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Alice Williams
Charles Randal
Mary F. O'Connor
William R. Edson
Leon Portrais
Harry Bartlett
WINTER TERM.
Oliver Randal*
Nellie M. Goodwin Lina Chamberlain William W. Wilson Susan O'Connor Howard A. Weeks* Lottie Baker Grace Parsons Percy Nourse*
James Henderson
Bessie Bartlett
Ethel Heald
Benjamin Strong
Frank Rivers*
Joseph W O'Connor
Leon Portraise James O'Connor
Mary F. O'Connor*
Indicates perfect attendance for the year.
Frank Rivers
Mathew Cullen
Edson Hunt
Etta Bemis
Thomas Williams Fred Rivers
Chester Wheeler
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Truant Officers.
Truant officers were appointed at the commencement of the year, but no official service has been rendered by them throughout the year.
Memorial Day.
This day was observed by all the schools as the law directs.
These patriotic exercises in which the children are the principal actors, are seeds sown broadcast, the fruit of which in after years will be a generation of patriotic citizens, true lovers of country, having a profound respect for the old flag and its noble defenders, those living and those that have gone to their reward.
Number of Schools.
We have maintained throughout the year, the same number that were maintained in the two previous years, six in all, including the High School.
Their character and condition is well understood by those interested, and we think you will agree with us in say- ing that we have no reason to complain in regard to the work of the teachers, that they have been faithful in the discharge of their duties and anxious to promote the best interest of the schools. It has been our aim to secure the services of the very best teachers that we can for the salary that we are able to offer, and to retain if possible, the services of those that are successful in their work; and in one or two instances have increased the salaries in order not to risk the conse- quences of a change of teachers.
High School.
In our last report, it was suggested that it would be a benefit to the school to make an addition of one year to its regular course. The matter was carefully considered by your
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committee, and we finally voted to add another year to the course, and in order to make it a success, we fitted up a reci- tation room and employed an assistant teacher. Whether we acted wisely or not in this matter, we will leave it with the intelligent public to decide.
Your committee also have added one week to each of the last two terms, making them eleven weeks. Whether we shall be justified in allowing eleven weeks for a term for the coming year, we know not, but would like to keep along in this line, and shall do so if a sufficent sum is appropriated to defray this additional expense.
The graduating exercises of the class of 1896 was con- ducted in the usual manner, and was enjoyed by a large number, indicating that the public at large are interested in the success of the school.
There will be the class of 1897 to graduate at the close of the Spring term, but there will be no graduating class again until 1899 on account of the change from a three years' course to that of four years.
We are free to say that the interest manifested in the school, and its success, is mainly due to the efforts of the teachers that we have been able to secure for the last two or more years, and we hope we shall not be compelled to make any change for the present.
A list of studies in their order selected to accomino- date the four years course.
FIRST YEAR.
FALL TERM. WINTER TERM.
SPRING TERM.
Language,
Language,
Language,
Geography,
Geography,
Geography,
Arithmetic,
Arithmetic,
Arithmetic,
Reading, Spelling, Writing,
Reading, Spelling,
Reading, Spelling,
Writing,
Writing.
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SECOND YEAR.
FALL TERM
Language,
Geography,
Arithmetic,
U. S. History, Spelling, Writing,
Language,
Language,
Beg. Latin,
Arithmetic,
U. S. History,
Eng. History,
Spelling, Writing,
THIRD YEAR.
FALL TERM.
WINTER TERM.
SPRING TERM.
Rhetoric,
Algebra,
Beg. Latin,
Anc. History,
Rhetoric,
Rhetoric,
Algebra,
Algebra,
Cæsar,
Roman History.
FOURTH YEAR.
FALL TERM. Eng. Literature,
Geometry,
Cicero,
Cicero and Virgil,
Physics,
Virgil, Astronomy.
Physics,
WINTER TERM.
SPRING TERM.
