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During the past year there has been some change in the engines. Four old and almost worthless Engines have been sold, and two new modern built machines have been purchased in their stead. There have also been two new Hose Carriages bought and added to the Department.
The cost of all the change of apparatus your Honorable Board will have from your Committee on the Fire Depart- ment, who have this whole matter in charge.
In consequence of this change of Engines, the Depart- ment is better able to contend against fire than it ever has been. There ought to be more Hose purchased this Spring. We depend much more upon our Hose Companies at a
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fire, when in reach of hydrants, than Engines. I therefore recommend that 1000 feet of Hose be obtained for the use of the Department.
BOARD OF ENGINEERS. E. N. HOLMES, Chief Engineer. FREDERIC WARREN, Clerk.
JOEL WILDER, Engineer, SEWELL THAYER, Engineer.
SAMUEL A. PORTER, " ALZIRUS BROWN, LORING COES, 66
Hook and LADDER COMPANY. House on Salem Street. No. of members, 30. The condition of the Carriage and House, good.
WASHINGTON ENGINE Co., No. 1.' House on Lincoln Square. No. of members, 40. Engine built in 1842, by W. C. Hunneman & Co., of Roxbury. Some slight re- pairs have been made on this Engine this year, which makes it in as good condition as a new engine. 26 feet of Suction Hose. 1 Hose Carriage, carrying 400 feet of Lead- ing Hose. Condition of the House, good. There is also at this house one old Hose Carriage with 300 feet of old Hose, which is much worn and not fit for hard service. It can be used in case of an emergency.
RAPID ENGINE Co., No. 2. House at New Worcester. No. of members, 40. Engine built in 1834, by S. Thayer, Boston. 28 feet of Suction Hose, 1 Hose Carriage, carry- ing 400 feet of Leading Hose. House, Engine and all the apparatus in good condition.
NIAGARA ENGINE Co., No. 3. House 21 Exchange Street. No. of members, 40. Engine built in 1850 by W. C.
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Hunneman & Co., of Roxbury. 27 feet of Suction Hose, 1 Hose Carriage carrying 427 feet of Leading Hose. House, Engine and all the apparatus in good condition.
TORRENT ENGINE Co., No. 4. House on Pleasant Street. No. of members, 45. Engine built in 1850, by W. C. Hunneman & Co., of Roxbury. 27 feet of Suction Hose, 2 Hose Carriages, carrying 800 feet of Leading Hose. House, Engine and all the apparatus in good condition.
In consequence of improvements around the City Hall the past year, this Engine has been moved from the City Hall to a building owned by Wm. Dickinson, Esq., on Pleasant Street. If the Engine is to remain in this house, it will be necessary to make some repairs to the building, at an expense of about $50. A Hose Loft is much wanted.
CITY HOSE Co., No. 1. House, 77 Main Street. No. of members, 10. 2 Hose Carriages carrying 600 feet of Lead- ing Hose. House and apparatus in good condition.
CITY HOSE Co., No. 2. House, Washington Square. No. of members, 10. 2 Hose Carriages carrying 800 feet of Leading Hose. House and apparatus in good condition. This house is furnished by the Western Railroad Corpo- ration.
There is also a Hose Carriage located near the factory of Wm. B. Fox & Son. There is attached to this Carriage 400 feet of Hose belonging to Messrs. Wm. B. Fox & Son, to be used in that vicinity under the direction of the Board of Engineers.
Besides the foregoing, each Company is furnished with Belts, Spanners, Torches, Signal Lanterns, Shovels, and all other apparatus necessary for their respective duties.
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RECAPITULATION.
No. of Engineers, - -
-
5
No. of Members, -
- - 220
Engines in use, -
- -
4
No. of feet of Leading Hose, - 3727
No. of feet of Suction 66 - 110
No. of Hose Carriages,
- 11
No. of Buckets, - - 20
No. of Axes, -
- -
12
Hook and Ladder Carriage, -
1
No. of Hooks, - - -
9
No. of Ladders, - - -
13
No. of Crotchpoles, - -
7
The Department have been called out ten times during the past year.
