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F. An essential equipment of an apprentice in any trade, is the ability to carry out directions, to make his work conform to some definite plan. The acquisition or training of this ability is a valuable result of the work in manual training.
G. There is a constant and growing demand that the work of our schools be made more practical and less bookish. · The introduction of courses in manual training and domestic science is the most logical answer to the just demand.
Second a reading circle should be planned for the en- couragement of professional reading and study on the part of the teachers. There is no teacher, however well-trained and experienced, who does not need to continue her study of educational problems.
Third, the adoption of the National system of office and school records is, recommended. This would make our records uniform with those of the leading cities of the United States, would render our educational statistics more accurate and valuable and would make possible an intelligent study of many school problems.
Fourth, a printed course of study in the Elementary Schools.
Fifth, instructor in Penmanship.
Sixth, installation of a regular course in Mechanical Drawing in the High School.
Seventh, establishment of new rules and regulations.
Eighth, the erection of a modern high school to accom- modate the upper five grades and organize on the 7-2-3 plan. If we accept this plan it will be necessary to fix up in a modern way the Union School building for the overflow until the new building is completed.
Ninth, a clerk to keep the office of the School Depart- ment open throughout the day and through vacations.
Tenth, an examination of our library equipment for the High School, shows to me the needs of the School Library. I wish to urge that an effort may be made to secure a regular appropriation for this purpose. The library is coming to be regarded as a very important adjunct of the school. Without
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doubt its function is quite as important as that of the labora- tory ; and if it serves the needs of the student body, it must be growing in all its departments. By adding a few books each year the extent of the library needed to meet the de- mands of a growing and progressive school, will be met.
In closing, I wish to thank the teachers of Braintree for their kind co-operation, the citizens for their cordiality and educational spirit, and the School Committee for its whole- hearted support since my coming here.
CLARENCE N. FLOOD, Superintendent of Schools.
Braintree, Mass., Jan. 10, 1919.
SCHOOLS A PAYING INVESTMENT FOR THE STATE
Massachusetts spent $13,889,838.00, or $38.55 per pupil, on education.
Tennessee spent $1,628,313.00, or $4.68 per pupil, on edu- cation during the same year.
That year Massachusetts citizens produced on the average $144 each more than did Tennessee citizens, or a total of $403,969,824.00 more than Tennessee.
If Massachusetts gives 12 million dollars more to schools and her better educated citizens produce 403 million dollars more per year, how much profit does that state make on her investment in education ?
EDUCATION IS NOT A CHARITY BUT THE BEST PAYING INVESTMENT.
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Extracts from the School Returns to the State Board of Education for the School Year 1917-1918.
Number of public day schools based on the single classroom as the unit 56
Number of public school buildings in use 11
Number of persons between five and sixteen years of age in the town on the first of September, 1918: males, 954; females 1008 1962
Number of persons between seven and fourteen years of age in town on the first of September, 1918: males, 673; females, 722 1395
Number of illiterate minors over fourteen years of age in the town on the first of September, 1918: males, 1; females, 1 Number of different pupils of all ages in the public schools during the school year ending June, 1918: High, 299; Grades, 1860 2159
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Number attending within the school year under six years of age 175 Number given employment certificates between fourteen and six- teen years of age: males, 124; females, 67 191
Number given home permits between fourteen and sixteen years of age : males, 1; females, 2 3
Average membership of all the public day schools 2004
Average attendance of all the public day schools during the school year 1904 The percentage of attendance based upon the average member- ship 95%
Number of pupils between five and seven years of age 326
Population of Braintree 10,346
Assessed valuation of taxable property $9,256,100.00
Tax rate per thousand for all purposes, 1917 21.20
Tax rate per thousand for use of School Department in 1917 8.05
Amount raised by taxation in 1917 201,765.29
Of the above amount there was appropriated to the School Department 78,374.20
Proportion of total amount raised by taxation which was used hy School Department 38%
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DAYS WHEN THE FLAG SHOULD BE DISPLAYED.
