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MICROSCOPICAL EXAMINATION
OF WATER FROM THE FILTER-GALLERY OF THE BRAINTREE WATER WORKS IN 1894. [Number of organisms per cubic centimeter.]
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
Apr.
May
June
July
Aug.
Sept.
Oct.
Nov.
Dec.
Day of examination, Number of sample,
-
5 11603
8 11725
S 11854
13 12034
10 12174 12343
13
17 12551
14 12729
12 12916
9 13094
10 13281
7 13438
PLANTS FUNGI. Crenothrix,
0
0
10
0
0
8
0
210
0
20
3
160
ANIMALS.
INFUSORIA, -
-
-
16
1
4
0
0
0
4
0
0
0
0
0
Dinobryon,
-
-
0
0
1
0
0
0
4
0
0
0
0
0
Dinobryon cases,
0
0
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Peridinium,
16
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Miscellaneous. Zooglœa -
0
0
0
0
0
38
0
7
580
380
0
0
TOTALS, -
-
-
16
1
14
0
0
46
4
217
580
400
3
160
-
110
1
-
-
.
CHEIMCAL EXAMINATION OF WATER FROM LITTLE POND BRAINTREE. [Parts per 100,000]
APPEARANCE.
RESIDUE ON EVAPO- RATION.
AMMONIA.
NITROGEN AS
Albuminoid.
Number.
Date of Collection.
Turbidity.
Sediment.
Color.
Total.
Loss on
Free.
Total.
Dissolved.
Chlorine.
Nitrates.
Nitrites.
Hardness.
11724
1894. Feb. 7
V. slight.
V. slight.
0.18
4.50
1.70
.0026
.0314
.0242
.0072
.85
.0050
.0000
.4560
1.1
12173
Mar. 8
V. slight.
Slight.
0.30
3.95
1.55
.0002
.0170
.0148
.0022
.72
0030
.0000
.4494
0.8
12728
Aug. 13
Distinct.
Slight.
0.25
3.45
1.05
0004
0238
-
-
.77
.0000
.0000
.3426
0.8
13280
Nov. 8
Slight.
Slight.
0.25
4.20
1.35
.0026
.0234
.0182
.0052
82
.0000
.0000
.3888
11
Av.
0.25
4.03
1.41
.0015
.0239
.0191
.0048
79
.0020
.0000
.4092
10
Ignition.
Suspended.
Oxygen Consumed.
Odor of all samples, vegetable, and of the August sample also mouldy ; the odor of the last two sam- ples became stronger on heating .- The samples were collected from the pond.
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CHEMICAL EXAMINATION
OF WATER FROM FAUCET SUPPLIED FROM THE BRAINTREE WATER WORKS IN 1894. [Parts per 100,000]
APPEARANCE.
RESIDUE ON EVAPO RATION.
AMMONIA.
NITROGEN AS
Albuminoid:
Number.
Turbidity.
Sediment.
Color.
Total.
Loss on
Ignition.
Free.
Total.
Dissolved.
Suspended.
Chlorine.
Nitrates.
Nitrites.
Oxygen Consumed.
Hardness.
13045
1894. Sept. 30.
Slight.
Heavy brown.
0.05
5.25
0.90
.0002
. 0220
.0078
.0142
.92
.0130
.0000
.0948
1.8
Iron, .0900. Odor, none .- The sample was collected from a faucet, three miles from the pumping station.
Microscopical Examination.
Diatomaceæ, Synedra, 4. Cyanophyceæ, Clathroystis, 4. Fungi Crenothrix, 2,016. Total, 3,024.
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Date of Collection.
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MICROSCOPICAL EXAMINATION
OF WATER FROM LITTLE POND IN 1894.
[Number of organisms per cubic centimeter.]
Feb. 8 11724
May 10 12173
Aug. 14 12728
Nov. 10 13280
Day of examination .
Number of sample
PLANTS.
Diatomaceæ
0
43
pr.
