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ANNUAL REPORT

FIRE DEPARTMENT

YEAR ENDING JANUARY 31, 1911.

CITY OF BOSTON
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1911

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ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

FIRE DEPARTMENT

FOR THE YEAR 1910-11.

Boston, April 25, 1911.

Hon. John F. Fitzgerald,

Mayor of the City of Boston:

Sir, — I have the honor to submit herewith the
report of this department for the year February 1,
1910, to February 1, 1911.

During this period there have been three heads
of this department: February 1 to May 27, 1910,
Commissioner Samuel D. Parker; from May 27 to
September 1,6, 1910, Temporary Commissioner Francis
M. Carroll; from September 16, 1910, to February
1, 1911, Commissioner Charles D. Daly.

The loss has been heavy, exceeding $3,000,000.
This may be partly due to the growth of the city and
the increase in valuation. You will notice that the
number of alarms has increased from 3,784 to 4,063.

Fire-Fighting Force.

I beg to call attention to the necessity of increasing
the fire-fighting force of the city. It is no uncommon
sight to see the most important pieces of apparatus
in the city attending fires badly undermanned. With

2 City Document No. 15.

due respect to the necessity of not increasing expenses,
and with a reasonable amount of consideration for the
burdens of the taxpayer, I strongly recommend that
this department be increased by not less than fifty perma-
nent men.

The apparatus and equipment of this department
are, in the main, in excellent shape. The department
is confronted by the necessity of a gradual change from
horse-drawn to motor-driven apparatus. No more
chiefs' buggies or horse-drawn chemical engines should
be purchased. It has been definitely established that
motor apparatus of these types can perform fire work
with far greater efficiency than horse-drawn vehicles.
This department will proceed along this line as fast as
its funds permit.

The houses of the department are a matter of material
concern. Many of them are in an old and dilapidated
condition and are inadequate for men, horses and appara-
tus. Some are decidedly unsanitary. The department
proposes to prepare plans and estimates for recon-
structing some of the nouses. These estimates will be
forwarded and funds requested as fast as may seem
justifiable.

Fire-Alarm Branch.

Since taking office I have retired four of the aged
employees at the head of the fire-alarm service, and
have reorganized this branch on the basis of younger
men. The results have been most gratifying. The
important work of transmitting alarms promptly is
carried out with the highest efficiency. The fire-alarm
office is being rewired and its delicate machines given a
long needed overhauling. In the meantime the work
of extending the underground system and keeping up
the repairs on the outside circuits is being maintained.

Repair Shop.

The department experienced a heavy misfortune in
the lumber yard fire of August 9, 1910. At this fire
the repair shop was destroyed and the repair division
of the department seriously crippled temporarily. The
necessity of efficient maintenance of the varied equip-
ment of the department is apparent to any thinking
person. The loss of the tools, supplies and building
connected with the service prostrated this division.

Fire Department. 3

Under the able direction of the superintendent of repairs
a temporary shop has been established at 252-256
Dover street. In these quarters the maintenance of
the department has been carried on efficiently, and I
do not feel that there has been any setback in the high
character of the apparatus and equipment.

The rebuilding of the repair shop has been pushed.
A fireproof building with an extra story and an enlarged
boiler room will be built upon the site of the old
structure. The work is progressing rapidly and will be
completed this summer.

Veterinary Hospital.

Within the last year the pensioning of Dr. G. W.
Stimpson necessitated the appointment of a new veteri-
nary surgeon. The work of this division is being well
maintained. Excellent horses, in proper numbers, are
being purchased at a fair figure.

Fire Prevention.

The fire risk in the City of Boston is one of the heaviest
in the world. The steps necessary to meet the situation
are plain. The underlying necessity is, first, an
improvement in the building laws. The Department
has co-operated with the commission appointed by the
Mayor. Tinder box conditions have been investigated
and a law is now before the Legislature which, if passed,
will insure some progress toward better building methods.
A law requiring all garages to be of first-class construc-
tion has been prepared and will, doubtless, be enacted.
Other special risks have been investigated. These
matters should be pushed not only in this General
Court but in each succeeding one until a reasonable
class of construction is insured.

A second step toward improving building conditions
is found in the extension of the building limits. This is
a matter of great importance. The Fire Department,
in conjunction with the Engineers of the National
Board of Fire Underwriters, has prepared a tentative
ordinance asking that these limits be extended. This
is now before the City Council. The detail of the plan
may be subject to change, but that the work is necessary,
and that now is the time to do it, nobody questions.

City Document No. 15.

Building Inspection.

The system of building inspection has been extended
and developed. During the few months in which it has
been carried on over seven thousand buildings have
been inspected. The inspection has covered various
special risks, such as garages, printing plants, factories,
tenements, hotels, hay and grain sheds, lumber yards,
mercantile houses, schoolhouses, theaters, moving picture
houses, public assembly halls and buildings for the storage
of explosives, etc.

When dangerous conditions are found they are
reported to the owner, the Building Commissioner and
the Boston Board of Fire Underwriters. The complete
investigation of these various buildings tends to elim-
inate dangerous conditions, as has been shown by the
ready response of owners in correcting those of a fire
menace character. Many buildings in a state of col-
lapse have been razed. Others with windows out and
doors removed have been boarded up, thus eliminating
the danger of fire from within by intruders. Much
attention has been paid to buildings in which rubbish
and litter of all kinds have been allowed to collect, and
where benzine, naphtha, gasolene and other inflammables
have been stored for use in a careless manner. In garages
danger arising from escaping gasolene vapor has been
minimized by the segregation of heaters and boilers from
the main building. The regulation governing the stor-
age of gasolene and the burying of tanks underground is
being enforced, thus reducing the danger from explosions.

Great care has been exercised by the explosive
detail in the inspection of high explosives. Enforce-
ment of the new regulations, issued by the state police,
has been rigid. Buildings and structures containing
high explosives, such as dynamite, blasting powder,
detonators or blasting caps, fixed ammunition, soluble
or negative cotton, fireworks and firecrackers and
inflammable fluids of all kinds, have been frequently
inspected.

