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ANNUAL REPORT

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT

FOR THE YEAR 1932 [Document 24—1933]

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CONTENTS.

Part I.

REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS.

Page

Appropriations 6

Employees 13

Expenditures 7

Expenditures, by items, seg- regated budget 7

General review 2

Page Maintenance, comparative

table 8

Organization 1

Pavements, area of 11

Pavements, length of 12

Revenue 9

Part II. — Appendix A.

REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF THE BRIDGE AND FERRY SERVICE.

(Bridge Service.)

(Page 18.)

Page

Appropriations, special 27

Appropriations, special, sum- mary of 27

Bridge openings 29

Bridges, work done on:

Albany Street Bridge,

over Boston & Albany

Railroad freight tracks, 18

Arlington Street Bridge,

over Boston & Albany

Railroad 19

Berkeley Street Bridge, over Boston & Albany

Railroad 19

Broadway Bridge, over

Fort Point Channel ... 20

Chelsea Street Bridge 20

Chelsea South Bridge. ... 20

Page

Dorchester Avenue Bridge, over Fort Point Chan- nel 21

Gainsborough Street Foot- bridge, over the New York, New Haven &

Hartford Railroad 21

Granite Avenue Bridge. . . 21 Northern Avenue Bridge. 21

Miscellaneous 22

Expenditures 27

Expenditures, special ap- propriations 27

Expenditures, specal ap- propriations, summary

of 27

Repairs on bridges 27

Work done 18

IV

Table of Contents.

(Feery Service.) (Page 24.)

Page

Appropriations 31

Appropriations, amount paid

from 31

Balance sheet 32

Expenditures 31

Expenditures and receipts

since 1858 33

Page Ferryboats 24

Financial statements 31

Receipts at each ferry 34

Ticket statement 34

Work done 24

Appendix B.

REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF THE HIGHWAY DIVISION.

General Review. (Page 37.)

(Lighting Service.) (Page 38.)

Page Arc lamps, total cost per

lamp per annum 40

Electric lights, cost of 40

Expenditures 37

Financial statement 37

Gas lamps, number and

kind of 41

Gas lamps, total cost per

lamp per annum 41

Incandescent lamps, total

cost per lamp per annum, 40

(Paving Service.) (Page 37.)

Expenditures, objects of. Expenditures, detail of . .

General review

Permits

Permits, revenue from . .

Page

48 48 37 49 49

Street openings

Work done

By contract, summary of, By day labor, summary of,

Page

Lamps, number of, installed
during year	39
Lamps discontinued	39
Number and style of lamps,
January 1, 1933	40
Outages on street lamps ....	42
Rebates	42
Revenue	37
	38

Page 49 37 43 46

Table of Contents.

Appendix C.

REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF THE SANITARY DIVISION.

(Sanitary Service.)

Appropriations

Ashes, collected by contract, number of loads

Districts, map of

Financial statement

Income

Maintenance

Cost of collecting and dis- posing of refuse by day labor (between pages 54-55).

(Page 50.)

Page

50

54 60 50 50 50

Materials:

Collected by districts. . . .

Cost of collecting and

disposing of refuse by

contract

Offal collected by con- tract, number of loads . . Refuse collected, detail of (between pp. 54-55).

Revenue

Work done

Page

54

50 50

(Street Cleaning and Oiling Service.) (Page 57.)

Page Page distribution Macadam streets, cost of

oiling 57

Work done 57

Expenditures,

of

Expenditures, items of Financial statement. . .

57 57 57

Appendix D.

REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF THE SEWER DIVISION.

(Page 58.)

Catch-basins, cleaned by

contract

Expenditures:

Maintenance

Maintenance, detail of . . . .

Maintenance, detail of,

recapitulation of

Page

GO

59 61

61

Financial statement.

Miles of sewers, January 1, 1933

Pumping sewerage, average cost per million foot gallons

Page 59

67

66

VI

Table of Contents.

Page Pumping station, Calf Pas- ture, work done 65

Pumps, Calf Pasture, aver- age lift and duty 65

Refuse, removing same from

gatehouse 65

Summary of sewer construc- tion (twelve months) :

Work done

Work in charge of division,

Page

58 62

Appendix F.

REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF THE WATER DIVISION.

(Water Service.)

(Page 69.)

Construction, cost of

Expenditures

Expenditures, detail of

Financial statement

Hydrants, total number of,

December 31, 1932

Hydrants, total number and kind of, established and

abandoned

Income branch

Meter branch

Meter repairs

Meters:

Applied

Changed

Condemned

Page

72 72 72 72

77

77 73 74 74

74 74 74

Meters:

In service December 31, 1932

Installed

On hand December 31, 1932

Repaired

Set

Revenue

Service pipes:

Total number of lengths

of

Water pipes, total length of,

Work done

Work done, detail of

Page

75 74

75 74 74

72

76 76 69 69

Appendix G.

REPORT OF THE BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE BRIDGE COMMISSION.

(Page 79.)

Bridges in charge of com- mission

Page

79

Work done. . . Expenditures .

Page 79 80

[Document 24—1933.]

ANNUAL REPORT

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT

FOR THE

YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1932.

Boston, January 2, 1933.

Hon. James M. Curley, Mayor of Boston. Dear Sir, — In compliance with the Revised Ordi- nances, the annual report of the operations and expenses of the Public Works Department for the year ending December 31, 1932, is respectfully submitted. The Public Works Department, created by Ordinances 1910, chapter 9, now chapter 27 of the Revised Ordinances of 1925, was formed by consolidating the Engineering, Water and Street Departments.

Organization.

The department is composed of six main divisions, viz.:

Central Office. — The Central Office is composed of the accounting force of the entire department under the charge of the chief clerk.

Bridge and Ferry Division. — This division, under a division engineer, has the charge and care of all bridges used as highways which are in whole, or in part, under the control of the city; and the care and management of the ferries owned by the city, including boats, slips, drops and buildings.

2 City Document No. 24.

Note. — The Boston and Cambridge Division, so called, is not, strictly speaking, a division of the Public Works Department, as this work is in charge of a com- mission of two, one member appointed by the Mayor of Boston and the other by the Mayor of Cambridge, under the provisions of chapter 412 of the Acts of 1904; but because of the fact that the present Commissioner of Public Works is the Boston member of this com- mission and also because one half of the expense of the commission is defrayed by the Bridge Service, it is in this report treated as a division of this department.

Highway Division. — This division under a division engineer, has charge of the construction, reconstruction and maintenance of roadways and sidewalks, and the care of lamps and lighting of streets, parks and alleys.

Sanitary Division. — This division, under a division engineer, has charge of the collection and removal of ashes, garbage and refuse, street cleaning and the oiling and flushing of streets.

Sewer Division. — This division, under a division engineer, has charge of the construction and mainte- nance of sewers, catch-basins and waterways.

Water Division. — This division, under a division engineer, has the care of water pipes, installation of meters, water service, laying and relaying of water mains and the high pressure fire service.

General.

The end of this year closes the three-year program of extensive street construction inaugurated by legis- lative grants of loans outside the debt limit and con- ditional upon amounts raised within the debt limit and through the tax levy.

Accompanying this large program of street construc- tion was a comparatively large expenditure for sewerage works.

For the first time in many years we have completed all the contracts awarded for street work, with the exception of two small streets which will go over into next year.

For some time past negotiations have been carried on for a reduction in lighting rates, both for streets and for domestic services, and it is expected shortly that both public utilities will voluntarily grant decreases in

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their rates. The Gas Company has reduced street lighting rates by approximately 5 per cent beginning January 1, 1933.

Highway Division.

During the past three years there has been author- ized in loans outside the debt limit for the reconstruc- tion and repair of streets a total of $2,975,000, 11,000,000 inside the debt limit, and $1,000,000 from the tax levy. In addition, $225,000 has been appropriated from the tax levy for the replacement of dirt sidewalks with granolithic, wThich makes a grand total of $5,200,000.

For new streets there has been appropriated $2,500,000 outside the debt limit; $1,250,000 inside the debt limit, and $250,000 from the tax levy, making a total of $4,000,000 for the construction of new streets.

There is no doubt but what the expenditure of this large amount of money for construction has relieved the unemployment situation in this city, and it is strange that the policy of spending large amounts on public works, which appeared to meet the approval of the Legislature in 1930, has changed so that at present it is difficult to convince the very same public officials that this policy was right, and that a penurious retrench- ment should not supersede it.

The cost of contract work during the last two years has been comparatively so low as to justify a continued expenditure for necessary street construction. We know we are getting street work done now for one half the cost in 1918 and at a great reduction from that of recent years.

During the past three years we have reconstructed so many of the main arteries that it is the exception now to find a poor surface on these streets to drive or walk over.

Until the expenditures for public welfare are greatly reduced, we must depend upon loans inside the debt limit to continue street reconstruction, as it is not likely that the Legislature will approve further loans outside the debt limit.

During the past three years we have expended for the reconstruction of old streets and for granolithic sidewalks a total of approximately $5,000,000.

