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SEC. 1). The clerk, under the direction of the said Board, may make abatements in the water rents, in all proper cases.
SEc. 11. The clerk shall keep suitable books, in which shall be entered the names of all persons who take the water, the kind of building, the name of and location on the street, the nature of the use, the number of taps, and the amount charged, which shall always be open to the inspection of the said Board, and any committee or officer of the Town.
SEC, 12. The following regulations shall be considered a part of the contract with every person who takes the water ; and every such person, by taking the water, shall be con- sidered to express his assent to be bound thereby. They shall be printed upon every bill for water rent, and when- ever any one of them is violated, the water shall be cut off from the building or place of such violation, although two or more parties may receive the water through the same pipe, and shall not be let on again except by the order of the Board of Water Commissioners, and on the payment of two dollars; and in case of any such violation, the said Board shall have the right to declare any payment made for the water, by the person committing such violation, to be forfeited, and the same shall thereupon be forfeited.
The said Regulations are as follows :-
First-All persons taking the water shall keep the service-
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pipes within their premises in good repair, and protected from frost, at their own expense; and they will be held liable for all damage which may result from their failure to do so.
Second -They shall prevent all unnecessary waste of water, and there shall be no concealment of the purposes for which it is used.
Third-No alterations shall be made in any of the pipes or fixtures inserted by the town, except by its agents, who are to be allowed to enter the premises supplied to examine the apparatus, and to ascertain whether there is any unneces- sary waste, and no alteration or extension of the pipes in the house, grounds or premises shall be made without notice to the Water Commissioners.
Fourth-No water is allowed to be supplied to parties not entitled to the use of it, under these rules and regu- lations, unless by special permission first obtained from the Water Commissioners.
Fifth-The said Board, or any person authorized by the Board, may enter the premises of any water-taker to exam- ine the quanity used, and the manner of use, and to cut off the water for non-payment of rents or fines or any violation of the foregoing rules.
SEC. 13. The owner or occupant of any premises, where an unnecessary waste of water occurs, shall be liable to a fine of two dollars, and shall be notified thereof in writing, and if such waste shall not be prevented, and the fine aforesaid paid, within two days from the time when said notice is given, the water shall be cut off from the said premises, and shall not be again let on until the waste be stopped and the fine paid, together with an additional sum of two dollars for cutting off 'and letting on the water; and in case of a second offence during the same year a fine of four dollars shall be imposed, and if not paid as before men- tioned, the water shall be cut off and not again let on till the cause of complaint is removed, and the fine paid, together with two dollars for cutting off and letting on the water ;
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and in case of a third or subsequent offence, the water shall be cut off and shall not be again let on, except by vote of the Poard, and the payment of such fine, not exceeding ten dol- lars, as the Board may impose. Service pipes will be laid to the line of the street without charge, and all applicants for whom the pipe is laid will be charged for the use of one faucet whether the water is used or not.
SEC. 14. Said Board shall have power to establish such other regulations as they may deem expedient for the intro- duction and use of water, and the water shall not be supplied to any building unless the pipe and fixtures shall be made conformable to the said regulations.
SEC. 15. The following rates shall be charged annually for the use of the water, namely :-
DWELLING HOUSES.
Occupied by one family for the first faucet, $5 00
For each additional faucet to be used by same family, 2 00
Where a house is occupied by more than one family,
and less than four, one faucet only being used for each family,
4 00
Where a house is occupied by four or more families, and but one faucet is used by all, for cach family, Where a house is occupied by more than one family, the highest rates will be charged for cach family having the water carried into their part of the house.
3 50
For the first bath tub, 5 00
For each additional bath tub, 3 00
For the first water-closet, 5 00
For each additional water-closet,
3 00
For hopper water-closets, special rates will be made.
Where bath tubs or water-closets are used by more than one family, for each family,
4 00
Where two faucets are used, one for hot and one for cold water, and both emptying into one basin,
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but one charge will be made for both ; provided, that in no case shall the charge for the use of water by a private family, exclusive of hose and stable, be more than 25 00
BOARDING HOUSES.
For the first faucet, 10 00
Each additional faucet, 2 00
Water-closet or bath tub when used by boarders, 10 00
Each additional bath tub or water closet, 3 00
STORES, OFFICES, WAREHOUSES, &C., NOT INCLUDING MANU- FACTORIES OR WORKSHOPS.
First faucet, $ 5 00
When two or more tenants are supplied from the same faucet, each, 4 00
Water-closet used by occupants of one tenement only, 5 00 When used by occupants of more than one tenement, for cach tenant, 1 Fer cach additional faucet or water-closet, half of above rates will be charged,
4 00
MARKETS, SALOONS, RESTAURANTS, WORKSHOPS.
