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The use of the Cochituate branch and reading room shows a most gratifying, even surprising growth. The seven years following its inauguration showed a steadily increasing circulation, from 2237 volumes in 1907-8, to 10,326 volumes in the year ending Feb. 1, 1915. For this year and the two pre- ceding, its circulation exceeded that of the main library.
During the past year a thorough revision of the catalogue has been made, in which obsolete or worthless titles, which in- evitably accumulate in every library, have been eliminated, giving much needed room in the stacks, and leaving the shelves filled with only useful and valuable books.
The item of expense for repairs this year has been very large. The furnaces, after fifteen years' use, had become badly cracked, making it necessary to practically rebuild them, at a cost of over $400. As the trustees had an appropriation of only $100 for repairs available, other expenditures had to be severely curtailed. The purchase of new books in conse- quence has this year been very small. Owing to the kindness and generosity of friends, however, in gifts of books, as ref- erence to the librarian's report will show, this need of the li- brary has been fully met.
As the age of the library building increases, the item of
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repair expenses must naturally be larger, and the trustees would most earnestly recommend an increased appropriation for this purpose.
The annual report of the librarian to the trustees is here- with submitted, with list of accessions for the year.
ALFRED W. CUTTING, Secretary, AMOS I. HADLEY, Chairman, FRANCIS SHAW, JOHN CONNELLY, LESTER R. GERALD, Trustees.
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REPORT OF TREASURER OF LIBRARY FUNDS
Report of the Treasurer of the Wayland Public Library Funds For the Year Ending January 1, 1916
Balance of Income on hand Jan. 1, 1915
$208.63
General Income for year
Appropriation for year ending Jan. 1, 1916
$900.00
One-half Dog License Receipts
185.47
Collected from Fines and Cards
20.40
Balance from last year in Old Col- ony Trust Company
39.98
4.75
Old paper sold Gifts
125.00
1,275.60
Income from Invested Funds
James Sumner Draper Funds
200.92
Cynthia G. Roby Fund
131.68
Grace Campbell Draper Fund
50.00
James Draper Fund
30.00
Ella E. Draper Fund
30.00
Lydia Maria Child Fund
4.04
446.64
Total
$1,930.87
Expended
Salaries :
Margaret E. Wheeler, Li- brarian
$400.00
J. C. Vincent, Janitor 216.00
Sarah L. Campbell 5.00 621.00
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New Books and Magazines :
Old Corner Book Store, Books 251.35
N. R. Gerald, Magazines 45.40
W. B. Clarke Company, Books 2.54
299.29
Fuel :
A. W. Atwood, Coal 114.50
H. F. Parmenter, Wood
60.00
174.50
Light :
Edison Company
92.10
92.10
Repairs :
Fitz and Barker
279.59
E. W. Small
111.80
T. W. Frost
17.74
J. C. Vincent
20.00
Goodyear Co.
17.00
J. C. Massie
14.15
A. W. Snow Co.
14.10
F. H. White
8.90
M. Shain
7.80
Bradford Browne Co.
7.50
H. C. Doughty
4.50
503.08
Miscellaneous Expenses :
Rose Bindery
117.15
M. M. Fiske, Express 32.24
A. W. Atwood, moving ashes 7.00
W. S. Lovell, Sundries 5.62
·Library Bureau
4.14
T. Groom & Co.
2.25
I. A. Lupien, Sundries
.65
169.05
Total Expended $1,859.02
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1916 $71.85
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REPORT OF TREASURER OF LIBRARY FUNDS
Cochituate Branch Library and Reading Room
Balance of Income on hand March 1, 1915
$127.58
General Income for year
Appropriation for year ending Jan. 1, 1916 $700.00
Collected from Fines and Cards 8.23
708.23
$835.81
Expended
Salaries :
Gertrude D. Bishop, As-
sistant Librarian $250.08
M. M. Fiske, Janitor 52.00
302.08
New Books and Magazines :
Old Corner Book Store
245.42
N. R. Gerald, Magazines 35.00
280.42
Fuel :
Robinson & Jones Company
16.50
16.50
Light :
Edison Company
23.00
23.00
Repairs :
D. W. Richardson
10.75
M. M. Fiske
2.50
15.95
Miscellaneous Expenses :
N. R. Gerald, Rent
144.00
C. S. Williams, Sundries
2.45
146.45
Total Expended $784.40
Balance on hand January 1, 1916
$51.41
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Librarian's Report
To the Trustees of the Public Library :
The Librarian submits the following report for the year ending December 31, 1915.