Lincoln's Birthday Feb. 12
Washington's Birthday Feb. 22
Inauguration Day .March 4
Battle of Lexington April 19
Battle of Manilla Bay May 1
Mothers' Day
2nd Sunday in May
Memorial Day (half staff until noon) .May 30
Flag Day . June 14
Battle of Bunker Hill June 17
Independence Day
. July 4
Labor Day 1st Monday in Sept.
Lake Erie Day Sept. 10
Columbus Day
. Oct. 12
Battle of Saratoga
Oct. 17
Surrender of Yorktown
Oct. 19
DISTINGUISHED MEN OF AMERICA AND THEIR EDUCATION.
With no schooling, of 5 million, only 31 attained distinction.
With elementary schooling, of 33 million, 808 attained dis- tinction.
With high school education, of 2 million, 1245 attained dis- tinction.
With college education, of 1 million, 5768 attained dis- tinction.
The child with no schooling has one chance in 150,000 of performing distinguished service; with elementary education. he has four times the chance; with high school education, 87 times the chance; with college education, 800 times the chance.
WHAT IS YOUR CHILD'S CHANCE ?
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PARENT-TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. Jonas Perkins School Ass'n
President, Annie G. Scollard, 11 Bowditch St. Secretary, Mrs. Lloyd R. Mosher, Faxon St.
Hollis School Ass'n
President, Dr. F. R. Dame, 83 Monatiquot Ave.
Secretary, Mrs. Lillian Gazan, 30 Oak St. Noah Torrey School Ass'n.
President, Harry C. Thayer, Hobart Ave. Secretary, Mrs. James D. Fox, 12 Central St.
EVERY DAY SPENT IN SCHOOL PAYS THE CHILD NINE DOLLARS.
Uneducated laborers earn on the average $500 per year for forty years, a total of $20,000.
High school graduates earn on the average $1000 per year for forty years, a total of $40,000.
This education required 12 years of school of 180 days each, a total of 2160 days in school.
If 2160 days at school add $20,000 to the income for life, then each day at school adds $9.02.
The child that stays out of school to earn less than $9.00 a day is losing money, not making money.
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Report of Attendance Officer.
Mr. C. N. Flood, Superintendent.
Dear Sir :- I hereby submit the following report for the year ending December 31, 1918.
I have investigated 635 cases as reported to me and found the pupils absent for the following reasons :
Sickness
337
Truancy
41
· Lack of clothing, shoes, etc.
10
Kept out by parents
38
Found on street and taken to school 57
Left school
4
Non-registration (new pupils placed in school) 12
Found on street, taken home 26
Left town
12
Employment cards
2
Tardy
41
Factories and stores visited
15
Found at home and taken to school
31
Department of immigration cases investigated.
1
Destroying and loss of school property
6
Disturbances at schools and on streets
4
Home employment cards granted
2
Taken to court 2
Sent to Walpole Training School
2
Respectfully, CHARLES S. HANNAFORD,
Attendance Officer
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GRADUATING EXERCISES OF THE BRAINTREE HIGH SCHOOL.
Town Hall, Wednesday Evening, June 26, 1918, 8 p.m.
Program.
1. March-"For Love and Honor." High School Orchestra
2. "Star Spangled Banner"
3. Chorus-"Song of Deliverance"' S. Coleridge Taylor
4. Group of War Poems "Sonnets of 1914" George Edward Woodberry
"To France"
