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Public Document No. 54

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ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

Department of Public Works

For the Year Ending November 30, 1935

Publication of this document approved by the Commission on Administration and Finance
850 5-37 No. 873

Qftje Commontoealtf) of jWastfadmaette

SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS

Year Ending November 30, 1935

To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts:

In accordance with the provisions of law, I have the honor, as Commissioner of
Public Works, to submit the sixteenth annual report of the Department of Public
Works for the year ending November 30, 1935.

The organization of the Department, as defined in Chapter 16, General Laws,
as amended by chapter 297, Acts of 1927, was as follows:

Commissioner of Public Works, Frank E. Lyman * and William F. Callahan.3

Associate Commissioner, Richard K. Hale.

Associate Commissioner, William F. Callahan 2 and Frank E. Lyman.1

Office Building. The new office building for this Department is intended to
accommodate the various offices of the Department which are located in Boston.
Any space not immediately needed for its activities is to be assigned for other
State departments at reasonable rental figures. This building was authorized by
Chapter 122, Acts of 1931, with additional appropriations for completion, namely,
—Chapter 21, Acts of 1932 and Item 578b, Chapter 371, Acts of 1933.

The mileage of new State highways laid out during the year amounted to 25.16
miles, but there were abandoned or discontinued 2.04 miles of State highways,
so that the net mileage of State highways amounted to 1,875.58 miles at the end
of the year.

The Department has constructed, reconstructed and widened 63.63 miles
of State highways and built 163.81 miles of roads in co-operation with cities, towns
and counties under the provisions of chapter 90, General Laws.

Under the provisions of section 26, chapter 81, General Laws, the Department
has had charge of the repair and maintenance of 8,858 miles of public ways, exclu-
sive of State highways in 175 towns.

New Projects, State Highways. Reconstruction of about seven miles of State
highway in Dracut, Lowell and Methuen.

Construction of steel bridge over the Boston-Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad,
in Revere.

Construction of concrete bridge over Mother Brook, Dedham, on the Provi-
dence Turnpike Extension, a mile of highway on new location for the Providence
Turnpike in Dedham, and three quarters of a mile of State highway on the same
route in Boston.

Reconstruction of seven miles of State highway in Southwick.

Reconstruction of about five miles of State highway in Montague, partly on
new location.

Authorized by Special Acts. A highway grade separation of considerable im-
portance was begun at the intersection of Huntington Avenue and the Fenway,
the latter being carried over Huntington Avenue.

Bond Issue. The Legislature by an Act, Chapter 464, of the current year,
provided for a Public Works Program for the purpose of alleviating existing con-
ditions resulting from unemployment. This Act authorized several classes of
public works projects to be carried out by the Department of Public Works or
under its direct supervision, at a total cost amounting to $13,000,000. The State
Treasurer is authorized by the Act, generally referred to as the Bond Issue Legis-
lation, to borrow on the credit of the Commonwealth such sums as may be neces-
sary, but not in excess of the amount above stated. A copy of this Act is submitted
below. The amount set aside for highway projects is $12,000,000, and the balance,

1 Term as'Commissioner of Public Works terminated and appointed Associate Commissioner on Dec.
20, 1934.

J Term as Associate Commissioner terminated and appointed Commissioner of Public Works on Dec.
29, 1934.

2 P. D. 54

$1,000,000, is for waterways projects. Federal co-operation is authorized under
this Act.

The selection of projects to be carried out has been made with a view to under-
taking the most urgent improvements. The allotment of $4,000,000 for con-
struction of sidewalks along State highways and any amounts used as the
Commonwealth's share for the abolition of grade crossings, will be justified by the
greater safety to human life as provided by such projects.

The grant of $2,300,000 distributed for projects to be carried out directly by
the cities and towns of the Commonwealth, has afforded the means of the employ-
ment of local labor.

This Act authorized the Department to enter into agreements with the Federal
Government for the execution of projects to be carried out with both State funds
and Federal funds.

The Federal Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 (Public Resolution
No. 11, 74th Congress) provided for the construction of highways, roads and
streets in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Highway Act. Under
this legislation the Secretary of Agriculture promulgated certain rules and regu-
lations approved by the President on July 12, 1935, for carrying out the provisions
of this Act.

The Department of Public Works entered into an agreement with the Secretary
of Agriculture on August 27, 1935, for carrying out highway projects with Federal
funds, designated as "Works Program Highway Funds," amounting to $3,262,885.
Also, an amount of $4,210,833 was provided for the elimination of grade cross-
ings, designated as Works Program Grade Crossing elimination projects; both of
these types of projects to be carried out with the co-operation of the Bureau of
Public Roads.

The agreements provided that in the execution of work financed by such
Federal funds, certain classes of labor shall be obtained through the National
Reemployment Service, preference being given to the employment of labor
obtained from relief rolls.

The Federal Aid highway construction was authorized by the Hayden-Cart-
wright Act of 1934, and the allotment to Massachusetts for 1935 was $1,741,877,
and the State appropriated an equal amount to match this Federal grant.

The engineering and clerical staff of the Department was as follows:
Chief Engineer, Arthur W. Dean.1
Acting Chief Engineer, George H. Delano.2
Highway Engineer, (Projects), Franklin C. Pillsbury.
Highway Engineer, (Construction), Raymond W. Coburn.
Highway Engineer, (Maintenance), George H. Delano.
Bridge Engineer, George E. Harkness.
District Highway Engineers: —

District No. 1, George A. Curtis — Berkshire County and the towns of Worth-
ington, Middlefield and Huntington in Hampshire County, and the towns of
Chester, Montgomery, Russell, Blandford and Tolland in Hampden County.

District No. 2, H. D. Phillips — Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden Counties,
with the following exceptions: three towns in Hampshire County included in
District No. 1 and ten towns in Hampden County included in Districts
Nos. 1 and 3.

District No. 3, John A. Johnston — Worcester County and the towns of Brim-
field, Holland. Monson, Palmer and Wales in Hampden County.

District No. 4, F. D. Sabin— Middlesex County.

District No. 5, James E. Lawrence — Essex and Suffolk Counties.

District No. 6, H. O. Parker, Norfolk and Bristol Counties.

District No. 7, H. C. Holden — Plymouth, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket
Counties.
District Waterways Engineer, for Boston Harbor — John N. Ferguson.
District Waterways Engineer, for harbors and waterways outside Boston Har-
bor— Francis L. Sellew.

i Resigned Oct. 4, 1935.

2 Appointed Acting Chief Engineer Oct. 5, 1935.

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Secretary, Mary A. Riley.
Financial Secretary, Fred Fair.

Registry of Motor Vehicles
Registrar, Morgan T. Ryan1 and Frank A. Goodwin.2
Deputy Registrar, Anthony A. Bonzagni.
Assistant to the Registrar of Motor Vehicles, Alfred W. Devine.
Chief Administrative Clerk, Charles R. Gilley.
Chief Inspector of Motor Vehicles, Albert S. Olsson.

A detailed report of the activities of the Department for the year is presented
herewith.

WILLIAM F. CALLAHAN,
Commissioner of Public Works.
December 1, 1935.

SPECIAL REPORTS TO THE LEGISLATURE

The Department was authorized and directed by the Legislature to make certain
investigations, and the reports thereon were made as follows:

State highway between the cities of Lowell and Boston, Report made Nov. 28,
1934, by the Department of Public Works, under Chapter 17, Resolves of 1934.
(Sen. 90 of 1935.)

Advisability of widening and deepening Shirley Gut in Boston Harbor. Report
made Nov. 28, 1934, by the Department of Public Works, under Chapter 19,
Resolves of 1934. (H. 220 of 1935.)

A public highway on Plum Island, Report made Nov. 28, 1934, by the Depart-
ment of Public Works under Chapter 21, Resolves of 1934. (Sen. 2 of 1935.)

The advisability of constructing certain traffic improvements in Boston, Cam-
bridge and Everett. Report made Nov. 28, 1934, by the Department of Public
Works, under Chapter 31, Resolves of 1934. (H. 221 of 1935.)

The improvement of the sanitary condition of Lake Quinsigamond and the
watershed of said Lake. Joint report made Nov. 30, 1934, by the Department of
Public Health and the Department of Public Works, as a Joint Board, under
Chapter 32, Resolves of 1934. (Sen. 10 of 1935.)

Extending the existing State highway across Chelsea Creek between Boston
and Chelsea. Report made Dec. 5, 1934, by the Department of Public Works,
under Chapter 33, Resolves of 1934. (Sen. 165 of 1935.)

The advisability of licensing contractors and builders and relative to certain
matters relating to contracts for and the employment of persons on public works.
Report made Dec. 5, 1934, by special commission, established by Chapter 33,
Resolves of 1934, and continued under authority of Chapter 34, Resolves of 1934.
(H. 217 of 1935.)

Certain proposed traffic routes in the Metropolitan District. Report made
Dec. 5, 1934, by the Department of Public Works, under Chapter 45, Resolves of
1934. (H. 223 of 1935.)

The protection of property along the waterfront in the Beachmont Section of
the City of Revere. Joint report made Dec. 5, 1934, by the Department of Public
Works and the Metropolitan District Commission, acting as a Joint Board, under
Chapter 47, Resolves of 1934. (H. 299 of 1935.)

The desirability of establishing a free port in the Port of Boston and a study
of the provisions of certain Federal legislation relative to foreign trade zones in
ports of entry of the United States, and certain other related matters. Joint
report made February, 1935, by the Boston Port Authority and the State Com-
missioner of Public Works, acting jointly, under Chapter 48, Resolves of 1934.
(H. 1950 of 1935.)

The sewage problem in the South Essex Sewerage District. Joint Report made
Nov. 28, 1934, by the Department of Public Health and the Department of Public
Works, acting as a Joint Board, under Chapter 49, Resolves of 1934. (H. 1250
of 1935.)

designed Feb. 6, 1935.

2 Appointed Registrar of Motor Vehicles, Feb. 7, 1935.

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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LEGISLATION
The Commissioner of Public Works presented to the State Secretary on Dec. 4,
1935, as required by law that part of the current annual report which contains
recommendations or suggestions for legislative action as follows: —

1. In order to provide for a revision of the motor vehicle law fixing the regis-
tration fee for certain motor vehicles, a modification of section 33, chapter 90,
General Laws, as amended by chapter 409, Acts of 1935, is recommended, in its
application to the rate fixed for registration of certain trucks and tractors.

APPROPRIATIONS
Chapter 249, Acts of 1935, making appropriations for the maintenance of de-
partments, boards, commissions, institutions and certain activities of the Com-
monwealth, etc., is, in part, as follows: —

Item

Requirements for Extinguishing the State Debt

219. For sinking fund requirements and for certain serial bonds

maturing during the present year, the sum of two mil-
lion five hundred ninety-eight thousand one hundred
ninety dollars and eighty-three cents, payable from the
following accounts and funds in the following
amounts: — from the Highway Fund, one million one
hundred eighty thousand one hundred seven dollars and
fifty cents; and the remainder from the General Fund . $2,598,190 83
219a. To meet one fourth of the expenditures authorized by sec-
tions one and two of chapter one hundred and twenty-
two of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-one, as
amended, and already in the main incurred, which is the
proportionate part intended to be ultimately met by
the commonwealth during the current fiscal year, there-
by reducing by the sum hereby appropriated the
amount that may be borrowed under section three of
said chapter, without otherwise affecting the authority
to borrow under said section three the remainder of the
amount authorized to be borrowed thereunder, the
sum of two million one hundred and twenty-five thou-
sand dollars, the same to be paid from the Highway
Fund 2,125,000 00

Interest on the Public Debt

220. For the payment of interest on the direct debt of the com-

monwealth, a sum not exceeding nine hundred thirty
thousand dollars, of which sum three hundred seventy-
four thousand five hundred forty-six dollars and twenty-
five cents shall be paid from the Highway Fund . . 930,000 00

Service of the Department of Banking and Insurance
Division of Insurance:
307. For other personal services of the division, including ex-
penses of the board of appeal and certain other costs of
supervising motor vehicle liability insurance, a sum not
exceeding one hundred ninety-five thousand dollars, of
which sum not more than thirty-five thousand dollars
may be charged to the Highway Fund .... 195,000 00

Service of the Department of Corporations and Taxation
Corporations and Tax Divisions :
313. For the salaries of certain positions filled by the commis-
sioner, with the approval of the governor and council,
and for additional clerical and other assistance, a sum
not exceeding two hundred twenty-seven thousand four
hundred dollars, of which sum not more than fifty thou-

P. D. 54 5

Item

sand dollars may be charged to the Highway Fund to
cover the estimated cost of collection of the gasoline
tax, so called, and not more than fifty thousand dollars
may be- payable from fees collected under chapters one
hundred and twenty and two hundred and thirty-four,
both of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-three,
and under section twenty-seven of chapter one hun-
dred and thirty-eight of the General Laws, as most
recently amended, to cover the estimated cost of col-
lection of alcoholic beverages taxes, so called . . $227,400 00

Service of the Department of Public Safety
Division of State Police :

616. For the salaries of officers, including detectives, a sum not
exceeding five hundred thousand dollars, of which sum
not more than one hundred eighty-four thousand dol-
lars may be charged to the Highway Fund. The addi-
tional detectives, for which provision is hereby made,
when appointed, shall not be under twenty-five years of
age or over fifty years of age, notwithstanding the pro-
visions of any other law to the contrary . . . 500,000 00

618. For other necessary expenses of the uniformed division, in-
cluding traveling expenses of. detectives, a sum not ex-
ceeding four hundred thirty-nine thousand dollars, of
which sum not more than one hundred forty-one thou-
sand dollars may be charged to the Highway Fund . 439,000 00

Service of the Department of Public Works
The appropriations made in the following four items are to
be paid three quarters from the Highway Fund and one
quarter from the Port of Boston receipts:

635. For the salaries of the commissioner and the associate com-

missioners, a sum not exceeding nineteen thousand five

hundred dollars ........ 19,500 00

636. For personal services of clerks and assistants to the com-

missioner, a sum not exceeding eighty-four hundred

dollars 8,400 00

637. For traveling expenses of the commissioners, a sum not ex-

ceeding two thousand dollars 2,000 00

638. For telephone service in the public works building, a sum

not exceeding twenty-three thousand dollars . . 23,000 00

Functions of the department relating to highways (the
following appropriations, except as otherwise pro-
vided, are made from the Highway Fund) :

639. For the maintenance and operation of the public works

building, a sum not exceeding one hundred seven thou-
sand nine hundred dollars 107,900 00

640. For the salaries of watchmen for the public works building,

a sum not exceeding fourteen thousand two hundred and

eighty dollars 14,280 00

The department of public works is hereby authorized to
rebate the rent of certain space in the public works
building occupied by the Copeland News Service.

The department of public works is hereby authorized to
rebate the rent of certain space in the public works
building occupied by the federal auditors on Public
Works Administration projects.
642. For personal services of the chief engineer, engineers and
office assistants, including certain clerks and stenogra-
phers, a sum not exceeding ninety-two thousand dollars 92,000 00

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Item

643. For services other than personal, including printing pam-

phlet of laws and the annual report, and necessary
office supplies and equipment, a sum not exceeding
eleven thousand five hundred dollars .... $11,500 00

644. For the suppression of gypsy and brown tail moths on state

highways, a sum not exceeding thirteen thousand five

hundred dollars 13,500 00

645. For the construction and repair of town and county ways, a

sum not exceeding two million three hundred and fifty

thousand dollars . . . _ . . . . . 2,350,000 00

646. For aiding towns in the repair and improvement of public

ways, a sum not exceeding one million four hundred fifty

thousand dollars . . . . . ... 1,450,000 00

647. For the maintenance and repair of state highways, including

care of snow on highways, expenses of traffic signs and
lights; for payment of damages caused by defects in
state highways, with the approval of the attorney gen-
eral; for care and repair of road-building machinery;
and for the maintenance of a nursery for roadside plant-
ing, a sum not exceeding three million one hundred

forty-five thousand dollars 3,145,000 00

647a. For the purpose of enabling the department of public
works to secure federal aid for the construction of high-
ways, a sum not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars 500,000 00

648. For administering the law relative to advertising signs near

highways, a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars,

to be paid from the General Fund 15,000 00

649. For expenses of a topographical survey and map of the com-

monwealth, in addition to funds received from federal
appropriations or private subscriptions, a sum not ex-
ceeding fifty thousand dollars 50,000 00

Registration of Motor Vehicles:

650. For personal services, a sum not exceeding nine hundred

fifty-two thousand dollars, of which sum ten thousand
dollars may be charged to the General Fund, and the
remainder shall be paid from the Highway Fund . . 952,000 00

651. For services other than personal, including traveling ex-

penses, purchase of necessary supplies and materials, in-
cluding cartage and storage of the same, and for work
incidental to the registration and licensing of owners
and operators of motor vehicles, a sum not exceeding
four hundred eighty-three thousand dollars, to be paid
from the Highway Fund 483,000 00

652. For printing and other expenses necessary in connection

with publicity for certain safety work, a sum not exceed-
ing one thousand dollars, to be paid from the Highway
Fund . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 00

653. For the reconstruction of Ocean avenue in the city of Re-

vere, as authorized by chapter three hundred and
seventy-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-
four, a sum not exceeding eighty thousand dollars, the
same to be in addition to any amounts heretofore ap-
propriated . . . 80,000 00

Functions of the department relating to waterways and
public lands:

654. For personal services of the chief engineer and assistants, a

sum not exceeding fifty-five thousand dollars . . 55,000 00

655. For services other than personal, including printing pam-

phlet of laws and the annual report, and for necessary

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Item

office and engineering supplies and equipment, a sum
not exceeding sixteen hundred dollars .... $1,600 00
Hod. For the care and maintenance of the province lands and of
the lands acquired and structures erected by the
Provincetown tercentenary commission, a sum not ex-
ceeding five thousand dollars 5,000 00

657. For the maintenance of structures, and for repairing dam-

ages along the coast line or river banks of the common-
wealth, and for the removal of wrecks and other ob-
structions from tide waters and great ponds; a sum
not exceeding twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars 22,500 00

658. For the improvement, development and protection of rivers

and harbors, tide waters and foreshores within the com-
monwealth, as authorized by section eleven of chapter
ninety-one of the General Laws, as appearing in the
Tercentenary Edition thereof, and of great ponds, a sum
not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, and any
unexpended balance of the appropriation remaining at
the end of the current fiscal year may be expended in the
succeeding fiscal year for the same purposes; provided,
that all expenditures made for the protection of shores
shall be upon condition that at least fifty per cent of the
cost is covered by contributions from municipalities or
other organizations and individuals, and that in the case
of dredging channels for harbor improvements at least
twenty-five per cent of the cost shall be so covered . 100,000 00

659. For re-establishing and permanently marking certain tri-

angulation points and sections, as required by order of
the land court in accordance with section thirty-three
of chapter ninety-one of the General Laws, as appear-
ing in the Tercentenary Edition thereof, a sum not ex-
ceeding one thousand dollars . . . . . 1,000 00

660. For expenses of surveying certain town boundaries, by the

department of public works, a sum not exceeding five

hundred dollars 500 00

661. For the operation and maintenance of the New Bedford

state pier, a sum not exceeding twelve thousand dollars 12,000 00

662. For the compensation of dumping inspectors, a sum not ex-

ceeding five hundred dollars 500 00

663. For continuing the work in gauging the flow of water in the

streams of the commonwealth, a sum not exceeding five

thousand dollars 5,000 00

664. For the maintenance and repair of certain property in the

town of Plymouth, a sum not exceeding three thousand

dollars 3,000 00

665. For the operation and maintenance of the Cape Cod Canal

pier, a sum not exceeding thirty-five hundred dollars . 3,500 00

666. For expenses of perambulating state boundary lines, a sum

not exceeding one thousand dollars .... 1,000 00

The unexpended balance of the appropriation made by item
six hundred and thirty-eight of chapter two hundred
and forty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and
thirty-one for certain work in the Taunton River,
authorized by chapter four hundred and five of the acts
of nineteen hundred and thirty, which was reappropri-
ated by chapter one hundred and seventy-four of the
acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-three, is herebv
again reappropriated. *

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Item

666a. For the reconstruction of a certain pier at Plymouth, a sum

not exceeding forty-five thousand dollars . . . $45,000 00

Total $255,600 00

Functions of the department relating to Port of Boston
(the following items are to be paid from the Port of
Boston receipts) :

667. For the construction of railroads and piers and for the de-

velopment of certain land, a sum not exceeding ten

thousand dollars 10,000 00

668. For the supervision and operation of commonwealth pier

five, including the salaries or other compensation of em-
ployees, and for the repair and replacement of equip-
ment and other property, a sum not exceeding one
hundred eight thousand dollars 108,000 00

669. For the maintenance and improvement of commonwealth

property under the control of the department in con-
nection with its functions relating to waterways and
public lands, a sum not exceeding eighty thousand
dollars 80,000 00

670. For dredging channels and filling flats, a sum not exceeding

ninety thousand dollars, the same to be in addition to
any unexpended balance of the appropriation made for
the purpose in the previous year 90,000 00

Miscellaneous
The following items are to be paid from the Highway
Fund, with the approval of the Metropolitan District
Commission :

691. For maintenance of boulevards and parkways, a sum not

exceeding five hundred sixty-eight thousand six hun-
dred and seventy-five dollars 568,675 00

692. For resurfacing of boulevards and parkways, a sum not ex-

ceeding two hundred seventy-five thousand dollars . 275,000 00
There is hereby reappropriated from the unexpended
balance of the appropriation for resurfacing of boule-
vards and parkways for the fiscal year nineteen hundred
and thirty-three the sum of twenty-six hundred eighty-
two dollars and eighty-seven cents.

693. For maintenance of Wellington bridge, a sum not exceed-

ing forty-seven hundred and eighty dollars . . . 4,780 00

Unclassified Accounts and Claims
For certain other aid:
699. For the compensation of certain public employees for in-
juries sustained in the course of their employment, as
provided by section sixty-nine of chapter one hundred
and fifty-two of the General Laws, as most recently
amended by section seven of chapter three hundred and
eighteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-
three, a sum not exceeding fifty-five thousand dollars, of
which sum not more than twenty thousand dollars may
be charged to the Highway Fund 55,000 00

Deficiencies
For deficiencies in certain appropriations of previous
years, in certain items, as follows:

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Item

Service of the Department of Public Works
Functions of the department relating to highways:
For the suppression of gypsy and brown tail moths on state
highways, the sum of ninety-one dollars and forty-three
cents, to be paid from the Highway Fund . . . $91 43

For the maintenance and repair of state highways, including
care of snow on highways, expenses of traffic signs and
lights; for payment of damages caused by defects in
state highways, with the approval of the attorney gen-
eral; for care and repair of road-building machinery;
and for the maintenance of a nursery for roadside plant-
ing, the sum of twenty dollars and seventy-eight cents,
to be paid from the Highway Fund .... 20 78

Functions of the department relating to waterways
and public lands :
For the operation and maintenance of the New Bedford
state pier, the sum of sixty-four dollars and twenty- ,

four cents 64 24

For the operation and maintenance of the Cape Cod Canal
pier, the sum of one hundred three dollars and twenty-
eight cents 103 28

Functions of the department relating to Port of
Boston:
For the maintenance and improvement of commonwealth
property under the control of the department in connec-
tion with its functions relating to waterways and public
lands, the sum of seventy-two cents, to be paid from
the Port of Boston receipts 72

Section 3. To provide for increases in the salaries and compensation of cer-
tain state officers and employees to be granted under the provisions of sections
forty-five to fifty, inclusive, of chapter thirty of the General Laws, as appearing
in the Tercentenary Edition thereof, there is hereby appropriated a sum not
exceeding four hundred thousand dollars, of which sum not more than sixty
thousand dollars shall be taken from the Highway Fund, not more than thirty
thousand dollars from funds of the metropolitan district commission, and the
balance from the General Fund, the same to be in addition to any appropriations
otherwise made for such salaries and compensation. For the purpose of appor-
tioning the appropriation made by this section, each sum expressed by section
two of this act to be available in whole or in part for personal services shall be
increased by such amount as will make available for salaries and compensation
provided for thereby, so much as is required to provide for the aforesaid increases
in such salaries and compensation. The state comptroller, in setting up such
items for personal services on the appropriation ledger in his bureau, shall take
as the amounts appropriated therefor by section one and this section the sums
so expressed as increased as aforesaid, and he shall forthwith notify each officer
having charge of any office, department or undertaking which receives such an
appropriation for personal services of the amount thereof as so set up. The
division of personnel and standardization shall furnish, upon the request of the
state comptroller, all necessary assistance in carrying out the provisions of this act.

Section 4. No expenditures in excess of appropriations provided for under
this act shall be incurred by any department or institution, except in cases of
emergency, and then only upon the prior written approval of the governor and
council.

Section 6. No payment shall be made or obligation incurred under authority
of any special appropriation made by this act for construction of public buildings
or other improvements at state institutions until plans and specifications have
been approved by the governor, unless otherwise provided by such rules and regu-
lations as the governor may make.

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Section 7. No expenses incurred for mid-day meals by state employees, other
than those who receive as part of their compensation a non-cash allowance in the
form of full or complete boarding and housing, and those employees who are sta-
tioned beyond commuting distance from their homes for a period of more than
twenty-four hours, shall be allowed by the commonwealth.

Supplementary Appropriations

Chapter 497, Acts of 1935, in addition to the general appropriation act making
appropriations to supplement certain items contained therein, and for certain
new activities and projects, is, in part, as follows: —

Section 1. To provide for supplementing certain items in the general appro-
priation act, and for certain new activities and projects, the sums set forth in sec-
tion two, for the particular purposes and subject to the conditions stated therein,
are hereby appropriated from the general fund or ordinary revenue of the com-
monwealth, unless some other source of revenue is expressed, subject to the pro-
visions of law regulating the disbursement of public funds and the approval
thereof.

Section 2.

Item

Service of the Department of Public Works
The appropriation made in the following item is to be
paid three quarters from the Highway Fund and one
quarter from the Port of Boston receipts:
636. For personal services of clerks and assistants to the commis-
sioner, a sum not exceeding twelve hundred dollars, the
same to be in addition to any amount heretofore appro-
priated for the purpose $1,200 00

Functions of the department relating to highways (the
following appropriations, except as otherwise pro-
vided, are made from the Highway Fund) :

639. For the maintenance and operation of the public works

building, a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand
seven hundred dollars, the same to be in addition to any
amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . . 25,700 00

640. For the salaries of watchmen for the public works building,

a sum not exceeding sixty-five hundred dollars, the same
to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated
for the purpose 6,500 00

642. For personal services of the chief engineer, engineers and
office assistants, including certain clerks and stenogra-
phers, a sum not exceeding fourteen hundred and forty
dollars, the same to be in addition to any amount hereto-
fore appropriated for the purpose 1,440 00

643a. For expense of membership of the department in the Ameri-
can Association of State Highway Officials, a sum not
exceeding three hundred and fifty dollars . . . 350 00

647. For the maintenance and repair of state highways, includ-
ing care of snow on highways, expenses of traffic signs
and lights; for payment of damages caused by defects
in state highways, with the approval of the attorney
general; for care and repair of road-building ma-
chinery; and for the maintenance of a nursery for road-
side planting, a sum not exceeding four hundred ninety-
seven thousand dollars, the same to be in addition to
any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . 497,000 00

Registration of Motor Vehicles:
650. For personal services, a sum not exceeding ten thousand five
hundred dollars, to be paid from the Highway Fund and

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Item

to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated

for the purpose . $10,500 00

651. For services other than personal, including traveling ex-
penses, purchase of necessary supplies and materials,
including cartage and storage of the same, and
for work incidental to the registration and licensing of
owners and operators of motor vehicles, a sum not ex-
ceeding thirty-seven thousand dollars, to be paid from
the Highway Fund and to be in addition to any amount
heretofore appropriated for the purpose . . . 37,000 00

Specials :

653a. For the payment of land damages incidental to the road ex-
penditures authorized by chapter four hundred and
twenty of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty, a
sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, to be
paid from the Highway Fund. Section twelve of said
chapter four hundred and twenty shall not apply to this
item . . . . 25,000 00

653b. For the payment of land damages incidental to the road
expenditures authorized by chapter three hundred and
forty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-
four, a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars,
to be paid from the Highway Fund .... 25,000 00

Functions of the . department relating to waterways

and public lands:

660. For expenses of surveying certain town boundaries, by the

department of public works, a sum not exceeding five

hundred dollars, the same to be in addition to any

amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . . 500 00

665. For the operation and maintenance of the Cape Cod Canal

pier, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, the same
to be in addition to any amount heretofore appropri-
ated for the purpose 1,000 00

666. For expenses of perambulating state boundary lines, a sum

not exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars, the same to
be in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated
for the purpose 2,500 00

666b. (This item omitted.)

666c. For expenses of certain improvements at the New Bedford
pier, as authorized by chapter three hundred and
eighty-nine of the acts of the current year, a sum not
exceeding ten thousand dollars 10,000 00

666d. For expenses of certain improvements in the Salisbury
reclamation district, as authorized by chapter three
hundred and ninety-nine of the acts of the current year,
a sum not exceeding thirteen thousand dollars . . 13,000 00

666e. For expenditures for flood control of the Housatonic river,
as authorized by chapter four hundred and thirteen of
the acts of the current year, a sum not exceeding twelve

thousand five hundred dollars 12,500 00

Functions of the department relating to Port of
Boston (the following items are to be paid from
the Port of Boston receipts) :

668. For the supervision and operation of commonwealth pier
five, including the salaries or other compensation of
employees, and for the repair and replacement of equip-
ment and other property, a sum not exceeding sixty-

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Item

two hundred and fifty dollars, the same to be in addi-
tion to any amount heretofore appropriated for the
purpose $6,250 00

668a. For deficiencies in appropriations of previous years for the
supervision and operation of commonwealth pier five,
including the salaries or other compensation of em-
ployees, and for the repair and replacement of equip-
ment and other property, a sum not exceeding four
thousand sixty dollars and six cents .... 4,060 06

669. For the maintenance and improvement of commonwealth

property under the control of the department in con-
nection with its functions relating to waterways and
public lands, a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dol-
lars, the same to be in addition to any amount hereto-
fore appropriated for the purpose .... 20,000 00

670. For dredging channels and filling flats, a sum not exceeding

thirty-five thousand dollars, the same to be in addition
to any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose 35,000 00
670a. For the removal of certain abandoned hulks in Boston
Harbor, as authorized by chapter two hundred and
eighty-two of the acts of the current year, a sum not
exceeding five thousand dollars 5,000 00

Miscellaneous
The following items are to be paid from the Highway
Fund, with the approval of the Metropolitan Dis-
trict Commission:
691. For maintenance of boulevards and parkways, a sum not
exceeding twenty-eight thousand dollars, the same to be
in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for

the purpose 28,000 00

692a. For the extension of the Mystic Valley Parkway, so-called,
as authorized by chapter three hundred and seven of
the acts of the current year, a sum not exceeding ten
thousand dollars, the same to be in addition to any
amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . . 10,000 00

Unclassified Accounts and Claims
705. For the payment of claims authorized by certain resolves of
the current year, a sum not exceeding thirty-six thou-
sand eight hundred forty-seven dollars and ninety-six
cents of which sum twenty-five hundred dollars shall be
paid from the Highway Fund. Said payments shall be
certified by the comptroller of the commonwealth only
upon the filing of satisfactory releases or other evidence
that the payments are accepted as full compensation
on the part of the commonwealth in respect thereto . 36,847 96

Deficiencies
For deficiencies in certain appropriations of previous
years, in certain items, as follows :

Department of Public Works
For services other than personal for functions of the depart-
ment relating to highways, including printing pamphlet
of laws and the annual report, and necessary office sup-
plies and equipment, the sum of eight dollars, to be
paid from the Highway Fund 8 00

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Item

For the maintenance and improvement of commonwealth
property under the control of the department in con-
nection with its functions relating to waterways and
public lands, the sum of one hundred forty-nine dollars
and eighteen cents 149 18

Other Appropriations
653. For the reconstruction of Ocean avenue in the city of Revere,
as authorized by chapter three hundred and seventy-
five of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-four, as
amended by chapter four hundred and eighty-seven of
the acts of the current year, a sum not exceeding twenty-
five thousand dollars, to be paid from the Highway
Fund and to be in addition to any amount heretofore
appropriated for the purpose; provided, that the de-
partment of public works is hereby authorized to con-
tract forthwith for work and to incur any other inci-
dental expenses authorized up to the amount of six
hundred and ten thousand dollars, as authorized by
said chapter three hundred and seventy-five, as
amended, and the state treasurer, for the purposes of
this act, may borrow under authority granted by sec-
tion forty-seven of chapter twenty-nine of the General
Laws, as appearing in the Tercentenary Edition thereof 25,000 00
645. For the construction and repair of town and county ways,
a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, to be
paid from the Highway Fund and to be in addition to
any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . 25,000 00

Highway Fund Diversion
•Chapter 476, Acts of 1935, provided for the transfer of the proceeds of the
gasoline tax from the Highway Fund to the General Fund, as follows:

WHEREAS, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its
purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public convenience.

BE IT ENACTED, ETC., AS FOLLOWS:

The state treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to transfer the
sum of nine million five hundred thousand dollars from the Highway Fund
to the General Fund.

Bond Issue Legislation
Chapter 464, Acts of 1935, provided for a Public Works Program for the Pur-
pose of Alleviating Existing Conditions resulting from Unemployment, as follows:
WHEREAS, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its pur-
pose, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public convenience.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-
TIVES IN GENERAL COURT ASSEMBLED, AND BY THE AUTHORITY
OF THE SAME, AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The following classes of public
works projects may be carried out by the state department of public works or

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under its direct supervision, subject to the following conditions and restrictions
and within the following limits of aggregate ultimate liability on the part of the
commonwealth :

Limits of Aggre-
gate Ultimate
Liability on the

Part of the
Commonwealth

(1) Highway projects, including alterations of highway bridges
over or under railroads and the construction and reconstruction of
circles, to be carried out, under the direct supervision of the depart-
ment of public works, by any city or town eligible to receive allot-
ments under chapter eighty-one or ninety of the General Laws, any
such project to be paid for out of one hundred per cent grant to a
city or town so eligible, except that an allotment for engineering
services may be made at the discretion of the commissioner of said
department before any such grant is made $2,300,000 00

Said sum of $2,300,000.00 shall be composed of the following
items: I, Engineering, $200,000.00; II, To towns under chap-
ter 81 of the General Laws, $50 per mile of public ways; III, To
cities and towns not eligible under chapter 81 upon the basis of
their respective payments for the state tax.

(2) Projects for the construction of sidewalks bordering state
highways, to be carried out by said department, including expenses

for engineering and land damages 4,000,000 00

(3) Highway projects under the Hayden-Cartwright bill, so

called . -.•.•.-. 1,741,877 00

(4) Grade crossing eliminations, including alterations of cross-
ings not at grade, and highway projects, including construction,
reconstruction and maintenance of state highways, land damages
and expenses for engineering services, and also expenses necessary to
carry out any highway or grade crossing projects to which the

federal government contributes 3,958,123 00

(5) Projects for the improvement, development and protection
of rivers and harbors, tide waters and foreshores, including work

on Commonwealth Pier 1,000,000 00

(Of which not less than $250,000.00 shall be expended elsewhere
than in Boston Harbor.)

The commissioner of said department shall have full authority to select the
projects that may be entered into under authority hereof and to carry out negoti-
ations and enter into agreements relative thereto with the appropriate agencies
of the federal government, if deemed advisable by him, and no project shall be
entered into hereunder unless it is approved by him. The commonwealth may
accept and use for any project so approved any grant of federal funds. For the
purpose of carrying out projects under this act, the state treasurer may, from
time to time, borrow on the credit of the commonwealth such sums, not exceeding
in the aggregate thirteen million dollars and may issue in one or more series bonds,
notes or other forms of written acknowledgment of debt, hereinafter referred to
as obligations. Each series shall carry such rates of interest as the state treasurer
may fix, with the approval of the governor, and shall be payable serially in such
amounts and at such times as the state treasurer may determine, with the ap-
proval of the governor; provided, that the principal payments of each series shall
be made annually in amounts as nearly equal as may be. The obligation last
payable of any series issued hereunder shall become due not later than five years
from the date of the obligations of such series. All obligations issued under this
act shall be signed by the state treasurer and approved by the governor. Facsimiles
of the signature of the governor printed thereon shall have the same effect as his
written signature. All obligations issued under this act shall be payable, as to
both principal and interest, in such funds as are, on the respective dates of pay-
ment of such principal and interest, legal tender for the payment of debts due

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the United States of America. All interest payments and payments on account of
principal on such obligations shall be paid from the Highway Fund, without
appropriation; provided, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, such obligations
shall be general obligations of the commonwealth. In anticipation of the sale of
such obligations, the state treasurer may from time to time, with the approval of
the governor, pay from the Highway Fund, without appropriation, any of the
expenses of carrying out any projects authorized under this act; but all money
so paid from said fund shall be repaid thereto out of the proceeds of the sale of
such obligations.

Section 2. For the purposes of this act, the state department of public
works and any city or town may enter into agreements whereby a city or town
may obligate itself to acquire such lands or rights therein as may be necessary
for carrying out any project aforesaid or to pay all expenses incident to the
acquisition of such lands and rights therein, or both. For the purposes of this act,
the state department of public works, on behalf of the commonwealth, or on
behalf of any city or town entering into an agreement to carry out any project as
aforesaid, or any city or town so entering into any agreement aforesaid on its own
behalf, may enter upon or take by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine of
the General Laws, or acquire by purchase or otherwise, such public or private
. lands, cemeteries, public parks or reservations or parts thereof or rights therein,
including lands or rights therein under the control of the metropolitan district
commission, or such public ways, as may be necessary for carrying out any such
project, including such lands or rights therein as may be necessary for the con-
struction of any necessary drainage outlets; provided that no damages shall be
paid for public lands or parks, parkways or reservations so taken. Upon the
recording of an order to that effect by said department in its office, the title to
and control of lands or rights therein taken or acquired in connection with a high-
way project, other than a state highway project, shall become vested in the city
or town in which the land lies or the control of land or rights therein so taken or
acquired shall become vested in the metropolitan district commission, and there-
after the highway improvement completed under such project shall be kept in
good condition and repair by such city or town or the metropolitan district com-
mission, as the case may be.

Section 3. For the purpose of paying any expenses incurred under any agree-
ment entered into under the preceding section, a city, town or county may borrow
such sums as may be necessary, and may issue bonds or notes therefor which shall
be payable in not more than ten years; and such indebtedness shall, except as
herein provided, be subject to chapter forty-four of the General Laws in the case
of a city or town, and to chapter thirty-five of the General Laws in the case of a
county. Any borrowing hereunder by a city or town may be outside its statutory
limit of indebtedness.

Approved August 5, 1935.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Summary of Income, Year Ending November 30, 1935

Highway Fund
(Section 34, Chapter 90, General Laws, as amended)
(See Chapter 288, Acts of 1925)
Fees (for registration of motor vehicles, licenses to

operate, etc.) and fines (penalties, Sundry

Courts), gross receipts ....

Gasoline tax, gross

Contributions for highways and assessments (G. L

Ch. 81) .......

Appropriation balances of previous years reverting
Contributions and refunds ....

Sale of old materials and buildings .
Reimbursement for repairs to guard rail and other

property

Rent of property (Nursery) ....
Rent of space, Public Works Building .

Slot Machine Receipts

Premium and Interest on Bonds

. $6,842,153 56
. 17,366,074 32

156,094 16

I 171,087 54

13,800 80

3,112 05

10,741 66

192 00
52,328 64

213 20
99,108 89

$24,714,906 82

94 86

116,813 77

8,141 90

5,540 88

Port of Boston Fund
(Chapter 91, General Laws)

Rents (leases and permits) $144,609 93

Reimbursement for services (inspection of dump-
ing dredged material in Boston Harbor)

Use of Commonwealth Pier No. 5 (wharfage, dock-
age, rentals, etc.)

Use of Commonwealth Pier No. 1 (rentals, etc.)

Revenue from permits for dumping dredged ma-
terial at receiving basins

License charges (for tidewater displacement and
occupying Commonwealth tide land, Boston
Harbor)

Telephone pay station receipts ....

Sales of land

Sales of Boston Harbor maps

Appropriation balances of previous years reverting

Department Income
(Ordinary Revenue)

Sales (specifications and plans for contracts) .

Aircraft licenses

Reimbursement for services (inspection of dump-
ing dredged material outside of Boston Harbor,
Ch. 196, Acts of 1925)

License charges (for tidewater displacement and
occupying Commonwealth tide lands outside of
Boston Harbor)

Certified copying charges

Sales of Atlas sheets and miscellaneous plans

Use of Province Lands (S. 25, C. 91, G. L.)

Permits for advertising signs .

Use of New Bedford State Pier

Use of Cape Cod Canal State Pier .

Sundries

40,162 38

156 25

41,291 00

2,511 75

$359,323 47

$456 00
152 00

398 97

5,914 77

135

713

201

9,2Uz

23,921

4,203

63 34

$45,361 80

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Improvement op Rivers and Harbors Trust
(Sections 11, 29, Chapter 91, General Laws)
Contributions from towns, individuals or others .

Highway Trust
(Section SO, Chapter 81, G. L.)
Federal Aid (reimbursement from United States Government)

Total

$74,587 34

3,309,287 63
28,503,467 06

EXPENDITURES

The expenditures by the Department under the provisions of General Laws and
other acts and the appropriation acts, chapters 249 and 497, Acts of 1935, during
the fiscal year ending November 30, 1935, were as follows :

Administrative
Commissioners, Associate Commissioners, Personal
services of clerks, stenographers, and Commis-
sioners' travel $30,684 92

Public Works Department Building, land and

services 2,821 32

Public Works Building, equipment .... 1,806 61
Public Works Building, operation and maintenance 126,630 82
Public Works Building, telephone service . . 23,380 81
Public Works Building, Salaries of Watchmen . 15a299 27
Total

Relating to Highways
Personal Services — Chief Engineer, clerks and sten-
ographers

State Highways — Construction (Chapter 81, G. L.)
General contract work
Engineering (supervision) .
Investigation of Worcester Pike
Highway Testing Laboratory
Triangulation Points .
Hingham-Hull (Chap. 118, Acts of 1931)
Fore River Bridge:
Substructure .... $493,221 31
Superstructure . . . 521,439 07

,870,873 75

618,214 85

14,971 07

11,500 08

98 70

100 00

Maintenance and Repair of State Highways (Chap-
ter 81, General Laws)

Reconstruction of State Highways

General contract work

Engineering, supervision on reconstruction

Ordinary Maintenance

General Maintenance

Engineering (supervision) . • .

Highway Testing Laboratory

Care and repair of road building machinery

Removal of snow from highways

Road planting and development .

Traffic engineering, signs, and traffic count

Paint manufacture

Newburyport Bridge, Salisbury, Newburyport,
oyer Merrimac River, maintenance and oper-
ation

1,014,660 38

L,146,824 34
359,806 23

$1,989,289 11

229,312 18

9,913 87

187,052 14

940,316 31

29,960 80

140,467 98

18,270 79

4,691 92

,623 75

1,055 31

$4,530,418 83

$1,506,630 57

Brightman St. Bridge, Fall River-Somerset,

maintenance and operation .... $9,988 38
New Bedford-Fairhaven Bridge, Acushnet River,

maintenance and operation .... 11,743 88
Quincy-Weymouth Bridge, maintenance and

operation 19,834 72

Detour and route maps 2,412 64

Safety Advertising ....... 2,000 00

Geodetic Survey 3,419 56

Construction of Town and County Ways
(Section 34, Chapter 90, G. L.)
State's expenditures for work contracted for in

cities and towns $2,110,178 46

Engineering and expense (supervision) . . 330,407 37

Aiding Towns in the Repair and Improvement oj
Public Ways (Section 26, Chapter 81, G. L.)
State's expenditures for work contracted for in

cities and towns . . . _ . . . $1,413,011 45
Engineering and expense (supervision) . . 121,788 46

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Emergency Public Works Construction .
Special Acts:

Incidentals (printing, postage, supplies, etc.) .
Advertising signs, regulation oj personal services

and expenses

Highways in Maiden, Braintree, Weymouth and
Hingham

Hingham, Braintree and Weymouth .
Highways in Metropolitan District (Chapter 420,
Acts of 1930, as amended by Chapter 450, Acts
of 1931)

Canton-Dedham-Wellesley, etc.

Canterbury St., Boston .

Land taking — Neponset River, Mil-

Section 1.

Section 2.

Section 3.
ton

Section 4.

West Roxbury-Brookline Parkway

$13,086 89
45,108 46

400 00
13,817 20

Abolition of Grade Crossings (Chapter 417, Acts

of 1930)

Construction of Saugus River Bridge (Chapter

241, Acts of 1932)

Expenditures tinder Chapter 258, Acts of 1932.

Section 1. State Highway, Revere .

Section 2. Boston-Revere ....

5,598,674 28

$2,440,585 83

$1,534,799 91
3,237,453 73

9,920 03

15,253 09

285 00

$14,455 00
2,858 29

Alewife Brook Parkway Extension (Chapter 302,
Acts of 1932)

Traffic Circle, Neponset River (Chapter 341, Acts
of 1934) .... ...

Reconstruction of Ocean Avenue, Revere (Chapter
375, Acts of 1934)

Study relative to Bridges, Turners Falls (Chap-
ter 314, Acts of 1934)

Chelsea North Bridge (Chapter 342, Acts of 1924)

Suppression of gypsy and brown-tail moths, on
State Highways in cities and towns

Topographical survey and maps ....

Expense of membership in American Association
of State Highway Officials

72,412 55
1,700 55
2,801 55

17,313 29

76,816 17

23,079 92

31,382 52

5,427 50
100,751 19

13,126 92
42,342 09

350 00

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Chap. 464, Acts of 1935— Bond Issue
Class. 1. Cities and towns
Class 2. Construction of sidewalks .
Class 4. Grade crossings, etc. .
Class 5. Development of Boston Harbor

Total Expenditures for Highways .

2,075 197 32

342,004 80

1,555,393 53

$3,972,595 65
$21,328,176 48

Summary of Expenditures Relating to Waterways
General Expenses $57,230 00

Boston Harbor:

Bond Issue (Chap. 464, Acts 1935)

Dredging and Filling

Hough's Neck, Quincy, Construction (Chapter 322, Acts 1934)

Freeport Investigation (Chap. 48, Resolves 1934)

Maintenance and Operation of Commonwealth Pier 5, South

Boston

Maintenance and Operation of Commonwealth Pier 1, East

Boston. (No appropriation for 1935.)

Maintenance of Property

Streets, Piers and Railroads

Wrecks, Removal of

Outside Boston Harbor:
Bond Issue (Chap. 464, Acts 1935)
Cape Cod Canal Pier, construction
Cape Cod Canal Pier, operation and maintenance
Cape Poge, Edgartown (Federal Public Works Adm.)
Compensation of Dumping Inspectors .
Improvement of Rivers and Harbors
Marshfield Shore Protection (Chap. 407, Acts 1931)
New Bedford State Pier — Operation and Maintenance
New Bedford State Pier— (Chap. 389, Acts 1935)
Plymouth Property, expenses of .

Plymouth State Pier, reconstruction (Chap. 245, Acts 1935)
Province Lands, expenses of .
Repairing Damages to shore ....
Scituate Shore Protection (Chap. 286, Acts 1933)
State Boundary Lines, perambulation of

Stream Gauging

Topographical Survey

Town Boundaries, Surveying

Winthrop Breakwater Extension (Chap. 286, Acts 1934)

16,434 24

129,435 21

8,480 54

3,208 47

106,000 03

Total

137,615 13

12,636 12

5,253 14

97,190 97

75 00

4,343 90

4,716 95

63 46

146,506 35

78 75

8,920 96

4,341 03

2,975 93

32,028 19

4,988 63

21,833 98

50 00

2,233 49

5,000 00

848 66

842 23

43,851 84

$857,183 20

Expenditures Relating to the Registry of Motor Vehicles
The cost of running the Registry of Motor Vehicles . . . $1,460 524 17

Summary of Expenditures by Department
for Year Ending November 30, 1935

Administrative $200,623 75

Relating to Highways 21,328,176 48

Registry of Motor Vehicles 1,460,524 17

Relating to Waterways . . 857,183 20

Total $23,846,507 60

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Co-operative Work — Supervision of Expenditures
The Department has supervised the expenditures during the year by cities,
towns and counties, under Chapter 81, General Laws, as amended, of approxi-
mately 82,987,436.93 for co-operative work, in repairing, maintaining and improv-
ing certain public ways, and for other road work for which the towns and cities
made contributions. All such work was carried out in conformity with contracts,
specifications and plans approved by the Department.

Financial statement verified,

Approved, Geo. E. Murphy, Comptroller.

RELATING TO HIGHWAYS

General Statement

State Highways. — During the year ending November 30, 1935, the Department
laid out new State highways amounting to 25.16 miles in 14 cities and towns.
Under Chapter 81, General Laws, as amended by Chapter 427, Acts of 1931,
2.04 miles of State highway were discontinued or abandoned. The total length
of State highways at the end of the year was 1,875.38 miles.

Highways Constructed in 1935. — Construction has been completed on 21.344
miles of State highway and 163.815 miles of highway under the provisions of
Section 34, Chapter 90, General Laws, as amended, making a total of 185.159 miles
completed during the year.

Of the above highways completed this year, the classification according to type
of pavement is as follows :

5.029 miles of Reinforced Cement Concrete.
2.792 miles of Sheet Type Cement Concrete.

57.617 miles of Bituminous Macadam.

16.257 miles of Bituminous Concrete.

45.525 miles of Bituminous Concrete (Mixed in Place).

33.576 miles of Gravel with Bituminous Treatment.

13.185 miles of Gravel.

11.178 miles of Penolithic.

Resurfacing, Reconstruction and Widening of State Highways. — During the
year 3.517 miles of State highway were widened but not resurfaced, and 38.778
miles were resurfaced or reconstructed and widened. In addition to this work
on which the surfacing has been completed, there are several miles of road in
various stages of completion which are scheduled to be finished next year.

The Resurfacing or Reconstruction of State Highways in 1935 was divided into
types as follows:

2.242 miles of Reinforced Cement Concrete.

19.069 miles of Bituminous Macadam.

17.202 miles of Bituminous Concrete.
0.265 miles of Penolithic.

Surveys, Plans and Estimates. — During the year ending November 30, 1935,
preliminary surveys, plans and estimates were made as follows:

For State Highway Construction. — Reconnaissance surveys and plans in 1 city
and 17 towns, 68.48 miles; preliminary surveys in 7 cities and 35 towns, 84.983
miles; plans in 2 cities and 16 towns, 30.637 miles; preliminary estimates in 4 cities
and 12 towns, 22.923 miles; lines and grades in 3 cities and 14 towns, 27.193 miles;
and final surveys in 3 cities and 18 towns, 28.975 miles.

For State Highway Reconstruction and Resurfacing. — Reconnaissance surveys
and plans in 5 towns, 11.052 miles; preliminary surveys in 5 cities and 23 towns,
45.147 miles; plans in 6 cities and 19 towns, 41.435 miles; preliminary estimates
in 4 cities and 11 towns, 36.325 miles; lines and grades in 5 cities and 19 towns,
71.780 miles; and final surveys in 4 cities and 27 towns, 75.520 miles.

For State Highway Maintenance. — Preliminary surveys and plans in 1 city and
6 towns, 8.470 miles; lines and grades in 1 city and 6 towns, 8.470 miles.

Under Section 34, Chapter 90. General Laws, as amended. — Reconnaissance
surveys and plans in 13 towns, 12.25 miles; preliminary surveys in 13 cities and
228 towns, 246.107 miles; plans in 13 cities and 231 towns, 225.304 miles; prelimi-

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nary estimates in 12 cities and 201 towns, 175.295 miles; lines and grades in 18
cities and 199 towns, 182.134 miles; and final surveys in 8 cities and 92 towns,

85.643 miles. , „ , i +■ +

Under the provisions of various Acts and Resolves, surveys, plans, estimates,
lines and grades were made as follows : , .. ncm

Chapter 375, Acts of 1934: 0.0265 mile of surveys and plans in 1 city, 0.80/!
mile of preliminary estimate and lines and grades in 1 city.

Precise levels have been made in 33 cities and towns; first order leveling 166
miles have been made and 285 bench marks established; second order leveling,
57 4 miles have been made and 101 bench marks established.

Permits.— There were 1,748 permits issued during the year for opening or
occupying State highways for various purposes

Engineering Advice to Other Departments.— Advice to Department of Educa-
tion; 0.218 mile of preliminary survey and plans in 1 town, 0.288 mile of pre-
liminary estimate, lines and grades in 1 town.

Advice to Department of Public Health, 0.492 mile of preliminary survey,
plans, lines and grades in 1 town. .

Engineering Advice to Municipal Authorities.— -The Department furnished
engineering advice without charge to 34 cities and towns in accordance with the
provisions of Section 1, Chapter 81, General Laws. #

Approval of Specifications.— -The Department approved during the year under
the provisions of Section 7, Chapter 44, General Laws, as amended, specifications
for the construction of roads in 19 cities and towns.

Planting of Trees on State High ways. —During the past year, 3,700 trees were
planted along roadsides making a total of 73,615 trees thus set out in the past
thirty-one years. In addition, there were planted throughout the State 7,378
shrubs, 1,997 vines, and 2,227 evergreens; also 950 small pines on bare slopes
and ragged cuts.

Petitions, Meetings and Hearings

In addition to the regular weekly meetings of the Department throughout the
year numerous hearings and conferences have been held, including the annual
hearings in the several counties in the Commonwealth for the open discussion of
questions relating to the public ways, as required by Section 1, Chapter 81, General
Laws; appeals from the action taken by the Registrar of Motor Vehicles in the
suspension or revocation of certain licenses to operate motor vehicles in 185 cases;
on the matter of outdoor advertising in three towns; on the matter of the making
of rules and regulations for the reasonable and proper control of transportation by
motor vehicle of personal property over public ways; on the matter of special
regulations for motor vehicles in Springfield, Milton, Canton, Lexington and Bos-
ton; on the matter of the relocation of the tracks of the Eastern Massachusetts
Street Railway Company on the State highway in Boston; and on the matter of
the elimination of grade crossings in Newbury and Weymouth.

Petitions were received and contracts signed during the year as follows:

Petitions Contracts

State highways -° - ;

Work under section 34, chapter 90, General Laws
Work under section 26, chapter 81, General Laws

Work under Special Acts

Miscellaneous .

Elimination of grade crossings .

— 482
175 175

— 3

— 17

Total 200 704

State Highways
Petitions for State Highways
General Laws, Chapter 81, Section 4 (Tercentenary Edition), provides that—
"If county commissioners, aldermen or selectmen adjudge that public neces-
sity and convenience require that the Commonwealth lay out and take charge of
a new or existing way as a highway in whole or in part, in their county, city or

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town, they may apply, by a written petition, to the department, requesting that

said way be laid out and taken charge of by the Commonwealth."
Petitions under the aforesaid section have been received during the year, as

follows : —

Selectmen of Petersham : — Road locally known as the Phillipston Road, ex-
tending from Athol road to the dividing line between the towns of Petersham
and Phillipston. Received Dec. 5, 1934.

Selectmen of Lynnfield : — Road extending from the Newburyport Turnpike
over a new location, at or near the crossing of the abandoned Boston &
Maine Railroad, easterly to the dividing line between the town of Lynnfield
and the city of Peabody at or near Locust Street. Received Jan. 14, 1935.

Mayor and Councillors of Peabody : — Road extending from the dividing line
between the town of Lynnfield and the city of Peabody, at or near Locust
Street, over a new location, easterly and northerly through the junction of
Forest and Summit Streets to a point on the dividing line between the city
of Peabody and the town of Danvers easterly from Andover Street. Re-
ceived Jan. 14, 1935.

Selectmen of Ludlow : — Road extending from Ludlow Bridge northeasterly
along Center Street to Ludlow Center, and thence easterly and northeasterly
along Belchertown Street to the dividing line between the towns of Ludlow
and Belchertown. Received Feb. 4, 1935.

Mayor and Aldermen of Holyoke: — Road locally known as Main Street and
Springfield Street, from the center line of Prew Avenue on the north to the
city line at West Springfield on the south. Received Feb. 12, 1935.

Selectmen of Montague: — Road extending over Federal Street, new location
and Leverett Road from Main Street in Millers Falls southwesterly to the
dividing line between the towns of Montague and Sunderland. Received
Mar. 13, 1935.

Selectmen of Athol: — Road extending from South Main Street near Gage
Road, over a new location, southwesterly to the dividing line beetween the
towns of Athol and Orange. Received Mar. 22, 1935.

Selectmen of Leverett: — Road locally known as Long Plain Road, extending
from the dividing line between the towns of Sunderland and Leverett to the
dividing line between the towns of Leverett and Amherst. Received Apr. 10,
1935.

Selectmen of Amherst: — Road locally known as Leverett Street, extending
from the dividing line between the towns of Leverett and Amherst to North
Pleasant Street in Amherst. Received Apr. 10, 1935.

Selectmen of Sunderland: — Road extending from the dividing line between
the towns of Montague and Sunderland, in a general southerly direction, to
the dividing line between the towns of Sunderland and Hadley. Received
Apr. 9, 1935.

Selectmen of West Stockbridge: — Road extending from the State highway
connecting West Stockbridge and Pittsfield westerly to the New York State
line. Received May 14, 1935.

Selectmen of Monterey: — Road extending from the dividing line between the
towns of Great Barrington and Monterey, easterly through Monterev to the
dividing line between the towns of Monterey and Otis. Received May 22,
1935.

Selectmen of Alford: — Road locally known as the Green River Valley Road,
extending from the dividing line between the towns of Egremont and Alford
to the dividing line between the towns of Alford, Mass., and Hillsdale, N. Y.
Received May 3, 1935.

Selectmen of Hatfield: — Road locally known as North Main and Elm Streets,
extending from the dividing line between Whately and Hatfield to the divid-
ing line between the town of Hatfield and city of Northampton. Received
July 31, 1935.

Selectmen of Danvers: — Road extending from a point on the dividing line
between the city of Peabody and the town of Danvers at or near Waters
River, over a new location northerly and easterly to a point on the dividing

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line between the town of Danvers and the city of Beverly near Folly Hill.
Received Aug. 14, 1935.

Mayor and Aldermex of Peabody. — Road extending from a point on the divid-
ing line, between the town of Lynnfield and the city of Peabody at or near
Locust Street, easterly and northerly over a new location to a point on the
dividing line between the city of Peabody and the town of Danvers at or
near Waters River. Received Aug. 14, 1935.

Mayor and Aldermex of Beverly: — Road extending from a point on the divid-
ing line between the town of Danvers and the city of Beverly near Folly Hill,
easterly over a new location to a point on the dividing line between the city
of Beverlv and the town of Wenham at or near Boulder Lane. Received
Aug. 21, 1935.

Selectmen of Methuex: — Road locally known as Broadway, extending from
Wardell Square at the junction of Broadway and Hampshire Street to the
New Hampshire line. Received Sept. 5, 1935.

County Commissioxers of Barxstable Couxty: — Road extending from a
point near the new Bourne Bridge, connecting with the Sagamore Bridge,
and extending in a near direct line through the Mid Cape to Provincetown.
Received Aug. 31, 1935.

Selectmex of Great Barrixgtox: — Road extending from the junction of high-
way route 69 with routes 17 and 41 to the dividing line between the towns of
Egremont and Great Barrington. Received Oct. 1, 1935.

Mayor axd Aldermex of Northamptox: — Road locally known as North King
Street, extending from the end of the State highway between Greenfield and
Northampton at "Water Street southerly to the New York, New Haven &
Hartford R. R. Underpass, also road locallv known as North Main Street,
extending from the end of the Berkshire Trail at Florence Street, Leeds,
easterly to Bridge Road. Received Oct. 9, 1935.

Selectmex of Shrewsbury : — Road locally known as Main Street, extending
from the junction of Main Street and Maple Avenue to the dividing line be-
tween the town of Shrewsbury* and the city of Worcester. Received Oct. 24,
1935.

Selectmext of Saugus : — Road extending from a point on the dividing line be-
tween the town of Saugus and city of Revere near the intersection of the
boundary lines of Revere, Maiden, Melrose, and Sausrus northerly over a
new location to the intersection of the Newburyport Turnpike and Felton
Street. Received Nov. 1, 1935.

Mayor and City Council of Revere : — Road locally known as Squire Road,
extending from Broadway westerly to a point near Stevens Street; thence
on new location, northwesterly to a point on the dividing line between the
cities of Maiden and Revere near the intersection of Lynn and Salem Streets,
also a short section of highway extending from the dividing line between the
cities of Maiden and Revere northerly over a new location to the dividing line
between the city of Revere and town of Saugus near the intersection of the
boundarv lines of Revere, Maiden, Melrose and Saugus. Received Nov. 7,
1935. —^*fwp

Mayor and Aldermen of Malden : — Road extending from a point on the divicl-
ins line between the cities of Maiden and Revere at or near the intersection
of Lynn and Salem Streets, westerly and northerly over a new location to a
point on the dividing line between the cities of Maiden and Revere near the
intersection of the boundarv lines of Revere, Maiden, Melrose and Saugus.
Received Nov. 6, 1935.

Construction and Recoxstructiox- of State Highways
(Chapter 81, General Laws, as amended)
The following contracts were entered into during the year for the construction
and reconstruction of State highways, and work incidental thereto, in various
municipalities : —

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Dracut-Lowell-Mcthuen
Dec. 4, 1934, contract made with Ellsworth H. Lewis, of Andover, for recon-
structing about 36,663 feet of State highway in Dracut, Lowell and Methuen, the
surface consisting of bituminous concrete in Lowell and of bituminous macadam
in Dracut and Methuen. The proposal amounted to $278,579.30. Work com-
pleted Sept. 4, 1935. Expenditure during 1935, $374,695.59.

Revere

Dec. 13, 1934, contract made with M. McDonough Co., of Saugus, for con-
structing the substructure of a steel bridge over the Boston, Revere Beach and
Lynn Railroad on the North Shore Road in Revere, and surfacing the approaches
thereto and the underpass road with bituminous macadam. The proposal
amounted to $139,340.80. Work completed Aug. 6, 1935. Expenditure during
1935, $148,802.21.

Boston-Dedham

Dec. 26, 1934, contract made with Arute Bros., Incorporated, of Bridgewater,
for constructing a precast reinforced concrete pile bridge with reinforced con-
crete beam deck over Mother Brook in Dedham on the Providence Turnpike
Extension, about 5,144 feet of State highway on the Providence Turnpike and
new location in Dedham, and about 3,464 feet of State highway on the same road
in Boston, the surface over the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete, and the
surface of the roadway consisting of sections of bituminous macadam, sheet
asphalt, and plain concrete. The proposal amounted to $288,701.70. Work com-
pleted Oct. 7, 1935. Expenditure during 1935, $317,603.77.

Revere

Jan. 2, 1935, contract made with Lackawanna Steel Construction Corporation,
of Buffalo, N. Y., for furnishing, fabricating and erecting a steel bridge superstruc-
ture over the Lynnway and the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad. The
proposal amounted to $121,987.40. Work completed Aug. 1, 1935. Expenditure
during 1935, $121,610.66.

Otis

Jan. 8, 1935, contract made with Warner Bros, and Goodwin, Inc., of Sunder-
land, for constructing about 5,801 feet of State highway on Monterey Road, the
surface consisting of stone mixed in place with tar. The proposal amounted to
$18,189.75. Work completed July 20, 1935. Expenditure during 1935, $18,587.10.

Revere
Jan. 22, 1935, contract made with James G. Dempsey, of Philadelphia, Pa., for
mill and shop inspection of structural steel for the superstructure of the highway
bridge over the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad. The proposal amounted
to $319.60. Work completed May 25, 1935. Expenditure during 1935, $320.28.

Boume-Wareham
Mar. 5, 1935, contract made with Charles I. Hosmer, Inc., of Greenfield, for
constructing an extension to a reinforced concrete beam bridge over Cohasset
Narrows. The proposal amounted to $55,091.50. Work about four-fifths com-
pleted. Expenditure during 1935, $52,190.08.

Cheshire
Mar. 5, 1935, contract made with The Lane Construction Corporation, of Meri-
den, Conn., for reconstructing about 11,819 fe£t of State highway on North
Street; the surface consisting of reinforced cement concrete with bituminous
macadam shoulders on each side. The proposal amounted to $137,419.35. Work
completed Sept. 24, 1935. Expenditure during 1935, $144,658.81.

Northborough
April 30, 1935, contract made with Martin J. Kelly, of Boston, for furnishing
and planting trees, shrubs, herbaceous plants and vines on the Worcester Turn-

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pike and Southwest Connection. The proposal amounted to $11,182.05. Work
completed May 28, 1935. Expenditure during 1935, $11,182.05.

Lenox-Sheffield
May 8, 1935, contract made with Warner Bros, and Goodwin, Inc., of Sunder-
land, for furnishing and planting trees, shrubs and vines on Automobile Route
No 7 in Lenox and Sheffield. The proposal amounted to $11,108.30. Work com-
pleted Nov. 29, 1935. Expenditure during 1935, $10,091.80.

Southwick
May 14, 1935, contract made with Warren Brothers Roads Company, of Cam-
bridge, for reconstructing about 36,297 feet of State highway on College Highway;
the surface consisting of Warcolite Bituminous Concrete Pavement. The pro-
posal amounted to $119,333.30. . Work completed Oct. 28, 1935. Expenditure
during 1935, $105,008.20.

Framingham
May 28, 1935, contract made with Louis A. Reardon, of North Abington, for
furnishing and planting trees, shrubs and vines in the town of Framingham. The
proposal amounted to $2,435.13. Work completed Nov. 19, 1935. Expenditure
during 1935, $2,435.13.

Athol-Orange

June 4, 1935, contract made with The Lane Construction Corporation, of Meri-
den, Conn., for constructing about 7,275 feet of State highway on New Salem Road
in Athol, and about 8,103 feet of State highway on Plains Road in Orange; the
surface consisting of bituminous macadam. The proposal amounted to $96,680.40.
Work practically completed. Expenditure during 1935, $86,722. 22.

Athol
June 25, 1935, contract made with the Wey Construction Company, of Boston,
for constructing a reinforced concrete extension of a concrete arch bridge over
Lake Rohunta outlet, and a reinforced concrete pile bridge over Millers River, on
the New Salem Road Cut-off. The proposal amounted to $43,419.20. Work
about three-fourths completed. Expenditure during 1935, $36,434.35.

Rutland
May 21, 1935, contract made with J. J. Callahan, of Boston, for reconstructing
about 4,400 feet of State highway on Worcester Road in Rutland ; the surface con-
sisting of bituminous macadam. The proposal amounted to $16,664.50. Work
completed Aug. 3, 1935. Expenditure during 1935, $18,599.88.

Natick
June 25, 1935, contract made with M. E. Hennessy, of Brookline, for furnishing
and planting trees, shrubs and vines at the junction of the Boston-Worcester Turn-
pike and North Main Street in Natick. The proposal amounted to $4,984.55.
Work completed Oct. 22, 1935. Expenditure during 1935, $5,020.19.

Montague

July 16, 1935, contract made with Carlo Bianchi and Company, of Framingham,
for constructing a reinforced concrete bridge over Saw Mill River, a plate girder
bridge under the Central Vermont Railway, and a steel plate girder bridge of
three spans over the Central Vermont Railway and Boston and Maine Railroad,
on the State highway, known as Federal Street. The proposal amounted to
$104,021.25. Work about four-fifths completed. Expenditure during 1935,
$82,820.60.

Montague

July 16, 1935, contract made with Carlo Bianchi and Company, Inc., of Framing-
ham, for constructing about 24,133 feet of State highway on Federal Street, Mon-
tague Road and new location; the surface consisting of bituminous macadam. The
proposal amounted to $165,138.50. Work about three-eighths completed. Ex-
penditure during 1935, $60,203.60.

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0£is--BZan<i/ord
July 16, 1935, contract made with Kelleher Corporation, of Montague, for con-
structing about 14,130 feet of State highway on Monterey Road and 4,202 feet of
State highway on Blandford Road in Otis, and about 192 feet of State highway
on Otis Road in Blandford ; the surface consisting of stone mixed in place with tar.
The proposal amounted to $59,718.50. Work about three-fourths completed.
Expenditure during 1935, $52,699.61.

Blandford
July 16, 1935, contract made with Lindholm Construction Co., Inc., of Pitts-
field, for reconstructing about 10,310 feet of State highway on the Otis Road; the
surface consisting of bituminous macadam; the proposal amounted to $45,886.00.
Work completed Oct. 26, 1935. Expenditure during 1935, $44,751.99.

Millbury
Sept. 4, 1935, contract made with Arute Bros., Incorporated, of Bridgewater,
for constructing and reconstructing about 11,558 feet of State highway on Uxb ridge
Road and new location, including the construction of a steel stringer bridge of one
span with reinforced concrete deck over Blackstone River, and the construction
of a steel stringer and reinforced concrete beam bridge of six spans over the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. The surface of the roadway consisting
of reinforced concrete pavement. The proposal amounted to $359,716.10. Work
about one-third completed. Expenditure during 1935, $113,897.51.

Lowell-Dracut-Methuen
Oct. 2, 1935, contract made with Ellsworth H. Lewis, of Andover, for construct-
ing sidewalks and miscellaneous work. The proposal amounted to $50,774.05.
Work about four-fifths completed. Expenditure during 1935, $51,458.00.

Bourne
Oct. 8, 1935, contract made with Michael F. Roach & Sons, Inc., of East Bridge-
water, for reconstructing about 1,175 feet of State highway on the road leading
from the ramp near Sagamore Bridge; the surface consisting of penolithic pave-
ment. The proposal amounted to $10,393.75. Work about four-fifths completed.
Expenditure during 1935, $8,841.57.

Expenditures for Construction of State Highways

The expenditures for the construction of State highways in various counties
during the year were: —

. $366,413.38

513,756.86

64,839.86

708,682.14

366,872.95

Barnstable

. $159,686.26

Middlesex

Berkshire

102,984.87

Norfolk .

Bristol .

19,106.85

Plymouth

Essex

938,718.68

Suffolk .

Franklin

209,048.88

Worcester

Hampden

65,307.28

Hampshire

340.44

Total $3,515,758.45

Details of the foregoing expenditures follow : —

Barnstable County. — Bourne, $148,669.11; Dennis, $426.93; Yarmouth,
$10,590.22.

Berkshire County. — Cheshire, $30.62; Great Barrington, $62.12; Lenox
$8,012.89; No. Adams, $2,975.55; Otis, $88,933.58; Richmond, $327.01; Sheffield'
$2,530.39; Williamstown, $112.71.

Bristol County. — Fairhaven, $17,011.94; North Attleboro, $439.09; Rehoboth,
$244.93; Seekonk, $244.93; Swansea, $278.10; Taunton, $887.86.

Essex County. — Amesbuvy, $1,318.31; Andover, $175,227.86; Haverhill
$50,693.16; Lynn, $116.91; Newbury, $325.81; Newburyport, $710,075.14; Salis-
bury, $961.49.

Franklin County. — Montague, $180,148.23; Orange, $28,900.65.

Hampden County.— Blandford, $618.66; Brimfield, $52.27; Southwick, $82 22;
Westfield, $64,554.13.

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Hampshire County. — Huntington, $340.44.

Middlesex County. — Arlington, $97,509.64; Belmont, $13,935.70; Billerica,
$34,677.63; Cambridge, $22,422.93; Chelmsford, $59,708.96; Concord, $2,812.45;
Frammgham, $34,555.62; Lexington, $324.18; Medford, $32.33; Natick,
$44,098.71; Newton, $56,206.85; Tyngsborough, $128.38.

Norfolk Count y. — Bellingham, $210.71; Brookline, $162,429.52; Cohasset,
$4,206.20; Dedham, $235,560.55; Foxborough, $249.93; Needham, $2,449.26;
Norwood, $1,796.20; Stoughton, $1,004.65; Wellesley, $104,435.26; Westwood,
$1,414.5S.

Plymouth County. — Hingham, $7,256.92; Marshfield, $4,536.13; Scituate,
$11,176.50; Wareham, $41,870.31.

Suffolk County. — Boston, $238,315.95; Revere, $470,366.19.

Worcester County. — Ashburnham, $305.40; Athol, $127,366.98; Auburn,
$4,898.52; Charlton, $251.30; Dudley, $612.31; Millbury, $114,734,63; North-
boro, $13,755.60; Oxford, $367.39; Southborough, $489.85; Shrewsbury, $1,867.02;
Sterling, $434.69; Sturbridge, $676.97; Uxbridge, $363.79; Webster, $428.62;
Worcester, $100,319.88.

Fore River Bridge, Quincy $1,014,660.38

Total Construction Expenditures $4,530,418.83

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Highway Improvements Authorized by Special Acts
In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 380 of the Acts of 1934, as amended
by Chapter 368 of the Acts of 1935, the following contract was entered into : —

Boston-Brookline

Sept. 24, 1935, contract made with Coleman Bros. Corporation, of Boston, for
constructing a highway grade separation, including the construction of a steel
rigid frame bridge encased in concrete with stone facing in Boston over Hunting-
ton Avenue, and two reinforced concrete bridges over Muddy River in Boston
and Brookline; the surface consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal
amounted to $344,891.00. W'ork about one-seventh completed. Expenditure
during 1935, $51,000.42.

In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 341 of the Acts of 1934, the fol-
lowing contract was entered into :

Boston

Sept. 24, 1935, contract made with J. J. Callahan, of Boston, for constructing
a traffic circle; the surface consisting of penolithic pavement. The proposal
amounted to $14,898.15. Work practically completed. Expenditure during 1935,
$14,445.59.

In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 249 of the Acts of 1935, the fol-
lowing contract was entered into :

Rutland

Nov. 12, 1935, contract made with the Middlesex Construction Company, of
Framingham, for construction about 6,410 square yards of mixed in place surface
and about 3,310 square yards of premixed surface on the grounds of the Rutland
Sanatorium. The proposal amounted to $10,009.00. Work not yet commenced.

Traffic Control Signals
The following contracts were entered into during the year for furnishing and
installing traffic control signals in various municipalities : —

Newburyport
Dec. 24, 1934, contract made with the Municipal Signal & Supply Company,
of Boston. The proposal amounted to $582.25. Work completed Mar. 27, 1935.
Expenditure during 1935, $582.25.

Auburn
Dec. 26, 1934, contract made with the Municipal Signal & Supply Company,
of Boston. The proposal amounted to $2,190.99. Work completed Mar. 8, 1935.
Expenditure during 1935, $2,190.99.

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Revere
Dec. 26, 1934, contract made with the Municipal Signal & Supply Company,
of Boston. The proposal amounted to $1,639.04. Work completed July 22, 1935.
Expenditure during 1935, $1,639.04.

Brookline
Jan. 8, 1935, contract made with the Municipal Signal & Supply Company,
of Boston. The proposal amounted to $9,121.07. Work completed Mar. 26, 1935.
Expenditure during 1935, $9,121.07.

Concord
Feb. 5, 1935, contract made with the Municipal Signal & Supply Company,
of Boston. The proposal amounted to $2,837.06. Work completed April 3, 1935.
Expenditure during 1935, $2,837.06.

West Boylston
April 16, 1935, contract made with the Municipal Signal & Supply Company,
of Boston. The proposal amounted to $1,705.89. Work completed May 9, 1935.
Expenditure during 1935, $1,705.89.

Concord-Lincoln
April 16, 1935, contract made with the Eagle Signal Corporation, of Newton.
The proposal amounted to $8,514.86. Work completed June 15, 1935. Expendi-
ture during 1935, $8,567.97.

Arlington-Belmont
April 23, 1935, contract made with The Gamewell Company, of Newton. The
proposal amounted to $2,309.00. Work completed June 20, 1935. Expenditure
during 1935, $2,309.00.

Arlington-Belmont-Lincoln-Lexington
May 14, 1935, contract made with the Municipal Signal & Supply Company,
of Boston. The proposal amounted to $10,213.23. Work completed June 22, 1935.
Expenditure during 1935, $10,213.23.

Boston-Dedham
Nov. 5, 1935, contract made with the Eagle Signal Corporation, of Springfield.
The proposal amounted to $5,196.15. Work just commenced.

Medford
Nov. 26, 1935, contract made with the Municipal Signal & Supply Company,
of Boston. The proposal amounted to $1,153.00. Work not yet commenced.

Elimination of Grade Crossings
The following contracts were entered into during the year under the provisions
of Section 70, Chapter 159, of the General Laws, Ter. Ed., as amended by Sec-
tion 1, Chapter 357, of the Acts of 1934: —

Waltham
Nov. 12, 1935, contract made with H. L. Hauser Co., Inc., of Boston, for con-
structing the substructure for a steel stringer bridge over the Boston and Maine
Railroad, and approaches thereto ; the surface of the approaches consisting of two
reinforced cement concrete parallel roadways each 30 feet in width, and the
surface over the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted
to $147,951.10. Work just commenced. Expenditure during 1935, $867.00.

Waltham
Nov. 12, 1935, contract made with The Boston Bridge Works, Incorporated, of
Cambridge, for furnishing, fabricating and erecting the superstructure of a steel
stringer bridge over the Boston and Maine Railroad. The proposal amounted to
$36,017.43. Work not yet commenced.

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Weymouth

Nov. 26, 1935, contract made with Bradford Weston, of Hingham, for construct-
ing a steel plate girder bridge over the New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail-
road, and the approaches thereto, on Main Street; the surface of the approaches
consisting of bituminous macadam and the surface on the bridge consisting of
bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to $94,627.90. Work not yet com-
menced.

Newbury-Newburyport

Nov. 26, 1935, contract made with M. McDonough Co., of Saugus, for con-
structing a steel plate girder bridge over the Boston and Maine Railroad on the
Newburyport Turnpike, and approaches thereto; the surface of the approaches
consisting of two reinforced cement concrete parallel roadways, and the surface
over the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to
$262,428.20. Work not yet commenced.

CONTRACTS

Emergency Public Works
Holyoke

Jan. 8, 1935, contract made with Daniel O'Connell's Sons, Inc., of Holyoke, for
constructing a section of highway and a steel plate girder bridge on Northampton
Street; the surface consisting of reinforced cement concrete. The proposal
amounted to $153,945.55. Work completed October 1, 1935. Expenditure during
1935, $144,834.95.

Brain tree-Q uinc y

Jan. 8, 1935, contract made with Bradford Weston, of Hingham, for recon-
structing 17,154 feet of State highway on Washington Street and Franklin Street
in Braintree and Willard Street in Quincy; the surface consisting of bituminous
concrete. The proposal amounted to $135,896.55. Work completed Nov. 12, 1935.
Expenditure during 1935, $176,060.47.

The following contracts were entered into for secondary roads in various munici-
palities; the Federal Government paying 100% of the cost of construction:

Westfield

Mar. 5, 1935, contract made with The Lane Construction Corporation, of Meri-

den, Conn., for constructing about 3,575 feet of highway on Main Street; the

surface consisting of reinforced cement concrete. The proposal amounted to

$48,377.25. Work completed July 12, 1935. Expenditure during 1935, $52,001.11.

Haverhill

May 21, 1935, contract made with R. G. Watkins & Son, Inc., of Amesbury, for
reconstructing about 4,625 feet of highway on Kenoza Avenue; the surface on
about 750 feet consisting of reinforced cement concrete, and the surface of the
balance of the highway consisting of bituminous macadam. The proposal
amounted to $37,539.85. Work completed July 22, 1935. Expenditure during
1935, $40,797.44.

Billerica-Chelmsford

May 28, 1935, contract made with Carlo Bianchi and Company, Inc., of Fram-
ingham, for constructing about 14,973 feet of highway on Chelmsford Road in
Billerica and on Billerica Road in Chelmsford ; the surface consisting of penolithic
pavement. The proposal amounted to $78,471.95. Work completed Sept. 21,
1935. Expenditure during 1935, $85,169.79.

Andover
May 28, 1935, contract made with the Central Construction Co., of Lawrence,
for constructing about 24,876 feet of highway on Lowell Street; the surface con-
sisting of penolithic pavement. The proposal amounted to $139,642.60. Work
completed Oct. 8, 1935. Expenditure during 1935, $165,131.17.

Project
R 1
R 4
R 5-1
R 5-2
R 53
R 7
R 8
R 12
R 13
R 14
R 16
R 17
R 22
R 26
R 27
R 29-1
R 29-2
R 32
R 33
R 34
R 35
R 38
R 39
R 40
R 43
R 44
R 48
R 49
R 51
R 54

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Expenditures for Emergency Public Works Construction

Chapter 365, Acts of 1933

City or Town
Lynn-Revere

Agawam .

Arlington-Belmont-Lexingto

Lexington- Lincoln

Lexington .

Braintree-Quincy

Brookline .

Lawrence-North Andover

Otis ....

Palmer

Revere (North Shore Road)

Saugus

Blandford-Russell

Charlemont

Charlton-Sturbridge .

Concord-Lincoln

Concord By-Pass

Easton-Raynham-Taunton

Fitchburg-Ashby

Essex-Gloucester

Great Barrington ♦ .

Hatfield-Northampton

Revere (Route 1A)

Richmond

Sterling-Leominster

Brimfield-Sturbridge .

Holyoke

Charlton-East Brookfield

Braintree-Randolph

Dennis- Yarmouth

Amount

8748,303 70

5,776 96

137,676 39

218,762 69

5,832 82

156,268 73

90,555 54

10,811 28

21,186 96

9,124 71

21,400 00

2,427 93

71,822 05

328,433 57

33,916 77

91.164 65
170,954 63

43,509 85
62,043 35

66.165 69
4,250 61

37,794 03

288,146 15

10,125 57

37,639 71

48,624 77

156,347 90

58,069 65

131,476 52

168,840 55

Total $3,237,453 73

The expenditures

Barnstable

Berkshire

Bristol

Dukes

Essex

Franklin .

Hampden

Himpshire

Chapter 464, Bond Issue
Class 1 — Cities and Towns
during the year in various counties w

$30,161.92 Middlesex

83,586.74 Nantucket

79,066.63 Norfolk .

5,024.82 Plymouth

169,476.38 Suffolk .

64,756.49 Worcester

161,852.02 Engineering
60,892.00

Total

$310,394.49
3,016.12
161,634.80
54,498.17
459,317.51
259,761.40
171,757.83

2,075,197.32

Details of the foregoing expenditures follow: —

Barnstable County. — Barnstable, $5,668.23; Bourne, $2,340.10; Brewster,
$2,000; Chatham, $1,421.39; Dennis, $3,900.00; Eastham, $2,100.00; Falmouth,
$ ; Harwich, $1,490.73; Mashpee, $1,350.00; Orleans, $901.37; Province-
town, $1,161.39; Sandwich, $3,350.00; Truro, $1,500.00; Welhieet, $1,800.00;
Yarmouth, $1,178.71.

Berkshire County.— Adams, $2,929.45; Alford, $950.00; Becket, $2,900.00;
Cheshire, $2,100.00; Clarksburg, $700.00; Dalton, $2,028.08; Egremont, $1,600.00;
Florida, $2,150.00; Great Barrington, $2,357.43; Hancock, $1,500.00; Hinsdale,
$1,750.00; Lanesboro, $2,100,00; Lee, $1,334.73; Lenox, $1,594.73; Monterey,
$2,600.00; Mt. Washington, $1,000; New Ashford, $550.00; New Marlboro, $4,-
250.00; North Adams, $6,378.93; Otis, $2,250.00; Peru, $1,850.00; Pittsfield,
$16,363.34; Richmond, $1,600.00; Sandisfield, $3,950.00; Savoy, $2,800.00; Shef-
field, $3,850.00; Stockbridge, $1,300.05; Tyringham, $1,250.00; Washington, $2,-
550.00; West Stockbridge, $1,800.00; Williamstown, $ ; Windsor, $3,250.00.

Bristol County — Acushnet, $970.71; Attleboro, $ ; Berkley, $2,100.00;

Dartmouth, $3,033.46; Dighton, $970.71; Easton, $1,525.40; Fairhaven, $3,-

068.13; Fall River, $ ; Freetown, $2,350.00; Mansfield, $2,010.74; New

Bedford, $32,588.00; North Attleboro, $2,790.78; Norton, $2,850.00; Raynham,
$2,250.00; Rehoboth, $5,450.00; Seekonk, $1,334.72; Somerset, $3,068.13; Swan-
sea, $1,230.71; Taunton, $9,984.41; Westport. $1,490.73.

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'Dukes County.-CMma.Tk, $700.00; Edgartown $1,144.06; Gay Head

| ; Gosnold, $ ; Oak Bluffs, $1,230.71; lisbury, 8l,300.0o; West

TltoS"-Ame,bury, $2,669.44; Andover, $4,593 52; Beverly, $11,-
215.13; Boxford, $2,650.00; Danvers, 13,622.82; Essex, $520.02; Georgetown,
$1,750.00; Gloucester, $10,209.76; Groveland, $1,500.00; Hamilton $1,404.05;
Haverhill $14,785.94; Ipswich, $1,820.07; Lawrence, f7,l79.^9; Lynn $36-
59216- Lynnfield, $970.71; Manchester, $2,773.4o; Marblehead, $4,992.20,
Merrnnac,5 $1,550'.00; Methuen, $5,460.22; Middleton, $1,500.00; Nahant,

§ • Newbury, $1,900.00; Newburyport, $3,622.82; North Andover, $2,-

409 43- Peabody, $6,448.26; Rockport, $1,525.41; Rowley, $1,550.00; Salem,
r^Sahsbury, $901.37; Saugus, $4,194.84; Swampscott, $6,396.27; Tops-
field $918 70; Wenham, $ ; West Newbury, $1,850.00.

