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126,229.63
7,080.
9,442.86
142,752.49
18.
1886
3380
5,267,350
2,319,988
7,687,338
122,220.32
6,855.
8,919.62
137,994.94
17.30
1887
3801
5,730,400
2,344,377
8,074,737
122,440.33
10,282.50
8,919.62
141,462.45
16.60
1888
3964
6,088,890
2,643,455
8,732,345
128,443.40
10,282.50
8,919.62
147,645.52
16.
1889
3985
6,449,865
2,846,370
9,296,235
127,663.11
9,120.
8,771.16
145,554.27
14.80
1890
3897
6,805,197
2,931,573
9,736,770
135,147.01
7,980.
8,771.16
151,898.17
1 14.80
1891
3923
6,874,200
2,888,458
9,762,658
145,719.36
6,840.
9,536.63
162,095.99
1 15.80
1892
3827
6,873,300
2,723,805
9,597,105
150,199.02
8,190.
9,536.63
167,925.65
16.70
1893
3912
6,980,200
2,725,328
9,705,528
150,004.38
11,700
11,113.70
172,818.08
17.
1894
3888
7,055,400
2,700,677
9,756,077
140,473.58
9,360.
11,112.83
160,946.41
15.70
1895
3945
7,129,050
2,620,450
9,749,500
151,013.21
6,735.
11,008.53
168,756.74
16.50
1896
3993
7,137,500
2,630,040
9,767,540
151,243.79
7,857.50
10,049.12
169,150.41
16.50
1897
3915
7,197,300
2,503,674
9,682,974
138,594.57
7,857.50
10,495.73
156,947.80
15.40
1898
3813
7,210,800
2,529,590
9,740,390
150,038.38
5,760.
8,647.90
164,446.28
16.10
1899
3979
7,292,400
2,775,217
10,067,617
149,915.56
5,760.
8,330.50
164,006.06
15.50
1900
4348
7,286,000
2,863,033
10,149,033
151,518.84
5,760.
8,727.17
166,006.01
15.50
1901
4430
7,382,400
3,100,050
10,482,450
159,020.42
6,422.50
9,039.79
174,482.71
15.80
1902
4471
7,416,500
2,942,315
10,358,815
181,955.40
5,592.50
9,924.53
197,472.43
18.20
1903
4496
7,429,000
3,277,929
10,706,929
161,641.40
9,262.70
11,540.15
182,444.25
16.20
1904
4588
7,467,200
3,343,664
10,810,864
173,706.84
8,937.70
11,552.05
194,196.59
17.
1905
4483
7,508,900
3,380,692
10,119,592
172,503.70
14,247.70
11,567.50
198,318.90
17.40
1906
4374
7,601,000
3,558,621
11,159,621
187,033.98
12,470.78
12,348.34
211,853.10
18.20
1907
4221
7,649,450
3,620,861
11,270,311
195,772.18
13,767.70
13,038.03
222,577.91
19.
1908
4297
7,648,000
3,805,701
11,453,701
217,221.19
18,897.70
15,289.61
251,408.50
21.20
1909
4351
7,690,600
4,597,121
12,269,721
196,669.70
15,477.70
17,409.50
229,556.90
18.
1910
4252
7,854,450
7,387,607
15,242,057
237,872.48
19,007.50
18,360.01
275,239.99
17.50
1911
4190
7,947,400
5,167,010
13,114,410
228,244.33
19,007.50
18,170.64
265,422.47
19.60
1912
4211
8,096,000
4,739.482
12,835,482
221,440.30
1
21,587.50
18,253.19
261,280.99
19.70
1
120,390.94
15.50
1880
3384
4,815,800
5,074,850
2,443,258
7,518,108
1884
3467
5,162,750
2,385,771
7,548,521
125,336.22
8,740.
136,499.84 17.20 144,655.18 18.60
1882
3343
5,002,550
1883
3462
9,442.86
136,103.45 17.20
CITY AUDITOR.
