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Gravel has been charged at fifty cents for each single load, exclusive of teaming. Two thousand four hundred and thirty- four loads have been used on sidewalks and crossings, and 3,653 loads for the paving of gutters.
The crusher has been worked 274 days during the year.
.
Photographs of bridge
8,792 32
Amount overdrawn
794 32
Bricks
$39 41
Printing cards
355
STREET COMMISSIONER.
The charges to the city teams are as follows :-
$830 00
Repairs of carts and implements
1,379 14
Harnesses and horse clothing
251 56
Repairs of harnesses and horse clothing
263 99
Stable utensils and property
111 08
Horseshoeing
558 70
Horse medicine and doctoring
127 82
Stable expenses
2,178 63
Hay and straw
3,422 90
Grain and feed
2,245 95
Total
$11,369 77
There are thirty-nine horses in use in the department (in- cluding the two used by the superintendent of streets), which are valued at $3,690.
Six horses have been purchased during the year, at a cost of $985, four have been sold for $175, and one has died; making an increase during the year over the year 1899 of one horse.
The horses have been credited at the rate of $1.40 each for every day they have worked, and the amount has been charged to the work on which they have been engaged.
The cost of board for one of the horses used by the super- intendent of streets, amounting to $238.68, is not included in the statement of charges to city teams, but is stated separately in the foregoing list of expenditures from highways account.
In addition to the foregoing list of credits and expenses, work has been performed and materials furnished for other de- partments, and credit has been received for the same, as fol- lows :-
Public Grounds
$54 51
Public Buildings Maintenance, Fire Department
27 00
Public Buildings Maintenance, Police 112 76
Public Buildings Maintenance, Schoolhouses
274 36
Sewers Construction
94 15
Sewers Maintenance
15 60
Water Maintenance
77 50
$655 88
Sidewalks Construction Account.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
$18,000 00
Transfer from Highways, Watering Streets
4,000 00
Less transfer to Public Grounds, Land on Prospect Hill
3,000 00
Total credit
$19,000 00
Amount carried forward
$22,000 00
$19,000 00
Horses (depreciation)
336
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward
DEBIT. $19,000 00
Expenditures .-
For advertising sidewalk hearings (side- walks not constructed) $40 00
Abatement on sidewalk assessments on Meacham street (three estates) 284 65
Forty-two sidewalks, as per table C .
35,210 53
Constructing sidewalks as per
table D at end of this re- port $898 87
Less payment by abutters (ex- clusive of the amount paid
by city for three grano- lithic sidewalks) 713 17
185 70
Allowance on sidewalk of S. H. Abbot, Dana street, constructed in 1899 .
84 50
Allowance on granolithic sidewalk of S. H. Mansfield, 785 Broadway (based on cost of a brick sidewalk) 15 80
Allowance on granolithic sidewalk of
Joseph S. Glover, 783 Broadway (based on cost of a brick sidewalk) 13 60
Allowance on granolithic sidewalk of Ox- ford-street Trust, Beacon and Oxford streets (based on cost of a brick side- walk)
101 50
$35,936 28
Less assessments
17,605 31
Cost to city
18,330 97
Balance unexpended
$669 03
Sidewalks Maintenance Account.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
$5,000 00
Receipts :-
From Boston & Maine Railroad Co., replacing sidewalk on Somerville avenue, near Beacon street .
200 00
Public Buildings Maintenance, Police, edgestones for inner curbing
97 37
Total credit
$5,297 37
DEBIT.
Expenditures :-
Bricks used in repairing sidewalks
$909 58
Edgestones
110 57
Labor and teaming
4,801 08
Incidentals
18 50
Total debit
5,839 73
Amount overdrawn
. .
.
$542 36
.
BROADWAY ASPHALT PAVEMENT.
337
STREET COMMISSIONER.
TABLE A .- Streets Constructed.
NAME OF STREET.
FROM
To
LENGTH IN FEET.
COST.
Alston street .
Cross street
Shawmut place
567
$488 14
Bartlett street
Medford street
Broadway
750
97 80
Belmont street
Summer street
Somerville avenue
1,250
552 48
Belmont street
Summer street.
Highland avenue .
950
105 71
Benton road
(partial) .