. Frederick George Scott
"The Name of France" Henry VanDyke Hazel Ruth Barton
5. Song-"Unfurling the flag"
Hazel Croke Clarice Cutcliffe, Accompanist
6. Group of War Poems "Edith ('avell" "To the Belgians "To Belgium"
Lawrence Binyon
Lawrence Binyon Eden Philpotts
Olive Wynot
7. Piano Solo-"Second Mazurka" Godard
Herbert Hollis
8. Song-' White Butterflies" Margaret Ruthven Lang Girls' Glee Club
9. Philergian Essay-"Effect of the War on Social and Economic Conditions."
10. Chorus-"The Heavens Resound" Andrea Hofer
11. "The Four Principles of Peace" Woodrow Wilson
Frederick Almquist
12. Presentation of Diplomas and French Medals Frederick C. Folsom, Member of School Board
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HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES, 1918
Frederick Oscar Albert Almquist
Edna P. Johnson
Agnes Marie Kelly
Hazel Ruth Barton
Sarah Genevieve MacInnis
Chester Andrew Belyea
Joseph Carlton Mills Beal William Lawrence Campbell Saimi Matilda Carlson Sarah Margaret Carmichael Thomas Francis Cassidy
Eileen Mulcahy John Raymond Murphy Mona Bernice Norris Frederick Mathew Oliver
Helen Inez Coneton
Dawson Avery Powell
Hazel Marie Croke
Clarice Marion Cutcliffe
Louis M. Dillon
Olive Mae Drinkwater
Anna E. Geraldine Galvin
William Russel Gorman
Miriam Louise Gould
Hazel Frances Griffin
Catherine Cecelia Griffin
Olive Theresa Wynot
* Neither tardy nor absent during the past six years.
The Following is a List of All the Grammar School Gradu- ates in the Town of Braintree, June 25, 1918.
JONAS PERKINS
*Theodore Rands Alexander
*Herbert Niles Almquist
*Thelma Bauimeister
Samual M. Lennon
*Martha Alexander Mallon
*Gertrude Hannah Mathisen
* Alice Louise McMahan David Parker Robert Porter
*Isabel Caroline Collier Lucretia Mae Dalton Katherine Davis
*George Burton Davy John Galvin Dugan
*Robert Harold Hanson
*John Maguire Heaney Margaret Mae Heaney
*Beatrice Hennebury
*Mary Florence Howe
Vera Rubant Harold Francis Smith William Joseph Smith
*Kathryn Elizabeth Sullivan
* Albert Edward Tellier Deane Russel Walker
*Frank William Walters Muriel Avis Warren
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James Thomas Mahar
Dorothy Ellen McCormick
Caroline Frances Reardon Elizabeth Ann Reardon Palmy Sophie Spera "Hobart Wadsworth Spring George Lawrence Tellier Dorothy Anna Terrell John Wesley Thomas Roland Henry Whitman Eleanor Hamilton Wilson
Charles Harrison Hobart Hebert Brown Hollis
Zelma Elsie Johnson Frederick Jacob Klay
*Sadie Bloom Edward Dugan Cahil John Albert Cassidy
PENNIMAN SCHOOL
Arthur Armstrong Alvin Bond Louise Cass John Cunningham
*Helen Frazier Dennis Griffin Gerald Hannigan Cathleen Hayes
Frank Heap Florence Hickey Edward Kingsbury Elizabeth Maher Russel Patten Emma Reardon William Ross Wallace Strathdee
NOAH TORREY
*Porter Allen Charles Bates Dorothy Borden Mary Branley Dora Carmichael
Mary McGrath *Gertrude McInnis Annie Mckenzie Margaret McNeill *Ruth Moritz 1
Rita D'Arigo Henry Driscoll Winifred Dyer Alice Finnegan * William Ford
*Charles Myers Francis Nichols Tage Olsen
*Ruth Pearson
*Ruth Galvin George Gregor Helen Hall Vera Hall Mary Hogan
*Daniel Reardon Ursula Reed Elizabeth Ryan Edna Smith Arthur Sullivan John Sullivan
*Urban Landry Francis Lyons Clifford Marshman
*Emily Meliconda
Philip Sullivan Merriam Thompson James Morrison
HOLLIS SCHOOL
Charles Abbott Stuart Arnold Edward Blewett Myrtle Brown Horace Chick Ernestine Damon Harold DeCoste Clara Easue Grace Frazier Ethel Fuller Frank Galvin Harlow Getchel
John Hubbard Alice Johnson
Frederick Johnson
Gordon Keating Kevin Kelly Helen Mahan
Cecelia Murray
Muriel Nolte Ruth Richards
Margaret Sickles Katherine Spring
Richard Gould Elizabeth Hall Miriam Hall Russell Harnish Frances Harrison John Hauston Alfred Hixon
Linton Tanner Arden Thaddeus Raffie Thaddeus Lois Vinton Mary Walker
Lempi Wehther
Russel Wright Henry Dow
* Unsigned Diploma.