May 31, False alarm.
June 20, House on Central Street ; damage trifling.
August 14, False alarm.
28, Paint shop of Charles Albert; damage trifling.
October 30, Burning of shavings on Portland Street.
November 26, House of William Henry, Pine Meadow ; mostly destroyed.
January 6, Car Factory of Osgood Bradley ; damage not large.
January 14, House of Nathan Muzzy ; damage trifling. February 21, Store of S. D. Harding ; damage trifling. February 22, Wire Factory wood house; totally des- troyed.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
ERASTUS N. HOLMES, Chief Engineer of the Worcester Fire Department.
REPORT
OF THE
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
The Board of Overseers of the Poor, for the year ending April 1, 1851, submit their annual
REPORT:
It is a source of congratulation that, increasing as our city is in population, the ordinary expenses for the sup- port of the poor, have been less than in some of the recent preceding years, and less than the average for the last ten years.
This has been owing, undoubtedly, in a great degree, to the prosperity of our people; but we feel au- thorized to express the belief that, in this state of things, there is evidence that the efforts which have been made by benevolent individuals to elevate the condition, and im- prove the morals of those who are liable to be led astray, have not been without a beneficial influence. The bread which has been cast upon the waters, we hope has begun to return, and that the seed which has been sown with fidelity and prayer, will yet yield an abundant harvest.
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We may not expect to escape from the fact that the poor we have always with us, but we may hope that, if men and women who have the means will be true to the best in- terests of the race, pauperism will not increase. With this view, the Board would recommend judicious efforts in preventing men from acquiring those habits which tend inevitably to the poor house, and although they would ad- vocate a liberal provision for the deserving poor, they would confidently hope that measures will be taken so to elevate the tastes and improve the condition of the people, that poverty shall never be traced to the faults or vices of its possessor.
During the past year, repairs have been made upon the barn at the town farm to the amount of about $600. Mr. and Mrs. Knights have had charge of the poor house, and have managed so acceptably that the Board were unanimous ly in favor of employing them again, and added the sum of fifty dollars to the salary of Mr. Knights for the coming year.
The following statement of receipts and expenditures has been furnished by the Clerk of the Board of Over- seers for the past year, and will show to the citizens the purposes for which their money has been expended, the number and classes of persons who have been furnished with relief, as well as the present situation of this import- ant department of the affairs of the city :-
RECEIPTS.
April 9th, 1851. Cash of J. Boyden, to meet outstanding claims, - 700 00 June 7th. Cash of G. W. Wheeler, amount of outstanding accounts against the State, 644 22
Sept. 17. Cash appropriation for repairs, 600 00
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Oct. 8th. Cash of City Treasurer,
600 00
Nov. 3d. "
600 00
Cash of obligors of bonded alien passengers, 154 44 Feb. 26th, 1851. Cash of State Treasurer, for support and burial of State paupers, 703 50 -
March 28. Cash of City Treasurer, - 600 00
Cash of other towns, -
494 86
Cash from sale of lumber purchased and not used, 17 05
Cash from individuals for support of friends, - 404 91
Cash from sales from the poor farm, 491 77 -
6,010 77
EXPENDITURES.
Outstanding Accounts against the city, March 26, 1850.