Eng. Literature,
Geometry,
Eng. Literature, Pol. Economy,
GRADED SCHOOLS.
Your committee is quite confident that the opinion of the majority of the voters of the town, is that all the scholars should be brought together at some central point, thus enabling us to grade the schools. We have now about two hundred children of school age, which could be graded so as to have but five schools with an average of forty scholars for each. As we have said in a former report, the most serious thing in the way, is in not having a suitable building; possibly we have not the ineans to provide one, but we have
Cæsar,
Grecian History,
Beg. Latin, Arithmetic,
Spelling, Writing,
WINTER TERM. SPRING TERM.
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the old town house and the school building in the center, which could be put into shape for the accommodation of five or six schools. Of course nothing in this respect could be done until the town goes forward and builds a new Town Hall. We are not prepared to recommend this way of getting a suitable building, but this is one of the ways, and we think it would be well to carefully examine it and get at the actual expense according to a detailed plan with specifications, and compare this expense with the expense of erecting a new building with the same accommodations.
We have been prompted to say this much about this inatter, from the fact that we find in all the Primary Schools such a number of grades, and such a large number of classes and recitations, that it is impossible for any teacher to spend as much time with each class as is desirable to obtain the best results, and often some of the parents think that the little ones are neglected for the benefit of the older ones, and on the other hand, others think that the little ones receive too much attention, whereas the facts in the case are that the teachers divide the time among them so as to give each their due share of attention.
It is easily understood by all that if all the children were brought together and graded, there would be a much smaller number of classes in each school, but an increase in the number of each class, and the time which the teacher has to devote to each class is of much longer duration, and is as beneficial to each one of a larger class as it would be to each one in a class that numbered much less. Much more could be said in favor of this change, but we will drop the matter here, hoping that you will carefully consider the sub- ject, and after considering it sufficiently, act wisely and well when the time comes for action, remembering that the best legacy that you can give to your children, is to supply for them the means and opportunities to get a thorough education while under your care, and before they leave the home.
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Our Duties as Taxpayers, Parents and Citizens of Rutland.
Before closing this report, we wish to present our views in regard to some of our duties relative to school mat- ters. We think that all should be interested in the schools whether they have children or not attending them, an interest sufficient to induce you to visit the schools, and see for your- selves what is going on in the school room, thus becoming competent judges of their character and condition. But a still greater good will be the result of frequent visitations; the scholars and teacher will know by your presence that you are interested in their behalf and if these visitations were of every day occurrence, the children would as a rule, be ready at the time appointed with well learned lessons. So we say, (as it has been said many times before by wiser heads than ours), visit the schools, and by thus doing you will encourage the children to do their best, and give to the teachers the support which is their due, and also in all probability will prove a benefit to yourselves. We have abundant reason to think that many parents and those that have the care of children, are not as anxious as they should be to have them in school every day and without being tardy; it you will stop to consider'the evil effect of this indifference, you will, we think, do what you can to remedy the evil in the future. The children that are absent from school any number of times during a term, suffer a loss which might be of great value to them and the loss not only effects them, but affects the whole class in which such children may belong and thus this practice becomes an actual injury to the whole school, and in view of this injury, we remark that no one has a right to allow those in their care to absent themselves from school for a single day, unless for good reason.
The Roll of Honor which we have prepared and is in- cluded in this report. Shows plainly that we have some reason to complain in this respect, but hope and expect that there will be no reason to complain when we come to the end of another school year.
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In conclusion, we desire to extend our thanks to the general public for their kind consideration and support, also to the teachers for their faithful services the past year.
Respectfully submitted,
WALTER A. HUNTER,; School
WM. C. TEMPLE,
F. HATHAWAY, Committee.
. . FIRST . .
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Water Commissioners
OF THE
TOWN OF RUTLAND,
INCLUDING
Report of Engineer
TO
FEBRUARY 15, 1897.
. . FIRST . .
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Water Commissioners
OF THE
TOWN OF RUTLAND,
INCLUDING
Report of Engineer TO
FEBRUARY 15, 1897.
