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OF THE
TOWN OFFICERS
OF THE
TOWN OF LEXINGTON
FOR THE YEAR 1903.
MARLBOROUGH, MASS.
THE ESTABROOK PRESS, PRINTERS ANP BINDERS, FRYE BLOCK,
1904.
LEXINGTON -
LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS
FROM
1"iarch 1903 to March 1904.
Selectmen.
JOHN F. HUTCHINSON (Clerk)
GEORGE W. TAYLOR - -
EDWIN S. SPAULDING (Chairman)
Term expires 1904
Term expires 1905
Term expires 1906
Overseers of the Poor.
HENRY A. C. WOODWARD (Chairman)
EDWIN S. SPAULDING, JOHN F. HUTCHINSON.
Surveyors of Highways.
JOHN F. HUTCHINSON (Chairman),
EDWIN 5. SPAULDING, HENRY A. C. WOODWARD.
Town Clerk.
GEORGE D. HARRINGTON.
Town Treasurer.
GEORGE D. HARRINGTON.
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Collector of Taxes.
LORING W. MUZZEY.
Tree Warden.
CORNELIUS WELLINGTON.
School Committee.
FRANCIS J. GARRISON -
SARAH E. ROBINSON -
LORENZO D. COCHRANE -
HANNAH T. CARRET -
FORESTER A. MACDONALD
FRED S. PIPER
'Perm expires 1904
Term expires 1904
Term expires 1905
- Term expires 1905
Term expires 1906
'Perm expires 1906
Cemetery Committee.
ABBOTT S. MITCHELL - -
HERBERT L. WELLINGTON -
GEORGE H. JACKSON (Clerk)
Term expires 1904
Tenn expires 1905
Tem) expires 1906
Constables.
WILLIAM B. FOSTER, CHARLES H. FRANKS.
Auditors.
HILMAN B. SAMPSON, H. EDGE NE TUTTLE.
.Board of Health.
CHARLES H. FRANKS -
ALBERT B. SMITH -
DR. J. ODIN TILTON
Term expires 1904
Term expires 1905
Term expires 1906
Water Commissioners.
CHARLES W. SWAN - - Term expires 1904
EVERETT S. LOCKE( Chairman and Registrar)Term expires 1905
THADDEUS L. BRUCE - - - Term expires 1906
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Sewer Commissioners.
EDWIN S. SPAULDING
GEORGE O. WHITING
ROBERT P. CLAPP
Fence Viewers.
'Perm expires 1904
Term expires 1905
Term expires 1906
ABRAM B. SMITH, CHARLES S. BLODGETT.
GEORGE W. BUCK.
Field Drivers.
CHARLES E. WHEELER, ALBERN S. CHATFIELD
EDWIN A. BAYLEY.
Surveyors of Lumber.
GEORGE W. SPAULDING, ABBOTT S. MITCHELL.
Board of Trustees of Cary Lihari•.
Consists of Selectmen, School Committee and settled Clergymen of
the town.
OFFICERS APPOINTED BY THE SELECTMEN.
Engineers of Fire Department.
JAMES H. PHILLIPS (Chief), WILLARD H. GREENE,.
GEORGE W. TAYLOR (Clerk)
Registrars of Voters.
JOSEPH P. RYAN, - Term expires 1904
GEORGE W. SAMPSON - Term expires 1905
WILLIAM F. CALDWELL - Term expires 1906
GEORGE D. HARRINGTON (Clerk).
Trustees of Bridge Charitable Fara.
CHARLES T. WEST
GEORGE O. DAVIS
WALTER WELLINGTON
Term expires 1904
Term expi res 1905
Term expires 1906
Trustees of Gammell Legacy.
MRS. LUCY M. HARRIS, MISS SARAH E. ROBINSON.
Treasurer of Harriet R. GI/mar Fouad.
EDWIN S. SPAULDING.
Librarian Cary Library.
MISS MARIAN P. KIRKLAND.
Assistants.
MISS HELEN E. MUZZEY, MISS BARBARA MACKINNON
Librarian East Lexington .Branch Cary Library.
MISS EMMA O. NICHOLS.
Treasurer Cary Library Fund.
DR. FRED S. PIPER.
Committee on care of Hayes Fountain.
HERBERT G. LOCKE, EDWARD WOOD,
CORNELIUS WELLING:TON.
Treasurer Hayes Fountain Fund
EDWIN S. SPAULDING.
Town Physician.
HENRY C. VALENTINE, M. D.
Superintendent of Town Scales and Public Weighers.
GEORGE W. SPAULDING, RUFUS W. HOLBROOK.
Weigher of Hay and Grain.
MOSES F. WILBUR.
Sealer of Weights and Measures.
CHARLES E. HADLEY.
Measurers of Wood and Bark.
LUCIUS A. AUSTIN, CHARLES H. DUFFEY,
FRANK V. BUTTERS, RUFUS W. HOLBROOK_
GEORGE W. SPATJLDING.
Auctioneers,
ABBOTT S. MITCHELL, EDWARD T. HARRINGTON.
Police Officers.
CHARLES H. FRANKS (Chief), JAMES IRWIN,
PATRICK J. MAGUIRE (First Asst.), ISIAH PALMER.
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Special Police Officers- (without pay.)
A. W. HAYDEN,
T. F. GRIFFIN,
E. CROSSWELL,
S. R. SIMPSON,
W. H. GREEN,
B. L. DICKINSON,
C. P. ASHLEY,
R. L. MONTAGUE,
A. B. SMITH,
E. D. McDONALD,
B. E. ANDERSON,
P. F. DAC EY,
MARK DODD,
J. H. FRIZELLE,
W. F. SIM,
A. S. MITCHELL,
GEO. L. PIERCE,
J. TROPEANO,
J. H. WRIGHT,
GEO. B. DENNETT,
J. H. PHILLIPS,
C. E. WHEELER,
C. H. SPAULDING,
C. A. CURRIER,
ROBERT JOHNSTON,
M. J. McDONNELL.
Inspector of Cattle.
DR. HARRY L. ALDERMAN.
Superintendent and Matron of Alms House.
MR. AND MRS. ROBERT H. WHITE.
janitor of Town Hall.
GEORGE B. DENNETT.
Janitor of Village Hall.
JOHN H. WRIGHT.
Janitor of Stone Building.
JAMES H. PHILLIPS.
Keepers of Lockup.
CHARLES H. FRANI(S, WILLIAM B. FOSTER.
Lexington Town Records.
FROM TOWN CLERK'S RECORD.
WARRANT FOR A TOWN MEETING.
WEDNESDAY, January 21st, 1903.
To WILLIAM B. FOSTER, Constable of Lexington, GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are
hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of
Lexington, qualified by law to vote in town affairs, to assemble at
the Town Hall, on Wednesday the 21st day of January, A. D., 1903,
at 7.30 o'clock p. m., to act on the following Articles, viz :—
ART. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
ART. 2. To see if the town will authorize the committee appoint-
ed at a meeting of the town held on August 25, 1902, and its select-
men, to make with the Commonwealth and the Metropolitan Water
and Sewerage Board, an agreement relative to the supplying of water
to the town, and will authorize the treasurer to pay the sum which
may be required for such admission : and to take such other action
in the premises as may be deemed necessary or proper.
ART. 3. To provide for the procuring and laying of new or ad-
ditional water pipes ; to take such further or other action as may be
deemed best in the matter of adapting the mains, standpipes or other
portions of the existing water works for use in the distribution of
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water when the town shall have entered the Metropolitan District;
and to act in any manner in relation to the town's present or future
water supply.
ART. 4. To appropriate and provide for the raising of (by taxa-
tion or otherwise) such moneys as may be deemed necessary or proper
to defray the cost of entering the Metropolitan Water District and
expenses incidental thereto, including the cost of procuring and lay-
ing new or additional water pipes, and such moneys also as may be
requisite in order to carry out the will of the town in reference to all
or any of the subject matters of the foregoing articles of this warrant,
to these ends authorizing the contracting of such debts and issuing of
such notes, bonds or other evidences of indebtedness as may be thought
best; and to make any suitable provision for the payment of such
indebtedness as shall be incurred in the premises.
ART. 5. To see if the town will provide for a change in the term
of office of its assessors by passing a vote in terms substantially as
follows, viz :
Voted, That, at its annual meeting, to be holden in March of the
current year, the town elect one assessor for the tern of one year,
one for the term of two years, and one for the term of three years ;
and that at each annual meeting thereafter the town shall elect one
assessor for the term of three years as authorized by section three
hundred and thirty-nine of chapter eleven of the Revised Laws.
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 Thirteenth day of Jan-
uary, A. D., 1903.
EDWIN S. SPAULDING,
JOHN F. HUTCHINSON,
GEO. W. TAYLOR,
Selectmen of Lexington.
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MEETING JANUARY 21, 1903.
Meeting called to order by the Town Clerk at 7.40, o'clock p. m.
who read the warrant and the return of the Constable thereon.
ART. 1. On motion of A. C. Stone it was voted, that we elect a
Moderator by ballot, that the check list be used and that the polls
be kept open for five minutes ; the time was extended five minutes
more and at the close of the polls it was found that 44 ballots had been
cast all for Edward C. Stone, and he was declared elected and was
sworn by the Town Clerk.
ART. 2. On motion of James P. Munroe it was voted "that the
committee appointed by the town at its meeting held on August 25,
1902, and the Selectmen having made application for the admission
of the town into the Metropolitan Water District, which action is
hereby ratified and confirmed, be authorized and instructed to ex-
ecute acknowledge and deliver in the name and behalf of the town
of Lexington an agreement with the Commonwealth and the Met-
ropolitan Water and Sewerage Board, that the Board, in furnishing
water to the town in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 488
of the Acts of the year 1895, and acts in amendment thereof or in
addition thereto, shall deliver water at or near the boundary line be-
tween the towns of Lexington and Arlington into the present ten
inch main water pipe laid in Massachusetts Avenue, or into such
pipe as the town may hereafter lay in said avenue for the purpose of
receiving the water and that the Treasurer be authorized and instruc-
ted, when so directed by the said Committee and the Selectmen, to
pay to the Commonwealth the sum of twenty seven thousand two
hundred and fifty dollars, that amount being required by the Met-
ropolitan Water and Sewerage Board upon the admission of said
town into said District." The result of this vote was 46 voting in fa-
vor and 19 opposed.
ART. 3 AND 4. On motion of F. C. Childs it was voted, that for
the purpose of providing moneys with which to defray the cost of
entering the Metropolitan Water District and expenses incidental
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thereto, including the cost of procuring and laying new or additional
water pipes, the town treasurer is hereby authorized to issue and sell
during the current year 1903, a series of twenty negotiable bonds or
promissory notes of the town, drawing interest at the rate of three
and one half per cent (3) per annum, payable semi-annually, for
principal amounts aggregating forty-four thousand dollars, each such
bond or note to be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a
majority of the Selectmen, and to be payable, both principal and in-
terest, in gold coin of the United States of America, of the present
standard of weight and fineness. The indebtedness hereby authori-
zed shall be known as the "Lexington Metropolitan Water Loan
1903," and to the end that the same may be extinguished within the
period expiring in the year 1923," the town instead of establishing a
sinking fund hereby provides that each bond or note of the series
shall be for the principal sum of two thousand two hundred dollars,
that the first bond or note shall fall due in the year 1904, the second
in the year 1905, and so on in regular sequence (one bond or note
being made to fall due in each year) and that the one latest ma-
turing shall fall due in the year 1923. Vote unanimous.
ART. 5. On motion of G. W. Sampson it was voted that the
article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted to dissolve the meeting.
Meeting dissolved at 9.55 p. m.
A true record, attest :
GEORGE D. HARRINGTON, Town Clerk.
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WARRANT FOR A TOWN MEETING,
Monday, March 2, 1903.
To WILLIAM B. FOSTER, Constable of Lexington, GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachussetts you are
hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of
Lexington, qualified by law to vote in town affairs, to assemble
at the Town Hall, on Monday, the Second= day of March, A. D.,
1903, at seven o'clock A. M., to act on the following
Articles, viz :
ART. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
ART. 2. To choose by ballot the following officers : One Town
Clerk for the term of one year; one Selectman for the term of three
years; three Overseers of the Poor for the term of one year; three
Surveyors of the Highways for the term of one year : three Assessors
for the term of one year; one Town Treasurer for the term of one
year; one Collector of Taxes for the term of one year; two Auditors
for the term of one year; two constables for the term of one year;
one Water Commissioner for the term of three years ; one member
of the Cemetery Committee for the term of three years; two mem-
bers of the School Committee for the term of one year; one member
of the School Committee for the term of two years; two members of
the School Committee for the term of three years; one Sewer Com-
missioner for the term of three years ; one member of the Board of
Health for the term of three years ; one Tree Warden for the term
of one year.
ART. 3. To see if the town will vote for or against granting
licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors, in answer to the question;
"Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this
town?"
The vote on the above question shall be by ballot, "Yes" or "No."
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'.Che election officers will receive votes under Article 2 and 3 on
the official ballot prepared by the Town Clerk.
The polls will be opened as soon as possible after the organization
of the meeting and will be kept open until 5 o'clock P. M. In com-
pliance with article III of the By -Laws as amended by vote of the
Town, January 29, 1900, business under the following articles will
be transacted at an adjourned meeting to be held Monday evening,
March 9, 1903, unless the adjourned meeting shall by unanimous
vote, be ordered for some other specified time.
ART. 4. To receive the report of any Board of Town Officers or
of any Committee of the Town for action thereon.
ART. 5. To choose such town officers as are required by law and
are usually chosen by nomination.
ART. 6. To see if the Town will accept the list of Jurors prepared
and posted by the Selectmen as required by law.
ART. 7. To see if the 'Town wilt 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. R. To provide for the support of the Public Schools the
ensuing year, and grant money for the same.
ART. 9. To provide for the support of the Poor at the poor Farm
the ensuing year, and grant money for the same.
ART. 10. To provide for the support of Outside Poor the ensuing
year, and grant money for the same.
ART. 11. To provide for the support of the Highways the ensu-
ing year, and grant money for the same.
ART. .12. To provide for the support of the Street Lights the
ensuing year, and grant money for the same.
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ART. 13. 'I'o provide for the support of the Fire Department the
ensuing year, and grant money for the same.
ART. 14. To see if the Town will make the appropiations for
town expenses the ensuing year, as submitted by the Selectmen, or
act in any manner relating thereto.
ART. 15. To see if the 'Town will authorize their Treasurer, under
the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow money for any necessary
purpose, in anticipation of the collection of taxes the current year,
the same to be repaid directly from the proceeds of said taxes, or
act in any manner relating thereto.
ART. 16. To see what measures the Town will adopt in relation
to the collection of taxes the ensuing year, or act in any manner re-
lating thereto.
ART. 17. '1'o see if the Town will make an appropriation to con-
struct sidewalks with concrete or other materials where the abutters
will pity one-half the expense thereof.
ART. 18. To see if the 'Town will rescind the vote passed at a
meeting held January 29, 1900, under Article 2 of said meeting and
substitute therefor the following, or act in any manner relating
thereto :—"That at the Annual Town Meeting in March 1904, the
Town shall elect one Selectman for the term of one year, and in
March 1905, shall elect two Selectmen for the term of one year, and
in March 1906, shall elect three Selectmen for the term of one year,
and thereafter shall annually elect three Selectmen for the term of
one year, in the manner in which the Selectmen have been elected
prior to the election of March 5, 1900."
Arr. 19. To see if the Town will vote to issue bonds to the
amount of ten thousand dollars under the authority and provisiosn
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of Chapter one hundred and sixty (160) of the Acts of 1896, for
the purpose of refunding an equal amount of bonds of the town
denominated " Lexington Water Bonds," which become due Nov-
ember 1, 1903, or act in any manner relating thereto.
ART. 20. To see if the Town will vote to provide a flag -pole
and flag for the High School, as required by law, and appropriate
money for the same.
ART. 21. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $2000
to make necessary repairs on the Town Hall, or act in any manner
relating thereto.
ART. 22. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $750
for the purpose of replacing and repairing the Fire Alarm system,
and placing additional Fire Alarm Boxes, or act in any manner
relating thereto.
AR•t•. 23. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate $8000 to
purchase a tract of land for Cemetery purposes, or act in any
manner in relation thereto.
AK•A'. 24. To see what action the 'Town will take relative to a
better control of street venders, shows, and places of amusement
with particular reference to a better observance of Patriots' Day.
Awr. 25. To see if the Town will remove the drain pipe now
connected with the water basin, opposite Bloomfield street and run-
ning into the Cemetery, or act in any manner relating thereto.
ARI. 26. To see if the Town will vote to investigate the terms
of the bequest of the late Chandler R. Richardson, which provides
for a manual training fund for the Town, or to take such action as
will result in making the satne available for the immediate use of
the Town, or act in any manner relating thereto,
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ART. 27. To see what action the 'Town will take relative to
improving the sanitation and drainage of the cellar at Adams
School, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 28. To see if the Town will vote to rescind the vote passed
March 4, 1901, whereby it was voted " That the balance of the
bequest of Francis B. Hayes, remaining from the construction of
the Hayes Memorial Fountain, amounting to $885.00 constitute the
Hayes Fountain Trust Fund to be held by the Town and securely
invested, the income to be used for the perpetual care of the Foun-
tain and the grounds immediately around it," or act in any manner
relating thereto.
ART. 29. To see if the Town will vote to request the Surveyors
of Highways to pay the employees on all public works at the rate
of $2.00 per day, or act in any matter relating thereto.
ART. 30. To see what changes, if any, the Town will make in
the town officers to be chosen by ballot, or in the number of terms
of office thereof, or in the matter of electing the same ; and to this
end to pass such vote or votes as may be deemed best, including
any vote or votes in relation to the manner or method of electing
any officers or boards of officers; and to take any other or further
action relative to the tenure thereof.
ART. 31. 'To see if the Town will accept Sheridan street so
called, extending from Sherman street 700 feet to land of David W.
Muzzey, or act in any manner relating thereto.
ART. 32. To see if the Town will appoint a committee to con-
sider a revision of the by-laws of the Town, relating to the Water
Department and the management of the same, or act in any man-
ner 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 said
meeting.
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Given under our hands, at Lexington, this eighteenth day of
February, A. D., 1903.
EDWIN S. SPAULDING,
JOHN F. HUTCHINSON,
GEO. W. TAYLOR,
Selectmen of Lexington.
MEETING MARCH 2, 1903.
Meeting called to order at 7 o'clock A. M, by the Town Clerk who
read the warrant and the return of the Constable thereon.
ART. 1. On motion of G. W. Sampson it was voted that we pro-
ceed to elect a Moderator by ballot, that the check list be used and
that the polls be kept open two minutes. At the close of the polls
it was found seven ballots had been cast, all for Edward C. Stone,
who was declared elected and was sworn by the Town Clerk.
ART. 2 & 3. Abram B. Smith and Charles W. Swan having
been appointed Ballot Clerks were sworn by the Town Clerk and
receipted to him for a package said to contain 950 official ballots
for male voters and a package said to contain 300 official ballots for
female voters. P. F. Dacey and W. H. Whitaker having been
appointed Deputy Ballot Clerks were sworn by the Town Clerk.
'The ballot box was shown to be empty, then locked and the key
delivered to William B. Foster the Constable in charge, and the
polls having been declared open the balloting commenced. Francis
Locke, Geo. L. Pierce, Francis M. Cobb, Chas. A. Fowle, John
Moakley, James A. Hurley, Charles F. Nourse and James Barnes
having been appointed Tellers were sworn by the Moderator. At
10.15 o'clock by consent of the Moderator and Town Clerk 300
ballots were taken from the box, at 3 o'clock 250 ballots were taken
out, at 4.30 o'clock 200 ballots of female voters were taken out.
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As the Moderator was about to close the polls Edward P. Merriam
moved that the polls be kept open 15 minutes longer. The Mod-
erator ruled that under the warrant and town by-laws this could
not be done, and at 5 o'clock the Moderator declared the polls
closed. After the close of the polls 136 ballots of male voters and
39 ballots of female voters were taken from the boxes. The check
lists used by the Ballot Clerks showed the names of 686 male voters
and 239 female voters checked. The Moderator's check list
showed the names of 686 male voters, and 239 female voters
checked. Ballot box register at close of the polls stood at 678.
After the 'fellers had completed their labors the Moderator announ-
ced the vote as follows :
FOR TowN CLERK—One Year.
George D. Harrington - - 551
Scattering - 2
Blanks - 133
And George D. Harrington was declared elected.
SEI,Ec1 1AN—Three Years.
FOR SURVEYORS OF HIGHWAYS—One Year.
John F. Hutchinson - 385
Edwin S. Spalding 447
George W. Taylor - - 337
Henry A. C. Woodward 383
Blanks - - 506
And John F. Hutchinson, Edwin S. Spaulding and H. A. C. Wood-
ward were declared elected.
ASSESSORS—One Year.
George H. Cutter - - 369
Charles G. Kauffmann - - - 400
Everett S. Locke 389
Timothy O'Connor - - 328
Blanks - - - 570
And George H. Cutter, Charles G. Kauffmann and Everett S.
Locke were declared elected.
Edwin S. Spaulding - - 494 TOWN TREASURER—One Year.
Scattering 4
Blanks 188 George D. Harrington - - 563
And Edwin S. Spaulding was declared elected. Scattering 2
Blanks - - 121
FOR OVERSEERS OF THE Pooa—One Year.
John F. Hutchinson - 393
Edwin S. Spaulding 447
George W. Taylor - 338
Henry A. C. Woodward 380
Blanks - 500
And John F. Hutchinson, Edwin S. Spaulding and H. A. C.
Woodward were declared elected.
And George D. Harrington was declared elected.
COLLECTOR OF TAXES --One Year.
Loring W. Muzzey
Scattering
BIanks
And Loring W. Muzzey was declared elected.
660
125
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CEMETERY COMMirrEa--Three Years.
George H. Jackson 350
Irving Stone - - 223
Blanks - - - 113
And George H. Jackson was declared elected.
AUDITORS— One Year.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE—TWO Years.
Hannah T. Carret 552
Joseph P. Ryan 316
Scattering - - 1
Blanks - 56
And Hannah T. Carret was declared elected.
FOR SCHOOL COMMITTEE—One Year.
Hilman B. Sampson 498 Francis J. Garrsion - 564
H. Eugene Tuttle 473 Sarah E. Robinson 610
Blanks - 401 Blanks - 676
And Hilman B. Sampson and H. Eugene Tuttle were declared
elected.
BOARD OF HEALTH—Three Years.
And Francis]. Garrison and Sarah E. Robinson were declared
elected
FOR WATER COMMISSIONER -3 Years.
Josiah Odin Tilton 606 Thaddeus L. Bruce 337
Scattering - 2 James A. Wilson 255
Blanks - 179 Scattering - 1
Blanks - 93
And Josiah Odin Tilton was declared elected.
SCHOOL ComMnr'EE:---Three Years.
And Thaddeus L. Bruce was declared elected.
FOR CONSTABLES—One Year,
Forrester A. Macdonald - - 577
Fred S. Piper - - - - 559 William B. Foster - - - 519
Scattering - - - 3 Charles H. Franks 501
Blanks 547 Scattering 2
And Forrester A. Macdonald and Fred. S. Piper were declared Blanks 350
elected.
And William B. Foster and Charles H. Franks were declared elected.
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FOR SEWER COMMISSIONER—Three Years.
Robert P. Clapp 479
Scattering 3
Blanks - 204
And Robert P. Clapp was declared elected.
FOR TREE WARDEN—One Year.
Cornelius Wellington -
Scattering
Blanks
And Cornelius Wellington was declared elected.
LICENSE.
Yes
No -
Blanks
476
2
208
212
402
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A ballot was cast for three Selectmen for one year, for the follow-
ing persons : Henry A. C. Woodward, Henry W. Lewis, Charles H.
Lowe, which the Moderator ruled could not be counted as the war -
ant did not call for the election of three Selectmen for one year.
After the vote had been declared Geo. W. Sampson presented the
following protest.
LEXINGTON, March 2, 1908.
The undersigned legal voters of Lexington hereby protest against
the election to and occupancy of the office of Selectman by Edwin
S. Spaulding for a term of three years for the following reasons ;
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First, because under the law no Selectman can be elected for a
term of three years.
Second, because under the law the number of Selectmen should
be three, and the term of office should be for one year.
GEORGE W. SAMPSON.
13ARTLETT ]. HARRINGTON.
JOSEPH P. RYAN.
CHRISTOPHER S. RYAN.
HENRY A. C. WOODWARD.
The check lists used by the Moderator and Ballot Clerks
were sealed up and signed, the ballots cast were sealed and signed by
Moderator and Town Clerk and at 9.15 o'clock the Moderator de-
clared the meeting adjourned to Monday evening, March 9th at 7.30
o'clock P. M.
ADJOURNED MEETING, MARCH 9, 1903.
Meeting called to order by the Moderator at 7.30 o'clock P. 'M.
On motion of G. W. Sampson it was voted to take up Article 30.
ART. 30. Mr. R. P. Clapp offered the following motion : "'That
this town prefers the system of electing Selectmen under which the
tenure of office is for three years instead of one, and that the
Selectmen are hereby requested to petition the Legislature for the
passage of an act which shall set at rest any and all questions which
have arisen as to the tenure of office of those now or lately acting
as Selectmen in Lexington, or as to the method or system now in
force for the election of Selectmen, to that end confirming the
several elections held on a three-year basis, and providing for the
continuation of said basis or method of election until the town
shall hereafter vote to return to the one year system. Mr. G. W.
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Sampson moved that the motion be indefinitely postponed. Mr.
E. P. Merriam moved that when the vote is taken it be by ballot
and that the • check list be used. Mr. E. A. Bayley offered an
amendment that the ballots be placed in the hands of the Town
Clerk for distribution, and the motion of Mr. Merriam as amended
by Mr. Bayley was carried. At the close of the polls the Moderator
announced the result as follows, in favor of postponement 218,
against postponement 215 and Mr. Clapp's motion was declared
lost.
On motion of Mr. G. W. Sampson it was
Voted, That Article 30 be indefinitely postponed.
On motion of Mr. E. P. Merriam it was
Voted, That when this meeting do adjourn it adjourn to
Monday evening March 23 at 7.30 o'clock P. M.
Meeting adjourned at 10.40 o'clock.
ADJOURNED MEETING MARCH 23, 1903.
Meeting called to order by the Moderator at 7.30 o'clock. Mr.
E. A. Bayley moved to take up Article 18 which was carried.
ART. 18. Mr. Bayley said he was not in favor of the motion
inserted in the article and would yield the floor to some person who
was. As nobody did so, Mr. Bayley offered the following motion :
"That the town hereby rescind the vote passed at a meeting held
January 29, 1900. under Article 2 of said meeting and substitute
therefor the following : That at the annual Town Meeting in March
1904, the town shall elect one Selectman for the term of one year,
and in March 1905 shall elect two Selectmen for the terra of one
year, and in March 1906 shall elect three Selectmen for the term of
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one year, and thereafter shall annually elect three Selectmen for the
term of one year in the manner in which the Selectmen have been
elected prior to the election of March 5, 1900." Mr. G. W. Samp-
son moved that Article 18 be indefinitely postponed, but afterward
withdrew his motion. Mr_ Bayley's motion was then put and
declared lost by a voice vote.
ART. 4. Under this article Rev. C. A. Staples made a verbal
report for the Committee on the publication of Town Records and
offered the following resolution which was adopted : " Whereas the
State of Mass. proposes to buy 500 copies of the Births, Marriages
and Deaths of Lexington recently printed by the town paying there-
for one cent per page for the book down to the year 1850, pro-
vided the town causes the same to be rebound and a transcript made
of the original records, and the copy deposited with the Secretary
of the Commonwealth."
Resolved, That the Committee on the publication of the Town
Records is hereby directed to comply with these requirements, and
make the sale according to the above terms.
ART. 29. Mr. G. W. Sampson offered the following motion :
"That the subject be left to the Surveyors of Highways with full
powers."
Mr. H. H. Putnam offered the following amendment : " With
the request that they give favorable consideration to establishing
minimum wages of $2.00 per day for a full days work."
After considerable discussion in which Messrs. Sampson, Parker,
Corbett, Putnam and Bayley took part, the motion of Mr. Sampson
as amended by Mr. Putnam was carried.
ART. 4. On motion of Mr. A. E. Locke it was
Voted, That the report of the Finance Committee be accepted.
ART. 7. On motion of G. H. Cutter it was voted, that $200.00
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be appropriated and assessed for the observance of Memorial Day,
the same to be paid to the Quarter Master of George G. Meade
Post 119, G. A. R.
ART. 8. Mr. A. E. Locke moved that the sum of $23,000 be
appropriated in addition to the unexpended balance of $1,569.99
for the support of the Public Schools for 1903, the sum of $23,000
to be assessed. Mr. F. J. Garrison moved as a substitute amend-
ment that the sum he $24,000. Mr. Garrison's amendment was put
and declared carried.
ART. 9, On motion of A. E. Locke it was
Voted, That the sum of $1,400 together with the unexpended
balance of $1,264.73, be appropriated for the support of the poor
for 1903, and that the sum of $1,400 be assessed.
Under this article Mr. B. F. Brown made the following motion;
That the question of the expediency of the town selling the Town
Farm be referred to a committee of three unprejudiced and repre-
sentative citizens appointed by the moderator, who shall report to
the town at some future meeting of the town during this year, or at
the next annual town meeting, and this report to be accompanied
by statistics of the Highway and Poor departments such as will form
the basis of their opinion.
Mr. Brown's motion was put and declared carried. Seven voters
doubted the vote and the house was polled with the following result,
73 in favor of the motion and 76 against, and the motion was lost.
ART. 10. On motion of Mr. A. E. Locke it was
Voted, That the sum of $4,600 in addition to the unexpended
balance of $30.81 be appropriated for Outside Poor for 1903, and
that the $4,600 be assessed.
ART. 11. On motion of A. E. Locke it was
Voted, That the sum of $20,000 together with the unexpended
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balance of $48.11 be appropriated for the support of the Highways
for 1903, that $18,000 be assessed and the balance of $2,000 be
taken from the balance now standing to the credit of Bank and
Corporation Tax account.
ART. 12. On motion of A. E. Locke it was
Voted, That the sum of $8,000 together with the unexpended
balance of $92.66 be appropriated for the support of Street Lights
for 1903, and that $6,000 he assessed.
ART. 13. On motion of A. E. Locke it was
Voted, That the sum of $5,829.06 be appropriated and assessed
for the support or the Fire Department for 1903.
ART. 14. Mr. G. W. Sampson moved that the sum of $1050 be
appropriated and assessed for the Board of Assessors, and that the
town request the Board of Assessors to employ from time to time
two assistants to make a resurvey of the valuation of the town,
which was carried. Dr. J. O. Tilton moved that the sum of $550
be appropriated and assessed for the Board of Health, which was
carried and under this article the following amounts were appropriated
and assessed :
For Assesors, $1,050.00
Auditors, 100.00
April 19th, 100.00
Board of Health, 550.00
Care of Common, 213.86
Collector of Taxes, 828.00
ART. 28. On motion of Rev. C. A. Staples it was
Voted, That Article 28 be indefinitely postponed.
On motion it was voted to adjourn for ane week.
Meeting adjourned at 10.10 o'clock.
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ADJOURNED MEETING, MARCH 30, 1903.
Meeting called to order by the Moderator at 7 :30 o'clock.
