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6. Continue geometric problems involving the circle, in- scribing and circumscribing, e. g., triangles, squares, and hexagons.
COURSES OF STUDY, MELROSE
HIGH SCHOOL, JANUARY 1, 1893.
ENGLISH COURSE.
GENERAL COURSE.
.
YEAR.
STUDY.
WEEK.
STUDY.
WEEK.
WEEK.
STUDY.
HOURS PER WEEK.
-
Algebra,
English, Botany 1/2 year,
History,
5
History,
History, Latin,
Latin,
Book keeping,
2
Latin,
Drawing,
I --
Music,
Music,
Music,
Music,
Algebra and Geometry,
Algebra,
4 4
English,
2
Greek,
English,
2
Latin,
4
4
Physics,
Drawing,
I I
4
Drawing,
1
I
Music,
Drawing,
I
2
1 4
French or German,
4
Greek,
Chemistry,
4
Chemistry,
2
2
English,
2
Latin,
2 History.
I
Drawing,
I Drawing,
1
Music,
Music,
Physics,
2
4
Physics.
French and German,
4
4
French or German,
4
English and History,
3
English,
3
English,
3
Latin, Greek,
4
3
2
Drawing.
I
2
2
Reviews,
Drawing
1
I Drawing,
1
Music,
Music,
I
Music,
4 3 2 5 INWA HOURS PER
STUDY.
2 4 3 5 I NUNCA HOURS PER
Algebra, English. Botany 1/2 year.
4
Algebra,
Algebra,
English, Botany 1/2 year,
2
History,
Latin or French,
Drawing,
I
Drawing,
I 4 2
Algebra and Geometry,
4 2
Algebra and Geometry,
NA
English,
2
Geometry, 1/2 year,
2
History,
4
Latin,
History,
Drawing,
I
1
Music,
Music,
Music,
Algebra and Geometry,
Algebra and Geometry,
4
French or German,
1
4
4
English,
4
History,
Drawing,
1
Music,
History, Chemistry, English,
4 4
3
3
4
3
I
2
Music,
Geology, Astronomy and Botany, Political Economy and Civil Government,
Geology, Astronomy and Botany, Political Economy and Civil Government, Drawing,
2
Latin, French or German,
4 3 I I HUNWA HOURS PER 5
TECHNOLOGY COURSE.
COLLEGE COURSE.
First Year.
English, Botany 12year,
2
I
Drawing,
English,
5
History,
4
5
Latin or French,
4
I
Physics,
SCHOOL REPORT.
232
Fourth Year. | Third Year. | Second Year.
Latin, Physics,
Latin, French or German,
2
English,
I
I
Geology, Astronomy, Botany, Political Economy and Civil Go ernment,
3
GRAMMAR AND PRIMARY COURSES. OUTLINE COURSE IN ARITHMETIC.
Year or Grade.
Number Work.
Notation.
Fractions.
Decimals.
Mensuration.
Percentage.
.
I.
1 - 10
1/2 1/3 1/4
II.
(a) 10 - 20 (b) 20 - 50
I - 50
1/2 /3
1/8 I - 9
I -5
1/4 1/6 I-10 1-7
III.
(a) 50 - 100 (b) 100 - 1,000
50 - 1,000 Begin Decimal Notation.
I-12 I - 20 Simple Reductions.
Begin U. S. Money.
Pupils have much prac- tice in measuring lengths.
IV.
1,000 - 1,000,000
1,000 - 1,000,000 Continue Decimal Notation.
Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division. (Objective.) Division. Begin Figure Work.
Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and
(Objective.) Begin Figure Work.
V.
Completed.
Extend above work.
Simple work in finding areas of sur- faces and contents of solids.
Simple work in percent- age. Simple examples in interest.
VI.
Many problems involv- ing use of Fractions.
Completed.
As above.
Extend above work.
VII.
Problems continued.
Problems involving use of Decimals.
Apply to work of car- penters, masons, etc.
{Percentage completed.
VIII.
Review.
Review.
Continue above work and complete the sub- ject.
Applications of per- centage. Commission and Brokerage. Partial Payments. Banking.
233
SCHOOL REPORT.
