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In city home, December 31, 1914 (men 29, women 20) . 49
In private families 5 In hospitals for the sick in other towns, cities and state 61
In care of state division minor wards (children) 7
Table No 2. PARTIAL SUPPORT (Outdoor Relief.)
Families 340
Persons aided (including hospital cases) 1,617
Burials .
13
Permits to state infirmary
13
Average expense to the city for each (carriage for 2) $1 49
Table No. 3. AID UNDER 1913 LAW.
Number of applications from widows or deserted women 15
Number of families aided at close of year . 35
Number of children
126
Amount earned by mothers and children over fourteen, each week · · ·
120 00
Amount allowed each family, from $2.00 to $9.00 per week
Number of out of town families 13
Number having no settlement . ·
6
.
371
SUPPORT OF POOR DEPARTMENT.
Table No. 4. REIMBURSEMENTS.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
$5,745 87
City of Boston
1,911 42
Brockton
308 99
Cambridge
1,404 57
Chelsea
24 00
Everett
139 99
Fall
River
11 43
Gloucester
10 00
Malden
256 74
Medford
277 54
Newburyport
92 86
Newton
35 32
Springfield
22 29
-
Taunton
6 00
Worcester
54 29
Town of Arlington
27 23
Burlington
78 20
"
Foxboro
44 29
Hanover
52 58
Provincetown
90 29
Saugus
31 25
Wakefield
4 58
Whitman
194 88
Winchendon
4 00
"
Winchester
201 43
$11,317 95
Table No. 5. SOMERVILLE HOSPITAL (PATIENTS ON CITY BEDS.)
Patients having settlement in Somerville
120
Patients having settlement in other cities or towns
50
Patients having no settlement (chargeable to state)
124
Total number of patients sent to hospital
294
Money paid hospital by city for patients settled in . Somerville
$5,000 00
Amount reimbursed to the city and paid to the hospi- tal for patients not settled in Somerville .
1,837 55
Total paid to the hospital .
$6,837 55
Marlboro
2 00
New Bedford
8 83
Woburn
167 74
Duxbury
109 34
372
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Table No. 6. POPULATION AND GROSS EXPENDITURES, 1883 TO 1914, INCLUSIVE.
Year.
Population (Estimated).
Expenditures.
1883
27,000
$15.959.80
1884
28,000
17,272.52
1885
*29,992
16,430.32
1886
32,000
14,341.83
1887
34,000
13,430.89
1888
36,000
13,375.98
1889
39,000
14,610.92
1890
*40,117
15,261.14
1891
43,000
15,980.49
1892
46,000
17,015.30
1893
48,000
17,799.58
1894
50,000
19,733.13
1895
*52,200
20,755.46
1896
54,000
21,999.79
1897
56,000
25,681.47
1898
57,500
28,522.21
1899
60,000
28,924.39
1900
*61,643
Miscellaneous, $23,697.62
29,226.45
City Home,
5,528.83
1901
62,500
Miscellaneous, $29,171.15
35,793.58
City Home,
6,622.43
1902
63,500
Miscellaneous, $28,667.04
36,063.68
1903
65,500
Miscellaneous, $30,470.20 City Home, 7,548.39
38,018.59
1904
69,500
Miscellaneous, $20,476.54 City Home,
6,563.11
1905
*69,272
Miscellaneous, $17,527.88 City Home, 7,474.36
25,002.24
1906
.
L.
74,000
Miscellaneous, $17,852.20
24,853.43
1908
75,500
Miscellaneous, $17,955.34
24,830.90
City Home,
6,875.56
1909
75,500
Miscellaneous, $16,843.17
24,406.00
City Home, 7,562.83
1910
*77,236
Miscellaneous, $16,110.42
23,806.31
1911
78,000
Miscellaneous, $16,327.56
24,169.59
1912
81,000
Miscellaneous, $19,201.33 City Home, 8,998.97
28,200.30
1913
82,000
Miscellaneous, $21,827.73
32,773.68
City Home, 10,945.95
1914
.
85,000
Miscellaneous, $35,619.68
46,819.93
City home,
11,200.25
*Census
72,000
Miscellaneous, $18,237.53
25,044.32
City Home,
6,806.79
1907
City Home, 7,001.23
City Home, 7,695.89
City Home. 7,842.03
27,039.65
City Home, 7,396.64
Table No. 7. EXPENDITURES, IN DETAIL, FOR THE YEAR 1914.
1914.