For markets, saloons, restaurants, workshops, or for purposes not included in any other classification, and not requiring more than an ordinary supply of water, $5 to $25
HOTELS.
For each bed for boarders and lodgers, $ 3 00
For cach bath-tub in a hotel, 10 00
For each water-closet in a hotel, 10 00
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PUBLIC BATHS.
For one tub in public bath-house, $10 00
For each additional bath-tub, 5 00
For one water-closet in public bath-house, 10 00
For each additional water-closet, 3 00
STABLES.
Private Stables-for the first horse,
$5 00
for each additional horse, 3 00
66 for one cow, 2 00
66 for each additional cow, 1 00
Livery, Club and Boarding Stables-for cach horse, 3 00
Car and Omnibus Stables-for cach horse, 2 00
Truck and Cart Stables-for each horse,
2 00
Provided, That in no case shall any stable be charged less than $5.
The rates for Stables include water for washing carriages, without hose.
HOSE.
For hose of not over three-eighths inch orifice, used for washing windows, sprinkling streets (and the use of the same shall be limited to one hour per day), not less than $3 00
STEAM BOILERS.
For cach boiler in use not over twelve hours a day, for cach horse power, $6 00
BUILDING PURPOSES.
For each cask of lime or cement, 6 cents.
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HYDRANTS.
Hydrants set by the Town at the rate of $28.00 each, al- lowing one hydrant to each 200 inhabitants.
SEC. 16. When water is required for purposes which are not specified in the foregoing tariff, the rates shall be fixed by the Board of Water Commissioners, and the rates fixed in the foregoing tariff may be varied by the Water Commis- sioners, whenever in particular cases, in their judgment, the interests of the town shall require.
SEC. 17. In all cases the action of a majority of the Board of Water Commissioners shall be deemed to be the action of the Board.
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REPORT ON CEMETERIES.
COMMITTEE'S REPORT ON CEMETERIES.
Appropriation, $ 600 00
Incidental expenses as follows :-
Paid T. Butler, for trimming trees, &c., $200 00
" R. W. Shattuck & Co., 3 41
" Alfred Brooks, 10 25
" John Carroll, 14 00
$227 66
Balance appropriation unexpended, $372 34 Expenditures on the new addition to Mount Pleasant Cemetery are as follows :-
Appropriation,
$3,000 00
Paid Edward Storer, for fence, $433 85
George D. Tufts, painting fence, 145 40
Luke Wyman for plan, 15 00
James M. Chase, stakes,
114 27
Cayford & Hale, plan and labor staking lots, &c., 382 00
James Cruikshank, plan, labor
and traveling expenses, 22 60
$1,113 12
Balance appropriation unexpended, $1,886 88
About six acres of new addition to Cemetery grounds has been staked into drive ways, walks and lots. Number of new lots, three hundred and nineteen (319). Assessed val- uation, twenty-one thousand, two hundred and thirty dol-
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lars-without counting or valuing the one hundred and twenty-two single lots.
The driveway from the street, and the driveways and paths through the portion staked should be graded the com- ing year, and trees located at proper points. To accom- plish this amount, a further appropriationwill be necessary in addition to work on hand, unless the town choose to adopt the plan of holding a certain portion of receipts from sale of lots for beautiying the Cemetery. If so, perhaps a sufficient amount would be received from that source to accomplish the work.
Your Committee believe that a proper expenditure in beautifying the grounds will meet the generous approval of the citizens, and contribute to an carly sale of lots, thereby returning a portion of the expenditure to the treasury. Five lots have been sold in the old portion of the ground for one hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Respectfully submitted,
J. W. PEIRCE, ) M. MORTON, -- Committee.
M. ROWE, S. S. DAVIS, J
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PUBLIC LIBRARY.
PUBLIC LIBRARY.
The Trustees, in making their first annual report, congrat- ulate the town on the success of the Arlington Public Li- brary, and its present prosperous condition.
The Library was established by vote of the town in the spring of 1872, and all the books belonging to the Juvenile Library were transferred to it. The Juvenile Library which was thus merged in the Public Library, was established in 1835. The town soon after made an appropriation for its support, on condition that all the citizens should have a right to use it. It thus became practically free, and this was the first town in the State to have a Free Public Library.
Miss L. J. Newton was appointed Librarian at the begin- ning of 1873, and her efficient and careful management of the Library has been satisfactory to the Trustees. Early in the year it was found necessary to open the Library every week day in order to accommodate all who desired to use it. Now it is open for the delivery of books every Wednesday and Saturday from 3 to 8 P. M., and on all other week days from 3 to 6 P. M.
