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Water registrar $1,800 00
Superintendent of water-works, team furnished, 1,500 00
Inspector of meters and fixtures 1,200 00 Engineer at pumping station, with house-rent . 1,200 00 Fireman and watchman, pumping station, with house-rent . 600 00
-
189
SCHOOLS.
Superintendent
$2,800 00
One teacher-
3,000 00
One teacher
2,200 00
One teacher
2,000 00
Seven teachers, at $1,900 .
13,300 00
Three teachers, at $1,800 .
5,400 00
One teacher ·
1,600 00
Two teachers, at $1,500
3,000 00
Four teachers, at $1,000
4,000 00
One teacher
950 00
One teacher
900 00
One teacher
800 00
Eighteen teachers, at $750
13,500 00
Forty-eight teachers, at $600
.
28,800 00
Four teachers, at $550
2,200 00
Seven teachers, at $500
3,500 00
Four teachers, at $450
1,800 00
One teacher
400 00
Secretary of school committee .
300 00
JANITORS.
One janitor
$1,092 00
One janitor
768 00
One janitor
696 00
One janitor
624 00
One janitor
588 00
One janitor
456 00
.
190
One janitor
$372 00
Three janitors, at $360
1,080 00
One janitor
276 00
Two janitors, at $264
528 00
One janitor
144 00
One janitor
108 00
One janitor
96 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,
1888.
MAYOR. J. WESLEY KIMBALL. Office Hour at City Hall: 3:30 P.M. Daily.
BOARD OF ALDERMEN. President, GEORGE PETTEE.
WARD ONE. EDWIN O. CHILDS.
WARD THREE. JAMES H. NICKERSON.
WARD TWO. N. HENRY CHADWICK. WARD FOUR. FREDERICK JOHNSON.
WARD FIVE. GEORGE PETTEE.
WARD SIX. JOHN WARD.
WARD SEVEN. WARREN P. TYLER.
STANDING COMMITTEES. Elections and Returns. ALDERMEN.
GEORGE PETTEE. JOHN WARD.
Enrolled Ordinances and Resolutions. ALDERMEN.
WARREN P. TYLER. EDWIN O. CHILDS.
192
STANDING COMMITTEES, BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN.
Police. THE MAYOR.
ALDERMEN.
FREDERICK JOHNSON.
WARREN P. TYLER.
Licenses Weights and Measures. ALDERMEN.
FREDERICK JOHNSON. N. HENRY CHADWICK.
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, HEMAN M. BURR.
WARD ONE.
HERBERT H. POWELL.
ALBERT W. RICE.
WARD TWO. JOHN A. FENNO. EDMUND T. WISWALL.
WARD THREE.
WARD FOUR. THEODORE W. GORE.
LAWRENCE BOND.
HENRY H. HUNT.
EVERETT E. MOODY.
WARD FIVE.
EBENEZER H. GREENWOOD.
FRANK J. HALE.
WARD SIX. HEMAN M. BURR. HENRY H. READ.
WARD SEVEN.
J. CHARLES KENNEDY. EPHRAIM S. HAMBLEN.
STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE COMMON COUNCIL,
Enrolled Ordinances and Resolutions.
COUNCILMEN.
HERBERT H. POWELL. EVERETT E. MOODY. EBENEZER H. GREENWOOD.
Regular meetings of the Common Council, second and fourth Mondays of each month, 7.15 P.M.
Clerk of Common Council. JOHN C. BRIMBLECOM.
193
JOINT STANDING COMMITTEES OF CITY COUNCIL. Finance and Salaries. ALDERMEN. WARREN P. TYLER. EDWIN O. CHILDS.
COUNCILMEN. President HEMAN M. BURR.
EVERETT E. MOODY. LAWRENCE BOND.
Accounts. ALDERMEN.
FREDERICK JOHNSON. EDWIN O. CHILDS.
COUNCILMEN.
HERBERT H. POWELL. JOHN A. FENNO.
FRANK J. HALE.
Public Property. ALDERMEN.
N. HENRY CHADWICK. JOHN WARD.
COUNCILMEN.
J. CHARLES KENNEDY. HENRY H. HUNT. EBENEZER H. GREENWOOD.
State Aid, Soldiers' Relief, and Military Affairs. ALDERMEN.
N. HENRY CHADWICK. JOHN WARD.
COUNCILMEN.
J. CHARLES KENNEDY. HERBERT H. POWELL. EBENEZER H. GREENWOOD.
Fuel and Street Lights.
