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REPORT
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON THE BUILDING.
To the Directors of the Free Public Library :
The Committee on the Building report that, generally speak- ing, the library building is in good order, but that money will soon have to be spent in renewing the timbers and floors in the northern portion of the basement, and in laying new floors in the first story. They think it desirable that when the latter piece of work is undertaken, the floor of the hall connected with the main entrance should be tiled instead of being renewed with a flooring of wood, it being a thoroughfare for all persons who enter either the circulating or reference departments of the library, and constantly in use. The cost of tiling the hall floor and laying floors of wood in the portions of the first floor, where they are imperatively demanded, would be about $500.
During the past year, Dr. Gage's bill for one-half the expense of laying a wall and erecting a fence between his lot and that of the city has been paid, the pipes bringing water from the roof have been repaired and renewed, a new entrance has been made into the sewer for the disposal of this water, other repairs have been made, and furniture, brushes, &c., bought, at a total expense of $351.77. This amount exceeds somewhat the sum which it was estimated, at the beginning of the year, would be large enough to keep the building in repair and pay certain other current expenses that have to be incurred by this Committee ; but it is apparent that unforeseen expenditures will, almost every year, have to be made in keeping in order a building of the age of the one under our care. The Committee therefore does not
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consider it safe to ask for less than $350, to be used during the present year.
Other expenditures have been made as follows :
Coal and wood,
#370 12
Gas,
780 10
Water,
81 29
Insurance of boiler,
25 00
Estimates of sums needed the current year are as follows :
Ordinary repairs, furniture, brushes, &c.,
$350 00
Coal and wood,
380 00
Gas,
800 00
Water,
80 00
Insurance of boiler,
25 00
Shelving,
50 00
These estimates have been submitted to the Finance Commit- tee and approved by them, and will be submitted to the Board of Directors for their consideration at the present meeting.
SAMUEL D. HARDING. WM. DICKINSON. S. A. PORTER.
REPORT
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON FINANCE.
To the Directors of the Free Public Library:
Your committee on finance submit herewith the financial state- ments of the Free Public Library and the Green Library Fund. The expenditures from the city appropriation have been made with scrupulous economy, so that, notwithstanding some unfore- seen wants, they have in but few cases equalled the estimates presented at the beginning of the year, and the amount designed for the purchase of books has been wholly devoted to that pur- pose. The amount available for books is, of course, the sum re- maining after the indispensable demands for current expenses have been satisfied. Economy in other directions therefore, di- rectly increases the literary resources of the library. The ser- vices of the Librarian, as an exact, vigilant and prudent adminis- trator, are in the judgment of the committee scarcely, if at all, less conspicuous and valuable than his success in making the treasures of the library available for the public use.
The statement of the Green Library Fund shows an increase in the amount invested in mortgage securities and a decrease in the bank stocks. This change in the investments was made in accordance with the unanimous judgment of the committee. The amount deposited in savings banks, awaiting an opportunity for investment in accordance with the directions of the founder, is now smaller than it has been for many years.
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The committee desire to express their sense of obligation to William S. Barton, Esq., the City Treasurer and custodian of the Green Library Fund, for the precision and clearness of his ac- counts and financial statements, and the admirable method with which all the business of this fund is conducted. By his skill and fidelity the work of the committee has been made as easy and agreeable as it could be.
J. EVARTS GREENE, SAMUEL D. NYE, L. W. HAMMOND,
Finance Committee.
WORCESTER, Dec. 19, 1881.
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FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
401
CITY APPROPRIATION.
Financial Statement for the year ending November 30, 1881.
RESOURCES.
City appropriation,
$10,000 00
Dog money,
2,595 49
Fines and miscellaneous receipts at library,
423 95
- $13,019 44
EXPENDITURES.
Books,
$2,937 71
Binding,
762 39
Printing lists of additions,
107 53
Other printing and changing slips,
143 89
Freight, postage, expressage, &c.,
282 21
Stationery and paper for covering books,
68 01
Postal cards,
60 00
Cards for cataloguing,
25 50
Ordinary repairs, furniture, brushes, &c.,
351 77
Coal and wood,
370 12
Gas,
780 10
Water,
81 29
Salary of Librarian,
2,500 00
Salaries of assistants,
3,016 33
Wages of Janitor and Messenger,
416 67
Additional library service,
680 16
Insurance,
25 00
Cataloguing,
374 21
-$12,982 89
Balance to sinking fund,
36 55
ยท
$13,019 44
J. EVARTS GREENE, SAMUEL D. NYE, L. W. HAMMOND,
Finance Committee.
WORCESTER, Dec. 20th, 1881.
