Report of the city of Somerville 1883, Part 14

Author: Somerville (Mass.)
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Somerville, Mass.
Number of Pages: 342


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Repairs,


116 40


EDGERLY.


Repairs and furniture, 325 30


FORSTER.


Insurance, $40 20


Improvement of water-closets and


basement, 581 66


New boilers and additional heating apparatus, 1,315 00


Constructing and furnishing two new school-rooms in third-story, 2,017 38


Ordinary repairs and furniture, 376 81


4,331 05


FRANKLIN.


Repairs and furniture, $365 05


Less ¿ cost of division fence paid Cambridge Railroad Company, 57 50


307 55


Amount carried forward,


$6,268 53


280


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Amount brought forward,


$6,268 53


HARVARD.


Repairs,


94 41


HIGHI.


Gas in hall,


$106 93


Insurance,


20 00


Fire-extinguisher for hall,


50 00


Repairs and furniture,


727 02


903 95


HIGHLAND.


Trees,


$24 00


Improving water-closets,


247 26


Re-arranging heating apparatus, cold. air boxes and drains,


661 44


Repairs and furniture,


170 69


1,103 39


JACKSON,


Trees,


$19 25


Repairs and furniture,


134 81


154 06


LINCOLN.


Trees,


$12 00


Repairs and furniture,


363 36


375 36


MORSE.


Repairs and furniture,


394 05


PRESCOTT.


Insurance, $40 00


Repairs and furniture, $259 52


Less one half cost of divi-


sion fence paid by Flor-


ence St. Union Stable Co., 16 00


243 52


283 52


Amount carried forward,


$9,577 27


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Amount brought forward,


$9,577 27


PROSPECT HILL.


Repairs,


241 92


SPRING HILL.


Repairs,


56 65


TUFTS STREET.


Rent (including the last quarter of


1882),


$250 00


Repairs,


25 36


275 36


UNION.


Repairs,


135 60


WEBSTER.


Repairs and furniture,


109 06


Carriage hire,


5 00


Total as above,


$10,400 86


EDGERLY SCHOOL-HOUSE ADDITION ACCOUNT.


APPROPRIATION :


Balance from the year 1882, $1,479 66


Appropriated in 1883, 610 00


Total credit,


$2,089 66


EXPENDITURES : -


To Mead, Mason & Co., carpenters, balance of account, 2,024 16


Mr. Mullen, for ventilating-pipe,


8 00


S. D. Kelley, for architect's ser- vices, balance of account, 50 00


Total expenditure,


2,082 16


Balance unexpended,


$7 50


$10,395 86


282


ANNUAL REPORTS.


MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNT.


EXPENDITURES : -


For City Hall expenses,-


Gas,


$341 32


Fuel,


251 45


Ice,


50 00


Repairs and furniture,


214 58


Incidentals,


122 19


$979 54


For ringing bells,


18 00


Repairing flag-staff, Union Square,


78 60


Painting flag-staff and fence on Central Hill Land,


31 50


Hoisting and lowering flag-staffs,


45 67


Pump in Union Square,


51 54


Preparing cemetery for Memorial Day,


12 00


Preparing ward-rooms for caucuses


and elections,


12 50


Total expenditure,


$1.229 35


The Edgerly School-house addition was completed early in the year, and the total cost of this improvement is as follows :-


Expended in 1882, as per detailed statement in last


$15.520 34


Expended the present year as hereinbefore stated, 2,082 16


Total cost,


$17,602 50


Annual Report,


As will be seen by the foregoing statement of expenditures from School-house Incidentals Account, a considerable sum has been paid from that account during the year for improvements of school property.


At the Forster school, that part of the hall in the third- story which remained undivided has been made into two school-rooms with a movable petition between, so that, when desirable, they may be used as one room ; the stairways leading to the third story have been moved from the end to the middle of


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the building, and an office for the master and suitable dressing- rooms have been provided. A new boiler with additional heat- ing apparatus has also been furnished, and the chimney has been enlarged. In the basement, the water-closets and their ap- proaches have been improved, so as to ensure good light and ven- tilation and freedom from offensive odors. This work has cost, as shown above, $3,914.04.


At the Highland school, an outlay of $908.70 has been made for improvements of the heating apparatus and water-closets ; making the amount of extraordinary expenses at these two school-houses, $4,822.74.


