HomeMy WebLinkAbout2593 Report of the Committee on Wooden Gas Pipes, no date but presumed 1891Lexington, Mass. June 8th 1891
Report of Committee on
matter of Wooden gas Pipes.
The Committee appointed at the
last town meeting to confer with the
Lexington Gas Company in regard to
the removal of wooden pipes remain-
ing in the streets, beg leave to re-
port that they have had interviews
with Mr. Earle, the Superintendent,
and with Mr. Wentworth, the Director
and active worker of the company.
They find that the only sect-
ions of wooden pipe now in use in any
of the streets are confined to that
part of Main Street between Clark and
the Woburn road.
The article in the warrant for the
last town meeting (under which this com-
mittee was appointed) was doubtless the
result of damage on Main Street within this
section. The committee have been over
this section and are satisfied that damage
No. 2
has been done, especially in front
of the William Plumer place, where
some noble trees have doubtless been
destroyed by the gas.
Too much importance cannot be
attached to the necessity of the im-
mediate removal of all the wooden
pipes in the town. Nothing has
ever damaged the beauty of the town so much as the
Lexington Gas Light Company; the
beautiful trees which were destroy-
ed on Hancock Street alone
bearing proof of this statement.
At that time, however, on account
of the financial condition of the com-
pany, it was utterly useless to try to
recover damages, and the matter has been
passed over to the personal loss of
the property holders on that street.
Every citizen in Lexington should be
interested to prevent a recurrence of
any such calamity.
After seeing a piece of the
wooden pipe, not long since taken
No. 3
from Main Street, and looking at
the dead and dying trees in front
of Mr. Plumer's place, the committee
were inclined to advise the town to
take such steps as would force the
company to re-lay this section at
once, with iron pipes, but, in their
interviews with Mr. Wentworth they
found that the conditions of the
company, financial and otherwise,
were far better than formerly, and
that it was disposed to do what was
right in this and other matters.
The committee do not wish
to appear antagonistic to the company
under the circumstances, and, as
Mr. Wentworth promises to attend to
the relayig of this section with
iron pipes within three months, they
would suggest that the town wait that
length of time before acting further,
and, if the matter is not then attend-
ed to, to move in a most vigorous
manner.
Respectfully submitted;
Geo E. Muzzy }
Henry M. Reed } Committee
Third
REPORT
Committee on Wooden Gas Pipes.
Report of
Committee
on
Wooden Gas
Pipes
June 8, 1891
See Records Page 282
See Reports of Committees Page 318
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