ALDERMEN.
JOHN WARD.
JAMES H. NICKERSON.
COUNCILMEN.
THEODORE W. GORE. JOHN A. FENNO. FRANK J. HALE.
194
Fire Department. ALDERMEN.
GEORGE PETTEE. FREDERICK JOHNSON.
COUNCILMEN.
President HEMAN M. BURR. EDMUND T. WISWALL. HENRY H. HUNT.
Highways. (Inc. Streets and Ways, Sidewalks, Drains and Culverts.)
ALDERMEN.
JAMES H. NICKERSON. GEORGE PETTEE. N. HENRY CHADWICK. COUNCILMEN.
THEODORE W. GORE. HENRY H. READ.
ALBERT W. RICE. EPHRAIM S. HAMBLEN.
Printing. ALDERMAN. EDWIN O. CHILDS.
COUNCILMEN.
EVERETT E. MOODY. FRANK J. HALE.
Ordinances. ALDERMEN.
WARREN P. TYLER. EDWIN O. CHILDS.
COUNCILMEN.
EDMUND T. WISWALL. EBENEZER H. GREENWOOD. HENRY H. HUNT.
Claims. ALDERMEN.
FREDERICK JOHNSON. N. HENRY CHADWICK.
COUNCILMEN. President HEMAN M. BURR. J. CHARLES KENNEDY. LAWRENCE BOND.
195
Almshouse and Poor. ALDERMAN. GEORGE PETTEE.
COUNCILMEN.
HENRY H. READ. JOHN A. FENNO.
Assessors' Department. ALDERMAN. JOHN WARD.
COUNCILMEN.
EVERETT E. MOODY. EDMUND T. WISWALL.
Highway Surveyors. ALDERMEN.
JAMES H. NICKERSON. GEORGE PETTEE.
N. HENRY CHADWICK. COUNCILMEN.
THEODORE W. GORE. HENRY H. READ. EPHRAIM S. HAMBLEN.
HERBERT H. POWELL.
Public Parks, Squares, and Burial Grounds.
ALDERMEN.
GEORGE PETTEE. FREDERICK JOHNSON.
N. HENRY CHADWICK.
COUNCILMEN.
HENRY H. READ. ALBERT W. RICE.
HENRY H. HUNT. EPHRAIM S. HAMBLEN.
JOINT SPECIAL COMMITTEES.
Sewerage. ALDERMEN.
JOHN WARD.
N. HENRY CHADWICK.
COUNCILMEN.
ALBERT W. RICE. EDMUND T. WISWALL. LAWRENCE BOND.
196
Rules and Orders. ALDERMEN.
EDWIN O. CHILDS. GEORGE PETTEE.
COUNCILMEN.
J. CHARLES KENNEDY. EVERETT E. MOODY. LAWRENCE BOND.
Read Fund. ALDERMEN.
EDWIN O. CHILDS. WARREN P. TYLER.
COUNCILMEN.
J. CHARLES KENNEDY. EPHRAIM S. HAMBLEN.
HERBERT H. POWELL. ALBERT W. RICE.
Clerk of Committees. BENJAMIN F. OTIS.
TRUSTEES OF NEWTON FREE LIBRARY.
JOHN S. FARLOW, President.
Alderman TYLER.
Councilman HALE.
JULIUS L. CLARKE.
EDWIN B. HASKELL.
A. LAWRENCE EDMANDS. WM. CLAFLIN.
Meetings first Tuesday in each month, 7 o'clock P.M.
BOARD OF HEALTH. THE MAYOR, ex-officio. OTIS PETTEE, President.
Alderman JAMES H. NICKERSON. JESSE F. FRISBIE.
President HEMAN M. BURR. J. FRANKLIN FULLER.
Agent of Board.
Clerk.
Agent for Inspection of Plumbing.
Meetings first and third Tuesdays in each month, 4.20 P.
197
WATER BOARD. EDWARD W. CATE, President. Alderman GEORGE PETTEE. Councilman EDMUND T. WISWALL.
FRANCIS A. DEWSON. CHARLES FRED CREHORE. Clerk. ALBERT S. GLOVER.
SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS, AND TRUSTEES OF THE READ FUND. GEORGE S. BULLENS .. GEORGE C. LORD.
ALDEN SPEARE. CITY SOLICITOR. WINFIELD S. SLOCUM. ASSESSORS.
ISAAC HAGAR, Chairman.