The account of the receipts and expenditures of the Li- brary will be found in the report of the Town Treasurer.
By the statistics at the end of the report it will be seen that the number of volumes issued from the Library in 1873. was nearly equal to five times the number it contains, or equivalent to every volume used five times. This is a grat- ifying evidence of its usefulness, and of its appreciation by the citizens. A large and convenient room has been fur- nished exclusively for the use of the Library, and now a
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Reading Room is all that is needed to complete its arrange- ments. We believe that the town could do nothing better for the promotion of temperance and morality in the com- munity than to establish a Free Public Reading Room, and to supply it with the best periodical literature of the times. The expense of such an addition to the Library would be small, and the value of it, especially to the young men, would be incalculable.
For the expenses of the Library during the year 1874, we recommend an appropriation of one thousand dollars and what the town receives from the tax on dogs.
Number of volumes added to Library in 1873, 503.
Number of volumes now belonging to the Library, 3,362. Number of volumes issued in 1883, 15,597. 7
R. L. HODGDON, AMOS HARRIS, Standing Committee. J. W. PEIRCE,
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INSURANCE.
Insurance on Town Property, December 31, 1873.
ALMSHOUSE PROPERTY.
Quincy Mutual Fire Insurance Company. ( Expires March 27, 1874.)
On house,
$1,750 00
Household furniture,
500 00
Barn, 750 00
Four horses, 800 00
Hay and grain,
100 00
Farming tools,
150 00
Harnesses, 150 00
Traders' and Mechanics' Mutual Fire
Ins. Co., Lowell. (Expires March 25, 1876.)
On House,
1,750 00
Barn, 750 00
$6,700 00
ADAMS SCHOOL HOUSE.
Traders' and Mechanics' Mutual Fire
Ins. Co., Lowell.
(Expires October 25, 1876.) On House, $2,500 00
Furniture, 150 00 -
2,750 00
Amount carried forward,
$9,450 00
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Amount brought forward, $9,450 00
CUTTER SCHOOL HOUSE.
( Expires Mag 1, 1877.)
Quincy Mutual Fire Ins. Co., 2,000 00
Traders' and Mechanics' Mutual Fire In- surance Co .- Lowell, 2,000 00
Merchants' and Farmers' Mutual Insur- ance Co .- Worcester, 2,000 00
( Expires August 7, 1877.)
Dorchester Mut. Ins. Co .- Boston, 1,000 00
" furniture, 500 00
66 66
" bell,
150 00
66
" furn'ce & pipes, 150 00
66
" piano forte, 150 00
8,000 00
COTTING HIGH SCHOOL HOUSE.
( Expires November 1, 1878.) Traders' and Mechanics' Mutual Fire
Insurance Co .- Lowell, 2,500 00 ( Expires March 23, 1874.) Springfield Fire & Marine Ins. Co., $800 00
furniture, 600 00
66 Philos' appa., 500 00
piano forte, 150 00
66 bell, 50 00
4,600 00
TOWN LIBRARY.
Insurance Company of North Amer- ica, Philadelphia. (Expires February 20, 1878)-On books, 1,500 00
Amount carried forward, $23,550 00
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Amount brought forward, $23,550 00
RUSSELL SCHOOL HOUSE. ( Expires April 1, 1878.)
Connecticut Fire Ins. Co .- Hartford, $5,000 00
Franklin " -Phil'a., 5,000 00
Ins. Co. of N. America, 5,000 00
N. British & Mercantile Ins. Co., Lon- don & Edinburgh, 5,000 00
(Expires July 14, 1878.)
Fire Association, of Philadelphia, 5,000 00
St. Paul F. & Mar. Ins Co., St. Paul, Min. 5,000 00
Royal Insurance Company, Liverpool.
( Expires September 15, 1878.)
On House, 8,000 00
Heating apparatus, 1,000 00
Piano forte in Grammar room,
60 00
" Intermediate room, 50 00
Parlor Organ, 10 00
Furniture and fixtures,
SS0 00
Home Insurance Co., New York,
On house, 4,000 00
Heating apparatus,
500.00
Piano forte in Grammar room,
30 00
1
" Intermediate room, 25 00
Parlor Organ,
5 00
Furniture and fixtures,
440 00
Pennsylvania Fire Ins. Co., Phil'a,
On house, 4,000 00
Heating apparatus,
500 00
Piano forte in Grammar room, 30 00
" Intermediate room, 25 00
Parlor Organ, 5 00
Furniture and Fixtures. 440 00
Phoenix Insurance Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.
