Report of the city of Somerville 1898, Part 40

Author: Somerville (Mass.)
Publication date: 1898
Publisher: Somerville, Mass.
Number of Pages: 870


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Sept. 10, 1847,


Captain,


Fireman,


Highland ave.


Charles E. Shaw,


Oct. 13, 1854,


Lieutenant,


Fireman,


Highland ave.


Harry F. Bucknam,


Sept. 21, 1872,


Driver,


Fireman,


Highland ave.


John E. Hill,


Dec. 25, 1845,


Ladderman,


Salesman,


Cherry st.


Clarence H. Alley,


March 16, 1869, Ladderman, Ladderman,


Carpenter,


Highland ave.


Harry H. Whicher,


May 23, 1864,


R. R. Agent,


Holland st.


Thomas McNee,


Nov. 14, 1857,


Ladderman,


Roofer, Hersey st.


Clarence T. Conant,


Dec., 1866,


Ladderman,


Milkman,


Hudson st.


Wm. J. Kennedy,


March, 1864,


Ladderman,


Plumber,


Alpine st.


LeBaron Emery,


May 11, 1860,


Ladderman,


Painter,


Alpine st.


Feet of ladders used Miles run


1,472


151


HOSE CO. 2.


Name.


Born.


Rank.


Occupation.


Residence.


Francis W. Ring,


Aug. 7, 1859,


Captain,


Fireman,


Wheatland st.


Daniel R. Spike,


March 22, 1844, Lieutenant,


Fireman,


Broadway.


Henry A. Angier,


April 30, 1838,


Driver,


Fireman,


Jaques st.


Charles H. Timson,


May 27, 1861,


Hoseman,


Teamster,


Marshall st.


Wm. F. Marble,


June 22, 1852, Hoseman, July 10, 1871, Hoseman, Hoseman, April 2, 1867, Jan. 31, 1851, Sept. 30, 1873, Hoseman,


Teamster, Clerk,


Sargent ave.


Chas. A. Woodbury,


Hoseman,


Foreman,


Sargent ave.


Harry V. Spike,


Teamster,


Broadway.


Frederic E. Cushing,


Dec. 20, 1845,


Hoseman,


Painter,


Walnut st.


Feet of hose laid


10,200


Miles run .


2421/2


Feet of ladders used


185


Extinguishers used


none


Name.


Born.


Rank.


Occupation.


Residence.


Benj. H. Pond,


Oct. 25, 1867, July 31, 1852, Nov. 29, 1848, Feb. 4, 1845, Feb. 22, 1856, July 5, 1852,


Captain, Lieutenant, Hoseman, Hoseman,


Fireman,


Machinist,


Chester ave. Medford st. Columbus ave.


Thomas W. Joy, John H. Cuddy,


Hoseman, Hoseman,


Clerk,


Bow Street pl.


Alfred R. Higgins,


Feb. 25, 1849, Hoseinan, Oct. 29, 1851, Hoseman,


Piano maker,


Oxford st.


George W. Bridges,


March 22, 1876, Hoseman,


Confectioner,


Medford st.


Feet of hose laid


10,800


Miles run .


111


Chemical extinguishers used


19


Feet of ladders used 100


Still aların


2


Fireman,


Bonner ave.


Frank L. Draper,


Charles H. Bridges,


Francis S. Brown,


Watchman,


Cooper,


Bow Street pl.


Cooper,


Prospect st.


Edward A. Parker,


Fish Dealer,


Derby st.


Melville G. Webber,


Jaques st.


Almon M. Irish,


HOSE CO. 3.


724


ANNUAL REPORTS.


HOSE CO. 5.


Name.


Born.


Rank.


Occupation.


Residence.


Edwin F. Trefren.


March 28, 1858,


Captain,


Fireman,


Somerville ave.


Wm. J. Blaisdell,


May 16, 1846,


Lieutenant,


Fireman,


Quincy st.


Martin E. Driscoll,


Dec. 21, 1872,


Hoseman,


Painter,


Somerville ave.


Horace L. Dunklee,


Dec. 12, 1854,


Hoseman,


Fireman,


Somerville ave. Belmont st.


