Report of the city of Somerville 1914, Part 28

Author: Somerville (Mass.)
Publication date: 1914
Publisher: Somerville, Mass.
Number of Pages: 596


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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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