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NATIVITY :
Newton
14
5
9
7
7 9
4 6
6
8
5
4
6
90
Other States
4
10
3
7
5
4
6
6
4
5
2
6
62
England .
3
1
5
6
3
3
2
2
3
6
5
7
1
1
3
6
British America
11
Other Countries
2
Unknown
PARENTAGE:
America
12
15
13
12
14
13
9
15
7
12
9
11
142
England
6
1
7
10
7
6
4
9
7
10
5
10
93
Scotland .
Germany
British America
3
1
1
1
1
1
3
4
3
2
2
1
23
Other Countries Mixed
5
4
3
1
1
38
Unknown
3
2
5
2
1
-
2
1
2
-
20
6
24
11
12
5 7
5
109
Massachusetts.
12
10
S
9
1
1
2
1
3 1 1
01 2
1
-
1
2
1
18
Ireland
11
7
-
1
-
-
1
1
-
1
1
1
3
-
2
2
1
4
-
-
-
1.
1
-
-
-
-
-
1
9
Ireland
6
3
Scotland .
2
Germany
1
1
2
1
1
1
-
-
1
2
6
1
1
12
-
51
1
2
4
3
14 13
1
2
-
1
2
.
TABLE V.
Mortality arranged by Classes for the last Four Years, together with Percentages to Total Mortality and Rate per 1000 Inhabitants.
1888.
1887.
1886.
1885.
CLASSES,
Number.
Percentage of
Deaths to
Total Mortality.
Rate per 1000 In-
habitants.
Number.
Percentage of
Deaths to
Total Mortality.
Rate per 1000 In-
habitants.
Number.
Percentage of
Deaths to
Total Mortality.
Rate per 1000 In-
Percentage of
Deaths to
Total Mortality.
Rate per 1000 In-
habitants.
Zymotic
51
14.82
2.42
49
15.26
2.37
34
12.36
1.68
36
13.14
1.82
Constitutional .
56
16.28
2.65
51
15.89
2.47
53
19.28
2.62
63
22.99
3.19
Local
174
50.58
8.25
158
49.22
7.65
119
43.27
5.89
114
41.61
5.77
Developmental . .
39
11.34
1.85
37
11.53
1.79
39
14.18
1.93
33
12.04
1.67
Violent
10
2.91
0.47
15
4.67
0.73
6
2.18
0.30
10
3.65
0.51
Total
330
95.93
15.64
310
96.57
15.01
251
91.27
12.42
256
93.43
12.96
Still-born .
14
4.07
0.66
11
3.43
0.53
24
8.73
1.19
18
6.57
0.91
Aggregate
344
16.30
321
15.54
275
-
13.61
274
13.87
.
.
.
.
·
.
-
-
-
habitants.
Number.
.
31
.
TABLE VI. Total of Deaths, Still-births and Deaths from Zymotic Diseases, for Four Years with Percentages.
YEARS.
Total Deaths exclusive
of Still-births.
Still-births.
Total Deaths.
Rate per 1000 Inhabi-
tants exclusive of Still
Rate of Still-births per
Total Rate per 1000 In-
Percentage of Stillbirths
to Total Mortality.
Diphtlieria and Croup.
Scarlet Fever.
Typhoid Fever.
Cerebro - Spinal Menin-
Whooping Cough.
Diarrheal Diseases.
Small - pox.
Other Zymotics.
Total Zymotics.
Percentage of Zymotic
Deaths to Total Mor-
tality.
Population.
1888 .
330
14
344
15.64
0.66
16.30
4.07
10
2
11
1
2
1
16
0
00
51
14.82
21,105
1887
.
310
11
321
15.01
0.53
15.54
3.43
6
1
7
0
0
co
22
0
10
49
15.26
20,656
1886
251
24
275
12.42
1.19
13.61
8.73
4
2
6
0
2
0
16
0
4
34
12.36
20,208
1885
.