Michael H. Kennedy,


July 14, 1873,


Hoseman,


Laborer,


Somerville ave.


Otto T. Teakles,


March 22, 1871,


Hoseman,


Plasterer,


Belmont st.


Wm. C. Trefren,


Jan. 13, 1861,


Hoseman,


Carpenter,


Somerville ave. Somerville ave.


Daniel W. McDermott, March 14, 1846,


Hoseman,


Painter,


Feet of hose laid


10,250


Miles run .


185


Chemical extinguishers used


25


Feet of ladders used .


650


CHEMICAL ENGINE A.


Name.


Born.


Rank.


Occupation. Residence.


Joseph A. Cribby,


Aug. 22, 1864,


Lieutenant,


Fireman,


Thorpe pl.


Jesse A. Lipsett,


Sept. 3, 1865,


Operator,


Fireman,


Thorpe pl.


Wilfred S. Young,


Aug. 7, 1874.


Hoseman,


Fireman, Highland ave.


Bell alarms


140


First alarms .


140


Second alarms


6


Responded to bell alarms


128


Responded to still alarms


11


Miles run


3511%


Hose used .


12,450 feet


Gallons of chemical water used


4,620


Feet of ladders used .


240


There were 15 fires and 4 spark fires extinguished by Chemical A.


I desire to extend my thanks to His Honor, the Mayor, and the Committee on Fire Department for their co-operation in all matters appertaining to the department's efficiency.


J. R. HOPKINS,


Chief of Fire Department.


George R. Green,


Feb. 27, 1866,


Hoseman,


Florist,


REPORT OF THE


COMMITTEE ON FUEL AND STREET LIGHTS.


.


CITY OF SOMERVILLE.


IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, January 11, 1899.


Referred to Committee on Printing, to be printed in the annual reports. Sent down for concurrence.


GEORGE I. VINCENT, Clerk.


IN COMMON COUNCIL, January 11, 1899.


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, December 31, 1898.


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, 1898 :-


SCHOOL FUEL ACCOUNT.


CREDIT.


Appropriation


.


$10,000.00


DEBIT.


Expenditures :


For fuel at


Bell school .


$ 704.52


Bennett school


131.95


Bingham school


343.88


Burns school


137.98


Carr school .


260.84


Cedar street school


44.74


Cummings school


136.72


Davis school


144.91


Durell school


232.63


Edgerly school


657.45


Forster school


438.37


Franklin school


5.25


Glines school


620.59


Hanscom school .


349.68


Harvard school


24.47


Amounts carried forward .


$4,233.98


$10,000.00


728


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Amounts brought forward


$4,233.98


$10,000.00


High school


1,129.11


Highland school .


703.83


Hodgkins school


596.57


Jackson school


168.69


Knapp school


833.99


Lincoln school


275.88


Morse school


627.16


Pope school


528.45


Prescott school


454.64


Prospect Hill school


204.53


Incidentals


8.75


Total debit .


$9,765.58


Balance unexpended


$234.42


STREET LIGHTS ACCOUNT.


CREDIT.


Appropriation


$45,000.00


DEBIT.


For electric lighting


$43,337.81


Welsbach lighting


487.75


Changing locations of elec- tric poles


15.00


Incidentals .


57.00


Total debit .


.


$43,897.56


Balance unexpended


$1,102.44


In pursuance of an order dated May 11, 1898, the following proposals were received for the furnishing of fuel for the school- houses and public buildings of the city.


NAMES OF BIDDERS.


Furnace coal per ton.


Egg coal per ton.


Stove coal per ton.


Soft wood per cord.


Hard wood per cord.


Baker-Hunnewell Co. .


.


$4.31


$4.44


$4.73


$5.50


$6.50


I. L. Smith . .


4.24


4.24


4.24


5.50


6.75


Wellington-Wild Coal Co.


4.17


4.32


4.32


4.75


6.50


.


REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FUEL AND STREET LIGHTS. 729


The contract was awarded to the Wellington-Wild Coal Co., for one year from July 1, 1898. Under this contract $9,765.58 was expended for fuel, and distributed in the various buildings, as shown in the table of expenditures ; there remaining to the credit of this account, December 31, the sum of $234.42.