Number of volumes-classified
Fiction
4,413
Non-fiction
10,008
Total
14,421
Unclassified
296
Total
14,717
Number added
325
Circulation for the year :
From Main Library
7,460
From Cochituate Branch
6,645
Sent to Cochituate Branch on cards
128
Juvenile from Main Library
2,123
Juvenile from Cochituate Branch
1,994
Total
18,350
Classes of Reading by Per Cent
Fiction
82.10
Art
2.52
Philosophy
.28
Literature
2.82
Religion
.25
History
5.57
Sociology
1.23
Biography
2.89
Natural Science
.63
General Works
1.71
MARGARET E. WHEELER,
Librarian.
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The following periodicals are to be regularly found in the reading room :-
American City
Atlantic
Bookman
Century
Cochituate Enterprise
Country Life in America
Harper's Monthly
Journal of Outdoor Life
Ladies' Home Journal
London Illustrated News
National Geographic Magazine
Our Dumb Animals
Outlook
Popular Science
Review of Reviews
Scribner's Magazine
St. Nicholas
Survey Woman's Home Companion
World's Work Youth's Companion
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Accessions
Philosophy
179-L52
Ethical problem.
172-EL4
Road toward peace.
Albert Leffingwell Chas. W. Eliot
174-D29
Vocational and moral guidance.
Jesse B. Davis
Religion
240-M13
Faith the greatest power in the world.
Samuel McComb
232-W89C
Issues of life.
Elwood Worcester
290-G76
Way of Martha and the way of Mary. Stephen Graham
Sociology
376-M82
American girl.
Anne Morgan
342-L82
Democracy of the Constitution.
378-G16
Harvard. John Hays Gardiner
331-W14
House on Henry Street. Lillian D. Wald Military obligation of citizenship.
Leonard Wood
365-L95I
My life in prison.
Donald Lowrie
365-L950
My life out of prison. Donald Lowrie Play in education. Joseph Lee
370-D51
Schools of to-morrow.
John and Evelyn Dewey
396-UN3
Social and labor needs of farm women.
370-K58
365-F45
378-C76
U. S. Department of Agriculture Social aspects of education. Irving King Story of Canada Blackie. Annie P. L. Field Story of Wellesley. Florence Converse
370-L51
Henry C. Lodge
355-W85
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378-G23
Through college on nothing a year.
Christian Gauss
361-B63
Under the Red Cross flag.
Mabel T. Boardman
372-H91 What shall we read to the children ?
Clara W. Hunt
325-G76
With poor immigrants to America. Stephen Graham
Useful Arts
613-C97
Care of the sick room.
613-W58
Care of the skin.
613-B723
Care of the teeth.
616-H31
Consumption.
613-W17P
Peg along.
608-W67
Let me explain.
630-W64
Lure of the land.
Poultry keeping. Harry R. Lewis
634-B15F
656-C39
Principles of fruit-growing. L. H. Bailey Sailing ships and their story.
613-H14
Untroubled mind.
E. Keble Chatterton Herbert J. Hall
Fine Arts
789-R36
Carillons of Belgium and Holland.
William G. Rice
770-EA7G
How to make good pictures. Eastman Kodak Co.
710-R56
Improvement of towns and cities.
Charles M. Robinson
Rediscovered country. Stewart E. White
799-W58R 796-C18 Scout law in practice. Arthur A. Carey 814-F55B Barbara Frietchie; Captain Jinks; Climbers. 814-F55BE Clyde Fitch Beau Brummell ; Lover's lane ; Nathan Hale. Clyde Fitch.
E. G. Cutler Charles J. White Charles A. Brackett John B. Hawes George L. Walton Archibald Williams Harvey M. Wiley
636-L58
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814-P42C Thomas Carlyle, how to know him.
