USA > Massachusetts > Middlesex County > Somerville > Report of the city of Somerville 1883 > Part 12
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14
Excess of charges, 173 52
For Holland St. Ledge Stone, - Charges for same,
1,560 loads delivered
at crusher, 60c., $936 00
1,131 loads, for bal- last, 25c., 282 75
45 loads for ballast, 10c., 4 50
Total, $1,223 25
Cost of labor and team- ing, $1,025 07
Cost of powder and
fuse, and expressing
same, 18 34
Total,
1,043 41
Excess of charges, 179 84
For Macadam and Ballast, taken from Beacon
Street, where a turn-
out was laid by the horse-railroad Co.
Charges for same, 116 loads, 50c., $58 00
Cost of repairing street,
19 15
Excess of charges, 38 85 Total excess (Amount carried forward), $730 32
-
230
ANNUAL REPORTS.
$730 32
Amount brought forward, For Crushed Stone,-
On hand Jan. 1, 1883, 472 loads crushed stone, $1.00, $472 00
50 loads ledge-stone, 60c., 30 00
Cost of field and ledge- stone delivered at crusher, 4,361 loads, 60c.,
2,616 60
Cost of labor and
teaming at crusher, 1,787 56
Cost of repairs and renewal of machin- ery, 419 50
Cost of fuel,
258 81
Cost of water,
26 67
Cost of steam-boiler insurance, 15 00 1
Value of crusher
and fittings,
Jan. 1, 1883, $1,452 50
Value of same, Dec. 31, 1883, 1,206 60
Depreciation,
245 90
Total cost, $5,872 04
Charges for Crushed Stone,
5,574 loads at
Crusher, $1.00, $5,574 00
2 loads, delivered, $1.25, 2 50
On hand, Dec. 31, 1883,
210 loads crushed
stone, $1.00, 210 00
30 loads ledge-stone,60c., 18 00 Total, 5,804 50
Excess of cost, 67 54
231
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON HIGHWAYS.
Excess of charges for materials over cost of same, as herein- before stated under the heading of "Re- ceipts and Credits," $662 78
In addition to the above, labor and materials have been furnished, and the treasurer has received payment for the same, as follows :- To the Committee on Public Property, at school- houses, $97 54
To the Committee on Public
Property, at City Hall, 15 70
To the Committee on Sewers, materials sold, 6 00
To private parties, con- structing driveways, sidewalks, etc., Total,
1,027 78
$1,147 02
1
SIDEWALKS ACCOUNT.
APPROPRIATION,
$3,000 00
EXPENDITURES : -
For Aldersey Street (gravel) sidewalks, $680 42
Austin Street (gravel) sidewalks, 1,109 00
Concord Avenue (gravel) . sidewalks, 981 68
Davis Square (gravel) sidewalks, 235 52
$3,006 62
Amounts carried forward,
$3,006 62
$3,000 00
232
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amounts brought forward,
$3,006 62 $3,000 00
Glen Street (gravel) sidewalks, between Broadway and Web- ster, $974 94
Glen Street (gravel)
sidewalks, between
Pearl and Flint, 559 54
Herbert Street (brick) sidewalk, 381 04
1,915 52
Total cost of sidewalks,
$4,922 14
Less assessments, $2,446 66
And bill collected from
B. & L. R.R., 14 41
2,461 07
Net cost to city,
$2,461 07
Advertising for proposals,
26 93
Total net expenditure,
2,488 00
Balance unexpended,
$512 00
WATERING STREETS ACCOUNT.
APPROPRIATION,
$3,000 00
Receipts from abutters and horse-
railroad companies, 2,953 16
Value of carts, stand-pipes, and hy-
drant-wrenches, Jan. 1, 1883, 2,604 00
Total credit,
$8,557 16
EXPENDITURES : -
For teaming,
$3,593 40
Water,
1,701 76
Repairs of carts,
234 69
Repairs of stand-pipes and hy- drants,
86 40
Hose,
48 00
Collecting,
25 00
Advertising,
10 80
Total expenditure,
$5,700 05
Amounts carried forward,
$5,700 05
$8,557 16
233
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON HIGHWAYS.
