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1851
$138 56
1869
. $2,019 28
1852
104 94
1870
·
2,197 41
1853
45 70
1871
· £ 3,713 39
1854
38 10
1872
· 2,884 79
1855
73 63
1873
. 3,066 59
1856
135 49
1874
· 3,895 51
1857
204 96
1875
· 5,553 79
1858
387 61
1876
9,336 14
1859
358 25
1877
. 10,259 57
1860
500 81
1878
. 8,284 10
1861
757 14
1879
. 8,246 42
1862
781 50
1880
6,455 80
1863
632 27
1881
6,808 75 .
1864
605 02
1882
.
7,933 57
186;
870 77
1883
· 8,016 14
1866
643 72
1884
7,076 86
1867
1,268 08
1885
8,500 15
1868
.
1,464 53
1886
7,661 96
SALARIES OF CITY OFFICERS, 1886.
Mayor
$1,000 00
City clerk
2,000 00
City treasurer and collector ·
2,700 00
Assistant treasurer and deputy collector
1,350 00
City auditor
2,000 00
City solicitor
1,000 00
Chairman of assessors
1,200 00
Two assessors, each
750 00
Assistant assessors, each per day
4 00
.
·
.
195
City messenger 1,100 00
Clerk of Common Council
200 00
Sealer of weights and measures
75 00
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
Superintendent of streets, two horses and car-
riage furnished $1,500 00
City Engineer
2,100 00
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Chief of department, team furnished $1,500 00
Assistant chief and Superintendent of Fire
Alarm Telegraph, team furnished
1,000 00
Three engineers of steamers, each
950 00
Four drivers of steamers, and Hook and Lad- der Co., each . 750 00
One driver of hose-carriage No. 4
600 00
Eight foremen of steamers, and Hook and Lad- der and Hose Co., each 110 00
Eight assistant foremen, and clerks of steamers, and Hook and Ladder, and Hose Co., each 105 00 Forty-eight hosemen and laddermen, each 100 00
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
City Marshal, team furnished $1,500 00
Sergeant of police, $3 per day
Fourteen policemen, each
1,000 00
Two policemen
900 00
Two policemen
825 00
First year of service
750 00
Second year of service
825 00
Third year of service
900 00
Fourth and subsequent years
1,000 00
496
POOR DEPARTMENT.
Seven overseers of poor, each . $50 00
City almoner and clerk of board
700 00
Warden of almshouse
600 00
WATER DEPARTMENT.
Water registrar
$1,800 00
Superintendent of water-works, team furnished 1,500 00
Inspector of meters and fixtures
1,200 00
1,200 00
Engineer at pumping station, with house rent . Fireman and watchman, pumping station with house-rent
600 00
SCHOOLS.
Superintendent
$2,750 00
One teacher
2,800 00
Six teachers at $1,900
11,400 00
One teacher
2,200 00
Two teachers at $1,800
3,600 00
Three teachers
4,800 00
One teacher
800 00
Five teachers at $1,000
5,000 00
Two teachers at $950
1,900 00
Sixteen teachers at $750 .
12,000 00
Forty-two teachers at $600
25,200 00
Six teachers at $550
3,300 00
Six teachers at $500
3,000 00
Three teachers at $450
1,350 00
Two teachers at $300
600 00
One teacher
400 00
Secretary of School Committee
300 00
497
Janitors.
One janitor
$650 00
One janitor
696 00
One janitor
540 00
Two janitors, each
480 00
Three janitors, each
360 00
Two janitors, each
264 00
One janitor
300 00
Four janitors at $240
960 00
Two janitors, each
200 00
Two janitors at $96 .
192 00
Library.
Librarian
$1,000 00
Assistant librarian
600 00
Three assistants, each $400
1,200 00
Janitor
800 00
OFFICERS
OF THE
NEWTON CITY GOVERNMENT. 1887.
Mayor. J. WESLEY KIMBALL. Office Hour at City Hall: 3:30 P. M. Daily. BOARD OF ALDERMEN. President, GEORGE PETTEE.
Ward One. J. EDWARD HOLLIS.
Ward Three.
JAMES H. NICKERSON. Ward Five. GEORGE PETTEE.