* The assessors' overlays are included in these amounts.
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2,185. 6,555.
Department
Reports
AND
Reports of City Officers
Report of the Board of Assessors
To His Honor the Mayor and City Council of Newburyport:
Gentlemen :- The Board of Assessors herewith presents its annual re- port for the year 1912:
The total assessed values of property in 1912 $12,835,482
On real estate
$ 8,096,000 4,447,650
On personal estate
On resident bank shares 291,832
$12,835,482
Decrease of valuation from 1911, $278,930.
Number of polls, 1912, 4211, @ $2, $8422.
The rate of taxation for 1912, $19.70; an increase of 10 cents from 1911.
The total assessment of tax levied was as follows:
On real estate, $8,096,000 @ $19.70 $159,491.20
On personal estate, $4,447,650 @ $19.70 87,618.70
On residential bank shares, $291,832 @ $19.70 5,749.09
On polls, 4,211, @ $2 8,422.00
$261,280.99
This was apportioned as follows:
For state purpose 8 cents 3 mills as per warrant per $1000
For county purpose 7 cents 0 mills as per warrant per $1000
For city
84 cents 7 mills as per warrant per $1000
The sums required by the warrant from the state, county and city are
as follows:
City $218,158.31
County
18,253.19
State
21,500.00 87.50
Highway
The amount of overlay
3,281.99
$261,280.99 $768,646; 89 polls, $178.
The amount of additional assessments: Real, $11,811; personal,
Abatements on real, personal and polls, including 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, $7,987.65.
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ANNUAL REPORT.
Properties exempt by law under Chapter 12 of Revised Laws:
Religious societies, real estate $ 278,000.00
Benevolent institution, personal 237,895.00
Benevolent institution, real estate 125.500.00
Literary institutions, real estate 120,100.00
Literary institutions, personal estate 124,418.00
Charitable institutions, real estate 45,000.00
Charitable institutions, personal estate 267,254.00
$1,198,167.00
Number of residents assessed on property 2,356
All others
214
Number of non-residents assessed on property 256
All others
95
Number of dwellings assessed
3,382
Number of acres of land assessed
4,576
Total number assessed on property
6,074
Total number asessed for polls only
3,153
Total number of taxpayers
6.041
"All Others" means firms, corporations, associations, trustees, etc.
Value of buildings assessed excluding lands. $ 5,542,000
Value of land excluding buildings
2,554,000
Number of horses assessed 446
Number of cows assessed 296
Respectfully submitted,
EBEN C. KNIGHT, CHAS. L. PERKINS, JAMES F. CARENS.
Report of the Board of Health
To His Honor the Mayor and City Council of the City of Newburyport:
Gentlemen :- The Board of Health respectfully submits the following as its annual report for the year ending, December 31, 1912, and in con- nection therewith. the reports for the various departments under this board.
There has been an increase noted this year in some of the contagious diseases, while in others a decrease in comparison with the number for the year previous is shown. The prevalence of ten cases of small pox, of the variola type, and an increase in typhoid fever cases were the exceptional changes in the health conditions of the city.
While scarlet fever cases increased seven; typhoid, thirteen; chicken pox, nineteen; tuberculosis all forms, twelve; there was a decrease of eighty-two cases of whooping cough; measles, eleven; diphtheria, seven; while there were no cases of cerebro spinal meningitis reported, of which there were foru last year.
Respectfully submitted, ORRIN J. GURNEY, Chairman.
Inspection of Meats and Provisions
To His Honor the Mayor and City Council of the City of Newburyport:
Gentlemen :- I herewith enclose report of the inspector of meats and provisions, also inspector of slaughtering from Jan. 1, 1912, to Jan. 1, 1913:
Animals slaughtered, neat cattle 579
Animals slaughtered, calves 618
Animals slaughtered, hogs 715
Animals slaughtered, lambs 35
1,947
Carcasses condemned
49
Horses killed
32
Provision stores and butcher carts and contents are inspected; also restaurants, and they are as a whole up to the standard.