An improvement has just been completed at the High school- house, which must be paid for the coming year, as it was not fin- ished in season to have the bill approved in a pay-roll of the year 1883. The platform in the hall has been made smaller and moved forward, and two new school-rooms have been constructed in the rear of the platform and across the end of the building toward Highland Avenue. This will cost $725.00, as per con- tract with T. B. Blaikie & Son. Most of the furniture which will be required in these rooms is already provided as the hall has been used for school-purposes since the early part of the year.


Particular attention has been given to the wooden school-houses, and several of them, which for some time have needed repairs, have been put in good order.


On the first of April, the care of the lamps on the Public Park was transferred to the Committee on Fuel and Street Lights, and the management of the Park in all other respects was placed in the hands of the Committee on Highways ; it being the general opinion that the Highway Department, with all its facilities, could take care of the Park more economically than it could be done by this committee.


For the Committee,


J. FRANK WELLINGTON, Chairman. GEO. I. VINCENT, Clerk.


REPORT


OF THE


COMMITTEE ON FUEL AND STREET LIGHTS.


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 FUEL AND STREET LIGHTS, Dec. 31, 1883. To the City Council of Somerville : -


The Committee on Fuel and Street Lights submits the following final report :


Receipts and expenditures for the year ending December 31, 1883 : -


SCHOOL FUEL ACCOUNT.


APPROPRIATION,


$5,000 00


EXPENDITURES : -


For fuel to Beach Street School, $117 58


Bell


66 417 20


Bennett


66


170 87


Brastow


91 82


Cedar Street


66


31 55


Edgerly


66


590 00


Forster


66


553 20


Franklin


232 69


Harvard


14 03


High


470 07


Highland


66


578 61


Jackson


222 23


Lincoln


153 16


Morse


299 05


Prescott


66


467 31


Prospect Hill


199 31


Tufts Street


66


50 63


Union


20 24


Webster


174 94


Total for fuel,


$4,854 49


Amounts carried forward,


$4,854 49


$5,000 00


288


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Amounts brought forward, $4,854 49 $5,000 00


For advertising for proposals, $26 58


Order book, 8 50


35 08


Total expenditure, 4,889 57


Balance unexpended, $110 43


STREET LIGHTS ACCOUNT.


APPROPRIATION,


$7,500 00


RECEIPTS : -


For new street lamps erected (9@ $20), $18.0 00


New street-lamp erected in 1881, 18 00


Repairs of street-lamps


damaged by teams, 34 96


232 96


Total credit, $7,732 96


EXPENDITURES : -


For gas ; to Charlestown Gas


Co., $1,615 33


" Cambridge Gas Light Co., 1,905 35


$3,520 68


Lighting and care of lamps : - To Hugh Black- well, $1,958 50


" Globe Gas Light Co., 178 12


2,136 62


New street lamps,


212 61


Repairs of street lamps,


483 07


Supplies (naphtha, alco- hol, etc.,), 192 07


New attachments for oil-


lamps, 199 50


Changing oil-lamps to


gas-lamps, 40 30


Amounts carried forward,


$6,784 85


$7,732 96


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Amounts brought forward. 1 $6,784 85 $7,732 96


Resetting lamp-posts on


account of changing grades of streets, 20 85


Moving street-lamps,


20 02


Street-signs,


19 70


Incidentals (printing and advertising),


18 00


Total expenditure,


6,863 42


Balance unexpended,


$869 54


PUBLIC PARK MAINTENANCE ACCOUNT.


EXPENDITURES : -


For lighting and care of lamps,


$35 00


Oil,


8 26


Repairing lamps, 2 00


Total expenditure, $45 26


The fuel has been furnished by W. M. Hadley under two con- tracts, the first of which expired July 1, and the second covers the year ending July 1, 1884. The prices in the first contract were $5.35 per ton for furnace, egg and stove coal, $9.00 per cord for hard wood, and 6.25 per cord for soft wood. In the present con - tract the prices are $5.70 per ton for stove, $5.60 for egg, and $5.55 for furnace coal, $8.50 per cord for hard wood, and $6.00 per cord for soft wood.


At the beginning of the year the Globe Gas Light Company's attachments were used in the oil or naphtha street-lamps, and the city paid said company for lighting and taking care of them and for the naphtha burned, $1.75 per lamp per month. In the middle of February these attachments were removed, and the lamps were supplied with the " Eclipse " attachments at a cost of $3.50 each , and since that time these lamps have been lighted and taken care of by the same contractor who lights the gas lamps, and at the same price ; the naphtha being furnished by the city.


