FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT
BOSTON WATER BOARD.
1881, '
BOSTON :
ROCKWELL AND CHURCHILL, CITY PRINTERS,
No. 39 ARCH STREET.
1881.
With Compliments of
Boston Water Board,
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[Document 101 — 1881.]
CITY OF |©li BOSTON.
STFTBONNUAL EEPORT.
OF THE
BOSTON WATER BOARD,
FOR THE TEAR ENDING APRIL 30, 1881.
Office of Boston Water Board,
May 1, 1881.
To the City Council of the City of Boston : —
The Boston Water Board herewith respectfully submit
their fifth annual report, together with reports from the City
Engineer, Water Registrar, Clerk of the Board, the Clerk
and Registrar of the Mystic Works, and the superintendents
of the various divisions.
The present state of the different departments continues to
be satisfactory. A number of improvements and extensions
contemplated at the date of the last report have been carried
out. A careful examination of the reports of the officers
above referred to will show in detail the methods of construc-
tion and effects of these works.
In general, the lakes, basins, aqueducts, reservoirs, and
distributing systems are in excellent repair, and doing good
service.
With all the appliances at the command of the city it is
still a work of difficulty to keep the resources of the works
equal to the growing demands made upon them, and the
Board often find themselves placed in the embarrassing posi-
tion of being obliged to refuse applications for extensions and
use of water, especially in the high-service districts, for fear
of endangering the efficiency of the present distribution.
City Document No. 101.
Consumption of Watee.
The average daily consumption of water for the year 1880,
including the Mystic Works, was 35,887,880 gallons, — an
increase of 3.8 per cent, over the consumption of the preceding
year. This increase, undoubtedly, would have been much
larger if the Board had not taken steps, during the severe
drought of the last season, to call the attention of citizens to
the dangers of a diminished supply. In view of the constant
increase in consumption, the Board can only reiterate their
requests, made in the last report, for authority to enlarge the
works in several important directions.
A new storage-basin on the Sudbury river is the largest
extension now in view.
On Nov. 26, 1880, this Board sent a communication to the
City Council asking for an appropriation for surveys and the
purchase of land, and on Dec. 13, an order for the appropria-
tion of $55,000 for these purposes was passed, and early in
the present year the engineer was directed to make the nec-
essary surveys and borings to determine the best site for
another dam and storage-basin. The plans have since been
completed, the land secured, and another appropriation re-
quested for the purpose of construction. It is important
that the work should be begun as soon as possible.
The high-service works, also, need large additions to their
present capacity. During the summer months of the past
year the consumption in this branch of the department was
about 20 per cent, more than during the corresponding months
of the preceding year. A general plan for these works was
outlined by the late City Engineer, Mr. Jos. P. Davis, and
detailed surveys are now in progress by his successor.
While these works of enlargement are proceeding, and be-
fore they can be completed, it is the opinion of the Board
that some steps must be taken to check the wanton waste of
water. On Oct. 4, 1880, this Board was requested to report
to the City Council the best method, in their judgment, for
arresting waste of water. On Nov. 18, a report, in answer
to the above-mentioned order, was made, stating that,
in the judgment of the Board, the most efficient permanent
method of accomplishing this purpose would be by the appli-
cation of meters. Previous to this report the engineer had
been directed to import from England, for the purpose of
experiment, three of the Deacon meters, which had proved
efficient in detecting and checking waste in Liverpool and
other cities in England. They have since been procured and
are now in service in the Charlestown district.
Report of the "Water Board. 3
Besides experiments with the Deacon meter tests of other
meters are being made for the purpose of ascertaining the
value of several meters of different manufacture, and no steps
will be left untried to determine the best course to pursue
should the general application of a meter system be decided
on. The following Act bearing on this subject was passed
by the last Legislature, aud approved April 15, 1881.
an act to authorize the cltt of boston to attach meters
to Buildings which it supplies with Water.
Section 1. The city of Boston is hereby authorized, at its own ex-
pense, to attach and maintain a sufficient water-meter to the main ser-
vice-pipe in any building or buildings which may be supplied with water
by said city under authority of law ; and where any building situate
within the city of Boston shall be supplied with water by said city
through a meter, and there shall be more than one tenement contained
in said building, or where different rooms in the same building are
leased to or occupied by different persons taking water through separate
fixtures, the owners or lessees of said building shall be liable to said
city for the entire amount of water so supplied to said building : pro-
vided, that in the case of dwelling-houses containing more than one
tenement and not more than three tenements, it shall be necessary to
obtain the consent of the owner thereof before attaching such meter.
Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Sudbury Eiver.
Sudbury river has supplied to the city 6,230,200,000 gal-
lons, equivalent to an average daily supply of over 17,000,000
gallons. Of this quantity more than 5,000,000,000 gallons
were run directly to the city without passing through Lake
Cochituate. All of the storage-basins were full at the begin-
ning of the year, and were heavily drawn upon to reinforce
the small flow of the river during the drought. Unfortu-
nately a vegetable growth of algse appeared in two of the
basins and rendered the water somewhat objectionable. Re-
searches by experts have not shown that these plants produce
any injurious effect upon the public health. They appear
without apparent cause in the water. Fortunately one branch
of the river was free from their presence, and water was sup-
plied to the city from this source during the greater part of
the year.
The dams, gate-houses, and other structures on this portion
of the works are in excellent condition.
Some work of construction in the way of sheeting and
puddling the embankment at Dam 2 has been prosecuted for
the purpose of arresting some percolation. After this was
accomplished the work of construction was considered com-
pleted, and on Oct. 15, 1880, the works were transferred
4 City Document No. 101.
from the Engineering Department to the Superintendent of
the Western Division.
As much opposition was engendered at the time of the
conception of these works, it may not be out of place to re-
view, briefly, the service they have accomplished and the
decided way in which they have realized the expectations of
the friends of the project.
On Jan. 21, 1875, the waters of the river were taken by
the city under legislative sanction. At that date the daily
rate of consumption was something over 18,000,000 gallons
per day, which was more than Lake Cochituate, unaided, was
capable of furnishing. During 1875 an amount equivalent
to a daily supply of 7,000,000 gallons was furnished from the
Sudbury river by means of a temporary connection. During
the following year the consumption was more than 20,000,000
gallons. In 1877 the river furnished 5,000,000 gallons daily,
while the whole consumption did not vary greatly from the
preceding year. In 1878 the consumption rose to 23,000,000
gallons, of which the river furnished more than 9,000,000.
In the next year more than 10,000,000 gallons were furnished
out of the 25,000,000 total consumption. In 1880 the con-
sumption was 26,500,000 gallons, of which the river furnished
more than 17,000,000. During the six years referred to the
total amount received and used in the city from the Sudbury
river source was more than 20,000,000,000 gallons. It will
be readily seen from an inspection of these figures that, if
these or other works had not been meditated and pushed to
completion when they were, the city would now be seriously
affected by its lack of water supply.
A most gratifying fact in connection with the building of
the Sudbury river works is, that they have been completed
within the original estimate, and in a rather better manner
than at first proposed.
Lake Cochituate.
The water from this source has caused a great deal of
trouble during the past year ; the cucumber taste having again
made its appearance, notwithstanding the steps taken last
year to improve the meadows around the lake. On February
26 the supply from this source was cut off, since which time
it has been maintained wholly by the Sudbury river. The
surface of the lake was drawn down during the year 1880
about eight feet, to a point too low to keep up the full flow
in the aqueduct. In order to guard against a threatened
scarcity of water, the Board purchased pumps and boilers to
erect at the gate-house to keep up the supply, but fortunately
Report or the Water Board. 5
they were not needed. The machinery is stored at Chestnut-
Hill reservoir, ready for a similar emergency, should one
occur in the future.
Every means known to the Board have been taken to in-
vestigate the cause of the peculiar taste which occasionally
visits the waters of the lake. On January 26, an order was
approved by the Mayor, requesting a report from this Board
on the cause and prevention of the impurity of the water
supplied to the city, and on February 10 the following report
was made, and is here reprinted, as forming a portion of the
history of this matter : —
City of Boston, City Hall,
Boston Water Board Office, Feb. 10, 1881.
To the City Council : —
The Boston Water Board, having been requested, by an order ap-
proved Jan. 26,1881, to report "on the cause and prevention of the
impurity in the water supplied to the city," would respectfully report
that, at the time of the passage of the order by the City Council the city
was supplied with water from both the Sudbury and Cochituate sources,
in the proportion of about one-third Cochituate to two-thirds Sudbury.
The Board having become satisfied that the peculiar taste to the water,
known commonly as' the " cucumber " taste, was due to the Cochituate
water, caused this source to be shut off from the supply, and since then
the water has much improved in taste if not in color.
Although the Board have taken every means in their power to ascei'-
tain the cause of the " cucumber" taste, they have arrived at no result.
Chemical analysis throws no more light on the subject now than it did
in 1876, when the same trouble visited the water. At that time ex-
tended examinations and experiments were made, and a detailed report
made to the Council. The recent analyses and examinations made by
expei-ts throw no more light on the subject than they did then.
While the water seems to be perfectly clear, and, so far as the Board
can say, perfectly wholesome, the disagreeable taste permeates a large
body of water in a short time and in a mysterious manner.
The report of Professor Nichols, of Feb. 3, 1881, containing the
analyses, is submitted herewith.
Respectfully submitted,
BOSTON" WATER BOARD,
By Leonard R. Cutter,
Chairman.
Mass. Institute of Technology,
Boston, Feb. 3, 1881.
To the Water Board of the City of Boston : —
Gentlemen, — The accompanying table contains the results of the
examination of three samples of water, two of which were furnished
me by Mr. Fitzgerald, and one of which was drawn in my laboratory
on February 1.
The water received in the city at the present time is entirely from the
Sudbury l'iver. It has a marked yellowish brown color and a decidedly
" pondy " taste. The water is more strongly colored and contains a
6 City Document No. 101.
larger amount of dissolved matter than usual, and is about the same in
character as that received in the city about a year ago when, for a short
time, the water came directly from the Sudbury sources. The water is
somewhat objectionable in appearance, owing to its marked color; it is
also not altogether palatable, but I do not think it can be oalled un-
wholesome. It is a soft surface water, rather highly charged with
vegetable matter, and I have no doubt that many persons who are
accustomed to hard surface waters or to well water would suffer some
derangement of the digestive organs if they should begin to drink
freely of this water. Probably also some sick persons might be affected
by it ; but I believe that, as far as a person in average health is con-
cerned, the water is wholesome.
As to the so-called " cucumber " taste which, until within a few days
has been noticed over the greater part of the city, there is little that I
can say in addition to what has already been said in a report by Dr.
Farlow, Mr. Edward Burgess, and myself, presented in April, 1876.
Although since that date I have visited other water supplies and made
a number of experimental and other obseiwations, I have been unable
to satisfy myself as to the cause of the trouble. Whether it is due to
a peculiar decomposition of the dead organic matter in the water, or
whether some living organism is concerned in its formation, is not
known. As far as my information goes, there is no evidence to show
that a water possessing this peculiar taste is less wholesome than the
same water when free from the taste.
Yours respectfully,
WM. RIPLEY NICHOLS.
EXAMINATION" OF BOSTON WATER.
[Result expressed in parts in 100,000.]
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3.82
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2.64
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6.46
6.36
Institute of Technology, Boston . .
0.009
0.021
3.98
2.38
6.36
Analytical Note. — The so-called " organic and volatile matter" (which is really the loss
which the residue of evaporation suffers when heated to a low red-heat) is not a very exact
determination", and the differences in the case of these three waters are no greater than
might he obtained with different samples of the same water. The three samples are practically
alike.
The pollution of the lake from the sewage of Pegan brook,
in Natick, still continues. The test cases, referred to in the
last report, were finally carried to the Supreme Court, after
having been heard before a sheriff's jury, as provided for in
the act, and were finally decided in favor of the city, on
Eeport or the Water Boaed. 7
points of law. The five parties complained of will be obliged
to provide some other means for disposing of their drainage.
Other cases will be brought before the courts, until the rights
of the city are established in this important matter.
Aqueducts and Eeservoirs.
The Sudbury-river aqueduct is in good condition. Few
repairs of importance have been made to this structure during
the year. A portion of the grounds has been fenced, par-
ticularly on embankments.
Owing to the shutting off of the lake water, more extended
repairs have been made on the Cochituate aqueduct than has
ever been possible before. This work will be carried on
until the water in the lake has regained its purity and can be
run to the city.
Chestnut-Hill reservoir is in excellent condition. Brook-
line reservoir has lately been cleaned out and thorough repairs
made to the gate-houses and other portions of the work.
From the character and small quantity of the deposit found
on the bottom, it is the opinion of those in charge that it
will hardly be necessary to draw off the water again, for this
purpose, for many years.
On Nov. 27, 1880, the Board of Aldermen, acting in their
capacity as county commissioners, seized the Beacon-Hill
reservoir for the purpose of erecting a new court-house on
its site, and this structure has now passed out of the control
of the water department. No provision has yet been made
by the City Council to reimburse the water works for this
valuable property. This Board can only petition for an
equitable adjustment of this matter, and they take this means
of calling the early attention of the City Council to the facts
in the case.
The right to lay a new 48-inch main was obtained from the
Legislature previous to the date of the last report. Since
that time the work has been successfully completed, and on
November 29 water was run to the city through the pipe.
The pressure in the city was raised about ten feet.
This new main runs from Chestnut-Hill reservoir directly
to the city, through Beacon street as far as the junction with
Brookline avenue, where it connects with the old 40-inch
main. By authority of an order of the City Council, passed
July 8, 1880, the work was done by day labor. It is one of
the most important additions that have been made of late
years to the capacity of the works.
The distributing system has been still further enlarged
8 City Document No. 101.
during the year by the laying of about nine miles of main
pipe.
The City Council having authorized the sale of water to
the City of Cambridge to supplement their short supply
during the drought, a connection for that purpose was made
at Cottage Farm between the pipes of the two cities, but, as
yet, it has not been used, the City of Boston being itself
dangerously threatened with a short supply of water at the
very time it was most needed in Cambridge.
High-Service Works.
The total quantity of water pumped during the year 1880,
at the Highland pumping-station, was 856,840,000 gallons
against 820,827,210 gallons for the preceding year, an increase
of about 4 per cent. The cost per million gallons raised one
foot was 8.3 cents.
The capacity of these works was reached long ago. The
importance of a rearrangement and enlargement has been
fully discussed in previous reports, and the work of rebuild-
ing should be begun at once. On Nov. 20, 1880, a com-
munication was sent from this Board to the City Council,
recommending application to the Legislature for an act to
take land and construct works. On Dec. 9 the request was
granted, and on March 24, 1881, the following act was signed
by the Governor : —
an act in addition to the acts fob the purpose of supplying
the City of Boston with Pure Water.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows : —
Section 1. For the purpose of supplying water to its inhabitants,
and especially for the purpose of increasing the supply of water which
can be used for its high-service, the city of Boston is hereby authorized
by and through the agency of the Boston Water Board to construct and
maintain new reservoirs, and connect the same by aqueducts and pipes
with its present sources of water supply, and with its present reservoirs,
aqueducts and pipes, and to construct and maintain new works and
pumping-stations in connection with said new reservoirs ; and for this
purpose may take and hold by purchase or otherwise any lands or real
estate necessary therefor, situate in the cities of Boston or Newton, or
in the town of Brookline, and lay said aqueducts and pipes over or
under any water-course or any streets, turnpike roads, railroads, high-
ways or other ways, in such manner as not to unnecessarily obstruct or
impede the travel thereon ; and may enter upon and dig up any such
roads, streets or ways, for the purpose of laying down said pipes be-
neath the surface thereof, and for maintaining and repairing the same ;
but always in such manner and with such care as not to render the roads,
streets and ways unnecessarily unsafe or inconvenient to the public
travel thereon. And said city of Boston in performing said work shall
not unnecessarily interfere with any existing sewers, water or gas pipes,
and shall be subject to such reasonable regulations as to time, place and
Report of the Water Board. 9
manner of digging up any streets or ways of public travel for the pur-
poses aforesaid, and the laying of said pipes, as shall be made by the
City Council of the city of Newton or the selectmen of the town of
Brookline, within the limits of said city or town, for the protection of
their rights of drainage and sewerage therein and the public rights of
passage thereon.
Sect. 2. Whenever the city of Boston shall dig up any street or way
as aforesaid, it shall restore the same to as good order and condition as
the same shall be in when such digging commenced ; and the city of
Boston shall at all times indemnify and save harmless the city of
Newton and the town of Brookline against all damage which may be
recovered against them respectively, and shall reimburse to them
respectively all expenses which they shall incur by reason of any defect
or want of repair in any street or way, caused by the construction of
said aqueduct or the laying of said pipes, or by the maintaining or
repairing the same : provided, that the city of Boston shall have due
and reasonable notice of all claims for such damages or injury, and
opportunity to make a legal defence thereto.
Sect. 3. The city of Boston shall be liable to pay all damages that
shall be sustained by any persons in their property by the taking of any
land or real estate or the laying of said pipes as aforesaid ; and any
person sustaining damage as aforesaid may have the same ascertained,
determined, collected and paid in the manner which is provided in
sections six, seven and eight of chapter one hundred and sixty-seven of
the acts of the year eighteen hundred and forty-six.
Sect. 4. Upon requisition by the City Council of the city of Newton,
or the board of selectmen of the town of Brookline, prior to the laying
of the said aqueduct and pipes through their respective limits, the city
of Boston shall insert a number of hydrants in said pipes at points not
less than one thousand feet apart, to be used for extinguishing fires,
free of charge, and for no other purpose ; and said city or town shall
pay to the city of Boston the expense of inserting and keeping in
repair such hydrants as shall have been so inserted upon their requi-
sitions aforesaid within their respective limits.
Sect. 5. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance by the City
Council of the city of Boston.
■ [Approved March 24, 1881. ]
An appropriation for the purpose of constructing new high-
service works will be asked for at an early date.
On May 13, 1880, the City Council authorized an expen-
diture of $33,500 for the purpose of supplying a high-service
system to East Boston. On May 18 a contract was made
with Henry R. Worthington for the necessary machinery ;
and in October following the pumps were completed and
put in operation. The pumps are capable of delivering one
and one-half million gallons per day. The total cost of this
work was about $23,000. A full description will be found
in the City Engineer's report. The effect of this independent
system of high-service supply is to furnish the high lands of
East Boston with water under a greater pressure than was
possible from the Cochituate works.
The Brighton high-service pumps are in good working
order. They deliver during certain days in the hot weather
270,000 gallons in 24 hours.
10 City Document No. 101.
Mystic Department.
The works of this department are believed to be in fair
condition.
The pumps have raised 3,434,195,710 gallons during the
year 1880, at a cost of 5.4 cents per million gallons raised
one foot.
During the latter part of the summer the lake was drawn
so low that it became necessary to erect temporary pumps to
keep up the supply to the conduit. In September the
machinery, formerly used at Lake Cochituate for the same
purpose, was transferred to the jVlystic lake and set up ; and
on Oct. 4 the pumps were started. They were run until
Jan. 17, 1881.
The severe drought told heavily on the Mystic supply.
The water was drawn down to the lowest point ever reached,
viz., one foot above the bottom of the conduit.
A full statement of the capacity of the Mystic Works and
of the purity of the water would hardly seem to be necessary
when so many able reports have been made on the subject, and
the actual condition of the water-shed been made a point of
such diligent research ; but a few facts, showing something of
the past history and present condition of this source of water
supply, may, however, enable the City Council to appreciate
the position in which the Board now find themselves. When it
was first proposed to annex Charlestown to Boston, one of
the most important, if not the leading argument used in
favor of the same was the extent and purity of the Mystic
water, and the great benefit it would prove to the larger
municipality.
In 1874, after annexation, the Mystic Water Board thus
expressed itself, in giving up control of the works : " We
are firm in the faith that you have a property of great value
in the Mystic Water Works and 'the grants to the City of
Charlestown for a supply of pure water."
The area of the water-shed of these works had always been
taken at 31 square miles, upon the authority of Messrs. Bald-
win and Stevenson, the original engineers of the works. On
Oct. 27, 1873, the Cochituate Water Board were directed to
report to the City Council the facts in regard to the Mystic
supply. The information desired was communicated by
Messrs. Kirkwood and Francis, whose engineering abilities
were undoubted. Their report, which was very elaborate
and the result of minute investigation, was made in Dec,
1873. The area of the water-shed, as taken by them, was
24| square miles, after deducting water surfaces, and they
placed the capacity, with storage basins, at 17,000,000 gal-
lons.
Eeport of the Water Board. 11
In regard to the impurities in the water, they say : "Its pas-
sage, however, through the large body of water in the upper
Mystic pond admits of such a diffusion as to render such im-
purities entirely imperceptible to our senses at the lower end
of the poud, where the Charlestown works have their conduit
connection."
An extensive investigation into the purity of the water was
made at the same time by Prof. E. N. Hosford, in his report
of which (City Doc. No. 134, 1873) he summarizes as fol-
lows : " Of its salubrity as a drinking,- water it will compare
well with the best waters in use for city supply. It has ex-
perienced no appreciable deterioration since its introduction."
In 1874, Mr. J. P. Davis reported the true area of the
water-shed to be 26.2 square miles, excluding water sur-
faces. This result was determined accurately by triangula-
tion, and set at rest finally this much-disputed question.
The actual collection on this area during the year 1880,
as determined by the City Engineer, was something over
15,000,000 gallons per day; but this amount of water could
only be utilized by building extensive storage-basins. The
capacity of supply of the present arrangement of works, in a
dry year, is probably less than 7,000,000 gallons per day.
The question that naturally arises is, Can the purity of the
Mystic water be preserved so as to warrant further expen-
ditures for continuing it as a water supply?
In 1873 Messrs. Kirkwood and Francis found 27 large
establishments, 20 of which were tanneries, pouring their
filth into the water. If, with this large amount of sewage,
the water appeared reasonably pure and good, the Board be-
lieved that, if these objectionable elements could be removed,
the water would not only be preserved in its original condi-
tion, but would also be much improved ; and that, by pre-
venting further pollution, it would be fitted for domestic use
for many years to come. Accordingly a sewer was built,
and much time and money devoted to the diversion of this
drainage into tide water. This was successfully accom-
plished, mostly during the year 1879, and the Board were
congratulating- themselves on a favorable condition of affairs,
when a trouble arose wholly unexpected. The towns of
Medford and Arlington, early in December last, complained
of a nuisance, caused, as they alleged, by the discharge of
sewage into the lower Mystic pond.
On Dec. 18 notices were served by the Board of Health of
Medford on the City of Boston, requesting an abatement of
the nuisance within 24 hours. Private petitions had previ-
ously been received in the City Council in regard to the same
matter.
12 City Document No. 101.
On Jan. 10 the Board invited all the towns interested to
meet the representatives of the city in regard to the matter,
and a number of conferences were subsequently held, but no
agreement could be settled upon. The towns, in the mean
time, had petitioned the Legislature, and, although the city
did all in its power to arrest such legislation, the following
act was passed : —
an act to require the city of boston to abate a nuisance in
Mystic Lower Pond, eor protecting the Purity of the Waters
of said Pond, and for the Preservation of the Public Health,
especially in the Towns of Medford and Arlington.
Section 1. The city of Boston is hereby directed to cease emptying
sewage, or waters, or substances containing polluting matter or prop-
erties, into Mystic Lower Pond, through its sewer constructed under
chapter two hundred and two of the Acts of eighteen hundred and
seventy-five or otherwise, and is hereby also directed to take up and
remove so much of said sewer as extends into said pond' and also that
part thereof between said pond and a point on the line of said sewer at
least two hundred feet from said pond, within three months from the
passage of this act, and thereafter no person or persons, no municipal
nor other corporation or corporations, shall discharge or divert into
said pond, any sewage or offensive matter, waters or substances con-
taining such properties or of such quality as shall of themselves or in
connection with other matter create a nuisance in said Mystic Lower
Pond, or endanger the public health ; but nothing herein shall be con-
strued to prohibit the city of Boston from discharging such water as shall
be collected into its said sewer into said Mystic Lower Pond after said
city shall have purified, cleansed, and freed the said waters from all
offensive, contaminating, noxious, and polluting properties and sub-
stances, so that said waters shall not of themselves, or in connection
with other matter, create a nuisance therein or endanger the public
health : provided, that said waters so purified shall flow for a distance
of at least two hundred feet immediately before their entrance into said
pond in an open drain over a gravelly or sandy bottom.
Sect. 2. The city of Boston is hereby directed to cause said Mystic
Lower Pond to be cleansed of such impurities prejudicial to the public
health as, in the judgment of the state board of health, lunacy, and
charity, it shall have caused, and at such time, and in such manner and
extent, as shall be approved by the state board of health, lunacy, and
charity, and said city shall pay the expense incurred thereby ; and should
the said board deem the same to be necessary, and so decide, the city of
Boston may erect a dam at the outlet of the lower Mystic Pond, and may
exclude tide-water from said pond, and may raise the height of the
water in said pond, and may take land therefor ; and any person suffer-
ing any damage shall have the right to have damages assessed therefor,
as provided in section three of this act.
Sect. 3. The city of Boston is hereby authorized to take and hold,
for the time necessary to carry out the provisions of this act, such lands
in the towns of Woburn or Winchester, on or near the line of said sewer,
as it shall deem necessary, and may construct such canals, basins, tanks,
passage-ways, and works as may be necessary to enable said city to treat
said sewage and waters in order to free the said waters of all noxious,
dangerous, and offensive matter and properties. Said city shall make
compensation to the owners for such lands as it shall take under this
act, and if said city and said owners do not agree, any person aggrieved
Report of the Water Board. 13
shall be entitled to have his damages ascertained by a jury upon petition
to the county commissioners of Middlesex county, the proceedings upon
which shall be like those provided for the recovery of damages in the
taking of lands for highways.
Sect. 4. Said city of Boston is hereby authorized to raise and appi'o-
priate, in such manner as its city government shall determine, such
sums of money as shall be incurred by said city in carrying out the pro-
visions of this act.
Sect. 5. This act shall be subject to the same limitations expressed
in section twelve of chapter two hundred and two of the Acts of the year
eighteen hundred and seventy-five.
Sect. 6. The supreme judicial court, or any justice thereof, in term
time or vacation, sitting in equity for either of the counties of Suffolk or
Middlesex, shall have jurisdiction in equity to enforce the provisions of
this act by injunction or by any other appropriate equitable remedy, on
complaint of the selectmen of either of the towns of Medford or Arling-
ton.
Sect. 7. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved May 13, 1881.
As it is held to be impracticable by the city to carry out
the provisions of this act, a probable result may be to restore
the sewage again to the drinking-water.
In view of all the difficulties that beset the maintenance of
the purity of the Mystic water, it would seem to be the wisest
course not to engage in any more expenditures for the pur-
pose of enlarging the supply from the present source, but to
look to the Shawshine river for a reinforcement of the Mystic.
Acting in this belief the Board, on February 7, sent a commu-
nication to the City Council, recommending that application
be made to the Legislature for authority to take water from
the Shawshine. This was accordingly done under an order
of the City Council, but the petition was refused by the Legis-
lature for reasons not necessary to discuss here.
The only course left for the city is either to continue its
application or to connect the Mystic supply with the Sudbury
and Cochituate. This latter scheme would entail an enormous
expenditure, not only for mains, but for the development of
the whole storage capacity of the Sudbury valleys. It is to
be hoped that the city will not be driven to this alternative .
LEONARD R. CUTTER, Chairman,
FRANCIS THOMPSON,
ALBERT STANWOOD.
14 City Document No. 101.
Eaenings or the Wokks.
The total receipts of the Cochituate Water Works from all
sources for the year ending April 30, 1881, are as follows,
viz. : —
Stock on hand May 1, 1880 . . . . $61,159 24
Income from sales of water . . . .1,063,852 79
Income* from shutting off and letting on water
and fees . 3,273 00
Sundry receipts by Water Board . . . 64,423 69
Profits in manufacturing hy-
drants, etc., etc., for the year
ending March 15, 1880 . " . $3,958 60
Stock returned to proving yard
from alterations of pipes in
streets '. 1,351 10
Increased valuation of stock,
March 15, 1880 . ' . . 27,381 52
32,691 22
Amount overdrawn by Auditor for payment of
annuity to Sarah Munroe and returned to
the City Collector 52 50
$1,225,452 44
The total amount charged to Cochituate
Water Works for the year ending April 30,
1881, is as follows, viz. : —
Current expenses . . . $211,091 84
Extension of works paid for out
of income .... 103,451 32
Interest on funded debt . . 619,476 52
934,019 68
Balance April 30, 1881 .... $291,432 76
Stock on hand April 30, 1881, $95,763 86
Paid to Cochituate Water Sink-
ing Fund, April 30, 1881 . 195,668 90
$291,432 76
Excess of income over expendi-
tures for 1880-81 . $195,668 90
Amount required for Sinking
Fund 182,798 31
Excess of income over all requirements . . $12,87059
Report of the Water Board.