Franklin County.- Ashfield, $4,000.00; Bernardston, $2,00^00; Buckland,
$2,250.00; Charlemont, $2,450.00; Colrain, $4,200.00; Conway $3, 600 .00; Deer-
fied $3 700 00; Erving, $554.69; Gill, $1,700.00; Greenfield, $7,24o.63; Hawley,
$2,450.00; Heath, $2,650.00; Leverett ,11,900.00; Leyder, j, WflWJOO; .Monroe

V • Montame $2,617.44; New Salem, $3,250.00; Northfield, 83,300.00,

Oran-e $1 43S 73° Rowe, $2,000.00; Shelburne, $2,400.00; Shutesbury, $1,900.00;
Sunderland $ i Warwick, $2,800.00; Wendell, $2,400.00; Whately,

^Hampden County.- Agaw am, $2,461.43; Blandford $3,90000; Brimfield, .
$3,000.00; Chester, $3,400.00; Chicopee, $11,041.79; EastL°ngmeadow, $1,040.04;
Granville $3,650.00; Hampden, $1,700.00; Holland, $1,550.00; Holyoke $22-
291.58; Longmeadow, $3,068.12; Ludlow, $2,201.42; Monson, $5,050.00; Mont-
gomery, $1,350.00; Palmer, $2,288.10; Russell, $1,022.72, South^ck, $2,500.00;
Springfield, $73,201.67; Tolland, $2,000.00; Wales, $l,2o0.00; West Springfield,
$6,500.27; Westfield, $5,234.88; Wilbraham, $2,15000. #_._nnn n, .

Hampshire County.- Amherst, $2,496.10; Belchertown $o,4o0. 00; Chester-
field, $2,950.00; Cummington, $2,450.00; Easthampton, $2,^90 /8; Enfield, $1,-
850.00; Goshen, $1,400.00; Granby, $2,400.00, Greenwich $ 1,950 00; Hadley
$2,950.00; Hatfield, $2,300.00; Huntington, $2,0o0.00; Middlefield, $2,0o0.00,
Northampton, $7,106.96; Pelham, $1,550 00; Plaiimeld $2^50.00; Prescott $1-
950.00; South Hadley, $2,270.76; Southampton, S2,800 00; Ware Sl,o77.40,
Westhampton $2,500.00; Williamsburg, $2,200.00; Worthmgton, $3,400.00.

Middlesex County. — Acton, $2,900.00; Arlington, $15,479 30; Ashby $2,-
800 00- Ashland, $1,900.00; Ayer, $953.38; Bedford, $1,800.00; Belmont, $12,-
272-50 Billerica, $2,478.77; Boxboro, $1,150.00; Burlington, $1,700.00; Cam-
bridge $47,703.29; Carlisle, $2,100.00; Chelmsford, $ ; Concord,

$ • Dracut $3,100.00; Dunstable, $1,850.00; Everett, $18,703.43; Fram-

ino-ham' $9,117.71; Groton, $1,352.06; HoUiston, $2,500.00; Hopkinton $3,-
300 00- Hudson, $1,993.41; Lexington, $5,546.89; Lincoln, $832.03; Littleton,

$2,100.00; LoweU, $28,393.17; Maiden, $ ; Marlborough $- — ;

Maynard, $1,906.74; Medford, $21,026.20; Melrose, $— ; Natick $5,-

32156- Newton, $39,157.60; North Reading, $1,650.00; Pepperell, $34oOX)0;
Reading, $4,212.17; Sherborn, $2,150.00; Shirley, $2,300.00; Somerville, $—

• Stonekam, $3,813.49; Stowe, $2,150.00; Sudbury, $3,200.00; Tewksbury,

$2 850 00; Townsend, $3,500.00; Tyngsboro, $2,000.00; Wakefield, $0,633.57;

Waltham, $ ; Watertown, $13,901.90; Wayland $- ; Westford, $4,-

250.00; Weston, $2,496.10; Wilmington, $ ; Winchester, $7,696.32; Wo-

burn, $5,702.90.

Nantucket County. — Nantucket, $3,016.12.

Norfolk County. — Avon, $554.69; Bellingham, $2,200.00; Braintree, $7,-
020.29; Brookline, $37,718.88; Canton, $2,270.76; Cohasset, $2,461.44; Dedham,
$6 448 27; Dover, $1,196.05; Foxboro, $1,542.73; Franklin, $2,444.10; Holbrook,
$936 04; Medfield, $2,050.00; Medway, $2,250.00; Millis, $2,100.00; Milton, $9,-
22171; Needham, $6,170.92; Norfolk, $2,050.00; Norwood, $6,638.94; Plam-
ville, $1,600.00; Quincv, $31,998.65; Randolph, $1,646.73; Sharon, $1,59473;
Stoughton, $2,496.10; Walpole, $3,709.49; WeUesley, $9,27371; Westwood, $1,-
282.72; Weymouth, $11,804.48; Wrentham, $953.37.

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Plymouth County. — Abington, $1,594.73; Bridgewater, $1,629.40; Brockton,

$ ; Carver, $3,350.00; Duxbury, $1,716.07; East Bridgewater, $1,352.06;

Halifax, $1,700.00; Hanover, $1,005.38; Hanson, $1,800.00; Hingham, $3,796.16;

Hull, $ ; Kingston, $1,126.71; Lakeville, $2,100.00; Marion, $1,248.05;

Marshfield, $1,802.74; Mattapoisett, $953.37; Middleborough, $2,496.10; Norwell,
$2,350.00; Pembroke, $2,450.00, Plymouth; $6,344.26; Plympton, $1,500.00;
Rochester, $2,500.00; Rockland, $2,270.76; Scituate, $3,050.79; Wareham, $3,-
224.13; West Bridgewateer, $849.37; Whitman, $2,288.09.

Suffolk County. — Boston, $439,799.38; Chelsea, $13,104.54; Revere, $ ;

Winthrop, $6,413.59.

Worcester County. — Ashburnham, $3,750.00; Athol, $3,102.79; Auburn, $1,-
681.40; Barre, $5,500.00; Berlin, $1,950.00; Blackstone, $710.70; Bolton, $2,-
650.00; Boylston, $2,000.00; Brookfield, $1,850.00; Charlton, $5,500.00; Clinton,
$ ; Dana, $2,150.00; Douglas, $3,500.00; Dudley, $3,150.00; East Brook-
field, $950.00; Fitchburg, $13,624.56; Gardner, $6,170.92; Grafton, $3,400.00;
Hardwick, $4,800.00; Harvard, $2,800.00; Holden, $3,850.00; Hopedale, $ —

; Hubbardston, $3,750.00; Lancaster, $2,900.00; Leicester, $3,300.00;

Leominster, $7,158.96; Lunenburg, $3,300.00; Mendon, $1,800.00; Milford, $4,-
142.84; Millbury, $1,698.74; Millville, $329.35; New Braintree, $2,450.00; North
Brookfield, $3,450.00; Northborough, $ ; Northbridge, $2,686.78; Oak-
ham, $2,250.00; Oxford, $3,300.00; Paxton, $1,450.00; Petersham, $3,500.00;
Phillipston, $2,050.00; Princeton, $3,600.00; Royalston, $3,350.00; Rutland, $3,-

400.00; Shrewsbury, $2,374.76; Southborough, $2,300.00; Southbridge, $ ;

Spencer, $5,000.00; Sterling, $3,050.00; Sturbridge, $3,500.00; Sutton, $4,200.00;
Templeton, $3,150.00; Upton, $3,000.00; Uxbridge, $2,132.09; Warren, $3,550.00;
Webster, $3,068.13; West Boylston, $1,800.00; West Brookfield, $2,650.00; West-
borough, $1,265.38; Westminster, $3,850.00; Winchendon, $1,577.40; Worcester,
$79,736.60.

Chapter 464 — Bond Issue
Class 2 — Cities and Towns

The expenditures during the year in various counties were: —

Berkshire

. $11,385.96

Middlesex

. $64,326.80

Bristol

39,547.99

Norfolk .

11,157.16

Essex

45,542.79

Plymouth

46,946.44

Franklin .

9,274.12

Suffolk .

74,579.38

Hampden

17,897.90

Worcester

21,343.60

Hampshire

2 66

Total $342,004.80

Details of the foregoing expenditures follow : —

Berkshire County. — Adams, $11,385.96.

Bristol Coun ,ty. — Dartmouth, $32,579.30; Somerset, $6,968.69.

Essex County. — Lynn, $1,350.46; Lynnfield, $3,087.82; Merrimac, $11,645.86;
Salem, $20,938.22; Swampscott, $8,520.43.

Franklin County. — Greenfield, $9,274.12.

Hampden County. — Agaw am, $7,376.62; West Springfield, $10,510.64; West-
field, $10.64.

Hampshire County. — South Hadley, $2.66.

Middlesex County. — Framingham, $34,210.58; Natick, $9,333.93; Newton,
$20,782.29.

Norfolk County. — Dedham, $11,157.16.

Plymouth County. — Abington, $9.78; Bridgewater, $1.06; Hull, $4,562.97,
Middleborough, $1.06; Rockland, $23,570.11; Whitman, $18,801.46.

Suffolk County. — Boston, $44,010.66; Chelsea, $176.82; Revere, $30,391.90.

Worcester County. — Northborough, $1,368.23; West Boylston, $9,984.99;
Worcester, $9,990.38.

Chapter 464 — Bond Issue
Class 3 — Highway Projects under the Hayden-Cartwright hill, so called.
No expenditures.

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The expenditures

Barnstable

Berkshire

Bristol

Dukes

Essex

Franklin .

Hampden

Chapter 464 — Bond Issue
Class 4 — Cities and Towns
Maintenance
during the year in various counties were: —

$21,463.09
46,569.63

143,505.10
1,946.26

159,362.47
13,929.36
15,205.59

Hampshire . . . $18,548.57

Middlesex . . . 350,578.91

Norfolk .... 73,218.21

Plymouth . . . 30,045.23

Suffolk .... 37,574.08

Worcester . . . 76,771.45

Total $1,393,329.03

Details of the foregoing expenditures follow: —

Barnstable County. — Barnstable, $1,748.75; Bourne, $2,632.30; Brewster,
.17; Chatham, $218.18; Dennis, $793.81; Eastham, $1,225.25; Falmouth,
$2,000.15; Harwich, $520.91; Mashpee, $138.17; Orleans, $365.71; Provincetown,
$423.02; Sandwich, $6,123.46; Truro, $497.43; Wellfleet, $400.86; Yarmouth,
$3 722.92.

Berkshire County. — Adams, $74.67; Alford, $ ; Becket, $3,304.95;

Cheshire, $950.73; Clarksburg, $1,659.85; Dalton, $735.45; Egremont, $502.70;
Florida, $9,634.69; Great Barrington, $5,007.97; Hancock, $845.63; Hinsdale,
$1,598.01; Lanesboro, $1,407.57; Lee, $1,563.16; Lenox, $999.50; Monterey,

$ ; Mt. Washington, $ ; New Ashford, $193.70; New Marlborough,

$170.58; North Adams, $2,602.97; Otis, $909.78; Peru, $ ; Pittsfield, $1,-

647.66; Richmond, $369.06; Sandisfield, $903.70; Savoy, $295.65; Sheffield, $1,-

493.34; Stockbridge, $236.57; Tyringham, $ ; Washington, $428.81; West

Stockbridge, $32.78; Williamstown, $3,726.24; Windsor, $5,273.91.

Bristol County. — Acushnet, $20,738.01; Attleboro, $17,679.94; Berkley,
$236.27; Dartmouth, $1,222.96; Dighton, $22,703.44; Easton, $1,866.66; Fair-
haven, $7,950.05; Fall River, $ ; Freetown, $966.68; Mansfield, $403.60;

New Bedford, $ ; North Attleboro, $426.62; Norton, $1,113.66; Raynham,

$7,374.04; Rehoboth, $8,462.15; Seekonk, $38,671.05; Somerset, $6,451.60; Swan-
sea, $1,149.42; Taunton, $2,071.76; Westport, $4,017.19.

Dukes County. — Chilmark, $490.05; Edgartown, $475.00; Gay Head,
Gosnold, $ ; Oak Bluffs, $152.73; Tisbury, $85.75; West tisbury, $374.65.

Essex County. — Amesbury, $834.05; Andover, $4,105,98; Beverly, $1,405.46;
Boxford, $ ; Danvers, $13,454.38; Essex, $213.42; Georgetown,

Gloucester, $12,459.23; Groveland, $602.38; Hamilton, $12,201.99; Haverhill, $2,-
700.44; Ipswich, $9,223.75; Lawrence, $274.30; Lynn, $11,136.62; Lvnnfield, $2,-

161.76; Manchester, $ ; Marblehead, $ ; Merrimac, $705.27; Methuen,

$1,907.73; Middleton, $25,676.44; Nahant, $ ; Newburv, $3,842.24;

Newburyport, $1,614.23; North Andover, $4,303.54; Peabody, $8,269.79; Rock-
port, $211.85; Rowley, $1,879,39; Salem, $13,371.18; Salisbury, $2,322.76; Saugus,
$14,142.94; Swampscott, $6,256.99; Topsfield, $2,269.51; Wenham, $274.41; West
Newbury, $1,540.44.

Franklin County. — Ashfield, $489.18; Bernardston, $794.44; Buckland,
$390.48; Charlemont, $787.93; Colrain, $594.31; Conwav, $356.94; Deerfield,

$940.99; Erving, $920.74; Gill, $272,37; Greenfield, $1,541.72; Hawley, $ ;

Heath, $ ; Leverett, $ ; Levden, $ ; Monroe, $ ;

Montague, $1,067.62; New Salem, $443.58; Northfield, $1,206.90; Orange,
$630.99; Rowe, $ ; Shelburne, $1,376.68; Shutesbury, $489.64; Sunder-
land, $1,335.03; Warwick, $ ; Wendell, $ ; Whately, $289.82.

Hampden County. — Agawam, $2,635.84; Blandford, $366.54; Brimfield, $1,-
903.48; Chester, $659.52; Chicopee, $1,942.44; East Longmeadow, $340.85

Granville, $ ; Hampden, $ ; Holland, $ ; Holyoke, $430.91

Longmeadow, $ ; Ludlow, $ ; Monson, $668.61; Montgomery, $—

Palmer, $1,534.19; Russell, $1,493.16; Southwick. $113.23; Springfield, $

Tolland, $ ; Wales, $92.99; West Springfield, $906.47; Westfield, $1,000.64

Wilbraham, $1,116.72.

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Hampshire County.— Amherst, $1,016.88; Belchertown, $828.30; Chesterfield,

$ ; Cummington, $1,680.22; Easthampton, $749.58; Enfield, $ ;

Goshen, $727.09; Granby, $1,911.15; Greenwich, $ ; Hadley, $922.31;

Hatfield, $172.14; Huntington, $804.89; Middlefield, $ ; Northampton,

$1,415.15; Pelham, $805.78; Plainfield, $ ; Prescott, $ ; South

Hadley, $2,673.69; Southampton, $1,383.38; Ware, $1,681.53; Westhampton,
$ ; Williamsburg, $840.16; Worthington, $936.32.

Middlesex County. — Acton, $32,449.11; Arlington, $589.03; Ashby, $23,-

319.88; Ashland, $18,259.30; Ayer, $64.69; Bedford, $ ; Belmont, $343.41;

Billerica, $4,746.96; Boxboro, $6,818.99; Burlington, $1,030.40; Cambridge,

$25.93; Carlisle, $ ; Chelmsford, $4,076.47; Concord, $20,718.18; Dracut,

$21,713.09; Dunstable, $ ; Everett, $ ; Framingham, $8,855.07;

Groton, $32,924.84; Holliston, $12,205.23; Hopkinton, $ ; Hudson, $3,-

329.10; Lexington, $21,202.72; Lincoln, $4,624.41; Littleton, $26,200.49; Lowell,

$53.50; Maiden, $ ; Marlborough, $28,593.20; Maynard, $ ; Med-

ford, $ ; Melrose, $20.80; Natick, $1,309.53; Newton, $3,098.22; North

Reading, $651.10; Pepperell, $28.00; Reading, $3,476.81; Sherborn, $ ;

Shirley, $738.71; Somerville, $549.95; Stoneham, $1,661.92; Stowe, $ ;

Sudbury, $1,564.96; Tewksbury, $1,062.61; Townsend, $3,988.57; Tvngsboro,

$10,284.72; Wakefield, $ ; Waltham, $243.18; Watertown, $3,720.31;

Wayland, $7,815.52; Westford, $21,421.17; Weston, $2,216.36; Wilmington, $1,-
615.86; Winchester, $240.54; Woburn, $12,726.07.

Norfolk County. — Avon, $215.54; Bellingham, $399.03; Braintree, $7,927.49;
Brookline, $1,665.51; Canton, $1,864.46; Cohasset, $508.22; Dedham, $2,918.68;
Dover, $42.75; Foxborough, $2,710.42; Franklin, $446.23; Holbrook, $8,878.30;

Medfield, $ ; Medway, $ ; Millis, $ ; Milton, $3,590.36;

Needham, $1,797.14; Norfolk, $109.11; Norwood, $8,502.80; Plainville, $1,099.55;
Quincy, $3,358.29; Randolph, $1,370.30; Sharon, $380.29; Stoughton, $4,227.62;
Walpole, $1,897.33; Wellesley, $4,554.68; Westwood, $6,601.58; Weymouth, $4,-
846.77; Wrentham, $3,305.76.

Plymouth County. — Abington, $850.50; Bridgewater, $595.00; Brockton, $4,-
632,36; Carver, $ ; Duxbury, $1,059.31; East Bridgewater, $543.46; Hali-
fax, $ ; Hanover, $6,666.51; Hanson, $ ; Hingham, $3,287.49; Hull,

$29.02; Kingston, $756.25; Lakeville, $1,667.50; Marion, $954.71; Ma.-shfield,
$442.24; Mattapoisett, $379.43; Middleborough, $2,502.41; Norwell, $121.31;

Pembroke, $330.41; Plymouth, $828.54; Plympton, $ ; Rochester, $318.22;

Rockland, $202.90; Scituate, $991.32; Wareham, $999.70; West Bridgewater,
$1,186.60; Whitman, $700.04.

Suffolk County. — Boston, $9,809.69; Chelsea, $38.50; Revere, $27,725.89.

Worcester County. — Ashburnham, $497,76; Athol, $671.78; Auburn, $1,-
783.17; Barre, $691.54; Berlin, $ ; Blackstone, $257.18; Bolton, $

Boylston, $ ; Brookfield, $240.95; Charlton, $3,087.56; Clinton, $32.00

Dana, $ ; Douglas, $171.91; Dudlev, $189.88; East Brookfield, -$300.29

Fitchburg, $518.55; Gardner, $288.68; Grafton, $759.94; Hardwick, $45.79
Harvard, $23,776.00; Holden, $883.56; Hopedale, $3.80; Hubbardston

Lancaster, $2,216.39; Leicester, $851.82; Leominster, $1,928.01; Lunenburg
$649,37; Mendon, $571.73; Milford, $322.56; Millburv, $561.03; Millville, $65.18
New Braintree, $44.20; North Brookfield, $319.50; Northboro, $1,305.40; North-
bridge, $847.91; Oakham, $382.09; Oxford, $683.81; Paxton, $1,144.43; Peters-
ham, $799.43; Phillipston, $575.12; Princeton, $54.20; Rovalston, $ ; Rut-
land, $2,268.39; Shrewsbury, $4,264.93; Southborough, $2,182.33; Southbridge,
$172.16; Spencer, $1,044.91; Sterling, $2,003.09; Sturbridge, $1,608.25; Sutton,
$614.98; Templeton, $1,584.39; Upton, ,$286.07; Uxbridge, $1,520.97; Warren,
$898.49; Webster, $115.77; West Bovlston. $2,200.51; West Brookfield, $265.94;
Westboro, $2,680.00; Westminster, $1,478.96; Winchendon, $553.57; Worcester,
$3,505.22.

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Chapter 464 — Class 4
Miscellaneous Expenditures
Snow Removal

Truck repairs

$17,030.29

Truck operation ....

7,849.79

Truck plow repairs ....

25,762.15

Tractor repairs ....

12,581.11

Tractor operation ....

7,997.44

Tractor plow repairs

20,486.20

Snow fence

564.06

Expenditures under towns

. .. 69,793.46

$162,064.50

Traffic

Direction Signs ....

$27,782.68

Warning signs

19,828.63

Control signals ....

21,715.14

Traffic survey

51,409.32

Regulatory signs ....

2,488.76

White lines

2,080.95

$125,305.48

Maps and detour bulletins

398.15

Roadside planting ....

9,365.50

Laboratory

4,760.65

Paint mfg.

1,746.87

Engineering

130,987.23

Machinery

103,886.30

Somerset Bridge

3,344.04

Newburyport Bridge . .

11,258.88

Fairhaven-New Bedford Bridge

5,140.32

Quincy-Weymouth Bridge

4,028.52

Geodetic survey

2,432.25

Grade crossings eng

1,956.89

Chapter 464 — Bond Issue
Class 5 — Development of Rivers and Harbors
The expenditures during the year 1935 were as follows : —
Boston Harbor
Commonwealth Pier, No. 5 $16,434.24

$566,675.58

Outside Boston Harbor

iUJXU,t:ut:.^t:

Menamsha Creek-Chilmark .

$23,640.97

Scituate Harbor .

11,491.67

Manchester Harbor

17,546.79

Smiths Cove, Gloucester

16,054.53

Plymouth Harbor

28,143.46

Onset Bay, Wareham

313.55

97,190.97

Total

$113,625.21

Maintenance and Repair of State Highways

(Section 13, Chapter 81, General Laws)

The expenditures dun

ng the year in various counties

were: —

Barnstable

$76,926.63

Hampshire

$50,116.49

Berkshire

310,169.22

Middlesex

1,162,490.96

Bristol .

346,640.59

Nantucket

129.05

Dukes

6,084.61

Norfolk .

277,859.90

Essex

605,654.30

Plymouth

158,198.42

Franklin

75,336.64

Suffolk .

336,762.91

Hampden

267,955.84

Worcester

Total

296,103.90

$3,970,429.46

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Details of the foregoing expenditures follow: —

Barnstable County.— Barnstable, $4,499.77; Bourne, $20,546.21; Brewster,
$1,239.55; Chatham, $1,605.14; Dennis, $947.73; Eastham, $2,439.36; Falmouth,
$8,862.98; Harwich, $901.45; Mashpee, $1,435.81; Orleans, $938.25; Province-
town, $1,723.54; Sandwich, $8,652.45; Truro, $2,585.74; Wellfleet, $1,260.85;
Yarmouth, $19,287.80.

Berkshire County. — Adams, $1,587.23; Becket, $10,153.18; Cheshire, $172,-
736.79; Clarksburg, $1,792.80; Dalton, $2,109.48; Egremont, $1,540.05; Florida,
$4,586.29; Great Barrington, $8,278.75; Hancock, $2,109.67; Hinsdale, $2,018.16;
Lanesborough, $2,915.70; Lee, $5,722.41; Lenox, $2,246.70; New Ashford, $316.38;
New Marlborough, $19.25; No. Adams, $50,249.92; Otis, $1,977.75; Pittsfield,
$4,399.95; Richmond, $1,416.09; Sandisfield, $1,748.98; Savoy, $906.95; Shef-
field, $8,584.02; Stockbridge, $4,510.63; Washington, $1,003.60; West Stockbridge,
$154.29; Williamstown, $13,632.66; Windsor, $3,451.54.

Bristol County. — Amshnet, $1,798.45; Attleboro, $2,508.85; Berkley, $1,-
960.35; Dartmouth, $3,678.09; Dighton, $38,229.46; Eastern, $5,581.79; Fair-
haven, $9,968.75; Freetown, $3,982.92; Mansfield, $2,380.90; North Attleboro,
$3,025.16; Norton, $6,816.40; Raynham, $17,175.51; Rehoboth, $11,830.29;
Seekonk, $28,809.25; Somerset, $51,479.80; Swansea, $80,977.66; Taunton, $15,-
657.31; Westport, $60,779.65.

Dukes County. — Chilmark, $1,427.58; Edgartown, $1,265.65; Gay Head,
$633.88; Oak Bluffs, $290.79; Tisbury, $571.59; West Tisbury, $1,895.12.

Essex County.— Amesbury, $3,905.88; Andover, $15,510.22; Beverly, $6,531.93;
Danvers, $50,095.18; Essex, $6,345.22; Gloucester, $36,915.68; Groveland, $1,-
562.01; Hamilton, $25,599.51; Haverhill, $5,735.93; Ipswich, $10,367.35; Lawrence,
$1,284.82; Lynn, $29,839.32; Lynnfield, $3,612.29; Merrimac, $1,613.42; Methuen,
$166,369.48; Middleton, $55,561.48; Newbury, $10,518.37; Newburyport, $6,-
194.29; North Andover, $17,165.88; Peabody, $10,805.69; Rockport, $702.93;
Rowley, $16,983.86; Salem, $37,028.13; Salisbury, $5,844.03; Saugus, $31,109.30;
Swampscott, $31,503.40; Topsfield, $4,527.15; Wenham, $1,709.67; West New-
bury, $10,711.88.

Franklin County. — Ashfield, $1,478.95; Bernardston, $1,801.07; Buckland,
$3,910.16; Charlemont, $5,154.32; Colrain, $1,007.74; Conway, $1,685.40; Deer-
field, $32,146.12; Erving, $3,468.16; Gill, $1,262,37; Greenfield, $5,088.45; Mon-
tague, $1,143.77; New Salem, $1,286.09; Northfield, $4,204.59; Orange, $957.34;
Shelburne, $3,794.94; Shutesbury, $1,665.55; Sunderland, $2,833.18; Whately,
$2,448.44.

Hampden County. — Agawam, $8,252.01; Blandford, $59,069.50; Brimfield,
$6,701.21; Chester, $22,685.03; Chicopee, $5,738.48; East Longmeadow, $326.94;
Holland, $40.51; Holyoke, $1,233.45; Monson, $1,003.18; Palmer, $5,965.57;
Russell, $2,723.33; Southwick, $144,236.98; Springfield, $2,581.25; Tolland,
$107.07; Wales, $653.33; West Springfield, $2,025.63; Westfield, $2,424.39; Wil-
braham, $2,187.98.

Hampshire County. — Amherst, $2,689.88; Belchertown, $1,674.52; Cumming-
ton, $3,914,32; Easthampton, $1,261.93; Goshen, $2,995.94; Granby, $3,260.71;
Hadley, $2,202.18; Hatfield, $3,762.62; Huntington, $4,251.89; Northampton,
$6,370.52; Pelham, $543.71; South Hadley, $6,411.68; Southampton, $3,627.66;
Ware, $4,410.63; Williamsburg, $1,810.24; Worthington, $928.06.

Middlesex County. — Acton, $47,302.46; Arlington, $9,360.20; Ashby, $24,-
798.27; Ashland, $29,572.91; Ayer, $855.46; Bedford, $164.05; Belmont, $1,-
271.49; Billerica, $10,937.97; Boxborough, $3,705.41; Burlington, $16,427.63;
Cambridge, $1,008.20; Chelmsford, $24,933.15; Concord, $48,025.81; Dracut,
$311,104.39; Framingham, $53,202.08; Groton, $13,763.65; Holliston, $43,348.11;
Hudson, $16,023.71; Lexington, $28,257.06; Lincoln, $19,963.20; Littleton, $55,-
591.19; Lowell, $94,946.35; Marlborough, $48,004.68; Medford, $910.73; Melrose,
$603.70; Natick, $6,347.93; Newton, $24,469.11; North Reading, $1,393.27;
Pepperell, $2,502.64; Reading, $3,690.72; Shirley, $996.66; Somerville, $605.73;
Stoneham, $831.28; Sudbury, $18,731.39; Tewksburv, $21,406.68; Townsend, $3,-
630.42; Tyngsboro, $20,772.11; Waltham, $712.92; Watertown, $1,335.41; Way-

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land, $10,9S6.6S; Westford, $45,352.27; Weston, $13,812.07; Wilmington, $8,-
488.55; Winchester, $18,443.37; Woburn, $53,S99.S9.

Nantucket County. — Nantucket, $129.05.

Norfolk County. — Avon, $690.18; Bellingham, $765.74; Braintree, $28,032.98;
Brookline, $9,177.77; Canton, $44,592.84; Cohasset, $1,598.37; Dedham, $11,-
848.59; Dover, $474.84; Foxboro, $1,879.48; Franklin, $899.97; Holbrook, $2,-
852.26; Milton, $23,425.97; Needham, $5,260.39; Norfolk, $375.79; Norwood,
$29,701.74; Plainville, $2,877.42; Quincy, $3,918.14; Randolph, $11,559.80;
Sharon, $544.80; Stoughton, $37,521.06; Walpole, $3,906.43; Wellesley, $12,-
32S.66; Westwood, $8,463.45; Weymouth, $28,903.06; Wrentham, $6,260.17.

Plymouth County. — Abington, $2,770.76; Bridgewater, $1,927.05; Brockton,
$2,605.64; Duxbury, $1,770.56; East Bridgewater, $1,517.17; Hanover, $6,309.72;
Hingham, $7,768.38; Hull, $385.44; Kingston, $870.13; Lakeville, $4,828.24;
Marion, $1,155.01; Marshfield, $3,131.04; Mattapoisett, $2,558.70; Middlebor-
ough, $6,526.87; Norwell, $507.11; Pembroke, $1,109.77; Plymouth, $3,185.54;
Rochester, $869.26; Rockland, $532.57;, Scituate, $5,364.61; Wareham, $99,-
105.11; West Bridgewater, $2,798.90; Whitman, $600.84.

Suffolk County. — Boston, $164,456.94; Chelsea, $8,964.86; Revere, $163,341.11.

Worcester County. — Ashburnham, $2,002.50; Athol, $1,121.06; Auburn, $10,-
743.60; Barre, $3,032.47; Blackstone, $534.74; Brookfield, $644.92; Charlton,
$10,675.10; Douglas, $298.47; Dudley, $2,221.09; East Brookfield, $813.50; Fitch-
burg, $3,461.29; Gardner, $1,281.43; Grafton, $3,786.55; Hardwick, $279.44;
Harvard, $27,202.80; Holden, $2,604.35; Hopedale, $119.75; Lancaster, $1,822.46;
Leicester, $5,224.93; Leominster, $3,890.62; Lunenburg, $3,258.19; Mendon, $1,-
154.37; Milford, $1,560.66; Millbury, $30,713.89; Millville, $223.24; New Brain-
tree, $38.26; North Brookfield, $474.76; Northborough, $9,865.83; Northbridge,
$3,833.88; Oakham, $475.42; Oxford, $4,999.05; Paxton, $2,944.26; Petersham,
$3,743.03; Phillipston, $514.36; Princeton, $320.98; Rutland, $30,339.58; Shrews-
bury, $7,491.08; Southborough, $5,720.66; Southbridge, $248.24; Spencer,
$965.69; Sterling, $40,312.60; Sturbridge, $6,552.87; Sutton, $1,593.53; Temple-
ton, $20,489.93; Upton, $1,221.87; Uxbridge, $2,252.65; Warren, $2,471.27;
Webster, $1,205.62; Westborough, $8,083.59; West Boylston, $7,721.09; West
Brookfield, $931.00; Westminster, $4,233.83; Winchendon, $1,579.01; Worcester,
$6,808.54.

Miscellaneous expenditures are as follows : —

Snow Removal

Truck repairs .

$8,035.67

Truck operation

49,130.96

Truck plow repairs .

57,880.92

Tractor repairs

3,387.34

Tractor operation

47,737.30

Tractor plow repairs

50,267.68

Snow fence

896.60

Expenditures under towns

722,979.84

Traffic

White lines

$5,898.55

E. R. A. .

5,949.20

Warning signs .

18,807.79

Direction signs

41,170.47

Regulatory signs

2,134.03

Control signals

37,898,67

Traffic survey

28,287.22

Traffic permits

322.05

$940,316.31

$140,467.98

Bridges

Somerset Bridge $9,988.38

Newburyport Bridge 4,691.92

Fairhaven-New Bedford Bridge .... 11,743.88

Quincy-Weymouth Bridge 19,834.72

Detour bulletins

Geodetic survey

Safety advertising

Total of miscellaneous expenditures

Summary of Maintenance Expenditures
Maintenance and repair of State Highways
Miscellaneous expenditures

Total

P. D. 54

$46,258.90
2,412.64
3,419.56
2,000.00

$1,134,875.39

$3,970,429.46
1,134,875.39

$5,105,304.85

Removal of Snow and Ice from State Highways

The authority of the Department relative to the removal of snow and ice from
State highways has been provided by section 19, chapter 81, General Laws, as
amended.

The co-operation of the Department with officers of cities, towns and counties,
in keeping open and reasonably passable for vehicles during the winter months
such highways as may be selected by the Department is provided for in section 11,
chapter 84, General Laws, as amended.

In accordance with the provisions of these laws, the Department selected 1,848
miles of highways on the principal routes of travel, 1,668 miles of which are State
highways and 180 miles town highways.

The work of snow removal on these routes is performed in a large part by the
trucks and tractors owned and operated by the Department, but certain towns
and cities, by agreement with the Department, perform part of the work of snow
removal on the portions of the routes within their limits. All of this work is done
under the direction and supervision of the Department.

The expenditures by the Department for snow removal during the year under
the provisions of both the above-mentioned laws amounted to a total of
$1,102,380.81, which includes the cost of maintenance and repair of the equip-
ment, actual cost of plowing and purchase of materials, such as calcium chloride
and sand for use on icy conditions of the road surfaces.

Traffic Signs, Lights, Markings, Signal Systems and Regulations

The work of bringing about uniformity in traffic signs, lights, markings, signal
systems and regulations as provided by Chapter 85, Section 2 and Chapter 89,
Sections 8 and 9 of the General Laws, Tercentenary Edition, has been carried on
by the Department of Public Works as in previous years.

Under the provisions of these statutes certain duties are placed upon the De-
partment in relation to the erecting of these traffic signs, etc., and particular juris-
diction is granted over like signs, etc., erected by others.

In the first instance, the Department is required to erect on all numbered
routes such signs, etc., as it may deem necessary for promoting the public safety
and convenience. It may also, in its discretion, designate any way as a "Through
Way."

Traffic Signs, Signals, etc., Erected by Department

Accordingly, the Department has, during the past year, erected those signs, etc.,
and designated such "Through Ways" as are shown in the table below :

Traffic signals .

Traffic beacons

Traffic signs

Traffic markings (in miles)

Through ways

18,241

544

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The erection or designation of the foregoing was based upon accident analyses,
trailic counts and speed checks. It is only through a close study of these that the
need for warning or control can be accurately gauged.

Directional Signs and Route Markers Erected by Department
Still other signs have been erected under the provisions of the first-named
chapter. These are known as directional signs. Posted at or within intersections,
these serve to direct the motorist to adjacent, contiguous and even remote towns.
Travel has been further facilitated by the opening of new routes and the mark-
ing of these with button signs which notify the motorist upon which route he is
traveling.

The fabricating and painting of these signs are done at the Department's
traffic shop.

Traffic Control Signals, Signs and Regulations Approved by Department
The provisions of the several chapters already referred to also make the validity
of regulations made, or signs, etc., erected, by cities and towns upon ways within
their control, dependent upon the written approval of the Department of Public
Works. The same sanction is required for Through Ways which may be desig-
nated by these municipalities.

As a means of aiding the municipalities in this respect, the Department assigns
its engineers to make studies, and to give advice to those cities and towns which
desire to control vehicular traffic through the medium of regulations and signs.

This resulted during the past year in the Department's approving the following
traffic control features :

Traffic signals

Traffic beacons

Traffic signs and markings

Traffic rules and regulations

Isolated stop signs

132

Through ways

Safety zones

Roadside Maintenance and Development
Roadside maintenance as related to the care and planting of trees and other
growth on the areas within the highway layouts and adjacent to the traveled
surface of State highways has been one of the activities of this Department for
over thirty-nine years. This work has been developed more rapidly during recent
years because it has become recognized that systematic and intelligent control
and development of all features of the roadside conditions are of value not only
from the point of view of attractiveness in appearance but as, a safety factor
as well.

The Department has organized and trained a group of men under competent
supervision to have charge of this work, not only for the removal and trimming
of trees, brush and undesirable growth, but also for the selection and planting of
new growth suitable for the locations. The removal of trees and brush that may
obstruct vision at curves, intersections or other points on the highway is done to
insure that operating conditions shall be as safe as possible and unnecessary
growth is cleared out in order to afford attractive vistas at many scenic locations.
For the protection of the roadside trees the Department has maintained a corps
of inspectors to supervise the trimming that may be necessary for the construc-
tion of light and power transmission lines. In connection with this work a Nursery
is maintained at Sudbury where most of the trees and shrubs for use on the
highways of Massachusetts are grown and made available for use by the Depart-
ment. Strict supervision of the tree trimming by the Public Service Corporations
is maintained, thus preserving the natural beauty of our roadsides as much as
possible and still allowing the Public Service Corporations to extend their services.

40 P. D. 54

During the year planting has been done as follows:

3,710 trees 2,229 evergreens

7,419 shrubs 950 small pines

1,997 vines

Through co-operation with the United States Bureau of Public Roads, Federal
funds under the provisions of the National Recovery Act have been made available
for planting along State highways at locations selected and approved in the towns
of Lenox, Sheffield, Northborough, Natick and Framingham.

Also, the Department has acted as sponsor for roadside beautification projects
carried out with Federal funds made available under the Federal Emergency Relief
Administration of Massachusetts.

The Department submitted a total of 263 projects for roadside beautification
along the State highways throughout the Commonwealth.

Sidewalks Along State Highways
State Bond Issue and Federal W.P.A. Allotments

The Bond Issue legislation, Chapter 464, Acts of 1935, authorized the expendi-
ture of $4,000,000 for sidewalk construction along State highways, and acting
under the authority of this Act, the Department has requested the Federal
Government to co-operate in this work, and projects have been submitted by the
Department to the Works Progress Administration for its approval.

It is intended that the Federal Government will undertake the grading and
drainage, and the Commonwealth will provide the hard surface and curbing for
these sidewalks. The Department has in progress at the end of the year, work
totalling 44 miles of sidewalks at an expenditure to the end of this year amounting
to $310,162.64.

Farm-to-Market Roads

The Department was also sponsor for the construction and improvement of the
so-called Farm-to-Market roads, under the provision of the Works Progress
Administration. The projects begun during the latter part of the year total 46,
covering a total of 55 miles of road.

Federal Aid in Constructing Highways
Statements as to the acts of Congress and of the Massachusetts Legislature
with respect to co-operation between the United States and the State of Massa-
chusetts in the construction and maintenance of highways, including the Federal
Highway Act approved November 9, 1921, may be found in the annual reports
for this Department for the years 1920-1927, inclusive.

A detailed statement of Federal Aid allotments and projects for Massachusetts
appears in the Department of Public Works Report for the fiscal year 1933. Addi-
tions or alterations for the fiscal years 1934 and 1935 and a summary of the several
allotments to date appear as follows:

Total amount of regular Federal Aid for the period from June 30,

1916, to June 30, 1933 $18,523,440.00

In addition to the above, allotments were made as follows:

1931 "Federal Emergency Advance Funds" .... 1,141,460.00

1932 "Federal Emergency Relief and Construction Act" 1,716,612.00

1933 "National Recovery Funds" . . .- . . 6,597,100.00

1934 "Hayden-Cartwright Bill" (Act of June 18, 1934) . . 3,350,474.00
Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935

Hayden-Cartwright Amendment . . $1,741,877.00

Works Program— Highways . . . 3,262,885.00
Works Program — Grade Crossings . . 4,210,833.00

9,215,645.00

Total amount of Federal Allotments to date . . . $40,544,731.00
(This includes all types of Federal Aid)

There were thirteen (13) projects prepared in addition to those shown in the
Report of the Department of Public Works for 1934. The length of Federal Aid

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Road and Bridge projects in this State, from the commencement of work of this
character to November 30, 1935, inclusive, is 1,076.777 miles, an increase of 34.060
miles over 1934. In addition to this there were seven (7) landscaping (roadside
improvement) projects prepared totaling S.670 miles. These were all on old
Federal Aid projects.

The total length of Federal Aid projects (1,076.777 miles) divided according
to the various counties is as follows:

Barnstable

Berkshire

Bristol

Dukes

Essex .

Franklin

Hampden

100.820 Hampshire

133,254 Middlesex

87.219 Norfolk

3.117 Plymouth

87.360 Suffolk

54.796 Worcester

66.271

54.300
107.647

88.393

108.179

4.344

181.077

Projects Financed from 1933 National Recovery Funds and Regular

Federal Aid Funds Released from Completed Projects

sheet i

Reg. Fed.

Nat. Rec.

Total

Amount

No. Town-City

Mileage

Aid

Funds

Received

Balance

NRH 56 Stoughton

2.188

$117,194 77

NRH 57(2) Winchester

1.031

$12,600 00

12,746 42

25,346 42

NRM 57(1) Woburn .

1.995

14,100 00

14,140 19

28,240 19

NRH 57-B Winchester

0.885

14,800 00

18,170 72

32,970 72

NRH 78 Burlington

3.759

22,500 00

22,671 06

45,171 06

NRH 89-A Easton .

1.553

38,908 87

NRH 89-C Easton .

1.392

40,851 25

40,017 36

($833 89 Released)

NRM 126A Newburyport .

1.361

24,976 16

547,399 77

572,375 93

500,023 15

4,975 23 F A
67,377 55 NR

NRM 130B Auburn .

0.443

105,602 95

87,148 83

18,454 12

NRM 13 1C Springfield

(Force Acct.) .

3.422

207,919 56

207,487 36

($432 20 Released)

NRH 138B Chester .

0.307

52,686 97

41,223 00

11,463 97

NRH 143B Fairhaven

0.726

64,430 41

NRM 170C Quincy-

Weymouth

(Contracts 1, 2

and 3) .

0.749

1,883,586 65

1,641,702 46

241,884 19

NRH 172B Sterling-West

Boylston (In-

cludes Traffic

Signals)

4.337

96,500 00

124,037 32

220,537 32

NRH 173C Lanesboro*

0.347

8,000 00

9,983 98

17,983 98

NRM 173D Pittsfield*

1.462

23,000 00

30,896 49

53,896 49

NRH 174B Scituate-

Marshfield

1.168

150,757 25

121,745 19

29,012 06

NRH 184A Charlton .

2.848

33,900 00

36,210 73

70,110 73

68,675 70

($1,435 03 Released)

NRH 184C Charlton-

Oxford .

2.609

20,523 83

38,145 29
($3,797 57

58,669 12
leleased)

54,871 55

NRH 188F Ashby-Townsend

4.023

16,435 81

117,531 69

133,967 50

NRH 189E Mattapoisett

(Force Acct.) .

1.583

30,000 00

80,642 31

110,642 31

NRH 189F Wareham .

1.556

25,000 00

32,224 03

57,224 03

NRH 194B Templeton

3.002

36,200 00

41,283 82

77,483 82

58,831 75

4,522 75 F A
14,071 86 NR

($57.46 Released, from NHH Fun,!::)

NRH 199C Newbury*.

3.047

44,000 00

46,975 44

90,975 44

NRM 235B Brookline-

Newton

1.089

210,478 94

201,168 84

9,310 10

NRH 240B West Boylston .

0.594

7,200 00

7,263 08

14,463 08

NRM241A East Boston-

Revere .

2.294

713,586 36

618,514 83

95,071 53

NRM 241B Revere .

1.044

—

250,293 28

216,318 30

33,974 98

NRM 242A Arlington-

Belmont-

Cambridge

1.557

599,758 24

517,097 58

82,660 66

NRH 243A Amesbury

0.795

17,984 24

21,836 51

39,820 75

NRM 244A Boston

(Hyde Park) .

0.296

37,926 57

37,956 57

NRS 245A Huntington

5.313

144,633 69

NRS 246 Conway-

Deerfield

6.190

235,351 71

197,522 80

37,828 91

NRS 247 Otis

3.738

102,613 44

93,245 10

9,368 34

NRM 248A North Adams .

0.813

176,360 52

NRM 249 Worcester

0.225

104,345 23

58,667 06

45,678 17

Totals .

69.741

$447,720 04

$6,436,445 51

$6,884,165 55

$6,171,954 98

$705,654 42

(Total Amount Released

$6,556 15)

* These projects were not active in 1935. They were complete and final payment received as of November 30, 1934.

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Statement of Projects Done Under the Federal Emergency Relief and

Construction Act
(These were partly financed by Regular Federal Aid)

Town-City Mileage

Reg. Fed.
Aid

Emerg. Con.
Fund

Total

Amount
Received

Balance

E-12
E-21-A
E-21-B
E-122-F

E-134-D
E-170-A
E-170-B
E-177-D
E-211-D
E-211-E
E-235-A
E-236

E-237-A
E-238-B

Ipswich' . 2.081
Hancock-Pittsfield* 2.773
Hancock* . .1.098
Barnstable-
Yarmouth* . 2.395
Oakham . .2.656
Cohasset-Hingham 3.151
Cohasset-Scituate . 5 . 808
Yarmouth* . . 4.818
Wei lesley (West)*. 2.272
Wellesley (Ctr.)* . 1.108
Wellesley (East)* . 1.360
Lakeville-
Middleboro

Raynham-Taunton 6.344
Oxford-Webster* . 3.374
Belchertown* . 2.812

$16,000 00
14,000 00
11,000 00

20,000 00
20,000 00
34,273 54
50,000 00
30,000 00
40,000 00
70,000 00
35,000 00

10,000 00
30,000 00
20,000 00

$27,939 83
112,866 39
61,965 98

61,462 14

44,528 59
225,038 35
149,194 29

81,138 24
203,119 63
312,096 18

91,952 50

211,797 81
99,299 97
34,212 10

$43,939 83
126,866 39
72.965 98

81,462 14
64,528 59
259,311 89
199,194 29
111,138 24
243,119 63
382,096 18
126,952 50

221,797 81
129,299 97
54,212 10

$43,939 83
126,866 39
72,965 98

81,462 14
64,528 59
259,311 89
199,194 29
111,138 24
243,119 63
382,096 18
126,952 50

221,797 81
129,299 97
54,212 10

Totals . . 42.050

$400,273 54

$1,716,612 00

$2,116,885 54

* These pre

jects were not active in 1935.

They were complete and final payment received ■

is of November 30, 1934.

Projects Financed from Regular Federal Aid Funds

Note:— The following are projects that were done in 1933 and 1934. There were no projects under this classification in the fiscalj
year 1935. Final payment received as of November 30, 1934. I

No.

F-106-A
211-C
218
226-C
229-A
229-B
231-B

Towu-City

Bourne-Falmouth .

Framingham-Natick

Canton-Dedham-Westwood

Shrewsbury-Worcester

Dedham-Westwood-Needham

Needham-Wellesley

Dedham-Westwood-Norwood

Totals

Mileage

6.458
4.008
3.947
3.015
3.448
3.653
3.566

28.09.)

Federal Funds
Allotted

$78,876 03
100,200 00
177,698 65
86,713 li3
96,488 72
93,783 11
150,074 96

$783,834 70

Federal Funds
Received

$78,876 03
100,200 00
177,698 65
86,713 23
96,488 72
93,783 11
150,074 96

$783,834 70

1934 Landscape (Roadside Improvement) Projects

Financed from National Recovery Funds

These projects were active in 1934 — Final payments received in 1935.

Nat. Rec.

No.

Town-City

Mileage

Nat. Rec.
Allott.

Funds
Received

Amount
Released

Balance

NRH 211-C

Framingliam-Natick . .

4.008

$3,054 85

$3,048 97

$5 88

NRH 211-D

Wellesley (West)

2.272

2,070 64

2,060 14

10 50

NRH 211-E

Wellesley (Center)

1.108

1,886 84

1,878 27

8 57

NRH 211-F

Framingham-Natick .

1.595

1,579 11

1,573 81

5 30

NRH 218

Canton-Dedham-Westwood

3.947

8,182 41

7,550 02

632 39

NRH 229-A

Dedham-Westwood-

3.448

2,674 87

NRH 229-B

Needham-Wellesley . . .

3.653

5,965 89

NRH 234-A

Lee-Stockbridge

2.010

4,561 38

4,234 25

327 13

NRH 235-A

Wellesley (East)

1.360

3,703 97

3,675 74

28 23

NRH 235-C

Wellesley (East)

0.463

510 13

505 88

4 25

NRM 235-D

Newton ....

2.757

5,562 67

5,511 78

50 89

Totals ....

26.621

$39,752 76

$38,679 62

$1,073 14

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1935 Landscape (Roadside Impovement) Projects
Financed from National Recovery Funds

No.

Town-City Mileage

Sheffield 3.052

Lenox 2.407

Sheffield 1.532

Lenox 0.773

Northboro 0.303

Framingham ...... 0.142

Natick 0.151

of the above projects are on old Federal Aid projects.

Totals 8.360

Funds
Alloted

Funds
Received

Balance

NRH 98
NRH 114
NRH 137-C
NRH 147-A
NRH 2I1-A
NRH 211-F
NRH 211-C
Note:— All

$540 10

8,441 12

2,110 40

797 50

12,300 25

2,678 64

5,483 00

$540 10

8,441 12

2,110 40

797 50

12,300 25

2,678 64

5,483 00

$32,351 01

1935 Projects Financed Under the Hayden-Cartwright Bill

No.

Town-City Mileage

Haverhill 0.875

Lowell* 0.968

Southwick 6.874

Bourne- Wareham* 1.417

Rutland 0.833

Westfield 0.677

Cheshire 2.200

Bourne* 1.509

Boston-Brookline 0.079

Otis-BIandford 3.508

Dracut-Methuen* 5.941

Dedham* (Not including Sidewalks) . . 1.060

Boston* (Not Including Sidewalks) . . 0.656

Blandford 1.952

Billerica-Chelmsford (Not Including Side-

-alks) 2.835

Athol-Orange 2.847

Andover (Not Including Sidewalks) . . 4.711

Millbury 2.075

Montague 4.570

Totals 45.587

Allottment

Amount
Received

NRM 69-B
NRM91
NRH 73
NRH 125-C
NRH 134-E
NRM 155-C
NRH 173-E
NRH 176-B
NRM 235-E
NRS 247-B
NRH 250

NRH 251-A
NRM 251-B
NRS 252
NRS 253

NRS 254
NRS 255
NRH 256-A
NRS 257

$43,493

52,248
134,566
146,040

19,155

54,864
156,661

85,632
390,380

67,036
210,617

51,821
210,346
117,675

53,368

95 55,273 70

41 NR 206,617 41

58 FA 50,821 58

34 185,698 95

52 89,555.40

79 51,919 51

$39,723 96

38,599 70

114,874 35

103,391 93

47,260 40

118,388 20

66,900 10

88,679 59
156,859 56
157,718 15
406,101 72
313,669 92

78,839 90
152,718 15

$3,769 87
13,648 54
19,692 28
42,648 39
19,155 95

7,604 57

38,273 08

18,732 37

390,380 10

11,763 25

4,000 00

1,000 00
24,647 39
28,122 12

1,449 28

9,839 69
156,859 56

5,000 00
406,101 72
313,669 92

$2,916,939 32 $1,400,581 24

$1,516,358 08

• These projects were listed as active projects in the report of November 30, 1934, and were included in the Federal Aid mileage
added in the fiscal year 1934.

Bridges
During the year the Department has prepared designs and plans for, and done
other work relating to, bridges throughout the Commonwealth. The various
cities and towns, the localities therein, the character of the structure and other
details are as follows:

Bridges and Structures Built or Contracted for
Cities and Towns, Locality and Character of Structure

Athol — Seven 24-foot spans, reinforced concrete beams on reinforced concrete
pile trestle, total length 168 feet, 40-foot roadway, 5-foot sidewalk, over
Millers River. New road.

Boston — At Brookline line over Muddy River reinforced concrete arch box cul-
vert, 15-foot span.

Boston — Jamaicaway over Huntington Avenue, one 110-foot 6-inch span steel
rigid frame with stone facing.

Brookline — 15-foot reinforced concrete arch culvert, over Muddy River.

Cheshire — North Street over Bassett Brook, one 12-foot span, reinforced con-
crete arch.

Dartmouth — Padanaram Bridge over Apponaganset River, 4 spans at 25 feet,
6 spans at 26 feet, 9 inches, 1 swing draw span with 30-foot openings ; total
length, 417 feet, 9 inches.

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Dedham — Providence Turnpike over Wigwam Brook, 10-foot span, reinforced
concrete culvert.

Dedham — Providence Turnpike over Mother Brook. Four 22-foot spans re-
inforced concrete beams, total length 96 feet.

Hadley — Bay Road over Port River, 8 spans at 15 feet, 6 inches, total length
126 feet, reinforced concrete slab on timber piles.

Holyoke — Northampton Street, under tracks of N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R., 1 span,
86 feet, through girder.

Lee — Washington Mountain Road over Brook, one 33-foot span steel stringer
with reinforced concrete floor.

Maiden — Medford Street over Maiden River, trunnion bascule drawbridge with
steel stringer approach, span 52 feet, 6 inches, clear opening; 66 feet center
to center bearings.

Millbury — Worcester Road over Blackstone River, one 60-foot span steel stringer
bridge with reinforced concrete floor.

Millbury — Worcester Road, over tracks of N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. One 56 feet,
6 inches steel-beam span; one 25-foot span, two 31-foot spans, one 35 feet,
3 inches span, concrete beams; total length 220 feet.

Millville — Center Street, over Blackstone River. Steel stringer bridge with
reinforced concrete floor; two spans at 30 feet, one span at 60 feet.

Montague — Montague Road, over tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad and Cen-
tral Vermont Railroad, steel plate girder bridge with concrete floor; one span
46 feet, 6 inches, one span 60 feet, one span 81 feet, 4% inches.

Montague — Montague Road, under tracks of Central Vermont Railroad.

Through plate girder bridge with wrought iron deck, one span 102 feet, 9% inches,
center to center bearings.

Montague — Federal Street, over Saw Mill River, one span 31 feet, 1% inches, rein-
forced concrete beam.

Newbury — Newburyport Turnpike over tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad.
Two steel girders at 85 feet, reinforced concrete beam approaches, total
length 470 feet.

Palmer — Whipple's Bridge over Ware River. Steel stringer bridge, two spans at
44 feet, 6 inches.

Plymouth — Taylor Avenue over outlet from Bartlett's Pond, 20-foot span rein-
forced concrete slab.

Walpole — Washington Street over a spur track of Bird & Son, Inc., 22-foot span
steel stringer with reinforced concrete floor.

Waltham — Main Street over tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad. Through
truss bridge, one span 115 feet; two spans at 59 feet, 6 inches, steel stringers,
total length 240 feet, reinforced concrete floor.

Weymouth — Main Street over tracks of New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad. Through plate girder, reinforced concrete floor, 110-foot span.

Alterations, Repairs and Extensions to Bridges and Structures

Made or Contracted for

Athol — Over Lake Rohunta Outlet, reinforced concrete arch extension to existing

concrete arch, 16-foot span.
Berkley — At Dighton line, repairs to draw bridge and fender pier over Taunton

River.
Bourne — At Wareham line, Cohasset Narrows Bridge, steel and concrete exten-
sion of existing concrete beam bridge.
Buckland — At Charlemont line, Scott's Bridge over Deerfield River, repairs to

abutments and wing walls.
Dracut — Over Richardson Brook, construction of new fence.
Fairhaven — At New Bedford line, Brightman Street Bridge, repairs to dolphins

and fender piers.
Greenfield — At Montague line, Montague City Bridge over Connecticut River,

repairs to bridge.
Millville — Center Street over Canal, concrete slab extension to existing stone

arch, 21 -foot span.

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Newbury — Parker River Bridge, removal of pile stubs from river and repair

of pier.
Newbury — Newburyport Turnpike over Little River, reinforced concrete beam

extension to existing concrete beam bridge, 21-foot span.

Contemplated Bridges and Structures
Plans, Studies or Estimates Made
Cities and Towns, Locality and Character of Structure
Amherst — College Street under tracks of Central Vermont Railway.
Ashburnham — Elimination of Astor House grade crossing.
Attleboro — Washington Street over New Haven Railroad, Reconstruction.
Ayer — Elimination of grade crossing, West Main Street, over Boston and Maine

Railroad.
Beverly — Elimination of grade crossing, Paradise Crossing over Boston and

Maine Railroad.
Boston — At Milton line, over Neponset River.
Boston — Porter Street over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Boston — Tunnel Road under Prescott Street.

Boston — Tunnel Road under Bennington Street and under Neptune Street.
Boston — Tunnel Road under Saratoga Street.
Brookline — Highway separation at Brookline Village.
Brookline — Highway separation at Cypress Street.

Canton — At Norwood and Westwood lines over Neponset River, reconstruction.
Canton — Dedham Road over New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad.
Chesterfield — Reconstruction of existing bridge, First Bridge over Stevens Brook.
Chesterfield — Reconstruction of existing bridge, Second Bridge over Stevens

Brook.
Clinton — Lancaster Mills Bridge over Nashua River.
Dartmouth — Westport Factory.
Edgartown — Katama Road over Mattakesett Creek.
Fall River — At Somerset line, Slades Ferry Bridge over Taunton River.
Florida — At Savoy line, Mohawk Trail over Cold River.

Foxborough — Cocasset Street under tracks of New York, New Haven and Hart-
ford Railroad.
Gardner — Mechanic Street over tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad.
Grafton — Shrewsbury Street over tracks of Boston & Albany Railroad.
Hatfield — West Street over Mill River, extension of existing bridge.
Holyoke — Northampton Road, culvert extension.
Hopkinton — At Westborough line, Rocklawn Crossing, over Sudbury River and

tracks of Boston & Albany Railroad.
Ipswich — Linebrook Road and Newburyport Turnpike, Grade Separation.
Lawrence — Andover Street under Boston and Maine Railroad.
Lincoln — South Great Road over tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad.
Lunenburg — 'Leominster Road over tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad.
Lynnfield — Newburyport Turnpike over Circumferential Highway.
Manchester — Proposed road over Manchester Harbor.
Mansfield — Elm Street over tracks of New York, New Haven & Hartford

Railroad.
Mansfield — Pedestrian underpass under tracks of New York, New Haven &

Hartford Railroad.
Millbury — Worcester Road over West Main Street.

Milton — Proposed road over New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad.
Monroe — Valley Road over Dunbar Brook. Extension to existing bridge.
New Marlborough — Great Barrington Road over Konkapot Brook.
Newton — At Weston line, Northern Circumferential Highway over Charles River.
Newton — At Wellesley line, over Charles River.

North Adams — Williamstown Road over a brook. Widening existing stone arch.
North Andover — Boxford Road over Mosquito Brook.
Peabody — Lowell Street over Newburyport Turnpike.
Peabody — Circumferential Highway over Lowell Street.

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Peabody — Circumferential Highway under Andover Street.

Pittsfield — Dalton Road over tracks of Boston & Albany Railroad.

Randolph — North Street over New Haven (Reconstruction).

Revere — Squire Road extension over Boston and Maine Railroad.

Rowley — Newburyport Turnpike under Haverhill Street.

Salisbury — Elm Street over tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad. _

Saugus — Newburyport Turnpike over Saugus River, extension of existing bridge.

Saugus — Newburyport Turnpike under Main Street.

Saugus — Newburyport Turnpike under Walnut Street.

Sharon — Depot Street over New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad.

Sheffield — Canaan Road over tracks of New York, New Haven & Hartford

Railroad.
Southwick — State Highway over Webb Brook; reconstruction.
Sudbury — Boston Post Road over Parmenters Mill Pond; reconstruction.
Sudbury — Worcester Road over tracks of New York, New Haven. & Hartford

Railroad.
Sutton — Worcester Road over Wilkinsonville Road.
Sutton — Worcester-Providence Road over Central Turnpike.
Topsfield — Newburyport Pike under Ipswich Road.
Weston — Circumferential Highway over South Avenue.
Weston — Circumferential Highway over Aqueduct.
Williamstown — North Adams Road over Green River; reconstruction.
Winchendon — New Boston Road over tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad.
Winchendon — Pequoig Crossing, Ashburnham Road over tracks of Boston and

Maine Railroad.
Winchester — Main Street over outlet of Wedge Pond.
Worcester — Barber's Crossing over tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad.
Worcester — New Street over Neponset Street.
Worcester — Pedestrian underpass under tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad

near Barber's Crossing.

Examinations, Reports, Estimates, etc., at Request of Counties, Cities and Towns
Amherst — Puffer Mill Bridge over Mill River, estimate for new bridge.
Amherst — Meadow Street over Mill River, estimate for new bridge.
Amherst — Meadow Street over Podick Brook, estimate for new bridge.
Clinton — Lancaster Mills Bridge over Nashua River. Estimate for new bridge.
Clinton — West Boylston Street over tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad, ques-
tion of responsibility for maintenance.
Colrain — Griswoldville Bridge over North River. Estimate for repairs and for

new bridge.
Concord — Red Bridge over Concord River. Estimate for widening.
Deerfield — At Sunderland line, over Connecticut River. Estimate for new

bridge.
Dudley — At Webster line, Pleasant Street over French River. Estimate for

repairs.
Fall River — Quequechan Street Bridge over Quequechan River. Estimate for

a new bridge.
Gill — At Montague line, over Connecticut River. Estimate for a new bridge.
Greenfield — At Montague line, White Suspension Bridge. Estimate for a new

bridge. ^

North Attleborough — Mendon Road over Abbots Run Stream. Estimate for a

new bridge.
North Attleborough — Adamsdale Road over Abbots Run Stream. Estimate for

a new bridge.
Pepperell — Covered Bridge over Nashua River. Estimate for a new bridge.
Tewksbury — Hall's Bridge over Shawsheen River. Estimate for a new bridge.
Tewksbury. — ■ Bridge Street over Shawsheen River. Estimate for a new bridge.
Warren — Boston Road over Quaboag River. Estimate for a new bridge.
Warren — County Road over tracks of Boston & Albany Railroad. Estimate for

repairs.

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Warren — Main Street over tracks of Boston & Albany Railroad. Estimate for

repairs.
Westport — Westport Point Bridge. Estimate for a new bridge.
Winchendon — Old County Road over Millers River. Estimate for a new bridge.

Bridge Plans Submitted and Examined during the Year under the Provisions of
Section 35, Chapter 85, of the General Laws. (Tercentenary Edition.)

Fall River — Plymouth Avenue over Quequechan River. Creosoted timber pile
bridge with reinforced concrete deck, 136 feet long.

Fitchburg — Sawyer Passway connecting First Street Underpass. Foot bridge.

Fitchburg — Water Street near Hardy's Foundry. Foot bridge.

Hamilton — Moulton Street over Miles River. Reinforced concrete culvert,
16-foot span.

Lee — Washington Mountain Road, 33 foot span steel stringer, concrete deck.

Methuen — Oakland Avenue over tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad; 31-foot
road, two 6-foot sidewalks, reinforced concrete beam.

Pittsfield — East New Lenox Road over Sacket Brook, steel stringers with rein-
forced concrete floor.

Examinations, Reports, Estimates, etc., bxj direction of the Department
Adams — Center Street over Hoosic River, estimate for a new bridge.
Agawam — At West Springfield line, over Westfield River, estimate for a new

bridge.
Berlin — Bridge Road over Assabet River, estimate for a new bridge.
Boston — At Chelsea line, Chelsea North Bridge over Mystic River, examination

of plans and specifications.
Charlemont — Hawley Road over Deerfield River, estimate for a new bridge.
Erving — At Montague line, Millers Falls Bridge over Millers River, estimate for

a new bridge.
Fairhaven — At New Bedford line, Coggeshall Street Bridge over Acushnet River,

estimates for repairs and for a new bridge.
Hadley — At Northampton line, over Connecticut River, estimate for a new

bridge.
Kingston — Elm Street over Jones River, estimate for a new bridge.
Lynn — At Saugus line, Fox Hill Bridge over Saugus River, investigation for

alteration to relieve traffic.

Bridge over the Merrimack River between Newburyport and Salisbury

This bridge was placed in charge of the Massachusetts Highway Commission
and made a State highway by the provisions of Chapter 716, Acts of 1912, which
also provided that the expense of keeping the bridge in good repair for travel, of
operating the draw and of maintaining the structure shall be paid by the Com-
monwealth.

The number of draw openings during the year ending Nov. 30, 1935, was 17S.
In 1934 the number of such openings was 110; in 1933 the number was 153; and
in 1932 the number was 220.

The total expenditure during the year was $4,691.92.

The total expenditure from 1912 to Nov. 30, 1935, inclusive, was $199,724.15.

Bridge over Taunton River between Fall River and Somerset
This bridge was placed in charge of the Massachusetts Highway Commission

and made a State highway by the provisions of Chapter 717, Acts of 1912, which

also provided that the expense of keeping the bridge in good repair for travel,

and for operating the draw and maintaining the structure, shall be paid by the

Commonwealth.
The number of draw openings during the year ending Nov. 30, 1935, was 1,492.

In 1934 the number of such openings was 2,118; in 1933 the number was 1,602;

and in 1932 the number was 1,662.
The total expenditure during the year was $9,988.38.

. The total expenditure from 1912 to Nov. 30, 1933, inclusive, was $411,645.10.

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Bridge over Acushnet River between City of New Bedford and the

Town of Fairhaven

This bridge, which was placed in charge of the Department of Public Works
and made a State highway by the provisions of Chapter 406, Acts of 1930, which
also provided that the expense of keeping the bridge in good repair for travel,
operating the draw and of maintaining the structure, shall be paid by the Com-
monwealth, was taken over by the Department on June 27, 1930.

The number of draw openings while in charge of the Department beginning
June 27, 1930, and ending Nov. 30, 1932, was 1,069. In 1933 the number of such
openings was 1,867; in 1934 the number was 1,434; and in 1935 the number
was 1,318.

The total expenditure during the year was $11,743.88.

The total expenditure while in charge of the Department has been $96,860.63.

Bridge over Weymouth Fore River between the City of Quincy and the

Town of Weymouth

The jurisdiction of the Department of Public Works over this bridge is pro-
vided for by Chapter 348, Acts of 1933. The construction of the new bridge at
this location required the construction of a temporary bridge to accommodate
the vehicular traffic which normally passed over the old bridge.

The number of draw openings at this temporary bridge during the fiscal year
ending Nov. 30, 1935, was 2,812.

The expenditure during the year for the maintenance and operation of this
temporary bridge was $19,834.72.

Construction of Town and County Ways

(Section 34, Chapter 90, General Laws, Ter. Ed.)

During the year the Department has contracted for work to be done in the

towns/cities named in the following table, which also shows the type of road, the

length contracted for, and the allotments of contributions by the State, towns/

cities and counties:

Length Con-

Contributions

tracted For

Counties and Towns

State

Town

County

Type op Road (Feet)

Barnstable County

Barnstable

$5,400 00

$2,700 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

6,400

Barnstable

3,825 00

1,912 50

Gravel and tar mixed in place

4,115

Barnstable

1,600 00

800 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

1,870

Barnstable

2,975 00

1,487 50

Repairs and oiling

17,750

Barnstable

1,500 00

750 00

Repairs and oiling

11,250

Brewster

5,100 00

2,550 00

Gravel and oiling .

8,850

Chatham .

11,050 00

5,525 00

Bituminous concrete

6,633

Falmouth .

3,400 00

1,700 00

Gravel and tar mixed in piace

3,750

Falmouth .

1,250 00

625 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

1,050

Harwich

850 00

425 00

Bituminous concrete

462

Harwich

2,040 00

1,020 00

Repairs and oiling

15,660

Harwich

6,800 00

3,400 00

Bituminous concrete

3,150

Orleans

5,100 00

2,550 00

Bituminous concrete

2,853

Orleans

3,400 00

1,700 00

Bituminous concrete

1,254

Wellfleet .

5,100 00

2,550 00

Gravel

3,387

Berkshire County

Adams

$2,550 00

$1,275 00

Stone retread

1,550

Adams

10,000 00

3,000 00

Bituminous macadam .

3,400

Alford

1,275 00

637 50

Gravel

900

Alford

500 00

250 00

Repairs

7,713

Becket

850 00

425 00

Gravel

600

Becket

3,300 00

1,650 00

Gravel and tar

1,200

Beeket

850 00

425 00

Gravel

500

Becket

2,000 00

1,000 00

Gravel

700

Cheshire

2,720 00

1,360 00

Stone retread and gravel

3,900

Clarksburg

850 00

425 00

Oiling ....

13,025

Clarksburg

2,000 00

1,000 00

Gravel and tar

1,200

Dalton

9,500 00

4,750 00

Stone retread

3,200

Egremont .

3,200 00

1,600 00

Stone retread

3,950

Florida

1,700 00

850 00

Gravel

400

Florida

2,000 00

1,000 00

Gravel

1,000

Great Barrington

10,000 00

5,000 00

Bituminous macadam

3,379

Hancock

9,350 00

340 00

1,360 00

Penolithic pavement

. 2,098

Hancock

900 00

120 00

450 00

Grading and drainage

450

Hinsdale

1,000 00

500 00

Gravel and tar

1,800

Lanesborough

3,850 00

1,925 00

Gravel and tar

3,200

Lanesborough

2,150 00

1,075 00

1.075 00

Bridge and approaches .

—

Lee .

3,400 00

1,700 00

Gravel and tar and stone re
tread

2,650

P. D. 54

Length Con-

Contributions

tracted For

Counties and Towns

State

Town

County

Txpe o,f Road (Feet)

Lee

$3,400 00

$1,700 00

Bituminous macadam

. 1,300

Lee .

6,000 00

3,000 00

Grading and drainage

. 4,850

Lee .

2,200 00

1,100 00

Bridge and approaches .

—

Lenox

4,250 00

2,125 00

Bituminous macadam .

. 1,750

Lenox

750 00

375 00

Gravel

. 1,000

Monterey .

2,000 00

1,000 00

Gravel and tar

. 1,150

Mount Washington

1,500 00

500 00

1,000 00

Gravel

950

New Ashford

425 00

212 50

Gravel

. 2,200

New Ashford

1,080 00

540 00

Gravel

750

New Marlborough

2,550 00

1,275 00

Stone retread and gravel

. 4,000

New Marlborough

2,550 00

1,275 00

Gravel, gravel and tar and

stone retread

. 8,900

New Marlborough

1,218 00

564 00

Gravel

. 1,750

New Marlborough

1,482 00

686 00

Gravel

. 9,000

North Adams

8,500 00

6,000 00

Penolithic pavement

. 4,438

Otis .

2,375 00

1,187 50

Gravel

1,450

Pittsfield .

10,625 00

5,312 50

Reinforced cement concrete
and bituminous macadam

(widening)

. 2,950

Pittsfield .

10,625 00

5,312 50

Penolithic pavement

. 5,135

Richmond .

2,725 00

1,362 50

Gravel

. 1,400

Richmond .

1,062 50

531 25

Repairs and oiling

. 13,200

Sandisfield .

5,000 00

2,500 00

Gravel

. 2,300

Savoy

2,000 00

500 00

1,500 00

Gravel

. 1,180

Sheffield .

3,150 00

1,575 00

Stone retread and gravel and

tar ....

. 3,200

Sheffield .

850 00

425 00

Grading and drainage

850

Stockbridge

7,650 00

3,825 00

Bituminous macadam

. 2,225

Tyringham

4,000 00

2,000 00

Bridge repairs-gravel and tar . 2,550

Washington

6,450 00

1,500 00

2,000 00

Gravel and oiling .

. 14,350

West Stockbridge

2,500 00

1,250 00

Stone retread

. 5,100

West Stockbridge

3,500 00

1,750 00

Gravel and asphalt emulsion . 2,900

Williamstown

6,400 00

4,950 00

1,450 00

Gravel and stone retread

10,964

Williamstown

7,550 00

4,150 00

3,400 00

Bituminous madacam .

. 1,706

Windsor

1,000 00

500 00

Gravel

700

Windsor

1,000 00

500 00

Gravel

600

Bristol County

Acushnet .

$255 00

Repairs and oiling

. 20,819

Berkley-Dighton

10,500 00

5,000 00

Bridge ,.

—

Berkley

1,000 00

Repairs and oiling

. 46,936

Dartmouth

36,125 00

21,225 00

Bridge and approaqhes .

— ■

Easton

5,100 00

—

Gravel and tar

. 4,965

Fairhaven .

850 00

Repairs and oiling . ,

. 28,195

Freetown .

850 00

Repairs and oiling

. 62,527

Mansfield .

2,210 00

— ■

Gravel and tar

. 1,100

Norton

425 00

Repairs and oiling

. 23,194

Raynham .

500 00

Repairs and oiling

. 16,080

Rehoboth .

680 00

Repairs and oiling

. 49,4.37

Rehoboth .

2,550 00

—

Gravel

. 1,400

Dukes County

Tisbury

$1,000 00

Repairs and oiling

. 13,500

Essex County
Amesbury .

$12,750 00

$6,375 00

Gravel and tar and bituminc
macadam-reinforced ceme
concrete widening

)US

nt
. 8,963

Amepbury .

850 00

— ■

Repairs and oiling

. 17,350

Andover

7,450 00

3,725 00

Grading and drainage .

. 4,250

Andover

1,200 00

—

Repairs and oiling.

. 9,880

Beverly

3,500 00

1,750 00

Bituminous macadam .

. 1,100

Boxford

1,700 00

850 00

Stone retread

. 1,100

Boxford

1,700 00

850 00

Stone retread

900

Boxford

2,000 00

— -

Repairs and oiling

. 25,250

Danvers

1,650 00

—

Repairs and oiling

. 8,300

Essex

2,000 00

1,000 00

Repairs and oiling

. 14,244

Georgetown

4,250 00

2,125 00

Gravel and tar

. 3,800

Georgetown

3,000 00

375 00

1,500 00

Gravel and tar, repairs a
oiling

nd
. 5,000

Gloucester .

5,000 00

—

Bituminous macadam .

. 1,800

Groveland .

1,500 00

200 00

750 00

Gravel and tar

700

Hamilton .

8,500 00

4,250 00

Bituminous macadam .

. 2,450

Haverhill .

6,375 00

3,187 50

Bituminous macadam

. 1,664

Ipswich

5,100 00

2,550 00

Stone retread, repairs and oil

ing 40,750

Lynn

19,125 00

9,562 50

Bituminous macadam .

. 4,150

Lynnfield .

5,100 00

2,550 00

Bituminous macadam .

. 2,400

Lynnfield .

1,000 00

500 00

Bituminous macadam .

150

Manchester

24,437 50

4,250 00

13,812 50

Grading and drainage .

. 1,650

Marblehead

11,900 00

5,950 00

Bituminous macadam .

. 5,281

Merrimac .

14,025 00

2,125 00

5,100 00

Bituminous macadam .

. 2,292

Methuen .

1,000 00

—

Repairs and oiling

. 6,306

Middleton .

1,500 00

—

Repairs and oiling

. 18,532

Newbury .

4,675 00

2,000 00

Penolithic pavement

1,810

Newbury .

4,675 00

2,000 00

Gravel and tar . .

. 3,285

Newbury .

1,500 00

—

Repairs and oiling

. 24,900

Contributions

COUNTIES AND TOWNS

State

Town

County

North Andover .

$5,950 00

$2,975 00

Peabody

17,000 00

8,500 00

Peabody

1,870 00

935 00

Rockport .

2,500 00

1,250 00

1,250 00 \

Swampscott

10,200 00

5,100 00

Topsfield .

4,420 00

680 00

1,700 00

Topsfield .

1,062 50

765 00

531 25

West Newbury .

850 00

—

West Newbury .

5,950 00

2,975 00

West Newbury .

1,500 00

200 00

750 00

Franklin County

Ashfield

850 00

425 00

Ashfield

1,275 00

850 00

425 00

Bernardston

1,700 00

850 00

Buckland .

3,400 00

2,550 00

850 00

Charlemont

1,700 00

850 00

Colrain

2,550 00

1,700 00

850 00

Conway

2,550 00

1,700 00

850 00

Deerfield

1,700 00

850 00

Erving

722 50

361 25

Erving

977 50

488 75

Gill . . . .

1,700 00

850 00

Greenfield .

9,350 00

8,500 00

850 00

Hawley

850 00

425 00

Hawley

850 00

425 00

Heath

1,700 00

850 00

859 00

Leverett

1,700 00

850 00

Leyden

1,700 00

850 00

Monroe

3,400 00

2,550 00

850 00

Montague .

6,800 00

5,950 00

850 00

Montague-Greenfield

5,000 00

—

5,000 00

New Salem

1,700 00

850 00

New Salem

1,000 00

—

Northfield .

1,700 00

850 00

Orange

2,550 00

1,700 00

850 00

Rowe

2,550 00

1,275 00

850 00

Shelburne .

1,275 00

850 00

425 00

Shelburne .

1,275 00

850 00

425 00

Shutesbury

1,700 00

850 00

Sunderland

4,000 00

1,000 00

Warwick

1,700 00

850 00

Wendell .

3,400 00

2,550 00

850 00

Wendell .

1,275 00

Whately .

1,700 00

850 00

Hampden County

Agawam

$12,375 00

$7,250 00

$5,125 00

Agawam

5,000 00

2,500 00

Agawam

9,000 00

4,500 00

Agawam

637 50

Blandford .

3,825 00

1,700 00

2,125 00

Brimfield .

425 00

Brimfield .

3,400 00

1,700 00

Brimfield .

340 00

Chester

5,950 00

850 00

5,100 00

Chester

2,550 00

425 00

1,912 50

East Longmeadow

8,500 00

4,250 00

East Longmeadow

425 00

Granville .

5,100 00

2,550 00

Hampden .

2,550 00

1,020 00

1,530 00

Hampden .

1,700 00

680 00

1,020 00

Hampden .

425 00

Holland

3,400 00

850 00

2,720 00

Holland

425 00

Holyoke

2,975 00

1,487 50

Longmeadow

6,375 00

4,250 00

2,125 00

Ludlow

3,400 00

1,700 00

Ludlow

4,000 00

2,000 00

Monson

3,400 00

1,700 00

Monson

425 00

Montgomery

2,550 00

850 00

2,550 00

Palmer

17,800 00

15,038 10

15,000 00

Palmer

4,000 00

3,000 00

P. D. 54

Length Con-
tracted For
Type of Road (Feet)

Bridge-stone and cut-back as-
phalt mixed in place . . 2,550
Bituminous macadam . . 5,650
Grading and drainage . . 402
/Bituminous macadam . . 115
\ Repairs and oiling . . . 15,800
Bituminous concrete . . 2,554
Grading and oiling . . 1,650
Grading and drainage . . 1,600
Repairs and oiling . . 6,500
Stone and cut-back asphalt

mixed in place . . . 2,800

Repairs and oiling . . 8,020

Gravel .... 1,585

Gravel and tar (widening) . 400

Gravel and tar mixed in place 1,200
Bridge repairs — -gravel and tar

mixed in place . . . 2,300
Stone and cut-back asphalt

mixed in place . . . 6,000

Stone and tar mixed in place . 2,900

Bituminous macadam . . 1,100
Gravel . . . .2,100

Bituminous macadam . . 1,000

Bituminous macadam . . 700

Gravel .... 1,000

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 1 ,800

Bituminous macadam . . 2,650

Gravel .... 800

Gravel .... 300

Gravel .... 1,500

Gravel and tar . . . 6,000

Bituminous macadam . . 1,600

Bridge — -gravel . . . 850

Bituminous macadam . . 2,807

Bridge repairs ... —

Gravel .... 1,350

Repairs and oiling . . 17,600

Bridge and approaches . . —

Gravel and tar . . . 1,200

Gravel .... 1,350

Bituminous macadam . . 675

Bituminous macadam . . 1,500
Gravel and gravel end tar

mixed in place . . . 5,532

Grading and drainage . . 2,250

Gravel .... 1,050
Gravel and gravel and tar

mixed in place . . . 3,331

Repairs and oiling. . . 18,480

Bituminous macadam . . 1,100

Bituminous macadam . . 5,256

Bituminous concrete . . 2,900

Gravel and tar . . . 12,566

Grading and oiling . . . 6,000

Gravel and stone retread . 4,390
Repairs and oiling . . 27,082

Grading and drainage . . 2,550

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 1,700
Bridge abolition
Stone retread and gravel . 4,350

Stone retread . . - 5,350

Bituminous macadam . . 4,050

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 3,200
Bituminous macadam . . 1,400

Bituminous macadam (widen-
ing) and oiling .
Bituminous macadam
Repairs and oiling
Grading and drainage
Gravel and tar mixed in place
Repairs and oiling
Bituminous macadam
Gravel and cut-back asphalt

mixed in place .
Bituminous macadam
Bituminous macadam
Gravel and tar mixed in place
Repairs and oiling
Gravel

Bituminous macadam
Bridge and approaches

P. D. 54

Length Con-

Contributions

tracted for

Counties and Towns State

Town

County

Type of Road (Feet)

Palmer

$850 00

$425 00

Granite curbing

937

Russell

425 00

425

Gravel ....

550

Southwiok .

4,250 00

1,700 00

2,550

Bituminous macadam .

2,250

Springfield .

21,250 00

10,625 00

10,625

Bituminous macadam and bi-
tuminous concrete

6,587

Tolland

4,250 00

1,700 00

2,550

Gravel and stone retread

6,300

Wales

2,550 00

850 00

1,700

Grading and drainage
Gravel and tar mixed in place

1,950
1,300

Wales

255 00

255

Repairs and oiling

10,550

Westfield .

4,250 00

2,125 00

2,125

Bituminous macadam

5,000

Westfield .

850 00

850

Repairs and oiling

18,555

Westfield .

1,500 00

750 00

750

Concrete curbing .

3,350

West Springfield

3,400 00

1,700 00

1,700

Reinforced cement concrete

1,851

West Springfield

7,650 00

3,825 00

3,825

Bituminous macadam

2,749

Wilbraham

510 00

510

Bituminous macadam .

403

Wilbraham

3,400 00

1,700 00

1,700

Bituminous macadam

4,100

Wi 'bra bam

3,400 00

1,700 00

1,700

Bituminous macadam .

1,450

Hampshire County

Amherst

15,200 00

10,800 00

4,400

(Bituminous macadam
{Grading and drainage .

2,890
310

Belchertown

13,812 50

3,187 50

4,250

J Bituminous macadam .
(Drainage

3,659
1,200

Belchertown

2,000 00

5,450 00

600 0C

Bituminous macadam .

1,312

Chesterfield

850 00

425 00

425

Gravel

600

Chesterfield

850 00

425 00

425

Gravel

650

Chesterfield

850 00

425 00

425

Gravel and tar

500

Cummington

2,125 00

1,275 00

850

Gravel . . .

1,300

Cummington

850 00

425 00

425

Gravel and gravel and tar mixe

in place
Repairs and oiling

800

Enfield

850 00

425 00

425

17,424

Goshen

850 00

425 00

425

Gravel

650

Goshen

850 00

425 00

425

Gravel

600

Greenwich .

425 00

212 50

212

Repairs and oiling

8,448

Hadley

15,300 00

7,650 00

7,650

Bridge and approaches .

— ■

Huntington

4,000 00

2,000 00

2,000

Gravel

2,700

Middlefield

1,700 00

850 00

850

Gravel

1,000

Middlefield

850 00

425 00

425

Gravel

450

Northampton

4,250 00

1,700

Bituminous macadam .

3,183

Northampton

3,825 00

2,550 00

1,275

Bituminous macadam

2,600

Pelham

7,980 00

2,020 00

1,700

Bituminous macadam

2,600

Plainfield .

1,700 00

850 00

850

Gravel and tar

1,200

Southampton

850 00

425 00

425

Stone retread

1,120

Ware

3,400 00

1,700 00

1,700

Bituminous macadam .

1,355

Westhampton

1,275 00

637 50

637

Gravel

800

Williamsburg

1,700 00

850 00

850

Stone retread

2,210

Worthington

1,700 00

850 00

Gravel

650

Worthington

1,700 00

850 00

850

Gravel

1,000

Middlesex County

Acton

3,187 50

2,125 00

1,062

Gravel and asphaltic oil

3,300

Acton

1,700 00

1,700

Repairs and oiling

97,416

Arlington .

10,000 00

5,450 00

5,450

Bituminous concrete

3,961

Ashby

1,275 00

425 00

850

Gravel and tar

1,500

Ashby

510 00

255 00

510

Repairs and oiling

17,952

Ashland

850 00

850

Repairs and oiling

30,096

Ashland

2,000 00

1,000 00

1,000

Grading and drainage .

1,300

Ayer .

1,275 00

1,275

Repairs and oiling

50,054

Ayer .

7,000 00

3,500 00

[Bituminous macadam
■j Bituminous macadam (widen
I ing) ....
Repairs and oiling

1,025

1,975

46,464

Bedford .

2,300 00

2,300

Bedford .

2,000 00

300 00

1,700

Bituminous macadam .

1,000

Bedford

2,720 00

1,700 00

1,020

Bituminous macadam .

1,700

Bedford

2,550 00

1,020 00

1,530

Bituminous macadam .

605

Bedford .

200 00

200

Bridge painting

—

Billerica

2,550 00

2,550

Repairs and oiling

95,281

Billerica

3,400 00

2,125 00

1,275

Gravel and tar

2,575

Billerica

3,825 00

2,550 00

1,275 00

Bituminous macadam .

1,200

Boxborough

850 00

850

Repairs and oiling

40,656

Boxborough

850 00

425 00

425

Gravel and asphaltic oil

1,000

Boxborough

600 00

200 00

400

Gravel and tar

1,256

Burlington

2,125 00

2,125

Repairs and oiling

73,920

Burlington

3,400 00

1,700 00

Gravel and tar

. 4,000

Burlington

2,000 00

1,000 00

1,000

Gravel and asphaltic oil

1,700

Carlisle

2,000 00

2,000

Repairs and oiling

64,944

Carlisle

3,700 00

2,000 00

1,700

Grading and drainage

12,277

Carlisle

200 00

200

Bridge painting

— ■

Chelmsford

1,700 00

Repairs and oiling

82,156

Chelmsford

5,000 00

2,500 00

2,500

Bituminous concrete

6,200

Concord

12,750 00

8,500 00

4,250

Bituminous concrete and bi
tuminous macadam .

3,605

Concord

600 00

Bituminous macadam (widen

ing) ....
Repairs and oiling

1,112
56,232

Dracut

3,000 00

Dunstable .

1,487 50

1,487

Repairs and oiling

50,160

Dunstable .

2,125 00

850 00

1,275

Repairs and oiling

15,840

Framingham

13,500 00

9,283 34

4,216

Penolithic pavement

2,452

Framingham

17,950 00

11,966 66

5.983

Bituminous macadam .

6,823

Contribution

Counties and Towns State

Town

County

Groton . . . $2,975 00

$2,975 00

Groton

5,100 00

2,550 00

Holliston .

1,275 00

Holliston .

2,550 00

850 00

1,700 00

Hopkinton

1,775 00

Hudson

850 00

Hudson

11,745 00

7,830 00

3,915 00

Hudson

2,550 00

1,700 00

850 00

Lexington .