Respectfully submitted,
T. D. DONAHUE, Inspector.
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ANNUAL REPORT.
Report of the Agent
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To the Board of Health:
Gentlemen :- Following is a report of the work done by the agent of the board:
COMPLAINTS ATTENDED TO AND CALLS MADE
Calls made
950
Swill
20
Sink drains
10
Figs removed
8
Water closets
12
Dead animals buried
120
School rooms fumigated
50
L'esspools
12
Mattresses destroyed
25
Notices sent
40
.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES
Diphtheria
Scarlet Fever
Small Pox
Whooping
Jan.
.5
May
4
Oct. 9
Cough
Feb. .2
June
1
Nov.
1
Jan. 8
Mar.
.1
Oct.
1
Mar.
2
May
2
Nov. 3
10
April
5
Nov.
1
Dec.
3
Dec.
2
Tuberculosis
18
all forms
Jan.
4
Chicken Pox
Feb.
3
Mar.
1
Mar.
6
Sept. 1
Oct. 12
Nov.
8
May
5
April
2
June
3
May
1
July
6
July
1
June
1
Aug.
2
Aug.
1
July
2
Sept.
2
Sept.
6
Aug.
1
Oct.
3
Measles
Oct.
2
Sept.
1
Nov.
3
April
1
Dec.
2
Dec.
1
Dec.
3
June 1
-
1
20
10
38
2
Respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM THURSTON,
Agent.
13
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
April
2
Typhoid Fever
Jan.
1
May
3
June 1
1
Dec.
8
30
12
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BOARD OF HEALTH
Report of the Bacteriologist
To the Board of Health:
Gentlemen :- I submit herewith a report of my work as bacteriologist of your board for the year ending December 31st, 1912. During that time I have examined at the laboratory 153 throat cultures for diphtheria bacilli, 96 specimens of sputum for tubercle bacilli, and have tested 70 samples of blood for the Widal, or typhoid reaction.
The following is a summary of the results of the above examinations:
Positive
Negative
Total
Throat cultures
12
141
153
Sputa
11
85
96
Blood
9
61
70
Total
32
287
319
Respectfully submitted,
R. D. HAMILTON, Bacteriologist.
Report of School Physician
To the Board of Health:
Gentlemen :- I have the honor to submit the following report as medical inspector of schools for the year 1912.
I have made two hundred and thirty-eight visits to the schools and have examined one hundred and sixty-three pupils for employment cer- tificates.
Respectfully submitted, J. W. SHAW, School Physician.
Report of Inspector of Plumbing
To the Board of Health:
Gentlemen :- For the year ending Nov. 30, 1912, there were 118 in- spections made, 84 by Inspector Sargent and 34 by Deputy Inspector Adams. Total number of fixtures, 396, divided as follows:
Water closets
149
Sinks
121
Lavatories 55
Bath tubs 45
Wash ways
18
All other fixtures
8
Total
396
Respectfully submitted, C. H. SARGENT, Inspector of Plumbing.
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ANNUAL REPORT.
Report of Inspector of Milk and Vinegar
To the Board of Health:
Gentlemen :- I submit herewith a report of my work as inspector of milk for the year ending December 31st, 1912. Licenses to sell milk are by the state law renewable the first of June of each year, and for the year beginning June 1st, 1912 I have issued 112 such licenses, 40 to dealers with wagons, and 72 for the sale of milk in stores. The fees collected for the same amounted to $56.00, which sum has been paid over to the city treas- urer. During the year 1912 I have examined 402 samples of milk taken at random on the streets by the collector, the results of which examinations show that the majority of the licensed dealers in this city are supplying clean milk to their customers.