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THE GREEN LIBRARY FUND.
The income for the year ending November 30, 1881, is as follows :
Interest on notes secured by mortgage,
$1,619 83
Dividends on bank stock,
499 00
Premium on bank stock sold,
505 00
Bank tax refunded by commissioners,
156 34
Dividends on savings bank deposits,
22 80
Interest on national bank deposits,
23 40
$2,826 37
One-fourth part of the income, $706.59, has been added to the fund. The remaining three-fourths, $2,119.78, are subject to expenditures for books, etc., in accordance with the terms of the will of Dr. Green.
STATEMENT OF THE FUND.
Nov. 30, 1880.
Nov. 30, 1881.
Notes secured by mortgage,
$28,601 00
$31,451 00
Bank stock, par value,
9,300 00
7,300 00
Deposits in savings banks,
707 43
564 02
$38,608 43
$39,315 02
STATEMENT OF BOOK ACCOUNT.
Balance in City Treasury, Dec. 1, 1880,
$1,721 56
Three-fourths income added during the year,
2,119 78
Interest on bank deposits, book account, 25 62 -
$3,866 96
Expended for books,
2,236 97
Balance in City Treasury, Nov. 30, 1881, $1,629 99
J. EVARTS GREENE, SAMUEL D. NYE, Finance Committee. L. W. HAMMOND,
REPORT OF THE TREASURER
OF THE
READING ROOM FUND.
Nathaniel Paine, Treasurer, in account with the Reading Room Fund of the Free Public Library :
1880.
DR.
Dec. 1. Balance of cash as per last report, $565 30
1881.
Dec. 1. To interest on City bonds to date, 300 00
66 66 " Mortgage notes, 196 16
66
" U. S. Bonds, 21 50
66 To premium on bonds sold, 17 75
66 To abatement on newspapers discontinued, 2 45
- $1,103 16 1
1881.
CR.
Dec. 1. By cash for subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals to date,
$577 97
Postage,
2 20
Appropriated to invested fund,
50 00
$630 17
1881, Dec. 1. Balance of cash,
472 99
$1,103 16
The Reading Room Fund is invested as follows :
City of Worcester bonds,
$5,000 00
Mortgage notes,
5,000 00
United States four per cent. bond,
500 00
Cash,
200 00
Total amount of fund,
$10,700 00
Respectfully submitted,
NATH'L PAINE, Treasurer.
WORCESTER, Dec. 20, 1881.
The undersigned have examined the vouchers and securities in the hands of the treasurer, and find his accounts and statements correct.
SAMUEL D. NYE, L. W. HAMMOND, Of the Finance Committee.
REPORT
OF THE
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
CITY OF WORCESTER, Jan. 23d, 1882.
To the Honorable City Council :
GENTLEMEN-In compliance with Sec. 3, Chapt. 48, of the City Ordinances, I have the honor to submit the following re- port of the condition of the several city buildings, together with the amount expended for repairs and alterations, and the amount expended in the construction of new buildings, during the year ending November 30th, 1881.
CITY HOSPITAL.
At the date of my last annual report the several buildings were enclosed, the two wards and kitchen buildings were plaster- ed one coat, and work was then suspended until April, 1881, when the balance of the plastering was commenced and the work has been done as fast as possible up to the present time, and the several buildings are practically completed ready for occupancy. There remains unfinished the stable and laundry, which are being pushed to completion as fast as possible. No provision for the heating of the buildings having been made in the original appropriation, the heating apparatus was not con- tracted for until after the annual appropriations were made for the year 1881, and was not completed until October 1st, 1881, and has been kept running up to the present time. It would, in my opinion, have been of great advantage if the heating appa-
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ratus could have been put in as soon as the several buildings were roofed in, thoroughly seasoning the timber, etc. During the process of construction, frequent consultations were held by the Committee on Public Buildings and the Trustees of the City Hospital and the medical gentlemen of the staff, resulting in many valuable suggestions which have seemed necessary for the well being and usefulness of the institution and its economical management, and to make the hospital as complete as possible in all respects.
