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Broadway
1,268.0
19,241 53
( Broadway
Winthrop ave.
Cross st.
1,877.5
15,741 27
Cross st.
Broadway
Pearl st.
Broadway
25.7
755 67
1898
Sargent ave.
Broadway
Sherman ct. .
Sherman ct.
Sargent ave.
Marshall st. .
Marshall st.
Sherman ct. .
Gilman sq.
2,126.1
20,900 26
Gilman sq.
Marshall st. .
Medford st. .
Medford st.
Gilman sq. .
School st.
S School st. .
Medford st.
Richdale ave.
451.0
532 37
1899
Otis st.
Cross st.
Westerly
375.0
174 55
1896-'99
Lowell R. R. Valley District : Private lands west of Lowell st.
Lex. and Arl. Br. R. R.
Hudson st.
865.0
1,853 46
Somerville Avenue District :
Washington st.
Bow st.
1898
Bow st.
Union sq.
Summer st.
2,080.8
18,259 94
1899
School st.
Summer st. .
Berkeley st.
438.0
981 90
Somerville ave. .
Spring st.
Lowell st.
705.0
1,432 96
Cedar st.
Sartwell ave.
Highland ave.
1,178.7
4,189 58
1898-1901
Tannery Brook Valley District : Tannery Brook drain (in Cambridge)
Near Alewife brook
Clarendon ave.
657.3
2,225 06
L
Tannery Brook drain
Clarendon ave. (in Camb.) .
Davis sq.
3,144.0
*31,942 76
1896
Gorham st.
Tannery Brook drain .
Northerly
285.0
196 24
Jay st.
Tannery Brook drain
Northerly
155.0
87 38
1898
Day st.
Davis sq.
Westerly
318.2
360 90
1901
Lex. and Arl. Br. R. R Cation
.
Holland st.
Willow and Morrison aves.
2,135.2
10,031 61
Total length and cost (3.92 miles)
20,688.3
$153,423 92
.
Summer st.
Bow st.
School st. ·
Northerly
·
170.0
115 72
Cameron ave.
Tannery Brook drain .
.
·
·
.
*Land damages excepted
1900 1897
Winthrop ave. (including Bell Mouth) Broadway .
Winthrop ave.
Sargent ave.
1,648.6
14,566 77
1900
Richdale ave.
School st.
Northwest of Essex st.
1901
Union sq.
Mystic and Winthrop aves.
End of drain built 1897
TABLE SHOWING LENGTH AND COST OF SEPARATE SYSTEM SEWERS CONSTRUCTED TO 1902.
Date of Con- struction.
Street.
From.
To.
Length in Feet.
Cost by Years
1899 1896 1896 1900 1900 1899 1896 1889 1896 1896 1896
Adrian st. (both sides)
Joseph st.
Marion st.
1,203.2
Ash ave. .
Meacham st.
Northeasterly
302.0
Ash ave.
East Albion st.
-
Northerly and southerly
448.5
Bay State ave.
Kidder ave.
Northerly and southerly
518.5
Bolton st. (both sides)
Oak st.
Houghton st.
962.3
Boston ave. Bowdoin st.
Washington st.
South of Fremont ave.
305.0
Broadway
Broadway
Winchester st.
Cedar st.
380.0
IS97
Broadway
Willow ave.
Bay State ave.
480.5
1898
Broadway
Alewife brook
Seven Pines ave.
Broadway
Newton st.
Private lands
.
Near Cambridge line
797.6
Concord ave. (north side)
Newton st.
Springfield st.
553.8
Concord ave. (north side)
Prospect st.
Near Concord sq.
510.0
Concord ave. (south side)
Prospect st.
North st. .
.
Fitchburg R. R.
729.2
Dane st. (west side)
.
.
Near Camb. line
1,437.4
Ash ave. .
Medford line .
648.5
Elmwood st.
Tannery Brook sewer
.
Southwesterly and northeasterly Southwesterly
407.0
Fremont ave.
