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43 06
" paid estate of George Holden, 6 mos. interest to 26th, on note $10,000 .
350 00
" paid O. A. Taft, 6 mos. interest to 26th, on note $6,000 210 00
" paid Water Commissioners on account of appro- priation for interest on water debt · Amount of Pay Rolls No. 6 . .
3,000 00
July 1
Cash paid 6 mos. interest due May 1st, on coupon note $1,000, at 5 per cent.
25 00
9
" paid Faneuil Hall National Bank, amount bor- rowed April 25th 3,000 00
" paid interest on the same .
29 00
" paid John Peabody, 6 mos. interest to July 1st, on note $1,000 . 35 00
14
" paid Faneuil Hall National Bank, amount bor- rowed Dec. 31, 1880 4,000 00
65 22
22
" paid Faneuil Hall National Bank, viz. : Amount borrowed May 25th 66 April 11th . 2,000 00
4,000 00
" paid interest on the same
55 22
27
" paid Faneuil Hall National Bank, amount bor- rowed June 30 . 10,000 00
" 27 days' interest on the same at 42 per cent. 33 75
30 Amount of Pay Rolls No. 7 2,708 01
Amount carried forward
. · $58,176 08
.
" paid interest on the same
4,355 25
62
TREASURER'S REPORT.
DR.
B. DELMONT LOCKE, TREASURER, IN
1SS1. To amount brought forward . $115,301 55
Aug. 13
Cash of L. J. Newton, Librarian, fines collected .
14 86
6 " Emmet Boat Club, rent of room in Adams School house, 1 mo. ·
4 17
16
66
" C. P. Wyman, for gravel
.
2 50
17
66 " L. C. Tyler, 66
6 50
18
66 " J. C. Nickerson, 66
3 75
23
66
" Wm. F. Sprague, for Lot No. 330, in New Cemetery 100 00
25
66
" Matt. Rowe, 2nd, for hauling loam, etc. 10 35
31
66
" Edward Lacy, for board 25 45
9 41
Sept. 8
66
" D. G. Currier, 1 mos. rent of shop
10 50
66
" Jas. Grant, for watering grove for Cale- donia Club .
5 00
10
66 " J. J. Eaton, for gravel
.
5 00
66
" Myron Taylor, for gravel and concrete
9 70
17
66
" Emmet Boat Club, one month's rent of room in Adams School house .
4 17
13
" E. T. Hornblower, for gravel and concret- ing . .
5 25
22
66 " L. C. Tyler, on account of weighing fees .
25 00
23
66
" Henry Mott, for concreting
1 50
28
" G. W. Austin, for vegetables sold
13 73
66
" Edward Lacy, for board ·
20 60
30
66 " Sundry persons. interest on taxes .
15 80
Amount discounted on W. L. Clark & Co.'s bill, which was credited in Pay Roll No. 12, of 1880
S7
Oct. 3
Cash of Margaret Burns, usc of cart
8 00
4
" Mrs. H. A. Pitts, for Lot No. 178 in Old Cemetery .
50 00
5 . 66
" Chas. Gott, for oak lumber
.
27 75
66 " R. W. Walker, 10 loads of loam
7 50
7
66 " Patrick Hurley, for old iron
.
3 00
8
66 " Jere. Prescott, for gravel .
2 50
12
66 " G. W. Austin, for loam and gravel
7 90
15
66 " J. H. Hardy, execution vs. Daniel
Lyons ·
$157 50
Less J. H. Hardy's bill ·
$9 70
J. M. Fisk, Dep. Sheriff's bill . 12 25 21 95
18 Cash of J. A. Tucker, for gravel
5 00
Amount carried forward
. $115,842 86 ·
66
" Sundry persons, interest on taxes .
.
.
·
135 55
633
TREASURER'S REPORT.
ACCOUNT WITH THE TOWN OF ARLINGTON.
1881.
By amount brought forward ·
$58,176 08 ...
Aug. 16
Cash paid Commissioners of Sinking Fund, amount of appropriation .
9,553 90
4 mos. 15 ds. interest on the same, at 42 per cent. .
161 22:
Commissioners of Sinking Fund, amount borrowed Dec. 31, 1SS0 ·
482 96.