Cash due the Overseers, -
-
$33 36
Sexton bill, 144 50
Balance due the Superintendent of Alms House, and the Clerk of the Overseers, -
300 00
Due State Lunatic Hospital, - 197 27
Balance of expenses of the Alms House in March 1850, over the amount of sales from the farm, - -
122 40
€
T
797 53
Ordinary expenses of the Alms House, - 1,468 61
Cash expenses of repairs to buildings in addition to labor, board of workmen and materials furnished from the farm, -
594 35
Expenses of relief furnished sundry persons out of the Alms House, whose settlement is in the city Paid Treasurer of the State Lunatic Hospital, 731 12
769 00
Pay of Superintendent of the Alms House, and Clerk of the Board of Overseers,
550 00
Paid for support of sundry persons sentenced to the House of Correction, -
16 39
Paid to other towns for support of paupers,
8. 70
Paid for relief away from the Alms House to foreign, paupers, and incidental expenses, 853 90
Cash in the hands of the Overseers, carried to new account,
221 17
- 6,010 77
ESTIMATES,
Estimated expenses for the support of paupers for the present year, in addition to what may be received for State paupers,
3,000 00
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The whole number of persons who have received assist- ance from the city for the year ending April 1st, 1851, is seven hundred and thirty. Of this number seventy-one are natives of Massachusetts,-forty-nine of other States of the Union. Forty-six, (including their children born in this country,) were English,-four hundred and fifty-five Irish,-ninety-nine were of the British provinces,-eight of Scotland,-six of Italy,-France and Germany, one each.
Twelve who have a settlement in this city, are now sup- ported in whole or in part, with their friends, at an ex- pense varying from fifty cents to two dollars per week ; the expense of one only of whom is over one dollar per week, and this is a care of paralysis, and the person entirely helpless.
There were at the Alms House on the first day of April 1850, twenty-eight. Two hundred and fifty-seven were admitted during the year, twenty-eight remain, of whom five only have a settlement in this city. One of them is very aged, and has no use of his lower limbs. Two are lunatics,-one has been an idiot from birth, and has fre- quent fits. The number at the Alms House, the past year, has varied from fifteen to fifty.
The question of the best manner of supporting the poor is one upon which great difference of opinion prevails. The elements which enter into it are such that men may naturally come to different conclusions ; but upon one sub- ject there can be no dispute, and that is, that the commu- nity owes a duty, in its public capacity, to its poor and des- titute, and in performing this duty, kindness and a due re- gard for the public interest should always be harmoniously blended. Upon this principle the Board have endeavored to act ; and the rest of the Board have full confidence that
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their Clerk, to whom the business has been generally com- mitted, has applied this principle with honesty and con- sistent benevolence, in the performance of the responsible and trying duties imposed upon him.
HENRY CHAPIN, ALPHEUS MERRIFIELD, BENJAMIN B. OTIS, CHARLES BOWEN, WILLIAM F. WOOD, SAMUEL PERRY, EDWARD E. HALE, N. R. PARKHURST, EBENEZER COLLIER, Worcester, April 1, 1851.
Overseers
of
the Poor.
A STATEMENT
Of the deaths that have occurred at the Alms House, in the City of Wor- cester, from April 25th, 1850, to March 24, 1851.
Date.
Name. Age. 46, Ireland,
Where born. Disease.
1850, May,
Betsey McGraham,
Chronic tumor.
July,
Catherine Russell,
60, Canada, Alcohol, tobacco.
Mrs. Calwall's child,
2m. Alms House, Fit in night at U. States Hotel.
Aug.
James Corcrem,
60,
Ireland, Alcohol, dysentery.
Sept.,
John Eagin,
1},
Worcester, Suddenly, probably dysentery.
" James McDermont,
30, Ireland,
Dysentery.
Oct., Mary Nugent,
27,
9m. Alms House, Fall upon the head.
Newell Rice,
59 Brookfield, Alcohol, fever, con- sumption.
1851, Feb., Mary Brien,
24 Ireland,
Alcohol, ship fever, consumption.
March, Charles Flagg, 56 Worcester, Fever.
Whole number,
-
-
11
Males,
-
-
5
Females, - -
-
6
Average age, -
- 32
STEPHEN TRACY, M.D., City Physician. Worcester, March 20, 1851.
Nov., Sarah Murphy,
SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
AQUEDUCT COMMISSIONERS.