812-B81
Children of earth.
814-AL2F
From Ponkapog to Pesth.
Bliss Perry Alice Brown T. B. Aldrich
811-V28G Grand Canyon and other poems.
824-G13M
Memories.
811-F92
North of Boston.
821-B79 Poems.
811-AL2P
Poetical works. 2 vols.
Henry Van Dyke. John Galsworthy Robert Frost Rupert Brooke T. B. Aldrich
824-C882
Political and literary essays. Earl of Cromer
814-AL2
Ponkapog papers. T. B. Aldrich Amy Lowell
841-L95
Six French poets.
811-SH6
Stillwater pastorals and other poems.
814-F55S
Paul Shivell Stubbornness of Geraldine; Girl with green eyes ; Her own way. Clyde Fitch
824-C94
Subjects of the day.
824-C38
Curzon, Earl of Keddleston Through a Dartmoor window.
814-W69
Beatrice Chase When a man comes to himself. Woodrow Wilson
814-F55W
Woman in the case ; Truth ; City. Clyde Fitch
917.9-Y8 Alaska days with John Muir.
S. Hall Young Norman Duncan
919.4-D91
Australian byways.
914.8-C54 Charm of Scandinavia.
917.4-N81
Francis E. and Sydney A. Clark Colonial homes and their furnishings.
Mary H. Northend George B. Grinnell
970.1-G88 Fighting Cheyennes.
914.8-R22
Finland and the Finns. Arthur Reade
917.1-ST3 Forty years in Canada. S. B. Steele 970-F49 French in the heart of America. John Finley
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Heart of Europe.
Ralph A. Cram
917.4-IN8 Interesting houses of New England. From original photographs 914.7-W63 Interpretation of the Russian people. Leo Wiener
915.2-M37 910-L37 Lusitania's last voyage.
Charles E. Lauriat, Jr.
914.7-L56
New Russia. Alan Lethbridge
920-R95 Old Boston Museum days. Kate Ryan
917.4-OL2
Old colonial doorways of New England.
917.4-F88 Old Concord. Allen French
917.4-B13R Rambles around old Boston.
917.4-N81F
Edwin M. Bacon Remodeled farmhouses. Mary H. Northend Rockies of Canada. Walter D. Wilcox
917.1-W64
915.6-B41
914.7-G76
Spell of the Holy Land. Archie Bell Vagabond in the Caucasus. Stephen Graham We discover New England. Louise C. Hale
917.4-H13
Books Relating to the War
Arms and the race.
R. M. Johnston
Audacious war. C. W. Barron
AU54
Aunt Sarah and the war.
940-V58
Belgium's agony. Emile Verhaeren
940-K67
Diary of a French army chaplain.
940-P93
940-W55
940-K87
940-SI5
940-SI5S Great war (second phase).
Frank H. Simonds
B-AL21
Hilltop on the Marne. Mildred Aldrich
355-J65 940-B27
Felix Klein Diplomatic history of the war. M. P. Price Fighting France. Edith Wharton Four weeks in the trenches. Fritz Kreisler Great war. Frank H. Simonds
940-C84 917.4-N81H Historic homes of New England. Mary H. Northend
Japan to America. Naoichi Masaoka
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940-SA7
How Belgium saved Europe.
Charles Sarolea
940-P18
My year of the great war. Frederick Palmer
940-G35
New map of Europe. Herbert A. Gibbons
940-W85 Notebook of an attaché.
940-OL4 Ordeal by battle.
940-R72 Origins of the war.
973-US3
Pan-Americanism.
940-W76
Pentecost of calamity.
940-G76
Russia and the world.
940-M13
With the Russian army.
Robert R. McCormick
Biography
B-H746
B-C763
B-H324W
Life of Rutherford B. Hayes. 2 vols. Charles R. Williams
B-B442
B-M894M
B-H322T
Letters to a friend. John Muir Life and letters of John Hay. 2 vols.
W. R. Thayer
B-P246
Charles Stewart Parnell. 2 vols.
B-P854
Henry Codman Potter.
B-B485
Prussian memories.