These inspections have been the means of bringing to
the attention of the Building Department insufficient
means of egress, defective buildings, etc., which would
be a source of great danger in case of fire. It has also
the additional advantage of acquainting the district
chiefs with their territory.

Fire Department. 5

Adequate building inspection can only result in far
reaching benefit to the community.

High Pressure Service.

A bill providing for the installation of a high pressure
service through the business district of Boston has been
submitted to the Legislature, and indications are that
it will become a law. If this bill is accepted by the
City Council, the city will have made a material step
toward modern fire protection. The benefits resulting
from this system are inestimable.

The Suburbs.

Fire protection in the suburbs should be developed.
I have gathered statistics showing the growth of the
suburbs in population and valuation. These statistics
show that there has been practically no increase in the
fire protection of these districts during a period in which
population and valuation have increased 30 per cent.

Mutual Aid.

The problem of receiving assistance from adjoining
cities and towns in case of large fires has been investi-
gated. A Board, consisting of Deputy Chief Grady,
Chief Perkins and Assistant Superintendent Fire Alarms
Donahue, have prepared careful plans for the orderly and
proper handling of metropolitan aid. The extension of
the tapper service to adjoining towns is being pushed.
This office has in mind proper cooperation throughout
the immediate metropolitan district.

National Board Investigation.

The National Board of Fire Underwriters, during the
past six months, has investigated in detail all aspects
of this department. This report, just published, speaks
of the department in favorable terms.

The characteristic high grade of the Boston Fire
Service has been maintained throughout the year, due
to a strict attention of officers and men to their duties.

Very respectfully,

Charles D. Daly,

Fire Commissioner.

City Document No. 15.

ORGANIZATION.

Commissioner, Charles D. Daly; term expires May, 1914.

Chief Clerk, Benjamin F. Underhill.

Chief of Department, John A. Mullen.

Deputy Chief, John Grady, First Division.

Junior Deputy Chief, Peter F. McDonough, Second

Division.
Superintendent of Fire Alarms, George L. Fickett.
Assistant Superintendent of Fire Alarms and Chief Operator,.

Richard Donahue.
Superintendent of Repair Shop and Supervisor of Engines,

Eugene M. Byington.
Veterinary Surgeon, Daniel P. Keogh.
Medical Examiner, Rurus W. Sprague.

District Ci

liefs.

District. Headquarters.

1. John W. Godbold . . Ladder House 2

2. Charles H. W. Pope

9

3. John 0. Taber

18

4. Henry A. Fox .

Engine House 4

5. Daniel F. Sennott .

26-35

6. Edwin A. Perkins .

1

7. John T. Byron

22

8. Stephen J. Ryder .

Ladder House 12

9. Michael J. Kennedy

Engine House 12

10. John W. Murphy .

18

11. John E. Madison .

41

12. Michael J. Mulligan

28

Marine, Robert A. Ritchie

47

14. Maurice Heffernan

46

Our Roll of Merit contains the names of

Nathan L. Hussey . .

Engine 23.

Edward H. Sawyer (2)

Ladder 4.

James F. Bailey

" 17.

Eugene Rogers

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Peter Callahan

Engine 4.

Joseph A. Kelley

Chemical 1.

Timothy J. Heffron

Engine 4.

James E. Downey .

" 6.

Frederick F. Leary .

Ladder 12.

Florence Donoghue

Combination 8.

James J. O'Connor .

Engine 7.

James F. McMahon

Combination 8.

Fire Department.

Martin A. Kenealy .

Engine

7.

Denis Driscoll ....

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William H. Magner

Ladder 8.

Thomas J. Muldoon

Chemical 8.

Dennis McGee

Combination 5.

Joseph P. Hanton

Ladder 17.

Michael J. Teehan .

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Charles W. Conway

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Michael J. Dacey

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Patrick E. Keyes

District Chief.

Thomas H. Downey

Engine

8.

Force and Pay Roll February 1, 1911.

Commissioner

$5,000 per annum

Chief clerk

2,500

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Chief of department

4,000

a

Deputy chief

3,000

ii

Junior deputy chief

2,500

ii

Superintendent of fire alarms

2,500

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Assistant superintendent of fire a]

arms and

chief operator ....

2,300

ii

Superintendent of repair shop and super-

visor of engines ....

2,500

ii

Veterinary surgeon ....

2,000

ii

Assistant to veterinary surgeon

1,600

ii

Medical examiner ....

1,300

ii

Master carpenter ....

1,300

ii

Master painter . . .

1,300

ii

Bookkeeper . ...

1,650

ii

2 Clerks

1,400

ii

1 Clerk

1,200

ii

1 Clerk

1,100

ii

1 Clerk

900

ii

1 Clerk

800

ii

1 Clerk

700

ii

14 District chiefs ....

2,000

ii

56 Captains

1,600

ii

88 Lieutenants ....

1,400

ii

1 Lieutenant, aid to chief .

1,400

ii

1 Lieutenant, foreman hose an<

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shop

1,400

ii

2 Engineers

1,400

ii

46 Engineers

1,300

ii

1 Engineer

1,200

ii

44 Assistant engineers .

1,200

ii

647 Privates:

464

$1,200 per annum.

42

1,100

ii

39

1,000

ii

73 .....

900

ii

29

720

ii

City Document No. 15.

2 Chief's drivers ....

3 Chief's drivers ....

$1 75 per day.
2 00

1 Chief's driver . . .

2 50 "

3 Hostlers (average) .

1 Horseshoer ....

2 25 "

3 00 "

1 Shipkeeper ....

2 00 "

Fire- Alarm Force.

4 Operators •

3 Assistant operators .
1 Foreman of construction

$1,600 per annum
1,200
2,000

1 Machinist

1 Machinist

4 25 per day.
4 00

1 Telegraphers and lineman (average) 3 14 "
1 Hostler ...... 2 50 "

Assistant superintendent and one operator on leave
absence with half pay pending decision on retirement.

of

Repair Shop Employees.

