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1500
1891
6, 5
Mrs. Hazel F. Quinn, 21 Hamilton St., Wollaston
1500
1915
6
Mrs. Helen M. Mason, 62 Ibbetson Street
1500
1920
5
Lillian E. Haskell, 41 Putnam Street
1500
1913
Elizabeth S. Foster, 53 Laurel Street
1500
1895
5
Dorothy L. Lundgren, 93 Lowden Avenue
1500
1915
4
Alice M. Cumming, 117 School Street
1500
1917
4
Mrs. Ada C. Mawhinney, 25 Walnut Street
1500
1919
3
Margaret M. Brennan, 30 School Street
1500
1917
3
Bessie I. Berry, 38 Wyllis Avenue, Everett
1500
1915
2
Annie B. Russell, 14 Kidder Avenue
1500
1901
2
Mary E. Flanley, 9 Avon Street, Wakefield
1500
1915
1 Frances E. Welch, 303 Highland Avenue
1500
1908
1 Mabel R. Ingham, 62 Central Street
1500
1912
1500
1917
1 Mabel E. Mansir, 77 Albion Street
1 Frances E. Fisher, 176 Williams Avenue, East Lynn 1500
1921
282
ANNUAL REPORTS.
TABLE 29-Teachers in Service, January, 1924-Continued
Name and Residence (ENOCH R.) MORSE SCHOOL Summer and Craigie Streets
Began Salary Service
Grade.
Frank W. Seabury, Master, 18 Winslow Avenue
$3100
1911
6
Mrs. Harriette C. Hamilton. 36 Meacham Road
1650
1900
6:5
Lennie W. Bartlett, 49 Laurel Street
1500
1893
5
Blanche E. Thompson, 53 Laurel. Street
1500
1906
4 Mrs. Sarah K. Lake, 199 Prospect St., Cambridge
1400
1921
4:3 Eva A. Wilson, 153 Lowell Street
1500
1917
3 Mrs. Agnes C. Rice, 34 Highland Avenue
1500
1900
2
Edna M. Scriven, 108 Summer Street
1100
1922
2
Lena Munroe, 211-A Summer Street
1500
1913
1
Mrs. Helen T. Smith, 43 Paulina Street
1500
1912
1
Louise F. Deady, 84 Bay State Avenue
1500
1917
Kdgn.
Gertrude Prichard, 5 Webster Street
1400
1920
Asst.
Elizabeth White, 42 Exeter Street, Lawrence
1100
1921
GEORGE O. PROCTOR SCHOOL
Hudson Street
Harry F. Hathaway, Master, 29 Albion Street
1912
6
Nora F. Byard, 27 College Avenue
$1650
1884
6:5
Alice G. Hosmer, 42 Boston Street
1500
1906
5
Mrs. Nettie L. Fay, 15 Pleasant Avenue
1500
1901
4
Ethel F. Morang, 18 Curtis Avenue
1500
1920
4:3
Eliza I. Patterson, 11 East Newton St., Boston
1500
1919
3
Edith L. Hunnewell, 41 Mason Street
1500
1894
2
Mary S. Richardson, 347 Boston Avenue, Medford
1500
1906
1 Lucia Alger, 163 Summer Street
1500
1889
GEORGE W. DURELL SCHOOL
Beacon and Kent Streets .
Samuel A. Johnson, Master, 5 Gardner Ter., Allston
1893
4
Abigail P. Hazelton, 14 Billingham Street
$1600
1902
3
Grace E. Packard, 12 Carlisle Street, Roxbury
1500
1912
2
Mary. Winslow, 117 Elm Street
1500
1887
1
Alice M. Dicker, 82 Marion Street, East Boston
1500
1912
MARK F. BURNS SCHOOL
Cherry Street, near Highland Avenue
1911
4
Mrs. Margaret D. Quarrie, 21 Bay State Avenue
$1650
1909
4
Lizzie E. Hill, 121 St. Stephen Street, Boston
1500
1890
3
Annie L. Brown, 4 Saginaw Avenue, N. Cambridge
1500
1914
2
Mary E. Lacy, 63 Cherry Street
1500
1890
2
Ardelle Abbott, 71 Craigie Street
1500
1896
1
Alice E. Morang, 18 Curtis Avenue
1500
1893
1 Ruth E. Andrews, 21 College Avenue
1500
1917
Frank W. Seabury, Master, 18 Winslow Avenue
......