Ward Two. BENJAMIN S. GRANT. Ward Four. FREDERICK JOHNSON. Ward Six. JOHN WARD.
Ward Seven. SETH K. HARWOOD. STANDING COMMITTEES. Elections and Returns. ALDERMEN.
GEORGE PETTEE. JAMES H. NICKERSON.
Enrolled Ordinances and Resolutions. ALDERMEN.
BENJAMIN S. GRANT. FREDERICK JOHNSON.
500
BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN. Standing Committees.
Police. THE MAYOR. ALDERMEN.
SETH K. HARWOOD. JOHN WARD. Licenses, Weights and Measures. ALDERMEN.
-
FREDERICK JOHNSON. J. EDWARD HOLLIS.
Regular meetings of the Board, first and third Mondays of each month, 7.15 P. M.
Clerk of Board of Aldermen. ISAAC F. KINGSBURY.
COMMON COUNCIL. President, LEWIS E. COFFIN.
LEWIS E. COFFIN.
HERBERT H. POWELL.
Ward Three. GEORGE D. DIX.
ANDREW J. FISKE.
Ward Five. EDWARD M. BILLINGS.
EDMUND G. POND.
Ward Four. THEODORE W. GORE. EVERETT E. MOODY. Ward Six. HEMAN M. BURR. HENRY H. READ.
Ward Seven.
J. CHARLES KENNEDY. WARREN P. TYLER.
Standing Committees of the Common Council.
Enrolled Ordinances and Resolutions.
COUNCILMEN.
ANDREW J. FISKE. EDMUND G. POND. HEMAN M. BURR.
Regular meetings of the Common Council, second and fourth Mon- day of each month, 7:15 P. M.
Clerk of Common Council.
ALBERT S. GLOVER.
Ward One. Ward Two. N. HENRY CHADWICK ELLIS W. REDPATH.
501
JOINT STANDING COMMITTEES OF CITY COUNCIL. Finance and Salaries. ALDERMEN.
BENJAMIN S. GRANT. JOHN WARD.
COUNCILMEN. PRES. LEWIS E. COFFIN.
WARREN P. TYLER.
THEODORE W. GORE.
Accounts. ALDERMEN.
FREDERICK JOHNSON. JOHN WARD.
COUNCILMEN.
ANDREW J. FISKE. ELLIS W. REDPATH.
HERBERT H. POWELL.
Public Property. ALDERMEN.
BENJAMIN S. GRANT. JOHN WARD.
COUNCILMEN.
EDWARD M. BILLINGS. J. CHARLES KENNEDY. ANDREW J. FISKE.
State Aid, Soliers' Relief and Military Affairs.
ALDERMEN.
FREDERICK JOHNSON. JAMES H. NICKERSON.
COUNCILMEN.
EDMUND G. POND. J. CHARLES KENNEDY. HERBERT H. POWELL.
Fuel and Street Lighs.
ALDERMEN.
J. EDWARD HOLLIS. SETH K. HARWOOD. COUNCILMEN.
ELLIS W. REDPATH. EDWARD M. BILLINGS. EVERETT E. MOODY.
Fire Department, ALDERMEN.
GEORGE PETTEE. J. EDWARD HOLLIS. COUNCILMEN.
ANDREW J. FISKE.
ELLIS W. REDPATH. HEMAN M. BURR.
502
Highways. (Inc. Streets and Ways, Sidewalks, Drains and Culverts.) ALDERMEN.
JAMES H. NICKERSON. GEORGE PETTEE.
SETH K. HARWOOD. COUNCILMEN.
PRES. LEWIS E. COFFIN. THEODORE W. GORE. N. HENRY CHADWICK. HENRY H. READ.
Printing. ALDERMEN. SETH K. HARWOOD. COUNCILMEN.
EDWARD M. BILLINGS. EVERETT E. MOODY.
Ordinances.
ALDERMEN.
BENJAMIN S. GRANT. FREDERICK JOHNSON.
COUNCILMEN.
ANDREW J. FISKE. EDMUND G. POND.
HEMAN M. BURR.
Claims.
ALDERMEN.
