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Alg<g)g& JHaaaartfttaettB LOCAL HISTORY Ref. 352 Saugus ,66 AKKWAm «EP©S© X953 A 5foui lEnglanft Gfotmt (Statrfullij Ackttnwie&gea 3tB tynmt 5teafc Framed in the perspective of Saugus' typically Victorian Geometrically, the Saugus Civil War Memorial Monument is Town House—erected in 1875 after a titanic struggle which nearly also a masterpiece. The base is a parallelogram, with all above it divided the community into two separate towns—the beautiful to the base of the die, square in form, with projecting buttresses Civil War memorial monument shown on the front cover of this to the side statues, then square to the capstone, where it changes Town Report is the most valuable gift ever presented the citizens to octagonal. of Saugus. This most generous and impressive gift in the history of Saugus Its donor was the late Henry E. Hone of North Saugus, who was dedicated on July Fourth of 1895. More than 100 Civil War left $10,000 in his will for the express purpose of erecting a veterans of General E. W. Hinks Post 25, Grand Army of the memorial to the heroes of the Civil War. The granite shaft was Republic, of Saugus, led the line of march behind Commander carved by Sculptor M. H. Mosman of Chicopee and has been called C. D. Fiske. A detachment of 125 members of General Lander by some experts the "finest example of Civil War monumental Post 5 of Lynn joined the line of march at the East Saugus bridge sculpture on the American continent." and continued to Cliftondale and thence back to the Town Hall, The Monument is a modified form of Greek architecture, simple where 800 persons were served a buffet luncheon. in its conception. The tablets, bearing the names of the 160 sons In the background stands the beautiful Town Hall—an out- of Saugus who fought in the War of the Rebellion—all on the side standing example of New England architecture of the mid-1 9th of the North—and the statues of the soldier and sailor emblematic century. It was built in 1875 at a cost of $75,000. of the two branches of Federal service, are of bronze. So disturbed were the people of East Saugus—then the home The emblematic figure of America is of granite. In the orna- of many of the town's wealthier residents—that they filed a bill mentation, the symbolic wreaths of oak, laurel, and palm are of in the Legislature to secede and form a new town to be known as granite, too, as are also the coats of arms of the United States and Westport. The bill passed the House of Representatives the first year the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. and the Senate on the second attempt at passage. Lynn then tried to East Saugus to The beautiful surmounting statue of America is from the model stepped into the picture and re-annex of the "Pallas Athenae" of the Greeks, adopted by the Romans that city. as Minerva. She stands in a dignified position, clad in classic Cooler heads prevailed. A Special Town Meeting was called robes, with her left hand resting upon and upholding the shield and it was voted to float a bond issue for the town's first water of the United States. The other noble emblem of our nation—the mains to be located in East Saugus. eagle—is introduced into the helmet. The citizens of East Saugus got the first running water; Lynn From whatever angle the pyramidial form is examined, it is sold it; and the attempt to divide Saugus into two towns died in perfectly symmetrical and a delight to the eye. The granite figures committee on Beacon Hill. Today a controversy which split the of the soldier and sailor are standing in an easy yet watchful atti- town into two warring factions is forgotten by all but antiquarians tude, and are clothed in appropriate dress, with the sculptor giving and forgiven by all. So, too, will our petty disputes be dissipated unusual attention to the details of the accoutrements and battle into nothingness with the healing ministrations of time. equipment of the respective symbolic figures. n AMSH 1 mA^§Aoi^ig» m§§ I IT ISN'T — IT'S I YOUR TOWN YOU If you want to live in the kind of a Town. That's the kind of a Town you like, You needn't slip your clothes in a grip, And start on a long, long hike. You'll find elsewhere what you left behind, For there's nothing that's really new, It's a knock at yourself when you knock your Town, It isn't your Town, it's You. Real towns are made by men afraid, Lest someone else gets ahead. When everybody works, and nobody shirks, You can raise your Town from the dead. And if, while you make your stake, Your neighbor can make one, too, Your Town will be what you want to see, It isn't your Town—it's YOU. SAUGUS PUBLIC LIBRARYR w - GLOVER 295 Central St. Saugus, MA 01 906 I 1053- I I ELECTORATE SCHOOL TOWN MEETING COMMITTEE MODERATOR I BOARD OF S ELECTMEN 3 n b t x Town Manager __ 3 Health Department 54 Shopping Center __ _.._. __ 9 Cemetery Department __ 55 Selectmen 10 Forestry Department 56 Resolution ___. .