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Home My WebLink About1917-Annual ReportREPORTS OF THE TOWN OFFICERS OF THE Town of Lexington For the Year 1917 THE KEYSTONE PRESS MELROSE, MASS. 1918 TOWN OF LEXINGTON LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS FROM March, 1917 to March, 1918 Town Clerk CHARLES W. SWAN Selectmen WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN (Chairman) 20 JAY O. RICHARDS 19 WILLIAM B. FOSTER 18 Overseers of the Poor WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN 20 .TAY O. RICHARDS 19 WILLIAM B. FOSTER (Chairman) 18 Road Commissioners WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN 20 J. O. RICHARDS (Chairman) 19 WILLIAM B FOSTER 18 Board ofSurvey WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN (Chairman) 20 JAY O. RICHARDS 19 WILLIAM B. FOSTER 18 Assessors GEORGE H. JACKSON (Chairman) 20 FREDERICK J. SPENCER 19 HENRY E. TUTTLE 18 Town Treasurer GEORGE D. HARRINGTON Collector of `Taxes BYRON C. EARLE Cemetery Committee GEORGE W. SPAULDING 20 LESTER E. SMITH 19 ARTHUR A. MARSHALL 18 Auditor CHARLES F. PIERCE Board of Health DR. WM. L. BARNES (Chairman) 20 CHARLES H. FRANKS 19 WILLIAM B. FOSTER 18 School Committee EDWARD P. MERRIAM 20 ROBERT L. RYDER 19 HALLIE C. BLAKE 18 Park Commissioners EDWARD WOODS 20 DR. J. ODIN TILTON (Chairman) 19 WILLIAM E. MULLIKEN 18 Water and Sewer Commissioners EDWARD H. MARA 20 ALBERT B. TENNEY 19 GEORGE E. BRIGGS (Chairman) 18 Trustees Public Trusts FRANK D. PEIRCE 22 F. FOSTER SHERBURNE 20 JOHN F. TURNER 18 Tree Warden ALFRED E. ROBINSON Moderator EDWIN A. BAYLEY Constables CHARLES H. FRANKS PATRICK J. MAGUIRE Fence Viewers FRANK P. CUTTER CHARLES E. WHEELER Field I)riyers WILLIAM F. FLETCHER PATRICK J. MAGUIRE Surveyors of Lumber FRANK P. CUTTER EDGAR W. HARROD 4 TOWN OF LEXINGTON APPOINTED OFFICERS Fire Engineers EDWARD W. TAYLOR (Chief) WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN BYRON A. RUSSELL Police Officers CHARLES H. FRANKS (Acting Chief) PATRICK J. MAGUIRE THOMAS C. BUCKLEY JAMES J. SULLIVAN WALTER H. KEW JAMES IRWIN JOHN C. RUSSELL WILLIAM F. FLETCHER EDWARD C. MAGUIRE Park Police JOHN J. GARRITY Special Police MARK DODD JOHN CAMPBELL FRED W. JOHNSON CHARLES A. MANLEY CLIFTON E. WALKER THOMAS F. GRIFFIN WILLIAM P. WRIGHT VERNON C. PAGE GEORGE S. TEAGUE EDGAR L. WHITE GEORGE CRAWFORD EDWARD W. TAYLOR FRANK E. CLARKE THOMAS F. FARDY JOSEPH TROPEANO WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN CHARLES G. RICHARDS Constable CHARLES E. WHEELER Keepers of Lock -Up CHARLES H. FRANKS THOMAS C. BUCKLEY Assistant Town Clerk MISS HELEN C. GALLAGHER Trustees of Gammell Legacy Income Acting With Overseers of Poor MRS. WILLIAM W. REED MRS. ARTHUR C. WHITNEY Board of Trustees of Cary Memorial Library Consists of THE SELECTMEN THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND THE SETTLED CLERGYMEN OF THE TOWN Treasurer of the Cary Memorial Library ROBERT L. RYDER Librarian of Cary Memorial Library MISS MARIAN P. KIRKLAND Assistants MISS HELEN E. MUZZEY MISS DOROTHY B. WENTWORTH MISS KATHARINE BUCK MISS EMMA O. NICHOLS (East Lexing- ton Branch) Trustees Bridge Charitable Fund F. FOSTER SHERBURNE 20 FRANK D. PIERCE 22 JOHN F. TURNER 18 Public Weighers WILLIAM E. DENHAM GEORGE S. TEAGUE GEORGE F. TEAGUE WILLIAM E. MULLIKEN Weighers or Coal WILLIAM E. MULLIKEN WILLIAM E. DENHAM GEORGE S. TEAGUE GEORGE F. TEAGUE Weighers of Ilay and Grain MOSES F. WILBUR HARRY LEWIS ROBERT E. HANNAFORD ALBERT BIERENBROODSPOT Weigher of Beef WILLIAM E. DENHAM Sealer of Weights and Measures CHARLES E. HADLEY Weigher at Stone Crusher MISS L. T. WHITING Measurers of Wood and Bark GEORGE S. TEAGUE EDGAR W. HARROD HENRY W. PRESTON Measurer of Grain MOSES F. WILBUR Supervisor of Streets ROBERT H. WHITE Forest Warden OSBORNE J. GORMAN APPOINTED OFFICERS 5 Superintendent of Moth Department OSBORNE J. GORMAN Superintendent and Matron of Almshonso MR. AND MRS. ROBERT H. WHITE Inspector of Animals DR. HARRY L. ALDERMAN Inspector of Slaughtering DR. HARRY L. ALDERMAN CHARLES H. BUTTERFIELD Inspector of Buildings WILLIAM GRATTO Inspector of Plumbing ANDREW BAIN Town Physician DR. HENRY C. VALENTINE Janitor of Town Hall EDGAR L. WHITE Janitor of Cary Memorial Library FRANK E. CLARKE Janitor of Village Hall WILLIAM P. WRIGHT Janitor of Stone Building JOHN E. GARMON Registrars of Voters CHARLES F. NOURSE (Chairman) 20 BARTHOLOMEW D. CALLAHAN 19 DAVID F. MURPHY 18 CHARLES W. SWAN (Clerk) Undertakers ARTHUR A. MARSHALL JAMES F. McCARTHY Fumigator ARTHUR A. MARSHALL Charge of Odorless Cart ERNEST W. MARTIN Agent of Board of Health to Issue Burial Permits CHARLES W. SWAN Burial Agent ARTHUR A. MARSHALL Milk Inspector ANDREW BAIN Supervisor of Moth Department WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN Town Engineer J. HENRY DUFFY Superintendent and Registrar of Water and Sewer Departments CHARLES S. BEAUDRY Clerk, Water and Sewer Departments FLORENCE M. BOYD 6 TOWN OF LEXINGTON COMMITTEES APPOINTED AT VARIOUS TOWN MEETINGS By-Laws—Appointed April 29, 1911 EDWIN A. BAYLEY ARTHUR L. BLODGETT CHARLES W. SWAN New Cemetery—Appointed June 28, 1917 *ALONZO E. LOCKE GEORGE H. JACKSON JAMES F. McCARTHY EVERETT S. EMERY ARTHUR A MARSHALL HERBERT L. WELLINGTON WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN WILLIAM B. FOSTER JAY O. RICHARDS Finance Committee Term expires in March, 1920 ARTHUR L. BLODGETT (Chairman) JOHN CALDER HUGH D. McLELLAN JOHN G. GRAHAM EDWARD C. STONE Term expires in March, 1919 EDWARD T. HARTMAN GEORGE H. CHILDS JOHN P. DAILEY JOHN E. A. MULLIKEN WILLIAM ROGER GREELEY (Secre- tary) Term expires in March, 1918 WILLIAM W. REED ARTHUR W. HATCH JOSEPH N. LEONARD DANIEL J. O'CONNELL WILLARD C. HILL Committee on Increased School Accommoda- tions Appointed March 12, 1917 HALLIE C. BLAKE CHRISTOPHER S. RYAN ROBERT L. RYDER DWIGHT F. KILGOUR JOHN CALDER EDWARD P MERRIAM Town Manager—Appointed June 12, 1916 WILLIAM ROGER GREELEY EDWIN C. STEVENS GEORGE H. CHILDS EDWARD H. MARA ALBERT B. TENNEY SYDNEY R. WRIGHTINGTON Improved Railroad Transportation—Appoint- ed March 12, 1917 WILLARD C. HILL J. WILLARD HAYDEN, JR. GEORGE F. MEAD DANIEL J. O'CONNELL CHARLES H. SPAULDING WILLIAM C. STICKEL FREDERICK O. WOODRUFF Improved Highways—Appointed March 12, 1917 GEORGE H. CHILDS WALTER W. ROWSE ALBERT B. TENNEY WILLIAM 11. WHITAKER WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN WILLIAM B. FOSTER JAY O. RICHARDS Increased School Accommodations Building Committee—Appointed April 16, 1917. HALLIE C BLAKE DWIGHT F. KILGOUR CHARLES H. MILES EDWARD 1'. MERRIAM TIMOTHY 11. O'CONNOR ROBERT L. RYDER * Deceased. ROLL OF HONOR 7 In presenting the Town Clerk's report for the year ending December 31, 1917, it seems proper to give some informa- tion relative to what Lexington has so far done in connection with the German War. The following statements, while not an official record, are thought to be accurate. ROLL OF Lexington men who have enlisted in the United States Service or who have en- rolled for Ambulance Service in France Norman I. Adams, Jr. Roland K. Armes Howard B. Austin Maurice Basher Henry Briggs Fred A. Boutwell Edson H. Bowman James W. Broderick Stephen Broghall Harry W. Brousseau Ames T. Brown Robert E. Bryant William G. Buckle Joseph W. Buckley Matthew H. Buckley Bowen Buckman Frank E. Burke Leon A. Burke Lawrence D. Butterfield Harold E. Cady Edward O. Campbell Edward P. Carroll Sebastiano Casella Edward M. Cassidy Harold Chatfield Roger S. Clapp Philip M. Clark , Charles L. Coburn Rev. Christopher W. Collier Lester F. Comley Roy A. Cook *Ralph A. Coolidge Daniel S. Corbin John T. Cosgrove Frank E. Cowdrey Stuart F. Crowther Ralph C. Currier Ralph F. Dalrymple William E. Dalrymple Alfred Darling George B. Day HONOR or who have been assigned by the Y. M. C. A. for active war service: Infantry Ordnance Dept. Railroad Engineers 301st Field Artillery Aviation—Signal Corps 101st Infantry Aviation Department Naval Reserves Naval Reserves Quartermasters Dept. 106th Infantry Ordnance Dept. 47th Infantry Naval Reserves 49th Infantry Signal Corps—Aviation Section Wireless Operator Naval Reserves Aviation Quartermasters Dept. 101st Field Artillery—Signal Corps Coast Artillery 301st Field Artillery Navy Navy Naval Reserves Naval Reserves Navy Ambulance Service Field Hospital Service 401st Motor Supply Train Canadian Regiment 301st Field Artillery Aviation 101st Infantry Naval Reserves 101st Engineers Quartermasters Dept. 64th Infantry Naval Reserves Naval Reserves 8 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Winthrop Dean Elmer B. Denham Leo E. DeVeau Freeman C. Doe J. Loring Douglass George E. Eaton Arthur H. Earle Leland H. Emery J. Lawton Fardy Roy A. Ferguson Jesse S. Ferry Roland E. Garmon Michael Geraghty Edward Goulding Louis H. Graham Robert H. Grant Frank E. Haynes Converse Hill Stanley Hill Robert H. Holt James H. Hossfield Roger K. Hubbell Richard Van A. Hubbell Fred D. Huntington C. Henry Jackson Irving C. P. Jensen Chester W. Johnson Fred W. Johnson, Jr. William Kenealy Russell H. Kettell *Samuel Lassof Warren B. Lawrence Joseph R. Leary Ferdinand LeBlanc Edward J. Lennon G. Parker Lewis Samuel Libbey Clayton G. Locke Winthrop W. Locke William P. Lougee John Love John Lyons Edson R. Mabey Anthony H. Maderias Edward C. Maguire Frank Mansfield Rev. John N. Mark William J. Marshall William F. Martin Daniel McAvoy Patrick H. McDonnell Naval Reserves—Wireless Operator Naval Reserves 101st Engineers Naval Reserves Quartermasters Dept. 8th Mass. Infantry Ammunition Driver Aviation Department Aviation—Signal Corps Naval Reserves Medical Corps Coast Artillery 301st Field Artillery Naval Reserves Not assigned 301st Field Artillery 101st Infantry U. S. A. Ambulance Service U. S. A. Ambulance Service Medical Reserve Corps 322nd Field Batallion 101st Engineers Ambulance Corps 101st Field Artillery 101st Engineers Aviation Department Medical Reserve Corps Canadian Army 101st Infantry Medical Corps Naval Reserves Naval Reserves 301st Field Artillery 101st Infantry—Medical Corps 401st Motor Truck Train 97th Aero Squadron Army 103rd Field Hospital Corps Third Officers Training Corps 102nd Machine Gun Bat. Marines Coast Artillery 301st Field Artillery Signal Corps 101st Engineers 39th Infantry Chaplain, Naval Reserves 301st Field Artillery Medical Corps 301st Field Artillery Quartermasters Dept. ROLL OF HONOR 9 Dominick McGreal 301st Field Artillery Edward McGrory Naval Reserves John McIsaac Army Ralph Mcisaac Navy James A. McKearney 101st Engineers John F. McKearney, Jr. 301st Field Artillery Patrick McLaughlin Naval Reserves Edward J. McNamara Medical Corps Gordon P. Merriam French Ambulance Service Robert C. Merriam 301st Field Artillery Martin J. Meyer Navy George A. Mitchie 51st Depot Brigade Edward J. Montague Naval Reserves Thomas Montague Naval Reserves Walter K. Moore 301st Field Artillery Charles H. Mugridge 301st Field Artillery Thomas K. Norton 301st Field Artillery David F. O'Connell, Jr. Signal Corps James E. O'Neil 48th Infantry Joseph A. Parks 301st Field Artillery Herman A. Pauley 23rd Engineers Albert Pfeiffer Army Surgeon Harold C. Pierce U. S. Marines Irving B. Pierce Ordnance Dept. Russell I. Prentiss Medical Corps Jerome Preston French Ambulance Service Richard G. Preston Y. M. C. A. War Service *Aaron B. Ready Quartermasters Dept. Harry B. Reed 101st Engineers Kendall S. Reed U. S. Navy Michael Reyal Not assigned Charles W. Riley 301st Field Artillery Guy I. Robb 303rd Ambulance Corps William J. Riley Y. M. C. A. War Service Vernon T. Robinson 401 Motor Supply Train Thomas Rudd Quartermasters Dept. John F. Sachetti Railroad Engineers Herbert W. Saul Field Hospital Richard R. Sherburne 101st Field Artillery Donald Spicer Marine Corps Rolf Spicer Field Artillery Paul J. Stickel Naval Reserves Elbridge L. Stone Naval Reserves Leon J. Sturtevant 301st Field Artillery Frank Sullivan U. S. Navy William D. Swain Military Mounted Police Walter Swan Canadian Forces Matthew V. Sylvia Quartermasters Dept. George N. Thompson 301st Engineers George L. Thurlow Y. M. C. A. War Service John M. Tibbetts Coast Artillery 10 TOWN OF Perley C. Tibbetts Raymond Tobin William R. Tower Fred H. Tullar Er_iest E. Viano Fred Viano John W. Wadleigh Harold G. Walley James J. Walsh, M. D. Joseph T. Walsh Melville Webb Edmund A. Webb Herbert L. Wellington Samuel W. Wellington Robert Whitney James A. Wiggins Joseph H. Wiggins Donald Wilson Leo H. Wilson F. Scott Woodruff Wallace W. Wright * Deceased. In this: list should also be included the among i:he first nurses who served in is now serving somewhere in France as LEXINGTON Signal Corps 301st Field Artillery Anti -Aircraft Artillery 101st Engineers Quartermasters Dept. Quartermasters Dept. Marine Corps 101st Infantry Medical Service Navy Engineers Infantry llth Field Artillery 301st Field Artillery Aviation Department Naval Reserves Naval Reserves Aviation Department Quartermasters Dept. Naval Reserves Naval Reserves names of Miss Helen A. Parks who was France, and also Miss Helen Bigelow who a nurse. In June 495 Lexington men from twenty-one to thirty-one years of age were enrolled for military service under the Selective Draft Act, so called. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act of Congress, Lex- ington was placed in a district with Bel- mont and Watertown and designated as "Local Exemption District No. 31. The Board having charge of this district was composed of J. Odin Tilton of Lexington, James H. Vahey of Watertown, and Arthur P. Stone of Belmont. The Lexington Trust Company and The Lexington Savings Bank report the following amounts subscribed by Lex- ington citizens to the two Liberty Loans as follows: First Liberty Loan $506,300.00 Number of subscribers, 1,347 Second Liberty Loan $638,600.00 Number of subscribers, 1,169 In addition to the Liberty Loans, Lex- ington citizens have given to various funds as follows: Y. M. C. A. $13,800.80 Number of donors, 458 Red Cross $2,219.80 Number of Annual Members, 1,961 Number of Life Members, 4 Y. W. C. A. $2,569.31 Number of donors, 304 The ladies of the town working under the direction of the Special Aid Society for American Preparedness have worked hard in preparing surgical dressings and other hospital supplies. During the past year about 35,107 dressings have been made. Out of this number about 1,000 have been reserved for a Lexington Hospital Equipment to- gether with supplies for four beds and patients. 1,934 other hospital supplies of various kinds have also been prepared. 430 pairs of socks, 336 sweaters, 177 helmets, 154 pairs of wristers and 30 mufflers have been finished by knitters connected with the Society. The Society has fitted out all drafted men and volunteers so far as seemed necessary. ROLL OF HONOR 11 MEMBERS OF COMPANY H, 42 -11th REGT., 2nd BATT., 4th BRIGADE Captain WILLIAM F. YOUNG 1st Lieutenant EDWARD L. CHILD 2nd Lieutenant JOSEPH SWAN 1st Sergeant PARKER, C. L. Supply Sergeant SEAVER, H. L. Duty Sergeants BRAMHALL, W. S. SPAULDING, C. H. BT TTRICK, F. L. BREED, E. F. Corporals COTTON, J. R. DAY, G. W. NICHOLS, E. O. SHERBURNE, W. CARR, W. M. COTTON, H. C. FOSTER, G. E. Cooks CLARK, R. A. WALDRON, J. J. Musicians LOWE, C. H. PEIRCE, F. W. Me$s Sergeant POMEROY, T. L. Artificer WHITE, E. L. Privates Privates ARMSTRONG, W. H. ASHLEY, C. P. BASHIAN, F. H. CAMERON, B. CAMERON, D. CASEY, J. J. CHEEVER, L. M. CUSTANCE, G. E. CUTTER, F. P. DELFINO, B. ESTES, W. A. F. FLINT, J. W. FLYNN, P. HADLEY, C. E. HALL, G. C. HALL, H. J. HARRINGTON, C. H. HINGLEY, N. J. HOWARD, H. M. HUBBELL, C. G. JAYNES, G. A. LEYLAND, THOS. LOGAN, M. McDONALD, J. L. McGILVRARY, A. McPHEE, C. E. MULLOY, C. E. PIERCE, C. W. PREST, B. E. REYNOLDS, W. J. SELTZER, J. STETSON, W. S. THOMPSON, F. J. THOMPSON, S. G. WADMAN, W. T. WARNER, G. A. WATT, R. WILLARD, J. H. WILSON, J. YEATS, C. TOWN WARRANT Commonwealth of Massachusetts To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, in said County, Greeting:— In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Lexing- ton, qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs to meet in the Town Hall in said Lexington, on Monday, the fifth day of March, A. D., 1917, at seven o'clock, A. M., then and there to act on the following articles: Art. 1. To choose by ballot the fol- lowing town officers: One Town Clerk for the term of one year; one Select- man for the term of one year; one Selectman for the term of two years; one Selectman for the term of three years; one Overseer of the Poor for the term of one year; one Overseer of the Poor for the term of two years; one Overseer of the Poor for the term of three years; one Road Commissioner for the term of one year; one Road Com- missioner for the term of two years; one Road Commissioner for the term of three years; one Assessor for the term of three years; one Town Treasurer for the term of one year; one Collector of Taxes for the term of one year; one Auditor for the term of one year; one Water and Sewer Commissioner for the term of three years; one member of the Cemetery Committee for the term of three years; one member of the School Committee for the term of three years; one member of the Board of Health for the term of three years; one Park Com- missioner for the term of three years; one Tree Warden for the term of one year; two Constables for the term of one year; one Moderator for the term of one year. Art. 2. To see if the Town will vote for or against granting licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors, in answer to the question: "Shall licenses be grant- ed for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?" Art. 3. To see if the Town will accept Chap. 59, General Acts of 1916, (amend - Middlesex ss. ing Chap. 284, Sect. 1, General Acts of 1915) being an Act entitled "An Act relative to the holding of Annual Town Meetings." Art. 4. To see if the Town will accept Chap. 153 of the General Acts of 1916, entitled "An Act relative to the License Fee for Slaughter houses in towns having less than ten thousand in- habitants." Art. 5. To see if the Town will accept Chap. ,291 of the General Acts of 1916, entitled, "An Act relative to the tenure of office of Chiefs of Fire Departments in the Metropolitan Fire Prevention District." Art. 6. To see if the Town will accept Chap. 293 of the General Acts of 1916, entitled, "An Act to authorize the licens- ing by cities and towns of motor vehicles carrying passengers for hire." Art. '7. To see if the town will vote to accept Chap. 327 of the Acts of 1904, being an Act entitled, "An Act to pro- vide for the pensioning of permanent members of Police Departments and Fire Departments in towns." The election officers will receive votes under Articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, on the official ballot prepared by the Town Clerk. The polls will be open as soon as pos- sible after the organization of the meet- ing and will be kept open until five P. M. In compliance with Article III of the By -Laws as amended January 29, 1900, business under the following Articles will be transacted at an adjourned meet- ing to be held Monday evening, March 12, 1917, unless the adjourned meeting shall by unanimous vote, be ordered for some other specified time. Art. 8. To receive the report of any Board of Town Officers or of any Com- mittee of the Town for action thereon, and to appoint other Committees. Art. 9. To choose such Town Officers as are required by law and are usually chosen by nomination. Art. 10. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the proper observ- ance of Memorial Day, to be expended TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS 13 under the direction of Post 119, Grand Army of the Republic. Art. 11. To provide for the support of the Public Schools the ensuing year, and grant money for the same. Art. 12. To provide for the support of the poor at the Alms House the en- suing year, and grant money for the same. Art. 13. To provide for the support of the Outside Poor the ensuing year, and grant money for the same. Art. 14. To provide for the support of the Highways the ensuing year, and grant money for the same. Art. 15. To provide for the support of the Street Lights the ensuing year, and grant money for the same. Art. 16. To provide for the support of the Fire Department the ensuing year, and grant money for the same. Art. 17. To see if the Town will make the usual appropriations for Town ex- penses the ensuing year, not specified in other articles, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 18. To see if the Town will in- struct the Selectmen to improve the con- dition of the Town Hall grounds, and make an appropriation for this purpose or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 19. To see if the Town will make an appropriation to construct sidewalks with concrete or other materials where the abutters will pay one-half the ex- pense thereof. Art. 20. To see if the Town will make an appropriation sufficient to meet the expense of placing new insurance and renewals for the ensuing year, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 21. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the suppres- sion of Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths in accordance with Chap. 381, Acts of 1905 and amendments thereto, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 22. To see if the Town will ap- propriate a sum of money for the use of the Finance Committee, or take any action relating thereto. Art. 23. To provide for the support of the Public Parks for the ensuing year and grant money for the same, or act in any manner relating therto. Art. 24. To see if the Town will make further appropriations of money for the suppression of insects, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 25. To see if the Town will authorize their Treasurer, under the direction of the Selectmen to borrow money for any necessary purposes, in anticipation of revenue for the current year, the same to be repaid directly from the proceeds of said revenue, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 26. To see if the Town will vote to accent Sections 21 to 25 both inclu- sive of Chapter 78 of the Revised Laws and all acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto providing for the election of a Board of Cemetery Com- missioners and the care and manage- ment of the public burial grounds of the Town, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 27. To receive the report of the committee appointed to consider the matter of a new cemetery, and take action thereon. Art. 28. To receive the report of the committee appointed to prepare and pre- sent a new code of by-laws to the town, and take action thereon. Art. 29. To see if the Town will vote to accept the following streets, or any of them, as laid out by the Selectmen:— Abbott 'Road, from Merriam Street to Oakland Street Extension; Cliffe Avenue, from the end of Bow Street to Cummings Avenue; Oak Street as extended from its present terminus to Baker Avenue; Baker 'Avenue from Oak Street to Taft Avenue; Taft Avenue from Baker Ave- nue to Charles Street; Charles Street from Taft Avenue to Massachusetts Avenue, or act in any manner relative to the acceptance of any or all of said streets. Art. 30. To see if the Town will vote to establish building lines on any of the streets in the town, and determine on what streets said building lines shall be established, and appropriate a sum of money sufficient for this purpose, or act in any manner relative thereto. Art. 31. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money to widen and deepen the brooks in the Town so as to obtain better surface drainage, the same to be expended by the Water and Sewer Commissioners, or take any other action relating thereto. Art. 32. To see if the Town will make an appropriation, not to exceed one hun- dred ($100) dollars, to rebuild and re- pair the wall and fence adjoining the estate of Patrick J. Keenan in the old cemetery, 6r act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 33. To see if the Town will make an appropriation to provide funds for the payment of pensions to retired town vet- rans under Chapter 447 of the Acts of 14 TOWN OF LEXINGTON 1912, or act in any manner relating' thereto. Art. 34. To see if the Town will vote to purchase a motor ladder truck for the Fire Department, and vote to issue bonds therefor, or otherwise determine the method of raising the money appropri- ated for this purpose, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 35. To see if the Town will vote to purchase a chassis upon which to place the tanks and apparatus now on machine known as chemical No. 1, and appropriate money for the same, and vote to issue bonds or otherwise determine the method of raising the money so appropriated, or take any other or further action re- lating thereto. Art. 36. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and assess two hundred (200) dollars to nay its proportionate share towards the building of a forest fire observation tower to be erected by the State on Prospect Hill in Waltham. Art. 37. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and assess a sum of money sufficient to provide for the em- ployment of a Town Engineer in accord- ance with the terms of a vote passed June 12, 1916, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 38. To appropriate money for the use of the Water Department, and to provide same by the issuance of Bonds, or Notes or by direct appropriation, or to take any other action relative thereto. Art. 39. To see if the Town will ac- cept an extension of Highland Avenue, running westerly from its junction with Bloomfield Street to near the junction of said avenue with Winthrop Road. Also an extension of said Highland Avenue from near its present junction with Winthrop Road to Vine Brook Road, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 40. To see if the Town will vote to give to the Trustees of the Cary Me- morial Library, full and complete charge of the Library, its employees and all matters of every name and nature per- taining in any way to the care, operation and management of said Library. Art. 41. To see if the Town will pur- chase the property situated at No. 331- 335 Massachusetts Avenue, known as the John D. Bacon Estate containing about seventy-nine thousand square feet of land, the land so acquired to be used for the purpose of increasing the School fa- cilities of the Town, or take any other action relating thereto. Art. 42. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate or raise by an issue of bonds, the moneys necessary to meet the expenditures under the foregoing article or make any other provision for the rais- ing of said moneys. Art. 43. To see if the Town will vote to establish a Committee on Increased School Accommodations to consist of seven members to be appointed by the Moderator and appropriate a sum of money to be used by said Committee to purchase plans and specifications for a new school building, or take any other action relating thereto. Art. 44. To see if the Town will vote to build a new school building upon the land to be acquired for that purpose also to make alterations in the present High School Building and authorize an issue of bonds for the purpose of raising the moneys necessary to build said building and make said alterations, or make pro- vision in any way that may be deemed best for the raising of such moneys. Art. 45. To see if the Town will vote to extend the grater main from its pres- ent terminus on Arcadia Avenue along Rawson Avenue from Arcadia Avenue to Rindge Avenue being a distance of ap- proximately 100 feet, and on Rindge Avenue for a distance of about 550 feet in the direction of Massachusetts Ave- nue, and appropriate and assess money for the same, or act in any manner re- lating thereto. Art. 46. To see if the Town will take any action towards securing an improve- ment in the steam car and trolley trans- portation service between Lexington and Boston, or act in any manner relating thereto. Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings there- on, to the Town Clerk, on or before the time of said meeting. Given under our hands, at Lexington, this sixteenth day of February, A. D., 1917. EDWARD W. TAYLOR, WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, WILLIAM B. FOSTER, Selectmen of Lexington. Lexington, Mass., February 28, 1917. To the Town Clerk: I have notified the inhabitants of Lex- ington by posting printed copies of the foregoing Warrant in the Post Office and in seven other public places in the town, and by mailing a printed copy of the same to every registered voter in the town, nine (9) days before the time of said meeting. Attest: CHARLES E. WHEELER, Constable of Lexington - TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS 15 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING March 5, 1917 The Moderator called the meeting to order at seven o'clock in the morning. The first three articles in the Warrant were read by the Town Clerk, following which the meeting voted that the further reading of the warrant be omitted. The return of the Constable was then read by the Clerk. Ralph H. Marshall and James A. Hurley were sworn as Ballot Clerks, and Charles G. Kauffmann as Deputy Ballot Clerk, and the ballots and one voting list were placed in their charge. John J. Garrity was afterwards sworn as a Deputy Ballot Clerk. William E. Mulliken, Patrick F. Dacey, Samuel B. Bigelow, Clifton P. Ashley, Harold B. Needham, Allston M. Redman, Nathaniel Nunn, Fred E. Butters, Cor- nelius F. O'Connor, Wallace E. Miller, John J. Mandigo, James A. O'Neil and James M. Ahearn were sworn as tellers. At 9.45 o'clock the ballot box was opened and 350 ballots were taken out. At 11.24 o'clock 150 ballots were taken out. At 2.40 o'clock 300 ballots were taken out. At 4.17 o'clock 100 ballots were taken out. At the close of the polls at five o'clock 78 ballots were taken from the box, making a total of 978 ballots cast at the election. Nine hundred and seventy eight names were checked on each voting list. The dial on the ballot box registered 979. Eight ballots were cast by women for School Committee. At 7.08 o'clock the Town Clerk an- nounced the result as follows:— Whole number of votes cast by male voters 978 Whole number of votes cast by fe- male voters 8 Town Clerk—One Year Charles W. Swan Dennis Reardon Blanks Charles W. Swan was declared Selectmen—One Year William B. Foster 833 1 144 elected. 488 James Alexander Wilson 416 Blanks 74 William B. Foster was declared elected. Selectmen—Two Years Jay O. Richards Herbert Wetherbee Blanks Jay O. Richards was 695 1 282 declared elected. Selectmen—Three Years Frank D. Peirce 462 William S. Scamman 493 Blanks 23 William S. Scamman was declared elected. Overseer of the Poor—One Year William B. Foster 496 James Alexander Wilson 399 Blanks 88 William B. Foster was declared elected. Overseer of the Poor—Two Years Jay O. Richards 688 Blanks 290 Jay O. Richards was declared elected. Overseer of the Poor—Three Years Frank D. Peirce William S. Scamman Blanks William S. Scamman elected. Road Commissioner—One Year 457 476 45 was declared William B. Foster James Alexander Wilson Blanks William B. Foster was ed. 476 403 99 declared elect - Road Commissioner—Two Years Jay O. Richards 680 Blanks 298 Jay O. Richards was declared elected. Road Commissioner—Three Years Frank D. Peirce William S. Scamman Blanks William S. Scamman elected. 457 471 50 was declared 16 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Assessor—Three Years George H. Jackson Blanks George H. ed. 762 216 Jackson was declared elect - Town Treasurer George D. Harrington Chas. A. Kaufman Blanks George D. Harrington was elected. Collector of Taxes Byron C. Earle Frank Holmes Blanks Byron C. Earle was 812 1 165 declared 838 1 139 declared elected. Moderator Edwin A. Bayley S. Lewis Barbour E. W. Taylor John Devine Blanks Edwin A. Bayley was 702 1 1 1 273 declared elected. Cemetery Committee—Three Years George W. Spaulding 760 Blanks 218 George W. Spaulding was declared elected. Auditor Charles F. Pierce 712 Blanks 266 Charles F. Pierce was declared elected. Board of Health—Three Years William L. Barnes 679 Dennis Reardon 1 Blanks 298 William L. Barnes was declared elect- ed. School Committee—Three Years Edward P. Merriam Fred S. Piper David F. Murphy BIanks Edward P. Merriam elected. 730 1 1 254 was declared Water and Sewer Commissioner—Three Years Edward H. Mara 704 T. Harrington 1 Blanks 273 Edward H. Mara was declared elected. Constables Charles H. Franks 709 Patrick J. Maguire 696 F. H. Dion 1 Blanks 550 Charles H. Franks and Patrick J. Maguire were declared elected. Park Commissioner—Three Years Edward Wood Blanks Edward Wood was 746 232 declared elected. Tree Warden Alfred E. Robinson 706 Blanks 272 Alfred E. Robinson was declared elect- ed. Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town? Yes 233 No 622 Blanks 123 The town voted "No License." Shall Chapter 59 of the General Acts of 1916, (amending Chap. 284, Sec. 1, General Acts of 1915) being an Act en- titled, "An Act relative to the holding of Annual Town Meetings" be accepted by this town? Yes 317 No 91 Blanks 570 The Act was accepted. Shall Chapter 153 of the General Acts of 1916, being an Act entitled, "An Act relative to the License Fee for Slaughter houses in towns having less than ten thousand inhabitants" be accepted by this town? Yes 351 No 134 Blanks 493 The Act was accented. Shall Chapter 291 of the General Acts of 1916, entitled, "An Act relative to the tenure of office of Chiefs of Fire Depart- ments in the Metropolitan Fire Preven- tion District," be accepted by this town ? Yes 316 No 151 Blanks 511 The Act was accepted. Shall Chapter 293 of the General Acts of 1916, entitled, "An Act to authorize the licensing by cities and towns of motor vehicles carrying passengers for hire," be accepted by this town? Yes 412 No 111 Blanks 455 The Act was accepted. TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS 17 Shall Chapter 827 of the Acts of 1904, being an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the pensioning of permanent mem- bers of Police Departments and Fire De- partments in towns," be accepted by this town? Yes No Blanks 353',. 228 397 The Act was not accepted, two thirds having failed to vote in the affirmative. Meeting adjourned to Monday', March 12, 1917, at 7.30 P. M. Lexington, March 8, 1917. This is to certify that I have this day appointed Helen C. Gallagher, Assistant Town Clerk of Lexington, and that she has been duly sworn to perform the duties of said office to the best of her know- ledge and ability. Attest: CHARLES W. SWAN, Town Clerk. ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING March 12, 1917 The Moderator called the meeting to order at 7.30 P. M. Arts. 34 and 35. It was voted to take these articles up together and on motion of William S. Scamman it was— "Voted, that the Engineers of the Fire Depart- ment be instructed to purchase a new motor ladder truck, the cost not to ex- ceed $6,500.00 and also a suitable chassis upon which to place the equipment of Chemical No. 1 and such other equipment as the Engineers may deem necessary at a cost not exceeding $1,500.00. And that for this purpose the Town Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to issue and sell under the direction and with the approval of the Selectmen negotiable registered or coupon bonds of the Town in serial form to the aggregate principle amount of $8,000.00 bearing interest at the lowest rate obtainable, payable semi-annually and payable both principal and interest in gold coin of the United States of America of the present standard of weight and fineness, such bonds to be signed by the Treasurer and counter- signed by a majority of the Selectmen, so arranged that $1,000.00 of the prin- cipal will fall due and payable in 1918 and $1,000.00 annually until 1925." 64 voted in favor and 0 against. Art. 11. Annual School Appropriation. On motion of Hallie C. Blake, it was "Voted that there be appropriated for Public Schools $53,151.16 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $53,000.00 Balance on hand 151.16 voted that this article be considered as before the meeting when no other busi- Iness is being considered. Art 46. Railroad Accommodations. On motion of William C. Stickel the following vote was unanimously passed: "That the unsatisfactory steam and electric passexger service between Lex- ington and Boston has become a serious detriment to the development of Lexing- ton and a great inconvenience and an- noyance to the residents of the town, and that a committee of seven citizens be appointed by the Moderator to investi- gate existing conditions and to see what can be done to secure an early remedy, and to this end it is suggested that such committee confer with the Public Service Commission of the Commonwealth, the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Lex- ington, the proper officials of the Boston & Maine Railroad, the Middlesex & Boston Street Railway Company and the Boston Elevated Railway Company, and that such committee report back to the Town, if possible, at one of the adjourn- ed sessions of the current March meet- ing." The Moderator appointed the following comm ittee: Willard C. Hill, J. Willare Hayden, Jr., Charles H. Spaulding, George F. Mead, Daniel J. O'Connell, William C. Stickel, Frederick O. Woodruff. Art. 45. This article relative to the extension of Water Mains on Rawson and Rindge Total Art. 8. On motion of Frank H. Holmes it $53,151.16 A venues was indefinitely postponed on motion of A. Ingham Bicknell. Art. 21. Moth Department Appropria- was tion. 2 18 TOWN OF LEXINGTON On motion of William S. Scamman it Art. 8. was "Voted that there be appropriated for Moth Department, $5,456.47. To be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $5,087.50 Balance on hand 368.97 Total $5,456.47 Art. 25. Temporary Loans On motion of A. Ingham Bicknell it was "Voted, that the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of revenue of the present municipal year to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate $150,000.00, and to issue a note or notes therefor pay- able within one year. Any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of the present municipal year." Art. 10. On motion of William S. Scamman it was voted that there be appropriated for Memorial Day $250.00 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $250.00 Total $250.00 Art. 14. Highway Appropriation. John F. Welch offered the following motion: "Voted that the sum of $2,001.00 be appropriated and assessed for Highways and that the Selectmen and Road Com- missioners are hereby instructed to spend $2,000.00 of this appropriation for the improvement of Woburn Street beginn- ing at Utica Street and continuing to the Woburn line under the auspices of the State Highway Commission." A. Ingham Bicknell offered a motion which the town voted to substitute for the motion of Mr. Welch. This substi- tute motion was then amended by vote of the meeting so that the final vote as passed by the meeting reads as follows: "Voted, that there be appropriated for highways $32,473.56—to be made up as follows:— Amount to be assessed $32,000.00 Balance on hand 473.56 • Total $32,473.56 and that the Selectmen and Road Com- missioners be instructed to spend $2,000.00 of this appropriation for the improvement of Woburn Street from Utica Street to the Woburn line." On motion of A. Ingham Bicknell as amended by Robert L. Ryder, it was voted: "That a committee of seven, of which the Board of Selectmen shall be three, be appointed by the Moderator to consider the question of the best way of improv- ing the condition of our highways. Said Committee shall give particular attention to the advisability of adopting some definite plan of their improvement from year to year, the advisability of putting in a more permanent form of streets than is now being installed and whether or not it would be wise for the town to borrow a substantial sum of money for the immediate improvement of Massachusetts Avenue and other main thoroughfares." The following committee was appoint- ed: George H. Childs, William B. Foster, Jay O. Richards, Walter W. Rowse, Albert B. Tenney, William S. Scamman. William H. Whitaker. Art. 8. The Committee on New School House Accommodations submitted a written report giving the cost of the recent ad- dition to the Munroe School as amount- ing to $38,972.65. The report stated that as the town did not see fit to accept the committee's recommendations relative to purchase of land at North Lexington and the erection of a building thereon, the committee "feel that it is wise to go no further with the matter at this time owing to the changing school conditions that confront the town." It was voted that the report be received and placed on file and that the committee be discharged. Art. 23. Park Appropriation. On motion of W. Roger Greeley it was voted, That there be appropriated for Public Parks $3,500.00 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $3,484.37 Balance on hand 15.63 Total $3,500.00 Art. 43. Committee on Increased School Accommodations. On motion of Robert L. Ryder it was "Voted, that the Town establish a Com- TOWN CLERIC'S RECORDS 10 mittee on Increased School Accommoda- tions of seven members to consist of the present School Committee and four other members to be appointed by the Modera- tor, said Committee to consider the needs of the Town relative to Increased School Accommodations and report as soon as reasonably possible, their findings and recommendations." The following men were appointed: Hallie C. Blake, John Calder, Edward P. Merriam, Arthur L. Blodgett, Christopher S. Ryan, Dwight F. Kilgour, Robert L. Ryder. Art. 31. On motion of George E. Briggs, it was Voted, that the sum of $300.00 be ap- propriated to be expended under the dir- ection of the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners for the purpose of deepen- ing, widening and straightening the various brooks of the Town, or any of them; to be made up as follows: Balance unexpended December 31, 1916 $50.40 To be assessed 249.60 Total $300.00 Art. 38. Water Department Appropria- tion. On motion of George E. Briggs it was unanimously "Voted, that the sum of $6,172.71 be appropriated for the use of the Water Department for the ensuing year, to be made up as follows: Balance on hand, December 31, 1916 $2,172.71 Balance of the appropriation to be made up by issuing of bonds 4,000.00 Total $6,172.71 and further • Voted, that for the purpose of provid- ing funds for the extension of water mains, the Town Treasurer be and here- by is authorized to issue and sell under the direction and with the approval of the Selectmen, negotiable registered or coupon bonds of the town in serial form to the aggregate principal amount of $4,000.00 bearing interest at a rate not exceeding four (4) per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, and payable both principal and interest in gold coin of the United States of America of the present standard of weight and fineness, such bonds to be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the Select- men, and so arranged that $1,000.00 of the principal will fall due and payable in each of the years 1918-1919-1920-1921 in- clusive." Art. 40. On motion of Robert L. Ryder as amended by Robert P. Clapp, it was Voted, that the Trustees of the Cary Memorial Library shall have full and complete charge of the Library, its em- ployees and all matters of every name and nature pertaining in any way to the care, operation and management of said Library including the building in which the Library is established, and that all other votes of record inconsistent here- with, be hereby revoked. At 10.23 P. M., it was voted to ad- journ to Monday evening, March 26, 1917, at 7.30 P. M. WARRANT FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL PRIMARY. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts. To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, Greeting: In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town who are qualified to vote in Primaries to meet in the Town Hall in said Lexington on Tuesday, the third day of April, 1917, Middlesex ss. at 3.30 o'clock P. M., for the following purposes: To bring in their votes to the Primary Officers for the Nomination of Candidates for Delegates to the Constitutional Con- vention: 32 Delegates at Large. 8 Delegates from Congressional Dis- trict, Eighth Congressional District. 20 TOWN OF LEXINGTON All the above candidates are to be voted for upon one ballot. Each voter may vote only for sixteen candidates at large, and four candidates by congressional district. The polls will be open from 3.30 to 8.00 P. M. And you are directed to serve this war- rant by posting printed copies thereof seven days at least before the time of said meeting as directed by the vote of the town. Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings there- on, at the time and place of said meet- ing. Given under our hands, this twenty- first day of March, A. D., 1917. WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, WILLIAM B. FOSTER, JAY O. RICHARDS, Selectmen of Lexington. Lexington, Mass., March 26, 1917. To the Town Clerk: I have notified the inhabitants of Lex- ington by posting printed copies of the foregoing Warrant in the Post Office and in eight other public places in the Town, and by mailing a printed copy of the same to every registered voter in the town, nine days before the time of said meeting. Attest: CHARLES E. WHEELER, Constable of Lexington. ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING March 26, 19I7. The Moderator called the meeting to order at 7.34 P. M. Art 20. Insurance Appropriation. On motion of A. Ingham Bicknell, it was Voted, that there be appropriated for Insurance $2,678.00 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $2,538.78 Balance on hand 139.22 Total $2,678.00 Art. 22. Finance Committee Appropri- ation. On motion of W. Roger Greeley, it was Voted, that there be appropriated for Finance Committee $150.00 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $109.42 Balance on hand 40.58 Total $150.00 Art. 17. Miscellaneous Appropriations. Under this article the following votes were passed: Voted, that there be appropriated for April 19, $250.00 to be made up as fol- lows: Amount to be assessed $250.00 Total $250.00 Voted, that the sum of $2,305.60 be ap- propriated and assessed for the Assessors Department for the ensuing year. The above amount $2,305.60 plus the unex- pended balance of $4.75 making a total of $2,310.35 being the amount asked for by the Board of Assessors. Voted, that there be appropriated for Auditor $850.00 of which sum $800 shall he for the salary of the Auditor and the balance for the expenses of his office, to be made LID as follows: Amount to be assessed $847.05 Balance on hand 2.95 Total $850.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for the deficit in the account of the bank and corporation tax $2,676.54 to be made up as follows: • Transfer from account of Omitt- ed Assessments $2,676.54 Total $2,676.54 Voted, that there be appropriated for the Board of Health, $2,727.52 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $2,100.00 Transfer from account of Omitt- ed Assessments 627.47 Balance on hand .05" Total $2,727.52 Voted, that there be appropriated for TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS 21 the Board of Survey, $218.50 to be made up as follows: Balance on hand $218.50 Total $218.50 Voted, that there be appropriated for Cary Memorial Library $3,800.00 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $3,643.25 Balance on hand 156.75 Total $3,800.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for Cemeteries $780.32 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $300.00 Balance on hand 480.32 Total $'780.32 Voted, that there be appropriated for Clerk of School Committee $50.00 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $50.00 Total $50.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for Clerk of Trustees Public Trusts $70.00 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $63.00 Balance on hand 7.00 Total $70.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for Collector of Taxes the sum of $1,650.00 of which sum the amount of $1,300 shall be for the Collectors salary, to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $1,610.43 Balance on hand 39.57 Total $1,650.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for Contingent $2,000.00 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed 1,436.88 Balance on hand 563.12 Total $2,000.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for Elections and Registrations $750.00 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $677.35 Balance on hand 72.65 Total $750.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for Extinguishing Forest Fires $500.00 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $272.82 Balance on hand 227.18 Total $500.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for Hastings Park $5.00 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $5.00 Total $5.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for Hydrants $1,950.00 to be made up as fol- lows: Amount to be assessed $1,950.00 Total $1,950.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for Inspector of Buildings $500.00 to be made up as follows Amount to be assessed $381.67 Balance on hand 118.33 Total $500.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for Inspector of Cattle $616.67 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $200.00 Balance on hand 416.67 Total $616.67 Voted, that there be appropriated for Inspector of Meats and Provisions $244.00 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $184.00 Balance on hand 60.00 Total $244.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for Interest on Town Debt $12,680.31 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $10,104.71 Estimated interest on bank de- posits 1,000.00 Estimated interest on deferred payment of taxes 800.00 Transfer from Account of Inter- est on Taxes 6'74.30 Balance on hand 101.30 Total $12,680.31 Voted, that there be appropriated for Overseers of Poor, $300.00 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $300.00 Total $300.00 22 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Voted, that there be appropriated for Police Department $9,182.81 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed 9,088.68 Balance on hand 94.13 Total $9,182.81 Voted, that there be appropriated to cover the deficit in the account of Pre- mium on Bonds $22.75 to be made up as follows: Transfer from acct. of Omitted Assessments 22.75 Total $22.75 Voted, that there be appropriated for Sealer of Weights and Measures$150.00 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $44.49 Balance on hand 105.51 Total Voted, that there be Selectmen $2,000.00 to follows: Amount to be assessed Balance on hand Total Voted, that there be Removal of Snow $2,558 as follows: Amount to be assessed Transfer from acct. of A ssessments Total $150.00 appropriated for be made up as $1,440.00 560.00 $2,000.00 appropriated for .46 to be made up $1,200.00 Omitted 1,358.46 $2,558.46 Voted, that there be appropriated for Soldiers Relief $94.29 to be made up as follows: Balance on hand $94.29 Total $94.29 Voted, that there be appropriated for Stone Building $825.00 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $689.37 Balance on hand 135.63 Total $825.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for Stone Building Repairs $657.57 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $550.00 Balance on hand 107.57 Total $657.57 Voted, that there be appropriated for Road Commissioners $300.00 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $300.00 Total $300.