ART. 14. The following amounts were appropriated and assessed :
For Clerk of School Committee,
Contingent,
Fuel and Lights,
Hydrants,
Interest,
Insurance,
Janitors,
Librarians,
Police,
Printing,
Removal of Snow,
Registrars of Voters,
Selectmen,
Surveyors of Highways,
Overseers of the Poor,
Sealer of Weights and Measures,
Street Watering,
Treasurer Cary Library,
Town Treasurer,
Town Clerk,
Town Debt,
Town Physician,
Trimming Trees,
Destruction of Insects,
Watering Troughs,
ART. 4. On motion of A. E. Locke it was
$50.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
3,735.00
4,566.25
822.12
800.00
1,300.00
1,100.00
650.00
1,960.00
100.00
333.34
333.33
333.33
95.00
2,200.00
50.00
642.00
362.00
10,000.00
75.00
100.00
400.00
75.00
Voted, That the sum of $708.28 be assessed to meet the Expense
incurred in building the Hayes Fountain Drain.
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On motion of A. E. Locke it was
Voted, That a committee of five to include one member of the
School Committee, be appointed by the Moderator to consider the
need of additional school accommodations, particularly for the pri-
mary grades, said committee to report to the Town in print within
sixty days, and the Moderator appointed the following persons :
ALONZO E. LOCKE, (Chairman), EDWIN S. SPAULDING,
IRVING STONE, FRED S. PIPER.
GEO. S. TEAGUE.
On motion of Dr. J. O. Tilton it was
Voted, That the Committee having charge of the Hayes Fountain
be instructed to make any necessary repairs on the Fountain at
once, and to have said Fountain in action on all public holidays.
On motion of A. E. Locke it was
Voted, That the Town Treasurer be instructed to close the follow-
ing accounts when all bills against said accounts have been presented
and paid, charging any excess and crediting any balance to the
general School appropriation, Hancock School Sanitation Account,
High School Building Account, High School Furniture Account, and
High School,Grading Account.
ART. 5. Under this article the following officers were chosen;
Field drivers, Charles E
Chatfield.
Fence Viewers,- Abram B
W. Buck.
. Wheeler, Edwin A. Bayley, Albern S.
. Smith, Charles S. Blodgett, George
Surveyors of Lumber, George W. Spaulding, Abbott S. Mitchell.
On motion of G. W. Sampson it was
Voted, That the remaining officers be appointed by the Selectmen.
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ART. 6. On motion of George D. Harrington it was
Voted, That the names of Bowman W. Patten, James H. Boynton,
Henry S. Raymond, Frances E. Ballard, and Charles M. Rogers be
stricken from the list at their own request, and that the name of
Thomas Thompson be added, and that the list as revised be accepted
by the town.
ART. 15. On motion of A. E. Locke it was
Voted, That for the purpose of precuring temporary loans to and for
the use of the Town of Lexington in anticipation of taxes of the pre-
sent municipal year, the Town Treasurer is hereby authorized to
borrow from time to time with the approval of the Board of Se]ect-
men, and to execute and deliver the note or notes of the Town there-
for, payable within one year from the time the loan is made. All
debts incurred under this vote shall be paid from the taxes of the
present municipal year.
ART. 16. On motion of A. E. Locke it was
Voted, That all taxes for 1903 be made payable December 1,
1903 ; That an allowance of ; per cent for each full month be
made for prior payment, that interest at the rate of 6 per cent per
annum be charged an all taxes paid after December 1, 1903, and
that the Tax Collector be instrucIed to collect all taxes by June 1,
1904.
ART. 17. On motion of A. E. Locke it was
Voted, That $800 be appropriated and assessed for the con-
struction of sidewalks with concrete or other material, the abutters
to pay one-half the expense thereof.
ART. 19. On motion of A. E. Locke it was
Voted, That the town issue ten registered bonds of $1000 each,
dated November 1, 1903, payable in twenty years from date and
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bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum, principal and
interest to be paid in gold coin of the United States of the present
standard of weight and fineness, to refund an equal amount of the
bonds of the town denominated " Lexington Water Bonds," which
become due November 1, 1903, under the provisions of Chapter
160 of the Acts of 1896, and that said bonds be sold at private sale
under the direction of the Selectmen upon the best terms that they
can obtain. Vote unanimous.
ART. 20. Mr. A. E. Locke moved "That the sum of $200 be
appropriated and assessed to meet the expense of providing a flag
pole and flag to be placed upon the High School Rouse grounds,
the same to be expended under the direction of the School Com-
mittee."
Mr. R. P. Clapp said that he thought that some patriotic citizen
would come forward with an offer to present this pole and flag to
the school, but as nobody had done so he would be pleased to do
it himself.
Mr. Locke's motion was then put and declared lost.
Mr. E. A. Bayley moved that the thanks of the town be tendered
Mr. Clapp for his generous offer which was carried by a rising vote.
ART. 21. On motion of A. E. Locke it was
Voted, That the sum of $2000 be appropriated and assessed for
the purpose of making repairs on the Town Hall Building, the same
to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen.
ART. 22. On motion of A. E. Locke it was
Voted, That the sum of $1000 be appropriated and assessed ;
$850 for the purpose of repairing and renewing wires of the fire
alarm service, and $150 for new fire alarm boxes to be located at
the discretion of the Engineers of the Fire Department.
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ART. 23. A. S. Mitchell offered the following motion : "That
$6,000 be appropriated and assessed for the purchase of a lot of
land containing about 32 acres or more, off Adams St. belonging to
Herbert V. Smith for Cemetery purposes, the same to be expended
by the Cemetery Committee." E. A. Bayley moved as a substitute
motion "That the subject be left with the Board of Selectmen,
Assessors and Cemetery Committee, and Mr. Bayley's motion was
put and declared carried.
ART. 24. On motion of E. A. Bayley it was
Voted, That the town By -Laws be amended by adding the follow-
ing sections to Article 4:
1. "The Board of Selectmen may at their discretion grant
permits to hawkers and pedlars upon such terms and conditions as
said Board niay deem reasonable and proper, not inconsistent with
the provisions of Chapter 65 of the Revised Laws, and every such
permit shall be printed or written, and contain the full name
and address of the hawker or pedlar to whom it it issued,
the articles to be hawked or peddled, and shall expire within
thirty days from the date of its issue, and may be revoked at any
time by a written notice from the Board of Selectmen."
2. "No person shall, except in accordance with a permit from
the Board of Selectmen, in any street, or from any building, or on
any public ground or common, sell, offer or expose for sale, any
goods or article to any person on the street, or on any public ground
or common, and any person so selling, or so offering or exposing
for sale without such permit shall be liable to a fine of not less than
five dollars nor more than twenty dollars for each day on or during
such selling, offering or exposing for sale occurs," and that the
Selectmen be authorized and instructed to secure the approval of
these By- Laws.
ART. 25. On motion of G. W. Sampson it was
Voted, "That the subject be left with the Surveyors of Highways."
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ART. 26. A. S. Mitchell offered the following motion : "That a
committee of three be appointed by the Moderator to appear before
a Judge of Probate in the Connty of Middlesex, and present to the
attention of the Probate Court in and for the said County the names
of two persons, praying that said persons be appointed trustees
under the will of Chandler R. Richardson deceased, late of Lexing-
ton, in addition to the present trustee, that it be the sense of the
town that such additional trustees be so appointed, and that the
Selectmen suggest two such persons to the committee hereby ap-
pointed to carry out this vote." H. H. Putnam moved to amend
by substituting the following motion :
WHEREAS, a bequest to the town of Lexington is reported to have
been made by the late Chandler R. Richardson of a certain portion
of the property formerly owned by him to be devoted to the use of
a manual training school for the town, and
WHEREAS, the town is informed that no report of the administra-
tion of the trust created by the will of said Richardson has been
filed in the Probate Court. It is hereby
Voted, That a committee of three be appointed by the chair to in-
vestigate the matter fully, to take such action as they see fit and to
report on the subject at the next town meeting.
Mr. E. P. Merriam moved that when the vote on Mr. Putnam's
amendment be taken the house be polled, which was lost. Mr.
Putnam's amendment was put and declared lost. Mr, Mitchell's
motion was then put and declared carried.
The Moderator appointed the following committee :
ABBOTT S. MITCHELL, (Chairman),
GEORGE W. SAMPSON, ABRAM C. WASHBURN.
ART. 27. On motion of A. E. Locke it was
Voted, That the sum of $1240 be appropriated and assessed for
the purpose of improving the sanitation and drainage of the Adams
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School, said sum to be expended under the direction of the School
Committee.
ART. 31. On motion of G. W. Taylor it was
Poled, That Sheridan Street be accepted when laid out and gra-
ded to the satisfaction of the Selectmen and properly deeded to the
town.
ART. 32. Mr. G. W. Taylor offered the following motion : That
a committee of five be appointed by the Moderator, to Include the
Moderator and the chairman of the Water Board, to consider the
revision of the By -Laws of the town relating to the Water Depart-
ment and the management of the same, to investigate the rates
charged for water and all other matters relating to the department,
and to report to the town at the earliest opportunity. G. W. Samp-
son moved an amendment, "That the committee consist of seven,
thus including the three Water Commissioners," and Mr. Taylor's
motion as amended by Mr. Sampson was declared carried. The
Moderator appointed the following committee :—Geo. W. Taylor,
Chairman, Chas. H. Bugbee, Christopher S. Ryan.
Voted, To dissolve the meeting. Meeting dissolved at 10.50
o'clock.
A true record, attest : GEO. D. HARRINGTON,
Town Clerk.
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BEQUEST OF ESTATE OF EMILY EARLE.
TOWN TREASURER'S OFFICE,
Lexington, March 13, 1903.
$100.
Persuant to a vote of the inhabitants of the town of Lexington,
in town meeting assembled on the 2nd day of November, A. D.
1875, the town Treasurer hereby acknowledges the receipt of One
hundred (100) dollars from the estate of Emily Earle, the interest
of which is to be expended in accordance with said vote, and Chap-
ter 225 of the Acts of 1870, upon lot old No. 45, new No. 208, in
the town Cemetery near the High School House in said Lexington,
in dressing and care of said lot, monuments, walks, and avenues ad-
jacent thereto.
GEO. D. HARRINGTON,
TOW?! Treasurer.
Lexington, March 13th, 1903, received for record.
A true record, attest: GEO. D. HARRINGTON,
Town Clerk.
BEQUEST OF ALBION C. FLETCHER.
TOWN TREASURER'S OFFICE,
LEXINGTON, March 13, 1903.
550.
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitant of the town of Lexington, in
town meeting assembled, on the 2nd day of November, A. D., 1875,
the Town Treasurer hereby acknowledges the receipt of fifty (50)
dollars from Albion C. Fletcher of Watertown, the interest of which
is to be expended in accordance with said vote and Chapter 225 of
the Act of 1870, upon lot old number 170, new number 83, in the
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town cemetery near the High School House in said Lexington, in
dressing and care of said lot, monuments, walks and avenues adjacent
thereto.
GEO. D. HARRINGTON,
Town Treasurer.
Lexington, March 13, 1903.
Received for record.
A true record, attest : GEO. D. HARRINGTON,
Town Clerk.
BEQUEST ESTATE OF OLIVE J. SMITH.
TOWN TREASURER'S OFFICE,
LEXINGTON, March 31, 1903.
1100.
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants of the town of Lexington, in
town meeting assembled, on the 2nd day of November, A. D., 1875,
the town Treasurer hereby acknowledges the receipt of one hundred
(1100) dollars, from the estate of Olive J. Sinith, the interest of
which is to be expended in accordance with said vote, and Chapter
225 of the Acts of 1870, upon lot old number 47, new number 444,
in the town Cemetery, near the High School House in said Lexing-
ton, in dressing and care of said lot, monuments, walks and avenues
adjacent thereto.
GEO. D. HARRINGTON,
Town Treasurer.
Lexington, March 31, 1903.
Received for record.
A true record, attest : GEO. D. HARRINGTON,
Town Clerk.
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BEQUEST ESTATE MARY A. BROWN.
TOWN TREASURERS OFFICE,
LEXINGTON, April 22, 1903.
1100.
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants of the town of Lexington, in
town meeting assembled on the 2nd day of November, A. D.
1875, the town Treasurer hereby acknowledges the receipt of One
hundred (1100) dollars from the estate of Mary A. Brown, the
interest of which is to be expended in accordance with said vote
and Chapter 225 of the Acts of 1870, upon lot old No. 89, new
No. 70, in the town Cemetery near the High School House in said
Lexington, in dressing and care of said lot, monuments, walks and
avenues adjacent thereto.
GEO. D. HARRINGTON,
Town Treasurer.
Lexington, April 22, 1903, received for record.
A true record, attest : GEO. D. HARRINGTON,
Town Clerk.
WARRANT FOR A TOWN MEETING,
MONDAY, June 22nd, 1903.
To W1t.L]AAs B. FOSTER, Constable of Lexington, GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are
hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the town of
Lexington, qualified by law to vote in town affairs, to assemble at
the Town Hall, on Monday, the 22nd day of June, A. U., 1903,
at 8 o'clock P. M., to act on the following articles, viz :—
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AR'r. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
ART. 2. To receive the report of any Committee for action
thereon.
ART. 3. To see if the town will make an appropriation or incur
indebtedness, by issuing bonds or notes, for the purpose of laying a
new water main from Utica street to the residence of Mary A.
Morrill, on Lowell street, or act in arty 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 said
tneeting.
Given under our hands, at Lexington, this Tenth day of June,
A. D., 1903.
EDWIN S. SPAULDING,
JOHN F. HUTCHINSON,
GEO. W. TAYLOR,
Selectmen of Lexington.
MEETING JUNE 22, 1903.
Meeting called to order by the Town Clerk at 8 o'clock, who read
the warrant and the return of the Constable thereon.
ART, 1. On motion of A. C. Stone it was
Voted, That we proceed to elect a Moderator by ballot, that the
check list be used and that the polls be kept open 3 minutes. At
the close of the polls, it was found that 11 ballots had been cast, all
for Edward C. Stone, and he was declared elected and was sworn by
the Town Clerk.
ART. 2. The Committee on the Chandler R. Richardson Trust
made the following report, "The committee appointed at an adjourn -
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ment of the annual Town Meeting of the currant year, to appear
before the Probate Court of the County of Middlesex, and request
the appointment of two additional trustees for the estate of the late
Chandler R. Richardson, are happy to state that without action on
our part, the Selectmen, in accordance with the terms of the same
vote which appointed the committee, recommended Messrs. Geot-ge
H. Reed and Warren M. Batcheller as such trustees, and that the
original trustee assented to their appointment, which was duly made
by the Judge of Probate. The committee having satisfied them-
selves of the facts in the case, beg leave to report that the present
trustees now consist of George H. Reed, Warren M. Batcheller and
Augustus E. Scott."
There appearing to be no further business for the committee, we
ask that this report be accepted and the committee be discharged.
Respectfully submitted,
ABBOTT S. MI'T'CHELL,
GEORGE W. SAMPSON,
ABRAM C. WASHBURN.
June 19, 1903.
On motion of G. W. Sampson it was
Voted, That the report be accepted and the committee dis-
charged.
ART. 3. E. S. Locke moved that the sum of Five thousand dol-
lars be appropriated to meet the expense of furnishing and laying a
six inch water pipe from the termination of the present water pipe
on Woburn Street to the residence of Mary A. Morrill on Lowell
Street, and that this sum of Five thousand dollars be raised on notes
of the town to be made payable one thousand dollars annually for
five years, at a rate of interest not exceeding four per cent per annum,
said notes to be sold at private sale by the Selectmen.
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G. W. Sampson then moved to amend by substituting the follow-
ing motion :
"That the sum of nine thousand ($9,000.00) dollars is hereby
appropriated for the purpose of purchasing materials and laying
pipes and doing other work necessary for the extension of the water
mains from their present terminus on Woburn St. through Lowell St.
to the Arlington line, and for supplying water, the same to be bor-
rowed by issue of bonds in the aggregate principal sum of nine
thousand ($9,000.00) dollars, of the denomination of one thousand
($1,000.00) dollars each, hearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent.
per annum, payable semi-annually at the office of the town Treasurer
or any bank in Boston that the Board of Selectmen may designate
on the face of the bonds, that said bonds with interest shall be pay-
able in gold coin of the United States, of standard weight and fine-
ness, said bonds shall be denominated on the face thereof ' Lexing-
ton Water Bonds,' and shall be signed by the town Treasurer and
countersigned by the Selectmen or a majority thereof, and shall be
payable as follows : One of such bonds shall be payable on the 1st
day of January, 1904, and one of such bonds shall be payable on the
Ist day of January thereafter until and including January, 1912.
Instead of establishing a sinking -fund for the payment of such
bonds, the Board of Assessors shall, without further vote, in the
year 1904 and in each year thereafter, assess the sum of one thou-
sand ($1,000.00) dollars until said debt shall be extinguished, in the
same manner as other taxes are assessed under the provisions of
Section 37, Chapter 12 of the Revised Laws."
G. W. Taylor moved to amend the motion of Mr. Sampson by
adding, " That the work of purchasing materials, laying pipes and
doing other work necessary as aforesaid, be let out to the lowest
responsible bidder." This amendment Mr. Sampson accepted. By
a vote, 24 to 27, the amendment of Mr. Sampson was voted down.
Mr. Taylor then removed the amendment offered by him, which was
accepted by vote. Mr. Locke's motion was then passed by a vote
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of 40 to 17 and was declared carried by more than a two -third's
vote.
There being no objection the meeting proceeded again to take up
Article 3, and upon motion of G. W. Sampson the following vote
was unanimously passed.
rioted, That the sum of four thousand ($4,000.00) dollars be
appropriated and assessed to meet the expense of furnishing and
laying a six-inch pipe from the residence of Mary A. Morrill on
Lowell St. to the Arlington line, and that this sum of four thousand
($4,000.00) dollars be raised on notes of the town, to be made pay-
able one thousand [$1,000.00) dollars annually for four years, at a
rate of interest not exceeding 4 per cent. per annum, said notes to
be sold at private sale by the Selectmen, said sum to be expended
when the Water Commissioners shall have received a written guaran-
tee from the abutters on the line for five years of an amount yield-
ing not less than six per cent. per annum of the cost of construction.
Poled, That the meeting be dissolved.
Meeting dissolved at 9.20 o'clock.
A true record, attest : GEO. D. HARRINGTON,
Town Clerk.
WARRANT FOR A TOWN MEETING,
TUESDAY, November 3rd, 1903.
To WILLIAM B. FOSTER, Constable of Lexington, GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are
hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of
Lexington, qualified by law to vote in State, District and County
affairs, to assemble at the Town Hall, on Tuesday, the 3rd day of
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November, A. D., 1903, at 6 o'clock A. M., to cast their ballots for
the following State, District and County officers, viz :—
Governor, Lieutenant -Governor, Secretary, Treasurer, Auditor,
Attorney -General, Councillor, Senator for the Fifth Middlesex Dis-
trict, Representative in the General Court for the 13th Middlesex
District, County Commissioner, County Treasurer, Register of
Deeds, Register of Probate and Insolvency. To vote on the accep-
tance of Chapter 454 of 1903, entitled "An Act to provide for Joint
Caucuses or Primaries of all Political and Municipal Parties."
The election officers will receive votes for the above officers all
on the official ballot prepared by the Secretary of the Common-
wealth. The polls will be opened immediately after the organization
of the meeting and will be kept open until 4 o'clock P. M. and as
much longer as the meeting may direct, not to extend beyond
sunset.
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 15th day of October,
A. D., 1903.
EDWIN S. SPAULDING,
JOHN F. HUTCHINSON,
GEO. W. TAYLOR,
Selectmen of Lexington.
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MEETING NOVEMBER 3, 1903.
Meeting called to order by the Town Clerk at 6 o'clock A. M.
'who read the warrant and the return of the Constable thereon.
Abram B. Smith and Charles W. Swan having been appointed Ballot
Clerks were sworn by the Town Clerk and receipted to him for a
sealed package said to contain 1150 official ballots and a copy of
the voting list. Irving Stone and P. F. Dacey having been appoin-
ted deputy Ballot Clerks were sworn by the Town Clerk. The
ballot box was shown to be empty, then locked and the key given
to William B. Foster the constable in charge and the polls were
declared open. C. F. Nourse, Jas. Barnes, Geo. L. Pierce, Jas. A.
Hurley, Chas. G. Kauffman, Francis Locke, Chas. A. Fowle and
R. C. Moakley having been appointed Tellers were sworn by Select-
man E. S. Spaulding. At 9 o'clock by unanimous consent of the
Selectmen and Town Clerk 250 ballots were taken from the box, at
10.20 100 ballots were taken out, at 1 o'clock 100 ballots were
taken out, at 2.20 o'clock 100 ballots were taken out, at 3 o'clock
on motion of G. W. Sampson it was voted to keep the polls open
until 4.36 o'clock, at 4.10 o'clock 100 ballots were taken out and
at the close of the polls 34 ballots were taken out, making the total
number 684. The check list used by the ballot clerks showed 684
names checked, the check list used by the Selectmen showed 684
names checked and the ballot box register stood at 684.
After the Tellers had finished tabulating the vote, the result was
announced by the Town Clerk as follows:
FOR GOVERNOR.
John L. Bates of Boston,
Thomas F. Brennan of Salem,
John C. Chase of Haverhill,
Oliver W. Cobb of Easthampton,
William A. Gaston of Boston,
Blanks,
466
2
15
1
198
18
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FOR LIEUTENANT -GOVERNOR.
John Quincy Adams of Amesbury,
Curtis Guild, Jr. of Boston,
William F. Merrill of Malden,
Richard Olney, 2d of Leicester,
Moritz E. Rather of Holyoke,
Blanks,
FOR SECRETARY.
Olof Bokelund of Worcester,
John F. Coyle of Lynn,
Alfred 1.. Cutting of Weston,
Ezekiel M. Ezekiel of Springfield,
William M. Olin of Boston,
Blanks,
FOR TREASURER AND RECEIVER -GENERAL.
John A. Billings of Rockland,
Edward S. Bradford of Springfield,
Napoleon B. Johnson of Milford,
Frederick A. Nagler of Springfield,
Thomas C. Thacher of Yarmouth,
Blanks,
FOR AUDITOR.
John H. Hagan of Lynn,
Joseph Orr of Chicopee,
Alfred E. Steele of Northampton,
Francois X. 'Tetrault of Southbridge,
Henry E. Turner of Malden,
Blanks,
18
454
2
174
4
32
11
4
6
138
458
67
13
450
8
3
142
73
7
9
3
137
452
Ill
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FOR ATTORNEY -GENERAL.
John A. Anderson of Gardner,
William J. Carroll of Lowell,
Henry M. Dean of Hyde Park,
John J. Flaherty of Gloucester,
Herbert Parker of Lancaster,
Blanks,
FOR COUNCILLOR—SIXTH DISTRICT.
Oscar C. Hulsman of Malden,
William J. McCluskey of Lowell,
Walter S. Watson of Lowell,
Blanks,
FOR SF-NATOR—F/1.71MIDDLRSEX DISTRICT.
Otis M. Gove of Waltham,
William T. Jenney of Medford,
William E. Killmer of Waltham,
William H. Weldon of Medford,
Blanks,
7
7
3
129
467
71
11
138
460
80
446
138
7
12
81
REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT—THIRTEENTH MIDDLESEX
DISTRICT.
Daniel W. Grannan of Arlington,
Edward C. Stone of Lexington,
Joseph Dane,
Blanks,
COUNTY COMMISSIONER—MIDDLESEX.
George R. Duren of Carlisle,
Samuel O. Upham of Waltham,
Charles W. Ussher of Cambridge,
Blanks,
126
519
1
38
136
447
14
87
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REGISTER OF PROBATE AND INSOLVENCY—MIDDLESEX COUNTY,
Emanuel Bernier of Medford,
Samuel N. Folsom of Winchester,
Frank J. Simonds of Lowell,
Blanks,
REGISTER OF DEEDS--MIDDI.ESEX SOUTHERN DISTRICT.
Edwin 0. Childs of Newton,
Charles F. Drury of Natick,
Blanks,
COUNTY TREASURER—MIDDLESEX.
Joseph 0. Authier of Cambridge,
Charles G. F. Claus of Malden,
Joseph 0. Hayden of Somerville,
Blanks,
13
460
125
86
490
31
163
127
18
457
82
Shall an act passed by the general court in the year nineteen
hundred and three, entitled " An Act to provide for joint caucuses
or primaries of all political and municipal parties," be accepted ?
Yes
No
Blanks
211
179
294
After the announcement of the foregoing vote, the ballots cast,
the tally sheets and check lists used, were sealed up as required by
law, after which the meeting was declared dissolved.
A true record,
Attest : GEO. D. HARRINGTON,
Town Clerk.
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LEXINGTON, November 13, 1903.
At a meeting of the Town Clerks of Arlington and Lexington
comprising the Thirteenth Representative District was held at
Arlington at 12 o'clock M., this day, and on comparing the
returns it was found that votes had been cast as follows
ARLINGTON.
Daniel W. Grannan of Arlington, 366
Edward C. Stone of Lexington, 788
LEXINGTON.
Daniel W. Grannan of Arlington,
Edward C. Stone of Lexington,
Making a majority for Edward C. Stone of
126
519
816 and two certifi-
cates of election were filled out for Edward C.
and signed by
THOMAS J. ROBINSON, TawwIn
GEO. D. HARRINGTON, Town
Stone of Lexington
Clerk of Arlington,
Clerk r f Lexington.
A true record, attest : GEO. 17. HARRINGTON,
T7Tdn Clerk.
WARRANT FOR A TOWN MEETING.
THURSDAY, December 3rd, 1903.
To WILLIAM E. FOSTER, Constable of Lexington, GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are
hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of
Lexington, qualified by law to vote in town affairs, to assemble at
the Town Hall, on Thursday, the 3rd day of December, A. D., 1903/
at 7.30 o'clock P. M., to act on the following Articles, viz :---
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ART. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
ART. 2. To receive the report of any Committee for action
thereon.
ART. 3. To see if the town will instruct the Boards of Selectmen
and Assessors, acting jointly, to sell the Tidd, Franklin and Howard
School buildings in such manner and on such terms as may, in the
judgment of said Boards, be deemed for the best interest of the
town, or act in any manner relating thereto.
ART. 4. To see if the town will instruct the Selectmen to abate
the nuisance caused by the Rifle Shooting Range of the City of
Cambridge, or the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, or of owners
unknown, or act in any manner relating thereto.
ART. 5. To see what action the town will take relative to the re-
duction of the classification of the postoffice at Lexington from
second class to third class, or act in any manner relating thereto.
ART. 6. To see if the town will vote or recommend the change
of the name of the street now known as Mt. Vernon Street, extend-
ing from Percy Road to Highland Avenue, so that the two streets
now known as Percy Road and Mt. Vernon Street, which together
extend from Massachusetts Avenue to Highland Avenue, shall bear
the name of Percy Road throughout.
ART. 7. To receive and act upon the report of the Committee
on Additional Primary School Accommodations, and to appropriate
money for the purpose of securing land and grading the same, and
erecting and furnishing a new school building thereon, or act in any
relating thereto.
ART. 8. To see if the town will borrow money orincur indebted-
ness, and if so in what manner and in what amount, for the purpose
of securing land upon which to erect a primary school building;
erecting such building thereon and furnishing the same; and grading
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the grounds, or act in any manner in relation to providing for a new
building and the land therefor, and the means of payment therefor.
ART. 9. To see if the town will change the name of that part of
Warren Street running west from the junction of Eliot Road, to
Eliot Road, or act in any manner relating thereto.
ART. 10. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of six
hundred dollars for the purchase of hose for the Fire Department,
or act in any manner 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 said
meeting.
Given under our hands, at Lexington, this Twenty-third day of
November, A. D., 1903.
EDWIN S. SPAULDING,
JOHN F. HUTCHINSON,
GEO. W. TAYLOR,
Selectmen of Lexington.
MEETING DECEMBER 3, 1903.
Meeting called to order by the Town Clerk at 7.35 o'clock who
read the warrant and the return of the Constable thereon.
ART. 1. On motion of A. C. Stone it was
Voted, To elect a Moderator, that the check list be used and that
the polls be kept open 5 minutes. At the close of the polls it was
found that 34 ballots had been cast, all for Edward C. Stone, and he
was declared elected and was sworn by the Town Clerk.
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ART. 3. On motion of G. W. Sampson it was
Voted, That the Boards of Selectmen and Assessors, acting jointly
be authorized to sell the Tidd, Franklin and Howard School Build-
ings in such manner and on such terms as may, in the judgment of
said Boards, be deemed for the best interest of the town.
ART. 4. On motion of G. W. Sampson it was
Voted, That the Selectmen be instructed to abate the nuisance
caused by the Rifle Shooting Range of the City of Cambridge, or
the Commonweatth of Massachusetts, or of owners unknown, and
that full authority and power be given the Board to use any means
consistent with law, to enforce the prohibition of such nuisance.
ART. 5. On motion of E. A. Bayley it was
Voted, To indefinitely postpone the subject.
ART. t5. H. G. Janvrin offered the following motion :
"'.That the town vote to change the name of the street now
known as Mt. Vernon Street extending from Percy Road to High-
land Avenue so that the two streets now known as Percy Road and
Mt. Vernon Street which together extend from Massachusetts
Avenue to Highland Avenue, shall bear the name of Percy Road
throughout."
G. W. Sampson moved that the subject be indefinitely postponed.
Mr. Sampson's motion was put and declared lost. The vote was
doubted by 7 votes and the house was polled with the following
result, in favor 65, against 89.
Mr. Janvrin's motion was then put and declared carried.
ART. 7 & 8. The committee appointed by the town to report
on additional Primary School accommodations offered a majority and
minority report, the first signed by Edwin $, Spaulding, Fred 5,
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Piper, Irving P. Fox and Alonzo E. Locke, and the last by George
S. Teague, (see Reports of Committees, page 508.) On motion of
E. P. Merriam it was voted that the reports be accepted and placed
on file.
G. W. Sampson offered the following motion : "That the minority
report of the committee be accepted, that its recommendations be
adopted and that the Treasurer be instructed to borrow $9000 to
be raised by notes of the town of $1000 each, payable on the 1st
day of January in the years 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910,
1911, 1912 and 1913, at such rates of interest as in the judgment
of said Treasurer can be procured consistent with the best possible
terms for the town."
G. W. Taylor moved as an amendment : "That the meeting
adjourn for one week, meantime plans of the minority be printed
and distributed to the voters together with estimates in detail by at
least three responsible builders."
E. P. Merriam moved as an amendment : "That in addition the
present committee be instructed to bring in new plans for school
accommodations to cost not more than $20,000, including land."
A. S. Mitchell moved : "That the whole subject be indefinitely
postponed."
Mr. Merriam's motion was put and declared lost. Mr. Taylor's
motion was put and declared lost. Mr. Sampson's motion was put
and declared lost. Mr. Mitchell's motion was put and declared
carried.
ART. 9. On motion of Charles Garrison it was
Voted, That the town change the name of that part of Warren
Street running West from the junction of Eliot Road to Eliot
Road.
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ART. 10. On motion of G. W. Taylor it was
Valed, That the sum of $600 be appropriated for the purchase
of hose for the Fire Department, and that this amount be assessed
in 1904.
Voted to dissolve the meeting.
Meeting dissolved at 10.25 o'clock.
A true record. Attest :
GEO. D. HARRINGTON,
lawn Clerk.
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TOWN CLERK'S REPORT.