15
The outstanding Cochituate Water Loans at this date,
exclusive of the Additional Supply, are as follows : —
5 per cent. Sterling Loan
(£399,500)
$1,947,273 98
Due Oct.
1, 1902
5 per cent. Loans .
100,000 00
100,000
Due April
1, 1906
5 per cent. Loan
1,000 00
1,000
Due Oct.
1, 1907
' 300,000
Due Dec.
1, 1897
200,000
Due Dec.
12, 1897
450,000
Due June
16, 1898
540,000
Due Oct.
1, 1898
250,000
Due April
1, 1899
625,000
Due Jan.
1, 1901
688,000
Due April
1, 1901
330,000
Due July
1, 1901
413,000
Due April
1, 1903
6 per cent. Loans .
$4,253,000 00 ^
38,000
Due April
1, 1904
161,000
Due Jan.
1, 1905
142,700
Due April
1, 1905
6,000
Due Oct.
1, 1905
82,550
Due Jan.
1, 1906
8,750
Due April
1, 1906
4,000
Due Oct.
1, 1906
8,000
Due Jan.
1, 1907
5,000
Due April
1, 1907
, 1,000
Due July
1, 1907
4 per cent. Loan
280,000 00
280,000
Due April
1, 1910
$6,581,273 98
The total receipts of the Mystic Water Works from all
sources for the year ending April 30, 1881, are as follows,
viz. : —
Stock on hand May 1, 1880 . . . ','.
Income from sales of water ....
Income from shutting off and letting on water
and fees .......
Sundry receipts by Water Board .
Receipts by Mystic Water Registrar for service-
pipes, etc. . . . . . .
The total amount charged to Mystic Water
Works for the year ending April 30, 1881, is
as follows, viz. : —
Current expenses . . . $101,906 64
Extension of works paid for out
of income .... 4,729 16
$14,547 05
225,992 47
751 75
4,843 78
769 77
$246,904 82
Amounts carried forward, $106,635 80 $246,904 82
16
Citt Document No. 101.
Amounts brought forward,
Interest on funded debt
Amount paid Chelsea, Somer-
ville, and Everett, under con-
tracts .....
Balance, April 30, 1881
Stock on hand, April 30, 1881 .
Paid to Mystic Water Sinking
Fund, April 30, 1881 .
Amount required for Sinking
Fund for year 1880-81 .
Excess of income over expendi-
tures for year 1880-81 .
$106,635 80 $246,904 82
65,145 00
26,695 28
$16,657 44
31,771 30
198,476 08
,428 74
,428 74
,559 39
31,771 30
Excess of requirements over income
$51,788 09
The outstanding Mystic Water loans at this date are as
follows : —
per cent, currency
Mystic Water Loans .
$613,000 00
5 per cent, currency
Mystic Water Loans .
6 per cent, currency
Mystic Sewer Loans .
410,000 00
$26,000
1,000
35,000
60,000
50,000
3,000
100,000
51,000
139,000
67,000
42,000
39,000
100,000
202,000
6,000
102,000
Due Oct.
Due April
Due April
Due Oct.
Due Oct.
Due April
Due July
Due Jan.
Due July
Due Jan.
Due July
Due July
Due Oct.
Due Oct.
Due Oct.
Due April
1, 1881
1, 1885
1, 1886
1, 1886
1, 1887
1, 1888
1, 1890
1, 1891
1, 1891
1, 1892
1, 1892
1, 1893
1, 1882
1, 1883
1, 1893
1, 1894
130,000 00 130,000 Due April 1, 1886
$1,153,000 00
Mystic Sewek.
Balance of loan, April 30, 1880
Payments during year 1880-81
Balance unexpended April 30, 1881
$21,754 36
4,871 63
$16,882 73
Report or the Water Board.
17
The following statement shows the appropriations by the
City Council for an additional supply of water, with the
loans issued to meet them, and the amount of expenditures
to this date : —
Additional Supply of Water.
APPROPRIATIONS .
Oct. 21, 1871. —Transfer from Reserved Fund
Apr. 12, 1872. — Order for Treasurer to borrow
Apr. 11, 1873. —
Feb. 26, 1875.—
July 1,1876.—
Apr. 20, 1878. — "
Apr. 11, 1879. — "
Total appropriations to April 30, 1879
$10,000 00
100,000 00
500,000 00
1,500,000 00
2,000,000 00
600,000 00
350,000 00
$5,060,000 00
Oct.
1, 1875.— Premium on $1,000,000
order of Feb. 26, 1875
April 1, 1876. —-Premium on $452,000
bonds, under order of
Feb. 26, 1875
Oct. 1, 1876.— Premium on $2,000,000
bonds, under order of
July 1, 1876 .
bonds, under
. $83,700 00
47,786 80
221,400 00
1871-72
1872-73
1873-74 including $2(
on bonds
1874
EXPENDED.
897.50 discount
sold, January
1874-75
1875-76
1876-77
1877-78
1878-79
1879-80
1880-81
$2,302 81
61,278 83
114,102 77
224,956 68
783,613 49
1,924,060 24
1,257,715 26
635,658 08
213,350 97
35,677 98
352,886 80
),412,886 80
5,252,717 11
Balance of appropriations unexpended, April 30, 1881 . $160,169 69
Balance of loans, April 30, 1880
. $195,847 67
Receipts.
Rents, etc. .
Amount carried forward,
1,240 94
$197,088 61
18 City Document No. 101.
Amount brought forward, $197,088 61
Payments.
To sinking fund .- . . $1,240 94
Sundry payments for construc-
tion, land-damages, etc. . 35,677 98
36,918 92
Balance unexpended, April 30, 1881 . . $160,169 69
The outstanding loans which were made on account of
Additional Supply of Water are as follows : —
4 ner cent Loans & 670 000 i $82,000 Due July 1, 1908
4 per cent. .Loans, . . &b/0,0U0| 588,000 Due April 1, 1908
( 1,000,000 Due Oct. 1, 1905
5 per cent. Loans, . . 3,452,000 <J 452,000 Due April 1, 1906
( 2,000,000 Due Oct. 1, 1906
5 per cent. Loan, . . 12,000 Due April 1, 1908
( 100,000 Due July 1, 1902
e — „„„* t „„„« raq aha 492,000 Due April 1, 1903
6 per cent. Loans, . . 648,000 j ^ Due Ja^,y £ im
{ 48,000 Due July 1, 1905
4£ per cent. Loan, . . 268,000 Due Oct. 1, 1908
$5,050,000
BEPOET OF TIE CLEEK.
Office of the Boston Water Board,
Boston, May 1, 1881.
Leonard E. Cutter, Esq.,
Chairman of the Boston Water Board : —
Sir, — The following is a statement of the receipts and
expenditures of the Boston Water Board for the financial
year ending April 30, 1881 : —
Eeceipts.
On account of Cochituate Water Works • . $1,131,601 98
" " Additional Supply of Water . 1,240 94
" Mystic Water Works . . 232,357 77
Balance of loans unexpended
April 30, 1880, Additional
Supply of Water . .$195,847 67
Mystic Sewer . . . 21,754 36
Appropriation, New Main, Co-
chituate Water Works . 280,000 00
Appropriation, Chestnut Hill
driveway, 1880-81 . . 3,000 00
Stock purchased in previous
years, Cochituate Water
Works .... 93,850 46
Mystic Water Works . . 14,547 05
$1,365,200 69
608,999 54
$1,974,200 23
Expenditures.
Current expenses, Cochituate
Water Works . . . $211,091 84
Current expenses, Mystic
Waterworks . . . 101,906 64
Amounts carried forward, $312,998 48 $1,974,200 23
20 City Document No. 101.
Amounts brought forward, $312,998 48 $1,974,200 23
Extension of Cochituate Water
Works .... 103,451 32
Extension of Mystic Water
Works .... 4,729 16
Interest on Cochituate Water
Loans .... 619,476 52
Interest on Mystic Water
Loans . . . 65,145 00
Chelsea, Somerville, and Ev-
erett contracts, account
Mystic Water Works . 26,695 28
Construction, New Main, Co-
chituate Water Works ". 267,778 80
Construction, Additional Sup-
ply of Water . . .35,677 98
Construction, Mystic Sewer . 4,871 63
Surplus Income of Cochituate
Water Works to Cochituate
Water Sinking Fund . . 195,668 90
Income of Additional Supply
of Water to Cochituate
Water Sinking Fund . . 1,240 94
Surplus Income of Mystic
Water Works to Mystic
Water Sinking Fund . 31,771 30
Chestnut-Hill Driveway . 2,999 58
Balance of Appropriation
Chestnut-Hill Driveway
carried into the Treasury,
April 30, 1881 ... 42
1,672,505 31
$30L,694 92
April 30, 1881, Balance of
loans unexpended, Addi-
tional Supply of Water
$160,169 69
Mystic Sewer
16,882 73
New Main, Cochituate Water
Works ....
12,221 20
Stock on hand April 30, 1881,
Cochituate Water Works .
95,763 86
Mystic Water Works .
16,657 44
$301,694 92
Report or the Water Board. 21
Total Water Debt of the City of Boston.
Cochituate, outstanding,
April 30, 1881 . . $11,631,273 98
Mystic, outstanding, April
30, 1881 . . . 1,153,000 00
$12,784,273 98
Cochituate Water Debt.
Outstanding, April 30,
1880 .... $11,697,273 98
Paid in 1880-81 . . 66,000 00
$11,631,273 98
Mystic Water Debt.
Outstanding, April 30,
1880 .... $1,153,000 00
Paid in 1880-81 . . 0,000,000 00
$1,153,000 00
Total Water Sinking Funds, April 30, 1881.
Cochituate Water Sinking
Fund .... $1,989,300 88
Mystic Water Sinking
Fund .... 366,898 39
$2,356,199 27
Trial Balance, Cochituate Water Works, April 30, 1881.
Dr. Cr.
Construction Account . $16,750,518 05
Cochituate Water Works . $16,750,518 05
City Treasurer, Loan Account 475,847 67
Income of Additional Supply
of Water. ... 1,240 94
Appropriation, Additional
Supply of Water . . 160,169 69
Appropriation, New Main, Co-
chituate Water Works . 12,221 20
Income of Cochituate Water
Works .... 1,225,452 44
Amounts carried forward, $17,226,365 72 $18,149,602 32
22 City Document No. 101.
Amounts brought forward, $17,226,365 72 $18,149,602 32
Maintenance of Cochituate
Waterworks . . . 211,091 84
Extension of Cochituate
Water Works . . . 103,451 32
Interest on Cochituate Water
Loans .... 619,476 52
Stock Account . . . 95,763 86
City Treasurer, Revenue Ac-
count .... 1,132,842 92
Appropriation, Chestnut-Hill
Driveway ... 42
City Treasurer, Appropriation
Account .... 3,000 00
City Treasurer . . . 1,242,389 44
Funded Debt . . .11,631,273 98
Cochituate Water 6% Cur-
rency Loan . . . 4,901,000 00
Cochituate Water 5% Cur-
rency Loan . . . 13,000 00
Cochituate Water 5% Gold
Loan .... 3,552,000 00
Cochituate Water 5% Ster-
ling Loan . . . 1,947,273 98
Cochituate Water 4% Cur-
rency Loan . . . 588,000 00
Cochituate Water 4% Loan 362,000 00
Cochituate Water 4i% Loan 268,000 00
Commissioners on the Sinking
Funds . ... . 1,989,300 88
Cochituate Water Sinking
Fund .... $1,989,300 88
$33,012,567 04 $33,012,567 04
Trial Balance, Mystic Water Works, April 30, 1881.
Dr. Cr-.
Construction . . .$1,624,248 89
Mystic Water Works . . $1,624,248 89
City Treasurer, Revenue Ac-
count .... 232,357 77
Income of Mystic Water
Works .... 246,904 82
Amounts carried forward, $1,856,606 66 $1,871,153 71
Keport of the
Water Board.
23
Amounts brought forward, !
M.,856,606
Q6
$1,871,153
71
Maintenance of Mystic Water
Works ....
101,906
64
Extension of Mystic Water
Works ....
4,729
16
Interest on Mystic Water
Loans ....
65,145
00
Chelsea , Somerville , and Ever-
ett contracts
26,695
28
Stock account
16,657
44
City Treasurer, Loan Account
21,754
36
Appropriation, Mystic Sewer
16,882
73
City Treasurer
205,458
10
Funded Mystic Water Debt .
1,153,000
00
Mystic Water 6% Currency
Loan ....
613,000
00
Mystic Water 5% Currency
Loan . .
410,000
00
Mystic Sewer Q% Currency
Loan ....
130,000
00
Commissioners on the Sinking
Funds ....
366,898
39
Mystic Water Sinking Fund .
366,898
39
i
$,613,392
93
$3,613,392
93
Cost of Construction of the Cochituate Water Works to
May 1, 1881.
Cost of Water Works to January 1, 1850,
as per final report of Water Commis
sioners .
Extension to East Boston .
Jamaica-pond aqueduct
New dam at Lake Cochituate
Eaising lake two feet, including damages
Dudley pond, lower dam, and making con-
nections with lake ....
New main from Brookline reservoir .
Land and water rights and land-damages
since January 1, 1850
New pipe-yard and repair-shop .
Upper yard, buildings, etc.
New water-pipes, East Boston .
Amount carried forward,
$3,998,051 83
281,065 44
13,237 50
10,940 08
28,002 18
18,982 23
304,991 83
49,486 17
25,6Q6 51
9,165 63
20,999 43
$4,760,588 83
24
City Document No. 101.
Amount brought forward,
New main, East Boston
Pumping-works at Lake Cochituate
High-service, stand-pipe, engine-house and
engines ......
High-service, South Boston
Chestnut-Hill reservoir, including land
Parker-Hill reservoir
Charles-river siphon ....
Keeper's house, Parker Hill
Temporary high-service, Brighton
New stable at Chestnut-Hill reservoir .
Pegan dam, Natick ....
Willow dam, Natick ....
High-service, East Boston .
New main from Chestnut-Hill reservoir
Cost of laying main pipe for extension in
Roxbury, Dorchester, Brighton, and West
Roxbury Districts .....
Additional supply of water, including land
damages and all expenses
Cost of laying main pipe since January 1,
1850 .
$4,760,588 83
24,878 08
23,446 60
103,829 53
27,860 29
2,449,982 07
228,246 17
26,532 35
2,764 90
7,865
8,103
1,394
1,567
22,960 07
267,778 80
86
55
06
29
1,758,512 22
5,252,717 11
1,781,490 27
$16,750,518 05
Cost of Construction of the Mystic Water Works to May
1, 1881.
Salaries
Engineering .
Land- damages
Reservoir
Dam .
Conduit
Engine-house, coal-shed, and
Engines
Grubbing pond
Iron pipes
Iron pipes, trenching
City distribution .
Hydrants
Stopcocks .
Miscellaneous items
chimney
$17,644 61
33,746 87
91,855 38
141,856 26
17,167 26
129,714 30
36,112 99
150,096 70
9,393 26
108,437 10
61,029 59
162,335 23
19,976 21
19,262 52
14,012 51
Amount carried forward.
$1,012,640 79
Eepoet of the Water Board.
25
Amount brought forward,
Roadway and bridge
Lowering Mystic river .
Inspections .....
Service-pipes and meters
Hydrants for Soraerville and Medford
Somerville distribution .
Dwelling-house for engineer and fireman
( pumping-station )
Chelsea extension ....
Medford extension
Drinking fountains
New line of supply main
Stable and pipe-yard
Extension of engine-house and boiler
New force main ....
Mystic sewer ....
New stable, engine-house
Additional force main .
Temporary pumping-works .
Cost of laying main pipe since 1873
,012,640
79
3,529
22
3,012
06
1,824
79
133,858
70
2,653
08
2,492
10
4,871
02
37,347
86
3,997
41
1,415
05
203,050
09
8,964
64
33,727
43
9,875
17
113,117
27
1,767
39
24,882
96
3,380
30
17,841
56
$1,624,248 89
Respectfully submitted,
W. E. SWAN,
Clerk of the Boston Water Board,
EEPOET OF THE CITY ENG1NEEE.
Office of the City Engineer,
City Hall, Boston, June 1, 1881.
L. E. Cutter, Esq., Chairman Boston Water Board: —
Sir, — In accordance with the requirements of the ordi-
nance establishing the Boston Water Board, I respectfully
subniit the following report on the condition of the Water
Works : —
SUDBURY AMD COCHITUATE WORKS.
Sudbury River Reservoirs and Lake Cochituate.
The reservoirs upon the Sudbury river were all full at the
beginning of the year 1880, and they remained at or near
high- water mark until the middle of May. Reservoir No. 3
was not drawn upon for the supply of the city until August
18th, and, consequently, remained full until that time. Sept.
1st its surface was 171.80 above tide marsh level; Oct.
1st, 167.22, and Oct. 30, 159.62, or 15.62 feet below the
crest of the dam.
During November and December, 1880, and January, 1881,
this reservoir was allowed to fill, and on Feb. 1st its surface
was 168.38. On March 6th the reservoir was full and wast-
ing over the dam.
Reservoir No. 2 was drawn upon during June, July, and
August, lowering its surface from 166.93 on June 1st to
156.95 on Aug. 18th. Nov. 1st it had risen to 163.48, and
was then again drawn upon until on Jan. 8th, 1881, it was
155.32 or 11.8 feet below the top of the flash boards. From
Feb. 1st to 13th the reservoir was filling, and on the latter
date commenced to waste over the dam into the Reservoir
No. 1.
Reservoir No. 1 has been kept at or near the crest of the
dam during the entire year. Until June 1st water was taken
from this reservoir for the city supply, but the presence of
large quantities algce during the summer rendered it unfit for
use.
Keport or the Water Board. 27
At the present time the reservoirs are all full.
In addition to the amount of 1^ million gallons per day
which is allowed constantly to flow into the river, water was
wasted at Dam 1, from Jan. 3d to 9th, 1880, inclusive;
Jan. 11th to 19th; Jan. 21st to April 17th; April 19th to
May 15th, and from Feb. 13th to May 1st, 1881.
The total amount wasted during the year 1880 was 11,-
290,000,000 gallons, equal to a daily supply of 30,847,000
gallons.
During the year 6,230,200,000 gallons, equal to a daily
supply of 17,022,400 gallons, have been supplied from the
Sudbury river. Of the above amount 826,700,000 gallons
were run into Lake Cochituate, and 5,403,500,000 gallons
into Chestnut-Hill reservoir. The table on page 41 gives
the monthly quantities diverted from the river since 1872.
Lake Cochituate, on Jan. 1, 1880, was 126.50 above tide
marsh level, or 0.86 ft. below the top of the conduit.
During the early part of this year the lake was rising, and
on May 4th water was allowed to waste over the outlet dam."
This waste continued until May 6th, its total amount being
65,577,700 gallons.
By means of the Sudbury the lake was kept near high-
water mark until June 12th, when the supply from that source
having been stopped, the water surface commenced falling
immediately and continued to fall until Jan. 10th, 1881, when
it was 9.06 feet below high-water mark, or 2.06 feet below
the top of the aqueduct. March 11th, 1881, it had again
filled, and waste was commenced at the outlet dam, and still
continues.
When the lake was at its lowest stage, and the supply from
the Sudbury was being rapidly exhausted, there was a possi-
bility that pumping from the lake would have to be resorted
to. The pumping machinery which had been relied upon in
similar emergencies was in use on the Mystic, and it was
therefore deemed advisable to procure two new sets of pump-
ing engines and boilers. This machinery should be kept in
readiness in case a similar condition of the supply should
occur before the completion of the new reservoir on the
Sudbury.
From Jan. 20th to Feb. 5th, 1881, no water was drawn
from the lake for supplying the city, and Feb. 26th the
" cucumber " taste having been traced to this source, the gates
were again closed and have remained so since.
Dug pond contributed about 150,000,000 gallons to the
Lake supply between March 9 and April 12, 1880, and
Dudley pond was drawn upon Oct. 13th, when its surface
was four feet below high-water. This pond had been lowered
28 City Document No. 101.
about ten feet when the stop-planks were replaced Dec. 7,
1880.
Aqueducts and Distributing Keservoirs.
With the completion of the Sudbmy system, the necessity
for straining the Cochituate aqueduct practically ceases.
From May 1st until Aug. 15th, five feet of water were run.
On the latter date this height was increased six inches,
falling afterwards with the surface of the lake until Jan.
20th when the head-gates were shut down permanently on
account of the continued bad taste of the water.
The Sudbury-river aqueduct has been in almost con-
tinuous use for the past year. It has required but trifling
repairs.
Chestnut-Hill reservoir, with its grounds, gate-houses,
etc., are in good condition.
The laying of the new 48-inch main having rendered
practicable the cleansing of the Brookline reservoir, the
gates at the effluent gate-house were closed March 28th, and
the reservoir emptied by means of the blow-off into the
brook leading to Muddy river.
The work of cleansing the reservoir, and repairing the
structures connected with it, was done under the immediate
direction of the superintendent of the Western Division,
and a full description of the methods employed and amount
done will be found in his report.
The Beacon-Hill reservoir has been taken as a site for a
new Court House, by a vote of the Board of Aldermen,
passed Nov. 27th, 1880, and is now in charge of the Joint
Standing Committee on Public Buildings.
The structure is to be taken down, but the pipes have not
as yet been disconnected from it, as it was not desirable to find
a new place for the apparatus for measuring the pressure and
approximate supply until the committee made some arrange-
ments for the disposal of the reservoir.
The East Boston reservoir, which has been out of active
use for a number of years, has, by the construction of the
high-service works in this District, been again placed in
service.
The South Boston reservoir is kept full for use in case of
accident to the supply mains of this section of the city.
The East and South Boston reservoirs are in good order.
Highland High-Service Works.
The table on page 46 shows the average monthly heights
of the water in Parker-Hill reservoir for the year 1880.
Beport of the Water Board.
29
The grounds about the reservoir and at the stand-pipe are in
g-ood condition. New fences have been built on two sides
of the stand-pipe lot and on the west side of the reservoir
grounds.
At the pumping station the machinery and buildings are
in good order. The upper portion of the chimney, which
had become disintegrated from the action of the weather,
has been rebuilt and covered with lead.
The Worthington engine has pumped all of the water
during the past year.
Total quantity of water pumped, 856,840,000 gallons.
Total coal consumed, 1,628,800 lbs., of which 13.7 per
cent, were ashes and clinkers.
Average lift, 116.39 feet.
Quantity pumped per lb. of coal, 526.1 gallons.
Average daily quantity pumped, 2,341,093 gallons, an
increase of 4.1 per cent, over that of 1879.
Average duty 51,063,900 ffc.-lbs. per 100 lbs. of coal,
* without deductions for ashes and clinkers.
The duty is somewhat less than that of last year, due to
the poor quality of the coal supplied, especially during the
latter part of the year.
The table on page 48 shows the monthly quantities pumped,
work done, etc.
Cost of Pumping.
Salaries .
Fuel .
Repairs
Oil, waste, and packing
Small supplies
Total .
$3,716
94
4,129
20
6
25
71
63
331
72
Cost per million gallons raised one foot high $0,083.
1,255 74
Brighton High-Service.
These works have been in constant operation, and are in
good condition.
The quantity of water required is rapidly increasing, and
during warm weather, when there is a large amount used for
street watering, the consumption is 250,000 to 270,000 gal-
lons per day.
30 City Document No. 101.
East Boston High-Service Works.
These works, which were placed in operation Oct. 12th,
supply the territory comprised in two high districts, the
"Eagle Hill " and " Belmont Square," and enable East Bos-
ton to be supplied from the Sudbury and Cochituate instead
of the Mystic.
The works consist of two Worthington compound high-
pressure pumps, together capable of raising 1,500,000 gallons
in twenty-four hours ; two upright tubular boilers to furnish
steam for the pumps, a check- valve with a by-pass and safety-
valve for regulating, in connection with the reservoir, the
pressure upon the pipes, and about 7,500 feet of main pipe
connecting with the former supply mains. The manner in
which the reservoir is utilized in conjunction with the high-
service works will be understood from the following descrip-
tion.
In the 16-inch pipe entering the reservoir is placed a
check-valve which prevents the entrance of any water. Pass-
ing around the check-valve is a 10-inch pipe provided with a
valve which is kept closed by means of a weighted lever in"
the same manner as a safety-valve. This valve is so set as
to be opened by a pressure of 10 lbs. During the day, while
the pumps are in operation, the check-valve remains closed,
and an increased pressure of 10 lbs. over that due to the
reservoir is maintained on the distribution, the surplus amount
pumped passing into the reservoir through the safety-vah^e
and 10-inch by-pass. When the pumps are stopped the
pressure falls, the check-valve opens, and the supply is drawn
from the reservoir.
The supply for the pumps is taken from the 20-inch low-
service main which connects East Boston with the city proper
mains.
The pumping machinery is located in a neat wooden build-
ing on Brooks street, upon the reservoir lot. The entire
work has been completed at a cost of about $23,000, the
amount appropriated for the work being $33,000.
During the extreme cold weather the head in the supply
main was so reduced by waste, to prevent freezing of service
pipes, that no water could be obtained for the pumps and the
reservoir was almost exhausted. It is proposed to provide
a remedy for this difficulty the coming season by connections
which will enable a supply for the high-service to be drawn
from the Mystic in cases of necessity.
The daily consumption from these works is about 350,000
gallons.
Eeport of the Water Board. 31
Forty-eight-Inch Main.
The Legislature of 1880 passed an act granting- the right
to lay this new main from Chestnut-Hill reservoir through
the town of Brookline to the city. The 20th of March an
appropriation of $280,000 was made by the City Council for
the pipes and special castings required. Such favorable con-
tracts were made for these pipes that the appropriation will
be sufficient to complete the entire work, although it was
anticipated that a further appropriation would be needed to
lay the pipes.
The work of laying the pipes was commenced on June
23d, and at 12 M. of Nov. 29th water was supplied to the
city through the new main, direct from Chestnut-Hill reser-
voir. The pressure throughout the city was immediately
increased about 10 feet.
A 30-inch main, to be charged to this appropriation, still
remains to be laid in Francis street, to connect the 40-inch
with the 30-inch and 36-inch mains, originally laid to supply
the city, and it is expected that this connection will still
further increase the head.
The new main starts from the effluent gate-house, at
Chestnut-Hill reservoir, and after connecting with a 48-inch
pipe, which is laid around the reservoir from the terminal
chamber of the Sudbury-river conduit, it passes through
Beacon street to the junction of Brookline avenue, — a dis-
tance of 16,300 feet, — where it connects with the 40-inch
main from Brookline reservoir. At the junction of Harvard
street, in Brookline, a branch has been put in for a contem-
plated connection with the Mystic works, and a gate is
located in the main at this point. Gates to control the flow
of the water have also been placed on the connection at
Chestnut-Hill reservoir and at Brookline avenue. Near St.
Paul street, in Brookline, a section of the pipe line, 780 feet in
length, is supported by a pile foundation, consisting of spruce
piles driven in pairs, at distances apart of 5 feet crosswise,
and 6 feet lengthwise of the trench, and capped crosswise
with 10-inch by 10-inch spruce caps 8 feet long.
The cost of the main was largely increased by the necessity
of removing and relaying many of the water and gas pipes
in the town of Brookline.
Mystic Works.
Mystic Lake. — At the beginning of the year 1880 the
water in Mystic Lake was 1.71 ft. above tide-marsh level,
32 City Document No. 101.
or 5.88 ft. above the conduit invert. Jan. 25th it had
risen to 6.65 ft., and was allowed to waste at the outlet
dam. The waste continued until April 28th, and from May
1st to 12th, after that time the surface fell, standing July 1st,
3.26; Aug. 27th, 1.50, or at the top of the conduit; Sept.