On House, 4,000 00
Amounts carried forward, $54,000 00 $23,550 00
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Amounts brought forward,
$54,000 00 $23,550 00
Heating Apparatus, 500 00
30 00
Piano Forte in Grammar room, 66 Intermediate,
25 00
Parlor Organ, 5 00
Furniture and Fixtures,
440 00
- 55,000 00
TOWN HOUSE.
(Expires Feb. 20 and Feb. 21, 1878.) Insurance Co. of North America, Phil., 3,000 00
Royal Insurance Co., Liverpool, 3,000 00 ( Expires Mar. 7, and Mar. 9, 1878.)
Fire Association of Philadelphia, 3,000 00 Traders & Mechanics' Ins. Co., Lowell, 3,000 00
12,000 00
WINTER STREET SCHOOL HOUSE.
( Expires Feb. 15, 1878. ) Traders Mechanics Ins. Co., Lowell, $3,000 00
WM. PENN HOSE HOUSE.
Expires Feb. 11, 1878.
Fire Association of Philadelphia, 5000 00 ( Expires April 11. 1878.] Connecticut Fire Ins. Co., Hartford, 3,500 00
on Hose, 1,000 00
Furniture
and Fixtures, 500 00
-
$10,000 00
Total Insurance,
$103,550 00
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SCHOOL REPORT.
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
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To the Town of Arlington :-
The School Committee submit their Annual Report.
The year has been an eventful one to the Schools. At the close of the last year the Schools labored under the dis- advantage which followed the destruction of the Russell School House, and in the Centre District, found for the time but inadequate accommodation. Separation, inconvenient rooms, and abridged time could not fail to affect them un- favorably. That the result was not more disastrous is due to the efforts of the teachers and pupils to do their best under adverse circumstances. Unusual labor was thrown upon the teachers, the pupils were massed in the Town Hall, Engine House, and in the Adams School House, and yet nothing was lost in respect of order and discipline, and fair progress was made in study.
The Committee thought it wise to omit the usual public examination in May. The Schools were privately examined, and while their condition demanded every excuse for short- coming, and precluded any strict test, they exhibited evi- dence of faithful work and steady advancement.
The new Russell School House was finished at the end of the summer. Ten rooms are arranged for schools, and a large hall, gas-lighted and supplied with settees, is furnished for public occasions, or for exercises of combined schools. For the plan and erection of this beautiful and commodious building, the School Committee can claim no credit even in the way of advice or suggestion. It is the work of the cit- izens of the town-a monument of their liberality, public
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spirit and foresight. Its effect upon the improvement of the schools has been immediate, and it affords every facility for the most approved gradation.
The building was dedicated with appropriate exercises on the fourth of September, the beginning of the fall term, un- der the direction of the Building Committee, in the presence of a large audience, consisting of cleven men and many women. The presentation of the keys was made by I. O. Carter, Esq., acting in behalf of the Building Committee, to the Chairman of the School Committee. The address on the occasion was delivered by ex-Governor Emory Washburn, an eminent friend of public education. It is to be regretted that a greater number of those who are called upon to support public schools by their money and votes, could not have listened to an exposition so just and able, of the advantages of universal education in securing skilled and successful industry, promoting good morals, and contributing to the high character and intelli- gence of a people. Remarks were made, also, by citizens of the town, invited especially for that purpose.
Following immediately upon the dedication of the School House came the re-organization of the Russell Schools. Hitherto the schools had included twelve classes, cach school having two. It had been found that in many instances pu- pils had passed regularly and slowly through all the classes, and when reaching the Grammar School were too old to look forward to more than a partial course in the High School. Double promotions by passing over one class to the next higher, were rare, and tardy preparation has no doubt had its effect in diminishing the number of the High School. To obviate this difficulty, the twelve grades have been com- pressed into ten, with the prospect of a further diminu- tion by one grade, so that in the future there may be nine classes, each constituting a school, under the charge of a single teacher. With the exception of the lower primaries, and one of the upper grades, the schools will not be large, and will admit of a considerable increase without requiring new arrangement. 13
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RUSSELL GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
FIRST GRADE .- The first two classes are together in one room. This School numbers forty-six pupils, and is in charge of Mr. E. O. Grover. The average attendance is very high, being nearly ninety-five per cent.
SECOND GRADE .- This school comprises the third class, Miss A. A. Anderson being teacher, and numbers thirty- seven pupils. The average attendance is about ninety-five per cent.