As above.
234
SCHOOL REPORT.
1892. " Prepare for Every Event."
MELROSE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION.
TOWN HALL, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 28th, Eight o'clock.
PROGRAMME.
PART I.
CHORUS. - "Unfold, Ye Gates." Gounod. SALUTATORY ESSAY .- "The Repeal of the Bennett Law.'. ALBERT ERNEST SMALL ESSAY .- "A Dream of Fair Women."
ALICE K. MARSHALL.
CLASS PROPHECY.
EFFIE LOUISE SHAPLEIGH.
ESSAY .- "Pre Columbian Discoverers."
ALBERT B. BALE.
ESSAY .- "An Evening at a Coffee House of the Eighteenth Century."
ANNA MAY KITCHING.
CHORUS .- "Jack Frost." Gant.
PART II.
AWARDING OF FRANKLIN FRATERNITY PRIZES, AND THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE ROLL OF HONOR.
RECITATION .- "Not in the Programme." -
JESSIE OLIVE HENDERSON.
VIOLIN SOLO .- Bruch. («) "Adagio from Concerto in G minor," (b) "Kniwiak," Wieniawski.
CLIFFORD SPRUNT,
ESSAY AND VALEDICTORY .- "The Scene at Judge Pyncheon's Death." JUDITH HELEN BARTHOLOMEW.
CHORUS .- "With Sheathed Swords."
AWARDING OF DIPLOMAS.
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SCHOOL REPORT.
NAMES OF GRADUATES.
L. HELEN MAUDE MARSHALL.
E. BESSIE LOUISE ATWOOD.
c. JUDITH HELEN BARTHOLOMEW. c. ALBERT B. BALE.
L. SARAH CONANT.
P. ELLA MAY FISHER.
E. JESSIE OLIVE HENDERSON. L. ORVILL HARVARD DOW.
L. ANNA MAY KITCHING.
L. ALICE KEZIAH MARSHALL.
E. IDA MAY RINK.
E. GRACE GERTRUDE ROBBINS.
E. GRACE ADELIA RHODES.
L. EFFIE LOUISE SHAPLEIGH.
E. HELEN WHITNEY SNOW.
c. College Course. L. Latin Course. E. English Course. T. Technology Course. P. Partial Course.
Subjects for Fraternity Prizes in Literature.
"Addison and His Times."
Comparison of the Characters of Brutus and Cassius.
Court scene from "The Merchant of Venice."
Scene in "The House of Seven Gables," on the morning of the death of Judge Pyncheon.
Any subject taken from the Greek, read by the class.
What New England owes to either Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, or Hawthorne.
"The Deserted Village," "The Traveller," or "A Day in Ancient Rome."
Prizes were awarded as follows:
Literature, first prize, Ashton L. Carr (2nd class.) Second prize, Jessie Olive Henderson (Ist class.) Third prize, Judith Helen Bartholomew (Ist class.) Prize for fourth class, Aimee Lee Sears. Special Mention, fourth class, Alice Frances Bond.
L. ERNEST LEIGHTON CARR.
T. FRED M. CROSBY.
E. JOHN H. EDWARDS.
C. THEODORE A. GRANT.
c. GEORGE HOWARD HARMON.
L. PHILLIP S. KEATING.
c. ALBERT ERNEST SMALL.
P. CLIFFORD SPRUNT.
E. FANNIE MAY TUCKER.
P. SARAH STEVENS WESTGATE.
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SCHOOL REPORT.
Honorable mention is made of the following scholars for excellence in Literature:
First Class.
Judith Helen Bartholomew, Jessie Olive Henderson.
Second Class.
Florence A. Chapin, Grace D. Sanford,
Ashton L. Carr,
Grace B. Leighton, Florence E. Upham, Starr Keyes.
Third Class.
Amelia Baldwin, Lillian Bemis, Olive B. Gilchrist.
Fourth Class.
Alice Francis Bond, Ethel Fernald, Aimee Lee Sears,
Carrie Leeds Worthen,
Roland Winslow Harris,
· Gertrude S. Upham, Samuel Dearborn, Albert William Snow.