Amounts brought forwwrd, $5,700 05 $8,557 16
Depreciation in value of property, 245 00
Value of carts, stand-pipes, and hy- drant-wrenches, Dec. 31, 1883, 2,359 00
Total debit, 8,304 05
Balance unexpended, $253 11
PUBLIC PARK MAINTENANCE ACCOUNT.
APPROPRIATION, $1,500 00
Less expenditures by
the Committee on Public Property, $195 50
And expenditures by
the Committee on
Fuel and Street Lights, 45 26
240 76
Amount at the disposal of this Committee, $1,259 24
EXPENDITURES : --
For labor,
$538 62
Tools, and repairs of same,
37 07
Manure,
274 50
Trees,
46 00
Plants,
35 00
Crushed stone,
32 00
Painting summer-house,
52 35
Expressing,
. 1 00
Repairing fountain,
1 50
Assessment for sewer in Chauncey
Avenue,
214 52
Total expenditure,
1,232 56
$26 68
Balance unexpended,
234
ANNUAL REPORTS.
CENTRAL HILL IMPROVEMENT ACCOUNT.
APPROPRIATION,
$1,500 00
RECEIPTS AND CREDITS : -
For earth sold,
$56 70
Earth delivered on highways, 152 25
Stone delivered at
the crusher, 36 60
245 55
Total credit,
$1,745 55
EXPENDITURES : -
For relaying concrete walk,
$568 08
Labor and teaming in grading the hill, Manure,
1,157 33
18 00
Total expenditure,
1,743 41
Balance unexpended.
$2 14
STORMS.
The damage to the highways by storms has been very slight ; but, on the other hand, they have suffered largely from the long drouth of the summer and fall, and as it has been impracticable, on account of the prevailing dry weather, to make all the repairs thus made necessary, the road-beds in many of the streets will require attention early in the coming year.
· NEW STREETS.
Evergreen Avenue extension, from School Street to Thurston Street, was the only street accepted during the year. The abut- tors have opened and fenced it, and have laid a sewer in a part of it, but no work has been done upon it by the city.
Five new streets, all of which were accepted in 1882, have been constructed as follows, to wit : -
Austin Street, from Broadway to Mystic Avenue, has been
235
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON HIGHWAYS.
graded and prepared for macadamizing ; edgestones have been set and the gutters paved on both sides in its entire length, and brick sidewalks have been laid throughout the street, except in front of four estates on the easterly side.
Cottage Avenue, from Russell Street to Chester Street, has been graded and macadamized.
Herbert Street, from Chester Street to Day Street, has been graded and macadamized ; a brick sidewalk, with edgestones, has been constructed and the gutters have been paved on the south- westerly side.
Jaques Street, from Chauncey Avenue to Temple Street, has been graded and macadamized.
Newbury Street, from Holland Street to the Cambridge Line, has been graded and macadamized.
MYSTIC AVENUE.
The widening of Mystic Avenue on the southerly side, from the Park to Austin Street, has been completed; and from the Park to the Boston Line the avenue has been raised, ballasted and macadamized in a thorough manner, and a gravel sidewalk has been made on the southerly side.
No further work, except ordinary repairs, will be needed on this avenue between the Park and the Boston Line, until the abutters on the northerly side shall have filled their lands to grade.
RAILROAD BRIDGES.
No permanent improvements of railroad-bridges have been made during the year, but the Lowell Railroad Company has repaired its wooden bridges at Cross and School Streets.
DRINKING FOUNTAIN IN UNION SQUARE.
The iron drinking fountain in Union Square, which was erected at the close of the year 1882, has given perfect satisfaction to the committee, and, so far as we have heard, to the public generally. It is convenient and durable, and has needed no repairs. It cost $219.02, of which $24.65 was paid in 1882, and the remainder the
236
ANNUAL REPORTS.
past year. These figures are exclusive of the cost of the lantern and gas-piping, which has been paid from Street Lights Account.
