Inaugural address of the mayor, with the annual report of the officers of the city of Quincy for the year 1910, Part 14

Author: Quincy (Mass.)
Publication date: 1910
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In June of this year an appropriation and loan order was passed by the council to equip one playground as required by act of 1908.


In selecting a suitable location natural advantages, sur- roundings and congested districts were considered by the Board and Ward 4 playground selected as farthest removed from parks, beaches and other places of recreation.


Property adjacent to this playground through the kindness of a public spirited citizen has been opened to the public and has added much to the enjoyment and convenience of the children.


The grounds were put in suitable condition to receive equip- ment which was installed early in July and until the close of the season in October was used by enthusiastic crowds.


Much time and study has been devoted to this matter by the members of this board.


In compliance with the law one additional playground must


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be equipped in 1911 and a necessary amount should be appro- priated by the Council at an early date to equip and maintain the same.


Respectfully submitted,


CHARLES E. GILL, ROBERT E. FOY, HERBERT T. WHITMAN, Park Commissioners.


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Report of City Engineer


To His Honor the Mayor of the City of Quincy :


In compliance with City Ordinance No. 29, I respectfully submit the eleventh annual report of the Engineering Depart- ment for the year ending December 31, 1910.


The annual appropriation has been expended as follows: Appropriation . $1,800.00


Expended


Pay Rolls


$1,470.28


Supplies


218.07


Miscellaneous


111.65


$1,800.00


The work in this department shows an increase for the past year over any previous year while the annual appropriation was the smallest in the history of the department.


Work has been done for the various departments as follows ;


CITY COUNCIL.


For the City Council and Council Committees 28 street plans and 3 real estate plans have been prepared and 38 estimates and 18 street orders have been submitted. *


The following streets or portions of streets have been ac- cepted and laid out as public highways during the year :


STREETS OR PORTIONS OF STREETS LAID OUT AS PUBLIC WAYS 1910.


Name


From


Accepted


Ward


Length Width Feet


Feet


Ballou Street,


Robertson St. to Bryant St.


1910


4


268.60


33


Bedford Street,


Glendale Rd. te Roselin Ave.


1910


1


904.00


40


Belmont Street,


Lincoln Ave. to South Central Ave.


1910


5 1,070.00


40


Birch Street,


Glover Ave. to Hollis Ave.


1910


6


575.00


32-40


Claremont Avenue,


Chubbuck St. to South St.


1910


2


487.00


36


Fayette Street,


North Central Ave to Hobart St.


1910


5


500 00


40


Germain Avenue,


Washington St. southwesterly


1910


2 1,123.56


40


Hill Street,


McDonald St. southeasterly


1910


4


246.20


25


Oakland Avenue,


Newport Ave. southwesterly


1910


5


620.00


50


Plymouth Street,


Independence Ave. to Verchild St.


1910


3 478.00


36


Richie Road,


Franklin St. to Kendrick Ave.


1910


3


610.00


40


Royal Street,


Billings Road to Vassall St.


1910


5-6


932.00


40


Total


7,814.36


or


1.480 Miles


Previously Accepted


79.511 Miles


Total


80.991 Miles.


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-


341


. Of the above named streets all but Oakland Avenue have been laid out under the law authorizing the assessment of bet- terments upon the abutters.


CITY SOLICITOR AND POLICE DEPARTMENT.


Such surveys and plans as have been requested by the City Solicitor and the Chief of Police have been made by this de- partment. In all 12 surveys have been made and 6 plans pre- pared for cases pending against the City.


Such information as has been requested has been furnished to the City Solicitor for use before the Commission considering the elimination of the Grade Crossings on Water street and Savil street, and for hearings before the Legislative Committees at the State House.


PUBLIC BURIAL PLACES.


All burial lots sold during the year in the Mount Wollaston Cemetery have been staked by this department and grades have been given for regarding portions of the Cemetery as requested by the superintendent.


A plan showing the exact measurements of the lots in the older portion of Mount Wollaston Cemetery should be made some time in the near future as the original plan of the cem- etery has been found to be somewhat inacurate' and does not give exact distances.


PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT. HIGHWAYS.


Lines and grades have been given for the construction of all new streets built and for all streets rebuilt during the year. In addition, street lines and grades have been given in 20 instances at the request of the Commissioner of Public Works.


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Lines and grades have been given in 58 instances at the re- quest of property owners on accepted streets.


