Report of the city of Somerville 1899, Part 30

Author: Somerville (Mass.)
Publication date: 1899
Publisher: Somerville, Mass.
Number of Pages: 430


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per Ton.


Egg Coal


per Ton.


Stove Coal


per Ton.


Cumberland


Coal per Ton.


Hard Wood


per Cord.


Soft Wood


per Cord.


I. L. Smith .


$4 00


$4 25


$4 50


$3 25


$6 50


$5 50


Wellington-Wild Coal Co.


3 95


4 15


4 35


3 15


6 25


5 25


The contract was awarded the Wellington-Wild Coal Com- pany, for one year from July 1, 1899, and all fuel required in the various buildings has been bought under said contract.


Electric Street Lights.


The contract which was made with the Somerville Electric Light Company November 1, 1898, will continue in force until November 1, 1900, and thereafter until a new contract shall be made. Under its provisions the city is paying $110 each per year for arc lights, less deductions of two and 87-100 cents per hour for each light not burning.


By authority of an order dated May 10, 1899, all the twenty- five-candle-power incandescent lights were removed, and lights of thirty-two-candle-power substituted; and all incandescent lights which have been added during the year are of thirty-two-candle- power. This change has proved to be very beneficial. The price for the thirty-two-candle-power lights is $30 each per year, less deductions for lights not burning at the rate of 78-100 cents each per hour. There are now 377 arc and 239 incandescent lights in the streets and public grounds of the city.


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COMMITTEE ON FUEL AND STREET LIGHTS.


Welsbach Street Lights.


The contract made with the Welsbach Street Lighting Com- pany of America for three years from September 15, 1898, is still in force. The price per year paid for these lights is $30 each, the same as paid for the thirty-two-candle-power incandescent electric lights. There are at present 121 lamps in service, of which seventy-two burn gas and forty-nine naphtha. At the beginning of the year only 117 lamps were in use, but one gas and three naphtha lamps were added by the company early in the year, under an order passed by the City Council of 1898, too late in the season, to have the lamps erected that year.


For the Committee,


FRANCIS M. WILSON, Chairman. WILLIAM P. MITCHELL, Clerk.


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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF ELECTRIC LINES AND LIGHTS.


OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF ELECTRIC LINES AND LIGHTS, January 10, 1900.


To the Honorable, the Mayor, and the Board of Aldermen :-


Gentlemen,-I herewith submit my fourth annual report, for the year ending December 31, 1899 :-


Department of Electric Lines.


The fire alarm system has been kept in the best of order, all · alarms having been given correctly. Three new boxes have been added during the year and located as follows: No 427, Cutter square; 429, Kidder and Liberty avenues; and 431, Highland avenue and Gordonia road. An additional circuit has been pro- vided in the section west of Cedar street, which before had but one circuit; thus placing the boxes on alternate wires, and covering a large amount of new territory. The new engine house at Clarendon hill has been equipped with electrical appliances for opening stall doors, lighting, etc., on the first blow of the gong. During the year an emergency wagon has been placed in service .. This wagon, besides its regular work on repairs and construction, is used for what its name implies, that is, emergency calls. Whenever notice is received at the Central fire station of any pole or wire being down, this wagon is dispatched to the scene, and everything done to insure the safety of the public until the damage is repaired. I would recommend keyless doors for fire alarm boxes, and the replacing of the old boxes, which have been in service some twenty-five years, with more modern boxes, thus greatly decreasing the danger of two boxes being pulled in at the same time. This danger increases in proportion to the number of boxes in service. The tower strikers on the houses of Engine 4 and Hose 2 should have some parts of the machines re- placed. as they have been in service more than twenty years and are badly worn.


This department has the care of some 110 miles of wire, con- sisting of fire alarm, police signal, telephone service, and connec- tions with Cambridge, Medford, and Charlestown; also eighty- six fire alarm boxes, twenty-eight gongs, eight tower strikers, eight indicators, nineteen tappers, seven relays, thirty-four open circuit tappers, 362 jars of storage battery, 260 jars of open circuit


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SUPERINTENDENT OF ELECTRIC LINES AND LIGHTS.


battery, forty-four police signal boxes, sixty-eight cells of gravity battery, and all electrical appliances connected with schools and public buildings. The police signal system has received its usual careful attention, and has been kept in good order.


I would again urge the necessity of placing wires under ground, as every year adds to the number of overhead wires, and thus increases the danger in case of storms and fires.


