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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Superintendent of Highways
To the Joint Standing Committee on Highways;
GENTLEMEN :- I have the honor herewith to present my fourth annual report of the highway and other depart- ments that come under your charge, for the financial year ending December 16, 1905.
I especially desire, once more, to call your attention to the inadequate sums appropriated for the several depart- ments and to the impossibility of avoiding overdrafts under the present system. Your superintendent is generally held responsible for any overdraft, yet he is powerless to avoid it when work is ordered done and no sums of money are especially appropriated to cover the expense of any particular piece of work. Take for example the depart- ment of " sidewalks and edgestones." The appropriation made was $300, while the original cost of edgestone only, ordered by the board of aldermen, was $1445.56, besides all the other jobs ordered done.
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So in each department it may be interesting to follow up closely the actual situation and needs, and devise, if possi- ble, means to prevent this everlasting item "overdraft." Most of the work this year on the streets and sidewalks has been so intimately connected that it is difficult to make two reports for one job and to keep their expenses apart.
HIGHWAYS
It has been impossible this year to do any real syste- matic work in the way of resurfacing and repairing our streets, and little work of this nature has been attempted other than patching up here and there as defects were complained of or dangerous points were discovered.
However, the road bed on State street, between Central place and Boylston street was raised to meet the new grade of the sidewalk between those two points.
State street from Pleasant to High street, was cheaply resurfaced with crushed stone, as was a short portion of Water street near Market square, and a short piece on Kent street was improved with material from the gravel bank.
Through the "bridge and culvert department" I have been enabled to make a great general improvement in the conditions on High street at the head of Kent street and at the Kelley school.
In my last year's report, I especially recommended three pieces of work for this year, and I am very glad that I was allowed to perform them. I refer to the following:
Arlington Street. The conditions there were such that I was able to do a thorough job from top to bottom, as I was
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not hampered by any previously carelessly established grades. With its finished brick sidewalks, slightly undu- lating grades and well built gutters and macadam road bed, I consider this one of the best built streets in the city, and I regret extremely that on account of serious sickness at the hospital, which was aggravated by the noise made by the road-roller, we were unable quite to finish the macadamizing at the upper end. As that work is being done by contract by the job, and as it is not quite com- pleted, the bill for ithas not been rendered. As on Arling- ton street, I caused sewer connections to be put into every house and vacant lot previous to macadamizing, and as the water works department and the gas company co-oper- ated with me in the plan, it should not be necessary to dig up this street for any purpose for many a year.
Merrimac Street. A very big start on the improvement of upper Merrimac street has been made by the work done this fall at the foot of "Break O'Day Hill." From a little below Forester street, to Ashland street, a heavy macadam has been put on, while from Ashland street through the bog to the rise of the hill (at some points rais- ing the grade 15 inches), a heavy telford foundation has been laid under the macadam surface. The work being done by the water works of putting in a new iron water main through this stretch of Merrimac street, prevented our starting in on the job until late in the season and con- sequently the sudden arrival of cold weather prevented the completion of this work which would have required only about one more week of mild weather. Of course had
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I anticipated the mild winter we are now having, it might have paid to have kept the road-roller in commission and to have completed the work. Financially this job suffers the same fate as the Arlington street job.
Curson's Mill Road. The work undertaken there a few years ago, of improving a short stretch each year with a coating of broken stone, has been taken up again this year and about 550 lineal feet added along that part of the road which leads to the trotting park.
Systematic work has been carried on in the gravel pit during the whole season and the spring will find the de- partment well supplied with the materials that are worked out from its banks, such as pavers for gutter work, coarse filling for country roads, an extra supply of sand for the sidewalks, etc.
The work of the department will be materially assisted if the contracts for crushed stone and edgestone are made during the winter so as to enable the work to be begun early instead of late in the season.
The country roads have been smoothed up some this year but should receive more of the general appropriation.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Following out my annual custom, I recommend that this year the following work be undertaken :--
Merrimac Street. This piece of road from Broad street to Forester street is in very bad condition, but is unusually well provided with culverts to drain off the surface water. I strongly advise that this stretch be carefully graded so
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as to properly care for the water and that it be heavily macadamized.
I caution you against light macadam on roads that have heavy teaming. The original cost, of course, is some smaller, but it is a very expensive method in the long run. Water street from Federal street to Market square, where mud or dust are constantly creeping up or "squeezing through the thin macadam, is a good illustration of this policy.