The amount of the appropriations for the year 1880, were, $45,000 00
And there was expended, 30,597 73
Leaving a balance of, 14,402 27
And there has been appropriated for the year 1881,
15,000 00
And there has been revenue, trees sold, 50 02
Making the total resources, 29,452 27
And the amount expended during the year ending November 30, 1881, has been as follows :
Amount paid Palmer & Vaughan, on contract, $9,988 77
Geo. D. Webb, contract for bank wall, 1,593 52
Palmer & Vaughan, for finishing attic, administration building, 568 81
For building fence and extra labor on buildings, 1,461 62
J. D. Sisson, for extra plumbing, 1,091 87
A. Ballou, for painting fence and extra work on buildings, 480 70
Walworth Manufacturing Co., for three wrought iron heating boilers and freight on same,
392 65
D. M. Woodward, for five stone posts and caps at entrance, 375 00
Gate hub and hinges,
8 00
29/-9// wall capping 18''x8 !! 435 07 52 07
Snow, Woodman & Co., cut of building,
50 00
Carl C. T. Thomas, for four wood mantles, 165 00
Clark, Sawyer & Co., tile hearths, 24 75
Changing columns front porch,
164 91
C. Baker & Co., lumber for fence,
164 25
For grass seed and fertilizer, 31 75
For grading lot, foundations for trenches, walls, barn cellar and removing trees, 3,836 44
Henry Mellen, for extra mason work, setting boilers, plastering basement, setting range, building fire places and whitening, 970 25
Braman, Dow & Co., steam heating apparatus,
3,740 38
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SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Washburn & Garfield, gas piping, &c.,
451 89
F. A. Atherton, refrigerators, 116 70
For paving and concreting,
196 75
Coal,
152 55
Fuller & Delano, balance of architects' fees,
300 00
A. B. Lovell, sewers,
365 03
For Lightning rods,
334 95
Electric bells, .
122 87
Insurance for $20,000 for 5 years,
300 00
Engineering,
33 36
Advertising,
14 02
Watchman,
43 75
Hack hire for committee,
8 00
Traveling expenses,
2 70
Freight and trucking,
8 57
Folding screens,
9 00
Packing,
1 00
Making the total to date, November 30, 1881,
$27,576 97
Balance of appropriation,
$1,875 30
Balance of contract, Palmer & Vaughan,
5,681 25
NEW SCHOOL HOUSES.
There have been built during the year three new school houses, and an addition to the Belmont street school house of six rooms, at a total cost of $48,053.44.
BELMONT STREET ADDITION.
The addition to the Belmont street school house consists of six rooms, two on each floor, each 29 x 32 with cloak and coat room to each and teachers' closets, all communicating with a hall 10' 4" wide extending the full width of the building, with the water closets in the rear and separate from the main building, with the entrance from the basement, and has been built from plans and specifications made by S. C. Earle, architect, of this city, at a total cost of $16,236.11, as follows :
Jeremiah Murphy, contract,
$12,350 00
Extra stone work and digging, on account of land being filled, 202 37
School and teachers' desks, and curtains,
1,181 67
S. C. Earle, plans and specifications,
246 00
Grading, 140 45
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Heating apparatus, including new boiler,
1,976 28
Insurance, $5,000 for 5 years, 62 50
Worcester Water Works, service pipe, 45 52
Engineering,
10 81
Advertising,
19 51
Hack hire for the committee,
1 00
Making the total,
$16,236 11
ADRIATIC SCHOOL HOUSE.
The new building is located on Canterbury street, on the lot of land upon which the old building is located, the lot extending through from Southgate to Canterbury street, and is accessible from either street. The building contains six rooms, each 29 x 32, with cloak rooms and teachers' closets, two rooms upon each floor, with wide stairways and halls ; built from plans and speci- fications made by E. Boyden & Son, and is so arranged that four more rooms and a hall can be added at any time. It contains accommodations for 308 scholars, and has cost including furni- ture and heating apparatus (two of Anthony's largest size furnaces), $14,246.74, as follows :
Palmer & Vaughan, contract,
$11,600 00
extra work,
121 30
E. Boyden & Son, plans and specifications,
345 00
Clark & Kendall, two Anthony furnaces,
622 44
School seats, teachers' desks, chairs and curtains,
1,173 98
Worcester Water Works, service pipe,
41 39
Outbuildings,
161 83
Grading,
92 55
Hack hire,
6 00
Insurance, $5,000 for 5 years,
62 50
Engineering and advertising,
15 94
Traveling expenses on account of brick,
3 00
Making the total,
$14,246 74
WOODLAND STREET SCHOOL HOUSE.
The new Woodland street school house is 41' 3" x 69' 4' and contains four rooms, each 27 x 29, and will seat 208 scholars, is well provided with cloak rooms, teachers' closets, &c. ; heated with two large size Magee furnaces ; built from plans and speci-
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
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fications made by Messrs. Fuller & Delano, architects, and the whole cost has been $10,846.34, as follows :
B. C. Jaques, contract,
$8,880 00
extra work,
124 33
Fuller & Delano, plans and specifications,
269 40
School seats, teachers' desks, clocks and curtains,
774 62
Two Magee furnaces, J. W. Jordan,
325 00
Paving and concreting,
206 50
Extra excavation and stone work,
35 25
Extra mason work,
47 68
Extra painting,
6 39
Worcester Water Works, service pipe,
11 29
Engineering,
4 26
Advertising,
11 63
Insurance, $4,000 for 5 years,
50 00
Making the total,
$10,846 34
VALLEY FALLS SCHOOL HOUSE.