Master plumber

Engineer .

Firemen

Plumbers .

Steamfitter

Painter

Painters

Painters

Wheelwrights

Machinists

Blacksmiths

Blacksmith

Blacksmith's helpers

Carpenters

Hose and harness repairers

Hose and harness repairer

Vulcanizer

Laborers ....

Laborer ....

1,300

per annum

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per day.

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1,006 total force.

Fire Districts.

The city is divided into fourteen fire districts as
follows :

District 1.

All that part of Boston known as East Boston.

District 2.
All that part of Boston known as Charlestown.

Fire Department. 9

District 3.

The territory bounded on the north by State street,
on the east by the water front to B street, on the south-
east by B street, on the south by West First street,
across Dorchester avenue and Cove Street Bridge to
Atlantic avenue, and on the west by Atlantic avenue,
Dewey square, Summer street, Church Green and
Devonshire street.

District 4>

The territory bounded on the north and east by the
water front, on the south by State, Devonshire, Water,
Washington, School and Beacon streets, and on the west
by Charles and Pinckney streets and the Charles river.

District 5.

The territory bounded on the north by Water, Wash-
ington, School, Beacon, Charles and Pinckney streets,
on the west by the Charles river, Otter, Beacon, Arling-
ton, Boylston (Short), Church and Providence streets,
Park square, Columbus avenue, Church and Tremont
streets, on the south by Pleasant street and Broadway
extension to bridge across Fort Point channel to Dor-
chester avenue, and on the east by a line from Dorchester
avenue across Cove Street Bridge, Atlantic avenue,
Dewey square, Summer street, Church Green and
Devonshire street.

District 6.

The territory bounded on the north by Broadway
extension across Fort Point channel, and Dorchester
avenue to First street, through First street to B street,
on the west by B street to harbor line, by harbor line
to Locust street, on the south by Locust and Dorset
streets to the South bay, and on the west by South bay
to Broadway Extension Bridge.

District 7.

The territory bounded on the west by the Charles
river, on the north by Otter, Beacon, Arlington, Boylston
(Short), Church and Providence streets, Park square,
Columbus avenue, Church, Tremont and Pleasant
streets and Broadway extension to bridge, on the east
by Fort Point channel and South bay, and on the south
by Massachusetts avenue and the Charles river.

10 City Document No. 15.

District 8.

The territory bounded on the north by the Charles
river and Massachusetts avenue, on the east by Wash-
ington street, on the south by Atherton and Mozart
streets, Chestnut avenue, Sheridan and Centre streets,
Hyde square, Perkins street, South Huntington avenue
and Castleton street, across Jamaicaway to the Brook-
line line, and on the west by the Brookline line to Cottage
Farm Bridge.

District 9.

The territory bounded on the north by Massachusetts
avenue, South bay, Dorset and Locust streets, on the
east by Dorchester bay, on the south by Evandale ter-
race, Savin Hill avenue north, Pleasant and Stoughton
streets, Columbia road, Geneva and Blue Hill avenues,
Seaver street and Columbus avenue, and on the west by
Washington street.

District 10.

The territory bounded on the north by Geneva
avenue, Columbia road, Stoughton and Pleasant streets,
Savin Hill avenue north, Evandale terrace to water
front, on the east by Dorchester bay and Neponset
river, on the south by marsh land to Minot street,
through Adams and Centre streets, Talbot avenue and
Angell street; on the west by Canterbury street and
Blue Hill avenue.

District 11.

All that part of Boston known as Brighton, and
extending east as far as Cottage Farm Bridge.

District 12.
All that part of Boston known as West Roxbury,
bounded on the north by a line from the Brookline line
across Jamaicaway to Castleton street, through Castle-
ton street, South Huntington avenue, Perkins street,
Hyde square, Centre and Sheridan streets, Chestnut
avenue, Mozart and Atherton streets, Columbus avenue
and Seaver street, on the east by Blue Hill avenue,
Canterbury, Morton and Harvard streets, on the south
by the Hyde Park and Dedham lines, and on the west
by the Newton and Brookline lines.

Marine District.
All buildings or other property, including wharfs,
bridges, etc., bordering on the water front, beginning

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at a point on the northerly side of the reserved chan-
nel at L Street Bridge, South Boston, thence westerly
along the harbor line of South Boston to Fort Point
channel, thence southerly to Dorchester Avenue Bridge,
thence northerly by the way of Fort Point channel,
thence along and around the city proper harbor line
to the Charlestown Bridge, thence northerly along the
water front around the Charlestown district to Mystic
river, thence westerly along the Mystic river (south
side) to Maiden Bridge, or Alford street. Also, begin-
ning at Jeffries Point at the head of Marginal street,
thence northerly and westerly along the East Boston
water front to Chelsea creek, thence easterly .along said
creek (south side) to the Grand Junction Railroad
Bridge, and to include all property on the islands in
Boston Harbor.

Note.— The lines of Districts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are affected by the Marine District.

District 14--

The territory bounded on the north by Angell street,
Talbot avenue, Centre and Adams streets, to Minot
street, across marsh land to Neponset river, on the
east by Neponset river, on the south by Neponset river
and Hyde Park line, on the west by Harvard, Morton
and Canterbury streets.

Assignment of Districts.

Each district is placed under the charge of a district
chief, as follows:

Chief in Command.

Companies in Districts.

District.

Engines.

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John W. Godbold

C. H. W. Pope

John 0. Taber

5,9, 11,40

27, 32, 36

25, 38, 39

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7, 10, * 26, 35

* 1,2, 15, 43

3, * 22, 33

13, 14,37

* 12,21,23,24

17, * 18, 20
29, 34,* 41

* 28, 30, 42, 45

44, * 47
16, 19,* 46

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3,9

1
2
8
4
12
10

6
5,13

11

*2, 21

*9, 22

8, 14 * 18

1,24

17

5, 19,20

3, 13, 15

* 12,26

4

7, 23, 27

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10,16,25

6

2

3

3

4

1

5

6

7

Edwin A. Perkins

John T. Byron

Stephen J. Ryder

Michael J. Kennedy

John W. Murphy

John E. Madison

Michael J. Mulligan

Robert A. Ritchie

2

8

9

10

11

12

Marine. . . .
14

Headquarters of District Chief.

