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416
516
160
345
484
563
2484
Question 2-Baby Volstead
Yes
286
475
268
319
437
383
2168
No
307
302
206
216
277
534
1842
Blanks
189
200
126
129
187
206
1037
Question 3-Steel Trap Law
Yes
315
435
267
288
434
508
2247
No
192
193
130
129
168
284
1096
Blanks
275
349
203
247
299
331
1704
Total
782
977
600
664
901
1123
5047
REPRESENTATIVE VOTE
18th District
November 4, 1930
Newburyport
Joseph D. Rolfe of Newbury
3059
Herbert W. Urquhart of Georgetown
1413
George L. Whitmore of Newburyport
2588
150
ANNUAL REPORT
Newbury
Joseph D. Rolfe
634
Herbert W. Urquhart
313
George L. Whitmore
104
Rowley
Joseph D. Rolfe
364
Herbert W. Urquhart
298
George L. Whitmore
97
Ipswich
Joseph D. Rolfe
868
Herbert W. Urquhart
811
George L. Whitmore
408
West Newbury
Joseph D. Rolfe
301
Herbert W. Urquhart
242
George L. Whitmore
90
Georgetown
Joseph D. Rolfe
358
Herbert W. Urquhart
545
George L. Whitmore
135
Groveland
Joseph D. Rolfe 385
Herbert W. Urquhart
448
George L. Whitmore
195
WARD TWO PRELIMINARY ELECTION
November 12, 1930
Coffey, Thomas J. 185
Carlin, William P.
124
Collins, Forrest E.
160
Burke, Francis J.
78
Blanks
72
Total 579
CITY ELECTION
December 2, 1930
Ward Councillors
Ward 1 2 3 4 5 6 Total
Jas. W. Ryan
211
H. W. Simmons
233
Blanks 16
Thomas J. Coffey
317
Forrest E. Collins
311
Wm. P. Carlin, (stickers) 116
Blanks
7
Bernard Jacobs
225
John S. Robinson
133
Blanks 14
Arthur J. Smith
252
John J. Groves
117
Blanks
32
Edmund H. Kelleher 324
Fred L. Page
274
Blanks
16
Richard S. Noyes 300
124
Guy W. Tapley Clovis N. Fontain (stickers)
169
Blanks
26
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School Committee
Ward
1
2
3
4
5
6
Total
Norman Russell
246
317
176
198
267
389
1593
Frank W. Snow
253
371
190
165
281
289
1549
Wm. P. Soucie
90
173
101
122
237
105
828
Albert D. Titcomb
196
320
150
150
170
307
1293
Blanks
135
321
127
167
273
148
1171
Totals
460
751
372
401
614
619
3217
Result of Recount of Ballots Cast in Ward Two for Councillor
Thomas J. Coffey
314
Forrest E. Collins
309
William P. Carlin
119
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Annual Report of the Directors of the Public Library
Annual Report of Public Library
Trustees, the Mayor and City Council
DIRECTORS, 1930
Andrew J. Gillis, Mayor ex-officio
Edward A. Bass, President of City Council
ex-officio
Lawrence B. Cushing, Trustee of Building Fund ex-officio
Alex. G. Perkins, Trustee of Building Fund ex-officio
Peter B. Lawton, Trustee of Building Fund
ex-officio
*William C. Coffin, term expires 1930
Dr. T. R. Healey, term expires
1931
Arthur P. Brown, term expires 1932
Mrs. Ella D. Nutter, 1934
Jacob W. Shoul 1933
P. Loring Weed
1935
TRUSTEES OF PEABODY FUND
Lawrence B. Cushing, Rev. Laurence Hayward, B. P. P. Moseley, John D.
Parsons, George W. Richardson
Librarian
Superintendent of Reading Room
Children's Librarian
John D. Parsons Wilhemina Plumer Elizabeth J. Merrill
*Diseased, March 21.
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Head of Circulation Department Helen M. MacIntosh Alice W. Toppan (ass't. in Reading Room). Rev. B. Koskores, Appointed to fill vacancy. Assistant Librarians, Ruth Arrall, Yvonne Chatigny, Sarah J. Mulliken,
Frank H. Plumer Janitor
REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS
To the Mayor and City Council:
Gentlemen:
Your attention is called to the accompanying report of the Librarian and other officers of this Library to the Board. As fully covering the sub- ject of Public Library matters, we endorse the same and forward it to your honorable body, as the annual report of the Directors of the Public Library. Newburyport, December 1930.