During the year 108 buildings have been inspected for elec- tric light and power service, and 309 visits made to the same. The new almshouse has been wired and equipped with electric lights by this department, and the usual repairs made in school- houses and public buildings.


New wire run, sixteen miles; old wire removed, nine and one-half miles.


Street Lighting.


During the year the service has been much improved by the addition of sixteen arc and twenty-eight incandescent lights, lo- cated as follows :-


Arc.


Broadway and Simpson avenue.


Broadway and Liberty avenue.


Broadway and Billingham street.


Highland avenue and Conwell street.


Holland and Moore streets.


Cedar and Hudson streets.


Kidder avenue and Powder-house terrace.


New Cross street.


Cross and Flint streets.


Morton street.


Powder-house Park.


Summer street, opposite Burnside avenue.


Craigie street, near Somerville avenue.


Temple street, opposite Sydney street.


School street, opposite Winter-hill Baptist church.


Mystic avenue, opposite Smith's coal wharf.


Incandescent.


Marshall street, opposite Hose 2. Kilby street.


Crown and Tower streets.


Robinson street.


Albion street, near Cedar street.


Howe street, opposite No. 14.


Hudson street, opposite No. 65.


Hudson street, opposite No. 157.


Electric avenue (2).


Oak and Houghton streets.


Lowell street, opposite No. 37. Greenwood terrace. Victoria street (2).


Clarendon avenue, near No. 68.


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ANNUAL REPORTS.


Mystic avenue and Grant street.


Linden avenue and Linden place. Lawson terrace.


Bond and Jaques streets.


Chester avenue.


Everett avenue, near Dana street.


Pinckney street, near Washington street.


Garrison avenue.


Glover circle. Norwood avenue.


Park street, opposite No. 68. Gilman street, opposite No. 33.


This makes a total of 377 arc, 239 incandescent, and 121 Welsbach lights. Two of the arc lights are on Broadway Park, and one is on Nathan Tufts Park. Many arc lights have been moved from side streets to main thoroughfares, and incandescent lights erected in their former locations. All of the incandescent lights have been changed from twenty-five to thirty-two-candle- power and new deflectors placed on the same. They make a good light for residential streets, as three of them can be placed in service for less than the cost of one arc light, and cover more territory.


The Superintendent will gladly receive reports, from any citi- zens, of poor lamp service, and will take steps to have the trouble remedied at once.


I desire to extend my thanks to His Honor, the Mayor, and the Committee on Electric Lines and Lights for the consideration shown this department during the year.


Respectfully submitted, EDWARD BACKUS,


Supt. of Electric Lines and Lights.


REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.


IN COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY, December 30, 1899.


'To the City Council of Somerville :-


The Committee on Public Property presents the following re- port for the year 1899 :-


Police Station Incidentals Account.


CREDIT.


Appropriation


$2,000 00


Receipts :-


For rent of court room


600 00


Rent of armory for 1898


100 00


Rent of armory for 1899


50 00


Total credit


$2,750 00


DEBIT.


Expenditures :-


For janitors' salaries


$852 28


Gas


484 95


Water


48 30


Fuel


426 85


Insurance


300 00


Disinfectant


50 00


Supplies


23 77


Labor


28 00


Repairs and improvements of buildings and furniture


357 86


Repairing heating apparatus


66 66


New furniture


153 00


Total debit


$2,791 67


Amount overdrawn


$41 67


Schoolhouse Incidentals Account.


CREDIT.


Appropriation


$18,000 00


Receipts :-


For sale of Harvard school building . 65 00


Sale of old iron .


83 01


Sale of second-hand furnace


20 00


Sale of Highland school sanitary build- ing


40 00


Amount carried forward


$18,208 01


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352


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Amount brought forward . .


$18,208 01


Unearned premium on insurance of Har- vard school building


5 91


Total credit


$18,213 92


DEBIT.


Expenditures :-


For repairs and improvements of build- ings .


$8,336 92


Furniture


1,401 05


Repairing furniture


249 86


Repairing heating and ventilating appa- ratus


1,739 36


Care of grounds


178 30


Teaming furniture


96 19


Blackboards


391 22


Maintenance of repair shop


169 30


Water


1,757 13


Gas


821 50


Electric lighting


224 18


Electric current for motor


225 15


Insurance


1,814 00


Gas regulator, use of


17 00


Covering pipes with asbestos


100 00


Building fence at O. S. Knapp school


15 00


Concrete walks


222 65


Grading at Martin W. Carr school


66 00


Sidewalk at O. S. Knapp school


46 51


Tools for manual training school .