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City Document No. 15.

The following property is in charge of the Fire Com-
missioner :

Houses.

Location.

Number
of Feet
in Lot.

Assessed
Valuation.

Occupied by

Dorchester and Fourth streets

8,167

$25,800

Engine 1 and Ladder House
5 on this lot.

Corner of 0 and Fourth streets

4,000

16,200

Engine 2.

Bristol street and Harrison avenue . . .

4,000

30,000

Engine 3 and Ladder 3.

6,098

96,000

Tower 1.

1,647

9,000

2,269

40,000

1,893

36,400

Engine 7.

2,568

24,000

Engine 8.

4,720

29,700

1,886

20,500

Engine 10.

Saratoga and Byron sts., East Boston,

10,000

39,500

Engine 11 and Ladder 21.

7,320

25,000

Engine 12.

4,832

16,000

5,713

14,600

Engine 14.

2,803

18,600

Engine 15.

Corner River and Temple streets

12,736

19,200

Engine 16 and Ladder 6.

Meeting House Hill, Dorchester

9,450

17,300

Engine 17 and Ladder
House 7 on this lot.

9,440

18,800

Engine 18.

7,683

14,200

Engine 19.

9,000
10,341

17,300

17,100

Engine 20 and Ladder 27.

Engine 21.

7,500

62,500

Engine 22 and Ladder 13.

3,445

11,200

Engine 23.

Corner Warren and Quincy streets

4,186

IS, 100

Engine 24.

4,175

100,600

Engine 25, Ladder 8 and

Ladder 14.

5,623
2,600

175,000
18,000

Engine 27.

10,377

28,300

Engine 28 and Ladder 10.

Chestnut Hill avenue, Brighton

14,358

37,200

Engine 29 and Ladder 11.

Centre street, West Roxbury

12,251

25,000

Engine 30 and Ladder 25.

Bunker Hill street, Charlestown

S,188

26,200

Engine 32.

Corner Boylston and Hereford streets

5,646

98,000

Engine 33 and Ladder 15.

4,637

17,800

Engine 34.

5,668

21,000

Engine 36 and Ladder 22.

Corner Longwood and Brookline aves.

5,231

14,300

Engine 37 and Ladder 26.

Fire Department.

Houses. — Concluded.

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Location.

Number
of Feet
in Lot.

Assessed
Valuation.

Occupied by

4,000

$37,000

Engines 38 and 39.

4,010

18,000

Engine 40.

Harvard avenue, near Cambridge

6,112

25,500

Engine 41 and Chemical 6.

Washington street, at Egleston square,

3,848

22,900

Engine 42 and Chemical 5.

5,133

19,600

Engine 43 and Ladder 20.

Washington street, corner Poplar

14,729

4,875

22,400
22,900

Engine 45 and Ladder 16.

Dorchester avenue, Ashmont

Engine 46.

Church street

3,412

23,600

Chemical Engine 2.

5,230

15,700

Chemical 3.

889
9,300

4,300
40,600

Chemical Engine 4.

1,804

7,800

Eustis street

1,790

8,000

Chemical Engine 10.

Corner Callender and Lyons streets.. .

7,200

13,964

Chemical 11.

Corner Walk Hill and Wenham streets,

11,169

35,446

Chemical 13.

1,676
3,923

37,200
26,000

Main street, Charlestown

4,290

16,400

Ladder 9 and Chemical 9.

4,311
2,134

25,600
23,500

Ladder 17.

8,964

35,400

Ladder 18 and Tower 3.

Fourth street

3,101

10,700

Ladder 19.

6,875

21,400

Ladder 23.

3,918

19,800

Ladder 24.

Assessed Valuation.

Fuel house, Dorchester street, 1,610 feet of land, $3,100

Fuel house, Salem street, 417 feet of land . . 4,000

Fuel house, Main street, Charlestown, 2,430 feet

of land *..'.. 7,000

Headquarters Building, corner of Albany and

Bristol streets, 23,679 feet of land . . . 125,000

Water Tower No. 2 and wrecking wagon are in

Headquarters Building.
Veterinary Hospital, Atkinson street, 64,442 feet

of land 68,300

Fuel house, Washington, near Dover street, 1,007

feet of land 10,500

11,500 feet of land adjoining the South Ferry,

East Boston, quarters of Engine Company 47, 16,300

Building not assessed.

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1 First-size Metropolitan steam fire engine.

1 Second-size Amoskeag steam fire engine.

1 Combination chemical engine and ladder truck.

1 Chemical engine.

1 District chief's wagon.

1 Sleigh.

1 Buick roadster.
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1 Hose wagon.

1 Ladder truck rebuilt, and destroyed in repair shop fire.

1 Chemical engine rebuilt, and destroyed in repair shop
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Leading rubber
Chemical
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Flexible suction
Deluge

Amount of hose destroyed in repair shop fire, August
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Amount of hose in use and in store February 1, 1911 :

Purchased.

Condemned.

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9,400 feet

2,500 "

800 "

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1,350 "

300 "

100 "

312 "

195 "

200 "

150 "

200 "

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12,043 feet

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4,010 feet

Leading rubber . . ...

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200 "

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300 "

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124* "

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Sold or exchanged

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Killed for cause

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City Document No. 15.

Expenditures for the Year.

Salaries to January 26, 1911, inclusive:
Samuel D. Parker, commis-
sioner, to May 27, 1910, inclu-
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Francis M. Carroll, temporary

commissioner, from May 28 to

September 15, 1910, inclusive .

Charles D. Daly, commissioner,

:,643 83

1,424 65

from September 16, 1910 .