Medicine.
Board.
Groceries.
Somerville Poor in Other Cities and Towns.
Boots and Shoes.
Dry Goods.
Burials.
Salaries.
Fuel.
Sundries.
Cash Paid Out.
Telephone.
Stationery and Printing.
Somerville Hospital.
State Infirmary.
Nursing.
Somerville Poor in other Cities and Towns 1913 Law.
Total.
January . .
$33.35
$203.77
$1,451.30
$420.50
$10.60
$366.65
$245.63
$3.74
$412.98
$17.95
$70.00
$3,236.47
February .
18.40
157.84
880.14
501.08
$4.00
366.65
198.10
374.15
8.43
$8.55
$300.00
$51.43
$194.81
3,063.58
March .
13.25
200.23
905.84
461.40
14.00
$71.00
366.65
199.96
1.00
873.32
150.00
3,256.65
April . .
37.90
147.91
946.21
197.43
18.00
399.99
30.31
4.00
509.97
6.54
150.00
18.00
20.00
96.00
2,600.08
May
91.60
847.08
634.12
19.00
374.99
27.39
610.90
8.33
12.50
150.00
152.33
2,928.24
June .
23.38
187.10
781.00
52.85
8.75
374.99
7.33
37.50
511.85
8.36
22.05
150.00
.
.
504.32
2,729.48
July
10.00
139.16
930.00
576.38
27.93
434.99
9.48
608.70
8.50
5.75
150.00
2,907.89
August .
29.74
62.83
931.50
49.27
324.99
1.15
17.70
719.68
8.77
1.15
150.00
·
10.00
76.42
2,966.62
October . .
5.25
85.00
348.00
50.00
374.99
14.00
675.80
8.33
2.63
November .
52.15
144.34
1,725.50
52.39
20.25
2.00
15.00
374.99
225.35
18.00
633.35
8.90
.
150.00
55.00
167.75
1,881.08
5,526.05
December .
9.10
70.14
522.00
12.45
15.60
337.55
1,450.83
" Sup'ry
. . .
. . .
88.00
1,005.01
. .
. .
Totals . .
$253.16
$1,767.53 $11,321.57
$4,341.37
$53.60
$43.09
$233.00
$4,510.00
$1,014.69
$157.66
$6,585.75
$105,80
$90.77
$1,837.55
$150.00
$249.18
$2,904.96
$35,619.68
.
·
·
.
. .
. .
22.85
595.05
10.41
16.00
150.00
2,296.78
September
20.64
277.61
965.00
378.49
9.16
60.00
374.99
.
.
·
.
· . .
. . .
.
. . .
· .
. .
1,093.01
. .
·
.
375.13
106.86
2.00
17.82
7.00
1,564.00
373
SUPPORT OF POÓR DEPARTMENT.
Overseers of the Poor of Somerville SINCE THE REORGANIZATION IN 1885.
Hon. Mark F. Burns, chairman, ex- officio
1885
1888 inclusive
+ Col. Herbert E. Hill
·
1885
1889
+ Charles S. Lincoln, Esq., chairman . ·
1885
1887
Hon. Edward Glines
1885
1887
+ Charles G. Brett (president 1888-1892) Edward B. West (president May, 1894, to February, 1912)
1888
to 1912
t Daniel C. Stillson .
1888 April 1892
t Hon. Charles G. Pope, chairman ex- officio
1889
1891
66
Nathan H. Reed (president 1893 to April 1894)
1890 April 1894
7 Hon. William H. Hodgkins, chairman ex-officio
1892
1895
James G. Hinckley
May 1892
1894
Albert W. Edmands
May 1893
to
date
«
Herbert E. Merrill
May 1894 .
1909
7 Ezra D. Souther
1895 Feb.
1898 (Died)
Hon. Albion A. Perry, chairman, officio
1896
1898 inclusive
James H. Butler
March 1898
1899
Hon George O. Proctor, chairman, ex- officio
1899
Henry F. Curtis, M. D.
1910 to
date* inclusive
Philip Koen Present member.
1912
*
t Deceased.
Table No. 8. RECAPITULATION (MISCELLANEOUS.)
· Appropriation and transfers Reimbursements
$35,619 68
11,317 95
Total receipts .
$46,937 63
Total expenditures
35,619 68
Net expenditures
24,301 73
.
ex-
·
.
1885 April 1893 inclusive
374
ANNUAL REPORTS.
REPORT OF WARDEN OF CITY HOME.
