Town of Newton annual report 1891, Part 17

Author: Newton (Mass.)
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: Newton (Mass.)
Number of Pages: 728


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15 43


Eliot street,


268 64


Elm street, .


7 00


Everett street,


13 56


Fairmount avenue,


28 77


Farlow Park,


4 31


Farwell street,


4 87


Fayette street,


12 75


Forest avenue,


12 43


Forest street,


71 76


Franklin street,


29 13


Freeman street,


104 23


Fuller street,


369 86


Gardner street,


3 57


Gibbs street,


124 45


Grafton street,


293 02


Greenough Street Brook,


48 03


Grant avenue,


25 24


Grassmere street,


16 72


Grove Hill avenue,


50 42


Amount carried forward,


$7,331 13


33


HIGHWAYS.


Amount brought forward,


$7,331 13


Grove street,


34 72


Hall street,


6 30


Hamilton street,


22 85


Hammond street,


211 09


Harvard street,


28 77


Highland avenue,


124 38


Highland street, .


23 74


Hillside avenue, .


70 42


Hollis street,


37 30


Homer street,


114 91


Hovey street,


2 25


Howard street,


17 77


Hunnewell avenue,


87 79


Hunnewell terrace,


121 06


Hunter street,


71 23


Hyde avenue,


93 66


Irving street,


30 00


Ivanhoe street,


1 29


Jefferson street, Jenison street,


5 44


Jewett street,


8 56


Judkins street,


11 66


Kenilworth street,


8 66


Kenrick park,


136 27


Kenrick street,


97 07


Kimball court,


6 03


Kimball terrace,


6 39


Kingsbury street,


11 54


Lakeview avenue


53 56


Lexington street,


62 18


Lincoln street,


59 81


Linder terrace


28 41


Amount carried forward,


$8,949 86


23 62


34


REPORT OF CITY ENGINEER.


Amount brought forward,


$8,949 86


Linwood avenue


23 08


Lombard street,


66 48


Lothrop street,


5 42


Lowell street,


74 36


Maple street,


21 79


Marlboro street, .


14 62


Marshall street,


29 95


Middle street,


6 34


Mill street


17 71


Montrose street,


7 02


Mount Ida street,


12 20


Mount Vernon street


17 16


Morse street,


38 56


Murray street,


51 87


Needham street,


53 87


Nevada street,


78 97


Newton square,


275 14


Newton Highlands,


20 08


Newtonville avenue,


454 23


Newtonville square,


461 67


Nonantum place,


328 40


Nonantum square,


30 48


Nonantum street,


36 30


North street,


72 42


North school street,


22 35


Oak Hill district,


1194 86


Orchard street,


13 80


Otis street,


2150 44


Park street,


260 96


Parsons street,


17 47


Peabody street,


24 43


Pearl street


768 24


Amount carried forward,


$15,599 92


35


HIGHWAYS.


Amount brought forward,


$15,599 92


Pembroke street,


78 31


Perkins street,


13 87


Pine street,


52 58


Preseott street,


16 85


Prinee place


9 25


Prince street,


28 71


Prospect avenue,


5 68


Richardson street,


18 58


River path,


54 77


River street,


148 13


St. James street, .


13 60


Sargent street,


276 35


Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 7,


2,340 26


Seetions Nos. 4, 5 and 6,


1,077 93


Seetions Nos. 8, 9 and 10,


996 55


Skinner land,


12 14


South street,


12 27


Spruce street,


4 50


Stanton avenue,


4 00


Station street,


8 50


Summer street,


13 70


Summit street,


38 68


Temple street,


186 90


Thornton street,


97 17


Town street,


23 39


Tremont street,


119 30


Turner street,


23 03


Union street,


316 00


Valentine street,


89 54


Vernon street,


60 58


Waban street,


10 80


Walker street,


9 75


Amount carried forward,


$21,761 59


36


REPORT OF CITY ENGINEER.