15,000 00

10,000 00

5,000 00

Lexington .

10,712 50

9,200 00

4,137 50

Lincoln

850 00

Lincoln

2,550 00

1,275 00

Littleton

1,785 00

Littleton

2,550 00

1,275 00

Littleton

500 00

Lowell

12,750 00

8,500 00

4,250 00

Lowell

10,200 00

6,800 00

3,400 00

Lowell

6,375 00

4,250 00

2,125 00

Maiden

52,500 00

30,000 00

25,000 00

Maynard .

17,000 00

11,050 00

5,950 00

Medford

46,750 00

30,000 00

25,000 00

Melrose

13,335 36

15,300 00

8,500 00

Melrose

12,100 00

10,200 00

5,100 00

Natick

1,275 00

Natick

8,500 00

4,250 00

Natick

9,250 00

4,625 00

Natick

1,700 00

850 00

Newton

51,000 00

38,250 00

21,250 00

North Reading

1,700 00

North Reading

3,400 00

2,550 00

1,275 00

Pepperell .

2,550 00

1,700 00

850 00

Pepperell .

2,550 00

Sherborn .

2,125 00

Sherborn .

12,750 00

4,250 00

8.500 00

Sherborn .

3,000 00

1,500 00

Shirley

1,700 00

Shirley

6,800 00

3,400 00

Stoneham .

10,200 00

6,800 00

3,400 00

Stoneham .

2,000 00

1,000 00

Stoneham .

500 00

Stow

1,275 00

Sudbury

2,000 00

Tewksbury

1,700 00

Tewksbury

5,100 00

2,975 00

2,125 00

Tewksbury

2,500 00

1,250 00

Tewksbury

3,725 00

2,075 00

1,650 00

Townsend .

1,700 00

Townsend .

2,550 00

850 00

1,700 00

Tyngsborough

2,125 00

Tyngsborough

1,700 00

850 00

1,700 00

Tyngsborough

1,700 00

850 00

Tyngsborough

400 00

200 00

400 00

Wakefield .

850 00

Wakefield .

3,400 00

1,700 00

Wakefield .

6,800 00

4,250 00

2,550 00

Waltham .

42,500 00

21,250 00

Wayland . . . 2,125 00

2,125 00

Wayland

7,650 00

5,100 00

2,550 00

Westford

2,550 00

1,275 00

Westford

450 00

225 00

Westford

3,333 33

3,333 34

Wilmington

850 00

Wilmington

2,550 00

1,700 00

850 00

Winchester

25,500 00

17,000 00

8,500 00

Winchester

12,750 00

8,500 00

4,250 00

Woburn

25,500 00

17,000 00

8,500 00

Norfolk County

Avon . . . 5,525 00

5,525 00

—

Bellingham

2,252 50

425 00

1,126 25

Canton

850 00

Foxborough

2,125 00

N.H.R.R.

Foxborough-Walpole

2,350 00

850 00

1,275 00

Franklin .

850 00

Franklin

5,950 00

—

Franklin

4,250 00

—

Holbrook

425 00

Medfield

850 00

Medway

850 00

Millis

850 00

Millis

2,125 00

—

Norfolk

850 00

Norwood

10,000 00

—

Type of Road
Repairs and oiling
Gravel and tar
Repairs and oiling
Gravel and tar
Repairs and oiling
Repairs and oiling
Bituminous macadam
Bituminous macadam
Bituminous macadam
Bituminous macadam
Repairs and oiling
Bituminous macadam and

gravel (widening)
Repairs and oiling
Gravel and tar
Drainage

Bituminous concrete
Bituminous concrete
Bituminous concrete
Bridge and approaches
Bituminous macadam
Bituminous concrete
Sheet asphalt
Bituminous macadam
Repairs and oiling
Bituminous concrete
Bituminous concrete
Gravel and tar
Bituminous concrete
Repairs and oiling
Bituminous macadam
Gravel and tar
Repairs and oiling
Repairs and oiling
Bituminous macadam
Bituminous macadam
Repairs and Oiling
Gravel and tar
Penolithic pavement
Bituminous macadam
Bituminous macadam
Repairs and oiling
Repairs and oiling
Repairs and oiling
Bituminous macadam
Bituminous macadam
Gravel and tar
Repairs and oiling
Gravel and asphaltic oil
Repairs and oiling
Gravel and tar
Gravel and tar
Gravel and tar
Repairs and oiling
Bituminous macadam
Bituminous macadam
f Bituminous concrete
j Bituminous macadam
I Grading

Repairs and oiling
Bituminous macadam
Gravel and tar
Gravel and tar
Repairs and oiling
Repairs and oiling
Gravel and tar
Bituminous concrete
Bridge and approaches
Bituminous concrete

Penolithic pavement
Repairs and oiling
Repairs and oiling
Gravel and tar
Gravel and tar mixed in place
Repairs and oiling
Gravel and tar
Gravel and tar
Repairs and oiling
Repairs and oiling
Repairs and oiling
Repairs and oiling
Bituminous macadam
Repairs and oiling
Bituminous concrete

P. D. 54

Length Con-
tracted For

(Feet)

52,377

P. D. 54

Contributions

Counties and Towns

State

Town

County

Randolph .

$850 00

Sharon

850

850 00

Stoughton .

425

425 00

Walpole

3,025

—

Walpole

6,290 00

6,290

— ■

Weymouth

12,750

— ■

Wrentham

3,400

—

Wrentham

3,400

—

Wrentham .

1,000

1,000 00

Plymouth County

Abington .

7,225

3,612

3,612 50

Abington .

1,700

—

Bridgewater

15,300

7,650

7,650 00

Brockton .

17,000

— ■

Carver

3,400

1,700

1,700 00

East Bridgewater

9,350

4,675

4,675 00

Halifax

5,950

2,975

2,975 00

Kingston .

6,375

3,187

3,187 50

Marion

3,825

1,912

1,912 50

Marshfield .

5,100

2,550

2,550 00

Pembroke .

3,400

1,700

1,700 00

Plymouth .

5,950

2,975

2,975 00

Plymouth .

1,275

637

637 50

Plympton .

800

300

500 00

Rochester .

5,100

2,550

2,550 00

Rockland .

3,400

1,700 00

Rockland .

4,250

2,125

2,125 00

West Bridgewater

5,100

2,550

2,550 00

Whitman .

10,200

6,000

5,550 00

Worcester County

Ashburnham

1,487

850 0C

1,487 50

Athol

425

425 00

Barre

7,650 00

4,250

3,400 00

Barre

500

500 00

Berlin . . .

6,375 00

2,975

3,400 00

Berlin

2,125

850

2,125 00

Blackstone

5,100

2,550

2,550 00

Blackstone

850

850 00

Blackstone

4,000 00

2,000

2,000 00

Bolton

5,950

1,700

4,250 00

Bolton

850

425

850 00

Boylston .

3,400

00'

1,700

1,700 00

Boylston

680

425

680 00

Brookfield .

2,550

850

1,700 00

Brookfield .

425

425 00

Charlton

2,805

1,275

1.530 00

Charlton .

1,955

850

1,105 00

Clinton

8,500

2,125

—

Clinton

2,375

3,137

2,650 00

Dana

1,700 00

425

850 00

Dana

1,275 00

425

850 00

Dana

850

850 00

Douglas

4,250

2,125

2,125 00

Dudley

2,700

1,350

1,350 00

Dudley

4,100 00

2,050

2,050 00

Dudley

340

340 00

East Brookfield .

1,870

935

935 00

Fitchburg .

12,750 00

6,375

6,375 00

Fitchburg .

11,050

5,525

5,525 00

Grafton

6 375

3,187

3,187 50

Grafton

3,000 00

3,000

3,000 00

Hardwick .

3,400 00

1,190 00

2,210 00

Harrdwick

1,105 00

1,105

1,105 00

Harvard

1,275 00

1,275

1,275 00

Holden

8,500

4,250

4,250 00

Holden

850

850 00

Hubbardston

2,550 00

850

1,700 00

Hubbardston

1,700 00

425

1,275 00

Hubbardston

1,190

595

1,190 00

Leicester . ,

5,950

2,150

2,975 00

Leicester

850

850 00

Lunenburg

5,950

2,295

3,655 00

Lunenburg

1,487

1,062

1,487 50

Mendon

3,300

1,100

2,200 00-

Mendon

2,000

1,000

1,000 00

Mendon

850

850 00

Milford

9,350 00

4,675

4,675 00

Milford

850

850 00

Milford

8,500

4,250

4,250 00

Millbury

12,750

6,375

6,375 00

Millville .

18,000

3,000 00

New Braintree

2,550 00

1,275

1,275 00

Type op Road
Repairs and oiling
Repairs and oiling
Repairs and oiling
Bituminous macadam
Bituminous macadam
Bituminous concrete
Gravel and tar
Gravel and tar
Repairs and oiling

Length Con-
tracted For
(Feet)

14,625
46,464
29,145
1,070
2,150
3,920
3,035
3,000
15,863

Bituminous macadam . . 2,691
Bituminous concrete sidewalk

and concrete curbing . . 1,700

Bituminous macadam . . 3,450

Bituminous macadam . . 6,200

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 2,800

Penolithic pavement . . 3,980

Gravel and tar . . . 7,282
Bituminous macadam and gravel

and tar mixed in place . . 3,203

Penolithic pavement . . 2,364

Penolithic pavement . . 2,510

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 4,000

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 8,000

Bridge .... —

Gravel and tar . . 2,800

Gravel and tar . . . 9,510

Bituminous macadam . . 850

Penolithic pavement . . 1,800

Gravel and tar . . . 3,800

Bituminous macadam . . 3,800

Repairs and oiling . . 39,340

Repairs and oiling . . 16,000

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 6,200

Repairs and oiling . . 39,900

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 3,000

Repairs and oiling . . 45,815

Stone and tar mixed in place . 3,427

Repairs and oiling . . 41,115

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 3,900

Penolithic pavement . . 2,800

Repairs and oiling . . 32,544

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 2,500

Repairs and oiling . . 50,866

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 2,000

Repairs and oiling . . 21,775

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 2,175

Grading and drainage . . 4,849

Stone and tar mixed in place . 2,900
Trap took and tar mixed in place 2,000

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 1,500

Gravel and tar (widening) . 6,300

Repairs and oiling . . 76,950

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 3,900

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 3,321

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 2,000

Repairs and oiling . . 9,250

Bridge and approaches . . —

Bituminous macadam . . 4,267

Stone and tar mixed in place . 4,450

Bituminous macadam . . 2,000

Repairs and oiling . . 31,608

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 2,900

Repairs and oiling . . 42,550

Repairs and oiling . . 36,457

Grading and drainage . . 6,187

Repairs and oil . . . 35,388

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 2,200

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 2,600

Repairs and oiling . . 41,700

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 4,200

Repairs and oiling . . 35,800

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 5,100

Repairs and oiling . . 38,419

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 1,700

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 1,450

Repairs and oiling . . 22,400

Bituminous macadam . . 6,450

Repairs and oiling . . 12,712

Penolithic pavement . . 5,200

Penolithic pavement . . 3,000

2 Bridges and approaches . —

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 2,200

P. D. 54

Length Con-

Contributions

tracted For

Counties and Towns

State

Tow

Cour

Type of Road (Feet)

New Braintree

$850 00

$425 00

$850

Repairs and oiling

42,939

North Brookfield

3,000 00

1,500

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

3,600

North Brookfield

2,950 00

1,475

Trap rock and tar mixed in
place ....

713

North Brookfield

400 00

200

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

225

Northbridge

7,650 00

4,250

3,400

Stone and tar mixed in place .

6,850

Northbridge

2,550 00

1,275

Grading and drainage .

■1,750

Northbridge

425 00

425

Repairs and oiling

14,600

Oakham

4,250 00

1,700

2,550

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

2,700

Oakham

1,105 00

850

1,105

Repairs and oiling

37,700

Paxton

3,825 00

1,275

2,550

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

2,550

Paxton

1,360 00

680

1,360

Repairs and oiling

33,700

Petersham .

1,275 00

1,275

Repairs and oiling

36,780

Princeton .

1,700 00

850

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

1,050

Princeton .

3,400 00

1,700

1,700 0C

Bridge — gravel and tar mixed ir

place ....

2,150

Princeton .

1,105 00

765

1,105

Repairs and oiling

77,196

Royalston .

1,062 50

425

637

Repairs ....

19,050

Royalston .

1,700 00

1,105 00

1,700

Repairs and oiling

51,360

Rutland

3,400 00

2,000

Gravel and tar mixed in' place .

2,150

Rutland

3,400 00

1,700

Gravel and tar

1,720

Rutland

1,912 50

1,275

1,912

Repairs and oiling

45,042

Shrewsbury

850 00

850

Repairs and oiling

23,750

Southborough

510 00

510

Repairs and oiling

22,000

Southbridge

12,750 00

8,500

4,250

Penolithic pavement

4,650

Southbridge

595 00

595

Repairs and oiling

18,100

Spencer

11,050 00

4,250

6,800

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

7,085

Spencer

680 00

680

Repairs and oiling

25,400

Sterling

4,675 00

1,700

2,975

Bridge — gravel and tar mixed in
place ....

5,608

Sterling

4,675 00

1,700

2,975

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

3,750

Sterling

1,020 00

680

1,020

Repairs and oiling

83,499

Sturbridge .

2,550 00

850

1,700

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

2,100

Sturbridge .

318 75

212

318

Repairs and oiling

10,382

Sutton

7,650 00

2,000

5,950

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

6,450

Sutton

510 00

510

Repairs and oiling

28,100

Sutton

450 00

500

350

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

550

Sutton

900 00

1,000

750

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

1,050

Templeton

5,100 00

2,550

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

3,240

Templeton

1,275 00

1,275

Repairs and oiling

48,700

Upton

255 00

255

Repairs and oiling

15,650

Uxbridge .

6,800 00

3,825

2,975

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

2,300

Uxbridge .

4,250 00

2,550

1,700

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

7,635

Uxbridge .

6,800 00

3,825

2,975

Grading and drainage

5,000

Uxbridge .

850 00

850

Repairs and oiling

21,925

Warren

340 00

340

Repairs and oiling

17,100

Warren

4,482 50

2,241

Repairs to 2 bridges

—

Warren

4,175 00

2,087

Bridge ....

■ — ■

West Boylston

1,020 00

403

716

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

950

West Boylston

850 00

340

510

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

350

West Boylston .

3,400 00

1,360

2,040

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

2,750

West Boylston .

3,400 00

1,360

2,040

Stone and tar mixed in place .

3,345

West Boylston .

1,275 00

850

1,275

Repairs and oiling

42,205

West Brookfield .

2,550 00

850

1,700

Bridge and approaches .

—

West Brookfield .

3,825 00

1,275

2,550

Grading and drainage .

2,700

West Brookfield .

340 00

340

Repairs and oiling

39,350

Westborough

680 00

680

Repairs and oiling

50,269

Westminster

5,100 00

1,700

3,400

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

3,072

Westminster

1,700 00

850

1,700

Repairs and oiling

67,330

Winchendon

425 00

425

Repairs and oiling

19,528

Worcester .

42,500 00

21,250

Bituminous macadam .

5,316

Expenditures for Construction of Town and County Ways
The expenditures during the year in various Counties were : —

Barnstable

Berkshire

Bristol .

Dukes

Essex

Franklin

Hampden

$57,209.06
210,483.69
22,620.94
70,282.39
272,649.10
138,404.37
211,977.12

Hampshire
Middlesex
Norfolk .
Plymouth
Worcester

$121,263.67
598,429.18
126,585.01
150,481.44
460,199.85

Total $2,440,585.82

Details of the foregoing expenditures follow: —

Barnstable County. — Barnstable, $22,661.36; Brewster, $5,088.94; Chatham,
$5,886.03; Falmouth, $6,241.68; Harwich, $9,837.07; Orleans, $7,493.98.

Berkshire County. — Adams, $6,507.39; Alford, $2,052.92; Becket, $7,228.47;
Cheshire, $3,145.89; Clarksburg, $3,295.80; Dalton, $12,124.36; Egremont, $3,-

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701.06; Florida, $6,592.14; Great Barrington, $10,871.07; Hancock, $15,099.16;
Hinsdale, $1,156.55; Lanesbo rough, $6,935.58; Lee, $7,864.73; Lenox, $5,782.89;
Monterey, $2,312.73; Mt. Washington, $1,734.87; New Ashford, $2,318.88; New
Marlborough, $5,S96.48; North Adams, $2,018.91; Otis, $2,746.12; Peru, $1,-
660.64; Pittsfield, $29,566.04; Richmond, $4,374.43 ; Sandisfield, $5,782.88; Savoy,
$2,312.67; Sheffield, $5,790.66; Stockbridge, $9,583.49; Tyringham, $4,626.31;
Washington, $7,459.93; West Stockbridge, $6,939.11; Williamstown, $20,861.86;
Windsor, $2,139.67.

Bristol County. — Acushnet, $294.93; Dartmouth, $7,284.72; Easton, $5,-
898.55; Fairhaven, $983.09; Freetown, $983.09; Mansfield, $2,370.98; Norton,
$491.54; Raynham, $578.29; Rehoboth, $3,735.75.

Dukes County. — Edgartown, $14,255.74; Gosnold, $4,926.17; Oak Bluffs,
$24,835.80; Tisbury, $26,264.68.

Essex Cowity. — Amesbury, $11,691.51; Andover, $6,248.61; Beverly, $3,-
874.54; Boxford, $8,387.77; Danvers, $2,196.65; Essex, $2,313.16; Georgetown,
$8,385.19; Gloucester, $8,674.34; Hamilton, $7,635.79; Haverhill, $5,381.22; Ips-
wich $5,898.55; Lawrence, $87,944.40; Lvnn, $4,470.50; Lynnfield, $6,909.24;
Manchester, $11,527.20; Marbleheacl, $8,564.92; Merrimac, $13,276.90; Methuen,
$1,156.58; Middleton, $8,171.06; Newbury, $5,650.58; North Andover, $6,361.18;
Peabody, $15,861.82; Rockport, $2,891.27; Salisbury, $5,471.25; Swampscott,
$6,819.41; Topsfield, $5,965.05; West Newbury, $10,920.41.

Franklin County. — Ashfield, $2,457.74; Bernardston, $1,966.18; Buckland,
$3,932.3S; Charlemont. $1,966.18; Colrain, $10,507.24; Conway, $2,949.27; Deer-
field, $1,966.18; Erving, $1,966.18; Gill, $1,966.18; Greenfield, $19,742.99; Haw-
ley, $1,966.18; Heath, $1,966.18; Leverett, $1,966.18; Leyden, $1,966.18; Mon-
roe, $3,449.67; Montague, $14,916.35; New Salem, $20,497.05; Northfield,
$1,966.18; Orange, $3,727.28; Rowe, $2,949.27; Shelburne, $6,997.30; Shutesbury,
$13,749.09; Sunderland, $3,527.58; Warwick, $1,966.18; Wendell, $5,407.00;
Whately, $1,966.18.

Hampden County. — Agawam, $24,871.43; Blandford, $4,450.32; Brimfield,
$5,027.60; Chester, $9,830.91; Chicopee, $30,504.19; East Longmeadow, $8,871.10;
Granville, $5,898.55; Hampden, $5,407.00; Holland, $8,025.93; Holyoke, $5,-
767.22; Longmeadow, $9,138.46; Ludlow, $9,504.71; Monson, $6,366.01; Mont-
gomery, $2,949.27; Palmer, $8,958.63; Russell, $491.54; Southwick, $7,228.60;
Springfield, $21,875.29; Tolland, $4,915.46; Wales, $3,533.34; West Springfield,
$12,273.58; Westfield, $7,633.40; Wilbraham, $8,454.58.

Hampshire County. — Amherst, $21,363.96; Belchertown, $23,118.99; Chester-
field, $2,949.27; Cummington, $3,421.96; Easthampton, $3,196.88; Enfield,
$983.09; Goshen, $1,966.18; Greenwich, $491.54; Hadley, $11,929.31; Hunting-
ton, $4,622.77; Middlefield, $2,949.27; Northampton, $9,339.37; Pelham, $10,-
129.38; Plainfield, $8,905.65; South Hadlev, $1,875.97; Southampton, $983.05;
Ware, $5,667.23; Westhampton, $1,474.64; Williamsburg, $1,966.18; Worthington,
$3,928.98.

Middlesex County. — Acton, $5,652.77; Arlington, $14,370.57; Ashby, $647.68;
Ashland, $7,690.65; Ayer, $8,414.11; Bedford, $11,184.11; Belmont, $2,777.27;
Billerica, $14,039.25; Boxborough, $3,180.58; Burlington, $6,852.72; Carlisle,
$5,551.52; Chelmsford, $9,589.21; Concord, $13,740.03; Dracut, $3,469.73; Dun-
stable, $4,178.14; Framingham, $27,605.90; Groton, $9,339.19; Holliston, $4,-
423.84; Hopkinton, $2,052.76; Hudson, $19,363.59; Lexington, $25,150.07; Lin-
coln, $4,048.02; Littleton, $5,592.03; Lowell, $36,722.30; Marlborough, $493.02;
Maynard, $16,854.51; Medford, $48,465.57; Melrose, $22,439.83; Natick, $22,-
242.55; Newton, $31,049.49; North Reading, $6,129.86; Pepperell, $5,898.20;
Reading, $792.37; Sherborn, $24,170.69; Shirlev, $9,830.03; Stoneham, $20,565.87;
Stow, $1,474.64; Sudbury, $2,313.13; Tewksbury, $15,150.99; Townsend, $4,-
915.46; Tyngsboro, $6,851.08; Wakefield, $12,598.15; Waltham, $22,806.23;
Wayland, $10,803.59; Westford, $8,822.88; Wilmington, $3,932.06; Winchester,
$38,889.40; Woburn, $15,303.54.

Norfolk County. — Avon, $9,295.52; Bellingham, $2,605.19; Canton, $809.61;
Dover, $5,133.87; Foxboro, $3,473.67; Franklin, $14,570.15; Medfield, $982.86;
Medway, $983.09; Millis, $3,440.82; Norfolk, $983.09; Norwood, $49,868.80;

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Randolph, $647.68; Sharon, $983.09; Stoughton, $491.55; Walpole, $10,773.52;
Weymouth, $11,601.80; Wrentham, $9,940.70.

Plymouth County. — Abington, $12,292.72; Bridgewater, $20,698.66; Brock-
ton, $19,955.46; Carver, $3,879.58; East Bridgewater, $11,268.11; Halifax, $13,-
016.37; Hanover, $4,079.14; Kingston, $9,664.79; Lakeville, $1,445.49; Marion,
$4,899.65; Marshfield, $5,664.62; Pembroke, $3,550.68; Plymouth; $5,840.71;
Plympton, $925.25; Rochester, $5,898.54; Rockland, $10,715.03; Scituate,
$343.17; West Bridgewater, $4,975.60; Whitman, $11,367.87.

Worcester County. — Ashburnham, $3,744.42; Athol, $3,972.76; Auburn, $5,-
823.99; Barre, $5,617.96; Berlin, $12,071.75; Blackstone, $9,002.76; Bolton,
$9,531.15; Boylston, $8,045.06; Brookfield, $6,305.25; Charlton, $7,100.26; Clin-
ton, $11,799.44; Dana, $6,613.49; Douglas, $5,823.02; Dudley, $10,420.98; East
Brookfield, $2,509.77; Fitchburg, $11,555.66; Gardner, $1,734.87; Grafton, $10,-
150.50; Hardwick, $7,152.76; Harvard, $3,578.55; Holden, $12,223.30; Hubbard-
ston, $4,453.56; Leicester, $9,194.79; Lunenburg, $10,783.87; Mendon, $6,121.50;
Milford, $18,891.80; Millbury, $2,205.58; Millville, $9,301.63; New Braintree,
$6,533.43; North Brookfield, $8,680.24; Northborough, $578.29; Northbridge,
$17,020.59; Oakham, $8,385.53; Paxton, $6,427.75; Petersham, $4,907.78; Phil-
lipston, $6,770.28; Princeton, $14,822.68; Royalston, $8,052.67; Rutland, $11,-
150.09; Shrewsbury, $12,164.67; Southborough, $821.04; Southbridge, $11,628.68;
Spencer, $10,937.07; Sterling, $13,592.28; Sturbridge, $3,664.91; Sutton, $11,-
291.31; Templeton, $10,236.66; Upton, $294.93; Uxbridge, $12,671.43; Warren,
$1,943.07; West Boylston, $10,802.80; West Brookfield, $3,964.17; Westboro,
$1,711.73; Westminster, $8,044.63; Winchendon, $1,224.91; Worcester, $36,145.80.

Repair and Improvement of Public Ways, Exclusive of State Highways,

in Certain Towns

(Sections 26 to 29 and 31 of Chapter 81, General Laws (Ter. Ed.) as amended

by Chapter 366, Acts of 1934)

During the year the Department contracted for work to be done in the towns

named in the following table, which also shows the road mileage in the towns and

the allotments or contributions by the State and towns: —

Miles
of

Allotment

Counties and Towns Road

State

Town

Barnstable County

Brewster ... 40

$6,000 00

$5,000 00

Dennis

11,700 00

7,800 00

Eastham

6,300 00

3,150 00

Mashpee .

4,050 00

2,025 00

Sandwich .

10,050 00

6.700 00

Truro

4,500 00

3,750 00

Welfleet .

5,400 00

4,500 00

Berkshire County

Alford ... 19

2,850 00

760 00

Becket

8,700 00

2,320 00

Cheshire

6,300 00

3,150 00

Clarksburg

2,100 00

Egremont .

4,800 00

2,400 00

Florida

6,450 00

3,225 00

Hancock

4,500 00

1,200 00

Hinsdale

5,250 00

2,625 00

Lanesborough

6,300 00

3,150 00

Monterey .

7,800 00

2,080 00

Mount Washington

3,000 00

500 00

New Ashford

1,650 00

275 00

New Marlborough .

12,750 00

3,400 00

Otis .

6,750 00

1,800 00

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Counties and Towns
Peru .
Richmond .
Sandisfield

Savoy

Sheffield .
Tyringham
Washington
West Stockbridge
Windsor

Bristol County
Berkley
Freetown
Norton
Raynham
Rehoboth

Dukes County
Chilmark .
West Tisbury

Essex County
Boxford
Georgetown
Groveland
Merrimac .
Middleton
Newbury .
Rowley
West Newbury

Franklin County
Ashfield
Bernardston
Buckland
Charlemont
Colrain
Conway
Deerfield
Gill .
Hawley
Heath
Leverett
Leyden
Monroe
New Salem
Northfield
Rowe
Shelburne
Shutesbury
Sunderland
Warwick .
Wendell .
Whately .

Hampden County
Blandford .

Allotment

Road

State

Town

$5,550 00

$555 00

4,800 00

2,400 00

11,850 00

1,185 00

8,400 00

840 00

11,550 00

3,850 00

3,750 00

1,250 00

7,650 00

765 00

5,400 00

3,600 00

9,750 00

975 00

6,300 00

2,100 00

7,050 00

3,525 00

8,550 00

5,700 00

6,750 00

4,500 00

109

16,350 00

8,175 00

2,100 00

1,750 00

1,950 00

7,950 00

3,975 00

5,250 00

4,375 00

4,500 00

4,650 00

3,875 00

4,500 00

5,700 00

4,750 00

4,650 00

3,875 00

5,550 00

3,700 00

12,000 00

3,200 00

6,000 00

3,000 00

6,750 00

7,350 00

3,675 00

12,600 00

4,200 00

10,800 00

2,880 00

11,100 00

9,250 00

5,100 00

2,550 00

7,350 00

735 00

7,950 00

795 00

5,700 00

1,520 00

5,850 00

585 00

2,700 00

9,750 00

975 00

9,900 00

4,950 00

6,000 00

1,600 00

7,200 00

6,000 00

5,700 00

950 00

5,100 00

2,550 00

8,400 00

840 00

7,200 00

2,400 00

6,000 00

3,000 00

11,700 00

1,950 00

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Counties and Towns
Brimfield
Chester
Granville
Hampden
Holland
Monson
Montgomery
Southwick
Tolland
Wales
Wilbraham

Hampshire County
Belchertown
Chesterfield
Cummington
Enfield
Goshen
Granby
Greenwich
Hadley
Hatfield .
Huntington
Middlefield
Pelham
Plainfield .
Prescott
Southampton
Westhampton
Williamsburg
Worthington

Middlesex County
Acton
Ashby
Ashland
Bedford .
Boxborough
Burlington
Carlisle
Dracut
Dunstable
Holliston .
Hopkinton
Littleton
North Reading
Pepperell .
Sherborn .
Shirley
Stow .
Sudbury
Tewksbury
Townsend .
Tyngsborough
Westford .

Norfolk County
Bellingham

Miles

Allotment

Road

State

Town

$9,000 00

$2,400 00

10,200 00

3,400 00

10,950 00

5,475 00

5,100 00

2,550 00

4,650 00

465 00

101

15,150 00

10,100 00

4,050 00

675 00

7,500 00

5,000 00

6,000 00

600 00

3,750 00

1,000 00

6,450 00

109

16,350 00

4,360 00

8,850 00

1,475 00

7,350 00

1,225 00

5,550 00

925 00

4,200 00

700 00

7,200 00

2,400 00

5,850 00

1,560 00

8,850 00

7,375 00

6,900 00

5,750 00

6,150 00

3,075 00

6,150 00

615 00

4,650 00

2,325 00

7,350 00

735 00

5,850 00

585 00

8,400 00

2,240 00

7,500 00

750 00

6,600 00

3,300 00

10,200 00

1,700 00

8,700 00

8,400 00

2,800 00

5,700 00

5,400 00

3,450 00

920 00

5,100 00

• 5,100 00

6,300 00

3,150 00

9,300 00

5,550 00

925 00

7,500 00

9,900 00

6,600 00

6,300 00

4,950 00

10,350 00

6,900 00

6,450 00

5,375 00

6,900 00

4,600 00

6,450 00

3,225 00

9,600 00

6,400 00

8,550 00

10,500 00

7,000 00

6,000 00

4,000 00

12,750 00

10,625 00

6,600 00

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Counties and Towns
Medfield .
Medway
Millis
Norfolk
Plainville .

Plymouth County
Carver
Halifax
Hanson
Lakeville
Norwell
Pembroke
Plympton
Rochester

Worcester County
Ashburnham
Barre
Berlin
Bolton
Boylston
Brookfield .
Charlton .
Dana .
Douglas
Dudley

East Brookfield
Grafton
Hardwick .
Harvard
Holden
Hubbardston
Lancaster .
Leicester .
Lunenburg
Mendon
New Braintree
North Brookfield
Northborough
Oakham
Oxford
Paxton
Petersham
Phillipston
Princeton
Royalston
Rutland
Southborough
Spencer
Sterling
Sturbridge
Sutton
Templeton
Upton
Warren
West Boylston
West Brookfield
Westminster

Miles

Allotment

Road

State

Town

$6,150 00

6,750 00

6,300 00

6,150 00

4,100 00

4,800 00

4,000 00

10,050 00

6,700 00

5,100 00

3,400 00

5,400 00

6,300 00

3,150 00

7,050 00

4,700 00

7,350 00

6,125 00

4,500 00

2,250 00

7,500 00

3,750 00

11,250 00

5,625 00

110

16,500 00

8,250 00

5,850 00

2,925 00

7,950 00

2,650 00

6,000 00

3,000 00

5,550 00

3,700 00

110

16,500 00

4,400 00

6,450 00

1,075 00

10,500 00

5,250 00

9,450 00

7,875 00

2,850 00

2,375 00

10,200 00

14,400 00

4,800 00

8,400 00

5.600 00

11,550 00

7,700 00

11,250 00

1,875 00

8,700 00

7,250 00

9,900 00

8,250 00

9,900 00

4,950 00

5,400 00

3,600 00

7,350 00

1,225 00

10,350 00

6,900 00

7,050 00

5,875 00

6,750 00

1,125 00

9,900 00

8,250 00

4,350 00

2,175 00

10,500 00

3,500 00

6,150 00

1,025 00

10,800 00

2,880 00

10,050 00

1,675 00

10,200 00

3,400 00

6,900 00

100

15,000 00

12,500 00

10,950 00

5,475 00

10,500 00

3,500 00

12,600 00

4,200 00

9,450 00

7,875 00

9,000 00

4,500 00

10,650 00

7,100 00

5,400 00

7,950 00

3,975 00

11,550 00

5,775 00

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Expenditures for Repair and Improvement of Public Ways
The expenditures during the year in various counties were: —

Barnstable
Berkshire
Bristol .
Dukes

Essex
Franklin

$49,956.06
166,06344

48,878. 58
4,740.14

48,268.04
182,685.97

Hampden

Hampshire

Middlesex

Norfolk

Plymouth

Worcester

,127.04

145,806.66

239,830.91

18,523.90

58,127.71

463,791.46

Total $1,534,799.91

Details of the foregoing expenditures follow: —

Barnstable County. — Brewster, $7,038.52; Dennis, $11,600.52; Eastham,
$6,788.69; Mashpee, $4,572.86; Sandwich, $10,427.41; Truro, $4,692.34; Well-
fleet, $4,835.72.

Berkshire County. — Alford, $2,624.10; Becket, $8,115.52; Cheshire, $6,951.09;
Clarksburg, $2,255.48; Egremont, $5,189.81; Florida, $6,536.27; Hancock, $5,-
388.67; Hinsdale, $5,323.40; Lanesborough, $7,636.20; Monterey, $9,776.61; Mt.
Washington, $2,759.57; New Ashford, $2,039.21; New Marlborough, $16,155.73;
Otis, $8,771.69; Peru, $6,283.85; Richmond, $5,067.33; Sandisfield, $13,004.54;
Savoy, $9,229.67; Sheffield, $12,845.29; Tynngham, $3,617.02; Washington, $9,-
122.04; West Stockbridge, $5,698.72; Windsor, $11,671.63.

Bristol County. — Berkley, $6,843.00; Freetown, $7,657.64; Norton, $9,286.93;
Raynham, $7,331.79; Rehoboth, $17,759.22.

Dukes County. — Chilmark, $2,535.17; West Tisbury, $2,204.97.

Essex County. — Boxford, $7,324.77; Essex, $1,160.01; Georgetown, $7,367.29;
Groveland, $4,828.47; Mernmac, $5,050.79; Middleton, $4,725.22; Newbury, $5,-
669.64; Rowley, $4,334.40; Topsfleld, $1,895.76; West Newbury, $5,911.69.

Franklin County. — Ashfield, $13,631.69; Bernardston, $6,544.30; Buckland,
$6,951.62; Charlemont, $8,282.20; Colrain, $13,441.61; Conway, $11,432.16;
Deerfield, $11,649.40; Gill, $6,462.93; Hawley, $7,820.57; Heath, $8,635.22;
Leverett, $5,865.43; Leyden, $6,327.06; Monroe, $2,987.03; New Salem, $11,-
692.30; Northfield, $11,730.86; Rowe, $6,571.45; Shelburne, $7,630.49; Shutes-
bury, $6,218.44; Sunderland, $5,539.58; Warwick, $8,445.13; Wendell, $8,309.36;
Whately, $6,517.14.

Hampden County. — Blandford, $12,858.50; Brimfield, $10,714.40; Chester,
$13,663.55; Granville, $11,893.79; Hampden, $5,648.19; Holland, $5,394.88;
Monson, $16,950.85; Montgomery, $4,656.95; Southwick, $8,064.97; Tolland, $6,-
912.13; Wales, $4,281.60; Wilbraham, $7,087.23.

Hampshire County. — Belchertown, $18,166.54; Chesterfield, $9,612.79; Cum-
mington, $7,983.50; Enfield, $6,707.23; Goshen,' $4,562.00; Granby, $7,820.57;
Greenwich, $6,001.20; Hadley, $9,612.79; Hatfield, $7,413.25; Huntington, $7,-
276.23; Middlefield, $6,644.28; Pelham, $4,806.39; Plainfield, $7,847.73; Prescott,
$6,299.91; Southampton, $9,124.00; Westhampton, $8,146.43; Williamsburg, $7,-
168.72; Worthington, $10,613.10.

Middlesex County. — Acton, $13,468.76; Ashby, $11,405.00; Ashland, $7,-
114.55; Bedford, $6,408.53; Boxborough, $4,724.93; Burlington, $6,680.07; Car-
lisle, $10,101.57; Dracut, $12,925.67; Dunstable, $7,874.88; Groton, $1,683.60;
Holliston, $11,513.62; Hopkinton, $14,880.81; Lincoln, $706,03; Littleton, $8,-
417.98; North Reading, $6,843.00; Pepperell, $13,631.69; Sherborn, $9,775.72;
Shirley, $9,124.00; Stow, $8,852.45; Sudbury, $16,292.86; Tewksbury, $14,337.72;
Townsend, $15,423.91; Tyngsborough, $7,114.55; Westford, $20,529.01.

Norfolk County .— Bellingham, $2,471.49; Medfield, $3,898.28; Medway, $2,-
928.59; Millis, $2,643.60; Norfolk, $3,661.40; Plainville, $2,920.54.

Plymouth County. — Carver, $9,980.55; Halifax, $6,067.30; Hanson, $6,803.66;
Lakeville, $6,962.49; Norwell, $7,563.15; Pembroke, $7,795.37; Plympton, $4,-
790.87; Rochester, $8,164,32.

Worcester County. — Ashburnham, $14,442.83; Barre, $20,235.17; Berlin, $6,-
405.89; Bolton, $7,124.10; Boylston, $7,953.98; Brookfield, $7,447.73; Charlton,
$15,547.26; Dana, $7,005.93; Douglas, $13,512.56: Dudley, $8,958.13; East Brook-

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Held, $2,729.63; Grafton, $11,270.79; Harclwick, $13,974.93; Harvard, $9,124.00;
Jtiolden, $13,422.26; Hubbardston, $14,053.65; Lancaster, $9,449.86; Leicester,
$10,087.69; Lunenburg, $14,071.94; Mendon, $5,865.43; New Braintree, $9,-
415.75; JNorth Brookneld, $0,404.38; Northborough, $7,821.05; Oakham, $8,-
261.08; Oxford, $11,S16.42; Paxton, $4,973.40; Petersham, $11,947.22; Phil-
lipston, $8,839.02; Princeton, $15,121.11; Royalston, $11,429.56; Rutland,
$11,560.66; Southborough, $7,727.25; Spencer, $16,753.55; Sterling, $14,905.07;
Sturbridge, $15,568.80; Sutton, $15,319.49; Templeton, $12,043.22; Upton, $12,-
512.50; Warren, $14,899.31; West Boylston, $6,280.78; West Brookfield, $10,-
609.41; Westborough, $1,513.35; Westminster, $11,885.32.

The Regulation op Advertising Signs and Devices Within the Public View
(Sections 29-33, Chapter 93, General Laws, as amended)

In accordance with the provisions of sections 29 and 33 inclusive, chapter 93,
General Laws, as amended by chapters 85, 237, 334 and 490, Acts of 1924, pro-
viding for the control of billboards and other advertising devices on public ways
or on private property within public view of any highway, public park or reserva-
tion, the Department adopted on Jan. 24, 1924, certain new rules and regulations,
superseding all former issues; and these have continued in force during the
present year.

Applications, Licenses and Permits. — Licenses were granted to (21) indi-
viduals and others to engage in the business of advertising in the Commonwealth
by the use of outdoor signs.

Of 614 applications received for permits for the erection of advertising signs,
103 permits were granted for the year, while (449) applications are being held
awaiting the decision of the United States Supreme Court of the case of the
General Outdoor Advertising Company and others against the Department of
Public Works. Fifty-seven permits were granted on applications filed previous to

1935, while (36) applications for permits were cancelled.

Of 3,135 renewal applications sent to those whose permits were to expire June 30,

1936, 2,906 were returned to the Department requesting renewal; and on account
of the advertisers failing to renew, 223 permits were cancelled. The number of
renewal applications approved was 2,683. The total number of permits in force
Nov. 30, 1935, was 2,783.

Receipts and Expenditures. — The total receipts for the year ending Nov. 30,
1935, were $9,202.11 and the expenditures were $15,253.09.

The Removal of Signs. — The "Sign Patrol" consisting of small trucks com-
pletely equipped for the work, have removed 60,000 signs during the year in
addition to 5,000 removed by other agents of the Department, under authority of
section 30A, Chapter 93, General Laws, from within the highways and from pri-
vate property.

Injunction. — On June 19, 1925, a temporary injunction was granted to the
General Outdoor Advertising Company and others, complainants in an action
against the Department of Public Works, restraining the Department from en-
forcing its rules and regulations against the complainants as to all existing signs
and advertising devices maintained by them. On Jan. 10, 1935, the Supreme
Court of the Commonwealth rendered its decision in the billboard case and upheld
the right of the State to regulate and restrict outdoor advertising. The injunc-
tion thereafter became legally ineffective but its terms were continued by mutual
agreement pending the outcome of the complainants' appeal to the United States
Supreme Court. This is the situation at present, with a prospect of an early
disposition of the pending appeal, which, if favorable to the Department, will
place all "injunction boards" under State Control. It is estimated that there
are approximately nine thousand such boards now maintained throughout the
Commonwealth.

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REGISTRY OF MOTOR VEHICLES

The 1935 statistics continue the increases in the various classes of applications
handled. Inquiries by telephone, by letter, and at the counter for information
from records and data in the files remain heavy and the number and nature of
these inquiries, although not an item showing anywhere in the reports of the
Registry, account for a sizeable proportion of the work of the clerical force.

Highway safety, the ever-present problem of the Registrar, received every pos-
sible attention during the year. The required annual inspection of motor vehicles
was made semi-annually and, so far as possible, particularly on week-ends and holi-
day periods, the services of inspectors and examiners not required on their regular
work of investigating fatal and serious accidents and giving examinations were
utilized on law enforcement work. In many instances, inspectors worked with
the local police and in this way, and others, the police, as well as the various
safety committees, continued their co-operation in matters having to do with
highway safety.

The second annual rush for registration plates in the new building was carried
on even more effectively than the year before and, as usual, a large detail of State
police contributed to the efforts made to handle the large proportion of the public
who still insisted on waiting until the last few days of the year to secure their plates.

The initial installation of the teletypewriter service of 1934, connecting the
Worcester and Springfield offices with the Boston office, was extended to Pitts-
field. In addition, a new line, connecting Lawrence and Lowell, was installed and
later during the year the Lynn office was added. A new line, connecting Fall River
and New Bedford, with the Boston office, was installed and later Quincy and
Brockton were added to this line. These machines made available to these
branches, and therefore to the public being served at these various branches,
almost immediately, any information they may require from the records at Boston.

The Diebold system of cash guards, consisting of a cash drawer which auto-
matically deposits money in a safe below, all equipped with holdup and burglary
alarms and time-locks, were installed at all of the tellers' cages at the Boston
office and also in the cashier's office. These cash drawers and strong boxes,
equivalent to safes, are all hooked up to the American District Telegraph Com-
pany Burglary and Holdup Alarm System, and a number of foot and hand buttons
at convenient points at the Registry counters and lobbies offer considerable pro-
tection in the case of a daylight holdup or night burglary. When an alarm is
sounded all of the cash drawers close, the safes are all locked and nobody can open
the safes and get at the money until the allowed period of time has elapsed, and
further an alarm is sounded at the A. D. T. switchboard where, in turn, the
holdup is reported to the police and over the radio and teletype, etc.

A few of the outstanding figures for the year as compared with those of the
previous year are as follows:

Motor vehicle certificates of registration issued
Compulsory insurance cancellation notices received

Licenses to operate issued

Examinations of applicants for licenses

Licenses and registrations revoked and suspended .

Licenses revoked for driving under influence of

liquor

Total number of applications handled

Gross receipts from fees

Registrations of Passenger Cars, Commercial Vehicles and Motor Cycles
The following registration figures show a 2.47% increase in passenger registra-
tions and a 1.74% increase in commercial registrations over the previous year,
while the motor cycle registrations happened to be identical for both the years
1934 and 1935.

1934

1935

945,488

968,553

86,406

79,401

1,053,527

1,077,880

83,031

82,136

52,505

52,317

5,717

6,264

2,076,600

2,125,898

$6,202,907.26

$6,310,424.28

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Passenger cars
Commercial vehicles
Motor cycles .

1905
4,889

553

1915
90,580
12,053

9,520

1925
663,858
100,480

10,333

19291
905,636
113,268
6,168

1934
831,853
112,260

1,375

1935

852,934

114,244

1,375

Totals . . . 5,442 112,153 774,671 1,025,072 945,488 968,553
Examinations for Licenses

The system of examining prospective operators of motor vehicles was not
changed in any respect during the year 1935, the appointment system being con-
tinued and the examination consisting of the usual demonstration on the highways,
a reading test, an eye test, and a test of the applicant as to his knowledge of the
motor vehicle law. The number of persons examined decreased slightly at the
fifty-five examining points with the following results: —

1934

1935

Operators passed

73,900

74,598

Operators unfit

8,037

7,058

Restriction removal, passed

1,765

1,244

Restriction removal, unfit ....

176

125

"Competency," passed ....

208

212

''Competency," unfit ....

Total examinations 84,123 83,260

Branch Offices

The larger branches of the Registry of Motor Vehicles are equipped with tele-
type machines which enable them to render practically every service to the
public that is rendered at the main office in Boston, including hearings with regard
to the suspension and restoration of licenses and furnishing all data from records
of the central office. Each branch office serves as a headquarters for the district
in which it is located, both as to the issuance and distribution of number plates
and licenses, and law enforcement.

Three new offices were opened in November this year, one at Haverhill, one at
Waltham, and one at Maiden. The work of these branches for the few days they
were open during the fiscal year is included in the figures for Boston.

The following table gives the approximate figures : —

Approximate Distribution of Registrations,

Licenses, etc.

Regis-

First

License

Miscel-

Boston:

trations

Licenses

Renewals

laneous

Totals

Counter .

210,000

—

181,000

99,000

490,000

Mail

162,000

—

390,000

10,000

562,000

Examination

—

23,000

— ■

2,000

25,000

Pittsfield

22,000

2,300

20,000

6,000

50,300

Springfield

. 53,000

6.500

59,000

20,000

138,500

Greenfield

11,000

1,500

11,000

4,500

28,000

Northampton

13,000

1,000

12,000

4,500

30,500

Worcester

49,000

7,000

50,000

20,000

126,000

Fitchburg

19,000

1,500

17,000

6,000

43,500

Framingham

24,000

2,000

17,000

8,000

51,000

Lawrence

31,000

4,000

32,000

10,000

77,000

Lowell .

23,000

3,000

23,000

7,000

56,000

Fall River .

23,000

4,000

23,000

7,000

57,000

New Bedford

22,000

2,500

27,000

8,000

59,500

Lynn

50,000

7,000

48,000

16,500

121,500

Quincy

31,000

5,500

35,000

12,500

84,000

Brockton

37,000

3,000

34,000

14,500

88,500

Hyannis2

12,000

2,000

7,000

3,500

24,500

792,000*

i Peak year.

2 Includes Oak Bluffa and Nantucket.

3 This figure includes approximately 182,000 number plate reissues
* Does not include reissues (see Miscellaneous).

75,800 986,000 259,000s 2,112,800

86,406

79,401

80,550
5,856

49,204
30,197

86,406 -

79,401

7,046
40,550

6,524
43,394

10,432

28,378

5,080
24,403

86,406

79,401

16,481
7,525
4,372

13,503
6,510
4,390

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Compulsory Motor Vehicle Liability Insurance
The following figures show the volume of papers received and notices mailed

in connection with the carrying out of the law regarding compulsory motor vehicle

Causes for Cancellation of Policies:

liability insurance. 1934- 1935

For non-payment of premiums 56,901 61,413

For other reasons 29,505 17,988

Total

Origin of requests for Cancellation of Policies:

Insurance companies

Finance companies

Total

Disposition of applications for cancellation :

Replacement certificates, adjusting cancellations .
Reinstatements, adjusting cancellations
Sets of plates returned before effective date of cancel-
lation

Revocations

Total

Return of Plates :
Returned promptly after revocation
By Police and Registry Inspectors
Not returned

Total revocations 28,378 24,403

Property Damage

Under the provisions of Section 22A of Chapter 90, General Laws, the Regis-
trar may, upon receipt of evidence satisfactory to him, suspend the license of any
operator who has failed to satisfy a judgment rendered against him after sixty
days in any case in which such operator is the defendant in an action brought to
recover damages for injuries to property arising out of the use, operation or
maintenance on the ways of the Commonwealth of a motor vehicle or trailer.

The following figures indicate the number of cases in which successful plaintiffs
availed themselves of the additional facilities provided in the law for recovering
damages and the action taken thereon :

1934 1935

Complaints received 410 560

Releases received, no action being necessary ... 82 141

Licenses or right to operate suspended .... 328 419

Licenses or right to operate reinstated after suspension . 138 206

Aircraft

Another stride in aviation in Massachusetts was made this year when the Legis-
lature enacted as the aviation law of Massachusetts the Uniform Aeronautical
Code, repealing thereby the existing aviation statutes. Massachusetts was the
37th state in the Union to adopt the Uniform Aeronautical Code and under this
law (effective October 14, 1935) every pilot and owner, both resident and non-
resident, must obtain a Federal license and subsequently register such license with
the state.

In the following statistics, special attention is directed to the fact that not a
single fatal airplane flying accident occurred and accidents involving personal
injuries dropped 20 per cent, which important improvement we attribute to rigid
enforcement.

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The program to have every community in the state air marked is well under
way with 11 new markers already completed under the sponsorship of this section.

Close co-operation with the Bureau of Air Commerce of the Federal Govern-
ment, the Governor's Committee on Aeronautics, the Federal ERA and aviation
officials of other states has been accomplished, so that Massachusetts is doing
everything possible to further and promote the progress of aviation within its
boundaries.

The following figures summarize the work of the Aviation Section:

Pilots' licenses issued ....

Pilots' permits issued ....

Pilots examined by flight tests ...

Pilots checked

Aircraft registered . . .'
Aircraft permits issued ....
Aircraft inspected . ._
Duplicates and certified copies issued .

Fees received

Suspensions of licenses and rights to fly

Aircraft grounded

Reinstatements of licenses, rights and groundings

Court prosecutions

Rulings promulgated

Airport disapproved

Survey of fields

Surveys of buildings for air marking .
Air markers completed under our promotion
Investigations by aircraft inspectors .
Airplane accidents

Fatal accidents
Personal injury accidents
No injury accidents
Persons killed
Persons injured
Ground accidents
Fatal accidents
Personal injury accidents
No injury accidents
Persons killed .
Persons injured

Inspection of Motor Vehicle Equipment
Operating under new regulations made by the Registrar, two inspections of all
vehicles registered in the Commonwealth were conducted at official inspection sta-
tions designated by the Registrar.

The great majority of these stations have now been operating under the super-
vision of the Equipment Section for a period of five or six years and, in general,
perform the work honestly and efficiently. It was found necessary to cancel 118
stations because of faulty equipment work, failure to comply with instructions, or
overcharging.

The inspections were held during the months of May and September. The
results of the inspections confirmed the opinion previously held that one inspec-
tion a year is not enough to secure the desired results, but that by means of two
inspections, motor vehicle equipment was maintained in reasonably good con-
dition throughout the year. It was also found, as might be expected, that brakes,
lights and other equipment were in better condition when inspected in September
than in May. Approximately 800,000 pleasure cars, trucks, trailers and buses
were inspected during each period. The results may be summarized as follows:

1934

1935

260

255

275

242

223

315

249

$376

$142

1,116

1,051

1934

1935

]

;

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May

September

O.K.

26%

36%

Foot Brake

Defective

22%

17%

Emergency Brake .

13%

10%

Lights

59%

' 49%

Horn

• 3%

Muffler .

Steering Gear

Windshield Cleaner

Number Plates

School Bus Inspections
As required by Chapter 271 of the Acts of 1932, the Equipment Section ex-
amined or supervised the inspection of all school buses operated in Massachusetts
under contract with cities or towns or owned by cities or towns five times during
the year, during the first weeks of January, March, May, September and No-
vember. In each case, about 775 vehicles were submitted for inspection. The
inspections in January, March and May were conducted under the system which
had been in effect for the three years previous, the vehicles being examined by
inspectors attached to this dpartment at various designated examining points
throughout the state. The September and November inspections were made
under the supervision of this Section at official inspection stations. This change
in the examining system was made in order to relieve inspectors of this depart-
ment for more important duties, consisting principally of enforcement and equip-
ment work on the highways. The improvement in school bus equipment previously
noted and referred to in the last annual report was continued. Many new buses
have been put in operation to replace those which failed to meet the requirements
of the School Bus Act, but which were protected by the provisions of that Act for
a period of three years if under contract on August 26, 1932.

Brakes, Lights and Overloads
During the greater part of the year, only 18 men were regularly assigned to
equipment work. Beginning early in October, however, the Registrar reduced
investigating and examining work to a minimum, which permitted practically full-
time services of approximately 75 men for enforcement and equipment work.
That this law enforcement on the road, directed particularly to motor vehicle
brakes, in conjunction with the two equipment inspections held during the year,
was effective in reducing accidents was reflected in the accident statistics for the
year, showing a decrease of approximately 14% in fatal accidents and 9% in non-
fatal accidents. In addition to their duties in connection with the periodic inspec-
tions of motor vehicles and school buses, including the direction of the work of
over two thousand official inspection stations, the inspectors assigned to equipment
work did considerable road work in enforcing the laws and regulations respecting
equipment. This work may be summarized as follows:

Reports of Defective Equipment 3,578

Reports of Overloading

Light tags issued

Brake tags issued

Reports of Vehicles not Inspected

205

50,872

6,975

1,389

Reports received and tags issued by the inspectors led to the revocation or

suspension of 1,784 registrations for the folio
Defective Brakes
Defective Lights
Defective Windshields
Failure to be Inspected
Overloading
Miscellaneous

vino; reasons:

1,028
375

52
141

19
149

Equipment Inspectors also reported 2,863 cases of improper operation for action
by the Registrar, leading to suspension of license or other action.

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Headlamps, Tail Lamps and Reflex Reflectors
No new headlamps were approved, but several extensions of approval were
granted during the year. Approval was granted to 16 new tail lamps and 8 reflex
reflectors.

Motor Vehicle Deaths, Injuries, Collisions
Deaths in connection with the operation of motor vehicles in the year 1935 num-
bered 795, a decrease of 126 or 13.7% as compared with the record of the previous
year. A comparative table of classified fatalities, injuries and collisions in the
years 1934 and 1935 is as follows:

Motor Vehicle Accidents to Persons

Persons Killed
1934 1935

Pedestrians by autos .
Pedestrians by motorcycles .
Pedestrians near street cars
Occupants of autos
Occupants of autos at R. R. crossings
Occupants of motorcycles .
Bicycle riders ....
Occupants horse-drawn vehicles .
Coasters on sleds
Coasters on wheels

Totals . . . .

529

313

471

265

17
3

Boys

Girls

921 795

Children Killed

1934 1935

120 91

60 36

Totals

180
Number of Collisions

Collision with pedestrian
Collision with automobile
Collision with horse-drawn vehicle
Collision with railroad train .
Collision with street car
Collision with fixed object
Collision with bicycle
Non-Collisions (overturn)
Collision with motorcycle
Collision with sled
Collision with animal
Coaster on wheels

Totals ....

In the daytime

After dark ....

Persons Injured
1934 1935

15,761

35,187

173

950

226

537

110

14,306

31,750

161

981

148

837

131

53,055 48,421

Children Injured
1934 1935

6,891 6,597

3,744 3,468

127 10,635 10,065

1934

1935

15,888

14,619

22,015

20,143

285

197

352

305

2,299

1,961

970

997

804

754

229

187

481

740

103

112

136

43,575 40,138

25,283
18,292

24,081
16,057

40,138

Totals 43,575

Accident Report Letters

As provided by section 26, chapter 90, General Laws, every operator of a motor

vehicle in any manner involved in an accident in which any person is killed or

injured is required to report in writing to the Registrar. The number of these

formal accident reports received from operators in 1935 was 44,624 as compared

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with 46,651 received in 1934. Under the requirements of section 29, chapter 90,
General Laws, 18,304 similar reports of accidents were received from police de-
partments throughout the State in 1935 as against 19,895 received in 1934. In
addition, in connection with this reporting of accidents by operators during the
year 1935 there were received 10,369 letters of complaint reporting improper
operating, as compared with 11,115 such letters in 1934.

Comparative Statement of Yearly Registrations, Licenses, Deaths,
Injuries, Revocations and Suspensions

Year

Motor- Number Number

Automobiles Cycles Total Regis- of Persons of Persons Licenses
Registered Registered trations Killed Injured Issued

Total Sus- For Operat-

pensions ing Under

and Revo- Influence

cations of Liquor

1910

31,360

3,358

34,718

963

41,259

283

1911

38,907

3,658

42,565

110

1,248

51,950

360

1912

50,132

5,034

55,166

142

1,962

66,645

■546

1913

62,660

7,127

69,787

188

2,923

81,034

608

1914

77,246

8,161

85,407

229

4,010

99,532

858

131

1915

102,633

9,520

112,153

294

6,197

133,935

1,153

202

1916

136,809

10,713

147,522

315

9,131

171,596

1,396

320

1917

174,274

11,065

185,339

438

7,282

214,229

1,831

485

1918

193,497

12,862

206,359

499

8,598

235,140

2,343

553

1919

247,183

13,698

260,881

582

16,287

297,968

2,156

554

1920

304,538

15,142

319,680

481

21,182

261,539

2,944

888

1921

360,731

12,058

372,790

544

11,487

380,519

4,899

1.508

1922

449,838

11,675

461,513

522

15,277

444,173

8,369

2,460

1923

566,150

11,733

577,883

578

16,217

536,819

11,613

3,333

1924

672,315

10,778

683,093

709

19,579

620,439

14,154

4,395

1925

764,338

10,333

774,671

755

25,736

698,378

16,249

4,654

1926

826,224

9,215

835,439

705

25,351

763,951

18,705

4,863

1927

819,703

7,245

826,948

693

31,721

814,094

31,252

4,983

1928

883,595

6,656

890,251

715

42,201

870,160

40,814

5,071

1929

1,018,904

6,168

1,025,072

777

46,111

944,338

53,133

5,381

1930

1,008,476

4,642

1,013.118

795

44,279

982,795

52,954

5,052

1931

1,006,808

3,068

1,009,876

793

48,837

1,024,304

63,841

5,535

1932

921,909

1,661

923,570

768

47,658

1,014,635

73,511

4,824

1933

930,493

1,023

931,516

769

48,249

1,022,662

56,691

4,274

1934

944,113

1,375

745,488

921

53,055

1,053,527

52,505

5,717

1935

967,178

1,375

968,553

795

48,421

1,077,880

52,317

6,264

Investigations and Prosecutions by Inspectors
Investigations were made under the direction of the Chief Inspector relative to
fatal and non-fatal accidents, violations of the laws concerning brakes and head-
lights, inspection of garages, miscellaneous complaints, and the prosecution of
motorists in court. The table below shows the wide range of these activities of
the inspectors, and shows a decrease in the total number of cases handled. This
decrease, however, is due to the far greater amount of enforcement work done on
the road by the inspectors.

Classification of Reports

Accidents, fatal
Accidents, non-fatal
General reputation

Miscellaneous

Totals .

Complaints filed .
Official stations inspected
Headlights, brakes, etc.
Prosecutions .
Amount of fines

Revocations and Suspensions

Licenses suspended
Licenses revoked .
Rights suspended .

1934

1935

848

5,406

6,649

13,799

778

5,279

6,246

13,386

26,702

25,689

14,287
9,700

21,295
1,004

. $26,158

15,384

13,829

*62,962

839

$26,870

nsions

1934

1935

10,818
4,205

4,838

12,646
4,452
5,302

* Increase due in part to change to semi-annual equipment examinations.

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Rights revoked

Certificates suspended ....
Certificates revoked ....
Certificates and licenses suspended
Certificates and licenses revoked .
Certificates revoked and rights suspended
Rights in Massachusetts suspended

Totals

Resulting from investigations
Resulting from court convictions .
Resulting from police complaints .'
Resulting from judges' complaints
Resulting from state police complaints .
Resulting from insurance cancellations

Totals

Charade

Reckless and endangering life

Liquor convictions

Going away after accidents

Without authority

Racing .

Improper person .

Improper person, liquor

Improper operation

Two overspeeds

Three overspeeds .

Insurance cancellations

Insurance convictions

Improper equipment, miscellaneous

Improper equipment, lights .

Improper equipment, brakes

Failure to display stickers .

Fatal accidents

Property damage cases

Other offenses

New parking violations

Overloading, trucks

Sixty milers .

Four complaints

Totals .

Formal hearings ....

Court recommendations adopted: -
Reckless and endangering
Going away after accidents .
Without authority
Allowing improper person to operate

Totals

of Offenses

295

1,592

28,549

1,947

141

12,541

9,886

1,578

116

28,376

1934

1,570

4,927

388

706

5,330

790

6,962

28,376

335

146

102

278

847

325

262

999

52,505

8,703

32
5
0
0

285

2,966

24,561

1,849

124

106

52,505 52,317

13,171

12,394

1,969

377

24,403

52,505 52,317

1935

1,774

4,917

385

596

5,394

1,347

5,858

111

24,403

352

513

357

1,000

743

388

193

3,447

495

52,317

8,995

19
2
0

Persons whose licenses were suspended or revoked and who
had to pass examination in order to have them returned . 3,621 4,620

Analysis of Court Abstracts Received
Number of courts forwarding abstracts ....

Total abstracts received

Number of abstracts recording convictions .

Offenses
(Analysis of convictions, not including appeals)

Overspeeding ....

Reckless driving ....

Operating under influence of liquor

Using auto without authority

Endangering lives ....

Not stopping after causing injury

Without license ....

Without registration certificate

Unregistered vehicle

Improper display or no register number

Refusing to stop on signal

Unlighted lamps ....

Not signalling ....

Dazzling lights ....

Operating within 8 feet of street car

Violation of Metropolitan Park rules

Operating after suspension or revocation of license

Larceny

Manslaughter ....

Miscellaneous ....

Lenses not approved

No reflector .....

Racing . . . . •;

Operating after registration certificate revoked

No rear light ....

Not displaying lights

Passing red light ....

Improper lights ....

Brakes not as required by law

Violation of insurance law

Not slowing down approaching pedestri

Not slowing down at intersecting way

Violation of law of road

Perjury — making false statements on license

falsely impersonating or conspiring to obtain a
Loaning license to another .
Allowing intoxicated person to operate
No windshield cleaner .
Attempted larceny
Allowing improper person to operate

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appli

license

at ion

Totals

48,443
32,034

51,695
29,899

1934

1935

7,565
8

9,399
43

5,306

1,334

2,499

908

3,940
762

1,976
761

2,795
580

2,566
417

398

374

147

198

271

394

376

287

292

657

496

358

183

1,303
0

799
0

• 57

296

484

347

157

209

263

408

401

3,980
1,723

3,859
1,657

32,034 29,899

Used Car Section
(Motor Vehicle Identification)
The following is a resume of the work accomplished by the Used Car Section
which indexes, under engine numbers, all motor vehicles registered and reported
stolen, and checks reports of sales of used cars against the stolen-vehicle records.
Dealers' and repairmen's plates and registration certificates are issued by this
section.

The work of the section is summarized in the following tables : —

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Dealers

1934 1935

Total number of first-class dealers reporting .... 1,178 1,187

Total number of second and third-class dealers reporting . 568 559

309
953

302
1,107

5,121

7,427

4,479
6,022

21,868

20,245

385

283

588

379

252

167

856

20
566

Total number making reports to this office .... 1,746 1,746

Reports
Approximate number of notices of intended sales received

daily

Approximate number of dealers' reports received daily .

Motor Vehicles Stolen

Number stolen in Boston

Number stolen in Massachusetts (including Boston) .
Number reported stolen from various sources throughout

the country, including Massachusetts ....

Number of motor vehicles recovered through information

furnished by this office

Engine and Serial Numbers

Engine numbers assigned to cars

Certificates issued authorizing the replacement of engine

numbers

Certificates issued authorizing the replacement of serial

numbers

Certificates issued authorizing the replacement of both

engine and serial numbers

Total number of authorization certificates issued .

Eastern Conference of Motor Vehicle Administrators
The department was represented at meetings of the Conference held at Hart-
ford, Conn., May 16 and 17, and New York City October 24 and 25, 1935.

Many matters of common interest to the motor vehicle administrators of the
member states were studied and discussed, including programs for highway safety
campaigns, methods for procuring uniform enforcement of motor vehicle laws,
methods for controlling the speed of motor vehicles, instruction in high schools
on motor vehicle operation, physical and mental examination of motor vehicle
operators, curbing motor vehicle thefts, the problem of the drunken operator,
and the procedure in suspension and revocation of operators' licenses.

The meetings resulted in beneficial gains of knowledge concerning the constantly
increasing duties and problems of the administrators, and served to renew a strong
spirit of cordial and helpful co-operation.

Analysis of Receipts
The fees received for the year 1935, together with the number of certificates of
registration issued in each classification and the number of licenses granted, etc.,
are shown in the following table :

Certificates of Registration:

Passenger cars (including taxicabs)

Commercial cars

Busses ......

Trailers

Motor cycles ....
Manufacturers or Dealers (including repairers)
Manufacturers or Dealers additional cars (including

repairers)

Licenses to operate :

Original licenses

Renewal licenses

848,406

114,244

4,528

506

1,375

3,228

$2,458,421 80

1,282,453 42

107,830 50

25,623 50

1,859 75

9,683 00

18,027

54,080 00

75,807
1,002,073

151,567 00
2,003,937 50

Examinations . . . 65,484.

Re-examinations . . . 16,652

Total examinations . 82,136

$130,968 00
16,652 00

Copies of certificates and licenses furnished . . 35,830
Duplicate number plates furnished .... 15,545
Miscellaneous receipts, process fees, etc

Total amount of fees

Motor vehicle fees rebated (deducted) .....

Net fees

Court fines received by the Treasurer and Receiver-General1

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147,620 00

35,829 50
15,543 25
15,975 06

5,310,424 28
64,716 68

>,245,707 60
43,035 83

Total receipts (not including gasoline tax2
Fund Account, 1935 ....

credited Highway

3,288,743 43

1 Beginning January 1, 1935, due to an amendment of the law (Acts of 1931, Ch. 364), the motor vehicle
fines are turned over directly to the various cities and towns.

2 Receipts from the gasoline tax are credited to the Highway Fund but are collected through the office of
the Commissioner of Corporations and Taxation.

Expenses of the Registry of Motor Vehicles
The cost of running the Registry of Motor Vehicles for the year 1935 was
$1,461,200.75 which was 23% of the net fees collected. This cost, deducted from
the receipts for the year, left the sum of $4,827,542.68 available for legislative
appropriation for highway work.

Analysis of Expenditures for the Fiscal Year 1935

Personal Services:
Regular payroll
Temporary employees' payroll
Overtime payroll

Payrolls

$935,062 60

27,412 41

6,434 93

Expenses

Supplies :

Books, maps, etc $942 93

Typewriter supplies 1,750 56

Adding machine repairs and supplies . . 25 30

Other supplies 4,652 21

Stationery 17,016 97

Typewriter repairs .... 188 90

Other repairs ....
Equipment and Furniture:

725 21

Typewriter machines . . . . $5,926 84

Adding machines

1,643 62

Other machines

7,629 70

Desks

679 01

Bookcases, tables, etc.

662 38

Filing cabinets .

5,416 11

Chairs

408 63

Dictograph

1,785 85

Soundex

27,151 32

Headlight Equipment

1,877 72

Diebold Installation .

3,951 00

Burglar Alarm System

261 48

Uniforms .

Branches — Counters, Safe

3,168 65

$968,909 94

$25,302 08

,904 31

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Traveling Expenses :

. Officials

. $1,400 45

Employees

18,191 42

Aviation

3,593 62

Automobiles (owned by employees) .

. . . 76,764 21

Automobiles (owned by State) :

Maintenance of 12 automobiles .

4,305 71

Purchase of 1 automobile .

309 48

$104,564 89

Other Services and Expenses:

Expressage

$3,899 25

Postage

81,537 08

Paper for printing . . ' .

9,383 02

Printing :

Other reports ....

2,140 63

Other printing ....

11,610 05

Telephone

5,155 11

Premium on Bonds of Employees

460 62

Rent

300 00

Cleaning and Janitor Services .

837 00

Labor

1,022 10

Number plates

. 131,647 00

Direct Mail Lists ....

11,000 00

Sundries

359 25

Branch Offices:

Rent, Telephone, Lighting

27,194 91

Labor and Services ....

6,336 75

Supplies and Express

2,674 49

$295,557 26

Publicity for Safeti

/ Work

Labels, tags, postage and printing

$962 27

$1,461,200 75

Summary

$968,909 94

491,328 54

Publicity for Safety Work .

962 27

$1,461,200 75

RELATING TO WATERWAYS AND PUBLIC LANDS

BOSTON HARBOR

The Commonwealth Flats at South Boston

Commonwealth Pier 5

The work necessary to maintain the effective operation of the pier has been
continued during the year. Repairs have been made to gangways and floating
fenders, to elevators and elevator machinery and to the heating plant.

Under contract of Oct. 30, 1934, with W. H. Ellis and Son Company repairs to
pile and timber work were completed Feb. 8, 1935, at a contract cost of $2,680.40.

Repairs to roof coverings at the pier, under contract of Nov. 7, 1934, with the
Atlantic Roofing and Skylight Works, were completed May 21, 1935, at a contract
cost of $310.97.

The painting of doors and sash in the Headhouse, under contract of Nov. 13,
1934, with John S. Leonard, was completed Dec. 21, 1934, at a contract cost
of $285.

Under contract of Nov. 13, 1934, with Maurice M. Devine for replacing existing
steel sash and broken glass in the lightwells, work was completed Apr. 17, 1935,
at a contract cost of $7,150.

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Repairs to the linings of the boilers at the heating plant, under letter contract
of July 25, 1935, with Plibrico Jointless Firebrick Company, were completed
July 31, 1935, at a contract cost of $569.22.

The Department of "Public Safety requested in September • authorization for
the use of space for offices on the second floor of the pier. Under an agreement
executed in November the use of about 28,700 square feet of space was granted
at a rental of $28,000 per year. To provide adequate quarters for office use it has
been necessary to install additional plumbing and to build partitions.

A contract was made on Nov. 5, 1935, with Morris Slotnick for the construc-
tion of wood frame and glass office partitions. This work was completed Nov. 23,
1935, at a contract cost of $5,715.15.

Under letter contract of Nov. 19, 1935, with John A. Gerrity additional plumb-
ing is now being installed.

The serious damage by marine borers to the foundation piles of the pier was
shown by examinations made by divers in 1934 and 1935. To ensure the safety
of the structure it has become necessary to reconstruct the platform foundations
and decks.

In October the Department secured the services of Fay, Spofford and Thorn-
dike, consulting engineers, upon a project for such reconstruction. After the
necessary preliminary examinations and borings were made, plans for the work
needed were submitted to the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
with a request for a grant to aid in financing the reconstruction estimated to cost
approximately $819,000. This work has been approved as Public Works Ad-
ministration Project No. Mass. 1301.

Plans and specifications for the removal of the existing pile and concrete plat-
forms at the pier and the building of a new concrete platform consisting of a con-
crete deck slab supported by steel girders and beams on caisson and pile foun-
dations, have been approved by the Federal authorities, and proposals for the
work have been invited by public advertisement by the Department.

A summary of freight and passengers using the pier in 1935 follows:

Number of Tons Freight .and Passengers Handled at Commonwealth
Pier No. 5, During Year Ending November 30, 1935

SS. Line

Num-
ber of

Ships

In Freight

(Tons'!

R.R. Truck

Total

Out Freight

(Tons)
R.R. Truck

Total

Passengers
In Out

Tota

Amer.-Haw. S.S. Co.
Luckenbach S.S. Co.
Norton, Lilly & Co.
Cunard White Star
Can. Nat. SS. Co.
Italian Line
Byron SS. Co. .
French Line
Holland Amer. Line
Peabody & Lane
John G. Hall & Co.

100

30,102

6,038

4,071

142

170

97,335

77,157

7,834

905

894

127,437

83,195

11,905

1,047

1,064

9,747
5,954

34,443
23,661

44,190
29,615

142
104

285

134

427

238

205
3,250

80
26

Summaries

40,523

184,224 224,747 16,053

58,594 74,647

3,455

240
3,263
1,604
584
126
159

445
6,513
1,604
584
126
159

5,976

9,431

Development of Land South of Summer Street
The seven sections of Storehouse No. 1 on E Street have been occupied during
the year by the Wiggin Terminals, Inc.

The work of repairing the roof of the building and of installing skylights under
contract of Nov. 7, 1934, with the Atlantic Roofing and Skylight Works was com-
pleted May 21, 1935, at a contract cost of $13,849.09.

The Commonwealth Flats at East Boston
Aircraft Landing Field — Boston Airport
The greater part of the area reclaimed by the Commonwealth at East Boston
continues to be ocupied by the city of Boston as an airport. On Aug. 10, 1928,
under authority of Chapter 64 of the Resolves of that year, the Department leased
to the city approximately 5,717,000 square feet of land for this purpose. The use
of an additional area of 4,210,760 square feet was authorized by a lease executed

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July 14, 1930, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 53 of the Resolves of
1930. The matter of the lease to the city of two additional parcels, one north-
easterly of the areas leased in 1928 and 1930, the other southeasterly of the parcel
leased in 1930, is still pending.

The use of these areas by the city is subject to certain rights of occupancy and
use granted by lease of June 30, 1922, to the War Department, with an option of
annual renewals to June 30, 1937, by a supplementary agreement of Dec. 27, 1926.

Reclamation of Flats

The work of dredging and filling at East Boston under contracts made by the
Department for the purpose of reclaiming flats has been in abeyance since 1923.
Between that year and Nov. 30, 1935, approximately 2,972,000 cubic yards of
material dredged from various locations in the harbor have been deposited in the
receiving basin. In the year ending Nov. 30, 1935, about 104,500 cubic yards
were dumped upon flats northerly of Governors Island. The Commonwealth has
reclaimed approximately 150 acres of land at East Boston.

Under licenses granted for building bulkheads, dredging and filling, the city
has reclaimed for the extension of the airport about 140 acres.

Commonwealth Pier 1, East Boston

This pier has been used and occupied during the year by John G. Hall and
Company, Inc., under the terms of the lease of Nov. 20, 1934.

Work under contract of Oct. 30, 1934, with W. H. Ellis and Son Company for
repairs to pile and timber work at this pier was completed Feb. 12, 1935, at a con-
tract cost of $2,488.78.

The erection of sliding doors and the replacing of door sills with new timber,
under contract of Nov. 13, 1934, with Ray Wason, was completed May 7, 1935,
at a contract cost of $2,575.02.

The building of a movable gangway on the east side of the pier, under contract
of Nov. 20, 1934, with Waghorne-Brown Company, was completed Feb. 12, 1935,
at a contract cost of $1,844.

Amount expended during the year, $9,669.37.

Income received from the pier during the year, $8,141.90.

Boston Harbor — Removal of Abandoned Hulks of Wrecks
On Aug. 13, 1934, a contract was made with the M and R Construction Com-
pany to remove the wreck of the tow boat "Esther Rendle" from tide water at
property of the National Dock and Storage Warehouse Company and to dispose
of the material above the high water line, at a contract price of the lump sum of
$723. This work was completed Sept. 28, 1935, at a contract cost of $723.

Castle Island Bulkhead
Work under contract of Nov. 27, 1934, with John P. Cavanagh for removing
about 980 linear feet of the southeasterly end of the bulkhead extending from the
Reserved Channel toward Castle Island and for repairing designated portions of
the remaining bulkhead and the bulkhead on the south side of the Reserved Chan-
nel, was completed Oct. 29, 1935, at a contract cost of $3,335.

Hough's Neck, Quincy
The work by the city of Quincy in building at Hough's Neck a granite sea wall
about 840 feet long with riprap protection along the base, and in constructing two
stone jetties, has been in progress during the year under the agreement with the
Department authorized by Chapter 322 of the Acts of 1934. About ninety-two
per cent of the project has already been completed.

Mystic River Dredging

The work of dredging a channel in Mystic River to a depth of 20 feet at mean
low water from a point about 1,000 feet below Maiden Bridge to a point about
900 feet above, under contract of Sept. 11, 1934, with the J. S. Packard Dredging
Company, was completed Dec. 28, 1934, at a contract cost of $19,802.44.

On July 2, 1935, a contract was made with the J. S. Packard Dredging Com-

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pany to dredge two areas in Mystic River in Boston and Everett, one above and
the other below Maiden Bridge, to a depth of 20 feet at mean low water, at the
following contract prices: for dredging and disposing of the dredged material
54.5 cents per cubic yard, scow measurement; for removing and disposing of
boulders $20 per cubic yard. This work was completed Aug. 12, 1935, at a con-
tract cost of $40,355.60.

Town River, Quincy
A contract was made on Sept. 4, 1935, with the J. S. Packard Dredging Com-
pany for dredging a channel in Town River about 80 feet wide, 5,200 feet long,
and 10 feet deep at mean low water at the following contract prices: for dredging
and disposing of the dredged material 54 cents per cubic yard, scow measurement;
for removing and disposing of boulders $20 per cubic yard. This work was
completed Nov. 15, 1935, at a contract cost of $55,104.40.

Pleasant Park Channel, Winthrop

A contract was made on Aug. 27, 1935, with the Bay State Dredging and Con-
tracting Company to dredge certain specified shoal areas in Belle Isle Inlet and
Pleasant Park Channel to a depth of 6 feet at mean low water, at the following
contract prices: for dredging and disposing of dredged material 56.8 cents per
cubic yard, scow measurement; for removing and disposing of boulders $20 per
cubic yard. This work was completed Sept. 27, 1935, at a contract cost of
$16,936.62.

Winthrop Harbor Channel

A letter contract under date of Sept. 21, 1935, was made with the Bay State
Dredging and Contracting Company to dredge to a depth of 9 feet at mean low
water, six shoal areas in the channel leading to the Winthrop Yacht Club and the
wharf of the Federal Government, at a contract price of the lump sum of $2,100.
The dredging was completed Sept. 26, 1935, at a contract cost of $2,100.

Marine Borers

The investigation of the action of marine borers has been continued during
the year by the New England Committee on Marine Piling Investigation, a body
organized in 1934 for the purpose, and consisting of representatives of the New
England railroads, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts through its Department
of Public Works, and the State of New Hampshire through its Highway Depart-
ment. This committee secured the services of Dr. William F. Clapp, Biologist,
to direct these investigations.

Frank C. Shepherd, Consulting Engineer of the Boston and Maine Railroad,
served as Chairman of this Committee until his death in August, 1935, when he
was succeeded by A. H. Morrill, Assistant Chief Engineer of the Boston and
Maine Railroad, the Maine Central Railroad and the Portland Terminal Company.

To determine the activity of the borers test boards have been maintained during
the year at locations along the coast from New York to Eastport, Maine. To help
this investigation the Department has continued to maintain four test boards in
Boston Harbor in the locations established last year.

On Feb. 6 and Aug. 22, 1935, letter contracts were made with C. Ray Norris,
diver, for making an examination of the foundation piles at Commonwealth
Pier 5, at a price of $29 per day, the contractor furnishing all labor, tools, appli-
ances and equipment, except the diving scow and the laborers to operate the air
pumps provided by the Commonwealth.

Under these contracts 5,121 piles were examined at a contract cost of $1,305.

Surveys

During the year surveys have been made in connection with maintenance and
operation of Commonwealth property, and of the wharf lines in Town River,
Chelsea Creek and Belle Isle Inlet.

Hydrographic surveys have been carried on in the Charles River between the
Railroad Bridge and the Charles River Dam, in Mystic River from Chelsea Bridge
North to Wellington Bridge, in Pleasant Park Channel and Winthrop Harbor Chan-
nel, along a portion of the Atlantic Avenue waterfront and in Town River, Quincy.

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RIVERS, HARBORS, TIDE WATERS AND FORESHORES OUTSIDE

OF BOSTON HARBOR

For the improvement of rivers, harbors, tide waters and foreshores outside of
Boston Harbor, in accordance with the provisions of section 11, Chapter 91,
General Laws, an appropriation to $100,000 was made during 1935, with the
following condition :

"provided, that all expenditures made for the protection of shores shall
be upon condition that at least fifty per cent of the cost is covered by
contributions from municipalities or other organizations and individuals,
and that in the case of dredging channels for harbor improvements at
least twenty-five per cent of. the cost shall be so covered."

An appropriation of $22,500 was also available during the year for the mainte-
nance of structures, and for repairing damages along the coast line or river banks
of the Commonwealth, and for the removal of wrecks and other obstructions from
the tide waters and great ponds.

In addition to these annual appropriations Chapter 464 of the Acts of 1935,
approved Aug. 5, 1935, provided not less than $250,000 to be expended at the
discretion of the Commissioner for the improvement development and protection
of rivers, harbors, tide waters and foreshores outside of Boston Harbor.

Petitions were filed with the Department during the year for surveys and im-
provements in the following localities: Aliens Harbor, Harwich; Barlow River,
Bourne; Connecticut River, Deerfield; Falmouth Inner Harbor, Falmouth; Great
Pond, Falmouth; Herring River, Harwich; Katama Bay, Edgartown; Lake
Anthony, Oak Bluffs; Lake Tashmoo, Tisbury; Little Bay, Fairhaven; Menamsha
Creek, Chilmark and Gay Head; Nobscusset Breakwater, Dennis; Old Silver
Beach, Falmouth; Pamet River, Truro; Parker River Shore, Yarmouth; Pleasant
Bay, Chatham; Plum Island Basin, Newbury and Newburyport; Plymouth Har-
bor, Plymouth; Point Shirley sea wall, Winthrop; Point Connett-Angelica Point,
dredging and breakwater, Mattapoisett; Rock Harbor, Orleans; Saugus River,
Lynn; South Hyannis sea wall, Barnstable; West Falmouth Harbor, Falmouth;
West Harwich Shore, Harwich.

Public hearings have been held and estimates of cost made, but no work has
been undertaken to carry out improvements petitioned for in Barlow River,
Bourne; Katama Bay, Edgartown; Lake Anthony, Oak Bluffs; Lake Tashmoo,
Tisbury; Little Bay, Fairhaven; Pamet River, Truro; Pleasant Bay, Chatham;
Plum Island Basin, Newbury and Newburyport; Point Shirley sea wall, Winthrop;
Point Connett-Angelica Point, dredging and breakwater, Mattapoisett; Saugus
River, Lynn.

Information relating to work previously done in various rivers and harbors of
the Commonwealth may be found in the annual reports of the Board of Harbor
and Land Commissioners, the Commission on Waterways and Public Lands, the
Division of Waterways and Public Lands of the Department of Public Works, and
in the tables of the Appendix accompanying the present report. These tables show
localities, character of work, appropriations and expenditures by the Common-
wealth and certain appropriations and expenditures by the Federal Government.

An account of work done during the year 1935, for the improvement of rivers,
harbors, tide waters and foreshores outside of Boston Harbor follows:

Allens Harbor, Harwich

Hearing was held on Jan. 31, 1935, on petitions of the Selectmen of Harwich
and others, for dredging the entrance channel to Allens Harbor.

On June 18, 1935, a contract was made with Herbert T. Gerrish to include the
dredging in the entrance to Allens Harbor of a channel about 40 feet wide on the
bottom and 6 feet deep at mean low water, at the following contract prices: for
dredging and disposing of the dredged material on land, flats, or at sea, 43 cents
for each cubic yard measured in place; for removing and disposing of boulders
$20 for each cubic yard. Toward the cost of this dredging a contribution of $1,000

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has been made by the town of Harwich. No work has yet been done under
this contract.

Amount expended during the year, $15.75. Total expenditure to Dec. 1, 1935,
$51,378.37.

Barnstable Shore Protection.
South Hyannis

Hearing was held June 12, 1935, upon petition of the Selectmen of Barnstable
and others for a sea wall at Villa Sites, South Hyannis.

On Sept. 3, 1935, a contract was made with Harry L. Jones to build about 1,295
linear feet of concrete sea wall and three stone jetties, each 200 feet long, at the
following contract prices: for furnishing material and constructing the concrete
sea wall, including all excavation, back filling, removing old walls, crib work,
steps, drains and cesspools and all incidental work, $9.90 for each cubic yard of
concrete measured in the completed work; for furnishing and placing stone rip-
rap and granite chips in the jetties, $3.00 for each ton of 2,000 pounds. No work
has yet been done under this contract.

Toward the cost of this shore protection individuals and organizations inter-
ested have made contributions amounting to $3,993.67 and an equal amount has
been contributed by the county of Barnstable.

West Beach

Hearing was held Jan. 24, 1935, upon petition of the Selectmen of Barnstable
for the building of stone jetties at West Beach at Squaw Island Road to protect
the beach and road from erosion.

On Sept. 4, 1935, a contract was made with Frederick V. Lawrence to build four
stone jetties at Squaw Island Road, Hyannisport, at a contract price for furnish-
ing and placing granite stone riprap and chips in the jetties, of $2.84 for each
ton of 2,000 pounds. This work is now nearly completed. Toward the cost of
this protection of the shore a contribution of $1,350 has been made by the town
of Barnstable and one of an equal amount by the county of Barnstable. Work
under this contract is now in progress.

Bass River, Beverly

A contract was made on Jan. 8, 1935, with the Bay State Dredging and Con-
tracting Company to dredge a channel 90 feet wide on the bottom and 6 feet deep
at mean low water in Bass River, northerly of Bridge Street, at the following con-
tract prices: for dredging and disposing of dredged material 50 cents per cubic
yard, scow measurement; for removing and disposing of boulders $20 per cubic
yard. This work was completed March 11, 1935, at a contract cost of $3,499.
Toward this cost a contribution of $2,000 was made by the city of Beverly.

Amount expended during the year, $3,850.75. Total expenditure to Dec. 1,
1935, $84,953.51.

Bass River, Dennis and Yarmouth

During the year complaint was made to the Department concerning the con-
dition of the west jetty at the entrance to Bass River. An inspection showed the
top of the jetty badly eroded in certain sections and repairs needed.

Because of the difficulty of transporting materials to the site, it was decided to
carry out the work on a basis of day labor. By this means a section of wall about
200 feet long has been rebuilt with concrete and a concrete footing placed under
other sections for a length of 180 feet, at a cost of $3,798.89.