In the months of January and February the price paid for the


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ANNUAL REPORTS.


lighting and care of the gas lamps was fifty cents per lamp per month. March 1st, a contract for one year was made with Hugh Blackwell for the lighting and care of all the street lamps, both gas and oil for the sum of two cents per lamp per night, but as it after- ward appeared that Mr. Blackwell signed the contract under the impression that he was to light the lamps twenty nights each month, the rate of compensation was increased, by order of the City Council, to forty cents per lamp per month for the entire period of the contract.


The price paid for gas in January, February and March, was $2.25 per thousand feet, but on the first of April a reduction was effected to $2.15 per thousand, which is the price now paid.


Nine new lamps have been erected during the year, and the City Treasurer has received for each of them, the sum of twenty dollars from the petitioners. The cost of new street lamps ( exclusive of street signs), has been $210.61 ; but this amount includes the sum of $22.73 for the lamp on the fountain in Union Square, which was erected at the close of the year 1882, leaving $187.88 for the lamps erected this year, and to this sum must be added about $15.00 for piping two of them, the bill of which has not yet been approved, making the total cost of the nine new lamps about $202.88, or an average of $22.54 each.


The system of lighting has been the same as in former years ; viz. to light until twelve o'clock every cloudy night, or when there is no moon.


The following is a statement of the street lamps in the city : -


GAS LAMPS.


Naphtha Lamps.


Total.


Charlestown Gas.


Cambridge Gas.


Lamps in the city January 1, 1883 .


159


185


55


399


Lamps erected during the year


3


3


3


9


Present number


162


188


58


408


April 1st, the lighting and care of the lamps on the public park on Broadway, was placed in charge of this Committee, and the care of the park in all other respects was placed in charge of the


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Committee on Highways. It was thought that these lamps might be lighted by the same party who should light the street lamps and in connection with that work ; but this has proved impractica- ble from the fact that they can not be approached with a horse and wagon, and as it is undesirable to divide the management of a single appropriation between two committees unless some advantage is to be gained, we would recommend that hereafter the lighting and care of the lamps on the park be in charge of the Committee on Highways.


We regret to report that on the 28th of the present month Mr. Hugh Blackwell, the contractor for the lighting of the street lamps, deceased after a brief illness. Mr. Blackwell was a long- tried servant of the city, he having had the care of the lamps ever since their first introduction, some twenty-five years ago.


In regard to the lighting and care of the street lamps for the remainder of the term of the present contract (to March 1, 1884), we report, that Mr. R. T. Blackwell, who, as executor of the estate of Mr. Hugh Blackwell, has superintended the lighting of the lamps since the decease of his father, declines to carry out the contract for the unexpired term, on the ground that he cannot afford to do the work at the contract price.


For the Committee,


QUINCY A. VINAL, Chairman, GEO. I. VINCENT, Clerk.


REPORT


OF THE


CITY SOLICITOR.


CITY OF SOMERVILLE.


IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, Feb 27, 1884.


Referred to the Committee on printing, to be printed with the Annual Reports for 1883. Sent down for concurrence.


CHARLES E. GILMAN, Clerk.


Concurred in.


IN COMMON COUNCIL, Feb. 28, 1884.


DOUGLAS FRAZER, Clerk.


CITY OF SOMERVILLE.


SOMERVILLE, Feb. 15, 1884,


To His Honor the Mayor and the City Council of Somerville:


GENTLEMEN : - I beg leave to present the following as my Eighth Annual Report :


Early in the year I was instructed by you to confer with the counsel of the Boston and Albany Railroad, as to the failure of that corporation to operate their gates at Somerville Avenue, when their trains were passing that point upon the Grand Junc- tion Railroad. I succeeded, without the expense of litigation, in procuring a reference of the troubles between the Fitchburg and Albany roads, which had caused the disuse of the gates, to General Superintendent Furber, of the Boston and Maine Railroad, who has made an award, in accordance with the terms of which the gates are now satisfactorily tended, and public travel at that point adequately protected.


Two special acts of the General Court have been enacted dur- ing the year, in which the city has received certain advantages, to wit : Chapter 5, of 1883, entitled, An Act authorizing the town of Medford to lay water-pipes in Boston Avenue, in which it is provided that " said town shall, at its own expense, erect and maintain a hydrant at some suitable point upon the line of said avenue in said Somerville, from which said city shall have a right to take, free of expense, whatever water it may require for the extinguishment of fires or the watering of streets," and Chap- ter 87, of 1883, authorizing the Mayor and Aldermen of Somer- ville, to construct a sewer in Cambridge and Crescent Streets, in Boston. At the request of City Treasurer Cole, and with the co- operation of our own Committee on Legislative matters, and of the City Solicitors of Boston and Cambridge, I have been enabled to secure an amendment of Section 58, of Chapter 12 of the Public Statutes, extending the time within which a city or town may sell


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ANNUAL REPORTS.


real estate held under a sale, or taken for non-payment of taxes, the amendment appearing in Chapter 101, of 1883.