Grades were given for the paving of Hancock street on the westerly side from nearly opposite Merry Mount avenue to opposite Albion road.


The result of the measurement of the work is as follows :


New paving laid . New crosswalks laid


Paving relaid


.


5,053.67 sq. yds. 66.63 « 616.00 “


Total


5,736.30 « «


SURFACE DRAINAGE.


Plans have been prepared and grades have been given during the year for the construction of drains for surface water as follows :


SURFACE DRAINS BUILT DURING 1010.


Street


From


Ward 12in. 10in.


8in.


Catch holes basins Man


Atlantic St.


E. Squantum St. to North St.


6


710.0


1,154.0


10


Beach St.


Billings Road southerly


5


245.0


2


Bedford St.


Whitwell St. to Maywood Ave.


1


188.7


30.0


3


Billings Road


Sachem's Brook to Beach St.


5


370.3


1


Billings Road


Rawson Road to Pierce St.


6


750.0


500.0


235.0


1


7


Brooks Ave.


Culvert near Centre St.


3


2


Chubbuck St.


N'r Watson Ter. to Wash. St.


2


360.0


1


Chubbuck St. Private land


2


1


Cranch St.


Deldorf St. northerly


1


150.0


22.0


2


343


Deldorf St.


Whitwell St. to Spring Lane


1


382.0


10.0


2


Edison Park


2


71.0


1


Edison Park Private land


To Stewart St.


2


361.0


Elm Ave.


Hancock St. northerly


5


98.0


1


Glendale Road


Near Whitwell St. to Bedford St.


1


222.0


157.2


79.0


4


Hancock St.


At Elm Avenue


5


40.0


1


Hancock St.


North of Hayward St.


6


14.0


1


Larry St.


Parkway westerly


4


320.0


3


Newbury Ave.


Near Teel Pond


6


20.0


2


No. Central Ave.


Farrington St. to Taylor St.


5


492.0


60.0


4


Old Colony St.


Drain through Playground to Private Way


6


153.5


60.0


5


Phipps St. Phipps St. Phipps St. Private land Phipps St. Private land


Near Parochial School


3


To Water St.


3


606.5


3


Southerly


3


136.3


Sagamore St.


12" pipe near Depot to Playground


6


74.0


2


Sagamore St. Playground So. Walnut St.


To Old Colony St.


6


315.2


12.0


1


Stewart St. Private land


Southerly


2


79.0


24.0


2


Taylor St.


No. Central Ave. southerly


5


223.5


2


Union St.


So. Walnut St. to Main St.


2


339.7


25.0


3


Washington St.


Chubbuck St. easterly


2


131.0


1


Wayland St.


Cushing St, to Berlin St.


5


245.0


2


5 221.0


2


2,747.4


3,497.4


3,407.5


4


70


.


3 40.4 25.0


2


344


-


Wilson Ave.


At Union St.


2


EDGESTONES. Lines and grades have been given for the laying and resetting of Edgestones as follows : EDGESTONES LAID AND RELAID 1910.


NEW EDGESTONE


RELAID


Street


From


Straight feet


feet Curved Block Straight Corner feet


Curved feet


Corner


Adams street


Alleyne st. to Railroad Bridge


118.00


Beach street


Mason st. to Billings rd.


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Cottage avenue


In front of Kincaide property


Goffe street


Granite st. northerly


100.00


5.66


Granite street


Whitwell st. to Water st.


1,678.50


25.50


10


418.80


1


Hancock street


Merry Mount ave. to Billings rd. 3,738.10


179.90


26


53.90


Lincoln avenue


Winthrop ave. to Prospect ave.


40.00


69.60


Pearl street


In front of Baxter property


236.50


14.30


2


484.40


13.30


2


Whitwell street


Granite st. westerly


551.70


19.70


Throat Stone for Catch Basin


300.00


.


Total


6,762.80 308.30


38


1,227.16


67.20


3


Block


19.00


114.10


184.50


Phipps street


School st. to Water st.


PERMANENT SIDEWALKS.


Grades have been given and final measurement of the work taken for permanent sidewalks constructed during the year, as follows :


GRANOLITHIC SIDEWALKS CONSTRUCTED 1910


Street


From


Ward Length feet


Walk Sq yds.


Drive Sq. yds. 4.59


Cottage avenue


In front of Kincaide property


1


114.00


65.24


Brook street


Fayette st. to Farrington st.


