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Streets constructed with concrete base and asphaltic mixed top
35,952
1.639
Streets constructed with concrete base and bituminous penetrated top
70,833
4.293
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#Streets constructed with broken stone base and asphaltic mixed top
49,604 2.266
#Streets constructed with broken stone base and bituminous penetrated top Streets constructed of water bound maca- dam
50.022
19.034
Streets graveled or unimproved
14.312
Total
101.846
*Also 30.37 miles (single track) electric railway paved with granite, asphalt, bitulithic, etc.
** Includes 45,200 sq. yds. extra Northern Artery and 6.149 sq. yds .. concrete roadway Middlesex Avenue.
*Includes 0.97 mile of state highway.
#Includes 1.406 miles of city boulevard and park roadways and 2.331 miles of state boulevard (Metropolitan District Commis- sion, Park Division.)
There are a number of crossings in this city at intersect- ing public thoroughfares, where the corners should be cut back and the roadway widened for the safety of traffic and im- provement in appearance.
Lines and grades were given and measurements taken for constructing thirty-three new granolithic sidewalks-7,709 square yards (1.86 miles) and assessments were computed, the- abutting property owners paying one-half of the cost on twenty- seven sidewalks, the remainder the entire cost. City work: was done at an average cost of $3.20 per square yard.
In laying out new work, under orders passed for con -- struction of sidewalks, etc., occasionally portions of buildings; and fences are found to be encroaching on the sidewalk and on some of the old rangeways these encroachments have existed for many years; as improvements are made, the full width of sidewalk should be maintained.
In sections of the city where brick sidewalks have been laid many years, and must necessarily be relaid on account of deterioration and unevenness,-cement sidewalks should be substituted in place of brick.
MILES OF EDGESTONE, GRANOLITHIC, GRAVEL AND BRICK SIDEWALKS IN EACH WARD
Edgestone
Gravel Sidewalk 3.138
Brick Sidewalk 11.797
Granolithic Sidewalk
Ward one
20.174
5.532
Ward two
....
17.646
5.801
6.340
4.536
Ward three
14.325
0.906
11.527
1.968
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Ward four
17.497
0.821
9.505
4.914
Ward five
22.921
4.150
11.049
6.410
Ward six
25.662
3.385
10.475
12.185
Ward seven
37.193
0.070
8.157
25.190
155.417
18.271
69.849
60.740
(Details, etc., streets and sidewalks in report of Street Commissioner. )
Plans have been made by the various companies and filed in the city engineer's office, showing the locations of gas mains, poles, tracks and conduits in this city, which have been granted by the board of aldermen during the year ;- the work of plac- ing overhead wires in conduits, underground, and removing poles from the streets should be extended as rapidly as pos- sible.
In the City's squares overhead wires should be placed un- derground, immediately, and practically all poles (except for lights) removed-on the main thoroughfares many of the ex- isting poles should be eliminated, at the present time, being unnecessary.
A special ordinance should be enacted concerning city in- spection on all underground work done by private companies or corporations and regulation as to method of street openings.
UNDERGROUND CONDUITS (Private Corporations)
Miles laid in City Streets
Boston Elevated Electric R. R.
5.55
Edison Electric Light Co.
18.94
New England Telephone and Telegraph Co.
19.56
Cambridge Gas Co.
67.03
Charlestown Gas Co. also
31.92
City Water Mains
(City Fire Alarm wires (located in ducts constructed by Corporations)
Total 143.00
All locations for sub-surface construction are assigned by this department.
Lines and grades have been given for laying new city water mains. New house services, many gates, hydrants, water posts and blow-offs have been located and recorded, sketches and plans made showing the same and the water works maps corrected to date; also a large number of old water services where new meters were installed, have been located and re-
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corded. A number of the locations of old hydrants, gates, etc., have been found to be incorrect, a few having been re- moved entirely ; a new survey of the entire distribution system should be made and the maps and office records compiled. (Length of water mains, details, etc., in report of water com- missioner.)
All plans of estates in Somerville recorded at the Regis- try of Deeds, East Cambridge, including land court plans, have been copied, also titles examined, abstracts from deeds made for the purpose of assessments, and the proportional part of the cost of new work computed, and schedules of as- sessments made out showing the property owners.