Since our last annual Report, the number of water tak- ers has increased fourteen, making the present number fifty-six; who use, as near as we are able to estimate, twenty-two thousand gallons daily. Add to this amount one thousand gallons running into the three watering troughs put up by the city, and the amount used in the watch house and city hall, and the aggregate is. twenty- three thousand one hundred gallons as the daily supply from the reservoir ; and which, at the present time, is all that is thought prudent by your commissioners to supply, although they have several very urgent applications. For the supply of these applicants, and the increasing demand for water, some immediate provision should be made.
In the original construction of the works, the first two hundred and eighty and one half feet of the communica- tion between the pond and reservoir was a stone culvert, twelve inches square, laid in cement mortar ; the remain- ing distance, one thousand four hundred and eighty-five feet, is a four inch iron pipe. In attempting, last summer,
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to set a full head of water on to the culvert and pipe, the culvert was found to leak very badly, and, consequently, we do not get from the pond to the reservoir so much water as the pond would furnish in the dryest season of the year; and it is also supposed that a considerable quan- tity of water passed off, unobserved, through the leaks in the culvert. Your commissioners will improve the earliest practicable moment to take up the culvert and replace it by large iron pipes,-in the doing of which there are many obstacles to encounter ;- the most serious ones are the keeping back the water in the pond, and the furnishing a supply of water during the operation ; for our takers are mostly dependent on the aqueduct for their supplies.
The expenses for the past year have been very much in- creased, in consequence of grading several of the streets in which our pipes are laid, and which had to be dug out and lowered down ; and, where the streets had been filled, longer hydrants have been substituted for those that were in. Four of the hydrants taken out, were used in the ex- tension on Pleasant street, the last fall, which, had we been paid for them, would have increased the balance paid into the city treasury, $88.
In the early part of the summer, the leak at the north eastern outlet had increased so much as to render it neces- sary that it should be stopped ; which has been done as far as practicable, with heavy plank spileing, &c.
There are needed some slight repairs to the fence around the reservoir, the hydrant boxes, &c., which will be done at an early day.
Into the watering trough, near the city hall, about five hundred gallons of water flow each twenty-four hours; one half of which is supposed to pass off through the
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waste pipe and is lost. Your Commissioners would sug- gest that a brick reservoir be constructed at some conve- nient spot, below the surface of the common, and the waste water from the trough be conducted into it, thus furnishing a large supply of water which might be used by the engine men, at their monthly drills, and, also, be useful in case of fire.
Accompanying this is a table, giving the average height of the water in the pond each month for the last four years, and also the average height for each year.
There has been received for water rents, during the past year, eleven hundred fifty-three dollars and two cents,-and one hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifty cents, being the balance due from two takers for the year ending May 1, 1850,-making twelve hundred seventy-five dollars and fifty-two cents ; and we have paid out for labor, materials, and care of Aqueduct, &c. ten hundred ninety-five dollars and thirty cents,-leaving a balance of one hundred eighty dollars and twenty-two cents, which has been paid to the City Treasurer. There still remain twenty-one dollars due from two takers. A detailed account of the expendi- tures accompanies this report.
All of which is respectfully submitted, by
HENRY W. MILLER, 3 Aqueduct RUFUS D. DUNBAR, Commissioners.
TABLE SHOWING THE HEIGHT OF WATER IN BELL POND.
APRIL. MAY. JUNE. JULY.
AUG.
SEPT.
OCT.
NOV. DEC.
JAN.
FEB.
MAR.
|Avr'ge| Rain during during the year.
the year.
Snow dur- ing year.
Year. 1847
ft. in. ft. in. ft. in.
ft. in. ft. in. ft. in. | ft. in. ft. in. ft. in. ft. in. 5- 2 5-01 4-101 5- 45- 4 5- 73 5- 9 7-00 7- 5 7-93 8-0
ft. in. ft. in. ft, in.
inches
in,
6-13 37,12 61
1848
1849
7-03 7-10 7-0 6-00 5- 44-113 4- 9 4- 84-11 5- 12 5-13 5-6 5-73 39,53 432 6-8 6-65 5-93 4-113 4- 64- 33 4- 23 4- 64- 74-11 6-03 6-63 5-33 36,65 48 5-43 6-11/6-5 5-11 |5- 3|5- 8 4-101 4-10 4-11 4-103 5-5 6-52 5-73 54,67 59
1850
14
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102
HENRY W. MILLER, IN ACCOUNT WITH CITY AQUEDUCT, DR.
