Report of the city of Somerville 1909, Part 38

Author: Somerville (Mass.)
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: Somerville, Mass.
Number of Pages: 510


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GEORGE C. MAHONEY (elected 1907), 97 College avenue. Superintendent and Secretary .- CHARLES S. CLARK. Office, City Hall Annex. Hours: 8 A. M. to 5 P. M., except Saturdays; Saturdays, 8 to 10 A. M.


Regular meetings, last Monday evening of each month, except July and August, when none are held, and December, when meetings are on the third and fourth Fridays.


Assessors. (Term, three years.) GEORGE W. PERKINS, Chairman (term expires 1910). NATHAN H. REED (term expires 1912). GEORGE E. ELLIOTT (term expires 1911). WINSOR L. SNOW (term expires 1912). WILLIAM A. FLAHERTY (term expires 1911) (died December 23, 1909).


ASSISTANT ASSESSORS. (Term, one year.)


FRED B. CLAPP. J. ROBERT FENELON.


JOHN FRANKLIN STACKPOLE. JAMES WILSON.


GEORGE I. CANFIELD. JAMES A. BUTLER.


Office open: 8 A. M. to 4 P. M .; Saturdays, 8 A. M. to 12 M.


Board of Health.


(Term, two members, two years; one member, one year.) ALLEN F. CARPENTER, Chairman (term expires 1910). ZEBEDEE E. CLIFF (term expires 1911).


1 ALBERT C. ALDRICH, M. D. (term expires 1910). 1


Clerk .- WILLIAM P. MITCHELL. Agent .- CALEB A. PAGE. Medical Inspector .- FRANK L. MORSE, M. D. Superintendent Collection of Ashes and Offal .- EDGAR T. MAYHEW. Inspector of Animals and Provisions-CHARLES M. BERRY. Inspector of Milk and Vinegar .- JULIUS E. RICHARDSON (died October 12, 1909). HERBERT E. BOWMAN (from December 9). Office open: 8 A. M. to 4 P. M .; Saturdays, 8 A. M. to 12 M.


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CITY GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS FOR 1909.


479


Overseers of the Poor. Office, City Hall Annex. (Term, three years.) EDWARD B. WEST, Chairman (term expires 1912). ALBERT W. EDMANDS (term expires 1911). HERBERT E. MERRILL (term expires 1910). Agent .- CHARLES C. FOLSOM. Secretary .- CORA F. LEWIS. Office open: 8 A. M. to 4 P. M .; Saturdays, 8 A. M. to 12 M.


Registrars of Voters. (Term, three years.)


CHARLES P. LINCOLN, Chairman (term expires 1910). CHARLES E. PARKS (term expires 1911). EDWIN D. SIBLEY (term expires 1912). FREDERIC W. COOK, City Clerk (term expires 1911).


Public Library Trustees. (Term, three years.)


EDWARD C. BOOTH, Chairman (term expires 1910). JOHN B. VIALL (term expires 1911). J. FRANK WELLINGTON (term expires 1911). FREDERICK W. PARKER (term expires 1912). THOMAS M. DURELL (term expires 1910). WILLIAM L. BARBER (term expires 1910). CHARLES L. NOYES (term expires 1911). FREDERICK W. HAMILTON (term expires 1912). WILLIAM H. BURGESS (term expires 1912).


Librarian and Secretary .- SAM WALTER FOSS. Library open 9 A. M. to 9 P. M., and the reading room Sundays, 2 to 6 P. M.


City Clerk.


FREDERIC W. COOK. Assistant City Clerk .- HOWARD E. WEMYSS. 1


Office open: 8 A. M. to 4 P. M .; Saturdays, 8 A. M. to 12 M.


City Treasurer and Collector of Taxes.


JOSEPH S. PIKE. Office open: 8 A. M. to 2 P. M .; Saturdays, 8 A. M. to 12 M.


City Messenger. JAIRUS MANN.


Mayor's Secretary.


FRED E. WARREN.


