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The Public Library maintains --- 1 central library
Branches at
Dodgeville
Hebronville South Attleboro
Washington School
Service at- Sturdy Hospital
Deposits at- 3 camps. 3 schools
The Book Stock includes- 36,920 volumes
Subscription to 162 magazines Subscription to 11 newspapers
Special Collection of maps, pamphlets and pictures.
Titles added 1933-
Adult fiction. 237
Adult non-fiction 671
Juvenile books .
231
Total new titles . 1,139
Duplicates and replacements 1,085
Gifts. . 253
Lost and withdrawn 652
140
ANNUAL REPORT
ATTLEBORO PUBLIC LIBRARY Attleboro, Massachusetts
Material was loaned as follows:
Circulation of non-fiction ranked as follows:
Volumes
Central-adult.
77,652
Poetry, drama, essays and language study.
6,451
Central-juvenile
23,794
Dodgeville.
5,456
Hebronville .
7,502
Fine arts, including music. 3,863
South Attleboro
10,582
Useful arts-technical books.
3,454
Washington. .
13,963
Hospital Service
2,653
Schools .
6,885
Social sciences
2,379
Science.
1,700
Philosophy, psychology, religion
1,683
Total
148,487
Total non-fiction
33,383
Fiction circulated.
115,104
Total books circulated. . 148,487
Pictures, photographs and prints
2,018 Books in foreign languages. . 701
Magazines. 5,069
Travel. 3,741
Biography
2,717
History .
2,506
ANNUAL REPORT
141
Volumes
142
ANNUAL REPORT
Report of the
Balance uncollected Jan. 1, 1933
Committed 1933
Refunds
Transfer from Tax Title
Total Charge
1930 Polls, Personal, Real
1931 Polls, Personal, Real
39.49
7.18 239.24
$ 3,931.25 5,240.02 263,877.04 783,069.42 5.00
1931 Old Age Asst. Tax
5.00
1932 Old Age Asst. Tax
1,394.00
1,394.00
1933 Old Age Asst. Tax
6,848.00
6,848.00
1931 Motor Vehicle Exicse
1,149.62
1,149.62
1932 Motor Vehicle Excise
3,485.86
3,485.86
1933 Motor Vehicle Excise
28,504.12
117.52
28,621.64
1932 Moth Assessment
43.15
43.15
1933 Moth Assessment
189.45
189.45
1932 Curbing
110.25
110.25
1933 Curbing
1,139.75
1,139.75
1932 App. Curbing
405.43
405.43
1933 App. Curbing
1,006.52
1,006.52
1932 Granolithic Walk
795.66
795.66
1933 Granolithic Walk
105.32
105.32
1932 App. Gran. Walk
146.67
146.67
1933 App. Gran. Walk
534.74
534.74
1932 Sewer
103.76
103.76
1932 Apportioned Sewer
273.98
273.98
1933 Apportioned Sewer
476.42
476.42
Committed Interest-
1932 Curbing
178.11
178.11
1933 Curbing
390.85
390.85
1932 Granolithic Walk
53.40
53.40
1933 Granolithic Walk
152.62
152.62
1932 Sewer
93.30
93.30
1933 Sewer
145.50
145.50
Apportioned Betterments- Paid in Advance
Interest
Costs
Dept. of Public Welfare
52,008.65
84,917.20
136,925.85
Fishing permits, Orr's Pd.
22.00
22.00
Health Dept.
726.14
933.56
1,659.70
Highway
30.14
43.89
74.03
Motor Vehicle License
130.00
130.00
Public Property
578.00
1,533.00
2,111.00
School
2,174.69
2,174.69
Soldiers Relief
136.45
136.45
Water Rates-
1929
8.00
8.00
1930
8.00
8.00
1931
1,058.12
1,058.12
1932
12,765.46
12,765.46
1933
105,401.54
19.41
105,420.95
Pipe and Labor-
1930
93.93
93.93
1931
188.33
188.33
1932
833.77
833.77
1933
2,020.78
2,020.78
$349,435.58 $1,019,728.25 $187.54 $246.42 $1,369,597.79
#Transferred to Tax Titles. *Apportioned.