For 250 new streets — ■ practically all residential — and for the four "specials" for Morton street, Centre street, Charles and Cambridge streets, and Summer and

4 City Document No. 24.

L streets, we have expended a total of $3,164,000 for the Street Laying-Out Department.

We have inaugurated the policy of replacing defective brick sidewalks in the older parts of the city with grano- lithic. Included in this work was every brick sidewalk in the North and West Ends, which greatly reduced the large amount previously paid for personal injuries. The total length of replacements in three years is approximately thirty-three miles.

The total yardage of granite block and bituminous pavements laid in three years is approximately 2,100,000 square yards and of granolithic sidewalks 688,000 square yards.

Beidge and Ferry Divisions.

The widening of Arlington street required the con- struction of a new bridge at Arlington square, the con- tract for which was awarded and finished this year.

Asphalt plank, which now can be bought for a very low price, has been substituted for spruce on many bridge roadways with good results.

Plans have been prepared for major repairs on several bridges to be done in 1933.

The dangerous condition of Chelsea North Bridge fixed spans has caused the introduction of bills into the Legislature the past two years without any action. Another bill will be introduced this year and it is hoped with better results.

It is expected that the East Boston Teaming Tunnel will be open for traffic late this year, at which time one of the East Boston ferries will be withdrawn from service. The receipts from vehicles and passengers at the North Ferry this year will not exceed $10,000, and if it were discontinued better service could be extended at the South Ferry. By closing the North Ferry on April 1 next a saving of over $50,000 can be effected for the balance of the year, and we see no reason for a justifiable protest by the people of East Boston, con- sidering the present financial condition of the city.

Sewer Division. During the past three years we have spent for sewerage works a total of $3,750,000, provided as follows: $3,200,000 inside the debt limit; $500,000 outside the debt limit, and $50,000 from the tax levy. A large part of this was expended for surface drainage for our extensive street construction.

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A second 40,000,000-gallon electric-driven centrifugal pump is being erected at the Calf Pasture pumping station, and it is advisable to replace the existing uneconomical No. 1 and No. 2 pumps by larger electric units. This station will then operate normally with electric power and the present No. 5 steam unit will be used only for emergencies.

We continued our policy of not refusing any reason- able request for sanitary sewers, and we have made considerable progress towards providing sewers for the Germantown district.

The customary loan of $1,000,000 inside the debt limit for sewerage works should be provided early next year.

Water Division.

This division has been active in laying and relaying street mains for our construction program, in con- tinuing the policy of relaying old small-size laterals with larger pipes, and replacing domestic hydrants with the new type. The disappointing number of new ■services required this year (about one fourth the number in 1931) is an index of the small number of new buildings constructed.

The scheme of reinforcing the water pressure in parts of Roxbury and Dorchester, by laying a new main con- necting with the Metropolitan District Commission's high service supply at Prince street and extending down the Arborway, along Forest Hills street and along Glen road, through Franklin Park and thence to Geneva avenue and Columbia road, and connecting with our domestic system, has been considered inadvisable until such time as the Metropolitan District Commission agrees to lay a second main from Prince street along the Arborway and allow us to connect with this main at Forest Hills street. This will eliminate the necessity of having three large mains in the Arborway, a dupli- cation which is indefensible. It is thought that we may get the commission to cooperate with the city and save a substantial amount in our construction.

Sanitary Division.

A new ten-year garbage and refuse disposal contract went into effect on July 1, 1933. The contractor and the method of disposal are identical with the previous ten years.

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City Document No. 24.

We must look forward very soon to providing incinera- tion in at least two of the contract districts, as the dumping facilities within a comparatively short haul are disappearing.

Cooperation with the Welfare Department. xlble-bodied men receiving welfare aid work from one to four days in our activities and, necessarily, require extra tools and supervision. The net gain from their services is the reduction in permanent labor pay rolls by not replacing those retired or otherwise leaving the service. The maximum number of men working in this department at one time was 4,000. The broad gain is the maintenance of a good morale through these men thinking they are rendering an equivalent for the welfare aid.

Appropriations. The money assigned for the maintenance work of the Public Works Department during the year 1932 was derived from the income of the city raised by taxation. In December, 1931, the department esti- mates were submitted to the Mayor, in segregated form, who made such allowance for each item in the budget as he considered necessary and submitted them to the City Council. The total maintenance appro- priations as passed by the City Council and approved by the Mayor are shown below.

Central Office Bridge Service Ferry Service Lighting Service Paving Service Sanitary Service Sewer Service Water Service

$87,200 00

447,899 84

532,739 00

1,012,728 00

1,429,452 64

3,216,443 72

660,589 00

1,637,852 17

Total

1,024,904 37

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The expenditures under the several appropriations for the different services for the year 1932 were as follows :

Divisions and Services.

Current Expenses.

Special

Appropria-

ations.

Total Expenditures.

Balance

December 31,

1932.

Central Office... Bridge Service. . . Ferry Service. . . . Lighting Service . Paving Service. . Sanitary Service . Sewer Service. . . . Water Service . . .

$85,938 64

431,746 39

522,866 29

1,024,810 12

1,384,024 29

3,095,424 80

601,781 01

1,588,803 85

$100,466 78 10,413 26

3 2,082,701 46

1,080,111 11 91,363 62

$85,938 64 532,213 17 533,279 55 1,024,810 12 3,466,725 75 3,095,424 80 1,681,892 12 1,680,167 47

$57,387 07 59,599 94

1 358,959 63

•385,049 09 58,413 16

Totals .

$8,735,395 39

$3,365,056 23

$12,100,451 62

$919,408 89

« $295,000 authorized, but not issued.

2 $200,000 authorized, but not issued.

3 Includes $39,266.49 work done by Park Department on Centre street.

Yours respectfully,

J. A. Rourke,

Commissioner of Public Works.

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Public Works Department.

Revenues, 1932.

On Account of the Public Works Department, as Per Auditor's

Statement.

Bridge Service:

Maintenance of Chelsea bridges . . . $10,257 32

Northern Avenue Bridge, repairs . . . 489 93

Meridian Street Bridge 9,628 70

Clerical services 83 34

Rent 200 00

$20,659 29 Charlestown Bridge:

Rents ■ . 1,645 00

Morton Street Bridge:

Received from New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad for part cost of con- struction 38,500 00

$60,804 29

Ferrv Service:

Tolls $74,058 95

Rent 579 50

Commission on telephones . . . . 118 39

Cleaning telephone booths .... 48 00

■ 74,804 84

Lighting Service: Damage to posts 374 00

Paving Service:

From assessments on abutters for cost of laying sidewalks in front of their premises,

including material for the same . . . $59,426 61

Permits 12,108 48

Sale of material 2,184 86

Labor and materials, chapter 27, section 9,

Revised Ordinances, 1925 .... 33 00

Labor and materials furnished, etc. . 76 93

Use of rollers 505 93

Rent of signs 25 00

Repairing signs 88 43

Refund of gasolene tax 148 65

Overpayment on bill 23 13

Refund automobile registration ... 1 50

74,622 52

Reconstruction of Streets:

Reimbursement on contract 173 24

Sanitary Service:

Collection of commercial waste

Sale of manure .

Labor and material

Removal of dirt

Oiling streets

Cleaning dumps

38,135 31 Sewer Service:

Pumping sewage, amount re- ceived from Commonwealth,

Entrance fees ....

Carried forward . . . $14,363 55 $248,914 20

$33,974 96

1,912 10

1 99

1,373 75

167 51

705 00

$11,998 37 2,365 18

$14,363 55

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Brought forward . . . $14,363 55 $248,914 20 Sewer Service :

Labor and materials furnished, 703 23

Sale of junk .... 465 00

Sale of coal .... 817 15

$16,348 93

Sewerage Works:

Assessment under chapter 450,

Acts of 1899 . . . . $59,098 93 Interest on ditto . . . 16,573 09 Services of Inspector . . 212 65

Rent 260 00

76,144 67

92,493 60

Total $341,407 80

Water Service: Water rates due:

For the year 1932 and prior .... $4,485,991 57 Service pipes for new water takers, extend- ing, repairing, etc. 49,836 43

Labor and materials 12,342 25

Elevator and fire pipe connections . . 13,405 81

Fees on overdue rates 14,047 72

Shutting off and letting on water . . . 566 00

Interest on deposits 237 90

Testing meters 347 63

Relocating hydrants 682 35

Damage to hydrants 424 25

Board of horse 547 50

Abandoning main pipe 929 43

Sale of property 235 40

Refund on bonds 50 00

Services of flagman 43 56

Use of derrick 14 00

Damage to automobile 82 18

Vending machines 3 54

Total 4,579,787 52

Grand total $4,921,195 32

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The records of the department show that there are now 2,929 persons eligible for employment in the several divisions and of that number 2,879 were upon the January, 1933, pay rolls.

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	47	222	166	183	79	63	185	2	152	1 099

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Grade and Number of Employees. — Continued.

