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1,400
Vine
Somerville Ave.
Beacon St.
Private
25 & 40
1,400
Virginia .
Aldrich St.
Jasper St.
Private
10
-
350
Wallace
Holland St. Bow St. .
Broadway .
Public
40
3,830
Ward .
Medford St.
Earl St.
Private
30
610
Warren
Medford St.
Cambridge Line
Private
30
100
Warren
Avenue
Union Sq.
Columbus Ave.
Public
40
650
630
Washington
Charlest'n Line
Cambridge Line
Public
60 to 100
7,250
350
Waverly
Washington St.
Southerly
Private
35
200
Weare
Curtis St.
Northwesterly
Private
40
700
Webster
Franklin St.
Cross St.
Public
40
1,000
Webster Avenue
Union Sq. . Walnut St.
Southeasterly
Private
40
300
Wesley
Otis St.
Southwesterly .
Private
30
150
West
Broadway
Heath St. .
Private
30
250
West
Hawthorne St.
Arlington B. R.R ..
Private
30
590
Weston Avenue
Clarendon Ave.
Broadway.
Private
40
525
Wheatland .
Broadway .
Mystic Ave.
Private
40
1,350
Whipple .
Hawthorne St.
Arlington B. R.R.
Private
30
575
Wigglesworth.
Bonair St. .
Southwesterly
Private
40
500
William
Chandler St. .
Elm St.
Private
40
400
Williams Court
Porter St. .
Northwesterly
Private
30
150
Willoughby
Central St.
Sycamore St.
Private
30
400
Willow Avenue
Elm St.
Broadway
Public
50
3,440
150
Wilson Avenue
Broadway
Cedar St.
Private
20
475
Wilton
Lowell St.
Lawrence St.
Private
35
470
Winslow Avenue
Elm St.
Grove St. .
Private
40
470
Winter
Elm St.
Holland St.
Private
30
430
Winthrop Ave.
Broadway
Mystic Ave.
Public
50
1,170
600
Wyatt .
Concord Ave.
Northerly
Private
40
400
Wyatt Court .
Wyatt St.
Westerly
Private
13
200
Total
225,152
168,596
·
Southeasterly. .
Private
40
Washington Av. Water .
South St.
Northerly
Private
25
250
Cambridge Line
Public
49.5
1,950
Wellington Ave.
Wesley Park
Wesley Sq.
.
Northeasterly .
Private
40
405
Warwick.
Cedar St.
Broadway .
Public
40
1,350
Walnut
Washington St.
Northerly .
Private
18
,40
Vernon
Jenny Lind Ave.
Private
40
200
Village
Dane St. .
Public, 42.64 miles; private, 31.90 miles.
30
Woodbine
Centre St.
Lowell St.
Private
Willow Place .
Cambridge Line
South St. .
Private
25
·
WIDTH
LENGTH.
Public
40
REPORT
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON FIRE DEPARTMENT.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, Jan. 3, 1889.
Accepted and referred to the next city council, to be printed in the annual reports. Sent down for concurrence.
GEORGE I. VINCENT, Clerk.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, Jan. 3, 1889.
Concurred in.
CHAS. S. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN COMMITTEE ON FIRE DEPARTMENT, Jan. 3, 1889.
To the City Council.
The following is the final report of the Committee on Fire Department for the year ending Dec. 31, 1888 :
The annual report of the Chief Engineer, herewith presented, gives all information as to the organization, equipment and operation of the department during the year.
A new hose wagon, with light ladders attached, costing $496.05, has been substituted for the hose carriage, with the old-fashioned reel, heretofore used by the company in Ward One.
Life saving apparatus has been provided, as required by Chapter 310, Section 1, of the laws of 1888, at a cost of $130.
Five horses have been bought and the same number of old ones sold.
The " R. A. Vinal " ladder-truck, built in 1874, is so exceed- ingly heavy that it has been out of service for some time past, and the old " Prescott " truck has been used temporarily. A suitable truck has been ordered of Messrs. Teele & Co. of Med- ford, but has not, as yet, been delivered.
In pursuance of an order passed by the City Council, and approved Sept. 28, a contract was made Oct. 8, with Messrs. Coon & Hall, for the erection of a brick hose-house on the City's land at the corner of Somerville Avenue and Lowell Street, in accordance with plans by E. K. Blaikie, architect, for the sum of $9,837. The first floor is on, and the walls are in process of erection.
