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We recommend that the unexpended balances from special appropri- tions, with the exception above noted, be transferred to what might be called an Emergency Fund, to be drawn on by a recorded vote of the board, upon proper petition, in cases when inconvenience would be caused by having to wait for a special town meeting.
The auto truck furnished us by the town at the last annual meeting has been in use for the greater part of the year, and the results achieved by its use has demonstrated beyond doubt the good judgment used by the
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citizens in providing it for the department. The horse equipment has been sold for $200 and the money turned into the treasury.
The water rates for the ensuing year will, by vote of the board, remain the same as last year.
The report of the Ways and Means Committee on article 50 of the annual town warrant, for 1916, voted by the town, referred the question of town departments' water rates to a committee, consisting of the Select- men and the Water and Sewerage Board. This committee has had several conferences and their report follows :
The committee consisting of the Selectmen and the Water and Sewerage Board, to whom was referred the question of the town departments' water rates, beg leave to submit the following report :
The act of the Legislature creating the Water Board provided ways and means of deriving revenue, in order to provide for the necessary expense of running the department. This has been done since the department was organized, by having the water rates placed at such a figure as will provide for this necessary expense.
By referring to the report of the Water Board for 1915, it will be found that the Metropolitan assessment, and the debt requirements for principal and interest amounted to over $28,000 for that year. For the year 1916 it will amount to almost $30,000. For 1917 it will undoubtedly reach nearly $32,000. Any serious curtailment of the receipts of the department would necessarily mean a large increase in rates to property owners, or an appropriation from the tax levy, neither of which we are in favor of, and we believe a large majority of the citizens to be of the same mind. We believe that present conditions are best for all departments, in that it is a check on the use of water, thus avoiding all undue waste, which might possibly occur under other circumstances.
After studying the matter from every point of view, we unanimously recommend that existing conditions be left as they are.
Respectfully submitted,
SAMUEL M. KEHOE, CHARLES E. HODGDON,
GEORGE D. R. DURKEE, HENRY S. BALDWIN, CLARENCE B. HUMPHREY, WILLIAM E. CARTER.
In conclusion we wish to thank every board, committee, official and citizen, with whom we have had dealings, for the courtesies extended us during the year.
Relaying and extension of mains, with cost. (Including gates and hydrants.)
Ocean avenue, 827 ft. 6-in. cast-iron pipe $923 79
Hillcrest circle, 372 ft. 6-in. cast-iron pipe 779 73
Gale avenue, 1, 115 ft. 6-in. cast-iron pipe 1,873 25
Bradlee avenue, 928 ft. 6-in. cast-iron pipe 1,041 57
Vinnin street, 592 ft. 2-in. cement lined pipe ·
Aspen road, 366 ft. 6-in cast-iron pipe (uncompleted), 499 12
Prospect avenue, 370 ft. 6-in cast-iron pipe (uncom-
pleted ) 491 63
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Arbutus road (uncompleted)
3 63
Sargent road (uncompleted) 3 62
Cedar Hill terrace, 350 ft. 6-in. cast-iron pipe (un- completed)
71 25
$5,687 59
Gates located as follows :
Total last report
426
Ocean avenue
2
6-inch
Hillcrest circle
2
6-inch
Gale avenue
2
6-inch
Bradlee avenue
2
6-inch
Aspen road
I
6-inch
Prospect avenue
2
6-inch
Cedar Hill terrace .
I
6-inch
Vinnin street
I
2-inch
I3
Total December 31, 1916
439
Hydrants located as follows :
Total last report
18I
Ocean avenue
I
Hillcrest circle
I
Gale avenue
2
Bradlee avenue
I
Aspen road
I
Prospect avenue
I 7
Total December 31, 1916
1 88
Table of distributing pipe in feet, December 31, 1916.