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WORCESTER PRINTING CO., 26 SOUTHBRIDGE STREET, WORCESTER, MASS,
1897.
PUMPING STATION.
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Water Commissioners' Report.
Your Board, thinking it might be of interest, will pre- fre their report by giving a brief history of the circuinstances kding up to the introduction of water for the Town. As steral of the surrounding towns and the city of Worcester wre looking for a water supply, and had been considering Mschopauge Lake for a possibly supply, some of the citizens o the Town thought it time to secure this right for our- seves, and the late George A. Putnamn was instrumental in aring an article inserted into the warrant for the November neting in 1894, "To see if the Town would take measures bsecure the waters of Muschopauge Lake and choose any onmittee to carry the saine into effect." At this meeting tl: Town chose D. M. Wheeler, C. R. Bartlett and Henry Cnverse, a committee to carry out the object named in the aicle. As a result of their efforts, the Legislature passed an At entitled, "An Act to supply the Town of Rutland with «ter," it being Chapter 158, of the year 1895.
At the same session of the Legislature, an Act was pised entitled, "An Act to establish the Massachusetts Espital for Consumptives and Tubercular Patients." Five Tistees were appointed to carry out the provisions of said In pursuance of their duties, they found Rutland to be most healthful and desirable location for the Institution, wereupon the Trustees conferred with the Selectinen of Rtland in relation to a water supply. A special meeting as called December 2, 1895, and accepted the Act relating "water supply, and W. A. Wheeler, F. B. Stearns, Henry Enverse, L. Q. Spaulding, M. R. Moulton and C. R. Bartlett
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were appointed a committee to confer with said Trustees report at a future meeting.
That committee attended to their duties, and repor at a special meeting held on the 19th day of December, 18 "That the Trustees offered to pay to the Town for their we supply, one thousand dollars per year, for ten years, and a that regular water rates." The committee also procured e mates tending to show that the entire system could be cc pleted for a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dolla and recommended that the Town proceed to establish a syst of water works.
Your present board of Water Commissioners chosen: C. R. Bartlett for three years, S. W. Trowbridge two years, William T. Brown for one year, and instructed procure all the necessary rights and easements, and to proc to construct as soon as may be, a system of water wor The commissioners forwith mnet and duly organized with R. Bartlett, chairman, and William T. Brown, Secretary, ¿ S. W. Trowbridge was subsequently chosen Superintende
Your Commissioners then secured the services of M. Wheeler, of Worcester, as Consulting Engineer, ¿ through him the services of Thompson and Wheeler, Worcester, were secured to take charge of the field engineer: and construction.
Being desirous of obtaining all the informat that we could for a system of water works that wo1 1 meet our needs, we visited several systems before calling bids. Plans were immediately drawn and specifications the pipe line, pumping engine, boiler, pump house, wa tower, gates and hydrants, were prepared and submiti to contractors for bids, and on Feb. 8, 18973 bids we opened and contracts were awarded to Knowles Ste: Pump Works of Warren for boiler, pumping engine a connections, for the sum of three thousand and fifty- dollars; the Water Tower to the Cunningham Iron Co., f
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oton, for three thousand, six hundred dollars; and the y line pump house including chimney, foundation for ter tower, gates, hydrants and all other items not in- ted in the other contracts for $15,556.55. A contract also made with the state, to furnish water to the obital for $1,000 per year for ten years. Having secured ry complete and excellent report from our Consulting nineer, Mr. D. M. Wheeler, we annex the same, hereto ning it a part of our report, thus avoiding the necessity bing further into detail in the matter of construction, Ich would otherwise seem necessary.
About 800 feet of two inch pipe has been laid extend- grom the end of the ten inch main, westerly to a point psite the house of Geo. S. Putnam, and 2,350 feet of rice pipe. This work being done under the Superinten- re of S. W. Trowbridge. 31 service connections have rudy been made, and 13 corporation cocks have been ted into the main pipe, in anticipation of future con- cons.
