.68 Grand Totals $51,326.04 $45,167.51 $1,365.41 $4,793.12 SCHEDULE B Detail of Maintenance and Operating Expenses Metropolitan Tax $12,778.17 4,183.88 16,638.91 1,509.90 3,814.97 110.99 3,459.79 505.98 2,529.51 Office Expenses 495.51 Rent of Barn . ..... 400.00 Vacation Payroll 1,120.80 Equipment and Repairs 716.18 Miscellaneous 971.65 Excess deposits returned on water services 443.93 Interest on Debt Labor Maintenance of Automobiles Pipe & Fittings Freight Stock Insurance Salaries $49,680.17 TOWN of LEXINGTON 147 SCHEDULE C Detail of Construction Expenses Labor $11,210.72 Hydrants 1,459.30 Cast Iron Pipe, special fittings, etc. 11,551.39 Freight 973.79 Trucking 336.43 Leadite 529.96 148 ANNUAL REPORTS SEWER DEPARTMENT CONSTRUCTION This year has no doubt been the busiest on record in this department. A policy of extending our sewer system a little every year should be followed until the entire sewer area is taken care of. The sewer system has been extended during the year as follows ; Lead Pipe 45.79 Length Size Miscellaneous Stock 171.11 Street (feet) (inches) Cost Meters 1,992.85 Bloomfield Street 1,277 6 $4,930.70 Tools & Equipment 452.99 Charles Street 105 6 491.07 Automobile 391.48 Curve St. and Masa. Ave. 1,986 6 & 10 9,116.52 Contracts 12,252.15 .: .. Forest Street 720 6 2,517.56 Miscellaneous 188.47 Highland Avenue 722 8 2,922.43 Highland Avenue (Ext.) 275 6 1,592.48 $41,556.43 Mass. Avenue 2.854 8 & 10 12,054.95 Merriam and Abbott Rd. 1,188 6 & 8 7,559.62 Oakland Street 348 6 1,805.05 Rowland .Avenue 1262 8 7,410.51 Slocum Road 256 6 470.52 Totals 10,993 $50,881.41 Average cost per foot, $4,629 EXPENDITURES The Oakland and Charles Street mains were Laid by the Town, and the remaining were awarded by contract to the Schedules B and C $91,236.60 lowest bidder. The Town furnished all materials to insure Total Cash Balance in hands of Treasurer 1,926.58 quality. The Oakland, Charles, Curve Street, and Mass. Ave. (from $93,163.18 Independence Ave. to Curve Street), were laid under the old Sewer Act which provided the assessment of 50c per front foot. The remaining extensions were laid under the new Sewer Aet, which was accepted by the Town this year. The following are extensions recommended for 1927 ; Mass. Ave. from Independence Ave to Middle Street 2100 ft. Mase. Ave. from Curve St. through private land. to E. Lex. Station 2600 tt. Woburn St, from O'Connell's stores to Mass. Avenue 800 it. Highland Ave. from Bloomfield St. to Washington St. about850 ft. Lincoln Street from Parker Street to Audubon Road 1250 ft. Audubon Road from Lincoln Street to Mass. Avenue 675 ft. RECEIPTS 1925 Balance $28,995.67 Schedule A 45,167.51 Water blain Appropriations 19,000.00 $93,163.18 8825 ft. Total number of feet 8,825 feet. Estimated Cost, $47,650.00 TOWN OF LEXINGTON 149 The records show that the average cost per foot of sewer construction during the five year period 1922-1926 inclusive is $4.432. This figure will be used for sewer assessments next year. MAINTENANCE Seventy-four connections have been made with the main sewer. Twenty-five of these were connected with the mains laid this year. Besides families accommodated there were two ga- rages and four stores connected. All sewers were flushed and cleaned three times during the year. Some of the manholes which were found to be leaking, were plastered on the inside. The manholes on the main sewer outlet were in bad condition. Most of these are exposed, due to the shallow depth and had to be rebuilt from the ground up. We are now banking these with earth to protect them from the weather. Maintenance of System and Construction of House Connections SCHEDULE A Financial Statement Commitment Collected Services $10,043.42 Rentals 1,716.50 Sale of Stock 48.60 $6,849.39 1,399.11 48.60 Rebated Uncollected $ 7.70 $3,186.33 48.92 168.47 Totals $11,808.52 $8,397.10 $56.62 $3,354.80 SCHEDULE B Superintendent $ 930.06 Clerks 169.17 Stationery, Postage and Printing 90.77 Telephone 4.55 Tools and Equipment 611.46 Pipe and Fittings 82.65 Other Materials 53.38 Insurance 513.91 Excess Deposits Returned 122,57 Labor 7,109.89 150 ANNUAL REPORTS Receipts 1925 Balance Schedule A Expenditures Schedule 13 Total cash balance in hands of Treasurer $2,038.06 8,397.10 $10,435.16 9,538.35 896.81 Main Sewer Construction ---Financial Statement SCHEDULE C Labor $ 6,000.42 Contracts 40,171.31 Pipe and Fittings 6,511.02 Sand, Sulphur, Brick, Jute, Etc. 3,724.64 Rent of Land 70.00 Stationery, Postage, and Printing 23.40 Tools and Equipment 807.43 Damages 21.22 Receipts 1925 Balance $11,401.71 Appropriations and Transfers 44,930.00 Expenditures Schedule C $56,329.44 Total cash balance in hands of Treasurer 2.27 $10,435.16 $56,329.44 $56,331.71 $56,331.71 I wish to call your attention to the lack of shop facilities in both the Water and Sewer Departments. With construction and maintenance constantly increasing, 1 find it extremely diffi• cult to operate efficiently from present quarters. I wish to express to you my appreciation for your co-opera- tion and the many courtesies shown me in the performance of my duties. Respectfully submitted, ALBERT A. Ross, $9,538.35 Superintendent of Water trnd Sewer Departments TOWN OF LEXINGTON REPORT OF THE BOARD OF ASSESSORS 151 December 31, 1926. To THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SELECTMEN, LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS. Gentlemen: The Board of Assessors herewith submit their report for the year ending December 31, 1926. Real Estate of Resident owners $12,034,575.00 Real Estate of Non-resident owners .,.. 1,635,905.00 Personal Estate of Resident owners .... 1,289,410.00 Personal Estate of Non-resident owners 415,508.00 120,435.00 Tax Titles Gain on Valuation Town Grant State Tax County Tax State Highway Tax Metropolitan Sewer Tax Metropolitan Water Tax Metropolitan Water District Fire Prevention Tax Auditing Municipal Accounts Tax ., For care of persons suffering from Tuberculosis Overlay overdraft for 1923 Overlay overdraft for 1924 Overlay overdraft for 1925 Overlay for 1926 From which deduct amount taken from Bank Corporation Tax , From Cambridge From Arlington 665,738.31 22,320.00 18,107.72 2,586.11 8,705.81 12,778.17 362.28 112.03 1,440.62 749.86 22.87 476.47 1,749.90 5,057.31 11,092.31 466.24 413.26 $15,495,833.00 747;372,00 $640,207.46 152 ANNUAL REPORTS State of Mass, Income Tax for 1926 State of Mass. Connearuey Estate Water Receipts Educational Bureau Income Estimated other receipts 'Total to be raised Rate of Taxation $35.50 on $1,000.00 on a valuation of ;15,495,- 853.00 2344 Poll Taxes 22,117.37 78.34 12,778.17 14,030.00 24,441.70 554,790.07 $85,417.39 550,102.07 4,$88.00 $554,790.07 Tax on Omitted Assessments Dec, 20, 1926 219.35 Number of residents assessed on property 2886 Number of Non-residents assessed on property 1177 Whole number of persons assessed on property ,4063 Number assessed for Poll Tax 2344 Number of Cows assessed 682 Number of Horses assessed 277 Number of Neat Cattle other than Cows assessed 5 Number of Sheep assessed 50 Number of Swine assessrd 860 Number of Fowl assessed 3617 Number of Acres of Land assessed 9234 Number of Dwelling Houses assessed 1870 Value of Real Estate exempt from Taxation $1,716,500.00 Value of Personal Property exempt from Taxation 512,200.00 Value of Real Estate belonging to the Town 1,355,150.00 Respectfully submitted, GEORGE H. GIBSON, Chairman., CHARLES E, FERGUSON, EUGENE G. KRAETZER, WALTER G. BLACK, Assessors of Lexington. Town OF LEXINGTON 153 A REPORT OF THE WORK DONE BY THE MIDDLESEX COUNTY EXTENSION SER- VICE IN THE TOWN OF LEXINGTON FOR THE YEAR 1926 An appropriation of $300.00 was made at the annual meet- ing in support of the Middlesex County Extension Service, through the Couuity Board of Trustees for County Aid to Ag- riculture. The following is an account of the work done by this organization in Lexington for the year 1926. In agriculture the principal work carried on has been -with those farmers interested in poultry, dairying, and fruit. A total of sixty-one farm visits were made to those farmers re- questing individual service. A poultry meeting was held at which the necessary procedure was given on how to grow healthy chicks. Visits were made to test soils and definite recommenda- tions given to those fanners interested in the growing of alfalfa. An opportunity was made for those interested to attend a meet- ing where the proper methods for growing better roughage crops were presented. There are three farmers receiving monthly visits from the cow test agent for the purpose of keeping accur- ate records on feed costs and milk production. In homemaking the work carried on has been in food pre- servation, food selection, clothing, and millinery. The purpose of the food selection project has been to help home -makers in the selection and preparation of food for the family, in order that the general health of the family might be improved. A demonstration was held for fifty-eight to show the latest methods used in the preservation of fruit and vegetables. A series of four meeting-; was held for those interested in making chiLiren's clothing. In the boys and girls 4-H club activities work has been carried on in food, clothing, poultry, canning, and garden clubs, and in the Room Beautiful contest. One hundred and fifty- eight boys and girls were enrolled under the local leadership of Mrs. F. J. Spencer, Mrs. J. E. Oldford, Stephen Hamlin, and 154 ANNUAL REPORTS • four leaders from. out of town. Ruth Ingalls of the Junior High School won first prize in a county -wide room beautiful contest. Marshall Sargent and Edwin Worthen won a two-day trip to the Massachusetts Agriculture College for outstanding club work. Club members in this town were in competition with 3,960 boys and girls in Middlesex County. Three meetings were held at which the boys and girls ex- hibited the results of their work, and told of their accomplish- ments. Assistance was given to the local fair by furnishing judges for the various departments, and by putting on an educational exhibit in dairying and poultry-. In addition to the local meetings held, several county -wide meetings were conducted, such as the county picnic at the Mar- ket Garden Field Station, the annual meeting of the Extension Service at Waltham, and sectional meetings of fruit growers and poultrymen. These were attended by many Lexington people. ROBERT P. 'TASK, Director. TOWN OF` LEXIN(ITON l55 REPORT OF CEMETERY COMMISSIONERS Lexington, Mass December a1, 1926. Your Cemetery Commissioners submit the following as their annual report for the year ending December 31st, 1926: The several cemeteries under our charge have received the usual careful attention and we feel they will be found in very good condition. We are very desirous that an appropriation be made by the Town to erect a wire fence at. Munroe Cemetery from the present one at the southeast corner along the rail- road and around by the school house lot to the present entrance. The wooden fence now there is in a very dilapidated condition and does not warrant any further expenditure. This would entail an expense of about $1500. We also desire to have erected at the entrance to the cemetery brick or stone piers with the name Munroe Cemetery on them. This would cost about $500. At this cemetery we have received for the annual care of lots $691.00, for foundations $37.00, for interments $290:00 which amounts have been returned to the general fund. We have expended for labor, materials, supplies, superintendent and clerk $1,498.1.0. At Westview Cemetery we have sold during the year 12 lots and 3 single graves, which make totals to date of 84 lots and 30 single graves. We have received from, the sale of land at Westview Cemetery the sum of $2,151.50, the sum of $785.00 for the perpetual care fund, the sum of $228.11 for interments, interest and such. Our expenditures for labor, supplies ma- terials and superintendent were $3,255.22. No extensive im- provements were made during the year and outside of placing more shrubbery, we do not anticipate any large expense for the coming year. Since the commissioners took over the care and supervision of Westview Cemetery in the year 1920 the following listed monies have been turned to the Town Treasurer: -- Sale of land 613,923.10 Perpetual Care Fund 6,431.00 156 ANNUAL REPORTS Interments, etc. 1,156.50 Interest 185.20 Your commissioners anticipate the time when this ceme- tery will be a self-supporting institution, and when such funds as are received for interments, interest and such are available for distribution by the commissioners, that time will soon come about. Respectfully submitted, JOHN E. A. MuLLIKEN, EDWARD WOOD, GEORGE H. GIBSON. TOWN of LEXINGTON 157 REPORT OF THE TOWN COUNSEL December 31, 1926. To THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN OP THE TOWN OF LEXINGTON. Gentlemen: In accordance with Section 6 of Article XL of the Town By -Laws, 1 herewith make my report in writing as Town Counsel of " (a) All actions by or against the Town which were pending at the beginning of the preceding fiscal year; " (b) All actions brought by or against the Town during such year, and " (c) All actions settled or disposed of during such year." (a) The following actions were pending on January 1, 1926, and proceeded as stated: (1) John Swenson, Arministrator v. Town of Lexington: Superior, Middlesex; personal injuries; ad damnum $15,000. No action taken during the year. (2) Henry McCaffrey v. Town of Lexington; Superior, Middlesex; bill in equity to enjoin clearing bed of a brook. Re- hearings before master completed and supplementary master's report filed, No hearing yet on exceptions to master's report. (3) Inhabitants of Lexington v. Samuel Bornstein ; Dis- trict Court for Central Middlesex; contract for support of pauper; ad damnum $200. Judgment for plaintiff, $148.51. (4) Henry W. B. Cotton v. Town of Lexington; Superior, Middlesex; two tax appeals. Trial in Superior Court. Appeal dismissed. Bill of exceptions to the Supreme Judicial Court allowed. Awaiting hearing. (5) Jefferson Union Co. v. Town of Lexington; Superior, Middlesex; tax appeal. Tried in the Superior Court. Appeal dismissed. 158 ANNITAL REPORTS (6) Joseph Stealer v. Town of Lexington; Superior, Mid- dlesex; tort for personal injuries; ad damnum $5,000; plead- ings completed. (b) The following cases have been entered during the year 1926 ; (1) Henry W. B. Cotton v. Town of Lexington; Superior, Middlesex; tax appeal for the year 1924, pleadings completed. (2) Thomas G. Whiting v. Town of Lexington; Dis- trict Court of Central Middlesex; contract for compensation as call fireman. Trial. Judgment for plaintiff for $32.20. As this was less than the offer of judgment, defendant's costs re- duced the amount recovered to $23.51. (3) George G. Whiting v. Town of Lexington; District Court of Central Middlesex; contract for compensation as call fireman. Trial. Judgment for plaintiff for $32.00. As this was less than the offer of judgment, defendant's costs reduced the amount recovered to $23.31. (4) Inhabitants of Lexington v. William J. Miskell ; Su- perior, Middlesex; bill in equity to enjoin maintenance of a piggery without a permit from the Board of Health. Finding for plaintiff. -Time for appeal not yet expired. (5) Inhabitants of Lexington v. Samuel Bornstein; Su- perior, Middlesex; action on judgment and for further dis- bursements for support of pauper; ad damnum $1500. Plead- ings completed. (6) Harry M. Aldrich v. Inhabitants of Lexington; Su- perior, Middlesex; petition for damages for widening of Walt- ham Street. Pleadings completed. (7) Commonwealth v. Ernest K. Ballard; District Court for Central Middlesex; complaint for violation of conditions of piggery permit. Found guilty and fined $50.00. Appealed to Superior Court. Verdict directed for the defendant. (8) Commonwealth v. Dias, et als; District Court for Central Middlesex; five complaints for keeping pigs without a permit. All pleaded guilty and were fined or case placed on file. (9) Clara A. Dane; Probate, Middlesex; petition for ap- pointment of guardian of insane pauper. Appointment obtained and inventory filed. TOWN OF LEXINGTON 159 (o) Of the above actions, the following were disposed of during the year; (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) Lexington v. Bornstein. Jefferson Union Co. v. Town of Lexington. Thomas G. Whiting v. Town of Lexington. George G. Whiting v. Town of Lexington. Commonwealth v. Ballard. Commonwealth v. Dias, et ais. The Town Counsel also reports the separate amounts received by him as compensation and for disbursements in each of 'such actions during such year and for all other services not covered by his regular salary; (a) (b) (0) (d) Lexington v. Samuel Bornstein, $75. Thomas G. Whiting v. Lexington, $30. George G. Whiting v. Lexington, $30. Commonwealth v. Ernest K. Ballard, $20. (e) Commonwealth v. Dias, et ala., $35. (f) Jefferson Union Co. v. Lexington, Fee $650, Disburse- ments $10.50. (g) Clara A. Dane, Guardianship, $75. Respectfully submitted, S. R. WRIGHTINGTON, Town Counsel. 160 ANNUAL REPORTS TAX COLLECTOR'S REPORT December 31, 1926. I herewith submit my report as Collector of Taxes for the year 1926. 1925 Taxes Uncollected January 1, 1926 Collected in 1926 Abated In 1926 Tax Liens an Town $129,570.76 $121.064.71 3,473.38 5,332.67 $129,870.76 1926 Taxes Amount Committed Sept. 28, 1926 $554,790.07 Amount Committed Dec. 20, 1926 219.35 $555.009.42 Amount collected to Jan. 1, 1927 $417,305.41 Amount abated $2,934.47 Leas Refunds 316.31 Uncollected Jan. 1, 1927 2,618.16 135,085.85 $555,009.42 As Town Collector about $75,000 has been committed divided as follows: Water Rates, Water Guaranty a -e, Services, Repairs, Sale of Stock and Rentals. Sewer Services, Rentals, Sale of Stock and Sewer Front- age. Highway Betterment Tax, Schools, Outside Aid, Highway, Moth, Overseers of the Poor. Respectfully submitted, B veON C. EARLE, Tax Collector. TOWN of LEXINGTON 161 REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY Lexington, Mass., December 31, 1926. To THE BOARD OP SELECTMEN, OF THE TOWN OF LI•;XTNCTOti. Greeting:— Although every member of our Board is such by reason of his official connection with some other activity in our com- munity, the interest of all our members in the Library is shown by the consistently large attendance at our monthly meetings. ]3y the removal of the Rev. Carleton P. Mills to Winchester last April we lost a member of our Board whose services were valuable to our Library, and a Chairman whose gracious spirit strengthened the good -fellowship which has always character- ized our Board meetings, Miss Helen Elizabeth Muzzey, who completed last autumn thirty years of continuous service on our Library staff, was granted a six -months leave of absence which began on the first day of December. The Trustees have expressed, and will be glad to have me record, their appreciation both of the intel- lectual ability which Mitis Muzzey brings to her position and also her untiring. willingness and kindliness in meeting the needs of the public. In Library work, length of years adds to the value of the service of the able workers. In this respect our Library has been most fortunate. The Librarian, Miss Kirkland, has been with the Library for thirty-four years and has served as Libra- rian for twenty-eight years. Misr Muzzey has completed thirty years of service; Miss Nichols, twenty-eight years; Miss Went- worth, tenyears, and Miss Buck, nine years. The absence of Miss Muzzey made it necessary to secure a new assistant and the Library was fortunate in getting Miss Claire BaII, whose father will be remembered as a former sub - master of the Lexington High School. 162 ANNUAI, REPORTS Mr. Frank E. Clark, who had served as janitor for twenty years, resigned this year. The Trustees expressed their appre- ciation of Mr. Clark's faithful and able service in a resolution of appreciation which was sent to him and entered upon our records_ Mr. Horace M. Howard has been appointed to fill the vacant position. The Trustees would like to call the attention of all our citizens to the suggestion made in Miss Kirkland's report that in this year, 1927, we establish some fitting memorial of the founding in Lexington, one hundred years ago, of a juvenile library. The present over -taxing of the very limited resources in our juvenile department indicates what the nature of such a memorial might well be. The Trustees, at our last meeting, elected a special committee to take this matter under considera- tion. Of this special committee Mr. James Stuart Smith is the Chairman. Respectfully submitted for the Trustees, EDWIN M. SLOCOMBE, Chairman. Towx of LE:INe7,0N 163 REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY TRUSTEES O1' CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY : Gentlemen:— To the large mass of people the country over the year 1876 is significant because it marks our first world's Fair, the centen- nial exhibition held at Philadelphia in October of that year. In library history, however, it bears another significance, for at that time the United States Bureau of Education pub- lished its voluminous report of 1200 pages upon the public library situation in the United States. In the same year was founded the Library Journal of New York, the first and per- haps still the leading periodical of the profession, the initial number of which appeared about a month before the birth of the American Library Association in October 1876 at Philadel- phia. More significant than all else was the founding of this As- sociation, the outgrowth of the conference of about one hun- dred librarians who held a three day's session in the rooms then occupied by the Pennsylvania Historical Society and launched. upon its career an organization whose history is prac- tically the history of the development of American public li- braries. We cannot interpret this statement to mean that public library service was there unfolded for the first time — the report of the United States Bureau of Education proves otherwise — but undoubtedly no single factor in library history of the past fifty years has been so influential in determining the direction and progress of library work. On the third day of the conference, Oct. 6, 1876, a resolu- tion was adopted as follows: "For the purpose of promoting the library interests of the country and of inereasing reciprocity of intelligence and good will among librarians and all interested in library economy 164 ANNuln REPORTS and bibliographical studies, the undersigned form themselves into a body to be known as "The American Library Associa- tion." Mr. Melville Dewey who was chosen as Secretary of the Association enrolled himself as No. 1 and gave to the Association the motto which is the slogan of today --"The best reading for the greatest number at the least cost." Born in idealism based on unselfish practicality the "service of the book" has gone steadily on gathering momentum as it went, until now we find publicly supported libraries nearly as widely distributed as publicly supported schools. Massachusetts has the honor of being the oirly state in the Union which is 100% strong in library facilities, every town and city in the state maintaining a public library. Because of this fact, together with the facet that the first President of the American Library Association wa.s Justin Win- sor, Bien head of the Boston Public Library, it is peculiarly fitting that in this year 1026—the fiftieth year of the .American Library Charri'r'.s F. D. Belden, Director of the Boston l'ublie Library, was chosen President. The tf!icth anniversary conference which was held at At - lout is City in O t.ober was one long to be remembered. I n the optimistic i1i1,c11brxs of the President "Looking forward.' was the topic r.iin�en and in ►irief 1[r. Belden predicted a wide ex- tension of public service with a grnving.recegnition of the li- brary as an asset in the daily life of omen and women in ell parts of the country. "The outstanding major phenomena of the past fifty years, in addition to the remarkable growth in the number of libraries are generally admitted to have been -- 1. the spread of the Open Shelf idea. .vhercbv the general public has inainediaie access not only to volumes of reference, but hook treasures excepted, to the entire contents of the library ; 2, the wide extension of the home use nt boobs; 3, the organization of truck with child- ren, resulting in the provision Of library rooms, especially aclnwird frit' their 117W. filled .rith suiiaable honks, aid the develop- ment of the story hour as a means of stimulating the imagina- tion of boys and girls. All these things were foreseen, or at least dreamed of fifty years ago, by the men and women who formed the Association in 1876. TOWN OF LEXINGTON 165 As the second half century of organized library work opens before us, a change of emphasis is taking place. The citizens must be awakened to the value of the public library and what it has to give in the way of service—a service no longer con- fined to the books on the shelves of any one library, but which through organization ----co-ordination of resources and whole hearted co-operation will extend from town to city, to State, to Country and will finally bring within reach the resources of the knowledge of the whole civilized world. It is no idle dream to believe that fifty years hence libraries will be so closely linked together that throughout the length and breadth of the country even the smallest library will be prepared to provide the best of expert advice and service to adolescent and adult. It is a tragic fact that thousands of men and women first feel their need of a formal education when it is too late to get it. But there is the Public Library—every man's University. We are just waking up to the infinite possibilities of help- fulness which have lain dormant and neglected in every public library. The term "library extension" formerly applied to the spread of the library gospel and the foundation of new li- braries has come to have a new meaning. The stress is now being laid on the extension of service as a means of stimulating education throughout the whole world—a service which is now expressing itself in many interesting forms, among them being work with the foreign born—especially the unassimilated aliens, work with the blind, hospital service, closer co-operation with the schools and other agencies of education, social service and human betterment. Branch libraries will be found at every crossroads, to which —perhaps to the very gateway of the farm or the office of the mine—the books desired will be brought daily by some form of rural delivery. Every house, through its radio, will hear each day of some important or interesting new book; the story hour will be broadcast; the reader's advisor—or Library tutor— and the "book wagon" will make their daily rounds, and in every possible way the library will find the people at their doors:. The country must no longer suffer a condition under which fifty millions of aur people are still without library privileges. The task of the next fifty years is the arousing of public senti- ment to the importance and value to every citizen of expert li- brary service and the tools which it requires. 