Interest on the same
12 78+
Commissioners of Sinking Fund, amount borrowed Jan. 5th
561 88
66 Interest on the same
66
66 Plymouth Savings Bank, one year's inter- est to Sept. 25th on note $30,000
2,100 00
31
Amount of Pay Rolls No. 8
3,465 97
Sept. 30
Cash paid John Peabody, 6 months' interest to Oct. 1st on note $7,000 . ·
245 00
Amount of Pay Rolls No. 9
·
3,297 02
Oct. 8
Caslı paid Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 6 mos. interest to 9th inst., on notes $42,000
1,470 00)
Amount carried forward
$79,541 25 ,
14 53%
18
:64
TREASURER'S REPORT.
DR.
B. DELMONT LOCKE, TREASURER, IN
1881, To amount brought forward
. $115,842 86
«Oct, 25
Cash of Emmet Boat Club, one month's rent of room in Adams School house .
4 17
26
" St. Malachy Aid Society, use of hall .
13 00
28
" E. T. Sargent, for wood and vegetables
3 65
" F. E. Fowle, 6 mos. rent of Post Office, to July 1st . 75 00
29
66
" Anc. Order of Hibernians, rent of hall in Adams School house, 3 mos. to April 1 .
12 50
66
" Water Commissioners, for cutting brush and concreting
30 00
66
" Patrick Donnelly, for loam .
3 00
31
66
" Orthodox Society, for concreting
138 45
66
" Faneuil Hall National Bank, interest on deposits to Oct. 1st 107 06 .
Nov. 3
66
" H. L. Lawrence, for concreting
152 63
4
·
5
66
" Wm. Stowe, for concreting .
9 90
" John Osborn, for gravel and stone
58 50
66
" H. E. Lewis, for blasting stone
2 50
66
Arl. Gas Co., for loam .
4 80
66
" A. F. Allen, for concreting . .
27 90
14
66
" S. A. Fowle, for gravel
14 00
66
" Republican Town Committee, use of hall
11 00
15
" G. W. Austin, for pork sold
7 00
16
" Wm. T. Wood & Co., for stone and con- creting ·
26 40
17
66 " T. G. Bucknam, for gravel .
.
3 00
18
Cash of L. C. Tyler, weighing fees .
9 66
18
66 " F. O. Squire, 60 loads road scrapings
00
19
" W. W. Kimball, 45 " 66
6 75
:21
of Win. Muller, Jr., 30 loads scrapings
4 50
66
" Henry Ruffley, for manure .
10 50
.26
66 " M. R. Fletcher, 25 loads scrapings .
3 75
:28
66 " C. O. Gage, for gravel
7 00
66 " Mrs. A. Gage,
·
12 50
66 " R. W. Hopkins, " .
18 00
Amount carried forward
·
. $117,284 36
66
" Sundry persons, interest on taxes
·
11 43
.
" Anc. Order of Hibernians, rent of hall in Adams School house, 6 mos. to Oct. 1 . 25 00
" W. H. Allen
161. 50
Amount received for dog licenses to date
.
399 00
for use of hall
5 00
66
" H. L. Cobb, 28 perch stone .
28 00
66
" Edward Lacy, for board ·
25 45
TREASURER'S REPORT. 65
ACCOUNT WITH THE TOWN OF ARLINGTON. CR.
1881. By amount brought forward ·
$79,541 28
Oct. 27
Cash paid Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 6 mos. interest to 27th inst., on note $10,000 ·
350 00
30 Amount of Pay Rolls No. 10 . 4,333 99
Nov. 17
Cash paid Treasurer of Middlesex County, dog tax 362 40
66 fees on dog tax to Town Clerk 36 60
Amount carried forward
·
. $84,624 27
5
66
TREASURER'S REPORT.
DR,
B. DELMONT LOCKE, TREASURER, IN
1881.
To amount brought forward . $117,284 36 3 25
Nov. 29
Cash of G. W. Austin, for loam sold .
30 66 " Edward Lacy, for board .
.
19 70 50 .
6. for 29§ perch stone
29 50
60 of sundry persons, interest on taxes
46 42
Dec. 2
66 " Chas. Hill, 15 loads of scrapings
2 25
" Wm. Gaddis, balance of rent of pasturing for 1881
20 00
6
" D. A. Gleason, State Treasurer :
Corporation tax $2,239 85
Bank tax .