1st, 1.27, and Oct. 1st, — 0.92.
During September temporary pumping machinery was
placed at the lake, to raise the water into the conduit.
The engines and pumps which were used at Lake Cochitu-
ate in 1871 and 1874, for a similar purpose, were placed in
position upon temporary platforms which had been built to
receive them. October 2d, as the conduit by gravitation
would no longer furnish the supply, the pumps were started,
and were continued in operation until the 17th of January,
1881.
On the 25th of October the lake surface was 3.18 feet below
tide-marsh level, or only one foot above the conduit invert ;
the lowest point ever reached. January 1st, 1881, it was 1.63
feet below tide-marsh level, February 1st, 0.40 above the
same base, and Feb. 14th water was wasted over the outlet
dam.
During the year 2,158,761,200 gallons have been wasted
at the ontlet dam, equal to an average daily supply of
5,914,000 gallons for the year.
During the season advantage was taken of the low stage
of the water to remove from the upper end of Mystic Lake,
near Mystic Station, a large quantity of mud and muck and
to repoint the joints of the Mystic dam and wing-walls ; a
considerable amount of vegetable matter was also removed
from Wedge and Whitney's ponds.
Mystic Valley Sewer.
The Mystic Valley Sewer is in good working condition.
During last year the towns of Medford and Arlington
complained of unpleasant smells, which, it was claimed,
were due to the accumulation of sewage in the Lower Mystic
pond, and the Legislature was appealed to for an abatement of
the alleged nuisance.
The result of this action was the enactment of a law
ordering the discontinuance of the sewer unless the sewage
is so treated as to render its contents free from polluting
substances. The location of the sewer *and the peculiar
composition of the sewage which, as it is well known, con-
tains mainly the refuse of tanneries, renders it a very difficult,
if not insolvable problem to comply with the requirements of
Report of the Water Board. 33
the act. This opinion is corroborated by the conclusions of a
report made by Prof. Nichols in reference to the treatment
of this sewage by various chemical substances. His re-
port will be found in the Appendix.
It is not possible for the present to foresee what effect
this action of the Legislature may have on the welfare of the
Mystic supply. The matter is now in the hands of a special
committee of the City Government.
Mystic Pumping Station and Reservoir,
The work done by the engines at this station, during each
month, is shown on page 47.
Engine No. 1 was in use 1,190 hours 15 minutes.
2 " 4,324 " 50 "
3 " 7,999 "
Total amount pumped, 3,434,195,710 gallons.
Total amount of coal consumed 8,174,700 lbs., of which
7.4 per cent, were ashes and clinkers.
Average lift, 150.83 feet.
Quantity pumped, per lb. of coal, 420.1 gallons.
Average duty of the three engines (no deductions), 52,-
845,400 feet per 100 lbs. of coal.
Cost of Pumping.
Salaries ,...„..
Fuel
Repairs .
Oil, waste, and packing
Small supplies ....
Total . - $28,053 53
Cost per million gallons raised one foot high,. $0,054.
The pumps have received only ordinary repairs, and are
in fair condition . The boilers are now being examined and
repaired. Some grading has been done on the roadway lead-
ing to the reservoir. The reservoir is in good condition.
Pipes, Pipe Plans, and Miscellaneous.
Exclusive of the 48-inch main, the Cochituate distribution
has been extended about nine miles during the year.
The Mystic pipe system has been improved by the substi
$6,969
38
19,695
64
310
30
989
99
88
22
34 City Document No. 101.
tution of about two miles of cast-iron pipe for the same
length of wrought-iron and cement pipe.
At the request of the City of Cambridge a connection has
been made at Cottage Farm between the 16-inch main sup-
plying the Brighton district and the distribution system of
the Cambridge works, to be used in case of a failure of their
supply.
The 20-inch and 16-inch pipes on Chelsea bridge, for a
distance of about 300 feet, have been removed from their
pile foundations and relaid in earth filling ; a portion of the
channel previously spanned by a pile structure having been
filled by the City of Chelsea, enabling this change for the
better to be made.
Quality.
The quality of the water during the past year has been, at
times, objectionable ; the disagreeable taste complained of
several times in previous years has again appeared, and has
been located in Lake Cochituate at a time when the condi-
tions for a good supply were never better. The meadows on
the south side of Central Turnpike have been kept covered
with a good depth of water, by means of the dam built last
year, as have also the Hanchett meadows, while as the lake
lowered, all the water from Pegan brook was filtered through
the new gravel dam.
The water in the lake was free from algce and appeared
clear and pure, but the fishy or cucumber taste was very
strongly marked. The cause for this bad taste is still un-
known, notwithstanding all the investigations that have been
made by scientists in this and other localities where it has
been noticed.
The vegetable growths observed in 1879 have been found
again in the Mystic supply, and in two of the Sudbury river
reservoirs. In the latter, owing to the double system of
reservoirs which allows a complete separation of the two
branches of the river and the isolation of either from the
rest of the supply, the trouble from this source has been
very much lessened. In the Mystic, although it gave
promise of being very bad at one time, it was dissipated
by some unknown cause, and did not appear to an objec-
tionable extent either in the lake or distribution.
Notwithstanding the objectionable quality of the water
caused by the presence of algce and the cucumber or fishy
taste, two evils which are entirely distinct from one another,
it should be stated that, in the opinion of some of the best
Repoet of the Watee Boaed. 3.5
authorities, this abnormal condition of the water has no
injurious effect upon the public health.
ADDITIONAL SUPPLY. — SUDBURY RIVER.
At the beginning of the year very little was left to be
done to complete the work, as contemplated in the original
estimates.
At Dam No. 2 the impervious hearting of the embankment
was extended several hundred feet, by means of sheet piling
and puddling, on the high grounds at the easterly end ; the
rest of the work during the summer consisted in completing
the reservoirs and improving their borders. On the 15th of
October, 1880, the care of the portion of the work left until
then, under the immediate direction of this department, was
transferred to the Superintendent of the Western Division of
the Water Works ; on that date may be said to have ended
the period of construction.
A description of the work on " Additional Supply," and of
the progress of construction, has been given every year in
the annual reports of the City Engineer ; but, .as no compre-
hensive statement of the operations in connection with it has
been furnished, I transmit with this report a more complete
account, prepared by Mr. A. Fteley, formerly Resident Engi-
neer in charge of the works.
It was the intention of the former City Engineer, Mr.
Joseph P. Davis, to have prefaced this report of Mr. Fteley's
with a brief history of the inception and progress .to com-
pletion of this important work in which he took so much
interest, and which owes its success so largely to his ability,
but the pressure upon his time since he resigned the office of
City Engineer has been so great that he has not been able to
give it the requisite attention. It is needless for me to say
that no one was better qualified to write the report which I
now transmit than the one who wrote it, identified as he has
been with the scheme from the beginning of the work. It
should be printed for preservation, as forming a portion of
the history of the Boston Water Works.
New Stoeage Reseevoies.
According to the instructions received from your Board at
the beginning of the year, an investigation has been made to
ascertain the most favorable location for an additional reser-
voir, and Basin No. 4 of the preliminary surveys, on Cold
Spring brook in Ashland, has been selected as the most
desirable in the present condition of the water supply.
36 City Document No. 101.
As my report of May 14th to your Board upon this subject
gives the reasons of this choice and a description of the pro-
posed works, the approximate contents of the reservoir and
the estimates of cost, it is appended.
Consumption.
The average daily consumption during the year was as
follows : —
From Lake Cochituate and Sudbury river, 26,500,000 galls.
" Mystic Lake .... 9,387,880 "
Total .... 35,887,880 galls
&*-
an increase of 3.8 per cent, over the consumption of 1879.
The consumption from the Sudbury and Cochituate works
from May 1st, 1880, to May 1st, 1881, was 9.7 per cent,
more than for the previous year. The average daily con-
sumption for each month is shown by the table on page 40.
East Boston was supplied from the Mystic works until
Oct. 12th ; since that time from the Sudbury and Cochituate
works.
The figures given in the tables, showing the consumption
of water, refer only to average quantities. Daring the last
severe winter the daily consumption increased at times enor-
mously, and attained a maximum of 56,000,000 gallons from
all the works. The effect of this large consumption was to
reduce the pressure in the city proper distribution about 33
feet, notwithstanding the increased capacity furnished by the
new 48-inch main.
In'Charlestown, Chelsea, Somerville,and Everett, supplied
by the Mystic, the high grounds were at times without any
supply, and in case of an extensive fire the effects would
have, been disastrous.
The variation in the daily con'sumption from the Highland
high-service works is very marked, and its general increase
must also be noted. The highest average weekly consumption
during last winter was at the rate of 3,056,500 gallons, while
it was but 2,419,000 gallons in the winter of 1879-80, an
increase of about 27 per cent. For the summer months the
corresponding quantities were 3,201,900 and 2,655,000, an
increase of about 20 per cent. Although the total increase
of consumption from these works was but 4. 1 per cent, more
than in 1879, owing to the refusal to extend the system more
than was imperatively demanded, the above figures confirm
Report or the Water Board. 37
the statement made in my last annual report in reference to
the necessity of constructing new high-service works.
There are many districts which are now inadequately sup-
plied from the low-service distribution, and which should be
connected with the high-service, but the present condition of
works as to capacity is not such as to warrant any extension
of the system.
This question was very fully considered in last year's
report, and the recommendations there made were indorsed
by your Board, and the City Council petitioned the Legis-
lature for an act authorizing the construction of the works.
This act has been obtained, and, although I have received no
special request from your Board in regard to the matter,
I have been engaged in making such surveys and investiga-
tions as will enable me to present for your consideration
when you should desire it such estimates and plans as may
be required. The work of construction should be com-
menced during the present season.
Condition of the Water Works.
• The condition of the works is, on the whole, satisfactory.
Reference has been elsewhere made to the repairs upon the
Cochituate aqueduct, but in this connection it must be
remembered that more extensive repairs are needed in some
parts of this conduit where the abundance of ground-water
will render the work difficult and costly, and that some
action ought to be taken in reference to the improvement of
the outlet of Lake Cochituate. My reasons for recommend-
ing this work are given at some length in my last annual
report to your Board.
The year 1880 was an exceptionally dry one. The
drought, due to the unusually small amount of snow-fall
during the winter, and to the small rain-fall throughout the
year, was severe, and the various storage reservoirs were
drawn from to an unusual extent.
Upon the Sudbury river water-shed, from a rain-fall of
38.177 in., 32.7 per cent, only, equal to 12.487 in. were
collected. On the Cochituate water-shed the rain-fall was
35.88 ins., of which 29 per cent., equal to 10.3 ins., were
collected. On the Mystic water-shed the yield was 12.28
in., or 35.7 per cent, of the rain-fall, which was 33.42 in.
Average yield 12.10 in.
The minimum amount of water collected in a year from
the Cochituate water-shed since 1852 was 14.98 in. in 1871.
The capacity of the Mystic water-shed for the same year, as
38 City Document No. 101.
calculated from experiments at the Mystic dam in 1874,
was 17,250,000 gallons (daily average), while 15,300,000
gallons only have been collected during the year 1880.
These results show that 12 in. of water from a drainage
area in this vicinity cannot be safely calculated upon as its
minimum yield.
The drawing down of Mystic lake to the lowest point it
had ever reached since it has been used as a source of water
supply, has demonstrated the necessity alluded to in my last
annual report to your Board of increasing the resources of
these works. The best method of accomplishing this result
is a problem difficult to solve, owing to the uncertainty of
being able in the future to preserve this source from danger-
ous contamination from the drainage of the towns in the
valley through which its tributaries run.
I am of the opinion that the future cost of preserving the
purity of this supply would not warrant the building of any
storage basins such as have been proposed upon it.
The cost of the basins themselves would be large and the
same amount spent upon some other source such as the Shaw-
shine river would be a permanent investment, while on the
Mystic it would probably be but a temporary, and therefore
a useless one.
The connection of the Mystic pumping station with the
Sudbury and Cochituate works, by means of a main pipe from
the new 48-inch main, would be an expensive scheme,
as it would require the development of nearly the full capacity
of the Sudbury by building immediately the storage basins
upon it, in addition to the cost of the main pipe.
In view of all the circumstances connected with this subject
I would renew my recommendation, made verbally to your
Board, that efforts should again be made to procure the right
to take the Shawshine river as a supplement to the Mystic
supply for the present, and to supplant it in the future.
Although the previous efforts in this direction failed of suc-
cess, owing to the complication of the matter with other ques-
tions, it should not, I think, prevent a renewed presentation
of the matter to the next Legislature.
The Sudbury river reservoirs were heavily drawn from
during the past season, and although they contained, at the
end of the drought several hundred million gallons of water,
they were as low as they can safely be allowed to be drawn.
During the year 6,230,200,000 gallons have been supplied
by Sudbury river, an average of 17,022,400 gallons per day.
Adding to that quantity one and a-half million gallons per
day which the city must let run in the river from the lowest
dam, it will be seen that this source of supply has been very
Report of the Water Board. 39
nearly drawn from to the amount which it was calculated to
furnish with the present works.
The experience of the last year has given the measure of
the resources of our water-supply with the present works ;
the drought was exceptional, but a similar one may occur
again. When the increase of population in our city is taken
into consideration, it becomes a pertinent question how the
water-supply can be made to keep pace with the wants of the
people.
An additional storage reservoir on the Sudbury is now
necessary, but at the present rate of increase another will
soon be wanted ; a larger consumption will cause a reduction
of pressure in the city, creating a demand for new and larger
mains, or else an increase of the high-service limits. It is
evident that the expense of providing for these wants will be
excessive, and become a great burden upon the water-takers
or the tax-payers.
The consumption should therefore be confined as closely as
possible to the legitimate needs of the people, and measures
should be adopted to prevent all unnecessary use or waste of
water.
A useful step in this direction has been taken in applying
several Deacon waste-water meters in the Charlestown district,
from which it is expected valuable information will be ob-
tained as to the amount and cause of waste. I expect, before
the end of the year, to be able to report upon the working of
this apparatus, and, if the results should warrant it, some
similar system should be applied to the whole city.
The usual tables, showing the rain-fall, consumption of
water, amount of water collected from the various water-sheds
and all the statistics illustrating the capacity and the working
of the various sources of supply, are appended.
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY M. WIGHTMAN,
City Engineer.
40
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Being an average of five gauges, located at Framingham Centre, Southboro', Marlboro'
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City Document No. 101.
Table showing the Rainfall at Lake Cochituate for the Year 1880.
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3 C
s i
3 C
1 h
! c
i i
2. r
5 %
J J
5 P
1 1
1 P
3 c
I c
I c
5 P
J r
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3
5
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Report or the Water Board.
53
Table showing the Amount of Evaporation at Chestnut-Hill Reservoir, and
the Temperature of Air and Water at different Stations on the Water
Works.
evaporation
in Inches.
Temperature op Air.
Temperature
of Water.
Chestnut-Hill
Chestnut-Hill
Parker-Hill
B'kline
Mystic
Reservoir.
E. H.
18 SO*
.24
A
a
a
a
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3
a
a
a
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a
a
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ri
C3
a
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a
©
EH
B
%
a
a
9
3
X
3
January ....
53
0
32
57
8
33
37
36
58
-5
29
58
4
30
36
36
64
74
16
23
34
47
64
70
14
20
32
45
36
46
37
44
5.22
5.31
95
34
64
91
33
62
60
62
6.45
7.04
96
44
68
90
44
67
70
72
5,83
7.24
95
52
72
92
54
70
75
76
August ....
5:34
6.47
91
40
69
88
45
6S
74
74
September . .
4.04
5.64
88
36
63
86
43
63
68
68
October ....
2.71
4.04
75
22
50
74
27
50
58
58
67
40
8
-4
36
25
61
40
10
-8
35
24
44
38
46
APPENDIX I.
REPORT OF PROF. W. R. NICHOLS TO THE CITY
ENGINEER.
Henry M. Wightman, Esq., City Engineer: —
Dear Sir, — Permit rne to present the following report of the
examination of a sample of sewage from the sewer which conveys
the refuse of the tanneries into Lower Mystic Lake.
The sewage was received by me late in the afternoon of January
28th, having been taken from the sewer that afternoon. It was
alkaline, reddish brown in color and contained a quantit}7 of sus-
pended matter, the coarser part of which settled somewhat readily.
The odor, when the sample was fresh, was not veiy considei*able,
but was sufficiently marked to betraj7 its origin. On standing in
the laboratory, the organic matter, as might be expected, began to
decompose and became more offensive.
The specific gravity was about 1007., water being 1000. Analy-
sis showed that every 100,000 parts contained about 330 parts by
weight of suspended matter and 1,170 parts of matter in solution,
or expressed in grains to the United States gallon, one gallon con-
tained —
In suspension 192 grains.
In solution . . . . . . . . 683 "
(Of which 432 grains were common salt.)
Altogether 875 "
I have made a' number of calculations and experiments with
reference to the chemical treatment of the sewage, but I do not
know that this was a fair sample of the entire daily discharge
which I have assumed to be 200,000 gallons, or say in round num-
bers, 1,700,000 pounds.
Subsidence. — When the sewage stands quietly, the greater por-
tion of the suspended matter settles, but the liquid still remains
turbid and highly colored and liable to decompose. If the sewage
were allowed sirnpby to settle in tanks and the somewhat clarified
liquid then run off directly or through coarse filters, the sediment
could be removed as a thin mud.
The weight of dry sediment for the day's discharge would be
some 5,600 pounds, and when wet (that is, in the form of sludge,
which would run slowly or could be pumped) , it would occupy about
12,000 gallons.
Eeport or the Water Board. 55
I am, of course, aware that at the present time settling tanks are
in use in the tanneries, and that thus a large amount of solid mat-
ter is prevented from entering the sewer.
Treatment with lime. — The sewage, as I received it, was alkaline,
no doubt from the excess of lime used in the tanneries, and the
addition of a small quantity of lime had no effect on the clarifica-
tion of the liquid. Even when added to the amount of two per
cent, by weight (which would be 35,000 pounds of quicklime for the
day's run) , it failed to produce any veiy considerable effect. With
the enormous proportion of £ by weight (290,000 lbs. of quick-
lime for the day's run) , quite an efficient clarification was accom-
plished by the subsiding of the lime ; but any such proposition as
this would be out of the question from a practical point of view.
Even in this case, however, the liquid still contained organic mat-
ter in too large a quantity to be discharged into a salt-water basin
without being liable to cause offence.
Treatment with alum. — On the addition of alum (or sulphate of
alumina) in sufficient amount, there separates readily from the
sewage a rather bulky precipitate containing almost all the color-
ing matter, even in solution, and leaving the liquid clear and
nearly colorless. As the experiment is performed in the labora-
tory, better results are obtained by this method than by any other,
but to produce the best effect it is necessar}' to add as much alum
as from % to ^ of one per cent, of the sewage. To treat, in this
way, the daily discharge of sewage would require from 4,000 to
6,000 pounds of alum, or an equivalent amount of sulphate of
alumina. The expense of the chemical puts this out of the ques-
tion ; and, if it did not, we should have to face the fact that the
sediment formed would, after twenty-four hours' standing, occupy
when wet, the space of 60,000 gallons ; moreover, with the best
clarification that I have been able to effect, the clear liquid still
contained, in solution, a large amount of organic matter ready to
decompose.
Treatment with clay. — I was not able to obtain satisfactory
results b}^ using clay, although when a considerable quantity was
added to the sewage and thoroughly mixed with it, a certain
amount of organic matter was dragged down as the cla}r settled.
Such treatment, if applied practically, would increase very much
the weight of sludge to be handled ; but I have made no calcula-
tions of the amount of clay required.
Treatment with sulphuric acid. — When acid is added to the
sewage in just sufficient quantity to neutralize its alkaline charac-
ter, the liquid cleans itself quite well, most of the coloring matter
subsiding as a flocculent sediment. The liquid still contains a
large quantity of organic matter ; but if, after treatment with acid,
it were filtered and then allowed to flow over fragments of lime-
stone or marble chips, to neutralize any excess of acid, it would
no doubt give less offence than at present. The amount of acid
required for this particular sample would be equivalent to about
2,000 pounds of oil of vitrol for the day's discharge, and the wet
sludge would occup}' about 20,000 gallons.
You will bear in mind that my experiments have been performed,
56 City Document No. 101.
and my conclusions are based, on a single sample of sewage ; I
have no means of knowing how fairly it represents the average
character of the entire day's run. More extended acquaintance
with the stuff might lead me to modif}T somewhat the statements
made. With this caution I state the following
Conclusions.
No practicable chemical treatment will purify the sewage to such
an extent that it may be discharged into the Lower Mystic Lake
with a reasonable expectation of freedom from offence.
It is possible to treat the sewage so that if it were discharged
into a running stream, or into a tidal basin with considerable cir-
culation, the risk of offence would be very much lessened.
The most practical way of treating the sewage would be to col-
lect in tanks, mix with sulphuric acid (perhaps with addition of a
small amount of sulphate of alumina,) allow to settle, filter
through coke or other material, and then pass the liquid over mar-
ble chips or broken limestone to the point of discharge.
Respectfully submitted,
WM. RIPLEY NICHOLS,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February, 1881.
APPENDIX II.
Office of Crry Engineer,
City Hall, Boston, May 14, 1881.
Leonard R. Cutter, Esq., Chairman of Boston Water Board.
Dear Sir, — In accordance with the vote of your Board passed
Jan. 1, 1881, instructing the City Engineer to make the necessary
borings, examinations, and surveys to establish the location of an
additional dam on Sudbury river or any of its tributaries, a gen-
eral examination of the water-shed was made as early as practi-
cable. Several locations (some of them indicated hy the results
of the preliminary surveys made in 1872) have been considered,
and examinations such as their relative importance demanded,
have been made.
On the southern branch of the river there are four locations for
large storage basins.
First. Whitehall pond (a compensating reservoir built by the
city at the time the Cochituate works were constructed, and after-
terwards sold), situated near the head waters of the river, with a
water-shed of about five square miles. This pond will store about
900,000,000 gallons, and is a valuable storage basin, but the city,
under ordinary circumstances, obtains now as much advantage
Keport of the Water Board. 57
from it as it would if it owned it, as all the water that is run from
it is intercepted by the envy's dams on the river below. Its use by
the mills is at a time, usually, when the city needs the water, that
is, in the dryer months.
Second. A basin on the lower part of Indian brook could be
obtained, but it is not a veiy favorable site, and its capacity would
be small as compared with the others on this branch of the river.
Third. On the main stream above Ashland, a large basin could
be built, but it would interfere with manufacturing establishments,
and would require the raising of the roadbed of the Boston &
Albany Railroad for a long distance. It is doubtful whether the
city could obtain the necessaiy rights to interfere with the railroad,
but, even if it could, the delay in obtaining them would amount to
one season at least, and the cost of these rights, and of mill dam-
ages, independent of the cost of construction, would, obviously,
be very high.
Fourth. Basin No. 4, of the preliminary surveys of 1872, an
excellent location on Cold Spring brook, a short distance above
its confluence with the Sudburj^ river in Ashland.
On the northern branch of the river there is but one site of suf-
ficient importance to be considered at this time, and that is Basin
No. 7, of the preliminary surveys of 1872, situated on Angle
Brook. Basins 5 and 6, of the preliminary surveys, are on this
branch of the river, but are too small for the present wants of the
city. The upper portion of Stony brook will, doubtless, furnish
sites of importance, although not large enough for present pur-
poses.
From the results of the general investigations made, it was evi-
dent that the selection of a new storage reservoir, for the present
needs of the city, should be confined to Basin No. 4, on Cold
Spring brook, and Basin No. 7, on Angle brook, and a thorough
examination was made of these two sites.
At both places rock can be reached at a reasonable depth for
the foundation of the dams.
Basin No. 4, on Cold Spring brook, will contain about 1,100,-
000,000 gallons, and will add about 5,000,000 gallons per day to
the supply, in a dry year. Its water-shed is 6.066 square miles (an
additional water-shed of one square mile or more can probably be
obtained by diverting a neighboring brook), and using the records
kept at Lake Cochituate, as a basis of calculation, there are but
four years in the past eighteen that the basin would not have been
entirely filled before June 1st. The dam will be about 2,000 feet
long, the water 45 feet deep at the dam, and the flowage area, with
marginal land, will be 250 acres.
Its estimated cost, exclusive of land, is $354,000
" "of land damages .... 26,000
Total . $380,000
Basin No. 7, on Angle brook, will contain about 1,500,000,000
gallons, and will add about 5,000,000 gallons per day to the
water-supply, in a dry year. Its water-shed is 7.765 square miles.
58 City Document No. 101.
It would not fill in a dry year, but its flow-line has been deter-
mined so as to secure the least area of shallow flowage in propor-
tion to size of basin. The dam will be about 1,200- feet long, the
maximum depth of water at the dam 20 feet, and the flowage area,
with marginal lands and islands, will be 873 acres.
Estimated cost, exclusive of land and other damages, is $179,042
" " of land and other damages . . . 114,000
Total $293,042
The results, then, of my investigations in regard to these two
basins, are as follows : —
Basin No. 4 will cost $380,000
" No. 7 . ' 293,000
A difference of . . . . ' . . $87,000
in favor of Basin No. 7.
Basin No. 7 requires a land area of . . . . 873 acres.
" No. 4 " "".... 250 «
A difference of . . . . . 623 "
Showing Basin No. 7 to have a very much larger area of shallow
flowage and water surface for evaporation.
Basin No. 4 has a depth, at the dam, of . . 45 feet.
" No. 7 " " " "".'. . 20 "
A difference of . . ... .' 25 "
Showing the much greater depth of Basin No. 4.
The advantages of Basin No. 4 over Basin No. 7 are, there-
fore, so far as the figures show, its much greater depth and much
smaller area of flowage. The advantage of Basin No. 7 is its less
cost. Basin No. 4 has, however, other advantages as compared
with Basin No. 7. Its location on the southern branch of the
river, where there is at present but one basin of moderate capacity,
thus equalizing the storage on both branches, is an advantage of
great importance in view of the trouble already experienced from
the growth of algce in the present basin on the northern branch.
The superior purity of the water of the brook, the damming of
which forms the basin, and the better character of the water-shed
which supplies it, should also be considered.
In view of the advantages of Basin No. 4 in comparison with
Basin No. 7, as above stated, I shall recommend the construction
of the former in preference to the latter, as I think the increased
cost of Basin No. 4 should not have sufficient weight to counter-
balance its superiority in other respects, and as three seasons,
counting the present as one, will be required to complete it, the
Eepoet op the Water Board. 59
construction of the dam should be commenced without delay.
Although numerous borings have been made at the site for the
dam, there is still sufficient uncertainty existing about the nature
of the foundation and the depth to which it must go, as in my
opinion to render it advisable to build the portion of this dam from
the ledge rock to the surface of ground by days' labor.
In conclusion, I would suggest to your Board that there is an un-
expended balance of the appropriations made for the "Additional
Supply," which will be sufficient to cover the cost of the present
season's work ; a statement of the appropriations made and probable
balance which could be used for this work is as follows : —
Total appropriations to April 30, 1881 . . $5,412,886 80
Total expenditures to same date . $5,252,717 11
Add for unsettled land damages,
say 35,000 00
5,287,717 11
Balance $125,169 69
Of which amount your Board has been authorized to expend
$55,000 for the present investigations and for the purchase of land,
leaving $70,169.69 which can be applied to the construction of the
dam.
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY M. WIGHTMAN,
City Engineer.
WATEE BEGISTEAE'S EEPOET.
Office of the Water Registrar,
City Hall, Boston, May 5, 1881.
L. R. Cutter, Esq.,
Chairman of the Boston Water Board : —
Sir, — In conformity with Section 15 of the water ordi-
nance, I have the honor of submitting to the Boston Water
Board my annual report for the year ending with April 30,
1881:— .
The total number of water-takers now entered for the year
1881 is 53,284, being an increase of 986 over the previous
year.
The total number of cases where the water has been turned
off for non-payment of rates during the year is 854 ; of this
number 687 have been turned on, leaving a balance of 167
still remaining off.
The total revenue received from the sale of
water on account of the year ending April
30, 1881, is . . . . . .
From the sale of water furnished in pre-
vious years ......
In addition to the above there has been re-
ceived for turning on water, in cases where
it had been turned off for non-payment of
rates, the sum of . . .
Received for summons ....