There are other places in the city where fountains are needed, and we recommend that when they are provided, they be of a pattern similar to the one in Union Square.
CENTRAL HILL IMPROVEMENT.
An appropriation of $1,500 was made with which to begin the improvement of the City's land on Central Hill. Of this sum $568.08 was paid for the relaying with concrete, of the walk from School Street to the High School-House, which has been done in a substantial manner. The remainder of the appropriation, with the exception of a small balance, has been expended in grading three different sections of the hill in accordance with a plan by the City Engineer ; the first section being near Medford Street, the second in rear of the Unitarian Church, and the third on Highland Avenue near the Engine House, at which latter place the land has been brought to grade and covered with loam.
·
We recommend that an appropriation be made every year for the continuance of this improvement until it shall be completed, so that this piece of property may soon become so attractive as to aid in promoting the growth of our city.
PUBLIC PARK. .
On the first of April the public park on Broadway was placed in charge of this committee in all respects except the care of the lamps, which was given to the committee on fuel and street lights ..
We have had no special superintendent of the park, but it has been under the supervision of the superintendent of streets, the same as other branches of work in the department. A few plants and trees were set out in the spring, the trees, grass and walks have received proper care, and this fall a liberal quantity of manure has been spread.
-
237
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON HIGHWAYS.
SETTING TREES.
By an order dated March 21st, the superintendent of streets was authorized, under the direction of this committee, to set out trees furnished by citizens in the public streets of the city, the cost of setting to be charged to Highways Account. Under this order 133 trees have been set at a cost of $87.58.
This is a move in the right direction. The one thing more than any other that is needed to improve the appearance of our city is the planting of shade trees, and their increase should be encouraged in every proper way. One step further is necessary in this con- nection, and that is to ensure the speedy and adequate punishment of those who, either thoughtlessly or maliciously, mutilate the trees. Considerable of this mischief has been done, and some measure should be taken to check it.
CHARLES RIVER STREET RAILWAY COMPANY.
This company has, during the past year, extended its tracks from Putnam Street to a point one hundred feet east of Central Street, and has built a stable and a car-house on Summer, School and Avon Streets.
By this extension it gives the residents of Spring Hill a con- venient means of travel to the south and west ends of Boston, as well as to the principal centre of our own city, Union Square.
STONE CRUSHER.
The crusher has worked to excellent advantage, and has sup- plied all the broken or crushed stone used. Although it has had quite extensive repairs, yet the entire cost of the crushed stone, when ready for teaming to the streets, has been but a trifle more than one dollar per load ; the ledge and field stone delivered at the crusher, ready for breaking, being charged at sixty cents per load, which was the price paid for field stone delivered in 1882. We have not bought any stone for the crusher during the past year, but it has been supplied with stone from the Holland Street Ledge, and with field stone collected on the streets and carted by our own teams. It will be seen by the foregoing statement of
238
ANNUAL REPORTS.
the difference between the charges for, and cost of, materials, that if the stone from the Holland Street Ledge had been charged to the crusher at cost, the value of the production of crushed stone at $1.00 per load would have exceeded its cost, by the sum of $112.30. Fifty-three hundred and fourteen loads of crushed stone have been produced during the year.
STEAM ROAD ROLLER.
We renew our recommendation of last year that a steam-road- roller be purchased by the city as soon as possible, and reiterate all that was then said in its favor. We believe that with one, our roads could be built very much better and cheaper than they can be by the present method.
SUPERINTENDENT.
From the first of April to the sixth of June, the department was without a regular superintendent ; but during that interval Mr. Arthur Murley, for many years a foreman on the highways, was made by this committee the acting superintendent, and, as a sim- ple act of justice, we wish at this time to express our appreciation of the ability displayed by Mr. Murley in that position, and our sense of obligation to him for the faithful and careful manner in which he performed its duties.
239
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON HIGHWAYS.
STREETS IMPROVED.
NAME.
FROM
To
IMPROVEMENT.
FEET.