During the year I have attended all the meetings of the Committee on Claims, and have investigated with the Committee the following claims : Of Henrietta G. Stepp, for personal injuries received upon Shawmut Place ; of Daniel Splane, for personal injuries re- ceived February 15, 1883 ; of Edward Cunningham, for damages received by the bursting of a water-pipe on Maple Street; of E. Markland White, with reference to a tax title upon an estate on Elm Street ; of Ellen Crowley, for personal injuries received upon Broadway ; of Michael Moran, for injuries received at corner of Medford and Ward Streets ; of James Gavin and Lucy Galla- gher, for gravel taken from Poplar Street, near Somerville Ave- nue; of Moses W. Thompson, for personal injuries received upon Washington Street ; of L. J. Fowler, for personal injuries re- ceived upon Concord Avenue ; of Morris E. Kanaly, for injuries to his horse upon Dickinson Street ; and of Edgar F. Shaw, for personal injuries received upon Oakland Avenue.


These cases were disposed of as follows :-


Leave to withdraw was given to Splane, Crowley, Moran, Thompson, Fowler, Kanaly and Shaw.


The cases of Cunningham, Gavin and Gallagher were settled at a trifling expense. No action was taken in the case of White.


Mrs. Stepp and Mrs. Crowley have each brought suit against the city. Mr. Shaw has sued the contractor, instead of the city.


During the year, the following cases have been disposed of, or advanced toward settlement : -


The four cases of Reed et al, v. City of Somerville, were heard in the Superior Court at Cambridge soon after my last annual report, upon a motion for revision of cost, but the Court was of opinion that it had exhausted its jurisdiction in the matter, and the motions were accordingly overruled. I immediately sued out writs of error in the cases and have recently submitted the ques- tions of law arising under them to the Supreme Court at its law term recently held at Boston, whose decision, which-ever way it may be, will probably render any further legal proceedings un- necessary.


The case of the City of Somerville for bridges, etc., v. the Bos- ton and Lowell Railroad Company, is gradually approaching the


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point where, either by the action of one or both of the parties, the improvements sought for by the suit will be realized.


For the same reasons stated in my last annual report, I have nothing new to report in the case of the City of Somerville v. the Fitchburg Railroad Company for grade crossing at Sacramento Street.


The cases of Parker, Trustee of the Klous estate, in the Supreme Court for Middlesex County, and before the Middlesex County Commissioners, for reasons stated in my last annual report, remain in the same condition as at that time.


During the past year the costs to which the city became entitled by the verdict in its favor in the suit of Sanborn v. the City, the year previous, have been received from Mr. Sanborn's executors and paid into the city treasury.


At the calling of the General Docket, recently, in the Superior Court at Cambridge, counsel associated with General Butler for the plaintiff in the case of Squire v. City of Somerville, informed the court that it was the plaintiff's intention soon to proceed with the case before the auditor. Otherwise the case would have been dropped from the docket for want of prosecution.


The case of William Sullivan against the city to recover $15,000 claimed to be due Daniel F. McCarty and Mary Ann McCarty, for whose benefit the suit was brought, has been terminated in favor of the city.


The case of Cunningham against the city, for personal injuries on Washington street, has been dropped from the docket of the court, for want of prosecution.


The case of Brennan v. the City remains unchanged, and the city can have no interest in disturbing it.


The ten cases, called the Columbus Avenue betterment cases, were tried last June, occupying three days, and under the ruling of the court that no part of the sum paid by the city for land damages could be asssesed upon the abutters, under the circum- stances of these particular cases, the assessments were largely re- duced. I, of course, excepted to the ruling of the court, and the cases were submitted recently by me to the Supreme Court upon the exceptions then taken.


The case of Whitcher v. the City of Somerville, for damages to horse and carriage by driving against one of the posts in Washington street near the Milk-Row Crossing, was tried Decem-


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ber 26 and 27, 1883, and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff of $108, which if finally sustained by the Supreme Court, where the case has been taken on exceptions, will be paid by the Middlesex Horse Railroad Company. The case is a grave one, as involving the possible primary liability of the city for such accidents, and we shall be fortunate in obtaining the decision of the Supreme Court in this case, without expense to the city.


Respectfully submitted,


SAMUEL C. DARLING, City Solicitor.