5


214.00


119.60


Grand View avenue ' Park st. to Marion st.


5


313.80


169.94


23.50


Lincoln avenue


Grand View ave. to Prospect ave.


5


592.90


407.63


Park street


Grand View ave. to Marion st.


5 490.20


202.50


15.50


Russell park


Near Hancock st. easterly


1


270.00


109.54


14.72


Total


1,994.90


1,074.45


58.31


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TAR CONCRETE SIDEWALKS CONSTRUCTED 1910.


Street


From


Ward Length


Walk Sq. yds.


Drive Sq. yds.


Beach street


Mason st. to Parkway


5


1,294.00


869.00


93.78


Billings street


Newbury ave. to East Squantum st.


6


1,338.00


655.24


90.21


Brooks avenue


Liberty st. to Intervale st.


3


774.14


477.12


73.43


Copeland street


Water st. to Crescent st.


4


2,550.00


1,819.74


120.61


Edison street


Washington st. to Farnum st.


2


714.00


330.50


11.23


Glendale road


Granite st. northwesterly


1


714.00


342.50


83.42


Granite street


Whitwell st. to Water st.


1-3


3,448.30


2,265.80


126.43


Liberty street


Water st. to Brooks ave.


3


1,216.00


758.61


157.81


Lincoln avenue


Newport ave. to Grand View ave.


5


394.00


264.96


Lincoln avenue


Prospect ave. to near Highland ave.


5


234.00


163.99


Newbury avenue


Sagamore st. to Billings st.


6


322.00


205.10


73.96


Phipps street


School st. to Water st.


3


752.60


517.76


33.13


Rawson road


Willet st. to Billings rd.


5-6


1,608.00


1,276.23


95.06


Walker street


Newbury ave. to E. Squantum st.


6


1,296.00


885.77


60.20


Water street


Quincy st. to Copeland st.


3


1,771.10


1,091.31


121.77


Total


18,426.14


11,923.63


1,141.04


347


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Schedules for the assessment of sidewalks built in 1909 were submitted to the Commissioner of Public Works early in the year.


WATER DEPARTMENT.


Very little work has been done for this department during the year. Early in the spring a plan of the City was prepared which when completed will show the water system as con- structed to date.


SEWER DEPARTMENT.


All sewers built during the year were laid out on the ground by this department. Record and assessment plans of the work have been filed with the Sewer Department. About 4 67-100 miles of sewers were constructed, a schedule of which may be found annexed to the report of the Commissioner of Public Works.


PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.


A contour plan for grading the Atherton Hough school lot was prepared and grades set to carry out the work.


Contour plans have also been prepared for the Wollaston and Montelair school lots.


ASSESSORS PLANS.


The Assessors plans have been corrected to agree with re- cent transfers of property, location of new buildings and new sub-divisions of property made during the year.


The Building Inspector issued 721 building permits during the year, all of which have been looked up on the ground and new buildings and additions have been located and plotted.


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At the present rate the number of transfers of property in the city from April Ist, 1910 to April 1st, 1911 will amount to about 2000 in number, the niost active year in real estate in the his- tory of the city.


I believe that this work could be much better cared for if it were possible to keep one engineer on the work throughout the year.


An additional appropriation of $1,000 was made during the year to complete the Assessors Plans of Ward 4. The plans of one precinct are practically completed and I hope to be able to finish the plans of the entire Ward early in the year.


HOUSE NUMBERING.


A determined effort has been made during the past year to have the buildings in the city numbered in conformity with the ordinance relating thereto. The entire city has been gone over and about 1,000 doors have been numbered. I intend during the coming year to follow this work up and number all build- ings now un-numbered.


House numbering plans have been made of about 120 addi- tional streets during the year and plans are now complete for every ward in the city with the exception of Ward 4.


Yours respectfully,


EZEKIEL C. SARGENT,


City Engineer.


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Report of the Commissioner of Public Works


To His Honor, the Mayor of the City of Quincy :


Sir: Please find herewith the twenty-first annual report of the Commissioner of Public Works for the departments under my direction for the year ending December 31, 1910. The Budget appropriations, special appropriations, expendi- tures and balances for the Department of Public Works for the year 1910, are as follows :


ANNUAL BUDGET


Appropriation Expended


Balance


Bridges, culverts and


drains


$2,500.00


$2,467.05


$32.95


Clerical


780.00


780.00


...