BIRTHS.
Whole number of births recorded for 1903, 64. Males, 31; fe-
males, 83. Parents native born, 34. Parents foreign born, 16.
Parents, one native and one foreign born, 13.
MARRIAGES.
Number of marriages registered in Lexington for the year 1903,
28. Males native born, 23. Males foreign born, 5. Females
native born, 20. Females foreign born, 8.
DATE. NAMES.
January 6,
March 11, Chester A. Lanier,
Susan W. Turner,
March 30,
May 3,
June 1, John L. Norris,
Bertha B. Hammond,
June 10,
Stephen A. Sears,
Annie V. Wheeler,
Frank A. Lane,
Jennie L. Belyea,
Cornelius L. Pearson,
Mary J. Keefe,
Fred D. Cloyes,
Alice G. Ballard,
RESIDENCES.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Malden
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
Lexington
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DATE. NAMES. RESIDENCES. DATE. NAMES. RESIDENCES.
June 18, George F. Smith, Lexington November 5, Walter Sabastian Kramer, Lexington
Rose L. Whitney, Lexington Elnora Alice Roberts, Cambridge
June 23, Charles R. Whytal, Arlington November 11, Arthur S. Tyler, Lexington
Anna M. Lawrence, Lexington Cora L. Thayer, Leominster
July 1, Charles E. Zwicker, Lexington November 19, James E. White, Lexington
Mabel O. McDuffee, Wakefield Delia M. Carton, Boston
July 15, John P. Connearney, Lexington November 22, James F. Ahern, Lexington
Katherine A. Hawkins, Waltham Nora F. O'Brien, So. Boston
July 20, James A. Pratt, Lexington November 26, John Daniel Sweeney, Woburn
Clara J. Malanson, Lexington Margaret O'Donnell, Lexington
July 22, Peter J. Welch, Lexington November 26, Walter B. Wilkins, Lexington
Margaret E. Hooley, Lexington Louise E. Foote, Woburn
August 27, Frederick L. Robinson, Lexington December 2, David E. Mitchell, Pittsburg, Pa.
Mary J. Anderson, Bridgewater Grace Whiting, Lexington
August 30, Norman R. Willard, Cambridge December 21, Carl Clinton Kimball, Arlington
Annette 1'. Frizelle, Lexington Flora May Wright, Lexington
September 22, Frank W. Pierce, Lexington December 24, Lester Fuller Smith, Winchester
Bertha E. Bryant, Lexington Mary Florence Cox, Cambridge
September 28, John Sullivan, Lexington December 28, Edmund H. Jones, Jr., San Juan, P. R.
Mary Coyne, Boston
Sara A. Whitlock, Lexington
October ti, Winfield Scott Upson, Westfield
Mary Emeline Brooks, Norwell
October 20, George E. Stone, Lexington
Mary H. Porter, Lexington
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Whole number licensed from Dec. 1, 1902, to Dec. 1, 1903, 295.
Males, 255; females, 38; breeder's license, 2.
Amount returned to County Treasurer June 1, 1903,
Amount returned to County Treasurer Dec. 1, 1903,
JURORS.
List of jurors accepted by the town March 30, 1903 :
Clifton P. Ashley
George H. Bailey
*William A. Butler
*James Barnes
Charles H. Bugbee
George H. Cutter
Frank E. Clark 2d
Frank M. Cobb
William F. Caldwell
Patrick F. Dacey
Joseph Evans
George Flint
Charles A. Fowle
Peter T. Gillooly
William F. Glenn
Gilbert P. Hadley
Charles E. Hadley
Bartlett J, Harrington
Frederic W. Johnson
Frederick C. Jones
Nelson W. Jenney
William A. Kendall
*Drawn since list was accepted.
Respectfully submitted,
GEO. D. HARRINGTON, Town Clerk.
$213.40
471.60
Charles G. Kauffmann
Everett S. Locke
Francis Locke
Sidney M. Lawrence
Howard M. Munroe
John L. Norris
*Edward P. Nichols
Frank D. Pierce
Willard C. Pierce
Maurice A. Page
Christopher S. Ryan
Irving Stone
Charles H. Spaulding
*Herbert V. Smith
Thomas Thompson
*Henry E. Tuttle
George 0. Wellington
Aril A. Wetherbee
John H. Willard
George W. Wright
Bradley C. Whitcher
*William H. Whitaker.
$691.00
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF
SELECTMEN.
LEXINGTON, MASS., January 1, 1904.
To the Citizens of Lexington:
The Board of Selectmen submit the following report for the year
ending December 31, 1903.
The Town is to be congratulated upon the adoption of the Metro-
politan Water System. For the first time, citizens have enjoyed an
ample supply of water for all purposes, and well watered streets
throughout the entire season. The committee in charge of the in-
stallation of this system makes a detailed report elsewhere.
By vote of the Town, $2,000 was appropriated for renovating
the interior of Town Hall. The main hall, Carey Hall, and the en-
trances have been repaired and redecorated, and new floors have
been laid. The electric light wires throughout the building were
found in such dangerous condition that it was necessary for the
public safety to install an entirely new system. Work has been done
in a thorough manner, and the conditions are now satisfactory to
the New England Insurance Exchange. The greatly irnproved ap-
pearance of the interior is apparent to all, and we believe that the
increased rental of the Hall for social purposes has fully justified the
expenditure.
In reference to the large expenditure by the Tree Warden, we
wish to state that the increased outlay was authorized by the Select-
men. The gypsy moths had become so serious a menace that it
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was imperative to use drastic measures to exterminate them. This
work has been accomplished under the faithful supervision of Mr.
Cornelius Wellington.
During the year, Mr. William B. Foster tendered his resignation
as police officer after long and faithful service. Mr. Isaiah Palmer
was appointed to fill the vacancy and has proved an efficient officer.
Otherwise the personnel of the Department remains unchanged and
maintains its efficiency with Chief Charles H. Franks at the head.
In conclusion, we ask the co-operation of the citizens and invite
criticism and suggestion upon all matters relative to the welfare of
our town.
We recommend the following appropriations for the next financial
year, in addition to the balance now standing to the credit of the
several accounts.
Respectfully submitted,
EDWIN S. SPAULDING,
JOHN F. HUTCHINSON,
GEO. W. TAYLOR.
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ESTIMATES FOR 1904.
Assessors,
April 19th,
Auditors,
Board of Health,
Care of Common,
Collector of Taxes,
Cemeteries,
Constables and Police,
Contingent,
Clerk School Committee,
Fuel and Lights,
Fire Department,
Hydrants,
Highways,
Hastings Park,
Interest on Town Debt,
Janitors,
Librarians,
Memorial Day,
Outside Aid,
Overseers of the Poor,
Prin ting,
Removal of Snow,
Registrars of Voters,
Support of Poor, (Almshouse)
Selectmen,
Surveyors of Highways,
P50.00
I00.00
100.00
600.00
200.00
840.00
200.00
4,000.00
2,000.00
50.00
1,500.00
5,800.00
4,200.00
20,000.00
25.00
8,000.00
800.00
1,600.00
200.00
3,000.00
333.33
500.00
500.00
100.00
1,500.00
333.34
333.33
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Sidewalks,
Street Lights,
Sealer of Weights and Measures,
Street Watering,
Town Debt,
Treasurer Cary Library,
Trimming Trees,
Town Clerk,
Town 'Treasurer,
Town Physician,
Watering Troughs,
Overdrafts, Closed Accounts 1903,
Abatement of Taxes,
800.00
6,200.00
100.00
1,500.00
15,200.00
50.00
1,200.00
300.00
650.00
76.00
75.00
609.32
600.00
$84,924.32
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REPORT OF THE SURVEYORS OF
HIGHWAYS.
To the Citizens of Lexington:
Your Surveyors of Highways submit the following as a portion of
the work accomplished during the past season in behalf of good
roads, as a result of your liberal appropriation for the last three
years.
While macadamized roads are costly, Lexington has never had so
many miles constructed in one season as during the past year. We
will mention a part of the work that has been done :
Bloomfield street has been made full width and macadamized its
entire length making it one of the handsomest streets in the suburbs
of Boston.
At the corner of Bloomfield street and Massachusetts Avenue the
road has always been at a low level, and a large amount of water
has occupied the streets near this location. Catch basins and pipes
have been put in and the streets raised.
Adams street has been macadamized from the junction of Hancock
to the foot of the Hill beyond the residence of Mr. Charles H.
Bugbee, Hancock street from its junction with Adams to Revere
street; Clark street its entire length.
Bedford street conies in for a long stretch of this work,—from
near the common to North Lexington near the Morton Reed place
connecting with the state road.
Woburn street between Massachusetts Avenue and the Boston and
Maine R. R. has been low, wet, and narrow. The County Com-
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missinners have recently ordered that part of it to be rebuilt. A
portion of the work has been done and the work will be completed
early in the spring.
While all this special work has been done the usual necessary
repairing of the roads has been attended to as well.
More time than usual has been spent in keeping our main street
clean and tidy during the summer months which we believe has met
the approval of our business men and of the citizens generally.
The following is a schedule of property belonging to the Highway
Department :
Blankets,
Carts -3 double,
Carts -2 single,
Chains,
Collars, 8,
Crusher, engines and scales,
Evener and whiffletree,
Feed bags,
Fly netting,
Grain and grain chests,
Hal ters,
Harness, double, 4 sets,
Horses, 10,
Oil and waste,
Oil can and powder,
Pails and lanterns,
Pipe,
Pulleys and rope,
Pump diaphragm and hose,
Pung,
Road machine,
Saddles and harness, 3,
$50.00
325.00
90.00
25.00
30.00
2,800.00
15.00
6.00
4.00
20.00
5.00
150.00
1,800.00
25.00
20.00
15.00
25.00
60.00
60.00
70.00
125.00
50.00
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Sidewalk snow plows, 7,
Sleds, 2,
Steam roller,
Steam drill and tools,
Stone hammers, 15,
Stone jigger,
Street roller,
Tools,
Taolchests,
Wagon,
Watering carts, 4,
Wheel barrows, 3,
Wrench, large,
$300.00
120.00
1,800.00
90.00
40.00
60.00
100.00
100.00
10.00
120.00
900.00
5.00
1.50
$8,896.50
The board recommends an appropiation of $20,000 for Highways
during the coming year.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN F. HIJTCHINSON,
E. 5. SPAULDING,
H. A. C. WOODWARD,
Surveyors of Highways.
6g
REPORT OF FIRE ENGINEERS.
LEXINGTON, MASS., JANUARY 1, 1904.
The Board of Fire Engineers submit the following report for the
year ending December 81, 1903.
There were 27 alarms during the year.
Jan. 11, box 59, dwelling owned by C. M. Tupper, Ward street.
Cause, foul chimney.
Jan. 25, box 75, station owned by B. & M. R. R., Massachusetts
avenue. Loss, $200. Cause, overheated stove.
Jan. 26, box 79, dwelling owned by B. F. Bacon, Silvia street.
Loss, $1000. Cause, kerosene camp.
Feb. 23, box 82, dwelling owned by Mrs. H. E. Crone, Lincoln
street. No loss. Cause, foul chimney.
March 20, still alarm, brush, Locust avenue.
March 21, stili alarm, dwelling owned by Buttrick estate, corner
Pleasant and Fern streets. No loss. Cause, defective chimney.
March 26, still alarm, blacksmith shop owned by W. Hunt, Rail-
road square. No loss. Cause, spark from locomotive.
April 12, box 48, brush, near Lincoln line.
April 18, box 73, dwelling owned by J. Riordon, Vine street.
Loss, $10. Cause, foul chimney.
April 24, box 561, brush, premises of L. & B. St. R. R.
April 29, box 82, brush, premises of C. B. Davis.
May 1, box 82, brush, premises of A. E. Scott.
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May 2, box 82, blacksmith shop owned by W. Hunt, Railroad
square. Loss, $229. Cause, spark from chimney.
May 7, box 82, brush, Cedar street.
May 7, box 82, brush, Woburn street.
May 10, box 82, brush, Utica street.
May 12, box 54, machine shop owned by A. D. Puffer, Massachu-
setts avenue. Loss, $1000. Cause, gasolene engine.
July 29, box 82, wheelwright shop and storehouse owned by H. P.
Boutelle, Merriam street. Loss, $3759. Cause, probably incen-
diary.
Sept. 2, box 56, store and dwelling owned by J. Burrill, Bedford
street. No loss. Cause, kerosene lamp.
Sept. 3, box 89, fish market owned by Wm. Hunt, Railroad square.
No loss. Cause, spark from chimney.
Sept. 12, box 82, dwelling owned by Mrs. F. E. Spencer, Hancock
street. Loss, $2503. Cause, unknown.
Sept. 25, box 62, frame barn owned by Daniel Buckley, Vine
street. Loss, $400. Cause, unknown.
Nov. 12, box 48, frame dwelling owned by Dr. Proctor and J. W.
Hayden, Lincoln street. Loss, $26,50. Cause, unknown.
Dec. 9, box 89, lime shed owned by Lexington Savings }lank,
Massachusetts avenue. Loss, $I50. Cause, rain on lime.
Dec. 20, box 63, frame school house, owned by Town of Lexing-
ton, Woburn street. Loss, $15. Cause, rubbish in cellar.
Dec. 28, box 89, frame store owned by W. Sherburne, Massachu-
setts avenue. Loss, $700. Cause, gasolene stove.
During the past year, the engineers have replaced eight miles of
overhead fire alarm wire, extended the system about two miles on
Waltham street to Concord avenue, and repaired the rest of the sys-
tem. In addition, two and one-half miles of cable have been placed
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under ground to replace the wires from the Russell House to the
Arlington line.
One new box has been placed at the corner of Concord avenue
and Waltham street.
One thousand feet of standard hose has been purchased.
A great improvement has been made at the centre engine house
by the installation of a hot water heater connected to the steamer.
By this arrangement, steam pressure sufficient to fully operate the
engine, can he obtained in less than five minutes. Previous to the
installation of this heater, fifteen to thirty minutes were required.
The department has four engine men, licensed by the state to
operate the Silsbee engine.
Every piece of apparatus has been thoroughly repaired and put
in excellent condition.
The engine house at East Lexington is in good repair, and suita-
ble for the purpose for which it is used. The centre engine house
is unsanitary, inconvenient in many respects, expensive to maintain,
and altogether unsuitable, both in construction and location.
The engineers again call your attention to the inadequacy of the
water mains on Hancock, Oakland, Stetson, Grant and Sherman
streets, also in the Mt. Vernon district. Hancock school has but
little protection, and an eight inch main should be laid without de-
lay, from Massachusetts avenue, through Clark street to Forest and
Parker streets. The water commissioners should be instructed to
give this matter prompt attention.
The permanent men and department horses have earned $796.05
from street watering. This has been no detriment to the efficiency
of the service, and besides saving the above sum, the condition of
the horses has been improved.
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The efficiency of the department bas been greatly increased by
installing telephones in both engine houses. In several instances the
value of this addition has been shown.
The engineers wish to acknowledge the efficient and faithful
services of Mr. John H. Wright and Mr. Philip A. Nelles, the per-
manent men. We also appreciate and commend the prompt re-
sponse, willing spirit, and good work of all members of the depart-
ment.
The engine houses are open for inspection at all times, and citi-
zens are urged to call and show their interest.
Respectfully submitted,
J. H. PHILLIPS,
W. H. GREENE,
GEO. W. TAYLOR,
_Engineers.
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REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
To Me Citizens of Lexington :
Your Board congratulates the town on the change in the statutes
providing for the defraying of the care of the insane by the Com-
monwealth as embodied in the Revised Laws. This change takes
effect January 1st, 1904, and will result in a saving to the tows of
about $1400.00 per year.
It is with pleasure that your Board notes the fact that the depart-
ments of Support of the Poor and Outside Poor respectively, have
been among the few that have not exceeded the appropriation made
by the town, which has been accomplished only by the utmost care
in the scrutiny of all expenditures of every kind; governed at all
times by the well defined purpose of the Board that no deserving
charge of this community shall ever want for the necessaries and
the comforts of life.
Our wards are, and should be our sacred trusts, and after eliminat-
ing all undeserving cases, we feel it our duty to give the best possible
attention to those who are worthy of our care.
The Board would suggest that the Gammell Legacy Trustees ex-
pend some of the unused balance standing to the credit of that
department for the purposes named in the bequest of the testator,
as many of the inmates of the Poor Farm are in need of the little
luxuries which the town cannot supply from the public funds.
We trust this suggestion will be received in the spirit in which it
is made, and that we shall have the co-operation of the Gammell
Legacy Trustees during the ensuing year.
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Your Board cannot allow the opportunity to pass without calling
attention to the valuable assistance rendered us by the Lend•a-Hand
Society and the local board of Associated Charities, each of whom
has assisted this Board in a remarkable degree. It gives us pleas-
ure to return to them our most sincere thanks, and best wishes for
a renewed co-operation for the ensuing year.
RECEIPTS OF PRODUCE FROM POOR FARM.
Milk,
Cow,
Calves,
Pigs,
Apples,
Potatoes,
Corn,
Rye,
Team work,
Stone,
$624.34
40.00
16.75
53.75
6.06
13.45
21.05
5.66
5.00
12.00
$798.05
SCHEDULE OF PROPERTY BELONGING TO THE PAU-
PER DEPARTMENT.
Augers,
Barrels,
Baskets,
Bench and vise,
Blankets,
Boxes,
Cabbages,
Canned goods,
Cart harness,
Carriage harness,
Carryall,
$3.00
4.50
3.00
7.00
8.00
3.60
20.00
5.00
12.00
25.00
15.00
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Chains,
Chain harness,
Cows, 6,
Coal,
Collars, 2,
Contents of lockup,
Contents of pantry and closet,
Cul tivators,
Democrat wagon with top,
Double sled,
Drills,
Express harness,
Express wagon,
Fire extinguishers,
Fowls,
Furniture in house,
Grain,
Grain chest,
Grind stone,
Halters and sircingles,
Hay, 15 tons,
Hay, rowen, 6 tons,
Hay tedder,
Hay wagon, one horse,
Hay wagon, two horse,
Horse,
Horse rakes,
Hose,
Iron bars, hooks and shovels,
Manure, 25 cords,
Manure wagon,
Measures,
Molasses,
Mowing machine,
Oil and barrels,
$5.00
5.00
250.00
60.00
3.00
7.00
35.00
12.00
8.00
45.00
] 0.00
12.00
40.00
10.00
25.00
450.00
10.00
5.00
3.00
4.00
300.00
90.00
10.00
30.00
35.00
150.00
20.00
10.00
9.00
130.00
130.00
1.00
1.00
30.00
8.00
Pails,
Plows,
Pork,
Pigs, three,
Potatoes, 75 bushels,
Rackets,
Rakes, forks and ladders,
Reins, set double,
Roots,
Sail cloth,
Salt,
Scythes,
Sled,
Stake chains,
Straw,
Tip cart,
Wheelbarrow,
Wheel harrow and harrow,
Wheel jack and whiffletree,
Wood,
Wrenches and hammers,
Vinegar,
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$2.00
15.00
45.00
10.00
50.00
4.00
7.00
3.50
20.00
10.00
1.50
5.00
40.00
3.00
20.00
35.00
3.50
25.00
8.00
70.00
5.00
5.00
12,446.50
HENRY A. C. WOODWARD,
EDWIN S. SPAULDING,
JOHN F. HUTCHINSON,
Overseers of the Poor.
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
The Board of Health makes the following report for the year
1903. The table shows the number of contagious cases :
Measles,
Scarlet fever,
Typhoid fever,
Diptheria,
Small pox,
34
16
2
1
0
53
The typhoid cases were contracted out of town. The scarlet
fever cases were generally of a severe type. In one case where a
child was taken down with it there were ten or twelve other children
and adults in the same house to be exposed. The board thought it
best to send the case immediately to the Waltham hospital. This
constitutes one of our heaviest items of expense, and caused us• to
exceed our appropriation for the year. In several other families
children were found "peeling" yet mingling freely with other child-
ren. All such as soon as found were strictly quarantined. Citizens
should remember that it is just as binding upon them to report any
contagious disease existing in their families or houses, as upon phy-
sicians, and the penalty for such neglect is as great.
The complaints of nuisances for the year have been few. All
such have been attended to as promptly as possible. In most cases
the parties complained of have shown a commendable spirit of read-
iness to comply with all suggestions of the board. Some have asked
the co-operation of the board in applying remedies. It is not al -
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ways the province of the Board of Health to "show how it shall be
done," but is willing at all times to offer its advice and any sugges-
tions seeming judicious to them for the correction of any nuisances.
The office of Inspector of Plumbing has been satisfactorily filled by
Mr. J. S. Cassedy of Woburn, and his report is appended.
January 1, 1904.
Respectfully submitted,
ALBERT B. SMITH,
C. H. FRANKS,
J. ODIN TILTON.
REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR OF PLUMBING.
LEXINGTON, Jan. I, 1904.
To the Board of Health
GE rLE MEN --I herewith submit my third annual report as inspec-
tor of plumbing.
As will be seen from the appended table the amount of work done
by this department is about the same as last year and while the
amount is not great what has been done has been well done.
The laws relating to plumbing have been strictly enforced and the
same high standard has been maintained in all of our plumbing
work. Thus when a sewer is provided in the town all houses in
which plumbing has been done will be in proper condition for con-
nection therewith.
Table showing plumbing work done during the year :
Number of applications for permits, 35
Number of new buildings in which plumbing was installed, 11
79
Number of fixtures placed
in new buildings,
21 Water closets
Iii Sinks
8 Baths
14 Lavatories
8 Wash tubs
Urinals
Number of fixtures placed
in old buildings,
33
31
21
29
13
3
In closing I wish to thank your Board for its generous support and
also the plumbers of the town for their hearty co-operation, all of
which has been of great assistance to me and has done much to
make my work agreeable.
Respectfully submitted,
JAS. S. CASSEDY,
inspector of Plumbing.
Regulations of the Board of Health of the Town of Lexington,
Mass., in accordance with the provisions of the Public Statutes 80,
Sections 18 and 19.
1. The attention of physicians is respectfully called to the neces-
sity of promptly reporting all contagious diseases, according to law,
occuring in their practice in Lexington.
2. The Board of Health have full control of all fumigations of
contagious diseases, but when deemed advisable by them the board
may delegate the attending physician to fumigate a house, room or
rooms, after a proper limit of time has elapsed, but the physician
shall, in all such cases, report to the board the date of such fumi-
gation immediately. The expense of such fumigation shall be borne
by the occupant, in accordance with Public Statutes 80, Section 83.
So
3. Cesspools will be cleaned by the odorless cart upon applica-
tion to the Board of Health or to the driver of the odorless cart,
either verbally or in writing, and shall be cleaned in the same order
of precedence as regards time in which the request shall be made.
The price for cleaning a vault or cesspool will be two (2) dollars
per load, or any part thereof, and shall be paid to the driver of the
odorless cart within thirty (30) days from the time of removal of the
contents of said vault or cesspool or any part thereof.
4. The Board of Health may at any time cause each household-
er to suitably arch and brick the cesspool or cesspools on the pre-
mises, and provide an iron cover with suitable ventilating equip-
ments subject to the inspection and approval of the Board of
Health; or may at any time order any householder to dig a cess-
pool on the premises owned by said householder, subject to the ap-
proval and inspection of the Board of Health.
5. The teaming of swill, offal or other offensive matter over the
roads of the town, except in tight or odorless carts, is hereby pro-
hibited.
6. These regulations are made as provided by law, but the
Board of Health may alter, amend, change, repeal or add to them
at their discretion and nothing herein shall be construed to prevent
the making or enforcing of any other regulations as provided by
statute or by any act of this board.
SPECIAL REGULATIONS.
Until otherwise ordered, all persons are prohibited from driving
or causing to be driven, any diseased cattle within the limits or upon
any of the streets of the town of Lexington from other towns or
cities, under penalty of arrest.
The Board of Health hereby adjudges that the exercise of the
trade or employment of keeping swine within the limits of the town
is a nuisance, and hurtful to the inhabitants thereof, and dangerous
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to the public health. No person, firm or corporation shall engage
in, or exercise within the limits of the town of Lexington the trade
or employment of keeping swine without having first obtained a per-
mit thereof in writing from the Board of Health, and such permit
may be revoked at any time by said board.
The Board of Health hereby adjudges that the exercise of the
trade or employment of slaughtering cattle, swine, sheep or other
animals, or conducting a melting or rendering establishment is a
nuisance and hurtful to the inhabitants of the town and dangerous
to the public health. No person, firm or corporation shall engage
in, or exercise within the limits of the town of Lexington, the trade
or employment of slaughtering cattle, swine, sheep or other animals,
or of conducting a melting or rendering establishment; but this reg-
ulation shall not apply to any person, firm or corf.oration who may
be engaged in such business or employment within the limits of the
town of Lexington, at the date of the adoption thereof.
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REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen :
GENTLEMEN -I have the honor to submit the annual report of the
work done by the department for the year ending Dec. 31, 1908.
Number of arrests,
Number of arrests in 1902,
Number of arrests in 1901,
Males,
Females,
Residents of the town,
Non-residents,
Foreign born,
Native born,
The offenses for which arrests have been made are as follows :
Assaults,
Assaults, felonies,
Assaults, indecent,
Arson,
Breaking and entering,
Drunkenness,
Common drunkard,
Disorderly,
Disorderly on street cars,
Discharging firearms on Lord's day,
Destroying birds' eggs,
Gaming on Lord's day,
199
104
72
186
13
91
108
101
98
8
8
1
1
3
88
1
21
8
1
1
8
83
Illegal liquor selling,
Keeping liquor for sale,
Liquor nuisance,
Insane,
Indecent exposure,
Larceny,
Larceny of hoes,
Non support of wife and children,
Persons who had run away from home,
Shooting song birds,
Suspicious persons,
Stubborn child,
Truant,
Threats,
Trespass,
Trespass and gaming on Lord's day,
Trespass and larceny,
Vagabond,
Total,
DISPOSITION CF CASES.
Fined,
Probation,
Committed to House of Correction,
Committed for non-payment of fines,
Committed Charlestown State Prison,
Committed Concord Reformatory Prison,
Committed State Farm, Bridgewater,
Committed State Industrial School, Lancaster,
Committed State Almshouse, Tewksbury,
Committed Truant School, Chelmsford,
Committed Worcester Insane Hospital,
Committed Westboro Insane Hospital,
Discharged by Court,
2
2
1
4
1
17
1
1
3
2
6
1
1
1
2
7
11
1
199
59
69
3
7
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
3
7
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Discharged at Station -house,
Defaulted,
Nol-prossed,
Placed on file,
Turned over to out-of-town officers,
Turned over to parents to take care of,
Awaiting sentence in Superior Court,
Total,
Aggregate amount of fines imposed,
Aggregate amount of sentences imposed,
Tramps given lodging at station house,
Tramps given lodging in 1902,
MISCELLANEOUS WOItK.
Cases investigated and not prosecuted,
Buildings reported broken and entered,
Buildings found open and secured,
Street obstructions removed,
Lanterns hung in dangerous places,
Street lights reported out,
Dogs killed,
Lost teams found,
Search warrants served,
Persons escorted home,
Disturbances suppressed,
Dead bodies taken charge of and
Fire alarms responded to,
Sick persons taken to hospital,
Stray animals cared for and owners found,
Amount of property reported stolen,
Amount of stolen property recovered,
18
1
3
5
8
7
1
199
$396.19
18 years
1,520
1,527
130
8
13
25
40
121
4
3
1
40
30
Medical Examiner called, 3
15
2
26
$1,5621
250
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CONCLUSION.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen, the officers of the Law
Enforcement Association and all the Police officers and all others
who have so kindly co-operated with me in the performance of the
duties pertaining to my office I desire to express my sincere
thanks.
CHAS. H. FRANKS,
Chief of Police.
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REPORT OF CEMETERY COMMITTEE.
Your Committee in submitting their report would say that the
expenditures for the past year are somewhat in excess of some of
the past years, owing to some much needed improvements. One of
the principal items being the new double face wall at the right of
the lower entrance into the Cemetery, also the filling in of the
depression on the opposite side of said driveway.
There are a number of other things outside of the general work
in the Cemetery that we consider necessary to do the coming year
and therefore we would request that the sum of two hundred and
fifty dollars be appropriated for the ensuing year for the use of the
Cemetery Committee.
GEO. H. JACKSON,
ABBOTT S. MITCHELL,
HERBERT L. WELLINGTON.
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REPORT OF TREASURER OF CEMETERY
TRUST FUNDS.
AMOUNT EXPENDED.
Estate of Lucy Gammell,
C. A. Fowle,
Mrs. E. M. Marsh,
Nancy E. Fillebrown,
Julia A. Butterfield,
M. E. Lawrence,
C. R. Richardson,
Chas. H. Adair 2nd,
Mary Wells Merrill,
Otis Wentworth,
Charles Hudson,
Mrs. Marshall Locke,
Nicholas Locke,
Walter Wellington,
Charles W. Daly,
Heirs of John Winning,
Edwin Reed,
Mrs. Abigail Buttrick,
Margaret A. Packard,
Estate of Emma A. Hopkins,
Josiah H. Gifford,
Joel Viles,
Angeline Flint,
$ 8.00
4.00
3.00
4.00
4.00
8.00
3.00
4.00
5.00
6.00
6.00
6.13
5.00
4.00
3.00
I0.00
4.00
7.00
4.00
3.00
8.00
3.00
3.00
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J. B. Simonds,
J. W. Russell,
Mrs. F. N. Thayer,
Hiram Pierre,
Estate of Eiiab Brown,
Nathan Fessenden,
Mrs. Chapman,
I. B. Smith,
Mrs. O. A. Dodge,
J. P. Reed,
Phillip Russell,
Alonzo Goddard,
Charles Stratton,
Josiah Smith,
Nathan Childs and Clarence Newhall,
Sarah S. Flagg,
Harriet R. Gilmore,
Mrs. Charlotte Gleason,
Mrs. Hannah E. Brown,
Mrs. H. M. W. Bridge,
Mrs. E. Wellington,
Mrs. Pearson and Hall,
Chas. H. Adair,
Warren Duren,
Clinton Viles,
F. F. Raymond,
Mrs. Priscilla Locke,
Adeline R. Parker,
Eli i ra M. Harrington,
Burbank & Jacobs,
Caira E. Robbins, East Lex.,
Henry P. Webber,
Estate of Sarah C. Smith,
Gorham Bigelow,
$15.00
5.00
4.00
3.00
6.00
6.00
6.00
5.00
4.00
4.00
4.00
10.00
4.00
7.50
2.50
2.50
6.00
3.00
4.00
3.00
3.00
2.00
4.00
6.00
3.00
5.00
4.00
3.00
4.00
2.50
51.25
9.25
4,00
5.00
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Almira M. Chandler,
Benj. Fiske,
Estate of Grace A. Sampson,
Martha Houghton,
Benj. Gleason,
John D. Bacon,
Hammon Reed,
Chas. B. Pierce,
$3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
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REPORT OF TREE WARDEN.
$839.63 On entering upon the duties of Tree Warden for the town for the
year 1903, it was found that from the neighboring towns to the East
of us the Brown Tail Moth had made its appearance in. Lexington.
Not in great numbers in any one locality but pretty widely distrib-
uted over the town.
It seemed necessary that not only the highways but the gardens,
orchards, and even forests in some cases should he carefully looked
over and the nests destroyed.
This was thoroughly done by experienced men under the direction
of the warden; as a result it appears that the townspeople have been
spared the suffering and annoyance experienced by those residing in
or passing through many of the neighboring towns.