REPORT


OF


THE CITY CLERK.


CITY OF SOMERVILLE.


IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, March 8, 1884.


Referred to the Committee on printing, to be printed with the Annual Reports for 1883. Sent down for concurrence.


CHARLES E. GILMAN, Clerk.


Concurred in.


IN COMMON COUNCIL, March 8, 1884.


DOUGLAS FRAZER, Clerk.


CITY OF SOMERVILLE.


REPORT OF CITY CLERK.


Annual report of the receipts of his office for the year ending Dec. 31, 1883 ; also the registration of marriages, births, and deaths for the same period.


RECEIPTS FOR YEAR ENDING DEC. 31, 1883.


Recording mortgages and assignments,


$233 50


Licensing 649 dogs @ .20, 129 80


8 auctioneers' licenses @ 2 00, 16 00


48 junk licenses, @ 2 00, 96 00


262 marriage certificates issued in 1883,


131 00


$606 30


All of which has been paid to the city treasurer, and his receipt taken for the same.


MARRIAGES IN 1883.


Number of intentions issued in 1883,


262


Less than last year, 4


Marriages registered in 1883, 266


NATIONALITY OF THOSE REGISTERED.


Both parties American, 148


Both parties foreign,


53


American groom and foreign bride,


42


Foreign groom and American bride, 23


- - 266 coup


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ANNUAL REPORTS.


First marriage of


457 persons.


71


Third 66


4


= 266 couples.


532


Oldest person married,


68


Youngest 66


16


Youngest couple united in marriage, Bridegroom,


17


Bride,


16


BIRTHS.


Number of births registered in 1883,


577


Less than last year,


184


Males,


277


Females, 300


Born of American parents,


272


66 foreign parents,


194


American father and foreign mother, 54


foreign father and American mother, 57


577


Number cases of twins,


2


DEATHS.


Number of deaths in Somerville in 1883,


544


More than last year,


72


Number of males,


273


Number of females,


271


Under 10 years of age,


205


Between 10 and 20,


27


66 20 “ 30,


46


30 “ 40,


34


40


50,


46


50


60.


40


66


60 66 70,


58


70 " 80,


55


66


80 " 90,


27


66 90 " 100,


3


Unknown,


3


Oldest person deceased 90 years 9 months and 15 days.


544


Second 66


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NATIONALITY.


Born in Somerville,


168


Born in other places in the United States,


244


Foreign birth, Unknown,


129


3


544


Number of deaths returned by the undertakers, 544, and occurred · as follows : -


January,


40


July, 61


February,


37


August,


54


March,


46


September, 39


April,


58 October,


40


May,


45 November,


29


June,


48 December,


47


544


For classification of diseases, see Report of Board of Health.


CHARLES E. GILMAN, City Clerk.


REPORT


OF THE


INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS.


,


CITY OF SOMERVILLE.


IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, Feb. 13, 1884.


Referred to the Committee on Printing, to be printed with the Annual Reports for 1883. Sent down for concurrence.


CHARLES E. GILMAN, Clerk.


IN COMMON COUNCIL, Feb. 14, 1884.


Concurred in.


DOUGLAS FRAZAR, Clerk.


CITY OF SOMERVILLE.


To His Honor the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen :-


GENTLEMEN :- Your Inspector of Buildings will herewith pre- sent his annual report :-


The past year has been one of activity in building. Your in- spector has found builders willing to comply with the ordinance in most cases, though there have been a few exceptions, but after an explanation, the ordinance has been complied with.


There have been one hundred and twenty-nine houses built the past year, besides a large number of additions, and one horse-car stable and car-house, thus adding quite a large amount to the tax- able property of the city.


The buildings are divided among the different wards, as fol- lows :-


Ward 1,


23 houses.


2,


45


66


66


3,


38


66


66


4,


.


23 66


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RECOMMENDATION :


As the present ordinance is not definite in some particulars, I would recommend that it be amended so as to be more effective.


All of which is most respectfully submitted.


DAVID A. SANBORN,


Inspector of Buildings.


SOMERVILLE, Dec. 31, 1883.


CITY GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS FOR 1884.


MAYOR, JOHN A. CUMMINGS. Residence, 16 Wallace Street ; office, City Hall.


ALDERMEN. LEVI F. S. DAVIS, President.


WARD ONE.


LEVI F. S. DAVIS


NATHAN A. FITCH


Pearl Street.


Franklin Street.


WARD TWO.


SAMUEL G. A. TWYCROSS


FRANKLIN R. PERRY


Warren Avenue.