132 74


Final payment 011 heating contract,


25 23


Removing materials school


33 20


School supplies


749 03


Carriage hire, etc.


22 00


Books


5 75


Total debit


$18,839 27


Amount overdrawn


$625 35


The expenditures at the various schoolhouses were as fol- lows :-


Luther V. Bell.


Repairs and improvements


$314 54


Repairing heating apparatus .


·


43 59


Teaming furniture


3 05


Blackboards


41 32


Water


124 83


Gas


121 55


Gas regulator, use of


17 00


Supplies


12 10


$677 98


Amount carried forward .


$677 98


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.


.


.


.


.


.


Prescott school


from Franklin


.


.


353


COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.


Amount brought forward . $677 98


Bennett.


Repairs and improvements


$73 78


Repairing furniture


.


2 50


Repairing heating apparatus


55 93


Blackboards


28 16


Water


32 48


192 85


Bingham.


Repairs and improvements


· $76 40


Furniture


40 85


Repairing furniture


20 00


Repairing heating apparatus .


6 90


Teaming furniture


50


Water


15 26


Insurance


75 00


234 91


Burns.


Repairs and improvements


$199 58


Furniture


52 75


Repairing furniture


4 00


Care of grounds


5 00


Teaming furniture


2 75


Water


40 32


Gas


1 06


Supplies


3 20


308 66


Martin W. Carr.


Repairs and improvements


$180 78


Furniture


38 65


Repairing heating apparatus


15 45


Care of grounds


8 80


Teaming furniture


18 00


Grading


66 00


Concrete walks


126 75


Water


209 86


Gas


9 19


Supplies ·


8 91


682 89


Cedar Street.


Repairs and improvements


$3 55


Water


9 75


13 30


Amount carried forward .


.


$2,110 09


·


·


354


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Amount brought forward .


$2,110 09


Cummings.


Repairs and improvements


$98 34


Furniture


·


16 00


Repairing furniture .


8 00


Repairing heating apparatus


4 35


Concrete walks


65 90


Water


30 52


Insurance


.


.


425 61


Davis.


Repairs and improvements


.


.


$137 91


Repairing furniture


·


12 10


Repairing heating apparatus


36 90


Water


54 18


Gas


5 41


Insurance


202 50


Supplies


.


.


455 00


George W. Durell.


Repairs and improvements


$26 18


Repairing heating apparatus .


7 20


Water


34 16


Insurance


150 00


217 54


Edgerly.


Repairs and improvements


$255 34


Repairing furniture


22 75


Repairing heating apparatus


56 80


Teaming furniture


4 77


Water


14 58


Gas


50 36


404 60


Forster.


Repairs and improvements


$235 47


Furniture


31 00


Repairing heating apparatus .


20 40


Teaming furniture


15 70


Blackboards


71 68


Water


131 36


Gas


113 11


618 72


Amount carried forward


$4,231 56


.


.


.


.


.


6 00


.


202 50


COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.


355


Amount brought forward .


$4,231. 56


Glines.


Repairs and improvements


$178 97


Furniture


30 68


Repairing furniture


13 00


Repairing heating apparatus


83 54


Care of grounds


16 25


Water


222 29


Gas


.


562 05


Hanscom.


Repairs and improvements


$31 80


Furniture


7 50


Repairing heating apparatus


14 15


Care of grounds


55 00


Water


31 08


Gas


3 06


Insurance


50 00


192 59


Harvard.


Repairs and improvements


·


$16 80 1 50


Water


9 75


28 05


English High.


Repairs and improvements


$424 13


Furniture


839 94


Repairing furniture


.


5 40


Repairing heating apparatus


39 35


Blackboards


27 55


Gas


100 40


Electric lighting


224 18


Electric motor current


225 15


Insurance


450 00


Manual training tools


132 74


Supplies


38 75


2,507 59


Latin High.


Repairs and improvements


$305 93


Furniture


17 98


Repairing furniture


5 75


Repairing heating apparatus


137 85


Water


350 30


Gas


142 70


Supplies


.


30 16


990 67


Amount carried forward


$8,512 51


.


17 32


·


Repairing heating apparatus


356


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Amount brought forward . $8,512 51


Highland.


Repairs and improvements


$192 87


Furniture


.


4 20


Repairing furniture .