Summer street
Highland avenue .
925
286 28
Boston avenue
at
Bridge over Mys- tic river
60
339 60
Browning road (partial) .
Angle . .
Central
150
142 55
Broadway
B. E. Ry. Car Stables
Arlington line
650
2,952 79
Cameron avenue
Holland street
Cambridge line
1,000
519 63
Eliot street
Park street .
Vine street .
260
196 39
Harrison street
Ivaloo street
Kent street .
644
281 25
Hall street
Cedar street
Cherry street
350
314 75
Jay street .
Holland street
Howard street
534
30 35
Liberty avenue
Broadway
Hall avenue
1,395
492 68
Meacham street .
near Glover circle
Dover street
483
824 22
Melvin street .
Broadway
Bonair street
487
298 88
Wyatt street
Washington
Concord avenue
925
636 03
Oxford street
( completion ) .
Central street .
School street
1,361
328 53
Tennyson street
Broadway
Pembroke street
1,600
42 20
Thurston street .
.
Evergreen avenue
Medford street
600
492 03
Wesley street
Pearl street .
Otis street
515
1,305 71
Willow avenue
.
Elm street
Highland avenue
1,075
304 40
Winslow avenue
Elm street
Grove street
500
537 41
Total length in feet and cost
17,031
$11,569 81
.North and South
TABLE B .- Streets Repaired.
STREET.
FROM
To
DESCRIPTION OF WORK.
FEET.
COST.
Austin street
Broadway
Mystic avenue
·
Macadamized . .
700
$319 10
Benedict stree
.
.
Walnut street . .
·
Winthrop avenue
·
Macadamized .
10,400
6,245 34
Boston avenue .
.
.
.
.
.
.
ized
600
318 70
College avenue .
.
.
.
Medford line
Graveled
1,600
568 90
Dartmouth street
Evergreen avenue .
Medford street
Macadamized
700
94 38
Gilman square .
.
R. R. bridge, Medford st.
School street
.
Re-graded and macad- amized
420
346 00
Harrison street .
Ivaloo street
Kent street
.
.
Macadamized .
650
177 48
Highland avenue
Medford street
Walnut street .
·
.
Macadamized
200
156 93
Highland avenue
Cedar street .
Cherry street
.
.
Macadamized
650
505 34
Joseph street .
Newton street
Parkway .
Macadamized .
375
55 11
Kent street
.
.
Beacon street .
Subway
Graveled
400
46 73
Medford street .
Highland avenue
.
Railroad bridge Trull street .
Macadamized .
625
73 82
Mystic avenue
.
Medford line .
to coal sheds .
Macadamized .
1,100
135 09
Prospect street .
Webster avenue
Cambridge line
Macadamize d .
950
795 07
Somerville avenue
Medford street
Fitchburg R. R. Medford street
Macadamized .
800
456 25
School street .
Highland avenue
.
Cedar street
Macadamized .
1,400
369 55
Summer street .
.
.
Broadway
Mystic avenue
.
Macadamized .
375
185 63
Union street
.
Walnut street
Highland avenue
Medford street
Macadamized .
200
128 25
Washington street
Charlestown line
Florence street
Macadamized .
600
128 41
Wheatland street
.
Broadway
Jaques street
Macadamized .
500
261 00
Length in feet and cost
.
.
.
.
.
30,295
$14,845 83
.
.
Union street
Austin street .
Macadamized .
600
182 42
Boston street
.
.
Marshall street .
Jenny Lind avenue .
Arlington liņe
.
Macadamized .
750
276 38
Broadway .
.
·
·
.
·
·
.
Macadamized
1,500
1 92
Concord avenue
Concord square
Prospect street
Graveled and macadam-
.
.
.
Macadamized .
500
147 85
Ivaloo street
Beacon street .
.
Park street
.
.
.
Macadamized .
1,100
1,347 64
Medford street .
.
Magoun square
.
Macadamized .
1,000
1,262 54
.
Willow avenue
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Greenville street
1,600
Near Bridge
Medford line
Broadway .
.
ANNUAL REPORTS.
338
TABLE C.
Sidewalks Constructed where the Materials and Labor were Furnished by the City, and One-half the Cost was Assessed Upon the Abutting Estates.
