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Boston.
Feb. 6.
George A. Mears, Mary Dwelle,
Quincy. Boston.
15.
Joshua H. Nutting, Marion A. Bartlett,
Quincy. 66
66
19.
Francis Smith, Katie McNamee,
.
24.
Patrick Fitzgerald, Katie McCormick,
66
27.
Walter L. Whittemore, Mary Ellen Taylor,
66
Mar. 2.
Joseph W. Newcomb, Mary Emma Gleason,
66
66
21.
Michael Hodgkinson, Emily Adams,
66
80
Date.
Name.
Residence.
Mar. 12.
Warren Crane, Charlotte A. Carey,
Quincy.
Apr.
I.
Eldad Worcester, Sarah J. Lougee,
66
IO.
Arthur L. Mitchell, Lucy A. Shaw,
6
66
IO.
Edward J. Colby, Winnette I. Ward,
66
66
13.
Albert A. Hayden, Katie L. Wight,
Micajah Young, Susanna S. Newcomb,
Orleans. Quincy.
I7.
John Jefferson Glover, Orpah Boynton Roundy,
66
Boston. Quincy.
66
19.
Joseph Murcill. Ellen Falvey,
66
66
22.
Isaac H. Young, Ada Ewell,
Barrington, N.H. Quincy.
66
22.
Charles T. Blakney, Margaret Flaherty,
Hudson. 66
66
27.
James J. Mahoney, Mary E. Cahill,
Braintree.
66
27.
Hubertus Kobel, Doris Schnoor,
Quincy. 66
29.
John B. Collins, Mary E. McLaughlin,
Boston. Quincy.
30.
Edwin L. Hill, Sarah V. Jones,
Somerville. Quincy.
66
66
16.
17.
Eugene A. Cain. Julietta A. Cumming's,
Date.
Name.
Residence.
May
3.
Samuel Oxford, Mary Ann Whitford,
Quincy. 6.
66
7.
Michael Fleming, Margaret Cunniff,
Brookline.
Quincy.
22.
Lewis M. Soule, Emma G. Maynard,
Josiah Hayden, Abigail Hardin,
66
66
29.
Edwin A. Hanson, Lydia Jane Bates,
66
66
29.
Patrick Garrity, Deborah Malone,
66
66
June I.
Amos Strong, Hattie A. Whitcomb,
66
3.
Joel S. Young, Elizabeth J. Newcomb,
Boston. Quincy.
66
5.
Herbert A. Newton, Angeline Crane,
North Weymouth. Quincy.
Boston. Quincy.
Braintree.
Quincy. 66
66
66
19.
II
Gideon Beigue, Maria Benjamin,
66
I7.
Josiah V. Packard, Emily A. Harrington,
Edward B. Souther, Mary E. Chubbuck,
66
14.
William H. Warner, Belvadera E. Archibald,
66
15.
3.
Lucius Thayer, Melinda Webber,
7.
John Livingston, Effie Kelly,
27.
82
Date.
Name.
Residence.
June 25.
Charles L. Crane, S. Jennie Hardwick,
Boston, 16th Ward. Quincy.
66
66
Quincy. 66
66
25.
Michael Donohoe, Annie Rogers,
Aug. 12.
James O'Connor, Ellen O'Connor,
Arlon M. Ballou, Ellen R. Sprague,
66
28.
William W. Pratt, Annie F. Stanley,
Sept. I.
George C. Hall, Ida Edwards,
4.
Edward J. Payne, Maria Elizabeth Smith,
66 13.
Albert R. Burke, Caroline Bevan,
66
66
66
14.
Benjamin Lople, Julia Greenwood,
66
21.
Arthur McDonald, Rosanna Owens,
66
27.
Levi Stearns, Nancy J. Comings,
Oct. 8.
Perley P. Comey, Marion L. Jones,
9. Charles T. Reed, Mary A. Keating,
East Bridgewater.
Quincy. Attleboro', Mass.
Pittsfield. Quincy.