Total
The estimated amount of income from the
sale of water during the year ending April
30, 1882
The expenditures of my office during the
year 1880 have been ....
METERS.
The total number of meters now attached to the premises
of water-takers is 1,219.
Of this number 754 are f-inch; 381 1-inch; 4 1^-inch;
58 2-inch; 16 3-inch; 6 4-inch sizes.
In addition there are 175 elevators and 56 motors, with
indicators attached, to determine the quantity of water con-
sumed.
$995,916
51
67,936
28
$1,063,852
79
878
1,599
00
25
$1,066,330 04
$1,012,500 00
$26,167
29
Report of the Water Board.
61
The following table exhibits the class of premises to which
meters are attached, together with the amount of revenue
received during the year : —
Name.
Revere House
American House . • .
Parker House
U.S. Hotel
Tremont House
Young's Hotel
Adams House
Hotel Berkeley. . ..
Albion Building . . .
Hotel Pelham
Hotel Boylston
La Grange House .
St. Cloud
Hotel Clarendon. .
Seaver House ....
Evans House
Park-square Hotel
Hotel Kempton . . .
Hotel Hamilton . . .
Hotel Vendome . •
Coolidge House. . .
Hancock House. . .
Merrimac House. .
Stanley House. . . .
Class.
Hotel
Amount car' d forw'd 13,856,983
Cubic Feet.
1,045,595
816,379
1,458,099
1,504,125
1,464,780
2,143,182
1,379,076
432,675
247,618
311,082
489,614
71,501
255,803
207,894
40,615
166,756
39,426
222,681
204,890
961,891
298,120
7,904
26,617
60,660
Eevenue.
$1,568 37
1,224 55
2,187 13
2,256 19
2,197 16
3,214 75
2,068 60
648 99
371 41
466 61
734 40
107 23
383 69
311 81
60 90
250 11
59 11
334 00
307 32
1,442 81
447 18
11 84
39 91
90 98
,785 05
62
City Document No. 101.
Name.
Class.
Amount or't forw'd . .
International Hotel . .
Hotel Alexander
Hotel Brunswick
Park's Hotel
Derby House
City Hotel
Hotel Albemarle
Ashland House
Hotel Columbus
Hotel Glover
Merchants Hotel
M. J. Elatley.-
New England House,
Winthrop House
Dooley's Hotel
Falmouth House
Job A. Turner
Milliken House
Sherman House
Everett House
Metropolitan House . .
Commonwealth Hotel
St. James Hotel
Massachusetts House,
Bay State House
Mariner's House
Hotel
Amount car'd forw'd,
CuMc Feet.
Revenue.
13,856,983
354,902
163,867
1,419,020
73,968
70,666
37,631
141,078
62,672
286,516
104,663
17,411
24,242
115,628
104,779
31,059
61,271
46,494
69,618
259,301
28,059
306,673
495,684
737,602
14,220
88,176
33,268
$20,785 05
532 33
245 80
2,128 51
110 94
105 98
56 42
211 59
93 99
429 75
156 97
26 10
36 35
173 42
157 15
46 56
91 90
69 72
104 41
388 94
42 07
460 00
743 35
1,106 39
21 32
132 24
49 88
19,005,351 $28,507 13
Eepoet of the Water Board.
63
Name.
Amount br't forw'd • •
St. Leonard's Hotel..
Arlington House
Robertson House ....
Boston Hotel
Creighton House
"Van Rensselaer
Quincy House
Marston House
Crawford House
Pavilion House
Norfolk House
Hampton House
Hotel Agassiz
Mason House
Albany House
Cattle Fair Hotel
Phoenix House
Hotel Huntington ....
Hotel Cluny
Stinson House
John D. Miller
Moody Merrill
New Marlboro' Hotel.
Hotel Hoffman
Geo. W. Marks & Co,
Hotel Bristol
Class.
Hotel
Amount car' d forw'd 23,351,358
Cubic Feet.
19,005,351
27,820
63,673
43,054
36,198
603,416
58,726
414,033
118,272
437,875
151,774
124,323
86,031
318,740
15,283
52,751
79,307
26,923
167,397
"426,835
48,619
25,969
259,595
73,390
202,962
6,238
476,803
,507 13
40 92
95 51
64 56
54 28
905 10
88 07
621 02
177 39
656 79
227 64
186 46
129 03
478 09
22 90
79 11
118 94
40 36
251 06
640 24
72 91
38 93
389 38
110 06
304 43
9 33
715 20
$35,024 84
64
City Document No. 101.
Name.
Amount br't forw'd .
Old Colony and New-
port Railroad Co. .
Boston and Albany
Eailroad Co
Boston and Maine
Eailroad Co
Boston and Lowell
Eailroad Co
Fitchburg EailroadCo.
Eastern Eailroad Co. .
New York and New
England E.E. Co...
Boston and Provi-
dence Eailroad Co.
Boston, Eevere Beach,
and Lynn E.E. Co.
Boston, Winthrop and
Pt. Shirley E.E. Co.
Boston Gas Light Co.
So. Boston Gas L't Co.
E. Boston Gas L't Co.
Boxbury Gas L't Co. .
Dorchester GasL'tCo.
Standard Sugar Ee-
finery
Jasper Sugar Eefinery
G. A. Jasper & Co. . .
Continental Sugar Ee-
finery
Class.
Eefinery
Bay State Sugar Ee-
finery
Amount ear'dforw'd.
Cubic Feet.
23,351,358
3,407,647
5,579,799
610,240
868,320
983,079
972,040
2,365,676
2,541,179
759,860
17,369
4,403,367
121,912
182,494
373,710
127,934
8,015,177
3,773
2,189
2,779,740
1,742,570
Revenue.
$35,024 84
5,111 45
8,369 56-
915 35
1,302 46
1,474 58
1,458 03
3,548 50
3,811 73
1,139 77
26 04
6,605 01
182 86
273 71
560 53
191 88
12,022 75
5 65
3 28
4,169 59
2,613 85
59,209,433 $88,811 42
Eepoet of the Water Board.
65
Name.
Amount br't forw'd
Oxnard Sugar Refin-
ery
Boston Sugar Refinery
Bay State Rolling Mill
Norway Iron Works .
Highland Spring
Brewery
Edward Habich
J. W. Kenney
King & Lang
H. & J. Pfaff
Standard Brewery...
A. J. Houghton & Co.,
Hallock st
A. J. Houghton & Co.,
Station st
Boylston Brewery . . .
Gottleib Burkhardt . .
John Roessle
Jones, Cook, & Co. .
Boston Beer Co
Conrad Decker
Suffolk Brewing Co..
J. K. Souther
Spring
Elmwood
Brewery .
Vincent & Hathaway.
Moses Fairbanks &
Co
Class.
Brewery
Beer
Factory
Amount car' d forw'd ' 77,731,635 $116,594 39
Cubic Feet.
59,209,433
392,497
86,980
4,469,492
4,727,564
1,038,340
378,456
229,313
Not using
898,830
146,822
12,740
360,773
545,335
126,426
1,456,300
1,222,541
896,983
228,792
871,100
120,690
113,231
83,622
115,375
Revenue.
38,811 42
588 73
130 46
6,704 22
7,091 33
1,557 51
567 67
343 95
1,348 24
220 22
19 10
541 14
817 99
189 62
2,184 44
1,833 79
1,345 45
343 18
1,306 64
181 03
169 83
125 39
173 04
6Q
City Document No. 101.
Name.
Amount br'tforw'd
Coburn, Lang, & Co.
Comstock, Gove, &
Co
Class.
Isaac Pratt, Jr
Wesleyan Association
Tremont Temple
S. S. Houghton &
Dutton
Beer
Factory
Building
P. McAleer
Smith & Porter .
F. A. Dewson. .
Boston Journal.
Joseph Byers.. .
N.E. Mut. Life Ins.
Co., 70 State st
N.E. Mut. Life Ins,
Co., Milk st
Horticultural Hall . . .
Suffolk National B'k.
Benjamin Leeds
Blackstone Market. . .
John Bayner heirs
Hill & Towne
Turn Hall
B. B. Appleton heirs
J. "W. Merriam
Peter B. Brigham est
Mrs. Ellen Brooks. .
Amount car'd forw'd. I
i— i fc-i
Cubic Feet.
Revenue.
77,731,635
36,008
43,747
171,803
93,271
191,559
109,555
31,927
73,090
167,863
156,501
107,128
20,085
118,827
46,428
28,515
46,292
28,157
33,286
24,173
72,005
53,125
26,472
65,605
29,477
$116,594 39
53 98
65 61
257 68
139 90
287 31
164 31
47 87
109 63
251 78
234 73
160 68
30 11
79,506,534
178 23
69 62
42 76
69 42
42 22
49 91
36 23
107 98
79 68
39 69
98 38
44 20
$119,256 3
Report or the Water Board.
67
Amount hr't forw'd • •
Oriental Tea Company
S. D. Hicks
John Stetson
Macullar, Parker, &
Co
JohnF. Mills
J. W. Damrell
J. I. Brown & Son • . .
Hogg, Brown, & Tay-
lor
Class.
Building
A. Wentworth
William Ropes estate
A. D. Puffer
J. R. Hall
Grand Lodge of
Masons
James W. Rollins
Henry C. Morse & Co.
Mass. Inst, of Tech-
nology
S. N. Brown, jr., 147
Tremont st
A. H. Vinton. . .
A. Stowell
B. F. Bradbury.
Shepard, Norwell, &
Co
D. J. Hastings
C. U. Cotting, 628
Washington st
Amount car' d forw'd 82,102,994 $123,150 53
Cubic Feet.
79,506,534
42,118
321,850
109,661
68,658
117,981
215,765
24,640
398,990
23,996
400,689
77,334
96,614
46,464
117,985
12,621
170,627
58,288
15,507
53,720
24,885
62,378
22,335
113,354
119,256 30
63 16
482 75
164 47
102 97
176 94
323 62
36 94
598 46
35 98
601 01
115 99
144 90
69 68
176 95
18 91
255 93
87 41
23 24
80 57
37 30
93 55
33 48
170 02
68
City Document No. 101.
Name.
Class.
J3
1
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a
a
o
IN
O
a
CO
■§
0
S
'3
c
EH
Cubic Feet.
Revenue.
82,102,994
$ 123, 150 53
C. IT. Cotting, 7 Court
Building
1
1
?,
1,224
1 83
W. H. Mann
2
2
Vacant.
Moulton & Bradley . .
1
1
385,625
578 42
Jordan, Marsh, & Co.,
Washington street •
2
3
5
353,407
530 10
Charles A. Millen
1
1
92,312
138 41
Stephen H. Bennett
2
1
2
1
115,911
41,350
173 85
W. H. Foster
62 00
1
1
15,875
23 79
1
1
40,034
60 03
2
2
43,129
64 67
Allen & Woodworth . .
1
1
30,725
46 07
Merchants' Exchange
1
1
1
3
706,513
1,059 75
H. M. Burr & Co....
2
2
13,965
20 92
J. T. Brown & Co...
1
1
35,516
53 25
J C Gray
3
1
4
45,876
68 80
C. F. Hovey & Co. . . .
3
1
4
220,989
331 46
Globe Publishing
2
2
111,918
167 86
1
1
190,981
286 47
Adams Express Co. . .
2
1
3
49,388
74 06
S. N. Brown, Jr., 79
1
1
131,783
197 66
2
2
38,705
58 03
Boston Gas Light Co.
2
2
18,897
28 33
1
1
36,268
54 38
L P Ober
1
—
1
77,235
115 84
Amount car'd forw'd.
|
84,900,620
$127,346-51
Keport or the Water Boaed.
69
Name.
Amount orHforw'd
Young Men's Chris-
tian Association . . .
A. A. Miner
Henry F. Miller
Art Building
Equitable Life Ins. Co.
Potter & Watson
W. Warren
John Simmons estate
Tremont National B'k
M. Englehardt
I. L. Pratt
Osgood & Greenough
R. H. White & Co.
Young Men's Chris-
tian Union
W. R. Clark . .
Deacon House
Boston Herald Build-
ing
Loring & Dexter,
Trust
Commonwealth Build-
ing
Mutual Life Ins. Co.
of N.Y
P. Tudor
E. Bangs
Jacob Sleeper.
Class.
Building
Amount car' d forw'd .• . . 87,209,898 $130, 899 97
Cubic Feet.
84,900,620
28,735
18,700
52,339
27,799
175,140
18,111
13,069
165,254
73,669
138,087
15,636
96,414
263,510
211,040
79,033
22,226
458,591
103,088
66,506
137,070
146,839
6,441
51,981
Revenue.
$127,346 51
43 08
28 03
78 50
41 68
262 69
27 16
19 57
247 86
110 49
207 11
23 43
144 60
395 24
316 54
118 53
33 32
687 86
154 61
99 74
205 57
220 24
9 65
77 96
70
City Document No. 101.
Name.
Amount br't forw'd • •
First National Bank .
Studio Building
Boston Post Building
Traveller Building . . .
Union Building ,
Wentworth Building
Bice Building
Carter Building
Edmands Building . . .
Washington Building
Niles Building
Palmer's Building . . .
Joy's Building
Class.
Building
J. Montgomery Sears,
199 Washington st.
Advertiser Building .
Lawrence Building .
Codman Building. . .
Transcript Building.
Merchants Bank
Building
Paine Memorial Hall .
Chauncy Hall School
Mass. General Hospi-
tal
Adams Nervine Hospi-
tal
New England Hospital
Amount car' d forw'd.
s .a
<N CO
Cubic Feet.
87,269,898
55,911
102,208
162,019
84,241
187,997
29,231
118,420
26,642
61,040
128,204
137,666
59,118
44,447
146,064
93,467
69,095
97,932
74,902
80,509
63,823
13,981
1,049,494
13,765
132,359
$130
899 97
83 84
153 29
243 00
126 35
281 98
43 83
177 61
39 95
91 53
192 28
206 48
88 67
66 65
219 07
140 18
103 62
146 87
112 34
120 74
95 72
20 95
1,574 22
20 64
198 52
f 90,302,433 $135,448 30
Eepoet of the Water Board.
71
Name.
Amount car'd forw d.
Mass. Homoeopathic
Hospital
Notre Dame Academy
House of the Good
Shepherd
Church Home
Industrial Home . .
Somerset Club
Union Club
Temple Club
Central Club ......
Boston Music Hall.
N.E. Conservatory of
Music
Park Theatre
State of Massachusetts
The United States. I
Class.
Howard Athenaeum . .
Boston Theatre
Globe Theatre
Boylston Market ....
Washington Market. .
Suffolk Market
Williams Market ....
Medical College
Boston College
Mrs. C. C. Annable . .
StateHo.
Post \
Office f
Board'g,
Amount car'd forw'd I I 92,367,850 $138,546 04
Cubic Feet.
Revenue.
90,302,433
83,148
35,284
54,284
133,342
44,301
134,366
153,054
25,622
18,041
58,534
49,796
19,249
353,784
131,370
14,655
77,335
80,693
84,033
55,313
53,529
30,538
57,134
73,829
244,183
$135,448 30
124 71
52 91
81 41
200 00
66 44
201 58
229 56
38 42
27 04
87 79
74 67
28 84
530 66
197 04
21 96
115 97
121 02
126 03
82 96
80 26
45 79
85 68
110 73
366 27
72
City Document No. 101.
Name.
Amount br't forw'd • •
Mrs. W. k. Colson ..
A. J. Stone
Weeks & Smith
J. H. Grout
George Odin heirs . . .
Mrs. H. L. McClellan
Mrs. D. L. Morse . . .
Mrs. C. Cummings . . .
James Knowlton
Ruel Philbrook
J. A. Merrill
Simon Oakes • •
Mrs. N. F. Chapin. ..
William Evans ......
B. S. Evans
E. Cutler
Michael Doherty .
Job A. Turner
James Chisholm
J. Collins
D. L. Webster
Thomas Cantlon
Class.
Board'g.
Lowell Five-Cent Sav-
ings-Bank
N. Whiting . . .
O. S. Sanders.
Amount car'd forw'd.
Model ■
Cubic Feet.
92,367,850
34,592
52,223
27,401
40,328
22,285
60,147
43,319
20,527
102,299
30,918
64,753
10,381
17,504
93,060
21,958
17,495
46,566
5,999
22,693
52,614
185,557
12,305
156,509
70,330
120,521
Revenue.
,546 04
51 87
78 31
41 08
60 48
33 41
90 20
64 97
30 76
153 43
46 34
97 11
15 55
26 24
139 58
32 92
26 22
69 83
8 99
34 01
78 90
278 31
18 44
234 75
105 47
180 77
93,700,134
$140,543 98
Keport of the Water Board.
73
Name.
Amount br't forw'd
H. H. Fay
D. Goodnow
David Wilcox & Co.,
8 Boylston square . .
J. Morrill, Jr., & Co.
Pearson Cordage Co.
J. Morse
L. Whittaker
C. Wright & Co
Howard Watch &
Clock Co
Haley, Morse & Co. . .
Roxhury Carpet Co. . .
George C. Pearson. . .
Putnam Nail Co
William Carleton ....
Murphy, Leavens, &
Co
H. M. Richards
Charles E. Kershaw . .
J. H. Bailey & Co. . . .
Peet Valve Co
A. W. Bailey
C. M. Clapp & Co. . . .
W. S. Pratt
Byam, Carleton & Co.
Stephen Smith & Co.
Chickering & Sons . . .
Class.
Model.
Factory.
Amount car' d forw'd 96,179,004
Cubic Feet.
93,700,134
14,133
40,647
147,261
14,240
97,222
29,691
17,014
39,372
59,123
Not using.
423,799
44,872
564,764
223,262
56,060
50,182
Vacant.
3,304
153,173
39,308
36,428
79,252
18,331
60,110
267,322
Revenue.
,543 98
21 18
60 96
220 87
21 36
145 81
44 51
25 49
59 03
88 67
635 68
67 29
847 13
334 88
84 08
75 26
4 94
229 74
58 95
54 62
118 86
27 48
90 15
400 96
$144,261 88
74
City Document No. 101.
Name.
Amount br't forw'd . .
Mace & Keys
Bagnall & Loud
Boston Car Spring Co .
A. Eolsom & Sons . . .
Dwinell, Hayward, &
Co
J. M. Cook estate
Hallet & Davis . . .
S. D. & H. W. Smith,
Montgomery st
S. D. & H. W. Smith;
Albany st
Emerson Piano Co.
William Underwood &
Co
G. D. Dowes & Co. •
D. Wilcox & Co.,
Avery st
Class.
Factory.
Newton, Morton, &
Co
Boston Belting Co. . . .
Richardson, McKee,
& Co
H. Barker
Conrad Zeigler
C. H. Bacon
Morton & Chesley
A. Zeigler <
Cummings & Carlisle .
Amount car'dforw'd.
Cubic Feet.
Revenue.
96,179 004
26,114
26,175
103,152
56,915
105,468
247,121
35,422
141,543
116,289
49,869
134,880
70,153
$144,261 88
39 15
39 24
154 71
85 36
158 19
370 66
53 12
212 29
174 41
74 79
202 30
105 21
14,837
98,016
366,767
88,495
30,154
20,732
177,964
201,970
1,540
216,856
22 23
147 01
550 13
182 72
45 21
31 08
266 93
302 94
2 30
325 27
98,509,436 $147,757 13
Beport of the Water Board.
75
Amount br'tforw'd 98,509,436
Walworth Manufact.
Co
R. Rhodes
A. J. Morse & Co. . . .
Seth W. Fowle & Son
H. B. Arnold & Co. . .
Dennison Manufact.
Co., 25 Vale st
Chadwick Lead Works
Henry Mayo & Co. • • •
B. F. Sturtevant
Charles W. Spurr . . .
Hallett & Cumston. . .
P. Lally
S. G. Underhill
Amer. Molded Collar
Co
Bardwell, Anderson,
& Co
N.E. Water Meter Co.
Billings, Clapp, & Co.
Lewis & Wood (6
mos.)
Standard Rubber Co.
(6 mos.)
Lensford & Shultz (6
mos.)
JohnBroderick.
A. H. Miller . . .
Class.
00
4
.3
J3
a
1
3
'•3
2
1A
o
id
iH
eq
CO
-*
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Factory.
1
1
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1
1
It
2
2
(<
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1
1
1
1
((
((
2
1
1
2
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2
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1
1
l<
1
1
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1
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1
1
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1
1
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1
1
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1
1
((
1
1
((
1
1
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1
1
(«
1
1
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1
1
1
1
d Cubic Feet.
63,517
30,149
64,952
4,428
52,535
116,660
118,033
183,165
108,672
16,161
79,728
113,211
62,203
86,914
61,548
16,674
35,201
24,328
24,519
8,578
6,979
48,552
Amount car'd forw'd 99,836,143
Revenue.
,757 13
95 26
45 21
97 42
6 62
78 79
171 98
177 05
274 73
162 98
24 22
119 56
169 79
93 28
130 36
92 31
24 99
52 78
36 48
36 76
12 86
10 45
72 82
$149,746 83
76
City Document No. 101.
Name.
Amount brHforw'd
Boston Cordage Co.
(6 mos.)
Rice & Hutchings
Fiedler, Moeldner, &
Co. (3 mos.)
Woodbury fePritchard
(2 mos.)
National Sewing Ma-
chine Co. (1 mo.) •
Kittredge & Co
D. Shales & Co
Christopher Blake . .
G. H. Dickerman . . .
J. L. Ross
R. Estabrook & Son .
George Gill
F. King & Co
Class.
Factory.
Grover & Bake'r Sew-
ing Machine Co.,
Wash, st
Downes & Adams
Jona. Cottle
J. A. Frampton
H.N. Glover
G. F. Waldron ,
A. K. Young
Harrison Loring.
S. A. Woods & Co. .
George F. Blake. . . .
Mach'ist
Amount car'dforw'd I . .1 101,641,973 $152,455 35
Cubic Feet.
Revenue.
99,836,143
40,742
42,235
12,155
7,992
941
Vacant
49,867
55,195
45,063
Vacant.
71,035
22,973
72,644
Vacant.
23,762
942,470
40,760
74,284
Vacant.
58,375
34,195
102,226
108,916
$149,746 83
61 10
63 35
18 23
11 98
1 41
74 78
82 77
67 63
106 53
34 45
108 94
35 62
1,413 69
61 12
111 41
87 55
51 29
153 32
163 35
Report of the Water Board.
77
Amount br'tforw'd . .
AshcroftManufact. Co.
L. M. Ham
Dennis Crowley
L. A. Bigelow
William Evans . .
Smith & Lovett
Am. Tool and Ma-
chine Co
J. Souther & Co.
Boston Machine Co.
Hersey Brothers . . .
Class.
Mach'ist
Hinckley Locomotive
Works
Atlantic Works, Chel-
sea st
Atlantic Works, Bor-
der st
Holmes & Blanchard.
Charlestown st
H. S. Robinson
Geo. T. McLaughlin.
South Boston Iron Co.
Holmes & Blanchard,
Taylor st
James Gurney & Co..
William Blake & Co. .
Whiting Foundry Co.
Tremont Foundry Co.
Fulton Iron Foundry
Foundry
Amount car'd forw'd.
Cubic Feet.
101,641,973
86,785
64,588
43,805
119,628
121,668
27,052
124,667
86,965
202,100
31,029
410,525
180,928
262,800
99,992
31,939
93,542
279,865
28,386
38,068
111,299
78,940
6,319
26,041
Revenue.
$152,455 35
130 16
96 86
65 69
179 42
182 48
40 56
186 98
130 43
303 14
46 52
615 76
271 38
394 18
149 97
47 89
140 29
419 79
42 56
57 08
166 92
118 38
9 46
39 05
104,198,904 $156,290 30
78
City Document No. 101.
Name.
Amount br't forw'd • .
Charles Roberts
Highland Foundry Co.
M. H. Washburn
George Miles
Downer Kerosene Oil
Co
S. Jenney & Co
Maverick Oil Co
Pierce & Canterbury.
Kidder, Vaughn, & Co.
Bowker, Torrey, &
Co., Bowker st.
Bowker, Torrey, &
Co., Foundry st. . . .
Torreys & Co
C. E. Hall & Co
A. Wentworth & Co. .
Richard Power & Son.
Jeremiah Carew
Carew & Devine
E. F. Meaney
Folt & Sullivan
Geo. F. Chapin & Co.
Pike & Fabins.
Horace H. Lewis . . .
W. K. Lewis & Bros.
M. M. Pigott &Son.
Amount car'd forw'd.
Class.
Foundry
«i
Boil'r'm.
Oil W'ks
Marble
Works
Stone Yd
Vinegar
Works
Pickle
Factory
Cubic Feet.
104,198,904
115,821
45,970
16,046
35,081
1,341,100
132,123
214,615
118,760
31,751
718,105
Not using.
397,886
426,934
312,151
104,895
18,999
58,733
248,575
4,959
53,441
90,700
24,733
61,359
26,360
Revenue.
5116,290 30
173 71
68 93
24 05
52 59
2,011 66
198 17
321 91
178 12
47 60
1,077 13
596 81
640 39
468 21
157 31
28 48
88 10
372 84
7 43
80 14
136 04
37 08
92 02
39 53
108,798,001 $163,188 55
Report? of the Water Board.
79
Name.
Amount hr't forw'd . .
E. T. Cowdrey & Co. .
Warner & Freeman. .
Fobes, Hayward, &Co.
Chase & Co
A. F. Copeland, 4 Tre-
mont row
E. M. Messenger
Mrs. G. F. Harrington.
Marston & Cunio
W. L. Egerton
Frost & Dearborn
George Fera
D. T. Copeland .....
F. E. Weber
R. B. Brigham
W. F. Bacon
A. W. Fisher
Campbell & Coverly
W. G. Foley ,
Jones & Marshall
O. S. Edgerly
C. H. Bailey
Mary Smith
R. M. Waitt
C. E. Bacon
Thomas Walton ....
J. Gallagher
Class.
Factory.
SaltWks
Confec'y
Resta'nt
Amount car'd forw'd
Cubic Feet.
108,798,001
114,373
21,611
98,049.
285,121
108,518
19,630
37,382
66,138
26,182
65,258
40,004
97,283
67,370
199,640
16,379
13,008
47,781
37,074
29,952
6,609
29,365
15,123
30,609
48,998
21,119
40,755
Revenue.
110,381,332
,188 55
171 53
32 40
147 05
427 65
162 77
29 43
56 06
99 19
39 26
97 87
59 99
145 90
101 01
299 44
24 55
19 50
71 64
55 59
44 91
9 89
44 03
22 66
45 89
73 48
31 65
61 12
$165,563 01
80
City Document No. 101.
Name.
Amount br'tforw'd. •
J. Swallow
L. E. Stearns
S. A. Cloughfe Son.
S. S. Eankin
A. F. Copeland, 467
Washington st
J. Backus .
E. G. Park
Brock & Coy, 243
Atlantic ave
Brock & Coy, 73
Clinton
Sheppard & Chani-
berlin
Durgin, Park, & Co . .
Paul & Savoy
T. H. Smith
J. M. Learned
C. F. Kendall
Pearson & Macomber
J. H. Blodgett
R. R. & J. S. Higgins.
Atwood & Bacon ....
Smith & Wright
Elias Howe
Felton &Son
Jonas H. French ....
C. H. Graves
Class.
a
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1
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1
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1
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1
1
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1
1
a
1
1
a
1
1
a
a
2
1
2
1
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2
2
a
1
1
1
1
a
1
1
Distill'y
2
2
a
1
1
Rectifier
1
1
Cubic Feet.
110,381,332
2,751
21,574
20,514
32,721
79,077
58,600
52,725
35,106
42,953
34,187
42,586
40,092
86,363
71,427
61,514
44,912
90,126
135,989
21,164
62,025
76,253
404,951
106,510
49,897
Amount car' df or w'd 112,055,849 $168,073 52
Revenue.
$165,563 01
4 11
32 29
30 75
49 06
118 60
87 88
79 07
52 64
64 41
51 26
63 85
60 12
129 53
107 12
92 25
67 35
135 17
203 97
31 72
93 02
114 36
607 41
159 74
74 83
Keport of the Water Board.
81
Name.
Amount br't forw'd . •
James Edmond & Co.