Amount brought forward,


$21,761 59


Walnut street,


926 07


Waltham street,


481 20


Washington park,


18 01


Washington street,


2,448 86


Watertown street,


977 13


Waverley avenue,


1,087 82


Wesley street,


13 07


West street,


25 55


Williams street,


4 37


Willow street,


102 31


Winchester street,


78 10


Wiswall street,


9 76


Winthrop street,


173 32


Woodbine street,


55 44


Woodland avenue,


100 52


Broken stone to private parties,


946 70


Care of snow,


3,129 21


Cleaning crossings,


825 10


Cleaning gutters,


5,263 19


Gravel pits,


2.615 33


Patching streets,


2,728 50


Picking stones,


544 87


Portable engine,


357 38


Purchase of horses,


1,290 00


Repairing crusher,


379 07


Repairing tools, .


314 80


Repairing washouts,


194 77


Road scraper,


11 70


Sanding sidewalks,


1,382 16


Stable account,


3,646 02


Steam drill,


3 87


Steam roller,


620 48


Amount carried forward,


$52,516 27


37


HIGHWAYS.


Amount brought forward,


$52,516 27


Stone sifters,


40 70


Storing stone, 1,559 31


Superintendent's salary,


2,500 00


Tools,


1,218 59


Randall's highway yard,


4 73


Miscellaneous,


2,532 14


Total,


$60,361 74


Highway Widening and Reconstruction.


Amount appropriated by the City


Council for the year 1891 $25,000 00


Amount expended as per superin- tendent's and assistant superin-


tendents' record of work, .


22,581 07


Amount charged by auditor to other appropriations, 292 93


Amount expended as per auditor's records, ·


$22,288 14


Balance unexpended,


$ 2,711 86


38


REPORT OF CITY ENGINEER.


The following table shows in detail the expenditure under this appropriation : -


STREET.


WARD. LOCATION AND DESCRIPTION OF WORK.


COST.


Arlington,


7 Between Belmont and Marlboro Sts.


$ 990 04


Bellevue, .


1 Centre St. to Newtonville ave.,


1,257 43


Boyd and Emerson,


1 Includes $69,26 for drain,


1,393 67


Boylston, .


5


From Circuit ave. to Rockland Place


1,927 24


Cabot and Harvard,


2


Washington to Walnut St.,


1,766 11


Centre,


5,6


From Rogers to Clark St.,


2,428 17


Chapel,


2


From Watertown St. north,


1,996 82


Elliot,


5


Oak St. to Columbia ave.,


800 00


Hammond,


.


6


Through the ledge east of Beacon St.


960 32


Hammond,


.


6


From B. & A. depot to Kingsbury St. (this includes $894,38 for drain)


3,277 33


Pearl,


1


Jewett to Garden Sts., .


300 01


Woodland ave.,


4


Washington to Maple Sts ,


2,609 35


Woodland ave.,


4


Maple St. to Central ave.,


1,876 80


Washington,


4


Wales St. to Charles river,


997 78


Total,


$22,581 07


Removal of Ashes.


The collection of ashes is made by the highway depart- ment, under the direction of the Highway Surveyors : Amount appropriated by order of the City Council


for the year 1891, $5,000 00


Total amount expended as per superintendent's and assistant superintendents' records of work,


4,933 37


Balance unexpended, $66 63


The following statement will show the cost of the col- lection of ashes for each ward, and the day of the week on which the collection is made :


Wards 1 and 7, Thursday, $1,270 98


Ward 2, Friday,


859 57


39


HIGHWAYS.


Ward 3, Saturday,


759 62


Ward 4, Monday,


624 96


Ward 5, Tuesday,


591 60


Ward 6, Wednesday, .


715 96


Cost of labor, as per superintendent's and as- sistant superintendents' records of work, . $4,822 69 Maintenance of carts and harnesses,. 55 86


Blacksmithing,


54 82


Total,


$4,933 37


Sidewalks and Street Crossings.


Amount appropriated by order of


the City Council for the year 1891, $18,000 00,


Amount expended as per superintendent's and assistant superintendents' record of work, .$19,229 00


Amount charged by Auditor to


other appropriations, 1,769 80


Amount expended as per Auditor's records, $17,459 20


Balance unexpended, $540 80


The following table shows the number of square yards of concrete sidewalks and street crossings, laid and repaired, and the cost of all sidewalks and crossings constructed during the year :


SQUARE YARDS OF CONCRETE.