Amount expended during the year, $3,798.89.' Total expenditure to Dec. 1, 1935,
$192,092.22.

Cape Cod Canal Landing Pier at Bourne

The present pier, authorized by Chapter 441 of the Acts of 1931, was completed
during 1934. It is of solid fill construction about 100 feet long, providing a depth
of 25 feet in the dock at mean low water and a light timber extension about 400
feet long available as a tie-up for vessels along the easterly side of the turning
basin. Upon the pier a superstructure 36 feet wide and 200 feet long has been
built of brick, steel and timber.

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No work except minor repairs has been necessary during the year.

Amount expended during the year for operation, maintenance and improve-
ment, $4,343.90.

Income during the year, $4,203.47.

Total expenditure to Dec. 1, 1935, for construction $264,267.22; for operation
and maintenance, $11,025.18.

Connecticut River
The Department during the year made application to the Work Progress Ad-
ministration of the Federal Government for approval of projects for the placing
of riprap and the building of dikes at several points along Connecticut River to
prevent erosion and damage by floods. These projects received tentative approval
in the fall of 1935, but no work was done during the fiscal year.

Duxbury Harbor, Duxbury

Hearings were held on Jan. 24 and 31, 1935, upon petitions of the Selectmen
of Duxbury and others, for redredging the anchorage basin in Duxbury Harbor.

A contract was made on Apr. 30, 1935, with the Bay State Dredging and Con-
tracting Company for dredging about 25,000 cubic yards of material over an area
in Duxbury Bay to a depth of 6 feet at. mean low water for a part of the area,
and to a depth of 8 feet at mean low water over the remaining portion. The con-
tract prices for this work were : for dredging and disposing of the dredged material
59.6 cents per cubic yard, scow measurement; for removing and disposing of
boulders $20 per cubic yard. This dredging was completed June 6, 1935, at a
contract cost of $15,268.33. Toward this cost a contribution of $8,000 was made
by the town of Duxbury.

Amount expended during the year, $16,255.30. Total expenditure to Dec. 1,
1935, $109,104.31.

Ellisville Harbor, Plymouth

Under a letter contract of June 11, 1935, with Arthur K. Finney a caterpillar
crane was furnished, with an operator, for excavating the entrance to Ellisville
Harbor. The work was completed July 10, 1935, at a contract cost of $398.
Under this agreement the entrance channel was excavated to mean low water
with a bottom width of about 25 feet.

Amount expended during the year, $435.06. Total expenditure to Dec. 1, 1935,
$21,108.64.

Falmouth Inner Harbor, Falmouth

Hearing was held on Jan. 24, 1935, on a petition of the Selectmen of Falmouth,
and others, for the deepening of Falmouth Inner Harbor to not less than 10 feet
at mean low water.

On May 21, 1935, a contract was made with Herbert T. Gerrish to include the
dredging of an anchorage basin to a depth of 10 feet at mean low water in this
harbor, at the following contract prices: for dredging and disposing of the exca-
vated material on marsh or flats by the hydraulic process, including the con-
struction of necessary dikes and sluices or other barriers, 56 cents for each cubic
yard measured in place; for removing and disposing of boulders, $20 for each
cubic yard. No work has begun as yet under this contract. A contribution of
$5,000 toward the cost of the dredging has been made by the town of Falmouth.

A contract with William R. Farrell and Son, Inc., was made on Aug. 14, 1935,
to include repairs to the west jetty at Falmouth Inner Harbor at the following
contract prices : for each ton of heavy stone riprap furnished in place in the com-
pleted work $3.37; for each ton of fine stone chips furnished in place in the
completed work $4.27; for each cubic yard of material excavated and back filled
in the completed work $1.00. These repairs were completed Oct. 22, 1935, at a
contract cost of $3,988.85.

Total expenditure to Dec. 1, 1935, $154,279.63.

Great Pond, Falmouth
Hearing was held on Jan. 24, 1935, on the petition of the Selectmen of Falmouth,
and others, for dredging the entrance channel to Great Pond and building a jetty
at its outlet into Nantucket Sound.

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A contract was made on May 21, 1935, with Frederick V. Lawrence to excavate
a channel about 1,400 feet long and 30 feet wide on the bottom, to a depth of
3 feet at mean low water, and to build a stone jetty about 340 feet long at the
entrance of Great Pond to Nantucket Sound. The contract prices for this work
were: for excavating and disposing of the dredged material 39 cents for each
cubic yard; for removing and disposing of all boulders in excess of one cubic
yard in volume, $1.00 for each cubic yard; for furnishing and placing granite, stone
riprap and granite chips in the jetty, $2.83 for each ton.

This work was completed Sept. 20, 1935, at a contract cost of $9,116.71. Toward
this cost a contribution of $5,000 was made by the town of Falmouth.

Amount expended during the year, $10,508.89. Total expenditure to Dec. 1,
1935, $10,508.89.

Harwich Shore Protection

Hearing was held on Jan. 31, 1935, on petition of the Selectmen for the building
of stone jetties at West Harwich Beach.

A contract with Frederick V. Lawrence was made on Aug. 12, 1935, to build
two stone jetties at Harwichport and to rebuild and extend a stone jetty at South
Harwich, at a contract price of $2.68 for each ton of 2,000 pounds of granite stone
riprap and chips furnished and placed in the jetties. This work was completed
Nov. 23, 1935, at a contract cost of $3,728.88. Toward this cost a contribution
of $1,000 was made by the town of Harwich and one of equal amount by the
county of Barnstable.

Amount expended during the year, $3,388.37. Total expenditure to Dec. 1, 1935,
$15,947.79.

Herring River, Harwich

Hearing was held on Jan. 31, 1935, on the petition of the Selectmen of Harwich
for dredging at the mouth of Herring River.

On June 18, 1935, a contract was made with Herbert T. Gerrish to include the
dredging in the entrance to Herring River of a channel about 60 feet wide on the
bottom and 6 feet deep at mean low water, at the following contract prices: for
dredging and disposing of the dredged material on land, flats or at sea, 43 cents
for each cubic yard measured in place; for removing and disposing of boulders
$20 for each cubic yard. Toward the cost of this dredging a contribution of
$1,000 has been made by the town of Harwich. No work has begun under this
contract.

During the year a concrete wall 402 feet long was built upon the top of the
stone work of the westerly jetty at the entrance to the river. The work was car-
ried out on a basis of day labor at a cost of $1,936.24.

Amount expended during the year $1,936.24. Total expenditure to Dec. 1,
1935, $136,669.22.

Hyannisport Breakwater, Barnstable

Hearing was held on Jan. 24, 1935, on the petition of the Selectmen of Barn-
stable for the building of a stone breakwater to close the existing gap between the
end of the breakwater built by the Federal Government and the end of the jetty
built by the Commonwealth at Hyannisport.

On June 11, 1935, a contract was made with the Bay State Dredging and Con-
tracting Company to close the gap between the two structures by extending the
stone breakwater built by the Commonwealth to the breakwater built by the
Federal Government. The contract price for this work was: for each ton of
stone riprap furnished in place in the completed work $2.94. This project was
completed Sept. 6, 1935, at a contract cost of $35,280. Toward this cost a contri-
bution of $14,400 was made by the town and one amounting to $3,600 by indi-
viduals interested in the improvement.

Under a letter contract of Sept. 17, 1935, with the Bay State Dredging and
Contracting Company, additional stone was placed in the old breakwater and in
the extension at a contract cost of $5,033.28.

Amount expended during the year, $36,447.57. Total expenditure to Dec. 1,
1935, $101,465.33.

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Manchester Harbor, Manchester

A contract was made on Oct. 4, 1935, with the Bay State Dredging and Con-
tracting Company to dredge to a depth of 6 feet at mean low water, an anchorage
basin in Manchester Harbor at the following contract prices: for dredging and
disposing of the dredged material 49.8 cents per cubic yard, scow measurement;
for removing and disposing of boulders $20 per cubic yard. This work, not yet
completed, is to be paid for from funds available under the provisions of Chapter
464 of the Acts of 1935.

Amount expended during the year, $17,742.87. Total expenditure to Dec. 1,
1935, $207,581.75.

Manomet Point, Plymouth

Work under contract of Aug. 21, 1934, with M. J. Crowley, for shore protection
at Manomet was completed Mar. 9, 1935, at a contract cost of $12,468.49. Toward
this cost a contribution of $5,500 was made by the town of Plymouth and one of
$1,750 by the County of Plymouth.

Amount expended during the year, $7,277.74. Total expenditure to Dec. 1,
1935, $13,920.20.

Menamsha Creek, Chilmark and Gay Head

Hearing was held on Jan. 24, 1935, on the petition of the Selectmen of Chilmark
and Gay Head for the deepening of Menamsha Creek from its entrance in Vine-
yard Sound to Menamsha Pond and for the placing of riprap.

On Oct. 4, 1935, a contract was made with the Bay State Dredging and Con-
tracting Company to dredge to a depth of 6 feet at mean low water a channel
about 5,200 feet long from Vineyard Sound to Menamsha Pond to a width of
60 feet on the bottom, at the following contract prices: for dredging and dis-
posing of excavated material on marsh or flats by the hydraulic process, including
the construction of necessary dikes and sluices or other barriers, 54 cents per cubic
yard measured in place; for removing and disposing of boulders $20 per cubic
yard. The cost of this work, now nearly completed, is to be paid from funds
available under the provisions of Chapter 464 of the Acts of 1935.

Work under this contract has been extended to include the dredging of a chan-
nel from Menamsha Pond to Nashaquitsa Pond, to a depth of 6 feet at mean low
water and a width on the bottom varying from 60 feet to 100 feet.

Amount expended during the year, $23,751.28. Total expenditure to Dec. 1,
1935, $153,994.71.

New Bedford State Pier

During the year a portion of this pier has been occupied by the Lamport Manu-
facturing Supply Company, Inc., under the terms of the lease of Apr. 27, 1933,
expiring Mar. 31, 1936, at a rental of $5,500 per year.

On Sept. 9, 1935, a letter contract was made with Thomas O'Connor and Com-
pany, Inc., for alterations and repairs to the present platforms and the construc-
tion of a wooden canopy. This work was completed Nov. 20, 1935, at a contract
cost of $9,414.08.

Under a letter contract of Nov. 6, 1935, with Frank C. Taylor, Inc., the work
of furnishing and driving creosoted yellow pine piles and furnishing and placing
creosoted yellow pine cap log and untreated oak facing at the pier, is now in
progress.

Repairs to the foundations of the timber sheds on the pier, in accordance with
letter contract of Nov. 26, 1935, with Thomas O'Connor and Company, Inc., were
completed Nov. 29, 1935, at a contract cost of $1,046.98.

Three steamship lines are now operating weekly sailings on regular schedules
from this pier. The commodities chiefly handled are cotton, flour and rice from
the Gulf ports.

The Southern Pacific Steamship Lines, the Morgan Line, the Pan-Atlantic Line
and the Mooremack Gulf Lines, Inc., use the pier in regular service, while occa-
sional shipments of lumber from the Pacific coast ports are brought in by
other lines.

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Amount expended for operation, maintenance and improvement during the
year, $13,370.01.

Income during the year, $23,921.89.

Total expenditure for operation, maintenance and improvement, to Dec. 1,
1935, $93,913.02.

Nobscusset Harbor, Dennis

On Jan. 15, 1935, a contract was made with Thomas Whalen and Sons, Inc.,
for placing heavy stone riprap along the northeasterly side of the timber bulk-
head at Nobscusset Harbor, at a contract price of $2.23 for each ton of stone
riprap in place in the completed work. The improvement was completed May 23,
1935, at a contract cost of $4,171.89. Toward this cost a contribution of $1,200
each was made by the town of Dennis and the County of Barnstable.

Amount expended during the year, $4,785.50. Total expenditure to Dec. 1,
1935, $48,564.29.

Old Silver Beach, Falmouth

Hearing was held on Jan. 24, 1935, on the petition of the Park Commissioners
of Falmouth for the building of a retaining wall at Old Silver Beach to keep
Herring River from changing its course and to protect the beach where the town
has built a bathing pavilion.

On May 21, 1935, a contract was made with Frederick V. Lawrence for the
construction of a stone jetty about 350 feet long, a return wall about 90 feet long,
for excavating a trench and riprapping the slope along the southerly side of the
jetty about 350 feet in length, on the northerly side of the entrance to Herring
River at Old Silver Beach. The contract price for the work was: for furnishing
and placing stone riprap and granite chips in the jetty and return wall and
excavating, including all incidental work, $2.39 for each ton of 2,000 pounds.
This project was completed July 23, 1935, at a contract cost of $2,418.88.
Toward the cost a contribution of $1,000 each was made by the town of Falmouth
and the county of Barnstable.

Amount expended during the year, $3,069.30. Total expenditure to Dec. 1,
1935, $3,069.30.

Onset Bay, Wareham

Hearing was held on Jan. 24, 1935, on the petition of the Chairman of the
Selectmen of Wareham for dredging a channel and basin in Onset Bay in exten-
sion of dredging to be carried out by the Federal Government.

A contract was made with Herbert T. Gerrish on Oct. 4, 1935, for dredging to
a depth of 15 feet at mean low water a channel and basin in Onset Bay, the channel
to a width of 100 feet on the bottom except at the turn where a width of 125 feet
is to be provided, at the following contract prices: for removing and disposing of
boulders $20 per cubic yard; for dredging and disposing of the excavated material
on marsh or flats by the hydraulic process, including the construction of necessary
dikes and sluices or other barrier, for each cubic yard measured in place, 51.5
cents. No work has yet begun under this contract. The cost of this dredging
is to be paid from funds available under the provisions of Chapter 464 of the Acts
of 1935.

Amount expended during the year, $313.35. Total expenditure to Dec. 1, 1935,
$15,866.55.

Commonwealth Property at Plymouth
An appropriation of $3,000 was made this year by the Legislature for expenses
of property at Plymouth acquired by the Pilgrim Tercentenary Commission and
placed under the jurisdiction of the Department by vote of the Governor and
Council on July 17, 1924. The usual care of the grounds and pier and necessary
minor repairs have been carried on during the year.

The budget for 1935 provided also the sum of $45,000 for the reconstruction of
the State Pier.

On May 27, 1935, a letter contract was made with the Bay State Dredging and
Contracting Company to dredge about 5,000 cubic yards of material from areas

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near the pier, under the terms and conditions of its contract of Apr. 30, 1935, for
dredging Duxbury Harbor. This work was completed June 4, 1935, at a contract
cost of $3,513.08.

A contract was made on July 16, 1935, with the Lee Construction Company,
Inc., for removing the existing pile wharf at the State Pier, for constructing upon
the site of new wharf and bulkhead of creosoted piles and timber, and for dredging
an area adjacent to the bulkhead. The contract prices were: for dredging 60 cents
per cubic yard, measured in place; for removal and disposal of boulders $5.00 per
cubic yard; for building wharf and bulkhead, unit prices for material furnished
and placed. This work is now in progress.

Amount expended during the year, $35,147.04. Total expenditure to Dec. 1,
1935, $86,719.26.

Plymouth Harbor, Plymouth

Hearing was held Jan. 24, 1935, on petition of Morton Collingwood, and others,
for enlarging and deepening the present anchorage basin in Plymouth Harbor.

On Oct. 4, 1935, a contract was made with the Bay State Dredging and Con-
tracting Company for dredging two areas in the basin near the Plymouth Yacht
Club, one to a depth of 8 feet and the other to a depth of 6 feet at mean low water,
at the following contract prices: for dredging and disposing of the dredged
material 54.5 cents per cubic yard, scow measurement; for removing and dispos-
ing of boulders $20 per cubic yard. This work, now nearly completed, is to be
paid for from funds available under the provisions of Chapter 464 of the Acts
of 1935.

Amount expended during the year, $28,195.72. Total expenditure to Dec. 1,
1935, $352,760.74.

Provincetown Tercentenary Commission
During the year the land at Provincetown acquired by the Provincetown Ter-
centenary Commission and placed under the control of the Department June 23,
1926, has been cared for from funds appropriated for this area and the Province
Lands. An employee has been kept at work during the summer to maintain the
park in proper condition.

Rock Harbor, Orleans

Hearing was held Jan. 31, 1935, on petition of the Selectmen of Orleans, and
others, for dredging the channel to facilitate access to the platform built by the
Department in 1934 in Rock Harbor Creek.

On May 21, 1935, a contract was made with Herbert T. Gerrish for dredging
by the hydraulic process about 17,000 cubic yards of material in the channel and
basin in Rock Harbor, the channel to a width of 40 feet on the bottom and the
basin to width of 90 feet on the bottom, to a depth of 2 feet below mean low water.
The contract prices for this work were: for dredging channel and basin and dis-
posing of excavated material on marsh or flats adjacent to the work, including
the construction of necessary dikes, sluices or other barriers, 46 cents for each
cubic yard measured in place; for removing and disposing of boulders $10 per
cubic yard. This work was completed Sept. 28, 1935, at a contract cost of $7,360.
Toward this cost a contribution of $4,000 was made by the town of Orleans.

Amount expended during the year, $8,962.53. Total expenditure to Dec. 1,
1935, $37,753.77.

Salisbury Dike
By Chapter 399 of the Acts of 1935, the Department of Public Works is
authorized and directed to construct a dike and incidental structures in tide water
within the territory of the Salisbury Reclamation- District, in connection with the
control works in process of construction by the District. For building the dike
and incidental structures an expenditure of not more than $13,000 is authorized,
but no work is to be begun until the District has acquired the land upon which
the structures are to be built, has provided near the site of the work materials
to be used as fill and marsh sod to be used as surface protection for the dike and
structures, and has assumed liability for all damages. The act is to take effect

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upon its acceptance, before Sept. 1, 1935, by the proprietors of the Salisbury
Reclamation District.

On Aug. 31, 1935, said District voted to accept the provisions of the Act and
executed a contract of indemnity, assuming the liability required by the statute.

As the necessary taking of land has not been made by the District, no work
has yet been done.

Scituate Harbor

On Oct. 4, 1935, a contract was made with the Bay State Dredging and Con-
tracting Company to dredge an area in Scituate Harbor to a depth of 6 feet at
mean low water, at the following contract prices: for dredging and disposing of
the dredged material 56.3 cents per cubic yard, scow measurement; for removing
and disposing of boulders $20 per cubic yard. This work, now hearing com-
pletion, is to be paid for from funds available under the provisions of Chapter 464
of the Acts of 1935.

Amount expended during the year, $11,491.67. Total expenditure to Dec. 1,
1935, $217,503.61.

Scituate Sea Walls
Shore Acres
The work under letter contract of May 8, 1934, with Thomas H. Hannaford for
building the additional section of sea wall to complete the structure in front of
Oceanside Drive from a point northerly of Fourth Avenue to Eleventh Avenue,
was completed Aug. 3, 1935, at a contract cost of $3,000. Toward the cost of the
extension a contribution of $1,500 was made by the town of Scituate.

Sengekontacket Pond, Oak Bluffs
A letter contract with S. M. Fisher was made on Nov. 27, 1934, to remove 48
piles obstructing navigation in the entrance channel. The work was completed
Jan. 12, 1935, at a contract cost of $225.

Singing Beach, Manchester

The work of grading about 4,000 square yards of the slope at Singing Beach,
and of placing coarse gravel or crushed stone and stone riprap paving, under con-
tract of Aug. 28, 1934, with Thomas A. Mackey, was completed Mar. 23, 1935, at
a contract cost of $7,392.68. Toward this cost a contribution of $7,562.50 was
made by the town of Manchester.

The unexpectedly low prices at which the contract for this work was made
resulted in an unexpended balance from the sum allotted for the purpose. The
town of Manchester asked that this balance be spent for extending the work at
Singing Beach.

On Feb. 5, 1935, a contract was made with Thomas Whalen and Sons, Inc., for
paving with stone riprap about 400 feet of bank at this beach, involving the grad-
ing of about 900 square yards of bank, the furnishing and placing of 150 cubic
yards of screened gravel or crushed stone, and the furnishing and placing of about
770 tons of stone riprap. The contract prices for this work were: for each ton
of riprap furnished and placed in the completed work $2.50; for each cubic yard
of screened gravel or crushed stone furnished and placed in the completed work
$1.65; for each square yard of bank graded, including the furnishing of material
and all incidental work, 20 cents. This work was completed June 7, 1935, at a
contract cost of $2,938.32.

Amount expended during the year, $8,714.32. Total expenditure to Dec. 1,
1935, $12,732.92.

Smith's Cove, Gloucester

Hearing was held Jan. 31, 1935, on the petition of Harold B. Webber for dredg-
ing in Smith's Cove.

On Oct. 4, 1935, a contract was made with the J. S. Packard Dredging Com-
pany for dredging to a depth of 14 feet at mean low water an area in Smith's Cove,
at the following contract prices: for dredging and disposing of the dredged ma-
terial 54 cents per cubic yard, scow measurement; for removing and disposing of

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boulders $25 per cubic yard. The cost of the work, now nearing completion, is
to be paid from funds provided under Chapter 464 of the Acts of 1935.

Amount expended during the year, $16,318.15. Total expenditure to Dec. 1,
1935, $29,784.31.

Waquoit Bay, Falmouth and Mashpee
On Aug. 14, 1935, a contract was made with William R. Farrell and Son, Inc.,
to include repairs to the stone jetty at Waquoit Bay at the following contract
prices; for each ton of heavy stone riprap furnished in place in the completed
work $3.37; for each ton of stone chips furnished in place in the completed work
$3.57. These repairs were completed Oct. 22, 1935, at a contract cost of $6,238.28.
Amount expended during the year, $9,288.68. Total expenditure to Dec. 1,
1935, $107,727.59.

West Chop, Tisbury

Work under contract of Aug. 28, 1934, with Merritt-Chapman and Scott Cor-
poration for repairing five stone jetties, extending two stone jetties and building
a riprap apron in front of the concrete wall at West Chop, was completed Jan. 12,
1935, at a contract cost of $7,559.49. Last year a contribution of $2,500 was made
by the town toward the cost of this work and one of $1,500 by property owners.

Amount expended during the year, $7,929.46. Total expenditure to Dec .1,
1935, $13,045.53.

West Falmouth Harbor, Falmouth

Hearing was held Jan. 24, 1935, on petition of the Harbor Master of Falmouth,
and others, for redredging the entrance channel and increasing the anchorage basin
in West Falmouth Harbor.

On May 21, 1935, a contract with Herbert T. Gerrish was made to include the
dredging of about 30,000 cubic yards of material from a channel of varying width
to a depth of 6 feet at mean low water in West Falmouth Harbor at the following
contract prices: for dredging and disposing of the excavated material on marsh
or flats by the hydraulic process, including the construction of necessary dikes
and sluice's or other barriers, 56 cents for each cubic yard measured in place; for
removing and disposing of boulders, $20 for each cubic yard. Work under this
contract was begun in October.

Under a letter contract with John A. Davis the work of removing floating timber
from this harbor was completed June 19, 1935, at a contract cost of $75.

Amount expended during the year, $5,586.10. Total expenditure to Dec. 1,
1935, $69,107.05.

Winthrop Shore Protection

Work under contract of Aug. 1, 1934, with William R. Farrell for an extension
to the breakwater off Winthrop Shore Drive was completed Jan. 6, 1935, at a con-
tract cost of $67,258.43.

This extension was authorized by Chapter 286 of the Acts of 1934 which allowed
the expenditure by the Commonwealth of a sum not exceeding $80,000 to be used
with a contribution of $16,000 to be made by the town. The favorable contract
price at which this work was carried out left an unexpended balance for further
extension.

On July 9, 1935, a contract was made with William R. Farrell, to build an
extension to the northerly end of the existing stone breakwater in Broad Sound
off Winthrop Shore Drive, at a contract price of $2.17 for each ton of stone riprap
furnished and placed in the completed work. This project was completed Sept. 3,
1935, at a contract cost of $23,961.14.

Amount expended during the year, $43,854.04. Total expenditure to Dec. 1,
1935, $341,698.89.

Yarmouth Shore Protection
Hearing was held Jan. 24, 1935, upon petitions of the Selectmen for the building
of stone jetties to protect the Yarmouth Shore.
On Sept. 3, 1935, a contract was made with Frederick V. Lawrence for building

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eight stone jetties, each about 150 feet long, at South Yarmouth Beach, at a con-
tract price of $2.73 for each ton of 2,000 pounds of granite stone riprap and chips
furnished and placed in the jetties. This work was completed Nov. 30, 1935, at a
contract cost of $9,977.48. Toward this cost a contribution of $2,500 each was
made by the town of Yarmouth and the county of Barnstable.

Amount expended during the year, $8,480.86. Total expenditure to Dec. 1,
1935, $8,480.86.

Miscellaneous

Great Ponds

Jurisdiction over great ponds belonging to the Commonwealth was conferred
upon the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners by Chapter 318 of the Acts
of 1888. This act applies to ponds containing in their natural state ten or more
acres of land. Authority to sell and convey or lease, subject to the approval of
the Governor and Council, any of the islands owned by the State in great ponds
was later given by Chapter 379, Acts of 1904, now section 2, Chapter 91, General
Laws.

During the year the Department has considered matters relating to : Alum
Pond, Sturbridge; Asneconick or Comet Pond, Hubbardston; Bartlett Pond,
Plymouth; Blackmore's Pond, Wareham; Cedar Dell Pond, South Dartmouth;
Clear Lake, Barnstable; Great Pond, Falmouth; Great Pond, Otis; Horn Pond,
Woburn; Lake Tashmoo, Tisbury; Lake Winthrop, Holliston; Lead Mine Pond,
Sturbridge; Manchaug Lake, Douglas; North Pond, Worcester; Shivericks Pond,
Falmouth; Snipatuit Pond, Rochester.

Surveys were made this year of the following great ponds:

Abners Pond, Plymouth

Area at time of survey 10.259 Acres

Area of natural pond 10.259 Acres

Maximum depth 27.6 feet

Stevens Pond, Boxford

Area at time of survey 12.61 Acres

Area of natural pond 12.61 Acres

Maximum depth 15 feet

Pleasant Pond or Idlewild Lake, Hamilton and Wenham

Area at time of survey 30.38 Acres

Natural pond area not determined as no soundings were taken.
Maximum depth not determined.
Pond area divided between towns as follows:
1.53 Acres in Hamilton
28.85 Acres in Wenham

Access to Great Ponds
On Dec. 12, 1934, hearing was held by the Joint Board established by Chap-
ter 453 of the Acts of 1923, upon a petition of ten citizens of the Commonwealth
asking for the establishment of a right of way for public access to Asneconick or
Comet Pond in Hubbardston. As evidence was presented that the pond is a
tributary of Ware River, made by the provisions of Chapter 375 of the Acts of
1926 a part of the water supply of the Metropolitan District, and that the Metro-
politan District Water Supply Commission is already acquiring land upon the
shore of the pond, the petition was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.

Province Lands
The territory belonging to the Commonwealth, known as the Province Lands
at Provincetown, comprising about 3,810 acres lying northerly and westerly of a
line described in Chapter 470 of the Acts of 1893, was placed by the terms of the
statute under the general care and supervision of the Board of Harbor and Land
Commissioners. The work of reclamation has been carried on within this area

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since 1894 by direction of the Harbor and Land Commissioners and its successors
in authority.

Under present conditions the most effective method of checking the movement
of the sand appears to be the preliminary covering of the dunes with brush to
afford protection for the natural reseeding of beach grass, and the following of
this work later by the transplanting of shrubs and trees.

During the year brush and trees have been cleared from an area of about 16
acres previously swept by fire. The brush has been used for covering about
20,000 square feet of sand dunes.

About 600 bayberry shrubs have been transplanted as protection for marginal
planting and wind break, and 88,000 small seedling pitch pine trees have been
transferred from forest areas to sand dunes.

The work of destroying gypsy moths and brown tail moths has been continued
during the year, a new nursery and propagating bed has been established and
about two miles of combination fire stops and truck trails provided to ponds and
water holes, with sand piles along the way, for use in cases of brush fires.

The reclamation and general care of these lands is carried on under the direc-
tion of a superintendent.

The sum of $201.25 has been paid into the State Treasury during the year from
licenses issued for cultivating and picking cranberries on the bogs and for mowing
meadows and from permits for occupying areas upon these lands.

Amount expended during the year, $4,988.63. Total expenditure to Dec. 1,
1935, $176,276.81.

State Boundary Lines
Section 4 of Chapter 1 of the General Laws provides :

"The Department of Public Works, in this chapter called the Department,
shall in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-five and in every fifth year
thereafter inspect all monuments or other marks defining the location of the
boundary lines of the Commonwealth, and if any of them have been injured,
displaced, removed or lost the department shall, in co-operation with persons
duly authorized by the adjoining State, restore them or replace them with
suitable stone monuments, and in the same manner set suitable stone monu-
ments at points not properly marked where the State boundary is intersected
by the boundary of any counties, cities or towns in the Commonwealth or
by a highway or railroad. If officers of adjoining States are required to make
such inspection at other times, the department may co-operate with them."

The perambulation of the boundary line between the Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts and the State of New York was made by representatives of the Depart-
ment, beginning July 8 and ending Sept. 7, 1935, as the officials of New York
explained that no funds were available for co-operative examination during the
year. All bounds were visited and found, with one exception, in good condition.
Repairs were made to the bound in question and brush was cut from a considerable
section of the boundary line. Additional cutting will be carried out during the
coming year.

The perambulation of the boundary line between the Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts and the State of New Hampshire was made conjointly with W. S. Morrill,
representing the State of New Hampshire. This work was done in July, 1935,
and all bounds found in good condition and properly set.

The perambulation of the boundary line between the Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts and the State of Vermont was made conjointly with Lee Bates, repre-
senting the State of Vermont. The work was begun Aug. 27, 1935, and completed
Aug. 31, 1935. All bounds were visited and found in good condition with two
exceptions. Repairs have been made to these two bounds.

The perambulation of the boundary line between the Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts and the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was made-
conjointly with members of the Rhode Island Boundary Line Commission ap-
pointed by Governor Green on Oct. 28, 1935, as follows: Edward H. Rathburn,
Chairman; C. Robert Lynch, and John W. Heuberger. On a portion of the

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boundary line the State of Rhode Island was represented by Willis Tobie, desig-
nated by the Rhode Island Boundary Line Commission to represent the State of
Rhode Island. The work was begun Nov. 4, 1935, and completed Nov. 27, 1935.
All bounds were visited and found, with a few exceptions, in good condition. The
damaged bounds have been properly reset.

The perambulation of the boundary line between the Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts and the State of Connecticut was made conjointly with T. F. Newhaus,
representing the State of Connecticut. The work was begun Sept. 23, 1935, and
completed Oct. 8, 1935. All bounds were visited and found in good condition and
properly set.

In these perambulations the Department was represented by the following engi-
neers: William C. Hawley, Charley J. O'Donnell and Francis P. Mahaney.

Town Boundary Lines
During the year the Department set certain witness monuments and marked
the boundary line between the town of Oak Bluffs and Tisbury, as required by
the provisions of Chapter 145 of the Acts of 1935. Other work performed this
year comprised the resetting of bound stones which had been damaged or lost.

Conserving and Equalizing the Flow of Water in Rivers and Streams
By Chapter 359, Acts of 1909, Chapter 564, Acts of 1912, and Chapter 84,
Resolves of 1917, co-operation was established between the Commonwealth and
the Water Resources Branch of the United States Geological Survey, so that
results of work relating to the gauging of streams within the Commonwealth and
other work of a similar character carried on by said survey have been obtained
for use by the Department and are available for other Departments of the Com-
monwealth. Toward the cost of this work the Department has paid during the
year, $5,000.

Re-establishment op Certain Triangulation Stations
By section 33, Chapter 91, General Laws, the Department is authorized to make
such surveys and to do such other work as may be required by any order of the
Land Court, to re-establish and permanently mark certain triangulation points
and stations previously established in connection with the topographical survey
of the Commonwealth, and the town boundary survey, which have been lost or
destroyed and to obtain the geographical position of such new points and stations
as may be required from time to time by the Court.

All funds provided for this purpose during the year were expended in maintain-
ing a survey party on Nantucket Island to check triangulation work and to run
base lines.

Licenses and Permits
During the year 97 licenses were granted for work to be done in tide waters,
great ponds, Connecticut River and Merrimack River, and 112 permits for miscel-
laneous purposes. The Department also approved 96 permits granted by cities
and towns for the construction and maintenance of fish weirs in tide water.

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Expenditures for Development and Improvement in Boston Harbor
1859-1935, Inclusive

East

Payments
Boston Harbor: .
Maintenance of Property .
Dredging and Filling .
Special Appropriations
Commonwealth Flats :
East Boston .

South Boston .
Castle Island: .

Dredging and Filling . . .
Commonwealth Pier No. 5: South
Boston :
Construction .
Maintenance .

Dredging

Operation and Supervision
Commonwealth Pier No. 1 :
Boston:
Construction .
Operation and Supervision .
Maintenance .
Commonwealth Pier No. 6, South
Boston :
Construction
Maintenance
Dry Dock
Hayward Creek
Mystic River .
Maiden River .
Chelsea Creek
Commercial Point, Dorchester Bay
Maintenance of Property (in addi-
tion to maintenance items listed
above)

To Nov. 30, 1934
$1,762,443 601

1935

Total

3,093,326 832
4,892,123 69
745,264 94

4,014,790 45

781,951 70

61,323 75

1,836,848 98

1,199,703 23

127,987 12

27,368 09

1,092,149 06

51,937 90

3,169,651 153

385,979 614

467,425 935

33,002 84"

61,094 35

53,213 10

$12,999 86 $1,775,443 46

— 3,093,326 83

— 4,892,123 69

4,469 80 749,734 74

102,014 68
106,000 03

9,669 27

46,600 82

4,014,790 45

883,966 38

61,323 75

1,942,849 01

1,199,703 23

127,987 12

37,037 36

1,092,149 06

51,937 90

3,169,651 15

385,979 61

541,026 75T

33,002 84

61,094 35

53,213 10

395,452 92 57,636 08 453,089 00

$24,253,039 24 $339,390 54 $24,592,429 78

1 Expenditure includes contribution by Quincy Market Cold Storage and Warehouse Corpo-

ration in 1921 $ 4,000 00

Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in 1930 10,000 00

2 Expenditure includes contribution by the City of Boston in 1926, authorized by Chapter 385,

Acts of 1926 10,000 00

3 Additional amount paid by the State Treasurer from Development of the Port of Boston Loan

Sinking Fund in settlement of claims . . . . . . . . . 17,877 73

* Expenditure includes contributions by Massachusetts Oil Refining Company and Bethlehem

Shiobuilding Corporation 38,600 00

Additional amount paid by State Treasurer for land taking ..... 3,725 27

5 Expenditure in eludes contribution by Merrimac Chemical Company in 1920 . . 15,000 00

in 1922 . . 4,182 50
Contribution by Beacon Oil Company in 1920 50,000 00

'Commonwealth's funds expended by United States Government . • . . . 31,000 00
Contribution by Standard Oil Company of New York in 1922, expended by the
Commonwealth 600 00

' Expenditure includes transfer from Small Harbors and Channels Table .... 5,927 70

90 P. D. 54

Expenditures and Contributions for Improvement op Small Harbors and
Channels within Boston Harbor, under the Direction of the Depart-
ment of Public Works and its Predecessors, from 1893 to 1935, Inclusive

Contributions Total Expenditures Total

Locality and Character of Work 1935 Contributions 1935 Expenditures

Cottage Park Channel, Win-
throp — Dredging

Dorchester, Easterly Shore,
Dredging and Survey .

Harbor View — Dredging

Hingham Harbor — Dredging

Houghs Neck, Q u i n c y —
Dredging, Survey and Sea-
wall

Island End River, Everett —
Survey

Jeffries Point Channel-
Dredging

Mystic River (near Lawrence
and Wiggin Wharf) Dredg-
ing1 . . .

Neponset River — Dredging

Old Harbor Cove — Dredging

Orient Heights C h a n n e 1 —
Dredging

Pemberton Point, H u 1 1-
Breakwater

Pleasant Park Yacht Club
Channel — Dredging

Point Allerton, Hull — Seawall

Point Shirley, Winthrop

Quincy Bay — Dredging .

Shirley Gut, Boston and Win-
throp— Dredging

South Boston, Southerly Shore
— Dredging .

Stony Beach, H u 1 1 — Seawall
and riprap .

Town River, Quincy — Survey
and Dredging

Weir River, Hull — Dredging

Wessagussett Channel-
Dredging

Weymouth Fore River —
Dredging

Winthrop Harbor Channels-
Dredging

$252,267 00 $79,672 34 $1,455,076 09

Expenditures and Contributions for River and Harbor Work

From December 1, 1934, to November 30, 1935

Location and Character of Work Contributions Expenditures

Allen's Harbor, Harwich, survey .... $2,000 00 $15 75

Barlow's River, Pocasset Harbor, Bourne, survey . — 207 79

Bass River, Beverly, dredging 2,000 00 3,850 75

Bass River, Dennis and Yarmouth, jetty repairs . — 3,798 89

1 See Mystic River under Boston Harbor table.

—

$6,250 00

—

$37,967 29

—

1,000 00
6,500 00

—

210,767 61

146 00

41,595 12

—

7,500 00

$8,480 54

55,165 69

—

264 10

—

4,563 93

—

10,000 00

—

109,401 63
10,520 48

—

45,412 38

—

60,000 00

—

91,195 01

—

3,000 00
50,000 00

10,150 00

18,421

48,735 39

75,127 05

3,713 37

84,162 47

—

2,432 34

—

129,542 08

—

8,000 00

—

28,658 05

—

16,050 00
45,000 00

50,615

108,278 69
205,336 48

—

815 20

—

8,250 00

70,106 62

—

20,567 00

2,132 90

91,169 11

P. D. 54

Location and Character of Work
Brant Rock, Marshfield, seawalls and riprap
Cape Cod Canal Pier, Bourne, construction
Cape Cod Canal Pier, Bourne, operation and

maintenance

Cape Poge, Edgartown, dredging
Chatham, East of Chatham Light, survey

Connecticut River, Hadley, survey
Connecticut River, Northfield, survey

Dennis :
Nobscusset Harbor, stone riprap .
West Dennis, survey . . ■

Duxbury Harbor, Duxbury, dredging

Ellisville Harbor, Plymouth, dredging

Falmouth Heights, Falmouth, seawall repairs, riprap
and survey

Falmouth, Great Pond, channel excavation, jetty

Falmouth, Old Silver Beach (Herring River), stone
jetty . .

Falmouth, West Falmouth Harbor, dredging .

Great Ponds, survey

Herring River, Harwich, jetty repairs

Hyannis Harbor, Barnstable, riprap

Hyannisport, Barnstable, breakwater

Hyannisport, Hall Creek, Barnstable, survey .

Hyannisport, Squaw Island Road, Barnstable, sur-
vey . . .

Harwich Shore, Chatham Line to Dennis, survey

Harwichport Beach, shore protection

Lagoon Pond, Tisbury, and Oak Bluffs, survey

Lake Anthony, Oak Bluffs, survey .

Lynn Harbor — Saugus River, Lynn and Saugus
survey

Manchester Harbor, Manchester, dredging

Manomet Point, Plymouth, stone riprap and fill

Marine Borer Investigations ....

Menamsha Inlet, Chilmark and Gay Head, dredging

Nantucket Hither Creek, survey

New Bedford State Pier, operation and maintenance

New Bedford State Pier, alterations and repairs

Nobscusset Harbor — see Dennis

North Dennis — see Dennis

Oak Bluffs, riprap

Onset Bay, Wareham, dredging

Pamet River, Truro, survey . .

Plymouth Harbor, dredging ....

Plymouth — see Manomet Point, Plymouth

Plymouth Property, dredging and maintenance of

Province Lands, Provincetown, reclamation

Rock Harbor, Orleans, timber bulkhead, platform
and dredging

Rockport Harbor, Rockport, survey

Salisbury Beach, survey ....

Saugus River, Lynn and Saugus, survey .

Scituate Shore Protection:
Sand Hills to Shore Acres, shore protection
Sand Hills to Scituate, seawall, jetties and survey
North Scituate, Surfside, seawall repairs

Scituate Harbor, dredging

Contributions

2,400 00
8,000 00

5,000 00

2,000 00
12,500 00

1,000 00

18,000 00

2,700 00
2,000 00

4,000 00

Expenditures

78 75

1,842 50

4,343 90
4,817 70

40 00

41 59
45 15

4,785 50

84 30

16,255 30

435 06

448 17
10,508 89

3,069 30
5,586 10

863 21

1,936 24

5,033 28

36,447 57

112 10

72 12

2,040 01

2,487 89

220 09

172 87

54 75

17,742 87

7,277 74

755 43

23,751 28

220 45

9,028 98

4,341 03

78 00

313 55

418 89

28,195 72

35,147 04

4,988 63

8,962 53

5 96

297 25

10 44

50 00

467 48

1,267 36

11,491 67

Location and Character of Work
Sengekontacket Pond, Oak Bluffs, survey
Singing Beach, Manchester, stone riprap .
Smith's Cove, Gloucester, survey and dredging
South Harwich, jetties ....
South Hyannis, Barnstable, survey .
South Yarmouth Beach, Yarmouth, jetties
Waquoit Bay, Falmouth, jetty repairs
Water Conservation ....
West Chop, Tisbury, riprap
West Dennis — see Dennis
Westport River, Westport, survey .
Winthrop Shore, Winthrop, breakwater .
Wrecks, removal from tidewater
Improvement of Rivers and Harbors, general ex-
penses

$74,587 34 $377,331 94

Expenditures and Contributions from 1893 to 1935, Inclusive, for River
and Harbor Work, under the Direction of the Department of Public
Works and its Predecessors (Excepting Boston Harbor)

Contribution by

P. D. 54

Contributions

Expenditures

—

225 00

—

8,714 22

3 •

16,318 15

. ' —

900 48

7,987 34

41 15

5,000 00

8,480 86

' —

9,288 68

—

5,000 00

—

7,929 46

476 70

' —

43,854 04

—

95 73

%\ ex-

—

11,529 65

dredg-

Location and Character of Work
Acushnet River, inspection and dredging
Aliens Harbor, Harwich, shore protection,

ing, riprap and jetties

Aliens Pond, Dartmouth,survey

Angle Tree Monument — Reservation

Annisquam River, Gloucester, dredging, removin;

ledges and riprap

Apponagansett Harbor and River, Dartmouth, sur

vey, dredging and stone breakwater .
Barlow's River, Pocasset Harbor, Bourne
Barnstable Harbor, Barnstable, dredging
Bass River, Beverly, dredging
Bass River, Dennis and Yarmouth, jetties, dredging

and survey

Beach Street, Scituate — see Scituate

Beverly Harbor, Beverly, dredging .

Brant Rock, Marshfield, shore protection

Brewster, Skaket Inlet, survey

Bucks Creek, Chatham, jetties, survey and dredg

ing

Buzzards Bay, Falmouth, survey .

Cape Cod Canal Pier, Bourne, construction .

Cape Cod Canal Pier, Bourne, operation and

maintenance

Cape Poge, Edgartown, cut through beach, dredg

ing, jetties and riprap

Cataumet Harbor — see Megansett Harbor
Cedar Point, Scituate— see Scituate
Centerville River, Barnstable, dredging .
Chatham, riprap and surveys ....
Cohasset Harbor, Cohasset, breakwater and dredg-
ing

Muncipality
or Others

),927 50

Total
Expenditure
$119,810 10

51,378 37

195 95

1,306 22

13,250 00 171,498 69

7,500 00
57,535 75

55,786 05

207 79

30,693 16

84,953 51

25,095 00 192,092 22

111,503 66

2,500 00

16,500 00

19,711 50
10,500 00

50,000 00'

231,026 89

617 19

39,719 69

166 11

264,267 22

11,025 18

60,636 032

44,329 77
19,853 19

42,691 88 116,191 93

1 State funds expended under direction of U. S. Government.

2 $17,543.96 expended from U. S. Government funds (Emergency Public Works Administration).

P. D. 54

Location and Character of Work
Concord River, Billerica, removing boulders .
Connecticut River, Agawam, protective work
Connecticut River, Chicopee, survey wall and

riprap ..........

Connecticut River, Deerfield, survey and riprap
Connecticut River, investigation of navigation and

surveys

Connecticut River, Greenfield, survey and riprap
Connecticut River, Hadley, survey, diversion wall

and riprap

Connecticut River, Hatfield, dikes and riprap .
Connecticut River, Holyoke, dredging and protec-
tive work

Connecticut River, Holyoke, marking and lighting

old piers

Connecticut River, Northampton, riprap
Connecticut River, Northampton, riprap
Connecticut River, Northfield, survey and riprap
Connecticut River, South Hadley, wall .
Connecticut River, Springfield and West Spring

field, protective work

Conservation of Waters, investigation .

Cotuit Harbor, Barnstable, dredging, survey and

bulkhead repairs ......

Cuttyhunk Harbor, Gosnold, jetties and dredging
Deacon Pond Harbor — see Falmouth Inner Harbor
Dennis :

Dennisport, stone jetty

Nobscusset Harbor, breakwater and riprap , .

North Dennis, stone jetty

Swan Pond River, stone jetties . .

West Dennis, stone jetty and survey
Duxbury Bay and Harbor, dredging and survey .
East Bay, Osterville, jetties, dredging and removing

scows

Edgartown Harbor, Edgartown, survey and cut in

beach .

Ellisville Harbor, Plymouth, dredging and jetty

repairs .

Essex County Beaches, survey ....

Essex River, Essex, dredging

Fall River Harbor, improvement ....
Falmouth, Great Pond, channel excavation and

jetty . _ . . . . . . . .

Falmouth Heights, Falmouth, survey, seawall and

riprap

Falmouth Inner Harbor, dredging, jetties, wall and

riprap . .

Falmouth, Menauhant Shore, bulkheads, jetties

and riprap

Falmouth, Old Silver Beach (Herring River), stone

jetty

Contribution by

Muncipality

or Others

Total
Expenditure

150 00

1,664 59
18,814 42

640 00

25,789 02
1,227 31

—

8,878 96
1,607 76

7,000 00
1,000 00

124,596 54s
51,568 48

1,991 29

9,253 27

—

1,195 32

1,524 204

617 37

1,000 00

14,268 66
7,379 58

—

15,017 85'
93,764 54

17,845 10
10,000 00 '

92,828 26
. 83,935 78 '

1,200 00
6,710 00
1,200 00
1,750 00
750 00
35,000 00

2,315 47
48,564 29
4,819 701
3,906 74
1,709 03
109,104 31 '

10,000 00

70,969 75

300 00

3,496 64

—

21,108 64
1,000 00

76,304 33*
1,130 18

5,000 00

10,508 89

23,460 04

73,351 19

33,500 00

154,279 63

3,100 00

6,075 33

2,000 00

3,069 30

' From 1888, inclusive.

* This location is now part of Holyoke.
6 From 1891, inclusive.

• Includes $5,000 expended by U. S. Government.

' Transferred $2,603.37 from Nobscusset Harbor, Dennis.

Location and Character of Work
First and Second Cliffs, Scituate — see Scituate
Fresh Water Cove, Gloucester, dredging .

Gay Head, survey

Geological Survey Trust Fund
Glades, North Scituate — see Scituate

Gloucester Fish Pier

Gloucester, Western Avenue, sea wall

Gloucester Harbor, Gloucester, dredging and re

moving ledges

Great Head, Winthrop — see Winthrop Shore

Great Ponds, survey

Green Harbor, Marshfield, jetties, dredging and

survey

Gun Rock Point, Hull, breakwater and seawall

repairs

Harbor Cove, Gloucester, survey and dredging
Harwichport Beach, Harwich, shore protection
Harwich Shore, near Chatham Line, stone jetty
Harwich Shore, Chatham to Dennis, survey .
Herring Creek, Scituate, survey
Herring River, Harwich, jetties, dredging and

riprap .

Herring River, Wellfleet, dikes and ditches
Hoosac River, North Adams, excavation and survey
Housatonic River, Sheffield, survey

Hull, seawall and jetties

Humarock Beach, Scituate — see Scituate
Hyannis Harbor, Barnstable, bulkhead, dredging

and riprap

Hyannisport, Squaw Island Road, Barnstable
Hyannisport, Barnstable, survey and breakwater
Hyannisport, Halls Creek, Branstable, survey
Improvement of Rivers and Harbors, general ex

penses

Ipswich River, Ipswich, jetty wall, riprap and

dredging

Kings Beach, Swampscott, removal of obstruction
Lagoon Pond, Tisbury and Oak Bluffs, survey

dredging and jetty •

Lake Anthony, Oak Bluffs, survey, jetties and

dredging .

Lake Quannapowitt, Wakefield, investigation

Lake Quinisigamond, Worcester, investigation

Lake Tashmoo, Tisbury, survey

Lewis Bay, Barnstable, survey and dredging .

Little Harbor, Cohasset, survey

Little Harbor, Marblehead, dredging

Little River, Gloucester, survey

Lobster Cove, Gloucester, dredging

Long Beach, Rockport, seawall

Lynn Harbor, Lynn, anchorage basin, survey and

dredging

Lynn Harbor and Saugus River, dredging and

filling

Manchester Harbor, Manchester, survey, jetties

and dredging

Contribution by

Muncipality

or Others

3,300 00
3,000 00

35,000 00
15,000 00

42,500 00

16,135 41

3,866 00

6,000 00

350 00

38,300 00
10,000 00

8,882 06

21,750 00

2,700 00

20,500 00

3,800 00

13,500 00
16,000 00

18,809 29

500 00

2,500 00

4,500 00
27,700 00

5,200 00

37,500 00

83,000 00

P. D. 54

Total
Expenditure

17,477 53

555 42

3,000 00

396 91
60,000 00

148,802 79

30,534 31

167,361 13

77,939 33

25,155 04

9,389 07

1,206 75

2,040 01

253 76

136,669 22

44,714 55

21,271 67

2,011 29

42.093 96

45,582 46

72 12

101,465 33

112 10

— 73,896 24

60,087 07
166 41

26,075 99

98,571 08

345 32

1,760 56

432 88

66,874 33

1,476 77

11,166 16

862 93

61,603 36

57,306 56

121,609 22

165,932 29

207,581 75

P. D. 54

Location and Character of Work

Manomet Point, Plymouth, stone riprap and fill

Marine Borer Investigations ....

Marshfield-Duxbury, survey ....

Mattapoisett Harbor, survey . .

Megansett Harbor, Bourne and Falmouth, dredg-
ing

Menamsha Inlet, Chilmark and Gay Head, jetties
dredging, seawall and riprap

Merrimack River, investigation

Merrimack River Mouth, Newburyport, survey

Mill River, Gloucester, survey and dredging .

Mitchells River, Chatham, survey and dredging

Monument Beach, Bourne, survey .

Nahant, survey and riprap ....

Namequoit River and Pleasant Bay, Chatham
dredging

Nantucket Harbor, dredging ....

Nantucket, Hither Creek, survey .

Nantucket, survey of Sesachacha Pond .

Nauset Harbor and Town Cove, Orleans, dredging

New Bedford Harbor, dredging ....

New Bedford State Pier, shed, dredging, repairs
and alterations

New Bedford State Pier, operation and maintenance

Newburyport Harbor, survey

Nobscusset Harbor, Dennis — see Dennis

North Dennis — see Dennis

North River, Marshfield, survey and removing
rocks

North River, Salem, survey ....

North Scituate — see Scituate

Oak Bluffs, removing rocks ....

Oak Bluffs, sea walls, bulkhead and jetties

Ocean Grove, Swansea, survey

Onset Bay, Wareham, survey and dredging .

Orleans, survey

Palmers Pond, Falmouth, survey .

Pamet River, Truro, survey, dredging and repair
ing jetties .

Paskamansett River, Dartmouth, dredging and
jetty

Penikese Island, Gosnold, pile wharf and survey

Pines River, Revere and Saugus, survey

Pleasant Bay, Chatham, dredging .

Plum Island River, Newbury and Newburyport,
survey . ■

Plymouth Harbor, dredging and removing old piling

Plymouth Memorial Park, dredging and mainte-
nance

Point Shirley, Winthrop — see Winthrop Shore

Poponessett Bay, Barnstable and Mashpee, dredg-
ing

Powow River, Amesbury, dredging channel and rip-
rapping wall

Contribution by

Muncipality

or Others

7,250 00

13,330 00
2,700 00

300 00
6,000 00

15,000 00

6,250 00
5,000 00

2,000 00

13,446 748

1,800 00

60,000 00
1,000 00

600 00

92,794 559

Total
Expenditure
13,920 20
755 43
358 61
255 48

53,459 84

153,994 71

1,208 50

111 87

24,899 59

23,113 92

326 40

30,177 19

31,943 68

58,982 52

220 45

110 66

10,671 24

18,856 57

562,934 19

89,571 99

115 97

8,658 75
719 45

594 95
160,757 24
143 23
15,866 55
104 18
358 76

1,200 00 198,429 21

5,227 68

5,192 95

904 80

2,364 33

983 31
352,760 74

86,719 26

46,252 33
502 94

8 Paid by Surety Company.

» $57,000 expended under direction TJ. S. Government.

Location and Character of Work
Province Lands, Provincetown, reclamation .
Provincetown Harbor, shore protection .
Quamquisset Harbor, Falmouth, survey .
Quanset Harbor, Orleans, survey and dredging
Red Brook Harbor, Bourne, removing pier
Revere, stone breakwater . . .
Rock Harbor, Orleans, timber bulkhead, platform

and dredging

Rockport Harbor, Rockport, dredging and remov

ing rocks

Roughans Point, Revere

Sagamore Beach, Bourne, stone jetties and riprap
Salem Harbor, Salem, survey ....

Salisbury Beach, survey

Salt Pond River, Eastham, survey .

Salters Point, Dartmouth, breakwater .

Sand Hills, Scituate — see Scituate

Sandwich Harbor, Sandwich, dredging channel, rip

rap and jetties

Saugus River, Lynn and Saugus, survey and dredg

ing

Scituate, shore protection ....

Beach Street, Scituate, wall and breakwater

Cedar Point, Scituate, wall and breakwater

First and Second Cliffs, Scituate, wall and riprap

Glades, North Scituate, rilling and riprap .

Humarock Beach, Scituate, survey, wall and
jetties ....'...

North Scituate, Surfside, sea wall, jetties and
riprap

Sand Hills, Scituate, survey, wall and jetties

Third Cliff, Scituate, riprap and survey

General Surveys at Scituate

Shore Acres, Scituate, riprap

Sand Hills to Shore Acres, sea wall, jetties and

riprap

Scituate Harbor, dredging and surveys .

Scorton Harbor, Sandwich, jetty and dredging

Seapuit River, Barnstable, dredging

Sengekontacket Pond, Oak Bluffs, survey

Sesuit Harbor, Dennis, jetty .

Shirley Gut, Winthrop, survey

Singing Beach, Manchester, survey

Sippican Harbor, Marion, survey .

Smiths Cove, Gloucester, survey and dredging

South Harwich, stone jetties and riprap

South Hyannis, Barnstable, survey .

South River, Marshfield and Scituate, survey

South River, Salem, dredging ....

South Watuppa Pond, Fall River, fenders and

excavation

South Yarmouth Beach, Yarmouth, jetties
Stage Harbor, Chatham, dikes and survey
Stream Gauging — see Conservation of Waters

Swampscott, survey

Swan Pond River, Dennis — see Dennis

P. D. 54

Contribution by

Muncipality

Total

or Others

Expenditure

' —

176,276 81

2,575 00

45,302 99

—

710 31

500 00

2,194 50

—

275 00

—

60,397 93

10,400 00

37,753 77

4,750 00

32,945 41

—

250 65

5,000 00

10,591 83

—

1,509 92

—

5,051 52

—

210 11

4,500 00

42,939 57

—

80,579 84

2,000 00

20,855 61

75,000 00

17,333 52

34,782 50

21,446 64

41,298 70

2,797 92

19,553 12

13,250 78

40,164 61

37,816 38

83,583 74

2,194 68

34,412 20

6,011 26

38,170 07

75,193 10

139,384 98

—

543 73

—

20,488 98

—

33,490 52

53,300 00

217,503 61

500 00

17,774 34

13,000 00

25,110 95

—

329 28

1,500 00

24,555 10

—

201 06

7,562 50

12,732 92

—

615 66

3,875 00

29,784 31

2,500 00

5,351 97

7,987 34

41.15

—

724 85

3,000 00

13,462 66

203 42

5,000 00

8,480 86

—

14,901 80

103 46

P. D. 54

Contribution by

Muncipality

or Others

42,500 00

1,000 00

2,380 50

17,500 00

5,000 00

15,213 98

1,500 00

17,216 35
6,500 00

23,973 75
6,400 00

Total

Expenditure

5,278 18

31,561 95

9,932 75

11,786 71

71 74

45,518 25
11,945 01

107,727 59
42,567 93
38,412 87
14,968 75

17,600 29

120,337 08
13,045 53

Location and Character of Work

Taunton-Brockton, waterway investigation .

Taunton River, survey and dredging

Taunton River-Boston Harbor Canal, survey

Taunton River-Massachusetts Bay Canal, survey

Truro Beach, survey

Vineyard Haven Harbor, Tisbury, breakwater and
dredging

Vineyard Haven Harbor, repairing sea wall .

Waquoit Bay, Falmouth, breakwater, wall, bulk-
head and dredging

Wareham River, Wareham, survey and dredging

Warrens Cove, Plymouth, sea wall and survey

Watch Hill, Chatham, survey and riprap

Water Conservation — see Conservation of Waters

Wellfleet Harbor, Wellfleet, survey and dredging

West Bay, Barnstable and Osterville, dredging, jet
ties and riprap

West Chop, Tisbury, stone jetties .

West Dennis Beach — see Dennis

West Falmouth Harbor, Falmouth, surveys, dredg-
ing and breakwater

West Harwich Beach, Harwich, shore protection .

Western Avenue Seawall, Gloucester — see
Gloucester

Westfield River, Westfield, survey and jetties

Westport Harbor, Westport, jetty extension and
repairs

Westport River, Westport ....

Wild Harbor, Falmouth, jetty and dredging .

Winthrop Shore, Winthrop, sea walls and protec
tive work

Wychmere Harbor, Harwich, jetties and dredging

Woods Hole, Great Harbor, Falmouth, dredging

Wrecks, removal from tidewater

Yarmouthport Harbor, survey

Total

Federal Appropriations and Expenditures
Federal appropriations and expenditures for improvement of rivers and harbors
in Massachusetts from the establishment of the government to the close of the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, are shown in the following tables furnished by
the Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army: —

Table No. 1. — Localities at Present Under Improvement

69,107 05
27,242 50

— 6,037 29

—

21,928 88

—

476 70

15,000 00

55,128 66

. 81,500 00

341,698 89

; 6,500 00

70,027 91

1,500 00

6,968 86

—

21,803 04

7,000 00

95,977 37

$1,789,954 47

$9,110,531 03

Locality
Gloucester Harbor and Annisquam River
Lynn Harbor .
Boston Harbor
Plymouth Harbor
Cape Cod Canal

Operating and Care, Cape Cod Canal
Pollock Rip Shoals, Nantucket Sound
Cross Rip Shoals, Nantucket Sound
New Bedford and Fairhaven Harbor

Expenditures

$552,639 65

797,797 49

14,730,439 60

471,881 35

18,515,518 39

1,650,597 99

1.437.921 25
42,837 20

1.339.922 28

Appropriations
$552,639 65
813,940 94
14,747,231 81

471,881 35***

24,444,384 79

1,835,946 01

1,517,029 26

48,837 20

1,750,703 34

*** Exclusive of $108,400 contributed funds.

Locality
Fall River Harbor
Taunton River

Total

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Expenditures Appropriations
790,149 -49 790,149 49
383,838 10 383,838 10

$40,713,542 79 $47,356,581 94

Table No. 2. — Localities in Which Work is Not Now

Locality

Newburyport Harbor
Merrimack River ....
Maiden River ....

Sandy Bay, Cape Ann, Harbor of Refuge

Bass River

Buzzards Bay Harbor
Canapitset Channel
Chatham Harbor ....
Cohasset Harbor ....
Duxbury Harbor ....
East Dennis Breakwater
Edgartown Harbor

Essex River

Hingham Harbor ....

Hyannis Harbor ....

Ipswich River ....

Kingston Harbor ....

Little Harbor, Woods Hole .

Manchester Harbor

Marblehead Harbor

Martha's Vineyard (Edgartown Harbor)

Powow River .....

Rockport Harbor .

Town River .....

Vineyard Haven Harbor

Wareham Harbor ....

Wellfleet Harbor ....

Westport Harbor and River .

Winthrop Harbor ....

Woods Hole Channel

Beverly Harbor ....

Salem Harbor ....

Mystic River

Dorchester Bay and Ncponset River

Weymouth Fore River .

Weymouth Back River .

Scituate Harbor ....

Provincetown Harbor

Harbor of Refuge at Nantucket

Total

Total of Table No. 1
Total of Table No. 2

Total

Expenditures

$506,708 13

404,466 72

149,950 00

1,941,478 00

20,150 41

2,500 00

9,112 54

12,171 36

10,000 00

37,000 00

7 57

25,000 00

30,000 00

38,316 58

221,787 75

5,617 91

8,940 09

18,000 00

23,985 57

833 42

30,000 00

50,940 72

91,229 23

37,577 41

55,387 35

95,997 30

11,365 57

3,000 00

9,000 00

343,599 92

246,690 41

107,956 57

306,684 84

128,176 44

641,150 00

27,000 00

126,590 98

348,062 72

694,860 29

in Progress

Appropriations

$506,708 13

404,466 72

149,950 00***

1,941,478 00

20,150 41

2,500 00

9,800 00

13,732 79

10,000 00

37,000 00

1,500 00

25,000 00

30,000 00

38,316 58

221,267 07

5,617 91

10,000 00

18,000 00

23,985 57

1,900 00

30,000 00

51,000 00

91,229 25

37,577 41

55,387 35

96,236 00

16,000 00

3,000 00

9,000 00

344,000 00

246,690 41**

107,956 57

781,684 84

128,176 44

641,150 00**

27,000 00

126,590 98

348,062 72

809,082 83

5,821,295 82 $7,421,197 98

Recapitulation

10,713,542 79 $47,356,581 94
6,821,295 82 7,421,197 98

$47,534,838 61 $54,777,779 92

** Exclusive of $100,000 contributed funds.
*** Exclusive of $62,000 contributed funds.

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Contracts Made by the Department op Public Works

Work

Contractor

Date

411
413

West Chop, Tisbury, — shore protection

Winthrop Breakwater Extension ....

Merritt-Chapman and

Scott Corporation
William R. Farrell

Aug. 28, 1934
Aug. 1, 1934

414

Bass River, Beverly, — dredging ....

Bay State Dredging &
Contracting Co.

Jan. 8, 1935

416

Manomet Point, Plymouth, — protective work

M. J. Crowley

Aug. 21, 1934

417

Singing Beach, Manchester, — protective work

Thomas A. Mackey

Aug. 28, 1934

418

Hough's Neck, Quincy, — shore protection

City of Quincy

Aug. 14, 1934

419

Mystic River, — dredging above and and below Mai-
den Bridge

J. S. Packard Dredging
Company .

Sept. 11, 1934

421
422
423

Repairs to pile and timber work at Commonwealth

Piers No. 1 and No. 5, at Boston
Commonwealth Piers No. 1 and No. 5, and E Street

Storehouse — Roof repairs
Commonwealth Pier 5, — installation of new sash and

replacement of broken glass

W. H. Ellis & Son Com-
pany

Atlantic Roofing & Sky-
light Works

Maurice M. Devine

Oct. 30, 1934
Nov. 7, 1934
Nov. 13, 1934

424

Pier 1, East Boston, — steel sliding doors

Roy Wason .

Nov. 13, 1934

425

Castle Island Bulkhead, South Boston

John P. Cavanagh

Nov. 27, 1934

426
427

Commonwealth Pier 5, — painting doors and sash

in Headhouse
Commonwealth Pier 1, East Boston, — movable gang-

John S. Leonard .
Waghorne-Brown Com-

Nov. 13, 1934
Nov. 20, 1934

428

way
Nobscusset Harbor, Dennis — stonerip-rap

pany
Thomas Whalen & Sons,

Inc.
Thomas Whalen & Sons,

Inc.

Jan. 15, 1935

429

Singing Beach, Manchester, — stone riprap .

Feb. 5, 1935

430

Great Pond, Falmouth, excavation and jetty

Frederick V. Lawrence .

May 21, 1935

432

Duxbury Bay, Duxbury — dredging

Bay State Dredging and
Contracting Company

Apr. 30, 1935

433

Rock Harbor, Orleans — dredging

Herbert T. Gerrish

May 21, 1935

434

Falmouth Inner Harbor and West Falmouth Har-
bor, dredging

Herbert T. Gerrish

May 21, 1935

435

Old Silver Beach, Falmouth ....

Frederick V. Lawrence .

May 21, 1935

436

Mystic River, — dredging above and below Maiden
Bridge

J. S. Packard Dredging
Company .

July 2, 1935

437

Hyannisport Breakwater — stone extension .

Bay State Dredging and
Contracting Company.

June 11, 1935

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and in Force During the Year Ending November 30, 1935

101

Condition

Work

Contract Price

Completed
Jan. 12, 1935
Completed
Jan. 6, 1935
Completed
Mar. 11, 1935

Completed
Mar. 9, 1935

Completed
Mar. 23, 1935

In progress

Completed
Dec. 28, 1934

Completed
Feb. 8, 1935
Completed
May 21, 1935
Completed
Apr. 17, 1935

Completed
May 7, 1935
Completed
Oct. 29, 1935

Completed
Dec. 21, 1934
Completed
Feb. 12, 1935
Completed
May 23, 1935
Completed
June 7, 1935

Completed
Sept. 20, 1935

Completed
June 6, 1935

Completed
Sept. 28, 1935

In progress

Completed
July 23, 1935
Completed
Aug. 12, 1935

Completed
Sept. 6, 1935

For each ton of stone riprap or chips furnished in place in the completed work, $4.86.
For each ton of stone riprap furnished in place in the completed work, $1.97.

For dredging and disposing of dredged material 50 cents per cubic yard, scow meas-
urement.

For removing and disposing of boulders $20 per cubic yard.

For stone riprap furnished in place in the completed work, $1.75 per ton.

For furnishing material and filling back of riprap, 30 cents per cubic yard measured in
place in the completed work.

For each ton of riprap furnished and placed in the completed work, $1.85.

For each cubic yard of gravel or crushed stone furnished and placed in the completed
work, 90 cents.

For each square yard of bank graded including the furnishing of material and inci-
dental work, 20 cents.

Commonwealth to pay to City one-half of cost of all labor other than that furnished by
Federal Government, one-half actual cost of materials and tools furnished, and one-
half actual prices paid for rental of machinery and equipment employed in perform-
ance of work, provided the total amount to be paid by the State to the City does not
exceed $10,000, — as authorized by Ch. 322 of Acts of 1934 and by Item 60A of
Ch. 384 of the Acts of 1934.

For dredging and disposing of dredged material 34.5 cents per cubic yard, scow meas-
urement.

For removing and disposing of all boulders $20 per cubic yard.

Unit prices.

For each light of glass furnished and set to replace broken glass, 70 cents.
For each new sash approximately 18 ft. 4 J^ in. by 9 ft. 1% in, furnished and set, $112.
For each new sash approximately 18 ft. 4 J£ in. by 8 ft. 3 l/i in. furnished and set, $90.
For each steel sliding door furnished and erected, $146.

For removing about 980 linear feet of bulkhead and disposing of all material, except

that used in repair work, $2.75 for each ljnear foot of bulkhead removed.
For repairing bulkhead by splicing and patching, $40 for each M Ft. B M of lumber

placed in the work.
For repairing bulkhead by driving sheeting $60 for each M Ft. B M of lumber placed

in the work.
For refitting and securing piles $5 for each pile refitted and secured.
For furnishing all ship spikes, bolts and washers, 15 cents for each pound used in the

work.
For furnishing all material, labor and equipment and painting doors and windows in

Headhouse, the lump sum of $285.
Forjjfurnishing and erecting in place in complete working order the movable gangway,

the lump sum of $1,844.
For each ton of stone riprap furnished in place i* the completed work $2.23.

For each ton of riprap furnished and placed in the completed work $2.50.

For each cubic yard of screened gravel or crushed stone furnished and placed in the com-
pleted work, $1.65.

For each square yard of bank graded including the furnishing of material and all inci-
dental work, 20 cents. « .•■■"•■

For excavating and disposing of the excavated material, 39 cents for each cubic yard.

For removing and disposing of all boulders in excess of one cubic yard in volume, $1.00
for each cubic yard. " *

For furnishing and placing granite stone fiprap and granite chips in the jetty and in-
cluding all incidental work, $2.83 per ton.

For dredging and disposing of dredged material 59.6 cents per cubic yard, scow meas-
urement.

For removing and disposing of boulders $20 per cudIc yard.

For dredging channel and basin and disposing of excavated material on marsh or flats
adjacent to the work, including the construction of necessary dikes, sluices or other
barriers, 46 cents for each cudic yard measured in place.

For removing and disposing of all boulders, $10 for each cudic yard.

For dredging and disposing of the excavated material on marsh or flats by the hydraulic
process, including the construction of necessary dikes and sluices or other barrier, 56
cents for each cubic yard measured in place. • -

For removing and disposing of all boulders, $20 per cubic yard. _ -

For furnishing and placing stone riprap and granite chips in the jetty and return wall
and excavating, including all incidental work, $2.39 for each ton of 2,000 pounds.

For dredging and disposing of the dredged material 54.5 cents per cubic yard, scow
measurement.

For removing and disposing of boulders $20 per cubic yard.

For each ton of stone riprap furnished in place in the completed work, including all inci-
dental work, $2.94.

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Contracts Made by the Department of Public Works

Con-
tract
No.

Work

Contractor

Date

438

439
440

441
442
443

446
448
449

450

451
452
453
454
455

456

Aliens Harbor and Herring River, Harwich, — dredg-
ing.

Winthrop, — breakwater extension

Plymouth State Pier, — building a pile and timber
bulkhead and dredging .....

Harwich,- — shore protection ....

East Boston, removal of wreck of towboat "Esther
Rendle" from National Dock£ ....

Waquoit Bay and Falmouth Inner Harbor, — repairs
to jetties.

Winthrop, — dredging in Pleasant Park Channel &
Belle Isle Inlet.

Barnstable, — Seawall and jetties at South Hyannis .

South Yarmouth Beach, — stone jetties
Squaw Island Road, Barnstable, — stone jetties
Town River, Quincy — dredging .

Onset Bay, Wareham — dredging .

Plymouth Harbor — dredging

Smith's Cove, Gloucester, — dredging

Manchester Harbor, — dredging .

Scituate Harbor, — dredging

Menamsha Creek, Chilmark and Gay Head — dredg-
ing.

Commonwealth Pier 5, South Boston — office parti-
tions.

Herbert T. Gefrish

William R. Farrell

Lee Construction Com
Company, Inc. .

Frederick V. Lawrence

M & R Construction

Company .
William R. Farrell & Son,
Inc.

Bay State Dredging &
Contracting Co.

Harry L. Jones

Frederick V. Lawrence .

J. S. Packard Dredging
Co.

Herbert T. Gerrish

Bay State Dredging &
Contracting Co.

J. S. Packard Dredging
Company.

Bay State Dredging and
Contracting Company.

Morris Slotnick

June 18, 1935

July 9, 1935
July 16, 1935

Aug. 12. 1935
Aug. 13, 1935
Aug. 14, 1935

Aug. 27, 1935

Sept. 3, 1935

Sept.
Sept.
Sept.

3,1935
4, 1935
4, 1935

Oct. 4, 1935

Oct.

1935

Oct.

1935

Oct.

1935

Oct.

1935

Oct.

1935

Nov. 5, 1935

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and in Force During the Year Ending November 30, 1935

103

Condition

Work

Contract Price

Not yet begun
(1935)

Completed
Sept. 3, 1935
In progress

Completed
Nov. 23, 1935
Completed
Sept. 28, 1935
Completed
Oct. 22, 1935

Completed
Sept. 27, 1935

Not yet
completed
(1935)

Completed
Nov. 30, 1935
In progress

Completed
Nov. 15, 1935

Not yet
completed
(1935)

In progress

In progress
In progress
In progress
In progress

Completed
Nov. 23, 1915

For dredging and disposing of excavated material on land, flats or at sea, 43 cents for

each cubic yard measured in place.
For removing and disposing of all boulders, $20 for each cubic yard.
For each ton of stone riprap furnished in place in the completed work, $2.17.

For dredging 60 cents per cubic yard measured in place.

For removal of boulders, $5 per cubic yard.

For building pier and bulkhead, — unit prices.

For furnishing and placing granite stone riprap and chips in the jetties, $2.68, for each

ton of 2,000 pounds.
For removing and disposing of the wreck of the "Esther Rendle," the lump sum of $723.

Waquoit Bat:

For each ton of heavy stone riprap furnished in place in the completed work, $3.37.

For each ton of stone chips furnished in place in the completed work, $3.57.

Falmouth Inner Harbor:

For each ton of heavy stone riprap furnished in place in the completed work, $3.37.

For each ton of fine stone chips furnished in place in the completed work, $4.27.

For each cubic yard of material excavated and backfilled in the completed work, $1.00.

For dredging areas specified to depths indicated and disposing of dredged material, 56.8
cents per cubic yard measured in scows.

For removing and disposing of all boulders, $20 per cubic yard.

For furnishing material and constructing concrete sea wall, including all excavation,
back filling, removing old walls, crib work, steps, drains and cesspools and all inci-
dental work, $9.90 for each cubic yard of concrete measured in the completed work.

For furnishing and placing stone riprap and granite chips in the jetties, $3 for each ton
of 2,000 pounds.

For furnishing and placing gianite stone riprap and chips in the jetties, $2.73 for each
ton of 2,000 pounds.

For furnishing and placing granite stone riprap and chips in the jetties, $2.84 for each
ton of 2,000 pounds.

For dredging and disposing of dredged material 54 cents per cubic yard, scow meas-
urement.

For removing and disposing of boulders $20 for each cubic yard.

For removing and disposing of boulders, $20 per cubic yard.

For dredging and disposing of the excavated material on marsh or flats by the hydraulic
process, including the construction of necessary dikes and sluices or other barrier,
51.5 cents per cubic yard, measured in place.

For dredging and disposing of dredged material 54.5 cents per cubic yard, scow meas-
urement.

For removing and disposing of boulders, $20 per cubic yard.

For dredging and disposing of the dredged material 54 cents per cubic yard, scow meas-
urement.

For removing and disposing of boulders $25 per cubic yard.

For dredging and disposing of the dredged material 49.8 cents per cubic yard, scow meas-
urement.

For removing and disposing of boulders, $20 per cubic yard.

For dredging and disposing of the dredged material, 56.3 cents per cubic yard, scow
measurement.

For removing and disposing of boulders, $20 per cubic yard.

For dredging and disposing of excavated material on marsh or flats by the hydraulic
process, including the construction of necessary dikes and sluices or other barriers,
54 cents for each cubic yard measured in place.

For removing and disposing of boulders, $20 per cubic yard.

Unit prices.

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INDEX

General

Appropriations . . . . . .

Financial Statements .......

Expenditures .......

Summary of Income ......

General Activities of Department .....

Office Building for Department .....

Organization, under Chapter 16, General Laws, as amended
Personnel .........

Recommendations for Legislation .....

Special Reports by Department of Public Works .

Relating to Highways
Advertising Signs and Devices within the Public View
Bond Issue, Chapter 464, Acts of 1935 .
Bridges, in general ......

Fall River-Somerset, — over Taunton River

Newburyport-Salisbury, — over Merrimack River

New Bedford-Fairhaven, — over Acushnet River

Quincy- Weymouth, — over Weymouth Fore River
Contracts, signed during the year ....

Co-operative Work, Supervision of Certain Expenditures by Cities, Towns
and Counties ......

Expenditures, Summary for the Year
Farm-to-Market Roads .....

Federal Aid in Constructing Highways .

Allotments to Massachusetts ..

Emergency Advance Funds ....

Federal Emergency Relief and Construction Act

Mileage .......

Statement of Road Projects ....
Federal Funds .......

Works Program Grade Crossing Abolitions

Works Program Highways ....

Gas Tax, transfer of proceeds under Chapter 476, Acts of 1935
General Statement as to Surveys, Plans, Estimates and other Work during
the year ......

Grade Crossing Abolitions .....

Hayden-Cartwright Act .....

Highway Fund .......

Highway Improvements authorized by Special Acts
Petitions, Meetings and Hearings ....

Public Ways, exclusive of State Highways, in certain Towns

Allotments or Contributions by the State and Towns

Expenditures in Various Counties and Towns .

Towns where work has been contracted for
State Highways ........

Construction and Reconstruction ....

Contracts entered into for work in various Municipalities
Expenditures in various Counties and Municipalities

Maintenance and Repair .....

Expenditures in Various Counties and Municipalities

Permits issued for Opening or Occupying State Highways

Petitions received during the year ....

Removal of Snow and Ice .....

Resurfacing and Widening .....

Roadside Maintenance and Development, and Nursery at Sudbury

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Removal of Brush .......

Sidewalk Construction on State Highways

Signs, Direction, Route, Warning, etc

Traffic Control Signals and Regulations ....

Uniform Traffic Signs, Lights, Markings, etc. .
Town and County Ways .......

Allotments or contributions by the State, Towns and Counties

Expenditures in various Counties and Towns .

Towns where work has been contracted for

Type of Road and Length contracted for .
Works Program Highways and Grade Crossing Abolitions
Works Progress Administration

Sidewalk Construction .......

Farm-to-Market Roads .

Roadside Beautification ......

Relating to Registry of Motor Vehicles
Accident Prevention
Accident Report Letters
Aircraft .....
Analysis of Court Abstracts received
Branch Offices ....
Comparative Statement showing Ratio of Yearly Registrations to

and Injuries; and Suspensions, etc.
Conference of Motor Vehicle Administrators
Examinations for licenses
Expenditures, Analysis of, for 1935
Head Lamps and Rear Lamps
Insurance, Motor Vehicle Liability
Investigations and Prosecutions by Inspectors
Motor Vehicle Deaths, Injuries, Collisions

Number of Children killed and injured

Number of collisions

Number of Persons killed and injured
Motor Vehicle Equipment, Inspection of

Brakes, Lights and Overloads .

School Bus Inspection .
Property Damage ....
Registrations, Licenses, Fees

Cost of running the Registry of Motor Vehicles

Court Fines received by the Treasurer and Receiver General

Motor Vehicle Fees Rebated ......

Passenger Cars, Commercial Vehicles and Motor Cycles

Receipts, Analysis of ......

Total Receipts, credited Highway Fund, 1935 .
Revocations and Suspensions ......

Safety Work

Used-Car Section .........

Motor Vehicle Identification ......

Engine Numbers assigned .....

Motor Vehicles Stolen . ....

Reports . . . . .

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48
48
40
40
40
40
41,42

Death

Relating to Waterways and Public Lands
Allen's Harbor, Harwich
Barnstable Shore Protection

South Hyannis

West Beach .
Bass River, Beverly

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Bass River, Dennis and Yarmouth

Boston Harbor ......

Abandoned Hulks or Wrecks, Removal of

Castle Island Bulkhead ....

Commonwealth Flats at East Boston

Aircraft Landing Field — Boston Airport
Commonwealth Pier 1 .
Reclamation of Flats

Commonwealth Flats at South Boston
Commonwealth Pier 5 . . .
Development of Land South of Summer Street

Expenditures for Development and Improvement in Boston Harbor
1859-1935, inclusive

Expenditures and Contributions for Improvement of Small Harbors
and Channels within Boston Harbor 1893-1935, inclusive

Hough's Neck, Quincy .

Marine Borers

Mystic River Dredging .

Pleasant Park Channel, Winthrop

Surveys ....

Town River, Quincy

Winthrop Harbor Channel
Cape Cod Canal Landing Pier
Connecticut River Protective Work

Conserving and Equalizing the Flow of Water in Rivers and Streams
Contracts made and in force during year ending Nov. 30, 1935
Duxbury Harbor, Duxbury .
Ellisville Harbor, Plymouth .
Expenditures and Contributions for River and Harbor Work from 1893 to

Nov. 30, 1935, excepting Boston Harbor
Expenditures and Contributions for River and Harbor Work from Dec. 1

1934, to Nov. 30, 1935 .
Falmouth Inner Harbor, Falmouth
Federal Appropriations and Expenditures in Massachusetts Rivers and

Harbors to June 30, 1935
Great Pond, Falmouth ....

Great Ponds ......

Access to:

Asneconick or Comet Pond, Hubbardston

Surveys .....
Harwich Shore Protection
Herring River, Harwich
Hyannisport Breakwater, Barnstable
Income, Statement of .
Licenses and Permits ....
Manchester Harbor, Manchester .
Manomet Point, Plymouth .
Menamsha Creek, Chilmark and Gay Head
New Bedford State Pier
Nobscusset Harbor, Dennis .
Old Silver Beach, Falmouth .
Onset Bay, Wareham ....
Plymouth, Commonwealth Property
Plymouth Harbor, Plymouth
Port of Boston Fund ....
Province Lands . . .
Provincetown Tercentenary Commission

Rivers, Harbors, Tide Waters and Foreshores outside of Boston Harbor
Rock Harbor, Orleans .....••••

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Salisbury Dike .
Scituate Harbor .
Scituate Sea Walls
Shore Acres .
Sengekontacket Pond, Oak Bluffs
Singing Beach, Manchester .
Smith's Cove, Gloucester
State Boundary Lines .
Town Boundary Lines .
Triangulation Stations, Re-establishment of certain
Waquoit Bay, Falmouth and Mashpee
West Chop, Tisbury
West Falmouth Harbor, Falmouth
Winthrop Breakwater .
Yarmouth Shore Protection .

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Public Document No. 54

Cfje CommontoeaUf) of 48la*£at|)u*ett£

ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

Department of Public Works

For the Year Ending November 30, 1936

Publication op this Document approved by the Commission on Administration and Finance
750. 9-'38. Order 4872.

<EJ)e CommontoeaUf) of ifflasteacfmsett*

SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS

Year Ending November 30, 1936

To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts:

In accordance with the provisions of law, I have the honor, as Commissioner of
Public Works, to submit the seventeenth annual report of the Department of Public
Works for the year ending November 30, 1936.

The organization of the Department, as defined in Chapter 16, General Laws,
as amended by Chapter 297, Acts of 1927, was as follows:

Commissioner of Public Works, William F. Callahan
Associate Commissioner, Richard K. Hale
Associate Commissioner, Frank E. Lyman

Office Building. The office building for this Department is intended to accom-
modate the various offices of the Department which are located in Boston. Any
space not immediately needed for its activities is to be assigned for other State
Departments at reasonable rental figures.

Highways. The mileage of new State highways laid out during the year amounted
to 13 . 03 miles, but there were abandoned or discontinued 1 . 27 miles of State high-
ways, so that the net mileage of State highways amounted to 1,887.14 miles at
the end of the year.

The Department has constructed, reconstructed and widened 51.889 miles of
State highways and built 115.512 miles of roads in co-operation with cities, towns
and counties under the provisions of Chapter 90, General Laws.

Under the provisions of Section 26, Chapter 81, General Laws, the Department
has had charge of the repair and maintenance of 8,935 miles of public ways exclu-
sive of State highways in 177 towns.

Bond Issue. Under the provisions of Chapter 464, Acts of 1935, the Depart-
ment continued this year the execution of projects of the several classes defined as
either highway projects or waterways projects, for the purpose of alleviating condi-
tions resulting from unemployment. During the year the great majority of the
cities and towns began work on highway projects approved by the Department,
for which this act allotted $2,300,000. Sidewalk projects were carried out by the
Department in cooperation with W. P. A. funds and approval, a total of $4,000,000
of State funds being contributed by the terms of this act. Construction was begun
on projects financed in pan through the Bond Issue allotment of $1,741,877 matched
by the Federal Funds under the Hayden-Cartwright Act of 1934. Grade crossing
abolitions and highway projects financed in part by the Bond Issue allotments
were carried out, as well as the Federal funds designated as "Works Program High-
way Funds" amounting to $3,262, 885 and Works Program Grade Crossing Elimi-
nation projects carried out in co-operation with the Bureau of Public Roads, with
Federal Funds amounting to $4,210,833 .

The reconstruction of the wharf foundations of Commonwealth Pier 5 at South
Boston was carried out with funds authorized by this act, together with funds provi-
ded by the Federal Government under the Federal Emergency Administration of
Public Works. Also, dredging in Boston Harbor and at Weymouth Fore River
was done with Bond Issue funds. As a result of this expenditure, the Federal Gov-
ernment has undertaken the deepening of the main ship channel of Boston Harbor
to a depth of 40 feet at mean low water.

The engineering and clerical staff of the Department was as follows:

Chief Engineer, George H. Delano1

Highway Engineer, (Projects), Franklin C. Pillsbury.

Highway Engineer, (Construction), Raymond W. Coburn.

1 Appointed January 1, 1936.

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Highway Engineer, (Construction), (Chapter 90, roads),

William F. Donovan1
Highway Engineer, (Maintenance), James E. Lawrence2
Highway Engineer, (Traffic), Edgar F. Copell.3
Bridge Engineer, George E. Harkness.
District Highway Engineers: —

District No. 1, George A. Curtis — Berkshire County and the towns of Worthing-
ton, Middlefield and Huntington in Hampshire County, and the towns of Ches-
ter, Montgomery, Russell, Blandford and Tolland in Hampden County.
District No. 2, H. D. Phillips — Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden Counties,
with the following exceptions: three towns in Hampshire County included in
District No. 1 and ten towns in Hampden County included in Districts Nos.
1 and 3.
District No. 3, John A. Johnston — Worcester County and the towns of Brim-
field, Holland, Monson, Palmer and Wales in Hampden County.
District No. 4, F. D. Sarin— Middlesex County.
District No. 5, Joseph A. McCarthy4 — Essex and Suffolk Counties.
District No. 6, H. O. Parker — Norfolk and Bristol Counties.
District No. 7, John E. Troy — Plymouth, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket
Counties.
District Waterways Engineer, for Boston Harbor — John N. Ferguson.
District Waterways Engineer, for harbors and waterways outside Boston Harbor

— Francis L. Sellow.
Secretary, Mary A. Riley.
Financial Secretary, Fred Fair.