Pleasant Avenue.


WARD THREE.


ALBION A. PERRY


HIRAM D. SMITH


.


Broadway.


Cross Street.


WARD FOUR.


IRVING L. RUSSELL DANIEL H. HAYWARD


Broadway.


Cherry Street.


CLERK OF BOARD OF ALDERMEN. CHARLES E. GILMAN.


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COMMON COUNCIL. JOSIAH B. MAYHEW, President.


. WARD ONE.


MOSES G. STEELE


FRANK A. TITUS


ELBRIDGE G. PARK


JOHN MANNING


Rush Street. Flint Street.


Arlington Street.


Medford Street.


WARD TWO.


DANA W. BENNETT


SAMUEL W. HOLT


PATRICK J. WHITE .


CHARLES A. WOODBERRY


Prospect Street. Washington Street. Bow Street.


Berkeley Street.


WARD THREE.


JOSIAH B. MAYHEW


DANIEL C. STILSON


JOHN F. KENNARD


HARRISON ALDRICH


Earle Street.


· Tennyson Street.


· Howe Street.


Gilman Street.


WARD FOUR.


ISRAEL C. EARLE .


Irving Street.


GEORGE R. EMERSON


ALBERT M. ROBINSON


HERBERT C. HALL .


.


· Broadway.


. Belmont Street.


Summer Street.


CLERK OF COMMON COUNCIL.


DOUGLAS FRAZAR.


JOINT STANDING COMMITTEES FOR 1884.


ACCOUNTS. - Aldermen Twycross, Hayward ; Councilmen Park, Aldrich, Woodberry.


BURIAL GROUNDS. - Aldermen Perry (Ward Two), Hayward ; Councilmen Steele, Stilson, Hall.


CITY ENGINEERING. - Aldermen Russell, Fitch ; Councilmen Steele, Bennett, Kennard.


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CLAIMS. - His Honor the Mayor, ex-officio ; the President of the Council, ex-officio; Alderman Fitch ; Councilmen Hall, White.


FINANCE. - His Honor the Mayor, ex-officio; the President of the Council, ex-officio; Aldermen Smith, Twycross ; Councilmen Park, Bennett, Robinson, Titus.


FIRE DEPARTMENT .- Aldermen Davis, Perry (Ward Two) ; Councilmen Robinson, Kennard, Holt.


FUEL AND STREET LIGHTS. - Aldermen Russell, Fitch ; Council- men Holt, Aldrich, Hall.


HIGHWAYS .- Aldermen Smith, Russell; Councilmen Steele, Holt, Manning.


LEGISLATIVE MATTERS .- His Honor the Mayor, ex-officio, the President of the Council, ex-officio; Aldermen Perry (Ward Three) ; Councilmen Titus, Bennett.


ORDINANCES .- Aldermen Perry ( Ward Three), Davis ; Council- men Bennett, Emerson, Park.


PRINTING .- Aldermen Davis, Russell ; Councilmen Aldrich, Woodberry, Earle.


PUBLIC PROPERTY .- Aldermen Perry (Ward Three), Perry (Ward Two) ; Councilmen Titus, Stilson, Emerson.


SOLDIERS' RELIEF .- Aldermen Twycross, Hayward ; Council- men Stilson, Manning, Earle.


WATER .- Aldermen Hayward, Davis; the President of the Council ; Councilmen White, Hall.


COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN.


(STANDING COMMITTEES.)


ELECTIONS .- Aldermen Perry (Ward Two), Perry (Ward Three).


ENROLLED ORDINANCES .- Aldermen Hayward, Fitch.


LICENSES .- Aldermen Hayward, Perry (Ward Two).


POLICE .- His Honor the Mayor, ex-officio; Aldermen Fitch, Smith.


SEWERS .- Aldermen Perry (Ward Three), Fitch, Twycross.


STATE AID .- Aldermen Russell, Davis, Smith, Twycross.


(SPECIAL COMMITTEE.)


BUILDING PERMITS. - Aldermen Smith, Davis.


312


ANNUAL REPORTS.


STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE COMMON COUNCIL.


ELECTIONS AND RETURNS .- Councilmen Manning, Earle, Emer- son.


ENROLLED ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS. - Councilmen Titus, Woodberry, White.


SCHOOL COMMITTEE.


JOHN A. CUMMINGS, Mayor, Chairman, ex-officio. JOSIAH B. MAYHEW, President of the Common Council, ex-officio.


(Term, three years.) WARD ONE.


JOHN H. BUTLER (elected 1881) .


