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Somerville ave., at Belmont st.
South st., corner Hunting st.
Summer st., between Harvard and Central sts.
Summer st., corner Craigie st. Stickney ave., opposite No. 8. Stickney ave., opposite No. 24. Stone ave., near Columbus ave. Summit ave.
Sunnyside ave.
Sycamore st., corner Madison st. Sycamore st., opposite Forster st. Tenney ct.
Thorpe pl. (2).
Tufts st., corner Dell pl.
Tyler st., opposite Tower ct.
Vernon st., cor. Jenny Lind ave.
Vernon st., opposite Bartlett st.
Vernon st., opposite Miner st. Vine st., near Beacon st.
Vine st., opposite Hanson st. Vine st., opposite Tyler st. Virginia st. (2). Waldo st.
Walnut st., corner Veazie st.
Walnut st., near Bow st.
Walnut st., near Broadway.
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
LOCATIONS OF INCANDESCENT LIGHTS. - Concluded.
LOCATION.
Ward st., at end.
Warwick street (2).
Washington st., corner Hanson st.
Washington st., corner Wyatt st. Waveriy st., at end.
Webster st., near Franklin st.
LOCATION.
Wesley park.
Wesley park, opposite No. 11.
Wesley st., at end.
Wesley st., near Pearl st.
Wilson ave.
Wyatt st., corner Cook st.
Respectfully submitted,
LEIGHTON W. MANNING,
Superintendent of Electric Lines and Lights.
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REPORT
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, January 30, 1896.
Referred to Committee on Printing, to be printed in the Annual Reports. Sent down for concurrence.
GEORGE I. VINCENT, Clerk.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, February 13, 1896. Referred to Committee on Printing, to be printed in the Annual Reports, in concurrence.
CHARLES S. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY, January 1, 1896.
TO THE CITY COUNCIL OF SOMERVILLE :
The Committee on Public Property presents the following report for the year 1895 :-
POLICE STATION INCIDENTALS ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
$3,000.00
Receipts for rent of armory
.
300.00
Total credit
.
.
$3,300.00
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
For janitor's salary
$850.00
Gas .
767.73
Fuel
251.43
Water
89.50
Disinfectant
4.05
Supplies
23.90
Repairs and improvements of building and furniture
859.14
Incidentals
6.65
Total debit
$2,852.40
Balance unexpended
$447.60
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
SCHOOLHOUSE INCIDENTALS ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
$13,000.00
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
For repairs and improvements of buildings .
$9,686.35
Furniture
360.45
Repairing furniture
663.53
Repairing heating and ventilat-
ing apparatus
1,644.09
Repairing blackboards
121.49
Repairs concrete walks
12.00
Care of lawns
61.00
Building division fence
24.30
Moving furniture
114.65
Insurance
1,509.24
Heat, rent, etc. (Superintend-
ent of Schools' office)
296.30
School supplies
764.34
Grading Webster School lot
24.00
Incidentals
49.51
Total debit
$15,331.25
Amount overdrawn
$2,331.25
The expenditures at the various schoolhouses were as follows : -
Beech Street.
Repairs and improvements
$82.39
Furniture .
2.98
Repairing furniture .
37.75
Moving furniture
2.50
Repairing heating apparatus
41.16
Supplies .
2.20
$168.98
Amount carried forward
$168.98
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Amount brought forward .
$168.98
Luther V. Bell.
Repairs and improvements
$416.85
Furniture .
·
11.50
Repairing furniture
44.15
Moving furniture
4.25
Repairing heating apparatus
54.14
Supplies .
9.24
$540.13
Bennett.
Repairs and improvements
$641.78
Repairing furniture .
12.75
Repairing heating apparatus
41.19
Moving furniture
3.00
Supplies .
.
$710.09
Bingham.
Repairs and improvements
$24.50
Furniture .
7.50
Repairing furniture
16.75
Moving furniture
.75
Repairing heating apparatus
4.90
Supplies ·
2.40
Burns.
Repairs and improvements
$330.12
Furniture .
11.35
Repairing furniture
8.75
Moving furniture
1.90
Repairing heating apparatus
.
$393.72
Cedar Street.
Repairs and improvements
$ 3.49
Repairing furniture
18.25
Moving furniture
.