Honorable mention is made of the following scholars for excellence in mathematics:
First Class. Albert E. Small.
Second Class.
Florence A. Chapin, Grace B. Leighton, Grace D. Sanford, Inez V. Stickney,
Ashton L. Carr, Erwin Gilchrist, Starr Keyes.
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SCHOOL REPORT.
Third Class.
Lillian Bemis, Alice G. Littlefield, Helen Moorhouse, William J. Sanford,
Charles F. Marden, Willis A. Moore, Joseph W. Ames, Daniel G. Casey.
Fourth Class.
Alice F. Bond,
Grace L. Dow,
Louise Wells, Laura M. White,
Ethel Fernald,
Carrie L. Worthen,
Carrie Power, Charles A. Bacheller,
Jennie L. Powers,
Grace E. Rowe,
Phillips Bryant, Samuel Dearborn,
Aimee L. Sears,
Gertrude S. Upham,
Roland W. Harris, Albert W. Snow.
Mathematics prizes were awarded as follows: Exellence in geometry, Albert E. Small, Ist class. Excellence in algebra, Helen Moorhouse, 3rd class. Excellence in algebra, Alice F. Bond, 4th class.
GRADUATION. MELROSE FIRST GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
WEDNESDAY JUNE 29th, 1892, 10 O'CLOCK, A. M.
PROGRAMME.
1. OPENING MARCH.
"Lightly My Bark," Minard. 2. CHORUS,
3. ADDRESS,
>4. CHORUS, 1
5. AWARDING DIPLOMAS;
6. CLASS HYMN,
J. O. Norris. a. "The Spinner," Clapp. b. "A Summer Day," McCabe.
Koschat.
.
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SCHOOL REPORT. GRADUATES.
William Southworth Allen,
Walter Atwood Baker,
Benjamin Franklin Bucknam, Alice Marian Hornsey,
William Galliford Balc,
George Edwin Burdick, Grace Bacall, Edith May Barron,
Agnes C. Montgomery Bayne, Charles Warren Jones,
William Thayer Barry, Franklin Roberts Carr, Carroll Lester Caswell.
Louise Coyle,
Gertrude Hester Crawford, Grace Bunker Chapin, Myra Louisa Chapin, Lewis Charles Copeland, Timothy Francis Casey, Miriam Adeline Cochran, Sadie Abbott Collins, Paul Frederick Clifford, Lillie Bruce Chase, Simeon Cragin, Jr., Helen Drake, Charles Harrison Davis, Henry Lurranns Davis, Richard Earnest Dow, Alice Whitney Eastman, Ida Mell Eastman, Emma Gertrude Ellis, Helen Louise Fisher, Henry Alexander Flanders, May Christiana Fitz Henry,
Grace Gilmore, Florence May Henderson,
Edith Crosby Hunt,
Edith Maud Hancock,
Harry Butters Hurd, Clarence Eugene Huston,
Roscoe Flanders Jones, Susie Keizer,
Christiana Kitching Mira Gertrude Knight, Samuel Thompson Kidder, Alma Leighton, Fred Nelson Leach,
Frank Warren Lynde,
Ethel Bartlett Mayall, Malcom Sawyer Mclellan, Edith Lislie McIntyre, Grace Ethel McIntyre, Emma Ardelle Mason, Edith May Magee, Ethelyn May Marshall, Francis Leo McNally, Jadie Murphy, Cora Ellen Newcomb, Clarence William Orcutt, Eugene Wilbur Owene, Daisy Blanche Provandie. Bertha Mayor Packard, May Elizabeth Prescott, Marion Gibbs Packard,
239
SCHOOL REPORT.
Ella Nelson Guilder, Isabella Atherton Reeor, Cora M. Rogers, Annie Grace Riley, Bertha Winifred Reed, Roswell Whitney Sawyer,
Everett Irving Swan, Harlow William Scribner, Harold Sheldon Scribner, Clara Bartlett Shaw, Albert Beconsfield Sircom, Carl William Smith,
Lucia Augusta Soule,
Beatrice Mary Rackham, Mabel Louise Swan, Cora Eleanora Swensson, Daisy Estell Spear, Lavinia Wilson Smallwood, Agnes Stalham,
Harold J. McLellan Steward, Ralph Slater Taylor,
Lillian Emma Tibbetts, Mildred Bertha Tibbetts, Edward Prescott Waldron, Harry W. Worth, Waldo Gilman Wildes, Julia Augusta Westgate, Grace Philbrick Washburn,
Thyra Ivine Walker.