Parker st.
.
Near Fast Albion st.
234.8
Fremont st.
East Albion st.
Main st.
1,229.5
Garrison ave.
Proposed st.
Near Broadway
828.5
Glendale ave
Yorktown st.
Near Cameron ave.
334.1
Gorham st.
Howard st.
Northeasterly .
569.6 226.8
Hanson st.
Washington st.
Near Vine st.
733.6
Near Cambridge line
992.1
Northeasterly
329.9
Joseph st. (both sides)
Newton st.
Near Lincoln park
697.7
Josephine ave.
.
Broadway
South of Frederick ave. .
1,301.5
Kidaer ave.
Lowden ave.
Bay State ave.
226.0
Lowden ave.
Broadway
Near Fosket st.
1,189.6
Mallett & t.
Lowden ave.
Bay State ave.
240.0
Malvern ave.
Yorktown st.
Near Cameron ave.
333.5
Marion st.
Wyatt st.
Near Concord ave.
917.0
Meacham st.
Moreland st.
Ash ave.
215.7
Meacham st.
Fremont st.
Medford line
141.5
Meacham st.
Moreland st.
Near Fremont st.
206.0
Medford st.
N. P. & P. Co.'s drive
.
Near Heath st.
1,319.9
Fremont st.
286.6
1896
Mystic ave. Newton st. (north side)
Winthrop ave. Prospect st.
Concord ave.
1,158.6
1899 $15,931 52
1899 1899 1901 1898-'00 1899 1886 1896 1889 1896 1896 1899 1899 1899-'00 189S 1900 1898-'00 1896 1900 1901 1899 1896 1896 1901 1900 1808 1900 1900 1900 1898 1897-'01 1896 1896 1896
1896
Yorktown st. .
Cambridge line
Northeasterly
367.8
Total length and cost
(14.55 miles)
76,858.1
$138,078 84
.
Broadway
Woodswck st.
Broadway
957.5 89.0
Fremont st.
.
Mystic ave.
Ilanson st.
.
1898 $28,627 15
1900
$39.427 69
Prospect st.
Malloy ct.
1,203.S
Concord ave.
*
S4 ft. east of Thorndike st.
3,907.9
Thorndike st. .
251.2
Tremont st.
638.6
Upland park
Broadway
Southwesterly
195.2
Victoria st.
Woodstock st.
.
Near Broadway
847.4
Hanson st.
1,518.3
Lincoln park
South side
North side
48.3
Woodstock st.
.
Near Cambridge line
4,672.3
Willow ave.
Broadway
.
Near Fosket st.
997.9
Wilson ave.
Broadway
South westerly
314.8
Winchester st.
Medford line
.
Broadway
102.7
1898
Woodstock st., private lands, . and proposed st.
.
Metropolitan sewer
Garrison ave.
S60.9
Garrison ave.
Farragut ave.
1896 $42,029 39
Bay State ave.
Mallet st.
.
.
Medford line
Broadway
143.2
Boston ave.
Willow ave.
377.3
Broadway
Cedar st. .
Southeasterly
370.5
1896 1896 1900 1896 1901 1899 1899
Clark street and Lincoln park. College ave.
.
Columbia st.
Webster ave.
.
1897 $573 78
1899 1900 1901 1901 1899 1896 1896 1898 1898 1887 1896 1896 1898 1896 1896 1896 19:1 1899 1896 1899 1900 1900 1900 1900 1890 1899 1896 1896 1901 1896 1896-98
.
Dane st. (east side)
.
Washington st.
Tyler st.
997.3
Dickinson st. (both sides) East Albion st.
.
Springfield st. .
.
.
.
Endicott ave.
Farragut ave.
.
Easterly and westerly
532.0
Near B. and L. R. R.
412.8
Washington st.
1,149.6
Near Broadway
477.9
Spruigfield st.
986.2
Conwell ave.
Near Curtis st.