Boston. Quincy.
Braintree. 66
Braintree. Quincy.
66
Worcester.
Quincy. 66
28.
Louis S. Frederick, Mary Ann Costello,
July
14.
Edmund Dooyer, Ann Clough,
66
26.
83
Date.
Name.
Residence.
Oct. 13.
William A. Ross, Maria Louise Carver,
Braintree. Quincy.
66
14.
Peter Deegan, Mary Keegan,
Boston. Quincy.
66
2I.
Thomas Foley, Kate Burke,
66
66
21.
William H. Mitchell, Abby F. P. Clapp,
66
66
66
22.
Samuel B. Doane, Mary E. Bickford,
Boston. 66
66
26.
William H. Fenton, Nellie M. Garrity,
Quincy. 66
Nov. 2.
Peter Harrington, Margaret Owens,
66
66
5.
Terrance Cavanah, Rose Ann Crathorne,
66 Quincy.
66
II.
Brnhad Anderson, Hdda Anderson,
66
66
12.
Alphonso Cleverly, Olive I. Monk,
Hull. Quincy.
66
15.
Charles Harrington, Catharine Webb,
Braintree. Fall River.
Quincy.
66
20.
Albert F. Gilbert, Arabella E. Savage,
Quincy. 66
66
23.
William French, Katie Fallen,
66
66
66
3.
George Henry Jones, Katie T. Brown,
Boston.
66
17.
Edward Farmer, Fanny E. Doherty,
84
Date.
Name.
Residence.
Nov. 25.
Lewis H. Josselyn, S. Lizzie Mason,
Portland, Me. Quincy.
26.
Thomas Bennett, Eliza White,
26.
William B. Sprague, Fannie W. Jones,
Hingham. Quincy.
Dec. 10.
Francis Kemp, Emma Williams,
Boston.
Quincy. · Charlestown.
66
23.
James Thompson, Lydia A. Ford,
Quincy.
24.
Henry A. Monk, Emma J. Tilley,
Braintree.
31.
Theophilus King, Jr., Helen L. Baxter,
Boston. Quincy.
31.
George Munroe Hawes, Mary Eunice Wrisley,
Weymouth. Quincy.
66
31.
George W. Thayer, Bessie Hall.
66
Total,
83
January, 7
February,
5
March,
2
April,
14
May, 8 June, . 9
July, 2
August,
3
September,
6
October, 8
November, 12
December, .
7
Total, 83
20.
William Jones, Ann Owens,
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REGISTRY OF DEATHS IN 1873.
Date.
Name.
Age.
Years.
Months.
Days.
January
2
John Donavan
31
5
Hannah Gallagher
55
7
Mary A. Whiting
58
7
19
8
- Harmon
IO
Carrie A. Bassett
16
6
12
Roger Dearing
77
9
15
Catherine Ann Davis
3
6
16
Jerusha Webb
89
II
16
Seelye
I7
Frederic A. Lapham
59
6
5
18
James Cochrane
32
0
6
20
James Morrow
21
WVm. P. Kelley
22
Mary E. Boyle
3
7
24
Sullivan
26
Joseph J. Neagle
I
9
27
Michael O'Connor
73
28
Maloney
I7
8
February
3
John Mullet
56
IO
4
Michael Martin
16
4
5
Abigail C. Thayer
45
9
Martin Joyce
40
6
I9
Samuel P. Hardwick
75
6
20
Charles G. Draper
I8
4
23
Abigail Morrison
62
8
23
William Fitzgerald
I
3
25
Jonathan Cook
78
25
Edward Sullivan
I6
IO
I6
March
2
Bridget Farrell
55
3 6
Abel Kimball
83
6
I4
Sarah Carter
78
18
John L. Johnson
42
21
William Moran
3
5 23
24
Ellen McCarthy
48
26
Jessie M. A. Driscoll
3
2
22
28
Abbie B. Veazie
3º
2
28
John Brittan
69
28
Albert F. Simpson
I
6
IO
30
Dennis Sullivan
I
I
I2
April
I
Jane W. Savil
80
3
8
4
Fanny Sylvester
3
19
5
Richard J. Thomas
27
2
IC
Wm. J. Joyce
6
8
II
James W. Hunt
54
II
Ann Brennan
62
12
John Kelley
45
14
Jane Victoria Clark
8
2
14
Joseph Potter
36
I6
Ann Rossiter
52
24
Nellie G. Richards
2
2
26
26
Samuel R. Edwards
61
5
May
4
Catherine Shehan
4
4
Catherine Cronin
38
6
Wm. H. Trask
48
6
Elizabeth F. Monk
25
5
8
9
John Turner
69
IO
Chas. C. Hodgkinson
7
II
Andrew O'Keefe
4
II
I4
Robert Gardner
53
16
James F. McCoy
20
22
Henry R. Smith
25
31
Laura B. Thomas
4
24
4
Mary Ann Murphy
4
30
Freedom Strout
31
George E. Thayer
21
3
13
Mary J. Smith
II
Thomas Swithen
52
7
O
0
86
Date.