The work of milk inspection has now been carried on here for two and a half years, and an increasing number of citizens, I am glad to say, are showing an interest in the results of our tests. It would be well, how- ever, to bring the matter to the attention of still more of the people of this city, if possible, and to that end I would recommend that your board begin at an early date to publish once a month in the local newspapers, the names of all the licensed dealers whose milk by the preceding month's test shows iess than 200,000 bacteria per 1 cubic centimeter of milk.
Respectfully submitted,
R. D. HAMILTON,
Inspector of Milk.
Report of the Fire Department
To His Honor the Mayor and City Council of the City of Newburyport:
Gentlemen :- Following is my report on the fire department for the year ending December 31, 1912:
The department answered (including seven second alarms) 38 bell and 90 still alarms.
Value of the property, insurance and amounts paid on the same to which the department responded on bell but not on still alarms:
Value
$153,951.15
Insurance 129,675.63
Losses paid
23,876.98
The above data shows that the department answered more alarms and extinguished more fires, with less loss, than in any other year since its organization.
MANUAL FORCE
The membership consists of the chief engineer, three assistant engi- neers, two permanent men at the Central fire station and 60 call men.
SALARIES PAID
Chief engineer, per year $500.00
Assistant engineer, per year
125.00
Clerk of board of engineers 15.00
Captains of engine, hose and ladder companies, each, per year. . 110.00
Engineers of steam fire engines, each, per year .
225.00
Assistant engineers of steam fire engines, each, per year 125.00
Stokers of steam fire engines, each, per year 185.00
Stewards, each, per year 50.00
Permanent fireman, per year
800.80
Permanent driver, per year 819.00
Call firemen, each, per year
100.00
APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT
The apparatus consists of four steam fire engines, five single horse hose wagons, one single horse exercise wagon, one single horse supply wagon, five single horse hose pungs, one two horse ladder truck, one old ladder truck and one old hose reel. The last two pieces of apparatus are of no value and are not in commission.
All the one horse hose wagons are too small and should be replaced
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ANNUAL REPORT.
with two horse wagons, each with a capacity for 1500 feet of leading hose.
All the apparatus in the Central fire station should be of the auto- mobile kind, ready to answer an alarm on the moment and ready to go into service the minute it arrives at the fire.
A first-class auto pumping engine with a capacity for carrying 1500 feet of leading hose should take the place of engine one.
A double tank chemical with three permanent men should take the place of hose wagon No. 1; and an auto ladder truck with longer ladders should take the place of the one now in commission.
HOUSES AND STABLES
The Central fire station building is in a filthy and deplorable condition and should be thoroughly renovated and enlarged.
Six new bed rooms, for six permanent men, should be, provided on the second floor.
Quarters for the chief engineer, a battery room and assembly room should be built on the first floor, and fuel bins, a work room and accommo- dations for spare apparatus should be arranged in the basement.
The houses and stables occupied by No. 2 and No. 3 companies, should, each, be altered to provide two additional bed rooms for spare men in bad weather, and additional stable room for two horses to haul the apparatus.
Changes should be made at the building occupied by No. 7 to accom- modate Engine 4, now in the Central station, and a two horse hose carri- age in place of the one horse affair now installed there. Bed rooms should also be built for two drivers, and two men for extra service in bad weather.
Stable room for two horses should be built on the house of Hose 8; also bed rooms for the driver, and two men to be detailed in bad weather.
HOSE
Following is the amount of hose of all 'kinds in the department on December 31, 1912:
Purchased in 1908 and since that date, 9,400 feet; this hose is in first-class condition and reliable. Purchased in 1905 and prior to that aate, 3,400 feet; this hose is of various kinds and ages, leaky and unreli- able, and should be replaced with first-class hose as soon as possible. Con- demned hose stored in the basement of the Central fire station, 950 feet; this hose, although unfit for regular fire service, has been furnished, from time to time, as required, to the highway and sewer departments, and in extinguishing the fires in the soft coal piles on the wharves; 850 feet of eaky hose and hose that burned at pres this year, has been condemned; 12,000 feet of reliable hose should be the complement; 6,000 feet of hose will be used at any large fire, and it takes five days to properly dry it and place it in commission again after it has been used.
