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Expressman,
Marshall st.
Wm. F. Marble,
Hoseman,
Fishman,
Derby street.
Almon Irish,
Hoseman,
Clerk,
Sargent ave.
Melville Webber,
Hoseman,
Teamster,
Jacques street.
Edwin R. Perham,
Hoseman,
Expressman,
Marshall st.
Harry V. Spike,
Hoseman,
Teamster,
Broadway.
Chas. A. Woodbury,
Hoseman,
Teamster,
Jacques street.
HOSE CO. No. 3.
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
Benj. H. Pond,
Captain,
Fireman,
Fire station.
Frank. L. Draper,
Lieutenant,
Lineman,
Chester ave.
Chas. H. Bridges,
Hoseman,
Machinist,
Medford street,
Francis S. Brown,
Hoseman,
Watchman,
Columbus ave.
Thomas W. Joy,
Hoseman,
Cooper,
Mystic street.
John H. Cuddy,
Hoseman,
Laborer,
Bow st. place.
Alfred R. Higgins,
Hoseman,
Cooper,
Prospect st.
Edward A. Parker,
Hoseman,
Carpenter,
Oxford street.
Wm. H. Wheaton,
Hoseman,
Steam fitter,
Somerville ave.
HOSE CO. No. 5.
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Edwin F. Trefren,
Captain,
Fireman,
Wm. J. Blaisdell,
Lieutenant,
Painter,
Quincy street.
Martin E. Driscoll,
Hoseman,
Painter,
Beacon street.
Fred'k G. Jones,
Hoseman,
Painter,
Somerville ave.
Daniel W. McDermott, Hoseman,
Painter,
Somerville ave.
Henry C. Page,
Hoseman,
Casket maker,
Miller street.
1
CHEMICAL · ENGINE A.
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Benj. W. Daley,
Lieutenant,
Fireman,
Joseph Cribby,
Driver,
Fireman,
Wilfred S. Young,
Substitute h'sem'n, Fireman,
Residence. Fire station. Fire station. Fire station.
Residence. Fire station.
579
REPORT OF THE CHIEF ENGINEER OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
SERVICE OF ENGINE CO. No. 1.
Hose laid
11,650 ft. 254
Miles run
Ladders used .
185 ft.
Bell alarms answered
118
Still alarms answered, .
6
Total
124
SERVICE OF ENGINE CO. No. 2.
Hose laid
9,850 ft.
Miles run
274
Ladders used .
230 ft.
Bell alarms answered
118
Still alarms answered
20
Total
138
SERVICE OF ENGINE CO. No. 4.
Hose laid
10,400 ft. ·
Miles run
13512
Bell alarms answered
118
Still alarms answered
13
Total
131
SERVICE OF LADDER CO. No. 1.
Miles run
121
Ladders used .
3,210 ft.
Bell alarms answered
118
Still alarms answered
6
Total
124
SERVICE OF LADDER CO. No, 2.
Miles run
129
.
Ladders used .
1,244 ft.
Bell alarms answered
118
Still alarms answered
4
Total
122
580
ANNUAL REPORTS.
SERVICE OF HOSE CO. No. 2.
Miles travelled
154
Ladders used .
295 ft.
Hose used
9,850 ft.
Bell alarms answered
118
Still alarms answered
8
Total
126
SERVICE OF HOSE CO. No. 3.
Miles run
79
Ladders used .
75 ft.
Hose laid
15,450 ft.
Bell alarms answered
118
Still alarms answered
6
Total
124
SERVICE OF HOSE CO. No. 5.
Miles run
143
Ladders used .
213 ft.
Hose laid
11,500 ft.
Bell alarms answered
118
Still alarms answered
6
Total
124
SERVICE OF CHEMICAL CO. A.
Chemical hose used
16,500 ft.
Miles run
26234
Tanks used
91
Ladders used .
763 ft.
Bell alarms answered
118
Still alarms answered
10
Total
128
REPORT
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON FUEL AND STREET LIGHTS.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, February 24, 1897.