Name.
Age.
Years.
Months.
Days.
May
19
Daniel J. Murphy
26
22
Edward Irving Pratt
2
I8
23
Curtis Rice Foster
6
27
Mary A. L. Mahoney
25
28
Owen Prescott
73
3
June
6
Isaiah W. Thayer
55
5
4
6
James H. Gould
21
8
Nathaniel Carter
3
II
David Rideout
69
2 255 5 5
IO
14
Addie S. Smith
28
I4
Smith
O
15
Lizzie Etta Lincoln
I4
2
7
I6
George Veazie
82
IO
Lewis Bass
78
6
18
23
Andrew J. Wadleigh
44
23
James R. Kelsh
I8
28
Grace H. Bass
71
6
4
John Jefferson Glover
45
IO
IC
Job Faxon
92
IO
5
I3
John H. Young
I
H
3
I4
Harris
O
Andrew Smith
27
22
Honora Bradley
37
25
Ellen Adams
37
5
27
Hattie Parker
26
27
Collier
O
27
Burkhart
o
28
Jeremiah O'Leary
6
28
Thomas Foley
5
7
28
Fritz Meerlander
13
29
John M. Merrill
I8
30
Carnegie G. Taylor
42
2
Thomas T. Doherty
4
II
4
Jessie McCurrach
20
4
22
7
Abigail Baxter
64
7
3
7
Franklin S. Hunt
12
8
15
7
William Hewitt
2
3
8
8
Howard W. Newcomb
5
I5
9
James Scannell
40
Richard T. Callahan
9
5
I3
Mary E. Almon
8
I4
Wm. S. Gordon
I
5
I5
Florence E. Bailey
4
20
16
Ellen Stanton
54
Emily M. Hewitt
7
I
21
Alice M. Chase
II
6
22
Dorothy Packard
76
26
Thomas Forrest
I
28
Bridget Foley
3I
4
Mary M. White
40
2
4
Jane E. Duggan
6
2
6
Jeannette McDonald
H
7
Almira V. Bryant
I
I
4
8
Mary Phipps Eaton
13
IO
9
Lottie M. Maxim
6
24
I2
Captain Skippins
66
II
15
William Nutting
63
9
I7
Edward B. Whiting
7
I8
Emeline Locke
51
I
19
Wm. T. Averill
24
8
24
Carrie Gregory
I
25
Timothy O'Connor
32
25
Gracie Gordon Newcomb
I
3
26
Charles F. Lord
3
I
5
5
Lydia A. Rowe
29
21
Jennie Coombe
94
July
August
4
Annie Wood Follett
8
Lillie Belle Chamberlain
7
9
Wm. B. Glover, Jr. Arnold
I
4
O
IO
John W. Corcoran
September
27
I2
Mary E. Jones
Ella A. Mayberry
IO
24
I8
Daniel Sullivan
55
T
Gilbert Blaisdell
57
87
Date.