The connections were made and the water let on F. 4, and a public test of hydrant pressure for fire ser- powas given Oct. 22, which was witnessed by several l'ance men from. Boston, Worcester and other places. exhibition was favorably commented upon by these nemen, as they witnessed the fire department throwing Istreams of water over the cupola of the Muschopauge se, both in front and in the rear. As a result of this t the Board of Underwriters have reduced the insurance to, twenty-five cents on all property under hydrant o :ction. The cost of coal for the pumping plant has up xceeded our expectations.
We consider the Town fortunate in securing the v:es of E. E. Lawrence as engineer at the pumping aton, who has proved himself to be careful and compe- 'at While his services have not been required at the
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pumping station. He has worked elsewhere, and the Toy has received a considerable sum toward paying his sala · which is noted in the Superintendent's Report.
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH .- Pub. Doc.
RUTLAND. The committee on water supply of 1: town of Rutland applied to the Board December 24, 1894, its advice relative to taking the water of Lake Muschopau in that town as a source of water supply for the town. T Board replied to this application as follows:
BOSTON, February 23, 1895
The examinations made by the Board, lead it to c. clude that this pond will furnish a sufficient quantity of war of suitable quality for all the purposes of a public war supply, and that it is, therefore, an appropriate source supply for the town.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. - State Board of Health.
Water Analysis. (Parts in 100,000.)
DATE OF No. Collection. Examination. Turbidity.
Sediment. Color. Cold. H
Feb. 1897.
18,479 IO
II
Slight. Slight. 0.03
Faintly Fai veg. V
RESIDUE ON EVAPORATION.
Total.
Loss on Ignition.
Fixed. Change on Ignition.
AMMONIA Free. Albumin
2.10
0.70
1.40
.0044 .015
.015
Chlorine.
Nitrogen Nitrogen as Nitrates. as Nitrites.
Hardness.
Oxygen Consumed.
.30
.0030
.0000
0.5
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For meeting the payments due the contractors ) the first part of the construction, a temporary loar q $12,000.00 was made with the People's Savings Band Worcester, Aug. 1, 1897; a permanent loan was nog
APPEARANCE.
ODOR.
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ed with the Commonwealth for $25,000.00 and es given to the amount of $25,000.00 bearing interest he rate of 334 per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, uthe first days of February and August in each year, Ulated August 1, 1897, and payable as follows:
$500, each year for 10 years from August 1, 1897.
1000,
1. 1907.
1000,
66 1,1917.
The following is a statement of expenditures on count of the construction to February 15, 1897.
CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNT.
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18. Borrowed temporarily, $12,000 from People's Sav- ings Bank of Worcester, which was subse- quently paid from the permanent fund.
DR.
I. Borrowed and received from the
Commonwealth, $25,000.00
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II. Interest on deposit to date, 57.90
15.
Received for service pipe and trenching,
80.48
$25,138.38
CR.
Paid L. A. Taylor, contract work, $5,000.00
66 2,500.00
12. Cunningham Iron Co., contract work 1,800.00
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u.
13.
L. A. Taylor, contract work, 2,500.00 4. Interest on temporary loan, 81.92
L. A. Taylor, contract work. 1,500.00 7. 7. 8.
Cunningham Iron Co., contract work, 900.00
« . 600.00
u.
el
a 18. 111: I2.
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Sept. 8. I5. 25.
Oct. 5.
6.
6.
6.
S. W. Trowbridge, for trenching and making service connections, E. Lawrence, labor of service piping, W. T. Brown, labor sounding for pipe line, 32
I2. 17.
L. A. Taylor, contract work, 775 Knowles Pump Works, for boiler and pump, etc., 3,056 S. W. Trowbridge, incidentals, I4
30. 30.
Cunningham Iron Co., contract work 200
Dec. II.
C. W. Putnam, for right of way through land,
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30.