166 ANNUAL REPORTS Only when the public library is seen to be of equal im- portance with the water supply and the public school will com- munities be willing to tax themselves for its adequate support, or wealthy individuals be inclined to give liberally for the main- tenance of the highest type of library service." In quoting Mr. Belden's optimistic proheey of the future we are asked many times if it is not purely visionary. No, for already we have seen these things in infancy and know that with the same courageous spiritwhich guided the men and women of fifty years ago, they will slowly but surely reach maturity. Touching upon the purely statistical it is interesting to note that California with its well directed county library sys- tem has the highest per capita circulation in the country—cir- culating 7 books per capita each year. Ma.ssaehusetts follows with 5 books—while New York comes next with 3 books—and Texas in the rear with 1/2 book per capita each year, the lowest rate in the country. In our own community we find that in point of circulation Lexington has never lagged even in the beginning of things, for in the first three months of the library which opened its doors to the public on Jan. 27, 1869, the circulation was 1670 volumes, conclusive evidence that the citizens of the town ap- preciated the gift of its donor Mrs. Maria Hastings Cary. Later in 1876, when the population of Lexington was 2505 our circulation was 17,201 volumes, or a per capita circulation of 6.8 books [luring the year. We were close even then to the high water mark which California has attained, while our statistics disclose a fraction less than 8 books per capita for the year 1926' Aieh has been a busy one not alone from the viewpoint of circulation but from the viewpoint of reference and research work with the pupils in the schools and the adult user of our resources. That Lexington is a reading loving public we have ample proof both in our adult clientele and in the youth who come to us for knowledge and recreation. In my report• of last year I stressed the necessity of greater facilities with which to meet the ever increasing needs and demands of our boys and our girls. As "the child of today is the citizen of tomorrow" I urge you, once again, to think on these things that we may not be found napping on the third of the "outstanding major phe- nomena of the past fifty years"—work with chi?dreir. In this next year of 1927 may we not bring into being some fitting me- TOWN OF LEXINGTON 167 morial of that occasion when 100 years ago, in March 1527, the town voted to establish a juvenile library and voted to appro- priate $60.00 front public funds for that purpose. In closing it is my privilege to express our gratitude to the many friends of the library, who by gifts of flowers and books, and in many other ways have assisted us in making the library more attractive, more helpful. To Mr. and Mrs. Leroy S. Brown we extend our deep ap- preciation of their interest in the library, expressed many times in their generous gifts, which this year have been augmented by a beautiful piece of statuary --"Paola and Franeesea"--by Robinelli, a splendid bit of Italian workmanship in Carrara marble. The generous spirit of a more recent resident in our midst was exp ressed by Miss Grace B. Parr who gave to the library a complete set of the Waverley novels of Sir Walter Scott in the Dryburgh edition, together with a one volume reference edition of the plays of William Shakespeare. With the income derived from the "Laura Muzzey Brig- ham" fund we have strengthened our reference department with new editions of the "New International" encyclopaedia in 25 volumes—the "World Book" in 10 volumes—and the "New Larned History" for ready referenc and research in 12 volumes. For the hearty support of the Board of Trustees and the loyal, faithful co-operation of the Library staff I am sincerely appreciative. Respectfully submitted, MARIAN P. IIRKLAND, Librarian. Jan. 4, 1927. 168 ANNUAL REPORTS STATISTICAL REPORT 1926 MAIN LIBRARY Accessions by purchase: New books 457 Books to replace' old copies 173 34 664 77 Bound periodicals Accessions by gift Books discarded and withdrawn Net increase 741 164 577 In Library Dec. 31, 1925 31,736 BRANCH LIBRARY Accessions by purchase New boob Books to replace old copies 18 6 24 Books discarded and withdrawn 11 Net increase In Library Dec. 31, 1925 13 3,363 Total Main Library and Branch, Dec. 31, 1926 CIRCULATION ---1926 Periodicals bound Periodicals unbound Philosophy and Religion Biography 32,313 3,376 35,68! Sent Circ. from Main Branch Branch 250 26 433E E 184 823 . 2 8 1768 32 137 TOWN of LExrNuTUN 169 History 1504 26 150 Travels 1242 59 58 Social sciences 727 5 1 Natural sciences 965 20 59 Arts, useful 762 10 36 Arts, recreative 352 14 24 Arts, fine 512 4 5 Language and Literature 1841 17 106 Poetry 802 18 38 Fiction 34206 3015 3190 Pay collection: Fiction 4087 Music scores 230 Stereographic sets' 12 64,815 3,225 4,0E2 3225 Total circulation Main Library 57,540 Total circulation Main Library and Branch 61,562 Total circulation Juvenile Dep't. Main 12,045 Total circulation Juvenile Dep't, Main and Branch 14,166 Number of days Library was open: Main Library 303 Branch Library 252 Registration: 1926 Main Library • Adult 3,463 Juvenile 699 Temporary 175 Withdrawn Adult 146 Juvenile 182 Temporary 42 Total registration Main Library, Dec. 31, 1926 Branch Library Adult Juvenile *Representing 1081 pictures. 492 433 4327 319 925 4008 170 ANNUAL REPORTS Withdrawn Adult 29 Juvenile 57 86 Total registration Branch Library, Dec. 31, 1926 839 Total registration Main Library and Branch Dec. 31, 1926 4847 MISCELLANEOUS Main Library: Periodicals subscribed for Monthly 47 Weekly 16 Periodicals given 8 Newspapers subscribed for 4 Newspapers given 1 Books rebound 477 Books repaired 3,912 Postals sent for overdue books 2,496 Postals sent for books reserved 678 Books Iost and paid for 4 Branch Library: Periodicals subscribed for 26 Periodicals given 2 Newspapers subscribed for 2 Books repaired 325 EXIIIBITS IN MAIN LIBRARY FROM MASS. LIBRARY ART CLUB French woodcarving — Architectural League — Denmark — Poster design — American gardens — Early American artists — Little peo- ple and songs --- Ships of olden limas — Flowers of New England — Picturesque Spain — Masters of color -- War Memorials — ItaIian masters -- Cathedrals — American woodcarving. For other exhibits and gifts of books and flowers we are indebted to: American Institute of Homeopathy — American Library Association — Mr. Hank C. Blake -- Mr. and Mrs. Leroy S. Brown — Mrs. TOWN OF LEXINGTON 171 R. P. Clapp — Commonwealth of Massachusetts — Rev. A, Z. Con- rad — Dr. L. R. G. Crandon — Mrs. H. P, Davison — Miss Martha Fairfield — First Church of Christ Scientist — Mr. George L. Gil- more -- Miss Florence Graasby — Mr. J. H. 14111 — Misses Anstisa and Mary Hunt = Miss M. P. Kirkland — Mrs. C. J. LaFrank — Lexington Girl Scouts — Lexington Historical Society — Lexington, Town of — Lexington Minute Man — Lexington Times — Mrs E. P. Merriam — Mrs. G. D. Milne — Mrs. J. L. Norris — Miss Grace B. Parr — Miss Elizabeth Pierce — Mr. Robert Perry — Dr. F. S. Piper --- Mrs. A. M. Redman — Mrs. Walter Rose — Mr. Albin Stikarofsky — Miss Florence Tryon -- United States Congress Washington American Tree Association — Mr. Hollis Webster Mr. Edwin B. Worthen. 112 ANNUAL REPORTS REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF THE CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY January 1, 1926 INCOME Balance on hand $ 1,360.4E Respectfully submitted, Dog Tax 1,333.20 Interest on checking account 34.29 MARIAN P. KIRKLAND, Invest. Com. Int. on Bonds, etc. 723.63 Librarian. Invest. Com. Int. on Brigham Fund 142.50 Fines 439.73 Total #4,033.83 EXPENDITURES January 1, 1926 Bindery $ 353.48 Books 1,423.58 Cary Maintenance 119.74 American Library Association 6,011 Massachusetts Library Art Club 6.00 Express 17.61 Music 21.02 Newspapers and Periodicals 321.06 Postage 58.64 Printing and Supplies 162.15 Safe Deposit Box 5.00 American Library Association 100.00 Supplies 6.04 Cash Balance in Bank 1,434.55 Total ¢4,033.83 EAST LEXINGTON BRANCH INCOME January 1, 1926 Balance on hand $16.21 Invest. Com, Int, on Bonds, etc. 65.60 Total $81.81 TOWN or LEXINGTON 173 174 ANNUAL REPORTS EXPENDITURES January 1, 1926 Books $76.31 Cash Balance in Bank 5.60 Total $81.81 TRUSTEES OF CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY R. MITCHELL RUSHTON, In account with Treasurer. R. M. RUSHTON, TREAS. Examined and Approved: GENERAL FUND: CHARLES F. PIERCE, Capital Account Town Accountant:. $3,000.00 Amer. Tel. & Tel. for 1926 4% 1929 Reg. Nos. 67742, 67832, 68799 $120.00 3,000.00 West End St. Ry. Co. 4% 1932 Reg Nos. 69, 70, 71 120.00 3,000.00 Boston & Maine RR 41/2 % 1944 Series AA Nos. 1474-1475-1476 135.00 2,000.00 Boston & Albany Ry. Co. 4% 1932 Reg. M 79, 80 80.00 PORTION OF MARIA CARY FUND: 354.31 Book No. 6940 Lexington Savings Bank 15.20 BOOK PURCHASE FUND: 1,000.00 Puget Sound Power Co. 5% of 1933 No. 685 50.00 BEAL FUND: 1,100.00 Laclede Gas Lt. Co. 5% 1963 M12263 See C-1949 60.50 580.70 LAURA MUZZEY BRIGHAM FUND: 1,100.00 Balt. & Ohio Ry. 4% 1941 No, 42516 40.00 1,000.00 Alabama Power Co. 5%❑ 1951 No. 2487 50.00 500.00 Boston El. Ry. Co. 5% 1942 No. 71 25.00 500.00 So. Cal. Ed. Co. 51% 1944 No. A -D 235 27.50 142.50 ALICE BUTLER CARY FUND: 1,000.00 Lex. Co-op. Bank, 5 paid-up shares $200. No. 79 1,000.00 Rock Island, La. & Ark. 41/22% 1934 No. M-4795 440.00 Lexington Trust Company Book No 4205 50.00 45.00 13.30 108.30 TOWN OF LEXINGTON 15 GOODWIN MUSICAL COLLECTION FUND: 500.00 New York Tel. Co. 6% No. A. D. 8239 30.00 30.00 JANE PHINNEY FUND: 110.00) 14.19) Lexington Trust Co. Savings Dept Book 3799 4.63 4.63 EAST LEXINGTON BRANCIH—WELLINGTON FUND: $1,000.00 Mil. El. Hy. & Lt. Co. 6% 1963 C -M 438 Called at $1,045.00, and now de- posited with Lexington Trust Co. Book No. 3844 32.18 Lexington Trust Co. Book No. 3844 to which from 1927 will be added $1,045.00 176 ANNUAL REPORTS REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PARKS December 31, 1926. To THE HONORABLE BOARD OE SELECTMEN, $60.00 LEXINGTON, MASS. Gentlemen : 1.30 I beg to submit to your Honorable Board the annual re- port of the Park Department for the year ending December 31, 1926. The money expended by this department during the past year was spent on repairs and maintenance. COMMON The usual care of fertilizing and reseeding places that had settled where the stumps of the old trees were removed was done. The settees and the cannon were given a coat of paint in the early spring. The Ilayes Fountain had to be repipcd as the old pipe had corroded. As the town grow this sacred piece of ground is being used more than ever before, therefore it needs more attention than it has had in the past. I-IASTINGS PARK This piece of ground was mowed uicl trimmed twice during the past season, and I think all will agree that for appearance sake it was well worth what little money we spent on it. CENTER PIdAYGIIOUN.D Froin April to November this is a much used place, one would not realize with such a large area how much we are in need of more level ground. If we set aside a little money every year for grading it would not be long before we had the bank near the tennis court leveled off, and that would give us twice the area that we now have. There are days when there are as many as 300 boys and girls in four or five groups. playing dif- ferent games, so you see it is necessary to have more level ground for these games. ROBBINS FUND: 100.00 Lexington Savings Bank Book No. 1476 4.30 $65-60 JAMES STUART SMITH, HOWARD S. 0. NICHOLS, ALBERT H. BURNHAM. Trustees. Examined and approved. CHARLES F. PIERCE, Town Accountant. TOWN OF LEXINGTON 177 TENNIS COURTS Our tennis courts are being used more than ever before, they are almost in continuous use from 2:30 P. M. until it is too dark to play. It is our intention to ask for a special ap- propriation for two additional courts this year and to re -wire and re -surface the courts that we now have. CINDER TRACK It is our intention to use the cinders that we receive from the high school this winter for re -surfacing and we hope that we will have enough after they are passed through a quarter - inch screen to re -surface the whole track. This will act as a binder and give us no more trouble. SWIMMING POOL Through the efforts of Mr. Mara and the good will of Mr. Ryder we were able to open up the old swimming pool. We wish to thank them both for this opportunity of giving the children a place to learn to swim where the parents know that they are under supervision. The Board of Trade are working on a plan for a new pool and perhaps this coming year they will stage another Com- munity Day and if so it would cost very little money to in- stall a pool that the town would be proud of. GRANDSTAND With very few repairs I think we can make this asset last a few more years. APPARATUS The playground apparatus is getting old and will soon have to be replaced, but by adding a piece from time to time we will soon have it in first-class condition. We are replacing the two slides this year. ROADS The road from Clarke Street to Lincoln Street is in very good condition. There has been nothing done on the road from Waltham Street to Clarke Street and I do think that if we wish to save what we have we should at least oil it this year, as in the dry part of the year the surface becomes very dusty and the wind blows it away. This road was used very much this year. DEPOT PARK This park was given its usual care, the grass has been mowed and the shrubbery has been kept well trimmed. 178 ANNUAL REPORTS ROBBINS PARK This piece of ground has been well eared for by Mr. Parker and has turned out to be a pretty spot. EAST LEXINGTON PLAYGROUND In the spring we found that the fence around the tennis court was in bad condition and had to be taken down and re- paired. We intend to re -wire and re -surface this court this coming year. INSTRUCTORS In the summer months Miss Moakley had charge of the center playground and Miss Harrington was in charge at East Lexington. The attendance was much larger this year than in the past, and this can be accounted for by the fact that we had swimming. The children from East Lexington were transported to the center playground two days a week to spend the entire day with the center playground children, and this is bound to have a good effect on all oiir children. TREES The tree warden department trimmed all the trees on our parks this past year and they are in very good shape. In closing I thank the Board and Superintendent of Public Works for their kindly consideration in the past and can assure you of receiving my best efforts in the future. Respectfully submitted, JOHN J. GARRITY, Superintendent of Parks. TOWN of LEXINGTON 179 REPORT OF WIRE INSPECTOR Lexington, Mass., December 31, 1926. To THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Gentlemen :— In compliance with Article XIX, of the ordinances of the Town governing the Wire Inspection Department, I respect- fully submit this, niv first annual report, for the six months ending December 31, 1926. Number of applications filed and permits granted 135 Number of applications filed and completed 123 Number of calls made in conneotion with inspections 168 Total amount of money In fees received $118-5U OPERATION OF THE DEPARTMENT Anyone having electric work installed must first make ap- plication for the kind of work to be installed, such as hot water heaters, electric ranges, lights, electric refrigerators or electric oil burners, as such work must be inspected. - The Edison Electric Ill, Co. will not install a meter until they receive a permit from the Wire Inspector, as it may hold up the meter installation, and so anyone having this work in- stalled should see that the Electrician has his permit from the Wire Inspector before he starts his work. CONCLUSION To the officers and members of the departments for their assistance and support at all times, 1 extend my most sincere appreciation. Respectfully submitted, Loves W. BILLS, Wire Inspector. 180 ANNUAL REPORTS REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC WORKS December 31, 1926. To THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SELECTMEN I submit my third annual report as Superintendent of Public Works. During the past year substantial improvements have been made, the duties of the various departments have been properly performed, and the general condition of the Town is excellent. Reports from all departments have been received, and are pub- lished in this Town Report. ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT This department is very important to the Town. It is called on for information and advice by many other departments and boards. Streets, water mains, sanitary and drainage sewers cannot be constructed until a survey has been made and proper plans designed. The planning of future developments must be studied, particularly in order that the grades and lines will be proper as regards other developments that may have been made, or will be made in the same vicinity. The department has been handicapped to some extent by the small force available, but as this will soon be corrected there is no reason to doubt that the work of the department will be satisfactorily accomplished. Because of other duties the department has not been able to do as much work on the Block Plan as the Board desired. Under a new system which is intended to be adopted next year, a much greater amount of work will he aceom,plished and more satisfactory results will follow. I believe this system will find marry areas which are under assessed, because of insufficient information in the assessors' records, and the completion of these plans will bring much Iarger returns to the Town in the form of taxes than it will cost to have the greater part of this work done by an engineer specially employed for this service. TOWN OF LEXINGTON 181 WATER AND SEWER DEPARTMENT The report of this department shows progress, about two and seventy-five one hundredths miles of water mains, and more than two miles of sewers having been constructed during the year. The Town has approximately forty-six miles of water mains. The main supply from the Metropolitan service is ten inch, which is inadequate, and plans should be made to construct another and larger supply. While the danger of a great fire may be remote, still it is possible, and if a break in the main supply should occur at the same time, the auxiliary supply is only six ineh, which is far too small for a dangerous emergency. At present there are three hundred and fifty sewer connec- tions, and more will be made in the early part of 1927. Sewer extensions should be made each year in order to bring parts of the Town where sewers are badly needed into the system at as early a date as passible. IIIGHWAY DEPARTMENT This department besides its usual maintenance work has constructed and finished a number of gravel streets surfaced with asphalt. This construction, the cost of which is Iow, wears very well where there is no great amount of traffic. Nine thousand and forty-five square yards of macadam pavement has been constructed by the Department during the year in Waltham Street and 14fassachusetts Avenue. In Wal- tham Street from the north side of Concord Avenue to the Wal- tham city line, all poor material was removed, and a sub -base of gravel built up, and additional drainage put in before build- ing the macadam road. The State, County, and Town each paying one-third of the cost.. Massachusetts Avenue from the Munroe Cemetery Drive to Woburn Street has also been rebuilt; curbing put in on both sides of the street in front of the High School ; grades changed ; and drainage increased. The entire expense of this work was paid for by the Town. If plans now pending are perfected, the Department will in 1927, with aid from the State and County, construct. another portion of Waltham Street, which is now in very poor condition. Massachusetts Avenue between Waltham Street and the Minute Man Statue and Bedford Street from Massachusetts Avenue to Elm Avenne are badly in need of reconstruction. The 182 ANNUM. REPORTS rough surface and the street railway tracks together with granite paving make a condition which should be permanently corrected. A number of the streets throughout the Town have very little or no sidewalks. l3ecause of the heavy automobile traffic of the present day, this condition is particularly dangerous, and should be given serious consideration by the Board, and appropriations made each year for the construction of sidewalks. One matter that needs attention is proper drainage. On Massachusetts Avenue between Middle Street and Curve Street all storm water runs on the street surface, causing considerable damage to it as well as making driving difficult and disagreeable. Many other streets are in similar condition. A special appro- priation to better the street drainage each year •would in a very few years give the Town proper storm drainage, and proper drainage will remove one cause for excessive wear and tear of the street surface. The Department has rendered excellent service this past year in promptly removing snow from the streets and in keep- ing all streets in a reasonably clear condition. 'fhe Department has available for this service fourteen pieces of motor apparatus, also two horse drawn road machines for service on streets that are unsafe for motor plows. TREE WARDEN'S AND MOTH DEPARTMENTS The shade trees of the Town are in very fine condition. They have been kept clear of the Gypsy and Browntail Moths and other pests by treatment with creosote during the winter and spring months and by spraying with arsenate of lead as early as the foliage is in proper condition. All street trees and trees in the Park lands have received this treatment and in addition to this the department has cu. out the- dead and dangerous limbs overhanging the streets, and has, with some assistance from the highway department, kept the brush cut down in the outlying streets, making them safe for traffic. PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS The Parks and Playgrounds should be further improved year by year so that places of recreation may be provided for those who enjoy sports, and sufficient space provided for the TOWN OF LEXINGTON 183 various games. We are still without proper bathing or swim- ming facilities and it seems unfortunate that nothing is being done to further this healthful and enjoyable sport. POLICE DEPARTMENT This department, consisting of eleven men, including the chief, has performed very efficiently during the year, both in regard to the handling of traffic and the subjection of crime, as will be seen from the report of the department. HEALTH DEPARTMENT In this department the piggery question has been a very great problem and is one that must be given serious considera- tion. It appears that as the population increases the situation looms that Lexington will have to follow the procedure of other towns in the Metropolitan District and refuse to issue permits for this business whichcannot be carried on with profit in a residential district. As the building of residences spreads to that part of the Town occupied by this business, the few must give way to the comfort and healthful necessities of the greater number. The people following this business should be given ample opportunity to find suitable places eleswhere, so that they may not be put to any great loss, but they must face a condition while unfortunate for the few affected, is actually retarding the growth of the Town. The inspection of milk consumed in the Town has been carefully looked after, frequent tests and reports being made as Fn purity and cleanliness. It is hoped by making some changes in the method now used, that the question of garbage colleetion in the Town can be so improved that the matter of public collection need not be seriously considered for several years. It appears that the various departments of the Town have functioned satisfactorily, that the public work completed by contractors has in every way fulfilled the specifications, and that in a general way, although the Town is growing rapidly, the best interests are being carefully guarded by the officials upon whom the responsibilities rest. WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, Superintendent of Public Works. 184 ANNUAL Hr:r1KTS REPORT OF THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN December 31, 1926. To THE CITIZENS OF LEXINGTON We are now closing another chapter in the activities of the Town of Lexington. We believe it has been one of great satis- faction to all. In a growing community where our new build- ings, mostly dwellings, amount to about one million dollars a year and this over a large territory, brings added responsibility and ever increasing problems. How to meet these conditions and extend to all new citizens of our town at least some of the utilities of an up-to-date com- munity, and yet keep our tax rate at a reasonable figure, has been a problem which your board has ever had before it. How- ever, we are grateful that in spite of the large amount of work done during the year we were able to make a slight re- duction in the tax rate. We are pleased with the way the citizens have supported the Board in their recommendations for further development of the Town during the year. If you will notice the report of the Town Accountant in regard to the town debt, yon will see that we are confining our issuing of bonds practically to three items, namely; Water, Sewer, and Schools, and we believe the time is near at hand when we shall be able to take care of our Water and Sewer ap- propriations each year as we go along. Only as we relieve our- selves of this large interest payment each year (which will be this year about thirty-eight thousand dollars) can we expect to have a tax rate which will be comfortable for ourselves and attract new citizens to come to our town and buy or build homes. With the above always in mind, your Board carried on a progressive constructive policy in all its departments, this year establishing the policy of making definite extensions in its water and sewer systems, and making continued progress in its high- way program of planning to build as mach new street each year as the Town can afford, and in this department we are asking TOWN OF LEXINGTON 185 the State and County to cooperate where it is possible. We are pleased to tell you that during the last year the State and County have spent about $65,000 on Lexington highways. In making our report we will briefly touch on the items that have been before us and refer you to the department heads for detailed reports. SEWER Early in the year in conjunction with the Planning Board, we filed a bill in the Legislature seeking an amendment to the sewer law changing the method of sewer assessments. This bill was passed early in the Spring. We withheld any pro- posals for new sewers until after this bill was passed, and be- came a law, and we are glad to report at this time that of the $39,468.72 spent for Sewer Construction under this act that about. $16,700 will he returned to the Town through the assess- ment. We believe that with quite a substantial program for 1927 that we will not be called upon to put in a large amount of sewer any year hereafter, but we do think that the Town should continue to extend sewers every year until the whole project is completed. DRAINAGE For many years we have had complaints in regard to the low land in the vicinity of Winthrop Road and Highland Avenue being flooded most of the time. At the Town Meet- ing in April your hoard asked the Town to appropriate the sum of thirteen thousand dollars to put in a proper drainage system in that location. We are glad that you carried out the sug- gestion of your Board for by your vote, you made it possible to put in a substantial drain from a point back of Winthrop Road near Vine Brook to the junction of Highland Avenue and Bloomfield Street, with proper catch basins at that point. This job vas done at a cost of $10,583.92, and we feel that we now have a proper and permanent piece of drainage con- struction installed. We believe that the time is at hand when we should take definite steps toward correcting the drainage of Vine Brook, and we are grateful that you made an appropriation at the November meeting for an engineering study of this project. We ask that you continue along definite lines until relief from this situation is received, 186 ANNEAL REPORTS WATER Our Water Department has had a very busy year. They have installed many important extensions, and have replaced some of our old 4 inch pipe with 8 inch pipe. There are a number more places in town where we will be obliged to do - this very soon. Lexington will be called on in the near future to stand a share of the cost of the so-called Swift River Water Supply Extension authorized by the Legislature of last year. The Metropolitan District Commission will collect our apportion- ment by increasing our water tax and thig additional ex- pense to the department will call for a substantial increase in water rates during the coming year. HIGHWAYS Our Highway Department has been very busy this year. We have done all our work with our own department, and have not had to let any of our work out to contract. This is• due largely to the increased equipment we have purchased for the department early in the season. The five ton Holt tractor was purchased for Highway work and snow removal. The six ton gasoline Roller has proved a, very valuable piece of equipment and the Tractor grader reeently purchased to be used for Highway work and Snow Removal is also a very efficient piece of equipment and greatly accelerates our de- partment. Besides taking care of our maintenance work, we have com- pleted Grant Street, Cliffe Avenue, Bow Street, built a part of Chase Avenue and Oakmount Circle. The last two named streets were accepted by the Town at the March Meeting. Lowell Street from East Street to the Burlington line had considerable work done on it. We were able .to get the County to con- tribute $800,00 toward repairs on this street. r With the assistance of the State and County we have built a fine piece of road from Concord Avenue to the Waltham Town Line on Waltham Street at a total cost of $13,933.55. Massachusetts Avenue in front of the High School was in need of specific repairs. The Middlesex & Boston St. Rwy. Com- pany's tracks were removed, after which we took out a lot of poor material and teamed it away. Granite curbs were placed on each side of a well constructed roadway. We feel that this work is a decided improvement to the grounds of the new High School building. TOWN OF . LEXINGTON 187 On Bedford Street, from the Colonial Garage to Lexington Lumber Company's garage, we have had. the tracks removed, poor material taken out, and subgrade put in ready to finish early in the Spring. We had many complaints about parking conditions in the centre of the Town, and Your Board had conferences ►Oith the Boston & Maine R. R. officials and made arrangements with them to repair the roadway at the expense of the Town, and use driveways in Depot Square for parking purposes. This has worked out very satisfactorily and relieves the congestion in the centre of the town, and encourages people to come to Lex- ington and trade with our merchants. There are many miles of unaccepted streets in the Town. The Board has adopted a regulation whereby a developer open- ing up land will be required to lay out and subgrade the street properly before public utilities are installed. After which if the abuttors wish to have the street accepted, the Board will recommend it to the town on condition that the abettors will pay full cost of completing construction under the Betterment Act. We hope that the abuttors on these streets will apply for some of these streets to be accepted each year. SNOW REMOVAL The year 1926 has been a difficult year to take care of snow, in the heavy snow of last winter we did not have sufficient equip- ment to take care of the snow quick enough after the storm, and as a result we had to do a lot of shovelling on many of our streets. Starting in this season we made arrangements with one com- pany to have any number of trucks up to seven when we want them. With our own tractor, plow and tractor grader, which are new, and the other pieces of equipment which we hire, we have fourteen pieces of equipment which we can always have on the streets at short notice. We believe it is economical to properly plough the streets and get the snow off before it gets packed down which shortly will make ruts and the continued traffic in one place soon wears out the street. By keeping the streets opened all the time, the Town saves the expenae of keeping horses at the Fire Department during the time when it would be impossible to operate motor apparatus. Also, nearly every one operates an automobile or merchandise is delivered to their home by auto and unless the streets are cleared promptly it creates quite a hardship. 