20 00


Repairing heating apparatus


96 00


Care of grounds


12 50


Teaming furniture


1 50


Blackboards


71 04


Water


80 24


Gas


·


45 52


Supplies


.


.


.


540 98


Hodgkins.


Repairs and improvements


.


.


$127 21


Furniture


.


.


156 75


Repairing furniture


6 96


Repairing heating apparatus


16 33


Care of grounds


18 75


Teaming furniture


8 00


Water


98 26


Gas


10 98


Supplies


3 28


446 52


Jackson.


Repairs and improvements


(including new


fence around lot) .


$375 87


Repairing heating apparatus


66 85


Blackboards


15 60


Water


14 70


Supplies


9 81


482 83


O. S. Knapp.


Repairs and improvements


$270 93


Furniture


.


.


12 75


Repairing furniture


2 80


Repairing heating apparatus


286 64


Care of grounds


13 00


Teaming furniture


3 55


Blackboards


12 32


Water


35 14


Gas


44 94


Insurance


450 00


Building fence


15 00


Sidewalk


46 51


Supplies


31 57


1,225 15


Amount carried forward


.


$11,207 99


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.


·


.


17 11


COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.


357


Amount brought forward . .


$11,207 99


Lincoln.


Repairs and improvements


$78 52


Furniture


9 00


Repairing heating apparatus


25 23


Care of grounds


7 25


Teaming furniture


1 25


Water


20 02


Supplies


2 21


143 48


Morse.


Repairs and improvements


$489 13


Furniture


22 00


Repairing furniture


23 00


Repairing heating apparatus


109 60


Teaming furniture


13 30


Blackboards


24 32


Water


8 68


Gas


:23


Supplies


1 60


698 86


Charles G. Pope.


Repairs and improvements


$815 94


Repairing furniture


32 75


Repairing heating apparatus


106 40


Care of grounds


41 75


Teaming furniture


50


Water


32 34


Gas


11 85


Concrete walks


30 00


Supplies


20 01


1,091 54


Prescott.


Repairs and improvements


$3,088 96


Furniture


98 80


Repairing furniture


70 85


Repairing heating apparatus


391 14


Teaming furniture


14 82


Blackboards


72 97


Water


141 81


Gas


136 82


Covering pipes with asbestos .


100 00


Final payment heating contract


25 23


Supplies


13 30


4,154 70


Amount carried forward


$17,296 57


·


358


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Amount brought forward . $17,296 57


Prospect Hill.


Repairs and improvements


$134 49


Repairing heating apparatus


117 26


Teaming furniture


6 00


Blackboards


26 26


Water


12 00


Insurance


84 00


Supplies


1 46


381 47


Albion A. Perry.


Repairs and improvements


$203 70


Furniture


22 00


Teaming furniture


, 50


Water


3 22


Insurance


150 00


Supplies


21 82


403 24


Maintenance of repair shop


169 30


General school supplies


527 74


Removing materials from Franklin school


33 20


Carriage hire, etc.


22 00


Books


5 75


Total debit


$18,839 27


School Contingent, Janitors' Salaries, Account.


CREDIT.


Appropriation


$19,000 00


DEBIT.


Expenditures :-


For salaries of janitors of school buildings for the year 1899


$17,920 30


Balance unexpended


$1,079 70


Schoolhouse, Burns Addition, Account.


CREDIT.


Balance unexpended December 31, 1898


$12,000 00


Transferred from Armory account 7,500 00


Total credit


$19,500 00


DEBIT.


Expenditures :-


Fessenden & Libby, contract for construc- tion


$15,331 00


Fessenden & Libby, extra work 171 40


Amounts carried forward .


$15,502 40


$19,500 00


.


359


COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.


Amounts brought forward ·


$15,502 40 $19,500 00


Alexander Duncan & Co., contract for


2,647 00


Extra plumbing


41 89


Furniture


510 63


Window shades


48 10


Labor cleaning


23 40


Total debit


19,680 87


Amount overdrawn


$180 87


Schoolhouse, Ward Two, Account.


CREDIT.


Balance unexpended December 31, 1898


$28,221 47


Transferred from Armory account 1,500 00


Total credit


$29,721 47


DEBIT.


Expenditures : ----


John A. Dodge, contract for construction . Isaac Coffin & Co., contract for heating and ventilating apparatus Prescott & Sidebottom, architects


2,765 00


Furniture


1,089 38


Window shades and fixtures


147 30


Gas service-pipe


16 50


Gas fixtures


32 77


Grading


224 13


Concrete walks


108 55


Labor cleaning


27 00


Total debit


$28,358 88


Balance unexpended


$1,362 59


Schoolhouse, Forster Improvement, Account.