STREET.


WARD.


SIDEWALKS.


CROSSINGS.


COST.


REMARKS.


New.


Relaid.


Repaired.


Repaired.


New.


Alpine,


3


$ 29 78


Auburndale ave.,


4


129 78


Bacon,


7


15 38


Beacon,


4


60 12


264 82


Partly gravel.


Beacon,


6


.


..


....


Partly gravel.


Bellevue,


1


327 00


32 04


46 38


Bourne,


4


86 89


Bowdoin,


10


41 67


.


.


.


·


213 69


Bowen,


6


74 28


48 30


36 08


140 41


Cabot,


7


.


54 44


59 63


California,


1


9 50


Gravel.


Carleton,


7


25 40


Gravel.


Centre,


2,6


22 72


99 11


Partly gravel.


Central ave.,


2


12 48


9 36


Chapel,


2


182 38


117 40


Charles,


4


.


.


.


39 50


Cherry,


3


116 00


87 00


Chestnut,


3


28 50


161 21


Church, .


1


591 88


18 00


26 74


781 22


Church,


.


75 58


241 23


368 44


105 53


652 77


Clark,


.


.


.


Gravel,


Clyde,


2


547 44


...


..


50 71


349 21


Columbus,


5


30 29


144 40


Partly gravel.


REPORT OF CITY ENGINEER.


. .


.


343 72


Berkeley,


3


.


. .


.


.


·


.


.


.


.


..


.


.


..


.


.


..


.


.


.


.


.


.


.


79 09


146 16


.. .


Gravel. Partly gravel.


5 50


Boyd,


1


.


Gravel.


Partly gravel.


7


6


72 62


.


.


Gravel. Gravel. Gravel.


40


41


HIGHWAYS.


Partly gravel.


f Concord,


·


4 7


17 07


9 80


Copley,


12 75


Gravel.


Cotton,


6


Craft,


2


95 61


Crescent,


16 25


Crystal,


6


.


.


.


.


.


·


.


.


.


..


.


. .


. .


.


..


Gravel.


Derby,


Gravel.


Durant,


7


Eldridge,


7


36 14


67 14


50 10


Elmwood,


1


120 30


94


39 25


Fairmount ave.,


1


80 50


92 85


Partly gravel.


Fairview,


Gravel. Gravel.


Fayette,


1


7 75


127 92


95 02


Forest,


5


.


Gravel.


Fountain,


3


Franklin,


7


132 98


46 04


157 44


Fuller,


3,4


Gardner,


1


69 77


26 62


45 93


116 85


Gibbs,


6


116 97


30 45


.


.


.


26 25


Gravel. Gravel.


Grafton, .


6


.


.


·


.


. . . ...


51 75


Grassmere,


107 72


Greenough,


4


.


.


.


.


115 17


Grove,


4


.


·


.


29 00


18 85


Hall,


1


Hamilton,


4


.


Gravel.


Cypress,


6


37 85


Gravel.


Davis,


68 23


3


.


.


.


68 99


Emerson,


30 58


4 82


.


26 75


86 37


Gravel.


88 86


Glenwood ave.,


6


16 15


239 51


Gravel.


Grant ave.,


6


.


·


. .


...


Gravel. Gravel.


2 25


.


.


.


.


.


28 74


3


Gravel. Gravel.


85 16


136 29


.


.


80 00


122 13


3


20 46


27 34


.


8 22


SQUARE YARDS OF CONCRETE.


STREET.


WARD.


SIDEWALKS.


CROSSINGS.


COST.


REMARKS.


New.


Relaid.


Repaired.


Repaired.


New.


Brought forward, .


Hammond,


6


Hartford,


5


83 85


42 40


Harvard,


2


128 50


56 86


High,


5


2


38 26


212 72


640 30


570 50


Highland,


3


270 77


472 96


38 72


23 53


649 44


Hillside ave.,


3


163 37


Homer,


1


3 33


106 99


72 85


Hovey,


.