This building was located on Somerville Avenue, contrary to the recommendation of this committee, the committee believing it should have been placed on Spring Hill.
312
ANNUAL REPORTS.
The appropriation, receipts, and expenditures are shown by the following statements :
FIRE DEPARTMENT ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
$27,000 00
Receipts for property sold
100 33
Total credit
$27,100 33
DEBIT.
Expenses :
For salaries of permanent men . $9,780 00
« . . call-men 4,898 09
substitute drivers . .
487 42
improvements and repairs of apparatus and vehicles
561 06
improvements and repairs of buildings and furniture and new furniture · ·
1,299 28
new vehicles and apparatus .
626 05
maintenance and extension of fire alarm telegraph . ·
1,261 10
hose and hose pipes and re- pairing same
52 96
new horses, - five old ones given in trade and
1,185 00
grain and feed
600 07
hay and straw
906 72
horse shoeing
256 50
horse doctoring and medicine
131 35
harnesses, and repairing same
242 60
fuel
1,065 79
supplies
186 16
water for hydrants
1,848 00
" department build-
ings .
105 00
Amounts carried forward
$25,493 15
$27,100 33
313
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Amounts brought forward $25,493 15 $27,100 33
gas
378 80
insurance
15 00
washing and ironing
136 30
maintenance of reservoirs
2 00
" hand fire-ex-
tinguishers
50 42
telephone
74 40
incidentals
508 81
ice
85 00
Total debit
$26,743 88
Balance unexpended .
$356 45
HOSE HOUSE IN WARD FOUR ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
$10,000 00
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
For committee's travelling ex- penses to and from Wor- cester ·
$ 13 40
Coon & Hall, on account of
contract
2,500 00
Total debit
$2,513 40
Balance unexpended .
$7,486 60
For the committee, BERNARD W. LAWRENCE, Chairman. GEO. I. VINCENT, Clerk.
REPORT
OF THE
CHIEF ENGINEER OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, Feb. 13, 1889.
Referred to the committee on printing, to be printed in the annual re- ports. Sent down for concurrence.
GEORGE I. VINCENT, Clerk.
Concurred in.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, Feb. 13, 1SS9.
CHAS. S. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
SOMERVILLE, MASS., Jan. 3, 1889.
To the Committee on Fire Department.
GENTLEMEN : - I present a report of the operations of the Fire Department for the year 1888, together with a statement of the department's present condition and immediate needs.
MANUAL FORCE.
Sixty-one men compose the working force of the department, divided as follows :
One chief
1
One assistant
1
One steam fire-engine company
12
Four hose companies, eight men each
32
One hook and ladder company
15
Total
61
Of these, S. F. E. Co. No. 1 has one engineer, one assistant en- gineer or fireman, and two drivers, permanently employed. Each hose and the hook and ladder company has a driver similarly em- ployed, and all the other members are what are commonly desig- nated as " call men."
APPARATUS.
This consists of one steam fire-engine, with hose carriage, three hose carriages, one hose wagon, and one hook and ladder truck.
There are also, one old steam fire-engine, one hose carriage, and one hook and ladder truck that are available for use in the events of accidents or repairs to the apparatus in regular service. It should be said, however, that this contingent cannot be employed,
318
ANNUAL REPORTS.
in emergency, as promptly as could be desired, since reliance must be placed upon the horses of the regular apparatus, and these cannot be employed until after their immediate and most urgent duties have been performed.
HOSE.
There are in service 8,000 feet of hose. No new hose was bought during the year ; but a quantity must be purchased, in the near future, to replace that which has become unserviceable. The importance of this article of equipment is too obvious to be dwelt upon.
FIRE-ALARM TELEGRAPH.
There are now in the city 40 miles of wire, 41 signal boxes, 6 bell strikers, and 18 gongs.
As I have often said, the importance of keeping this branch of the service in perfect working order cannot be over-estimated. It is the warning and directing agent of our whole fire system, and the possibilities consequent upon its disarrangement are of the most serious nature. It need but be remembered that our reliance is almost entirely upon a call department to emphasize this fact.