480


ANNUAL REPORTS.


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. City Solicitor. FRANK W. KAAN, 50 State street, Boston.


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City Auditor. CLARENCE T. BRUCE.


City Engineer. ERNEST W. BAILEY. Office open: 8 A. M. to 4 P. M .; Saturdays, 8 A. M. to 12 M.


Commissioner of Streets. ASA B. PRICHARD. 1


Office hour: 9.30 to 10 A. M.


Commissioner of Public Buildings and Inspector of Buildings WALTER T. LITTLEFIELD. Office open: 8 A. M. to 4 P. M .; Saturdays, 8 A. M. to 12 M.


Commissioner of Electric Lines and Lights.


WALTER I. FULLER (appointed February 11, 1909). Office, Central Fire Station, 261 Medford street.


Water Commissioner. FRANK E. MERRILL. Office open: 8 A. M. to 4 P. M .; Saturdays, 8 A. M. to 12 M.


Clerk of Committees and Departments. WILLIAM P. MITCHELL. Office open: 8 A. M. to 4 P. M .; Saturdays, 8 A. M. to 12 M.


Chief of Police. CHARLES A. KENDALL (appointed February 25, 1909). Office, Police Building, Bow street.


Chief Engineer of the Fire Department. JAMES R. HOPKINS. Office, Central Fire Station, 261 Medford street.


City Physician. C. CLARK TOWLE, M. D. 24 Prospect Hill avenue.


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Inspector of Plumbing.


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DUNCAN C. GREENE. Office hour: 8 to 9 A. M.


481


CITY GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS FOR 1909.


Inspector of Milk and Vinegar. JULIUS E. RICHARDSON (died October 12, 1909). HERBERT E. BOWMAN (appointed December 9, 1909). 310 Broadway.


Inspector of Animals and Provisions. CHARLES M. BERRY, 60 Prescott street.


Inspector of Petroleum. JAMES R. HOPKINS. Office, Central Fire Station, 261 Medford street.


Sealer of Weights and Measures. JOHN H. DUSSEAULT. Deputy Sealer, BENJAMIN S. ABBOTT. Office, City Hall Annex. Office open: November 1 to March 31, inclusive, 9 A. M. to 12 M .; April 1 to October 31, inclusive, 9 A. M. to 12 M., Fridays and Saturdays only.


Fence Viewers. LAMBERT M. MAYNARD, 90 Highland avenue. CHARLES M. BERRY, 60 Prescott street.


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Burial Agent. UNDER REVISED LAWS, CHAPTER 79, SECTION 20. JOHN H. DUSSEAULT, 42 Sargent avenue. :


Constables.


GEORGE H. CARLETON. EUGENE A. CARTER.


WINSLOW W. COFFIN.


THOMAS DAMERY.


CHARLES L. ELLIS.


CHARLES C. FOLSOM.


PATRICK J. GARVIN.


ARTHUR L. GILMAN.


WILLIAM D. HAYDEN. FRANKLIN W. HOPKINS.


DENNIS KELLEY. JAIRUS MANN. CHARLES B. PALMER.


ROBERT R. PERRY.


MALCOLM E. STURTEVANT.


CHARLES E. WOODMAN.


Measurers of Wood and Bark. WILLIAM B. HOLMES, 317 Broadway. OSCAR A. DYKENS, 34 Chestnut street. WILLIAM G. GOODWIN, 8 Holland street.


482


ANNUAL REPORTS. --


Measurer of Grain. EVERETT C. EMERY.


Public Weigher in Charge of City Scales at City Ledge. WILLIAM H. WHITCOMB.


Weighers of Coal.


DANIEL F. ASH.


GEORGE H. MARSH.


EDGAR H. BARKER.


JOHN A. MARSH.


ELMER E. BEACHAM.


FRANK T. McMAHON.


JOHN L. BLAKE.


JOHN J. McMAHON.


WILLIAM J. CALLAHAN.


PHILIP C. McMAHON.