Curson's Mill Road. Another five or six hundred feet should be added this year.
High Street. That High street is in sore need of resur- facing at various points above Winter street, hardly need be said.
SIDEWALKS AND EDGESTONES
There has been an unusual demand for work from this department, and considerable has been accomplished.
Arlington street.
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Atkinson 66
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During the year two cargoes of edgestone were bought with a total of 3149 feet, which have been set as follows: (The balance having been used for miscellaneous repair work.)
Brick sidewalks have been laid as follows :-
Arlington street
1383 square yards
State
80
Merrimac
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High
00
Quite a lot of repair and relaying work has been done all over the city in miscellaneous places.
No concrete work of any consequence has been done, it being almost entirly confined to repair work.
ASHES AND RUBBISH
The routine work of this department has gone on as usual. A few years ago the city was able to sell more or less of the material collected for filling purposes and dumping places in plenty were available. Now, however, the situation is becoming reversed and before long the dis- posal of our rubbish is going to become a question that will require some attention.
ICE AND SNOW
The severity of the winter of 1904 and 1905 made the appropriation of $2500 for the removal of ice and snow, en- tirely inadequate and an overdraft of $1022.27 resulted. While I do not advocate reducing the appropriation for this purpose, it is at least encouraging to note that the present outlook for a very mild winter is good, in which
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case the savings from this department may well be used to help out the general work on the highways.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
Appropriation
$11,450 00
Credits
2,190 55
Total appropriation and credits
13,640 55
Expenses, Regular:
Salary of superintendent
$1,300 00
drivers
4,368 00
Vacation of drivers
120 00
Driver, extra sickness
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Horses, feed and bedding
1,345 19
Shoeing .
213 14
Medical attendance
80 50
Miscellaneous
18 25
7,446 08
Working balance
$6,194 47
Sanding sidewalks
$ 173 95
Maintenance.
2,725 39
Street cleaning .
2,238 77
Advertising and printing
39 50
Construction
306 29
Tools and supplies
244 50
Repairs
244 50
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Road roller
$297 61
Engineer
$100 25
Fuel, etc
46 74
Repairs and cleaning.
129 56
276 55
Miscellaneous:
Telephone rent
$ 30 40
Rent for sheds.
42 25
Watering street intersections.
300 00
Sled for No. 3 double
90 00
Inn street crossing, bricks
10 80
Miscellaneous
51 34
P. and L.
68 72
593 51
$6,896 07
Overdrawn
$ 701 60
ICE AND SNOW
Appropriation
$2,500 00
Expenses for labor and team hire ...
3,522 27
Overdraft
$1,022 27
ASHES AND RUBBISH
Appropriation
$1,400 00
Labor
$1,726 30
Advertising and printing
8 00
Extra team hire
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Overdraft.
$ 342 30
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SIDEWALKS AND EDGESTONES.
Appropriation
$ 300 00
Income
1,453 8[
Total credit.
$1,753 SI
Expenses:
Crushed stone.
7 69
Wood work.
21 29
Iron railing .
I 85
Bricks
582 75
Sodding
148 38
Concrete, new
35 50
repair
479 57
Teaming
21 50
Cement.
2 75
Edgestone
1,489 86
Jobbing ( stone cutter ).
34 29
Labor
1,267 96
$4,093 39
Overdraft
$2,339 58
Respectfully submitted, G. W. LANGDON,
Superintendent of Highways.
Annual Report of the Trust Funds OF THE
City of Newburyport
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Trust Funds
ATKINSON SCHOOL FUND
To His Honor the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Newburyport:
GENTLEMEN-The committee of the board of aldermen on the Atkinson school fund would respectfully report that it appears from the annual statement presented from the secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees of the fund for the year 1905, we gather the following:
Fund invested as follows:
INVESTMENT OF THE FUND
20 shares Merchants' National Bank $ 400 00 7 shares Ocean National Bank. 350 00
IO acres salt marsh in Salisbury .
334 cow rights in common pasture
Deposit in Five Cents Savings Bank 629 82
Deposit in Institution for Savings 2,082 18
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RECEIPTS
Dividends on bank stock $ 45 00
Rebate of bank tax 12 62
Sale of grass.
7 00
Received for cow rights in common pasture. 25 00
Withdrawn from Institution of Savings.