1500 1885
3
Margaret Beattie, 401 Washington Street
283
SCHOOL .DEPARTMENT.
TABLE 29-Teachers in Service, January, :1924 Continued Name and Residence BENJAMIN G. BROWN SCHOOL . Willow Avenue and Josephine Avenue Salary Service Began
Grade.
. 6
Mary T. Ford, 3 Goodwin Pl., Boston
1500
1911
5
Annie Sanburn, 11 East Newton Street, Boston
1500
1906
4
Anna N. Johnson, 33 Everett Avenue
1500 1913
4
Helen L. Galvin, 1450 Commonwealth Ave., Allston
1500
1903
3
Pauline Thiesfeldt, 159 Mystic St., Arlington
1500
1923
3
Alice M. Dorman, 159 Morrison Avenue
1500
1903
2
Mrs. Grace H. Bliss, 33 Whitfield Road
1500
1900
2:1
Mrs. Bessie T. MacCutcheon, 87 Boston Street
1500
1915
1 Olivia H. Norcross, Wilmington
1500
1914
HIGHLAND SCHOOL Highland Avenue and Grove Street
Harlan P. Knight, Master, 22 Hamilton Road
........
6
Grace M. Clark, 10 Vernon Street, W. Medford
1650
1893
6
Margaret McLeod, 14 Ware Street
1400
1923
6
Eva M. Barrows, 1 Glover Circle
1500
1903
6:5 5
Catherine A. Burden, 50 College Avenue
1500
1902
5
Hazel M. Stone, 915 Broadway
1500
1919
5
Carrie E. Crockett, 27 Lincoln St., Stoneham
1500
1923
S. NEWTON CUTLER SCHOOL
Powder House Boulevard, near Raymond Avenue
6
Bernice J. Andrews, 10 Locke Street, No. Cambridge 1650
1914
6
Mrs. Minnie R. Lougee, 631 High St., West Medford 1500
1922
6
*Ella H. Bucknam, 170 Powder House Boulevard
1500
1897
6
Mrs. Mabel T. Totman, 163 Summer Street
1500
1893
6
+Alice Parlin, 40 Highland Avenue
1100
1923
5
Bessie J. Baker, 19 Mills Street, Malden
1500
1905
5
Mrs. Mabel W. Thomas, 36 Brastow Avenue
1500
1919
5
Alice A. Libbey, 20 Chandler Street
1500
1919
5
Eugenia Carver, 65 Hudson Street
1500
1922
4
Mrs. Elva A. Cutler, 36 Powder House Boulevard
1500
1911
4
Mrs. M. Eunice Byrne, 37 Sunset Road
1500
1912
4
Mrs. Katie L. Harmon, 83 Curtis Street
1500
1916
3
Mrs. Elsie M. Guthrie, 50 Bromfield Road
1500
1919
3
E. Mildred Milner, 2 Billingham Street Mrs. Nettie M. Humiston, 43 Fairmount Avenue
1500
1920
2
Almena J. Mansir, 77 Albion Street
1500
1899
2
Stella Bucknam, 319 Highland Avenue
1300
1917
1
*Annie H. Hall, 170 Powder House Boulevard Mary L. McKenna, 294 Lowell Street
1500
1915
1
Eleanor E. Waldron, 135 Powder House Boulevard
1300
1919
1
Alice M. McFarland, 90 Prospect Street
1000
1923
Kdgn.