188 ANNUAL REPORTS The Town has authorized us to give snow plow service on all streets where we can go with the snow plows. STREET LIGHTS There have been many requests for street lights during the year. We have recommended that lights be installed in all cases. This is a public utility which is not expensive to main- tain and enhances value of property and makes highways safer for travel. PARK DEPARTMENT lii the course of a. year or so new tennis courts should be laid out on the Parker Field. We have not asked for an appro- priation to do this work this year, but' feel that it should be borne in mind that this addition to the playgrounds would be a substantial improvement. ROUTINE It was felt that the town could receive some revenue from fees for inspection of buildings, thereby placing this department as much as possible on a paying basis. A. scale of fees was therefor established and $1059 was received in 1926. The salary paid the inspector was $920. This was one step established for obtaining revenue for service given. Rates were also established for fees for Plumbing Inspection permits and $3'63, was realized from this department. This de- partment is not as yet self-supporting. The Boston & Maine R. R. Company have installed an automatic tratfie signal at the Revere Street crossing. 1t is our understanding that these signals are now being operated in many parts of the country and that the railroad company are rep]aeing the crossing tenders with traffic signals wherever passible. The Police Department has been increased this year by three men who have proved their services to be very satisfactory. An examination for Sergeant of Police was held this year and the Board appointed John C. Russell to that office. The organization of this department in this manner gives a better opportunity for co-operation in the departmental work. The problem of parking in the centre of the town is one which is not as yet solved. To relieve this situation, however, TOWN o' LEXINGTON 189 the Board installed three 1,000 candle power lights in Depot Park, and feel that the townspeople can now park their cars there at night in perfect safety. The bus situation is one over which considerable time has been spent. Several applications have been made for bus lines in the Town. The Board is giving this matter a great deal of thought as we recognize that the future of our town depends largely upon proper transportation. Two items of importance in the activities of the year are the acceptance of chapter 263 of the Acts of 1926 being an act relative to improving surface and ground drainage, and of chap- ter 221 of the Acts of 1926 being an act to change the method of sewer assessment in the Town. Copies'of these Acts will be found under "Acts of the Legislature Accepted". The new office of Wire Inspector was established this year, and the Board was very fortunate in securing the services of Louis W. Bills for Inspector. Wiring is an important part of building construction although it has never been recognized in this town until this year. BOARD OF HEALTH The duties of this department are far more numerous than the average person would expect, We regret fo acknowledge that our town is far behind many towns in the progress on health work. With a view to getting some inspections of health conditions, the Board appointed Russell I. Prentiss as Health Inspector. Mr. Prentiss is especially well fitted for this work both from the standpoint of education and of training. The case of Miskell vs the Town of Lexington has been one of interest to both pig owners and residents of the Town. It is our understanding that this case is to go to the Supreme Court for final decision. Several requests were made to the Board for Town Collec- tion of garbage. This question has been referred to Committees of the Town and their recommendations were that too much expense would be involved. We felt that the opinion of the property owners could be more definitely obtained by sending each owner a questionnaire, asking their opinion upon town col- lection of garbage. This was done and out of 1625 cards only 528 were returned. Of this number 334 favored town garbage collection, 145 did not, 22 were satisfied with present arrange - w 190 ANNUAL. REPORTS ments and 17 were indifferent. It would also rather infer that the other 1097 who did not return cards were also not interested in town collection. The Board believes that for the present arrangements may be made with the local collectors to readjust routes so that the town can be more comfortably taken care of, and we believe that this can be worked out satisfactorily and will save the town expense of garbage collection. OVERSEERS OF THE POOR • Aid has been extended to 87 persons during the year 1926. Of that number 36 persons were discharged to care of themselves, one died and one was adopted. The. total amount spent this year was $7,307.11 averaging $83.99 per person. The expenses of this department and reimbursement has been as follows: • 1926 Gross $7,301.11 State Net Expense reimbursement to town $1,075.77 $4.948.77 Ind Ividuals 47.06 From cities and towns 1,235.51 $2,358.34 There is a considerable reduction in the amount of aid rendered this year and this is very gratifying. It is a symbol of prosperous times, and times when persons desire to do all they can to be self supporting. There seems to be plenty of work for everyone and therefore illness and old age seem to be almost the only legitimate reasons for aid being rendered. Families of widows, unprovided for, must of course be cared for inasmuch as proper care will tend toward better manhood and womanhood, Too much assistance can do a great deal of harm as the morale of the family may then be destroyed. Families willing to make every effort to care for themselves are far better citizens. Then, too, the burden of the tax payer is also lessened. Included in the expense of this department is the board of two inmates at the Somerville Almshouse. We regret that owing to the mental condition, one inmate had to be removed to an- other institution. We feel that if charity organizations and churches cooperate with the Overseers of the Poor a more constructive policy of rendering aid may be arrived upon. TowN of LEXINGTON 191 CONCLUSION We cannot close this report without saying a word of com- mendation for the faithful performance in their official duties of all our superintendents and clerks and to all employees for cooperation in helping to make this a very satisfactory year in all departments. We thank you one and all. Respectfully submitted, THEODORE A. CUSTANCE, Chairman. ALBERT H. BURNHAM, CHARLES H. MILTS, WILLIAM H. BALLARD, JAMES G. ROBERTSON. 192 ANNUAL REPORTS LIST OF JURORS AS SUBMITTED BY THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN OF THE TOWN OF LEXINGTON 1926 Andrews, William H.....Salesman Raymond St. Ashley, Harold C. Laborer 77 Highland Ave. Bailey, Fred Printer Waltham St. Baker, Edward W. rDraftsman 192 Mass. Ave. l3alougb, William J. ....Carpenter Fattier Ave. Bartlett, Fred Retired 72 Bedford St. Bean, George W. Laborer Bedford St, Beatty, Walter S. Banker 53 Waltham St. Bowker, Henry Interior Decorator Baker Ave. Bramhall, William S._Salesman parker St, Breed, Ezra F. Plumber 12 Bloomfield St. Bull, Leslie A. Farmer 83 Hancock St, Burro!, William L. Artist ,Summit Rd. Cameron, Donald Carpenter iCarville Ave. Clarke, Richard Clerk 34 Forest St. Cole, George F. Conductor Bedford St, Collins, John Printer 100 Chase Ave. Drew, Carl I. Clerk 212 Mass, Ave. Emery, George W. Salesman 42 Somerset Rd ............. Engstrom, Richard Chemist 8 Eliot Rd. Fernald, Robert W. ....Banker ..2 Washington St. Flint, Herbert A. Foreman Carvllle Ave, Flynn, Patrick Stone Mason Bowker St. Foster, George Billing Clerk 10 Plainfield St. French, Prescott E. ....Engineer 98 Hancock St. Garmon, Roland E. Clerk 167 Mass. Ave. GIidden, Harvey L. ...,.,Salesman 238 Mass. Ave, Harlow, George H. Retired Woburn St, Harrington, Bartlett, J'. .Contractor 11 Curve St. Harrington, Charles H... Painter 19 Grant St• Haynes, Alfred E. Woodworker 25 Hill St. TOWN OF LEXINGTON Hayden, J. Willard, JrMerchant Henrich, Charles J. Machinist Houghton, Randall WVice President Jenks, Thomas L. Joy, Charles R. Retired Kew, Walter H. Carpenter King, Henry M. Motorman Kraetzer, Eugene G. Clerk Locke, Errol H. Radios 193 Shade St. Drew Ave. 16 Oakland St. Tailor Concord Ave. 139 Mass. Ave. 16 Curve St. 9 Cliffe Ave. 9 Forest St. Ahhott Rd. Supplies 18 Winthrop Rd. 16 Independence Rd, .... 297 Mass. Ave. 148 Mass. Ave. Grant St. Concord Ave. 45 Hancock St. 15 Winthrop Rd. prorth St, Locke, Frank H. Plumbers Longbottom, Walter Conductor Love, Henry D. Merchant Lowell, Joseph B. Salesman Mahey, Edison R. Trucking MacFarland, Samuel H,Cutter Macurda, William E. -,-,Merchant Maddisun, Arthur N. ....Real Estate Broker Manning, Stephen B....:Watchmaker Matshail, William J. ----Conductor Mason, Richard W. Chauffeur 9 Independence Ave. ,... 31 Somerset Rd. ......50 Waltham St. 6 Stetson St. 40 Middle St. Lowell St. Mclntoch, Charles W. --Purchasing Agent . Merriam, Robert C. Manufacturing Mongeon, Louis F. Dentist Munroe, Howard M. Farmer Murphy, H. Dudley Artist Muszey, Clifford L. Clerk Nichols, Ernest O. Salesman ,Summit Rd. 14 Glen Rd. 21 Hayes Ave. ,Pleasant St. 12 Warren St. 229 Mass. Ave. 9 Oakland St. 2 Hill St. 7 Franklin Rd. 57 Meriam St. 17 Winthrop Rd. s'n,310 Mass. Ave, p1 Somerset Rd. •.. ....... •. ,Bedford St. Nickerson, James A.....Real Estate Parsons, Galt A. Con. Engineer Peirce, Frank D. .......,Retired Perkins, George EMachlnist Pike, Franklin H. ........Accountant Reed, Kelsey G, Dye Business Recd, William W. Real Estate Rowse, Walter W.... Dye Business Shepard, Frank R. Vice Pres. Baking A Shurtleff, Wm. H. J rClerk Smith. Charles F. Farmer Stone, George E. Retired 20 Bloomfield St. 520 Mass. Ave, 46 Bedford St. 10 Washington St. 526 Mass, Ave. 23 Hancock St............ 354 Mass. Ave. Fletcher Ave. Streeter, George H Salesman Swan, Joseph ................Real Estate Tellier, Arthur Salesman Tenney, Rockwell C. ----Treasurer Wadman, Wesley T. ....Builder Walsh, James J. JJotton Merchant W ich er t, Charles J. --Machinist 194 ANNUAL REPORTS Wilson, J. Alexander .... Retired , 29 Pleasant St. Willard, John . Farmer North, St. Young, Earle P. Butcher Laconia St. THEODORE A. CUSTANCE, CHARLES H. MILES, ALBERT H. BURNHAM, JAMES G. ROBERTSON, WILLIAM H. BALLARD, Selectmen of Lexington. Lexington, June 22, 1926. Town OF LEXINGTON 195 REPORT OF THE PLANNING BOARD FOR THE YEAR 1926 As in previous years, the Planning Board has met two or three times a month through all but the midsummer months, and has been called upon to consider the usual variety of prob- lems. The Board has bean seriously handicapped in its work by lack (If sufficient engineering assistance. Unless additional as- sistance can be furnished, the Planning Board will be unable to protect the Town as it should be protected against ill consid- ered and destructive development. In the opinion of the Board, the Town should provide an engineering force of not less than six men, a thoroughly ex- perienced engineer whose experience and judgment would eom- mand a salary of from four to five thousand dollars a year,— one competent to consider the various problems in a large way and to suggest plans for solving them; a second competent engi- neer, and at least four men capable of doing field work and drafting. Such a force would be capable of furnishing all en- gineering data required by the Town in connection with water, sewer, highway and other work, and could also supply what would be required by the Planning Board to perrnit that Board to control development of the Town in various directions, and would also be able to block the Town for purposes of assessing valuations, all at a much lower cost than will result if the Town is to go outside to private firms, as will otherwise inevitably be necessary in specific instances, and without obtaining anything like the same results. Any money spent on engineering during the next ten or fifteen years will, in the opinion of the Board, be more than made up to the Town during the same period and in the years fol- lowing. In our report for the year 1925 it was stated that the Board felt the Town to be insufficiently protected in the matter of provisions governing acceptance of streets, and stated its pur- pose to propose an amendment to the by-laws to meet the sit- uation. Such an amendment to the by-laws was proposed to the 196 ANNUAL REPORTS Town at the March meeting, but was lost. We are glad to say, however, that the Selectmen subsequently adopted a set of rules defining the requirements and rules of procedure for acceptance of streets which, to a large degree, provides what was sought to Fe had by an amendment to the by-laws. Considerable attention has been given to the matter of a selection of site for additional school buildings, in pursuance of request from the Selectmen, and the Board is about ready to make definite recommendations with respect thereto. The bills for amending the Drainage Act and to correct the method of assessing costs for sewer extensions, referred to in our 1925 report, both became laws during the year 1926, much of the time of the Planning Board having been required in assisting the framing of the bills to meet the requirements of the Legislature and in securing the passage of the same. The Town has already benefited to the extent of many thousands of dollars as the result of the new method of sewer assessments. In connection with the drainage of the lower areas and particularly those to the south of Massachusetts Avenue drained by Vine Brook, a responsible firm of private engineers have been engaged to make necessary surveys and to present a preliminary report presenting tentative plans for draining the lowlands and reclaiming substantial areas for building purposes and, to that end, deepening Vine Brook where it passes under Massachusetts Avenue and the railroad, and to furnish preliminary plans and estimates of cost which, it is hoped, will be laid before the Town during the spring or summer of 1927 for definite action by the Town. Mr. A. A. Shurtleff, landscape architect, is cooperating with the engineers, and it is hoped that, sumultaneously with the engineers' report upon the drainage, for building purposes, there may be presented to the Town a comprehensive plan for improving the park area, which, if adopted, will make certain that any fillings or roadways done or built hereafter shall be in pursuance of definite plans, so that no money will be wasted. The amendment to the Drainage Law above referred to, pro- vides for assessment of betterments to cover the cost of this drainage and improvement work, if and when the same is car- ried out. The Planning Board obtained the necessary releases to make possible the establishment of a building line from and including the Town Hall Iot to Fletcher Avenue on the northerly side of Massachusetts Avenue, whereby the Town is protected against TowN of LExINOTON 197 new building construction that would add to the cost of widening the avenue to a full hundred feet, should it ever be deemed necessary to have the avenue so widened. The Planning Board is now at work upon the establish- ment of further building lines in the business zones on Massa- chusetts Avenue, with a like end in view, Among other matters considered by the Board, usually upon petition of interested property owners, are the following What is known as the Trebino development on Utiea Street, definite recommendation made; proposed extension of business zone on Waltham Street near Vine Brook Road, adversely reported and dropped; business zone at Lowell and North Streets, upon which hearing was granted, favorably recommended and passed by the Town ; what is known as the Swan develop- ment at Vine Street and Hayes Lane, still under consideration; East Street improvement and new road from Adams Street to North Hancock Street, the latter definitely recommended; the matter of additional filling stations at Grape Vine Corner on the Capper property, suggestions submitted; W. P. Gorman de- velopment, Lexington Park, still under consideration; Hinehey Road, North Lexington ; Meady and Gorman land. at Reed and Bedford Streets, still under consideration; business zone at Massachusetts Avenue and Marrctt Street, hearing granted and adversely recommended; Bacon property, Maple Street, still under consideration; and business zone at 115 Massachusetts Avenue upon petition of Justin Shea, hearing granted and ad- versely recommended. The important subject of through traffic highway devel- opment is still held up for want of adequate engineering data, and must be held up until such data is obtained, and this notwith- standing it is one of the most important features for the Town to consider for control of future developments. The Board has recommended to the Selectmen the estab- lishment by the County Commissioners of numerous street lines, all for protection of the Town and individual property owners in connection with further building on those streets. The administration of the Zoning By -Law is definitely placed in the hands of the Building Inspector, and requires careful con- sideration by that inspector. The necessary service cannot be had for the small sum—less than one thousand dollars, now paid for Building Inspector. In our opinion, two thousand dollars should be appropriated for the purpose. It is recom- mended that the scale of fees charged for building permits be 198 ANNUAL REPORTS raised, so as to make possible the payment of the sum here recommended, otherwise the full benefits of the Zoning Law wili not be obtained. This report is closed, as it was begun, with an earnest plea to the Town to appropriate the necessary sum for an adequate engineering force, in order that the Town's development may be made to fit the requirements of the Town rather than to modify the Town's requirements to fit the haphazard development by individuals. December 31, 1926, Respectfully submitted, FREDERICK L. EMERY, Chairman, EDWIN B. WORTHEN. J. HENRY DUFFY. C. EDWARD GLYNN. ARTHUR W. FREEMAN. WILLIAM D. MILNE, Clerk. TOWN of LEXINGTON 199 REPORT OF TOWN TREASURER Lexington, Mass., December 31,1926. To THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN Gentlemen : X herewith present my report as Treasurer of the own of Lexington for the year 1926. Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1926. Receipts during the year $ 182,684.81 1,284,478.16 $1,467,162.97 Expenditures $1,346,479.08 Cash on hand, Jan. 1, 1927 120,683.89 $1,467,162.97 Respectfully submitted, JOHN H. KANE, Town Treasurer. 200 ANNUAL REPORTS TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC TRUSTS of the Town of Lexington Financial Report 1926 FINANCIAL REPORT TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC TRUSTS 1 9 2 Eleanor S. Beals Legacy— Eleanor S. Adams, born in Lexington in 1825, Tinder her will a legacy of $2,000 was given the town, the income to be used for worthy indigent aged men and women over sixty years of age, Ameri- can born. Principal Account ... Principal invested in $2,000 City of Lynn 4s Income Account Receipts Interest en 2,000 City of Lynn 4s Lexington Savings Back $80-00 6.43 Payments Balance Dec. 31, 1925 $2,000.00 2,000.00 86.43 135.62 Balance Dee. 31, 1926 222.05 Harriet R. Dilutor Legacy— Harriet Robinson, born in Lexington, Nov. 5, 1806. Under her will a leg- acy of $600 was left to the town, the income to be used for the benefit of the poor of the town. Principal Account $500.00 Principal deposited in Lexington Savings Bank 500.00 Income Account TOWN OF LEXINGTON Receipts Interest Lexington Savings Bank Payments Balance Dec. 31, 1925 Balance Dee. 31, 1926 •O8ar les 10. French Legacy -- Charles E. French, a citizen of Boston, but a lover of Lexington. Under his will 34,000 was left to the town, the income of 32,000 to be devoted to the care of the Colonial Cemetery, and the income o1 32,000 for three medals in each of the public high and grammar schools for the best scholarship in the graduat- ing classes. Principal Account (as reported in 1925) Principal invested in 4,000 Town of Lexington 4s 34,000.00 North Avenue Savings Bank, Cam b. Income Account—Cemetery Recelpt.s Interest on 2,000 Lexington 4s 201 23.42 45.63 69.05 34,510.00 510.00 4,510.00 80.00 Lexington Savings Bank 4.71 84.71 Payments Cash paid to Cemetery Commissioners Excess of Payments Balance Dec. 31, 1925 Balance Dec. 31, 1926 100.00 15.29 141.45 128.16 202 ANNUAL REPORTS Income Account—Schools Receipts Interest on 2,000 Lexington 48 North Avenue Savings Bank Payments Cash paid for medals Excess of Receipts Balance Dec. 31, 1925 Balance Dec. 31, 1926 Jonas Gammell Legacy— Jonas Gammell, born in Lexington, Oct. 10, 1820. A clause iii his will gave to Lexington 3500 the income to be ex- pended for delicacies and luxuries for the inmates of the Almshouse. Principal Account Principal deposited in Lexington Savings Bank Income Account Receipts Interest, Lexington Savings Bank Pa3 ments Cash paid for goods for Almshouse Excess of payments Balance Dec. 31, 1925 Balance Dec. 31, 1926 George O. Smith Legacy— George O. Smith, born in Lexington. January 5, 1832. Under his will a leg- acy of 32,500 was given to Lexington, •the income to be expended by the Field and Garden Club. Principal Account (as reported 1925) 80.00 12.75 92.75 90,00 2.75 59.63- 62.38 9.83 62.38 ;500.00 500.00 29.11 32.19 3.08 189.04 185.96 32,452.50• TOWN OF LEXINGTON Principal invested as under: 2,000 U. S. 4th Liberty 4 1-4s (cost) $1,878.85 Deposited in Lexington Sav- ings Bank 573.65 Income Account Receipts Interest 2,000 U. S. 4th 4 1-4s Lexington Savings Bank Payments 203 2,452.50 85.00 25.46 110.46 Cash paid to Lexington Field and Garden Club Excess of Receipts Balance Dec. 31, 1925 Balance Dec. 31, 1926 CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS Receipts Frank E. Clarke Leroy Ford Granville Winship C. W. Blanchard ,. Edward Winship Amount of Funds, Dec. 31, 1925 Amount of Funds, Dec. 31, 1926 Income Account Receipts, Interest, Lexington Savings Bank Warren Institution for Savings Payments Cash paid to Cemetery Commissioners 110.00 .46 2.60 3.06 $100.04 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 500.00 24,285.00 24,785.00 204 ANNUAL REPORTS Balance, Dee. 31, 1925 Balance, Dec. 31, 1926 Hayes Fountain Fund - A balance remaining after the erection of the Hayes Fountain of $862.72 by a vote of the town a permanent fund was erected, the income to be available for the care of the fountain and the grounds around it. Principal Account Principal deposited in Lexington Savings Bank Income Account: Receipts Interest Lexington Savings Bank Payments Balance Dec. 31, 1925 ..... Balance Dec. 31, 1926 3,263.59 3,350.66 862.72 862.72 44.22 120.86 165.18 LEXINGTON HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND Balance Dec. 31, 1925, as reported Receipts Interest 100 U. S. 2nd 4 1-4s 4.25 Lexington Savings Bank 4.20 Invested as under: Note of James A. Collins 100 U. S. 2nd 4 1-4s Lexington Savings Bank 100.00 100.00 11.85 $203.40 8.45 211.85 211.86 1845.56 PERPETUAL CARE FUND-WESTVIEW CEMETERY 341.51 1,187.07 1,100.00 Balance ae reported Dec. 31, 1925 Receipts Town Treasurer $4,718.00 677.00 Excess of Receipts 87.07 Balance Dec. 31, 1926 6,396.00 TOWN or LEXINGTON Income Account Balance as reported Dec. 31, 1925 Receipts Interest, Warren Institution for Savings 205 448.09 328.76 206 ANNUAL REPORTS Income Account Receipts Interest on 1,000 Baltimore & Ohio 5s 50.00 Payments Balance Dec. 31, 1926 776.85 Cash paid for prizes 50.00 BATTLEGREEN TRUST FUND 00.00 At the Town Meeting, June 25, 1925, it was Voted: That the sum of Five Hundred Dollars received by the Town under the will of the late Orin W. Fiske be appropriated and set apart as a per- petual trust fund, to be known as the Battlegreen Trust Fund. Principal, as reported Dec. 31, 1925 Principal deposited in Cambridge Sav- ings Bank, Cambridge, Mass. Income Account Receipts Interest, Cambridge Savings Bank Payments $500.00 500.00 21.03 Balance Dec. 31, 1926 21.08 Hallie C. Blake Prize Fund -- $1,000 was endowed in 1920 the income to be expended annually in two cash prizes to the two seniors (a boy and a girl) in each successive graduating class of the Lexington Iligh School, who by example and influence have shown highest qualities of Ieadership, conduct and character and who possess in the largest measure the good will of the student body. Principal Fund (cash received from Hallie C. Blake) $1,000.00 Principal Invested in: 1,000 Baltimore & Ohio RR Pref. & Gen. 5s Dec. 1995 1,000.00 VETERANS MEMORIAL FUND Balance, as reported Dec. 31, 1925 Principal $3,617.89 Income 71.95 Income in 1926 Interest, Warren Inst. for Savings Lexington Savings Bank 3,689.84 46.01 32.88 78.89 3,768.73 Principal and Income paid over to Town Treas„ May 26, 1926 3,768.73 FRANK D. PEI$c2, JOHN F. TURNER, Trustees of the Public Trusts. Examined and approved CHARLES F. Pik.RCE, Town Accountant. TOWN OF LEXINGTON •207 REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRIDGE CHARITABLE FUND -1926 Samuel J. Bridge, a descendent of Lex- ington, made a gift to the town in 1880 of $2,000 with the proviso that two- thirds of the income should be added to the principal each year until the fund should amount to $4,000 when the entire income should be available for assisting the indigent poor of the town. Amount of fund, as reported in 1925 $3,978.50 Invested as under: -- 2,000 U. S. 4th Liberty 4 1-4s $1,878.85 2,000 Lawrence Gas Co. 4 1-2s 1,977.60 Lexington Savings Bank 122.05 3,978.50 Note: Principal of this fund reached $4,000 in 1910, but suffered a loss of $27.50 in 1919 in the sale of 2,000 Quincy 4s. These bonds were replaced by 2,000 U. S. 3rd 4 1-4s costing 51,878.85. As tha present market value of the T.F. S. bonds is more than 52,000, the fund is more than restored. BRIDGE FUND INCOME ACCOUNT 1926 Receipts Interest, 2,000 Lawrence Gas 41/2s 2,000 U. S. 4th 43/4s Lexington Savings Bank Income from Gerry Fund Interest 1,600 U. S. 4th 414 650 U. S. 3rd 41,4.s Lexington Savings Bank 90.00 85.00 14.08 189.08 68.00 27.63 1.28 96.91 285.99 208 ANNUAL, REPORTS Payments Cash paid for charitable purposes , Excess of payments Balance Dec. 31, 1925 Balance Dec. 31, 1926 Elizabeth B. Gerry Fund— Elizabeth Bridge Whitcomb, born in Lexington. Jan. 15, 1814. At her death, leaving no will and no direct de- scendents, by an act of the Legislature in 1885 her property was given to the town and by a vote of the town be- came a part of the Bridge Charitable Fund. Balance of Fund Invested as under - 299.47 13.48 283.23 269.75 82,043.87 1.600 U. S. 4th 4'4s $1,387.28 650 U. 8. 