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40
1913; Mt. Vernon Street to Oak- land Avenue, built 1913.
March 2, 1840.
490
40
1000
Length
Date of Acceptance
+High Street. . Appleton Street, southerly .
30
25
+Highfield Road. Falmouth Road West, north and south .. . .. .
40
High Haith Road .
Highland Avenue to Spring Lane. .
40 50
3180
March 7, 1872.
+Hill Avenue .
Park Place to Park Avenue Extension ..
40
Hillcrest Street .
Eastern Avenue to Arlmont Street.
40
864
Hillside Avenue .
Wollaston Avenue to Prospect Avenue.
50
2704
August 4, 1884.
Hillside Avenue.
Prospect Avenue to Charlton Street.
50
+Hilton Street.
Broadway to Gardner .
40
Hobbs Court. .
1111 Mass. Av. northerly to B. & L. R.R ..
25
700
Hopkins Road.
Pleasant Street, southerly .
40 & 50
629
March 26, 1917.
.+Hopkins Road .
Spy Pond, northerly .
50
121
Hospital Road.
Summer Street to Symmes Hospital.
20
1200
*Hutchinson Road.
Old Mystic Street to Winchester Line .. 40
2995
Old Town Way named Oak Street, November 9, 1846.
Intervale Road .
Robin Hood Road to Lake Shore Drive. .
40
523
Inverness Road .
Aberdeen Road to First Street.
40
350
Iroquois Road .
Bonad Road to Ottawa Road
10
875
Irving Street.
Pleasant Street to Bartlett Avenue.
40
1270
Sept. 20, 1875; Nov. 8, 1897; Nov. 15, 1898; Nov. 18, 1901.
Irving Street .
Bartlett Avenue, westerly .
40
320
+Irwin Street.
Charlton Street to Dodge Street .
40
300
Jackson Street .
Fabyan Street, southeasterly .
40
338
+James Street .
Thesda Street to Winchester Line.
40
910
Jason Street .
Massachusetts Avenue to Brantwood Road. 40-50
2770
November 4, 1884; March 2, 1885; March 13, 1893; July 1, 1895.
Jason Terrace.
Jason Street, westerly
30
190
+Jefferson Avenue
Franklin Avenue to Lexington Line ..
40
80
Kenilworth Road .
Gray Street to Hawthorne Avenue
40
1171
Kensington Park
Pleasant Street to Kensington Road .
40 & 45 40
516 850
November 8, 1897. November 8, 1897.
Kilsythe Road .
Selkirk Road to Inverness Road .
40
640
*King Street. .
Summer Street, northerly
40
260
Lafayette Street. .
Massachusetts Avenue to Park Boulevard.
40
692
Lake Avenue. .
Magnolia Street to Park Boulevard.
40
709
Lakehill Avenue .
Lake Street, northwesterly .
40
631
Lake Shore Drive
Robin Hood Road, east and west.
40
606
*Lake Street .
Mass. Ave. to Cross St., Belmont Line.
50
5000
Old Town Way named Pond Street, November 9, 1846. November 15, 1898.
Lakeview.
Pleasant Street, easterly
40
498
+Lanark Road .
Kilsythe Road to Second Street. .
40
150
Lancaster Road.
Massachusetts Avenue, southerly
40
300
Langley Road.
Upland Road to Falmouth Road.
40
584
March 20, 1916.
297
.
TOWN ENGINEER'S REPORT
Highland Avenue. ·
Eastern Avenue to Arlmont Street.
Highland Avenue. .
Massachusetts Avenue to Eastern Avenue. . 50
500
830 1291 526
.
.
.
Kensington Road
Kensington Park to Brantwood Road.
1
1706 693
1
TABLE SHOWING THE LOCATION, LENGTH AND WIDTH OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE STREETS-Continued
Length
Name
Location
Width
Date of Acceptance
Publie
Private
+Langley Road Ext.
Upland Road to Stowecroft Road
40
911
Lansdowne Road.
Hemlock Street, northerly .
40
754
Laurel Street.
Brattle Street, westerly . . .
40
290
Lee Terrace .
99 Massachusetts Avenue, northeasterly.
20
450
Lennon Road
Bow Street, northerly .
40
500
+Lennon Road Ext. Lewis Avenue.
Medford Street to Franklin Street.
40
720
May 1, 1876.