2,571 52
State aid
332 00
Assistance rendered to Thos. McCarthy 216 85
5,360 22
S
66 " L. B. Marshall, use of hall . .
12 00
12
" Jacob Bassing, for scrapings .
1 35
16
6
" David Puffer, for gravel ·
2 25
17
" Emmet Boat Club, 2 mos. rent of hall in Adams Schoolhouse, to Jan. 16, 1882 .
8 34
20
" E. C. Turner, for concreting
81 40
" Patrick Slattery, rent of pasturing for 1881
25 00
66
" A. Gage & Co., rent of land for 1881 ·
75 00
21
66
" Carl Schwamb, for loam
1 60
22
66
" Town of Belmont, for support of pauper for 1881
38 97
23
" Varnum Frost, of Belmont, for tuition of his son at High School 20 00
27
66
" Edw. Lacy, for board
20 60
28
" L. C. Tyler, weighing fees .
15 00
66
" Theodore Schwamb, for loam and con- creting .
4 50
Dec. 29
for 10 loads of scrapings
·
1 50
30
66
of F. E. Fowle, for rent of Post Office, 6 mos. to 31st inst. 75 00
" George Russell, for gravel .
21 00
" Samuel Prentiss, for concreting ·
·
33
66
" Henry Mott, for stone and manure
6 75
" W. W. Rawson, for stone
22 50
31
" J. H. Hardy, for concrete and manure 11 20
17 50
" G. W. Austin, for pork sold
66 " L. J. Newton, Librarian, fines collected
32 00
Amount carried forvard
$123,268 99
·
·
66
" E. T. Sargent, for a bedstead .
67
TREASURER'S REPORT.
ACCOUNT WITH THE TOWN OF ARLINGTON.
CR.
1881. Nov. 30
By amount brought forward $84,624 27
Cash paid 6 mos. interest, due Nov. 1st, on $15,000, coupon notes, at 5 per cent. 375 00
Amount of Pay Rolls No. 11 .
2,937 44
Dec. 3 Cash paid John Peabody, viz. :
6 mos. interest on note $2,500, to Dec. 2d 87 50 6 ..
6
Paid D. A. Gleason, Treasurer, State Tax 5,010 00
19
Cash paid note to ªJohn Peabody, Dec. 18, 1871, 10 years 1,000 00
6 month's interest on the same 30 00
30
66
66 '6 month's interest to 26th on note $10,000, to Geo. Holden 350 00
" 6 month's interest to 26th on note $6,000, to O. A. Taft .
210 00
31
66
1 year's interest on note $349.85, to Treas- urer of Citizens' Soldiers' Fund 20 99
66
1 year's interest on note $100, to Trus- tees of Town Library .
6 00
66
1 year's interest on note $5,354, to Trus- tees of William Cutter School Fund
321 24
66
Trustees of Poor Widows' Fund, 1 year's interest on note $375.61 . 22 54
66
also 1 year's interest on note $237.50 14 25
Treasurer of Middlesex County, County Tax .
2,517 58
66 Arlington Water Commissioners, on ac- count of appropriatlon for interest on water debt · -
6,000 00
66 " 6 mos. interest, due Nov. 1st, on coupon note No. 8, $1,000 ·
25 00
John Peabody, 6 mos. interest to Jan. 1, 1882, on note $1,000 35 00
Amount carried forward
. $103,674 31
.
2,500, to Nov. 23d 87 50
68
TREASURER'S REPORT.
DR.
B. DELMONT LOCKE, TREASURER, IN
. $123,268 99
1881.
Cash Interest on note to Trustees of Town Library, ,
6 00
66 One year's interest on note $5,354, to Trustees of Wm. Cutter School Fund .
321 24
One year's interest on notes to Trustees of Poor Widows' Fund 36 79
66 of W. H. Allen, for loam
1 80
66 " Sundry persons, subscriptions towards ex- pense of watering the streets
411 00
" Trustees of Pratt Fund, income for Poor Widows' Fund .
294 69
66 " Trustees of Pratt Fund, income for Public Library
589 38
66 Borrowed of Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, on demand .
363 04
66 of Robert Speatman, one year's rent of shop to 31st inst. ·
75 00
66 " Jesse Bacon, for stone ·
25 00
" Faneuil Hall National Bank, interest on deposits to date .