1,917 80

B. F. Underhill, chief clerk

2,493 40

John A. Mullen, chief of depart-

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3,988 92

Deputy and districts chiefs

30,391 72

Members of the various com-

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1,030,849 63

Clerks in office ....

5,662 29

Pensioners

102,763 94
11,181,136 18

Less amount deducted for cloth,

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Horses :

Hay, grain and straw .

$52,394 93

Shoeing

20,030 54

Harnesses and repairs .

13,518 83

Purchase and exchange of .

10,599 08

Attendants at hospital, medicine,

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7,481 44

Horse hire

4,644 50

108,669 32

Repairs of apparatus, including stock sent to

repair shop :

Mechanics

$39,937 12

Materials, etc. ....

24,011 02

63,948 14

Fuel for houses and engines

38,219 07

New apparatus:

2 aerial ladder trucks .

$10,597 00

2 engines ...

9,815 00

1 automobile

1,798 00

1 combination chemical engine

and ladder truck

1,790 00

1 chemical engine . . ...

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1 chief's wagon ....

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1 sleigh

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Hose, pipes and repairs
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Electric lighting
Furniture and bedding
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Printing

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Medical services

Hats, badges and buttons

Stationery

Chemicals

Janitress at headquarters

Ice

Expenses of detailed men
Advertising ....

Traveling expenses .
Allowance to members for clothes, etc.

repair shop (order of City Council,

ber 12, 1910)
Postage

Freights and small items
Automobile insurance
Expert services .
Rent of gas regulators
Medical supplies

Fire-alarm telegraph:
Salaries :

Brown S. Flanders, superin-
tendent, to November 10,
1910, inclusive
George L. Fickett, superintend-
ent, from November 11,

1910

Operators, repairers, etc. .

$1,414,668 37

19,397 03

19,028 71

18,298 13

10,453 20

$8,670 06

1,201 85

9,871 91

8,113 50

5,304 42

3,471 34

1,775 04

1,751 36

944 39

794 51

713 85

602 40

481 00

394 75

257 98

188 76

, etc., lost a

uncil, Novem-

148 25

80 10

78 74

76 25

75 00

54 75

30 57

$1,517,054 31

2,515 76

Less amount deducted for
cloth

Wire cables and conduits
Instruments, tools and repairs

527 45
44,163 82

$47,207 03

38 47

$47,168 56
8,325 36
4,629 35

Carried forward

,123 27$1,517,054 31

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Brought forward ....

160,123 27$

1,517,054 31

Repairs and alterations

2,665 94

Telephone service

1,014 26

Use of duct in East Boston Tun-

nel

450 36

Maps and plans ....

420 36

Electric light for clocks .

248 39

Car fares and traveling expenses,

187 31

Electric power ....

144 06

Repairs of clocks ....

82 10

65,336 05

$]

L,582,390 36

Fire Station, Lauriat Avenue District.

Payments on account:

s Contractors, McGahey & O'Connor

$12,075 76

Architects, Moller & Smith .

603 00

Printing

82 98

Advertising

2 50

$12,764 24

Fire Station, Oak Square and Faneuil Section.

Payments on account:
Advertising

$4 00

House, Land and Apparatus, Forest Hills.

Balance of payments:

Contractor, Martin Flynn $16,355 71

Architects, Moller & Smith 625 02

• Fire-alarm cable 591 22

Conduit 519 70

Oil tank, etc 96 50

$18,188 15

Cost of land $3,966 45

Cost of building .... 28,979 97

$32,946 42

New Fireboat No. 31.
Continuation of payments:

Contractors, Bertelsen & Petersen Engineering

Company

Architect, Arthur Binney

Inspector of hull

Carried forward

,875 00
1,362 50

747 00

2,984 50

Fire Department.

25

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Consulting engineer
Launching
Advertising

$42,984 50

702 20

400 00

201 15

6 60

$44,294 45

New Quarters for Fireboat Crew, Boston Side.

Payments on account:

Engineering

$75 00

Recapitulation.

Fire Department $1,582,390 36

New fireboat No. 31 44,294 45

House, land and apparatus, Forest Hills . . 18,188 15

Fire station, Lauriat avenue district . . . 12,764 24

New quarters for fireboat crew, Boston side . 75 00

Fire station, Oak square and Faneuil section . 4 00

$1,657,716 20

Income.

Permits for keeping explosives .... $7 50

Rent 32 00

Permits for keeping fireworks 77 50

Sale of manure 230 00

Sale of old material 3,309 64

Bath Department, steam for Dover Street Bath

House 3,520 04

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1910, to February 1, 1911.

Alarms, accidental, false au-
tomatic 120

Alarms, false, needless bell

and still . 181

Alarms out of city 28

Ashes, hot, in wooden recep-
tacle 50

Automobiles, igniting of 41

Boiling over of fat, tar, etc . . 35
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bish 704

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lantern 81

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cigarette 114

Chimneys, soot burning. .... . 196

Chimneys, defective 43

Clothes too near stove 23

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boiler 3

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Defective fireplace 5

Electric motor igniting car . . 9

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Fumigating 6

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Gas jet setting fire 49

Gas stoves, careless use of,

and explosion 33

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oven 34

Kerosene, careless use of in

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Incendiary, supposed 42

Lamp, explosion of 35

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ing 50

Light, smoke, mistaken for

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Matches and rats 21

Matches and children 124

Matches, careless use of 238

Meat burning on stove, in

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turpentine, careless use of,

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explosion 37

Overheated boiler or steam

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Overheated stove or furnace, 67

Plastering, drying 11

Plumber's, roofer's, painter's

stove or torch 16

Rescues, elevators, miscel-
laneous 25

Rekindling of ruins 7

Set by boys 115

Slacking of lime 8

Smoky chimney 67

Smoky lamp 6

Smoky stove or furnace 86

Sparks from another fire .... 5

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Sparks from chimney 41

Sparks from engine or loco-
motive 89

Sparks from forge 12

Sparks from furnace or stove 15

Sparks from open grate 4

Spontaneous combustion ... . 37

Steam escaping 19

Street fight, family brawl. . . 1

Unknown 807

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City Document No. 15.

