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Beedie, Alexander
Flint, John H. Flint, William M. Foster, Russell J. Froburg, Albion F.
Gill, Joseph M. Gilman, Albert E. Graham, Arthur M. Gray, Claremont I. Greenwood, Ralph L.
Hadley, Ralph E. Haggerty, Daniel J. Hardy, Frederick C.
Hardy, Philip L.
Harnedy, William A. Hatch, William G. Henderson, George M.
Henderson, John
Hennessey, William
Hickey, Vincent P.
Hill, John K. Holt, Carl J. Houston, Robert S.
Hovey, James H.
Hulme, Samuel P.
Hurley, John F.
Hutcheson, Douglas W. Jaques, Robert G.
Johnson, Howard B.
Kearn, Frederick J.
Kurth, William W.
Lewis, Herbert Lindsay, Carl N.
Livingston, Clinton R.
Livingston, George F.
Lord, John T. Luce, Rowland L. Lynch, James A. Lynch, Michael J.
Matthews, Clester E.
McCarthy, Frank G. McDermitt, William G.
Painter
Farmer Electrician
Trucking
Carpenter
Carpenter Clerk
Clerk
Watchman
Wholesale grocer
Coachman
Farmer
Contractor Clerk
Clerk
Carpenter
Carpenter
Finisher
Accountant
Clerk
Laborer
Merchant
Carpenter
Real Estate
Carpenter
Printer Farmer
Electrician
Farmer
Merchant
Farmer
Salesman
Operative Farmer
Retired
Furniture
Carpenter Operative
Wool sorter
Contractor
Operative
35 Washington Ave. Bailey Rd. 78 Lowell St. South Main St. 16 Cuba St. Lowell St. 38 Whittier St. 32 Washington Ave. Tewksbury St. 30 Wolcott Ave. 74 Morton St. Haggetts Pond Rd.
111 Chestnut St. 24 Summer St. 45 High St. Andover St. 64 Red Spring Rd. 1 Cassimere St. 44 Elm St. Lowell St. 21 Elm St. 354 North Main St. South Main St. 12 Brook St. 10 Harding St. 115 Chestnut St. 69 Maple Ave. Carmel Rd. Haggetts Pond Rd. 300 North Main St. Lowell St. 59 Salem St. Andover St. Brown St. 74 Poor St.
19 Summer St. Gray Rd. 6 Ridge St. Center St. 12 Wolcott Ave. Woburn St.
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Mooar, Philip C. Moore, William P.
Mechanic Retired
Chauffeur
Machinist
Myatt, Peter S. Minor, Herbert C.
Laborer
Steamfitter
Nelligan, John J.
Clerk
Newman, Winthrop R.
Gardener
Newton, Charles M.
Poultryman
Nicoll, Frank L.
Painter Engineer
Peters, Thomas
Petrie, Alexander B.
Gardener
Pike, John N.
Brick layer
Platt, Thomas W.
Carpenter
Poland, John
Auto worker
Rennie, Adam E.
Farmer
Rennie, George
Farmer
Ripley, Walter C.
Painter
Robb, David B.
Upholsterer
Robertson, Foster G.
Salesman
Ronan, William A.
Chauffeur
Schofield, James F.
Weaver
Shea, Maurice P.
Percher
Shiers, Frederick R.
Ice business
Smith, Arthur J.
Brick layer Salesman
Stacey, Franklin H.
Druggist
Stack, Robert A.
Chauffeur
Stevens, Clinton H.
Accounatnt
Stirling, William
Machinist
Stott, Joseph E.
Clerk
Sutton, Osborne
Rubber worker
Sweeney, John F.
Steamfitter
Taylor, Thomas D.
Machinist
Tewksbury, Willis D.
Retired
Tucker, Charles H.
Gardener Plumber
Turner, Patrick J. Waldie, James S.
Unemployed
Wallace, Alexander
Restaurateur
Warden, Charles S.
