Town of Newton annual report 1882-1883, Part 28

Author: Newton (Mass.)
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Newton (Mass.)
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Total amount appropriated for department $6,500 00 Total amount expended 6,769 50


Amount overdrawn $269 50


CLASSIFICATION OF EXPENDITURES.


For salaries of city engineer, assistants, draughts- man, and rodmen $5,838 00


For car-fares and other incidentals 252 91


For new horse and blankets 264 00


Amount carried forward $6,354 91


6


Amount brought forward $6.354 91


For care and keeping of horses and wagon 232 52


For instruments and repairs


56 35


For horse-hire


56 75


For drawing-paper and other supplies 39 66


For repairing wagon and harness


29 31


Total amount


$6,769 50


The item of salaries of city engineer and assistants may be divided as follows : -


For defining street-lines; making surveys and maps for street-widenings, acceptance, and extension ; office records ; highway accounts ; defining and establishing proposed grades of streets ; surveys, plans, and estimates for proposed work on highways; and all work relating to highways . $1,845 13


For giving lines and grades for the construction of drains and culverts, making preliminary surveys, plans, profiles, diagrams, estimates, calculations, and all work relating to drains, 157 47 For establishing lines and grades for the exten- sion of water-pipes, locating and measuring service-pipes, designing and superintendence of work at the pumping station and filter- ing basin, and for all work relating to water- works 883 95


For defining the lines, surveys, and plans of city property, making plans and specifications for, and superintending the construction of, new buildings, and the alterations and re- pairs on old buildings, under the direction of the Joint Standing Committee on Public Property 1,172 52


Amount carried forward


$4,059 07


7


Amount brought forward


For defining the lines, making surveys and plans of Farlow Park and for the proposed Cen- tral Park ; for the examination of the titles and boundaries of the various estates and lands included within said parks ; for super- intending the laying-out and grading of Far- low Park; for attendance at the meetings of the committee and the hearings before the City Council; and for all other work under the direction of the Joint Standing Com- mittee on Parks .


For plans, estimates, reports, inspection of plumb- ing, and for all work relating to the Board of Health 169 29


For copying land-plans at Registry of Deeds, and indexing the same 266 74


For making surveys and levels for plans, profiles, and estimates for the use of the City Soli- citor in suits for or against the city ; for attending court, and all work relating to said suits 16 19


For all other miscellaneous work


287 36


Total amount .


$5,838 00


Surveys have been made of the whole or a part of thirty- nine streets, covering a total length of seven miles and seven- tenths. One hundred and ten street plans and profiles have been made. Levels have been taken over the whole or a part of thirty-nine streets or brooks, - a total length of twelve miles. Lines have been established on fifty-two, and grades on fifty-five, streets.


The average number of assistants employed during the year was six ; maximum number at any time, seven.


Plans and profiles have been made ; lines and grades de- fined ; the titles and boundaries of the estates abutting upon


$4,059 07


1,039 35


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the following-named streets have been examined ; and said streets have been laid out and accepted by the City Coun- cil, - Bennington Street, from Centre Street westerly, 380 feet, 40 feet wide; Fairmont Avenue, from Centre to Clare- mont Streets, 1,120 feet, 40 feet wide; Turner Street, from Walnut Street to Central Avenue, 465 feet, 30 feet wide ; Warren Street, from Glen Avenue easterly, 630 feet, 40 feet wide. Boylston Street, Ward Five, between Centre Street and Woodward Street, was relaid out 60 feet in width.


The highway and town papers have been classified, in- dexed, and filed in the large safe in the basement.


All actions of the Board of Aldermen relating to high- ways, drains, etc., have been indexed by streets, or under their respective heads, for reference.


Copies of all Newton (street, railroad, and land) plans on file at the Registry of Deeds and other county offices, and a complete index of the same, are being made.


The large amount of additional work required by the com- mittees on Public Property and Parks, not being anticipated at the beginning of the year, was not provided for in making the appropriation for the department; which accounts for the additional appropriation made necessary.


Perambulation of Town and City Lines.


A special committee, consisting of Aldermen Chester and Henry, City Clerk I. F. Kingsbury, and the City Engineer, appointed to represent the Board of Aldermen, together with a committee of the Selectmen of the town of Waltham, on July 12, 1883, perambulated the line, and established anew the boundaries between said city and town according to law.


HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.


HIGHWAY SURVEYORS AND JOINT STANDING COM- MITTEE ON HIGHWAYS.


ALDERMAN DWIGHT CHESTER, Chairman. ALDERMAN JOHN Q. HENRY. COUNCILMAN WILLIAM B. YOUNG. COUNCILMAN AUSTIN R. MITCHELL. COUNCILMAN JAMES H. NICKERSON.


EXECUTIVE OFFICERS.


Superintendent of Streets. WILLIAM E. FULLER.


Assistant Superintendents of Streets. GEORGE E. STUART, Wards 1, 2, and 7. JOHN J. WARE, Wards 4 and 5. JOHN A. PECK, Ward 6.


City Engineer. ALBERT F. NOYES.


HIGHWAYS.


The management of the highways, the ordinary repairs, the building or rebuilding of all streets, drains, culverts, side- walks, etc., and the gravel lands, are under the general direc- tion of the Joint Standing Committee on Highways, Streets and Ways, Sidewalks, Drains and Sewers, and the Highway Surveyors.


The Committee on Highways and the Superintendent of Streets have continued their policy of the past three years, of thorough work in whatever was undertaken, with equally satisfactory results.


Highways, General Repairs.


Amount appropriated by order of the City


Council for highways, general repairs, for the year ending Jan. 1, 1884 $55,000 00


Amount transferred from receipts for work per-


formed for Boston and Albany Railroad Company 5,145 79


Amount transferred from appropriation for drains and culverts 2,000 00


Amount transferred from appropriation for gravel lands 800 00


Amount transferred from appropriation for land damages 800 00


Total appropriation . . $63,745 79


Amount expended as per Auditor's records · 63,003 47


Balance unexpended


. $742 32


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The following table will show in detail the amount ex- pended on each street for maintenance, as made up from the Superintendent's and Assistant Superintendent's records of work : -


Alpine


$28 88


Arlington


74 53


Ash .


104 22


Auburn


417 11


Auburndale Avenue


33 25


Baldwin


5 25


Beacon


2,788 54


Bellevue


119 25


Belmont


9 42


Bourne


121 58


Bowers


115 75


Boylston


21 50


Bridge


3 25


Brookline


75 00


Cabot


27 90


Cedar


504 59


Cemetery Avenue


36 50


Central Avenue


40 25


Central


70 29


Centre


3,153 33


Channing


88


Cheney


7 50


Cherry


92 75


Chestnut


161 65


Church


188 88


Cook .


1 75


Crafts


149 00


Cross


5 25


Cypress


419 59


Davis


3 50


Dedham


300 00


Amount carried forward


$9,081 14


13


Amount brought forward


$9,081 14


Dudley


75 00


Durant


12 75


Eldridge


90 72


Elliot


278 11


Ellis .


21 50


Elm .


397 75


Elmwood


2,380 75


Fairmont Avenue


9 25


Farwell


47 25


Florence


69 75


Forest Avenue


66 00


Fountain


127 12


Franklin


10 50


Fuller


92 90


Grant Avenue


365 70


Green


40 00


Greenough


14 00


Greenwood


11 00


Grove


304 05


Hammond .


67 50


Hancock


70 74


Harvard


13 50


Hawthorne Avenue


56 66


Henshaw


9 33


High .


12 50


Highland Avenue


45 50


Highland .


823 12


Hillside Avenue


41 37


Homer


667 55


Hovey


6 13


Hunter


7 88


Hyde


327 26


Ivanhoe


12 84


Jackson


39 42


Amount carried forward


$15,696 54


14


Amount brought forward


. $15,696 54


Jefferson


223 25


Jewett


28 00


Kenilworth


12 83


Lake Avenue


195 98


Lander


4 38


Lexington .


145 36


Linden


10 75


Maple (Ward Four)


17 50


Margin


28 01


Mechanic


10 75


Melrose


28 14


Mill


495 41


Mount Ida


7.00


Mount Vernon


177 00


Nahanton .


75 00


Newtonville Avenue .


433 97


Newtonville Square


186 69


Nonantum Square


12 25


Nonantum .


