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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Patrolmen, continued
79 -John H. O'Leary 80-Leo J. Hurley 81-Henry W. Roche
82 - John H. Baker 83- John J. Courtney 84 - Pierce P. Ronayne
Reservemen
85-Joseph P. Blake 86 - Frank A. Silva, Jr.
88 - Dennis F. Kearney
87 -John J. Smith
89 - Edmond F. Flynn 90-LeRoy V. Pierce
Chauffeurs and Patrol Drivers
James W. Lundergan
James H. White
John H. Mckenzie William R. Burnett
Matron Mrs. Mina T. Weeks
Assistant Matron Mrs. Katherine Woods
Pensioners Retired on Half Pay
John E. Fuller,
Mar. 23, 1906 Jacob W. Skinner, Dec. 31, 1917
Ira S. Carleton, May 9, 1907 Elmer E. Drew, July 25, 1918
James J. Pollard,
Feb. 27, 1908 Ernest S. Goff, July 11, 1919
Herbert Hilton,
Dec. 21, 1911 Charles W. Allen, Mar. 26, 1920
Ezra A. Dodge,
Mar. 14, 1914 Jotham Chisholm, Apr. 23, 1920
George H. Carleton, Mar. 27, 1914
Charles E. Woodman,
Frederick H. Googins
June 24, 1921
Mar. 12, 1915 Frederick G. Jones Feb. 9, 1923
CHANGES IN THE FORCE Resignations
George D. MacDonald, patrolman, resigned, September 13, 1923. Elmer E. G. Raymond, patrolman, resigned September 20, 1923.
Retirement
Frederick G. Jones, patrolman, placed on pension roll, February 9, 1923.
Appointments
Joseph P. Blake, appointed reserveman, May 14, 1923 Frank A. Silva, Jr. appointed reserveman, May 14, 1923. John J. Smith, appointed reserveman, May 14, 1923. Dennis F. Kearney, appointed reservemån, September 28, 1923. Edmond F. Flynn, appointed reserveman, September 28, 1923. LeRoy V. Pierce, appointed reserveman, September 28, 1923. William R. Burnett, appointed temporary patrol driver, September 4, 1923.
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CHIEF OF POLICE.
Promotions
Sergeant, Ernest Howard, promoted to lieutenant, Sept. 28, 1923 Patrolman, Charles J. Sharry, promoted to sergeant, Sept. 28, 1923 Reserveman, John J. Courtney, promoted to patrolman, Sept. 28, 1923 Reserveman, Pierce P.
Ronayne, promoted to patrolman, Sept. 29, 1923
Police Signal Service
Number of on duty calls made by the patrolmen .
271,136
Telephone calls made by the officers and patrolmen . 43,579
"White" Combination Automobile Service
Number of runs made in conveying prisoners to station
152
Number of prisoners conveyed .
177
Number of sick and injured conveyed
632
Number of miles run in conveying prisoners to station 269.3
Number of miles run in conveying sick and injured ·
1,947.9
Number of miles run in conveying prisoners to and from jail . 108.4
Number of miles run elsewhere 493.3
Total number of miles run during year . 2,818.9
"Reo" Combination Automobile Service
Number of runs made in conveying prisoners to station
1,267
Number of prisoners conveyed
1,558
Number of sick and injured conveyed .
137
Number of miles run in conveying prisoners to station ·
2,440.8
Number of miles run in conveying sick and injured . 449.0
Number of miles run in conveying prisoners to and from jail . 683.0
Number of miles run elsewhere 1,139.9
Total number of miles during year .
4,712.7
Touring Car Reports
Number of prisoners conveyed to station
103
Number of sick and injured conveyed 16
"International Harvester Co." Auto Car Reports
Number of prisoners conveyed to station .
12
Number of prisoners conveyed to jail . .
.
1
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,
.
.
.
"Harley Davidson" Motorcycle Reports
Total mileage for the year .