1,276.6
Washington st.
.
.
.
Hanson ave.
Houghton st. (both sides) Jay st.
Springfield st. . Howard st.
*
.
N. E. D. M. & W. Co.'s drive
96.3
Moreland st.
Mystic ave. Moreland st.
.
Wheatland st.
714.8
Near Concord sq.
605.5
Webster ave.
Near Cambridge line
GO1.4 461.9
Prospect st.
Near Cambridge line
2,376.7
Fremont ave.
240.0
Southwesterly
221.1
Private lands
Medford line
College ave.
421.5
Private lands
Somerville ave., Met. Con.
Medford st.
175.5
Private lands
Alewife brook
North st.
405.0
Prospect st.
Somerville ave.
Newton st.
68.4
Webster ave.
Near Cambridge line
2,056.9
North st.
Southeasterly
1,194.5
Rogers ave.
Broadway
Near Frederick ave.
962.4
Franklin ct.
Linden ave.
9,935.3
Opp. Poplar st.
East of F. R. R.
1,081.0
Laurel st.
Opp. Craigie
2,261.7
Near Cambridge line
1,494.8
Clarendon ave.
Howard st.
Webster ave.
Southwesterly and northeasterly Near Cambridge line
Perry st.
4-14.0
Near Broadway
791.2
Waterhouse st. Webster ave. (both sides)
Near Union sq.
.
.
1901 $11,489 31
Newton st. (-outh side) Norfolk st. (both sides) . North st. . Oak st. (both sides) Parker st.
Private lands
Conwell ave.
Washington st.
Broadway
Passageway off Broadway Perry st.
Washington st.
Southerly
325.0
Prospect st. (both sides) Raymond ave. .
Somerville ave (north side) Somerville ave. (south side) Somerville ave. (south side) Somerville ave. (south side) Springfield st. (both sides) Tannery Brook.
Washington st. (north side) Washington st. (south side) Washington st.
Opp. Lincoln park
.
Mystic ave.
.
Web- ter ave.
.
Easterly and northerly
.
.
.
.
About 70 ft. S. E. Weston ave. Northeasterly
1,847.1
Cameron ave.
Cedar st. .
.
Southwesterly
288.5
.
634.6
.
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CITY ENGINEER.
Storm Drains Constructed.
LOCATION.
FROM
To
LENGTH IN FEET.
COST.
Cedar street . .
Sartwell avenue .
Highland avenue. Lowell street .
1,178.7
$4,189 58
Somerville avenue .
Spring street .
705.0
1,432 96
Tannery Brook drain extended on pri- vate lands in Cam- bridge .
Clarendon avenue
Near Alewife Brk.
657.3
1,769 82
Tannery Brook drain extended along Lex. & Arl. Br. R. R.
Holland street
Willow and Mor- rison avenues
2,135.2
10,031 61
Total length and cost
4,676.2
$17,423 97
The new "separate system" sewers (which take house drain- age only into the Metropolitan system) have been extended dur- ing the year in the southwesterly part of the city ; generally being laid on both sides of the street under the sidewalks, and when the house drains in this district have been connected with the new sewers and the proper alterations made with the roof water connections, many cellars will be relieved which are now flooded at times.
Ten of the "separate system" sewers have been laid in vari- ous streets in this section during the season, a total length of 7,463.3 feet, and cost $11,063.22, for which no assessments are levied. (See table of sewers.)
In various parts of the city new sewers have been laid as petitioned for during the year, and assessments levied on the property benefited. These sewers were constructed in twelve different streets, a total length of 5,015.7 feet, and cost $5,927.10; the assessments amounted to $2,953.10, leaving a net cost to the city of $2,974.00. (See table of sewers.)
The length of sewers constructed in 1901, separate and com- bined systems, was 12,590.2 feet (2.385 miles). The total length of sewers in the city amounts to eighty miles, and the cost of con- struction has been $923,600, and the total length of storm drains constructed 3.91 miles, costing $153,400.