J. EDWARD HOLLIS. FREDERICK JOHNSON. COUNCILMEN. PRES. LEWIS E. COFFIN.
J. CHARLES KENNEDY. HEMAN M. BURR.
Almshouse and Poor. ALDERMAN. GEORGE PETTEE. COUNCILMEN.
GEORGE D. DIX. HENRY H. READ
Assessors' Department. ALDERMAN. JOHN WARD. COUNCILMEN. N. HENRY CHADWICK. GEORGE D. DIX.
503
Highway Surveyors. ALDERMEN.
JAMES H. NICKERSON. GEORGE PETTEE. SETH K. HARWOOD. COUNCILMEN.
PRES. LEWIS E. COFFIN. THEODORE W. GORE.
N. HENRY CHADWICK. HENRY H. READ.
Public Parks, Squares and Burial Grounds. ALDERMEN.
GEORGE PETTEE. FREDERICK JOHNSON.
J. EDWARD HOLLIS.
COUNCILMEN.
GEORGE D. DIX.
ELLIS W. REDPATH.
WARREN P. TYLER. HENRY H. READ.
JOINT SPECIAL COMMITTEES.
Sewerage. ALDERMEN.
JOHN WARD. SETH K. HARWOOD.
COUNCILMEN.
N. HENRY CHADWICK.
GEORGE D. DIX.
HEMAN M. BURR.
Rules and Orders. ALDERMEN.
BENJAMIN S. GRANT. JAMES H. NICKERSON. COUNCILMEN.
J. CHARLES KENNEDY. HEMAN M. BURR. EVERETT E. MOODY. Read Fund.
ALDERMEN.
SETH K. HARWOOD. J. EDWARD HOLLIS.
COUNCILMEN.
PRES. LEWIS E. COFFIN.
J. CHARLES KENNEDY.
HERBERT H, POWELL. WARREN P. TYLER.
Clerk of Committees. BENJAMIN F. OTIS.
504
TRUSTEES OF NEWTON FREE LIBRARY.
JOHN S. FARLOW, President.
ALDERMAN PETTEE. COUNCILMAN TYLER. JULIUS L. CLARKE. BRADFORD K. PIERCE.
A. LAWRENCE EDMANDS. WM. CLAFLIN.
Meetings: First Tuesday in each month, 7 o'clock, P. M.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
THE MAYOR, ex-officio. ALDERMAN BENJ. S. GRANT, President.
COUNCILMAN HEMAN M. BURR. J. FRANKLIN FULLER. JESSE F. FRISBIE. OTIS PETTEE.
Agent of Board. NATHAN MOSMAN.
Clerk. ISAAC F. KINGSBURY.
Agent for Inspection of Plumbing. ALBERT F. NOYES.
Meetings: First and Third Tuesdays in each month, 4.20 P. M.
WATER BOARD. EDWARD W. CATE, President.
ALDERMAN GEORGE PETTEE. COUNCILMAN GEORGE D. DIX. FRANCIS A. DEWSON. CHAS. FRED CREHORE.
Clerk. ALBERT S. GLOVER.
SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS.
GEORGE S. BULLENS. GEORGE C. LORD
ALDEN SPEARE.
505
City Solicitor. WINFIELD S. SLOCUM.
ASSESSORS. ISAAC HAGAR, Chairman.
SAMUEL M. JACKSON.
HOWARD B. COFFIN.
REGISTRARS OF VOTERS. GEORGE E. BRIDGES, Chairman.
GEORGE H. BOURNE. RICHARD T. SULLIVAN.
Clerk. ISAAC F. KINGSBURY.
OVERSEERS OF POOR. THE MAYOR, ex-officio.
Ward One. EDWIN O. CHILDS.
Ward Two. E. S. COLTON.
Ward Three. GEORGE E. ALLEN.
Ward Four. NATHAN MOSMAN.
Ward Five. HOSEA C. HOYT.
Ward Six. GEORGE WARREN.
Ward Seven. JOHN WARNER.
Clerk. NATHAN MOSMAN.
Meetings: First Thursday in each month, 3.45 P. M.
506
SECRETARY OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE. THOMAS EMERSON (Superintendent of Schools.) OFFICE AT HIGH SCHOOL. Hours: Monday, 2 to 4 and 6.30 to 8 P. M.