5,600
.
.
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Transfers and sales of Motor Vehicles
Report on investigation, card indexing and filing sales and trans fers of motor vehicles.
Number of licenses granted by the Board of Aldermen.
First class
·
9
Second class
19
Third class
3
Total
31
Number of sales and transfers made by dealers . 3,797
Number of individual sales
. 1,891
Number of stolen motor vehicles reported by the several Police Departments, Insurance Agencies and Detective Bureaus in the United States and Canada . 9,298
Number of motor vehicles recovered by above . 4,134
Number of index cards filed
. 31,856
Respectfully submitted.
DANIEL G. SIMONS, Police Officer.
REPORT OF LIQUOR OFFICERS
The following is the report of liquor officers from Jan.1, to Dec. 31, 1923.
Cases investigated
378
Search warrants served
152
Cases in District Court .
94
Fines imposed in District Court . .
$7,175
Seizures
Gallons of intoxicating liquors .
989
Gallons of mash
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.
260
Bottles of alco rub
.
.
144
Bottles of liquor coloring
32
Stills
9
Hydrometers
10
Barrels, kegs, jugs, cans, bottles, funnels and other imple-
ments
8,821
Batteries .
3
Cash register
.
.
.
.
1
Corks
.
3,850
.
.
.
.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES M. LYNCH and FRANK H. GRAVES,
Sergeants.
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CHIEF OF POLICE.
REPORT OF POLICE MATRON
Jan. 1, 1924
To Charles A. Kendall, Chief of Police.
Dear Sir :-
I herewith submit my report as matron for the year end- ing December 31, 1923. The following females and minors were placed in my care, charged with the following offences.
Adultery .
1
Assault and battery
12
Breaking glass
1
Demented
7
Disorderly house, keeping of
1
Disturbing the peace
1
Drunkenness
21
Children, lost
54
Children, neglected
2
Fornication
3
Insane inmate, escape of
1
Intoxicating liquor. illegal sale of
7
Kidnap, attempt to
1
Kidnapping
1
Larceny
4
Lewd and lascivious cohabitation
2
Motor, vehicle,, laws, violation of
3
Probation, violation of .
1
Runaways
3
Safe keeping
15
Setting fire
1
Stubbornness
6
Unlicensed dogs, keeping of .
3
Total
152
I have reported at station each day and have attended the sessions of the juvenile court, looking after minors who have been in court.
Respectfully submitted,
MRS. MINA T. WEEKS, Matron.
Conclusion
The work of this department has been steadily increasing, all laws have been enforced, many important arrests being made. There is a regular liquor squad consisting of a ser- geant and three men detailed for this duty to assist the regu- lar officers in enforcing the liquor laws. One sergeant was promoted to lieutenant, one patrolman promoted to sergeant,
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
two reservemen promoted to patrolmen, six reservemen ap- pointed, two patrolmen resigned and one patrolman retired on pension. One man was appointed as a temporary patrol driver.
I respectfully ask for your consideration the much needed repairs and more room for police business, both in the main building and the garage. The establishment of a traffic squad is also in the line of progress. To His Honor, the Mayor John M. Webster I wish to express my sincere and heartfelt thanks for his wise counsel in all matters pertaining to this depart- ment, to the members of the Board of Aldermen and the Public Safety committee for their interest, To the Heads of other Departments, Court Officials, Newspaper men and all members of the Police Department who have rendered valu- able assistance to me in the discharge of my duties, my sin- cere thanks are expressed.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES A. KENDALL,
Chief of Police.
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BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE.
SUPPORT OF PUBLIC WELFARE DEPARTMENT
Board of Public Welfare FRED E. DURGIN, President MICHAEL COLL, Vice-President GEORGE G. BRAYLEY
Committees On Finance, Investigation and Relief, and City Home MR. DURGIN, MR. COLL AND MR. BRAYLEY
JOSEPHINE S. PHILBROOK
Clerks HELEN E. LINEGAR
General Agent WILLIAM E. COPITHORNE
City Physician FRANK E. BATEMAN, M. D.