97 25
66 " Thomas Higgins, for labor .
.
1 75
" Edward Storer, for stone
.
103 00
" B. B. and H. J. Locke, for scrapings .
3 00
" W. F. Potter, use of hall .
10 00
66 " J. M. Chase, for stone
7 00
" D. G. Currier. 4 mos. rent of shop to 31st inst. ·
2 00
" Sundry persons, interest on taxes . .
52 60
Amount of special tax of 1879, collected
61 47
unpaid bills at this date, in Pay Rolls Nos. 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
229 31
.
Dec. 31
To amount brought forward .
$126,000 31
69
TREASURER'S REPORT.
ACCOUNT WITH THE TOWN OF ARLINGTON. CR.
1881. Dec. 31
By amount brought forward . $103,674 31
Amount of Pay Rolls No. 12 . 6,184 34
66 discounts and abatements on taxes 4,053 59
taxes of 1880, uncollected at this date 945 71
66 taxes of 1881 uncollected at this date .
8,974 74
Cash balance in the Treasury at this date . 2,167 62
1
$126,000 31
B. DELMONT LOCKE, Treasurer.
ARLINGTON, Dec. 31, 1881.
REPORT OF TOWN CLERK.
MARRIAGES, BIRTHS AND DEATHS.
Intentions of Marriages Registered in 1881.
Whole number of couples, . 42
Average age of male, ·
28
Average age of female,
. 24
Both persons residing in Arlington, 19 .
But one person residing in Arlington, .
. 23
Marriages Registered in 1881.
Whole number of couples, .
· 42
Both persons American born, 25 . ·
Both persons foreign born, . 10 ·
American and foreign born,
7
Age of oldest person married,
. 48
Age of youngest person married,
·
19
First marriage of
· 79
Second marriage of
4
Third marriage of
·
·
1
Births Registered in 1881.
Whole number, .
· 99
Males,
· 42
Females, ·
· 57
American parentage,
. 42
Foreign parentage,
. 42
Mixed parentage,
· 15
.
·
71
REPORT OF TOWN CLERK.
Deaths Registered during the Year ending Dec. 31, 1881.
AGE.
NAMES.
DATE OF DEATH.
Years. Months
Days
Sterling,
Jan.
8,1881
John Sullivan,
66
9,
18,
4
8 00
18
Thomas H. Carens, Jr.,
66
26,
Timothy Tobin,
..
28,
2
James Tobin,
66
28,
66
2
Bridgham,
66
29,
31,
..
31
Joan Hutchinson,
Feb.
10,
55
2
24
Nancy Wyman,
66
20,
24
1
17
- Reagan,
26,
60
- Dacy,
March 1,
66
66
78
2
25
Julia Mulkhern.
11,
66
12,
27
8
5
John D. Mitchell, .
16,
66
19
3
28
Phœbe L. Dickson,
16,
66
84
Robert Knight,
16,
66
52
-
Annie F. Russell, .
66
17,
2
3
Catherine H. Symmes,
18,
66
68
1
17
Susan Teel, .
66
..
52
1
22
Maria Perry,
66
22,
66
2
9
15
Frederick W. Hannaford,
25,
66
73
1
16
Lulu E. Hutchinson, .
27,
5
1
23
Timothy J. Barrett,
29,
66
10
66
31,
66
81
44
5
10
Elizabeth Waugh, .
15,
66
4
16
Florence C. Woodbury,
66
17,
66
7
14
Benjamin F. Russell, .
19,
6.
62
3
20
Francis G. Richardson,
66
21,
5
9
7
Arthur M. Rawson,
66
24,
1
6
9
Ella M. L. Hyde, .
66
25,
30
66
26,
66
1
4
-
2,
66
3,
36
Edward H. Moore,
3,
Willie W. Winn,
66
12,
1
2
5
David H. Dodge, .
66
19,
19
19
George.O. Motree,
66
21,
66
1
1
9
John Nolan, .
66
24,
66
51
Bridget Murphy,
June 10,
1
6
-
.6
89
6
27
Jacob Schwamb,
20,
Abigail B. Fowle, .
66
S,
-
2
9
Eliza M. Koch, .