Forty-six new catch basins have been constructed during the past year, costing $2,229.20, making a total of 1,164 catch basins in the city for street drainage purposes. The cost of con- structing thirty catch basins on the new Powder-house boule- vard has been charged to this sewer account.
Metropolitan Sewer Connections .- Sewers in a section of the city comprising about twenty-one acres in the vicinity of North Union street have been entered into the Metropolitan
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
sewer by the construction of a "regulator chamber," and con- nections, this being the only portion of the city's sewer system that had not been connected with the state sewer.
The cost of this connection, including the laying of 110 feet of 18-inch pipe sewer, was $1,662.29. .
Table Showing City's Connections with the Metropolitan Sewerage System, and Cost of Construction.
Year
made.
Location.
Cost.
1896. Mystic avenue, at Moreland street
$1,400 10
1896. Mystic avenue, at Winthrop avenue .
4,548 50
1896. Waverley street, at Roland street
2,411 66
1896. Somerville avenue, at Poplar street
1896. Somerville avenue, at Poplar street
6,451 85
(connection for slaughter houses) .
1898.
Somerville avenue, at Poplar street (separate system) .
861 00
1898.
Woodstock street, at Alewife brook (separate system)
256 64
1898. Broadway, at Alewife brook (sepa- rate system) . ·
205 46
1898. Raymond avenue (extended), at Ale- wife brook (separate system) .
402 30
1901. North Union street (combined system) ·
1,333 25
1896. Winchester street (connected through City of Medford, separate system) .
. ..
.... . .
1896.
Boston avenue (connected through City of Medford, separate system) . Pearson road (connected through City of Medford, separate system) .
........
Total cost
$17,870 76
Table Showing Amounts Paid Commonwealth of Massachusetts on Account of Construction and Maintenance of the North Metropolitan Sewer System.
Year.
Construction.
Maintenance.
1894
$22,230 79
$6,510 20
1895
29,872 56
6,964 40
1896
39,661 06
13,148 55
1897
39,260 25
13,292 25
1898
22,520 16
9,046 15
1899
29,278 44
13,579 65
1900
28,272 40
13,651 50
1901
29,919 09
11,276 10
$241,014 75
$87,468 80
Total amount paid, $328,483.55.
. .......
1896.
1896. Seven Pines avenue (connected through City of Cambridge, sepa- rate system)
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CITY ENGINEER.
Statement of Expense, 1901, Sewers Construction Account.
Extending "separate sewer system" (no as- sessments) .
$11,063 22
Constructing sundry sewers (assessments . levied)
5,927 10
Constructing storm drains
17,423 97
Constructing connection with Metropolitan sewer, North Union street .
1,662 29
Building forty-six catch basins, street drainage . Cost of thirty catch basins constructed on Powder House Boulevard
2,229 20
Incidentals
30 55
Final payments on sewers constructed in 1900
1,453 93
Tannery Brook drain constructed 1896,
land damages
239 02
Total
$42,019 28
Materials on hand December 31, 1901, drain pipe, $744.40, catch-basin stock, $41.50, manhole stock, $140.60 $926 50 $10,748 17
Balance on hand, as shown by City Treasurer's account .
Sewers - Maintenance. - Over eighty miles of sewers in the city are connected with the Metropolitan sewer system, all of which have to be cleaned, flushed, repaired and kept in working order at all times, and this is an important item in the sanitary condition of the city. There are nearly twelve hundred catch basins connected with the city's drainage system which are cleaned from one to ten times during the year, according to their location and use. About 4,740 loads of material have been re- moved during the year.
Seventy-seven catch basins have been repaired, grade changed, or rebuilt; fifty-seven manholes grade changed or re- paired, and sixteen sewers have been partially rebuilt where needed.
During the year three hundred and eighty-four permits have been issued to licensed drain layers for connecting houses with the main sewers, eighteen of which were for repairs. This work is all done under the supervision of an inspector, and the drains located and recorded. There are at present about 12,000 house drain connections with the city's sewerage system.