Salesman
Winslow, Henry F.
Farmer
79 Lowell St. Hidden Rd. 111 Abbot St. Andover St. 13 Bartlet St. 7 Shepley St. 4 Summer St. Lowell St.
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108 Lowell St. 10 Johnson Rd. 7 Temple Pl. 49 Balmoral St. Highland Ave. 23 Maple Ave. 89 Chestnut St. 121 Elm St. Boutwell Rd. 103 Summer St. 37 Lowell St. 51 Bartlet St. 21 High St. Bancroft Rd. 68 Whittier St. Argilla Rd. Argilla Rd.
13 Carisbrooke St. 125 Main St. 7 Canterbury St. 58 Morton St. Andover St. 30 Burnham Rd.
North St.
Smith, J. Lewis
Rattlesnake Hill Rd. 5 York St. 9 Brook St. 20 Summer St. 72 Morton St. 8 Cuba St. High St., B.V. 119 Chestnut St. 42 High St.
Morrissey, Thomas F. Murphy, Michael M.
Trustees of Memorial Hall Library
NATHAN C. HAMBLIN
BURTON S. FLAGG
FREDERIC S. BOUTWELL
HENRY G. TYER
PHILIP F. RIPLEY MARY BYERS SMITH
CLAUDE M. FUESS
Chairman PHILIP F. RIPLEY
Secretary and Treasurer FREDERIC S. BOUTWELL
Librarian EDNA A. BROWN
Assistants
MARGARET D. MANNING DOROTHY H. RUHL
In Charge of Junior Room EVELYN R. ROBINSON
Assistants
SARAH A. BALLARD NANCY E. BABCOCK
In Charge of Ballardvale Branch
MARTHA D. BYINGTON
Janitor
ARCHIBALD MACLAREN
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Report of Finance Committee
The following is a list of the Securities owned by the Trustees of the Memorial Hall Library as of January 3, 1939.
Penn. R.R. Co. 414s July 1984
$ 6000.00
Bangor & Aroostook R.R. 4s, July 1951
5000.00
Chicago Railways Co. 5s-C.F.D.
7500.00
Penn. Co. 4s, Aug. 1963
5000.00
Bell Tel. Co. of Canada, 5s, Mar. 1955
3000.00
So. California Gas Co., 412s, March 1961
5000.00
Boston & Maine R.R. 5s, Sept. 1941
2000.00
Dayton Power & Light Co., 31/2s, Oct. 1960
1000.00
No. States Power Co. 312s, Feb. 1967
3000.00
Penn. Power & Light Co., 41/2s April 1981
2000.00
Boston & Albany R.R. 5s, Oct. 1963
2000.00
New England Power Ass'n, 5s, April 1948
3000.00
Commonwealth Edison Co., 334s, April 1965
1000.00
Kansas Pr. & Light Co., 412s, November 1965
4000.00
Detroit, 41/2s May 15, 1951
1000.00
Puget Sound Power & Light Co., 41/2s, June 1950
5000.00
New England Tel. & Tel. Co., 5s, June 1952
1000.00
Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates, 4s, March 1956
3000.00
Cent. New York Power Co. 33/4s, October 1962
1000.00
Phila. Electric Co. 312s, March, 1967
1000.00
New York Steam Corp. 31/2s, July 1963
1000.00
U.S. Treasury 3s, June 15, 1946-48
3000.00
Am. Tel. & Tel. Co. 4 shares of stock
571.50
Savings Banks
16051.27
Income on hand
285.92
Total
$82408.69
FREDERIC S. BOUTWELL, Treasurer
January 21, 1939
This is to certify that the Securities belonging to the Trustees of the Memorial Hall Library, and the income received therefrom, have been checked and are found correct.
The expenditures in this department are paid by the Town Treasurer and are examined by the Town Accountant.
