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During the year many bundles of old linen and cotton pieces have been received from unknown donors; such contributions are gratefully received and are always very useful. They may be left at the Hospital or with the City Messenger, No. 1, City Hall.
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CITY DOCUMENT .- No. 42.
ADMISSION OF PATIENTS, ETC.
Application for admission of patients should be made to the Superintendent at the Hospital, on each day of the week, Sunday excepted, between 9 and 11 o'clock A. M.
Whenever able the patient should apply in person. When not able to appear in person, application may be made by a friend.
Persons carried directly to the Hospital from the place of an accident are admitted immediately and at all hours.
No person having any contagious disease can be admitted, and no person can be admitted whose case is judged to be incurable, unless temporarily for urgent symptoms which are deemed capable of being relieved.
The ordinary charge per week for accommodation in the wards is $10-which includes medical and surgical attendance, together with medicine, nursing and washing. Persons who are unable to pay, and whose place of legal settlement is Worcester, are admitted as free patients ; all other free patients are charged to the State, or to the Towns where they belong. Patients in private rooms are charged $14.00 or more per week, according to the requirements of the case.
No person shall visit any part of the premises except on business or at such times as may be fixed for the reception of visitors without the permission of the Superintendent or some one of the Trustees.
On Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of each week, from 3 to 4 o'clock P. M., friends may be permitted to visit patients, though no patient shall receive more than two visitors on the same day. In all cases, however, the Trustees or Super- intendent may exercise discretionary power as to excluding or admitting visitors.
No visitor shall be allowed to give any article of food or drink to a patient, unless by permission of the nurse ; and any article sent to a patient shall be left with the Superintendent.
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CITY HOSPITAL.
TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES.
' The Trustees have made arrangements for giving, at the Hospital, two years' training to women desirous of becoming professional nurses.
Persons wishing to receive this course of instruction must apply to the Superintendent of the Hospital.
Candidates must be over twenty-two and under thirty-five years of age. They must be of sound health, and must present, on application, a certificate from some responsible person as to their good character.
After approval, applicants are received for one month on probation. During this month they are boarded and lodged at the Hospital, but receive no compensation.
They are subject to the rules of the Hospital, and are under the authority of the Superintendent of the Hospital and Lady Superintendent of Nurses, who have full power to decide as to the fitness of the nurses for the work, and the propriety of retaining or dismissing them at the end of the month of trial. The same authority can discharge them at any time in case of misconduct or inefficiency.
They reside in the. Hospital and serve for the first year as assistants in the wards of the Hospital; the second year they will be expected to perform any duty assigned them by the Lady Superintendent, or to be sent to private cases among the rich or poor.
TRAINING.
Those fulfilling the conditions of the probationary month are accepted as pupils. They must sign a written agreement to remain at the school for two years, and to conform to the rules of the Hospital.
The instruction includes -
1. The dressing of blisters, burns, sores and wounds ; the preparation and application of fomentations and poultices, of cups and leeches, and of minor dressing.
2. Administration of enemas, and use of catheter.
3. The best method of rubbing and exercising the sick.
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4. Management of helpless patients ; changing their clothing, giving baths in bed, preventing bed-sores, and managing position.
5. Bandaging, making bandages and rollers, and lining splints.
6. Making beds and changing sheets while the patient is in bed; the care of patients' rooms ; ventilation.
7. Certain emergencies and how to treat them.
The pupils are taught to prepare food, together with drinks and stimulants for the sick, and all that pertains to night, in dis- tinction from day, nursing.
They are taught to make accurate observations of the state of the secretions, expectoration, pulse, skin, appetite, temperature of the body, intelligence (as delirium of stupor), sleep, condition of wounds, eruptions, effect of diet, stimulants, or medicines ; and to learn the management of convalescents.
Instruction will be given by attending and resident physicians and surgeons, at the bedside of the patients, and in various other ways ; also, by the Superintendent of Nurses. Examinations will take place from time to time.
The pupils will pass through the different wards, serving and being taught, for one year. They are supplied with board and lodging, and will be paid ten dollars ($10) per month for the first year, for their clothing and personal expenses. At the expiration of one year they will receive such increase of pay as the Trustees shall see fit.
When the full term of two years is completed, those who have passed a satisfactory examination will receive diplomas, certifying to their period of training, their proficiency and good character.
The right is reserved to terminate the connection of any nurse or pupil with the school for any reason which may be deemed sufficient.