Mrs. Dorothea G. Lamb, 90 Curtis Street
1400
1921
Asst.
Hilda Foley, 141 Bowdoin St., Dorchester
600
1923
+ Temporary Teacher.
* Leave of absence.
LINCOLN SCHOOL
Broadway near Teele Square
Harlan P. Knight, Master, 22 Hamilton Road
... .....
3
Eliza H. Lunt, 248 Highland Avenue
$1600
1889
4
Mrs. Lillian M. Wentworth, 248 Highland Avenue
1500
1911
2
Olevia M. Woods, 28 Ware Street
1500
1908
1 Hortense F. Small, 91 Electric Avenue
1500
1912
2
1500
1920
1500
1906
1
Harlan P. Knight, Master, 22 Hamilton Road
$3000
1897
Marion Allen, 74 Collins Street, Danvers
1500
1911
1919
Geo. I. Bowden, Master, 92 Monument St., W. Med. $3000
1908
1897
284
ANNUAL REPORTS
TABLE 29-Teachers .in Service, January, 1924-Continued
Name and Residence MARTHA PERRY LOWE SCHOOL Morrison Avenue near Grove Street
Began
Salary Service
Grade.
Geo. I. Bowden, Master. 92 Monument St., W. Med.
1908
4
May E. Small, 104 Orchard Street
$1650
1900
4
Stella M. Holland, 34 Francesca Avenue
1500
1903
3
Maude C. Valentine, 1098 Broadway
1500
1901
3
Mrs. Jane M. Taaffe, 159 Morrison Avenue
1500
1888
2
Katherine E. Hourahan, 94 College Avenue
1500
1892
2
Clara G. Hegan, 100 School Street
1500
1897
1
Octavia A. Stewart, 15 Kenwood Street
1500
1917
1
Selena G. Wilson, 11 Irving Street
1300
1922
EVENING SCHOOL PRINCIPALS
Everett W. Tuttle, High
$7.00
Francis A. Ryan, Bell and Cliff.
6.00
CADET TEACHERS
Frances E. Biller, 353 Lowell Street
$600
1923
Margaret Callahan, 165 Lowell Street
600
1923
Gertrude T. Donahue, 28 Calvin Street
600
1923
Mary M. Dorney, 222 Tremont Street
600
1923
Madeline E. Flynn, 57 Franklin Street
600
1923
Helen Hession, 184 North Street
600
1923
Evelyn MacDonald, 50 Bromfield
Road
600
1923
Dorothy Perkins, 34 Tower Street
600
1923
Valborg Prebensen, 43 Sacramento St., Cambridge
600
1923
Doris F. Rudd, 46 Franklin Street
600
1923
Constance Shaw, 21 Walker Street
600
1923
Gladys Stone, 41 Marshall Street
600
1923
Hazel C. Wellington, 71 Oxford Street
600
1923
Lillian G. Wells, 61 Bonair Street
600
1925
SUPERVISORS AND . SPECIAL TEACHERS
Music
12, 7
James P. McVey, 14 Wendell Street, Cambridge
$2500
1915
6, 1 Mrs. Charlotte D. Lawton, 121 St. Stephen
St.,
Boston
1900
1898
Drawing
6, 1
Clara M. Gale, 21 Willoughby Street
1900
1911
Sewing
Mary H. Brown, Supervisor, 162 Highland Avenue
*200
1913
6, 5
Mary L. Boyd, 18 Fenwick Street
1500
1888
6, 5 Mrs. Emma J. Ellis, 163 Summer Street
1500
1900
Penmanship
9, 1 Ruth L. Whitehouse, 21 College Avenue
$1700
1915
Manual Training
.
Harry L. Jones, Supervisor, 137 Powder Hse. Blvd. $200
1911
...
.....
