Report of the city of Somerville 1934, Part 9

Author: Somerville (Mass.)
Publication date: 1934
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And thus it was a matter of surprise and affront for them to see in the headlines last week that the State Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission had over- ruled the Somerville commission on five of its most im- portant decisions. They were given a feeling that their own power of righteousness had been usurped.


From the interview with two commissioners pub- lished in this issue of the Somerville Press it is ap- parent that the Commission is unsensitive to some sub- tleties in liquor-control, and is determined to plant the forefeet of its authority on communities without re- gard for them. The commissioners do not seem to ap- preciate, for instance, this fact: That the sale of liquor is associated in people's minds with ribaldry and even evilness, that a church or a school has con- trary associations, and that if a church and a tavern


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are put together the purity of the church is lost rather than the atmosphere of the tavern elevated. Thus only rowdy communities will see a tavern open its doors in the neighborhood of a church with complaisance. One of the reasons that a large city always carries a con- notation of evil is that its cafes and places of laughter and rioting are not prevented from destroying the purity of its churches, museums and schools.


Mr. Hayes' idea of the function of the commission -that it provide "adequate drinking places in proper locations to serve the people," appeals to one as nar- row and unimaginative. A broader conception would be that the commission provide adequate drinking places without hurting the community. That is, the commission should make its purpose not merely the service of the drinkers but the service of the whole community. In the case of Somerville it should, for example, seek to regulate drinking so that the resi- dential tone of the city not be hurt, as the Somerville Commission has done. Since a local commission must ordinarily understand better what is good for the com- munity than the State commission can understand, it should adopt a policy of supporting the local commis- sion, except when it has grounds for suspecting graft or bad faith. The feeling of all people who believe that people are most satisfactorily governed by themselves is reflected in the article by Robert Choate, managing editor of the Boston Herald reprinted below.


Various remarks made by the commissioners to the Somerville Press reporter indicate that their at- titude is hardly as Olympian as it should be for a fair unemotional judgment of the cases brought before them. If they overrule the Somerville commission, they will in effect remove the responsibility for local regulation from Somerville, where an active, earnest and high-minded commission is eager to bear it, to Boston where it will be forgotten."


The Boston Traveler Herald of Sunday April 8, 1934


IN MY OPINION By Robert Choate


"The most outrageous thing that I have heard about during the past week was the attempt of the


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State Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission-the ABC-to jam down the throats of the citizens of Som- erville licenses which the licensing board of Somerville and apparently the citizens of Somerville do not them- selves want to grant.


If the facts in this case have been presented any- where near accurately this is a wholly unwarranted use of state power and complete disregard for local self-government.


The whole thing is wide open for abuse. It un- folds terrifying vistas of how far a state commission may go in forcing on self-respecting and decent com- munities the things which the citizens of those com- munities may vigorously oppose.


The only argument that I have heard from the ABC is that it could not make one rule for Boston and another for Somerville. If this is all the commis- sion has to stand on it is the silliest argument that has ever been coined.


Somerville decided it did not want to grant liquor licenses to certain restaurants and stores because they were within 300 feet of churches and schools. Appeal was made to the ABC. The commission overruled the Somerville Licensing Board. Now the city is faced, by order of the state, with the sale of liquor where Somerville citizens believe it should not be sold.


Functioning of the ABC


I had supposed that the ABC was wholly a regula- tory or police body in the matter of licenses. I believe that that was the view held by many students of the liquor bill. I had thought that its duties had to do largely with restriction and abuse of licenses rather than foisting of them on communities which did not want them granted.


To date we have seen the ABC do absolutely noth- ing to throw safeguards around the sale of liquor. The Somerville incident leads me to believe that it is much more interested in the sale of intoxicants than in their supervision.


It is preposterous to suppose that ABC can draw up a set of rules which will apply sensibly both to


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Boston and the rest of the state. Boston has wholly different problems which would probably be met again only in one or two of the larger cities of the common- wealth.


The ABC argument that if it lays down one policy for Boston it must be the same thing throughout the state would result in a wholly ludicrous situation.


Of course, Boston's problems are wholly different. The majority of licenses here, in hotels and restau- rants, are concentrated in a small area wherein is a very large part of our business and commerial life. There can be no possible comparison between down- town Boston and downtown Somerville, or downtown Everett, or downtown Revere.