24
Cyanophyceæ
0
1
29
78
Anabæna
0
0
3
0
Chroococcus
0
1
2
0
Clathrocytis
0
0
24
2
Merismopedia
0
0
0
4
Microcystis
0
0
0
72
Algæ
Arthrodesmus
0
0
2
3
Nephrocytium
0
0
4
0
Protoccocus
0
0
15
3
Raphidium
0
0
4
12
Tetraspora
4
0
0
0
Zoospores
3
0
0
0
Fungi, Crenothrix
0
4
0
3
ANIMALS.
Rhizopda. Microgromia .
4
0
0
0
Infusoria
.
864
0
1
1
Dinobryon
·
800
0
0.
0
Dinobryon cases
52
0
1
0
Monas
1
0
0
0
Peridinium
9
0
pr.
1
Tintinnidium
1
0
0
0
Trachelomonas .
1
0
pr.
0
Miscellaneous, Zooglœa
0
44
80
0
-
TOTALS
875
92
135
124
.
7
0
25
18
.
.
.
.
.
Sinking Funds.
WATER LOAN OF 1887.
P. D. HOLBROOK, TREASURER WATER LOAN SINKING FUND.
For the payment of bonds issued July 1, 1887, and payable July, 1917.
Dr.
December 31, 1895: To amount of Sinking Fund,
$15,996 02
Interest on eleven Municipal Lighting
bonds, ten of one thousand each, one of five hundred,
420 00
Interest on four Fitchburg Railroad bonds
160 00
Town appropriation
2,000 00
Braintree Savings Bank interest
33 72
Received of Town of Braintree, inter- est on note 40 00
$18,649 74
Cr.
Amount to credit of Sinking Fund, in- vested as follows: Four Fitch- burg Railroad bonds of one thousand each
$3,877 11
Amount carried forward,
·
$3,877 11
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Amount brought forward, $3,877 11
Ten Municipal Lighting bonds, one thousand each 10,000 00
One of five hundred
500 00
Note of Town of Braintree, dated July 1,1895
Note of Town of Braintree, dated July 10, for twelve months at four per cent.
1,000 00
Balance in Braintree Savings Bank 1,272 63 - $18,649 74
We have examined the accounts of the treasurer of the Water Loan Sinking Fund of 1887, as shown above and find $18,649.74 (eighteen thousand six hundred forty-nine and 7% dollars) to the credit of the Sinking Fund of 1887. Seventeen thousand three hundred seventy seven and og dollars invested in bonds and notes, and the balance $1,272.63 (twelve hundred seventy-two and f% dollars) deposited in the Braintree Savings Bank as per its treasurer certified.
DANIEL POTTER, L. W. MORRISON, CHARLES G. SHEPPARD, Auditors.
Braintree, December 31, 1895.
116 WATER LOAN OF 1891.
P. D. HOLBROOK, TREASURER WATER LOAN SINKING FUND.
For payment of bonds issued June 1, 1891, and due June 1, 1921.
Dr.
To amount of Sinking Fund $9,483 87 Received of Town of Braintree on six Municipal Lighting bonds $240 00
Quincy Savings Bank interest 23 12
Town of Braintree appropriation ·
3,000 00
Town of Braintree, note interest
31 68
$3,414 80
$12,898 67
Cr.
Consisting of the following securities : Six Braintree Municipal Lighting bonds
$6,000 00
Note of the Town of Braintree dated July 1, 1895, for twelve months at four per cent. . 3,000 00
Note and mortgage given by Horace A. Jones, and Marinda S. Jones, dated Oct. 4, 1895, at 4} per cent. payable five years from date
3,500 00
Balance in Quincy Savings Bank as certified by its treasurer 398 67
$12,898 67
The undersigned have examined the accounts of the treasurer of the Water Loan Sinking Fund of 1891 as shown, and find
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$12,898.67 (twelve thousand eight hundred ninety-eight and 1% dollars) to credit of the said Sinking Fund, being invested in bonds, town notes, and Savings Bank book, to the amount of nine thousand three hundred ninety eight and 1% dollars ($9,398.67) together with a mortgage for $3,500 of H. A. Jones.
DANIEL POTTER, CHARLES G. SHEPPARD, Auditors.
TOWN OF BRAINTREE.
The Electric Light
Department.
January 1, 1895 to January 1, 1896.
Report of Manager.
BRAINTREE, JAN. 1, 1896.