$ 3,931.25 5,193.35 263,637.80
1932 Polls, Personal, Real 1933 Polls, Personal, Real
$ 783,058.30
11.12
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City
Collected and Paid Treasurer
Transferred to Tax Titles, etc.
Paid Direct to Treasurer
Refund from State
Total Credit
Balance Uncollected Dec. 31, 1933
$
3,125.51
1,010.59
1,103.92
233,131.57
2,800.26
19,746.13
263,877.04
553,276.70
2,797.96
783,069.42
1.00
5.00
358.00
1,394.00
323.00
5,139.00
6,848.00
1,709.00
76.96
1,072.66
1,149.62
1,668.66
661.05
3,485.86
1,156.15
24,063.43
1,104.14
28,621.64
3,454.07
38.50
.50
2.95
43.15
1.20
116.50
189.45
72.95
42.10
*
68.15
110.25
312.85
*
826.90
1,139.75
314.91
90.52
405.43
490.25
1,006.52
516.27
404.92
390.74
795.66
29.07
76.25
105.32
141.17
5.50
146.67
328.28
*
103.76
103.76
267.71
6.27
273.98
171.44
5.00
476.42
299.98
147.05
31.06
178.11
185.71
390.85
205.14
51.74
1.66
53.40
85.35
152.62
67.27
91.05
2.25
93.30
50.04
2.09
145.50
93.37
247.42
29.88
277.30 11,533.73
2,652.80
2,652.80
62,105.80
2,703.33
51,289.17
136,925.85
20,827.55
22.00
22.00
1,364.19
78.00
1,659.70
217.51
33.98
74.03
40.05
130.00
130.00
2,111.00
992.00
754.34
243.48
1,176.87
2,174.69
136.45
8.00
8.00
833.13
1,058.12
224.99
10,469.98
11.00
12,765.46
2,284.48
91,947.20
76.78
105,420.95
13,396.97
7.57
93.93
86.36
157.09
188.33
31.24
706.87
833.77
126.90
1,260.13
2,020.78
760.65
$1,009,454.70 $16,527.97 $22,456.06
$52,466.04 $717.00 $1,384,061.62
$282,439.85
F. F. BLACKINTON, City Collector.
Collector
Abated
$ 3,931.25
3,931.25 5,240.02
8,199.08 226,994.76
4.00 713.00
*
534.74
206.46
11,533.73
1,119.00
136.45
8.00
8.00
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Sealer of Weights and Measures
Attleboro, Mass., July 14, 1934
To His Honor the Mayor and Municipal Council:
I herewith submit the following report as Sealer of Weights and Measures for 1933.
Adjusted
Sealed 7
Not Sealed
Con- demned
Platform over 5,000 lbs.
1
Platform 100 to 5,000 lbs.
27
68
Counter under 100 lbs.
15
60
Beam 100 lbs. or over.
1
9
Spring 100 lbs. or over
1
17
Spring under 100 lbs.
40
419
1
1
Computing under 100 lbs.
47
96
Personal Weighing (Slot).
6
Prescription
5
Avoirdupois
344
Apothecary
70
Metric.
38
Vehicle Tanks
2
6
Liquid
104
Oil Jars
6
Dry
5
Gasoline Pumps.
1
154
16
3
Gasoline Meters.
72
Kerosene Pumps.
9
Oil Measuring Pumps.
8
105
4
Quan. Meas. on Pumps (ea.)
191
712
Yard Sticks
20
3
Totals 345
2321
17
11
Fees collected and turned over to City Treasurer :
Local License Fees-18.
License Plates-18.
Special City License-18.
County License-9 State License-6
Transient Vendors-4
53.46
Sealing Fees Collected
196.78
Coal Reweighings
14
For City Departments
6
Package Reweighing.
914
$ 90.00
9.00
450.00
Respectfully submitted,
DAN O'CONNELL, Sealer of Weights and Measures.
145
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Report of Electrical Inspector
To His Honor the Mayor and the Municipal Council:
I herewith submit my report as Electrical Inspector for the year ending December 31st, 1933.