256
18
274
12.96
0.91
13.87
6.57
3
3
7
0
0
5
12
0
6
36
13.14
19,759
births.
1000 Inhabitants.
habitants.
gitis,
Measles.
32
.
TABLE VII. Deaths from Zymotic Diseases, with Yearly Percentages to Total Mortality for Four Years.
Total Deaths from each
Total
Percentage
Cause.
tants.
M.
F.
M.
F.
Total Deaths under
Percentage of each canse
under Five Years to to-
tal Mortality.
1888.
1887.
1886.
1885.
Cholera Infantum
8
.379
4
4
4
4
S
2.325
2.33
4.36
4.36
3.28
Croup
2
.095
2
1
1
.291
.58
.62
.36
.36
Diphtheria
8
.379
2
6
1
4
5
1.453
2.33
1.25
1.09
.73
Diarrhea, Infantile .
1
.190
2
2
2
1
3
.872
1.16
.31
1.46
.36
Diarrhea, Serous
1
Dysentery
4
.190
1
3
1
1
.291
1.16
2.18
.73
Erysipelas
4
.190
3
1
1
1
.291
1.16
.93
Fever, Malarial
1
.047
1
Fever, Scarlet
2
.095
1
1
1
1
2
.581
.58
.31
.73
1.10
Fever, Typhoid
11
.521
7
4
Measles.
1
.047
1
1
1
.291
.29
.94
1.83
Meningitis, Cerebro-Spinal .
1
.047
1.
1
1
291
.29
Pyæmia
1
.047
1
Septicemia .
2
.095
2
.58
.36
Whooping Cough .
2
.095
2
2
2
.581
.58
.73
Other Causes
1.87
1.09
1.83
Total
51
2.417
26
25
14
11
25
7.267
14.82 15.26 12.36 13.14
1
.29
.31
.36
3.20
2.18
2.18
2.56
.29
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
33
Diarrhea .
2
Deaths per 1000 Inhabi-
Total
Deaths per Sex.
Deaths per Sex under Five Years.
Five Years.
of each Cause to Total Mortality.
-
1
34
TABLE VIH.
Deaths from Fourteen of the Principal Causes.
Total Deaths from each
cause.
Percentage of each cause
to Total Mortality.
Deaths per 1000 Inhabi-
Total
Deaths by Sex.
Total Deaths by Sex under 5 Years.
Years.
Percentage of each cause
under Five Years to Total Mortality.
Heart Diseases
34
9.89
1.61
20
14
1
1
2
.581
Consumption
29
8.43
1.37
8
21
Old Age
21
6.11
.99
8
13
Pneumonia
18
5.23
.85
6
12
1
2
3
.872
Nephritis (Bright's Dis.)
15
4.36
.71
9
6
-
-
-
Brain Diseases .
15
4.36
.71
8
7
2
1
3
.872
Apoplexy .
11
3.20
.52
4
7
-
-
-
Typhoid Fever
11
3.20
.52
7
4
-
-
-
Marasmus
9
2.62
.43
7
2
7
2
9
2.616
Bronchitis
8
2.32
.38
3
5
3
2
5
1.453
Cholera Infantum
8
2.32
.38
4
4
4
4
S
2.325
Diphtheria
8
2.32
.38
2
6
1
4
5
1.453
Meningitis
8
2.32
.38
7
1
6
-
6
1.744
Paralysis
7
2.04
.33
3
4
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
M.
F.
M.
F.
Total Deaths under Five .
tants.
35
TABLE IX.'
Total Number of Deaths under Five Years, and Five Years and over, for Four Years, with Percentages to the Total Mortality.
PERCENTAGES.
YEARS.
Total Deaths exclusive of Still-births.
Five Years and over.
Under Five Years.
Five Years and over.
Under Five Years.
1888
330
248
82
75.15
24.85
1887
310
218
92
70.32
29.68
1886
251
179
72
71.32
28.68
1885
256
199
57
77.74
22.26
TABLE X.