City Home, January 1, 1915.
To the Overseers of the Poor, Somerville, Mass .:-
Gentlemen,-I submit the following as the report of the warden of the city home for the year ending December 31, 1914 :-
Table No. 1. REIMBURSEMENTS.
Farm produce sold
$3,774 01
Board of sundry persons ·
· . 799 27
$4,573 28
Table No. 2. LIVING EXPENSES.
Salaries and wages
$4,170 05
Groceries
2,235 22
Provisions
1,072 98
Dry Goods
504 60
Boots
and shoes
158 74
Grain
393 95
Hay
495 62
Seeds
123 83
House furnishings
228 19
Kitchen furnishings
54 24
Sundries
332 18
Cash paid by warden, car fares, for war- den, inmates, and laborers
97 97
Medicine
108 89
Horse shoeing
54 60
Live stock
79 50
Repairs on sash
16 76
Repairs on wagons
101 70
Telephone
52 48
Farm sundries
326 49
Garbage and bedding
315 00
Ice
111 15
Credits :-
Farm produce · .
$3,774 01
Board of sundry persons
799 27
$4,573 28
Net living expenses .
.
$6,460 86
·
$11,034 14
313
SUPPORT OF POOR DEPARTMENT.
Table No. 3.
Number of weeks' board of inmates
2,193 2-7
Number of males admitted during 1914, 43
Number of females admitted during 1914,
27
Number of males discharged during 1914
24
Number of females discharged during
1914
20
Number of males supported during 1914 57
Number of females supported during 1914
41
Number of males died during 1914 .
8
Number of females died during 1914
€
Number of inmates in home, December 31, 1914
49
City Home Hospital.
Number of weeks' board
341 4-7
Number of patients admitted
41
Number of patients in hospital Decem- . ber 31, 1914 .
6
Table No. 4. FARM ACCOUNT. REIMBURSEMENTS.
Farm produce sold
$3,774 01
Produce used at home
300 00
Milk .
535 80
$4,609 81
EXPENSES.
Wages for help
$1,335 67
Feed for one horse
154 41
Feed for three cows
426 21
Shoeing one horse .
18 20
Repairs on wagons
101 70
Farm sundries
326 49
Garbage and bedding
315 00
Live stock
79 50
Seeds
123 88
$2,881 06
Balance
$1,728 75
Table No. 5
Repairs on pig yards, greenhouse
$166 11
Painting walls, changing water service and general repairs, living expenses .
11,034 14
$11,200 25
376
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Table No. 6.
Reimbursements
Net expenditures
$4,573 28 6,626 97
Total expenditures
$11,200 25
Appropriation
11,000 00
Overdrawn
$200 25.
Respectfully submitted, . J. FOSTER COLQUHOUN, Warden.
REPORT OF THE CITY PHYSICIAN.
OFFICE OF THE CITY PHYSICIAN, Somerville, January 1, 1915.
To His Honor, the Mayor, and the Board of Aldermen :-
Gentlemen,-The work of your City Physician during the year 1914 is presented in the following abstract :-
Office consultations and treatments
620
Total outside visits
1,328
Confinements
12
Vaccinations
109
Visits at city home
114
Attended at police station .
42
Examinations :-
For legal department
29
For highway department
41
For police department
18
For fire department
9
For water department
.
3
Respectfully submitted,
C. CLARKE TOWLE, City Physician.
4
378
ANNUAL REPORTS.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
OFFICE OF THE CITY ENGINEER, CITY HALL, SOMERVILLE, January 20, 1915.
To His Honor, the Mayor, and the Board of Aldermen :-
Gentlemen: In accordance with the provisions of the city charter, the following report of the work done and ex- pense incurred for the year ending December 31, 1914, by the Engineering department and appropriations under my charge and supervision, including the accounts of City En- gineer, grade crossings, sewers construction, sewers main- tenance, public grounds, parks and playgrounds, and other public works, is herewith presented.
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.
City Engineer Account.
Statement of Expenses, 1914.
Salary of City Engineer .
$3,100 00
Salaries of assistants (see itemized state-
ment following)
7,714 53
Stakes, tools and general supplies (out- side work) 54 82
Draughting materials and office supplies (inside work)
146 06
Maintenance of automobile and motor
570 42
Telephone, postage and expressing .
97 96
Incidentals
77 10
Total debit
$11,945 39
CREDIT.