Referred to Committee on Printing, to be printed in the Annual Reports. Sent down for concurrence. GEORGE I. VINCENT, Clerk.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, February 24, 1897.
Referred to Committee on Printing, to be printed in the Annual Reports, in concurrence.
CHARLES S. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN COMMITTEE ON FUEL AND STREET LIGHTS, January 1, 1897.
To the City Council of Somerville :-
The following is the final report of the Committee on Fuel and Street Lights for the year ending December 31, 1896 :-
SCHOOL FUEL ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
$10,000.00
DEBIT.
Expenditures :-
For fuel at Beach Street School . $82.07
Luther V. Bell School
484.24
Bennett School .
117.55
Bingham School
321.72
Burns School
173.41
Cedar Street School
43.56
Cummings School
152.63
Davis School
180.88
George W. Durell School
167.24
Edgerly School
685.42
Amounts carried forward
$2,408.72
$10,000.00
584
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amounts brought forward ·
$2,408.72
$10,000.00
Forster School
617.63
Franklin School
128.83
Jacob T. Glines School
685.20
Harvard School
23.18
High School
1,749.71
Highland School
678.22
William H. Hodgkins School
311.66
Jackson School
158.92
O. S. Knapp School
1,032.24
Lincoln School
270.47
Morse School
706.47
Charles G. Pope School
.
626.12
Prescott School
437.74
Prospect Hill School
126.51
Incidentals
14.31
Total debit
$9,975.93
Balance unexpended
$24.07
STREET LIGHTS ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation .
$47,000.00
Receipts, for old lamp posts
27.40
Total credit
·
$47,027.40
DEBIT.
Expenditures :-
For electric lighting .
$47,087.60
Changing location of electric
lights
33.00
Incidentals
88.95
Total debit .
$47,209.55
Amount overdrawn
$182.15
.
.
.
.
·
.
.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FUEL AND STREET LIGHTS. 585
SCHOOL FUEL.
By an order, adopted June 24th, 1896, this committee was authorized to make a contract with Mr. I. L. Smith, for furnish- ing fuel for the schoolhouses and public buildings of the city, at prices as follows :- For furnace, egg, and stove coal, $3.97 per ton; soft wood, per cord, $5.50; hard wood, per cord, $6.75; and the fuel has been furnished under the authority of said order.
STREET LIGHTS.
The number of street lights in the city, January 1, 1896, was 557,-349 arc and 208 incandescent electric lights. Nine arc lights have been added during the year, and two incandescent lights have been placed on Boston avenue to take the place of the oil lamps which were discontinued in 1896. One incan- descent light has also been placed on Harvard street, between Elm place and Beach street.
The following table shows the number of lights in the city January 1, 1897 :-
Arc Electric Lights.
Incandescent Electric Lights.
Totals.
In the city January 1, 1896 .
349
Erected during the year .
.
9
208 3
557 12
358
211
569
For the Committee, ROBERT S. WRIGHT, Chairman. WILLIAM P. MITCHELL, Clerk.
REPORT
OF THE
SUPERINTENDENT OF LIGHTS.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, January 13, 1897.
Referred to Committee on Printing, to be printed in the annual reports. Sent down for concurrence.
GEORGE I. VINCENT, Clerk.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, January 13, 1897.
Referred to Committee on Printing, to be printed in the annual reports, in concurrence.
CHAS. S. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
CITY HALL, December 24, 1896.
To His Honor, the Mayor, and the City Council :-
Gentlemen,-I have the honor to submit herewith the annual report of the Light Department for the year ending December 31, 1896.
Nine (9) new arc lights have been added during the year, located as follows :- Central Park; Grant and Derby streets; Glen, opposite Dell street; Granite, corner of Osgood street; Porter, corner of Carver street; Tower street and Highland avenue; Laurel street; Perkins, opposite Florence street; Jenny Lind avenue.
Three (3) new incandescent lights have been added; two (2) on Boston avenue, near the Medford line, and one (1) on Har- vard street, between Elm and Beach streets.