285
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
TABLE 29-Teachers In Service, January, 1924-Continued
Physical Instruction
12, 1 #Ernest Hermann, The Warren, Wash. St., Newton $1550
1914
12, 7 Arthur R. Ayer, 25 Main Street
2500
1921
12, 1 Margaret V. Burke, 1 Pearl Street
1100
1923
12, 1 M. Helen Campbell, 22 Barton Street
1100
1923
Atypical
Mary A. Holt, 13 Pleasant Avenue
$1550
1910
Mrs. Bertha M. Morton, 62 Highland Avenue
1550
1913
Julia M. Riordan, 165 Albion Street
1550
1914
Mildred M. Harkins, 22 Traymore St., Cambridge
1100
1923
Sight Saving
Mrs. Amy F. Woodbury, 83 Pearson Road $1550 1917
Additional to salary as Director of Household Arts Courses
Additional to salary as Principal of Boys' Vocational School # Part time
TABLE 30-OFFICERS, ETC., IN SERVICE JANUARY, 1924 Name and Residence SUPERINTENDENT AND SECRETARY
Charles S. Clark, 75 Munroe Street
$5000
Clerks
Mary A. Clark, 42 Highland Avenue
1500
Mildred A. Merrill, 26 Cambria Street
1350
H. Madeline Kodad, 104 Sharon Street, W. Medford
1250
Marion E. Marshall, 30 Gilman Street
$21 per wk
Ruth O. Elliott, 4 Lincoln Place
21 per wk
Beatrice M. Hersom, 62 Highland Avenue
17.50 per wk
Attendance Officer
Benjamin R. Jones, 25 Loring Street
2000
$15 per wk
Bernice F. Parker, Clerk, 11 Dickson Street
Salary
286
ANNUAL REPORTS
TABLE 31-SCHOOL JANITORS, JANUARY, 1924
School
Name
Residence
Weekly Salary
High School, assistant
Jeremiah M. Brennan
482 Medford St. $28.50
High School, assistant
John N. Quirk
64 Marion St. 27.50
High School, assistant
Joseph McCormack
206 Washington St.
27.50
High School, assistant
Charles Hoyt
60 Vernon St. 32.50
High School, assistant
Thomas G. Pullen
6 Madison St.
27.50
Eastern Junior High Prescott
Thomas E. Dickinson
5 Berkeley St.
31 00
Hanscom
Frank C. Martis
79 Flint St.
29.00
Boys' Vocational
Charles B. Kelley
25 Clark St.
28,50
Bennett
Michael Mullaney
7 Greene St.
30.50
Baxter
Jeremiah Sullivan
60 Newton St.
26.50
Knapp
Maurice T. Mullins
13 Fremont Ave.
31.00
Perry
Dan'l E. Cunningham
15 Leland St.
26.50
Pope
John J. Kilty
9 Morton St.
30.50
Southern Junior High
William Meskill
19 Aldersey St.
32.50
Southern Junior High
Nicholas J. Lacey
327 Washington St.
32.50
Cummings
Lewis G. Keene ·
1 Prescott St.
24.50
Edgerly
Charles P. Horton
26 Everett Ave.
30.50
Glines
Roy C. Burckes
20 Jaques St.
30.50
Forster
George W. Coombs
216 Pearl St.
30.00
Northern
Junior High
Michael A. Mullin
16 Bowdoin St.
30.00
Bingham
John F. O'Brien'
335 Lowell St. 5-A Belmont St.
36.50
Morse
John W. Cremen
69 Oxford St.
31.00
Proctor
James F. Flynn
31 Linden St.
28.00
Durell
Ellsworth C. Lundgren
93 Lowden Ave.
24.50
Burns
Charles J. Elkins
14 Holyoke Road
28.00
Brown
James J. Cooper
105 Willow Ave.
29.00
Highland
Michael J. McKenna
27 Joy St.
28.00
Hodgkins
Patrick A. Delmore
11 Atherton St.
30.00
Western Junior High
James T. Eddy
34 Wallace St.
36.50
Western
Junior High
George A. Givan
17 Henry Ave.
32.50
Cutler
Daniel Campbell
22 Barton St.
30.50
Cutler
Walter F. Burns .