SAMUEL M. JACKSON.
HOWARD B. COFFIN.
Assistant Assessors.
WARD ONE. R. ORLANDO EVANS.
OSCAR F. LUCAS. WARD FIVE. WILLIAM E. CLARKE.
WARD TWO. ALBERT A. SAVAGE.
WARD THREE. WARD FOUR. CHARLES A. MINER. WARD SIX. GEORGE WARREN.
WARD SEVEN. EDWARD W. COBB.
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.
R. ORLANDO EVANS. WARD THREE. GEORGE E. ALLEN. WARD FIVE. EUGENE FANNING.
WARD SEVEN. JOHN WARNER.
WARD TWO. E. S. COLTON. WARD FOUR. NATHAN MOSMAN. WARD SIX. GEORGE WARREN.
198
Clerk. NATHAN MOSMAN. Meetings first Thursday in each month, 3.45 P.M.
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 12 30 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 Works, 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. 1887.
January
. 15
August.
. 13
February
. 22
September
14
March
. 7
October
24
April
. 11
November
. 37
May
. 13
December
16
June
. 21
July
. 30
Total
223
Birthplaces of the Above Contracting Parties.
Groom.
Bride.
United States
140
117
Ireland
28
38
Germany
1
1
Wales .
1
1
Denmark
1
-
Italy
1
-
Switzerland
1
-
Sweden
1
Scotland
1
1
Totals
223
223
American
140
117
Foreign
83
106
Totals
223
223
Canada
39
53
England
10
12
BIRTHS REGISTERED IN 1887.
AGGREGATE.
Male.
Female.
Male.
Female.
Male.
Female.
Male.
Female.
Male.
Female.
Male.
Female.
Male.
Female.
Male.
Female.
January
·
2
1
4
2
1
3
3
3
1
4
4
February
·
·
3
4
5
4
1
1
4
3
2
1
2
3
4
9
1
1
13
28
41
April .
·
4
3
2
3
3
6
3
2
5
1
5
5
1
23
20
43
May .
7
3
6
3
1
6
2
6
1
4
4
4
2
1
23
27
50
June .
2
3
2
4
2
3
6
3
2
5
3
3
2
3
2
2
24
27
51
August
6
3
4
2
4
5
2
3
1
2
2
6
2
4
1
3
21
29
50
October
3
6
7
4
5
4
3
3
2
2
2
1
2
1
24
21
45
November .
5
4
4
2
3
3
1
3
7
2
1
3
1
1
22
18
40
December .
·
.
Totals
.
53
43
50
42
32
42
35
35
25
31
35
46
13
14
243
253
496
Aggregate .
·
.
96
92
74
70
56
81
27
496
-
5
3
9
1
3
1
2
1
1
2
3
-
20
11
31
2
15
15
30
17
16
33
March
3
2
2
6
3
4
-
3
1
5
8
2
-
19
22
41
July .
6
5
·
3
1
3
22
19
41
September .
7
6
1
5
1
3
7
.
·
2
3
4
5
6
TOTAL.
WARDS.
1
-
5
1
5
4
6
4
·
200
201
Birthplace of Parents.
Fathers.
Mothers.
United States
271
272
Ireland
108
109
England
29
20
Canada
16
22
Nova Scotia .
30
33
New Brunswick
10
14
Newfoundland
3
4
Prince Edward Island
11
9
Scotland
4
2
Germany
7
4
Sweden
2
2
Spain
2
Switzerland .
1
1
Denmark
1
1
West Indies .
1
2
Turkey
1
Total
496
496
American
271
272
Foreign
225
224
Total
496
496
STATEMENT OF DEATHS BY MONTHS IN EACH WARD.
AGGREGATE.
Male.
Female.
Male.
Female.
Male.
Female.
Male.
Female.
Male.
Female.
Male.
Female.
Male.
Female.
Male.
Female.
January
2
2
6
2
2
2
1
-
·
-
3
4
11
15
February
·
·
1
5
3
5
3
1
1
3
4
1
4
3
1
1
17
19
36
March
·
1
2
2
3
1
4
3
2
2
3
3
2
1
1
1
1
14
16
30
May .
5
2
3
3
2
4
4
4
1
2
1
2
1
2
4
-
1
-
16
9
25
June .
1
2
6
2
2
1
1
1
3
3
1
3
6
-
4
1
2
12
15
27
September
·
.