STREET.
SIDE.
FROM
To
FEET OF EDGESTONES.
YARDS OF BRICKS.
COST.
Albion
South westerly
Cedar street
Lowell street
.
...
917
$S62 30
Ames
.
Northerly .
.
Ashland
.
Southeasterly
.
Summer street
.
Sartwell avenue
.
.
·
.
Central street
.
.
279.4
182.3
354 67
Atherton
Southwesterly
.
Central street
Beech street
·
59.7
101.6
137 75
Beacon and Sacramento
Northerly
·
.
Belmont
Both
·
.
.
Somerville avenue
.
Estate of Hills & Cotton
1,742.8
1.210 13
Benton road
·
.
.
Summer street .
Highland avenue
1,718.2
·
214.8
177 35
Broadway .
Southerly .
Billingham street
Elm street
.
.. . .
11.908 91
Broadway .
Both
Top of Winter Hill
Arlington line
15,535.3
. .. .
709 56
Cameron avenue
Southeasterly
Holland street
Cambridge line
1,055.4
329.3
259 30
Eliot .
.
.
·
Glen .
.
.
Est. City of Somerville
Morton street
·
... .
66 41
Glen .
.
.
.
Boston & Lowell R. R.
242
170 5
285 18
Grove
Southeasterly
Elm street .
·
.
Elm street
.
.
.
El'y line est. of Wyman
1.366.7
920 61
Harrison .
Northeasterly
Mondamin court
Ivaloo street .
.
..
.
·
.
488 16
Heath
South westerly
Temple street
·
.
532.6
383 10
Highland avenue
Southwesterly
Central street .
Gordonia road
2,462.1
1,861 72
Jay
.
.
.
Holland street
.
Howard street
564.5
387 09
Carried forward .
29,809.8
2,506.0
$24,230 32
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Dell .
.
.
.
.
Tufts street .
.
609
....
257 54
Glen .
Southeasterly
.
Tufts street .
Estate of Hall
91.2
78.5
96 78
Grove
Southeasterly
.
Highland School lot
·
Hall avenue
North westerly
·
.
.
Kent street .
.
.
Mondamin court .
·
697.4
.
·
Mondamin court
Ivaloo street
.
.
·
·
.
.
.
.
.
Robinson street
Bartlett street
.
481
184.4
322 86
Atherton
Northeasterly
Highland avenue
Estate Howard & James
839.7
. .
1,164 11
Bradley ·
·
Southeasterly
Veazie street
.
.
Walter street
.
470.4
380 11
Glen street .
Park street .
Vine street .
.
.
.
Estate of Waugh
381
Southeasterly
Oliver street
.
.
102 2
76 49
Southeasterly
Highland avenue
Liberty avenue
Elm street
.
321.5
198 29
Harrison .
.
Southwesterly
Estate of Holmes
.
339
STREET COMMISSIONER.
.
.
.
598 57
Belmont
Both
In front of estate of
.
Margaret Thierry
·
327.6
339 00
363 41
Beech street
257.7
Both
.
Northerly .
420 92
Both .
.
Southwesterly and
Northeasterly and
Northwesterly
.
TABLE C .- Concluded.
STREET.
SIDE.
FROM
To
FEET OF EDGESTONES.
YARDS OF BRICKS.
COST.
Joy .
Northeasterly
·
Washington street
·
·
Northwesterly
·
·
.
....
678 61
Melvin
Both
.
.
·
.
Central street
2,384.2
. ...
1 630 25
Oxford
Easterly ·
Beacon street
Cambridge line
93.6
....
70 48
Prospect
.
Southeasterly
Est. City of Somerville
Estate of Babcock
392.9
266 94
School
Southeasterly
Summer street
·
Madison street
.
·
North westerly
Highland avenue
.
Medford street
612.2
527.6
925 22
Walnut
·
Both ·
·
·
Pearl street .
Otis street
1,064
754 55
William
Northeasterly
Estate of Lockhart
Chandler street
257.1
. . . .
187 34
Willow avenue .
Both (where already set)
not
Elm street
Highland avenue
1,121.7
1,6t 7.2
2,243 43
Wyatt (South) .
Both
Lincoln Park
Concord avenue .