Total Deaths each Quarter of the last Four Years with the Ag- gregate and Average Number.
1888.
1887.
1886.
1885.
Number.
Percentage.
Number.
Percentage.
Number.
Percentage.
Number.
Percentage.
Aggregate.
Average.
First Quarter ,
94 27.32
70
21.81
63
22.91
75
27.37
302
75.5
Second
66
76
22.09
85
26.48 64
23.28
73
26.64
298
74.5
Third
66
95
27.62
86
26.79 85
30.90
73
26.64
339
84.8
Fourth
66
79
22.97
80
24.92
63
22.91
53
19.35
275
68.7
Total each year .
344
321
275
274
1214 303.5
TABLE XI .- Statement of Cases of Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, Typhoid Fever and Cholera Infantum by Months in each Ward.
DIPHTHERIA.
SCARLET FEVER.
MONTHS.
Ward One.
Ward Two.
Ward Three.
Ward Four.
Ward Five.
Ward Six.
Ward Seven.
Total.
Ward One.
Ward Two.
Ward Three.
Ward Four.
Ward Five.
Ward Six.
Ward Seven,
Total,
January .
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
-
1
I
2
10
13
February
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
-
4
3
2
6
15
March .
1
1
1
1
1
1
-
4
4
9
April .
6
1.
1.
11
May
-
1
-
- 1
1
1
1
-
1
3
1
1
June
3
1
4
1
1
1
1
1
-
1
July
1
4
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
-
1
I
-
1
-
1
1
-
1
1
September .
1
3
1.
1
6
-
1
-
1
1
-
October
3
2
1
-
1
5
1
1
1
4
7
November
.
.
1
1.
1
1
1
1
1
-
1
I
-
1
2
December
1.
- 1
1
1
-
1.
1
3
4
-
1
-
-
.
Total
7
19
1
4
00
2
1
42
9
1
15
00
23
13
69
.
.
- 1
1
1
-
I
-
-
-
1
-
1
1
5
August
4
4
1
1
-
1
-
1
-
I
I
-
4
1
1
CZ
·
-
-
·
.
2
1
2
.
2
1
1
1
5
CT
-
1
·
1.
36
MONTHS.
Total
December
November
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
March .
February
January .
Ward One.
1
-
-
-
-
-
1
2
1
1
-
-
01
Ward Two.
.
1
-
7
Ward Three.
-
co
Ward Four.
-
1
4
1
Ward Five.
1
1
15
1
4
6
3
1
1
4
1
1
16
Ward Seven.
1
1
1
1
1
2
Total.
49
3
8
15
13
3
5
1
1
-
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
-
1
-
3
1
-
1
1
1
1
2
1
-
1
1
1
1
1
1
Ward Three.
3
-
1
1
3
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Ward Four.
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Ward Six.
-
1
1
-
1
1
1
1
Ward Seven.
-
1
1
-
Total.
10
1
-
1
10
7
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
1
1
-
1
1
1
1
1
1
1 -
1
5
5
1
Ward Six.
TYPHOID FEVER.
1
1
-
1
-
1
1
1
1
1
-
-
.
.
.
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
CHOLERA INFANTUM.
Ward Five.
1
1
1
1
1
37
Ward One.
Ward Two.
1
1
38
TABLE XII. Cases of Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever and Typhoid Fever reported during the last Four Years, by Months.
DIPHTHERIA.
SCARLET FEVER.
TYPHOID FEVER.
MONTHS.
1888.
1887.
1886.
1885.
1888.
1887.
1886.
1885.
1888.
1>87.
1886.
1885.
January
2
5
4
13
3
5
14
-
-
-
1
February .
2
1
1
3
15
3
2
13
2
2
March .