W. Iron,
C. Iron.
C. Lined. Kalemin.
Total
I-inch
893
893
I4-inch
128
128
I2-inch
2,565
2,565
2-inch
14,733
1,117
15,850
23-inch
475
475
3-inch
1,088
1,088
4-inch
6,958
333
1,734
9,025
6-inch
72,530
2,813
1,410
76,753
8-inch
6,593
6,593
IO-inch
17,612
694
18,306
12-inch
6,714
6,714
14.inch
3,045
3,045
19,279 113,452
4,866
3,838
141,435
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Meters purchased during the year 1916.
88 §-inch Lambert
$672 00
6 I-inch Lambert
114 00
9 12-inch Lambert
285 00
I 2-inch Lambert
55 00
I 3-inch Lambert
90 00
Cost of meters to January 1, 1916
15,990 65
Total cost to December 31, 1916
$17,206 65
Total services, January 1, 1916
1,810
Services added during the year, 68
Services abandoned during year, 5
63
Total services December 31, 1916 1,873
Inventory of property, December 31, 1916.
Water Mains and Stand Pipes · $154,936 21
48,000 feet land, Pine street
8,000 00
20,000 feet land, west of brook
1,000 00
Ten acres, Thompson's meadow
1,000 00
Brick building, Pine street
4,000 00
Work shop and garage, Pine street
1,500 00
Auto Truck .
500 00
Office Furniture
400 00
1947 Meters .
17,206 65 .
Stock on hand
3,200 00
$191,742 86
Financial Statement for Year Ending December 31, 1916. RECEIPTS.
Cash on hand January 1, 1916
$2,402 22
Water, Services and Maintenance
$47,380 35
Interest on Deposits
192 63
Accrued Interest on Bonds Sold
75 87
47,648 85
Bond Issues (12th and 13th)
12,100 00
Unexpended Balances, 1915 ·
159 13
$62,310 20
EXPENDITURES.
Metropolitan Assessment.
Interest
$8,003 10
Maintenance
2,338 93
Sinking Fund
1,431 81
Serial Bonds
120 91
$11,937 62
Debt.
Sinking Fund
$3,000 00
Sinking Fund Interest
5,250 00
Serial Bonds .
6,200 00
Serial Bonds, Interest
3,262 00
17,712 00
$1,216 00
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Expenses.
Salaries
$350 00
Pay Rolls
6,764 97
Miscellaneous .
11,235 OI
18,349 98
Construction Work (See table)
5,687 59
53,687 19
Balance on hand December 31, 1916
$8,623 OI
Cash on hand, December 31, 1916
$2,051 47
Unexpended Balances from Special Appropriations.
Sargent and Aspen road, 1915
$101 18
Linden avenue
66
52 91
Bertha and Jessie streets
5 0+
Ocean avenue
1916
176 21
Gale avenue
1,126 75
Hillcrest circle
66
20 27
Galloupe's point
700 00
Bradlee avenue
66
148 43
Cedar hill terrace
66
528 75
Aspen road
200 88
Prospect avenue
1,308 37
Arbutus road
1,106 37
Sargent road
636 38
Stimpson road
66
460 00
$6,571 54
Trial Balance, December 31, 1916. DEBITS.
Accounts outstanding January 1, 1916 .
$5,955 69
1916, Minimum Billing
24,389 57
1916, Excess Billing, January I
5,307 06
1916, Excess Billing, April I
699 28
1916, Excess Billing, July I
2,575 76
1916, Excess Billing, August I
971 02
1916, Excess Billing, September I
2,445 81
1916, Excess Billing, October I
5,104 65
Additional Billing
545 95
Maintenance
3,194 15
Service Pipes and Labor
2,050 64
$53,239 58
CREDITS.
Cash Received
$47,380 35
Abatements
756 89
Outstanding Accounts
5,102 34
$53,239 58
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Water Bonds Outstanding.
First, Second, Third, Fourth Issues due August 1, 1928, 32 per cent, Sinking Fund .