ELECTRIC STREET LIGHTS.


The number of street lights in the city January 1, 1898, was 361 arc lights, and 219 incandescent lights. Eight incandescent lights which were maintained at the subway at Kent street and Sacramento street have been discontinued. No lights have been added during the year, but since May 1 the city has maintained one incandescent light in Spring Hill terrace, theretofore provided by private enterprise. The present num- ber of incandescent lights is 211.


The contract with the Somerville Electric Light Co. expired in October, 1897. Under that contract the city paid $120.00 per year for each arc light and $25.00 for each incandescent ; deducting for outs at the rate of six cents for each hour that an arc light failed to burn, and one cent per hour for such failure of an incandescent light. The arc lights are of a nominal 1,200 candle power and the incandescents of twenty-five.


A new contract was made November 1, 1898, with the Som- erville Electric Light Co., which will continue in force until November 1, 1900, and thereafter until a new contract shall have been made. Under this contract the price, dating from October 1, 1897, was reduced to $110.00 per year for each arc light, but remained at $25.00 for incandescents, remaining at the same as under the former contract. The deductions for outs per hour under the new contract are two and 87-100 cents for each arc light, and 65-100 cents for each twenty-five candle power incandescent light. If an arrangement be made for the introduction of any incandescent lights, the city should increase the power of the incandescent, thirty-two candle power ; the price will be at the rate of $30.00 per light, with a deduction of 78-100 cents per hour for each hour the lights refuse to burn, during the schedule time required.


730


ANNUAL REPORTS.


WELSBACH STREET LIGHTS.


Under authority of an order dated June 22, 1898, the Com- mittee made a contract with the Welsbach Street Lighting Co. of America for the furnishing, for three years from September 15, 1898, of 117 street lights, and as many additional lights as the city may, from time to time, require. The price paid for each light is $30.00 per year; the company furnishing everything required, including connections with gas mains, lighting, extinguishing, and cleaning the lights, and maintaining them at a uniform candle standard of candle power. At the present time there are 71 gas lights, and 46 naphtha lights in service. Your committee is much pleased with these lights and feels that they are a great improvement over the incandescent electric lights, as regards brilliancy, and for the reason that they do away with the necessity of erecting unsightly poles in our public streets for the purpose of supporting wires for electricity. We trust the Committee of 1899 will give these lights a thorough trial, and in so doing we feel that many more lights will soon he added to the number now in use. Streets that have never been lighted before are now provided with them, and the people are loud in their praise.


For the Committee,


JAMES F. DAVLIN, Chairman. WILLIAM P. MITCHELL, Clerk.


REPORT


OF THE


COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.


CITY OF SOMERVILLE.


IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, January 18, 1899.


Referred to Committee on Printing, to be printed in the annual reports. Sent down for concurrence.


GEORGE I. VINCENT, Clerk.


IN COMMON COUNCIL, January 18, 1899.


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,


December 31, 1898.


TO THE CITY COUNCIL OF SOMERVILLE : -


The Committee on Public Property presents the following report for the year 1898 :-


POLICE STATION INCIDENTALS ACCOUNT.


CREDIT.


Appropriation


$2,000.00


Receipts : -


For rent of court room


600.00


Total credit


$2,600.00


DEBIT.


Expenditures : -


For janitor's salary


$850.00


Gas


546.04


Water


54.74


Fuel


312.93


Supplies


9.11


Disinfectant


30.50


Labor


28.00


Repairs and improvements


of building and fur-


niture


267.14


Total debit


$2,098.46


Balance unexpended


$501.54


.


734


ANNUAL REPORTS.


SCHOOLHOUSE INCIDENTALS ACCOUNT.


CREDIT.


Appropriation


$17,000.00 Receipts : -


For sand and gravel from Hodg- kins school lot . 50.00


Insurance on account of fire


at Prescott schoolhouse . 250.00


Cleaning furniture at Pres- cott schoolhouse


4.00


Total credit .


$17,304.00


DEBIT.