3rd 4Vis 628.33 Lexington Savings Bank 30.26 2,043.87 FRANK 1). PEIRCE, JOFHN F. TURNER, Trustees of Bridge Charitable Fund. TOWN OF LEXINGTON 209 REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT Treasurers Receipts TAXES CURRENT YEAR Polls $3,214.00 Personal Property 53,063.76 Real Estate 360,711.34 $416.989.10 210 ANNUAL REPORTS Bowling and Billiards 25.00 Milk and Oleomargarine 29.50 Slaughtering 357.10 Theatre 25.00 Busses 120.00 Wire 11&50 P1unthing 363.00 Building 1,059.00 Marriage 80.00 All others 269.50 $2,79L60 FINES Police Court ;1,784.05 PREVIOUS YEAR GRANTS AND GIFTS Polls 654.00 County of Middlesex (Dog Lieensee) $1,333.20 Personal Property 12,405.74 Estate of Ellen E. Harrington 65.22 Real Estate 113,106.58 $1,398.42 $126,166.22 FROM COMMONWEALTH Corporation Tax (1924) .19 Corporation Tax (1925) 384.63 Corporation Tax (1926) 6,940.65 Income Tax (1923) 261.00 Income Tax (1924) 330.60 Income Tax (1925) 930.00 Income Tax (1926) 33,307.37 Land 79.34 Soldiers' Exemption 46.94 Bank Tax (1924) 117 Bank Tax (1926) 627.39 Trust Company Tax (1926) 5,595.10 Income (General School Fund) 1926 14,030.00 Street Railway Tax (1926) 15.02 $62,549.90 LICENSES Liquor $3.00 dunk 300.00 Pedlars 26.00 Sunday 16.00 OTHER GENERAL REVENUE City of Cambridge (Tax) 1926 $463.63 SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS Sewer (1925) $11.25 Sewer (1926) 5,940.84 Sewer (In advance) 556.08 $6,508.17 Highway Betterments (1926) $2,377.83 DEPARTMENTAL GENERAL GOVERNMENT TREASURER Fees $42.00 COLLECTOR Certificates 48.00 Fees 64.00 Returned premium on bond 50.00 4122.00 TOWN OF LEXINGTOti 211 212 ANNUAL REPORTS TOWN CLERK SEWER MAINTENANCE Pole location fees $11.25 Connections and rentals $8,397.10 Recording mortgages 92.17 Building and Zoning Laws 31.00 HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT Sundry Fees 16.25 Sale of material $32.00 $150.67 Sale of horse 50.00 TOWN HALL Damage to Beacon Light 25.00 Telephone calls $7 fi5 Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Waltham Street) 5,000.00 Middlesex County (Waltham Street) 5,000.00 Rent 339.50 Middlesex County (Lowell Street) 800.00 $347.15 $10,907.00 SELECTMEN Advertising $29.00 LAW Costa $28.00 PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY POLICE DEPARTMENT Telephone calls ;.90 Junk 42.55 $43.45 FIRE DEPARTMENT CHARITIES OUTSIDE AID Reimbursement from individuals MOTHERS' AID $47.06 Reimbursement from cities and towns $1,235.51 Reimbursement from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1,075.77 SOLDIERS' BENEFITS Reimbursement from Commonwealth of Massachusetts $2,311.28 Rent of Village Hall $125.00 (State Aid 1925) $390.00 INSPECTION SCHOOLS Sealer of Weights and Measures, fees $89.56 Commonwealth of Massachu.etts Vocational Schools Tuition $250.01 FORESTRY Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Wards Tuition 844.44 Moth and other Insect Extermination Commonwealth of Massachusetts reimbursement $51.25 Commonwealth of Massachusetts Evening Schools Tuition 97.12 HEALTH AND SANITATION Town of Burlington. Tuition 2.811.34 HEALTH DEPARTMENT Town of Bedford. Tuition 8,484.07 Rent of School Auditorium 272.80 Individuals reimbursement $10.00 Sale of books 15.75 Telephone calls 10.70 DENTAL CLINIC Reimbursement ;119.00 $12,786.23 TOWN OF LEXINGTON WATER DEPARTMENT Metered rates Schedule rates Sale of material Services Guarantees M1ece11aneous CEMETERIES MUNROE CEMETERY Care of lots and graves Interments, etc. WESTVIEW CEMETERY Sale of Iota and graves Interments, etc. Interest MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS 213 $31,871.90 2,960.00 918.91 6,299.15 1,941.82 1,010.26 214 ANNUAL REPORTS AGENCY, TRUST AND INVESTMENT Veterans Memorial Fund (Trustees of Public Trusts) $3,617.89 Munroe Cemetery, perpetual care funds 500.00 Westview Cemetery, perpetual care funds 785.00 REFUNDS $4,902.89 $45,002.04 Taxes $1,278.07 Libraries 2.00 Westview Cemetery 282.00 Water Department 133.44 Snow Removal 38.99 Insurance 264.38 $747.00 Fire 306.00 30.00 Health 30.00 Election and Registration ......... 6.00 $1,053.00 Sewer Construction 333.25 $1,869.50 199.50 28.61 $2,097.61 $2,443.04 Total Receipts, 1926 $1,284,478.16 Balance on hand, January 1, 1926 182,684.81 $1,467,162.97 EXPENDITURES DEPARTMENTAL GENERAL GOVERNMENT SELECTMEN Temporary loans (Anticipation of Revenue) $476,000.00 p Selectmen reimbursement for cost and expenses 1926.... $250.00 Sewer loan 50,000.00 Water loans 39,300.00 Clerk 1,536.15 Premium o:z loans 823.19 Clerical assistance 621.33 Stationery and postage 530.57 $564,523.19 Printing and advertising 327.25 Services of Constable 8.00 INTEREST Services of checkers 10.00 Furniture and fixtures 24.31 Deposits $3,137.77 Badges 12.16 Accrued 25,55 Sundries 17.61 Taxes 3,889.08 Sewer 34.16 $3,337.38 Highway Betterments 10.17 BY-LAWS Tax titles 135.87 Accrued, Water Department 48.18 Printing $96.00 Veterans Memorial Fund (Trustees of Public Trusts) 150.84 ACCOUNTANT DEPARTMENT $7,431.62 Accountant's salary $2,500.00 TOWN OF LEXINGTON 215 Printing, stationery and postage 178.23 216 ANNUAL REPORTS Witness fees Analyses, etc. 100.00 303.30 $2,678.23 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Auditing Municipal -.. $1,924.30 Accounts Tax $1.440.62 Treasurer's sral&ry TREASURER'S DEPARTMENT Printing, stationery and postage Bond COLLECTOR'S DEPARTMENT Collector's salary Clerical services Printing, stationery and postage Bonds ASSESSORS' DEPARTMENT Salaries of Assessors Salary of Assistant Assessor Clerk Stationery and postage Printing and Advertising Real 'Estate Transfers Furniture and Fixtures $700.00 74.39 165.00 TOWN CLERK'S DEPARTMENT Salary of Town Clerk Printing, stationery and postage Bond $939.39 ELECTION AND REGISTRATION $1,900.00 157.50 341.05 341.25 $2.739.80 $375.00 2,340.00 1,040.00 107.53 245.00 115.95 70.50 OTHER FINANCE OFFICES AND ACCOUNTS Printing and certifying securities issued APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE Stationery, printing and postage LAW DEPARTMENT Salary of Town Counsel Recording Professional services Printing, stationery and postage $4.293.98 $267.29 $131.69 $500.00 86.50 925.50 9.00 Registrar's salaries Election officers Printing. stationery and postage Meals Booth lights Services of Constable Sundries SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC WORKS Salary of Superintendent Stationery, printing and postage Bond Sundries ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT Salary of Engineer Field and office supplies Clerks Transportation Traveling expense TOWN HALL Janitor Sub Janitor Labor Fuel Light $1,700.00 130.14 4.00 $1,834.14 $150.00 613.00 499.71 6.30 26.22 23.00 23.61 $1.341.84 $4,200.00 68.95 3.00 12.21 $4,284.16 $2,033.34 679.05 4,573.83 139.44 42.14 $7,467.80 $1,462.50 48.00 12.00 1,572.57 293.77 1 TowN OF LExlNoToh 217 218 ANNUAL REPQR'I's .Janitor's supplies 123.08 Equipment for men 10.20 Repairs 337.61 Alarm boxes. etc. 1,309.48 Telephones 490.03 Shop equipment, tools 93.74 Sewer and Water 150.89 Maintenance of Chief's car 200.00 Sundries 34.98 Fuel 381.23 Light 228.35 $4,525.43 MAINTENANCE OF BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS PLANNING BOARD Repairs $318.25 Massachusetts Federation of Planning I3oards $20.00 Furniture and furnishings 87.29 Advertising 6.00 Laundry work 123.24 Water and Sewer rates 41.93 826.00 Stationery, printing and postage 26.72 PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY Telephones 125.42 POLICE DEPARTMENT Power for blowing whistle 55.00 Salaries: Janitor's supplies 26.72 Chief $2,312.28 Sundries 9.75 Patrolmen 17,337.75 Special police 874.01 $26,396.67 Other employees 9.25 Hydrant service 12,860.00 Fire Prevention Tax 112.03 $20,533.29 Auto -service 7.50 $29.368.70 Medica] attendance 234.86 (VILLAGE HALL FIRE STATION) Equipment and repairs 1,763.12 Light 158.48 Fuel $252.84 Repairs, building 16.78 Light 3,99 Stationery, printing and postage 88.89 Janitor 100.00 Telephones 806.91 Repairs » 111.84 Meals for officers 19.50 Janitor's supplies 5.75 Sundries 46.57 FIRE DEPARTMENT Salaries: Engineers Regular men •Call men Other employees Lunches EQUIPMENT AND REPAIRS Apparatus Hose $474.42 $23,675.90 FIRE ALARM SYSTEM (CONNECTING WI'T'H ARLINGTON) Contract $980-00 $725.00 16,723.45 2,218.97 22.75 $19,690.17 .50 $2.017.57 1,652.13 FIRE ALARM BOXES (INSTALLATION OF FIVE) Contraet $875.00 INSPECTION OF BUILDINGS Salary of Inspector $920.00 Stationery and printing 13.50 Bond 2.50 TOwN OF LEXINGTON 219 220 ANNUAL R1 VOWS Drugs and medicines 7.44 INSPECTION OF WIRES Printing, stationery and postage 164.34 Salary of Inspector $350.00 Express and telephones 35.21 Stationery and printing 23.50 Auto service 1.00 Medical attendance 209.00 $373.60 SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES $616.99 Salary of Sealer $250.00 Printing, stationery and postage 43.75 Auto service 37.10 • Equipment and repairs 7.41 MOTH AND INSECT SUPPRESSION CONTAGIOUS DISEASES Hospitals $661.00 Cities and towns 233.94 Summer camp at Sharon 290.00 $338.26 $1,184.94 Equipment and repairs $326.02 Burying dead animals 11.00 Salary of Superintendent $1,642.38 Sundries 89.65 Labor 1,563.69 Equipment and repairs Insecticides Teams Carriage hire SHADE TREES Labor Hardware and tools Trees FOREST FIRES Fighting fires Telephone Transportation Equipment and repairs DOG OFFICER Officer's salary HEALTH AND SANITATION Salary Agent Salary of Inspector $3,206.07 243.78 264.20 159.76 16.50 $3,879.30 VITAL STATISTICS Birth returns Death returns INSPECTION $1,611.61 19.25 22.00 $41.25 Plumbing Inspector's salary $820.00 $934.23 Inspector of Animals. salary 200.00 22.20 Inspector of Slaughtering, salary 600.00 43.00 Inspector of Milk, salary 300.00 Stationery and printing 17.00 $999.43 Analyses 165.00 Sundries 27.20 4320.00 52.3'2 $2,069.20 8.0DENTAL CLINIC 56.89 Dentist $1,100.00 Assistant 300.00 $437.21 $1,400.00 $50.00 Supplies 201.85 Stationery and printing 5,00 Laundry 33.63 $50.00 150.00 $1.640.48 TOWN OF LEXINGTON 221 LOWERING BROOKS Labor SEWER MAINTENANCE $335.07 222 ANNUAL REPORTS Pipe and fittings 2,054.19 Other material 438.32 $5,438.11 HIGHWAY (MAINTENANCE) Salary of Superintendent $930.00 Clerks 169.17 Salary of Superintendent $1,825.00 Stationery, printing and postage 90.77 Labor 16,648.31 Telephone 4.55 Water Rates 9,65 Labor 7,109.89 Light 6.89 Excess deposits returned 122.57 Tools and equipment 511.46 818,489,95 Pipe and fittings 32.65 Broken stone, gravel, etc. $9,794.68 Other material 53,38 Equipment and repairs 9,007.69 Insurance 513.91 Feed 1,451.39 Sundries 68.39 $9,538.35 Auto service 350.00 Metropolitan Sewer Tax $8,705.81 Telephones 118.71 Tarvla and Oil 8,920.51 $18,244.16 Fuel 207.35 SEWER CONSTRUCTION Rent $70.00 Stationery, printing and postage 23.40 Labor 5,000.42 Contract labor 40,171.31 Tools and equipment 807.43 Pipe and fittings 6,51 1.02 Damages 21.22 Other material - 3,724.64 $56,329.44 DRAINAGE SYSTEM (HIGHLAND AVENUE TO VINE BROOK ACROSS PRIVATE LANUS) Labor $3,211.31 Pipe and fittings 1,i61.92 Other material 172,59 $5,145.82 DRAINAGE SYSTEM (HIGHLAND AVENUE, FROM WINTHROP ROAD TO BLOOMFIELD STREET Labor $2,945.60 $48,408.57 Watering troughs 100.00 State Highway Tax 2,586.11 $51,094.68 HIGHWAY (CONSTRUCTION) (EXTENSION OF FOREST STREET TO MASS. AVENUE) Labor $142,51 Stone 386.40 Fuel 10.45 Other material 1.63 $540.99 HIGHWAY (CONSTRUCTION) (CLIFFS, ARCADIA AND CARVILLE AVENUES AND GRANT STREET) Labor $923.34 Stone and gravel 929.48 OiI 963.20 $2,816.02 TOWN or LEXINGTON 223 224 ANNUAL REPORTS HIGHWAY (CONSTRUCTION) NORTH HANCOCK STREET (DAMAGES) (CHASE AVENUE, FROM TAFT AVENUE TO TUCKER AVENUE) Labor $711.31 Stone ad gravel 535.20 Tarvia and oil 112.00 HIGHWAY (CONSTRUCTION) (PORTION OF OAKMOUNT CIRCLE) Labor Stone and gravel Tarvia and oil Labor Stone and gravel Pipe Other material Superintendent Tarvia and oil Fuel HIGHWAY (CONSTRUCTION) (VARIOUS STREETS) Labor Stone and gravel HIGHWAY (CONSTRUCTION) (HIGHLAND AVENUE) ;1,358.51 $242.01 329.70 156.80 $728.51 Sundry persons SIDEWALKS AND CURSINGS Construction SNOW AND ICE REMOVAL Labor Materia] and teams Equipment and repairs STREET LIGHTS Street lighting $3,725.53 STREET SIGNS 2,127.20 236.37 Labor 1,350.55 Signs 93.75 1,680.00 41.86 $9,255.27 $114.40 101.93 $216.33 HIGHWAY (CONSTRUCTION) (WALTHAM STREET, CONCORD AVENUE TO WALTHAM LINE) Labor Stone and gravel Pipe Tarvia and oil Other material Superintendent Fuel $4,203.44 6,133.67 137.59 3,123.40 5.10 281,25 49.10 ;13,933.56 CHARITIES OUTSIDE RELIEF Salary of visitor Stationery, printing and postage Clothing, groceries and provisions Coal and wood Board and care Medicine and medical attendance State Institutions Cash aid Sundries Cities and towns (Temporary aid) Hospitals Mothers' aid (Town) Mothers' aid (Other cities and towns) Salary of Town Physician $215.00 $515.69 $9,398.44 14,033.86 6,228.57 $29,660.87 $18.040.65 $46.30 152.20 $199.00 $300.00 3.70 157.20 134.50 362.50 167.70 543.88 380.50 11.72 2,347.48 164.00 2,706.49 127.44 $7,307.11 100.00 $7,407.11 TOWN OF LEXINGTON SOLDIERS' BENEFITS State aid Military aid Soldiers' relief SCHOOLS (MAINTENANCE) 225 $396.00 127.50 442.59 $966.09 226 ANNUAL REPORTS FUEL AND LIGHT High School $4,990.98 EIementary Schools 4.738.44 MAINTENANCE OF BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS GENERAL EXPENSE HIGH SCHOOL Salary of Superintendent Secretaries Truant Officer Printing, stationery and postage Telephones Traveling Expenses School Nurse School Physician TEACHERS SALARIES High School Elementary Schools Evening Schooii Summer School Vocational Schools TEXT BOOKS AND SUPPLIES High tent and reference books High supplies EIementary text and reference hooka Elementary supplles Transportation Janitors' services: High School EIementary Schools $3,120.00 1,942.00 70.00 140.00 611.46 413.06 1,660.00 593.00 $8,449.55 $9,729.42 Repairs $1,549.00 Janitors' supplies 421.42 Water and sewer 480.48 $2,450.90 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS Repairs $5,022,84 Janitors' supplies 448.15 Water and sewer 732.87 ;60,321.71 $6.203.86 59,263.46 189.00 FURNITURE AND FURNISHINGS 455.65 503.27 High School $104.2o Elementary Schools 211.59 $120,733.09 Diplomas and graduation exercises 173.96 $489.80 $1,573.05 Grand Total ;179,040.54 3,793.53 SCHOOLS $5,366.58 CONSTRUCTION AND REMODELING $2,611.14 4,656.64 Plumbing, High School ;2,024.23 Architects 1,681.85 $12,633.36 Electrical work, High School 1,891.30 $7.573.73 Erection. High School 24,516.22 Heating and ventilating, High School 7,151.25 4,729.46 Furnishings, fixtures, equipment, grading, etc. 20,497.28 6,047.37 $10.776.83 $57,762.13 TOWN OF LEXINGTON HANCOCK SCHOOL (SMOKE SCREENS) Screens Architects 227 $1,993.50 156.79 LIBRARIES CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY AND BRANCH Salaries: Librarians Assistants Sub Assistants Janitors Telephones Office supplies Fuel Light Repairs, buildings Furniture and furnishings Water and sewer rates Cartage Janitor's supplies Treasurer, Cary Memorial Library Treasurer. Cary Memorial Library (Dog Licenses). RECREATION PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS Salary of Superintendent Telephone Stationery and printing Labor Equipment and repairs Fertilizer, seed and loam Water rates Light Sundries Instructors Material $2,150.29 $2,100.00 3,297.92 173.42 1,165.00 $6,736.34 103.66 96.25 692.17 533.30 701.64 112.75 28.80 24.25 93.47 $9,121.63 50.00 1,333.20 $10.504.33 $1,304.16 41.24 3.00 1,416.20 1,322.39 141.72 35.33 4.93 31.00 200.00 , 69.60 $4,569.57 228 ANNUAL REPORTS CELEBRATIONS AND ENTERTAINMENTS April 19th Music $205.00 Refreshments 31.25 Printing 13.50 Transportation S0,00 Band Stand 30.90 Sundries 55.80 $356.45 PENSIONS Police $866.91 Veterans 1,224.96 UNCLASSIFIED Memorial Day, Post No. 119, G. A. R. Printing TOWN REPORTS INSURANCE $2,091.87 $250.00 9625.00 Premiums $6,398.30 MIDDLESEX COUNTY EXTENSION SERVICE Demonstration work CLAIM Mary J. Chisholm $300.00 9290.00 COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS Hearings, conferences, etc. $999.05 SUNDRIES Appraisal, Insurance Repairs, Almshouse Ink Nebatyle Repairs, Adding machine $50.00 7.40 2.50 64.11 5.20 Repairs, Dam Flowerk Labor TOWN OF LEXINGTON WATER DEPARTMENT (MAINTENANCE) Salary of Superintendent Clerks Light Stationery, printing and postage Telephones Interest Sundries Labor Pipe and fittings Meters and fittings Equipment and repairs Metropolitan Water Tax Rent Fuel Damages Insurance Excess deposits returned WATER DEPARTMENT (CONSTRUCTION) Stationery, postage an dprinting Insurance Labor Pipe and fittings Equipment Hydrants Other material Fuel Rent MUNROE CEMETERY DRIVEWAY Construction CEMETERIES MUNROE CEMETERY Salary of Superintendent Clerk 229 21.39 10 00 5.50 $166.10 $1,395.00 1,134.51 7.48 417.37 75.35 4,183.88 36.50 18,387.08 5,937.76 741.76 2,989.80 12,778.17 440.00 8.50 201.10 505.98 439.95 $49,680.19 $3.10 126.06 23,454.80 15,373.04 1,090.68 1,441.30 5.95 31.50 30.00 $41,556.43 $525.00 $250.00 230 ANNUAL REPORTS Labor 1,081.35 Stone 2.00 Fertilizer, loam and shrubs 20.50 Equipment and repairs 32.25 Water rates 12.00 $1,498.10 WESTVIEW CEMETERY Salary of Superintendent $450.00 Labor 2,079.60 Material 15.9 2 Fertilizer, loam and shrubs 143.79 Equipment and repairs 250.91 Sundries 33.00 Salary of Clerk Stationery Rent of sate ADMINISTRATION OF TRUST FUNDS INTEREST $2,973.22 $50.00 12.53 10.00 $72.53 Temporary loans (Anticipation of Revenue) $10,393,88 General loans 28,146.25 Cemetery Loans 202.50 $38,742.63 MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS Temporary loans (Anticipation of Revenue) $475,000.00 Cemetery loans 2,000.00 67,000.00 28,500.00 General loans Water loans AGENCY, TRUST AND INVESTMENT State Tax County Tax 100.00 County Tax (Special) $572,500.00 $22,320.00 18,107.72 749.86 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Refunds) Munroe Cemetery perpetual care funds Westview Cemetery perpetual care funds 231 583.06 509.00 677.00 $42,937.64 REFUNDS Taxes $1,278.07 Libraries 2.00 Westview Cemetery 282.00 Water Department 133.44 Snow Removal _ 38.99 Insurance 264.38 Fire Department 74.91 Health 30.00 Election and Registration 6.00 Sewer Construction 333.25 $2,443.04 Total expendlturea, 1926 $1,346,479.08 Cash balance, December 31, 1926 120.683.89 Libraries Schools UNPAID BILLS APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTS $1,467,162.97 $126.65 340.51 Transfer & Appropriations Receipt* Expenditures Balance Appropriation Committee 1150.00 Selectmen 3,500.00 Town By -Laws (Printing) 100.00 Accountant 2,650.00 Treasurer 945.00 Collector 2,655.00 Assessors 4,280.00 Other Finance Offices & Accts Law Department 1,000.00 'Town Clerk 1,850.00 Supt. of Public Works 4,360.00 $35.00 135.00 15.00 313.19 925,00 2131.69 3,337.38 96.00 2,678.23 939.39 2,739.80 4,293.98 267.29 1,924.30 1,834.14 4,284.16 232 ANNUAL R i'owrs Election & Regis- tration 1,450.00 Engineering Dept7,600.00 Town Hall 4,500.00 Planning Board 150.00 Police Dept. 23,500.00 Fire Dept, 26,400.00 Fire Alarm System connecting with Arlington Fire Alarm Boxes installation of five Hydrant rentals, Village Hall, Fire Station Inspector of Build- ings Inspector of Wires Sealer of Weights & Measures Moth & Insect Sup- pression Shade Trees Forest Fires Dog Officer Health Dept, Dental Clinic Vital Statistics Inspection of Cattle Inspector of Slaughtering Inspector of Plumbing Inspector of Mill[ Sewer Main- tenance Sewer Construc- tion Drainage System, Highland Ave. to Vine Brook across private lands 980.00 875.00 2,860.00 700.00 970.00 375.00 370.00 4,000.00 1,000.00 825.00 50.00 2,500.00 1,500.00 50.00 200.00 600.00 8E0.00 450,00 2,038.06* 1,341.84 7,467.80 75.00 4,525.43 26.00 225.00 23,675.90 26,396.67 980.00 875.00 2,860.00 474.42 936.00 373.50 338.26 3,879.30 999.43 150.00 437.21 60.00 2,228.60 145.00 1,640.48 41.25 200.00 600.00 820.00 449.20 8,397.10 9,538.35 896.81 11,401.71* 44,930.00 56,329.44 2.27 6,000.00 5,145.82 Drainage System Highland Aye. from Winthrop Rd. to Bloom- field St, Vine Brook Drain- age Preliminary study and engi- neering plans Lowering Brooks Lowering Brooks, Appro. Highway Maintenance Highway Construe - (Maple & Lowell Streets & Mass. Ave.) Highway Construc- tion (Cliffe, Ar- cadia & Carville Avenues and Grant Street Highway Construc- tion (various Streets) Extension of For- est Street to Mass. Ave. Bedford Street Con- struction TOWN OF LEXINGTON 7,000.00 38.01* 2,700.00 5,438.11 400.00 335.07 45,000.00 3,500.00 43,408.57 12.379.64' 2.817.27, 9,000.00 4,297.70* 6,000.00 233 2,700.00 102.94 12,000.00# 379.64 2,816.02 1,067.00 9,255.27 2,540.99 Bedford Street (Widening) (In- demnity for State) 100.00 Waltham Street Costruction (Concord Ave. to Waltham Line) 5,000.00 10,000.00 13,933.55 Highway Construc- tion (Chase Ave. from Taft Ave. to Tucker Ave,) 1,450.00 1,358.51 1.25 1,756.71 6.000.00 100.00 234 ANNUAL REPORTS Highway Construc- tion (Portion of Oakmount Circle) 1,900.00 728.51 11lghway Construe - tion (Highland Avenue) 2,000.00 216.33 1,783.67' North Hancock St (Damages) 360.00 215.00 145.00' Street Signs 200.00 199.00 Sidewalks 1,000.00 515.69 Snow Removal 25,000.00 29,660.87 4,680.87 Overdraft Street Lights 18,400.00 18.040.65 Watering Troughs 100.00 100.00 Outside Aid 9,800.00 7,307.11 Town Physician100.00 100.00 Soldiers' Relief 300.00 160.00 442.59 State Aid 500.00 396.00 Soldiers' Burials100.00 Military Aid 100.00 100.00 127.50 School Mainte- nance 179,839.00 179,040,54 Hancock School (Smoke Screens) 2,200.00 2,150.29 Schoolhouse Con- struction & Re- modeling 47,326.09• Schoolhouse Con- struction & Re- modeling, Ap- priation 11,500.00 Libraries 9,536.50 Salary of Library Treasurer 50.00 50.00 Hastings Park 6,00 Parks & Play- grounds 4,700.00 April 19th 500.00 Police Pensions 370,00 Veterans' Pen- sions 1,225.00 Memorial Day 250.00 Insurance 5,300.00 1,339.38 Town Report 625.00 57,762.13 1,063.96 9,121.63 4,569.57 356.45 866.91 1,224.96 250.00 6,572.68 625.00 Middlesex County Extansion Ser- vice Unclasaifled Reserve Fund Mary 7. Chisholm (Claim) Committee on Transportation Problems Water Department Maintenance Water Department Construction Water Department Repairs on Stand- pipe Cemetery Main- tenance Munroe Cemetery Driveway Westview Cemetery Westview Ceme- tery, Appropria- tion Administration of Trust Funds Interest on Pub- lic Debt Maturing Debt Maturing Debt, Appro. TOWN 0S' LEXINGTON 300.00 20000 2,500.00 290.00 4,826.74* 24,168.93 117.29* 1,500.00 525.00* 783.05* 1.500.00 86.00 37,200.00 892.19* 66,607.81 F Balance # Authorization rescinded. 2,500.00 45,167.61 19,000.00 23 300.00 166.10 1,230.00 290.00 999.05 49,680.19 314.06 41,556.43 1,512.50 117.29 1,498.10 525.00 1.000.00 2,973.22 72.53 1,800.00 38,742.63 30,000.00 97,500.00 TOWN DEBT, WHEN DUE December 31, 1926 309.83 Year Water Sewer Trust Funds Other Debt Total 1927 #32,800 $17,000 $1,000 $50,000 5100,800 1928 26,500 17,000 1,000 46,500 91,000 1929 26,450 17,000 1,000 43,500 87,950 1930 13,500 17,000 1,000 38,500 70,000 1931 7.000 17,000 1,000 35,500 60,500, 1932 7,000 1,000 35,500 43,500 236 1923 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 Balance Sheet ANNUAL REPORTS 7,000 7,000 6,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 34,500 42,500 34,500 42,500 33,500 40,500 31,500 34,500 31,500 34,500 31,500 34,500 31,500 34,500 5,500 8,500 5,500 8,500 5,500 8,500 5,500 8,500 4,500 7,500 4,500 7.500 $106,250 3142,000 #9,000 $509,000 $766,250 TOWN OF LEXINGTON GENF)RAL ACCOUNTS ASSETS December 31,1926 Cash Balance: In Banks and Office $120,683.89 Accounts Receivable: Tax Levy, 1926 135.085.85 Special Assessments': Unapportioned Sewer Assessments 14,893.69 Apportioned Sewer Assessments, 1926 461.66 Unapportioned Highway Betterment Assessments 1,902.80 Apportioned Highway Betterment Assessments, 1926 1,078.94 Tax Titles 7,782.33 Repartmental Bills: Military Aid 78.75 Department of Public Welfare 1,394.35 State Aid 396.00 'Schools 240.05 Munroe Cemetery 139.50 Westview Cemetery 1,376.38 Sewer Maintenance 3,354.80 Water hills 5,008.48 Snow Removal (Overdraft) 4,660.87 #299.538.39 TOWN OF i+f"•YINGTON 237 238 ANNUAL REPORTS Temporary Loans (Anticipation of Revenue) $200,000.00 DEFERRED REVENUE ACCOUNTS Sale of Lots Fund (Munroe Cemetery) 35.00 Sale of Lots Fund (Westview Cemetery) 2,226.60 Departmental Revenue 8,625.03 Sewer Maintenance Revenue 3,354.80 Water Revenue 5,008.48 Sewer Assessment Revenue 15,355.35 Tax Title Suspense 16.97 Tax Title Reserve 7,782.38, Sewer Assessment Fund (Available for Sewer Con- struction) 2,959.27 Sewer Maintenance 896.81 Lowering Brooks 102.94 Extension of Forest Street to Mass. Avenue 1.756.71 Water Maintenance 314.06 Westview Cemetery (Layout and Development) 309.83 Westview Cemetery (Perpetual Care Funds) 108.00 Bedford Street Construction 6,000.00 Bedford Street (Widening) (Indemnity for State) 100.00• Apportioned Highway Betterments Assessments not due 83,965.71 Veterans Memorial Fund 3,617.89 Highway Betterment Assessments Revenue 2,981.74 Overlay 1926 2,122.84 Highway Construction (Highland Avenue) 1,?88.67 Omitted Assessments, 1926 219.35 Vine Brook Drainage (Preliminary study and engineering plane) 2,700.00 North Hancock Street (Damages) 145.00• DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATIONS (LOAN BALANCES) Sewer Construction Highway Construction (Maple and Lowell Ste.) Highway Construction (Cliffe Ave. etc.) Schoolhouse Construction and Remodeling Water Department (Construction) Westview Cemetery (Land) ;2.27 579.64 1.25 1,043.96 1,612.50 1,090.82 4,150.44 General Revenue and Surplus 30,866.23 • $298,538.33' DEBT ACCOUNTS Net Bonded or Fixed Debt, December 31, 1926 6766,250.00 TOWN OF LEXINGTON 239 DEFERRED REVENUE ACCOUNTS Apportioned Sewer Assessments: Due in 1927 $910.52 1928 851.69 1929 .595.11 1930 547.86 1931 367.79 1932 342.33 1933 340.32 1934 331.70 1935 304.41 $4,59L73 Apportioned Highway Betterment Assessments: Due in 1927 $1,039.52 1928 913.31 1929 849.41 1930 849.41 1931 62.76 1932 62.76 1933 62.76 1934 62.76 1935 63.02 $3,965.71 DEBT ACCOUNTS General Loans Mass. Avenue Improvement Loan 1917, 4%% $1,000.00 Summer Street Improvement Loan 1917, 41/2 % 500.00 Adams School Loan 1912, 4% 12,000.00 School Construction Loan 1915, 4% 18,000.00 Parker School Loan 1919, 41/2% 42,000.00 Parker School Loan 1920, 6% 1,000.00 Buckman Tavern Loan 1913, 414% 17,000.00 Sewer Loan 1915, 4% 57,000.00 Trust Fund. (Refunding) 1910, 4% 9,000.00 Street Improvement Loan 1922, (Lowell and Maple Streets) 414% 9,000.00 Street Improvement Loan 1922, (Depot Park) 4?4%❑ 6,000.00 Street Improvement Loan 1924, (Sundry Streets) 4% 11,000.00 Schoolhouse Construction and remodeling Loan 1924, 4% 302,000.00 Sewer Loan 1924, 4% 8,000.00 School Construction and remodeling Loan 1925, 4% 86,500.00 Sewer Loan 1925, 4% 27,000.00 Sewer Loan 1926, 4% 10,000.00 Sewer Loan 1926, 4% 40,000.00 WATER LOANS Water Loan. (Extensions and Standpipe) 1912, 4% 6,000.00 Water Loan 1922, (Fallen Road) 4% 2,000.00 Water Loan 1924. (Extension of mains) 414% 14,950.00 Water Loan 1924, (Extension of mains) 414% 7,000.00 Water Loan 1924, (Extension of mains) 4% 20,000.00 Water Loan 1925, (Extension of mains) 4% .... 