Respectively submitted,
A. J. GILLIS, E. A. BASS, L. B. CUSHING, A. G. PERKINS, P. I. LAWTON, B. KOSKORES, T. R. HEALY,
A. P. BROWN, MRS. E. D. NUTTER, J. W. SHOUL, P. L. WEED, C. F. JOHNSON,
Directors.
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REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN
To the Directors of The Public Library: Gentlemen:
At the close of the year the figures of books added to this Library, according to the accessions ledger, stand at 74,546. This represents, ap- proximately the books, not volumes, which have been placed in the Library, either by purchase or donation, since it was established, about 75 years ago. I say approximately, because some books, the Encyclopaedia Britannica for instance (fourteenth edition) 24 volumes, was issued and delivered at one time and bears a single accession number, while the great Oxford dictionary, was forty years in coming out, from 1888 to 1928, the 12 bound volumes. in parts, now complete, came in very irregularly, each volume being given a number separately. Naturally, in the course of years, many volumes have been withdrawn worn out, or have been lost, strayed or stolen, so that the number of books in a library at any one time, is in a large measure, an estimate, as close as may be, according to the figures kept. In keeping with this, the number of bound volumes in this library, at the close of the present year, 66,763. In addition there are 680 pamphlets of greater or less historical value and fully catalogued, and in the Emma L. Andrews branch there may be some 5000 books of the original stock handed over to this library, when the private association dissolved, and it became a branch of the Newburyport Public Library. These statistics are given more in detail in the appendix.
The total circulation from the main library has amounted to 74,907 volumes. The adult section of the Library has been open for the withdrawal of books 300 days (on Sundays and holidays it is closed); the juvenile department as stated in the report from that section; and the Emma L. Andrews branch for two hours each Saturday evening.
The total registration of borrowers in the adult department of the Library is now 5312, 1124 having been added during the past year, and 41 names canceled.
During the past year there have been added to the Library 1058 volumes, by purchase or gift, of which 719 were for the adult department, 253 for the juvenile department, and 86 were sent to the Emma L. Andrews branch. During this time 297 volumes of new and old books were sent to . the binders to be bound or rebound, to say nothing of the many which were put in order at the Library.
Children's Room
To give the most convincing report of the work being done in the Children's Room would be to invite the public to visit the room after school
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hours on a winter afternoon. It is probably that between fifty and seventy children will be in the room at that time. Books are being exchanged rapidly; reference questions are being looked up and answered; and even amid the orderly confusion some reading and browsing is going on if a quiet nook is to be found.
Circulation figures for the month of November show that it was the busiest month in the history of the room. During that period it was im- possible for one person to superintend the room satisfactorily, and give the help needed. If this steady growth is maintained, the services of an assistant will be necessary during rush hours.
In the past year there have been added 254 new borrowers. The total circulation of books and magazines has numbered 25,861, an increase of 419 over that of last year.
Perhaps some of this additional patronage may be attributed to the fact that in the seventh and eighth gardes of the grammar school a required reading of six books a year has been included in the curriculum. The list of books for this reading was prepared by a committee of teachers from the above grades, and the children's librarian. All the books on the list may be found in the Children's Room. Earlier in the year a committee of teachers from the lower grades invited the children's librarian to meet with them for the purpose of selecting books for the supplementary reading school boxes. Two talks have been given at the High School upon the request of the Hi-Y Club. One of these was to the freshmen on the arrange. ment and use of the library, and the other was to the upper classmen on library work as a vocation. These small contracts with the public schools are only the beginning of what is hoped will be a closer affiliaticn between these two organizations of public education. Library lessons for the pupils of the upper grammar grades would be a forward step which should be taken when funds are available for more assistance.
During the summer vacation a large picture map of Massachusetts was on display over a group of books that were in keeping with the spirit of the Tercentenary. The children showed keen interest in both the map and the books.
Story hours are monthly events during the winter. The Saturday before Hallowe'en appropriate stories were told by Miss Jessie Robertson. Book Week activities ushered in by Miss Sarah E. Mulliken in the role of the story-teller before a group of fifty eager children. On the Saturday previous to Christmas, Mrs Ella Duchemin Nutter gave an interesting talk on Christmas carols in the Music Room. This talk was supplemented with the playing of several Victrola records. There is a demand for stories every Saturday during the winter, but this cannot be arranged at the present time.