Aldersey
Walnut
Vinal Ave ..
Macadamized
500
Austin
Broadway.
Mystic Ave . ...
Graded.
716
Benedict .
Austin ..
Benedict Ave . .
100
Brick Yard Lane
Prospect ..
Broadway.
Holland
Webster Ave .. . Alewife Brook.
Macadamized. . Macadamized from Holland
400
Concord Avenue
Prospect
Marian
Macadamized in parts ... Graded and mac- adamized ..... Graded from
600
Cottage Avenue.
Russell.
Chester
Curtis.
Broadway.
Medford Line .. .
Broadway, 600
feet ; thence
m a cadamized to Conwell Ave., and the remainder re- paired.
2,300
Davis Square. . .
Easterly and. . . Broadway .. Pearl.
Southerly sides. Webster
Flint
Macadamized .... Macadamized. . . . Sidewalks grad- ed, and street
300
Herbert
Chester
Day.
macadamized. Graded and mac- adamized. . . Filled, graded and macadam- ized. .
1,190
· Mystic Avenue. .
Broadway Park
Austin
Widening on southerly side completed ....
1,900
66 66
Middlesex Ave.
Ballasted. and macadamized. Hard - pan and
1,000
66
Middlesex Ave.
Boston Line. . .
Medford. Newbury
Broadway Holland.
Cross. Cambridge Line
gravel . Remacadamized. Graded and mac- adamized .....
1,260
Poplar
Somerville Ave. Putnam.
Joy.
Filled and graded Macadamized.
1,800
66
Belmont
Hard - pan and
gravel
1,400
Cedar
Cherry
Macadamized. . .
450
Somerville Ave. . North side .... Somerville Ave. . South side .... Webster.
Prospect.
Laurel
Remacadamized .
3,400
Medford
Franklin
E. Camb. Line .. Cross.
66
2,300
66
1,050
·
to Clarendon
Ave., and re- paired from Clarendon Ave. to Ale- wife Brook ...
1,400
Glen . . . 66
700
Jaques
Chauncey Ave.
Temple.
2,100
500
600
Summer.
near Central Cedar.
338
66
240
ANNUAL REPORTS.
SIDEWALKS CONSTRUCTED, WHERE THE MATERIALS AND LABOR WERE FURNISHED BY THE CITY, AND ONE-HALF OF THE COST WAS ASSESSED UPON ABUTTING ESTATES.
Street.
From
To
Feet of Edge- stones.
Yards of Brick.
Aldersey
Walnut
Vinal Ave.
999.7
Austin
Broadway
Mystic Ave
1,540.13
Concord Ave.,
south side ...
Springfield
Prospect.
1,544.6
north side.
Marian
Newton.
Davis Square.
L. & A. R. R .. .
Highland Ave.
342.8
Glen
Broadway
Webster
1,423.4
66
Pearl
Flint.
621.8
Herbert,
south side
Chester.
Day
338.3
224.72
SIDEWALKS CONSTRUCTED, WHERE EDGESTONES AND BRICKS WERE FURNISHED BY THE ABUTTERS.
For
Street.
Feet of Edgestones.
Yards of Brick.
Quincy A. Vinal.
Aldersey
Emeline T. Coles.
Auburn Ave. 66
71.03
Wm. Daley
45.52
Thomas Fortier.
66
80.15
E. Kendall.
66
50.92
Sarah F. Nash.
66
40.61
James C. Stevens
66
36.37
Charles Trull.
66
38.59
26.66
Luke W. Farmer
26.66
Geo. H. Harlow
66
187.19
Emily J. Lund.
66
100.83
Isaiah W. Nowell.
66
24.78
H. G. Parker, Trustee
66
16.66
Charles B. Sanborn.
66
24.45
John F. Simonds
66
24.57
M. M. F. Tompkins
42.72
Francis H. Turner
27.10
Horace E. Tarbox
66
26.66
George D. Wemyss
66
33.33
Mary A. Wessells.
66
31.56
Thomas S. Wentworth.
35
Eliza S. Wright.