April, 1850, To cash received of two takers, for balance of Rent to May 1, 1850, . 0
$122 50
66 To cash received for Water Rents, from May 1, 1850, to May 1, 1851, from 54 takers, - - 1153 02
$1275 52
1850. CR.
Aug. to Nov. By cash paid for 301 1-4 days work on Aque-
duct, at pond and in the street, - =
301 25
Nov. 15,
Paid S. W. Osgood on account, -
99 00
Dec. 1, 1851,
" E. Willard, for carting earth to pond, -
50
Jan. 8, " George Scott, for carting lumber, Hydrant Boxes, &c., 6 00
" Chase and Nourse, for Tan (for boxing Hy- drants), -
14 67
" Luther Slater, for packing and rope, -
4 31
" Asa Nourse, for carting, -
5 06
" 13, " H. D. Goodnow, for paving, .
4 25
Feb 20,
" John Gates, for plank, &c.,
28 40
1, " S. W. Osgood, on account,
25 00
Mar. 31,
" Joseph Walker & Co., for storing Hydrant Boxes,
6 00
April 7,
" W. A. Wheeler, for Hydrants, &c. &c.,
288 68
14,
" Artemas Ward, for drilling in trough, -
50
May 24,
" H. W. Miller's account, for shovels, nails, &c.,
14 34
31, Gas Light, account for Coke, -
68
" Chase and Nourse, account for trucking, -
3 00
" Asa Nourse, account for trucking, -
3 00
" S. W. Osgood, balance for services, &c., to May 1, 1851, -
115 66
970 30
June 2, Paid Water Commissioners for services, for year end- ing May 1, 1851, - 125 00
Cash paid to City Treasurer, to balance, 180 22
$1275 52
[Errors excepted. ]
H. W. MILLER.
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GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS
OF THE
CITY OF WORCESTER. 1851.
MAYOR. PETER C. BACON.
ALDERMEN. WARD 1,-GEORGE W. RUSSELL,
2,-ICHABOD WASHBURN,
3,-DANIEL HARRINGTON,
4,-JOSEPH PRATT,
5,-DAVID WOODWARD,
6,-CHARLES WHITE,
7,-JOHN M. EARLE,
66 8,-JONAS M. MILES.
CITY CLERK AND CLERK OF BOARD OF ALDERMEN. CHARLES A. HAMILTON.
COMMON COUNCIL.
Charles Washburn, President. William A. Smith, Clerk.
Ward 1, Nathan Muzzy,
Joseph Lewis, Alexander Thayer,
Ward 3, Adam Dawson, Wm. B. Maxwell, Gill Valentine,
Ward 2, Chas. Washburn, Ward 4, Calvin Newton, John P. Southgate, John F. Burbank,
Lee Sprague, Benjamin B. Otis,
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Ward 5, Daniel S. Burgess, Henry S. Washburn, Bringham Goss,
Ward 6, John F. Gleason,
Joseph D. Bringham, Peregrine B. Gilbert,
Ward 7, Erastus Tucker, Nathan Ainsworth, Saml. H. Colton, Ward S, Albert Tolman, Henry H. Chamberlin, Jonas Hartshorn.
STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
On Public Buildings .- The Mayor, and Aldermen Miles and Pratt. On Bills in the Second Reading .- Aldermen Earle and Russell.
On Enrolled Bills .- Aldermen Earle and Russell.
On Elections .- Aldermen Pratt and Russell.
STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE COMMON COUNCIL.
On Bills in the Second Reading .- Messrs. Tolman, Gleason and Cham- berlin.
On Enrolled Bills .- Messrs. Maxwell, H. S. Washburn and Ainsworth. On Elections and Returns .- Messrs. Tucker, Southgate and Goss.