B-AB26
Reminiscences.
B-T584
Reminiscences of Tolstoy.
B-SI34
Edward Rowland Sill.
Count Ilga Tolstoy W. B. Parker
Fiction
H124AL H246A D372AR
W464B
Allan and the holy flower. H. Rider Haggard Angela's business. Henry S. Harrison Margaret Deland H. G. Wells Around old Chester. Bealby.
Eric F. Wood Frederick S. Oliver
J. Holland Rose
Roland G. Usher Owen Wister Stephen Graham
Black man's burden. W. H. Holtzclaw Confessions of a clergyman.
Hugh, memoirs of a brother. A. C. Benson
Mrs. C. S. Parnell George Hodges Poultney Bigelow Lyman Abbott
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F236BE
Beltane the Smith
C164B
Bent twig.
T727B
Bracken.
P544B
Brunel's tower.
G466
Competitive nephew.
P953D
David Penstephen.
W395DE
Dear enemy.
OP55DT
Double traitor.
Y85DO
Dove in the eagle's nest. C. M. Yonge
B567E
Education of Uncle Paul.
W217EL
Eltham House.
B567EM
Empty house.
SE23E Encounter.
B567EX
Extra day.
C4744F
Far country.
SM52FE
Felix O'Day.
W164F
Fortitude.
J654F Fortunes of Garin.
G137FR
Freelands.
ER85G
T727G
Girl of the Blue Ridge. Granite.
G316 Great tradition.
P787H
Harbor.
G764H
High priestess.
C164
Hillsboro people.
M556
Honey bee.
L794JA Jaffery. L136J Jerusalem.
AT545 Johnny Appleseed. Le Gentleman.
SI13LE ST46E Letters on an elk hunt.
AB25L
Little Eve Edgarton.
G796L Little Sir Galahad.
C765L
Lord Jim.
Jeffery Farnol Dorothy Canfield John Trevena Eden Phillpotts Montague Glass Richard Pryce Jean Webster E. Phillips Oppenheim
Algernon Blackwood Mrs. Humphry Ward Algernon Blackwood Anne D. Sedgwick Algernon Blackwood Winston Churchill
F. Hopkinson Smith Hugh Walpole Mary Johnston John Galsworthy Payne Erskine John Trevena Katharine F. Gerould Ernest Poole Robert Grant Dorothy Canfield Samuel Merwin William J. Locke Selma Lagerlöf Eleanor Atkinson Ethel Sidgwick E. P. Stewart E. H. Abbott Pheobe Gray. Joseph Conrad
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AL28M
Marjorie Drew and other people.
B274ME
Measure of a man.
P224M Money master.
T727M
Moyle Church-town.
P544O
Old Delabole.
D2630
Open market.
R444PP
Penelope's postscripts.
T. B. Aldrich Amelia E. Barr Sir Gilbert Parker John Trevena Eden Phillpotts Josephine Daskam
M195P
Plasher's mead. Compton Mackenzie Prisoner in fairyland. Algernon Blackwood
SI13P Promise.
Ethel Sidgwick
H873
Prudence of the parsonage. Ethel Hueston
AL28P
Prudence Palfrey. T. B. Aldrich Queen of Sheba. T. B. Aldrich Zane Grey
G867R
Rainbow trail.
W464R
Research magnificent.
H. G. Wells
K365
Russian comedy of errors. George Kennan Russian silhouettes. Anton Tchekoff Kathleen Norris
N795S
Saturday's child.
Secret history. C. N. & A. M. Williamson
T727
Sleeping waters.
D294SM
"Somewhere in France."
B536S
Spanish gold.
C164S
Squirrel-cage.
M122S
Stirrup latch.
AL28S
Stillwater tragedy.
AL53SW
Sword of youth.
B296T
Taming of Zenas Henry.
B437T AN26T
Three things.
D774V
Valley of fear.
C765V
Victory.
T727W
Wintering Hay.
H313Y
Young man's year.
John Trevena R. H. Davis G. A. Birmingham Dorothy Canfield Sidney McCall T. B. Aldrich James L. Allen Sara W. Bassett Arnold Bennett Mary R. S. Andrews A. Conan Doyle Joseph Conrad John Trevena Anthony Hope
Mrs. Kate D. W. Riggs
B567P
AL28Q
T219
W6723S
These twain.