66
33.33
John Medina
Broadway and Curtis
209.6
Charles H. Porter.
Franklin
6.4
Rufus A. Junkins.
Glen
25
Sturtevant Bros
Hawkins
31.5
Alexander Foster
Laurel.
286.9
Mark Laighton.
Mystic Ave.
61.8'
T. F. McGann.
Putnam
39.2
Laura A. Haley
Walnut
38.2
Rev. C. T. McGrath
Washington 66
94.4
John J. Woods ..
19
.
.
39.32
George E. Turner.
Louisa and M. E. Doane.
Austin
26.66
Mark Laighton.
36.79
E. A. Gillette.
Day
L. & A. R. R. . . S
.
24.67
22.7
Concord Ave,,
-
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON HIGHWAYS.
241
DRIVEWAYS CONSTRUCTED.
FOR
STREET.
Quincy A. Vinal .
Emeline T. Coles
Thomas Geghan
Broadway.
Michael Casey .
Franklin Ave.
F. T. Kingman
Highland Ave.
B. P. Lovejoy
A. F. Carpenter
T. B. Blaikie
Park. Prospect Hill Ave.
E. B. Morgan
Somerville Ave. Webster Ave.
DRIVEWAYS RECONSTRUCTED.
FOR
STREET.
C. M. Gordon
B. H. Weeks .
J. Frank Miles
Marshall.
John Allen
F. F. Raymond
T. N. Snow
Fulton O' Brion
Union Square.
CROSSINGS CONSTRUCTED.
Davis Square, from Dover Street to Railroad Depot. Franklin Street, from Arlington Street, westerly.
School Street, across the end of Bradford Avenue. Somerville Avenue, across the end of Church Street extension. Summer Street, from Harvard Street, northerly.
Vinal Avenue, from Aldersey Street, westerly.
Vinal Avenue, from Pleasant Avenue, westerly.
Walnut Street, across the end of Aldersey Street.
CULVERTS CONSTRUCTED.
Broadway (wooden),
3
Curtis Street (wooden),
1
Medford Street (wooden),
2
Medford Street (stone),
1
Mystic Avenue (wooden),
2
Mystic Avenue (pipe),
1
16
.
Aldersey. Auburn Ave.
Union Glass Co.
Cross. Rush.
Pearl. 66
242
ANNUAL REPORTS.
DANGER SIGNS ERECTED.
Moore Street, corner of Mead Street. Oxford Street, corner of Central Street. Summit Avenue, corner of Walnut Street.
STREET SIGNS ERECTED.
Chester Avenue (2),
Greenville Street, Prospect Hill Avenue,
School Street, Vernon Street, Wheatland Street.
EDGESTONES AND PAVING.
Whole number of lineal feet of edgestones set (including 579 feet reset), 7,867 ; whole number of square yards of brick paving laid (including 511 yards relaid), 2,197; whole number of square yards of stone paving laid (including 489 yards relaid), 3,152.
For the Committee,
ASA DURGIN, Chairman, GEO. I. VINCENT, Clerk.
REPORT
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON SEWERS.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, Jan. 2, 1884.
Report accepted, and referred to the next City Council, to be printed in the Annual Reports of 1883. Sent down for concurrence.
CHARLES E. GILMAN, Clerk.
Concurred in. IN COMMON COUNCIL, Jan. 2, 1884.