BURTON S. FLAGG NATHAN C. HAMBLIN Finance Committee of the Trustees
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Report of Trustees of Memorial Hall Library
The Trustees of Memorial Hall Library have voted to adopt. the annual report of the librarian as their report to the Town for the year 1938.
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Report of the Memorial Hall Librarian
January 3, 1939
To the Trustees of the Memorial Hall Library:
I herewith present the report of the library for the twelve months ending December 31, 1938.
The past year has shown an extraordinary and unforeseen increase in the use of the library. We circulated for home use during 1938, 99,440 books, 13,754 more than during 1937. This is at the rate of 9.9 per capita of the town's population. We have 5195 borrowers, 51% of Andover's inhabitants.
To explain this marked increase is not easy. Unemployment does not account for it, for most of our borrowers are now em- ployed and we have far fewer unoccupied people in the reading- room. The increase includes the senior library, the junior room, and the Ballardvale branch, and embraces readers of every age and every type.
The most satisfactory explanation is the one which we hope to be the truth: that the town has become more conscious of its public library. All through the depression the library did its best to provide books for self-education, for professional help, for students, for mere amusement,-tried to keep up public morale, and in this we believe the libraries of the nation have been second only to the agencies of charity. The result is more demands made upon us, steadily more and more people finding out what a public library can mean to its community.
Library service means more than issuing books, answering questions and being generally helpful. It means making readers feel so at home that they instinctively think of "our" library; that they do not ask "Do you have a book on Diesel engines?" but "Do we have a book on Diesel power?"
And our public is becoming serious-minded. In days when even the children are taught economics, it is important for everyone to understand something of political and racial conditions. We are continually asked for books on national and European politics, and in these history-making times, can hardly keep up with the rapidly-shifting policies of nations.
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It is not true that the books we buy are above the heads of ordinary people. They are bought because they are asked for, because working men and women request material upon definite subjects and the library heeds their requests. During the year we have bought books upon American and foreign governments, civilization, problems of democracy, church union, machine woodworking, electricity, ventilation, mechanical refrigeration, insulation, engineering, psychology, choral reading, aircraft, plastics, antiques-to list all would be to fill pages-but in each case, for a definite use and because of a particular request. We even have in the loan file waiting-lists for books such as "Mathe- matics for the Million," "Navigation," "The Thinking Body," "Your Voice Personality," as well as for many new biographies and books of travel.
No, it is not true that the books we buy are over the heads of ordinary people. No readers would use a small town public library to the extent of borrowing nearly 100,000 books in one year unless they found there the kind of books they actually want to read, and which they do read with appreciation and understanding.
Increased circulation means increased work in every depart- ment of the library. This year shows the handling of nearly 200,- 000 books coming in and out over the loan desk. It means more time spent in keeping shelves in order. Ours being open to the public, a book in the wrong place is a book temporarily lost. It means more mending of books and much more rebinding of vol- umes. Our bills for binding outran our budget for that item before the year was half over. Increased use means more questions to be answered and more time spent in looking up information for borrowers. It means more cards and library supplies of every kind. It means an increase in executive work and in planning so that things may go smoothly.
April of 1938 saw the high water mark of use for all time of 9669 books taken for home use. Every succeeding month saw usage much above the corresponding period for 1937, and the pressure upon a too-small staff increased until it became necessary to add another full-time assistant. On October 1st, Miss Nancy E. Bab- cock, a graduate of the Simmons College School of Library Science joined the staff and has since been on steady duty in the junior room.
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The work of the junior room continues to expand. During the school year Miss Robinson has given an hour and a half daily to the junior high school library. Could it be managed, the school would like much more of her time. Books are lent from the junior room to the junior high school library, and to all the grade schools, both public and parochial, as well as classroom libraries for indi- vidual teachers. The use made of these deposits is surprisingly large and entirely justifies the care spent in their selection and the time expended in attending to them. One deposit lent to the fourth grade of the John Dove School showed on return, that its 20 books had been read 177 times. Is it any wonder that binding bills are increasing and that the need for new books in the junior room remains constant?