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Grade and Number of Employees. — Concluded.

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January 1, 1933	2,879

Total Eligible Force.

January 1, 1932. January 1, 1933.

46	202	186	2	722	618	349	387	551
47	199	164	2	686	590	332	372	537

3,063 2,929

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Appoin	tments, Transfers, Resignations, Retirements, Death	s, etc	., of Employees.
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* Includes eight Central Office employees who are paid on Water Service pay roll.

PART II.

APPENDICES.

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APPENDIX A.

REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF THE BRIDGE AND FERRY DIVISION.

Boston, January 2, 1933.

Mr. J. A. Rourke,

Commissioner of Public Works.

Dear Sir, — I respectfully submit the following report of the income, expenditures of the Bridge and Ferry Division for the year ending December 31, 1932. The expenditures of the division in the regular maintenance appropriations of the depart- ment were $954,612.68. Under a number of special appropriations $110,880.04 was expended, making the total expenditure for the year $1,065,492.72. This does not include certain expenditures for construction work for other departments, which work was super- vised by the engineers of this division.

Owing to a necessary reduction in all expenditures, the Bridge Service confined a considerable part of its activities to maintenance work and preparation of studies for major projects which must arise in the near future. However, three new projects were completed, namely, the rebuilding of Arlington Street Bridge and the Gainsborough Street Footbridge and the building of a footway at Greenfield road, Dorchester.

The general condition of the fixed spans of Chelsea Bridge North, has become critical, in that only two reasonable alternatives remain to deal with the problem, either a new structure, as previously reported, should be built, or the existing bridge closed to deck traffic, a third alternative, that of repairing the present bridge is unten- able, since from the foundation piles to the deck pave- ment, deterioration has advanced to such a degree that all new members would be required.

Albany Street Bridge, Over Boston & Albany Railroad

Freight Tracks. The floor beam hangers, one strut and some mis- cellaneous steel under the deck of the bridge became

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corroded to such a degree that renewals and repairs were necessary, ^.fter receiving three informal bids to make required repairs, a work order was issued to the Boston Bridge Works, Cambridge, Mass. Work was carried on in the field under direct supervision of this division, with the approval of the Boston & Albany Railroad Company, since the railroad company assumed one half of the expense of repairs. Work was completed on September 30, 1912, at a cost of $525.25.

Arlington Street Bridge, Over Boston & Albany Railroad.

On May 11, 1932, the Mayor approved a contract with Coleman Brothers, Inc., for rebuilding this structure, including the westerly abutment. The design is similar to the adjacent bridge; three longitudinal girders carry the transverse floor beams. The whole deck system is encased in concrete and the entire area of the under- side of the deck is covered with iron protection plates, three quarters of an inch thick. While this iron pro- tection added to the cost of the contract, it was found necessary since concrete exposed to raw flue gases of locomotives rapidly disintegrates.

The work under the whole project was completed on November 12, 1932, at a cost of $46,599.76.

Berkeley Street Bridge, Over Boston & Albany Railroad.

The general condition of this bridge was such that extensive repairs became necessary; new wooden string- ers, deck and paving of asphalt plank were installed by the department force. At the same time repairs were made to the steel work. The necessity for the last named repairs became apparent only after the wooden deck system was removed and the steel inspected. Further, this street crosses the railroad tracks by means of two independent spans, so that a close approximation of the total extent of repairs to the steel work could not be determined since only one span was out of commission at a time.

The repairs to the steel consisted of electrically weld- ing reinforcing pieces to badly corroded floor beams, reinforcing weakened sections of girders and repairing defective rivets by electric welding.

Since the tracks of the Boston Elevated Railway crossing this bridge had not been used for a considerable period and further, that making provision for street

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car loads would entail an appreciable expense, it was suggested to the Railway Company by the depart- ment that the rail site be abandoned.

On September 12 the department was advised by the Elevated Railway Company that they had abandoned the site and would remove their rails.

All repairs to the steel were made by the Boston Bridge Works at a total cost of $985.25.

Broadway Bridge, over Fort Point Channel.

In May the "funnels" of the rails of the Boston Elevated Railway and the headers of the ends of the draw and the fixed spans became so loose and out of line, due to impact and rot in the wood, that renewals were required. The department force accomplished all wood repairs and the Transit Department made the incidental repairs to the steel. At the same time the Boston Elevated Railway made extensive track renewals and the necessary pavement repairs between the rails of its tracks.

On June 4, 1932, all work was completed and the bridge opened for all traffic.

Chelsea Street Bridge.

On June 27, 1932, an order was issued to the Bethle- hem Shipbuilding Corporation, Atlantic Works Plant, to stiffen the main pinion shaft bearing bracket and adjust pinion and circular rack pitch circles. For some time the operation of the draw was unsatisfactory and pinion and rack teeth were frequently broken. While the operation is now satisfactory, owing to the condition of the workwood extensive repairs will soon be required.

This work was completed at a cost of $195.71.

Chelsea South Bridge. On April 19 a steamship, in tow, fouled a main girder of one of the leaves, seriously crippling the bottom flange. The Atlantic Works were ordered in the field at once and repairs were made consisting of fairing up such members as could be done properly, cutting out and electrically welding in badly damaged sections and installing an additional cover plate over the damaged area.

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This work was done without putting the bridge out of commission. All work was ordered and done under the direct supervision of this division. The total cost was paid by the Towboat* Company.

Dorchester Avenue Bridge, over Fort Point Channel.

On August 4 a work order was issued to the Boston Bridge Works, the lowest bidder, to strengthen the Sampson posts of the draw leaves. Each post was badly corroded at the base. This work required fitting reinforcing structurals and considerable electric welding. Works was finished on August 10, 1932, at the agreed price of $359.

Gainsborough Street Footbridge, over Neiv York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad.

On September 22, 1932, the Mayor approved a con- tract with the Boston Bridge Works to repair the whole structure. The existing truss span was so badly cor- roded that it was removed and a new girder span installed; both towers and stairway approaches were extensively repaired by renewals, riveting and welding.

Work was completed on December 19, at a total cost of §2,881.50.

Granite Avenue Bridge.

The sheathing of the fixed spans and the traffic treads having become a menace, an order to W. H. Ellis & Son Company was issued on May 27, 1932, to remove the deck sheathing and traffic treads and lay asphalt plank on the fixed spans and wooden sheathing and traffic treads on the draw span; owing to the weight of the asphalt planking it was deemed inadvisable to use this on the draw span.

Work was completed on June 14, 1932, at a cost of $992.69.

Northern Avenue Bridge.

While making adjustments on April 28 to web mem- bers of an outside truss on account of fouling of pedestals, it was discovered that one of a pair of counters had a failure, of long standing, in the lower eye. An order was at once issued to the Atlantic Works for making necessary repairs; at the same time was included the cutting in of two new turnbuckles in adjacent counters.

22 City Document No. 24.

On May 17 another order was issued to repair another ruptured eye of long standing. It should be noted that these failures were in such a location that they became apparent only when adjustments were attempted.

Both these emergency repairs were completed at a total cost of $619.38.

Day Labor Force. During the year the day labor force of the division was engaged in such repairs to the structures as were possible with the limited means at their disposal. The work consisted chiefly of repairs to woodwork, includ- ing pavement and miscellaneous timber work on the various bridges, piers and drawtenders' houses, elec- trical work, etc. At the same time miscellaneous clean- ing and painting of steel and painting of woodwork was accomplished.

Miscellaneous Repairs for Other Divisions and Departments of the City.

Highway Division — Greenfield Road Footway, Dorchester.

On March 23, 1932, the Mayor approved a contract with Baker, Matz & Co., to build a footway under the tracks of the Old Colony Division of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad at Greenfield road. This structure is of conventional type, similar to others built by this division. In this instance, as in the other similar projects, the railroad company supported its tracks and assumed the responsibility and the city paid for the work and materials used; also the contractor cooperated with the Railroad Com- pany by adopting a method of procedure.

This contract was completed on July 28, 1932, at a cost of $10,057.99.

Sanitary Division — Refuse Stations. A contract with A. Orlando, Inc., to make general repairs to the Victory Road, Albany Street and Fort Hill Wharf garbage stations was approved on June 26, 1932. This contract covered general work only, with- out major replacements to sheathing, decking, stringers, floor beams, caps and piles. Work under this contract was completed on October 12, 1932, at a cost of $8,330.56. This sum was paid by the Sanitary Division.

Public Works Department. 23

A contract with A. Orlando, Inc., to make major repairs to piling along northerly end of the station at Fort Hill Wharf was approved on November 15, 1932. All of the old face piling was found to be badly rotted and unfit for further service. All old piles, with inci- dental bracing, capping, etc., were removed, and new members installed. Work under this contract was con- ducted in such manner as not to interfere with the operation of the station. Work under this contract was not completed by the end of the year.

Institutions Department — Long Island.