The Gypsy Moth was also found in a few localities, but there in
great numbers, so great as to defy counting or exterminating.
An expert who had served with the Moth Commission for a long
time stated that he had never seen them in such numbers as were
found on the Morgan Estate on East St. just north of Lowell st.
With the consent and gratuitous assistance of Mr. Morgan many
of the trees together with all undergrowth were cut and burned.
The trees left standing were thoroughly treated from the ground
to the tops with oil, to prevent the hatching of eggs. The stone
walls and out buildings also were given the same treatment.
Later in the season these and other nearby trees were hurlaped,
and examined daily and any moths found to have escaped the
spring treatment were destroyed.
9'
Other localities were given similar treatment and as a result but
few eggs are now to be found.
The expense of carrying on the work has greatly exceeded the
appropriation made by the town but it was thought not only by the
Warden but the Selectmen that it would prove the best economy to
have it thoroughly done.
Little attention has been paid to the trimming of trees because of
the great expense incurred in destroying the insect pests.
It now seems probable that the insects may be held in check and
a fair amount of trimming be done at an expense considerably less
than that required for the year past.
Respectfully submitted,
CORNELIUS WELLINGTON,
Tree Warden.
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REPORT OF TREASURER OILMOR FUND.
JANUARY 1, 1904.
HARRIKT B. GtLMOR FUND.
Permanent fund invested in town note $500.00
Accumulated interest deposited in Lexington Savings Bank 280.31
E. S. SPAULDING,
Treasurer.
REPORT OF TREASURER, 1-IAYES FOUN-
TAIN FUND.
JANUARY I, 1904.
HAYES FOUNTAIN FUND.
Principal deposited in Lexington Savings Bank
Received interest
Paid for care of fountain
Balance available
$866.00
$30.30
11.25
$19.06
E. S. SPAULDING,
Treasurer.
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REPORT OF WATER COPi( IISSIONERS.
The Water Commissioners herewith submit their annual report.
The receipts and expenditures, have been as follows
RF:cEIpTs.
Proceeds of Notes issued by vote of Town June 22,
Premium on refunded bonds,
Rental of hydrants,
Street watering,
Highway department,
Rental of land,
On account of services put in,
Labor of men,
Rental of meters,
Use of telephone,
N. E. Tel, and Tel. Co., water used on trench work 1901,
Old boilers sold,
Cast iron pipe sold,
Second-hand drain pipe sold,
Wood sold,
Old pipe iron (allowed by Davis & Farnum Foundry Co.),
Cast iron pipe transferred to Met. Loan account,
Allowed by Met. Water Board for water pumped,
Water rates,
$9,000.00
642.11
3,702.00
1,252.69
93.00
110.00
409.00
46.36
21.47
1.80
87.08
150.00
17.50
10.00
12.00
46.63
95.20
85.92
10,809.81
$26,592.57
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EXPENDITURES.
Interest, $8,435.00
Salaries, 1,220.00
Additional supply acct. bills contracted 1902, 1,143.98
Fuel, 1,088.89
Metropolitan Water Board, (water used 1902) 432.50
Engineers at station, 170.40
Expenses at station, oil, repairs, etc., 140.65
Tools, repairs, etc., 58.38
Office expenses,(Register, postage and stationery) 62.10
Stable expenses, 112.95
Carriage hire and smithing, 26.70
20.35
Repairs on building,
Lumber and labor, casing pipe under Pierce
bridge, 42.77
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co.,
Services put in, lead and wrt. iron pipe,
cocks, service boxes, plumbing, labor, etc., 566.86
Labor on services, new mains, etc., 712.36
Meters, 310.60
Cast iron pipe and fittings, 6,876.10
Hydrants, gate valves and boxes, 262.80
Paid contractor (on acct.) laying pipe on
Woburn and Lowell Sts., 1,000.00
Printing and advertising, 25.60
Teaming, freight and expressing, 209.99
Metropolitan Water Board, (Water for year) 5,733.77
Sundry expenses, not classified, 12.65
Highway Dept., (bal. of bill transferred from
Met. loan acc't., 170.07
50,65
Excess of expenditures over receipts,
$28,386.12
$1,793.55
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Water rates.
Balance due Jan. 1, 1903,
Water rates Jan. to April,
Hydrants Jan. to April,
Water rates April to July,
Hydrants April to July,
Water rates July to Oct.,
Hydrants July to Oct.,
Water rates Oct. to Jan., 1904,
Hydrants Oct. to Jan., 1904,
Street watering,
Water for highway repairs,
Rent. of land,
Rent of meters,
Services put in,
New England Tel. dr Tel. Co.,
Labor of men,
Old boilers sold,
Cast iron pipe sold,
Second hand drain pipe sold,
Wood sold,
Use of telephone at stations,
Collected and paid to 'Town Treasurer,
Rebates allowed,
Balance due Jan. 1, 1904,
$2,538.07
934.00
$2,648.89
934.00
$3,065.38
934,00
$3,008.98
934.00
$1,252.69
93.00
110.00
21.47
409.00
87.08
46.36
150.00
17.50
10.00
12.00
1.80
$5,477.54
$3,472.07
$3,582.89
$3,999,38
$3,942.98
$2,210.90
22,685.76
16,722.71
244.50
16,967.21
$5,718.55
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EXTENSrnN OF MAINS.
About 11,225 ft, of 6 -inch pipe has been laid during the year,
10,824 of which was laid in Woburn and Lowell Streets at a cost of
about 80 cts. per ft. which includes the setting of 10 hydrants, gates
and fittings.
Number of services added in 1903,
Whole number of services Jan. 1, 1904,
Hydrants added in 1903,
Whole number Jan. 1, 1904,
STOCK ON HAND.
500 ft. 8 -inch cast iron pipe.
32 ft. 8 -inch cast iron flanged
6 ft. 6 -inch cast iron pipe.
1 12x12x6 tee. •
5 8 -inch tees.
1 4x4x6 tee.
1 4x4x4 tee.
1 4 -inch offset.
1 6 to 4 reducer.
1 12 -inch sleeve.
1 10 inch sleeve.
5 8 -inch sleeves.
5 6 inch sleeves.
4 6 -inch plugs.
5 4 -inch plugs.
4 8 -inch flanged gate valves.
2 4 -inch Hanged gate valves.
5 6 -inch cast iron gate boxes.
11 curb cock boxes.
47 *-inch Corporation cocks.
pipe.
26
646
10
93
97
4 *-inch Corporation cocks.
2 1 -inch Corporation cocks,
16 -g--inch stop and waste cocks.
1 inch Meter.
Some odd lots of second-hand wrought iron pipe and fittings.
The 500 ft. of S -inch cast iron pipe on hand was taken up from
Lincoln St. main to the filter house, put in to conduct water to the
filter and hack again to the main, this pipe is worth 5400. The
labor was done by Mr. T. L. Bruce and his men at odd times, at a
cost of less than $60.00.
Referring to expense account, $1,961.98 of this amount was for
bills contracted previous to Jan. 1st, 1903. In contracting for lay-
ing the 12 -inch main on Mass. Ave. the replacing of the Macadam
was at the request of the Highway Surveyors done by the Highway
Dept. The bill for doing this work was $287.50, as there was only
$117.43 left of the Metropolitan Loan Appropriation, and in order
to enable the treasurer to close this account, the Water Dept.
assumed the balance, $170.07 which appears in the expense account.
On the 18th day of February the Town entered the Metropolitan
district, and received a partial supply from that source, until the
12 -inch main wascompleted (about June 1st). During this period we
kept up steam and pumped the balance needed, about 2,000,000
gallons; this work was done by Mr. Bruce, the Superintendent, as
we dismissed our engineers when we entered the district.
It has been a great satisfaction to us to be able to furnish all the
water required for use of hose, street watering, etc. The supply has
been adequate and the quality much better than we expected.
WOBURN AND LOWELL STREETS EXTENSION.
At the Town meeting held June 22d, $9,000 was appropriated to
lay a six-inch pipe on Woburn and Lowell streets, front Utica street
to the Arlington line.
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Having secured the signatures of the abuttors to an agreement
conforming to the vote whereby this appropriation was made, we
advertised for bids for pipe and for laying the same ; thirteen bids
were received, and the contract awarded to Franklin A. Snow of
Boston, the lowest bidder. This work was finished and water turned
on as fax as the Morrill estate on Sept. 15th. The arrival of pipe
for balance of distance was very much delayed and the job was not
completed until about Dec. 1; nine services were connected ; more
will be added in the spring ; no income received from this extension
this year.
Cost has been as follows:
Printing and advertising,
Pipe and fittings,
Freight and teaming,
Hydrants and gate valve,
Man hole for meter,
Four -inch meter and fish trap,
Contract for laying pipe,
Total,
10,824 feet of 6 -inch pipe laid.
10 hydrants set, and 13 gate valves put in.
25.1$0
6,028.43
105.60
245.72
9.25
269.00
2,708.18
$9,394.78
We wish to call attention to that part of the town north of the B.
& M. R. R. known as Grant and Sherman streets. This district is
supplied with water through a four -inch pipe leading from Oakland
street over private property. This pipe was laid and has been main-
tained under an oral license given by the owner to the Lexington
Water Co., under the belief that the use would only exist for a short
time. The pipe was laid to supply one house; twenty new houses
have been built since. The present owners of the property notified
us that unless the town was willing to pay a reasonable sum for the
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past use, and allow them the free use so long as the pipe remains in
use of the water hereafter consumed by them, the pipe must be
removed.
We have agreed to pay them $75.00 and to make no charge for
future consumption of water by them, as long as we use the pipe,
and have a written agreement from them allowing the pipe to remain
in use kr five years.
The hydrant service is weak on account of the small main supply-
ing the district which contains $50,000 worth of buildings besides
the lumber yard. For this reason, if no other, an 8 -inch main from
Mass. Ave. to Grant St., should be laid as soon as possible. This
may be done the ensuing year, as we understand there is to be a
new public street from Mass. Ave., near Mr. Power's estate, to pass
under the railroad and connect with Grant St.
We would recommend an eight inch main on Clark St. from Mass.
Ave. to Forest St. in order to get better protection from fire in this
vicinity which contains the Hancock School House and other valua-
ble property, supplied now through a four inch main from Parker
and Muzzey Sts. An appropriation should be made to do this
work.
We also recommend that the Selectmen acting with the Water
Commissioners be given authority to sell any of the property belong-
ing to the Water Dept. which is not needed under the new system
of water supply.
EVERETT S. LOCKE,
CHARLES W. SWAN,
THADDEUS L. BRUCE,
Water Commissioners.
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Report of Committee on Metropolitan Water
Supply.
LEx1NGroN, MASS., DECEMBER 28, 1903.
To the Inhabitants of the Town of Lexington
At a Town Meeting held on August 25, 1902, this committee was
appointed to investigate the advisibility of the 'Town taking its water
supply from the Metropolitan Water System, and on October 6,
1902, it made a report on the subject which was accepted and
ordered printed.
At a meeting held on December lst a vote was passed instructing
the Committee, together with the Selectmen, to take steps to have the
Metropolitan water introduced. The steps necessary were to provide
$27,250 to pay to the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board for ad-
mission into the system, and to obtain proposals for laying a pipe from
the termination of a 10 -inch pipe belonging to the Metropolitan Water
Works at East Lexington R. R. station to a point near the High
School Building on Massachusetts Avenue, and also to provide new
hydrants and connections to cross streets.
The above sum of $27,250 was paid to the Metropolitan Water
and Sewerage Board on February 13, 1903, and the water was
promptly admitted to our oId line on Massachusetts Avenue through
an existing four -inch pipe connecting the ten -inch pipe above re-
ferred to with our pipe line.
The work of obtaining bids for furnishing and laying pipes, hyd-
rants and specials was done under the direction of this Committee
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by the Board of Water Commissioners. It will be remembered that
in our report of September 29, 1902, we proposed that a ten -inch
main be laid, but in discussing this with the Board of Water Com-
missioners, it was concluded that it would be wiser, and a better
provision for the needs of the future, to lay a twelve -inch pipe, and
this was finally done.
The estimate in our report of September 29, 1902, for the cost
of entering the Metropolitan System and laying the pipe, etc., war
$43,362, and accordingly an appropriation of $44,000 for the
purpose was made.
Several bids for the piping, hydrants and specials were obtained,
and thirteen bids fox laying them. The- contract was awarded to
E. B. Roberts of Swampscott.
The sale of bonds to the amount of $44,000 yielded a premium
of $741.84, the available amount for expenditure being therefore
$44,741.84.
The following are the items of expenditure for this work :
Entrance fee to Metropolitan System,
Paid to R. P. Clapp for legal services,
Contract for 12 -inch and 6 -inch pipe,
Special fittings and specials,
Hydrants,
Gates and gate boxes,
Freight and carting of pipes,
Printing and advertising,
Services of civil engineer and assistant,
Contract for laying pipe,
Lexington Highway Department, Macadamizing,
Total expenditures,
$27,250.00
50.00
10,866.66
392.04
608.76
484.05
278.25
31.05
578.21
4,055.39
117.44
44,741.84
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There were laid 9,000 ft. of 124nch main and 19 new hydrants
were set.
Water was turned into the new main on June 1st, 1903, and since
that time there has been an abundant and unfailing supply, and the
force is sufficient for it to reach the top stories of houses on the
highest land in the Town. It must be a source of satisfaction to all
of our citizens to contemplate their fortunate condition of having
an unfailing source of water supply of good quality forever.
Respectfully submitted,
GEO. W. TAYLOR,
F. W. DEAN,
G. D. MILNE,
LEONARD A. SAVILLE,
ABBOTT S. MITCHELL,
Committee.
EDWIN S. SPAULDING,
JOHN F. HUTCHINSON,
G. W. TAYLOR,
Selectmen.
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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF CARY
LIBRARY.
It is cause for congratulation that our library is steadily growing
in usefulness and was never so highly appreciated and widely enjoyed
as during the past year. The addition of nearly 900 volumes to its
catalogue since our last report, making a library of more than
22,000 volumes places it among the largest in the country towns of
Massachusetts. In the judgment of those competent to form an
opinion of its character, it is a collection fairly representing the best
literature in all departments of knowledge. We may fairly claim,
that no subject of genera] interest or importance to our people
but may be profitably studied here and the latest information upon
it obtained. At least, it has been the purpose of the trustees to
make it of that high character and the generous appropriations of
the town enable thein to gratify all reasonable demands.
That nearly 34,000 volumes have been called for by our people
during the year when the whole population barely reaches 4,000,
shows how general the use of the library has become and places the
reading people of Lexington among the most interested and devoted
in the State.
By reference to the librarian's report it will be seen that the char-
acter of the books drawn from the library shows that almost precise-
ly BO per cent. were works of fiction, leaving but 40 per cent. of all
others. This indicates that a large majority of our readers are seek-
ing for entertainment rather than instruction. While the trustees
mean to gratify this desired taste to a reasonable extent, they endeavor
Ido
to keep out of the library merely sensational novels having no aim but
to foster the love of excitement and to create a taste for the reading
which is healthful and elevating. To this end they have adopted the
plan of having all works of fiction read by those competent to judge of
their value before allowing thein to be placed in the library. In this
way they hope to protect the young from all debilitating and demoral-
izing books and place before our people only that which is morally
sound and helpful. But large as the percentage of fiction in the use
of our library appears we know of no town or city where it is so
low, and where so large a percentage of books are read of history,
biography, travel, science and art. Generally the percentage of fic-
tion in the public libraries of this vicinity reaches 70 and some even
80 per cent., leaving but a small percentage for works of a more im-
proving and instructive character. The opening of the library on
Sunday afternoons was tried for a few weeks in the hope that it would
prove of use to some not able on other days of the week to avail them-
selves of its advantages; but the additional patronage obtained did
not warrant the increased expense, and so it was reluctantly aban-
doned. But the plan of opening it in the morning from 9 to 12
has now been in operation for six months and has proved a gratify-
ing success. One of the librarians has been in attendance each
morning and careful statistics taken of the number of visitors and of
their use of the library. From these we learn that in the 139
mornings in which the library was opened—from July 20th to
Jan. 1st, there have been 2,157 visitors of whom 1,432 were our
town's people who came for the purpose of using the library and
who called for nearly 1,200 volumes, of which 40 per cent. were
books of reference or for study, and the others works of fiction;
besides these patrons of the library there were 726 strangers who
were visiting the town. Such are the results of the morning opening
in the six months in which the experiment has been tried. The
trustees agree in desiring its continuance, believing that it meets a want
of our people, extends the usefulness of the library and justifies the
increased expense of its maintenance. The additional cost for the
service of the librarian will be about $20 per month, and accordingly
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the trustees will ask the town for an increased appropriation to cover
this expense.
The town we think is to be congratulated on the efficient and ex-
cellent service rendered by the librarians. Their careful oversight
of the books and magazines, their prompt and courteous attention to
the wants of patrons and their constant effort to make the library
more attractive and useful deserves grateful recognition and praise.
On behalf of the Trustees,
C. A. STAPLES,
President.
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REPORT OF TIME TREASURER OF CARY
LIBRARY.
Fred S. Piper, Treasurer, in account with Cary Library.
DR.
1903.
To permanent funds yielding income, $14,100.00
Jan. 1, To cash on hand, 333.22
Feb. 3, '1'o cash received from Town treasurer, dog tax, 632.28
June 9, To cash received, interest on notes, 330.00
Oct. 24, To cash received for binding one volume, .85
Oct. 27, To cash received, interest on notes, 330.00
Nov. 28, To cash received, interest on deposits, 79.58
Dec. 31, To cash received from librarian, reed. from fines, 93.91
Dec. 31, To cash received from librarian, E. Lexington,
rec'd. from fines,
Dec. 31, To cash received from sale of books,
By cash paid for
By cash paid for
By cash paid for
By cash paid for
By cash paid for
C.R.
7.10
29.87
$15,936,79
new books, $1,050.23
binding, 160.66
magazines and periodicals, 177.35
express and postage, 89.26
printing and supplies, 105.90
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By cash paid for sundries,
By cash paid for cleaning the library,
Cash on hand,
Permanent fund,
$44.25
43.46
$1,668.11
168.68
14400.00
$15,936.79
FRED S. PIPER,
Treasurer.
January 25, 1904.
We, the undersigned Auditors of Cary Library, have examined
the accounts of Fred S. Piper, Treasurer, and find them to be
correct.
EDWIN S. SPAULDING,
Selectmen of Lexington.
GEO. D. HARRINGTON,
Town Clerk.
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REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN
FOR THF. YEAR ENDING DEC. 31, 1903.
To the Board of Trustees of Cary Library
Ladies and Gentlemen : I herewith submit a report of the work
in the library for the year ending Dec. 31, 1903.
The library year just closed has been marked by a steady increase
in all branches of library work. The reference work, of which we
can give no adequate showing in numbers, has been steadily growing,
and as it is in this line that the real unselfishness of the Iibrary is best
tested, we hope it will continue to grow with the coming year.
During the year the plan was adopted of displaying upon our
bulletin board posters which would be illustrative of an event or of
the life of some famous person. We shall continue the work dur-
ing the new year, and as we hope to cover a larger field, we shall be
very glad to receive from any who may be interested, pictures or
other illustrative material, which may be helpful.
We have also adopted the plan of allowing borrowers of books
the privilege of going to the shelves. As• this has not been a general
custom in the past, we think it advisable to make the statement now
hoping that an increased interest in the reading of non-fiction may
be the result.
All shelves except those about the delivery desk are open to
borrowers, and will, as soon as possible, have markers upon them
indicating the various classes.
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Upon consulting these guides, which will be as complete as possi-
ble, it will be a very simple matter for one to find the book or class
of books desired.
It is hoped, too, that with the coming year steps may be taken to
circulate books through the schools to those children living on the
outskirts of the town who find it difficult to use the library now.
This problem of reaching the outlying districts has been solved in
many towns by the establishment of travelling libraries in the school
rooms, and I feel assured, that with the cooperation of our teachers,
it will prove a success here.
Perhaps the step which has been watched with the greatest inter-
est is that of the morning opening of the library. Beginning with
July 20 the library was open from 9 to 12 a. m. I will not dwell
upon this step because the statistics given elsewhere in the report
speak for themselves.
GENERAL USE OF THE. LIBRARY.
The total number of volumes loaned for home reading, from the
main library was 27,002 volumes; from the branch library 3,097
volumes, making a total 80,099 volumes delivered for home reading.
Of this number 2,505 volumes were circulated through the branch,
which with the 3,097 volumes circulated from the shelves there,
makes a total home circulation through the branch of 5,602 vol-
umes.
It is almost impossible to keep any record of books used in the
reference and reading roNms. Indeed, all attempts prove very un-
satisfactory, but so far as we have done so, our records show 3,564
volumes which with 38 volumes used at the branch makes a total of
3,602 volumes used only for reference. Added to the home circu-
lation of 30,099 we have a total of 33,701 volumes.
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The number of families using the library and branch is 685.
New resident cards taken out number 84. To the temporary list of
borrowers we have added 69 cards.
At the branch the plan has been adopted of circulating all maga-
zines but those of the current month. This plan has proved very
popular and will be continued. The number circulated was 205.
INCREASE OF THE LIBRARY.
The library now numbers (Dec. 31, 1903) 22,277 volumes of
which there are :
At the main Library,
At the branch,
To the main library there have been
added 796 volumes :
By purchase,
By gift,
By binding periodicals,
To the branch library have been
added 75 volumes :
By purchase,
By gift,
By binding periodicals,
19,083
2,194
22,277
667
61
68
49
11
15
Total accessions for 1903,
All gifts have been duly acknowledged.
796
75
871 Vols,
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READING Roost.
The average attendance at the main library during the afternoon
was 140 daily.
Average number at the branch, 26.
At the main library the reading tables were supplied with one
weekly and one daily paper; thirteen weekly, thirty monthly and
three quarterly periodicals.
From the Library Art Club nine exhibits were held, viz.: Alaska,
49 photographs; Munich, 85 ; National Gallery, London, 100 ;
Orvieto, 60 : Salisbury, 60 ; Siena, 83 ; Early Venice, 82; New
Zealand, 100 ; California, 85.
JUVENH,E DEPARTMENT.
This department numbers 2,037 volumes, of which 98 were added
during the year.
Bookmarks, on which are printed lists of good books, were issued
for the children. Six different colors form a set — the color being
a guide to the class, thus : red, for books about our own country,
blue, for books about foreign countries ; yellow, for books about
famous people; green, for books about birds, animal and nature
stories; white, for poetry and story books; orange, for myths, fairy
tales and legends.
Since the opening of the juvenile department in 1897 no books
have been found missing from its shelves.
MISCELLANEOUS.
During the month of July the library was given a thorough clean-
ing, after which it was examined and no books were found to be
missing.
The number of books
bound, 360 ; periodicals
The number of postal
The money received
$102.13. Expended for
Balance
for use, $1.12.
January lst, 1904.
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repaired during the year was 2,600, books
bound, 68.
cards sent to delinquents was 1,093.
from fines, including branch, amounted to
expressage and supplies, $50.76. Reserved
of $50.25 paid treasurer, Jan. 1, 1904.
Respectfully submitted,
MARIAN P. KIRKLAND.
CIRCULATION, 1903, INCLUDING THE BRANCH.
Periodicals, unbound,
Periodicals, bound,
Philosophy and Religion,
Biography,
History,
Travels,
Government and Social Science,
Science,
Arts, Useful,
Arts, Fine,
language and Literature,
Fiction,
Poetry,
Total home circulation,
Reference,
Total,
628
657
654
1,330
1,468
732
380
740
422
359
1,316
20,848
565
30,099
3,602
33,701
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REPORT OF THE SEALER OF WEIGHTS
AND flEASURES.
LEXINGTON', MASS., Jan. 7, 1904.
Number of bottles, cans and measures sealed,
Number of bottles, cans and measures condemned,
Large platform scales sealed,
Platform scales sealed,
Small platform scales sealed,
Scoop scales sealed,
Commuting scales sealed,
Dial scales sealed,
Yard sticks sealed,
Weights sealed,
Weights adjusted,
Large platform scale, tag incorrect,
Paper scale, tag incorrect,
Dial scale, tag incorrect,
5,023
368
C. E. HADLEY,
Sealer of Weights and Measures.
3
18
5
27
3
3
4
67
2
1
1
1
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TREASURER'S REPORT OF BRIDGE AND
BEALS FUNDS.
BRIDGE FUND, PERMANENT.
Jan. 1, 1903, Amount of fund,
Income for the year,
Town note,
Lexington Savings Bank,
3,362.36
38.78
$3,451.14
2,000
1,451.14
BRIDGE FUND, AVAILABLE.
Jan. 1, 1903, Amount of fund,
Income for the year,
Amount expended,
Mortgage note,
Lexington Savings Bank,
2,193.16
192.63
132.38
1,400.00
853.41
$2,385.79 $2,385.79
Balance Jan. 1, 1904, $3,253.41
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BEALS FUND.
Jan. 1, 1903, Amount of fund,
Income for the year,
Amount expended,
Town note,
Lexington Savings Bank,
2,551.48
163.97
90.00
2,000.00
625.45
$2,715.45 $2,715.45
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REPORT OF THE TAX COLLECTOR.
1899 TAXES.
Balance Jan. 1, 1904, $2,625.45 Uncollected Jan. 1, 1903,
Abated by the Assessors,
CHARLES T. WEST,
Treasurer for the Trustees. Uncollected Jan. 1, 1904
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1900 TAXES.
Uncollected Jan. 1, 1903,
Abated by the Assessors,
368.86
56.80
312.06
2,068.29
1,134.31
Uncollected Tan. 1, 1904, 933.98
1901 '1'AxES,
Uncollected Jan. 1, 1903,
Collected in 1903,
Abated by the Assessors,
13,165.73
11,758.75
592.58 12,346.33
Uncollected Jan. 1, 1904, 819.40
1902 TAXES.
Uncollected Jan. 1, 1903,
Collected in 1903,
Abated by Assessors,
28,197.23
18,767.81
755.13 19,622.94
Uncollected Jan. 1, 1904, 8,674.29
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1903 TAXES.
Amount cotntnitted to the collector Aug. 1,
1913,
Deduct credits as per Assessor's Warrant,
Amount actually committed to the Collector,
Supplementary Taxes,
Collected in 1903,
Abated by Assessors,
Allowed as discount for prompt payment,
Uncollected Jan. 1, 1904.
$127,074.82
16,201.85
110,872.97
83.56
110,956.53
$72,508.22
579.50
909.07 73,996.79
$36,959.74
Respectfully submitted,
LORING W. MUZZEY,
Collector of Taxes.
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STREET WATERING 1899 TAX.
Uncollected Jan. 1, 1903, $31.90
Collected in 1903, 7.00
Uncollected Jan. 1, 1904, $24.90
1900.
Uncollected Jan. 1, 1903, $83.54
Collected in 1903, 7.00
Uncollected Jan. 1, 1904, $76.54
1901.
Uncollected Jan. I, 1903, $166.49
Collected in 1903, 48.00
Uncollected Jan. 1, 1904, ;120.49
1902.
Amount committed to Collector, $478,40
Collected in 1903, 271.94
Uncollected Jan. 1, 1904, $248.46
e street watering tax for 1903 has not:yet been committed to
the Collector.
Respectfully submitted,
LORING W. MUZZEY,
Collector of Taxes.
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STATEMENT OF TOWN DEBT,
JAN. 1, 1904.
Registered water loan,
Extension water main loan,
Extension water main and improvement loan,
Additional water supply loan,
Extension water mains, Woburn and Lowell streets,
New High school loan,
Furniture New High school loan,
Sanitation Hancock school loan,
Grading New High school grounds loan,
Metropolitan water loan,
Cary Library loan,
Bridge fund loan,
Beals fund loan,
Gammell legacy loan,
Gilmor legacy loan,
Cemetery trust funds,
Temporary loans,
$200,000.00
3,000.00
5,000.00
12,000.00
9,000.00
41,600.00
3,800.00
3,000.00
1,900.00
44,000.00
11,000.00
2,000.00
2,000.00
500.00
500.00
8,810.00
53,000.00
$401.010.00
GEO. D. HARRINGTON,
Town Treasurer.
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TOWN TREASURER'S REPORT.
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1903,
Town debt,
Schot ls,
Outside aid,
Interest,
Water Dept.,
Contingent,
Highways,
Fire Dept.,
Support of poor,
Sidewalks,
Street watering,
Hastings park,
Bank and corporation tax,
Cemeteries,
Taxes 1901,
Taxes 1902,
Taxes 1903,
Gammell legacy,
Cary library dog tax,
'fempor.:ry loans,
Police Dept.,
State aid,
Cemetery trust fund,
Amount carried forward,
RECEIPTS.
$12,438.50
10,000.00
832.97
493.44
339.05
26,453.49
2,548.03
1,326.75
871.05
1,298.05
223.86
331.94
20.00
14,941.55
412.00
11,753.75
18,767.81
72,508.22
35.00
632.26
79,000.00
299.58
464.00
450.00
$256,441.30
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Amount brought forward,
Insurance,
Cemetery trust fund interest,
Metropolitan Water loan,
Interest on taxes,
EXPENDITURES.
Town debt,
Schools,
Outside aid,
Interest,
Water Department,
Contingent,
Highways,
Fire Department,
Hydrants,
Support of poor,
Sidewalks,
Street watering,
Enforcement of Liquor Law,
Care Hastings Park,
Trimming trees,
Cemeteries,
Gammel Legacy,
Cary Library, dog tax,
Librarians,
Collector of taxes,
Furniture, new High School,
Temporary loans,
Watering troughs,
Amount' carried forward,
$24,000.00
27,376.42
4,848.09
6,814.96
28,625.08
3,275.50
''1,351.31
6,821.63
3,702.00
2,867.93
1,000.37
2,639.74
69.41
20.00
1,246.69
580.52
27.00
632.26
1,557.07
840.00
1,215.02
75,000.00
76.00
$213,586.00
$256,441.30
74.19
433.97
44,741.84
1,030.00
$301,721.30
Amount brought forward,
Memorial Day,
Sewer tax,
Town Treasurer,
Police Department,
Janitors,
Assessors,
State aid,
Removal of snow, •
Auditors,
Treasurer Cary Library,
Registrars of voters,
Clerk school committee,
Selectmen,
Town Clerk,
County tax,
State tax,
Care of Common,
Overseers of the Poor,
Surveyors of Highways,
Town Physician,
Sanitation Adams School,
Widening Massachusetts Avenue,
' Insurance,
Sealer Weights and Measures,
State Highway tax,
Fire alarm and boxes,
Grading new High School,
New High School,
Board of Health,
- Fuel and lights,
Printing,
April 19th,
$213,586.00
200.00
2,239.34
651.00
4,285.67
825.00
1,048.78
544.00
448.33
100.00
50.00
100.00
41.67
333.34
361.30
5,894.64
4,500.00
200.00
383.33
333.33
75.00
1,696.87
945.00
101.65
100.00
214.55
1,009.38
381.90
232.85
685.71
1,555,32
593.18
53.21
Amount carried forward, $243,719.36
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Amount brought forward,
Cemetery Trust Fund Interest,
Metropolitan Water Loan,
Repairs, Town Hall,
Street lights,
Cash on hand jan. 1, 1904,
GEO.
$243,719.35
339.63
44,741.84
2,104.07
6,103.67
4,712.74
$301,721.30
D. HARRINGTON,
Town Treasurer.