The care of the fire-alarm telegraph has thus far devolved upon the permanent men of the steamer company, detailed for duty by the chief of department, and their duties are the cleaning and management of the battery and electrical apparatus, and the care and repairing of lines, bell strikers, and gongs under all cir- cumstances. When these men are thus engaged the regular service is unavoidably weakened, and it often happens that but one man is left in quarters with but two horses to perform the duties which our citizens are justified in expecting to have satis- factorily performed by the full force at a moment's notice. I, therefore, renew my recommendation that a line man be specially employed, who shall sleep in the engine house, and, under the direction of the chief, have charge of all matters pertaining to this essential mechanism. I also recommend the placing of addi- tional boxes for the protection of sections of the city as yet re- mote.
319
REPORT OF CHIEF ENGINEER OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
LADDER SERVICE.
The location of H. & L. truck No. 1 on the south side of the city affects the efficiency of the service in East Somerville and at Winter Hill. This was, likewise, the case at West Somerville until an apparatus to carry ladders was placed in the house of Hose No. 4.
The new hose wagon in East Somerville is equipped with ladders, and a similar piece of apparatus should be placed in the Winter Hill hose house in place of the carriage now in use. With this materiel, properly manned, the necessity for another ladder truck and company will be obviated for many years.
I recommend that an additional permanent man be employed on Hose 4, and another on Hose 1, that the demands, which are daily growing more imperative, may be properly met.
This matter of an increased permanent force deserves serious consideration ; for, however good the apparatus may be, however complete the devices for quick hitching and celerity, they are, in a measure, neutralized by the limited number of permanent men at present employed, and the reliance which must be placed upon the call system.
A new light H. & L. truck, to replace the heavy truck now discarded, will be ready in January. I have confidence that the wisdom of the committee on Fire Department, in thus assuring the quick arrival at fires of one of our most important pieces of apparatus, will be duly appreciated.
BUILDINGS.
The several buildings used by the department are in good order, and the expense of keeping them so will be but nominal, unless alterations are made to furnish accommodations for ad- ditional apparatus. This statement is, perhaps, somewhat strained when applied to the hose house on Webster Street, which building is constantly requiring repairs. A new fire station will soon be needed in that section.
A new hose house is being erected on the corner of Somerville Avenue and Lowell Street. It will be completed early in the spring, when a company and apparatus will be provided.
320
ANNUAL REPORTS.
CHEMICAL ENGINE.
Experience has demonstrated the value of these engines in all places, especially in cities which, like Somerville, have many wooden buildings with shingled roofs. This city needs such an engine, and it should be located at the corner of Highland Avenue and Walnut Street, because of the central location. This would necessitate the alteration or widening of the steamer house which would then be of inestimable value, not only as the repository of apparatus, but for all the purposes of the fire-alarm telegraph.
STEAM FIRE ENGINE.
Somerville should have either another steam fire engine or an increased water pressure. As the question of increased pressure for domestic and fire purposes is being discussed, I will only say that either an increased gravity pressure must be supplied, or else more steam power must be furnished to increase the pressure we now have.
That this matter may be practically exemplified, I submit for your consideration the accompanying table, compiled from esti- mates made from actual tests by that eminent civil engineer, Geo. A. Ellis.
Pressure in lbs. at Hydrant.
Feet of Hose.
Effect of Pressure at Nozzle.
Gallons Disch'gd.
Hori- zontal Dist.
Ver- tical Dist.
Loss at Nozzle.
20
300
12
84
54
26
8
22
500
10
77*
49
22
12
26
700
10
77
49
22
16
34
1,000
10
77
49
22
24
30
300
18
104
66
39
12
30
500
14
92
58
30
16
31
700
12
84
54
26
19
41
300
25
122
80
52
16
40
500
19
107
68
41
21
41
700
16
98
62
35
25
42
1,000
13
89
56
28
29
51
300
31
136
92
64
20
50
500
24
120
78
50
26
50
700
20
110
70
43
30
51
1,000
16
98
62
35
35
Estimated at 1 inch Nozzle, Rubber Hose, on Level Ground.
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REPORT OF CHIEF ENGINEER OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Water is to the firemen what powder is to the soldier, and each adequately supplied with his peculiar ammunition is prepared for any emergency.