In Boston our churches, our hotels and restau- rants, and even sometimes our schools, are all tum- bling over one another. That is hardly true of our smaller cities.


But even if there may be legitimate ground for an argument over this phase of the situation, certainly there can be none over the right of a city to control the bestowal of licenses within its limits.


It is my hope that Somerville will test the law to the limit so that the issue may be definitely settled that the ABC cannot grant licenses in communities where they are not wanted. Certainly, if the ABC has this authority then there is absolutely no need for local licensing boards. They might as well close shop and go out of business in those places where influence is strong enough to cause the ABC to go over their heads.


If local authorities are not sustained in the Som- erville case it is obvious that the liquor law should be amended to curtail this extravagant use of ABC con- trol. The commission should stick to the business for which it was primarily created. It should start to wipe out the abuses that are already evident in the wake of prohibition repeal. It should take away the licenses of owners and waiters in joints which are common nuisances. It should have no hesitancy about being hard-boiled in this attitude. The effect of


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such drastic action would be most wholesome all over the commonwealth.


The trouble with the liquor law is not so much with the law itself as with the power of the men who are empowered to administer it. Any law can be un- satisfactory if those whose duty it is to supervise it do not use a little common sense.


There is another thing which it seems to me would bear looking into. The law is supposed to provide limitation on the number of outlets for the sale of liquor acording to the population. I have before me a clipping from a Lawrence newspaper wherein it is stated that already in that city more licenses have been granted than are allowed by law.


While I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the statement it seems likely that if too many licenses have been slipped out in Lawrence that there is a good chance the same condition exists elsewhere. Maybe the ABC will be willing to look into this situation before it forces licenses in Somerville that are not wanted."


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Somerville, Mass. December 31, 1934.


To His Honor, the Mayor, and the


Board of Aldermen of the City of Somerville :


Gentlemen :-


The Board of Public Welfare submit herewith reports of the General Agent, the Warden of the City Home and the City Physician, with tables showing the work.


Respectfully submitted,


WALTER V. ROBINSON QUINLAN J. SULLIVAN ARTHUR C. COFFEY


Board of Public Welfare.


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SUPPORT OF THE PUBLIC WELFARE DEPARTMENT


BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE


FRED E. DURGIN, Chairman QUINLAN SULLIVAN, Vice-Chairman ARTHUR C. COFFEY


COMMITTEES On Finance, Investigation and Relief, and City Home MR. DURGIN, MR. SULLIVAN, MR. COFFEY


Clerks and Social Workers


HELEN E. LINEGAR DOROTHY C. WATKINS FRANCES V. SHARPE M. ETTA NEYLAN MARGARET C. CONLEY CHARLES J. WILLWERTH MARGARET KOEN JOSEPH E. DOW WILLIAM T. CASEY ELMER E. HASELTON DOROTHY F. WHITE


General Agent WILLIAM E COPITHORNE


City Physician FRANK P. SCIGLIANO, M. D.


Assistant City Physician EDWARD M. MCCARTY, M. D.


Warden and Matron, City Home MR. AND MRS. HERMAN M. REYNOLDS


Office CITY HALL, HIGHLAND AVENUE


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REPORT OF THE GENERAL AGENT


City Hall, January 2, 1935.


To the Board of Public Welfare, Somerville, Mass .:-


Gentlemen :- The general agent submits the following as his report for the year ending December 31, 1934 :-


Table No. 1 FULL SUPPORT (During the year)


In City Home (men 66, women 27) 93


In City Home, December 31, 1934 43


In hospitals for the sick in other cities, towns and state. 365


Table No. 2 PARTIAL SUPPORT (Outside Relief)


Families 2,374


Persons aided (including hospital cases) 11,186


Burials


19


Table No. 3


CHILDREN


In private families 27


In care of state division of child guardianship 39


Table No. 4 AID UNDER CHAPTER 118 (Mothers' Aid)


Number of mothers' aid cases, January 1, 1934 62


Number of families aided at close of year


63


Number of famililes aided during the year


77


Number of children


301


Amount allowed each family, from $5.00 to $22.00 per week


Number of out-of-town families


8


Number having no settlement


7


Cost To City


Somerville settlement


$33,042.00


Settled in other cities and towns (reside here)