MICHAEL J. CANNEY.


GEORGE H. MOORE.


CORNELIUS COAKLEY.


CARL T. NORDBERG.


CONSTANCE M. COVENEY.


FRANK J. OBERLE.


ELLSWORTH J. CULLEN.


LEWIS O'BRIEN.


WILLIAM G. CUMMINGS.


JAMES P. O'NEILL.


ALBERTUS L. DAKIN.


JOHN J. O'NEILL.


HOWARD H. DAVENPORT.


MARK W. PATTEN.


CHARLES F. DOHERTY.


LOTTIE L. RICE.


AMHERST F. DURKEE.


OBADIAH E. RING.


WILLIAM H. ROBINSON.


OSCAR A. DYKENS.


AVERY U. ROCKWOOD.


EVERETT C. EMERY.


JOHN J. RYAN.


FRED L. ESTEY.


ABRAM SIMON.


JOHN D. FLYNN. 1


STILSON H. SMITH. E


CHARLES T. GARLAND.


ORREN S. TARR.


WILLIAM E. GERRISH.


FRANK A. TEELE.


WILLIAM G. GOODWIN.


WILLIAM J. THOMPSON.


GEORGE F. GROGAN.


JOHN P. TULLY.


ALBERT F. HACKETT.


ADALA C. HIGGINS. :


ELIZABETH M. L. WALLACE.


THOMAS WALSH.


CHARLES H. WARD.


JOHN H. WOODMAN.


LUCIEN L. WOODMAN.


Weighers of Beef.


GEORGE RYAN.


OLIVER BRYANT.


CARL BURROWS.


GEORGE M. CHISHOLM.


JAMES DENNEHY.


WILLIAM J. DOONER.


FRED HARRIS.


ARTHUR F. MASON.


REUBEN W. MEAD. JOSEPH MURPHY. THOMAS S. PARKER.


HERBERT D. REED.


WILLIS B. SARGENT. WALTER SAVAGE.


EDWIN F. SEASLEY.


FRANK H. SHAW.


ROBERT E. SMITH.


LEONARD STICKLEY. .


L. G. TRAFTON. JOSEPH F. TYTER. GEORGE C. WILLIAMS. TOBIAS YAVNER.


ALBERT E. BAKER.


ALFRED A. WALDRON.


WILLIAM F. HOULIHAN.


SYLVANUS R. KNEELAND.


WILLIAM M. LENNAN.


FRANK H. LOCKE.


WILLIAM J. DWYER.


INDEX.


PAGE


City Clerk, Report of


445


Receipts


445


Payments


446


Licenses and Permits


447


Gas and Pole Locations


447


Births


448


Marriages


449


Deaths


449


Assessed Polls and Registered Voters


451


Women's Voting Lists


452


Elections


453


Liquor License Question


458


City Engineer, Report of


320


Engineering Department, Statement of Expenses


320


Classification of Expenses . ·


320


Grade Crossings Account, Statement of Expenses


321


General Work


322


Length of Public Streets in Each Ward


326


Miles of Edgestone, Brick, Granolithic, and Gravel Side- walks in Each Ward


326


Table of Sidewalks Constructed in 1909


327


Table of Street Construction


327


Stone Bounds


328


Block Plans, etc.


328


Bridges and Grade Crossing Work


329


Lowell Street Bridge


330


Sewer Department


331


Sewers Construction, Statement of Expenses


331


Summary of Work


333


Metropolitan Sewer Connections


334


New Work


334


Sewers Maintenance, Statement of Expenses


335


Sewers Built in 1909


337


Public Grounds Department .


336


Public Grounds, Statement of Expenses Table of Streets


340


City Government and Officers for 1908


476


City Physician, Report of


319


City Solicitor, Report of


443


City Treasurer and Collector of Taxes, Report of


21


Public Property


21


Funded Debt


21


Resources


23


Appropriations from Funded Debt and from Income Cash


24


Assets and Liabilities


25


Balance Sheet


25


Appendix


26


Statement of Accounts


55


Balances


145


Approval of Treasurer's Report


148


Office Records and Value of Instruments


322


Streets Accepted in 1909


326


344


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484


INDEX.