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for Town Clerk $1,200.00 of which sum $1,100 shall be for the salary of the Town Clerk, and the balance for the incidental ex- penses of his office, to be made up as fol- lows: Amount to be assessed $976.09 Balance on hand 223.91 Total $1,200.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for Town Debt $38,750.00 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $38,750.00 Total $38,750.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for Town Hall $2,500.00 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $2,454.79 Balance on hand 45.21 Total $2,500.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for the Repair of Town Hall $850.00 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $775.99 Balance on hand 74.01 Total $850.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for Town Physician $75.00 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $75.00 Total $75.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for Town Treasurer $1,450.00 of which sum $1,100 shall be for the salary of the Town Treasurer and the balance for the expenses of his office to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $1,405.75 Balance on hand 44.25 Total $1,450.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for Treasurer Cary Memorial Library $50.00 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $50.00 Total $50.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS Tree Warden $800.00 to be made up as Amount to be assessed follows: Balance on hand Amount to be assessed $745.73 Balance on hand 54.27 Total $800.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for Village Hall $250.00 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $231.67 Balance on hand 18.33 Total $250.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for Watering Troughs, $100.00 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $100.00 Total $100.00 Voted, that there be appropriated for Widening Massachusetts Ave. $5,071.31 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $3,859.51 Balance on hand 1,211.80 Total $5,071.31 Art. 8. Committee Reports. William C. Stickel, Chairman of the Committee on Improved Railroad Accom- modations reported that the committee had held a meeting with the officials of the Middlesex and Boston Street Rail- way Company, and that the committee expect to be given a hearing by the Pub- lic Service Commission at an early date. All citizens were urged to attend this meeting. A. Ingham Bicknell, Chairman of the Committee on Improved Town Govern- ment made a written report stating that a bill is now before the Legislature pro- viding for a Town Manager form of gov- ernment, and advising that no action be taken by the town until the Legislature acts upon this bill. It was voted that the report be accept- ed and placed on file. Art. 32. Old Cemetery Fence. On motion of George W. Spaulding it was voted that the sum of $100.00 be appropriated and assessed to rebuild and repair the wall and fence in the Old Cemetery adjoining the estate of P. J. Keenan, said sum being one third of the total cost of the work. Art. 16. Fire Department. Voted, that there be appropriated for Fire Dept. $11,873.00 to be made up as follows: 23 $11,385.22 487.78 Total $11,873.00 Art. 29. Acceptance of Charles Street. William S. Scamman, Chairman of the Selectmen read a report recommending the acceptance of Charles Street. On motion of Mr. Scamman it was Voted, that the report of the Selectmen relative to the laying out and acceptance of Charles Street be accepted, and further Voted, that the Town hereby accepts and approves the laying out of Charles Street as made by the Select- men on December 22, 1916, and that Charles Street, from Masachusetts Ave- nue to Taft Avenue, is hereby accepted and, made a public highway of the Town of Lexington. Art. 15. Street Lights. Voted, that there be appropriated for Street Lights $11,340.28 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $11,043.36 Balance on hand 296.92 Total $11,340.28 Art. 33. Veterans Pensions. On motion of A. Ingham Bicknell, it was Voted, that there be appropriated for Pensions $842.40 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $851.60 Balance on hand .80 Total 3852.40 Art. 37. Town Engineer. On motion of William S. Scamman, it was Voted, that there be appropriated for Town Engineer $2,000.00 to be made up as follows: Balance on hand $2,000.00 Total $2,000.00 Art. 19. Sidewalks. On motion of A. Ingham Bicknell, it was Voted, that there be appropriated for Sidewalks $1,461.71 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $482.69 Balance on hand 979.02 Total Art. 12. Alms H On motion of was Voted, that $1,461.71 ouse. William R. Foster, it there be appropriated 24 TOWN OF LEXINGTON for Support of Poor, $1,091.14 to be made up as follows: Amount to be assessed $500.00 Balance on hand 591.14 Total $1,091.14 J. Rowe Webster offered the following Resolution:— Whereas We, citizens of Lexington, Massachusetts, in town meeting assem- bled, are ever mindful of the unremitting vigilance and fearless action of those who dwelt here in 1775; and Whereas we desire to fulfill our re- sponsibility of remaining true and loyal to their memory and Whereas, although bearing no malic- ious hatred towards any ruler, class, race, or nation, we yet determinedly and advisedly condemn the cause of a gov- ernment whose present policy is flagrant- ly abhorrent to American Principles; and Whereas, We would not seem ungrate- ful to those governments which serve our highest interests and the highest inter- ests of mankind:— Therefore, be it resolved: I. That we do hereby express our en- tire and hearty sympathy with the cause of liberty against tyranny, the cause for which the Allied Governments of the Entente are now fighting; II. That we thankfully acknowledge whatever debt we already owe to the armies and to the navies of the said governments; III. That we cordially favor serving the said governments by granting them loans of money on such favorable terms as shall show our gratitude for their help in the past and in the present; IV. That we openly challenge the attention of such inhabitants of the United States of America as are not, even at this late hour, fully alive to the dangers that threaten the life of the nation; a challenge uttered to these ends; (a) That sleeping patriotism may everywhere awaken to an intelli- gent and loyal public spirit, which shall actively carry out whatever measures are most conducive to the national welfare; (b) That the foundations of our govern- ment, as laid by the men of old, be not shaken but that the President and the Congress of the United States of America be consistently supported; and (c) That the American People, which in 1775 had no difficulty in seeing across the Atlantic Ocean, may have less difficulty in determining its duty while endeavoring to serve, to the extent of its power, the righteous interests of democracy as against autocracy throughout the entire world. The above resolution was unanimously adopted by rising vote. Art. 8. Jay O. Richards offered the following resolution:— Whereas, the Government of the United States is soon to increase the strength of its Navy by the construction of new battleships, Resolved, That the citizens of Lexing- ton, Massachusetts, in Town Meeting assembled, mindful of the great events which have made the name of our Town dear to the hearts of all patriotic Ameri- cans and to lovers of liberty and free government the world over, respectfully request and urge the Honorable Secre- tary of the Navy that the name "Lex- ington" be given to one of the new battle- ships soon to be constructed by our government; and that a copy of this resolution be transmitted to Honorable Henry Cabot Lodge and Honorable John W. Weeks, United States Senators from Massachusetts, and to Honorable Fred- erick W. Dallinger, Congressman from the Eighth Massachusetts Congressional District, with the earnest request that they use their influence to secure the carrying out of this resolution. It was unanimously voted to adopt this resolution. Art. 13. On motion of William B. Foster it was Voted, that there be appropriated for Outside Aid $6,256.53 to be made up as follows : Amount to be assessed $5,700.00 Balance on hand 556.53 Total $6,256.53 Art. 18. This article requesting an appropria- tion for the improvement of the town hall grounds was indefinitely postponed, on motion of Mr. Bicknell. Art. 24. On motion of William S. Scamman it TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS 25 was Voted, that there be appropriated for the Construction of a Fire Observa- for Suppression of Insects $800.00 to be tion Tower $200.00 to be made up as fol - made up as follows: lows: Amount to be assessed $800.00Amount to be assessed $200.00 Total $800.00 Total $200.00 To be expended under the direction of Art. 30. the Moth Department. It was Voted, that this article be in- definitely postponed. Art. 36. At 10.02 o'clock it was voted to adjourn On motion of William S. Scamman it to Monday evening , April 16, at 7.30 was Voted, that there be appropriated o'clock. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION PRIMARY April 3, 1917. The meeting was called to order by the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen and the Warrant was read by the Town Clerk. 'rhe Chairman gave his receipt to the Town Clerk for a package said to contain fifteen hundred ballots and also for two voting lists. Charles G. Kauffmann and James A. Hurley were sworn as Ballot Clerks. Nathaniel Nunn, CorneliusF. O'Connor, Fred E. Butters, William F. Young, Charles F. Vaughan, Samuel B. Bigelow, Clifton P. Ashley and James A. Hurley were sworn as Tellers. At the close of the polls at eight o'clock 278 ballots were taken from the box. The dial on the box registered 278. At 11.20 P. M., the Clerk announced the result as follows: Delegates at Charles Francis Adams George W. Anderson William G. Andrew Albert S. Apsey Charles J. Barton John L. Bates Addison P. Beardsley William H. Brooks Walter A. Buie Harvey S. Chase Charles F. Choate, Jr. Charles W. Clifford George W. Coleman Louis A. Coolidge John W. Cummings Edwin U. Curtis Samuel R. Cutler Large 229 91 23 158 124 201 15 125 44 43 172 116 90 178 137 178 24 Arthur W. DeGoosh Daniel E. Denny Daniel R. Donovan George H. Doty Hugh P. Drysdale Frank E. Dunbar Samuel J. Elder Wilmot R. Evans, Jr. Eugene N. Foss Harry A. Garfield Ralph W. Gloag Gurdon W. Gordon Matthew Hale Arthur D. Hill Walter S. Hutchins Patrick H. Jennings Lewis J. Johnson Abbott Lawrence Lowell Nathan Matthews James T. Moriarty Joseph C. Pelletier Josiah Quincy Clarence W. Rowley John Weaver Sherman James A. Stiles Moorfleld Storey Charles B. Strecker Wendell Phillips Thore Whitfield L. Tuck Joseph Walker David I. Walsh Robert M. Washburn Sherman L. Whipple Lombard Williams George H. Wrenn Blanks District Delegates Eighth District Claude L. Allen Everett C. Benton 8 21 26 99 11 109 195 111 65 62 5 25 85 73 14 47 53 177 150 49 67 108 10 13 13 105 37 7 31 89 89 50 111 22 43 320 101 169 26 TOWN OF LEXINGTON John Q. A. Brackett Lawrence G. Brooks James A. Cotting Theodore Eaton Wilton B. Fay George A. Goodwin 162 62 31 39 71 27 Albert Bushnell Hart Harry A. Penniman Harry N. Stearns Charles C. Willard Blanks R. P. Clapp ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING April 16, 1917 The meeting was called to order at 7.35 P. M. Art. 27. New Cemetery. Everett S. Emery presented a report for the Committee recommending the pur- chase of a tract of land located at the cor- ner of Bedford and Summer Streets, con- taining approximately forty seven acres and assessed for about $8,960.00. It was Voted, on motion of Mr. Emery "That the report of the Committee on New Cemetery presented this day be accepted and placed on file, and that its recommendations be adopted; and it is further Voted, that the Selectmen be and they hereby are instructed to purchase at once the Catherine Wood, Mary A. Coyle, Norman J. Hingley, Mathias Shelales and Walter and Mary Wiezbike properties, and so much of the Frost property as in their opinion is wise, recommended by the Committee for cemetery purposes, provided they can be purchased for a price not more than twenty-five per cent. (25 per cent.) higher than their average assessed valuations during the previous three years. In the event that the prop- erties referred to cannot be purchased for a price not more than twenty-five per cent (25 per cent.) higher than their average assessed valuations during the previous three years, the Selectmen be and hereby are instructed to take the necessary steps as provided by law to secure by right of eminent domain the Wood, Coyle, Hingley, Shelales and Wiez- bike properties and so much of the Frost property as in their opinion is wise." Art. 39. This article relative to the acceptance of a portion of Highland Avenue was indefinitely postponed on motion of Jay O. Richards. Art. 8. Under this article Hallie C. Blake in behalf of the Committee on Increased School Accommodations made a report in 99 20 99 43 188 1 which it was stated that "there is im- mediate need of increased school accom- modations in every section of the town." The report also stated that "the Junior High School System seems to be the modern method of education, and it is the unanimous opinion of the committee that it is advisable for the town to recommend to the School Committee that they adopt at this time that plan." It was voted that the report be accept- ed and placed on file and that the recom- mendations relative to a Junior High School be adopted. Arts. 41, 42, 43. Relative to a location for a New School Building. On motion of Robert L. Ryder it was unanimously "Voted, that the sum of fif- teen thousand dollars be appropriated for the purchase of the premises at No. 331- 335 Massachusetts Avenue known as the John D. Bacon Estate, containing about seventy-nine thousand (79,000) square feet of land, the land so acquired to be used as a building site to provide In- creased School Accommodations for the Town; also that a further sum of Six Thousand Dollars be appropriated for the procuring of plans and specifications and securing estimates for a School Building to be built on the foregoing premises when acquired, the money so appropriated to be provided by transfer from the fund entitled, "School House Construction Appropriation," which fund was duly established by a vote of the Town, June 14, 1915, and all provisions of the vote establishing said fund, in- consistent with the transfer herein pro- posed, are hereby rescinded." This matter caused much discussion. Lester T. Redman offered a substitute motion providing merely for the appro- priation of $6,000.00 with which to pro- cure plans and estimates. William C. Stickel offered a substitute motion calling for the appropriation of TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS 27 $15,000.00 to be used for the purchase of the Bacon land. The meeting voted against both of these substitute motions. On motion of Robert L. Ryder it was further Voted, "That a Building Com- mittee of seven members, consisting of the School Committee and four members to be appointed by the Moderator, be established to make the expenditures and carry out the provisions of the foregoing vote." The following committee was ap- pointed: Hallie C. Blake, Dwight F. Kilgour, Charles H. Miles, Arthur L. Blodgett, Edward P. Merriam, Timothy H. O'Connor, Robert L. Ryder. It was voted to adjourn this meeting for four weeks to meet at 7.30 P. M., and that written notice of the adjourned meet- ing be sent to all voters. Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, Greeting:— In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town who are qualified to vote in Elections to meet in the Town Hall in said Lexington, on Tuesday, the First Day of May, 1917, at 7.00 o'clock A. M., to cast their ballots for the following Delegates to the Con- stitutional Convention: 16 Delegates at Large. 4 Delegates from Eighth Congressional District. 1 Delegate from Twenty -Eighth Mid- dlesex Representative District. All the above candidates are to be voted for upon one ballot. Each voter may vote only for Sixteen Delegates at Large, and Four Delegates by Congressional District, and One Dele- gate from the Representative District. The polls will be open from 7.00 o'clock A.M., to 4.00 o'clock P. M. ss. Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your doings there- on, to the Town Clerk, on or before the time of said meeting. Given under our hands at Lexington, this thirteenth day of April, A. D., 1917. WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, WILLIAM B. FOSTER, JAY O. RICHARDS, Selectmen of Lexington. Lexington, Mass., April 24, 1917. To the Town Clerk: I have notified the inhabitants of Lex- ington by posting printed copies of the foregoing Warrant in the Post Office and in nine other public places in the town, and by mailing a printed copy of the same to every registered voter in the town, seven (7) days before the time of said meeting. Attest: CHARLES E. WHEELER, Constable of Lexington. ELECTION OF DELFGATES TO CONSTI- TUTIONAL CONVENTION M ay The meeting was called to order at seven o'clock A. M., by William S. Scam - man, Chairman of the Selectmen. The Warrant and the return thereon was read by the Town Clerk. I, 1917 Charles G. Kaufmann and James A. Hurley were sworn as Ballot CIerks and Wallace E. Miller and John J. Garrity as Deputy Ballot Clerks. The polls were declared open. 28 TOWN OF Cornelius F. O'Connor, Fred E. But- ters, Nathaniel Nunn, Allston M. Red- man, Samuel B. Bigelow, William E. Mulliken, James M. Ahearn and James E. O'Neil were sworn as Tellers. At 1.15 o'clock 200 ballots were taken from the box; at 2.48 o'clock 100 ballots were taken out: at 3.30 o'clock two hun- dred ballots were removed from the box. At 3.43 o'clock, on motion of George E. Briggs, it was voted that the polls be kept open until five o'clock. At the close of the polls two hundred and thirteen ballots were taken from the box, making a total vote of seven hun- dred and thirteen. This number agreed with the dial on the ballot box and with the number of names checked on each voting list. At 8.14 o'clock the Town Clerk an- nounced the vote as follows: Total vote 713 Delegates at Large Charles Francis Adams George W. Anderson Albert S. Apsey Charles J. Barton John L. Bates William H. Brooks Walter A. Buie Charles F. Choate, Jr. Charles W. Clifford George W. Coleman Louis A. Coolidge John W. Cummings Edwin U. Curtis Daniel R. Donovan Frank E. Dunbar Samuel J. Elder Wilmot R. Evans, Jr. Eugene N. Foss Matthew Hale Arthur D. Hill LEXINGTON Patrick H. Jennings Abbott Lawrence Lowell Nathan Matthews James T. Moriarty Joseph C. Pelletier Josiah Quincy Moorfield Storey Charles B. Strecker (Joseph Walker David I. Walsh Sherman L. Whipple George H. Wrenn Blanks From Eighth Congressional Claude L. Allen Everett C. Benton John Q. A. Brackett LaZvrence G. Brooks Theodore Eaton Wilton B. Fay Albert Bushnell Hart Harry N. Stearns Edward W. Taylor Blanks From Twenty -Eighth Robert P. Clapp Arthur P. Stone Blanks 521 290 352 318 456 318 155 388 282 269 384 381 414 173 302 442 282 214 287 242 161 397 355 149 228 270 416 119 279 326 341 191 1,706 District 315 410 369 188 126 365 253 305 1 520 Middlesex District 598 82 33 On Tuesday, May 8, 1917, the Regis- trars of Voters recounted the votes cast for Delegates to the Constitutional Con- vention from the Eighth Congressional District, with the following result: Claude L. Allen of Melrose 315 Everett C. Benton of Belmont 410 John Q. A. Brackett of Arlington 371 Lawrence G. Brooks of Medford 186 Theodore Eaton of Wakefield 125 Wilton B. Fay of Medford 363 Albert Bushnell Hart of Cambridge 257 Harry N. Stearns of Cambridge 305 Ed. W. Taylor 1 Blanks 519 ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING May 14, 1917 The meeting was called to order by the the property has Moderator at 7.38 o'clock. Town Engineer. Art. 8. Arthur L. Blodgett of the Committee on Increased School Accommodations stated that the committee has secured an option on the Bacon property and that been surveyed by the Art. 44. Arthur L. Blodgett stated that it had recently come to the notice of the com- mittee on Increased School Accommoda- tions that the Town cannot borow suffi- TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS 29 tient funds to build a new school house without exceeding the debt limit fixed by law. Mr. Blodgett offered a motion pro- viding that the Chairman of the Select- men and the Chairman of the Building Committee be authorized to request the Legislature to pass a special Act author- izing the Town to borow outside the debt limit for the construction of the proposed school, such an amount as may be found necessary. On motion of Christopher S. Ryan it was voted that further action on this matter be indefinitely postponed. Art. 9. Minor Town Officers. Charles E. Wheeler and Frank P. Cutter were elected as Fence Viewers. Patrick J. Maguire and William F. Fletcher were elected as Field Drivers. Edgar W. Harrod and Frank P. Cutter were elected as Surveyors of Lumber. Art. 26. On motion of Frank D. Peirce, it was voted that this article relative to the ac- ceptance of Sections 21 to 26 of Chapter 78 of the Revised Laws providing for the election of a Board of Cemetery Com- missioners be indefinitely postponed. Meeting dissolved at 8.26 o'clock. WARRANT FOR A TOWN MEETING June 28, 1917 Commonwealth of Massachusetts To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, in said County, Greeting: In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Lexing- ton, qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet in the Town Hall in said Lexington, on Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of June, A. D., 1917, at seven -thirty o'clock P. M., then and there to act on the fol- lowing articles: Art. 1. To receive the report of any Board of Town Officers or of any Committee of the Town for the action thereon, and to ap- point other Committees. Art. 2. To see if the Town will make an ap- propriation sufficient to meet the ex- penses in the Town Engineer's Depart- ment. Art. 3. To see if the Town will instruct the Board of Water and Sewer Commission- ers to extend the six inch water main in Rawson Avenue from Arcadia Avenue to Rindge Avenue, and to appropriate and assess the sum of $300.00 therefor, or act in any other manner relative thereto. Art. 4. To see if the Town will make an ap- Middlesex ss. propriation sufficient to enable the Select- , men to purchase or take by right. of eminent domain for Cemetery purposes the Katherine H. Wood, Thomas Coyle, Norman J. Hingley, Matheus Shilalis, Walter and Mary Wiezbiki, and J. New- ton Frost properties, or portions of each or all of them, these properties being the ones referred to in the report of the Com- mittee on New Cemetery presented to the Town April 16, 1917, and vote to issue bonds therefor, or otherwise de- termine the method of raising the money so appropriated, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 5. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money sufficient to meet the' ex- pense of removing and rebuilding the Stone Crusher, or act in any manner re- lating thereto. Art. 6. To see if the Town will make an ap- propriation sufficient to meet its share of the expense caused by the laying out and construction of a State Highway, in this town running from Lowell Street to the Arlington Line, and vote to issue bonds therefor, or determine how the money appropriated shall be raised, or act in any manner relative thereto. Art. 7. To receive the report of the Committee appointed to prepare and present a new 30 TOWN OF LEXINGTOI code of By -Laws to the town, and take action thereon. Art. 8. To see if the Town will vote to accept Sections 21 to 25 both inclusive of Chap- ter 78 of the Revised Laws and all Acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto providing for the election of a Board of Cemetery Comissioners and the care and management of the public burial grounds of the Town, or act in any man- ner relating therto. Art. 9. To see if the Town will accept an ex- tension of Highland Avenue running westerly from its junction with Bloom- field Street to near the junction of said avenue with Winthrop Road. Also an extension of said Highland Avenue from near its present junction with Winthrop Road to Vine Brook Road, or act in any manner relative to the acceptance of either or both extensions of said High- land Avenue. Art. 10. To see if the Town will authorize its Selectmen to enter into an agreement with the State Highway Commissioners providing for the payment of one-third of the expense which may be caused by the construction and lay -out of Woburn Street by said Commissioners as a State Highway from Utica Street to the Wo- burn Line, and vote to raise the neces- sary funds by an issue of bonds to meet the Town's share of the expense oc- casioned by the construction of said portion of Woburn Street as a State Highway, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 11. To see if the Town will vote to accept the following streets, or any of them, as laid out by the Selectmen: Abbott Road, from Merriam Street to Oakland Street extension; Cliffe Avenue, from the end of Bow Street to Cummings Avenue; Oak Street as extended from its present terminus to Baker Avenue; Baker Avenue from Oak Street to Taft Avenue; and Taft Avenue from Baker Avenue to Charles Street, or act in any manner relative to the acceptance of any or all of said streets. Art. 12. To see if the Town will vote to accept Bennington Road for a distance of ap- proximately 350 feet from its junction with Eliot Road, or act in any manner relative thereto. Art. 13. To see if the Town will vote to make an appropriation for the reconstruction of the southerly side of Massachusetts Avenue from Winthrop Road to Wal- tham Street, and vote to issue bonds to raise the money so appropriated, or act in any manner relative thereto. Art. 14. To see if the Town will make a further appropriation for the reconstruction and maintenance of the town highways, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 15. To see if the Town will vote to appro- priate money for the removal of snow, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 16. To see if the Town will vote to direct the Selectmen to petition the Director of the Bureau of Statistics for such an audit of the town's accounts as may be necessary to install an accounting system in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 598 of the Acts of 1910 and amendments thereof. Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your doings there- on to the Town Clerk, on or before the time of said meeting. Given under our hands at Lexington, this fifteenth day of June, A. D., 1917. WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, JAY O. RICHARDS, Selectmen of Lexington. Lexington, Mass., June 26, 1917. To the Town Clerk: I have notified the inhabitants of Lex- ington by posting printed copies of the foregoing Warrant in the Post Office and in six other public places in the Town, and by mailing a printed copy of the same to every registered voter in the town, seven days before the time of said meeting. Attest: CHARLES E. WHEELER, Constable of Lexington. TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS 31 TOWN MEETING June 26, 1917 The meeting was called to order by the Moderator. The Clerk proceeded to read the War- rant, but upon motion of William S. Scamman it was voted that the further reading be omitted. The return of the Constable was then read. Art. 1 and 4. New Cemetery at Bed- ford and Summer Streets. Selectman Richards read a report for the Selectmen giving the prices placed on the several properties by their re- spective owners. The report stated that "the Board has gone over the entire proposition with the Finance Committee, and acting on their advise will proceed to take the entire area by right of eminent domain." It was voted that the report be ac- cepted and placed on file. After a long discussion it was finally: Voted, "That the question of the ad- dition of further land to the proposed properties authorized to be purchased or taken by eminent domain by the Select- men for cemetery purposes by vote of the town under date of April 16, 1917, be referred to the Selectmen and six other citizens appointed by the Moderator for study and report to the town." The Moderator appointed the following Committee: William S. Scamman, William B. Foster, George H. Jackson, Everett S. Emery, Jay O. Richards, Alonzo E. Locke, James F. McCarthy, Arthur A. Marshall, Herbert L. Wellington. Art. 16. It was voted that this article relative to an audit of the town's accounts by the Director of the Bureau of Statistics, be indefinitely postponed. Art. 3. Water Main in Rawson Avenue. On motion of William M. Aquaro, it was, "Voted, That the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners be and they hereby are authorized to lay approxi- mately one hundred and seventy five feet of 6 inch water main in Rawson Avenue from Arcadia Avenue to Rindge Avenue and the sum of three hundred dollars is hereby appropriated and assessed for that purpose." Art. 1. Under this article William C. Stickle, Chairman of the Committee on Improved Transportation, made a verbal report of progress, and on motion of Mr. Stickel the following resolution was adopted: "Resolved, that the citizens of the Town of Lexington protest against any raise in fare on the Middlesex & Boston Street Railroad covering cars operating in the Town of Lexington until such time as there shall have been a thorough in- vestigation of the amount received from passenger traffic in the Lexington zone of the Lexington division, and until it is shown conclusively that there is an actual need for increased fare." Arts. 1 & 14. Highway Improvements. Mr. Richards, Chairman of the Com- mittee, presented a report in which it was stated that the committee had not had sufficient time to make a complete study of the question, but had taken the condition of Massachusetts Avenue under consideration, deeming this street needed immediate attention. The Committee recommended that the avenue between Pleasant and Middle Streets be scarified and resurfaced, and that the southerly side of the avenue be- tween Waltham Street and Winthrop Road be entirely rebuilt. It was voted that the report be ac- cepted as a report of progress and placed on file. On motion of Mr. Richards, it was "Voted, that the Committee on Improved Highways be requested to continue its investigations and report at a later meet- ing, and that the sum of $500.00 be ap- propriated and assessed for use of the Committtee." On motion of Mr. Scamman, it was "Voted, that the sum of seven thousand ($7,000.00) dollars is hereby appropriat- ed and assessed for the reconstruction of Massachusetts Avenue from Pleasant Street to the State Road." Art. 1. Robert L. Ryder made a verbal report 32 TOWN OE LEXINGTON for the Committee on Increased School Accommodations, stating that the Town now owns the Bacon Estate, and that the committee has secured a bid of slightly over $300,000.00 on a proposed new school building. Art. 9. On Acceptance of Highland Avenue. On motion of William S. Scamman it was "Voted, that action on that portion of Article 9 relating to the acceptance of Highland Avenue between Bloomfield Street and Winthrop Road be indefinite- ly postponed, and further voted that the layout of Highland Avenue from its junc- tion with Winthrop Road to Vine Brook Road as established by the Selectmen be approved, and that this portion of High- land Avenue is hereby established as a public highway of this Town." Art. 10. State Highway on Woburn Street. On motion of William S. Scamman it was "Voted, that the Selectmen be, and they are hereby authorized to enter into an agreement with the State Highway Commissioners providing for the pay- ment of one-third of the expense which may be caused by the construction and lay out of Woburn Street as a State High- way from Utica Street to the Woburn line, and further voted, that the sum of five thousand dollars be appropriated for the purpose of carrying this agreement into effect, and that to provide the money so appropriated the Town Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to issue and sell under the direction and with the approv- al of the Selectmen, negotiable coupon bonds of the Town in serial form to the aggregate principal amount of five thou- sand dollars, ($5,000), bearing interest at the lowest rate obtainable, payable semi- annually and payable both principal and interest, in gold coin of the Unitea States of America, of the present stana- ard of weight and fineness, such bonds to be signed by the Treasurer and counter- signed by a majority of the Selectmen, with maturities so arranged that one thousand dollars of the principal will fall due and payable in 1918 and one thous- and dollars annually thereafter until said loan is paid in full." The above vote was passed unani- mously. Art. 11. William S. Scamman offered a motion providing that action on the acceptance of Cliffe Avenue, Oak Street, Baker Avenue and Taft Avenue be indefinitely postponed. After a long discussion it was voted that the motion be laid on the table. At 11.20 o'clock it was voted that the meeting be adjourned for two weeks at 7.30 P. M. ADJOURNED MEETING July 12, 1917 Art. 12. Acceptance of Bennington Road. The Chairman of the Selectmen pre- sented the following report: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Lexington, Mass., June 15, 1917. At a meeting of the hoard of Select- men of the Town of Lexington, after having given due notice of the intention of said Board, as required by law, to lay out Bennington Road, extending approxi- mately 350 feet in a southerly direction from Eliot Road as hereinafter more fully appears, and after due hearing thereon held April 6, 1917, as appears of record, and no objections having been made, it is:— Ordered, that this Board of Selectmen are of the opinion that public conven- ience and necessity require that said Bennington Road be laid out and that the same hereby is laid out and established as a Public Town Way from Eliot Road southerly a distance of approximately 350 feet as follows: The easterly line of said street begins at a point in the present southerly line of Eliot Road and is thence on a curve of 19.63 feet radius bearing to the left 22.06 feet to a point on the easterly side of Bennington Road; thence on a curve of 212.58 feet radius bearing to the left 157.87 feet to a point; thence on a curve of 229.54 feet radius bearing to the left 162.15 feet to a point. TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS 33 The westerly line begins at a point in the present southerly line of Eliot Road and is thence on a curve of 17.34 feet radius bearing to the right 29.49 feet to a point on the westerly side of said Bennington Road and 40 feet distant from the above described easterly line as shown by the plan to which reference is hereinafter made. Thence from said point the westerly line is parallel and 40 feet distant from the above described easterly line to a stone bound opposite the terminus of said easterly line, said bound being at the division line between land of Mary L. and Robert P. Clapp and Marian J. and Sydney R. Wrightington. The above description is intended to con- form to a plan of said road entitled, "Plan of Bennington Road, Lexington, Scale 1 inch equals 20 feet, June, 1917, J. Henry Duffy, Town Engineer. Said Selectmen order stone bounds to be set to permanently mark the above described lines. And the Selectmen having considered the question of damages sustained by the owners of the lands across and through which said street has been Laid out as aforesaid hereby determine that no damages are sustained and none are awarded. WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, JAY 0. RICHARDS, Selectmen of Lexington. Filed with the Town Clerk, June 15, 1917. It was voted that the above report be accepted. On motion of the Chairman, it was voted that said Bennington Road be and hereby is established as a public high- way of this Town. Art. 2. Engineer's Department. On motion of William S. Scamman, it was "Voted, that the further sum of $1,500.00 is hereby appropriated and assessed to meet the expense of the Town Engineer's Department." Art. 5 Removal of Stone Crusher. On motion of William S. Scamman, it was unanimously voted, "that the sum of $3,000.00 is hereby appropriated to meet the expense incidental to removing and rebuilding the Stone Crusher, and it is further voted that to raise the money so appropriated the Town Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to issue and sell under the direction and with the approv- al of the Selectmen, negotiable coupon bonds of the Town in serial form to the aggregate principal amount of three thousand dollars ($3,000) bearing inter- est at a rate not exceeding five per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually and payable, both principal and interests, in gold coin of the United States of Ameri- ca, of the present standard of weight and fineness, such bonds to be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a ma- jority of the Selectmen, with maturities so arranged that $600.00 of the principal will fall due and payable in 1918 and six hundred dollars annually thereafter until said loan is paid in full." The above was passed by a vote of 34 in favor, and 0 against. Art. 6. State Highway off Lowell Street. On motion of Jay 0. Richards it was unanimously voted, "that the sum of Five Thousand ($5,000.00) dollars is hereby appropriated to be expended by the Selectmen in meeting the town's share of the expense caused by the laying out and construction of a State Highway in this town running from Lowell Street to the Arlington line, and further voted, that in order to raise the money so appro- priated, the Town Treasurer be and here- by is authorized to issue and sell under the direction and with the approval of the Selectmen, negotiable coupon bonds of the Town in serial form, to the aggre- gate principal amount of five thousand dollars, ($5,000.00) bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 5 per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually and payable both principal and interest, in gold coin of the United States of America of the present standard of weight and fineness, such bonds to be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the Se- lectmen, with maturities so arranged that five hundred dollars of the principal will fall due and payable in 1918, and five hundred ($500.00) dollars annually there- after until said loan is paid in full." The above was passed by a vote of 37 in favor and 0 against. Art. 1. Francis H. Holmes presented a reso- lution providing for a committee to de- termine from what department the laborers on the town farm are being paid. The meeting refused to adopt the reso- lution. Art. 15. Removal of Snow. On motion of Jay 0. Richards it was Voted, that the sum of $415.71 is hereby a 34 TOWN OF LEXINGTON appropriated and assessed for the Re- moval of Snow." Art. 13. Reconstruction of Mass. Ave. On motion of Jay 0. Richards it was unanimously voted that the sum of ten thousand ($10,000) dollars is hereby ap- propriated for the reconstruction of the southerly side of Massachusetts Avenue from Winthrop Road to Waltham Street, and it is further voted that to raise the money so appropriated the Town Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to issue and sell under the direction and with the approval of the Selectmen, nego- tiable coupon bonds of the Town in serial form to the aggregate principal amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), annually and payable, both principal and bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 5 per cent. per annum, and payable semi- annually and payable, both principal and interest, in gold coin of the United States of America, of the present standard of weight and fineness, such bonds to be signed by the Treasurer and counter- signed by a majority of the Selectmen, with maturities so arranged that one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars of the prin- cipal will fall due and payable in 1918 and one thousand dollars annually there- after until said loan is paid in full, and it is further voted that any reimburse- ment received from Middlesex County on account of this reconstruction be applied to widening Maple Street and to the work laid out by the County Commissioners at the junction of Maple and Lowell Streets. The above was passed by a vote of 49 in affirmative and 0 against. Art. 4. New Cemetery. On motion of Jay 0. Richards it was voted that article four be now taken up. On motion of Jay 0. Richards it was "Voted, that the sum of $10,000 be ap- priated to be expended by the Selectmen in taking by right of eminent domain for cemetery purposes as authorized by a vote of the Town passed April 16th, 1917, the Katherine H. Wood, Thomas Coyle, Norman J. Hingley, Matheus Shilalas and Walter and Mary Weiz-- biki properties and that portion of the J. Newton Frost property situated in Lexington or portions of each or alI of them, the same being the properties re- ferred to in the report of the Committee on New Cemetery, presented April 16, 1917, and further voted that in order to raise the amount hereby appropriated, the Town Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to issue and sell under the direction and with the approval of the Selectmen, negotiable coupon bonds of the Town in serial form to the aggregate principal sum of $10,000 to bear interest at a rate not to exceed 5 Der cent. per annum payable semi-annually and pay- able both principal and interest in gold coin of the United States of America of the present standard of weight and fine- ness, such bonds to be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a ma- jority of the Selectmen, with the ma- turities so arranged that $1,000 of the principal will fall due and payable in 1918 and $1,000 annually thereafter until said loan is paid in full. The above was passed by a vote of 32 in favor and 11 in opposition. Replying to an inquiry, Chairman Scamman stated that the committee ap- pointed June 28, was not yet ready to report relative to the advisability of ac- quiring the Statisky and Linehan prop- erties to extend the Cemetery to the Boston and Maine Railroad. Art. 11. Street Acceptances. It was voted to take article 11 from the table. The motion presented by Mr. Scam - man on June 28 that the acceptance of Cliff Avenue, Oak Street extension Baker Avenue and Taft Avenue be in- definitely postponed, was defeated. On motion of Edward C. Stone it was Voted, that Oak Street as extended from its present terminus to Baker Avenue; Baker Avenue from Oak Street to Taft Avenue and Taft `Avenue from Baker Avenue to Charles Street as laid out by the Selectmen, be accepted. John J. Donovan made an unsuccessful attempt to secure the acceptance of Cliff Avenue. On motion of William S. Scamman, it was Voted, that the town accept and ap- prove the lay -out of Abbott Road from Merriam Street to Oakland Street ex- tension, and that said Abbott Road be hereby established as a public highway of this Town, when the same has been properly deeded to the %town. Meeting dissolved at 11.05 P. M. TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS 35 WARRANT FOR STATE PRIMARY Commonwealth of Massachusetts To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, Greeting:— In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town who are - qualified to vote in Primaries to meet in the Town Hall, in said Lexington on Tuesday, the twenty-fifth day of Septem- ber, 1917, at three -thirty o'clock P. M., for the following purposes: To bring in their votes to the Primary Officers for the Nomination of Candi- dates of Political Parties for the follow- ing offices: Governor for this Commonwealth. Lieutenant Governor for this Common- wealth. Secretary of the Commonwealth for this Commonwealth. Treasurer and Receiver General for this Commonwealth. Auditor of the Commonwealth for this Commonwealth. Attorney General for this Commonwealth. Councillor for 6th Councillor District. Senator for 5th Senatorial District. One Representative in General Court for 28th Representative District. County Commissioner for Middlesex County. And for the Election of the following officers: District Member of State Com- mittee for each political party for the 5th Senatorial District. Members of the Democratic Town Com- mitee. Middlesex ss. Members of the Republican Town Com- mittee. Delegates to State Conventions of Poli- tical Parties. All the above candidates and officers are to be voted for upon one ballot. The polls will be open from 3.30 to 8.00 P. M. And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting and mailing attested copies thereof seven days at least before the time of said meeting as directed by vote of the town. Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings there- on, at the time and place of said meet- ing. Given under our hands this seventh day of September, A. D., 1917. WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, WILLIAM B. FOSTER, JAY O. RICHARDS, Selectmen of Lexington. Lexington, Mass., Sept. 22, 1917. To the Town Clerk: I have notified the inhabitants of Lex- ington by posting printed copies of the foregoing Warrant in the Post Office and in seven other public places in the town, and by mailing a printed copy of the same to every registered voter in the Town eight days before the time of said meeting. Attest: CHARLES E. WHEELER, Constable of Lexington. STATE PRIMARY September 25, 1917 The meeting was called to order at 3.30 P. M. by William S. Scamman, Chair- man of the Board of Selectmen. The Warrant was read by the Town Clerk. Charles G. Kauffman and James A. Hurley were sworn as Ballot Clerks. The ballot box was shown to be empty, then locked and the key given to the Con- stable, Samuel B. Bigelow, William E. Mulliken, Allston M. Redman, Fred E. 36 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Butters, Patrick F. Dacey, John J. Gar- rity, William C. O'Leary and Nathaniel Nunn were sworn as Tellers. At the close of the polls at eight o'clock the ballot box was opened and 218 Republican ballots and 13 Democratic ballots were taken out, making a total of 231 ballots, which agreed with the number registered on the ballot box and with the number of names checked on each voting list. Upon the completion of the counting of the ballots of each party the Town Clerk announced the result as follows: REPUBLICAN PARTY Whole number of ballots cast Governor Grafton D. Cushing Samuel W. McCall Blanks Lieutenant Governor Calvin Coolidge Blanks Thomas Griffin Gal. 23. • Secretary Albert P. Langtry Blanks Treasurer Charles L. Burrill Blanks Auditor Charles Bruce Alonzo B. Cook Blanks Attorney General Henry C. Attwill Conrad W. Crooker Blanks Councillor—Sixth District James G. Harris Blanks 218 33 183 2 204 13 1 199 19 199 19 64 137 17 Senator, Fifth Middlesex District Charles S. Smith Blanks Representative in General Court 28th Middlesex District Jay R. Benton Blanks 184 16 18 191 27 County Commissioner Middlesex Walter C. Wardwell Blanks State Committee Fifth Middlesex District Adelbert B. Messer Blanks Delegates to State Convention Arthur W. Hatch William C. Stickel Edward C. Stone Edwin A. Bayley Edwin- C. Stevens William H. Ballard Edward W. Taylor Blanks Town Committee Arthur W. Hatch Louis L. Crone Charles E. Hadley Wesley T. Wadman William S. Scamman Sydney R. Wrightington Edward L. Child Howard M. Munroe Arthur L. Blodgett Willard C. Hill Lewis C. Sturtevant Charles F. Bertwell Clarence P. Johnson George H. Childs Robert L. Ryder George E. Briggs Charles H. Rudd Eugene G. Kraetzer Blanks DEMOCRATIC PARTY Total Vote Governor Frederick W. Mansfield Blanks Blanks Blanks 197 BIanks 21 Blanks 194 24 Blanks Lieutenant Governor Secretary Treasurer Auditor Attorney General 196 22 195 23 197 191 197 184 193 1 1 126 192 190 186 186 183 188 187 188 188 186 188 187 187 188 188 1 1 1 455 13 12 1 13 13 13 13 13 TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS 37 Councillor—Sixth District Blanks Senator, Fifth Middlesex District Blanks 13 13 Representative in General Court 28th Middlesex District Blanks 13 County Commissioner Middlesex Blanks 13 State Committee Fifth Middlesex District John F. Mitchell 8 Blanks 5 Delegates to State Convention Eugene T. Buckley David F. Murphy Bartholomew D. Callahan I Blanks Town Committee Eugene T. Buckley David F. Murphy Bartholomew D. Callahan Charles E. Moloy John J. Garrity Arthur O'Leary William C. O'Leary Bartlett J. Harrington Blanks Meeting dissolved at 10.05 P. M. TOWN WARRANT The Commonwealth of Massachusetts. To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, Greeting:— In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Lexing- ton qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs, to meet in the Town Hall, in said Lexington, on Monday, the Fif- teenth Day of October, A. D., 1917, at seven -thirty o'clock P. M., then and there to act on the following articles: Art. 1. To receive the report of any Board of Town Officers or of any Committee of the Town for action thereon and to ap- point other Committees. Art. 2. To see if the town will vote to autho- rize the Selectmen to appoint a town accountant in accordance with the pro- visions of Chapter 624 of the Acts of 1910. Art. 3. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to petition the Director of the Bureau of Statistics for the installation of an accounting system in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 598 of the Acts of 1910, or take any action rela- tive thereto. Art. 4. To see if the Town will vote to amend Middlesex ss. 10 10 9 10 12 11 12 11 11 11 10 1 51 the vote passed at the Town Meeting of March 12, 1917, under Article 38 of the Warrant for said meeting by striking out the words "at a rate not exceeding four (4) per cent.," and inserting in place thereof the words "at the rate of 41/2 per cent. per annum, so that said vote shall read as follows: Voted, that for the purpose of provid- ing funds for the extension of water mains, the Town Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to issue and sell under the direction and with the approval of the Selectmen, negotiable registered or coupon bonds of the town in serial form to the aggregate principal amount of $4,000.00, bearing interest at the rate of 41/2 per cent. per annum, payable semi- annually, and payable both principal and interest in gold coin of the United States of America of the present standard of weight and fineness, such bonds to be signed by the Treasurer and counter- signed by a majority of the Selectmen, and so arranged that $1,000.00 of the principal will fall due and payable in each of the years 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921 inclusive," or take any action relative thereto. Art. 5. To see if the Town will vote to amend the vote passed at the adjourned annual town meeting March 12, 1917, under Articles 34 and 35 of the Warrant for said meeting, which vote was as fol- lows: 38 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Voted, that the Engineers of the Fire Department be instructed to purchase a new motor ladder truck, the cost not to exceed $6,500.00 and also a suitable chassis upon which to place the equip- ment of Chemical No. 1 and such other equipment as the Engineers may deem necessary at a cost not exceeding $1,500. And that for this purpose the Town Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to issue and sell under the direction and with the approval of the Selectmen ne- gotiable registered or coupon bonds of the town in serial form to the aggregate principal amount of $8,000.00, bearing interest at the lowest rate obtainable, payable semi-annually and payable both principal and interest in gold coin of the United States of America of the present standard of weight and fineness, such bonds to be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the Select- men, so arranged that $1,000.00 of the principal will fall due and payable in 1918 and $1,000.00 annually until 1925; by providing that said debt shall be pay- able in annual instalments within the period of five years, in compliance with Massachusetts Acts of 1913, c. 719, Sec. 5, (11) and by specifying that the bonds therein provided shall bear interest at the rate of 41/2 per cent. per annum; or take any action in relation thereto. Art. 6. To see if the Town will vote to amend the vote passed at the Town Meeting of June 28, 1917, under Article 10 of the Warrant for said meeting, by striking out the words, " at the lowest rate ob- tainable," and inserting in place thereof the words, "at the rate of 41/2 per cent. per annum," so that said vote shall read as follows: Voted, that the Selectmen be, and they are hereby authorized to enter into an agreement with the State Highway Com- missioners providing for the payment of one-third of the expense which may be caused by the construction and lay -out of Woburn Street as a State Highway from Utica Street to the Woburn line, and further voted, that the sum of five thou- sand dollars be appropriated for the pur- pose of carrying this agreement into effect, and that to provide the money so appropriated the Town Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to issue and sell under the direction and with the ap- proval of the Selectmen, negotiable coupon bonds of the town in serial form to the aggregate principal amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) bearing interest at the rate of 41/2 per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually and pay- able both principal and interest in gold coin of theUnited States of America, of the present standard of weight and fine- ness, such bonds to be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a major- ity of the Selectmen, with maturities so arranged that one thousand dollars of the principal will fall due and payable in 1918 and one thousand dollars annually thereafter until said loan is paid in full: or to take any action in relation thereto. Art. 7. To see if the Town will vote to ratify, confirm and approve the vote passed at the adjourned Town Meeting July 12, 1917, under Article 5 of the Warrant for said meeting, which vote was as follows: Voted, that the sum of $3,000.00 is hereby appropriated to meet the expense incidental to removing and rebuilding the stone crusher, and it is further voted, that to raise the money so appropriated the Town Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to issue and sell under the direction and with the approval of the Selectmen, negotiable coupon bonds of the Town in serial form to the aggregate principal amount of three thousand dol- lars ($3,000.00) bearing interest at a rate not exceeding five per cent. per an- num, payable semi-annually and pay- able, both principal and interest, in gold coin of the United States of America, of the present standard of weight and fine- ness, such bonds to be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a ma- jority of the Selectmen, with maturities so arranged that $600.00 of the principal will fall due and payable in 1918 and six hundred dollars annually thereafter until said loan is paid in full or take any action in relation thereto. Art. 8. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to purchase or take by right of eminent domain certain parcels of land, located on Merriam Street adjoin- ing the premises now occupied by the Fire Station, and vote to provide funds for the same by the issuance of Bonds or Notes, or take any action relative thereto. Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this Warrant with your doings there- on, to the Town Clerk, on or before the time of said meeting. TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS 39 Given under our hands at Lexington, this eighth day of October, A. D., 1917. WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, JAY O. RICHARDS, WILLIAM B. FOSTER, Selectmen of Lexington. Lexington, Mass., October 13, 1917. To the Town Clerk: I have notified the inhabitants of Lex- ington by posting printed copies of the foregoing Warrant in the Post Office and The meeting the Moderator. The Town Clerk proceeded to read the Warrant, but upon motion of William S. Scamman the further reading was omitt- ed. The Clerk then read the Return of the Constable. The Chairman of the Selectmen ex- plained that it was necessary to have a meeting at this time to correct certain errors- in votes passed at the meetings of March 12, June 28, and July 12, 1917, relative to the issuing of bonds, but in consequence of the delay in obtaining copies of articles from the attorneys for the bond purchasers it was impossible to give the usual seven days notice and the Selectmen therefor took advantage of the By Law providing that a meeting may be called on three days notice. Art. 5. Motor Ladder Truck. in seven other public places in the Town, and by mailing a printed copy of the same to every registered voter in the town, four days before the time of said meeting; the Board of Selectmen having notified me that they had voted that by reason of the arising of an emergency for the calling of said meeting a three days notice thereof to said inhabitants would be sufficient. Attest: CHARLES E. WHEELER, Constable of Lexington. TOWN MEETING October 15, 1917 was called to order by On motion of Jay O. Richards it was Voted, that the vote passed at the ad- journed annual Town Meeting March 12, 1917, under Articles 34 and 35 be and it is hereby amended to read as follows: Voted, that the Engineers of the Fire Department be instructed to purchase a new motor ladder truck, the cost not to exceed $6,500.00 and also a suitable chassis upon which to place the equip- ment of Chemical No. 1 and such other agreement with the State Highway Com - equipment as the Engineers may deem missioners providing for the payment of necessary at a cost not exceeding one-third of the expense which may be $1,500.00. And that for this purpose caused by the construction and lay out of the Town Treasurer be and hereby is Woburn Street as a State Highway from authorized to issue and sell under the Utica Street to the Woburn line. direction and with the approval of the And further Voted, that the sum of Selectmen negotiable registered or five thousand dollars be appropriated for coupon bonds of the Town in serial form the purpose of carrying this agreement to the aggregate principal amount of $8,000.00 bearing interest at the rate of four and one-half (41/2) per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually and pay- able both principal and interest in gold coin of the United States of America of the present standard of weight and fine- ness, such bonds to be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a major- ity of the Selectmen, and shall be pay- able $2,000.00 in each of the years 1918 to 1920 inclusive, and $1,000.00 in each of the years 1921 and 1922, and that all acts done or performed under authority of said vote be and they are hereby ratified, confirmed and approved. Passed by a vote of 24 to 0. Art. 6. State Highway on Woburn Street. On motion of Jay O. Richards it was Voted, that the vote passed at the Town Meeting of June 28, 1917, under Article 10 of the Warrant for said meeting be amended by striking out the words "at the Iowest rate obtainable" and insert- ing in place thereof the words "at the rate of four and one-half per cent. per annum" so that said vote will read as follows: Voted, that the Selectmen be, and they are hereby authorized to enter into an 40 TOWN OF LEXINGTON • into effect, and that to provide the money so appropriated the Town Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to issue and sell under the direction and with the approval of the Selectmen, negotiable coupon bonds of the Town in serial form to the aggre- gate principal amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), bearing interest at the rate of 41/2 per cent. per annum, pay- able semi-annually and payable both prin- cipal and interest in gold coin of the United States of America, of the present standard of weight and fineness, such bonds to be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the Se- lectmen, with maturities so arranged that one thousand dollars of the principal will fall due and payable in 1918 and one thousand dollars annually thereafter until said loan is paid in full. Passed by vote of 32 to 0. Art. 7. Removal of Stone Crusher. On motion of William S. Scamman, it was Voted, that the Town ratify, confirm and approve the vote passed at the ad- journed Town Meeting, July 12, 1917, under Article 5 of the Warrant for said meeting, relating to the appropriation of $3,000.00 for removing and rebuilding the stone crusher, and raising said amount by the issue of bonds of the town, and that all acts done or performed under authority of said vote be and the same are hereby ratified, confirmed and ap- proved. Passed by a vote of 31 to 0. Art. 4. Extension of Water Mains. On motion of Jay O. Richards, it was Voted, that the vote passed at the ad- journed Town Meeting held March 12, 1917, under Article 38 be and it is here- by amended to read as follows: Voted, that for the purpose of providing funds for the extension of water mains, the Town Treasurer be and hereby is author- ized to issue and sell under the direction and with the approval of the Selectmen, negotiable registered or coupon bonds of the town in serial form to the aggre- gate principal amount of $4,000.00 bear- ing interest at the rate of 42 per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, and pay- able both principal and interest in gold coin of the United States of America of the present standard of weight and fine- ness, such bonds to be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a major- ity of the Selectmen, and so arranged that $1,000.00 of the principal will fall due and payable in each of the years, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921 inclusive. Passed by a vote of 35 to 0. Art. 2. Town Accountant. On motion of Arthur L. Blodgett, it was Voted, that the Selectmen be au- thorized to appoint a Town Accountant in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 624 of the Acts of 1910. Art. 3. Accounting System. On motion of Arthur L. Blodgett, it was Voted, that the town authorize the Selectmen to petition the Director of the Bureau of Statistics for the installation of an accounting system in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 598 of the Acts of 1910. Art. 8. Purchase of land adjoining the Centre Engine House. On motion of William S. Scamman, it was Voted, that the Selectmen be and hereby are authorized to purchase two parcels of land adjoining the property occupied by the Centre Fire Station on Merriam Street, the first parcel being lo- cated on the north side of the present lot and being approximately ten (10) feet wide by eighty (80) feet long; the second parcel being on the easterly side of the present lot and being approxi- mately thirty (30) feet wide by twenty (20) feet long, making a total area of approximately 1,438 square feet of land, and that for this purpose the sum of $1,000.00 is hereby appropriated. And further Voted, that for the purpose of raising the money so appropriated the Town Treasurer be and hereby is autho- rized to issue and sell under the direction and with the approval of the Selectmen, one note of the Town for the amount of $1,000.00 bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 5 per cent. per annum, payable semi-anually and payable both principal and interest in gold coin of the United States of America of the present stand- ard of weight and fineness, such note to be signed by the Treasurer and counter- signed by a majority of the Selectmen and to be payable in one year from the date of issue. Passed by a vote of 19 to 0. Meeting dissolved at 9.34 o'clock. TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington: Greeting:— In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Lexington who are qualified to vote in Elections to meet in the Town Hall, in said Lexing- ton, on Tuesday, the sixth day of Novem- ber, 1917, at six o'clock A. M., to cast their ballots for the following officers: Governor; Lieutenant Governor; Secre- tary; Treasurer; Auditor; Attorney Gen- eral; Councillor for the 6th Councillor District; Senator for the 5th Senatorial District; One Representative in General Court for 28th Representative District; County Commissioner for the Middlesex County. Also to bring in their votes on the fol- lowing questions: Acceptance of the following Articles of Amendment: Article of Amendment No. 1 The General Court shall have power to provide by law for voting by qualified voters of the Commonwealth who, at the time of an election, are absent from the city or town of which they are inhabi- tants in the choice of any officer to be elected or upon any question submitted at such election. Article of Amendment No. 2 Article XVIII. Section 1. No law shall be passed prohibiting the free exer- cise of religion. Section 2. All moneys raised by taxa- tion in the towns and cities for support of public schools, and all moneys which may be appropriated by the Common- wealth for the support of public schools shall be applied to, and expended in, no other schools than those which are con- ducted according to law, under the order and superintendence of the authorities of the town or city in which the money is expended; and no grant, appropriation or use of public money or property or loan of public credit shall be made or authorized by the Commonwealth or any 41 political division thereof for the purpose of founding, maintaining or aiding any school or institution of learning, whether under public control or otherwise, where- in any denominational doctrine is incul- cated, or any other school, or any college, infirmary, hospital, institution, or edu- cational, charitable or religious under- taking which is not publicly owned and under the exclusive control, order and superintendence of public officers or pub- lic agents authorized by the Common- wealth or federal authority or both, ex- cept that appropriations may be made for the maintenance and support of the Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts and for free public libraries in any city or town, and to carry out legal obligations, if any, already entered into; and no such grant, appropriation or use of public money or property or loan of public credit shall be made or authorized for the purpose of founding, maintaining or aiding any church, religious .denomina- tion or society. Section 3. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the Com- monwealth, or any political division thereof, from paying to privately con- trolled hospitals, infirmaries, or institu- tions for the deaf, dumb or blind not more than the ordinary and reasonable compensation for care or support actually rendered or furnished by such hospitals, infirmaries, or institutions to such per- sons as may be in whole or in part un- able to support or care for themselves. Section. 4. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive any inmate of a publicly controlled reformatory, penal or charitable institution of the opportunity of religious exercises therein of his own faith; but no inmate of such institution shall be compelled to attend religious services or receive religious in- struction against his will, or, if a minor, without the consent of his parent or guardian. Section 5. This amendment shall not take effect until the October first next succeeding its ratification and adoption by the people. 42 TOWN OF Article of Amendment No. 3 The maintenance and distribution at reasonable rates, during time of war, public exigency, emergency or distress, of a sufficient supply of food and other com:non necessaries of life and the pro- viding of shelter, are public functions, and the Commonwealth and the cities and towns therein may take and may provide the same for their inhabitants in such manner as the general court shall determine. The polls will be opened immediately after the organization of the meeting and may remain open until four o'clock P. M., and as much longer as the meeting may direct, but not later than the hour prescribed by law. Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings there- on, to the Town Clerk, on or before the time of said meeting. Given under our hands, at Lexington, LEXINGTON this twenty-fourth day of October, A. D., 1917. WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, JAY O. RICHARDS, WILLIAM B. FOSTER, Selectmen of Lexington. Lexington, Mass., November 3, 1917. To the Town Clerk: I have notified the inhabitants of Lex- ington by posting printed copies of the foregoing Warrant in the Post Office and in seven other public places in the Town, and by mailing a printed copy of the same to every registered voter in the Town, nine days before the time of said meeting. Attest: CHARLES E. WHEELER, Constable of Lexington. STATE ELECTION Nov. 6, 1917. The meeting was called to order by William B. Foster, one of the Selectmen, at six o'clock A. M. The Clerk proceeded to read the Warrant, but upon motion of Charles G. Kauffmann it was voted that the further reading be omitted. The re- turn of the Constable was then read by the Clerk. The ballots were placed in charge of James A. Hurley, Charles G. Kauffmann, Ralph H. Marshall and John J. Garrity who had been sworn to the faithful per- formance of their duties as Ballot Clerks. Nathaniel Nunn, Allston M. Redman, Fred E. Butters, William C. O'Leary, William E. Mulliken, John J. Mandigo, Thomas F. Fardy, Jr., Thomas J. Doh- erty, Samuel B. Bigelow, Willard E. Wormwood, Patrick F. Dacey and Harold B. Needham were sworn as Tellers. The Ballot Box was opened at 9.20 and 350 were taken out. At 1.10 o'clock 200 ballots were taken out. At 3.21 o'clock it was voted that the polls be kept open until 4.45 o'clock. 150 ballots were taken from the box at 3.30 o'clock. At the close of the polls, 87 ballots were removed from the box, making a total of 787 ballots cast at the election. This number agreed with the dial on the ballot box and with the number of names checked on each voting list. After the Tellers had completed the count, the Town Clerk announced the re- sult as follows at five thirty o'clock: Whole number of votes cast 787 Governor James Hayes Chester R. Lawrence Frederick W. Mansfield Samuel W. McCall John McCarty Blanks Lieutenant Governor Calvin Coolidge Matthew Hale Sylvester J. McBride Fred E. Oelcher Blanks Secretary Herbert S. Brown Albert P. Langtry Ingar Paulsen Arthur B. Reed Marion E. Sproule Blanks 2 7 160 600 8 10 594 158 7 2 26 22 572 4 148 8 33 TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS 43 Treasurer Charles L. Burrill Solon Lovett Joseph A. Murphy Humphrey O'Sullivan Mary E. Peterson Blanks Auditor Elzeah H. Choquette Alonzo B. Cook David Craig Walter S. Peck Henry G. Smith, Jr. Blanks Attorney General Henry C. Atwill Frank Auchter William R. Henry Thomas J. Maher Josiah Quincy Blanks Councillor—Sixth District James G. Harris Francis H. Holmes Daniel J. O'Connell Blanks Senator, Fifth Middlesex District Charles S. Smith Blanks Representative in General Court 28th Middlesex District Jay R. Benton Blanks County Commissioner Middlesex County Walter C. Wardwell Blanks 588 9 10 156 4 20 152 561 6 9 13 46 582 15 6 4 148 32 602 1 1 183 607 180 616 171 590 197 Shall the following Article of Amend- ment relative to absentee voting, sub- mitted by the Constitutional Conven- tion, be approved and ratified ? Yes No Blanks 547 116 124 In place of Article 18 of the Articles of Amendment of the Constitution, shall the Article of Amendment relative to ap- propriations for educational and benev- olent purposes, submitted by the Consti- tutional Convention, be approved and ratified? Yes 544 No 167 Blanks 76 Shall the Article of Amendment rela- tive to the taking and distribution by the Commonwealth and its municipalities of the common necessaries of life, submitted by the Constitutional Convention, be ap- proved and ratified? Yes 589 No 88 Blanks 110 November 16, 1917. Pursuant to the law the Town Clerks of Lexington and Belmont met at Bel- mont this day at twelve o'clock noon, for the purpose of canvassing the votes cast on the sixth day of November for a repre- sentative to the General Court of the Commonwealth to represent the twenty- eighth Middlesex District. The canvass showed the following re- sult of the votes cast in Lexington and Belmont: In Lexington Jay R. Benton had 616 votes. In Belmont Jay R. Benton had 940 votes. The returns showed that Jay R. Benton had a majority of the votes cast in both towns, and a certificate was accordingly filled out and signed by the Clerks of both towns, to be delivered to Jay R. Benton of Belmont. 44 TOWN OF LEXINGTON TOWN CLERK'S REPORT MARRIAGES Whole number of marriages recorded for the year 1917-74 Date. Name Residence January 1. John Arthur Laurie Lexington Louise Hardy Lexington 1. William Shepherd Dana Long Island Annie Alberta Webster New York City 13. James Ernest Blair Somerville Kathryn Julia Murphy Lexington 13. Elwyn Haskins Ball Orange Lillian Arlene Jackson Orange 14. St. John W. -L. Cottingham Cambridge Sarah McIntosh Lexington 24. Nelson James Crosman Lexington Katherine Teresa Kaveney Jamaica Plain February 8. Thomas Frank Richards Lexington Ethel Mae Dunham Waltham March 15. Norman Murphy Lexington Christiana Kingan Moss Newton 24. Arthur S. Fitch Lexington Miriam Elizabeth Garfield Lexington April 4. Philip Arthur Merrill Somerville Elizabeth Sabrina Rich Lexington 4. Ralph Irving Dale Lexington Madeline Frances Gale Weymouth 5. George Francis Newlands Woburn Lillian May Holman Lexington 14. James Frank Cobb Lexington Emily Angelina White Springfield 15. Salvia Flando Lexington Francigea Marie Lenbo Lexington TOWN CLERK'S REPORT 45' April 18. Harold Balben Arlington Annie Harris Lexington 18. John George Matthews Lexington Elizabeth Stewart Clotworthy Lexington 19. John Joseph Tumilty Springfield Mary Teresa Whalley Lexington 25. Horace Thomas Smith Boston Laura Mullis Lexington 30. Harry W. R. Rawson Worcester Lydia Estelle Smith Lexington May 6. Frank Albert Hart Lexington Mary Gertrude Ring Lexington 12. Lyon Carter Hartford, Conn. Ruth Sherburne Lexington 16. Frank Joseph Love Lexington Helen Day Lexington 19. Dwight Johnson Stump Chicago Leslie May Brown Lexington 26. Percy Wilkinson Riley Lexington Grace Anita Norris Lexington 29. Charles Reddington Joy Lexington Florence Margaret Butler Arlington June 4. Pearl D. Heath Vermont Millie J. Whitehill Lexington 5. Henry Young Hunter Wilmington Ethel May MacFarland Lexington 6. Charles Standish Preble Lexington Julia Ellen Wiseman Cambridge 7. Arthur Clifford Dodge Saugus Dorothea Stebbins Lexington 9. John Joseph Buckle Lexington Mayetta Watson Lowell 16. Henry Albert Speer Somerville Alice Gertrude Lee Lexington 17. George Francis Harrington Lexington Anastatia O'Callaghan Lexington 18. Julian Wheeler Ballou Concord Sylvia Wadsworth Reed Lexington 20. Floyd Newton Robb Chicago, Ill. Marjorie Newell Lexington 30. John T. Maher Waltham Edith Ladd Waltham 46 TOWN OF LEXINGTON July 10. Elmer Fred Butters Lexington Beulah Maud Bean Lexington 11. Arthur Lewis Harvey Lexington Mary Alice Hogan Dorchester 12. Harvard Eugene Sinclair Lexington Doris Buckman Lexington 14. Francis Drury Doe Lexington Julia Kraft Whelden Waltham 16. Arthur W. Wilson Cambridge Effie Golde Bell Is. Nfd. 24. William Joseph O'Sullivan Cambridge Mary Elizabeth Dailey Lexington 28. Charles Warren Thaxter Lexington May Helen Collins Lexington 29. James Avery Greeno . Lexington Almira Henrietta Waelde Malden August 1. John James Mitchell Waltham Mary Ellen Gorman Lexington 12. Milton Alexander Matthews Fitchburg Helen Frances Sturtevant Lexington 18. Elmer Morrison Ellsworth Bronxville , N. Y. Amo Umbstaetter Lexington 30. Stephen DeVeau Lexington Margaret Ann Murray Lexington September 1. Charles David Kinney Stoneham Margaret Agnes Irwin Lexington 5. James J. Bullock Lexington Mary Josephine Twomey Lexington 6. George Warren Russell Lexington Mahala Edith Comstock Clifton Springs, N. Y. 15. Errol Hastings Locke Lexington Elinor Whitney Lexington 19. Walter Edgar Burke Lexington Mabel Emily Stevens Lexington 22. Fred Granville Bolton Boston Agnes May Callahan Lexington 24. Harold Clifford Denham Lexington Harriet Berry Arlington 30. Joseph Ottley Roxbury Emma Roseborough Lexington TOWN CLERK'S REPORT 47 October 2. Foster Brewster Earle Madeline Parker Mears 10. Harrison Warner Hosmer Mary Arline Smith 11. Vernon Cookson Page Florence Helen Peckham 20. Ernest Gottfred Johanson Bertha Kristina Anderson 27. Herbert Louis Bennke Elizabeth Cosgrave November 21. Harold William Thomson Gertrude Jean Henderson 21. Benjamin Howard Larrabee Julia Eleanora Swanson 24. Walter Kenneth Moore Marion Chandler Thurlow 27. Fred William Given Charlotte Elizabeth Wood 28. Robert William Woodhouse, Jr. Mary Frances Murtagh 28. Henry Dominick Mallet Emilie Rose de Lima Saulnier 30. Charles Harold Mugridge Edna Campbell 30. Victor E. Marshall Alice P. Baker December 5. George Nelson Alicia Tileston McKechnie 15. Benjamin Charles Freeman Emily Teresa Hunnewell 19. James William Shannon Florence Ina Switser 29. Robert Rae Hegarty Mary Ethel Shannon 30. Michael Joseph Owen Mary Coleman 31. Timothy McDonnell Blanche Breault Lexington Brookline Framingham Lexington Lexington Lexington Waverly Lexington Lexington Everett Lexington Medford Somerville Lexington Watertown Watertown Lexington Cambridge Lexington Brookline Boston Lexington Lexington Lexington Malden Providence, R. I. Lexington Dorchester Bedford Bedford Woburn Lexington West Wareham Lexington Roxbury Lexington Lexington Conn. Date BIRTHS RECORDED FOR THE YEAR 1917 Whole number recorded Name Parents January 3. John Boles Wiggins 13. Robert David Cordillo 17. Benedict Joseph LeBlanc 22. 30. Otto Henry W. Wilson 31. John Cummings Graham, Jr. February 6. William Weeks 12. Daniel Bell Lewis, Jr. 13. Lewis Woodrow McDonald 17. Theodore Custis Brousseau 18. Robert Nelson Grant 26. Elmore Custance 27. Ruth Walsh March 1. Aurio Peirro 3. George Ballard Wilson 5. Leburton Newcomb 1sioagett 22. John Augustus Silva 23. Richard William Hiltz April 2. Ingrid Linnea Fellman 4. Thelma Gertrude Doe 8. 13. Alice Marger Pratt John A. and Florence M. (Boles) Wiggins Michael A. and Alice B. (Fleming) Cordillo Irenee and Mary A. (Comeau) LeBlanc John H. and Anna C. (Johnson) Wilson John C. and Esther P. (Wilkinson) Graham Daniel W. and Louise (Bourque) Weeks Daniel B. and Marian D. (Ellis ) Lewis Jos. L. and Mary E. (Walsh) McDonald Theodore D. and Laura M. (Love) Brousseau Ervin L. and Vera J. (Arthur) Grant George E. and Margaret I. (Rood) Custance James J. and Celina V. (Villeneuve) Walsh Donato and Marie (Aquaro) Peirro John A. and Daisy G. (Parsons) Wilson Leburton K. and Marion (Richardson) Blodgett Augustus J. and Lillian F. (Sears) Silva Roy E. and Gertrude (Armstrong) Hiltz Adolph W. and Hildur O. (Henrikson) Fellman Chester W. and Anna G. (White) Doe Tony and Mary (DiRepucio) Gruziano Harris P. and Maria C. (Wilson) Pratt NO,LDN1XH'I 3O NMOJ Date Name April 14. Albert Lee Pomeroy 25. Robert Warren Franks 27. Edmund Saxton Lamont 28. Dorothy Theresa Hellman 28. James Joseph Walsh, Jr. May 3. Francis Newell Hamblin 8. Michael Joseph Rose 12. Doris Francis Rice 13. Mary Mildred Moffett 16. Edward McDonnell 17. Sara Walker 19. Albert Ernest Scott, Jr. 20. 24. Joseph Michael Duffy 26. 27. Jose Tropeano 30. Helen Catherine Toomey 31. Margaret Wrightington 31. Howard Sanford Sanborn, Jr. June 1. Ethel Agnes Welch 4. Mayr Brosky 5. William Leslie Morrison 13. William Dutra 16. Sarah Josephine Kinneen 20. Jane Bennett Hopkins 21. Laura Marshall 23. Frank Love Parents Tennyson L. and Florence (Kenneson) Pomeroy Henry C. and Blanche B. (Daniels) Franks Harold B. and E. Beatrice (Hodges) Lamont Frederick J. and Ida C. (Cadigan) Hellman James J. and Lucy D. (Hurley) Walsh Stephen F. and Nellie J. (Newell) Hamblin Miliano and Pauline (Sacco) Rose Frank L. and Vada (Burton) Rice John and Mary E. (Conway) Moffett Michael J. and Elizabeth A. (O'Brien) McDonnell Clifton E. and Madeline (Lanpher) Walker Albert E. and Anna M. (McEwen) Scott John and Bernice M. (Statsky) Fredeson Michael J. and Mary C. (Caller) Duffy Cosmos and Susana (Savia Tropeano Walter M. and Mary M. (Leary) Toomey Sydney R. and Marion D. (Jewett) Wrightington Howard S. and Bernice B. (Bersback) Sanborn Thomas J. and Olive V. (Neault) Welch Benjamin and Annie (Aspes) Brosky Wm. G. and Christie F. (Corthell) Morrison Joseph and Rose (Cursz) Dutra James P. and Katherine (Buckley) Kinneen Morton G. and Mildred F. (Bennett) Hopkins Joseph S. and Laura F. (Gomes) Marshall Frank J. and Helen E. (Day) Love PIOd I s x1TzO N N101 Date Name June 25. Ruth Robinson 28. Charles Edward Ingram 30. Florida Ellen Bean July 1. 4. Elizabeth Barbara Emond 6. Willis Alvah Duncklee 7. Edmund Frank Mills 19. Margaret Elizabeth Balmer August 2. Irving Richard Wellman 3. Daniel Allen Macinnis 3. Raymond Stanley Newell 4. Donald Kenneth Irwin 5. William Maurice Bullivant 8. Canterbury Brooke Pierce 9. Lillian Rose Cheever 10. Roland Vincent Smith 12. Jane Elizabeth Bentley 14. 15. Joseph Ambrose Gorman 18. Barbara Theresa Emerson 19. Hyman Cohen 20. Edward Payson Nichols 20. Josephine Helen Roy 21. Charles Langworthy Beaudry 21. Pasquale Catalina, Jr. 21. Jean Caroline Cameron 24. Hazel Louise Hutchinson Parents Henry T. and Jessie F. (Livingston) Robinson George W. and Nellie G. (Keating) Ingram George W. and Ethel F. (Whitaker) Bean Joseph A. and Cora B. (Abercrombie) Emond Lester A. and Adeline A. (Westlake) Duncklee Joseph H. and Lillian M. (Carr) Mills Robert J. and Hannah M. (Keith) Balmer Irving S. and Esther M. (Rice) Wellman Daniel A. and Anna (Madden) Macinnis Harry W. and Clara E. (Jernberg) Newell James and Mary T. (Hellman) Irwin William M. and Alice C. (Read) Bullivant Harold C. and Lillyan M. (Peirce) Pierce Louis M. and Lillian L. (Rose) Cheever James A. and Pauline (Raymond) Smith Charles E. annd Elizabeth (Wilkins) Bentley Daniel A. and Pauline E. (Davis) Gorman Alfred and Edith R. (Bradbury) Emerson Samuel and Annie (Godes) Cohen Howard S. 0. and Bertha (Redman) Nichols Alderic C. and Anna M. (Thoresen) Roy Charles S. and Laura (Langworthy) Beaudry Pasquale and Mary (Belcastra) Catalina Donald and Genet L. (MacMillan) Cameron Arthur E. and Alice J. (Cushman) Hutchinson 01 0 NO,LDNIXa'I 3O NAtOJ Date Name August 25. Mary Ann Briggs 30. Alberto Terestra Sebastiano September 7 2. George Wesley Boyce 7. Joseph Edward Fardy 14. June Janet Josephine Johnson 15. Helen Harkins 15. Robert Stoples Prario 19. Howard Joseph Considine 23. Leon E. Berry, Jr. 25. John Francis Mara 28. Dorothy Marion Leishman 30. Albert DeVincent 30. Mary Casella October 1. 4. Cordis Mills Sargent 10. Mary Frances Kenney 14. Jane Elizabeth Forsythe 23. Paul Willis Franks 28. Joseph Curra 29. November 1. Mary Calantiono 6. Jenny Statsky 7. Ellen Walsh 8. Linea Christina Swanson 9. Howard Ellsworth Fogg Parents Robert L. and Charlotte (Baldwin) Briggs Terestin and Veminicio (Orificio) Sebastiano George W. and Mary E. (Hume) Boyce Thos. F. and Agnes E. (Driscoll) Fardy Harry C. and Vertie L. (Sibert) Johnson Edward J. and Annie S. (Nolan) Harkins Henry T. and Virginia (Stoples) Prario Raymond C. and Madeline K. (Lang) Considine Leon E. and Murtice L. (Gray) Berry Edward H. and Gertrude H. (Dacey) Mara Charles E. and Sarah (Buckle) Leishman Ernest and Candida (English) DeVincent Carmelo and Ricere (Barianta) Casella Daniel and Olympia (DeEndicibus) Cerussi Edward H. and Helen S. (Mills) Sargent John H. and Margaret E. (Kelley) Kenney Arthur J. and Elizabeth M. (Barry) Forsythe Paul B. and Emily F. (Harrison) Franks Jesse and Mary (Grace) Curra Sebastiano and Rosa (Casela) Calantiono Frank and Kazi (Bardowsky) Statsky John J. and Anastasia A. (McNamara) Walsh P. Godfriet and Anna (Hoganson) Swanson Chester A. and Bernice H. (Hovey) Fogg TOWN CLERK'S REPORT Date Name November 10. 10. Edith Saules Mandigo 13. Priscilla Davis 18. Frank Anthony Janusas 19. Agnes Quinlan 26. Kenneth Monroe Smith 27. Phillips Brooks Comstock 29. Edmond Childs December 4. Robert John Breslin 6. Lloyd Robert Bishop 7. Genny Berman 19. Mary Elizabeth Kelly 23. Harold Richard Nutt 23. Henry Wallace Duffy 27. Gordon Leonard Wheeler Parents John J. and Carrie E. (Higgins) Mandigo George M. and Bessie G. (Fuller) Davis Anthony and Chivilis (Antonina) Janusas Thomas and Bridget A. (Cavanaugh) Quinlan George E. and Helen S. (Hanson) Smith Wilmer E. and Grace E. (Macomber) Comstock Edmond and Barbara (Holmes) Childs Thomas H. and Hannah (Bennett) Breslin Edgar L. and Sarah E. (French) Bishop Max and Sarah (Hofman) Berman John E. and Mary J. (Broderick) Kelly Henry J. and Nora J. (Reardon) Nutt J. Henry and Mary R. (Wallace) Duffy Harry A. and Mary L. (Higgins) Wheeler NO.LONIXI'I JO NMOL TOWN CLERK'S REPORT 53 DEATHS RECORDED FOR THE YEAR 1917 Whole number recorded for 1917, Date. Name January Rebecca A. MacPhee 5. 9. 13. 17. 20. 25. 25. 26. 28. 29. 31. David Francis Bacon Cornelius O'Leary Florence L. Lent Abner J. Moody Mabel Cushman Stevens Reginald DeForest Brown Joseph H. Stone Emeline P. Fowle George H. Webb Oscar Leonard Johnson February 2. Abigail Snow Stone 9. Sarah A. Welch 10. Lucy T. Chapin Tuttle 10. Frank V. Butters 12. Jane Meade 12. Frederick E. Stroh 15. Louise M. Thurston 24. Emma J. Rowell 25. George Francis Brown March 6. William James Edwards 7. Herman E. Davidson 10. Albert DeVincent 14. Ellen Peirce 22. Sarah Katherine Morrissey 29. Viando Ricci 30. Robert E. Cosgrove April 5. Julia Maria Fletcher 5. George F. Tewksbury 6. Gordon W. Chapin 16. Albert Lee Pomeroy 20. Minnie Finkelstein 22. Annie Clarke 22. George E Worthen 24. McNamara including stillbirths Age Y. m. d. 63 0 20 79 9 22 60 43 9 3 85 2 0 49 11 26 2 5 2 76 8 10 90 3 23 9 15 41 5 24 82 4 16 42 7 0 30 2 28 79 10 2 85 0 2 83 8 6 74 4 27 67 1 25 80 5 6 56 4 20 55 11 80 11 15 66 4 9 0 40 3 29 74 6 24 69 9 24 14 2 34 41 6 26 72 3 16 1 recorded as deaths, 90. Birthplace Nova Scotia Franklin, N. 11. Ireland Buffalo, N. Y. Wolfboro, N. H. Cambridge Boston Watertown Lexington Lexington Norway Peabody Ireland Holden, Me. Lexington Ireland Germany I:ancaster Portland, Me. Boston I Condon, Eng. Gloucester Lexington Lexington Cambridge Waltham Lexington Quincy Winthrop Lexington Lexington Russia New Brunswick Charlestown Lexington 54 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Date Name May 4. Fidelia S. DeMar 5. Mary Tracy 16. Charles S. Fligg 19. Patrick Doyle 22. Samuel Moody 23. Mary Cornelia Fay 25. Mary E. Hudson 25. Hannah E. Burtt June 2. 15. 18. 27. 30. July 21. 29. 30. 31. 31. William J. Stephens Hokan Hokanson Abigail Tay Richardson James Hannaford Jane Bennett Hopkins Charles H. H. Sherman Charles E. Ingram Frank H. Whitney Mary Holland Daniel J. Donovan August 1. Stephen Skipp 1. Mary Jane Doe 6. Armina Thomson 11. Lillian Rose Cheever 14. 16.Elizabeth F. Collins 20. Max Dektor 31. Lillian Louise Cheever September 1. Mary A. Lightbody 3. Mary Gaynor 16. Irving Johnson 18. Michael Hinchey 19. Sabina G. Francis 20. Ellen Kirlin 25. Colin Woodrow Fleming 30. Mary Valentine October 4. Carson Bryon 10. living Stone 10. Mary Ward 11. Alonzo E. Locke Age y. m. d. 76 5 13 78 15 5 1 61 9 9 87 9 5 64 7 6 78 1 25 77 1 4 32 9 7 30 8 3 95 9 20 87 3 9 10 7.1 11 1 1 2 65 1 20 97 2 27 64 70 86 0 2 62 10 4 9 60 36 23 10 13 41 4 9 39 0 0 82 5 0 74 0 0 9 14 61 1 8 22 76 8 18 62 7 1 86 0 9 68 6 19 5:, 11 29 Birthplace Lexington Ireland Fairfield, Ia. Cambridge Sallsbury Hartford, Conn. Westminster Andover South Boston Sweden No. Woburn Wales Lexington New Bedford Lexington Fitchburg Ireland Ireland England Boston Nova Scotia Lexington Ireland Russia Lexington Charlestown Ireland Ireland Ireland Boston Woodstock, N. B. Somerville Michigan Nova Scotia Newfield, Me. Bath, Me. Lexington Date October Name TOWN CLERK'S REPORT 55 Age Birthplace y. m. d. 13. William Francis Callahan 21 9 4 Lexington, Mass. 17. Mary C. Jackson 72 11 20 Boston 22. Olive H. Doe 22 11 1 Lexington 23. Ethel P. Spidel 4 16 Lexington 29. November 10. 12. Annie DeFeiice 10 2 Lexington 16. David Tenney 54 Ireland 18. James Franklin Thayer 68 1 13 Richmond, N. H. 26. Sarah S. Sweetser 76 0 14 Shewsbury 30. Michael Aquaro 58 Italy December 13. Sarah Fairfield 81 2 24 Kennebunk, Me. 20. Hannibal Wellington 59 11 20 Quebec 21. Ann Grace Turner 79 8 13 St. Johns, N. F. 24. Ann Mariah Harrod 84 9 12 Stowe, Mass. 30. Annie McInerney 55 2 15 Gloucester DOGS LICENSED Whole number of dogs licensed from Dec. 1, 1916 to Dec. 1, 1917, 392. Males, 344; Females, 48. Breeders 0. Amount sent to County Treas- urer June 1, 1917 $549.00 Amount sent to County Treas- urer Dec. 1, 1917 300.00 $849.60 56 TOWN OF LEXINGTON REPORTS OF COMMITTEES Report of Building Committee on New School Accommodations. Submitted at Town Meeting, March 5, 1917. This Committee was appointed under a vote of the Town, passed at a meeting held June 14th, 1915, the vote being as follows: "That the Town proceed to add to the Munroe School four rooms and otherwise reconstruct the present building approxi- mately in accordance with plans submitt- ed by Mr. Willard D. Brown; also pur- chase at North Lexington a suitable site and construct thereon a two or three room brick building to be used for school purposes, and appropriate the sum of sixty thousand dollars ($60,000.00) as a Schoolhouse Construction Appropriation to meet the necessary expenditures under this vote. All of the above work to be carried into effect by a building commit- tee of seven members to consist of the School Committee, the members of the Committee on Increased School Accom- modations reporting at this meeting, and one member to be appointed by the Mod- erator." Mr. Dwight F. Kilgour was appointed by the Moderator and was afterwards elected Chairman of the Committee. Your Committee, believing that they have performed their duty under the foregoing vote so far as they are able, in view of conditions which have arisen since the creation of the committee, de- sire to submit the following report: Total Cost of Munroe School Addition $38,972.65 Items General Contractor Plumbing Electric Work Hardware Heating and Ventilating Excavating and Masonry Cesspool Overflow School Furniture Engineers' Commission Architects Commission Miscellaneous Charges $22,940.20 1,356.00 1,659.89 318.92 6,748.05 1,075.00 156.64 1,298.69 475.31 1,773.05 1,170.90 $38,972.65 Re:—No. Lexington Site $195.50 expended and charged under the head of "Miscellaneous Charges." The addition to the Munroe School has been made in a thorough manner, and practically, a new building turned over to the School Committee. Regarding the proposed school at North Lexington, much time has been given by the Committee in the selection of a suit- able site which would conform to the requirements of the Massachusetts Board of Education. Your Committee was restricted in the amount which it could offer for a school house site by Chapter 263 of the General Acts of 1915, which specificallly states that but 25 per cent. in excess of the average assessment for the last three years shall be paid for land for school purposes and in the event that it cannot be purchased for such price it shall be taken by eminent domain. In June of 1916, the Town was asked to accept and purchase the schoolhouse site chosen and recommended by your committee. The Town did not, however, see fit to accept the Committee's recommendations and we feel that it is wise to go no further with the matter at this time owing to the changing school conditions that confront the Town. In view of these changed conditions which have been presented in detail to the voters of the Town in the several circulars that have been sent out by the School Committee, we now submit this report and request that this Committee be discharged. Respectfully submitted, DWIGHT F. KILGOUR, J. ODIN TILTON, JAY 0. RICHARDS, ROBERT L. RYDER, ARTHUR L. BLODGETT, CHARLES S. CLAPHAM, HALLIE C. BLAKE. TOWN CLERK'S REPORT 57 Report of Committee on Improved Town Government. To the Citizens of Lexington: Your committee for the consideration of modification in the methods of ad- ministration of Town Affairs was ap- pointed on July 13th. After organizing and collecting a large amount of material bearing upon the subject, it visited the Town of Norwood on September 20 and made thorough in- spection and study of the system in use in that town. The committee later invited all town officials to appear at a private hearing before it, and later gave a public hear- ing. The Committee secured the services of a student of municipal affairs to draw up charts and outline the schemes used in various foreign countries and in the United States, and the Committee was represented by special arrangement at the important "Municipal Week" Con- gress in Springfield. It used the ma- terial thus acquired as a basis in draw- ing up an act to present to the citizens of Lexington — proposing a stronger Board of Selectmen, having wider duties than at present, and with fewer inde- pendent boards and committees. This act as outlined, provided for a general superintendent hired by the Se- lectmen as an agent of the Board in Engineering and allied matters. A rough draft was being considered, when the attention of the Committee was called to a joint conference of Citizens of 15 Towns regarding this matter of revised administration. Other towns had been advised that the Committee on Towns of the Legislature desired a general permissive act, and not a score of individual schemes presented by as many towns. The Committee was represented at sev- eral of these informal conferences, and followed closely the progress of the bill which was being framed by those repre- sented. This bill is now before the Legis- lature, and is so nearly in substance what your Committee had previously drawn up for presentation to the Town, that your Committee beg leave to submit with this report the following recommenda- tions, viz.: That the Town awaits action by the present Legislature upon the general bill for revision of Town administration, be- fore taking action upon any specific bill of its own. Such action by the Legisla- ture should occur before June, and give the Town ample time to accept the act later in the current year, or, in the ever,'. - of adverse action by the Legislature or a desire on the part of the Town to modi- fy the general act to complete its own draft in time for the next I_-egislature. Respectfully submitted, COMMITTEE ON MODIFICATION IN TOWN GOVERNMENT. A. Ingham BicknelI,Chairman, W. R. Greeley, S. R. Wrightington, E. H. Mara, E. C. Stevens, G. H. Childs, A. E. Tenney. Charles Street. Report of Selectmen on Acceptance of. Submitted at Town Meeting, March 26, 1917. Lexington, February 9, 1917. Charles Street is in that part of Lex - Under article twenty-nine in the War- ington known as Liberty Heights and rant for this meeting the Selectmen ne- runs from Massachusetts Avenue to a sire to report as follows: private way known as Taft Avenue. rw8 TOWN OF LEXINGTON To persons coming from the direction' of Arlington Heights this street affords the only convenient means of access from Massachusetts Avenue to a large num- due notice, laid out Charles Street as a beyond the end of Charles Street. There are also a number of houses on the street. The only other means of ac- cess to this territory is by way of Oak Street which is some distance north of Charles Street and makes a roundabout way for persons coming from Arlington Heights. In consequence of a petition received by the Selectmen the Board, after giving rue notice, laid out Charles Street as a public way, forty feet wide in accord- ance with a plan entitled, "Layout of Charles Street at Lexington, Scale 40, May, 1914." The residents in this section of the town have, at their own expense, put this street in a condition satisfactory to the Selectmen. The Board recommends the accept- ance of Charles Street by the town as a public street. Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, JAY 0. RICHARDS, WILLIAM B. FOSTER, Selectmen of Lexington. The Report was accepted and the street laid out and acepted as a Public Way. Increased School Accommodations. Report of Committee. Submitted at Town Meeting April 16; 1917. This committee was created by vote of the Town, March 12, as follows: That the Town establish a Committee on Increased School Accommodations of seven members to consist of the present School' Committee and four other mem- bers to be appointed by the Moderator, said committee to consider the needs of the Town relative to Increased School Accommodations and report as soon as reasonably possible, their findings and recommendations. The following men were appointed on said Committee: Hallie C. Blake, John Calder, Arthur L. Blodgett, Dwight F. Kilgour, Christopher S. Ryan, Robert L. Ryder. Edward P. Merriam, Several meetings have been held and the School requirements investigated and carefully considered, and the Committee desire to make the following recommen- dation and report: Recommended: That there is immediate need of additional School Accommodation in every section of theTown, particularly at the Grade Schools, the Committee recommend to the Town that additional accommodation be provided for by the erection of a new building to be built preferably on land adjacent to present High School. Report of the Committee The Junior High School System seems to be the modern method of education, and it is the unanimous opinion of the Committee that it is advisable for the Town to recommend to the School Com- mittee that they adopt at this time that plan, which will relieve this congestion in our several Grade Schools and the High School. It is thought advisable to build with an idea as to an extension in the future which will undoubtedly make it possible to accommodate our increasing school population much longer and with better results than by other suggested methods. Respectfully submitted, DWIGHT F. KILGOUR, Chairman, ROBERT L. RYDER, ARTHUR L. BLODGETT, C. S. RYAN, JOHN CALDER, EDWARD P. MERRIAM, HALLIE C. BLAKE. It was voted that the report be ac- cepted and placed on file and that the recommendations relative to a Junior High School be adopted. TOWN CLERK'S REPORT 59 Report of Committee on New Cemetery. Submitted at Town Meeting, April 16, 1917. New Cemetery, Corner of Bedford and Summer Streets. This Committee, in making a much be- lated report, would state that it has given more or less consideration to practically every location in town in any way avail- able or suitable for cemetery purposes, and certain locations have been very thoroughly considered. Outside the proper conditions of soil, it seems essential that a cemetery loca- tion should be on or quite near the street railway line, so as to be easily access- ible to those wishing to visit it. Our first consideration of available sites was given to the properties on Massachusetts Avenue owned by the Bacon Estate, Mrs. Kendall, Dr. J. J. Walsh and Mrs. Nelly J. Boynton directly in front of the present cemetery, for this location seemed to meet with much favor on the part of a number of people. We believe, however, that the total area of the above mentioned properties is not sufficient adequately to meet the reasonable demands of the future. Furthermore, the taking of this prop- erty would remove from the tax list ap- proximately $33,480 of valuation. The Bacon Estate is now being considered for school building purposes, and it is probably more essential to the Town for this purpose than for a cemetery. In passing, we would state that we feel the Town made a mistake when it de- clined to act on the recommendation of this Committee in August, 1915, to take a portion of the Bacon Estate sufficient to add some over thirty lots to meet pres- ent urgent demands and to give a de- sirable entrance to the present cemetery, one which safety and convenience de- mands. If the Town should vote to purchase or take the Bacon Estate for school building purposes, we think that sufficient land should be set aside for the cemetery if not for additional lots to the number of thirty or more, at least a strip of land to make the entrance to the cemetery of sufficient width to allow vehicles to pass, and to give a proper and protected walk for pedestrians. The Committee gave the longest and most careful consideration to the prop- erty of the J. S. Munroe estate, back of Munroe Station, which possesses many attractive features, with entrances from 'Massachusetts Avenue, Woburn and Maple Streets, and the development of which would work to the future advan- tage of the Town. We had this location carefully investi- gated by a competent landscape architect, and received his general approval. I`he Town of Arlington, at a hearing before the State Board of Health, made no objection to the use of this property for cemetery purposes, although ru was a part of the water shed of their old water works property, which gave them a voice in the matter. When, however, it was found that ail important part of this property abso- lutely essential for cemetery purposes was also necessary for carrying on suc- cessfully the business of the Breck-Rob- inson Nursery Company, and if taken by the Town, would make it impossible for them to carry on their business in Lex- ington, and also in view of the very large expenditures which would be required to purchase this property and properly to develop it, we deemed it unwise to report favorably on this location. While situations that have many natural advantages can be found in vari- ous parts of the Town, some are away from transportation facilities, others are filled with rocks and boulders, while the use for cemetery purposes of other lo- cations, some of which are already being developed for residential purposes would seriously injure surrounding property, and hinder or destroy the best develop- ment of the Town. For these reasons the selection of a suitable site has been difficult, but we 60 TOWN CLERK'S REPORT feel that in recommending the locatidn on Bedford Street, at the corner of Sum- mer Street, and extending down Summer Street, we have found a place on the street car line where natural advantages re right, where practically all material needed for the development of the prop- erty is at hand, and where there is suffi- cient acreage to establish a cemetery of a size to meet all future needs, with little, if any, injury to surrounding property. The property on the corner of Bed- ford and Summer Streets, owned by Mrs. Katherine Wood, contains about ten acres, with a frontage of about 1,100 feet on Bedford Street, and about 400 feet on Summer Street. The assesed value of this lot is $2,000.00. On Summer Street the adjoining prop- erty owned by Mrs. Mary A. Coyle con- tains about five acres, has upon it a small house and barn, the assessed valu- ation for land being $250.00, for buildings $600.00, a total of $850.00. The next property down Summer Street, belonging to Norman J. Hingley, contains about five acres, with house and a barn, the assessed value of the land being $260.00, buildings $2,200.00, a total of $2,460.00. The next property, belonging to Ma- thias Shelales, contains thirteen and one- half acres, valued at $600.00, with house and out -building valued at $2,050.00,—a total of $2,650.00. There is stilt another property on Summer Street which we would recommend to include, containing twelve and one-half acres, valued at $400.00, with buildings valued at $500.00, a total of $900.00. All of these properties run to the Bed- ford Town Line, with the exception of the Wood property, there being a triangular piece of land of about one acre, with a frontage of about 150 feet on Bedford Street, valued at $100.00, between the Wood property and the Town Line. This gives, for all the properties mentioned, a total area approximately forty-seven acres, with a total valuation, including buildings of $8,960.00 It has been impossible to secure prices on these properties within a twenty-five per cent. excess over the assessed value, so that they could probably be secured only by taking by right of eminent do- main. Should the Town decide to secure these properties, there should be prepared a comprehensive plan for the development of the entire tract, but the Town need go to the expense at the beginning of de- veloping only a portion of the property, and as lots were sold from time to time, proceeds of sale could be used to develop the balance of the property. We have not had actual surveys taken and plans made to submit with this re- port, as the Committee had insufficient funds available for the purpose, but we believe that we have submitted sufficient data for the Town to decide whether this is a suitable location for a cemetery, and if' approved, the Town can take such further action as may be necessary to secure the properties in question. It has been suggested to the Uommittee that the Catholic authorities might wisn to purchase or arrange for the exclusive use of a part of any property bought, if large enough, and if such an arrange- ment could be made. The Board of Health are ready to ap- prove this location. To bring about action on this report, it is our purpose to offer a vote substantially as follows: Voted, that the Selectmen be requested to have a complete survey made by the Town Engineer of the properties recom- mended for a Cemetery in the report of the Committee on New Cemetery, and that they be further authorized to pur- chase these properties for cemetery pur- poses, or take the necessery steps to se- cure the properties by right of eminent domain. (Signed) HERBERT L. WELLINGTON, ARTHUR A. MARSHALL, EVERETT S. EMERY, GEORGE H. JACKSON, A. E. LOCKE, JAMES F. McCARTHY. TOWN OF L):XINGTON 61 New Cemetery. Corner of Bedford and Summer Streets. Submitted at Town Meeting, June 28, 1917. Report of Selectmen Lexington, June 28, 1917. Under Article 27 of the Warrant for the Annuai 'Town Meeting, a vote was passed by the Town instructing the Se- lectmen to purchase property for cem- etery purposes at the north end of the Town, or to take such property by right of eminent domain. Although a certain limit of price was set by vote, no money was appropriated with which the Selectmen could make the purchase. The Board has investigated the prop- erty and the Town Engineer has made a survey of the whole tract bound by Bed- ford and Summer Streets, the Boston & Maine R. R., and the Lexington town line, and we present a tracing of the same here this evening. The Board has asked the different owners of the properties to appear at its office at the Town Hall, which they have done, and state any reasons why their property should not be taken by the Town. The Board desires to report the value set by the owners and the reasons why they should receive more money than the vote of the Town allows. Mr. Coyle states that his property con- sists of five acres of land and buildings and was bought by him in 1907 at a cost of $1,400. He states that he has im- proved the property since then very much, having set out thirty-two fruit trees which now bear fruit every year and which he considers to be worth not less than $25.00 each or $800 for the orchard. He has paid for improvements in the house, such as town water, electric lights, etc., at a cost of $480.00 and for other improvements on the land, barn and house, a sum of $260.00, making a total investment of $1,400 at 4 per cent. of $2,940.00. Figuring the interest on the original investments of $1,400 at 4 per cent. makes $560.00 or a total of $3,500.00 which Mr. Coyle stated he is willing to accept, although he states that his figures do not include any work which he has done himself to improve the land. Mr. Hingley paid $2,500 for his prop- erty about two years ago. It consists of five acres of land and buildings. He states that the improvements and invest- ment cost about $3,600. As he bought this property for a permanent home and taking in the amount of labor he has laid out on the property, he thinks that he should receive $4,000.00. The Shelales property consists of thir- teen and one half acres of land, new house and barn and poultry houses, fruit trees, etc., and counting the labor of clearing of five acres it reaches a total investment of about $5,800. Mr. Shelales has set a value of $7,500 on the property, which the Board considers too much. The front land on Bedford Street be- longs to Katherine H. Wood. The Board has received a letter from Mrs. Wood's attorney setting a price of $12,000 on the property, claiming that it was the in- tention of the owner to cut the land into building lots. This land consists of ten acres with no buildings and is assessed for $2,000.00 The land of Weizbiki as shown by the plan adjoins the Shelalis property and contains about 5 acres of which is situa- ted in Bedford. The rear of this lot in- cluding the part which is in Bedford is low and swampy, and the Board advise,; that instead of taking the Weizbiki prop- erty, the town should secure the land be- longing to Mr. Frost in the rear of the Coyle, Hingley and Shelalis properties and extending to the Bedford line, con- taining approximately two and one half acres. The Board further advises that the northerly boundary of the proposed cem- etery be continued straight to Bedford Street as shown by the plan, taking a 62 TOWN CLERK'S REPORT small piece from the Frost property and giving in exchange a piece of the Wood property of about the sante area. This will make a better shaped lot and will contain about 36 acres in all, an area which the Board thinks is ample. The Board has gone over the entire proposition with the Finance Committee Report and acting on their advice will proceed to take the entire area by right of emi- nent domain. Respectfully submitted, W. S. SCAMMAN, JAY 0. RICHARDS, Selectmen of Lexington. of Committee on Improved Highways. Submitted at a Town Meeting, June 28, 1917. At a town meeting held March 12, 1917, the following vote was passed: Voted, "that a committee of seven, of which the Board of Selectmen shall be three, be appointed by the Moderator to consider the question of the best way of improving the condition of our high- ways." Said Committee shall give particular attention to the advisability of adopting some definite plan of their improvement from year to year, the advisability of putting in a more permanent form of streets than is now being installed and whether or not it would be wise for the town to borrow a substantial sum of money for the immediate improvement of Massachusetts Avenue and other main thoroughfares." The following committee was appoint- ed: George H. Childs, William B. Foster, Jay 0. Richards, Walter W. Rowse, Albert B. Tenney, William S. Scamman, William H. Whitaker. A preliminary investigation showed conclusively that the full intent of the vote could not be carried out in the short time available to present a comprehen- sive scheme for this year. The many activities surrounding the war with the consequent demands upon the time of our citizens made it difficult to study the situation as we desired. In spite of these difficulties your Com- mittee has made enough study to report as follows: Through the courtesy of the Mayor of Springfield, we were able to secure the services of Mr. Frank H. Clark, Head of the Departments of Streets and Engin- eering, who personally visited the Town and with the Committee visited the streets and highways. Attached hereto is a copy of his report. Mr. Clark recommends and your Com- mittee concur in the following recommen- dations to the Town: (a) (b) (c) That Massachusetts Avenue from Pleasant Street to the State Road be scarified, and new stone be filled in and the whole surface coated with tar or equally suitable ma- terial at an estimated cost of $10,000. That from Winthrop Road to Waltham Street the highway be rebuilt, using a cement foundation and a tar concrete or equally suit- able material be placed on top there- of, with necessary curb stones. Such permanent work would be a basis for further extensions and would, with proper care, last 20 or 25 years. In addition it is confidently ex- pected that the County Commis- sioners will contribute to the cost. Such a permanent construction would thus cost about $10,000. That further time be allowed your Committee to make a more complete and comprehensive report on this subject, and that $500 be appropriated to permit the Com- mittee to employ other experts in order that more and diverse opinion be obtained on this matter. Respectfully submitted, JAY 0. RICHARDS, W. S. SCAMMAN, GEORGE H. CHILDS, ALBERT B. TENNEY. TOWN OF LEXINGTON 63 Department of Streets and Engineering Springfield, Mass., May 19, 1917. Mr. Charles W. Swan, Clerk, Committee on Improved Highways, Lexington, Mass. Dear Sir: In accordance with the request of your Committee that I report in writing such conclusions as I was able to gather from my recent examination of certain streets in the Town of Lexington, I beg leave to say that in my opinion the several streets and roads, except Massachusetts Avenue, are in good condition; that they have received proper attention, and that those recently built are good examples of modern road construction. Massachusetts Avenue, the main artery of travel through the town, with ever in- creasing traffic both in number and weight of vehicles, I believe, demands a more permanent and durable pavement than that which has been heretofore at- tempted. Any street containing car tracks must of necessity sustain a more or less con- centrated traffic which, in my opinion, re- quires a pavement having a cement con- crete base. The selection of a proper pavement for the entire street should be made and sections thereof Iaid from time to time as conditions are favorable and funds available. I assume that it is not expected that the entire work could be clone at once owing to the financial bur- den both to the 'Town and the Railway Company. To pave against an insecure railway track is obviously unsatisfactory botn to the Town and to the Company. It wou.'.I therefore appear to be to the advantage of both if the permanent pavement could be Iaid at such times as it becomes neces- sary to renew the railway tracks at which time the Railway Company could be expected to bear some portion of the ex pense. The present condition of the roadway demands immediate attention but to undertake to continue the present form of construction in the face of heavy traffic now moving over the street will cause a constant drain on the maintenance ap- propriation and permit a continuation of be unsatisfactory surface. I would, therefore recommend; First: That a Two and one half inch mixed as- phalt pavement on a five or six inch (according to the nature of the sub base) cement concrete base be adopted as the ultimate pavement for Massachusetts Avenue; Second; That the portion of the Avenue not immediately so paved be thoroughly scarified, regraded, brought to a proper cross section by the addition of a new number one stone and floured with two applications of tar. Respectfully yours, F. H. CLARK. 61 TOWN CLERK'S REPORT ACTS ACCEPTED Chapter 291 of the General Acts of 1916. An Act Relative to the Tenure of Office of Chiefs of Fire Departments in the Metropolitan Fire Prevention District. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section 1. The chief engineer of the Fire Department of any city or town now or hereafter included within the metro- politan fire prevention district shall hold his office continuously during good be- havior unless incapacitated by physical or mental disability to perform the duties of his position: provided, however, that the chief of the fire department may, with the consent of the confirming authority, remove said engineer for just cause and for reasons specifically as- signed by said authority. Section. 2. Before being removed in the manner above provided, the chief en- gineer of any of said cities or towns shall be furnished with a copy of the reasons required in section one, and shall be al- lowed a reasonable time to answes them in writing. A copy of the reasons, notice and answer, and of the order of removal, shall be filed with the city or town clerk. Section 3. This act shall be sub- mitted to the several cities and towns in- cluded in the metropolitan fire prevention district at their next respective muni- cipal elections or town meetings, and shall take effect in any such city or town upon its acceptance by a majority of the voters voting thereon: provided, that if in any city or town in said district the provisions of the civil service laws are already applicable to the chief engineer of the fire department, this act shall take effect therein upon its passage. Approved June 1, 1916. Accepted by the Town March 5, 1917. Chapter 153 of the General Acts of 1916. An Act Relative to the License Fee for Slaughter Houses in Towns Having Less Than Ten Thousand Inhabitants. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section 1. In towns having less than ten thousand inhabitants the annual li- cense fee for carrying on the business of slaughtering neat cattle, sheep or swine shall be such sum, not exceeding one hundred dollars, as the Selectmen shall fix. Section 2. So much of section one hundred of chapter seventy-five of the Revised Laws, as amended by section two of chapter two hundred and ninety-seven of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eleven, as is inconsistent herewith shall not apply to the provisions of this act. Section 3. This act shall take full effect in any town to which it applies up- on its aceptance by a majority vote of the voters thereof present and voting thereon at any annual town meeting; otherwise it shall not take effect. For the purpose of such acceptance this act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved April 24, 1916. Accepted by the Town March 5, 1917. TOWN CLERK'S REPORT 65 Chapter 59 of the General Acts of 1916. ( Amending- Chap. 28/, .Sec. 1, General Acts of 1915.) An Act Relative to the Holding of Annual Town Meetings. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section 1. Chapter two hundred and eighty-four of the General Acts of the year nineteen hundred and fifteen is here- by amended by striking out section one and inserting in place thereof the follow- ing new section: ---Section 1. Any town, upon its acceptance of this act, may pro- vide that the election of town officers and the vote on the question of granting liquor licenses shall take place at any time within a week before or after the meting held for the transaction of all other business. The time and place of holding the meeting for such election and vote shall be stated in the Warant for the annual town meeting, and all the meet- ings above mentioned, or any adjourn- ment thereof, shall be deemed parts of the Annual Town Meeting. Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved March 21, 1916. Accepted by the Town March 5, 1917. Chapter 293 of the General Acts of 1916. An Act to Authorize the Licensing by Cities and Towns of Motor Vehicles Carrying Passengers for Hire. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section 1. Cities and towns shall have authority to license and regulate the transportation of passengers for hire as a business between fixed and regular ter- mini by means of any motor vehicle, ex- cept the trackless trolley vehicle, so called, not running on tracks or rails, and may impose reasonable license fees, make regulations for the operation of such vehicles within their own limits, and impose suitable penalties for the vio- lation of such regulations: provided, however, that no such motor vehicle shall be operated as aforesaid until the licen- see of the vehicle, in addition to comply- ing with all regulations of the city or town in which the vehicle is to be operat- ed, shall have deposited with the treas- urer of any city or town in which a 1i - cense has been taken out, security by bond or otherwise, approved by the city or town treasurer, in such aum as the city or town may reasonably require. con- ditioned to pay any final judgment ob- tained against the principal named in the bond for any injury to person or prop- erty, or damage for causing the death of any person, by reason of any negligent or unlawful act on the part of the principal named in said bond, his or its agents, employees or drivers, in the use or opera- tion of any such vehicle. Any person so injured or damaged may sue on the bond in the name of the city or town treasurer, and damages so recovered shall go to the person injured or damaged. Section 2. Nothing in this act shall be construed as requiring the licensee to file more than one bond, which shall be filed in any city or town in which a li- cense has been taken out. Section 3. This act shall take full effect in cities upon its acceptance by the city council, and in towns upon its ac- ceptance by the voters of the town at any duly called town meeting. For the pur- pose of submitting this act to cities and to towns, it shall take effect upon its passage. Approved June 1, 1916. Acepted by the Town March 5, 1917. 66 TOWN OF LEXINGTON STREETS ACCEPTED. Report of Selectmen on Acceptance of Charles Street. Lexington, February 9, 1917. tinder article twenty-nine in the War- rant for this meeting the Selectmen de- sire to report as follows: Charles Street is in that part of Lex- ington known as Liberty Heights and runs from Massachusetts Avenue to a private way known as Taft Avenue. To persons coming from the direction of Arlington Heights this street affords the only convenient means of access from Massachusetts Avenue to a large number of houses located on private streets be- yond the end of Charles Street. There are also a number of houses on the street. The only other means of access to this territory is by way of Oak Street which is some distance north of Charles Street and makes a roundabout way for persons coming from Arlington Heights. In consequence of a petition received by the Selectmen the Board, after giving due notice, laid out Charles Street as a public way, forty feet wide in accordance with a plan entitled, "Layout of Charles Street at Lexington. Scale 40. May, 1914." The residents in this section of the town have, at their own expense, put this street in a condition satisfactory to the Selectmen. The Board recommends the acceptance of Charles Street by the town as a public street. Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, JAY O. RICHARDS, WILLIAM B. FOSTER, Selectmen of Lexington. Lay -Out of Charles Street. We, the Selectmen of Lexington, hav- ing decided that public convenience and necessity requires a way forty (40) feet wide to be laid out from Massachusetts Avenue over a private way supposed to be the property of Jacob W. Wilbur to a private way known as Taft Avenue, fol- lowing the course of the private way al- ready laid out and known as Charles Street, gave notice on December 6, 1916 to all resident owners of land over which the proposed way is located (a copy of which notice is appended to this order) of our intention to lay out said way, and we now having met at the time and place and for the purpose specified therefor in said notice, lay out said way as a street or Town way having a uniform width of forty (40) feet and fix the boundaries and measurements of the way as fol- lows: Northwesterly line: begins at a stone bound to be set on Massachusetts Avenue thence running on a curve to the right radius 14.40, 29.58 feet to a stone bound to be set in the ground, thence on a curve to the left radius 840, 248.23 feet to a stone bound to be set in the ground; thence a straight line running in a west- erly direction 483.3 feet to Taft Avenue so called. Southwesterly line: is parallel with the above described line except at its inter- section with Massachusetts Avenue where the corner is curved to make better ap- proach to Massachusetts Avenue. Said boundaries and measurements are shown on a plan made by Frank P. Cutter, C. E. elated May, 1914 and en- titled, "Lay out of Charles Street at Lexington," and now on file in the office of the Town Clerk. For a more complete description of the lay -out said plan is made a part hereof. Done at Lexington this twenty-second day of December, 1916. EDWARD W. TAYLOR, WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, WILLIAM B. FOSTER, Selectmen of Lexington. TOWN CLERK'S REPORT 67 Bennington Road. Running 350 Feet Southerly from Eliot Road. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Lexington, Mass., June 15, 1917. At a meeting of the Board of Select- men of the Town of Lexington, after having given due notice of the intention of said Board, as required by law, to .ay out Bennington Road, extending approxi- mately 350 feet in a southerly direction from Eliot Road as hereinafter more fully appears, and after due hearing thereon held April 6, 1917, as appears of record, and no objections having been made, it is Ordered that this Board of Selectmen are of the opinion that public convenience and necessity require that said Bennington Road be laid out and that the same hereby is laid out and established as a Public Town Way from Eliot Road southerly a distance of ap- proximately 350 feet as follows: 'rhe easterly line of said street begins at a point in the present southerly line of Eliot Road and is thence on a curve of 19.63 feet radius bearing to the left 22.06 feet to a point on the easterly side of Bennington Road; thence on a curve of 212.58 feet radius bearing to the left 157.87 feet to a point; thence on a curve of 229.54 feet radius bearing to the left 162.15 feet to a point. The westerly line begins at a point in the present southerly line of Eliot Road and is thence on a curve of 17.34 feet radius bearing to the right 29.45 feet to a point on the westerly side of said Ben- nington Road and 40 feet distant from the above described easterly line as shown by the plan to which reference is here- inafter made. Thence from said point the westerly line is parallel and 40 feet distant from the above described easterly line to a stone bound opposite the ter- minus of said easterly line, said bound being at the division line between land of Mary L. and Robert P. Clapp and Marian J. and Sydney R. Wrightington. The above description is intended to conform to a plan of said road entitled, "Plan of Bennington Road, Lexington, Scale 1 inch -20 feet, June 1917, J. Henry Duffy, Town Engineer. Said Selectmen order stone bounds to be set to permanently mark the above described lines. And the Selectmen having considered the question of damages sustained by the owners of the lands across and through which said street has been laid out as aforesaid hereby determine that no damages are sustained and none are awarded. WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, JAY 0. RICHARDS, Selectmen of Lexington. Highland Avenue. Winthrop Road to Vine Brook Road. TOWN OF LEXINGTON Lay -Out of Highland Avenue from Winthrop Road to Vine Brook Road. We, the Selectmen of Lexington, after due notice and hearing, having decided that public convenience and necessity re quires that a public way be laid out to complete the link from the. junction of Winthrop Road and Highland Avenue to Vine Brook Road and following the course of a way already constructed, now lay out the folowing way: The way as herein established is shown on a plan approved by the Board of Sur- vey, June 28, 1916, and made by Pierce & 68 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Barnes Co., Civil Engineers. Said way begins at Winthrop Road and extends in a northwesterly direction a distance of about 250 feet to the easterly terminus of Vine Brook Road. The Street as laid out has a general width of sixty (60) feet. And the Selectmen having considered the question of damages sustained by the owners of the lands across and through which said street has been laid out as aforesaid hereby determine that no damages are sustained and none are awarded. WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, JAY O. RICHARDS, Selectmen of Lexington. Oak Street ( Extension of ) We, the Selectmen of Lexington, hav ing decided that public convenience ands necessity require a way forty (40) feet wide to be laid out from the terminus of Oak Street, as now accepted, over a pri- vate way supposed to be the property of, Jacob W. Wilbur, to a private way known as Baker Avenue, following the course of the private way already laid out and known as Oak Street gave notice on Dec- ember 29, 1916 to all resident owners of land over which the proposed way is lo- cated, of our intention to lay out said way and we now having met at the time and place and for the purpose specified therefor in said notice, lay out such way • as a street or town way having a uniform width of forty (40) feet and fix the boundaries and measurements of the way as follows: Northeasterly line begins at a stone bound to be set at the present terminus of Oak Street thence running southeast approximately 280 feet to a stone bound to be set in the ground and thence con- tinuing southeasterly approximately four hundred twenty-one (421) feet to a stone bound to be set in the ground at the junc- tion of a private way known as Baker Avenue. The southwesterly line is parallel with the above mentioned line and forty (40) feet distant therefrom. Said boundaries and measurements are shown on a plan made by F. P. Cutter, dated May, 1914, and entitled, "Lay -out of Oak Street Extension at Lexington," and now on file in the office of the Town Clerk. For a more complete description of the Lay -out said plan is made a part hereof. The lay -out and grade of this proposed street were approved by the Board of Survey at a meeting held February 26, 1915. EDWARD W. TAYLOR, WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN WILLIAM B. FOSTER, Selectmen of Lexington. Baker Avenue. Oak Street to Taft Avenue. We, the Selectmen of Lexington, hav- ing decided that public convenience and necessity require a way, forty (40) feet wide to be laid out from the terminus of a private way known as Oak Street Ex- tension and running northeast over a private way supposed to be the property of Jacob W. Wilbur to a private way known as Taft Avenue following the course of a private way already laid out and known as Baker Avenue, gave notice on December 29, 1916 to all resident owners of land over which the proposed way is located of our intention to lay out said way, and we now having met at the time and place and for the purpose specified therefor in said notice, lay out said way as a street or town way having a uniform width of forty (40) feet and fix the boundaries and measurements of the way as follows: The northwesterly line begins at the stone bound to be set in the ground at the junction of Oak Street Extension and this private way, thence running in a straight line northeast approximately TOWN CLERK'S REPORT 69 two hundred seventy (270) feet to a stone bound to be set in the ground on the northeast side of a private way known as Taft Avenue. The southeasterly line is parallel with the above described line and forty (40) feet distant therefrom. Said boundaries and measurements are shown on a plan dated May, 1914, and entitled, "lay -out of a portion of Taft and Baker Avenues at Lexington," and, now on file at the office of the Town Clerk. For a more complete description of the lay -out said plan is made a part here- of. The lay -out and grade of the above described street was approved by the Board of Survey, February 26, 1915. EDWARD W. TAYLOR, WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, WILLIAM B. FOSTER, Selectmen of Lexington. Taft Avenue. Baker Avenue to Charles Street. We, the Selectmen of Lexington, hav- I ing decided that public convenience and necessity require a way forty (40) feet wide to be laid out over a private way known as Taft Avenue and following the lines of a portion of a private way known as Taft Avenue to its junction with a private way known as Charles Street, gave notice on December 29, 1916 to all resident owners of land over which the proposed way is located of our intention to lay out said way, and we now having met at the time and place and for the purpose specified in said notice lay out said way as a street or town way having a uniform width of forty (40) feet and fix the boundaries and measurements of the way as follows: The southwesterly line begins at a stone bound to be set in the ground at the corner of a private way known as Baker Avenue and the street now being described and runs southeast approxi- mately three hundred sixty (360) feet to a stone bound to be set in the ground' opposite a private way known as Charles Street. The northeasterly line is parallel with the above mentioned line and forty (40) feet distant therefrom. Said street as laid out extends to a point opposite the southeasterly line of Charles Street. Said boundaries and measurements are shown on a plan made by Frank P. Cut- ter dated May, 1914, entitled, "Lay -out of a portion of Taft and Baker Avenues at Lexington," and now on file at the office of the Town Clerk. For a more complete description of the lay -out said plan is made a part hereof. The lay -out and grade of this proposed street was approved by the Board of Sur- vey, February 25, 1914. EDWARD) W. TAYLOR, WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, WILLIAM B. FOS'T'ER, Selectmen of Lexington. Abbott Road. Merriam Street to Oakland Street. In the matter of lay -out of Abbott Road, dated, December 22, 1916, it ap- pears that the description of said lay out as therein recorded is in error, and the: Selectmen do now amend and correct said lay -out by striking out the description, referred to and inserting in place thereof the following description. The westerly line, hcgins at a point in the present southerly line of Merriam Street, said point being distant easterly 96.05 feet from a stone bound on said 70 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Merriam Street, marking the end of the curve of 148.74 feet radius. Thence from said point the westerly line of Abbott Road runs in a southerly direction 71.06 feet making an angle of 109 degrees 15 minutes with said southerly line of Merriam Street, thence on a curve of 125.25 feet radius bearing to the left 69.56 feet to a point; thence southeaster- ly in a straight line tangent to said curve about 325 feet to its intersection with the northerly line of an unaccepted way lo- cally known as Oakland Street Exten- sion. The easterly line is parallel with and 40 feet distant from said westerly line from its intersection with said Merriam Street to its intersection with said Oak- land Street extension. The above description is intended to conform to a plan of said road entitled, "Plan of Abbott Road, Lexington, Scale one inch -40 feet, October 1917, J. Henry Duffy, Town Engineer" on which the above described lines are shown in red. WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, JAY O. RICHARDS, WILLIAM B. FOSTER, Selectmen of Lexington. Lexington, October 30, 1917. SELECTMEN'S REPORT 71 REPORT OF SELECTMEN, ROAD COMMISSION- ERS, BOARD OF SURVEY AND OVER- SEERS OF THE POOR. Lexington, Mass., Jan. 1, 1918. '1'o the Citizens of Lexington: The Selectmen herewith submit the following annual report. We desire, in making this report, to take up in the first place some of the matters referred to in the last annual report, viz:— Massachusetts Avenue,—That portion of the avenue between Pleasant Street and the State Road has been resurfaced on both sides of the street railway. The surface is of crushed stone about fiv1 inches in thickness and bound in asphalt, • and we believe will prove to be a good job without unreasonable expense. Con- siderable rough gravel was obtained from this street and it has been used for filling and rough grading in other places. A quantity of stone was already found underneath the surface and this reduced expense. On that part of the avenue between Winthrop Road and Waltham Street no work has been clone. An appropriation for this work was made by the town, but owing to some irregularities in the vote it was not possible to secure the money in season to have the work completed be- fore freezing weather. Funds are now available so that work on this portion of the avenue may be started in the spring. Summer Street Extension (so called.) Work on this highway has been com- pleted by the State Highway Commis- sion, and it is now a State Highway. All claims for land damages have been settled with the exception of the claim of Eugene D. Monahan, and we have placed this claim in the hands of our at- torney for settlement. While work was progressing on Sum- mer Street it was suggested by the State Highway Commissioners that land be taken at the easterly corner of Lowell and Maple Streets to make an easier en- trance from one street to the other. This taking was made by the County Com- missioners. Work on this widening was begun late in the fall and all excavation has been completed and a portion of the stone has been placed on the surface. The owners of the Munroe property from whom this land was taken were not satisfied with the award made them and have filed a petition to have their dam- ages determined by a jury. Our attorney is now guarding the interests of the town in this matter. Woburn Street. The County Com- missioners gave a hearing at Eaast Cam- bridge on December 28 on the petition to relocate and repair Woburn Street from Utica Street to the Woburn line. L' p to the close of the year no decree has been received from the Commission- ers. The 'Town is to pay one third of the expense of this work, and an appropria- tion has already been made for the pur- pose. During the past year the following streets have been accepted and made public highways by vote of the town: Oak Street as extended to Baker Ave- nue; Baker Avenue from Oak Street to Taft Avenue; Taft Avenue from Baker Avenue to Charles Street; Charles Street from Taft Avenue to Massachu- setts Avenue; Bennington Road for a distance of about three hundred and fifty feet from Eliot Road; Abbott Road from Merriam Street to Oakland Street, and Highland Avenue from Winthrop Road to Vine Brook Road. Before taking up other matters, we de- sire to call the attention of the citizens to a certain matter in connection with the use (or perhaps misuse) of our high- ways. We refer to the custom of most drivers of automobiles and teams of fol- lowing in one path or rut. This practice is particularly injurious on gravel roads and results in wearing out the surface of the street unevenly. The ruts are hard 72 TOWN OF LEXINGTON to patch and the work must be done over the Town is very fortunate in securing and over each year. We urge all drivers to "get out of the rut" and endeavor tb distribute the traffic in a general way over the street. We feel that if this is done it will result in reducing the cost of highway maintenance. We desire to call attention to the un- sightly condition of the grounds in the rear of the Town Hall. This is the third consecutive time that this matter has been mentioned. Mr. J. Henry Duffy to take charge o� this important department. His many years experience in the office of the County Engineer will certainly be of benefit to the Town. In April the town authorized the Board to take certain property located at the corner of Bedford and Summer Streets for Cemetery purposes, and in July an appropriation was made for this purpose. The Board had several consultations We see no good reason why the town with the owners of the property and their should continue to permit various de- attorney in an endeavor to avoid con- partments to use the grounds for dump- troversv and to see if some agreement ing and storage purposes. We know of no other town that allows it. We recom- mend that the sheds be removed and the grounds graded and seeded and kept in a condition equally as good as the grounds around our school buildings, and that an appropriation be made sufficient to carry out these suggestions. At the beginning of the year we deem- ed it wise to place the Moth Department and the Forest Wardens Department under the management of one man and Mr. Osborne J. Gorman was accordingly appointed to have charge of both of these departments. His work has been very satisfactory. The stone crushing plant has been moved from its old location to a site on Waltham Street south of the State Road on land leased from Harry S. Kelsey. It is almost entirely a new plant with the exception of that part of the appara- tus which actually does the crushing. We suggest purchasing sufficient land rather than continuing on a lease. During the last of December it was called to our attention that the amount of insurance on the town property should be increased. This insurance is carried on a blanket form and contains an agree- ment that the buildings shall be kept insured for eighty per cent of their re- placement value. Owing to the present high cost of labor and materials the replacement value has greatly increased and we therefor took steps to have an appraisal made of the various town buildings and contents. An article asking for_ an appropriation to meet the increased cost is to be in- serted in the Warrant for the January meeting, and the matter will probably have been attended to before this report reaches the voters. On April first a Town Engineers De- partment was established. We feel that could be reached whereby the property could be purchased at a price which would be fair to the owners and the town. We were unable to come to any agreement which warranted us in asking the town to authorize the purchase at the prices demanded, and we thereupon petitioned the County Commissioners to make the necessary takings and make the proper awards. The Commissioners gave a public hearing in Cary Hall and took the matter under consideration. From information received just at the close of the year we learned that the awards made by the Commissioners were almost double the amount of money ap- propriated by the Town for the purchase of the land. We therefor decided to call a town meeting in January to place the matter before the voters. The Town is facing the problem of providing either a new fire proof vault or enlarging the present one. The vault now in use is crowded and there is not sufficient room in which the plans of the engineers department can properly be filed. We suggest that the Selectmen, Town Engineer and Town Clerk be constituted a committee by the 'Town to consider the matter and submit a plan with estimates of cost at some future town meeting. At the last Town Meeting in 1917 the town authorized the Board to petition the Bureau of Statistics for the installation of its accounting system. We found upon consulting the town records that when our present system was established in 1910, the vote read that the accounts should be kept as near as possible to conform to the system estab- lished by the Bureau of Statistics. We believe the accounts have been so kept, and we are of the opinion that putting in the petition places more or less ex- pense upon the town without securing any material improvement or change. SELECTMEN'S REPORT 73 Although the vote was passed at a very small town meeting we have follow- ed the instructions of the voters at the meeting and have petitioned the Direc- tor for the installation of his system. Board of Survey The problems presented to the Board of Survey have been larger this year than usual. Each plan or scheme presented for the approval of the Board requires study and consideration. Due attention must be given to future extensions of the various streets as well as to the locations and grades of streets as shown on the plans. Before approving any plan the Board must give a public hearing. Notice of these hearings is always given in the local papers. The Board urges the citi- zens to take an interest in these matters and attend the hearings so that the Board and the Town may have the benefit of any suggestions which may be made. Certainly a proper lay -out and develop- ment of Lexington is a matter of interest to all. Overseers of the Poor As Overseers of the Poor we desire to say that the number of persons aided and the amount expended are substanti- ally the same as Last year. *The Superintendent and Matron of the Almshouse have conducted that insti- tution in a manner satisfactory to all concerned. The property belonging to the Town Farm is valued at $2,442.00. The prop- erty belonging to the Highway Depart- ment is valued at $10,683.00. Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, WILLIAM B. FOSTER, JAY O. RICHARDS, Selectmen of Lexington. 4 TOWN OF LEXINGTON List of Jurors as Submitted by the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Lexington, 1917. NAME OCCUPATION RESIDENCE Abbott, George W. Buyer 28 Percy rd. Andrews, Daniel J. Carpenter 13 Bedford st. Ashley, Clifton P. Carpenter Highland ave. Barbour, S. Louis Bank Clerk Hancock st. Barnes, John E. Plumber 165 Mass. ave. Blodgett, Arthur L. Salesman Adams st. Bramhall, William S. Bank Clerk 25 Parker st. Breed, Ezra F. Plumber Mass. ave. Briggs, Clarence E. Salesman Outlook Drive Brown, Samuel E. Artist 10 Oakland st. Buckley, Eugene T. Salesman Cedar st. Buffum, Fred A. Carpenter Shirley st. Bull, Leslie A. Farmer 83 Hancock st. Burrill, William L. Real Estate Bedford st. Campbell, Joseph Motorman 17 Muzzey st. Clark, Richard A. Clerk Bedford st. Coburn, Frank W. Stationer Percy rd. Cole, George F. Clerk Bedford st. Crone, Louis L. Conductor 30 Forest st. Crowther, William T. Provision Dealer Hancock ave. Currier, Charles H. Produce Woburn st. Dacey, Patrick F. Mason Muzzey st. Denison, Guy E. Bookkeeper 4 Jackson et. Doe, Chester W. Shipper 52 Fletcher ave. Doe, Freeman C. Real Estate 10 Adams st. Doherty, Thomas J. Farmer 185 Mass. ave. Doran, Levi Carpenter East st. Dunklee, Lester A. Farmer 5 Forest ct. Dwyer, William F. Draftsman 7 Tewksbury st. Ferguson, William W. Motorman Forest st. Fitzgerald, Thomas W. Clerk Fletcher ave. Foster, Whitney Mason Concord ave. Glenn, William F. Farmer Forest st. Gorman, Arthur A. Carpenter 48 Bedford st. Green, William F. Clerk Fern st. Hadley, Charles E. Farmer Mass. ave. Harrington, Bartlett J. Plumber Curve st. Hatch, Arthur W. Contractor 5 Bedford st. Hayden, J. Willard, Jr. Clerk Shade st. Haynes, Alfred E. Merchant Hill st. NAME SELECTMEN'S REPORT OCCUPATION RESI I)ENCE Hendley, Eugene D. Machinist Mass. ave. Hill, Willard C. Carpenter 624 Mass. ave. Kelly, Edmund S. Insurance Edgewood rd. Kraetzer, Eugene G. Clerk Mass. ave. Lynah, George C. Clerk Manley ct. Maguire, Hugh J. Clerk Wood st. McIntosh; Charles W. Purchasing Agt. Oakland st. Montague,- Edward Carpenter Maple st. Peirce, Frank D. Retired 238 Mass. ave. Riley, William J. Clerk York st. Russell, Byron A. Blacksmith 4 120 Mass. ave. Seeley, 0. Gilbert Druggist 347 Mass. ave. Sefton, Charles H. Painter Fair View ave. Smith, Charles F. Farmer Bedford st. Spencer, Frederick J. Clerk East st. Stevens, Edwin C. Merchant 2 Oakland st. Stone, George E. Clerk Bloomfield st. Stone, Henry L. Teacher Cedar • st. Wilson, James A. Clerk Bow st. Wilson, J. Alexander Farmer Pleasant st. Wood, Edward Florist Forest st. WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, JAY 0. RICHARDS, Selectmen of Lexington. Lexington, June 30, 1917. 75 76 TOWN OF LEXINGTON REPORT OF BOARD OF FIRE ENGINEERS. Lexington, Mass., Jan. 1, 1918. Honorable Board of Selectmen, Lexington, Mass. Gentlemen: We beg to submit the following report for the year 1917. The Department has responded to ninety-one (91) alarms. It has laid and cared for 8,500 feet of hose, raised 494 feet of ladders and used 1,512 gallons of chemical. There is,at present, in the department 5,750 feet of hose which has been tested as usual and kept in good condition. The fire loss in the Town during the past year was quite small in comparison with other years . The chimney and brush fires were about the same as usual. During the year two new pieces of ap- paratus were installed at Headquarters on Merriam Street, one American La France Ladder Truck and one Kissel Combination Chemical and Hose. The Engineers wish at this time to commend the good work which the per- manent men did in building this Kissel Truck. The chassis was purchased from the Kissel Company, but the body and all the equipment for that piece of appara- tus was built by the permanent men of the department, and the Engineers feel that considerable credit is due these men for their excellent work in which they saved the town at least $1,500. The department is now completely motorized. This is a big advance and we feel it worthy of special mention in our report. The permanent men during the year also remodeled the engine house, adding three more sleeping rooms to accommo- date the additional permanent men neces- sary to drive this apparatus. By so doing, they again saved the Town con- siderable money. Fire Alarm System A complete new switch -board for the Fire Alarm System has been installed in a much larger fire alarm room. This new board has replaced one which was prac- tically obselete. Considerable repair work has been done on the fire alarm system and a few new boxes have been installed. In a letter which the Board of Engin- eers received from the Fire Prevention Commissioner there was a strong pro- test by the Commisioner against the shortage of permanent men. This, of course, has been realized by the Board of Fire Engineers and has been known to the Fire Prevention Commisioner. This year one man was added. The Commis- sioner, however, after having gone into the situation very carefully in December, came to the conclusion that it is absolute- ly imperative that two more men be added to the permanent force. Under the present arrangement there are certain times when two-thirds of the apparatus at Headquarters is out of commission for answering fires immediately, due to the shortage of drivers. We desire to quote the following from Deputy Commissioner Murphy's letter to the Board of Engineers. "I found on inspection that three men are assigned to Combinations B and C and Ladder 1 in the central station. A clay off in seven for these men leaves but two men to man the apparatus three days out of the seven, and there are six hours a day, or three meal periods, which leaves but one man in the house to cover three pieces of apparatus. In the central fire station on these three days during meal hours two-thirds of the apparatus is thrown out of commission for respond- ing immediately to an alarm of fire, and reduces the strength of the fire depart- ment through that period to one piece of apparatus for immediate response. I find that the four pieces of apparatus and equipment in the department are of the very best and it is to be commended that a town of such size should have such an efficient department in appara- tus, but apparatus is of no value in the fire house. Its value is in responding to and working at a fire. This cannot be done unless you have the men necesary to operate the apparatus." FIRE ENGINEER'S REPORT 77 The Engineers would be very glad to have the citizens of Lexington call at the Engine Houses so that they may become acquainted with the apparatus of the Fire Department and the methods em- ployed in fighting fires. The permanent men are always glad to explain anything which may be of interest to any citizen. The houses are open for visitors be- tween the hours of 10 A. M. and 10 P. M. daily. Respectfully submitted, EDWARD W. TAYLOR, Chief. 78 TOWN OF LEXINGTON REPORT OF POLI Report of the work" done by the Police Department for the year ending Decem- ber 31, 1917: To the Honorable Board of Selectmen: Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit the ing report: The number of arrests Males Females Residents of the town Non-residents Native born Foreign born Married Single follow - Offences for Which Arrests Were Assault and battery Adultery Bastardy Breaking and entering Being present where gaming imple- ments were found Contempt of court Collecting junk without a license Drunkness Default Deserter, U. S. A. Disturbing the peace Gaming on Lord's Day Hunting Unlawfully Insane Keeping children out of school Larceny Malicious mischief Non -Support Not displaying light on vehicle Profanity Ran away from home Suspicious persons Unlawfully running automobile Violating milk law Violating their probation Vagrants 186 172 141 95 911 127 59 71 115', Made Disposition of Cases Fined Probation Committed to the House of Correction Committed to State Farm 18', 2 21 20 1 1 54 7 1 2 1 3 2 8 24; 3 5 21 1� 4 4; 51. 2. 3 3 7L1 26! 13 CE DEPARTMENT,' Committed to Jail Committed to Lyman School Committed to Westboro Hospital Committed to Woman's prison Committed to State Board of Charity Discharged Placed on file Released by the Probation Officer Released by the Police Now pending in Court No/ Prossed Turned over to Provost Marshal Turned over to out of town police Given to friends to take home 1 1 1 1 1 2,1 5 13 4 6 5 1 3 Miscellaneous Work Aggregate amount of fines imposed $734.23 Amount of property reported stolen 204.47 Amount of stolen property re- covered 283.55 Buildings found open and secured 61 Dangerous places in the streets reported 8 Extra duties done by the police officers 129 Fire alarms responded to 66 Lost children cared for 1 Police officers days in Court 158 Street lights reported out 46 Search Warrants Served 1 Sick persons assisted Wires reported down 3 Vacant houses cared for 16 Lanterns hung in dangerous places 3 Dead bodies taken charge of and medical examiner called 5 Persons taken to Hospital 4 Conclusions I wish to thank the Selectmen for the kind manner in which they have treated us and the assistance they and all others, who by their co-operation and good wishes assisted in the work of the depart- ment, and I wish to thank the Police officers for the excellent work they hay^ done. By their good work they hay". prevented much crime from being com- mitted. There is not a Police Department in any city or town that has done better «rock. CHARLES H. FRANKS, Acting Chief of Police. BOARD OF HEALTH 79 REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH. Lexington, December 31, 1917. To the Citizens of Lexington: The Board of Health submits the fol- lowing report for the year ending Dec. 31, 1917: •The Board organized with Dr. W. L. Barnes as chairman, W. B. Foster and C. H. Franks. The following appoint- ments were made: • Chas. W. Swan, agent of the Board to issue permits, etc. Dr. W. L. Barnes was re-elected Health Officer of the Board. Dr. H. L. Alderman and Mr. Chas. H. Butterfield were re -appointed Inspectors of Slaughtering. Fumigator, A. A. Marshall. In charge of odorless cart, Ernest W. Martin. Milk Inspector, Dr. L. L. Peirce. Plumbing Inspector, Andrew Bain Licensed Undertakers, A. A. Marshall and J. F. McCarthy. The death of Dr. Peirce, our Milk In- spector, necessitated the appointment of a new milk inspector, and Andrew Bain was appointed. The following cases of contagious diseases were reported curing the year: Chicken Pox 71 Measles 282 German Measles 4 Mumps Diphtheria Scarlet Fever Pulmonary Tuberculosis Whooping Cough Lobar Pneumonia Septic Sore Throat 7 10 12 1917: 4 I have taken (48) samples of milk dur- during the year have been abated. Your attention is called to the reports of the various officers serving under the Board. Respectfully submitted, WM. L. BARNES, M. D., (Chairman) WILLIAM B. FOSTER, CHARLES H. FRANKS, REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF MEATS AND PROVISIONS '1.'o the Board of Health, Gentlemen: The inspection and stamping of meats for the year is as follows: Holman, 41 beeves, 210 veals, 34.7 swine and 6 sheep. Bunzel, 7 beeves, 73 veals, 104 swine and 2 sheep. Young, 1 beef, 26 veals and 26 swine. Whiting, 52 swine. 