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Juvenile
j-598-M61C Children's book of birds.
j-654-C69B Book of wireless.
j-796-C31
Boy scout's hike book. Edward Cave
j-796-M17
Boy scout's year book.
W. P. McGuire
j-796-C31C
Boy's camp book. Edward Cave
j-796-V61
Boy's outdoor vacation book.
j-793-C84
Folk dance book.
j-796-B38
j-810-W93C
On the trail. Lina and Adelia B. Beard Children's stories in American literature. 1861-1896. H. C. Wright Home book of verse for young folks. B. E. Stevenson, ed.
j-808-ST4
j-808-M85
Mother Goose's nursery rhymes.
j-B-F854D
j-B-SM57J
j-B-C724S
j-B-C874 j-B-ST450
Benjamin Franklin. E. L. Dudley Captain John Smith. Rossiter Johnson Christopher Columbus. Mildred Stapley Davy Crockett. W. C. Sprague Life of R. L. Stevenson for boys and girls.
j-B-H134R
j-B-F954SU j-B-L517G
j-B-ED46W
j-B-P384HO
j-B-916C
J. M. Overton Nathan Hale. Jean C. Root Robert Fulton. Alice C. Sutcliffe Robert E. Lee. Bradley Gilman Thomas A. Edison. Francis Rolt-Wheeler William Penn. Rupert S. Holland Adventures of Chatterer the red squirrel Thornton W. Burgess
j-B-916D
Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse.
Thornton W. Burgess
j-B-916G
Adventures of Grandfather Frog.
Thornton W. Burgess
j-B916JE
Adventures of Jerry Muskrat.
Thornton W. Burgess
j-B916MR Adventures of Mr. Mocker.
Thornton W. Burgess
O. T. Miller A. F. Collins
A. Hyatt Verrill C. W. Crampton
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j-B916P Adventures of Peter Cottontail.
Thornton W. Burgess
j-B916S
Adventures of Sammy Jay.
Thornton W. Burgess
j-B916U Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum.
j-J155BB
j-J155BR
Thornton W. Burgess Blue bonnet in Boston. Caroline E. Jacobs Blue bonnet's ranch party.
j-B574
Caroline E. Jacobs Boy Blue and his friends.
j- Q46B
Etta A. and Mary F. Blaisdell Boy scouts of Black Eagle Patrol.
j-W563
L. W. Quirk Boy with the U. S. life-savers.
Francis Rolt-Wheeler
j-M424
Catcher Craig. Christy Mathewson
j-D565C
Children's book of Christmas stories.
j-D565T
Asa D. Dickinson, ed. Children's book of Thanksgiving stories.
Asa D. Dickinson, ed.
j-V615
j-EW54D
j-B236DA
j-B7943DC
j-M913
j-L823 Famous old tales.
j-EW54F
Flat iron for a farthing.
j-W155 Gaunt gray wolf.
j-P837 Genevieve. j-EW54G Great emergency. j-SW54 Gulliver's travels.
j-D662H Hans Brinker.
j-T594I In camp on Bass Island.
j-V615I In Morgan's wake.
j-EW54J Jackanapes.
j-EW54JA Jan of the windmill.
j-B236LE Left tackle Thayer.
Cruise of the Cormorant. A. Hyatt Verrill Daddy Darwin's dovecot. Mrs. J. H. Ewing Danforth plays the game. R. H. Barbour Dorothy Dainty at Crestville. Amy Brooks Elsbeth.
Margarethe Müller Henry C. Lodge Mrs. J. H. Ewing Dillon Wallace Laura S. Portor Mrs. J. H. Ewing Jonathan Swift Mary M. Dodge P. G. Tomlinson A. Hyatt Verrill Mrs. J. H. Ewing Mrs. J. H. Ewing R. H. Barbour
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j-D362R Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.
j-EW54L Lob-lie-by-the-fire.
j-B935LP Lost prince.
j-B236LU Lucky seventh.
j-K746M
Maid of '76.
j-EW54M Mary's meadow.
