HomeMy WebLinkAbout1937-04-09 Board of Public Works Minutes Reading Mass. April 9, 1937
' The regular meeting of the Board of Public Works opened at
7:30 P. M.
Messrs. Bancroft, Putnam, Davis, Lindsay and Superintendent
Welch were present.
Records of previous meeting read and approved.
Opened bids for Crawler Type Bucket Loader at 7;45 P.M.
Bid Turn in
C. J. McCarthy Co.
Link Belt Loader 04300.00 0125.00
Barber Greene Co.
Barber Greene Loader 3461.00 150.00 less 2%
.10 dys.
P. I. Perkins Co. Q-7 4040,00 450.00
Nelson Loader L-4 3030.00 350.00
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Clark Wilcox Co.
Haiss Loader 3450.00 250.00
The Equipment Co.
Link Belt Loader 4200.00 212.00 1% less
for cash
Taken under advisement; 10 dys.
Hearing held on Bond St, under Board of Survey. Mr.
Martin Hartshorn appeared in favor.
No one appeared in opposition.
Layout and Profile approved and signed.
Mr. Samuel Davis appeared to advise the Board on Taylor &
Stone property.
Chief Ordway appeared to talk over his land in Hundred Acre
Meadow.
Letter received from Edwurd Batchelder applying for position
' of playground supervisor during summer months of 1937.
MEMORANDUM OF VOTE TO BE PASSED BY '
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS AT REGULAR
MEETING HELD FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1937
Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was
VOTED: That this Board adopt an order of taking for -the
laying out of a parcel of land for a gravel pit, located in Great
Island, so-called, in the Northwesterly part of Reading, and
containing approximately 9-46 acres of land, and being the premises
owned by Everett W. Stone, Trustee, and Efford E. Taylor, and for
the laying out of a right of way for convenient access thereto
through land of the Meadow Brook Golf Club Corporation, and take
by right of Eminent Domain the land necessary for such purposes,
and for the purposes as designated and defined in such order of ,
taking, which order is incorporated herein and made a part of
this vote, and that the sum of one (1) Dollar be awarded as damages
to Everett W. Stone, Trustee, and Efford E. Taylor for such taking,
and One (1) Dollar be awarded to the Meadow Brook Golf Club,
Corporation, and it is further voted that this Board cause such
order to be recorded forthwith in the Middlesex South District
Registry of Deeds and notify the owners of such taking as pro-
vided by Chapter 79 of the General Laws.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Middlesex, ss Town of Reading
ORDER OF TAKING
At a meeting of the Board of Public Works of the
Town of Reading, held this ninth day of April 1937, it is ordered
WHEREAS, the Board of Public Works of said Town of
Reading by virtue and in pursuance of Section 38 of Chapter 82
of .the General Laws and having complied with all the requirements
of law did on the fifteenth day of March 1937 lay out a certain
parcel of land located in Great Island, so-called, in the
Northwesterly part of Reading and containing approximately 9.46
acres, for the use of the .Town for the purpose of taking
materials necessary for the construction, repair or improvement
of public ways, and did also lay out a right of way through land
of the Meadow Brook Golf Club Corporation necessary for convenient
access to such parcel of land, said way running Northeasterly
from a private way which extends Northerly from Grove Street, and
duly filed their report thereof with the boundaries and measurements
of said parcel and right of way in the office of the Town Clerk of said
Town on the said fifteenth day of March 1937, and
WHEREAS, at a town meeting duly called, warned and held
the thirtieth day of March 1937, in accordance with the provisions
of law applicable thereto, it was voted to accept the report of the
said Board laying out the said parcel of land as a gravel pit and the
said way which is necessary for convenient access thereto and to
accept the laying out of said pare ,l and way as therein set forth and
made an appropriation therefor,
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NOW THEREFORE, we th^ undersigned, being at least a
majority of the Board of Public Works of the said Town of Reading,
duly elected, qualified and acting as such, do hereby, under and
by virtue of the provisions of Chapter 79 of the General Laws
and of any and every other power and authority us hereto in any
way enabling, take the fee in the parcel of land hereinafter
described for the purpose of taking materials necessary for the
construction, repair or improvement of public ways in the Town,
and also take in behalf of said Town the interest hereinafter mentioned
in a certain right of way as convenient access to such parcel of land.