Appropriation
$11,500 00
Amount received from other accounts
services rendered
445 80
Total credit
$11,945 80
Balance unexpended
$0.41
Car fares and miscellaneous expenses (assistants)
184 50
cycle
319
CITY ENGINEER.
Classification of Expenses, Assistants' Salaries.
Sewers,-comprising surveys, estimates, profiles, lines,
grades, titles, plans, assessments, and all engi- neering work relating to sewers $985 15
Highways,-comprising plans, estimates, titles, profiles, lines and grades, inspection of paving and all other engineering relating to the department . 1.360 08
Sidewalks,-comprising profiles, lines, grades, measure- ments, titles, costs and assessments 973 20
Bridges and Grade Crossings,-comprising surveys,
plans, profiles, estimates, lines and grades, etc. 58 65 Water Works,-comprising lines, grades, locations of mains. gates, hydrants and services and other matters relating to the department 504 50
Public Grounds and Parks,-comprising surveys, plans, .
estimates, profiles and grades, including laying out of parks and playgrounds and boulevard 485 75
Public Buildings,-comprising surveys, estimates, lines, and grades, and other work relating to con- struction and laying out of grounds 43 90
Street Numbering,-comprising locations of buildings, plans, and affixing street numbers on houses 214 62
Street Lines and Grades,-comprising establishing of lines, grades, and miscellaneous data given parties for building and grading 248 83
City Survey,-comprising establishing of street lines, acceptance plans, and miscellaneous survey work for city map, etc. 692 40
Middlesex Registry,-comprising copying of plans, and .
abstracts from deeds and examination of titles filed at East Cambridge, also tracings of street acceptance and sewer taking plans filed for record 237 70
Private Corporations, Railway, Telephone, Electric Light and Gas Light Companies,-comprising grades, plans, profiles, and office notes, loca- tions of poles and conduits 156 35
Office Work,-comprising records of all locations, in- dexing, typewriting, bookkeeping, calculations, reports, and general draughting 1,072 48
Miscellaneous Work,-comprising preliminary sur-
· veys, designs, sketches etc., relating to various schemes for different committees 123 67
Vacations, Holidays, and Sickness 557 25
Total
$7,714 53
Office Records and Value of Instruments.
Number of survey note-books, sewer permit books, deed books, calculation books and record books-three hundred and fifty-six.
Number of plans, including sewers, highways, parks, house lots, etc ..- seven thousand two hundred and ninety.
Value of field instruments, tools, and office instru- ments
$2,500 00
380
ANNUAL REPORTS.
The number of assistants employed during the year on engineering work varied from seven to ten.
The total cost of maintaining the Engineering depart- ment (City Engineer account) since it was established, 1872-1914, both years inclusive) has amounted to $331,736.
General Work. Under the title of Engineering Depart- ment a varied line of city work is carried on each year, in- cluding the designing and superintending of the construc- tion and maintenance of sewers, parks, playgrounds, boule- vards, bridges, and other public works as may be author- ized; the making of such surveys, plans, profiles, estimates, descriptions of property, specifications and contracts for work as the mayor, board of aldermen,or any committee or depart- ment may require; the custody of all plans and data relat- ing to the laying out, widening or discontinuing of streets, the computing of all sewers, sidewalk, and street better- ment assessments, and the recording and indexing of all work under the control of the city engineer.
The city ordinances require that the city engineer must be consulted on all work where the advice of a civil engineer would be of service; and no structure of any; kind can be placed upon, beneath, or above any street, by any depart- ment of the city, corporation, or individual, until a plan is furnished showing the location and approved by him.
During the year the department made plans and estab- lished grades for the acceptance, under the betterment act, of eight new public streets, a total length of 2,338 feet (.44 mile).
Plans have been made of fourteen private streets for acceptance as public streets, during the year, as ordered, but not as yet made public, and there are plans for acceptance of eight other private streets, previously made, on file in the office that for various reasons are still unaccepted as public streets.
Stone bounds have been reset in Portland cement concrete at a number of street intersections and angles, to define and preserve the true lines of public streets, and this work should be continued as much as possible each year. These bounds are also of great convenience in establishing permanent "Bench Marks" throughout the city for giving grades.
No new street bounds were set during the year 1914. There are at the present time 576 stone bounds set in the city for defining street lines.
The total length of public streets in the city is 80,235 miles, and private streets 19,139 miles. (See table in this report for location, width, length, etc.)
381
CITY ENGINEER.
Streets Accepted as Public Highways in 1914, Under the Better- ment Act.