10
Abby M. Sawyer,
24,
Abby Abbott,
-
Timothy C. Shean,
April 10,
66
Margaret S. Dinsmore,
May
11
27
C. Howard Jones ..
22
11
3
Mary E. Sweeney,
66
20,
Thomas E. Duffy, .
3
James J. Sullivan,
60
Laura Daniel,
1
65
-
Melissa H. Winn,
-
18, 19,
72
REPORT OF TOWN CLERK.
Deaths-Continued.
AGE.
NAMES.
DATE OF DEATH.
Years.
Months
Days.
Andrew McKeaney,
June 11, 1881
2
10
4
Matthew McDonald,
66
25,
46
Ann E. Blake,
66
26,
66
76
7
17
Katy O'Brien,
66
27,
66
66
60
2
6
Emma Rhodes, .
July
12,
66
4
7
John J. Eaton,
66
20,
66
72
5
14
Michael O'Grady,
66
27,
66
1
12
Mary J. Aldrich,
66
5,
42
3
20
Edward Nolan, .
66
23,
6
1
28
Mary A. Cunningham,
28,
36
8
25
Thomas Hines, .
Sept.
2,
66
14
5
John Gee,
Oct.
7,
7,
66
83
2
16
Agnes Hurley,
24,
66
5
6
Cleora F. Russell, .
66
27,
34
5 5
26
Mary J. Russell,
06
20,
. 6
28
3
13
Percival A. Kitchin,
..
23,
66
2
14
Thomas Dale,
.6
23,
66
1
2
17
Henry E. Nichols,
13
5
28
E. Timothy Sargent,
Dec.
3,
66
67
Katie L. Daily, .
66
3,
66
1
Patrick Collins,
7,
7,
7
4
-
66
9,
66
56
4
-
Michael J. Butler,
24,
61
9
John McGrath, Jr.,
66
31,
66
1
2
29
Ellen Murphy, .
66
31,
66
52
-
-
4
4
Margaret Breen
66
30,
66
11
4
8
Katie M. Logan,
8
-
Abigail B. Stearns,
.6
10,
Jeremiah S. Russell,
Nov.
19,
38
3
19
Mary M. Sargent,
Mary F. Duffy, .
Aug.
3,
9,
75
1
4
Miranda W. Butterfield, McClellan,
17,
-
9
Catherine A. Walker,
66
27,
Charles J. Griffiths,
17,
66
10
9
9
Edwin A. Baxter,
6
Thomas H. Sullivan,
28,
29,
66
70
Mary A. Beevens, .
Susan W. Dupee,
12,
7
29,
73
REPORT OF TOWN CLERK.
Deaths. - Continued.
Whole number of deaths,
84
Males,
43
Females,
41
Average age, 26 years, 7 months, 17 days :
Number under 5 years of age,
40
66 between 5 and 10 years of age,
4
66 66 10 “ 30 4 9
15
66
30 “ 60 “ 66
16
American parentage,
Foreign parentage,
37
Mixed parentage, 5
SOME OF THE DISEASES OR CAUSES OF DEATH.
Pneumonia, consumption, croup, bronchitis, 26
Cholera infantum, and disease of the bowels, 8
6
Diphtheria,
7
66 brain,
10
Register of Dogs licensed since May 1, 1881.
183
Whole number, Males,
172
Females,
11
B. DELMONT LOCKE,
Town Clerk.
over 60 years of age,
42
Disease of the heart,
REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF THIE SINKING FUND.
The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund make the follow- ing Report for the year ending December 31st, 1881 :
CR.
Amount received of Brewster, Basset & Co., for United States 4 per cent. Bond, for $500, sold at 1123, $561 87
Amount received 1 year's interest to Jan. 1, 1882, on $5,000, Arlington Water Scrip, at 5 per cent., 250 00
Amount received 1 year's interest · to Oct. 1, 1881, on $5,000, Town of Wayland Bonds, at 5 per cent., 250 00
Amount received 1 year's interest to Aug. 10, 1881, on $8,000, Town of Stoughton Bonds, at 4 per cent., 320 00
Amount received 1 year's interest to Jan. 1, 1881, on State of Massachusetts Bond for $1,000, at 5 per cent., 50 00
Amount carried forward, $1,431 87
75
REPORT OF SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS.