23 Avon St.
27.50
Lincoln
John T. Morey
1 Weston Ave.
24.50
Lowe
Frank H. Flagg
22 Clyde St.
28.00
33.50
Carr
John H. Lane
216-B Medford St.
30.00
James J. Quirk
287
CITY " SOLICITOR
REPORT OF THE LAW DEPARTMENT
To the Honorable the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen of the City of Somerville :
The annual report of the law department for the year ending December 31, 1923, is as follows :
In accordance with an order passed by the board of alder- men and approved by the mayor a petition was filed with the legislature for authority to establish a licensing commission in the city of Somerville and an act was secured, being chap- ter 191 of the acts of the year 1923. In order to clear the title of a tract of land taken for public way purposes in con- nection with the abolition of the grade crossings at Somerville avenue without losing the right to maintain a slope thereon to support the street a general act, chapter 266 of the acts of the year 1923 was secured, authorizing the taking of such a right by eminent domain.
The commissioners for the county of Middlesex after a hearing at which the city was represented made and recorded a decree for widening Bridge street in Cambridge under the provisions of chapter 504 of the acts of the legislature for the year 1922 and it is expected that the work of construction will soon begin. There is to be no special assessment on Som- erville for this improvement.
The contractor having charge of the erection of a school building for a junior high school on Marshall street failed to make payment promptly to various persons and corpora- tions for labor and materials furnished and used on the building and about twenty claims have been filed with the city clerk under the provisions of section 29 of chapter 149 of the General Laws. Several actions have been brought by creditors of the contractor in which the city has been
288
ANNUAL REPORTS.
summoned as trustee and other actions have been brought for the enforcement of the claims above mentioned.
With the approval of the mayor, Ralph M. Smith was appointed assistant in the law department in April 1923 and has taken charge of the examination of titles of real estate and of proceedings before the Land Court and the collection of accounts due the city sent to the city treasurer by various departments and the settlement or trial of claims arising out of defects in public ways. Mr. Smith was formerly president of the board of aldermen and a member of the Massachusetts legislature.
Yours very respectfully, FRANK W. KAAN,
City Solicitor.
289
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
REPORT OF THE SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
OFFICE OF SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES,
City Hall Annex, Somerville, January 1, 1924. To His Honor, the Mayor, and the Board of Aldermen :-
The following report of the sealer of weights and meas- ures for the year 1923 is respectfully submitted :-
Work of Weights and Measures Department for 1923
Scales
Adjusted
Sealed 55
Con- sealed demned
Platform over 5000 capacity
Platform under 5000 capacity
5
351
13
Counter
11
539
16
Spring
18
497
14
4
Computing
4
329
11
Slot personal
54
Prescription
42
1
Beam
22
1
Weights, ----
Avoirdupois
40
3302
Apothecary
163
4
Metric
-
Capacity Measures,-
Dry
Liquid
659
22:
Gasolene pumps
10
107
1
386
Oil pumps .
44
34
Molasses pumps
28
-
420
Con- demned
Yard sticks
162
-
-
-
-
-
Totals
88
6097
57
39
.
-
.
-
Fees collected and paid to City Treasurer, $619.25.
Amount paid City Treasurer for Pedlers' Licenses, $758.00.
2
Baskets
6
Leather measuring machine
1
Stops:
36
5
Non-
290
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Trial Weighing in Stores
Incorrect
Commodity
Number Tested
Correct
Under
Over
Coal in paper bags
114
71
33
10
Coal in wagons
Flour in paper bags
22
17
2
3
Butter
23
18
5
Dry commodities
226
176
25
25
Bread
108
98
1
9
Fruits and vegetables
89
37
42
10
Meats and provisions .
8
7
-
1
Totals
590
424
103
63
Inspections :-
Hawkers and Pedlers Licenses .