.
969 9
862 51
Wyatt (North) .
1
Westerly
Washington street
Estate of Morrow
862.5
599 74
·
.
Length of Edgestone and Brick Sidewalk in Each Ward.
EDGESTONE.
BRICK. 11.208 miles. 3.642
Brought forward
46.975 miles.
33.724 miles.
Ward Five
11 556
8.820
Ward Two
·
.
·
8.737
12 331
11.125
Ward Six .
14.343
6.398
Ward Three
·
·
·
.
.
.
11.483
7.749
Ward Seven
·
.
·
Carried forward
46.975
33.724
Total
·
.
. 86.070
55.045
.
Oxford
.
.
Both
.
.
School street
·
Brought forward .
29,809.8
2,506.0
$24,230 32
Poplar street
1,137.8
783 74
Meacham (extension)
Both
Dover street
·
·
·
....
730 48
·
960.4
... .
186 22
Kent .
Somerville avenue
Subway
242.2
Meacham street
966.6
.
Broadway ·
.
Highland avenue
. .
230.5
193 20
Thurston
Southeasterly
Evergreen avenue
·
.
·
Northwesterly
Broadway .
·
Sargent avenue
.
224.3
188 85
Wesley
·
.
·
.
Lincoln Park
·
.
Wyatt place
.
·
·
·
.
·
Lincoln Park
.
...
·
·
·
·
40,874.9
5,950.8
$35,210 53
340
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Ward One
·
.
·
.
.
.
.
13,196
6.103
Ward Four
Easterly
Washington street
·
EDGESTONE.
BRICK.
14.424 miles.
·
.
....
705.2
678 65
School
.
.
.
.
.
150
Westerly
·
Bonair street
.
WIDE TIRES.
WIDE TIRES.
341
STREET COMMISSIONER.
TABLE D. Sidewalks Constructed Where the Bricks Were Furnished or Paid for by the Abutters.
For
Street.
Yards of Bricks.
Cost to City.
Hannah I. Buss
32 Winslow avenue
31.5
$8 90
Augustus B. Byam
Melvin street
26.4
4 25
Nathan J. Davis
Melvin street
26.4
4 00
Elmer E. Drew
1214 Broadway
62.3
7 00
Charles S. Day
Melvin street
61.3
14 25
Arthur B. Grover
24 Prospect Hill avenue
59.
17 15
Joseph S. Glover
783 Broadway .
*27.2
13 60
Vianna M. Hanson
Melvin street
26.5
4 00
Helen M. Mayo
Melvin street
57.6
13 65
Orlin W. Marsh
Melvin street
26.
4 25
John McCarty
25 and 27 Shawmut street
55.4
18 25
T. J. McCarthy
42 Columbus avenue
23.6
5 75
Wilbur F. Mansfield
785 Broadway
*31.6
15 80
Lizzie M. Owen
Melvin street
25.
4 00
Anna M. Oman
Melvin street
26.4
1 25
Oxford Trust
Beacon and Oxford streets
*203.
101 50
Wilbur P. Rice
Willow avenue
23.
6 50
Sarah J. Richardson
Melvin street
26.4
4 00
James W. Rich
206 Highland avenue
59.6
18 55
Annie Stanley
Highland ave., cor. Cutter ave.
139.5
Annie Stanley
Elm street, cor. Cherry street
113.5
Fannie E. Sprague
Melvin street
26
4 00
Clara Viveiros
Melvin street
26.4
4 25
William E. Wentworth .
Melvin street
.
56.4
9 65
Isabel M. Wing
Melvin street .
57.6
9 65
J. K. Warren
44 Columbus avenue
22.
5 50
George W. Welsh
10 Prospect Hill avenue
44.
13 90
+1,101.8 *261.8
$316 60
·
* Granolithic. 1 Bricks.
TABLE E. Paving of Gutters in Connection with Setting of Edgestones.
Name of Street.
Side.
From
To
Square yards.
Cost.
Atherton street
Northeasterly
Central street
.
.
.
·
.
.
Southeasterly
Summer street
.
·
Highland avenue
573
1,023 08
Benton road
.
Both
Summer street
..
·
Edge stones already laid
581
1,252 32
Belmont street
.