The usual instruction in the use of reference books and the card catalogue was given to all pupils of the seventh and eighth grades in public, private and parochial schools. This instruction is considered by the school authorities as an important part of the course in English.
More and more parents are visiting the junior room with the result that the collection of beautifully illustrated books is in constant circulation and that there is a steadily growing demand for more books for the younger children.
Both in the junior room and at Ballardvale, the collection of pamphlets for the use of Boy Scouts has been brought up to date. Scouts may find in either place the merit badge requirements they wish to consult.
With a second full-time assistant in the junior room it is plan- ned during 1939, to resume the practice of story-telling. This has necessarily been omitted for some time because the staff, with the pressure of other work, could not manage it.
During July, the interior walls of the library were cleaned, with results pleasing to every one. The greatest change was seen in the junior room where the original cream color of ceiling and walls emerged from the accumulated grime of twelve years.
The hurricane of September 21st uprooted the large larch be- hind the library, broke limbs from the big elm, did some damage to the roof, and completely demolished the hanging sign. At the time, this vanished bodily. Later, its scattered fragments were found, but a new sign was necessary.
The Ballardvale Branch Library shows a circulation of 9313
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volumes, 1568 more than during 1937. New books to the number of 113 have been added to its shelves, and it now has its own col- lection of 3537 books.
A gift of $75 for the book fund came from the Directors of the Andover Evening Study Groups of Phillips Academy, with the suggestion that it be used for buying books of social, economic, religious, historical, or scientific interest, for adults of the com- munity. We are glad to comply with this request, and have es- pecially considered books helpful along the lines of lectures planned for the winter.
Other gifts of books, plants and flowers are acknowledged with appreciation of many generous givers. On her return from Europe, Miss Twichell brought the junior room additional animals for its nativity scene, two dolls from Italy, and a most charming wall- placque showing the interior of the Alm-Uncle's House, as de- scribed in that perennial classic for all children, "Heidi."
Perhaps not every one in Andover realizes how many of the current weekly and monthly periodicals may be seen in the library reading-room. We receive regularly 61 of these publications, a few of which are gifts. In choosing these periodicals, preference is given to the popular but more costly ones to which people are less likely to subscribe, such as Asia, Country Life, Antiques, Punch, Illustrated London News, rather than the five and ten-cent issues which almost anyone can buy. Probably our most used periodicals are Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Radio News, National Geographic Magazine, London News and Time, but all have their regular readers.
In addition to those to be used only in the reading-room, we have circulating copies of the Atlantic, Harpers, Scribner's, American Home, Etude, and House Beautiful, which may be borrowed like seven-day books. The junior room also has its especial monthly and weekly periodicals, as does the Ballardvale Branch.
It is plain that for 1939, we shall need an increased appropria- tion. The library has been managed with every possible economy, every expenditure discussed and scrutinized. The State Auditor, who inspects all town records, congratulated us upon our clear and accurate accounts. But due to our greatly increased use, our appropriation for 1938 fell short of our actual needs. During December, book-buying was cut to a minimum, and new books
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are essential for successful library work. This item should not be subject to curtailment because of deficiencies elsewhere.
We would again call the attention of the tax-payers to the fact that, out of every tax-dollar levied in 1938, the library with its year's circulation of nearly 100,000 books, received the sum of two and seven-tenths cents. Has any other town institution paid larger dividends to the community upon so small an initial invest- ment? 1
This all-time high use of the library has been possible only through cooperation of everyone concerned. Thanks are due to an interested and far-seeing Board of Trustees, to a staff who have put heart and soul into their work, and to a loyal and efficient janitor and his helper.
The library's record for 1938 is an example of what can happen when a public institution is earnestly and conscientiously ad- ministered for the greatest good of the greatest number.