Registry of Motor Vehicles
Registrar, Frank A. Goodwin.
Deputy Registrar, Anthony A. Bonzagni.

Assistant to the Registrar of Motor Vehicles, Alfred W. Devine.
Chief Administrative Clerk, Charles R. Gilley.
Chief Inspector of. Motor Vehicles, Albert S. Olsson.

A detailed report of the activities of the Department for the year is presented
herewith.

WILLIAM F. CALLAHAN,
Commissioner of Public Works.
December 1, 1936.

SPECIAL REPORTS TO THE LEGISLATURE

The Department was authorized and directed by the Legislature to make certain
investigations, and the reports thereon were made as follows:

The discharge of sewage from the Metropolitan Sewerage Districts into Boston
Harbor and its tributary waters. Report made Nov. 21, 1935 by the Special Com-
mission directed to investigate, under Chapter 42, Resolves of 1935. (H. 164 of 1936)

Dredging Westport River in Westport. Report made November 30, 1935, bv
the Department of Public Works under Chapter 29. Resolves of 1935. (H. 166 of
1936.)

Certain Ways, Bridges, Beaches and Recreational Facilities. Joint Report made
Dec. 4, 1935, by the Metropolitan District Commission and the Department o
Public Works, acting as a joint board under Chapter 50, Resolves of 1935 (Sen. 100
of 1936).

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LEGISLATION
The Commissioner of Public Works presented to the State Secretary on December
2, 1936, as required by law, that part of the current annual report which contains
recommendations or suggestions for Legislative action as follows: —

1. The Department annually receives requests for the the construction of sea
walls or other works for the protection of the shores of many towns from erosion

1 Appointed March 16, 1936. 3 Appointed December 3, 1935.

2 Appointed May 1, 1936. 'Appointed November 16, 1936.

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by the sea. The total estimated cost of such construction is far in excess of the
funds which the Department has available under the appropriation items for the
improvement, development and protection of rivers and harbors, tidewaters and
foreshores.

The appropriation items provide that all such expenditurse shall be on condition
that at least 50 per cent of the cost is covered by contributions from municipalities
or other organizations and individuals.

It is believed that authorization should be provided to permit all counties to
contribute to the cost of constructing such protective works, both from damage by
the sea and erosion by rivers in all parts of the Commonwealth, in order that it
might to some extent reduce the burden to which municipalities and individual
owners of property bordering thereon are subject when such work is done.

2. The development and modernization of the pier facilities for the expeditious
handling of both passengers and freight at the Port of Boston is deemed necessary.
In order to accomplish this the Department recommends that it be authorized to
acquire any land that may be necessary, and to construct a pier or a series of piers
thereon or on lands of the Commonwealth, provided that a lessee or lessees execute
a lease of such piers with such a rental that the cost will be amortized over a period
of thirty years; and the construction of a pier as a public landing at South Boston.

3. In order to provide for the improvement of Edgartown Harbor, a recommenda-
tion is made that an appropriation be made by the Commonwealth, on condition
that an appropriation is made by the Federal Government and a contribution is
made by the town of Edgartown for this project.

4. The development of the state highway system would be faciliatated by an
amendment to section 5, Chapter 81, General Laws, to provide that the Depart-
ment of Public Works shall inaugurate steps to provide for the laying out of state
highways in addition to the present law which authorizes county commissioners,
aldermen or selectmen to file a petition with the Department requesting that a
way be laid out as a state highway. It is believed that the Department should have
the authority noted above, and that public hearings shall be ordered by the Depart-
ment before such a layout is made.

5. On many state highway projects it is found necessary to make alterations to
town roads which enter the state highway. Such alterations may be required on
account of a necessary change in grade of the state highway which consequently re-
quires a change in the grade of the entering town way, and this may affect the town
way for some distance. At the present time, such alterations cannot be made unless
such a road is laid out as a state highway, a step which does not seem desirable. It
is recommended that the Department be authorized to alter or relocate such con-
necting town ways as may be necessary by the addition of a new section after sec-
tion 7, Chapter 81, General Laws.

6. The procedure established by section 65, chapter 159, General Laws, for abo-
lition of railroad grade crossings provides that the Department of Public Works
shall annually on or before October 1, file with the Department of Public Utilities
lists of grade crossings the abolition of which it suggests for early consideration.
It is believed that the Department should be authorized to submit such lists from
time to time rather than only once a year, in view of the fact that this restriction
of this law delays the inauguration of steps to take advantage of Federal funds that
may become available, and such steps as the Department would make in the pre-
paration of construction programs.

(In order to expedite the construction and reconstruction of state highways and
improvement of town and county ways under the provisions of chapter 90, General
Laws, with funds appropriated annually, it is respectfully suggested that such ap-
propriations for the work of this Department be made at an early date in the
legislative session in order to take advantage of the construction season and to
complete as much as possible of the contract work within the fiscal years for which
funds are appropriated. This would facilitate the early allotment of funds for work
under chapter 90.)

7. In a study of improvements for the state highway from Northampton to
Greenfield, it becomes evident that when such work is undertaken it will be necessary
to make some provisions for the crossings of the location of the Northampton branch
of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in the towns of Hatfield and

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Whately. It is understood that at present this railroad is not running, and no in-
formation is available as to any date when it may be in operation. It is recommen-
ded that in view of such conditions the Department be authorized to enter into agree-
ment with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad to eliminate these
underpasses in reconstructing this highway, but that the Department will recon-
struct any such underpasses at ajlater date if the railroad wishes to resume operation.
8. Chapter 433, Acts of 1936, authorizing the construction or reconstruction of
bridges over the Connecticut River, provided for a total expenditure of not excee-
ding 1,000,000 for the Northampton-Hadley bridge. Investigations and present
estimates of cost indicate that additional funds are necessary. It is recommended
that the act referred to be amended to provide that the work shall be done, but that
substantially half of the cost shall be met by Federal funds, whether or not from
the Hayden-Cartwright Road Act.

APPROPRIATIONS
Chapter 304, Acts of 1936, making appropriations for the maintenance of de-
partments, boards, commissions, institutions and certain activities of the Corn-
wealth, etc., is, in part, as follows: —

Item

Requirements for Extinguishing the State Debt.

222. For sinking fund requirements and for certain serial bonds ma-

turing during the present year, the sum of four million
two hundred twenty-five thousand seven hundred twenty-
one dollars and eighty-three cents, payable from the fol-
lowing accounts and funds in the following amounts: — ■
from theHighway Fund, three million four hundred
seventy-nine thousand three hundred eighty-eight dollars
and fifty cents; and the remainder from the General Fund $4,225,721 83

Interest on the Public Debt.

223. For the payment of interest on the direct debt of the common-

wealth, a sum not exceeding nine hundred twenty-five
thousand dollars, of which sum five hundred sixty thou-
sand dollars shall be paid from the Highway Fund . . 925,000 00

Service of the Department of Banking and Insurance.

Division of Insurance :
309. For other personal services of the division, including expenses
of the board of appeal and certain other costs of super-
vising motor vehicle liability insurance, a sum not excee-
ding two hundred twenty-seven thousand one hundred
and ninety dollars, of which sum not more than thirty-
five thousand dollars may be charged to the Highway
Fund 227,190 00

Service of the Department of Corporations and Taxation.
Corporations and Tax Divisions : :
315. For the salaries of certain positions filled by the commissioner,
with the approval of the governor and council, and for
additional clerical and other assistance, a sum not excee-
ding two hundred thirty-five thousand nine hundred
dollars, of which sum not more than fifty thousand dollars
may be charged to the Highway Fund to cover the esti-
mated cost of collection of the gasoline tax, so called, and
not more than fifty thousand dollars may be payable from
fees collected under section twenty-seven of chapter one
hundred and thirty-eight of the General Laws, as amen-
ded, to cover the estimated cost of collection of alcoholic
beverages taxes, so called ...... 235,900 00

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Item

Service of the Department of Public Safety.
Division of State Police:

612. For the salaries of officers, including detectives, a sum not ex-
ceeding four hundred ninety-six thousand five hundred
sixty-five dollars, of which sum not more than two hun-
dred thousand dollars may be charged to the Highway
Fund . . . $496,565 00

614 For other necessary expenses of the uniformed division, inclu-
ding traveling expenses of detectives, a sum not exceeding
four hundred four thousand dollars, of which sum not
more than one hundred fifty thousand dollars may be
charged to the Highway Fund 404,000 00

Service of the Department of Public Works.
The appropriations made in the following four items are
to be paid three quarters from the Highway Fund and one
quarter from the Port of Boston receipts:

631. For the salaries of the commissioner and the associate commis-

sioners, a sum not exceeding nineteen thousand five hun-
dred dollars . . _ . . . $19,500 00

632. For personal services of clerks and assistants to the commis-

sioner, a sum not exceeding ninety-seven hundred and

eighty dollars . . . . . . 9,780 00

633. For traveling expenses of the commissioners, a sum not excee-

ding two thousand dollars $2,000 00

634. For telephone service in the public works building, a sum not

exceeding twenty-four thousand three hundred and

twenty dollars 24,320 00

Functions of the department relating to highways (the
following appropriations, except as otherwise provided,
are made from the Highway Fund) :

635. For the maintenance and operation of the public works buil-

ding, a sum not exceeding one hundred thirty-eight

thousand two hundred and eighty dollars . . 138,280 00

636. For the salaries of guards for the public works building, a

sum not exceeding twenty-one thousand and thirty-
eight dollars . . 21,038 00

637. For personal services of the chief engineer, engineers and office

assistants, including certain clerks and stenographers, a
sum not exceeding ninety-one thousand one hundred and
forty dollars . 91,140 00

638. For services other than personal, including printing pamphlet

of laws and the annual report, and necessary office supp-
lies and equipment, a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand
doUars 15,000 00

639. For the suppression of gypsy and brown tail moths on state

highways, a sum not exceeding thirteen thousand five

hundred dollars 13,500 00

640. For the construction and repair of town and county ways, a

sum not exceeding two million five hundred thousand

dollars 2,500,000 00

641. For aiding towns in the repair and improvement of public

ways, a sum not exceeding one million four hundred

fifty thousand dollars _ 1,450,000 00

642. For the maintenance and repair of state highways, including

care of snow on highways, expenses of traffic signs and
lights; for payment of damages caused by defects in
state highways, with the approval of the attorney
general; for care and repair of road-building machinery;

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Item

and for the maintenance of a nursery for roadside
planting, a sum not exceeding four million six hundred
thousand dollars . $4,600,000 00

643. For the purpose of enabling the department of public works

to secure federal aid for the construction and recon-
struction of highAvays, including bridges, a sum not
exceeding two million eight hundred thousand dollars . 2,800,000 00

644. For administering the law relative to advertising signs near

highways, a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars,

to be paid from the General Fund .... 20,000 00

645. For expenses of a topographical survey and map of the com-

monwealth, in addition to funds received from federal
appropriations or private subscriptions, a sum not
exceeding fifty thousand dollars ..... 50,000 00

Registration of Motor Vehicles:

646. For personal services, a sum not exceeding one million five

thousand five hundred and forty dollars, of which sum
fifteen thousand dollars may be charged to the General
Fund, and the remainder shall be paid from the Highway
Fund 1,005,540 00

647. For services other than personal, including traveling expenses,

purchase of necessary supplies and materials, including
cartage and storage of the same, and for work incidental
to the registration and licensing of owners and operators
of motor Arehicles, a sum not exceeding four hundred
seventy thousand dollars, to be paid from the Highway
Fund \ 470,000 00

648. For printing and other expenses necessary in connection with

publicity for certain safetjr work, a sum not exceeding-
one thousand dollars, to be paid from the Highway Fund 1,000 00

Service of the Committee for Aeronautics :

649. For services other than personal, traveling expenses, office

rent, publishing of report, office supplies and equipment,

a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars . . . 5,000 00

Functions of the department relating to waterways
and public lands:

650. For personal services of the chief engineer and assistants,

a sum not exceeding fifty-seven thousand four hundred

and thirty dollars 57,430 00

651. For services other than personal, including printing pamphlet

of laws and the annual report, and for necessary office and
engineering supplies and equipment, a sum not exceeding
sixteen hundred dollars ...... 1,600 00

652. For the care and maintenance of the province lands and of

the lands acquired and structures erected by the
Provincetown tercentenary commission, a sum not-
exceeding five thousand dollars . • . . . 5,000 00

653. For the maintenance of structures, and for repairing damages

along the coast line or river banks of the commonwealth,
and for the removal of wrecks and other obstructions
from tide waters and great ponds, a sum not exceeding
twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars . . 22,500 00

654. For the improvement, development and protection of rivers

and harbors, tide waters and foreshores within the
commonwealth, as authorized by section eleven of
chapter ninetAr-one of the General Laws, as appearing
in the Tercentenary Edition thereof, and of great ponds,
a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, and

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Item

any unexpended balance of the appropriation remaining
at the end of the current fiscal year may be expended
in the succeeding fiscal year for the same purposes;
provided, that all expenditures made for the protection
of shores shall be upon condition that at least fifty per
cent of the cost is covered by contributions from
municipalities or other organizations and individuals,
and that in the case of dredging channels for harbor
improvements at least twenty-five per cent of the cost
shall be so covered . $100,000 00

655. For re-establishing and permanently marking certain tri-

angulation points and sections, as required by order
of the land court in accordance with section thirty-
three of chapter ninety-one of the General Laws, as
appearing in the Tercentenary Edition thereof, a sum
not exceeding one thousand dollars .... 1,000 00

656. For expenses of surveying certain town boundaries, bjr the

department of public works, a sum not exceeding five

hundred dollars 500 00

657. For the operation and maintenance of the New Bedford

state pier, a sum not exceeding twelve thousand dollars 12,000 00

658. For the compensation of dumping inspectors, a sum not

exceeding two thousand dollars ..... 2,000 00

659. For continuing the work in gauging the flow of water in the

streams of the commonwealth, a sum not exceeding

five thousand dollars ...... 5,000 00

660. For the maintenance and repair of certain property in the

town of Plymouth, a sum not exceeding four thousand

dollars 4,000 00

661. For the operation and maintenance of the Cape Cod Canal

pier, a sum not exceeding forty-five hundred dollars 4,500 00

662a. For the construction of a channel from Nantucket Sound to
Sengekontacket Pond in the town of Oak Bluffs, and
for certain other improvements, as authorized by chapter
three hundred and seventy-four of the acts of nineteen
hundred and thirty-five, a sum not exceeding twelve
thousand five hundred dollars ..... 12,500 00

Functions of the department relating to Port of Boston
(the following items are to be paid from the Port of
Boston receipts) :

663. For the construction of railroads and piers and for the develop-

ment of certain land, a sum not exceeding ten thousand

dollars 10,000 00

664. For the supervision and operation of commonwealth pier five,

including the salaries or other compensation of em-
ployees, and for the repair and replacement of equipment
and other property, a sum not exceeding one hundred
twenty-three thousand dollars 123,000 00

665. For the maintenance of pier one, at East Boston, a sum not

exceeding four thousand dollars 4,000 00

666. For the maintenance and improvement of commonwealth

property under the control of the department in con-
nection with its functions relating to waterways and
public lands, a sum not exceeding one hundred ten
thousand dollars 110,000 00

667. For dredging channels and filling flats, a sum not exceeding

ninety thousand dollars, the same to be in addition to
any unexpended balance of the appropriation made
for the purpose in the previous year 90,000 00

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Item

Miscellaneous
The following items are to be paid from the Highway
Fund, with the approval of the Metropolitan
District Commission:

691. For maintenance of boulevards and parkways, a sum not

exceeding six hundred seventy-one thousand two

hundred and eleven dollars $671,211 00

692. For resurfacing of boulevards and parkways, a sum not

exceeding two hundred seventy-five thousand dollars . 275,000 00

693. For the cost of certain grading and landscaping, a sum not

exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars . 25,000 00

694. For expense of supplies and services necessary for procuring

Works Progress Administration funds, a sum not

exceeding thirteen thousand dollars .... 13,000 00

695. For maintenance of Wellington bridge, a sum not exceeding

thirty-one hundred and thirty-eight dollars . . . 3,138 00

Unclassified Accounts and Claims
For certain other aid:
701. For the compensation of certain public employees for injuries
sustained in the course of their employment, for present
and previous years, as provided by section sixty-nine of
chapter one hundred and fifty-two of the General Laws,
as most recently amended by section seven of chapter
three hundred and eighteen of the acts of nineteen hun-
dred and thirty-three, a sum not exceeding seventy-five
thousand dollars, of which sum not more than thirty
thousand dollars may be charged to the Highway Fund . $75,000 00

Deficiencies
For deficiencies in certain appropriations of previous
years, in certain items, as follows:

Service of the Department of Public Works
For the maintenance and operation of the public works build-
ing, the sum of thirty-five hundred and nine dollars and
nineteen cents, to be paid from the Highway Fund . 3,509 19

Registration of Motor Vehicles:
For services other than personal, including traveling expenses,
purchase of necessary supplies and materials, including
cartage and storage of the same, and for work incidental
to the registration and licensing of owners and operators
of motor vehicles, the sum of nine hundred sixty-seven
dollars and thirty cents, to be paid from the Highway
Fund 967 30

Functions of the department relating to waterways
and public lands:
For the maintenance and repair of certain property in the
town of Plymouth, the sum of three hundred forty-two
dollars and ninety-eight cents ..... $342 98

Miscellaneous
For resurfacing of boulevards and parkways, the sum of one
hundred dollars, to be paid from the Highway Fund,
with the approval of the metropolitan district commis-
sion 100 00

Section 3. To provide for increases in the salaries and compensation of certain
state officers and employees to be granted under the provisions of sections forty-

P.D. 54 9

five to fifty ,inclusive, of chapter thirty of the General Laws, as appearing in the
Tercentenary Edition thereof, there is hereby appropriated a sum not exceeding
three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which sum not more than fifty-five
thousand dollars shall be taken from the Highway Fund, not more than twenty
thousand dollars from funds of the metroplitan district commission, and the balance
from the General Fund, the same to be in addition to any appropriations otherwise
made for such salaries and compensation. For the purpose of apportioning the
appropriation made by this section, each sum expressed by section two of this act
to be available in whole or in part for personal services shall be increased by such
amount as will make available for salaries and compensation provided for thereby
so much as is required to provide for the aforesaid increases in such salaries and
compensation. The state comptroller, in setting up such items for personal services
on the appropriation ledger in his bureau, shall take as the amounts appropriated
therefor by section one and this section the sums so expressed as increased as afore-
said, and he shall forthwith notify each officer having charge of any office, depart-
ment or undertaking which receives such an appropriation for personal services of
the amount thereof as so set up. The division of personnel and standardization
shall furnish, upon the request of the state comptroller, all necessary assistance
in carrying out the provisions of this act.

Section 4. No expenditures in excess of appropriations provided for under
this act shall be incurred by any department or institution, except in cases of emer-
gency, and then only upon the prior written approval of the governor and council.

Section 6. No payment shall be made or obligation incurred under authority
of any special appropriation made by this act for construction of public buildings
or other improvements at state institutions until plans and specifications have been
approved by the governor, unless otherwise provided by such rules and regulations
as the governor may make.

Section 7. No expenses incurred for mid-day meals by state employees, others
other than those who receive as part of their compensation a non-cash allowance in
the form of full or complete boarding and housing, and those employees who are
stationed beyond commuting distance from their homes for a period of more than
twenty-four hours, shall be allowed by the commonwealth.

Supplementary Appropriations

Chapter 432, Acts of 1936, in addition to the general appropriation act making
appropriations to supplement certain items contained therein, and for certain new
activities and projects, is, in part, as follows: —

Section 2.

Item

Interest on the Public Debt.

223. For the payment of interest on the direct debt of the com-
monwealth, a sum not exceeding thirty-one thousand two
hundred thirty-six dollars and eleven cents, to be paid
from the Highway Fund and to be in addition to any
amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . . $31,236 11

Sendee of the Department of Public Works..
The appropriation made in the following item is to
be paid three quarters from the Highway Fund and
one quarter from the Port of Boston receipts :
634. For telephone service in the public works building, a sum not
exceeding fifty-four hundred dollars, the same to be in
addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for the
purpose ......... 5,400 00

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Item

Functions of the department relating to highways (the
following appropriations, except as otherwise provided
are made from the Highway Fund) :

636. For the salaries of guards for the public works building, a sum
. not exceeding sixty-nine hundred and ninety-four dollars

the same to be in addition to any amount heretofore

appropriated for the purpose . . . . . $6,994 00

637. For personal services of the chief engineer, engineers and office

assistants, including certain clerks and stenographers, a
sum not exceeding fifty-two hundred and eighty dollars,
the same to be in addition to any amount heretofore ap-
propriated for the purpose 5,280 00

638a. For expense of membership of the department in the American
Association of State Highway Officials, a sum not exceed-
ing four hundred and fifty dollars . . . 450 00

The appropriation made by Item 645 of chapter three hundred
and four of the acts of the current year is to be in addi-
tion to the unexpended balance of the appropriation
made in the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirty-five.

The appropriation made by Item 653b of chapter four hundred
and ninety-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and
thirty-five is to be in addition to the appropriation made
by Item 574b of chapter three hundred and eighty-four
of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-four.

The comptroller is hereby authorized to certify for payment
in anticipation of the receipts of the assessments on the
municipalities of the metropolitan parks district and
the city of Revere as authorized by chapter three
hundred and seventy-five of the acts of nineteen hun-
dred and thirty-four, as amended by chapter four
hundred and eighty-seven of the acts of nineteen
hundred and thirty-five, any expenses incurred, within
the amount authorized, for the widening and recon-
struction of Ocean avenue in the city of Revere, as au-
thorized by said chapters.

Registration of Motor Vehicles:

646. For personal services, a sum not exceeding seventy-five

hundred dollars, to be paid from the Highway Fund,
and to be in addition to any amount heretofore ap-
propriated for the purpose ..... 7,500 00

647. For services other than personal, including traveling expenses,

purchase of necessary supplies and materials, including
cartage and storage of the same, and for work incidental
to the registration and licensing of owners and operators
of motor vehicles, a sum not exceeding ten thousand
dollars, to be paid from the Highway Fund, and to be
in addition to any amount heretofore appropriated for
the purpose 10,000 00

Functions of the department relating to waterways
and public lands:

654a. To provide for certain dredging in Provincetown Harbor, a

sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars . . 20,000 00

660. For the maintenance and repair of certain property in the
town of Plymouth, a sum not exceeding two thousand
dollars, the same to be in addition to any amount here-
tofore appropriated for the purpose .... 2,000 00

662b. For expenses of an investigation relative to the site of
Gloucester pier, a sum not exceeding one thousand
dollars 1,000 00

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Item

662c. For the furnishing of services and supplies in co-operation
with federal authorities in connection with Works
Progress Administration grants, a sum not exceeding
fifty thousand dollars is hereby authorized to be paid
out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation
authorized by chapter one hundred and forty-four of
the acts of the current year.

Miscellaneous
The following items are to be paid from the High-
way Fund, with the approval of the Metropolitan
District Commission:
691. For maintenance of boulevards and parkways, a sum not
exceeding twelve hundred and seventy-five dollars,
the same to be in addition to any amount heretofore
appropriated for the purpose ..... $1,275 00
692a. For the cost of making repairs on account of flood damage
in co-operation with federal authorities wherever
Works Progress Administration grants are possible, a
sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars . . 20,000 00

Unclassified Accounts and Claims
For certain other aid:
701. For the compensation of certain public employees for injuries
sustained in the course of their employment, for present
and previous years, as provided by section sixty-nine
of chapter one hundred and fifty-two of the General
Laws, as amended, a sum not exceeding twenty-five
thousand dollars, to be paid from the Highway Fund,
and to be in addition to any amount heretofore appro-
priated for the purpose ...... 25,000 00

Deficiencies
For deficiencies in certain appropriations of previous
years, in certain items, as follows:

Service of the Department of Public Works

For the maintenance and repair of state highways, including
care of snow on highways, expenses of traffic signs and
lights; for payment of damages caused by defects in
state highways, with the approval of the attorney
general; for care and repair of road-building machinery;
and for the maintenance of a nursery for roadside
planting, the sum of nine hundred twenty-nine dollars
and eighty cents, to be paid from the Highway Fund . 929 80

For the maintenance and operation of the public works
building, the sum of five hundred eighty-four dollars
and thirty-three cents, to be paid from the Highway
Fund 584 33

For the improvement, development and protection of rivers
and harbors, tidewaters and foreshores within the
commonwealth, as authorized by section eleven of
chapter ninety-one of the General Laws, as appearing
in the Tercentenary Edition thereof, and of great ponds,
the sum of forty-nine dollars and thirty cents . . 49 30

For the settlement of certain land takings in connection with
the construction of approaches for the Cape Cod Canal
Pier, the sum of thirty-four thousand one hundred and
twenty-five dollars 34,125 00

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Item

Other Appropriations

662d. For the cost of constructing a sea wall at Roughan's Point,
Revere, as authorized by chapter three hundred and
fifty-eight of the acts of the current year, a sum not
exceeding eighty-five thousand dollars, the same to be
in addition to an appropriation of forty-two thousand
five hundred dollars to be assessed as part of the cost
of maintenance of parks reservations and to the further
sum of forty-two thousand five hundred dollars to be paid
into the treasury of the commonwealth by the city of
Revere "; $85,000 00

645a. For the cost of reconstructing a bridge over Mystic river
between the city of Medford and the town of Arlington,
a sum not exceeding thirty-seven thousand five hundred
dollars, the same to be paid from the Highway Fund and
to be in addition to contributions made by the metro-
politan parks district, the county of Middlesex, the
town of Arlington and the city of Medford, as authorized
by chapter three hundred and seventy-seven of the acts
of the current year 37,500 00

Chapter 437, Acts of 1936, further in addition to the general appropriation act
making appropriations to supplement certain items contained therein, and for
certain new activities and projects, is, in part, as follows: —

Section 1. To provide further for supplementing certain items in the general
appropriation act, and for certain new activities and projects, the sums set forth
in section two, for the particular purposes and subject to the conditions stated
therein, are hereby appropriated from the general fund or ordinary revenue of
the commonwealth, unless some 'other source of revenue is expressed, subject to
the provisions of law regulating the disbursement of public funds and the approval
thereof.

Section 2.

Item

Service of the Department of Public Works
Functions of the department relating to highways :

635. For the maintenance and operation of the public works build-

ing, a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, to be
paid from the Highway Fund and to be in addition to
any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . $1,500 00

636. For the salaries of guards for the public works building, a sum

not exceeding ten thousand dollars, to be paid from the
Highway Fund and to be in addition to any amount
appropriated for the purpose ..... 10,000 00

644. For administering the law relative to advertising signs near
highways, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, to
be paid from the General Fund and to be in addition to
any amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose . 5,000 00

Functions of the department relating to waterways
and public lands:
662. For the cost of inspection of structures in tidewater outside
of Boston Harbor, a sum not exceeding five thousand
dollars 5,000 00

Functions of the department relating to Port of
Boston :
668. For the cost of inspection of structures in tidewater within
Boston Harbor, a sum not exceeding ten thousand
dollars 10,000 00

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Item

Other Appropriations

643a. For the cost of constructing certain bridges, as authorized by-
chapter four hundred and twenty-nine of the acts of the
current year, a sum not exceeding two hundred twelve
thousand five hundred dollars, the same to be paid from
the Highway Fund and to be subject to the conditions
of, and in addition to all other funds provided under,
said chapter four hundred and twenty-nine . . $212,500 00

643b. For the cost of constructing certain bridges, as authorized
by chapter four hundred and thirty-three of the acts
of the current year, a sum not exceeding one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, the same to be paid from
the Highway Fund and to be subject to the conditions
of, and in addition to all other funds provided under
said chapter four hundred and thirty-three . . . 150,000 00

The appropriation of two million dollars for reconstruction
and repair of state highways damaged by floods, as
made by chapter one hundred and eighty-six of the
acts of the current year, is hereby reduced by the sum
of one hundred and fifty-three thousand dollars, and
said sum shall revert to the Highway Fund revenue
account.

Highway Fund Diversion
Chapter 431, Acts of 1936, provided for the transfer of a portion of the proceeds
of the gasoline tax from the Highway Fund to the General Fund, as follows:

WHEREAS, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its
purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public convenience.

BE IT ENACTED, ETC., AS FOLLOWS:

The state treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to transfer the
sum of three million six hundred and fifty thousand dollars from the Highway
Fund to the General Fund.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Summary of Income, Year Ending November 30, 1936

Highway Fund

(Section 34, Chapter 90, General Laws, as amended)
(See Chapter 288, Acts of 1925)
Fees (for registration of motor vehicles, licenses to

operate, etc.), and fines (penalties, Sundry

Courts), net receipts .....

Gasoline Tax, net ......

Contributions for highways and assessments (G. L.,

Ch. 81) . . - m .

Appropriation balances of previous years reverting
Contributions and Refunds
Sale of old materials and buildings
Reimbursement for repairs to guard rail and other

property ......

Rent of property (Nursery)

Rent of Space, Public Works Building

Slot Machine Receipts ....

Premium and Interest on Bonds

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$6,699,393 85
18,377,265 84

243,142 47
5 188,634 17

8,919 65

3,417 74

8,253 81
190 00

51,877 44

271 20

34.392 00

$25,615,758 17

Port of Boston Fund
(Chapter 91, General Laws)
Rents (leases and permits) .... $143,024 95

Reimbursement for services (inspection of dump-
ing dredged material in Boston Harbor) . 350 69
Use of Commonwealth Pier 5 (wharfage, dockage,

rentals, etc.) 181,561 34

Use of Commonwealth Pier 1 (rentals, etc.) . 5,902 15

Revenue from permits for dumping dredged ma-
terial at receiving basins .... 940 29
License charges (for tidewater displacement and
occupying Commonwealth tide lands (Boston

Harbor) . . 8,520 80

Telephone Pay Station receipts .... 334 54

Sales of land 39,878 00

Sundries . . _ . . . _ . 3,934 27

Appropriation balances of previous years reverting 552 75

$384,999 78

Department Income
(Ordinary Revenue)

Sales (specifications and plans for contracts)

Reimbursement for services (inspection of dump-
ing dredged material outside of Boston Harbor,
Chap. 196, Acts of 1925) . _ .

License charges (for tidewater displacement and
occupying Commonwealth tide lands) outside of
Boston Harbor .....

Certified copying charges ....

S?le of Atlas sheets and miscellaneous plans

Use of Province I ands (S. 25, c. 91, G. L.) .

PeTmits for pdvertising signs

Use of New Bedford State Pier .

Use of Cape Cod Canal State Fier

Sundries .......

5,498 00

90 23

2,263 81

134 00

999 18

177 00

26,023 17

22,662 45

6,635 38

1 00

$62,484 22

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Improvement of Rivers and Harbors Trust

(Sections 11, 29, Chapter 91, General Laws)

Contributions from towns, individuals or others .... $85,834 50

Highway Trust
(Section 30, Chapter 81, General Laws)
Federal Aid (reimbursement from United States Government) . $3,404,710 61

Other Federal Aid on Certain Projects
Massachusetts Project 1301D— Comm. Pier 5 . $204,750 00
Massachusetts Project 1286D— Hull . . . 40,000 00

$244,750 00

Funds Contributed for Work Under Special Acts
Contribution by Metropolitan Parks District

(Chap. 375, Acts of 1934) .... $152,500 00
Contribution by City of Revere (Chap. 375, Acts

of 1934) . . m . . 29,440 64

Contribution by Metropolitan Parks District

(Chap. 358, Acts of 1936) .... 42,50000

Contribution by Citv of Revere (Chap. 358, Acts

of 1936) . . . 42,500 00

$266,940 64
Total $30,065,477 92

EXPENDITURES

The expenditures by the Department under the provisions of General Laws and
other acts and the appropriation acts, chapters 304, 432, and 437, Acts of 1936,
during the fiscal year ending November 30, 1936, were as follows:

Administrative
Commissioner, Associate Commissioners, Personal
Services of clerks, stenographers and Commis-
sioners' Travel $30,541 63

Public Works Building, operation and maintenance 146,185 34
Salaries of Watchmen ..... 35,562 78

Telephone service 29,613 88

$241,903 63

Total , $241,903 63

Relating to Highways

Personal Services — Chief Engineer, clerks and ste-
nographers .......... 96,955 21

Incidentals (printing, postage, supplies, etc.) .... 15,264 97

Advertising signs, regulation of, personal services

and expenses ......... 20,319 11

Suppression of gypsy and brown-tail moths on
State highways in cities and towns . . .... 12,483 53

State Highways — Construction (Chap. 81, G. L.)

General contract work $2,166,385 68

Engineering (Supervision) .... 518,502 83

Highway Testing Laboratory .... 7,278 32

Investigation of Worcester Pike . . . 6,646 40

Services as consultant . . . . 3,411 64

Concrete Road Instruction .... 1,271 44

Inspection of bituminous concrete pavemen

(Technical services) . . . . . 185 39

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Geodetic survey ......

Chap. 241 — Saugus River Bridge — Land taking.

Fore River Bridge

Substructure . . . $215,273 94

Superstructure . . . 51,101 39

Maintenance and Repair of State Highivays (Chap.

81, G. L.)
Reconstruction of State Highways

General contract work .....

Engineering, supervision on reconstruction

$497 70
600 00

266,375 33

$384,326 41
269,238 17

Ordinary Maintenance

Genera] Maintenance _ $2,314,909 12

Engineering (Supervision) .... 432,390 27
Highway Testing Laboratory .... 20,422 01
Care and repair of road building machinery . 491,525 01
Removal of snow on highways . . . 923,283 11
Road planting and development . . . 24,913 19
Traffic engineering, signs, and traffic count . 366,242 43
Paint manufacture . . . . 22,049 00
Newburyport Bridge, Salisbury — Newburyport,
over Merrimac River, maintenance and opera-
tion 4,498 06

Brightman St. Bridge, Fall River — Somerset

maintenance and operation .... 9,007 06
New Bedford-Fairhaven Bridge, Acushnet River,

maintenance and operation .... 42,569 96
Quincv- Weymouth Bridge, maintenance and

operation ....'... 13,487 40

Route and detour maps ..... 1,277 02

Safety Advertising 12,000 00

Geodetic Survey 4,928 52

Tractor repairs 11,097 72

Inspection of bituminous concrete pavement

(Technical services) 1,843 12

Construction of Town and County Ways
(Sect. 34, Chap. 90, G. L.)
State's expenditures for work contracted for in

cities and towns .....

Engineering and expense (supervision)
Inspection of bituminous concrete pavement

(Technical services) .....

1,395,555 01
494,253 60

534 00

Aiding Toivns in the Re-pair and Improvement of
Public Ways (Sect. 26, Chap. 81, G. L.)
State's expenditures for work contracted for in
cities and towns .....

Engineering and expense (supervision)

,359,879 10
110,178 27

Emergency Public Works Construction .
Special Acts:

Highways in Maiden, Braintree, Hingham and
Weymouth

Hingham, Braintree and Weymouth
Highways in Metropolitan District (Chap. 420,
Acts of 1930 as amended by Chap. 450, Acts
of 1931)
Section 1. Canton-Dedham-Wellesley, etc. .

,971,154 73

653,564 58

$4,696,443 00

1,890,342 61

1,470,057 37
344,493 89

532 00

$9,090 00

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Section 2. Canterbury St., Boston . . $2,655 00

Section 3. Land Taking — Neponset River —

Milton . ... 6,074 68

Section 4. West Roxbury-Brookline Parkway 2,570 45

Abolition of Grade Crossings (Chap. 417, Acts of

1930)

Alewife Brook Parkway Extension (Chap. 302, Acts

of 1932)

Traffic Circle, Neponset River (Chap. 341, Acts of

1934) . . . ....

Reconstruction of Ocean Ave., Revere (Chap. 375

Acts of 1934)

Study relative to Bridges, Turners Falls (Chap. 314

Acts of 1934)

Chelsea North Bridge (Chap. 342, Acts of 1924)
Temporary Bridges over Connecticut River (Chap

174, Acts of 1936) ....
Repair of Certain Bridges (Chap. 429, Acts of 1936)
Topographical survey and maps .
Expense of membership in American Association of

State Highway Officials ....
Chap. 464, Acts of 1935 — Bond Issue

Class 1. Cities and towns, engineering, etc.

Class 2. Construction of sidewalks

Class 3. Hayden-Cartwright Act .

Class 4. Grade crossings, etc.

$222,809 25

3,559,302 74

468,860 57

2,588,987 19

Chap. 186, Acts of 1936 — State Highway Flood Damage
Total Expenditures for Highways

$20,390 13

9,606 08

13,393 34

82,573 46

410,604 74

2,211 28
33,306 48

450,000 00
49,998 45
62,056 99

450 00

6,839,959 75
1,760,943 40

$21,907,105 10

Summary of Expenditures Relating to Waterways
General Expenses .........

Boston Harbor:
Development of Rivers and Harbors (Chap. 464, Class 5, Acts of

1935) . .

Dredging and Filling ........

Free Port Investigation (Chap. 48, Resolves of 1934)

Hough's Neck, Quincy (Chap. 322, Acts of 1934)

Maintenance and Operation of Commonwealth Pier 5, South Boston

Maintenance and Operation of Commonwealth Pier 1, East Boston

Maintenance of Property ........

Streets, Piers and Railroads .......

Structures in Tidewater, Boston Harbor, inspection of

Outside Boston Harbor:
Cape Cod Canal Pier, operation and maintenance
Cape Cod Canal Pier, construction . . .

Compensation of Dumping Inspectors .....

Development of Rivers and Harbors (Chap. 464, Class 5, Acts of

1935) .

Gloucester Fish Pier, Investigation relative to site of (Chap. 432,

Acts of 1936) . .

Improvement of Rivers and Harbors ......

New Bedford Pier, operation and maintenance ....

New Bedford Pier, Improvement of (Chap. 38) .

Plymouth Property, expenses of ......

Plymouth Pier, Reconstruction (Chap. 429, Acts of 1935) -

$58,426 25

772,980 92

98,573 86

345 00

1,519 46

130,449 19

2,206 66

104,406 21

6,126 99

2,825 92

4,615 41

34,125 00

34 08

183,815 69

847 15

135,529 59

12,483 95

5,613 05

6,342 98

7,721 83

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Province Lands, expenses of . . ...

Provincetown Harbor, Dredging (Chap. 432, Acts 1936)
Repairing damages to shore ......

Roughans Point Sea Wall (Chap. 358, Acts 1936)
Salisbury Beach, Improvement of (Chap. 399, Acts 1934)
State Boundary Lines, perambulating ....

Structures in Tidewater outside Boston Harbor, Inspection of
Stream Gauging ........

Topographical Survey
Town Boundaries, surveying

$4,993 60

19,999 59

19,423 26

799 49

12,853 70

1,254 05

1,213 89

5,000 00

912 92

432 66

W.P.A. Grants, Expenses in connection with (Chap. 432, Acts 1936) 14,698 84

Total $1,650,571 19

Expenditures Relating to the Registry of Motor Vehicles
Cost of running the Registry of Motor Vehicles . $1,493,497 12

Safety Work, Publicity 62 68

Committee on Aeronautics .... 2,425 61

Total $1,495,985 41

Summary of Expenditures by Department
for Year Ending November 30, 1936

Administrative $241,903 63

Relating to Highways 21,907,105 10

Registry of Motor Vehicles 1,495,985 41

Relating to Waterways ........ 1,650,571 19

Total $25,295,565 33

Co-operative Work — Supervision of Expenditures
The Department has supervised the expenditures during the year by cities,
towns and counties, under Chapter 81, General Laws, as amended, of approxi-
mately $2,049,053.89 for co-operative work, in repairing, maintaining and im-
proving certain public ways, and for other road work for which the towns and
cities made contributions. All such work was carried out in conformity with
contracts, specifications and plans approved by the Department.

Financial Statement Verified.
Approved.

Geo. E. Murphy, Comptroller.

RELATING TO HIGHWAYS
General Statement
State Highways. — During the year ending November 30, 1936, the Department
laid out new State Highways amounting to 13 . 03 miles in 14 cities and towns. Under
Chapter 81, General Laws, as amended by Chapter 427, Acts of 1931, 1.27 miles
of State Highways were discontinued or abandoned. The total length of State
Highways at the end of the year was 1,887 . 14 miles.

Highways Constructed in 1936. — Construction has been completed on 11.564
miles of State Highway and 115.542 miles of highway under the provisions of
Section 34, Chapter 90, General Laws as amended, making a total of 127.106
miles completed during the year.

Of the above highways completed this year, the classification according to
type of pavement is as follows :

4 . 092 miles of reinforced Cement Concrete

0.811 mile of Dual (Reinforced Concrete and Bituminous Macadam)
28 . 007 miles of Bituminous Macadam

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12 . 300 miles of Bituminous Concrete

35.962 miles of Bitumino'S Concrete (Mixed in Place)

17.261 miles of Gravel with Bituminous Treatment

13.418 miles of Gravel

15. 109 miles of Penr lithic
0.416 mile of Granite Block

Resurf cing, Recons'ruc'ion and Widening of State Highways. — During the year
6.264 miles of State Highway were widened but not resurfaced, and 34.061 miles
were resiirfaced or reconstructed and widened. In addition to this work on which
the surfacing has been completed, there are several miles of road in various stages
of completion which are scheduled to be finished next year.

The Resurfacing or Reconstruction of State Highways in 1936 was divided into
types as follows :

0.619 mile of Reinforced Cement Concrete

26 . 802 miles of Bituminous Macadam
4 . 334 miles of Bituminous Concrete
2 . 306 miles of Penolithic

Surveys, Plans and Estimates. — During the year ending November 30,1936,
preliminary surveys, plans and estimates were made as follows:

Reconnaissance surveys in cities and 14 towns, 35.72 miles;

Reconnaissance plans in 2 cities and 13 towns, 39.85 miles;

For State Highway Construction. — Preliminary surveys in 14 cities and 27 towns,
53 . 641 miles ; plans in 9 cities and 14 towns, 33 . 725 miles ; preliminary estimates in
4 cities and 1 1 towns, 25 . 969 miles ; lines and grades in 4 cities and 13 towns, 27 . 876
miles ; and final surveys in 2 cities and 10 towns, 26 . 496 miles.

For State Highway Reconstruction. — Reconnaissance surrveys and plans in 1 town,
1 . 34 miles ; Preliminary surveys in 9 cities and 26 towns, 57 . 010 miles ; plans in 7 cities
and 16 towns, 30.050 miles; preliminary estimates in 4 cities and 7 towns, 20.720
miles; lines and grades in 4 cities and 6 towns, 20.950 miles; and final surveys in
2 cities and 6 towns, 17.162 miles.

For State Highway Maintenance. — Preliminary surveys in 6 cities and 35 towns,
55.894 miles; plans in 5 cities and 32 towns, 34.428 miles; preliminary estimates
in 1 town, 0.009 mile; and lines and grades in 4 cities and 6 towns, 13.039 miles.

Under Section 34, Chapter 90, General Laws, as amended. — Reconnaissance surveys
and plans in 2 towns, 1 .50 miles; Preliminary surveys in 14 cities and 193 towns,
150.763 miles; plans in 17 cities and 193 towns, 197.756 miles; preliminary estim-
ates in 14 cities and 92 towns 98.863 miles; fines and grades in 18 cities and 136
towns, 136.154 miles; and final surveys in 10 cities and 48 towns, 55.254 miles.

Under the Provisions of Various Acts and Resolves. — surveys, plans, estimates,
lines and grades, and final surveys were made as follows:

Chapter 341, Acts of 1934: 0.0076 mile of final survey in 1 city.

Chapter 375, Acts of 1934: 0.767 mile of final survey in 1 city.

Chapter 429, Acts of 1936: 8.568 miles of preliminary surveys in 34 towns ; 7.807
miles of plans in 34 towns; and 0.44 mile of preliminary estimates in 3 towns.

During the year the Massachusetts Geodetic Survey, which is a Works Progress
Administration project sponspored by the Massachusetts Department of Public
Works,has made level, traverse, and triangulation surveys, and has established
bench marks, traverse and triangulation stations as follows:

480 miles of first order levels.

960 miles of second order levels.
1820 bench marks.

590 miles of second order traverse, including

870 monumented stations.

130 triangulation stations.
50 magnetic stations.

Permits. — There were 1,418 permits issued during the year for opening or occupy-
ing State Highways for various purposes.

Engineering Advice to Other Departments. — Advice to Department of Education;
preliminary; preliminary surveys and plans in 1 city, 0.008 miles; preliminary esti-
mate in 1 city, 0.005 mile; lines and grades in 1 city and 1 town, 0.024 mile; and
final surveys in 1 town, 0.019 mile.

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Advice to Department of Mental Diseases; preliminary surveys and plans in 1
city and 2 towns, 1.259 miles; and preliminary estimates in 1 city, 0.408 mile.

Engineering Advice to Muncvpal Authorities. — The Department furnished enginee-
ring advice without charge to 7 cities and towns in accordance with the provisions
of Section 1, Chapter 81, General Laws.

Approval of Specifications. — The Department approved during the year under th
provisions of Section 7, Chapter 44, General Laws, as amended, specifications for
the construction of roads in 8 cities and towns.

Planting of Trees on State Highways. — During the past year, 2538 trees were
planted along roadsides making a total of 76,153 trees thus set out in the past
thirty-two years. In addition there were planted throughout the State 4,250 shrubs.

Petitions, Meetings and Hearings
In addition to the regular weekly meetings of the Department throughout the
year, numerous hearings and conferences have been held, including the annual
hearings in the several counties in the Commonwealth for the open discussion of
questions relating to the public ways, as required by section 1, chapter 81, General
Laws; appeals from the action taken by the Registrar of Motor Vehicles in the sus-
pension or revocation of certain licenses to operate motor vehicles in 167 cases; on
the matter of outdoor advertising in 10 towns and cities; on the matter of special
regulations for motor vehicles in Melrose and North Attleborough ; on a petition for
the relocation of street railway tracks on Ocean Avenue in Revere; on the matter
of the amendment of Section 12 (Stopping and Turning Signals) of the rules and
regulations for driving on State highways; on the abolition of grade crossings in

21 towns and cities; and on the matter of the revision of rules and regulations for the
reasonable and proper control of the transportation by motor vehicles of personal
property over public ways.

Petitions were received and contracts signed during during the year as follows:

Petitions Contracts
7 26

State highways ......

Work under section 34, chapter 90, General Laws
Work under section 26, chapter 81, General Laws
Work under Special Acts .
Abolition of Grade Crossings .
Miscellaneous .......

— 460

177 177

Total 200 701

State Highways
Petitions for State Highways
General Laws, Chapter 81, section 4 (Tercentenary Edition), provides that —
" If county commissioners, aldermen or selectmen adjudge that public necessity
and convenience require that the Commonwealth lay out and take charge of a new
or existing way as a highway in whole or in part, in their county, city or town, they
may apply, by a written petition, to the department, requesting that said way be
laid out and taken charge of by the Commonwealth.' '

Petitions under the aforesaid section have been received during the year as fol-
lows : —

Mayor and Board of Alderman of Northampton: — Road locally known as
Hatfield Road, extending from North King Street to the dividing line between
the city of Northampton and the town of Hatfield, at the Boston & Maine
Railroad underpass. Received December 13, 1935.
Board of Selectmen of Orange : — Road locally known as South Road, extending
southerly from Central Square for about two miles. Received December 27,
1935.
Mayor and Board of Aldermen of Revere: — Road locally known as Squire
Road, extending from Broadway westerly to a point near Stevens Street,
thence on new location northwesterly to a point on the dividing line between
the cities of Maiden and Revere, near the intersection of Lynn and Salem

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Streets. Also a highway on new location from the dividing line between the
cities of Maiden and Revere northrely to the dividing line between the city of
Revere and the town of Saugus. Received December 27, 1935.

Board of Selectmen of Westminster: — Road extending in part on new location
from a point at or near West Main Street easterly to a point on the dividing
line between the town of Westminster and the city of Fitchburg at or near
Old Princeton Road. Received July 28, 1936.

Mayor and Board of Aldermen of Leominster: — Road extending in part on
new location from a point on the dividing line between the cities of Fitchburg
and Leominster at or near Monoosnoc Brook easterly and southeasterly to a
point on the dividing line between the city of Leominster and the town of
Lancaster north of White Pond. Received August 6, 1936.

Mayor and Board of Aldermen of Fitchburg: — Road extending in part on
new location from a point on the dividing line between the town of Westminster
and the city of Fitchburg at or near Old Princeton Road easterly to a point on
the dividing line between the cities of Fitchburg and Leominster at or near
Monoosnoc Brook. Recived August 14, 1936.

Board of Selectmen of Randolph: — Road locally known as the Taunton Turn-
pike extending from a point on the dividing line between the town of Randolph
and the city of Quincy to the dividing line between the towns of Randolph
and Canton. Received November 25, 1936.

Construction and Reconstruction of State Highways
{Chapter 81, General Laws, as amended)
The following contracts were entered into during the year for the construction
and reconstruction of State highways, and work incidental thereto, in various
municipalities : —

Dedham-Bournc
Dec. 31, 1935, contract made with George A. Marshall, of Somerville, for
furnisshing and installing traffic signals on State highways in Dedham and Bourne.
The proposal amounted to $1,614. Work completed Mar. 5, 1936. Expenditure
during 1936, $1,614.

Greenfield
Jan. 14, 1936, contract made with Antonio Pandiscio, of Fitchburg, for recon-
structing about 3,076 feet of State highway on Deerfield Street, the surface consis-
ting of bituminous macadam. The proposal amounted to $58,156.95. Work
completed Oct. 1, 1936. Expenditure during 1936, $57,049.56.

Bourne

Feb. 12, 1936, contract made with Eastern Contracting Company, of Quincy,
for constructing about 16,487 feet of State highway on North County Road and
new location, the surface consisting of penolithic pavement. The proposal amounted
to $303,077.37. Work completed Oct. 24, 1936. Expenditure during 1936, $260,
736.22.

Quincy-W cymouth

Mar. 3, 1936, contract made with Edwin C. Lewis, Incorporated, of Boston,for
furnishing and installing lighting equipment for the Fore River Bridge and app-
roaches in Quincy and Weymouth. The proposal amounted to $12,639.98. Work
completed Nov. 7, 1936. Expenditure during 1936, $12,667.55.

Lynn
April 1, 1936, contract made with G. Rotondi & Son, of Melrose, for reconstruc-
ting about 3,241 feet of State highway on Broad Street, the surface consisting of
bituminous macadam. The proposal amounted to $44,281 . 30. Work completed
Oct. 21, 1936. Expenditure during 1936, $58,724 . 36.

Boston-Dedham
April 15, 1936, contract made with Martino DeMatteo, of Boston, for construc-
ting about 3,400 feet of sidewalks and miscellaneous work on the Dedham-Boston

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Cut-Off near the junction of Spring; Street, on State highway in Boston, and about
5,223 feet of sidewalks and miscellaneous worrk on the Dedham-Boston Cut-Off
on State highway in Dedham, the surface consisting of bituminous concrete. The
proposal amounted to $29,299.20. Work completed Aug. 31, 1936. Expenditure
during 1936, $31,459.06.

Framingham

April 21, 1936, contract made with Littlefield-Wyman Nurseries, of Abington,

for furnishing and planting trees, shrubs and vines at the grade separation at the

junction of the Worcester Turnpike and Pleasant Street. The proposal amounted

to $1,648.35. Work completed May 23, 1936. Expenditure during 1936, $1,608.35.

Quincy-W eymo uth

May 26, 1936, contract made with Coleman Bros. Corporation, of Boston, for
constructing a traffic circle and approaches at the new Fore River Bridge in Quincy
and Weymouth, the surface consisting of penolithic pavement. The proposal
amounted to $74,720.65. Work completed Nov. 6, 1936. Expenditure during
1936, $66,221.27.

Wayland

June 23, 1936, contract made with Evans Products Company, of Detroit, Michi-
gan, for constructing an electrically controlled warning and highway barrier to be
operated by approaching trains, at the intersection of the Boston and Maine
Railroad, Eastern Massachusetts Division, and the Boston Post Road, U. S. Route
20. The proposal amounted to $10,500. Work completed Sept. 30, 1936. Expendi-
ture during 1936, $9,760.

Quin cy - Weymouth

June 30, 1936, contract made with Bay State Dredging & Contracting Co., of
Boston, for removing the temporary bridge south of and parallel to the new Fore
River Bridge in Quincy and Weymouth. The proposal amounted to $17,500.
Work completed Sept. 10, 1936. Expenditure during 1936, $15,822.54.

Pitlsfield
July 7, 1936, contract made with The Lane Comstruction Corporation, of Meriden
Connecticut, for reconstructing about 10,233 feet of State highway on Dalton
Avenue, the surface consisting of bituminous macadam. The proposal amounted
to $239,799.20. Work about two-fifths completed. Expenditure during 1936,
$94,367.88.

Millbury

July 14, 1936, contract made with Frank C. Dolan & Sons, of Boston, for cleaning
and painting on Auto Route 20, a grade separation bridge over Millbury Street, the
Blackstone River Bridge, and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Bridge. The proposal amounted to $1,495. Work completed Nov. 10, 1936. Expen-
diture during 1936, $977.50.

Lynnfield-Peabody

July 21, 1936, contract made with Ellsworth H. Lewis, of Andover, for construc-
ting a steel stringer and concrete beam bridge of three spans on the Newburyport
Turnpike over the Circumferential Highway in Lynnfield, the construction of about
2,103 feet of Sta^te highway on the old location of the Wakefield Branch of the
Boston and Maine Railroad and on new location in Lynnfield, and about 18,757
feet of State highway on the old railroad location and on new location in Peabody;
the surface, except over the bridge in Lynnfield and the bridge over Lowell Street
in Peabody, consisting of Warrenite Bitulithic Pavement, and the surface over
the said bridges consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to
$843,701.60. Work about one-third completed. Expenditure during 1936, $264,
815.07.

Peabody

July 21, 1936, contract made with Richard White Sons, Inc., of Newton, for
constructing a steel stringer and concrete beam bridge of two spans on the Northern
Circumferential Highway over Lowell Street. The proposal amounted to $51,419.70.
Work about four-fifths completed. Expenditure during 1936, $43,667.11.

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Pittsfield

July 28, 1936, contract made with The Lane Construction Coropration, of
Meriden, Connecticut, for constructing about 1,125 feet of State highway on West
Housatonic Street, the surface consisting of reinforced concrete. The proposal
amounted to $26,055.30. Work completed Nov. 28, 1936. Expenditure during
1936, $23,226.99.

Tyngsborough

Aug. 11, 1936, contract made with Maurice M. Devine, Inc., of Boston, for
cleaning and painting the Tyngsborough Bridge, on Auto Route 113. The proposal
amounted to $7,400. Work completed Nov. 13, 1936. Expenditure during 1936,
$6,290.

Wayland

Aug. 18, 1936, contract made with Eagle Signal Corporation, of Arlington, for
furnishing and installing traffic control signals on State highway in Wayland. The
proposal amounted to $487. Work completed Sept. 25, 1936. Expenditure during
1936, $487.

EasLham-Orleans

Aug. 25, 1936, contract made with Michael F. Roach & Sons, Inc., of Bridgewater,
for reconstructing about 1,893 feet of State highway on County Road in Orleans,
and about 14,900 feet of State highway on said County Road in Eastham, the
surface consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to $230,847 . 25.
Work just commenced. Expenditure during 1936, $4,805.87.

Bourne
Sept. 8, 1936, contract made with Arute Bros., Incorporated, of Bridgewater, for
constructing about 6,927 feet of State highway from the southerly end of the
traffic circle south of the Bourne Bridge and over new location, the surface consisting
of penolithic pavement. The proposal amounted to $87,944.95. Work about
one-sixth completed. Expenditure during 1936, $15,676.55.

Erving-Gill-Buckland-Charlemont
Sept. 22, 1936, contract made with Maurice M. Devine, Inc., of Boston, for
cleaning and painting French King Bridge, on Auto Route 2, in Erving and Gill,
over the Connecticut River and, cleaning and painting Scott's Bridge, on Auto
Route 2, in Buckland and Charlemont, over the Deerfield River. The proposal
amounted to $15,000. Work just commenced. Expenditure during 1936, $4,462.50.

Saugus

Oct. 8, 1936, contract made with B. Perini & Sons, Inc., of Framingham, for
constructing on the Newburyport Turnpike a steel stringer bridge of two spans
• with a concrete deck, under Essex Street, a steel stringer bridge of two spans with
a concrete deck, under Main Street, a concrete slab extension of a concrete beam
bridge over Saugus River, and a steel stringer bridge of two spans with a concrete
deck and concrete beam approach span, under Walnut Street. The proposal
amounted to $167,093.45. Work about one-eighth completed. Expenditure
during 1936, $19,217.73.

Malden-Revere-Saugus

Oct. 8, 1936, contract made with C. J. Maney Co. Inc., of Boston, for constructing
a steel stringer and concrete bridge of four spans over the Saugus branch of the
Boston and Maine Railroad in Revere, a steel stringer bridge with concrete deck over
Lynn Street in Maiden and Revere, and about 14,553 feet of State highway on
Squire Road at Broadway in Revere and on new location in Revere, Maiden
and Saugus; the surface, except for the aforementioned bridges consisting of
penolithic pavement, and the surface over said bridges consisting of bituminous
concrete. The proposal amounted to $825,178. 15. Work just commenced. Ex-
penditure during 1936, $30,107.38.

Lynnfield-Saugus
Oct. 8, 1936, contract made with B. Perini & Sons, Inc, of Framingham, for
reconstructing about 18,362 feet of State highway on the Newburyport Turnpike

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in Saugus, and about 6,350 feet of State highway on the same road in Lynnfield,
the surface consisting of Warrenite Bitulithic Pavement. The proposal amounted
to $1,349,895.25. Work just commenced. Expenditure during 1936, $35,242.13.

Millbury-Sutton
Oct. 8, 1936, contract made with New Haven Road Construction Company,
Incorporated, of Worcester, for constructing about 5,394 feet of State highway
on new location in Millbury, and about 6,795 feet of State highway on new location
in Sutton, the surface consisting of bituminous macadam. The proposal amounted
to $485,438.60. Work just commenced. Expenditure during 1936, $33,589.11.

Holyoke-Eastham pton
Oct. 8, 1936, contract made with Daniel O'Conell's Sons, Inc., of Holyoke, for
reconstructing about 21,832 feet of State highway on Northampton Road in
Holyoke, and about 238 feet of State highway on the same road in Easthampton,
the surface consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to $484,
008.13. Work just commenced. Expenditure during 1936, $9,860.76.

Millbury
Oct. 27, 1936, contract made with Eagle Signal Corporation, of Arlington, for
furnishing and installing traffic control signals on State highway along the Worces-
ter-Providence Pike. The proposal amounted to $1,077. Work practically
completed. No expenditure during 1936.

Expenditures for the Construction of State Highways
The expenditures for the construction of State highways in various counties
during the year were : —

Barnstable

Berkshire

Bristol

Essex .

Franklin

Hampden

Total .

$52,077.07

54,385.32

7,584.07

149,176.55

217,696.22

22,670.49

Hampshire
Middlesex
Norfolk .
Plymouth
Suffolk .
Worcester

$40,390.53
238,432.67
544,822 . 74
12,006.39
1,151,555.37
213,381.98

52,704,179.40

Details of the foregoing expenditures follow: —

Barnstable County.— $42,786.43; Dennis, $689; Eastham, $3,916.52; Falmouth,
$79.60; Orleans, $3,916.52; Yarmouth, $689.

Berkshire County.— Lenox, $964.68; North Adams, $28.71; Otis, $22,996.23;
Pittsfield, $29,150 . 06; Sheffield, $1,000 . 86; Williamstown, $244 . 78.

Bristol County.— Dartmouth, $203.44; North Attleborough, $7,380.63.

Essex County.— Amesbury, $85.54; Andover, $64,696.75; Lynn, $1,376.59;
Newbury, $4,003.08; Newburvport, $67,062.68; Saugus, $11,951.91.

Franklin County— -Montague, $207,521,79; Orange, $10,174.43.

Hampden County.— Blandford, $203 . 87; Holyoke, $22,463 . 50; Southwick, $3 . 12.

Hampshire County.— Hadley, $17,526.18; Huntington, $5,338.18; Northampton,
$17,526.17.

Middlesex County.— Arlington, $15,081.13; Belmont, $2,155,33; Billerica,
$10,792.49; Cambridge, $3,468.; Chelmsford, $18,376.41; Concord, $4,929.43;
Framingham, $65,517.69; Maiden, $17,927.85; Natick, $77,430.15; Newton,
$9,850.21; Tyngsborough, $21.34; Wayland, $12,882.64.

Norfolk County. — Brookline, $141,503.50; Cohasset, $1,922.80; Dedham,
$87,689.66; Foxborough, $24.80; Milton, $174,713.13; Norwood, $724.78; Quincy,
$59,336.59; Wellesley, $18,882.82; Westwood, $688.07; Weymouth, $59,33.659;

Phjmouth Couniu — Duxbury, $24.96; Hingham, $1,872.37; Middleborough,
$104.86; Scituate, $3,570.90; Wareham, $6,433.30.

Suffolk County— Boston, $880,815.23; Revere, $270,740.14.

Worcester County.— Athol, $28,958.01; Millbury, $173,183.36; Shewsbury,
$249.65; Worcester, $10,990.96.

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Highway Improvements Authorized by Special Acts
In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 406 of the Acts of 1930, the following
contract was entered into : —

Fairhavcn-New Bedford

Jan. 7, 1936, contract made with Rendle Contracting & Dock Building Company,
of Boston, for constructing two fender piers and three dolphins of the New Bedford-
Fairhaven Bridge. The proposal amounted to $15,903. Work completed Aug. 8,
1936. Expenditure during 1936, $25,847.88.

In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 365 of the Acts of 1933, the
following contracts were entered into : —

Billerica-Chelmsford
April 1, 1936 contract made with Randall and Dingley Construction Co., of
Sherborn, for constructing sidewalks on Chelmsford Road in Billerica, and on
Billerica Road in Chelmsford, the surface consisting of bituminous concrete. The
proposal amounted to $16,658. 50. Work completed July 23, 1936. Expenditure
during 1936, $16,313.96.

Andover

May 5, 1936, contract made with John McCourt Company, of Boston, for con-
structing about 24,876 feet of sidewalks and miscellaneous work on Lowell Street,
the surface of the sidewalks consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal
amounted to $28,518.75. Work completed July 17, 1936. Expenditure during
1936, $22,658.47.

In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 375 of the Acts of 1934, as modified
by Chapter 487 of the Acts of 1935, the following contract was entered into: —

Revere

April 21, 1936, contract made with M. F. Gaddis, Inc., of Boston, for constructing
about 4,232 feet of city highway on Ocean Avenue, the surface consisting of bitumi-
nous concrete. The proposal amounted to $128,659.75. Work completed Oct.
19,1936. Expenditure during 1936, $114,459.98.

In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 464 of the Acts of 1935, the
following contracts were entered into: —

Lawrence
April 28, 1936, contract made with The Lathrop and Shea Company, of Connec-
ticut for reconstructing about 404.03 feet of highway on Andover Street, and re-
constructing a bridge carrying the B. & M. R.R. over Andover Street, the surface
of the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete, and the surface of the highway
consisting of granite block pavement. The proposal amounted to $63,623.12.
Work completed Nov. 18, 1936. Expenditure during 1936, $73,421.92.

Amherst

May 12, 1936, contract made with Charles I. Hosmer, Inc., of Greenfield, for
constructing about 1100 feet of highway on College Street, and constructing a
through steel plate girder bridge carrying the Central Vermont Railway over
College Street, the surface consisting of bituminous macadam. The proposal
amounted to $58,759.45. Work completed Nov. 30, 1936. Expenditure during
1936, $47,667.18.

West Bridgewater

Aug. 12, 1936, contract made with Mario Pandolf Company, Inc., of Needham,
for reconstructing about 7,738 feet of highway on West Center Street, the surface
consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to $76,272.81. Work
about six-sevenths completed. Expenditure during 1936, $67,021.61.

Holyoke
Aug. 18, 1936, contract made with Daniel O'Connell's Sons, Inc., of Holyoke,
for constructing about 6,645 feet of highway on Springfield Street, the surface
consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to $144,667.53. Work
about four-sevenths completed. Expenditure during 1936, $86,219.42.

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Clinton
Oct. 6,1936, contract made with Antonio Pandiscio, of Fitchburg, for construc-
ting a deck plate girder bridge of two spans over Nashua River connecting Boylston
Street and Chester Street, known as Lancaster Mills Bridge, and approaches thereto
the surface on the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted
to $76,752.10. Work just commenced. Expenditure during 1936, $1,948.92.

Pembroke-Marsh field
Oct. 8, 1936, contract made with A. G. Tomasello & Son, Inc., of Boston, for
reconstructing about 25,450 feet of highway on Schooset, Water and Church Streets
in Pembroke, and on Plain Street, new location and Ocean Street in Marshfield, the
surface consisting of bituminous concrete, and the construction of a concrete slab
bridge on Plain and Ocean Streets over South River, in Marshfield, the construction
of a concrete slab bridge on Plain and Ocean Streets over Waste Water Stream, in
Marshfield, and the construction of a concrete slab bridge on Schooset Street over
Robinson Creek, in Pembroke. The proposal amounted to $281,112.08. Work
about one-ninth completed. Expenditure during 1936, $33,213.90.

Attelboro-North Attleborough-Plainville

Oct. 8, 1926, contract made with M. DeMatteo, of Boston, for reconstructing
about 1,714 feet of highway on North Main Street in Attleboro, 14,785 feet of high-
way on New Boston Road in North Attleborough, and 7,835 feet of highway on
Taunton Street in Plainville, the surface consisting of bituminous concrete. The
proposal amounted to $227,092.66. Work just commenced. Expenditure during
1936, $10,115.

In accordance with the provisions of Item 393 of Chapter 249 of the Acts of
1935, the following contract was entered into: —

Amherst

July 29, 1936, contract made with G. Bonazzoli & Sons, of Hudson, for con-
structing about 1,523 feet of highway on Olmstead Road and Flint Laboratory
Drive, the surface consisting of bituminous macadam. The proposal amounted
to $8,993.14. Work completed Sept. 19, 1936. Expenditure during 1936, $10,144.14

In accordance with the provisions of Item 370 of Chapter 249 of the Acts of

1935, and Item 374A of Chapter 432 of the Acts of 1936, the following contract
was entered into: —

Fitchburg

Nov. 24, 1936, contract made with Angelo R. Montuori, of Fitchburg, for con-
structing about 256 feet of driveway at the State Teachers College, the surface
consisting of bituminous macadam. The proposal amounted to $3,181.05. Work
not yet commenced.

In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 433 of the Acts of 1936, the following
contract was entered into: —

Deerfield-Sunderland

Oct. 6, 1936, contract made with C. J. Maney Co. Inc., of Boston, for construc-
ting a deck steel truss bridge of 6 spans over the Connecticut River, the surface
consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to $641,659.80. Work
just commenced. Expenditure during 1936, $3,187.50.

In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 174 of the Acts of 1936, the following
contracts were entered into : —

Greenfield-Montague
Mar. 31, 1936, contract made with T. Stuart & Son Company, of Watertown,
for constructing a temporary steel stringer bridge of six spans the surface consisting
of wood deck, over the Connecticut River, between Turners Falls and Greenfield,
at site of the present White suspension bridge, on old auto route 2. The proposal
amounted to $112,000. Work completed July 22, 1936. Expenditure during

1936, $130,042.17.

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Deerficld-Sunderland
Mar. 31, 1936, contract made with C. J. Maney Co. Inc., of Boston, for con-
structing a temporary steel trestle bridge with wooden floor over the Connecticut
River between Deerfield and Sunderland at the site of the recently destroyed
Sunderland bridge, on auto route 116. The proposal amounted to $124,850. Work
completed June 29, 1936. Expenditure during 1936, $148,750.

South Hadley-Holyoke
April 14, 1936, contract made with The Boston Bridge Works, Incorporated, of
Cambridge, for repairing the South Hadlev-Holyoke Bridge across the Connecticut
River. The proposal amounted to $100",000. Work completed Sept. 22, 1936.
Expenditure during 1936, $203,621.10

Northampton-Hadley
April 14, 1936, contract made with The Boston Bridge Works, Incorporated,
of Cambridge, for repairing the Northampton-Hadley bridge across the Connecticut
River. The proposal amounted to $25,000. Work completed May 29, 1936.
Expenditure during 1936, $21,081.56.

Trafffic Control Signals
The following contracts were entered into during the year for furnishing and
installing traffic control signals in various municipalities: —

Dedham-Bourne

Dec. 31, 1935, contract made with George A. Marshall, of Somerville, for furnish-
ing and installing traffic signals on State Highway in Dedham and Bourne. The
proposal amounted to $1,614. Work completed Mar. 5, 1936. Expenditure
during 1936, $1,614.

Quincy-Weymouth

Mar. 3, 1936, contract made with Edwin C. Lewis, Incorporated, of Boston, for
furnishing and installing lighting equipment for the Fore River Bridge and approach-
es in Quincy and Weymouth. The proposal amounted to $12,639.98. Work
completed Nov. 7, 1936. Expenditure during 1936, $12,667.55.

Wayland
Aug. 18, 1936, contract made with Eagle Signal Corporation, of Arlington, for
furnishing and installing traffic control signals on State Highway in Wayland.
The proposal amounted to $487. Work completed Sept. 25, 1936. Expenditure
during 1936, $487.

Millbury
Oct. 27, 1936, contract made with Eagle Signal Corporation, of Arlington, for
furnishing and installing traffic control signals on State Highway along the Worces-
ter-Providence Turnpike. The proposal amounted to $1,077. Work practically
completed. No expenditure during 1936.

Abolition of Grade Crossings
{Section 70, Chapter 159 of the General Laws, as amended by Section 1, Chapter 357
of the Acts of 1934)

The following contracts were entered into for the abolition of grade crossings: —

Sheffield
May 5, 1936, contract made with B. A. Gardetto, Inc., of Boston, for constructing
a steel stringer bridge and approaches on Ashley Falls Road, the surface of the
approaches consisting of bituminous macadam. The proposal amounted to
$106,843.20. Work practically completed. Expenditure during 1936, $93,795.90.

Braintree
May 19, 1936, contract made with Charles Capone, of Braintree, for constructing

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about 519 feet of road on new location, the surface consisting of bituminous maca-
dam. The proposal amounted to $8,448.95. Work completed July 22, 1936.
Expenditure during 1936, $8,620.51.

Ayer
May 26, 1936, contract made with Coleman Bros. Corporation, of Boston, for
constructing a steel bridge and approaches thereto on West Main Street and new
location, the surface of the approaches consisting of bituminous macadam. The
proposal amounted to $101,845.25. Work about four-fifths completed. Expenditure
during 1936, $82,851.53.

Lunenburg
June 30, 1936, contract made with Carlo Bianchi and Company, Inc., of Fra-
mingham, for constructing a steel stringer bridge with reinforced concrete beam
approach spans and approaches thereto on Leominster Road; the surface of the
approaches consisting of a penolithic type of pavement. The proposal amounted
to $63,909.75. Work about two-thirds completed. Expenditure during 1936,
$42,761.58.

Foxborough- Mansfield
June 30, 1936, contract made with John Deveney Company, of Boston, for
constructing about 4,900 feet of highway on Summer Street in Foxborough and
about 1,600 feet of highway on Oakland Street in Mansfield; the surface consisting
of gravel and tar mixed in place. The proposal amounted to $19,398.90. Work
completed Nov. 23, 1936. Expenditure during 1936, $16, 365.90.

Sharon
July 7, 1936, contract made with Arute Bros., Incorporated, of Bridgewater,for
constructing a steel stringer bridge with reinforced concrete deck and approach
spans and approaches thereto 'on Depot Street and Upland Road, the surface of
the approaches consisting of a penolithic type of pavement. The proposal amounted
to $127,093.65. Work about five-sixths completed. Expenditure during 1936,
$107,595.60.

Mansfield
July 29, 1936, contract made with Coleman Bros. Corporation, of Boston, for
constructing a single span through plate girder bridge and approaches thereto on
School Street, the surface, except over the bridge, consisting of gravel and tar mixed
in place, and the surface over the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The
proposal amounted to $78,994.20. Work about four-sevenths completed. Ex-
penditure during 1936, $46,950.41.

Canton-Norwood-Westwood
Aug. 11, 1936, contract made with Martino DeMatteo, of Boston, for constructing
steel stringer bridge of three spans with concrete deck over the tracks of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad on Dedham Street in Canton, a creosoted
timber pile trestle of seven spans with a concrete deck over the Neponset River,
and the approaches thereto, on Canton Street in Norwood and Westwood and Ded-
ham Street in Canton, the surface of the approaches consisting of bituminous ma-
cadam. The proposal amounted to $91 ,836. Work about one-third completed. Ex-
penditure during 1936, $37,411.90.

Hopkinton-Wesf borough
Sept. 8, 1936, contract made with Middlesex Construction Company of Framing-
ham, for constructing a steel stringer and concrete beam bridge of four spans at
Rocklawn Crossing over the Boston and Albany Railroad and the Sudbury River
in Hopkinton and Westborough, and the approaches thereto, the surface, except
over the bridge, consisting of a penolithic type of pavement, and the surface over
the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to $78,524.10.
Work just commenced. Expenditure during 1936, $5,663.55.

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Mansfield
Sept. 8, 1936, contract made with Arute Bros., Incorporated, of Bridgewater,
for constructing a steel stringer bridge of three spans with a concrete deck on the
Elm Street Cut-off over the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and
the approaches thereto, the surface, except over the bridge, consisting of gravel and
tax mixed in place, and the surface over the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete.
The proposal amounted to $79,574.35. Work about two-sevenths completed.
Expenditure during 1936, $29,262.65.

Ashburnham
Sept. 8, 1936, contract made- with G. Rosse & Son, Inc., of Leominster, for
constructing a steel stringer bridge with concrete approach spans and the approaches
thereto on Winchendon Road, the surface on the approaches to the bridge con-
sisting of bituminous macadam, and the surface over the bridge consisting of bitu-
minous concrete. The proposal amounted to $103,876.40. Work just commenced.
Expenditure during 1936, $2,394.87.

Monson

Sept. 8, 1936, contract made with B. A. Gardetto, Inc., of Boston, for construc-
ting a steel plate girder bridge with a concrete floor over the tracks of the Central
Vermont Railway and over Chicopee Brook on Palmer Road, and the approaches
thereto, the surface of the approaches consisting of bituminous macadam, and the
surface on the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to
$104,570.50. Work about one-fifth completed. Expenditure during 1936,
$23,432.17.

Foxborough

Oct. 6, 1936, contract made with Coleman Bros. Corporation, of Boston, for
constructing a through plate girder bridge with wrought iron plate deck and the
approaches thereto on Cocasset Street, the surface of the approaches consisting of
gravel and tar mixed in place. The proposal amounted to $87,620.05. Work just
commenced. Expenditure during 1936, $2,643.07.

Sharon
Oct. 8, 1936, contract made with B. F. Construction Co., Inc., of New Bedford,
for constructing a plate girder bridge over the tracks of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad on South Main Street, and the approaches thereto, the
surface of the approaches consisting of bituminous macadam, and the surface on the
bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to $53,081.21.
Work just commenced. Expenditure during 1936, $2,983.50.

Worcester
Oct. 8, 1936, contract made with B. Perini & Sons, Inc., of Framingham, for con-
structing a steel plate girder bridge with concrete deck over the tracks of the
Boston & Maine Railroad on Wildey Avenue, a steel stringer bridge with concrete
deck over Neponset Street, and the approaches thereto, the surface of the approa-
ches consisting of a penolithic type of pavement, and the surface on the bridges con-
sisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to $325,390.30. Work
just commenced. Expenditure during 1936, $15,511.22.

Grafton-Shewsbury
Oct. 21, 1936, contract made with Carlo Bianchi and Company, Inc., of Framing-
ham for constructing a steel stringer and concrete beam bridge of three spans over
the Boston and Albany Railroad on Shrewsbury Street in Grafton, and approaches
thereto on new location in Shrewsbury and Shrewsbury Street in Grafton, the
surface of the approaches consisting of bituminous macadam, the surface on the
bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to $107, 259.60.
Work just commenced. Expenditure during 1936, $556.75.

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Section 80, Chapter 159 of the General laws, and acts in amendment thereof and in
addition thereto, including particularly Section 11 of Chapter 417 of the Acts of 1930.

Quincy
Jan. 14, 1936, contract made with Coleman Bros. Corporation, of Boston, for
constructing a concrete box bridge over Town Brook, constructing the substructure
and superstructure for a new overhead bridge and the approaches thereto on
Water Street, the surface of the approaches consisting of bituminous macadam,
and the surface on the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal
amounted to -1238,820.60. Work practically completed. Expenditure during
1936, 8248,849.32.

Expenditures for Emergency Public Works Construction
Chapter 365, Acts of 1933

(An act enabling the Commonwealth to secure certain benefits provided by the
National Industrial Recovery Act.)

Project City or Town

R 1 Lynn-Revere

R 5-1 Arlington-Belmont-Lexington

R 5-2 Lexington-Lincoln

R 7 Braintree-Quincy

R 22 Blandford-Russell

R 26 Charlemont

R 29-2' Concord By-pass

R48 Holyoke .

R 49 Charleton-East Brookfield

R 51 Randolph-Braintree

R 54 Yarmouth-Dennis

Total .

Amount

.$59,435 03

77,618 97

16,994 19

27,546 47

14,838 26

45,688 72

36,205 87

37,996 70

10,716 69

634 82

16,818 17

$344,493 89

Bond Issue Projects
Chapter 464, Acts of 1935

An Act providing a public works program for the purpose of alleviating existing conditions resulting

from unemployment.

Class 1 Projects— Highway Projects Carried Out by Cities and Towns

The disbursements during the year in various counties were : —

Barnstable $5,061 . 54

Middlesex .

$86,531.53

Berkshire .... 1,976.08

Plymouth

24,753.02

Bristol 37,216.19

Suffolk

9,845.7

Dukes 346.68

Worcester .

8,624.92

Essex 17,611.38

Engineering

28,242.17

Franklin .... 2,600.00

Total

$222,809.25

Details of the foregoing disbursements follow: —

Barnstable County. — Falmouth, $5,061.54.

Berkshire County. — Williamstown, $1,976.08.

Bristol County.— Attleboro, $6,829.61 ; Fall River, $30,386.58.

D^lkes County— Guy Head, $34.66; Gosnold, $312.02.

Essex County— Nahant, $1,456.06. Salem, $15,236.62; Wenham, $918.70.

Franklin County.— Sunderland, $1,700.; Monroe, $900.

Middlesex County— Chelmsford, $1,924.09; Concord, $2,617.44; Maiden,
$18,894.11; Marlborough, $4,454.85; Melrose, $9,707.06; Somerville, $31,495.94;
Waltham, $14,768.60; Wayland, $1,508.06; Wilmington, $1,161.38.

Plymouth County— Brockton, $20,592.85; Hull, $4,160.17.

Suffolk County— Revere, $9,845.74.

Worcester County— Clinton, $3,137.46; Northorough, $2,350. Southbridge,
$3,137.46.

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Class 2 Projects-Construction of Sidewalks
The expenditures during the year in various counties were : —

Barnstable

$1,033.88

Hampshire .

$39,167.33

Berkshire

190,362.45

Middlesex .

904,767 . 13

Bristol

441y873.18

Norfolk

491,543.06

Dukes .

79.26

Plymouth .

387,184.90

Essex

439,256.15

Suffolk

93,647.10

Franklin

35,172.83

Worcester .

414,416.15

Hampden

120,799.32

Total $3,559,302.74

Details of the foregoing expenditures follow : —

Barnstable County.— Eastham, $440.56; Orleans, $593.32;

Berkshire County.— Adams, $2,122.54; Becket, $9,224.56; Cheshire, $7,140.59;
Clarksburg, $4,518.75; Dalton, $24,404.09; Egremont, $102.06; Gt. Barrington,
$7,157.86; Hancock, $13.13; Hinsdale, $13,569.92; Lanesborough, $211.52; Lee,
$25,215.37; Lenox, $4,668.13; North Adams, $18,292.89; Otis, $112.47; Pittsfield,
$48,436.29; Sandisfield. $13.11; Sheffield, $2,354.18; Stockbridge, $7,138.65; West
Stockbridge, $44.38; Williamstown, $15,621.96.

Bristol County.— Acushnet, $8,507.69; Attleboro, $25,537.55; Dartmouth,
$69,109.24; Dighton, $27,111.41; Easton, $11,641.64; Fairhaven, $67,238.04;
Mansfield, $2,047.98; Norton, $7,345.02; North Attleborough, $14,959.60;, Rayn-
ham, $46,839.18; Somerset, $38,360.87; Swansea, $21,224.64; Taunton, $75,103.12;
Westport, $26,847.20.

Dukes County— Oak Bluffs, $79.26.

Essex County.— Amesbury, $12,922.06; Andover, $11,962.21 ; Beverly, $62,822.33;
Danvers, $5,653.15; Essex, $8,315.42; Gloucester, $65,688.05; Groveland, $18,077.91
Hamilton, $6,339.75; Haverhill, $15,401.66; Ipswich, $6,074.42; Lawrence,
$14,866.81; Lynn, $54,822.24; Lynnfield, $13.49; Merrimac, $21,922.06; Methuen,
$10,459.33; Middleton, $1,999.94; Newbury, $3,623.68; Newburyport, $3,186.86;
North Andover, $3,150.93; Peabody, $101.58; Rowley, $6,581.96; Salem,$40,300.40;
Salisbury, $11,799.38; Saugus, $17,937.31; Swampscott, $2,693.82; Wenham,
$27,839.36; West Newbury, $4,699.94.

Franklin County.— Erving, $5,468.31; Greenfield, $22,169.21; Orange, $7,535.31.

Hampden County— Agawam, $13,575.47; Blandford, $4,726.; Brimfield,$2, 148.37
Chester, $4,055.11; Chicopee, $15,056.07; East Longmeadow, $18,372.31; Palmer,
$27,804.24; Russell, $2,742.74; Westfield, $12,885.32; West Springfield, $15,901.14;
Wilbraham, $3,532.55.

Hampshire County. — Amherst, $9,290.75; Cummington, $158.57; Easthampton,
$3,894.81; Hadley, $127.41; Hatfield, $70.43; Huntington, $8,238.03; North-
ampton, $4,608.26; South Hadley, $9,296.46; Ware, $3,455.68; Worthington, $26.93.

Middlesex County— Acton, $4,590.63; Arlington, $35,722.98; Ashby, $5,571.91;
Ashland, $1,819.56; Ayer, $278.45; Bedford, $4,182.58; Belmont, $11,752.12;
Billerica, $22,162.31; Boxborough, $487.05; Burlington, $7,873.86; Cambridge,
$3,765.34; Chelmsford, $48,540.40; Concord, $14,057.70; Dracut, $81.23; Fra-
mingham, $112,216.98; Groton, $157.63; Holliston, $9,720.03; Hudson, $5,904.39;
Lexington, $40,502.86; Lincoln, $157.46; Littleton, $17,866.70; Lowell, $46,039.80;
Marlborough, $25,191.89; Medford, $509.08; Melrose, $10,725.98; Natick,
$39,649.05; Newton, $37,258.85; North Reading, $23,075.23; Pepperell, $140.01;
Reading, $63,598.19; Shirley, $294.36; Somerville, $50,074.49; Stoneham,
$27,230.09; Sudbury, $6,309.15; Tewksbury, $7,819.46; Townsend, $8,127.62;
Tyngsborough, $5,776.28; Waltham, $23,153.86; Watertown, $16,687.83; Wayland,
$9,396.76; Westford, $599.96; Weston, $11,609.94 Wilmington, $4,532.75; Win-
chester, $27,621.48; Woburn, $111,932.85.

Norfolk County— Avon, $21,292.42; Bellingham, $25,370.45; Braintree,
$22,589.62; Brookline, $7,028.21; Canton, $33,469.34; Dedham, $72,094.36; Milton,
$29,645.33; Needham, $33,149.59; Norwood, $42,320.36; Quincy, $18,069.82;
Randolph, $44,491.45; Stoughton, $21,937.75; Walpole, $2,151.82; Wellesley,
$41,663.07; Weymouth, $76,269.47.

Plymouth County.— Abington, $74,901.05; Bridgewater, $16,922.91; Brockton,

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$100,379.18; East Bridgewater, $31,708.91; Hingham, $5,334.68; Hull, $12,414.74;
Kingston, $17,879.62; Middleborough, $9,418.07; Norwell, $19,074.93; Plymouth,
$1,374.64; Rockland, $17,452.44; Wareham, $30,829.25; West Bridgewater,
$23,195.61; Whitman, $26,298.87.

Suffolk County.— Boston, $29,930.45; Chelsea, $24,408.18; Revere, $39,308.47.

Worcester County.— Athol, $7,321.30; Auburn, $12,475.85; Barre, $1,815.88;
Blackstone, $20,568.56; Brookfield, $15,663.35; Dudley, $14,027.24; East
Brookfield, $22,688.17; Fitchburg, $10,415.01; Gardner, $23,362.63; Grafton,
$3,230.57; Hardwick, $12,587.48; Harvard, $45.38; Holden, $27,840.40; Leicester,
$15,206.24; Leominster, $6,853.79; Lunenburg, $86.11; Milford, $13,064.18;
Millbury, $4,338.05; Northborough, $5,028.13; Northbridge, $4,380.34; Oxford,
$815.70; Paxton, $5,587.78; Phillipston, $233.84; Rutland, $7.04; Shrewsbury,
$22,982.78; Southborough, $24,274.34; Southbridge, $11,224.28; Spencer, $32.46;
Sterling, $4,367.57; Sturbridge, $12,636.53; Sutton, $10.07; Templeton, $14,153.64;
Uxbridge, $5,330.67; Webster, $12,721.67; West Boylston, $15,594.92; West
Brookfield, $14,424.46; Westminster, $360.94; Winchendon, $5,207.56; Worcester,
$43,451.24.

Class 3 Projects — Highway Projects under the Hay den-Car twright Bill, so called

The expenditures during the year 1936 were as follows: —
Bourne (Barnstable Co.) $276,800.86

Lynnfield-Saugus (Essex Co.) .
Saugus (Essex Co.)
Milibury-Sutton (Worcester Co.)
Pittsfield (Berkshire Co.)