Appli- cations
Permits
Inspec- tions
Re-Inspec-
tions
Total
January
60
60
80
84
164
February.
52
52
69
86
155
March
35
35
47
89
136
April
82
82
110
115
225
May
62
62
83
121
204
June
101
101
131
120
251
July
42
42
53
91
144
August.
77
77
101
120
221
September.
85
85
114
150
264
October
69
69
92
176
268
November
86
86
115
119
234
December
58
58
77
79
156
809
809
1,072
1,350
2,422
Through the efforts of this office many old poles have been removed from the streets in the business section of the city. A jointly owned pole line has been completed on South Avenue and on Thacher Street thereby eliminating two old pole lines along these streets.
RECOMMENDATIONS
$200.00
Maintenance of Auto
100.00
Office Expenses
$300.00
I wish at this time to extend my sincere thanks to His Honor the Mayor, the Municipal Council and all officials and citizens for their courtesy and hearty co-operation extended to this office during the past year of 1933.
Respectfully submitted,
JOSEPH H. NEWCOMB, Electrical Inspector.
146
ANNUAL REPORT
Fire Department
MAYOR Stephen H. Foley
COMMITTEE OF THE CITY COUNCIL ON FIRE DEPARTMENT
Joseph F. Rioux, Chairman
G. Dallas Jencks
James V. Toner
BOARD OF FIRE ENGINEERS
William E. Sweeney, Chairman
Craig C. Pope
Chief Fred A. Clark, Clerk Asst. Chief Leonard Gould
PERMANENT MEN Located at South Main Street Station
Chief Fred A. Clark.
22 Hayward St.
Asst. Chief Leonard Gould
88 Forest St.
Captain Bert E. Riley
21 Bicknell St.
Lieutenant Joseph O. Mowry
5 Second St.
Lieutenant Herbert E. Knight
15 Angell St.
Frank E. Barney
681 Park St.
Charles E. Barrett
1 Parker St.
Francis J. Barrett.
22 Foley St.
Eustace H. Benson
1473 Park St.
Harold Cassidy
23 Foley St.
William A. Demers
41a Holman St.
Charles I. Gay.
155 Park St.
Peter Godfrey
16 Carman Ave. So. Main St.
James W. Hatfield.
1 Mulberry St.
William J. Lees.
31 Adamsdale Ave.
John J. McGilvray
16 Martin St.
Harry E. Morris.
94 Cumberland Ave.
Edward M. Paton
10 Angell St.
Harold J. Powers
56 Carpenter St.
William E. Riley
96 Park St.
John Stafford ..
48 Oakridge Ave.
William A. Wheaton
66 Emory St.
Herman F. Gorman
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Located at Union Street Station
Captain Hiram R. Packard.
8 Hope St.
Lieutenant Herbert E. Brown
9 Franklin St.
Lieutenant William F. Ahern
567 Thacher St.
Joseph I. Claflin
138 Lamb St.
John E. Galvin.
60 Parker St.
Joseph W. Hearn
53 Thacher St.
Ralph L. Hopkinson
6 Benefit St.
Nelson B. Lees
61 Adamsdale Ave.
Delphis J. B. Paradis
35 Baker St.
Herbert C. Parker
163 North Ave.
Charles E. Stewart
36 Parker St.
Located at South Attleboro Station
Captain Roy M. Churchill
11 Russell Ave.
Lieutenant Albert N. Knight
10 Lafayette St.
Albert W. Andrews
9 Mechanic St.
Henry E. Charon.
46 Hodges St.
Clifford E. Dieterle.
496 Newport Ave.
Manual Duigmedgian
105 Parker St.
Frederick W. S. Moore
Joseph A. Smith.
54 Brownell St. Horton Ave.
Herman M. Thurber
532 Newport Ave.
Located at Hebronville Station
Andrew L. Murphy
Bliss Ave.
148
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Report of Board of Fire Engineers
To His Honor, the Mayor and Municipal Council :-
We have the honor of submitting the annual report of the Fire Department for the year ending December 30, 1933, together with such recommendations as we think necessary for increasing the efficiency of the Department.