Lincoln Street.
Gray Street to Woodland Street
40
370
March 25, 1915.
+Lincoln Street.
Woodland Street, 104 feet southwesterly . .
40
104
Linden Street.
Park Avenue to Cliff Street.
50
1620
Linwood Street.
Massachusetts Avenue to Spy Pond.
40
660
Locke Street.
Mass. Avenue to north of Peirce Street. .
40
410
+Locke Street.
Henry Street to Winchester Line.
40
400
Lombard Road .
Pleasant Street to Lombard Terrace.
40
450
November 22, 1910 November 22, 1910.
Lombard Terrace.
Wellington Street to B. & L. R.R ..
40
814
Lorne Road .
Sutherland Road, southeasterly .
40
300
*Lowell Street .
Massachusetts Avenue to Lexington Line .. . 50
3876
Old Town Way named Lowell Street, November 9, 1846.
Lowell Street Place.
Lowell Street to B. & L. R.R.
40
300
Lublin Street.
Appleton Street, northwesterly .
40
314
Madison Avenue.
Park Place to Lexington Line.
40
1600
Magnolia Street.
Massachusetts Avenue to B. & L. R.R.
40
1045
655
Malvern Street.
Appleton Street to Lexington Line ..
40
300
Maple Street.
Pleasant Street to Academy Street.
40
670
45
1730
Marion Road.
Massachusetts Avenue to Belknap Street. .
40
270
*Massachusetts Avenue.
Cambridge Line to Lexington Line.
18310
Old Town Way named Main Street, November 9, 1847.
+Maybie Street. .
Charlton Street to Dodge Street ..
40
425
Maynard Street.
40
475
*Medford Street.
3180
Melrose Street. .
Massachusetts Avenue, southwesterly.
40
415
1361
Mill Lane.
Massachusetts Avenue to Gray Street. . .. 40 Lowell Street to Forest Street Place. 25
425
Mill Street.
Massachusetts Avenue to Summer Street .. 50
860
Public Way decreed by Land Court in 1917. June 11, 1872, also Old Town Way.
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT,
298
March 6, 1911.
Marathon Street.
Massachusetts Avenue to Broadway.
April 20, 1874. April 15, 1898. March 6, 1911.
66-60 93-98
Hayes Street, east and west .. Massachusetts Avenue to Medford Line.
Old Town Way named Medford Street, November 9, 1846. March 25, 1915.
+Menotomy Road.
Summer Street, southwesterly.
40
250
November 8, 1897. November 11, 1850; April 20, 1874.
Millett Street.
Lansdowne Road to Rockland Avenue. 40
254 260
¡Millett Street Ext ..
Rockland Avenue to Symmes Hospital. ..
40
Milton Street. . .
Massachusetts Avenue, southwesterly .. ..
40
409
Modena Street. .
Appleton Street to Sylvia Street
10
190
Montague Street. .
Westminster Ave. to Crescent Hill Ave ..
40
390
Montague Street.
Crescent Hill Avenue to Orient Avenue
40
640
Moore Place ..
..
Morris Street.
Alpine to Park Avenue Extension . .
10
230
Mountain Avenue.
Overlook Road, east and west.
40
410
Mt. Vernon Street.
Massachusetts Avenue to Gray Street .. ..
40
1360
625
*Mystic Street.
Massachusetts Avenue to Winchester Line ..
50-60
8150
Mystic River Parkway .. Mystic River Parkway. .
Medford Street to Mystic Street.
3600
Newcomb Street.
Lake Street to Barnes Lane.
40
875
March 20, 1916.
Newland Road .
Bow Street, northeasterly . .
40
1200
Newland Road Ext.
Forest Street, westerly .
40
789
Newman Way.
From 824 Massachusetts Avenue, westerly ..
20
300
Newport Street ..
Gloucester Street to Gray Street
40
544
Nicod Street.
Williams Street, southeasterly .
40
187
Norcross Strect. .
North Union Street to Gardner Street.
30
770
Norfolk Road
Pleasant Street to Jason Street.
40
1101
North Union Street.
Broadway to Decatur Street.
40
1920
Nourse Road .
Nourse Street, westerly .
40
240
Nourse Street.
Lowell Street, southerly.
40
360
Oakland Avenue.
Appleton Street to Claremont Avenue.