Said parcel of land so taken is bounded and described
as follows:
Said land being located in the Northwesterly part
of Reading, contained 9.46 acres, more or less, known as
the "Back Lot" in a deed recorded in Middlesex South
District Deeds Book 3878, Page 443, running from Frank Gray
to Efford E. Taylor, and being on a plan entitled,
"Proposed Land Takings - Land fo Efford E. Taylor and others-
for Gravel Pit - Land of Meadow Brook Golf Club Corporation for Access Thereto", made under date of March 1937, by
Davis & Abbott, Civil Engineers, Reading, Mass, and being
bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at the southwesterly corner thereof at
an iron pipe set in a pile of stones and land of the Meadow
Brook Golf Club Corporation;
Thence North 190-121 East t a distance of Two Hundred
Fifty-seven and 63/100 (2$7.63! feet by said Golf Club land
to an iron pipe and stones at land of the Town of Reading:
Thence North 760-53t East, a distance of Two Hundred
Four and 00/100 (204.00) feet to an iron pipe and stones:
Thence North 840-19' East, a distance of One hundred
Forty and 70/100 (140.70) feet to an iron pipe and stones:
Thence South 720-19' East, a distance of One Hundred
Eighty and 40/100 (180.40) feet all by land of the Town of
. Reading to an iron pipe and stones at land of Lena B. and
Grace B. Nichols:
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Thence South 780- 371 East, a distance of One Hundred
Fifty- four and 40/100. (154.00) feet to an iron pipe and
stones:
Thence South 700- 401 -10" East a distance of One
Hundred Sixty-eight and 09/100 (166,09) feet to a stake and
stones, all by land of the said Nichols to land of Orville
0, Ordway, formerly of Charles Wakefield Estate:
Thence South 170-521-10" West, by land of said Orville
O,Ordway, a distance of Sia hundred Thirty-four and 24/100
(634.24) feet to an iron pipe and stones at land of the
Meadow Brook Golf Club Corporation:
Thence North 590-01+ -50" West t a distance of One
hundred Thirty and 63/100 (130,631 feet to a pile of stones:
Thence North 640-37t West, a distance of Ninety-
eight and 70/100 feet(98.70) - along the line of a dry
ditch to an angle:
Thence North 510-311 -50" West, a distance of One
hundred eighty-seven and 47/100 (187.47)feet along said
dry ditch to an angle: .
Thence North 570-52t- 10" West, a distance of Two
' hundred Two and 92/100 (202,92) feet along said dry
ditch to the end of said ditch:
Thence North 620- 571 West, a distance of One hundred
Fourteen and 86/100 (114-86)feet to an iron pipe and
stones:
Thence N6rth 580- 17f West, a distance of One hundred
Four and 10/100 (104,10) feet to the point of beginning:
The last six courses being all by �land of said
Meadow Brook Golf Club Corporation:
Said right of way is bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a stone bound set on the E*sterly side
of Pumping Station Road, so-called, and at the Northerly
end of One hundred Forty (140) foot radii noted on a plan
entitled, "Right of Way -in Reading Mass. , through the
lands of Silas Henry Carroll and Meadow Brook Golf Club
Corporation of Reading Mass." dated May 1931 and on file
in the office of the Board of Public Works:
Thence the Northerly line of said taking runs South-
easterly by a curve of Thirty-one and 72/100(31.72) foot
radius and length of Forty-nine and 83/100(49.63) to a
point of tangent:
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Thence North 840-46+ East distance of One
hundred Eleven and 90/100 (111.99) feet to a point ,
of curve:
Thence by a curve to the Left, on a radius of
One hundred Seventy and 00/100 (170.00) feet to a
length of Eighty-nine and 01/100 (89.01) feet to a
point of tangent:
Thence North 540- 46+ East, a distance of Eighty-
three and 09/100 (83.09) feet to land of £ford E.