22 25


Oak


21 50


Otis


93 75


Park


15 00


Parker


369 24


Parsons


291 00


Pearl


140 25


Pelham


14 25


Pembroke


54 30


Perkins


20 12


Prospect


39 75


Putnam


10 50


River


331 33


Rowe


21 87


St. James


16 25


Sargent


35 00


Amount carried forward


. $19,285 17


15


Amount brought forward


. $19,285 17


Seaverns


64 56


Shaw


15 00


South


92 25


Station


35 50


Sumner


280 96


Temple


27 13


Tremont


126 25


Turner


17 39


Vernon


365 97


Vista Avenue


91 82


Waban Park


47 37


Waban


17 50


Walnut Park


41 00


Walnut


493 05


Waltham


106 50


Ward


32 88


Warren Avenue


9 34


Washington Park


28 00


Washington


2,037 51


Watertown


186 90


Waverley Avenue


304 45


Webster Park


8 75


Webster


75 84


Wesley


10 50


Willow


74 70


Winchester


3 75


Winter


21 50


Winthrop


17 50


Wolcott


13 13


Woodbine .


27 27


Woodland Avenue


68 19


Woodward


19 08


Boston and Albany R. R. (labor and material) . 5,145 79


Amount carried forward . $29,192 50


16


Amount brought forward


. $29,192 50


Cleaning crossings


146 94


Cleaning grates and manholes


117 64


Cleaning gutters


2,551 77


Clearing brush


13 00


Clearing streets


3 50


Gravel-pits


6,073 60


Patching streets


189 07


Paving around stand-pipes


94 50


Picking stones


1,275 14


Removing snow


6,313 01


Stable-work


176 60


Steam roller


59 50


Street-signs


81 39


Turning water from streets


3 50


Water department


1 75


Watering streets


25 25


Miscellaneous


4 50


$46,323 16


HIGHWAY WIDENINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS.


Amount appropriated by the City Council for highway widenings and improvements $10,000 00 Amount expended 9,815 11


Amount charged to appropriation for highway widenings and improvements, as per audi- tor's records 9,794 89


Amount charged to appropriation for improve-


ments on public squares 18 75


Amount charged to appropriation for drains and culverts 1 47


The above amount has been expended on the following- named streets : -


17


Adams Street, Wards 1 and 2, near the corner of Washington Street : -


For labor, etc., as per rolls $428 56


For building fences, and extending culvert, as per bills 173 83 $602 39


Bowers Street, Ward 2, fence at the Methodist Church, as per bill 2 52 Central Street, Ward 4, Woodland Avenue west- erly to the end 799 66 Lake Avenue, Ward 5, near the estate of Moses G. Crane 351 42 ·


Lake Avenue, Ward 6, at northerly end of Crys- tal Lake : -


For labor, etc., as per rolls $285 74


For building wall, etc., as per bills . 301 94


587 68


Maple Street, Ward 4, Central Street to Wood- land Avenue : -


For labor, etc., as per rolls $232 50


For capping wall, etc., as per bills . 203 70


436 20


Murray Street, Ward 2, Otis Street to Highland Avenue : -


For labor, etc., as per rolls . $1,581 48


For material, fences, etc., as per bills 142 00


1,723 48


Needham Street, Ward 5 . 10 50


Summer Street, Ward 5, Chestnut Street to High Street : -


For labor, etc., as per rolls $662 25


For building fences, steps, etc., as per bills 79 09


741 34


Amount carried forward


$5,255 19


18


Amount brought forward $5,255 19 Sumner Street, Ward 6, near estate of Dr. Alvah Hovey : -


For labor, etc., as per rolls $10 88


For concrete, etc., as per bills 82 73


93 61


Walnut Street, Ward 2, near Watertown Street, on estate of George W. Gould .


40 13


Ward Street, Ward 6, Sumner Street to Grant Avenue : -


For labor, etc., as per rolls . $1,979 01


For material, etc., as per bills . ·


137 27


2,116 28


Miscellaneous .


127 67


Portable crusher and engine


2,182 23


$9,815 11


CURBING.


Amount appropriated by order of the City Coun- cil for curbing, for the year 1883 $1,500 00


Amount expended 1,553 24


Amount charged to appropriation for curbing 1,500 00


Amount charged to appropriation for highways, general repairs 53 24


The following table shows the number of linear feet, kind and cost of curbing, which has been laid : -


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Curbing laid in 1883.