Expenditures : -


For repairs and improvements of buildings


$8,085.46


Furniture


2,407.32


Repairing furniture


167.20


Repairing heating and ven-


tilating apparatus


1,582.83


Flags and repairs of same


139.88


Care of grounds .


197.40


Teaming furniture


76.69


Repairing blackboards


370.62


Maintenance of repair shop


166.16


Water


1,268.31


Gas


818.63


Electric lighting .


44.25


Electric current for motor


142.30


Insurance .


500.00


Sidewalk assessment


59.34


Removing brown-tail moths


28.75


Cleaning vault


12.00


Tablet at Martin W. Carr school


60.00


Amounts carried forward $16,127.14


$17,304.00


735


REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.


Amounts brought forward . $16,127.14


$17,304.00


Cleaning building after con- struction . 111.75


School supplies .


658.03


Carriage hire, travelling ex- penses, etc.


44.72


Incidentals .


4.65


Total debit .


$16,946.29


Balance unexpended


$357.71


The expenditures at the various schoolhouses were as follows : -


Luther V. Bell.


Repairs and improvements


$886.61


Furniture


131.90


Repairing furniture


3.95


Repairing heating apparatus


124.93


Teaming furniture


1.75


Water


139.12


Gas .


171.41


Supplies


10.60


$1,470.27


Bennett.


Repairs and improvements


$30.07


Furniture .


52.70


Repairing heating apparatus


20.50


Water


19.74


123.01


Bingham.


Repairs and improvements


$107.05


Repairing heating apparatus


13.49


Teaming furniture


1.00


Flags and repairs same


8.65


Water


33.60


163.79


Amount carried forward


$1,757.07


736


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Amount brought forward


$1,757.07


Burns.


Repairs and improvements


$126.50


Repairing furniture


4.00


Repairing heating apparatus


50.03


Teaming furniture


5.50


Repairing blackboards


69.44


Flags and repairs same


9.20


Water


19.46


Gas


2.03


286.16


Martin W. Carr.


Repairs and improvements


$352.95


Furniture .


186.49


Teaming furniture


18.75


Flags and repairs same


-15.00


Water


18.90


Gas .


3.35


Supplies


53.39


Insurance


.


450.00


Cleaning after construction of building


111.75


Tablet


60.00


1,270.58


Cedar Street.


Repairs and improvements


$128.26


Repairing furniture


·


2.00


Repairing heating apparatus


16.75


Flags and repairs same


5.00


Water


13.00


Cleaning vault


.


12.00


177.01


Amount carried forward .


$3,490.82


737


REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY. -


Amount brought forward Cummings.


$3,490.82


Repairs and improvements


$73.34


Repairing heating apparatus


22.00


Teaming furniture


.50


Flags and repairs of same


6.00


Water


34.44


Supplies


7.70


143.98


Davis.


Repairs and improvements


$336.53


Repairing furniture .


.70


Repairing heating apparatus


31.47


Teaming furniture


1.72


Water


22.40


Gas


2.76


Supplies


1.09


396.67


George W. Durell.


Repairs and improvements


$61.60


Repairing heating apparatus


40.53


Teaming furniture


2.88


Flags and repairs of same .


8.65


Water


13.00


126.66


Edgerly.


Repairs and improvements


$223.58


Furniture .


209.00


Repairing heating apparatus


26.32


Teaming furniture


7.75


Repairing blackboards


90.08


Flags and repairs of same


6.00


Water


15.42


Gas .


29.36


Supplies


10.54


618.05


Amount carried forward


$4,776.18


738


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Amount brought forward


$4,776.18


Forster.


Repairs and improvements


$2,253.68


Furniture .


248.75


Repairing furniture


12.00


Repairing heating apparatus


52.56


Care of grounds


3.75


Teaming furniture


8.10


Flags and repairs of same .


11.00


Water


104.93


Gas


47.86


2,742.63


Franklin.


Repairs and improvements


$20.46


Water


25.00


45.46


Jacob T. Glines.


Repairs and improvements


$447.14


Repairing heating apparatus


124.13


Care of grounds


76.55


Teaming furniture


10.74


Flags and repairs of same .