During the past year the following extensions have been made to the street lighting system, and the street lamps have been located and connected by the department.
One arc light at Junction of Cleveland avenue and Harrison avenue.
One incandescent on Commercial street.
One incandescent on Adams street
One incandescent on Quincy avenue.
Making the total number of street lights now in use, 91 arc lights and 109 incandescent.
The number of consumers of house light at the beginning of the year was 124. The number added during the year was 38. The number of 16 candle power lamps in use in January 1, 1895, was 2642. The number January 1, 1896, is 3510.
The price charged during the year has been as before, 6 mills per 16 candle power lamp per hour.
The following are the charges for light, meter rent, and job- bing during the year.
For Six months ending June 30, light $2,005 21 Six months ending June 30, me- ter rent 59 78
Amount carried forward,
$2,064 99
122
Amount brought forward, $2,064 99 For Six months ending June 30, job- bing 364 36
$2,429 35
For Six months ending December 31, light $2,469 76
Six months ending December 31, meter rent 74 43
Six months ending December 31, jobbing 605 65
$3,149 84
Total .
$5,579 19
Balance unpaid at beginning of the year
$196 89
Less for error in meter reading 3 00
$193 89
Total accounts receivable
$5,773 08
Cr.
By cash received from consumers and paid treasurer .
$4,124 93
Balance due from consumers De-
cember 31, 1895
$1,648 15
ELECTRIC LIGHT EXPENSE ACCOUNT.
Paid fifty-two pay rolls $4,898 49
J. F. Sheppard & Sons, coal 1,870 94
A. J. Richards & Sons, coal 540 50
A. J. Richards & Sons, hay and and grain 135 59
Amount carried forward, .
·
$7,445 52
123
Amount brought forward, . $7,445 52
Paid Pettengill Andrews, wire sup- plies, etc. 1,420 53
Westinghouse Electric Co., sup- plies, meters, etc. 488 00
Stanley Electric Mfg. Co., trans- formers, etc. 568 19
National Carbon Co., carbons
247 00
Western Electric Instrument Co., supplies 3 95
Salem & South Danvers Co., oil . 143 61
Salem Waste Co., waste
21 13
Globe Gas Light Co., supplies
7 25
Bernstien Electric Co., lamps
100 00
Baeder, Adamson & Co., supplies
2 25
Eastern Electrical Cable Co., sup-
plies 37 00
Eagle Oil Co., supplies
5 00
H. A. Monk, insurance
253 25
Claus Ahlf, pung
.
40 00
A. W. Baker, expressing
24 30
N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co., ex- pressing 57 88
Ambler & Hobart, hay and grain
118 36
Baker Hardware Co., supplies ·
62 94
Frank A. Bates, supplies ·
2 46
A. W. Chesterton, supplies
24 18
Fore River Engine Co., labor and supplies
275 66
Washburn & Moen Mfg. Co., sup- plies 7 11
J. F. Perry, rent of stable
50 00
J. F. Perry, cash paid clipping horse
2 00
Weymouth & Braintree Publish-
ing Co., printing 14 00
Amount carried forward, $11,421 57
124
Amount brought forward, $11,421 57
Paid M. H. Dingee & Co., oil
10 50
J. B. Rhines & Co., lumber 12 08
Braintree Water Dept., water
254 37
F. O. Whitmarsh, labor and stock United Electric Improvement Co., supplies . 80 65 .
11 25
Thomas South, Jr., shoeing horse and repairs 51 28
C. H. McKenney & Co., fixtures
81 87
Wm. H. Gallison, supplies
3 22
Dexter Brothers, paint
11 50
Leonard & Ellis, supplies
9 00
J. Wilkins, use of horse
4 00
H. A. Kelley, fixtures
3 50
P. Barcley & Co., fixtures
9 60
J. M. Walsh, repairs and supplies 42 98 Wadsworth, Howland & Co., sup- plies 3 75
General Electric Co., wire fixtures and supplies 982 06
Claus Ahlf, repairs of teams and supplies
58 00
Boston Electric Co., supplies
12 30
Underhay Oil Co., oil
8 75
F. A. Burrell, horse hire
8 00
Baldwin Robbins & Co., supplies
2 98
Hartford Steam Boiler Co., insur- rance on boiler 97 23
Boston Despatch Express Co.,
freight 1 90
New England Telephone Co., rent of telephone 13 00
Brush Electric Co., supplies
26 00
Postage stamps · 6 87
Crouse Tremaine Co., carbons
12 75
Amount carried forward, · $13,240 96
125
Amount brought forward, . $13,240 96
Paid Wheeler Reflecter Co., supplies . 11 55
Davis Electrical Works, supplies 16 00
Union Glass Co., globes · .