.


7


294 64


167 85


Hunter, .


3


...


.


.


Gravel.


I lyde ave.,


1


.


.


.


.


Gravel.


Institution ave.,


113 16


61 43


Jenison,


95 07


6 01


Jewett,


1


45 99


24 81


129 74


Partly gravel.


Kenilworth,


7


S 42


79 88


90 94


Kenrick park,


7


133 89


Kimball ter.,


6


..


.


..


Gravel.


Lake Ave.,


5


31 30


32 86


Laurel,


6


19 30


20 26


Lenox,


3


.


.


5


76 60


1 15


59 69


107 85


.


.


99 06


. .


487 41


Pl'k and gravel.


Gravel.


REPORT OF CITY ENGINEER.


.


.


.


Gravel.


Lincoln,


.


.


.


.


.


.


.


.


63 46


55 07


Judkins,


2


123 90


.


.


176 38


5 79


483 65


326 25


IIunnewell ave., Hunnewell ter.,


6


15 38


Gravel.


.


. .


6 13


Highland ave.,


143 01


7


11 97


7 43


2


.


11 50


42


Lowell,


2 4


57 26


3 48


263 55


Partly gravel. Gravel.


Maple,


.


Marshall,


6


46 18


157 63 659 38


Partly gravel. Repairs.


Miscellaneous, .


1,2,7


452 17


10 18


59 36


79 23


Miscellaneous, .


3,4


218 94 Repairs. 238 65 Repairs.


Miscellaneous, .


5,6


130 78


Montrose,


21 10


Pl'k and gravel.


Mount Vernon,


3


.


.


1


62 89


15 55


71 86


Newtonville ave.,


65 20


Newtonville sq.,


2


.


Gravel.


Nonantum place,


7


39 50


12 54


Nonantum,


6


. .


.


..


.


.


2


101 26


15 71


Repairs.


44 21


Pearl,


1,7


195 08


101 70


126 00


27 49


41 65


379 43


Partly gravel. Gravel.


Pembroke,


7


Perkins,


Gravel.


Prescott,


3


Prince,


3


Prospect,


3


13 12


25 08


31 24


Richardson,


1


2 33


39 44


49 24


Ridge ave.,


6


River,


72 49


Partly gravel.


St. James,


7


91 15


Sargent, .


7


452 17


Temple,


.


3


34 40


151 03


Thornton,


1


65 03


68 27


.


.


7


50 74


84 74


..


..


.


.


·


..


·


·


..


..


.


.


.


.


.


15 15


10 00


17 89


55 93


.


7


3 39


13 00


Norwood ave., Otis,


2


48 78


Park,


.


.


.


3


130 11


10 00


77 11


207 90


Pl'k and gravel.


.


..


.


.


.


.


22 37


Repairs. Gravel.


12 99


3


.


174 58


Partly gravel. Gravel.


43


HIGHWAYS.


Repairs. Gravel.


Park place,


.


7


Peabody,


7


58 59


.


.


30 10


.


..


22 72


48 79


.


44 88


10 95


.


.


.


.


SQUARE YARDS OF CONCRETE.


STREET.


WARD.


SIDEWALKS.


CROSSINGS.


COSE.


REMARKS.


New.


Relaid.


Repaired.


Repaired.


New.


Tremont, .


7


5 14


Valentine,


3


354 57


Gravel.


Vernon, .


7


255 90


165 93


Vista ave.,


4


80 95


Gravel.


Waban,


1


.


..


4 11


Gravel.


Walnut, .


2


54 07


74 39


643 80


Partly gravel.


Walnut,


5


81 45


85 44


Walcott,


4


.


.


.


1


310 12


558 91


66 58


115 87


831 30


Partly gravel.


Washington,


2


302 91


230 92


210 97


93 92


662 69


Partly gravel.


Washington,


3


247 06


12 92


197 17


Partly gravel.


Washington,


64 19


38 75


212 26


Partly gravel.