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PENNIMAN SCHOOL
TEACHER
DEPARTMENT
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
Charles W. Brooks
Grade 7 & 8, Principal
Grade 5 & 6
Bridgewater Normal
13 Years
Grade 3 & 4
Bridgewater Normal
5 Years
Grade 1 & 2
Bridgewater Normal
5 Years
Cecelia C. Whelan
Kindergarten
Wheelock Kindergarten
2 Years
HOLLIS SCHOOL
Alexander Thomson
Grade 8, Principal
Salem Normal
2 Years
Rosamond E. Cuniff
Grade 7
Bridgewater Normal
0 Years
Clara C. Hoopes
Grade 5
Maryland State Normal
0 Years
Lela I. Smith
Grade 6
Bridgewater Normal
12 Years
Ethel Whittier
Grade 4
Fitchburg Normal
6 Years
Rachel Beverly
Grade 3
Fitchburg Normal
21/4 Years
Hannah C. Whelan
Grade 2
Weymouth Training School
26 Years
Mabel L. Bates
Grade 1
Thayer Academy
32 Years
Kindergarten
Page Kindergarten Normal
16 Years
Ann Howard Marjorie G. Cummings
Grade I & 4
Bridgewater Normal
1 Year
ABRAHAM LINCOLN SCHOOL
Elizabeth B. Pray
Grade A & Principal
Page Normal School
21 Years
Anna V. Galligan
Grade V.
Bridgewater Normal
10 Years
Melissa S. Dockum
Grade IV
Plymouth, N. H., Normal
9 Years
Edith A. Lavalette
Grade III
Salem Normal
16 Years
Almira E. Fuller
Grade II
Wheelock Kindergarten
21/3 Years
Emily A. Landry
Grade I
Bridgewater Normal
21/2 Years
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Lillie C. Littlefield F. Isabel Carmichael Cora M. Coffill
Bridgewater Normal
4 Years
DISTRICT SCHOOLS
TEACHER
DEPARTMENT
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
Josephine M. Foster
Grades 1, 2 & 3
Braintree High School
18 Years
Clara N. Holbrook
Grades 1 & 2
Thayer Academy
5 Years
Ethella M. Nichols
Kindergarten
Perry Normal
2 Years
Priscilla Nye
Drawing
Boston Normal Arts
3 Years
Georgianna E. Taylor
Music
Boston Univ. Music Course S
Blanche S. Brennenstuhl
Dom. Science
Framingham Normal
3 Years
Margaret J. Atkins
Nurse
Mass. Gen. Hospital
8 Years
Clarence N. Flood, A.B.
Superintendent
Colby College
15 Years
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HIGH SCHOOL
James L. Jordan, A.B.
Science
Bates A. B., 1908
10 Years
Harriet F. Holt, A.B.
History & Latin
Wellesley
2 Years
Louise K. Emerson, A.B.
Algebra & Geom.
Smith College
6 Years
Sophia G. Blunt
Science
Boston Normal & M. I. T.
1212 Years
Louise Hannon, A.B.
Spanish & Latin
Radcliffe College
1 Year
Jeanette L. Sturtevant, A.B.
English
Colby College
9 Years
Mildred Lynch, A.B.
English & Latin
Mt. Holyoke College
5 Years
Alice C. Pope
Stenog., Type., Com. Law
Bryant & Stratton
13 Years
Alice M. Carver
Bkg., Type., Office Tr.
Chandler Normal
6 Years
French & Spanish
Tufts College
11 Years
Louise M. Saunders, A.B. Ruby Bray
Typ., Com. Geo. & Arith.