$150,000 00
Fifth Issue due 1917 to 1939, 32 per cent, Serial Bonds 69,000 00 Sixth Issue due 1917 to 1928, 4 per cent, Serial Bonds 6,000 00
Seventh Issue due 1917 to 1925, 4 per cent, Serial Bonds 900 00
800 00
Eighth Issue due 1917 to 1924, 42 per cent, Serial Bonds Ninth Issue due 1917 to 1919, 42 per cent, Serial Bonds 1,500 00
Tenth Issue due 1917 to 1918, 4 per cent, Serial Bonds
1,000 00
Eleventh Issue due 1917 to 1919, 4 per cent, Serial Bonds 4,500 00 Twelfth Issue due 1917 to 1927, 4 percent, Serial Bonds 5,600 00
Thirteenth Issue due 1917 to 1929, 4 per cent, Serial Bonds, 6,500 00
Gross Debt December 31, 1916
$245,800 00
Value Sinking Fund £ .
.
79,645 63
Net Water Debt, December 31, 1916
$166,154 37
Net Water Debt, January 1, 1916
165,951 37
Increase of Debt in 1916 .
Increase in Sinking Fund 1916
$203 00 $5,697 00
SAMUEL M. KEHOE, CHARLES E. HODGDON, GEORGE D. R. DURKEE, Water and Sewerage Board.
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WATER AND SEWERAGE BOARD REPORT.
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Report of Trustees of Sinking Fund for Water Department.
In compliance with Chapter 293, Acts of 1898, we submit herewith our report for the year 1916 :
Amount in Fund December 31, 1915 .
$73,948 63
RECEIPTS.
From Water Department, (2 per cent)
$3,000 00
3,000 00
Interest $30,000 Swampscott 32 per cent, I year, $1,050 00
Interest $1,000 Swampscott 4 per cent, 1 year .
40 00
Interest $900 Swampscott 42 per cent, 6 months,
20 25
Interest $800 Swampscott 42 per cent, 6 months, 18 00
70 00
Interest $2,000 Swampscott 32 per cent, I year, Interest $5,000 Reading 42 per cent, 1 year
225 00
Interest $2,000 Ipswich 4 per cent, I year . ·
80 00
Interest $5,000 Revere 4 per cent, I year
200 00
Interest $3,000 New Bedford 32 per cent, I year, 105 00
Interest $3,000 Lynn 4 per cent, 6 months
60 00
Interest $1,000 Lynn 4 per cent, 1 year
40 00
Interest $1,000 Lynn 4 per cent, 6 months
20 00
Interest $1,000 Pittsfield 32 per cent, I year
35 00
Interest $2,000 Quincy 32 per cent, I year
70 00
Interest $1,000 Ipswich 4 per cent, 6 months
20 00
Interest $1,000 Amesbury 4 per cent, 6 months,
20 00
Interest $3,000 Ipswich 4 per cent, 6 months
20 00
Interest $1,000 Haverhill 4 per cent, I year
40 00
Interest $500 Milton 3} per cent, 6 months
8 75
Interest $2,000 W. Springfield 4 per cent, I year,
80 00
Interest $1,000 W. Springfield 4 per cent, I year, 40 00 Interest $1,000 Attleboro 4 per cent, 6 months, 20 00
Interest $2,000 Attleboro 32 per cent, 1 year
70 00
Interest $1,000 Peabody 4 per cent, I year .
40 00
Interest $2,000 Newton 4 per cent, I year . .
80 00
Interest $2,000 Cambridge 4 per cent, I year .
80 00
Interest $500 Swampscott 42 per cent, I year
22 50
Interest $3,000 Belmont 4 per cent, I year
120 00
Interest Deposits in Security Trust Co.
7 49
2,761 99
$79,710 62
EXPENDITURES.