The locations of the following incandescent lights have been changed, the original territory lighted by them having been covered by arc lights. From Dell to North Union, from Porter and Carver to Williams court, from Granite to Knapp, from Laurel to Park place, from Perkins, opposite Florence, to Mur- ray, from Florence to Alston and Shawmut, from Perkins, op- posite Myrtle, to corner of Wheeler and Pinckney streets.
I have endeavored to have the electric light company fulfil their contract to the city and have found them always ready to obey my orders.
590
ANNUAL REPORTS.
There are at present three hundred and fifty-eight (358) arc and two hundred and eleven (211) incandescent lights in use. I would recommend that more lights be added this coming year, as there are many points in the city where they are much needed.
The contract with the electric light company expires next year. It is the opinion of the superintendent of lights that the price now paid, i. e., one hundred and twenty dollars ($120) per year for twelve hundred (1200) candle-power arc lights, is ex- cessive. The new contract should call for a much reduced price in the cost of lights.
To the chairman and members of the fuel and lights com- mittee I wish to extend my thanks for the courtesy shown to me during my few months of office.
Respectfully submitted,
EDWARD BACKUS, Supt. of Lights.
REPORT
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, March 10, 1897.
Referred to Committee on Printing, to be printed in the Annual Reports. Sent down for concurrence.
GEORGE I. VINCENT, Clerk.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, March 11, 1897.
Referred to Committee on Printing, to be printed in the Annual Reports, in concurrence.
CHAS. S. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
IN COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY, January 1, 1897.
To the City Council of Somerville: -
The Committee on Public Property presents the following report for the year 1896 :-
POLICE STATION INCIDENTALS ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
$3,000.00
Receipts :-
For rent of armory
300.00
Rent of court room
600.00
Total credit
·
$3,900.00
DEBIT.
Transfer to police account
$1,000.00
Expenditures :-
For janitor's salary
850.00
Gas
542.23
Fuel .
343.70
Water
75.60
Disinfectant
7.50
Labor
28.00
Supplies
15.97
Repairs and improvements of building and furniture 423.86
Total debit
3,286.86
Balance unexpended
$613.14
594
ANNUAL REPORTS.
SCHOOLHOUSE INCIDENTALS ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
$15,000.00
Transfer from school contingent ac-
count
1,200.00
Receipts :-
For rent of land on Elm street
25.00
Insurance on Prospect Hill schoolhouse
1,059.32
Total credit
$17,284.32
DEBIT.
Expenditures :-
For repairs and improvements of
buildings
$10,761.80
Furniture
1,487.42
Repairing furniture
558.39
Repairing heating and venti-
lating apparatus
1,648.26
Repairing blackboards
63.52
Building fence
50.99
Concrete walks
296.15
Setting edgestones
263.30
Flagstaff at High grounds . .
School
335.75
Cleaning buildings after re- pairs
339.17
Teaming furniture
90.62
Water
833.70
Gas .
614.66
Electric current for motor
40.85
Insurance .
2,239.63
Adjusting insurance
37.50
Sewer assessment
60.00
Amount carried forward
$19,721.71
·
.
595
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
Amount brought forward
$19,721.71
School supplies .
1,096.53
Carriage hire
10.00
Incidentals
43.60
Total debit
20,871.84
Amount overdrawn .
$3,587.52
The expenditures at the various schoolhouses were as fol- lows :-
Beech Street.
Repairs and improvements
$94.32
Repairing furniture
8.90
Repairing heating apparatus .
109.30
Moving furniture .
2.25
Gas
20.68
Water
13.00
Supplies
3.00
$251.45
Luther V. Bell.
Repairs and improvements
$794.24
Furniture
·
4.50
Repairing furniture
97.42
Repairing heating apparatus
44.89.
Repairing blackboards .
4.24
Moving furniture .
1.75
Cleaning after repairs
109.24
Gas
42.79
Water
53.20
Supplies
37.61
1,189.88
Amount carried forward
$1,441.33
596
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward .
$1,441.33
Bennett.