Washington,


233 19


163 11


459 53


127 55


1,253 82


Partly gravel.


Watertown,


1,2


56 83


10 77


83 45


167 80


Waverley ave.,


7


439 11


41 10


123 52


439 02


Webster, .


3


Winthrop,


3


769 61


2 50


616 79


Woodland ave.,


4


127 64


216 53


Partly gravel. Partly gravel.


Totals,


.


.


.


6,144 38


14,520 32


3,563 95


2,249 34


607 40


$19,229 00


.


.


.


.


72 81


Gravel.


Walnut Park,


2


.


.


.


.


5 87


Gravel.


Washington Park,


2


6 52


Gravel.


Washington,


.


.


.


4


.


.


.


.


.


.


44


REPORT OF CITY ENGINEER.


.


.


1


Partly gravel.


662 30


45


HIGHWAYS.


Trimming Trees.


There has been expended for trimming trees the sum of $599,91, which has been charged to the appropriation for miscellaneous expenses.


Watering of Streets.


Amount appropriated by the City


Council for the year 1891, $13,500 00


The appropriation was expended as follows : -


Paid Water Department for use of water, . . $2,100 00


Timothy Stuart, watering Ward 1, and southeast part of Ward 7, John Joyce, watering north part of Ward 7, 667 83


1,965 00


William H. Mague, watering Wards 2, 3 and 4,


3,946 66


Thomas R. Frost, watering Ward 6, J. P. Keating, watering Ward 5, Newton Cemetery Corporation, watering on Walnut street,


1,964 80


670 33


by cemetery,


24 00


Miscellaneous bills, 199 95


Total amount expended,


11,538 57


Balance unexpended, .


$1,961 43


WATER DEPARTMENT.


The meetings of the Water Board have been attended and such miscellaneous work performed as has been required by the officers of the department.


Surveys have been made, levels taken and lines given for the laying of water mains in 54 streets, having a total length of 41,415.5 feet, or about 7.84 miles. There have been located 298 services and renewals during the year.


Settlement for land taken for additional water supply has been made with 31 parties, representing an area of 297-31.100 acres, and negotiations have been entered into for a settlement for a large portion of the balance of the land taken, and there is every indication of an early adjustment of the same. Surveys and plans have been made which contemplate a re- adjustment of the line of seizure. By making the proposed change the city will acquire rights in certain desirable strips of land, and will abandon small areas of land of but little use for purposes of water supply.


Plans for obtaining an additional water supply from the land taken for that purpose, were made and submitted to the Water Board, and accepted by the Board at their meeting held May 22, 1891.


The plan contemplates the extension of the covered con- duit from Kenrick street, nearly parallel to the river, to or near the Needham line, with branch lines extending along the edges of the hard land. These extensions should be made from time to time as the increased daily use of water may require.


48


REPORT OF CITY ENGINEER.


Filtering Conduit.


Plans, specifications and contracts for placing gravel fill- ing in the portion of the filtering basin in which the conduit was laid, and for grading and loaming over the new conduit, were prepared, and the following proposals received on Feb. 13, 1891, based upon the placing of 9,600 cubic yards of gravel filling, and for moving about 1,600 yards of loam to or from spoil banks, and grading slope and banks about the filtering conduit.


Canvas of Bids.


Gravel per cu. yd. Loam per cu. yd.


Amounts.


J. A. Cahill,


18c. 26 1-2c. $2,152 00


T. F. Mague,


19c. 23c. 2,192 00


M. McDonald,


20c.


30c. 2,400 00


C. H. Hale, 22c. 25c. 2,512 00


The contract was awarded to Mr. J. A. Cahill, of New- ton Upper Falls, on Feb. 17, 1891, and the work performed in a satisfactory manner.


The gravel filling was taken from the gravel bank ad- jacent to the filtering basin on the city property. As the filling was placed, the stones were raked to the bottom of the dump and retained near the filtering conduit, care also being taken to have the best gravel placed over the conduit.


This filling was levelled off to a grade ten feet above the axis of the conduit. The manholes were finished off to a grade of twelve feet above the axis of the conduit.