Premium one 4 per cent Ipswich Note, $4 90
Premium one 4 per cent Lynn Bond, 13 10
Premium one 4 per cent Arlington
Bond . 13 10
$31 10
Amount carried forward,
$31 10
12
60 00 Interest $1,000 Gt. Barrington 4 per cent, 6 mos.
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Amount brought forward,
$31 IO
Accrued Interest, one 4 per cent Bel- mont Bond (Im. 8d.) . . Accrued Interest, two 4 per cent Bel- mont Bonds (2m. 12d.) .
$4 II
16 00
Accrued Interest, one 4 per cent Ips- wich note (8d.) . ·
78
Accrued Interest, one 4 per cent Lynn Bond (3 mo. 27d. ) 13 00
33 89
64 99
Amount in Fund, December 31, 1916,
$79,645 63
Sinking Fund Investments. REGISTERED.
Twenty-five $1,000 Swampscott Water, 3} per cent, due 1928, $25,000 00 Ten $500 Swampscott Water, 32 per cent, due 1928 5000 00 Two $500 Swampscott Water, 4 per cent, due 1927-8 1,000 00 Eight $100 Swampscott Water, 42 per cent, due 1916-24 800 00
2,000 00
Two $1,000 Swampscott Sewer, 32 per cent, due 1921-3 Five $1,000 Reading M. E. L. R., 42 per cent, due 1923-7 Two $1,000 Ipswich C. F. S., 4 per cent, due 1926-7
5,000 00
One $1,000 Ipswich E. L., 4 per cent, due 1928
1,000 00
One $3,000 Revere School, 4 per cent, due 1924
3,000 00
Eight $250 Revere School, 4 per cent, due 1920-7 . 2,000 00 One $3,000 New Bedford Sewer, 32 per cent, due 1928 3,000 00
One $2,000 Lynn Water, 4 per cent, due 1927 .
2,000 00
One $1,000 Lynn Water, 4 per cent, due 1922
1,000 00
Two $1,000 Lynn Sewer, 4 per cent, due 1927
2,000 00
One $1,000 Pittsfield Sewer, 32 per cent, due 1922 1,000 00
Two $1,000 Quincy Water, 32 per cent, due 1922-8
2,000 00
COUPON.
One $1,000 Amesbury Water, 4 per cent, due 1918 1,000 00 Three $1,000 Ipswich Water, 4 per cent, due 1924 3,000 00 One $1,000 Great Barrington Water, 4 per cent, due 1923 1,000 00 One $1,000 Haverhill School, 4 per cent, due 1926 1,000 00 One $500 Milton P. L., 32 per cent, due 1921 500 00
2,000 00
One $1,000 West Springfield Ref., 4 per cent, due 1928 One $1,000 West Springfield Water, 4 per cent, due 1929 One $1,000 Attleboro Water, 4 per cent, due 1926
1,000 00
Two $1,000 Attleboro Water, 32 per cent, due 1935
2,000 00
One $1,000 Peabody Sewer, 4 per cent, due 1931 ·
1,000 00
Two $1,000 Newton Water, 4 per cent, due 1924 .
2,000 00
Two $1,000 Cambridge Water, 4 per cent, due 1924
2,000 00
Three $1,000 Belmont Water, 4 per cent, due 1926 One $1,000 Arlington Water, 4 per cent, due 1924 Cash Security Trust Co. (Book 1018)
3,000 00
1,000 00
345 63
$79,645 63 SAMUEL M. KEHOE, CHARLES E. HODGDON, GEORGE D. R. DURKEE, Trustees of Sinking Fund.
1,000 00
2,000 00
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Sewer Department.
The work of this department during the year has been mostly on the Phillips park drain, Monument avenue drain and Ontario street sewer.
The eastern trunk sewer has been held up, owing to the inability of the board to arrive at any definite understanding regarding easements from property owners through whose land the sewer is planned to be laid. We will say that at the present time things are looking more favorable, and we have no doubt that in a very short time satisfactory arrangements will be made with all these owners, so that contracts can be awarded and work started on this project.