Respectfully submitted,
EDNA A. BROWN, Librarian
STATISTICS OF LIBRARY
Number of books issued at Memorial Hall Library
90127
Number of books issued at Ballardvale
9313
Total number of books issued for home use
99440
Books added by purchase
1171
Books added by gift
79
Total additions
1250
Books withdrawn
279
Total number of books in library
34709
Number of borrowers' cards in use
5195
Volumes bound
48
Volumes rebound
485
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TOWN OF ANDOVER
Thirty-seventh Annual Report of the
Board of Public Works
EMBRACING THE FIFTIETH ANNUAL REPORT of WATER COMMISSIONERS and FORTY- SECOND ANNUAL REPORT of SEWER COMMISSIONERS
For the Year Ending DECEMBER 31, 1938
1939
WATER COMMISSIONERS 1889-1899 *JAMES P. BUTTERFIELD *FELIX G. HAYNES
SEWER COMMISSIONERS
1894-1899
*WM. S. JENKINS *JOHN L. SMITH *JOHN E. SMITH
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
1899-1902
1903-1906
*JOHN H. FLINT
*JOHN L. SMITH
*WM. S. JENKINS
*FELIX G. HAYNES
*JOHN L. SMITH
*JOHN W. BELL
*JAMES P. BUTTERFIELD
*FELIX G. HAYNES
1906-1907
1907-1908
*FELIX G. HAYNES
*FELIX G. HAYNES
*JOHN W. BELL, Treas.
JAMES C. SAWYER, Sec'y
*LEWIS T. HARDY
*LEWIS T. HARDY
*HARRY M. EAMES 1908-1912
*ANDREW McTERNEN 1913-1914
*LEWIS T. HARDY ('16)
*BARNETT ROGERS ('16)
*ANDREW McTERNEN ('15)
*THOS. E. RHODES, Sec'y ('14) WILLIS B. HODGKINS, Treas. ('15)
1916-1917
*BARNETT ROGERS ('19)
*THOS. E RHODES ('17)
*ANDREW McTERNEN ('18) CHAS. B. BALDWIN, Sec'y ('19) WILLIS B. HODGKINS, Treas. ('18)
1918-1919 *BARNETT ROGERS ('22)
*ANDREW McTERNEN ('21) PHILIP L. HARDY ('21)
CHAS. B. BALDWIN, Sec'y ('22)
*THOS. E. RHODES, Treas. ('20) 1922-1923
*THOS. E. RHODES ('23)
PHILIP L. HARDY ('24)
WM. D. MCINTYRE, Treas. ('24)
ARTHUR T. BOUTWELL ('25)
EDWARD SHATTUCK ('25) 1924-1925-1926
PHILIP L. HARDY ('27)
WM. D. MCINTYRE, Sec'y ('27)
ARTHUR T. BOUTWELL, Treas. ('28)
*THOS. E. RHODES ('28)
WALTER I. MORSE ('29) 1928-1929
ARTHUR T. BOUTWELL ('31)
W. I. MORSE, Treas. ('32)
WM. D. McINTYRE, Sec'y ('30)
GEORGE H. WINSLOW ('30)
THOS. P. DEA ('31)
1930-1931
WM. D. MCINTYRE ('33)
W. I. MORSE, Treas. ('32)
GEORGE H. WINSLOW, Sec'y ('33)
THOS. P. DEA ('34)
FRANK A. BUTTRICK ('34) 1932-1933
WM. D. MCINTYRE ('36)
W. I. MORSE ('35)
JOHN H. PLAYDÓN ('36)
FRANK A. BUTTRICK ('34)
HENRY A. BODWELL ('34) 1934-1935-1936
WM. D. MCINTYRE '('39)
W. I. MORSE ('38) JOHN H. PLAYDON ('39)
FRANK A. BUTTRICK ('37)
HENRY A. BODWELL ('37)
1938-1939
Wm. D. MCINTYRE ('39)
JOHN H. PLAYDON ('39) FRANK A. BUTTRICK ('40)
HENRY A. BODWELL ('40) SIDNEY P. WHITE ('41)
SUPERINTENDENT CHARLES T. GILLIARD
·Deceased
FRANK A. BUTTRICK ('40)
HENRY A. BODWELL ('40)
*JOHN W. BELL, Treas. JAMES C. SAWYER, Sec'y
*LEWIS T. HARDY
*JOHN W. BELL, Treas.
