Report of the city of Somerville 1901, Part 26

Author: Somerville (Mass.)
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: Somerville, Mass.
Number of Pages: 552


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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


.


327


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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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


52


L


331


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


332


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.


-


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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