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PSFP.TI aG, DECE :BCR 8, 1925
ti regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held on
December 9 "' Selectmen' sTown E3,1 25 at 0 2 at the Room, ball
Lexington. The following members of the Board ,sere present,
Messrs. Hutchinson, .i.les, Custance, loulton and Burnham. The
Supt . of Public works and Clerk were also present.
Frederick I, Emery, C^airman of the Planning Board came
before the Board relative to tr'e transportation facilities in
tee town
e r-xplained that an ia.i'or'.al hearing -ras held 'rith the
offir.ials of the Boston h. Maine RR and a few otoer citizens,
including the Chairs an of the .,electmen and himse; I .:t this
hearing the railroad officials informed them that rains but
three in the morning to Boston and three returning from Bouton
at night ill be cut off in the near future as the expenses of
the railroad were such that they lost 100,000 n 'rear
"r. Emory e'cnlained t'iat it is use] ess to endeavor to
hold bearings as there 'could probably be no results Jecause the
public utilities ould not encourage any company to operate at
a loss.
The Board felt that it ias useless to take the matter up
further and decided to accept the schedu] e of train sery ce :rithout
my action. It as decided, however, to request ir Hanson of
tvr
he i ldlesex Boston EA. acv Co. to come 'before the Board to-
ether with Ir. Emory fora conference on better service for the
bus line on Dec. 22, 1925 at 7 45 ,.
Daniel J. r,ndre.vs of Shirley Street and Chester , Fogg of
"oburn Street were drawn as Jurors.
Letter ;gas received from oil .,'.clntosh of the hoard of
Assessors presenting his resignation from the Board to take effect
on Decemher 1st, 1925
The Board acknowledged receipt of his resignation and stated
that they were sorry to be informed that he could not give the time
to serve t'- e Board any longer.
The Chairman signed the contract to have the telephone in
tne Almshouse changed to the Highway barn.
The Board ap roved the bill of p465 the same being the award
of the County Commissioners on the claim of Breck-hobinson „ursery
Co. for over-assessment of property by the Assessors for 1924.
I-Ier•ings were held upon the change of names of streets as
ollovas ;
Bowman Street from Bedford "t . North Bowman St. '
Cedar St. from Reed St southwesterly, i, arsh t.
Eksti.s ,treet from -.sbury St. Emerald Lit.
Fairview ve from ochool St. Fsirland St.
ern "t. from Dell :.ve. - lerneale St.
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Grove St. froDeed it. Garfield St.
hillside ,ve from Lee 41V9. Crosby ve
Aomstead St.fror .ass. 1.ve. -bob nson 7 rrace.
Letter was received from Charles F. , le ce ,resident of
Homestead St. so called, objecting to the name and suggesting
tLat it should be .asb . .=venue.
Telephone call was received from Liss Sarah ,,obinson
of the same street qsking that the name be changed to Etratham St.
Lrs. .ora 17axton of Llillside ve and Patrick Crosby
of Hillside ,ve came bcfore the Bord to sugget a name. It ,ras
agreed upon Crosby Avenue.
Letter was received from Clara banning of Bowman Lt.
stating that Forth Bowman t would be an agreeable name to her.
T. Duffy of the _ lanning (Daird, however, suggested that
this name be .anning Street and Irs . tanning as so notified.
Tho other names sugge ted seemed to e satisfactory to
those concerned.
Letter as received loom, the Chairman of the -chool muild-
ing Committee in -Joh he informed the '(:) rd that an p raisal of
the new -ugh ,,chool building xould cost abot,t 100 q ;c1 adv sing
ti-at the Board secure same.
The T-nare jolt tha this appraisal should be made free
of char e inasmuchas the Goitractor new the amount of money pent
on the building, and in view of the fact that the insu ance account
was low, they decided not to have the ap-)r.lisal made, and so in-
formed the Mairan of the ng o-I ;ittee.
In regard to the policy recently issued for auto obile
[ fleet insurance , the Board decided to attach riders for each automobile
owned by the town on this oolicv terThy saving the tom for lay ups
of all cars.
lermit to sell vreaths in the town ias granted to .drain
Blaauw of edford, • ass. This permit vas imply for the holiday season
The Clerk sup' .ested that "DangeroLs uorner. Slow Down signs
be placed near the corner of 'faltham and liddle ,,treets as th-!re
appears to be many accident:-, ''' 3re in spite of the beacon lights instalLed.