— 12 Sealer of Weights and Measures 58 Public Works 14 Board of Appeals 58 Engineering . 21 Library _ 60 Planning Board _ 27 Veterans Benefits __ 62 Building Department _ _ 29 Harbor Master _ 62 Playground Commission 34 Civilian Defense 64 Fire Department 35 Firs Alarm Signals 68 Police Department 38 Pictorial Review 71 Dog Officer _ ._ 43 Advisory Committee _. 75 Safety Council ._ 44 Town Accountant _ 80 Town Clerk and Tax Collector 45 Annual Town Meeting 105 Assessors 46 Election 122 Treasurer 48 Jury List 124 Finance Committee 49 School Department 125 Welfare Department 50 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013 http://archive.org/details/annualreport1953saug TOW N MANAGER MANAGER LAWRENCE REPORTS TO THE PEOPLE! To the Citizens of Saugus: Last year is history—its achievements and human errors alike indelibly written on the pages of time. We are now in a new year, confronted with a fresh oppor- tunity to join together, both as town officials and private citi- zens, to build the type of Saugus we prefer both to call our home and pass on to posterity. This is my second report as your Town Manager. It is my intention in discussing the achievements of 1953 as my first full year in that capacity to merely cite the record and let you be the judge of my stewardship. I prefer to use the limited space at my disposal to draw your attention to the possibilities of the future. To focus your attention on the things I am certain we, as a single-minded and well coordinated team, can accomplish for the common good if we keep in mind the overall objectives and are not diverted into internal disunity over trivialities. It is not important in the accomplishment of this goal of building a finer, cleaner, more attractive community for the en- richment of our own lives and those of our children, to whom the credit is extended. When we have achieved our objectives, there will be suffi- cient laurels to distribute among all those who have unselfishly contributed to the attainment of our goal. I am a sincere believer in the democratic progress. I share your pleasure in living in a New England town where the voice of the people, through their chosen representatives, can be raised both on the Board of Selectmen and within that reposi- tory of our democracy which is the Town Meeting. Here there should be ample discussion and free expression of opinion before decisions are made. Once a definite line of action has been established, however, and the will of the people has been ascertained, under the sys- tem of government freely accepted by the people of Saugus at the polls by an overwhelming majority, it becomes the re- sponsibility of the Town Manager, as the chief executive officer of the town of Saugus, to translate them into action. SAUGUS' CHIEF EXECUTIVE, TOWN MANAGER WALTER E. LAWRENCE, on the job 24 That I have attempted conscientiously In hours in every day to direct every facet of public service, with the exception of the to perform. doing School Department. Shown here concentrating on a letter he is dictating to his always so, I have not taken any line of action on any question because certain thai his courteous and efficient secretary, Mrs. Blanche M. Quirk, you can be it pleased me, or because I felt that it would, necessarily, be is simultaneously mapping out a half dozen other ventures, any amazingly alert mind pleasing to the administration. one of which may soon be carried into reality. With a long career in public service, as a trained engineer of the Metropolitan District Commission, Mayor of Medford, member The People's Manager of the General Court, and member of the Medford City Council under Plan E, Manager But I have constantly taken the line of action which I sin- Lawrence has a remarkable ability to both get along with people of divergent viewpoints cerely felt, based upon my experience of many years in both and convince them of the soundness of his program. When the chips are down, however, public and private enterprise, to be for the best interests of all and the decision, in his judgment, should be to the contrary for the benefit of all of the people of Saugus, he can be flint-like in his stern determination.