9 50
A. O. Clark, services as manager
100 00
--
$13,378 01
We have examined the books and accounts of A. O. Clark, Manager of Electric Light Department, and find the same for the year 1895, correct and vouchers furnished.
DANIEL POTTER, L. W. MORRISON, CHARLES G. SHEPPARD,
Auditors.
Braintree, January 25, 1896.
The foregoing expenditures have been charged to the follow- ing ledger accounts in accordance with the regulations estab- lished by the Board of Gas and Electric Light Commissioners, for keeping the accounts of Municipal Electric Light Depart- ments :
EXPENSE ACCOUNT.
Station wages
$3,178 99
Distribution wages
643 00
Jobbing wages
300 25
Repairs of lines and lamps
575 06
Repairs of electric plant
165 33
Repairs of steam plant
175 66
Repairs of real estate
18 69
Fuel
2,411 44
Amount carried forward, . $7,468 42
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Amount brought forward,
$7,468 42
Carbons
294 83
Oil and waste
199 75
Water
254 37
Repairs of tools and appliances, teams, horse feed and stable rent
470 26
Insurance
350 48
General office expenses
54 97
Globes
9 50
Services as manager
100 00
Jobbing and repair materials
1,303 76
D. and C. incandescent lamps
561 80
Repairs on street incandescent lamps
75 00
Distribution tools and appliances
51 32
Station tools
4 29
$11,198 75
PLANT EXTENSION ACCOUNT.
New construction of steam plant $56 32
New construction of electric lines 894 61
Transformers
586 69
Arc street lamps .
139 66
Incandescent street lamps . .
13 98
Meters
488 00
$2,179 26
Total .
$13,378 01
APPROPRIATIONS.
The appropriations for operating and extension during the year were as follows :
For operation of street lights
$6,146 00
Connecting new D. & C. users
1,200 00
Amount carried forward,
$7,346 00
.
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Amount brought forward,
$7,346 00
For extending circuit East Braintree
400 00
Total
$7,746 00
Added to the above the amount of revenue from domestic and com- inercial lighting and jobbing
$5,579 19
$13,325 19
EXPENSE ACCOUNT FOR 1895.
Amount of charges as per schedule . Amount of inventory, Jan. 1, 1895
610 76
Interest on notes, $26,000 at 4 per cent. 1,000 00
Interest on bonds, $16,500 at 4 per cent. 660 00
Interest on electric plant,
Cost
$57,264 42 ·
Less notes and bonds 42,500 00
At 4 per cent. on 14,264 42
590 58
Appropriation for sinking fund 430 00
Depreciation on plant, cost $57,264 42 at 5 per cent. 2,863 22
Unpaid bills of 1895
671 52
$18,024 83
Cr.
Amount of inventory Jan. 1, 1896 $1,205 49
Order overdrawn
6 00
Rebate from New England Telephone Co. 2 00
Sundry bills paid, account of 1894 700 70
Received and due from consumers 5,579 19
Less appropriation for sinking fund
430 00
$7,923 38
Net cost of street lighting
$10,101 45
.
$11,198 75
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Number of 1200 C. P. arc lights Jan. 1, 1896, 91
Number of street incandescent lights Jan. 1, 1896, 109
Equivalent to 120 1200 C. P. arc lamps.
Cost per year for 1 1200 C. P. arc lamp, $84 17+
The Expense Account should be credited with the estimated cost of coal, $126, for furnishing power for the electric fire alarm.
Estimates for Operating Ex=
penses for 1896.
Wages, Superintendent and electrician $1,200 00
First Engineer
936 00
Second Engineer and fireman
780 00
Lineman
780 00
Trimmer and fireman
728 00
Extra help .