A set of block plans should be made covering the entire city area, from accurate surveys made during the past forty years, and carefully compared section by section with the deed dimensions and areas recorded in the assessors' department, and in this manner the correct areas of land determined. This set of plans would show the area and dimensions of each lot, all houses and other buildings, sewers, catch basins, house drains, water services, gas mains, underground conduits for wires, street lights, street railway tracks, etc., and be of great value to many city departments. Five of these sectional plans have been partially made. A separate appropriation should be made for completing these plans.
Total number of plans on file in the office approximately nine thousand, five hundred.
For the immediate improvement of conditions in this city the highway bridges and approaches over the steam railroads should be rebuilt the full width of the street at Broadway, (North Somerville) Prospect Street and Washington Street, near Union Square; and the dangerous railroad grade cross- ing at Park Street should be abolished, as decreed by the courts a number of years ago. The steam railroad bridge over Washington Street (East Somerville) is being reconstructed and lengthened with increased head-room for street traffic, and an automatic pump installed for removing storm water.
A compiled table of areas showing a sub-division of city's acreage was published in the 1925 report.
I respectfully refer to some of the more important recom- mendations and suggestions made in reports of the city engi- neer for a number of years past, which are for the improve- ment of conditions in this city.
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SEWER DIVISION
The designing and construction of sewers, storm drains, catch basins, house drains, etc.,-maintenance of the drainage system and other items in this division are under the direc- tion, supervision and control of the city engineer.
A number of sewers were petitioned for and constructed during the year in newly laid out streets; and at the time of construction, storm drain mains were laid in the same location.
A number of new sewers and storm drains will have to be constructed and alterations made in the city's drainage system, immediately, on account of the laying out and con- structing of the new state boulevard and traffic road across the easterly end of this city ;- and sewers constructed for the First National Stores, Inc., located at the junction of Mystic and Middlesex Avenues adjacent to the Ford Motor Co.
CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNT, STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES, 1926
Labor (city dept.)
$2,565 16
Labor (contract)
36,982 68
Teaming and trucking
1,135 53
Materials and supplies
11,812 99
Asphalting roadways (on account sewer
construction)
1,576 71
Expenditure
$54,073 07
Amount due contractors 1,402.72 + ma-
terials 456.48 (1925)
1,859 20
Total
$55,932 27
CLASSIFICATION OF EXPENDITURES
Constructing sewers (separate system) ...
$11,672 45
Constructing sewers (combined system) ....
160 92
Constructing storm drains
39,024 71
Constructing catch basins and manholes
on old sewers (includes $110.93 other depts.)
5,074 19
Cost of new work
$55,932 27
Materials on hand
1,121 33
Total
Balance
$57,053 60 1,439 74
CREDIT
Appropriation
$47,500 00
Balance unexpended (1925) 9,318 48
TABULAR STATEMENT OF SEWERS AND STORM DRAINS BUILT IN 1926
ITEMS OF CONSTRUCTION AND COST
SEWER
SUB-DRAIN
MANHOLES
COST PER LINEAR FOOT
From
To
Contractor
Material Excavated
Average Cut
Size In Inches
Size In Inches
Length in
Cubic yards
Price per yard
Number
Sewer
Drain
Sub-Drain
Pipe, Cement, etc.
Engineering
Inspection
Lumber
Total Cost
Assessment
Cost to City
Bailey Road Sewer
Shore Drive
Near Temple Road
City-Day Labor and Property Owner
Filling
6'-6"
8
4
166.0
2 Combi- nation
$96.96
36
.
$0.36
$0.014
$466.66
466.66
Bailey Road Storm Drain
Shore Drive
Near Temple Road
City-Day Labor
Filling
6'-6ª
8
814.8
See Sewer
See Sewer
36
.
0.38
0.007
422.93
422.93
Boston Avenue and Myetic Valley Purkwuy Storm Drain
Mystic River
irvington Road
Deuis I. Crimmings Day Labor
Filing and Sand
6'-6"
12
601.0
1
140.34
1.48
0.66
0,056
2.44
1,466.76
1,466.76
Cross Street Sewer
Blakeley Avenuo
Soutberly
Fred L. Harris for Property Owner
Clay
7'-0"
S
44.0
2
..
..
Cross Street Storm Drain
Blakeley Avenue
Soutberly
Fred L. Harris for Property Owner
Clay
6'-0"
8
44.0
2
..
