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Assistant Librarian (Greenwood) Attendant Attendant Sunday Attendant, Reading Room Extra Attendant
. William Macleod Hildur L. Carlson
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REPORT OF THE LIBRARY TRUSTEES
The annual report of the Trustees of the Beebe Town Library is herewith submitted to the citizens of the town.
The Trustees granted permission to a Committee from the Kosmos Club, of which Mrs. Annie L. Cox was chairman, to hold a series of story telling mornings for children in the Reading Room. These began on January 10 and continued for six suc- cessive Saturdays. Seating arrangements were provided for sixty-five, but on the first morning some three hundred children appeared and the meeting was necessarily adjourned to the auditorium. Later, the Selectmen kindly gave the Committee permission to use this room during the remainder of the course. The attendance averaged one hundred and seventy-five per morning, although on one extremely stormy day only thirty-two came. The numbers of children and the close attention they paid to the story tellers show the advisability of continuing the plan, in fact, the Trustees have already granted the Committee the use of the Reading Room for a course in the early part of 1915. The new course will be given with graded groups and the numbers can thus be limited to the capacity of the room. This story telling to children is regular library work and would be done by this library if the appropriation permitted.
In May the Library joined the American Library Association and the Trustees voted that the Librarian be allowed additional vacation for the purpose of attending the Convention of the Association to be held in Washington. The Librarian made a full report on her return and brought back many new ideas for library improvement.
At the Trustees' meeting held August 3, it was decided to purchase some books bearing on such European countries as were engaged in the war and twenty-two books and two maps were obtained immediately. At the same time such other works in the library and which bore on the same general subject were displayed on the open shelves of the waiting room.
In the Reading Room, seven magazines were discontinued as being little used, unmoral or of little value and the following ten
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were added to replace them, as follows: - Amercian Magazine, American Cookery, Boys' Life (a Boy Scout magazine), The Craftsman, The Dial, Education, Life, Modern Priscilla, Outdoor Life, Travel. There are now in use in the Reading Room fifty- three monthly magazines, eleven weeklies, and six daily papers. As noted elsewhere some of the magazines are gifts. A re- arrangement of the tables in the Reading Room, the transforma- tion of an archaic relic into an up-to-date shelf for newspaper readers, the resultant banishment of the always troublesome tall stools and a new magazine rack are the principal improvements the Trustees have made in the Reading Room during the past year. These improvements were made at the same time that the new steel ceiling was installed by the town and the Selectmen agreed with the Trustees that the walls needed repainting and were kind enough to have it done. The result is a lighter, more convenient and cheerful room. It is a pity that certain young men do not use it as a reading room, but must bring their rowdy- ism in from the streets. It will not be long before an attendant will be necessary at all hours.
The inadequacy of the library quarters become increasingly embarrassing each year. A visit to the library any afternoon at about school closing time will show anyone how small the wait- ing room really is. The remedy is one of those exasperatingly simple ones, so easy to propose and so difficult of accomplish- ment. More room is the remedy. This, however, is only a part of the problem. The town library needs a separate room for children and their books. It also needs more room for books for older persons. This matter has repeatedly been brought to the attention of the citizens. More room must be made every year for new books. This involves storing the books thought least desirable and the rearrangement of the balance. The stored books are practically withdrawn from circulation.
In an attempt to improve conditions the fiction is now in process of reclassification in a modern manner, the work being undertaken by the librarian at her own request. There is a large amount of extra work involved for business proceeds as usual and there has been remarkably little confusion. Not the least difficulty has been in finding room in the already over-
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crowded book stacks so that the newly numbered shelves may have a semblance of continuity. The task, however, is well on the way to completion and will not only assist the patrons but will save time for the attendants. The Cutter system is used with Cutter-Sanborn author marks. The apparently compli- cated numbering becomes simplicity itself when understood. All the works of any given author. are to be found on one shelf, that shelf having the initial of the author's name and a number. For instance any book by Dickens is represented by D548, while the particular book is shown by a small letter after the number, this small letter being the initial of the principal word in the name of the book. Thus "Barnaby Rudge" by Dickens is D548b, but "Bleak House" becomes D548bl, while "Christ- mas Books" are represented by c, "David Copperfield" by d, and similarly with other works of the same author. Under former conditions a patron asking for something else by Dickens might compel the attendant to visit a dozen shelves to cover all the works by this author.