Fire Losses for Year Ending January 31, 1911.

Buildings

Contents

$1,171,968
2,153,022

Total

i,324,990

Fires Where Loss Exceeded $15,000.

Date.

Location and Owner.

Loss.

1910

Feb. 7.
Feb. 8.
Feb. 9.
Feb. 11.
Feb. 27.
March 5.

March 12.
March 15.
March 30.
April 1 .
April 14.
April 14.
April 16.
May 12.

May 28.

July 3 .

July 4.

Aug. 9.

Aug. 9.

Aug. 10.

Aug. 18.

Aug. 27.

Sept. 7 .

Sept. 27.

Oct. 10.

Nov. 17.

Dec. 3.

Dec. 5.

Dec. 8.

Dec. 22.

Dec. 27.

1911

Jan. 11.
Jan. 22.

112-116 State street, Tiffin Club et al

727 Boylston street, T. H. Thomas et al

Brighton Abattoir, Brighton Packing Company et al

220 State street, Charles E. Moody Company et al

Lewis Wharf, Company

194-200 Summer street, The Boston Rubber Supply
Company et al

439 Albany street, Boston Elevated Railway Company. .

74-78 Canal street, J. M. Mann et al

941 Washington street, Harmon Westcoat Dahl Company,

400 Market street, H. C. & CD. Castle etal

134 Richmond street, John Holman et al

7-13 Sherman street, Raymond Svndicate et al

62-70 Water street, Chapin & Trull

43-47 Kemble street, Poland Laundry Machine
Company et al

Mystic Wharf, Export Lumber Company

78-84 Purchase street, Hodgdon Brass Works etal

Dunlow place, Boston Belting Company

55-59 High street, Johns Manville Company et al

350 Albany street, Blacker & Shepard and repair shop
Fire Department et al

92-100 Massachusetts avenue, Maxwell-Briseoe Com-
pany et al

169-181 Congress street, Crimmins & Peirce et al

11 Columbia street, Harry R. Barry et al

Simpson Dry Dock and Bradley Fertilizer Company. . . .

89-103 Medford street, Palmer & Parker Company

167-173 Summer street, Jewish Publishing Company et al.,

386-390 West First street, Mente Company et al

73-75 Essex street, Simons, Hatch & Whitten et al

69-75 Chauncy street, E. L. Ham & Co. et al

144-150 Congress street, Bates & Guild et al

27-33 Hayward place, Hotel Epicure et al

39-41 Kingston street, Bedford Manufacturing Company,

21-23 Portland street, Aldiich & Chisbee

Clayton and Park streets, Sturtevant Mill Company. . . .

$19,311 02
37,204 70

194,942 95
49,544 89
30,765 00

326,729 92
270,295 92
35,199 80
34,413 26
38,899 62
36,798 87
18,551 45
15,473 85

15,242 04
58,214 11
19,930 30
16,863 75
55,565 77

364,410 70

63,674 94
334,001 27
19,948 19
15,275 00
30,065 67
22,567 56
17,058 88
62,678 06
67,694 50
28,296 67
50,137 53
28,020 31

31,897 00
20,142 00

Fire Department.

31

YEARLY LOSS FOR THE PAST FIFTEEN
YEARS.

Year ending February

1

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$1,394,707
775,525
1,441,261
1,630,149
1,702,217
1,830,719
1,762,619
1,674,333
2,473,980
2,130,146
1,130,334
2,268,074
3,610,000
1,680,245
3,324,990

ALARMS FOR THE PAST TEN YEARS.

Year.

Bell.

Still and
Automatic.

Totals.

1910

2,066

2,101
2,210
2,441
1,687
1,905
1,580
1,633
1,566
1,349

1,997

1,677
1,700
1,600
1,262
1,210
1,159
1,121
1,099
977

4,063

1909

3,778

1908

3,910

1907

4,041

1906

2,949

1905

3,115

1904

2,739

1903

2,754

1902

2,665

1901

2,326

32

City Document No. 15.

BOSTON FIREMEN'S RELIEF FUND.

From September 1, 1909, to September 1, 1910,
Inclusive.

The Fire Commissioner, as president of the Boston
Firemen's Relief Fund, acknowledges the following
contributions; these sums were accompanied by letters
expressing appreciation for services rendered by the
department :

Gov. Eben S. Draper

Mrs. Gardner Blanchard Perry " .

Estate of Florence Lyman ....

Lewis Wharf Company

The receipts from the annual department ball and
contributions constitute the fund from which sick bene-
fits and doctors' bills are paid. Destitute members of
deceased firemen's families are also given assistance
from this fund.

$100 00

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10

100 00

$4,102

10

Financial Statement of the Boston
Relief Fund September 1, 1909, to
1, 1910, Inclusive.

Receipts.

Balance, September 1, 1909

Net proceeds of ball, February, 1910

Interest on bonds

Interest on deposits

American Trust Company .

Check canceled

Donations ....

Total receipts

Expenditures.

Benefits paid $15,261 32

Massachusetts General Hospital, free

bed • 200 00

Firemen's

September

$7,845 25

14,566 76

7,912 50

191 88

1,000 00

3 00

4,102 10

>,621 49

Carried forward

$15,461 32 $35,621 49

Fike Department. 33

Brought forward .
Carney Hospital, free bed
City of Boston bond
Salaries ....
Running expenses

Balance, September 1, 1910

$15,461 32
200 00

$35,621 49

14,357 28
500 00

130 95

30,649 55

$4,971 94

Assets, September 1, 1910.

$117,000 00 City of Boston bonds at 3| per cent.
94,000 00 City of Boston bonds at 4 per cent.
8,000 00 C. B. & Q. R. R. bonds at 4 per cent.
4,971 94 cash on deposit.

Total, $223,971 94

34 City Document No. 15.

FIRE-ALARM BRANCH.

From February 1, 1910, to February 1, 1911, 2,128
first alarms, 50 second, 17 third, 6 fourth, 2 fifth and
1 sixth (general) alarms were received and transmitted
to the department.