50
2760
April 14, 1896; September 23, 1878.
Oakland Avenue.
Claremont Avenue to Belmont Line.
50
1524
Oakledge Street.
Bow Street to Park Avenue Extension
40
311
Oak Knoll.
Pleasant Street, westerly .
40
335
*Old Mystie Street.
Mystic Street to Mystic Street.
40
2200
Old Town Way named Mystic Street November 9, 1846.
Orchard Place.
Massachusetts Avenue, southerly . .
25
500
Orchard Terrace
Medford Street, westerly ..
40
344
Orient Avenue.
Davis Avenue to Fairview Avenue.
40
560
+Orient Avenue .
Lexington Line to Summit Street. .
40
2000
Ortona Street.
Appleton Street to Piedmont Street.
40
265
Orvis Road ..
Massachusetts Avenue to Brooks Avenue ..
80
920
March 25, 1915.
Orvis Road .
Brooks Avenue to B. & L. R.R ..
230
Ottawa Road.
Highland Avenue, southeasterly ..
40
640
Overlook Road .
Summer Street to Mountain Avenue.
40
1900
Oxford Street.
Massachusetts Avenue to Broadway.
40
667
786
March 25, 1918.
293
TOWN ENGINEER'S REPORT
March 25, 1915. November 2, 1886.
April 7, 1873.
-
Mystic Lake Drive.
Webcowet Road, easterly .
40
June 4, 1856; Sept. 3, 1873; Old Town Way called Mystic St., Nov.9,1846 Metropolitan Park Commission Boulevard. Metropolitan Park Commission Boulevard
Somerville Line to Medford Street
4100
Massachusetts Avenue to B. & L. R.R ..
25
350
.
224 feet built.
Originally called Cross Street. March 6, 1911; March 25, 1912. March 6, 1871.
.
TABLE SHOWING THE LOCATION, LENGTH AND WIDTH OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE STREETS-Continued
Length
Name
Location
Width
Date of Acceptance
Public
Private
Palmer Street .
Massachusetts Avenue to Warren Street .
40
965
March 14, 1892; November 22, 1906.
Parallel Street.
Franklin Street to Medford Street.
40
410
Park Avenue.
Lowell Street to Belmont Line.
80
5920
Park Avenue Extension. Lowell Street to Summer Street.
40
1035
675
+Park Avenue Extension Forest Street to Summer Street.
10
426
Park Boulevard.
Massachusetts Avenue to B. & L. R.R ..
40
1680
Park Circle.
Park Avenue to Park Avenue.
40
1050
March 30, 1903.
+Park Place.
Madison Avenue to Westminster Avenue .. .
40
1518
March 4, 1872.
Park Street Place
Park Street, westerly.
30
125
*Paul Revere Road.
Appleton Street to Massachusetts Avenue.
50
2050
Nov. 10, 1877. Also Old Town Way formerly Vine Street, named Paul Revere Road, Nov. 7, 1901.
Peabody Road.
Pleasant Street, southeasterly
10
529
Pearl Avenue.
Mystic Street to Walnut Avenue
10
668
+Peck Avenue.
Wollaston Avenue westerly . .
10
600
Peirce Street.
Forest Street to Locke Street.
10
680
Pelham Terrace
Pleasant Street, westerly .
40
345
+Perth Road .
Selkirk Road to Third Street.
40
200
Pheasant Avenue.
Ronald Road to Overlook Road.
40
500
Pheasant Avenue.
Chatham Street, north and south .
40
713
Peter Tufts Road .
Edmund Road to Overlook Road.
40
570
+Philemon Street.
James Street to Lexington Line.
40
750
Piedmont Street.
Wollaston Avenue to Sylvia Street.
40
1039
Pine Ridge Road
Gray Street to Hawthorne Avenue.
40
1171
Pine Street.
Hemlock Street to Brattle Lane. .
40
750 4820
1875. Old Town Way, named Pleasant Street, November 9, 1846.
Plymouth Street
Highland Avenue, easterly.
10
232
Pond Lane .
Massachusetts Avenue to B. & L. RR.
30
700
November 11, 1850.
Pond Lane.
B. & L. R.R. to Boat Club House
20-30
490
Pond Terrace
Pond Lane, westerly.
20
160
Prentiss Road.
Massachusetts Avenue, northerly .
40
225
Prescott Street.