A contract with W. H. Ellis & Son Company to repair wharves at Long Island was approved on June 30, 1932. The work covered miscellaneous repairs to the runway at the Back Wharf and the driving of necessary piles to strengthen the outer corner of the wharf. This latter item included the new timber work, capping and brac- ing and the laying of a new deck over the strengthened area. At the Front Wharf the whole of the wearing surface of the pier to the wharf was renewed and mis- cellaneous repairs to supporting members of wharf accomplished.

Work on this contract was completed on September 30, 1932, at a cost of $7,559.68. This sum was paid by the Institutions Department.

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FERRY DIVISION.

The following ferryboats are in commission:

Name. When Built. Length. Gross Tons

John H. Sullivan 1912 172 ft. 3 in. 527

Lieutenant Flaherty 1921 174 " 727

Ralph J. Palumbo 1921 174 " 755

Charles C. Donoghue 1926 174 " 4 in. 756.77

Daniel A. MacCormack 1926 174 " 4 in. 756 .77

General Sumner 1930 174 "4 in. 779

All these boats are of the propeller type and are all steel boats.

The work of this division for the year consisted entirely of maintenance work with no major repairs and no emergency work of any magnitude.

" General Sumner." A contract with the Richard T. Green Company for repairs incidental to inspection by the U. S. S. B. I. S. S. was approved on January 11, 1932. The work done under the contract was routine maintenance in char- acter, outside of renewing defective piston rings of the main engines. The work was completed on January 27, 1932, at a cost of $3,780.

" Daniel A. MacCormack." A contract with the Richard T. Green Company for repairs incidental to annual inspection was approved on April 21, 1932. This work was similar to that accom- plished on the "General Sumner," including the renewing of defective piston rings of the main engines. The work was completed on May 11, 1932, at a cost of $4,975.

" Lieutenant Flaherty." A contract with the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corpora- tion for repairs to hull and machinery incidental to the annual inspection was approved on August 4, 1932. The work done was strictly maintenance that could not be accomplished by the division force. The work was completed on August 23, 1932, at a cost of $4,728.

Public Works Department. 25

''John H. Sullivan."

A contract with the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Cor- poration for general annual repairs was approved on October 17, 1932. In addition to routine repairs was a renewal of bounding timbers at the ends of the road- ways, strengthening of deck system at landing wedges of the electrically operated ferry bridges, the installing of new fresh water tanks and the rebabbitting of defective thrust-bearing horseshoes. Work was corn- completed November 29, 1932, at a cost of $8,179.60.

At the time of inspection by the United States In- spectors, the city was required to make further repairs to certain bulkheads and sister keelsons. A contract with the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation was approved on November 15, 1932, to make these required repairs. This contract was completed on December 9, 1932, at a cost of $1,314.

"Ralph J. Palumbo." A contract with the Richard T. Green Company for repairs to hull and machinery was approved on December 8, 1932. Included with the general repairs was the repairing of the ends of the roadways and a renewing of the end oak staving. Work was com- pleted on December 30, 1932, at a cost of $5,260.

Ferry Bridges.

Owing to excessive wear and resultant failures of wire ropes used in conjunction with the live load coun- terweights an improved method of suspension and equalization of the load in the various ropes was de- vised. To make the necessary changes in the operating apparatus a contract with the J. Edward Ogden Com- pany was approved on January 19, 1932. At the same time the two original installations at the South Ferry were fitted with the same type of oil pans for worm gears as were installed on the later drops since the latter type proved more satisfactory. Work under this contract was completed April 16, 1932, at a cost of $4,706.

A contract with the Marine Company for repairs to down stream drop, South Ferry, East Boston, was approved on July 27, 1932. The damage to the drop consisted of crippled and broken structurals and wood work and the bending of the pair of hanger beams.

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The repairs consisted of furnishing certain new struc- tural, straightening others, straightening hanger beams, riveting and electrically welding members and rein- forcing pieces and furnishing new plank and timber which was removed to make repairs. Work was com- pleted on August 20, 1932, at a cost of $1,895.

Department Force. The department force was engaged in miscellaneous routine repairs to hulls, superstructures and machinery of the boats; also to headhouses and drops. Included in this work was the repairs to piping, valves, main engines and auxiliaries and such painting as was possible with the boats remaining in service.

Yours respectfully,

John E. Carty, Division Engineer.

Tidewater Bridges.

Bridges.	Drawtenders' Mechanics' Salaries. Wages.	Material.	Repair Bills.	Supplies.	Total.
	$16,200 51 22,091 64 18,822 26 18,604 00 16,458 68 16,831 15 16,303 00 16,191 20 16,210 42 16,913 06 16,932 34 18,599 78 16,778 02 16,800 30	$2,630 89 4,927 84 4,245 26 569 27 1,922 48 485 17 2,301 56 1,166 65 477 50 337 29 2,646 09 2,867 34 1,232 18 2,253 97	$274 92 1,256 54 1,206 77 170 99 344 75 40 57 1,073 58 433 56 88 36 64 95 789 42 2,858 79 433 94 143 64	$596 65 2,284 23 3,527 06 1,182 37 1,478 69 410 57 1,408 96 636 03 209 36 731 86 2,014 47 2,818 87 738 74 2,303 63	$346 91 559 37 1,056 79 695 51 399 64 510 23 348 49 244 18 350 82 591 50 337 35 3,136 58 296 73 390 40	$20,049 88
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Dorchester Avenue	18,277 69 21,435 59 18,671 62
L Street *	17,336 46
Maiden	18,638 66 22,719 67 30,281 36 19,479 61 21,891 94
Meridian Street Northern Avenue


	$243,736 36	$28,063 49	$9,180 78	$20,341 49	$9,264 50	$310,586 62
	* Now S	immer Street	aver Reserved	Channel.

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SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS.

BRIDGES, REPAIRS, ETC.

Albany Street Bridge. Iron work $904 00

Berkeley Street Bridge.

Material, asphalt plant $410 32

Iron work 291 75

702 07

Broadway Bridge.

W. H. Ellis & Son Company .... $3,200 32

Material 1,406 99

Paving repairs 530 39

Iron work 292 65

Transit Department pay roll .... 552 12

5,982 47

Chelsea North Bridge. Paving repairs 789 84

Chelsea Street Bridge.

Material, asphalt plank $394 55

Repair bills 393 08

787 63

Dorchester Avenue Bridge. Concrete sidewalk 202 45

Dover Street Bridge. W. H. Ellis & Son Company 2,510 59

Gainsborough Street Bridge. The Boston Bridge Works, Inc. . . . $2,449 27

Advertising 8 00

2,457 27

Malden Bridge. Paving repairs 495 00

Material, asphalt pla

Iron work License .

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Northern

Road Bridge. Avenue Bridge.

$619 38 16 13

Carried forward

216 68

635 51 $15,683 51

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Brought forward

Southampton Street Bridge. Material, asphalt plank

Paving repairs

Summer Street, Over B Stret Bridge.

Redfield Road Bridge.

Material, asphalt plank

Russett Road Bridge.

Warren Bridge.

W. H. Ellis & Son Company

Albany Street Bridge.

Coleman Brothers, Inc. Engineering .

Arlington Street Bridge.

Coleman Brothers, Inc. Advertising Inspection of steel Iron work Material, paint Office supplies Photographs Engineering .

Morton Street Bridge.

Coleman Brothers, Inc.

Architect

Shawmut Avenue Bridge.

Coleman Brothers, Inc. Photographs Engineering .

Granite Avenue Bridge.*

$15,683 51 381 52 517 55 460 70 169 34

594 01

$17,806 63

$4,427 13 4,663 65

19,090 78

$39,609 80 34 00 43 40 25 00 99 00 241 58 20 00 5,471 69

Drawtenders' salaries Material Repair bills Supplies .

5,544 47

5,157 54 59 40

5,216 94

$6,592 87

30 00

8,586 87

$15,209 74

£2,694 30

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992 69

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54,109 92

* Maintained jointly by County of Suffolk and town of Milton.

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FERRY SERVICE.

Financial Statement for the Year Ending December 31, 1932.

Receipts for the year (net income) ... * $74,797 47 Ordinary expenses (maintenance

appropriation) .... $522,866 29

Interest paid on Ferry Debt . . 36,412 50

Depreciation on Ferryboats . . 84,433 79

Decrease in value of machinery

and tools . ... 360 17

Decrease in value of fuel on hand . 1,001 70

$645,074 45 Increase in value of supplies on hand 5,933 08

Net outgo for the year $639,14137

Net loss for the year f$564,343 90

* Does not include $7.37 in hands of cashier at beginning of year, t Does not include expenditures for special appropriation.

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Total Expenditures Upon Ferries Since 1858=59.