JOINT STANDING COMMITTEES.
On Finance .- Aldermen White and Pratt ; Common Councilmen Tol- man, H. S. Washburn and Colton.
On Accounts .- Aldermen Russell and White ; Common Councilmen Chamberlin, Maxwell and Gilbert.
On Highways .- Aldermen Miles and Harrington ; Common Council- men Muzzy, Dawson and Valentine.
On Shade Trees and Public Grounds .- Aldermen Earle and White ; Common Councilmen Southgate, Gilbert and Ainsworth.
On Water .- Aldermen Harrington and Miles; Common Councilmen Gleason, Burgess and Tucker.
On Fire Department .- Aldermen Pratt and Russell ; Common Council- men Sprague, Lewis and Southgate.
On Lighting Streets .- Aldermen Woodward and Harrington ; Common Councilmen Chamberlin, Brigham and Thayer.
On Printing .- Aldermen White and Russell ; Common Councilmen H. S. Washburn, Otis and Hartshorn.
On Education -The Mayor and Alderman Earle ; Common Council- men Newton, Burbank and Colton.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
The Mayor, and Aldermen Pratt and Miles, President of Common Coun- cil, and Common Councilmen Tolman, Newton and Burbank.
CITY PHYSICIAN. STEPHEN TRACY.
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CITY MESSENGER. DAVID GLEASON.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE. The Mayor, (ex-officio) President of the Board.
Ward 1, Orrin P. Gilbert, Charles A. Wheeler, Andrew Hutchinson.
2, Alonzo Hill, John H. Brooks, Walter Bigelow, Jr. £ 3, Samuel Flagg, David Hitchcock, Appleton Fay.
4, John F. Burbank, Calvin Newton, Putnam W. Taft.
66 5, Henry J. Howland, Wm. H. Harris, Thos. Magennis. 6, Samuel B. Swaim, John C. Newton, O. H. Tillotson.
" 7, Elam Smalley, Henry Griffin, John Gray.
" 8, William Workman, Seth P. Miller, Nath'l T. Bent. Henry J. Howland, 199 Main Street, Secretary.
P. W. Taft, 18 Pearl Street, Prudential Committee for Centre District. COMMITTEE FOR EXAMINING TEACHERS.
A. Hill, O. H. Tillotson, S. B. Swaim, N. T. Bent, O. P. Gilbert, W. Workman and S. Flagg. COMMITTEE ON BOOKS AND SCHOOL APPARATUS.
J. F. Burbank, W. Workman, J. Gray, S. Flagg, O. H. Tillotson. COMMITTEE ON SCHOOL HOUSES.
P. W. Taft, J. C. Newton, A. Hill, C. Newton, A. Fay. SUB-COMMITTEES ON SCHOOLS-CENTRE DISTRICT.
Ash Street West Primary,
Messrs. Harris and Magennis.
Ash Street East
Magennis and Howland.
Front Street East
" Gray and Workman.
Front Street West
Hitchcock and Taft.
Pleasant Street South
“ Griffin and Hitchcock.
Pleasant Street North
Hutchinson and Tillotson.
Main Street 66
66 Gilbert and Fay.
Summer Street North "
66 Wheeler and Bigelow.
Summer Street South "
Brooks and Flagg.
Pine Meadow 66
Hitchcock and Magennis.
African,
Hutchinson and Gray.
Pleasant Street Secondary,
Tillotson and Griffin.
Main Street
C. Newton and Fay.
Summer Street South
Taft and Harris.
Ash Street
J. C. Newton and Gilbert.
Thomas Street
66 Smalley and Miller.
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Summer St. North, Secondary,
Thomas St. Grammar,
Main St.
Front St. 66
Classical and English High,
Messrs. Howland and Miller.
Burbank, Bent and Gray.
Workman and Swaim.
J. C. Newton and Smalley. Smalley, Hill, Bent, Burbank and Workman.
SUBURBAN SCHOOLS.
Schools.
Visiting Committees. Calvin Newton.