It is difficult, on the funds available, to keep the room well stocked with a balanced collection of books required by all types of readers of
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different ages. New books are being added constantly, but never fast enough to meet the demand. One cannot, however spend one's time in idle wishing that things were different, but rather one must go on making the best use of what is at hand. And so it is with the work of the Children's Room A much needed work is being carried on. This work is good as far as it goes if only it serves as a challenge to the work of the future.
ELIZABETH J. MERRILL,
Children's Librarian.
Reading Room
This is the end of a busy year in the Reading and Reference Rooms of the Library. During the cold weather many evenings every chair is taken, and always during the years we have a steady patronage. We are glad to report a better, more helpful spirit on the part of some young men in keeping the room quiet and orderly for the benefit of all readers. The circulation of magazines has increased, 3311 magazines having been loaned out during the year, almost 1000 more than last year, making us feel that this is a very worthwhile part of the work.
There has been quite a bit of extra work done with the High School teachers, trying to make our work more helpful in connection with their reference requirements. There is need of a filing cabinet in the Reference Room for the clipping collection. At present they are kept in the Reading Room, but the proper place for them is the Reference Room, where it is used.
One afternoon a week Miss Mulliken is devoting to the genealogical available in the Boston Evening Transcript. When sufficient material has been arranged it will be transferred to the Genealogical Room, but as the work has its start in the Reading Room, we are reporting it from there.
I should like to commend most highly the work of Miss Yvonne Chatigny, not only in the usual work of the room, but in the matter of successfully coping with the matter of disciplining boys, sometimes older than herself, and of Mr. Johnson the Janitor on duty in the evening, who is always ready to help out on a busy night, when the attendant has two rooms full to attend to.
W. L. PLUMER,
Superintendent of Reading Room.
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Emma L. Andrews Branch
At the South part of the city, more than a mile from the main library building, the Emma L. Andrews branch is doing good work for the people, the boys and girls of that immediate neighborhood. This branch continues in charge of Mrs. Pettingell and Mrs. Short, who were associated with the old South End Reading Room. During the past year the adult department of this branch has circulated 3372 volumes of books, besides 944 magazines. In Mrs. Short's room, mostly for boys and girls, 2235 books have been given out, besides 646 magazines. Considering the limited time the branch is open to the public, this is a very good showing.
In conclusion I would call attention to the meagre salaries paid for library service in this city, as compared with like institutions of a similar grade in other cities and towns, as the inadequacy of the funds for the purchase of new books, all of which I have outlined more fully in previous reports, so there is no necessity of enlarging now.
Respectively submitted,
JOHN D. PARSONS, Librarian.
The Peabody Fund
In keeping with one of the stipulations of the late George Peabody, accompanying his gift of $15,000.00 to the Library, "that an annual report of the condition of the fund and amount of income be prepared and publish- ed" the trustees hereby give notice that the principal of the fund $15,000 remains as original invested, deposited in the Institution for Savings, and the disposition of the income for the year is given below.
During this time there have been purchased and added to the library 129 books, making a total of 16,361 since the fund became operative. Perhaps the number may not seem so large but it must be remembered that books, with everything else have advanced in price within a few years, and particularly is this the case with books "of permanent value" a further stipulation. Of course the permanency of books is entirely a matter of judgment, a sort of personal equation, and it is safe to say that hardly cne in a hundred, published during the past year, will be heard of generally,
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a century hence. The book committee has endeavored as best it could, to comply with this proviso.
Newburyport December 8, 1930.
LAWRENCE B. CUSHING, BEN. P. P. MOSELEY, LAURENCE HAYWARD, JOHN D. PARSONS, GEORGE W. RICHARDSON,
Trustees.
TREASURER'S REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDING DEC. 4, 1930
Receipts
On hand, December 1, 1929
$310.32
Dividends
750.00
$1,060.32
Expenditures
Books
$625.98
Postage
.50
$625.48
Balance on Hand, Dec. 4, 1930
$433.84
Respectfully submitted, LAURENCE HAYWARD,
Treasurer.
Audited and found correct
WILLIAM BALCH,
City Auditor
Dec. 6, 1930
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Trustees of The Building Fund
Receipts
Dec. 1, 1929
Balance on hand
$71.07
Apr. 28, 1930 Interest, Inst.