Repairs and improvements
.
$280.37
Furniture
112.00
Repairing furniture
43.60
Repairing heating apparatus
24.11
Water
23.80
Insurance
18.00
Supplies
.53
502.41
Bingham.
Repairs and improvements
$222.21
Furniture
.
.
159.61
Repairing furniture
40.05
Repairing heating apparatus
9.02
Repairing blackboards
41.60
Moving furniture .
4.50
Water
51.80
Insurance
75.00
Supplies
9.90
613.69
Burns.
Repairs and improvements
$232.99
Furniture
23.64
Repairing furniture
5.00
Repairing heating apparatus
.
25.83
Gas
2.00
Water
12.60
Insurance
75.00
Supplies
19.75
396.81
Amount carried forward
$2,954.24
.
.
.
.
-
597
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
Amount brought forward $2,954.24
Cedar Street.
Repairs and improvements
$195.03
Repairing furniture
3.00
Water
13.00
Insurance
24.00
Supplies
3.69
Sewer assessment
60.00
298.72
Cummings.
Repairs and improvements
$212.57
Repairing furniture
9.25
Repairing heating apparatus
104.66
Water
16.80
Supplies
6.45
.
349.73
Davis.
Repairs and improvements
$100.47
Furniture
.
13.50
Repairing furniture
9.15
Repairing heating apparatus
18.83
Gas
3.35
Water
28.00
Supplies
3.20
176.50
Durell.
Repairs and improvements
$121.23
Repairing furniture
5.00
Repairing heating apparatus .
22.32
Water
19.70
Supplies
3.85
.
172.10
Amount carried forward
$3,951.29
·
·
·
.
.
598
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward .
$3,951.29
Edgerly.
Repairs and improvements ·
$422.03
Furniture
·
55.49
Repairing furniture
32.07
Repairing heating apparatus
32.63
Gas
39.50
Water
14.00
Supplies
16.72
612.44
Forster.
Repairs and improvements .
·
$2,813.24
Repairing furniture
.
21.00
Repairing heating apparatus
218.50
Repairing blackboards .
17.68
Cleaning after repairs
28.20
Gas
73.88
Water
43.40
Supplies
3.07
3,218.97
Franklin.
Repairs and improvements
$277.70
Furniture
48.50
Repairing furniture
49.10
Repairing heating apparatus
64.38
Moving furniture
8.75
Water
13.00
Insurance
105.00
Supplies
3.00
569.43
Amount carried forward
$8,352.13
.
599
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
Amount brought forward
$8,352.13
Glines.
Repairs and improvements
$97.42
Furniture
22.75
Repairing furniture
11.00
Repairing heating apparatus
3.50
Cleaning after repairs
26.48
Moving furniture
8.72
Gas
5.14
Water
28.00
Insurance
337.50
Supplies
10.01
550.52
Harvard.
Repairs and improvements
$104.19
Repairing furniture
2.50
Repairing heating apparatus
9.75
Water
13.00
Insurance
23.63
Supplies
.50
153.57
English High.
Repairs and improvements
$1,520.28
Furniture
641.71
Gas
68.00
Electric current for motor
40.85
Flagstaff
335.75
Supplies
49.28
.
2,655.87
Amount carried forward .
$11,712.09
600
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward .
$11,712.09
1,318.67
Highland.
Repairs and improvements
$258.98
Furniture
92.77
Repairing furniture
9.25
Repairing heating apparatus
59.45
Gas
38.45
Water
46.20
Insurance
322.50
Supplies
10.94
838.54
Hodgkins.
Repairs and improvements
$84.19
Furniture
4.50
Cleaning after construction
171.00
Moving furniture
49.40
Building fence
50.99
Insurance
320.00
Supplies
60.60
740.68
Amount carried forward ·
$14,609.98
.
$545.32
Furniture
25.90
Repairing furniture
.
15.00
Repairing heating apparatus
.
.
105.98
Gas
164.77
Water
214.60
Insurance
176.25
Supplies
70.85
Latin High.