OFFICERS AT CITY HALL. P. O. Address, West Newton, Mass. City Clerk, ISAAC F. KINGSBURY. City Treasurer and Collector of Taxes, JOHN A. KENRICK. Deputy Collector of Taxes, MOSES CLARK. JR. Auditor, BENJAMIN F. OTIS. City Engineer, ALBERT F. NOYES. Chairman of Assessors, ISAAC HAGAR. Water Registrar, ALBERT S. GLOVER. City Almoner, Clerk of Overseers of Poor, NATHAN MOSMAN. City Messenger, J. D. WELLINGTON. City Marshal, DANIEL M. HAMMOND.
OFFICE HOURS: 8.15 A. M. to 12.30 P. M. 2 P. M. to 5 P. M. Except Saturdays in June, July, August and September, when the hours are from 8.15 A. M. to 1 P. M.
Chief of Fire Department, HENRY L. BIXBY. Hours at City Hall, 2 to 5 P. M.
Superintendent of Streets, WILLIAM E. FULLER. Hours at City Hall, 11.30 to 12 A. M., 4.30 to 5 P. M.
Superintendent of Water Work, H. N. HYDE, JR. Office at Pipe Yard, Austin Street, Newtonville.
STATISTICS COMPILED BY THE CITY CLERK FROM THE RECORDS OF HIS OFFICE.
MARRIAGES REGISTERED 1886.
January .
17
August
17
February
8
September
18
March
19
October
20
April
11
November
30
May
16
December
20
June
22
July
18
Total
216
Birthplace of the Above Contracting Parties.
GROOM.
BRIDE.
United States
131
132
Ireland
44
42
Canada
32
33
England
6
Germany
1
Scotland
China
1
Australia
1
Africa
Totals .
216
216
American
131
132
Foreign
85
84
Totals
216
216
4 413111 3 1 1
-
BİRTHS REGISTERED İN 1886.
AGGREGATE.
MALE.
FEMALE.
MALE.
FEMALE.
MALE.
FEMALE.
MALE.
FEMALE.
MALE.
FEMALE.
MALE.
FEMALE.
MALE.
FEMALE.
MALE.
FEMALE.
41
2
1
or
3
7
1
5
9
2
co 1
1
4
2
2
2
5
February
7
5
3
3
5
2
4
1
4
2
1
2
2
5
2
1
19
16
32
March
3
4
3
3
2
3
4
5
3
2
3
1
3
1
April
8
1
2
1
3
1
6
5
3
1
3
3
2
5
3
1
25
17
49
June
4
3
9
3
2
4
3
4
4
3
5
6
2
2
1
1
22
18
48
August.
5
1
3
4
4
-
·
6
4
3
3
7
3
3
3
3
1
3
1
-
5
4
22
0
38
November
3
6
3
4
1
3
2
4
00
2
3
1
1
2
2
1
1
122
17
20
37
December .
5
2
Co
5
2
4
3
5
2
36
27
33
41
15
14
256
230
486
Totals
49
38
49
32
38
40
36
38
Aggregate
·
87
81
78
74
63
74
29
-
.
-
5
C
6
2
1
May
5
1
2
10
29
20
40
July
·
.
5
4
2
1
24
41
September
1
4
8
16
22
October
·
·
·
.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
TOTAL.
WARDS.
1
22
19
20
22
42
January
.
2
15
17
41
25
16
42
·
·
6
1
3
3
4
3
3
2
24
-
508
486
2
3
509
Birthplace of Parents of Above.
FATHERS.
MOTHERS.
United States
Ireland
122
123
England .
29
27
Canada
18
17
Nova Scotia
31
40
New Brunswick
16
16
Newfoundland
2
3
Prince Edward's Island
6
12
Scotland
3
2
Sweden
1
Denmark
1
1
Italy
2
2
South America
1
1
India
1
1
West Indies
1
1
Total
486
486
American
245
234
Forcign .
.
241
252
Total
486
486
-
4 411 I. 1 1
Germany
5
2
France
Spain
245
234
AGGREGATE.
MALE.
FEMALE.
MALE.
FEMALE.
MALE.
FEMALE.
MALE.
FEMALE.
MALE.
FEMALE.
MALE.