250.00
Oct. 25, 1930
Interest, Inst. 250.00
571.07
Expenditures
Dec. 17,, 1929
L. L. Davis
$25.00
Dec. 20, 1929
L. L. Peavey
1.25
Jan. 22, 1930 C. M. Hall
1.75
Mar. 29, 1930
H. D. Allen & Sons
34.84
Apr. 12, 1930
Mott Seavey
1.50
May 5, 1930
C. M. Hall
3.50
Albert P. Thomas
65.66
H. D. Allen & Sons
3.49
H. D. Allen & Sons
13.95
May
16, 1930
George Mckay
58.40
July 1, 1930
George Mckay
9.50
July
19, 1930
C. M. Hall
1.03
July 31, 1930
John Sullivan
10.00
Sept. 20, 1930
J. H. Shea
20.00
Oct. 14, 1930
C. M. Hall
1.00
Oct. 31, 1930
H. D. Allen & Sons
109.20
Nov. 24, 1930
L. L. Peavey
15.00
Nov. 25, 1930
Cashman Hardware
5.65
Dec.
4, 1930
George White
20.62
Balance in Merchants Bank
169.83
$571.07
Condition of Fund
Original deposit $5,000.00
C. N. Moseley bequest
$5,000.00
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Books Added to Library in 1930, and Sources
Number as last reported
65,706
Added income:
Spring Fund
248
Peabody Fund
151
Sawyer Fund
160
Sweetser Fund
113
Williams Fund
54
Todd Fund
34
W. H. P. Dodge Fund
23
Currier Fund
16
Haskell Fund
14
Green Fund
12
Colby Fund
9
Foster Fund
2
Frothingham Fund
2
Donated
211
Canceled and withdrawn
35
Net gain
1,014
Number December 30, 1930
66,720
General works 59, philosophy 16, religion 9, social science 51, language 7, natural science 25, useful arts 37, fine arts 53, literature 47, history 69, travels 41, biography 82, fiction 282, children's room 259.
CLASSIFICATION OF YEARLY CIRCULATION
Fiction
53,077
· General works
209
Philosophy
511
Religion
333
Scocial science
1,183
Language
75
Science
1,043
Useful arts
1,436
Fine arts
910
Literature
2,929
838
1,049
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History
2,022
Travel
2,389
Biography
2,620
Magazines
5,806
Music scores
366
Total
74,907
By percentage, (somewhat roughly) the year's circulation is as follows: Fiction, 70.7; general works, 0.68; religion, 0.44; social science, 1.5; language, (negligible); natural science, 1.38; useful arts, 1.9; fine arts, 1.2; general literature, 3.9; history, 2.7; travel, 3.1; biography, 3.3; periodicals, 7.7; musical scores, 0.49.
Budget for 1931
BUDGET FOR 1931
Average Valuation for three years 14,333,134.00
Availabue for appropriation under $24 limit 343,995.00
Estimated income 46,700.00
Income tax appropriated 37,400.00
Income from Cutter fund
2,500.00
Outside the limit (water) 5,000.00
Estimated income, Water Department
70,000.00
505,595.00
Appropriation for indebtedness and County requirements
83,702.99
Total amount available for appropriation
589,297.99
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
City Council
Salary of clerk
$ 400.00
Other expenses
800.00
Publishing charter and ordinances
1,500.00
Mayor's Department
Salary
1,200.00
Other expenses
100.00
Auditor's department
Salary
1,500.00
Clerical assistance
800.00
Other expenses
200.00
Treas. & Collector's department
Salary
2,200.00
Salary of clerk
1,200.00
Other expenses
1,450.00
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Assessors' Department
Salary of 3 assessors
4,200.00
Salary of clerk
400.00
Other expenses
900.00
Expense of bond and note issue
100.00
City Clerk's Department
Salary
2,350.00
Other expenses
300.00
City Messenger
Salary
1,600.00
Law Department
Salary of solicitor
700.00
Other expenses
300.00
Election and Registration
Salary of 4 registrars
600.00
Other expenses
2,000.00
City Hall 2,700.00
Old Records and Typewriting
325.00
$27,825.00
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Supervision
Salary of city marshal
$1,960.00
Other expenses
184.00
Salaries
Assistant marshal
2,080.00
Captain of the watch
2,080.00
Patrolmen
25,480.00
Other expenses, extra traffic officers 3,500.00
Fuel 450.00
Light
400.00
Police Building, Salary of janitor
1,298.00
Other expenses
800.00
Miscellaneous
1,400.00
$39,632.00
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FIRE DEPARTMENT
Supervision and assistance
Salaray of chief
$500.00
Salary of assistant
250.00
Salaries
26,600.00
Fuel
700.00
Lighting
400.00
Hydrant service and water
3,550.00
Equipment and repairs
