Report of the city of Somerville 1914, Part 44

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


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WARD FOUR.


Joseph Hillson, Alderman-at-large


Edwin Connell


William H. Andrews ·


WARD FIVE.


Fred E. Durgin, Alderman-at-large


William G. Cummings .


Hermon A. Fleming .


WARD SIX.


David H. Fulton, Alderman-at-large


Arthur W. Robinson


James A. Butler


5991/2 Somerville avenue 118 Highland road 286 Highland avenue


WARD SEVEN.


Joseph H. Perry, Alderman-at-large .


Eugene M. Carman


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William P. French


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8 Kenwood street 56 Pearson road 13 Thorndike street


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


* Resigned July 7, 1914.


t Elected October 22, 1914.


Regular meetings, second and fourth Thursday evenings of each month, at 8 o'clock, except when such Thursday is a holiday, in which case the meeting is held on the preceding Tuesday evening.


13 Edmands street 150 Pearl street 18 Walnut road


52 Albion street 82 Thurston street 51 Heath· street


554


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Standing Committees of the Board of Aldermen.


ELECTRIC LINES AND LIGHTS-Aldermen Durgin, Perry, Toomey, Bar- ker and Fleming of Ward 1.


FINANCE-The President, Aldermen Codding, Durgin, Connell, French, Pratt and Sullivan.


LEGISLATIVE MATTERS-Aldermen Hillson, McCarthy, (*Morrison), Farrell, Butler and Fleming of Ward 5.


LICENSES AND PERMITS-Aldermen Toomey, McCarthy, (*Morrison), Robinson, Carman, Cummings, Barker and Andrews.


PUBLIC PROPERTY-Aldermen Codding, Carman, Connell, Pratt and Sullivan.


PUBLIC SAFETY-Aldermen Cummings, French, Harris, Robinson' and Andrews.


PUBLIC WORKS-Aldermen Perry, Hillson, Farrell, Harris, Fleming of Ward 1, Fleming of Ward 5, and Butler.


*Alderman Morrison appointed to committee of which Alderman McCarthy was a member.


School Committee. *Chairman .- HENRY H. FOLSOM. Vice-Chairman .- THOMAS M. CLANCY. (Term, two years, except members ex-officiis.)


ZEBEDEE E. CLIFF, Mayor (ex-officio), 29 Powder House terrace.


DAVID H. FULTON, President Board of Aldermen (ex-officio), 5991/2 Somerville avenue.


WARD ONE.


MARY G. WHITING (elected 1913), 7 Wheeler street. THOMAS KELLEY (elected 1912), 8 Rush street.


WARD TWO.


DANIEL, H. BRADLEY (elected 1913), 19 Concord avenue. THOMAS M. CLANCY (clected 1912), 52 Springfield street. WARD THREE.


GEORGE E. WHITAKER (elected 1913), 75 Walnut street. ALBERT C. ASHTON (elected 1912), 33 Columbus avenue.


WARD FOUR.


HARRY A. STONE, (elected 1913), 254 Broadway. MARTIN P. HOGAN (elected 1912), 255 Broadway.


F


WARD FIVE


*HENRY H. FOLSOM (elected 1913), 103 Central street. HERBERT A. MACDONALD (elected 1912), 5 Norwood avenue. WARD SIX.


MARY R. BREWER (elected 1912), 170 Summer street. GUY E. HEALEY (elected 1913), 34 Benton road.


WARD SEVEN.


HERBERT CHOLERTON (elected 1912), 94 College avenue. CLARENCE W. WILLIAMS (elected 1913), 205 Morrison avenue.


*Deceased June 20, 1914.


555


CITY GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS FOR 1914.


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.


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Regular meetings, last Monday evening of each month, except July and August, when none are held, and December, when meetings are on the fourth Friday, and on the Friday preceding the first Monday in January.


Assessors. (Term, three years.) GEORGE E. ELLIOTT, Chairman (term expires 1917). NATHAN H. REED (term expires 1915). WINSOR L. SNOW (term expires 1915). HARRY VAN IDERSTINE (term expires 1917). J. ROBERT FENELON (term expires 1916).


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Assistant Assessors. (Term, one year.)


FRED B. CLAPP. GEORGE I. CANFIELD.


JOHN FRANKLIN STACKPOLE. JAMES WILSON. 1


JOHN J. MCCARTHY. WILLIAM H. WALLIS.