HENRY M. MOORE (elected 1882).


HORACE C. WHITE, M.D., (elected 1883)


Pearl Street.


Myrtle Street.


Pinckney Street.


WARD TWO.


OREN S. KNAPP (elected 1881) .


School Street.


REV. GEO. W. DURELL (elected 1882)


MRS. CORNELIA B. SKINNER (elected 1883) .


High Street.


WARD THREE.


HENRY F. WOODS (elected 1881)


Sycamore Street.


NORMAN W. BINGHAM (elected 1882) . School Street.


Q. E. DICKERMAN (elected 1883)


Central Street.


WARD FOUR.


MARTIN W. CARR (elected 1883 for unexpired term) Craigie Street. PROF. BENJ. G. BROWN (elected 1882) Professors' Row.


H. P. MAKECHNIE, M.D. (elected 1883) · Elm Street.


Superintendent and Secretary, J. H. DAVIS, Myrtle Street.


PRINCIPAL ASSESSORS. (Term, three years.)


STILLMAN H. LIBBY (elected 1883), Chairman . Elm Street.


GEORGE W. HADLEY (elected 1882)


. Perkins Street.


BENJAMIN F. THOMPSON (elected 1884) · . Summit Avenue.


Summer Street.


313


CITY GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS FOR 1884.


ASSISTANT ASSESSORS.


(Term one year.)


JOHN C. TENNEY, Ward One Mystic Avenue.


ADONIRAM J. TAYLOR, Ward Two Aldersey Street.


RUEBEN A. MELVIN, Ward Three


Bonair Street.


SAMUEL T. RICHARDS, Ward Four


Summer Street.


BOARD OF HEALTH. (Term, Physician three years, other members two years.)


GEORGE A. KIMBALL (appointed 1883), Chairman,


Office, City Hall.


GEORGE C. SKILTON, (appointed 1884). Walnut Street.


THOMAS M. DURELL, M.D. (appointed 1882) . Bow Street


Clerk, GEORGE I. VINCENT, Office, City Hall. Inspector, WILLIAM H. BRINE, 40 Houghton St.


COMMISSIONERS OF THE SINKING FUNDS.


(Term, three years.)


NATHAN TUFTS (elected 1883). . Summer Street.


HENRY F. WOODS (elected 1882)


Sycamore Street.


EZRA D. CONANT (elected 1884). Pearl Street.


Treasurer, AARON SARGENT, Broadway.


OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.


JOHN A. CUMMINGS, Mayor, chairman, ex-officio. JOSIAH B. MAYHEW, Prest. Common Council.


(Term three years.)


* ANSEL LEWIS (elected 1883). . Webster Street.


THOMAS CUNNINGHAM (elected 1884). Oak Street.


JESSE J. UNDERHILL (elected 1883 for unexpired term),


Gilman Street.


* Deceased February 18, 1884, and GEORGE W. WASHBURN elected to fill vacancy.


314


ANNUAL REPORTS.


MYSTIC WATER BOARD. (Term, one year.)


J. ORLIN HAYDEN, President, Hill Building, Union Square.


AARON R. COOLIDGE,


Columbus Avenue.


JAMES E. WHITAKER,


Sycamore Street.


WALTER S. BARNES,


Highland Avenue.


JOHN F. NICKERSON,


Flint Street.


Superintendent of Water Works, NATHANIEL DENNETT. Office, Prospect Street, cor. Somerville Avenue.


TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.


(Term, three years. )


REV. H. H. BARBER (elected 1883), Prest. WILLIAM E. WELD (elected 1884). .


Chestnut Court.


Harvard Street.


WILLIAM VEAZIE (elected 1884).


Walnut Street.


WILLIAM H. BRINE (elected 1883). Highland Avenue.


MARK F. BURNS (elected 1884). Perkins Street.


CHARLES S. LINCOLN (elected 1882). Laurel Street.


THOMAS J. BUFFUM (elected 1882). Florence Street.


J. HENRY FLITNER (elected 1883) . Day Street.


CHRISTOPHER E. RYMES (elected 1882) .


Summer Street.


Librarian, HARRIET A. ADAMS. Assistant Librarian, LIZZIE A. STEVENS.


CITY CLERK AND CLERK OF BOARD OF ALDERMEN. CHARLES E. GILMAN. Office, City Hall.


CITY TREASURER AND COLLECTOR OF TAXES. JOHN F. COLE. Office, City Hall.


CITY MESSENGER. JAIRUS MANN. Office, City Hall.


315


CITY GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS FOR 1884.