..
..
Gov. Winthrop Road Sewer
Shore Drive
Near Temple Road
City-Day Labor and Property Owner
Filling
4'-0"
00
760.8
94.11
33
0.38
0.017
438.88
438.88
Gov. Winthrop Roud Storm Drain
Shore Drive
Near Temple Road
City-Day Labor
Filling
3"-8"
50
760.8
888.09
388.09
Highland Road Slorm Relief Drain ......
Morrison Avenue
Kidder Avenue
Denis I. Crimmings Day Labor
Filling aud Clay
8'-6"
18
731.0
1 1 3 Altered
297.49
3.21
1.16
0.060
6.01
4,408.30
4,408.30
Kenaington Avenue Sewer
Biakeley Avenue
James H. Fannon
Clayey Hard Pan
11'-6"
716.1
5 and 4
696.0
1 Combi- nation
164.26
3.48
0.36
0.076
1.06
6.84
4.030,98
1,941.99
2,088.90
Kensington Avenne Storm Drain
Blakejey Avenne
James H. Fannon
Clayey Hard Pan
S'-6"
12
715.1
-
See Sewer
See Sewer
32
0.36
0.66
0.066
1.12
2.27
1,624.66
1,624,60
Midd'esex Avenue and Privato Land Storm Draiu
Tide Cate Chamber iu Middlesex Avenue
James H. Fannou
Filling and Clay
14'.4" 90×132
See 1925
Old Storm Drain Outlet to Mystic River (1011 feet) Abandoned Across Land of Ford Motor Co.
16,327.98
16,827.98
Mystic Avenue Metropolitan Connectiou ..
At Shore Drive
Jobu F. Devir and Co. Day Labor
Filling and Ciay
16'-6"
12
31.8
Combi- nation
266.90
18.73
0.80
27.81
884.66
884.60
Metropolitau Man Hole West of Felisway West
Near Temple Road
Filling and Clay
10'-0"
S
846.4
137.66
30
4.16
0.36
0.06
0.30
6.19
4.392.00
1,864.04
2,627.96
Mystic Avosue Storm Drain
Near Temple Road
Denis I. Crimmings
Filiing and Clay
8'-0"
16
696.1
See Sewer
See Sewer
1
1.03
0.72
0.1
0.3
2.78
1,966.63
1,968.68
Myst!' Avenue Sewer
Shore Drive
Easteriy
Filling and Ciny
11'-0"
8
67.8
2
3.73
0.44
0.148
4.32
292.61
To Be Asseeeed
292.61
Mystic Avenne Storm Drain
Shore Drive
Easteriy
Denis I. Crimmings Day Labor
Filling and Clay
7'-9"
15
32.0
1
2.06
1.23
0.216
3.61
217.61
217.61
Pearson Avenue Storm Relief Drain ..
Morrison Avenue
North of Kidder Avenne
Denis I. Crimmings Day Labor
Filling and Clay
8'-0"
20
933.0
170.76
3.86
1.11
0.086
8.80
6,881.76
6,881.76
Prichard Avenne Storm Relief Drain ...
Morrison Avenne
Kidder Avenue
Denis I. Crimmings Day Labor
Fliling, Clay and Sand
7'-7"
20
668.0
169.56
3.28
1.24
0.060
6.2
4,183.10
4,163.10
Private Lands Sewer Rebuilding
Oliver Street
Northeriy
Fred L. Harris for Property Owner
Filling
4'-6 **
16
146.0 Recon- structed
24
227.0
1
180.35
-
..
..
0.382
..
769.63
709.63
Shore Drive Sewer
Mystic Avenue
Puritan Road
City-Day Labor and Property Owner
Filling and Clay
11'-7"
670,6
.