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STATEMENT OF CASH ASSETS AND LIABILITIES OTHER
THAN TOWN DEBT JAN. 1, 1904.
ASSETS.
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1904,
Taxes uncollected 1899,
Taxes uncollected 1900,
Taxes uncollected 1901,
Taxes uncollected 1902,
Taxes uncollected 1903,
Street watering tax 1899,
Street watering tax 1900,
Street watering tax 1901,
Street watering tax 1902,
Sidewalk tax 1903,
Due for water rates, service pipes, labor, etc.,
Due for crushed stone and labor,
Due for watering Bedford Street,
Excess of liabilities,
I.IABII.IT'rxS.
Temporary loans outstanding,
Unexpended balance outside aid,
Unexpended balance contingent,
Unexpended balance highways,
Unexpended balance discount on taxes,
Unexpended balance support of poor,
Unexpended balance street watering,
$53,000.00
276.16
2,580.59
23.55
744.22
1,084.85
122.26
Araount carried forward, $57,831.63
$4,712.74
312.06
938.98
819.40
8,674.29
36,959.74
24.90
76.54
120,49
206.46
88.48
5,718.55
176.26
500.00
7,409.06
$66,782.95
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Amount brought forward, $57,881.63
Unexpended balance enforcement of liquor law, 307.10
Unexpended balance care Hastings park, 32.5'2
Unexpended balance bank and corporation tax, 4,979.08
Unexpended balance cemeteries, 143.16
Unexpended balance Gammell legacy, 150.46
Unexpended balance police dept., 807.49
Unexpended balance janitors, 15.24
Unexpended balance assessors, 151.22
Unexpended balance removal of snow, 1,051.67
Unexpended balance treas. Cary library, 10.00
Unexpended balance clerk school committee, 8.33
Unexpended balance town clerk, 67.70
Unexpended balance widening Mass. Ave., 123.00
Unexpended balance insurance, 600.04
Unexpended balance moving old high school, 101.76 •
Unexpended balance printing, 165A8
Unexpended balance April 19th, 47.27
Unexpended balance cemetery trust fund int., 639.80
866,782.95
GEO. D. HARRINGTON,
Town Treasurer.
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REPORT OF CO!'1PIITTEE ON STREET
LIGHTING.
The Committee appointed at the Town Meeting of last spring to
examine into the condition of the street lighting in the town of
Lexington, begs to submit the following report :
We believe in general that the streets of a town the size of Lex-
ington, can be more satisfactorily lighted by a more liberal dis-
tribution of incandescent lights than by a fewer number of arc lights
and that by certain changes in this line better results can be obtained
and money saved for the town.
Hancock Street, between the Common and the junction with
Adams Street, is at present lighted by four arc lights and two incan-
descent Lights, for which the town pays 8332 per annum. We be-
lieve the street will be more satisfactorily lighted with twelve 25 c.p,
incandescent lamps, which at the prices now charged for these same
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ghts $16 each, would cost $192, thereby creating a saving to the
town of $140.
Mt. Vernon District is at present lighted by six arc lights and
four incandescent lights, the cost of which to the town is $514. We
believe that this District can be better lighted with twenty-six 25
c.p. incandescent lights, which at the regular rate would cost $416,
thus saving the town $98. In the distribution of these twenty-six in-
candescent lights, we estimate upon placing three extra lights upon
Eliot Road which is not now lighted. This road starts opposite W.
A. Tower's place on Pelham Road and runs past the new houses of
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Mr. Dean and Mr. Kettell, joining with Warren Street and should
be equipped with lights; also for one extra light on Mason Street,
which is the street between the new houses of T. C. Sias and C. H.
Stevens, and which is not now lighted; also for two extra lights on
Pelham Road near the houses of Mr. Parsons and Mr. Garrison.
At the point where Maple Street crosses the railroad at Pierce's
Bridge, one arc light has been located just beyond the bridge at a
cost of $75. We believe this can be replaced with two incandes-
cents that will cost $32, thus saving $43.
We recommend that in making a new contract arrangements be
made for making these changes which we estimate will cost the Elec-
tric Light Company, not to exceed $200.
Pursuing the same general plan of lighting by incandescent
lights in preference to the arc lights, we believe that Massachusetts
avenue, between Concord hill and the Arlington line, which is at
present lighted with twenty-eight arc lights and four incandescent
lights, costing $2164, can be more satisfactorily lighted with 40 c. p.
incandescent lights, and that the Electric Light Co. should furnish
these incandescent lights at a cost not to exceed $1900, thus effect-
ing a saving to the town for this change of $2(4, and the Commit-
tee recommends that in making new contract with the Electric
Light Co. arrangements shall be made by which the arc lights upon
Massachusetts avenue shall be removed and a 40 c. p. incandescent
light shall be placed upon every other pole from the Arlington line
to the foot of Concord hill.
The Committee finds that in general the other streets of the town
are very satisfactorily lighted by means of the standard incandescent
lamp, but that the care given to these lights by the representatives
of the company, is not such as the town should expect for the price
it is paying. At present there is a good deal of complaint on ac-
count of the outages of lamps and the fact that ]amps remain out
for many days shows there is no regular system of inspection upon
the part of the company.
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The Committee therefore recommends that in drawing up a new
contract it shall be stipulated that certain definite inspections of
the lights shall be made, and that deductions may be made by the
town for outages of lights, according to the light and length of time
that the light is out, and suggests that for every incandescent light that
is out for more than two hours on any night a deduction of ten cents
per night shall be made from the bill, and for every arc light, if the
arc lights are continued, a deduction of fifty cents shall be made
under similar conditions.
Your Committee believes that if the above recommendations are
adopted that the lighting will he more satisfactory and more econom-
ical for the town.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES W. KETTELL,
FRANK H. LOCKE,
CHARLES GARRISON,
CHAS. B. DAVIS.
REPORTS
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
-AND-
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
OF THE
TOWN OF LEXINGTON
For the Year 1903.
MARLBOROUGH, MASS,:
THE ESTABROOK PRESS, PRINTERS AND BINDERS, FRYE BLOCK,
1904.
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE, 1903.
Miss Sarah E. Robinson,
Mr. Francis J. Garrison,
Rev. Lorenzo D. Cochrane,
Mrs. Hannah T. Carret,
Rev. Forrester A. Macdonald,
Dr. Fred S. Piper,
Term
Term
Term
Term
Term
Term
Henry W. Porter, Superintendent of Schools and
High School. Residence, Russell House, Massachusetts
Lexington,
expires 1904
expires 1904
expires 1905
expires 1905
expires 1906
expires 1906
Principal of
avenue,
ORGAN IZATION.
Rev. L. D. Cochrane, chairman.
Dr. Fred S. Piper, Secretary, March -September.
Rev. F. A. Macdonald. Secretary, September -January.
Mr. F. J. Garrison, Treasurer.
SUB -COMMITTEES.
FINANCE.
F. J. Garrison, Sarah E. Robinson, Fred S. Pipet.
RULES AND REGULATIONS.
Mrs. Hannah T. Carret, F. J. Garrison, L. D. Cochrane.
COURSE OF STUDY, SUPPLIES, AND SPECIAL STUDIES.
F. A. Macdonald, Mrs. Hannah T. Carret, L. D. Cochrane.
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HIGH SCHOOL.
Fred S. Piper, F. A. Macdonald, Sarah E. Robinson, F. J. Garrison.
HANCOCK SCHOOL.
' Sarah F. Robinson, Fred S. Piper.
ADAmS SCHooI..
L. D. Cochrane, Mrs. Hannah T. Carrel.
Regular meetings of the committee are held on the first Tuesday
evening of each month in Cary hall, and on the third Tuesday in
the High school.
Truant Officer, Charles E. Wheeler.
No school signal (three blows, repeated three times) sounded as
follows :
7.15 A. M., no school, morning session, all schools.
7.45 A. M., no school, morning session, Grammar and Primary
schools.
11.30 A. M., no school, afternoon session, all schools.
SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR 1904.
Winter term closes Friday, March 25.
Spring term opens Monday, April 4.
Spring term closes Friday, June 24.
Fall term opens Tuesday, September 13.
Fall term closes Friday, December 23.
Winter term opens Monday, January 2, 1905.
Holidays : Saturdays, Thanksgiving day with the day following,
Washington's birthday, Nineteenth of April, Memorial day, and
Seventeenth of June.
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL BOARD.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1903.
To the Citizens of Lexington
In its report of the school work for the year your Board will speak
of its administration chiefly' as to policy. As their responsible
executive officer, the Superintendent will naturally be looked to for
matters of theory and detail. We, accordingly, refer readers to his
report for particulars not contained herein.
The year's work has been done without ostentation, and shows no
features of a specially brilliant nature. No fads have crept in, and
no experiments have been tried. On the contrary the best we ob-
serve has been the steady emphasis upon the regular work, and the
unifying of the various schools and grades. Of a more especial
nature was the series of walks for nature study conducted by Miss
Mollie Doran last spring, a beginning, we trust, of more general
work in this direction, in which the regular teachers shall be the in-
structors. Besides, the entire course of study is in process of re-
vision by the Board and the Superintendent. This will be published
as soon as it is completed, and will serve teachers and public in
grasping the school curriculum and its requirements. It will appear
from that publication that from start to finish Lexington furnishes
its boys and girls a liberal training, and fits them, aside from indi-
vidual limitations, to enter college.
In the matter of attendance notice may be made of the change
of sessions. In the lower schools the hours have been modified in
a measure to enable scholars to meet the car service. In the High
School there has been a return to the one session plan, which, while
not ideal, and open to objections of which the Board feels the force,
does seem a more practical working scheme. The decline in the
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percentage of attendance of the past few years has been turned
into an advance. In connection with this matter the Board would
call attention to the fact that Rules and Regulations are under con-
sideration which will be published as soon as they have taken final
shape. One matter included in these is School Discipline, which is
of great importance as an aid to the efficiency of the schools.
There are State Truancy Laws and our local regulations, but these
must be supplemented by the parents and guardians of school
children. The Board would urge that such render assistance by en-
couraging regular attendance, giving due excuse in case of absence
on the part of a pupil from the whole or a part of a session, by re-
specting the school regulations, least and greatest, and by insisting
upon such conduct of the school children as shall bring the schools
to the height of regularity, orderliness and efficiency. For statistics
of attendance see the Superintendent's report.
Changes have occurred in our teaching force, there having been
seven resignations.
Rules have been adopted concerning High School graduation,
partly as a basis, in part as a regulation. Simplicity should charac-
terize these exercises, and school graduation should not be treated
as renal. The Board therefore commends to parents and guardians
the advisability of restraining members of graduating classes from
undue outlay of time and money, either as a class or as individuals.
Let the standard be such as not to deter people of lesser means
from seeking a full school course for their children.
The Robert P. Clapp prizes were awarded this year to Marjory
Houghton for excellence in oral English, and to Edward G. Reed
for such standing in English composition.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
Items of a distinctly financial, as well as literary and artistic value
which call for acknowledgment are the following :
The high school fl ig and flag -Staff, the gift of Robert P. Clapp,
Esc,.
A set of Chamber's Encyclopedia, the giver anonymous.
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Pictures, and statue of Hebe, presented by the Ninth Grade
of '03.
Statue of Diana and Fawn, given by Seniors of '03.
Prizes for Literary and Rhetorical excellence, endowment of
Robert P. Clapp, Esq.
Old pictures restored and framed by a Special Committee.
Of all the foregoing, acknowledgment is hereby made.
Repairs and improvements during the year have been consider-
able. The grounds, in part, at Hancock School, and the site of the
old High School have been graded, and sheathing has been done in
the High School. But the most extensive work has been that at
East Lexington. At this school extensive changes in the sanitation
were imperative. Accordingly such improvement was made, and
though the expense was considerable, to all who know what the
conditions were, and what they now are, it is evident that this
work was wisely undertaken, and the benefits accruing are a good
return on the investment.
In addition, measures have been taken to protect the shrubs
around the school buildings.
The demand for text -books has been met to as large an extent as
possible, and though this need was an urgent one, the careful work
of the Superintendent has made it possible to meet it without exces-
sive outlay. A new series of reading books has been adopted, a new
spelling book, and a new system of copy books. The Superintend-
ent's report will give information at length concerning these changes.
'The transportation of pupils has grown to figures of large propor-
tions. The basis of transportation is, for children of eight and
under, a distance of three quarters of a mile; above the age of eighi
to that of fourteen, one mile ; with provision for special cases.
Ninety-four (94) children are now going to school by barge, and
ninety-six (96) by electric car. In connection with this topic the
board would acknowledge the courtesy of the Street Railway manage-
ment in conforming, according to the terms of their franchise, to
the needs of the school children. It is now possible for the pupils
to reach school and return home conveniently for them and for the
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schools. With the entrance of new scholars next September there
is likely to be still more of a demand in this direction.
As the public may be interested somewhat deeply in this matter,
the following table of statistics is given :
PUPILS TRANSPORTED.
BARGE.
CAR.
Totahe.
North Lexington
Waltham St.
(JAN. 15, 1904.)
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CLASS Room.
Miss Carleton, . .
0
4
4
0
8
2
6
0
2
10
Miss Robertson, .
2
1
5
0
8
8
1
0
2
11
Miss Wright, . .
2
2
3
0
7
5
0
0
2
7
Miss Skerry, . .
2
1
0
0
3
1
1
0
0
2
Miss Mitchell, .
3
2
1
1
7
2
1
1
2
6
Miss Hatch, . .
2
3
1
0
6
4
2
0
0
6
Miss Pierce, . .
0
3
4
1
8
5
0
4
2
11
Miss Carter, . .
3
2
3
0
8
6
1
3
1
11
Miss Blodgett, . .
3
4
4
1
12
2
0
0
3
5
Miss Rogers, . .
2
3
8
4
17
4
1
0
3
8
Miss Dame, . .
0
1
2
1
4
3
1
0
10
14
Miss Mayo, . .
2
0
4
0
6
5
. 0
0
0
5
Totals, . . .
21
26
39
8
94
47
14
8
27
96
The total cost of transportation for 1904 is estimated to be thirty-
four hundred dollars ($3,400) making an expense on the average of
about eighteen dollars ($l8) a year for each pupil transported, or four
-and one-half dollars ($4.50) a year per pupil on the total enrollment.
A comparison of Lexington with the other fifty-three towns and
cities in Middlesex County shows that while our town stands twenty-
second each in total population, in school population, and in expen-
ditures for all school purposes, and seventeenth in valuation, it ranks
ninth in the cost per pupil, and in the item of cost of transportation
jumps into third place. Naturally towns whose transportation item is
large, incur an unduly large cost of education per pupil, and one of
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the three which lead in this item would stand sixth in the cost per
pupil but for State aid which reduces it to the fourteenth. When it
is considered that expense of transportation precedes the beginning
of actual education in the school -room, it is clear that the high cost
per pupil is due to an item not of direct educational value. Omit-
ting the cost of transportation, Lexington's rank in cost per pupil
would be sixteenth in the county. Standing two hundred and sixty-
fourth amongst three hundred and forty-six towns and cities in the
State, and thirty-fifth amongst those of the county, in the amount
spent on schools for each one thousand dollars of valuation, Lexing-
ton spends on schools only three dollars and eighty-five cents out of
nineteen dollars and fifty cents, the tax per one thousand of valua-
tion. At the same time it should be borne in mind that our town
is one out of twelve in Middlesex County that receives no State aid.
SCHOOL EXPENDITURES
Teacher's Salaries,
Transportation,
Fuel and Care,
Supervision,
Supplies,
Sundries,
Repairs,
Permanent Improvements,
INCOME.
Balance of 1902 Appropriation,
" Hancock School Sanitation,
" High School Accounts,
Total balances from 1902,
FOR 1903.
$16,076.25
2,243.77
5,703.06
34.65
1,760.15
629,04
394.88
375.80
$27,218.60 $27,218.60
$ [,569.69
226.25
119.96
$1,915.90
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Appropriation for 1903, $24,000.00
Received from Out of Town Pupils, 611.88
Gifts, 29.17
$26,557.95 $26,557.95
Deficit, $661.65
In our last annual report we recommended an appropriation of
$25,000 to meet the cost of conducting the schools for the year, and
we were disappointed and embarrassed when the Finance Committee
advised that $23,000 only be appropriated. Their reason for this
reduction was that there were two unexpended balances from the
previous year, namely, $1569.69 on general account, and $226.25 on
the Hancock School Sanitation Account, both of which (with any
balances that might remain from the High School Construction and
Furnishing Accounts) were, on their recommendation covered into
the general school account for 1903; but, as we pointed out when
the question came before the annual town meeting, the first and
larger of these two balances existed only because of the peculiar
conditions, arising from the great coal strike, which made it impossi-
ble to buy the year's supply of fuel in the fall, and simply postponed
it until the new year, and we expressed the belief that the unex-
pended balance would barely suffice to pay for the fuel properly be-
longing in the 1902 account. In this our forecast proved correct,
there being a balance of just seventy-two cents remaining after the
bills for coal and wood were paid.
The coal strike, which compelled us to close the schools a week
earlier than usual in December, in order to economize fuel, was re-
sponsible for another deferred charge properly belonging in 1902,
for the week thus lost had to be added to the last term of the school
year, and the item of $368.75 for teachers' salaries for this extra
week was far from being covered by the balance of the Hancock
Sanitation appropriation. Finally, the balance of $119.95 which
came to us from the new High School appropriations failed to cover
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certain belated bills for grading and furnishing which it fell to us to
meet, and we had to charge an actual excess of $232.16 for 1902
items to our 1903 account.
On our urgent representation of the facts, the town generously in-
creased the appropriation to $24,000, and we hoped that it would
prove possible not to exceed this amount, but while we were able to
effect a saving in certain items, there was an unexpected increase
in others, and the total expenditures for the year show an excess of
$661.65 over the appropriation and income from all sources,
Several items which were not included in our preliminary estimates
for the year will more than account for this excess.
Besides the above-mentioned balance of 1902 account
We had to pay in the fall, for new teachers,
Additional barges for transporting pupils,
$232.16
$3l0.75
300.00
$842.91
This unexpected increase in the number of children requiring
transportation by the barges, with a still further increase since the
new year (1904) began, constitutes an important item in our esti-
mates for the present year. The item for salaries naturally is an in-
creasing one from year to year, as the rapid growth of our school popu-
lation necessitates the employment of additional teachers, and a
recognition of the merit of tried and faithful teachers demands a
slight addition to their moderate pay. In asking the town to appro-
priate $27,500 for the schools of 1904 we have cut our estimates
even lower than we deem prudent, and are making no provision for
the fuel, janitor and other expenses of running the new school house
so urgently needed, and which we trust the Town will not fail to pro-
vide in season for occupancy at the beginning of the fall term. We
have simply included the salary of the additional teacher who will
then be required.
The cost of the new sanitation at the Adams School has exceeded
the preliminary estimate owing to several causes. In digging the
trench for the new dram it was found necessary to blast for a con-
siderable distance. It also became imperative to move the steam
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furnace, involving a considerable readjustment and fitting of the
piping. Finally, the opportunity afforded by the various changes of
providing a long -needed teacher's room with toilet conveniences
could not properly be neglected, and the great improvement in the
equipment of the school is well worth the additional expense
entailed.
ESTIMATES
Salaries,
Transportation,
Fuel and Care,
Truant Officer and Expenses,
Supplies,
Sundries,
Repairs,
Permanent Improvements,
Less Income from Outside Pupils,
FOR 1904.
$17,200
3,400
4,300
75
1,800
600
400
325
$28,100.00
600.00
$27,500,00
It remains for us to speak of the urgent necessity of providing a
new school building for the lower grades which shall be ready for
occupancy at the beginning of the fall term. All that was said in
last year's report on this head holds true now, but with even greater
emphasis. Another year has but deepened the need of increased
accommodations. Questions of different sort, wholly prudential,
should he in abeyance while the demand for a new building, which
is not of this nature, but an imperative necessity, is met. Reference
to the report of the Superintendent wil bear out this statement of
the case. A six -room building with modern requirements and in a
central location, should be erected without delay. The ill -lighted
attic rooms in the Hancock School ought not to be used another
year, and the classes now occupying them will fill two rooms in the
new building. The transfer of the primary classes from the High
School building, where they have been temporarily housed, will fill
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two more, and the new entering class next fall will take a fifth room.
The sixth will undoubtedly be required to meet the normal annual
increase in 1905, and can be used to excellent purpose in the mean-
time.
We do not regard the recent action of the Town in rejecting the
plan proposed by the special committee appointed last spring as in-
dicating any unwillingness to provide a proper building, but merely
as expressing an objection to the site suggested, and a feeling that a
good and sufficient building can be secured for a less sum than
$30,000. We believe, ourselves, that this will be possible, and we
hope to present at the annual town meeting in March plans and es-
timates which we trust will receive prompt consideration and favor-
able action, so that building may begin early in the Spring. Delay
or failure in this matter means huddling scores of our children in
makeshift quarters under conditions so objectionable that some par-
ents have already withdrawn their children from school, and may
even necessitate half-day instruction in some of the lower grades.
We do not believe that the Town has any wish to compel such alter-
natives.
Every Board realizes its failures, so do the present School Board.
At the same time its members believe that, with the organization
made possible by the present size of the Board, they have worked
out a business -like basis for coming days and future action. They
would make mention of the untiring and efficient efforts of Superin-
tendent Porter, and of the faithfulness with which the teachers have
carried out his ideas, believing that in the mutual nnderstanding
and co operation of Superintendent, Teachers, Board and Public lies
the welfare of the school.
LORENZO D. COCHRANE,
FRED S. PIPER,
F. A. MACDONALD,
F. J. GARRISON,
SARAH E. ROBINSON,
HANNAH T. CARRET.
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF
SCHOOLS.
DECEMBER 31, 1903.
To the School Committee of Lexington
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—It gives me pleasure to present to you
my second report upon the schools of Lexington. This report is
the eighteenth in the series of annual reports of the Superintendent
of Schools..
At the end of this report will be found the report of the Truant
Officers, the "Roll of Honor," and tables showing the attendance
statistics for the last school year.
SCHOOL POPULATION.
The following table shows the school population and the atten-
dance at school during the last five years.
Total
Enrolment,
A
d
e
YEAR.
fji
" o
o
A
d X
6 4
P d
1898-1899 . .
640
615.5
569.2
93.3
1899-1900 . .
700
622.3
569.9
91.6
1900-1901 . .
744
678.1
613.5
90.5
1901-1902 . .
788
723.6
648.0
89.6
1902-1903 .
802
745.3
677.5
90.9
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From the above table it appears that in five years the increase in
enrolment has been 162, from 640 in the year 1898-1899 to 802 in
1902-1903. This is a growth of a trifle more than 25 per cent dur-
ing this interval. A proportionate increase would indicate an en-
rolment of about 845 for this year. As a matter of fact, the enrol-
ment during the fall term of 1903 was 853. This enrolment was
distributed as follows
High school (grades X, XI, XII, XIII),
High school (grades I, II, III, VIII, IX),
Hancock school,
Adams school,
108
176
425
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In the report of last year attention was called to the crowded
condition of the Hancock school. This crowding has increased this
year, and it has been necessary to open another room, so that there
are now ten rooms in this building in use as regular school rooms,
although there are only eight which were planned for this purpose.
These two extra rooms, both on the third floor, are not at all suita-
ble for the use to which we are putting them, and only the extreme
crowding of the building can justify such a course. The enrolment
in this building in December, 1902, was 396; in December, 1903, it
was 424. In the two attic rooms there were enrolled last December
78 pupils, of whom 36 were in the room opened in September.
The average number of pupils in each room in the building is be-
tween 42 and 43, but they are not evenly distributed in all of the
rooms, one of which contains 51 pupils, a number far too large to
assign to one teacher.
In the High school, the primary rooms are overcrowded, so that
some pupils in the third grade who live near this building and should
be included in this school district cannot find seats and are com-
pelled to attend the Hancock school. The ninth grade room con-
taining 45 seats is crowded with a membership of 47 for the fall
term.
The enrolment at the Adams School during the month of Dec-
ember was 134, an increase of 15 over the enrolment a year ago.
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'Phis growth is shown mainly in the four lowest grades, so that the
two lowest rooms have been much crowded. From one of these
rooms, containing Grades III and IV, nine pupils were transferred
to another room; in Miss Fiske's room, containing Grades 1 and II,
an assistant has been employed.
From this brief statement of the conditions, it is readily seen that
the need of additional school accommodations is imperative. We are
now using alt the rooms which are available, including two whose
use we should not tolerate. A conservative estimate would indicate
a probable membership of 900 pupils at the opening of our schools
next September; and it seems to me that the problem of providing
suitable accommodations for them cannot be solved satisfactorily in
the rooms now at our disposal,
CHANGES ]N TEACHERS.
During the last year seven teachers have resigned. Two of there
have since been married ; the other five are now teaching in other
communities. Eight new teachers have been appointed ; seven to
take the places of those who resigned, and one to take charge of
the additional room which was opened this year in the Hancock
School. I appreciate fully the merits of the new teachers who have
come to us; and yet I believe that it is very unfortunate for us to
have so many new teachers at one time. We employ twenty-three
regular teachers, exclusive of special teachers and assistants, of
whom eight (35 per cent) are new to us; and in our High School
but one of our teachers was in service here in September, 1902.
When more thau one third of our teachers are in their first year of
service, it is difficult to secure the results which we desire and which
we might expect to get from a more permanent corps. I believe
that skillful, experienced teachers are worth as much to Lexington
as to any other community, and that when we once get them we
should keep them. -
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MEDICAL INSPECTION.
I would call your attention to the urgent need of regular inspec-
tion of our schools by a physician. In no other way can the neces-
sary isolation of infected pupils be accomplished, and the spread of
contagious diseases be checked. The need of such precautionary
measures is too obvious to require explanation here, and I believe
that all will agree that no teacher, however tactful or gifted as a
teacher, should be expected to give advice which presupposes a
knowledge of the symptoms and treatment of contagious diseases.
There are many pupils in our schools who have physical weak-
nesses or defects which cause them to appear dull or inattentive.
Doubtless many such pupils are considered by their teachers to be
stupid, when in reality they are unwell, and by a skilled physician
the cause of the difficulty could be ascertained and removed, whereas
it now remains too often undiscovered. There is an opportunity
here for us to direct our efforts much more intelligently than we do
at present, and I recommend that we secure the co-operation of the
Board of Health in establishing regular medical inspection in all our
schools.
DEFECTIVE CHIL REN.
In addition to the children just referred to, there are some who
in mental ability are so far below their class -mates that they must
be considered "defective."
The problem of educating these children is not easy of solution,
especially in the crowded condition of our schools at present. We
certainly should not be satisfied to allow them to remain in the reg-
ular classes where they greatly hinder the progress of other pupils,
and where they get a minimum amount of good for themselves.
They generally repeat the work of each grade, and are promoted at
the end of the second year, in the belief that they will get more
benefit from the work of a higher grade than from a repetition of
work which they have already been over twice. These pupils gen-
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erally reach the age of fourteen while they are in the sixth or
seventh grade, and then they often drop out of school wretchedly
equipped to struggle for their living in competition with their more
fortunate mates.
We can hardly feel that our treatment of this class of pupils is
intelligent or effective. We have now, to be sure, an assistant who
devotes some time in each week to helping the backward pupils in
each grade, and this is excellent for those pupils of average ability
who have lost work on account of absence. It does not, however,
tneet the needs of the "defective" children. What they need is
special attention all the time. I recommend therefore that we
make regular provision for these children in a room by themselves
where a few of them may receive the entire attention of a teacher
engaged especially for this work. I believe that this is not only
the only intelligent way for us to attempt to educate defective child-
ren, but also, in consideration of the relief to the regular teachers,
that it is in the interests of the most economical administration of
our schools.
COURSE OF STUDY.
The course of study has been modified slightly this year, and is
now in process of revision. It seems desirable to print an outline
of the studies of the different grades, together with the time allotted
to each, to serve as a guide for the teachers, in order that the work
of ail the grades may be uniformly progressive throughout the entire
course in all our schools. This printed course of study may be of
value to parents and other persons interested in the work of our
schools who desire to become more familiar with it. Any course of
study is but temporary, however, for it is necessary to make minor
changes with great frequency if we are not to become antiquated
when new light is being brought to bear on educational questions
every day, and is showing the weakness of some present course, or
indicating some new one of permanent value,
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WRITING.
The question of writing, in the lower grades especially, has receiv-
ed serious consideration this year, and this has resulted in a change
from a vertical to slightly slanting hand. By making this change we
hope to improve the form of the letters made by the pupils, and also
to remove, if possible, the tendency to a backward slant which has been
considerably in evidence. But it seems to me that these most de-
sirable changes depend but little upon the degree of the slant shown
in the copy; rather do they result from the training which each
child receives from the teacher regarding a correct position at the
desk, a proper grasp of the penholder, and a free movement of the
muscles of the fore -arm, resting on the elbow. To these matters
the teachers have been urged to pay great attention, and it is earn-
estly hoped that better writing will be the result.
Only in the four lowest grades has the new slanting writing been
introduced, in the belief that it is wise not to attempt to change the
form of the writing of children above the fourth grade, since their
hand has generally become rather firmly established when they
reach that grade.
READING.
All will agree, I am sure, that the teaching of reading is a subject
of the very greatest importance. We have felt that it was desirable
to find, if possible, the best method of teaching the children of the
first grade to read, and to have all the children in this grade taught
by this method.
It seems reasonable to assume that the ability to read depends
upon a knowledge of the sound (or phonic) value of the several
letters, coupled with the ability to join or blend these sounds into
words. It is not claimed that this of itself will secure fluent or ex-
pressive oral reading, though it should help much in securing this
by making the enunciation of the pupils clearer and surer. Excel-
lent oral reading, however, depends also upon a sensitive apprecia-
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tion of the content of the passage read, and upon intelligent and
spirited expression of it. Nor is it claimed that rapid silent reading
(thought -getting) from a printed page can come simply from a
knowledge of the.letters of the alphabet as phonic symbols. Both
of these most desirable ends must certainly be the objects of our
teaching of reading : but not, it seems to me, in the first grade.
There the object is to have the child gain a mastery of the mechanics
of reading --to have him learn to recognize instantly and un-
consciously the sound values of the several letters, and to blend
these into words. It is left for the teacher in a subsequent grade to
teach the child to gain power in rapid and intelligent silent reading,
and in thoughtful and expressive oral reading. And this she can do,
if she has the knowledge of the letters as symbols of sound,
previously acquired by the child, as a foundation to work upon.
In the belief that this principle is correct, we have introduced into
our lowest grades daily phonic drill, including drill upon each letter
as a symbol for a single sound, and practice in blending or uniting
these sounds to form words. This is not reading in any stricter
sense than counting sticks is arithmetic; it is a preparation for read-
ing. As soon as the child has acquired by this drill the ability to
translate a written or printed word into a thought, he does it; and
then he begins to read.
SPELLING.
The humble art of spelling should certainly be cultivated, and
although there are many who raise objections to a great amount of
drill in this subject, it seems that some direct method of teaching it
is a necessity; for if it is omitted and spelling is left to be taught
incidentally, while the child is acquiring information on other sub-
jects (often far in advance of his mental capacity), there is very
great danger that correct spelling itself may become a mere incident,
instead of a regular practice acquired by the careful study and anal-
ysis of words.