176 00
$4,600 00
For Fuel .
$2,600 00
Carbons
300 00
Oil and waste
200 00
Water
250 00
Repairs, materials, globes, etc.,
350 00
Insurance
250 00
Teams, repairs, and stable rent
400 00
General office expenses
50 00
$4,400 00
$9,000 00
To be paid from receipts from lighting .
$2,000 00
Total for street lights
$7,000 00
For connecting new consumers
$1,200 00
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The balance of receipts from D. and C. lighting and jobbing for Sinking Fund. Interest and Operating Expenses.
A. O. CLARK, Manager.
Electricians Report
The following report covers the operation of the electric lighting plant for the year ending Dec. 31, 1895 :
Total number of arc lamps in use 91
Total number of street incandescent lamps in use 109
Total number miles wire in use for lighting streets 37
Total number miles wire in use for lighting houses 35
Total number commercial incandescent lamps in service 3510
Total number transformers in use
95
Total number meters
129
Total number poles set to date
1197
The street lighting part of our plant ran 2482 hours the past year, and the total coal consumption for running the street lamps was 491 tons, and the total gallons of water used was 1,013,800.
The house lighting system ran 4,310 hours, thetotal coal consumption was 288 tons, and 782,000 gallons of water used.
The first part of the year we used one-half hard coal screen- ings and one half Cumberland coal and the rest of the year we used all Cumberland.
For banking fires so as to carry steam pressure sufficient to blow fire alarm whistle properly, we used 33 tons of coal which amount should be charged to the fire department.
We have used 11,100 feet of wire in extending our house lighting system to streets not formerly wired, and we have set 16 poles, and have been obliged to hire extra help and purchase wire, cross arms and other material.
We have also added one arc lamp and three incandescent
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street lamps to our street system for which we have set 12 poles and have used 2,400 feet of wire, cross arms and other mater- ial and hired extra labor to do the work.
There has also been built a new line on Hayward street to carry the house lighting and street lighting wires, and we set 12 poles and used other material and hired extra labor.
All of the above work should be charged to the new construc - tion account.
There have been 90 street incandescent lamps broken by malicious persons the past year and the cost to the department has been more than $100 to replace such lamps and fixtures broken.
I recommended early in the year that a reward be offered for the detection of the parties breaking our lamps, and since that has been done, we have not had a single lamp broken.
The plant has been run continually throughout the year without any break-downs or accidents, except the burning out by lightning of two of our transformers and two arc lamps, all of which damage has been repaired by the department electrician.
The total expense, as given me by you for operating the department has been $10,506.34, of which the following amount should be charged to operating the street lighting system.
Labor
$3,008 00
Coal
1,620 30
Water
162 07/
Carbons .
259 83
Oil and waste
150 00
Repairs of teams, shoeing and horse feed
300 00
Office expense'
25 00
Globes
9 00
Manager's salary (})
50 00
Insurance, (2 of total insurance)
233 65
.
.
Total expense for operating street lamps $5,817 85
The total cost of operating the house lighting system includ- ing oil, waste, carbons, jobbing and jobbing materials on hand
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Jan. 1, 1896, was $4,688.49. Deducting $1,204.01, the jobbing, jobbing materials, oil, waste, carbons, the net cost of operating the house lighting system was $3,484.48.
Respectfully submitted,
J. FRANK PERRY,
East Braintree, Feb. 4, 1896.
Electrician.
Sinking Fund.
ELECTRIC LIGHT LOAN.
P. D. HOLBROOK, TREASURER ELECTRIC LIGHT LOAN SINKING FUND.
For the payment of Sixteen Thousand Five Hundred dollars on four per cent. Municipal Lighting bonds issued April 5, 1893, and payable on April 5, 1917.
Dr
January 1, 1895: Amount of Sinking Fund $434 30
Cash received from Town of Braintree appropriation 430 00
Cash received from Braintree Savings Bank interest to January 1, 1896 21 82
$886 12
Cr.