For 131 alarms the same box was received one or
more times and for 184 alarms one or more adjacent
boxes were received for the same fire; 25 alarms received
in March for grass fires were treated as " still" alarms,
one or two pieces of apparatus being notified to respond
to the box location; together these make a total of 340
box signals received but not struck out to the depart-
ment.

From 292 boxes no alarm was received; eight boxes
show a record of 20 or more alarms; box 705 has the
record for the year with 51 alarms; from eight boxes
(702 to 709, inclusive) 145 first and 2 second alarms were
received.

Department companies reported to the operating
office 1,069 " still" alarms to which they had responded;
638 telephone reports of fire were received from citizens
and 187 from the Police Department, making a total of
825 telephone reports to the operating office for fire.
For 98 of these reports department box alarms were
received.

Reports of 197 automatic alarms were received, 148
from the Boston Automatic Company, 43 from the
American District Telegraph Company, and 6 from local
automatic service; for 11 of the Boston and for 24 of the
American District Telegraph Company alarms, depart-
ment box alarms were given.

Eliminating the "stills" and automatics for which
department box alarms were transmitted, there were
162 automatic and 1,769 " still" alarms, and these added
to the box alarms make a grand total of 4,162 alarms
received from all sources and passing through the
operating office during the year.

During the year the department has added 7 public
boxes to the system; 10 schoolhouse boxes and 1 private
box were also added, making 746 boxes in service, and
6,142 box tests and inspections were made.

Fire Department. 35

Six more public telephone lines have been added to
our telephone system and connected to our switch board,
5 from the Tremont Exchange, making a total of 7
from that exchange, and 1 from the Oxford Exchange,
so that if any cause cuts off service from Tremont
Exchange we still have an avenue open for the public
to communicate with this headquarters. One private
line has been established between this office and police
headquarters, thus establishing direct communication
between these two departments of public safety.

The gong service to Milton, Newton and Somerville
has been abandoned and tapper service established in
place; the tapper service has also been extended to
Brookline and Cambridge so that all alarms and " all-
out" signals are now transmitted to the departments
of these cities and towns. Cambridge has extended its
tapper service to Engine 41 house, Brookline has its
service to Engine 37; Somerville is connected with Engine
32, and Milton has connections with Engines 16 and 19.

Arrangements are now under way to substitute tapper
service, in place of present gong service, with Chelsea;
Newton is to connect its service at Engine 29. These
connections will give opportunity for the extension of
mutual aid plans.

The Brighton gong circuit has been, extended to the
Water Department Pumping Station at Chestnut Hill,
and a gong installed there so that they may receive
alarms and be able to regulate the water pressure in
case of large fires.

The removal of overhead wires, within the district
prescribed by Wire Commissioner, for 1910 (Dorchester
avenue, from Fort Point channel to Romsey street), and
the necessary underground construction for the same,
has been completed. Overhead wires have been removed
and underground construction has been further extended
in Dorchester avenue, as far as Park street, Dorchester.

Considerable other underground construction has
been done during the year and cable used as follows:
Northampton street, near Engine House 23; Fourth
street, at Dover Street Bridge, for repairs; Hanover
street, for new lamp-post Box 709; Chelsea and Gray
streets, for new lamp-post Box 422 ; Hyde Park avenue
and Walk Hill street, for new house of Chemical 13.

The storm of December 25, 1909, caused much damage
to overhead construction, compelled extensive repairs,
and in several places new construction was necessary;

36 City Document No. 15.

this work was principally in the following territory:
Massachusetts avenue, from Southampton street to
Columbia road; Dorchester avenue, from Andrew square
to Field's Corner; Adams street and Neponset avenue,
from Dorchester avenue to Engine House 20 ; Rutherford
avenue, Chapman street to Sullivan square; Academy
Hill road, from Washington street to Engine House 29;
First street, E street and Congress street, from A street
to Box 117; Freeport street, from Dorchester avenue
to Mills street.

The equipping of and connecting in service the new
house of Chemical 11 made necessary new construction
on poles on Lauriat avenue and Lyons street, cable
being used.

A new cable of about 7,000 feet has been run on poles
in East Boston, on Maverick, Jeffries, Marginal, Cottage
and Lamson streets, to take the place of overhead wires
running on same poles with wires of high voltage and
makes for the betterment of the service.

The gong installed at the pumping station at Chestnut
Hill necessitated extensive construction, the circuit being
extended from the house of Engine 29.

The work of installing circuit test switches in depart-
ment houses has been continued and all of the houses
in West Roxbury have been equipped, and also several
of the houses in East Boston, Charlestown and South
Boston.

The substitution of tapper service for gong service
in Milton, Newton and Somerville and the extension
of the tapper service to Cambridge made necessary
much overhead construction.

The house of Engines 29 and 34 have been wired and
equipped for electric lighting and extensive alterations
and repairs have been done in other department houses.

The care of thirty-one public clocks and the repairs on
department clocks has~ caused much work along that
line.

Fire Department.

37

90,675 feet

217,005

a

37,830

a

5,133

a

187,037

a

37,130

u

Summary op Construction Work During the Year.

New wire used ....

Old wire taken down

Overhead cable construction

Overhead cable removed

Conductors in cable construction

Conductors in cable removed .

Underground cable used in ducts owned by the
New England Telephone and Telegraph Com-
pany

Underground cable used in fire-alarm ducts,
service connections, etc. (new construction)

Total underground cable used . ...

Conductors in same

Cable used for repairs

Conductors in same

Conduits built by this department .

Ducts laid by this department

Manholes built

Fire Department boxes built over .

Schoolhouse Department boxes built over .

Total number of boxes built over .

New public boxes established ....

New schoolhouse boxes established

New private boxes established

Total number of boxes established

Schoolhouse boxes equipped with keyless doors

New public boxes placed on lamp-posts

Public boxes changed from poles to lamp-posts

Public boxes knocked down and reset

Total boxes placed on lamp-posts

Cross-arms used

Public clock reports attended to

Department clocks repaired

Number of box circuits

Number of boxes in same

Number of tapper circuits

Number of tappers in same

Number of registers in same

Number of relays in same

Number of gong circuits .