STREET.


WARD.


LINEAR FEET STRAIGHT CURBING.


LINEAR FEET CURVED CURBING.


TOTAL LENGTH OF CURBING.


COST.


Adams


2


377.92


48.33


426.25


$338 80


Auburn


4


-


8.50


10 47


Bowers


2


181.42


22.00


8.50 203.42


136 83


Centre


7


27.00


-


33 95


Elmwood


7


593 50


23.60


617.10


537 00


Grove .


4


-


-


-


I


3 08


Maple


4


8.50


8 50


10 48


Mount Vernon .


3


178.70


6.30


185.00


137 28


Newtonville Square


2


63.00


69.80


132.80


116 94


Vernon .


7


17.50


17.50


9 15


Washington


3


-


13.33


13.33


69 39


Miscellaneous (unloading)


4 37


Stock


-


181.00


66.22


247.22


140 75


1,593.04


266.58


1,869.62


$1,553 24


SIDEWALKS.


Amount appropriated by order of the City Coun-


cil for sidewalks for the year 1883


$6,000 00


Amount transferred from receipts for work per- formed for Boston and Albany R.R. Co.


261 30


Total amount of appropriation


$6,261 30


Amount charged to appropriation for sidewalks . Amount overdrawn


39 35


Amount charged to appropriation for drains and culverts


23 00


Amount charged to appropriation for highways, general repairs


655 61


Total amount expended 6,979 26


The cost of laying and repairing street-crossings is charged to the appropriation for highways, general repairs.


The following table shows the number of square yards of concrete sidewalk and street-crossings laid and repaired, and the cost of all gravel and concrete sidewalks.


4 75


Highland (unloading)


3


-


.


-


-


6,300 65


SQUARE YARDS OF CONCRETE.


STREET.


WARD.


SIDEWALKS, NEW.


SIDEWALKS, REPAIRS.


CROSSINGS, NEW.


CROSSINGS, REPAIRS.


COST OF GRAVEL AND CONCRETE WALKS.


REMARKS.


Adams


2


390.08


$335 15


Aspen Avenue


4


Auburn


.


.


1


209.54


171 68


Bowdoin


·


Bowers


2


339.11


101 51


Brook .


7


10.34


3 71


Cabot


2


California


1


15 75


Gravel.


Carleton


7


5 50


Gravel.


Gravel. Partly laid in 1882.


Central


4


1,297.18


53.67


545 91


Centre


1, 6,7


202.51


87.96


70.40


451 54


Part gravel; part brick.


Cherry


3


49.69


22.61


64 07


Church


7


53.79


64.00


9.00


32 27


Crafts.


2


20.00


269.69


41.31


9.00


4 44


Ellis


5


-


1


3 75


Gravel. Gravel.


S Partly laid in 1882.


Elmwood .


7


543.85


76.72


135.87


298 33


Part gravel; part brick.


Emerson .


1,7


-


1


-


10 50


Gravel.


Forest Avenue


2,3


57 40


Gravel.


Forest.


5


-


-


-


14 08


Gravel.


.


.


4


79.65


21 90


Bellevue


·


5


14 08


Gravel. Partly laid in 1882.


Gravel.


20


Laid in 1882.


Eldridge


7


7.39


Elm


3


-


87 50


Central Avenue


2


10 50


178.47 263.47


7 00


21 21


Part gravel. Gravel. Laid in 1882.


1


48 65


21


Am'ts carried forward


.


4,478.05


1,488.37


490.32


141.46


$4,681 85


.


Gravel.


Lake Avenue


5, 6


48.53


66 06


Margin


3


7 00


Mount Vernon


3


196.86


280 12


Part gravel.


Murray


2


-


35 50


Gravel.


Newtonville Avenue


1


4.63


30.45


Newtonville Square ·


2


37.12


-


-


127 52


Nonantum Place


7


-


26 50


Gravel.


Norwood Avenue


6


250.31


68 83


Laid in 1882.


Pearl .


1


37.70


123 75


Gravel.


Pembroke


7


50 75


Gravel.


Pettee .


