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No extension shall be made upon an unaccepted street unless the City Engineer finds that it is graded to a proper level, and those of the abutters whose consent is necessary give it in due form.
SECTION 14. Applications for service-pipe shall be made to the Registrar. When the cost, estimated by him, of the applicant's part has been deposited, the pipe shall be laid. From the main pipe to the street line opposite the point of connection, it shall be laid at the expense of the city, and the remainder at the cost of the applicant. The account shall be adjusted, and any balance paid before the water is let on.
The location of service-pipe shall be fixed by the City Engineer.
SECTION 15. The annual price or rent to be paid for the use of water shall be in accordance with the following sched- ule. In any case not therein provided for, the Registrar shall fix the price or rent.
The Registrar may make all proper abatements.
No change from annual to meter rates will be allowed except between March 1 and April 1.
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SCHEDULE OF WATER RATES.
DWELLING HOUSES.
If occupied by one family, for one faucet $6 00
Each additional faucet 2 00
If occupied by two or more families, for one faucet, each family 4 00
(When two faucets are used, one for hot and one for cold water, both discharging into one basin, the two will be reckoned as one.)
Bath-tub 5 00
Each additional bath-tub .
3 00
Pan water-closet, or self-closing urinal
Each additional closet or urinal 5 00
3 00
Set wash-tubs, not more than three in each set, each
set 1 00
Private families, numbering not more than twelve
persons, may commute the above for . 25 00
Private families, numbering more than twelve per- sons, for each person in excess of twelve .
2 00
BOARDING HOUSES.
Same rate as private families.
HOTELS.
Each bed for boarders or lodgers 3 00
Bath-tubs, water-closets, urinals, and wash-tubs,
double the rates for private families.
STORES, OFFICES, AND WAREHOUSES.
One tenant, for one faucet 6 00
Each additional faucet 2 00
Two or more tenants, using one faucet, each tenant 4 00
Pan water-closet, or self-closing urinal, each tenant
using
5 00
Each additional closet or urinal 3 00
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STABLES.
Private stables, one horse, $5; each additional 3 00 Livery, club, or boarding stables, each horse 3 00
Truck, cart, or omnibus stables, each horse 2 00
(The above includes water for washing carriages without hose.) Neat cattle, each head 1 50
(No stable to be charged less than $5.)
HAND HOSE.
(No hose over three-eighths inch orifice allowed.)
Hand hose for washing carriages, when no other ser- vice is had 11 00
Fifty cents additional for each horse.
Hand hose for washing carriages, when used in con- nection with stable, or other use 3 00
Fifty cents additional for each horse.
Hand hose for watering streets and gardens, not ex- ceeding one hour per day, when no other service is had, for a year or any portion thereof .
11 00
Hand hose for watering streets and gardens, not ex- ceeding one hour per day, when used in connec- tion with dwelling-house or other rated use, for a year or any portion thereof 5 00 Three dollars is added for each additional attachment with hose to fixtures in or upon the premises.
STEAM BOILERS.
In use not over twelve hours per day, for each horse
power 6 00
BUILDING PURPOSES.
For each cask of lime or cement used 6 00
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DRINKING FOUNTAINS AND HYDRANTS.
Each public drinking fountain, or watering trough . 6 00 (Private fire-hydrants, to be used only in case of fire, no charge.)
RATE BY METER.
For each hundred gallons . . 3 1-2 cents. (Every meter will be subject to a minimum charge of $10.
SPECIAL RATES.
Special rates will be made, or meter rates charged, for markets, saloons, restaurants, bakeries, manufactories, work- shops, public baths, halls, churches and railroads, and for purposes not included in any classification.
When application is made for shutting off and letting on the water, in case of repairs, or of protection from frost, a charge will be made of one dollar.