Expenditures for avenues, paving, interest,

etc., previous to the purchase of the ferries

by the city $444,101 30

Purchase of the ferries, April, 1870 . . 276,375 00

Expenditures for ferryboats since April, 1870, 2,530,009 51

Expenditures for new buildings, piers, drops,

etc 1,491,468 89

Expenditures for tools and fixtures (prior to

1910) 14,752 46

Expenditures for land for Lincoln's Wharf in

1887 5,562 52

Expenditures for land from Battery Wharf in

1893 10,000 00

Total expenditures on capital account . $4,772,269 68

Expenditures for repairs of all kinds . . 2,798,574 64

Expenditures for fuel 2,957,422 57

Expenditures for salary and wages . . 11,414,629 04

Expenditures for all other purposes . . 3,166,514 06

$25,109,409 99

Total Receipts from Ferries Since 1858=59.

Receipts from rents, etc., previous to purchase

of ferries $29,588 56

Receipts from ferry tolls since purchase of

ferries . . . ... 8,348,370 08

Receipts from rents since purchase of ferries, 72,874 40

Receipts from sale of ferryboats . . . 168,004 57 Receipts from all other sources, per ferry

books 35,997 24

Receipts from all other sources, additional

per City Auditor 30,734 85

Total receipts from all sources . . $8,685,569 70

Less amount with tollmen as capital . . 200 00

Total receipts, Auditor's reports . . $8,685,369 70

Regular Annual (ordinary) and Special Appropriations (extra= ordinary) of the Ferry Service for the Year Ending December 31, 1932.

Appropriations (regular) for the year ending

December 31, 1932 $532,739 00

Transferred to City Treasury .... 9,872 71

Amount of expenditures (regular) for the

year $522,866 29

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City Document No. 24.

RECEIPTS AT EACH FERRY.

North Ferry.

From Tollmen.

From Foot Passengers.

From Tickets.

Totals.

Boston side

East Boston side

$2,316 18 2,217 81

$1,235 20 1,370 00

$3,551 38 3,587 81

Totals

$4,533 99

$2,605 20

$7,139 19

From tollmen .... From gatemen:

10,183 foot passengers at 1 cent

Cash fares for teams

Total at North Ferry

$101 83 4,388 90

',139 19

4,490 73 $11,629 92

South Ferry.

From Tollmen.	From Foot Passengers.	From Tickets.	Totals.
Boston side	$6,201 44 6,034 01	$4,256 40 3,115 60	$10,457 84 9,149 61
East Boston side

Totals	$12,235 45	$7,372 00	$19,607 45

From tollmen .... From gatemen:

33,241 foot passengers at 1 cent

Cash fares for teams

Total at South Ferry

$332 41 36,542 70

$19,607 45

36,875 11 $56,482 56

Public Works Department.

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North and South Ferries

Tickets paid for at ferry office ....

Tickets sold and paid for through City Collector's

office

Total from rates Rents for the year Headhouse privileges Care of public telephone booths Commission on public telephones

Total receipts for the year

112 48 5,633 70

*304 40

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t Does not include $7.37 in hands of cashier and deposited in 1932.

Travel on the Ferries from January 1, 1932, to December 31, 1932, Inclusive.

North Ferry. South Ferry.

Foot passengers at 1 cent each . 463,582 1,256,786

Foot passengers by ticket . . 17,521 6,551

Total from foot passengers

481,103 1,263,337

	North Ferry.	South Ferry.
Hand cart, or wheelbarrow and man 5 cents] Horse and rider 5 cents	17,211 35,294 57,609 7,427 263
Horse and cattle, each with attendant 5 cents \| One or two-horse vehicle with driver 5 cents	62,106
Motor cvcle with driver 5 cents
Trailer 10 cents]
Three or four-horse vehicle with driver 10 cents ( Passenger automobile with driver and one passenger 10 centsj Passenger automobile with driver and more than one passenger 15 cents'! Motor truck, six tons or less, with driver. ... 15 cents/ Motor truck over six tons, with driver 20 cents! Auto bus with driver 20 cents/	225,882 150,636 6,742
Auto bus with driver and passengers 30 cents	133
	117,804	445,449

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Motor Vehicle Traffic (Reports of Captains).

January 1, 1932, to December 31, 1932.

North Ferry.

South Ferry.

Totals.

Passenger cars

Trucks

54,968 44,580

318,090 95,776

373,058 140,356

Totals

* 99,548

t 413,866

513,414

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* Includes 4,030 free.

Total paying foot passengers .... Total foot passengers carried .... Total paying teams, passenger cars and trucks Total free teams

1,744,440 1,744,440

563,303

18,383

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APPENDIX B.

REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF THE HIGHWAY DIVISION.

Boston, January 2, 1933.

Mr. Joseph A. Rotjrke,

Commissioner of Public Works.

Dear Sir. — I submit herewith a statement of the activities, operations and expenditures of the Highway Division for the year ending December 31, 1932.

The maintenance expenditures of the division for the year were as follows:

Lighting Service $1,024,810 12

Paving Service 1,384,024 29

Total $2,408,834 41

The work of constructing new streets and the resur- facing and maintenance of the city streets during the year 1932 has been large in volume and compares very favorably with the great amount of work done during the year 1931.

The usual two contracts were awarded for repairing streets having an asphalt or bitulithic surface on which the maintenance guarantee had expired. The City was divided into two sections and a contract awarded in each section.

This year marks the completion of the Centre street project from the new rotary traffic circle at Centre street and the Park road known as Jamaicaway, to the intersection at Church street, West Roxbury. From Souter street to Weld street there are two roadways thirty feet each in width with granite edgestone and a centre reservation paved with artificial stone 4 feet wide; the sidewalks are 8 feet in width, making a total width of 80 feet.

The pavement is Warrenite Bitulithic laid on a 6-inch concrete base. The east side has an artificial stone sidewalk from Souter street to Louder' s lane and on the west side the sidewalk is made of artificial stone from Louder' s lane to Weld street.

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Between Weld street and Church street there is a single roadway ranging from 54 to 58 feet in width, the pavement is sheet asphalt laid on a 6-inch concrete base. The two sidewalks are each 8 feet wide. Total width of street 70 feet.

Twenty-nine contracts have been awarded for the construction of fifty-seven streets under the special appropriation "Highways, Making of," for which was expended during the year $575,795.52.

Under the special appropriation for "Reconstruction of Streets" twenty-seven contracts were awarded for the reconstruction of one hundred and two streets for which was expended $913,888.71.

In addition to the above several contracts were awarded for the construction of about twenty-five streets in whole or in part of artificial stone sidewalks. For this work there was expended $67,475.77.

In addition to the work of construction done by con- tract and special appropriations the division forces were employed in the maintenance of the streets throughout the city, resurfacing and repaving macadam roadways, relaying the pavement in granite paved streets and patching old street surfaces. In the suburban districts a great deal of street and gutter cleaning has been done by the men sent to the Paving Service from the Public Welfare Department.

Lighting Service.

The outstanding installations of new street lighting units made during the year are as follows:

Commonwealth avenue and Beacon street in con- nection with the Kenmore square project, thirty-eight 1,500 candle power lamps on concrete posts installed.

Centre street, Church street to Arborway, West Roxbury, fifty 1,000 candle power lamps on concrete posts installed.

Centre and South streets, Wyman street to Boynton street, West Roxbury, twenty-four magnetite arc lamps installed and all the existing pendant arcs in this area changed to boulevard posts.

Western avenue, Market street to North Harvard street, Brighton, nine 1,500 candle power and two 1,000 candle power lamps installed.

Walnut avenue, Roxbury, eight 1,500 candle power lamps installed.

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Morton street, Dorchester, nine 1,500 candle power lamps installed on concrete posts.

Forest Hills street, West Roxbury, twenty 600 candle power lamps installed.

On Neponset avenue, Dorchester, all existing lamps were rearranged where necessary and seventeen dead ends installed to take care of new lighting lay-out where the street is resurfaced in 1933.

Respectfully submitted,

Joshua Atwtood, Divisio7i Engineer.

Lighting Service. There are in operation 22,969 arc, Mazda and gas lamps divided as follows: 3,712 arc, 9,602 Mazda, 9,438 single mantle gas lamps and 217 single mantle fire alarm gas lamps.

Lamps Installed.

Magnetite arc lamps 48

Mazda lamps 418

Single mantle gas lamps 1

467 Lamps Discontinued.

Magnetite arc lamps * 54

Mazda lamps 120

Single mantle gas lamps 120

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* 38 Magnetite arc lamps changed to 1,500 candle power series Mazda.

* 6 Magnetite arc lamps changed to 1,475 candle power multiple Mazda.

* 2 Magnetite arc lamps changed to 950 candle power multiple Mazda.

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Lamp Service. — -The lamps, poles, wires, fixtures and other apparatus, appliances and materials necessary to supply service on public streets (except posts for in- candescent lamps smaller than the No. 70 lamp or lamp-posts other than the company's standard post for each respective size and type of lamp) are furnished and maintained by the company. A change in size, type or location of a lamp once installed, will be made only at the expense of the customer. The charge for a change in the location of an incandescent lamp fixture on overhead lines when the street lighting circuit is already installed on the pole to which the fixture is to be moved, will be ten dollars for each fixture so moved.