11.00


Water


114.13


Gas


9.65


Supplies


11.95


805.29


Sanford Hanscom.


Repairs and improvements


$54.38


Repairing heating apparatus


43.03


Teaming furniture


2.00


Flags and repairs of same .


6.00


Water


25.00


Gas


4.64


Supplies


16 95


152.00


Amount carried forward $8,521.56


REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.


739


Amount brought forward .


$8,521.56


Harvard.


Repairs and improvements


$29.31


Repairing heating apparatus


7.55


Teaming furniture


1.00


Flags and repairs of same .


5.00


Water


13.00


55.86


English High.


Repairs and improvements


$361.46


Furniture .


573.43


Repairing furniture


64.41


Teaming furniture


.50


Flags and repairs of same


4.19


Gas


145.03


Supplies


28.20


Electric lighting


44.25


Electric current for motor .


142.30


1,363.77


Latin High.


Repairs and improvements


$254.73


Furniture .


42.53


Repairing furniture


15.00


Repairing heating apparatus


113.83


Water


279.12


Gas .


177.89


Supplies


2.85


885.95


Highland.


Repairs and improvements


$238.02


Furniture


105.75


Repairing furniture


15.00


Repairing heating apparatus


73.00


Teaming furniture


.75


Amounts carried forward . $432.52


$10,827.14


740


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Amounts brought forward


$432.52


$10,827.14


Flags and repairs of same .


24.94


Water


28.14


Gas


61.45


Supplies


10.73


557.78


William H. Hodgkins.


Repairs and improvements


$273.21


Repairing heating apparatus


307.31


Care of grounds .


42.75


Teaming furniture


1.75


Water


58.66


Gas


16.48


Supplies


10.52


710.68


Jackson.


Repairs and improvements


$408.47


Repairing furniture


3.70


Repairing heating apparatus


28.65


Teaming furniture


1.00


Water


13.00


Supplies


7.55


462.37


O. S. Knapp.


Repairs and improvements


$208.27


Furniture


270.19


Repairing furniture


4.20


Repairing heating apparatus


167.79


Care of grounds


19.85


Teaming furniture


1.00


Repairing blackboards


53.92


Flags and repairs of same


5.00


Water


24.64


Gas .


54.94


Supplies


19.46


·


.


829.26


Amount carried forward


$13,387.23


·


.


.


741


REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.


Amount brought forward


$13,387.23


Lincoln.


Repairs and improvements


$45.22


Repairing furniture


4.00


Repairing heating apparatus


24.40


Care of grounds


2.50


Teaming furniture


.50


Flags and repairs of same .


5.00


Water


13.00


Supplies


1.36


Insurance


50.00


145.98


Morse.


Repairs and improvements


$140.70


Furniture


205.78


Repairing furniture .


12.00


Repairing heating apparatus


57.72


Teaming furniture


2.75


Repairing blackboards


113.46


Water


25.00


Gas


15.95


Supplies


11.90


585.26


Charles G. Pope.


Repairs and improvements


$156.90


Furniture .


173.80


Repairing heating apparatus


158.67


Care of grounds .


52.00


Teaming furniture


1.50


Flags and repairs of same


3.25


Water


74.74


Gas


12.42


Supplies


20.36


Sidewalk assessment .


59.34


712.98


Amount carried forward


$14,831.45


742


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Amount brought forward


$14,831.45


Prescott.


Repairs and improvements


$627.38


Furniture


207.00


Repairing furniture


21.75


Repairing heating apparatus


32.68


Teaming furniture


2.75


Repairing blackboards


26.52


Flags and repairs of same .


6.00


Water


127.87


Gas .


63.41


Supplies


21.10


$1,136.46


Prospect Hill.


Repairs and improvements


$239.64


Repairing furniture


4.49


Repairing heating apparatus


45.49


Care of grounds


2.50


Repairing blackboards


17.20


Water


13.00


Supplies


2.90


325.22


Maintenance of repair shop


166.16


School supplies (brushes, dusters, baskets, soap,


etc.) .


408.88


Removing brown-tail moths from trees in school- yards .


28.75


Carriage hire, travelling expenses, etc.