Commissioner of Public Buildings (see Public Buildings Commissioner)


379


Commissioner of Streets (see Street Commissioner) .


356


Commissioner of Water (see · Water Commissioner)


386


Electric Lines and Lights, Commissioner, Report of Inspection


386


Fire Alarm System .


387


Police Signal System


388


Supervision of Poles, Wires, etc.


388


Street Lighting


389


Financial Statement


389


Recommendations


Fire Department, Chief of, Report of


431


Fire Alarms


431


Manual Force


431


Apparatus in Service


432


Apparatus in Reserve


432


Horses ·


432


Bell Alarms and Causes Thereof . Service of Companies, 1909


434


Health, Board of, Report of


281


Organization, Officers, etc.


281


Nuisances .


282


Permits


283


Pedlers


283


Ashes and Offal


284


Stables


285


Board of Infants


285


Deaths


285


Mortality


287


Dangerous Diseases


289,293, 298


Tables


291


Medical Inspection of Schools


292


Hospital for Contagious Diseases


294


Bacteriological Department


294, 300


Undertakers


295


Examiners of Plumbers .


295


Financial Statement .


295


Medical Inspector, Report of


298


Inspector of Animals and Provisions, Report of Inspector of Milk and Vinegar, Report of .


306


Inspector of Animals and Provisions, Report of


304


Inspector of Buildings (see Public Buildings, Commissioner), Inspector of Milk and Vinegar, Report of . Jury List


461


Mayor's Inaugural Address .


3


Revision of City Charter


City Departments


Licenses


6


Playgrounds


New Bridges


7


Alewife Brook .


New Athletic Field


·


Metropolitan Boulevard


8 8


Our Water-Front


8


Police Court


9


Financial Condition of the City


9


Industrial Education


18


7 7


Care of the Streets .


304


379


306


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5


7


392


390


432


485


INDEX.


The Two Branches of the Government Commendation of Department Heads .


18


Medical Inspector, Report of


Scarlet Fever


Diphtheria


298, 299, 300, 302


Typhoid Fever


298, 300, 303


Tuberculosis


298, 300, 302


Contagious Disease Hospital


298


Bacteriological Department


300


Ordinances


Overseers of the Poor, Report of


310


Report of General Agent


312


Full Support


314


Partial Support


314


Reimbursements


314


Somerville Hospital


315


Population and Gross Expenditures


315


Overseers of the Poor Since 1885 .


316


Recapitulation


316


Expenditures in Detail


317


City Home, Report of Warden


317


City Physician, Report of


319


Police, Chief of, Report of


435


Offences Against the Person .


435


Offences Against Public Order


436


Miscellaneous Reports


437


Police Signal Service and Ambulance Reports .


438


Official Roster of Department


438


Performance of Duties


439


Police Building and Equipment


439


Improvements


439


Recommendations


440


Conclusion


440


Poor Department (see Overseers of the Poor) Population


197,392


Public Buildings, Commissioner, Report of Somerville Beach


379


Contagious Hospital


379


Care of School Buildings


380


Heating and Ventilating


382


Sanitaries, Cummings and Davis Schools Toilets


383


Installation of Heating and Ventilating System, Highland School


384


Inspection of Buildings .


384


Public Grounds (see City Engineer)


320


Public Library


246


Board of Trustees, Officers, etc.


246


Receipts and Expenditures


248


Report of the Trustees


250


Report of the Librarian .


254


Cataloguing Department


254


Books Added


254


Books Withdrawn


254


Binding


255


The Children's Department


255


Arrests


435


Offences Against Property


435


311


379


382


19


298


298


459


310


Members of the Board, Committees, Officers, etc.


486


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INDEX.


The School Department .