17,000.00 Water Loan 1926, (Extension of mains) 4% 20,300.00 'Water Loan 1926, (Extension of mains) 4% 19,000.00 CEMETERY LOANS Westview Cemetery Loan 1917, 4%% 1,000.00 Westview Cemetery Loan 1918, 41% 2,000.00 $766,250.00 240 ANNUAL REPORTS TRUST FUND ACCOUNTS Cash and Securities In hands of Trustees $74,645.35 PUBLIC PROPERTY ACCOUNTS Town of Lexington $921070.93 TOWN OF LEXINGTON 241 TRUST FUND ACCOUNTS Eleanor S. Beale Charity Fund $2,222.05 Samuel J. Bridge Charity Fund 4,248.25 Harriet R. Gilmor Charity Fund 569.05 Jonas Gammei Charity Fund 885.96 Elizabeth B. Gerry Charity Fund 2,043.87 Lexington High School Scholarship Fund 211.85 Cary Memorial Library Fund 11,000.00 Cary Memorial Library Fund (Income Reserve) 354.31 Robbins Library Fund 100.00 Wellington Library Fund 1,032.18 Beale Library Fund 1,100.00 Laura M. Brigham Library Fund 3,000.00 Book Fund (Library) 1,000.00 Goodwin Music Fund (Library) 500.00 Cay Maintenance Fund (Library) 2,440.00 Jane Phinney Fund (Library) 124.19 George O. Smith (Park Fund) 2.455.56 Hayes Fountain Fund 1.027.90 Charles E. French Medal and Cemetery Fund 4,698.54 Battle Green Fund 521.03 Hallie C. Blake Prize Fund 1,000.00 Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds (Principal) Munroe 24,785.00 Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds (Income) Munroe 3.350.66 Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds (Principal) Westview 5,395.00 Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds (Income) Westview Y76.85 PUBLIC PROPERTY ACCOUNTS Real Estate Water Works Sewer System $74,642.25 $540,925.62 282,065.00 98,080.31 $921,070.93 CHARLES F. PIERCE, Town. AcoU%ta%t. 242 , Aur. 1iF:i'o rrs REPORT OF STATE DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTS To THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN, MR. J. CHESTER HUTCHINSON, Chairman, LEXINOTON, MASSACHUSETTS. Gentlemen : I submit herewith my report of an audit of the books and accounts of the town of Lexington for the period from January 1, 1924 to October 31, 1925, made in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws. This re- port is in the form of a report made, to me by Mr. Edward H. Fenton, Chief Examiner of this Division. Very truly yours, THEODORE N. WADDELL, Director of Accounts. MR. THEODORE N. WADDELL, DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTS, DEPARTMENT 01' CORPORATIONS AND TAXATION, STATE HOUSE, BOSTON. Sir: As directed by you, 1 have made an audit of the books and accounts of the town of Lexington for the period from January 1, 1924 to October 31, 1925, and submit the following report thereon:— The financial transactions of the town as recorded on the books of the several departments receiving or disbursing money for the town or committing bills for collection were examined and reconciled with the records in the accounting department. The books and accounts in the town accountant's office were examined and checked in detail. The reeorded receipts were checked with the reports from the several departments TOWN OF LEXINGTON 243 of payments to the treasurer and with the treasurer's books; and the disbursements were checked with the warrants au- thorizing payments and with the approved bills and payrolls on file. The appropriation accounts were checked with the town clerk's records of appropriations and transfers voted by the town. The ledger accounts were analyzed, the postings were verified, a trial balance was taken off, and a balance sheet, which is appended to this report, was prepared showing the financial condition of the town October 31, 1925. The books and accounts of the treasurer were examined and checked in detail. The recorded receipts were checked with the records in the several departments collecting money for the town and with the other sources from which money was paid into the town treasury, and the disbursements were checked with the warrants authorizing the treasurer to dis- burse town funds and with the accountant's books. The cash book was footed throughout for the period covered by the audit, the cash on hand was verified by an actual count, and the bank balances were reconciled with statements furnished by the bank. The sewer assessment accounts collected by the town treasurer were examined and verified, it being found that the commitment of sewer assessments for 1924 and 1925 had not been reported to the town accountant. All commitments of assessments and other accounts receivable should be re- ported to the town accountant promptly in order that his books may show the true financial condition of the town at all times. Appended to this report are tables showing a reconciliation of the treasurer's easli and summaries of the sewer assess- ment accounts. The books and accounts of the tax collector were ex- amined and checked in detail. The commitments for the years 1923, 1924 and 1925 were footed and compared with the assessors' warrants to the collector, it being found that the total of the commitment list for 1923 exceeded the war- rant by $111.00, and that the commitment list for 1925 ex- ceeded the warrant by 0.53. The recorded payments to the treasurer were •verified by a comparison with the treasurer's books, and the abatements were checked with the assessors' records of abatements granted. 244 ANNUM". REPORTS At the date of the examination of the collector's accounts, October 22, 1925, the collections on account of the commit- ment for 1925 had not been entered on the Bash book. After the necessary entries were Made, the tax bill stubs were checked to the cash book and the cash book was footed, it being found that the actual cash on hand and in the bank exceeded the cash book entries by. $1,288.17. Verification notices were mailed to a number of persons whose names ap- peared on the books as owing money to the town. Several replies were received claiming that the accounts had been paid, and upon investigation it was found that the accounts had, in fact, been paid, but through clerical error the payments had not been credited on the books. On December 3, 1925, the tax bill stubs were again checked to the cash book, the cash book was footed, and the postings checked to the commitment book, it being found that the cash book entries exceeded the pay- ments to the treasurer and the cash on hand and in banks by $464.19. This cash discrepancy is due. 1 believe, to clerical errors in recording collections, the errors not being dis- covered, owing to the fact that the collector does not recon- cile his cash daily. 1 would recommend that the collector enter all collec- tions as received and that the cash on hand be reconciled wit -h the cash book daily. Appended to this report are summary tables of the tax accounts. The town clerk's records of receipts were examined and checked. The records of licenses issued were checked with the records of receipts, and the recorded payments to the treasurer were compared with the treasurer's and the ac- countant's books. The records of dog and hunting and fish- ing licenses issued for the county and the State, respectively, were checked, and the payments to the county and the State treasurers were verified by receipts on file. The accounts of the water and the sewer departments were examined. The collection of water rates and sewer rentals has been inade by the tax collector without a detail commitment, which, with the many changes in the clerical force, made the work of reconciling the accounts rather dif- ficult. In the future, however, the accounts will be com- mitted to the collector in detail, in the same manner as taxes are now committed for collection, which should eliminate dif- ficulties in reconciling the accounts. TOwN OF LEXINGTON 245 Appended to this report are summary tables of the water and sewer department accounts receivable. The accounts receivable, accounts of the other departments were examined and verified. The payments to the treasurer were verified by a comparison with the treasurer's books, the abatements were checked, and the outstanding accounts were listed and reconciled with the accountant's books. Appended to this report are summary tables of the ac- counts. The savings bank books and securities representing the investments of the several trust funds in the custody of the Trustees of Public Trust Funds and the treasurer of the Maria Cary Library Trustees were personally examined, the income was proved. and the recorded disbursements were verified. In examining the several securities it was noted that sev- eral securities held as investments are not listed as legal in- vestments for savings banks, and I wish to call attention to Section 54 of Chapter 44, General Laws. Appended to this report are tables showing the condition of the several funds. The surety bonds of the treasurer, tax collector, and the town clerk were examined. It was noted that the treasurer's bond contains a condition exempting the surety from liability for any loss due to the failure of any bank or depository. A bond with this condition does not, in my opinion, properly protect the town, and I would recommend that this condi- tion be eliminated from future bonds. The treasurer of the trustees of the Cary Library i5 not bonded as required by Section 10, Chapter 78, General Laws. For the hearty co-operation and courtesies extended by the town officials during the progress of the audit I wish, on behalf of my assistants and for myself, to express appreciation. Respectfully submitted. EDW. H. FENTTON, Chief Examiner. RECANCILIATION OF TREASURER'S CASH Balance January 1, 1924 $ 112,483.04 Payments 1,391,154.21 31,503,637.25 Payments $1,073,606.91 246 ANNUAL REPORTS Balance December 31, 1924 430,030.34 31,503,637.25 Balance January 1, 1925 $ 430,030.34 Receipts January 1 to October 19, 1925 651,740.24 Payments January 1 to October 19, 1925 3 878,859.22 ,Cash in bank and office Octo- ber 19, 1925: Office: Bills 31,329.0❑ Colts 39.12 Checks 1,909.58 Memoranda91.67 Lexington Trust Company: Balance per statement 4131,760.31 Less outstand- ing checks per list 853.75 Atlantic National Bank: Balance per statement 374,327.58 Less outstand- ing checks per list 5,692.15 $3,369.37 3130,906.56 368,635.43 3202,911.36 -TAXES-1923 Commitment per warrant 3406,441.16 December commitment 763.20 Detailed list in excess of warrant 111.00 31,081,770.58 31,081,770.58 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Duplicate abatement ........ .63 Payments to treasurer: 1923 5314,884.31 1924 82,050.14 5396,934.45 Abatements: 1923 1924 Error in reporting abate- ments Abatements not reported Tax titles . Taxes 1923 credited as in- terest Balance October 31. 1925 (Paid treasurer Novem- ber, 1925) 1.831.37 5,668.94 TARES ---1924 Commitment per warrant .. December commitment .... 57,500.31 .50 23.00 2,652.21 117.39 88.13 $426,638.50 395.94 247 5407,315.99 5407,315.99 1427,034.44 Payments to treasurer: 1924 $330,500.00 1925 90,155.31 5420,655.31 Abatements: 1924 1925 Tax titles 52,976.31 2,446.70 $5,423.01 956.12 5427,034.44 TARES -17923 Commitment per warrant 5527,539.72 Collections not committed 31.71 Detailed list in excess of warrant 7.53 248 ANNUAL REPORTS Paid and abated -refunded 4.64 Paid and abated -to be refunded 146.30 Overpayments 6.83 Interest collected 210.45 Payments to treasurer 5325,000.00 Abatements 1,689.66 Outstanding December 3, 1925, per list 163,462.72 Cash on hand December 3, 1925, verified 37,330.61 Cash discrepancy 464.19 $527,947.18 5527,947.18 MOTH ASSESSMENTS -1923 Outstanding January 1, 1924 Payments to treasurer UNAPPORTIONED SEWER ASSESSMENTS Outstanding January 1, 1924 552.25 Assessments not reported to accountant 309.00 Payments to treasurer Assessments not reported .to accountant Payments to treasurer January 1 to October 31, 1925 Outstanding October 31, 1925, per list ;476.25 118.00 512.38 $12.38 $361.25 5361.25 5594.25 APPORTIONED SEWER ASSESSMENTS -1923 Outstanding January 1, 1924 Payments to treasurer $4.95 Outstanding December 31, 1924 7.50 Outstanding January 1, 1925 Payments to treasurer 1594.25 512.45 APPORTIONED SEWER. ASSESSMENTS --11124 512.45 $7.50 $7.50 Outstanding January 1, 1924 $149.42 Payments to treasurer $131.12 Outstanding December 31, 1924 18.30 $149.42 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Outstanding January 1, 1925 Payments to treasurer January 1 to Oc- tober 31, 1925 APPORTIONED SEWER ASSESSMENTS -1925 Outstanding January 1, 1924 Payments to treasurer Outstanding December 31, 1924 Outstanding January 1, 1925 Payments to treasurer January 1 to Oc- tober 31, 1925 Outstanding October 31, 1925, per list $32.50 116.92 249 250 ANNUAL REPORTS $18.30 Mortgages recorded, etc. 20.25 $18.30 Payments to treasurer Hunting and Fishing Licenses $149.42 $149.42 $116.92 Licenses issued: 24 Resident citizens' combination @ $2.00 4 Resident citizens' hunting and trapping, (a) $1.50 3 Minor trappers' $ .25 3 Resident citizens' fishermen's O $1.00 $105.67 Payments to State Treasurer 11.25 $116.92 APPORTIONED SEWER ASSESSMENTS -1926-1931 Outstanding January 1, 1924 $315.77 Payments to treasurer $104.10 Outstanding December 31, 1924 211.67 Outstanding January 1, 1925 Payments to treasurer January 1 to Oc- tober 31, 1925 Outstanding October 31, 1925, per list: Due in 1926 $110.77 " " 1927 17.65 " 1928 17.65 " 1929 17.65 " 1930 17.65 " 1931 17.65 $12.65 $199.02 TOWN CLERIC'S DEPARTMENT Arthur W. Hatch, Town Clerk January 1 to March 10, 1924 Recording fees, etc.: Marriage licenses Pole locations, etc. Birth and death certificates $8.00 3.00 2.25 $315.77 $211.67 ;211.67 Fees retained $48.00 6.00 .75 3.00 $52.65 5.10 TOWN CLERK'S DEPARTMENT John H. Kane, Town Clerk March 11 to December 31, 1924 Recording tees, etc.: Marriage licenses $55.00 Pole locations, etc. 19.10 Birth and death certificates 12.60 Mortgages, etc. 71.00 Voting I1ats 2.00 $159.60 Dog licenses issued: 343 males, 45 spayed females, 98 females, 1 kennel, O $2.00 • $2.00 @ $5.00 @ $25.00 $686.00 90.00 190.00 25.00 Hunting and fishing licenses issued: 48 Resident citizens' combination 7 *2.00 $96.00 91 Resident citizens' hunting and trapping, @ 50c 136.50 1 Alien hunting and trapping.... 15.00 17 Minor trappers', 25c 4.25 39 Resident citizens' fishing, $1.00 1,291.00 39.00 290.75 Payments to town treasurer $159.60 $33.50 $33.50 $57.75- 57.75. 357.75- 357.75. 31,741.35, ;1,741.35• TOWN OF LEXINGTON • Payments to county treasurer Payments to state treasurer Cash on hand December 31, 1924: Dog licenses Dog license fees Hunting and fishing license fees $6.00 97.40 42.10 1,187.60 248.65 145.50 John H. Kane, Town Clerk January 1 to November 30, 1925 Recording fees, etc.: Marriage Licenses $76.00 Married woman's certificate .25 Copies of marriage licenses 1.25 Mortgages, etc. 63.75 Pole locations, etc. 16.30 Birth and death certificates .. 10.00 Bill of sale 1.00 Doctor's certificate .25 Stamp .02 Dog licenses: Cash on band January 1, 1925 .. $103.40 Licenses issued: 396 males, r+ $2.00 50 spayed females, ® $2.00 115 females, 0 $5.00 2 kennels, @ $25.00 792.00 100.00 575.00 50.00 Hunting and fishing licenses: Cash on hand January 1, 1925 .. $42.10 Licenses issued: 75 Resident citizens' combina- tion, $2.00 150.00 118 Resident citizens' hunting and trapping, Cr 11.50 177.00 1 Non-resident citizen's fish- ing 1.00 53 Resident citizens' fishing, 0 11.00 53.00 21 Minor trappers' Q 25c 5.25 251 $1,741.35 $168.82 252 ANNUAL REPORTS 3 Alien hunting and trapping, $15.00 45.00 473.35 Payments to county treasurer $1,408.00 Payments to state treasurer 363.50 Payments to town clerk, fees 88.32 Cash Balance November 30, 1925: Due town treasurer $168.82 Due county treasurer 2.40 Due town clerk 231.53 402.75 $2,262,57 $2,262.57 RECONCILIATION OF TOWN CLERK'S CASH Cash balance November 30, 1925 $402.75 Interest on deposits 6.80 Outstanding checks, per list 1,183.75 Cash in office (verified) $27.28 Lexington Trust Company: Balance per bank statement 1,566.02 SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 1924 1,620.40 Sealer's fees 1924 Payments to treasurer 1925 Sealer's fees January 1 to December 9, 1925 Payments to treasurer January 1 to Decem- ber 9, 1925 Cash on hand December 9, 1925 BUILDING INSPECTOR Building permits May 28 to December 21,. 1925 39.21 64.52 $1,593.30 11,593.30 $84.03 $84.03 $73.73 $73.73 $825.00 TowN OF LEXINGTON 253 254 ANNUAL REroRTs Payments to treasurer May 28 to November Charges 3,094.72 30, 1925 $777.00 Adjustment 10.78 Cash on band December 21, 1925 48.00 $4,501.47 $825.00 Payments to treasurer 12,756.92 Abatements 8.38 Outstanding December 31, 1924, per ledger 1,736.17 MILK AND OLEO LICENSES 52 Milk licenses @ 50c 7 Oleo licenses @ 50c Payments to treasurer 1924 — $4,501.47 $26.00 3.50 1925 46 Milk licenses 50c $23.00 8 Oleo licenses @ 50c 4.00 Payments to treasurer January 1 to Decem- ber 23, 1925 HEALTH DEPARTMENT 1924 Outstanding January 1, 1924 $1,316.41 Charges 1,037.50 1925 $29.50 Outstanding January 1, 1925, per ledger $29.50 Charges Detailed charges in excess of charges re - $27.00 $27.00 Payments to treasurer $625.50 Abatements 763.41 Outstanding December 31, 1924 964.00 1925 Outstanding January 1, 1925 $964.00 85.00 Charges $2,352.91 $2,352.91 Payments to treasurer $12.00 Abatements 964.00 Outstanding October 31, 1925, per list 73.00 6 SEWER DEPARTMENT 1924 $1,049.00 11,049.00 ported Water credited as sewer Overpayment $1,736.17 4,515.58 78.38 25.00 30.00 Payments to treasurer $2,815.72 Sewer credited as water 74.54 Charges in excess of detailed list 1924 276.26 Due from collector .08 Outstanding October 31, 1925, per list 3,218.53 HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT 1924, Charges Payments to treasurer 1235.80 Abatements 5.88 Outstanding December 31, 1924 1,266.40 1925 $6,385.13 $6,385.13 $1,508.08 $1,508.08 Outstanding January 1, 1925 $1,266.40 Charges January 1 to October 31, 1925 41.00 $1,307.46 Payments to treasurer January 1 to Octo- ber 31, 1925 SNOW REMOVAL 1925 11,307.40 Outstanding January 1, 1924, per ledger .... $1,395.99 Charges January 1 to October 31, 1925 $221.10 TOWN OF LEXINGTON 255 256 ANNUAL REPORTS Payments to treasurer January 1 to Octo- ber 31, 1925 3221.10 Outstanding October 31, 1925. per list 176.97 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1924 Outstanding January 1, 1924 $1,858.59 Charges 2,931.18 Payments to treasurer 32,489.90 Abatements 44.99 Outstanding December 31, 1924 2,254.88 1925 34,739.77 34,789.77 1924 Cash on hand January 1, 1924 37.00 Fines 368.02 Postal cards 8.85 Books 3.75 Payments to treasurer of library trustees 3380.30 Cash on hand December 31, 1924 7.32 192$ Outstanding January 1, 1925 32,254.88 Cash on hand January 1, 1925 37.32 Charges 1,757.68 Fines 363.53 34,012.56 Postal cards 5.32 Payments to treasurer 31,721.08 Books 5.40 Abatements 479.00 Outstanding October 31, 1925, per list 1,812.48 Cash due library trustees December 19, 1925 '$374.57 34,012.56 Cash on hand December 19, 1925 7.00 SCHOOL DEPARTMENT *Deposited in librarian's personal account Outstanding January 1, 1924 3244.53 Charges 7,197.15 Refund, Vocational Somerville 3.85 LIBRARY TRUSTEES Treasurer's Account 37,445.53 Cash on hand January 1, 1924 Payments to treasurer 37,183.83 Income: Abatements 40.00 General account $455.00 Outstanding December 31, 1924 221.70 Beal fund 60.50 37,445.53 Book purchase fund 50.00 Maria Cary fund 14.30 Alice Butler Cary fund 117.53 1925 Jane Pltinney fund 6.50 Outstanding January 1, 1925 $221.70 Wellington fund 60.00 Charges January 1 to October 31, 1925 ...... 4,690,48 Robbins fund 4.04 Goodwin musical fund 30.00 Miscellaneous receipts 6.40 $4,918.58 Laura Muzzey Bigelow fund 142.50 Payments to treasurer January 1 to Octo- ber 31, 1925 34,741.61 Dog tax Fines 3944.88 $940.37 1,074.93 380.30 $4,918.58 3387.62 $387.62 3381.57 3381.57 TOWN OF LEXINOTDN Interest on bank deposits Expenditures Cash on hand December 31, 1924 Cash on hand January 1, 1925 Income: General account $455.00 Beal fund 60.50 Book purchase fund 50.00 Alice Butler Carey fund 72.70 Jane Phinney fund 3.25 Wellington fund 60,00 Goodwin musical fund 30.00 Laura M'usaey Bigelow fund 142.50 29.31 $2,059.24 1,310.60 $1,310.60 $873.95 Dog tax 1,092.59 Interest on deposits 26.68 Expenditures $2,006.40 Cash on hand December 19, 1925 1,297.42 Cash on hand December 19, 1925 Balance Lexington Trust Company, per statement $1,340.42 Less outstanding checks 43.00 WATER DEPARTMENT Outstanding January 1, 1924, per ledger ,;516.34 Charges 35,683.32 Adjustment 21.26 257 $3,369.84 ;3,369.84 13,303.82 13,303.82 $1,297.42 $1,297.42 ;36,220.82 Payments to treasurer ;33,483.28 Abatements 671.98 Adjustment of charges 200.00 Outstanding December 31, 1924, per ledger 1,865.56 136,220.82 Outstanding January 1, 1925. per ledger ;1,865.56 Chargee per ledger 40,601.13 Detailed list in excess of charges 1925 745.16 258 ANNUAL REPORTS Overpayments Overpayments to treasurer: March 31, 1925 $ .90 April 11, 1925 .02 Sewer credited as Water Adjustment of ledger balance January 1, 1924 Cash in excess of detailed postings 1925 10.47 $ .92 74.54 .48 38.67 Payments to treasurer $34,707.67 Abatements not reported 48.07 Charges 1924 in excess of detailed list 104,71 Cash 1924 posted in excess of receipts 6.64 Water credited as sewer 26.00 Due from collector 1.01 Outstanding October 31, 1925, per list 6,742.62 Cash on hand October 31, 1925 (Paid treasurer November 2) 1,701.21 WESTVIE11' CEMETERY 1924 Outstanding January 1. 1924 Charges Payments to treasurer Outstanding December 31, 1924 $43,336.93 ;43,336,93 $1,056.84 5,179.53 $4,059.93 2,176.44 $6,236.37 ;6,236.37 199.5' Outstanding January 1, 1925 $2,176.44 Charges January 1 to October 31, 1925 3,310.93 $5,487.37 Payments to treasurer January 1 to Octo- ber 31, 1925 $3,732.93 Adjustments 86.31 Outstanding October 31, 1925, per list 1.668.13 MUNROE CEMETERY 1924 Outstanding January 1, 1924 $109,25 $5,487.37 Charges TOWN of LEXINGTON Payments to treasurer Outstanding December 31, 1924 Outstanding January 1, 1925 1935 Charges January 1 to October 31, 1925 Adiustment 2,330.25 $2,272.00 167.50 $167.50 1,599.50 1.00 Payments to treasurer January 1 to Octo- ber 31, 1925 Outstanding October 31, 1925, per list On On On hand hand hand Income Total $1,469.25 298.75 259 $2.439.50 $2,439.50 BRIDGE CHARITY FUND January 1, 1924 December 31, 1924 $93.65 November 30, 1925 $48.65 Savings Bank Deposits $93.65 1924 Receipts Par Value of Securities $4,000.00 $4,000.00 $4,000.00 $1,768.00 $1,768.00 Total $4,093.65 $4,093.65 $4,048.65 $188.68 $188.68 Payments Transferred to income account $188.68 Total 260 ANNUAL REPORTS Payments Purchase of securities 92,000.00 Premium on securities purchased 45.00 Accrued interest on securities purchased 6.66 Transferred to income account 207.29 Total ELIZABETH B. GERRY CHARITY FUND $2,258.95 Savings Par Value Bank of Deposits Securities Total On hand January 1, 1824 $30.26 $2,250.00 $2,280.26 On hand December 31, 1924 $30.26 12,250.00 $2,280.26 On hand November 30, 1925 $30.26 $2,250.00 $2,280.26 1924 Receipts Income $96.83 Total $96.83 Payments Transferred to income account 196.83 Total $96.83 January 1 to November 30, 1925 Receipts Income $96.82 Total $96.82 Payments $188.68 Transferred to income account 196.82 January 1 to November 30, 1925 Receipts Sale of securities $2,000.00 Withdrawn from savings bank 45.00 Transferred from income account 6.66 Income 207.29 Total $2,258.95 Total $96.82 BRIDGE .AND GERRY CHARITY INCOME ACCOUNT Savings Bank Deposits 1643.44 $274.42 $374,88 On hand January 1, 1924 On hand December 31, 1924 On hand November 30, 1926 Total $643.44 $274.42 $374.88 TOWN OF LEXINGTON' 261 1924 Receipts Withdrawn from savings bank Income Transferred from Bridge fund, Principal account Transferred from Gerry fund, Principal account Total Deposited in savings bank Expenditures Total Payments ;676.35 21.82 188.68 96.82 ;983.68 3307.33 676.25 $983.68 262 ANNUAL HEroxrs Payments Transferred to income account 320.20 Total 320.20 January 1 to November OO, 1925 Receipts Income 320.20 Total 320.20 Payments Transferred to Income account 320.20 January 1 to November 80, 1925 Total Receipts Withdrawn from Savings bank Income Transferred from Bridge fund, Principal account Transferred from Gerry fund, Principal account Total Deposited in savings bank Payments Transferred to Bridge fund, Principal account Expenditures Total 3212.95 9.30 207.29 96.82 HARRIET R. GILMOR CHARITY FUND ;526.36 3313.41 6.66 206.29 ;526.36 Savings Bank Deposits Total On hand January 1, 1924 ;500.00 3500.00 On hand December 31, 1924 3500.00 $500.00 On hand November 30, 1925 3500.00 $500.00 320.20 HARRIET R.. GILMOR CHARITY INCOME ACCOUNT On hand January 1, 1924 On hand December 31, 1924 On band November 30, 1925 Income -1924 Receipts Savings Bank Deposits Total 3223.37 ;223.37 3252.57 3252.57 145.63 145.63 3 9.00 Transferred from principal account 20.20 Total ;29.20 Payments Deposited in savings bank _ 329.20 Total January 1 to November BO, 1925 Receipts 329.20 1924 Withdrawn from savings bank 3230.92 Receipts Income 3.78 Income $20.20 Transferred from principal account 20.20 Total 320.20 Total 3254.90 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Payments 263 Deposited in savings bank .. $ 23.98 Expenditures Total ELEANOR S. BEALS CHARITY FUND On hand January 1, 1924 On hand December 31, 1924 On hand November 30, 1925 Income 230.92 264 ANNUAL REPORTS Income 11.90 Transferred from principal account 80.00 Total $357.72 $254.90 Payments Deposited in savings bank $ 91.90 Expenditures Par Value of Securities Total $2,000.00 $2,000.00 32,000.00 $2,000.00 32,000.00 $2,000.00 Total January 1 to November 30, 1925 Receipts 265.82 $357.72 1924 ? Withdrawn from savings bank $174.39 Receipts Income 5.78 Transferred from principal account 80.00 $80.00 Total 380.00 Payments Transferred to income account $80.00 Total 380.00 :January 1 to November 30, 1925 Receipts Income $80.00 Total 380.00 Payments Transferred to income account $80.00 Total ELEANOR S. BEALS INCOME ACCOUNT On hand January 1, 1924 On hand December 31, 1924 On hand November 30, 1925 19.24 Receipts 380.00 Savings Bank Deposits Total $398.15 $398.15 $224.23 $224.23 $135.62 3125.62 Withdraw from savings bank $265.82 Total 3260.17 Payments Deposited in savings bank $ 85.78 Expenditures 174.39 Total $260.17 JONAS GAMMEL CHARITY FUND On hand January 1, 1924 On hand December 31, 1924 On hand November 30, 1925 1924 Receipts Savings Bank Deposits Total $600.00 $500.00 $500.00 3500.00 3500.00 $500.00 Income $20.20 Total 320.20 Payments Transferred to income account 320.20 Total 320.20 Income TOWN OF LEXINGTON January 1 to November 30, 1925 Receipts Total 265 $20.20 Payments Transferred to income account Total JONAS GAMEL CHARITY INCOME ACCOUNT On hand January 1, 1924 On hand December 31, 1924 On hand November 30, 1925 1924 Receipts Withdrawn from savings bank $20.20 $20.20 $20.20 Savings Bank Deposits Total $189,98 ;189.98 $201.36 $201.36 $189.04 ;189.04 Income Transferred from principal account Total $16.22 7.40 20.20 Deposited in savings bank Payments 266 ANNUAL, REP0RTs CHARLES E, FRENCH SCHOOL FUND On hand January 1, 1924 On hand December 31, 1924 On hand November 30, 1925 1924 Receipts Par Value of Securities Total $2500.00 $2500.09 $2500.00 12500.06 $2500.00 12500.00 Income Total Payments Transferred to income account Total January 1 to :November 30, 1925 Receipts Sale of securities $43.82 Discount of securities purchased Income Transferred from income account $27.60 1105.00 $105.00 1105.00 1105.06 $500.00 5.00 107.50 .50 Expenditures 16.22 Total 1613.00 Payments Total January 1 to November 30, 1925 Receipts Withdrawn from savings bank Income Transferred from principal account Total $43.82 $39.36 Purchase of securities 1500.00 Accured interest on securities purchased 5.50 Transferred to income account 107.50 6.84 Total 20.20 Deposited in savings bank Expenditures Total Payments 866.40 $27.04 ..39.26 $66.40 1613.00' CHARLES E. FRENCH SCHOOL INCOME ACCOUNT On hand January 1, 3924 On hand December 31, 1924 On hand November 30, 1925 Savings Bank Deposits Total $73.37 $73.17 135.63 $35.63 $53.55 353.55. TOWN OF LEXINGTON 267 1924 Receipts Withdrawn from savings bank 1144.02 Transferred from principal account 105.00 Income 1.48 Total $250.50 Payments Deposited in savings bank $106.48 144.0E Expenditures Total January 1 to November 30, 1925 Receipts Withdrawn from savings bank Transferred from principal account Income Total Deposited in savings bank Payments Transferred to principal account Expenditures Total $250.50 $ 90.50 107.50 .92 ;198.92 $108.42 .50 90.00 268 ANNUAL REPORTS Payments Deposited in savings bank Total $5.52 January 1 to November 30, 1925 Receipts Sale of securities Income $5.52 $50.00 13.63 Total Payments Deposited .in savings bank $63.63 $63.63 Total HAYES FOUNTAIN FUND On hand January 1, 1924 On hand December 31, 1924 On hand November 30, 1925 $63.63 Savings Bank Deposits Total $862.72 $862.72 $862.72 $862.72 $862,72 $862.72 1924 Receipts Income ;34.82 $198.92 Total Payments LEXINGTON HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND Transferred to income account Savings Par Value Bank of Deposits Securities Total On hand January 1, 1924 $ 32.13 $150.00 1182.13 On hand December 31, 1924 $ 37.65 $150.00 1187.65 On hand November 30, 1925 $101.28 $100.00 $201.28 8924 Receipts Income Total $34.82 $34.82 Total January 1 to November 30, 1925 Receipts Income Total $34.82 $34.82 $34.82 Payments $5.52 Transferred to income account $34.82 $5.52 Total 134.82 TOWN OF LEXINGTON HATES FOUNTAIN INCOME ACCOUNT On hand January 1, 1924 On band December 31, 1924 On hand November 30, 1925 Income Savings Bank Deposita $243.96 $288.60 $120.86 1924 Receipts Transferred from principal account Total 269 Total $243.96 $288.60 $120.86 $ 9.82 34.82 Deposited in savings bank Total Payments $44.64 544.64 January 1 to November 80, 1925 Receipts Withdrawn from savings bank InCome Transferred from principal account Total 544.64 5210.09 7.44 34.82 Deposited in savings bank Expenditures Total Payments $252.26 5 42.26 210.00 $252.26• GEORGE O. ShIITH PARK FUND Savings