Russell Street to Winslow Street ..
40
591
March 14, 1892.
+Proprietors Way
Summer Street, northerly
10
340
Prospeet Avenue .
Hillside Avenue to Park Avenue.
50
300
August 4, 1884.
300
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
Old Town Way, named Summerset Place, November 9, 1846.
** Pleasant Street.
Massachusetts Avenue to Belmont Line
June 29, 1875. March 26, 1917.
700
Park Street.
Warren Street to Coral Street.
Prospect Avenue . .
Wachusett Avenue to Hillside Avenue . .
50
650
Raleigh Street . Grafton Street to Harlow Street.
40
453
March 20, 1916.
Raleigh Street ..
Oxford Street to Grafton Street.
40
180
Ramsdell Court.
Massachusetts Avenue, northerly
17
200
Randolph Street.
Lake Street to Barnes Lane. .
40
940
March 20, 1916.
Rangeley Road.
Mystic Street to Glen Avenue .
40
602
Ravine Street .
Irving Street to Gray Street.
40
368
Mareh 6, 1893.
Rawson Road.
Broadway to Mystie River Parkway .
40
+Reed Street .
Thesda Street, southwesterly .
40
375
Renfrew Strect.
Cedar Avenue to Florence Avenue
40
2650
Revere Street ..
Walnut Street to Menotomy Road .
40
370
Rhinecliff Street.
Florence Avenue to Belmont Line.
40
2200
*River Street .
Warren Street to Medford Line.
40
1800
March 2, 1857.
Robin Hood Road.
Mystie Street to Lake Shore Drive.
40
1000
Robbins Road .
Massachusetts Avenue to Gray Street.
45
1370
April 14, 1896.
Robbins Road .
Gray Street to Hawthorne Avenue
40
1200
Roekland Avenue
Millet Street, north and south
40
551
Ronald Road
Overlook Road to Pheasant Avenue
40
1270
+Rosslin Road
Aberdeen Road to Kilsythe Road.
40
150
Rublee Street.
Hibbert Street, westerly .
10
500
Rublee Street.
Hibbert Street to Williams Street.
40
273
Russell Street. .
Mystie Street to Water Street. ..
40
791
Mareh 4, 1872. March 14, 1892.
+Sachem Avenue.
Mystic Street to Meadow Brook Park
40
600
Sawin Street.
Henderson Street to Teel Street.
40
215
March 16, 1908.
Sawin Street. .
Teel Street, westerly ..
30
200
¡School Street.
Massachusetts Avenue to Gray Street.
40
1363
+Shore Road.
Chapman Street southerly,
40
735
Schouler Court.
Massachusetts Avenue, northerly
30
340
+Shawmut Place.
Summer Street, northerly .
36
400
Scituate Street.
Gloucester Street to Gray Street.
40
587
+Second Street .
Peck Avenue to Lanark Road .
40
150
+Selkirk Road.
Aberdeen Road to Perth Road.
10
500
Shawnee Road.
Bonad Road to High Haith Road
40
557
Sherborn Street.
Medford Street, westerly .
40
625
+Short Street ..
Chestnut Street, easterly ..
40
201
+Smith Street.
Arnold Street to Laneaster Road .
40
600
Spring Avenue
Pine Ridge Road to Buena Vista Road.
10
1350
Spring Lane.
.
Pleasant Street to Highland Avenue
3450
Old Town Way, named Spring Place, November 9, 1846.
Spring Road .
Sutherland Road, southerly.
40
300
Spring Valley .
Pleasant Street to Spy Pond.
25
520
November 11, 1850; April 15, 1867.
+Spurcliff Road .
Mystie Street to Crosby Street.
40
916
+Steep Rock Road.
Philemon Street to Winchester Line
40
300
.
TOWN ENGINEER'S REPORT
301
1
.
Russell Terrace .
Russell Street to Winslow Street.
40
390
224 feet built.
1734
TABLE SHOWING THE LOCATION, LENGTH AND WIDTH OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE STREETS-Continued
Length
Name
Location
Width
Date of Acceptance
Public
Private
Stouwecroft Road . +Sminer Street.
Upland Road to Spurcliff Road.
40
911
Mystic Street to Brattle Street.
50
3920
April 7, 1873; Old Town Way, Nov. 9, 1846; March 16, 1908. September 18, 1914.