Bay Path Institute
1 Year
§ Bridgewater Normal 2 1
20 Years
TEACHER Alberto M. Eldridge Olive W. Hunt Nellie E. Bolles
JONAS PERKINS SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
Principal, Geog.
University of Vermont
20 Years
History, Pen., Drawing
Hyannis Normal
7 Years
Music Grades 6-7 Arith. Grades 6-7-8
Emerson College -
27 Years
Lucy L. Coolidge
Grade V
Bridgewater Normal
5 Years
Irma Killian
Grade IV
Bridgewater Normal
5 Years
Harriet C. Taylor
Grade III
Hyannis Normal
20 Years
Ruth L. Danielson
Grade II
. Bridgewater Normal
6 Years
Marguerite L. Sumner
Grade I
Page Kindergarten Normal
22 Years
Helen Averill
Kindergarten
Perry Kindergarten
4 Years
Helen Bartlett
Grade 6B
Gorham Normal
2 Years
Mabel J. Smith
Grade 7B English
Bridgewater Normal
2 Years
NOAH TORREY SCHOOL
8 Years
Fred A. Chapman
Principal, Grade 8
Salem Normal
31 Years
Josephine B. Colbert
Grade 7A
M. Abbie Dougherty
Grade 7B
Castine, Maine, Normal
61/2 Years
Helen King
Grade 6B
Bridgewater Normal
512 Years
Frances Close
Grade 6A
·Bridgewater Normal
4 Years
Mildred S. Nickerson
Grades 3 and 4
Bridgewater Normal
8 Years
Roberta W. Smith
Grade 5A
Bridgewater Normal Framingham Normal
23 Years
Elizabeth G. Rogers
Grade 5B
Edna M. Robinson
Grade 4
Lowell Normal
7 Years
Grade 3
Thayer Academy
20 Years
Rosalie S. Bayley Isabel Brooks
Asst. in Grades 7A, 7B, & S
Lowell Normal
1 Year
POND SCHOOL
Claire E. Shay
Grade IIA & Principal
Thayer Academy
10 Years
Leta M. Weston
Grades I & IIB Grade IA
Thayer Academy
16 Years
Helen A. Cuff
Harriet M. Hill
Kindergarten
Shaw's Private School
25 Years
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16 Years
Brookfield High
5 Years
Bridgewater Normal
FINANCIAL REPORT.
Appropriation Refunds .
$74,070.83 42.35
Overdraft of 1917
.
$725.63
General Expenses.
Superintendent
$2,213.36
Clerk
$150.00
Truant officer
224.00
$374.00
Printing, Stationery and
postage $152.05
Telephone 276.59
Traveling expenses 145.40
School census
32.00
All other
38.83
$644.87
Teachers' Salaries,
Day
$48,669.17
Summer School
462.50
$49,131.67
Textbooks and Supplies,
Text and reference books. $1,259.44
School room supplies and gas 1,500.04
Express and freight
57.43
$2,816.91
Tuition 880.84
Transportation,
Teams
$1,285.00
Car fares
765.00
$2,050.00
Support of truants
30.59
Janitors' Services,
Regular
$5,780.90
Summer
82.25
Evening
8.00
$5,871.15
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Fuel and Light,
Coal and wood
$5,767.75 Electric Lights 149.07
$5,916.82
Buildings and Grounds,
Carpentry and painting. . $545.35
Plumbing
1,116.44
Janitor's and building
supplies
543.54
Flag
16.29
Water Department
167.01
All other
33.89
Furniture
$2,422.52 31.00
Other Expenses,
Diplomas and graduation expenses
$74.46
Repairs and equipment
104.59
Removal of ashes
117.50
All other
30 21
$326.76
School nurse
$668.00
$74,104,12
Unexpended balance .
9.06
$74,113.18 $74,113.18
Noah Torrey General Repairs,
Appropriation
$1,000.00
American Painting and Decor- ating Company
$1,247.00
Overdraft
247.00
$1,247.00
$1,247.00
Noah Torrey Fire Protection, Appropriation $2.675.00
Contract
$2,365.00
Painting 191.80
Wiring and labor
120.62
Overdraft 2.42
$2,677.42
$2,677.42
$2,677.42
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Penniman School Fire Protection, Appropriation
$300.00
Holbrook, George H.