Organization
The Department consists of :- 4 Engineers-2 Permanent, 2 Call 42 Officers and Men-Permanent
Fire Stations and Apparatus Central Fire Station, South Main Street, Station No. 1
2 Ahrens-Fox Triple Combinations
1 Ahrens-Fox City Service Ladder Truck
1 Chief's Car
1 Supply Car
Union Street Station, Station No. 2
1 Ahrens-Fox Triple Combination
1 Seagraves Tractor Drawn 75 foot Aerial Ladder Truck
South Attleboro Station, Newport Avenue, Station No. 4
1 Ahrens-Fox Triple Combination
1 Seagraves City Service Ladder Truck
1 Kelly-Springfield, Rebuilt, Combination Hose and Chemical
Hebronville Station, South Main Street, Station No. 5
1 Federal Combination Hose and Chemical
APPARATUS
4 Ahrens-Fox Triple Combinations
2 Hose and Chemical Trucks
3 Ladder Trucks
1 Chief's Car
1 Supply Truck
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FIRE RECORD
We had one bad three alarm fire, the Smith and Dexter Block.
The Department, including all companies, has laid 24,950 feet of hose, raised 2,630 feet of ladders, used 348 gallons of chemicals, 12 gallons of foam, 8 pyrenes, water cans 157 times and the booster pumps 66 times.
The Department has responded to the following alarms:
Alarms from boxes 50
Still Alarms 213
Assembly.
2 Total 265
Classification
Acid.
1
Ash bins and cans.
3
Automobiles
21
Boy Scout assembly
1
Brush 77
Bonfire.
1
Buildings
45
Bridge.
1
Chimney
45
Dump
15
False
7
Gain Entrance.
5
Grease.
1
Inhalator
2
No Fire.
17
Motor
3
Oil Burner
4
Oil Stove
3
Pumping out cellar
3
Rescue Animal
3
Sawdust.
1
Sprinkler
4
Tar.
2
Total 265
Assistance to North Attleboro 1, Norton 1.
FIRE LOSS
Value of Buildings at risk.
$ 689,875 975,800
Value of Contents at risk
$1,665,675.00
Insurance on Buildings
817,300
Insurance on Contents
1,107,200
$1,924,500.00
Loss on Buildings
21,149.69
Loss on Contents.
26,747.98
$ 47,897.67
Insurance paid on Buildings
20,899.69
Insurance paid on Contents
23,447.98
Loss not covered by Insurance
44,347.67 $ 3,550.00
LEARN THE LOCATION OF YOUR NEAREST FIRE ALARM BOX.
150
ANNUAL REPORT
IMPROVEMENTS
A new booster pump has been purchased for Ladder No. 3 which will be of great value where there is no water mains.
The Chief's old car has been made over for a service car. The men in the department doing the work.
SALARIES
Chief.
$2,100.00 per year
Assistant Chief .
2,000.00 per year
Semi-permanent man, Hebronville 1,080.00 per year
PERMANENT MEN
Captains $4.95 per day
Lieutenants. 4.73 per day
2nd year men.
4.50 per day
2nd six month's men.
4.28 per day
1st six month's men 4.05 per day
HOSE
The total amount of two and one-half inch hose in the department is 16,000 feet, of one and one-half inch hose is 1,500 feet. Chemical hose 2,000 feet.
RECOMMENDATIONS
We recommend that two additional men, permanent, be added to the depart- ment. Also that the Council consider a new piece of apparatus to replace the Kelly truck now in use in South Attleboro. This piece has been in service for 19 years and should be replaced.
APPRECIATION
We wish at this time to thank His Honor the Mayor, the Municipal Council, the Committee on Fire Department, and the Police Department for their assist- ance and to the Officers and Men for the able manner in which they performed their duties.
We wish to thark Dr. Kent for his attendance and services rendered to our men injured at fires.
Also at this time we wish to thank Mr. Wightman and Mr. Morin for lunches sent to us at numerous night fires.
Respectfully submitted,
BOARD OF FIRE ENGINEERS,
William E. Sweeney, Chairman Chief Fred A. Clark Leonard Gould Craig C. Pope
151
ANNUAL REPORT
ESTIMATED EXPENSES (1)
Salary of Chief
2,100.00
Salary of Assistant Chief.