SECTION 16. The following regulations shall be con- sidered a part of the contract with every person who takes water; and every such person, by taking water, shall be considered to express his consent to be bound thereby. They shall be printed upon every bill for water rent; and, whenever any one of them is violated, the water shall be cut off from the building or place where the violation occurs (although two or more parties may receive water through the same service pipe), and shall not be let on again except by order of the Registrar, and on the payment of two dollars. In case of any violation, the Registrar may declare any pay- ment made for water, by the offender, to be forfeited, and it shall be forfeited.
1. Persons taking water shall keep the service-pipe within their premises in good repair, and protected from frost at their own expense, and will be held liable for all
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damage which may result from their neglect. Bills for re- pairs of meters or service-pipe shall be paid within ten days after demand.
2. They shall prevent all waste of water, and shall not conceal the purposes for which it is used.
3. No alteration shall be made in any pipe or fixture inserted by the city, except by persons authorized by the Registrar, who may enter the premises to examine the appar- atus, the quantity of water used and the manner of its use, and to ascertain whether there is waste.
4. No water shall be supplied to persons not entitled to the use of it, unless by special permission of the Registrar.
5. The use of hand-hose is restricted to one hour in each day, between 6 and 9 o'clock A. M., or 5 and 8 o'clock P. M., except where the water is drawn through a meter.
6. Distributing-pipes and water fixtures introduced into the premises of any water-taker shall be subject to the approval of the Registrar No change affecting the flow of the water shall be made, nor additional fixtures put in, with- out his written approval.
The City Council may alter the foregoing regulations at any time.
SECTION 17. The owner and the occupant of premises in which water furnished by the city is used, who fails to keep the service-pipe and fixtures in good order, and neg- lects to repair them within three days after they have become defective, or neglects to shut off the water, so that it runs to waste, shall be liable to a fine of two dollars ; and if the fine is not paid within two days after notice, the water shall be cut off and shall not be let on until the waste is stopped and the fine is paid, together with two dollars for cutting off and letting on the water. In case of a second offence within one year, the water shall be cut off, and shall not be let on except by a
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vote of the said Board, and the payment of such forfeit, not exceeding $10, as the Board may impose.
SECTION 18. Any plumber, or other person, who shall make any alterations in, or additions to, any water-pipe or fixture, except so far as a written permit therefor has been given by the Registrar, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $20.
SECTION 19. Whoever opens any hydrant, or removes the caps thereof, or opens or makes any connection with a pipe or reservoir, or turns off or on the water in a pipe or reservoir, without the permission of the Water Registrar, the Superintendent of Water Works, or the Chief of the Fire Department, except in case of fire, shall be liable to a pen- alty of not less than $3 nor more than $20; provided, how- ever, that in case of emergency the water may be turned off by any employee of the city, who shall, in such case, imme- diately notify the Registrar.
SECTION 20. Whoever fishes in the reservoir or filter- basin, or discharges any gun or fire-arm on the same or on the grounds connected therewith, or bathes therein, or places or uses any boat therein, or posts any bill, placard or adver- tisement within said grounds, shall be liable to a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $50 for each offence.
RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE WATER DE- PARTMENT.
Adopted by the Water Board, April 6, 1883.
The office of the Water Board is established at the room in the City Hall, West Newton, now occupied by the Water Registrar.
Reports will be made to this office daily, as follows :-
From the reservoir :
Of the stage of water there at 7 A. M.
From the Engineer at the Pumping Station :
Of the stage of water in the well at 7 A. M.
Of the stage of water in the river at 7 A. M.
Of gallons of water pumped in the twenty-four hours ending at 7 A. M.
Of pounds of coal delivered to the boilers in the twenty- four hours ending at 7 A. M.
From the Superintendent :
Of the details and expense of any construction jobs completed in the previous day.
The Registrar
Is the Clerk and Executive Officer of the Water Board.
All orders of the Board to persons employed in the department will be signed by, or given through, him and will be respected and obeyed accordingly.
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He will keep copies or memoranda of all orders from the office and the reports of other officers closely posted up.