CREDIT.


Appropriation


$35,000 00


DEBIT.


Transferred to Public Library account . $1,500 00


Transferred to Schoolhouse, Highland, Sani-


tary Improvement, account . 350 00


Expenditures :-


Heirs of Samuel M. Pennock, land


1,500 00


Frank G. Coburn & Co., on account of contract for construction · Isaac Coffin & Co., on account of contract for heating and ventilating apparatus .


13,925 00


1,836 00


Amounts carried forward .


$19,111 00


$35,000 00


heating and ventilating apparatus Loring & Phipps, architects' services


907 45


$23,227 50


720 75


360


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Amounts brought forward


·


$19,111 00


$35,000 00


Prescott & Sidebottom, on account of


architects' services


1,062 60


Water service


.


44 75


Furniture


365 61


Labor, cutting trees


20 00


Total debit


$20,603 96


Balance unexpended


$14,396 04


Schoolhouse, Highland, Sanitary Improvement, Account.


CREDIT.


Appropriation


$5,000 00


Transferred from Armory account


1,122 76


Transferred from Schoolhouse, Forster, Im- provement, account


350 00


Receipts :-


Ezra T. Merrill, water used during con- struction


12 25


Total credit


$6,485 01


DEBIT.


Expenditures :-


Ezra T. Merrill, contract for construc- tion ·


$6,000 00


Smith & Anthony Co., contract for heating apparatus .


306 00


Loring & Phipps, plans


157 65


Total debit


$6,463 65


Balance unexpended


$21 36


Schoolhouse, Prescott, Heating and Ventilating, Account.


CREDIT.


Appropriation


$2,483 77


DEBIT.


Expenditure :-


Alexander Duncan & Co., payment on account of con- tract for heating and ventilating apparatus $2,483 77


Armory Account.


CREDIT.


Balance unexpended December 31, 1898 $10,122 76


DEBIT.


Transferred to Schoolhouse, Burns, Addi- tion, account


$7,500 00


Amounts carried forward .


$7,500 00


$10,122 76


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361


COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.


Amounts brought forward


$7,500 00


$10,122 76


Transferred to Schoolhouse, Ward Two, ac- count Transferred to Schoolhouse, Highland, Sani- tary Improvement, account


1,500 00


1,122 76


Total debit


$10,122 76


Public Library Addition Account.


CREDIT.


Appropriation


$15,000 00


provement, account 1,500 00


Total credit


$16,500 00


DEBIT.


Expenditures :-


John J. Coon & Co., on account of con- tract for construction .


$9,000 00


Isaac Coffin & Co., on account of contract for heating and ventilating apparatus . Loring & Phipps, on account of architects' services


1,050 00


391 97


Total debit


$10,441 97


Balance unexpended


$6,058 03


Support of Poor, Almshouse, Account.


CREDIT.


Appropriation


$20,000 00


Transferred from Public Grounds account . 1,000 00


Total credit


DEBIT. $21,000 00


Expenditures :-


Heirs of Levi Russell, payment on account of land and buildings


$12,000 00


Arthur W. Berry, repairs and improve- ments of buildings


980 16


Lumber


314 48


Doors and window-frames


94 41


Lime and cement


18 70


Hardware


28 29


Furnace work


312 60


Plumbing


440 54


Moving building


60 00


Taxes for 1899


307 14


One-half cost of construction of sewer


442 93


Total debit


$14,999 25


Balance unexpended


$6,000 75


Transferred from Schoolhouse, Forster, Im- ·


362


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Expenditures, by This Committee, from Miscellaneous Account.


City Hall Expenses :-


For repairs and improvements of build- ing ·


$305 88


Furniture


96 79


Repairing furniture .


, 13 00


Repairing heating apparatus


36 95


Water


35 56


Fuel


376 63


Electric lighting


961 34


Telephones


343 89


Ice


125 00


Laundry


12 00


Papers


3 00


Supplies


43 70


Labor, cleaning


83 88


Expressing bundles


16 10


Teaming


4 00


City Hall Annex :-


For repairs and improvements of build-


ing


$71 00


Water


8 68


Fuel


132 19


Gas


84


Electric lighting


51 18


Janitors' salaries


455 00


Insurance


50 00


768 89.