A blank form will be furnished to applicants to be filled in with answers to the following questions in the candidate's own handwriting, and sent to the Superintendent of the City Hospi- tal, Worcester, Mass. :-
QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED BY CANDIDATE.
1. Name in full and present address of Candidate.
2. Are you a single woman or widow?
3. Your present occupation or employment?
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4. Age last birthday, and date and place of birth?
5. Height, weight?
6. Where educated?
7. Are you strong and healthy? and have you always been so?
8. Are your sight and hearing perfect?
9. Have you any physical defects ?
10. Have you any tendency to pulmonary complaint?
11. If a widow, have you children? How many? Their ages? How are they provided for?
12. Where (if any) was your last situation? How long were you in it?
13. The names in full and address of two persons to be referred to? State how long each has known you. If previously employed, one of these must be the last employer. One of them must not be a relative.
14. Have you ever been a pupil of any other training school?
15. Have you read, and do you clearly understand the Regulations ?
I declare the above statement to be correct.
REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS
OF THE . JAQUES FUND AND OTHER FUNDS OF THE CITY HOSPITAL.
WORCESTER, MASS., January 2, 1888. To the Honorable City Council :-
In compliance with the provisions of the City Ordinance governing this Commission, the undersigned present the follow- ing report of their doings, in and about the several funds in their charge, for the financial year ending November 30, 1887 :- Balance on hand, Dec. 1, 1886, $188,299 94 46,579 89
Receipts during the year,
Total, Payments during the year,
$234,879 83 19,192 62
Balance, Nov. 30, 1887, $215,687 21
The several securities and cash balances belonging to the various funds have been carefully examined by the undersigned, and found to be properly accounted for. Sundry statements, prepared by W. S. Barton, City Treasurer, and Treasurer of this Board, showing the receipts and payments on account of the several funds, together with the investments and cash balances carried forward at the end of the year, are appended to this report, and make a part thereof.
Respectfully submitted.
BENJ. WALKER, ALBERT CURTIS, CHAS. B. PRATT,
Commissioners of the Jaques Fund and other Funds of the City Hospital.
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CITY HOSPITAL.
To the Commissioners of the Jaques Fund and other Funds of the City Hospital :
GENTLEMEN :- The undersigned, as treasurer of your Board, herewith presents sundry statements, in tabular form and in detail, showing the receipts and payments on account of the several Funds of the City Hospital, and the amounts carried forward, on the books of the treasurer, at the close of the financial year ending November 30, 1887.
CITY-HOSPITAL FUNDS.
Dec. 1, 1886, to Nov. 30, 1887.
No.
TITLE OF FUND.
Amounts Dec. 1, 1886.
Receipts during year.
Totals.
Payments during year.
Amounts Nov. 30, 1887.
1 Davis Hospital, ,
1873 $ 2,313 34 $
133 73 $
2,447 07 $
22 00 $
2,425 07
2 Jaques
66
1874
175,996 69
20,359 86
196,356 55
9,149 16
187,207 39
3 Curtis
1876
1,006 39
40 28
1,046 67
29 20
1,017 47
4 Shaw
1877
283 43
32 11
315 54
315 54
5 Tenney
66
1881
5,000 00
250 00
5,250 00
250 00
5,000 00
6 Salisbury
1884
3,197 09
129 09
3,326 18
3,326 18
7 Sargent
1886
503 00
20 32
523 32
14 10
509 22
8 Knowles Hospit'l Bdg.1887
25,614 50
25,614 50
9,728 16
15,886 34
Totals,
$188,299 94 $46,579 89 $234,879 83 $19,192 62 $215,687 21
INVESTMENTS AND CASH BALANCES.
November 30, 1887.
INVESTMENTS, AT PAR VALUE.
Cash
Total
No.
First Mortgages.
Bank Stock.
R. R. Bond.
Deposits.
Totals.
Balances.
Assets.
12345678 4 5 6 7 8
$178,350 00
$1,500 00
5,335 37
185,185 37
2,022 02
187,207 39
1,000 00
1,000 00
17 47
1,017 47
315 54
315 54
315 54
5,000 00
5,000 00
5,000 00
3,000 00
3,000 00
326 18
3,326 18
500 00
500 00
9 22
509 22
15,886 34
15,886 34
1
$183,350 00
$1,500 00
$1,000 00
$11,150 91
$197,000 91
$18,686 30 $215,687 21
$1,000 00
$ 1,000 00
$ .2,000 00
$ 425 07
$ 2,425 07
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RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS.