No order for the extension of mains or laying of services will be issued by him until he has received the certificates of the City Engineer concerning lines and grades, as required by the Ordinance, nor without the special order of the Board, until a guarantee of five per cent. annual income for five years upon the estimated cost of any exten sion of mains has been executed and filed with him, nor in the case of un- accepted streets or lands until the license of the abutters has been received by him.
The Registrar will be held responsible for the proper condition of the books, papers and work of the office, as also for the due performance of the duties imposed upon him by the ordinances.
The Superintendent
May employ and discharge day laborers, as the work of the department may require.
He will also leave word with the person in charge of his station at Newtonville as to where he . may be found : or, when no person is left in charge there, he will, before leav- ing, report to the water office, by telephone, where he may be found while absent, and the time of his expected return.
In addition to current reports of work done under his direction, he will, on the first of December in each year, take an account of all property in his custody, and report the same, showing :-
1. The number or quantity of each article on hand at the beginning of the year.
2. The number or quantity of each article received by him in the year.
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3. The number or quantity of each article used in the year.
4. The number or quantity of each article remain- ing on hand December 1.
The Superintendent will be held responsible for the good conduct of the men under his direction, the condition of the water, the reservoir and its grounds, the basin and grounds in Needham, the piping and gates, the hydrants and the tools and other property of this department. He will also be watchful to prevent or remedy any projection of the service boxes above the surface of the ground.
He will seasonably report to the water office when there is occasion for the purchase of any property.
The Engineer at the Pumping Station
Will be held responsible for the good condition of the buildings, machinery, fixtures, furniture and tools there and of the grounds immediately about the station. For these purposes he may at all times command the assistance of the fireman. If there is any occasion for material or labor other than that of himself and the fireman, he will seasonably give notice to the water office, in order that the Board may make proper provision therefor.
The engineer will not absent himself from the station nor permit the absence of the fireman except upon leave asked and obtained from the water office. The engineer and fireman are never to be absent at the same time.
Special reports by telephone will be made of any unusual occurrence within the observation of the engineer.
He will keep, closely posted up, the book of record of the pumping engine, which will be furnished him.
Either engineer or fireman to be on the spot at all ti nes, day or night, week-days, Sundays or holidays.
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The Water Board desires that it shall be distinctly un- derstood by all persons employed in the department that the city expects, in return for the pay attached to their several positions, the whole of their time and the best of their capacity.
No extra pay for work directly connected with their duties will be allowed to persons whose pay is fixed by the month or year, and no absence from duty without leave will be permitted.
In the performance of their duties propriety and court- esy, in language and manner, will be expected of officers and men.
By order of the Water Board. EDWARD W. CATE, President.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
CITY OF NEWTON,
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NEWTON :
PRESS OF THE NEWTON JOURNAL. 1886.
ORGANIZATION OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
JANUARY, 1885.
HON. J. WESLEY KIMBALL, MAYOR, CHAIRMAN, ex officio. SAMUEL L. POWERS, PRESIDENT COMMON COUNCIL, ex officio. FISHER AMES, CHAIRMAN.
ISAAC HAGAR, SECRETARY. THOMAS EMERSON, SUPERINTENDENT.
Elective Members.
Wards.
Term of office expires. January, 1886.
EDMUND W. CONVERSE,
I.
CHARLES H. STONE,
I.
66 1886.
JOHN W. DICKINSON,
II.
1886.
A. AMELIA SMEAD,
II.
66
1886.
FISHER AMES, .
III.
1888.
WILLIAM S. SMITH,
IV.
1886.
GEORGE A. WALTON, .
III.
66
1888.
ISAAC HAGAR,
IV.
1888.
JOHN A. GOULD, .
V.
66
1887.
ALBERT B. PUTNEY, .
V.
1887.
CHARLES C. BARTON, .
VI.
1887.
WILLIAM D. PHILBRICK,
VI.
1887.
VII.
66
1887.
GEORGE W. SHINN, . ALONZO S. WEED,
VII.
1888.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
High School. Fisher Ames, John W. Dickinson, William S. Smith, George W. Shinn, Edmund W. Converse, Charles C. Barton, William D. Philbrick, and the Mayor, ex officio.