2,000.00
Salary of (1) Semi-permanent man .
1,083.04
Salary of (3) Captains .
5,445.00
Salary of (5) Lieutenants.
8,679.30
Salary of (31) Permanent men
51,150.00
Salary of (2) Permanent men
3,227.21
$73,684.65
MAINTENANCE OF EQUIPMENT (2)
Autos
$ 1,900.00
Hose.
1,000.00
Apparel.
150.00
Stations .
2,500.00
Extinguishers
25.00
All other
25.00
$ 5,600.00
OTHER EXPENSES (3)
Light
485.00
Phone .
490.00
Water
135.00
Fuel
1,000.00
Insurance
250.00
Office
50.00
Incidentals
25.00
$ 2,435.00
HYDRANTS (4)
Total
$81,719.65
Superintendent of Fire Alarm
To the Board of Fire Engineers,
Gentlemen :-
I herewith submit my annual report as Superintendent of Fire Alarm for the year ending December 31st, 1933.
The Gamewell Fire Alarm Telegraph System is in use and is in very good working order. Below is listed the equipment which makes up the system.
One steam whistle and equipment. Pumping Station, So. Attleboro
One air whistle with compressed air equipment. Central Station
One Excelsior Punch Register Central Station
One Peerless Take-up Reel. Central Station Two Tower bell strikers (spare). Union Street Station
One tower bell and striker South Attleboro Station
One tower bell striker. Hebronville Church
One indicator South Attleboro Station
One indicator . Central station Hebronville Station
One indicator
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Two indicators (1 spare)
Union St. Station
One Excelsior punch register Attleboro Station
One Excelsior purch register Union St. Station
There are 16 tappers and gongs located as follows: one in the Police Station. Telephone Office, Office of the Superintendent of Public Works, Water Works Barn, and the balance in the homes of the members of the department.
There are 118 fire alarm boxes connected to the system. 112 of these are street boxes and 6 are owned by the following concerns:
Box No. 31 North Avenue
Interstate Street Railway Co.
Box No. 851 46 Pine Street
Bay State Optical Co.
Box No. 652 53 Falmouth Street
A. B. Cummings Co.
Box No. 751 56 Starkey Avenue Re-enforced Paper Co.
Box No. 515 57 Mechanic Street
The C. L. Watson Co.
Box No. 554 32 Olive Street The Larson Tool Co.
The Fire Alarm Headquarters is located in the Union Street Fire Station and contains the following:
One twelve circuit stoage battery switchboard
One twelve circuit protector board
One ten circuit repeater
510 cells of storage battery
One 1 KW Generator set
One 1 1-2 KW Generator set (gas driven)
One Excelsior punch register
One Peerless take-up reel
One Excelsior Time and Date Stamp
One six circuit storage battery switch board (in storage)
One six circuit protector board (in storage)
During the past year no additional Fire Alarm Boxes have been placed in the system.
RECOMMENDATIONS
I would recommend that something be done in the near future toward the addition of several fire alarm boxes. This City is at present far behind in its total number of fire alarm boxes as compared with other cities of the equivalent size.
Also a new Line Construction Body for new chassis recently purchased to replace present truck that has started on its twelfth year of service.
$1,875.00
Salary of Superintendent. 1,735.87
Salary of Assistant Electrician
1,250.00
Maintenance of Fire Alarm
150.00
Maintenance of Auto
250.00
Other Expenses
750.00
Line Construction Body, A.T. & T. Spec.
$5,010.87
I wish at this time to thank the Board of Engineers and the members of the Department for their valuable assistance to this branch of the service during the past year of 1933.
Respectfully submitted, JOSEPH H. NEWCOMB, Superintendent of Fire Alarm.
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Report of Board of Assessors
To His Honor the Mayor ard Municipal Council,
Gentlemen :
The Board of Assessors respectfully submit the report of the Assessing Department for the year 1933.
TABLE OF AGGREGATES
Number of persons assessed on Property.
5,727
Number of polls assessed
6,772
Number of persons assessed Old Age Assistance
6,772
Value of Stock in Trade.