Name.
Age.
Years.
Months.
Days.
September
27
Thomas J. Gibbs
I
2
12
27
Keenan
O
28
John A. Mahoney
17
25
28
Ethel Faxon
6
14
28
Annie I. Fowles
17
I
29
Edith W. Damon.
I
9
29
- Moore
O
October
I
Eugene D. Lyons
26
8
5
Georgie May Trask
4
5
Thomas Hollingshead
9
5
7
Wyman Abercrombie
4
7
Lizzie D. Monk
5
7
12
Elvira A. Nightingale
42
6
13
12
Annie King
21
12
- Lincoln
O
14
Margaret E. McGrame
I
II
14
17
John Barnes
75
3
18
James Baxter
87
3
3
18
Mary Ellen Webb
6
I3
20
. Whittemore
O
21
Hannah M. Connor
4
o
25
Julia Carroll
I9
27
Micajah N. Adams
80
3
3
November
4
Patrick Reynolds Mary Alice Hodges
75
6
2
IO
Abbie M. Maxim
24
9
8
I6
Clara M. Cobbett
22
20
21
John E. Pearce
3
2
27
22
Jane Murphy
5
22
Sarah Hanson
67
5
14
25
Sarah M. Lucas
55
7
26
Ethan Allen
73
3
21
27
John Allison
45
29
Simpson Carter
I
5
15
December
4
Joseph H. Kendrick
3
16
5
Josiah Bass
77
14
Frederic H. Mullin
32
2
14
Ellen R. McGann
18
26
16
Litchfield
O
17
Cyrus Dole
63
IO
19
James P. Hayes
2
5
20
Sarah H. Balkham
58
3
21
S. Augusta French
36
9
23
23
Charles E. Miller
54
3
27
Patrick McGee
33
29
Ada F. Armstrong
2
2
16
23
- Hartney
27
Lucius A. Lovell
19
28
6
Martha Pratt
80
9
5
4
20
Charlotte L. Packard
17
Mary E. Pierce
I2
Eddie A. Hill
6
30
3
Michael F. Cronin
Pomeroy
O
88
Registration of deaths which occurred in other places, the burials being in Quincy.
Date.
Name.
Age.
Place of Death.
Y.
M.
D.
January
12
William P. Hardwick
58
New Ipswich, N. H.
25
Mehitable White
78
I
25
February
7
Charles E. Jones
4
7
7
March
8
Nathaniel C. Leavitt
47
2
April
3
Carrie E. Bates
I
3
4
Mary Hanley
73
6
Boston
12
Elizabeth F. Geyer
75
3
Chicago, Ill.
June
5
Mary Fowles
93
4
14
Boston
July
15
Silas H. Hope
35
3
Duxbury
September
30
Susan T. Rideout
69
5
Stoughton
October
14
Lydia S. White
48
I
Newton
20
William W. Stone
28
I
26
Boston
25
Mary Higgins
87
IO
Weymouth
November
21
Mary A. Smith
84
Boston
Whole number of deaths registered in 1873.
Number.
Under 1 year of age Between 1 and 10 years of age
61
66
20
30
66
4 .
40
50
60
19
6c
70
12
.6
70
80
I7
8c
90
9
90
95
3
Total
214
Males.
Females.
Total.
January
14
9
23
February
9
3
I2
March
9
6
15
April
6
H
I7
May
II
4
15
June
IO
5
July
14
4
18
August
12
23
September
II
26
October
5
9
I4
December
8
4
I2
119
95
214
IC
20
66
יר
I8
30
40
14
I6
50
Mattie E. Merritt
II
Bristol, Me.
4
Arletta Spear
23
May
3
George M. Washburn
40
6
Lynnfield
August
30
Annie E. B. Vinal
19
Newton Boston
66
.
13
24
November
29
I6
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PUBLIC LIBRARY OF QUINCY.
THE Trustees of the Public Library ask leave to offer their Third Annual Report, relative to the progress and to the present condition of that institution.