Evening School ..- George W. Shinn, Alonzo S. Weed, George A. Walton.
Music .- George W. Shinn, A. Amelia Smead, Albert B. Putney.
Drawing and Writing .- A. Amelia Smead, Charles H. Stone, Albert B. Putney. Industrial Drawing .- John A. Gould, Charles H. Stone, Samuel L. Powers. Sewing .- A. Amelia Smead, George W. Shinn, William D. Philbrick. Text-Books .- Charles C. Barton, William S. Smith, Alonzo S. Weed.
Rules and Regulations .- William S. Smith, Alonzo S. Weed, George A. Walton. Salaries .- Edmund W. Converse, Samuel L. Powers, John W. Dickinson. Schoolhouses .- Isaac Hagar, Charles H. Stone, John W. Dickinson.
Accounts and Printing .- Isaac Hagar, Fisher Ames, George A.,Walton.
DISTRICTS.
NEWTON CENTRE.
CHARLES C. BARTON, Newton Centre. JOHN A. GOULD, Newton Upper Falls.
WILLIAM D. PHILBRICK, Newton Centre. ALBERT B. PUTNEY, Newton Highlands. SAMUEL L. POWERS, Newton.
UPPER FALLS.
JOHN A. GOULD, Newton Upper Falls. ALBERT B. PUTNEY, Newton Highlands.
ISAAC HAGAR, Newton Lower Falls. WILLIAM D. PHILBRICK, Newton Centre. CHARLES C. BARTON, Newton Centre.
AUBURNDALE AND LOWER FALLS.
WILLIAM S. SMITH, Auburndale. FISHER AMES, West Newton. ISAAC HAGAR, Newton Lower Falls.
WEST NEWTON.
FISHER AMES, West Newton. GEORGE A. WALTON, West Newton.
JOHN W. DICKINSON, Newtonville. WILLIAM S. SMITH, Auburndale. A. AMELIA SMEAD, Newtonville.
NEWTONVILLE.
JOHN W. DICKINSON, Newtonville. ALONZO S. WEED, Newton.
A. AMELIA SMEAD, Newtonville. CHARLES H. STONE, Newton. EDMUND W. CONVERSE, Newton.
NEWTON.
GEORGE W. SHINN, Newton. EDMUND W. CONVERSE, Newton.
CHARLES H. STONE, Newton. ALONZO S. WEED, Newton. SAMUEL L. POWERS, Newton.
ORGANIZATION OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
JANUARY 1886.
HON. J. WESLEY KIMBALL, MAYOR, CHAIRMAN, ex officio. JAMES W. FRENCH, PRESIDENT COMMON COUNCIL, ex officio. FISHER AMES, CHAIRMAN. THOMAS EMERSON, SECRETARY AND SUPERINTENDENT.
Elective Members. EDMUND W. CONVERSE CHARLES H. STONE
Wards.
I.
Term of office expires. January, 1889.
66
1889.
JOHN W. DICKINSON
II.
66
1889.
A. AMELIA SMEAD
II.
1889.
FISHER AMES
III.
66
1888.
WILLIAM S. SMITH
IV.
..
1888.
GEORGE A. WALTON
III.
66
1888.
ISAAC HAGAR
IV.
1887.
JOHN A. GOULD
V.
66
1887.
ALBERT B. PUTNEY
V.
66
1887.
CHARLES C. BARTON
VI.
66
1887.
WILLIAM D. PHILBRICK
VI.
1887.
GEORGE W. SHINN
VII.
1887.
ALONZO S. WEED .
VII.
66
1888.
I.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
High School .- Fisher Ames, John W. Dickinson, William S. Smith, George W. Shinn, Edmund W. Converse, Charles C. Barton, William D. Philbrick, and the Mayor, ex officio.
Erening Schools .- George W. Shinn, Alonzo S. Weed, George A. Walton. Music .- George W. Shinn, A. Amelia Smead, Albert B. Putney.