.
1.50
Repairing heating apparatus
.
25.01
$48.25
Amount carried forward
$1,917.97
.
11.37
41.60
$56.80
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward $1,917.97
Cummings.
Repairs and improvements
$323.05
Furniture .
18.50
Repairing furniture .
4.50
Moving furniture
3.13
Repairing blackboards
47.75
Insurance
30.00
$426.93
Davis.
Repairs and improvements
.
$174.84
Repairing furniture .
8.50
Repairing heating apparatus
16.42
Insurance
30.00
$229.76
Durell.
Repairs and improvements
$75.93
Furniture .
·
.
34.17
Repairing furniture
.
.
13.50
Moving furniture
1.00
Supplies .
9.38
Care of lawn
2.00
$135.98
Edgerly.
Repairs and improvements
$477.88
Furniture .
49.00
Repairing furniture .
36.15
Moving furniture
3.00
Repairing heating apparatus
112.13
Repairing concrete walks .
5.00
Supplies .
6.35
$689.51
Amount carried forward . .
$3,400.15
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Amount brought forward
$3,400.15
English High.
Repairs and improvements
$ 89.48
Furniture
19.65
Moving furniture
5.25
Supplies
24.32
Insurance
650.00
$788.70
Forster.
Repairs and improvements
$155.72
Furniture
5.10
Repairing furniture
50.45
Repairing heating apparatus .
23.93
Supplies
.59
Insurance
261.74
$497.53
Franklin.
Repairs and improvements
$655.78
Furniture
29,25
Repairing furniture
15.50
Repairing heating apparatus .
91.10
Supplies
9.09
$800.72
Glines.
Repairs and improvements
$158.54
Repairing furniture
·
9.50
Moving furniture .
3.35
Repairing heating apparatus .
324.86
Repairing blackboards .
2.50
Care of lawn .
21.00
$519.75
Harvard.
Repairs and improvements
$409.55
Repairing furniture
2.50
Repairing heating apparatus .
4.50
$416.55
Amount carried forward
$6,423.40
.
.
.
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward
$6,423.40
High.
Repairs and improvements
$2,930.95
Furniture
·
.
47.10
Repairing furniture
40.59
Moving furniture .
42.50
Repairing heating apparatus .
37.10
Supplies
55.05
$3,153.29
Highland.
Repairs and improvements
$249.22
Furniture
.
.
29.35
Repairs furniture .
121.25
Moving furniture
1.50
Repairing heating apparatus .
201.25
Supplies
2.88
Repairs concrete walks .
7.00
Jackson.
Repairs and improvements
$19.54
Repairing furniture
80.95
Moving furniture .
5.50
Repairing heating apparatus .
38.13
Repairing blackboards .
57.92
Supplies
6.60
.
$208.64
Knapp.
Repairs and improvements
·
$1,233.41
Furniture
33.05
Repairing furniture
40.75
Moving furniture .
21.77
Repairing heating apparatus .
368.85
Repairing blackboards .
13.32
Building division fence .
24.30
Insurance
157.50
Supplies
.
.
$1,907.56
Amount carried forward
$12,305.34
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.
.
·
.
.
.
·
14.61
.
.
.
.
·
.
$612.45
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Amount brought forward
$12,305.34
Lincoln.
Repairs and improvements
$123.21
Furniture
10.20
Repairing furniture
13.99
Moving furniture
1.65
Repairing heating apparatus
37.76
Insurance
305.00
Supplies
10.08
$501.89
Morse.
Repairs and improvements
$181.79
Repairing furniture .
30.75
Repairing heating apparatus
43.86
Supplies .
14.20
.
$270.60
Pope.
Repairs and improvements
$56.70
Furniture
47.50
Repairing furniture .
16.75
Repairing heating apparatus
14.45
Supplies
5.50
Care of lawn
38.00
$178.90
Prescott.
Repairs and improvements
$819.77
Furniture .
4.25
Repairing furniture
25.50
Moving furniture
10.60
Repairing heating apparatus
91.40
Supplies
4.70 .
Insurance
75.00
$1,031.22
Amount carried forward
$14,287.95
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward .
$14,287.95
Prospect Hill.