Outage Allowance. — A deduction for lamps not lighted during the hours called for by the existing street light- ing schedule applying thereto will be made at the rate of 1 cent per lamp hour on all lamps smaller than the No. 70 lamp, and at the rate of 5 cents per lamp hour on all other lamps.

Gas Lamps.

Number op Lamps December 31, 1932.

Type of Lamp.

Cost per Year 4,000 Hours Burning.

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217

Street. Fire Alarm.

$24 37 24 37

Total 9,655

Gas Lighting.

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The Lighting Service provides for the gas, lighting and care of fire alarm signal lamps and the Fire Depart- ment for the posts, setting and repairing of same.

An outage allowance for lamps not lighted is made at the rate of two to one, or $1 ;T of a year's cost for each night of outage.

Ten year contract approved May 20, 1924.

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The Boston Consolidated Gas Company reduced the price of gas 16| per cent dating from October 1, 1929.

This explains the reduction in cost from the original contract price of $26.20 per year. (See detail below.)

Original Price. Lighting and care Gas .

Revised price.

Lighting and care Gas .

$15 20 11 00

$26 20

$15 20 9 17

$24 37

Street Lamp Outages.

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Street Openings. Under Classes 1 and 2 of the schedule of permit fees, permits were issued for openings in public ways, as follows :

To Whom Issued.

Number of Permits.

Length in Feet.

Sewer and Water Services

Edison Company

Miscellaneous

Boston Consolidated Gas Company

Emergency Permits

New England Telephone and Telegraph Com- pany

Boston Elevated Railway

Dedham and Hyde Park Gas Company

44,400 119,000 68,700 26,025 24,725

53,354 12,750

825

349,779

Making a total length of sixty-six miles.

openings approximately

Permits for other than street openings have been issued as follows:

Painting and minor repairs 2,837

Placing signs flat on buildings 658

Special permits . 355

Erecting and repairing buildings 282

Erecting and repairing awnings 159

Emergency permits for raising and lowering safes .... 117

Moving buildings in streets 21

Cleaning snow from roofs 20

Feeding horses in street 2

Total 4,451

Total of all permits issued, 13,891.

The fees received from these permits amounted to $11,955.31; of this amount $8,383.31 was deposited with the City Collector and $3,572 was billed to public service corporations.

Bonds. There are now on file 2,669 surety bonds, in amount of one, three and twenty thousand dollars, covering the city against claims for damages, etc., through the use of permits.

S. L. Durkee, Supervisor of Permits.

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APPENDIX C.

REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF THE SANITARY DIVISION.

Boston, January 2, 1933.

Mr. Joseph A. Rourke,

Commissioner of Public Works.

Dear Sir, — I submit herewith a statement of the activities and expenditures of the Sanitary Division for the year ending December 31, 1932.

The maintenance and expenditures are as follows:

Sanitary Division $3,095,424 80

Distributed as follows:

Refuse collection and disposal ... 2,278,952 09

Collection, day labor . . . $1,133,745 55

Disposal, day labor $383,194 42

Total, day labor $1,516,939 97

Collection and disposal, contract . 419,443 65

Disposal, Dorchester garbage .... 15,568 47

Total, contract 435,012 12

Recapitulation $1,553,189 20 $398,762 89 $1,951,952 09

Excess 1932 disposal expenditure

over ten-year average 327,000 00 327,000 00

Total disposal expenditure .... $725,762 89 $2,278,952 09

Total street cleaning expenditure $816,472 71

Note. — Excess expenditure of $327,000 on account of payment of closing instalment on 1922-32 disposal contract and initial instalment on 1932-42 contract. This situation arises once in ten years.

Personnel Changes. — During the year twenty-one men died, three men resigned and sixteen men were retired, making a total of forty separations.

Complaints. — An analysis of 3,151 complaints received at the Central Complaint Office is shown in Table I. As the number of complaints was reduced from 5,014 in 1931, a considerable improvement in service is indicated.

Welfare Men. — The year 1932 witnesses an enormous increase in the number of welfare men assigned to this division. The number of individuals employed in this way rose from 1,849 at the beginning of the year to

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3,605 at the end, with a maximum of 4,062. The amount of work performed by these men amounted to 2,874 days per week at the beginning of the year, and had risen to 7,248 days per week at the end, with a maximum of 8,356.

The total number of days' work performed during the year 1932 by these men was 275,965. On the average about three eighths of these men were assigned to the work of the sanitary service and five eighths to street cleaning service.

Change in Units of Waste Production. — In recent years it had become more and more evident that the unit weight factors used in our waste production records needed revision, particularly with reference to ashes.

Since 1916 it had been assumed that the weight of the cubic yard of ashes was 815 pounds and this amount multiplied into the rated cubic yardage of the vehicles used, was assumed to give the tonnage of ashes col- lected. However, it had long been known that the material was becoming lighter and lighter, not only due to the lessened specific weight of material used, but also because the extensive use of cartons from chain stores made it very difficult to obtain a properly com- pacted load. More recently, the increased use of oil burners, both range and furnace, has resulted not only in a diminished production of ashes, but also in an actual increase in the production of paper, which, before the advent of the oil burner, was sometimes burned.

For the last sixteen years, therefore, that part of our records which was concerned with the tonnage of ashes produced, or the cost per ton, really represented cubic yards multiplied by an arbitrary factor.

While the so-called tonnage and the so-called cost per ton might give the reader an idea of the change from year to year, in the light of recent investigation it is thought best to eliminate such considerations of weight, and therefore in this report the waste produc- tion will be based upon yardage and cost will be given per cubic yard.

This change is in accordance with the recommended practice in other American cities, and is further based upon the fact that costs do not fluctuate with the weight of the material but are in proportion to the volume. Therefore, any comparison of costs between

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districts or between periods of time having marked differences in unit weight, would be unreliable.

Comparative costs for the years 1931 and 1932 are shown in Table V, showing on the whole a decrease in costs both in day labor as well as in contract work.

Abandoned Automobiles. — Considerable work was done in the disposal of abandoned automobiles, a record of which is shown in Table VI. This work is being done under authority of chapter 185, Acts of 1897, under which the Health Department ordered the Public Works Department to remove automobiles from private land after due notice to the owners. A unit charge of $5 per vehicle or equivalent is made, but this charge by no means represents the actual cost, as an examination of Table VI will show. For cleaning lots a unit charge of $10 is made.

Yours respectfully,

Adolph J. Post,

Division Engineer.

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Character of Refuse.

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Cubic Yards.

Total Cubic Yards.

For Disposal.

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Cost of Districts.

Total Cost to Collect.

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3. Charlestown (30,758) .

Mixed refuse.

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7. Roxbury (152,560) .

Mixed refuse.

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8 and 9. South End and Back Bay (88,326)

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10. West End (56,011).

Mixed refuse.

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109,838 17,103

43,614 7,666

276,547 81,886 21,060

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1932.

Total Cost.

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STREET CLEANING AND OILING SERVICE.

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APPENDIX D.

REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF THE SEWER DIVISION.

Boston, January 2, 1933.

Mr. Joseph A. Rourke,

Com?nissioner of Public Works.

Dear Sir, — I submit herewith statement of the activities and expenditures of the Sewer Division for the year ending December 31, 1932.

There were built by contractors, day laborers and private parties, 19.43 miles of sewers and surface drains throughout the city.

After deducting 1.17 miles of sewers and surface drains, rebuilt or abandoned, the net increase for 1932 is 18.26 miles, which, added to the existing 1,122.90 miles of common sewers and surface drains and 30.93 miles of intercepting sewers, makes a grand total of 1,172.09 miles of common and intercepting sewers belonging to the City of Boston and under the care of the Sewer Division on January 1, 1933.

There were 404 catch-basins built or rebuilt and 57 abandoned or removed during the year, making a net gain of 347 catch-basins, and a grand total of 20,428 catch-basins under the care of the Sewer Division on January 1, 1933; also 8,256 catch-basins and 128 drop inlets were cleaned by contract.

The sewerage works built during 1932 are listed in detail on the subsequent pages of this report.

Respectfully,

George W. Dakin,

Division Engineer.

Public Works Department.

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Sewer Division.

Summary of Sewer Construction for Twelve Months Ended December 31, 1932.

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Length of Sewers Re- built or Abandoned During the Twelve Months ended December 3 1 , 1932.

Net Increase for

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December 31, 1932.

City Proper . . .

Roxbury

South Boston. . East Boston. . . Chariest own. . .

Brighton

West Roxbury. Dorchester Hyde Park

Linear Feet. 3,346.05 9.526 23

Linear Feet.

247.00

3,082.00

Linear Feet. 3,099.05 6,444.23

3,104.64 260.00

7,040.13 55,702.76 20,648.45

2,979.74

256.00

2,638.37

2,848.64 260.00

7,040.13 55,702.76 18,010.08

2,979.74

Totals .

103,608.00

6,223.37

96,384.63

Miles. 0.587 1.221

0.540 0.049 1.333 10.550 3.411 0.564

18.255

Total Lenyths of Sewers in Boston. Common sewers and surface drains built previous to January 1, 1932.