5


1.60


46.25


17 21


Pleasant .


6


132.81


101 71


Prospect .


3


-


-


8 75


Gravel. Gravel.


River .


3


-


-


-


66 00


·


Franklin . Glen Avenue


7


2.54 90.40


583.94


154 54


Part gravel.


Grove .


4


36.14


-


Hammond


6


-


-


317 74


Hancock .


4


18 00


Hartford .


5


18.37


116.08


67 09


[1882.


Harvard


2


70.95


26 26


High


5


-


14.53


37 00


Gravel.


Highland Avenue Highland .


3


1.89


4.40


1 13


Homer


6


57.69


199 00


Part gravel.


Jefferson


77


329.71


448 47


Kenrick


.


Part gravel. Gravel.


Gravel.


Nonantum


7


.


·


6


24 86 62 38


Laid in 1882. Part gravel. Part gravel; part plank. Gravel.


-


Part gravel; partly laid in


2


.


17 50


-


1 75


SQUARE YARDS OF CONCRETE.


STREET.


WARD.


SIDEWALKS, NEW.


SIDEWALKS, REPAIRS.


CROSSINGS, NEW.


CROSSINGS, REPAIRS.


COST OF GRAVEL AND CONCRETE WALKS.


REMARKS.


Am'ts brought forward


4,478.05


1,488.37


490.32


141.46


$4,681 85


Sargent


6,7


889.74


375 07


Seaverns .


4


37 29


Station


6


85 13


Summer


5


214.25


-


108 08


Sumner


6


211.51


113 64


Turner


2


Vernon


7


30.00


61.17


18 03


Laid in 1882.


Vista Avenue


4


21 20


Gravel.


[1882.


Walnut


2,5


102.04


86.39


102.29


379 43


Part gravel; partly laid in Gravel.


Gravel.


Washington .


1,2,3,4,7


282.56


263.91


229.35


191.10


483 97


Part gravel.


Watertown .


60.02


22.71


252 50


Gravel.


Wesley


1


.


William


7


62.43


29 37


Winter


5


14 75


Gravel.


Miscellaneous


35 57


-


6,524.36


1,813.45


842.54


434.85


$6,979 26


I


Gravel. Gravel.


Gravel.


22


10 6


-


13.77


3 50


Waltham


20 50


Ward .


191 25


Waverley Avenue


1, 2, 3 7


-


101 88


193.76


.


.


.


26 25


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SUMMARY OF EXPENSES CHARGED TO THE APPROPRI- ATION FOR HIGHWAYS, GENERAL REPAIRS.


For maintenance, as per superintendent's records of work $46,323 16


For curbing, in excess of appropriation 53 24


For concrete and gravel sidewalks, in excess of appropriation 655 61


For miscellaneous expenses, as per sundry bills


in auditor's report 15,971 46


Total amount expended . . $63,003 47


An order recently passed the City Council for the purchase of a portable stone-crusher and engine, and the sale or ex- change of the engine and crusher at the Pine-street gravel- pit. Contracts have been made with the Farrel Foundry and Machine Company of Ansonia, Conn., for a 9-inch by 15-inch Marsden and Farrel portable crusher; and with John H. Houghton of Boston, for the delivery of a Lidgerwood porta- ble hoisting and pulley engine, with 7-inch by 9-inch double cylinders, and 40-inch by 83-inch vertical boiler, with house- fixtures and every thing complete. These are intended for crushing stone at points in the city where stone can be easily collected, and where no crusher is at present located.


The policy of the town and city governments for the past twelve or fourteen years has been to encourage the laying of concrete (coal-tar and pitch-mastic) sidewalks; so that now there is a considerable mileage of concrete sidewalks laid. With no special repairs, the life of a concrete sidewalk, if unaffected by causes other than wear, has been, in this city, from six to ten or more years.