40,951.29
19,841.99
35,123.70
96,142.73

$468,860.57

Class 4 Projects — Grade-crossing Eliminations, Highway Projects, Maintenance of

State Highways

The expenditures during the year in various counties were: —

Barnstable .
Berkshire
Bristol
Essex .
Franklin-
Hampden

. $6,697.34
. 100,916.79
91,915.15
. 716,093.94
. 94,861.87
. 140,391.43

Hampshire
Middlesex
Norfolk .
Plymouth
Suffolk .
Worcester

Sub Total
Maintenance

Total

65,208.66

304,920 . 05

555,134.96

104,329.42

65.26

84,129.56

. $2,264,664.43
324,322.76

. $2,588,987.19

Barnstable County. — Bourne, $6,697.34.

Berkshire County.— Pittsfield, $168.40; Sheffield, $100,748.39.

Bristol County .— Attleboro, $1,000.; Mansfield, $88,915.15; North Attleborough,
$2 000

Essex County.— Danvers, $1,147.50; Lawrence, $62,520.19; Lynn, $53,253.41;
Lynnfield-Peabody, $275,140.29; Lynnfield, $22,495.84; Lynnfield-Saugus,
$30,706.52; Newbury-Newburyport, $224,140.93; Newbury, $300.; Peabody,
$46,389.26.

Franklin County.— Deerfield-Sunderland, $26,569.68; Greenfield, $65,063.92
Montague-Gill, $3,228.27.

Hampden County— Holyoke, $111,735.16; Monson, $28,656.27.

Hampshire County— Amherst, $54,098.62; Huutington, $8,698.68; South Hadley,
$2 411 36

Middlesex County— Aver, $87,837.86; Cambridge, $448.82; Hopkinton,
$3,000. Waltham, $213,633.37.

Norfolk County.— Braintree, $9,956.57; Canton-Norwood- Westwood, $38,817.10;

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Foxboroiudi, $11,588.69; Plainville, $7,758.90; Quincy, $273,018.34; Sharon,
$115,278.71; Weymouth, $98,716.65.

Plymouth County. — Pembroke-Marshfield, $34,816.52; West Bridgewater,
$69,512.90.

Suffolk County.— Revere. $65.26.

Worcester County— Astiburnham, $3,396.39; Clinton, $2,308.81;
$6,101.59; Gardner-Shewsbury, $6,023.12; Lunenburg, $46,487.52;
Sutton, $59.45; Westborough, $3,154.41; Worcester, $16,598.27.

Gardner,
Millbury-

Class 4 Projects (Continued)

Snow Removal:
New equipment
Truck repairs
Truck operation
Truck plow repairs
Tractor repairs
Tractor operation
Tractor plow repairs
Snow fence
Expenditures under towns

Traffic-
Direction signs
Warning signs
Control signals
Traffic survey
Traffic permits
Surface markings
Regulatory signs
W.P.A. .
Art project
Tercentenary signs
Sign survey

Roadside Planting

Paint

Engineering .

Machinery

Laboratory

Geodetic survey

Somerset Bridge

Newburyport Bridge

New Bedford-Fairhaven Bridge

Quincy-Weymouth Bridge

Chapter 464 — Bond Issue
Class 5 — Development of Rivers and Harbors
The expenditures during the year 1936 were as follows:
Boston Harbor:
Commonwealth Pier No. 5 . . . . $541,749 72

Town River, Quincy 8,000 00

Dredging 176,160 67

Weymouth Fore River' 47,070 53

$17,880 00

1,838 85

1,411 14

3,251 34

1,839 45

1,412 09

3,251 92

593 85

93,115 11

(R104 c;qQ 7 s

tJPJ.^Tt,Oi/0 1 O

$3,358 97

2,527 40

4,847 66

606 77

22 12

1,001 02

353 04

2,921 80

187 93

12 50

36 54

Kl ^ 875 75

tJP J.O.O 1 *J t Kf

1,371 93

1,475 29

77,640 61

48,095 03

1,239 75

212 36

301 36

190 11

866 43

170 21

$272,032 58

Outside Boston Harbor:

Menamsha Creek-Chilmark
Scituate Harbor .
Manchester Harbor

$772,980 92

£29,288 21
12,439 00
17,614 08

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Smiths Cove, Gloucester 22,968 03

Plymouth Harbor

Onset Bay, Wareham
Lake Anthony, Oak Bluffs
Hither Creek, Nantucket

14,611 76
63,268 56
12,700 00
10,926 05

183,815 69

Total $956,796 61

Reconstruction and Repair of State Highways Damaged by Floods

Chapter 186, Acts of 1936 provides as follows: —

Section 1 . The sum herein set forth, for the purposes herein specified, is hereby
appropriated from the Highway Fund, subject to the provisions of law regulating
the disbursement of public funds and the approval thereof:

Item

642a. For the reconstruction and repair of state highways damaged by floods, to be
expended under the direction of the department of public works, a sum
not exceeding two million dollars $2,000,000 00

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

The worst flood conditions experienced in this State for many years occurred
during the two periods from March 11, 1936, to March 15, 1936, and from
March 19, 1936, to March 22, 1936. Deep snow and a thick coverage of ice
on all inland waters were quickly melted by the heavy warm rains and by the
abnormally high temperatures which occurred during these periods. The streams
and rivers rose rapidly and overflowed their banks, causing extraordinary damage.

During these periods the maintenance personnel was on duty nearly twenty-four
hours a day, patrolling the highways and bridges, making repairs and keeping the
public informed of road conditions in order that food and other necessary supplies
could be transported to provide for the unfortunate victims whose homes were
located in the flooded areas. Twenty-four hour information service on road
conditions was given to the public at the Maintenance Office, 100 Nashua Street,
Boston.

Even before the flood waters had completely receded, estimates were being pre-
pared of the cost to repair the damage which had been done to roadways and
bridges.

Deposits of silt, often several feet deep, had to be removed from the roadways
before traffic could proceed. In some cases, this material was pushed to the side
of the road by the use of snow plows and then loaded onto trucks and hauled away.
In some instances steam shovels were used to clear the roadways.

Large cakes of ice, in some cases several feet thick, were deposited on sections
of the highways in the western and Connecticut Valley regions, as the flood waters
receded. These were removed by steam shovels, cranes and snow plows.

Huge slides of snow and earth blocked many sections of the highways and this
material was removed as quickly as possible.

Temporary repairs were made quickly and it was only a few days before all roads
were open to travel, but in a few cases the travel was limited to one-way traffic
where culverts and small bridges had been washed away and temporary bridges
were quickly erected. Places where shoulders had been washed out and all other
dangerous places were barricaded and well lighted so that the public was protected
at all times.

Although the roads were opened to travel, it was evident that the flood had
caused heavy damage to the roadways and bridges and it would be necessary to
expend a great deal of money to make permanent repairs. In many cases it seemed
advisable to construct larger culverts, additional culverts and drainage systems,
raise the present grade of the road, harden shoulders, etc., in order that future flood
damage and the resulting hindrance to traffic might be reduced to a great extent.

In order that the work of making these permanent repairs might be started as
quickly as possible, the Legislature appropriated the sum of $2,000,000 by Special
Act, Chapter 186, Acts of 1936, on March 27, 1936. Of this amount $153,000
was to be used for the repair of bridges which are not on State highways.

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In order that flood repairs could be made as quickly as possible and funds made
available by the Works Progress Administration could be utilized to supplement the
State funds, Project Proposals were prepared and submitted to the Works Progress
Administration on April 21, 1936.

Most of the projects submitted were approved and the construction work was
started as soon as labor and materials could be secured and was confined until it
was completed.

This work included the placing of rip-rap along the banks of rivers and streams,
replacement of culverts and guard rail, installation of drainage, hardening of
of shoulders, surface repairs, grading and cutting back slopes and the removal of
silt and debris from the roadsides..

Expenditures for Reconstruction and Repair of State Highways Damaged

by Floods
{Chapter 186, Acts of 1936)
The expenditures during the year in various Counties were : — ■

Barnstable .

$121.10

Middlesex

$384,710.31

Berkshire

99,365.94

Norfolk .

199,917.12

Bristol .

73,369.91

Plymouth .

9,761.26

Essex .

. 229,554.44

Suffolk .

19.071.93

Franklin

. 87,449.63

Worcester

194,549.31

Hampden

78,984.17

W.P.A. Projects

275,980.28

Hampshire

. 108,108.00

Total $1,760,943.40

Details of the foregoing expenditures follow: —

Barnstable County— Chatham, $44.16; Eastham, $12.91; Falmouth, $1.93;
Harwich, $41.40; Orleans, $20.70.

Berkshire County.— Adams, $4,186.99; Becket, $3,948.53; Cheshire, $3,961.11;
Clarksburg, $641.70; Dalton, $42.58; Egremont, $7,982.91; Florida, $774.63;
Gt. Barrington, $1,888.14; Hancock, $7,231.90; Hinsdale, $4,117.65; Lanesbor-
ough, $2,637.85; Lee, $1,448.81; Lenox, $1,615.16; North Adams, $5,875.34;
Otis, $477.76; Pittsfield, $559.58; Richmond, $25.46; Sandisfield, $1,641.18; Savoy,
$16,503.54; Sheffield, $24,100.11; Stockbridge, $7,027.54; West Stockbridge,
$25.46; Williamstown, $2,186.99; Windsor, $465.02.

Bristol County— Attleboro, $3.15; Dighton, $4,880.95; Norton, $2,331.36;
North Attleboro, $348.83; Seekonk, $1,021.43; Somerset, $35,447.70; Taunton,
$29,336.49.

Essex County.— Amesbury, $3,925.01; Andover, $509.83; Beverly, $84.19;
Danvers, $133.13; Haverhill, $37,587.94; Ipswich, $62.09; Lawrence, $362.61;
Lynn, $6.90; Lynnfield, $9.44; Merrimac, $85.96; Methuen, $24,764.15; Middle-
ton, $36,770.19; Newbury, $34.27; Newburyport, $4,313.41; North Andover,
$101,853.81 Peabody, $3.81; Rowley. $15.50; Salem, $1.72; Salisbury, $18,421.89;
Saugus, $7.17;Topsfield, $1.04; West Newbury, $600.38.

Franklin County.— Ashfield, $8,332.31; Bernardston, $1,071.15; Buckland,
$3,863.28; Charlemont, $4,417.81; Colrain, $1,700.81; Conway, $2,491.37; Deerfield,
$5,319.25; Erving, $5,980.83; Gill, $1,514.89; Greenfield, $3,671.25; Montague,
$435.31; New Salem, $4,191.19; Northfield, $11,670.68; Orange, $1,808.72;
Shelburne, $2,089.36; Shutesbury, $22,227.87; Sunderland, $5,817.98; Whately,
$845.57.

Hampden County.— Agawam, $31,582.30; Blandford, $149.77; Brimfield,
$1,927.46; Chester, $2,605.67; Chicopee, $5,836.75; East Longmeadow, $93.;
Holyoke, $5,008.23; Monson, $617.98; Palmer, $2,889.08; Russell, $4,406.25;
Southwick, $1,114.80; Wales, $397.41; West Springfield, $2,387.06; Westfield,
$17,096.77; Wilbraham, $2,871.64.

Hampshire County. — Amherst, $462.78; Belchertown, $9,178.69; Cummington,
$11,120.22; Easthampton, $542.93; Goshen, $9,954.65; Granby, $11,953.16;
Hadley, $27,312.86; Hatfield, $547.73; Huntington, $7,349.98; Northampton,
$14,933.77; Pelham, $658.53; South Hadley, $5,574.12; Southampton, $266.81;
Ware, $2,501.03; Williamsburg, $5,293.32; Worthington, $457.42.

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Middlesex County.— Acton, $3,808.65; Ashby, $15,111.41; Ashland, $6,937.29
Ayer, $118.37; Bedford, $17,988.33; Billerica, $26,249.98; Boxborough, $84.45
Cambridge, $224.91; Chelmsford, $92,463.87; Concord, $1,303.40; Dracut
$69,330.69; Dunstable, $110.38; Framingham, $5,665.82; Groton, $9,231.45
Holliston, $11,292.73; Lexington, $27,999.69; Lincoln, $84.17; Littleton
$643.19; Lowell, $8,917.24; Maiden, $256.41; Marlborough, $132.46; Natick
$95.48; Newton, $32.29; North Reading, $287.97; Pepperell, $1,204.33; Reading
$271.; Sherborn, $5.52; Shirley, $4,496.55; Stoneham, $33.42; Sudbury, $502.26
Tewksbury, $16,128.67; Townsend, $3,590.87; Tyngsborough, $16,706.43; Waltham
$16.56; Watertown, $16.56; Wayland, $5,524.49; Westford, $32,844.65; Weston
$186.; Wilmington, $786.60; Winchester, $11.04; Woburn, $4,014.73.

Norfolk County—Avon, $348.; Bellingham, $645.66; Braintree, $28,142.71
Canton, $6,742.86; Dedham, $4,995.34; Foxborough, $8,379.75; Holbrook, $21.45
Milton, $28,891.49; Norfolk, $226.30; Plainville, $303.57; Quincy, $6,838.05
Randolph, $9,200.36; Stoughton, $3,724.88; Walpole, $103.21; Wellesley, $5.52
Westwood, $41,585.67; Weymouth, $12,097.86; Wrentham, $47,664.44.

Plymouth County. — Brockton, $3,472.59; Mattapoisett, $12.53; Pembroke,
$6.95; Rockland, $6,269.19.

Suffolk County— -Boston, $18,097.52; Chelsea, $164.55; Revere, $809.86.

Worcester County— Ashburnham, $959.82; Athol, $860.08; Auburn, $4,787.17
Barre, $3,573.66; Berlin, $222.99; Blackstone, $344.96; Brookfield, $174.69
Charlton, $2,098.30; Dana, $211.28; Douglas, $398.78; Dudley, $886.41; East
Brookfield, $364.71; Fitchburg, $2,610.79; Gardner, $3,033.37; Grafton, $288.39
Hardwick, $749.05; Harvard, $3,039.50; Holden, $48,217.97; Hopedale, $10,453.15
Lancaster, $21.39; Leicester, $22,625.88; Leominster, $299.94; Lunenburg
$2,797.84; Mendon, $244.80; Milford, $940.08; Millbury, $4,512.66; Millville
$149.02; North Brookfield, $134.54; Northborough, $1,472.16; Northbridge
$1,763.54; Oakham, $111.77; Oxford, $6,291.94; Paxton, $5,357.94; Petersham
$5,053.17; Phillipston, $330.14; Princeton, $12,629.50; Rutland, $3,190.19
Shrewsbury, $2,683.52; Southborough, $1,086.42; Southbridge, $610.86; Spencer
$113.30; Sterling, $2,046.22; Sturbridge, $1,461.79; Sutton, $11,198.75; Temple-
ton, $3,416.65; Upton, $2,718.31; Uxbridge, $871.61; Warren, $1,834.70
Webster, $177.17; West Boylston, $821.04; West Brookfield, $329.72; Westborough
$1,388.19; Westminster, $3,634.42; Winchendon, $6,091.16; Worcester, $2,863.91

W.P.A. Project S.-B.F 9-12— Huntington, $5,769.67; HF 10 Berkshire County
$6,743.67; HF 10-1 Adams-Cheshire, $6,246.51; HF 10-10 Hancock, $1,410.56
HF 10-32 Windsor, $41.40; HF 13-B Russell-Tolland, $220.04; HF 13-4 Chester
$561.78; HF 8 Franklin County, $23,421.89; HF 9 Hampshire County,$8,573.78
HF BA Hampden County, $22,990.66; HF 13-5 Chicopee, $4,065.55; HF 12
Worcester County, $58,890.22; HF 12-16 Fitchburg, $377.07; HF 6-8 Palmer,
$528.37; HF 4 Middlesex County, $70,987.85; HF 4-22 Lowell, $7,648.73; HF 7
Essex County, $48,666.; HF 7-8 Haverhill, $5,956.21; HF 7-8B Haverhill-North
Andover, $1,336.41; HF 7-17 Newburyport, $1,136.77; HF 7-18 North Andover,
.14.

Maintenance and Repair of State Highways

(Section 13, Chapter 81, General Laws)

The expenditures during the year in various counties were: —

Barnstable . . . $101,741.86

Hampshire

$63,505.46

Berkshire

244,902.93

Middlesex

775,938.28

Bristol

$443,705.36

Nantucket

543 . 63

Dukes .

8,955.95

Norfolk .

786,355.05

Essex

515,163.00

Plymouth

141,642.79

Franklin,

70,542.31

Suffolk

165,436.68

Hampden

107,216.05

Worcester

534,123.83

Total

Details of the foregoing expenditures follow: —
Barnstable County. — Barnstable, $15,994.42;

5,959,773.18

Bourne, $44,183.51; Brewster,

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$2,408.15; Chatham, $2,267.56; Dennis, $3,978.38; Eastham, $1,740.24: Falmouth
$7,389.45; Harwich, $1,373.96; Mashpee, $1,896.50; Orleans, $2,349.26
Provincetown, $2,386.06; Sandwich, $5,355.17; Truro, $5,226.79; Wellfleet
$2,480.06; Yarmouth, $2,712.35.

Berkshire County.— Adams, $1,186.78; Becket, $20,451.29; Cheshire, $42,475.35
Clarksburg $4,746.78; Dalton, $4,445.67; Egremont, $6,705.28; Florida, $25,619.61
Great Barrington, $11,385.31; Hancock, $2,785.10; Hinsdale, $1,931.41; Lanesbo-
rough, $8,742.99; Lee, $9,262.46; Lenox, $6,012.93; New Ashford, $4,405.54
New Marlborough, $487.12; North Adams, $10,261.88; Otis, $5,885.84; Peru
$141.49; Pittsfield, $6,528.72: Richmond, $5,183.94; Sandisfield, $9,049.72
Savoy, $4,100.36; Sheffield, $9,304.75; Stockbridge, $3,347.35; Washington
$1,634.46: West Stockbridge, $482.18; Williamstown, $32,112.62; Windsor, $6,226

Bristol 'County.— Acushnet, $4,584.89; Attleborough,$2,875.40; Berklev,$l,060.31
Dartmouth, $5,498.63; Diejhton, $69,648.36; Easton, $7,306.40; Fairhaven,
$18,664.32; Fall River, $395.58; Freetown, $27,951.39; Mansfield, $973.97; New
Bedford, $60.51; Norton, $12,546.86; North Attleborough, $3,827.03; Raynham
$5,548.80; Rehoboth, $25,473.62; Seekonk, $10,204.29; Somerset, $166,642.70
Swansea, $20,171.76; Taunton, $27,003.41; Westport, $33,267.13.

Dukes County.— Chiimark, $2,428.30; Edgartown, $991.05; Gay Head, $1,253.99
Oak Bluffs, $357.96; Tisburv, $1,119.91 ; West Tisburv, $2,804.74.

Essex County.— Amesburv, $11,118.54; Andover, $32,002.13; Beverly, $8, 727. 83
Boxford, $19.85; Danvers, $41,473.46; Essex, $1,631.62; Gloucester, $12,488.93
Groveland, $5,019.36; Hamilton, $29,730.57; Haverhill, $13,104.62; Ipswich
$44,447.49; Lawrence, $7,261.48: Lynn, $6,382.03; Lynnfield, $4,860.59; Manches-
ter, $12.11; Marblehead, $11.73; Merrimac, $5,939.11; Methuen, $48,006.12
Middleton, $75,561.68; Newbury, $12,792.06; Newburyport, $11,471.; North
Andover, $42,008.15; Peabody, $14,593.04; Rockport, $735.42; Rowley, $5,987.02
Salem, $6,112.83; Salisbury, $20,281.21; Saugus, $19,132.71; Swampscott, $3,176.30
Topsfield, $7,893.49; Wenham, $1,651.02; West Newbury, $21,529.50.

Franklin County— Ashfield, $1,861.14; Bernardston, $2,820.85; Buckland,
$2,251.16; Charlemont, $12,932.54; Colrain, $1,988.25; Conway, $2,362.83; Deer-
field, $4,539.69; Erving, $4,743.21; Gill, $1,327.40; Greenfield, $7,806.59; Leyden,
$8.80; Montague, $3,660.01; New Salem, $1,173.04; Northfield, $4,563.20; Orange,
$1,200.49; Shelburne, $6,833.71; Shutesbury, $3,197.16; Sunderland, $5,012.80;
Whately, $2,259.44.

Hampden County.— Agawam, $5,573.86; Blandford, $19,228.33; Brimfield,
$5,212.92; Chester, $9,460.57; Chicopee, $1,606.87; East Longmeadow, $1,536.19;
Granville, $5.87; Holland, $35.21; Holyoke, $797.61; Monson, $2,222.;
Palmer, $6,917.31; Russell, $9,167.35; Southwick, $28,739.17; Tolland, $143.45;
Wales, $1,715.18; West Springfield, $3,299.15; Westfield, $5,158.07; Wilbraham,
$6,396.94.

Hampshire County. — Amherst, $3,634.59; Belchertown, $4,976.12; Cummington,
$5,713.75; Easthampton, $2,014.90; Goshen, $3,217.95; Granby, $3,569.15; Hadley,
$2,347.36; Hatfield, $2,287.53; Huntington, $8,422.68; Northampton, $4,620.51;
Pelham, $603.36; Plainfield, $13.35; Southampton, $3,348.78; South Hadley,
$9,526.85; Ware, $4,425.12; Williamsburg, $2,085.54; Worthington, $2,697.92.

Middlesex County— Acton, $24,928; Arlington, $4,339.47; Ashby, $9,801.36;
Ashland, $30,150.75; Ayer, $2,710.11; Bedford, $1,978.19; Belmont, $2,698.15;
Billerica, $19,367.69; Boxborough, $2,280.26; Burlington, $7,106.46; Cambridge,
$1,343.47; Chelmsford, $40,445.96; Concord, $13,073.67; Dracut. $84,007.61;
Framingham, $39,635.42; Groton, $14,412.23; Holliston, $7,826.14; Hudson,
$916.01; Lexington, $51,193.01; Lincoln, $22,375.61; Littleton, $19,954.67; Lowell,
$31,437.91; Maiden, $252.32; Marlborough, $12,601.18; Maynard, $216.96;
Medford, $1,856.98; Melrose, $906.15; Natick, $14,924.38; Newton, $12,335.92;
North Reading, $1,370.95; Pepperell, $5,881.46; Reading, $8,319.06; Shirley,
$10,594.34; Somerville, $2,290.09; Stoneham, $8,393.90; Sudbury, $11,476.26;
Tewksbury, $94,401.06; Townsend, $8,780.25; Tvngsborough, $6,688.60; Wakefield,
$7.33; Waltham, $1,879.79; Watertown, $3,875.81; Wayland, $16,045.16; Westford,
$16,154.60; Weston, $38,351.11; Wilmington, $22,832.40; Winchester, $3,034.13;
Woburn, $40,485.94.

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Nantucket County. — Nantucket, $543.63.

Norfolk County. —Avon, $1,228.16; Bellingham, $1,474.51; Braintree, $72,334.85;
Brookline, $8,132.50; Canton, $199,553.05; Cohasset, $1,327.87; Dedham,
$24,402.66; Dover, $511.54; Foxborough, $4,008.92; Franklin, $673.88; Holbrook,
$10,206.38; Milton, $73,788.60; Needham, $38,586.52; Norfolk, $236.71; Norwood,
$24,766.01; Plainville, $1,961.21; Quincy, $48,157.09; Randolph, $40,468.91;
Sharon, $29,375.69; Stoughton, $4,428.81; Walpole, $118,531.08; Wellesley,
$20,135.81; Westwood, $32,982.29; Weymouth, $15,626.26; Wrentham, $13,455.74.

Plymouth County.— Abington. $18,270.58; Bridgewater, $2,422.39; Brockton,
$3,544.99; Duxbury, $3,975.49; East Bridgewater, $2,029.40; Hanover, $3,116.59;
Hingham, $9,271.93; Hull, $3,156.38; Kingston, $2,394.33; Lakeville, $8,425.85;
Marion, $1,939.61; Marshfield, $1,596.93; Mattapoisett, $4,669.37; Middleborough,
$9,448.25; Norwell, $1,157.87; Pembroke, $2,297.19; Plymouth, $5,006.13;
Plympton, $22.14; Rochester, $3,935.65; Rockland, $2,501.66; Scituate, $3,781.42;
Wareham, $8,563.21 ; West Bridgewater, $36,686.41; Whitman, $3,429.02.

Suffolk County.— Boston, $51,540.56; Chelsea, $536.34; Revere, $113,359.78.

Worcester County— Ashburnham, $1,436.41; Athol, $2,283.44; Auburn, $9,453.56
Barre, $5,707.27; Blackstone, $2,444.20; Bovlston, $4.40; Brookfield, $1,234.13
Charlton, $8,049.52; Clinton, $358.82; Douglas, $3,800.62; Dudley, $1,662.79
East Brookfield, $1,133.14; Fitchburg, $4,197.83; Gardner, $1,365.49; Grafton
$5,289.73; Hardwick, $1,581.44; Harvard, $27,516.94; Holden, $17,439.99; Hope-
dale, $2,548.71; Lancaster, $2,356.82; Leicester, $13,761.61; Leominster, $2,646.40
Lunenburg, $7,066.76; Mendon, $1,040.07; Milford, $1,949.79; Millbury
$181,137.99; Millville, $1,195.81; New Braintree, $277.49; North Brookfield
$451.12; Northborough, $8,075.37; Northbridge, $5,958.; Oakham, $1,622.48
Oxford, $415,974: Paxton, $3,863.43; Petersham, $4,777.32; Phillipston, $866.64
Princeton, $7,111.43; Royalston, $8.80; Rutland, $14,680.36; Shrewsbury
$28,563.25; Southborough, $10,647.09; Southbridge, $607.48; Spencer, $1,412.02
Sterling, $18,450.88; Sturbridge. $7,712.86; Sutton, $5,125.41; Templeton
$8,682.11; Upton, $4,092.74; Uxbridge, $39,155.59; Warren, $3,464.80; Webster
$1,366.23; West Boylston, $4,413,19; West Brookfield, $1,022.25; Westborough
$14,052.95; Westminster, $5,546.30; Winchendon, $1,831.21; Worcester, $16705.61

Expenditures for maintenance of highways are as follows :

Truck repairs
Truck operation
Truck plow repairs .
Tractor repairs
Tractor operation .
Tractor plow repairs
Snow fence
New equipment
Expenditures under towns

Direction signs
Warning signs
Control signals
Traffic survey
Traffic permits
Curb markings
Regulatory signs
W\P.A. Traffic census
Surface markings
Art project
Tercentenary signs .
Sign survey

Snow Removal

Traffic

$21,682 75
15,150 44
39,579 85
21,046 40
15,123 11
34,799 48
3,245 18
18,034 43

754,621 47

153,078 16

49,851 58

47,029 66

99,594 80

633 39

576 43

27,570 41

8,091 78

22,487 14

2,216 67

179 46

54,932 95

$923,283 11

$366,242 43

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Bridges

Somerset Bridge $9,007 06

Newburyport Bridge 4,498 06

Fairhaven-New Bedford Bridge . . 42,569 96

Quincy-Weymouth Bridge .... 13,487 40

169,562 48

Geodetic Survey 4,928 52

Detour bulletins . . 1,277 02

Inspection of bituminous concrete pavement (Technical services) 1,843 12

Tractor repairs ......... 11,097 72

Safety advertising . 12,000 00

Total Miscellaneous expenditures $1,390,234 40

Summary of Maintenance Expenditures

Maintenance and repair of State highways .... $3,959,773 18

Miscellaneous Expenditures 1,390,234 40

Total $5,350,007 58

Ordinary and Special Maintenance

The usual work of repairing road surfaces, maintaining shoulders and slopes,
cleaning of drainage ditches and conduits, and miscellaneous work on the right-
of-way which includes repairing fences, trimming trees, clearing roadsides, and
general improvement of the appearance of State highways was performed under
the ordinary maintenance allotment. The cost of this work compares favorably
with that of other years.

The betterment work performed by our maintenance forces was wide in scope
and will tend to reduce maintenance costs in years to come.

The major part of this work consisted of widening and widening and resurfacing
sections of the highways which were becoming rough and were not
wide enough to accommodate the fast and heavy traffic. The total length widened
was 21.8 miles and the length widened and resurfaced was 17.0 miles. A total of
5.7 miles were reconstructed during the past year by maintenance forces from funds
available under the maintenance appropriation.

Shoulders were hardened in several sections, totalling 9.9 miles, in order to
increase the safety to the travelling public and also to protect the edges of the
hardened surfaces.

The ties from several abandoned street railway tracks were removed and the
area graded and gravelled in order to improve the safety and appearance of the
roadways. The total length of this work was 3.7 miles.

Drainage systems were corrected and improved, new guard rail was installed,
shoulders were gravelled, bridges were repaired, curbings were set, slopes were cut
back and general landscaping work performed.

The work done included the following: Gravel shoulders, 3.4 miles; guard
rail, 2.1 miles; drainage, 1.4 miles; and set curbing, 0.6 miles.

Removal of Snow and Ice prom State Highways and Certain Town Roads

The authority of the Department relative to the removal of snow and ice from
State highways has been provided by section 19, chapter 81, General Laws, as
amended.

The cooperation of the Department with officers of cities, towns and counties in
keeping open and reasonably passable for vehicles during the winter months such
highways as may be selected by the Department is provided for in section 11,
chapter 84, General Laws, as amended.

In accordance with the provisions of these laws, the Department selected 1,947
miles of highways on the principal routes of travel, 1,751 miles of which are State
highways and 196 miles town highways.

The work of snow removal on these routes is performed in a large part by the
trucks and tractors owned and operated by the Department, but certain towns and

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cities, by agreement with the Department, perform part of the work of snow removal
on the portions of the routes within their limits. All of this work is done under the
direction and supervision of the Department.

The expenditures by the Department for snow removal during the year under the
provisions of both the above-mentioned laws, amounted to a total of $1,047,876.86,
which includes the cost of maintenance and repair of the equipment, actual cost of
plowing and purchase of materials, such as calcium chloride and sand for use on
icy conditions of the road surfaces, also the purchase of such equipment as is
used entirely for snow removal work.

Repairing Department Equipment

The following contracts were entered into during the year for repairing Depart-
ment equipment: —

Boston. — Aug. 18, 1936, contract made with Walsh Body & Equipment Co., of
Cambridge, for repairing Department four wheel drive snow removal trucks and
plows. The proposal amounted to $92,026. Work about one-third completed.
Expenditure during 1936, $36,888.03.

Boston. — Aug. 18, 1936, contract made with William Hurley, of Cambridge, for
repairing Department tractors. The proposal amounted to $17,380. Work about
two-thirds completed. Expenditure during 1936, $11,815.52.

Boston. — Sept. 8, 1936, contract made with Walsh Body & Equipment Co., of
Cambridge, for repairing Department snow plows and road machinery. The pro-
posal amounted to $12,555. Work almost completed. Expenditure during
1936, $12,158.18.

Bridge Maintenance and Operation

Drawbridge over the Merrimack River
between Newburyport and Salislmry

This bridge was placed in charge of the Massachusetts Highway Commission and
made a State highway by the provisions of Chapter 716, Acts of 1912, which also
provided that the expense of keeping the bridge in good repair for travel, of opera-
ting the draw and of maintaining the structure shall be paid by the Commonwealth.

The number of draw openings during the year ending Nov. 30, 1936, was 168.
In 1935 the number of such openings was 178; in 1934 the number was 110; in 1933
the number was 153; and and in 1932 the number was 220.

The total expenditure during the year was $4,498.06.

The total expenditure from 1912 to Nov. 30, 1936, inclusive, was $204,222.21.

Drawbridge over Taunton River between Fall River and Somerset

This bridge was placed in charge of the Massachusetts Highway Commission
and made a State highway by the provisions of Chapter 717, Acts of 1912, which
also provided that the expense of keeping the bridge in good repair for travel, and
for operating the draw and maintaining the structure, shall be paid by the Common-
wealth.

The number of draw openings during the year ending Nov. 30, 1936, was 1,591.
In 1935 the number of such openings was 1,492; in 1934 the number was 2,118;
in 1933 the number was 1,602; and in 1932 the number was 1,662.

The total expenditure during the year was $9,007.06.

The total expenditure from 1912 to Nov. 30, 1933, inclusive, was $420,652.07.

Drawbridge over Acushnet River
Between City of New Bedford and the Town of Fairhaven
This bridge which was placed in charge of the Department of Public Works and
made a State highway by the provisions of Chapter 406, Acts of 1930, which also
provided that the expense of keeping the bridge in good repair for travel, operating
the draw and of maintaining the structure, shall be paid by the Commonwealth, was
taken over by the Department on June 27, 1930.

The number of draw openings while in charge of the Department beginning
June 27, 1930, and ending Nov. 30, 1932, was 1,069. In 1933 the number of such

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openings was 1,867; in 1934 the number was 1,434; in 1935 the number was 1,318;
and in 1936 the number was 1,381.

The total expenditure during the year was 842,569.96.

The total expenditure while in charge of the Department has been 8139,430.29.

Drawbridge over Weymouth Fore River
Between the City of Quincy and. the Town of Weymouth

The jurisdiction of the Department of Public Works over this bridge is provided
for by Chapter 348, Acts of 1933. The construction of the new bridge at this location
tion required the construction of a temporary bridge to accommodate the vehicular
traffic which normally passed over the old bridge.

The number of draw openings at this temporarv bridge from December 1, 1935,
to May 23, 1936, was 1,467.

The new drawbridge was put in service May 23, 1936. From May 23, 1936 to
November 30, 1936 the number of openings of the new drawbridge was 302..

The total expenditure for the maintenance and operation of both the temporary
and new bridges was 813,487.40.

Maintenance of other Bridges on State Highways
During the past year the following work was completed or contracted for under
the supervision of the Maintenance Division: —

Buckland — Scott's Bridge over the Deerfield River. Cleaning and painting of the

steel superstructure.
Erving-Gill — French King Bridge over the Connecticut River. Cleaning and

painting of the steel.
Huntington — Pitcher Bridge over the Westfield River. Cleaning and painting

of the steel.
Millbury— Millbury St., Blackstone River and NY., NH., & H. Bridges. Cleaning

and painting of the steel.
New Bedford — Replacement of the rest pier fenders and repairs to the center

fender pier.
Tyngsborough — Tyngsborough Bridge over the Merrimack River. Cleaning

and painting of the steel superstructure.

Roadside Maintenance and Development

Roadside maintenance, such as the care and planting of trees and other growth
on the areas within the state highway layouts, has been a duty of this Department
for forty years. The work has developed rapidly in recent years due to the
growing belief that it is of value economically, in that it prevents soil erosion,
besides improving the general appearance of the highways.

Specially trained men under competent supervision are employed to do this work,
which not only includes the removal and trimming of trees, brush, and other undesi-
rable growth, but also the selection and planting of new trees, shrubs and vines
suitable for the various locations where such planting is desired. Trimming at
curves and intersections along the highway insures safe operating conditions for
motor vehicles, and the clearing of unnecessary growth and special trimming at
particular points, affords attractive vistas at scenic locations.

A nursery is maintained at Sudbury where a large proportion of the trees and
shrubs are grown for use on State highways under the control of the Department.

During the past year a large amount of roadside planting has been done on W.P.A.
Beautification projects sponsored and supervised by the Department. There have
been as many as 138 separate projects in operation at one time, with a total of more
than four thousand (4,000) employees. In carrying out this work, more than 125,
000 trees and shrubs have been planted, 350,000 square yards of ground along the
highways has been loamed and seeded, and about about 20 acres of sod has been
placed on slopes which were left bare and unsightly after construction of the high-
way. There was also a large amount of trimming and pruning done to improve
the general appearance of the natural growth along the roadside.

Under the W. P. A. the Department also made extensive repairs to a large slope
on Route 20 in Palmer. A most objectionable condition existed there in that, after

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the spring thaws, material from the. hill slipped onto the roadway, sometimes to a
depth of two feet making it necessary to use a tractor plow to clear the road for
traffic.

In addition to W. P. A. work which was supervised by the Department, a planting
project, financed by Federal Aid funds, was carried out in Framingham.

Beginning July 1, a sum of approximately $34,000 was made available by the
Federal Government under the Hayden-Cartwright Act1 and approximately $37,000
under the Works Program Highway Fund, both to be used for Roadside Improve-
ment projects.

In addition to the work carried on under the W. P. A. and the contract work
with Federal appropriations, a large number of men have been employed for a
period of about four months, replacing dead and damaged trees, cutting undesirable
growth, mowing grass, trimming trees and shrubs, and doing other work necessary
in connection with the maintenance of the roadside planting which has been done
in previous years.

During the year, 247 trees and and 678 shrubs were planted along the roadsides
of State Highways by the Department, and 2291 trees and 3572 shrubs were donated
by the Department to be planted on State sponsored W. P. A. Roadside Improve-
ment Projects.

Relief of Communities of Stricken Flood Areas

Chapter 144, Acts of 1936 provided as follows: —

Section 1. To provide for the payment of military and other emergency ex-
penses in safeguarding the lives and preserving the health and safety of the inhabitants
in the areas of the commonwealth damaged by floods, the sum of seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated from the Highway Fund, subject
to the provisions of law regulating the disbursement of such funds and the approval
thereof. All activities hereunder shall be carried on under the direction of a board
consisting of the adjutant general, the commissioner of public health, the commission-
er of public welfare and the commissioner of public safety.

Section 2. The facilities and services of all department and agencies of the
commonwealth shall be made available to the said board to such extent as he may
require, and all expenses incurred on the call of the said board by said departments
and agencies shall be paid from the appropriation made by section one. In carrying
out the provisions of this act, the said board shall co-operate with all federal agencies
and with all local and civic organizations engaged in relief work in-the flooded area
in such manner as he deems best. All activities under this act shall be so co-ordinated
by the said board as to avoid duplication of work and needless expenditure of money
and to expedite relief in the flooded area. (Approved March 21, 1936.)

Under Chapter 144, Acts of 1936, a board consisting of the Adjutant General,
Commissioner of Public Health, Commissioner of Public Welfare and the Com-
missioner of Public Safety was authorized to use the facilities and services of all de-
partments and agencies of the Commonwealth to relieve the communities in the
stricken flood areas. The Department of Public Works was directed to send tractors
to this area and plow under the silt in order to preserve the health in these commu-
nities from disease ridden dust and conserve the soil for agricultural purposes.

Seventeen tractors, operators, mechanics and timekeepers were employed in this
work and a total of $42,826.90, which included the overhauling of the tractors used
on this work, was expended.

Sidewalks along State Highways
State Bond Issue and Federal W.P.A. Allotments

With funds from the Bond Issue, Chapter 464, Acts of 1935, Section 2, and an
allotment from the Works Progress Administration, the Department of Public
Works, during the fiscal year 1936, supervised the construction of approximately
500 miles of sidewalks, providing useful employment for thousands of men. Al-
though the primary purpose of this Program was to provide a walk for pedestrians
off the travelled way, in an effort to decrease the mounting pedestrian accident
rate, many improvements have been made in the State Highway system.

More than 250 miles of curbing have been placed on these projects to serve as a

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permanent addition to the highway by controlling surface water and thus preventing
erosion. Curbing also serves as a guide to motorists.

Widenings to provide for sidewalks have involved the handling of over a million
yards of material, done mostly by hand labor. These widenings will be of benefit
also for the maintenance of the highways, particularly in providing additional width
for snow removal. Also in connection with the work sight shelves have been made
and outcrops of ledge have been removed to increase sight distances.

The installation of sidewalks has increased the valuation of abutting property
and opened up new developments, as in some cases new homes are being built adjacent
to our projects. School children are now afforded a safe place to walk along high
speed roads where previously no place existed for pedestrians except on the road
surface. Motorists will also receive benefit from this type of construction as the full
width of hardened surface is available to automobile traffic.

The towns in a number of instances have taken advantage of this type of con-
struction to insure a longer serviceability by treating the gravel surface with a bitu-
minous treatment, thus tending to make a semi-permanent type of wearing surface,
and it is common knowledge that practically all of the communities are taking steps
to treat these roads in some manner so as to safeguard them for the future.

The towns have expressed their appreciation to the Works Progress Administra-
tion and the Commonwealth for the cooperation given them. The Commonwealth
as sponsor is pleased with the manner in which the towns assisted and it is needless
to say that without the splendid cooperation of the Works Progress Administration
the remarkable progress could never have been attained.

Farm to Market Projects
, The Department early in the fall of 1935 submitted proposals to the Works
Progress Administration of Massachusetts for the improvement of the so-called
"Farm to Market" roads.

These proposals required contributions from the W.P.A., the Community and the
State. The W.P.A. contribution, in the main, consisted of supplying labor and a
portion of the equipment and material. The Community contribution consisted in
supplying part of the equipment, also a large part of the material and where possible
a competent foreman or supervisor, the Commonwealth supplying the engineering,
actual supervision, and other miscellaneous expenses, such as office rent and state-
owned cars.

Approval of such proposals was received from Washington, involving an allotment
of $20,000,000 from the W.P.A., a contribution from the Communities of approxi-
mately $884,600, and approximately $110,000 from the Commonwealth.

These proposals contemplated work on about 2000 miles of roads. To date there
has been actually completed 718 miles. Work on 443 miles is in various stages of
completion ranging from 20% to 80%.

Of utmost importance was the thought that certain outlying settlements had no
road for vehicular communication, which not only was a trade handicap but also a
real danger in case of fire, and the transportation of school children was at times
almost impossible, due to the condition of the roads at certain periods of the year.

There has been expended over the past twelve months by the combined agencies,
approximately $4,350,000. Of this amount 67.5% was paid direct to labor, the
remaining 32.5% covered equipment and material.

There has been an average of 5500 men employed for an earning period of ten
months.

The character of the work done is so diversified that it is not possible in a few words
to give a comprehensive picture of the actual value.

A great many roads were impractical for travel, as in the spring they were full of
mud-holes and were hardly passable a greater part of the year. Sufficent drainage
was installed, proper depth of excavation was attained and finally a fill varying
in depth of good clean gravel was made.

Narrow winding roads were improved by easing curves and noticeable widening
was accomplished in many places.

Similarly roads with poor visibility were improved.

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Widening and Resurfacing Projects

On Aug. 30, 1936, Project Proposals totalling $10,512,870.63 for the widening and
resurfacing State highways were submitted to the Works Progress Administration.
This work was submitted on a basis of 100% Federal Contribution and the only
State expenditures involved were for engineering and supervision.

These projects were approved but work was delayed in starting due to the fact
that insufficient labor was available under the quota fixed by the Works Progress
Administration because of projects already operating. As soon as projects which
were operating were completed and labor became available, these new projects were
started.

Testing Laboratory

The Testing Laboratory was established in 1921 by the Department of Public
"Works for testing materials to meet the requirements of the Bureau of Public Roads
in furnishing Federal aid for road construction.

At the present time very complete facilities are available to examine and evaluate
all materials entering into the construction activities of the Department.

The Department aims to keep abreast of recent and modern development in
order to insure good and durable construction and sound economical expenditure.
The construction program of the Department calls for annual expenditures amount-
ing to millions of dollars, which places heavy responsibility upon the laboratory for
testing materials used.

Research for determining the behavior of various materials under the climatic con-
ditions in this State is carried on. Equipment is in use for subjecting paints to
accelerated weathering tests similar to the local conditions, and these tests are
later supplemented by observations of materials actually exposed to weathering as
occurs in practice.

Tests are made to determine the chemical and physical properties of materials
used in cement concrete construction, and of bituminous materials, with a view to
determine their characteristics, and for the selection of the superior types of mixture
for use on highway work.

The scientific control of field operations under the direction of the laboratory
organization is an essential part of the laboratory work. More than 4000 tests per
year are made regularly.

Traffic
Traffic Signs, Lights, Markings, Signal Systems and Regulations.

Under the provisions of chapters 85 and 89, General Laws, as amended, certain
duties are placed upon the Department in order to secure uniformity in highway
traffic signs, signals, markings, devices and regulations.

The Department is required to erect on all numbered routes such signs, etc., as
it may deem necessary for promoting the public safety and convenience.

Traffic Signs, Signals, etc., erected by Department
Accordingly, the Department has, during the past year, erected those signs, etc.,
Traffic signals ......... 11

Traffic beacons ......... 130

Traffic signs .......... 17,653

Traffic markings (in miles) . . . . . . 687

The erection or designation of the foregoing was based upon accident analyses,
traffic counts and speed checks. It is only through a close study of these that the
need for warning or control can be accurately gauged.

Directional Signs and Rotde Markers erected by Department

Still other signs have been erected under the provisions of the first-named chapter.
These are known as directional signs. Posted at or within intersections, these
serve to direct the motorist to adjacent, contiguous and even remote towns.

Travel has been further facilitated by the opening of new routes and the marking
of these with button signs which notify the motorist upon which route he is traveling.

The fabricating and painting of these signs are done at the Department's traffic
shop.

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Traffic Control Signals, Signs and Regulations Approved by Department
The provisions of the several chapters already referred to also make the validity

of regulations made, or signs, etc., erected by cities and towns upon ways within

their control, dependent upon the written approval of the Department of Public

Works.
As a means of aiding the municipalities in this respect, the Department assigns

its engineers to make studies, and to give advice to those cities and towns which

desire to control vehicular traffic through the medium of regulations and signs.
This resulted during the past year in the Department's approving the following

traffic control features:

Traffic signals . . -

Traffic beacons .....

Traffic signs and markings

Traffic rules and regulations

Isolated stop signs .....

Safety zones ......

Federal Aid in Constructing Highways
Statements as to the Acts of Congress and of the Massachusetts Legislature in
respect to cooperation between the United States and the State of Massachusetts
in the construction and maintenance of highways, including the Federal Highway
Act, approved November 9, 1921, may be found in the annual report of the De-
partment of Public Works for the years 1920 to 1927 inclusive.

A detail statement of Federal Aid Allotments and projects for Massachusetts
appears in the Department Report for the fiscal year 1933. Additions and altera-
tions for the fiscal years 1934, 1935, and 1936 and a summary of the allotments
appear as follows:

Regular Federal Aid from June 30, 1916 to June 30, 1933 . . $18,523,440
1931 Federal Emergency Advance Funds ..... 1,141,460
Federal Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932 . . 1,716,612

1934 National Recovery Funds (Appropriated under National In-
dustrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933) . 6,597,100

1935 National Recovery Funds (Appropriated under The Hayden-
Cartwright Act approved June 18, 1934) 3,350,474

1936 Regular Federal Aid Funds (Authorized under The Hayden-
Cartwright Act approved June 18, 1934) l,74i,877

1937 Regular Federal Aid Funds (Authorized under The Hayden-
Cartwright Act approved June 18, 1934) 1,743,487

Works Program — Highways 3,26*2,885

Works Program — Grade Crossings ...... 4,210,833

(Appropriated under "the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of

1935)

1938 Regular Federal Aid Funds (Authorized under the Hayden-

Cartwright Act approved June 16, 1936) as follows:

Regular Federal Aid . . . . . $1,769,936

Secondary or Feeder Roads .... 353,987

Grade Crossings 1,047,500

$42,288,168

Total Federal Funds of All Types Authorized

3,171,423

$45,459,591

There were fifty-five (55) projects prepared in addition to those shown on the
Annual Report of the Department of Public Works for 1935. The length of
Federal Aid Road and Bridge Projects in this state from the commencement of
work of this type to November 30, 1936 inclusive is 1,127.371 miles, an increase of
50.594 miles over 1935.

In addition to these highway and bridge projects there were three (3) roadside
improvement projects prepared totaling about 3.5 miles, which were all on old
Federal Aid projects.

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The total length of Federal Aid Projects (1,127.371 miles) divided according to
the various counties is as follows: — ■

Barnstable

Berkshire

Bristol

Dukes .

Essex .

Franklin

Hampden

108.387
135.904
92.132
3.117
97.707
55 . 530
71.934

Hampshire

Middlesex

Norfolk

Plymouth

Suffolk

Worcester

1934 National Recovery Funds
Allotted as follows:

NRH 56 Stoughton .

NRH 57 (2) Winchester

NRM 57 (1) Woburn .

NRH 57 (B) Winchester

NRH 78 Burlington .

NRH 89-A Easton

NRH 89-C Easton

NRM 126-A Newburyport

NRM 130-B Auburn

NRM 131-C Springfield .

NRH 138-B Chester

NRH 143-B Fairhaven .

NRM 170-C Quincy-Weymouth

NRH 172-B Sterling-W. Boylston

NRH 173-C Lanesborough

NRM 173-D Pittsfield .

NRH 174-B Scituate-Marshfield

NRH 184-A Charlton ' .

NRH 184-C Charlton-Oxford .

NRH 188-F Ashby-Townsend

NRH 189-E Mattapoisett

NRH 189-F Wareham .

NRH 194-B Templeton .

NRH 199-C Newbury

NRM 235-B Brookline-Newton

NRH 240-B West Boylston .

NRM 241-A East Boston-Revere

NRM 241-B Revere

NRM 242-A Arlington-Belmont-Cambridge

NRH 243-A Amesbury .

NRM 244-A Boston (Hyde Park)

NRS 245-A Huntington

NRS 246 Conway-Deerfield

NRS 247 Otis .

NRM 248-A North Adams

NRM 249 Worcester .

Total for Roadway and Bridge Projects

1934 National Recovery Funds (continued)

Total for Roadway and Bridge Portions

(brought forward) ....

Landscape Projects Financed
from these Funds (See 1935 Report)

Amount Allotted . . $39,752 . 76

Amount Reverted . . 1,073.14

Total

54 . 508
109.153

92.684

114.464

5.839

186.012

1,127.371

$117,194.77

12,746.42

14,140.19

18,170.72

22,671.06

38,908.87

40,017.36
547,399.77
103,571.29
207,487.36

46,792.64

64,430.41

1,976,400.49

124,037.32

9,983 . 98

30,896.49
146,402.02

34,775.70

34,347.72
117,531.69

80,642.31

32,224.03

41,226.36

46,975.44
210,478.94
7,263.08
698,939.51
248,063 . 57
617,355.22

21,836.51

37,926.57
141,633.69
234,689.75
106,186.86
176,360.52
104,345.23

$6,514,053.86 carried forward

3,514,053.86

38,679.62

Total Amount Funds Allotted

3,552,733.48

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Allotment ......

Total Amount Actually Allotted (from above)

Agreement Pending ....

47
56,597,100.00
6,552,733.48

$44,366.52

The above projects are all completed and final payment received except NRM
170-C Quincy- Weymouth and NRM 249 Worcester which are completed but final
payment not received.

The following projects also include traffic signals:

NRM 126-A Newburyport

NRM 130-B Auburn

NRH 172-B Sterling-West Boylston

NRM 241-B Revere

NRM 242-A Arlington-Belmont-Cambridge

The following projects also include traffic signals: NRM 126-A Newburyport;
NRM 130-B Auburn; NRH 172-B Sterling-West Boylston; NRM 241-B Revere;
NRM 242-A Arlington-Belmont-Cambridge.

1935 National Recovery Funds

. $3,350,474.00

Allotted as follows:

iNRM

21-C

Pittsfield .

$30,035.83

iNRM

Lowell

59,022.86

2 NRM

69-B

Haverhill .

42,203.56

2 NRH

Southwick .

133,561.79

•NRH

125-C

B ourne-Wareham

150,531.21

2 NRH

Sheffield (Landscape)

330.72

2 NRH

114

Lenox (Landscape)

7,056.32

2 NRH

134-E

Rutland

19,155.95

2 NRH

137-C

Sheffield (Landscape) .

2,110.40

2 NRH

147-A

Lenox (Landscape)

673.44

2 NRM

155-C

Westfield .

54,312.55

2 NRH

173-E

Cheshire

149,590.82

2 NRH

176-B

Bourne

77,811.54

2 NRH

211-A

Northborough (Landscape)

11,317.53

•NRH

211-B

Framingham (Landscape)

1,800.00

2 NRH

211-C

Natick (Landscape)

5,483.00

2 NRH

211-F

Framingham (Landscape)

2,678.64

2NRS

247-B

Otis-Blandford

67,036.95

•NRH

250

Dracut-Methuen

285,253 . 51

•NRS

254

Athol-Orange

156,859.56

•NRH

256-A

Millbury .

404,307.62

iNRS

257

Montague .

313,669.92

NRM

235-E

Boston-Brookline

390,380.10

•NRH

251-A

Dedham- (Boston)

229,244.84

•NRM

251-B

Boston-(Dedham)

128,471.89

iNRS

253

Billerica-Chelmsford .

107,176.54

2NRS

252

Blandford .

53,368.79

•NRS

255

Andover

189,449.37
3,072,877.25

Agreement Pending

$277,596.75

1 These projects completed-
2 These projects completed-

-final payment not received,
-final payment received.

The following projects also include sidewalks: NRM 91 Lowell; NRH 250
Dracut-Methuen; NRH 251-A Dedham; NRM 251-B Boston; NRS 255 Andover.

The following projects also include traffic signals: NRH 256-A Millbury; NRH
251-A Dedham ; NRM 251-B Boston.

Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935

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Works Program-

-Highways .

$3,262,885.00

Apportioned as

follows :

i WPH 222-B

Greenfield

$67,272.64

WPH 272-A

Lynnfield .

271,940.00

WPMH 272-B

Peabody .

717,080.00

WPSO 278-A

Mansfield

4,710.00

WPMH 284-A

Holyoke .

163,530.00

WPSO 285-B

Mansfield

3,710.00

WPSO 290

Attleboro-North Attleborou

gh-

Plainville

252,640.00

WPSO 291

Clinton

86,170.00

WPSO 292

Marshfield-Pembroke

312,580.00

WPMH 293-A

Worcester

27,520.00

WPSO 304

West Bridgewater

85,860.00

iWPMS 267

Lynn

50,481.25

WPH-R 308-A

Deerfield-Sunderland .

352,360.00

2,395,853.89

Agreement Pending

$867,031.11

1 These projects completed — final payment not received. All others under construction

Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935

Works Program — Gr

ade Crossings

$4,210,833.00

Apportioned as follows:

WPGH

75-A

Newbury

$14,814.69

WPGH

75-B

Newbury-Newburyport

297,156.46

i WPGH

121-C

Weymouth .

107,379.69

WPGH

137-D

Sheffield

111,494.62

WPGH

164-C

Ashburnham

116,380.00

WPGM

260

Quincy

329,367.72

WPGS

262

Sharon

151,133.23

WPGS

263

Ayer

117,333.04

WPGS

269

Canton-Norwood-
Westwood

106,800.00

WPGS

270

Foxborough .

131,360.00

i WPGS

271

Foxborough-Mansfield

22,791.76

WPGS

276

Lunenburg .

78,851.19

WPGS

277

Sharon

65,060.00

WPGS

278-B

Mansfield .

91,930.00

WPGS

279

Monson

119,230.00

WPGS

285-A

Mansfield .

90,050.00

WPGS

289

Hopkinton-Westborough

91,990.00

WPGM

293-B

Worcester

348,260.00

WPGM

208-C

Waltham

207,519.98

i WPGM

280-A

Amherst

73,600.00

i WPGS

287

Braintree

10,069.29

i WPGM

275

Lawrence

80,223.13

2,762,794.80

Agreement Pending

5 completed — final payment not received.

All others under constru

$1,448,038.20

1 These project

:tion.

1936 Hayden-Cartwright Projects

$1,741,877.00

Apportioned

as follows:

3 Saugus .

$124,865.00

9 Sau

gus .

579,675.00

17 I vnnfield

146,300.00

256-B Millbury-Sutton

268,900.00

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259 Pittsfield $136,485.00

» 258 Bourne 166,967 . 55

$1,423,192.55

Agreement Pending $318,684.45

1 This project completed — final payment not received. All others under construction.

1937 Hayden-Cartwright Projects $1,743,487.00

Apportioned as follows:

36-A Eastham-(Orleans)
106-A Bourne

127-A Holyoke

175-B Orleans-(Eastham)

261 Maiden-Re vere-Saugus

$103,155.00

48,475.00

269,500.00

25,895.00

456,780.00

903,805.00

Agreement Pending $839,682.00

These projects are all under construction.

Bridges
During the year the Department has prepared designs and plans for, and done
other work relating to, bridges throughout the Commonwealth. The various cities
and towns, the localities therein, the character of the structure and other details
are as follows:

Bridges and Structures Built or Contracted for
Cities and Towns, Locality and Character of Structure

Adams — East Street over Tophet Brook; one 42-foot span, steel stringers with
concrete floor.

Amherst — Tracks of Central Vermont Railway over College Street; one 55-foot
span, through plate girder.

Ashhurnham — At Astor House Crossing over tracks of Boston and Maine Rail-
road; multiple span concrete beams varying from 35 feet to 42 feet and one 42-foot
steel stringer span with concrete floor; total length 272 feet.

Ayer — West Main Street over tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad: Eight spans
of concrete beams varying from 30 feet to 36 feet and one 108-foot steel pony truss
span with concrete floor; total length 337 feet.

Barnstable — Millway Road over Huckins Creek; one 20-foot span concrete slab.

Bourne — North County Road over Herring River; an 8-foot x 6-foot concrete
box culvert.

Brook field — Fiskdale Road over Quaboag River; two 39-foot spans, steel stringers
with concerte floor.

Buckland — Scott Road over Clesson Brook; one 45-foot span, steel stringer
bridge with concrete floor.

Canton — At Norwood and Westwood lines over Neponset River; seven 16-foot
spans, creosoted timber pile trestle with concrete floor; total length 110 feet.

Canton — Dedham Road over tracks of New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad; two 38-foot spans and one 71-foot span, steel stringers with concrete
floor; total length 152 feet.

Clinton — Lancaster Mills Bridge over Nashua River; one 90-foot span and one
94-foot span, steel deck plate girders with concrete floor; total length 185 feet.

Deer field — At Sunderland line, temporary bridge over Connecticut River; steel
stringers with wood floor on steel pile trestle.

Deer field — At Sunderland line over Connecticut River; six spans varying from 148
feet and 6 inches to 153 feet, steel deck trusses with concrete floor; total length
1050 feet.

East Brook field — Podunk Road over Seven Mile River; two 32-foot-six-inch spans,
one 44-foot span and one 50-foot span, steel stringers with concrete floor.

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Foxborough — Tracks of New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad over
Cocasset Street; one 50-foot-six-inch span, deck plate girder.

Grafton — Shrewsbury Street over tracks of the Boston and Albany Railroad;
one 36-foot concrete beam span, one 41-foot concrete beam span, one 70-foot steel
stringer span; total length 147 feet; concrete floor.

Grafton — Shrewsbury Street, pedestrian passage under tracks of Boston and
Albany Railroad; concrete box 8 feet wide and 7 feet-six inches high.

Greenfield — At Montague line, temporary bridge; six 74-foot spans, steel stringers
with wood floor; total length 450 feet.

Hanson — State Street over Indian Head River; one 52-foot span, steel stringer
with concrete floor.

Hopkinton — At Westborough line, Rocklawn Crossing over Sudbury River and
tracks of the Boston and Albany Railroad; one 34-foot span and two 39-foot-six-inch
spans, concrete beams; one 71-foot span, steel beams; concrete floor; total length
184 feet.

Lawrence — Tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad over Andover Street; one
130-foot-four-inch span, steel through plate girder.

Lunenburg — Leominster Road over tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad; two
35-foot-six-inch spans and one 39-foot span, steel stringers with concrete floor;
total length 144 feet.

Lynn field — Newburyport Turnpike over Circumferential Highway; one 44-foot
span, concrete beams, and two 46-foot spans, steel stringers, with concrete floors;
total length 140 feet.

Maiden — At Revere line, Squire Road Extension over Lynn Street; one 63-foot
span, steel stringers with concrete floor.

Mansfield — School Street over tracks of New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad; one 125-foot span, steel through plate girder, with concrete floor.

Mansfield — Elm Street over tracks of New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad; two 35-foot spans and one 60-foot span, steel stringers with concrete floor.

Marshfield — Plain and Ocean Streets over South River; one 15-foot span concrete
slab.

Marshfield — Plain and Ocean Streets over Waste Water Stream; one 18-foot
span concrete slab.

Middleton — At Peabody Line, Boston Street over Ipswich River; one 39-foot
span, steel stringer with concrete floor.

Millbury — Worcester Road over West Main Street; two 31 -foot-six-inch spans,
concrete beams, and one 60-foot span steel stringers, with concrete floor; total
length 156 feet.

Millbury — Worcester Road over Single tary Brook; one 20-foot span concrete arch.

Monson — Palmer Road over Chicopee Brook and over tracks of Central Vermont
Railway; two 58-foot spans and two 101-foot spans, steel through plate girders,
concrete floor; total length 323 feet.

New Marlborough — Great Barrington Road over Konkapot Brook; one 38-foot
span, steel stringers with concrete floor.

Peabody — Northern Circumferential Highway over Lowell Street; one 41-foot
span concrete beams, and one 59-foot span, steel stringers, with concrete floor.

Pembroke — Schoosett Street over Robinson Creek; one 16-foot span concrete slab

Pitts field — Dal ton Road over tracks of Boston and Albany Railroad; one 57-foot
span, steel stringers with concrete floor.

Quincy — At Weymouth line, Fore River Bridge over Weymouth Fore River;
removal of temporary bridge.

Quincy — At Weymouth line, Fore River Bridge over Weymouth Fore River;
lights for bridge.

Quincy — At Weymouth line, Fore River Bridge over Weymouth Fore River;
relocation of buildings and other work on approaches incidental to construction of
bridge.

Quincy — Water Street over tracks of New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail-
road; one 26-foot span and one 35-foot span, steel stringers, and one 74-foot span,
steel through plate girder, concrete floor.

Quincy — Tracks of New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad over Town
Brook; one 10-foot by 5-foot concrete box culvert.

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Revere — Squire Road Extension over tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad; two
30-foot spans and one 36-foot-six-inch span, concrete beams, and one 36-foot-six-
inch span, steel stringers; concrete floor; total length 134 feet.

Saugus — Main Street over Newburyport Turnpike; two 45-foot spans, steel
stringers with concrete floor.

Saugus — Walnut Street over Newburyport Turnpike; one 37-foot span, concrete
beams, and two 51-foot spans, steel stringers, concrete floor.

Saugus — Essex Street over Newburyport Turnpike; two 65-foot spans, steel
stringers with concrete floor.

' Sharon — South Main Street over tracks of New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad; one 76-foot span steel through plate girder with concrete floor.

Sharon — Depot Street over tracks of New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail-
road; two 46-foot spans, concrete beams, and one 60-foot span, steel stringers,
concrete floor.

Sheffield — Canaan Road over tracks of New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail-
road; three 51-foot spans, steel stringers with concrete floor.

Taunton — Tremont Street over Three Mile River; one 48-foot span, steel stringers
with concrete floor.

Worcester — Barbers Crossing over tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad; one
120-foot-ten-inch span, steel through plate girders with concrete floor; two bridges,
side by side.

Worcester — New Street over Neponset Street; one 51-foot-six-inch span, steel
stringers with concrete floor.

Worcester — Pedestrian passage under tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad;
concrete box 8 feet wide and 7-feet-six-inches high.

Alterations, Repairs and Extensions to Bridges and Structures
Made or Contracted for

Buckland — At Charlemont line, Scotts Bridge over Deerfield River; repairing
bridge seats.

Dartmouth — At Westport Factory; construction of new dam and extension of
raceway and intake of dam.

Dudley — At Webster line, Pleasant Street over French River; repairs to steel
plate girder.

Hadley — At Northampton line, over Connecticut River; repairs to bridge.

Holyoke — At South Hadley line, over Connecticut River; repairs to bridge.

Holyoke — Northampton Road; one 13-foot-six-inch span extension to existing
bridge.

Lowell — Aiken Street Bridge over Merrimack River; construction of new wing
wall.

Marsh field — Over Green Harbor River; 19-foot-four-inch concrete slab extension
to existing bridge.

Newbury — Parker River Bridge; repairs to piers and abutments.

North field — Schell Bridge over Connecticut River; repairs to bridge.

North field — Bennetts Meadow bridge over Connecticut River; repairs to bridge.

Saugus — Newburyport Turnpike over Saugus River; widening of existing concrete
bridge, 22-foot span concrete slab.

West Bridgewater — West Center Street over West Meadow Brook; widening of
existing bridge, 15-foot concrete arch.

Westport — Westport Point Bridge over Westport River; repairs to timber trestle
and draw.

Contemplated Bridges and Structures
Plans, Studies or Estimates Made
Cities and Towns, Locality and Character of Structure
Adams — Center Street over Hoosic River; new bridge.

Adams — Lime Street over Hoosic River; replacement of bridge destroyed by flood.
Alford — New Road over Green River; new bridge.

Ashfield — Spruce Corner over Swift River; replacement of bridge destroyed by
flood. *

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Ashland— Mam and Cherry Streets over tracks of Boston and Albany Railroad;
grade crossing elimination.

Ashland — Pedestrian passageway under tracks of Boston and Albany Railroad.

Athol — Crescent Street over Millers Rivers; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Athol — At Orange line, Pinedale Avenue over Lawrence Brook; replacement of
bridge destroyed by flood.

Athol — At Orange line, Fryeville Bridge over Tully River; replacement of bridge
destroyed by flood.

Attleboro — Washington Street over tracks of New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad; new bridge.

Barre — South Barre Road over Ware River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Barre — Powder Mill Bridge over Ware River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Belchertown — At Palmer line, Depot Street over Swift River; replacement of
bridge destroyed by flood.

Belchertown — Granby Road over tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad; new bridge.

Berlin — Marlborough Road over Assabet River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Beverly — Paradise Crossing over tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad; grade
crossing elimination.

Blandford — Russell Road over Freeland Brook; new bridge.

Bolton — Seven Bridge Road over Still River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Boston — At Cambridge line, Prison Point Bridge over tracks of Boston and Maine
Railroad; proposed traffic circle.

Boston — At Milton line over Neponset River; bridge at new location.

Boston — At Milton line, Pauls Bridge over Neponset River; new bridge.

Boston — Porter Street over tracks of Boston and Albany Railroad; bridge on
proposed Tunnel Road.

Boston — Prescott Street over proposed Tunnel Road ; new bridge.

Boston — Bennington and Neptune Streets over proposed Tunnel Road; new
bridge.

Boston — Saratoga Street over proposed Tunnel Road ; new bridge.

Boston — Jamaicaway over Huntington Avenue; relieving platform on approach
to bridge.

Boston — East Milton Street and proposed highway near Pauls Bridge; grade
separation.

Braintree — Tracks of New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad over Union
Street; grade crossing elimination.

Brim field — Sturbridge Road over Mill Brook; new bridge.

Brookline — Brookline Village; separation of highways.

Brookline — Cypress Street at Worcester Turnpike; grade separation.

Cambridge — Cottage Farm Bridge; alteration at approach.

Charlemont — At Shelburne line, Four Mile Square Road over North River;
replacement of bridge destroyed by flood.

Cheshire — Auto Route 8 and tracks of Boston and Albany Railroad; grade crossing
elimination.

Chesterfield — First Bridge over Stevens Brook; new bridge.

Chesterfield — Second Bridge over Stevens Brook; new bridge.

Chicopee — Plainfield Street; elimination of grade crossing.

C drain — Adamsville Road over North River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Colrain — Frank Herzig Bridge over West Branch of North River; replacement
of bridges destroyed by flood.

Colrain — Robert Hillman Bridge over West Branch of North River; replacement
of bridge destroyed by flood.

Danvers — Tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad over Salem Turnpike; grade
crossing elimination.

Danvers — Andover Street over Newburyport Turnpike; grade crossing elimination.

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Dudley — At Webster line, Perryville Road over French River; replacement of
bridge destroyed by flood.

Dudley — Brandon Road over French River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Edgartown — Katama Road over Mattakesett Brook; new bridge.

Erving — At Montague line, Paper Mill Bridge over Millers River; replacement
of bridge destroyed by flood.

Fall River — At Somerset line, Slades Ferry Bridge over Taunton River; repairs
or new bridge.

Falmouth — Nashawena Street over Nashawena Creek; new bridge.

Falmouth — Silver Beach Road oyer Herring River; new bridge.

Falmouth — Silver Beach Road over tracks of New York, New Haven and Hart-
ford Railroad; new bridge.

Fitchburg — Circle Street over Nashua River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Fitchburg — Westminster Cut-off over Woodbury Mill Pond ; new bridge.

Fitchburg — Lunenburg Street over Baker Brook overflow; replacement of bridge
destroyed by flood.

Fitchburg — Westminster Cut-off over Monoosnoc Brook; two new bridges.

Florida — At Savoy line, Mohawk Trail over Cold River; new bridge.

Gardner — At Templeton line, Shoddy Mill Road over Otter River; replacement
of bridge destroyed by flood.

Gardner — Mechanic Street over tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad; grade
crossing elimination.

Gardner — Mechanic Street; pedestrian bridge over tracks of Boston and Maine
Railroad.

Gill — At Montague line, Turners Falls over Connecticut River; new bridge.

Gloucester — Tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad over Essex Avenue; grade
crossing elimination.

Grafton — Depot Street over Blackstone Canal; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Hadley — Scotts Bridge over Mill River; replacement of bridge destroyed by flood.

Hadley — At Northampton line over Connecticut River; new bridge.

Hamilton — At Ipswich line, Highland Street over Ipswich River; new bridge.

Hanson — Main Street over Poor Meadow Brook; widening existing bridge.

Hatfield — Bridge Street over Mill River; replacement of bridge destroyed by flood.

Hatfield — West Street over Mill River; widening existing bridge.

Haverhill — River Street over Bradley Brook; widening of existing bridge.

Haverhill — At Methuen line, Bradley Avenue over Hawkes Brook; widening of
existing arch.

H olden — River Street over Quinapoxet River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Holliston — Washington Street over tracks of Boston and Albany Railroad; grade
crossing elimination.

Huntington — Main Street over Westfield River and tracks of Boston and Albany
Railroad; grade crossing elimination.

Ipswich — Linebrook Road and Newburyport Turnpike; grade separation.

Lancaster — Center Bridge Road over Nashua River; replacement of bridge destroy-
ed by flood.

Lawrence — Den Rock Road over Shawsheen River; new bridge.

Lee — Auto Route 20 over Housatonic River; repairs to bridge.

Leominster — Mechanic Street over Nashua River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Leominster — Tracks of New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad over West-
minster cut-off; grade crossing separation.

Leominster — North Main Street over Westminster cut-off; grade separation.

Lincoln — South Great Road over tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad; grade
crossing elimination.

Lowell — Central Bridge over Merrimack River; new bridge.

Lowell — Moody Street over Merrimack River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

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Ludlow — At Wilbraham line, Red Bridge over Chicopee River; replacement of
bridge destroyed by flood.

Lunenburg — Townsend Harbor Road over Mulpus Brook; replacement of bridge
destroyed by flood.

Manchester — Proposed road over Manchester Harbor.

Mansfield — Proposed pedestrian passageway over tracks of New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad.

Medfield — At Millis line, Dwight Street over Charles River; new bridge.

Milford — Medway Street over Boston and Albany Railroad; grade crossing
elimination.

Milton — Proposed road over tracks of New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad.

Monroe — Valley Road over Dunbar Brook; widening of existing bridge.

Newton — At Weston line, Northern Circumferential Highway over Charles
River; new bridge.

Newton — At Wellesley line, over Charles River; new bridge.

North Adams — Williamstown Road over a brook; widening existing stone arch.

North Andover — Boxford Road over Mosquito Brook; new bridge.

Northbridge — Mendon Road over West River; new bridge.

Northfield — Burnham Road over Mill Brook; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Northfield — Mt. Hermon Road over Nelson Pond ; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Orange — South Main Street over Millers River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Orange — Holtshire Street over Millers River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Orange — Warwick Road over Orcutt Brook; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Oxford — Dudley Road over French River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Palmer — Main Street over Ware River; replacement of bridge destroyed by flood.

Palmer — Church Street over Ware River; replacement of bridge destroyed by flood.

Peabody — Lowell Street over Newburyport Turnpike; grade separation.

Peabody — Andover Street over Circumferential Highway; grade separation.

Pepperell — Main Street over Nashua River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Pepperell — Mill Street over Nissitisset River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Petersham — Choates Pond Bridge over Swift River; replacement of bridge destroy-
ed by flood.

Pittsfield — South Street over tracks of New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad; grade crossing elimination.

Pittsfield — South Street over Housatonic River; new bridge.

Princeton — At Sterling line, Pottery Mill Bridge over Keyes Brook; replacement
of bridge destroyed by flood.

Princeton— Ropers Mill Bridge over Ware River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Randolph — North Street over tracks of New York, New Haven and Hartford
■Railroad; new bridge.

Rowley — Haverhill Street over Newburyport Turnpike; grade separation.

Royalston — King Street over Nashua River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Royalston — South Royalston Road over Millers River; replacement of bridge
destroyed by flood.

Salisbury — Elm Street over tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad; new bridge.

Sharon — Garden Street over tracks of New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad; Proposed pedestrian bridge.

Shrewsbury — Southwest Connection over Flint Pond; new bridge.

Shrewsbury— Southwest Connection over Lake Quinsigamond; new bridge.

Shrewsbury — Southwest Connection over Grafton Street; grade separation.

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South wick — College highway over Uncle Olivers Brook; new bridge.

South wick — State highway over Webb Brook; new bridge.

Sterling — Bridge Road over East Wachusett Brook; replacement of bridge de-
stroyed by flood.

Sudbury — Boston Post Road over Parmenters Mill Pond; new bridge.

Sudbury — Worcester Road over tracks of New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad; grade crossing elimination.

Sutton — Stevens Road over Mumford River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Sutton — Worcester Road over Wilkinsonville Road; grade separation.

Sutton — State highway over Mumford River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Sutton — Worcester Road over Central Turnpike; grade separation.

Swampscott — Tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad over Paradise Road; grade
crossing elimination.

Topsfield — Ipswich Road over Newburyport Turnpike; grade separation.

Toivnsend — Warren Road over Squannacook River; replacement of bridge de-
stroyed by flood.

Uxbridge — Mendon Street over Blackstone River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Ware — Church Street over Ware River; replacement of bridge destroyed by flood.

Ware — Gibbs Crossing over Ware River; replacement of bridge destroyed by flood.

West Bridgewater — West Centre Street over Hockamuck River; new bridge.

Weston — Circumferential Highway over South Avenue; grade separation.

Weston — Circumferential Highway over Weston Aqueduct; grade separation.

Williamstown — North Adams Road over Green River; new bridge.

Winchendon — Highway route No. 202 over Millers River; replacement of bridge
destroyed by flood.

Winchendon — Brown Street over Millers River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Winchendon — Sibley Road over Millers River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Winchendon — Joe Alger Road over Millers River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Winchendon — High Street over Millers River; replacement of bridge destroyed
by flood.

Winchendon — Royalston Road over Bullardville Brook; replacement of bridge
destroyed by flood.

Winchendon — State highway route No. 12 over Millers River; replacement of
bridge destroyed by flood.

Winchendon — New Boston Road over tracks of Boston and Maine Railroad;
grade crossing elimination.

Winchendon — Ashburnham Road, Pequoig Crossing over tracks of Boston and
Maine Railroad; grade Crossing elimination.

Winchester — Main Street over outlet of Wedge Pond; new bridge.

Windsor — Worthington Road over two brooks; two new bridges.

Windsor — Savoy Road over Westfield River; new bridge.

Examinations, Reports, Estimates, etc., at Request of
Counties, Cities and Towns.

Berlin — Marlborough Road over Assabet River; examination and report on
condition of bridge and repairs required.

Charlemont — Hawley Road over Deerfield River; estimate for new bridge.

Dudley — At Webster line, Pleasant Street over French River; examination and
estimate for new bridge.

Framingham — Holliston Road over Washakum Pond; examination and report
on condition of bridge.

Gill — At Montague line, Turners Falls Road suspension bridge over Connecticut
River; examination and estimate for repairs.

Ludlow — At Wilbraham line, over Chicopee River; examination, report, and
estimate for repairs.

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Monson — Hampden Avenue over Chicopee Brook; examination and estimate
for new bridge.

Royalston — South Royalston Road over Millers River; report on condition
and method of repair.

Wareham — Agawam Road over Wareham River; examination and estimate
for repairs.

Wareham — Dummy Bridge over Swift River; examination and estimate for repairs.

Warren — Main Street over Quaboag River; estimate for cost of repairs and for
new bridge.

Examinations, Reports, Estimates, etc., by direction of
the Department

Agawam — At Springfield line, South End Bridge over Connecticut River; report
on condition and estimate for new bridge.

Cummington — Village Bridge over Westfield River; report on condition.

Dudley — Pine Street over abandoned right-of-way of Southern New England
Railroad ; estimate of cost for filling in highway.

East Longmeadow — Bridge over tracks of New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad; design of sidewalk for bridge.

Erving — At Montague line, Millers Falls Bridge over Millers River; examination
and report on condition.

Falmouth — Nashawena Street over Nashawena Creek; examination and estimate
for new bridge.

Falmouth — Silver Beach Road over Herring River; examination and estimate
for new bridge.

Falmouth — Silver Beach Road over tracks of New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad ; examination and estimate for new bridge.

Greenfield — At Montague line, Montague City Bridge over Connecticut River;
estimate for new bridge.

Greenfield — At Montague line, street railway bridge; estimate for alteration
for use as highway bridge.

Groveland — At Haverhill line, Groveland Bridge over Merrimack River; report
on condition.

Holyoke — At South Hadley line, over Connecticut River; examination, report
and estimate for repairs.

Leicester — Cherry Valley Bridge over Kettle Brook; examination and report
on condition.

Lowell — Central Bridge over Merrimack River; report on condition and estimate
for new bridge.

Newburyport — At Salisbury line, over Merrimack River; report on advisability
of new fender pier.

Norfolk — At Walpole line, Winter Street over Stop River; report on condition
and estimate for widening bridge.

North field — Schell Bridge over Connecticut River; examination and report on
condition of bridge.

Northfield — Bennetts Meadow Bridge over Connecticut River; examination
and report on condition of bridge.

Palmer — Main Street over Canal; examination, report, and estimate for new
bridge.

Ware — East Street over Ware River; examination and estimate for repairs.

Bridge Plans Submitted and Examined during the Year under the Provisions of
Section 35, Chapter 85 of the General Laws (Ter. Edition)

Charlton — Oxford Street over Little River; one 17-foot span, stone arch.

Charlton — Grover Road over Little River; one 24-foot span, steel stringers
with concrete floor.

Charlton — Turner Road over Muddy Brook; one 17-foot span, stone arch.

Dudley — Hill Street over French River; one 50-foot span, steel stringers with
concrete floor.

Fall River — Plymouth Avenue over Quequechan River; two spans, concrete
beams ; total length 63 feet.

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Fitchbur g— Princeton Road over Nashua River; one 32-foot span, extension of
granite arch.

Haverhill — Lowell Avenue over Creek Brook.

#oMen— Princeton Street over North Woods Stream; one 24-foot span, metal
culvert.

Leicester— Auburn Street over Kettle Brook; one 18-foot span, stone arch.

Leicester— Chapel Street over Brick City Pond; one 20-foot span, steel stringers
with concrete floor.

Leominster — Pond Street over Monoosnock Brook; one span, concrete beams.

Leominster— Exchange Street over Monoosnock Brook; one 45-foot span, concrete
rigid frame.

Leominster— West Street; one 18-foot span, concrete beams.

Leominster— Lindell Avenue over Monoosnock Brook; one 36-foot span, concrete
beams. .

Pittsfield—Pomeroy Avenue, Lowden Bridge over East Branch Housatonic
River; one 86-foot span, steel through plate girder with concrete floor.

Pittsfield— Columbus Avenue over West Branch Housatonic River; one 43-foot
span, steel stringers with concrete floor.

Pittsfield—Lakew&y Drive over outlet of Onota Lake; steel stringers with concrete

Royalston,— Fitzwilllam Road over Lawrence Brook; one 25-foot span, steel
stringers with concrete floor.

Royalston— Winchendon Road over Priest Brook; one 30-foot span, steel stringers
with concrete floor.

Rutland— -Lower Intervale Road over Ware River; one 30-foot span, steel stringers
with concrete floor.

Southbridge— Sandersdale Road; one 14-foot span, concrete slab.

Upton— West Street over West River; one 23-foot span, steel stringers with
concrete floor.

Westminster— North Common Road over Whitman River; one 2b-toot span,
steel stringers with concrete floor.

Winchendon— Robbins Road over Robbins Pond Brook; one 20-foot span, steel
stringers with concrete floor.

Report on advisability of using asphalt blocks for bridge surfacing.

Temporary Bridges Across the Connecticut River to Aid in Relieving
the Existing Conditions Resulting from the Recent Floods

Chapter 174, Acts of 1936 provided as follows:

Section 1. The department of public works is hereby authorized and directed,
with the consent of the county commissioners of the county or counties in which
temporary bridge construction may be required by reason of the damages caused
by the recent floods and subject to such approval from the appropriate federal
authorities as may be required, to construct temporary bridges across the Connecticut
river at such points as said department and said county commissioners may deter-
mine in each case. For the aforesaid purpose, there may be expended from the
appropriation hereinafter made and any federal funds that may be made available
not more than four hundred and fifty thousand dollars in the aggregate.

Section 2. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, and subject
to the conditions contained in section one, the sum of four hundred and fifty thousand
dollars is hereby appropriated from the Highway Fund, subject to the provisions
of law regulating the disbursement of public funds and the approval thereof.

Temporary bridges were constructed between Deerfield and Sunderland and
between Greenfield and Montague. Expenditures were made as follows:

Deerfield-Sunderland $127,056.00

Greenfield-Montague 130,000.00

Holyoke-So. Hadley 171,808.11

Northampton-Hadley 21,135.89

Total $450,000.00

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Repair or Reconstruction of Certain Bridges Damaged by Recent Floods
Chapter 429, Acts of 1936 provided as follows:

Section 1. The department of public works, hereinafter called the department,
is hereby authorized and directed to repair or reconstruct county, city or town bridges
which were destroyed or damaged by the recent floods, to the extent that funds are
made available therefor by the federal government and under this act. Projects
hereunder shall be selected, so far as possible, in accordance with a tabulation of
bridges damaged by the recent floods made by the department and dated June
eighth, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, which shall be filed and kept open to public
inspection in the office of the state secretary. Such bridges shall be repaired or
reconstructed in such manner and in such locations as the department, with the
approval of the county commissioners of the county where the bridge is located,
may determine.

Section 2. The department may construct approaches to any of such bridges
and make necessary alterations to street railways and railroad tracks and in connect-
ing ways and may construct any necessary drainage outlets and cross any railroads
at grade or otherwise as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.

Section 3. There is hereby made available for the purposes of this act sums
not exceeding, in the aggregate, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars, payable,
with respect to each project hereunder, as follows: — one half by the commonwealth
out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation made by chapter one hundred
and forty-four of the acts of the current year, one fourth by the commonwealth from
the Highway Fund, one eighth by the county and one eighth by the city or town in
which the bridge is located, and, in addition, sums not exceeding, in the aggregate,
one hundred thousand dollars, payable by the commonwealth for engineering services
as follows: — one half out of said unexpended balance of the appropriation made
by said chapter one hundred and forty-four and one half from the Highway Fund;
provided, that sums amounting, in the aggregate, to not less than one million eight
hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall have been made available for the purposes
of this act by the federal government. In the event that a bridge subject to this
section is located in more than one county, or in more than one municipality, the
payment herein required to be made by the county, or by the municipality, shall
be made in equal proportions by such counties, or by such municipalities.

Section 4. The amounts to be paid by cities and towns as aforesaid shall be
assessed and collected by the state treasurer as a part of their state tax in the year
nineteen hundred and thirty-seven.

Section 5. For the purpose of meeting payments required to be made under
this act a city, town or county may borrow such sums as may be necessary, and
may issue bonds or notes therefor which shall be payable in not more than ten years;
and such indebtedness shall, except as herein provided, be subject to chapter forty-
four of the General Laws in the case of a city or town, and to chapter thirty-five of
the General Laws in the case of a county. Any borrowing hereunder by a city or
town may be outside its statutory limit of indebtedness.

Section 6. For the purposes of this act, the department, on behalf of the common-
wealth, or on behalf of any county, city or town, may enter upon or take by eminent
domain under chapter seventy-nine of the General Laws, or acquire by purchase or
otherwise, such public or private lands, or parts thereof or rights therein, or such
public ways, as may be necessary for carrying out any project under this act, includ-
ing such lands or rights therein as may be necessary for the construction of any
necessary drainage outlets; provided, that no damages shall be paid for public lands
or public ways so taken. Upon the filing of an order to that effect by the department
in its office, the title to and control of lands or rights therein taken or acquired in
connection with any project hereunder shall become vested in the county, city or
town in whose behalf the land was taken or acquired as aforesaid. The cost of land
takings, including any damages awarded on account of any taking of land or property,
or any injury to the same, and any sums paid for lands or rights purchased, shall be
paid by the commonwealth out of the proceeds of obligations issued under chapter
four hundred and sixty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-five, and
the total amount so paid shall be included within the limit of aggregate ultimate
liability on the part of the commonwealth specified in item (4) of section one of said

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chapter four hundred and sixty-four. Sums paid under this section shall be in
addition to those specified in section three of this act, but no payments under this
section with respect to any project hereunder shall be made unless and until sums
have been made available therefor by the federal government as provided in said
section three.

Section 7. Upon completion of the repair or reconstruction of a bridge as herein
authorized, the bridge, together with its approaches, shall continue to be or become
a public highway and shall be maintained by the county or counties, or municipality
or municipalities, in which it is located, according to whether said bridge is a county,
city or town bridge.

The expenditures during the year for the Construction of Certain Bridges
under chapter 429, in various Counties were as follows:

Berkshire . . . $1,055.37 Hampshire . . . $399.73
Franklin . . . 1,443.25 Middlesex . . . 13,831.31

Hampden . . . .759.09 Worcester . . . 14,457.81

Eng. $18,051.89

Total .... $49,998.45

Details of the foregoing expenditures follow: —

Berkshire County.— Cheshire, $214.24; North Adams, $244.34; Sandisfield,$307.50;
Windsor, $289.29.