A. Hale & Co.
Byron & Hall
Byron & Hall, Ells-
worth pi
W. H. Swift & Co. . . .
W. L. Bradley
W. H. Bowker & Co.
B. Randall
Boston Dye Wood &
Chemical Co
W. H. Whitmore
G. W. & F. Appleton
Preston & Merrill
Quirin & Nelson
Mullen & Brown
R. W. Ames & Son
F. P. Richard
Boston Forge Co
Boston Lead Man'fg
Co
A. N. Hardy
Heliotype Printing Co.
Suffolk Glass Co
Pipe
Washington
Works . . .
New England Pottery
Class.
Fire
Brick.
Rubber
Works.
Currier.
Fertiliz's
Chemic's
Extracts
Tannery
Pho'pher
Amount car' d forw'd [ 115,717,107 $173,565 81
Cubic Feet.
112,055,349
84,448
52,685
28,238
17,266
166,018
376,990
84,133
39,120
1,541,839
58,315
Vacant.
166,060
70,268
51,795
Vacant.
17,302
526,444
141,539
15,776
54,784
89,811
Vacant.
78,927
Revenue.
,073 52
126 66
79 01
42 33
25 87
249 01
565 47
126 18
58 66
2,312 74
87 46
249 08
105 38
77 67
25 93
789 66
212 30
23 64
82 15
134 71
118 38
82
City Document No. 101.
Amount br'tforw'd . .
Simpson's Dry Dock
Co
Cunard Steamship Co.
Union Freight Rail-
way Co
W. B. Gleason & Co.
Hill & Wright
Butchers' Slaughter-
ing and Melting As-
sociation
A. J. Tower
Parker & Huckins . . .
Metropolitan Railroad
Co
So. Boston Railroad
Co
Highland Railroad
Co
Union Railroad Co.,
Oak square
Draper & Hall
V. R. Bridgham
C. H. Foster
A. J. Child
E. A. Noyes
James W. Hale
E. A. Batchelder ....
Charles R. Smith
J. Austin Rogers
Norfolk House Stable
Class.
Carving
Coopers
Skating
Rink.
Stables.
Stable
Amount car'd forw'd 120,434,525
Cubic Feet.
115,717,107
96,639
619,200
185,210
16,996
1,606
503,982
20,645
8,746
1,504,969
689,633
354,812
46,909
236,916
58,970
36,759
58,903
78,472
23,995
31,926
35,111
94,786
12,233
Revenue.
$173,565 81
144 94
928 78
277 81
25 48
2 40
755 95
30 96
13 11
2,257 43
1,034 38
532 13
70 35
355 37
88 45
55 12
88 34
117 68
35 97
47 87
52 66
142 18
18 32
),641 49
Keport of the Water Board.
83
Amount br't forw'd . .
Charles Foster & Co.
Parmenter & Sumner
BobertH. Douglass..
J. Frank Pickett
J. P. Barnard, 108
Chestnut street. . . .
J. P. Barnard, cor.
Brimmer and Chest-
nut streets
J. P. Barnard, Joy st.
A. Garcelon
Clark & Brown
N. B. Stevens, 4
Byron st
J. E. Maynard
A. Goss i..
Adams Express Co.
John Eaton, Jr
John Peters
J. T. Manson
Warner & Tarbell .
George M. King . . .
Milo Whitney
Daniel Wood
T. D. Sullivan
Ham & Co
C. &E. Snow
Edgar Snow
Class.
Stable .
Amount car 'd forw'd 121,522,482
Cubic Feet.
120,434,525
39,442
28,704
45,115
20,117
73,212
61,943
136,566
58,136
52,443
22,277
82,418
33,603
52,562
18,778
13,649
53,123
64,957
69,463
31,941
64,226
24,593
24,859
11,406
4,424
Revenue.
),641 49
59 14
43 04
67 65
30 16
109 80
92 90
204 82
87 18
78 65
33 40
123 61
50 39
78 82
28 15
20 45
79 66
97 42
104 18
47 90
96 32
36 86
37 27
17 09
6 62
1,272 97
84
City Document No. 101.
Amount br't forw'd-
Israel Tibbetts
James Jellison
John Miller
L. H. Brown
Harwood & Hackett .
H. C. Mms ........
Boston Hotels Coach
Co
E. W. Murray, Berke-
ley street
E. W. Murray, Stan-
hope street
A. B. Atherton
Geo. S. Johnson
Johnson. Bros
T. Thaxter (3 mos.) .
A. B. Winship
T. Thaxter & Co
Miller & Bobinson. . .
Bailey & Jenkins ....
F. E. Pearson
A. D. Pattee
Nelson Brothers
Moses Coleman & Son
C. T. Walker
Northern! & Foster.
H. S. Harris
Riverside Club Stable
Amount car'd forw'd.
Class.
4
.=■
a
-
— '
o
0
"c3
~
IG
r~l
IN
CO
^J<
H
~
Stable . .
1
1
1
1
(I
a
1
2
1
1
2
1
a
3
?,
2
1
2
1
<(
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
(<
1
1
1
2
3
1
2
3
a
3
3
a
2
2
a
1
1
it
1
1
a
1
1
n
2
1
2
1
a
1
1
(i
1
1
--• Cubic Feet.
121,522,482
35,451
35,770
14,216
39,975
43,631
83,950
227,948
29,805
41,006
45,763
39,806
16,565
3,577
34,132
40,698
41,719
57,396
66,694
36,666
21,123
17,328
12,452
19,265
18,856
22,845
Revenue.
32,272 97
53 15
53 64
21 31
59 95
65 43
125 90
341 90
44 68
61 50
68 62
59 70
24 82
5 36
51 18
61 03
62 56
86 08
100 03
55 00
31 67
25 98
18 66
28 87
28 25
34 24
122,569,119
3,842 48
Report of the Water Board.
Amount br'tforw,d.
Club Stable, Chardon
street
Beacon Club Stable . .
Z. E. Folsom & Co...
Henry Beckwith
F. A. Phelps
A. P. Marion
Parker Bryant
B. W. Dean
John Triekey & Co. . .
M. & W. Ham
J. H. Pote & Co
J. B. Cassidy & Bro. .
Peck & Hall
J. Hale
Ware & Bussigny. . . .
J. A. Riedel & Co. . . .
Union Railway Co.
Washington st
Class.
J. C. Richardson
E. R. Webster
Club Stable, 75 Chest-
nut st
C. S. Godfrey.
Clark & Brown, 22
Charles st
Clark & Brown, 8
Lime st
A. H. Foss.
Stable .
Amount car'dforw'd.
Cubic Feet.
122,569,119
14,308
18,940
51,304
43,766
49,999
30,855
29,852
39,893
81,013
45,319
13,265
23,286
40,519
29,788
38,145
31,375
14,905
14,460
17,752
29,401
28,697
129,389
17,791
15,538
Revenue.
123,418,679
,842 48
21 44
28 39
76 93
65 65
74 97
46 25
44 76
59 82
121 49
67 97
19 87
34 91
60 76
44 66
57 20
47 04
22 33
21 67
26 61
44 08
43 03
194 07
26 68
23 30
$185,116 36
86
City Document No. 101.
Name.
Amount br't forw'd . .
Cilly & Sthnson
Club Stable, 44 Joy st.
Asa Critchett
A. S. Eaton
L. A. Noyes
Geo. D. Brown
J. H. Hathorne
H. D. Smith
M. Munroe
Geo.W.Hollis (5mos.)
Boston Driving Ass'n.
National Tube Works.
Globe Nail Works . . .
Class.
Stable.
Stocky'd
Slaught-
ering y'd
Earrington & Hunne-
well
B. M. Cunningham . .
I. H. Carey . . •'
Manley Howe
L. Prang & Co
R. G. Morse & Co . . .
Erancis Brooks
Walworth Manuf. Co.
H. G. Denny
Porter & Co
C. U. Cotting
Moses B. Wilde
Silver-
smiths
Laundry
Chromos
Engine
Amount car'd forw'd.
Cubic Feet.
Revenue.
123,418,679
27,703
36,018
19,741
24,554
17,740
20,269
137,569
27,096
424,014
16,470
111,210
76,248
114,813
21,670
166,862
37,313
87,445
93,354
23,056
41,343
239,094
46,343
72,627
26,487
51,207
125,378,925
1185,116 36
41 54
54 01
29 51
36 81
26 58
30 38
206 33
40 63
635 99
24 68
166 80
114 36
172 20
32 49
250 27
55 95
131 15
140 01
34 56
61 99
358 62
69 49
108 92
39 71
76 80
$188,056 14
Report of the Water Board.
87
Amount br't forw'd.
John Foster
J. Montgomery Sears,
45 Arch st
J. S. Potter
E. J. Brown (3 mos.)
John Briggs & Co. . . .
J. S. Potter
S. B. Stebbins
L. W. Pickens
C. E. Folsom
Boston City Flour
Mills
J. J. McNutt
Glendon Co
Manson & Peterson.,
N. Littlefield
W. L. Sturtevant
McQuesten & Co
J. F. Paul & Co
Bugbee & Spooner. . .
J. A. Robertson
Stetson, Moseley, &
Co
Chauncy, Page, & Co.
S. H. L.Pierce
A. J. Stearns & Son . .
Palmer, Parker, & Co.
J. F. Keating
Amount car'd forw'd.
Class.
Engine
Mill
Cubic Feet.
125,378,925
44,944
139,300
36,524
4,682
100,269
111,749
95,993
105,813
21,723
130,428
277,970
105,160
92,603
129,290
104,183
64,659
314,553
59,395
89,973
34,446
68,498
118,343
6,366
96,469
80,360
Revenue.
5,056 14
67 40
208 93
54 78
7 02
150 39
167 60
143 97
155 71
32 56
195 63
416 93
157 72
138 89
193 92
156 25
96 97
471 81
89 08
134 93
51 66
102 73
177 49
9 54
144 67
120 52
127,812,618 $191,706 24
City Document No. 101.
Name.
Amount br't forw'd • .
Watson & Bisbee
Laming & Drisko
Creesy & Noyes
Smith & Jacobs
B. D. Whitcomb
S. Crosby & Son
Nathaniel Cummings.
Nelson Curtis
Glover & Jones
Atlantic Dyewood Co.
Standard Dyewood
Mill
Knowles, Freeman, &
Co
G. B. Spaulding & Co.
Boston Water Meter
Co., 29 Devonshire
street
Boston Water Meter
Co., Poster's wharf.
William Blanchard &
Co
Class.
Mill
G. K. Withington&Co.
J. H. Chadwick
Horatio Harris
J. C. Nichols..
Warren & Co., Agts..
Hingham Steamboat
Co
Fish
Store.
Bacon
Works.
Testing
Meters.
Bakery
House &
Fount'n.
Wharf
purposes
Steamr's
Amount car' d forw'd 130,885,468 $196,315 19
Cubic Feet.
127,812,618
58,781
49,511
194,046
94,949
143,692
114,949
29,383
ll.fi
Vacant,
701,481
214,338
49,117
45,405
987
14,700
Revenue.
$191,706 24
88 15
74 26
291 05
142 41
215 51
172 41
44 05
17 82
1,052 20
321 48
73 66
68 08
1 48
22 05
1,075,248
12,051
18 06
28,599
42 89
2,330
icant.
3 48
11,570
17 34
219,824
329 71
1,612 86
Keport of the Water Board.
89
Name.
Amount br't forw'd.
Portland Steam Pack
et Co
Class.
International Steam-
boat Co
J. Henry Sears & Co.
Nantasket Steamboat
Co
H. F. Holmes, Ag't,
Steamers
House of Correction.
Lunatic Hospital
City Hospital
Charity Building
Temporary Home . . .
City Hall
Wayfarers' Lodge
Austin Farm
Suffolk County Court
House
Steam'rs
Suffolk County Jail .
Directors of Public In-
stitutions
South Ferry . . .
North Ferry . . .
Board of Health
Police Station No. 1
" " 2
" " 3
" << 4.
Amount car'd forw'd
Public
Urinals
Cubic Feet.
130,885,468
308,330
197,494
120,074
263,885
39,408
1,777,870
499,671
1,347,141
64,656
91,653
385,519
61,051
224,619
220,434
214,441
962,867
1,050,218
787,050
80,267
40,403
63,579
35,769
42,903
Revenue.
139,764,770
$196,315 19
462 49
296 23
180 10
395 82
59 10
2,666 79
749 49
2,020 69
96 97
137 47
578 25
91 56
336 92
330 63
321 65
1,444,28
1,575 31
1,180 58
120 38
60 60
95 37
53 65
64 35
$209,633 87
90
City Document No. 101.
Amount br't forw'd . .
Police Station No. 5
" 6
" 7
" 8
" 9
" 10
" 12
" 13
Class.
City Prison
L. W. Morrill & Co .
John C. Miller
First Church . .
King's Chapel .
Cathedral of the Holy
Cross
Washington Lodge.
St. Mary's Church.
Tremont-st. M. E.
Church
South Cong'l Church.
First Univ. Church . .
Columbus-av. Univ.
Church
Rotary
Fan
Organ
Shawmut Cong'l Soc'y
Church of the Holy
Redeemer
Church of the Messiah
St. Patrick's Church
(1 mo.)
Amount car'd forw'd
Cubic Feet.
139,764,770
23,199
29,019
55,741
16,145
22,126
27,490
12,296
8,305
148,080
17,952
150,168
15,943
11,999
24,500
6,667
51,135
17,586
13,041
24,159
14,245
34,510
$209,633 87
34 79
43 52
83 61
24 22
33 18
41 24
18 44
12 46
222 11
26 91
225 23
23 90
17 99
36 75
10 00
76 68
26 36
19 54
36 23
21 34
. 51 76
17,400
51,900
6,100
140,564,476
26 10
77 85
9 15
$210,833 23
Report or the Water Board.
91
Name.
Amount br't forw'd.
Church of the Immac-
ulate Conception. . .
Clarendon-st. Baptist
Church '....'.
Second Church Soc'y
St. James Church
Brattle-st. Church . . .
Mason & Hamlin
Boston Society New
Jerusalem
Second Hawes Unit.
Soc'y
Old South Church
Society
Trinity Church Soc'y
German Catholic Ch.
Church of the Good
Shepherd
Central Cong'l Soc'y.
J. R. Pierce.
Bancroft &Dyer
John L. Gardner
Joh F. Bailey
Henry S. Hovey
E. Williams
Sidney Squires
M. D. Spaulding
G. G. Hall
S. S.Dunn
Class.
Organ
Elevator
Amount car' d forw'd 141,165,304 $211,734 27
Cubic Feet.
140,564,476
52,053
10,601
9,653
15,800
Vacant.
1,600
11,093
16,221
27,672
75,000
32,500
12,500
11,000
1,200
78,435
15,334
82,159
4,320
12,300
70,696
7,763
50,060
2,868
$210,833 23
78 05
15 90
14 48
23 70
2 40
16 63
24 31
41 48
112 50
48 75
18 75
16 50
1 80
117 63
22 99
123 22
6 47
18 45
106 02
11 63
75 08
4 30
92
City Document No. 101.
Name.
Amount br'tforw'd . .
Joel Goldtkwait & Co.
Chickering & Sons. ..
Odd Fellows Building
Davis & Co
L. Beebe & Sons
A. J. Stearns
James Tucker & Co. .
Clark & Warren
E. H. Sampson
Elevator
Stone, Bills, & Whit-
ney
J. C. Haynes
Lewis, Brown, & Co. .
Claflin & Thayer
McConnell & Gardner
W. E. Putnam & Co. .
Henry Bond & Co
J. S. Stone
Dennison Manuf g Co.
A. Low & Co
Clement & Colburn . .
Bhodes & Co
Carey & Fulton
Henry A. Gould
John Cummings & Co.
Pope Manf'g Co
Mrs. H. W. Harris . .
Amount car'dforw'd.
Class.
Cubic Feet.
141,165,304
9,662
194,930
21,600
64,033
54,800
11,200
155,200
62,275
82,600
63,300
118,700
159,600
174,350
113,900
120,800
94,000
134,800
214.900
188,000
112,800
211,400
211,500
170,380
148,200
Vacant
54,900
144,113,134
Revenue.
$211,734 27
14 48
292 39
32 40
96 05
82 20
16 80
232 80
93 41
123 90
94 95
178 05
239 40
261 51
170 85
181 20
141 00
202 20
322 35
282 00
169 20
317 10
317 25
255 56
222 30
82 35
,155 97
Eeport or the Water Boaed.
93
Name.
Amount br't forw'd ..
Mrs. H. W. Harris . .
Hotel Westminster . . .
Hotel Warwick
Hotel Lyndeboro'
Hotel Clifford
Hotel Berwick
Hotel Edinburgh
Emerson & White. .
J. Montgomery Sears,
154 Tremont st. —
Mrs. J. Longley
J. B. Kimball & Co. . .
Notman & Campbell . .
Martin, Skinner, &
Fay
Class.
Elevator
Vinal, Pope, & Co. . . .
A. Storrs & Co
Abram French & Co.
Talbot, Wilmarth, &
Co
Albert Metcalf
Edward Spaulding...
Withington & Hall...
Bragg, Conant, & Co.
Fairbanks & Brown..
Grosvenor & Bichards
W. E. Underwood . . .
George D. Howe
Amount car'cl forw'd.
Cubic Feet.
Revenue.
144,113,134 $216,155 97
Vacant.
2 2
55,600
115,240
271,335
171,910
339,210
241,855
117,730
128,800
4,367
114,000
41,500
139,400
107,800
70,180
128,220
101,900
12,400
75,200
55,200
47,570
137,993
52,500
66,210
185,187
146,894,441
83 40
172 85
406 99
257 86
508 81
362 78
176 58
193 19
6 54
171 00
62 25
209 10
161 70
105 26
192 32
152 85
18 60
112 79
82 80
71 35
206 99
78 75
99 30
277 76
5220,327 79
94
City Document No. 101.
Class.
Amount br't forw'd. .
Converse & Starrwood
John F. Mills estate .
Daniels, Badger, &
Co
Elevator
Wright, Worster, &
Delano
Hotel La Eayette
Hotel Baldwin
Doll & Richards
S. G. Allen
Thomas Groom
Monks & Co
Enoch Page
E. R. Sears
Lawrence Building . .
S. D. Warren
Howe Bros
Dyer, Taylor, & Co. . .
249
Henry Bond,
Purchase st. .
Henry Bond, 87 High
st
David Parker & Co.
151 Summer st. . . •
J. Montgomery Sears,
12 Arlington st
A. W. Stetson-
H. A. Turner & Co.
R. M. Hodges
Amount car' dforw'd 149,309,841 $223,950 73
Cubic Feet.
146,894,441
53,720
305,540
89.100
118,413
383,400
129,000
106,500
70,295
61,950
430,611
Not using
7,830
Not using
25,673
26,630
188,098
168,600
63,150
31,267
63,201
4,717
72,200
15,505
Revenue.
$220,327 79
80 57
458 30
133 65
177 62
575 10
193 50
159 74
105 43
92 91
645 89
11 79
38 49
39 93
282 13
252 90
94 72
46 90
94 77
7 06
108 30
23 24
Eeport of the Water Board.
95
Name.
Amount br't forw'd.
J. H. Wright
H. & J. Pfaff
Hotel Comfort. '.'....
Duffy, Cashman, &
Co
Jones, Cook & Co.
Moses Williams . .
A. L. Dickerman .
Peter C. Brooks .
Continental Block
Gardiner, Murphy, &
Co
Mrs. T. B. Williams.
E. E. Mudge
Howard Nat'l Bank . .
Sidney Bartlett
Wendell, Fay, & Co. .
Continental B. Build'g
C. D. Swain & Co. . . .
J. A. & W. Bird
Bice, Kendall, & Co.
(5 mos.)
Mrs. D. B. Green (3
mos.)
Geo. W. Chipman &
Co. (3 mos.)
D. W. King (4 mos.)
Loring Paper & Twine
Co. (3 mos.)
Class.
Elevator
Amount car' d forw'd 151,638,349 $227,443 29
Cubic Feet.
149,309,841
Not using.
395,661
66,468
65,440
41,650
365,645
63,388
71,300
50,780
55,000
42,891
9,880
473,833
8,110
78,000
251,560
31,030
143,200
73,121
5,793
20,730
1,398
13,430
Revenue.
$223,950 73
593 47
99 69
98 14
62 47
548 44
95 36
106 95
76 16
82 50
64 32
14 82
710 75
12 15
117 00
377 33
46 54
214 80
109 67
31 09
2 09
20 14
96
City Document No. 101.
Name.
Amount br't forw'd.
Henry L. Daggett • .
A. Wentworth
Atlantic Nat'l Bank .
E. E. Apthorp
0. Ditson & Co., 453
Washington st •
Banfield, Forristall, &
Co
J. & J. Dobson
Bobbins & Kellogg . . .
Houghton & Coolidge.
Horswell, Kingsley, &
Erench
J. T. Bailey
Z. A. Willard
Minot, Hooper, & Co.
J. P. Paine
Miss C. D. Brewer ..
J. M. Beebe
John Holman
Paul & Co
Oliver Ditson & Co.,
445 Washington st.
W. H. Slocum
Charles H. Ward
Doe & Hunnewell . . ,
J. Cottle
A. A. Lawrence
Amount car' d forw'd.
Class.
Elevator
Cubic Feet.
151,638,349
5,761
17,900
234,440
596,840
941,950
327,240
58,390
137,680
138,690
48,436
4,089
58,020
286,460
100,700
847
3,780
65,270
7,200
101,710
293,250
89,220
161,950
157,970
10,780
$227,443 29
8 64
26 85
351 64
895 25
1,412 92
490 85
87 58
206 51
208 02
72 64
6 12
87 03
429 67
151 05
1 27
5 66
97 90
10 80
152 55
439 87
133 82
242 92
236 95
16 16
155,486,922 $233,215 96
Beport of the Water Board.
97
Name.
Amount br't forw'd
David Parker & Co.,
147 South st
Henry Woods
Mass. Charitable Me-
chanics Association
A. Bushby
Pratt, Warren, & Co.
Boston Cold Stoi-age
& Freezing Co.
James L. Little .
Levi Bolles
S. N. Brown, Jr., 119
Commonwealth ave.
A. P. Morse
Joseph Peabody
S. N. Brown, Jr., 1
Huntington ave. . . .
P. O. White
E. N. Yerxa
L. W. & H. F. Morse.
Jacob Wirth
A. J. Knight
Cobb Bros
W. E. Richards
Atlantic Tea Co
E. D. Bangs & Co.
B. P. Tyler
Naylor & Co
T. H. Foley
Class.
Elevator
Motor
Amount car' dforw'd ' 156,543,255 $234,800 33
Cubic Feet.
■155,486,922
136,460
5,923
52,901
20,406
35,070
84,050
19,810
104,100
6,655
68,675
20,790
4,293
10,200
18,300
5,200
72,000
Not using.
34,900
16,400
64,400
172,500
6,300
75,800
21,200
Revenue.
233,215 96
204 68
8 88
79 34
30 59
52 59
126 06
29 71
156 15
9 98
103 00
31 17
6 42
15 30
27 45
7 80
108 00
52 35
24 60
96 60
258 75
9 45
113 70
31 80
98
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E. F. Wilder (6 mos.)
Lond.Tea Co. (5 mos.)
William Tufts (6 mos.)
John Lyons (6 mos.)
JamesO.Gray(4 mos.)
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12,400
6,200
6,900
74,320
13,900
7,200
23,500
5,"300
138,220
425,720
435,281
$234,800 33
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18 60
9 30
10 35
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10 80
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7 95
103 66
319 28
816 09
157,703,596
$236,281 04
Report of the Water Board.
99
Statement showing the number of houses, stores, steam-
engines, etc., in the city of Boston, supplied with water to
the 1st of January, 1881, with the amount of water-rates
received for 1880 : —
33,338 Dwelling-houses (51,212 families)
28 Boarding-houses
1,554 Model houses (Tenements, 8,375)
11 Lodging-houses
18 Hotels .
5,882 Stores and shops
507 Buildings
895 Offices .
42 Public-halls
5 Theatres
29 Private schools
22 Asylums
7 Hospitals
63 Greenhouses
148 Churches
10 Market-houses
92 Cellars .
210 Restaurants
884 Bars and saloons
15 Club-houses
32 Photographers
40 Packing-houses
1,934 Stables .
53 Factories
5 Bleacheries
118 Bakeries
11 Freight-houses
5 Gasometers
2 Cemeteries
4 Bath-houses
4 Ship-yards
3 Dry-docks and engines
160 Shops and engines .
17 Factories and engines
9 Printing1 and engines
2 Founderies and engines
2 Bakeries and engines
24 Stationary engines .
10 Pumping-engines
62. Discharging and pile-driving engines
$491,318 71
1.387 25
' 39,282 93
308 00
913 92
65,125 16
22,986 29
8,516 91
663 96
157 67
561 00
1,530 00
301 50
1,579 58
2,358 00
825 00
654 00
6,179 87
14,611 57
343 33
918 50
1,459 50
14,491 60
1,887 00
115 50
1,256 33
239 38
79 00
15 83
65 00
67 50
100 00
8,818 98
1,274 13
802 43
136 50
104 00
2.388 10
92 50
700 00
Amount carried forward .
,616 43
100
City Document No. 101.
Amount brought forward .
. $694,616 43
10 Armories .....
178 00
2,079 Hand-hose ....
11,975 00
11 Fountains ....
130 00
32 Tumbler-washers ...
480 00
104 Beer water-pressures
520 00
55 Laundries ....
1,451 51
8 Aquariums ....
65 00
17 Railroad stations
313 00
Steam and tug-boats
9,174 52
11 Motors
60 00
1 Laboratory ....
50 00
2 Ice companies, washing ice
21 00
1 College ......
40 00
Miscellaneous ....
195 92
Jamaica Pond Aqueduct Company
943 41
Street-sprinkling .
1,684 61
Building purposes
2,823 49
Metered water (9 months)
175,875 64
1 Police-station ....
31 00
1 Police lockup .
6 00
Steamer " Protector " .
100 00
45 Fire-engines, hose, and hook and lad-
der houses ....
990 00
7 Chemical engine-houses
105 00
3,969 Fire hydrants ....
71,442 00
129 Reservoirs ....
2,322 00
Steamer " W. M. Flanders " .
170 00
Repair shop ....
35 00
Public schools ....
3,796 00
Paving Department .
423 75
Internal Health Department .
1,540 00
Common Sewer Department
200 00
Lamp Department
42 25
Committee on Common and Squares
385 00
Committee on Bridges
82 00
District Court-house
49 50
Branch libraries
76 50
Directors of Public Institutions
263 00
Mount Hope Cemetery
45 02
Steamer " J. P. Bradlee
200 00
Steamer " Samuel Little " .
100 00
,001 55
Report of the Water Board.
101
The following table exhibits the yearly increase of water-
takers since January 1, 1850 : —
From January 1, 1850, to January 1, 1851
1851,
1852,
1853,
1854,
1855,
" " ' 1856, "
1857,
1858,
1859,
1860,
1861,
" " 1862,
" " 1863, "
" " 1864, "
. " " 1865,
1866,
" 1867,
" " 1868,
" " 1869,
" " 1870,
1871,
" " 1872, "
" " 1873,
" " 1874, "
1875,
1876,
" " 1877, "
" " 1878, "
" " 1879, "
1880,
Takers.
Increase.
1851
13,463
1852,
16,076
2,613
1853,
16,862
786
1854,
18,110
1,308
1855,
19,193
1,023
1856.
19,998
805
1857
20,806
808
1858
21,602
796
1859
22,414
812
1860
23,271
857
1861
24,316
1,045
1862
25,486
1,170
1863
26,289
803
1864
, 26,851
562
1865
, 27,046
195
1866
, 27,489
443
1867
, 27,754
265
1868
, 28,104
350
1869
, 29,738
1,634
1870
, 31,500
1,762
1871
, 36,132
4,632
1872
, 38,716
2,584
1873
, 40,688
1,972
1874
, 42,345
1,657
1875
, 44,676
2,331
1876
, 46,885
2,209
1877
, 48,328
1,443
1878
, 49,970
1,642
1879
, 51,523
1,553
1880
, 52,268
745
1881
, 53,254
986
The following table exhibits the yearly revenue from the
sale of Cochituate water since its introduction into the city,
October 25, 1848: —
Received by Water Commissioners, as per
Auditor's Eeport in 1848 . . . . $972 81
From January 1, 1849, to January 1, 1850 . 71,657 79
1850, " ' 1851 . 99,025 45
1851, " 1852 . 161,052 85
1852, » 1853 . 179,567 39
Amount carried forward .