1,100.00
New Hose
1,000.00
Repairs and maintenance of buildings
900.00
Miscellaneous
400.00
35,400.00
FIRE ALARM AND WIRES
Salary of Superintendent of Fire Alarm and Wirese
1,000.00
Other expenses 1,500.00
Inspection of Plumbing and Buildings
150.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures, salaray
800.00
Other expenses
50.00
Tree Warden's salary
500.00
Other expenses of tree department
2,000.00
Moth extermination, salary of superintendent
1,200.00
Other expenses
1,800.00
Harbor Master's salary
125.00
9,125.00
HEALTH AND SANITATION
Supervision, Salary of clerk, agent and nspector
1,500.00
Miscellaneous expenses 4,500.00
Vital statistics 250.00
Inspection school children, salary 700.00
Inspection of animals, salary
350.00
Inspetcion of slaughtering, salary
475.00
Inspection of milk and vinegar, salary
600.00
Other expenses 50.00
Sewer Maintenance
400.00
Street cleaning
3,500.00
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Ashes and Rubbish
9,000.00
District nurse
100.00
Garbage Disposal
5,200.00
Essex County T. B. Hospital, maintenance
4,035.28
Essex County T. B. Hospital addition
2,417.71
33,077.99
HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES
Supt. of Highways, salaray
2,155.00
Other expenses
100.00
City Trucks and new small trucks
7,501.00
Repairs
19,000.00
Culverts
1,500.00
Bridges
11,250.00
Lighting
22,500.00
Street Sprinkling
5,000.00
Sidewalks and edgestones
2,500.00
Miscellaneous
200.00
Ice and snow removal
6,500.00
78,206.00
CHARITIES
Poor Department, salaries and wages
4,700.00
Other expenses
19,000.00
Anna Jaques Hospital
1,000.00
Homeopathic Hospital
600.00
Mothers Aid Chap. 763, Acts 1913
3,000.00
28,300.00
SOLDIERS BENEFITS
Military Aid
1,000.00
Soldiers Relief, salary of agent
400.00
Other expenses
8,500.00
Care of soldiers graves
500.00
10,400.00
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1931 BUDGET
EDUCATION
Salaries
140,000.00
Miscellaneous
10,000.00
Fuel
6,200.00
Lighting
1,800.00
Buildings
6,200.00
Weather strips for Brown School
668.00
Evening school
700.00
Special school buildings a|c unemployment
2,300.00
167,868.00
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Salaries
9,389.00
Miscellaneous
550.00
Fuel
1,000.00
Lighting
675.00
Buildings and furnishings
500.00
12,114.00
RECREATIONS
Moseley Woods
500.00
City Parks
1,000.00
Atkinson Common
1,500.00
Playgrounds, including supervisor
900.00
Central Park and playgrounds
1,500.00
5,100
UNCLASSIFIED
Damages to persons and property
100.00
City clocks
150.00
Other city properties
500.00
Water for public buildings
1,500.00
Quarters for Spanish War Veterans
300.00
Memorial Day
400.00
Firemen's Memorial Sunday
75.00
Spanish War Veterans' Memorial Day
75.00
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Veterans of Foreign Wars, Memorial Day 100.00
American Legion for Armistice Day Memorial (not for entertainment) 100.00
Cemeteries
1,000.00
WATER DEPARTMENT
General Maintenance
Salary of clerk
1,200.00
Supt. and 3 laborers 7,816.00
Telephone
250.00
Automobile
500.000
Tools and equipment
500.00
Insurance
400.00
10,666.00
Supply Maintenance
Pumping Station
Chief Engineer, 3 engineers, and 3 laborers
11,196.00
Engineers auto expense
600.00
Coal
4,000.00
Maint. Reservoir, meters, gate
1,000.00
Artichoke Station maintenance
5,000.00
21,796.00
Filter maintenance
10,000.00
Total for maintenance
42,462.00
Bonds and interest
17,782.50
Construction
Service pipe, mains, gates, hydrants
and meters 9,700.00
:
69,944.50
INDEBTEDNESS
Interest
18,000.00
Widening and Recons. Merrimac Street
20,000.00
Plum Island Bridge loan
1,500.00
3,300.00
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Central paark and playgrounds
1,000.00
Primary School building
9,000.00
Department Equipment loan
9,000.00
County T. B. Hospital loan
1,500.00
Sewer construction loan
2,000.00
Clam plant loan
4,000.00
66,000.00
ADDITIONAL BUDGET, APRIL 6, 1931
Traffic Lights, head and foot of Winter St. & corner of High St. 1,300.00
Police Dept., Touring Car 350.00
$589,242.49
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