1
4
1
2
1
1
3
1
2
3
1
1
2
12
11
23
October
·
·
·
1
2
1
2
4
1
3
3
1
2
2
5
1
13
15
28
December
·
.
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
1
2
-
12
14
164
157
321
Totals .
.
.
18
25
41
32
28
25
21
21
21
17
23
23
Aggregate .
·
·
43
73
53
42
38
46
26
321
1
-
-
12
7
19
1
-
1
2
1
1
2
3
1
1
2
1
1
1
11
12
23
18
14
32
April .
·
-
21
13
34
August
·
·
1
2
2
2
2
2
4
1
2
2
November
·
·
3
14
15
29
-
2
3
4
5
6
TOTAL.
WARDS.
1
July .
.
-
2
8
3
4
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
202
203
Birthplace of Parents of Above Deceased Persons.
Fathers.
Mothers.
United States
146
146
Ireland .
98
102
England
24
15
Denmark
1
1
Germany
1
1
Italy
1
1
Wales
1
1
Sweden
1
-
Switzerland .
1
1
-
1
Unknown
19
17
Totals
321
321
American
146
146
Foreign
156
158
Unknown
19
17
Totals
321
321
Canada
24
32
Scotland
3
3
France
1
1
Turkey .
204
OFFICE FEES.
DR.
Assignment of account
$2 25
Assignment of income .
50
Assignment of wages
6 50
Assignment of wages discharged 50
Attachments
50
Bills of sale
1 00
Bills of sale discharged
50
Capital stock, certificate of
75
Foreclosure of pledge
2 50
Licenses, auctioneer .
18 00
Licenses, intelligence office
12 00
Licenses, junk .
30 00
Licenses, liquor, 6th class
19 00
Licenses, marriage
107 50
Mortgages
66 25
Mortgages, assignment of . 2 50
Mortgages, discharge of . 5 75
Naturalization certificates
5 00
Women's certificate of business on
own account
50
Total receipts
$281 25
Dogs Licensed.
1,160 males, at $2 . $2,320 00
155 females, at $5 775 00
Total receipts for dogs
$3,095 00
Aggregate collections
$3,376 25
205
CR.
By office fees, paid monthly to city
treasurer $281 25
Retained from dog license receipts,
and paid to city treasurer, 1,315 licenses, at 20c. . 263 00
Paid county treasurer, dog license
receipts
2,832 00
$3,376 25
Dogs are distributed in the Various Wards as Follows:
1
2
3
4
5
6
TOTALS.
Male
139
202
208
166
Female
27
28
19
15
127 23
203 27
16
155
Totals
166
230
227
181
150
230
131
1,315
Showing an increase of 112 dogs over 1886.
Registered Voters. (From List used at City Election, Dec. 6. )
WARDS :
1
2
3
4
5
6
TOTAL.
423
639
519
497
460
488
410
3.436
Enrolled Militia.
1
2
3
4
5
G
TOTAL.
1887
587
653
499
582
546 433
608
414
3.889
1886
.
513
581
332
402
604
405
3,270
Gain
-
-
-
-
619
115
1,160
City of Newton.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
CITY ENGINEER
FOR THE YEAR 1887.
T
ERTY AND UNION
LIBE
FOUNDED
88 A CITY 1873.
TIM
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A.TO
BOSTON : PRESS OF RAND AVERY COMPANY. 1888.
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.
Joint Special Committee on Sewerage. ALDERMAN JOHN WARD, Chairman.
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 Public Parks, Squares, and Burial Grounds. ALDERMAN GEORGE PETTEE, 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, 1887.
TO THE HONORABLE CITY COUNCIL.
Gentlemen, - In compliance with Section 5 of Ordinance No. 9, I herewith respectfully submit the annual report of the City Engineer's Department for the year 1887.
Amount appropriated for the year $7,600 00
Amount expended . 7,600 02
Amount overdrawn . $ 02
CLASSIFICATION OF EXPENDITURES.
For salaries of city engineer, assistants, draughtsman, and rodmen $6,931 49
For car-fares and other incidentals 236 47
For care and keeping of horse, wagon, etc. 327 15
For drawing-paper and other supplies 63 41
For instruments and repairs 41 50
Total amount $7,600 02
The item of salaries of city engineer and assistants may be divided as follows : -
6
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, including two new bridges over Charles River ; and all work relating to highways
For clerical work in keeping highway accounts, For defining lines and grades for the construc- tion of drains and culverts ; making pre- liminary surveys, plans, profiles, diagrams, estimates, calculations, and all work relat- ing to drains, including the Laundry Brook and Morse Field districts ; and for the examination of, and reports upon, the vari- ous sewerage systems in use
$2,890 60 894 81
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 · For plans, estimates, reports, inspection of plumbing, correspondence, and for all work relating to the Board of Health .