$512,276 29
102
City Document No. 101.
Amount brought forward
From January 1, 1853, to January 1, 1854
1854, " * 1855
1855, " 1856
1856, « 1857
1857, » 1858
1858, " 1859
1859, " 1860
1860, " 1861
1861, " 1862
1862, « 1863
1863, " 1864
1864, " 1865
1865, " 1866
1866, " 1867
1867, " 1868
1868, << 1869
1869, " 1870
1870, " 1871
1871, " 1872
1872, " 1873
1873, " 1874
1874, " 1875
1875, " 1876
1876, " 1877
1877, . " 1878
1878, " 1879
1879, " 1880
1880, " 1881
1881, to May 1, 1881
$512,276 29
196,352 32
217,007 51
266,302 77
282,651 84
289,328 83
302,409 73
314,808 97
334,544 86
365,323 96
373,922 33
394,506 25
430,710 76
450,341 48
486,538 25
522,130 93
553,744 88
597,328 55
708,783 68-
774,445 70
862,704 08
917,415 92
977,020 48
. 1,005,120 94
. 1,029,643 70
. 1,015,562 89
. 1,010,584 30
. 1,025,803 14
. 1,039,896 17
826,881 85
$18,084,093 36
Drinking—Fountains . 1
There are fifty-three drinking-fountains established within
the city limits : —
City Proper.
* Boston Common (6).
North square.
Washington street, near Elm.
" " opposite Blackstone square.
Atlantic avenue, junction Commercial street.
" " head of Rowe's wharf.
1 Those marked * are arranged for a continuous flow of water. The balance have
automatic fixtures, operating the flow of water when required.
Report of the Water Board. 103
Atlantic Avenue, near N. Y. & N. E. R.R. freight-house.
Hayniarket square.
Causeway street, at Boston and Lowell R.R. depot.
" " junction Merrimac street.
Charles street, opposite the Jail.
" " between Boyls ton and Beacon streets.
" " near Boylston street.
Beacon street, near Charles street.
Tremont street, near Clarendon street.
Albany street, opposite Water-works, pipe-yard.
Mt. Washington avenue, near the drawbridge.
East Boston.
Maverick square.
Central square.
Bennington street, junction Chelsea street.
South Boston.
Foundry street, opposite First street.
Fourth street, near Foundry street.
" " junction Emerson street.
" " corner of Q street.
Telegraph Hill.
Sixth street, near P street.
Washington Village, junction Dorchester avenue and Doi»
Chester street.
Roxbury.
Albany street, junction Dearborn street.
Beacon street, junction Brookline avenue.
* Eliot square.
Eustis street, near Washington street.
Heath street, near Tremont street.
Pynchon street, near Roxbury street.
Tremont street, junction Cabot street.
West Roxbury.
Centre street,, junction Day and Perkins street.
Centre and LaGrange streets, West Roxbury village.
Morton street, junction South street.
Roslindale, Taft's Hotel.
Washington street, near Williams street.
Dorchester.
Commercial street, opposite Beach street.
Neponset avenue, corner Walnut street.
104 City Document No. 101.
Upham's Corner.
Glover's Corner.
Grove Hall.
Brighton.
Barry's Corner.
Market street, Cattle-fair Hotel.
Union square.
Western avenue, Charles-river Hotel.
There are nineteen stand-pipes now located for street-
sprinkling purposes, as follows : —
Tremont street and Hammond park.
Clay street, corner Tremont street.
Eliot square.
Brookline avenue, corner Longwood avenue.
St. James street, corner Warren street.
Blue Hill avenue, between Waverley and Clifford streets.
Warren street, corner Gaston street.
Egleston square, corner Walnut avenue.
Dale street, opposite Harvard avenue.
Upham's Corner.
Field's Corner.
Dorchester avenue, near Savin Hill avenue.
Dorchester avenue, at Old Boston line.
Beach street, Harrison square.
Union square, Brighton.
Washington street, corner Winship street, Brighton.
Chestnut Hill avenue, corner of South street.
Dudley street, opposite Harvard avenue.
Paris street, corner of Meridian street.
Report of the Water Board.
105
Statement showing the Number and Kind of Water Fixtures contained within
the Premises of Water-takers in the City of Boston, January 1, 1881, as
compared with previous years.
1878.
1879.
1880.
8,716
8,900
9,228
Taps. These have no connection with any drain or sewer.
81,842
• 84,138
84,498
Sinks.
43,044
46,034
46,116
Wash-hand hasins.
15,121
15,751
16,623
Bathing-tubs.
24,956
26,142
27,535
Pan water-closets.
777
726
349
Hopper water-closets.
22,006
22,855
23,563
" " automatic.
619
622
583
" " waste.
1,478
1,386
1,069
Urinals.
2,226
2,450
2,972
" automatic.
17,517
18,406
19,139
Wash-tubs. These are permanently attachedtothehuilding.
534
590
607
Shower-baths.
237
211
197
Private hydrants.
853
1,004
956
Slop-hoppers.
125
138
139
Poot-haths.
220,051
229,353
233,574
Respectfully submitted, -
WM. F. DAVIS,
Water Registrar.
REPORT OF THE MYSTIC WATER REGISTRAR
FOR THE YEAR 1880-81.
Office of the Mystic Water Eegistrar,
Boston, Charlestown District, May 1, 1881.
Leonard R. Cutter, Esq.,
Chairman Boston Water Board : —
Sir, — I herewith present the Annual Report of the
Mystic Water Registrar, for the year ending April 30, 1881.
The total number of water-takers now entered for the year
1881, is 16,427, distributed as follows: Charlestown Dis-
trict, 6,164; Chelsea, 4,748; Somerville, 4,683; Everett,
832.
The total amount of water-rates received from May 1,
1880, to May 1, 1881, is as follows : —
Charlestown District .... $102,823 90
Chelsea 55,205 98
Somerville 59,664 88
Everett ....... 8,297 71
The amount paid the cities of
Chelsea, Somerville and town
of Everett, as per contract,
is ..... $26,695 28
The amount received for water
used in previous years is . 9,646 14
The net receipts for water fur-
nished during the year are . 189,651 05
$225,992 47
In addition to the above amount
there has been received for
labor and material furnished
for work outside this depart-
ment, but connected with the
Water Works, the sum of
Fines, non-payment .
Fees, summons
Off and on water for repairs
Total amount received during the year
$225,992 47
$769 77
368 00
260 75
123 00
1,521 52
s year .
$227,513 99
Kepoet of the Water Boaed.
107
The expenses of the office during the year ending April
30, 1881, including all charges for collection in Chelsea,
Somerville, and Everett, were $7,436.86.
Table showing the number of places turned off for non-payment of rates
during the year 1880, the number turned on again, and the number stil''
remaining off.
Number turned
off.
Number turned
on.
Number remain-
ing off.
Charlestown District
. 75
114
65
17
68
96
55
12
7
18
10
5
Total
271
231
40
Stand-pipes foe Steeet Wateeestg.
The whole number in use in this department is 32, dis-
tributed as follows : —
Charlestown District.
Cambridge street, near Stickney & Poor's factory.
" " railroad .
Eutherford avenue, near City stables.
" " Allen street.
South Eden street, " Main street.
Prescott " " Harvard School building.
Monument square, " Laurel street.
Chelsea.
Cary square, corner Forsyth street.
Broadway, near Stockton street.
" " Cary avenue.
Somerville.
Washington street, corner Boston street.
Summer street,
" Myrtle street,
near Union square.
" Elm street.
" Laurel street.
108 City Document No. 101.
Somerville avenue, near Poplar street.
" " Cambridge line.
" " Merriam street.
" " Mossland street.
Broadway, " Franklin street.
" opposite Public park.
School street, near Somerville avenue.
Spring street, " "
Beacon street, ' ' Cooney street.
Pinckney street, " Pearl street.
Pearl street, " Cross street.
Thurston street, " Broadway.
Highland avenue, corner Medford street.
Everett.
Broadway, near Engine-house.
" " Pleasant street.
" " Chandler's.
Main street, " Chelsea street.
Drinking-Fountains .
The whole number in use in this department is 21, dis-
tributed as follows : —
Charlestown District.
City square, corner Park street.
Chelsea street, " Wapping street.
Bunker Hill street, corner Tufts street.
Canal street, " South Eden street.
Main street, " Hancock square..
" near Tufts wharf.
Austin street, opposite Front- street.
Chelsea.
Broadway square.
" near bridge.
Winnisimmet street, near Ferry.
Pearl street, corner Marginal street.
Eastern avenue, corner Crescent avenue.
Somerville.
Union square (2).
Broadway, corner "Walnut street.
Keport of the Water Board.
109
Highland avenue, corner Walnut street.
Medford street, " Central street.
Davis square (2).
Broadway, opposite Public Park.
Everett.
Main street, junction Broadway.
One of the fountains in Union square, one at the corner of
Highland avenue and Walnut street, one at Davis square,
Souierville, and one on Broadway, near the bridge, Chelsea,
have automatic fixtures regulating the water supply. The
others are so arranged that the water flows continuously.
Table showing the Number and Size of Meters, also the Number of Motors in
the Mystic Water Department.
Size
OF Metees.
| inch.
| inch.
1 inch.
1J inch.
2 inch.
3 inch.
4 inch.
Motors.
Total.
Charlestown
District . .
41
1
24
2
20
3
3
2
96
Chelsea . .
23
4
11
6
1
2
47
Souierville .
10
2
9
1
5
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2
2
31
1
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2
7
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74
8
48
3
33
4
5
6
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Statement showing the amount of water-rates received
since the introduction of Mystic-pond water, November 29,
1864. Also the amount paid the several districts supplied
under existing contracts : —
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Charlestown, 1865
$27,045 10
$27,045 10
" 1866
47,247 16
1 47,247 16
1867
60,188 83
60,188 83
" 1868
68,815 32
68,815 32
" 1869
74,369 81
74,369 81
" 1870
82,230 79
82,230 79
" 1871
87,259 70
87,259 70
" 1872
97,727 36
97,727 36
" 1873
99,455 66
99,455 66
" 1874
111,420 30
111,420 30
" 1875
118,568 00
118,568 00
1876
116,271 17
116,271 17
1877
109,963 25
109,963 25
1878
104,174 76
104,174 76
" 1879
98,313 88
98,313 88
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" 1880
102,590 50
102,590 50
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" May 1,1881
74,874 99
74,874 99
$1,480,516 58
$1,480,516 58
East Boston, 1870
$54,885 28
$15,015 06
$39,870 22
1871
63,371 71
18,348 73
45,022 98
" 1872
70,957 40
21,383 02
49,574 38
" 1873
77,480 79
23,992 38
53,488 41
" 1874
77,776 91
24,122 83
53,654 08
" 1875
70,256 26
21,102 53
49,153 73
" 1876
72,046 78
21,818 74
50,228 04
" 1877
66,637 43
19,655 03
46,982 40
" 1878
65,088 96
16,535 63
48,553 33
" 1879
56,165 94
32,139 10
24,026 84
1880
50,973 39
10,889 36
40,084 03
725,640 85
255,002 41
500,638 44
forward
Amount carried
$2,206,157 43
$225,002 41
$1,981,155 02
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Amount brought
Chelsea, 1868
(6 mos.)
" 1868-69
forward
$3,632 80
19,548 14
$2,206,157 43
$225,002 41
$1,981,155 02
$544 92
2,932 22
$3,087 88
10,615 92
" 1869-70
26,474 26
4,294 85
22,179 41
" 1870-71
31,161 56
5,290 39
25,871 17
" 1871-72
38,714 16
7,178 54
31,535 62
" 1872-73
42,239 50
8,171 85
34,067 65
" 1873-74
45,169 46
9,050 85
36,118 61
" 1874-75
50,644 51
10,757 90
39,886 61
" 1875-76
50,934 20
10,873 66
40,060 54
" 1876-77
49,893 35
10,468 02
39,425 33
" 1877-78
49,496 59
10,348 99
39,147 60
•« 1878-79
50,368 45
10,647 79
39,720 66
" 1879-80
51,785 24
11,214 09
40,571 15
" May 1,1881
53,462 31
11,884 92
41,577 39
563,524 53
113,658 99
449,865 54
Somerville, 1869
(6 mos.)
" 1870
$6,572 62
13,189 89
$985 89
1,978 49
$5,586 73
11,211 40
" 1871
20,029 68
3,005 94
17,023 74
" 1872
25,275 13
4,055 02
21,220 11
" 1873
30,930 81
5,232 70
25,698 11
" 1874
37,325 96
6,831 48
30,494 48
« 1875
47,912 43
9,873 73
38,038 70
«• 1876
49,743 55
10,423 08
39,320 47
" 1877
49,873 19
10,461 97
39,411 22
" 1878
53,581 31
11,932 52
41,648 79
" 1879
54,329 13
12,231 65
42,097 48
" 1880
56,988 65
13,295 45
43,693 20
" May 1,1881
51,029 38
10,911 75
40,117 63
496,781 73
101,219 67
395,562 06
forward
Amount carried
$3,266,463 69
$439,881 07
$2,826,582 62
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Everett, 1872-73
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$3,266,463 69
$540 51
$3,062 83
" 1873-74
4,365 84
654 88
3,710 96
" 1874-75
4,677 58
701 63
3,975 95
" 1875-76
5,861 80
879 28
4,982 52
" 1876-77
6,548 38
982 26
5,566 12
" 1877-78
7,401 99
1,110 29
6,291 70
" 1878-79
7,429 06
1,114 36
6,314 70
" 1879-80
7,642 05
1,146 33
6,495 72
" May 1,1881
7,934 30
1,190 14
6,744 16
55,464 34
1881 . . .
Total to May 1,
$3,321,928 03
Total
amount
paid under
contract.
$439,881 07
8,319 68
$448,200 75
Net amount
to Mystic
Water
Works.
$2,826,582 62
47,144 66
$2,873,727 28
The water-supply for the East Boston district having been
transferred from the Mystic to the Cochituate Department,
causes a falling off in the total amount of revenue received,
the number of water-takers, fixtures, etc., as compared with
the previous year.
The water-rates received from the remaining districts show
an increase of eleven thousand four hundred and fifty-three
dollars ($11,453).
Yours respectfully,
JOSEPH H. CALDWELL,
Mystic Water Registrar.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
WESTERN DIVISION, 1880-81.
Chestnut Hill Reservoir, May 1, 1881.
Leonard R. Cutter, Esq. , Chairman Boston Water Board : —
Sir, — In compliance with a rale of the Board, I submit
herewith the annual report of this Division for the past offi-
cial year.
Sudbury River Basins.
These basins were placed in my charge on Oct. 15th.
During the summer a vegetable plant called the Anaboema
had developed in Basins 1 and 3, rendering their water
somewhat objectionable ; but as the season was one of unusual
drought, and Basin 2 had already been exhausted, there was
no alternative but to draw from Basin 3, that being the
least affected of the two basins. It was found that during
the passage of the water through Farm pond the vegetable
matter was somewhat decreased in amount. The water in
Basin 2 has been excellent in quality, and from this source
the city has been mostly supplied.
Basin 1.
The water from this basin has been used but for three days,
from January 20th to January 23d, at which time the vegeta-
ble growth had almost entirely disappeared. It has been
kept practically full during the whole year, the lowest point
reached being 6,85 feet below high-water mark, or grade
154.15, and the highest 159.66, when the spring freshets
were passing over the dam.
The gate-house and dam are in excellent condition. Some
experiments have recently been made to ascertain the exact
coefficient of flow for each flood-gate, and indices have been
placed in connection with the screws of the gates to deter-
mine their exact opening when raised for the passage of
water. Water has been wasted into the river from Feb.
13th to the present time in varying quantities, sometimes
reaching nearly a billion of gallons in twenty-four hours.
Basin 2.
The water in this basin was drawn down to grade 157.04
during the summer. On November 2d, it having filled to
124 City Document No. 101.
163.67, it was used for the supply of the city, and has con-
tinued to furnish water for this purpose, with slight interrup-
tion for purposes of repairs, during the rest of the year.
The lowest elevation has been 155.32 ; the highest 167.44.
During the winter a substantial boat-house was built on the
shore, near the gate-house. Some old houses have been re-
moved and the grounds graded, and a large number of loose
stones and stone walls near the upper end of the basin have
been piled together preparatory to grading. The gate-diouse
and dam are in good condition. The flash-boards were
placed in position on April 8th.
Basin 3.
By October 29th this basin was drawn down to the lowest
point reached during the year, viz., 159.59. The gates
being then shut the water rose to 165.19 on December 19th,
when it was again used for the supply of the city, falling to
163.02 on December 22d. The gates being again shut it in-
creased to 164.39 January 7th, and was drawn down to 163.05
January 11th. On February 1st the surface was at grade
168.38, and on the gates being opened it fell to 164.47 on
February 10th. No more water was drawn until March 16th,
when the basin was full and running over the dam.
The Temporary Dam
on Sudbury river has not yet been abandoned. During the
early part of the winter the northerly shore having shown
some signs of washing, it was paved for a distance of 125 feet.
Farm Pond
has been kept at about high-water mark during the year.
The borders are in excellent condition, as are also the dam,
gate-houses, and other structures around the pond.
Lake Cochituate.
On the 1st of May, 1880, the surface of the lake stood at
elevation 134.00, thirteen feet above the invert of the aque-
duct and within four inches of high-water. On May 4th this
latter point having been reached, the stop-planks were taken
out, and for ten days water was allowed to waste at the out-
let. The lake was kept full until the middle of June, at
which time the surface began to lower steadily until Jan-
uary 10, 1881, at which time the elevation was 125.30, a
little over four feet above the bottom of the aqueduct.
This was the lowest point reached during the year, about
a foot lower than the lowest point of the previous year. As
Report or the Water Board. 125
the supply in the Sudbury was low the Board purchased two
sets of pumps and engines for use at the lake in case of emer-
gency. These have been stored at Chestnut-Hill reservoir
and a corrugated iron house built over them. A storm of
rain and snow of about 2^- inches caused a rise of the lake,
which continued until March 11th, when the surface. stood at
133.50. On that day the stop-planks were removed, and
water allowed to waste to the present time. The lake is now
as near high-water mark as it is prudent to allow. No water
has been drawn from the Sudbury source into the lake during
the year. In the winter months the cucumber taste developed
in the water to such an extent that it was thought best to dis-
continue the supply from this source, and on February 26th
the head-gates were shut, since which time no Cochituate
water has been run to the city. A marked improvement in
the taste, though not in the color, of the water in the city im-
mediately ensued. No good reason has ever been assigned
for this peculiar taste in the Cochituate water. The condi-
tions for a good supply were never better. The meadows on
the south side of Central turnpike have been kept covered
with a good depth of water, by means of the dam built last
year, as have also the Hanchett meadows, while .as the lake
lowered, all the water from Pegan brook was filtered through
the new gravel dam. Notwithstanding these unusually favor-
able conditions, the lake water has been unfit for use, as far as
the palate is concerned, for more than two months.
No new work has been attempted at the lake during the
past year. Some old buildings, which were too rotten for
service, have been torn down, and a substantial shed for the
storage of carriages and carts has been built.
The grounds have been somewhat improved by these
changes.
The Pegan-brook cases, which at the time of the last report
were being heard before the State Board of Health, were de-
cided in favor of the city. An appeal was made by the par-
ties complained of to a sheriff's jury, as provided by law.
The decision was in favor of the individuals, but, on an appeal
to the Supreme Court, the cases have been decided finally
against the parties on points of law.
The town of Natick is now obliged to maintain Willow
bridge.
Duo and Dudley Ponds.
The only water received from Dug pond was from March
9th to April 12th, when one foot in depth was running over
the dam.
On Oct. 13th the stop-planks at Dudley pond were removed.
126 City Document No. 101.
The water at that time was four feet below high water, and
it was drawn off to within eighteen inches of the outlet pipe.
On Dec. 7th the stop-planks were replaced.
The Cochituate Aqueduct.
With the completion of the Sudbury system the necessity
for straining this structure has gradually diminished. From
May 1st until Aug. 15th five feet of water were run. On the
latter date the supply was increased six inches, falling, later,
with the surface of the lake until Jan. 20th, when the head
gates were shut down. They were reopened on Feb. 5th, but
finally, on Feb. 26th, were permanently closed, on account of
the continued bad taste in the lake.
The exterior structures on the line of this aqueduct have
been thoroughly overhauled during the past year. Many
of the culverts and waste weirs were found in very bad con-
dition. This was more apparent after the copings and upper
courses were removed. A careful examination of the effects
of frost and time on these structures, after the lapse of thirty-
three years, shows conclusively that nothing but heavy walls,
properly backed and drained in the rear, will prevent the
ultimate destruction of wing walls, copings, and parapets by
frost.
The following repairs were made : —
Dedman's Brook Waste Weir. — Begun June 25th ; finished
July 31st. Wing walls backed with rubble. Copings reset.
American cement, 2 parts ; bank sand, 1 part. Whole of
exterior joints cut out at least oue inch, and pointed in Port-
land cement, — 3 parts cement, 1 part sand. One-third of
the interior pointed. Flagging to roof pointed with oil
cement. Drains of broken stones were built back of wings
2 feet thick, 4 feet below grade. Total cost, $377.16.
Stevens' Brook. — Begun Aug. 2d; finished Aug. 10th.
Portion of foundation relaid. Capping stones reset. All of
the masonry pointed. Portland cement, 3 parts ; fine beach
sand, 1 part. Wing walls drained. Cost, $118.43.
Morton Culvert. — Aug. 11th to Sept. 1st. Wing walls
nearly all relaid. Coping stones dowelled to wings. Drains
built around masonry, and exterior pointed in Portland
cement. Cost, $260.94.
Wellesley Culverts. — Sept. 2d to Sept. 16th. Treated in
same manner as Morton culvert. Cost, $150.88.
Kingsbury Culvert. — Sept. 18th to Sept. 28th. Masonry
taken down at both ends of culvert and heavier walls built.
On the south side the granite was backed with rubble. Brick
work on north side replaced with rubble. All laid in cement,
Beport or the Water Board. 127
1 part, sand, 1 part. The exterior pointing done in Port-
land cement. Culvert walls backed with small stones.
Cost, $131.88.
Grantville Waste Weir. — Sept. 28th to Oct. 11th. Masonry
found in good condition, with exception of copings, which
were reset, and the wings drained. Exterior pointed in
Portland cement. Cost, $166.08.
Culvert, east of Waste Weir. — Oct. 12th to Oct. 13th.
Parapet relaid, and backed with rubble and broken stone
drains. Pointed in Portland cement. Cost, $26.92.
Culvert at Newton Loiver Falls. — Oct. 14th. Coping relaid.
Eear of culvert drained, and masonry pointed in Portland
cement. Cost, $13.00.
Woodward-street Culvert. — Oct. 15th to Oct. 23d. Granite
all relaid and backed with rubble. Pointing done in Portland
cement. Cost, $88.40.
Newton Centre Waste Weir.— Oct. 26th to .Oct. 29th. Koof
pointed in oil cement. Cost, $16.79.
All the trees and brush growing on the line of the aqueduct,
between Cochituate and Newton Centre, have been removed,
with the exception of a few trees left for ornamental purposes.
Fences have been built on the city line, near We llesley depot
and Woodward street, Newton. The shutting off of the lake
water in February has given an excellent opportunity for a
careful examination of the interior of the aqueduct and for
repairs.
Under authority from your Board I have organized a gang
of masons and laborers for systematic work, which is now in
progress. In general, the interior has been cleaned by
thorough brushings several times from Dedman's brook to
Charles river, and from Newton Centre to Brookline reser-
voir. All the cracks on the top and sides have been repaired
from Station 293+80 in Grantville to the high embankment
at Newton Lower Falls, and the invert from Grantville waste
weir to Station 67, and the whole interior from Webber's
waste weir to Brookline reservoir. The bottom cracks, where
they were bringing water, have been pointed with cold lead ;
elsewhere the invert has been repaired with Portland cement,
the top and sides with Norton American cement.
The Sudbury River Aqueduct
has been doing good service during the whole year. It has
carried generally from twenty to forty millions of gallons
daily to the city.
In December, a continuous bottom crack, 1,155 feet in
length, in the'Sherborn swamps,' was repaired. It extended
from Station 171+45 to Station 183, and was about ^ in.
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in breadth. No further movement has been noticed in places
repaired last year, and the interior may be said to be in per-
fect order. The gate-houses and gates are all in excellent
condition. Indices with verniers have been added to the
head-gates at Farm pond. About 1,700 feet of the embank-
ment at Bacon's brook has been reloamed and sodded; as
have also the embankments at Sherborn and Newton High-
lands. About five miles of fencing have been built during
the season, in places where it was necessary to protect the
embankments from cattle. The fences were built of chestnut
posts and three spruce rails, by day's labor, in a thorough and,
I believe, durable manner, at a cost of a little less than seven
cents per running foot. During the summer the following
culverts and structures were pointed. The joints were dug
out in all cases at least one inch before the cement was placed.
A record is here made of the mixture of cement and the kind
of joint for the purpose of ascertaining the relative durability.
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The laying of a new 48-inch main last season rendered the
emptying of this reservoir, during the spring, a compara-
tively safe operation. Under authority from your Board
Report of the Water Board. 129
this work was undertaken. On March 23d, the surface of
the water being at elevation 122.97, the aqueduct was shut
off, and the water lowered to 120.47 by the consumption in
the city. The effluent gates were shut on March 28th, and
the blow-off into the brook leading to Muddy river opened.
As the water receded the stone paving was thoroughly
washed and cleaned of moss, and, at the same time, the
bottom of the reservoir was stirred, to get rid of as much of
the deposit as possible. There were about nine inches of
mud on the bottom, as nearly as could be told when the
cleaning began, and, when the bottom was laid bare, about
four or five inches of the heavier particles remained. A
long rope was run through blocks on both sides of the reser-
voir, and a drag pulled backwards and forwards by horses.
Later a steam-pump was erected on a raft, and a jet of
water directed through a hose into the sides and bottom.
This apparatus was found very efficient. On April 8th the
water had receded to grade 109, and the upper half of the
reservoir was bare. The mud was then hoed into piles, and,
after drying a few days, hauled out by teams. On April
14th the water was all out of the reservoir.
Notwithstanding the greatest care was taken in emptying,
the slopes below the berme at the lower end are so steep that
there was a constant tendency of the banks to slide. These
spots were afterwards heavily riprapped. The interior
of the effluent gate-house was thoroughly cleaned, and the
joints cut and pointed, after which the brick-work was well
plastered with Portland cement. The gates were overhauled
and dipped and furnished with new rods. The lower ends
were keyed, instead of being provided with nuts, and the
rods were protected with brass at the guides. About 1,200
feet of the coping around the reservoir were raised and reset,
and about 500 feet of riprapping done. The work is now
nearly ready for the water to be let on.
Chestnut-Hill Reservoir.
No new work has been done at this reservoir during the
year. The grounds, gate-houses, walks, and driveway
have keen kept in good order.
A table of rainfall at this point is annexed, and also a list
of tools and other movable property connected with the
department.
Very respectfully yours,
DESMOND FITZGERALD,
Superintendent.
130
City Document No. 101.
Table of Rainfall at Chestnut- Hill Reservoir, for year ending Dec, 1880.
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9 to 10 p.m.
Mar. 9
.05
Snow
6 a.m. to 10.30 p.m.
" 6
" 9
.45
.08
1.30 to 10.15 p.m.
1.30 to 7 p.m.
" 11
" 12
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10.30 a.m.
to
8.15 a.m.
« 12
" 13
J .76
Rain
and
Snow
5.30 p.m.
to
4 p.m.
ci 14
.07
Snow
and
Rain
6.20 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.
" 15
.03
Rain
and
Snow
5.30 to 7.30 p.m.
" 16
.. 17
| .68
Snow
and
Rain
5 a.m.
to
9.15 a.m.
" 20
" 21
J .70
Snow
and
Rain
7.30 a.m.
to
1 a.m.
" 19
" 20
J. 32
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10.45 a.m.
to
1 a.m.
" 22
" 23
| .35
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7.15 p.m.
to
7 a.m.
" 20
" 21
J .02
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5.20 p.m.
to
6.30 a.m.
" 27
" 28
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11.15 a.m.
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6.30 a.m.
" 27
«' 28
I .69
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2 p.m.
to
5.30 p.m.