The causes for the destruction of concrete are, legitimate wear, the upheaval or breaking by the frost or the growth of roots of trees, the settlement of poor foundations, and drainage; and the greater cause by far, which is usually


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assigned to wear, is the loss of the volatile oils which it con- tains, leaving the surface rough and brittle, to be the more readily affected by ordinary wear. The cost of these renew- als, without special repairs, at the present price of laying the concrete, is from six to ten cents per year; the probable average with the best of work being about eight cents. After laying one or two years, the surface becomes slightly rough, and it is found that a thin coating of sand and tar, or pitch, if applied at this time (at a cost of about six cents per square yard), restores the smooth, pliable surface, and will last for two or three years longer, without necessity for renewal. . If the sidewalk is left for four or more years, it can usually be restored by a skim-coating of fine gravel and tar, or pitch, at a cost of about thirty-five cents per square yard. It will be observed that the cost of maintaining sidewalks, without any special repairs, is about eight cents per square yard, besides the discomfort of travelling for four or more years over rough sidewalks; with occasional repairs and skim- coating, and allowing for breaks from outside causes, about the same amount as above, and perhaps one or two years' travel over a rough sidewalk ; with constant repairs, as above described, and allowing for breaks from outside causes, the cost is about four or five cents per square yard. The ques- tion of economic maintenance of these sidewalks has become a serious one ; and there are now miles of sidewalk needing immediate attention in order to remain safe and convenient for travel. I would therefore recommend, in view of its economy and comfort, that constant repairs be made as above described.


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DRAINS AND CULVERTS.


Amount appropriated by order of the City Coun- cil for the construction of new, and the cleaning out and repairing of old drains, culverts, and catch-basins . Amount expended $11,929 66


· . $14,000 00


Amount transferred to highways, general repairs · 2,000 00


13,929 66


Unexpended balance $70 34 The following table shows the length of each kind, size and cost of drains constructed during the year, and the streets in which the same are laid : -


Drains constructed in 1883.


STREET.


SIZE, IN INCHES.


FEET OF DRAIN.


MAN- HOLES.


CATCH- FEET OF SIZE OF BASINS. INLETS.


INLETS.


Adams


10


26


-


-


-


1


$63 07


At corner of Washington Street.


Auburn


5


-


-


-


-


708 62


Greenough Street to Rowe Street.


Bowers


6


Brook


36 by 36


993


1


8


962 27


Central


15


45


1


-


1


1


.


.


6


21


-


-


-


-


.


15


132


3


120


8


370 06


Church


12


3


Eldridge


36 by 36


371


1


-


1


508 64


Near Elmwood Street. Near River Street.


Elm


.


8


210


-


-


1


8


Brook Street to Eldridge Street.


Elmwood .


36 by 36


174


1


4


6


6


Gardner


12


70


-


35


8


101 59


At Angle. Near Lincoln Park


Margin


18


573


Mechanic


12


135


1


-


-


.


18 12


Corner of Newtonville Avenue. Near Highland Avenue.


Murray ·


15


401


3


30


8


427 15


Newtonville Avenue


10


44


-


-


46


8


Park


12


12


Parsons


6


49


-


-


-


7 35


Near Cheese-cake Brook


Pearl


12


825


-


10


62


8


926 05


Laundry Brook to Eliot School.


1 8 1


44 87


Near Fern Street


Centre


8


130


-


2


171 43


Near Boston and Albany R.R.


30


Chapel


92 84


50


1,954 98


-


-


.


.


106 02


Mount Ida


.


.


12


1,056


14


10


994 37


Mount Ida Street, westerly.


15


69


Corner of Tremont Street.


-


-


-


-


76 34


6


7


4


2


110 45


Walnut Street to Depot Near Elmwood Street.


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COST.


LOCATION.


43. 13


-


-


-


2


26


10


Prospect


15


595


8


60


8


794 07


12


145


72


6


River .


12


108


1


88 00


Seaverns .


9


26


-


-


-


Walnut


8


60


1


52 82


Walnut


8


30


1


41 51


Near Turner Street.


Near Crafts Street.


Waltham .


6


1011


1


-


-


1


Cheese-cake Brook to near Temple Street.


Near Pine Street. At Lexington Street. At Boston and Albany R.R.


-


-


-


36 92


4,643


2


43


529


$8,720 36


-


-


-


19 39


27


28


CULVERTS AND CATCH-BASINS.


The following tables show the lengths, size, and cost of the culverts or catch-basins constructed or reconstructed during the year, and the name of the street in or under which they are laid.


Culverts constructed and reconstructed in 1883.


STREET.


SIZE, IN INCHES.


LENGTH, IN FEET.