2
2
4
3
9
9
5
13
-
-
2
1
April
2
1
11
18
4
18
May
5
4
2
5
9
15
10
1
2
4
June
4
2
-
1
1
6
3
11
1
-
-
1
-
3
4
7
5
1
-
1
4
3
September
6
1
1
-
-
3
1
13
6
5
10
October
5
3
1
-
7
6
3
5
15
4
8
1
November
4
3
5
6
2
25
5
6
8
3
2
2
December
3
5
5
1
5
19
4
3
3
1
2
4
Total .
42
27
19
19
69
108
53
102
49
20
23
28
Aggregate
107
332
120
Average
27
83
30
-
-
1
-
-
July
5
August
4
1
4
2
2
3
-
-
-
-
1
1888 _21.105
.20 656
1886 __ 20 208 .__ Estimated.
POPULATION.
JAN.
FEB.
MAR.
APR.
MAY.
JUNE
JULY
AUG
SEPT.
OCT.
NOV.
DEC.
JAN.
FEB
MAR.
APR.
MAY.
JUNE
JULY
AUG
SEPT.
OCT.
NOV.
DEC.
JAN.
FEB
MAR.
APR.
MAY.
JUNE
1887
JULY
AUG.
SEPT.
OCT.
NOV.
DEC.
JAN.
FEB
MAR.
APR.
MAY.
JUNE
1888
JULY
AUG.
SEPT.
OCT.
NOV.
DEC.
5
10
15
20
25
Number.
COMPARATIVE VIEW OF CASES OF DIPHTHERIA, SCARLET FEVER, AND TYPHOID FEVER IN NEWTON,
AS REPORTED MONTHLY DURING THE LAST FOUR YEARS.
Typhoid Fever.
Scarlet Fever. Diphtheria.
:39
1887 1885
__ 19,759. _ State Census.
1885
1886
REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF MEATS AND PROVISIONS, AND ANIMALS INTENDED FOR SLAUGHTER.
WEST NEWTON, MASS., July 15, 1889. To the Honorable Board of Mayor and Aldermen :-
GENTLEMEN :- I have the honor to submit to you an account of my doings as Inspector of Meats and Provisions and Animals intended for Slaughter. During the year in which I have held this office I have found it necessary to seize sixteen cantelopes that were unripe and unfit for eating. I have also seized one hundred bananas that were decayed and too far gone to allow of their being sold, although offered for sale. All of the foregoing was condemned and destroyed. In consequence of cantelopes that were unripe and not fit for eating being exposed for sale, and also in some instances sold, by order of His Honor, Mayor Kimball, I notified all dealers in fruits that they must not have fruit of this character exposed, where it was liable to be sold to unsuspecting parties. All of the dealers cheerfully complied with this order but one and he finally decided that it would be better to do so. Three anonymous complaints with reference to slaughtering were also investigated, but they were made after the parties had gone out of the business and left town.
Respectfully submitted,
W. S. FRENCH,
Inspector of Meats and Provisions, and Animals intended for Slaughter.
CITY OF NEWTON.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
CITY ENGINEER
FOR THE YEAR 1888.
BERTY AND UNJON JB
FOUNDED 1630
A CITY 187
NON
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NEWTON, MASS., NEWTON GRAPHIC PRESS, 1889%
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 Fuel and Street Lights. ALDERMAN JOHN WARD, Chairman.
Joint Standing Committee on Public Property. ALDERMAN N. HENRY CHADWICK, 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. I. W. HASTINGS. WILLIAM P. MORSE.
Transitman and Leveller. DAVID HINCKLEY.
Rodman. HENRY JEFFERSON.
Draughtsman. ALFRED O. DOANE.
Stenographer. S. J. LEWIS.
REPORT.
CITY ENGINEER'S OFFICE, CITY HALL, WEST NEWTON, MASS., Dec. 31, 1888.
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 1888.
Amount appropriated for the year
$7,600 00
Amount expended
7,600 04
Amount overdrawn $ 04
CLASSIFICATION OF EXPENDITURES.
