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'12 <br />Mr. Rowse asked if it would be safe to put bleachers <br />• <br />there and Mr. Cosgrove said that with the drainage that <br />had been put in, he thought it would be all right. About <br />four feet of fill was put there. The Chairman asked if <br />he expected to have any trouble with the drainage pipes <br />cracking etc. inasmuch as the pipes were laid on boards <br />and he said he did not. Mr. Paxton said that five -ton <br />trucks loaded with fill were driven all over that area <br />when the field was being built and he thought that the <br />fill that ;.-was put in would form a carpet and distribute <br />the loads The Chairman said that some members of the <br />Board had received criticism that the field should never <br />have been built there as it was a known fact that there <br />was twenty feet of peat under it. Mr. Rowse asked if the <br />boards would rot and Mr. Cosgrove said he did not believe <br />that they would as they are below the water table. Mr. <br />Rowse said that there had been some sinking already where <br />the pipes were put in and Mr. Cosgrove said that was <br />natural, that there was always some sinking where pipes <br />were laid. He said undoubtedly there would be more sink- <br />ing but he did not believe that it would affect the joints. <br />Mr. Paxton said that they expected to have to grade up the <br />field from time to time. <br />Mr. Rowse thought that Mr. Cosgrove should give the <br />Board something definite with regard to the safety of <br />putting weight on the field -- weight for a grandstand and <br />people sitting in it. Mr. Cosgrove said that he could go <br />over there once a month and take elevations of the field <br />and the Board told him to do this. <br />Mr. Cosgrove retired at 8113 P. M. <br />Mr. Paxton said that the Red Cross had requested the <br />use of a conference room on April 29th for a meeting and <br />the Chamber of Commerce had requested the use of a con- <br />ference room on April 24th for a directors' meeting. <br />Mr. Potter moved that the use of the rooms be <br />granted free of charge. Mr. Locke seconded the motion, <br />and it was so voted. <br />Mr. Paxton said he had received bids on crushed stone <br />as follows <br />• <br />