The new Valley Falls school house is a two-story two-room school house, 32 x 46, with one school room on each floor 29 x 30 feet, and will seat 105 scholars, it is located on Ludlow street some 400 feet from Leicester street, on a lot of land, a part of which was purchased of John A. Hunt and the remainder was donated to the city by Messrs. Ashworth & Jones, and is 160 x 174 feet. The cost has been $6,724.25, as follows :
B. C. Jaques, contract,
$5,470 00
for building outbuildings and fencing lot, 420 63
A. McGregor, for painting fence and outbuildings,
64 63
Barker & Nourse, plans and specifications,
70 00
School seats, teachers' desks, clocks, &c.,
299 56
Land of J. A. Hunt,
100 00
H. S. Pike, grading,
100 00
66 66 for cesspool and vault,
58 10
Worcester Water Works, service pipe,
92 74
Clark & Kendall, plumbing,
26 22
Engineering,
4 82
Advertising,
11 75
Hack hire,
6 00
Making the total,
$6,724 25
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PRESCOTT STREET ENGINE HOUSE.
The order of the City Council of May 30th, 1881, directing the building of an engine house on Prescott street, on a lot of land leased to the city by the Hon. Stephen Salisbury, has been complied with, although at the date of this report the building is unfinished and will not be ready for occupancy before January 1st, 1882. The amount of the contract was $10,690.00, and there has been expended to date the following amount .
Jeremiah Murphy, on account of contract,
$8,585 85
A. P. Cutting, plans and specifications,
320 85
Patrick Smith, digging cellar,
137 79
grading,
77 11
Worcester Water Works, service pipes,
7 28
Advertising,
7 13
Engineering,
24 76
Hack hire, &c.,
3 03
Insurance,
10 00
Total,
$9,173 80
FIRE DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS.
The several engine and hose buildings are in fair condition, but several of them will require painting the coming season. A room for a hose carriage and a company room has been finished at the West end of the ell part of the Quinsigamond school house, at a cost of $164.10. A new stable floor has been put in the stable of Steamer No. 2, Beacon street, at a cost of $207.48 ; and $419.90 has been expended in numerous small repairs at the various houses.
FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
The Free Public Library building is in very good repair upon the outside ; the inside would be very much improved by paint- ing and varnishing the wood work, and new floors in the hall of the Green Library and entrance hall should be laid as soon as possible. The amount expended for repairs of various kinds upon the building have been $265.23.
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SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
ARMORY.
There has been expended upon the Armory building for repairs,
$61 45
For repairs of stoves,
9 00
Assessment for water,
25 00
For janitor,
74 26
Coal,
75 01
Gas,
179 48
Making a total of,
$424 20
In the month of January, 1881, a communication was received by the City Council from A. Hun Berry, Adjt. General, in which he called attention to the large crack in the walls upon the north and south sides of the building, and that the building was in his opinion unsafe for the purposes of drill. This communi- cation was referred to the Joint Standing Committee on Public Buildings, who made an arrangement with Capt. George L. Allen, of Battery B, by which Co. A and C. were enabled to use the Gun room of the Battery for drill in place of using the drill hall. This arrangement continued until March 28th, at which time a communication was received from Capt. W. S. Lincoln, asking for better accommodations : this was referred to the Joint Committee on Public Buildings, and authority was given them to hire a hall suitable for the use of Companies A and C for drill. Horticultural Hall was secured by the Com- mittee at an expense of $10.00 per evening for two evenings per week ; this arrangement did not prove satisfactory, on account of the distance from the Armory building, and there being no convenience for the storing of uniforms and equipments, its use was abandoned June 1st, 1881. The amount paid for rent of hall for the time it was occupied was $180. Since the above date, all the organizations quartered in the Armory building have used the drill hall in the upper story of the Armory build- ing for the purposes of drill; and its continued use, after the report of the commission of experts, seems to me questionable, and I would earnestly recommend that measures be taken at once, either for strengthening the building or its abandonment for drill purposes.
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CITY STABLES.
The City Stables and sheds are in very good condition, and there has been no expenditure for repairs under my direction. And there has been built under the direction of the Joint Standing Committee on Highways, a building for the stone crusher, at an expense of $379.09.
SCHOOL HOUSES.