For salaries of city engineer, assistants, draughts-
man, rodmen, and stenographer . $6,678 81
For car-fares and other incidentals 330 36
For care and keeping of horse, wagon, etc. 328 67
For drawing-paper and other supplies 137 05
For instruments and repairs
125 15
Total amount
$7,600 04
The item of salaries of city engineer and assistants may be divided as follows : -
For defining street lines; making surveys and maps, the examination of titles and draught- ing of reports, orders and releases for street
6
widenings, acceptance, and extension ; office records ; defining and establishing proposed grades of streets ; preparing specifications for the construction of new streets ; surveys, plans, specifications, lines and grades for two new bridges over Charles River ; plans and other information for the State Board of Engineers on Grade Crossings ; surveys, plans, profiles and estimates for proposed work on highways; and for all work relat- ing to highways.
For clerical work in keeping highway accounts. For establishing lines and grades for extension of water-pipes, locating and measuring service pipes, and for all work relating to water- works.
$3,030 65 685 78
960 55
For defining lines and grades for the con- struction of drains and culverts; making preliminary surveys,plans, profiles, diagrams, estimates, calculations, and all work relating to drains, including the Morse Field district, 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.
580 86
352 85
For mailing circulars, receiving and tabulating pledges, superintending the canvas for pledges, furnishing copies of the same for use of the city treasurer, and for all work relating to watering of the streets. 223 54
For surveys and plans for numbering the houses on the various streets of the city, and for all
.
Amount carried forward .
$5,834 23
7
Amount brought forward . $5,834 23
work relating to the same, . 221 14
For plans, estimates, reports, inspection of plumb- ing, correspondence, and for all work relating to the Board of Health, 158 28
For survey of existing street lights, and plans of the same; also plans of proposed street lighting, and for all other work under the direction of the Joint Standing Committee on Fuel and Street Lights,
For making surveys and levels for plans, profiles and estimates for the use of the City Solic- itor in suits for or against the city, and at legislative hearings ; for attending court and hearings, and for all work relating to suits and hearings,
142 89
142 47
For defining the lines, surveys, and plans of city property, and for all work under the direc- tion of the Joint Standing Committee on Public Property, 93 09
For defining the lines, grading, making surveys and plans of the various present and pro- posed parks ; and for all work under the direction of the Joint Standing Committee on Public Parks, Squares and Burial Grounds,
86 71
Total amount, $6,678 81
Surveys have been made of the whole or a part of thirty- three streets, covering a length of six and nine-tenths miles. Two hundred and forty-two plans, profiles and record tracing's have been made. Levels have been taken over the whole or a part of seventy-two streets or brooks, - a total length of twenty-one and five-tenths miles. Lines have been established
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on sixty streets, and grades on seventy streets. The total length of grades given was nine and eight-tenths miles.
A survey has been made of the district included by Centre, Cypress, Jackson and Station Streets ; a large district map of the same has been plotted and the lines of Cypress and Station Streets established. In connection with the construction of the trunk drains in the Morse Field district, a survey has been made of the district and has been plotted. A survey was made of the district in the vicinity of the Waban station and a dis- trict map of this section of the city has been commenced. A survey and map of the land at Grove Hill has been made for the acceptance of the new streets laid out through the property. Profiles have been made of nearly all the streets at Oak Hill. The total number of plans, profiles, tracings, etc., now in the office, is 3035.
The minimum number of assistants employed during the past year is five, average number six, and the maximum num- ber 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 1888.
STREET.
From
To
Width in Feet.
Length in Feet.
Beaumont Ave .
Hull St.
Prospect Ave. .
40
953
Bennington
Centre St. .
Westerly
40
295
Floral
Walnut St.
Southwesterly .
40
410
Grasmere
Washington St.
Hunnewell Ave.
40
567
Grove Hill Ave.
Lake View Ave.
Prospect Ave. .
40
812
Jenison
Judkins St.
Lothrop St ..
40
324
Judkins
Crafts St. .
Jenison St. .
40
448
Lake View Ave.
Homer St. .
Walnut St. .
40
1,304
Lothrop
Crafts St. .