E. A. and A. A. Knipe Mrs. J. H. Ewing
j-EW54MR Mrs. Overtheway's remembrances.
j-EW540
Mrs. J. H. Ewing Old-fashioned fairy tales. Mrs. J. H. Ewing Patty's romance. Carolyn Wells
j-W462PR
j-K746P Peg o' the ring.
Emilie B. and Alden A. Knipe Christy Mathewson
j-M424P
Pitcher Pollock.
j-T594P
Prisoners of war. E. T. Tomlinson Louis Rhead
j-R343 Robin Hood.
j-AL74R Rock of Chickamauga. Joseph A. Altsheler
j-B236SE
j-P993S j-EW54SI
Secret play. Ralph H. Barbour Six little ducklings. Katharine Pyle Six to sixteen. Mrs. J. H. Ewing Swiss family Robinson. J. D. Wyss Caroline E. Jacobs
j-H875TO j-C233
j-W994 j-J155T Texan blue bonnet. Tom Brown's school days. Thomas Hughes Track's end.
j-P163T
Twisted skein.
Hayden Carruth Ralph D. Paine Dillon Wallace Mrs. J. H. Ewing
j-W155U Ungava Bob.
j-EW54W
We and the world.
Daniel Defoe Mrs. J. H. Ewing Mrs. F. H. Burnett R. H. Barbour
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Investment of Library Funds
James Draper Fund $500.00
Town of Wayland 6% Note
Ella E. Draper Fund 500.00
Town of Wayland 6% Note
Grace Campbell Draper Fund 1,000.00
Town of Wayland 5% Note
Lydia Maria Child Fund 100.00
Deposit in Home Savings Bank, Boston
Cynthia G. Roby Bequest 3,155.76
$3,000 American Telephone &
Telegraph Company, 4% $2,863.76
Deposit in Provident Institution for Savings, Boston 292.00
James Sumner Draper Fund 5,000.00
$1,000 Boston & Albany Rail- road, 4% $1,001.25
$1,000 Boston & Maine Railroad, 4% 990.00
$1,000 Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Railroad, 4% 993.75
$1,000 Delaware & Hudson Rail- road, 4% 1,000.00
$1,000 Fitchburg Railroad, 4%
995.00
Deposit in Provident Institution for Savings, Boston 20.00
$10,255.76
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WATER COMMISSIONERS' REPORT
Water Commissioners' Report
At a meeting of the Water Commissioners, February 18th, the Board was organized with James C. McKay, Chairman, and Clarence S. Williams, Clerk.
James H. Whitehead was re-appointed Superintendent of Works.
Considering the fact that the Water Department was out of debt, the Board decided to take steps to improve conditions at the reservoir and voted to consult Engineer J. J. Van Valkenburg of Framingham, with that purpose in view.
During the month of July heavy rains fell and over- flowed the swamps and replaced the clear water in the res- ervoir with swamp water, which was very objectionable at the faucets.
The engineer made recommendations and submitted plans to pipe off the water coming from the swamps, be- sides cleaning up work on the reservoir. These plans and recommendations were referred to the State Board of Health for their advice.
The following letters were received regarding further work on the water supply :
Letter No. One
Framingham, Mass., Oct. 5, 1915.
To the Water Commissioners,
Wayland, Mass.
Dear Sirs :-
At your request, I have recently made an investigation of the conditions existing at the reservoirs of the Town's water works system, particularly with reference to what
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immediate steps should be taken to improve the quality of the water.
Marked improvement has been made about the reser- voirs during the last ten years in the appearance of the shore lines. Trees and brush have been cut well back from the water and low places along the easterly side of the low- er reservoir have been filled.
The quality of the water, however, has not become much better. It is still the most highly colored of any pub- lic water supply in the State and is at certain seasons decid- edly objectionable to taste.
A few facts regarding the source of your water supply will explain why the quality of your water is comparatively so poor. The accompanying plan will assist in describing the situation.
There are two reservoirs. The lower reservoir, No. 1, has an area of 7.6 acres. The upper reservoir, No. 2, has an area of 4.6 acres and is generally about one foot higher than the other.