.
.
.
and
Highland avenue
.
280
446 41
Broadway
Southerly
.
.
Both
Bartlett street
Alewife brook
·
.
.
Alewife brock
.
.
Cambridge line
352
411 72
Cameron avenue
Southerly
·
.
.
Both
.
.
In front of city lot .
127
260 40
Glen street
.
Southeasterly
.
.
City lot .
·
·
.
.
Easterly
School lot
Elm street
81
90 88
Grove street
.
.
Easterly .
.
.
.
Liberty avenue
E'ly line est. of Wyman
455
716 84
Harrison street
Northerly
Kent street
Mondamin court
232
239 23
Harrison street
Northerly
.
·
.
·
.
821
1,342 71
Highland avenue
.
North westerly
Holland street
.
Howard street
.
188
194 55
Jay street
552 73
Joy street
.
.
Northerly
Washington street
.
Poplar street .
Carried forward
8,982
$14,527 95
·
86
$105 95
Atherton street
Southerly
Central street
.
Sartwell avenue
·
.
·
Somerville avenue
Belmont street
Both
.
Estate of Howard .
Elm street
Billingham street
157
228 05
Broadway
3,866
6,401 77
Vine street
203
232 88
Eliot street
.
Southeasterly
.
In front of estate of Geo.
H. Turner
30
34 28
Morton street
34
38 35
Hall avenue
.
Northerly
Elm . treet
.
.
.
·
.
.
Mondamin court
.
Ivaloo street .
107
122 40
Heath street
South westerly
.
Temple street
.
Estate of W. B. Holmes
177
437 20
Gordonia road
Southwesterly
Central street
·
·
Mondamin court
.
Ivaloo street
Southerly
Oliver street
Glen street
.
Glen street
Southeasterly
.
Holland street
.
ANNUAL REPORTS.
342
Carr school
Bea h street
93
127 35
160
263 85
Ashland street
Both
Estate of James
Hollis Estate
Park street
Elm street
379
TABLE E .- Concluded.
Name of Street.
Side.
From
'To
Square Yards.
Cost.
Brought forward
8,982
$14,527 95
Kent street ·
Westerly
Somerville avenue
Subway .
.
·
.
.
Both
Meacham extension
Dover street (labor)
23 15
North Wyatt street.
Easterly
Washington street
Lincoln parkway
287
441 14
Oxford street
.
.
.
.
Central street
School street .
795
967 19
Oxford street
.
.
Land of City of Somerville Fitchburg R. R.
131
230 15
Sacramento street
.
.
.
In front of the estate of Margaret P. Thierry Concord avenue Lincoln Park .
20
28 93
South Wyatt street
Both
450 95
Thurston street
Easterly
Evergreen avenue
Medford street
204
284 92
Union street
.
.
.
.
.
Benedict street (labor)
260
51 05
Wesley street
Both
Pearl street .
Otis street
.
355
489 10
William street .
Northerly
Estate of C. H. Lockhart
Chapel street .
86
133 75
Willow avenue
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
374
632 85
12,249
$18,989 38
.
.
.
·
.
Both
Broadway
Bonair street
320
524 17
Meacham street
.
.
.
·
.
31
49 23
Prospect street
.
.
.
.
Both
.
.
.
.
·
Both
Elm street
Highland avenue
.
STREET COMMISSIONER.
343
.
.
81
154 85
Melvin street .
.
.
.
Both
Easterly
In front of the estate of the Oxford Trust
.
323
Mystic avenue
344
ANNUAL REPORTS.
TABLE F. Driveways Constructed at Expense of Abutters.
FOR.
Benjamin F. Brown
31 Tennyson street.
Charles A. Grimmons
72 Thurston street.
Dr. A. S. Hill
22 Grandview avenue.
Lord Brothers
Putnam street.
Isaac Nesson
304 Broadway.
North Packing and Provision Co.
Somerville avenue.
Samuel Rines
. Marshall street, near Broadway.
Trustees of Tufts College
Henry M. Taylor
Broadway. 353-A. Medford street.
Lillian M. Tibbets
(discontinuing driveway)
77 Morrison street.
TABLE G .- Street Crossings Laid. GRANITE FLAGGING.