Repairs and improvements
$51.86
Repairing furniture .
.
.
14.00
Moving furniture
1.50
Repairing heating apparatus
30.35
Supplies .
.
.
1.05
$98.76
Superintendent of Schools' Office.
Rent (11 months)
$225.00
Heat
.
.
50.00
Moving furniture
21.30
School supplies (brushes, dusters,
baskets, etc.)
$574.73
Grading Webster School lot
24.00
Carriage hire
28.00
Incidentals
.
.
$648.24
Total debit (as above)
$15,331.25
SCHOOLHOUSE, ENGLISH HIGH, ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Balance unexpended December 31, 1894
$37,296.67
Appropriated in 1895
27,000.00
Received from Walter S. Sampson : --- For janitor's services during construction
.
254.75
Water services
116.18
Heating .
610.00
Insurance
120.00
Total credit
$65,397.60
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
Walter S. Sampson, on account
contract . . $39,429.00
Amounts carried forward
· $39,429.00
$65,397.60
.
.
.
.
21.51
.
.
.
.
$296.30
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Amounts brought forward . $39,429.00 $65,397.60
Walter S. Sampson, changing finish of woodwork 4,500.00
Walter S. Sampson, extra work
2,341.47
James Tucker & Sons, plumbing in laboratories
895.00
James Tucker & Sons, plumbing in manual training department 330.65
Robert D. Ireland & Co., on account contract for electric and gas fixtures
1,318.85
J. F. Bubert, on account contract for electric wiring
1,036.30
Blodgett Bros. & Co., electric clocks, etc.
454.00
John Y. Mainland, on account con- tract for laboratory fittings . 2,000.00
Wemyss Bros. & Co., on account contract for carpentering and woodworking for manual training school
2,402.66
Hartwell & Richardson, on account architects' services
3,485.85
Furniture
4,801.84
Window shades
286.56
Screens
100.00
Carpenter's and drawing tools, etc.
964.94
Carpentering
582.20
Painting, whitewashing, etc.
120.35
Mason work .
29.85
Electrical work
24.08
Paperhanging
19.20
Tablets
330.00
Insurance
45.00
Sundry expenses .
28.22
Total debit
$65,526.02
Amount overdrawn
$128.42
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
SCHOOLHOUSE, HIGH AND ENGLISH HIGH, HEATING, VENTILATING AND PLUMBING, ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Balance unexpended December 31, 1894 . $7,202.72
Appropriated in 1895 1,000.00
Total credit
$8,202.72
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
James Tucker & Sons, on account contract for plumbing · ·
$1,511.00
A. A. Sanborn, on account contract for heating and ventilating ap- paratus
6,171.00
A. A. Sanborn, extra work
582.96
Percy N. Kenway, professional services, regulating heating ap- paratus
45.00
Total debit
$8,309.96
Amount overdrawn
$107.24
SCHOOLHOUSE, EDGERLY ADDITION, ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Balance unexpended December 31, 1894 . $619.48
DEBIT.
Smith Heating & Ventilating Co., balance of con- tract for heating and ventilating apparatus . $565.50
Balance unexpended . $53.98. .
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SCHOOLHOUSE IN WARD FOUR, SOUTH SIDE OF FITCHBURG RAILROAD, ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Balance unexpended December 31, 1894 . $54.51
DEBIT.
A. A. Sanborn, final payment on account contract for
heating apparatus .
$689.00
Amount overdrawn
$634.49
SCHOOLHOUSE, O. S. KNAPP ADDITION, ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Balance unexpended December 31, 1894 .
$2,876.54
Appropriation in 1895
1,500.00
Total credit
$4,376.54
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
John Kelley, balance on account contract for construction of addition
$3,100.00
Braman, Dow & Co., balance on account contract for heating apparatus ·
600.00
Loring & Phipps, balance on ac- count architect's services ·
433.40
Electric wiring
38,06
Window shades
61.75
Total debit
.
$4,233.21
Balance unexpended
. .
$143.33
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
SCHOOLHOUSE IN WARD FOUR, ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation .
.
