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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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. 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
. . .
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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 ... .. .
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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
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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
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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
360
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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