Broadway, southwesterly side, across Walnut street.
College avenue, northwesterly side, across William street.
Elin street, northeasterly side, across Willow avenue.
Elm street, across same, in line with the southeasterly side of Willow avenue.
Medford street, across same, in line with the southeasterly side of Part- ridge avenue.
William street, northeasterly side, across Billingham street.
Richdale avenue. across same, in line with the northwesterly side of Thurston street.
Washington street, across same, in line with the southeasterly side of Dane street.
VITRIFIED BRICK.
Beacon street, westerly side, across Oxford street.
Broadway, across same, in line with the southeasterly side of Central street.
Broadway, across same, in line with the southeasterly side of Thurston street.
Broadway, across samne, in line with the southeasterly side of Adams street.
Pearl street, across same, in line with the southeasterly side of Wesley street.
Perkins street, across same, in line with the northwesterly side of Pinck- ney street.
Summer street, southwesterly side, across Willow avenue.
Willow avenue, northwesterly side, across Summer street.
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STREET COMMISSIONER.
Table H .- Streets Accepted in 1900.
WARD.
FROM
To
WIDTH. FEET.
LENGTH. FEET.
Columbia st.
2
Webster ave.
Cambridge line
40
816
Edmands st.
4
Broadway
Bonair st.
40
376
Fosket st.
7
Liberty ave.
Willow ave.
40
668
Hall st.
6
Cherry st.
Cedar st.
30
450
Lowell st.
6
Somerville ave.
Summer st.
36
1,259
Mansfield st.
2
Washington st.
Somerville ave.
40
735
Meacham st.
7
Meacham st.
Dover st.
40
402
Morrison ave.
6
Cedar st.
Willow ave.
50
1,366
South st.
2
Medford st.
Water st.
30
989
Sycamore st.
5
B. & L. R. R.
Medford st.
40
582
*White st. .
6
Elm st.
Cambridge line
307
Windsor road
6
Willow ave.
Gordonia road
40
575
* All of the street that is in Somerville; being a strip on the southeasterly side about five feet wide.
Length of Accepted Streets in Each Ward.
Miles.
Ward 1 .
8.50
66
2
·
6.98
3
6.10
4
7.87
5
9.91
6
9.96
66
7
12.42
Total
61.74
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN P. PRICHARD, Street Commissioner.
REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS, CITY HALL, SOMERVILLE, January 1, 1901.
To the Honorable, the Mayor, and the Board of Aldermen of the City of Somerville :-
Gentlemen,-I have the honor, as Commissioner of Public Buildings, to submit the following report of this department for the year 1900.
During the past year, which was the first under the new city charter, the building ordinances have been changed in a few in- stances, and it is expected that the changes which have been made will tend to improve the construction of buildings in our city.
It is the intention of this department to so enforce the build- ing ordinances that our buildings will be at least as well con- structed as those in any city in the commonwealth. Since May 1, 1900, at which time the assistant commissioner began his duties, the department has been better equipped to perform this work than ever before. Considering the changes in the mode of con- struction of buildings continually taking place, and the large area necessary to cover to properly inspect, the work of this de- partment has grown very materially. The builders, as a rule, have complied with the requests of this department when made, and although violations have been found, they have occurred principally through ignorance of the law, rather than through a desire to violate intentionally. The department is endeavoring more especially to elevate the standard of the masonry work in the buildings constructed, and it is expected that by continual supervision this will be accomplished.
Inspection of Buildings.
There have been issued, during the year 1900, 339 permits for new buildings and alterations. This number is twenty less than the number issued in 1899.
The total estimated cost of new buildings and alterations in 1900 was $823,330, while the same in 1899 was $805,317, show- ing an increase of $18,013.
During the year 1900 there have been made 1,248 inspections of private buildings. These have included the inspections of fire stopping, chimneys, buildings to be moved, woodwork too near
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fiues, building in dangerous condition, buildings condemned and ordered torn down, buildings constructed without permission, and poor foundations.
The following is a table showing the number of permits granted in each ward for buildings, etc., and the uses for which they were intended :-
WARDS.
BUILDINGS.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Dwellings
5
10
11
26
120
40
220
Dwellings and Stores
0
5
0
0
1
2
0
8
Stables
0
0
1
4
0
1
6
Miscellaneous .