The two reservoirs are separated by a low dyke which at certain seasons of the year is overflowed.
The water in the upper end of No. 1 reservoir and the whole of No. 2 is very shallow and during dry season a con- siderable area of their bottoms is unwatered.
Into the upper end of No. 2 reservoir flows a stream of considerable size during wet seasons. The source of this stream is in a wooded swamp an area of about 32 acres. Several large sized springs are located along the upper edge of the swamp where indicated on the plan. The whole surface of this area and to a considerable depth is covered with water soaked leaves, fallen trees and other vegetation -the accumulation of ages.
The lower reservoir also has several springs directly connected with it and the drainage of a considerable area of swamp land. This reservoir in itself has naturally much better water than what collects in No. 2 reservoir. Owing, however, to the fact that it receives so much swamp-drained
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water from the overflow of No. 2 reservoir its quality is considerably impaired, it becomes highly colored and is at times unpalatable. I quote from a report made some years ago by the State Board of Health regarding your Water Supply.
"The results of analyses show that the water of the reservoir is generally highly colored and contains frequent- ly an excessive quantity of organic matter and that it is often objectionable for drinking and other domestic pur- poses on account of a disagreeable taste and odor. The objectionable quality of the water of the reservoir is evi- dently due principally to the character of the reservoir, which is very shallow and contains much organic matter in its bottom."
From the report of the Construction Committee under date of 1879, it is learned that one-half of the reservoir (The present reservoirs were originally one), is less than 3 feet deep and was covered with a rank vegetable growth, and that nothing was done to the land flowed but to cut the brush-a portion of that was not removed owing to the reservoir being filled earlier than was anticipated.
Undoubtedly it has been frequently recommended that the reservoirs be cleaned. Were this done it would surely result in some good, but the benefits derived would not in my judgment be sufficiently great to warrant the expendi- ture of so large an amount of money as would be required to accomplish the work of a thorough cleaning.
I believe the very best thing that can be done for a comparatively small sum of money is first to raise the dyke between the two reservoirs and extend it as shown on the plan so that the water in the upper reservoir shall have no direct connection with the lower one.
A 20 inch vitrified pipe drain should then be laid ex- tending from below the wasteway of the lower reservoir to a manhole at the upper reservoir where indicated on the plan in red ink. Assuming the elevation of No. 1 reser- voir to be 100 and No. 2 reservoir to be 101 then the drain
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at its upper end will be at 97.5 or 212 feet below No. 1 and 31/2 feet below No. 2 reservoir. In the manhole there will be a gate and an overflow which will control the elevation of the water in reservoir No. 2.
By means of this drain during wet seasons large quan- tities of swamp drained water can be prevented from en- tering No. 1 reservoir and conducted below the dam.
The estimated cost of doing this work is as follows :-
700 lineal feet of 20 inch pipe laid complete
@ $1.70
$1,190.00
Manhole complete, including gate and locked cover
130.00
Dyke construction, 150 cu. yds. filling @ $1.00 Stonework
150.00
75.00
Deepening channel
75.00
$1,620.00
Add 15 per cent for engineering and con-
tingencies
243.00
Total
$1,863.00
The next thing that should be done is to open up the swamp drainage areas by means of a system of ditches which will allow the spring water to flow directly to your reservoir without first seeping through acres of decaying vegetable matter.
I can give no estimate of the cost of doing this drain- age work. During the winter a survey should be made of the swamps and the ditches located to the best advantage. It is too late in the season and too wet to start ditching. Having decided upon a plan of drainage the construction could be carried on at such times as the seasons would per- mit.
The 20 inch drain and the dyke could and should be built this year.
Respectfully submitted,
J. J. VAN VALKENBURGH.
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Letter No. Two
October 22, 1915.
To the Wayland Water Board,
Cochituate, Massachusetts.
Mr. Clarence S. Williams, Clerk.
Gentlemen :-
The State Department of Health has considered your application of October 4, 1915, as to a certain proposed plan of improving the water supply of Wayland, has considered the plan presented by your engineer, and has examined the results of analyses of the water of your present sources of supply.
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