The conditions at the pumping station, to which we have called your attention for several years past, will be the subject of a report from the committee appointed at the last town meeting, which will be presented at this annual meeting.
Another matter to which we call your attention is the unforeseen leaks in the joints of the outfall sewer pipe crossing the land in the rear of the pumping station. This has been taken care of by the department itself, with the able assistance of the superintendent and men of the Water Department.
We have recalked II joints at an expense of less than $200, which has been a great saving in cost as compared with this kind of work that has been heretofore done.
The sewer plans which we had hoped to complete this year, owing to the absence of Engineer Bradford, of the firm of Eastman & Bradford, doing duty on the Mexican border, are still incomplete. We are assured that work is being done on them, and that they will be completed early this spring.
We have also made arrangements for a new safe of proper size and shape for the sewer plans. The present safe will be turned over to the Selectmen for use in another department, and the new one will provide the proper shape for keeping the plans flat, and in properly indexed drawers, thus giving access to whatever plan is required at a moment's notice.
We recommend for the ensuing year the appropriation of $7,000 for Sewer Maintenance, and for Particular Sewers $800.
Financial Statement for Year Ending December 31, 1916.
RECEIPTS.
Maintenance .
$6,000 00
Particular Sewers .
800 00
Unexpended Balance from Sewer
Plan account
846 30
$7,646 30
Bonds Issued 1916.
Eastern Trunk Sewer
$20,000 00
Phillips Park Drain
6,500 00
Phillips Park Drain
1,200 00
Marshall Brook Culvert
650 00
Amounts carried forward.
$28,350 00
$7,646 30
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Amounts brought forward.
Ontario Street Sewer
2,000 00
Cedar Hill Terrace Sewer .
4,500 00
Bay View Avenue Sewer
3,500 00
38,350 00
Town Appropriations.
Monument Avenue Drain
$550 00
Marshall Street Brook Drain
300 00
Unexpended Balances.
Greenwood avenue (1914)
$8 00
King Street (1914)
138 82
Humphrey Street (1914)
9 62
Mudge Brook Culvert (1915) .
268 13
424 57
$47,270 87
EXPENDITURES.
Maintenance .
$6,283 34
Particular Sewers
693 27
$6,976 61
Construction (See tables following)
Eastern Trunk Sewer ( uncompleted)
$75 00
Phillips Park Drain
7,700 00
Marshall Brook Culvert
650 00
Ontario Street Sewer
2,000 00
Cedar Hill Ter. Sewer (uncompleted)
1,303 70
Bay View Ave. Sewer (uncompleted)
12 00
Monument Avenue Drain
504 81
Marshall Street Drain
300 00
12,545 51
Unexpected Balances.
Maintenance (reverting to town) . .$562 96
Particular Sewers (reverting to town)
106 73
Monument Avenue Drain (revert- to town)
45 19
714 88
Greenwood Avenue Sewer (1914) ·
$8 00
King Street Sewer (1914)
138 82
Humphrey Street Sewer (1914)
9 62
Mudge Brook Culvert (1915) .
268 13
Eastern Trunk Sewer (1916) .
19,925 00
Cedar Hill Terrace Sewer (1916)
3,196 30
Bay View Avenue Sewer (1916)
3,488 co
27,033 87
$47,270 87
.
850 00
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Construction Tables.
Sewers and drains built during the year 1916, with cost. Eastern Trunk Sewer ( uncompleted).
Engineering Department $75 00 $75 00
Phillips Park Drain and Marshall Brook Culvert.
435 cu. yds. concrete masonry
$10 00
4,350 00
28,000 lbs. steel rods
06
1,680 00
123 tons crushed rock
3 00
369 00
II M. spruce lumber
40 00
440 00
15 manhole covers
12 00
180 00
2 brick manholes
50 00
100 00
250 lin. ft. 20-in. vit. pipe
2 00
500 00
Extras.