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.) WESLEY T. LEE, M. D., Chairman (term expires 1915). JACKSON CALDWELL (term expires 1915). JOHN A. BLASER (term expires 1916). Clerk, Laurence S. Howard. Agent .- CALEB A. PAGE. Medical Inspector .- FRANK L. MORSE, M. D. Inspector of Animals and Provisions .- CHARLES M. BERRY.


Inspector of Milk and Vinegar .- HERBERT E. BOWMAN. Office open: 8 A. M. to 4 P. M., Saturdays, 8 A. M. to 12 M.


Overseers of the Poor. Office, City Hall Annex. (Term, three years.) HENRY F. CURTIS, M. D., Chairman (term expires 1916). ALBERT W. EDMANDS (term expires 1917). PHILIP KOEN (term expires 1915). Agent .- CHARLES C. FOLSOM. Secretary .- CORA F. LEWIS. Warden City Home-J. FOSTER COLQUHOUN. Matron City Home-CATHERINE COLQUHOUN.


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


556


ANNUAL REPORTS.


Planning Board. (Term, two years.)


MALCOLM E. STURTEVANT, Chairman (term expires 1915). WILLIAM H. SMITH (term expires 1915). CHARLES F. MAGUIRE (term expires 1915). BARBARA GALPIN (term expires 1914). , CHARLES J. CORWIN (term expires 1914). CHARLES E. GODFREY (term expires 1914). WARREN C. BLAIR (term expires 1914). Secretary, THEDA E. FLEMING.


Registrars of Voters. (Term, three years.) EDWIN D. SIBLEY, Chairman (term expires 1915.) CHARLES LEO SHEA (term expires 1916). DOUGLASS B. FOSTER (term expires 1914). FREDERIC W. COOK, City Clerk (term expires 1917).


Public Library Trustees. (Term, three years.)


THOMAS M. DURELL, Chairman (term expires 1916). J. FRANK WELLINGTON (term expires 1917). FREDERICK W. PARKER (term expires 1915). WILLIAM L. BARBER (term expires 1916). CHARLES L. NOYES (term expires 1917). JOHN M. WOODS (term expires 1915), HERBERT E. BUFFUM (term expires 1917).


WILLIAM H. DOLBEN (term expires 1915). W. DUDLEY YATES (term expires 1916). Librarian and Secretary .- DREW B. HALL.


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


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City Messenger. FRED E. HANLEY.


Mayor's Secretary. FRED E. WARREN.


557


CITY GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS FOR 1914.


City Solicitor. FRANK W. KAAN, 1 50 State street, Boston. H


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.


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Commissioner of Streets. ASA B. PRICHARD. 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. -


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. Office, Police Building, Bow street.


Chief Engineer of the Fire Department.


1


SEWALL M. RICH. 1


Office, Central Fire Station, 261 Medford street.


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


1


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


Inspector of Milk and Vinegar.


HERBERT E. BOWMAN. Office hours : 9 A. M. to 12 M., except Saturdays


558


ANNUAL REPORTS.


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


inspector of Petroleum. SEWALL M. RICH. 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 hours: 9 A. M. to 12 M.


Registration Clerk, City Laborers. HOWARD E. WEMYSS


Fence Viewers.


CHARLES M. BERRY, 60 Prescott street. ALBERT FISKE, 47 Prescott street.


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


Constables.


CHARLES W. BENNETT.


ERNEST W. GAY.


WALTER C. BRIGGS.


JAMES M. HARMON.


GEORGE H. CARLETON.


FRED E. HANLEY.


EUGENE A. CARTER.


CHARLES A. KENDALL.


WINSLOW W. COFFIN.


CHARLES B. PALMER.


WILLIAM E. COPITHORNE.


ROBERT R. PERRY.


ALBION B. CROCKER.


JOHN F. SCANNELL.


THOMAS DAMERY.


MALCOLM E. STURTEVANT


CHARLES E. WOODMAN.


Measurer of Wood and Bark. BERTRAM C. BABSON. CHARLES A. HARDY. F. FULLER WHITING.


Measurer of Grain.


EVERETT C. EMERY.


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CHARLES L. ELLIS.


CHARLES C. FOLSOM.


559


CITY GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS FOR 1914.


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


Weighers of Coal.