RECEIPTS.
Dec. 1, 1886, to Nov. 30, 1887. .
No. 1. Interest on Railroad Bond .
$80 00
Interest on Savings Bank deposits
53 73
No. 2. Proceeds of sales of real estate, viz. : 6 parcels,
containing about 42,484 square feet of land $11,440 35
Interest on mortgage notes .
8,564 41
Interest on National Bank deposits .
270 10
Dividends on fifteen shares of Bank Stock
85 00
$20,359 86
No. 4.
Rent of Shaw estate, net one-fifth part .
$21 00
$32 11
No. 5. Interest on mortgage note
$250 00
$250 00
No. 6.
Interest on Savings Bank deposits .
$129 09
$129 09
No. 7. Interest on Savings Bank deposits.
$20 32
$20 32
No. 8. Bequest of Mrs. Helen C. Knowles; rec'd Dec. 21,1886 $25,000 00 Interest on National Bank deposits 614 50
$25,614 50
Total Receipts, $46,579 89
Cash balances, Dec. 1, 1886 (5 funds), $2,771 49
$2,771 49
Investments, Dec. 1, 1886 (7 funds),
$185,528 45
$185,528 45
$234,879 83
Total,
$133 73
No. 3. Interest on Savings Bank deposits
$40 28
$40 28 Interest on Savings Bank deposits 11 11
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CITY HOSPITAL.
PAYMENTS.
Dec. 1, 1886, to Nov. 30, 1887.
No. 1. Board and treatment of patient
$22 00
$22 00
No. 2. Surveying and setting bounds
$
5 10
Salary of Treasurer . 125 00 Net income to Oct. 1, 1887, paid to city 9,019 06
$9,149 16
No. 3. Medical works, for library
$29 20
$29 20
No. 5. Net income to Oct. 1, 1887, paid to city .
$250 00
$250 00
No. 7.
Medical works, for library
$14 10
$14 10
No. 8. Labor, etc., account of Knowles Ward
$9,728 16
$9,728 16
Total Payments
$19,192 62
Cash balances, Nov. 30, 1887 (6 funds), as per
statement II
$18,686 30
$18,686 30
Investments, Nov. 30, 1887 (7 funds), as per
statement II .
$197,000 91
$197,000 91
Total
$234,879 83
Respectfully submitted.
WM. S. BARTON,
City Treasurer.
WORCESTER, MASS., Dec. 19, 1887.
REPORT
OF THE
CITY SOLICITOR.
To the Honorable the City Council of the City of Worcester:
I have the honor to submit my annual report as City Solicitor as follows :-
In the Supreme Judicial Court in this County, there is pend- ing the case of
Charles D. Morse vs. City of Worcester.
No action has been taken in this case since my last report.
The following cases, being applications for damages for taking land or water rights in appropriating Tatnuck Brook to the uses of the city, are pending in the Superior Court, for this County :
William H. Harrington vs. City of Worcester.
Loring Coes vs. City of Worcester.
Loring Coes et ali. vs. City of Worcester.
John Coes et ali. vs. City of Worcester.
The Burling Mills vs. City of . Worcester.
Jesse Smith et ali. vs. City of Worcester.
Eveline P. Lyon et ali. vs. City of Worcester.
James E. Ware vs. City of Worcester. Edward D. Thayer vs.' City of Worcester.
Sylvester Smith vs. City of Worcester. Charles J. Pickford vs. City of Worcester.
Washburn & Moen Mfg. Co. vs. City of Worcester.
Obadiah B. Hadwen vs. City of Worcester. John D. Seagrave vs. City of Worcester. Sumner Pratt vs. City of Worcester. Sylvia C. Pitcher vs. City of Worcester.
Paul Whitin Mfg. Co. vs. City of Worcester.
Sanders Cotton Mills vs. City of Worcester.
Sutton Mfg. Co. vs. City of Worcester. Fisher Mfg Co. vs. City of Worcester.
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REPORT OF CITY SOLICITOR.
Peter Simpson et al. vs. City of Worcester.
Cordis Mills vs. City of Worcester.
Robert Taft et al. vs. City of Worcester.
Bailey W. Evans vs. City of Worcester.
Charles D. Morse vs. City of Worcester.
Peter Simpson et ali. vs. City of Worcester.
Erastus R. Whipple vs. City of Worcester.
Joseph Bannigan vs. City of Worcester
Peter H. Brown, Tr. et al. vs. City of Worcester.