30 lin. ft. 18-in. vit. pipe
52 50
Cleaning old culvert, Humphrey street ·
96 46
Reconstructing
culvert, Puritan
road
116 88
Marshall brook
42 60
$308 44
Plus 15 per cent
46 27
354 71
Advertising bid
23 00
Smith Iron Foundry
9 10
Engineering Department
344 19
$8,350 00
Ontario Street Sewer.
252 lin. ft. 8-in. vit. pipe
$
85
$214 20
311 lin. ft. 6-in. vit. pipe
75
233 25
191 lin. ft. 5-in. vit. pipe
50
95 50
251 lin. ft. 8-in. cast-iron pipe
1 40
351 40
282 lin. ft. 6-in. cast-iron pipe
I 25
352 50
7 manholes
45 00
315 00
3 flush manholes .
52 00
Io cu. yds. concrete
6 00
60 00
Advertising bid
23 00
Water Department .
22 00
Engineering Department
176 55
$2,000 00
Cedar Hill Terrace Sewer (uncompleted).
J. T. Lyons on account of contract . $1,200 00
Smith Iron Foundry
44 00
Advertising
12 00
Water Department
47 70
1,303 70
156 00
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Bay View Avenue Sewer (uncompleted). Advertising
$12 00
$12 00
Monument Avenue Drain.
226 lin. ft. 20-in. vit. pipe
I 38
311 88
24 lin. ft. 10-in. vit. pipe .
95
22 80
2 manholes
45 00
90 00
Extras.
I catch basin
15 00
I cu. yd. sand .
2 50
2 bbl. cement .
6 00
8 days' labor
20 00
43 50
Plus 15 per cent
6 53
50 03
Advertising Bid
5 10
Engineering Department
25 00
$504 81
Marshall Street Drain.
50 ft. concrete culvert including manholes and tide gates .
$288 10
Engineering Department
II 90
$300 00
Sewer Debt.
Total Sewer Debt, January 1, 1916,
$217,350 00
Bonds issued during year .
38,350 00
$255,700 00
Bonds paid during year
12,950 00
Total Sewer Debt, December 31, 1916,
$242,750 00
Increase during year
$25,400 00
SAMUEL M. KEHOE, ·CHARLES E. HODGDON, GEORGE D. R. DURKEE. Water and Sewerage Board.
SWAMPSCOTT, December 31, 1916.
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TOWN DEPARTMENT WATER RATES REPORT.
1916]
COMMITTEE ON Town Department Water Rates.
To the Citizens of Swampscott :
Report of committee appointed by vote of the town to consider the question of town department water rates.
The committee, consisting of the Selectmen and the Water and Sewer- age Board, to whom was referred the question of the town department water rates, beg leave to submit the following report :
The act of the legislature, creating the Water Board, provided ways and means of deriving revenue, in order to provide for the necessary expense of running the department.
This has been done since the department was organized, by having the water rates placed at such a figure as will provide for this necessary expense.
By referring to the report of the Water Board for 1915, it will be found that the Metropolitan Assessment and the debt requirements for principal and interest amounted to over $28,000 for that year. For the year 1916 it will amount to almost $30,000. For 1917 it will undoubtedly reach nearly $32,000. Any serious curtailment of the receipts of the department, would necessarily mean a large increase in rates to property owners, or an appropriation from the tax levy, neither of which we are in favor of, and we believe a large majority of the citizens to be of the same mind. We believe that present conditions are best for all departments, in that it is a check on the use of water, thus avoiding all undue waste, which might possibly occur under other circumstances.
After studying the matter from every point of view, we unanimously recommend that existing conditions be left as they are.
Respectfully submitted,
SAMUEL M. KEHOE, CHARLES E. HODGDON, GEORGE D. R. DURKEE, HENRY S. BALDWIN, CLARENCE B. HUMPHREY, WILLIAM E. CARTER.