DANIEL F. ASH.


JOSEPH E. McGEE.


BERTRAM C. BABSON.


FRANCIS T. McMAHON.


EDGAR H. BARKER.


JAMES C. McMAHON.


JOHN L. BLAKE.


JOHN J. McMAHON.


WILLIAM COLEMAN.


JOHN C. MCNALLY.


EUGENE F. CUMMINGS.


GEORGE H. MARSH.


HARRY H. CUMMINGS.


JOHN A. MARSH.


WILLIAM G. CUMMINGS.


OSMAN T. MARSH.


MARJORIE G. CRIMMINGS


GEORGE H. MOORE.


ALBERTUS L. DAKIN.


MARION NICHOLSON


CHARLES F. DOHERTY.


LEWIS O'BRIEN.


WILLIAM J. DWYER.


JAMES P. O'NEILL.


WILLIAM L. EGAN.


JOHN J. O'NEILL.


EVERETT C. EMERY.


MARK W. PATTEN.


FRED L. ESTEY.


ETHEL POWELL.


CHARLES T. GARLAND.


LEOLA RAMETTI.


WILLIAM E. GERRISH.


WALTER K. SMITH.


JAMES H. GORDON.


JOHN W. STEEL.


HELEN T. GOULD.


FRANK A. TEELE.


CHARLES A. HARDY.


JAMES WALLACE. WILLIAM J. WALLACE.


JOSEPH F. HAUSE.


HARVEY E. HEALD.


THOMAS WALSH.


MILDRED HEWES.


CHARLES H. WARD.


JOHN F. KELLEY.


WILLIAM F. WILSON.


FORREST D. LANG.


JOHN H. WOODMAN.


WILLIAM M. LENNAN.


LUCIEN L. WOODMAN.


Weighers of Beef.


NATHANIEL BAKER, JR.


BERNARD C. NICKERSON.


WALTER BAILEY.


THOMAS S. PARKER.


DAVID BAXTER.


WILLIAM H. PARSONS.


OLIVER BRYANT.


JOHN J. QUINN.


CARL W. BURROWS.


FRANK J. RAMSEY.


CHARLES CALDWELL.


CARL F. SAMPSON.


THOMAS J. CARNEY.


WILLIS B. SARGENT.


GEORGE L. DANIELS.


WILLIAM E. ELDREDGE.


FRANK H. FALLIS.


FRED HARRIS. PAUL B. HILL.


FORREST D. LANG.


ARTHUR F. MASON.


MICHAEL J. MCCORMACK.


· REUBEN W. MEAD. JOSEPH MURPHY.


WALTER SAVAGE. FRANK SHAW. GEORGE E. SMITH. ROBERT E. SMITH. LEONARD STICKLEY. CHARLES SYMONDS. LORENZO D. TRAFTON. JOSEPH F. TYTER. GEORGE C. WILLIAMS. TOBIAS YAVNER.


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INDEX.


PAGE


City Clerk, Report of


516


Receipts


516


Payments


518


Gas and Pole Locations


519


Births


519


Marriages


520


Deaths


520


Assessed Polls and Registered Voters


522


Women's Voting Lists


523


Elections


524-529


Liquor License Question


530


City Engineer, Report of


378


Engineering Department, Statement of Expenses .


378


Classification of Expenses, Assistants' Salaries .


379


Office Records and Value of Instruments .


379


General Work


380


Streets Accepted in 1914


381-


Length of Public Streets in Each Ward .


381


Table of Street Construction


383


Miles of Edgestone, Gravel, Granolithic Sidewalks in Each Ward


and Brick


Statements of Expenses, Grade Crossings


386


City Boundary Lines


387


Statement of Expenses, Sewers Construction


388


Summary of Work .


389


Metropolitan Sewer Connections


390


New Work


390


Statement of Expenses, Sewers Maintenance .


391


Parks and Playgrounds Division


392


Statement of Expenses, Park and Playgrounds Main- tenance


396


Table of Streets


399


City Government and Officers for 1914


553


City Physician, Report of


377


City Solicitor, Report of


515


City Treasurer and Collector of Taxes, Report of .


27


Public Property


27, 34


Funded Debt


28


Borrowing Capacity


30


Resources


31


Credit Balances


31


Cash


32


Available Assets


33


Liabilities


33


Appendix


39


Service Transfers


42


Refunds


44


Revenue


48


General Accounts and Balances .