The Financial Statement of the Treasurer, annexed to this report, gives the receipts and expenditures for the year ending in February, with the balance of moneys remaining in his hands at that date. From this it appears that the total receipts have been $5,075 93, and the expenditure, $3,489 84, leaving in the Treasury a balance of $1,586 09. From this sum, however, are to be deducted the various bills due from the Library and approved at the meeting of the Trustees on the 4th inst., amounting to $472 69. The amount, $750 00, appropriated for a suitable cata- logue of the library, as stated in the last Annual Report, has not been expended, and to this end also a further appropriation of two hundred dollars was added at the last meeting of the board. Making these deductions, it will be seen that the sum of $163 40 will be at the disposal of the Trustees at the opening of the new financial year.
The number of days during which the Library has been open during the year ending Ist February, 1874, was 306. In the month of May it was found expedient to make a slight change in the evening hours, closing at 8 P.M. for five days of the week, instead of four, as had been the previous custom. This change, so far as the Trustees are informed, has caused no pub- lic inconvenience.
The statistics of circulation and of the use of the reading-room
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are not quite so large as for the previous year, notwithstanding the increased number of registered borrowers. During the year the circulation has numbered 40,175 volumes, against 44,755 of the previous year, - an average per library day of 131 issues, being 14 less per day than the previous average. Of this distri- bution 50 per cent. was fiction, 29 per cent. of works written expressly for the young, and 21 per cent. of books of the more solid classes. It is to be noticed that this last per centage is precisely that given in the last report. The use of the more important books in the Library will probably increase in a marked degree as soon as the new catalogue shall have made known to the town the value of its collection.
The largest number of volumes issued on any one day, and the largest since the opening of the library, was on the 22d of March, 1873, amounting to 462; the smallest on the 16th of August, counting 26 only.
During the year the reading-room has been used by 7,722 visitors, of whom 31 per cent were adults, and 25 per cent females.
The number of applicants to borrow books, registered during the year, has been 495 -- which, added to the 2,202, previously enumerated, makes the total of accounts opened for this purpose 2,697.
The Library now contains 8, 177 volumes and 343 pamphlets. Of these volumes 886 have been added during the year ; 78 volumes and 140 pamphlets were donations.
Of the 91,980 books circulated since the opening of the Li- brary but four are known to be missing, two having disappeared during the past year. This last loss is supposed to have arisen from the carelessness of the borrowers, who had removed from the town without fulfilling their obligations to the Library by the return of the books intrusted to them under the conditions to which they had subscribed. No books are reported as having been wantonly or wilfully injured.
The delay in printing the catalogue has arisen from the un- avoidable engagements and absence of the member of the Board who is especially charged with the oversight and arrange- ment of its preparation for the press. With the large improve- ments which have recently taken place in this form of literary
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labor, it is expected that the volume, giving a key to the contents of this carefully selected library, will also include such alphabet- ical classification of subjects as shall materially aid every stu- dent and visitor of the collection in their search for the volumes required for their instruction or amusement. The purchases, during the past year, have made the Library stronger and fuller in various departments of knowledge, which fact will amply compensate for the inconvenience of the delay in printing.
The temporary deposit of the Library in the Adams Academy by the consent of its Trustees will shortly terminate. It has been found that other convenient quarters can, without diffi- culty, be obtained in positions quite as central as that now occupied. The expenses of rent, gas-fitting, heating, furniture and removal will, however, require an additional appropriation from the town for the ensuing year, though the Trustees see no occasion for anticipating any large permanent increase of the annual cost of the library. It is perhaps unnecessary to state that the amount heretofore appropriated for rent of a new hall has not been used.
With a new catalogue, and with the removal of the Library to large and more convenient quarters, it may naturally be expected that the circulation of the books and the usefulness of the Insti- tution will be increased in a considerable measure. But in a town, the inhabitants of which are scattered over so many square miles, no point is so central as to be perfectly and equally convenient to the whole population.