While it is eminently desirable that the non-fiction books of the library should also be reclassified under this system this is a much more complicated proposition, calls for special work and cannot be done without outside help and a special appro- priation.
In connection with the March bulletin a special list of books on "Gardening" was printed. This was much appreciated by the patrons and caused those books to be more called for and used.
In June, Miss Ingram, chairman of the Catalogue Committee, published in the Daily Item, a list of summer reading for students.
In October, a list of books compiled by Miss Ingram and the librarian, Miss Lee, was published under title of "Good Books to Read." The intent of the list is shown in the introduction. "The purpose of this list of books is to guide the young people of Wakefield in their choice of books for collateral reading." Owing to lack of funds this list could not be issued by the library and the author financed the edition herself.
Other lists of books on special subjects are contemplated.
The people of Greenwood continue to read a great many books. A large number should be added to the branch both
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to satisfy the readers and to relieve the draft from the main library.
The circulation has increased about eleven per cent over last year, hence greater expense of operation especially in renewals and rebindings. These two items have required $125.00 more than last year and one hundred and seventy-five books are still on hand awaiting binding. This increase has caused a propor- tional decrease in the amount available for new books resulting in complaints from patrons. The work of the binder not being entirely satisfactory, a tentative change has been made. So far the results have been all that could be wished. Although the expense per book is slightly greater, the class of work is so superior that the binding will be more economical.
The demand for the first and second grade books for children has increased. These books were put in the library as an ex- periment without additional appropriation and it will not be possible to continue them on the present appropriation. The books wear out more quickly than books handled by adults and require frequent renewals. These items call for increased appropriation.
The receipts and expenditures of the past year are as follows:
LIBRARY
Appropriation
$1,050.00
Income from dog tax
970.98
Income from trust funds
280.20
Income from fines, etc., including Branch
218.70
Balance unexpended, 1913 .78
$2,520.66
Salaries
Librarian
$650.00
Assistants
407.37
$1,057.37
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Books
New $288.98
Replaced
137.40
Duplicate
24.89
Binding and rebinding.
253.54
Miscellaneous
38.96
$743.77
Printing .
$117.50
Express
5.80
Incidentals.
59.44
Lighting
220.53
Greenwood Branch
Librarian
$137.20
Assistant
47.40
Janitor
26.00
Express
26.00
Miscellaneous
25.50
$262.10
Librarians' sundries
54.15
$2,520.66
READING ROOM
Appropriation
$300.00
Salaries
Daily attendant
$60.00
Sunday attendant
36.75
Magazines and newspapers
139.20
Magazines covers and newspaper sticks.
12.60
Books
11.66
Incidentals and repairs.
39.79
$300.00
.
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LIBRARIAN'S REPORT
Number of volumes Jan. 1, 1914 18,678
Added by purchase 320
Added by purchase to replace worn out volumes 168
Added by gift to replace worn out volumes
2
Added by donation 126
Magazines bound . 33
Volumes added to the Greenwood Branch:
By purchase . 25
To replace worn out . 11
By donation . 40
Magazines bound .
2
78
Volumes worn out
40
38
19,365
Volumes worn out and discarded
948
Total number of volumes, Jan. 1, 1915 . 18,417
Number of volumes rebound, Main library 603
Number of volumes rebound, Greenwood 57
660
New names registered, Main library 568
New names registered, Greenwood . 114
682
Books and magazines circulated for home use:
Main library . 47,705
Greenwood . 13,361
Total circulation 61,066
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Days open for circulation, Main library 304
Average daily circulation . 156.9
Days open for circulation, Greenwood 150
Average daily circulation. 89
Total number of cards registered from Oct. 1, 1913 to Jan. 1, 1915, including new registrations, Main library 2,510
Total number of cards registered, Greenwood 593
Books used for reference, Main library 2,282
Postals used for waiting list, Main library 525
Postals used for waiting list, Greenwood 139
Donations Books
Alexander, S. H. 2
Carnegie endowment for international peace 3
Carpenter, Mrs. 1
Cate, C. M. (pamphlet) 1
Firth, F. J., family of 1
French, Mrs. G. R.