Repairs and improvements
.
·
.
601
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
Amount brought forward . $14,609.98
Jackson.
Repairs and improvements
$163.17
Repairing furniture
36.75
Repairing heating apparatus
18.12
Moving furniture
3.75
Water
13.00
Insurance
99.00
Supplies
6.75
340.54
Knapp.
Repairs and improvements
255.59
Furniture
39.25
Repairing furniture
30.25
Repairing heating apparatus
179.41
Moving furniture
4.25
Concrete walks
197.30
Setting edgestones
263.30
Gas
28.96
Water
.
15.40
Supplies
·
1,051.93
Lincoln.
Repairs and improvements
$124.93
Repairing furniture
.
1.10
Repairing heating apparatus
126.84
Moving furniture
1.00
Supplies
12.07
.
281.94
Amount carried forward
·
$16,284.39
.
38.22
.
·
602
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward
$16,284.39
Morse.
Repairs and improvements
.
$318.42
Furniture
29.50
Repairing heating apparatus
183.75
Moving furniture
.75
Gas
21.36
Water
26.90
Supplies
17.83
598.51
Pope.
Repairs and improvements .
$376.30
Furniture
132.00
Repairing furniture
27.25
Repairing heating apparatus
105.56
Moving furniture
3.25
Gas
10.42
Water
46.20
Insurance
487.50
Supplies
21.52
1,210.00
Prescott.
Repairs and improvements
$398.33
Furniture
31.80
Repairing furniture
78.35
Repairing heating apparatus
62.93
Concrete walks
98.85
Gas
95.36
Water
100.00
Insurance
176.25
Supplies
36.77
1,078.64
Amount carried forward
$19,171.54
.
.
.
603
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
Amount brought forward $19,171.54
Prospect Hill.
Repairs and improvements
$748.28
Furniture
50.00
Repairing furniture
7.40
Repairing heating apparatus .
118.50
Moving furniture
6.50
Adjusting insurance
37.50
Water
28.10
Supplies
14.50
1,010.78
School supplies (brushes, dusters, baskets, etc.)
635.92
Carriage hire
10.00
Incidentals
43.60
Total debit
$20,871.84
SCHOOLHOUSE, ENGLISH HIGH, ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation .
$7,000.00
DEBIT.
Expenditures: -
John Y. Mainland, balance on contract for laboratory fit- tings
$1,028.30
Wemyss Bros. & Co., carpen- tering and wood-working for manual training
1,489.00
A. J. Wilkinson & Co., tools and machinery
1,369.00
Chandler & Barber, tools
1,473.98
James H. Roberts, shafting, etc.
337.73
Amounts carried forward
$5,698.01
$7,000.00
.
604
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amounts brought forward
$5,698.01 $7,000.00
Holtzer-Cabot Electric Co.,
motor
300.00
Connecting motor with Cam- bridge motor circuit
200.00
Lumber
169.26
Hardware
25.55
Iron work
27.67
Mason work
5.16
Labor (carpenter work of stu-
dents)
295.00
Furniture and carpet
108.18
Sundry expenses
14.90
Total debit
.
.
$6,843.73
Balance unexpended
$156.27
.
SCHOOLHOUSE IN WARD FOUR, ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Balance unexpended December 31, 1895
$30,479.78
Appropriated in 1896
9,000.00
Receipts :-
From Frank G. Coburn & Co., for
water service
15.00
Highways account, for gravel . 85.00
Total credit
$39,579.78
DEBIT.