.
Jenison St. .
40
203
Prospect Ave.
Beaumont Ave .
Grove Hill Ave. .
40
637
Total .
1.07 miles
.
or
5,658
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Previous to this year all plans were indexed under their respective streets ; but the number of plans having reached 3000, and some of the larger plans being indexed under a num- ber of streets, the index had become cumbersome. To obviate this difficulty a new card index has been made, colored cards being used to represent various classes of plans in the following manner : general plans, white ; profiles, pink; water works, blue ; drains, grey ; land plans, buff ; and public buildings and grounds, fawn. The longer streets have also been divided into short sections, and the efficiency of the index has been greatly improved by the change.
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.
During the year such preliminary work upon the question of a sewerage system for the city has been done as the appro- priation for the department would permit ; but no extended work in this direction has been performed by reason of the lack of any special appropriation to cover the expense which a prop- er study of the question would demand.
In anticipation of the introduction of letter carriers in the Newton postal district, work was pushed during the spring and summer upon the plans for numbering the houses in this district. This work was so nearly completed by September that the following order was passed by the Board of Alder- men, Sept. 28, 1888, :-
" Ordered, That within thirty days of the approval of this order, every owner and the occupant of a building (used as a residence or place of business) within the postal district of Newton, shall affix to the doors of said building such numbers as may be designated and approved by the City Engineer.
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Said numbers shall be at least two inches in size and so affixed as to be plainly seen."
This order makes the numbering of houses within this dis- trict compulsory, and complies with government requirements, so that carriers were introduced Oct. 1, 1888.
The following is the list of streets in the city upon which numbers are now established :
Arlington.
Clarendon.
Auburn.
Cook (Wd. 1).
Auburndale Ave.
Copley.
Austin.
Cotton.
Avon Place.
Court.
Bacon.
Crescent Ave.
Baldwin.
Crescent (Wd. 1).
Beach.
Cross.
Bellevue.
Davis.
Belmont.
Durant.
Bennington.
Eldridge.
Bowen.
Elm.
Bowers.
Elmwood.
Boyd.
Emerson.
Brighton.
Erie Ave.
Brooks Ave.
Fairmont Ave.
Brooks.
Fayette. Franklin.
Cabot.
Carleton.
Gardner.
Centre (Watertown line to Sargent St.)
George.
Channing Ave.
Green.
Channing.
Hall.
Cherry.
Hamilton.
Church.
Hartford. Harvard.
Claremont.
Grasmere.
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Hollis.
Hovey. Howard. Hunnewell Ave. Hunter.
Hyde.
Ivanhoe.
Jefferson.
Rowe.
St. James.
Sargent.
Summit.
Sumner.
Tremont.
Lowell.
Thornton.
Thornton St. Court.
Vernon.
Waban Park.
Mt. Ida.
Waban.
Mt. Ida Terrace.
Newtonville Ave.
Nonantum Place.
Nonantum.
North School.
Norwood Ave.(Wd.2).
Oak Ave.
Oakland.
Orchard.
Park Ave.
Park.
Parsons.
Peabody.
Pearl.
William.
Pelham.
Pembroke.
Pleasant (Centre St. to Cochituate Ac- queduct.)
Pond Ave.
Richardson.
River. Rockland.
Jewett.
Langdon.
Lewis.
Lincoln.
Lombard.
Maple Place.
Marlboro.
Middle.
Wales.
Walnut Park.
Walnut (from Crafts to Mill Sts.)
Warren Ave.
Washington Park. Washington.
Watertown.
Waverley Ave. Waverley Place. Webster.
Wesley. West.
Winthrop Ave. Wiswall.
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Making 116 streets which are now numbered. This work will be extended as rapidly as work of the office will permit.
In order that the Joint Standing Committee on Fuel and Street Lights might intelligently study the matter of lighting the streets of the city, a survey was made of all existing street lights and a plan made showing the location and kind of lamp. Afterward maps were prepared showing the various proposi- tions for lighting by electricity, and the location of proposed additional lights.