1,071 89
988 30
For defining the lines, surveys, and plans of city property, making plans and specifica- tions for the alteration and repairs on old
336 85
Amount carried forward
$6,182 45
7
Amount brought forward
buildings, and superintending the execu- tion of the same, under the direction of the Joint Standing Committee on Public Property .
237 33
For copying all Newton plans at registry of deeds and county commissioners' office, and indexing the same; and for all index- ing of other plans, deeds, field-work, etc. . 209 69 For surveys and plans for numbering the houses on the various streets of the city, and for all other work relating to the same . 183 34
For making surveys and levels for plans, pro- files, and estimates for the use of the city solicitor in suits for or against the city ; for attending court, and for all work relating to said suits 68 44
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 . 50 24
Total amount $6,931 49
Surveys have been made of the whole or a part of twenty- one streets, covering a length of four and five-tenths miles. One hundred and sixty-eight plans and profiles have been made. Levels have been taken over the whole or a part of sixty-two streets or brooks, - a total length of ten and eight- tenths miles. Lines have been established on sixty-four streets, and grades on ninety streets. The total length of
$6,182 45
8
grades given was eleven and ninety-seven one-hundredths miles. A survey has been made of the district in the vicinity of Laundry Brook, from Washington Street to Walnut Street. Also a survey of the Waltham line between Lexington Street and Stony Brook was commenced last winter, and suspended by reason of the breaking up of the ice on the river. The survey of a portion of Nonantum has also been completed. A large district map has been completed of the easterly portion of Newtonville and the westerly portion of Newton, south of the Boston & Albany Railroad. The total number of plans, profiles, tracings, etc., now in the office, is 2,793.
The minimum number of assistants employed during the past year is four, average number six, and the maximum number at any time, eleven.
Upon the following-named streets, plans and profiles have been made, lines and grades defined, titles and boundaries 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 1887.
STREET.
From
To
Width in Feet.
Length in Feet.
Chapel
Watertown St. .
Middle St.
40
1,357
Edinboro'
Walnut St. .
.
Lowell St.
40
367
Middle
Adams St.
.
Chapel St.
40
562
Park Place
Washington P'k,
Southerly
30
337
Prince
Temple St.
.
A new street
40
1,453
Prospect .
Washington St.
North-westerly .
40
571
Ridge Ave.
Parker St.
South-easterly .
40
548
Station Ave.
Lake Ave.
B. and A. R.R.
40
124
Tappan Place
Lincoln St.
Northerly
40
312
Total .
1.07 miles .
5,631
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Lexington Street, from its junction with River Street to the Waltham line, has been relocated to conform to the change of line ordered by the county commissioners in the city of Waltham.
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.
A "blue print " apparatus has been set up, and greatly increases the facilities of the office for duplicating working- plans for committees or contractors.
The citizens having become desirous that the houses upon the various streets of the city should be numbered, the city council passed the following order : -
" Ordered, That, whenever numbers are affixed to build- ings fronting on any street, they shall be such numbers as may be furnished by the city engineer, and shall be at least two inches in size, of material satisfactory to the city engineer, and so affixed as to be plainly seen. The city engineer is hereby requested to present to this board for their approval (as frequently as possible) plans of the various streets of the city, with the proposed numbers shown upon them. As far as possible the streets shall be numbered from east to west and from north to south, with odd numbers on the right and even numbers on the left, allowing where possible a space of twenty-five feet for each number, unless otherwise ordered by this board. No numbers shall be so affixed until the plan of the street has been approved by this board."
Surveys were made and plans prepared of thirty-nine
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streets, all of which were approved. The following streets were numbered : -
Austin Street.
Newtonville Avenue.
Avon Place.
North School Street.
Bacon Street.
Orchard Street.
Beach Street.
Peabody Street.
Bowers Street.
Pearl Street.
Boyd Street.
Pond Avenue.
Brooks Avenue.
Rockland Street.
Carleton Street.
St. James Street.
Channing Street.
Thornton Street.
Court Street.
Thornton-street Court.
Emerson Street.
Waban Street.
Fayette Street.
Waban Park.
Gardner Street.
Wales Street.
Hall Street.
Walnut Park.