Removal of snow Balance 1909


339.28


5,853.65


485.63


Miscellaneous


250.00


249.98


.02


Repair of public buildings


and care of City Hall ..


8,000.00


. ...


Balance 1909


159.15


Transfer from Street Lighting


800.00


8,202.60


756.55


Miscellaneous Highways


25,000.00


...


. .....


Balance 1909


392.89


. . .


. .


· . .


Receipts


4,104.13


28,007.99


1,489.03


.


.


.


6,000.00


352


Street Lighting


30,200.00


Balance 1909


25.00


29,717.62


507.38


Street watering or oiling. .


8,000.00


8,000.00


Gypsy Moths


5,000.00


Balance 1909


1,468.44


Receipts


1,707.06


6,303.61


1,871.89


.


SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS


Appropriation Expended


Balance


Ballou street


$725.00


$2.70


$722.30


Bedford street


2,250.00


244.85


2,005.15


Belmont street


3,300.00


4.10


3,295.90


Birch street


1,575.00


3.90


1,571.IO


Brook street


1,500.00


1,500.00


City Hall vaults


3,000.00


242.65


2,757.35


Claremont avenue


1,800.00


1,800.00


Crescent street


2,000.00


2,000.00


Cross walks


800.00


465.50


334.50


Drinking fountains, school buildings


350.00


110.64


239.36


East Howard street


side-


walk


330.00


330.00


Excise tax


8,357.96


8,357.96


Fayette street


1,325.00


3.15


1,321.85


Furnace avenue


1,000.00


1,000.00


Germain avenue


3,350.00


6.35


3,343.65


Goffe street gravel sidewalk


I20.00


117.00


3.00


Hancock street paving


20,000.00


17,438.97


2,561.03


Hill street


750.00


2.75


747.25


Houghs Neck school house


2,000.00


. .


Balance 1909


18,000.00


. .


Transfer


1,000.00


15,897.05


5,102.95


Houghs Neck school house furnishings


Balance 1909


1,000.00


3-75


996.25


. . .


353 '


John Hancock school heat- ing


6,000.00


5,959.57


40.43


Larry place rebuilding


500.00


500.00


Marsh street rebuilding


400.00


.


400.00


Merrymount road


1,700.00


. .. . .


1,700.00


Montclair school house


45,000.00


. .. .


45,000.00


Oak street rebuilding


400.00


400.00


. .


Oakland avenue


825.00


......


825.00


Permanent sidewalks, tar


concrete


17,600.00


14,993.88


2,606.12


Permanent sidewalks,


granolithic


1,100.00


1,100.00


. .....


Phipps street concrete side- walk


900.00


829.38


70.62


Pleasant street


900.00


900.00


Plymouth street


1,600.00


3.05


1,596.95


Police station plumbing


400.00


. .


400.00;


Richie road


2,175.00


2.70


2,172.30


Royal street


1,950.00


5.55


1,944.45


School chairs, purchase of.


792.00


757.88


34.12


South Walnut street re-


building


2,800.00


2,800.00


Steam roller, purchase of ..


3,000.00


3,000.00


Surface drainage


12,140.00


11,384.34


755.66


Trafford street


3,000.00


3,000.00


Washington school fence ..


204.00


I88.64


15.36


West street rebuilding . .


3,500.00


3,500.00


Whitwell street sidewalk ..


1,400.00


1,380.79


19.2I


Willard street retaining wall


600.00


600.00


Wollaston school house


75,000.00


·


75,000.00


1909 APPROPRIATIONS


Appropriation Expended Balance


Brook road paving


Balance 1909


$258.57 $258.57 ... .. .


354


Coddington school furnish-


ings


Balance 1909


28.69


17.00


$11.69


Cummings avenue Balance 1909


90.14


21.20


68.94


East Squantum street Balance 1909


8,000.00


6,058.99


1,941.0I


Franklin avenue


Balance 1909


74.10


40.00


34.10


Holbrook road


Balance 1909


85.05


40.00


45.05


Lincoln school additions.


Balance 1909


1,950.06


1,950.06


. .....


Lincoln school furnishings. Balance 1909


290.07


218.00


72.07


Murdock avenue


Balance 1909


3.52


3.52


. .....