Par Value Bank of Deposita Securities Total On •hand January 1, 1924 ;573.65 $2,000.00 $2,573.65• On •hand December 31, 1924 5573.65 $2,000.00 $2,573.65 On hand November 30, 1925 5573.65 $2,000.00 $2,573.65 1924 Receipts Income $108.16 Total 110 8.16 270 ANNUAL, REPORTS Payments Transferred to principal account Total January 1 to November 30, 1925 Receipts Income Total $108.16 $108.16 5108.16 $108.16 Payments Transferred to principal account $108.16 Total $108.16 GEORGE O. SMITH PARK INCOME ACCOUNT On hand January 1, 1924 On hand December 31, 1924 On hand November 30, 1925 Savings Bank Deposits Total $4.60 $4.60 $3.62 13.62 $2.60 $2.60 1924 Receipts Withdrawn from savings bank 1110.00 Income .86 Transferred from principal account 108.16 Total $219.02 Payments Deposited in savings bank $109.02 Expenditures 110.00 Total $219.02 Janaary 1 to November 80, 1925 Receipts Withdrawn from savings bank $110.00 Income .82 Transferred from principal account 108.16 Total $218.98 TOWN OF LExiNGTON 271 Payments Deposited in Savings Bank 3108.98 Expenditures 110.00 272 ANNUAL REPORTS 1924 Receipts ti Income Total $218.98 VETERANS' MEMORIAL FUND Savings Bank Deposits Total On hand January 1, 1925 On hand November 30, 1925 33,689.84 53,689.84 January 1 to November $0, 1922:5 Receipts Transferred from town Income Total $3,617.89 71.95 33,689.84 Payments Deposited in savings bank 33,689.84 Total 33,689.84 RATTLE GREEN FUND Savings Bank Deposits Total On hand Januar, 1, 1925 On hand November 30, 1925 3500.00 5500.00 January 1 to November 30, 1925 Receipts Transferred from town Total Payments Deposited in earrings bank Total ;500.00 1500.00 1500.00 CHARLES E. FRENCH CEMETERY FUND On hand January 1, 1924 On -band December 31, 1924 On hand November 30, 1925, 1500.00 Par Value of Securities Total 32,000.00 $2,000.00 12,000.00 12,000.00 12,000.00 12,000.00 180.00 Total Payments Transferred to income account $80.00 380.00 Total January 1 to November 30, 1925 Receipts Income $80.00 $80.00 Total 380.00 Payments Transferred to income account 380.00 Total 380.00 CHARLES E. FRENCH CEMETERY INCOME ACCOUNT On hand January 1, 1924 On hand December 31, 1924 On hand November 30, 1925 Savings Hank Deposits Total 3170.80 1170.80 1156.48 3156.48 $141.45 $141.45 1924 Receipts Withdrawn from savings hank $100.00 Income 5.68 Transferred from principal account 80.00 Total $185.68 Payments Deposited in savings bank 1 85.68 Expenditures Total 100.00 ;185.68 TOWN OF LEXINGTON 273 274 ANNUAL REPORTS January 1 to November 30, 1025 Receipts CEMETERY PERPETUAL CARE FUND INCOME ACCOUNT Withdrawn from savings bank $100.00 Income 4.57 Transferred from principal account 80.00 'Total $184.57 Payments Deposited in savings bank $ 84.97 Expenditures 100.00 Total $184.97 CEMETERY PERPETUAL CARE FUNDS Munroe Cemetery Savings Bank Deposits Total On hand January 1, 1924 $22,485.00 $22,485.00 On hand December 31, 1924 $23,385.00 $23,385.00 On hand November 30, 1925 $24,285.00 $24,285.00 1924 Receipts Income B ;1,900.00 Bequests 900.00 Total Payments Deposited in savings bank Transferred to income account Total January 1 to November 30, 1925 Receipts Income Bequests Total Payments Deposited in savings bank Transferred to income account $1,900.61 $ 900.00 1,000.61 ;1,900.61 $998.13 900.00 $1,898.13 ;900.00 998.13 Total $1,898.13 Munroe Cemetery On hand January 1, 1924 On hand December 31, 1924 On and November 30, 1925 Interest 1924 Receipts Transferred to perpetual care funds Total Savings Bank Deposits Total $2,948.17 $2,948.17 $3,251.29 $3,251.29 $3,263.59 $3,263.59 Payments Deposited in savings bank Transferred to town 'Total January 1 to November 80, 1925 Receipts Interest Transferred from perpetual care funds $102.51 1,000.61 $1,103.12 $303.12 800.00 $1,103.12 $114.17 998.].3 Total $1,112.30 Deposited in savings bank $12.30 Transferred to town 1,100.00 Total $1,112.30 CEMETERY PERPETUAL CARE FUNDS Westview Cemetery Savings Bank Deposits Total On hand January 1, 1924 $2,315.00 $2,315.00 On hand December 31, 1924 $3,467.00 $3,467.00 On hand November 30, 1925 $4,793.79 $4,793.79 1924 Receipts Income $113.87 Bequests 1,152.00 Total $1,265.87 TOWN OF LExINGTON 275 276 ANNUAL DEPORTS Payments Payments Deposited in savings bank ;1,152.00 Transferred to income account 113.87 Total ;1,265.87 January 1 to November 30, 1926 Receipts Income ;172.56 Bequests 1,251.00 Total ;1,423.56 Payments Deposited in savings bank Total LIBRARY TRUST FUNDS (In Hands of Library Trustees) General Fund Account On hand January 1, 1924 On hand December 31, 1924 On hand December 19, 1925 Deposited in savings bank. ;1,326.79 1924 Transferred to income account 96.77 Receipts ;107.08 $107.08 Par Value of Securities Total $11,000.00 $11,000.00 $11,000.00 ;11,000.00 $11,000.00 $11,000.00 Total ;1,423.56 Income WFSTVIEW CEMETERY INCOME ACCOUNT Total On hand January 1, 1924 On hand December 31, 1924 On hand November 20, 1925 1924 Receipts Savings Bank Deposits Total $145.96 $145,96 $265.22 ;265.22 1372.30 3372.20 Income ;5.39 Transferred from principal account 113.87 Total Payments Deposited in savings bank ;119.26 Total January 1 to November 30, 1925 Receipts ;119.26 Income $119.26 $10.31 Transferred from principal account 06.77 Total ;107.08 Payments Transferred to Iibrary trustees' account Total January 1 to December I9, 1925 Receipts Income Total Receipts $455.00 $455.00 $455.00 ;455.00 $455.00 ;455.00 Transferred to library trustees' account $455.00 Total $455.00 MARIA CARY FUND On hand January 1, 1924 On hand December 31, 1924 On hand December 19, 1925 Savings Bank Deposits Total $354.31 $354.31 $354,31 $351,31 $354.31 $354.31 TOWN OF LEXINGTON 277 1924 Receipts Income Total Payments Transferred to library trustees' account .... ;14.50 Total BOOK PURCHASE FUND ;14.30 ;14,30 On hand January 1, 1924 On hand December 31, 1924 On hand December 19, 1925 1924 Receipts $14,30 Par Value of Securities Total $1,000.00 41,000.00 ;1,000.00 11,000.00 ;1,000.00 $1,000.00 Income 278 ANNUAL REPORTS On ]land December 31, 1924 On hand December 19, 1925 1924 Receipts ;1,100.00 ;1,100.00 41,100.00 $1,100.00 Income $60.50 Total 460.50 Payments Transferred to library trustees' account $60,50 Total ;60.50 January 1 to December 19, 1925 Receipts Income $60.50 Total $60.50 $50.00 Payments Transferred to library trustees' account 160,50 Total ;50.00 Payments Transferred to library trustees' account ;50.00 Total $50.00 January 1 to December 19, 1925 Receipts Income $50.00 Tota] ;50.00 Payments Transferred to library trustees' account ;50.00 Total On hand January 1, 1924 450.00 BEAL FUND Par Value of Securities Total 41,100.00 ;1,100.00 Total $60.50 LAURA MUZZEY BRIGIIAM FUND On hand January 1, 1924 On hand December H, 1924 On hand December 19, 1925 1924 Receipts Par Value of Securities Total $3,000.00 13,000.00 13,000.00 ;3,000.00 ;3,000.00 ;3,000.00 Income ... ;142.50 Total ;142.50 Payments Transferred to library trustees' account. $142.50 Total 4142.50 Income TOWN OF LEXINGTON 279 January 1 to December 19, 1925 Receipts Total Payments Transferred to library trustees' account Total GOODWIN MUSICAL COLLECTION FUND On hand January 1, 1924 ' On hand December 31, 1924 On and December 19, 1925 Income 1924 $142.50 $142.50 $142.50 $142.$0 Par Value of Securities Total 3500.00 3500.00 ;500.00 ;500.00 3600.00 $500.00 2$() ANNUAL REPORTS ALICE BUTLER CARY I'UND On hand January 1, 19ff4 On hand December 31. 1924 On hand December 19, 1925 Savings Par Value Bank of Deposits Securities Total 32,400.00 32,400.00 32,400.00 32,400.00 3330.00 32,100.00 32,430.00 1924 Receipts Sale of Securities Income Total Payments Purchase of Securities 3100.00 117.53 3217.53 3100.00 Transferred to library trustees' account 117.53 Receipts Total 3217.53 Total 330.00 330.00 January 1 to December 19, 1925 Receipts Sate of Securities Payments Premium on securities sold Income Transferred to library trustees' account Total Income Total January 1 to December 19, 1925 Receipts Payments 330.00 330.00 330.00 330.00 Transferred to library trustees' account 330.00 Total 330.00 Total Payments Deposited in savings bank Transferred to library trustees' account Total ROBBINS FUNIS On hand January 1, 1924 On hand December 31, 1924 On hand December 19, 1925 3300.00 30.90 72.70 402.70 3330.00 72.70 402.70 Savings Bank Deposits Total 3100.00 3100.00 3100.00 $100.00 3100.00 3100.00 Income Total TOWN 01' LE:XINGTON' 1924 Receipts Payments Transferred to library trustees account Total JANE PHINNEY FUND On hand January 1, 1924 On hand December 31, 1924 On hand December 19, 1925 Income Total 281 $4.04 $4.04 $4.04 $4.04 Deposits Securities Bank of Savings Par Value Total $13.90 1100.00 5113.90 $14.19 5100.00 5114.19 $124.75 $124.75 1924 Receipts Deposited in savings bank Payments Transferred to library trustees' account Total Sale of securities January 1 to December 19, 1925 Receipts Premium on securities sold Income Total Deposited in savings bank Payments Transferred to library trustees' account Total 282 ANNT[TAL REPORTS WELLINGTON FUND Savings Par Value Bank or Deposits Securities Total On hand January 1, 1924 51,000.00 $1,000.00' On hand December 31, 1924 532.18 51,000.00 11,032.18• On hand December 19, 1925 532.18 51,000.00 51,032.18 1924 Receipts Sale of securities 51,000.00 Premium on securities sold 11,60 Accrued interest on securities sold 18.83 Discount on securities purchased 25.00 Income 60,58 Total Payments Purchase of securities Deposited in savings bank Accrued interest on securities purchased $6,79 Transferred to library trustees' account 51,116.01. 11.000.00' 32.18 23.83 60.00 56.79 Total 51,116.01 January 1 to December 19, 1925 Receipts $ .29 6.50 Income $6.79 Total Payments Transferred to library trustees' account 5100.00 10.00 3.81. 5113.81 5110.56 3.25 $113.81 Total $60.00' 560.00 560.00 160.00- WDWN OF LEXINGTON 283 284 ANNUAL REPORTS TRUST FUND ACCOUNTS TrustFunds—Cash and Securities $76,075.95 $76.075.95 TOWN OF LEXINGTON 285. Trust Funds in custody of Trustees of the Public Trust: Bridge Charity Fund $4,048.65 Elizabeth B. Gerry Charity Fund 2,280.26 Bridge and Gerry Charity Income Account 374.88 Harriet R. Gilmor Charity Fund 500.00 Harriet H. Gilmor Charity Income Account 45.63 Eleanor S. Beals Charity Fund 2,000.00 Eleanor S. Beals Income Account 135.62 Jonas Gammel Charity Fund 500.00 Jonas Gammel Charity Income Account 189.04 Charles E. French School Fund 2,500.00 Charles E. French School Income Account 53.55 Lexington High School Scholarship Funds 201.28 Hayes Fountain Fund 862.72 Hayes Fountain Income Account 120.86 George B. Smith Park Fund 2,573.65 George B, Smith Park Income Account 2.60 Veterans' Memorial Fund 3,689.84 Battle Green Fund 500.00 Charles E. French Cemetery Fund 2,000.00 Charles E. French Cemetery Income Fund 141.45 Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds—Munroe Cemetery 24,285.00 Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund—Income Account Munroe Cemetery 3,263.59 Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund—Westview Cemetery 4,793.79 Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund—Income Ac-- count—Westview Cemetery 372.30 $55,434.71 Trust Funds in custody of Library Trustees: General Fund Account $11,000.00 Maria Cary Fund 354.31 Book Purchase Fund 1,000.00 Beal Fund 1,100.00 Laura MuazeY Brigham Fund 3,000.00 Goodwin Musica,t Collection Fund 500.00 Alice Butler Cary Fund 2,430.00 Robbins Fund 100.00 Jane Phinney Fund 124.75 Wellington Fund 1,032.18 20,641.24 $76,075.95 286 ANNUAL REPORTS Balance Sheet Cash: General TOWN OF LEXINGTON GENERAL ACCOUNTS ASSETS Water deposits October 31, 1925 $91,823.48 800.00 Cary Memorial Library Trustees 1,297.42 Accounts Receivable: Taxes: Levy of 1923 Levy of 1925 Special Assessments: Unapportioned Sewer Apportioned Sewer Departmental: .. Health Sewer Maintenance Public Welfare State Aid School Munroe Cemetery Westview ;93,920.90 $88.13 527,539.72 527,627.85 ;118.00 11.25 $73.00 3,188.61 1,812.48 396.00 176.97 298.75 1,668.13 Water rates, etc. Tax Titles Estimated receipts , Loans authorized , Overlay 1923 deficit 129.25 7,613.94 8,448.49 7,017.16 56,559.16 42,300.00 22.87 $743,640.62 TOWN OF LEXINGTON 287 288 ANNUAL REPORTS LIABILITIES Temporary Loans: In anticipation of revenue Cary Memorial Library Sale of Cemetery Lots Munroe Cemetery Westview Cemetery $5.00 2,277.60 $350,000.00 1,297.4E 2,282.60 Guaranteed deposits—water 800.00 Unexpended balances: General appropriations $174,114.45 Sewer maintenance 976.46 Sewer construction 26,082.88 Maple, Lowell and Mass. Ave., Construction 12,379.64 Cliff, Arcadia, etc. Street Construction 6,249.15 Highway Construction 3,680.76 Schoolhouse Construction and Remodelling 85,912.47 Water Maintenance 15,181.55 Water Construction 31,147.52 Westview Cemetery Land 1,090.82 Overlay reserved for abatements: Levy of 1925 Sewer Assessment receipts Tax Titles suspense Revenue available when collected: Sewer assessment $129.25 Sewer maintenance 3,188.61 Departmental 4.425.33 Water 8,449.49 Tax Title 7,017.16 Surplus Revenue 355,815.70 4,372.23 1,226.80 43.44 23,209.84 3.692.59 ;743,640.62 DEFERRED REVENUE ACCOUNTS Apportioned Sewer Assessments, not due $199.02 $109.02 TOWN of LEx1NOTON 2SS 290 ANNUAL REPORT'S Sewer Assessment Revenue 1926 $110.71 Sewer Assessment Revenue 1927 17.65 Sewer Assessment Revenue 1928 17.65 Sewer Assessment Revenue 1929 17.65 Sewer Assessment Revenue 1930 17.65 Sewer Assessment Revenue 1931 17.65 $199.02 DEBT ACCOUNTS Net Funded or Fixed Debt: Inside debt limit Outside debt limit $228,500.00 556,950.00 $785,450.90 TOWN OF LEXIMOTON 291 DEBT ACCOUNTS General Loans—Inside Debt Limit: Mass. Avenue Improvement Loan Summer Street Improvement Loan Street Improvement Loan Boston and Maine R. R. Land—Depot Park Street Improvement Adams School Loan School Construction Loan New Grammar School House Loan New Grammar School House Loan School House Construction ---Parker and High Schools Buckman Tavern Park Loan Cemetery Improvement Loan Westview Cemetery Loan Trust Fund Refunding Loan General Loans—Outside Debt Limit: Sewer Loan .... $60,000.00 Sewer Loan 31,000.00 Sewer Loan 9,000.00 Street Improvement Loan 12,500.00 Street Improvement Loan 13,000.00 School House Construction and Remodeling 326,000.00 Water Loans—Outside Debt Limit: Water Loan—Refunding 510,000.00 Water Loan (Extension and Standpipe) 7,500.00 Water Loan 4,000.00 Water Loan 4,000.00 Water Loan 19,950.00 Water Loan 10,000.00 Water Loan 28,000.00 Water Loan 22,000.00 $2,000.00 1,000.00 10,000.00 8,000.00 15,000.00 20,000.00 46,000.00 2,000.00 91,500.00 18,000.00 2,000.00 3,000.00 10,000.00 $451,500.00 105,450.00 $228,500.00 556,950.00 $785,450.00 ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS OF THE TOWN OF LEXINGTON For the Year 1926 Medford Mercury Press 1927 TOWN of LEXINGTON 3 REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOR 1926 To THE CITIZENS OF LEXINGTON : The Forty-first Annual Report of the School Committee is respectfully submitted. This report includes the following items: I School Committee Organisation. II School Calendar. III Report of the School Committee. IV Financial Statement. V Directory of School Officers. VI Report of the Superintendent of Schools. VII Extracts from Reports Made by Principals of Schools and Heads of Department. VIII School Statistics. A. B. C. D. E. F. G. Courses taken by Lexington Teachers. Prizes. Distribution of Senior High School Pupils by Courses, What Our 1926 Graduates are Doing. Summer School. Lexington, School Savings. Extract from State Returns. 4 ANNUAL REroR7S SCHOOL COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION CHAIRMAN Howard S. O. Nichols, 19 Hayes Avenue (Term expires March, 1929) SECRETARY James Stuart Smith, 4 Percy Road (Term expires March, 1928) TREA SURER Nina F. McLellan, 45 Percy Road (Term expires March, 1927) Tel. Lex. 0434-M Tel. Lex. 0018 Tel. Lex. 0980 SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Thomas S. Grindle, 5 Bloomfield Street TeI. Lex. 0165-W Office: High School Building Tel. Lex. 0277 CLERK Barbara M. Parks, 153 Bedford Street Tei. Lex.. 0143-W Regular meetings of the School Committee are held on the first and third Tuesdays of each month in the High School Building. 1927 SCHOOL CALENDAR School opens January 3, 1927 Closes, February 18 1927 Opens February 28, 1927 Closes, April 14, 1927 April 15 — Good Friday Opens, April 25, 1927 Closes, June 24, 1927 Holidays — May 30 — June 17 School opens, September 7, 1927 Closes, December 23, 1927 Holidays: Octolber 12 28. November 24, 25. Grades T-111 Grades IV -VI Grades VII -XII TOWN OF LEXINGTON SCHOOL HOURS Morning Session 8.45 •to 11.30 8.45 to 12.00 8.10 to 1.50 Afternoon Session 1.30 to 3.15 1.30 to 3.15 NO SCHOOL SIGNAL The signal for no school is 3 times 3 blows of the tiro alarm whistle. A. When heard at 7.15 A. M. it means no school for all grades. B. When heard at 7.30 A M. it means no school for grades I—VI inclusive. C. When head at 11.30 A. M. it means no school in P. M. Schools are often in session when weather conditions are unsuit- able for some children to attend, in which case parents must make their own decision. 6 ANNUAL R EPORTS REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE The Lexington schools now have a student body numbering 2,0O1, with 71 teachers, under 9 Principals and Supervisors all directed by Superintendent Thomas S. Grindle. From. th numbers involved, and the value of the buildings and equip ment, this is a business of considerable size. With the growth of the Town, there is a natural increase in school population, and a consequent enlargement in the teaching force. The buildings, a]so, begin to fill up to capacity, and we can now see the time approaching when Lexington must erect an other grade or grammes school. Next Fall we will still have accommodations for additional pupils in the various schools. This room could, apparently, care for the normal growth of the Town for some time to come, but as the Town does not always develop evenly in population about the various schools, we get more and more complicated and expensive problems of transportation, with not a little in- convenience to particular families, and some scattering of child- ren from a given neighborhood to several different schools, --- likewise, we have to carry children past schools that they should logically attend, because the district near those schools is thickly settled, and the school not large enough to care for more. Parents must understand this situation is difficult for the School Committee, and we ask them to co-operate with us on questions of transportation and location of scholars in schools. Looking ahead not more than two years, we will need a new grade school near some of the faster growing districts. The Town Planning Board is aware of conditions and will make a recommendation to the Town which we hope the Town will follow. The present school population is divided as follows: Adams School 382 Munroe School 256 Hancock School e 360 Parker School 201 Junior High School 471 Senior High School 351. Total 2,001. TOWN o»' LEXINGTON 7 There are 98 pupils attending from Bedford and Burling- ton divided as follows Grade IX. Junior High School, Bedford 27, Burlington 16. Grade X. Senior High School, Bedford 20, Burlington 18. Grade XI. Senior Hugh School, Bedford 15. Grade XII. Senior High School, Bedford 8. In 1926 these out-of-town pupils paid into the Treasury of the Town of Lexington $11,295.41, all of which goes into the general funds of the Town and helps reduce the general tax rate. Our physical plant absorbs these students without ad- ditional charges for coal, Light, janitor services and bond in- terest, but requires the employment of additional teachers. The profit to the Town is considerable and we recommend continu- ance so long as out-of-town pupils do not overcrowd our Junior and Senior High Schools. During the past year we have received additional equip- ment from the School Building Committee, all of which is, or soon will be, in useful service. The annual expenditure for general repairs has kept all buildings up to standard for light and cleanliness. This item should be maintained in the Budget as an annual eharge. The units of instruction are well knit together and doing good work with the rank and file of students. The co-operation of all teachers and units of the school under the Superintendent have been excellent, and the school standards have been raised. We think, however, that a greater measure of success could be obtained if parents would assume the responsibility of seeing that their children, especially in the Junior and Senior High Schools, followed in an exact and systematic way the printed schedule of home study with which each child is provided. If parents do not attend to this. a student. although bright enough, may fail. There is another remedy. namely, lengthening of the school -day, which probably neither the parents nor the students nor the teaching force would like, Study, however, must be done, both continuously and carefully if the student is to get what our schools really offer. Lexington at present does not compare favorably with other towns in the matter of absences and tardiness. Children, of course, are required to make up work lost by absence, and are disciplined for tardiness. The Committee also realizes that be- cause of scattered population there is both temptation and cause for a certain amount of absence and tardiness, but the percent- age is so high that we appeal to parents to see that children, 8 ANNI:AL REPORTS especially those who walk to school, are started early enough to arrive on time, and that more careful thought be given before a child is permitted to stay at home. There have been no new departments opened during the past year• We have no plans to open any in 1927. The conduct of scholars on busses while not excellent, has improved. We continue, however, to ask parents to instruct their children, and to advise and warn them of the dangers of automobile traffic on the highways. The school budget is increased this year to take care of teachers' salaries and more teachers. Lexington must pay the going rate for teachers, and the increase in population accounts for the increase in number. The remaining items are the ex- penses of the building and grounds. There are no extraordin- ary expenses, either of operation or upkeep. We trust that the Budget will show by comparison with other years that we are operating the schools with economy, and that the Town will vote appropriations to maintain oiir present standards. Respectfully, HOWARD S. 0. NICHOLs, Chairman. NINA F. M0LELL.AN, JAMES STUART SMITH. School Committee. TOWN OF LEXINGTON FINANCIAL STATEMENT Year Ending December 31, 1926 General Expenses Superintendent, Attendance Officer, Office Assist- ance and Expenses Expenses of Instruction Salaries of Supel'Visers, Principals and Textbooks Stationery and Supplies Expenses of Operation. Janitors, Fuel, etc. Maintenance. Repairs. etc. Health Transportation Vocational Tuition 9 $4,708.15 Teachers 120,533.45 4,205.96 6,553,23 24,188.76 6,131.58 2,1.89.76 7,572.23 603.27 Miscellaneous Expenses - Graduations, Athletics. Express etc Outlays Furniture. Equipment. etc Americanization Classes Summer School 'Contingent Appropriation $179,839.00 Unexpended Balance RECEIPTS 1.086.72 482.06 192.75 455.65 226.91 $179,040.54 798.46 $179,839.00 $179,839.00 Tuition: Town of F,:•tiford Town of Burlington •Commonwealth of Massachusetts: State Wards Vocational Schools Americanization Gasses General School Fund Rent for High School Auditorium and Gymnasium -Telephone. Damaged Boobs, etc Net Expenditure for 1926 $8,484.07 2,811.34 844.44 250.01 97.12 14.030.00 272.80 26.45 $26,816.23 $152,224.31 1t] ANNUAL REPORTS ROSTER OF TEACHERS IN LEXINGTON SCHOOLS DECEMBER 31, 1926 N arae POSlt1On SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Bion C. merry Irving F. Sherwood Haydn S. Pearson F. Evelyn Brown Ethel F. Davis Anne L. Forsyth Grace P. French Bertha V. Hayward Anne H. Hutchings Cora D. Leighton N. Elisabeth Lyons Helen McIntyre Betsy H. Morton Elsa W, Regestein Ruth A, walcott Hanel W. Hargrove, C]k. Mary C. Lusk Merrill F. Norl]n George L. Young Gladys fid, Anderson Ruth Chandler Miriarn Ewart Gertrude 7'. Fay Dorothy L, Fish Margaret Goodnough Carolyn Gower Harriet J. Hodgkins Mary A. Haycock Ivy McGranahan Gertrude M. Miner Emily W. Payson Julia B, Smith Laura Sweet BIanche L. Whelpley Etheiyn Haslam Principal Sub -master English, Law Geog., Typewriting Bookkeeping ]English Science History English Latin English History Stenography Math emetics French n 0• ,. u O Bates College 7 N. H. State Col. 2 N. H. State Col. — Chandler Seore. — Farmington Nor. 4 Smith College S weliesley Col. 15 Univ. of Maine 8 Emerson Col. — Radcliffe Col. 3 Radcliffe Col, — Boston Univ. — Simmons Col. 3 3[t. Holyoke Coi, 18 Wellesley Col. 8 JUINIOR HIGH SCHOOL Principal Assistant Prin. Science History English, Science Eng]lsh French Latin History English Fngllsb [;eography Draw i n g Commercial Science, History Mathematics English, Music Mathematics Household Arts 351 Mo. State Nor. 15 471 Wesleyan Unly. Ji. 1. state CoI. 1 — Beidgew'r Nor. 2 Boston Univ. — Wellesley Col. 2 Brldgew'r Nor. 2 Wheaton Col. 1 DePauw Tlniy, 1 Wheaton Co1, — Gloucester Tr. 8 Fitchburg Nor. 8 New Seh. Design 1 Simmons Col, 3 PSlymouth Nor. 2 WesTeld Nor. 8 Radcllfl'.e Col. 1 Salem Norma! 11 Fram'gltam Nor..,.- Ida E. Scheib Sylvia Burley Marion H. Briggs Etta M. Taylor Elsie E. Williams Margaret Waddell Dorothy Stack clary C, Kilroy r•aura M. Dennett Annette O'Neil Marie C. Jensen Catherine Tobin Maud E. Adlington Elisabeth L. Faeey _Marion .1. KeYes jerinie F. Blodgett Margaret G. Wingate Arlene E. Rowe Neva G. Mitchell Margaret E. Noyes Mabel B. Cook Harriet S. French 'Mamie Silverthorn Viola M. Tellier M. Olive Murray Grace M. Chase Flora R. Hall Katherine Hennessy Viola S. Cashman Mildred I. Pearson Elsie M. Philbrtek Juliet Morehouse Ruth E. Morrison Catherine P. Hill Edith H. Small May E. Towle Alberta Hardy Martha L. Lane Ruth Sudbury SUPERV Richard Crawley Helen F, Libby A. Irving Dodge TOWN OF LEXINGTON ADAMS SCHOOL Principal Grade I I II III III III & VI IV V V & VI VI Opportunity & III HANCOCK SCHOOL Principal Grade 1 I I1: 1I III IV V V VI VI Assistant MUNROE SCHOOL Principal & VI Grade I II III IV V Opportunity Assistant PARKER SCHOOL Principal & VI Grade 1 II In IV V Opportunity r ISORS AND SPECIAL Physical Education Physical Education Manual Arts Salem Normal 2 Farmington Nor. — Wheeiock Tr. — Voohree's Nor. 13 Frara'g'm Nor. -- Bridgew'r Nor. 2 Fitchburg Nor. — Fitohburg Nor. — Salem Normal 6 No. Adams Nor. --- Des Moines Univ. 2 Bridgew'r Nor. 2 Simmons Col. 8 Framing'm Nor. — Fitc•hburg Nor. I Bridgew'r Nor. 32 Framing'm Nor. 4 Leslie School --- Quincy Traln'g 24 Bridgew'r Nor, 9 Fraining'm Nor — No. Adams Nor, 12 Framing'm Nor. 1 Lowell Nor. — Framingh'm Nor. 1 Concord Train'g 9 Gorham Nor, — Salem Normal 9 5aleni Normal — Keene Normal 1 Presque Is. Nor. 1 Wheel'k Train'g 2 Plymouth Nor. 4 Castlne Nor. — Wheel'k Train'g -- Gorham Nor. — Framing'm Nor. 1 Glou'ter Train'g 7 Lowell Nor. TEACHERS Springf'ld Tr'ng — Bos. Sch. of P. E. 1 Masa State C'rse 1 11 362 36 36 38 24 24 31 41 34 31 as 18 360 40 42 35 30 44 35 42 25 41 26 256 41 36 34 47 39 40 19 201 26 36 29 28 36 29 15 12 Alice C. Clarke Helen F. Spooner Alyce B. Fenton Evelyn E. Faulds ANNUAL REPORTS Household Arts Music Drawing Penmanship Fram'gham Nor. 1 Fram'gham Nor. -- New Sch. Design Salem Normal — SCHOOL PHYSICAN Dr. W. L. Barnes Tel. Lex. 0410 365 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington SCHOOL NURSE AND ATTENDANCE OFFICER Elsie G. Welteh Tel. Arl. 1915-M 16 B:Iili•v Road, Arlina on AMERICANIZATION TEACHER Gladys M. Anderson Tel. Lex. 0472-M 48 Forest Street, Lexington TOWN Of LEXINGTON 13 REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS December 31, 1926. To THE SCHOOL COMMI'rTE AND CITIZENS: Herewith is submitted my third annual report as Super- intendent of Schools in Lexington, this being the forty-first of the series of superintendents' reports. INTRODUCTION The annual reportis for the public at large who, we feel, are concerned with the general educational program rather than with the technical details of class room instruction. Therefore we have not attempted a complete survey of all our school activities nor discussed in detail the various problems that are constantly arising in the school organization and administra- tion. However. we have tried to present a few matters that seem important at the present time and others that have re- ceived special attention during the year. 