Alvin E. Thurston et al. vs. City of Worcester.
Loring Coes et ali. vs. City of Worcester.
Henry A. Hoyt vs. City of Worcester.
These cases have not been heard before the commissioners appointed by the court to assess the damages in the first instance.
The following cases of various kinds are pending in the same court :-
John Crimmins vs. City of Worcester.
Action to recover for injury to person caused by stairs break- ing in the Waldo Street Station-house.
John O'Rourke vs. City of Worcester.
Action to recover for personal injury caused by caving in of a trench dug for water pipe.
Samuel R. Heywood vs. City of Worcester.
Petition to recover damages occasioned by laying out street over Mill Brook Sewer.
Joseph H. Walker vs. City of Worcester. Same.
Daniel Buckley et al. vs. City of Worcester.
. Same.
John Hart vs. City of Worcester. Same.
Dominick Hart vs. City of Worcester.
Same.
Catharine Dunn vs. City of Worcester.
Same.
Samuel C. Brigham vs. County of Worcester.
This is a petition for assessment of damages by relocation of Grove Street, in which the city is joined as a party.
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CITY DOCUMENT .- No. 42.
Ann B. Earle vs. City of Worcester.
Action to recover damages for falling of the wall on the line of plaintiff's estate on Summer Street.
Almira S. Huse vs. City of Worcester.
Petition for assessment of damages occasioned by laying out Hawley Street as a public street.
Catharine M. Houlihan et al. vs. City of Worcester.
Petition for damages by laying out street over Mill Brook Sewer.
Bridget Conlin vs. City of Worcester.
Same.
Simon W. Phetteplace vs. City of Worcester.
Petition to revise a sewer assessment on Park Avenue.
Ellen Delaney vs. City of Worcester.
Action to recover for injury by reason of a defect on Belmont Street.
Thomas F. Monahan vs. City of Worcester.
Action to recover for injury received while working on sewers, by falling of bricks upon the plaintiff.
Henry Stead vs. City of Worcester.
Action to recover for damages to personal property by reason of water flowing back from sewer on Bigelow Street.
Helen A. Marble vs. City of Worcester.
Bill in equity to restrain the city from removing fence on Elm Street. The case involves the question of the location of the South line of Elm Street, between Main and Chestnut Streets.
Norwich & Worcester R. R. Co. vs. City of Worcester.
Petition for damages caused by cutting down the grade of Southbridge Street.
The following cases removed from the Superior Court for this County to the United States Court, have been heard before a Commission appointed by the latter Court, and the awards returned into court. They are petitions of Mill owners residing in Rhode Island for damages occasioned by taking the waters of Tatnuck Brook.
Blackstone Mfg. Co. vs. City of Worcester.
Manville Co. vs. City of Worcester.
Lonsdale Co. vs. City of Worcester.
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REPORT OF CITY SOLICITOR.
Mumford et al. vs. City of Worcester.
Social Mfg. Co. vs. City of Worcester.
Harris Woolen Co. vs. City of Worcester.
Albion Company vs. City of Worcester. John W. Donelson et al. vs. City of Worcester.
Lippit Woolen Co. vs. City of Worcester. Valley Falls Co. vs. City of Worcester. Mary E. Davis et al. vs. City of Worcester.
William Jencks et al. vs. City of Worcester.
Bridge Mills Co. vs. City of Worcester. Geo. L. Littlefield vs. City of Worcester.
Stufford Mfg. Co. vs. City of Worcester.
Pawtucket Hair Cloth Co. vs. City of Worcester.
Darius Goff vs. City of Worcester. Cornelius E. Green et al. vs. City of Worcester.
Bathsheba A. Benedict vs. City of Worcester.
Central Falls Woolen Mill vs. City of Worcester.
American Worsted Co. et al. vs. City of Worcester.
Clinton Mfg. Co. vs. City of Worcester.
Louisa Jencks et al. vs. City of Worcester.
The total awards with the commissioners' fees amount to one hundred and thirty-seven thousand three hundred and ten dollars ($137,310).
Either party may apply for a jury to revise the award. Such application may be made at the term at which the award is accepted, or at the next term thereafter.
The case of Jeremiah Driscoll vs. City of Worcester is also pending in the United States Circuit Court. This is a bill in Equity to recover for damages for the infringement of a patent for laying concrete pavement in blocks. I am of opinion that the case will be abandoned by the plaintiff.