The embankment around the basin was replaced where damaged on account of the construction of the conduit.


The grounds along the line of the filtering conduit were graded and levelled off, making the surface everywhere on a gentle incline from the bank of the river across the conduit line to the high ground above, thus furnishing means for the drainage of surface water to the river. The filling of several low places of considerable area required a large amount of extra filling.


NEWTON FILTERING CONDUIT


ithal Ral


==


1.


HELIOTYPE PRINTING CO., BOSTON.


49


WATER DEPARTMENT.


Loam was spread and grass seed sown over the line of the conduit from Kenrick street to the end of the old basin, covering a length of 2,220 feet, and a width of from 50 to 150 feet.


The excavation for several hundred feet at the upper end of the conduit was made through several feet of muck, which was removed over a section of fifteen or more feet wide on each side of the conduit, and the space filled with clean gravel or sand.


The following is a memorandum of the actual cost of the work : --


For placing 10,906 cu. yds. of gravel filling at 18c. $1,963 08


For grading and placing 2,338 cu. yds. of loam at 26}c. 619 57


For pay of labor and teams including extra work and


filling, which could not be satisfactorily measured, 2, 109 54 $4,692 19


The amount of water used during the year has not been sufficient to determine the amount of additional supply, which may be expected from the extension of the works, but there is every indication it will be fully equal to that anticipated, and the results of the work have proved so far entirely satis- factory.


Pumping Station.


The contract with the Blake Manufacturing Co. required that the brick foundations and sub-foundations be put in by the city. The location for the new pumps was occupied below the cellar floor by the old brick foundations on which the old pumps originally sat, and the concrete blocks built in below it in 1882, in attempts to prevent settlement that was taking place at that time, by enlarging the area of the founda- tion. There were also the concrete and brick foundations of the small pumps to be removed.


50


REPORT OF CITY ENGINEER.


The material below these old foundations was fine gravel with veins of quicksand of varying thicknesses, and the ground water rose to within one and one-half feet of the cellar paving.


On the opposite side of the building were the solid con- crete and hard pine foundations for the Worthington pumps, put in in 1883, and extending over half the width of the building. $


This foundation extended down to grade 84.75 on the edges, and 85.75 in the central portion. The level of the bottom of the new brick foundations called for by the plans prepared by the Blake Manufacturing Co. was 92.33, with a small section under the air pump down to 90.33.


The sub-foundations for the pumps occupied the entire eastern portion of the building, and the excavation made to grade, and the entire space filled with American cement con- crete, composed of one part of American cement, two parts sand, and five parts stone.


In order to give additional rigidity to the mass, pieces of old iron railroad rails twenty-nine feet long were laid in the bottom of the excavation, and the concrete laid over them.


A Carson trench machine was rigged up, passing through the northwest window of the engine room, and used for re- moving the material excavated, and gave satisfactory eco- nomic results.


Contracts and specifications for furnishing the granite and putting in the brick work for the foundations were pre- pared, and proposals were received from the following parties : -


Leach & Grant, of Boston, at $7.00 per cu. yd., $760 55 Burnham & Davis, of Newton, at $8.67 per cu. yd., 913 00


For furnishing granite necessary in pump foundations : - Robert M. Gill & Co., Waltham, $695 00 F. A. Hale, Fitchburg, 720 00


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F. A. McAuliffe, Fitchburg, 740 00


Geo. Terrell, Fitchburg, 825 00


Alex. McDonald, Cambridge, 875 00


Mr. Gill not bidding with a full understanding of the requirements of the contract, and declining to take the con- tract upon the terms called for, the contract was awarded to Mr. F. A. Hale of Fitchburg, for the sum of $720 - the contract for brick work to Messrs. Leach & Grant, of Boston.


In order that more space might be had in the boiler room in front of the new boilers to be set, it was decided to make an addition to the building about six feet eight inches deep, and the width of the building.


Contracts, plans, and specifications were drawn for making this extension, for taking down the brick work and removing the old boilers, the city to furnish brick, cement, and sand.