The usual surveys, plans, etc., have been made for the use of the City Solicitor at legislative hearings, accident cases and suits, and whenever necessary these hearings and suits have been attended.
Plans have been prepared for the use of the State Board of Engineers of Grade Crossings and such other information as they have requested has been furnished.
The lot purchased for the Thompsonville schoolhouse has been staked out. Levels and cross sections were also taken to determine upon the location of the building, and the batter boards for the building were set.
A lot of land purchased as an addition to the Prospect schoolhouse lot has been surveyed and a plan of the same made.
In the spring plans were made for a proposed park and drive- way in Ward 6, covering the territory lying between Centre Street, Tyler Terrace, Pleasant Street, the Cochituate Aque- duct and Bowen Street. The plans contemplated a play-ground near Centre Street, a park lying between that and Pleasant street, and a driveway on the northerly and southerly sides.
Surveys and cross sections were made of the park at the junction of Linwood Avenue, Crafts street and Walnut Street. Late in the fall the trees were removed and grades established for its improvement. It is intended to replace the old trees which were dead or dying, with younger and healthy trees.
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
Highway Surveyors and Joint Standing Committee on Highways. ALDERMAN JAMES H. NICKERSON, Chairman. ALDERMAN GEORGE PETTEE. ALDERMAN N. HENRY CHADWICK. COUNCILMAN THEODORE W. GORE. COUNCILMAN EVERETT E. MOODY. COUNCILMAN HENRY H. READ. COUNCILMAN ALBERT W. RICE. COUNCILMAN EPHRAIM S. HAMBLEN. COUNCILMAN HERBERT H. POWELL.
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.
During the year the Joint Standing Committee on High- ways has had under its management the repairs, building and rebuilding of streets, drains, culverts, bridges, sidewalks, etc., the gravel lands and the watering of the streets. With one exception the same members of the City Council composed both the Highway Surveyors and the Joint Standing Commit- tee on Highways; upon the Highway Surveyors, Councilman Powell represented Ward 1 instead of Councilman Rice. At the beginning of the year Councilmen Rice and Hamblen were new members of the Committee, and Councilmen Powell and Hamblen of the Surveyors. During the year Councilman Gore resigned and Councilman Moody filled the vacancy.
The executive officers of the department remained the same. So far as possible, thorough work has been performed in repairing the streets, and several of the streets have been thoroughly rebuilt. All the machinery of the department has been kept in excellent condition by the engineer, William Kent. The steam road roller has picked up 7866 square yards of Telford, macadamized or gravel road; and has laid down 83,646 square yards of the same. It has been employed outside of the city rolling two large tennis grounds, and was used to pull up the large trees on Linwood Park.
A large portion of the extra cost of maintenance of gravel pits this year has been caused by fitting up the Murray-street ledge. An engine and crusher have been set up, with perma- nent buildings, and a revolving screen is used for separating
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the sizes of material into different bins. The steam drill is used in the ledge, and the stone is carried to the crusher by dump cars running upon a track. The rock at this ledge is quite hard and as the ledge is centrally located it will prove a good investment.
At the ledge on Florence street a building has been built for tools. An exchange has recently been made with George H. Hammell on Florence street by which the city obtains a large tract of gravel land on the south side of the street in return for a tract on the north side of the street which has been exhausted.
Another lot of gravel has been purchased of Mrs. O'Don nell, lying between River and Pine streets and adjoining the Pine street pit. A pit has been opened on the Almshouse land lying north of the Circuit Railroad and near Washington street. Service pipes have been laid at the Murray-street ledge Eliot street ledge and Bourne's pit on Woodbine street for the purpose of supplying water to the boilers at the crushers.
The mileage of concrete sidewalks and street crossings in the several wards of the city is as follows : -
Ward 1
6.90 miles
66
2
. 8.14 66
66
3
. 5.58 66
66
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