Drawing and Writing .- A. Amelia Smead, Charles H. Stone, Albert B. Putney. Industrial Drawing .- John A. Gould, Charles H. Stone, James W. French. Sewing .- A. Amelia Smead, George W. Shinn, William D. Philbrick. Text-Books .- Charles C. Barton, William S. Smith, Alonzo S. Weed. Rules and Regulations .- William S. Smith, Alonzo S. Weed, George A. Walton. Salaries .- Edmund W. Converse, James W: French, John W. Dickinson. Schoolhouses .- Isaac Hagar, Charles H. Stone, John W. Dickinson. Accounts and Printing .- Isaac Hagar, Fisher Ames, George A. Walton.
DISTRICTS.
NEWTON CENTRE.
CHARLES C. BARTON, Newton Centre.
JOHN A. GOULD, Newton Upper Falls.
WILLIAM D. PHILBRICK, Newton Centre. ALBERT B. PUTNEY, Newton Highlands. JAMES W. FRENCH, Newton.
UPPER FALLS.
JOHN A. GOULD, Newton Upper Falls.
ISAAC HAGAR, Newton Lower Falls.
ALBERT B. PUTNEY, Newton Highlands. WILLIAM D. PHILBRICK, Newton Centre. CHARLES C. BARTON, Newton Centre.
AUBURNDALE AND LOWER FALLS.
WILLIAM S. SMITH, Auburndale.
ISAAC HAGAR, Newton Lower Falls.
FISHER AMES, West Newton. JOHN A. GOULD, Newton Upper Falls. GEORGE A. WALTON, West Newton.
WEST NEWTON.
FISHER AMES, West Newton. GEORGE A. WALTON, West Newton. JOHN W. DICKINSON, Newtonville. WILLIAM S. SMITH, Auburndale. A. AMELIA SMEAD, Newtonville.
NEWTONVILLE.
JOHN W. DICKINSON, Newtonville. A. AMELIA SMEAD, Newtonville. ALONZO S. WEED, Newton. CHARLES H. STONE, Newton. EDMUND W. CONVERSE, Newton.
NEWTON.
GEORGE W. SHINN, Newton. EDMUND W. CONVERSE, Newton.
CHARLES H. STONE, Newton. ALONZO S. WEED, Newton. JAMES W. FRENCH, Newton.
CITY OF NEWTON.
IN BOARD OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE, Oct. 28, 1885.
The Chair appointed the following-named members as the committee to prepare the Annual Report, viz .: Fisher Ames, E. W. Converse, J. W. Dickinson, William D. Phil- brick and W. S. Smith.
Dec. 23, 1885.
The Annual Report was presented by Mr. Ames, and ac- cepted.
ISAAC HAGAR, Secretary.
IN BOARD OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE, Jan. 6, 1886.
Ordered, That twenty-five hundred copies of the Annual Report be printed.
THOMAS EMERSON, Secretary.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
ORGANIZATION
3-6
GENERAL REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
11-25
HIGH SCHOOL
18-22
Graduates
22
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT -
27-58
Statistics
49-58
ROLL OF TEACHERS
59-64
SECRETARY'S REPORT
65-66
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
To the Citizens of Newton :
The School Committee herewith submit their report of the condition of the schools of Newton for the year 1885, being the forty-sixth in the annual series. It is brought down to the end of the calendar year, which corresponds with the financial year of the schools.
In accordance with the method adopted last year the re- ports from the several districts are not separately given, as was formerly the practice, the material portions of them be- ing incorporated in the general report.