Proposals for furnishing materials required, and for doing the work, were received from the following parties, and for the following sums : -


Messrs. Leach & Grant, Mason and Carpenter work, $1,895 00


Lyman A. Ross, Newton Highlands, Mason and


Carpenter work, 1,500 00


Burnham & Davis, Newton, Masonry, 700 00


Henry H. Hunt, W. Newton, Carpenter work and Painting, 549 00


The contract was awarded in two sections, to Messrs. Burnham & Davis, and Henry H. Hunt.


Pump and Boiler.


Work on the new pumps and boilers, which were fully described in the City Engineer's report for 1890, has pro- gressed, and while the pumps and engines have been set up and operated, the designers and manufacturers have not per- fected them to their complete satisfaction, yet there is every


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indication that they will fully equal the contract requirements in efficiency.


One of the boilers made by Edward Kendall & Son of Cambridgeport has been delivered. The second boiler is made and will be delivered as soon as the first boiler can be connected with the Worthington engine, and the old boilers removed out of the building.


The construction of the engine, pumps, and boilers have been carefully inspected during their construction by Mr. F. W. Dean, Mechanical Engineer of Boston, Mass., and the work carried on under his supervision, and much of the credit for the excellent quality of the machinery is due to his intelligent advice. He designed the piping for connecting the high pressure boilers with the Worthington engine, and proposals for furnishing and erecting the piping and fittings were obtained from the George F. Blake Manufacturing Co. of Boston for $925, and from Edward Kendall & Son of Cambridgeport for $690. The contract was awarded to Edward Kendall & Son.


Reservoir.


Work on the new covered masonry reservoir was resumed by the contractor, Mr. William H. Mague, on April 13. The remaining portions of the masonry walls were completed about one half of the covering arches, and covered with four inches of Portland Cement Concrete.


The arches and concrete covering laid during the late fall and early winter, although laid in cold weather, have come out all right apparently without injury from exposure to the winter weather so soon after being laid.


The concrete covering, after being thoroughly set and dried out, was covered with a coating of hot coal tar, well sprinkled with sand, well spread and rubbed into any small cavities there might be in the concrete, and making the covering perfectly water-tight.


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The granite coping stone were set on the top of the masonry about the edge of the walls.


The surface of the cement concrete covering was graded with a slight slope towards the east bank, and from the crown to the spandrel of each arch.


Along the spandrel between each arch, tile drains one and one-half inches in diameter were laid to take the water from the top of the reservoir, and connected with larger tile drains extending to the base of the bank.


These tile were covered with four inches of screened pea gravel. In order to further insure the stability of the edge from the action of the frost, a backing of rubble stone masonry about eighteen inches deep was laid dry.


The remaining space inside and to the level of the top of the edgestone was filled with loam.


The Portland Cement plaster was put on by the Italian stone masons, and was specially satisfactory in its results; it was put on in three coats. Beginning at the bottom and working up, the first or rough coat was slashed on with trowels all of the mortar that would hold on to the stone. When it had partially set they set it with their trowels, pressing it into all the rough interstices of the stone work. The second coat was then laid on and smoothed off, and a third and finishing coat, somewhat richer in cement, was applied as soon as the other had partially set. Each coat was trowelled down until the surface was smooth and even.


A flooring of Portland Cement Concrete, having a por- tion of one part of cement, two parts of sand, and five parts of stone, not over two inches in any diameter, was laid four inches thick, levelled off and well rammed with small plank rammers. This was finished off with a thin finishing coat of Portland Cement mortar, having one part cement and one part sand.


During the work of finishing off the inside of the Reser- voir, it was lighted by the use of sheets of bright tin set


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above the vent holes from which the sunlight is reflected upon similar sheets of tin under the vent holes and inside of the Reservoir. By their use the light can be thrown upon any part of the interior of the Reservoir.


Access to the interior of the Reservoir may be had through an opening left in the top near the western wall. It extends the full width between the arches, ten ( 10 ) feet, and is three (3 ) feet wide. In this opening an iron frame is set, and is provided with a cover in three sections.




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