The Board felt that they vould not place anything further
there at this time.
It has come to the Noard' s attention th t 'ohn 7ubbell, of
'2 uzzey t , Lexington, the oldest an in the town and holder of the
Boston lost gold cane, has passed avay.
It is therefor the be ) icf of the 'oard thrt George i'ennett
of n Forest Street , is now the oldest resident .nd r. Lutchinson,
Chair,,!an of the !)oard "is reqlsted to :a -e tie presentation of the
gold cane to - r. liennett.
The Edison tompany were granted a location for pole on
,Jass. avenue near Locust <,venue, the same being a replacement of an
old pole.
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It was decided to request town report bids '-rom the following
printers ;
111 Somerville Press - Davis Sq, omerville.
Hadley ress - Lexington.
ovrell Printi g Co. - 2 Prattle q. Cambridge.
21pine Tess - 32 Oliver St . Boston.
ledford ;,ercury, Niedford, lass.
Lachine 7,omposition Co. 17,8 'cearl st oston.
-.tar ;Tinting ,o. Board of i'mde Bldg. -ioston.
olrose 'Tee 'Tess , Inc. elrose.
Yeran Press - 27 Beach .it . Boston.
Fstabrook cress - 196 Broadxsy, CambrLdge.
liewburyport Herald ress , i4ewburyport .
The 0 iver ress-42 Batterymarch St. Boston.
right i Potter -Tinting Co. 12 Derne ,Jt. Boston.
John I. Hill, 65 Broad St . Boston.
Seaver-howland Press , 409 D. St. Boston.
John F. Garrick Co. 295 Huntigton rve Boston.
ercantile -Tinting 'o. 74o-r-cester, ass . 25 Foster 2t.
It was found that tb., towns about us do not print as nany
t ,7m reports as Lexington In fact the following f17ures we-'e
received from other towns
atertown - Fopulltion - 2F ,000. .ciepresentative form of
government Tint 1000 - 1500 town reports.
Do not deliver.
,r141Eton - Population - 25,000 RepresentrItive form of
P:overnmeit, print 1500 reports . Do not deliver.
inchester- Deliver - 2900 printed_ Alt committee to report
on advisability of discontinuing lelvery in
warch.
- rookline - Popul tion 'epresentative form-1500
copies . Ho delivery.
Belmont - o delivery -ooulation, 15,256 1200 reports
pri-i ted.
iexington - population 7785 Print 2000 copies and deliver
Based upon tne figures shown above It -rls decided to have
o ,ly 1000 copies of the Lex- nt,:ton town reports printed.
Request was received from the Police Department for an increase
of from 5 per day to f„>6 per day and uniforms.
The Bey rd acknowledged receipt of the request , and informed
the men thtt it nould e taken up with the i.ppropri ti n Cormittee.
It s decided to ,equest bids for he Town Dy-Laws in
pamphlet form so thqt an appropriation could be asked for at the
town meeting in li.urch.
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Letter :ras received from the 1-lanni 'ig o r.rd in hich
their informed the 3oard that t leu e eonsiderincr she rroposi -
tion of a sci'cal house site in the southeasterly se ,,ion of the
town, and that the sub-committee in (-barge of t is as
Dr. J 0. Tilton and E. 'Worthen.
Letter was received from Joseph ._nrl Perry, -;;presentative
of the 2cth iddlesex District, in ,ich -e informed the Hoard that
the last date rnd hour for fi li g bills for legislation -as
January 16 at 5 = . nd s Ft ng '-hat r_e 'ould do euerytning he
could to as est the town.
It s voted to grant oil in vrnc:l 'i es to tie family of
PM's . Effie Chapin while her sop , _%tanleir , is out of ork.