240
SCHOOL REPORT.
SALARIES OF TEACHERS AND SUPERINTENDENT.
NAMES.
SCHOOLS. SALARIES.
Alonzo G. Whitman
High, Principal $2,000
F. H. Small
Sub-master 1,000
A. A. Ballou .6 Assistant 800
Harriet C. Fairbanks
1,000
Hattie G. Ricker
650
Clarimond Mansfield
650
Mary J. George
650
Belle Mitchell
Warren st. Principal, 6th Gr. 550
Mary A. Plummer " Ist, 2d, 3d & 4th Gr. 500
Lydia Mendum
Franklin, Princ., 7th & 8th Gr. 700
Alma J. Guptill
5th Grade
550
Esther M. Davis
4th
225
Mary E. Tupper
3rd .6
425
Hattie M. Field
I & 2 " 450
Minnie F. C. Snow
Green st. Ist, 2d & 3rd Gr. 425
Effie C. Sweetser
M. A. Livermore, Prin., 8th Gr. 700
16
7th
" 600
Lillie J. Davis
6th “ 550
Eva M. Crane
66
5th 475
Susan D. Melcher
Centre, Princ., 4th Grade
550
Isabelle L. Atwood
3rd
550
Florence H. White
2nd
450
Isabel Chapin
Ist .6
550
Annie G. Smith
Upham Hill, Prin., 6 & 7 Gr. 525
١١
5th
550
Bertha M. Lawrence
66
3d&4th "
400
Cecelia Coyle
66
Ist & 2d “ 425
Alice M. Swett
Grove st., Princ., & 8th Gr.
700
Helen J. Bassett
7th “ 600
Janet Young
16
6th “
550
A. Louise McCormick
5th " 525
Lucy W. Bisbee
Annie Chadbourne
SCHOOL REPORT. 241
NAMES.
SCHOOLS. SALARIES.
Grove st., Princ., & 4th Gr. $550
Nellie Dempsey
3rd 475
Florence Ellis
2d 550
A. E. Tucker
Ist 166 450
Etta J. Call
Lynde st. 5th Gr. 500
D. W. Gooch, Princ., 4th Gr. 550
66
3rd “ 550
16 66 2d “ 475
66
Ist 550
Emma A. Weeks
Mary E. Nye
Ist & 2d . “ 500
Louise Frost
Ripley, Ist, 2d, 3rd & 4th Gr. 500
SPECIAL TEACHERS.
Music 600
Drawing 600
Guy C. Channel
Superintendent 2,000
JANITORS.
High and Mary A. Livermore 650
Grove st. and D. W. Gooch 650
Franklin and Green street 300
Centre and Lynde st 260
Upham Hill 200
Joseph Emerson
William Boyd
Warren st. 100
Edward Molyneaux
Ripley 60
Alice H. Long
Lucy F. Dermot
Amelia Trowbridge
Annie M. Ransom
Converse, Prin., 3rd & 4th Gr. 5CO
Grant Drake
Willis S. Carter
Isaac C. Weeks ·
George W. Boutwell
C. H. Fuller
John Hitchins
Eri Upham
Converse 100
16
Della H. Crosby
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SCHOOL REPORT.
SCHOOL STATISTICS.
SCHOOLS.
Maximum Number,
Jan.11 to July 1.
Average Attendance,
Jan. 1 to July 1.
Maximum Number,
Sept. 1 to Dec. 31.
Average Attendance,
Sept. 1 to Dec. 31.
Number of Pupils,
January, 1893.
Per Cent. of Attendance.
Average Age,
Dec. 31, 1892.
Mos.