Records kept by an automatic recording clock, placed in the regulator chamber on the combined system, at the Somerville avenue and Poplar street connection with the Metropolitan sewer, shows this outlet to have been cut off as follows :-
1899 ( 6 months ) completely closed 125 hours, partly closed 22 hours. 66
1900
66 353
66
6 6 114
1901
386
66 225
Sections of the old eight-foot Somerville-avenue sewer, be- tween the Fitchburg railroad and the East Cambridge line, are in
1,990 00
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
a leaky condition, and tide water at times is forced through the bottom and sides of this structure, and will require extensive re- pairs. There are a number of old sewers that will have to be rebuilt in the near future.
There are about six miles of sewers in the city that have been built in previous years by land owners and are termed private sewers. Occasionally some of these sewers become clogged up or damaged, and the residents on the street apply to the sewer department for help in the matter of removing the deposit and repairing the damage.
As these sewers enter the city's mains and are practically a part of the sewerage system, they should be taken by the city, inspected, thoroughly repaired, or reconstructed, and treated as public sewers, so that the entire system may be owned and main- tained by the city.
Sewers Maintenance Account, 1901.
CREDIT.
Appropriation
Materials on hand, cement, $3.60, lumber,
$12.00
15 60
Total
$10,365 60
DEBIT.
Maintenance of sewers, including repairing and cleaning
$3,002 61
Maintenance of catch basins, repairing and cleaning
4,963 42
Changing line and grade and repairing manholes
133 45
Changing line and grade and repairing catch basins
359 63
396 56
Inspection and location of house drains Rent of water course, between Mystic and Middlesex avenues
375 00
New tools and supplies
522 25
Repairs of tools and property
63 89
Changing line and grade of manholes on
108 98
Cleaning cellars flooded in time of storm .
57 45
Sundry expenses, car fares, telephones, etc. Maintenance of sewer department yards and buildings ·
55 18
Materials on hand, bricks, $4.88, cement, $1.00, lumber, $12.00
17 88
Total
10,182 48
Balance unexpended
Value of tools and property used in main- tenance of sewers
$1,075 30
·
.
account of street railway tracks .
126 18
$183 12
$10,350 00
CITY OF SOMERVILLE VIEW Showing Proposed LAYING OUT OF PROSPECT HILL PARK ERNEST W BAILEY CITY ENGINEER
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CITY ENGINEER.
PUBLIC GROUNDS DEPARTMENT.
The various parks and playgrounds of the city have been maintained throughout the past year in the usual manner ; ponds kept in condition for skating during the winter months, baseball and football grounds provided, and on the principal parks suit- able flower beds, plants, etc., furnished in their seasons, and park police maintained.
At Lincoln park an out-doors' gymnasium has been added, with all the modern apparatus, and as soon as material is avail- able the running track will be extended along the roadway to Perry street, making a fine "straight-away" for the short running events. A drinking fountain has been placed in the driveway op- posite Clark street. In the course of time a modern building can be added to this athletic field that will combine dressing rooms, swimming tank, and various in-doors apparatus, making this park one of the most complete athletic fields to be found in any city.
The playgrounds on Somerville avenue at Kent street have been regraded and surfaced over with red gravel; swings, flying rings, and other apparatus added, and a drinking fountain erected.
The grounds on Spring hill, between Belmont and Lowell streets (formerly stand-pipe location), have been regraded, a drinking fountain added, and settees, flower beds, etc., provided.
A small area at the junction of Broadway and Main street on Winter hill has been purchased for park purposes, on which will probably be erected a statue of Paul Revere at some future time; the laying out of a street across private property on the northerly side of this triangular lot would make it of more value to the city as a park.