Transfer to Fire Station, Ward One, account
$1,000.00
Expenditures : -
Frank G. Coburn & Co., bal- ance of contract for construc- tion . $27,163.00
Amounts carried forward,
$28,163.00
$39,579.78
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
605
Amounts brought forward $28,163.00 $39,579.78
Frank G. Coburn & Co., extra work
633.63
Boston Furnace Co., contract for heating and ventilating apparatus
4,637.00
Samuel D. Kelley, balance on architect's services
1,010.00
F. Bryant & Co., electric wiring
397.50
Carpenter work
68.18
Plumbing
15.83
Gas fixtures, service pipe and connecting meter
114.42
Covering steam pipes with as- bestos
347.92
Iron balcony
25.00
Furniture
2,590.99
Window shades
134.56
Insurance
28.00
Grading
354.55
Edgestones and inside curbing
661.85
Plank walks
58.69
Total debit
$39,241.12
Balance unexpended
$338.66
SCHOOLHOUSE, WARD ONE, ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
$35,000.00
Received from sale of buildings
1,437.00
Total credit
$36,437.00 ·
DEBIT.
Expenditures :-
Land, with buildings thereon . $10,064.48
City of Somerville, taxes 231.89
Amounts carried forward · $10,296.37
$36,437.00
606
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amounts brought forward $10,296.37 $36,437.00
City of Somerville, street water- ing 5.28
Thomas M. Sargent, on account of architect's services . .
600.00
Edward F. Staples, on account contract ·
5,500.00
Engineering Department ac-
count, labor ·
30.00
Highways account, labor
·
20.00
Stone, teaming, etc., for extra foundation
943.10
Lumber
2.55
Advertising
29.23
Printing
2.25
Bill posting
6.00
Total debit
$17,434.78
Balance unexpended
$19,002.22
SCHOOLHOUSE, JACOB T. GLINES ADDITION, AC- COUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation $22,000.00
Transfer from Reduction of Funded Debt account 2,000.00
Transfer from Schoolhouse, Land, Spring Hill District, account 2,500.00
Total credit $26,500.00 .
DEBIT.
Expenditures : -
H. P. Cummings & Co., contract for construction $17,360.00
H. P. Cummings & Co., extra work 2,031.93
Amounts carried forward . $19,391.93
$26,500.00
607
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
Amounts brought forward $19,391.93 $26,500.00
Magee Furnace Co., on account contract for heating and ven- tilating apparatus
4,970.00
Aaron H. Gould, architect's ser- vices
1,236.55
Furniture
1,002.40
Putting down furniture
·
179.32
Window shades
109.77
Gas fixtures
88.40
Gas fitting
15.43
Painting
5.00
Asbestos covering for pipes
143.26
Iron crane and truck
24.75
Express on furniture
42.18
Cleaning
14.22
Insurance
37.50
Total debit
$27,260.71
Amount overdrawn .
$760.71
SCHOOLHOUSE, LUTHER V. BELL, HEATING, VEN- TILATING AND SANITARY APPARATUS, AC- COUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
$6,500.00
Transfer from Reduction of Funded Debt account .
100.00
Received from Lynch & Woodward for repairing furniture
12.50
Total credit
$6,612.50
Amount carried forward
$6,612.50
608
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward .
$6,612.50
DEBIT.
Expenditures: -
A. A. Sanborn, plans for heat- ing and ventilating apparatus Lynch & Woodward, on ac count contract
$328.30
6,416.00
Lynch & Woodward, extra work
18.30
Covering pipes with. asbestos
100.66
Total debit
6,863.26
Amount overdrawn .
$250.76
SCHOOLHOUSE, LAND, SPRING HILL DISTRICT, AC- COUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
$3,000.00
DEBIT. .
Transfer to Schoolhouse, Jacob T. Glines Addition
account
$2,500.00
Balance unexpended
$500.00
CITY HALL IMPROVEMENT ACCOUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation $22,000.00
Transfer from Highways, paving Washington street, Joy to Tufts street
1,340.21
Transfer from Highways, paving Washington street, Medford to Joy street 1,059.25
Total credit $24,399.46
Amount carried forward
$24,399.46
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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
Amount brought forward . DEBIT.
$24,399.46
Expenditures :-
Alfred H. Hines, on account contract
$11,300.00
Alfred H. Hines, extra work .
425.00
Foster, Ellingwood & Harvey, on account of contract for heating apparatus
800.00
Damon Safe & Iron Works Co., vault work
1,855.00
Thomas M. Sargent, plans
150.00
Lumber, doors, finish, etc.