Warden and Matron, City Home MR. AND MRS. J. FOSTER COLQUHOUN
Office City Hall Annex, Highland Avenue
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Somerville, Mass., December 31, 1923.
To His Honor, the Mayor, and the Board of Aldermen of the City of Somerville :-
Gentlemen,-The Board of Public Welfare submit here- with reports of the General Agent, the Warden of the City Home and the City Physician, with tables showing the work.
Respectfully submitted,
FRED E. DURGIN, MICHAEL COLL, GEORGE G. BRAYLEY,
Board of Public Welfare.
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BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE.
REPORT OF GENERAL AGENT
City Hall Annex, January 1, 1924. To the Board of Public Welfare, Somerville, Mass :-
Gentlemen,-The following as the report of the general agent for the year ending Decmber 31, 1923 is herewith sub- mitted :-
Table No. 1 FULL SUPPORT (During the year)
In City Home (men 26, women 29) 55
In City Home, December 31, 1923 37
In hospitals for the sick in other cities, towns and state . 43
Table No. 2 PARTIAL SUPPORT (Outside Relief)
Families
86
Persons aided (including hospital cases)
533
Burials . .
1
Permits to State Infirmary
4.
Table No. 3
CHILDREN
In private families 19:
In care of state division of child guardianship .
18.
Table No. 4 AID UNDER 1913 LAW (Mothers' Aid)
Number of mothers' aid cases, January 1, 1923 · 65
Number of families aided at close of. year
57
Number of children
259
Amount allowed each family, from $4.00 to $16.00 per week
Number of out-of-town families ·
. 10
Number having no settlement ·
.
21
Cost to City
Somerville settlement ·
$22,190 75
Settled in other cities and towns (reside here)
3,850 00
State
10,120 25
Somerville families living in other cities and towns 4,145 79
$40,306 79
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Table No. 5 REIMBURSEMENTS
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
$24,039 36
City of Boston
2,060 61
66
66 Brockton
313 62
66
66 Cambridge
3,085 99
66
Everett
349 43
66
66
Haverhill
71 50
Medford
156 25
Town of Brookline
49 00
66
66
Plymouth
428 86
66
Winchendon
40 00
Individual
268 00
$30,862 62
Table No. 6 SOMERVILLE HOSPITAL (City Patients)
Patients having settlement in Somerville .
Patients having settlement in other cities and towns
11
Patients having no settlement (chargeable to State)
18
Total number of patients sent to hospital .
93
.Amount paid to hospital
$7,447 75
Table No. 7 POPULATION AND GROSS EXPENDITURES, 1900 to 1923
Year
1900
-* 61,643
Misc.
$23,697.62
Home,
$5,528.83
Total $29,226.45
1901
62,500
29,171.15
66
6,622.43
35,793.58
1902
63,500
28,667.04
66
7,396.64
66
36,063.68
1903
65,500
66
30,470.20
66
7,548.39
60
38,018.59
1904
69,500
20,476.64
6,563.11
66
27,039.65
.1905
*69,272
17,527.88
66
7,474.36
66
25,002.24
1906
72.000
60
18,237.53
6,806.79
25,044.32
1907
74,000
17,852.20
7,001.23
60
24,853.43
1908
75,500
17,955.34
6,875.56
66
24,830.90
1909
75,500
16,843.17
66
7,562.83
24,406.00
1910
*77,236
16,110.42
7,695.89
66
23,806.31
1911
78,000
16,327.56
66
7,842.03
66
24,169.59
1912
81,000
60
19,201.33
8,998.97
60
28,200.30
1913
82,000
21,827.73
10,945.95
66
32,773.68
1914
85,000
66
35,619.68
11,200.25
46,819.93
1915
*86,854
66
45,490.98
11,218.65
66
56,709.63
1916
90,000
51,759.62
66
11,593.41
66
63,353.03
1917
90,000
66
53,653.33
60
13,417.77
66
67,071.10
1918
90,500
63,420.48
66
15,411.20
66
78,831.58
1919
91,000
66
67,682.53
15,789.34
66
83,471.87
1920
-* 93,033
77,456.57
66
17,308.29
94,764.86
1921
95,000
66
87,922.69
66
15,069.81
102,992.50
1922
- 97,000
95,510.92
66
13,577.07
109,087.99
1923
- 98,000
88,909.21
66
14,770.97
66
103,680.18
* Census
66
66
66
66
.