A piece of land comprising about 4.4 acres located between Broadway and the Powder-house boulevard, near Tufts park, has been leased to the city for a term of ten years for an athletic field ; the city is to grade and fence the property and construct seats and dressing rooms. A portion of the field has been graded and will be completed in the early spring.
Another ball field in process of construction is located at the corner of Broadway and Cedar street, and the grading will be completed within a short time.
The lot of land at Glen and Oliver streets could be improved in shape, as a playground, by exchanging an area of the city's lot at the corner of Oliver street for the vacant land in the rear of the present lot; also the enlargement of the Webster-avenue lot by taking the land through to Columbia street would make this small playground more desirable.
Arrangements have been made for obtaining the remaining land for the Prospect-hill park, and a proposed plan of laying out as an historical and pleasure park made. If laid out as de- signed, a roadway will connect over the hill and through the park
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
to Union square, and a portion of the hill will remain as a revolutionary landmark. This roadway would give a direct line for driving across the city, with the use of the newly asphalted Cross street, between the Metropolitan boulevard crossing Mystic river and Harvard square and bridge in Cambridge.
Another section of the city, the ledge property on Clarendon hill, could be improved if laid out and developed on the lines of a park, and make the present dangerous spot safe and attractive in appearance, as well as adding to the city's valuation. Plans and profiles have been made that contemplate the laying out of Clarendon avenue through to Cambridge as a public street, and the filling in of the unsightly ledge-hole to certain grades to be used as a pleasure park with the adjacent land laid out as streets and desirable house lots.
Powder-house Boulevard .- This pleasure drive had been sub-graded previously, and during the past year it has been thor- oughly macadamized its entire length, one and one-third miles. An imported trap-rock was used and placed on the roadway, so that when compacted and finished with steam rollers the macadam was six inches deep in the centre of the forty-foot width of street, and five inches deep at the gutter lines; the sidewalks and grass plots were finished to North street and sub-graded be- yond, so that the entire boulevard is completed with the excep- tion of tree planting, lighting, and a small amount of finishing on the sidewalks along Alewife brook.
This strip of land, eighty feet wide and 7,200 feet long, im- proved at the city's expense, could be turned over to the state for maintenance, and made a part of the Metropolitan system, as it is one of the principal boulevard connections with the Mystic Valley parkway. The total expenditure on this improvement will be more than paid for within a few years' time by the in- creased valuation of property in this section of the city.
The total area maintained by the city as parks and play- grounds amounts to fifty-eight acres.
Statement of Expense, 1901,- Maintenance.
Broadway Park (15.9 acres), maintenance :-
Labor, care of walks, grass, etc.
$1,044 91
Labor, preparing pond for skating
239 00
Labor, police service, including new uni- forms
301 45
Labor, removing brown-tail moth
98 00
Tools and supplies
93 92
Repairing tools and property
35 35
Plants, flowers, etc.
160 75
$1,973 38
Broadway Parkway (1.4 acres), maintenance :--- Labor, care of grass, etc.
$44 00
Plants, flowers, etc.
85 00
129 00
Amount carried forward
$2,102 38
.
.
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CITY ENGINEER.
$2,102 38
Central Hill Park (13.1 acres), maintenance :-
Labor, care of walks, grass, etc.
$032 31
Labor, removing ice and snow
110 00
Labor, police service, including uniforms
276 90
Labor, removing brown-tail moth
29 00
Tools and supplies
74 76
Repairing tools and property
26 57
Plants, flowers, etc.
1,933 03
Lincoln Park (8.3 acres), maintenance :---
Labor, care of walks, grass, etc.
$818 18
Labor, flooding field for skating
84 00
Labor, police service, including uniforms
239 45
Tools and supplies
192 95
Repairing tools and property
108 17
Plants, flowers, etc.
20 00
Grading track and grounds
1,700 13
Tufts Park (4.5 acres), maintenance :-
Labor, care of walks, grass, etc.
$747 60
Labor, police service, including uniforms
182 45
Tools and supplies
37 68
Repairing tools and property
16 39
Plants, flowers, etc.