1
Friend, a
1
Friend, a
1
Friend, a
8
Knight, L. L. 1
Lee, H. G.
1
Massachusetts, Commonwealth of 32
Massachusetts Free Public Library Com- mission (pamphlet) 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1
Perkins, Mrs. L. G. .
1
Rich, W. C. 3
Ripley, Mrs. E. G.
11
Ripley, W. S., Jr. 2
Southworth, H. W. 1
Supt. of Schools, Office of
37
Thompson, Slason 1
United States government 17
Winship, C. N. 1
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Magazines Donated
E. A. Fessenden, Osteopathic magazine.
French, Mrs. G. R., Four Footed Friends.
Skinner, H. J., National Geographic Magazine.
Brookline Public Library, quarterly list.
Mass. Free Public Library Commission, A. L. A. Booklist. Publishers, All Outdoors.
Publishers, Our Dumb Animals.
Greenwood Branch
Donations
Books
Balsor, C. W ..
1
Benson, Mrs. H. E. 12
Borden, Flora 1
Hall, Mrs. C. B.
1
Lybeck, Mrs. Arvid 4
Pittman, Mrs. L. J.
15
Ripley, Mrs. E. G.
2
Seavey, E. F.
3
Stanley, Mrs. Lillian
1
Magazines Donated
Hall, Mrs. C. B., Cosmopolitan, Harper's, National Geographic. Ripley, W. S., Jr., Cosmopolitan, Lippincott, National Sportsman Publishers', Our Dumb Animals.
Chesley, Mrs. Herbert, miscellaneous copies.
MacQuarrie, Mrs. Cora, miscellaneous copies.
Merriam, Mrs. Horatio, miscellaneous copies.
Pittman, Mrs. L. J., miscellaneous copies.
Turner, Mrs. Ella, miscellaneous copies.
Watson, Mrs. F., miscellaneous copies.
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Library Hours
Daily . 2-5, 7-8.30 p.m.
Saturdays . 2-9 p.m.
Reading Room Hours
Daily 8-12 a.m., 1.30-5, 7-9 p.m.
Sundays 2-5 p.m.
Greenwood Hours
Mondays and Thursdays 3-5 p.m.
Saturdays 6.30-8.30 p.m.
H. GERTRUDE LEE,
Librarian.
Wakefield, Mass., Jan. 1, 1915.
BEEBE TOWN LIBRARY
Income from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1914
Appropriation authorized $342.00
Appropriation authorized 708.00
Balance unexpended, 1913
.78
Dog tax, 1913 970.98
Income, F. P. Hurd fund
100.00
Income, C. Wakefield fund
20.00
Income, Flint Memorial fund .
40.00
Income, Franklin Poole fund 20.00
Income, C. G. Beebe fund
80.00
Income, M. W. Gove fund
20.20
H. Gertrude Lee, sundry incomes
196.83
I. F. Studley, sundry incomes, Greenwood 21.87
$2,520.66
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Expenditures from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1914 H. Gertrude Lee, Librarian to Dec. 31, 1914 $650.00 Emma L. Campbell, Ass't Librarian . 216.00
Idabelle F. Studley, Ass't Librarian 204.48
Katherine Madden, attendant 105.63
Corra MacQuarrie, attendant 45.64
Olive Eaton, extra attendant . 1.76
Hildur L. Carlson, extra attendant 18.46
J. H. Ringer, janitor, Greenwood 26.00
De Wolfe & Fiske Co., books
327.71
W. B. Clarke Co., books . 61.93
H. R. Huntting Co., books . 18.00
F. H. Thomas Co., book . 6.00
Old Corner Book Store, books. 36.34
Immigrant Education Society, books 2.52
Michelson Bros., binding
164.72
L. A. Wells, binding .
88.82
Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants, magazine 3.00
Charles F. Mansfield, magazines for Library and Greenwood 19.73
Falcon Press, printing 36.00
Daily Item, printing. 81.50
Daily Item, lists, "Good books to read" 15.00
A. B. Comins, express . 5.80
A. H. Thayer, supplies 17.30
Library Bureau, cards .