W. H. Bartlett, for right of way through land, IO0
15.
Thompson & Wheeler, engineering services, 646
I5.
line, drawing -eoal, etc.,
15.
Albert Trask, extra work on pump- ing station,
15.
John Henderson, labor trenching,
15.
Wilson & Holden, for lime and cement for pumping station,
15.
Boston & Maine, freight on same,
I5. L. M. Hanff, Justice fees, expenses incidental to taking care of fund, etc., 9.
Amount contracted for and not paid.
Cunningham Iron Co., 300. F
E. Lawrence, labor on service piping, $5
L. A. Taylor, contract work, 3,000 D. M. Wheeler, engineer's services, Walworth Manufacturing Co., ser- vice pipe, tools, etc.,
50c 52C 618 22
4. s .
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C. R. Bartlett, sounding for pipe Sand 59 183
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L. A. Taylor,
$281.55
Surplus unexpended of loan,
86.25
$25,138.38
W. T. BROWN, Secretary.
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.
Soon after the practical competition of the water system, on account of being away from town a considerable portion of the winter, Mr. S. W. Trowbridge resigned his position as Superintendent, and C. R. Bartlett was chosen to fill the vacancy. Nearly all of the trenching and service connections were made under the supervision of Mr. Trowbridge, he having left on file a full and complete list of plans and measurements of line of service pipe from the main, and also has indicated on the same all points tapped for future connec- tions.
There is due the Town for trenching, piping and mak- ing connections from street line to dwellings and other buildings which has not been otherwise reported, and which stands credited to the construction fund, $316.24, which together with the surplus in han s of Treasurer after paying all bills due for construction of $85.25, will leave a balance of $402.49. It is proper to state that there is due for services of E. E. Lawrence, engineer, $34.80, and there has been received $41.28, making $76.08 to be deducted from the amount paid for services as engineer, $194.05, and amount due him to February 15, 1897, $26.00, making $220.05, showing the actual cost of engineer to be $143.97, which added to the cost of fuel, $87.73, makes the cost of pumping $231.70, from September
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4 to February 15, 1897, almost one-half of the year and during the colder portion, thus consuming a larger proportion of fuel.
It is expected that when the engines and boilers are put into the hospital buildings that their engineer will run the pumping plant for the Town at a much less expense for engineer. There is also due the Town for water rentals, $97.17, that has not been otherwise reported.
There has been received, as reported by Treasurer, for water rentals, $276.18.
AMOUNT OF SUPPLIES AND TOOLS ON HAND. Supplies.
33 feet 2-inch gal. iron pipe. 7 34-inch brass unions.
450 " I 66
8 I " gal. iron cocks.
270 “ 3/4 6 6 I dozen clasps.
28 34 lead pipe. 2 114 inch Ties. -
- 8 I
8 I-inch Ties.
3 174-inch x I inch Ties.
I INA-inch Y. .
II Faucets.
I I-inch corporation cock.
18 34-inch Ells.
I 1 1/4 -inch stop and waste cocks 24 reducers varying from 34 to 114 inch.
4 I
3 3/4
I service box.
3 I-inch sidewalk cocks.
4 lbs. solder.
6 34 “
200 feet measuring line.
Approximate value, $95.00.
Tools for Trenching.
3 picks,
$3.00 3 drills, $1.75
3 hammers,
2.50 Io lbs. dynamite and caps, 5.00
I spade,
.75
4 lanterns, 2.00
I grub axe,
1.00 I broom, .50
$16.50
2 I-inch soldered lead con- nections.
9 1 inch Ells.
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Tools for Piping.