132 10
$221 72
EXPENDITURES
Deposits in Five Cents Savings Bank
$ 64 62
Paid Miss Sarah Chute
62 50
Paid Miss Ellen Frothingham 62 50
Paid care of lamps
3 00
Paid lighting lamps
2 00
Moses Fowler for oil
2 IO
Deposit in Five Cents Savings Bank
25 00
$221 72
The trustees further report that an evening school was maintained in the Forester street school building for 50 evenings, taught by Miss Sarah B. Chute and Miss Ellen Frothingham, was quite largely attended, mostly by Arme- nians, who are desirous of learning the English language. The results of the session were most gratifying to the teachers and board of trustees.
JOHN BALCH BLOOD, ARTHUR P. BROWN, OBED W. GREATON,
Committee.
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BROMFIELD FUND
To His Honor the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen of the City of Newburyport :
GENTLEMEN :- The standing committee of the board of aldermen on Bromfield fund, herewith submit the follow- ing report of the condition of said fund and the disposition made of the fund's income for the year ending December 31, 1905:
INVESTMENT OF THE FUND
$10,000 in Hospital Life Insurance Company of Boston at 4 per cent per annum, payable annually in January.
INCOME ACCOUNT
One half of income from fund for shade trees. $200 00
sidewalk improvements .. . 200 00
EXPENDITURES-TREE DEPARTMENT
Appropriated to assist in brown tail moth extermination .... $ 30 00 Paid for furnishing and setting and protecting six maple trees 15 90
Paid for trimming trees, cutting decayed trees and teaming. 121 10
$167 00
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There was no appropriation made for the improvements of sidewalks, hence there remains in the hands of the city treasurer to be carried to new year's account, the sum of $222.40 for sidewalks and for tree department, $76.80.
ANDREW R. CURTIS, ARTHUR P. BROWN, MOODY B. NOYES,
Committee.
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BROWN FUND
To the City Council :
GENTLEMEN :- The joint standing committee of the city council on Brown fund, in accordance with the provisions of rule three of the rules and regulations in relation to trust funds under control of the city council, herewith pre- sents the following:
INVESTMENT
City note, at 412 per cent interest, payable annually in March $15,000 00
Your committee would further respectfully report that the annual income, amounting to $675, has been paid for the year 1905, and placed by the city treasurer to the credit of the school department, to be applied by the school con- mittee to the support of a grammar school, in compliance with the terms of the will of the late Moses Brown, the donor.
JOHN B. BLOOD, FRANKLIN P. KNIGHT, LAURENS C. EMERY.
Newburyport, December 31, 1905.
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FOLLANSBEE FUND
To the Hon. Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Newburyport, Trustees of the Follansbee Fund :
GENTLEMEN : - I beg herewith to submit the 32nd annual report of the Follansbee fund, showing the condition of the fund, the income derived therefrom, and a statement of disbursement of income per orders of the board of trustees for the year ending December 31, 1905.
FUND INVESTED AS FOLLOWS
Note of City of Newburyport $3,000 at 4 per cent interest
payable semi-annually, March and September $3,000 00
Deposit in Five Cents Savings Bank 120 00
.. Institutions for Savings 30 00
$3,150 00
INCOME ACCOUNT
Unexpended balance from last year $31 55
March payment of interest on note 60 00
September 60 00
$151 55
EXPENSE ACCOUNT
January 25, 1905, paid Atkinson Coal Company. $ 27 00
February 21, 1906, 100 65
$127 65
Balance to new account ... $23 90
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Amount of coal paid for 1472 tons, and 35% cords of wood sawed and split.
There were 30 orders issued in amounts varying from $1.80 to $4.63, to 19 different families or indi- viduals, nine receiving but one order, nine receiving two orders and one receiving three orders.
The distribution of fuel by wards was as follows:
Ward one
two. $ 35 65
three II 76
four. 30 15
five 33 20
six 17 89
Total
$127 65
Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE H. STEVENS,
Treasurer.
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SIMPSON FUND
To His Honor the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Newburyport:
GENTLEMEN : - I herewith respectfully submit a report of the condition of the Simpson fund at the close of the financial year ending December 16, 1905, in accordance with city ordinances :
Total funds, December 17, 1904 $20,000 00 Interest on investments 1905. 900 00
$20,900 00
Paid city of Newburyport for watering streets during year
I905. . 900 00
$20 000 00
INVESTED AS FOLLOWS
City of Newburyport note, at 472 per cent. $20,000 00
J. V. FELKER,
Treasurer.