6.22
American Library Association, institutional membership 5.00
W. O. Carter, reseating chairs 5.00
W. A. Prescott, repairs. 24.75
G. H. Taylor, supplies 1.05
W. S. Greenough & Co., supplies
20.12
Municipal Light Plant, lighting and supplies 220.53
C. Latimer, express 26.00
J. H. Ringer, lumber and repairs 5.50
H. Gertrude Lee, sundry expenses 41.71
Idabelle F. Studley, sundry expenses, Green-
wood 12.44
$2,520.66
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Reading Room
Income
Appropriation authorized
$45.00
Appropriation authorized
255.00
$300.00
Expenditures
Emma L. Campbell, services $60.00
Dean Waldron, services 27.75
William MacLeod, services 9.00
Charles F. Mansfield, magazines
116.95
A. H. Thayer, newspapers
22.25
Heywood Bros. and Wakefield Co., chairs.
4.00
Universal Binder, newspaper sticks and binders 12.60
W. A. Prescott, repairs, magazine racks and labor 23.44
Otto Johnson, repairs and finishing 8.00
G. H. Taylor, repairs 2.35
John Middleton, repairing chairs 2.00
De Wolfe & Fiske Co., books
11.66
$300.00
For the ensuing year the Trustees recommend that the appro- priations of the library and reading room be consolidated and that the appropriation be $2,715.00 including the Dog Tax. At the request of the Town Accountant the fines and other library receipts are to be returnable to the town and the estimate for appropriation covers those receipts. The receipts have always been a part of the funds used by the library and this method simply gives them to the library in another manner.
The working force of the library has been unusually efficient this year and it needed to be, with the extra work entailed by the increased circulation and the reclassification of the fiction. The Librarian, Miss Lee, merits all that can be said of her; businesslike, economical, with good ideas and the ability to execute them. The library is fortunate in having such a head.
Respectfully submitted,
W. S. RIPLEY, Jr., for the Trustees.
Jan. 4, 1915.
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TAX COLLECTOR'S STATEMENT
Tax of 1912
Uncollected balance Jan. 1, 1914 $29,976.24
Re-assessed by Assessors 12.00
Received as interest . 1,987.80
31,976.04
Paid Town Treasurer $30,702.38
Abated by Assessors
1,273.66
31,976.04
Tax of 1913
Uncollected balance Jan. 1, 1914 $108,443.71
Re-assessed by Assessors
11.10
Received as interest . 1,503.66
109,958.47
Paid Town Treasurer
$68,031.00
Abated by Assessors
4,293.88
72,324.88
Balance uncollected $37,633.59
Tax of 1914
Total amount assessed $296,224.10
Bank Tax . 3,205.80
St. R. R. Excise Tax
3,456.53
Received as interest 137.60
- 303,024.03
Paid Town Treasurer
$178,530.69
Abated by Assessors
6,346. 63
184,877.32
Balance uncollected
$118,146.71
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Renwick Road, Ashland Street and Overlook Road Sewer Tax
Balance uncollected Jan. 1, 1914 $213.18
Received as interest . 4.56
$217.74
Paid Town Treasurer
$82.53
Balance uncollected $135.21
Armory Street Sewer Tax
Uncollected balance Jan. 1, 1914 $2,473.56
Received as interest . 2.30
$2,475.86
Paid Town Treasurer
$132.30
Apportioned by Sewer Commissioners 337.12
Balance uncollected
$469.42 $2,006.44
Elm Street Sewer Tax
Uncollected balance Jan. 1, 1914 $3,300.03
Re-assessed by Sewer Commissioners 372.17
Received as interest . .31
3,672.51
Paid Town Treasurer 75.71
Apportioned by Sewer Commissioners
2,666.54
Abated by Sewer Commissioners
422.09
3,164.34
Balance uncollected $508.17
Franklin Street Sewer Tax
Uncollected balance Jan. 1, 1914 $2,362.94
Received as interest . 3.99
$2,366.93
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Paid Town Treasurer
1,169.70 Apportioned by Sewer Commissioners
875.88
2,045.58
Balance uncollected $321.35
Gould and Byron Street Sewer Tax
Total amount assessed $3,389.24
Paid Town Treasurer 517.85
$3,389.24
Balance uncollected $2,871.39
Sewer Apportionments Paid in Full
Paid Town Treasurer $27.00
C. E. WALTON, Collector.
Wakefield, Jan. 1, 1915.
FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Water and Sewerage Board
OF THE
TOWN OF WAKEFIELD
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1914
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THE FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE WAKEFIELD WATER AND SEWERAGE BOARD
The annual report of the Wakefield Water and Sewerage Board is herewith presented, including the twelfth annual report of the Water Department and the fifteenth annual report of the Sewer Department.
The total receipts of the Water Department for 1914 $43,322.67 Total Expenditures 39,842.48
Balance $3,480.19
There is an unpaid bill, for the use of Metropolitan water, amounting to $7,800.00 for which an appropriation will be required at the annual town meeting.
There are water bills due the town from the Town of Stoneham and the Municipal Light Plant amounting to $201.35, also unpaid service bills amounting to $75.87.
There are balances of appropriations that go back to the town of $1,753.16, from water and sewer departments.
There are unpaid bills against the water maintenance account of $629.77. During this year we have thoroughly overhauled and repaired the standpipe at a cost of $1,087.58.
After months of study and investigation in relation to the method of water sterilization, with a view to meeting any bacterial conditions that might come from heavy rains, we in- stalled, in July, 1914, a chlorine sterilizing machine, obtained from the Electro Bleaching Gas Co. of New York, on a sixty days trial. After careful tests for more than a month, on September 3, we turned on the water from Crystal Lake. During a period of nearly five months, having taken about fifty analyses of water from taps at buildings in various parts of the town, the average bacteria in the tests at 20° C. were twelve bacteria and at 37.5° C. were six bacteria, B. Coli negative, B. Coli presumptive negative, Gasses 0000, and Acid colonies absent.
Since January 4, 1915, there have been almost continual thaws and rains, washing the water-shed clear of snow and ice and causing a rise of two feet of water in the lake. This is perhaps the best test and the one especially looked for by those who doubted the efficiency of the sterilizing process. The results
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of the analyses, during this rainy period, which greatly increases bacteria in all waters and largely increased them in Crystal Lake (showing B. Coli in a few lake samples), was as follows:
The analyzed water from taps in Wakefield at 20° C. were an average of fourteen, at 37.5°C., an average of eight bacteria, with B. Coli and B. Coli presumptive negative and no gases or acid colonies, also absence of dangerous bacteria. The result of these careful analyses prove that the sterilization readily and easily eliminates B. Coli and other harmful bacteria, and must increase the value of all water supplies, as it is rapidly coming into use on both large and small supplies in the United States and Canada. Certainly no other water supplied to any community, that we know of, can show any safer conditions.
Our Chemist, Mr. Robert Spurr Weston of Boston, a well known expert, sends the board the following letter:
14 Beacon St., Boston, Jan. 6, 1915.
Wakefield Water Board,
Wakefield, Mass.
Gentlemen. - In reply to your question regarding the general sanitary character of the samples of water supplied your consumers, as evidenced by the samples which I have been analyzing frequently since last summer. I would reply that since August 1, 1914, every sample which I have analyzed has contained very few bacteria, none of which were harmful forms, or those known to be associated with sewage contami- nation. The very few bacteria have been far less in number than those in the Metropolitan water, samples of which I have analyzed at your request from time to time.
It is my opinion, therefore, that since August 1, 1914, which date followed that of the installation of your chlorine plant, every sample of the water sup- plied to your consumers, which I have analyzed, has been absolutely safe to drink.
Yours respectfully.
ROBERT SPURR WESTON.