0.61
0.040
1,166.86
To Be Assessed
Shore Drive Storm Drain
Mystic Avenue
Putnam Road
City-Day Labor
Filling and Clay
6'-1"
896.8
-
1.04
0.041
0.18
2,397.67
2,397.67
12
11,099.9 (2.1023 Miles) Sewers and Storm Drains
$50,868.08
$5,316.03
$47,062.06
* Labor furnished by property owner ** Labor and materiais furnished by property owner
Total Length of public sewers in the city Jan. 1st, 1927 Total length of private sewers in the city Jan. 1st, 1927 Total length of sewers in the city Jan. 1st, 1927 Totai jength of storm drains in the city Jan. 1st. 1927 . Total length of the city drainage system Jan. 1st, 1927 Total length of Metropolitan sewerage system mains in the city
=
620,970,1 = 34,896.0 = 655,866.1 81,033.9 =
98.6685 miles
6.6091 milee
105.2777 miles (35.810 miles separate system sewers)
15.3473 miles
636,900.0 =
120.6260 miles
Number of Inlets
or
Storm
including
Sub-Drain
and
Average Cost
per Linear Font
ľ
Length In
feet
feet
Average Cost
Excavation tion Pipelaying and Refilling
Name of Street
$1.509. = Assessments on Puritan
Road. Putnam Road and Ten Hills
Road Sewers Built in 1925.
160.92
Privato Lands Storm Drain
Mystic River
Shore Drive
Joel Balentine for
Filling
7'-4"
Property Owner
12
Combi- nation
236.32
1 1
.
1.0
0.092
.
160.92
1,160.86
18 15
See Sewer
See Sewer
.
0.37
0.008
.
To Be Asseseed
2 Combi- nation See Sewer
See Sewer
31
Mystic Avenne
Mystic Avenne
Mystic River
1
-
2 4 Altered
18
-
2 2 Altered
co Combi- nation
Mystic Avenue Sewer
Jobn F. Devir and Co. Day Lobar and Denis 1. Crimmings
Wheatland Street
Denis I. Crimmings Day Labor
48
0.66
814.8
To Bo Aesessed
.
3.4760 miles
LOCATION
ROCK EXCAVATION
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Service Transfers and Credits
97 05
Materials on hand 1925
1,577 81
Total
$58,493 34
Balance
$1,439 74
Amount due Contractors
1,402 72
Balance unexpended (over to 1927)
$2,842 46
Twenty new sewers and storm drains were constructed during the year; a length of 11,100 feet, approximately 2.1 miles, part of the work being done by department labor. the remainder by contract.
(See tabular statement for 1926, showing itemized ac- count of work.)
Total length, city's drainage system 120.625 miles Cost of construction (including catch basins) .... $1,533,562 00
The 1918 report contains a compiled table of Storm Drains constructed showing length, cost, date of construction, district benefited, etc.
Assessments, Metropolitan sewerage system, 1926 (City's proportional cost) $110,474 00
Total paid Commonwealth of Massachusetts for state sewer (1892-1926, inclusive) 2,135,721 35
Total length of Metropolitan sewerage system mains running through this city 3.475 miles
15 connections, in Somerville, with Metropolitan sewerage mains. Also 3 connections through Medford and one connection through Cambridge. Locations of city's mains connecting with state sewer in 1912 report, and details of construction in previous reports.
New catch basins constructed in city's highways 1926 ........ 38
Total catch basins constructed and maintained by sewer division 2,042
Other catch basins-State, R. R. Co., etc. (32 Northern Artery) 198
Total catch basins in the city for storm drainage purposes 2,240
The "separate system" sewers should be extended in the older sections of the city each year, as the appropriation will allow, and storm drains completed in certain localities as previously recommended :- especially in the North Somerville District, where the discharge is across the boundary line into City of Medford, "Two Penny Brook" outlet; also a "flooding relief" project in Morrison Avenue-Highland Road area; and the B. & M. railroad valley; and a storm overflow at the East Cambridge line extending from the Somerville Avenue sewer and discharging into Miller's River.
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Construction work has been commenced on the Morrison Avenue-Highland Road storm relief drain project.
The Consolidated Rendering Co. has constructed a 24" storm drain across its land from Shore Drive and discharging into Mystic River, where the natural drainage outlet had been filled with material.
Sidewalk sewers in Mossland Street should be con- structed immediately and sections of the old sewers in Poplar Street and Franklin Avenue reconstructed,-thereby relieving the continuous blocking of house drains in these streets under existing conditions.
The city's drainage system will be greatly improved when all the foregoing changes are made and construction work completed.