I 2 inch die plate, $6.00
2 3/4 inch drills, 1.80
2 3/4 " taps, 2.50
I W. I. wrench for side- walk shut-off, 1.83
2 11/4 inch taps, 2.26
I I inch taps, .94
I 11/4 inch die plate for
3/4 inch and 114 inch, 4 00
I 2 inch drill for ratchet, .90 2 114 inch drill, 1.20
I r inch drill, .53
2 1 14 inch reamer, 2.26
I I inch reamer, .94
I 3/4 inch reamer, .63
I 2 inch Stanwood cutter, .98
I B. Miller patent die ratchet plate, with 234 dies, $4.12
I Miller's ratchet pipe cutter, 3.40
I Stillson wrench, 14 in., 1.20
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18 “ 1.60
I 24 2.40
2 pairs Brown's tongs, 1.20
I Coes' Block wrench, 15 inch, 1.00
I wall vise, 8.10
I Mall hinge vise, 3.00
2 Packer's sleeve rat- chets, 4.05
I iron crow, 9.60
I 2inch Walworth cutter 1.46
67.90
Total, $179.40, which may be counted as resources to the Town.
C. R. BARTLETT, Superintendent.
In conclusion, we wish to say that the work has been done very satisfactory to us, and we cannot but feel pleased with the success that has attended our efforts to provide the Town with a first-class water system, especially when we realize that we undertook a business, every detail of which was new to us, and credit is due engineer D. M. Wheeler for the interest, ability and zeal he has manifested in the work, and the close attention Messrs. Thompson and Wheeler have given to insure its being economically and thoroughly done. We would not forget to mention that Messrs. D. M. Wheeler, and Thompson and Wheeler, have shown a very friendly interest in the Town by discounting 1623 per cent. from their personal services on their bill, amounting to nearly $150.
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We are confident that the benefits to be derived by having pure water for domestic uses, and a hydrant protection in case of fire, will be appreciated by the citizens, and further the interests of the Town.
The State Hospital is in process of erection, and we be- lieve that other enterprises will follow, that we could not have had without the assurance of a water supply.
Following this, is the report of the engineer, schedule of water rates, regulations, etc.
Respectfully submitted,
C. R. BARTLETT, Water S. W. TROWBRIDGE, Commissioners W. T. BROWN, of Rutland.
February 15, 1897.
Engineer's Report.
CHARLES R. BARTLETT, Esq. STEPHEN W. TROWBRIDGE, Esq.
WILLIAM T. BROWN, Esq.
Water Commissioners of the Town of Rutland.
Gentlemen ;-
I beg leave to submit the following report upon the location and construction of a system of water works for the town of Rutland.
The system constructed is the same as proposed by the preliminary surveys shown on map presented to the legislature when the act relating to the water supply for the town was introduced and passed in 1895, and consists of a pumping plant, a reservoir or water tower for storing water, the necessary force main pipes, and distribution pipes leading from the water tower to the centre of the town, with branches, gates and hydrants.
The work of locating the pipe line was commenced on December 30, 1895. Considerable time was spent in obtain- ing a line which should show the minimum amount of rock in the excavation of trenches. The line of the force main pipe was carried along the Southerly slope of Muschopauge Hill, and the line of the distribution pipe, instead of follow- ing the highway from the top of Muschopauge Hill to Rutland centre, deflects to the South, and passing through lands of the . State Hospital, crosses the Wachusett Road near the house of W. H. Bartlett, and thence through private lands to and through the ornamental grounds of the Rural Cemetery, from
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which point the line follows the highway to its terminus near the Town Hall. By this line a large amount of rock on Muschopauge Hill and Pound Hill was avoided.
Specifications for the pipe line, pumping engine, boiler, pump house, water tower, gates and hydrants were prepared and submitted to contractors for bids, and upon February 8, 1896, the contract for boiler, pumping engine, and connec- tions was awarded to the Knowles Steam Pump Works of Warren; the water tower to the Cunningham Iron Co. of Boston, and the general contract embracing all the work not included in the above items to Lucian A. Taylor of Worcester. Work was begun by Mr. Taylor on April 27, 1896, and the work was practically completed September 1, 1896, three months later thau called for by the contract, and water was let on for the first time on September 4, 1896, at noon.
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