High-first class,
27
25
30
28
30
95.4
17
G
66
second class,
19
17
28
26
29
97.2
16
10
66 third class,
54
51
67
64
63
93.4
16
9
66 fourth class,
90
79
96
90
91
92
15
3
Totals,
190
172
221
208
213
94.5
8th grade, Mary A. Livermore,
50
45
46
40
40
92
14
3
8th Grove Street,
42
57
54
49
48
94
14
3
8th and 7th grades, Franklin Street,
43
39
53
46
48
94
14
4
7th grade, Mary A. Livermore.
45
43
47
44
47
93
13
4
7th and 6th grades, Upham Hill,
29
24
35
31
27
91
11
7 .
7th grade, Grove Street,
58
46
60
47
53
90
11
9
6th
Green Street,
28
24
42
36
37
01
12
10
6th
Mary A. Livermore,
44
38
52
45
51
86
11
6
6th
66 Grove Street,
54
46
55
51
55
93
12
9
5th
66
Franklin Street,
48
43
46
36
43
90
11
S
5th 66 Mary A. Livermore,
55
46
60
54
59
77
10
5
5th and 4th grades, Upham Hill,
49
38
42
33
30
93
10
5
5th grade, Grove Street,
59
53
50
44
52
01
10
4
5th 66
Lynde Street,
62
57
67
58
58
93
9
4th grade, Centre,
31
29
26
25
26
95
10
4th
66
Grove street,
43
36
54
46
50
94
10
4th
66
D. W. Gooh.
33
28
41
38
40
94
10
1
4th and 3rd grades, Converse,
25
20
36
33
37
94
8
3rd
6. Grove Street,
43
36
45
36
42
93
0
1
3rd
66 D. W. Gooch,
46
37
50
43
50
91
9
3
3rd and 2nd grades, Upham Hill.
36
33
44
41
45
06
9
10
2nd grade. D. W. Gooch,
51
43
46
41
45
96
7
8
2nd grade, Centre,
33
29
31
28
31
01
2nd “
Grove street,
48
37
37
30
34
89
8
1
2nd and 1st grades, Franklin Street,
54
39
61
47
55
83
7
2nd and 1st “
Converse,
24
23
25
23
25
93
7
6
7
1st 66 D. W. Gooch.
63
52
75
62
63
89
G
6
1st
66
Centre,
5G
46
57
48
51
88
G
10
1 st
66
Grove Street.
65
50
61
48
53
88
G
10
West,
43
32
49
33
49
90
G
7
Green Street,
48
39
52
43
51
89
7
Ripley,
31
27
26
21
23
89
7
11
Total enrollment, January 1, 1893, 1987.
1
4
* School not opened until September, 1892.
1535 2/3
1748
*
40
34
41
91
10
5
4th and 3rd grades, Franklin Street,
37
43
35
37
94
0
5
3rd grade, Centre,
1st grade, Upham Hill,
33
27
38
39
90
Yrs.
REPORT OF THE BOARD
OF
WATER COMMISSIONERS
OF THE
TOWN OF MELROSE, MASS.,
FOR THE
FINANCIAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1892.
MELROSE : DUNTON & POTTER, PRINTERS, REPORTER OFFICE. 1893.
TOWN OF MELROSE, MASS.
WATER DEPARTMENT.
COMMISSIONERS :
WILBUR D. FISKE. WILLIAM H. MILLER.
GEORGE J. BICKNELL.
REGISTRAR :
ELBRIDGE H. GOSS.
SUPERINTENDENT :
JAMES W. RILEY.
PUMPING STATION :
CHARLES F. CHURCHILL, Engineer.
REPORT OF THE WATER COMMISSIONERS
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1892.
The twenty-third annual report of the Board of Water Commissioners of the town of Melrose, also reports of Water Registrar and Superintendent, are hereby respect- fully submitted.
STREET MAINS.
The demands for laying main and service pipes during the year has largely exceeded that of any previous year, and is as follows:
Number of feet of main pipe laid in 1892 16,678
66 service
9,761
new hydrants set 19
66
6 gates 66
45
A detailed statement of dimensions, location and cost of the above will be found in the appended report.
SPOT POND.