The customary generous and hearty support of the pub- lic schools has been continued. In return for the liberal appropriations made, the citizens are entitled to ask and ex- pect that the money shall be expended so as to produce the best results. With children very much above the average in good conduct and intelligence, a corps of teachers of abil- ity, fidelity and zeal, and the cordial support of parents and citizens generally, our schools should be, and we believe we can safely assert that they are, as good as any in the land. At the same time we do not claim that they are perfect, or that they cannot be improved. There are, of necessity, diffi- culties inherent in the public school system, and inseparable from the instruction together in one class of a large number of children of different dispositions, characters and mental abilities. The methods of instruction and the amount of time found proper and suitable for the needs of a large class
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will not always answer for each individual case. The very bright scholars have to be retarded somewhat to allow the generality of the class to accomplish the required amount of work, while the very dull ones, in order to keep anywhere near the standard, need more of the exclusive time and attention of the teacher than can be given to them in justice to the others. To overcome this difficulty as far as possible is the desire of this Board. An attempt to remedy it in part has been made by a revision of the course of study for preparation for the High school, simplifying and shortening it so as to render it possible for a good scholar to accomplish the whole prepara- tory work in eight years instead of nine, as formerly re- quired. The average age of High school pupils has been and still is somewhat higher than is necessary or desirable. The change is intended and expected to furnish an incentive to study, and an opportunity to earn promotion without the necessity of awaiting the slower movements of the whole class ; while, for those who do not intend to enter the High school, a broader and fuller grammar school course is pro- vided. The experiment has been tried for a short time only, but it promises to be of value.
That other difficulties than that above mentioned exist, and that the methods of teaching can and should be im- proved, we also admit; but special efforts are being made in these directions. Very great care is exercised in the selec- tion of teachers. A new and thorough revision of the courses of study in the primary and grammar grades has been made and published, by which the amount of time devoted to cultivating the faculties of observation, thought and expression is increased, and the amount of mere memor- izing work diminished. Improvements have been made in these and other ways, the good effects of which will be bet- ter seen as time goes on. In all this work we have received
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the most valuable aid and co-operation from the Superinten- dent, and many of the measures adopted were suggested by him.
The frequent necessity of employing substitutes in cases of sickness and unavoidable absence of teachers has induced the Board to make arrangements for the regular employment of two permanent substitutes, or unassigned teachers, qualified to teach in the upper and lower grades respectively. The slight extra expense involved (substi- tutes being paid out of the salary of those whose places they take) will be more than offset by the advantage of always having within call an experienced teacher, familiar with the progress and methods of work in our schools, ready to take the place of an absent teacher and carry on her class with- out the confusion and interruption heretofore arising in such cases, besides saving valuable time of the Superintendent in finding substitutes, and greatly improving the steadiness and quality of the teaching. It is not unreasonable to expect to find pretty regular and steady work for two substitutes among the many teachers now employed. In this connection it gives us pleasure to acknowledge the very efficient and valu- able aid and advice rendered by the Superintendent in the selection of teachers for new appointments.
Early in the year the Board appointed a special commit- tee to investigate the system of dealing with truancy and ab- senteeism, and, upon their report, provision has been made for the employment of a principal truant officer, with a salary of $300., with one or more assistants at a nominal salary, to give the matter more particular and careful attention than here- tofore. Mr. Martin C Laffie was appointed principal officer, and has performed the somewhat delicate duties of his office with fidelity, and with some improvement in the school at- tendance. There has heretofore been a practical difficulty
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in that the Almshouse, the place assigned by the city ordi- nances for the detention of truants, is entirely unsuitable, and indeed has never been put into such a state or condition that it could be used at all for the purpose, and the reform schools generally are not desirable places to which to send merely idle and careless truants. The Committee has now made arrangements with the Lawrence Industrial School at Lawrence for the reception of such boys as cannot be man- aged by milder methods, where they will be subjected to good influences, and well trained and educated. This ar- rangement requiring the co-operation of the City Council, their attention was called to the matter, and an ordinance has since been adopted to carry it into effect.
During the year two new school-houses, the Rice school in Ward 6, and the one in Shaw street in Ward 3, have been completed and opened. Three rooms in each were at first occupied, but it has been found necessary to open the fourth room in the Rice school. An excellent portrait of the late Marshall S. Rice, for whom the school was named, the gift of his son Marshall O. Rice, has been placed in the new school-house, where it adds to the attractiveness of the very pleasant rooms.
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