FEMALE.
MALE.
FEMALE.
MALE.
FEMALE.
11
1
1
-
-
2
1
2
1
-
-
·
2
2
1
3
2
3
1
1
1
2
2
2
1
2
10
15
February
2
3
1
-
1
1
1
10
12
22
March
5
2
3
4
1
2
1
-
2
1
1
4
May .
3
2
1
4
3
2
2
2
1
1
2
2
11
14
27
June
1
2
5
4
3
1
2
1
35
July
4
3
5
1
5
1
1
1
3
2
4
2
1
2
1
12
11
22
September .
3
1
4
1
-
1
3
1
-
2
2
2
2
11
11
18
October .
23
December
1
3
1
8
-
1
-
1
3
1
3
1
-
·
-
3
2
3
2
2
1
2
-
-
1
2
-
I
6
12
7
16
Totals
20
26
27
39
25
17
21
20
10
10
21
20
9
10
133
142
275
Aggregate .
46
66
42
41
20
41
19
275
.
1
3
2
4
4
2
17
April
.
3
1
1
3
1
-
-
5
2
1
2
3
-
1
21
14
3
4
2
1
1
August
1
4
November
STATEMENT OF DEATHS BY MONTHS IN EACH WARD
TOTAL.
WARDS.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
5
6
3
1
-
-
25
January
27
1
15
12
2
1
1
1
1
8
9
25
17
10
23
-
510
511
Birthplace of Parents of Above Deceased Persons.
FATHERS.
MOTHERS.
United States
140
139
Canada
23
26
England
17
14
Scotland
1
2
Germany
2
2
Italy
1
1
Unknown
7
8
Totals .
275
275
American
140
139
Foreign .
12
128
Unknown
7
8
Totals
275
275
Ireland
81
83
512
DEATHS REGISTERED IN 1886. Statement Showing Causes of Death in Each Month.
JANUARY.
FEBRUARY.
MARCH.
APRIL.
MAY.
JUNE.
JULY.
AUGUST.
SEPTEMBER.
OCTOBER.
NOVEMBER.
DECEMBER.
TOTAL.
Accident bicycle
-
-
-
-
1
1
-
1
Accident, railroad
1
1
Alcoholism
1
Anæmia
4
Apoplexy
1
1
1
-
3
Asthma -
1
1
Back broken
Birth premature
1
1
1
1
Bowels, hemorrhage of
2
Bowels, perforation of -
1
1
-
1 1
Brain, disease of
1
1
1
1
2
Brain. inflammation of Brights disease
1
1
1
1
1
10
Bronchitis
1
2
9
Cardiac Syncope
1
1
2
8
1
1
12
Cholera morbus
I
1
1
1
1
1
121
2
2
27
Convulsions
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
Diabetes
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
3
Drowned
1
1
1
Enteritis
Epilepsy
1
Exhaustion
1
Fever, gastric
Fever. puerpural
1
Fever, scarlet
1
1
1
1
1
6
Gangrene
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
-
-
1
1
1
1
4
1
12
2
16
Heart, fatty tion of
I
1
-
2
Himiplegia
1
1
1
1
4
Hepatitis
1
1
1
Hernia femoral -
1
I
1
1
-
1
I
1 00 1
1
1
1
1
1
5
Bowels, consumption of
Brain, concussion of -
1
1
-
1
1
1
1
Cancer
1
1
2
1 7 1
Cholera infantum
Constipation
Consumption
1
1
1
Cyanosis
Debility
1
1
1
1
5
2
Diarrhoea
1
1
1
1 ,
1
2
Glottis, spasm of
1
1
1
1
Gout -
1
-
1
Hæmophilia
1
Heart disease
1
degenera-
1
2
Hemorrhage
4
2
4
2
1
4
Diphtheria
1
1
2
2
1
Fever, typhoid
1
2
1
-
1
6
Croup, membraneous
1
1
1
Atrophy
1
1
1
1
1
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
513
DEATHS REGISTERED IN 1886. Statement showing Causes of Death in each Month, (Concluded.)
JANUARY.
FEBRUARY.
MARCH.
APRIL.
MAY.
JUNE.
JULY.
AUGUST.
SEPTEMBER.