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The spelling of purely phonic words is closely allied with phon-
etic reading, and may well accompany the early drill in this subject;
for while the pupil is learning to translate the written or printed
word into the spoken word which he already knows by sound and
whose meaning he knows, he may very profitably have some practice
in expressing in written or printed characters the word whose sound
and meaning he knows. Until he has gained some mastery of the
mechanical work of writing, he will have the printed letters given to
him, and his task will he to select them and arrange them properly.
This early work in spelling should not be oral, but should be in printed
or written characters ; for the child does not at first learn the names
of the separate letters, but rather their sound value. He learns the
names of the letters after he has mastered thein as phonic symbols,
and then he may spell orally. But even after the child can spell
orally, this work should be subordinated, and written spelling should
predominate, for it is the ability to spell written words correctly
which we are striving to acquire. We must view oral spelling as a
device to aid us in securing correct writing—as a means to an end,
rather than as an end in itself. In order that this spelling may go
hand in hand with the work in phonics, the words which are selected
to be spelled must be purely phonic words—that is, words which are
spelled exactly as they sound.
The teachers have been provided with a list of words, the " Quin-
cy Word hist," which contains over 7400 very common words, care-
fully selected and graded. Upon this list of words we are basing
our drill in spelling at present.
NINTH GRADE.
Latin has been introduced into the ninth grade as an elective study,
and those who intend to take it in the High School begin it in this
grade. By the addition of this year to our course in Latin we hope
to accomplish much more satisfactory work than has formerly been
possible. It is difficult to cover in four years the ground which a
High School course in Latin should cover and consequently the
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work, as it is arranged at present, is somewhat hurried and crowded.
A large proportion of the pupils in the present ninth grade have
chosen to take Latin, and those who have not chosen it receive extra
drill in English Grammar.
The pupils in this grade have their lessons in Science in the High
School laboratory, each pupil having two lessons per week. This
work is in charge of the High School teacher in Science, and gives
the pupils an excellent introduction to the simpler principles of
Physics and Chemistry. By thus broadening the work of the ninth
grade, we hope to make the way easier for successful work in the
first year in the High School, a year which has generally proved the
most difficult one for our pupils.
MANUAL TRAINING.
It is desirable, it seems to me, to mention some of the consider-
ations which indicate the value of Manual Training in our schools.
For many years this subject has been prominent in educational dis-
cussions, and the conclusion has been invariably that Manual
Training, in various forms, is most necessary, if we arc to have our
school work properly adjusted to the needs of our children. This is
truer to -day than it was a generation ago, for the conditions sur-
rounding the children in their homes have so changed in recent years
that they no longer receive in their every day life the training of
hand and eye which their fathers received. This daily work about
the home has been a great factor in the education of the past, and
the lack of it is a serious loss to the youth of to -day.
Any student of children sees clearly that constructive activity —
the desire to "make something" —is one of their most marked
characteristics. This consideration should have great weight with
us, for our task is primarily to direct and cultivate the natural
activities of children. Our error is too apt to be made in at-
tempting to ignore or discourage these activities, or else to substitute
some artificial or distasteful tasks in place of them.
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The chief claim of Manual Training rests not so much, however,
upon its attractiveness to children, as upon its great value as a
means of developing their powers and tastes. The principle, so
prominent in the teaching of Froebel, that children "learn by
doing" has gained universal recognition. Tne problem at present
is to' apply this principle—to determine what they may best do, and
to direct them wisely in doing it.
At present we teach Sloyd in our eighth and ninth grades and
our pupils do a considerable amount of drawing in all the grades.
Much of the seat work, particularly for the younger pupils, is of a
constructive nature. I am glad that we show even this small
amount of appreciation of the value of "educational hand -work,"
but I regret that we do not increase its amount, especially in the
lower grades where it would be of infinitely more value than it can
possibly he in the later years of the school course.
I would urge that Sloyd be introduced as an elective study for the
pupils of the seventh grade. We have an equipment for carrying
on this work in the High School building, and the seventh grade
pupils could come there for it with very little inconvenience. I can
see no reason for allowing this room, with its excellent equipment,
to be in use only a part of the time in each week, when, at a slight
expense, so great benefit may be derived from the extension of
its use.
Below the seventh grade, we should not, I think, teach Sloyd.
But there are many other forms of manual training which would be
of great value to these younger children. I would suggest Sewing
and Cooking as perhaps the best adapted to them, and we now have
in the Hancock School, two rooms which were originally intended
for this use and are excellently arranged for it. It is most surely a
very short-sighted economy which forces us to use these rooms as
class -rooms, for which they were never intended and are most un-
suitable, while by so doing we are destroying our opportunity to
have in our curriculum some of those very studies which are of the
greatest value as instruments of education.
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HIGH SCHOOL.
In the High School, German has been introduced this year, and
it is planned to offer a course of three years in this study to meet
the requirement for admission to college. Over forty pupils have
elected this subject, and although its novelty doubtless attracted
some of then, the large classes indicate clearly that the study should
have a permanent place in the school. The arrangement of the
courses in Science and History has been changed a little in the hope
of secuting a better development of each subject. A second year
of Book-keeping has been added so that now a pupil can get a fair
knowledge of this subject in the first two years of the High School.
In many towns much broader courses in Business Training are
offered in the High School, and it seems to me desirable that this
be done in Lexington as soon as it is feasahle. Such a course might
include Commercial Arithmetic, Commercial Law, Stenography and
Typewriting. I would not suggest the introduction of these studies
to take the place of the more liberal education which may be gained
from our other courses, but rather in the hope that by this means
we may hold in the High School for four years, those who are now
too easily tempted to leave it early in the course to pursue what
some people term a " better education for business." Could we but
hold these pupils throughout the full High School course, giving
them some business training along with the broader training of the
other High School studies, we would indeed give them a better
education for business!
Our new building enables us to provide excellent facilities for our
drawing classes, although we have no room devoted exclusively to
them as we should like to have, and the work in this subject is in-
creasing and improving. In the first two years the Free Hand
drawing of the lower grades is continued with work in charcoal, ink,
and water color; and in the the last two years an excellent course
is offered in Mechanical Drawing.
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PROMOTION.
It is desirable that our system of promoting pupils from one grade
to another be as flexible as possible, for our pupils vary greatly in
their capacity for learning, and it is unjust to those who rise above
mediocrity, as well as to those who fall below it, that all should
progress over a specified course of study in the same time. It has
not infrequently happened that a pupil of unusual ability has
received a "double promotion" at the end of the school year, thus
saving a year in his course. But it happens far too often that the se-
lection of those who shall be thus promoted is made late in the year,
and then the work of the succeeding year is scrambled over with
a rapidity which makes one almost wonder that the other pupils must
spend a whole year upon it. The pupil who is thus hurried along
secures a very fragmentary knowledge of the ground he covers, and
this makes an exceedingly poor foundation for the work of succeed-
ing years. This difficulty is increased by the unwise pressure which
is often brought to bear on teachers by ambitious but short-sighted
parents who decide during April or May that they desire to have their
children "skip a grade." It is seldom, it seems to me, that any
permanent benefit is gained by thus rushing children of eight or ten
years of age through the work of the elementary schools, and I am
certain that much injury has often been caused by it.
And yet it is certainly our duty to make provision for those who
possess the mental and physical strength to advance somewhat more
rapidly than their less gifted companions. We have accordingly, at
two places in our course, formed advanced classes which are to cover
in two years the work of the three following grades. At the end of
Grade I a class is formed to cover in two years the work of grades
II, III and IV; and at the end of grade IV a similar class is
formed to cover the work of grades V, VI and VII. A pupil may
join the advanced section of the second grade and then, two years
later, join the advanced section of the fifth grade, thus saving two
years in doing the work of the Grammar school. Or he may save
one year by joining the advanced section of the second grade and
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then doing the work of grades V, VI and VII with the regular
classes ; instead of this he may stay with his regular class until he
reaches the fifth grade, and then join the advanced section, making
in this way a saving of one year.
In the High school each pupil receives credit for the work which
he has accomplished. Each study has an arbitrary value assigned
to it, and this value,"based upon the amount of effort required to
accomplish the work in the study, indicates its relative weight in
earning a diploma. The unit of value, which may be termed a
Diploma point," stands for one prepared lesson per week for one
year. The requirement for graduation is a total of 70 diploma
points, an amount which can be earned in four years by an industri-
ous pupil of average ability. There are probably a few who can
accomplish the required work in three years, but I think the number
is very small. There are a considerable number, however, who
cannot do this work in four years, but who could do it creditably and
profitably in five. These pupils should stay in the High school and
graduate from it, instead of leaving school in the middle of the
course as they sometimes do. In fact, this whole matter of promo-
tion and graduation should be viewed more reasonably than it is at
present. The ability and strength of each pupil should be the par-
amount consideration, rather than any sentiment about .° keeping up
with one's class." The class should not be viewed as a standard
from which it is discreditable to differ, but rather as a practical and
convenient necessity formed mainly to facilitate the economical ad-
ministration of the school.
IN CONCLUSION.
To the teachers of Lexington the gratitude of the entire com-
munity is due, and is, I believe, generously shown. I would
commend the earnest and faithful service which all have rendered
in a calling than which none is more lofty in its ideals, nor more
exacting in its demands.
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There are many, who have no official connection with our schools,
to whom we are in no small measure indebted for most valued
assistance. All those parents and citizens who uphold by their
influence the authority of the schools, supporting them morally as
well as financially, render very great service to them; and those who
kindly suggest and who intelligently criticise, assist in no small
degree. To all who have in any way shown a kindly interest in our
young people or in our schools, I would express my sincere thanks ;
and I would urge that the sympathetic relations of the home and
the school increase for the good of each.
It is customary for such reports as this to end with an expression
of gratitude to the School Committee for its assistance in carrying
on the work of the schools. In no perfunctory manner would I
express this sentiment. The members of this committee have lab-
ored faithfully and disinterestedly for one sole purpose, namely, the
welfare of the schools of Lexington; and I desire to express my
recognition of the inestimable value of their counsel and support.
It has made possible whatever progress our schools have made dur-
ing the last year.
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY W. PORTER.
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YEAR ENDING JUNE, 1903.
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Attendance.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Henry W. Porter, Principal ....
X
Clifton A. Towle
XI
Grace P. French
XII
104
104
96.0
90.2
94.0
Mabel Bowman
S. Alice Bigelow
%III
Mrs. S. W. Jenkins
IX
41
41
39.8
87.9
96.2
F. Helene Mayo
VIII
39
39
34.4
33.3
96.8
Linda L. Douglas
II-III
42
47
39.7
36.5
89.5
Amelia M. Mulliken
I
42
48
88.9
33.4
86.2
Total for building
268
279
248.8 230.3
92.6
HAHCOCK SCIIooL.
Gertrude W. Carleton, Principal
VII
47
49
41.4
30.1
94.8
Emma A. Robertson
VI
51
53
48.2
44.3
91.9
Emma E. Wright
V
51
58
48.2
43.9
91.0
Sara R. Skerry
IV
48
57
43.3
40.2
92.9
Neva G. Mitchell
III-IV
42
46
38.5
34.6
89.7
Gertrude Pierce
III
42
47
42.2
38.3
90.8
Jennie L. Carter..
II
44
49
39.9
35.0
87.5
Jennie F. Blodgett
I
46
47
41.3
39.5
86.8
Marion I.. Rogers
I
48
54
39.5
81.5
79.5
Total for building
418
460
382.5
348.4
90.6
ADAMS SCHOOL.
Augusta A. Jackson, Principal
VII -VII;
22
23
20.3
18.2
89.7
Sara A. Whitlock
V -VI
22
26
19.3
18.9
87.6
Gertrude Il. Dacey
III-IV
29
38
30.7
26.9
87.5
Carrie F. Fiske
I-II
43
52
43.6
38.9
89.0
Total for building
116
189
118.9
100.9
87.7
Totals for town
802
878
746.2
677.6
90.9
Names inserted twice
17
Total number different pupils
861
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REPORT OF TRUANT OFFICERS.
DECEMBER 31, 1903.
To the Superintendent of Schools :
Number of truants reported from Jan. 1, 1903, to May 7, 1903, 25
At home on account of sickness, !i
Had to stay at home to work, 6
At home on account of bad weather and distance from school, 1
Absent without any excuse, 9
April 29, 1 boy sent to Truant School for two years.
P. J. MAGUIRE,
Truant Officer.
DECEMBER 31, 1903.
7 the Superintendent of Schools :
Nine pupils have been reported 'absent by their teachers, from
Adams School 5; from Hancock School 4.
The following reasons have been found for the pupils being
absent :
Playing truant,
Kept at home by parents to work,
Kept at home sick,
Kept at home on account of lack of clothing,
2
3
2
2
One parent taken to court for not sending boy to school, dis-
charged by court; case dropped.
(Above report is for part of year May 8 to Dec. 31).
CHARLES E. WHEELER,
Truant Officer.
158
ROLL OF HONOR.
These Records End June, 1903.
No name is entered on this roll for less than one year..
PUPILS NOT ABSENT OR TARDY.
FOR NINE YEARS.
Elizabeth R. Smith,
Goldie E. Powell,
Silvia Howard,
Vernon Page,
Mabel M. Gurney,
C. Frances Com]ey,
Ralph Marshall,
Howard Austin,
Isabelle Graham,
Marion Howard,
Marjorie Record,
Ruth Sherburne,
Francis Doe,
Ray Ferguson,
Marion Caswell,
Hazel Ferguson,
FOR FOUR YEARS.
FOR TWO YEARS.
FOR ONE YEAR.
139
ASSESSORS' REPORT.
Valuation and tax list for 1903 :
Resident owners of real estate,
Non-resident owners of real estate,
Resident owners of personal estate,
Non-resident owners of personal estate,
Total valuation,
Gain on real estate over 1902,
Loss on personal estate over 1902,
Net gain,
Amount of tax list committed
Town grants assessed,
Water dept. tax,
State tax,
State highway tax,
Metropolitan sewerage tax,
Metropolitan water tax,
County tax,
Overlayings,
S3,917,130.00
887,410.00
836,700.00
56,390.00
. $5,697,630.00
91,695.00
53,245.00
$38,450.00
to the Collector for 1903 :
$108,661.78
4,000.00
4,500.00
214.55
2,239.34
5,733.77
5,894.64
830.74
$127,074.82
16o
Rate of taxation $19.00 on $1000.
$19.00 on $5,697,630.00 gives
1309 Polls at $2.00 each gives
Land taken by Arlington,
Land taken by Cambridge,
Taken from bank and corporation tax,
Taken from Water Dept. income,
$108,254.97
2,618.00
219.94
248.14
10,000.00
5,733.77
$127,074.82
Amount actually committed to the collector, $110,872.97
Supplementary tax, 83.56
Number of persons assessed on polls and property,
Number of males assessed for poll tax only,
Number of horses assessed,
Number of cows assessed,
Number of neat cattle other than cows,
Number of swine assessed,
Number of fowls assessed,
1,865
873
646
1225
134
296
2800
The motion made at the last annual meeting, which was adopted,
appropriating $300 for a general re -valuation of the real estate, with
authority for the assessors to employ assistance, was made without
consulting us, but was much needed, and proved to be a wise
movement.
We were able to secure the services of Mr. Abram B. Smith, a
man well qualified for the work required. One member of the
board with Mr. Smith spent the entire month of April, making a
careful examination of all farm property in town, going as thoroughly
over every farm as time admitted, paying attention also to the build-
ings. Some time was also spent at the Registry of Deeds to ascer-
tain the acreage of farms when the same was in doubt.
161
In some cases a loss was made, in others a gain, more especially
the latter. Some land which had for years been taxed as wood
land, or unimproved was found to have been reclaimed, and now
under the plow or in grass; in this way as also by the increase in
acreage, a gain in valuation of over $18,000 was made, the tax an
which was $35O, and as less than one-half of the $300 appropriated
was expended, it will be seen the Town was a gainer by the vote,
not to mention the future annual tax on this gain. Time did not
allow the same re -valuation of residential and business property,
which should be done the coming year. There are about twenty-
five parcels of land owned by non-residents, mostly wood land and
-unimproved, the exact location of which is unknown to the Asses-
sors, and in most cases the owners themselves are unable to describe
their property so it can be definitely located.
For this and other reasons we have for some time been of the
opinion that it would be a paying investment for the Town to have
made surveys and plans of all the real estate in town. Those cities
and towns that have plans of their property have found that instead
of being an expense it has brought an increase in taxes, that has
within a very few years paid all costs, besides furnishing means for a
more equitable valuation than is possible without the plans.
With the present high rate of taxes the Assessors would be the
last to suggest any appropriation that was not for the best interest of
the Town. We recommend for this purpose an appropriation of
$1444 to begin the work this year.
CHARLES G. KAUFFMANN,
EVERETT S. LOCKE,
GEORGE H. CUTTER,
,4ssessors,
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AUDITOR'S REPORT.
SCHOOLS.
RECEWT ,.
Balance from 1902,
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
Transfer from Sanitation Hancock school,
Transfer from Furnishing High school,
Transfer from New High school,
Geo. P. Greenwood, tuition,
Town of Burlington, tuition,
Boston Female Asylum, tuition,
Boston & Maine R. R., refunded,
F. J. Cooper, refunded,
State Massachusetts, State Board Charity,
F. A. Macdonald, donation,
F. J. Garrison, donation,
H. W. Porter, Supt. tickets and supplies,
Deduct Transfer Balance 1902, grading
High school grounds,
Excess of expenditures over receipts,
$1,569.0
24,000.00
225.25
118.35
1.61
45.00
68.00
424.88
6.49
1.50
74.00
12.50
16.67
183.93
$26,747.87
34.10
26,713.77
662.65
$27,376.42
165
EXPENDITURES.
ADAMS SCHOOL.
Augusta A. Jackson, instruction, $615.00
Sarah A. Whitlock, instruction, 532.50
Gertrude H. Dacey, instruction, 532.50
Carrie F. Fiske, instruction, 563.75
Winifred V. Griffin, instruction, 5.00
Anna G. Scannell, instruction, 18.00
Sarah A. Whitlock, care children, 12.00
M. F. Doran, field lessons, 30.00
A. B. Smith, janitor and extra supplies, 305.04
L. A. Austin, use of telephone, .20
Lyman Lawrence, hardware, 5.41
T. W. Hanaford, wood, 6.00
Kingsley Cochrane, cutting wood, 1.50
Water Department, 20.00
J. H. Phillips, carpenter and mason work, 36.10
Jordan Marsh Co., rug, 3.00
P. F. Dacey, mason work, 13.75
Benj. Hadley's Sons, stack and labor, 37.35
Wm. McElwain, repairing blackboard, 38.30
New England Publishing Co., "American
Primary Teacher," 2.00
Lexington Gas and Electric Co., rewiring, 3.76
Educational Publishing Co., books, 11.50
Chandler & Barber, hardware, 3.36
J. H. Frizelle & Son, use of men and team, 61.20
C. H. Sprague & Son, coal, 11.25
Bradley Chapman Co., labor on heater, 2.38
'1'. G. Whiting, teaming wood and coal, 5.00
John A. Fratus, repairing four clocks, 6.00
The Heintzmen Press, Printing, 4.10
Amount carriedforward, $2,885.94
166
Amount drought forward,
W. H. Burke, plumbing,
F. P. Reynolds, wood,
R. T. Montague, carfares,
J. H. Frizeelle & Sons, coal,
Clarence H. Cutler, wood,
T. G. Whiting, sawing wood,
Lexington Lumber Co., lumber,
Kingsley Cochrane, moving coal and ashes,
Peirce & Winn Co., coal,
Chandler Chair Desk Co., couch,
E. Hunnewell, teaming,
Chas. O. Wentworth, tinting ceilings and
walls,
$2,885.94
19.35
12.37
1.00
20.25
7.00
2.00
5.69
5.50
286.25
6.25
.50
12.00
$3,264.10
COMMON TO ALL SCHOOLS.
Mrs. Alice M. Holt, instruction in music,
A. Edna McLean, instruction in drawing
and supplies,
F. J. Garrison, Sloyd lecture,
F. A. Macdonald, Sloyd lecture by Maynard,
Boston and Maine R. R., freight on coal,
Lexington & Boston St. R. R. Co., school
tickets,
J. L. Hammet Co., supplies,
C. E. Wheeler, printing,
H. A. Davis, Jr., & Co., printing,
Metropolitan Coal Co., coal,
American Express Co.,
Thorpe and Martin Co., stationery,
G. L. Goulding, coal,
$358.75
338.47
5.00
5.00
35.52
550.00
236.55
18.00
5.25
300.00
10.80
2,91
324.06
Amount carried forward, $2,190.31
167
Amount brought forward, $,2190.31
Fred S. Piper, secretary, sundries, 10.47
L. A. Saville, stamps, 5.60
New England Telephone & Tel. Co., 48,73
Houghton and Mifflin Co., books, 5.36
Gaylord Bros., supplies, 2.50
J. O. Wetherhee Co., lumber, 10.38
Library Bureau, stationery and books, 31.05
E. Hunnewell, freight and teaming, 1.75
Herman Goldberger, journal, 1.40
Wadsworth, Howland & Co., artist's materials, 56.62
W. E. Denham, expressing and carriage hire, 3.15
Chas. D. Brown Co., toilet paper, 5.84
C. L. Parker & Son, printing, 25.75
The Mitchell M'f'g. Co., badges, 2.00
Geo. Benedict, typewriting, 5.63
Forest, Hooper & Co., stock and labor, 14.66
Carey Library, expressing, 1.30
L. B. Cochrane, car fare and visiting school, 7.70
A. F. Dinsmore, lettering diplomas, 5.95
P. J. Maguire, truant officer, 11.50
Continental Brush Co., brushes and dusters, 4.50
T. Forsythe, teaming, 13.50
Middlesex County 'Truant School Board, 39.00
A. and E. Burton & Co., brushes, 59.73
The Morse Co., word list, 3.45
Eagle Pencil Co., pencils, 31.97
Milton, Bradley Co., water colors, 18.25
H. 13. Needham, waste baskets, 6.00
Henry W. Porter, text books and supplies, 62.59
C. E. Wheeler, services as truant officer and
expenses, 23.15
$2,694.79
168
HANCOCK SCHOOL.
Gertrude W. Carleton, instruction,
Emma A. Robertson, instruction,
Emma E. Wright, instruction,
Sara R. Skerry, instruction,
Gertrude Pierce, instruction,
Grace A. Spaulding, instruction,
Jennie F. Blodgett, instruction,
Bertha B. Hammond, instruction,
Sadie W. Jenkins, instruction,
F. Helene Mayo, instruction,
Amelia M. Mulliken, instruction,
Linda L. Douglas, instruction,
Neva G. Mitchell, instruction,
Philip E. Perry, instruction,
Linda Compton, instruction,
Emma F. Parker, instruction,
Jennie L. Carter, instruction,
Marian L. Rogers, instruction,
Ruth B. Dame, instruction,
Ethel M. Harding, instruction,
Lucretia F. Hatch, instruction,
Olive A. Dame, instruction,
Alice Woodward, instruction,
Substitute, instruction,
M. Doran, field lesson,
Emma E. Wright, care of children,
Sadie W. Jenkins, care of children,
F. Helene Mayo, care of children,
Gertrude A. Carleton, care of children,
Clifton P. Ashley, janitor,
Clifton P. Ashley, for extra labor,
Wm. E. Denham, transportation,
Amount carried forward,.
$757.50
532.50
563.75
563.75
563.75
181.50
563.75
233.75
343.75
563.75
563.75
312.50
532.50
325.50
38.00
8.00
367.50
320.00
140.00
200.00
200.00
63.75
3F.00
2.00
30.00
123.00
24.00
54.00
2.00
700.00
5.20
1,472.52
$10,386.97
169
Amount brought forward, $10,386.97
Lexington & Boston Street Ry., strip tickets, 375.00
Water Department, water, 75.00
Lexington Gas and Electric Light Co.,
lights, repairs, 74.80
American Book Co., books, 14.94
Silver, Burdett Co., books, 89.25
Ginn & Co., books, 66.22
Thompson, Brown & Co., books, 18.33
E. E. Babb & Co., books, 67.94
D. C. Heath & Co., books, 6.87
Houghton, Mifflin Co., books, 19.19
Rand, McNally & Co., books, 11.05
Educational Publishing Co., books, 29.10
Thorpe, Martin Co.. stationery, .48
J. L. Hammett & Co., stationery, 104.61
New England Publishing Co., Primary
Teacher and Journal,
C. H. Sprague & Son, coal,
George Nelson, wood,
L. A. Saville, 4 tables and horses,
John A. Fratus, repairing clock,
A. C. Washbnrn, carpenter work,
The Heintamann Press, printing,
W. H. Burke, plumbing,
Lyman Lawrence, paint, glass, hardware, oil,
Lexington Lumber Co., lumber,
F. P. Reynolds, wood,
Peirce & Winn Co., coal and wood,
University Publishing Co., paper,
J. H. Frizelle & Son, coal,
E. Hunnewell, teaming,
Chandler & Barber, hardware,
Arthur A. Marshall, fumigating,
Amount carried forward,
7.50
9.36
3.75
6.00
2.50
17.85
4.50
5.65
23.13
8.27
71.70
768.44
1.00
86.57
2.84
4.17
16.00
$12,378.98
170
Amount brought forward, $12,378.98
G. W. Spaulding, laundry, weighing coal,
dusters, oil, 51.11
Directors of Old South, leaflets, 3.00
C. H. Harrington, oiling floors, 7.50
Cyrus Martin, sanitary, 6.00
The Morse Co., mats, 2.40
J. 0. Wetherbee & Co., lumber, 23.79
Mrs. John McLeod, mending flag and curtain, 1.75
Thomas Burke, labor on grounds, 65.00
H. V. Smith, rubber tacks, .70
DeVeau Bros., carpenter work, 28.39
P. F. Dacey, mason work, 17.00
Corbin Lock Co., keys, 1.83
F. D. Wells Sr Co., table, 2.25
Winchester Tar Disinfectant, 1.50
Lexington Hardware Co., paint, chain, oil, brushes, 4.52
E. W. Glass, teaming, grading grounds,
Albany Paper Co., toilet paper,
E. H. Mara, painting,
Wakefield Rattan Co., mats,
H. L. Hart, labor,
Chandler Desk Co., desks, etc.,
Shepard, Norwell & Co., blanket,
Forest Hooper & Co., labor and stock,
Wadsworth, Howland & Co., erasers,
Library Bureau, cards,
J. F. McCarty & Co., aquarium house,
1'. W. Hanaford, wood,
75.50
12.00
1.00
27.90
1.40
138.35
1.50
11.54
.50
3.50
2.80
18.00
$12,889.71
171
HIGH SCHOOL.
Henry W. Porter, superintendent
instructor,
Grace P. French, instructor,
Clifton A. Towle, instructor,
Mabel E. Bowman, instructor,
S. Alice Bigelow, instructor,
Philip E. Perry, instructor,
Clarence H. Knowlton, instructor,
Elizabeth A. McGlinchy, instructor,
Ruth B. Dame, instructor,
R. T. Montague, janitor,
D. C. Heath & Co., books,
Silver, Burdett & Co., books,
Ginn & Co., books,
American Book Co., books,
Thompson, Brown & Co., books,
E. E. Babb & Co., books,
D. Appleton & Co., books,
Maynard, Merrill & Co., books,
Library Bureau, books,
Sibley & Co., books,
D. H. Sanborn & Co., books,
Sibley & Ducker, books,
J. L. Hammett Co., books and supplies,
Water Department,
C. H. Sprague & Son, coal,
Pierce & Winn Co., wood and coal,
J. H. Frizelle & Son, coal,
Lexington Gas & Electric Co.,
John Buckle, labor,
Eagle Oil & Supply Co., oil, gaskets,
Atkinson & Mentzer, flag,
and
$1,885.00
635.00
500.00
375.00
552.50
40.50
440.00
320.00
80.00
780.00
56.67
16.26
176.74
140.30
.24
27.94
1.24
2.00
29.50
4.57
21.35
2.58
73.84
75.00
180.54
1,118.18
40.33
92.23
2.25
7.20
2.70
Amount carried forward,
$7,679.66
172
Amount brought forward,
Spatula Publishing Co., stationery,
Library Bureau, cards printed and oak tray,
Arthur W. Hall Co., electric supplies,
L. E. Knott, generator,
D. G. Seeley, chemicals,
Wadsworth, Howland & Co., artist supplies,
Damrell & Upham, drawing,
J. Veinotte, varnishing,
Dwyer Bros., expressing,
Denney Bros. & Wilkins, furniture,
Lyman Lawrence, hardware,
Frank P. Reynolds, wood,
Chandler & Barber, hardware,
J. W. Bailey & Son, towels,
Antone J. Burkard, tuning piano,
E. Hunnewell, teaming,
Howard University, examination blanks,
Little, Brown & Co., telescope,
Miss G. L. Lewis, pictures, brass plates,
Hopkinson & Holden, hose, nozzle, etc.,
S. H. Couch Co., statement,
Joseph Vaughn, labor,
Rumford Supply Co., chemicals,
G. W. Fuller, moving desks and chairs,
D. J. Donovan, labor,
John Buckle, labor,
Mrs. John McLeod, mending flag,
New England Publishing Co., journal,
J. W. Griffin, repairs,
C. E. Wheeler, printing.
E. H. Mara, painting, varnishing,
Woburn Laundry,
Forest Hooper & Co., plumbing and repairs,
Amount carried forward,
$7,679.66
3.00
11.08
156.82
5.50
10.61
55.22
1.00
5.00
22.65
3.32
21.38
64.62
1.71
.50
2.50
25.35
10.15
1.00
11.50
23.74
4.50
3.50
13.20
2.00
3.00
.75
.50
5.00
3.75
4.75
26.98
3.06
24.34
$8,211.64
173
Amount brought forward,
DeVeau Bros., carpenter work,
S. C. Small & Co., pulpit,
John W. McKay, carpenter work,
Winchester Tar Disinfectant, 1 gallon,
Cleghorn Co., labor and express,
J. W. McLean & Co., filing saws,
E. W. Glass, grading grounds,
C. E. Bailey & Co., carpeting,
A. J. Wilkinson & Co., label plates,
Howard Clock Co., repairs,
W. E. Denham, expressing,
Handifold Paper Co., paper,
Chandler Desk Co., stools,
T. W. Hanaford, wood,
G. IV. Spaulding, oil, soap, baskets,
Adams school,
Common to all schools,
Hancock school,
High school,
SUMMARY.
HIGH WAYS.
RECEIPTS.