221
Ice dealers scales
51
Junk scales
25
·
-
-
Much time is required in testing scales weights and measurers in determining the accuracy of such scales, weights and measures. In testing gasoline devices, the time required to test a single device, is anywhere from forty-five minutes to one and one half hours, and the fee charge (which is regu- lated by statute law) is altogether out of proportion for the amount of labor required in testing such device.
In testing railway track scales, it is necessary to use the company's track scale test car, and the spirit of coopera- tion and desire to maintain correct apparatus on the part of the railways is commendable.
Checks of commodities have been made to determine the actual weights and whether they were marked in accordance with the law. Where commodities are not properly marked, or the containers are short of the net weight marked thereon, it is the policy of this department to notify the manufacturers of the violations also to warn the dealers against the han- dling of articles not properly marked or short of the marked weight, thereby securing a compliance with the law, without the necessity of making prosecutions.
After scales, weights and measuring devices have been sealed in any one year, any further tests made in that year of such devices, shall be free of charge except there can be a nominal charge for any adjustment. But in all cases the charge is entirely inadequate for the time and labor required in making such tests.
B. S. ABBOTT, Sealer of Weights and Measures.
·
.
.
291
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
REPORT OF CHIEF ENGINEER OF FIRE DEPARTMENT
Somerville, Mass., January 10, 1924.
To the Honorable, the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen,
Gentlemen :- In compliance with the City Ordinance, I have the honor of submitting, for your information, the annual report of the fire department for the year ending Decem- ber 31, 1923.
Alarms of Fire
Number of bell alarms
308
Number of still alarms
759
Total alarms
1,067 136
Value of buildings at risk
$871,525 00
Insurance on buildings
1,159,532 50
Damage to buildings
95,659 10
Value of contents
526,733 60
Insurance on contents
435,470 00
Damage to contents
135,300 00
Total value at risk .
1,398,258 60
Total insurance
1,595,002 50
Total damage
230,959 10
Approximate per capita loss
2 35
List of Probable Causes
Ammonia leak
1
Ashes against building
.
1
Automatic
5
Automobile
44
Awning
4
Back draught
1
Bill boards
3
Bonfires
113
Broken gaspipe
1
Brush and leaves
5
Careless smoker
31
Carelessness with gas
.
1
Carelessness with matches
18
Cartons near heater
1
Children playing with matches
38
Cigars, cigarettes and pipes .
4
Clothing over stove
6
Collision . .
1
Covering on tank
1
Decorations
6
.
1
Carelessness with kerosene
2
Catch basin
Number in excess of 1922
292
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Defective heaters and chimneys
47
Defective stovepipes
3
Drying macaroons
1
Dump
129
Electric cars
16
Electric wires & appliances
10
Falling hot water tank .
1
False alarms
37 : 2
Fireworks
10
Friction
1
Fumigating
3
Garages
6
Gas explosion .
1
Gasoline leaking
3
Gas stoves and ranges
7
Grass fires
72
Grease on stove
7
Heating oil on stove
1
Hen house
1
Horse caught in rail
1
Hot ashes in wooden
receptacles
6
Incendiary
9
Kettle of fat
1
Kettle of syrup
1
Lace in contact with gas
4
Leaking illuminating gas
6
Lightning (wireless)
3
Liquor stills
3
Molten glass
1
Motorcycles
2
Oil heaters, lamps and stoves
9
Oil burner (fuel)
1
Out of town
114
Overheated furnaces and stoves
13
Overturned stove
1
Persons locked out
5
Rags on stove .
2
Railroad ties
2
Railroad torpedo
1
Reflection from locomotive
1
Rekindle
6
Removing paint
1
Rubbish in cellar
and barrels
23
Rubbish in yard
3
Salamander
1
Sawdust box
1
Second alarm
6
Smoking in bed
1
Smoke or steam mistaken for fire
17
Smoky stove and heater
2
Soldering can
1
Spark from boiler .