Amount of Sinking Fund deposited in Braintree Savings Bank $886 12
We have examined the accounts above of the treasurer of the Sinking Fund Municipal Lighting Loan of April 3, 1893. We
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find the balance to be $886.12 (eight hundred and eighty six and 1% dollars, deposited in the Braintree Savings Bank, certified by the treasurer of the said bank.
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DANIEL POTTER, L. W. MORRISON, CHARLES G. SHEPPARD, Auditors.
REPORT
OF
PUBLIC SCHOOLS,
BRAINTREE, MASS.
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January I to December 31, 1895.
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THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
THOMAS A. WATSON, Chairman.
EAST BRAINTREE.
THOMAS A. WATSON Term expires in 1897
MRS. CARRIE F. LORING Term expires in 1896
SOUTH BRAINTREE.
MRS. A. M. BROOKS Term expires in 1898
*SAMUEL C. BRIDGHAM, M. D. Term expires in 1897
BRAINTREE.
HENRY L. DEARING, M. D. Term expires in 1896
A. C. DRINKWATER Term expires in 1898
IRVING W. HORNE, Secretary and Superintendent.
Address, Braintree. Office, Monatiquot Schoolhouse.
OFFICE HOURS :- Monday, 4 to 4.30 P. M .; Tuesday and Thursday, 8.30 to 9 A. M .; Friday, 12 to 12.30 P. M.
Truant Officers.
HENRY B. VINTON, Braintree. J. R. CARMICHAEL, South Braintree. ALPHONZO TAYLOR, East Braintree.
STORM SIGNALS.
The signal for no session of the public schools will be 3-3-3, sounded twice on the fire alarm at 7.30 A. M. for the High school, and at 8 A. M. for all the other schools; at 11.30 A. M. or 12.30 P. M. for no afternoon session of all schools except the High.'
A storm signal one hour before the appointed time of a com- mittee or a teachers' meeting, is a notice of postponment of the meeting.
*_ On October 14, Frank W. Brett, M. D., was chosen a member of the board in place of Dr. Bridgham.
Report of School Committee.
BRAINTREE, JANUARY 27, 1896.
At a meeting of the school committee this day it was voted that the report of the superintendent be adopted as this com- mittee's report to the town, and that the town be recommended to make the following appropriations for maintenance of schools during the year 1896 :
Salaries of teachers and superinten- dent in addition to dog tax and school fund
$13,750 00
Janitors, including salary for Pond school janitor and cleaning and care of the Pond and Union buildings during the summer vacation
1,450 00
Text books, supplies and incidentals Schoolhouses
1,600 00
700 00
Fuel .
1,300 00
Conveyance of pupils
800 00
Total
$19,600 00
Resolved that, on account of its great value as a history of the early schools of Braintree, the address of Samuel A. Bates,
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Esq., at the dedication of the Jonas Perkins school be printed as a part of this committee's report.
THOMAS A. WATSON, A. C. DRINKWATER, A. M. BROOKS, FRANK W. BRETT, HENRY L. DEARING, CARRIE F. LORING,
School Committee.
Report of the Superintendent.
To the School Committee of Braintree :
Ladies and Gentlemen-As secretary of your board and superin- tendent of schools, I herewith submit my fourth annual report for the year ending January 1, 1896, which is the eleventh of the series of annual reports of the superintendents.
At the annual town meeting on March 4, Mrs. A. M. Brooks and Col. A. C. Drinkwater were reelected members of the com- mittee for three years. At a meeting of the committee on March 14, Mr. Thomas A. Watson was reelected chairman and Mr. Irving W. Horne, secretary. The first of October Dr. Samuel C. Bridgham moved to Malden, and accordingly resigned from the committee after a service of three and a half years. At a joint meeting of the boards of selectmen and school committee on October 14, Dr. Frank W. Brett was appointed his successor.
Ten regular and four special committee meetings have been held during the year. The regular meetings of July and August were omitted.
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STATISTICS AND ACCOUNTS.