OCTOBER.
NOVEMBER.
DECEMBER.
TOTAL.
Hydrocephalus
-
-
1
1
-
-
-
1
Inanition
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
-
1
Lip, cancer of
1
1
Liquor
Liver, disease of
Marasmus -
Meningitis
1
3
2
1
1
2
1
1
18
Paralysis
1
1
1
1
1
1
6 1
Pericarditis
Peritonitis
Pleurisy
1
1
1N1
1N1
101
1
2
Scarlatina
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
-
1
Septicæmia
Stillborn
3
2
1
2
1
3
24
Stomach, Carcmonia of -
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
3
Unknown
1
1
Whooping Cough
2
2
Total deaths in each mo.
9
24
29
23
16
26
26
35
24
21
19
23 275
1
1
1
1
1
-
1
3
1
1
-
1
1
1
1
1
1
-
1
1
1
1
-
1
1
1
1
1 1
1
3
Pneumonia
Rheumatism
1
1
1 1 11N1
1
1
Stomach, inflammation of
Teething
Thigh broken
1
Tuberculosis
1
3
Tumor
1
1 111 1
-
4
Old Age
Pelvis, disease of
1
1
1
- 2
17
1
Scrofula
-
1
1
3
1
1
1
1
Jaundice
-
-
1
1 1
1
9
1
2
514
OFFICE FEES.
DR.
Agreement of fence location
25
Assignment of wages . .
$11 00
Assignment of wages, discharged
2 25
Assignment of account
2 00
Assignment of income
1 00
Attachments
25
Bills of sale
4 25
Bills of sale, assigned
25
Bills of sale, discharged
25
Foreclosure of pledge
50
Licenses, auctioneer .
22 00
Licenses, innholder ·
1 00
Licenses, intelligence office
18 00
Licenses, junk
24 00
Licenses, marriage
102 50
Mortgages
91 20
Mortgages, assignment of
2 75
Mortgages, discharged
9 25
Naturalization certificate
1 00
Woman certificate of business on
own account
25
Total receipts
$293 95
Dogs Licensed.
1,095 males at $2
. 2,118 00
144 females at $5
720 00
Total receipts for dogs
$2,838 00
Aggregate collections
$3,131 95
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·
515
CR.
By office fees paid monthly to
city treasurer
293 95
Retained from dog license
receipts, and paid to city
treasurer, 1.203 licenses, at 20c.
240 60
Paid county treasurer
2,597 40
$2,838 00
$3,131 95
Dogs are Distributed in the Various Wards as Follows :-
1
2
3
4
5
6
To'ls.
Males Females
128
190
22
24
168 23
151 14
123 14
201 36
98 11
1059 144
150
214
191
165
137
237
109
1203
Registered Voters. (From List used at City Election, Dec. 7.)
Wards,
1
2
3 519
4 478
5
6
7 402
Total 3321.
Enrolled Militia.
Wards, 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Total.
513
581
332
402
433
604
405
3270
1885
394
509
319
262
495
623
390
2992
Gain
278
412
596
433
484
All the wards show a gain except Ward 5 where there is a loss of 62 and Ward 6 where there is a loss of 19.
CITY OF NEWTON
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
CITY ENGINEER,
FOR THE YEAR 1886.
EW
LIBERTY AND UNION. 3043
FOUND
163
688.A CITY1873
ORATE
NEWTON : PRESS OF THE NEWTON JOURNAL. 1887.
OFFICERS OF CONTROLLING BOARDS AND COMMITTEES.
Chief Executive Officer (ex officio).
HIS HONOR THE MAYOR, J. WESLEY KIMBALL.
Joint Standing Committee on Highways. ALDERMAN JAMES H. NICKERSON, Chairman.
Water Board. EDWARD W. CATE, President.
Board of Health.
HIS HONOR THE MAYOR, J. WESLEY KIMBALL, President (ex officio.)
Joint Standing Committee on Public Property. ALDERMAN BENJAMIN S. GRANT, Chairman.
Joint Standing Committee on Parks.
ALDERMAN SAMUEL L. POWERS, Chairman.
CITY ENGINEER'S DEPARTMENT.
City Engineer. ALBERT F. NOYES.