16 beeves, 4 veals and 8 swine have been condemned and rendered. People slaughtering their own animals, 1 beef and 59 swine—none condemned. H. L. AI.,DERMAN, Inspector. REPORT OF MILK INSPECTOR Lexington, December 31, 1917. To the Board of Health, Town of Lexington, Gentlemen: 1 herewith submit my report as In- spector of Milk for the period of seven months from May 28 to December 31, Total The usual number of unsightly and overflowing cesspools and nuisances complained of to the 3 ing the seven months, and the majority 4 of the samples show the milk to be of a very good quality. I have inspected the dairies and only one was found to be in a filthy condition. This was corrected after a few visits were made. 403 dumps other Board 80 TOWN OF I.,EXINGTON Licenses issued for the sale of inilk Licenses issued for the sale of Olemargarine Permits issued The consumption 32 4 16 of milk in the Town is about 1,800 quarts per day. Respectfully submitted, ANDREW BAIN, • Inspector. REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF SLAUGH- TERING Lexington, Jan. 1, 1918. To the Board of Health, Gentlemen: ' As Inspector of Slaughtering for the year 1917 I have continued that work for Bunzel and Young only. Much of the work has been done this year as usual, as will be seen by the following table: Bunzel Young Swine 1,250 Veal 530 Beeves 24 Sheep 6 Swine 580 Veal 219 Beeves 31 Sheep 8 3 Beeves, 7 Veal and 6 Swine have been condemned and rendered. C. H. BUTTERFIELD, Inspector. REPORT OF PLUMBING INSPECTOR Lexington, December 31, 1917. To the Board of Health, Town of Lexington, Gentlemen: I herewith submit my report as Inspec- tor of Plumbing for the year ending December 31, 1917: Number of applications filed and permits granted 97 Number of calls made in connection with inspections, water tests and information 256 Number of applications received on which work has not been com- pleted 9 Several inspections have been made in old buildings where the sanitary con- ditions were poor. After consulting with the owners, and pointing out the dangers arising from such conditions, necessary changes were promptly attended to. Respectfully submitted, ANDREW BAIN, Inspector. REPORT OF FUMIGATOR Lexington, Dec. 31, 1917. To the Board of Health, Lexington, Mass. Gentlemen: I hereby submit my report as Fumi- gator for the year ending December 31, 1917: Whole number of cases fumigated (18) requiring the fumigation of (66) rooms. Eight (8) cases of Scarlet Fever re- quiring the fumigation of (30) rooms. Four (4) cases of Diptheria requiring the fumigation of (11) rooms. Five (5) cases of tuberculosis requir- ing the fumigation of (19) rooms. One (1) case of Septic Sore Throat requiring the fumigation of (6) rooms. Respectfully submitted, ARTHUR A. MARSHALL, Fumigator. ODORLESS CART REPORT Lexington, January 1, 1918. Board of Health, Town of Lexington, Gentlemen: I herewith submit report of cesspools and vaults cleaned during the year 1917: January February M arch April May June 20 cesspools 15 19 40 8 vaults 36 cesspools 10 vaults 20 cesspools 4 vaults 47 loads 32 27 82 7 67 12 38 5 (t 6 14 44 44 I{ BOARD OF HEALTH 81 July 15 cesspools 29 3 vaults 3 August 16 cesspools 31 2 vaults 2 September 12 cesspools 24 1 vault 1 October 18 cesspools 34 1 vault 1 November 10 cesspools 26 December 19 id 33 13 vaults 12 CC it SE ft Total 240 cesspools 470 loads 42 vaults 43 " 282 b1:3 " Respectfully submitted, ERNEST W. MARTIN. REPORT OF ANIMAL INSPECTOR Lexington, Mass., Dec. 31, 1917, To the Selectmen of Lexington, Gentlemen: The inspection began in February, 125 stables, 1,172 Cattle, 1,560 Swine, 68 Sheep and 12 goats were inspected. 9 Cattle were condemned for tuberculosis; the stables disinfected, etc. 56 Cattle and 5 Horses have come into the town from outside State and were released from quarantine. 2 Dogs were quarantined suspicious of rabies, but were released later. H. L. ALDERMAN, D. V. S. 6 8L TOWN OF LEXINGTON REPORT OF CEMETERY COMMITTEE Lexington, Mass., December 31, 1917. To the Honorable Board of Selectmen, Lexington, Mass. Gentlemen: Your committee in submitting their re- port on Cemeteries would say that there has been seven lots added to perpetual care and several lots have been placed under annual care during the past year. It is the desire of the Committee to get more annual care lots, if not perpetual care in order to improve the looks of the Cemetery. There are a great many neglected lots which we wish could be cared for in some way. There is a possibility of the Town hav- ing a new Cemetery very soon which we are greatly in need of. The matter as we understand it, is in the hands of the County Commissioners awaiting their decision. Respectfully submitted, ARTHUR A. MARSHALL, Supt. C. W. SPAULDING, LESTER E. SMITH. INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS. Lexington, Mass., January 4, 1918. To the Honorable Board of Lexington, Lexington, Mass. I herewith submit my report of to in- spection of buildings for the year ending December 31, 1917: Eighty-nine permits have been issued and four hundred calls made in connec- tion with applications and for informa- tion. Buildings are classified as follows: Dwellings, one family 29 $60,750 Additions and alterations 16 51,800 Garages 19 7,965 Add to Church 1 15,000' Stables Stores Offices Tool houses Storehouses Service building Camps Grainery Henhouses I.)emolished buildings 4 9 3 4 2 2 1 3 2 83 1,700 800 2,950 1,025 850 3,129 400 250 90 89 $146,709 Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM GRATTO, Inspector of Buildings. 84 TOWN OF LEXINGTON REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY. It is stated in a library manual that any library having a circulation three times the population of the town it ser- ves, may consider its existence amply justified, and the ideal circulation for , an average library would be one amount- ing to four times the population. Accoru • ing to the last census, Lexington's popu- lation is 5,538, and as our circulation for 1917 was 46,260, we have full assurance of the high importance of our library's contribution to the community in pleas- ure, diversion, instruction and educa- tion. It should be again noted, however, that the distribution of books which the word `circulation' denotes, is only a small part' of the services the library renders tht' town. Just as important are the things that cannot appear in statistics, the many uses of the building and its equipment as a place of resort, for study, conference, and research. As an auxiliary to the public schools of the town, the library,'i with its intelligent staff of workers, is steadily growing in helpful influence for educational progress. It is surely no small part of one's education to learn to use a large collection of books like our library with discrimination and confid- ence, and the atmosphere of our insti- tution is charged with the spirit of prac- tical service to all who avail themselves of its privileges. During the past summer the United States' Department of Agriculture and the Federal Food Administrator sent urgent requests to all libraries for assist- ance in Food Conservation. This request we had anticipated by several weeks, as early in the spring we began to bring into public notice all material suitable for help in gardening, besides distributing pamphlets and bulletins and holding an exhibition of seeds se- cured from the Bussey Institute through the courtesy of Mr. G. C. Worthen. As the bulletins were eagerly received we made special efforts to secure material on canning and preserving, and this was freely distributed not only to our town^, - people, but also to visitors asking for use in other communities. There were held in the library exhibitions of dehy- drated fruits and vegetables, and of pre- served fruits and vegetables canned by the "Girl's Canning Club." The United States Department of Agriculture sent to the librarian, Miss Kirkland, a letter of commendation for this effective inter- est in food conservation. The appeal of the trustees for money to help provide camp libraries for our soldiers was answered in a gratifying manner by our townspeople and over 500 was collected, somewhat in excess of the amount asked of our town. In addition to this contribution to the library fund, over one thousand books and two large cases of magazines were forwarded, one half to Camp Devens, and one half to southern cantonments. With a part of the money received from the sale of old magazines copies of "The Private's Manual,"a useful book of military instruction, were sent to Lex- ington boys at Camp Devens in care of LieutenantMerriam. This handbook evi- dently helped some of these boys to at- tain ratings as non-commissioned officers. One of them wrote to the librarian: "I sincerely believe that much of our suc- cess has been due to "The Private's Manual" which was so thoughtfully CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY 85 placed before us. So far Uncle Sam has not asked us to master difficult tasks, but we are required to be exact in every de- tail of the simpler formations. Much must be learned from the book and this has been made easily possible. We all thank you again." The trustees wish to render the library as widely useful as possible and are therefore disposed to respond promptly and favorably to any requests and sug- gestions from individuals, societies, or any other groups, needing literary ma- terial or reference books. We hope to justify every reasonable expectation of our fellow -citizens regarding the work the library may do for them, and to this end we cordially invite any suggestion that may better or broaden the library's usefulness in practicable ways. GIFTS Mr. and Mrs. Leroy S. Brown made a most timely and acceptable gift to the library, — a flag -pole and flag, including all costs of setting up the pole. The library is indebted to Mr. Hallie C. Blake for a manuscript photograaph of Franz Liszt and for a beautiful portrait of Charles Dickens by C. L. Smith. From Mr. Blake, also, an exhibition case was received and the following notable books: "Universal classic manuscripts," 2 vols. —"Music of the modern world," 2 vols.— "Famous composers and their works," 5 vols. From Mrs. F. E. Ballard, 32 vols. of "Littell's Living Age" were received. Dr. F. S. Piper donated the bookplate which is to be placed in each of the books purchased from the fund left to the lib- rary by Miss Laura Muzzey Brigham. A beautifully illustrated magazine -- - "The journal of American history" was sub- scribed to by Mr. F. R. Kimball and in addition to a miscellaneous collection of books received from Miss Ellen L. Doe, books were received from the following: American Canning Assoc. James M. Beck—Mrs. Storer Benedict—Mrs. E. P. Bliss —Bostonian Society — Bross foun- dation --William A. Cheney—Mrs. C. B. Davis — Chauncey M. Depew—Prof. W. McNeil Dixon --Miss Ellen Farnsworth— J. D. Fessenden—Ervin Kenison—Mass., Commonwealth of — Mass. Free Public Library Commission—Miss Alice Quigley —James F. 'I'rafton—Miss Florence Tryon—Y. M. C. A. At the Branch Library gifts of books were received from—Mrs. E. P. Bliss— Mrs. C. B. Davis and Miss Emma Fiske. Respectfully submitted, For the Trustees, JOHN M. WILSON, Chairman. 86 TOWN OF LEXINGTON REPORT OF LIBRARIAN OF CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY. Statistical Report 1917 Main Library: Accessions by purchase: New books Books to replace old copies Periodicals Accessions by gift Books discarded and withdrawn Net increase In Library Dec. 31, 1916 General works Periodicals, bound Periodicals, unbound Philosophy and Religion Biography History Travels and Description Social sciences Natural sciences Arts, useful Arts, recreative Arts, fine Language and Literature Poetry Fiction Music scores Stereographs (Sets) * 474 52 53 579 122 701 52 649 26,409 27,058 Branch Library: Accessions by purchase: New books Periodicals Accessions by gift Books discarded and withdrawn Net increase In Library Dec. 31, 1916 54 7 61 10 71 0 71 2,935 3,006 Total number of volumes in Main Library and Branch 30,064 Circulation 1917 Home use Main Library 1. 216 3,191 585 801 1,704 593 533 415 821 249 279 869 445 28,939 309 87 Home use through Branch Hone use from Branch 1 27 387 29 7 40 52 100 62 24 55 11 14 13 88 44 44 7 45 7 8 23 64 5 20 2,602 2,435 40,037 2,906 3,308 CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY 87 Total circulation Main Library Total circulation Main Library and Branch Total circulation from Children's room * Representing 7,751 pictures. Number of days Library was open: Main Library Branch Library Registration, 1917: Main Library: Adult registration Juvenile registration Temporary registration 42,943i Total and 46,251 10,236 Withdrawn: Adult Juvenile Temporary 304 255 2,277 680 271 117 113 56 3,228 286 Registration Main Library, Dec. 31, 1917 Increase in registration Main Library Registration: Branch Library: Adult registration Juvenile registration Withdrawn: Adult Juvenile 399 274 673 20 24 Registration Branch Library, Dec. 31, 1917 Increase in registration Branch Library 2,942 126 44 629 21 registration Main Library Branch, 1917 Miscellaneous Main Library: Periodicals subscribed for Periodicals, donated Newspapers subscribed for Newspapers donated Books rebound Books repaired Books lost by borrowers Books borrowed from other Libraries Periodicals bound Postals sent delinquents for over- due books 1,154 Postals sent for books reserved 585 Stereographic pictures used in Children's room (Friday after- noons only) 25,832 Branch Library: Periodicals subscribed for 2:1 Periodicals donated 2 Newspapers subscribed for 1 Newspapers donated 1 Books rebound 22 Periodicals bound 7 Books repaired 121 Postals sent for books reserved 15 Exhibits in Main Library: Art Room Buckingham palace, IV—Tunisia— Buckingham palace X—Salem door- ways — Apples — Animal kingdom —Belgium --South America—War IV. Exhibits loaned by 'individuals: Loaned by Bussey institute, through Mr. G. C. Worthen, 1, Seeds— 2, Dehy- drated fruits and vegetables. Loaned by Mr. Hollis Webster History of the art of writing. MARIAN P. KIRKLANI), Librarian. 3,571 69 8 3 1 221 3,737 6 12 53 88 TOWN OF LEXINGTON REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY. Jan. 1, 1917. Balance on hand Dog Tax Interest on hank deposit Investment Com. Int. on bonds etc. Investment Com. Int. on Brig- ham Fund Fines Postals Newspapers sold Books lost Catalogue Cases sold $92.55 735.82 4.38 414.62 96.79 224.83 5.85 2.85 7.85 16.00 $1,601.54 Expenditures Bindery $192.57 Books 740.63 American Library Association 5.00 Library Art Club 6.00 Deposit Box 10.00 Express 19.44 Laundry 6.16 Library of Congress 30.00 Newspapers and Periodicals 239.10 Postage 35.65 Printing and Supplies 93.62 Stereographs Sundries 18.33 5.95 $1,402.45 Cash Balance in Bank 199.09 $1,601.54 EAST LEXINGTON BRANCH January 1, 1917 Balance on hand 6162 Investment Committee Interest 44.44 Expenditures Books Postage $106.06 64.57 .24 $64.81 Cash Balance in Bank 41.25 $106.06 ROBERT L. RYDER, Treasurer. Examined and approved, CHARLES F. PIERCE, Auditor. CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY 89 REPORT OF FINANCE COMMITTEE ---TRUSTEES CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY LEXINGTON, MASS. January lst. 1917 Balance: Principal Funds $16,942.50 Income for the year: Interest on Bonds and Notes 400.00 Interest on Deposit Lex. Savings Bank 139.06 Interest on Deposit Lex. Trust Co. 16.79 Total Payments: Robert L. Ryder, Treas. $17,498.35 555.85 Balance Dec. 31st, 1917 16,942.50 Accounting viz.: B. & M. 4% per cent due 1929 (Re- ceiver for R.R.) No. 77-78-79 3,000.00 No interest paid since July 1916. West End 4 per cent. due 1932 No. 69-70-71 3,000.00 Boston & Albany clue 1933 No. M 79-M 80 2,000.00 Am. T. & T. Co. 4 per cent. due 1929 No. 67,742, 68,799, 67,832 3,000.00 Town Notes, Bedford, Mass. No. 37 due 1919 No. 38 due 1920 2,000.00 (Laura Brigham Fund) Deposit at Lexington Savings Bank (Cary Library—Robbins Fund— E. Lexington Branch) Book 1476 100.00 (Cary Library—Book Purchase Fund) Book 1522 1,000.00 (Cary Library—Beal Fund) Book 2235 1,000.00 (Cary Library—Wellington Fund —E. Lexington Branch) Book 5123 1,000.00 (Cary Library—Portion Maria Cary Fund -Income reserve) Book 6940 342.50 Lexington Trust Co. Balance— Laura Brigham Fund Book 840 50.00 $16,942.50 JOHN M. WILSON, HALLIE C. BLAKE, JAY O. RICHARDS, Investment Committee. Examined and aproved. CHARLES F. PIERCE, Auditor. 90 TOWN OF LEXINGTON REPORT OF THE BOARD OF WATER AND SEWER COMMISSIONERS. The Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners herewith present their report of the operations of their departments for the year 1917: WATER DEPARTMENT General Summary of the Finances for the year ending December 31, 1917: MAINTENANCE AND OPERATING ACCOL'N'C Receipts Schedule A-1917 Items $25,171.26 Expenditures Schedule B—Maintenance Expenses 23,112.48 Balance $2,058.78 1916 Items Collected in 1917 (Schedule A) 1916 Cash Balance forward Balance Transferred to CONSTRUCTION Ac- count 519.01 2,172.71 $4,750.50 3,154.84 Balance of MAINTENANCE Account $1,595.66 CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNT Receipts From 1917 Operating Account Bond Issue Special Appropriation Rawson Ave. Less Expenditures Rawson Avenue $300.00 Pipe 2,046.41 All other 3,154.84 Total as per Schedule C $5,501.25 Balance of Construction Account available for work in 1918 Total Cash Balance in hands of Town Treasurer $3,154.84 4,000.00 300.00 $7,454.84 $1,953.59 $3,549.25 WATER AND SEWER COMMISSIONERS 91 SCHEDULE "A" Detail of Revenue from WATER RATES 1916 Water Rates Guarantees Miscellaneous items Collected $149.97 98.70 270.34 $519.01 1917 Items Water Rates $22,066.46 Guarantees 349.86 Hydrants 1.950.00 Troughs 100.00 Repairs to Services $389.59 Less -return of excess deposits 11.35 378.24 Street Watering 23.88 Repairs to Frozen Meters Sale of Junk Sale of Stock Rent of Land Miscellaneous SCHEDULE"B" 29.00 28.30 100.88 60.00 84.64 $25,690.27 Detail of MAINTENANCE and OPER- ATING Expenses Metropolitan Tax Interest on Debt Less Accrued Interest Labor Maintenance Purchase of Maintenance Stock Rent of Land (B. & M. R. R. $9,357.91 5,576.12 35.50 5,540.62 2,942.19 of Horse and Wagon 397.30 Ford Automobile 450.00 of Automobile 179.79 454.92 Yard) 105.00 Miscellaneous Freight 29.58 and MISCELLANEOUS Accounts Total Rebated Unpaid Committed 43.57 193.54 217.85 316.55 1.00 271.34 - $43.57 $213.85 $781.43 90.60 1,145.58 23,302.64 240.29 590.15 1,950.00 100.00 15.71 393.95 23.88 4.50 33.50 28.30 100.88 60.00 26.24 110.88 $134.17 $1,651.17 $27,475.61 SCHEDULE "C" Detail of Construction Expense Labor Iron Pipe Meters Meter Covers, Etc. Gates Hydrants Lead Pipe Lead Lined Pipe Small Iron Pipe Small Pipe Fittings Other Stock Freight 'Teaming Tools and Repairs Insurance Less return premium Meter Testing Machine Thawing Frozen Mains and vices, February, 1917 Miscellaneous Salaries Office Expense Total Expense 108.00 'Total Ser- Less Receipts from 700.00 Installing Services 382.09 Less excess deposits $20,647.40 Less Unpaid 2,082 00 Net Receipts 383.08 balance $23,112.48 $917.69 2,046.41 1,311.20 116.46 65.45 58.52 268.76 182.69 316.21 120.07 358.46 22.29 4.50 105.92 317.45 167.42 150.00 9.74 $6,054.40 $620.51 returned 62.32 $558.19 5.04 $553.15 5,501.25 $6,054.40 92 TOWN OF LEXINGTON DETAIL OF UNPAID ITEMS In obedience to a vote of the Town, passed in 1907, a complete list of those who have failed to pay their bills is given herewith, being the total amount so outstanding at the close of the books of the Department December 31, 1917. Water Rates P. P. Apostolus Mr. Aronson F. G. Stevens H. Bornstein Eva Lassof S. A. Cook F. S. Clarke F. Serrilla W. J. Brennan C. A. Stewart M. O'Brien G. W. Loggie Mrs. L. C. Little (Item pending adjustment) Elizabeth F. Collins M. Montague F. H. Rupert Julia A. Webb Robert Porter James E. Burke Charles E. Patch Eugene Buckley Mrs. K. B. Kineen William P. Martin Fair Oaks Realty Company Rebated since Books closed Paid since hooks closed Guarantees F. B. Scamman Faria Brothers F. Traverse J. S. Condinho Mary Basher L. Lawrence A. J. Lima Paid since books closed Repair Account Mr. Aronson E. Buckley C. L. Barney R. Dattolli Paid since books closed Miscellaneous R. F. Hudson M. & B. St. Ry. Co. $9.00 Frank Love 2.00 Julia A. Webb, Balance 2.00 16.29 4.98 3.00 3.00 2.67 3.00 3.00 7.42 9.40 26.6o 8.52 3.35 4.00 32.65 35.08 22.88 3.55 1.00 2.00 39.09 60.00 4.53 836.52 $1,145.58 $79.85 32.26 32.26 32.26 32.26 7.00 9.77 14.63 $240.29 1916 Items F. B. Scamman (1915) F. B. Scamman (1916) Henry Bowker F. Traverse Mary Basher L. Lawrence 1.50 1.50 1.50 8.74 6.97 $20.21 3.00 21.74 1.50 5.04 $31.28 $72.06 75.89 1.00 31.45 31.45 7.00 $218.85 Total Amount $1,656.21 Unpaid bills due by Department $60.95 EXTENSION OF MAINS There were no Mains laid in Accepted Streets during 1917. LENGTHS OF DIFFERENT SIZES OF WATER MAINS IN USE Dec. 31, 1917 Diameter: Length 12 inches 10 inches 8 inches 6 inches 4 inches Smaller sizes 9,000 feet 4,879 feet 30,643 feet 109,674 feet 27,794 feet 4,209 feet The foregoing does not include exten- sion of the mains in Private Ways, a list of which is given herewith Year Location Size L`gth Made Inches Feet 1911 Wilbur Properties 6 1913 Mariott St. Hayes Est. 6 1914 York Street 6 1914 Webb Street 6 1914 Follen Road * 8 1915 Baker Avenue 6 1915 Locust Avenue 6 1916 Off Follen Road 6 1916 Arcadia Avenue 6 1916 St. Margarets Avenue 6 1917 Rawson Avenue 6 *Not yet acquired by the Town. 5,000 537 622 373 4,790 912 410 455 1,508 520 175 WATER AND SEWER COMMISSIONERS 93 WATER METERS In obedience to the law all new ser -,1907 vices installed and placed in use were 1908 equipped with meters. 1909 1910 The following table shows the progress 1911 made since 1906 in the installation of 1917 meters: 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1917 Number of Services 702 1912 738 1913 780 1914 838 1915 910 1916 1245 Of which there were Metered: 96 1912 245 .1913 362 1914 475 1915 615 1916 1231 Average gross income, per year: $21.40 1912 20.54 1913 1907 961 1908 1063 1909 1113 1910 1156 1911 1206. 1917 21.60 22.20 21.36 $17.72 1914 1915 1916 Number of meters installed 752 843 947 1063 1139 service, per $19.38 18.18 18.70 17.37 17.24 in 1917-92. MONTHLY AVERAGE DAILY CONSU MPTION OF WATER IN GALLONS PER CAPITA Year 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 Jan. 71 68 48 48 58 63 70 52 59 61 58 63 Feb. 73 72 56 52 65 64 75 55 60 58 60 65 Mar. 70 73 51 59 59 64 '79 55 58 58 62 69 Apr. May 68 74 '70 72 58 75 64 69 72 78 67 82 80 83 63 60 60 77 60 63 64 69 67 72 HY DRANTS The following Hydrants were in service on the dates given: January 1, 1917 Public, 195; Private, 25 January 1, 1918 Public, 195; Private, 25 MOVEMENT OF THE BONDED DEBT The debt movement up to the present time is as follows: Added Paid 1896 original bond issue 1896 10,000 1897 1,000 1898 10,000 1,000 1899 2,000 1900 2,000 1901 10,000 2,000 1902 5,000 3,000 1903 53,000 4,000 1904 8,200 1905 5,200 8,200 Net Debt $200,000.00 210,000.00 209,000.00 218,000.00 216,000.00 214,000.00 222,000.00 224,000.00 273,000.00 264,000.00 261,800.00 J une 74 82 109 84 73 80 101 68 93 80 71 77 July 96 85 105 101 119 115 107 86 73 63 73 93 Aug. Sept. Oct. 88 76 74 105 76 65 83 91 70 90 75 62 94 85 84 93 81 75 74 66 57 82 76 66 63 75 66 63 70 68 81 76 75 90 74 73 1906 2,000 1907 1908 13,000 1909 8,600 1910 1911 16,000 1912 32,000 1913 4,800 1914 8,500 1915 4,000 1916 3,000 1917 4,000 19,300 18,300 15,700 16,700 17,900 17,900 18,900 21,700 22,900 19,400 20,400 21,400 Summary: Origial Debt Total Additions Total Indebtedness incurred Total Payments made Nov. 65 62 65 55 71 77 56 63 63 62 69 71 Dec. 54 51 51 50 75 62 56 60 60 60 65 70 244,500.00 226,200.00 223,500.00 215,400.00 197,500.00 195,600.00 208,700.00 191,800.00 177,400.00 162,000.00 144,600.00 127,200.00 $200,000.00 189,100.00 $389,100.00 261,900.00 Balance of Debt Dec. 31, 1917 $127,200.00 gl TOWN OF LEXINGTON VALUE OF THE PLANT The estimated value of the plant at the close of 1916, as given in the report of that year was $255,000.00 Additions in 1917 5,501.25 Less depreciation Value Dec. 31, 1917 $255,000.00 STOCK AND 'POOLS ON HAND Stock, valued at $3,500.00 Tools, valued at 425.00 Horse and Wagon 300.00 Automobile 400.00 $260,501.25 5,501.25 $4,625.00 The financial conditions which have existed throughout the year caused a de- cided let up in all construction work and as a result no mains were laid in accept- ed streets. 'There was but one extension added to the system by the Department —that in Rawson Avenue—as provided for by a special appropriation of $300.00. On September 29, 1917, Mr. Edwin B. Worthen resigned his position as Clerk to the Commisioners, a position he has held since July 1911, to take effect as soon as satisfactory arrangements could be made. From November 27, 1917,— Miss Florence M. Boyd has been employ- ed as Clerk in the office of the Depart- ment and Mr. Charles S. Beaudry has been made Registrar as well as Super- intendent. The services of Mr. Worthen during the past six years while nominally that of Clerk of the Board have not been re- stricted to the narrow limits which the title suggests. He has been a conscien- tious and painstaking officer who found it his constant delight to give to the work of the department his best atten- tion, not only in matters of office detail, but also in helpful suggestions for im- provement in administration and in the adoption of such policies as would be in the interest of better service. The Board would record its appreciation of his efficient and loyal service. The abnormally cold weather which started late in December is causing wide- spread discomfort, and has made heavy demands upon the Department for relief in cases of frozen services. The Board is glad to report that, anticipating tiie calls to be made upon the Department, arrangements were made through the courtesy of the Edison Electric Illumin- ating Company to install in Lexington, with this Department, an electrical de- vice for thawing frozen pipes. The ma- chine has been in almost continual opera- tion since its installation. The Department has practically com- pleted the metering of all the old ser- vices, as there remain but 10 old and 4 new services, not yet in use, to be meter- ed. The Commissioners present the follow- ing estimate of receipts and expenses for the year 1918. Estimated Income Maintenance 1917 -Unpaid forward 1918 Water rates Guarantees Hydrants Troughs Repair Work Miscellaneous Estimated Expenses Maintenance Metropolitan Water Tax Interest on Bonds Labor Stock and Tools ;1laint. of Horse and Wagon Maint. of Automobile Office Expenses Salaries Miscellaneous $1,656.21 21,400.00 300.00 1,950.00 100.00 300.00 250.00 $25,956.21 $10,100.00 4,986.0'11 3,000.00 450.00 425.00 300.00 400.00 2,550.00 400.00 $22,611.00 WATER AND SEWER COMMISSIONERS 95 Net balance available for new construction 1917 Cash Balance forward Working Balance Estimated Expenses Construction Hydrants Gates and boxes Meters Other Stock Labor Tools and Repairs Insurance 3,345.21 $3,549.25 $6,894.46 2,500.00 $4,394.46 $250.00 350.00 750.00 • 1,179.46 1,500.00 200.00 175.00 $4,394.46 Our estimates are based on the pre- sumption that no requests for extensions of the service will bemade as present conditions do not warrant such work unless there is a real need therefor. No such cases are now before the Board for consideration and should such requests be made, calling for any considerable ex- penditure of money, a special apropria- tion will probably be necessary. The Board proposes, however, to ask that it be placed in funds, by direct ap- propriation or bond issue, to cover the extraordinary expenses clue to the freez- ing of mains and services, and the con- sequent necessary lowering of the pipes to prevent a reoccurrence of this trouble. BROOK DEPARTMENT Financial Statement Year ending Dec. 31, 1917: 1916 Balance forward $50.40 1917 Appropriation 249.60 $300.00 Expenses Payroll $290.38 $290.00 $290.38 $300.00 No new work was undertaken during 1917, the Department confining itself to cleaning the four main brooks of the Town which had previously been lowered to admit of better drainage. - Much of the good results would be lost if these brooks were neglected even for one season and your Commisioners will re- quest an appropriation of $400.00 that this work may be continued along present lines, and an opportunity given to ex- amine some of the Brooks where it has been requested that the Town do work. SEWER DEPARTMENT Main Sewer Construction Financial Statement 1916 Balance brought forward $9,776.93 Receipts Sale of Surplus Materials, Etc. 56.90 1,833.83 Expenses W. B. Bryne, as per contract $554.32 McClintock & Woodfall 61.10 W. B. Bryne, balance of 15 per cent. reserve 6,469.79 Land Damages 385.24 Johnson, Clapp & Underwood 60.00 Office Expenses 18.50 H. B. Bond Company 16.66 B. & M. R. R., Rent of land and yard 75.00 $7,640.61 Balance, Cash on hand 2,193.22 $9,833.83 The final payment to the Contractor was withheld as provided by the Contract until the Streets wherein the Sewer was ]aid should be put back in as good coi:- dition as they were before the Sewer was built. Upon completion of this work to the satisfaction of the Selectmen, the final payment was made. The Board had hoped to report at this time that the question of reward for land damages to the Estate of James S. Mun- roe and Breck-Robinson Nursery Com- pany had reached a satisfactory conclu- 96 TOWN OF LEXINGTON sion. Despite several urgent attempts on the part of the Commissioners to 'secure a conference with the interested parties, the matter of settlement has been per- mitted to run along until just before the day when, under the Sewer Act, the rights of the claimants would have ex- pired under limitation. Early in Decem- ber, in order to protect their rights, both the Estate of James S. Munroe, and the Breck-Robinson Nursery Company brought suit against the Town petition- ing that the entire question of land dam- age be reviewed by a jury. SEWER MAINTENANCE Maintenance of. System and Construction of House Connections Financial Statement Receipts: From Deposits $1,231.00 Additional Payments 53.81 Sewer Rentals 158.52 Miscellaneous Items 1.77 $1,445.10 Less excess deposits returned 190.42 Net Receipts $1,254.68 1916 Balance Forward $84.15 1916 Items paid in 1917 56.89 Less expenses: Labor Stock Office Expenses Tools Miscellaneous $1,395.72 $831.85 351.75 17.03 89.82 69.29 $1,359.74 Balance—Cash in hands of Town Treasurer $35.98 $1,395.72 Unpaid bills due to Department $54.53 Unpaid bills due by Department 105.32 Value of Stock and Tools on Hand Stock, valued at $165.00 Tools, valued at 45.00 $210.00 Only 21 new connections were made during 1917, of which 20 are in actual operation. Some of those laid in 1916 were completed (interior plumbing) in 1917, so that today there are 65 services in operation. While most of these are in the centre of the Town, where need of the sewer has been most apparent, the number of applications for connections has been below the expectations of the Board. There remain a number of mer- cantile buildings and dwellings in the Centre, which, if connected, would hasten the better sanitary conditions which the sewer was intended to provide. Your Commissioners hope that there will be a material increase in the number of vol- untary applications for house connections during the coming season. Respectfully submitted, GEORGE E. BRIGGS, ALBERT B. TENNEY, EDWARD H. MARA, Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners. 1VMOTH DEPARTMENT 97 MOTH DEPARTMENT REPORT Lexington, January 1, 1918. i'o the Honorable Board of Selectmen, Gentlemen: The work of the Moth Department as conducted during the past year under the direction of Mr. Osborne J. Gorman, has met with the approval of the district inspector of the State Department. During the year the department has expended $5,141.65 which includes $800 appropriated for the extermination of the lam Leaf Beetle. Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, Supervisor, Moth Department. 98 TOWN OF LEXINGTON REPORT OF TREE WARDEN. The work in this Department during 1917 has been confined almost entirely to the removing of dead trees, together with a few others which, though not entirely dead, had become a menace to public safety. It has been recently pointed out by eminent authorities that Tree Wardens and others in charge of public shades trees, have certain import- ant duties devolving upon them which of necessity have to do with the protec- tion of the traveling public. The falling of decayed limbs and the blowing down of old dead trees, have caused serious personal injuries in many instances, and subsequent heavy awards have been made against cities and towns in this Commonwealth. The duties of these officers are clearly defined by the Sta- tutes, and I take this opportunity to bring to the attention of our townspeople the need of pruning and otherwise re- moving any portion of a shade tree, which stands as an element of danger to the public. While the Tree Warden offi- cially has to do only with the trees stand- ing within the bounds of the public high- way, or overhanging the same, and can use funds provided by the town only in the treatment of these, he is always will- ing to be of any possible assistance to our townspeople in the proper care of their trees. This Department has in several instances during the year been able to prune and repair shade trees for private owners at minimum cost. Some new trees have been planted this year, principally to replace those which have been removed or damaged. Several trees have been injured by accident, and some by malicious design. Our town is not altogether free from those individ- uals who have yet to learn that a tree is a living thing, and that to injure a tree, like that of a person, is a misdemeanor punishable by fine or imprisonment. We have only to review the records of the Commonwealth to find that shade trees have ever occupied a most import- ant place in the life of the community. As early as 1635 the Town of Boston passed an order:—"To prevent the trees planted in the settlement from being spoiled." The interesting and important feature of this act was that it carried in addition to the criminal liability, dam- ages under the civil law. The acts of the Legislature from time to time since, have emphasized the wishes of the people enacted into statutes so that the shade trees might be protected. The act under which we now work became a law April 7, 1915, and clearly defines the duties and powers of Tree Wardens, as well as the penalties for injuring or cutting shade trees standing within the public high- way. It must also be remembered that the shade trees of the town are not to be used as signboards on which to tack or tie bills or posters.. Several towns in the Commonwealth have found it neces- sary recently, to vigorously enforce the law in regard to the protection of their shade trees. The co-operation of all our citizens is asked that the trees on our public ways may he preserved without injury. The trees of the town are, as a whole, in fairly good shape, though lacking in the vigorous appearance of former years. The modern methods of road construction, and the continuous application of oily substance are no doubt responsible in a great measure for gradual deterioration of the trees in some sections. It is pos- sible that something can be done in the way of stimulating growth by fertiliza- tion. While there are some difficulties in the way of doing this, we believe it en- tirely practical and well worth the neces- sary effort. A. E. ROBINSON, January 1, 1918. Tree Warden. SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 99 REPORT OF SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Lexington, Mass., Jan. 1, 1918. '1'o the Honorable Board of Selectmen, Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit the follow- ing report: Scales sealed weighing over 5,000 lbs. Scales sealed weighing under 5,000 lbs. Computing scales All other scales, balances and beams Number of weighs tested Pumps tested Linear Measures Slot weighing machines 3 34 23 62 239 17 15 1 l'roperty in the office of the Sealer Weights and Measures Twenty 50 Ib. weights Two 10 " One 4 " 2 " 1 " 25 " 5 0 8 oz. 4 " 2 " 41 Brass {0 (t 1 1 One 1 oz. weight brass 1. '4 di y8 id 1-16 " Three balances One drilling machine, drills steel stamps. Two 4 quart measures. Two 2 qt. measures. Two 1 qt. measures. Two 1 pt. measures. Two 1 pt. measures. One yard stick in case. Paper seales, Red and Blue, wires and leads. Two brass rules for measuring. One 60 in. steel tape. One record book. Six receipts books. of Seven -test weighing books. Fees collected for sealing and ad- justing $31.48 Turned in to the Treasurer 31.48 '!'here have been quite a number of test weighings and inspections of the scales in stores. Tested over 500 Milk bottles from the different milk men and none were found to be condemned. CHARLES E. HADLEY, Sealer of Weights and Measures. it in case. 100 TOWN OF LEXINGTON I9I7 ASSESSORS' REPORT The Assessors hereby render their an- Water income 9,357.91 nual report. Real estate owners Real estate of non-resident owners Personal estate of resident owners $70,980.64 of resident Amt. committed to Collector, $207,018.61 $6,245,132.00 Rate of taxation, $24.00 on $1,000.00 on a valuation of $8,474,192.00 18.19 Polls at $2.00 each Personal estate of non-res- ident owners 1,215,740.00 781,841.00 231,470.00 Total val uation $8,474,192.00 Gain on real es- tate, $225,798.00 Town grant 226,917.08 State tax 22,110.00 Fire prevention tax 89.67 County tax 10,111.90 Highway tax 1,561.78 Metropolitan sewer tax 5,617.61 Metropolitan water tax 9,357.91 Overlay 2,233.30 Amount to be raised From which deduct amount taken from hank and corporation tax $15,000.00 Tax on land taken by Cambridge for water 300.38 Tax on land taken by Arlington for water 266.25 'Fax on land taken by State of Mass. 52.98 Income tax from State of Mass. 46,003.12 $277,999.25 $203,380.61 $3,638.00 $207,018.61 Tax on omitted assessments, Dec. 19,1917 424.24 Number of residents assessed on property 1,397 Number of non-residents assessed on property 1,189 Whole number of persons assessed on property 2,586 Number assessed for poll only 1,124 Number assessed for poll and property Whole number assessed for poll Number of cows assessed Number of horses assessed Number of neat cattle other than cows assessed Number of swine assessed Number of fowl assessed Number of dwelling houses as- sessed Number of acres of land assessed Value of real estate exempt from taxation $134,600.00 Value of real estate belonging to town $470,325.62 Value of personal property exempt from taxation $22,000.00 GEORGE H. JACKSON, HENRY E. T UTTLE, FREDERICK J. SPENCER. Assessors. 695 1,819 977 488 165 552 6,680 1,352 9,242 Number Year Population of Polls Valuation Rate of Tax 'l'own Grant State Tax County Tax 1860 2,329 581 $1,762,145 $8.00 on $1,000 $12,952.87 $497.50 $1,449.22 1861 .... 615 1,762,037 8.00 " 12,075.81 605.00 1,760.47 1862 .... 592 1,745,644 9.50 " 14,830.00 3,636.00 1,494.06 1863 .... 624 1,832,344 10.00 " 12,915.00 4,848.00 1,494.06 1864 .... 558 1,687,348 15.00 " 19,397.00 4,848.00 1,492.02 1865 2,223 585 1,670,963 16.50 " 18,530.00 8,319.00 1,283.51 1866 .... 598 1,701,655 14.00 " 18,110.00 5,310.00 1,407.35 1867 .... 601 1,770,468 15.50 " 17,660.00 8,850.00 1,576.24 1868 .... 620 1,999,137 14.00 " 25,315.9(1 3,540.00 1,632.53 1869 .... 609 1,966,876 12.50 " 19,839.00 4,425.00 . 1,800.41 1870 2,377 629 2,254,8 31. 13.50 " 24,275.00 4,425.00 1,801.41 m 1871 .... 618 2,324,750 16.00 " 31,746.00 4,325.00 1,801.41 .V'_y .1872 .... 638 2,536,011 16.00 " 35,390.00 3,000.00 1,739.67 rn cn 1873 .... 706 2,863,285 16.00 " 41,875.00 3,375.00 1,922.72 0 1874 .... 731 2,946,414 13.00 " 35,590.68 3,000.00 2,052.89 cn M1 1875 2,510 736 2,979,711 14.50 " 40,598.30 3,000.00 1,924.58 1876 .... 739 2,978,233 12.00 " 32,592.30 2,934.00 1,023.90 th 1877 .... 725 2,704,771 13.60 " 34,069.01) 2,445.00 1,433.47 'ti O 1878 .... 720 2,446,157 14.20 " 33,241.36 1,6 30.00 1,177.45 y 1879 .... 724 2,433,160 8.00 " 18,343410 815.00 1,177.45 1.880 2,467 708 2,389,337 10.70 " 25,095.50 2,445.00 1,228.64 1881 .... 722 2,530,001 12.40 " 28,657.00 2,445.00 1,228.64 1882 .... 708 2,493,912 10.40 " 31,262.00 3,260.00 1,228.64 1883 .... 748 2,577,274 11.80 " 27,687.00 2,175.00 1,535.80 1881 .... 792 2,581,867 10.60 " 24,296.29 2,900.00 1,334.00 1885 2,718 764 2,880,460 10.80 " 28,290.16 2,175.00 1,479.10 1886 .... 797 2,890,041 14.50 " 37,660.00 2,355.50 1,415.86 1887 .... 807 2,988,668 10.00 30,650.00 3,532.50 1,651.84 1888 ... 824 3,259,957 11.50 " 30,280.00 3,532.00 1,982.21 1889 .... 863 3,193,052 12.70 " 36,165.00 3,260.50 2,527.33 1890 3,197 955 3,378,189 12.10 36,897.64 2,852.50 2,624.54 0 I Number o Year Population of Polls Valuation Rate of Tax Town Grant State Tax County Tax w 1891 .... 937 3,479,158 13,00 on $1,000 $41,205.00 $2,445.50 $2,624.54 1892 .... 993 3,522,645 17.00 " 55,986.72 2,782.50 3,106.74 1893 .... 984 3,713,628 15.00 46,742.96 3,975.00 3,245.83 1894 .... 1,041 4,014,055 15.00 " 55,621.64 3,180.00 3,477.69 1895 3,498 1,053 4,121,636 18.00 " 69,715.00 2,445.00 4,860.16 1896 .... 1,085 4,310,943 15.30 " 66,878.52 2,852.50 4,091.77 1997 .... 1,071 4,565,717 15.00 " 69,767.40 2,852.00 3,860.16 1898 .... 1,103 4,863,380 17.50 " 86,744.34 2,595.00 3,302.90 1899 .... 1,142 5,032,005 16.00 " 75,015.04 2,595.00 4,688.99 1900 3,831 1,168 5,182,060 15.00 " 78,571.16 2,595.00 4,630.43 1901 .... 1,252 5,385,085 18.00 " +95,331.04 3,322.50 5,670.44 H 1902 .... 1,295 5,649,180 17.00 " 96,549.18 2,825.93 5,656.61 1903 .... 1,309 5,697,630 19.00 " 103,661.78 4,500.00 5,894.64 Z 1904 .... 1,331 5,827,290 19.00 " 105,135.00 4,675.00 6,320.23 p 1905 4,537 1,307 5,975,670 20.40 " 115,576.98 7,480.00 6,141.87 1906 .... 1,323 6,125,180 19.00 " 116,095.82 6,545.00 6,510.17 1907 .... 1,295 6,209,800 20.60 " 129,906.79 7,800.00 6,881.37 >C 1908 .... 1,411 6,884,670 20.00 " 132,591.18 10,725.00 6,762.82 Z 1909 .... 1,444 7,257,810 17.50 " 134,806.16 8,775.00 7,518.41 C 1910 4,970 1,490 7,826,980 18.50 " 141,885.08 11,605.00 • 8,048.44 0 1911 .... 1,611 7,957,260 19.20 " 147,634.94 11,605.00 7,409.46 1912 .... 1,651 8,106,015 20.10 " 157,818.65 13,187.50 7,258.17 1913 .... 1,684 8,562,600 21.80 " 181,146.10 16,080.00 8,112.12 191-1 .... 1,665 9,012,626 21.00 " 182,690.01 17,587.50 9,645.00 1915 5,538 1,759 9,814,378 20.80 " 189,952.26 19,597.50 10,189.20 1916 .... 1,771 10,100,107 23.00 " 215,286.80 16,400.00 10,583.60 1917 .... 1,819 8,-474,192 24.00 " 226,917.08 22,110.00 10,111.90 PARK COMMISSIONERS 103 REPORT OF THE PARK COMMISSIONERS. To the Citizens of the Town of Lexing- ton: Your Board of Park Commissioners beg to report for the year 1917 great progress in the development of the Parks and Playgrounds of Lexington. As stat- ed in our last report, we felt that Buck- man Park should have our first con- sideration and we accordingly called for bids for filling, grading, rolling and seed- ing these grounds. The contract was awarded at the lowest bid $1,400 and work started in March. Labor and weather conditions combined to retard the work, but it was finally completed in the early part of the summer and made a vast improvement in this most con- spicuous and historic spot in Lexington. It was deemed advisable to mark plainly the border line between the grass and the gravel walks and $100 was voted for the purchase and laying of sod for this purpose. The third item of expense on this proposition was the purchase and setting out of 150 Arbor Vitae trees in the rear of the Park along the line of the railroad. This purchase was considered for some time before being made, but the opportunity arising to obtain trees of mature growth at a remarkably low figure (279.52) convinced your Board that it was economy to buy them. These trees were planted under the personal supervision of a member of the Board and thanks to his interest and watchful- ness. Only four or five trees have been lost in spite of the extreme dry spell. A two inch pipe line was laid to the well in the southern corner of the Park before the grading was done and this spring we expect to connect this with a drinking fountain. The grass seed caught well but the dry spell killed some in spite of frequent watering and a considerable area will have to be seeded down again. By arrangement with the Board of Se- lectmen, a six foot sidewalk is planned for Merriam Street and a concrete or granolithic sidewalk of equal width along Masachusetts Avenue located so as to provide for any future widening of the street. It is the hope of your Board to make Buckman Park the beauty spot of Lexington and along these lines a fund has already been started by private sub- scription, to restore the old fashion gar- den that was a feature of this estate in the past. Another project of your Board that far exceeded their expectations was the so-called "Community Gardens."' Actu- ated by the desire to increase the pro- duction of food products, it was voted that a portion of the tract of land deeded the town by the late A. E. Scott be opened up to the citizens of Lexington for garden plots. An area of about six acres was ploughed and harrowed, mark- ed off in lots 60 feet by 60 feet and turn- ed over to 52 individuals at the nominal sum of $1.00 per lot. In spite of a late start, and an abnormal season, the results were excellent. The soil proved adapt- able to all kinds of vegetables and yields from these lots ranged from eight tb twenty-eight bushels. With but a single exception every gardener has applied for his lot again and new applications make it evident that dougle the acreage will be under cultivation this year. Your Board can imagine no better use for this tract of land than these gardens and wish to render all the assistance possible to make them a success. The most urgent need is some arrangement for obtaining water, either from the brook or wells, and also a building of some description Nvhere the gardeners can keep their tools as many come from a distance and the 104 TOWN OF LEXINGTON work is done chiefly before and after working hours. The past year also saw the cleaning up, grading and sowing down of Robbins Park, at the junction of Follen Road and Pleasant Street, and a gravel walk made to the Wellington stone placed on this Park. The Playgrounds have been the scenes of their usual activities and under special supervision during the ten vacation weeks. In the interest of economy, but one supervisor was employed at each Playground without, however, in any way decreasing the efficency owing to the ex- cellent work of Misses Teague and Green With the idea of diverting the activities of the older boys to more useful pur- suits in the production of food a ruling was made by the Board that the super- vision should be for the smaller children only and this proved very successful. Even the small children made themselves useful by devoting the rest period to knitting face cloths with material sup- plied by the local Special Aid Society. The swimming instruction the past year deserves special mention as being a won- derful success and a record being kept of the beginners, certificates were issued by the Supervisors that the parent might be informed of the childs progress in this essential qualification. In this connection, comparatively few citizens realize the extent that the Res- ervoir is used for swimming. With no conveniences whatever every hot day found dozens seeking relief in its cool waters. With the neighboring estate cut up into house lots and the prospect of houses being built this season, some- thing more substantial than a conven- ient bush must be provided as a dress- ing room. At comparatively small ex- pense this spot could be made as safe and popular as Lake Walden—where so many of our citizens now go. The general work of this department has had its usual care and attention but each year brings increased duties and responsibilities. In view of the labor shortage your Board is endeavoring to interest the Local Troops of Boy Scouts which did such efficient work last summer in the food production campaign to con- tract, at a price, for the care of certain of the Parks. We believe an arrange- ment of this kind can be made to be of benefit to the boys as well as the Town. We would call your attention to the gift to the Town by Mr. D. L. Pickman from his Bedford Estate of a perfect specimen of blue spruce tree 35 feet in height. This tree has been planted on the Battle Green with the idea of not only beautifying it but also to serve as a Community Christmas tree when that custom is revived. It is with a great deal of pleasure that your Board can incorporate in this re- port the announcement of a gift by Mr. F. L. Emery of a strip of land 50 feet in width extending from Forest Street dir- ectly opposite Muzzey Street to vine Brook. This land adjoins the strip now owned by the Town and because of its location should become the main entrance to the Park. Blue prints are on exhibi- tion showing the proposed development of this approach with a one hundred foot circle at the junction of Forest and Muz- zey Streets made possible by the gener- ous co-operation of Mr. J. E. Hubbell and the Old Belfry Club. In closing we wish again to invite your careful consideration of the desirability and even necessity of converting the barn on Buckman Park into a convenience station for our citizens as well as the thousands of tourists who annually visit us. It is our intention to present a plan and estimated cost of this project at the Annual Town Meeting. Respectfully submitted, J. ODIN TILTON, WILLIAM E. Mt:LL1KEN, 1I)WARD WOOD, Park Commissioners. SCHOOL BUILDING COMMITTEE 105 REPORT OF THE SCHOOL BUILDING COMMITTEE. Jan. 1, 1917 Balance unexpended $21,027.35 Amount expended $20,584.80 Balance unexpended $442.55 Expenditures Land on Mass. Av. $14,500.00 (Vote of Town Apr. 16, 1917) Willard D. Brown, Architect„ for pro- May 7, 1917 fessional services in connection wit.h— Vote-Full Corn. Proposed New School Building, Lexing- ton, Mass., as per contract with Building Committee 4,410.00 Alfred S. Kellogg, Engineer, for Profes- May 7, 1917 sional services in connection with-Pro- Vote-Full Com. posed New School Building, Lexington, Mass., as per contract with Building Committee 1,590.011 Robert L. Ryder, Attorney, for proles- April 26, 1917 sional services in connection with pur- Vote-Full Corn. chase of Bacon Estate by vote of Build- ing Committee 79.80 Robert P. Clapp, Attorney, for opinion June 22, 1917 in reference to limit of Town's borrowing Vote-Full Corn. capacity—June 4th, 1917, about $125,000 by vote of Building Committee 5.00 20,584.80 TIMOTHY H. O'CONNOR, HALLIE C. BLAKE, DWIGHT F. KILGOUR, EDWARD P. MERRIAM, CHAS. H. MILES, ROBERT L. RYDER, Building Committee. Examined and approved. CHARLES F. PIERCE, Auditor. 