Commissioner of Public Buildings (see Public Buildings Commissioner) +


437


.


32


Balance Sheet


34


Outstanding Bonds


41


384


Licenses and Permits


518


INDEX.


561


Commissioner of Streets (see Street Commissioner) .


411


Commissioner of Water (see Water Commissioner)


448


Electric Lines and Lights, Commissioner, Report of Inspection of Wiring


443


Fire Alarm System .


444


Police Signal System


445


Poles and Underground Conduits


445


Street Lighting


445


Financial Statement


445


Recommendations


446


Alarms of Fire .


485


Showing Probable Causes of Fire


485


In Memoriam


487


Manual Force


488


Apparatus


488


Horses


488


Hose


488


Resume


489


Recommendations


493


Conclusion


494


Health, Board of, Report of


340


Organization, Officers, etc.


340


Nuisances


341


Permits


342


Pedlars


342


Stables


343


Board of Infants


343


Deaths


343, 347


Mortality Statistics


344


Diseases Dangerous to Public Health


346, 347, 349


Medical Inspection of Schools


348


Bacteriological Department


350


Specimens and Anti-toxin


350


Undertakers


351


Examiners of Plumbers


351


Financial Statement


351


Inspector of Animals and Provisions, Report of


352


Inspector of Milk and Vinegar, Report of


352


Inspection of School Children


352


Contagious Hospital


352, 354, 441


Inspector of Animals and Provisions, Report of


356


Inspector of Buildings (see Public Buildings Commissioner)


Inspector of Milk and Vinegar, Report of


358


Financial Statement


358


City Inspection


359


Infantile Mortality


362


Epidemics


362


New Regulations


362


Country Inspection


363


New Legislation


363


Bacteriological


364


Pasteurization of Milk


365


Jury List . ·


533


Mayor's Inaugural Address


3 Finance


3, 21


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·


363


Dairies


PAGE


443


Fire Department, Chief of, Report of


485


437


562


ANNUAL REPORTS.


PAGE


Auditing Department


4


Departments


4


Public Works


5


Alewife Brook Parkway


8


Refuse Disposal


9


Workmen's Compensation


Acts


9


Electrical Department


10


Building Department


10


Schools


12


Summer Playgrounds


13


Public Library


14


Health Department


14


Poor Department


14


Somerville Hospital


16


Fire Department


16


Police.


18


Intoxicating Liquors


18


Business Organization


19


Retiring Officials


20


Financial Statement


22


Medical Inspector, Report of


354


Scarlet Fever


354


Typhoid Fever


354


Tuberculosis


354, 355


Ophthalmia Neonatorum


354


Contagious Disease Hospital


354


Other Diseases


355


Bacteriological Department


355


Ordinances


531


Overseers of the Poor, Report of


367


Members of the Board, Committees, Officers, etc. .


367


Report of Overseers of the Poor


368


Report of the General Agent


369


Full Support


370


Partial Support


370


Reimbursements


371


Somerville Hospital


371


Population and Gross Expenditures


372


Overseers of the Poor Since 1885 .


373


Recapitulation


373


City Home, Report of Warden .


374


City Physician, Report of


377


Planning Board, Report of


507


Police, Chief of, Report of


496


Arrests


Crimes and Offenses Against the Person


496


Crimes and Offenses Against Property


496


Crimes and Offenses Against Public Order Recapitulation


498


Miscellaneous Reports


499


Signal Service and Patrol and Ambulance Reports .


501


Police Matron, Report of


502


Roster of Department .


503


Diphtheria


354


370


Aid Under 1913 Law


496


497


Middlesex Avenue


8


563


PAGE


Absence from Duty


504


Performance of Duties


506


Recommendations


506


Poor Department (see Overseers of the Poor) Population


367


Public Buildings, Commissioner, Report of


437


Inspection of Buildings


437


School Department Buildings


439


Fire Buildings


439


Municipal Buildings


440


Public Library


440


Incinerator Building


440


City Home


441


Contagious Hospital


441


Bathing Beach


441


Maintenance Public Buildings


442


Public Grounds (City Engineer) Public Library


318


Board of Trustees, Officers, etc.


318-320


Report of the Trustees .