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TOPPAN FUND
To the Board of Aldermen :
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GENTLEMEN :- The standing committee of the board of aldermen on the Toppan fund, held in trust by the board of aldermen for the purpose hereinafter stated, present the annual report on the condition of the fund and disposal of the income therefrom.
INVESTMENT
City note, at 4 per cent interest, payable annually $250 00
The income for the year 1905, amounting to the sum of $10, has been paid, by the order of the committee, to the board of school committee, to be by them awarded to the member of the senior class of the high school showing the greatest proficiency in the science of government, in ac- cordance with the suggestion of the donor, Robert N. Toppan, Esq., in a communication addressed to the prin- cipal of the high school, dated Cambridge, Mass., Feb- ruary 17, 1887.
JOHN B. BLOOD, ARTHUR P. BROWN, OBED W. GREATON, Committee.
Newburyport, December 31, 1905.
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TRUST FUNDS OF THE NEWBURYPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY
December 16, 1905
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To His Honor the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen of the City of Newburyport, Trustees of Public Library :
GENTLEMEN :- I herewith respectfully submit a report of the various funds at this date, it being the close of the financial year, viz:
SAWYER FUND
Donor, Matthias Plant Sawyer; March, 1857
Total fund.
$5,000 00
INVESTED
City of Newburyport note 472 per cent. 5,000 00
BRADBURY FUND
Donor, John M. Bradbury; April, 1876
Total fund.
$1,000 00
INVESTED
Deposit Institution for Savings, city, book number 34120. 1,000 00
FROTHINGHAM FUND
Donor, Joseph A. Frothingham; November, 1880
Total fund $1,000 00
INVESTED
City of New uryport note 4 per cent. . 1,000 00
TRUST FUNDS 279
GREEN FUND Donor, Sarah A. Green ; March, 1882
Total fund
$2,000 00
INVESTED
City of Newburyport note 4 per cent. 2,000 00 1
ABRAHAM WILLIAMS FUND Donor, John Q. A. Williams ; February, 1889
Total fund.
$1,000 00
INVESTED
City of Newburyport note 4 per cent 1,000 00
W. O. MOSELEY FUND Donor, William O. Moseley; April, 1895
Total fund
$10,000 00
INVESTED
City of Newburyport note 4 per cent. ... 10,000 00
W. C. TODD FUND Donor, William C. Todd; April, 1900
Total fund
$15,000 00
INVESTED
City of Newburyport note 4 per cent. $10,000 00
Deposit Institution for Savings, city ..
5,000 00
15,000 00
J. R. SPRING FUND Donor, John R. Spring ; April, 1900
Total fund
$20,000 00
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INVESTED
Deposit Institution for Savings, city, book number 48087 $10,000 00
Deposit Five Cents Savings Bank, city, book number 1170I 10,000 00
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$20,000 00
E. S. MOSELEY FUND
Donor, Edward S. Moseley: February, 1901
Total fund $5,000 00
Paid premium and accrued interest on New- buryport bonds. 251 40
4,748 60
Income applied in 1905 it being 12 months terest on deposit at Five Cents Savings Bank. 30 22
$4,778 82
INVESTED
City of Newburyport 3/2 per cent sewer bonds numbers 16, 17, 18. 19. . $4,000 00
Deposit Five Cents Savings Bank, city, book number 12177 . 778 82
4,778 82
E. H. STICKNEY FUND
Donor, Elizabeth H. Stickney; June, 1901
Total fund. $5,000 00
INVESTED
Chicago Junction Railways and Union Stock Yards Com- pany 5 per cent bonds numbers 3053, 3054, 3076, 3082, 3083 due in 1915 interest payable January and July 5,000 00
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S. W. MARSTON FUND
Donor, Stephen W. Marston ; October, 1901
Total fund $5,000 00
Paid premium and accrued interest on New- buryport bonds. . .. 251 40
4,748 60
Income of interest received on money depos- ited six months. 99 93
Income applied in 1905 it being 12 months' interest on deposit at the Five Cents Sav- ings Bank 34 26
$4,882 79
INVESTED
City of Newburyport 3% per cent sewer bonds numbers 20, 21, 22, 23
$4,000 00
Deposit Five Cents Savings Bank, city, book number 12179. 882 79
4,882 79
A. E. CUTTER FUND Donor, Abram E. Cutter ; October, 1901
Total fund $4,000 00
Paid premium and accrued interest on New- buryport bonds 188 55
3,8!I 45
Income applied in 1905 it being 12 months' in- terest on deposit at Five Cents Savings Bank.