3,153.00


State


4,465.00


Somerville families living in other cities and towns 2,639.38


$43,299.38


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Table No. 5 REIMBURSEMENTS


Commonwealth of Massachusetts


$168,625.01


City of Beverly


"


Brockton


32.60


" Cambridge


17,907.34


"


Chicopee


47.90


", Everett


4,058.27


Fall River


203.07


Framingham


63.00


" Gloucester


424.05


" Haverhill


1,275.01


" Lawrence


117.95


" Lynn


2,528.89


" Lowell


157.50


"


Medford


12,121.85


" New Bedford


209.30


" Newburyport


6.00


"


Peabody


20.00


Pittsfield


305.87


" Quincy


239.06


"


Revere


2,450.59


Salem


131.35


Taunton


16.00


"


Waltham


331.13


929.35


Town of Amesbury


Auburn


105.67


,,


Barnstable


42.00


Belmont


138.75


" Billerica


733.63


Bourne


861.63


=


" Braintree


4.66


Brookline


855.28


" Clinton


25.00


E. Bridgewater


58.77


" Franklin


150.50


Harvard


415.73


Holbrook


36.00


Hudson


18.25


Ipswich


806.61


Lexington


877.47


" Methuen


317.14


" Middleboro


157.48


" Milton


65.00


Needham


142.60


Norwood


409.98


Rutland


40.00


South Braintree


28.00


Stoneham


933.77


" Stoughton


30.67


" Ware


24.00


W. Bridgewater


44.74


Weymouth


24.25


" Wilmington


666.49


" Woburn


" Worcester


841.34


476.30


"


208.00


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Town of Winchendon


72.00


" Winchester


313.75


Individual


5.00


$222,131.55


Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Old Age Assis- tance)


$39,888.02


Cities and towns (Old Age Assistance) 4,116.15


Table No. 6 AID UNDER CHAPTER 118A (Old Age Assistance)


Number of old age assistance cases January 1, 1934


355


Number of old age assistance cases aided at close of year


434


Cost to City


$128,777.64


Reimbursements and refunds


44,255.41


Net cost to city


$84,522.23


Table No. 7 SOMERVILLE HOSPITALS (City Patients)


Patients having settlement in Somerville


540


Patients having settlement in other cities and towns


155


Patients having no settlement (chargeable to state)


243


Total number of patients sent to hospitals


938


Amount paid to hospitals


$37,212.25


Table No. 8 POPULATION AND GROSS EXPENDITURES, 1900 to 1934


1900


- -* 61,643


Misc. $23,697.62 Home


$5,528.83 Total


$29,226.45


1901


- 62,500


=


29,171.15


6,622.43


35,793.58


1902


- 63,500


28,667.04


7,396.64


36,063.68


1903


65,500


30,470.20


7,548.39


38,018.50


1904


69,500


",


20,476.64


6,563.11


27,039.65


1.905


-* 69,272


17,627.88


7,474.36


25,002.24


1906


72,000


18,237.53


6,806.79


25,044.32


1907


74,000


17,852.20


7,001.23


„,


24,853.43


1908


75,500


17,955.34


6,875.56


24,830.99


1909


75,500


16,843.17


7,562.83


24,406.00


1910


*77,236


=


16,110.42


7,695.89


23,806.31


1911


78,000


16,327.56


7,842.03


24,169.59


1912


81,000


19,201.33


8,998.97


28,200.30


1913


82,000


21,827.73


10,945.95


32,773.68


1914


85,000


35,619.68


11,200.25


46,819.93


1915


*86,854


45,490.98


11,218.65


56,709.63


1916


90,000


51,759.62


11,593.41


63,353.03


1917


90,000


53,653.33


13,417.77


67,071.10


1918


90,500


"


63,420.48


15,411.20


78,831.68


1919


- 91,000


67,682.53


15,789.34


83,471.34


Table Number 9 BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE Recapitulation for the Year 1934


1934


Board.


Burials.


Cities and Towns.


Cash Paid Out.


Cash in Adv.


Chap. 118


Cash Allowance


Fuel


Groceries.


Other Institu- tions.


Glasses and Medicine


Printing. and Stationery


Ambulance and Nursing.


Salaries.


Local Hospitals.