Owing to the increased consumption of water, and the limited fall of rain during the year, the supply of water has been largely reduced, the lowest point reached being on the 30th of December, at which time it was II feet I inch below high water mark. During this low stage of water,
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the joint water boards have removed large quantities of drift wood and other debris around the borders of the pond, and have also dredged and enlarged some of the inlets to the pond, which will naturally increase the quantity and improve the quality of the water when the pond again as- sumes its normal condition.
MAINTENANCE.
The maintenance account has been largely.increased this year by the great number of breaks that have occurred in our street mains, caused principally by their being struck by lightning, this casualty having repeatedly occurred, caus- ing sad havoc with our main pipes,and making it necessary in many instances to relay whole streets with new pipe, and in a number of streets we substituted iron pipe of larger diameter than the old original cement lined wrought iron pipe, as the situation demanded this change.
Early in the fall we found the water in Spot pond was steadily diminishing, with little prospect of a change for the better. Your board thought it wise to petition your hon- orable board of selectmen to call an extra town meeting for the purpose of having a report of the board of water com- missioners in relation to this subject. This meeting was held, and below we submit our report.
Report of Board of Water Commissioners.
MELROSE, MASS., Oct: 22, 1892.
To the Citizens of the Town of Melrose :
In accordance with the petition which we presented to your honorable board of selectmen, we now have the honor of submitting the following report, to wit:
After the contention of last year, consequent upon taking
.
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WATER REPORT.
the land around Spot pond, and the subsequent strife in the legislature to obtain the rights vested in the state, your board found that the water in Spot pond was steadily di- minishing day by day, and consequently the question arose, "Where is the water all going?" Or, "Who is using this vast amount of water, so that this pond that had heretofore been credited with a capacity of two million gallons in twenty- four hours, is steadily decreasing in volume?" It was a question no one seemed able or willing to answer; for Mal- den said they did not use but very little water from Spot pond. Medford did not use any water to speak of. Mel- rose: Well, we did allow that we used a little water. Now this has always been a vexed question, and your board had become fully convinced by the experiences of the past that the time had come when this question had got to be settled by some means, so that hereafter there could be no equivo- cation regarding the quantity of water taken by each munici- pality.
So your board called a meeting of the joint boards for the express purpose of determining what should be done in this direction. Of course we met with some opposition at this meeting, and we simply stated to the joint board that unless we could jointly and amicably devise some means amongst ourselves whereby the waters of the pond could be accurately measured, and a record be had of the daily con- sumption of each municipality, then we would at once pro- ceed to petition the Supreme Court of the State of Mass- achusetts to appoint a board of commissioners to go on and divide the waters of Spot pond, as provided in the orig- inal act of incorporation.
Upon this a committee was appointed, one from each of the three boards, and they made a very thorough and care- ful investigation in regard to the best method to measure
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WATER REPORT.
the water, and the expense thereof, and made their report to the joint board.
Their report was unanimously accepted and adopted, and each municipality voted to purchase a large meter and put it into their main pipe so that all the water let down by each municipality would be accurately measured to it.
Of course, this all took a good deal of time, as the large meters had to be made to order, and they had to be set one at a time, each town helping the other with its water supply while the meters were being set.
During this time, as soon as Malden found that measur- ing the water from Spot pond was assured, its water board immediately set about to procure an additional supply of water from the Eaton meadow wells, or as now called, its Webster park supply, by putting in 25 new additional driven wells, and another pumping engine, so by the time the meters of the three municipalities were ready to use, Mal- den had its twenty-five new wells in operation, thereby cnabl- ing them to pump from their driven well system, at a rate of two million gallons of water per day, consequently cutting down their consumption at this particular time, from Spot pond to the minimum.
In due time the three large meters were set and put into operation, and the records have been taken collectively: by the three water superintendents on Monday of each week since, with the following result:
Sept. 12 to 19th, Medford
622,926 gals. per day.
Malden
569,157
Melrose
551,700
66
Sept. 19 to 26th, Medford
Malden
Melrose
593,464
627,612 ..
Sept. 26to Oct. 3, Medford Melrose
569,732 ..
Malden
494,464 ..
..
603,942 558,643 ١١ ..
During this week Medford pumped for Malden one day.
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WATER REPORT.