MAINTENANCE ACCOUNT, STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES, 1926
Labor and Inspection
$11,765 92
Teaming and trucking
9,431 30
Equipment, supplies and repairing property 1,440 71
Total
$22,637 93
CLASSIFICATION OF EXPENDITURES
Maintenance of sewers, including cleaning,
flushing, supervision, etc. (120.75 miles )
$6,268 00
Maintenance of catch basins, cleaning and flushing, supervision, etc. (2,042) 12,117 01 ...... Maintenance of storm water pump, Med- ford Street Underpass 309 20
Changing line and grade and repairing catch basins
172 73
Changing line and grade and repairing manholes
363 18
Repairing old sewers and storm drains
929 87
Inspection and location of house drains
743 40
Equipment and supplies
679 55
Repairs of tools and property
267 85
Maintenance of sewer division yards (2). 767 30
Telephone (2)
79 84
Transferred to other appropriations .....
$22,637 93 2,275 00
Total expenditure
$24,912 93
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CREDIT
Appropriation
Credits
$25,150 00 28 25
Total
$25,178 25
Balance unexpended $265 32:
Value of tools and property on hand, maintenance of Sewers, $2,500.
A permanent force of men, varying in number from eight to thirteen per week, and teams are kept continually at work flushing, cleaning and repairing the city's drainage system, catch basins, etc., the expense necessarily increasing yearly. as lengths of sewers, storm drains and catch basins are added to the system, and the distance increased to the dumping places, which are fast diminishing, only two being available at present.
The scarcity of dumping places has confronted the city for some time and various schemes have been considered for efficient and economical methods of disposal but no feasible plan has been adopted.
Material removed from catch basins and hauled to dumps cubic yards 2700
Average cost, (labor $1.85; teaming $2.64)
per cubic yard $4 49
Average cost, cleaning, flushing and general main- tenance .. per basin $6 00
Average cost, cleaning and flushing drainage system
including catch basins per mile $152 30
There are about twenty catch basins (average) to a mile of roadway in this city.
An auto-truck cleaning machine for catch basins, of an approved design, could be used advantageously in this city about one-half time during the year-the result being speedier cleaning ; and at other times utilized in various work in other divisions of the Engineering Department.
A number of repairs have been made on some of the old sewers, alterations made in the outlets and overflows, and extra manholes built for the purpose of improving the system; and catch basins and manholes repaired.
Three hundred and eighty-four permits have been issued to licensed drain layers for connecting buildings with main sewers and storm drains; seventy-seven being for repairs, al- terations or extensions, all of the work being done under the supervision of the city's inspector.
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Many of these repairs and alterations were made neces- sary by the growth of tree roots in the private drain pipe. In several cases, these private drains were relaid with iron pipe and lead joints; which is the type of construction recom- mended by this department, where drain connections have be- come stopped on account of tree roots.
Certain persons are licensed as drain layers by the city and are under bonds, for the purpose of laying and repairing these private drains :- none others are permitted to do this work.
Reference to data concerning each drain connection with the public sewer is on file in this office, and time and expense could be saved by the owner, by applying directly to this de- partment for investigation and advice, where trouble exists.
A number of car track catch basins and underground conduit manholes have been connected with the city's drainage system.
There are to date about 17,973 private drain connections with the city's drainage system.
A better system of grease traps should be installed in the premises of some of the larger manufacturing plants and rendering companies to prevent large amounts of grease and waste products from escaping into city sewer mains and at various times partially blocking sections of sewers.
PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS DIVISION
This division has the care and maintenance of about eighty acres of land laid out as parks and playgrounds, being about equally divided in area-pleasure parks and playfields.
Seventy-three acres are owned by the city and certain areas owned by private parties are turned over to the city for recreation purposes ; also satisfactory arrangements have been made for a number of years past, whereby the city has the use of Tufts College playfields during the summer vacation months. One of these playgrounds (private) has been abol- ished on account of the construction of the Northern Artery.
These areas when completely developed will compare favorably with other cities in the vicinity.
MAINTENANCE ACCOUNTS, STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES,
1926
Playgrounds
Parks
$5,091 05 Labor
$8,559 65
688 26 Teaming and trucking 770 12
1,964 06 Equipment-Supplies 1,755 91
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2,526 36 Repairing property and tools
357 77
93 16 Fountains and Bubblers-Maint. (Paid Water Dept. $81.66 + 181.95) 239 33 Trees-Shrubs-Plants-Floral Decorations .. 1,082 75
469 56
Flagpoles-Flags-Painting
239 24
Repairing roadways and walks-trimming trees, etc. 181 51
Donation, captured German Howitzer 93 80
1,474 63 Outdoor Running Track, Hockey Rink, etc.