NAME OF STREET.
WARD.
FROM
To
Width Length in Feet. in Feet.
Date of Acceptance.
Bristol rd. .
7
Broadway
Medford line
40
146
Dec. 30
Gibbens st.
6
Benton road
Westerly
40
133
Dec. 30
*Harding st.
2
Ward st. .
Cambridge line
30
395
July 10
Horace st.
2
Ward st.
South st.
30
2.22
Dec. 30
Sacramento st.
6
Beacon st.
Cambridge line
40
154
July 10
Stone pl.
3
Stone ave.
Southeasterly
30
142
Dec. 30
Walker st.
7
Broadway
Leonard st.
40
713
Dec. 30
*Ward St. .
2
Medford st.
Harding st.
30
423
July 10
Total
..
(0.443 miles)
2,338
*No assessment. (Granite block pavement.)
Length of Public Streets in Each Ward.
Miles.
Ward one
9.745
Ward
two .
9.135
Ward
three
7.587
Ward four
9.797
Ward five
12,100
Ward six
13.334
Ward
seven
18.537
Total length of public streets in the city
80.235
A number of street names have been changed and plans made, showing a re-numbering of the buildings, and all old numbering plans revised, new houses plotted, and numbers assigned.
Some of the old main thoroughfares should be re-num- bered throughout the entire length, so as to eliminate half numbers and letters now being used, as many of these old streets have outgrown their original numbering.
There are many streets, avenues, courts, and places in the city of the same or very similar name, which should be changed to prevent the confusion now existing.
During the year 1914 approximately $127,100 were spent on the improvement of city streets and about $40,500 in the construction of new sidewalks (exclusive of maintenance) and the total expenditure was far in excess of any previous year for similar work.
This construction work was carried on jointly by the Engineering department and the Highway department, sixty- two and one-half per cent. of the total cost of new street con- struction being done by contract, and thirty-seven and one- half per cent. being done by the city highway department, day labor.
382
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Fifty-five per cent. of the cost of constructing new gran- olithic sidewalks by contract, and forty-five per cent. by the city highway department, day labor.
The contractors were James H. Fannon, Somerville, and Charles A. Kelley, Somerville, for street construction work and Dennis I. Crimmings, Somerville, for sidewalk work.
Two thousand seven hundred and seven square yards granite block pavement (concrete base) have been laid in Ward street, Harding street, and a part of Columbia strect, a total length of 1,092 feet, at a contract price of $2.85 per square yard complete.
Three thousand six hundred and four square yards vitri- fied brick pavement (concrete base) have been laid in Cutter square and Springfield street, a total length of 1,240 feet by contract, at a cost of $2.63 per square yard complete.
Twenty-three thousand, nine hundred square yards bitu- ininous macadam pavement (concrete base) has been con- structed in three sections of Broadway, (Magoun square to near Boston & Maine railroad bridge-Ball square to Pow- der House square-Teele square to near Arlington line) in 1 Prospect street, (Washington street to near Fitchburg rail- road bridge) and the westerly side of Elm street, (Cutter square to Oak square) a total length of 9,423 feet, at a con- tract price of $1.36 per square yard complete.
Four thousand fifteen square yards of this kind of pave- ment, a length of 1,085 feet was constructed in a portion of Willow avenue by the Highway department, day labor.
Eighteen new streets have been constructed, under the betterment act, with a bituminous wearing surface, concrete gutters and granite curbstone; a total length of 8.73 feet. Fourteen were done by contract and four by day labor.
The average cost of constructing a forty-foot street complete, by contract, was $4,35 per linear foot, and by High- way department, day labor, $5.50 per linear foot.
The total betterment assessments amounted to $18- 114.68.
Fifteen streets were constructed by the Highway de- partment by day labor, a total length of 12,384 feet, at a cost of $31,354.51.
Fourteen thousand five hundred ninety-one and one- tenth square yards of granolithic sidewalk, a total length of 20,139.8 feet were constructed by contract during the year, at a contract price of $1.33 per square yard.
Ten thousand, six hundred twenty-eight and seven- tenths square yards of granolithic sidewalk, a total length of 15,451.6 feet constructed by the Highway department at an average cost of $1.51.
The total length of permanent paved streets in the city amounts to 12.7 miles.
383
CITY ENGINEER.
The policy recently adopted of permanently construct- ing the city's main thoroughfares in preference to side streets has commenced to show good results.