No. 1, Tatnuck,
" 2, Parkhurst,
Appleton Fay.
" 3, Leesville,
" 4, New Worcester, S. B. Swaim, P. W. Taft.
" 6, So. Worcester, Samuel Flagg.
" 7, Quinsigamond, Henry Griffin.
" 8, Monroe,
John F. Burbank.
" 9, Pond,
Henry J. Howland.
" 10, Adams Square, Walter Bigelow, Jr.
" 11, Burncoat Plain, John Gray.
" 12, Northville,
John H. Brooks.
John H. Brooks.
Nath'l C. Moore.
Erastus Wheeler.
TREASURER AND COLLECTOR OF TAXES. GEO. W. WHEELER.
ASSESSORS. Edward H. Hemenway, Benjamin Walker, Wm. Dickinson. Assistant Assessors.
Ward 1, Joseph Lewis, Ward 5, Wm. H. Harris,
2, Thos. H. Rice,
6, Wm. A. Draper,
3, L. W. Sturtevant, 7, Lewis Thayer,
4, Adams P. Barnes,
8, Tilly Raymond.
Overseers of the Poor.
The Mayor (ex-officio) Chairman. Alpheus Merrifield, Clerk.
Ward 1, Alpheus Merrifield, Ward 5, Samuel Perry,
2, B. B. Otis, 6, Edward Southwick,
3, Wm. Lucas, 7, Nath'l R. Parkhurst,
4, Newell Philbrick, 8, Wm. G. Moore.
WARD OFFICERS .- Ward 1.
Warden, Jonas White. Clerk, Geo. T. Sutton. Inspectors of Elections, Josiah Rice, Henry Earl, Erastus N. Holmes.
" 13, Chamberlain, Nath'l T. Bent.
" 14, Read,
Charles A. Wheeler.
Prudential Committees. S. P. Corbin. Edward Curtis. John F. Boice. Loring Coes. Pitt Holmes. Jona. D. Grout.
J. F. Burbank. Samuel F. Gates. M. M. Chaffin. Jabez Rice.
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Ward 2.
Warden, Benj. Walker. Clerk, Timo. K. Earle. Inspectors of Elections, Asa D. Whittemore, Wm. G. Maynard, Rufus W. Newton.
Ward 3.
Warden, Gerry Valentine. Clerk, Jas. H. Bancroft. Inspectors of Elections, Sam'l C. White, Alfred Hood, Chas. Mason.
Ward 4.
Warden, Chas. G. Prentiss. Clerk, Homer E. Sargent. Inspectors of Elections, Fras. Harrington, Edwin Moody, Lewis Sturtevant.
Ward 5.
Warden, Elbridge G. Watkins. Clerk, Henry M. Barbour. Inspectors of Elections, Wm. Seaver, A. J. Brooks, David D. Stowell.
Ward 6. Warden, Edwin Draper. Clerk, Sam'l Smith. Inspectors of Elections, E. L. Brigham, Benj. Barber, M. S. Ballord.
Ward 7.
Warden, Hartley Williams. Clerk, Thos. Earle. Inspectors of Elections, E. L. Holman, Z. E. Berry, E. R. Estabrook. Ward 8.
Warden, E. H. Hemenway. Clerk, F. H. Daniels. Inspectors of Elections, Richard Ball, Chas. Hadwen, Emory Banister.
MEASURERS OF WOOD, BARK AND CHARCOAL.
Albert Gould, Geo. Geer, John H. Knight. SURVEYORS OF LUMBER, SHINGLES AND CLAPBOARDS. Alpheus Merrifield, Walter R. Bigelow, Moses T. Breck, Sam'l D. Harding. FIELD DRIVERS. Jaalam Gates, John F. Clark.
FENCE VIEWERS. John F. Clark, Jonathan Lyon, Benj. Flagg, Benj. Walker, George A. Chamberlain.
UNDERTAKERS. Danforth B. Comins, George Sessions, Thomas Magennis. SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. George Geer.
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