66
Table No. 8 Expenditures in Detail for the Year 1923
1923
Board.
Auto Mainte- nance
Burials.
Somerville Poor in other Cities and Towns.
Cash Paid Out.
Somerville Poor in other Cities and Towns 1913 Law.
Cash Allowance
Fuel.
Groceries.
Other Institu- tions.
Med. Att. and Medicine
Stationery and Printing.
Salaries.
Somerville Hospital.
State Institu- tions.
All Other. Telephone.
Totals
January
$264.20
$ $12.50
$846.75
$4,465.50
$ $64.01
$ $236.75
$69.35
$20.52
$ 5.00
$37.91
$522.02
$1,118.00
$
$10.44
$7,986.77
February
157.14
12.50
4,549.20
42.00
4.25
184.00
28.20
6.50
13.50
528.05
588.25
9.64
6,123.23
March.
626.79
12.50
1014.60
5,635.00
46.51
209.00
42.86
40.70
4.50
4.75
614.23
451.50
9.14
8,712.08
April
274.43
12.50
22.86
4,430.25
45.01
151.00
108.00
13.35
16.63
508.88
520.00
203.92
9.39
6,210.59
May
168.92
12.50
5.00
4,239.95
465.88
46.51
166.00
113.07
6.50
11.00
528 05
399.00
5.00
9.44
6,172.45
June
170.14
12.50
5,304.20
45.01
188.00
61.57
20.96
15.50
11.46
572.06
668.50
8.64
7,078.54
July.
763.33
12.50
803.89
4,223.20
832.63
59.80
132.00
3.30
7.50
39.34
501.21
. 612.50
578.39
8.99
8,578.58
August
128.49
12.50
15.00
4,093.50
1,818.80
72.65
177.00
5.63
1.56
528.05
596.50
5.00
10.79
7,465.47
September
716.25
12.50
107.00
10.00
5,344.10
57.87
171.00
111.07
2.00
3.50
602.73
448.00
2.27
7,588.29
October.
290.19
12.50
155.43
4,397.20
59.80.
141.00
47.14
2.92
3.00
613.41
808.50
255.00
1.50
8.89
6,795.48
November
84.43
12.50
723.74
4,559.00
820.48
49.29
101.00
40.38
528.05
819.00
8.84
7,746.70
December.
996.49
12.50
...
167.55
5,600.00
208.00
50.94
109.00
15.00
103.72
634.27
518.00
21.00
14.56
8,451.03
Totals.
$4,640.79
$150.
$112.00
$3,759.82
$56,841.10
$4,145.79
$639.40
$4.25
$1,965.75
$553.06
192.96
$48.50
$233.37
$6,680.01
$7,447.75 $1,351.13
$32.50
$111.03
$88,909.21
$313.82
Nursing.
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BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE.
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR OF SOMERVILLE
Since the reorganization in 1885
¿Hon. Mark F. Burns, chairman, ex-offico
1885
1888
inclusive
#Col. Herbert E. Hill .
1885
1889
#Charles S. Lincoln, Esq., chairman
1885
1887
7Hon. Edward Glines .