Newbury avenue surface


drain


Balance 1909


250.00


55.50


194.50


Newcomb place


Balance 1909


214.59


192.21


22.38


Permanent sidewalks, tar


concrete


Balance 1909


61.57


35.42


26.15


South street rebuilding


Balance 1909


1,490.37


1,471.39


18.98


Whitwell street sidewalk


Balance 1909


93.49


93.49


...


The City Council passed sixty-eight orders, including transfers and receipts, aggregating $460,291.96, to be ex- pended under this department, divided as follows :


Street construction


$73,187.09


Surface drainage 12,140.00


Public buildings, construction and repairs 132,746.00


355


Permanent sidewalks 21,450.00


Purchase of steam roller 3,000.00


Gypsy Moth receipts. 1,707.06


Water construction and receipts 48,910.85


Water meters


10,000.00


Sewer construction, main and house connection receipts 57,440.96


Budget


99,710.00


The balance of thirty-two orders passed by the Council related to pole locations, laying of gas mains, acceptance of streets, preparing polling places, etc.


BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS


BRIDGES CULVERTS AND DRAINS


Bills approved on this account amounted to $2,467.05, charged as follows :


Fore River Bridge, assessments $825.00


Hingham Bridge, assessments 100.00


Neponset Bridge, replanking 914.89


Beale Street Bridge, painting and replanking. 163.06


Bates Avenue Bridge, replanking 68.65


Smith Street Culvert and Drain


75.00


Warren Avenue Bridge, painting


79.31


John Hancock School Bridge, construction and


repair 121.00


Repairing minor bridges 74.14


Cleaning drains 46.00


The Fore River bridge is not directly under the control of this department although minor repairs are supervised by it. The whole appropriation would not pay for more than half the city's share of the repairs needed on the bridge and piers.


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The city pays 5-24 of the up keep of the Hingham bridge on demand of the Bridge Trustees.


Neponset bridge had new wearing plank and partly new deck plank this year but the whole top of the bridge, includ- ing girders, stringers, deck and wearing plank will need a thorough overhauling within two years, perhaps next.


The short bridge on Squantum causeway was changed to a concrete culvert and the bridge on Merrymount road can be shortened and concreted next year when the street is built.


Wherever the substructure is strong enough to carry a permanent floor this should be done as the life of any much travelled plank floor is hardly three years.


GYPSY AND BROWN TAIL MOTHS


The experience of the last two years has proved that we need another sprayer for this work as it can be done better and cheaper by machine than by hand. The spraying season is short and one machine, even working overtime, can- not cover the ground properly and I would recommend that another machine be purchased early next year so that the hand work may be cut down and the more efficient spraying substituted.


A portion of the spraying was done for the Elm Leaf Beetle which did such havoc a year ago and it was a pleasure to see how much good the spraying did, but it showed also the need of another sprayer as we could not cover the whole city properly.


Of course these pests are a nuisance and a burden and we do not get ahead, but it is just like moths in a suit of clothes, if you do not get rid of them you will not have the clothes. A look at some other places will prove this to our citizens. "


REMOVAL OF SNOW.


With a few exceptions our own teams do the best work


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on snow plowing because they are out early and know the work must be properly done. A number of ploughs had to be given to other parties this year as the contractors said there was no money in ploughing at fifty cents per hour. This caused some trouble with the new routes, but that has been remedied.


Every one that enters a complaint is thanked for their trouble because it helps to keep the three hundred miles of sidewalks ploughed out.


STREET WATERING


Bills and pay rolls approved on this account amounted to $8,000.00, charged as follows :


Standard Oil Co.


Emulsion Oil 52,467 gals.


$2,636.35 1,208.05


Gulf Refining Co.


66 24,161


The Texas Co.


Road Oil


24,721


827,27


Headley Good R'ds Co. Terracolio


3,850 " 496.83


Barrett M'f'g. Co.


Tarvia


1,500


114.00


N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R. Freight


260.38


Labor and transfer Misc. and repairs 89.44


2,367.68


Water and five other substances were used during the season to lay the dust and help preserve the road surface depending on the nature of the roadway.


Where there are car tracks and the street is all paved there is no question in my mind but what the Electric Car Sprinkler does the best work at the minimum cost. Under present conditions it cannot be used to advantage as it will not cover satisfactorily more than one fourth of the streets and the cost of the car is nearly one half the appropriation for street watering.


All of the materials used were supposed to have either tar or asphalt as their base, the balance of the liquid being a means to hold this base until applied to the road surface.