319 322


Buildings


322, 330


Changing Type of Books and Use Circulation


323


Fiction


323


Accessions


324


High School Library


324,332


The Library Force .


325,328


In General


326


Executive Reports .


328


Children's Department


329


Reference Department


330


Catalogue Department


331


West Somerville Branch


333


East Somerville Branch


334


Union Square Branch


334


Statistical Report


336


Financial Statement


337


School Department


164


Report, School Committee


164


Members, Officers, Committees, etc.


165


Report of Superintendent


167


Pupils and Teachers


167


Accommodations


168


Work of Schools


178


Boys' Vocational School


182


An Intermediate School


183


Work Certificates


187


Night Schools


190


Play


190


Conclusion


192


High School Report


194


Course of Study


194


College Course


195


Commercial Course


196


School Bank


196


School Library


197


INDEX.


227, 372


392, 396


Report of the Librarian


322


564


ANNUAL REPORTS.


PAGE


Gifts to the School .


198


School Lunch


198


Practical Work by Pupils


199


Students' Council


199


Athletics


200


Loss to the School .


200


Vocational School for Boys, Report of


201


Supervisor of Manual Arts, Report of


203


Vocational School for Girls, Report of


205


Atypical Class at the Hodgkins School, Report of .


209


Atypical Class at the Bell School, Report of


210


Report Upon Questionnaire .


211


Recommendations


215


Somerville Playgrounds Association


218


Comparative Financial Statement


218


Somerville Playgrounds Comparative Financial State- ment


218


Summer Playgrounds Comparative Statement Receipts and Expenditures


219


School Savings Bank, Report of


220


School Nurse, Report of


221


School Dentist, Report of


221


Somerville Teachers' Association


222


Somerville Teachers' Club


223


Henry H. Folsom


224


Charles T Murray


225


Nellie L. Quennell .


225


Appendix


226


Population and School Census


227,239


School Buildings


227, 233


Teachers


227, 257, 260, 275


Attendance


227, 240, 251, 285


Cost of Schools


228, 230, 234, 236, 238


Teachers' Salaries


231, 297


Sight and Hearing


231


Per Capita Cost


235-237


High School Statistics


241


Membership


242, 252


Graduation


244, 250, 310


Truancy Department


245, 247


Pupils


255, 256, 263


Books


261


Graduation Exercises


262


Organization School Board, 1915 .


273


Officers


284


Janitors


284


Organization of the School Committee


289


Duties of Secretary


290


Duties of Standing Committee


291


Duties of Superintendent


293


Duties of Truant Officers


296


Election of Teachers


296


Duties of Principals


300


Duties of Teachers


300


Regulations Common to all Schools


307


Kindergartens


310


Evening Schools


312


.


.


Promotions


. 253, 310


.


INDEX.


565


PAGE


Text-Books and Supplies


313


District Lines, etc .


314


Definitions of Terms


317


Sealer of Weights and Measures, Report of


513


Sewers (see City Engincer)


388-391


Street Commissioner, Report of


411


Highways Maintenance


411


Highways Construction


411


Street Cleaning


412


Street Sprinkling


412


Stone Crusher


412


Bridges


412


Shade Trees


413


Steam Road-Rollers


413


Gypsy and Brown-tail Moths


413


Sidewalks


413


Snow and Ice


414


Underground Wires


414


Accepted Streets


414, 424


Sidewalks Maintenance


414


Sanitary Division


415


Miscellaneous


415 416


Statement of Accounts


417-424


Tables


425-436


Support of Poor Department (see Overseers of the Poor).


367


Water Commissioner, Report of


448


Statement of Accounts


449


Cost of Water Works .


449


Water Debt


449


Water Works Income and Distribution


450


Income and Appropriations .


450


Pensions


451


Hydrants, Gates


452


Water Services


452


Water Meters


452, 453 454


Water Distribution System, Maintenance


454


Waterposts and Fountains .


454


Services


454


Water Assessments and Consumption


455


High Service Pump


456


New Legislation


458


Gates Set in New Locations


458 459


Fire Hydrants


460


Location of Hydrants


461


Private Hydrants


480


Locations of Waterposts


481


Locations of Drinking Fountains .


482


Summary of Statistics


482


Financial Statistics


484


.


Water Distribution System, Construction


451


Summary of Pipes and Fixtures


Gates Removed or Discontinued .


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