Taylor and others and the terminus of this the said
Northerly line:
Thence South 620- 57t East by landof said Taylor
a distance of Forty-five and 16/100 (45.18) feet to
the 6outherly line of this taking:
Thence South 540- 46t West, a distance of One
hundred Four and 13/100 (104.13) feet:
Thence by a curve to the Right on a radius of Two
hundred Ten and 00/100 (210.00) feet a length of One
hundred Nine and 96/100 (109.96) feet:
Thence South 840-46t West, a distance of Seventy- -
two and 01/100 (72.01) feet: ,
Thence by a curve to the Left on a radius of Two
hundred Twenty-two and 38/100 (222.38) feet, a length
of One hundred Thirty and 76/100 (138.76) feet to a
stone bound set on the Easterly side line of said
Pumping Station Road, so-called, and the terminus of
this the said Southerly line:
Thence Northerly by the curve of One hundred Forty
and 00/100 (140.00) foot radii asaforesaid. and by
the Easterly line of said Pumping Station Road, a length
of One hundred Thirty-two and 56/100 (132.56) feet to
the point of beginning:
Said taking to be Forty and 00/100 (40.00) feet
In width, containing 14,970 square feet of land and to
run through land of the said Meadow Brook Golf Club
Corporation of Reading, Mass.
Said parcel of land and right of way are shown on a plan
entitled "Proposed Land Takings- Land of Efford E. Taylor and others-
for Gravel Pit, - Land of Meadow Brook Golf Club Corp., for Access
Thereto-" made under date of March 1937, by Davis & Abbott, Civil
Engineers, Reading Mass., and filed in the office of the Town Clerk
plan
with our reports aforesaid as a part thereof, a copy of which�is to
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be recorded herewith.
' The interest in said land taken for such right of way for
convenient access to said gravel pit is the right and easement to
enter in or upon the said right of way at any and all times and for
the purpose of ingress and egress to and from a private way running
Northerly from Grove Street to said gravel pit, and for any and all
purposes; to go, return, pass and repass with workmen, horesgs,
carts, automobiles, motor,vehicles, trucks, laden or unladen, and
any other persons, equipment and things, for the benefit and advantage
of said Town, its Board of Public Works, its servants, agents and
licensees; to lay, construct, maintain, repair, alter, renew, or
replace, temporary or permanent construction on such road or way;
to enter upon said land, dig up and remove such rocks, stones and
' soil as may be necessary or proper for the foregoing; to replace
Therein and
earth, stone, gravel, sand ,tarvia and other materialslthereon; to
do any and all other acts and things necessary, convenient, or proper
in carrying out and in connection with all or any of the foregoing;
and to construct, maintain, repair and use such road or way in such
manner and for all purposes for which a public way now may or here-
after become constructed, maintained, repaired or otherwise commonly
used.
Any and all trees upon the land are specifically included
in this taking.
The owners of the land taken in. fee for the gravel pit
are Efford E. Taylor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Everett W.
Stone of Auburn, Massachusetts, as he is Trustee under the will of
Arthur W. Stone, late of said Auburn, and the area .of said land so
taken, is approximately 9.46 acres of land.
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The owner of the land through which an easement is taken
for the right of way is the Meadow Brook Golf Club Corporation of
Reading, Massachusetts, and the easement area taken is approximate) y
14,970 square feet of land.
We award damages sustained by persons in their property
by reason of this taking to Efford E. Taylor and Everett W. Stone,
Trustee under will of Arthur W. Stone, the am of One (1) Dollar and
to the Meadow Brook Golf Club Corporation of Reading, Massachusetts, the
sum of one (1) Dollar,
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we, Clinton L. Bancroft, Harold W.
Putnam, Edward A. Brophy, Wendell P. Davis, and Alex Lindsay,
constituting the Board of Public Works of the Town of Reading, here-
unto set our hands this ninth day of April,1937.
Members of the Board of Public Works
Town of Reading
C O M M O N W E A L T H O F M A S S A C H U S E T T S
hiddlesex,ss. Reading,Mass. Apri49,1937
Then personally appeared the aforesaid Clinton L. Bancroft,
Harold W. Putnam, Edward A. Brophy, Wendell P. Davis,and Alex Lindsay,
to me known, and severally acknowledged the foregoing instrument
by them signed to be their free act, and deed.
Before Me, ,
(Signed) Samuel H. Davis
Juaticu oi une Peace
Board adjourned at 10:00 P. M. -
Respectfully Submitted:
(Signed) H.W.Putnam
Secretary