1885
1887
+Charles G. Brett (president 1888-1892)
1885 Apr. 1893
¡Edward B. West (president May, 1894 February 1912)
1888
1912
+Daniel C. Stillson
1888 Apr. 1892
¿Hon. Charles G. Pope, chairman ex-officio
1889
1891
¡Nathan H. Reed (president 1893 to April, 1894)
1890 Apr. 1894
¿Hon. William H. Hodgkins, chairman ex-officio.
1892
1895
¡James G. Hinckley
May,
1892
1894
Albert W. Edmands
May,
1893 Oct.
1918
¿Herbert E. Merrill
May,
1894
1909
¡Ezra D. Souther
1895 Feb. 1898
Hon. Albion A. Perry, chairman ex-officio
1896
1898
James H. Butler
March
1898
1899
Hon. George O. Proctor, chairman ex- officio
1899
Henry F. Curtis, M. D. (president 1912- 1919)
1910
1921
Philip Koen
1912 Nov. 1916
*Michael Coll
November
1916
date
66
*Fred E. Durgin (president 1919 to
Oct.
1918
date
66
*George G. Brayley
Jan.
1922
date
Table No. 9
RECAPITULATION (Miscellaneous)
Expenditures and transfers
.
$88,909 21
Reimbursements and refunds
31,242 16
Net cost to city
$57,667 05
* Present member.
Deceased.
Respectfully submitted, WM. E. COPITHORNE,
General Agent.
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date)
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
REPORT OF WARDEN OF CITY HOME
City Home, January 1, 1924.
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, 1923 :-
Table No. 1
Numbr of weeks' board of inmates . Number of males admitted during 1923
2166-5
.
15
Number of females admitted during 1923 .
12
Number of males discharged during 1923 .
5
Number of females discharged during 1923
5
Number of males supported during 1923
26
Number of females supported during 1923 .
29
Number of males died during 1923
6
Number of females died during 1923 .
4
Number of inmates in home, December 31, 1923
.
37
City Home Hospital
Number of weeks' board
532-5
Number of patients admitted
·
20
Number of patients in hospital, December 31, 1923 . 10
Table No. 2
Reimbursements .
$7,691 87
Net expenditures .
7,079 10
Appropriation and transfers
$14,772 86
Balance
1 89
$14,770 97
Respectfully submitted,
J. FOSTER COLQUHOUN,
Warden.
1
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$14,770 97
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BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE.
REPORT OF THE CITY PHYSICIAN
Somerville, January 1, 1924.
To His Honor, the Mayor, and the Board of Aldermen :
Gentlemen,-The work of your City Physician during the year 1923 is presented in the following abstract :-
Office consultations and treatments
229
Total outside visits
677
Confinements
3
Vaccinations
13
Visits at City Home
134
Attended at Police Station .
34
Examinations: -
For legal department
19
For highway department
10
For police department
6
For fire department
14
For soldiers' relief department
18
For public grounds department
1
For sanitary department
1
For pension
.
14
Much of the important conference work of the City Physi- cian does not admit of tabulation.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK E. BATEMAN,
City Physician.
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ANNUAL REPORTS
REPORT OF THE STREET COMMISSIONER
OFFICE OF THE STREET COMMISSIONER, City Hall, Somerville, January 1, 1924.
To His Honor, the Mayor, and the Board of Aldermen :-
Gentlemen :- I most respectfully submit the forty- eighth annual report, containing a brief summary of the prin- cipal work performed by the Highway Department, by day labor and contract, during the year 1923 with recommenda- tions for necessary additions the coming year.
This department has charge of the construction, altera- tion, repair, maintenance and management of ways, streets, sidewalks and bridges; the setting out and care of shade trees; the suppression of gypsy and brown tail moths, elm leaf beetles and other pests which destroy trees; and the oiling and watering of streets.
Highway Department Appropriations
Highway Maintenance
.
Appropria- tions $73,100 00 32,766 46
Expenditures
Departmental transfers
Total credit-Highway Mainte.