Franklin County— Ashfield, $14.52; Charlemont, $43.15; Colrain, $243.13;
Conway, $170.74; Erving, $34.53; Montague, $356.20; Northfield, $207.08; Orange,
$14.52; Warwick, $215.45; Wendell, $143.93.

Hampden County.— Blandford, $226.73; Brimfield, $413.80; Chester, $92.24;
Ludlow, $21.32; Wilbraham, $5.

Hampshire County.— Easthampton, $91.74; Hatfield, $24.50; Ware, $283.49.

Middlesex County.— Acton, $572.30; Ashby, $147.69; Dracut, $909.24; Framing-
ham, $145.85; Hudson, $58.15; Lowell, $6,059.24; Maynard, $30.; Pepperell,
$3,810.52; Shirley, $1,422.99; Townsend, $675.33.

Worcester County.— Ashburnham, $1,025.29; Athol, $360.72; Barre, $20; Berlin
$388.55; Blackstone, $60.57; Charlton, $441.63; Clinton, $91.16; Dana, $266.61
Dudley, $72.07; Grafton, $51.43; Hardwick, $550.18; East Brookfield, $56.20
Holden, $417.18; Hubbardston, $640.34; Leicester, $1,378.02; Leominster, $189.92
Lunenburg, $838.87; Mendon, $395.19; Millbury, $190; North Brookfield, $12.
Oxford, $1,056.14; Petersham, $383.47; Phillipston, $101.86; Princeton, $209.48.
Royalston, $484.07; Rutland, $60; Spencer, $673.01; Sterling, $776.41; Sturbndge,
$338.49; Templeton, $40; Upton, $389.35; Uxbridge, $900.56; Warren, $122; West
Boylston, $19.50; West Brookfield, $656.32; Westborough, $44.91; Westminster,
$32.38; Winchendon, $390; Worcester, $333.93.

Construction or Reconstruction of Three Bridges over the Connecticut
River and one Bridge over the Merrimack River

Chapter 433, Acts of 1936 provides as follows:

Section 1. The department of public works, hereinafter called the department,
is hereby authorized and directed to construct a bridge, and approaches thereto,
across the Connecticut river from a point in the Turners Falls section of the town
of Montague to a point on the state highway in the vicinity of the Riverside section
of the town of Gill, and also a bridge, and approaches thereto, across said river at
or near the site of the existing Sunderland— South Deerfield bridge, so called;
provided, that the entire. cost of such work shall be met substantially out of funds
made available therefor by the federal government under the Federal Emergency
Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, or any other appropriate federal statute. The
said bridges, and approaches thereto, shall cross at other than grade any railroads
or railroad sidings encountered.

Section 2. The department is hereby further authorized and directed to recon-
struct the bridge over said river, known as the Northampton-Hadley bridge, at a
total cost of not exceeding one million dollars; provided, that federal funds sufficient
to pay substantially one half of said total cost are made available therefor under

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the provisions of the act of congress known as the Hayden-Cartwright Road Act.
Substantially one half of said total cost shall be paid out of federal funds made
available therefor as aforesaid and the balance thereof shall be payable from the
appropriation made by item six hundred and forty-three of chapter three hundred
and four of the acts of the current year.

Section 3. The department is hereby further authorized and directed to con-
struct a bridge, and approaches thereto, over the Merrimack river in the city of
Lowell at or near the site of the existing Central bridge, so called, at a total cost of
not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars; provided, that federal funds sufficient
to pay forty per cent of said total cost are made available therefor under the provi-
sions of any appropriate federal statute. Forty per cent of said total cost shall be
paid out of federal funds made available therefor as aforesaid and the other sixty
per cent thereof shall be payable as follows: — one half by the commonwealth from
the Highway Fund, one fourth by the county of Middlesex and one fourth by the
city of Lowell.

Section 4. Payments by the county of Middlesex and the city of Lowell under
section three shall be paid into the treasury of the commonwealth upon written
order of the department and sums so paid shall be available for expenditure by the
department for the purposes of said section without appropriation by the general
court.

Section 5. For the purpose of meeting payments required to be made as aforesaid,
the county of Middlesex and the city of Lowell may each borrow such sums as may
be necessary, and may issue bonds or notes therefor which shall be payable in not
more than ten years; and such indebtedness shall, except as herein provided, be
subject to chapter forty-four of the General Laws in the case of said city, and to
chapter thirty-five of the General Laws in the case of said county. Any borrowing
hereunder by said city may be outside its statutory limit of indebtedness.

Section 6. For the purposes of this act, the department, on behalf of the common-
wealth, or on behalf of any county, city or town, may enter upon or take by eminent
domain under chapter seventy-nine of the General Laws, or acquire by purchase
or otherwise, such public or private lands, or parts thereof or rights therein, or such
public ways, as may be necssary for carrying out any project under this act, includ-
ing such lands or rights therein as may be necessary for the construction of any
necessary drainage outlets; provided, that no damages shall be paid for public lands
or public ways so taken. Upon the filing of an order to that effect by the department
in its office, the title to and control of lands or rights therein taken or acquired in
connection with any project hereunder shall become vested in the county, city or
town in whose behalf the land was taken or acquired as aforesaid. The cost of land
takings, including any damages awarded on account of any taking of land or property,
or any injury to the same, and any sums paid for lands or rights purchased, shall
be paid by the commonwealth out of the proceeds of obligations issued under chapter
four hundred and sixty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-five, and
the total amount so paid shall be included within the limit of aggregate ultimate
liability on the part of the commonwealth specified in item (4) of section one of
said chapter four hundred and sixty-four. Sums paid under this section shall be in
addition to those otherwise specified in this act, but no payments under this section
with respect to any project hereunder shall be made unless and until sums have been
made available therefor by the federal government as provided in this act.

Section 7. The department may make a contract or contracts for any project
hereinbefore authorized if and when the federal authorities give proper assurance
to it that the federal government will furnish the funds necessary to meet the cost
of the construction involved therein, as provided by this act. notwithstanding the
provisions of section twenty-seven of chapter twenty-nine of the General Laws.

Section 8. The department is hereby authorized to make such alterations to
street railway and railroad tracks and in connecting ways and to construct such
drainage outlets as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.

Section 9. Each of the bridges, and approaches thereto, constructed hereunder
shall, upon completion, become and be maintained as a public highway by the
county in which located, except that the said bridge, and approaches thereto,
constructed under section three in the city of Lowell shall be maintained by said city.

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The bridge between Deerfield and Sunderland is under construction. The plans
are being prepared for the other bridges and will be ready to advertise early in the
spring.

Examinations, Studies, Estimates, Reports and Work done
by Direction of Acts and Resolves of the Legislature
Chapter 71, Resolves of 1936, — Estimate of State Highway over the Route of the
Old Middlesex Turnpike, so-called

The resolve provided for preparation of surveys, estimates, plans and specifications
relative to a State highway over the route of the old Middlesex Turnpike from
Lexington to North Chelmsford.-

Construction of Town and County Ways

(Section 34, Chapter 90, General Laws, Ter. Ed.)

During the year the Department has contracted for work to be done in the towns

and cities named in the following table, which also shows the type of road or

nature of work, the length contracted for, and the allotments or contributions

by the State, towns, cities and counties :

Counties and Town

Barnstable County
Barnstable
Barnstable
Bourne .
Brewster

Chatham
Falmouth
Falmouth
Harwich .
Harwich .
Orleans .
Orleans .
Wellfleet
Yarmouth

Berkshire County
Adams
Alford .
Alford
Becket

Cheshire
Clarksburg

Clarksburg

Dalton .

Egremont

Florida .

Great Barringt

Hancock

Hinsdale

Lanesborough

Lee

Lenox

Monterey

Monterey
Mount Washington
Mount Washington
New Ashford .
New Ashford .
New Marlborough

New Marlborough

North Adams

Otis

Peru

Pittsfield

Richmond

State

$4,500 00

10,000 00

6,750 00

1,125 00

9,000 00

7,500 00

119,500 00

1,350 00

9,000 00

3,750 00

4,500 00

2,250 00

Contributions
Town

$3,000 00

5,000 00

4,500 00

750 00

4,500 00
5,000 00

675 00
4,500 00
2,500 00
3,000 00
3,000 00
1,500 00

$6,000 00

1,125 00

375 00

3,750 00

2,400 00

1,500 00

375 00

7,500 00

2,400 00

3,000 00
7,500 00

7,650 00

250 00

750 00

3,750 00

500 00

7,000 00
3,750 00
3,750 00

2,250 00

1,100 00

1,125 00

1,000 00

600 00

375 00

2,250 00

55 09

3,000 00

11,250 00
3,000 00
3,375 00
3,000 00

16,071 00
6,429 00
1,875 00

$3,000 00

750 00

250 00

2,500 00

1,200 00

750 00

250 00

5,000 00

1,600 00

2,000 00

5,000 00

460 00

333 33

500 00

2,500 00

2,000 00

3,000 00
2,500 00
2,500 00

1,500 00

500 00
500 00

400 00
250 00
500 00

2,500 00

7,500 00

2,000 00

2,250 00

10,714 50
4,285 50
1,250 00

County

$3,000 00

5,000 00

4,500 00

750 00

4,500 00
5,000 00

675 00
4,500 00
2,500 00
3,000 00
3,000 00
1,500 00

Type of Road or
Nature of Work

Length Con-
tracted For

(Feet)

$3,000 00

750 00

250 00

2,500 00

1,200 00
750 00

250 00
5,000 00
1,600 00
2,000 00
5,000 00
1,840 00

333 33

500 00
2,500 00

500 00

4,500 00
2,500 00
2,500 00

850 00
1,000 00

400 00

250 00

500 00

55 09

2,500 00

7,500 00

2,000 00

10,714 50
4,285 50
1,250 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 3,150

Bridge and approaches . —

Bituminous concrete . . 3,825
Gravel and asphalt mixed in

place .... 3,894

Bituminous concrete . . 6,097

Bituminous concrete . 2,700

Bituminous concrete . . 5,446

Maintenance . . . 8,700

Bituminous concrete . . 2,983

Bituminous concrete . . 1,875

Bituminous concrete . . 2,097

Clay hardening . . . 2,400

Maintenance . . . 11,515

Bridge .... —

Gravel .... 1,150

Gravel and tar . . . 800

/Gravel .... 1,450

[Maintenance . . . 2,167

Gravel .... 1,700

/Stone retread . . . 1,200

\ Gravel .... 225

Maintenance . . . 8,625

Penolithic pavement . . 3,104

Stone retread . . . 2,900

Gravel .... 2,650

Penolithic pavement . . 3,352

Maintenance . . . 2,000

Penolithic pavement . . 9,400

Gravel .... 1,050

Stone retread . . . 3,550

f Stone retread . . . 1,600

{ Oiling 1,000

I Gravel .... 400

Bituminous macadam . . 4,541

Bituminous macadam . . 1,750
Oiling, stone retread, and gravel

and tar .... 4,750

/Oiling 2,225

\Gravel .... 1,975

Gravel and tar . . . 4,000
Gravel . . . .1,100

Gravel .... 450

Gravel .... 700

Gravel .... 900
Tar reinforced with cotton fabric 8,700
Deficit

Bridge and approaches . . —

Penolithic pavement . . 2,912

Reinforced cement concrete . 2,100

Gravel and oiling . . . 4,700
Maintenance . . . 15,300

Reinforced cement concrete . 5,787

Penolithic pavement . . 2,992

Gravel .... 850

Counties and Towns

Richmond

Sandisfield

Savov

Sheffield .

Sheffield .
Stockbridge
Tyringham
Washington
West Stockbridge
West Stockbridge
Williamstown .
Windsor .

Contributions Type of Road or

State Town County Nature of Work

470 00 625 00 625 00 Maintenance

3,000 00 2,000 00 2,000 00 Gravel and tar

1,500 00 500 00 1,500 00 Gravel and stone retread

1,500 00 750 00 750 00 /Stone retread

1 Oiling .

1,500 00 750 00 750 00 Gravel

9,000 00 6,200 00 6,000 00 Penolithic pavement

3,000 00 2,000 00 2,000 00 Maintenance

5,000 00 1,500 00 2,000 00 Gravel and oiling .

2,625 00 1,750 00 1,750 00 Gravel and oiling .

1,875 00 1,250 00 1,250 00 Gravel and tar

3,750 00 2,500 00 2,500 00 Gravel and stone retread

1,500 00 750 00 750 00 Gravel

P. D. 54

Length Con-
tracted For
(Feet)
15,840
4,950
1,550
2,100
700
500
3,300
12,100
5,450
5,950
1,025
5,050
1,000

Bristol County
Acushnet
Acushnet
Attleborough
Berkley .
Berkley 1
DightonJ
Easton
Fairhaven
Freetown
Mansfield
Norton .
Raynham
Rehoboth
Rehoboth
Taunton
Westport

$3,750 00 $2,500 00 $2,500 00 Penolithic pavement

375 00 500 00 500 00 Maintenance

18,000 00 12,000 00 12,000 00 Bituminous macadam

750 00 1,000 00 1,000 00 Maintenance

3,250 00 1,725 00 1,875 00 \

6,250 00 4,025 00 3,875 00/ Bridge

4,500 00 4,500 00 — Gravel and tar

750 00 1,000 00 1,000 00 Maintenance

4,500 00 3,000 00 3,000 00 Gravel and tar

190 00 250 00 250 00 Maintenance

375 00 500 00 500 00 Maintenance

2,625 00 2,625 00 — Gravel and tar

600 00 800 00 800 00 Maintenance

10,000 00 5,000 00 5,000 00 Bridge and approaches

22,500 00 11,250 00 11,250 00 Bridge repairs

1,450
20,819

5,080
46,936

3,500
28,195
62,527

2,300
23,194
16,080

1,250
49,437

Dukes County
West Tisbury .

$750 00

$500 00

Maintenance

10,560

Essex Count
Amesbury
Andover .
Boxford .
Boxford .
Boxford .
Boxford .
Danvers .
Essex

Georgetown
Gloucester
Gloucester
Hamilton
Hamilton
Haverhill
Haverhill
Lawrence

Lynn

Lynnfield

Manchester

Marblehead

Merrimac

Methuen

Middleton
Middleton 1
Peabody /
Middleton
Newbury
Newbury
North Andover

Peabody

Rockport

Rowley .

Salisbury

Saugus

Topsfield

West Newbury

$750 00

9,750 00

1,500 00

900 00

2,250 00

5,250 00

750 00

563 00

2,250 00

1,500 00

5,625 00

3,000 00

27,000 00

26,250 00

16,500 00

2,250 00
18,750 00
3,750 00
3,750 00
4,025 00
4,975 00
4,000 00
375 00
$15,000 00

1,125 00
3,012 50
4,875 00
23,800 50
1,125 00
700 00
3,750 00

15,000 00

750 00

1,215 00

750 00

1.749 00

3.750 00
375 00

1,500 00
4,500 00
3,750 00
200 00
11,250 00
1,500 00

$750 00

4,875 00

1,500 00

. 150 00

1,125 00

3,500 00

750 00

563 00

2,250 00

1,500 00

3,750 00

2,000 00

13,500 00

27,500 00

8,250 00

1,125 00

18,750 00

2,500 00

671 00

829 00

2,000 00

375 00

$10,000 00

1,125 00
410 00
1,000 00
3,715 00
1,125 00

2,500 00

10,000 00

375 00

1,215 00

375 00

874 00

2,500 00

375 00

1,500 00

3,000 00

2,000 00

200 00

2,000 00

750 00

6,500 00

1,000 00
1,000 00
1,000 00
3,500 00

3,750 00

2,000 00

13,500 00

17,500 00

11,000 00

1,500 00

2,500 00
2,500 00
2,683 00
3,317 00
2,000 00

$10,000 00

1,738 001
2,500 00/
15,762 00

500 00
2,500 00

10,000 00

500 00

874 00

2,500 00

3,000 00
2,500 00

5,000 00
1,000 00

Maintenance . . . 10,600

Penolithic pavement . 4,884

Maintenance . . . 10,000

Maintenance . . . 5,200

Grading .... 1,685

Stone retread . . . 900

Bituminous macadam . 2,100

Maintenance . . . 12,000

Maintenance . . . 9,100

Bituminous macadam 1,650

Broken stone surfacing . . 1,650

Bituminous macadam . . 3,041

Grading .... 2,985

Penolithic pavement . 4,407

Penolithic pavement . . 7,932

/Reinforced cement concrete 4,282

\Bituminous concrete . 400

Bituminous macadam . . 565

Bituminous macadam . . 2,950

Bituminous macadam . . 1,550

Oiling and bituminous macadam 3,800

Grading .... —

Bituminous macadam 1,650

Bituminous macadam . 993

Maintenance . . . 5,502

'Bituminous concrete . . 3,150

\ Bituminous macadam . . 780

Maintenance . . 9,600

Bridge and approaches . . —

Bituminous macadam 4,712

Maintenance . . . 14,000

Gravel and tar . . . 3,400
Broken stone and asphalt mixed

in place ... I 4,100

Bituminous macadam, etc. . 3,310

Repairs .... —

Maintenance . . . 5,718

Grading .... 1,000

Grading and oiling . . 1,600

Gravel and tar mixed in place 2,000

Grading .... 1,350

Maintenance . . . 1,065

Maintenance . . . 21,500

Penolithic pavement . . 1,457

Bituminous macadam and oiling 3,000

Maintenance . . . 3,600

Bituminous concrete . . 4,115
Broken stone and asphaltic

emulsion .... 2,700

P. D. 54

Length Con-

Contributions

Type of Road or tracted For

Counties and

Towns Stat

Town

Count5'

Nature of Work (I

eet)

Franklin County

Ashfield .

$750 00

$375 00

Maintenance

7,500

Ashfield .

1,800

—

Maintenance

15,840

Ashfield .

750

375 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

2,400

Buekland

4,000

3,000 00

1,000 00

Bridge and approaches .

—

Charlemont

1,500

750 00

Broken stone and tar mixed in

place

2,000

Colrain .

1,500

750 00

Bituminous macadam

600

Conway .

1,500

750 00

Gravel

850

Deerfield

2,250

1,500 00

750 00

Bituminous macadam

1,050

Erving

1,500

750 00

Gravel and tar

2,000

Gill

1,500

750 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

1,000

Gill

2,500

—

Bituminous material reinforced

with cotton fabric

10,560

Greenfield

3,750

3,000 00

750 00

Bituminous macadam

3,600

Hawley .

1,500

375 00

Bridge and approaches .

—

Hawley

1,500

375 00

Maintenance

8,100

Heath

1,500

750 00

Bridge widening and approaches

Leverett

750

375 00

Maintenance

11,352

Leverett

750

375 00

Maintenance

3,696

Leyden

1,500

750 00

Gravel and tar

900

Monroe

1,500

750 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

4,500

New Salem

2,250

1,500 00

750 00

Gravel

1,500

Northfield

2,000

1,000 00

Bridge and approaches .

—

Northfield

30,000

—

Repairs to two bridges .

—

Orange .

2,250

1,500 00

750 00

Gravel and tar

2,650

Rowe

2,250

1,125 00

750 00

Gravel

1,650

Shelburne

1,125

750 00

375 00

Bituminous macadam

1,200

Shelburne

1,125

750 00

375 00

Bituminous macadam

1,200

Shutesbury

1,500

750 00

Gravel

1,050

Sunderland

10,000

3,000 00

1,000 00

Penolithic pavement

5,250

Warwick

1,500

750 00

Gravel

750

Wendell .

2,250

1,500 00

750 00

Gravel

1,800

Wendell .

1,125

1,125 00

—

Maintenance

19,272

Whately .

1,500

750 00

Bituminous macadam

1,000

Hampden Cot

mty

Agawam .

§5,625 00

$3,750 00

$1,875 00

Bituminous macadam

2,266

Agawam

1,800

900 00

Maintenance

19,536

Blandford

3,000

1,500 00

1,800 00

/Gravel

\Oiling and stone retread

1,000

2,550

Brimfield

2,250

1,125 00

Grading

2,400

Chester .

3,000

750 00

1,500 00

Stone retread

2,500

Chester .

3,000

750 00

1,500 00

Gravel and oiling .

5,000

Chicopee

18,750

12,500 00

9,375 00

Bituminous macadam .

7,650

East Longmeac

ow . 1,125

1,125 00

Maintenance

26,000

Granville

4,500

2,250 00

Bituminous macadam

1,300

Hampden

1,350

600 00

750 00

Bituminous macadam and oilin

g 2,000

Hampden

800

200 00

400 00

Bituminous macadam and oilin

g 1,150

Hampden

2,250

900 00

1,350 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

2,300

Holland .

375

375 00

Maintenance

25,600

Holland .

3,000

750 00

2,400 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

1,575

Holyoke .

50,000

—

Reinforced concrete deck, side
walk and curb on bridge

Longmeadow

5,625

2,812 00

Gravel and asphalt mixed in
place

5,000

Ludlow .

5,250

2,625 00

Bituminous macadam

2,500

Ludlow .

500

500 00

Maintenance

2,500

Monson .

3,750

2,500 00

1,875 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

1,900

Monson

488

650 00

488 00

Maintenance

9,530

Montgomery

3,750

750 00

1,875 00

f Stone retread

\ Gravel . .

3,400

950

Palmer .

7,500

3,750 00

Penolithic pavement

2,703

Palmer .

$1,500 00

$750 00

Maintenance

13,250

Palmer .

360

360 00

Maintenance

6,850

Russell .

750

375 00

Gravel

850

South wick

3,750 00

1,500 00

2,250 00

Bituminous macadam

2,000

Tolland .

3,750

1,500 00

2,250 00

Gravel

3,000

Wales

2,250

750 00

1,500 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

1,400

Wales

225

225 00

Maintenance

11,800

West Springfiel

d . 18,000

9,000 00

Bituminous macadam

2,535

Westfield

4,500

2,250 00

Bituminous macadam

4,000

Westfield

750

750 00

Maintenance

18,555

Wilbraham

3,750

1,875 00

Bituminous macadam

1,800

Hampshire C

tunty

Amherst .

$9,000 00

$6,000 00

$3,500 00

Bituminous macadam

3,345

Belcher town

5,625

3,750 00

Bituminous macadam .

2,665

Belchertown

10,625

—

1,250 00

Grading

■ 6,700

Chesterfield

750

375 00

Gravel

500

Chesterfield

18,000

3,000 00

5,000 00

Stone and tar mixed in plac«
and gravel treated with tar

750

Cummington

750

375 00

Gravel and tar

823

Cummington

2,250

1,125 00

Gravel

1,300

Easthampton

8,250 00

7,000 00

4,000 00

Bituminous macadam

3,520

Easthampton

2,500

—

1,500 00

Bituminous macadam

820

Enfield

375

375 00

Maintenance

11,660

P. D. 54

Length Con-

Contributions

Type of Road or tracted For

Counties and Towns State

Town

County

Nature ok Work (Feet)

Goshen .

1,500 00

750 00

Gravel

. 1,000

Greenwich

750 00

500 00

Maintenance

. 19,008

Huntington

3,000 00

1,500 00

/Stone retread
\ Gravel

4,000
1,200

Middlefield

1,500 00

750 00

Gravel

450

Middlefield

7,000 00

—

Stone retread

7,196

Middlefield

750 00

375 00

Gravel

400

Northampton .

5,1.38 00

2,888 00

2,250 00

Bituminous macadam

2,550

Northampton .

5,137 00

2,887 00

2,250 00

Bituminous macadam

1,800

Plainfield

1,500 00

1,000 00

Gravel and tar

. 1,100

Southampton .

750 00

375 00

Gravel

900

Ware

750 00

500 00

Grading and oiling

325

Ware

1,350 00

900 00

Bituminous macadam

500

Westhampton .

1,125 00

562 00

563 00

Gravel

. 1,200

Williamsburg .

1,500 00

750 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

1,500

Worthington .

1,500 00

1,000 00

Gravel

950

Worthington .

1,500 00

1,000 00

Gravel

1,750

Middlesex County

Acton

SI, 500 00

$2,000 00

Maintenance

102,432

Arlington

3,750 00

2,500 00

Bituminous macadam

1,050

Ash by

750 00

500 00

1,000 00

Maintenance

17,952

Ashland .

1,125 00

1,500 00

1,875 00

Maintenance

30,096

Ashland .

938 00

500 00

750 00

Gravel and tar

1,800

Ayer

1,500 00

2,000 00

Maintenance

50,054

Aver

5,250 00

3,500 00

Bituminous macadam

1,498

Bedford .

3,000 00

2,000 00

Bituminous macadam

2,000

Bedford .

1,500 00

1,000 00

1,500 00

Bituminous macadam

1,000

Bedford .

1,500 00

2,000 00

2,500 00

Maintenance

46,464

Belmont .

15,525 00

13,800 00

6,900 00

Bituminous concrete

3,560

Billerica .

2,250 00

Maintenance

97,838

Billerica .

2,250 00

3,000 00

1,500 00

Bituminous macadam

1,575

Billerica .

3,375 00

3,000 00

1,500 00

Bituminous macadam

1,100

Billerica .

1,125 00

1,000 00

500 00

Gravel

1,400

Boxborough

563 00

250 00

500 00

Gravel

1,000

Boxborough

600 00

800 00

Maintenance

23,479

Burlington

2,250 00

3,000 00

Maintenance

79,728

Burlington

2,250 00

1,125 00

1,500 00

Gravel and tar

2,225

Burlington

3,000 00

2,000 00

/Bituminous macadam
\Gravel

450
970

Burlington

3,000 00

2;ooo oo

2,000 00

Gravel and tar

3,900

Carlisle .

1,500 00

2,000 00

Maintenance

64,944

Chelmsford

2,250 00

3,000 00

Maintenance

83,952

Concord .

12,375 00

8,937 50

5,500 00

Bituminous macadam

4,630

Concord .

1,312 00

1,531 00

1,750 00

Maintenance

99,739

Dracut .

2,250 00

3,000 00

Maintenance

56,232

Dunstable

1,125 00

1,500 00

Maintenance

50,160

Dunstable

1,500 00

1,000 00

Maintenance
fPenolithic pavement

42,240
5,620

Framingham

33,750 00

24,375 00

15,000 00

\ Bituminous concrete
(Oiling ....

150
3,090

Framingham .

1,500 00

2,000 00

2,500 00

Maintenance

85,483

Groton .

2,625 00

3,500 00

4,375 00

Maintenance

55,018

Groton

4,500 00

3,000 00

Gravel and tar

4,400

Holliston

675 00

300 00

600 00

Gravel and tar

921

Holliston

4,500 00

1,000 00

4,000 00

Bituminous macadam

1,800

Holliston

1,125 00

1,500 00

Maintenance

46,772

Hopkinton

1,500 00

2,000 00

Maintenance

70,224

Hudson .

12,375 00

11,000 00

9,625 00

Penolithic pavement

3,670

Hudson

750 00

1,000 00

1,250 00

Maintenance

55,176

Lexington

10,725 00

9,300 00

5,000 00

Bituminous macadam

3,855

Lexington

1,350 00

1,200 00

600 00

Gravel and tar

250

Lexington

1,500 00

2,000 00

Maintenance

56,549

Lincoln .

2,250 00

1,500 00

Bituminous macadam and
gravel (widening)

17,424

Lincoln .

750 00

1,000 00

Maintenance

36,960

Littleton

2,250 00

1,500 00

Gravel and tar

2,500

Littleton

1,575 00

2,100 00

Maintenance

60,192

Maiden .

30,000 00

21,000 00

15,000 00

Bituminous macadam

5,679

Marlborough .

5,062 00

4,500 00

2,500 00

Bituminous macadam

1,008

Maynard

750 00

1,000 00

Maintenance

35,218

Maynard 1

4,500 00

4,000 00

2,000 00

/Bituminous macadam
/Gravel and tar (widening1!

1,258

Maynard/

5,300

Medford .

4,125 00

3,600 00

3,000 00

Bituminous concrete

700

Natick .

8,775 00

7,800 00

3,900 00

Bituminous macadam

2,575

Natick .

1,125 00

1,500 00

1,875 00

Maintenance

57,394

Natick

3,300 00

2,200 00

Drainage system .

—

Newton 1

18,750 00

20,000 00

8,375 00

/Bituminous concrete
(Bituminous concrete

2,195

Newton/

2,050

Newton .

30,000 00

31,000 00

16,500 00

Bituminous concrete

7,720

North Reading

1,500 00

2,000 00

Maintenance

52,272

North Reading

4,500 00

3,000 00

Bituminous macadam

3,000

Pepperell

3,000 00

4,000 00

Maintenance

83,424

Reading .

4,500 00

3,000 00

Bituminous macadam

1,600

Reading .

4,500 00

4,000 00

2,000 00

Bituminous macadam

1,800

Reading .

750 00

1,000 00

1,250 00

Maintenance

31,838

Sherborn

1,875 00

2,500 00

Maintenance

74,448

P. D. 54

Length Con-

Contributions

Type of Road or tracted For

Counties and Towns State

Town

County

Nature of Work (Feet)

Shirley

6,000 00

4,000

Gravel and tar

6,025

Shirley .

1,500 00

2,000

Maintenance

51,216

Stoneham

5,625 00

5,000

2,500

Bituminous macadam

1,410

Stow

1,500 00

2,000

2,500

Maintenance

41,184

Sudbury .

1,500 00

2,000

Maintenance

81,840

Tewksbury

1,500 00

2,000

Maintenance

52,272

Tewksbury

750 00

500

Gravel

800

Townsend

1,500 00

2,000

Maintenance

39,442

Townsend

1,500 00

1,000

Gravel and oiling .

2,200

Tyngsborough

1,500 00

1,000

Gravel and tar

2,000

Tyngsborough

1,500 00

1,000

1,500

Gravel and tar

1,900

Tyngsborough

1,875 00

2,500

Maintenance

82,896

Wakefield

6,750 00

4,875

3,000

Bituminous macadam

2,625

Wakefield

1,500 00

2,000

2,500

Maintenance

42,504

Wakefield

3,375 00

2,437

1,500

Bituminous macadam

1,000

Waltham

6,750 00

4,500

Bituminous macadam

4,350

Watertown

3,600 00

2,400

Bituminous concrete

1,480

Watertown

7,800 00

5,200

Bituminous macadam

2,855

Wayland

6,750 00

6,000

3,000

Bituminous macadam

3,325

Wayland

1,875 00

2,500

Maintenance

52,800

Westford

3,750 00

3,750

Maintenance

143,088

Wilmington

1,500 00

750

Gravel and tar

850

Wilmington

900 00

1,200

1,450

Maintenance

39,917

Winchester

28,125 00

30,000

15,000

Bituminous concrete

6,842

Winchester

3,000 00

2,000

1,000

Bridge and approaches .

— ■

Woburnl
WoburnJ

20,250 00

18,000

9,000

/Bituminous concrete

4,650

\ Bituminous macadam

970

Norfolk County

Avon

$150 00

$150

$150 00

Maintenance

29,198

Bellingham

1,500 00

375

750

Maintenance

62,040

Brooklinel
BrooklineJ

7,500 00

7,500

—

(Bituminous concrete
\ Curbing

2,711

—

Canton .

750 00

750

Maintenance

13,992

Dedham .

7,125 00

9,500

—

Penolithic pavement

2,398

Foxborough

750 00

750

Maintenance

11,299

Franklin

5,250 00

5,250

— ■

Gravel and tar

3,000

Franklin

2,625 00

3,500

—

Gravel and tar

1,300

Franklin

750 00

1,600

750

Maintenance

45,566

Holbrook

375 00

375

Maintenance

29,462

Medway

1,000 00

1,000

Maintenance

61,618

Millis

750 00

750

Maintenance

66,053

Norfolk .

637 00

637

Maintenance

63,571

Norwood

4,875 00

4,875

—

Bituminous concrete

3,950

Randolph

600 00

600

Maintenance

27,456

Sharon .

750 00

750

Maintenance

46,464

Stoughton

375 00

. 375

375

Maintenance

29,146

Walpole .

9,375 00

9,375

—

Penolithic pavement

2,820

Walpole .

750 00

750

Maintenance

44,035

Westwood

2,250 00

2,250

750

Maintenance

21,120

Weymouth

15,000 00

15,000

—

Bituminous concrete

3,300

Wrentham

3,000 00

3,000

—

Gravel and tar

2,300

Wrentham

3,000 00

3,000

—

Gravel and tar

2,700

Wrentham

750 00

750

Maintenance

17,318

Plymouth County

Abington

$7,500 00

$3,750 00

Penolithic pavement

2,081

Bridgewater

2,250 00

1,125

Gravel and tar

6,200

Brockton

20,250 00

20,250

—

Bituminous macadam

5,800

Carver

2,250 00

1,125

Gravel and tar mixed in place

3,000

Halifax .

3,750 00

1,875

Gravel and tar

5,000

Hanson .

4,000 00

2,000

Bridge and approaches .

—

Hull

22,500 00

30,000

10,000

Dredging and constructing

(Contribution by B

ederal Government $53,325.00)

wharf with appurtenant

structures

—

Kingston

5,250 00

2,625

Gravel and tar mixed in place

3,800

Marion .

3,750 00

1,875

Bituminous macadam

1,850

Marshfield

4,500 00

2,250

Bridge extension .

—

Mattapoisett .

3,000 00

1,500

Bituminous macadam

1,000

Plymouth

4,875 00

2,437

Gravel and tar mixed in place

7,800

Rockland

7,500 00

3,750

Penolithic pavement, etc.

1,970

West Bridgewater

4,500 00

2,250

Gravel and tar

4,400

Whitman

12,750 00

6,375

Drainage system .

—

Worcester County

Ashburnham .

$1,312 00

$1,000

$1,750 0C

Maintenance

39,338

Athol

4,350 00

2,800

Bituminous macadam

724

Athol

1,125 00

1,500

Maintenance

44,563

Auburn .

7,500 00

5,000

Stone and tar mixed in place .

3,250

Auburn .

225 00

300

Maintenance

13,140

Barre

6,000 00

4,000

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

5,0 00

Barre

750 00

1,000

1,250

Maintenance

25,92 4

Berlin

5,250 00

3,500

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

1,810

Berlin

1,875 00

1,000

2,500

Maintenance

51,327

Blackstone

4,500 00

3,000

/Gravel and tar mixed in place .
(Trap rock and tar mixed in p'.ac

2,150

e 2,244

Blackstone

3,000 00

2,000

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

3,20

P. D. 54

Length Con-

Contributions

Type of Road or tracted For

Counties and Town

s State

Town

County

Nature of Work (F

get)

Blackstone

750 00

1,000 00

Maintenance

47,892

Bolton .

2,250 00

1,000 00

2,000 00

Grading and oiling

1,800

Bolton .

1,500 00

1,000 00

2,000 00

Maintenance

50,701

Boylston

2,750 00

2,500 00

3,000 00

Maintenance

53,055

Brookfield

750 00

500 00

1,000 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

1,650

Brookfield

7,500 00

5,000 00

Bridge ....

—

Brookfield

750 00

500 00

1,000 00

Maintenance

21,775

Charlton

2,475 00

1,500 00

1,800 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

3,000

Charlton

1,725 00

1,000 00

1,300 00

Grading ....

4,849

Charlton

750 00

500 00

1,000 00

Maintenance

34,224

Charlton

1,500 00

750 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

1,300

Clinton .

10,500 00

7,000 00

Penolithic pavement

4,150

Clinton

375 00

250 00

Trap rock and tar mixed in place 1,050

Dana

1,875 00

1,000 00

2,500 00

Maintenance

75,140

Dana

1,500 00

500 00

1,500 00

Gravel and tar

3,500

Douglas

3,750 00

2,500 00

3,750 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

4,300

Douglas

375 00

500 00

Maintenance

14,900

Dudley

4,500 00

2,250 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

4,000

Dudlev

525 00

700 00

Maintenance

21,410

Dudley

937 00

625 00

Bridge repairs

—

East Brookfield

1,650 00

1,100 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

2,000

East Brookfield

10,600 00

5,300 00

Bridge and approaches .

— -

East Brookfield

600 00

800 00

Maintenance

21,535

Fitchburg

15,000 00

10,000 00

Bituminous macadam

3,460

Gardner .

7,500 00

5,000 00

Bituminous macadam

3,450

Grafton .

1,875 00

1,250 00

1,400 00

Bituminous macadam

923

Grafton .

750 00

1,000 00

Maintenance

3,600

Hardwick

3,900 00

2,000 00

3,200 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

3,550

Hardwick

975 00

1,300 00

Maintenance

49,143

Harvard .

1,125 00

1,500 00

Maintenance

35,060

Harvard .

5,062 00

1,500 00

5,250 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

4,100

Holden .

2,250 00

1,500 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

6,187

Holden .

750 00

1,000 00

Maintenance

41,698

Hubbardston

2,250 00

1,000 00

2,000 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

2,100

Hubbardston .

1,875 00

500 00

2,000 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place .

1,175

Hubbardston .

1,050 00

700 00

1,400 00

Maintenance

43,180

Leicester

5,250 00

2,625 00

3,500 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

2,300

Leicester

637 00

850 00

Maintenance

38,450

Leominster

1,400 00

7,600 00

Standard reinforced cement con-
crete and bituminous macadam 5,355

Leominster

3,600 00

.2,400 00

2,400 00

Bituminous macadam

1,000

Lunenburg

3,000 00

1,500 00

2,500 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

2,550

Lunenburg

1,125 00

1,000 00

1,500 00

Maintenance

33,431

Mendon .

2,737 00

1,100 00

2,550 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

1,760

Mendon .

1,875 00

1,000 00

1,500 00

Grading

1,750

Mendon .

750 00

1,000 00

Maintenance

39,684

Milford .

15,000 00

10,000 00

(Stone retread
\Bituminous macadam

700
3,575

Milford .

300 00

400 00

Maintenance

31,632

Milford .

2,775 00

1,850 00

Bituminous macadam

1,840

Millbury

12,937 00

8,625 00 •

8,625 00

Bituminous concrete

3,450

Millbury

3,750 00

2,500 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

2,268

Millbury

375 00

400 00

Maintenance

7,328

New Braintree

2,250 00

1,500 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

1,850

New Braintree

750 00

500 00

1,000 00

Maintenance

41,636

Northborough .

225 00

300 00

Maintenance

14,182

Northbridge

3,750 00

2,500 00

Stone and tar mixed in place

2,035

Northbridge

2,250 00

1,500 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

4,300

Northbridge

375 00

500 00

Maintenance

33,650

North Brookfield

3,000 00

2,000 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

2,500

North Brookfield

5,250 00

3,500 00

Bituminous macadam

965

North Brookfield

600 00

800 00

Maintenance

27,441

North Brookfield

375 00

250 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

200

Oakham .

3,750 00

2,000 00

3,000 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

2,400

Oakham .

975 00

1,000 00

1,300 00

Maintenance

42,506

Paxton

3,375 00

1,500 00

3,000 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

2,300

Paxton

1,200 00

800 00

1,600 00

Maintenance

38,400

Petersham

1,125 00

1,500 00

Maintenance

40,069

Phillipston

750 00

1,000 00

Maintenance

47,280

Princeton

525 00

350 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

2,425

Princeton

3,000 00

2,000 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

1,900

Princeton

1,125 00

1,000 00

1,500 00

Maintenance

72,498

Princeton

1,500 00

1,000 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

1,750

Royalston

937 00

500 00

750 00

Maintenance

18,800

Royalston

937 00

500 00

750 00

Grading

1,300

Royalston

2,700 00

1,300 00

2,300 00

Maintenance

51,960

Rutland .

2,250 00

1,500 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

2,600

Rutland .

2,250 00

1,500 00

Grading

1,850

Rutland .

1,500 00

2,000 00

Maintenance

57,440

Shrewsbury

1,125 00

1,500 00

Maintenance

34,727

Southborough .

450 00

600 00

Maintenance

24,560

Southborough .

2,250 00

1,000 00

2,000 00

Trap rock and tar mixed in plac

e 2,100

Southbridge

15,000 00

10,000 00

Bituminous concrete

3,345

Southbridge

562 00

750 00

Maintenance

33,631

Spencer .

3,750 00

2,500 00

Bituminous macadam

645

Spencer .

750 00

1,000 00

Maintenance

44,800

Sterling

4,125 00

2,000 00

3,500 00

Gravel and tar mixed in place

2,950

P. D. 54

ONTRIBUTIONS

Counties and

Towns State

Town

County

Sterling .

4,125

2,000

3,500 00

Sterling .

2,175

2,000

2,900 00

Sturbridge

2,812

1,250

2,500 00

Sturbridge

281

250

375 00

Sutton

2,250

1,500

1,500 00

Sutton

2,250

1,500

1,500 00

Sutton

450

600

600 00

Templeton

4,500

3,000

3,000 00

Templeton

1,125

1,500

1,500 00

Upton

3,000

2,000

2,000 00

Upton

375

500

500 00

Uxbridge

5,250

4,000

4,000 00

Uxbridge

5,250

4,000

4,000 00

Uxbridge

1,125

1,500

1,500 00

Warren .

375

500

500 00

Webster .

6,000

4,000

4,000 00

Webster .

937

625

625 00

Westborough

600

800

800 00

West Boylston

3,750

2,000

3,000 00

West Boylston

2,700

1,200

2,400 00

West Boylston

1,350

1,000

1,600 00

West Brookfielc

I . 2,250

1,000

2,000 00

West Brookfielc

1,125

500

1,000 00

West Brookfielc

300

400

400 00

Westminster

4,500

2,000

4,000 00

Westminster

1,500

1,000

2,000 00

Winchendon

525

700

700 00

Worcester

8,000

4,000

4,000 00

Worcester

29,500

16,000

16,000 00

Length Con-
Type of Road or tracted For
Nature of Work (Feet)

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 3,000

Maintenance . . . 73,237

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 2,900

Maintenance . . . 15,224

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 1,750

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 1,700

Maintenance . . . 50,892

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 5,200

Maintenance . . . 50,915

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 2,450

Maintenance . . . 23,450

Stone retread . . 8,100

Trap rock and tar mixed in place 4,100

Maintenance . . . 31,960

Maintenance . . . 17,160

Bituminous macadam . . 2,650

Bridge repairs . . . —

Maintenance . . . 49,539

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 1,650

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 1,600

Maintenance . . . 46,300

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 1,900

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 1,150

Maintenance . . . 42,470

Gravel and tar mixed in place . 3,500

Maintenance . . . 55,880

Maintenance . . . 19,528

Bituminous macadam . . 1,397

(Bituminous macadam . . 4,026

IBituminous concrete . . 107

Expenditures for Construction of Town and County Ways
The expenditures during the year in various Counties were : —

Barnstable
Berkshire
Bristol
Dukes .
Essex .
Franklin

$98,265.22
156,063 . 18
72,718.09
12,591.29
204,709.42
128,398.72

Hampden

Hampshire

Middlesex

Norfolk .

Plymouth

Worcester

Total

$154,208.48

64,238.87'

401,942.49

83,036.46

106,034.68

408,135.71

$1,890,342.61

Details of the foregoing expenditures follow: —

Barnstable County. — Barnstable, $12,066.28; Bourne, $6,789.09; Brewster,
$947.30; Chatham, $8,074.20; Falmouth, $36,383.01; Harwich, $11,265.77; Orleans,
$11,155.97; Wellfleet, $11,583.60.

Berkshire County.— Adams, $8,544.11; Alford, $892.20; Becket, $3,935.85; Cheshire
$3,250.87; Clarksburg, $2,539.18; Dalton, $9,087 57; Egremont, $3,023.51; Florida,
$6,511.04; Gt. Barrington, $9,253.59; Hancock, $7,514.77; Hinsdale, $581.75;
Lanesboro, $4,335.18; Lee, $8,519.78; Lenox, $6,322.38; Monterey, $1,076.01; Mt.
Washington, $1,025.70; New Ashford, $507.94; New Marlboro, $6,779.43; North
Adams, $14,202.20; Otis, $2,682.02; Peru, $6,095.45; Pittsfield, $18,828.36; Rich-
mond, $1,262.01; Sandisfield, $3,589.87; Savoy, $2,031.82; Sheffield, $1,813.91;
Stockbridge, $8,948.15; Tyringham, $2,265.14; Washington, $3,167.52; West
Stockbridge, $4,234.24; Williamstown, $1,006.74; Windsor, $2,234.89.

Bristol County— Acushnet, $507.95; Berkley, $10,036.25; Dartmouth, $40,401.34;
Dighton, $7,665.81; Easton, $5,398.48; Fairhaven, $1,015.91; Freetown, $1,015.91;
Mansfield, $5,098.39; Norton, $257.37; Raynham, $507.95; Rehoboth, $812.73.

Dukes County.— Oak Bluffs, $3,619.99; Tisbury, $8,971.30.

Essex County.— Amesbury, $5,823.64; Andover, $17,917.22; Beverly, $203.17;
Boxford, $3,586.51; Danvers, $15.25; Essex, $1,015.91; Georgetown, $762.61;
Groveland, $2,030.11; Hamilton, $8,372.40; Haverhill, $30,007.43; Lawrence,
$18,692.12; Lynn, $20,293.61; Lynnfield, $4,591.87; Manchester, $14,694.56;
Marblehead, $6,366.33; Merrimac, $3,955.99; Methuen, $10,162.48; Middleton,
$4,145.10; Newbury, $8,939.23; North Andover, $5,277.08; Peabody, $18,440.22;
Salisbury, $750.28; Saugus, $6,341.17; Swampscott, $1,346.36; Topsfield, $8,958.71;
West Newbury, $2,020.06.

68 P. D. 54

Franklin County— Ashfield, $4,469.98; Charlemont, $2,031.82; Colrain, $2,031.82;
Conway, $2,031.82; Deerfield, $3,047.73; Erving, $2,031.82; Gill, $5,418.18; Green-
field, $11,024.78; Hawley, $4,063.63; Heath, $2,030.38; Leverett, $2,031.82; Leyden,
$2,031.25; Monroe, $2,597.14; Montague, $1,524.16; New Salem, $11,699.99;
Northfield, $36,908.77; Orange, $3,047.72; Shelburne, $3,047.73; Shutesbury,
$18,930.02; Sunderland, $1,286.79; Warwick, $2,031.82; Wendell, $3,047.73;
Whately, $2,031.82.

Hampden County— Agawam, $10,139.74; Chester, $1,837.69; Chicopee, $4,799.73;
East Longmeadow, $2,913.85; Hampden, $4,876.36; Holland, $2,543.88; Holyoke,
$73,941.17; Longmeadow, $6,398.07; Ludlow, $7,540.85; Monson, $575.68; Mont-
gomery, $1,133.85; Palmer, $20,197.79; Southwick, $5,079.54; Springfield,
$3,164.47; Tolland, $3,805.84; West Springfield, $2,022.38; Westfield, $1,015.91;
Wilbraham, $2,221.68.

Hampshire County. — Amherst, $12,759.69; Belchertown, $9,558.14; Chesterfield,
$1,015.91; Cummington, $4,062.65; Easthampton, $10,338.54; Enfield, $507.95;
Goshen, $2,031.82; Greenwich, $1,015.91; Hadley, $2,203.80; Northampton,
$11,296.97; Plainfield, $2,031.82; Southampton, $1,015.91; Ware, $2,844.55;
Westhampton, $1,523.86; Williamsburg, $2,031.35.

Middlesex County— Acton, $2,031.82; Arlington, $5,079.54; Ashby, $1,015.82;
Ashland, $1,270.57; Ayer, $8,465.91; Bedford, $807.32; Belmont, $18,235.99;
Carlisle, $406.32; Chelmsford, $3,046.78; Concord, $19,915.31; Dunstable, $1,523.86;
Framingham, $44,764.69; Holliston, $913.98; Hopkinton, $2,031.57; Hudson,
$15,315.24; Lexington, $28,457.47; Lincoln, $1,015.91; Lowell, $5,221.15; Maiden,
$57,117.50; Maynard, $1,949.70; Medford, $12,631.03; Melrose, $5,196.97; Natick,
$1,826.90; Newton, $39,038.47; Reading, $6,095.45; Stoneham, $5,017.24; Tyngs-
borough, $2,539.77; Waltham, $31,450.91; Watertown, $10,750.85; Wayland,
$1,934.66; Westford, $609.54; Wilmington, $2,031.82; Winchester, $34,054.84;
Woburn, $30,177.59.

Norfolk County— Avon, $1,178.87; Canton, $1,219.09; Dedham, $6,490.55;
Foxborough, $2,605.83; Franklin, $6,114.96; Holbrook, $1,083.64; Norfolk, $862.85;
Norwood, $27,133.43; Randolph, $1,046.81; Sharon, $1,015.87; Stoughton, $426.84;
Walpole, $14,703.59; Westwood, $1,743.95; Weymouth, $16,412.75; Wrentham,
$997.43.

Plymouth County.— Abington, $6,097.19; Bridgewater, $3,318.35; Brockton,
$22,113.22; Carver, $3,047.73; East Bridgewater, $1,065.38; Halifax, $4,470.; Hull,
$22,862.44; Kingston, $7,535.21; Marion, $5,281.70; Marshfield, $3,743.68; Mat-
tapoisett, $1,577.69; Pembroke. $430.88; Plymouth, $9,514.03; Rockland, $8,455.79;
West Bridgewater, $5,638.35; Whitman, $883.04.

Worcester County— Ashburnham, $1,423.64; Athol, $4,685.90; Auburn, $5,309.87;
Barre, $10,612.33; Berlin, $5,010.22; Blackstone, $9,480.86; Brookfield, $662.19;
Charlton, $4,435.20; Clinton, $1,114.75; Dana, $142.96; Douglas, $3,607.63; Dudley,
$4,921; East Brookfield, $812.73; Fitchburg, $18,704.58; Gardner, $7,509.27;
Grafton, $4,121.14; Hardwick, $213.23; Harvard, $1,485.65; Holden, $4,414.57;
Hubbardston, $8,556.60; Leicester, $5,907.68; Leominster, $13,939.76; Lunenburg,
$5,151.13; Mendon, $2,321.65; Milford, $9,940.59; Millbury, $30,784.96; Millville,
$17,627.69; New Braintree, $2,870.39; North Brookfield, $3,073.15; Northbridge,
$5,174.59; Oakham, $3,261.12; Paxton, $4,271.68; Petersham, $115,596.35; Phil-
lipston, $1,416.27; Princeton, $1,483.80; Rutland, $2,727.42; Shrewsbury, $246.93;
Southborough, $425.30; Southbridge, $14,043.03; Spencer, $1,915.29; Sterling,
$7,078.99; Sutton, $3,128.25; Upton, $493.55; Uxbridge, $18,983.94; Warren,
$10,152.79; West Boylston, $5,053.04: West Brookfield, $5,643.46; Westminster,
$1,552.62; Worcester, $16,645.97.

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Repair and Improvement of Public Ways, Exclusive of State Highways

in Certain Towns

(Sections 26 to 29 and 31 of Chapter SI of the General Laws, as appearing in the
Tercentenary Edition thereof, as amended with reference to Section 26 by-
Chapter 366 of the Acts of 1934)

Counties and Towns
Barnstable County
Brewster
Dennis
Eastham
Mashpee
Sandwich
Truro
Wellfleet

Berkshire County
Alford
Becket
Cheshire .
Clarksburg
Egremont
Florida
Hancock .
Hinsdale
Lanesborough
Monterey .
Mount Washington
New Ashford
New Marlborougl
Otis .
Peru

Richmond
Sandisfield
Savoy
Sheffield .
Tyringham
Washington
West Stockbridge
Windsor .

Bristol County
Berkley
Freetown
Norton
Raynham
Rehoboth
Swansea

Dukes County
Chilmark .
West Tisbury

Essex County
Boxford
Georgetown
Groveland
Merrimac .
Middleton
Newbury .
Rowley
West Newbury

Miles
of

Allotment

Road

State

Town

$6,000

$5,000

11,700

7,800

6,300

3,150

4,050

2,025

10,050

6,700

4,500

3,750

5,400

4,500

2,850

760

8,700

2,320

6,300

3,150

2,100

4,800

2,400

6,450

3,225

4,500

1,200

5,250

2,625

6,300

3,150

7,650

2,040

3,000

500

1,650

275

12,750

3,400

6,150

1,640

5,550

555

4,800

2,400

11,850

1,185

8,400

840

11,550

3,850

3,750

1,250

7,650

765

5,400

3,600

9,750

975

6,300

2,100

7,050

3,525

8,550

5,700

6,750

4,500

109

16,350

8,175

9,150

$2,100

$1,750

1,950

7,950

3,975

5,250

4,375

4,500

4,650

3,875

4,500

5,700

4,750

4,650

3,875

5,550

3,700

Counties and Towns
Franklin County

Ashfield .

Bernardston

Buckland .

Charlemont

Colrain

Conway

Deerfield .

Gill .

Hawley

Heath

Leverett .

Leyden

Monroe

New Salem

Northfield

Rowe

Shelburno .

Shutesbury

Sunderland

Warwick

Wendell .

Whately .
Hampden County

Blandford

Brimfield

Chester

Granville

Hampden

Holland

Monson

Montgomery

Southwick

Tolland .

Wales

Wilbraham

Hampshire County

Belohertown

Chesterfield

Cummin gton

Enfield .

Goshen

Granby

Greenwich

Hadley

Hatfield .

Huntington

Middlefield

Pelham

Plainfield .

Prescott

Southampton

Westhampton

Williamsburg

Worth ington
Middlesex County

Acton

Ash by

Ashland

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Miles

Allotment

Road

State

Town

$12,000

$3,200

6,000

3,000

6,750

7,350

3,675

12,600

4,200

10,800

2,880

11.250

9,375

5,100

2,550

7,350

735

7,950

795

5,700

1,520

5,850

585

2,700

2.700

9,750

975

9,900

4,950

6,000

1,600

7,350

6,125

5,700

950

5,100

2,550

8,400

840

7,200

2,400

6,000

3,000

11,250

1,875

9,000

2,400

10,200

3,400

10,950

5,475

5.100

2,550

4,800

480

101

15,150

10,100

4,050

675

7,500

5,000

6,000

600

3,750

1,000

6,450

109

16,350

4,360

8,850

1,475

7,350

1,225

5,250

1,400

4,200

700

7,200

2,400

5,850

1,560

8,850

7,375

6,900

5,750

6,150

3,075

6,150

615

4,650

2,325

7,350

735

5,850

585

8,400

2,240

7,500

750

6,600

3,300

10,200

1,700

8,850

8,400

2,800

5,700

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Miles

Allotment

Counties and Towns Road

State Town

Bedford . 36

$5,400 $5,400

Boxborough

3,450 920

Burlington

5,250 5,250

Carlisle

6,300 3,150

Dracut

9,300 9,300

Dunstable

5,550 925

Holliston .

7,500 7,500

Hopkinton

9,900 6.600

Littleton

6,300 6,300

North Reading

5,100 5,100

Pepperell .

10,350 6,900

Sherborn .

6,450 5,375

Shirley

6,900 4,600

Stow

6,450 3,225

Sudbury .

9,600 6,400

Tewksbury

8,700 8,700

Townsend

10,500 7,000

Tyngsboro

6,000 4,000

Westford .

12,750 10,625

Norfolk County

Bellingham . 44

6,600 6,600

Medfield .

6,150 6,150

Med way .

6,750 6,750

Millis

6,300 6,300

Norfolk .

6,150 4,100

Plainville .

4,800 4,000

Plymouth County

Carver . ' . . .67

$10,050 $6,700

Halifax

5,100 3,400

Hanson

5,400 5,400

Lakeville .

6,450 3,225

Norwell

7,050 4,700

Pembroke

7,350 6,125

Plympton .

4,500 2,250

Rochester .

7,500 3,750

Worcester County

Ashburnham . . 75

11,250 5,625

Barre

110

16,500 8,250

Berlin

5,850 2,925

Bolton

7,950 2,650

Boylston .

6,000 3,000

Brookfield

5,550 3,700

Charlton .

110

16,500 4,400

Dana

6,450 1,075

Douglas

10,500 5,250

Dudley

9,450 7,875

East Brookfield

2,850 2,375

Grafton

10,200 10,200

Hardwick .

14,400 4,800

Harvard .

8,400 5,600

Holden

11,550 7,700

Hubbardston

11,250 1,875

Lancaster .

8,700 7,250

Leicester .

9,900 8,250

Lunenburg

9,900 4,950

Mendon

5,400 3,600

Millville_ .

2,400 2,400

New Braintree

7,350 1,225

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Counties and Towns
North Brookfield
Northborough
Oakham
Oxford
Paxton
Petersham
Phillipston
Princeton .
Royalston
Rutland
South borough
Spencer
Sterling
Sturbridge
Sutton
Templeton
Upton
Warren
West Boylston
W'est Brookfield
Westminster

Miles

Allotment

Road

State

Town

$10,350

$6,900

7,050

5,875

6,750

1,125

9,900

8,250

4,350

2,175

10,500

3,500

6,150

1,025

10,800

2,880

10,050

1,675

10,200

3,400

6,900

0,900

100

15,000

12,500

10,950

5,475

10,500

3,500

12,600

4,200

9,450

7,875

9,000

4,500

10,650

7,100

5,550

7,950

3,975

11,700

3,900

Expenditures for Repair and Improvement of Public Ways
The expenditures during the year in various Counties were: —

Barnstable

$55,315.26

Hampden

$100,124.90

Berkshire

154,606.60

Hampshire

143,058.52

Bristol

58,537.28

Middlesex

178,044.10

Dukes .

4,198.54

Norfolk .

61,019.28

Essex . ' .

48,126.93

Plymouth

57,027.35

Franklin

177,983.51

Worcester

432,015.10

Total

$1,470,057.37

Details of the foregoing expenditures follow: —

Barnstable County.— Brewster, $6,291.54: Dennis, $14,269.47; Eastham, $7,126.09;
Mashpee, $4,492.72; Sandwich, $10,604.27; Truro, $5,149.98; Wellfleet, $7,381.19.

Berkshire County.— Alford, $3,183.52; Becket, $10,347.64; Cheshire, $6,319.10;
Clarksburg, $2,295.61; Egremont, $5,040.72; Florida, $7,026.41; Hancock, $4,553.94;
Hinsdale, $5,798.99; Lanesborough, $6,762.53; Monterey, $7,138.36; Mount
Washington, $3,502.50; New Ashford, $1,405.55; New Marlborough, $13,961.78;
Otis, $6,095.44; Peru, $5,483.92; Richmond, $5,321.99; Sandisfield, $12,493.36;
Savoy, $8,734.30; Sheffield, $11,837.11; Tyringham, $4,151.12; Washington,
$6,969.43; West Stockbridge, $5,707.66; Windsor, $10,475.62.

Bristol County— Berkley, $6,810.43; Freetown, $7,621.20; Norton, $9,242.73;
Raynham. $7,296.89; Rehoboth, $17,674.69; Swansea, $9,891.34.

Dukes County— Chilmark, $2,150; West Tisbury, $2,048.54.

Essex County— Boxford, $9,898.32; Georgetown, $5,675.36; Groveland, $4,923.70;
Merrimac, $5,026.75; Middleton, $4,953.01; Newbury, $5,904.20; Rowley, $5,629.96;
West Newbury-, $6,115.63.

Franklin Court <?/.— Ashfield, $12,945.22; Bernardston, $6,485.42: Buckland,
$7,242.81; Charlemont, $7,918.48; Colrain, $13,323.58; Conway, ' $12,729.02;
Deerfield, $11,945.28; Gill, $5,269.98; Hawley, $8,188.73; Heath, $8,594.11; Leverett,
$5,891.56; Leyden, $6,351; Monroe, $2,943.14; New Salem, $9,675.13; Northfield,
$10,512.22; Rowe, $6,486.12; Shelburne, $8,105.19; Shutesbury, $6,107.77; Sunder-
land, $4,513.26; Warwick, $8,945.45; Wendell, $7,323.92; Whately, $6,486.12.

Hampden County— Blandford, $12,134.58; Brimfield, $9, 127.97; Chester, $7,892.80,
Granville, $11,836.77; Hampden, $5,188.90; Holland, $6,462.27; Montgomery,
$3,607.86; Monson, $17,793.85; Southwick, $8,188.73; Tolland, $6,833.06; Wales,
$4,058.50; Wilbraham, $6,999.61.

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Hampshire County .— Belchertown, $18,026.02; Chesterfield, $9,567.03; Cumming-
ton, $7,945.47; Enfield, $5,026.75; Goshen, $4,540.29; Granby, $7,782.62: Green-
wich, $6,459.10; Hadley, $9,567.03; Hatfield, $7,540.12; Huntington, $6,280.99;
Middlefield, $7,132.96; Pelham, $5,125.32; Plainfield, $7,296.89; Prescott, $6,242.89;
Southampton, $8,837.34; Westhampton, $8,107.66; Williamsburg, $7,134.53;
Worthington, $10,445.51.

Middlesex County— Acton, $9,567.03; Ashby, $9,080.57; Ashland, $6,161.82;
Bedford. $5,837.51 ; Boxborough, $3,729.52; Burlington, $5,675.36; Carlisle, $6,810.43;
Dracut, $10,053.49; Dunstable, $5,999.66; Holliston, $8,107.66; Hopkinton,
$10,702.11; Littleton, $6,810.43; North Reading, $5,513.21; Pepperell, $11,188.56;
Sherborn, $6,972.58; Shirley, $7,459.04; Stow, $6,972.58; Sudbury, $10,377.80:
Tewksbury, $9,404.88; Townsend, $11,350.72; Tyngsborough $6,486.13; Westford,
$13,783.01.

Norfolk County— BeUingham, $11,809.75; Medfield, $9,416.82; Medway,
$11,679.13; Millis, $10,989.84; Norfolk, $9,652.58; Plainville, $7,471.16.

Plymouth County— Carver, $11,192.97; Halifax, $6,093.42; Hanson, $5,467.67;
Lakeville, $6,972.56; Norwell, $6,959.03; Pembroke, $7,182.13; Plympton, $5,051.91;
Rochester, $8,107.66.

Worcester County.— Ashburnham, $11,989.65; Barre, $18,335.90; Berlin, $6,717.18;
Bolton, $10,494.42; Boylston, $5,884.68; Brookfield, $6,083.01; Charlton, $18,645.82;
Dana, $6,972.58; Douglas, $11,360.80; Dudley, $11,463.72; East Brookfield,
$3,500.79; Grafton, $11,024.59; Hardwick, $17,833.67; Harvard, $9,080.57; Holden,
$11,312.49; Hubbardston, $12,409.75; Lancaster, $8,766.02; Leicester, $10,288.22;
Lunenburg, $10,286.29; Mendon, $5,701.44; Millville, $2,560; New Braintree,
$7,728.15; North Brookfield, $13,711.43; Northborough, $6,953.64; Oakham,
$8,689.75; Oxford, $10,766.75; Paxton, $4,145.55; Petersham, $10,835.50; Phillipston,
$7,633.81; Princeton, $9,994.62; Royalston, $10,864.26; Rutland, $11,232.65; South-
borough, $7,433.33; Spencer, $18,059.42; Sterling. $12,483.80; Sturbridge, $11,244.35
Sutton, $12,916.51; Templeton, $8,765.80; Upton, $10,084.47; Warren, $11,546.47;
West Boylston, $5,222.24; West Brookfield, $8,124.22; Westminster, $12,866.79.

The Regulation of Advertising Signs and Devices Within the Public View
(Sections 29-33, Chapter 93, General Laws, as amended)

In accordance with the provisions of sections 29 to 33 inclusive, chapter 93,
General Laws, as amended by chapters 85, 237, 334 and 490, Acts of 1924, providing
for the control of billboards and other advertising devices on public ways or on
private property within public view of any highway, public park or reservation,
the Department adopted on Jan. 24, 1 924, certain new rules and regulations, super-
seding all former issues; and these have continued in force during the present year.

Applications, Licenses and Permits. — Licenses were granted to 22 individuals
and others to engage in the business of advertising in the Commonwealth by the
use of outdoor signs.

Of 909 applications received for permits for the erection of advertising signs, 841
permits were granted for the year, while 2,500 applications, mostly injunction
ones, are being held for definite action by this Department. In addition, over 200
individual advertisers were granted permits mainly consisting of a sole application.
The greater part of these individual applications were obtained at the information
desk maintained in the office of this Division for the purpose of educating and
explaining the various provisions of the law.

Of 3,100 renewal applications sent to those whose permits were to expire June 30,
1937, 2,892 were returned to the Department requesting renewal; and on account
of the advertisers failing to renew, 93 permits were cancelled. The number of
renewal applications approved was 2,791. The total number of permits in force
November 30, 1936 was 3,402.

Receipts and Expenditures. — The total receipts for the year ending November 30,
1936,were $26,023.17 and the expenditures were $22,535.15.

The Removal of Signs. — The "Sign Patrol" consisting of small trucks completely
equipped for the work, have removed 70,000 signs during the year in addition to
6,000 removed by other agents of the Department, under authority of section 30A,
Chapter 93, General Laws, from within the highways and from private property.

Hearings. — Hearings were given to officials of Athol, Hull, Lexington, Milton,,
Walpole, Brookline, Medford, Stoneham, Braintree, Weymouth.

P. D. 54

REGISTRY OF MOTOR VEHICLES

The 1936 statistics continue to show increases in the various classes of applications
handled and it should be noted that these figures exceed the total for 1929, making
the figures for this year the high figure for all times thus far in the history of the
Registry. Particularly noticeable in the increased registrations throughout the
year is the number of reissues which, for the most part, means a new car registered
for each reissue. As the number of applications handled increases, there is a corres-
ponding increase in inquiries by telephone, letter, and at our counters with regard
to the information contained in the records.

The inspection work and other activities of the inspectors, all tending towards
highway safety, followed the same lines in 1936 that were inaugurated in 1935.
The work of the motor vehicle men was greatly aided by the continued hearty co-
operation of the police, both state and local. The various highway safety committees
continued their work in a co-operative manner.

The teletype installations, linking the branch offices with the Boston office, were
extended by the additional installation of machines in the Framingham and Fitch-
burg offices.

A new branch office was opened in Holyoke on October 16th.

A few of the outstanding figures for the year, together with a comparison with
the previous year, follow: —

Motor vehicle certificates of registration issued
Compulsory insurance cancellation notices received
Licenses to operate issued .....

Examinations of applicants for licenses
Licenses and registrations revoked and suspended
Licenses revoked for driving under influence of
liquor ........

Total number of applications handled

Gross receipts from fees .....

Registrations of Passenger Cars, Commercial Vehicles, and Motor Cycles
The following registration figures show a 7.27% increase, in passenger registra-
tions and a 3.7% increase in commercial registrations over the previous year, while
the motor cycle registrations showed a decrease of 4.29% for the same period.

1905 1915 1925 1935 1936

Passenger cars . . 4,889 90,580 663,858 852,934 915,010

Commercial vehicles . 12,053 100,480 114,244 118,477

Motorcycles . . 553 9,520 10,333 1,375 1,316

1935

1936

968,553

79,401

1,077,880

82,136

52,317

1,034,803
69,126

1,128,516
98.997
52,705

6,264

2,125,898
,310,424.28

6,486
2,253,405

$6,765,751.86

Totals

5,442 112,153 774,671 968,553 1,034,803

Examinations for Licenses
The system of examining new operators was not changed in any respect during
the year 1936. For the first time for a number of years there was a sizeable increase
in the number of persons examined, this increase being in proportion to the number
of increased registrations and the general increase in applications handled at
the Registry. The following figures show the work accomplished at the fifty-five
examining points in the State.

Operators passed
Operators unfit
Restriction removal, passed
Restriction removal, unfit
"Competency," passed
"Competency," unfit

Total examinations

1935

1936

74,598

7,058

1,244

125

91,065i

7,727 2
848
119

212

544

83,260 100,342

cy" test which operators over 65 years of age were

1 This increase is partly due to the special ' ' competes .
required to pass before their licenses were renewed, and included in this item are 4,731 of these tests
aSee previous foot-note. This figure includes 106 " competency 65" cases

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Branch Offices

A new office was opened in Holyoke on October 16, and the installation of the
teletype machine was extended to the Fitchburg and Framingham offices. This
makes nineteen branch offices of the Registry, excluding an office at Oak Bluffs,
on Martha's Vineyard. Here the inspector maintains an office, or at least provides
facilities offered at other branch offices of the Registry, and periodically travels
to Nantucket Island for the purpose of extending Registry branch office facilities
to the public there. Of the ninteen branch offices, twelve are equipped with teletype
and at these teletype-equipped branches the officer in charge, together with his
force of inspectors, examiners and clerks, is able to render to the public in the vicinity
practically every service that is rendered at the main office in Boston. The few
smaller branches not equipped with teletype render a slightly limited service in
their vicinity but, by means of telephone to the nearest teletype-equipped branch,
are in a position to offer practical ly equivalent service to the public in their area.

The following figures, prepared in approximate round numbers rather than from
an actual count or from detailed records, give a fairly accurate idea of the manner
and amount of the work handled by the Registry and the proportion in which it is
distributed among the various branch offices and the central office at Boston.

Approximate Distribution of Registrations,

Licenses, etc.

Regis-

First

License

Miscel-

trations

Licenses

Renewals

laneous

Totals

Boston :

Counter .

192,000

—

174,000

92,000

458,000

Mail .

166,000

—

401,000

13,000

580,000

Examination

—

22,000

—

3,000

25,000

Pittsfield .

23,000

3,500

20,000

8,000

54,500

Springfield .

53,000

7,500

60,000

24,000

144,500

Greenfield .

12,000

1,500

11,000

5,000

29,500

Northampton

12,000

2,000

12,000

5,000

31,000

Worcester .

54,000

7,500

53,000

23,000

137,500

Fitchburg .

20,000

3,000

18,000

8,000

49,000

Framingham

21,000

3,000

17,000

9,000

50,000

Lawrence

21,000

3,000

26,000

7,000

57,000

Lowell

22,000

4,000

24,000

7,500

57,500

Fall River .

24,000

5,000

24,000

9,000

62,000

New Bedford

22,000

3,000

28,000

9,000

62,000

Lynn .

45,000

7,000

47,000

18,000

117,000

Quincy

32,000

6,500

38,000

14,000

90,500

Brockton

39,000

3,500

35,000

17,000

94,500

Hyannis*

13,000

2,000

8,000

4,500

27,500

Haverhill .

13,000

2,300

13,000

5,000

33,300

Holyoke

4,000

200

1,000

500

5,700

Maiden

19,000

2,500

14,000

7,000

42,500

Waltham

18,000

3,000

13,000

7,000

41,000

825,0001 92,000 1,037,000 295,500 2 2,249,500

♦Includes Oak Bluffs and Nantucket.

1 Does not include reissues (see Miscellaneous).

2 This figure includes approximately 216,000 number plate reissues.

Compulsory Motor Vehicle Liability Insurance
The following figures show the volume of papers received and notices mailed in
connection with the carrying out of the law regarding compulsory motor vehicle
liability insurance :

Causes for Cancellation of Policies :
For non-payment of premiums
For other reasons .

1935
61,413

17,988

1936
55,978
13,148

Total

79,401

69,126

49,204
30,197

46,660
22,466

79,401

69,126

6,524
43,394

5,803
38,834

5,080
24,403

4,495
19,994

79,401

69,126

13,503
6,510
4,390

11,164
4,950

3,880

76 P. D. 54

Origin of requests for Cancellation of Policies:

Insurance companies ......

Finance companies ......

Total

Disposition of applications for cancellations:

Replacement certificates, adjusting cancellations
Reinstatements, adjusting cancellations .
Sets of plates returned before effective date of cancel-
lation ........

Revocations ........

Total

Return of Plates:

Returned promptly after revocation

By Police ........

Not returned .......

Total revocations 24,403 19,994

Property Damage

Under provisions of Section 22A of Chapter 90, General Laws, the Registrar
may, upon receipt of evidence satisfactory to him, suspend the license of any
operator who has failed to satisfy a judgment rendered against him after sixty
days in any case in which such operator is the defendant in an action brought to
recover damages for injuries to property arising out of the use, operation or
maintenance on the ways of the Commonwealth of a motor vehicle or trailer.

Complaints received ......

Releases received, no action being necessary

Licenses or right to operate suspended

Licenses or right to operate reinstated after suspension

Aircraft

The first fiscal report of the Aviation Section since the operation of the new
Uniform Aeronautical Code shows an increase in pilots operating in the Common-
wealth. This is due partly to the requirement that student pilots as well as private
and commercial flyers must be registered.

All resident airmen and owners and or operators of all aircraft are required to reg-
ister their federal licenses with the Aviation Section. Applications are required
and certificates are issued without the payment of fee.

The slight drop in the total number of flying accidents and the same number of
ground accidents as the previous year is very encouraging. The increase in fatal
and personal injury accidents is to be expected, however, considering the large
increase in flying personnel. Two of the three fatal accidents were caused through
fault of the pilots and one through inexperience. The personal injuries were all
of a veiy minor nature. We believe these figures show that the new modern aircraft
with its facilities has become a safe means of travel.

Air traffic rules and regulations for aircraft and airports have been brought up
to date. A rigid enforcement of these rules and a close supervision of all airports,
aircraft and airmen is maintained at all times.

The air-marking program has shown great progress with 176 new air-markers
now in the Commonwealth as compared with 11 of the previous year. There is
no doubt that these markers will prevent a great many future accidents.

1935

1936

560

600

141

158

419

442

206

255

P. D. 54 77

The non-paid board of aeronautical experts required by law has been active in

co-ordinating aviation interests and establishing policies.

The following figures summarize the work of the Aviation Section:

1935

1936

Pilots registered .....

257

938

Aircraft registered .....

235

216

Duplicates issued .....

Fees received ......

$142

Suspensions of pilots' and aircraft rights

Aircraft grounded . •.

Reinstatements of rights and groundings .

Court prosecutions .....

Regulations promulgated

Surveys of fields .....

Plans of buildings drawn for airmarking

178

Airmarkers completed under State promotion

176

Reports made by aircraft inspectors .

1,051

2,086

Airplane accidents .....

1935

1936

Fatal accidents .....

Personal injury accidents

No injury accidents ....

Persons killed in airplane accidents

Persons injured in airplane accidents

Ground accidents .....

Fatal accidents .....

Personal injury accidents

]

No injury accidents ....

Unknown accidents ....

]

Persons killed in ground accidents

Persons injured in ground accidents

]

1 No fees paid to State for registration with State of federal licenses for aircraft and airmen.

Inspection of Motor Vehicle Equipment
In accordance with rules and regulations of the Registrar of Motor Vehicles,
made under authority of General Laws, Chapter 90, Section 7A, two inspections
of all motor vehicles registered and operated in the Commonwealth were conducted
at Offical Inspection Stations designated by the Registrar.

The great majority of the inspection stations have now been operating under the
supervision of the Equipment Section for the past six years, and the annual improve-
ment in the manner in which the inspections were conducted was noticeable. The
work was, in the main, conducted honestly and efficiently, with fewer complaints
than during any previous inspection.

Approximately 700,000 pleasure cars, trucks, trailers and buses were inspected
during the May inspection period, and 800,000 during the September inspection.
The results may be summarized as follows :

O. K. .
Foot Brake
Emergency Brake
Lights
Horn
Muffler .
Steering Gear .
Windshield Cleaner
Number Plates

May

September

Per Cent

Defective 20

1.4

1.2

2.6

3.4

3.2

78 P. D. 54

Immediately after each inspection period, inspectors of this Department, with
the co-operation of state and local police, stopped all cars observed being operated
which did not display the offical windshield sticker. As a result of this check-up,
1,940 cars were reported as not having been inspected during the May period,
and 1,894' during the September period. Disposition of these was made as follows:

Warning notices mailed ........ 2,939

Complaints filed ......... 654

Registrations suspended . . . . . . . .251

Because of the semi-official nature of their work, inspection stations were held
to a very high standard of honesty and efficiency and were cancelled or suspended
upon even slight, though certain, evidence that they were not conducting inspections
properly. During the May inspection, 52 stations were cancelled or suspended,
and during the September inspection, 39.

School Bus Inspections
As required by the School Bus Act, Chapter 271 of the Acts of 1932, the Equip-
ment Section supervised the inspection of all school buses operated in Massachusetts
under contract with cities or towns, or owned by cities or towns. These inspections
were made at Official Inspection Stations on instructions issued by the Department,
and the results of their inspections were reported to the Equipment Section which
then passed upon the approval or disapproval of each bus so examined. Inspections
were held during the first full week of January, March, May, September and Novem-
ber. In each case, about 921 buses were submitted for inspection. The improvement
in the general condition of school buses used throughout the state and their safety
condition noted in previous reports was continued during the present year. Many
new buses were put in operation so that, at the present time, there are in operation
very few of the old buses which were being used previous to the enactment of the
School Bus Act.

Brakes, Lights and Overloads

The Registrar's policy, referred to in the last report, of reducing investigating
and examining work to a minimum so as to release the services of inspectors for
the more important work of preventing accidents on the highway rather than
investigating them when they have occurred, was continued. The full-time ser-
vice of approximately 60 men was used for enforcement and equipment work.
This enforcement on the road, directed particularly to dangerous operation and
defective motor vehicle equipment, especially brakes, in conjuction with the two
equipment inspections held during the year, was undoubtedly effective in bringing
about a reduction in the accident rate. While there was an increase of 3% in the
number of fatalities, the number of cars registered per person killed increased from
1,205, in 1935, to 1,266, in 1936. The number of persons injured dropped from
48,421, in 1935, to 45,462, in 1936, a decrease of 15%.

In addition to their duties in connection with the periodic inspection of motor
vehicles and school buses, including the supervision of the work of over 2,000 Official
Inspection Stations, the inspectors assigned to the Equipment Section did consider-
able enforcement and equipment work which may be summarized as follows : Equip-
ment inspectors submitted 6,000 blue card complaints of improper and dangerous
operation which were referred to the Registrar for action. They also submitted
11,720 green card complaints of defective equipment. Disposition of these cases was
as follows:

Number of suspensions for defective brakes . . . 3,662

" defective lights ... 603

' miscellaneous defective equipment . 594

Notices to correct defective equipment and to report . . 1,606

Notices to replace defective windshield and to report . . 1,042

Complaint cards on defective equipment filed .... 334

In addition to reporting on blue and green cards, Equipment inspectors issued
29,053 tags for defective brakes, and 56,976 tags for defective lights. State and

P. D. 54 79

local police issued 56,807 tags for defective lighting equipment, in co-operation
with this Department.

Headlamps. Tail Lamps and Reflex Reflectors
One new headlamp was approved during the present year; also, 5 tail lamps
and 5 reflex reflectors.

Directional Signals

During the present year, Rules and Regulations of the Department of Public
Works became effective requiring directional signals on certain commercial motor
vehicles operated on state highways. Thirty-five directional signal systems were
examined and tested by this Department, of which 11 were approved.

The authority of the Department to promulgate such regulations was questioned
by many of the commercial vehicle operators affected, and an action was begun
which resulted in the legal questions involved being brought to the attention of
the full bench of the Supreme Court which now has the whole question under advise-
ment.

Motor Vehicle Deaths, Injuries, Collisions
Deaths caused by motor vehicles in 1936 numbered 817, an increase of 22 or
2.7% as compared with the record of the previous year. A comparative table of
classified fatalities, injuries and collisions in the year 1935 and 1936 is as follows:

Motor Vehicle Accidents to Persons

Persons Killed

Pedestrians by autos

Pedestrians by motorcycles .

Pedestrians near street cars .

Occupants of autos

Occupants of autos at R. R. crossings

Occupants of motorcycles

Bicycle Riders

Occupants horse-drawn vehicles

Coasters on sleds

Coasters on wheels

Totals ....

1935

471

265

1936

462

302

Persons Injured
1935 1936

14,306

31,750

161

981

148

837

131

12,165

31,196

180

1,098

104

540

118

Boys
Girls

795

817

48,421

45,462

Children Killed

Children Injured

1935

1936

1935

1936

6,597

5,585

3,468

3,090

Totals

127
Number of Collisions

127 10,065 8,675

1935

1936

Collision with pedestrian
Collision with automobile
Collision with horse-drawn vehicle
Collision with railroad train .
Collision with street car
Collision wi th fixed obj ect
Collision with bicycle
Non-Collision (overturn)
Collision with motorcycle
Collision with sled
Collision with animal
Coaster on wheels

Totals ....

14,619

13,511

20,143

20,215

197

153

305

279

1,961

1,860

997

1,350

754

650

187

199

740

553

136

137

40,138 39,010

In the daytime
After dark .

Totals .

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24,081 23,533
16,057 15,477

40,138 39,010

Accident Report Letters
As provided by Section 26, chapter 90, General Laws, every operator of a motor
vehicle in any manner involved in an accident in which any person is killed or
injured is required to report in writing to the Registrar. The number of these
formal accident reports received from operators in 1936 was 41,605 as compared
with 44,624 received in 1935. Under the requirements of section 29, chapter 90,
General Laws, 17,498 similar reports of accidents were received from police depart-
ments throughout the State in 1936 as against 18,304 received in 1935. In addition,
in connection with this reporting of accidents by operators during the year 1936,
there were received 9,189 letters and complaints reporting faulty operating, as
compared with 10,369 such letters in 1935.

Comparative

Statemi

int of Yearly Registrations, Licenses, Deaths,

Injuries, Revocations

and Suspensions

Total Sus-

For Operat

Motor-

Total

Number

pensions

ing Under

Automobiles

Cycles

Regis-

of Persons

Licenses

and Revo-

Influence

Year

Registered

Registerec

trations

Killed

Injured

Issued

cations

of Liquor

1910

31,360

3,358

34,718

963

41,259

283

1911

38,907

3,658

42,565

110

1,248

51,950

360

1912

50,132

5,034

55,166

142

1,962

66,645

546

1913

62,660

7,127

69,787

188

2,923

81,034

608

1914

77,246

8,161

85,407

229

4,010

99,532

8,580

131

1915

102,633

9,520

112,153

294

6,197

133,935

1,153

202

1916

136,809

10,713

147,522

315

9,131

171,596

1,396

320

1917

174,274

11,065

185,339

438

7,282

214,229

1,831

485

1918

193,497

12,862

206,359

499

8,598

235,140

2,343

553

1919

247,183

13,698

260,881

582

16,287

297,968

2,156

554

1920

304,538

15,142

319,680

481

21,182

261,539

2,944

888

1921

360,731

12,058

372,790

544

11,487

380,519

4,899

1,508

1922

449,838

11,675

461,513

522

15,277

444,173

8,369

2,460

1923

566,150

11,733

577,883

578

16,217

536,819

11,613

3,333

1924

672,315

10,778

683,093

709

19,579

620,439

14,154

4,395

1925

764,338

10,333

774,671

755

25,736

698,378

16,249

4,654

1926

826,224

9,215

835,439

705

25,351

763,951

18,705

4,863

1927

819,703

7,245

826,948

693

31,721

814,094

31,252

4,983

1928

883,595

6,656

890,251

715

42,201

870,160

40,814

5,071

1929

1,018,904

6,168

1,025,072

777

46,111

944,338

53,133

5,381

1930

1,008,476

4,642

1,013,118

795

44,279

982,795

52,954

5,052

1931

1,006,808

3,068

1,009,876

793

48,837

1,024,304

63,841

5,535

1932

921,909

1,661

923,570

768

47,658

1,014,635

73,511

4,824

1933

930,493

1,023

931,516

769

48,249

1,022,662

78,431

4,274

1934

944,713

1,375

945,488

921

53,055

1,053,527

52,505

5,717

1935

967,178

1,375

968,553

795

48,421

1,077,880

52,317

6,264

1936

1,033,487

1,316

1,034,803

817

45,462

1,128,516

52,705

6,486

Classification of Reports

1935 1936

Accidents, fatal
Accidents, non-fatal
General reputation
Miscellaneous

Totals .

Complaints filed
Garages
Headlights .
Prosecutions
Amount of fines

778

782

5,279

1,525

6,246

1,598

13,386

6,389

25,689

10,294

15,384

28,649

13,829

8,274

51,872

93,290

839

778

$26,870

$25,687

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Revocations and Suspensions

Licenses suspended

Licenses revoked .

Rights suspended or revoked

Certificates suspended .

Certificates revoked

Certificates and licenses suspended

Certificates and licenses revoked

Certificates revoked and rights suspended

Rights in Massachusetts suspended

Totals ....

Resulting from investigations .
Resulting from court convictions
Resulting from police complaints
Resulting from judges' complaints
Resulting from State Police complaints
Resulting from Insurance cancellations

Totals

Character of Offenses

1935

1936

12,646

4,452

15,314
3,707

5,587

2,966

24,561

5,788

5,660

20,126

1,849

1,369

124

106

602

52,317

52,705

13,171

12,394

1,969

14,498

12,852

3,033

377
24,403

2,333
19,986

Reckless and endangering life
Liquor convictions
Going away after accidents
Without authority-
Racing

Improper person .
Improper person, liquor
Improper operation
Two overspeeds
Three overspeeds .
Insurance cancellations
Insurance convictions
Improper equipment, miscellaneous
Improper equipment, lights
Improper equipment, brakes .
Failure to display stickers
Fatal accidents
Property damage cases .
Other offenses
New parking violations .
Overloading trucks
Sixty milers ....
Fifty milers ....
Several minor complaints
Pedestrian failure .

Totals .
Court recommendations adopted:
Reckless and endangering .
Going away after accidents
Liquor ....
Allowing improper person to operate
Insurance convictions

Totals .

Persons whose licenses were suspended or revoked and who
had to pass examination in order to have them returned .

52,317 52,705

1935

4,620

1936

1,774

4,917

385

1,590

4.648

500

596

545

5,394
1,347

5,181
1,838

5,858
111

4,028
531

24,403
352

19,986
380

513

594

357

603

1,000
0

3,662
0

743

781

388

442

193

3,447
19

3,717
0

495

959

0
22

2,413
186

52,317

52,705

5,086

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Analysis of Court Abstracts Received

Number of courts forwarding abstracts

Total abstracts received

Number of abstracts recording convictions

Offenses

1935

1936

95
51,695
29,899

95
54,311
35,575

(Analysis of convictions, not including appeals)

Overspeeding ....

Reckless driving ....

Operating under influence of liquor .

Using auto without authority

Endangering lives ....

Not stopping after causing injury .

Without license ....

Without registration certificate

Unregistered vehicle

Improper display or no register number

Refusing to stop on signal

Unlighted lamps ....

Not signalling ....

Dazzling lights ....

Operating within 8 feet of street car

Violation of Metropolitan Park rules

Operating after suspension or revocation of license

Larceny .....

Manslaughter ....

Miscellaneous .

Lenses not approved

No reflector .....

Racing . . . .