CITY SOLICITOR. SAMUEL C. DARLING. Office, 18 Rogers Building, Boston.


CITY AUDITOR. DOUGLAS FRAZAR. Office, City Hall.


CITY ENGINEER. GEORGE A. KIMBALL. Office, City Hall.


SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS. FRANK G. WILLIAMS, Albion Street. Office, City Hall.


CHIEF OF POLICE, MELVILLE C. PARKHURST, Police Station, Bow Street.


CHIEF ENGINEER OF FIRE DEPARTMENT. JAMES R. HOPKINS. Office, Engine House, Highland Ave.


INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS. DAVID A. SANBORN, Prospect Street.


CITY PHYSICIAN. THOMAS M. DURELL, M. D., 14 Bow Street.


CLERK OF ASSESSORS AND COMMITTEES.


GEORGE I. VINCENT. Office, City Hall.


316


ANNUAL REPORTS.


ASSISTANT CLERK OF ASSESSORS AND COMMITTEES. WILLIAM P. MITCHELL. Office, City Hall.


CONSTABLES.


JAIRUS MANN.


ROBERT R. PERRY.


HORACE B. RUNEY.


CHAS. C. FOLSOM.


JOHN S. MCADOO.


W.M. H. BRINE (Houghton St.). WM. D. HAYDEN.


SAMUEL R. Dow.


JOSEPH J. GILES.


GEORGE CULLIS.


FIELD DRIVERS.


CHAS. C. FOLSOM.


JOHN E. FULLER.


JUDSON W. OLIVER.


GEORGE H. CARLETON.


FRED. W. SLADE. DENNIS KELLY.


GEORGE L. SMITH.


CHARLES A. SMALL.


FENCE VIEWERS.


DAVID A. SANBORN. WARREN POLLARD. CHAS. D. ELLIOT.


POUND-KEEPER. CHAS. A. SMALL.


SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. NOAH HARDING, Sycamore Street.


SURVEYOR OF WOOD, BARK, AND LUMBER. SAMUEL T. LITTLEFIELD.


SURVEYOR OF STONE WORK.


JAMES R. HOPKINS.


CITY GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS FOR 1884.


317


SURVEYOR OF STONE, BRICK, AND PLASTER_WORK. ALFRED M. SIBLEY.


SURVEYOR OF MECHANICS' WORK, CHAS. D. ELLIOT.


PUBLIC WEIGHERS.


. W. DANFORTH.


PATRICK O'BRIEN.


UNDERTAKERS.


HORACE B. RUNEY. WM. A. FLAHERTY.


E. H. MARSH.


A. L. SANBORN. PATRICK RAFFERTY. P. H. RAFFERTY. H. D. RUNEY. THOMAS J. BARKER.


POLICE DEPARTMENT.


M. C. PARKHURST, Chief.


R. R. PERRY, Captain. S. R. Dow, Sergeant.


C. C. FOLSOM, Sergeant.


C. C. CAVANAGH.


S. C. ROLLINS.


P. W. SKINNER. S. A. BROWN. JOHN HAFFORD.


JOHN E. FULLER.


F. W. SLADE.


IVAN LAIGHTON.


A. L. STAPLES.


M. H. KINSLEY.


ALBERT FISK. J. W. OLIVER.


GEO. W. BEAN.


GEO. L. SMITH.


EDWARD M. CARTER.


I. S. CAMPBELL. EDWARD MCGARR. G. A. BODGE. DENNIS KELLY. GEO. H. CARLETON.


M. C. PARKHURST, Lock-up Keeper.


318


ANNUAL REPORTS.


MEETINGS.


BOARD OF ALDERMEN. Second and fourth Wednesday evenings of each month.


COMMON COUNCIL.


Thursday evenings following the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month.


SCHOOL COMMITTEE. Last Monday evening of each month,


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INDEX.


City Government and Officers for 1883


66 66 66 1884 309


Mayor's Inaugural Address 13


Report of the Board of Health 185


66 City Physician 209


66 Chief Engineer of Fire Department 265


66 City Clerk . 299


66


" Engineer 251


66


" Solicitor


293


66


" Treasurer and Collector of Taxes


27


66 Committee on Fire Department .


66


66 Fuel and Street Lights


285


66 Highways .


219


66


66 Public Property 275


Sewers 243


66 Inspector of Buildings 305


66


Overseers of the Poor 175


66 School Committee . 127


Somerville Mystic Water Board 163


Trustees of the Public Library 213


123 259


66 Commissioners of the Sinking Funds


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