THIRD GRADE. - The fourth class is included in this grade, and consists of sixty-six pupils. divided equally into two schools, in separate rooms, with Miss A. P. Pillsbury, and Miss (). M. Hobart as teachers. The pupils from the East School are promoted to this class; thus enlarging it beyond the average size of the other classes. Two parallel schools are in this way created, which have kept thus far well abreast one with the other. It is in this grade that ab- sence from school is most apparent through the summer sca- son, and where pupils are most likely to remain more than a year. It is quite possible that these two schools may finally separate into upper and lower grades, through which pupils may most frequently pass by double promotion. Since the organization of these schools the attendance has been ex- cellent.
FOURTH GRADE .- The fifth class is under the direction of Miss C. C. Turner as teacher, and mimbers thirty scholars. This school may be increased by a transfer of the older scholars from the East School, a step which the Committee have had in contemplation. It has been deemed desirable by the Committee, and by most of the parents of pupils resid- ing in the East District, that at the earliest suitable age the children in that District should be permitted to attend the Centre Schools. Whenever this is done, they will ordinarily find place in this and the next lower grade. The average attendance in the fifth class is ninety per cent.
FIFTH GRADE .- The sixth class is in charge of Miss M.
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J. Stevens ; numbering thirty-one scholars, with an average attendance of ninety-four per cent. This school completes the grammar grades.
The Primary Schools are divided into three grades, under the following arrangement :-
FIRST GRADE .- The school numbers thirty-eight pupils, Miss L. E. Schouler, teacher. Average attendance ninety-one per cent.
SECOND GRADE .- Miss S. F. Packard is the teacher of this school, which has forty-three pupils in number, with an attendance of about ninety-two per cent.
THIRD GRADE .- The youngest Primary School numbers fifty-eight pupils, and has an average of seventy-five per cent in attendance. The teacher is Miss L. R. Warren.
In this manner the Schools in the new building have been organized. For the first time in a quarter of a century at least, they are not crowded with pupils. At present mode- rate in size, they may receive large additions without re- arrangement. If the schools appear small, it will still be found that any attempt to combine with a view of diminish- ing their number, will result in the old difficulty of unwieldi- ness. They are now in the way of smooth and beneficial operation, with infinite comfort to all who are engaged in them.
CUTTER SCHOOLS.
The Cutter Schools have not as yet been graded after the new method.
The Grammar School has Mr. S. J. Dunbar as its teacher. It numbers thirty-eight pupils, with an average attendance of eighty-five per cent.
The Sub-Grammar is in charge of Miss E. J. Locke, and numbers at the highest forty-three, and at the lowest twenty- six pupils. It suffers a diminution in summer of full fifty
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per cent in its attendance ; but in the other terms it ordinarily sces about eighty per cent of its force. Its rival is agriculture, to which many of its members during the growing period arc devoted. Whatever may be the profit of the fruits they gather, it adds little enough to the even progress and sub- stantial gain of the school.
The Intermediate School of forty pupils has Miss S. F. Gibbs as teacher. Its average attendance rises a little above eighty per cent.
The Primary School, Miss L. DeBlois, teacher, has eighty in the greatest and sixty-six in the lowest number of pupils, and has a sliding scale of attendance which it is hardly necessary to average. The teacher's register shows an average of seventy-five per cent, but the attendance, from day to day is exceedingly irregular. This is the most numerous school in the town, and is the least favor- ably provided with accommodation. Its room is sunless, often crowded with pupils, and insufficient in ventilation. The school will probably reach a hundred in number in the the course of the year, and measures should be taken for its division, and to secure proper rooms. It has seemed prac- ticable to the Committee to widen the room at present occu- pied, on cach side, to the extent of the piazza; then to divide the enlarged room by a partition, and furnish accom- modations for two schools. This might be done, it is thought, without seriously impairing the comeliness or con- venience of the building.
EAST SCHOOLS.
The East Intermediate, which ranks with the fourth and fifth grades of the Russell Grammar, has forty pupils, with an attendance of about eighty-five per cent. Its teacher, is Miss M. F. Scanlan.
The East Primary, taught by Miss K. I. Bowers, ranges in number from forty-three to sixty-one, with an average of eighty per cent,-an excellent record for a primary school.
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The numerical state of the schools is thus laid before the town, that the method of their gradation may be fully under- stood. A course of study adapted to the new classification has been prepared, and is herewith presented, which will be substantially followed ; and which can be made applicable to all the schools. This is so arranged that the pupil who en- ters school at five years of age, by fairly pursuing the pre- scribed routine, may join the High School at fourteen. The system of study has not been arbitrarily prepared, but is the work of the teachers, founded upon experience in our own schools, and judicious observation of the methods in use in similar schools elsewhere.
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