JAMES C. SAWYER, Sec'y
* ANDREW McTERNEN WILLIS B. HODGKINS
1914-1916
*THOS. E. RHODES ('19)
*BARNETT ROGERS ('16)
*LEWIS T. HARDY ('16)
* ANDREW McTERNEN, Sec'y ('18) WILLIS B. HODGKINS, Treas. ('18)
1917-1918
*BARNETT ROGERS ('19)
*THOS. E. RHODES ('20)
*ANDREW McTERNEN ('18) CHAS. B. BALDWIN, Sec'y ('19) WILLIS B. HODGKINS, Treas. ('18) 1919-1920-1921
*BARNETT ROGERS ('22)
WILLIAM D. MCINTYRE ('21) ARTHUR T. BOUTWELL ('22) PHILIP L. HARDY, Sec'y ('21)
*THOS. E. RHODES, Treas. ('23) 1923-1924
PHILIP L. HARDY ('27)
WILLIAM D. MCINTYRE, Sec'y ('27)
ARTHUR T. BOUTWELL, Treas. ('25)
EDWARD SHATTUCK ('25)
WALTER I. MORSE ('26)
1927
ARTHUR T. BOUTWELL ('28)
*THOS. E. RHODES ('28)
WALTER I. MORSE, Treas. ('29)
WM. D. MCINTYRE, Sec'y ('30)
GEORGE H. WINSLOW ('30) 1929-1930
WM. D. MCINTYRE ('33)
W. I. MORSE, Treas. ('32)
GEORGE H. WINSLOW, Sec'y ('33)
ARTHUR T. BOUTWELL ('31)
THOS. P. DEA ('31) 1931-1932
WM. D. MCINTYRE ('33)
W. I. MORSE ('35)
THOS. P. DEA ('34)
FRANK A. BUTTRICK ('34)
JOHN H. PLAYDON ('33) 1933-1934-1935
WM. D. MCINTYRE ('36)
W. I. MORSE ('38) JOHN H. PLAYDON ('36)
FRANK A. BUTTRICK ('37)
HENRY A. BODWELL ('37) 1935-1936-1937 WM D. MCINTYRE ('39) W. I. MORSE ('38) JOHN H. PLAYDÓN ('39)
. "JOHN H. FLINT
1893-1894
*WM. S. JENKINS *JOHN L. SMITH *CHARLES E. ABBOTT
*LEWIS T. HARDY JAMES C. SAWYER
Board of Public Works
Andover, Mass. February 6, 1939
The Board of Public Works voted to adopt the following report of the Superintendent as its report for 1938 with recommenda- tions for 1939.
WILLIAM D. MCINTYRE, Chairman FRANK A. BUTTRICK, Secretary JOHN H. PLAYDON HENRY A. BODWELL SIDNEY P. WHITE
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Superintendent's Report
To the Board of Public Works
GENTLEMEN :
The major activities and developments in the Water, Highway, Sewer and Park Departments during the year which ended De- cember 31, 1938 are as follows:
WATER DEPARTMENT
Three hundred and twenty-five feet of eight-inch water main were installed on Salem Street from the corner of Salem Street and Wildwood Road to a point in front of a new house built by Mr. Fred Gould. The materials and blasting were paid for by Mr. Gould and the labor, with the exception of supervision and caulk- ing, was supplied by the Works Progress Administration.