105,866 46
$105,736 44
Sidewalks Maintenance
9,134 84
9,131 32
Street Sprinkling
43,650 00
43,649 10
Street Cleaning
29,000 00
28,996 11
Suppression of Moths
4,200 00
3,990 02
Care of Trees
5,400 00
5,343 49
New Streets
36,834 09
36,829 49
Permanent Pavement
53,553 81
53,536 73
Sidewalks Construction
13,316 37
13,314 46
Reconstruction and Resurfacing
34,220 38
34,219 66
$335,175 95
$334,746 82
The yearly maintenance of the Highway department is taken from the Highway Maintenance account. Credit is received for work performed for the other divisions of this department and other departments of the City.
The heavy motor truck has put on our roads a transpor- tation burden never expected, and this department so far as the appropriations will allow, its constructing and recon-
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STREET COMMISSIONER.
structing our streets to care for this line of traffic. It is, however, a well-established principle that the roads shall serve for the greatest possible good of the public. The attain- ment of this principle is clearly impossible if we permit ex- traordinary large trucks and heavy loads to destroy them.
This year the department had a crew of men using the cold patch patrolling our streets, filling holes or depressions they might find. "No expenditure of public money contrib- utes so much to the national wealth as for building good roads." From address of President Coolidge opening the 68th Congress of the United States.
Only two cents out of every dollar expended by the Fed- eral Government and only seven cents out of every tax dollar is spent on roads.
1923
Highway Maintenance
Total Appropriation .
$73,100 00
Credits
32,766 46
105,866 46
Street Commissioner
$3,100 00
Bookkeeper and clerk
2,791 17
Office expenses .
.
464 45
Equipment and repairs
3,092 23
Horses
800 00
Harnesses
1,238 14
Tools and machinery
2,034 78
Steam rollers
396 28
Automobiles, tractors and mixers
6,131 12
Stable expenses
6,144 85
Hay, grain and feed
7,503 48
Shoeing and veterinary
1,618 14
Fuel
341 89
Miscellaneous
488 09
Repairs streets, gutters
19,032 98
Repairs subways
430 90
Care of Lanterns
3,180 62
Snow and ice
12,362 87
Signs
1,228 66
Care of Highway property
800 92
Sawing wood
30 75
Holidays-vacations
7,376 00
Charges to other departments .
16,008 41
Bills receivable
,9,139 71,
105,736 44
Balance
$ 130 02
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
Snow and Ice
The winter of 1923 was a severe one, cold with a great amount of snow. This department was taxed to its utmost to comply with all the requests and reports it received in re- gard to snow.
The blockade by snow of any road carrying traffic causes a definite loss to the community; a loss to those who depend upon truck transportation of freight; and a less tangible but real loss to the general class of automobile owners. People are no longer willing to arrange business in regard to climate.
This department is now equipped with a five ton Mack truck with a Good Roads plough attached, one five ton Pierce Arrow truck and two Fordson Tractors with Stark ploughs attached and several big snow levellers mounted on wheels and runners. Most of our main streets have double car tracks and these are plowed by the Boston Elevated Railway Co. This department plowed all the other main and cross town streets. By plowing, streets are kept opened for the Fire Department, Mail and Ambulance, also for commercial and pleasure vehicles.
This department cares for the sidewalks around all pub- lic buildings and grounds.
558 requests and reports were attended to.
$14,068.45 was expended for the care of snow and ice. 7,790 cubic yards of snow and ice were removed. 60 Cubic yards of sand and 95 cubic yards of ashes were used in caring for icy sidewalks, streets and crossing.
Bridges
The bridges in our city are in good condition, but in many cases should be widened to conform with the width of the streets where they are located. The approaches to the Cedar street bridge were reconstructed, and the northerly approach to the Prospect street bridge was paved with granite paving blocks and a sidewalk constructed on the easterly side at both approaches. It is the intention of the Boston and Maine Railroad to construct an overhanging sidewalk on this bridge. When the work is completed it will be a great improvement and make travel safer for autoists and pedestrians.