The Tovni Counsel came before the Tonrd and presented a
petition whic be st ted he had taken up 71411 the ttorney Ceneral
and found it to satisfoctor« to him and sti'ted t',a t tie 'ould
take it up 'v i.th ,r. Clapp, Ti; ai. r;..an of the '-'ru tees of the Isaac
Farris r dic'•' tinnrl i'und and if atisfaetnrY 'o, 11 1 1turn
same to the See.le trien to circulate . 'i-i_s pit t on asi:s t'- t the
Trustees defer action on the erection of small bi i' din7 and
el- et n hull ling inder t.. C -ill - Isaac arri _ ^-!rY and
Eliza ''. 'arnha.n.
r. Ilreder:i.c'r L. er?. ba r-'rn of the lmanii g '
Ca e be,ore the !'n_, ^.' in reference to t .e ro"'csed Ile building
and felt tal,it if it as agreeable to the 'hard, he 'ould tale
up ,ith the Trustees the matter or secur.i.ng the lot for the
Town al 1 nxt o the 'ubl is Library. T ' stc, d tti ._t the Trustees
had decided on the lot on hich the _ lu er house 't, '-3s or _ass.
venue dnd that they have pu_rc1 ased sane , but felt t',at for
all purposes a building of such Lc}-.i tecture as this 'i7.zi l d i ng
s -ould he,that it shod i d not be i a lus eras ct on of
the to -n ' iro business bloc' s 'rill be s rrnl nd g it _. "e rs to
co i'; , t ' _f it were p1.:cr'd near the Cnr,r - here
he, It ,- ould have cod surroundings end In view of the park pur-
chased by the to''n sc-oss 1'ror the -)ronosed; ; of and in front of
the nnoston 2 is .ie RR station, there o' 1d/ nothing to 'Toch the
sl rrnundi _gs.
The 'tor rcl agreed i th f rat if this location could
be secured that it ould be the betper location and r. '.oulton
offered. ;1 )00 to- zrd the location and felt thot subscriptions
should be received from p- rso__s 1--) the to n so t tat this lot right
he secured and held until such Lime as the building co ld be placed
thereon. .,r. ,mcry was to see the 'i'riistces on this matte' 'i .d -rould
renort later.
Mr. '.aurice Page of I Ido,endence ve. East Lexir gton and bis
son came before the -,oard in reference to t1e Building inspector ' s
request that the peat building he -lestrr-,.e-' as it ' s la gerous
to life and 1ir.b. in. .=age explain d that he simply n' •ned the
nro farty by t o title. re $tct ;d that there or 1i le dcres
of
land nd the propert•- was assessed for 1000 lie did iot ',now
who the ori inni ornIr of the n'operty as .
It vas 1 eft ,;i th 'rig, tington to loo' into the matter
r-nd ira•,, up t e necessarlr .tapers to to e action on
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r, ri r;Lti_ngton presented a copy of a proposed "Drains g-e
-ct" for the ` o• ni of L e__ington and ; t as votad t t tl Bo r d
anvrove s id _ reposed rt a. 1 eLil. est the 'own Counsel to file a
me er petition and confer v, ith i,epresern at ve 'erry and urge him to
secure speedy aeti Ti on the ct .
r 'rrghtington reported that he hFd the crafj rey c- se
recomv i.tted for h-n;. 7.g before the star
In regard tr the case of Cotton vs Town of lexin.aton, oard
of assessors, the town Counsel reported t1»t the ounty Commissioners
valued the pro-,erty at 6500 in the year 1922 for t--renty t—o acres
and house and 'barn and '7150 in 1927.
The npard telt that this ;as a to amount as the pi. operty
has been considered to he orth 15,000 and authori;'ed the To—n
;ounsel to carr c„l_rry on the case for 1924 a ainst 'otton The pro herty
is situated on the ,tate hoad and is all good land for development.
J Henry Duffy asked the .-oard' s opinion on flooding the
7ast l ex_ington meadows to afford' a s'rating grounds for the ci ildron
in the aet Village.
mile the ,oars thought it °rou_ld 'e Tell for tre children
still they felt if any coidents happened the blame ould core rack
on the 'loard and t'e town and too they did not have an apnropri ati ,n
h7r ch teev could ' xpend ns* money for this purpose
It -rae sug,,ested that r Duff;, s -'cure public subscrintion
rren those interested
.r Duffy also called itention to the fact teat the school
crhistle in East hex aton -Cas not sue fi_ci ently loud so that the
children could hear same ,,.n1 that they go to school and find that
the bells h d rung
The Board felt that arrangements should a male for ',,otter
'Thistles
:r. Burnham reported th^t the -loand of Trade aproved of the
regulations for traffic made by the i$oard recently, but they elt
that 'shite stops for the busses should be made nest to the curbing
at the bus stops for the protection of the people, and that squares
should be painted on the street for the stand.
This matter was called to the attention of the ,upt, of Public
""orks.
Fleeting adjourned t 11 15 P
true record, ..ttest
Clerk.