255


Reference and Art Department


256


Binding


257


Agencies


258


General Work .


259


The 1915 Exhibit


262


List of Donations


263


West Somerville Carnegie Branch Library


264


Conclusion


266


Dedicatory Exercises at the West Somerville Carnegie Branch Library


267


School Department


149


Report of the School Committee .


149


Members, Officers, Committees, etc.


150, 151, 234


Report of Superintendent


152 152


School Buildings


152, 155, 191


Teachers


Attendance for Year


152, 157, 165, 210, 212, 227 152, 154, 198, 203, 206 153 .


Attendance in December


Cost of Schools


153, 162, 163, 164, 192, 194, 196 153 154


School Registration


157,212


The Latin School


158, 183, 199, 207


The English School


159, 160, 184, 199, 207


Elementary Schools


160, 177, 182, 203 161,182


Evening Schools


161, 164, 186, 203, 204


Per Capita Cost


164, 193, 195 165


Teachers' Salaries


166,186,202 167


Pupils


197,200, 201, 237,240 167


Manual Training


176, 185, 240 176 177


School Efficiency


179


Mrs. Henrietta B. H. Attwood


18


Miss Charlotte F. Mott .


18.


Organization


182


Primary Schools


182


Grammar Schools


182


Promotions


183, 208, 209 185


Sewing Music


185


Gymnastics


185


Recesses


185


Corporal Punishment


185


Drawing


186


Penmanship


186


Cadet Teachers


186


The Public Library


186


Janitors


187,235


Supervision


187


Somerville Teachers' Association .


188


Somerville Teachers' Club


189


Appendix


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190


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Kindergartens


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Truancy


School Hygiene


Industrial Education


High School 'Accommodations


Length of Elementary Course


:


Summary of Statistics


Miscellaneous


Changes of Teachers


487


INDEX.


Population and School Census


197


Pupils by Grades


200


Graduates ,


202, 205, 214


Resignation of Teachers


210


Books


213,242


Graduation Exercises


214


Organization of School Board, 1910


225


Supplementary Tables


236


Decrease of Membership


237


Ratio of the Sexes


237


Somerville High School Athletic Association Amendments to Rules of School Committee Sealer of Weights and Measures, Report of Sewers (see City Engineer) .


320


Holland Street Ledge


357


357


Bridges


358


Shade Trees


359


Subways


353


Sprinkling Streets


353


Steam Rollers .


359


Granolithic Sidewalks


359


Snow and Ice


359


Underground Wires


360


Accepted Streets


360


Sidewalks Maintenance


361


Street Railways


361


Emergency Call


361


Tarvia


361


Suppression of the Gypsy and Brown-Tail Moths


361


Elm-Leaf Beetle


362


The Leopard Moth .


362


Miscellaneous


362


Recommendations


362


Statement of Accounts


365


Streets Constructed .


371


Streets Repaired


372


Sidewalks Constructed


373, 374


Gutters Paved


375


Driveways Constructed


376


Driveway Discontinued .


376


Streets Accepted


377


Street Crossings Laid


378


Length of Accepted Streets


378


Support of Poor Department (see Overseers of the Poor)


Water Commissioner, Report of


392


Statement of Accounts


393


Cost of Water Works


394


Water Debt


394


Water Works Income and Distribution


395


Extension of Water Distribution System Hydrants, Gates, etc.


397


Water Services


398


Water Meters


398


Summary of Pipes and Fixtures


399


Maintenance and Operation


399


Water Assessments and Consumption . .


400


Stone Crusher


Street Cleaning


357


245


441


Street Commissioner, Report of


356


243


395


311


488


INDEX.


Meterage


402


Gates Set in New Locations .


404


Gates Removed


406


Hydrants Set in New Locations .


407


Hydrants Removed


408


Hydrant Renewal Account


408


Location of Hydrants


403


Private Hydrants .


426


Waterposts, Locations


426


Location of Drinking Fountains


428


Statistics


428


Financial Statistics


430





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