The several school buildings are in very good repair and con- dition, and will require no unusual expenditure the coming year. The Walnut street school house is so situated, being hemmed in on two sides by bank walls and buildings, there is not sufficient light in the four school rooms upon the north side of the build- ing, and, in my judgment, there should be two additional win- dows put in each school room. At the Thomas street school house, the means of egress are not in conformity with the state law, the stairways besides being narrow and steep, and would be liable to clog in case of a panic, and I would recommend that early attention be given the subject. At the Sycamore street school house, the adjoining estates are considerably annoyed from the surface water from the school yard, and I respectfully sug- gest as means of relief, the construction of two catch basins, one upon either side of the house. The Summer street school house, after having been abandoned for school purposes upon the occupancy of the new Belmont street school house in 1871, was reoccupied the following year in two rooms, and now has five school rooms occupied. As there seems to be no reason why it will not be continued to be used for school purposes,. I would advise the rebuilding of the stairs leading to the second story and the replastering of ceilings of all the rooms.
The amount expended for miscellaneous repairs has been, $5,185 95 For new furniture and repairs, 776 65
Trucking, freight and removing ashes,
410 96
New stoves,
54 97
Repair of stoves,
1,147 95
Labor cleaning buildings,
524 04
Repairs of clocks,
150 00
Cleaning vaults,
59 50
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SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Removing snow,
$91 85
Fuel, 7,990 25
Gas,
270 61
Water,
536 73
The larger items of miscellaneous repairs are as follows:
For one-half expense of bank wall between Providence
street school yard and Union place,
$300 00
One-half expense for new fence,
164 84
New outbuildings, Providence street,
396 62
Reslating Union Hill school house roof,
84 63
Rebuilding and painting fence, South Worcester school house, 97 12
Rebuilding and painting fence, Woodland street school house,
152 51
Rebuilding fence at Edgeworth street school house, 60 73
Rebuilding fence, Washington street,
27 75
Repairing and painting fence Quinsigamond school house,
63 69
New fence and grading, East Worcester,
149 75
Paving, East Worcester,
66 50
Fitting up school room and building fence at engine house, New Worcester,
129 69
Repairs of blackboards,
249 58
Whitening, 141 00
Painting fence, Ledge street,
65 83
Repair of outbuildings, Adriatic,
72 58
Storm porches, Winslow street school house,
57 12
The amount paid janitors, including High School, has been,
5,902 17
CITY HALL.
The roof of the City Hall needs reslating, and the building should have a good coat of paint, outside and in. The amount expended for repairs has been as follows :
Repair of building,
$395 32
For new furniture and repair of,
313 09
Brooms, brushes, mats, &c.,
84 33
Carting ashes,
21 90
Clocks,
31 25
Ice,
33 16
Safe, Clerk's office,
175 00
Telephone,
18 00
Rubber hose,
16 18
Coal and wood,
535 60
Gas,
1,308 43
Janitor, .
570 00
$3,502 24
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WORCESTER WATER WORKS SHOP, THOMAS STREET.
Buildings in fair condition, and there has been expended for repairs $39.57.
CITY FARM.
The several buildings at the City Farm are in good condition. During the year a new boiler house has been built and steam heating apparatus has been put in. A new building for a Piggery has been built, and so constructed that the old building can be easily attached, which makes a complete and convenient arrange- ment.
The amount expended for repairs of the several buildings,
has been,
$1,622 92
For two steam boilers,
$830 00
Boiler house,
1,677 85
$2,107 85
Steam piping, Washburn & Garfield contract,
$2,287 00
Extra,
113 61
Mason work,
192 78
$2,593 39
Plans for heating,
$68 00
Engineering,
14 75
Amount expended for Piggery to date :
G. S. Clough, on account of contract,
$2,002 50
For engineering,
14 11
Advertising,
8 00
$2,024 61
MATERIALS SOLD.
School houses, boiler sold,
$200 00
Refunded,
4 50
School Department, materials sold,
10 17
City Hall, materials sold,
6 00
City Hospital building, materials sold,
50 00
Amount of stock on hand at shop, 36 School street,
298 60
Respectfully submitted.
$270 72
C. H. PECK,
Supt. of Public Buildings.
TABLE showing the Location, Size and Value of the School-houses and School-house Lots belonging to the School Department.
LOCATION.
Material.
Stories.
Size
No. of School
Condition.
Estimated
Size of Lots,
sq. feet.
Estimated
value per
Amount.
Total value
of Houses
and Lots.
High .
Brick,
3
130 x 87
13
Good,
$ 125,000
31,672 1,0
$1 30
$41,173
$ 166,173
[ing Schools in this Building.
N Walnut Street ......
3
70 x 50
6
:
20,000
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