In a few years' time, by the continuation of permanently constructing the remaining roadways, namely, on Broadway, sections of Summer, Washington and Beacon streets, and some of the principal cross-town streets, the city will have main thoroughfares that will compare favorably with any city in the state.
Many times in the past, streets newly constructed, or where an improved pavement is laid, are torn up and excava- tions made a short time after being built, when the changes should have been made considerably in advance of the new street construction work.
Previous notice of the city's intended street improve- ments should be given the various departments and inter- ested private corporations and ample time allowed for mak- ing all extensions and repairs of underground work; and no permission should be granted to cut any newly constructed street, except for emergencies or under special conditions, where a sufficient sum of money is paid the city for damages.
Table of Street Construction.
Square Yds. 102,521
Miles.
*Streets paved with granite blocks
4.33
Streets paved with Hassam pavement .
36,802
1.80
Streets paved with asphalt
10.410
0.73
Streets paved with vitrified brick
17,168
0.87
Streets paved with bitulithic .
14,689
0.88
Combination pavement (concrete base with bi- tuminous top)
60.567
4.08
** Streets macadamized (tarvia bound)
22.18
#Streets macadamized (water bound)
44.75
Streets graveled or unimproved
19.75
Total
99 37
Lines and grades have been given for setting 23,101 li- near feet (4,375 miles) of new edgestone, and 437 square yards (0.115 mile) of new brick sidewalks and 25,220 square yards (6.741 miles) of granolithic sidewalks have been laid, and measurements taken for computing assessments; 0.34 of a mile of edgestone has been reset and in addition to this 1,152 miles of granolithic sidewalks have been laid on pri- vate streets by property owners.
In connection with setting edgestones 2,931 square yards of new concrete gutters have been laid by contract at an average of $1.68 per square yard, and 1,505.7 square yards have been laid by the Highway department, by day labor, at
*Also 31.9 miles (single track) electric railway paved with granite asphalt, bitulithic, etc,
** Includes 3.29 miles of boulevard and 1.16 miles state highway.
+Includes 0,44 miles state highway,
384
ANNUAL REPORTS.
an average cost of $2.50 per square yard; also 682.4 square yards of granite block gutters.
A number of driveways and crossings have been con- structed, all requiring lines, grades, and measurements.
(See tables for cost of new work, 1914, and total lengths of sidewalks constructed in the city to date.)
The average cost for the year ,has been as follows :-
For setting edgestone with gravel sidewalk by Highway department $0.99 per linear foot
For setting edgestone with gravel sidewalk by contract $0.81 per linear foot
Laying brick sidewalk, complete . 1.29 per square yard
Laying granolithic sidewalk, complete, Highway department
by
1.51 per square yarı,
Laying granolithic, complete, by contract · 1.33 per square yard
And the cost of materials furnished by contract :- Edgestone (straight) delivered at work .
$0.55 per linear foot
Edgestone (circle) delivered at work . 0.73 per linear foo
Bricks delivered at work
14.75 per M.
Cement (Portland) on cars .
1.26 per barrel (net)
Sand and gravel on cars
Trap-rock delivered on work
0.70 per cubic yard (average) 1.45 per ton (aver- age)
In sections of the city where brick sidewalks have been laid many years, and must necessarily be relaid on account of deterioration and unevenness, granolithic should be substi- tuted in the place of brick.
Miles of Edgestone, Granolithic and Brick Sidewalks in Each Ward.
Gravel Sidewalk.
Brick Sidewalk. 12.093
Granolithic Sidewalk.
Ward two
15.769
6.983
6.730
2.05+
Ward three
14.205
1.555
11.572
1.07
Ward four
14.563
1,583
9.993
3.133
Ward five
21.502
5.753
12.194
3.743
Ward six .
23.810
5.670
10.678
8.637
Ward seven
27.010
6.506
8.478
14.514
134.901
32.732
71.738
35.909
Ward one
Edgestone. 18.042
4.682
2.742
A considerable quantity of stone still remains on the two parcels of ledge property owned by the city, situated in West Somerville, that can be quarried and used for the foundation of streets, and on sidewalk work, to the city's advantage. By using the stone from these two ledges and purchasing trap-rock the city will have a sufficient supply of good road material for a number of years to come.
Lines and grades have been given for laying 5,708 linear feet of new city water mains, varying in size from two inches to twelve inches in diameter, Two hundred and thirty-two
Table Showing Sidewalks Constructed (proportional part of cost assessed on abutters) in 1914.
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