44.72


Incidentals


4.65


Total debit .


$16,946.29


SCHOOL CONTINGENT, JANITORS' SALARIES, ACCOUNT.


CREDIT.


Appropriation


$17,000.00


Amount carried forward . $17,000.00


REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.


743


Amount brought forward . $17,000.00


DEBIT.


Expenditures : - For salaries of janitors of school buildings for the year 1898


$17,372.58


Amount overdrawn


$372.58


ARMORY ACCOUNT.


CREDIT.


$15,000.00


DEBIT.


Transfer to Schoolhouse, Spring


Hill District account . $ 521.03


Transfer to Prospect Hill Park account 356.21


Transfer to Schoolhouse, Ward


Two, account


4,000.00


Total debit


$4,877.24


Balance unexpended


$10,122.76


SUPPORT OF POOR, ALMSHOUSE, ACCOUNT.


CREDIT.


Appropriation


$20,000.00


Balance unexpended


$20,000.00


SCHOOLHOUSE, LAND IN WARD TWO, ACCOUNT.


CREDIT.


Balance unexpended December 31, 1897


$94.75


DEBIT.


Expenditures : -


For right to purchase, and payment on account of, land


$94.00


Balance unexpended


$ .75


.


Appropriation


744


ANNUAL REPORTS.


SCHOOLHOUSE, WARD TWO, ACCOUNT.


CREDIT.


Appropriation $34,000.00


Transferred from Armory ac-


count 4,000.00


Received from sale of old build-


ings


70.00


Total credit . $38,070.00


DEBIT.


Expenditures : -.


Balance of amount paid for land


and buildings


$9,122.00


Taxes for 1898


139.53


Prescott & Sidebottom, pay-


ment on account of archi- tects' service


582.50


Incidentals


4.50


Total debit .


$9,848.53


Balance unexpended


$28,221.47


SCHOOLHOUSE, ENGLISH HIGH, ACCOUNT.


CREDIT.


Appropriation


$1,000.00


Received from Schoolhouse Inci-


dentals account


114.30


Total credit .


$1,114.30


DEBIT.


Expenditures : -


For carpenter work


$379.30


Heating and ventilating ap-


paratus


165.00


Ash cases


236.00


Gas fixtures


25.00


Telephones


309.00


Total debit .


$1,114.30


REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY. 745 SCHOOLHOUSE, SPRING HILL DISTRICT, ACCOUNT.


CREDIT.


Balance unexpended December 31, 1897


$32,920.57


Appropriated in 1898


6,000.00


Transferred from Sewers Con- struction account 600.00


Transferred from Armory ac-


count 521.03


Total credit $40,041.60


DEBIT.


Expenditures : -


W. L. Clark & Co., balance of contract for construction W. L. Clark & Co., extra work A. A. Sanborn, contract for heating and ventilating ap- paratus


$27,330.00


1,468.89


5,500.00


A. A. Sanborn, extra work


215.00


Aaron H. Gould, balance on account of architect's ser- vices . .


874.32


Highways account, edgestones


37.59


Sidewalks account, labor and materials


23.80


Sidewalk assessment


69.60


Drain work, sewer connection, etc.


369.47


Gas service pipe and connect-


ing meter


24.46


Blackboards


28.60


Gas fixtures


83.05


Furniture


2,893.25


Window shades


169.56


Building fence


102.95


Amounts carried forward .


$39,190.54


$40,041.60


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ANNUAL REPORTS.


Amounts brought forward $39,190.54 $40,041.60


Stone steps


160.00


Mason work


149.30


Grading .


257.50


Concreting


282.26


Running boiler


. 2.00


Total debit .


$40,041.60


SCHOOLHOUSE, PRESCOTT, HEATING AND VENTI- LATING, ACCOUNT.


CREDIT.


Appropriation


$6,000.00


DEBIT.


Expenditures : -


A. A. Sanborn, plans and specifications


$ 165.27


Alexander Duncan & Co., on account of contract


3,000.00


Mason work


54.37


Water service pipe .