106 TOWN OF LEXINGTON TREASURER'S REPORT Trees 279.52 $1,842.10 Receipts Robbins Park Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1917 $15.63 Grading and seeding, $60.50 Surveys 61.00 Appropriated 3,484.37 Playground supervisors 191.80 Received for rent 130.00 Playground supplies 15.50 ice privilege 50.00 Community Gardens sale of Hay 20.00 Ploughing and harrowing 59.50 Garden plots 39.00 Culvert (Vine Brook) 74.49 care of drinking Filling 33.50 fountain 12.00 Lumber 35.48 Circus privilege 7.00 Horse hire 46.50 Donations 100.00 Raising and lowering flag poles 25.00 from Board of Selectmen 25.00 Supplies 64.50 Miscelleaneous 56.25 $3.883.00 Cash on hand 11.77 Expenditures Labor $1,305.11 Buckman Park Grading $1,400.00 Sodding 100.00 Water Connections 62.58 $3,883.00 Due Park Department for mate- rial, $9.40 WILLIAM E. MULLIKEN, Treasurer. TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC TRUSTS 107 FINANCIAL REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC TRUSTS Dec. 31 Eleanor S. Beals Legacy —Principal Account $2,000.00 Principal of fund invest- ed in $2,000 City of Lynn 4s 2,000.00 ELEANOR S. BEALS LEGACY—IN- COME ACCOUNT Receipts Apr. 1 Cash received for coup- ons on $2,000 City of Lynn 4s $40.00 Apr. 13 Credited by Lexington Savings Bank for interest on account 16.28 Oct. 1 Cash received for coup- ons on $2,000 City of Lynn 4s 40.00 Oct. 13 Credited by Lexington Savings Bank for interest on account 17.40 $113.68 Disbursements Dec. 4 Cash paid for charitable objects $100.00 Excess of receipts disbursements Balance of Income ember 30th, 1916 over 13.68 Dec - 814.42 Balance of Income Dec- ember 31st, 1917, on de- posit in Lexington Sav- ings Bank, book number 2569 828.10 Harriet R. Gilmore Legacy —Principal Account 500.00 Principal of fund deposit- ed in Lexington Savings Bank, book number 6949 500.00 IIARRIE'I' R. GILMORE LEGACY—IN- COME ACCOUNT Receipts May 3 Credited by Lexington Savings Bank for interest on account Oct. 13 Credited by Lexington Savings Bank for interest on account 5.82 25.90 $31.72 Disbursements Cash paid for charitable objects $42.23 Excess of disbursements over receipts 10.51 Balance of Income Dec- ember 30th, 1916 291.32 Balance of Income Dec- ember 31st, 1917, on de- posit in Lexington Sav- ings Bank, book number 3913 280.81 Charles E. French Legacy —Principal Account $4,000.00 Principal of fund invested in $4,000 Town of Lexing- ton 4s 4,000.00 CHARLES E. FRENCH LEGACY— INCOME ACCOUNT (Cemetery) Receipts Apr. 1 Cash received for inter- est on $2,000 Town of Lexington 4s $40.00 Credited by Lexington Savings Bank for interest on account 9.40 108 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Oct. 1. Cash received for inter- est on $2,000 Town of Lex- ington 4s 40.00 Credited by Lexington Savings Bank for inter- est on account 8.88 Disbursements July 23 Cash paid to A. A. shall $98.28 Mar - 75.00 Excess of receipts over disbursements $23.28 Balance of Income, Dec- ember 30th, 1916 470.18 Balance of Income, Dec- ember 31st, 1917, on de- posit in Lexington Sav- ings Bank, book number 7375 $493.46 CHARLES E. FRENCH LEGACY -IN- COME ACCOUNT (School) Receipts Apr. 1 Cash received for inter- est on $2,000 Town of Lexington 4s $40.00 Credited by Lexington Savings Bank for interest on account 6.52 Oct. 1 Cash received for interest on $2,000 Town of Lexing- ton 4s 40.00 Credited by Lexington Savings Bank for interest on account 6.44 $92.96 Disbursements July 9 Cash paid to William C. Dorrety, for medals $50.00 Excess of receipts over disbursements 42.96 Balance of Income Dec- ember 30th, 1916 326.38 Balance of Income Dec- ember 31st, 1917, deposit- ed in Lexington Savings Bank, book number 7374 $369.34 Jonas Gammell Legacy - Principal Account $500.00 Principal of fund on de- posit in Lexington Sav- ings Bank, book number 7044 500.00 JONAS GAMMELL LEGACY - IN- COME ACCOUNT Receipts Credited by •Lexington Savings Bank for interest on account: April October Feb. Mar. June June Aug. Dec. Jan. Mar. 3.74 23.88 Disbursements Cash paid on account of Almshouse inmates, as under: 3 A. M. Tucker Lester E. Smith Fiske Bros. 5 G. W. Spaulding 7 O. G. Seeley 14 Snow Ice Cream Co. 11 Lester E. Smith Snow Ice Cream Co. 31 Estate of H. V. Smith Mrs. W. W. Reed A. M. Tucker G. W. Spaulding E. W. Hutchinson $27.62 7.19 7.$7 1.00 1.27 1.50 1.35 1.23 1.90 3.12 5.58 4.22 1.10 9.45 $46.78 Excess of disbursements over receipts $19.16 Balance of Income Decem- ber 30th, 1916 204.34 Balance of Income Dec- ember 31st, 1917, in Lex- ington Savings Bank, book number 6808 $185.18 CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS Receipts 27 Lyman Lawrence, lot 134 $100.00 2 James. E. Crone, lot 167 150.00 TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC TRUSTS 109 May 12 Frank V. Butters, lot GEORGE 0. SMITH LEGACY -IN - 403 100.00 COME ACCOUNT 19 S. M. Lawrence, lot 337 100.00 6 Chester M. Lawrence, lot 344 100.00 Nov. 16 Susan A. Nichols, lot 105 100.00 June Oct. Nov. 30 Blodgett, lot 28 100.00 $750.00 Amount of funds Decem- ber 80th, 1916 17,260.00 Amount of funds Decem- ber 31st, 1917 $18,010.00 CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS -IN- COME ACCOUNT (Receipts) Jan. 18 Received from Lexington Trust Co. for interest $29.18 Credited by Lexington Savings Bank for inter- est: April October $37.04 667.86 $734.08'' Disbursements Cash paid to A. A. Mar- shall, as under: Apr. 20 July 23 Dec. 31 $250.00 200.00 27.04 $477.04 Excess of receipts $257.04 Balance of Income Decem- ber 30th, 1916 1,823.25 Balance of Income Dec- ember 31st, 1917, in Lex- ington Savings Bank, book number 7045 $2,080.29 George 0. Smith Legacy -Principal Account 2,500.00 Principal of fund invest- ed, as under: $2,000 Chicopee 4s 2,000.00 Deposited in Lexington Savings Bank, book num- ber 5887 500.00 (Receipts) Aug. 11 Cash received for inter- est on $2,000 Chicopee 4s $40.00 1)ec. 10 Cash received for inter- est on $2,000 Chicopee 4s Oct. Credited by Lexington Savings Bank for interest on account April October 40.00 .50 21.12 $101.62 Di sbursements 31 Cash paid Field & Garden Club $100.00 Excess of receipts over disbursements Balance of Income Dec- ember 30th, 1916 1.62 95.89 Balance of Income Dec- ember 31st, 1917, on de- posit in Lexington Sav- ings Bank, book number 7377 $47.51 Hayes Fountain Fund - Principal Account $862.72 Principal of. Fund on de- posit in Lexington Sav- ings Bank, book number 5260 862.72 HAYES FOUNTAIN FUND-1NCOM1: ACCOUNT (Receipts) Credited by Lexington Savings Bank for inter- est on account Dec. 17 $37.98 $37.98 Disbursements Cash paid for repairs to fountain $12.69 Town of Lexington, Park Dept. 12.00 $2,500.001 $24.69 110 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Excess of receipts Balance of Income Decem- ber 30th, 1916 $13.291 ELIZABETH B. GERRY FUND 71.09 $1,493.81 Balance of Income, Dec- ember 31st, 1917, on de- posit in Lexington Sav- ings Bank, book number 7376 $84.38 LEXINGTON HIGH SCHOOL SCHOL- ARSHIP FIND Balance reported in 1916 $50.25 Interest credited by Lex- ington Savings Bank in 1917 2.02 Invested as under: DeVeau note $1,400.00 Lexington Savings Bank, book number 8350 93.87 $1,493.87 FRANK D. PEIRCE, F. FOSTER SHERBURNE, JOHN F. TURNER, Trustees of Public Trusts of the Town of Lexington. Ilalance December 31st, Examined 1917, deposited in Lex- ington Savings Bank, book number 8 364 $52.27] and approved. CHARLES F. PIERCE, Auditor. BRIDGE CHARITABLE FUND 111 Report of Trustees of Bridge Charitable Fund. Principal Account $4,000.00 October 31 Principal invested in Interest DeVeau $2,000 City of Quincy $2,000.00 Mortgage of Caroline Welling- ton, Trustee $2,000.00 Income Account Receipts $4,000.00 $40.00 62.50 42.00 24.00 15.04 40.00 62.50 16.10 3.76 April 1 Interest $2,000 Quincy 4s Interest on note of Caroline Wellington April 27 Interest on DeVeau note May 1 Rent of Gerry land May 3 Interest Lexington Savings Bank June 11 Interest $2,000 Quincy 4s October 11 Interest Wellington notes Interest Lexington Savings Bank Interest Lexington Savings Bank (Gerry) note 42.00 Disbursements Cash paid for charitable objects $3,479.00 $296.72 excess of receipts $51.18 Balance of Income December 30th, 1916 1,312.92 Balance of Income December 31, 1917, invested, as under $1,364.10 Mortgage note of Caroline Welllington, Tr. $500.00 Cash on deposit in Lexing- ton Savings Bk. 864.10 (Book No. 3187) $1,364.10 FRANK D. PEIRCE, F. FOSTER SHERBURNE, JOHN F. TURNER, Trustees of the Bridge Charitable Fund. Examined and approved, CHARLES F. PIERCE, Auditor. 112 TOWN OF LEXINGTON REPORT OF TAX COLLECTOR. 1 herewith submit my report as Col- lector of Taxes for the year 1917: All taxes have been collected previous to 1917: The attention of fax Payers is again called to uniform Tax Laws which went into effect .January 1, 1915, and have been amended since that time to read as follows: Taxes shall be payable in every City and Town, and in every Fire, Water, Watch or Improvement district in which same are assessed, not later than the 15th clay of October of each year, and on all taxes so assessed remaining unpafd after the expiration of 15' days from the date taxes are payable interest shall be paid at the rate of .06 per cent. per an- num computed from October 15. Sec. 3. Cities and Towns shall not allow any discount to persons or cor- porations making payment of their taxes. Tax bills are sent to all listed tax pay- ers and on the face of bills printed in- structions are placed each year. Many are laid aside and never read, in fact are lost, thereby a duplicate bill has to be sent. The Public Book made up by the As- sessors shows items on Personal Property and Real Estate and those who do not understand how such taxes are made up should, on receipt of bills, at once take the bill to the Board of Assessors. The Public Book can be seen during office hours at the Town Hall. A careful reading of State Law will convince all that after October 30th of each year it is the duty of the Collector to ask for settlement with interest from October 15th. The new Income State Tax which went into effect in the year 1917, requires statements to be filed to both State and To vn. 1916 TAX Uncollected January 1st, 1917 $34,566.53 Collected in 1917 $33,543.67 .Abatements in 1917 862.73 Tax Liens held by Town 160.13 $34,566.53 1917 TAX Amount Committed, Sept. 24, 1917 $207,018.61 Omitted Tax Committed Dec. 19, 1917 424.24 Total Collected to Jan Abatements to 1918 Tax Liens held $207,442.85 . 1, 1918 $160,874.85 Jan. 1, 2,683.43 by Town 44.04 Uncollected Jan. 1, 1918. $207,442.85 $43,840.53 GYPSY AND BROWN TAIL MOTH 1916 Uncollected Jan. 1, 1917 $342.37 Collected in 1917 $342.37 GYPSY AND BROWN TAIL MOTH 1917 Amount Committed Sept. 24, 1917 Collected. to Jan. 1, 1918 $1,241.23 Uncollected Jan. 1, 1918 302.57 $1,543.80 $1,543.80 BYRON C. EARLE, Collector of Taxes. TOWN TREASURER STATEMENT OF TOWN DEBT January 1, 1918. •Metropolitan Water Loan per cent. Registered Water cent. Munroe School Loan, 31/ cent. 9,450.00 Public Trust Loan, 4 per cent. 18,000.00 Extension Water Mains Loan, 4 per cent. 4,000.00 Engine House and Fire Equip- ment Loan, 4 per cent. 4,000.00 Engine House and Fire Equip- ment• Loan, 4 per cent. 19,500.00 Adams School Loan, 4 per cent. 39,000.00 Adams School Loan, 41/4 per cent. Auto Fire Equipment Loan, 41/4 per cent. 4,000.00 Public Parks Loan, 41/4 per cent. 26,000.00 Extension Water Mains Loan, 41/ per cent. 2,500.00 Sewer Loan, 4 per cent. 92,000.0( 113 31,% Extension Water Mains Loan, $13,200.00 4 per cent. 2,000.00 Loan 4 per School House Construction Loan, 80,000.00 4 per cent. 39,000.00 per Extension Water Main Loan, 4 per cent. Auto Fire Apparatus per cent. Woburn Street cent. Stone Crusher cent. Summer Street cent. Repairs Mass. Avenue, 1,000.00 cent. New Cemetery cent Extension 41 per Loan, Loan, Loan, Loan, 41/ 41/ Widening Mass. Ave. Loan, 4 per cent. 5,000.00 • Loan, 41/2 per per 4/ per 2,000.00 8,000.00 5,000.00 3,000.00 5,000.00 41/2 per 10,000.00 41/2 per 10,000.00 Water Mains Loan, cent. 4,000.00 $405,650.00 GEORGE D. HARRINGTON, Town Treasurer. TOWN TREASURER'S REPORT. CASH RECEIPTS 1917 Cash on hand, Jan. 1, 1917 $30,934.54 Board of Health 718.44 County Treasurer (Dog Licenses) 735.82 750.00 848.69 12.50 56.00 1,326.80 1,662.25 468.00 5,627.04 6.99 Cemetery Trust Funds Cemeteries Clerk School Committee Collector of Taxes Cotingent Suppression of Moths Fire Department Highways Insurance Interest Interest on Taxes Improvement of Woburn Street Irnprovement of Mass. Ave. Income Tax Land Taken Auto Fire Apparatus New Cemetery Outside Aid Police Department Premium on Bonds Public Parks Plans New School House Schools 1,519.90 940.79 5,000.00 10,000.00 46,300.44 646.86 8,000.00 10,000.00 1,645.50 333.07 110.70 509.14 15.00 3,945.09 8 114 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Sealer of Weights and Measures Sidewalks State Aid Stone Building Support of Poor Summer Street Extension Sewer Maintenance Sewer Assessments Stone Crusher Taxes Tax Titles Temporary Loans Town Clerk ')'own Hall Tree Warden Village Hall Water Department Sewers Bank and Corporation Tax 2.57 41.71 526.00 25.00 2,157.78 5,000.00 1,501.99 10,628.61 3,000.00 194,418.52 128.58 140,000.00 182.47 427.95 82.00 26.00 30,820.01 56.90 9,027.16 $530,166.81 Expenditures Assessors $2,261.53 Auditor 795.96 April 19th 191.87 Board of Health 3,317.56 Board of Survey 5.75 Cary Memorial Library 3,794.02 R. L. Ryder, 'Teas. (Dog Licenses) 735.82 Trustees of Public Trusts 750.00 • Cemetery Committee 10.75 Cemeteries 1,414.79 Clerk of School Committee 25.00 Clerk of Trustees Public Trusts 65.00 Collector of Taxes Contingent County Tax Elections and Suppresion of Extinguishing Finance Committee Fire Department Fire Prevention Tax Fire Observation Tower Highways Inspector of Buildings Inspector of Cattle Inspector of Meat and Provisions 234.00 Insurance 2,672.35 Interest 13,574.78 Memorial Day 250.00 Registrations Moths Forest Fires 1,589.06 2,040.08 10,111.90 710.05 6,778.50 696.82 133.55 Nev Fence Old Cemetery Auto Fire Apparatus New Cemetery Outside Aicl Overseers of the Poor Police Department Premium on Bonds Public Parks Plans for New School Road Commissioners Repairing Mass. Avenue Schools Sealer of Weights and Selectmen Sewer Tax Sidewalks Soldiers Relief Removal of Snow State Aid State Highway Tax State Tax Stone Building Street Lights Support of Poor Sewer Maintenance Stone Crusher Temporary Loans Town Clerk Town Debt Town Hall Town Physician Town Treasurer • Tree Warden Treasurer Cary Memorial Town Hall Repairs Town Engineer Village Hall Veterans Pensions Water Department Lowering Brooks Watering 'Troughs 100.0(1 7,999.63 108.60 5,335.22 300.00 8,839.86 288.75 3,997.37 House 6,000.00 300.00 6,835.23 57,017.34 Measures 132.83 1,416.22 5,617.61 561.71 24.00 1,875.43 589.00 1,561.78 22,110.00 775.78 10,891.44 3,014.25 1,550.16 2,986.57 115,000.00 1,171.97 38,756.00 2,891.65 75.00 1,407.76 732.13 Library 25.00 183.10 3,239.98 236.76 852.40 29,443.47 290.8 100.00 7,640.61 300.00 1,950.00 4,290.71 14,584.80 53,865.15 12,263.54 Sewers 89 .6.7 Water Main Rawson Ave. 200.00 Hydrants "7,094 81 Widening Mass. Avenue 500.00 I Land for New School House 600.00 Cash on hand; Jan. 1, 1918 $530,166.81 GEORGE D. HARRINGTON, Town Treasurer. AUDITOR'S REPORT 115 AUDITOR'S REPORT. ABATEMENT OF TAXES Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Overlay, 1917 Amount expended Overdraft Expenditures Per abatement slips APRIL NINETEENTH Receipts Appropriated and assessed, 1917 Amount expended Balance unexpended Expenditures Henry E. Tuttle, salary Geo. H. Jackson, salary 759.37 Fred J. Spencer, salary 2,233.30 Board of Assessors, car fares, $2,992.67 3,204.26 211.59 $672.22 572.22 572.22 postage, etc., Balance due writing certified copy of pub- lic for Commonwealth, 1916 27.86 Hobbs & Warren, stationery 25.47 Library Bureau, office supplies 6.58 3,204.26 E. Wentworth Prescott, services 105.50 Win. Jones, services 35.00 C. E. Wheeler, printing 76.50 L. L. Applin, Registry of Deeds 43.79 Helen Reed, typewriting 5.00 $250.00 John Rose, carriage hire 13.00 191.87 H. V. Smith Estate, pencils .90 58.131 Board of Assessors, writing public book for 1917 100.00 Expenditures Lexington Drum Corps Wm. F. Young, transportation Machine Gun Co., and postage Lexington Garage, use of dining room, Historic Hall N. J. Hardy, caterer 0. G. Seeley, cigars Edw. L. Child, commissary Dep't per vouchers $250.00 Lexington Postoffice, stamps $75.00 2.27 6.00 15.70 18.75 74.15 $191.87 ASSESSORS Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 $4.75 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 2,305.60 Amount expended Balance unexpended $2,310.35 2,261.53 48.82 $2,310.35 5.27 $2,261.53 AUDITOR. Receipts. Balance unexpended, 1916 $ 2.95 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 847.05 Amount expended Balance unexpended $ 850.00 795.96 54.04 $ 850.00 Expenditures. Charles F. Pierce, salary Alice N. Morse, clerical services Charles F. Pierce, stationery, pencils, stamps, etc. $783.33 8.00 4.63 $795.96 116 TOWN OF LEXINGTON BANK AND CORPORATION TAX. Receipts. Transferred from Omitted As- sessments, 1915 State of Massachusetts, Cor- poration Tax, 1917 State of Massachusetts, Bank Tax, 1917 State of Massachusetts, Street Railway Tax, 1917 Excess of expenditures over re- ceipts Expenditures. Overdraft, 1916 Deducted by Assessors Expenditures. Wm. L. Barnes, M. D., salary, balance 1916 and 1917 $91.67 $2,676.54 Wm. B. Foster, salary, balance 1916 and 1917 91.67 6,234.07 Chas. H. Franks, salary, bal- ance 1916 and 1917 91.67 2,601.61 Andrew Bain, plumbing in- spector, salary, balance 191.48 1916 and 1917 625.00 Laurence L. Peirce, M. D. V., 5,972.84 salary, milk inspector • 191.67 Lexington Postoffice 16.22 C. S. Parker & Son, printing 4.55 O. G. Seeley, telephones, mes- senger service, etc. 46.88 C. E. Wheeler, printing 19.25 Wood Bros., Arlington Express .35 Ezekiel Pratt, M. D., culture examinations 89.00 Wm. L. Barnes, M. D., services as quarantine officer 231.00 W. H. Burke & Co., repairs on pump 46.40 American Express Co. .68 580.31 Geo. D. Lexner, repairs on wagon 11.40 47.16 A. A. Marshall, fumigating 86.50 Mass. Homeopathic Hospital 999.69 $2,727.52 $17,676.54 2,676.54 15,000.00 $17,676.54 BOARD OF HEALTH. Receipts. Balance unexpended $ .05 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 2,100.00 Transferred from Omitted As- sessments, 1915 Transferred from Omitted As- sessments, 1916 Sewer Maintenance, rods and tools Laurence L. Peirce, M. D. V. milk licenses Amos Holman, slaughtering license August Young, slaughtering 'license A. Bunzel, slaughtering license Andrew Bain, milk licenses and postage State of Massachusetts, reim- bursement T. G. Whiting, slaughtering li- cense Amount expended Balance unexpended W. L. Barnes, M. D., sundry expenses 69.90 C. H. Butterfield, inspector of meat and provisions 1.50 City of Cambridge Andrew Bain, milk inspector, salary. Mass. General Hospital 100.00 Seeley Pharmacy, telephones, etc. City of Waltham United Improvement Society • draining water hole 351.00 Lorenz Model Co., milk sedi- ment tester 5.00 Edson Mfg. Co., parts for pump M. J. Pero, burying dead dog H. B. McArdle, self -inking stamp Hobbs & Warren, stationery $3,445.96 P. J. Maguire, burying dead dogs 75.00 100.00 16.04 $3,445.96 3,317.56 128.40 2.06 246.00 180.01 130.75 6.10 1.08 48.25 3.00 11.00 3.52 1.00 3.25 1.06 4.00 AUDITOR'S REPORT 117 Janes Irwin, burying dead dogs Carl A. Page, labor James J. Sullivan, burynig dead dogs Chas. W. Swan, services as agent, issuing burial per- mits Andrew Bain, sample bottles, etc. Balance Amount Balance BOARD OF SURVEY. Receipts unexpended, 1916 expended unexpended 3.0() supplies 1.25 '1'. A. Mullony, assignee, repair- ing roof 1.25 1.00 A. G. Davis, ice and trash wood 24.60 Herbert M. Lawrence, hardware 3.40 Lexington Coal Co., coal 420.50 25.00 W. H. Burke & Co., air valves 9.35 2.63 S. B. Bigelow, substitute jani- tor 27.00 1.50 9.25 $3,317.56 $218.50 5.75 212.75 218.50 Expenditures. C. E. Wheeler, printing CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY. Receipts. Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 Amount expended Balance unexpended Expenditures Simon Latter, removing ashes Katherine Buck, extra assistant librarian F. E. Clark, janitor, salary Marian P. Kirkland, librarian, salary Dorothy B. Wentworth, assis- tant librarian, salary Helen E. Muzzey, assistant li- brarian, salary W. E. Denham, weighing coal Water Department Edison 5lectric Illuminating Co. of Boston New Eng. Tel & Tel Co. L. C. Sturtevant, cartage H. I. Dallman Co., janitor's 5.75 $156.75 3,643.25 $3,800.00 3,794.02 5.98 $3,800.00 10.70 John Rose, cartage American Water Supply Co., cups The Hammond Typewriter Co., typewriter in exchange Ward's, oak box Lexington Lumber Co., lumber and cement Edw. H. Mara, setting glass Somerville Brush Co., brushes 3.50 40.00 1.81 1.09 2.50 4.79 $3,794.02 Unpaid bills 131.11 CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY (Dog Tax.) Receipts. County Treasurer $735.82 Expenditures R. L. Ryder, treasurer $ 735.82 CEMETERIES. Receipts. Balance unexpended, 1916 $480.32 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 300.00 162.12 699.96 :are of lots G. Leslie Putnam, grave 900.00 G. Irving Tuttle, lot 386V M. G. Hopkins, lot 385M 480.00 L. M. Cheever, lot 151 F. Delfino, wood 700.00 John Fleming, grave 6.60 Est. Abbie F. Griffing, grave 22.62 St. Clair Spidel, grave Est. M. Aquaro, grave 224.38 C. W. Lightbody, grave 25.00 A. A. Marshall, Supt., inter - 12.10 ments, 1917 J. Fligg, grave $780.32 536.44 5.00 60.00 50.00 53.50 3.00 5.00 3.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 109.25 5.00 118 TOWN OF LEXINGTON J. J. Buckle, grave 3.50 Amount expended Balance unexpended Expenditures Pay roll H. M. Lawrence, hardware Geo. D. Lexner, sharpening picks Lexington Coal Co., cement Lexington Lumber Co., wood and cement W. S. Phelps, plants Water Department, water rates, labor and fittings C. C. Lothrop, plants Lexington Postoffice Fiske Bros., supplies A. S. MacDonald, florist J. P. Dailey, manure and loam Ernest W. Martin, loam G. W. Spaulding, mower, grind- stone, seed, etc. Arthur A. Marshall, supt., salary, 1917 $1,629.01 1,414.79 214.22 $1,629.01 $1,064.38 13.40 3.30 6.63 13.5e 12.00 47. 8. 8. 1. 3. 22. 22. 17 60 48 62 50 7: 50 36.90 150.00 $1,414.79 Due the town from individuals $112.50 CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS. Receipts Lyman Lawrence, lot 134 James E. Crone, lot 167 Est. F. P. Butters, lot 403 Est. S. Myron Lawrence, lot 337 Chester M. Lawrence, lot 344 Flora Nichols Beggs, lot 105 Est, Emnia M. Blodgett, lot 28 $100. 150. 100. 100. 100. 100. 100. 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 $750. Es penditures Trustees of Public Trusts $750. CLERK OF SCHOOL COMMITTE Receipts Appropriated and assessed 00 00 E. $50. 00 Amount expended Balance unexpended Expenditures Robert L. Ryder, salary Unpaid balance on salary 12.50 37.50 $50.00 • $12.50 37.50 $50.00 CLERK, TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC TRUSTS. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 $7.00 Appropriated and assessed 63.00 Amount expended Balance unexpended Expenditures Chas. A. Pearson, tracing of plan Union Safe Deposit Vaults, rent of safe F. R. Galloupe, salary, 1917 $70.00 65.00 5.00 $5.00 10.00 50.00 Unpaid bill COLLECTOR OF TAXES. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 65.00 3.00 $39.57 1,610.43 $1,650.00 Certificates 6.00 American Surety Co., rcimbuse- ment on bond 50.00 Amount expended Balance unexpended $1,706.00 1,589.06 116.94 $1,706.00 Expenditures Allen Bros., rubber stamp $1.65 Hobbs & Warren, stationery 21.08 Byron C. Earle, collector, sal- ary, 1917 1,283.33 C. S. Parker & Son, printing 13.50 Lexington Postoffice 115.00 H. A. Davis, Jr. & Co., printing 44.00 American Surety Co., bond C. E. Wheeler, printing John Rose, carriage hire AUDITOR'S REPORT 119 100.00 H. D. Fuller, public carriage 9.50 license 1.25 1.00 John Rose, public carriage l i cense 4.00 $1,589.06 H. C. Sorenson, public carriage license 2.25 J. F. McCarthy, public carriage license 2.00 Circus license 7.00 $500.00 P. J. Kelly, public carriage license 2.25 CEMETERY. John Calder, reimbursement 36.86 Mrs. Mayer, public carriage $62.78 license 1.00 10.75 P. J. Kelly, rent of house, 52.03 Mass Ave. 20.00 Southall's Express, liquor permit 1.00 G. C. Chapin, rent of house, • Mass. Ave. 21.00 8. Bornstein, junk license 137.50 J. J. Burton, rent of house, Mass. Ave. 31.00 State of Mass., soldier's ex- emption 11.76 J. A. Bean, liquor permit 1.00 COMMITTEE ON IMPROVED HIGHWAYS. Receipts Appropriated and assessed, 1917 COMMITTEE ON NEW Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Amount expended Balance unexpended Expenditures C. E. Wheeler, printing J. F. McCarthy, auto hire CONTINGENT. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 W. E. Denham, weigher, town scales, 1915 and 1916 Wm. Viano & Co., theatre and bowling alley licenses Dean's Express, liquor permits Sale of book State of Massachusetts, reim- bursement Educational, In- dustrial School Faugno & Zuretti, pool room license Wood Bros., liquor permit American Express Co., liquor permit S. Lippa, junk license Max Berman, junk license Norumbega Park Co., license, Lexington Park, 1917 State of Massachusetts, pedlar's licenses A. Greenblot, junk license $62.78 $7.75 3.00 $10.75 $563.12 1,136.88 $2,000.00 79.61 0. S. Parker & Son, printing 45.00 Chas. A. Keegan, M.D., return - 3.00 ing birth certificate .50 Winson M. Tyler, M. D., return- ing birth certificates, 1916 W. Barry, Beale & Co., sta- 139.82 tionery, 1latthew Bender & Co., Inc., 1.00 law book L00 w City of Somerville, vocational school, tuition 1.00 Shepard, Norwell & Co., coupon 250.00 book and rennins on type - 250.00 writer Town of Concord, school tuition 15.00 Lexington Postoffice The Maugus Printing Co., 11.00 printing torn reports 250.00 American Express Co. Amount expended Balance unexpended Expenditures $3,326.80 2,040.08 1,286.72 $3,326.80 $10.00 .25 3.25 12.37 10.00 120.00 6.14 107.25 20.75 620.30 4.98 120 TOWN OF LEXINGTON W. L. Barnes, M. D., returning birth certificates, 1917 Boston Index Card Co., office supplies Arthur A. Marshall, returning death certificates, 1917 C. E. Wheeler, printing H. B. McArdle, office supplies L. C. Sturtevant, delivering town reports Fred S. Piper, M. D., returning birth certificates, 1913 to 1917 inc. Weeks & Doten Co., printing Library Bureau, printing R. H. Meikle, M. D., birth re- ports John Calder, reimbursement, account vocational school tuition, 1916 W. L. Barnes, M. D., return- ing birth certificates, 1915 and 1916 A. Ingham Bicknell, chairman, sundry expenses, committee on Town Government Wm. P. Martin, legal services Lexington Historical Society History of Lexington The Carter's Ink Co., ink Smith's Agricultural School, tuition C. W. Spaulding, trolls for adding machine The Adder Machine Co., rib- bon and paper Custance Bros., box for electric switch on ball field James Irwin, serving dog war- rants Ammidon & Bicknell, legal services Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston, projectors, with lamps for ball field Ernest W. Martin, cleaning cesspool, Bacon property John Moakley, electrical wiring play ground, etc. Elmer A. Lord & Co., printing 7.25 1.80 11.75 15.75 4.85 30.00 4.75 27.67 1.00 1.25 46.07 8.50 27.15 100.00 10.00 1.25 73.71 1.05 5.56 3.64 25.00 253.00 20.75 9.00 73.35 schedule riders E. C. Bailey, setting glass Water Dept., water for 335 Mass. Ave. Johnson, Clapp & Underwood, professional services Dean's Lexington Express Co. Edw. H. Mara, painting at Bacon House J. Swan, commission renting house, 335 Mass. Ave. T. H. O'Connor, carpenter work, Bacon property H. C. Valentine, M. 1)., return- ing birth certificates, 1917 Unpaid bill COUNTY TAX. Receipts Appropriated and assessed, 1917 15.00 3.44 6.00 75.00 4.00 45.00 6.00 202.25 4.00 $2,040.08 $249.16 $10,11.1.90 Expenditures County Treasurer $10,111.9() ELECTIONS AND REGISTRATION. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 $72.65 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 677.35 Amount expended Balance unexpended Expenditures Ballot clerks and tellers Paul Revere Tavern, meals Edgar L. White, labor on booths C. E. Wheeler, printing C. S. Parker & Son, printing John Moakley, booth lights Bartholomew D. Calahan, regis- trar, salary, 1917 David F. Murphy, registrar, salary, 1917 $750.00 710.05 39.95 $750.00 $305.00 125.00 6.25 89.00 65.20 14.60 35.00 35.00 Chas. F. Nourse, registrar, salary, 1917 AUDITOR'S REPORT 121 H. R. Harrington, driver 50325 35.00 E. A. Pero, driver 503.25 American La.France Fire Engine FINANCE COMMITTEE. Receipts Valance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 Amount expended Balance unexpended Expenditures Anchor Linotype Printing Co., printing report H. A. Davis, Jr. & Co., print- ing C. E. Wheeler, printing A. Ingham Bicknell, postage, stenographer's services, etc. FIRE DEPARTMENT. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 Highway, Dept., horse sold Forest Fires, services of ap- paratus at brush fires Amount expended Balance unexpended $710.05 Co., supplies and repairs Henry K. Barnes Co., supplies F. M. Batchelder Co., buttons Boston & Maine R. R., freight $.10.58 The Dayton Tire Co., tires Edison Electric Illuminating 109.42 Co. of Boston E. W. Harrod, oil, soap, etc. $150.00 H. M. Lav: rence, hardware 133.55 supplies 16.45 Lexington Coal Co., coal Lexington Garage, gasoline $150.00 E. 13. MacLalan, repairs Middlesex & Boston Street Railway Co., power for blowing fire whistle 60.00 John Moakley, electrical re- pairs New Eng. Tel. & Tel. Co. John Rose, use of horses H. V. Smith Estate, mittens, etc S. M. Spencer Mfg. Co., badges, etc. Water Department Wetmore -Savage Co., spark plugs Winchester Laundry Co. American Express Co. W. H. Burke, repairs and supplies 169.05 Dean's Lexington Express Co. 15.60 Lexington Lumber Co., lumber 329.31 Geo. D. Lexner, repairs 4.03 1'. A. Mullony, assignee Geo. W. Day, grate, bars, etc. 21.42 Edward S. Payson, board of horses 135.00 Fred S. Piper, M. D., profes- sional services 6.00 Lester E. Smith, soap, polish, etc. 33.33 Wood L-'ros., Arlington Ex- press 9.15 Lexington Postoffice 16.31 Lewis W. Bills, circuit storage battery switchboard, supplies and repairs 1,360.23 95.25 6.50 7.25 24.55 133.55 $187.78 11,385.22 $11,873.00 150.00 318.00 $12,341.00 12,263.54 77.46 $12,341.00 Expenditures S. A. Cook, driver $1,168.00 Frank MacDonald, driver Com- bination B 515.20 Wm. L. Moakley, driver '1,168.00 W. B. Wright, driver 1,168.00 57.24 72.45 7.63 4.14 565.80 76.60 11.41 176.21 233.30 30.23 61.66 33.48 79.09 319.00 6.90 17.29 31.95 5.30 45.71 15.86 122 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Baker Motor Sales Co., Inc., supplies Paul Revere Hotel, lunch and coffee Simon Latter, removing ashes R. W. LeBaron, repairing system The Lexington Tailor, curtain, and repairing flag A. M. Tucker, cheese cloth, etc. The Firemen's Standard Pay Roll, Combination A Pay Roll, Combination I3 Pay Roll, Hook and Ladder No. 1 Edward W. 'Taylor, services as chief W. S. Scamman, services as en- gineer and clerk 13. A. Russell, services as en- gineer Chas. G. Richards, services, January, 1917 Fiske Bros., oil Edw. H. Mara, paint C. S. Parker & Son, printing 0. G. Seeley, peroxide hydrogen, etc. McKie, McInnis & Dingwell, 6 pine doors John F. Welch, labor at Central Station Custance Bros, scraping floors Colonial Garage, gasoline, etc E. A. Coolidge, gasoline Sewer Maintenance, sewer rental G. W. Spaulding, gasoline, paint etc. Stanley Motor Carriage Co., tubing Watt and Casey, labor and re- pairs H. P. Boutelle, rent of land The Anderson Coupling and Fire Supply Co., set Fire Station Door Openers J. H. Hynes, roofer Jordan Marsh Co., beds, mat- tresses, etc. A. J. Wilkinson & Co., supplies 27.76 10.00 5.00 27.97 3.60 19.53 4.50 412.50 787.50 600.00 75.00 100.00 75.00 6.25 6.85 1.00 1.00 1.25 153.75 6.60 6.00 10.17 9.72 1.50 Pay Roll, Combination C C. M. Collins & Co., repairs A. G. Davis, ice Clinton E. Hobbs Co., tire chains F. E. Nary, lanterns A. C. & M. L. Felkin Co., lettering apparatus James Forgie's Sons, straps Gould & Cutler, brushes Valentine & Co., varnish H. M. Saunders Co., pinch bars P. F. Dacey, mason work C. W. H. Moulton Co., compound extension ladder 137.50 1.48 6.50 16.50 10.50 10.10 4.25 2.64 5.54 2.00 159.76 40.00 $12,263.54 FIRE OBSERVATION TOWER. Receipts Appropriated and assessed, 1917 $200.00 Expenditures State Treasurer $200.00 FIRE PREVENTION TAX. Receipts Appropriated and assessed, 1917 Expenditures State Treasurer FOREST FIRES. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 100.37 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 3.36 Excess of expenditures over receipts 61.15 50.00 Amount expended Expenditures 85.00 Lyman Lawrence, brooms 31.36 Pay Roll N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co. 145.83 Herbert M. Lawrence, rakes, .87 shovels, etc. $89.67 $89.67 $227.18 272.82 196.82 $696.82 696.82 $11.10 306.40 38.60 22.72 AUDITOR'S REPORT 123 Fire Dept., use of apparatus at brush fires Unpaid bill HASTINGS PARK. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 HIGHWAYS. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 318.00 $696.82 3.60 $22.52 5.00 $27.52 $473.56 32,000.00 $32,473.56 134.79 Crushed Stone Middlesex & Boston Street Railway Co., tarvia Old Harness sold Joe Colter, junk sold School Dept., sand and labor Middlesex & Boston Street Railway Co., excise tax C. D. Fuller, labor, tarvia and sand Geo. W. Taylor, labor, tarvia and sant! Frank R. Kimball, labor, tarvia, grate, etc. State of Massachusetts, sand E. C. Stone, pipe, grate, tarvia, etc. 547.98 16.00 200.00 58.50 2,295.10 24.00 30.00 56.00 12.40 50.50 Widening Mass. Ave., macadam construction 2,201.77'. Amount expended Balance unexpended $38,100.60 37,094.81 1,005.79 $38,100.60. Expenditures Pay Roll $16,422.47 L. T. Whiting, weigher at crusher 30.00 I H. A. Burgess, stone and use of team 117.32 W. H. Burke & Co., supplies 14.74 Clinton Wire Cloth Co., screen 14.17 Daniel A. Gorman, hay 117.70 The Kelsey Co., stone 104.06 H. S. Kelsey, stone 26.25 S. J. Ricci, stone 52.41 G. W. Spaulding, oil, etc. 22.08 Peter H. Stevens, sand 6.25 J. A. Terhune, horse shoeing 174.85 Robt. H. White, hay and straw 172.10 F. H. Whitney, D. V. M., lini- ment 6.00 Wm. H. Bacon, stone 15.74 Boston & Maine R. R., freight 127.48 C. A. Routelle, D. V. S., pro- fessional services 5.00 John Chisholm, blankets, har- ness, etc. 224.25 J. Cushing & Co., feed 2,336.88 E. B. McLalan, horse shoeing and repairs 397.74 O. G. Seeley, medicine 3.02 Wood Bros, Arlington Express 9.59 Wni. J. Haley, stone 6.25 Robert H. White, supervisor of streets, salary 500.00 J. P. Dailey, labor on streets 666.25 Osborne J. Gorman, hay 38.92 Geo. D. Lexner, supplies and repairs 322.16 Ames Implement & Seed Co., supplies 4.20 Robert H. White, use of auto- mobile 242.00 Ezra F. Breed, thawing out catch basin dram 3.75 J. W. Griffin, repairs 6.50 P. J. Kinneen, sand 149.75 Herbert M. Lawrence, supplies 66.69 State of Massachusetts, boiler inspection 5.00 Water Dept., water and pipe 33.80 The Buffalo -Springfield Roller Co., supplies 106.54 New Eng. Road Machinery Co., supplies 1,303.77 Lexington Lumber Co., lumber, nails, etc. 245.55 124 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Geo. Hill, sand and gravel John Baker, Jr., road oil Geo. H. Harlow•, sand and gravel Lexington Field and Garden Club, half cost sodding, cutting grass, etc. 'Irs. Perla C. Lyon, gravel Edw. H. Mara, signs P. Leslie Ryder, sand and gravel Standard Oil Co. of New York, asphalt road oil Alex. Wilson, sand and gravel Edw. Wood, trees and labor Lexington Coal Co., coal The Barrett Co., tarvia J. Belcastro, stone F. E. Gustin, stone American Express Co. McKinney Bros. & Co., two horses Joseph Ilreck & Sons, ross cut- ter Deveau Bros., carpenter work Waltham Forge, roller picks Massachusetts Broken Stone Co., stone Alfred J. Bevington, stone M. Carroll, stone Frank P. Cutter, surveying Davis & Farnham Mfg. Co., catch basin covers and gratings Sewer Construction, half rent of yard for storage P. F. Dacey, repairing catch basin American Tar Co., tarite New Eng. Metal Culvert Co., culverts Harold L. Bond Co., pick handles Town of Concord, cartage on oil Warren C. Duren, hay Headley Good Roads Co., patch- ing material Fiske Bros., batteries C. E. Hadley & Son, labor on fountains and troughs Ernest W. Martin, use of team Edw. S. Payson, stone, 1915 33.15 480.06 29.00 173.47 6.25 21.90 79.00 848.84 51.50 56.50 312.15 4,607.30 19.77 18.75 2.51 750.00 16.00 132.75 55.50 17.18 29.04 19.67 4.00 Support of Poor, board of Highway Dept. horses 800.00 Water Dept., half rent of land for storage purposes 60.00 Dean's Lexington Express .75 E. W. Harrod, oil, etc. 14.67 Independent Coal Tar Co., tar binder 72.50 Shawmut Chemical Co., boiler preservative 15.00 Frank P. Reynolds, use of cart 13.14 Priest, Page & Co., fifteen -ton auto truck scale, etc. 466.50 J. A. Bean, trucking 18.00 H. V. Smith Estate, gravel and sand 39.50 Thomas G. Ranton, commission for selling old boiler 20.00 Parks and Playgrounds, con- tribution towards grading Robbins Park 25.00 Gold Medal Food Co., animal regular 28.00 Fire Dept., chestnut horse 150.00 H. L. Alderman, D. V. S., pro- fessional services 59.00 M. A. Pero, sharpening picks 25.55 Custance Bros., labor and ma- terial, stone crusher 2,268.09 273.34 Unpaid bill 12.50 7.83 80.63 243.64 2.25 12.80 290.51 170.52 1.75 16.75 21.00 20.07 $37,094.81 $496.03 MASSACHUSETTS AVE. (Improve- ment of Winthrop Road to Waltham St.) Receipts Proceeds of Bonds $10,000.00 WOBURN STREET (Improvement of.) Receipts Proceeds of Bonds $5,000.00 HYDRANTS. Receipts Appropriated and assessed, 1917 $1,950.00 Expenditures Water Dept. $1,950.00 AUDITOR'S REPORT 125 INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 Expenditures Wm. Gratto, inspector, salary Unpaid bill $118.38 381.67 $500.00 $500.00 INSPECTOR OF CATTLE. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 Amount expended Balance unexpended Expenditures H. L. Alderman, D. V. S., salary, 1915, '16 and '17 $14.50 $416.67 200.00 $616.67 600.00 16.67 $616.67 $600.00 INSPECTOR OF MEAT AND PROVISIONS. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 Amount expended Balance unexpended Expenditures H. L. Alderman, D. V. S., inspections, 1916 Unpaid bills INSURANCE. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 $60.00 184.00 $244.00 234.00 10.00 $244.00 $234.00 $396.00 A. A. Marshall, return premium Elmer A. Lord & Co., return premium Amount expended Balance unexpended 3.00 3.99 $2,681.99 2,672.35 12.64 $2,681.99 Expenditures Arthur A. Marshall, premium 827.17 B. F. Brown & Sons, premium 875.02 Edwin B. Worthen, premium 258.00 Blake, Newell & Vedeler, premium 60.00 Elmer A. Lord & Co., premium 100.16 Geo. W. Taylor & Son, pre- mium 432.00 B. E. Whitcher, premium 60.00 John G. Fitzgerald, premium 60.00 $2,672.35 Unpaid bills $383.42 Insurance carried by the Town Blanket insurance as follows: On Buildings $315,650.00 On Contents 102,200.00 $478,050.00 INTEREST. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 Transferred from Interest on Taxes Tax Titles Lexington Trust Co. Fourth Atlantic National Bank Sewer Assessments $101.30 10,104.71 674.30 $10,880.31 30.39 896.04 96.78 115.87 B. C. Earle, tax collector, inter- est on deposit Accrued interest on bonds $139.22 Excess of expenditures over receipts 2,538.78 $2,678.00 Amount expended 16.94 363.88 1,174.57 $13,574.78 13,574.78 126 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Expenditures Coupon Bonds Registered Bonds Loans for Revenue State of Massachusetts Receipts INTEREST ON TAX $9,318.75 320.00 3,517.92 418.11 Receipts MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE. (Re- pairs, Pleasant Street to State Road.) $13,574.78; Appropriated and assessed, • 1917 Amount expended ES. Balance unexpended Balance unexpended, 1916 $674.30: B. C. Earle, collector 940.79 Expenditures Amount expended Balance unexpended Expenditures Transferred to Interest Ac- count $674.30 $1,615.091 F lank Lawrence Blood, trustee, 674.30 Winchester Rock & Brick Co., 940.79 crushed stone $1,061.82 $1,615.09 D. P. Lloyd, cartage 773.19 Massachusetts Broken Stone Co., stone 779.22 Standard Oil Co. of New York, asphalt binder B 4,221.00 $7,000.00 6,835.23 164.77 $ 7,000.00 LAND FOR NEW SCHOOL HOUSE. Receipts Transferred from School House Construction Amount expended Balance unexpended $15,000.00 14,584.80 412.20 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 $15,000.001 John N. Morse, Q. M.,' Post 119, G. A. R. MEMORIAL DAY. Receipts Expenditures Henry W. Beal, agent for Caroline A. More, land $14,500.00 R. L. Ryder, legal services 79.801 Johnson, Clapp & Underwood, legal services Expenditures - NEW CEMETERY. 5.00 Receipts Proceeds of Bonds $14,584.80 Amount expended Balance unexpended LAND TAKEN FOR WATER AND O'1'IIER I'CRPOSES. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 State of Massachusetts City of Cambridge Town of Arlington Expenditures Taken by Assessors Balance unexpended $97.86 55.60 313.44 $6,835.23 $250.00 $250.00 $10,000.00 108.60 9,891.40 $10,000.00 Expenditures C. S. Parker & Son, printing $47.25 Alice F. Taylor, examining titles 56.35 277.82!J. F. McCarthy, auto hire 5.00 $744.72 $108.60 $619.61 NEW FENCE FOR OLD CEMETERY. 125.11 Receipts Appropriated and assessed, $744.72; 1917 $100.00 Expenditures P. J. Keenan, portion of cost fence, as per agreement AUDITOR'S REPORT 127 $100.00 NEW FIRE APPARATUS. Receipts Proceeds of Bonds $8,000.00 Amount expended 7,999.63 Balance unexpended .37 Expenditures John F. Welch, painting chassis and supervising work American LaFrance Fire En- gine Co., Inc., type 14, 6 -cylinder city service truck Henry K. Barnes Co., holders Dodge -Haley Co., tire steel The Kissel Car, Kissel chassis A. M. Wood Co., wood W. A. Snow, iron work, wire basket Valentine Co., paint NEW FIRE HOSE. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 OUTSIDE AID. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 City of Boston, reimburse- ment City of Boston, reimburse- ment (Mother's Aid) City of Cambridge, reim- bursement (Mother's Aid) State of Mass., reimburse- ment State of Mass., remiburse- ment (Mother's Aid' Town of Burlington, reim- bursement $8,000.00 $120.00 6,062.50 69.00 4.13 1,700.00 13.56 17.00 13.44 $7,999.63 $15.00 $556.53 5,700.00 $6,256.53 258.50 51'7.04 40.00 Amount expended Balance unexpended Expenditures 5,335.22 2,566.81 $7,902.03 Mother's Aid $1,317.50 Aid Furnished Sundry per- sons 2,963.84 City of Cambridge 282.29 John Rose, carriage hire 10.75 Holy Ghost Hospital 365.00 1)1•. W. L. Barnes, professional services 3.00 Win. B. Foster, car fares 5.19 Boston Index Card Co., office supplies 31.05 A. A. Marshall, services as undertaker 240.00 W. M. Tyler, M. D., profes- sional services 9.00 City of Boston 83.00 H. C. Valentine, M. D., medi- cine and dressings, 1917 18.60 J. F. McCarthy, auto hire 6.00 $5,335.22 OVERSEERS OF THE POOR. Receipts Appropriated and assessed, 1917 Expenditures Wm. B. Foster, salary Edw. W. Taylor, salary Wm. S. Scamman, salary Jay O. Richards, salary $300.00 $100.00 16.67 100.00 83.33 $300.00 PARKS AND PLAY GROUNDS. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 $15.63 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 3,484.37 233.83 J. J. Garrity, rent of cottage 586.13 Sewer Maintenance, excess de- posit Sewer Connection 10.00 Lexington Historical Society, Sewer Connection $7,902.03 $3,500.00 120.00 46.02 78.98 Community Gardens 39.00 128 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Sale of Grass Rent for Circus Rent of Shed Highways, grading Robbins Park Trustees Public Trusts, care of Hayes Fountain A. G. Davis, ice privilege, 1917 Donations John Nolen, refund Amount expended Balance unexpended Expenditures Pay Roll Water Dept., water rates, pipe and labor John P. Dailey, grading Sewer Maintenance, sewer con- nection Buckman Tavern Frank P. Cutter, surveying Herbert M. Lawrence, hard- ware, paint, etc. Lexington Flagstaff Co., rais- ing topmast on common and ball grounds Lexington Lumber Co., lumber Ernest W. Martin, gravel, etc. John Rose, carriage hire The Lexington Tailor, repairing flags Mina K. Goddard, repairing flags P. A. Mulvey, ploughing Dorothy Teague, supervisor Breck-Robinson Nursery Co., trees Mildred Green, supervisor W. H. Burke & Co., hose, etc. Geo. D. Lexner, repairs Public Safety Committee, ploughing Dr. J. O. Tilton, horse hire Agnes Viano, supervisor J. P. Dailey, laying sod on walk at Buckman Tavern 20.00 7.00 10.00 25.00 12.00 50.00 100.00 1.14 $4,009.14 3,997.37. 11.77 $4,009.14 $1,316.30 71.58 1,460.50 125.00 61.00 35.05 25.00 35.48 36.50 31.50 8.20 4.00 31.50 84.23 279.52 90.90 25.87 Lexington Coal Co., lime and cement H. V. Smith Estate, athletic supplies F. C. Tyler, sharpening lawn mowers C. E. Wheeler, printing E. B. McLalan, sign stakes Edw. H. Mara, painting signs M. J. Cassidy, buliding cul- verts F. H. Hannaford, mowing G. W. Spaulding, lawn seed W. E. Wormwood, lettering signs John Nolen, blue prints 6.75 15.50 4.50 5.25 1.00 1.50 59.80 3.50 1.88 2.50 1.14 $3,997.37 PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR NEW SCHOOL HOUSE. Receipts Transferred from School House Construction $6,000.00 J. D. Bacon Estate, rent 15.00 Amount expended Balance unexpended Expenditures Willard D. Brown, architect, professional services, as per contract Alfred S. Kellogg, plans and specifications, as per agree- ment $6,015.00 6,000.00 15.00 $6,015.00 $4,410.00 1,590.00 $6,000.00 POLICE DEPARTMENT. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 $94.13 Appropriated and assessed, 9.25 1917 28.00 15.00 16.67 100.00 Custance Bros., sign boards 3.00 Court Fines, Concord Amount expended Balance unexpended 9,088.68 $9,182.81 333.07 $9,515.88 $8,839.86 676.02 $9,515.88 AUDITOR'S REPORT 129 . Expenditures Chas. H. Franks, chief, salary P. J. Maguire, salary James Irwin, salary T. C. Buckley, salary J. J. Sullivan, salary J. C. Russell, salary W. F. Fletcher, salary W. H. Kew, services Auto List Publishing Co., for 1917 Margaret Sweeney, services as matron Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston Lexington Postoffice John Rose, carriage hire Stone & Forsyth Co., hygienic cups N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co. C. E. Wheeler, printing .Edw. C. Maguire, services P. J. Maguire, sundry ex- penses Virgini Roussen, services as matron Wood Bros., Arlington Ex- press Geo. N. Holden, repairs on motorcycle Chas. H. Franks, meals for prisoners, etc. James Irwin, killing dogs J. F. McCarthy, auto hire Wrn. F. Fletcher, carriage hire, car fares, etc G. W. Spaulding, gasoline, towels, etc. $1,273.05 1,180.80 1,180.80 1,180.80 1,180.80 1,180.80 1,180.80 57.00 15.00 10.00 Expenditures Overdraft, 1916 Commonwealth of Massachu- setts, certifying notes Johnson, Clapp & Underwood, professional services Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Per- kins, professional services H. L. Thatcher & Co., printing $22.75 22.00 20.00 175.00 71.75 $311.50 PRESERVATION OF PLANS OF THE TOWN. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 66.90 $5.91 16.15 PROTECTION OF BURIAL GROUNDS. 12.25 Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 $222.00 PURCHASE OF ADDITIONAL STEEL FITTINGS FOR TOWN VAULT. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 $11.50 ROAD COMMISSIONERS. 4.00 Receipts Appropriated and assessed, .25 1917 Expenditures 10.50 Edw. W. Taylor, salary Wm. S. Scamman, salary 49.74 Wm. B. Foster, salary 3.00 Jay O. Richards, salary 1.00 3.00 183.46 6.00 6.00 5.20 12.00 20.56 SCHOOLS. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, $8,839.86, 1917 PREMIUM ON BONDS. Receipts Transferred from Omitted As- sessments, 1914 'transferred from Omitted As- sessments, 1915 Estabrook & Co., premium on bonds Excess of expenditures over receipts Arthur H. Carver, tickets Rent Adams School Hall $17.36 Town of Bedford, tuition Town of Burlington, tuition 5.39 State of Massachusetts, tuition J. Walter Nelson, tuition 110.70 Amount expended 178.05 Balance unexpended $311.50 $300.00 $16.66 100.00 100.00 83.34 $300.00 $151.16 53,000.00 $53,151.16 664.59 4.00 2,596.08 352.86 243.80 40.00 $57,052.49 56,973.58 78.91 $57,052.49 9 130 TOWN OF LEXINGTON ADAMS SCHOOL. Expenditures American Book Co., books Edw. E. Babb & Co., books Milton, Bradley Co., books J. L. Hammett Co., supplies Water Dept. Katharine T. Gregory, instruc- tion E. Isabel Monahan, instruc- tion Roxie M. Smith, instruction Mabel C. Pond, instruction Arlie M. Beals, instruction May L. Benjamin, instruction Etta M. Taylor, instruction Carrie F. Fiske, instruction May L. Benjamin, dinner super- visor .33 78.29 34.80 Little, Brown & Co., books 7.21 Seeley Pharmacy, argyrol .30 Hydro -Carbon Chemical Co., floor enamel 39.00 Peirce and Cox, bubbler top 1.28 Wood Bros., Arlington Express .75 109.07 A. W. Chestertown Co., gaskets 1.70 59.25 Helen M. Conroy, instruction 226.00 Lexington Flag -Staff Co., flag rope 3.25 1,000.00 Mary C. Maycock, instruction 236.00 Cutler & Roden, sharpening lawn - 118.00 mower 665.00 Reformatory for Women, flag 715.00 Helen M. Conroy, dinner super - 389.00 visor 425.00 Blanche L. Davis, instruction 690.00 Mary C. Maycock, dinner super - 541.28 visor Helen Stolba, dinner supervisor 10.00 Hayward Bros. & Wakefield Mary Bevington, instruction 130.00' Carrie F. Fiske, dinner supervisor 10.00. Katherine Hennessy, substitute 1.25 Vernon Page, janitor 813.28 Mabel C. Pond, dinner supervisor 17.00 Etta M. Taylor, dinner supervisor 13.50 Massachusetts Teacher's Retire- ment Board (Pay Roll) 98.72 Lexington Lumber Co., wood and cement 108.12 J. E. Barnes, globe valve 17.75 Chas. D. Blake & Co., D. F. Records 1.87 Walter H. Kew, setting glass, etc. 8.80 Arlie M. Beals, dinner supervisor 7.50 Katherine T. Gregory, dinner supervisor 15.00 H. M. Lawrence, hardware supplies 10.47 Edison Electric Illuminating Co., of Boston 70.10 Helen C. Stolba, instruction Gertrude F. O'Brien, substitute W. T. Wadman, carpenter work E. W. Harrod, soap, oil, etc. Oliver Ditson & Co., repairing drum F. B. Fletcher, cartage Ginn & Co., books The Macmillan Co., books Chas. E. Merrill Co., books Boston & Maine R.R. C. H. Sprague & Son, coal 381.00 12.50 5.00 4.79 3.25 .75 37.88 7.43 5.09 156.79 285.53 Co., ink -wells Margaret Lusk, substitute Underhay Oil Co., floor oil Fellows & Co. inc., tables H. W. Preston, frieght charges Mrs. Helen Fowle, substitute 1.25 8.75 5.00 92.50 5.00 5.00 64.50 2.50 12.58 7.00 1.32 3.75 $7,783.03 HANCOCK SCHOOL. American Book Co., books Edw. E. Babb & Co., books and supplies J. L. Hammett Co., supplies Ginn & Co., books Lexington Coal Co., coal Underhay Oil Co., floor oil Thomas Forsythe, removing ashes Lexington Gas Co. Water Dep't. Henry T. Prario, instruction Ella M. Greene, instruction Harriet S. French, instruction Emma E. Wright, instruction Neva G. Mitchell, instruction Hattie E. Blake, instruction Jennie F. Blodgett, instruction Florence Mackinnon, instruction Mary G. Eastman, instruction Jennie F. Blodgett, dinner super- visor 7.63 97.78 224.41 25.63 783.70 22.00 38.15 10.35 59.25 1,390.00 374.00 679.04 309.64 678.75 679.04 679.04 481.00 575.00 50.00 AUDITOR'S REPORT Chas. A. Manley, janitor 1,000.00 Emma E. Wright, dinner super- visor 7.00 The Massachusetts Teacher's Re- tirement Board, (Pay Roll) 223.74 Lexington Lumber Co., wood 128.12 Fiske Bros., repairing athletic goods 1.15 Edw. Wood, shrubs & labor 22.50 Mrs. Henry T. Prario, substitute 30.00 Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston 36.90 221.16 Walker Coal Co., H. M. Lawrence, plies steam coal hardware sup - Harriet S. French, dinner super- visor Karin L. Ekman, substitute Dorothea Stebbins, substitute Mrs. Fred L. Fowle, substitute Ella M. Greene, dinner supervisor Lexington Flag -Stair Co., raising and lowering top -mast B. & M. R.R. H. A. Burgess, labor Dexter & Carpenter, inc., coal Goe. D. Lexner, repairing door Chas. E. Merrill Co., books Geo. H. Priggen Co., inc., door & frame 24.28 P. F. Dacey, brick work 175.00 Little, Brown & Co., books 12.25 Hydro -Carbon Chemical Co., floor enamel 26.00 Chas. J. O'Connor, electrical work 40.79 Sewer Maintenance, use of common sewer 9.37 Ezra F. Breed & Co., labor on heat- ing apparatus 60.15 Wood Bros., Arlington Express .50 W. T. Wadman, carpenter work 6.65 Rae L. Mead, instruction 236.00 Margaret Noyes, instruction 206.00 C. M. Collins & Co., plumbing re- pairs 9.30 American Express Co. .54 Margaret Lusk, substitute 2.50 Reformatory for Women, flag 8.50 W. A. F. Estes, repairing clocks 5.50 13.63 21.50 77.50 11.25 50.00 10.00 18.25 155.69 42.75 318.76 3.00 2.86 HIGH SCHOOL. H. J. McNider, H. J. McNider, service A. B. Dick Co., paper 181 janitor 336.52 for assistant janitor 105.00 2.76 The Edison Electric Illuminating Co., of Boston W. A. F. Estes, repairing clock & engraving cup J. L. Mammett Co., supplies D. C. Heath Co., books Lyman Lawrence, supplies H. V. Smith Estate, athletic sup- plies Underhay Oil Co., floor oil American Book Co., books Ginn & Co., books Water Dep't. Arthur H. Carver, instruction Fred C. Ball, instruction Grace P. French, instruction Elsa W. Regestein, instruction Effie M. Lowe, instruction Minnie Packard, instruction Helen L. Brown, instruction Ulrika E. Benson, instruction Aimee E. Currier, instruction $10,383.50 201.20 4.25 134.61 53.33 16.26 15.77 11.81 21.44 58.91 64.11 2,110.00 1,940.00 855.00 893.00 893.00 855.00 540.00 900.00 540.00 Sarah E. Tracy instruction 540.00 Charlotte E. Phinney, instruction 540.00 Dorothy Dickson, instruction 779.00 Raymond 0. Chaffee, services as leader of orchestra 92.00 Edmund Ketchum, supervisor of drawing 80.00 Walter M. Lyon, instructor manual training, drawing, and military drill 300.00 Josephine G. Nicholson, instructor of sewing 100.50 Carrie E. White, supervisor of music The Mass. Teacher's Retirement Board (Pay Roll) Warwick & Yorks, inc., book Lexington Coal Co., coal Edw. Wood, shrubs and labor Bay State Paper Co., stationery H. A. Burgess, labor J. B. Hunter Co., Yale check Lexington Gas Co. { Lexington Post Office 65.00 373.00 5.50 345.13 31.50 7.49 119.50 10.00 8.86 10.00 132 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Spaulding -Morse Co., paper A. M. Tucker, arionola and records Edw. E. Babb & Co., school sup- plies Oliver Ditson Co., music books The Hill School Master's Club, books Dennison Mfg. Co., supplies Herbert M. Lawrence, hardware supplies Lester E. Smith, janitor's supplies Remington Typewriter Co., type- writers in exchange W. B. Clarke Co., diplomas Jordan Marsh Co., bunting Lexington Flag -Staff Co., raising and lowering top -mast College Entrance Examination Board, documents Chas. G. Richards, janitor W. '1'. Wadman, carpenter work, Lawrence Carrigan, base ball coach B. &. M. R. R. Walker Coal Co., coal Chas. G. Richards, assistance to janitor Thomas Groom & Co., stationery Edgar L. White, use of piano Allyn & Bacon, books Lyons & Carnahan, books C. S. Parker & Son, printing The Phonographic Institute Co., books Benj. H. Sanborn & Co., books Milton Bradley & Co., school sup- plies 99.1 C. H. Sprague & Son, coal 133.3 A. W. Chestertown Co., gaskets 5.2 Sewer Maintenance, use of common sewer D. Appleton & Co., books Edw. H. Mara, painting Chas. G. Richards, paint, plaster paris Kenney Bros., & Walkins, furni- ture F. W. Fitzgerald, lime Custance Bros., coal Marietta L. Kirby, instruction 2.061Inez E. bind, instruction 304.00 Sadie J. Duguid, instruction 285.00 16.50 Adelaide C. Masters, instruction 323.00 Gertrude F. O'Brien, supervisor 55.17 of music 40.00 11.05 Roland B. Houston, instructor manual training, drawing, and 1.00 military drill 80.00 .44 Edith G. Clarke, supervisor of sewing 37.50 34.83 Singer Sewing Machine Co., 5.72 machine 23.76 The Electric City Engraving Co., 70.00 plates 3.50 10.80 American Type Founder's Co., type 8.95 3.50 The National Case and Carton Co., napkins 15.56 15.00 Rumford Supply Co., books 4.79 Mary B. Weeden, Field Hockey .90 Coach 57.50 605.50 American Express Co., .87 105.68 Review of Reviews 30.00 The Cable Co., books 14.18 75.00 190.11 201.21 120.00 2.25 5.00 33.63 11.95 12.25 $17,732.06 MUNROE SCHOOL. Expenditures Edw. E. Babb & Co., books $ 93.26 Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston 185.47 J. L. Hammett Co., supplies 161.28 Lyman Lawrence, supplies 8.91 8.77 'Phomas Forsythe, removing ashes 28.05 18.34 Water Dep't. 75.00 Waltham Laundry 19.46 8 Mary C. Lusk, instruction 1,000.00 9 Lucy A. Sawyer, instruction 665.00 5 Joanna M. Kilmain, instruction 715.00 Lena M. DeLoura, instruction 395.00 9.37 Blanche Whelpley, instruction 580.00 15.00 Laura B. Chase, instruction 575.00 50.00 Winifred A. Briggs, instruction 687.50 Mary V. Tewksbury, instruction 640.00 1.40 Amelia M. Mulliken, instruction 679.04 Winifred A. Briggs, dinner super - 128.68 visor 15.00 .50 Dennis H. Collins, janitor 887.50 124.58 360.00 Joanna M. Kilmain, dinner super- visor 13.50 AUDITOR'S REPORT 133 Carl A. Page, substitute janitor Lucy A. Sawyer, dinner super- visor Mary V. Tewksbury, dinner super- visor The Mass. Teacher's Retirement Board (Pay Roll) Lexington Lumber Co., wood Lexington Coal Co., coal Dennis H. Collins, making tables, repairing chairs, etc. Walker Coal Co., steam coal Laura B. Chase, dinner super- visor 13.00 Blanche Whelp1ey, dinner super- visor 12.00 Atlantic Clock Co., transformer battery A. M. 