On the elevated portions of our city, property is constantly jeopardized by the lack of sufficient water pressure, and should there be a threatening fire in any of such sections, that would require the simultaneous use of several hydrants, our hydrant system would be found practically useless by all the companies save that of the single steamer now in service ; and in case of an accident to that engine, very unpleasant possibilities can readily be conceived.
True, our neighboring cities and towns are ever ready to render assistance ; but, by their so doing, we incur a debt which should be paid in kind, on occasion, but which could not be so repaid, under existing conditions, without imperiling our own munici- pality. Attention cannot be too soon nor too earnestly directed to this question. -
HORSES.
Hose carriage No. 2, and H. & L. truck No. 1, were furnished with two new horses each, also one new horse for the steamer, and horses are greatly needed for hose carriage No. 3.
ALARMS.
There were 42 bell alarms during the year, attributable to the following named causes :
Incendiary .
4
Fire crackers
1
Rats and matches
1
Breaking of kerosene lamps
5
Chimney fires
3
Sparks on roofs .
3
Explosion of powder .
1
Sparks from tobacco-pipe .
3
Children playing with matches
2
Live coals from stove
1
Brick oven resting on wood
2
Burning of rubbish
1
322
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Fire in Medford
·
1
Defective stove-pipes
3
Sparks from cooper's oven .
1
Thawing water-pipes .
1
Unknown .
1
Sparks in wood-box near stove
1
Drying plastering
1
Lamp in contact with clothing .
1
Grass fires .
2
Boiling over of kettle
1
Sparks from forge
1
Sparks from fire-box of boiler
1
The total number of still alarms was seven.
The loss by fire was
. $4,238 50
Insurance .
. 21,250 00
Insurance paid .
. 3,868 00
To his Honor the Mayor, the Committee on Fire Department, the members of the City Council, the officers and members of the Police and Fire Departments, and to our citizens generally, my thanks are due for prompt and hearty co-operation, at all times and under all circumstances, during the year.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES R. HOPKINS, Chief of Department.
REPORT OF THE
COMMITTEE ON FUEL AND ST. LIGHTS.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, Jan, 3, 1889,
Ordered to be filed with the city clerk for presentation to the next city council, to be printed in the annual reports. Sent down for concurrence.
GEORGE I. VINCENT, Clerk.
Concurred in.
IN COMMON COUNCIL., Jan. 3, 1889. -
CHAS, S. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN COMMITTEE ON FUEL AND STREET LIGHTS, Jan. 3, 1889.
To the City Council of Somerville. -
The following is the final report of the Committee on Fuel and Street Lights for the year ending Dec. 31, 1888.
SCHOOL FUEL ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
$6,500 00
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
For fuel to Beach Street School
$ 90 65
Bell
66
535 13
Bennett
179 64
Bingham
66
294 00
Brastow
66
79 70
Burns
218 28
Cedar Street
66
44 13
Cummings
66
95 85
Davis
66
361 16
Edgerly
1,055 35
Elm Street
80 53
Forster
66
549 00
Franklin
66
230 25
Harvard
66
5 63
Amounts carried forward
. $3,819 30
$6,500 00
.
.
326
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amounts brought forward . $3,819 30
$6,500 00
High
School 537 07
Highland
691 00
Jackson
181 85
Lincoln
362 54
Morse
243 50 ·
Prescott
694 00
Prospect Hill
202 64
Spring Hill
66
39 73
School room, Somerville
Avenue 18 63
Union .
45 88
Webster
276 60
Incidentals (fuel book)
8 50
Total debit
$7,121 24
Amount overdrawn .
.
·
$621 24
STREET LIGHTS ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
$16,000 00
Receipts : -
For new lamps erected · $40 00
repairs of lamps damaged
by teams .
13 00
$ 53 00
posts and lanterns on hand Jan. 1 212 00
265 00
Total credit .
·
$16,265 00
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
For gas, -
to Cambridge Gas Light Co. $1,901 75
to Charlestown Gas Co. . . 1,739 06
Amounts carried forward · $3,640 81
$16,265 00
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON FUEL AND STREET LIGHTS, 327
Amounts carried forward . . $3,640 81 $16,265 00
lighting and care of gas and oil lamps
2,236 43
electric lights
maintenance . . $9,449 43
braces .