State Hospital


Furniture All Other. Telephone. & Clothing Shoes


Totals


January


$2,174.56


$ 99.98


$ 40.00


$


$ 27,474.50


$200.00


S


$192.62


$ 6,665.90


$236.88


$644.00


$205.95


$2,886.79


$1,316.00


$698.14


$ 68.25


$472.60


$60,379.18


February


204.00


99.98


38.25


28,300.50


174.00


3,770.50


22,826.21


432.34


1,082.77


61.41


3,442.76


5,236.25


311.51


315.43


66,295.91


March


107.55


149.98


75.00


13,943.12


24,863.50


327.74


192.62


4,364.00


11,042.90


259.61


1,118.29


170.96


2.55


3,945.56


4,256.25


45.45


846.87


65,711.95


April.


115.71


124.98


165.00


385.56


24,475.50


186.42


1,185.02


38,027.72


889.57


1,245.22


46.90


7.65


3,069.26


3,378.75


1,136.23


53.56


956.45


75,449.50


May


1,692.42


124.98


60.00


3,403.09


25,540.00


200.00


192.62


158.35


22,368.35 279.43


507.81


139.82


6.60


3,015.76


3,506.25


321.40


730.17


62,247.05


June


113.57


124.98


159.89


19,212.25


178.99


20.75


15,455.76


824.42


868.66


79.60


18.70


3,534.95


3,453.75


162.50


342.57


44,551.34


July.


2,147.55


124.98


151.80


21,400.50


418.17


165.91


16,863.48


250.43


306.57


69.18


8.80


2,909.76


3,307.50


741.72


158.55


376.90


113,405.40


August


116.84


99.98


85.00


18,959.50


188.19


18,003.36


449.89


393.17


23.75


2,371.93


2,561.25


149.60


61.78


43,755.43


September


75.79


169.98


40.00


16,146.00


126.42


14,246.79


435.22


593.91


37.96


2,679.72


2,838.75


154.00


373.94


37,918.48


October.


2,181.45


112.35


50.00


16,354.50


130.62


12,997.75


191.86


538.04


44.00


2,431.64


2,501.25


695.84


186.90


352.10


38,768.30


November


64.29


108.32


7.00


40,841.86


14,013.50


1,826.80


130.71


222.50


13,773.44


458.20


518.77


132.96


2,494.31


2,557.50


199.00


504.35


77,853.51


December.


2,411.14


108.48


119.00


22,042.81


14,055.75


66.67


126.19


14,093.47


422.20


820.09


95.99


3,205.65


2,298.75


1,142.00


180.50


468.97


61,657.66


Totals.


$11,404.87


$1,448.97


$792.80 $145, 109.37 $250,796.00


$400.00


$2,639.38 $1,985.31


$16,387.02


$216,702.24 $5,130.05 $8,637.30 $1,108.48 1


$44.30 $35,988.09 $37.212.25


$4,413.93


$1.991.22


$5,802.13 $747,993.71


$17,003.01


64,003.60 291.19


Auto Mainte- nance


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1920


-* 93,033


-


77,456.57


17,308.29


94,764.86


1921


95,000


87,922.69


15,069.81


102,992.50


1922


- 97,000


,


95,510.92


13,577.07


109,087.99


1923


98,000


88,909.21


14,770.97


103,680.17


1924


-100,000


100,013.27


14,891.79


114,905.06


1925


- *99,032


108,009.99


17,138.03


125,148.02


1926


-101,000


121,513.30


16,896.89


138,410.19


1927


-103,000


135,671.34


16,070.45


151,741.79


1928


-104,000


160,269.41


13,393.85


173,663.25


1929


-104,000


177,499.26


14,382.34


191,881.60


1930


-* 103,604


..


230,862.48


14,420.61


245,283.09


1931


-103,604


402,742.58


13,374.66


416,117.24


1932


104,000


650,893.45


14,983.46


665,876.91


1933


104,000


594,108.10


13,643.51


607,751.61


1934


104,000


747,993.71


13,499.64


761,493.35


* Census.