" 31
.08
2 to 8.30 a.m.
Total .
2.82
Total .
2.95
Apr. 3
" 4
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6 p.m. to
3 a.m.
Feb. 3
.30
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4 a.m. to 11.30 p.m.
" 10
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7.30 a.m. to 9.30 p.m.
" 4
.03
7 to 10.30 p.m.
'« 12
" 13
" 13
" 14
" 15
| .68
| .84
.03
Rain
Snow
6 a.m.
to
2 p.m.
6.30 p.m.
to
3 a.m.
10 a.m. to 7.30 p.m.
" 6
" 16
ii 17
" 20
>• 24
.05
I .77
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7.15 to 9.10 p.m.
8.30 a.m.
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2.15 a.m.
3 to 5 p.m.
1 to 8.30 a.m.
" 18
.12
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Rain
and
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7.30 to 11.45 p.m.
8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
" 30
.79
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12.30 to 7.15 a.m.
" 23
Total .
2.41
" 26
« 28
" 29
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5.30 to 11.15 p.m.
9.30 p.m.
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9 a.m.
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May 2
" 13
" 18
" 19
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8 a.m. to 2.15 p.m.
11.05 a.m to 5 p.m.
7.50 to 10 p.m.
Total .
3.12
7 a.m.
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10.30 a.m.
Mar. 3
" 4
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8.15 p.m.
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2 a.m.
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2.40 to 3.45 p.m.
11.30 a.m.
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1.71
Report of the Water Board.
131
Table of Rainfall at Chestnut-Hill Reservoir. — Continued.
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9 a.m. to 2.30 p.m.
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5 to 5.45 p.m.
1.45 to 2 p.m.
" 12
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1.75
" 26
Oct. 5
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1 to 4.30 p.m.
" 28
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3.45 to 4 p.m.
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3.30 to 4.15 p.m.
5 to 8 p.m.
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July 2
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1.25 a.m. to 2.30 p.m.
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3 a.m.
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9 .45 p.m.
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4.20 to 5 p.m.
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7.30 to 9 p.m.
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10.05 to 10.45 p.m.
" 31
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3.08
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" 16
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10.15 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.
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5.30 a.m.
" 15
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12.15 to 5 p.m.
" 27
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7.20 to 10.45 p.m.
" 20
" 25
1.04
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12.45 to 8 p.m.
12.10 to 3 a.m.
Total .
6.14
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4 p.m.
Aug. 3
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Total .
2.23
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12.30 p.m.
2.20 p.m.
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Dec. 1
.77
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4.30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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7 a.m.
" 5
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9.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
" 21
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5.25 to 6.15 p.m.
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9.15 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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1.50 p.m.
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10.30 p.m.
" 30
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10 a.m.
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" 15
" 27
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5 a.m.
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2.52
4.30 to 10 p.m.
" 29
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6 a.m. to 11.50 p.m.
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5 p.m.
Sept. 9
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Total fo
r year
31.50
132 City Document No. 101.
LIST OF CITY PROPERTY ON THE WESTERN
DIVISION.
1881.
Chestnut-Hill Reservoir.
Effluent Gate-House.
1 hand-pump, 1 12-ft. ladder, 3 wrenches, 100 ft. of hose,
120 ft. gas-pipe, 1 rattan broom, 1 set evaporation apparatus,
4 stop-plank hooks, 1 blow-off wrench, 2 gate-wrenches,
32 ft. galv. chain, lock, etc., 1 fountain nozzle, 33 stop-
planks, 1 step-ladder, 5 pictures, 1 gauge, 1 thermometer,
1 broom, 2 brushes and dust-pan, 2 lanterns, hydraulic
apparatus, 1 settee, 1 mat, 1 nozzle, 3 oil-cans and tunnel,
1 scrubbing-brush, 1 sponge, 1 window-brush, 2 wire scoops,
2 wrenches.
Terminal Chamber.
1 broom, 1 settee, 1 dust-pan and brush, 1 coal-box, 1
20-ft. ladder, 1 boat, 1 step-ladder, 2 lanterns, 1 duster, 3
oil-cans, 1 pair rubber boots, 1 iron rake, 1 mat, 2 stop-
plank hooks, 25 stop-planks, 1 wire scoop.
Intermediate Gate-House.
18 stop-planks, 1 wrench.
Influent Gate-House.
26 long stop-planks for conduit, 14 stop-planks, 4 hooks,
1 extra brass screw.
Office.
1 safe, 3 desks, 6 chairs, 3 stools, 5 pictures, 1 telegraph
instrument, 2 sets scales, 1 stove, 2 reflecting lanterns, 11
lanterns, 22 brooms, 1 hook-gauge, 2 inkstands, 2 ther-
mometers, 2 copper pans, 2 tumblers, 1 kettle, 48 pairs rub-
ber boots, 7 rubber coats, 8 gauging-floats, 1 drawing-table,
1 sink, pump, wash-basin, and 6 towels, 1 automatic rain-
gauge, 1 book-case, 1 barometer.
Tool-House.
\ box glass, 1 copper elbow, 13 galls, lard-oil and cans,
10 galls, kerosene-oil and cans, 2 galls, glycerine, 12 bird-
houses, 15 conduit reflectors, 3 screen-doors, 75 lbs. waste,
Eepoet of the Water Board. 133
16 padlocks, 24 boxes candles, 6 bars soap, 1 gross matches,
25 paint-brushes, 1 chimney-brush, 4 whitewash-brushes, 1
bunch tacks, 5 rolls wicking, 2 ice-chisels and hooks, 1 ice-
saw, 2 glass-floats, 1 Johnson pump, 12 window-screens, 1
water-tank, 2 rain-gauges, 2 horse-bonnets, 2 shades, 7
draft-chains, 8 striking-hammers, 2 hand-hammers, 8 sledge-
hammers, 2 paving-hammers, 2 axes, 4 screen-bars, 15
iron bars, 26 square shovels, 8 snow-shovels, 41 round
pointed shovels, 8 scufflers, 39 picks, 8 grub-axes, 53
pick-handles, 13 sledge-handles, 7 trowels, 6 rifles, 1 lot
of cord, 37 hoes, 2 1-bushel baskets, 4 1^-bushel baskets,
1 4-bushel basket, 2 sand-sieves, 1 pruning-saw and knife,
3 border-knives, 1 beadle, 7 paving-rammers, 1 root-puller,
6 manure-forks, 1 limb-cutter, 1 gaff-hook, 1 California
pump-belt, 25 ft. wire fence, 2 pulleys, 14 drills, 1 copper
tamping-rod, 2 iron spoons, |- box whetstoues, \ can palm-
oil, 1 screen-brush, \ bag grass-seed, 15 lbs. oakum, 6 doz.
hay-caps, 1 rubber tank-hose, 1 writing-desk, 1 cross-cut
saw, 2 small tin dippers, 12 pails, 2 heavy buckets, 1 tin
boiler, 1 hay-knife, 7 sponges, 1 grate, 5 lbs. powder, 14
spades, 10 points, 3 chisels, 3 grass-hooks, 3 watering-pots,
3 feed-baskets, 6 rattan brooms, 9 snaths, 22 iron rakes, 34
wooden rakes, 13 hay-forks, 2 hay ropes, 1 oil cabinet, 15
lbs. axle-grease, 4 rubber blankets, 16 kegs nails, 6 plough-
points, 1 cement testing-machine, 100 ft. of hose, 10 scrub-
bing-brushes, 10 spading-forks, 2 coal-shovels, 1 lot of
leather belting, 2 sets falls, 1 lot of rope, 2 painters' jacks,
2 spare boxes for gates at Br. Res., 8 small stone-hammers.
Old Blacksmith's Shop.
1 observatory and instruments, 2 pieces canvas, 4 pairs
oars, 2 boats, 1,000 shingles, 1 flume, 1 post-spoon, 1 iron
cover, 5 bbls. Portland and 9 bbls. American cement, \ bbl.
black oil, 1 lot crusher-plates, 1 large screen, 12 signs, 1
iron bedstead, 1 bbl. paint, 1 manhole grate, \ cask red paint,
1 house force-pump, 1 lot of chains, 3 stoves, 10 ft. lead
pipe.
Stable.
8 horses, 1 pig, 5 horse-blankets, 2 sets double harness, 1
hay rigging harness, 2 express harnesses, 2 driving harnesses,
9 halters, 4 cart harnesses, 1 harness pan, 2 galls, neats'-foot
oil, sleigh-bells, 6 surcingles, 1 stove, 1 stable sponge, 6
curry-brushes and combs, 1 set lead chains, 1 hay-cutter, 1
knee-pad, 210 bushels oats, 10 bushels cracked corn, 200
lbs. shorts, 6 tons hay, 2 brooms, 1 open buggy, 1 covered
buggy, 1 buffalo and lap-robe, 1 duster, 1 jack, 1 watering-
134 City Document No. 101.
pot, 1 whip, 2 forks, 24 stop-planks, 7 ft. 6 in. long, 80
stop-planks, 7 ft. long, 4 bbls. spikes, 7 and 10 inches long
and \ inch square, 1 14-ft. lever, 4 mortar and 19 brick
hods, 1 truck, 1 wooden pump, 3 cans, 300 bolts, assorted
sizes, cast-iron pipes and 4 elbows, lot of old iron.
Carpenter's Shop.
1 stove, 1 clock, 30 ft. clear white-pine, 100 ft. ash, 400
spruce clapboards, 3 hand-saws, 1 panel-saw, 1 bit stock
and bits, 1 level, 8 planes, 8 augers, 1 pair dividers, -6
chisels, 1 axe, 2 gauges, 10. fence-rails, 4 X 4, 1 wood-saw,
1 water-tank, 1 lot screws, 2 hammers, 1 compass-saw, 1
fence-wrench, 2 ladles, 2 rubber belts, 2 jack-screws, 15
lbs. green paint, 1 can japan, 1 bbl. boiled linseed-oil, 25
galls, raw linseed-oil, 1 gall, black paint, 1 gall, varnish, ^
can spirits of turpentine, 3 cans paint-preserver, 1 galv.
chain and pulley, 1 belt-stretcher, 1 rotary pump, 5 tons
hard coal, 1 ton soft coal, 1 Blake pump, 1 portable boiler,
1 feed-pump, 1 portable engine, 1 glue-pot, 1,400 lbs. lead,
6 hand-screws.
Blacksmith's Shop.
1 forge, 1 anvil, 1 set tools, 1 vice, 1 beast-drill, 3 stock-
dies and tape, 1 ratchet and drill, 5 files, 75 lbs. iron, 200
lbs. scrap iron, 4 pairs pipe-tongs, 2 solid die-plates, 75 ft.
steam-pipe, 3 cold chisels, 2 monkey-wrenches, 1 soldering-
iron.
Yard. k
1 12-horse power engine, 2 cans, 1 portable building and
shed, 60 ft. 4-inch suction pipe, 1 piece of lead suction-pipe
(siphon), 30 ft. of 4-inch iron suction-pipe, 6 ft. 8-inch drain-
pipe, 8 ft. 6-inch drain-pipe, 3 ft. 30-inch drain-pipe, 19 fire
buckets, 1 carryall, 1 sleigh, 2 express wagons, 1 2-horse
wagon, 4 carts, 2 water-carts, 1 hay wagon, 1 pung, 2 2-
horse sledge, 1 2-horse truck, 1 drag, 1 road roller, 1 pair
large wheels, 2 moving wheels, 4 roller wheels (1 horse-
power), 2 hand-carts, 2 hand-rollers, 2 sets lead bars, 1 fire-
engine, 2 jacks, 2 conduit forms, 1 step-ladder, 1 30-ffc.
ladder, 1 28-ft. ladder, 1 20-ft. ladder, 2 12-ft. ladders,
1,200 bricks, 2 loads sand, 1 lot cast-iron grates, 1 lot clay,
1 scraper, 2 snow-ploughs, 1 plough, 1 harrow, 1 hay-tedder,
55 granite-bounds, 5 cedar-posts, 1 rain-gauge, 6 gravel-
screens, 10 wheelbarrows, 115 pickets, 1 tool-box, 2 grind-
stones, 2 engines and pumps, 1,000 ft. spruce boards, 2,500 ft.
Eeport of the Water Board. 135
spruce plank, 2,200 ft. spruce fence boards, 2,500 ft. of
grooved spruce sheeting, assorted lot of old lumber.
Brookline Reservoir.
1 writing-desk, 2 keys, 1 book, 1 inkstand, 1 pitcher, 1
tumbler, 1 spittoon, 1 lantern, 1 stove and 32 ft. of pipe,
2 elbows, 1 coal-hod, shovel and 2 pokers, 1 stove-brush, 2
settees, 1 chair, 2 towels, 2 floor-mats, 1 pair rubber boots,
1 scythe, 1 pick, 3 shovels, 2 rakes, 1 hoe, 1 sickle, 1
scuifler, 1 spade, 2 pails, 1 rammer, 1 cold-chisel, 4 notices,
1 iron ladder, 1 ladder, 1 step-ladder, 1 bar, 3 thermometers,
5 locks, 1 key, 1 sponge, 1 pair clipping-shears, 1 dust-pan
and brush, 1 duster, 1 bushel basket, 1 wheelbarrow, 1
broom, 1 dust-brush, 1 rattan broom, 1 border knife, 2
scrubbing-brushes, 1 watering-pot, 1 axe, 1 gauge, 1 40-inch
gate-key, 2 36-inch gate-keys, 1 30-inch gate-key, 2 wheels,
1 wrench, 1 cover, 2 air-cock wrenches, 1 gate frame, 2
chamber wheels, 1 crank, 89 stop-planks, 3 gas fixtures, 6
screens, 4 iron rods, 2 screen doors, 6 window screens, 4
48-inch connection keys, 1 wrench, 1 iron cover, 1 wooden
cover.
Lake Cochituate.
1 oil-cloth carpet, 1 air-tight stove, 12 dining-chairs, 1
extention table, 1 parlor table, 1 mirror, 1 horse, 1 express
wagon, 1 carryall, 1 cart and harness, 2 sets scales, 1 rain-
gauge, 4 picks, 1 long-handle shovel, 1 long-handle spade, 2
spades, 3 round-point shovels, 3 square-point shovels, 2 snow
shovels, 2 sickels, 3 hoes, 2 scythes', 3 wrenches, 1 striking-
hammer, 1 saw, 1 hatchet, 1 axe, 1 grub-axe, 2 sand-sieves,
2 gravel screens, 3 brooms, 5 candlesticks, 3 buckets, 2
whitewash brushes, 38 stop-plank, 1 12-inch pump, 1 18-
inch pump, 3 12-inch copper pipe, 12 inches sheet-iron pipe,
3 bars, 1 pinch bar, 1 road roller, 1 set of screens in gate-
house, 2 grindstones.
Farm Pond Gate-House.
1 stove, stove-pipe, shovel and hod, 1 dust-pan and brush,
1 piece zinc, 1 bag waste, 1 broom, 1 hammer, 1 screw-
driver, 2 screw bars, 2 wrenches, 2 gate-handles, 1 screen-
brush and rake, 2 pairs rubber boots, 1 shovel, 1 step-ladder,
1 chair, 1 11-ft. ladder, 1 22-ft. ladder, 1 table, 2 gauges, 56
stop-planks, 1 wood-box, 1 coal-box, 1 closet, 2 stop-plank
hooks, 2 lanterns, box of rotten stone, 1 tin pan, stove-
blacking and brush, 1 oil-cup, 3 cans, 1 qt. kerosene-oil, 1
piece of rope, f ton of coal, 3 water-pails, 2 wrenches, 1 yd.
linen, 1 box candles, 1 boat.
136 City Document No. 101.
Tool-House and Office, South Framingham.
4 axes, 4 shovels, 2 hammers, 3 cans, 2 stone-breakers, 2
pails, 1 iron rake, 1 water-tank, | ton coal, 4 kegs nails, 1
tool-chest, 3 saws, 1 level, 2 planes, 2 bit-stocks, 4 augers,
1 square, 1 trowel, 1 bevel, 1 wrench.
Tool-House, Farm Pond.
5 wheelbarrows, 1 bale oakum, 1 cross-cut saw, 3 lanterns,
4 shovels, 1 axe, 3 grub-axes, 1 pick, 3 hoes, 2 rattan brooms,
2 iron rakes, 2 ice-hooks, 3 leaf-hooks, 3 scythes, 1 lawn-
pump, 1 sand screen, 1^ kegs of spikes, 1 keg nails, 1 stove,
1 sprinkler, lot of old iron and lumber.
Course Brook Water Weir.
1 pick, 1 long-handle shovel, 1 shovel, 1 iron rake, 1
spade, 1 wheelbarrow, 1 pail, 1 ice-cutter, 2 cans, 1 oil-cup,
1 pair rubber boots, 1 cement-box, 2 boxes candles, 1 broom,
1 rattan broom, 12 stop-planks, 4 stop-plank hooks, 1
paint-can.
Bacon's Brook Waste Weir.
2 wheelbarrows, 2 iron rakes, 2 long-handle spades, 1 ice-
cutter, 1 piece of rope, 2 sickles, 1 pick, 1 hand-barrow, 1
oil-can, 1 oil-cup, 1 long-handle shovel.
Rosemary Brook Blow-Off .
1 gate-wrench, 1 ladder.
Fuller's Brook Waste Weir.
1 wheelbarrow, 2 shovels, 1 ice-cutter, 2 reflectors, 12
stop-planks, 2 stop-plank hooks, 1 rattan broom, 1 box
candles, 2 pails, 1 bag, 1 long-handle shovel.
Tool-Shed, near Fuller's Waste Weir.
3,000 hard; bricks, lot of old lumber.
West Siphon Chamber.
1 coal-hod and poker, 1 dust-pan, 2 bushels coal, 2 qts.
paint, 1 gallon varnish, 2 qts. linseed-oil, 1 qt. of thinning,
20 lbs. salt, 2 wooden horses, 52 stop-planks, 4 stop-plank
hooks, 2 paint brushes, 1 pail, 8 pairs rubber boots, 2 locks,
3 iron hooks, 2 reflectors, 1 iron rake, 2 shovels, 1 mat, 1
Keport of the Water Board. 137
piece rope, 1 scrubbing-brush, 3 brooms, 1 stool, 2 boxes
candles, 4 oil-cans, 1 oil-cup, 1 tool-box, 1 rasp, 2 lbs. nails,
1 pick, 3 wheelbarrows, 1 bag, 1 wrench, 2 ladders, 1
cement-box, 1 piece canvas, \ gross matches, 1 50 ft. tape.
East Siphon Chamber.
52 stop-planks, 3 iron rakes, 2 wheelbarrows, 3 long-
handle shovels, 3 grub-axes, 4 sickels, 1 spade, 1 boat, 1
square, 1 straight edge, 2 ladders, 2 stop-plank hooks, 1 jug,
5 drills, 6 iron wedges, 6 brooms, 1 qt. paint, 1 can, 3 joint-
ers, 11 points, 4 chisels, 1 auger, 2 bars, 1 ice-cutter, 1 hay-
fork, 1 manure-fork, 5 shovels, 1 hammer, 1 saw, 1 keg
nails, 19 boxes candles, 1 pail, 3 pairs rubber boots, 3 iron
hooks, 2 reflectors, 6 bbls. sand, 4 bbls. American cement,
3 bbls. Portland cement, 1 ice-saw, 2 rattan brooms, 1 hat-
chet, 1 mud-digger, 3 picks, 2 large drills, 1 maul, 1 ladle,
3 long-handle spades, 3 bush scythes, 3 oil-cups, 4 oil-cans,
1 roll sheet-lead, 3 hoes, 2 pieces rope.
Clarice's Waste Weir.
12 stop-planks, 2 stop-plank hooks, 1 shovel, 1 bar, 1 pail,
1 long-handle shovel, 1 wheelbarrow, 1 wooden roller, 1
iron rake.
EEPOET OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
EASTERN DIVISION.
Boston, May 1, 1881.
Leonard R. Cutter, Esq., Chairman Boston Water Board:
Sir, — I herewith submit my report for the year ending
with April 30th : —
New 48-inch Main.
This line, beginning at the Chestnut-Hill Reservoir and
ending at the junction of Brookline, Brighton, and Common-
wealth avenues, was commenced in the latter part of June
and completed on the 1st of December. The whole length
is 16,239 feet. Up to the present time no leak has been
discovered. A connection between the 40-inch main on
Brookline avenue and the 36-inch and 30-inch mains on Tre-
mont street, with a 30-inch pipe through Francis street, for a
better distribution, is yet to be made.
East Boston.
The pipes for the High-service were laid during the sea-
son. The whole length of the different sizes (12, 10, and 6-
inch) is 7,428 feet.
Main Pipe.
The whole number of feet of the different sizes laid during
theyear.is . . . 64,139
Relaid and changed in sizes 4,892
69,031, equal to 12^|ff miles.
Total number of miles to date . . . 384||-|^.
Service-Pipes.
Whole number put in . . . . 962
Length in feet 23,912
Total number to date . . . . . 46,315
Keport of the Water Board.
139
Of the relaying of enlarged sizes, the following table shows
the change in sizes : —
Street.
Between what streets.
Size now.
No. of feet.
Size form'ly
Eastern avenue . .
Commercial and the water.
6-in.
403
4-ln.
Constitution wharf.
Commercial and the water.
6 "
204
4 "
Arnold street . . .
Washington and Shawmut ave.
6 "
499
4 " •
F and Dorchester.
6 "
357
4 "
Eelaid.
Pynchon st., bet. Roxbury and Center st 12-inch. 1,804 feet.
Hampshire st., bet. Vernon and Clay 6-inch. 679 "
Mt. Vernon st., bet. Boston and Dorchester ave 6-inch. 142 "
Rutland st., bet. Shawmut ave. and Tremont st. 6-inch. 804 "
Taken up.
12-inch iron pipe 211 feet
9-inch iron pipe 42
6-inch iron pipe 166
4-inch iron pipe 1,463
2-inch lead pipe 19
li-inch iron pipe 491
f -inch lead pipe 179
140
City Document No. 101.
Statement of Location, Size, and Number of Feet of Pipe
laid in 1$80.
In what Street.
Huntington ave
Newbury
Gloucester ....
Newton
Mercantile .....
Cazenove place
Fifth
A
First
Congress ,
A
Fifth
Baxter
A ,
A
Between what Streets.
BOSTON.
Newton and B. & A. R.R. Bridge.
Total 16-inch
Hereford and W. Chester Park
Commonwealth ave. and Newbury.
Carlton and Huntington ave
Total 12-inch
Clinton and South Market . .
Total 6-inch
Chandler and Columbus ave.
Total 4-inch
SOUTH BOSTON.
Q and the Water
First and Congress
Hand I
East of A
Total 12-inch
First and Congress. .
Total 8-inch..
Q and the Water. . .
From D
First and Congress.
Total 6-inch . .
First and Congress
Total 4-inch..
177
177
108
242
690
1,040
200
200
72
" 72
2,351
210
439
3,006
18
18
120
36
45
201
5
Report or the Water Board.
141
Statement of Location, Size, etc. — Continued.
In what Street.
White
Brooks
Brooks ,
Chelsea
Marion
Bremen
Maverick
Cottage
Brooks
Butler ave
Meridian
Brooks
Maynard's wharf
Beacon
Francis
Beacon
Terrace
Between what Streets.
EAST BOSTON.
For High Service
Total 12-lnch
For High Service . .
Total 10-inch
White and Eagle . .
Total 8-hich..
From Saratoga
Monmouth and Eagle
White and Eagle
Total 6-inch .
From New
Total 4-inch.
BOSTON HIGHLANDS.
St. Mars' and Commonwealth ave.
Total 48-inch ,
Brookline ave. and Tremont .
Total30-inch ,
St. Mary and Commonwealth ave.
Parker place and New Heath
Total 16-inch
30
1,073
27
1,100
1,076
596
211
2,118
984
813
5,798
128
128
938
530
66
1,534
420
420
2,964
2,964
1,007
1,007
243
37
280
142
City Document No. 101.
Statement of Location, Size, etc. — Continued.
In what Street.
Mt. Seaver ave.
Heath
Brighton ave. . .
Pynchon ,
Parker Hill ave
Parker ,
Atwood ave. . .
Gilbert ,
Wyman
Chestnut ave. . ,
Montana ,
Blue Hill ave. . ,
Wilmot ,
Colhy
Nichols court . .
Oriental court.,
Cedar
Delle ave
Wyman
Maple
Pynchon ,
Park
Bragdon ,
Notre Dame. . . ,
Hay ward
"Wyman
Tremont ,
Parker Hill ave
Between what Streets.
BOSTON" HIGHLANDS.— Continued.
Maple and Montana
Centre and Pynchon.
Beacon and St. Mary
Roxbury and Heath ,
Parker and Parker Hill Reservoir
Parker Hill and Fisher ave
Total 12-inch
From Day
Hoffman and Roy
Centre and Chestnut
Sheridan ave. and Wyman
Mt. Seaverns ave. and Georgia.
Quincy and Hayward
Total 8-inch.
Bainhridge and Elmore
From Washington
From Phillips
Pynchon and Centre
From Parker....*
Centre and Chestnut
Mt. Seaver ave. and Schuyler
New and Old Heath
Brookline ave. and Binney
Washington and Amory
Bragdon and Codman
Blue Hill ave. and Warren
Lamartine and Chestnut
Francis and Hillside ave
Parker and Parker Hill Reservoir
Amount carried forward 2,499
Beport of the Water Board.
143
Statement of Location, Size, etc. — Continued.
In what Street.
Elmore
"Wilmot
Highland Park ave.
Centre
Edgewood
Smith-st. court
Norfolk ave.
Lawrence "
Blue Hill "
Park ...
Pleasant.
Mt. Vernon . . .
Virginia
Dickens
Greenwich ...
Clapp
Columbia
Bowdoin .....
Victoria ,
Highland ....
Fenton
Lawrence ave.
Between what Streets.
Amount brought forward .
BOSTON HIGHLANDS.— Continued.
"Wilmot and Walnut ave
Bainhridge and Elmore
Fort ave. and Highland Park st
Highland and Pynchon
Total 6-inch.
Blue Hill ave. and "Warren.
Nichols court and Smith. . .
Total 4-inch.
DORCHESTER.
Oak and Franklin
Cedar and Myrtle
Norfolk and Oakland place
Total 12-inch
Millet and Kilton
Cottage and Stoughton.
Total 8-inch.
Carleton and Pumping-Station. . .
Bird and Davenport ave
Adam and Clayton
Dorchester ave. and Commercial.
Boston and Oak
Washington and Blue Hill ave. .
Bellevue and Hamilton ave
From Dorchester ave
High and East
From Greenwich
Cedar and Myrtle .'
Amount carried forward
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2,499
77
78
79
138
2,861
977
52
1,029
255
413
211
879
242
493
735
3,131
165
941
1,051
1,402
74
11
400
358
102
7
7,642
144
City Document No. 101.
Statement of Location, Size, etc. — Continued.
In what Street.
Carlton
Elmo
Dix
Withington .
Coleman . . .
Green Hill .
Harrison . . .
Minot pi.
Elton
New
Oak ave. . . .
Millet
Oakland pi. .
Blue Hill ave
Centre
Pleasant
Pearl
Bowdoin . . .
Glide
Adams
Patterson . . .
Virginia
Orchard
Spring
Leonard
"Washington.
Between what Streets.
Amount brought forward
DORCHESTER. — Continued.
From Crescent ave
Erie and Blue Hill ave
Adams and Dorchester ave
Norfolk and Euclid
Hamilton ave. and Bellevue
Mill and Harrison
From Green Hill
" Minot
Dorchester ave. and Auckland
Pleasant and Dorchester ave
From Plain
Park and Wheatland ave
Blue Hill ave. and Oakland
Norfolk and Oakland pi
Dorchester ave. and Adams
Pearl and Cottage
Dorchester ave. and Pleasant
Bellevue and Olney
Minot and Chickatawbut
Oak ave. and Minot
From Codman
Davenport ave. and Bird
From Boston
" Savin Hill ave
Clayton and Granger
Total 6-inch.
WEST ROXBURT.
Poplar and Roslin ave
Total 20-inch
"3M
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20
X
Report of the Water Board.
145
Statement of Location, Size, etc. — Continued.
In what Street.
LaG-range. . . .
Poplar
Brown ave. . .
Washington..