·
8 58
$9,458 01
new gas lamps . 71 05
repairs of gas and oil lamps 339 45
supplies (oil, alcohol, wicks, matches, torches, etc.) . .
209 55
discontinuing gas and oil lamps 13 00
moving gas lamps
3 88
street signs
5 00
incidentals
24 70
posts and lanterns on hand (10
posts and 13 sign lanterns) . 163 25
Total debit
$16,165 13
Balance unexpended
$99 87
FUEL.
Such fuel as was required during the first six months of the year was bought of Messrs. B. F. Wilde & Co. and Horatio Wellington & Co. at market rates.
Under an order passed June 13, and 14, proposals were soli- cited to furnish such fuel as might be required at the various public buildings during the year commencing July 1; and, in response, proposals were received to furnish fuel, for the the next thirty days only, from Messrs. G. T. Burnham & Co., B. F. Wilde & Co., and Horatio Wellington & Co., all at the following prices : Furnace coal, per ton, $5.35; egg, $5.60; and stove, $5.85; hard wood, per cord, $9, and soft wood, $7.50.
A contract for thirty days from July 1, was made with Messrs. Wilde & Co. for fuel for the buildings on the north side of the
328
ANNUAL REPORTS.
city, and with Messrs. Wellington & Co. for the remainder, and the bins were filled to their utmost capacity. Since the expira- tion of these contracts, such purchases as were necessary have been made of the same parties at the current prices.
STREET LIGHTS.
GAS AND OIL.
The price for gas in the four-feet burner lamps was $1.65 per thousand feet to Aug. 1, and $1.55 from that date to the end of the year.
In the two thirty-feet lamps, one of which is supplied by the Charlestown Company and the other by the Cambridge Com- pany, the price paid the last-named company was $1.50 through- out the year, and the former company $1.65 to Aug. 1, and $1.55 for the balance of the year. The gas and oil lamps are lighted every night until 12.30 o'clock, except when the moon is shining clear. They have been burning 283 nights in the past year.
ELECTRIC.
By authority of the City Council, the contract with the Som- erville Electric Light Company, which expired June 1, was extended for one year.
Fifty-four lights were in service Jan. 1, and sixteen were added in the first two months of the year, making the present number seventy, which is the limit fixed by the City Council.
The new lights are the property of the company, and have been placed on the company's poles without expense to the city. The price for lighting is thirty-seven cents per night for each lamp, and the lamps burn every night until one o'clock.
Twenty-six gas and three oil lamps have been discontinued by reason of the erection of electric lamps.
The following is a table of street lamps in the city :-
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON FUEL AND STREET LIGHTS. 329
GAS LAMPS.
Charles- toun.
Cam- bridge.
4-feet
burners.
30-feet
burners.
4-feet
burners.
30-feet
burners.
Oil Lamps.
Electric Lamps.
Total.
Lamps in the city, Jan. 1, 1888, as per last report · ·
170
1
190
1
78
494
Erected during the year at the expense of abutters
2
3
5
Erected during the year at the expense of company
16
16
172
1
190
1
S1
70
515
Discontinued because of the erection of
electric lamps .
9
19
3
31
163
1
171
1
78
70
484
Discontinued because of the electric
lamps, and now re-established
1
1
2
164
1
172
1
78
70
486
Changed from oil to gas, omitted in last
report
2
2
164
1
174
1
76
70
486
Error in report for the year 1887 .
1
1
163
1
175
1
76
70
486
For the committee,
T. C. DWYER, Chairman. GEO. I. VINCENT, Clerk.
REPORT
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, Jan. 3, 1889.
Ordered to be filed with the city clerk for presentation to the next city council, to be printed in the annual reports. Sent down for concurrence.
1
GEORGE I. VINCENT, Clerk.
Concurred in.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, Jan. 3, 1889. CHARLES S. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY, Jan. 3, 1889. To the City Council of Somerville.
The committee on public property presents the following final report for the year 1888 : -
POLICE STATION INCIDENTALS ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation . $2,000 00
Transfer from school-house in Ward
Three account 349 07
Transfer from school-house in Ward Four account
204 45
Receipts for rent of halls
568 00
Total credit .