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Street Railways
The Boston Elevated Railway Co. reconstructed double tracks on a concrete base on Medford street from Washing- ton street to Central square; inbound track on Somerville ave-
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nue from opposite Central street to Union square; both tracks on College avenue from Powder House square to the Medford line; both tracks on Broadway from Hathorne street to the Boston line; inbound track on Broadway from Sargent ave- nue to Walnut street and Broadway from Fellsway East to Cross street. In Union square the tracks were widened giv- ing more space in the dummy. On Broadway from Main street to Marshall street the inbound track was reconstructed.
I hope the coming year the Boston Elevated Railway Co. will reconstruct their tracks on Washington street from Tufts street to the Boston line and on Broadway from Teele square to the Arlington line also to complete the work on Somerville avenue from Union square to Wilson square.
Underground Wires
Underground conduits were constructed by the New Eng- land Telephone and Telegraph Company on Broadway from Powder House square to Simpson avenue and on Broadway from and including Teele square to opposite North street. By the Edison Electric Illuminating Company on Cross street- from Pearl street to Central square and for pole and house con- nections on Medford street from and including Gilman square to Magoun square.
Crushed Stone Sidewalks Maintenance
Many of our old brick sidewalks should be removed and granolithic constructed, especially on our main street and in our squares.
600 linear feet of edgestone were reset. 610 square yards of brick sidewalks were relaid and 310 yards of granolithic relaid.
Police reports pertaining to all kinds of defective side- walks are charged to this appropriation.
$8,931.32 was expended for Sidewalks Maintenance.
Street Sprinkling
The department with its own employees and equipment sealed all the tar and asphalt streets. There was a large tank erected in the city yard for holding tar, connected with a steam boiler for heating. The Trimount Oil Company furnished tar for cold application into this tank for 099c per gallon. The American Car Sprinkler Company sprinkled and
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flushed most of our streets where there are car tracks for $925.00 a month, seven days a week and eight hours a day.
The city purchased .a five ton Mack truck with a 1200 gallon tank, equipped with a Kinney pumping outfit for oil, tar or water.
Dust layers used during the year :-
120,192 gallons of Tarco B, Trimount Oil Co. 13,600 gallons of Montezuma Asphalt.
3,000 galions of Non-Asphaltic, Trimount Oil Co.
11,250 lbs. Calcium Chloride.
$43,649.10 was expended for Street Sprinkling.
Street Cleaning
Late in the spring a Springfield Motor pick-up sweeping machine was purchased by the city and it has given such good results that the Mayor, in his inaugural address to the Board of Aldermen. recommended an appropriation to pur- chase another machine the coming year. Part of the time this machine has worked night and day with two shifts of men, the night crew operating the machine in squares and on main streets that are congested in the day time.
7.295 cubic yards of street sweepings were removed. $28,996.11 was expended for Street Cleaning.
Suppression of Moths
The department found very few brown tail moths. The city cares for all trees both public and private in regard to moths.
8,643 street trees were inspected and cared for.
8,868 private trees were inspected and cared for.
8,642 bushes were found moth infested.
3,837 fences and buildings on which moths nested.
28,963 gypsy moth nests were painted with creosote. 9 brown tail moth nests were gathered and destroyed. 583 satin moth nests were painted with creosote.
8,287 trees were sprayed by the gasoline spraying machine to exterminate the differen kinds of caterpillars and beetles.
11,848 tussock moth nests were destroyed.
$3,990.02 was expended for the Suppression of Moths.
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Shade Trees
Many of our shade trees are dead or dying and the depart- ment removed the same as fast as possible. The City Govern- ment should make a special appropriation for young trees to replace the trees that have been removed. The last special appropriation for new trees was made by Mayor Chandler in 1904. Shade trees are a great improvement to the general appearance of a street and help to beautify the city.
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