14
18
17
4
15
12
22
102
Brick Buildings
1
0
0
1
1
0
()
3
20
33
26
16
47
134
63
339
Inspection of Plumbing.
The number of plumbing permits issued during the year was . 417
Permits for plumbing in new buildings 193
Permits for plumbing in old buildings 221
Number of buildings in which pipes were tested with water . 348
The inspector has kept himself informed of the condition of the work as the buildings have progressed, and as necessity has required has given directions how the work should be done.
The following is the number of licenses and renewals of licenses issued during the year, under the acts of 1893 and 1894, and the receipts for the same paid to the city treasurer :-
Number of master plumbers' licenses issued, 4 $8 00
Number of journeyman plumbers' licenses issued, 5 2 50
Number of master plumbers' licenses renewed, 21 10 50
Number of journeyman plumbers' licenses renewed, 21 10 50
$31 50
One application for a journeyman plumber's license was rejected.
The Charles G. Pope School Building.
In compliance with an order adopted June ?, 1900, by the Board of Aldermen, appropriating $2,000 for alterations in this building, this department prepared drawings showing an entirely new system of sanitaries. Seven plumbers were invited to sub- mit estimates, and in response six estimates were received and opened in the Mayor's office, as follows :---
TOTAL.
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
James F. Davlin
$1,737 00
John H. Adcock
1,624 00
Thomas F. Martin
1,506 00
J. A. Durell
1,505 00
Armstrong Brothers
1,465 00
Henry W. Covell
1,350 00
Henry W. Covell, of Perkins street, East Somerville, being the lowest bidder, was awarded the contract and proceeded to in- stall the new system July 10, 1900. This work consisted of re- moving the then existing vaults and urinals, and installing a modern system of plumbing. Eleven closets were put into the girls' toilet room and six into the boys', as well as the slate urinals. All of these fixtures were thorougly ventilated accord- ing to the most approved methods, and up to the present time the new work has given entire satisfaction.
The remodeling of this work made possible certain improve- ments in the ventilation of some of the classrooms. Under the old system certain of the ventilating flues were rearranged and temporary means of ventilation adopted, which, although fairly satisfactory, were not all that could be desired. The changes, made possible by the tearing out of the old vaults, have provided a system of ventilation which is proving entirely satisfactory. The payments to the plumbing contractor, together with the cost of general repairs, in connection with same, made necessary a total expenditure of $1,898.39. The wisdom of these changes is already apparent, and the marked improvement fully justifies the outlay.
The Oren S. Knapp School Building.
An order was adopted June 7, 1900, by the Board of Alder- inen, making an appropriation of $8,000 for changes in the heat- ing. ventilating, and plumbing systems in this building. Plans and specifications were prepared in this department, showing the required changes, and estimates were received as follows :-
PLUMBING.
John H. Adcock
$1,479 80
Thomas F. Martin
1,450 00
H. W. Covell
1,425 00
Armstrong Brothers
1.359 00
HEATING AND VENTILATING.
Huey Brothers
$5,872 00
Braman, Dow, & Co.
5,493 00
Walworth Construction and Supply Co. 5,235 00
A. B. Franklin
5,200 00
Alexander Duncan & Co.
5,123 00
Cleghorn & Co.
5,100 00
A. A. Sanborn & Co.
4,989 00
Ingalls & Kendricken
4,983 00
Isaac Coffin & Co.
4,715 00
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COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Armstrong Brothers, being the lowest bidders on the plumb- ing work, were awarded the contract, and Isaac Coffin & Co., being the lowest bidders on the heating and ventilating work, were awarded the contract on the latter.
The changes in this building consisted of removing the old system of sanitaries, as well as the furnace system, and replacing the same with a modern system of plumbing, and heating and ventilation. This work was largely in the basement of the build- ing, and an entire rearrangement of the same was effected. A new toilet room for girls was built in the westerly room of the basement, and a toilet room for boys in the easterly room. Eleven closets were installed in the girls' room, and six closets and slate urinals in the boys.' These fixtures were of the most approved manufacture, and were installed with a view to obtain- ing the most satisfactory results as regards ventilation and flushing.
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