All the hose wagons now in commission, including the exercise wagon,
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only carry, when fully loaded, 5,300 feet of hose, and after that has been run out the department is helpless to answer another alarm until the wagons have been refilled, which cannot be done inside of an hour.
HORSES
The same old slipshod method of hauling the fire apparatus still con- tinues, and on several occasions this year, a large fire was narrowly averted by reason of the horses being a long distance from their stations when the alarm came in.
GENERAL REMARKS
Notwithtanding the facts that the fire risk has increased one hundred per cent in many localities; that the water supply and hydrant pressure are nearly worthless for fire service in many districts, there are a lot of people in this city so short sighted and mean that they begrudge the money necessary to maintain the fire department in an e. . cient condition and are always advocating something in the way of a reduction in the appar- atus and equipment on the ground of economy.
Some of the class above mentioned advocate the purchase of an auto combination-wagon on the ground that with such a piece of apparatus installed, the number of engines and hose wagons could be reduced.
In reply to the above I will state that while an auto chemical or auto combination-wagon is a much needed auxiliary, not one piece of apparatus, now in the department, should be dispensed with until the Frog pond system, the water works, hydrant pressure and everything con- nected with the fire department are in a much more efficient condition than they are today.
It cost Houston, Texas, this year, $2,500,000 to learn its lesson on inadequate fire protection.
Chelsea, Mass., Bangor, Me., and many other places have recently passed through the same experience, and all from the same cause, viz., wooden buildings, inadequate water supplies, and poorly equipped fire departments.
This city is bound to take its turn unless radical improvements are speedily made in the character of the buildings erected and in the main- tenance and equipment of the fire department.
Respectfully submitted,
THOMAS HUSE,
Chief Engineer.
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ANNUAL REPORT.
List of Fires BELL ALARMS
The following is the detail of the work performed, the date, building, location and time of alarm being given in order named:
January 8-Box 37, 6 p. m., Adams' Shoe Co., Fair street.
January 25-Box 16, 9.15 a. m., Robbins' house, Chestnut street.
January 25-Box 34, 12.28 p. m., Newburyport Herald building, Inn street. Second alarm.
January 27-Box 27, 12.27 a. m., Murphy house, Smith's court.
January 29-Box 34, 1.10 p. m., Tapley's box shop, Tracey place.
February 17-Box 61, 3.52 p. m., Kalashian house, Warren street.
March 1-Box 23, 12.28 a. m., Landford and Broyer buildings, Huse's wharf. Second alarm.
March 3-Box 25, 8.25 a. m., Goodwin house, Atwood street.
March 29-Box 51, 9.30 a. m., Peter S. Gulazian's house, Kent street.
April 12-Box 27, 9.48 a. m., Woods' house, School street.
April 18-Box 36, 12.50 p. m., Newburyport Broom Co.'s factory, Charter street. Second alarm.
May 14-Box 32, 9.45 p. m., Richardson's storehouse, Dalton street.
May 19-Box 23, 8.18 a. m., Warner Mills cotton house, Salem street.
June 13-Box 35, 7.43 p. m., Magowan barn, Colman's wharf. Second alarm.
June 25-Box 37, 9.06 p. m., Perkins' motor boat, Merrimac river.
July 20-Box 36, 11.08 a. m., Newburyport Broom Co.'s factory, Charter street. Second alarm.
July 23-Box 23, 5.09 p. m., Warner Mills, Salem street.
September 20-Box 61, 12.27 a. m., W. C. Derry storage shed, Merrimac street. Second alarm.
October 6-Box 25, 1.07 p. m., Lovely house, Milk street.
October 9-Box 15, 12.00 m., Lowell house, High street.
October 26-Box 33, 2 a. m., Connor barn, Hill street.
October 30-Box 64, 12.32 p. m., grass fire, Rawson avenue.
November 1-Box 62, 4.18 p. m., Clarkson barn, Tyng street.