565,470.00 $
Value of Machinery .
2,307,275.00
Value of Live Stock
55,600.00
Value of Other Tangible property
1,053,425.00
Total value of Personal Property assessed
3,981,770.00
Total value of Real Estate assessed
21,323,900.00
Total value of Buildings assessed.
15,317,845.00
Total value of Land assessed.
6,006,055.00
Total value of Real and Personal assessed
25,305,670.00
Tax assessed on Personal Estate
121,045.81
Tax assessed on Real Estate.
648,246. 56
Tax assessed on Polls
13,544.00
Total tax on all estates
782,836.37
1933 Tax Rate-per thousand .
30.40
Horses assessed
131
Cows assessed.
697
Neat cattle assessed
83
Swine assessed.
290
Houses assessed.
3,961
Acres of land assessed.
15,000
Fowl assessed
14,474
Value of Fowl
10,855.50
RECAPITULATION
City Appropriations
$ 1,172,160.68
Nov. and Dec. appropriations-1932
61,108.32
1930 deficit Overlay .
857.22
1931 deficit Overlay
3,157.85
State Tax.
34,830.00
Hospital for Veterans.
117.50
State Parks and Reservations
69.69
State Highway
329.50
State Old Age Assistance.
6,772.00
County Tax .
33,453.89
Tuberculosis Hospital
16,137.61
1933 Overlay
13,491.01
Total
$ 1,342,485.27
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ESTIMATED RECEIPTS
Income Tax.
Corporation Tax
52,705.47 31,736.76
Bank Tax.
1,370.30
Excise Tax
25,000.00
Licenses.
6,237. 11
Fines.
1,502.36
Special Assessments
4,845.99 873.59
Water Revenue
Health and Sanitation
100,293.64 1,964.13 35,934.79 160,000.00
Loan a|c Public Welfare, Acts of 1933
Soldiers Benefits .
831.47
Education
6,382.37
Costs on Water and Taxes.
2,663.04
Aug. 1-Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933
33,477.88
Aug. 15-Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933
22,062.59
Interest on Deposits. .
3,066.19
Interest on Taxes and Assessments.
9,099.13
State Owned Land .
6.31
$ 500,053.12
Available Funds
52,823.78
$ 552,876.90
City, State and County Appropriations
$ 1,342,485.27
Estimated Receipts.
552,876.90
Net amount to be raised on Polls and Property
$ 789,608.37
Above amount raised by the following:
6,772 Old Age Assistance Taxes
@ $ 1.00 $ 6,772.00
6,772 Poll Taxes
2.00
13,544.00
Valuation $25,305,670
@ 30.40
769,292.37
789,608.37
Betterment Taxes
Sewer Assessment.
621.92
Sidewalks Assessment.
687.36
Curbing Assessment.
1,397.37
Moth
189.45
Motor Excise.
28,504.12
Amount raised from all assessments $ 821,008.59
MOTOR EXCISE TAX
Number of Cars registered.
5,184
Value of same .
$ 1,098,890.00
Tax on above.
28,504.12 212.00
Average valuation
5 50
There were 8 less cars than in 1932
Number of Transfers handled. 1,037
Exempt City owned Personal Property. $ 1,848,365.00
Exempt Real Estate in City 4,136,660.00
Average tax. .
General Government
Charities
155
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Treasurer's deed to City of Attleboro- Consisted of 215 parcels of land Owned by 119 persons Value of same $11,100.00 Cost of Operating the Assessing Department fot the Last 7 Years
Salaries
Asst. Assessors
Clerical $ 2,629.50
Other
Total $ 8,134.27
1928.