Amount brought forward $1,431 87
Amount received 6 months' interest to Jan. 1, 1881, on $10,000, Town of Hyde Park Notes, at 4 per cent., 200 00
Amount received from Treasurer of Town of Arlington, appro- priation of March, 17, 1881, 9,553 90 Amount received interest on the same to August 1st, -4 months, 15 days, at 4} per cent., 161 22
Amount receivedof Town of Arling- ton, loan of Dec. 30, 1880, 482 96 interest on the same to Aug. 1st, - 7 months, 1 day, at 42 per cent., 12 73
loan of Jan. 5, 1881,
561 87
interest on the same to Aug. 1st, 6 months, 27 days, at 4} per cent., 14 53
$12,419 08
DR.
Amount loaned Town of Arlington, Jan. 5th, on demand, $561 87
Amount paid Brewster, Bassett & Co., for $10,000, Town of Hyde Park, Mass., Notes, dated July 1, 1881, payable in 10 years, interest at 4 per cent., at 1033. 10,375 00 1 month, 15 days' accrued interest, 50 00
Amounts carried forward $10,986 87
$12,419 08
76
REPORT OF SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS
Amounts brought forward, $10,986 87 $12,419 80
Amount paid Brewster, Bassett & Co., for $1,000, Fall River Water Bond, dated Aug. 4, 1880, payable Aug 1, 1900, interest at 4 per ct., at 1053, 15 days' accrued interest, 1 67
1,057 50
Amount paid Union Safe Deposit Vaults, rent of safe, 10 00
Loaned Town of Arlington, on demand, 363 04
$12,419 08
$12,419 08
Investment.
Town of Arlington, 5 per cent. Water Scrip,
$5,000 00
Town of Wayland, 5 per cent. Bonds,
5,000 00
Town of Stoughton, 4 per cent. Bonds, 8,000 00
State of Massachusetts, 5 per cent. Bond, 1,000 00
Town of Hyde Park, 4 per cent. Notes, 10,000 00
City of Fall River, 4 per cent. Water Bond, $1,000 00
Town of Arlington Note on de- mand, 363 04
$30,363 04
9
Respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM G. PECK, Commissioners A. D. HOITT, of the WILLIAM H. ALLEN, Sinking Fund.
ARLINGTON, Dec. 31, 1881.
REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF PRATT FUND.
The Trustees of the Pratt Fund submit the following Re- port, for the year ending Dec. 31st, 1881 :
Income.
Received one year's int. on $15,000, City of Cambridge Build- ing Loan, $900 00
. 66 one year's interest on $9,000 City of Cambridge Bridge Loan, 540 00
interest of Arlington Five
Cents Savings Bank,
53 46
$1,493 46
Paid rent of safe in the Union Safe Deposit Vaults,
20 00
$1,473 46
Paid Town Treasurer for Poor Widows' Fund, $294 69
Paid Town Treasurer for Public Library, 589 38
Deposited in Arlington Five Cents Savings Bank, as a High School Fund, 589 39
$1,473 46
78
REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF PRATT FUND.
Investment.
City of Cambridge, Bridge Loan, sixes, $9,000 66 66 Building " 66 15,000
Deposited in Arlington Five Cents Savings Bank, 1,000
$25,000 00
High School Fund Income, deposited in Arlington Five Cents Savings Bank, with interest to Jan. 1, 1882, 4,045 02
Respectfully submitted,
NATHAN ROBBINS, WILLIAM G. PECK,
Trustees
JOHN P. WYMAN,
DAVID P. GREEN,
of
HENRY SWAN,
Pratt Fund.
B. DELMONT LOCKE, ex officio, J
ARLINGTON, Dec. 31, 1881.
REPORT OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
IN accordance with the recommendation of the Board, in their annual report for the year ending Dec. 31, 1880, no appropriation was made by the town, at the last March meet- ing, for increasing our filtering capacity at the reservoir. The summer months of the past season proved conclusively that we have not yet reached the point of being able to supply our citizens with filtered water throughout the year. Early in June the Board, with the desire to check, so far as possible, the great waste of water from irrigation and outside use, issued a circular, which was mailed to every taker, restricting the use of hose to certain hours of the day. The conditions of the circular were generally complied with. In all cases coming to the knowledge of the Board, in which the hours for use of water were disregarded, a second notice was sent, and for second offence the water was shut off.