$300.00
Insurance on Buildings, Appropriation
$234.40
Overdraft of 1917
$83.40
Buildings and contents
150.53
$233.93
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Unexpended balance
.47
$234.40
$234.40
Insurance on Boilers, Appropriation
$185.10
Overdraft of 1917
$146.10
Sampson, George E.
39.00
$185.10
$185.10
ACCOUNT OF SCHOOL SAVINGS, 1918.
SCHOOLS
BALANCE JAN. 1. 1918
DEPOSITS
WITHDRAWALS FOR DEPOSIT BOOKS
WITHDRAWALS AND TRANSFERS
BALANCE JAN. 1, 1919
A. Lincoln
$206.33
$250.72
$320.40
$17.27
$119.38
Hollis
371.67
314.42
396.73
50.42
238.94
J. Perkins
254.06
222.21
231.00
58.84
186.43
N. Torrey
197.60
119.37
182.00
13.40
121.57
Penniman
142.49
128.26
155.60
23.38
91.77
Pond
174.33
172.11
196.00
13.91
136.53
South
3.67
.10
1.00
2.77
Southwest
24.77
31.38
19.00
1.79
35.36
$1374.92
$1238.57
$1501.73
$179.01
$932.75
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In Memory of Ann M. Brooks Died December 13, 1918 Member of School Committee March 1, 1881, To The Time Of Her Death Thirty-seven Years
In Memory of Frederick C. Folsom Died November 22, 1918 Member of School Committee March 1, 1916, To The Time Of His Death
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
WATER DEPARTMENT
OF THE
TOWN OF BRAINTREE
For the Year ending December 31, 1918
Printed by Order of the Town
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STILLMAN F. PRATT BEE PRINT BRAINTREE, MASSACHUSETTS ' 1919
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ORGANIZATION.
Report of Water Commissioners and Commissioners of the Sinking Fund for the Year 1918.
HON. JAMES T. STEVENS, Chairman WILLIAM C. HARRISON GEORGE A. WALKER OTIS B. OAKMAN, Treasurer W. L. GAGE, Secretary and Collector JOHN W. MULCAHY, Acting Superintendent 1
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REPORT OF BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS
As required by the By-Laws of the Town, Art. 2, Sec. 2, there is herewith submitted the Annual Report of the Board of Water Commissioners for the year ending December 31, 1918.
During the year the Department has met with the loss of two gentlemen who had been long identified with it-Mr. John Kelley, who had served on the Board as water commis- sioner from September, 1898, to the time of his death, March 3, 1918, and Mr. W. E. Maybury, who had been Superin- tendent of the Department for the past 26 years, and whose death occurred April 30, 1918. Both of the gentlemen had been closely connected with the welfare and management of the Department, serving honestly, zealously and efficiently in the interests of the Town.
At a joint meeting of the Selectmen and the Board held March 16, 1918, Mr. George A. Walter was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Kelley until the annual meeting in March, 1919. The engineering and construction work have been carried on since the death of Mr. Maybury by Mr. John W. Mulcahy as Acting Superintendent and who has been identified with the Department since its organiza- tion.
Due to additional expenses caused by high prices for labor and material, including fuel and the expense of repair- ing damages to the system due to extreme severity of winter 1917-1918, together with the fact that the department was confronted with other necessary conditions, owing to devel- opment for housing the overflow population from a neighbor- ing shipyard, all of which could not be met by the revenue of the Department, which indicated for the year 1918, no appreciable increase; your commissioners were of necessity obliged to request the Town for an appropriation of $5,000, and for permission to increase the water rates, both of which requests were granted.
In fixing the new rates which went into effect July 1, 1918. due consideration was given to the cost of water delivered, as nearly as could be ascertained, rates in adjoining cities and towns where water is furnished under similar conditions ; and the necessity for sufficient revenues to meet the expenses of the Department.