November 13-Box 42, 12.42 a. m., Barth barn, Merrimac street.
November 23-Box 51, 9.50 a. m., Carroll house, Carter street.
November 27-Box 15, 7.55 a. m., Ingham garage, Coffin's court. Second alarm (mistake).
December 4-Box 35, 10.08 p. m., Anton's restaurant, Merrimac street. December 14-Box 37, 8.42 p. m., Silloway & Vine's shoe factory. Fair street. Second alarm.
December 18-Box 42, 7.10 p. m., Cutter's paint shop, Mechanics court. December 23-Box 35, 10.45 p. m., J. C. Lunt Co., Market square.
STILL ALARM
January 6-4.55 p. m., Coffin's house, Jefferson street. January 9-6.00 p. m., Estabrook house, South Pond street. January 13-8.05 a. m., Towne's house, Market street. January 15-11.50 a. m., Colman house, Harris street. January 20-1. 55 p. m., Waverly house, Merrimac street. January 25-9.12 a. m., Robbins' house, Chestnut house. January 27-6.30 a. m., Thurston house, Harris street.
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January 28-8.30 a. m., Mrs. J. W. Dodge's house, High street. January 28-11.30 p. m., Mrs. J. B. Picard's house, Water street. February 2-4.55 p. m., Dr. R. C. Hurd's house, High street. February 13-10.00 p. m., Joy house, Federal street.
February 21-11.05 p. m., Dodge Bros., automatic, Merrimac street. March 1-5.30 a. m., Landford and Broyer buildings, Huse's wharf. March 8-2.55 p. m., Sam Blake's barn, rear of Water street. March 11-10.35 p. m., Stanley's shed,Ashland street. March 20-3.00 p. m., Buckley house, Cutter's court.
March 24-6.40 p. m., McEvoy's house, Center street. March 29-9.20 a. m., Peter S. Gulazian's house, Kent street. April 5-1.10 p. m., J. Moody Akerman's store, Pleasant street. April 14-1.10 p. m., Cashman's dump, Pearson's wharf.
April 20-10.00 a. m., rubbish fire, Fair and Middle streets. April 21-7.10 p. m., Sullivan's bon fire, Auburn street. April 28-12.05 p. m., Melvin's club house, Auburn street. May 2-10.50 a. m., Emmons' boat shop, Merrimac street. May 3-4.40 p. m., grass fire, Highland cemetery.
May 8-5.45 a. m., Perkins' building, Ferry wharf.
May 8-9.15 a. m., Emmons' boat shop, Merrimac street.
May 19-12.20 p. m., Varina's coal shed, Bridge road.
May 24-12.50 p. m., Cashman's store, Merrimac street.
May 28-5.25 p. m., Albert Russell & Sons Co., pattern house, Merrimac street.
June 5-11.17 a. m., Thurlow house, Atkinson street. June 5-8.20 p. m., Varina's wharf, grass fire.
June 7-11.05 a. m., Rolfe's house, High street, Newbury.
June 7-4.05 p. m., Hudson house, Parker street. June 8-5.30 p. m., Johnson house, Federal street. June 11-3.30 p. m., Sedgewick house, Merrimac street. June 13-7.40 p. m., Magowan's barn, Colman's wharf.
June 14-1.30 a. m., Magowan's barn, Colman's wharf. June 15-6.15 p. m., Colman's wharf planking, Colman's wharf.
June 20-12.00 a. m., grass fire, Hill street. June 24-2.25 p. m., grass fire, Varina's wharf.