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Our Sanitary Engineer, Mr. Edward C. Sherman, who has been very faithful to this trust, frank and outspoken in his re- ports, indorses the process emphatically, as seen in the following extracts from his report :
"The supervision of the plant for sterilizing your water supply was intrusted to me on September 3, 1914, and I have the honor to submit the following report on its operation since that time.
"I have made forty visits to the pumping station, an average of ten a month, for the purpose of reading the gages on the apparatus, insuring the use of the proper amount of chlorine as determined by the analyses of the water, and collecting samples of the water from the lake and from taps for bacterial examination. Sixty-eight such samples have been taken, twenty-seven of the raw lake water and forty-one of the treated water from various places in Wakefield.
"The quality of the water and its suitability for public use is determined by the number of bacteria in it.
"I say, without qualification, that the treated water supplied to the consumers, as shown by the samples analyzed, has been entirely safe for domestic use since September 3."
We make the report of these facts so that professional men as well as laymen can form their opinion, coupling these with other facts obtained from the local Board of Health figures, which show that the health of the town was never better in all condi- tions that might be attributed to the use of water.
The portions of this report relating to the sterilization of the water supply are submitted by the Chairman and Secretary of the board, the other member not agreeing to the same in all respects.
SEWER DEPARTMENT
Maintenance
Appropriation $680.88
Expended
$1,492.90
Deduct, credits
Received from connections 817.98
Net expenditures from Appropriation 674.92
Unexpended balance
$5.96
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Betterments
Received cash where assessment could
not be levied
$141.06
Construction
Appropriation for Gould Street extension $2,000.00
Expended 1,495.93
Unexpended balance $504.07
Appropriation for Byron Street extension 1,500.00
Expended . 854.42
Unexpended balance $645.58
Connections
Applications for house connections, to date 738
Number of connections made . 713
Number of connections during the year 28
Detailed Maintenance Expenditures
A. T. Locke, lumber $4.14
P. F. McDonald, brushes. 21.60
H. L. Bond Co., fittings 12.60
J. Laybolt, fittings 1.90
Hercules Iron & Supply Co., cast iron pipe
40.38
George H. Taylor, cement pipe
209.60
E. B. Kelley, liability insurance premium
22.10
G. M. Kelley, repairing tools
2.30
Thos. Hickey, cement pipe
51.86
J. W. Grace, fittings .90
$367.38
Maintenance - Pay Rolls
Patrick Curran .
$416.25
Patrick Keefe 405.57
James Reardon 42.50
150
Daniel Savage
$100.14
William Donegan .
2.81
John Collins
1.69
Corato Tammeth .
2.81
Patrick Dignan
29.25
John Collins, 2d
4.50
W. H. Butler
60.00
A. R. Perkins.
60.00
$1,125.52
WATER DEPARTMENT Annual Financial Statement
Receipts :
From water rates
$41,845.85
Services
1,236.82
Rents .
240.00
Total receipts $43,322.67
Expenditures from income :
By maintenance . $16,734.73
Construction 3,410.50
Bonds (Town Treasurer)
11,000.00
Interest (Town Treasurer)
8,397. 25
Commissioner's salary
300.00
39,842.48
Surplus
$3,480.19
Detailed statements of the receipts and expenditures will be found under the head of the divisions of statistics which follow :
Monthly Receipts and Expenditures
Receipts
Expenditures
January
$276.50 $1,024.25
February
68.02 830.60
March
148.33 1,646.43
151
April
$5,161.90
$1,191.10
May
11,317.22
3,599.99
June
3,586.93
1,659.12
July
895.39
3,027.56
August
266.95
2,114.46
September
100.53
1,008.66
October
7,673.39
3,249.57
November
10,865.20
1,911.79
December
3,052.31
1,064.81
$43,322.67
$22,328.34
Maintenance
Annual appropriation, from earnings
$15,800.00
Expended as follows:
Maintenance, pay rolls
$5,364.47
Maintenance, materials
3,442.68
Commissioner's salary
300.00
$9,107.15
Operating expenses :
Office, pay rolls
$1,845.20
Office rent .
225.00
Office, miscellaneous
656.54
414
Station and stable:
Pay rolls. $1,779.77
Coal
1,351.34
Repairs and supplies 1,592.11
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