'rhe work of the schools has shown real progress without any serious disturbances. We have not looked about for in- novations but have sought, rather, to Solidify what we have al- ready undertaken. The organizationis readjusting itself to the new building in a very satisfactory manner. That the schools are running smoothly should not, however, be construed that we have no problems to solve. But such problems as we have serve as life to the organization. CURRICULUM REVISION The need of re -organization of our course of study has been discussed in previous reports. During the past year we con- centrated upon the work in English in Grades I to VI inclusive. We now have a definite course of study for these grades. This course, now in use by all teachers, is a result of the combined study of our school force with the best educational practice avail- able. We are giving a brief outline of this work as a part of this topic. 14 ANNUAL REPORTS We are working on the course of study for English in the junior and senior high schools and we hope at the close of the year to have completed a unified outline of our English pro- gram from the firstgrade through the twelfth grade. Tenative eourses of study for Science and History in the junior high school and the senior high school have been organ- ized the past. year. A close study of the work in mathematics for the first six grades and the junior high school is in progress and we hope eventually to have a unified progranl of study in this subject. Our aini is to continue this work of curriculm revision until we have a more definite program from the first grade through the senior high school. The close correlation of our elementary curriculum with that of the junior high school, and that of the latter with the senior high school will be our ultimate goal. OUTLINE OF ENGLISH WORK FOR GRADES I TO VI GRADE 1 1 Standards or aims in oral and written composition A. Oral Composition. 1. To tell two or three sentences in a clear tone and in a straightforward manner, avoiding excessive use of and--well—but. B. Written Composition 1. To be able to copy two or three sentences or to make them with word cards. 2 Capitals A. Beginning a sentence B. Names (children's) C. I S Punctuation A. Period at the end of a telling sentence B. Question mark 4 Correct Usage saw—seen was—were ate—eaten (not et) did—done come—came you (not youse) ain't Tow OF LEXINOTON 15 16 ANNUAL REPORTS GRADE 11 2 Capitals Review and Continue work of Grade i A. First and important words in a title Aims: B. First line of poetry 1 Oral Composition 3 Punctuation To increase the work of Grade I by using a larger A. Period for abbreviation vocabulary introducing more• originality and better selec- B. Punctuation in child's address tions of beginning and ending sentences. 4 Abbreviations 2 Written composition A. Months Second half of the year 2 or 3 original sentences not B. Days in paragraph form. C. Road—Avenue—Doctor—and others as needed 8 Capitals Days of the week Initials Months Holidays Proper names 5 Indentations and Margins 6 Letters—Sample form: Dear Mary, 21 Waltham Street, Lexington, Mass. May 19, 1926. 4 Punctuation Abbreviations:—Mr.---Mrs.—St.—Mass. Period with initials Interrogation point at the end of a sentence asking a Your friend, question, John Fisher 5 Correct Usage 7 Correct Usage—Advance: Review work of previous grade. teach—learn Advance: don't—doesn't went—gone through—threw no—not—never John did (not, John he did) haven't any It 3s I (he, she, we, they) have not GRADE IV those—them Review and continue work of previous grades, you—were GRADE 111 Review of previous grads. 1 Standards or aims in oral and written composition A. To preserve and develop originality B. To enlarge and refine the child's oral and written vo- cabulary C, To develop the power to organise material D. To develop the power to speak and write pointedly and forcefully E. To limit oral and written compositions to 3 or 4 sentences in paragraph form. 1 Standards or aims in oral and written composition A. To telt and write correctly four or five sentences in a paragraph B. To begin sentences in a variety of ways C. To avoid a constant use of so—and—then—well—why D. To stress personal endings (See Sheridan Fourth Year) 2 Capitals A. Heading, salutation and close of a letter B. Geographical names as needed C. Names of people, as Indians D. I and 0 E. Titles, as Uncle John TowN OF ]JI•:x1 GToN 17 F. Common abbreviations as needed G. Names of north, south, east and west when they are names of sections of a country 3 Punctuation A. Comma to separate words in a series B. Letter form of Grade III C. Apostrophe --contractions and possessives 4 Friendly Letters 5 Correct Usage (See Sheridan Language Drill) A. Advance lie—lay lay—]aid sit—sat—sot this—that (not that there) these --those (not them or them there) who—whom draw—drew--drawn write—wrote—written 6 Acquisition of vocabulary 7 Begin dictionary drill GRADE V Review work of previous grades. 1 Standards or aims in oral and written composition A. To secure better sentence structure by: 1. Beginning sentences in a variety of ways 2. Combining short related sentences 3. Placing words skillfully 4. Choosing words and expressions thoughtfully 5. Limiting length of composition to 5 or 6 sentences B. To improve oral compositions by: 1. Avoiding errors of speech 2. Using well modulated voice 3. Enunciating distinctly 4. Giving a good beginning and ending 2 Letters Friendly notes and invitations (informal) 3 Capitals A. Review work of previous grades B. Quotations, simple and divided 18 ANNUAL REPORTS 4 Punctuation A. Exclamation mark B. Comma—Person addressed, Yes, No C. Hyphen 3 Correct Usage A. Advance like, as who, which, that speak, spoke, spoken eat, ate, eaten come, came, come sing, sang. sung well, good begin, began, begun go, went, gone do, did, done ring. rang, rung 6 Homonyms and Synonyms 7 Use of dictionary 8 Use of Index, Table of Contents, etc. GRADE •V1 Review work of previous grades 1 Standards or aims in oral and written composition A. See Grade V and continue B. To limit compositions to 6 or 8 sentences C. To apply knowledge gained in previous grades to all oral and written work D. To enlarge vocabulary E. TO use varied forms as dialogue, diary, anecdote, fable, news Item, description, narrative, explanation. 2 Correct Usage A. Advance drink, drank, drunk break, broke, broken bring, brought, brought blow, blew, blown bring, take 3 Use of reference books freeze, froze, frozen tear, tore. torn take, took, taken ought not unless, without 4 Grammar A. Plural of nouns B. Seven parts of speech (especially as they function composition) Classify nouns as common and proper. C. Kinds of sentences D. .Simple and complete subject and predicate In TOWN OF LEXINGTON" 5 Outlines—sample: I A. B. 1. 2. C. D. a. b. 19 II 8 Letters A. Business Letters—Applications--Orders S. Telegrams—Night Letters C. Formal Notes The minimum number of poems to be memorized each year is six. These poems are chosen from lists made up for each grade. REVISION OF COURSE IN GEOGRAPHY Geography is another subject which has been included in this year's work of curriculum revision. A proper understand- ing of foreign geographical condition:; that affect the lives of other people of the world should be imparted to our children. During the year we have made a careful study of several courses of study and have availed ourselves of considerable material research work upon this subject. The revised course or study for Grades III to V[ inclusive, published by the State Depart- ment. of Education, appears to be the hest available material of ths� king]. This manual was carefully prepared under the guid- ance of the best instructors in geographical subjects. This course of study, with certain changes, is now used in our schools. The work outlined for Grade III is not of the formal type. Two geographical principles are stressed during the year; (1) children are taught that the lives of people are influenced by the environment in which they live and (2) that they are also to a great extent governed by seasonal conditions. By the use of poems. songs and readings the work of this grade is closely cor- related with the work in literature, music and health. The major topics covered during the fourth grade are the local geography and world geography. The history of the town is vitally connected with the geography of the town; therefore, these two subjects set in as a unit. With the completion of the study of local geography by the use of maps, the child is taught the relation of his town to the surrounding towns, to the county, to the state, to the nation and finally to the world as a whole. 20 ANNUAL REPORTS In the fifth grade emphasis is placed upon the study of the regions which furnish the child food, clothing, fuel and shelter, special attention is given to the study of North America. Some of the more important topics are dairy products, fish, meat, wheat, sugar, fruits, cotton, wool, silk, furs, rubber, coal, wood and building materials. Certain of nature's great wonders are also studied this year such as Niagara Falls, Yellowstone Park, etc. A definite amount of time is allotted to map study of place location, which in turn is followed by a memory test. The sixth grade is devoted mainly to a study of European people. The aim of this year's work is to give the pupil some idea of the importance of geography in the development of the European countries. Locational geography is given an import- ant place. By use of political maps, the globe, and individual outline maps, the different countries and cities are studied. THE TEACHING OF HANDWRITING Reports from all parts of the country indicate that there is no method of teaching penmanship that is uniformly accepted as the hest. Some of the mostpopular systems of handwriting, in use for years, have failed to produce desired results. The question as to what is the best system cannot be easily answered. Some educators have believed that the child should not learn to write until the second or third grade. At the other ex- treme is the practice of the Montessori methods which begins writing in the kindergarten period. At what exact age a child is tit to begin writing is a question for discussion. However, there does not seem to he any sufficient reason why writing should notbegin in the first grade provided it is adapted to the capacities of the young child. The question as to what is the best form of movement drill is important: The value of spending considerable time upon the so-called oval and push-pn]l drills has always been questioned. It now seem.s to be the consensus of the hest authorities that this is of little valve; that it is preferable for the drill work to be confined largely to letter or word -forms rather than to abstract lines and ovals. The "grind" that a child must undergo on mere movement drills is not warranted by the results. The principle Here involved is that of correlation. With the old methods none of the exercises led to a definite practical end. We have applied this same principle of correlation to other sub- jects. As in the teaching of :Manual work, the child is no longer occupied in merely making a joint or smoothing a piece of x'oocl, but he makes a complete article, something useful or practical. TOWN of LEXINGTON 21 So in teaching music we find that it is better to motiv- ate practice by giving the pupil a definite selection of music from the start than to keep him indefinitely on dreary exercises. The kind of movement to be taught in the primary grades opens up serious disagreement. There has been a wide spread belief that arm. movement or the so-called muscular movement should be emphasized from the beginning. The scientific evi- dence that is available refutes this idea since it has been found that proper arm movement comes only with age and motor devel- opment of the child. investigations prove that we must expect children to use various combinations of finger, arm and wrist movement but that the good writer uses more arm movement than the poor writer. Hence, the arm movement drills should be stressed in all the upper grades. As a fact, the majority of children who have been trained in the whole arm movement employ it very little in their ordinary writing. A combination of the arm and correct finger movement is the most natural way for both young and old to write. One of the most useful innovations in this field has been the development of different methods of measuring the pupil's attainment of handwriting by means of tests and scales. Various kinds of scales have been devised by which a pupil may compare his own work with that attained by other classes and schools. The teaching of handwriting is very largely individual instruc- tion, especially in the upper grades. What we should do is to try to find out each pupil's needs and then prescribe the proper exercises to meet those needs. In every grade we find exception- ally good writers and also exceptionally poor writers. Some of the most common faults found in all pupils which need indi- vidual attention are uniformity of slant, uniformity of align- ment, the letter formation, neatness, and the spacing of letters and words. The problem of correlating writing with other school sub- jects has always arisen largely because of the fact that writing has been an individual subject of instruction. However, it is not sufficient to treat. writing as incidental to other work in the school if the best results are to be obtained. There are two common ways in which proper correlation of writing may be carried on. First, by requiring the pupil to apply the meth- ods which he learned in writing to all his written work. Second, by introducing into the written lesson practical forms of work which the child requires in his other school work. While the special handwriting drill plays an important part, permanent standards can only be achieved through the practical handwriting situations which arise in connection with other 22 ANNUAL REPORTS school subjects. When the entire responsibility is placed on the penmanship period this is what frequently happens, "Pupils write the drills beautifully but when they write anything out- side the penmanship class, they forget all about the movement." A word may be said at this point in regard to left handed writing. There is a certain small, but definite proportion of people who are strongly left handed. For such persons to write with the right hared is much more difficult than to write with the left hand, and there is a good deal of scientific evidence to indicate thatfor such persons writing with t}ie right hand fre- quently produces difficulties or defects in speech. If a pupil is strongly left handed, therefore, he should be allowed to write with his left hand. During the year we have reorganized our course of study in penmanship to meet the changes which have been discussed. Our present course attempts to carry out the best current prac- tices available that scientific study warrants. STATUS OF TEACHING CORPS During the past year we have had twenty-nine changes and additions to our teaching force. They are distributed among the different schools as follows: Schools Changes Add Ftions Senior High 4 1 Junior High 3 1 Adams 5 1 Hancock a Munroe 3 Parker 3 Special 3 1 1 Totals 24 5 The work of securing and recommending the hest possible teachers at our salary schedule is one of the most important problems of the Superintendent of Schools. Much time and thought have been given this work during the past three years and certainly no part of the work should receive greater time and thought. Comparing the list of teachers at the close of the school year 1924, when I assumed the position of Superintendent of Schools, with the present enrollment I find there have been fifty-two changes in our teaching force or sixty-five percent of the entire teaching force. If we include those teachers who remained in our system only one or two years, this percentage TOWN OF IAXINaToN 23 would be much larger. It can be easily seen, therefore, that the turnover in our school force is large and that the process of filling the vacancies is a very important one. The best means of improving a school system is to improve the teachers. This improvement is effected first by a wise selec- tion of teachers and secondly by the professional advancement of the individual teacher. The greatest source of waste in education results from faulty adjustment between the teacher and her work, largely doe to wrong situation and placement. It is an axiom that the teacher will find the greatest satisfaction in her work when she is lost in it, and she is never lost in it unless she is very much interested in it, qualified for it, and appreciated by the community. Too much care, therefore, cannot be used in studying each individual applicantwith reference to her capacities and interests and to place her where these capacities and interests can best find expression. It is absolutely necessary for the personnel of any school system to he continually improving itself professionally. • The spirit of our teachers in this respect is most gratifying. I be- lieve thata group of teachers cannot be found who, as a whole, are more progressive than those in Lexington. At the present time we have sixty-five per cent of our teachers taking courses of various kinds. A detailed list of the teachers who are engaged in professional study and of their courses is given in the appen- dix of this report. DUTY OF THE HIGH SCHOOL TOWARD COLLEGE PREPARATION One of the chief functions of any standard high school is proper preparation for college. The function of college prepar- ation is very largely determined by the control of higher educa- tion by privately endowed colleges and universities. Once all schools of a scondary nature were called preparatory schools, the one consideration being preparation for college. The public high school owes its creation and development to the protest against such a narrow form of education and so restrieted a curriculum. The chief educational significance of a public high school is its great response to the increasing demand that the school not only he preparatory for life but rather that. it is life itself. Preparation for college then should be incident to all this. However, Lexington has a large number of pupils, com- pared to its school population, who enter the high school each year with the worthy ambition of college entrance. 24 ANNUAL, REPORTS During the past few years the college entrance situation has changed very greatly. The great increase in the number wishing to enter college has placed the colleges on the defensive. The leading institutions have not been able to accommodate the demand. Each year thousands of pupils who are seeking admis- sion to colleges are excluded because of lack of accommodations. Some colleges have registration lists completed six years in ad- vance. It is therefore necessary for colleges to discover some definite means of determining entrance to the different institu- tions. bIany colleges have arbitrarily set up a definite limit and any applications over this number. no matter how worthy, are to be refused admission. Obviously. the simplest and most direct method of eliminating enrollment is to raise the entrance standards thus making it more clitiieldt to be admitted to these schools. Any change which the college makes in the entrance situa- tion must be correspondingly met by the high school. If the college increases the difficulty of entrance the high school must also raise its own standards and increase its efforts to meet the new situation. The local school has attempted to follow the lead of the colleges as far as 1line and facilities permit. The time given to college preparation during the second half year has been somewhat inereased by special afternoon help to those pupils who wish to try the examinations. Often comparisons or contrasts are made between the ability of the public school and the private schools to prepare pupils for college. The time element is an important factor in this work. The private school usually has the supervision of its pupils twenty-four ]yours of the day and a ennsiderable proportion of this time is devoted to supervised study periods. In contrast., the public school has the pupil only five hours for actual classroom work. It is not long enough. Home study is difficult at hest and generally speak- ing is quite unsatisfactory. The problem of improper home study conditions, social diversions. radio, etc. is exceedingly difficult and entirely out. of the school control. None of these conditions is favorably disposed toward greater effort in the direction of college entrance. Yet more energy must he given to prepara- tion for college. and school and home must work together to that end. Only such pupils who arc mentally fit and who are indus- trious and determined may be reasonably assured of admission to college. The day to day school record is becoming more and more the determining factor. Pupils who cannot, or will not, do their daily work well will either be forced to longer periods of preparation or else to elect work that is more suitable and TowN o>• LExixerroN 25 does not carry the high standards of college preparation. It is a serious question as to how far the public schools' responsi- bility should extend in respect to the pupil who does not reason- ably respond to .the college preparations' requirements. The school which worries and argues too much over the pupils who e+uinot or will not meet college requirements will never adequately succeed in doing that important part of its work which is to take the best possible care of the capable pupils who have come to the High school for the purpose of preparing for college and are willing to give of their best time and efforts. I have attempted to present a very brief summary of some of the conditions and problems facing this department of our high school work. A close study of the statistics given in the ex- tracts from the report of the Senior High School shows that the Lexington high Selioo] is adequately meeting the needs of those, pupils who are serious in their intentions of preparing for col- lege work, INDUST itIAL E1)GC:ATION Industrial education in some form is as old as the indus- tries themselves. But it has only been in the last decade that the public schools have • undertaken in a serious way to place ~Heli courses in their program of studies. The term, " Industrial Education". is frequently used to designate anything from the simplest form of hand work in the elementary schools to the full time vocational schools which are found in our large centers. The broad use of this term "Industrial Education" leads to a great deal of confusion on the part of the citizens as to the difference between courses in indus- trial arts. practical arts or manual arts on the one hand and vocational or trade courses on the other. A decision as to the •elassifieation of this work should be based upon the nature of its objectives. In a recent bulletin issued by the U. S. Depart- ment of Education the following objectives for industrial courses in the junior and senior high schools are clearly stated: 1. To train the hand and eye in the intelligent use of tools and materials through certain fundamental operations which it is well for an individual to be able to perform, regard- letis of his occupation. 2. To develop an appreciation of constructive work with different types of materials, in order that the individual may he a more intelligent consumer, regardless of his occupation. 26 ANNUAL REPORTS 3. To gain an insight into and an appreciation of some of the important industrial arts, in order that the pupil may make• an intelligent choice of an occupation, 4. To develop ability to perform a variety of practical tasks sufficiently well to meet general social demands and the needs of home life but not necessarily up to the standard of occupational practice. 5. To prepare an individual for profitable and advan- tageous entrance into employment in a definite industrial occu- pation, with the status of an advanced apprentice. 6. To provide an opportunity for those who have already entered occupations to add to the knowledge and skill which they already possess, in order that they may become more expert workers, with increased earning capacity and a better chance• for promotion. The first four objectives are primarily educational while the last two are distinctly vocational in their aims. It is not advisable for Lexington to support a trade or voca- tional school. We are so situated that it as possible for aur pupils - to attend high grade vocational schools of various types and se- cure a much better training than would be possible for such a community as Lexington to provide. Under our present law any boy or girl over fourteen years of age who has completed the sixth grade is allowed to attend the vocational schools of the state unless such schools are maintained in one's town. Tuition to such schools is free for the pupils and such an arrangement is much more desirable and economical. Our problem, therefore, at the present time is to organize our department so that it best meets the needs of these first four objectives. The type of organization which best serves our purpose, especially for the junior high school, is the general shop. plan. Under this plan ail activities are in one department under the direction of one or two teachers. In larger schools or com- munities where the demand for such courses is greater, each particular kind of work, such as that in wood, metal, electricity, printing, drafting, and others, is a separate department by it- self with its own individual instructors. Because of its diversity of activities, the general -shop plan possesses advantages, particularly in communities where only one er two teachers are provided. The work may he character- ized as extensive rather than intensive. Some of the advan- tages derived from such an organization are: TOWN OF LEXINGTON 27 1. It brings together under the direction of one teacher activities dealing with a variety of materials and processes. It is of value to have one teacher interested in the boy's work and to direct his activities for all the work on a certain project. 2. It affords opportunity for students to acquire a large amount of indirect experience by the observation of work done by other members of the class. 3. It furnishes training and experience of a variety of materials and the use of a variety of tools which are connected with the home and community life. 4. It serves a valuable means for discovering certain in- terests and abilities and thus helping the pupil make a more intelligent choice of his life's work. CONCLIJSION Much has been said about curriculum revision. There is still much to he done in the way of revising and adjusting our . courses and methods to individuals differing in capacity, power of application, interests and prospects. I firmly believe, how- ever, that we are doing more now than ever to make our school work adaptable to the individual child. We must continue this work devising our courses and methods so that they will come closer to life itself. However, the longer my experience in public school edu- cation, the deeper is my conviction that the personal contact between pupil and teacher is Avhat counts the most. Scientific development of the curriculum is good, experimental methods of teaching are good, measurement is gond, but a personality that radiates sympathy and kindness, helpfulness and sincerity is the best of all. Respectfully submitted, THOMAS S. GRINDLE, Superintendent. 