$11,407 08
Totals
$13,280 08
CLASSIFICATION OF EXPENDITURES
Playgrounds and
Recreation
151 87 Central Hill Park (13.1 acres)
Parks $3,006 10
1,073 84 Foss Park (formerly Broadway Park) (15.9 acres)
2,054 57
Broadway Parkway (1.6 acres)
143 19
1,684 00
Lincoln Park (7.2 acres)
1,602 41
85 21 Prospect Hill Park (2.6 acres)
2,330 18
57 24 Tufts Park (4.5 acres)
1,463 15
Paul Revere Park (0.02 acres)
54 32
Belmont Street Park (0.4 acres)
156 46
Powder House Boulevard (0.9 mile long) 949 03
93 32
Powder House Square Parkway (0.1 acre) ... Cemetery, Somerville Avenue (0.7 acre)
40 50
3,005 56 Somerville Field, at Alewife Brook (9.7 acres) 208 59 2,803 21 Dilboy Field (formerly part of Somerville Field) at Alewife Brook (5.5 acres) .... Richard Trum Playground, Cedar Street and Broadway (4.3 acres) 225 62
765 21
1,121 28
58 31 Playground, Glen Street and Oliver Street (1.0 acre + 1.5 acres private land) ....
4 58
137 36 Playground, Kent Street and Somerville Ave- nue (0.8 acre)
55 93
25 62 Playground, Poplar Street and Joy Street (0.5 acre)
24 62
Playground, Beacon Street near Washington Street (0.2 acre)
Playground, Fellsway East (2.5 acres private land) Taken-construction Northern Artery
785 17 Woods Playground, corner Elm Street- Cherry Street and Sartwell Avenue (2.1 acres)
102 30
Shaw Playground, Broadway at · Western Junior High School (2.8 acres)
418 41 Tufts College Land, Summer Playground (5 acres)
$13,280 08
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ANNUAL REPORTS
Transferred to other appropriations .... 300 00
$11,407 08 Total expenditures, maintenance (79.5 acres) 72.3 acres city property + 6.5 acres private land, 0.7 acre cemetery and 0.9 mile boule- vard, and 0.54 mile parkway roads.
$13,580 08
CREDIT
Playgrounds and
Recreation
Parks
$ 8,720 00 2 Appropriation for Parks
$14,400 00
2,000 00 )
Appropriation for Playgrounds
695 96 Service Transfers
.
$11,415 96
$ 8 88
Balance unexpended $ 819 92
IMPROVEMENT OF PLAYGROUNDS EXPENDITURES
Saxton C. Foss Playground (about 5.5 acres northerly end Foss Park)
Labor, trucking, rolling, etc .- grading-fencing .... John M. Woods Playground (Elm St .- Cherry St .- Sart- well Ave.)
$3,702 32
Final payment, land taken for playground; and fenc- ing 427 70 Somerville Field
Additional land taken for completing playfield (about 1/4 acre) 2,100 00
.
$6,230 02
CREDIT
Appropriations ($4,000) ($2,100)
$6,100 00
Unexpended balances, appropriation 1925 452 26
$6,552 26
Balance unexpended $ 322 24
Assessments for Metropolitan parks and boulevards
(City's proportional cost) $94,676 30
Total paid Commonewalth of Massachusetts-Metropoli- tan park system, to January 1, 1927 $1,333,608 72
Total length Metropolitan boulevard in Somerville 41/3 miles
All of the city's playfield areas have been in constant use throughout the year ;- special supervision was provided by
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the Welfare and Recreation Commission during the months of July and August especially for the children's activities, to make the playgrounds popular and successful; an exhibition featured the closing of the summer work.
Tufts College playfield was under the city's supervision during the summer,-twilight baseball and outdoor entertain- ment being largely attended.
At the athletic field bordering Alewife Brook an addi- tional area has been purchased and a permanent outdoor winter running track has been completed, which will also pro- vide a hockey rink in the winter and wading pool in the sum- mer. The remaining area should be graded as soon as pos- sible and when completed as originally designed, the city will own one of the best recreation fields in the vicinity. (See 1910 report for lay-out)
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