Birch
May
Corey
LaGrange. . . .
Boylston ....
Albano
Keyes court
LaG-range ....
Brown ave. . .
Ashland ....
Hathaway. . . .
Boylston ....
"Washington. .
Birch
Corey
Albano
Poplar
LaG-range. . . .
Perkins court
May
Between what Streets.
WEST ROiUUKT.— Continued.
Centre and Linnet
Metropolitan ave. and Charles
Poplar and Ashland
Poplar and Dudley
South and Prospect ,
Centre and Pond
Centre and Weld
Jordan and Pleasant
Total 12-inch
A and Centre
Roslin ave. and Washington ,
Total 8-inch.
From Keyes
Centre and Linnet
Poplar and Sharon
Albion and Sheldon
South and Centre
A and Centre
Albano and Dudley
South and Prospect
Centre and Weld
Roslin ave. and Washington.
South and Washington
Jordan and Pleasant
Total 6-inch.
From Perkins
Centre and Pond .
Total 4-inch.
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2
1,260
ii
365
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682
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1,447
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909
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107
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814
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5,819
303
628
126
8
7
82
233
7
12
296
10
804
120
19
139
146
City Document No. 101.
Statement of Location, Size, etc. — Concluded.
In what Street.
Beacon
Beacon
Essex
Everett
Bigelow
Rockland ......
Bigelow
Allston square
Everett ,
School ,
Colwellave...
Essex
Beacon
Beacon
Between what Streets.
BRIGHTON.
Chestnut-Hill Reservoir and Brookline Line
Total 48-inch
At Chestnut-Hill Reservoir
Total 36-inch
Brighton ave. and Cambridge Line.
Total 16-ineh
Lincoln and Pleasant
Total 12-inch ;...
Brooks and Faneuil
Total 8-inch
Chestnut Hill ave. and Washington
Brooks and Faneuil
From Allston
Lincoln and Adams pi
From Market
From Chestnut Hill ave
Total 6-inch
Brighton ave. and Cambridge Line.
Total 4-inch
BROOKLINE.
St. Mary to Brighton Line
Total 48-inch
Englewood ave. and Kent
Total 16-inch
13
.2 ft
36
16
1,275
1,275
55
55
330
330
11
286
8
75
180
1,255
20
20
12,000
12,000
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Repairs of Pipes during the Tear 1880.
Where.
Diameter of Pipes in Inches.
40
1
36
2
30
2
24
12
1
3
16
20
1
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139
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West Roxbury
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1,064
Of the leaks that have occurred on pipes of 4 inches
and upwards : Joints, 91 ; settling of earth, 17 ;
defective packing, 3 ; defective pipe, 4 ; defective
stop-cock, 2 ; struek by pick, 2. Total . . 119
Stoppages by fish, 7 ; gasket, 9 . . . 16
Of 3-inch and on service-pipes : Joints, 9 ; settling
of earth, 240 ; settling of wall, 1 ; settling of
sewer, 2 ; defective pipe, 49 ; defective coupling,
12 ; defective packing, 13 ; defective faucet, 5 ;
coupling loose at main, 11 ; by frost, 9 ; stiff con-
nections, 95. Total 446
Stoppages by fish, 279 ; by rust, 161 ; by dirt, 32 ;
by gasket, 11 . . . . . . . 483
Total
1,064
Report of the Water Board.
151
Statement of Number of Leaks and Stoppages, 1850-1880.
DlAMETEB OF.
Totals.
Tbab.
Four inches and
upwards.
Less than four
inches.
32
64
•
82
85
74
75
75
85
77
82
134
109
117
97
95
111
139
122
82
82
157
185
188
153
434 •
203
214
109
213
211 .
135
72
173
241
260
280
219
232
278
324
449
458
399
373
397
594
496
536
487
449
407
769
1,380
1,459
1,076
2,120
725
734
801
1,024
995
929
104
1851
237
323
345
354
294
307
1857
363
401
531
592
508
1862
490
494
489
607
675
609
531
489
926
1871
1,565
1872
1,647
1873
1,229
1874 . .
2,554
928
948
1877
910
1878
1,237
1,206
1,064
152
City Document No. 101.
Htdeants.
During the year 133 hydrants have been established, and
82 abandoned.
ESTABLISHED.
ABANDONED.
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4
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17
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Total amount up to May
1,1
881.
Boston ......
. 1,326
South Boston .
493
East Boston .
. 301
Boston Highlands .
801
Dorchester
700
West Eoxbury
336
Brighton
212
Deer Island .
16
Brookline
8
Charlestown .
3
Chelsea .
8
4,204
29 hydrants have been taken out and replaced by new or
repaired ones, and 124 boxes have been taken out and
replaced by new ones. The hydrants have had the usual
attention paid them.
Stopcocks.
95 new stopcocks have been established this year. 41
boxes have been taken out and replaced by new ones. All
the stopcocks have had the proper attention paid them.
Report of the Water Board.
153
Statement of Pipes and other Stock on hand, exclusive of Tools, May 1, 1881.
DlAMBTBB IN INCHES.
60
2
48
2
2
40
40
2
6
1
6
2
4
1
1
4
6
4
1
2
36
30
1
6
1
10
2
2
3
2
2
4
2
2
2
30
48
1
2
2
6
6
7
2
2
2
4.
3
13
10
18
5
24
20
16
12
10
9
8
6
4
3
32
1
1
10
5
1
3
2
7
9
4
18
4
3
1
53
1
6
8
2
9
12
5
10
11
3
2
38
1
14
18
2
2
4
9
2
2
10
8
4
442
10
50
25
3
13
8
14
17
6
43
1
39
52
12
4
158
3
12
24
5
3
1
3
2
4
26
484
35
26
45
11
9
34
13
49
5
31
36
7
13
1,477
45
52
2
8
17
15
13
36
4
36
40
13
4
12
1
16
29
13
21
10
3
15
1
2
7
2
2
12
2
1
20
Blow-of Branches . . .
1
1
1
1
2
1
2
2
8
Pieces of Pipes ....
•
Blow-off and Manhole .
15
Manhole Branches . .
Lowry Hydrants. — 15 Lowry hydrants, 50 barrels, 43
pots, 5 gaskets, 10 valves, 10 chucks, 42 wastes, 2 covets,
210 bolts.
154 City Document No. 101.
Post Hydrants. — 1 post hydrant, 21 pots, 19 barrels, 2
valves, 16 caps, 1 cover.
Boston Hydrants. — 30 Boston hydrants, 11 extension
pieces, 10 frames and covers, 64 covers, 7 bends.
Boston Y's. — 2 Boston Y's, 1 cover, 5 pots.
Boston Lowry's. — 2 Boston Lowry hydrants, 37 gaskets,
119 bolts.
For Stopcocks. — 1 4-inch screw for waste weir, 1 do. for
Brookline reservoir, 110 lbs. washers, 49 bolts, 2,807 lbs.
iron castings, 300 lbs. composition, 60 lbs. brass, 209 mai-
lable nuts.
Meters in Shop. — 7 3-inch, 6 2-inch, 1 11-inch, 25 1-inch,
38 f-inch.
Stock for Meters. — 49 1-inch cocks, 8 f-inch do., 1
4-inch clock, 2 3-inch, 10 f-inch, 2 2-inch connection
pieces, 4 1-inch do., 6 f-inch do., 20 rubber nipples, 14
fish boxes.
For Service-Pipe. — 41 2-inch nipples, 34 2-inch nuts, 4
2-inch valves, 11 2-inch screw nipples, 43 2-inch tubes, 5 2-
inch valves, 41 2-inch male couplings, 31 11-inch nipples,
35 ll-inch cocks, 43 1^-inch nuts, 18 1^-inch tubes, 7 1|-
inch cocks, 32 1^-inch male couplings, 17 1^-inch nuts, 6
1-inch air plugs, 24 1-inch- cocks, 50 1-inch T cocks, 42 1-
inch sidewalk cocks, 46 1-inch tubes, 41 1-inch male couplings,
33 1-inch crooked cocks, 5 1-inch air cocks, 52 1-inch nuts,
92 f-inch cocks, 64 f-inch nuts, 109 f-inch tubes, 44 f-inch
T cocks, 51 1-inch male couplings, 52 f-inch nuts, 110 f-inch
cocks, 52 f-inch crooked cocks, 65 f-inch right angle cocks,
50 f-inch T cocks, 66 f-inch straight cocks, 20 f-inch
tha wing-cocks, 21 f-inch sidewalk cocks, 26 f-inch thawing-
couplings, 366 f-inch nuts, 234 f-inch tubes, 27 f X |-inch
tubes, 213 f-inch nipples, 19 f-inch Y cocks, 52 ^-inch
straight cocks, 48 |-inch nuts, 6 |-inch crooked cocks, 30
J-inch tubes, 524 boxes, 33 extension tubes, 109 telescope
tubes.
Lead Pipe. — 326 lbs. 2 ^-inch lead pipe, 1,632 lbs. 2-
inch pipe, 1,366 lbs. 1^-inch lead pipe, 2,135 lbs. 1^-inch
pipe, 1,020 lbs. 1-inch pipe, 251 lbs. 1-inch tin-lined pipe,
139 lbs. f-inch pipe, 366 lbs. f-inch tin-lined pipe, 61 lbs.
f-inch block-«tin pipe.
Blacksmith Shop. — 648 lbs. Norway iron, 238 lbs. shoe
shapes, 1,565 lbs. refined iron, 346 lbs. square cast steel,
177 lbs. Octagon steel, 92 lbs. calking steel, 535 lbs. horse-
shoes.
Carpenter's Shop. — 2 Lowry hydrant boxes, 6 post do., 4
Boston Y do., 53 stopcock boxes, 3 meter boxes, 39,000
feet spruce, 20 feet maple, 20 feet ash.
Eeport of the Water Board. 155
Tools. — 1 steam-engine, 1 large-hoisting-crane, 3 boom
derricks, 8 hand geared do., 8 set of shears and rigging for
same, 8 tool houses, 4 tool boxes, 7 nozzles, 2 platform
scales, 1 portable blacksmith shop, 1 portable cover for
Brewer fountain, 1 hand-roller, 2 horse do., tools for laying
main and service pipe, 2 engine lathes, 1 foot do., 1 hand
do., 1 Pratt & Whitney do., 1 planer, 1 boring mill, 1
chain hoisting gear, 1 upright drilling machine, 4 grindstones,
1 trip hammer, the necessary tools for carrying on the
machine, blacksmith, carpenter, and plumbing shops, 1
circular saw, 1 fan blower, 1 40-inch proving press, 1 36-
inch do., 1 small do., 7 wheelbarrows, also a lot of patterns
where we obtain castings.
Stable. — 13 horses, 13 wagons, 2 buggies, 6 pungs, 1
sled, 2 sets runners, 2 carts, 17 sets harness, 30 blankets, 3
buffalo robes, 1^ tons hay, 10 bushels grain, 1 jigger, 3 lap
robes, 2 hay cutters.
Beacon Hill Reservoir. — 1 large composition cylinder, 1
16-inch jet, 1 6-inch composition jet, 3 composition jets, 9
cast-iron plates, 2 4-inch composition jets, 5 swivel pipe
patterns, 1 2-inch copper straight jet, 6 composition jets for
small fountains.
Miscellaneous. — 15,127 lbs "pig lead, 100 lbs. gasket, 1
fountain basin, 1 stone trough for drinking fountain, 140
cords wood, 1 thawing-boiler, 1 hose carriage, 1 garden
pump, 48 3-inch earthen pipe, 12 paving brick, 90 gallons
kerosene-oil, 40 gallons linseed-oil, 3 bbls. cement, lot of
old bolts.
Respectfully submitted,
E. R. JONES,
Superintendent Eastern Division.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
MYSTIC WATER WORKS.
Charlestown District, Boston, May 1, 1881.
Leonard R. Cutter, Esq., Chairman Boston Water Board:
Sir, — My annual report for the year ending April 30 is
herewith respectfully submitted.
Mystic Lake.
During the month of June, at Mystic Station, in Winches-
ter, the low level of the water being favorable, a large
amount of muck was wheeled up from areas that are usually
flowed, and deposited along the shore. This work was con-
tinued through the season until December 14, at Wedge
and Whitney's ponds, and a part of the Abbajona river,
near Moseley's, in Winchester, and also in Mystic lake, at
Mystic street, above the Everett estate, and above Bacon's
bridge. The stone-work at the Overflow Dam, including the
wing-walls and all the piers, has been thoroughly exam-
ined and repointed, the low level of the water favoring the
work ; and I consider all that work in very excellent con-
dition.
Mystic Sewer.
This sewer is in good order its entire length, together with
all its branch connections and cesspools.
Conduit.
The conduit, having been cleaned and examined the pre-
vious year, was not drawn off the past year, but it is probably
in good condition. The collection on the screen's at the gate-
chamber was very slight, indicating but very little growth of
vegetable matter in the conduit. The screens at the gate-
chamber have been entirely renewed during the year.
Pumping— Station.
The pumps are in good working order, and have required
but slight repairs. The water cylinders, suction and delivery
pipes, and other iron-work connected with them, will need
Eeport of the Water Board. 157
repainting during the coming year. In the boiler-room, the
older set of boilers are now being overhauled and repaired.
One of them has had an entire new set of tubes and a new
sheet over the furnace, and the others are now being
thoroughly inspected. The walls and ceiling of the engine-
room have been repainted. The engine-house and coal-
shed, dwelling-houses and stable, are in good condition,
requiring only the usual repairs.
Distributing Mains.
In this district these mains have been extended 296 feet,
and 11,914 feet have been relaid,all with iron pipe. Of the
amount relaid, 240 feet were enlarged from 1 to 4 inch in
diameter ; 672 feet, from 2 to 4 inch ; 3,446 feet, from 4 to 6
inch ; and 624 feet, from 4 to 8 inch. There were also 600
feet reduced from 8 to 6 inch.
The City of Chelsea having filled in and made solid about
275 feet of their end of Chelsea bridge, the 16-inch supply
main through that portion was relaid and the location changed.
The number of hydrants has been increased 18, viz., 5
Lowry, and 13 Post, and 2 Flush hydrants have been dis-
continued.
There have been 27 breaks, and 19 leaks on the dis-
tributing mains during the year.
In Chelsea the distributing mains have been extended 100
feet, in Somerville 1,331 feet, and in Chelsea there has been
1, and in Somerville 8, additional hydrants located during
the year.
Service-Pipes.
There have been 36 new service-pipes entered, and 131
repaired or altered. Of these, 10 tin-lined were changed to
lead ; 12 changed from " Y " branch to single supplies ; 7 were
renewed and 5 relaid and enlarged; 12 were altered for
various reasous. There were 50 stoppages, of which 27 were
by frost, 17 by fish, and 6 by rust. 800 service-boxes were
renewed, 425 with iron boxes, and 375 with wood.
In Chelsea 42 new service-pipes have been entered ; in
Somerville, 94; and in Everett, 23.
The appended tables show the number of feet of pipe laid
and relaid, the amount now connected with the works, the
number of gates and hydrants, and the stock on hand at the
end of the year.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES H. BIGELOW,
Superintendent.
158
City Document No. 101.
Distribution Pipe Relaid in Charlestown in 1880-81.
Streets.
Pine
Tremont
Russell
Bartlett
Sullivan
Mason place . . .
Wesley place . . .
Harvard
Vine
Decatur
Moulton
Bunker Hill . . .
Jackson
Jerome place . . .
Ferrin
"Warren
Boley
Monument avenue
Pleasant
Thompson . . . .
Cordis
Church court . . .
Albion court . . .
Baldwin
Irving place . . .
Forbush court . .
Gibbs lane . . . .
Chestnut
Bow
High
Hill
Webster
1 inch.
4 "
4 "
6 "
4 "
2 "
2 "
Carried forward ,
Size of Pipe.
4 inch.
Feet.
240
291
36
942
6 inch.
Feet.
852
16
28
900
41
16
1,145
864
54
756
600
6,508
8 inch.
Feet.
624
600
1,596
3.420
16 inch.
Feet.
Repokt of the "Water Board.
Distribution Pipe Relaid. — Continued.
159
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Size of Pipe.
Streets.
4 inch.
6 Inch.
8 inch.
16 inch.
O
Feet.
Feet.
Feet.
Feet.
l
942
24
6,508
3,420
4 inch.
a "
6 "
6 "
4 "
4 ««
16 "
4 "
4 «
6 "
2 "
2 "
4 «•
120
36
36
24
24
48
72
216
216
96
48
84
Eastern R.R., Prison Point ....
1,566
6,880
3,420
48
Extension of Distribution Pipes in Charlestown in 1880-81.
Streets.
Size of Pipe.
Kind of
Pipe.
Total Feet.
1
4 inch.
6 inch.
10 ►
12
120
18
12
24
Iron.
10
12
18
12
24
100
242
54
296
160 City Document No. 101.
Service-Pipes Laid in Charlestown in 1880-81.
Size.
J inch.
| inch.
} inch.
1 inch.
2 inch.
Total
No.
Total
Feet.
5
27
2
1
1
36
876
Chablestown.
Chelsea.
Somebvtlle.
EVEBETT.
f Relaid 6,932 feet.
Relaid and enlarged . . 11,914 "
Extension 296 feet.
Laid previous . . .164,698 "
Aggregate 154,894 feet, or 29 miles 1,774 feet.
f Extension 100 "
Laid previous 149,363 ••
Aggregate 149,463 feet, or 28 miles 1,623 feet.
f Relaid 1,340 feet.
Extension 1,331 "
Laid previous 236,653 "
Aggregate 237,984 feet, or 45 miles 384 feet.
| Laid previous 76,024 feet, or 14 miles 2,104 feet.
Engine-Hottse
Gboxtnds, Someb- \ Laid previous 287 feet.
VTLLE.
Total amount of distribution pipe, 117 miles 892 feet.
Keport of the Water Board.
161
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City Document No. 101.
Statement of Stock on Hand May 1, 1881.
Diameter in Inches.
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186
11
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8
15
41
6
19
88
17
16
10
6
10
30
3
25
1
160
16
13
11
11
19
22
8
31
2
230
31
19
14
9
6
45
12
20
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186
21
22
16
12
24
11
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8
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58
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6
Hydrants. — 32 Lowry hydrant barrels, 29 pots, 23
frames, 650 lbs. special castings, 40 gaskets, 25 wastes, 50
bolts, 18 rubber valves, 170 lbs. blanks.
Meters. — 5 1-inch, 1 2-inch, 2 3-inch, 3 4-inch, 26 frames,
37 covers, 7 boxes, 23 2-inch connections, 13 l|-inch con-
nections, 39 1-inch connections, 6 f-inch connections, 59 lbs.
brass wire.
Services. — 13 ^-inch service-stops, 53 f-inch do., 9 |-inch
do., 7 1-inch do., 23 f-inch corp. stops, 5 f-inch do., 6 1-
inch do., 40 |-inch for cement pipe, 10 f-inch do., 12 1-inch
do., 23 2-inch sol-nipples, 11 1-inch do., 13 f-inch do., 54
|-inch do., 70 lbs. block-tin, 75 lbs. solder, 122 brass bolts,
34 box covers, 180 iron boxes.
Lead Pipe. — 6,218 lbs. |-inch, 2,898 lbs. f-inch, 810 lbs.
f-inch, 805 lbs. 1-inch, 627 lbs. 1 J-ineh, 720 lbs. 2-inch.
Miscellaneous. — 640 lbs. pig lead, 11 kegs nails, 11,800
feet spruce Kyanized lumber, 20 double loads of gravel, 25
double loads of sand, 2 garden hydrants, 11 lbs. rubber, 8
casks cement, 1 do. calcine plaster, 36 lbs. galv. iron, 1 box
tin, 50 lbs. red lead, 50 gallons linseed-oil, 1 bbl. blk. var-
nish, 4 gallons shellac, 4 gallons alcohol, 100 lbs. white lead,
100 lbs. jute, 100 lbs. hay rope.
Keport or the Water Board. 163
CIVIL ORGANIZATION OF THE WATER WORKS, FROM
THEIR COMMENCEMENT, TO MAY 1, 1881.
Water Commissioners. %
Nathan Hale, James F. Baldwin, Thomas B. Curtis. From May
4, 1846, to January 4, 1850.
Engineers eor Construction.
John B. Jervis, of New York, Consulting Engineer. From May,
1846, to November, 1848.
E. S. Chesbrough, Chief Engineer of the Western Division. From
May, 1846, to January 4, 1850.
William S. Whitwell, Chief Engineer of the Eastern Division.
From May, 1846, to January 4, 1850.
City Engineers having Charge of the Works.
E. S. Chesbrough, Engineer. From November 18, 1850, to October
1, 1855.
George H. Bailey, Assistant Engineer. From January 27, 1851,
to July 19, 1852.
H. S. McKean, Assistant Engineer. From July 19, 1852, to October
1, 1855.
James Slade, Engineer. From October 1, 1855, to April 1, 1863.
N. Henry Crafts, Assistant Engineer. From October 1, 1855, to
April 1, 1863.
N. Henry Crafts, City Engineer. From April 1, 1863, to November
25, 1872.
Thomas W. Davis, Assistant Engineer. From April 1, 1863, to
December 8, 1866.
Henry M. Wightman, Resident Engineer at C. H. Reservoir. From
February 14, 1866, to November, 1870.
A. Fteley, Resident Engineer on construction of Sudbury-river
works, from May 10, 1873, to April 7, 1880.
Joseph P. Davis, City Engineer. From Nov. 25, 1872, to March 20,
1880.
Henry M. Wightman, City Engineer. From April 5, 1880, to pres-
ent time.
After January 4, 1850, Messrs. E. S. Chesbrough, W. S. Whitwell,
and J. Avery Richards, were elected a Water Board, subject to the
direction of a Joint Standing Committee of the City Council, by an ordi-
nance passed December 31, 1849, which was limited to keep in force
one year ; and in 1851 the Cochituate Water Board was established.
Cochituate Water Board.
Presidents of the Board.
Thomas Wetmore, elected in 1851, and resigned April 7,
1856J Five years.
John H. Wilkins, elected in 1856, and resigned June 5,
1860J Four years.
Ebenezer Johnson, elected in 1860, term expired April
3, 1865$ Five years.
164
City Document No. 101.
Otis Norcross, elected in 1865, and resigned January
15, 1867 One year and nine months.
John H. Thorndike, elected in 1867, term expired April
6, 1868$ One year and three months.
Nathaniel J. Bradlee, elected April, 6, 1868, and re-
signed January 4, 1871 . . . Two years and nine months.
Charles H. Allen, elected January 4, 1871, to May 4,
1873 Two years and four months.
John A. Haven, elected May 4, 1873, to Dec. 17,
1874$ ' One year and seven months.
Thomas Gogin, elected Dec. 17, 1874, and resigned May
31, 1875 Six months.
L. Miles Standish, elected August 5, 1875, to July 31,
1876 One year.
Members of the Board.
Thomas Wetmore, 1851, 52, 53, 54, and 55$ . . Five years.
John H. Wilkins, 1851, 52, 53, *56, 57, 58, and 59$ . Eight years.
Henry B. Rogers, 1851, 52, 53, *54, and 55 . . . Five years.
Jonathan Preston, 1851, 52, 53, and 56 Four years.
James W. Seaver, 1851$ One year.
Samuel A. Eliot, 1851$.
John T. Heard 1851$ One year.
Adam W. Thaxter, Jr., 1852, 53, 54, 55$ . . . Four years.
Sampson Reed, 1852 and 1853 Two years.
Ezra Lincoln, 1852$ One year.
Thomas Sprague, 1853, 54, and 55$ ... Three years.
Samuel Hatch, 1854, 55, 56, 57, 58, and 61 . . . Six years.
Charles Stoddard, 1854, 55, 56, and 57$ . . . Four years.
William Washburn, 1854 and 55 Two years.
Tisdale Drake, 1856, 57, 58, and 59$ . . . . Four years.
Thomas P. Rich, 1856, 57, and 58$ ... Three years.
John T. Dingley, 1856 and 59$ Two years.
Joseph Smith, 1856$ Two months.
Ebenezer Johnson, 1857, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, and 64$ Eight years.
Samuel Hall, 1857,58, 59, 60, and 61$ . . . . Five years.
George P. French, 1859, 60, 61, 62, and 63 . . . Five years.
Ebenezer Atkins, 1859$ One year.
George Dennie, 1860, 61, 62, 63, 64, and 65 . . . Six years.
Clement Willis, 1860 One year.
G. E. Pierce, 1860$ One year.
Jabez Frederick, 1861, 62, and 63$ ... Three years.
George Hinman, 1862 and 63 Two years.
John F. Pray, 1862 One year.
J. C. J. Brown, 1862 One year.
Jonas Fitch, 1864, 65, and 66 . ■ . . . • Three years.
Otis Norcross, *1865 and 66 Two years.
John H. Thorndike, 1864, 65, 66, and 67$ . . . Four years.
Benjamin F. Stevens, 1866, 67, and 68 . . . . Three years.
William S. Hills, 1867 One year.
Charles R. Train, 1868 One year.
Joseph M. Wightman, 1868, 69 .... . Two years.
Benjamin James, *1858, 68, and 69 . . . . Three years.
Francis A. Osborn, 1869 One year.
Walter E. Hawes, 1870$ . ... . . . One year.
John O. Poor, 1870 One year.
Hollis R. Gray, 1870 One year.
Nathaniel J. Bradlee, 1863, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70,
and 71 Nine 3rears-
Keport of the Water Board.
165
George Lewis, 1868, 69, 70, and 71
Sidney Squires, 1871 . . .
Charles H. Hersey, 1872
Charles H. Allen, 1869, 70, 71, and 72
Alexander Wadsworth, *1864, 65, 06, 67,
72
, 69, and
Charles R. McLean, 1867, 78, and 74 .
Edward P. Wilbur, 1873 and 74 .
John A. Haven, 1870, 71, 72, 73, and 74$
Thomas Gogin, 1873, 74, and 75* .
Amos L. Noyes, 1871, 72, and 75 .
William G. Thacher, 1*73, 74, and 75 .
Charles J. Prescott, 1875 .
Edward A. White, 1872, 73, 74, 75, and 76f
Leonard R. Cutter, 1871, 72, 73, 74, 75, and 76f
L. Miles Standish, 1860, 61, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 74, 75,
and 76f
Charles E. Powers, "'1875, and 76f
Solomon B. Stebbins, 1876f .
Nahum M. Morrison, 1876-f .
Augustus Parker, 1876f
Four years.
One year.
One year.
Four years.
Seven years.
Three years.
Two years.
Five years.
Three years.
Three years.
Three years.
One year.
Five years.
Six years.
Ten years.
Two years.
One year.
One year.
One year.
* Mr. John H. Wilkins resigned Nov. 15, 1855, and Charles Stoddard was elected to
fill the vacancy. Mr. Henry B. Rogers resigned Oct. 22, 1865. Mr. Wilkins was re-
elected Feb., 1856, and chosen President of the Board, which office he held until his
resignation, June 5, 1860, when Mr. Ebenezer Johnson was elected President ; and
July 2, Mr. L. Miles Standish was elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resig-
nation of Mr. Wilkins. Otis Norcross resigned Jan. 15, 1867, having been elected
Mayor of the City. Benjamin James served one year, in 1858, and was reelected in
1868. Alexander Wadsworth served six years, 1864-69, and was reelected in 1872.
Thomas Gogin resigned May 31, 1875. Charles E. Powers was elected July 15, to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Mr. Gogin.
t Served until the organization of the Boston Water Board.
t Deceased.
166 City Document No. 101.
Boston Water Board, Organized July 31, 1876.
Timothy T. Sawyer, from July 31, 1876, to May 5, 1879.
Leonard R. Cutter, from July 31, 1876, to present time.
Albert Stanwood, from July 31, 1876, to present time.
Francis Thompson, from May 5, 1879, to present time.
Organization of the Board for year 1880-81.
Chairman.
Leonard R. Cutter.
Clerk.
Walter E. Swan.
Superintendent of the Eastern Division of Cochituate Department.
Ezekiel R. Jones.
Superintendent of the Western Division of Cochituate Department.
Desmond Fitzgerald.
Superintendent of Mystic Department.
Charles II . Bigelow.
Water Registrar of the Cochituate Department.
William F. Davis.
Water Registrar of the Mystic Department.
Joseph H. Caldwell.
City Engineer.
Henry M. Wightman.
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