During the past summer the Library lost the services of Miss Hails, the Librarian, who resigned her position on account of declining health. Her faithful and devoted attention to the duties of her office, from the foundation of the collection, were fully recognized by the Trustees. Her assistant, Miss Bumpus, declining deserved promotion to the office, Miss Cora I. Young was appointed Librarian, and entered upon the duties on the Ist of July last, which she has since fulfilled to the acceptation of the Board.
In conclusion, for the expense of care and maintenance of the Library, for the purchase of books during the coming year, for the rent of new rooms, and for the exceptional expense of
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adapting the same to the requirements of the public in fur- niture, heating, and lighting, the Trustees would recommend an appropriation by the town of three thousand, five hundred dollars ($3,500).
Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM W. GREENOUGH, For the Trustees.
PUBLIC LIBRARY, Feb. 5, 1874.
ACCOUNT OF THE TREASURER OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
RECEIPTS.
Cash in Treasury, Feb. 4, 1873,
$2,168 74
town appropriation, 2,000 00
of town treasurer, dog licenses,
730 49
from fines,
154 59
66 " contributors for magazines,
22 II
$5,075 93
DISBURSEMENTS.
For books,
$1,210 66
stationery,
54 81
binding,
227 80
66 expressage,
19 50
66 fuel,
381 00
66 gas,
221 75
salaries,
1,27I 61
postage,
13 50
sundries,
89 21
Balance in Treasury, February, 1874,
1,586 09
$5,075 93
SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MAN- AGERS OF THE ADAMS ACADEMY.
THE school continues under the charge of Professor W. R. Dimmock, LL.D., and the managers have nothing to take back from the commendation given to him in their first report. They fully believe from this past year's experience that the success thus far attending the undertaking is altogether due to his faith- ful and judicious discharge of his duties in this trust.
It is now passing through the second term of the second year. Last year, the number of scholars was twenty-eight. This year, it is sixty-one. If this rate of increase were to continue for two years, it would more than fill all the space provided by the building. Even as it is, there appears to be an absolute neces- sity of requiring the space now occupied by the town library, in order fully to carry out the order of the recitations.
The chief object of the donor, in this trust, seems to have been the laying a solid foundation for early and thorough in- struction, introductory to the several higher forms of education required by the advance of the country. To that end he made conveyances of certain plots of land, from the rents and profits accruing from which he directed that a school-house should be put up at a certain place. That object has been attained, but it took a period of more than fifty years' careful accumulation of the receipts before it could be done.
And now that it is done, if he had contemplated that school to be supported by the rents and profits accruing from his lands
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alone, it would take all of fifty years more to accumulate before the necessary means could be obtained. At this moment there are no funds adequate to do more than defray the charges incident to the care of the building, the furniture, and perhaps a moderate support to the teaching, of one person.
It becomes necessary to understand then that if this Academy, on the scale contemplated by its founder, is to be carried on in good faith, it must receive, at least for many years to come, its means of sustaining the high class of instruction desired from other sources than those belonging to the trust.
Already the enlarged number of scholars exceeds the powers of a single man to teach the variety of lessons to a variety of classes. There must be assistants well qualified to act under the directions of the principal, who must be properly remunerated or they will not stay. And in the exact proportion that the number of scholars increases, and the variety of instruction mul- tiplies, will the demand for more instructors, and a correspond- ingly efficient apparatus, also increase.
Of the sixty-one boys now receiving instruction at this institu- tion, eleven belong to the town, and fifty come from other places, some of them at a very great distance. By a vote passed by the town the scholars belonging to the town are to be educated at this Academy free of all charge.
The practical effect of this vote is to make the parents of the fifty boys from abroad pay not only for their own education, but likewise for the town boys. It is somewhat doubtful, to say the least of it, whether those parents, when they come to know this fact, will be so ready to send their children as they would be if all had been placed on an equal footing. And inasmuch as the highest number which can be received in the Academy building is one hundred and thirty, it might easily happen that in the proportion in which the town boys increase, who pay nothing, those from out of town, who supply the chief support of the in- sruction, must be excluded. Hence the means of supplying the compensation to high-class teachers would be diminishing in the ratio of the increase of attendance of the boys at home. This would seem scarcely to be just to strangers, who are disposed to place confidence in the high management of the school, or even creditable to the liberality of the town in appearing to wish to
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educate their own boys entirely at the expense of those strangers.