Number of gongs, 124 and 1 bell in same

Number of telephone circuits in service

Number of public telephone lines to switch board

Number of private lines from switch board

Number of telephones connected in department
circuits

High pressure signalling circuit

Miles of box circuits underground

17,669

3,971

21,640

348,650

2,635

57,559

3,070

3,757

1

31

26

57

7

10

1

18

37

3

7

6

16

406

59

75

44

746

10

121

3

1

13

125

40

128
1
395^

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City Document No. 15.

Miles of box circuits overhead .... 239

Miles of gong circuits underground . . . Ill

Miles of gong circuits overhead .... 40

Miles of tapper circuits underground ... 86

Miles of tapper circuits overhead .... 41

Miles of telephone circuits underground . . 215

Miles of telephone circuits overhead ... 52

Miles of high pressure circuit underground . 5£

Miles of wire in use underground .... 598

Miles of wire in use overhead 320

Number of boxes owned by the Fire Department . 513

Number of boxes on lamp-posts . . . . 184

Number of boxes on poles 293

Number of boxes on fences 1

Number of boxes on trees ..... 1

Number of boxes on buildings .... 5

Number of boxes on buildings with lanterns . 29

Number of schoolhouse boxes with keyless doors, 37

Number of schoolhouse boxes with key doors . 88

Number of auxiliary boxes on poles ... 4

Number of auxiliary boxes on posts ... 1

Number of auxiliary boxes on buildings . . 7

Number of auxiliary boxes in buildings . . 46

Number of private boxes with keyless doors . 4

Number of private boxes with key doors . . 50

The following boxes are private property: 113, 115,
117, 119, 149, 152, 161, 163, 166, 212, 228, 244, 271, 277,
279, 283, 297, 299, 328, 342, 358, 359, 434, 442, 443,
448, 449, 466, 467, 468, 469, 475, 495, 511, 533, 616,
617, 619, 626, 629, 711, 712, 713, 714, 715, 716, 718,
719, 720, 721, 722, 724, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730,
731, 733, 734, 735, 736, 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742,
743, 744, 745, 746, 755, 758, 759, 762, 766, 767, 773,
776, 778, 779, 781, 782, 788, 789, 791, 792, 793, 794,
795, 798, 828, 838, 841, 842, 864, 865, 875, 919, 927,
967, 969, 971, 974, 2236.

Alarm Bells.

The fire-alarm telegraph is connected with the fol-
lowing bell:

Faneuil Hall, steel, 5,816 pounds, owned by the city.
Bells owned by the city, which have been disconnected
from service, are located as follows :

Berkeley Temple, composition, 2,941 pounds. Formerly

used on Quincy Schoolhouse.
City Hall, Charlestown, composition, 3,600 pounds.

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Engine House No. 1, Dorchester street, South Boston,
composition, 2,911 pounds.

Engine House No. 16, Temple street, Dorchester, com-
position, 4,149 pounds.

Engine House No. 17, composition, 4,000 pounds.
Removed and stored at Engine House No. 33.

Engine House No. 18, composition, 3,184 pounds.
Removed and stored at Engine House No. 33.

Engine House No. 19, Mattapan, Dorchester, composi-
tion, 2,927 pounds.

Engine House No. 20, Walnut street, Dorchester, com-
position, 3,061 pounds.

Engine House No. 21, Columbia road, Dorchester, com-
position, 3,026 pounds.

Engine House No. 28, West Roxbury, composition,
4,000 pounds.

Engine House No. 29, Brighton, composition, 1,535
pounds.

Old Engine House No. 30, West Roxbury, steel, 1,000
pounds.

Engine House No. 34, Brighton, composition, 1,501
pounds.

Engine House No. 41, Allston, composition, 800 pounds.

Engine House No. 45, Roslindale, composition, 1,059
pounds.

Ladder House No. 4, Dudley street, Roxbury, composi-
tion, 3,509 pounds.

Saratoga street M. E. Church, East Boston, steel, 1,968
pounds.

Trinity Church, Trenton street, East Boston, composi-
tion, .1,760 pounds. Formerly used on Castle Street
Church.

Van Nostrand's Brewery, Charlestown, composition, 818
pounds. Formerly used on Old Franklin Schoolhouse.

Bells formerly in service, located on schoolhouses, have
been turned over to the Schoolhouse Department.

Public Clocks.

The following public clocks are cared for by this
department :

City Proper.

Charles Street Church.

Christ Church, Salem street, owned by city.

Commercial Wharf.

Odd Fellow's Hall, Tremont street, owned by city.

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Old South Church, owned by city.

Old State House, owned by city.

Suffolk County Jail, owned by city.

St. Stephen's Church, Hanover street, owned by city.

Shawmut Avenue Church.

Tremont M. E. Church, owned by city.

Young Men's Christian Union, owned by city.

South Boston.

Gaston Schoolhouse, owned by city.

Lincoln Schoolhouse, owned by city.

Phillips Church, owned by city.

St. Augustine's Church, Dorchester street, owned by city.

East Boston.

London Street Church, owned by city.
Lyceum Hall, owned by city.
Trinity Church, owned by city.
Orient Heights Church, owned by city.

Roxbury.

Winthrop Street Church, owned by city.
Boston Elevated Railway car house, Columbus avenue,
owned by city.

Dorchester.

Baker Memorial (Upham's Corner), owned by city.
Neponset Church.

Tileston School (Mattapan), owned by city.
Unitarian Church (Milton Lower Mills).

Charlestown.

St. Francis de Sales Church.
City Hall, owned by city.

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West Roxbury.

Dr. Strong's Church (South Evangelical), owned by city.
Unitarian Church, Jamaica Plain, owned by city.
Congregational Church (Roslindale), owned by city.

Brighton.
Bennett Schoolhouse, owned by city.