Summer Street.
Brattle Street to Lexington Line.
50
6750
Summer Street Avenue ..
Hemlock Street, westerly .
40
465
Summer Street Place .. ..
Summer Street, southwesterly
20
170
Summit Street. ..
Alpine Street, northeasterly .
40
900
Sunny Side Avenue .. .
Broadway, easterly .
40
450
Sunset Road .
Bow Street, northeasterly .
40
1200
+Sunset Road Ext.
Frost Street, southwesterly
40
627
Surry Road . .
Daniels Street, westerly .
40
520
406 feet built.
Sutherland Road .
Paul Revere Road to Aberdeen Road.
40
750
Swan Place.
Massachusetts Avenue southerly .
30
600
Swan Street .
Pleasant Street to Swan Place. .
40
250
Mareh 14, 1877.
Sylvia Street.
Lexington Line to Rublee Street.
40
800
Sylvia Street.
Rublee Street to Malvern Street.
40
2001
Tanager Street.
Wollaston Avenue to Wollaston Avenue. ·
40
1150 970
November 22, 1906. March 9, 1881; March 10, 1884.
Teel Street Place.
Teel Street, westerly .
30
206
Temple Street .
Highland Avenue, easterly .
40
235
+Thesda Street. .
Wright Street to Reed Street.
40
1620
+Third Street.
Peck Avenue to Perth Road.
40
100
+Thomas Street.
Forest Street to Wright Street.
40
350
+Thorn Road.
Forest Street, southwesterly
40
185
Thorndike Street.
Massachusetts Avenue to Lake Avenue.
40
1057
March 20, 1916.
Thorndike Street. .
Lake Avenue to B. & L. R.R.
40
643
+Thompson Street.
Lowell Street to Mill Lane.
40
425
Trent Street.
Highland Avenue, easterly
40
229
Trowbridge Street.
35
1300
Udine Street.
Sylvia Street, westerly .
40
170
+Unnamed Street. .
Massachusetts Avenue to Paul Revere Road
40
400
+Unnamed Street.
Norfolk Road, southwesterly .
40
200
Unnamed Street. .
Hibbert Street to Sylvia Street.
40
180
+Unnamed Street. .
Kensington Park, southeasterly .
40
280
+Unnamed Street.
Park Place, southerly .
40
340
302
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
March 26, 1914. April 2, 1866.
Tufts Street.
Massachusetts Avenue to Warren Street .. Appleton Street to Rublee Street. 40
960
+Unnamed Street.
Massachusetts Avenue to Waldo Road.
45
1050
Teel Street.
Massachusetts Avenue to Cross Street .
40
.
.
.
.
Upland Road. Falmouth Road, westerly .
40
525
. |March 20, 1916.
, pland Road .
West of Langley Road.
40
102
TUpland Road West
Crosby Street to Highfield Road
40
493 900
+Valentine Road .
Appleton Strect to George Street.
50
Varnum Street.
Massachusetts Avenue, southerly.
40
403 650
March 26, 1914. November 13, 1894.
Wachusett Avenue
Wollaston Avenue to Appleton Street.
40
Wachusett Avenue.
Florence Avenue to Park Avenue.
50
1800
Waldo Road
Marathon Street to Cleveland Street.
45
200
April 15, 1898, formerly Laurel St.
Waldo Road.
Marathon Street to Amsden Street.
45
750
Wall Street.
Eastern Avenue to Arlmont Street
40
448
+Walnut Avenue.
Glen Avenue, casterly . .
40
400
Walnut Court.
Walnut Street, easterly
25
275
Walnut Street. .
Massachusetts Avenue to Gray Street .. .
33
*Warren Street.
Medford Street to Broadway .
50
1360 2680
March 7, 1870. May 27, 1873, Old Town Way, No- vember 9, 1846.
+Warren Strect.
Appleton Strect, southerly
30
350
Warwick Street.
Marathon Street to Trowbridge Street.
45
200
Washington Avenue. .
Madison Avenue to Orient Avenue.
40
250
Washington Street. .
Brattle Strect to Summer Street.
40
700
Washington Street Ext ..
Summer Street to Overlook Road
40
2080
Water Street.
Massachusetts Avenue to Russell Street.
40
680
March 15, 1894.
+Water Street Extension.
Mystic Street to Russell Street.