Maintenance of city messenger's teams Election Expenses :-


659 80.


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


$826 18


Care of rooms for registration, caucuses, and elections


139 52


Rent of rooms and halls for caucuses and elections


199 50


1,165 20.


Total expenditures


$5,051 61


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Almshouse.


Under authority of Chapter 167 of the Acts of the Legislature of 1899, entitled "An Act to Authorize the City of Somerville to. Take Land for an Almshouse," the estate of the heirs of Levi Russell, situated on Broadway and North street, was acquired by the city for the sum of $18,000, together with the taxes for 1899, amounting to $307.14. This estate is one recommended by the committee of 1898, and its purchase was authorized by the City Council of that year, but was not consummated, owing to the fact that a satisfactory title could not be given.


The estate contains about ten acres of land, with the house, sheds, and barn. The buildings, which were in rather an old and neglected condition, have been thoroughly repaired and reno-


$2,457 72


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363


COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.


vated, furnished, provided with plumbing and heating apparatus, and fitted up so as to meet, so far as possible, the requirements of the Overseers of the Poor.


The property was formally opened by the Board of Overseers as the "City Home" on November 15, 1899.


The total cost, including land, buildings, improvements, and furnishing, was $23,034.89, of which amount $20,999.25 was cov- ered by a special appropriation by the City Council, the balance being expended from the appropriation for Support of Poor.


Public Library Addition.


Plans and specifications for an addition to the Public Library building, prepared by Loring & Phipps, architects, were adopted by the City Council May 10, and under authority of orders dated June 14, contracts were made with John J. Coon & Co. for con- struction, for the suni of $13,800, and with Isaac Coffin & Co. for heating and ventilating apparatus, for the sum of $1,789.


The addition is built on the rear of the original structure, and is in style and capacity similar to it. A stack room of the same size as the one first erected extends parallel to it from the main building, with an area between the two of sufficient size to permit of the loading and unloading of books and boxes from the sev -. eral branch libraries. In the basement of the new part a room is to be set apart and fitted for a children's room, and on the main floor much more space is to be given to desk room for receiving and delivering books. The same style of finish to to be continued throughout the new part as in the old.


It is anticipated that the building, with the exception of the new stack room, will be ready for occupancy early in the year.


Albion A. Perry School.


The work on this building, which was commenced in 1898, has been continued by John A. Dodge, the contractor for con- struction, and was completed and accepted by the city September 8, 1899. The contract for heating and ventilating apparatus was made with Isaac Coffin & Co. for the sum of $2,765.


As was stated in the report of last year, this building, al- though only a six-room building, is so constructed and located that an enlargement to twelve or even eighteen rooms can be made at any time, should the requirements of the district de- mand it.


The total cost of the land and building, heating and ventilat- ing apparatus. furniture, fittings, grading, etc., was $38,301.41.


Schoolhouse, Burns, Addition.


By an order dated March 8, 1899, plans prepared by Loring & Phipps, architects, were adopted for the addition of four rooms


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ANNUAL REPORTS.


to the Burns Schoolhouse on Cherry street, and under authority of the City Council, contracts have been made with Fessenden & Libby for construction, for the sum of $15,331, and with Alex- ander Duncan & Co., for heating and ventilating apparatus, for the sum of $2,647.


In addition to the four extra schoolrooms afforded, an im- proved sanitary system has been introduced by the addition of a small separate building for toilet rooms, access to which is had by passageways from the corridors of each floor.


The heating apparatus of the old part of the building has been thoroughly repaired, old sanitary apparatus removed, and the building put in good condition to make it harmonize with the new addition.


The total cost of the addition, heating and ventilating appa- ratus, furniture etc., was $19,680.87.


Schoolhouse, Forster, Annex


In the annual report of the School Committee for 1898 a rec- ommendation was made for the erection of a six-room building on the Forster Schoolhouse lot, and the Committee on Public Property of 1899 took the matter under advisement. Under authority of the City Council, Prescott & Sidebottom, architects, were requested to submit sketches for such a building, but it was found, after careful consideration, to be inexpedient to attempt its erection unless additional land should be acquired. This being reported to the City Council, authority was granted for the pur- chase of additional land, and the lot adjoining the southwesterly side of the Forster School lot was secured. This lot, containing about 3.120 square feet, being the rear of the estate numbered 109 Sycamore street, was purchased of the heirs of Samuel M. Pen- nock, for the sum of $1,500.




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