$53,000.00
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
Margaret A. Simpson, 35,034 sq.
ft. land
$ 7,908.33
F. G. Coburn & Co., on account contract .
12,555.60
Samuel D. Kelley, architect's ser- vices
1,200.00
Grading and filling
841.29
Water services .
15.00
Total debit
$22,520.22
Balance unexpended
$30,479.78
SCHOOL CONTINGENT ACCOUNT.
(Janitors' Salaries.)
CREDIT.
Appropriation . ·
$12,000.00
Received from Walter S. Sampson for janitor's ser-
vices in English High School 847.50
Total credit
.
$12,847.50
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
For salaries paid
$13,268.59
Amount overdrawn
.
$421.09
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EXPENDITURES BY THIS COMMITTEE FROM MISCEL- LANEOUS ACCOUNT.
City Hall Expenses : -
For repairs building
$ 598.66
Furniture
359.39
Repairing furniture
.
34.90
Repairing heating apparatus
66.75
Electric lighting
300.00
Gas .
49.66
Fuel .
223.50
Water
13.30
Telephones
133.82
Supplies
31.50
Express on bundles
20.67
Laundry
24.00
P. O. box rent
3.00
Labor .
·
24.00
Safes . .
.
1,737.50
City messenger's team : -
For maintenance
552.15
City engineer's team :-
For maintenance
225.00
Election expenses : -
For fitting up voting precincts, repairs of boxes, fittings, etc. Care of rooms for elections and caucuses
$401.31
Rent of rooms for elections and caucuses
55.00
$554.31
Incidentals
20.97
Total expenditures . · . ·
$4,973.08
.
$3,620.65
98.00
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL.
The English High School, the construction of which was com- menced by the Committee on Public Property of 1893 and continued by the committee of 1894, was finished during the year and turned over to the school committee for occupancy for the fall term.
The heating and ventilating apparatus in the Latin High School has been entirely remodelled, and a new system, designed to heat both buildings from one plant, has been introduced. Heat is fur- nished from three boilers placed in the Latin School and is carried through a subway between the buildings into the English High. Ex- cellent ventilation is secured for both schools by the fan system, there being a fan in each building, and by this method a continual flow of warm, fresh air can be furnished at all times.
The basement of the new building contains room for ventilating apparatus, toilet rooms, etc., and in the southeast corner a room has been fitted up and furnished with apparatus and appliances for a manual training department. On the first floor are classrooms and a suite of rooms for the offices of the Superintendent of Schools, to which access may be had either through the main hallway or by a private entrance at the rear of the building. On the second floor are more classrooms and an office for the principal of the school. The third floor contains a lecture room with a seating capacity for 300 persons, a chemical and a physical laboratory. fitted in the most ap- proved manner, and two classrooms. On the floor above these two classrooms is the drawing room, covered with glass roofing and excellently lighted.
This building is certainly a most valuable addition to the school buildings of the city, and has been constructed, in every way, to satisfy as far as possible all wishes and desires of the School Board, and the Committee feels that it meets in every manner the oft-repeated appeals which the School Board has made for such a building.
The total cost of the building, including laboratory and manual training school fittings, school furniture, etc., and heating and ven- tilating apparatus for both buildings, was $147,776.96 above the land.
WILLIAM H. HODGKINS SCHOOL.
In pursuance of an order, dated March 27, 1895, there was pur- chased of Margaret A. Simpson, 35,034 square feet of land, located
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at the corner of Holland street and Simpson avenue, for the sum of $7,908.33. Plans were prepared by Samuel Dudley Kelley, archi- tect, for the erection thereon of a twelve-room brick building, and under authority from the City Council contracts have been awarded to F. G. Coburn & Co. for $39,163 for construction, and to the Boston Furnace Company for $4,637 for heating and ventilating apparatus. Owing to unusual delay in the construction of this building, it will probably not be used for school purposes until the fall term.
During the year the city has met with a severe loss in the death of Mr. Thomas R. Roulstone, who served the city faithfully and ceaselessly for so many years. As Superintendent of Public Build- ings he came most directly in contact with this committee, and none could better appreciate the most able and valuable service which he has always given to the city, and the genial and kindly manner in which he has sought to smooth the many rough and uneven places in life for those with whom he was so constantly associated.