The petition filed in 1873 by the Washburn & Moen Manu- facturing Company vs. City of Worcester before the County Commissioners to recover damages for appropriation of portions of Mill Brook for sewerage purposes is still pending.
Respectfully submitted.
FRANK P. GOULDING,
City Solicitor.
COMMISSIONERS
- OF -
HOPE CEMETERY
FOR THE YEAR 1888.
ELIJAH B. STODDARD, -
- Term expires 1889.
ALBERT CURTIS, - -
-
-
1890.
ALBERT TOLMAN, - -
-
-
66 1891.
WILLIAM BUSH, - -
66 1892.
THOMAS M. ROGERS, - -
-
66
1893.
ORGANIZATION FOR THE YEAR 1888.
Chairman, -
-
-
-
-
ALBERT TOLMAN.
Secretary, -
-
-
- -
- E. B. STODDARD.
Manager, - - -
- -
- WILLIAM BUSH.
- ALBERT CURTIS.
Assistant-Manager,
- - -
-
-
Superintendent of Grounds,
F. A. BARNES.
THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
COMMISSIONERS OF HOPE CEMETERY,
FOR THE YEAR 1887.
To the Hon. Samuel Winslow, Mayor, and to the City Council of the City of Worcester :-
The Commissioners of Hope Cemetery, as required by the Charter, report their "Acts and Doings" for the year 1887. Under the supervision and through the direct agency of the faithful superintendent, Mr. Barnes, the extensive grounds with many miles of avenues and paths were kept in good order.
The Tomb for which the City Council made an appropriation of $5,000-in the year 1886-with substantial wing walls and grading at an expense of $1,550, which was paid from the funds of the Cemetery, was finished.
The grounds near the principal entrance, from which the old Tomb was taken, was regraded and ornamented with fine sub- stantial granite curb-stone, at a cost of $3,000. These expendi- tures were required by the increasing use of the Cemetery, and to keep pace with improvements being made by the owners of lots.
548 yds. of paving in gutters were laid.
39 lots were graded, turfed, and corner posts set, at a cost of $1,053.
141 lots were graded and 915 lots were kept in good order for individual owners, and there is due for this work a balance of $762.65.
405 graves were made. 73 were for burials in free grounds.
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99 foundations were laid for monuments and tablets or head- stones.
8 vaults for owners of lots were made at a cost of $200.
900 loads of muck were taken from the swamp.
Wood was cleared from one acre of land.
3 horses and 15 men were employed most of the year.
The annexed statement of Receipts and Payments will show in detail the sums expended in the year 1887.
The several kinds of work to which we have referred indicate how various have become the matters to which the care of your Commissioners extend, including in fact all that a large and well kept Cemetery requires.
Within the year 57 lots sold at prices from $12 to $25.
25 66
$25 to $70.
22 66 66 66 $70 to $235.
Number sold, 104 lots for $4,197.00.
About 3,000 lots have been deeded to individuals since the opening of the Cemetery.
Besides the large number of tablets and headstones, many of which are costly, 293 expensive monuments have been erected.
The grounds where free burials are made must receive proper care from municipal authority.
. From the facts stated in this Report and that may be gathered from the accompanying financial statements, the conclusion must be admitted that your Commissioners are justified in urging over and over again the acquisition by the City of adjoining unoccupied lands to be added to that already appropriated for the Cemetery.
Respectfully submitted with accompanying financial state- ments, by
ALBERT TOLMAN. WILLIAM BUSH. T. M. ROGERS. ALBERT CURTIS, per S. E. B. STODDARD.
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VALUATION OF PROPERTY AT HOPE CEMETERY.
Tools, as per schedule,
$203 60
Harnesses, 3 carts, 2 wagons, 2 sleds,
345 00
3 horses,
500 00
Hay and straw,
170 00
Lumber,
40 00
Manure, and 1000 loads of muck,
300 00
$1,558 60
Barns, sheds, tool-house and office,
$2,100 00
House and one-half acre of land,
3,000 00
$5,100 00
Total,
$6,658 60
MANAGER'S STATEMENT. BALANCE SHEET. DR.