Unexpended balance from 1902,
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
From Bank and Corporation Tax,
Amount carried forward,
$8,211.64
99.49
13.00
25.05
1.50
16.88
6.90
48.62
44.00
1.00
4.45
1,00
41.40
9.00
18.00
21.29
$8,527.82
$3,264.10
2,694.79
12,889.71
8,527,82
$27,376.42
$48.10
18,000.00
2,000.00
$20,048.10
174
Amount 6roughl forward, $20,048.10
N. E. Telephone & Telegraph Co., crushed stone, 10.31
E. W. Glass, crushed stone, 11.96
Hancock Cong'1 Society, crushed stone, 16.79
B. C. Putney, crushed stone, 2.21
Cemeteries, crushed stone, 11.50
J. L. Carney, crushed stone, 102.25
M. Montague, crushed stone, 2.25
H. G. Locke, crushed stone, 4.35
J. A. Davis, crushed stone, 17.10
Peirce & Winn Co., crushed stone, 8.10
J. A. Sweetser, crushed stone, 2.25
W. H. Whitaker, crushed stone, 10.88
J. Hunker, crushed stone, 1.10
Lexington and Boston St. R. R. Co., labor
and crushed stone, 48.54
H. H, Tyler, crushed stone, 3.05
George A. Vickery, crushed stone, 2.25
F. K. Talcott, crushed stone, 1.25
J. F. Russell, crushed stone, 14.78
Mrs. H. B. Brigham, crushed stone, 36.75
Cary Farm, crushed stone, 1.98
B. J. Harrington, crushed stone, 1.00
H. W. B. Cotton, crushed stone, 6.38
George 0. Whiting, labor and crushed stone, 129.25
Mrs. W. H. Spencer, crushed stone, 4.27
Mrs. B. A. Putney, crushed stone, 4.58
J. W. Hayden, Jr., crushed stone, 8.20
Mrs. Grace Cook, crushed stone, 3.90
F. 0. Robinson, crushed stone, 13.18
Old iron sold, 32.20
F. 0. Vaille, 5 bound stones, 3.75
C. H. Harrington, 2 bound stones, 1.50
A. Young, water tank, 15.00
Amount carried forward, $20,580.97
175
Amount brought forward,
J. N. Morse, bound stones,
Lexington and Boston St. R. R. Co., excise tax,
Metropolitan Water Loan account, labor on trench,
Water Department,
Amount expended,
Balance unexpended,
ExPEtvDMTURes.
J. H. Frizelle & Son, stone to crusher,
F. P. Kendall, stone to crusher,
L. C. Sturtevant, stone to crusher,
John P. Dailey, stone to crusher,
T. G. Whiting, stone to crusher,
D. Gorman, stone to crusher,
E. W. Glass, stone to crusher,
A. J. Bevington, stone to crusher,
W. H. Whitaker, stone to crusher,
Joseph Evans, stone to crusher,
W. H. Bacon, stone to crusher,
James Quigley, stone to crusher,
John Evans, stone to crusher,
H. L. Saunders, stone to crusher,
W. E. Carter, stone to crusher,
Geo. H. Lowe, stone to crusher,
M. H. Roberts, stone to crusher,
D. Evans, stone to crusher,
F. Schumacher, stone to crusher,
H. A. Saunders, stone to crusher,
Amount carried forward,
$295.14
142.68
237.45
98.53
264.71
3.84
111.83
17.60
55.42
52.35
8.38
177.05
46.80
165.41
22.72
3.37
113.09
177.39
192.58
52.14
$2,238.48
$20,580.97
3.00
503.39
117.43
170.07
$21,374.86
21,351.31
23.55
$21,374.86
1715
Amount brought forward, $2,238.48
W. Hinchey, stone to crusher, 2.50
J. C. Bartlett, stone to crusher, 61.51
John Butcher, stone to crusher, 73.68
Rollin & Bede!, stone to crusher, 113.56
Joseph Holland, stone to crusher, 3.00
James Dalrymple, stone to crusher, 42.94
M. Carroll, stone to crusher, 70.15
J. L. Gallagher, stone to crusher, 84.87
Geo. Watson, stone to crusher, .75
Cary Farm, stone to crusher, 72.70
Cyrus Martin, stone to crusher, 34.06
Cyrus Martin, use of team, 151.25
C. Ryan, use of team, 25.00
D. Gorman, use of team, 451.50
E. W. Glass, use of team, 392.50
J. M. Smith, use of team, 7.50
F. P. Reynolds, use of team, 291.25
W. H. Whittaker, use of team, 392.13
'1'. G. Whiting, use of team, 325.00
John P. Dailey, use of team, 225.00
J. C. Bartlett, use of team, 50.00
M. Carroll, use of team, 27.12
J. H. Frixel]e & Son, use of team, 50.00
James S. Munroe, labor and use of team, 6J6
Lexington & Boston St. R. R. Co., gravel, 93.25
Thos. Cosgrove, gravel, 74.80
John Gorman,gravel, 31.70
B. F. Holt, gravel, 12.70
Pay roll, 9,426.54
John H. Brown, labor at crusher, 1.00
James S. Munroe, labor of men, 3.00
J. Cloughlin, labor, 3.85
C. H. Bruce, labor, 19.25
Amount carried forward, $14,808.70
177
Amount brought forward,
C. M. Tupper, labor,
A. S. Chatfield, labor,
Thomas Burke, labor,
D. McNamara, labor,
J. S. Callahan, labor,
Joseph Dane, labor,
G. W. Jameson, labor,
P. Cavanagh, labor,
J. Chisholm, blankets, horse collar and repairs, 92.80
Good Roads Machinery Co., plates, bolts, etc., 308.95
H. L. Alderman, veterinary service, 46.00
R. W. Holbrook, grain, lanterns and oil,
F. P. Kendall, rent land for crusher,
D. McNamara, building stone wall, Concord Ave.,
A. H. Jordan, polish and oil,
Lyman Lawrence, repairs and paints,
E. 13. McLalen, shoeing and repairs,
Thos. Forsythe, clipping horses and express,
W. E. Denham, tires, repairs,
J. W. Griffin, repairs and shoeing,
W. F. Wilbur, grain,
Lexington Lumber Co., pipe and lumber,
Boston & Maine R. R., freight,
Shaw & Saunders, repairing wheels, etc.,
L Palmer, grain,
John E. Horn, painting carts,
R. H. White, sand,
C. A. Butters & Co., grain,
Peirce & Winn Co., pipe, coal and wood,
Ames Plow Co., repairs, arbor, hammers,
J. A. Veinotte, painting buggy and signs,
John Rose, cross -cut saw,
W. F. Sim & Co., express,
$14,908.70
44.75
2.00
24.00
64.75
10.00
5.00
3.35
12.50
/mount carried farTwardy
7.30
75.00
52.25
2.50
51.65
208.24
4.00
213.06
79.95
488.30
276.23
23.63
31.10
53.27
18.82
6.00
413.48
726.20
65.70
18.00
'2.50
15.00
$18,254,98
to
I78
Amount brought forward,
F. O. Elms, engineer roller,
Kelly Roller Co., supplies,
C. A. Cla6in & Co., supplies,
Frank P. Cutter, surveyor and engineer,
D. McNamara, labor on culvert, Concord
American Express Co., express,
John H. Brown, engineer crusher,
George L. Peirce, weighing stone,
Jefferson Mfg. Co., repairs,
M. H. Merriam, burlaps,
Davis & Farnum Mfg. Co., grates,
Forest Hooper & Co., pipe, repairs and hose,
Curry Oil Co., oil,
R. H. White, services on highways,
Ingersoll Drill Co., sand pump,
E. G. Loomis, hay,
G. H. Sampson Co., forcite,
E. Kendall & Sons, labor and stock,
D. Garrity, labor at steam drill,
P. Sutherland & Co., oil,
Geo, Wm. Waitt Co., oil,
Wm. Faircloth, engineer boiler,
H. V. Hildreth, bound posts,
W. W. Field, repairing crusher,
Osgood Scale Co., weigh books,
Lexington Hardware Co., lanterns and shovels,
D. A. Tuttle, stone hammers,
Smith & Goold, lotion,
W. A. Morrison, waste,
Solshine Mfg. Co., polish,
De Veau Bros., carpenter work at Crusher,
H. A. Shaw, repairs,
$18,254.98
273.00
12.50
11.08
42.50
Ave. 54.63
.85
420.13
364.00
8.39
8.57
25.95
34,89
21.00
50.00
3.60
63.22
48.22
40.20
21.00
4.80
33.85
188.00
55.011
60.99
8.00
13,85
2.30
9.00
9.63
1.50
56.76
11.25
Amount carried forward,
$20,213.64
179
Amount brought forward,
Town of Arlington, labor, stock, boundary
stones,
John H. Brown, labor on highway,
W. H. Mague, services roller,
Charles W. Taylor, engineer roller,
Geo. W. Spaulding, paints, oil, shovel,
P. T. Gillooly, sign boards,
Waltham Foundry Co., grates,
Taylor Iron and Steel Co., plates,
W. A. Snow, rail pipe fence,
Chas. A. Pearson, setting boundary stones,
A. E. Locke, drain pipe and labor paid by
him,
H. V. Smith, rubber boots,
E. S. Spaulding, supt. streets,
Pauper Department, board horse,
John McKinnon, fence on Waltham St.,
Water Department, water,
O. G. Seeley, medicine,
$20,213.64
10.57
24.00
18.00
78.00
87.09
3.00
9.21
87.90
95.28
6.00
6.72
3.00
200.00
400.00
8.76
93.00
7.14
$21,351.31
SUPPORT OF THE POOR.
RECEIPTS.
Balance unexpended 1902,
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
Sale of horse to D. Davis,
Sale of cow,
Board of Highway horses,
Sale produce Town farm,
Amount expended,
Balance unexpended,
$2,867.93
1,084.85
$3,952.78
$1,254.73
1,400.00
100.00
40.00
400.00
758.05
$3,952.78
4 a
18o
ExPENnITURE..
Water Department,
R. W. Holbrook, groceries,
N. E. Telephone and Telegraph Co.,
Metropolitan Coal Co., coal,
Boston and Maine R. R., freight,
R. H. White, sundries,
R. H. White, Sup't,
W. V. Taylor, provisions,
M. F. Wilbur, grain,
Dwyer Bros., express,
Geo. H. Jackson, provisions,
J. R. Ellis & Sons, butter, etc.,
C. G. Eaton, crackers, cheese,
A. M. Tucker, dry goods,
Abby E. Bean, wood,
Mass. Ploughman,
J. W. Griffin, repairs,
John P. Squire Co., salt,
I. Palmer, grain,
N.V. Smith, dry goods, boots, etc.,
Forest, Hooper Sr Co., repairs,
Albert Carson, fish,
Lyman Lawrence, hardware,
Chas. W. Jenks,
C. A. Butters & Co., groceries and grain,
Lexington Lumber Co., lumber,
Shaw & Saunders; doors and pulleys.
Lexington Ice Co., ice,
L. H. Brockway, 1 horse,
Oak Hall Clothing Co., clothing,
L. A. Austin, groceries,
C. H. Currier, making cider,
Amount earried forward,
44.00
108.77
30.25
24.00
11.00
86.86
550.00
93.46
229.26
2.80
165.30
109.44
40.76
44.41
18.00
4.00
1.80
4.20
30.13
43.80
27.08
34.22
18.18
99.00
181.04
67.04
4.10
18.34
170.00
12.25
98.56
1.90
$2,373,95
181
Amount brought forward, $2,373.95
D. Davis, manure, 27.31
Geo. H. Barney, 1 cow, 58.00
W. E. Denham, repairs, 10.13
W. L. Burrill, shades, groceries, 10.96
A. McArthur Co., carpet, 23.20
Peirce & Winn Co., hay and coal, 128.53
D. 0. Hallstrom, repairing furniture, 3.25
Lexington Hardware Co., corner manger,
etc., 5.70
John Mackinnon, carpenter work, 46.88
W. H. Burke, sink pipe, labor, 17.80
De Veau Bros, carpenter work, 5.25
A. Young & Co., provisions, 25.83
A. S. McDonald, plants, 3.50
F. 0. Nelson, shoes, 1.50
J. F. McCarty & Co., medicines, 1.10
G. W. Spaulding, groceries, 61.48
P. F. Dacey, mason work, .75
H. A. Shaw, repairs, 1.50
Reed Holliday & Son, germ oil, 2.25
0. G. Seeley, medicines, 37.95
Wm. W. Reed, rent pasture, 15.00
T. G. Whiting, dressing hogs, 5.00
Bailey Bros., glazing, 1.11
OCTTSIDE All).
RECEIPTS.
Balance 1902,
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
Refunded Margaret Crowley,
Amount carried forward,
$2,867.93
$ 30.81
4,600.00
120.00
$4,750.81
c
fr
182
Amount brought forward,
Refunded J. McAvin, East Bridgwater,
Refunded State of Massachusetts, Hanson,
Refunded Lydia Estabrook,
Refunded Mrs. Scannell,
Refunded sundry parties,
Refunded Rose Clifford,
Refunded State Massachusetts, Reimer,
Amount expended,
Balance unexpended,
EXPENDITURES.
Aid furnished John Abbott,
Aid furnished Mrs. D. Donavan,
Aid furnished Kearns children,
Aid furnished W. W. Hartwell and sister,
Aid furnished Mrs. James King,
Aid furnished T. Shea,
Aid furnished M. A. Dovavan,
Aid furnished Rose Clifford,
Aid furnished Ann Hooley,
Aid furnished Kate M. Ingalls,
Aid furnished Margaret A. McKay,
Aid furnished Daniel 0. Leary,
Aid furnished A. W. Day,
Aid furnished George Green,
Aid furnished Catherine Hargrove and family,
Aid furnished Lucy M. Johnson,
Aid furnished H. A. Bates,
Aid furnished Martha Leighton,
Aid furnished Mrs. Fitzpatrick,
Amount carried forward,
$4,750.81
120.00
74.50
16.00
8.00
7.78
135.00
12.16
$5,124.25
$4848.09
276.16
$5,124.25
$ 35.00
48.00
157.00
314.16
85.00
61.50
196.38
212.17
212.16
212.17
212.16
169.45
116.62
35.57
250.90
108.00
2.00
143.44
96.00
$2,667.68
183
Amount brought forward, $2,667.68
Aid furnished Mrs. Quincy Dean, 96.00
Aid furnished Mrs. Head, 23.75
Md furnished McDonald children, 80.00
Aid furnished Pherson children, 357.24
Aid furnished Eliza Holdway, 23.00
Aid furnished Henry R. Nellis, 19.00
Aid furnished C. Lyons, 18.95
Aid furnished J. McAvin, 119.87
Aid furnished B. Reardon, 200.63
Aid furnished M. Scannell, 106.80
Aid furnished Wm. O'Neil, 26.00
Aid furnished Mrs. James E. Butcher and children; 105.06
Aid furnished H. H. Pierce,
Aid furnished Geo. B. Haggett,
Aid furnished David Ray Jr.,
Aid furnished sundry parties,
Aid furnished Percy Band,
Aid furnished John P. Renner,
Aid furnished John Dunlavey,
Aid furnished Thomas Montague,
Aid furnished Margaret Crowley,
Aid furnished Joseph M. Johnson,
Aid furnished Lydia Estabrook,
Aid furnished A. A. Stimson,
Aid furnished C. M. Leal,
Aid furnished Mrs. Ahern,
Aid furnished R. Canfield,
Aid furnished Mrs. Lee,
Aid furnished M. Scanlon,
Aid furnished D. McNamara,
Visits of H. A. C. Woodward, overseer to
sundry towns,
H. C. Valentine M. D., medicines,
59.44
146.00
169.46
20.58
4.71
68.49
20.00
19.23
416.00
1.30
2.00
9.00
7.00
24.05
1.26
1.80
7.30
.50
6.75
19.25
$4,848.09
184
LIBRARIANS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance 1902,
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
Excess of expenditures over receipts,
Total expenditures,
EXPENDITURES.
Marian P. Kirkland,
Helen E. Muzzcy,
Barbara Mackinnon,
Emma O. Nichols,
Dorothy B. Wentworth,
$537.01
375.46
337.00
300.00
7.60
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
RECEIPTS.
Balance 1902,
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
Court fees, Concord,
Court fees, Cambridge,
Amount expended,
Balance unexpended,
EXPENDITURES.
C. H. Franks, services,
W. B. Foster, services,
P. J. McGuire, services,
Amount carried forward,
$140.19
1,300.00
116.88
$1,557.07
$1,557.07
$193.58
4,100.00
274.58
25.00
0,593.16
$4,285.67
307.49
$980.25
452.50
912.50
$2,845.25
0,593.16
185
Amount drought forward, $2,345.25
James Irwin, services, 852.60
C. E. Wheeler, services, 246.25
W. F. Sind, services, 102.50
Geo. L. Pierce, services, 36.26
P. T. Gillooley, services, 16 .25
C. H. Spaulding, services, 6.00
C. A. Currier, services, 2.60
P. F. Dacey, services, 10.00
Ernest D. McDonald, services, 29.00
Chas. Wellington, services, 2.00
I. Palmer, services, 428.75
John H. Brown, services, 5.00
T. McCarty, services, 2.50
C. P. Ashley, services, 2.50
R. T. Montague, services, 2.50
S. R. Stinson, services, 2.60
Chas. Twombley, services, 5.00
Mark Dodd, services, 5.00
H. L. Alderman, examination horse, 2.00
N. E. Telephone & Telegraph Co., 9.2.65
L. A. Austin, telephone and oil, .51
C. E. Wheeler, printing, 4.50
W. 8. Foster, expense attending court, 3.30
C. H. Franks, meals for prisoners, 29.50
C. H. Franks, carriage hire and R. R. fare, 31.97
S. M. Spencer M'fg Co., badges, 4.50
L. A. Saville, stamped envelopes, 3.24
I. Palmer, meals for prisoners, 9.75
W. E. Denham, carriage hire, 2.50
$4,285.67
186
METROPOLITAN WATER LOAN.
RECEIPTS.
State of Mass., proceeds notes sold,
Premium on notes sold,
EXPENDITURES.
Metropolitan & Sewerage Board, admission
into the district, $27,250.00
Boston & Maine R. R., freight, 1,233.48
Lelia B. Sparrow, 30 copies specifications, 15.00
F. A. Houdette & San, pipe, 9,537.98
Ludlow Valve Mfg. Co., valves, 608.76
Engineering News Publishing Co., advertising, 4.80
Boston Herald, advertising, 4.50
Boston Daily Advertiser, advertising, 6.75
Johnson, Clapp & Underwood, legal services, 50.00
Builders Iron Foundry, fillings, 380.21
Coffin Valve Co., gates and boxes, 452.05
E. B. Roberts, on acct. contract, 4,086.39
J. M. Smith, teaming, 275.75
W. E. Denham, horse and wagon hire, 2.50
Davis & Farnum Mfg. Co., bends, 11.83
Chapman Valve Mfg. Co., valves, 32.00
Louis E. Hawes, civil engineer, 578.21
Water Department, pipe, 95.20
Highway Department, labor, trench, Mass. Ave., 117.43
$44,000,00
741.84
$44,741.84
$44,741.84
187
REMOVAL OF SNOW.
REcErprs.
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
Less overdraft 1902,
Amount expended,
Balance unexpended,
$448.33
1,051.67
EXPENDITURES.
Wm. Ahern, labor, $8.40
H. Malcolm Torrey, repairing plow, 4.50
J. H. Frixelle & Son, teams and labor, 36.22
John Leary, labor, 10.10
C. Ryan, labor, 24.00
M. Manly, labor, 7.20
Pay roll, 144.23
R. H. White, sand, 22.00
J. S. Munroe, sand, teams and men, 19.68
D. Silva, labor, 16.00
D. Gorman, labor, 86.60
B. F. Hossfield, labor, 1.10
J. Vaughn, labor, 5.60
Rob't. Porter, labor, 21.40
P. Geoghagan, labor, 3.40
J. Silva, F. Silva, 7.00
J. L. Gallagher, 11.00
John H. Hargrave, use team, 14.40
John Leunnon, labor, 4.80
Joseph Evans, labor, 5.00
F. Maguire, labor, 8.00
L. C. Sturtevant, teams and labor, 30.00
James Holland, labor, 1.90
Boston & Maine R. R., freight on snow plow, 6,80
$1;960.21
460.21
$1,500.00
$1,500,00
$448.83
188
CONTINGENT.
RECEIPTS.
Balance 1902,
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
Rent Masonic hall,
Rent town hall,
Rent village hail,
Tax Titles redeemed,
A. S. Mitchell, auctioneer's license,
Old lead pipe, old High School,
E. T. Harrington, auctioneer's license,
Sale of old High School furnaces, etc.,
State of Mass., sale Vital Record, 500
copies,
Town of Arlington, land taken,
E. S. Payson, sale of Franklin Schoolhouse,
State of Mass., military aid refunded,
Proceeds town scales,
City of Cambridge, land taken,
Sale "Vital Records,"
C. E. Hadley, Sealer Weights and Measures,
Amount expended,
Balance unexpended,
EXPENDITURES.
Water Department, stone building,
Water Department, town hall,
Benj. Hadley's Sons, repairing water pipe
village hall,
$2,308.06
1,000.00
50.00
251.00
8.75
55.81
2.00
5.25
2.00
120.35
1,000.00
219.94
475.00
20.00
62.63
248.14
10.00
17.16
$5,866.09
$3,276.50
2,580.59
14.00
50.00
1.60
Amount carried forward, /65.50
$5,856.09
189
Amount brought forward,
Lexington Lumber Co., lumber Cary
Library, village hall,
J. 0. Tilton, M. D., reporting births,
Geo. D. Harrington, envelopes, etc.,
A. A. Stinson, military aid,
N. E. Telephone and Telegraph Co., Town
hall,
Lawrence Reade, reporting deaths,
S. M. Spencer Sr Son, stamp,
Watts Bros., barred rod,
W. B. Foster, notifying and delivering town
reports and warrants,
Leonard A. Saville, tables and horses,
L. A. Austin, envelopes, stamps, etc.,
Forest, Hooper & Co., repairs town hall,
Geo. B. Dennett, janitor, sundries, repairs,
Conant & Newhall, tally sheets,
R. M. Yale & Co., repairing flag,
Geo. H. Reed, legal sevices,
Flection officers,
Leslie House, meals registrars,
Leslie House, meals town officers,
James 14. Phillips, carpenter work,
Malden Specialty Co., marking acid,
C. H. Spaulding, distributing town reports,
B. Hadley Sons, repairs Cary Library
branch,
H. V. Smith, ledger for sealer,
Morse & Allen, legal services,
A. W. Stone, carpenter work,
Lexington Ice Co., Town Hall,
Hopkinson & Holden, mat,
P. B. Murphy, dog blanks and posters,
L. A. Saville, stamps, stamped envelopes,
Amount carried forward,
)165.60
58.28
16.50
38.50
90.00
56.90
2.50
2.00
2.00
31.50
10.00
39.86
46.82
51.85
7.50
3.00
10.00
72.00
3.00
34.00
52.31
4.66
11.50
2.07
.50
500.00
6.00
8.00
5.40
3.25
120.50
$1,356.00
190
Amount brought forward,
E. Hunnewell, expressing,
W. A. Carrie & Co., check book,
Lexington Flag Pole Co., raising top mast,
Village Hall and Common,
R. W. Holbrook, glass and grass hook,
L. A. Austin, ringing noon belt,
Shaw & Saunders, repairs on waste barrels,
R. H. Meikle, M. D., services,
'Phos. Burke, care Town Hall grounds,
Lyman Lawrence, lawn mower and catcher,
A. C. Washburn, shelves Cary Library,
W. F. Sim & Co., express,
H. A. Wheeler & Co., American Ensign,
F. H. Gilson & Co., binding and copying
record books,
Edwin A. Bayley, legal services,
W. E. Denham, carriage hire,
Hobbs & Warren Co., collector's book,
Hooper, Lewis & Co., tax book,
Continental Brush Co., brushes,
C. E. Hadley, stamp and acid,
Lyman Lawrence, repairs, paints and oils,
De Veau Bros., carpenter work, Town Hall,
John H. Hynes, slating,
Lillian A. Hall, transcribing records,
W. L. Burrill, repairing furniture,
Edward H. Mara, filling and shellacing Cary
Library,
F. W. Barry, Beale & Co., blank books and
collector's book,
D. 0. Hattstroni, cushions,
Otis Parker, dictionary,
W. H. Burke, repairs watering trough,
Amount carried forward,
$1,356.00
5.00
15.00
20.00
1.08
35.00
3.25
.50
26.00
5.00
3.90
.26
7.40
65.07
12.00
21.00
2.00
4.75
7.00
.50
16.10
23.39
20.57
156.26
1.25
3.50
8.15
10.50
1.50
27.73
$1,859.65
191
Amount brought forward,
John MacKinnon, carpenter work Howard
School,
State of Massachusetts, general register of
voters,
C. E. Wheeler, printing,
Chas. T. West, interment unknown dead
man,
F. P. Cutter, services numbering houses,
'Phos. Groom & Co., blank books,
R. W. Le Baron, rewiring Town Hall outside
contract,
Lyman Lawrence, rubber hose, nozzle, glass,
Cary Library branch,
May S. Harrington, new record male and
female voters,
P. F. Dacey, whitewashing lockup,
E. A. Bayley, cash paid dedication High
School badges,
C. S. Parker & Son, printing,
R. W. Le Baron, lamp and pole, Town
Hall,
W. H. Burke, Gurney Heater and pipe
fitting, Town Hall,
P. J. Gillooley, painting sign,
W. B. Foster, collecting dog licenses and
notifying Town,
C. T. West, burial of I.aRoy,
J. H. Frizelle & Son, teaming,
Benj. Hadley & Sons, pipe and damper,
C. G. Fletcher, land damages Woburn St.,
order County Commissioners,
Weeks & Dotten, typewritten letters,
H. L. Alderman, cattle inspector,
Amount carried/amoral,
$1,859.65
.75
4.00
3.00
16.60
58.50
4.25
399.44
15.45
5.00
4.25
10.00
3.00
12.60
180.00
3.00
23.50
15.00
.75
6.80
360.00
4.15
75.00
$3,064.59
192
Amount brought forward, $3,064.59
L. D. Cochrane, school committee, 16.67
F. J. Garrison, school committee, 16.67
F. S. Piper, school committee, 16.67
H. C. Valentine, M. D., return 33 births, 8.25
G. W. Sampson, examining title Howard
school, 7.50
C. T. West, burial expenses Joseph Dane, 35.00
G. W. Sampson, examining title Tidd school, 5.00
Geo. S. 'Teague, plans and estimates for
school, 30.00
Lexington Flag Pole Co., lowering topmast
common, 10.00
Lexington Flag Pole Co., lowering topmast
Village Hall, 10.00
C. T. West, returning deaths, 11.00
W. F. Sim, rent pound two years, 10.00
Patrick Flynn, advertising, 8.25
Bailey Bros., painting, 18.95
Lexington Hardware Co., lock and key,
Town Hall, 4.00
G. W. Spaulding, brooms and baskets, 2.96
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
Less overdraft 1902,
Sale horse to T. Forsythe,
From watering streets,
Excess of expenditures over receipts,
$3,275.50
$5,829.06
1,529.06
$4,300.00
75.00
796.05
650.58
$5,821.63
193
EXPENDITURES.
Philip A. Nellis, driver steamer,
John H. Wright, driver chemical,
Wm. Richards, services,
D. Reardon, services,
Pay Roll, chemical and hose No. 1,
Pay Roll, hook and ladder No. 1,
Pay Roll, chemical and hose No. 2,
Pay Roll, engine No. 1,
Water Department,
W. F. Sim & Co., express,
Batchelder Bros., coal,
H. L. Alderman, veterinary services,
R. W. Holbrook, grain, brooms, brush, oil,
Eastern Drug Co., 1 barrel soda,
Henry K. Barnes, extinguishers, repairs, etc.,
Thos. Forsythe, clipping horses,
Lexington Gas & Electric Co., lights,
Lexington Gas & Electric Co. pole and
lamp repairs,
Lexington Gas & Electric Co., whistle,
Shaw & Saunders, repairs,
Peirce & Winn Co., coal and wood,
J. W. Griffin, shoeing and repairs,
Lyman Lawrence, brushes, paints, hardware,
M. F. Wilbur, grain and straw,
W. E. Denham, horse hire,
A. M. Tucker, 1 case sheets and pillow cases,
3. Shangraw, care fire alarm and steamer,
moving wires,
Cyrus Martin, teaming coal and cesspool,
Chas. T. Davis, fire lighter,
Lucius A. Austin, wicks, oil, use telephone,
J. Malcolm Torrey, shoeing,
Amount carried forward,
$740.00
740.00
1.00
3.00
350.05
245.30
150.00
168.75
36.00
11.25
36.00
22.00
160.73
8.00
289.66
15.00
156.17
194
Amount brought forward,
J. Palmer, straw and grain,
Benj. Hadley's Sons, valves, repairs, lantern,
C. W. H. Moulton & Co., ladder,
Lynn Oil Co., harness oil,
Lexington Lumber Co., nails, lumber, cement,
New England Telephone & Telegraph Co.,
A. M. Wood Co., black walnut,
Carlisle, Ayer & Co., window,
Forest Hooper & Co., Iabor and repairs,
John D. Johnson, services,
J. H. Phillips, carpenter work,
C. H. Cutler, wood,
Paine Furniture Co., mattress and mats,
O. G. Seeley, alcohol, etc.,
American Express Co., express,
C. A. Butters & Co., grain and oil,
C. E. Wheeler, printing,
Thos. Daly, labor,
$4,418.23
80.42
8.70
8.05
2.50
71.04
39.10
.90
1.35
10.25
21.25
80.51
1.00
12.60
4.65
1.80
121.96
9.75
1.00
6.33
12.50
37.50
50.00
37.50
3.13
1.60
12.50
15.00
124.95
2.62
225.00
27.35
4.50
32.02
8.80 Roberts Iron Works Co., expanding tubes, labor,
137.50 W. L. Moakley, services,
65.66 Willard H. Greene, engineer,
272.90 J. H. Phillips, engineer,
82.92 Geo. W. Taylor, engineer,
31.66 E. E. Jennison, lighting powder and tubes,
51.40 Moakley Pharmacy, chemicals,
216.80 E. E. Mara, services,
2.01 H. P. Boutelle, use of land,
P. Ryan, hay,
231.04 E. E. Fuller, labor on hydrants,
12.00 Arthur H. Parker, one bay horse,
2.50 J. Chisholm, repairs, collars, chains, harnesses,
15.40 E. Hunnewell, removing ashes,
104.73 Chas. E. Berry, labor repairing engine,
$4,418.28
3$
Amount carried forward, $5,487.56
195
Amount hroright forward, $5,487.56
The Sherwin-Williams Co., paints, 2.73
W. E. Decrow, brake wheel and repairs, 14.68
American Fire Engine Co., pumps and springs, 12.50
C. H. Bugbee, board horse, 5.50
Nahum J. Busby & Co., ladders, 22.50
H. A. Shaw, services, 3.64
J. A. Veinotte, painting hose wagon, 40,00
J. A. Veinotte, painting hook and ladder, 60.00
Solshine Mfg. Co., polish, 2.75
J. J. Bevins, coffee, 1.00
J. Shangraw, labor, 20.60
Lexington Hardware Co., cuspidors, mats, chairs, 15.05
J. A. Veinotte, painting engine, 57.50
J. Halloran, charcoal, 5.25
F. H. Whitney, veterinary services and medicine, 13.00
G. W. Spaulding, lanterns, laundry, oil, 29.92
G. M. Edgar, harness repairs, blankets, reins, 8.45
J. P. Sousa, board horse, 5.10
W. A. Snow & Co., maple, 2.50
N. Pero, labor, 4.00
Edward A. Madden, labor, 2.75
P. Hennessey, labor, 1.25
J. B. Campbell, repairs, 2.00
American Fire Engine Co., gauges, 1.50
WATER DEPARTM ENT.
RECEIPTS.
E. S. Locke, registrar,
Premium on bonds,
J. W. Griffin, refunded,
Metropolitan Water Board, water pumped,
Amount carried forward,
$5,821.63
$16,722.71
64.2.11
2.75
85.92
$17,458.49
196
Amount brought forward,
State of Mass., notes sold on account,
Main, Lowell and Woburn Sts.,
Excess of expenditures over receipts,
EXPENDITURES.