Eleven hundred and forty-five feet of six-inch water main were installed on Gould Road from the corner of Gould Road and Boston Road to a point in front of the property of Mr. Edward Peters. Payment for some of the materials and blasting was pro- vided for under Article 3 of the Special Town Meeting held Octo- ber 3, 1938. The remaining cost of blasting and materials was paid out of the Water Construction Appropriation, but the labor, with the exception of supervision and caulking, was supplied by the Works Progress Administration.
Two hundred and eleven feet of six-inch water main were in- stalled on Canterbury Street from a former dead end to a point opposite property owned by Mr. Charles Dufton. Here the materials were purchased by the Town, and the labor, with the exception of supervision and caulking, was supplied by the Wel- fare Department.
Two hundred and twenty feet of six-inch water main were in- stalled on George Street under the supervision of the Town but at the expense of Mr. George Cairns.
On unaccepted streets, six-inch water mains have been in- stalled under the supervision of the Town, but at the expense of the owner as follows:
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Two hundred and twenty-four feet on Princeton Avenue; Five hundred and seventeen feet on Yale Road; Two hundred and ninety-seven feet on Dartmouth Road.
A new boiler was installed at the Haggetts Pond Pumping Station under Article 11 of the regular Town Meeting to replace one of the old boilers, and new nozzles conforming to the higher pressure of the new boiler were installed in the steam turbine. The boiler was purchased from the lowest bidder, the Interna- tional Engineering Works; and the engineering work was under the direction of Charles T. Main, Inc. The lowest bids received for boiler and appurtenances, etc. are listed below :
International Engineering Works
Boiler
1933.00
Extra
25.00
1958.00
Bride, Grimes Company
Piping
1680.00
Extra
73.00
1753.00
Foster Wheeler Company
Super Heater
920.00
920.00
Oscar F. Carlson Company
Boiler Setting
2058.00
2058.00
General Electric Company
Turbine Changes-Nozzles
80.00
Installing
145.86
225.86
Hamblet Machine Company
Dead Plate
12.00
12.00
Engineering Services
797.78
797.78
Miscellaneous
33.37
33.37
Total
7758.01
Appropriation, Article 11
8000.00
Approved Bills
7758.01
Balance
241.99
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Gutterson and Gould removed the old Dean steam pump and boiler from the Haggetts Pond Pumping Station. Prior to their removal, a twelve-inch water gate was installed in the discharge line and strapped to adjoining pipes; thus making it unnecessary to plug the end of the discharge pipe in the building and to strap to it. In addition, the old suction line was flanged.
The money received from the sale of the old Dean steam pump and boiler was used to repair the engine room and to install a pipe rail around an enclosure, etc. This work was done under Article 16 of the regular Town Meeting.
During the year the steam turbine was examined by the Gen- eral Electric Company and found to be in A1 condition.
The outside of the Haggetts Pond Pumping Station and coal shed was given two coats and the inside one coat of paint, the work being done by painters from the Welfare Department.
Blow-off pipes from the boilers and superheaters were extended through the roof at the Haggetts Pond Pumping Station. Missing slate shingles on the roof of the Haggetts Pond Pumping Station were replaced and a number of loose shingles tightened.
The Engineer's house at the Pumping Station was given two coats of paint and inside repairs were made. This work was done by the lowest bidder, Mr. George Brewer.
The Venturi meter at the Haggetts Pond Pumping Station was inspected by the Builders Iron Foundry and necessary re- pairs made.
The inside and outside of the High-Service Pumping Station on Bancroft Road were given a coat of paint by painters from the Welfare Department.
The State Board of Health now requires the Water Depart- ment to check cross connections every three months. There are two cross connections at the Shawsheen Mills and one at the Tyer Rubber Company. Once a year the State Inspector ac- companies the Town Inspector to check his work.
A bubbler was installed on the top of Prospect Hill near the high-service reservoir.
During the afternoon of the sixteenth of September, when it was reported that the water from Haggetts Pond had a fishy taste, the State Board of Health was notified and its chemist analyzed the water, recommending a treatment of one hundred pounds of copper sulphate (blue vitrol) at the intake of the pump.
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