32 76
$3,844 21
INVESTED
City of Newburyport 372 per cent sewer bonds numbers 24, 25, 26 $3,000 00
Deposit Five Cents Savings Bank, city, book number 12178 844 21
$3,844 21
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W. H. P. DODGE MEMORIAL FUND Donor, Elisha P. Dodge ; January, 1903 Total fund.
$2,500 00
INVESTED
First National Bank, city
2,500 00
HASKELL FUND
Donor, George Haskell ; November, 1905
Total fund.
$1,000 00
INVESTED
First National Bank, city
1,000 00
SUMMARY
Sawyer
fund
$ 5,000 00
Bradbury
1,000 00
Frothingham
1,000 00
Green
2,000 00
A. Williams
1,000 00
W. O. Moseley
10,000 00
W. C. Todd
15,000 00
J. R. Spring
20,000 00
E. S. Moseley
4,778 82
E. H. Stickney
5,000 00
S. W. Marston
4,882 79
A. E. Cutter
3,844 21
W. H. P. Dodge
2,500 00
Haskell
1,000 00
$77,005 82
The securities of the above named funds are on special deposit at the Five Cents Savings Bank, Newburyport.
283
TRUST FUNDS
The income of the investment is payable when due up- on order of the directors of said library.
Respectfully, J. V. FELKER, Treasurer.
Newburyport, December 16, 1905.
Examined and found correct.
W. H. WELCH, Auditor.
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Annual Reports OF THE
Inspector of Milk, of Animals and Provisions AND OF THE Sealer of Weights and Measures
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Inspector of Milk
To His Honor the Mayor and the City Council of the City of Newburyport:
GENTLEMEN :- Following is the report of the inspection of milk for the year 1905:
Number of persons licensed to sell from wagons. 50
houses and stores 43
Registered to sell oleomargarine. 00
Total 93
Cash received from licenses $46 50
Salary 25 00
Paid city treasurer. $21 50
Several tests of milk have been made the past year with results unusually good.
Respectfully submitted,
IRVING K. WELLS,
Inspector.
287
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Inspector of Animals and Provisions
To His Honor the Mayor and the City Council of the City of Newburyport :
GENTLEMEN : - I herewith enclose the report of the in- spector of animals and provisions for the year ending De- cember 31, 1905.
Animals slaughtered-Neat cattle. 686
66
calves 1436
66 pigs. 410
lambs 28
2560
Carcasses condemned
Horses killed . .. 85
(Included in above one was killed affected with glanders. )
Permits issued to bring cattle from other states I Stamps used. 16,732
Carts and stores inspected (times ). 80
Orders from the chief of the cattle bureau to inspect the city before November 15 was completed, the result being as follows :
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290
ANNUAL REPORTS
Cows and young stock 470
Swine 214
Respectfully submitted,
IRVING K. WELLS,
Inspector.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Sealer of Weights and Measures
To His Honor the Mayor and the City Council of the City of Newburyport;
GENTLEMEN : - I have the honor to herewith submit the report of this department for eight months ending December 16, 1905.
Glass jars sealed . 598
Glass jars condemned 5
Scales sealed 356
Scales condemned. 3
Weights sealed . 1054
Measures sealed . 454
Cash paid city treasurer $115 99
Property of the city in my possession:
One set dry measures.
One set copper measures from half pint to one gallon. .
One set brass weights from one-sixteenth ounce to four pounds minus one and one eighth ounce weight.
One five pound weight, one ten pound weight.
Twenty fifty pound weights.
One try balance.
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292
ANNUAL REPORTS
Two steel dies. One bit stock and steel bit. Two hammers. Eight pounds wire lead. One bottle marking fluid.
Respectfully submitted, W. C. CUSECK, City Sealer.
Annual Report
OF THE
Directors of the Public Library
.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1
NEWBURYPORT, December 27, 1905.
Voted, That the annual report of the public librarian, with accom- panying papers, be incorporated with the directors' report; that the secretary be authorized to sign the names of the members to the same and that they be forwarded to the city council.
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