50
1300
Waverly Strect.
Florence Avenue to Cedar Avenue.
40
2180
Webcowet Road .
Medford Street to Orchard Terrace.
40
484
Webcowet Road.
Orchard Terrace, northerly .
40
608
Webster Street
Broadway to Warren Strect.
40
680 737
May 27, 1873. November 8, 1897; March 6, 1911.
Wellington Street.
Pleasant Street, easterly .
40
+Wellington Street Ext ..
Wellington Street to Addison Street.
40
191
West Street.
Wollaston Avenue to Appleton Street.
50
450
Westminster Avenue .. .
Lowell Street to Lexington Line. .
50
2310
Westmoreland Avenue.
[Lowell Street to Orient Avenue.
40
466
November 23, 1909.
+Wilbur Avenue.
Williams Strect to Chestnut Street.
40
1082
Wildwood Avenue ..
Bartlett Avenue, westerly .
40
300
+Wildwood Avenue
Massachusetts Avenue, southerly .
40
630
Williams Street .
Arnold Street, southerly .
40
500
Williams Street.
Piedmont Street, northerly
40
750
Willow Place ..
Massachusetts Avenue, northerly .
30
169
Wilson Avenuc .
Lake Street, southerly .
300
+Winchester Road.
Old Mystic Street to Hutchinson Road.
40
635
Windemere Avenue ..
Bartlett Avenue, northwesterly .
40
350
March 27, 1906.
Windemere Park.
Windemere Avenue, southerly . .
30
400
Windsor Street.
Massachusetts Ave., 577 fcet northeasterly.
45
577
March 25, 1915. ·
Windsor Street.
Waldo Road, 423 feet southeasterly
45
423
-
303
TOWN ENGINEER'S REPORT
130 feet proposed. August 4, 1884; March 17, 1881. .
Whittemore Street.
Massachusetts Avenue to B. & L. R.R.
40
985
.
TABLE SHOWING THE LOCATION, LENGTH AND WIDTH OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE STREETS-Concluded
Length
Name
Location
Width
Date of Acceptance
Public
Private
Winnick Place.
Medford St. to northwest of Sherborn St ....
20
230
Winslow Street.
Mystic Strect to Russell Terrace
40
*528
March 14, 1892.
Winter Street.
Massachusetts Avenue to Broadway.
40
1540
April 13, 1874; also Old Town Way November 9, 1846.
Wollaston Avenue
Park Avenue to West Street
60
1340
September 23, 1878; November 13, 1894; March 16, 1908.
Wollaston Avenue
West Street, westerly
60
620
Wollaston Avenue.
Appleton Street to Rublee Street.
60
495
Woodbury Street.
Dundee Road to Hibbert Street ..
40
750
Woodland Strect.
Jason Street to Bartlett Avenue. .
40
282
March 22, 1909.
Woodland Street.
Bartlett Avenue to Lincoln Street.
40
240
March 25, 1915
+Wright Street. .
Winchester Line, southwesterly. .
40
1930
Wyman Street.
Massachusetts Avenue to Warren Street ..
40
1050
March 19, 1888; Noveber 22, 1906.
Wyman Lane ..
Lake Street, northwesterly
40
751
March 20, 1916. .
Yale Street. .
Arlmont Street to Hawthorne Avenue Ext ..
40
1117
*Street laid out by the County Commissioners. +Proposed Street not built.
Length of Public Streets and Town Ways, 41.97 miles. Length of Private Streets open for travel, 29.37 miles. Length of Proposed Private Streets. 9.62 miles.
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
304
. .
600
Wyman Terrace.
Massachusetts Ave. to Massachusetts Ave. .
305
TOWN ENGINEER'S REPORT
GENERAL STATISTICS
Arlington is situated six miles northwest of Boston, in lati- tude 42°, 25' north; longitude 71°, 09' west, at an elevation above mean tide of from 4 to 377 feet.
Massachusetts Avenue at Pleasant Street, elevation, 48 feet.
Massachusetts Avenue at Park Avenue,elevation, 155 feet.
Park Circle at Eastern Avenue (base of standpipe), eleva- tion, 377 feet.
Crescent Hill Avenue at Park Place, elevation, 281 feet.
The Town and a part of what is now Belmont were set off from Cambridge and incorporated as West Cambridge in 1807. The name was changed from West Cambridge to Arlington in 1867.