'fucker, city goods Wm. F. Glenn, carpenter work Herbert M. Lawrence, hardware, supplies W. T. Wadman, carpenter work Blanche L. Davis, substitute Wm. H. Kelley Co., shades Wood Bros., Arlington Express DeVeau Bros., setting glass Chas. J. O'Connor, repairing bell system 17.75 Ginn & Co., books 44.84 Laskey & McVlurrier, changes in piping, coal bin 'l'he Macmillan Co., books, Chas. E. Merrill Co., books P. F. Dacey, brick work Milton Bradley Co., schooll sup- plies 55.39 Little Brown & Co., books 8.65 C. H. Sprague & Son, coal 291.70 11. & M. R. R. 160.12 Masury-Young Co., sweeping com- pound 6.25 H. A. Burgess, labor 130.00 C. E. Hadley & Son, plumbing repairs Katharine Hennessy, instruction American Book Co., books Katharine Hennessy, dinner supervisor 5.00 tnderhay Oil Co., floor oil 11.50 Haywood Bros. & Wakcveld Co., ink -wells 64.50 12.50 Mrs. Fred Fowle, substitute . Margaret Lusk, substitute 15.00 Middlesex County House of Cor- rection, chain mats 15.00 119.96 130.97 48.00 Fred C. Ball, instruction 12.50 Henry T. Prario, instruction 221.17 NIGHT SCHOOL. Expenditures 187.00 2.75 19.70 19.58 19.86 7.50 31.70 1.00 6.20 60.28 5.41 2.86 130.00 12.50 206.00 2.01 10.011 5.00- 10.22 $9,559.28 $12.00 34.00 $46.00 COMMON TO ALL SCHOOLS. Expenditures G. W. Spaulding, janitor's supplies $13.46 Middlesex & Boston Street Railway Co., transporta- tion 2,994.84 N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co. 186.09 Arthur H. Carver, superinten- dent, salary 640.00 Ruth E. Hubbell, secretary to superintendent 213.60 Patrick J. Maguire, attend- ance officer 75.00 Minnie E. Reynolds, super- visor of penmanship 320.00 Edmund Ketchum, supervisor of drawing 180.00 Walter M. Lyon, instructor in manual training, drawing and military drill 360.00 •Josephine J. Nicholson, super- visor• of sewing 262.00 Carrie E. White, supervisor of music 235.00 H. A. Burgess, use of teams 66.00 Bay State Paper Co., paper 7.60 Lewis Mfg. Co., gauze 15.00 H. V. Smith Estate, athletic supplies 92.54 Wm. E. Eaton, transportation 646.50 John Rose, transportation 2,494.50 B. M. R. R. 218.29 Arthur H. Carver, sundry ex- penses 40.62 Blanche L. Davis, asst. secretary to superintendent 6.25 134 TOWN OF Bumpus & Cook, grinding edge tools Herbert M. Lawrence, hard- ware supplies C. E. Wheeler, printing Edw. E. Babb & Co., supplies Dowling School Supply Co., paper Hayward Bros. & Wakefield Co., furniture The A. N. Palmer Co., books Thomas Groom & Co., stationery Reformatory for Women, two Federal Flags Boston Paper Board Co., Inc., paper Waltham Laundry Co. A. M. Tucker, dry goods Laurence Carrigan, baseball coach Marcy C. Lusk, diploma rib- bon Lexington Postoffice American Book Co., books L. C. Sturtevant, cartage American Express Co. Fred C. Ball, school census, 1916-17 C. S. Parker & Son, printing Edw. P. Marriam, stamped envelopes Frank E. Fitts Mfg. & Supply Co., supplies Barbara M. Parks, secretary to superintendent Highway Dept., tarvia and labor Wood Bros. Arlington Express Mass. Teachers' Retirement Board (Pay Roll) Gertrude F. O'Brien, supervisor of music Roland 13. Houston, instructor in manual training, drawing and military drill Milton Bradley Co., books J. L. Hammett Co., pens Houghton, Mifflin Co., books Dr. J. 0. Tilton, school physi- cian, salary Fred S. Piper, M. 1)., profes- sional services LEXINGTON Mass. Child Labor Committee, 19.90 hooks The School Arts Magazine 1.88 The Universal Publishing Co., 9.00 books 141.04 Edith G. Clarke. supervisor of sewing 91.30 Mrs. Maye Muzzey, school nurse and census officer 4.03 Edw. C. Stone, legal services 12.25 Chas. Watt. athletic supervisor 11.75 13.0(1 233.90 1.66 32.63 75.00 17.73 30.00 150.14 2.00 2.69 50.00 1.00 10.80 4.51 172.80 58.50 .50 34.00 186.00 300.00 5.25 9.11 SUMMARY. Adams School Hancock School High School Munroe School Night School Common to all schools Unpaid bilis 3.00 5.25 4.30 112.50 120.00 75.00 90.00 $11,469.71 $7,783.03 10,383.50 17,732.06 9,559.28 46.00 11,469.71 $56,973.58 $697.15 SCHOOL HOUSE CONSTRUCTION. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Amount expended Balance unexpended Expenditures Transferred to Land for New School House Transferred to Plans and Specifications for New School House $21,027.35 21,000.00 27.35 $21,027.35 $15,000.00 6,000.00 $21,000.00 SEALER OF WEIGH'T'S AND MEASURES. Receipts 8.00 Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 300.00 1917 2.0(1 $105.51 44.49 $150.00 AUDITOR'S REPORT 135 C. E. Hadley, sealing weights and measures Amount expended Balance unexpended Expenditures Chas. E. Hadley, sealer, re- fund Hobbs & Warren, record hooks John Rose, carriage hire S. M. Spencer Mfg. Co., dyes and stamps W. & L. E. Gurley, graduating and refinishing brass yard standard C. E. Hadley, sealer, salary A. J. Wilkinson, 1-6 ft. tape SELECTMEN. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 Amount expended Balance unexpended Expenditures Helen C. Gallagher, stenog- rapher C. S. Parker & Son, printing John Rose, automobile hire C. E. Wheeler, printing and services as constable Hobbs & Warren, stationery Lexington Postoffice Boston Index Card Co., office supplies Edw. W. Taylor, salary W. S. Scamman, salary Wm. B. Foster, salary .Jay O. Richards, salary Municipal Journal 2.57 $152.57 132.83 19.74 $152.57 $1.92 7.98 6.00 7.79 7.14 100.00 2.00 Library Bureau, office sup- plies 10.68 $1,416.22 SEWER ASSESSMENTS. Receipts Sewer Assessments $10,628.61 SEWER CONSTRUCTION. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Highways, half rent, yard for storage Junk sold Amount expended Balance unexpended Expenditures W. B. Bryne, sewer construc- tion $132.83 Lexington Postoffice McClintock & Woodfall, en- gineering and inspections Geo. B. Dodge Co., printing $560.00 Rent of land, B. & M. R. R. C. E. Wheeler, printing 1,440.00 O'Riorden heirs, land damage Harold L. Bond Co., jute and $2,000.00 pick handles 1,416.22 Mary J. O'Brien, land damage 583.78 Johnson, Clapp & Underwood, $2,000.001 professional services Helen Reed, typewriting $9,776.94 12.50 44.40 $9,833.83 7,640.61 2,193.22 $9,833.83 $7,024.1.1 6.00 61.10 4.50 75.00 6.75 360.24 16.66 25.00 60.00 1.25 $7,640.61 $598.00, SEWER MAINTENANCE. 21.65 Receipts 4 9.0(Y l3alance unexpended, 1916 $84.15 E. 13. Worthen, clerk, rentals 158.52 169'751E. B. Worthen, clerk, deposits .751 for sewer constructions 1,196.73 155.52 Junk sold 1.50 Parks and Play Grounds, sewer' 4.87 connection, Buckman Taven 125.00 33.33 High and Hancock Schools, 183.34 sewer rental 18.74 100.00 Fire Department, sewer rental 1.50 83.331 6.001 $1,586.14 136 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Amount expended Balance unexpended 1,550.16 35.98 $1,586.14 Expenditures Helen Reed, typewriting $11.53 John Rose, carriage hire 36.50 Board of Health, rods and tools 69.90 H. M. Lawrence, supplies 16.06 Pay Roll 831.85 Lexington Lumber Co., cement 7.29 Edw. H. Mara, excess deposit returned 14.33 B. & M. R. R. 15.42 P. F. Dacey, excess deposit returned 23.59 Est. Sarah J. Lawrence, ex- cess deposit returned 8.59 Marion W. Perry, excess de- posit returned 8.67 Sarah B. Smith, excess deposit returned 14.00 Mary E. Woodward, excess de- posit returned 2.90 Eastern Drug Co., sulphur 20.00 Fiske Bros., supplies .75 Wood Bros. Arlington Express 1.40 P. F. Dacey, mason work 11.40 Harold L. Bond Co., supplies 1.58 Geo. D. Lexner, supplies 2.40 Parks and Play Grounds, ex- cess deposit returned 46.02 Walworth Mfg. Co., supplies 3.66 Hill, Smith & Co., Inc., stamp 3.25 W. H. Burke & Co., labor and materials 29.34 Ellen E. and Martha Harring- ton, excess deposit returned 25.75 Ella R. Jones, excess deposit returned 4.00 Edwin B. Worthen, insurance 2.17 J. Cushing & Co., cement 5.15 R. Engstrom, excess deposit returned 9.79 J. E. Hubbell, excess deposit returned Stephen DeVeau, excess de- posit returned Estate Lewis Hunt, excess de- posit returned Minnie C. Seaver, excess deposit returned 19.48 Portland Stone Ware Co., pipe 277.84 C. M. Collins & Co., pipe 10.00 M. V. Wallin, typewriting 2.25 $1,550.16 I)ue the town from individuals $54.53 SEWER TAX. Receipts Appropriated and assessed, 1917. $5,617.61 Expenditures State Treasurer $5,617.61 SIDEWALKS. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 Received from abuttors Amount expended Balance unexpended $979.02 482.69 $1,461.71 41.71 $1,503.42 561.71 941.71 $1,503.42 Expenditures Simpson Bros. Corporation, tar concrete sidewalks $561.71 Unpaid bills 900.32 Due the town from individuals 285.86 SNOW (Removal of) Receipts Appropriated and assessed, 1917 $1,615.71 Transferred from Omitted As- sessments, 1916 1,358.46 Excess of expenditures over receipts 259.72 8'98 Amount expended .45 Expenditures Overdraft, 1916 3.93 Pay Roll $3,233.89 3,233.89 $1,358.46 1,075.06 AUDITOR'S REPORT 137 New Eng. Road Machinery Co., snow plows B. & M. R. R. H. A. Burgess, labor Ernest W. Martin P. H. Stevens, labor Chas. H. Rollins, labor H. J. Maguire, labor Frank P. Reynolds, labor John P. Dailey, labor W. H. Whitaker, labor P. J. Kinneen, labor E. J. Gavin, labor Geo. D. Lexner, repairs SOLDIERS' RELIEF. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Amount expended Balance unexpended 140.00 4.52 1.11.75 24.00 157.47 1.25 4.06 18.00 189.25 25.00 71.60 8.44 15.03 $3,233.89 $94.29 24.00 70.29 Expenditures Aid furnished STATE AID. Receipts State of Massachusetts, reim- bursement, 1916 Less Overdraft, 1916 Expenditures Aid furnished, 1917 STATE HIGHWAY TAX. Receipts $94.29 $24.00 $526.00 526.00 $589.00 Assessed, 1917 $1,561.78 Expenditures State Treasurer $1,561.78 STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS (Income Tax) Receipts State of Mass., income tax $46,300.44 Expenditures Deducted by Assessors $46,033.12 Balance unexpended 297.32 $46,300.44 STATE TAX. Receipts Assessed, 1916 Expenditures State Treasurer STONE BUILDING. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 Rent Amount expended Balance unexpended Expenditures Emrna Ostrom Nichols, libra- rian $300.00 J. E. Garmon, janitor 124.92 Wm. E. Denham, weighing coal 2.@7 Water Dept. 12.00 The Edison Electric Illuminat- ing Co. of Boston 69.90 N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co. 20.48 J. E. Garmon, painting screens and doors 8.00 Lexington Coal Co. 175.75 Herbert M. Lawrence, janitor's supplies 3.8(1 C. E. Hadley & Son, repairs 20.36 Emma I. Fiske, substitute librarian 13.50 Lexington Tailor, repairing flag 1.25 John Moakley, electrical re- pairs 2.55 E. W. Harrod, janitor's supplies 4.10 Lexington Flagstaff Co., flag 16.50 $22,110.00 $22,110.00 135.63 689.37 25.00 $850.00 775.78 874.22 $850.00 $775.78 Unpaid bills $4.35 STONE BUILDING (Repair of) Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 $107.57 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 550.00 $657.57 138 TOWN OF LEXINGTON STONE CRUSHER. Receipts Proceeds of Bonds Amount expended Balance unexpended 53,000.00 2,986.57 13.4 $3,000.0 Expenditures Custance Bros., stone crusher $1,640.4 Lexington Lumber Co., pipe and cement 24.0 New Eng. Road Machinery Co., machinery 1,294.6 Water Dept., pipe and labor 27.4 STREET LIGHTS. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 Expenditures Edison Electric illuminating Co. of Boston Balance unexpended SUMMER STREET Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Proceeds of bonds $2,986.5 3 Wm. E. Denham, weighing 0, coal Water Dept. 4 Ezra F. Breed. copper boiler C. G. Eaton, groceries 0 J. R. Ellis & Sons, butter, beans, etc. 5 The Lexington Fish Market 8 New Eng. Tel. & Tel. Co. G. W. Spaulding, supplies 7 Jefferson A. Young, repairing chairs J. Cushing & Co., feed Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston H. M. Lawrence, hardware J H. Pray & Sons Co., rug 0. G. Seeley, medicine Lester E. Smith, groceries and provisions 4 A. M. Tucker, dry goods 4 Wood Bros. Arlington Express Robt. H. White, help in house 8 Robt. H. White, superintendent, salary, 1917 Breck-Robinson Nursery Co., 7 cord wood, saw and frame power Amount expended Balance unexpended Expenditures $296.92 11,043.36 11,340.28 $10,891.4 448.8 11,340.2 EXTENSION. $2,180.4 5,000.0 $7,180.4 $591.14 500.00 $1,091.1 SUPPORT OF POOR. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 Sale of produce Reimbursement for board Sale of pigs, hogs and poultry Sale of cows and calves Highway Dept., board of horses 0 !Lexington Coal Co., coal 7 Lexington Creamery, groceries Geo. D. Lexner, wagon repairs, etc. M. Stevenson & Co., groceries and provisions H. L. Wellington, labor Lexington Lumber Co., lumber E. W. Harrod, groceries and 4 provisions 762.03 Est. H. V. Smith, Globe 325.45 Jordan Marsh Co., mattress, 143.00 shades, etc. 127.30 Pay Roll Peirce, Billings Co., clothes 800.00' E. C. Bailey, painting and i papering $3,248.92 i DeVeau Bros., carpenter work 3,014.25 234.67 $3,248.92 $ 2.40 62.42 52.08 72.72 109.73 17.73 60.13 81.99 3.00 472.99 54.30 41.42 32.50 9.19 90.67 24.81 2.20 72.00 600.00 10.00 53.51 86.98 19.83 111.55 6.00 63.72 113.55 3.60 11.65 480.02 12.00 54.90 8.01 AUDITOR'S REPORT 139 Fiske Bros., shoes Frank O. Nelson, boots 'I'. M. Norton, special mix- ture Joseph Breck & Sons, Wor- cester rake B. & M. R. R. A. G. Davis, ice Laffin's Bedford Express Dean's Lexington Express A. S. MacDonald, plants P. F. Dacey, mason work W. H. Burke & Co., repairing furnace, etc. J. L. Smith, electrical repairs Dr. J. O. Tilton, professional services 5.20 3.25 18.75 33.15 1.02 25.28 .25 .25 4.60 7.75 10.05 1.10 3.00 3,014.25 Unpaid bills 213.29 Due the town from individuals 14.39 SUPPRESSION AND EXTERMINA- TION OF INSECTS. Receipts Appropriated and assessed, 1917 $800.00 Expenditures Transferred to Suppression of Moths 800.00 SUPPRESSION OF MOTHS. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 (liability) Appropriated and assessed, 1917 Byron C. Earle, collector State of Massachusetts, reim- bursement, work on State Highway Arsenate of lead sold Old barrels sold Transferred from Suppression and Extermination of In- sects $368.97 4,087.50 1,000.00 $5,456.47 1,583.60 53.25 3.75 21.65 800.00 $7,918.72 Amount expended 6,778.50 Balance unexpended Expenditures Pay Roll $5,4.0.68 B. & M. R. R. 3.97 American Express Co. .70 Simon Latter, cartage 5.25 John Rose, carriage hire 236.:0 Chas. W. Swan, clerk, salary 100.00 Helen C. Gallagher, clerical services 100.00 Lexington Postoffice 27.10 Standard Oil Co. of N. Y., gasoline 44.50 L. C. Sturtevant, cartage .75 E. W. Martin, team on sprayer 218.25 C. E. Wheeler, printing 3.50 H. M. Lawrence, supplies 4.11 W. H. Burke & Co., supplies .55 Southhoro Print Shop, printing 5.00 Geo. D. Lexner, ladder repairs 2.80 State of Mass., tools and sup- plies, 1917 584.84 1,140.22 $7,918.7.2 $6,778.50 Due the town from individuals (moth tax) $302.57 TAXES. Receipts Byron C. Earle, collector, 1916 $33,543.67 Byron C. Earle, collector, 1917 160,874.85 $194,418.52 TAX TITLES. Receipts Tax titles redeemed $128.58 TAX TITLE SUSPENSE. Receipts Balance, 1916 $77.36 LOANS FOR REVENUE (Temporary Loans) Receipts Balance, 1916 March 26, 1917, borrowed July 23, 1917, borrowed $15,000.00 90,000.00 40,000.00 110 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Sept. 25, 1917, borrowed Expenditures .Icor. 15, 1917, paid Ort. 25, 1917, paid Nov. 20, 1917, paid Dec. 18, 191.7, paid Dec. 27, 1917, paid Dec. :11, 1917, amount out- standing TOWN CLERK. Receipts Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 10,000.0(1 $155,000.00 $15,000.00 10,000.00 30,000.00 30,000.00 30,000.00 8155,000.00 Waste paper sold Chas. W. Swan, town clerk, fees Dog licenses, Recording mortgages Pole locations Marriages licenses Certified copies Amount expended Balance unexpended 40,000.00 $231.91 976.09 $1,200.00 .32 78.40 18.75 8.25 69.00 7.75 $1,382.47 1,171.97 210.50 $1,382.47 Expenditures Harvard Envelope & Specialty Co., envelopes $ 3.83 Chas. W. Swan, clerk, salary 1,083.32 American Surety Co., of New York, official bond 4.00 P. 11. Murphy, printing 4.9 Hobbs & Warren, stationery 17.3 C. E. Wheeler, printing 19.2 Lexington Post Office 21.3 H. B. McArdle, official supplies 17.3 American Express Co. .2 Mass. Soldier's Information Bureau, cards TOWN DEBT. Receipts. Assessed, 1917 $38,750.00 Expenditures State of Massachusetts, Metropolitan Water Loan $2,200.00 Munroe School Note 1,350.00 Extension of Water Mains, Note 500.00 New Adams School House, Note 1,000.00 Public Trust Bond 1,000.00 Coupon Water Bonds 6,000.00 Sewer Bonds 4.000.00 Stand Pipe and Extension of Water Mains Bonds 1,500.00 Automobile Fire Equipment Bond 1,000.00 Engine House and Fire Equip- ment Bond 1,000.00 New Adams School House Bonds 3,000.00 Buckman Tavern Bond 1,000.00 Widening Mass. Ave., Bond 1,000.00 Estabrook & Co., Extension of Water Main's, Note 1,200.00 School House Construction, bonds 3,000.00 Registered Water Bonds 10,000.00 $38,750.00 TOWN ENGINEER. Receipts. Balance unexpended, 1916 $2,000.00 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 1,500.00 Amount expended Balance unexpended $3,500.00 3,239.98 260.02 $3,500.00 0 Expenditures 6 J. Henry Duffy, engineer, 5 salary $1,350.00 2 J. Henry Duffy, engineer, sundry 0 expenses 24.86 9 The Chipman Bros. Co., office supplies 5.56 .40 Daniel J. O'Connell, desk and chair 40.00 $1,171.97 J. L. O'Neil, assistant to engineer 55.50 AUDITOR'S REPORT 191 Custance Bros., drafting table, carpenter work, etc. J. L. Fairbanks & Co., paper The General Fireproofing Co., Green Section H. V. Smith Estate, stationery H. M. Lawrence, hardware Lexington Lumber Co., laths P. F. Dacey, repairs Town Hall, Ledder & Probst, inc., office and field equipment 455. Doten-Dunton Desk Co., table, chair, etc. 49. W. S. Greenough & Co., books 12. John R. McLeish, services as assis- tant 6. Wood Bros., Arlington Express Henry Jackson, assistant to en- gineer 132. Old Corner Book Store, law book 3. Edw. H. Mara, painting, in Town Hall 59. Spaulding -Morse Co., blue -prints B. L. Makepeace, surveying instru- ments 19. George Mitchie, assistant to en- gineer 63. Library Bureau, office supplies 15. 216.80 7.50 33.00 5.90 11.90 .75 12.02 Municipal Journal, hand -book Water Dep't labor and material A. F. McGinley, assistant to en- gineer C. L. Berger & Sons, supplies Williams Book Stores Co., book Andrew J. Lloyd, telescope and read- ing glass 10.25 Edw. Jackson, assistant to engineer 48.00 John T. Cosgrove, assistant to en- gineer 270.00 39 00 16 00 25 50 00 70 57 09 00 94 Simon W. Robinson Lodge, rent Old pipe sold Amount expende(l Balance unexpended Expenditures. Edgar L. White, janitor Wm. E. Denham, weighing coal Water Dep't. W. H. Burke, covering pipes, labor and repairs Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston Lexington Gas Co. N. Eng. Tel. & Tel. Co. C. E. Hadley & Son, plumbing re- pairs H. M. Lawrence, hardware and paints Geo. Cogswell, labor John Moakley, electrical repairs L. C. Sturtevant, removing ashes Frank Kerrigan, labor John Doyle, labor on grounds 150.00 5.00 $2,927.95 $2,891.65 36.30 $2,927.95 $1,095.00 8.10 24.42 115.79 194.64 6.30 181.17 2.24 49.40 2.50 20.59 19.30 1.00 6.25 3.07 The Lexington Tailor, repairing flag 2.75 5.92 A. M. Tucker, janitor's supplies 3.14 W. B. Badger & Co., table 31.95 315.00 Colonial Pharmacy, Platt's Chloride .45 1.05 Hayward Bros. & Wakefield Co., 6.30 chairs 24.75 Ada Scannell, scrubbing floor 6.25 Custance Bros., cabinet • 214.06 Fiske Bros., sharpening lawn -mower 1.50 Wood Bros., Arlington Express 1.75 Mrs. E. L. White, labor 8.62 Lexington Coal Co., coal 655.69 $3,239.98 Wm. F. Glenn, carpenter work 42.00 $ 7.97 John E. Garmon, substitute jan- itor 30.00 Bay State Flag Co., decorating Town Hall 10.00 $ 45.21 Somerville Brush Co., brushes 3.29 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 2,454.79 E. C. Bailey, work on flag pole 8.95 Lexington Flag -Staff Co., flag 20.00 $2,500.00 A. G. Davis, ice 23.00 Rent, Town Hall 263.50 The General Fireproofing Go., oak Telephone calls 9.45 filing case 63.50 Unpaid bills TOWN HALL. Receipts. Balance unexpended, 1916, 142 TOWN OF LEXINGTON G. W. Spaulding, janitor's supplies 13.30 $2,891.65 Unpaid bills $ 14.11 TOWN HALL (Repairs of). Receipts. Balance unexpended, 1916 $76.99 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 $775.99 Amount expended Balance unexpended $852.98 183.10 669.88 $852.98 Expenditures. B. J. Harrington, grading lawn $8.80 John McKay, windows and labor 150.00 Edw. H. Mara, painting new sash 24.30 $183.10 TOWN PHYSICIAN. Receipts. Appropriated and assessed, 1917 $75.00 Expenditures. H. C. Valentine, M. D., salary $75.00 TOWN TREASURER. Receipts. Balance unexpended, 1916 $44.25 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 1,405.75 Amount expended Balance unexpended $1,450.00 $1,407.76 42.24 $1,450.00 Expenditures. Geo. D. Harrington, treasurer, sal- ary, balance, 1916 and 1917 $1,166.66 Thorpe & Martin Co., check books 60.50 Lexington Post Office, stamped en- velopes 64.80 C. E. Wheeler, printing 14.75 American Surety Co., of N. Y., offi- cial bond 80.00 Geo. D. Harrington, sundries 12.55 F. W. Barry, Beale & Co., cash books 8.50 $1,407.76 TREASURER, CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY. Receipts. Appropriated and assessed, 1917 $50.00 Expenditures. Robert L. Ryder, treas. $25.00 Unpaid salary bill 25.00 $50.00 TREE WARDEN. Receipts. Balance unexpended, 1916 $54.27 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 745.73 H. D. Love, cement and gravel D. G. Tyler, cement and gravel Mrs. E. P. Bliss, labor Harry F. Fay, labor and gravel Mrs. E. McEllen, labor Amount expended Balance expended Expenditures. $800.00 11.00 25.50 8.00 28.00 9.50 $882.00 $732.13 149.87 Pay Roll Leonard Jellis, removing tree on Mass. Ave. Lexington Lumber Co., cement Edw. Wood, trees, use of horse, hauling brush C. W. H. Moulton, ladders Breck-Robinson Nursery Co., tree climbers, saws, etc. Geo. D. Lexner, repairs W. H. Burke & Co., supplies $882.00 $472.00 30.00 1.47 149.00 27.40 42.66 5.00 4.60 $732.13 VALENTINE LAND. Receipts. Balance unexpended, 1916 $381.00 VETERAN'S PENSIONS. Receipts. Balance unexpended, 1916 $.80 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 851.60 $852.40 AUDITOR'S REPORT . 143 Expenditures. Thomas Burke $242.40 Everett S. Locke, balance 1916 and 1917, 610.00 VILLAGE HALL. Receipts. Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 Rent, 1917 Amount expended Balance unexpended Lexington Lumber Co., pipe Neptune Meter Co., meters Timothy H. O'Connor, tool chest Thompson Meter Co., meters Walworth Mfg. Co., supplies $852.40 American Express Co. H. Mueller Mfg. Co., supplies Jefferson Union Co., unions $18.33 Geo. D. Lexner, sharpening tools 231.67 The W. H. Gallison Co., pipes, etc. The Ludlow Valve Mfg. Co. $250.00 Harold L. Bond Co., supplies 26.00 Geo. E. Gilchrist Co., supplies National Lead Co., pipe Woocl Bros., Arlington Express H. M. Lawrence, supplies Builder's Iron Foundry, meter frames, etc. 25.28 Geo. H. Fowle and Guy F. Healy, trustees, excess deposit for water connection 28.70 Martha Urhold, excess deposit for water connection 5.20 B. & M. R.R. 6.85 Fiske Bros., boots 7.75 Hersey Mfg. Co., supplies 125.20 I'ay Roll 917.69 Donaldson Iron Co., pipe 2,046.41 Wm. Aquaro, excess deposit re- turned 2.90 Chadwick -Boston Lead Co., pipe 151.57 C. M. Collins & Co., supplies .75 Lexington Coal Co., fuel 3.00 Harold A. Dingwell, excess deposit returned .68 Romaldo Datolli, excess deposit re- turned 2.34 Lead -lined Iron Pipe Co., pipe 182.69 E. W. Martin, cartage 4.50 L. C. Campbell, excess deposit re- turned 2.73 M. A. Cordillo, excess deposit re- turned 2.60 The Ford Meter Box Co., meter frames 7.50 Peter H. Stevens, excess deposit re- turned 1.25 P. F. Dacey, mason work 24.00 W. F. Glenn, excess deposit on re- pairs water service A. C. Washburn, excess deposit on repairs and water connection 3.38 $276.00 $236.76 39.24 $276.00 Expenditures. Wm. E. Denham, weighing coal $1.80 Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston 8.75 Lexington Coal Co., coal 176.41 Lexington Flag -Staff Co., raising and lowering top -mast 12.50 Geo. W. Taylor & Son, fertilizer 4.50 J. E. Barnes & Co., pipe fittings and labor 28.70 Water Dep't., repairing leak 4.10 Unpaid bill WATER DEPARTMENT. Receipts. Balance unexpended, 1916 E. B. Worthen, Clerk • Proceeds of Bonds Accrued interest on bonds Transferred from Extension of Mains, Rawson Ave. Amount expended Balance unexpended $236.76 $.80 $2,172.71 26,484.51 4,000.00 35.50 300.00 $32,992.72 $29,443.47 3,549.25 $32,992.72 Expenditures. Construction. The Chapman Valve Mfg. Co., sup- plies $52.76 47.18 756.00 7.30 430.00 235.65 9.94 284.03 21.11 15.50 186.68 65.74 28.50 36.51 117.19 5.50 11.74 1.37 144 TOWN OF LEXINGTON The Central Brass Mfg. Co., coup- lings A. C. Whitney, excess deposit on cost, repair work Rensselaer Valve Co., supplies W. H. Burgess, excess deposit water connection Geo. Wilson, excess deposit on cost of water service E. B. Worthen, insurance Portland Stone Ware Co., pipe Rev. Edw. F. Hurley, excess de- posit water service I'red A. Houdlette & Son, inc., sup- plies A. G. Scott, excess deposit water connection James Irwin, Jr., excess deposit, water connection 12.14 5.95 58.52 6.41 2.61 317.45 12.50 Pay Roll Florence M. services Town of Belmont, testing meters Harold L. Bond Co., supplies Geo. B. Dodge Co., printing 'Phomas Harrison, charcoal Ledder & Probst, inc., supplies Lexington Post Office H. Mueller Mfg. Co., supplies John Rose, horse hire and board C. E. Wheeler, printing Maintenance. 2.20 6.66 .79 2.18 $6,293.11 $2,942.19 Boyd, stenographer's 59.80 1.50 15.06 22.00 .30 20.16 146.11 37.39 450.60 51.75 F. W. Barry, Beale & Co., station- ery 22.49 C. S. Beaudry, superintendent and registrar, salary 1,500.00 B. & M. R. R. 22.31 Builder's iron Foundry, meter test- ing scale 108.00 'Phomas Groom & Co., stationery 3.50 Lexington Lumber Co., cement 2.65 New. Eng. Tel. & Tel. Co. 18.03 J. A. Terhune, horse shoeing 25.55 Wood Bros., Arlington Express 6.89 E. B. Worthen, clerk, salary 550.00 Hersey Mfg. Co., supplies H. M. Lawrence, hardware, kerosene, etc. T. H. O'Connor, carpenter re- pairs Interest 5,576.12 Addressograph Co., supplies 9.85 Laffin's Bedford Express .65 Helen Reed, typewriting 3.00 Salvatore Tresti, wood 2.50 C. E. Hadley & Son, thawing mains 45.12 American Express Co. 14.73 C. M. Collins & Co., supplies .90 Lexington Coal Co., lime 2.90 Geo. D. Lexner, supplies 55.93 National Meter Co., supplies 80.37 Neptune Meter Co., supplies 56.15 Edmund C. Sanderson, electri- cal thawing of pipes 700.00 Thompson Meter Co., supplies 67.93 W. H. Burke, supplies 43.92 Fiske Bros., rubber boots 10.25 John Lucas & Co., Inc., paint 30.00 Colonial Pharmacy, nitric acid, etc. .75 Rensselaer Valve Co., supplies 15.85 Harry A. Burgess, refund 8.75 Ludlow Valve Mfg. Co., sup- plies 39.58 Edw. H. Mara, painting signs 6.00 Hans C. Sorensen, reading meters, etc. 29.50 Walworth Mfg. Co., supplies 17.83 John Sullivan, labor 8.90 Coffin Valve Co., supplies 9.91 Water Works Equipment Co., repairing detector 6.25 B. & M. R. R., rent of land 90.00 Colonial Garage, new Ford truck and gasoline 477.48 Transo Envelope Co., envelopes 14.93 C. S. Beaudry, auto registra- tion and operator's license 4.00 Edwin B. Worthen, insurance 77.00 W. S. Darley & Qo., magnetic dipping needle and leak de- tectors 22.80 P. H. Cheney. excess deposit cost of renewing service 1.38 Stephen DeVeau, excess de - 41.32 posit cost of renewing service Semonian Bros., excess de - 46.72 posit cost water connection State of Mass., Metropolitan 97.20 Water .51 .49 9,357.91 AUDITOR'S REPORT 145 Jefferson Union Co., labor Lexington Garage, automobile supplies Boston Index Card Co., cards E. G. Kraetzer, clerical work H. L. Alderman, D. V. S., pro- fessional services G. W. Spaulding, supplies 1.69 WIDENING MASSACHUSETTS 13.34 33.87 15.00 Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 AVENUE. Receipts. 3.00 1.80 $23,150.36 SUMMARY WATER DEPT. EX- PENDITURES. Construction Maintenance Unpaid bills $6,293.11 23,150.36 $29,443.47 226.22 Due the town from individuals $1,656.21 WATER MAIN (RAWSON AVENUE,) Receipts. Appropriated and assessed, 1917 $300.00 Expenditures. Transferred to Water Depart- ment LOWERING BROOKS. Receipts. Balance unexpended, 1916 Appropriated and assessed, 1917 Amount expended Balance unexpended $300.00 $50.40 249.60 $300.00 290.38 9.62 Expenditures. P. F. Dacey, mason work Austin Ford & Son, edge - stones Simpson Bros. Corporation, granolithic sidewalk The Barrett Co., tarvia Highway Department, macadam construction $431.20 3,859.51 $4,290.71 $61.70 111.39 999.60 916.25 2,201.77 $4,290.71 RECAPITULATION. Cash Receipts, 1917 Cash on hand, Jan. 1, 1917 $30,934.54 Bank and Corporation Tax 9,027.16 Board of Health 718.44 County Treasurer (dog licenses) 735.82 Cemeteries 848.69 Cemetery Trust Funds 750.00 Collector of Taxes 56.00 Contingent 1,326.80 Fire Department 468.00 Highways 3,425.27 Insurance 6.99 Interest 1,519.90 Interest on taxes 940.79 Land taken for Water and Other Purposes New Fire Apparatus Outside Aid $300.00 Park and Playgrounds Plans and Specifications for New School House 15.00 Police Department 333.07 Premium on Bonds 110.70 Schools 3,901.33 Sealer Weights and Meas- ures 2.57 Sidewalks 41.71 State of Massachusetts (In- come Tax) 46,300.44 $100.00 Stone Building 25.00 Expenditures. Pay Roll $290.38 WATERING TROUGHS. Receipts. Appropriated and assessed, 1917 Expenditures. Water Dept. $100.00 646.86 8,000.00 1,645.50 09.14 10 146 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Summer Street Extension Support of Poor Suppression of Moths Taxes Tax Titles Temporary Loans (Loans Revenue) Town Clerk Town Hall Tree Warden Village Hall Water Dept. Sewer Assessments Sewer Maintenance Sewer Construction State Aid Improvement Massachusetts Ave. (Winthrop Road to Waltham St. New Cemetery Stone Crusher Improvement of Woburn Street 5,000.00 2,157.78 1,662.25 194,418.52 128.58 for 140,000.00 182.47 427.95 82.00 26.00 30,520.01 10,628.61 1,501.99 56.90 526.00 Expenditures, 1917 April Nineteenth Assessors Auditor Board of Health Board of Survey Cary Memorial Library Treasurer, Cary Memorial Library (dog licenses) Cemeteries Trustees of Public Trusts (Cemetery Trust Funds) Clerk of School Committee Clerk, Trustees of Public Trusts Collector of Taxes Committee on New Cemetery Contingent County Tax Election and Registration Finance Committee Fire Department Fire Observation Tower Fire Prevention Tax Forest Fires 10,000.00 10,000.00 3,000.00 5,000.00 $527,608.78 191.87 2,261.53 795.96 3,317.56 5.75 3,794.02 '735.82 1,414.79 750.00 12.50 65.00 1,589.06 10.75 2,040.08 10,111.90 710.05 133.55 12,263.54 200.00 89.67 696.82 Highways Hydrants Inspector Inspector Inspector visions Insurance Interest Land for New School Repairing Mass. Ave. St. to State Rd.) Memorial Day New Cemetery New Fence for Old tery New Fire Apparatus Outside Aid Overseers of the Poor Parks and Play Grounds Plans and Specifications for New School House Police Department Premium on Bonds Road Commissioners Schools Sealer of Weights and Meas- ures Selectmen Sewer Tax Sidewalks Snow, Removal of Soldiers' Relief State Aid State Highway Tax State Tax Stone Building Stone Crusher Streets Lights Support of Poor Suppression of Moths Temporary Loans Town Clerk Town Debt Town Engineer Town Hall Town Hall (Repairs) Town Physician Town Treasurer Treasurer, Cary Memorial Library Tree Warden of Buildings of Cattle of Meat and Pro - 37,094.81 1,950.00 500.00 600.00 234.00 2,672.35 13,574.78 House 14,584.80 (Pleasant Ceme- 6,835.23 250.00 108.60 100.00 7,999.63 5,335.22 300.00 3,997.37 6,000.00 8,839.86 288.75 300.00 56,973.58 132.83 1,416.22 5,617.61 561.71 1,875.43 24.00 589.00 1,561.78 22,110.00 775.78 2,986.57 10,891.44 3,014.25 6,778.50 115,000.00 1,171.97 38,750.00 3,239.98 2,891.65 183.10 75.00 1,407.76 25.00 732.13 Veterans' Pensions Village Hall Water Department Lowering Brooks Sewer Maintenance Sewer Construction Watering Troughs AUDITOR'S REPORT 147 852.40 Widening Massachusetts Av- 236.76 enue 2,088.94 29,443.47 Cash on hand, Dec. 31, 1917 53,865.15 290.38 1,550.16 $527,608.78 7,640.61', CHARLES F. PIERCE, 100.00 Auditor. 148 TOWN OF LEXINGTON BALANCE SHEET. ASSETS—CURRENT Cash on hand Taxes uncollected, 1917 Sidewalk Assessments, uncol- lected, 1916 Sidewalk Assessments, uncol- lected, 1917 Moth Tax, uncollected, 1917 Water Dept., income uncol- lected Sewer Rentals, uncollected, 1917 Sewer Assessments (1917-1926), Abatement of Taxes Bank and Corporation Tax Forest Fires Interest Premium on Bonds Snow, Removal of State Aid $53,865.15 43,840.53 88.60 197.26 302.57 1,656.21 27.36 4,049.35 211.59 5,972.84 196.82 1,174.57 178.05 259.72 589.00 $112,609.62 Contingent Tax Liens $5,139.49 Trust Trustees of Public Trusts (principal) Trustees of Public Trusts ( Cemetery) Trustees of Cary Memorial Library (principal) Water Works. $15,908.86 18,010.00 16,600.00 $50,518.86 Valuation, Dec. 31, 1916 $255,000.00 Construction, 1917 $5,500.00 Depreciation, 1917, 5,500.00 Real Estate Water Works Real Estate $7,727.56 Sundry Real Estate 462,598.06 Sewer Valuation, Dec. 31, 1916 Construction, 1917 Total Assets Total Liabilities Net Assets $470,325.62 $90,439.70 $7,640.61 $98,080.31 $991,673.90 570,715.46 $420,958.44 AUDITOR'S. REPORT 149 December 31. 1917. LIABILITIES CURRENT. Revenue Account $9,045.91 Department Accounts unexpended: - April Nineteenth Assessors Auditor Board of Health Board of Survey Cary Memorial Library Cemeteries Clerk, School Committee Clerk, Trustees of Public Trusts Collector of Taxes Committee on Improved High- ways Committee on New Cemetery Contingent Election and Registration Finance Committee Fire Department Hastings Park Highways Improvement Massachusetts Avenue (Winthrop Road to Waltham Street) Improvement Woburn Street Inspector of Cattle Inspector of Meat and Pro- . visions Insurance Interest on Taxes Land for New School House Land taken for Water and Other Purposes Massachusetts Avenue (Pleas- ant St. to State Rd.) New Cemetery New Fire Apparatus New Fire Hose Outside Aid Parks and Play Grounds Plans and Specifications for New School House Police Department Preservation of Plans of Town Protection of Burial Grounds Purchase of Additional Fittings for Town Vault $58.13 48.82 54.04 128.40 212.75 5.98 214.22 37.50 5.00 116.94 500.00 52.03 1,286.72 39.95 16.45 77.46 27.52 1,005.79 10,000.00 5,000.00 16.67 10.00 12.64 940.79 415.20 125.11 164.77 9,891.40 .37 15.00 2,566.81 11.77 15.00 676.02 5.91 222.00 11.50 Schools School House Construction Sealer of Weights and Meas- ures Selectmen Sidewalks Soldiers' Relief State of Massachusetts (In- come 'Pax) Stone Building Stone Building (Repairs of) Stone Crusher Street Lights Summer Street Extension Support of Poor Suppression of Moths Tax Titles Suspense Town Clerk Town Engineer Town Hall Town Hall (Repairs of) Town Treasurer Treasurer, • Cary Memorial Library Tree Warden Valentine Lana Village Hall Water Dept. Lowering of Brooks Sewer Assessments Sewer Maintenance Sewer Construction Trust Sundry Trust Funds Cemetery Trust Funds Water Works Bonds Payable: - Coupon Bonds Registered Bonds Notes Payable: - Metropolitan Water Loan Sundry Bonds Payable: - Public Trust 78.91 27.35 19.74 583.78 941.71 70.29 297.32 74.22 657.57 13.43 448.84 7,180.47 234.67 1,140.22 77.36 210.50 260.02 36.30 669.88 42.24 25.00 149.87 381.00 39.2•+ 3,549.25 9.62 10,628.61 35.98 2.193.22 $64,065.27 $32,508.86 18,010.00 $50,518.86 $34,000.00 80,000.00 13,200.00 $127,200.00 $18,000.00 150 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Engine House and Fire Equip- ment 4,000.00 New Adams School 39,000.00 Automobile Fire Equipment 4,000.00 Buckman Tavern Property 26,000.00 Widening Massachusetts Av- enue 5,000.00 School House Construction 39,000.00 Sewer Bonds 92,000.00 Massachusetts Avenue, Improve- ment of (Winthrop Rd. to Waltham St.) 10,000.00 New Cemetery 10,000.00 Stone Crusher 3,000.00 Summer Street Extension 5,000.00 Woburn St. (Improvement of 5,000.00 Balance, Dec. 31, 1916 New Fire Apparatus Notes Payable:— Munroe School New Adams School 8,000.00 9,450.00 1,000.00 $278,450.00 Loans for Revenue Temporary Loans $40,000.00 Omitted Assessments (paid) 1916 1,011.18 Omitted Assessments (paid) 1917 411.44 Omitted Assessments (unpaid) 1917 12.80 Total liabilities REVENUE ACCOUNT, 1917 Tax Levy Cambridge Land Taken Arlington Land Taken State of Mass., (Income Tax) State of Mass., (Land taken) Bank and Corporation Tax Omitted Assessments, 1917 Adjustments, cash to revenue basis Income. Expense. Appropriations Overlay Transferred to Omitted Assessment Account, 1917 $570,715.46 $3,978.67 $207,018.61 300.38 266.25 46,003.12 52.98 15,000.00 424.24 5,067.24 $274,132.82 $278,111.49 $266,408.04 2,233.30 424.24 $269,065.58 Net Revenue, unappropriated $9,045.91 AUDITOR'S REPORT 151 TOWN DEBT. WHEN DUE Year Water Sewer Trust Funds Other Debt Total 1918 19,700.00 4,000.00 1,000.00 18,450.00 43,150.00 1919 18,200.00 4,000.00 1,000.0.) 17,450.00 40,650.00 1920 15,700.00 4,000.00 1,000.00 17,450.00 38,150.00 1921 15,700.00 4,000.00 1,000.00 15,450.00 36,150.00 1922 13,700.00 4,000.00 1,000.00 13,450.00 32,150.00 1923 13,700.00 4,000.00 1,000.00 9,850.00 28,550.00 1924 11,500.00 4,000.00 1,000.00 9,850.00 26,350.00 1925 11,500.00 4,000.00 1,000.00 8,500.00 25,000.00 1926 1,500.00 3,000.00 1,000.00 8,500.00 14,000.00 1927 1,500.00 3,000.00 1,000.00 8,500.00 14,000.00 1928 1,500.00 3,000.00 1,000.00 6,000.00 11,500.00 1929 1,500.00 3,000.00 1,000.00 6,000.00 11,500.00 1930 1,500.00 3,000.00 1,000.00 6,000.00 11,500.00 1931 3,000.00 1,000.(,0 3,000.00 7,000.00 1932 3,000.00 1,000.00 3,000.00 7,000.00 1933 3,000.00 1,000.(0 3,000.00 7,000.00 1934 3,000.00 1,000.00 3,000.00 7,000.00 1935 3,000.00 1,000.00 3,000.00 7,000.00 1936 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00 1937 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00 1938 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00 1939 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00 1940 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00 1941 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00 1942 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00 1943 3,000.00 1,000.00 4,000.00 1944 3,000.00 3,000.00 1945 3,000.00 3,000.00 127,200.00 92,000.00 18,000.00 168,450.00 405,650.00 152 TOWN OF LEXINGTON TOWN OF LEXINGTON BALANCE SHEET ---DECEMBER 31, 1917. General Accounts. Assets Cash Balance:— In Banks and Office $53.865.1.5 Accounts Receivable:— Taxes:— Levy of 1917 43,840.53 Special Assessments:— Moth, 1917 $302.57 Sidewalk, 1916 88.60 Sidewalk, 1917 197.26 Unapportioned Sewer, 1917 1,238.77 Apportioned Sewer, 1917 49.24 Tax Titles Departmental Bills:— Charity Department State Aid, 1917 Sewer Rentals Water Bills Cemetery Bills $14.39 589.00 27.36 1,656.21 112.50 Overdrawn Accounts: --- Overlay, 1917 $450.13 Printing and Certification of Bonds 178.05 Forest Fires 196.82 Snow Removal 259.72 Interest 283.78 Revenue Deficit, I917 $5,126.17 Less Surplus 1916 and Prior 1,798.76 DEFERRED REVENUE NUE ACCOUNTS $1,876.11 5,139.49 $2,399.46 $1,318.50 $3,327.41 $111,766.98 Apportioned Sewer A:�sessments, not due $2,761.34 $2,761.34 AUDITOR'S REPORT 153 I.iabilitie& Temporary Loan in Anticipation of Revenue Tax Title Suspense Department Appropriations (Loan Balances:— Sewer Construction Summer St. Extension Woburn St. Improvement Massachusetts Ave. Improvement Schoolhouse Construction New Stone Crusher New Fire Apparatus New Cemetery Budget Appropriation Balances Water Department Maintenance Sewer Maintenance Sewer Assessment Fund (available for Sewer Dept.) Tax Title Reserve Departmental Revenue Sewer Rental Revnue Sewer Assessment Revenue Water Revnue Special Reserve (Overlay Balance) $2,193.22 7,180.47 5.000.00 10,000.00 27.35 13.43 0.37 9,891.40 �n DEFERRED REVENUE ACCOUNTS Apportioned Sewer Assessments:— Due in 1918 $460.50 1919 422.51 1920 357.46 1921 302.92 1922 247.22 1923 242.67 1924 242.67 1925 242.67 1926 242.72 $40,000.00 77.36 $34,306.24 14,104.61 3,549.25 35.98 10,628.61 5,139.49 715.32 27.36 1,288.01 1,656.21 238.54 $111,766.98 $2,761.34 154 TOWN OF LEXINGTON DEBT ACCOUNTS Net Bonded or Fixed Debt $405,650.00 $405,650.00 AUDITOR'S REPORT 155 DEBT ACCOUNTS General Loans Engine House and Fire Equipment Loan, 1911,. 4 per cent. Aut Fire Equipment Loan, 1913, 41, per cent. Fire Equipment Loan, 1917, 41 per cent. Widening Mass. Ave., Loan, 1915, 4 per cent. Mass. Ave. Improvement Loan, 1917, 41 per cent. Summer St. Improvement Loan, 1917, 41/2 per cent. Woburn St. Improvement Loan, 1917, 41/ per cent. Stone Crusher Loan, 1917, 41,4 per cent. Munroe School Loan, 1904, 314 per cent. Adams School Loan, 1912, 4 per cent. Adams School Loan, 1913, 414 per cent. School Construction Loan, 1915, 4 per cent. Buckman Tavern Park Loan, 1913, 414 per cent. Sewer Loan, 1915, 4 per cent. Trust Fund (Refunding) Loan, 1910, 4 per cent. Water Loans Water Loan (Metropolitan), 1903, 3/ per cent. Water Loan (Refunding), 1905, 4 per cent. Water Loan, 1911, 4 per cent. Water Loan (Extension and Standpipe), 1912, 4 per cent. Water Loan, 1914, 41/ per cent. Water Loan, 1915, 4 per cent. Water Loan, 1916, 4 per cent. Water Loan, 1917, 41/2 per cent. 4,000.00 4,000.00 8,000.00 5,000.00 10,000.00 5,000.00 5,000.00 3,000.00 9,450.00 39,000.00 1,000.00 39,000.00 26,000.00 92,000.00 18,000.00 13,200.00 80,000.00 4,000.00 19,500.00 2,500.00 2,000.00 2,000.00 4,000.00 Cemetery Loans Cemetery Improvement Loan, 1917, 41/2 per cent. 10,000.00 $405,650.00 156 TOWN OF LEXINGTON 1 TRUST FUNIS ACCOUNTS Cash and Securities In hands of Trustees 56,594.53 $56,594.53 PUSI,IC PROPERTY ACCOUNTS Town of Lexington $823,405.93 $823,405.93 AUDITOR'S REPORT 157 TRUST FUNDS ACCOUNTS Eleanor S. Beals Charity Fund Samuel J. Bridges Charity Fund Harriet R. Gilmor Charity Fund Jonas Gammell Charity Fund Elizabeth B. Gerry Charity Fund Lexington High School Scholarship Fund Cary Memorial Library Fund (Income Reserve) Cary Memorial Library Fund Robbins Library Fund Wellington Library Fund Beals Library Fund Laura M. Brigham Library Fund Book Fund (Library) George O. Smith Park Fund Hayes Fountain Fund Charles E. French Medal and Cemetery Fund Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund, Income PUBLIC PROPF,RTY ACCOUNTS Real Estate Water Works Sewer System 2,828.10 5,364.10 780.81 685.18 1,493.87 52.27 342.50 11,000.00 100.