This difficulty is likely to be aggravated by the removal of the town library from the rooms which are needed by the expansion of the school. At present the town defrays the expenses of lighting and heating and care of the building by way of con- sideration for the use of those rooms. But so soon as they are vacated, this additional charge must be defrayed from the nar- row funds of the Trust itself. This again will cause a very con- siderable deduction from the means of defraying the charges of education. It is not unlikely that a time may come when, by the increase in value of the lands belonging to the Trust, the resources of the Academy will be sufficient to educate boys without charge. This result is much to be wished for. But it cannot be done at present to any extent without creating difficul- ties that must materially impair the further prospects of success.
The managers have felt it a duty respectfully to submit these views of the injurious effect to the school of the vote of the town, which appears to have been passed without adequate in- formation of the true state of the facts. There are as yet no means sufficient to maintain the school on a proper footing without more or less of charge to the scholar. The alternative is to reduce the system to so low a grade that it will no longer be an object of attraction to persons from abroad, and when that happens it would equally cease to be desirable to the parents of those at home to send their children free.
There may indeed be some exceptional cases in which the ad- mission of youths of promise in the town might be positively barred from the absolute inability of their parents to meet even a moderate charge. Should such cases arise they might be pro- vided for by vesting in the managers a power to remit the charge if, after examination, they should appear to be deserving of ex- ception. All of which is respectfully submitted.
C. F. ADAMS, Chairman. L. W. ANDERSON, HENRY BARKER, J. P. QUINCY, E, H. DEWSON, CHAS. H. PORTER, Sed'y.
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ENGINEERS' REPORT.
To the Selectmen of Quincy :
GENTLEMEN, - I most respectfully submit the following report : -
FORCE OF THE DEPARTMENT.
The Department is under the control of a Chief and four As- sistant Engineers.
APPARATUS.
Four hand engines with hose-carriages, one four-wheeled hose- carriage and one hook and ladder carriage, all in the best of order and condition, and manned by volunteers. The companies are nearly all full.
HOUSES.
The houses of the several companies are all in the best of re- pair and condition, and I know of no repairs needed on any of them the ensuing year.
HOSE.
There are belonging to the Department about 1,500 feet of good hose that can be relied upon, and about 1,000 feet that are almost useless in case of fire, and we would recommend that the town purchase, without delay, 2,000 feet of new hose for the use of the department, believing that about that number of feet would be required in case a large fire should break out in the centre or south part of the town. I would also state that the citizens of the Centre and South Districts have, by subscription, bought and placed in Mr. William Panton's shop a force-pump which will force water to at least four of your reservoirs, and which will consequently save the town a very great expense in filling them. All we need is enough hose to do the work with.
RESERVOIRS.
They are all in good condition, and two new ones are being built, one at the junction of Adams and Hancock Streets, which is almost ready for use, and the other on Washington Street, about half way from the Stone Meeting-house to the Niagara Engine-house.
All of which I herewith submit to your honorable Board.
WASHINGTON M. FRENCH, Chief Engineer of Fire Department.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF QUINCY,
FOR THE
SCHOOL YEAR 1873-74.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOR 1873-74.
JOHN Q. ADAMS, CHAIRMAN. HENRY LUNT.
ASA WELLINGTON, SECRETARY. CHARLES F. ADAMS, JR. H. FARNAM SMITH. CHARLES L. BADGER.
BOSTON : PRESS OF COCHRANE & SAMPSON. 1874.
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE, in entering upon the performance of the closing duty of their School year, are glad to be able to congratulate the people of Quincy upon the satisfactory general character of the results which they have to report.
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