Many improvements have been made in the several schoolhouses during the year, but owing to the death of the Superintendent, and a change in that department being made so late in the year, it is found to be impossible to have prepared the usual detailed statement of the various repairs and improvements which is generally given in the report of the Superintendent of Public Buildings.
For the Committee,
EDMUND S. SPARROW, Chairman. WILLIAM P. MITCHELL, Clerk.
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REPORT
OF THE
INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, March 6, 1896.
Referred to Committee on Printing, to be printed in the Annual Reports. Sent down for concurrence.
GEORGE I. VINCENT, Clerk.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, March 6, 1896.
Referred to Committee on Printing, to be printed in the Annual Reports, in concurrence.
CHARLES S. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
SOMERVILLE, MASS., January 1, 1896.
To HIS HONOR, THE MAYOR, AND THE CITY COUNCIL : -
Gentlemen, - In accordance with city ordinance, the following report of this department for the year ending December 31, 1895, is respectfully submitted.
Mr. Thomas R. Roulstone, the former Inspector of Buildings, died October 17, 1895, and the present incumbent was appointed November 1, of the same year.
The number of building permits issued during the year was 566, classified as follows : -
WARDS.
TOTAL.
Single dwellings
24
47
127
176
374
Dwellings in blocks
Additions and alterations
13
22
34
21
90
Stables
1
9
17
16
43
Stores .
2
3
5
2
12
Shops
3
4
2
B
12
Manufactories
Offices .
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7
Sheds .
2
6
3
3
14
Car house
1
1
Pumping station
.
.
.
1
1
Storehouses
2
3
5
45
99
196
226
566
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·
1
1
.
.
1
·
·
1
2
Stores and tenements
4
.
.
.
.
4
1
2
3
·
2
2
Churches
2
2
Frequent examinations have been made of buildings in course of construction or alteration, and in all cases of faulty construction, violation of ordinance, or danger from fire, the owners and builders have, on notice, complied with the orders of the Inspector.
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Special attention has been given, by the present incumbent, to the following cases :-
Woodwork too near chimney 27
Cellar walls improperly built 6
Boiler setting and chimney unsafe 1
Brick partition walls ordered
3
.
The number of city buildings built or additions made thereto are as follows : -
Fire Department station (now being constructed) .
1
English High School building (finished) .
1
Grammar School (now being constructed) 1
I would recommend the following changes in the building ordinance : -
1. That the frontage of ordinary buildings be limited to forty feet, instead of fifty, as now provided, without the intervention of a party wall.
2. That the use of ledger-boards, in place of girts, be prohibited.
3. That all woodwork be required to be kept two inches from chimneys and fireplaces, instead of one inch, as is now provided.
4. That other provisions be inserted with a view to the preven- tion of the spread of fire in large buildings.
The total number of permits for plumbing was seven hundred and twenty-seven, covering seven hundred and twenty-five buildings.
Permits for plumbing in new buildings 406
Permits for plumbing in old buildings 321
Number of buildings in which plumbing has been inspected 721
Number of buildings where pipes were tested with water . 657
Number of buildings with defective pipes
53
Faulty construction of waste or vent system .
32
Faulty connection with drain .
4
Insufficient number of clean-outs
21
Fixtures not properly trapped
16
Vent stacks not carried through roof
6
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These violations were pointed out to the plumbers having charge of the work, and the plumbing was reconstructed in accordance with the provisions of the plumbing ordinance.
The Inspector has kept himself informed of the condition of the plumbing as the buildings have progressed and, as necessity required, given directions how the work should be done.
I would recommend a change in the plumbing ordinance, specify- ing the weight of lead pipe, requiring a uniform weight of cast-iron pipe throughout the buildings, the ventilation of apartments in which a water-closet is placed, and a separate water-closet for each family.
The following is the number of licenses and renewals of licenses issued to plumbers during the year under the Acts of 1893 and 1894, and receipts for the same paid to the City Treasurer : -
Number of master plumbers' licenses issued 4 12
$8.00
journeymen
6.00
66
master 66 66 renewed 16
. 8.00
66 journeymen " 66
6
. 3.00
$25.00
Applications for journeymen plumbers' licenses re- jected
· Applicants for journeymen plumbers' licenses not ap- pearing for examination
2
3 Applicants for master plumbers' licenses not appearing for examination . 1 ·
Respectfully submitted,
FREDERICK C. FULLER,
Inspector of Buildings.