Dec. 1, 1886. Balance cash,
$1,836 28
Cash, W. S. Barton, as per pay-rolls,
7,632 20
House rent,
165 00
Wood sold,
237 12
Labor and material on lots,
6,676 76
Lot sold,
50 00
$16,597 36
CR
City Treasurer,
$1,500 00
Deeds,
42 00
Curbing,
2,956 50
Labor with teams,
35 70
Stone posts,
322 00
Turf,
150 00
Hay and grain,
268 42
Tools and repairs,
263 86
Stone for base monument,
11 00
Bricks,
83 75
Books, paper, printing,
49 00
Lime and cement,
230 27
City Engineer,
17 23
Horse shoeing,
47 31
Telephone,
40 00
Lumber and carpentering,
32 74
City water,
45 71
Paints and painting,
175 33
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Extension water pipes,
152 30
Coal and wood,
46 25
Manure,
247 40
Repairs,
26 70
Grass seed,
23 45
Sundries,
240 88
Iron racks, etc., tomb,
480 00
$7,487 80
Labor, as per pay-rolls,
7,632 20
Balance,
$1,477 36
OFFICE OF THE CITY TREASURER, WORCESTER, MASS., Dec. 17, 1887.
To the Commissioners of Hope Cemetery : -
GENTLEMEN :- The undersigned, as Treasurer, ex-officio, of sundry funds in charge of your Board, herewith presents a state- ment of his receipts and payments, on account of Hope Ceme- tery, during the last financial year, and of the several balances carried forward, on the books of the Treasurer, at the close of business, November 30, 1887.
Balances, Dec. 1, 1886, viz. :-
Savings Bank deposits, reserved fund, $7,000 00
Savings Bank deposits, Ch. 116, P. S. (36 lots), 3,050 00
Savings Bank deposits, Ch. 186, St. 1884 (21 lots), . 2,150 00
2,258 76
$14,458 76
Receipts during the year, viz .:-
Proceeds of sales of 104 lots,
$4,197 00
Cash from W. Bush, Commissioner, 1,500 00
Special deposits, under Ch. 116, P. S. (11 lots),
1,100 00 -
Special deposits, under St. 1884 (6 lots),
600 00
Dividends on Savings Bank deposits (general),
280 00
Dividends on Savings Bank deposits (special), Interest on bank deposits,
207 00
24 50
$7,908 50
Total,
$22,367 26
Cash on deposit,
$15,120 00
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Payments during the year, viz. :-
Labor of men, etc., as per pay-rolls,
$7,632 20
$7,632 20
Balances, Nov. 30, 1887, viz. :-
Savings Bank deposits, reserved fund,
$7,000 00
Savings Bank deposits, Ch. 116, P. S. (47 lots),
4,150 00
Savings Bank deposits, Stat. 1884 (27 lots),
2,750 00
Cash on deposit,
835 06
$14,735 06
Total,
$22,367 26
Respectfully submitted,
WM. S. BARTON,
City Treasurer.
WORCESTER FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
DIRECTORS IN 1888.
TERM EXPIRES.
FRANCIS A. GASKILL,
JAMES E. ESTABROOK,
Dec. 31, 1888.
ADIN THAYER,
GEORGE SWAN,
1889.
THOMAS GRIFFIN,
E. HARLOW RUSSELL, 66 1890.
JOHN O. MARBLE,
A. GEORGE BULLOCK,
1891.
HENRY H. MERRIAM,
MOSES H. HARRIS,
1892.
PHILIP L. MOEN,
BURTON W. POTTER,
1893.
ORGANIZATION FOR THE YEAR.
FRANCIS A. GASKILL.
COMMITEEE ON THE LIBRARY.
ADIN THAYER, JAMES E. ESTABROOK, È. HARLOW RUSSELL,
JOHN O. MARBLE, A. GEORGE BULLOCK.
COMMITTEE ON READING-ROOM.
GEORGE SWAN, MOSES H. HARRIS, BURTON W. POTTER.
COMMITTEE ON THE BUILDING.
THOMAS GRIFFIN, ADIN THAYER, HENRY H. MERRIAM.
COMMITTEE ON FINANCE.
FRANCIS A. GASKILL, A. GEORGE BULLOCK,
PHILIP L. MOEN.
LIBRARIAN. SAMUEL S. GREEN.
ASSISTANT-LIBRARIANS.
LUCIE A. YOUNG, JESSIE E. TYLER, ELLEN L. OTIS, M. JENNIE BARBOUR, SARAH D. TUCKER.
PRESIDENT. SECRETARY AND TREASURER. JAMES E. ESTABROOK.
DIRECTORS' REPORT.
To the Honorable Samuel Winslow, Mayor, and the City Coun- cil of the City of Worcester :-
The Directors of the Free Public Library respectfully submit their twenty-eighth annual report.
The Rules of the Board provide that the annual report shall be made by a committee appointed for that purpose.
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