On the northerly side of the reservoir, at a point commonly known as the "flats," some years since, it will be remem- bered, the Board constructed a short filtering gallery, spring- ing a brick arch over the same, and connecting with the main gallery on the banks by tile pipe, laid with loose joints. The water passing through these loose joints cannot be regarded as filtered water; and yet during the last summer, although the main gallery on the northerly bank is two hundred and thirty feet in length and twelve feet wide at the base, at no time has the supply of filtered water been sufficient to warrant the closing of the gate between the flats, so ealled, and present
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filter, so that in fact, under the existing arrangement, the town has received through its pipes no pure filtered water.
If our citizens now or in the near future shall insist upon a full supply of filtered water for domestic use, it remains for the town to decide to what extent it will make appropriations either for the enlargement of the present gallery or for the adoption of some other plan, which may be used in connec- tion with the filter already constructed.
During the past year three meters have been attached where water is required for irrigation. The cost of meter and attachment has been paid by the taker. These meters have not been in use a sufficient length of time to test fully their practical results. The Board fixed, for the time being, the rate for water through meter at one and one half cents per hundred gallons, when the annual consumption amounted to one hundred dollars or more ; and at two cents per hundred gallons when the annual consumption falls short of that amount. So far as we have been able to test these rates, they have not proved sufficiently remunerative. It is an open question to what extent the Board are justified in attach- ing meters. If the town shall vote, as claimed by some, to furnish these meters to the takers, and their use should become general, it would not only necessitate a large appropriation for the first cost, but the employment of a skilled mechanic and the maintenance of a repair shop equipped with all needed tools and appliances to keep them in working order. To the question, who shall be entitled to use of meters ? it might be possible to offer them to all, first fixing an absolute price to be paid in advance, and then charging the excess of water used, if any, over the amount thus fixed at so much per hun- dred gallons. The Board are of the opinion that if the town shall vote to furnish meters to the citizens some such rule as we have suggested must be adopted, or the works will prove less remunerative than they now are.
The annual cost for repairs is a formidable item in our run- ning expenses. Three leaks per month in the main pipes
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being about the average. These bursts, to say nothing of the constant disturbance of the road-bed, especially in macada- mized streets, swell our expenses. In these repairs more or dess sand, gravel and small pieces of cement lining find their way into the pipes and through them by force of the water, until they lodge at the point of meter attachment. In one instance already, a meter became so clogged by these foreign substances as to become wholly inoperative, and was removed and another substituted. We are unanimously of the opinion that our entire tariff needs revision. No changes have been made in the rates since first adopted by the town. The annual rental received is about one half the amount of interest paid on our bonded debt. The town has appropriated with- out stint for water supply. Long since we reached the limit of indebtedness granted by legislative enactments. What- ever improvements are to be made hereafter must be included in the levy yearly collected by the taxgatherer. We are confident that a judicious revision of these rates would mate- rially increase our revenue, lessen the amount to be appro- priated year after year to pay interest on our bonds, and make a far better financial exhibit for the original outlay. Our tariff is lower than that of our neighboring cities and towns. The income is by no means proportionate to the cost. We have long ago outgrown these rates, adopted almost at the inception of the works. Usage has confined us to a beaten track. It is the part of the town to adopt new mea- sures, that of your Commissioners to recommend them. Take for example the rates adopted by the town under the classifi- cation for stables. The closing paragraph reads : "The rates for stables include water for washing carriages without hose." Certainly it would be a difficult matter to find a single stable, using the town water, in which carriages are washed without hose.
Again, under the rules for hose, we find the following : "For hose of not over three-eighths inch orifice, used for washing windows, sprinkling streets (and the use of the same
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shall be limited to one hour per day), not less than three dollars." Restrict the use of hand hose to washing windows and sprinkling streets, granting its use for no other purpose, and we venture the assertion that the revenue derived from hose would entirely disappear. The demand of our citizens for use of hose is not for windows or streets, but for lawns and flower beds. Under the last named rule, this minimum price, and that, too, with the widest latitude, has by a cus- tom, as old as the works, been charged. Each succeeding Board has drifted into the ruts of its predecessor. A moment's reflection suffices to show that the rate for windows and streets should not be the same as for lawn irrigation.
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