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METIEG, AUGUST 1, 1922.
All Members Present.
The Lexington Building Trust presented a blue print of the
proposed Gasoline filling station; and having secured the signatures
of all the persons who opposed the petition presented at the first
rearing,the Board voted to grant the license for the station to be
located•at,,ihe junction of No. Hancock and Bedford Streets, subject
to the apptoval of the Chief of the Fire Department.
Aletter was received from 1r. James 0. Credle, Attorney for
Henry -Webb of Grove Street, in which he asked permission to have
the ditch on Grove St. cleaned out and a drain pipe put in from
his cellar to the ditch. The Board replied stating that they did
hot have any jurisdiction in this matter as Grove Street is a pri-
vate way.
An application 'for a general speaking privilege in Lexin gtor,
was received from veo. Stanley harvey, who is running for District
Attorney of the Middlesex County. 1he Board replied that they
would be willing to give specific permits, but not a general one.
A Sunday Sales License was granted to Herbert Gerrieh to
sell Ice Cream, Confectionery, Soda eater and Fruit at the corner
of +oaltham Street and Concord Avenue on the Lord's Day.
A letter was received from William R. Greeley in which he
stated that they heeded about $5000.00 to purchase the Boston &
Maine Railroad park in the centre for the Town of Lexin;ton. He
asked that the Board call a meeting so that the citizens might have
an opportunity to act on the same.
A letter was received from the Suburban Land Company in
which they stated that they had taken up the matter of complying
with all the requirements in Hast Lexington Annex with their Eng-
ineer and expected to have the plans and profiles in the office
of the Board of Survey very soon. ihey also asked that the instruct-
ions as to the 'eater L'epa,rtment for receiving water connection to
their new house being built on Fottler Avenue be withdrawn. Mr.
Duffy replied to the letter giving the Suburban Land Company
instructions as to the plans and profiles of the etreets.
L'Ir. Cotton called attention to the fact that some time ago
there existed a fence between the store of Edgar 4. Harrod and the
Adams School building. uir. Harrod now complains that the fence
is down &nd the children go through onto his property. Mr. Blake
agreed to look into the matter and see whether or not a fence could
be erected which would be satisfactory to Mr. Harrod.
Mr. Cotton also reported that ,vies Caroline Harrington of
393 Mass. Avenue complained of the sidewalk along her property on
Grant Street. He stated that from his personal investigation that
the sidewalk was not in bad condition, but the same could be placed
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on the list for future consideration.
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L'r. Cotton also called the Board's attention to the building
in front of Frank D. Peirce's home. The building as built complies
with the building laws with the exception of the roof. It has '
been left without a roof for some time and it was decided to call
the attention of the Building Inspector to it so that he might
compel the owner to comply with the building laws by putting on a
fire proof roof or demolish the building.
The Clerk was instructed to call Mr. Duffy's attention to
the fact that the remains of the sign at the corner of Mass. Avenue
and Middle Street should be removed.
veneral discussion was held on the matter of the appointment
of the Superintendent of Public Works. It was decided to request
Muir. Donald Geese of Quincy b=ase, to be present on Tuesday evening
next to interview the Board.
Ur. Ribok, builder of the new building between the Lexington
Trust Company and Viano's Llock, requested permission to enter
the drainage into the 18" pipe in sass. avenue. Mr. Beaudry was
instructed to talk with Lr. Duffy in regard to the matter.
Overseers of the Poor.
It was voted to grant aid to the family of Otis F. '000dward
of 212 mass. Avenue to the amount of $8.00 per week cash. This is
a Lexington case. Lr. tiWoodward has been in ill health for some I time and he is unable to support his family.
hir. Cotton reported that cWalter h. johneon of bummer Street,
North Lexington was going to move to 5 Fremont Place, Charlestown.
This family has been.on the Overseers of Poor pay roll for some
time.
Water & Sewer Dept.
EX. Patrick Flynn and kr. Hellman came before the Hoard
relative to getting the water service. 11r. Flynn who is building
a new house on Fattler Avenue asked to have an extension of about
180 feet of water pipe laid on Taft Avenue so that he could have
the water for use in building his cement house. The 3oard informed
him that they could not make any extension: owing to the fact that
it is a private way, and that the only thing that could be done was
to have an article inserted in the next warrant for a Town iv.eeting.
Mr. Flynn thought that it was rather unfair to hold him up on his
house any longer, as he had been promised some time ago that a new
scheme would be tried whereby water could be Fiven to persons in
circumstances similar to This.
,r. Burnham suggested that I.:r. Beaudry tap in on the pipe
and lay some pipe across lots so that P.r. r'lynn could get water '
for use in building his house; the came to be used only until such
time as the Tolyn decided to put the 180 feet extension on Taft
Avenue. This was agreeable to Lr. Flynn and he agreed to pay the
cost of labor of laying the pipe.
1,r. Cotton suggested that the warrant for the Town Meet-
ing in which articles for laying water pipes could be inserted
' could be sent out with the warrant for the primary, thereby
hurrying matters along somewhat.
IIr. Hellman informed the Board that he had bought more
lots in that section and intended to build on the same and
requested that the Board extend the water pipes. The Board in-
formed him that they could do nothing until an article was in-
certed in the warrant and until the By -Laws of the Town had been
approved or aisapproved by the Dietrict Attorney.
Mr. Toye inquired of I.r. Tenney as to where and how 'ma ay
hydrants were to be placed on =butler and Carville Avenues. It
was decided to *rite to the Chief of the 2ire Department so that
he could notify this department ac to how many hydrants he con-
sidered necessary on these two streets.
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