OVERSEERS OF THE POOR IN SOMERVILLE Since the Reorganization in 1885


¡Hon. Mark F. Burns, chairman, ex-officio


1885


1888 inclusive


¡Col. Herbert E. Hill


1885


1889


¡Charles S. Lincoln, Esq., chairman


1885


1887


¡Charles G. Brett (president 1888-1892)


1885 Apr. 1893


¿Hon. Edward Glines


1885


1887


¿Edward B. West (president May 1894, Feb- ruary 1912)


1888


1912


¿Daniel C. Stillson


1888 Apr. 1892


¿Hon. Charles C. 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 ¡Henry F. Curtis, M.D. (president 1912-1919) ¡Philip Koen


1910


1921


¡Michael Coll


Nov.,


1916 Dec. 1924


*Fred E. Durgin (chairman 1919 to date) Oct.,


1918


date


George G. Brayley


Jan.,


1922 June 1928


James D. Sharkey


Dec.,


1924


1933


Wilbur F. Lewis


June,


1928 Jan. 1931


John C. McNally Frank Cole


Jan.


1931


1933


* Arthur C. Coffey


1933


date


*Quinlan Sullivan


1934


date


* Present member.


Deceased.


1933 Jan. 1934


1899


1912 Nov. 1916


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Table No. 10 RECAPITULATION (MISCELLANEOUS)


Expenditures and transfers


$747,993.71


Reimbursements and refunds


228,787.15


Net cost to city


$519,206.56


Respectfully submitted,


WM. E. COPITHORNE,


General Agent.


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REPORT OF WARDEN OF CITY HOME


City Home, January 1, 1935.


To the Board of Public Welfare, Somerville, Mass .:-


Gentlemen :- I submit the following as the report of the Warden of the City Home for the year ending December 31, 1934 :-


Tabe No. 1


Number of weeks' board of inmates 2,143


Number of males admitted during 1934 33


Number of females admitted during 1934 16


Number of males discharged during 1934 19


Number of females discharged during 1934


8


Number of males supported during 1934


66


Number of females supported during 1934


27


Number of males died during 1934


8


Number of females died during 1934


6


Number of inmates in home December 31, 1934


43


Table No. 2 CITY HOME HOSPITAL


Number of weeks' board


583-4


Number of patients admitted


26


Number of patients in hospital, December 31, 1934 10


Table No. 3


Expenditures


$13,499.64


Reimbursements and refunds


4,516.18


Net cost to city


$8,983.46


Respectfully submitted,


HERMAN M. REYNOLDS,


Warden.


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REPORT OF THE CITY PHYSICIAN


Somerville, January 1, 1935.


To His Honor, the Mayor, and the Board of Aldermen : Gentlemen :-


The work of your city physician during the year 1934 is presented in the following abstract ;-


Office consultations and treatments


9,702


Total outside visits


3,644


Confinements


1


Visits at City Home


92


Attended at Police Station


46


Examinations : -


For legal department


21


For police department


101


For fire department


123


For pension


14


Other work of the City Physician does not admit of tab- ulation.


Respectfully submitted,


FRANK P. SCIGLIANO,


City Physician.


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ELECTRIC LINES AND LIGHTS


REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF ELECTRIC LINES AND LIGHTS


January 1, 1935.


To the Honorable, the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen of the City of Somerville.


Gentlemen :---


I respectfully submit the thirtieth annual report of the Electrical Department for the year ending December 31, 1934.


INSPECTIONS OF WIRING IN BUILDINGS


Strict inspection of electrical wiring and attachments there to have been inforced as in the past.


Many dangerous and amateur wiring conditions that were hazards to life and property have been revealed by our periodic inspection system and corrected.


Number of notifications of new work (permits) 1,737


Number of inspections of new work


2,243


Number of re-inspections of new work


308


Number of inspections of old work


800


Number of defective installations of old work


485


Number of defective installations remedied


440


Number of re-inspection of old work


1,291


Total


5,567


Number of permits to Edison Elec Ill. Company to set meters


1,190


FIRE ALARM SYSTEM


While a considerable amount of repair and new work has been done on this system during the past year, a large amount still remains to be accomplished to meet the requirements of the National Board of Fire Underwriters.


.


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One set of the duplicate battery system was replaced this year, but the opposite set is in very poor condition and early action to correct same is essential.


152 signal boxes have been completely overhauled during the year, but many of these are of the obsolete type.


570 box alarms have been received and transmitted during the year.


14 second alarms 2 A. D. T| alarms


675 Telephone calls received and fire department sent.


1261 total box and still alrams.


The central office equipment consists of the following :-


2-6 circuit operating boards.


1-5 circuit tapper board.


1-5 circuit gong board.


2-16 circuit storage battery charging boards.


1-32 circuit protector board.