June 25-8.53 p. m., Perkins' motor boat, Merrimac river. June 30-12.45 a. m., planking, Central wharf. July 1-9.03 p. m., Lancaster house, Olive street. July 1-9.50 p. m., Campbell house, Warren street. July 2-5.55 p. m., dump, North Atkinson street. July 3-9.25 p. m., Eaton house, Lime street. July 3-10.50 p. m., planking, Chain bridge. July 4-4.20 p. m., grass, McQuillen's yard, Forrester street. July 4-8.50 p. m., grass, S. P. Balch's yard, High street. July 8-10.52 a. m., Lesage house, Olive street. July 8-11.55 p. m., Lemire's house, Liberty street. July 16-9.43 a. m., Papas' shop, Merrimac street. July 17-4.35 p. m., North End playgrounds, Merrimac street. July 17-7.00 p. m., Bliss house, Monroe street. July 19-2.10 a. m., N. D. Dodge Co., factory, Prince place. July 23-9.25 a. m., Buzzell house, Merrimac court. July 23-2.45 p. m., Old Hill cemetery.
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ANNUAL REPORT
July 30-4.00 p. m., Leonard house, Water street. AAugust 10-7.10 p. m., Magowan shed, Merrimac street.
August 17-10.15 p. m., Kelleher house, Merrimac street.
August 26-1.05 p. m., Mace house, 7 Green street. September 2-11.45 a. m., Magowan's barn, Colman's wharf. September 2-2.45 p. m., Colman's shed, Merrimac street.
September 3- 8.45 a. m., Magowan's shed, Colman's wharf.
September 6-10.00 p. m., Albert La Vallay's house, Merrimac street. September 11-7.15 a. m., Keefe house, Green street. September 14-8.15 a. m., Kane house, Winter street.
October 2-6.10 a. m., tar kettle, B. & M. station, Winter street.
October 3-2.50 p. m., Adams' house, Bromfield street. October 7-7.52 p. m., Phillip's house, Merrimac street. October 8-2.40 p. m., Plum Island bridge, Newbury. October 9-11.58 a. m., Lowell house, High street. October 12-9.20 a. m., Checkoway house, Middle street. October 13-8.10 p. m., Gergas house, Green street. October 18-1.15 p. m., Colman's wharf, rear of Merrimac street.
October 20-3.10 p. m., Bray's coal pile, rear of Water street.
October 30-7.05 a. m., Herrick house, Merrimac streeet. November 8-4.28 p. m., Welch barn, Hancock street. November 12-4.20 p. m., Kelley house, Summer street.
November 13-10.45 a. m., Bray's coal pile, rear of Water street.
November 28-5.10 a. m., Public Market, State street.
November 28-9.45 p. m., Cobb house, Moulton street.
December 13-11.10 a. m., Eben Smith field, Hill street, grass fire.
December 14-8.40 p. m., Silloway & Vine's shoe factory, Fair street.
December 23-10.35 p. m., J. C. Lunt Co. building, Market square.
December 27-3.36 p. m., G. W. Worcester's house, High street.
December 31-11.10 p. m., telephone call from 16 Essex street, no fire found.
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FIRE DEPARTMENT
Personnel of the Department
Chief Engineer Thomas Huse, 69 Prospect street First Assistant Engineer John L. Lewis, 20 Monroe street Second Assistant Engineer Frank E. Thurlow, 7 Allen street Third Assistant Engineer Joseph P. Page (resigned), 11/2 Boardman street
LADDER CO. 1
Name
Age
Occupation
Residence
Captain Nelson B. Ross
41
Painter
9 Woodland
Lieutenant Ellis B. Lunt
35
Plumber
2 Horton
Clerk Charles W. Marsh
37
Woodmaker
45 Bromfield
Steward Joseph E. Mclaughlin
31
Insurance Agent
5 Allen
Ladderman Herbert Currier
48
Carpenter
42 Temple
Richard K. Pike
34
Tailor
75 Prospect
66
Christopher McGilvary
34
Lineman
231/2 Prospect
66
Lincoln G. Bradbury
52
Shoecutter
14 Titcomb
66
Edgar C. Reade
52
Laundryman
11 Kent
Albert D. Frost
39
Janitor
Washington
George W. Chase
33
Tinsmith
24 Atwood
Lewis Furlong
21
Machinist
22 Oak
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