Population of the town, State census, 1895 . · 5,310
Number of children between 5 and 15 years of age in town May 1, 1895 . 829
Number of children between 8 and 14 years of age in town May 1, 1895 472
For the school year ending June 21, 1895 :
Whole number of pupils enrolled 1035
Average daily membership
860.7
Average daily attendance 790
Number of schools keeping separate registers 25
Number of female teachers
25
Number of male teachers
3
Number of special teachers
1
For the four months ending December 20, 1895 :
Whole number of pupils enrolled 1012
Average daily membership
901
Average daily attendance
830.5
Number of schools keeping separate registers 25
Number of female teachers
24
Number of male teachers
3
Number of special teachers ·
1
Monthly pay roll of teachers for December, 1895 $1,326 75
Monthly pay roll of teachers for December, 1894 1,414 75
Monthly pay roll of janitors for December, 1895 111 67 Average monthly wages of female teachers for December, 1895 44 45
Average monthly wages of female teachers of the state in 1894-5, as per official returns .
48 38
Average monthly wages of male teachers for De. cember, 1895 86 67
Average monthly wages of male teachers of the state in 1894-5, as per official returns 128 55
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Appropriations made at the town meeting of March 11 for schools for the year ending January 1, 1896, were as follows :
Teachers and superintendent :
Taxation
. $12,200 00
Dog tax
781 51
School fund
350 00
$13,331 51
Janitors
1,200 00
Fuel
1,500 00
Text books, supplies and incidentals .
750 00
Incidentals for schoolhouses ·
350 00
Conveyance of pupils
1,020 00
Additional appropriation for schools March 27
3,200 00
Credits by tuition, books, supplies, etc. 46 40 Total - $21,397 19
Expenditures for the support of schools for the year ending January 1, 1896, have been as follows :
Teachers and superintendent
$15,042 17
Janitors
1,312 04
Text books
$576 97
Supplies
767 37
Incidentals
322 07
1,666 41
Schoolhouses
974 19
Fuel
1,375 95
Conveyance of pupils
952 97
, -
- $21,323 73
144 EXPENSE OF FUEL, (Requested by vote of the town.)
MONATIQUOT SCHOOL, 10 ROOMS.
March 14, 15 gallons oil
$1 50
Cutting 2 cords wood .
1 00
2 barrels sawdust
40
March 1, 1 cord green hard wood
5 00
1 cord dry hard wood .
5 50
May 18, 1 cord dry hard wood
5 50
September 1, 190,000 pounds white ash egg coal, $4.40 .
418 00
September 10, 4 cords trash wood, $3
12 00
$448 90
JONAS PERKINS SCHOOL, 8 ROOMS.
January 1, } cord pine wood $3 00
March 1, 1 cord green hard wood
5 00
1 cord dry hard wood
5 50
March 14, 4 barrels sawdust
80
September 1, 220,000 pounds Webster Clearfield coal, $3.45 379 50
$393 80
March 1, 21,450 pounds white ash
egg coal, $5 $53 63
April 29, 22,210 pounds Pocahontas coal $4.25 ·
47 21
June 1, 6,620 pounds Pocahontas coal, $4.25 14 07
June 11, 2,530 pounds Pocahontas coal, $4.25 ;
5 .06
$119 97
.
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POND SCHOOL, 4 ROOMS.
March 14, 2 barrels sawdust $0 40
September 1, 69,635 pounds Lehigh
broken coal, $4.55 158 42
December 31, 1 cord pine wood ·
7 00
20 barrels kindlings, 30 cents
6 00
$171 82
UNION SCHOOL, 4 ROOMS.
March 14, two barrels sawdust . $0 40
March 1, 1 cord dry hard wood cut twice 6 50
June 1, 2,000 pounds Franklin stove coal 7 50
September 1, 71,410 pounds Lehigh
broken coal, $4.55 162 46
November 30, 2,000 pounds Franklin stove coal 7 00
December 30, 12 barrels kindlings, 30 cents 3 60
$187 46
KINDERGARTEN
ROOM, BRAINTREE.
March 22, J. M. Arnold, warming room twelve weeks $36 00
June 1, J. M. Arnold, warming room six weeks 18 00
$54.00
Total
$1.375 95
146 CONCERNING THE STATISTICS.
To determine the comparative size and growth of the vari- ous schools at different times, one is referred to the statistics of average membership. For this purpose the enrollment is not reliable, since this varies with the varying membership of the schools and the time at which the enrollment begins.
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