Net increase of common sewers and surface drains built between January 1 1932, and December 31, 1932

Miles. 1,122.90

18.26

Total common sewers and surface drains to December 31, 1932 .

Intercepting sewers connecting with Metropolitan sewers to December 31. 1932

Boston main drainage intercepting sewers to December 31, 1932.

*6.81 * 24.12

Grand total of common and intercepting sewers to December 31, 1932 Total mileage of streets containing sewerage works to December31, 1932

1,172.09 660.16

* No additional lengths built during the year 1932.

Summary of Sewer Construction for Five Years Previous to December 31, 1932.

1928.

1929.

1930.

1931.

1932.

Built by city by con- tract or day labor. . . .

Built by private parties.

Linear Feet.

102,523.60

11,279.08

Linear Feet.

96,382.76

11,184.90

Linear Feet.

146,836.12

5.090.03

Linear Feet.

137,783.66

5,862.05

Linear Feet.

96,452.48

6,155.52

Totals

113,802.68

107,567.66

151,926.15

143,645.71

102,608.00

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City Document No. 24.

Catch=Basins in Charge of Sewer Division, January 2, 1933.

Districts.

Catch-Basin Data for Twelve Months Ended December 31, 1932.

Number Built or Rebuilt.

Number Abandoned or Removed.

Net Increase.

Total for Whole City

in Charge of Sewer

Division.

January 1,

1932.

Grand

Total to

January 1,

1933.

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Roxbury

South Boston. . East Boston . . . Charlestown. . .

Brighton

West Roxbury.

Dorchester

Hyde Park

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24

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17

347

3,547 3,226 1,377 1,000

803 1,775 3,095 4,568

600

20,081

3,564 3,262 1,379 1,002

803 1,812 3,224 4,765

617

20,428

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City Document No. 24.

Cost of Pumping at Calf Pasture Pumping Station, January 1, 1932, to December 31, 1932, Inclusive.

Items.	Cost.	Cost Per Million Foot Gallons.
	$84,560 23 20,045 76 42,686 66 1,667 11 415 83 3,788 63 4,942 25	$0.06197
	.01469
Electric power, Edison, 3,194,200 kilowatt hours*	.03129 .00122
	.00030
	.00278
	.00362

Totals	$158,106 47 8,687 32	$0.11587
	.00630

	$166,793 79	$0.12117

*This includes all power for auxiliaries and lighting.

Sewerage Statistics, January 1, 1932, to December 31, 1932.

Total gallons pumped .... 34,808,564,258

Daily average gallons pumped Average dynamic head Foot gallons . . . . Foot pounds .

95,105,367

39 2

1,364,495,718,913

11,419,464,671,580

Note. — These tables relating to fiscal year 1931 were left out of report for 1931.

Sewer Division.

Summary of Sewer Construction for Twelve Months Ended December 31, 1931.

Districts.

Built by

City by

Contract or

Day Labor.

Built by Private Parties.

Total Length Built.

City Proper . .

Roxbury

South Boston. East Boston . . Charlestown. .

Brighton

West Roxbury Dorchester . . . Hyde Park . . .

Totals . . .

Linear Feet.

2,991.76

7,272.20

5,116.22

1,617.10

236.00

18,249 57

54,776.52

35,363.99

12,160.30

137,783.66

Linear Feet.

620.50

4,168.00

885.65 187.90

Linear Feet.

3,612.26

11,440.20

5,116.22

1,617.10

236.00

18,249.57

55,662.17

35,551.89

12,160.30

5,862.05

143,645.71

Miles. 0.684 2.167 0.969 0.306 0.045 3.456 10.542 6.733 2.303

27.205

Public Works Department.

67

Net Increase in Length of Sewers Built between January I, 1931, and December 31, 1931.

Districts.

Length of

Sewers Built

During

Twelve

Months

Ended

December 31,

1931.

Length of Sewrers Re- built or Abandoned During Twelve Months Ended December 31, 1931.

Net Increase for Twelve Months Ended December 31, 1931.

City Proper . . .

Roxbury

South Boston. . East Boston . . . Chariest own. . .

Brighton

West Roxbury . Dorchester . . . . Hyde Park

Linear Feet.

3.612.26

11,440.20

5,116.22

1,617.10

236.00

18,249.57

55,662.17

35,551.89

12,160.30

Totals .

143,645.71

Linear Feet.

428.50

3,518.36

2,048.63

410.00 259.00 130.00

6,794.49

Linear Feet.

3,183.76

7,921.84

3,067.59

1,617.10

236.00

18,249.57

55,252.17

35,292.89

12,030.30

136,851.22

Miles. 0.603 1.500 0.581 0.306 0.045 3.456 10.465 6.684 2.278

25.918

Total Length of Sewers.

Common sewers and surface drains built previous to January 1, 1931

Net increase of common sewers and surface drains between January 1, 1931, and December 31, 1931

Miles. 1,096.98

25.92

Total common sewers and surface drains to December 31, 1931 ,

Intercepting sewers connecting with Metropolitan sewers to December 31, 1931

Boston main drainage intercepting sewers to December 31, 1931 .

Grand total of common and intercepting sewers to December 31, 1931 . . Total mileage of streets containing sewerage works to December 31, 1931

1,122.90

*6.81

*24.12

1,153.83

654.84

* No additional lengths during year 1931.

Summary of Sewer Construction for Five Years Previous to December 31, 1931.

	1927.	1928.	1929.	1930.	1931.
Built by city by con- tract or day labor. . . . Built by private parties,	Linear Feet. 87,199.14 11,699.24	Linear Feet. 102,523.60 11,279.08	Linear Feet. 96,382.76 11,184.90	Linear Feet. 146,836.12 5,090.03	Linear Feet. 137,783.66 5,862.05
	98,898.38	113,802.68	107,567.66	151,926.15	143 645 71

68

City Document No. 24.

Catch=basins in Charge of Sewer Division.

Districts.

Catch-basin Data for Twelve Months Ended December 31, 1931.

Number Built or Rebuilt.

City Proper. . .

Roxbury

South Boston . East Boston.. . Charlestown. .

Brighton

West Roxbury Dorchester. . . . Hyde Park. . . .

Totals....

52

58

33

9

1

70

206

203

25

Number Abandoned or Removed.

Net Increase.

657

40 13 31

95

12

45

2

9

1

70

206

192

25

Total for Whole City

in Charge of Sewer

Division.

January 1,

1931.

562

3,535

3,181

1,375

991

802

1,705

2,889

4,466

575

19,519

Grand Total

to

January 1,

1932.

3,547 3,226 1,377 1,000

803 1,775 3,095 4,658

600

20,081

Public Works Department.

69

APPENDIX E.

REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF THE WATER DIVISION.

Boston, January 2, 1933.

To the Commissioner of Public Works.

The following report of the operations, income and expenditures of the Water Division for the year ending December 31, 1932, is respectfully submitted.

During the year only four miles of water pipe, vary- ing in size from 8-inch to 16-inch, were laid for exten- sion, a decrease of 3.5 miles from the total length of pipe extension laid in 1931. This reflects the cessa- tion of building operations and land development in Boston.

In districts, the pipe lengths laid were:

City proper East Boston Roxbury Dorchester . Brighton West Roxbury Hyde Park .

.17 .13 .30 .87 .48 1.91 .14

miles miles miles miles miles miles miles

In continuance of the policy of replacing the older and smaller water mains with larger sizes for the improvement of the fire protection in the more densely populated sections of the city, 17,240 linear feet, or 3.3 miles of 4-inch and 6-inch pipe, laid fifty years or more, were replaced with 8-inch, 10-inch and 12-inch pipe. Some of the longer lengths were:

City Proper. Prince street, between Commercial and Hanover streets, 1,575 linear feet 12-inch relaid with 12-inch pipe.

St. Botolph street, between Gainsborough street and Massachusetts avenue, 589 linear feet 6-inch relaid with 10-inch pipe.

West Rutland square, between Columbus avenue and Carleton street, 444 linear feet 6-inch relaid with 10-inch pipe.

70 City Document No. 24.

West Canton street, between Columbus avenue and Carleton street, 438 linear feet 6-inch relaid with 10-inch pipe.

Doane street, between Broad and Kilby streets, 355 linear feet 6-inch relaid with 8-inch pipe.

Roxbury.

Bainbridge street, between Dale street and Walnut avenue, 1,500 linear feet 6-inch relaid with 8-inch pipe.

Lambert avenue, between Dudley and Cedar streets, 1,481 linear feet 6-inch relaid with 12-inch pipe.

Norfolk street, between Highland street and Lambert avenue, 649 linear feet 6-inch relaid with 12-inch pipe.

Reed street, between East Lenox street and Northampton street, 256 linear feet 6-inch relaid with 8-inch pipe.

Dorchester.

East and West Cottage streets, between Robey street and Brook avenue, 1,708 linear feet 6-inch relaid with 12-inch pipe.

Brighton.