2
Spark from forge .
1
:
Spark from laundry machine
1
·
Spark from chimney .
6
Filling gasoline tanks
293
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Spark from locomotive
9
Spark from range .
4
Spark on roof
28
Spark from file
1
Spark from fireplace
1
Spontaneous combustion
9
Sprinkler alarms
4
Sweepings in register
1
Tar kettle
1
Test
1
Thawing ice
1
Thawing water pipe
4
Tool house
1
Tree
1
Wood and paper near stove
3
Unknown
25
Unnecessary
69
1,067
ANNUAL REPORTS.
294
1923
Engine 1.
Engine 2.
Engine 3.
Engine 4.
Engine 6.
Hose 5.
Hose 7.
Hose 8.
Ladder 1.
Ladder 2.
Ladder 3.
112
308
Bell alarms
227
.
·
88
33
96
28
191
58
71
133
29
13
19
759
Miles traveled
315
434
281
134
342
168
316
2911/2
142
1321/2
213.8
2,769.8
Feet 21/2 in. hose
19,450
14,600
22,550
7,950
16,500
6,000
10,150
80
220
12
160
2,900
1,865
2,024
7,425
Feet of ladders
64
Extinguishers
36
2
Gals chemical
1,715
2,612
665
1,840
630
1,290
1,175
510
10,437
Times at other sta.
105
Out of town
13
26
10
6
-
L
-
-
1
-
6
4
4
21
Covers used
.
.
-
4
23
20
14
2
10
111
3,000
70,100
Feet chemical hose
12,550
8,600
7,950
8,550
14,100
-
-
2
6
4
-
25
2
27
2
-
·
.
216
178
83
58
70
121
72
131
84
Still alarms
148,800
50,100
11,500
5,250
100
-
Total
295
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
In Memoriam
CHARLES E. McKENNA
Permanent Appointed February 16, 1920
Died February 24, 1923
JOSEPH A. SANDER
Retired
Appointed April 1, 1892
Died August 26, 1923
296
ANNUAL REPORTS.
Manual Force
The manual force consists of one hundred and eighteen (118) permanent men, during the year one has been retired and placed on the pension list, one has resigned and one has died ; nine men have been added from eligible list of the Civil Service. The roster of the department is as follows:
1 Chief Engineer,
1 Deputy Chief,
2 District Chiefs,
7 Captains,
1 Master Mechanic,
11 Lieutenants,
2 Enginemen,
93 Permanent men.
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Apparatus
1 Motor driven, 1,300 gallon "Metropolite" Pumper and hose wagon,
1 Motor driven, 900 gallon pumper and hose wagon,
2 Motor driven, 750 gallon pumper, hose wagon and chemical,
1 Tractor drawn, 800 gallon 2nd. size Steam fire engine,
5 Motor driven, Combination hose and chemical wagons,
1 Motor driven, Combination Ladder truck and chemical,
2 Motor driven, Ladder Trucks,
1 Motor driven, Supply and wrecking car,
Automobile, Chief's car,
1 Automobile, Deputy Chief's car,
1 Automobile, District Chief's car,
1 Automobile, Master Mechanic's car,
1 Motor driven, Hose and chemical wagon, in reserve,
1 Horse drawn, ladder truck, in reserve.
Hose
The amount of servicables hose is 9,550 feet of two and one- half (212) inch double jacket, rubber lined, water hose and 1,800 feet of three quarter inch chemical hose. There has been 2,500 feet of new two and one-half inch purchased and 1,450 feet of old condemned.
There must be at least 2,000 feet of new hose purchased each year to keep up to the efficiency mark.