3,400.00
772.00
3,087.00
1,544.02
8,803.02
1929
3,400.00
579.25
4,064.83
1,814.19
9,858.27
1930
4,000.00
706.75
3,863.84
2,753.42
11,324.01
1931
5,000.00
562.59
3,789.82
2,428.12
11,780.53
1932
4,210.00
556.40
3,345.80
1,492.25
9,604.45
1933
3,356.41
397.74
2,219.58
1,360.00
7,333.73
Abatements Made During the Year 1933
Polls
Personal
Real Estate
Moth
Excise
1930
$ 3,931.25
1931
$
12.00
968.43
30.16
$ 1,072.66
1932
804.00
595.03
1,401.23
.50
661 05
1933
212.00
1,312.06
1,273.90
1,104.14
1927
$ 3,400.00
633.75
$ 1,471.02
The Engineering Department has furnished us during the year with three new plats. This makes a total of 63 new plats now in this office in use. all changed over from old plat numbers to new plat numbers.
BOARD OF ASSESSORS,
H. L. Perry J. J. Hodge I. H. Bruce
156
ANNUAL REPORT
City Solicitor's Report
February 9, 1934
To the Honorable Council of the City of Attleboro,
Gentlemen :
From June 8, 1933 to January 1, 1934, there has been seven cases on which settlement has been made. There were two cases on which the Courts have rendered a favorable decision. There were no cases which were decided against the City of Attleboro.
There are pending now against the City of Attleboro eleven cases which are in actual litigation. Four of these are in the process of settlement at the present time.
The Office of the City Solicitor has received this ty-four requests for opinions, and written opinions have been given in each instance.
There have been seventy-six consultations from the officials of the several departments of the City regarding matters on which a written opinion has not been asked for.
There are of course several matters on the docket of the Claims Committee which are now pending, but they have been entered in Court as actual litigation.
Sincerely yours,
HENRI G. PROULX, City Solicitor.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Public Works Department
OF THE
CITY OF ATTLEBORO
FOR THE YEAR 1933
158
ANNUAL REPORT
Department of Public Works
To His Honor, the Mayor, and the Honorable Municipal Council :- Gentlemen:
I respectfully tender herewith the nineteenth annual report of the Public Works Department of the City of Attleboro, Massachusetts, for the year ending December 31, 1933.
The depression spoken of since 1930 has not abated in reasonable fashion which would make secure our financial and municipal life. During the passing of the year very radical methods of attack have been used in combatting the effects to be expected from economic failure through the city, county, state and nation. Definitely, some of these experiments must fail, owing to human inability to over- turn basic economic law. It must be recognized that other phases of this ex- perimentation will leave a lasting mark upon our national life and policies and will go down in local history as having supplied an immediate benefit to the com- munity, the full worth of which cannot be measured so soon after its initiation.
Figures should be available to our people and it must be recorded herewith that $55,540.47 was received by the City, through the agency of the State Treas- urer's office, from the Federal government, based upon our Welfare needs, figured in accordance with the federal formula which allocated the distribution of funds set aside to reimburse communities to some extent from the Federal treasury, against the especial drain on their resources for Welfare purposes, due to the extraordinary industrial and economic depression.
It should further be noted by this department that many members of the different forces engaged in work supervised by them, received through local Welfare agencies, food allotments, the origin of which trace to the Federal govern- ment. The relief thus obtained could be classified as direct.
On November 17, 1933, Joseph W. Bartlett, chairman of the Emergency Finance Committee, called a meeting of the mayors and other interested city officials for a cooperative discussion of the objects of a Civil Works Administra- tion, so-called, the funds for which were to be supplied by the Federal govern- ment, acting through state boards, with local administrators being appointed, not because of their ability to successfully cope with the new idea, but because of holding a position as the head of local Welfare boards.
The meeting was a revelation in uncovering local and national conditions which required nothing less than a superb and sustained, superior effort in getting underway and operating Public Works projects in the several localities, against the odds of a rapidly approaching winter season, the severity of which has never been challenged. For success locally there could be no wavering, no shrinking from working long hours for the administrative and executive forces, who were responsible for obtaining and maintaining the projects undertaken and whose previous experience, particularly in adequately meeting emergencies, could prove of untold value to the community.
The inability of some people, arbitrarily selected to participate in the pro- gram, to comprehend intelligently the power of the forces which caused the experiment outlined above to be tried at a time not advantageous for public work, must not be overlooked. It made doubly hard the success expected from local agencies in cooperating with the federal officials to obtain the results which could properly justify the expenditures for sensible public improvements in the winter.
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