Wm. Hutchinson, engineer,
C. H. Bruce, engineer, labor,
T. L. Bruce, supt.,
E. S. Locke, registrar, •
Forest, Hooper Sr Co., pipe, labor, repairs,
Peirce & Winn Co., coal,
Roberts Iron Works, repairs on furnace,
W. E. Denham, horse hire, repairs,
Metropolitan Water Board, water,
J. H. Hynes & Co., repairing roof,
P. Cavanaugh, labor,
Interest coupons,
N. Cardini, labor,
American Express Co.,
C. A. Clafflin & Co., disk valves and repairs,
M. F. Wilbur, hay and grain,
Eagle ail and Supply Co., oil,
Lexington Gas and Electric Co.,
J. W. Griffin, shoeing, repairs,
Hobbs & Warren Co., water register,
New Century Filter Co., filter,
L. A. Saville, special envelopes,
Dwyer Bros., express,
De Veau Bros., carpenter work,
Chas. Fine, labor,
Amount carried forward,
$57.50
89.13
714.79
500.00
191.68
1,089.22
28.95
26.70
6,166.27
12,44
2.33
8,595.00
490.88
7.10
32.84
94.35
8.00
15.36
44.15
9.50
1.00
43.60
7.90
131.48
330.97
$18,691.14
$17,453.49
9,000.00
2,171.59
$28,625.08
197
Amount brought forward, $18,691.14
Lexington Lumber Co., lumber, bricks,
cement, 30.71
Crosby Steam Gauge Co., 1,75
N. E. Telephone and Telegraph Co., repairs
and service, 99.56
A. P. Smith M'f'g Co., curb cocks, 22.41
Boston and Maine R. R.., freight, 9.73
Downie Pump Co., on account Deep Well
pump, 500.00
Chapman Valve Co., valves, 11.76
M. A. Pero, shoeing, 1.50
H. Malcolm Torrey, shoeing, 2.00
Walworth M'f'g Co., stop cocks, 9.69
F. A. Houdlette & Sons, pipe, 6,287.91
W. H. Burke, pipe, repairs, 95.90
Locke, Stevens & Co., valves, 19.20
Frank Ridlow Co., gong, 1.50
B. F. Smith, use of pump, 499.00
Sumner Goodwin Co., repairs, etc., 54.27
Lyman Lawrence, lanterns, hose, 14.68
John H. Brown, Engineer, 9.62
Chadwick Boston Lead Co., pipe, 36.98
L. A. Austin, use telephone, .40
L. B. Sparrow, specification, 12.00
W. H. McGue, labor men, 20.00
E. Hunnewell, express, 25.75
Engineering Record, advertising, 6.40
Engineering News Co., advertising, 7.20
Coburn Stationery Co., printing, 8.00
E. W. Glass, labor, 4.50
'I'. McDonald, labor, 1.75
J. H. Frizelle & Son, teaming, hydrants and
pipe,
Amount carried forward,
47.35
$26,532.66
198
Amount brought forward
Benj. Hadley's Sons, pipe and labor,
C. W. Swan, mason work,
Patrick Flynn, advertising,
Ludlow Valve Co., valves and boxes,
Davis & Farnum M'f'g. Bo., fittings,
Chelmsford Foundry Co., frames and covers,
John McKay, carpenter work,
Hays M'f'g. Co., curb box,
National Meter Co., meters,
Coffin Valve Co., water gates and boxes,
Thomas Forsythe, express,
Braman, Dow & Co., pipe,
W. H. Whitaker, teaming pipe,
G. W. Spaulding, sundries,
F. A, Snow, on contract,
F. Schumacher, sand,
J. Murphy, labor,
Dennis Reardon, labor,
Highway Department, labor on trench,
17ececo Co., corporation cocks,
P. F. Dacey, mason work,
INTEREST.
RECEIt'rs.
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
Less overdraft 1902,
Fourth National Bank,
Excess of expenditures over receipts,
$26,532.66
25.95
4.00
4.00
127.12
51.29
6.50
13.75
21.88
310.60
133.35
8.60
63.05
102.91
15.67
1,000.00
2.00
1.00
1.00
170.07
23.80
5.88'
$28,625.08
$4,566.25
66.25
$4,500.00
339.05
1,975.91
$6,814.96
'99
EXPENDITURES.
State of Massachusetts,
Chas. T. West, treasurer Beale Fund,
Chas. T. West, treasurer Bridge Fund,
Lexington Savings Bank,
Estabrook & Co.,
F. S. Piper, treasurer Cary Library,
Gammell Legacy,
E. S. Spaulding, treasurer Gilmor Fund,
Geo. D. Harrington, treasurer Cemetery
Trust Fund,
$2,969.49
120.00
120.00
1,031.25
1,420.25
660.00
36.00
25.00
433.97
TRIMMING TREES.
RECEIPTS.
Balance 1902,
Appropriated and assessed for trimming trees,
Destroying insects,
Excess of expenditures over receipts,
EXPENDITURES.
F. B. Shattuck, removing gypsy moth and
labor,
Ames Plow Co., prnuer and knives, ladder,
A. Foster Brook, labor,
Cornelius Wellington, labor with Shattuck,
Cornelius Wellington, services and sundries,
J. W. Griffin, ladder cart,
J. Huggins& San, oil,
Amount carried forward,
a
$6,814.96
$61.93
100.00
400.00
684.76
$1,246.69
200
Amount brought forward, $806.02
Belmont Hill Nurseries, maple trees, 10.75
J. W. Cook & Co., protecting and oiling
trees, 49.15
Scott & Denham, horse hire and grinding
axe, 4.70
W. E. Denham, horse hire, 10.75
R. W. Holbrook, oil, 78.32
G. W. Spaulding, oil, 5.76
H. L. Frost, spraying trees, 281.25
BOARD OF HEALTH.
RECEIPTS.
Balance 1902,
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
Excess of expenditures over receipts,
EXPENDITURES.
J. O. Tilton, services and clerk of hoard,
J. S. Cassidy, inspector plumbing,
$602,27 O. G. Seeley, medicines, use telephone,
14.99 Odorless Excavating Co., labor, hose Co.,
63.75 C. E. Wheeler, copies plans and printing,
7.50 C. T. West, removal patient,
103.51 W. H. Burke, repairing pump, packing,
8.00 J. W. Griffin, repairing wagon,
6.00 A. A. Marshall, fumigating houses,
$806.02
$1,246.69
$61.18
550.00
84.53
/92.30
191.20
23.18
66.35
11.75
6.00
12.30
1.00
30.00
Amount carried forward, $434.08
/685.71
201
Amount brought forward,
Waltham Hospital, board and nursing M.
Aloes,
J. W. Griffin, pole for wagon,
C. H. Franks, services,
Geo. H. Mason & Co., generator,
J. W. Griffin, repairs,
A. B. Smith, services,
C. H. Franks, carfare and horse hire,
W. E. Denham, expressing,
FUEL LIGHTS.
RECEIPrs.
Balance 1902,
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
Excess of expenditures over receipts,
ExPsrrDITuars.
F. P. Reynolds, wood,
Peirce & Winn Co., coal,
John Halloran, charcoal,
Lexington Gas and Electric Co.,
HYDRANTS.
RECErrrs.
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
Amount expended,
Balance unexpended,
$434.08
129.63
4.05
50.00
12.00
2.26
50.00
8.55
.16
$685.71
$166.46
1,000,00
389.86
$1,556.32
$12.50
631.78
6.30
904.74
$1,555.32
$3,736.00
$3,702.00
33.00
Water Department,
202
EXPENDITURES.
PRINTING.
RECEIPTS.
Balance unexpended,
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
Amount expended,
Balance unexpended,
$3,702.00
$108.66
650.00
$758.66
$593.18
165.48
$758,66
EXPENDITURES.
C. E. Wheeler, printing warrants, bill heads,
etc.,
The Estabrook Press, printing town reports,
The Estabrook Press, printing tax list and
valuation special,
The Estabrook Press, school report,
C. S. Parker & Son, printing,
H. L. Thatcher Co., tabular sheets,
$79.75
409.35
10.00
7.70
65.38
21.00
$593.18
GRADING NEW HIGH SCHOOL.
RECEIPTS.
Balance unexpended, 1902, $347.80
Transferred to "Schools," 34.10
$3,735.00 $381.90
203
EXPENDITURES.
Water Department, pipe, labor,
Cooper & Bailey, architects,
J. Lawrence Carney, balance contract,
CEMETERIES.
RECEIPTS.
204
Amount brought forward,
B. J. Harrington & Co., stone work,
$78.71 E. W. Glass, labor, men, teams and gravel,
113.19 John Bullock, labor,
190.00 Thomas Burke, labor, old cemetery,
Highway Department, loam,
$381..90 DeVeau Bros., carpenter work,
Water Department,
Balance 1902,
C. P. Ashley, lot 139,
Mrs. Addie M. Hastings, lots 228, 229, 230, 231,
Boston Female Asylum, lot 134,
French Bros., lot 137,
Marietta Hart, lot 390i,
B. F. Baker, lot 1584,
W. M. Batcheller, lot 4564,
J. A. Davis, lot 1734,
2 single graves,
Stone posts sold,
Amount expended, $580.52
Balance unexpended,
ExPENDITURES.
W. E. Denham, sharpening lawn mower,
A. Wilson, labor,
G. W. Spaulding, shovel, oil, rake, etc.,
E. Hunnewell, labor with team,
Amount carried forward,
143.16
$2.00
140.00
5,82
1.75
$149.57
$311.68
45.00
115.00
45.00
45.00
15.00
50.00
45.00
45.00
6.00
1.00
$723.68
$723.68
$149.57
250.75
54.50
17.00
42.00
11.50
40.20
15.00
CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS.
RECEIPTS.
A. C. Fletcher,
Estate Emily Earle,
Estate Olive J. Smith,
Association descendants Natl.!. Bowman,
Estate Mary A. Brawn,
The amount now in trust amounts to $8,810.00.
CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS INTEREST.
Balance 1902,
Interest on fund,
Amount expended,
Balance unexpended,
RECEIPTS.
$580.52
$50.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
$450.00
$545.46
433.97
$979.43
8339.63
639.80
$979.43
205
EXPENDITURES.
A. S. McDonald, plants,
A. Wilson, labor,
John Bullock, labor,
B. J. Harrington, re -building cemetery wall,
E. Lexington,
Thomas Burke, old cemetery,
J. P. Dailey, manure,
E. Wood, flowers and plants,
J. H. Frizelle & Son, sharpening lawn mower,
JANITORS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance 1902,
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
$7.13
177.00
11.00
50.00
28.00
19.25
46.00
1.25
206
EXPENDITURES.
Boston & Maine R. R., freight,
E. Howard Clock Co., for clock system
Oil account contract,
Jordan Marsh Co., steamer rug,
Chandler Chair and Desk Works, umbrella
rack, 121 tablet chairs,
S. H. Couch Co., telephone equipment,
E. Hunnewell, expressing,
$339.63 McKinney & Waterbury, electric fixtures,
labor and car fare,
$40.24
800.00
$840.24
Amount expended,
Balance unexpended,
$825.00
15.24
$840.24
EXPENDITURES.
Geo. B. Dennett,
Jaynes H. Phillips,
$700.00
125.00
$825.00
FURNITURE NEW HIGH SCHOOL,
RECErPTs.
Balance unexpended from 1902, $1,333.37
Expenditures, $1,215.02
Transferred to "Schools," 118.35
$1,333.37
$30.26
436.00
3.00
397.05
56.00
2.19
290.52
REPAIRS OF FIRE ALARM AND BOXES.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriated and assessed for 1902,
Excess of expenditures over receipts,
EXPENDITURES.
W. E. Decrow, fire alarm box,
M. K. Kendall & Co., furnishing and put-
ting 8 miles fire alarm wire as per agree-
ment,
American Steel and Wire Co., rubber cov-
ered iron wire and galvanized iron wire,
N. E. Telephone and Telegraph Co., labor,
50.00
539.12
372.70
47.58
$1,215.02
$1,000.00
9.38
81,009.38
$1,009.38
207
AUDITORS.
aECEIPTs.
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
Hilman B. Sampson,
H. E. Tuttle,
EXPENDITURES.
ASSESSORS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance unexpended 1902,
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
Amount expended,
Balance unexpended,
EXPENDITURES.
$50.00
50.00
$100.00
$100.00
$ 150.00
1,050.00
1,200.00
$1,048.78
151.22
$1,200.00
E. S. Locke, copying valuation and tax list
1902, $60.00
W. E. Denham, carriage hire, 27.50
Geo. H. Cutter, examining titles general
assessment, 74.38
H. J. McGuire, services, 1.00
Abram B. Smith, services assisting assessors, 44.40
Frank P. Cutter, surveying, 8.00
Carrie A. Wood, services as Register of
Deeds, 43.20
Amount carried forward, $258.48
208
Amount drought forward,
L. A. Saville, envelopes,
C. G. Kauffmann, services,
Geo. H. Cutter, services,
H. A. Davis, Jr., Co., printing,
E. S. Locke, services,
E. S. Locke, sundries,
E. S. Locke, copying valuation and tax list,
1903,
APRIL 19TH.
RECEIPTS.
Balance 1902,
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
Amount expended,
Balance unexpended,
EXPENDITURES.
C. F. Carter, memorial exercises,
W. E. Wellington Drum Corps,
F. M. Cobb, ringing bell,
CARY LIBRARY.
RECEIPTS.
Received from County Treasurer, dog tax,
EXPENDITURES.
$258.48
10.60
200.00
200.00
27.50
300.00
2.20
50.00
b3.21
47.27
$26.21
25.00
2.00
$1,048.78
$ .48
100.00
$100.48
$100.48
$53.21
$632.26
Paid Treasurer Cary Library, $632.26
209
BANK AND CORPORATION TAX.
RECEIPTS.
Balance 1902,
State of Massachusetts corporation tax,
State of Massachusetts bank tax,
State of Massachusetts street railway tax,
Amount expended,
Balance unexpended,
EXPENDITURES.
Transferred to highways,
Certificate of Assessors,
$2,037.53
11,081.29
2,802.29
1,057.97
$16,979.08
$12,000.00
4,979.08
$16,979,08
$2,000.00
10,000.00
$12,000.00
210
STATE TAX.
Paid State Treasurer,
SEWER TAX.
Paid State Treasurer,
STATE HIGHWAY TAX.
$4,500.00
$2,239.34
Paid State Treasurer, $214.55
DISCOUNT ON TAXES.
RECEIPTS.
Balance 1902, $$23.29
Interest on taxes from collector, 1,030.00
COLLECTOR OF TAXES. Amount expended,
Balance unexpended,
RECEIPTS.
Balance unexpended 1902,
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
Excess of expenditures over receipts,
EXPEN [7rTUREs.
Loring W. Muzzey, collector, $800.00
Bond for collector, 40.00
$6,00
828.00
6.00
$840.00
$840.00
$1,653.29
909.07
744.22
1,653.29
EXPENDITURES.
Certificate of collector, $909.07
ENFORCEMENT LIQUOR LAW.
Balance from 1899,
Amount expended,
Balance unexpended,
RECEIPTS.
$ 69.41
307.10
91376.51
COUNTY TAX. $376.51
Paid County Treasurer, $5,894.64
14
2I1
EXPENDITURES.
Law Enforcement Society, printing and de-
tective work,
E. A. Bayley, legal services,
GAMMELL LEGACY.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from 1902,
One year's interest,
Amount expended,
Balance unexpended,
EXPENDITURES.
Geo. H. Jackson,
$1.7.91
51.50
$69.41
212
MEMORIAL DAY.
RECEIPT s.
Appropriated and assessed for 1903, $200.00
EXPENDITURES.
John N. Morse, Quartermaster George G. Meade, Post
119, G. A. R., $200.00
$142.46 REGISTRARS OF VOTERS.
35.00
$177.46
RECEIPTS.
$ 27.00 Appropriated and assessed for 1903, $100.00
150.46
$ 5.75
Wakefield Rattan Co., 21.25
HASTINGS PARK.
RECEIPTS.
l3alance 1902,
Grass sold,
Amount expended,
$177.46
$27.00
$32.52
20.00
W. F. Caldwell,
J. P. Ryan,
G. W. Sampson,
Geo. D. Harrington,
Balance,
State Mass.,
EXPENDITURES.
STATE AID.
RECEIPTS.
125.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
$100.00
$116.00
464.00
$52.52
$20.00 $580.00
Balance unexpended, 32.52
EXPENDITURE$,
Thos. Burke,
Amount expended, $544.00
$52.52 Balance unexpended, 86.00
$20.00
$580.00
Thomas Cosgrove,
Benj. R. Dean,
Joseph Dane,
George Prescott,
Emma J. Leavitt,
Mary Cosgrove,
Margaret Crawley,
Almira Butters,
Abigail T. Richardson,
Louisa Edwards,
Joseph A. Austin,
Mary C. Austin,
213
EXPENDITURES.
STREET LIGHTS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance 1902,
Appropriated and assessed 1903,
Excess of expenditures over receipts,
EXPENDITURE -S.
Lexington Gas & Electric Light Co., lights,
$72.00
48.00
48.00
52.00
46.00
48.00
48.00
20.00
48.00
48.00
44.00
20.00
STREET WATERING.
RECEIPTS.
Balance 1902,
Appropriated and assessed 1903,
Street watering tax,
Amount expended,
Balance unexpended,
$544.00
$92.66
6000.00
11.01
$6,103.67
$6,103.67
$280.06
2,200.00
331.94
$2,762.00
$2,639.74
122.26
$2,762.00
214
ExPENDITURES.
Shaw & Saunders, repairs,
W. E. Denham, repairs,
Cyrus Martin, watering streets,
H. Malcolm Torrey, whiffietree,
H. A. Shaw, repairs,
J. H. Frizelle & Son, watering streets,
Fire Department, watering streets,
Water Department, water,
Water Department, supplies and labor,
SIDEWALKS.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
Less overdraft, 1902,
Received from L. W. Muzzey, collector,
Excess of expenditures over receipt,
EXPENDITURES.
Geo. H. Lowe, concreting, grading and
filling,
B. J. Harrington & Co., paving gutter,
making sidewalk,
J. H. Frizelle & Son, teaming and labor,
James 5. Munroe, labor, men and teams,
127.00
23.50
488.45
2.00
1.50
5.00
796.05
1,252.69
43.55
1921.92
12,639.74
1800.00
332.58
1467.42
223.86
309.09
$1,000.37
63.50
2.00
12.95
-- 11,000.37
215
TAXES.
RECEIPT'S.
Loring W. Muzzey, collector 1901,
Loring W. Muzzey, collector 1902,
Loring W. Muzzey, collector 1903,
TEMPORARY LOANS.
Balance outstanding Jan. 1, 1903,
Feb. 1$. Borrowed,
Feb. 23. Borrowed,
May 5. Borrowed,
June 6. Borrowed,
June 23. Borrowed,
Oct. 2. Borrowed,
Oct. 30. Borrowed,
Dec. 5. Borrowed,
Paid,
EXPENDITURES.
Feb. 18. Paid,
Feb. 23. Paid,
Aug. 20. Paid,
Sept. 8. Paid,
Sept. 23. Paid,
Oct. 2. Paid,
Dec. 5. Paid,
Dec. 16. Paid,
$11,753.75
18,767.81
72,508.22
$108,029.78
$50,000,00
10,000.00
15,000.00
10,000.00
5,000.00
5,000.00
5,000.00
18,000.00
10,000.00
$128,000.00
75,000.00
$53,000.00
$10,000.00
15,000.00
10,000.00
5,000.00
5,000.00
15,000.00
10,000.00
5,000.00
$75,000.00
216
TOWN DEBT.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
Assessed,
Water bonds refunded,
I'',XPEN1)1TCRES.
Water bonds redeemed,
Water bonds redeemed,
State Mass. note paid New High school,
SELECTMEN.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
EXPENDIl URES.
Geo. W. Taylor,
Edwin S. Spaulding,
John F. Hutchinson,
$4,000.00
10,000.00
10,000.00
$100.00
100.00
133.34
SURVEYORS OF HIGHWAYS.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
$10,000.00
4,000.00
10,000.00
$24,000.00
$24,000.00
$333.34
$333.34
$333.33
217
ExPENDITL'RES.
H. A. C. Woodward,
E. S. Spaulding,
John F. Hutchinson,
$333.33
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriated and assessed for 1903, $333.33
H. A. C. Woodward,
E. S. Spaulding,
John F. Hutchinson,
EXPENDITURES.
$133,33
100.00
100.00
TOWN TREASURER.
RECEIPT$.
Balance unexpended,
Appropriated and assessed for 1908,
EXPENDITURES.
$333.33
$9.00
612.00
Town Treasurer, bond, Field & Cowles' $51.00
Geo. D. Harrington, 600.00
2I8
TOWN CLERK_
RECEIPTS.
Balance unexpended 1902,
$67.00
Appropriated and assessed 1903, 362.00
Amount expended,
Balance unexpended,
EXPENDITURES.
Geo. D. Harrington, recording marriages,
births and deaths,
Geo. D. Harrington, services,
$429.00
$361.30
67.70
WATERING TROUGHS.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
EXPENDITURES.
Water Department,
429.00
$61.30
300.00
$361.30
TREASURER CARY LIBRARY.
$651.00 Balance 1902,
Appropriated and assessed 1903,
$651.00
Amount expended, $50.00
Balance unexpected, 10.00
$75.00
$75.00
$10.00
50.00
$60.00
$60.00
Fred S. Piper, M. D.,
2I9
EXPENDITURES.
CARE OF COMMON.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriated and assessed 1903,
Less overdraft 1902,
EXPENDITURES.
Thomas Burke, tabor,
TOWN PHYSICIAN.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
EX PENDITUR ES.
H. C. Valentine, M. D.,
$75.00
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Balance 1902,
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
EXPENDITURES.
C. E. Hadley,
$50.00
220
NEW HIGH SCHOOL.
Balance 1902,
Amount expended,
Balance unexpended,
Balance transferred to schools,
$232.85
1.61
$213.86 EXPENDITURES.
13.86
H. B. Cummings Co., balance contract, $225.85
$200.00 E. A. Bayley, cash account Dedication, - 7.00
$200.00
$75.00
$ 5.00
95.00
$100.00
WIDENING MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE.
Balance from 1902,
Amount expended,
Balance unexpended,
EXPENDITURES.
Lexington and Boston Street R. R., settle-
ment heirs Benj. Hadley,
Lexington and Boston Street R. R., settle-
ment heirs of F. Alderman,
Devisees of P. Mitchell,
Estate of Patrick Sullivan,
$ 65.00
361.00
177,00
' 342.00
SANITATION HANCOCK SCHOOL.
$234.46
$234.46
$1.61
$232.85
$1,068.00
945.00
$ 123.00
$945.00
Balance 1902, $226.25
$100.00 Transferred to Schools.
22I
INSURANCE.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
Less overdraft 1902,
Manchester Insurance Co., return premiums,
Niagara Insurance Co., return premiums,
Granite State Insurance Co., return premiums,
Amount expended,
Balance unexpended,
EXPENDI1 IJRr:S.
Niagara Fire Insurance Co.,
Geo. W. Taylor,
$101.65
600.04
ABATEMENT OF TAXES.
REcurrs.
Balance 1902,
Overlayings,
Supplementary,
Excess of expenditures over receipts,
EXPENDITURES.
Abatement as per certificate of assessors,
$822.12
194.62
1627.50
$27.79
45.50
.90
$701;69
$701.69
222
CLERK OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
Amount expended,
Balance unexpended,
F. S. Piper,
F. A. Macdonald,
EXPENDITURES.
141.67
8.33
$29.17
12.59
REPAIRS OF TOWN HALL.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
$95.56 Excess of expenditures over receipts,
6.09
1101.65
$1,676.29
830.74
83.56
627.73
$3,118.32
$3,118.32
E' xp$NDrrwtr.s.
R. W. LeBaron, wiring town hall and fur-
nishing fixtures, contract,
AIlen Hall & Co., painting and decorating,
A. C. Washburn, laying floors,
150.00
150.00
141.67
$2,000.00
104.07
52,104.07
$433.00
1,134.75
536.32
12,104.07
SANITATION ADAMS SCHOOL.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriated and assessed for 1903,
Excess of expenditures over receipts,
$1,200.00
495.87
$1,695.87
223
EXPENDITURES.
J. H. Phillips, carpenter work,
J. H. Frizelle & Son, ledge work, use of
teams and men,
W. H. Burke, plumbing,
J. S. Cassidy, labor, plans and specifications,
Hartwell, Richardson & Driver, architects,
Magee Furnace Co., repairs, etc.,
RECAPITULATION.
CASH RECEIPTS.
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1903,
Schools,
Highways,
Support of the poor,
Outside aid,
Police,
Metropolitan Water Loan,
Contingent,
Fire Department,
Water Department,
Interest,
Cemeteries,
Cemetery Trust fund,
Cemetery Trust fund, interest,
Cary Library dog tax,
Bank and Corporation tax,
Discount on taxes,
Amount carried forward,
$667.64
94.48
708.17
25.00
56.58
144.00
$1,695.87
$12,438.50
832.97
1,326.75
1,298.06
493.44
299.58
44,741.84
2,548.03
871.05
26,453.49
339.05
412.00
450.00
433.97
632.26
14,941.55
1,030.00
$109,542.52
224
Amount brought forward,
Gammell legacy,
Hastings park,
State aid,
Street watering,
Sidewalks,
Taxes,
Temporary Loan,
Town debt,
Insurance,
CASH EXPENDITURES.
Schools,
Highways,
Support of the poor,
Outside aid,
Librarians,
Police,
Metropolitan water Ioan,
Removal of snow,
Contingent,
Fire Department,
Water Department,
Interest,
Trimming trees,
Board of Health,
Fuel and lights,
Hydrants,
Printing,
Grading New High school,
Cemeteries,
$109,542.53
35.00
20.00
464.00
331.94
223.86
103,029.78
78,000.00
10,000.00
74.19
$301,721.30
$27,376.42
21,351.31
2,867.93
4,848.09
1,557.07
4,285.67
44,741.84
448.33
3,275.50
5,821.63
28,625.08
6,814.96
1,246.69
685.71
1,555.32
3,702.00
593.18
381.90
580.52
Amount carried forward, $160,759.15
225
Amount brought forward,
Cemetery trust fund, interest,
janitors,
Furniture New High School,
Repairs of fire alarm and boxes,
Auditors,
Assessors,
April 19,
Cary library,
Collector of taxes,
County tax,
State Tax,
Sewer tax,
State highway tax,
Enforcement liquor law,
Garnmell legacy,
Hastings park,
Memorial day,
Registrars of voters,
State aid,
Street lights,
Street watering,
Sidewalks,
Temporary loans,
Town debt,
Selectmen,
Surveyors of highways,
Overseers of the poor,
Town Treasurer,
Town Clerk,
Watering troughs,
Treasurer Cary Library,
Care of Common,
Town Physician,
Amount carried forward,
$180,759.15
339.63
825.00
1,215.02
1,009.38
100.00
1,048.78
53.21
632.26
840.00
5,894.64
4,500.00
2,239.34
214.55
69.41
27.00
20.00
200.00
100.00
544.00
6,103.67
2,839,74
1,000.87
75,000.00
24,000.00
333.34
333.33
333.33
651.00
361.30
75.00
50.00
200.00
75.00
$291,787.45
m
226
Amount drought forward,
Sealer Weights and Measures,
New High school,
Widening MMiassac hose t is Avenue,
Insurance,
Clerk School Committee,
Repairs town hall,
Sanitation Adams school,
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1904,
$291,787.45
100.00
332.85
945.00
101.65
41.67
2,104.07
1,695.87
4,712.74
$201,721.30
HILMAN li. SAMPSON,
HENRY E. '1'UTTLE,
Auditors.
221
CONTENTS.
Bridge and Beals Funds
Estimates for 1904
Harriet B. Gilmor Fund
Hayes Fountain Fund
Lexington Town Records
Adjourned Meeting, Mar. 9, 1
Adjourned Meeting, Mar. 23,
Adjourned Meeting, Mar. 30,
Bequest of Estate of Emily E
Bequest of Albion C. Fletche
Bequest of Estate of Olive J.
Bequest of Estate of Mary A.
Warrant for a Town Meeting,
Warrant for a Town Meeting,
Warrant for a Town Meeting,
Warrant for a 'Town Meeting,
Warrant for a Town Meeting,
List of Town Officers
Officers Appointed by the Selectmen
Report of the Assessors
Report of Auditor
Abatement on Taxes
April 19th
Assessors .
Auditors .
Bank and Corporation Tax
Board of Health,
Care of Common
Cary Library
Cemeteries
903 .
1903
1903
arle
r .
Smith
Brown
Jan. 21, 1903
Mar. 2, 1903
June 22, 1903
Nov. 3, 1903
Dec. 3, 1903
114
64
92
92
9
24
25
29
36
36
37
38
9
13
38
42
48
3
6
159
164
221
208
207
207
209
200
219
208
208
228
Report of Auditor—Cenlinuerd.
Cemetery Trust Funds
Clerk of School Committee
Collector of 'faxes
Contingent
County Tax
Discount on Taxes
Enforcement Liquor Law .
Fire Department .
Fuel and Lights .
Furniture in New High School
Gammell 1.egacy .
Grading New High School
Hastings Park
Hydrants
Highways
Interest
Insurance
Janitors
Librariai,s .
Memorial Day
Metropolitan Water Loan
New High School
Outside Aid
Overseers of Poor
Police Department
Printing .
Recapitulation .
Registrars of Voters
Removal of Snow .
Repairs of Fire Alarm and Boxes
Repair of Town Hall
Schools
High School
Adams School
204
222
209
188
209
210
210
192
201
205
211
202
211
201
173
198
221
205
184
212
188
220
181
217
184
201
223
212
187
206
222
164
171
165
229
Hancock School 168
Common to all Schools 166
Summary • 173
Sanitation Adams School . 222
Sanitation Hancock School 220
Sealer of Weights and Measures 219
Selectmen . 216
Sewer Tax . _ 210
Sidewalks . 214
State Aid . 212
State Highway Tax 210
State Tax , 210
Street Lights 213
Support of Poor , 179
Surveyors of Highways 216
Taxes 215
Temporary Loans 215
Town Clerk 218
Town Debt 216
Town Physician 219
Town Treasurer 217
Treasurer of Cary Library 218
Trimming Trees , 199
Water Department 195
LVatering Streets 213
Watering Troughs , 218
Widening of Massachusetts Avenue 220
Report of Board of Health 77
Report of Cemetery Committee • 86
Report of Committee on Metropolitan Water Supply 100
Report of Committee on Street Lighting 126
Report of Chief of Police 82
Report of Fire Engineers , 69
Report of Inspector of Plumbing 78
Report of Librarian 108
f
230
Report of Overseers of the Poor . 73
Report of Sealer of Weights and Measures 113
Report of Selectmen 62
Report of Surveyors of Highways 66
Report of Tax Collector . 116
Report of Town Clerk 54
Births 54
Marriages 54
Deaths 57
Dogs 61
Jurors 61
Report of Treasurer of Cary Library 106
Report of Tree Warden . 90
Report of the Trustees of Cary Library , 103
Report of Treasurer of Cemetery Trust Funds 87
Report of School Committee and Supt. of Schools 129
School Committee Report . 133
Roll of Honor . 158
Report of Superintendent . 142
Report of Truant Officers . 157
Enrolment and Attendance 156
Report of Water Commissioners , 93
Statement of Town Debt . 119
Statement of Assets and Liabilities other than Town Debt 124
Town Treasurer's Report , 120
Tax Statistics 162