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REPORT
OF THE
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, March 6. 1896.
Referred to Committee on Printing. to be printed in the Annual Reports. Sent down for concurrence.
GEORGE I. VINCENT. Clerk.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, March 6. 1896.
Referred to Committee on Printing. to be printed in the Annual Reports. in concurrence.
CHARLES S. ROBERTSON. Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS, January 1, 1896.
TO THE HONORABLE, THE MAYOR, AND THE CITY COUNCIL :-
Gentlemen, - In compliance with city ordinance No. nineteen, section eight, this report is respectfully submitted.
As the inspector of buildings is, by virtue of that office, superin- tendent of public buildings, the statement made by the undersigned in his report as Inspector of Buildings, concerning the death of his predecessor and his own appointment, applies also in this connection.
Repairs, alterations and improvements have been made during the past year at the several city buildings, as follows : -
Police Building .- Judges' room painted, and new carpets and window shades provided. The stairways and halls have been painted, as have also the rooms in the second story of the stable.
City Hall .- An additional radiator has been placed in the office of the clerk of committees, and an additional bookcase provided for the city clerk.
Beach Street School .- Two stoves added and furniture repaired.
Luther V. Bell School .- Extensive repairs on roofs and furniture ; also plumbing, gas piping and boilers repaired.
Bennett School .- New sanitaries in basement; outside vaults filled ; furniture and heating apparatus repaired.
Bingham School .- Slight repairs on furniture and heating ap- paratus.
Burns School .- Inside walls repainted, ceilings whitened, and out- side woodwork painted ; window cords and pulleys renewed.
Cedar Street School .- Heating apparatus repaired ; furniture var- nished, and window cords renewed.
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Cummings School .- Inside walls and water-closets painted ; ceil- ings whitened ; blackboards repaired, and part of furniture cleaned and varnished.
Davis School .- Halls painted, new furniture added, and old fur- niture repaired and varnished.
Edgerly School .- Concrete walks, heating apparatus and doors and windows repaired ; furniture varnished; new window shades provided for one room.
English High School .- Slight alterations and repairs made and some new furniture added.
Forster School .- Ceilings whitened ; inside walls painted ; furni- ture and heating apparatus repaired, and window cords renewed ; new closets built on upper floor, and screens placed in front of radiators.
Franklin School .- New sanitaries and stove in basement ; outside privies removed ; furniture and heating apparatus repaired ; window cords renewed.
Jacob T. Glines School .- Heating apparatus, blackboards, and furniture repaired ; new window shades for one room ; new clock for basement room.
Harvard School .- New sanitaries provided ; furniture and heating apparatus repaired ; slight improvements made.
Highland School .- Extensive repairs on furniture and heating apparatus ; concrete walks repaired; walls painted and ceilings whitened in one room ; new furniture added.
Jackson School .- Furniture repaired and varnished; heating ap- paratus, blackboards, window cords and doors repaired.
O. S. Knapp School .- Inside walls painted; ceilings whitened ; furniture repaired, cleaned and shellaced ; furnaces cleaned and sup- plied with new grates and fire pots ; blackboards repaired ; outside woodwork painted ; division fence built.
Latin School .- New sanitaries provided ; new furniture added ; old furniture repaired and varnished; slight repairs to heating ap- paratus.
Lincoln School .- Roof repaired ; furniture repaired and varnished.
Morse School .- Fences painted ; furniture repaired ; walls of halls and schoolrooms painted.
Charles G. Pope School .- Furniture repaired and varnished ; heat- ing apparatus repaired.
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T - REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Prescott School .- Electric bells and tubes put in; dressing-room made in hall; radiators repaired and changed ; roofs and boilers repaired ; basements whitened ; one room painted ; furniture repaired and varnished ; window cords renewed; fence removed.
Prospect Hill School .- Furniture repaired and varnished in two rooms.
Spring Hill School .- This building is still used for storage pur- poses and as a work shop.
In addition to the above, ordinary repairs have been made as occasion has required.
FREDERICK C. FULLER,
Superintendent of Public Buildings.
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