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 2,500.00 1,000.00 2,547.51 947.10 4,862.80 18,010.00 2,080.29 $56,594.53 470,325.62 255,000.00 98,080.31 $823,405.93 158 TOWN OF LEXINGTON REPORT OF TOWN ENGINEER. Lexington, Mass., Jan. 1, 1918. To the Board of Selectmen, Gentlemen: The following report relating to work done by this department from April 1st, 1917 to December 31, 1917 is respectfully submitted. The creation of this department has been agitated by citizens of the town for several years and on April 1st last, the present incumbent was appointed to as- sume charge of the department. Detailed specifications were prepared by the engineer for field and office equip- ment and submitted to responsible bid- ders for quotations and the department is now equipped with a suitable line of field and office instruments. Datum for Levels. No standard reference datum has even been adopted for the comparison of levels in the town. Many profiles are on file which refer to no common base and as a consequence it would be difficult and ex- pensive to ascertain the relation they bear to one another. It seemed important to establish at once a standard reference plane to which all future elevations should be referred and accordingly mean sea level has been adopted. During the year accurate levels have been run on about 60 miles of the im- portant streets of the town and the elevations of about 700 permanent marks have been ascertained. A descriptive card ind€x, alphabetically arranged ac- cording to streets has been prepared giv- ing the location and elevation of these bench marks. Highway Department. Stone Crusher. tinder the direction of your Board plans and specifications were prepared by the department for the construction of the new stone crusher plant on Waltham Street. Lines and grades were given by the office for its erection. The plant has an adequate capacity for our needs and is operated by electricity. Modern scales of larger capacity than those formerly in use have been installed and the whole plant is sufficiently drained by catch basins and pipes leading to a brook. The plant is well built and conveniently arranged, and will undoubtedly prove to be an economic factor in the construction of our streets. Massachusetts Avenue. Grades were given for the resurfacing of Massachusetts Avenue from Pleasant Street to a point beyond Middle Street. In several instances drainage has been remedied by the new grades. A more detailed account of this improvement is noted in the Selectmen's Report. On Massachusetts Avenue between Winthrop Road and Waltham Street all the necessary plans, profiles and sections have been obtained in preparation for the reconstruction of this street. Follen Road. Plans have been prepared to remedy the condition at the junction of Follen Road and Middle Street where an abrupt turn makes this intersection a rather dangerous one. Considerable filling has been placed here from waste excavation in resurfacing Massachusetts Avenue and when certain trees are removed which obstruct the view, and the road completed to grade, conditions will be much improved at this point. Sidewalks. Plans, prefiles and sections have been obtained on a number of streets for the purpose of establishing grades for side- walks. ENGINEER'S REPORT 159 School Department. A plan was prepared for the purchase of the John D. Bacon estate for a site for the proposed Junior High School. Con- siderableinformation was furnished the architects in connection with the design for the proposed new school. Informa- tion has also been furnished the School Committee with reference to road mile- age in connection with its study of the School transportation system. Park Commissioners. At the request of the Park Commis- sioners a resurvey has been made of the Reservoir Lot, so-called, on the state road. T1 a boundaries have been deter- mined, a new plan made and when weather permits, stone monuments will be set to permanently mark the lines. The boundaries of Robins Park at the junction of Follen Road and Pleasant Street, were indicated for the purpose of grading and improving this location. In- formation has also been obtained in con- nection with the proposed extension of Muzzey Street from Forest Street to Vine Brook, also for the improvement of the junction of Forest and Muzzey Streets. This extension affords a direct entrance from Huzzey Street to the Park lands and much interest has been mani- fested by all parties affected by the pro- posed land takings and especially the Christian Scientist Church authorities and Park Commissioners through whose efforts the proposed improvement has been brought about. Board of Survey. Much data has been furnished the Board in connection with the study of proposed developments of real estate pre- sented to the Board for its approval. A plan war prepared involving about 100 acres of territory in the vicinity of Waltham Street, Middle Street, Spring Street and part of Lincoln Street, to en- able a more intelligent study to be made for the development of streets through the old race track property so-called,— plans of streets on this property having been presented the board for approval. In this connection it may be important for the future interests of the town to consider an extension of Spring Street connecting with Middle Street as well as some future development of our park system. Such a road would not only develop adjacent property, but would furnish a more direct route to the center of the town than the present one. If this proposed extension of Spring Street possesses any merit, actual construction of the road in these pressing times should be deferred, but steps might be wisely taken now to reserve a sufficient amount of land to insure its completion when public convenience and necessity requires it. Plans and estimates have been fur- nished the Board for the construction of St. Margarets Avenue. A plan has also been prepared show- ing an extension of Locust Avenue to connect with Follen Road. Future in- terests of the Town would indicate that sufficient land for this extension ought to be reserved to insure its being con- structed when the public necessities de- mand it. Attention is directed to the Board of Selectmen's report with reference to the apparent lack of interest which citizens have in attending hearings of the Board of Survey in connection with the consid- eration of plans of the development of streets presented to the Board for its ap- proval. Opportunity is given by these public hearings for interested parties to express their views with reference to these de- velopments. The purpose of the Board of Survey statute is to bring about the proper development of the street system of the town, having due regard for the interests of the individual as well as the town and I believe that the Board might be aided by the views and suggestions which interested citizens might present at these public hearings. The rules and regulations for filing 160 TOWN OF LEXINGTON plans under the Board of Survey Act have been revised by this office and may be obtained from the Town Clerk. Accepted Streets. A complete list of streets accepted this year by the Town will be found in the Board of Selectmen's report. Data and plans have been furnished the Board during the year with refer- ence to Highland Avenue, Abbott Road and Bennington Road. Plans and de- scriptions of Bennington Road and Ab- bott Road have been furnished for record. When suitable weather permits stone monuments will be set to permanently mark the boundaries of these accepted streets. Cemetery. Plans for the proposed new cemetery in North Lexington at Summer and Bed- ford Streets were prepared by the office for use at Town Meeting, the Board of Selectmen, and counsel. Counsel was also furnished plans and descriptions of land proposed to be taken in connection with action by the County Commission- ers. Town Map. The town is unfortunate in not pos- sessing an accurate map of the town. The only maps available are very old, and recent atlas plans which have been compiled, for the most part, are neither up to date nor drawn on a suitable scale. Believing that it was very desirable and necessary to start work on an ac- curate may of the town, recommenda- tions were made to the Board for author- ity to prepare such a map based on ac- curate surveys. Late in the year author- ity was granted and although on account of unusual weather conditions, no field work has been done, much has been ac- complished at the office in compiling such plans of record as may be useful and in collecting data from other sources. When weather conditions permit and other work does not conflict we shall carry forward the necessary field work. It is hoped that we may in this way complete the map in a reasonable time without the necessity of making a special appropriation for the purpose. Building Lines. Section 103 of Chapter 48 of the Re- vised Laws as amended, if adopted by by any town or city provides the method by which building lines may be estab- lisheed. This section was accepted by the town in 1902 and up to the present time no action has ever been taken. Most of our neighboring towns have taken advantage of this provision of law and have established building lines on many of their streets. The following statement, quoted from a report of the Winchester Planning Board dated Dec. 31, 1915, will indicate in a way what that town is accomplishing in connection with building lines. "We believe this Act provides a means for making necessary widenings with the least expense to the Town and the least hardship to the owners of property. It will be observed that the imposing of a building line does not take away the right to use one's land except for bus- iness purposes. Lawns, shrubbery, walks and fences may be kept irrespective of the building line. It is hardly more than a notice to the owner that some time in the near or distant future a front strip of his land limited by the Act to forty feet, depending upon the necessity, may be taken for highway purposes, and un- til that time the strip is to be kept clear of substantial structures which would be costly to remove. There is nothing new in the principle of the Act. A set -back restriction is very commonly found in residential property of good class. In many of the streets of Winchester there are such set -backs. The only difference is that, instead of being a private re- striction and enforceable only by the plans under the Board of Survey Act owners of lots which are affected thereby it becomes a public regulation enforce- able by the town. . . ." ENGINEER'S REPORT 161 It has been used in the Metropolitan district by the town of Watertown, which during the last two years has placed a building line on several of its streets, and by the city of Quincy, which has established a fifteen foot set -back for one thousand feet on School Street, one of the important thoroughfares of the city. In both Watertown and Quincy no damages have been claimed by prop- erty owners , who are evidently content to wait until their land is actually taken for the physical widening of the street." It may be of interest in this connec- tion to note briefly the widths of some of our main streets, some of which now are too narrow to carry comfortably the traffic imposed upon them, and with the constant and inevitable growth of the town will certainly be inadequate for the increased traffic. Mass. Ave. From Arlington line to Oak Street, 70 feet wide. From Oak Street to Woburn Street, 60 feet wide From Woburn Street to Waltham Street, 70 .to 78 feet wide. Through the center of the town, 70 feet wide. From Lincoln Street to Lincoln line, 50- 60 feet wide. Waltham Street. Mass. Aveune to Middle Street, 50 feet wide. Middle Street to Concord Avenue, 60 feet wide. Concord Avenue to Waltham line, 41.25 feet wide. Bedford Street. From Mass. Avenue to Warren Davis', 50 feet wide. From Warren Davis' to Bedford line, Abt 60 feet wide. Woburn Street. From Mass. Avenue to railroad crossing, 50 feet wide. From railroad to near Vine Street, 41.25 feet wide. From Vine Street to Woburn line, 50 feet wide. The State Road from East Lexington to the Lincoln town line is 50 feet wide. Judged by the experience of other towns, building lines could be established on many of our residential streets with- out undue damage and undoubtedly in many cases it would result as a benefit and probably in the case of the more im- portant thoroughfares the establishment of a building line is the most practical means of securing, when public conven- ience and necessity demand it, sufficient widths for our street system. Filing Plans. Mention is made in your Board's re- port of the limited space in our present valut for the filing of the town records. At the present time many plans of value are now filed in the lower vault in the basement which is very damp and incon- venient. Quite a number of other valuable plans are stored in the Engineer's office with- out fireproof protection, owing to the lack of sufficient space in our present vault, and I recommend that steps be taken to provide better facilities for the convenient filing of plans in fireproof quarters. In conclusion it may be fitting in these stiring times to mention that four as- sistants in this department have volun- teered their services for the war and a fifth, having also volunteered, momen- tarily waits the call. Respectfully submitted, J. HENRY DUFFY, Town Engineer. 11 REPORTS OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS OF THE Town of Lexington For the Year 1917 0111ill'4'li 1pii lj THE KEYSTONE PRESS MELROSE, MASS. 1918 SCHOOL COMMITTEE 165 SCHOOL COMMITTEE. ORGANIZATION Robert L. Ryder, Chairman, 108 Maple St., East Lexington. Tel. Lex. 157-W (Term expires March, 1919) Edward P. Merriam, Secretary, 6 Stetson St. Tel. Lex. 647 (Term expires March, 1920) Hallie C. Blake, Treasurer, Oakmount, Merriam St. Tel. Lex. 6311 (Term expires March, 1918) ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS. Superintendent of Schools. Arthur H. Carver, 10 Parker St. Tel. Lex. 402-M Office: High School Bldg. Tel. Lex. 277 Superintendent's Secretary. Barbara M. Parks, Bedford St. Tel. Lex. 606-W School Physician. Dr. J. O. Tilton, 1 Elm Ave. Tel. Lex. 15 Attendance Officer. Patrick J. Maguire, Bedford St. Tel. Lex. 244-W Regular meetings of the School Com- mittee are held on the first Tuesday in each month at Cary Memorial Library at 8.30 P. M.; also on the third Tuesday in each month at the High School at 7.45 P. M. SCHOOL CALENDAR. 1918-1919. School opens January '7, 1918. Closes for winter recess, February 15, 1918. Opens February 25, 1918. Closes for spring recess, April 12, 1918. Opens April 22, 1918. Closes for summer vacation, June 26, 1918. School opens September 10, 1918. Closes for Thanksgiving recess, Novem- ber 27, 1918. Opens December 2, 1918. Closes for Christmas recess, December 20, 1918. Opens January 2, 1919. Closes for winter recess, February 21, 1919. Opens March 3, 1919. Closes for sprjlpg recess, April 18, 1919. Opens April 28, 1919. Closes for summer vacation, June 25, 1919. REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE. Lexington, Mass., January 1, 1918. The School Committee respectfully submits to the citizens the following re- port for the year ending December 31, 1917. The outstanding feature of the past year is the great disappointment ex- perienced in the postponement of the erection of the new High School Build- ing, made necessary by the excessive cost of building under the present scale of prohibitive prices which are directly due to the great war. This will affect very materially the long cherished plans of a Junior High School system as a part of our educational program, adopted by the Town last April. Fortunately no serious obstacle was encountered in obtaining a most desir- able lot of land for the new building which we must erect in the near future. In the meantime it should be constantly 166 TOWN OF LEXINGTON borne in mind that a crisis in school accommodations is rapidly approaching. The Hancock School Building has ceased to be a factor in accommodating the ever increasing population of its particular district so that for three years the over- flow has been cared for at the Munroe School. The High School Building is already taxed to the utmost, so that as a last resort a class room has been impro- vised in the basement. The extra room available in the Munroe and Adams Schools is being so rapidly taken that an extensive building program is in- evitable within two years. In the mean- time your Committee anticipates dif- ficulty in maintaining the well established efficiency of our schools without adequate housing and equipment. The important relation of our schools to the life of the nation is well set forth in the Superintendent's Report, all of which should have careful reading and consideration by every citizen, no matter how comparatively remote his interest may be in our Public Schools. The transportation of school children has been a question of serious concern to the Committee for several years, owing to the constantly increasing cost and the relative size of this item to the entire school appropriation. For the last two or three years the expense of trans- portation has exceeded ten per cent. of the entire appropriation and it was found upon examination of the expenditures of other Massachusetts towns that Lexing- ton was spending more than any other town in the State. In an effort to see if this expense could not be reduced without injustice or undue hardship to anyone, the Com- mittee began last spring to make an exhaustive study of the situation and after much time and consideration of the problem, the Committee decided to dis- continue barge operations over Lowell and Maple Streets to the Adams Scbool and to establish free transportation from Avenue electric car line or the Woburn street car line at the corner of Lowell Street. Most of the children affected by this change live within a mile of either free transportation point, none further than one and one-quarter miles, and in each case nearly one-fifth of a mile less, walking via Bow Street to Massachusetts Avenue. Three other barge routes were also discontinued including those operating over Pleasant Street and the one over East and Adams Streets. A new barge route was established operating over Lowell, East, Adams and Hancock Streets to Burlington Street, returning over Hancock Street, Massachusetts Avenue and Clarke Street to the Han- cock School. The net result of these changes saved the town the cost of operating three barges at the rate of $4.50 per day each for a considerable portion of the school year, and we do not believe it has resulted in serious consequences. Two important conferences were held at the High School Building with parents whose children were affected by these changes and at these hearings it was plainly stated by the Committee that the statute governing the transportation problem was "permissive" only and not "obligatory"; furthermore, the commit- tee stated that the barge withdrawn from Lowell Street and the other with- drawn from Pleasant Street would be restored December 1st and continued during rough weather conditions in the winter season. The issue became a mat- ter of controversy notwithstanding the fact that the School Committee dis- tinctly stated that it would willingly ac- quiesce in the. decision of the Town or any superior authority competent to suggest changes in the new transporta- tion rules. The parents of about twenty-two of the children living on the Lowell and Pleasant Street routes refused to send Arlington Heights by the Massachusetts their children to school at all and SCHOOL COMMITTEE 167 threatened to keep them out until the barges were restored ;and notwith- standing that the position of the Com- mittee was thoroughly discussed and ex- plained at two public hearings that'were granted them on September 11 and Sep- tember 18 respectively, they persisted in keeping their children out of school. Certain 'of them also started mandamus proceedings in the Supreme .; Court against the Board of Sehctmen and the members of the School Committee to compel them to build additional school houses or furnish transportation on the old basis. The absence of the children from school having been called to . the atten- tion of the State authorities, .the Com- mittee, in order to comply with the. State law relative to attendance, broughtpro- ceedings in the Concord District Court against the parents whose children were being kept out of school contrary to law. The hearing in the District Court was not finished and was continued for one week. There were two hearings in the Supreme Court on the mandamus pro- ceedings at the secondof which, after recommendation of the Court and sev- eral conferences of counsel, an agree ment of compromise was reached whereby the Committee agreed to ad- vance the date of starting the barges on Lowell Street and Pleasant Street to November 12th instead of December 1st and to place on file the cases in. the District Court providing the delinquent children returned to school at once, and continued in •regular attendance. The new plan was determined upon in an earnest and sincere attempt to cut down the expense of the department in a place where the expenditure was much too liberal and where : it - could be •done without undue hardship . to anyone. Surely this is the time in the history of the Town, with the highest tax rate it has ever known, and in the midst of the greatest world crisis that has ever been experienced,when economy ..should be the watchword of every department. More recently the School Committee has established a special trip service whereby extra barge trips may be or- dered by principals on the occasion of sudden storms or untoward weather con- ditions, and at such times consideration is given to the accommodation of chil- dren of all the eight grades included in the transportation zones. A few ex- ceptions have been made to these rules to cover certain groups and individual cases including, of course, those of physical disability where undue hard- ship would be imposed by too arbitrary rzn interpretation of rules so that, as .far as it is reasonable, citizens may be sure that in making exceptions to its rules the Committee will exercise its best .judg- ment in a spirit of fairness to all con- cerned. The Town Engineer has pre- pared the following table of distances in connection with these matters that may be useful for reference in connection with the future consideration of this problem: Distances. Lowell St. from Woburn St. car line to the residence of James E. Burke - 4,862 feet, or 0.92 miles. From the corner of Lowell and Reed Sts. to the residence of John J. Donovan —1,848 feet, or .35 miles. From the residence of Eugene D. Monahan to the Middlesex & Boston St. Rwy. Waiting Room at Arlington Hgts. via Lowell St. (Lexington) and Lowell St., Park Ave. and Massachusetts Ave. (Arlington) --4,742 feet, or 0.9 miles. From .Massachusetts Ave. to Lowell St. via Bow St., Wilson Ave., Melrose Ave.,. Arcadia Ave., Rawson Ave. and the old road by the Arlington Reservoir —3,770 feet, or 0.71 miles. From Concord Ave. from entrance to residence of John P. Connearney to Wal- tham St. car line -6,360 feet, or 1.20 miles. 168 TOWN OF LEXINGTON From entrance to Charles Swanson's to Adams School via Watertown St., Pleasant St. and Massachusetts Ave. - 6,390 feet, or 1.21 miles. Your Committee acted within the scope of its authority and in the exer- cise of its best judgment, but stands ready to have its action submitted to the Town for its approval or disapproval. If it is the desire and judgment of the Town that the transportation expense shall be allowed to soar without limit, your Committee will be only too willing to accept and abide by that decision. In 1915 the School Committee recom- mended to the Town in their Annual Report, the necessity of a coal pocket or storage that a supply of coal might be purchased at "the low price" to carry the department through each year. In 1916 the Committee again called atten- tion to the imperative need of additional coal storage as suggested the previous year. Despairing of favorable action by the Town, repeatedly urged, certain changes were made at the Hancock School where provision is now made to store approximately eighty tons of an- thracite and about seventy tons of soft coal. At the Munroe School, the old bin was enlarged to double its former size and there we can storeeighty tons of soft coal, or enough to carry us through each year. The prejudice of insurance inter- ests against storing large units of bitu- minous coal is here mentioned in con- nection with our present coal famine to emphasize the importance of building a Municipal Coal Pocket at some con- venient point, where an adequate reserve supply can be maintained and safely stored. Such facilities for unloading cars and storage, if erected at the railroad yard directly behind the Town Hall, would nrove a public utility of great value and reduce the expense of hand- ling materially, if the Town teaming equipment can be employed in the mat- ter of delivery which to us seems rea- sonable. The State asked for a report on fuel conditions is of December 1st and the Committee hopes something will now be done to secure prompt delivery of coal and removal of cars. Fuel, without question, has become a matter of grave importance. The quality has been far inferior to the standard of former years. School supplies are sufficient in some departments to carry -over until late fall, and are now much higher in price than was paid for these supplies we now own: It is with mingled feeling that refer- ence is here made to the retirement of two of our highly esteemed teachers Miss Emma E. Wright, for forty years, and Miss Carrie Fiske, for forty-five years in continuous active service. They can be proud of the lasting impression they have made on hundreds of students whose lives have been enriched through . their stimulating and helpful influencer It is to be regretted that failing health and the desire to conserve *the remain- ;ng strength of declining years makes it impossible for these faithful teachers to serve the Town longer. Their long career has been honorable in the high- est degree and their own work will never cease to praise them. In conclusion the Committee submits pertinent paragraphs from a letter re- cently received from our State Commis- sioner of Education, Mr. Payson Smith. What he says has a direct bearing on educational interests and makes it worth while reading just now: "With the approach of the annual town meeting, when the question of ap- propriations is to be taken up, our people should give thoughtful attention to the unusual cond'1:ions confronting the schools. Increased costs in every direction bring the towns and cities face to face with the necessity of increasing schccl appropriations for the coming year. The schools have never before re- quired more thoughtful attention to their noels, and it will not be safe to handi- cap them with a policy of retrenchment= SCHOOL COM1vIITTEE 169 "It is worthy the attention of the American people that, in spite of enor- mous expenditures of war purposes, France is giving unprecedented atten- tion to her public schools, and England, for the current year, increased her ex- penditures for public education 30 per cent. over that for any preceding year. "In the school year 1915-16, Massa- chusetts expended approximately $27,- 000,000 for public education. This amount was increased to $28,500,000 for the school year 1916-17. This increase of approximately 6 per cent. shows the serious intention of our people to main- tain a vigorous educational policy. In view of the present situation, Massa- chusetts cannot afford to relax in any degree her efforts to carry on her schools at highest efficiency. "Education is a long-time investment. Its purpose is to protect democracy through the right training of the youth. Even temporary interference with this purpose, through inadequate financial support, may seriously impair the qual- ity of our future citizenship. In the present crisis, it is imperative that towns and cities give careful considera- tion to the needs of the schools." Respectfully submitted, ROBERT L. RYDER, HALLIE C. BLAKE, EDWARD P. MERRIAM, School Committee. REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. Lexington, Mass., Jan. 1, 1918. To the Lexington School Committee: My fifth annual report as Superinten- dent of the Lexington schools is hereby respectfully submitted, it being the thirty-second in the series of such re- ports for the Town. As in every other phase of our na- tional life, the dominant factor in public education during the past year has been the great world conflict for the preser- vation of democracy into which our country has been forced. The upheaval in economic and industrial conditions which has accompanied extensive war preparations has had a profound influ- ence upon all of our American institu- tions. Conservation has become our national slogan. Colleges are condensing their courses and are putting out better trained men in shorter periods of time. Intensive development of curricula in schools of all kinds is the order of the day. Useless appendages to courses of study, entrenched by hoary antiquity and pedagogical traditions, have been ruthlessly cast aside in the transforma- tion of a people. With all its horrors the war is not without its advantages. It is removing some of the cobwebs from our mental windows. The social unrest which is so marked at the present time is a symp- tom of an awakening which . is certainly preferable to stagnation. And it is noticeable no less among the young than among those of riper years. A health- ful sense of responsibility is beginning to be observed among our boys and girls, even in the lower grades. Children are becoming vaguely aware that they need not necessarily finish their days in school before they begin to live. In the process of adjustment by which they are being transformed from spectators of the passing show to participators in it they are, to be sure, rather prone to temporarily lose their perspective. They are giving up the old without having a very clear grasp upon the new. They are restless under the call to something they only vaguely understand. It is here, I take it, that the schools have a duty to perform, namely, in providing means whereby the youth shall "do his bit," in curbing his desire to make an unwise entrance into fields for which he is unprepared, and in bringing to him an understanding of his possibilities for greater usefulness through thorough training. 170 TOWN. -OF LEXINGTON the more immediate and tangible ef- fects' of the war upon our own school system group themselves under four heads, namely, changes in the teaching force, loss of pupils in the upper grades and High School, interruptions in build- ing plans, and pupil activities relating to war service. A glance at the tables found at the end of this report discloses the fact that fifteen teachers whose names appeared in the list published a year ago are no longer with .us. As this represents nearly forty per cent. of the entire teaching staff in our schools, it is at once apparent that a wholly unusual Condition exists. Two of these have re- tired after long service because of fail- ing health, five have married and eight have accepted positions at large advances in salary. War marriages have caused a serious depletion in the ranks of the teaching profession everywhere. The result is that cities and the wealthier towns have been forced to fill many vacancies, in doing which they have looked to the smaller communities for their source of supply as never' before. Salaries which a short time ago would purchase the services of teachers of con- siderable experience and proved ability will no longer attract any but those who are, comparatively speaking, new re- cruits. Lexington must face this condi- tion and make its decision with a full knowledge of what it entails from the standpoint of efficiency. There must be a substantial advance in our salary scale unless we are willing to see a large proportion of our teachers enticed away from us by other communities as fast as they reach a stage of proficiency which begins to attract attention. Lexington offers certain advantages socially and otherwise which has enabled it 'to retain the services of many teachers to whom the salary paid would alone have been an altogether insufficient inducement. So long as that salary represented a fair margin above actual living expenses the :own could rightly count upon .its un- usual attractiveness tp hold' most of its teaching force intact. With the sudden jump in the cost.. of living, however, re- flected in increased rents and rates of board and lodging, the margin of pos- sible saving has decreased in many cases to the vanishing point. Teachers are then compelled to forego sentiment and take steps to increase their income, if not in Lexington, then elsewhere, The loss of pupils in the High School and upper grades, while not reaching the proportions which it has in many of our neighboring towns, is nevertheless worthy of some comment. We did.. not begin to feel this loss until after the present school year was started. Scarcely had the schools opened, however, when it : beeame evident that the pressing ne- cessity for increasing the family income was being felt in many cases to such an extent as to make the withdrawal from the schools of pupils over fourteen years of age obligatory. Positions at un- usually good wages are easily obtained, especially by boys. Some, attracted by the allurement of contact with the busi- ness world and the possession of a cash income, have dropped out of the ranks when no imperative necessity existed. But these cases have been few; so few, in fact, as to show in a marked degree the high value which parents are putting upon educational opportunities. The personal sacrifices which are being made by scores of parents in order to keep their children in school is the strongest kind of an argument for keeping the schools at a maximum degree ' of effi- ciency. Elsewhere in the Town Report refer- enceis made to the interruption in building plans necessitated by war' con- ditions. It is sufficient here to call attention to what eve may expect in the near future in the way of congestion. The High School is virtually .filled •to'= capacity. It is fair to suppose, however, that the loss of pupils referred to- in •the preceding paragraph will continue throughout the war to such a degree as SCHOOL COMMITTEE 171 to • offset the expansion `due to increase in the school population of the town.' At any ,rate there is 'reason to believe that we can take care • of the High School situation next year without undue crowding. In the grade schools the case is , different: ' Already a considerable number of rooms are crowded far be- yond their normal capacity. Extra desks have been provided in some cases to the extreme limit of the floor space: Even so, it is impossible to accommodate scores of pupils at the building which isnearest to their homes. As building operations are out of the question at present the most obvious mode of relief for next year would seem to . consist in temporarily equipping al1 , grade: rooms. with • seating facilities beyond the nor- mal capacity even at :the cost of a very real and unavoidable' loss of efficiency. :The problem at this point threatens to become serious, but as its "eventual solu- tion lies more properly in other hands I desire in this connection to do no more than to point out the fact that the,whole matter has reached an acute stage whirl is bound to involve serious inconvenience for many -parents and children before it can possibly be remedied and to counsel patience in the face of all but insur- mountable difficulties. The fourth of the effects previously mentioned as being clue to the war re- lates to certain activities in which pupils of both grades and High School have participated tending to bring to them a deeper conception of their obligations to. their . country, a unity' of purpose Weiler ;a realization of the possession ofcommon interests, and a sense of re- sponsibility as co-workers in the cause for which we have staked our national existence. These activities have mostly taken the form of contributions of time or money. By far the most valuable are those which have required the pupil to do rather than merely to give. The financial magnitude of the task con-' fronting the government has been brought before them through the use of government publications prepare L espe- cially for `the schoels as well as by :prac- ticaI participation.in. the ,Gale; of Liberty Bonds and War'Saving, Certificates. cover six thousands dollars' worth of Liberty Bonds were taken un by the nupils and faeiilty of the High School, all of whin are being paid for either, wholly- or in part .by the holders. The Honor...} ll posted at the High School contains the names of pupils who are paying for these bonds with their own earnings or allowances. Liberal subscriptions were made to both bond issues by the grade teachers as well as by their pupils. War Saving Certificates and Thrift Cardsare in the hands of many .pupils . in .,all schools. In addition to this . the scliools have all contributed, generously .to. the Children of America's Army of Relief funds, it being one of the stipulations of this prganzation that all contribu- tions should be from savings made by the children themselves. Many calls have been made by committees having in charge the Liberty Loan, Food Conser- vation, Farm Labor and Red Cross work for student help in the distribution of explanatory literature, the response to all of which has been instantanious and effective. Many boys of all ages en- rolled themselves as voluntary helpersin agricultural work last spring. Helpful demonstrations of cold; pack canning methods were given at the High School by Mrs. Edward H. Nowers, •In the actual military and naval service of the United Statesgovernment may be found the names of nearly seventy former High School boys, while many of the girls have been actively associated with the work of the local Preparedness As- sociation. Doubtless many other fields, of useful service will open up during the coming year. In each instance the effort. has been made to have the service of the boys and girls intelligently rendered so as to instill a sober sense of the pur- pose of the work in which they are c-- gaged. It may safely be said that the duties and re ponsibilitiea of citizenship 172 TOWN OF LEXINGTON have taken on a deeper significance than ever before among them. Indirectly still another effect of the war upon school procedure may be noted. The last Massachusetts legislature amended the law which specifies the sub- jects which must be taught in the com- mon schools by including "training for citizenship." This phrase is interpreted to mean something much broader than mere instruction from text -books on Civil Government. The State Board of Education has sent out a pamphlet deal- ing with the subject at some length from which it appears that familiarity with the machinery of democratic govern- ment and actual practice in some of its simpler forms is desired to the end that pupils may acquire before leaving the grade schools some knowledge of the means employed in carrying out the will of the people in a democratic state. The work is in an experimental stage as yet. no methods having been standardized throughout the State of Massachusetts. After consultation with the state au- thorities we have organized the upper grades at each building into student states in which the various functions of government are performed by the pupils themselves under the guidance of the grade principals. At the High School interest in ath- letics has declined owing to the with- drawal of some of the larger boys frons school and the additional fact that many of the rest find their time outside o;' school hours filled with duties connected with part time employment. The same situation prevails in the majority of High Schools this year. Interscholastic athletics were becoming something of a problem previous to this time, so that there is reason to believe that the tem- porary disruption may prove to be some- thing of a blessing in disguise. The greatest objection has been that the desire to develop championship teams has brought about a condition in which physical training has been given almost exclusively to those who need it Least, namely, the athletes able to make the teams. It is to be hoped that when the time comes for a general resumption of athletic sports it may be possible to pro- vide some form of systematic physical education under expert direction which may be made compulsory for all. Coincident; with the decline of interest in athletics has come the birth of cer- tain forms of club Life. The High School now has flourishing Spanish and Drama- tic Clubs, both under faculty manage- ment, whose meetings are well attended. The orchestra is under the direction of a member of the faculty and, though small in numbers, has evidently come to stay. The High School Cadets are fortunate this year in having for their instructor Lieut. Joseph Swan of Lexington, whose long experience in the United States Army eminently qualifies him for this position. It is to be regretted that there is not a larger number of boys receiving tie benefit of this work. It is fitting in closing this report that mention should be made of the retire- ment from service of two of the Town's most faithful and efficient public ser- vants, Miss Emma Wright and Miss Carrie Fiske. Miss Wright has taught in the Lexington schools since 1877 and Miss Fiske since 1872. Both have es- tablished records for continuous service and extraordinary efficiency which are altogether unusual and worthy of the highest praise. Their withdrawal from active participation in the educational work of the town has met with universal expressions of regret. They have set an example of unselfish devotion to duty which everyone who aspires to public service may well find a source of the highest inspiration. Yours respectfully, ARTHUR H. CARVER. LIST Name Arthur H. Carver, A. M., Fred C. Ball, Sub -Master Elsa W. Regestein Grace P. French Ulrika E. Benson Minnie Packard Effie M. Lowe Dorothy Dixon Sadie J. Duguid Inez E. Lind Marietta L. Kirby Adelaide C. Masters SCHOOL COMMITTEE 173 OF TEACHERS, JANUARY 1, 1918. High School Years of Ex - Elected perience Prenr ration Prin. 1913 15 Dickinson College 1911 2$ Chamberlain Institute 1908 14 Mt. Holyoke College 1911 17 Wellesley College 1913 8 Boston University 1913 8 Wellesley College 1916 12 Colby College 1916 3 Radcliffe College 1917 1 Brown University 1917 2 Salem Normal 1917 7 Boston University 1917 2 Wellesley College Adams School Years of Ex- Electeu perience Preparation 1912 9 Farmington Normal, Me. 1917 1 Salem Normal 1913 10 Biddeford, Me. 1917 3 Fitchburg Normal 1907 16 Bridgewater Normal 1917 1 Fitchburg Normal 1913 17 Voohree's Normal Kindergarten 1917 1 Niel's Training School 1917 0 1911 8 Bridgewater Normal Hancock School , r Years of Ex - Elected perience Preparation 1917 2 Worcester Normal 1914 13 North Adams Normal 1917 2 Bridgewater :Normal 1902 27 Quincy Training School 1911 7 Perry Kindergarten School 1894 23 Bridgewater Normal 1917 1 Hyannis Normal 1916 11 Plymouth Normal, N. H. Munroe School Years of Ex - Elected perience Preparation 1911 11 Missouri State Normal 1915 9 Plymouth Normal, N. H. 1910 10 Framingham Normal 1916 4 Lowell Normal 1915 3 Salem Normal 1912 14 Gorham Normal 1917 1 Salem Normal 1914 7 Wheelock Training School 1878 38 Boston Normal Special Teachers Years of Ex - Name Elected perience Roland B. Houston, Drawing and Manual Training 1917 Gertrude F. O'Brien, Music 1917 Edith G. Clarke, Sewing 1917 Lieut. Joseph Swan, Mil. Drill 1917 Minnie E. Reynolds, Penmanship 1915 Name Katherine T. Gregory, Prin. Helen C. Stolba Roxie M. Smith Mary C. Maycock Mabel C. Pond Helen M. Conroy Etta M. Taylor Mary Bevington Blanche L. Davis, Assistant Henry T. Prario, Prin. Name Rae L. Mead Harriet S. French Margaret Noyes Neva G. 'Mitchell Hattie E. Baker Jennie F. Blodgett Florence MacKinnon Mary G. Eastman Name Mary C. Lusk, Prin. Lucy A. Sawyer Joanna M. Kilmain Laura B. Chase Blanche Whelpley Winifred A. Briggs Katherine Hennessy Mary V. Tewksbury Amelia M. Mulliken Preparation 2 Mass. Normal Art School 0 Lowell Normal 1 University of Maine United States Army 13 Cedar Rapids Business Colllege 174 TOWN OF LEXINGTON NUMBER OF PUPILS IN GRADE SCHOOLS Adams School Grade Boys Girls Total Teacher 8 12 15 27 Katherine T. Gregory 7 15 13 28 Helen C. Stolba 6 18 13 31 Roxie M. Smith 5 23 22 45 Mary C. Maycock 4 21 24 45 Mabel, C. Pond 3 21 29 50 Helen M. Conroy 2 24 25 49 Etta M. Taylor 1 21 24 45 Mary Bevington Blanche L. Davis 155 165 320 Hancock -School Grade Boys Girls Total Teacher 8 17 13 30 Henry T. Prario 7 21 22 - 43 .Rae L. Mead 6 23 19 42 'Harriet S. French 5 20 20 40 Margaret Noyes 4 32 18 50 Neva G. Mitchell 3 29 17 46 Hattie E. Baker 2 18 28 46 Jennie F. Blodgett 1 26 26 52 Florence MacKinnon Special 10 1 11 Mary G. Eastman 196 164 360 Munroe School Grade Boys Girls .= Total Teacher 8 20 18' 38 Mary C. Lusk 7 17 20 37 Lucy A. Sawyer 6 18 19 37 Joanna M. Kilmain 5 26 21 •47 Laura B. Chase 4 25 18' 43 Blanche Whelpley 3 28 ' 24 52 Winifred A. Briggs Katherine Hennessy 2 26 25 51 Mary V. Tewksbury Katherine Hennessy 1 29 21 50 Amelia M. Mulliken, 189 166 '355 SUMMARY OF PUPILS IN LEXINGTON SCHOOLS Grade toys Girls Total High School Seniors 21 23 44 High School Juniors 21 28 49 High School Sophomores 30 46 76 High School Freshmen. 34 49 :_83: High School Specials 3 8 High School Post Graduates 0 2 2 Total in High School 109 153 262 SCHOOL COMMITTEV 175 Eighth Seventh Sixth Fifth Fourth Third Second First Special Room Total in Grades Grand Total AWARD OF PRIZES HIGH SCHOOL, 1917 Clapp Written Prize Helen Frances Locke Clapp Oral Prize Roger Kingsley . Hubbell George O. Smith Prizes Dorothy Ellen Buck Joseph Michael Cronin French Medals—High School Dorothy Ellen Buck Eleanor Buck Gertrude Genevieve Flynn WINNERS OF FRENCH MEDALS— GRADE SCHOOLS Adams School Katherine Mary Driscoll Louis English Lillian Alice Fletcher Hancock School Helen Matilda Kelley Helen Virginia Emery Hilda May Rogers Munroe School Mildred May Spidel Norman S. O'Sullivan . . Alan George Adams HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES CLASS OF 1917 49 53 59 69 78 78 68 76 10 46 55 51 '63 60 70 78 71 1 95 108 110 132 • -138 148 145 147 11 540 495 1035 649 648 1297 Dorothy Buck, Dr. H. B. Osgood. Eleanor Buck, Radcliffe College. Evelyn Buck, New School of Design. Joseph Cronin, B. U: School of Business Administration. Lillian Crosby, Hollingsworth & Vose Co. Nelson Crowther, Ballard Real Estate Office. Gavel Cummings, .Cummings Milk Farm. Ernest Cutter, Exeter. Catherine Dailey, N. E. Conservatory of Music. John Donnellan, Dennison Supply Rooms. Marian Earle, Boston Men's Credit As- sociation. Isabelle Ferry, At home. Gertrude Flynn, Thorpe & Martin. Frank Hadley, E. W. Harrod. Norman Hall, B. U. School of Business Administration. Margaret Hennessy, Jefferson Union. Roger Hubbell, 101st Engineers' Corps, France. Leburton Hulbert, Remington writer Co. Edward Jackson, Massachusetts tute Technology. • of Boston University Katherine Kelley, Simmons College. Timothy Kinneen, Jefferson Union. Harry Lassof, Eastern Cold Storage Co. Louise Leary, Private Secretary. Mabel Manning, General Electric Co. Mary Martin, Post Graduate. Louise McKearney, At home. Mary Moakley, Stenographer, N. L. Steb- bins. Kathleen Mulvey, Post Graduate. Carl Page, Bookkeeper, W. H. Riese Co. Annie Armstrong, Boston Blacking Co. Barbara Parks, Secretary, School De - Lionel Bartlett, Canadian Pacific R. R. partment. Office. Marjorie Patterson, Smith College. Annie Basher, F. W. Whitcher Co. Mabel Reade, Wadsworth Howland Co. Charles Blake, B. U. Law School. Francis Ready, Copper Product Co. Mary Breslin, Shepard Norwell Co. Gertrude Southall, John Hancock Life Ruth Bryant, Lexington Trust Company. Insurance Co. Type- Insti- 176 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Whittier Spaulding, Massachusetts In- stitute Technology. Anna Swanson, Small & Nichols Co. Katherine Tilton, Emma Willard School. Frances Whittaker, Framingham Nor- mal. Lillian Wood, Bookkeeper, Hutchinson's Market. Richard Woodhouse, International Trust Company. CLASS DAY EXERCISES CLASS OF 1917 Music High School Orchestra Address of Welcome John J. Donnellan Class Statistics Marian Earle Class History Catherine 'Dailey Music High School Orchestra Address to Undergraduates G. Whittier Spaulding Class Prophecy Dorothy E. Buck Music High School Orchestra Presentation Nelson I. Crowther Class Will Eleanor Buck Music High School Orchestra GRADUATION PROGRAM CLASS OF 1917 Music High School Orchestra Graduation March Orchestra Invocation Rev. George L. Thurlow Music Orchestra Address Lemuel H. Murlin, LL. D., President Music Orchestra Award of Prizes Mr. Robert L. Ryder of the School Committee Conferring of Diplomas Mr. Robert L. Ryder Music Orchestra Informal Reception GRAMMAR SCHOOL GRADUATES ADAMS SCHOOL Althena Atwood Isidor Berman John Burbidge Helen Casey Ernest Cheney Margaret Clarke Katherine Driscoll Louis English Lillian Fletcher Harold Goodman Molly Goodman Charles Jason Elmer Lowe Alice Moynihan Mary Parsons Antonio Tribuna HANCOCK SCHOOL Walter Brenton Winthrop Bruce John Dailey Charles McDevitt Harold Phelps Clara Bunzel Dorothy Butters Kathryn Collieson Harriet Cutter Lillian Dwyer Priscilla Dwyer Ruth Emond Helen Emery Helen Godfried Harriette Hunneman Helen Kelley Mary Kinneen Christine Manderson Helen Moakley Mabel Meagher Julia Nutt Hilda Rogers Louise Spellenburg Dorothy Webster MUNROE SCHOOL Alan Adams Alonzo Baldwin Mary Basher Mary Blodgett Chester Brickett Walter Broderick John Callahan Marion Condinho Cornelius Cronin Marcia Dane Leonard Dunham Mary Fitzgerald Robert Gaffney Robert A. Gaffney Thomas Gaynor Mildred Harkins Edith Harrington Mary Kelley Margaret Keley Raymond Kilgour Stanley Love Paul McDonnell Jennie Nottebaert Norman O'Sullivan Cora Richardson James Roach Molvina Shelales Ernestine Shelton Mildred Spidel Albert Thatcher Clifford Young SCH00Y, COMMITTEE 177 REPORT OF THE SCHOOL NURSE The following Report covers only the time between the opening of school, Sep- tember 11, and December 31, 1917. The School Nurse is employed three days each week to assist the School Physician in the performance of his du- ties. At the beginning of the year all schools were visited for the purpose of a careful inspection of every pupil, at which time the general health of the pupil was examined, as well as the con- dition of the eyes, nose, throat, etc. Daily visits have been made since then for the, inspection of all cases referred to the School Physician by the principals of the several schools, and for examination into the sanitary conditions of the buildings. During the afternoons the Nurse is on duty, subject to call at all times, with headquarters at the High School office. The care of the School Census cards is in the hands of the School Nurse in order that immediate attention may be given', to all new arrivals entering the town. While many of the activities of the'. Nurse do not lend themselves to statis- tical explanation, the following figures show something of the more important practical work which has been done: Homes visited for consultation with parents 12 Number of children sent from school because of health con- ditions 52 Number to Boston Number of treated of children conducted 2 accident cases 3 Number of contagious diseases in schools 113 Notices to parents regarding adenoids, tonsils, vaccination, etc. 181 Respectfully submitted, MAYE CARVER MUZZEY. REPORT OF ATTENDANCE OFFICER January 1, 1918. To the Superintendent of the Lexington Schools, Dear Sir:—As Attendance Officer of the Town of Lexington I respectfully sub- mit the following report : Number of vestigated Sickness Truants Kept home by parents Left town Gone to work cases of absence in - 43 17 11 13 1 1 This does not include the number of children that were absent pending the settlement of the barge question. Respectfully yours, PATRICK J. MAGUIRE. INDEX Page Assessors, Report of 100 Auditor, Report of 115 Abatement of Taxes 115 April Nineteenth 115 Assessors 115 Auditor 115 Bank and Corporation Tax 116 Board of Health 116 Board of Survey 117 Cary Memorial Library (Dog Tax Account) 117 Cary Memorial Library (Expense Account) 117 Cemeteries 117 Cemetery Trust Funds 118 Clerk of School Committee 118 Clerk, Trustees of Public Trusts 118 Collector of Taxes 118 Committee on New Cemetery 119 Contingent 119 County Tax 120 Election and Registration 120 Finance Committee 121 Fire Department 121 Fire Prevention Tax 121 Hastings Park 123 Highways 123 Hydrants 124 Inspector of Buildings 125 Inspector of Cattle 125 Inspector of Meats and Provisions 125 Insurance 125 Interest 125 Land Taken for Water Purposes 126 Land Taken for New School House 126 Mass. Ave., Repairs of 126 Memorial Day 126 New Fire Hose 127 New Fire Apparatus 127 New Cemetery 126 New Fence for Old Cemetery 126 New School House 128 Outside Aid 127 Overseers of Poor 127 Parks and Playgrounds 127 Police Department 128 Premium on Bonds 129 Preservation of Plans of the Town 129 Protection of Burial Grounds 129 Purchase of Additional Steel Fit- tings for Town Vault Road Commissioners Schools High School Adams School Hancock School Common to All Schools Munroe School Night School Summary School House Construction Sealer of Weights and Measures Selectmen Sewer Assessments Sewer Construction Sewer Maintenance Sewer Tax Sidewalks Snow, Removal of Soldiers' Relief State Aid State Highway Tax State of Massachusetts, Income Tax State Tax Stone Building Stone Building, Repairs of Stone Crusher Street Lights Summer Street Extension Support of Poor Suppression of Moths Suppression and Extermination of Insects Taxes Tax Titles Tax Title Suspense Temporary Loans, for Revenue Town Debt Town Engineer Board of Health, Report of Cary Memorial Library, Librarian, Report of Cary Memorial Library, Treasurer, Report of Cary Memorial Library, Trustees, Report of Cary Memorial Library, Finance Committee, Report of Page 129 129 129 131 130 130 133 132 133 134 134 134 135 135 135 135 136 136 136 137 137 137 137 137 137 137 138 138 138 138 139 139 139 139 139 139 113 140 '79 86 88 84 89 IN D EX—Con tinned Page 82 Liabilities Current 11 Moth Committee, Report of 76 Odorless Cart Report 80 Park Commissioners, Report of 81 Park Treasurer, Report of 83 Police Department, Report of 80 Recapitulation Revenue Account 79 Roll of Honor 80 Sealer of Weights and Measures, 79 Report of 80 Selectmen, Highway Surveyors, 74 Overseers of Poor, Report of 7 Statement of Town Debt Tax Collector, Report of 7 Births 15 Deaths 17 Dogs 17 Dog Licenses 20 Marriages Town Treasurer's Report 19 Tree Warden, Report of Trustees of Public Trusts, Report of 25 Water and Sewer Commissioners 26 Tree Warden Town Clerk Town Debt 27 Town Debt, when due Town Engineer, Report of 27 Town Hall L8 Town Hall, Repairs of Town Physician Town Treasurer Trial Balance Trustees of Cary Memorial Veterans' Pensions 37 Village Hall Water and Sewer Commission Water Dept. Watering Troughs Widening Mass. Ave. SCHOOL REPORT 41 Award of Prizes 42 Class Day Program 56 Grammar School Graduates High School Graduates High School Graduation 64 Report of Attendance Officer 3 Report of School Nurse Report of School Committee Report of Superintendent Cemetery Committee, Report of Co. H., List of Members Fire Engineers, Report of Fumigator, Report of Inspector of Animals, Report of Inspector of Buildings, Report of Inspector of Meat, Report of Inspector of Meats and Provisions Report of Inspector of Slaughtering Inspector of Milk, Report of Inspector of Plumbing, Report of Jurors, List of Lexington Town Records Warrant for a Town Meeting, March 5, 1917 Town Meeting, March 5, .1917 Annual Business Meeting Adjourned Meeting, March 12, 1917 Adjourned Meeting, March 26, 1917 Warrant for Constitutional Prim- ary, April 3, 1917 Constitutional Convention, Prim- ary, April 3, 1917 Adjourned Meeting, April 16, 1917 Warrant, Election of Delegates, Constitutional Convention, May 1, 1917 Constitutional Convention, Elec- tion Delegates May 1, 1917 Adjourned Meeting, May 14, 1917 Warrant for Town Meeting, June 28, 1917 Town Meeting, June 26, 1917 Adjourned Meeting, July 12, 1917 Warrant, Town Meeting, Oct. 15, 1917 Town Meeting, October 15, 1917 Warrant for State Primary, Sept. 25, 1917 State Primary, Sept. 25, 1917 Warrant for State Election, Nov. 6, 1917 State Election, Nov. 6, 1917 Committee Reports • Acts of the General Court Accept- ed by the Town during the Year 1917 List of Town Officers Officers Appointed by the Select- men 4 20 31 32 39 35 35. 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