North Harvard street, between Western avenue and Smith street, 839 linear feet 8-inch relaid with 12-inch pipe.

Shepard street, between Washington and Union streets, 900 linear feet 6-inch relaid with 12-inch pipe.

In addition to the relaying for fire protection improve- ment the construction of the Centre street and Legion Highway Boulevards made necessary the abandonment of the existing 12-inch mains and the laying in a new location called for the relocation of 7,860 linear feet 12-inch pipe in Weld street, from Centre street to Morey street; 2,619 linear feet 12-inch pipe in Legion Highway, from Blue Hill avenue to Morton street.

Welfare forces were used during the entire year, both on small extension and relaying work with satisfaction. A total length of 4,300 linear feet of 8-inch and 12-inch pipe is credited to Welfare labor.

Service pipe applications also reflect the lessened activities in building operations and land development; only 481 service pipes were installed, the smallest number of services installed since the creation of the Water Department. Of the above number, 347 were f-inch; 95 1-inch to 6-inch in size; 39 fire pipes for sprinkler protection.

Public Works Department. 71

The regular work of the Distribution Branch, con- sisting of leak repairs, installation of service pipes, caring for complaints, shutting off and letting on water, etc., was performed in such a manner and at such periods as to cause a minimum of delay and inconvenience to applicants for water, water takers and the general public. Practically all activities in the business district are now performed on Sundays and holidays.

Under the Legislative Act of 1907, relative to meter- ing water services, there were set on old services in existence previous to 1907 62 meters, and on new services 570 meters, making a total of 632 meters set during the year.

A continuation of a survey of all premises developed the fact that 63 premises were not metered, despite the assumption that we had metered all premises.

The total number of meters in the system at the end of the year was 100,951. In addition to the installation work the Meter Branch changed and reset 7,213 meters after overhauling at the meter shop, and repaired in service 1,471 meters. The work of sealing all meters in service to prevent tampering was continued during the year.

Collections from all purposes in the Water Division were $4,579,552.12.

Very respectfully,

C. J. Carven,

Division Engineer.

Financial Transactions.

1932.

Revenue:

Receipts for water

All other receipts

Balance from previous year

Transfer from Sinking Fund

Expenditures from revenue:

Current expenses and extensions. . .

Metropolitan water assessment

Refunded water rates

Transfer to Collecting Department .

Transfer to appropriation for High Pressure Fire Service, extension of

Expenditures on Debt Account :

Interest on water loans

Payment on Hyde Park water debt. Payment on serial loans

Balance year's operations other than loans

Loan Account :

Debt outstanding first of year

Paid during year

Debt end of year, all serial bonds

Construction Account:

Balance first of year, High Pressure Fire Service, extension of,

Appropriation for High Pressure Fire Service, extension of . . .

Expended for High Pressure Fire Service, extension of

Balance unexpended, end of year

Total, New Construction:

From revenue, extension of mains

From revenue, High Pressure Fire Service, extension

Cost of construction December 31, 1932

Cost of construction December 31, 1931

Increase in plant cost during year

Cost of Existing Works December 31, 1932:

Pipe yards and buildings

Engineering expenses

Distribution system additions, 1932 ($251,380 05).

Hyde Park Water Works

High Pressure Fire Service

$4,485,991 57

93,560 55

425,469 76

7,750 80

$1,588,803 85

2,945,390 05

1,254 69

76,907 50

75,000 00

$18,235 00 16,000 00 34,000 00

$488,000 00 50,000 00

$47,389 90 75,000 00

$251,380 05 57,528 05

$24,697,533 62 24,681,625 52

$94,832 16

57,873 58

*22,074,275 94

t 175,000 00

2,295,551 94

* Includes $154,289.67 expended for High Pressure Fire Service in 1925, 1926, 1931 and 1932. t Units of Hyde Park Water Works abolished and sold, $293,000.

(72)

Public Works Department.

73

Income Branch.

Statement of Each Year's Water Rates, 1912 to 1932, as of December 31, 1932.

Year.

Assessments to December 31.

Abatements to December 31.

Collections to December 31.

Outstanding

December 31,

1932.

$3,001,771 3,004,331 3,034,885 2,960,797 3,130,590 3,120,878 3,359,714 3,210,147 3,503,677 3,615,663 3,612,715 3,817,642 3,832,531 3,875,434 3,910,119 3,979,098 4,418,027 5,018,462 4,864,180 4,749,483 4,609,873

$58,369 39 50,147 90 64,653 01 57,782 09 67,771 69 77,353 75

162,415 52 95,812 76

123,509 90 90,946 23 90,453 27 77,449 02 43,663 01 39,069 54 44,461 33 42,794 82 37,262 32 44,315 81 37,064 82 34,681 94 11,659 78

$2,943,402 48 2,954,183 62 2,970,232 82 2,903,015 36 3,062,818 84 3,043,525 11 3,197,299 43 3,114,335 15 3,380,167 98 3,524,717 28

3.522.262 24 3,740,193 70 3,783,305 56 3,829,029 77 3,857,862 33 3,913,033 49

4.370.263 26 4,955,149 41 4,780,196 89 4,518,694 56 2,967,750 68

$5,562 69

7,334 90

7,795 88

23,270 54

10,501 74

18,997 27

46,918 56

196,106 88

1,621,463 35

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City Document No. 24.

Meter Branch.

Table No. I. Statement of Work During Year 1932.

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King

Hersey detector. . . Hersey rotary. . . .

Crown

Federal

American

Lambert

Nash

Keystone

Trident

Hersey compound. Empire

Totals

391

52

165

4 7

3 3 3

632

297 60

164 53

3,389

953

1,323

1,099

3

41

59

131

58

85

5

15

7,213

4,570

1,019

1,414

17

4

8

3

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66

33

50

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6,778	3,728
1,906	1,125
2,646	1,585
2,198	1
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82	1
118	1
6	5
262	138
116	39
170	47
14
38	10
14,340	6,680

576

174

195

198

124

74

16

17

64

9

15

239 30 60

1,471

Public Works Department.

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Table No. 2. Meiers in Service December 31, 1982.

Make.			Diameter in Inches.					Total.
8	i	1	n	2	3	4	6	8	10	12
						4 150 52 9 30 10 241	42 101 21 11 28 1 75	57 29 15	34	23	5	165
	47,722 342 157 247 8,731 23,112 5,079 882 963 253 239 163 38	3,209 261 4 348 19 976 251	1,642 142 6 81 27 1,036 1	862 117 1 86 18 709 18	392 141 13 101 62 428 23	54,107
Hersev rotary Trident				1 091
1 8	2	2		206
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Table No. 2. Total Number of Hydrants in System December 81, 1932.

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78 City Document No. 24.

WATERWORKS STATISTICS.— CITY OF BOSTON. For the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1932. Distribution. Mains. Kind of pipe: Cast-iron, wrought iron. Size: 2-inch to 48-inch. Extended, miles, 4. Size enlarged, miles, 3.3. Total miles abandoned, 2.5. Total miles now in use, 960.15. Public hydrants added, 63. Public hydrants now in use, 11,073. Stop gates added, 206 Stop gates now in use, 15,281. Stop gates smaller than 4-inch, 32. Number of blow-offs, 813. Range of pressure on mains, 30 to 90 pounds.

Service. Kind of pipe and size: Lead and lead lined, |-inch to 2-inch; cast iron,

2-inch to 16-inch; wrought iron and cement lined, f-inch to 2-inch;

brass and copper, f-inch to 2^-inch. Service taps added, 104. Total service taps now in use, as per metered services, 100,618.

Public Wokks Department. 79

APPENDIX F.

REPORT OF THE BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE BRIDGE COMMISSION.

Boston, January 2, 1933.

To the Honorable the Mayor.

Sir, — As Commissioner for the City of Boston, I respectfully submit herewith the annual report of the Boston and Cambridge Bridge Commission for the year ending December 31, 1932.

The commission is composed of two members, one appointed by the Mayor of the City of Boston and the other by the Mayor of the city of Cambridge, under provisions of chapter 467, Acts of 1898.

The commission has charge of the maintenance of the following-named bridges between Boston and Cambridge:

Cottage Farm, Longfellow and Prison Point.

As there is no separate appropriation made for the City of Boston's portion of the expenses of this com- mission, the same is taken from the appropriation for the Bridge and Ferry Division, Bridge Service. The amount expended during the fiscal year ending De- cember 31, 1932, was $7,551.34.

BRIDGES, REPAIRS, ETC.

Longfellow Bridge. A contract was awarded to Quinn Brothers, approved November 4, 1930, for furnishing and installing cables and lights on this bridge. The work was completed June 1, 1931, and three payments were made to the contractor, amounting to $2,605.63. There is still due the contractor the sum of $459.82.

Respectfully submitted,

J. A. Rourke,

Commissioner for the City of Boston.

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City Document No. 24.

Boston and Cambridge Bridges. Expenditures for the Year Ending December 31, 1932.

Being the Portion Paid by the City of Boston, which is One Half of the Total Expenditure.

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