Area of Town, including that covered by water, 3520 acres, 11/2 square miles; area covered by water, 268.2 acres.
Parks: Town, 54.63 acres; Metropolitan, 55 acres.
Total cemetery area, 44.2 acres.
Public streets and Town ways: Macadam, 19.58 miles; gravel, 22.09 miles; granite paving, 0.3 mile. Total miles. 41.97.
Private streets open for travel, 29.37 miles.
Permanent sidewalks: Tar concrete, 7.4 miles; brick, 3.31 miles; artificial stone, 3.06 miles. Total miles, 13.77.
Edgestone, 9.76 miles.
Paved gutters, 12.32 miles.
Storm drain system, 12.19 miles.
Catch basins, 458.
Sewerage system, 36.50 miles; local Metropolitan sewer system, 3.47 miles. Total, 39.97 miles.
Particular sewer system (2451 connections), 24.82 miles. Number of buildings connected, 2527.
Water mains: Reservoir supply, 2.49 miles; Metropolitan low system, 22.10 miles; Metropolitan high system, 27.02 miles. Total, 51.61 miles.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF WIRES
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and Board of Public Works.
Gentlemen: I respectfully submit my twentieth Annual Report as Superintendent of Wires for the year ending December 31, 1919. This report includes the supervision of Fire and Police Signal System, Street Lighting and Inspection of Wires in buildings and on the highways.
FIRE ALARM
Two new Fire Alarm Boxes were installed during the year as follows:
Box Number 72, Massachusetts Avenue opposite Daniels Street, installed January 28, 1919.
Box Number 12, Thorndike Street at corner Lake Avenue, installed October 23, 1919.
Box Number 72 was placed on an iron terminal post connecting with the underground wires. Box Number 12 was connected by aerial wire construction, using wire taken down elsewhere as released by underground wires installed.
On September 15 new underground wires were placed in commission for Fire and Police Signal Systems between Box Number 47, at corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Forest Street, and Fire Box Number 72, Massachusetts Avenue opposite Daniels Street. With these new wires in service the old fire alarm wire paralleling the railroad track from Forest Street to the Heights was discontinued, this wire location being used for about twenty-nine years. One new iron cable post was installed on Massachusetts Avenue, near Bartlett Avenue, on August 31, 1919, this post being set to receive new under- ground wires to be installed at a later date. The conduits for this new terminal post and others were laid at this time while Massachusetts Avenue was being rebuilt between Water Street and Schouler Court to the end that it would not be necessary to excavate in this section of rebuilt street for several years to come.
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All aerial wires of the Fire Alarm System were replaced between Fire Boxes Numbers 712 and 72 on Massachusetts Avenue, as these wires were old and in a dangerous condition and it was deemed advisable to replace temporarily with wire on hand until such a date as the underground wires are extended between the two above specified signal boxes.
Two thousand six hundred and forty (2640) feet of 10-wire, lead encased cable were purchased during the year to replace old underground wires on Massachusetts Avenue. Owing to duct space not being available in conduits this new cable will not be installed until a later date when changes will be made in underground construction existing that will provide a conduit for this new cable, and which will materially reduce the cost of installation.
All electrical apparatus was removed from the old Fire Station at the Heights with the discontinuing of this Fire Station, and Fire Box Number 64, located on this building, was placed on a pole in a more sightly location, as several false alarms had been sounded from this box.
A new Transmitting Box with non-interference machinery and with a capacity for containing 100 signal wheels was pur- chased this year to be installed in the Central Fire Station to replace the plain type of Transmitter which has been in service since the year 1902. Several breaks in Fire Alarm wires occurred during the year, being caused by ice and broken limbs of trees.
On October 25 at 1.05 o'clock A.M., the iron cable post at junction of Massachusetts Avenue and Forest Street, on which are located Fire Box Number 47 and Police Box Number 44, was run into by an automobile. The iron castings of this post were badly broken and the five lead encased cables entering same were all disconnected and badly injured, all signal systems in the Heights section of the town being put out of use. Tem- porary repairs were made in about one hour, restoring the circuits to service, but two days' labor for a gang of men was necessary to replace the broken post and reconnect underground cables. The expense of this smash-up will be billed to the owner of the automobile, as the street at this particular location is sufficiently wide to allow for proper navigation of an auto-
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