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143.31
Furniture
273.40
Window shades
53.20
Carpenter work, counters, vault fittings, etc.
999.05
Hardware
19.48
Painting
111.59
Setting glass
7.50
Total debit
$16,137.53
Balance unexpended
$8,261.93
SCHOOL CONTINGENT (JANITORS' SALARIES) AC- COUNT.
CREDIT.
Appropriation .
$13,000.00
DEBIT.
Expenditures :-
For salaries paid for eleven months .
$12,805.39
Balance unexpended
$194.61
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610
ANNUAL REPORTS.
EXPENDITURES BY THIS COMMITTEE FROM MIS- CELLANEOUS ACCOUNT.
City Hall expenses :-
For repairs building .
$78.33
Repairing heating apparatus
74.69
Furniture and carpets
112.25
Repairing furniture
25.75
Electric lighting
300.00
Gas
45.73
Fuel
310.58
Water .
26.60
Telephone
206.52
Supplies
64.08
Express on bundles
11.55
P. O. box rent
4.00
Labor
54.50
Teaming ashes
16.00
Typewriting machines
193.50
$1,524.08
City Messenger's team :---
For maintenance .
579.90
Election expenses :-
For fitting up voting precincts,
repairs of boxes, fittings, etc.
$462.34
Care of rooms for elections and caucuses
108.60
Rent of rooms for elections and
57.00
caucuses
627.94
Total expenditures
.
$2,731.92
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WILLIAM H. HODGKINS SCHOOL.
The William H. Hodgkins School, the plans and contracts for which were adopted and executed during the previous year, and under which plans and contracts the erection of the build- ing was carried on by the committee of 1895, has been com-
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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
pleted by this committee and turned over to the School Com- mittee, ready for occupancy.
It is a twelve-room brick building, constructed in the most modern manner, with the latest improved heating and venti- lating apparatus, and is a valuable addition to the school property of the city.
The total cost of the building, including heating and venti- lating apparatus, school furniture, fittings, etc., was $52,753.01, above the land.
SANFORD HANSCOM SCHOOL.
Of the requests made by the School Committee early in the year, for additional school accommodations, the one for a six- room building in Ward One, was decided by the City Council to be an imperative necessity. But considerable trouble was ex- perienced by the committee in securing a lot suitable for the erection of such a building as was required. Several desirable lots suggested themselves; but owing to difficulties encountered in their purchase, and the statute laws at that time being such as to make the acquiring by right of eminent domain of land for school purposes a rather hazardous matter, the committee deemed it unwise to procure them, and finally settled upon the corner of Webster and Rush streets as the most practicable, and under the existing conditions, most desirable location.
The lot on Webster street, with the fire station thereon, which, after the erection of the new station at the corner of Broadway and Cross street, had been abandoned by the depart- ment, was by order of the City Council dated July 16, 1896, turned over to this committee, and the committee was also authorized by the same order to purchase the land on Webster and Rush streets, with the buildings thereon numbered 36 and 38 Webster street and 48 Rush street, authority for the sale of which buildings was also granted by said order.
These lots, together with the fire station lot, containing in all about 11,927 square feet, were adopted by the City Council as the site for the new building, and the committee presented plans prepared by Thomas M. Sargent, architect, for the erection
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
thereon of a six-room brick building, which plans were adopted August 27, 1896.
Under authority of the City Council a contract for the con- struction was awarded to Edward F. Staples, for the sum of $23,000.00.
The plans for this building have been prepared in such a manner as to allow an addition of two rooms, should it be necessary at any future time, without any considerable change in the original structure.
JACOB T. GLINES SCHOOL ADDITION.
By an order dated May 21, 1896, plans prepared by Aaron H. Gould, architect, were adopted for the addition of five rooms to the Jacob T. Glines schoolhouse, and under authority of the City Council, contracts have been awarded to H. P. Cummings & Co., for $17,360.00, for construction, and to the Magee Fur- nace Co., for $5,270.00, for heating and ventilating apparatus.
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