COST.


LOCATION.


REMARKS.


Adams


-


$37 50


Laundry Brook.


Bellevue


6


334


9 74


Under Driveway


Cabot .


5 00


Near Harvard Street


Repaired.


Crafts .


1 75


Near Cheese-cake Brook.


Repaired.


Margin


31 75


Corner of Putnam Street.


Repaired.


Park .


7 50


Corner of Vernon Street.


Vernon


7 50


Corner of Park Street.


Washington .


4 00


Near Adams Street.


Repaired, under sidewalk. Repaired.


Washington .


19 57


Brighton Hill.


Watertown


50


Near Eden Avenue.


Repaired, under sidewalk.


Watertown


90


Near Chandler Street.


Repaired, under sidewalk.


Waverley Avenue


10 75


Under Driveways.


Repaired.


Winchester


28 13


Repaired.


$170 59


Extension. Repaired.


Repaired. Repaired.


29


Catch-Basins constructed and reconstructed in 1883.


STREET.


LOCATION.


COST.


REMARKS.


Centre


Near Public Library


$27 38


Centre


Near Wesley Street


5 25


New covers.


Centre


At Newton Centre


33 75


Hammond


Near Boston and Albany R R.


39 76


High .


Near Pettee Street .


31 39


Highland Avenue


Near Walnut Street


220 75


Highland


Corner of Margin Street


18 47


Rebuilt


Homer


8 82


Covers changed.


Lake Avenue


Corner of Auburn Street


61 06


Maple (Ward 4)


8 82


Covers changed.


Parker


Near High Street


33 40


Rowe


Near Boston and Albany R. R.


48 32


Station


Near Washington Street


14 70


Covers changed.


Warren


.


·


24 9


Two new catch-basins. Rebuilt.


Washington


Near Adams Street .


52 8


Washington


Ward 3


1 75


Repairs.


Washington


Ward 4


26 03


Waverley Avenue


25 97


Repairs


52 44


$793 90


30


Covers changed.


Walnut Park


.


11 63


Near Greenwood Avenue


Washington


.


.


.


.


.


.


22 07


Pettee


24 32


31


Miscellaneous Expenses for 1883.


Arlington Street, 2 Concord grates $14 70


Boyd-street ledge, excavating rock 160 00


Boylston Street, repairs on Bridge over Charles River . 162 47


Bridge Street, arch rebuilt, and bridge repaired, over Charles River 568 96


Cement, 92 barrels 15 20


Cheese-cake Brook, cleaning out and repairs 44 00


Cleaning catch-basins and culverts


741 50


Covering-stone, 2724 feet of 3-feet


41 22


Covering-stone, 333 feet of 4-feet


20 63


Covering-stone, 26 feet of 6-feet .


61 85


Elliot Street, labor


7 12


Elmwood Street, bricks (used for sidewalks)


23 00


Farlow Park, cement .


1 47


Jefferson Street, cement (used for wall, general repairs) 17 87


Linwood-avenue drain, cleaning out


24 75


Murray-street Brook, cleaning out


30 13


Newtonville drain, cleaning out and repairs


60 38


Removing covering-stones .


13 69


Shaw Street


32 25


Station Street


8 50


Stock on hand : -


1,115 bricks


$12 27


half-barrel cement .


74


15 feet of 12-inch cement pipe 5 85


599 feet of 3-feet covering-stone 75 90


771 feet of spruce lumber


13 11


107 87


Summer Street, cement (used for widenings)


1 47


Tremont Street, covering-stone (used around stand-pipe) . 4 08


Amount carried forward · $2,102 63


32


Amount brought forward $2,102 63


Walnut Street, at gristmill, fence 17 05


Washington Street, labor . 19 00


Washington Street, covering-stone (used around stand-pipe ) . 2 27


Washington Street, repairs on bridge over Charles River 34 81


Watertown Street, Cate's stable, cement-pipe 12 32


Waverley Avenue, building fence around drain at the ash-dump .


15 00


Sundries


41 73


$2,244 81


Summary of Expenses.


Drains constructed $8,720 36


Culverts constructed or reconstructed 170 59


Catch-basins constructed or reconstructed . 793 90


Miscellaneous expenses


2,244 81


Total . ฿11,929 66




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