1-12 circuit automatic repeater.


1-1 dial 4 number manual transmitter.


2-5 circuit punching registers and take up reels.


13- punching registers and take up reels.


2 automatic time and date stamps.


1 master clock.


1 local telephone used as a still alarm system.


1088 cells storage battery.


5 10 foot 4 shelf battery racks.


5 metropolitan tappers and gongs.


Apparatus outside the central office consists of the follow- ings :---


164 Signal boxes.


23 Master signal boxes with remote control stations in ad- jacent school buildings.


7 Tower strikers.


29 Cable terminal boxes.


8 Punching registers.


35 Tappers fast time.


8 Tappers slow time gongs.


13 Still alarm bells.


7 Local telephones used as still alarm system.


18 Private telephones.


3 Traffic sirens.


Approximately 68 miles of overhead and 86 miles of under- ground wires.


23 new master signal boxes adjacent to schools with remote control stations located within the schools have been installed


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ELECTRIC LINES AND LIGHTS


during the year. The completion of 3 installations now in proc- ess of construction will complete the school program.


14 additional new streetboxes are now being installed and a number of old boxes changed to new locations in order to ob- tain a more even distribution throughout the city.


POLICE SIGNAL SYSTEM


The Police Signal boxes are now being completely over- hauled, but poor cable conditions are giving some trouble.


The Police Radio is in good condition and giving satisfac- tory service.


The outside equipment consists of the following :-


65 Police Signal Boxes.


4 Specials.


SUPERVISION OF POLES AND WIRES ON THE STREET


A Survey was made of all poles and wires on the streets, defects noted and list forwarded to owners for action. A num- ber of defective poles have been replaced by the companies own- ing same.


New Poles


Re- placed moved


Re-


Re- Relo- set cated


New Eng. T. & T. Co.


Edison Elec. Ill. Co.


11


2 216


3


....


1


Permits given to Edison Elec III. Co., for attachments to New Eng. Tel. & Tel Co. poles


25


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....


....


....


Permits given to New Eng. Tel. & Tel.


Co., for attachments to Edison Co. poles


10


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...


...


....


Permits given Edison Elec. Ill. Co., for


attachments to Boston Elevated Poles


3


....


...


....


STREET LIGHTING


The number of Street Lights January 1, 1935 are as fol- lows :-


990 No. 20-80 candle power lights.


201 No. 30-100 candle power lights.


21 No. 50-250 candle power lights.


501 No. 70-600 candle power lights.


336 No. 75-1000 candle power lights.


2049


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...


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4


Boston Elevated R. R.


...


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ANNUAL REPORTS


TRAFFIC LIGHTS


One set of Traffic Lights at the intersection of Mossland, Cedar and Elm Streets has been added during the past year.


RECOMMENDATION'S


I re-submit the following recommendations of last year :-


That fire alarms signal boxes of inferior type and cable in poor condition be replaced by the adoption of a program where- by a definite number of boxes and a definite amount of cable be removed each year until all have been replaced.


That headquarters building and equipment be remodelled to meet the requirements of the National Board of Fire Un- derwriters.


That the duplicate battery system be completed or a com- bination battery and rectifier system be installed.


Respectfully submitted, JAMES J. CUDDIHY,


Commissioner of Electric Lines and Lights.


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SANITARY DEPARTMENT


REPORT OF THE SANITARY DEPARTMENT


To the Honorable, the Mayor


and the Board of Aldermen of the City of Somerville.


Gentlemen :


The report of the Sanitary Department for the year 1934 is respectfully submitted herewith :


COLLECTIONS OF ASHES AND REFUSE


Loads


Yards


Tons


January


1,786


11,609


4,019


February


1,560


10,140


3,510


March


2,325


15,113


5,231


April


1,900


12,350


4,275


May


2,376


15,444


5,346


June


1,680


10,920


3,780


July


1,713


11,135


3,854


August


2,016


13,104


4,536


September


1,596


10,374


3,591


October


1,608


10,452


3,618


November


2,088


13,572


4,698


December


1,692


10,998


3,807


Totals


22,340


145,210


50,265


COLLECTION OF PAPER


Loads


Yards


January


593


5,626


February


572


5,474


March


721


6,894


April


533


5,116


May


715


6,843


June


570


5,439


July


558


5,337


August


715


6,843


September


564


5,388




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