$3,121 52
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
For janitor's salary
$750 00
janitor's substitute in vacation
14 00
gas
503 59
fuel
488 45
water
63 00
insurance
75 00
repairs and improvements on build- ing and furniture
879 71
incidentals
25 91
Total debit
2,799 66
Balance unexpended .
$321 86
334
ANNUAL REPORTS.
SCHOOL-HOUSE INCIDENTALS ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation $10,000 00
Transfer from miscellaneous account . 1,700 00
watering streets " . 1,000 00
Recipts for use of ward room in school- house
3 00
Receipts for junk sold from school-house .
8 81
Total credit .
$12,711 81
DEBIT.
Expenditures :-
For repairs . $6,130 48
improvements
. 5,391 90
furniture
. 1,325 98
rent
456 91
insurance
446 25
emptying privy vaults
108 00
sidewalk and sewer assessments
114 73
carriage hire
10 00
account books
9 50
Total debit
13,993 75
Amount overdrawn
: $1,281 94
Expenditures at the different school-houses are as follows : -
Beach Street.
Repairs (including new front and back steps and reshingling west side of roof) $297 23
56 00
Emptying privy vaults
$353 23
Amount carried forward · .
$353 23
335
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
Amount brought forward $353 23
Luther V. Bell.
Repairs
. $334 59
Improvements : --
constructing new room $427 79
heating apparatus for water closets . 384 27
partitions and ventila- tion in water closets 191 27
radiator in office
50 03
concreting
528 57
$1,581 93
Sidewalk assessment
65 31
Furniture
208 50
Insurance
75 00
$2,265 33
Bennett.
Repairs
$103 04
Emptying privy vaults
16 00
$119 04
Bingham.
Repairs
$28 53
Furniture
34 00
Insurance
75 00
$137 53
Brastow.
Repairs (including painting outside
and new front fence)
$246 43
Emptying privy vaults
8 00
$254 43
Burns.
Repairs
$122 05
Furniture
34 00
Insurance
75 00
$231 05
Amount carried forward
.
$3,360 61
336
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward $3,360 61
Cedar Street.
Repairs (including painting outside, rebuilding fence and shingling shed) . $167 87
Emptying privy vaults
8 00
$175 87
Cummings.
Repairs
$52 01
Furniture
9 33
$61 34
Clarendon Block.
Rent for month of August, 1887 .
$22 91
Davis.
Repairs (including $176.22 on furnaces) $234 64 Furniture . 13 43
$248 07
Edgerly.
Repairs (including painting tin roof) . $ 279 80
Improvements (new water closets and urinals)
. 1,095 35
Furniture
92 18
$1,467 33
Elm Street.
Repairs
$24 15
Furniture
62 50
Rent
300 00
$386 65
Eberle Building.
Furniture and fitting up $101 37
Amount carried forward
$5,824 15
337
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
Amount brought forward $5,824 15
Forster.
Repairs (including tinting and whiten- ing upper story, repairing and painting tin roofs, and rebuilding fence south side) . $467 70
Improvements : - Two new radiators and pip- ing for upper south and east rooms $277 34 partitioning water closets 27 30
$304 64
Furniture
103 97
Insurance
75 00
$951 31
Franklin.
Repairs (including painting outside) $542 04
Hill Building.
Rent .
. $100 00
Furniture, and fitting up room 142 11
Harvard.
Repairs
$ 68 02
High.
Repairs
$539 12
Improvements : -
Two schoolrooms in hall . $654 96
Two closets, one for books and one for drawing utensils
82 46
$737 42
Insurance
75 00
Furniture
.
319 85
$1,671 39
Amount carried forward
$9,299 02
$242 11
338
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward $9,299 02
Highland.
Repairs (including tinting and whiten- ing entire building and $153.59 on furnaces
$379 68
Improvements
(concreting in girls'
yard) 207 00
Sewer assessment
49 42
$636 10
Jackson.
Repairs (including painting outside)
.
$449 57
Lincoln.
Repairs (including $181.26 on fur-
naces)
$268 72
Morse.
Repairs (including $52.07 stove work) $150 52 Improvements : -
Concrete walks in both yards $295 20
new entrances, steps and wooden walk in boys'
yard . 46 77
341 97
Furniture
16 50
$508 99
Prescott.
Repairs (including new grate bars for boiler, and painting fences) . $498 34
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