Principal Assistant Engineer. FRED. H. BARNES.
Assistant Engineers.
WILLIAM S. FRENCH. I. W. HASTINGS.
Transitmen and Levellers.
WILLIAM P. MORSE. ARTHUR L. WOODRUFF.
.
REPORT.
CITY ENGINEER'S OFFICE, CITY HALL, WEST NEWTON, MASS., Dec. 31, 1886.
To the Honorable City Council.
GENTLEMEN,-In compliance with Section 5 of Ordi- nance No. 9, I herewith respectfully submit the Annual Report of the City Engineer's Department for the year 1885. Amount appropriated for the year . $6,750 00
Amount received from the Board of Health 534 64
Total
. $7,284 64
Amount expended
7,283 79
Amount unexpended
$ 0 85
CLASSIFICATION OF EXPENDITURES.
For salaries of city engineer, assistants, draughts- man, and rodmen $6,137 83
For car fares and other incidentals 390 16
For horse, harness, wagon and sleigh 413 75
For care and keeping of horse, wagon, etc., 224 43
For instruments and repairs 49 20
For drawing paper and other supplies 42 42
For horse hire
26 00
Total amount $7,283 79 The item of salaries of city engineer and assistants may be divided as follows :-
524
For defining street lines; making surveys and maps, the examination of titles and draught- ing of reports, orders and releases for street widenings, acceptance and extension ; office records; defining and establishing proposed grades of streets ; surveys, plans, profiles and estimates for proposed work on highways; and all work relating to highways . $2,567 66
For clerical work in keeping highway accounts . For establishing lines and grades for the exten- sion of water pipes, locating and measuring service pipes, and for all work relating to water works .
615 14
For plans, estimates, reports, inspection of plumb- ing, correspondence, and for all work relating to the Board of Health 571 90
968 18
For defining lines and grades for the construction of drains and culverts, making preliminary surveys, plans, profiles, diagrams, estimates, calculations, and all work relating to drains For defining the lines, surveys and plans of city property, making plans and specifications for the alteration and repairs on old buildings and superintending the execution of the same, under the direction of the Joint Stand- ing Committee on Public Property ·
437 22
For copying all Newton plans at Registry of Deeds and County Commissioners' office and indexing the same; and for all indexing of other plans, deeds, field work, etc.,
For making survey and levels for plans, profiles and estimates for the use of the City Solic- itor in suits for or against the city ; for attend-
397 44
270 19
525
ing court, and for all work relating to said suits
190 62
For defining the lines, grading, making surveys and plans of the various parks; and for all other work under the direction of the Joint Standing Committee on Parks 92 60
For all other miscellaneous work 26 88
Total amount . $6.137 83
Surveys have been made of the whole or a part of twenty streets covering a length of three and three-tenths miles. One hundred and forty-two plans and profiles have been made. Levels have been taken over the whole or a part of forty streets or brooks. a total length of nine and four-tenths miles. Lines have been established on thirty- eight streets and grades on sixty-five streets. The total length of grades given was seven and five-tenths miles. A survey has been made of the district lying between the Bos- ton & Albany Railroad, Washington street and the Boston line. Also a survey has been made of the vicinity of the Circuit Railroad between Washington street and Grove street for the proposed improvement in the vicinity of the Woodland station. These surveys have been plotted upon district maps. The total number of plans, profiles. tracings etc., now in the office is 2,625.
The minimum number of assistants employed during the past year is five ; average number, six ; and the maximum number at any time, nine.
Upon the following named streets, plans and profiles have been made; lines and grades defined; titles and bound- aries of the abutting estates examined ; reports, orders, and releases drawn; and said streets have been laid out and accepted by the City Council :-
Streets Accepted in 1886.
STREET.
FROM
To
WIDTH IN FEET.
LENGTH IN FEET.
Allston.
Mt. Vernon Street ..
northerly
40
302
Arlington.
East of Pembroke Street ..
Brighton Street.
40
773
Circuit Avenue
Boylston Street.
Elliot Street.
50
1467
Copley ..
Washington Street
Hunnewell Avenue.
40
560
Crescent.
Faxon Street .
California Street ...
40
1357
Emerson
Pearl Street.
Boyd Street ....