DOUGLAS FRAZAR, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN COMMITTEE ON SEWERS, Jan. 2, 1884. To the Board of Aldermen of Somerville :
The following is respectfully submitted as the final report of this Committee for the year 1883 :-
APPROPRIATION, $9,600 00
Receipts and credits ; -
For uncollected bills of 1882, $24 75
Amount approved in
labor pay-roll and not called for, 1 75
Catch-basin curbs in
sidewalks,-received credit from'sidewalks account, 11 60
Fee for drainage of asylum buildings in- to Fitchburg Street sewer, 50 00 88 10
Value of materials on
hand Jan. 1, 1883, 312 47
Value of tools and prop-
erty, Jan. 1, 1883, 289 57
Total credit, $10,290 14
Expenditures ; -
For 13 sewers as
per
table,
10,708 71
Less assessments,
7,879 90
Cost to city,
$2,828 81
Amount carried forward, $2,828 81
246
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward, $2,828 81
Less amount with-
held from con- tractor, $490 17
And advertising paid for in 1882, 10 80
500 97
$2,327 84
1 10 catch-basins (average $70.93),
709 31
1 catch-basin in Summer Street, near horse-car stables, 117 07
Less portion of cost paid by Railroad Company, 58 53
58 54
1 man-hole, 30 54
Cleaning and relaying sewer in Chestnut Street and Linehan place, 299 03
Changing grade of a section of the Laurel Street sewer,
54 36
Repaving in Union Square over sewer built in 1882, 55 13
§ cost of removing deposit from mouth of Bridge Street sewer,
1,662 56
Repairing sewers and drains,
93 52
Flushing sewers,
248 76
Cleaning Somerville Avenue sewer east of Med- ford Street, 310 60
Cleaning other sewers,
71 15
Examining sewers,
16 62
Repairing catch-basins,
852 06
Changing lines and grades of catch-basins,
44 98
Cleaning catelı-basins,
840 23
Clearing mouths of catch-basins,
269 13
Repairing man-holes,
71 38
Changing lines and grades of man-holes,
62 47
Cleaning man-holes,
112 01
Examining man-holes,
1 00
Cleaning ditches, 4
50 99
Clearing deposit from reservoir in Temple Street, 63 00
Amount carried forward,
$8,305 21
247
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SEWERS.
Amount brought forward, $8,305 21
Inspecting sewer built in Evergreen Avenue
extension by the owners of abutting estates,
13 50
Books and stationery, 35 25
Tools and personal property,
191 30
Repairing tools and property,
24 70
Arranging tools and property,
9 00
Sundry small expenses,
20 68
Abatement of assessments of 1882 and 1883,
6 21
An unpaid bill of 1882 (P. Terry),
16 00
Depreciation in value of materials,
13 94
Depreciation in value of tools and property,
134 12
Value of materials on hand Dec. 31, 1883,
274 21
Value of tools and property on hand
Dec. 31, 1883, $344 75
Less purchases during the
year, as above, 191 30
153 45
Total debit,
$9,197 57
Balance unexpended,
$1,092 57
Bills remain unpaid, as follows : -
Balance favor Richard Falvey, for construct- ing sewer in Shawmut and Alston Streets, in 1882, $99 33
Balance favor Dennis O'Connell, for constructing sewer in Oakland Avenue and School Street, in 1883, 490 17
$589 50
Both of these sums are withheld, awaiting the result of claims for damages on account of personal injuries received by Henri- etta G. Stepp, in Shawmut Street, and Edgar F. Shaw, in Oak- land Avenue, during the construction of the above-named sewers.
248
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Work has been done for other departments, and credit has been received for the same, as follows :-
For the Board of Health (Health Department Ac- count), a stagnant pool at the lot on Cedar Street where ashes are dumped, has been filled, at a cost of $4 38
For the Committee on Public Property (School-house Incidentals Ac- count), the vaults at the Bell school have been repaired and the floors of the water-closets relaid, at a cost of $9 55
Also, the drains at the Highland school have been repaired at a cost of 32 93
42 48
For the Committee on Fire Depart- ment (Fire Department Ac- count), a new floor has been laid in the reservoir in Union Square, and the chimney of the same has been repaired and supplied with an iron cover, at a cost of 102 96
Also, iron covers have been placed on the reservoirs in Franklin, Mt. Vernon and Florence Streets, at a cost of 70 35
173 31
Total,
$220 17
In addition to the above, articles have been sold and private work has been done, for which the Treasurer has received payment or credit, as follows : -
Sold to the Committee on Highways (High- ways Account), 6 30
12 00
Sold to individuals,
Work done for individuals, 15 94
Total, $34 24
249
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SEWERS.