Hamilton Street.
Walnut St. (Crafts to Mills Sts.).
Harvard Street.
Hovey Street.
Washington Park.
Jefferson Street.
Washington Street.
Jewett Street.
Waverley Place.
Lowell Street.
William Street.
As rapidly as the current work of the department will permit, plans will be prepared for the remaining streets of the city.
During the year the department has made the usual sur- veys, plans, etc., for legislative hearings, accident cases and suits, for the use of the city solicitor.
Late in the fall a survey was made of the land owned by C. P. Clark and the heirs of George C. Rand, abutting on
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Centre Street. Bowen Street, and Tyler Terrace, for the proposed playground in Ward 6. Estimates were made for improving and covering Hammond's Brook, which runs through the land, and for grading the land in a manner suitable to a field for sports.
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HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
Highway Surveyors and Joint Standing Committee on Highways. ALDERMAN JAMES H. NICKERSON, Chairman. ALDERMAN GEORGE PETTEE. ALDERMAN SETH K. HARWOOD. COUNCILMAN LEWIS E. COFFIN. COUNCILMAN N. HENRY CHADWICK. COUNCILMAN THEODORE W. GORE. COUNCILMAN HENRY H. READ.
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.
Line of Cover
Channel iron
12 pipe.
i
20 %30 drain.
PLAN Sketch of inlet to Hyde's Brook Drain.
Scale, jin - I ft.
Cover
GRANITE, FLAG PAVING TTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
SECTION.
8
- Tiron.
FRONT ELEVATION.
SIDE.
(2)
(2)
SECTION.
Details of Grates and Supports. Scale, lin - Ift.
HIGHWAYS.
The Joint Standing Committee on Highways has under its management the repairs, building, and rebuilding of streets, drains, culverts, sidewalks, etc., and the gravel-lands. Alder- man Harwood and Councilmen Gore and Read were new members of the committee. The executive officers of the department remained the same. The policy of the depart- ment in performing thorough work has been maintained as in past years; but it has been adhered to so closely as to result in the serious neglect of many of the older streets, which have become out of repair, and should be immediately resurfaced.
All of the machinery of the department is under the care of the engineer, William Kent, and has been kept by him in excellent condition. The steam-road roller has picked up 1,589 square yards of Telford, macadamized or gravel road; and has laid down 34,615 square yards of the same. The roller continues to give satisfaction.
Plans have been prepared for setting up a stone-crusher and set of revolving screens at the Murray-street ledge. It is proposed to set up this crusher in the most approved man- ner, with belts running from the screens to carry the various sizes of crushed stone to their proper bins; the bins to be set upon the hillside with sloping bottoms, so that the mate-
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rial need not be handled from the time it is dumped on the platform of the crusher until it is loaded into the carts ; the cost of handling being a very material proportion of the present expense of crushing.
The gravel-land of Michael Lester on Pine Street, which was bonded last year, has been purchased. The gravel on this land is hard and coarse, and is valuable to the city for both paving and crushing purposes.
The bridge over Charles River at Washington Street (Lower Falls), and Bemis Bridge at Nonantum, are old wooden bridges: they have been repaired and patched a number of times, and should be thoroughly rebuilt. During the year, surveys, plans, and estimates have been made for rebuilding these bridges, both with stone and with wood; and it is now intended to rebuild both during the coming year.
The mileage of concrete sidewalks and street-crossings in the several wards of the city at the present time is as follows : -
Ward 1
.
6.58 miles
66
2
7.73
3
5.54
66
4
5.04 66
5
3.05
66
66
6
7.11 66
66
7
8.59 66
Total
. 43.74 66
It can readily be seen from the above, that the main- tenance of these walks, and the construction of additional
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walks, is becoming each year a source of greater expense to the city, and that the maintenance of these walks demands serious consideration. As in previous reports, I would recommend that they be resurfaced oftener, and at a less expense, than under the present policy of allowing not only the surface, but the foundations, to be worn out.
On Lexington Street, between River Street and the Waltham line, the grade of the hill has been lowered, and the loam removed from under the road-surface : the result being a better road-surface, and better grade for traffic passing up the hill.
On River Street, between Cherry Street and Waltham Street, the street has been widened and straightened, a new road-bed has been built, and the 'general appearance of the street greatly improved.
On Brighton Street, between Pembroke Street and the Boston line, where the hill was previously cut down, the road-bed has been rebuilt, the street widened to its full width, and drains put in for the surface and ground water.
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