149 13
1,133 25
Prospect Hill Park (2.6 acres) :- Maintenance-Labor
3 00
Paul Revere Park :-
Labor, laying out and grading .
64 29
Playgrounds, Glen street, corner Oliver street (0.9 acre) :---
Maintenance-Labor, care of grounds
35 50
Playgrounds, Webster avenue (0.2 acre) :---
12 13
Playgrounds, Somerville avenue, corner
Kent street (0.8 acre) :-
Maintenance-Labor, care of grounds
$130 25
Re-surfacing grounds with red gravel
125 25
Repairing and painting fence and supplies
78 87
Playgrounds, Belmont street, near Summer street (0.4 acre) :-
Maintenance-Labor, care of grounds
$79 46
Fountain and re-grading walks .
141 51
Plants, flowers, etc.
50 00
270 97
Playgrounds, College avenue, opposite Mor- rison street (0.4 acre) :---- Maintenance-New fence
50 74
Playgrounds, Broadway, corner Cedar street (4.2 acres) :---
Improvement-Sub-grading athletic field . Sidewalk assessment
$103 65
258 70
362 35
Amount carried forward
$8,002 14
334 37
Maintenance-Labor
237 38
483 49
Amount brought forward
-
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Amount brought forward
$8,002 14
Playgrounds, Broadway, Tufts College land,
Athletic field (4.4 acres) :- Maintenance-Labor
2 76
Somerville Avenue Cemetery (0.7 acre) :--
Maintenance-Labor, care of grounds
88 67
Artificial pond on Tufts College land :--- Flooding for skating
126 00
Powder House Boulevard (1 1-3 miles long) :--- Maintenance-Labor, re-grading slopes, gutters, etc.
$934 50
Labor, cutting grass . .
133 00
Street watering 160 00
1,227 50
Incidentals
48 75
Total expenditure (58 acres, 1 1-3 miles boulevard)
$9,495 82
CREDIT.
Appropriation
9,500 00
Balance unexpended
$4 18
Value of tools and property used in main-
tenance of grounds
$1,400 00
Appropriations and Expenditures, Improvement, 1901.
Powder House Boulevard :-
Appropriation
$12,000 00
Balance from 1900 work, $155.57, and Sewers Construction account, $1,990 . 2,145 57
$14,145 57
McCarthy & Gill, labor and material fur-
nished
14,142 47
Balance .
$3 10
Paul Revere Park :-
Appropriation unexpended from 1900
$1,500 00
Purchase of land .
1,259 70
Balance
$240 30
Athletic field, Tufts College land :---
Appropriation unexpended from 1900
$3,000 00
McCarthy & Gill, partial grading
753 95
Balance
$2,246 05
Athletic apparatus :-
Appropriation unexpended from 1900
$1,000 00
Expended for Lincoln Park
$874 13
Expended for Playgrounds corner Som- erville avenue and Kent street
114 42
988 55
Balance
$11 45
VIEWS OF POWDER HOUSE BOULEVARD.
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335
CITY ENGINEER.
Prospect Hill Park :-
Appropriation for land unexpended from
1900
$15,000 00
Appropriation for improvement 7,500 00
$22,500 00
Land purchased in 1901
11,320 00
Balance
$11,180 00
Unexpended balances carried over for 1902 .
$13,680 90
APPENDED TABLES.
Following the report is a table giving names of all streets in the city, public and private, lengths, widths, and the total mileage; also a table giving the locations and names of public squares in the city.
ERNEST W. BAILEY, City Engineer.
336
ANNUAL REPORTS.
TABLE SHOWING THE LOCATION, LENGTH, AND WIDTH OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE STREETS.
STREET.
FROM
To
Public or Private.
Width in Feet.
Public.
Private.
Abdell pl.
Somerville ave. .
Southwesterly
Private.
25
Adams
Broadway .
Medford st. .
Public.
40
900
Adrian
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