The only extraordinary expense incurred during the year, was the cost of removing the deposit from the mouth of the Bridge Street sewer. This work was done by the City of Cambridge in the spring, and a bill for & of the cost, amounting to $1,662.56, was forwarded to us, and approved in pay-roll.
Submitted herewith is a schedule of sewers built during the year.
For the Committee,
WILLIAM E. WELD, Chairman. GEO. I. VINCENT, Clerk.
SEWERS BUILT IN 1883.
Street.
From
To
Length in Feet.
Cost.
Assessment.
Cost to City.
Boston
Prospect Hill Ave.
Near Greenville St.
379.6
$471 96
$400 34
$71 62
Central
Oxford St. .
Highland Ave. ..
251.0
Highland Ave ..
Central St
Near Sycamore St.
376.0
944 14
805 05
139 09
Oxford .
End of old sewer.
Central St .
79.0)
Chester. .
Cross St. .
Near Medford St .
596.8 }
794 22
420 85
373 37
Cross
Alston St. ..
Chester St ....
73.25
Crescent. .
Washington St ..
Near Hadley St.
399.5 )
526 57
296 74
229 83
Cross
Southwesterly .
48.5
129 43
54 40
75 03
Dover
Near Orchard St.
175.0
213 64
205 26
8 38
Elm .
Northeasterly .
301.0
525 01
402 00
123 01
Grant .
Jaques St.
Sewall St. ..
258.5)
Sewail.
Grant St
Temple St.
680.5
2,861 60
1,643 40
1,218 20
Temple.
Sewall St.
Near Broadway.
278.3
Jaques .
Wheatland St.
Chauncey Ave.
252.0 }
659 53
499 44
160 09
Chauncey Ave.
Jaques St.
Southwesterly
227.35
Joseph
Newton St.
Adrian St. .
286.5)
Adrain
Joseph St. .
Marion St . ..
623.0
1,173 20
1,162 85
10 35
Marion
Adrain St
Near Concord Ave.
127.8)
Moore .
End of old sewer.
Near Holland St
339.2
704 15
500 66
203 49
Oakland Ave ...
School St ...
309.5 }
1,432,41
1,230 86
201 55
Summer
Ashland St
Near Cherry St.
211.8
272 85
258 05
14 80
7,017.3
$10,708 71
$7,879 90
$2,828 81
-
SEWERS REBUILT IN 1883.
Chestnut Laurel.
Linehan Ct . .
.| Near Poplar St .
234.0
$299 03
$299 03
. Near Sum mer St. ..
97.2
54 36
54 36
331.2
$353 39
$353 39
250
ANNUAL REPORTS.
66
Boston line. ..
11.55
Washington
End of old sewer.
Se 1001
Near Broadway
Near Maple Ave.
731.85
REPORT
OF TIIE
CITY ENGINEER.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, Jan. 30, 1884.
Referred to the Committee on Printing, with instructions to print the same in the Annual Reports of 1883. Sent down for concurrence.
CHARLES E. GILMAN, Clerk.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, Jan. 80, 1884.
Concurred in.
DOUGLAS FRAZAR, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
CITY ENGINEER'S OFFICE, Jan. 24, 1884. To His Honor the Mayor and City Council: -
GENTLEMEN : - In accordance with the provision of the city ordinance in relation to city engineering, I herewith present my annual report for the year 1883.
SEWERS.
Seven thousand and seventeen and three-tenths feet of sewers were built during the year, of which 1663.4 feet were of brick and 5343.9 feet of pipe. In these sewers were built thirty-three man-holes.
The following table will show the location, size, length, cost, assessment, etc., of each sewer : -
254
TABULAR STATEMENT OF SEWERS BUILT IN 1883.
LOCATION.
CONSTRUCTION.
COST.
Name of Street.
From
To
Built by
Materials.
Size in
Inches.
Man holes.
Inlets.
Length
in Feet.
Average
Average
Cost per
Foot.
Total Cost.
Assess- ment.
Cost to City.
Boston . .
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.