Brief Resume
Two fires, one on June Sth. at the Fresh Pond Ice Co. with a loss amounting to $46,784. and on July 2nd. in the plant of the Sherwood Paper Co. at 22 Kent Street, with a loss of $43,500 practically the total of which was due to the dam- age by water from the sprinkler letting go throughout the building, these two fires totalled nearly one half of the fire loss for the year. The losses, by months, were as follows :
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FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Brief Resume, continued
January
$25,055 37
February
38,568 56
March
26,500 61
April
1,575 00
May
12,634 00
June
19,597 65
July
52,702 12
August
10,036 96
September
5,663 39
October
10,579 10
November
13,710 47
December
14,335 87
$230,959 10
There have been forty-one fires with an insurance loss in excess of $1,000 as follows,-
January 7, 4:24 P. M. Box 425, 42 Banks Street, dwelling owned by the Berry Estate, occupied by Miss Annie Berry and Richard Cosby, damage to the building $1,223, to con- tents $450. Cause, overheated furnace.
January 11, 10:06 A. M. Box 37, 504-504a Medford St. stores owned by Georgiana T. Lears, occupied by J. S. Miller and B. F. Stone, damage to building $255, to contents $858.37. Cause, hot ashes on floor.
January 15, 5:10 P. M. Box 335, 640 Mystic Ave. dwelling owned and occupied by Patrick McLaughlin, damage to build- ing $1,200, to contents $700. Cause, going to closet with lighted match.
January 25, 2:20 P. M. Box 117, 3 Cutter St., automo- bile repair shop, owned by Wm. Goldstein, occupied by Fred E. Hersom, Jr., damage to building $187, to contents $2,250. Cause, short circuit of wires in auto.
January 26, 8:30 P. M. Box 39, 353 Lowell St., store and apartments owned and occupied by Abram Biller, damage to building $600, to contents $875. Cause, careless smoker.
January 28, 2:24 A. M. Box 443, 1 Clarendon Block, Davis Sq., store owned by Parke Snow Inc., occupied by Chas. Rosenthal as shoe store, damage to building $556, to contents $7,300. Cause, undetermined.
February 12, 4:18 P. M. Box 435, 96 Pearson Ave., dwell- ing owned by Mrs. Catherine Drew, occupied by owner and T. E. Crowley, damage to building $1,127, to contents $968.96. Cause, children and matches.
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ANNUAL REPORTS
February 19. 10:12 P. M. Box 435. 145-147 Boston Ave. Stores owned by Rice Estate. occupied by Tony Ciccolo and R. H. Syda. damage to building $2,151, to contents $556. Cause. undetermined.
February 19. 11:37 P. M. Boxes 233-234, a second alarm was sounded for this fire. 29-33 Allen St. Barrel sheds owned and occupied by M. Devine and A. Rauffa. damage to build- ings $2.430. to contents $852. Cause, undetermined.
February 22. 6:19 A. M. Box 25. 9 Stone Place, cocoanut factory. owned and occupied by A. Martin & Co .. damage to building $4.000 to contents $4.500. Cause. drying maca- roons over boiler.
February 25. 12:02 A. M. Box 443, 21-27 Holland St., stores owned by M. J. Barron, occupied by Sam Blanch. dam- age to building $5.580. to contents $9,732. Cause, undeter- mined.
February 28. 3:55 A. M. Box 113. B. & M. R. R. yard, blacksmith shop. damage to building and contents $1.500. Cause, spark from forge.
March 1. 3:26 A. M. Box 25, 234 Washington St., shop owned by Wm. F. Bennett. occupied by Cambridge Tool and Machine Co. and Healey Furniture Company, damage to building $1.000. to contents $1.000. Cause, flaming kerosene setting fire to electric cord.
March 6. 1:50 A. M. Box 225. 14-15 Union Square, stores owned by the Vinal Estate. occupied by B. Kratman and G. DaPrato, damage to building $1,030, to contents $7,933.11. Cause. undetermined.
March 8. 12:34 A. M. Box 443, 418 Highland Ave., stores owned by Hyman Brothers and occupied by Chain Depart- ment Stores. damage to building $1,800, to contents $7,375. Cause. undetermined.
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