Oct. 3d to Oct. 10th, Medford 605,526 gals. per day
Melrose 543,053 66
", Malden 507,964 ..
Oct. 10 to Oct. 17th, Medford Melrose
608,34I
524,775 ..
Malden 506,036
You will see by the above record that the town of Med- ford is using the most water from the pond, or at the rate of 613,669 gallons per day of twenty-four hours. The town of Melrose is the next in consumption, and using about 556,545 gallons per day. The city of Malden is now using 527,253 gallons per day, and we wish to call your attention right here that Malden is now using its water under the new dispensation, or its increased water supply from the Eaton meadow wells.
The above data collectively giving a sum total consump- tion of 1,697,467 gallons per day, or more than the total production of the pond, as the best records, and the author- ities we have on the capacity of this pond, coupled with our present and past experience, give the total production of water from this source, at 1,500,000 gallons of water per day of 24 hours.
It is conceded that the water takers are now using their minimum quantities of water, and this brings us face to face with the situation as we find it today, with the water in Spot pond drawn down 10 feet 4 inches below high water mark, that being nearly two and a half feet lower than it has ever been drawn before, and the water still receding from one-half to three-quarters of an inch per day, conclusively showing that the consumption now, as being taken, exceeds the production of the pond, and the situation as it now ex- ists is anything but reassuring, and without any stretch of the imagination might be termed alarming, or even very dangerous.
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This state of affairs should not be allowed to exist, in fact must not be allowed to exist any length of time, because of the great injury and injustice it is working on the reputa- tion and the growth of our town, as well as the risk we take against conflagration, and the impairment of values on improved real estate.
In view of the above facts, your water board early last season began to seriously investigate the subject of an ad- ditional water supply, so that in case of an emergency aris- ing we should be able to act.
That emergency, in our opinion, is here, and this is also the opinion of a large number of our citizens who have im- portuned us regarding this subject; therefore this action on our part; and in our investigations which have been very extensive, we have found four separate places where proba- bly there could be obtained water in sufficient quantities to pay for the taking of it, and we still have other places in view, which may equal, or excel, even the places which we shall name below. We have also had an expert artesian well inan, and an expert water works engineer, who have been over this ground separately, with us, making as thorough an examination of it as could be made without making practical tests, and they confirm us in our opinion.
The first place in question is Bennett's brook, or the head waters of Bennett's pond.
Second, the water shed north of Ell pond.
Third, water shed northwest of land owned by Mr. Whit- tier, north of Wyoming avenue.
Fourth, Long pond and the water shed adjacent thereto.
In order to make any of the above sources of water sup- ply available, we have got to have certain facts.
First, we want to know the quantity of water to be ob- tained.
Second, the quality of water obtained.
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Third, the probability of contamination hereafter.
Fourth, the chance to increase the supply at any future time.
Fifth, the cost, and all other facts relative thereto.
All of which facts must be obtained by employing an ex- pert water works engineer to make a survey of the several water sheds; put down such test wells as may be needed to test the quantity and quality of the water, and the nature of the soil; have the water analyzed by expert chemists; and a full and complete report made of the facts in each case, with the cost of temporary or permanent plants to take the water from the said sources for the town.
All of this we are prepared to do, and to do it quickly, but it will cost some money to do it, and we come here to night to ask the citizens of the town if they will vote to ap- propriate the necessary sum of money for the above pur- pose, and instruct your board of water commissioners to do this work and make a full report thereof at the next town meeting.
Respectfully submitted, W. D. FISKE, WM. H. MILLER, GEO. J. BICKNELL, Board of Water Commissioners.
The above report was accepted, and the town voted to appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars for the pur- pose of making investigations for an additional water sup- ply, and a committee was appointed, consisting of the water board and Messrs. Francis S. Hesseltine, Jonathan C. Howes, Moses S. Page and Walter C. Stevens, to make such surveys and tests as are necessary, and make a full report thereof at some future town meeting.
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The committee soon convened and organized, and set to work by employing M. M. Tidd, C. E., as our engineer, and at the next town meeting, held in December, 1892, we sub- mitted a report of progress which we here reproduce, to- gether with a brief report from our engineer.
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