68.90


Plastering


139.92


Lead pipe


17.85


Plumbing


69.92


Total debit


$3,516.23


Balance unexpended


$2,483.77


EXPENDITURES, BY THIS COMMITTEE, FROM MISCEL- LANEOUS ACCOUNT.


City Hall Expenses : -


For repairs and improvements of building


$677.15


Furniture .


431.02


Repairing furniture


19.83


Repairing heating apparatus


6.65


Amount carried forward


$1,134.65


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Amount brought forward


$1,134.65


Water


43.68


Fuel


461.71


Gas


19.20


Electric lighting .


726.60


Telephones .


584.42


Supplies


74.62


Expressing bundles


20.75


Labor


79.50


Typewriting machine .


92.25


Ice


32.15


Teaming rubbish


7.00


$3,276.53


City Hall Annex : -


For repairs and improvements of building


$ 19.03


Repairing heating apparatus


47.50


Water


42.33


Gas


3.07


Electric lighting .


33.15


Fuel


123.52


Janitor's salary


420.00


Expressing bundles


1.15


Awnings


50.00


Screens


114.25


Tablet


55.00


909.00


Maintenance of city messenger's teams Election Expenses : -


595.20


For fitting up polling places, repairs of boxes, fittings, etc. .


$315.73


Care of rooms for elections and caucuses 98.65


Rent of rooms and halls for


elections and caucuses ·


234.00


648.38


Total expenditures


$5,429.11


748


ANNUAL REPORTS.


ALMSHOUSE.


The committee regrets that so many unavoidable obstacles have delayed the purchase by the city of some suitable site for an almshouse. Early in the year the committee commenced to look about for some suitable location which might be secured, examining a number of pieces of property in the vicinity of Broadway and North street.


One of the estates considered by the committee was the estate of Levi Russell, fronting on Broadway and North street, containing about 435,600 square feet of land, with house, sheds and barn thereon, and the committee fully agreed that this estate was the most suitable for the purposes desired that could be obtained. Particularly was this considered to be a wise purchase for the city to make, since at an outlay of only a small amount, the buildings already on the land could be put in excellent condition for the use of the Poor department for a number of years.


After due consideration, the findings of the committee were reported to the city council and authority was granted to purchase the estate for the sum of $18,000.00 ; but as a satis- factory title could not be given, the purchase has not been made.


It will probably be necessary to secure such legislation from the General Court as shall authorize the city to take the estate for almshouse purposes, and your committee recommends that such legislation be petitioned for as early in the year as possible.


ARMORY.


The matter of providing better quarters for the local militia company is one that has been strongly urged before the city council for several years, and was carefully considered by His Honor, Mayor Perry, in his inaugural address of 1898. It seemed to the committee at the beginning of the year that this matter should be definitely settled, and that a new armory should be commenced at an early date, and acting upon the recommendations of the committee, the city council, on July 1st, appropriated the sum of $15,000.00 for this purpose. But


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previous to this appropriation being made, war had been declared, and our local company had been hurried away, with other Massachusetts companies, so the matter of an armory was allowed to remain dormant.


Whether or not the erection of an armory by the city at some future time will be necessary is at present an unsettled question, as the matter of ownership of armories is still under consideration by the General Court. The commission appointed by the Governor to inquire into the advisability of changing the militia laws, so that the Commonwealth should provide all armories, having reported in favor of the State owning, or leasing, and controlling armories, it would seem to this committee most wise to follow the recommendation of His Honor, Mayor Perry, made in his valedictory address to the city council, "that no money should be expended in the erection of an armory until the Legislature takes action on the recommendation of the commission."


SCHOOLHOUSE IN WARD TWO.


Land for a schoolhouse in Ward Two was secured early in the year, but the purchase was not consummated until after the appropriation for the same was made in July. The land purchased is situated on the northerly side of Washington street, near Dane street, with a frontage on Washington street of about 132 feet, and contains about 46,080 square feet. This is one of the largest school lots in the city, and, although at present it is planned to erect but a six-room building, the loca- tion of the building is such that it can be enlarged to twelve, or even eighteen rooms, if it should be considered advisable at any time. The cost of the land was $9,216.00, together with taxes for 1898, which amounted to $139.53.




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