30
547
Faxon ..
Watertown Street.
Crescent Street.
40
306
Hollis ..
Centre St., near Franklin St ...
Centre St., opp. Wesley St ...
40
665
Hyde Avenue.
Centre Street.
Sargent Street ..
40
1645
Irving. .
Marshall Street ..
northerly .
40
583
Kingsbury.
Hammond Street ..
southwesterly
40
452
Marlboro ..
Arlington Street ..
Tremont Street.
40
525
Melrose.
Seaverns Street.
Staniford Street.
40
1240
Meredith Avenue.
Boylston Street. .
Circuit R. R.
50
307
Morse ..
Walnut Street.
Hull Street ..
40
742
Rice ..
Sumner Street ..
Centre Street. .
40
533
Wiswall ..
Cross Street ..
Parsons Street ..
40
380
Total.
.2.35 miles.
... or ....
12,384
. .
.
526
527
The area on the north side of Beacon Street, west of Walnut Street, originally taken for slopes, was discontinued. The abuttors releasing to the city the right to slope on their estate at such time as the street shall be re-graded.
The corners of Grant Avenue and Beacon Street were rounded and a small plat of grass will be laid down in the centre, at the intersection of the two streets.
River Street, between Waltham and Cherry Streets, was ordered widened, under the betterment law, to the regular width of forty feet. The work contemplated is an improve- ment long needed.
Waverly Avenue, between Tremont and Washington Streets, was widened to a width of fifty feet, re-graded and rebuilt.
The routine work of the office, the system of accounts and the copying and indexing of all Newton plans at the Registry of Deeds, County Commissioners, or Clerk of the Court's offices, also all private land plans obtainable, has been continued as outlined in previous reports.
These plans are open to the use of the public and are becoming of greater value every year. Referring to this sub- ject, it may not be out of place to copy the following information from my report to the City Council for the year 1884 :-
" These ( plans ) are carefully indexed under their re- spective heads and placed where they can be readily referred to. It is my desire to make the records of the Department convenient and valuable to the public. Already has this scheme proven of great value to persons having mislaid their original plans, and have found copies of the same on file ; or, where persons desiring to find plans of certain properties. after examining various places at considerable expense, have found copies here of what they wanted. Where a series of
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plans of the same properties have been made, showing sub- divisions or changes, copies are arranged for easy reference or comparison. I might here suggest that any person having any plans of Newton property, by sending them to this office, copies will be made and placed on record free of expense to them, the original returned, and the copy can be at any time referred to, should the original be lost or not of easy access."
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
Highway Surveyors and Joint Standing Committee on Highways. ALDERMAN JAMES H. NICKERSON, Chairman. ALDERMAN GEORGE M. FISKE. ALDERMAN GEORGE PETTEE. COUNCILMAN CHARLES W. ROSS. COUNCILMAN N. HENRY CHADWICK. COUNCILMAN LEWIS E. COFFIN. COUNCILMAN J. CHARLES KENNEDY.
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS.
Superintendent of Streets. WILLIAM E. FULLER.
Assistant Superintendents of Streets. GEORGE E. STUART, Wards 1, 2 and 7. JOHN J. WARE, Wards 3 and 4. JOHN A. PECK, Wards 5 and 6.
City Engineer. ALBERT F. NOYES.
HIGHWAYS.
At the beginning of the year the committee was enlarged from five to seven members; one member representing each ward. And the Joint Standing Committee on Highways, Streets and Ways, Sidewalks, Drains and Sewers became the Joint Standing Committee on Highways, having under its management the repairs, building and rebuilding of streets, drains, culverts, sidewalks, etc., and the gravel lands. Alder- man Pettee and Councilmen Coffin, Chadwick and Kennedy were new members of the committee.
The executive officers of the department remained the same. A change was made in the districts of the Assistant Superintendents, by which the Superintendent gave up the immediate control of Ward 3 and devoted his time entirely to the general supervision of the work. The Assistant Superintendents were assigned as follows :- George E. Stuart to Wards 1, 2 and 7, John J. Ware to Wards 3 and 4, and John A. Peck to Wards 5 and 6. The policy of thoroughly constructing several miles of streets each year has been con- tinued during the past year.
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