28 ANNUAL REPORTS EXTRACTS TAKEN FROM THE REPORTS OF THE PRINCIPAL (W THE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, PR INC IPA 1. (W THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, ANI) IIN]AJ)S OF DEPARTMENTS SENIOR IIIGH S!'HOOL Bion C. Merry, Principal "To those Who are not familiar with the efficiency of the college department of the Lexington High School we wish to submit our record. "Pupils who went direct to college from the Lexington High Seim/ were graduated Last June from the following colleges: Boston University Dartmouth College Radcliffe College Simmons College Smith College University of Maine 1 1 3 1 1 1 Sixty-eight of our graduates who entered college direct from this High School are doing satisfactory work. They are distributed as follows: Boston College Boston Normal Art School Boston 'University Bowdoin College 3 Brown University 1 Connecticut College Copley School of Art 1 Dennison University 1 Dartmouth College 2 Harvard College 7 2 mass. Agricultural College 2 1 mass. Institute of Technology 1 2 Mass_ School of Art 1 Mount Holyoke College 5 Middlebury College 1 3 Norwich University 5 Oberlin College 1 Radcliffe College 9 Simmons College 3 Skidmore College 1 Smith College 1 1 Tufts College 5 University of Maine 1 1 Harvard Dental School 1 Jackson College Lowell Textile School 8 Yale College Lexington High School is one of the examination centers of the College Entrance Examination Board and our pupils have the convenience of taking the College Entrance Exami- nations in their own High School. Last June our pupils were TOWN OF LEXINGTON 29 successful in ninety per cent, or forty-nine of the fifty-five of the subject examinations in which they had earned a High School grade of A or R. "Practically one-third of our student body is enrolled in the commercial department. More careful vocational guidance is due this group than either the college or practical arts depart- ments. The commercial pupil goes out into the business world with the training and experience which he obtains in aur High School, while the college pupil is introduced to various fields of service in college -work, and the practical arts pupil has a chance to explore the various trades as he continues his vocational train- ing at Wentworth or other trade schools. At the end of the sophomore year, our commercial pupils are required to ehoose between stenography -typewriting or bookkeeping. According to a recent investigation, these two vocations give employment to but twelve per cent of tie clerical workers. Vet many pupils who will not qualify for these two types of work will succeed in certain other kinds of office work. New clerical equipment should, therefore, be added in order to train our pupils for such positions as filing clerks, calculating machine operators, duplicating machine operators, cashiers, etc. With this enrichment of our curriculum, our graduates would be trained for the primary office trades, which would be a distinct advantage to the large number of our boys and girls who are receiving their entire vocational training in the High School." ]CNIoR (HIGH SCHooI, .Mary C. Lns]:, Principal "Guidanee of the pupil is the chief function of the Junior Ifigh School. The following is a statement of some of the methods used in accomplishing this fnnetion : The school brings together large groups of stndents of a cor- responding grade. It gradually introduces a new freedom of action and a variety and choice of subject (natter, thus devel- oping each student's individniality as to capabilities, interests, etc. It encourages the pupil to test himself in the light of these choices, but precludes a premature decision as to course by re- quiring of all students the same work in the fundamental sub- jects. Promotion by subject eliminates useless repitition of a whole year's work because of failure in one or two subjects. Provision of more groups in a given subject makes possible 30 ANNUAL REPORTS subject specialization on the part of the teachers. Readjust- ment is possible when the parents and teachers find that the pupil is following the wrong lead. The fact that ninth graders are still boys and girls is recognized. They are given an op- portunity for self-expressioin without being forced in their social development through competition with more mature stu- dents of the Senior High School. A weekly- club period is offered where pupils and teachers register regardless of grade or course, thus democratizing the school and developing individ- ual talents. Provision is made for weekly assemblies, the program being presented by the pupils under teacher guidance, thus developing poise, powers of discrimination, etc. Finally, in the light of all these experiences, the school diagnoses and guides the student into channels where he is apt to make his greatest success, thus lessening the possibilities of Ioss of interest, cour- age, repetition of subject matter, etc. Our school is struggling with several problems where con- centrated cooperation on the part of the parents would be of great assistatice. Pupils should feel that school is their business outside of home and health interests, and that other activities should exist only to such an extent as not to interfere with their school success. Each school day, all of our teachers give a full period after school to helping students. Many times they find it almost impossible to get hold of a pupil needing such assistance because of conflicting outside interests. Every effort should be made by the home to see that pupils are on time, not only because of economy in the school system but, far more important, because pupils are forming their life habits. We End, in nearly every case, that late habits and sub- ject failures go hand in hand. Many of our students do not eat a lunch. A. growing stu- dent needs nourishment before he reaches his home as he must breakfast before eight o 'clock. In every ease where a pupil is not eating at Least a light lunch here at the school, it has been found that he has been having difficulty in part or all of his school work. His fagged brain as welt as his body needs the stimulation of food. In connection with the eating question, we also fend that many of the students get up late, eat a too hurried breakfast, and so develop headaches, sluggish brains, etc., thus impairing their school efficiency. No pupil can do ac- curate work, particularly the type required in English and Mathematics under such conditions. TowN of LEXINGTON 31 Many of our students who 'have keen mentalities have diffi- culty in getting the thought from a printed page and so are handicapped in using their books for any subject. The college group must read certain classics in order to meet the college entrance requirements. These same bright students often find it difficult to understand the vocabulary or method of expres- sion used by the author. Many of the so-called `children's books' are poorly written and of limited vocabulary, containing no real style nr thought provocation. We would suggest that par- ents oversee home reading and encourage their children to read standard hooks, magazines, and papers, thus promoting a taste for good literature and a real vocabulary. Invariably we find that where parents and child have the habit of reading together good literature, the child has a better understanding of all reading material. To summarize, we urge that the homes cooperate in helping us to train the boys and girls to take school seriously; to make theta as prompt in their school relations as they would be in business; to make them realize that, regardless of all the help, guidance and urging given by teachers and parents, they will get out of sehool exactly what they put in it. 'While our school is still young to draw definite conclu- sions, we submit the following report relative to one subject, Mathematics, demonstrating the workings of our guidance system : The November rank book of the Senior High School Sophomore Class shows that out of a class of 138 students only five pupils who were following the recommendations made by the Junior High School faculty at the close of their Junior High School career failed in any subject per- taining to Mathematics. All other failures were found to he cases where the student and parent did not follow the recommendation of the Junior High School Faculty." Music Helen F. Spooner, Supervisor "Music is a universal language used by all nationalities, and is one of the most important subjects taught in the schools. It is a means of self expression which the children enjoy with enthusiasm. The work in music has been continued along the lines of my predecessor, the aims being—To give every pupil a sound working knowledge of the fundamentals of music for reading 32 ANNUAL REPORTS and singing; to develop a love for singing, not only in schools but in the home and community, by teaching the children many songs of the Heart, Home, and Country; and to develop chorus singing in the High School. In addition to the orchestras and Glee Clubs in the Junior and. Senior High Schools, Glee Clubs consisting of pupils from the grade schools have been formed for the study of the more advanced forms of music. As the social advantages of music are recognized by educa- tional authorities, credit is allowed toward graduation for music study carried on outside of school under certain conditions." DRA WING Alyce E. Fenton, Supervisor "The study of drawing should awaken the child's sense of observation so that he may learn to see, understand and judge while learning to draw. It should teach the child to express • himself with clearness and intelligence. Drawing, painting, design, color and handicraft are each an important element in art, therefore something of these ele- ments is presented in the drawing course planned for the schools. The course is carried out in the grade schools through an outline planned each month. In the Senior High School the Freehand course is based on the same elements with more time given to each subject and each one is taken up in detail. A new course has been started this year for the Household Arts Department. This course involves a thorough study of color, color harmonies, principles of design and costume design. The aim is to create originality and personal inventiveness which are very important factors in the progress of this study. Mechanical Drawing is carried out in the Junior and Sen- ior High Schools, beginning with the seventh grade in the Junior High. The work is based upon the fundamentals of Me- chanical Drawing necessary to enable the boys to carry out the work planned in the Manual Training Department. The course involves sheet layout, Iettering, geometric problems, orthographic projection and the essentials and development of working drawings. The Senior High School course involves a review of the principles taught in the Junior High School. With this as a basis the work is planned to encourage the student to make original drawings of practical objects. TOWN OF LEx1NOTON 33 It is expected that the above be completed during the first semester. During the second semester the students are taught a very definite course in the fundamentals of machine and architectural drawing going into the latter subject more deeply than the former." LUNCHROOM Alice C. Clarke, Director "The lunchroom of the Junior and Senior High School is conducted so that the pupils and teachers may have a hot and nourishing luncheon in the middle of the day. The menu. is planned to furnish a whole well balanced meal or to supple- ment that brought from home. Each day we serve two kinds of sandwiches, milk, cocoa, ice cream, one salad, one dessert (jelly, custard, bread pud- ding, gingerbread, etc.), and one main dish (a soup, scalloped dish, or meat and one vegetable). The prices of the main dish and salad vary somewhat, being five or ten cents depending upon the expense of the supplies. All other dishes are five cents each. We only plan to cover east of supplies and labor, but it takes careful plan- ning to do even that and still have such low prices. It is interesting to note what is bought by the majority: From the 825 students in the two schools we estimate that N00 or 700 buy something from the counter each day. About 50 teachers also patronize it. Half of the students buy cocoa, milk or dessert to go with the sandwiches brought from hone. About 150-200 buy their entire luncheon, Approximatel7 our daily orders average as follows: 80 — 100 bottles of milk 225 --- 250 sandwiches 25 — 30 cups of cocoa 50 — 60 salads 150 — 225 desserts 350 -- 375 ice cream orders 150 — 230 main dish" SCNOOL NURSE Elsie G. Weitch, R. N. "Inasmuch as the work of the School Nurse depends largely upon the cooperation of those she comes in contact 34 ANNUM. REPORTS with the progress made this year is due to the fine spirit of cooperation given by the principals, teachers, parents and Public Health Association of Lexington. The aim of health work in the schools is that of prevention rather than cure. This is done by trying to educate the child in the right health habits and care of the body. A physical examination is given each child and many defects are found among the younger children entering school. Notice is sent to the home and a home visit made. The responsibility of the child is the parent's, and we do not wish to assume it, but we are always willing to advise and help the parent to rectify any defect. The State Clinic for underweight children started on their ten year program in Lexington this year. All children 10% or more underweight were given a physical examination and the tuberculin test. Those that reacted to the test were X -Rayed. Two children were found to have a pulmonary tuberculosis and two a hilium tuberculosis. Many other children were classed as suspects and need careful attention. As a result of this clinic fifteen children were sent away to health camps: i North Reading Sanatorium 2 "..14 Summer Health Camp, Sharon 7 Farrington Home, Lincoln 3 Wilbur Health Camp, Natick 2 Winning Farm, Woburn 1 This was made possible by the kindness of the Lexington Public Health Association and Lexington Board of Health. There is still a great deal to be accomplished with our school health work, but with the cooperation of all there is no reason why we should not reach a higher standard of effi- ciency each year. Number of pupils inspected in school 6,773 Number of pupils given first aid 120 Number of pupils excluded from school 109 Number of home visits 538 Number of pupils inspected at home 5? Number of pupils taken to hospitals 8 TOWN OF LEXINGTON 35 S&HOO PHYSICIAN William L. Barnes, M. D. "The number of pupils examined since schools opened in September is 1890. The defects found in the routine exam- inations are as follows: Children with detective teeth Children with swollen cervical glands Children with diseased tonsils and adenoids Children with defective hearth (including all murmurs) Children with defective lungs 690 958 93 with 42 7 Total number of defects noted. 1,790 Number of defects recorded as corrected during the year: Teeth 236 Tonsils and Adenoids 32 Like many other cominunities we have had an unusual number of cases of scarlet fever in town this winter. The disease has been so mild that some cases have of necessity been missed because they were not sick enough to attract at- tention of parents and were not diagnosed until found in school, either during the rash stage or later when peeling of the hands showed them up to experienced observers. Other cases were found at home sick with the disease, much to the surprise of their parents, when the school nurse visited the homes to see why they were absent. All such cases had no attending physician, and if the schools had been closed on account of the epidemic, would have been missed and run at large spreading the disease. Hence the wisdom of keeping the schools open and making frequent examinations of the pupils during mild epidemics. Whenever • a case is found in a room, the remaining pupils in that room are watched daily for contact eases, and in several instances new cases have been detected in the schools and hustled home when their parents had not noticed anything unusual. This is one of the most valuable duties of the full-time school nurse with a part-time school physician in charge to direct the work and pass on doubtful cases. In the Fall Diptheria appeared in three families in town. It seemed a good time to offer to Schick -test and immunize all children found susceptible to the disease. The hearty response of the parents speaks well for their intelligence. 36 ANNUAL REPORTS Nearly a thousand school children were Schick -tested, and of those found susceptible, about seven hundred were im- munized, besides many of pre-school age and some teachers. The work was done under the supervision of Dr. Jones of the State Department of Health. As the number requesting to be tested and immunized was so unexpectedly large, the physicians of the town were invited to see the tests done and help out in the work, and four volunteered their services gen- erously. Thus with the help of a State nurse, the school nurse, the Public Health nurse and a volunteer nurse living in Lexington, and with the Lexington Board of Health sup- plying some of the supplies needed, and the State Depart- ment of Health furnishing the serum, the work went on smoothly without any complications. Those physicians who helped got valuable experience in giving and interpreting the Schick test and immunizing susceptibles, and are now competent to continue the work privately with their patients, and I sincerely hope that as a result of this work here in Lexington many people in town will be immunized by their family physicians a they are now against that other dread disease, Small Pox. .For it is possible to immunize a community against Diphtheria as completely as against Small Pox. Both dis- eases could be made to disappear entirely if the Public would only cooperate properly. I wish to thank all those who so generously helped out in this work. I also wish to express my appreciation of the cooperation and help given me by all those with whom my work in the schools has brought me in contact duringthe past year." COURSES TAKEN BY LEXINGTON TEACHERS DURING THE YEAR 1926 SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Evelyn Brown English Literature Ethel F. Davis Accounting Literary Criticism Anne L. Forsyth Contemporary English Novelists Grace P. French Correspondence, Practical Electricity Bertha V. Hayward Contemporary English Novelists Anne Hutchings Secondary School Or- ganization and Admin- istration Elizabeth Lyons Romantic Movement in Europe Boston University Boston University Boston Unlverslty Boston University University Extension Boston University Boston University Radcliffe College Betsy H. Morton Elsa Regestein Ruth A. Walcott Mary C. Lusk Gladys Anderson Ruth Chandler Miriam Ewart Gertrude Fay Dorothy L. Fish Harriet Hodgkins Mary Mayeock Emily Payson Laura Sweet Blanche Whelpley Ida E. Scheib Catherine Tobin Marie C. Jensen Sylvia Hurley Etta M. Taylor Mary C. la1Iay Annette O'Neil Margaret Waddell TOWN OF LEXINGTON Psychology of Commer- cial Education Harvard Geometry Construc- tions Boston University Correspondence, Modern French Grammar Chicago University JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL Economics History, Ancient Art Drama Story Telling Progressive Methods of teaching Modern Music Spanish, French, English Modern Music Drama, American Lit- erature Geography Typewriting Ari t h m e tic Recon struc- tion Conducting Singing Chorus Conducting ADAMS SCHOOL Modern European Government European Background, American History English Composition Mental Health Measurement of Intel- ligence Special Class work Woodworking Contemporary English Literature • Primary Methods Methods of Silent Reading Literature Public Speaking and Oral Reading Adult Immigration Education Geograhpy Gr. VI -VIII Public Speaking and Oral Reading Supervision and Im- provement of Teaching Harvard Harvard Boston University Boston University Boston University 37 Lowell Evening High Boston -University Boston University Boston University Burdett College Boston University Harvard Boston University Boston University Boston University Boston University Boston University Harvard Boston University Mr. Perry Columbia Extension • University Extension University Extension University Extension Boston University No. Adams Nor. No. Adams Nor. Boston University Harvard 38 Maud Adlington Margaret Noyes Harriet French Margaret Wingate Arlene Rowe Neva Mitchell Marion Keyes Elisabeth Facey M. Olive Murray Grace M. Chase Flora R. Hall Katherine Hennessy Mildred Pearson Viola Cashman Elsie Ph!]briek Juliet Morehouse Ruth E. Morrison Martha L. Lane Alberta Hardy Edith Small Ruth Sudbury Catherine Hill Evelyn Faulds Helen Libby ANNUAL REPORTS HANCOCK SCHOOL Mental Measurements Curriculum Making Modern Literature American History Silent Reading Primary Methods Primary Methods Colonial History Story Telling Primary Language and Reading Psychology of Child- hood 1VIUNROE SCHOOL Sociology English Primary Reading Primary Methods Primary Methods Philosophy of Educa- tion Methods in Silent Reading Methods in Silent Reading Methods in Silent Reading Educational Measure - menta Sociology PARKER SCHOOL Administration of Elementary School Silent Reading Geography Primary Methods Interior Decoration Teaching Special Classes Woodworking Oral English Composi- tion SPECIAL Penmanship Danish Gymnasties Harvard Boston University Boston University Boston University University Extension University Extension University Extension Boston University Boston University Columbia University Columbia University Boston University Hyannis Normal Hyannis Normal University Extension University Extension Boston University University Extension University Extension University Extension Harvard Boston University Boston University University Extension Boston University North Adams Normal Normal Art School Boston University Mr. Perry Boston University Zanerian Summer School Bouve School TOWN OF LEXINO7'ON 39 PRIZES -1926 SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Clapp Oral Prize Ethel Laura Peterson Clapp Essay Prize James Kenneth Robertson George O. Smith Essay Prizes 1. Edith Miller Carpenter 2. James Kenneth Robertson Blake Prizes 1. Dana McLean Greeley 2. Grace McLean Wilson French Medals 1. James Andrew Collins 2. Cleveland Gilcreast 3. James Kenneth Robertson Washington and Franklin Medal James Kenneth Robertson JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL French Medals—Junior High School 1. Riehard M. Davis 2. Marion Blume 3. Stanley Burlingame ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS French Medals ---Adams School Hancock School Munroe School Parker School Putnam Prize — Hancock School 1. Lillian Cordillo 2. Katherine Gale 3. George Needham 1. Martha Nichols 2. Robert Hannam 3. Warren Sherburne 1. Martha H. Cobb 2. Ellen L. Frost 3. Lucy Kelly 1. Arthur Massuceo 2. Irene Hrones 3. Eleanor Proctor Martha Nichols DISTRIBUTION OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS BY COURSES ---1926-1927 College Commercial Practical Arts Total Grade X 60 58 41 149 Grade XI 36 37 25 9$ Grade XII and Post -Graduates 34 40 30 3.04 135 96 86* Total 129 40 WHAT OUR Mary Anderson Edith Andrew Nora Armstrong Oscar Balanoff Lawrence Ballard Dirk Bierenbroodspot Isadore BIuestein Dorothy Blume Ethel Boyce Edward Brown William Brown James Bullock Christine Burbidge Bertha Buttrick Clarice Campbell Edith Carpenter John Casey Elizabeth Collins James Collins Mary Corcoran Ernest DaRu Elizabeth Day Robert Doran Ruth Erwin Arnold Fiske Helen FoIey Edith Fredrickson William Gale Abigail Garrity Cleveland Gilcreast Donald Gilford Eleanor Gilford Frances Gluck Wi]Iiam Goloboy Dana Greeley Laura Henderson Bliss Jones Joseph Kraetzer Clara Larcom Robert Lee Arthur Lemos Alpha Lowe Virginia Lyon Gladys MacKay ANNUAL, REPORTS GRADUATES ARE DOING -1926 Smith's Butterfly Studio Ryder's Stock Farm William Filene's Sons Co. At Houle Bryant & Stratton School Carpenter Apprentice Suffolk Law Sohool Radcliffe College Salem Normal School Wentworth Institute Farm Employee Norwich University Calvin W. Childs Chandler Secretariat School Married Simmons College Florist Apprentice Lexington Co-operative Bank Harvard College Buckley & McCormack Artist Apprentice Mother's Helper Massachusetts Agricultural College Jefferson Union Company Wentworth Institute Homeopathic. Hospital Jefferson Union Company Boston University Lester E. Smith Harvard College BIiss Electrical School Plymouth Normal School Moved Away Mass. College of Pharmacy Stearnes Academy Old Colony Secretarial School Lowell Textile School Post -Graduate Hickox Secretarial School Dartmouth' College At Home Machant Company Charlesgate School of Nursing Chandler Secretarial School TOWN OF LEXINGTON 41 WHAT OUR GRADUATES ARE DOING-1926—Continued Eleanor Maguire Dorothy Martin Owen McDevitt Margaret McEnroe Philip McGovern Ethel McIntosh Benjamin Meady •Clara Melanson Harold Michelson -James Moakley John Moloy Joseph Murphy George Neville Warren Partridge 'William Paxton Ethel Peterson Harold Pfeiffer Costa Polesayka Joseph Polesayka Ruth Pollock Robert Porter Ruth Ramsdell Ruth Ray James Robertson Rena Roby Mary Roche Milton Rodofsky Esther Sampson Eugene Senften Rebecca Smith Wesley St. Coeur William Stockbridge William Sullivan -E1vle Swenson 'Webster Tucker Mildred Waite Robert Watt Bertram Whipple Dorothy Whittier Brittian Webster Thomas 'Welch .Grace Wilson Grace Wright {William Young Lexington Tire Service Lincoln Hotel At Home N. E. Telephone & Telegraph Co. Plumbing Apprentice Howard Seminary Lowell Textile School Filing Equipment Bureau I. J. Michelson Auto Owners Mutual Insurance Co. At Home Boston College At Home Post -Graduate Lloyds Library Bureau Burdett College Wentworth Institute Bentley School of Acc't. and Finance At Hoole Wentworth Institute Katharine Gibbs School Filing Equipment Bureau Yale College Red Feather Candy At Home Tufts College N. E. Telephone & Telegraph Co. Post -Graduate Bradford Academy Tilton School Bentley School of Acc't and Finance Plumbing Apprentice Pierce Shorthand School Bryant & Stratton Comm. School Post -Graduate Plumbing Apprentice Hayden & Stone Chandler Secretarial School The Nolen School Bentley School of Acc't. and Finance Boston University. School of Nursing Lexington Savings Bank Norwich University 42 Grades IV `r VI Total School Pupils Enrolled 15 I8 25 58 Parker Hancock Munroe Adams runior High Totals 1925 Forward ANNUAL REPORTS SUMMER SCHOOL -1926 Results Incomplete 2 1 3 Passed 3 2 Trial Failed 7 5 7 7 17 7 5 31 19 LEXINGTON SCHOOL SAVINGS December 31, 1926. b cd0 .v ,. 3`: , 4D 4v a Zxei � da .4 e b ,X-4 50 9 1,891 9 5497.88 $5.42 5492.48 98 15 4,898 22 1,872.60 12.01 1,866.59 57 1$ 3,286 24 1,444.06 9.70 1,434.36 70 23 3,379 42 1,809.76 19.42 1,590.34 94 47 2,046 52 1,147.31 24.44 1,122.87 369 112 15,495 249 56,577.61 970.99 96,508.62 1,679 156 22.201 209 10,513.81 102.96 10,410.85 - Grand Totals 2,048 268 37,696 358 917,091.42 5173.95 516,917.41 MEMBERSHIP AND ATTENDANCE (Extract from School Returns to the State Department o! Education) School Year Ending June 30, 1926 Pupils Enrolled; Elementary High Total' Boys 769 266 1,035 Girls 720 265 975 Total 1,489 521 2,010 Non-resident pupils (including State Wards) who attended the schools of the town /or not less than half the school year 12 83 95 AggregateAttendance 235,500 81.878 317,378 Average Daily Attendance 1.322 459 1,781 Average Number of Days the Public $e13Qols were llctuaIly in session 179 177 179• Average Membership 1,426 489 1.916. TOWN REPORT INDEX Elective Officers Appointive Officers Lexington Town Records Committees Appointed at Various Town Meetings Warrant for Town Meeting, Feb. 9, 1926 Town Meeting, Feb. 9, 1926 Warrant for Town Meeting, March 1, 1926 Annual Town Meeting and Election of Officers, March Adjourned Town Meeting, March 8, 1926 Adjourned Town Meeting, March 16, 1926 Warrant for Town Meeting, May 12, 1926 Town Meeting, May 12, 1926 Warrant for State Primary, Sep. 14, 1926 Primary Election, Sept. 14, 1926 Warrant for Town Meeting, November 2, 1926 State Election, November 2, 1926 Representative Election, November 12, 1926 Warrant for Town Meeting, December 6, 1926 Town Meeting, December 6, 1926 Committee Reports Appropriation Committee Acts of Legislature Accepted by the Town in 1926 Town Clerk, Report of Births Recorded for the Year 1926 Marriages, Recorded for the year 1926 Deaths Recorded for the Year 1926 Town Engineer, Report of Fire Engineer, Report of Police Department, Report of Superintendent of Streets, Report of Moth Superintendent, Report of Forest Fire Warden, Report of Sealer of Weights and Measures, Report of Building Inspector, Report of Health Officer, Report of Health Inspector, Report of Milk Inspector, Report of Animal Inspector, Report of Dental Clinic, Report of 3 4 7 10 12 14 1, 1926 23 27 33 46 50 57 59 66 fib 73 74 78 89 95 103 104 109 114 118 121 122 124 126 127 126 130 132 133 134 136 138 INDEX Slaughtering Inspector, Report of Plumbing Inspector, Report of Superintendent of Water and Sewer Department, Report of Assessors, Report of Middlesex County isxtension Service Cemetery Commissioners, Report of Town Counsel, Report of Tax Collector, Report of Trustees Cary Memorial Library, Report of Librarian, Report of Library Treasurer, Report of Trustees Cary Metnorial Library, Report of Superintendent of Parks, Report of Wire Inspector, Report of Superintendent of Parks, Report of Selectmen, Report of Jury List Planning Board, Report of Town Treasurer, Report of Trustees of Public Trusts, Report of Trustees of Bridge Charitable Fund 1926, Report of Town Accountant, Report of Treasurer's Receipts Departmental Expenditure State Director of Accounts, Report of SCHOOL DEPARMENT School Committee Organization, Report of School Committee, Report of Financial Statement Roster of Teachers Superintendent, Report of Supervisor of Drawing, Report of School Physician, Report of School Nurse, Report of Resident Non -Resident ASSESSING VALUATIONS, 1928 139 140 141 151 153 155 157 160 161 163 172 174 176 179 180 134 192 195 199 200 207 209 214 242 4 6 9 10 13 32 35 33 151 151