SWAMPSCOTT, December 31, 1916.
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[Dec. 31
REPORT OF Library Building Committee.
To the Citizens of Swampscott :
The work of the new Library Building Committee having been practi- cally completed, the following report is submitted as a review of its duties during the year 1916, and up to the date of this report.
The architects of the new library building, Messrs. Kelley & Graves, on or about the Ist of February completed the detail of the plans and speci- fications of the new building and the same were submitted to the com- mittee at its February meeting. After consideration, the committee authorized advertisements for bids.
The bids were opened March 4th and considered by the committee at its March meeting. It was found that some of the bids as submitted covered the general construction of the building and others specially covered the plumbing and heating, as called for.
The committee awarded the contract of general construction of the building to the C. S. Cunningham & Sons Construction Company, the amount of the bid being $18,200. The committee rejected the bids as to plumbing and heating, and on a new set of bids being made in response to a special advertisement, the contract was awarded to Connell & McDermott for $1,464.46 Immediately thereafter the contracts were signed and the construction of the building was commenced.
The work was pushed as rapidly as possible by the contractor. In the fall, the work was somewhat delayed, due to additions and changes made in the interior.
Through all its work the committee has endeavored to get the best possible library accommodations for the town and to provide for future as well as present needs, and still keep within its appropriation.
To provide accommodations for the future and at the same time meet suggestions of the Carnegie foundation, the basement was heightened, thereby making provision for a lecture room and drier conditions therein ; the main library room was made as large as possible, and all possible pro- vision was made therein for future growth consistent with the funds available.
Efforts were made to secure more funds from the Carnegie foundation, also from citizens of the town. Considerable correspondence passed between the Carnegie foundation and your committee, and visits were made to see the secretary of the corporation in New York by two members of your committee and also by Mr. Graves, one of the architects.
The Carnegie foundation, though encouraging the committee from time to time, finally refused its assistance on the ground that a town of our size did not need so large a library, notwithstanding the fact that this town library has one of the largest circulations of any town in this state.
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Citizens of the town, nevertheless, have proved generous and have contributed to enlarge the usefulness and beauty of our library building. Among the donors are the following :
Mary L. Thomson
$1,000 00
Henry B. Sprague
2,000 00
Mrs. Walter W. Hodges
1,000 00
(In memory of Nellie Ingalls Hodges)
Frank H. Gage
500 00
Elisha Cobb
100 00
With their kindness and help in adding a substantial sum to the amount appropriated by the town, the committee have been able to provide for the use of our people a handsome and in all respects a most praiseworthy library building,
There yet remains sufficient land for an extension of the stock room to cover the needs for many years to come and also to provide a suitable entrance to the second story where there is ample space which can readily be converted into a large lecture or assembly hall.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK F. STANLEY, HENRY B. SPRAGUE, FRANCIS E. INGALLS, ELIZABETH J. HADLEY, ELIHU THOMSON, F. KEELER RICE, Secretary.
Library Building Committee.
SWAMPSCOTT, December 31, 1916.
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Building Inspector's Report.
To the Citizens of Swampscott :
Your Building Inspector herewith submits his first annual report. Owing to the delay in obtaining approval of the revised by-laws, the work of the department has been made somewhat difficult. Nevertheless, a total of 95 inspections of new buildings have been made. This is exclu- sive of many foundations, chimneys, small garages and the like.
All hotels within the town have been thoroughly inspected and proper returns made to the State.
Permits have been granted for the erection of three (3) new elevators and four (4) elevators in hotels have been inspected, proper returns being made to the State. Eight (8) elevator operators were examined and their licenses approved. Four new elevator operator licenses were also issued.
The work of the department has also included many visits and inspec- tations of buildings undergoing alterations or repairs.
Your Inspector particularly desires to call attention to the large amount of time required in the new library, to insure that the foundations and other work construction were correctly built.
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