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Which is the best, tar or asphalt for this work I cannot say and as far as I can see no one else can at the present time.


Instead of trying to lay the dust on a street we should remove this dust before using any oil, fill the depressions and then paint the surface of the road, so the asphalt or tar will stick to stone and not to dust.


We have practically five kinds of roads to treat, namely I, paved; 2, paved and macadam or gravel ; 3, macadam thor- oughfares ; 4, macadam side streets, and 5, gravel-earth roads, and it is not a question of what you want to do but what you can do with the money available.


STREET LIGHTING


Bills approved on this account amount to $29,717.62, charged as follows :


Citizens Gas Light Co. $2,018.64


Quincy Electric Light & Power Co. 27,698.98


The following table will show number of lights installed January 1, 1910, number installed during the year, present installation, hours per night and nights per month :


Installed


Dec. 31, 1909


per year.


Cost Added Installed Hrs. per 1910 Dec. 31, 19.0. Night.


Night per Mos


*Citizens Gas Light Co.


31 scattered


at $23.00


6 37


10.5


30.4


72 Hough's Neck


at 19.00


72


10.5


29.0


Quincy Electric Light Co.


170 Arc


at


87.50


170


10.5


29.0


805 Series


at 18.75


67


872


10.5


29.0


1


at


40.00


1


10.5


30.4


*These lights burn all night and every night.


The new contract made with the Quincy Electric Light & Power Company, which expires November 10, 1912, gives us our street lighting on very good terms.


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REPAIR PUBLIC BUILDINGS


The amounts expended on the various buildings are as follows :


School Buildings


Adams


$35.23


Atherton Hough


80.41


Coddington


162.22


Cranch


226.20


Gridley Bryant


282.00


High


583.76


John Hancock


917.50


Lincoln


119.20


Massachusetts Fields


383.98


Quincy


61.01


Washington


145.92


Willard


459.48


Wollaston


162.02


$3,618.93


Fire Stations.


Central Fire Station $261.12


Hose House, Ward 2


21.19


Hose House, Ward 4


176.43


Hose House, Ward 5


48.98


Hose House, Ward 6 . 50.20


Hose House, Houghs Neck


158.46


716.38


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City Hall


Lighting


$531.16


Fuel


432.88


Telephone 93.31


Janitor services


1,186.75


Miscellaneous


944.63


3,188.73


Police Station


167.92


Almshouse


178.47


Stables


332.17


Total


$8,202.60


The increased Budget appropriation has enabled me to make some of the repairs more permanent, pick up loose ends which have had to be slighted for some years and also make some improvements to the plant, a few of which are as fol- lows :


New boiler at City Hall, retubing boilers at Cranch and Massachusetts Fields schools, additional radiation at High and Coddington schools, additional radiation and overhauling of piping system at the Wollaston hose house, electric lights at the Cranch, Massachusetts Fields and Gridley Bryant, new transformer system for clock system at the High school, new main steam valves at the High school, changing lecture room into cooking room at the High school and changing plumbing and lighting for the same, and painting and tinting at the Willard and John Hancock schools.


At last the Houghs Neck hose house is going to have a good painting, but as it has been neglected so long I have been obliged to sand paper, scrape and oil this winter and leave the painting until spring. If this work had been done two years ago we could have saved practically the cost of the whole painting job as this preliminary work would not have been required.


Changing the heating plant at the John Hancock school


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made a lot of repair work on the building, and this had to be done out of this appropriation as the estimate for the heating plant was cut too much.


The slate roofs on our schools are a nuisance, every school roof excepting one leaked some time during the year and as a rule I do not think it was poor workmanship. There is too much shrinkage and too much give to a large roof with wooden trusses to use slate and I am glad our new schools have flat roofs.


SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS, ROAD CONSTRUC-


TION-EAST SQUANTUM STREET


About six thousand dollars was expended in building a portion of this street from the boulevard toward Squantum. Enough money is on hand to do the rip-rapping but as the road to the Aviation Field has been built and it breaks the waves from this quarter the stone has not been put in place.


The winter's storms will show whether it is needed or not and it may be done in the spring if needed. A fence has been built on the northerly side and the railroad company have raised their track on the southerly side of the street to conform to the new grade.


I did not finish the work agreed to be done for the Land Company, who gave all the filling for this street, but after the teaming is finished it will be an easy matter to do this work.


OAK AND SOUTH WALNUT STREETS.




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