The prices to be charged to consumers as decided upon were as follows :
Private consumers, metered 27 cents per 100 cubic feet. Private consumers, unmetered, based on conditions of prem-
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ises served. Manufacturers' or wholesale rates, 15 cents per 100 cubic feet. The mimimum rate established was $6.00.
All services are metered where conditions warrant, un- less deemed inadvisable by the Commissioners.
It should be noted that owing to the date when the in- creased rates went into effect, the additional revenue derived therefrom and available to assist in defraying 1918 operating expenses was that which was received from the quarter end- ing September 30, 1918.
Information as to the cost of water delivered may be of some interest, and in connection therewith it may be stated here that this matter has been the subject of considerable per- plexity in view of its many factors and as to what consti- tute proper charges against the cost. While the Board re- alizes that this is a subject upon which experts may differ, an estimate for the year ending December 31, 1917, which is be- lieved to be sufficiently accurate for practical purposes, in- dicates that the approximate cost, delivered, including inter- est and notes paid from the revenue of the department, was eighteen and two-third cents per 100 cubic feet, and twenty- four cents per 100 cubic feet when interest and notes paid by the town, derived from taxation, are included.
The above cost prices may be compared with the average selling price, which is estimated approximately to have been 16.82 cents per 100 cubic feet delivered, and while the dispar- ity may appear to be abnormal, your commissioners are of the opinion that the Town is amply recompensed through the ownership of a system which for many reasons other than for the purpose of furnishing a supply of water for domes- tic use, constitutes a valuable asset.
The Commissioners are of the opinion that there is quite a lot of work in the way of new construction and care of the Plant that should be done, but at the present price of labor and material it would be well to delay any such, except what seems absolutely necessary, one item of the most im- portance being the painting of the standpipe.
The coal situation in the early part of the year was a cause of much anxiety, but we were able to get a good sup- ply at reasonable rates and the Department has now a suffi- cient supply on hand to last well into the month of April. 1919, all of which is fully paid for, and there is also in stock a quantity of pipe and other miscellaneous material.
Appended hereto are the reports of the Collector, Reg- istrar and Superintendent.
JAMES T. STEVENS, WILLIAM C. HARRISON, GEORGE A. WALKER, Board of Water Commissioners.
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MAINTENANCE.
Randolph Water Department
$447.92
South Braintree Postoffice
204.84
W. A. Torrey
3.27
N. E. Telephone & Telegraph Co.
145.64
E. A. Hammond
5.42
Dr. C. A. Sullivan
5.00
H. W. Bailey & Co.
16.25
Pratt & Pratt
76.80
J. E. Burke & Co.
10.00
Adams Express Co.
.67
W. L. Gage (Sundries)
17.75
W. L. Gage
1,300.00
Pay of men as per pay rolls
818.82
$3,052.38
GREAT POND STATION.
Adams Express Co.
$9.36
D. C. Haseltine & Co.
3.78
C. H. Hobart .
5.85
Ashton Valve Co.
15.15
A. W. Chesterton Co.
61.30
Revere Rubber Co.
71.00
Curry Bros. Oil Co.
210.92
Bay State St. R'way Co.
2.02
Braintree Electric Light Dept.
137.40
Garlock Packing Co.
79.69
F. H. Hayes Machinery Co.
68.90
Thomas Groom & Co.
10.50
Edson Mfg. Co.
7.61
Moses T. Dyer
8.60
H. W. Borden
48.10
F. L. Chandler
48.59
Chapman Valve Co.
19.02
Rhines Lumber Co.
13.20
Walworth Mfg. Co.
106.13
Eagle Oil & Supply Co.
3.00
Hodge Boiler Works
63.75
Dow Mfg. Co.
13.25
John J. Gallagher
27.00
Paul Monaghan
25.60
Old Colony Gas Co.
7.50
Dyer & Sullivan
3.34
R. E. Whitman
.55
R. Allen Gage
72.03
Peter Gacicia
50.00
Howard V. Pratt
37.50
N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co.
193.77
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