Operating after registration certificates revoked

No rear light ....

Not displaying lights

Passing red light ....

Improper lights ....

Brakes not as required by law

Violation of insurance law

Not slowing down approaching pedestrian

Not slowing down at intersecting way

Violation of law of road

Perjury — Making false statements on license application

falsely impersonating or conspiring to obtain a license
Loaning a license to another .
Allowing intoxicated person to operate
No windshield cleaner
Attempted larceny
Allowing improper person to operate

Totals

1935

1936

9,399

11,470

3,940

4,314

762

753

1,976

2,381

761

842

2,566

2,555

417

475

374

481

198

123

394

259

287

112

496

596

183

108

799

1,347

296

347

510

263

198

401

484

3,859

6,593

1,657

1,198

29,899

35,575

Used Car Section
(Motor Vehicle Identification)
The following is a resume* of the work accomplished by the Used Car Section
which indexes, under engine numbers, all motor vehicles registered and reported
stolen, and checks reports of sales of used cars against the stolen- vehicle records.
Dealers' and repairmen's plates and registration certificates are issued by this
section.

P. D. 54

The work of the section is summarized in the following tables: —

1935
1,187
559

1936

1,225
615

1,746

1,840

302
1,107

280
1,382

4,479
6,022

3,297
7,191

20,245

21,179

283

290

379

338

167

191

20
566

6
535

Dealers

Total number of first class dealers reporting

Total number of second and third class dealers reporting .

Total number making reports to this office

Reports
Approximate number of notices of intended sales received
daily. .........

Approximate number of dealers' reports received daily

Motor Vehicles Stolen
Number stolen in Boston ......

Number stolen in Massachusetts (including Boston) .
Number reported stolen from various sources throughout

the country, including Massachusetts ....
Number of motor vehicles recovered through information

furnished by this office ......

Engine and Serial Numbers
Engine numbers assigned to cars .....
Certificates issued authorizing the replacement of engine

numbers .........

Certificates issued authorizing the replacement of serial

numbers .........

Certificates issued authorizing the replacement of both

engine and serial numbers ......

Total number of authorization certificates issued

Eastern Conference of Motor Vehicle Administrators
The department was represented at each of the two meetings held during the
year.

The first meeting was held in Philadelphia, Pa., on May 11, 12 and 13, and the
second, in Burlington, Vt., on October 1 and 2. Prepared studies were presented
by suitable speakers and appropriate action taken on such matters as highway
fighting, highway safety in general, headlighting, brakes, house trailers, directional
signals, enforcement, compulsory insurance and financial responsibility, speed
limits, examination of drivers, safety education, accident statistics, federal control,
motor vehicle inspection, highway patrols and other incidental and related matters.
The action of the Eastern Conference places no legal restriction, of course, on
the acts of the state administrator. The information and experiences made available
to the members and the general discussion and exchange of ideas are, however,
of great benefit to each member state. Reciprocal relations, too, are improved
by the better understanding of the various problems in the different states.

Analysis of Receipts
The fees received for the year 1936, together with the number of certificates of
registration issued in each classification and the number of licenses granted, etc.,
are shown in the following table:

Certificates of Registration:

Passenger cars (including taxicabs)

Commercial cars .

Busses

Trailers

Motor cycles
Manufacturers or Dealers (including repairers)
Manufacturers or Dealers additional cars (including

repairers) ........

910,196

$2,573,889 98

118,477

1,485,111 45

4,814

121,189 60

10,405

19,468 50

1,316

1,770 00

2,741

8,223 00

19,668

$58,993 00

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Licenses to operate:

Original licenses .......

Renewal licenses .......

Examinations . . . 75,249 $150,498 00
Re-examinations . . . 23,748 23,748 00

91,190
1,037,326

182,380 00
2,074,441 00

Total examinations . . . 98,997

174,246 00

Copies of certificates and licenses furnished .
Duplicate number plates furnished ....
Miscellaneous receipts, process fees, etc.

37,746
11,719

eral l

37,742 75
11,718 75
16,577 83

Total amount of fees .....
Motor Vehicle fees rebated (deducted)

$6,765,751 86
70,101 31

Net fees ........

Court fines received by the Treasurer and Receiver-Gen

$6,695,650 55
12,079 74

Total receipts (not including gasoline tax2) credited Highway

Fund Account, 1936 $6,707,730 29

1 Beginning January 1, 1935, due to an amendment of the law (Acts of 1934, Chap. 364) the motor
vehicle fines are turned over directly to the various cities and towns.

2 Receipts from the gasoline tax are credited to the Highway Fund but are collected through the office
of the Commissioner of Corporations and Taxation.

Expenses of the Registry of Motor Vechicles
The cost of running the Registry of Motor Vehicles for the year 1936 was
$1,495,985.41 which was 22.3% of the net fees collected. This cost, deducted from
the receipts for the year, left the sum of $5,213,293.78 available for legislative
appropriation for highway work.

Analysis of Expenditures for the Fiscal Year 1930

Personal Services:
Regular payroll
Temporary Employees payroll
Overtime payroll .

Payrolls

,374 78
32,408 55
4,552 73

Expenses

Supplies :

Books, maps, etc. .....

$917 51

Typewriter Supplies ....

1,568 89

Typewriter Repairs ....

182 54

Adding Machine Repairs and Supplies

98 30

Other Supplies .....

3,283 37

Other Repairs .....

890 71

Stationery ......

16,661 37

$1,020,336 06

Equipment and Furniture:
Typewriter machines
Adding machines
Other machines
Desks .

Bookcases, tables, etc.
Electric Fans
Filing Cabinets
Chairs .
DictograDh .
Soundex

Headlight Equipment
Diebold Installation

$23,602 69

53,972 37

845 00

6,025 64

1,007 29

1,358 59

367 85

7,152 61

1,096 79

980 00

9,595 43

1,603 32

28 55

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Burglar Alarm System .

$283 60

Uniforms ....

6,141 76

Branches — Counters, Safes

658 52

Decelerometer

319 83

$41,437 15

Traveling Expenses:

Officials .

$240 81

Employees .

11,271 13

Aviation

3,339 40

Automobiles (owned by Employees)

91,444 23

Maintenance of 12 automobiles

2,802 43

Purchase of 7 automobiles

4,385 31

$113,483 31

Other Services and Expenses:

Expressage ....

$2,778 82

Postage ....

84,200 06

Paper for printing

8,926 51

Printing:

Other reports .

1,014 00

Other printing

9,977 47

Telephone and teletype .

14.010 09

Premium on Bonds of Employees

508 12

Rent

300 00

Cleaning and Janitor Service

495 00

Labor ....

1,539 56

Number plates

119,364 81

Auto List

10.450 00

Water and Ice

3 33

Sundries

174 96

Temporary branches during rush

43 05

$253,785 78

Branch Offices:

Rent, telephone, lighting

. $30,868 88

Labor and services

7,469 16

Supplies and Express

2,514 09

$40,852 13

Publicity for

Safety Work

Printing .....

$62 68

$1,493,559 80

Committee oi

% Aeronautics

Committee on Aeronautics

2,425 61

$1,495,985 41

Sum

niary

Payrolls .....

$1,020,336 06

Expenses .....

473,161 06

Publicity for Safety Work

62 68

Committee on Aeronautics .

2,425 61

SI. 495,985 41

RELATING TO WATERWAYS AND PUBLIC LANDS

BOSTON HARBOR

The Commonwealth Flats at South Boston

Commonvjealth Pier 5
During the year work necessary to continue the effective operation of the pier
has been carried on as usual. Repairs have been made to gangways, floating fenders,
elevators and elevator machinery, sprinkler system, Ogden doors and the heating
plant.

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In the quarters occupied at the pier by the Department of Public Safety work
has been carried out in the installation of additional ventilation, grills for protecting
equipment and in the building of partitions.

The work of repairing and reconstructing platforms at the pier, approved as
Public Works Administration Project No. Mass. 1301, has been in progress during
the year under two contracts.

On Dec. 13, 1935, a contract was made with the Merritt-Chapman and Scott
Corporation for the removal of existing pile and concrete platforms and the con-
struction of a new concrete platform consisting of a reinforced concrete deck slab
supported by girders and steel beams on caisson and steel pile foundations of which
the steel piles were driven to rock bearing. The contract price for removing the
existing platform including piling and other structures, and disposing of the material,
is the lump sum of $51,810; the work of rebuilding is done at unit prices at an esti-
mated total contract cost of $717,974. This work is now in progress.

A contract was made on July 14, 1936, with the Bay State Dredging and Con-
tracting Company for the reconstruction of platforms and pile protection at the
Head House at the pier, at a contract price of $4,500. for removing and disposing of
existing platforms, including all incidental work, and at unit prices for the recon-
struction and pile protection, at an estimated total contract cost of $79,513.94.
This work is now in progress.

A grant of $368,550. was made by the Public Works Administration for the
reconstruction covered by these contracts. As, however, the lowest bid received
for the work at the Head House was greater than the amount of money available
for the reconstruction, the Public Works Administration on Sept. 22, 1936, made
an additional grant of $17,976. for the purpose.

As a part of the work required by the Federal Government in connection with
its project for further improvement of Boston Harbor by dredging the main ship
channel to a depth of 40 feet at mean low water, the Department on Mar. 3, 1936,
made a contract with the J. S. Packard Dredging Company to dredge to a depth
of 40 feet at mean low water the approach to Commonwealth Pier 5, at the following
contract prices: for dredging and disposing of the dredged material 49.75 cents
per cubic yard, scow measurement; for removing and disposing of boulders $20.
per cubic yard. The work was completed May 18, 1936, at a contract cost of
$74,097.15.

A letter contract was made on July 28, 1936, with the J. S. Packard Dredging
Company for the removal of certain shoals in the approach channel to Commonwealth
Pier 5 at the following contract prices; for dredging and disposing of the dredged
material 49.75 cents per cubic yard, scow measurement; for removing and disposing
of boulders $20. per cubic yard. This dredging was completed Aug. 6, 1936, at a
contract cost of $2,356.16.

A summary of freight and passengers using the pier in 1936 follows:

Number of Tons Freight and Passengers Handled at Commonwealth
Pier No. 5 During Fiscal Year Ending November 30, 1936

Steamship Line

Num-
ber of
Ships

In Freight

(tons)

Out Freight
ftons

Passengers

R.R.

Truck

Total

R.R.

Truck

Total

Out

Amer.-Haw. S.S. Co.
LuckenbackS.S.Co., Inc
Norton, Lillv & Co.
Can. Nat. S^. Co.
Italian Line
Polish Line .
French Line
Holland Amer. Line

29,635

6,322

440

264

107,035

73,478

1,220

854

581

136,670

79,800

1,660

1,118

669

14,181
8,197

254

29,725
20,800

246

481

43,906
28,997

246
735

3,852
550

3,210

2,209

477

429

Totals .

258

36,749

183,168

219,917

22,632

51,272

73,904

4,479

6,335

Development of Land South of Summer Street

The seven sections of Storehouse No. 1 on E Street have been occupied during
the year by the Wiggin Terminals, Inc.

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On Jan. 28, 1936, a letter contract was made with Fred L. Douglass to include

repairs or extension of the sprinkler system at this warehouse until Nov. 30, 1936.

Boston Army Base >

In response to a request from the Boston Quartermaster Depot for a wider entrance
to the Boston Army Base, the Department conceded for street purposes the use
of a triangular parcel of land of the Commonwealth lying northwesterly of the
intersection of Summer Street and Harbor Street, with the northerly side of the
parcel in line with the northerly side line of Terminal Street of the Army Base
extended westerly.

The Commonwealth Flats at East Boston

Aircraft Landing Field - - - - Boston Airport
The greater part of the area reclaimed by the Commonwealth at East Boston
continues to be occupied by the city of Boston as an airport. On Aug. 10, 1928,
under authority of Chapter 64 of the Resolves of that year, the Department leased
to the city approximately 5,717,000 square feet of land for this purpose. The use
of an additional area of 4,210,760 square feet was authorized by a lease executed
July 14, 1930, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 53 of the Resolves of
1930. The matter of the lease to the city of two additional parcels, one north-
easterly of the areas leased in 1928 and 1930, the other southeasterly of the parcel
leased in 1930, is still pending.

The use of these areas by the city is subject to certain rights of occupancy and
use granted by lease of June 30, 1922 to the War Department, with an option of
annual renewals to June 30, 1937, by a supplementary agreement of Dec. 27, 1926.

Reclamation of Flats

The work of dredging and filling at East Boston under contracts made by the
Department for the purpose of reclaiming fiats has been in abeyance since 1923.
Between that year and Nov. 30, 1936, approximately 3,169,000 cubic yards of
material dredged from various locations in the harbor have been deposited in the
receiving basin. In the year ending Nov. 30, 1936, about 356,600 cubic yards were
dumped upon flats northerly of Governors Island. The Commonwealth has re-
claimed approximately 150 acres of land at East Boston.

Under licenses granted for building bulkheads, dredging and filling, the city
has reclaimed for the extension of the airport about 140 acres.

Commonwealth Pier 1, East Boston

The use and occupancy of this pier by John G. Hall and Company, Inc., terminated
on May 31, 1936.

A contract was made on Nov. 25, 1936, with the Flynn Roofing and Sheet Metal
Works for furnishing and erecting fifty-six skylights at a contract price of $1,290.
This work is now in progress.

East Boston, Cunard Docks

As a part of the work required by the Federal Government in connection with
its project adopted for further improvement of Boston Harbor by dredging the
main ship channel to a depth of 40 feet at mean low water, the Department on
Feb. 25, 1936, made a contract with the Bay State Dredging and Contracting
Company for dredging an area between the Cunard Docks and the main ship channel
to a depth of 40 feet at mean low water, at the following contract prices: for dredging
and disposing of the dredged material 48.5 cents per cubic yard, scow measurement;
for removing and disposing of boulders $20. for each cubic yard. This work was
completed June 26, 1936, at a contract cost of $97,087.03.

On June 23, 1936, a letter contract was made with the Bay State Dredging and
Contracting Company for dredging about 27,000 cubic yards of material from an
area between the Cunard Docks and the main ship channel to a depth of 40 feet
at mean low water, at the following contract prices: for dredging and disposing
of the dredged material 48.5 cents per cubic yard, scow measurement; for removing

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and disposing of boulders $20. per cubic yard. This dredging was completed July 30,
1936, at a contract cost of $13,070.75.

A letter contract was made on Aug. 4, 1936, with the Bay State Dredging and
Contracting Company to continue the dredging to a depth of 40 feet at mean low
water in the area between the Cunard Docks and the main ship channel at the
contract prices stated in the preceding letter contract. This work is now in progress.

Houghs Neck, Quincy

Sea Wall. — The work of building a sea wall about 840 feet long with riprap
protection, and of constructing two stone jetties on the shore at Houghs Neck
under the agreement of Aug. 14, 1934, between the city of Quincy and the Depart-
ment, authorized by Chapter 322 of the Acts of 1934, was completed early in the
year at a cost of $24,146.28. Of this cost $10,000 was paid by the Department
for labor, materials and equipment used in the work.

Dredging. — On Jan. 23, 1936, hearing was held upon the petition of the Quincy
Yacht Club for dredging a basin and a channel adjacent to its club house and to
the public landing.

A contract with the Bay State Dredging and Contracting Company was made
on June 19, 1936, to redredge the channel and basin to a depth of 8 feet at mean
low water, the channel to a width of 60 feet and a length of about 1200 feet, the
basin to dimensions of about 400 feet by 300 feet, and a connecting basin to a depth
of 6 feet at mean low water to a length of about 300 feet and a width of 150 feet,
at the following contract prices: for dredging and disposing of the dredged material
49.5 cents per cubic yard, scow measurement; for removing and disposing of boulders
$20 per cubic yard. This work was completed July 23, 1936, at a contract cost
of $15,790. Toward this cost a contribution of $3,500 was made by the city of
Quincy.

Weymouth Fore River, Quincy and Weymouth

The project adopted by the Federal Government for the improvement of Wey-
mouth Fore River by dredging a channel 300 feet wide and 27 feet deep at mean
low water from Hingham Bay to Weymouth Fore River Bridge, required the dredging
by local interests of a channel of equal depth and suitable width to extend at least
2,500 feet through and upstream from said bridge.

The Department, in accordance with this requirement of the Federal Government
made a contract on Apr. 7, 1936, with the J. S. Packard Dredging Company for
dredging to a depth of 27 feet at mean low water a channel from the downstream
side of Weymouth Fore River Bridge through the bridge and upstream for a total
distance of about 2,800 feet with a width of 300 feet, at the following contract prices:
for dredging and disposing of the dredged material 46 cents per cubic yard, scow
measurement; for removing and disposing of boulders $20 per cubic yard. This
work was completed July 31, 1936, at a contract cost of $46,159.74. The cost of
this dredging was paid from funds provided by Chapter 464 of the Acts of 1935.

On Nov. 19, 1936, a letter contract was made with the J. S. Packard Dredging
Company for dredging about 13,000 cubic yards of material in the channel above
the Weymouth Fore River Bridge to a depth of 27 feet at mean low water, at the
following contract prices : for dredging and disposing of the dredged material 46 cents
per cubic yard, scow measurement; for removing and disposing of boulders $20
per cubic yard. This work is now in progress.

Winthrop Dredging
Cottage Park and Pleasant Park Yacht Clubs

On Jan. 23, 1936, hearing was held upon a petition of the Cottage Park Yacht
Club for dredging a channel to its club house and a petition of the Pleasant Park
Yacht Club for dredging a basin and channel to its property.

At its annual town meeting on Mar. 23, 1936, the town of Winthrop appropriated
$6,187.50 as a contribution toward the cost of dredging asked for by the Pleasant
Park Yacht Club, and $4,000 toward the cost of dredging requested by the Cottage
Park Yacht Club, upon condition that the Department carried out both projects
and arranged for the deposit of the excavated material at Ingleside Park.

A contract was made on July 21, 1936, with the Bay State Dredging and

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Contracting Company to dredge a basin 6 feet deep at mean low water at the
Pleasant Park Yacht Club, and a channel and basin 8 feet deep at mean low water
at the Cottage Park Yacht Club, at the following contract prices: for dredging and
disposing of the dredged material at Ingleside Park, Winthrop, by the hydraulic
process, including the construction of necessary dikes and sluices or other barriers,
68.5 cents per cubic yard measured in place; for removing and disposing of boulders
$20 for each cubic yard. Work under this contract was completed Sept. 11, 1936,
at a contract cost of $41,887.75. Toward this cost a total contribution of $10,187.50
was made by the town of Winthrop.

Marine Borers

The Department has continued this year its co-operation with the New England
Committee on Marine Piling Investigation by maintaining four test boards in
Boston Harbor at the following locations : Weymouth Fore River Bridge at Quincy
Point; Commonwealth Pier 5, South Boston; Commonwealth Pier 1, East Boston;
and at the wharf owned by the Commonwealth in South Bay, Roxbury.

Under Item 668 of Chapter 437 of the Acts of 1936 for inspection of structures
in tide water within Boston Harbor, 115 wharves have been inspected above low
water and 15 have been inspected by a diver below low water.

Sea Walls
Repairs have been made during the year to sea walls at Pemberton and Point
Allerton in Hull and at Houghs Neck in Quincy.

Surveys
Surveys have been made this year in connection with the maintenance and
operation of property of the Commonwealth. Hydrographic surveys have been
carried on in the Charles River, in the Reserved Channel above L Street Bridge,
in the approach channel to Commonwealth Pier 5, between the main ship channel
and the Cunard Docks at East Boston, in Weymouth Fore River at Houghs Neck
and in parts of Mystic River, as well as in minor channels of Boston Harbor.

RIVERS. HARBORS, TIDE WATERS AND FORESHORES OUTSIDE
OF BOSTON HARBOR

For the improvement of rivers, harbors, tide waters and foreshores outside of
Boston Harbor, in accordance with the provisions of section 11, Chapter 91 of
the General Laws, an appropriation of $100,000 was made during 1936 with the
following condition:

"provided that all expenditures made for the protection of shores shall
be upon condition that at least fifty per cent of the cost is covered by
contributions from municipalities or other organizations and individuals
and that in the case of dredging channels for harbor improvements at
least twenty-five per cent of the cost shall be so covered."

An appropriation of $22,500 was also available during the year for the mainte-
nance of structures and for repairing damages along the coast line or river banks
of the Commonwealth, and for the removal of wrecks and other obstructions from
the tide waters and great ponds.

Petitions were filed with the Department during the year for surveys and im-
provements in the following localities: Acushnet River, New Bedford; Cape Poge,
Edgartown; Connecticut River, Hatfield, Sunderland, Northampton; Cotuit
Harbor, Barnstable; Dennisport, Dennis; East Bay, Barnstable; Falmouth shore
protection, Falmouth; Gun Rock-Green Hill sea wall, Hull; Harwichport shore,
Harwich; Lake Anthony, Oak Bluffs; Lewis Bay, Barnstable; Lewis Bay, Yarmouth;
Manchester Harbor, Manchester; Megansett Harbor, Falmouth; Nantucket Har-
bor, Nantucket; Nahant Shore protection, Nahant; Oak Bluffs shore protection;
Paskamansett River, Dartmouth; Pilgrim Beach, Truro; Pond Village, Truro;
Popponnesset Bay, Barnstable; Provincetown Harbor, Provincetown; Province-
town shore protection; Rock Harbor, Orleans; Rockport Harbor, Rockport;

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Vineyard Haven Harbor, Tisbury; Waquoit Bay, Falmouth; Witchmere Harbor,
Harwich.

Public hearings have been held, certain estimates of cost made but no work has
been done to carry out improvements petitioned for in Acushnet River, New
Bedford; Cape Poge, Edgartown; Gun Rock-Green Hill sea wall, Hull; Lewis
Bay, Yarmouth; Nahant Shore, Nahant; Nantucket Harbor, Nantucket; Paska-
mansett River, Dartmouth; Pond Village, Truro; Rockport Harbor, Rockport.

Information relating to work previously done in various rivers and harbors of
the Commonwealth may be found in the annual reports of the Board of Harbor
and Land Commissioners, the Commission on Waterways and Public Lands, the
Division of Waterways and Public Lands of the Department of Public Works,
and of the Department of Public Works, and in the tables of the Appendix accom-
panying the present report. These reports show localities, character of work,
appropriations and expenditures by the Commonwealth and certain appropriations
and expenditures by the Federal Government.

An account of work done during the year 1936 for the improvement of rivers,
harbors, tide waters and foreshores outside of Boston Harbor follows.

Allens Harbor, Harwich
The work of dredging in the entrance channel to Allens Harbor under contract
of June 18, 1935, with Herbert T. Gerrish, was completed July 1, 1936. Toward
the cost of this work a contribution of $1,000 was made by the town of Harwich.

Barnstable Dredging
Cotuit Harbor, East Bay and Lewis Bay

On Jan. 23, 1936, hearing was held upon petitions of the Selectmen of Barnstable
for dredging entrance channels to Cotuit Harbor, East Bay and Lewis Bay.

A contract was made on July 1, 1936, with the Bay State Dredging and Con-
tracting Company to dredge a channel at the entrance to Cotuit Harbor 100 feet
wide on the bottom and 6 feet deep at mean low water; the entrance to East Bay
60 feet wide on the bottom and 6 feet deep at mean low water; and the entrance
channel to Lewis Bay 80 feet wide on the bottom and 9 feet deep at mean low
water. The contract prices for this work are: for dredging and disposing of the
dredged material 81 cents per cubic yard, scow measurement; for removing and
disposing of boulders $20 per cubic yard. The dredging in East Bay and Lewis
Bay has been completed but the work at Cotuit has not yet begun.

A contribution of $9,000 has been made by the town of Barnstable toward the
cost of the dredging covered by this contract.

Barnstable Shore Protection
South Hyannis
The work of building a concrete sea wall and three stone jetties, under contract
of Sept. 3, 1935, with Harry L. Jones, was completed June 16, at a contract cost of
$14,205.92. Toward this cost contributions amounting to $3,993.67 were made
in 1935 by individuals and organizations interested, and an equal amount was
contributed by the county of Barnstable.

West Beach

The work of building four stone jetties at Squaw Island Road under contract of
Sept. 4, 1935, with Frederick V. Lawrence was completed Dec. 2, 1935, at a con-
tract cost of $4,086.08. Toward this cost a contribution of $1,350 was made by
the town and one of an equal amount by the County.

On Aug. 28, 1936, a letter contract was made with Harry L. Jones for unloading,
delivering and placing stone bought by the town for repairing and protecting a
part of Squaw Island Road. This work was completed Sept. 15, 1936, at a con-
tract cost of $578.

Cape Cod Canal Landing Pier, Bourne
The present pier, authorized by Chapter 441 of the Acts of 1931, was completed
during 1934. It is of solid fill construction, about 600 feet long, providing a depth

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of 25 feet in the dock at mean low water and a light timber extension about 400
feet long available as a tie up for vessels along the easterly side of the turning
basin. Upon the pier a superstructure 36 feet wide and 200 feet long has been
built of brick, steel and timber.

No work except minor repairs has been needed during the year.

After the taking made by the Department on April 26, 1932, for the site of the
pier and of the area between mean high and low water required for the building
of the structure and the dredging of berths and a turning basin, the awards for
damages were contested in the courts by the Trustees under the will of Charles
H. Taylor and by Charles H. Taylor, Jr. The cases were settled in 1936 by the
payment of $18,615.35 to the said Trustees and of $15,509.65 to Charles H. Taylor,
Jr. The funds for the settlement were available from an appropriation of $34,125,
made for the purpose by Chapter 432 of the Acts of 1936.

Connecticut River — W.P.A. Projects

The floods of March, 1936, resulted in an amount of damage and destruction
along the rivers and streams of the Commonwealth, especially in the valleys of
the Connecticut and Merrimack rivers, never before experienced in this State by
the rise of their waters. The Connecticut River rose to a height exceeding by
about 6 feet any level previously recorded.

Before this disaster the Department had secured approval of certain projects
for flood control on the Connecticut River, to be financed chiefly from Federal
Funds allocated by the Works Progress Administration. In view of the new data
supplied by the unprecedented rise of the river, it seemed advisable to modify and
extend the plans for protective work.

Approval was received for projects involving an expenditure of $577,626.50, but
before work began certain portions of it were undertaken by the United States
Army Engineers, particularly some work at West Springfield, all of that proposed
at Springfield and parts of that contemplated in Chicopee, Hadley and Hatfield.

The work under the supervision of the Department is now in progress. Riprap
is being placed along the river bank in Northampton, West Springfield, Deerfield,
Chicopee and Holyoke, dikes are under construction in Hadley, Hatfield, North-
field, Chicopee, West Springfield and Holyoke, and a concrete river wall is being
built at South Hadley. Additional protective work has been authorized, but not
yet begun, in Whately, Northfield, Hadley, South Hadley and Hatfield.

The total expenditure during the year from funds provided by the Works Progress
Administration is $182,427.56. The total cost during the year to the Common-
wealth is $17,896.58. The funds expended by the State for this purpose were paid
largely from the appropriation of $50,000 made by Chapter 142 of the Acts of 1936
for co-operative work Avith the Works Progress Administration. .

Dennis Shore

On June 10, 1936, hearing was held upon a petition of the Selectmen of Dennis
for the construction of a jetty to protect the public bathing beach at Ray croft
Park, Dennisport, from further erosion.

On Aug. 5, 1936, hearing was held upon a petition of the Selectmen for pro-
tective work at the , shore at Dennisport near the town landing and adjacent to the
property of Harry G. Porch.

A contract with the H and J Construction Company was made Sept. 22, 1936,
for building two stone jetties each about 160 feet long at Dennisport, one at a
point opposite the Cordes property and easterly of a town way, in order to protect
the public bathing beach, and the other jetty and riprap at a point opposite prop-
erty of Harry G. Porch and easterly along the town way. The contract price for
this work is $3.75 for each ton of 2,000 pounds of granite stone riprap and chips
in the jetties. The work is now in progress.

Toward the cost of this shore protection contributions of $600 each have been
made by the town and the county.

On Nov. 30, 1936, a letter contract was made with the H & J Construction
Company to provide for the placing of 156 tons of additional riprap under the
terms and conditions of the contract of Sept. 22, 1936.

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Ellisville Harbor, Plymouth
A letter contract was made Aug. 7, 1936, with Arthur K. Finney for further
excavation at the entrance to Ellisville Harbor by the use of a caterpillar crane.
The work was completed Aug. 10, 1936, at a contract cost of $100.

Falmouth Inner Harbor, Falmouth
The work of dredging an anchorage basin under contract of May 21, 1935, with
Herbert T. Gerrish was completed June 1, 1936. Toward the cost of this work a
contribution of $5,000 was made by the town of Falmouth.

Falmouth Shore

Hearing was held on Jan. 23, 1936, upon a petition of the Selectmen of Falmouth
for protective work along the shore opposite Shore Street.

On Oct. 6, 1936, a contract was made with Turner and Breivogel to build a
steel sheet pile bulkhead with reinforced concrete cap opposite Shore Street, at
the following contract prices: for all steel sheet piling furnished and driven in the
completed work, $74.01 per ton; for all reinforcing steel furnished and placed in
the concrete cap, 7.8 cents per pound; for furnishing material and constructing the
concrete cap, $17.29 for each cubic yard of concrete mesaured in place in the
completed work. This project is now in progress.

Toward the cost of the work contributions of $750 each have been made by the
town and by the county.

Gloucester Fish Pier

Chapter 303 of the Acts of 1936 provides as follows:

Section 1. Chapter three hundred and eleven of the acts of nineteen hundred
and thirty-one is hereby amended by striking out section one and inserting in
place thereof the following -.-^Section 1. For the purpose of improving and
developing Gloucester harbor for the promotion of the fish industry and the com-
mercial facilities of the city of Gloucester, the state department of public works,
hereinafter called the department, is hereby authorized to construct a fish pier in
said harbor on a site to be determined by the department with the approval of
the municipal council of said city and the Gloucester Planning Board, to erect
thereon such buildings as said purposes may require and properly equip the same,
to do all dredging necessary for the proper use of said pier, and to provide necessary
water and sewerage facilities therefor. Said construction may extend beyond
existing harbor lines. All contracts for work authorized by this section shall be
subject to the approval of the governor and council.

Section 2. Said chapter three hundred and eleven is hereby further amended
by striking out section two and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section Z.
Said city may take by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine of the General
Laws or acquire by purchase or otherwise such piers, wharves, buildings, lands,
flats, rights, privileges and easements within the said harbor and adjacent territory
as may be necessary for the said purposes, except such as may be owned by the
commonwealth, and may transfer the same or such part thereof as the depart-
ment shall require for said purposes, to the commonwealth, without cost to it,
and the property so transferred shall be used for the aforesaid purposes.

Section 3. Said chapter three hundred and eleven is hereby further amended
by striking out section three, as most recently amended by chapter two hundred
and forty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-four, and inserting in
place thereof the following: — Section 3. No work authorized by section one shall
be done unless prior to June first, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, the city of
Gloucester shall effect the transfer to the commonwealth of property authorized
to be acquired by the preceding section, and shall agree to lay out, construct and
maintain at its own expense a public way, suitable for heavy trucking, and extend-
ing from the site of the proposed pier to an existing public way which is a main
artery of travel; nor unless prior to said date a corporation incorporated under
the laws of the commonwealth, hereinafter called the lessee, the financial responsi-
bility of which is satisfactory to the commissioner of corporations and taxation,
shall execute a lease of said pier together with the buildings thereon, for a term

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beginning on the date of the completion by the department of the work authorized
by section one and ending September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and forty-nine.
Said lease shall provide that the lessee shall pay to the commonwealth a rental
not less than twenty thousand dollars a year, and shall be subject to such provisions
and conditions as may be agreed upon by the department and the lessee.

Section 4. Said chapter three hundred and eleven is hereby further amended
by striking out section four and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 4.
At the expiration of the original term of said lease, provided it is continued in full
force and effect at all times during such term, it may, at the option of the lessee,
be renewed for a further period of twenty years, at such rental, not less than twenty-
five thousand dollars a year, as may be agreed upon by the department and the
lessee, or, in case of failure so to agree, as may be determined by three arbitrators,
one to be named by the department, one by the lessee and a third to be selected
by the two so chosen. At the termination of said renewed lease, it may, at the
option of the lessee, be again renewed and for such term of years and upon such
terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the department and the lessee,
or, in case of failure so to agree, as may be determined by three arbitrators appointed
as aforesaid.

Section 5. Said chapter three hundred and eleven is hereby further amended
by striking out section five and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 5.
To meet the expenditures necessary in carrying out the provisions of section one,
as amended, the state treasurer shall, upon request of the department, issue and
sell, at public or private sale, bonds of the commonwealth, registered or with
interest coupons attached, as he may deem best, to an amount to be specified by
the department from time to time, but not in excess of six hundred and sixty
thousand dollars in the aggregate. All such bonds shall be designated on their
face, — Gloucester Pier Loan, and shall be on the serial payment plan for such
maximum term of years as the governor may recommend to the general court in
accordance with section three of article sixty-two of the amendments to the con-
stitution of the commonwealth, the maturities thereof to be so arranged that the
amount payable each year, other than the final year, shall, as nearly as is in the
opinion of the state treasurer practicable, be equal. Said bonds shall bear interest
payable semi-annually at such rate as the state treasurer, with the approval of the
governor and council, shall fix.

Section 6. Said chapter three hundred and eleven is hereby further amended
by inserting after section five the following new section: — Section 5 A. For the
purpose of acquiring land for said pier, the city of Gloucester may borrow from
time to time, within a period of five years from June first, nineteen hundred and
thirty-six, such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding, in the aggregate, one
hundred thousand dollars, and may issue bonds or notes therefor which shall
bear on their face the words, Gloucester Pier Loan, Act of 1936. Each authorized
issue shall constitute a separate loan and such loans shall be paid in not more than
twenty years from their dates. Indebtedness incurred under this section shall be
inside the debt limit and shall, except as herein provided, be subject to the pro-
visions of chapter forty-four of the General Laws, exclusive of the limitation con-
tained in the first paragraph of section seven thereof. Approved May 29, 1936.

To supplement the funds provided by the statute, the Department applied to
the Federal Public Works Administration for aid in financing the building of the
pier. The work was approved as P.W.A. Project 1354 R S and a grant of not
exceeding $540,000 was offered and accepted by the Department in September.

After a public hearing in Gloucester on Oct. 6, 1936, the Department voted on
Oct. 15, 1936, to adopt the site at Five Pound Island for the proposed fish and
commercial pier authorized by the Act. On Oct. 24, 1936, the Municipal Council
of Gloucester passed an Order approving this site, and on Oct. 26, 1936, the
Gloucester Planning Board voted its approval.

On Nov. 4, 1936, proposals were received for the lease of the proposed pier. A
request was then made for the approval of the site at Five Pound Island by the
Federal authorities and copies of the proposals received for the lease of the pier
were forwarded with the request, and with a draft of the contemplated lease.

A reply under date of Nov. 13, 1936, was received from the office of the Federal
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proposal received for lease of a fish and commercial pier at the Five Pound Island
site, is not acceptable as Federal funds are not available unless the lessee is a
non-profit sharing corporation. Efforts are now being made in Gloucester to
organize a co-operative or non-profit sharing corporation, satisfactory to the Federal
Government, as lessee of the proposed pier.

Harwich Shore Protection

Hearing was held on Jan. 23, 1936, upon a petition of the Selectmen of Harwich
for protective work upon the shore from Dennis to the Chatham boundary line.

A contract was made on Sept. 8, 1936, with the H and J Construction Company
for building four stone jetties and rebuilding two jetties at Harwichport, at the
following contract prices: for furnishing and placing granite stone riprap and chips
in the jetties, S3. 90 for each ton of 2,000 pounds; for furnishing crane operator,
two men and all incidental work in rebuilding the two jetties, the sum of $10 for
each hour. This work is now in progress. Toward the cost of the project contribu-
tions of $1,000 each were made by the town and by the county.

At the request of the Selectmen further protective work was provided for by a
contract made on Nov. 17, 1936, with F. V. Lawrence for building four stone
jetties at Harwichport at a contract price of $3.15 for each ton of 2,000 pounds of
granite stone riprap and chips furnished and placed in the jetties. Toward the cost
of this work contributions of $1,200 each were made by the town and by the county.

Herring River, Harwich

The work of dredging in the entrance to Herring River under contract of June
18, 1935, with Herbert T. Gerrish was completed July 1, 1936. Toward the cost
of this dredging a contribution of $1,000 was made by the town of Harwich.

On Nov. 9, 1936, a letter contract was made with Herbert T. Gerrish for dredging
about 4,085 cubic yards of material from this entrance channel and for disposing
of the dredged material on the east side of the easterly jetty, at a contract price of
43 cents per cubic yard. The work was completed Nov. 13, 1936.

Hither Creek, Nantucket

A contract was made on April 1, 1936, with Herbert T. Gerrish for dredging to
a depth of 4 feet at mean low water, a channel 50 feet wide on the bottom and
about 2,300 feet long and a basin 200 feet wide and 500 feet long on the bottom,
in Hither Creek, Nantucket, at the contract price of 55 cents per cubic yard for
material, measured in place, for dredging and disposing of excavated material on
marsh and flats by the hydraulic process, including the construction of the neces-
sary dikes and sluices or other barriers. This work was completed October 1, 1936,
at a contract cost of $10,890.

The cost of this dredging was paid from funds available under the provisions of
Chapter 464 of the Acts of 1935.

Housatonic River, Pittsfield

Chapter 413 of the Acts of 1935 provides as follows:

Section 1. The department of Public Works is hereby authorized and directed
to provide for the control of the flood waters of the Housatonic river in the city of
Pittsfield for the purpose of safeguarding and protecting the lives and property
of the people of said city against perils from floods and erosion of the banks of
said river, and for said purpose the department may exercise all the powers con-
ferred upon it by chapter ninety-one of the General Laws relative to the improve-
ment of rivers and harbors. No work shall be begun hereunder until the city of
Pittsfield has assumed liability, in the manner provided by section twenty-nine of
said chapter ninety-one, for all damages that may be incurred hereunder, nor until
there has been paid into the treasury of the commonwealth by the county of
Berkshire the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, and by said city of Pittsfield
the sum of ten thousand dollars, which, together with such sum, not exceeding
twelve thousand five hundred dollars, as may hereafter be appropriated by the
commonwealth, shall constitute a fund for the improvements herein authorized;
provided, that the total cost of such improvements shall not exceed twenty-five
thousand dollars.

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Section 2. For the purpose of meeting the payment required to be made by
the county of Berkshire under this act, the treasurer of said county, with the
approval of the county commissioners, may borrow the sum of twenty-five hundred
dollars for the term of one year and may issue notes of the county therefor.

For the purpose of meeting the payment required to be made by the city of
Pittsfield under this act, said city may borrow a sum not exceeding ten thousand
dollars, and may issue bonds or notes therefor, payable in not more than two years
from the dates thereof. Indebtedness incurred by said city under this act shall be
within the statutory limit and shall, except as herein provided, be subject to
chapter forty-four of the General Laws, exclusive of the limitation contained in
the first paragraph of section seven thereof.

The said county and city may sell the said securities at public or private sale,
but not for less than their par value.

Plans for the work authorized by the statute were prepared by the Department
and approved by the city and county authorities. Difficulties so serious, however,
were found in securing the necessary release from owners of property, that the
city has been unwilling to assume the liability for damages required by the pro-
visions of the Act. The project has, therefore, been abandoned for the present.

Lake Anthony, Oak Bluffs

Hearing was held on Jan. 23, 1936, upon the petition of the Selectmen of Oak
Bluffs for dredging Lake Anthony.

On April 1, 1936, a contract was made with Herbert T. Gerrish to dredge the
entrance channel and anchorage basin at Lake Anthony, the channel 100 feet wide
on the bottom, 700 feet long and 9 feet deep at mean low water, the basin 800 feet
long, about 400 feet wide on the bottom and 7 feet deep at mean low water, at the
following contract prices: for dredging and disposing of the excavated material
back of the new bulkhead or on marsh or flats by the hydraulic process, including
the construction of the necessary dikes and sluices or other barriers, 50 cents for
each cubic yard of material measured in place; for removing and disposing of
boulders, $20 for each cubic yard. This dredging was completed Nov. 10, 1936,
at a contract cost of $13,122.

In connection with this work the town of Oak Bluffs built a bulkhead at the
northerly end of Lake Anthony to provide a disposal area for the dredged material.

The cost of the dredging carried out under this contract is paid from funds
available under the provisions of Chapter 464 of the Acts of 1935.

Manchester Harbor, Manchester

The work under contract of Oct. 4, 1935, with the Bay State Dredging and
Contracting Company for dredging in Manchester Harbor, was completed Dec. 28,
1935, at a contract cost of $33,859.52. This cost included additional dredging to
provide anchorage space for small boats. The entire cost of the work was paid
from funds available under the provisions of Chapter 464 of the Acts of 1935.

Hearing was held on Jan. 23, 1936, upon a petition of the Selectmen of Manchester
for further dredging in Manchester Harbor.

On Sept. 8, 1936, a contract was made with the J. S. Packard Dredging Com-
pany for dredging an anchorage basin 6 feet deep at mean low water and a channel
about 5,400 feet long of widths varying from 150 feet to 100 feet and to 60 feet,
to a depth of 8 feet at mean low water, in this harbor, at the following contract
prices: for dredging and disposing of the dredged material 55 cents per cubic yard,
scow measurement; for removing and disposing of boulders $20 per cubic yard.
This work is now in progress. Toward the cost of the dredging a contribution of
$20,000 has been made by the town of Manchester.

Megansett Harbor, Falmouth

Hearing was held Jan. 23, 1936, upon a petition of the Selectmen of Falmouth
for the construction of a breakwater at the entrance to Megansett Harbor.

On Sept. 8, 1936, a contract was made with George M. Bryne for building a
stone breakwater at this harbor at a contract price of $3.45 per ton of 2,000 pounds
for heavy stone riprap furnished in place in the completed work. The construe-

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tion of the breakwater is now in progress. Toward the cost of the work a contribu-
tion of $12,000 has been made by the town of Falmouth.

Menamsha Creek, Chilmark and Gay Head

The dredging under contract of Oct. 4, 1935, with the Bay State Dredging and
Contracting Company was completed Dec. 13, 1935, at a contract cost of $51,300.
This cost was paid from funds available under the provisions of Chapter 464 of
the Acts of 1935.

New Bedford State Pier

During the year a portion of this pier has been occupied by the Lamport Manu-
facturing Supply Company, Inc., at a rental of $5,500. While the lease of April 27,
1933, authorizing this occupancy expired March 31, 1936, the Company has been
allowed to continue since that date as tenant-at-will.

The work of furnishing and driving creosoted, yellow pine piles and furnishing
and placing creosoted, yellow pine cap log and untreated oak facing, at the pier,
under contract of Nov. 6, 1935, with Frank C. Tavlor, Inc., was completed Jan. 7,
1936, at a contract cost of $2,886.62.

On Nov. 3, 1936, a letter contract was made with Frank C. Taylor, Inc., for
replacing a fender pile cluster with one additional bearing pile at the outer end of
the pier, at a contract price of $600. This work was completed Nov. 30, 1936, at
a contract cost of $600.

A letter contract with James Yohe was made on Nov. 3, 1936, for repairing and
painting two flag poles at the pier, at a contract price of $48. This work is now in
progress.

On Nov. 25, 1936, a letter contract was made with Frank C. Taylor, Inc., for
repairs to the cluster piles at the southeasterly corner of the pier, at a total cost
not exceeding; $50. This work was completed Nov. 30, 1936, at a contract cost of
$46.

The use of the New Bedford State Pier, particularly by vessels in coastwise
trade from Gulf and Pacific ports, has now increased to a degree requiring addi-
tional space for the handling of cargo. Two of the steamship lines making regular
weekly trips to the port have been obliged to find storage space for a part of their
cargo at points a considerable distance from the waterfront, and, in consequence,
to incur high trucking costs in order to transfer goods from the pier to the ware-
houses.

The Lamport Manufacturing Supply Company, Inc., which has never used the
facilities provided for water borne commerce at the pier, still occupies over 75%
of the covered storage space. The amount of rental paid by the Company is less
than the net income to the Department from the operation of less than 25% of the
total facilities. Income from the pier would be largely increased were the whole
structure with all its facilities devoted to the purposes of water borne commerce
for which the pier was originally intended.

Oak Bluffs Shore Protection

Hearing was held Jan. 23, 1936, upon a petition of the Selectmen of Oak Bluffs
for protective work along the shore.

On June 2, 1936, a letter contract was made with Turner and Breivogel to
straighten, redrive to the proper level, and repair certain portions of the pile and
timber bulkhead at the Highlands, for the lump sum of $2,300. This work was
completed Aug. 10, 1936.

A contract was made on Aug. 11, 1936, with Frederick V. Lawrence to furnish
and place about 2,000 tons of stone riprap and about 850 cubic yards of back
filling to protect the bank back of the present timber bulkhead at the Highlands.
The contract prices for this work were : for each ton of heavy stone riprap furnished
in place in the completed work, $5.23; for furnishing material and filling bank in
back of bulkhead, 90 cents for each cubic yard of fill measured in place in the
completed work. This project was completed Oct. 28, 1936, at a contract cost of
$11,554.31.

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Onset Bay, Wareham

The work of dredging a channel and basin in Onset Bay under contract of Oct. 4,
1935, with Herbert T. Gerrish was completed April 16, 1936, at a contract cost of
$60,382.72. This cost was paid from funds made available by the provisions of
Chapter 464 of the Acts of 1935.

On July 28, 1936, a letter contract was made with the Bay State Dredging and
Contracting Company for removing two shoals in the channel to the town wharf
at Onset, at a contract price of 51.5 cents per cubic yard, scow measurement, for
dredging, and of $20 per cubic yard for removing boulders. This work was com-
pleted Nov. 2, 1936, at a contract cost of $1,763.76.

Commonwealth Property at Plymouth

An appropriation of $4,000 was made this year by the Legislature for the mainte-
nance and repair of property at Plymouth acquired by the Pilgrim Tercentenary
Commission and placed under the jurisdiction of the Department by vote of the
Governor and Council on July 17, 1924.

The usual care has been given to the pier and the grounds during the year, and
minor repairs have been made as they became necessary.

The work of rebuilding the State Pier under contract of July 16, 1935, with the
Lee Construction Company was completed Jan. 30, 1936, but final payment is
awaiting certain adjustment.

To provide for the rebuilding of the approach to the pier, a contract with John
F. Shea Company, Inc., was made on Aug. 11, 1936, for furnishing all materials
for the construction of about 110 linear feet of timber cap, resetting a portion of
the existing granite curbing, furnishing and setting about 10 linear feet of new
granite curbing, placing about 200 cubic yards of new fill and about 1,400 square
yards of bituminous concrete pavement in the approach to the State Pier. The
contract prices for this work were: for furnishing material and filling, $1.00 per
cubic yard of material in the fill measured in the completed work; for re-setting
granite curbing and furnishing and setting new granite curbing, the lump sum of
$140; for furnishing all materials and constructing timber cap complete in place,
the lump sum of $240; for furnishing all materials, equipment and incidental
work in placing the bituminous concrete surface in the approach completed in
place, $1 for each square yard of bituminous concrete surface in place. The work
was completed Sept. 11, 1936, at a contract cost of $2,075.

In October the Commissioners were asked by the Selectmen of Plymouth to
allow fishing boats to tie up at the State Pier and to discharge cargo there during
the months from October 1st of each year to June 1st of the following year, as the
town pier is inadequate for the requirements of the fishermen in the winter season.
As such use of the pier will not interfere with the docking of the steamboats for
landing and embarking passengers from June 1st to October 1st of each year, there
appears no objection to granting the request of the Selectmen.

The Department on Nov. 3, 1936, adopted rules and regulations allowing the
use of the pier by the fishing boats between October 1st and June 1st at rates now
in force at the Cape Cod Canal Pier for similar service. These regulations were
approved by the Governor and Council on Nov. 12, 1936, and became effective
upon that date.

Plymouth Harbor, Plymouth

The work of dredging in Plymouth Harbor under contract of Oct. 4, 1935, with
the Bay State Dredging and Contracting Company was completed Dec. 11, 1935.
The original project for dredging two areas in the basin near the Plymouth Yacht
Club, was extended to provide for the excavation of an additional area for a turning
basin at the State Pier and for extension of the dredging in the anchorage basin.
The contract cost of the entire work was $40,863.87. This cost was paid from
funds made available by Chapter 464 of the Acts of 1935.

During the year, at the request of the Selectmen, a survey of the outer harbor
was made.

Popponesset Bay, Barnstable
Hearing was held Jan. 23, 1936, upon a petition of Robert T. Fowler for dredging

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in Popponesset Bay along the easterly shore in extension northerly of the existing
channel.

On June 21, 193G, a contract was made with Herbert T. Gerrish for dredging in
Popponesset Bay to a depth of 5 feet at mean low water a channel 50 feet wide on
the bottom and a basin about 250 feet long and 200 feet wide to the same depth,
at the following contract prices: for dredging and disposing of the excavated ma-
terial on marsh and flats by the hydraulic process, including the construction of
the necessary dikes, and sluices or other barriers, for each cubic yard of material
measured in place 52 cents; for removing and disposing of boulders $20 per cubic
yard. Work under this contract has not yet begun.

Provincetown Harbor, Provincetown

The Cape Cod Steamship Company, because of a change in conditions at the
town wharf in Provincetown, filed a petition in May for dredging by the Common-
wealth of an entrance channel to the wharf known as the Sklaroff Pier in Province-
town, and of berths at this pier. Hearing was held early in June upon this petition.

A contract was made on June 2, 1936, with the Bay State Dredging and Con-
tracting Company for dredging an entrance channel and berth at the Sklaroff
Wharf, a channel 100 feet wide on the bottom, and a berth 60 feet wide on the
bottom and 15 feet deep at mean low water, at the following contract prices: for
dredging and disposing of the dredged material 64 cents per cubic yard, scow
measurement. This dredging was completed July 25, 1936, at a contract cost of
$19,843.20. Funds to pay for the work were provided by the Legislature by item
654A of Chapter 432 of the Acts of 1936.

Provincetown Tercentenary Commission
During the year the land at Provincetown acquired by the Provincetown Ter-
centenary Commission and placed under the control of the Department on June 23,
1926, has been cared for from funds appropriated for this area and the Province
Lands. An employee has been kept at work during the summer to maintain the
park in proper condition.

Rock Harbor, Orleans

Hearing was held Jan. 23, 1936, on the petition of the Selectmen of Orleans for
protective work at Rock Harbor.

A letter contract with Roland L. Mayo was made on July 28, 1936, for furnishing
and placing about 60 cubic yards of sand and gravel back of the bulkhead at Rock
Harbor, for surfacing the filling with 3>£ inches of hot mix road surfacing, and for
placing 160 tons of quarry stone riprap, for the lump sum of $1,040. This work
was completed Sept. 1, 1936, at a contract cost of $1,132.68.

On Aug. 21, 1936, a letter contract was made with Roland L. Mayo to remove
blocks of bituminous road material from the back of the bulkhead at Rock Harbor,
at actual cost plus 15%, at a total estimated cost of $92.86. This work was com-
pleted Aug. 6, 1936, at a contract cost of $92.86.

A letter contract for the extension of the protective work was made with Roland
L. Mayo on Nov. 10, 1936, for placing about 100 tons of stone riprap for $3 per
ton and about 100 cubic yards of gravel fill for $1.50 per cubic yard, in extending
the riprap. This work was completed Nov. 27, 1936, at a contract cost of $459.53.

Toward the cost of the protective work at Rock Harbor contributions of $500
each were made by the town of Orleans and by the county.

Roughan's Point, Revere
By Chapter 358 of the Acts of 1936, the Department of Public Works is au-
thorized and directed to construct a sea wall at Roughan's Point in the Beachmont
section of the city of Revere, extending from the Cherry Island bar to the existing
sea wall on Winthrop parkway, and to take by eminent domain under Chapter 79
of the General Laws, or acquire by purchase or otherwise, any lands or interests
therein necessary or desirable for such purpose. The statute provides that no work
shall be begun until the city of Revere has contributed and paid into the treasury
of the Commonwealth $42,500 to be used with a sum not exceeding $127,500
appropriated by the Commonwealth.

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The required contribution of $42,500 was paid into the State Treasury by the
city of Revere in September.

A letter contract was made on Sept. 14, 1936, with the Raymond Concrete Pile
Company to take wash borings at the site of the proposed sea wall at a contract
price of 72 cents per linear foot. This work was completed Sept. 23, 1936, at a
contract cost of $359.28.

On Nov. 6, 1936, the Department made a taking of the right and easement in
certain parcels of land at Roughan's Point, Revere, necessary for the construction
and maintenance of the sea wall. This taking was approved by the Governor and
Council on Nov. 12, 1936, and recorded in the registry of deeds for Suffolk County
on Nov. 17, 1936.

A contract was made on Nov. 17, 1936, with M. F. Gaddis, Inc., for the con-
struction of a concrete and steel sea wall, granite steps, solid fill and riprap at
Roughan's Point, at the following contract prices: for furnishing and driving steel
sheet piling in place, $80 for each ton in the completed work; for furnishing ma-
terials for constructing the concrete sea wall and stair wells, including forms, tie
rods, steel reinforcement, excavation and all incidental work, $15 for each cubic
yard of concrete measured in place in the completed work; for furnishing and
placing granite stone riprap and chips against the sea side of the sea wall, $2.20
for each ton of 2,000 pounds of granite stone riprap and chips in place in the com-
pleted work; for furnishing materials for filling in place back of the sea wall, 60
cents for each cubic yard of material measured in place in the completed work;
for furnishing and setting each granite stone step in place, $18 for each granite
stone step furnished in place in the completed work. No work has yet been done
under this contract.

Salisbury Dike

The Salisbury Reclamation District made in March the taking necessary to
acquire the land for the construction of the dike and incidental structures au-
thorized by Chapter 399 of the Acts of 1935.

A contract with A. A. Hersey and Son Company was made April 1, 1936, for
building a pile and timber bulkhead or dam, a concrete tide gate chamber, boat
roll-way and filling in Blackwater Creek, at the unit prices stated in the contract.
This work was completed Sept. 30, 1936, at a contract cost of $11,668.87.

The Department has filed an application for Federal funds to allow the placing
of riprap and sod upon the slopes of the dike and the raising of the height of adjacent
dikes built under the provisions of the Emergency Relief Administration by the
Salisbury Reclamation District. As a part of the work necessary is in the State
of New Hampshire, the approval of the project has been delayed.

Saugus River, Revere

In July the Department received a request from the Point of Pines Yacht Club
for the removal of rocks in the Saugus River channel opposite its club house. An
investigation by the engineer showed several yards of loose boulders lying above a
ledge and constituting a menace to small boats using the channel.

A letter contract with the Crandall Engineering Company was made on Aug. 24,
1936, for the removal of these boulders for the sum of $740. The work was com-
pleted Sept. 19, 1936, at a contract cost of ;

Scituate Harbor, Scituate
The dredging in Scituate Harbor under contract of Oct. 4, 1935, with the Bay
State Dredging and Contracting Company was completed Dec. 19, 1935, at a con-
tract cost of $22,739.94. This cost was paid from funds made available by Chapter
464 of the Acts of 1935.

Scituate Sea Walls
A letter contract was made on Nov. 25, 1936, with Frank H. Barry to provide
for minor repairs to the sea walls at Scituate. Materials for the work are to be
supplied by the Department, while the contractor is to furnish all labor and equip-
ment on the basis of actual cost plus ten per cent. The total cost, including labor,
materials and inspection, is not to exceed $2,000. This work is now in progress.

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Smith's Cove, Gloucester
The work of dredging in Smith's Cove, under contract of Oct. 4, 1935, with the
J. S. Packard Dredging Company, was completed Dec. 23, 1935. The original
project for improvement was extended during the progress of the work to include
the dredging of a channel 100 feet wide on the bottom and 10 feet deep at mean
low water from the dredged area to a landing pier at the head of Smith's Cove.
The contract cost of the whole work was $37,714.68. This cost was paid from funds
made available by Chapter 464 of the Acts of 1935.

Truro Shore Protection
Pilgrim Beach

Hearing was held June 3, 1936, upon a petition of the Selectmen of Truro for
the construction of stone jetties on the shore of Cape Cod Bay at Pilgrim Beach.

On Aug. 26, 1936, a contract was made with George M. Bryne to build three
stone jetties on the shore of Pilgrim Beach at a contract price of $4.73 for each
ton of 2,000 pounds of granite stone riprap and granite chips furnished and placed
in the completed work. This project was completed Nov. 11, 1936, at a contract
cost of $3,796.06. Toward this cost contributions of $1,000 each were made by
the town and the county.

Vineyard Haven Harbor, Tisbury

Hearing was held Jan. 23, 1936, upon a petition of the Selectmen of Tisbury for
dredging in Vineyard Haven Harbor in extension of the work to be carried out by
the Federal Government.

The dredging requested is to be done as a P.W.A. project toward the cost of
which a contribution of 45% is to be made by the Federal Government.

Waquoit Bay, Falmouth

Hearing was held Jan. 23, 1936, upon a petition of Charles L. Swift for dredging
and the construction of a jetty at Waquoit Bay.

On Oct. 27, 1936, a contract was made with Frederick V. Lawrecne to build a
stone jetty on the westerly side of the entrance to Waquoit Bay at a contract price
of $3.24 for each ton of heavy stone riprap and stone chips furnished and placed
in the completed work. Toward the cost of this work a contribution of $10,000
has been made by the town of Falmouth.

West Chop, Tisbury

In May a request was received by the Department for the extension of the
protective work recently carried out at West Chop. An investigation by the
engineer showed a considerable erosion taking place westerly of the protection
already provided.

A contract was made on Nov. 25, 1936, with Frederick V. Lawrence to place
riprap along the bank at a contract price of $5.10 for each ton of 2,000 pounds of
stone riprap or chips furnished in place in the completed work. Toward the cost
of this project a contribution of $1,000 has been made by the town and contribu-
tions amounting to $2,000 by the owners of property involved.

West Falmouth Harbor, Falmouth

The work of dredging a channel in West Falmouth Harbor under contract of
May 21, 1935, with Herbert T. Gerrish was completed June 1, 1936. Toward the
cost of the work a contribution of $5,000 was made by the town of Falmouth.

During the progress of the dredging certain old piles and timber debris from the
wreckage of the timber breakwater at West Falmouth Harbor, were found ob-
structing the entrance channel and were deposited by the contractor upon the
beach at Chappaquoit Island. In response to complaints from the owners of the
property a letter contract was made on May 19, 1936, with Arthur C. Burke for
removal of the debris. This work was completed May 31, 1936, at a contract
cost of $35.

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Witchmeee Harbor, Harwich

Hearing was held Jan. 23, 1936, upon a petition of the Selectmen of Harwich for
dredging the entrance to Witchmere Harbor.

A letter contract was made on July 2, 1936, with Herbert T. Gerrish for dredging
about 4,000 cubic yards of material from the entrance channel to Witchmere
Harbor at a contract price of 67 cents per cubic yard, including the disposal of
material along the shore on the east side of the easterly jetty. This work was
completed Oct. 14, 1936, at a contract cost of $2,680. Toward this cost a contribu-
tion of $1,500 was made by the town of Harwich.

At the request of the Selectmen the Department in October authorized a survey
to determine the cost of extending the jetty at Witchmere Harbor and of dredging
westerly of the extension.

Yarmouth Shore Protection
A contract was made on Oct. 6, 1936, with J. W. Nickerson for placing about
1,575 tons of heavy stone riprap and about 425 tons of stone chips along the shore
at South Yarmouth Beach, at a contract price of $2.99 for each ton of stone riprap
and stone chips furnished and placed in the completed work. This project is now
in progress. Toward the cost of this protection of the shore contributions of $2,000
each have been made by the town and the county.

Miscellaneous

Great Ponds

Jurisdiction over great ponds belonging to the Commonwealth was conferred
upon the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners by Chapter 318 of the Acts of
1888. This act applies to ponds containing in their natural state ten or more acres
of land. Authority to sell and convey or lease, subject to the approval of the
Governor and Council, any of the islands owned by the State in great ponds was
later given by Chapter 379 of the Acts of 1904, now section 2 of Chapter 91 of the
General Laws.

During the year the Department has considered matters relating to: Bensons
Pond, Middleborough; Benton Pond, Otis; Blackmore's Pond, Wareham; Cedar
Dell Pond, South Dartmouth; Farm Pond, Sherborn; Great Pond, Otis; Lake
Archer, Wrentham; Lake Pearl, Wrentham; Lake Winthrop, Holliston; Laurel Lake,
Lee; Lead Mine Pond or Quassac Lake, Sturbridge; Manchaug Lake, Douglas;
Onota Lake, Pittsfield; Turkey Hill Lake, Rutland; Wolomolopog Pond, Sharon.

Surveys were made this year of the following great ponds:

White Pond, Chatham
Area at time of survey . . . . . 39 . 98 acres
Natural pond area . . . . . 39 . 98 acres

Prospect Lake, Egremont
Area at time of survey . . . . . 59 . 57 acres

Natural pond area . . . . . 38 . 85 acres

Water level of this lake is controlled by dam at the outlet.

Access to Great Ponds

During the year two petitions have been received, each signed by ten citizens
of the Commonwealth requesting the establishment of a right of way for public
access, one to Three Mile Pond, or Brush Hill Pond, in the town of Sheffield,
and the other to White Pond in the town of Chatham. As surveys of these ponds
appear necessary before public hearing is held, no further action has yet been taken.

Benson's Pond, Middleborough
On Oct. 13, 1931, the Department, acting under the provisions of Chapter 243
of the Acts of that year, executed a deed to George A. Cowen conveying to him
all the right, title and interest of the Commonwealth in Benson's Pond. This
deed was approved by the Governor and Council on Oct. 21, 1931.

102 P. D. 54

The conveyance provided that the work shown upon the plan submitted by
Mr. Cowen should be carried out within five years, and that unless the draining
and developing of the entire pond area for cranberry culture is completed within
that period, all right, title and interest in the propertjr shall revert to the Common-
wealth.

George A. Cowen was unable to do the work required within the stated period
and before the expiration of the deed asked that further time be granted for com-
pletion of the project. A deed has, accordingly, been given, with the approval of
the Governor and Council, requiring the completion of the work within five years
from Oct. 21, 1936.

Peovince Lands

The territory belonging to the Commonwealth known as the Province Lands at
Provincetown comprises about 3,810 acres lying northerly and westerly of a line
described in Chapter 470 of the Acts of 1893. By the terms of this act the Board
of Harbor and Land Commissioners was given general care and supervision of
this area.

Reclamation work under the direction of a superintendent has been carried on
since 1894. The movement of sand has been checked in recent years by covering
the dunes with brush which affords enough protection for the natural re-seeding
of beach grass. This work is followed by the transplanting of shrubs and trees.
Bayberry has been found very valuable for this purpose, particularly along the
top of the slopes of the dunes.

During the year work has been carried on in accordance with these methods.
About five acres of sand dunes have been covered with brush, 10,000 native pitch
pine trees have been transplanted and 80,000 Scotch pine and 200 bayberry shrubs
planted.

About nine acres of forest area, previously burned, have been cleared of dead
trees and brush to reduce the fire hazard and provide for the new growth.

The work of destroying the brown tail and gypsy moths upon these lands has
been continued during the year.

The sand dike at Race Run has been repaired, parking areas kept in condition,
about 200 feet of rustic fence built along the beach near Wood End Light, one mile
of combination fire stop and truck trail constructed with sand piles at intervals
along the way, and water holes established last year have been deepened.

The sum of $177 has been paid into the State Treasury during the year from
licenses issued for cultivating and picking cranberries on the bogs and for mowing
meadows and from permits for occupying areas on these lands.

State Boundary Lines
During the year sections of the New York-Massachusetts boundary line, which
were found badly overgrown with brush during the perambulation made in 1935,
were again examined and several miles of brush cleared from the line to permit
easier access for future examinations.

Town Boundary Lines

During the year ranges were set for the exterior line of the town of Wellfleet to
define the boundary line of the town in tide water. A survey has been made of a
portion of the Andover-North Reading boundary line and one bound stone re-set.

The boundary line in the tide waters of Lagoon Pond between the towns of Oak
Bluffs and Tisbury was re-established by Chapter 145 of the Acts of 1935, and
marked in that year. At the request of the Selectmen of Tisbury the positions of
the buoys set in 1935 were checked again in 1936.

Conserving and Equalizing the Flow of Water in Rivers and Streams
By Chapter 359 of the Acts of 1909, Chapter 564 of the Acts of 1912, and Chapter
84 of the Resolves of 1917, co-operation was established between the Common-
wealth and the Water Resources Branch of the United States Geological Survey,
so that results of work relating to the gauging of streams within the Commonwealth
and other work of a similar character carried on by the said survey have been
obtained for use by the Department and are available for other Departments of

P. D. 54 103

the Commonwealth. Toward the cost of this work the Department has paid
during the year, $5,000.

Re-establishment op Certain Triangulation Stations
By section 33 of Chapter 91 of the General Laws, the Department is authorized
to make such surveys and to do such other work as may be required by any order
of the Land Court, to re-establish and permanently mark certain triangulation
points and stations previously established in connection with the topographical
survey of the Commonwealth, and the town boundary survey, which have been
lost or destroyed, and to obtain the geographical position of such new points and
stations as may be required from time to time by the Court.

During the year several miles of base line were run on the island of Nantucket
by survey parties operating under the provisions of the W.P.A. The funds pro-
vided for re-establishing triangulation points were used to meet the expenses of
these survey parties.

Licenses and Permits
During the year 101 licenses were granted for work to be done in tide waters,
great ponds, Connecticut River and Merrimack River and 154 permits for miscel-
laneous purposes. The Department also approved 97 permits granted by cities
and towns for the construction and maintenance of fish weirs in tide water.

104 P. D. 54

expenditukes for development and improvement in boston harbor
1859-1936, Inclusive

Payments
Boston Harbor: .

Maintenance of Property

Dredging and Filling

Special Appropriations
Commonwealth Flats :

East Boston

South Boston .
Castle Island:

Dredging and Filling
Commonwealth Pier No. 5: South
Boston :

Construction ....

Maintenance ....

Dredging ....

Operation and Supervision .

Commonwealth Pier No. 1: East
Boston :
Construction ....
Operation and Supervision
Maintenance ....

Commonwealth Pier No. 6: South
Boston :
Construction
Maintenance

Dry Dock .

Hayward Creek

Mystic River

Maiden River

Chelsea Creek

Commercial Point — Dorchester Bay

Maintenance of Property (in addi-
tion to maintenance items listed
above) .....

To Nov. 30, 1935
$1,775,443 46 <

1936

$25,268 81
101,254 13

3,093.326 83 2
4,892,123 69
749,734 74

4,014,790 45

883,966 38

61,323 75

1,942,849 01

1,199,703 23

127,987 12

37,037 36

1,092,149 06

51,937 90

3,169,651 15 3

385,979 61 <

514,026 75 5

33,002 84 6

61,094 35

53,213 10

Total

$1,901,966 40

3,093,326 83
4,892,123 69

3,196 72 752,931 46

204,750 00i

419,784 93

78,301 19

130,449 19

2,206 66

51 08

4,014,790 45

1,508,501 31

139,624 94

2,073,298 20

1,199,703 23

130,193 78

37,037 36

1,092,149 06

51,937 90

3,169,651 15

385,979 61

514,026 75 7

33,002 84

61,145 43

53,213 10

453,089 00 34,327 24 487,416 24

$24,592,429 78 $999,589 95 $25,592,019 73

1 Expenditure includes contribution by Quincy Market Cold Storage and Warehouse Corpo-

ration in 1921 .............

Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in 1930 ........

2 Expenditure includes contribution by the City of Boston in 1926, authorized by Chapter 385,

Acts of 1926

3 Additional amount paid by the State Treasurer from Development of the Port of Boston Loan

Sinking Fund in settlement of claims .........

4 Expenditures include contributions by Massachusetts Oil Refining Company and Bethlehem

Shipbuilding Corporation ...........

Additional amount paid by State Treasurer for land taking .....

5 Expenditure includes contribution by Merrimac Chemical Company in 1920

in 1922

• Commonwealth's funds expended by the United States Government ....

Contribution by Standard Oil Company of New York in 1922, expended by the
Commonwealth .............

7 Expenditure includes transfer from Small Harbors and Channels Table ....

8 United States Government contribution.

84,000 00
10,000 00

10,000

17,877

38,600
3,725

15,000
4,812

31,000

600

5,927

P. D. 54 105

Expenditures and Contributions for Improvement of Small Harbors and
Channels within Boston Harbor, under the Direction of the Department
of Public Works and its Predecessors, from 1893 to 1936 Inclusive

Locality and Character
of Work

Cottage Park Channel, Win-
throp — Dredging

Dorchester, Easterly Shore —
Dredging and Survey

Harbor View — Dredging

Hingham Harbor — Dredging .

Houghs Neck, Quincy —
Dredging, Survey and Sea-
wall ....

Island End River, Everett —
Survey ....

Jeffries Point Channel —
Dredging

Mystic River (near Lawrence
and Wiggin Wharf) — Dredg-
ing *

Neponset River — Dredging .

Old Harbor Cove — Dredging.

Orient Heights Channel —
Dredging

Pemberton Point, Hull —
Breakwater

Pleasant Park Yacht Club
Channel — Dredging .

Point Allerton, Hull — Seawall

Point Shirley, Winthrop

Quincy Bay — Dredging

Shirley Gut, Boston and Win-
throp— Dredging

South Boston, Southerly Shore
— Dredging

Stony Beach, Hull — Seawall
and riprap

Town River, Quincy — Survey
and Dredging .

Weir River, Hull — Dredging .

Wessagusett Channel — Dredg-
ing

Weymouth Fore River —
Dredging

Winthrop Harbor Channels — ■
Dredging

Contri-
butions
1936

Total
Contri-
butions

Expendi-
tures
1936

Total
Expendi-
tures

S4,000 00

$10,250 00

$16,974 99

$54,942 28

—

1,000 00

—

210,767 61
146 00

—

6,500 00

—

41,595 12

—

7,500 00

18,964 79

74,130 48

—

264 10

—

4,563 93

—

10,000 00

109,401 63
10,520 48

—

45,412 38

—

60,000 00

—

91,195 01

6,187 50

9,187 50
50,000 00

10,150 00

26,399 22
104 52

75,134 61

75,127 05

3,713 37

84,266 99

—

2,432 34

—

129,542 08

—

8,000 00

—

28,658 05

—

16,050 00
45,000 00

8,481 97

116,760 66
205,336 48

—

815 20

—

8,250 00

48,918 77

119,025 39

—

20,567 00

—

91,169 11

$10,187 50 $262,454 50 $119,844 26 $1,574,920 35

Expenditures and Contributions for River and Harbor Work
From December 1, 1935 to November 30, 1936

Locations and Character of Work
Allen's Harbor, Harwich — Survey and Dredging
Barlow's River, Pocasset Harbor, Bourne Survey
Cape Cod Canal Pier — Construction
Cape Cod Canal Pier — Operation and maintenance

Contributions Expenditures

— $5,193 60

— 89 03
34,663 77

— 4,615 41

1 See Mystic River under Boston Harbor Table.

106

Locations and Character of Work

Centerville River ....

Connecticut River, Chicopee, W.P.A.

Connecticut River — Surveys

Connecticut River — Deerfield, W.P.A.

Connecticut River — Hadley, W.P.A.

Connecticut River — Hatfield, W.P.A.

Connecticut River — Montague, W.P.A.

Connecticut River — Northfield, W.P.A.

Connecticut River — Northampton, W.P.A

Connecticut River — South Hadley, W.P.A

Connecticut River — Springfield and West Spring
field, W.P.A. ...

Connecticut River — Sunderland, W.P.A. .

Dennisport ......

East Bay, Osterville and Barnstable .

Ellisville Harbor, Plymouth

Fall River Harbor .....

Falmouth Inner Harbor, Falmouth

Old Silver Beach, Herring River — Falmouth

West Falmouth Harbor, Falmouth

Wild Harbor, Falmouth ....

Falmouth (opposite Shore Street)

Gloucester Fish Pier

Great Ponds .

Gun Rock Point, Hull

Harwich port Beach

Herring River, Harwich

Hyannisport (Squaw Island Road) Barnstable

Lewis Bay (Hyannis) Barnstable

Manchester Harbor, Manchester

Marine Borer Investigations

Manomet Point Plymouth

Megansett Harbor, Bourne and Falmouth

Menamsha Inlet .....

Nantucket (Hither Creek)

New Bedford State Pier, Operation .

New Bedford State Pier, Construction and Dredg-
ing

Oak Bluffs, Sea Wall, bulkhead and jetties

Onset Bay, Wareham

Plymouth Harbor .

Plymouth Memorial Park, dredging and mainte-
nance .....

Popponessett Bay, Barnstable - Mashpee

Province Lands ....

Provincetown Harbor

Rock Harbor, Orleans

Roughan's Point, Revere

Blackwater Creek, Salisbury

Saugus River, Lynn-Saugus

Scituate Harbor, Scituate

North Scituate, Surfside .

Smith's Cove, Gloucester

South Hyannis, Barnstable

South Pier, Marshfield and Scituate .

South Yarmouth Beach, Yarmouth .

Taunton River, Taunton

Inspection Tidewater Structures outside Boston
Harbor .......

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Contributions Expenditures
49 03

4,258 14

3,209 74
250 96
851 06
415 59

1,121 49
362 07
631 76

4,538 12

$1,200 00
9,000 00

547 00

1,500 00

4,400 00

20,000 00

12,000 00

5,000 00

1,000 00
42,500 00

4,000 00

1.981 75

287 90

2,047 25

6,663 83

156 00

361 30

10,696 76

37 73

12,146 32

30 00

1,711 60

847 15

449 18
870 39

3,029 61

1,642 98

4,748 31

12,886 20

10,747 73

46,970 01

567 35

450 00
188 94

29,288 21
11,319 43
12,483 95

5,613 05

13,572 24

$63,360 60

15,656 53

14,109 26

376 50

4,993 60

20,375 76

3,220 16

968 70
13,820 14

783 15
12,439 00

292 69
22,968 03
15,550 50

281 11
1,672 26

238 71

1,213 89

P. D. 54

Locality and Character of Work
North Truro .....
Pilgrim Beach ....

Waquoit Bay, Falmouth and Mashpee
Water Conservation . .

West Chop, Tisbury
Witchmere Harbor, Harwich
Engineering Unclassified .

107

Contributions Expenditures

2,000 00
10,000 00

1,500 00

3,902 15
1,803 60
5,000 00
136 75
2,583 19
11,707 80

$114,647 00

$470,077 02

Expenditures and Contributions from 1893 to 1936, Inclusive, for River
and Harbor Work, under the Direction of the Department of Public
Works and its Predecessors (Excepting Boston Harbor)

Contribution by

Location and Character of Work
Acushnet Harbor, inspection and dredging
Aliens Harbor, Harwich, shore protection, dredg

ing, riprap and jetties ....
Aliens Pond, Dartmouth, survey
Angle Tree Monument (Reservation)
Annisquam River, Gloucester, dredging, removing

ledges and riprap
Apponagansett Harbor and River, Dartmouth

survey, dredging and stone breakwater
Barlows River, Pocasset Harbor, Bourne
Barnstable Harbor, Barnstable, dredging
Bass River, Beverly, dredging .
Bass River, Dennis and Yarmouth, jetties, dredg-
ing and survey .....
Beach Street, Scituate — see Scituate
Beverly Harbor, Beverly, dredging .
Brant Rock, Marshfield, shore protection .
Brewster, Skaket Inlet, survey .
Buck's Creek, Chatham, jetties, survey,

dredging ......

Buzzards Bay, Falmouth, survey

Cape Cod Canal Pier, Bourne, construction

Cape Cod Canal Pier, Bourne, operation

maintenance .....

Cape Poge, Edgartown, cut through beach, dredg

ing, jetties, and riprap ....
Cataumet Harbor — see Megansett Harbor
Cedar Point, Scituate — see Scituate .
Centerville River, Barnstable, dredging
Chatham, riprap and surveys .
Cohasset Harbor, Cohasset, breakwater

dredging ......

Concord River, Billerica, removing boulders
Connecticut River, Agawam, protective work
Connecticut River, Chicopee, survey, wall, and

riprap .....

Connecticut River, Deerfield, survey, wall and

riprap .....

Connecticut River, investigation of navigation

and surveys .....

Connecticut River, Greenfield survey and riprap

and

Municipality
or Others

),927 50

Total

Expenditure

$119,810 10

56,571 97

195 95

1,306 22

13,250 00 171,498 69

7,500 00
57,535 75

111,503 66

2,500 00

16,500 00

19,711 50
10,500 00

42,691 88
150 00

640 00

55,786 05

296 82

30,693 16

84,953 51

25,095 00 192,092 22

50,000 00i
231,026 89
617 19

39,719 69

166 11

298,930 99

15,640 59

60,636 03 2

44,378 80
19,853 19

116,191 93

1,664 59

18,814 42

30,047 16

1,478 27

12,088 70
1,607 76

1 State funds expended under direction of United States Government.

2 S17, 543.96 expended from United States Government funds (Emergency P.W.A.).

108

Location and Character of Work
Connecticut River, Hadley, survey, diversion wall

and riprap ....
Connecticut River, Hatfield, dikes and riprap
Connecticut River, Holyoke, dredging and pro

tective work .....

Connecticut River, Holyoke, marking and lighting

old piers ....

Connecticut River, Montague .
Connecticut River, Northfield, survey and pro

tective work ....

Connecticut River, Northampton, riprap .
Connecticut River, Northampton, riprap .
Connecticut River, South Hadley, wall
Connecticut River, Springfield and West Spring

field, protective work ....
Connecticut River, Sunderland
Conservation of Waters, investigation
Cotuit Harbor, Barnstable, dredging, survey and

bulkhead repairs ......

Cuttyhunk Harbor, Gosnold, jetties and dredging
Deacon Pond Harbor — see Falmouth Inner Harbor
Dennis :

Dennisport, stone jetty

Nobscusset Harbor, breakwater and riprap

North Dennis stone jetty

Swan Pond River, stone jetties

West Dennis, stone jetty and survey
Duxbury Bay and Harbor, dredging and survey
East Bay, Osterville, jetties, dredging and remov

ing scows .......

Edgartown Harbor, Edgartown, survey and cut in

beach .......

Ellisville Harbor, Plymouth, dredging and jetty

repairs
Essex County Beaches, survey ....
Essex River, Essex, dredging ....
Fall River Harbor, improvement
Falmouth, Great Pond, channel excavation and

jetty

Falmouth Heights, Falmouth, survey, sea wall and

riprap . . . . ...

Falmouth Inner Harbor, dredging, jetties, wall

and riprap . . .

Falmouth, Menauhant Shore, bulkheads, jetties,

and riprap .......

Falmouth, Old Silver Beach (Herring River)

stone jetty .......

Falmouth (opposite Shore Street)
First and Second Cliffs, Scituate — see Scituate
Fresh Water Cove, Gloucester, dredging .
Gay Head, survey ......

Geological Survey Trust Fund ....

Glades, North Scituate — see Scituate
Gloucester Fish Pier .....

s From 1888, inclusive.

4 This location is now part of Holyoke.

0 From 1891, inclusive.

7 Transferred $2,603.37 from Nobscusset Harbor, Dennis.

• Includes $5,000.00 expended by United States Government.

Contribution by

Municipality

or Others

$7,000 00
1,000 00

1,991 29

1,000 00

17,845 10
10,000 00

2,400 00
6,710 00
1,200 00
1,750 00
750 00
35,000 00

19,000 00

300 00

5,000 00
23,460 04
33,500 00

3,100 00

2,000 00
1,500 00

3,300 00

3,000 00

P. D. 54

Total
Expenditure

125,447 60S
51,984 07

9,253 27

1,195 32
1,121 49

14,630 73
1,524 20 *
1,249 13

11,917 70

16,999 60 s

287 90
98,764 54

92,828 26
83,935 78

4,362 72
48,564 29
4,819 70 7
3,906 74
1,709 03
109,104 31

77,633 58

3,496 64

$21,264 64
1,000 00
76,304 33 6
1,491 48

10,508 89

73,351 19

164,976 39

6,075 33

3,107 03
1,711 60

17,477 53

555 42

3,000 00

1,244 06

P. D. 54

Location and Character of Work
Gloucester, Western Avenue, sea wall
Gloucester Harbor, Gloucester, dredging and

removing ledges ......

Great Head, Winthrop — see Winthrop Shore
Great Ponds, survey .....

Green Harbor, Marshfield, jetties, dredging and

survey .- .

Gun Rock Point, Hull, breakwater and sea wall

repairs .......

Harbor Cove, Gloucester, survey and dredging .
Harwichport Beach, Harwich, shore protection .
Harwich Shore near Chatham Line, stone jetty .
Harwich Shore, Chatham to Dennis, survey
Herring Creek, Scituate .....

Herring River, Harwich, jetties, dredging and

riprap .......

Herring River, Wellfleet

Hoosac River, North Adams, excavation and

survey .......

Housatonic River. Sheffield, survey .

Hull, seawall and jetties .....

Humarock Beach, Scituate — see Scituate .
Hyannis Harbor, Barnstable, bulkhead, dredging

and riprap .......

Hyannisport, Squaw Island Road, Barnstable
Hyannisport, Barnstable, survey and breakwater
Hyannisport, Halls Creek, Barnstable survey
Improvement of Rivers and Harbors, general

expenses .......

Ipswich River, Ipswich, jetty wall, riprap and

dredging .......

Kings Beach, Swampscott, removal of obstruction
Lagoon Pond, Tisbury and Oak Bluffs, survey,

dredging, and jetty .....
Lake Anthony, Oak Bluffs, survey, dredging and

jetties ......

Lake Quannapowitt, Wakefield, investigation

Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester, investigation

Lake Tashmoo, Tisbury, survey

Lewis Bay, Barnstable, survey, and dredging

Little Harbor, Cohasset, survey

Little Harbor, Marblehead, dredging

Little Harbor, Gloucester, survey

Lobster Cove, Gloucester, dredging .

Long Beach, Rockport, seawall .

Lynn Harbor, Lynn, anchorage basin, survey, and

dredging .......

Lynn Harbor and Saugus River, dredging and

filling .
Manchester Harbor, Manchester, survey, jetties

and dredging
Manomet Point, Plymouth, riprap and fill
Marine Borer Investigations
Marshfield-Duxbury, survey
Mattapoisett Harbor, survey .
Megansett Harbor, Bourne and Falmouth, dredg

ing

109

Contribution by
Municipality Total

or Others Expenditure
35,000 00 60,000 00

15,000 00

16,135 41

3,866 00

10,400 00

350 00

38,300 00
10,000 00

8,882 06

21,750 00

2,700 00

20,500 00

3,800 00

13,500 00
16,000 00

18,809 29

500 00

2,500 00

4,500 00
27,700 00

5,200 00

37,500 00

103,000 00
7,250 00

25,330 00

148,802 79
30,983 49

42,500 00 167,361 13

78,809 72

25,155 04

12,418 68

1,206 75

2,040 01

253 76

138,312 20
44,714 55

$21,271 67

2,011 29

42,093 96

45,582 46

5,398 43

101,465 33

112 00

85,604 04

60,087 07

166 41

26,075 99

111,457 28

345 32

1,760 56

432 88

77,622 06

1,476 77

11,166 16

862 93

61,603 36

57,306 56

121,609 22

165,932 29

254,551 76

14,370 20

1,322 78

358 61

255 48

53,648 78

110

Location and Character of Work
Menamsha Inlet Chilmark and Gay Head, jetties,

dredging, seawall and riprap
Merrimack River investigation
Merrimack River Mouth, Newburyport, survey
Mill River, Gloucester ....
Mitchells River, Chatham
Monument Beach, Bourne, survey
Nahant, survey and riprap
Namequoit River and Pleasant Bay, Chatham

dredging ......

Nantucket Harbor, dredging

Nantucket, Hither Creek, survey and dredging

Nantucket, survey of Sesachacha Pond

Nauset Harbor and Town Cove, Orleans, dredging

New Bedford Harbor, dredging

New Bedford State Pier, shed, dredging, repairs

and alterations .....
New Bedford State Pier, operation and mainte

nance .....

Newburyport Harbor, survey .
Nobscusset Harbor, Dennis — see Dennis
North Dennis — see Dennis
North River, Marshfield, survey and removing

rocks .......

North River, Salem, survey

North Scituate — see Scituate-

Oak Bluffs, removing rocks

Oak Bluffs, seawalls, bulkhead and jetties .

Ocean Grove, Swansea, survey

Onset Bay, Wareham, survey and dredging

Orleans, survey .....

Palmers Pond, Falmouth, survey

Pamet River, Truro, survey, dredging, and re

pairing jetties .....
Paskamansett River, Dartmouth, dredging and

jetty

Penikese Island, Gosnold, pile wharf and survey
Pines River, Revere and Saugus, survey
Pleasant Bay, Chatham, dredging
Plum Island River, Newbury and Newburyport

survey ......

Plymouth Harbor, dredging and removing old

piling .... . .

Plymouth Memorial Park, dredging and mainte

nance ......

Point Shirley, Winthrop — see Winthrop Shore
Poponessett Bay, Barnstable and Mashpee, dredg-
ing _

Powow River, Amesbury, dredging channel and

riprapping wall .....
Province Lands, Provincetown, reclamation
Provincetown Harbor, shore protection
Quamquisset Harbor, Falmouth, survey
Quanset Harbor, Orleans, survey and dredging
Red Brook Harbor, Bourne, removing pier
Revere, stone breakwater

s Paid by Surety Company.

9 $57,000 expended under direction of United States Government.

Contribution by

Municipality

or Others

2,700 00

300 00

6,000 00

15,000 00

6,250 00

5,000 00

2,000 00
13,446 748

1,800 00

60,000 00
1,000 00

P. D. 54

Total
Expenditure

183,282 92

1,208 50

111 87

24,899 59

23,113 92

326 40

30,177 19

31,943 68
58,982 52
11,539 88
110 66
10,671 24
18,856 57

568,547 24

102,055 94
115 97

8,658 75
719 45

594 95
174,329 48
143 23
79,227 15
104 18
358 76

1,200 00 198,429 21

5,227 68

5,192 95

904 80

600 00 2,364 33

983 31

92,794 55 9 368,417 27

100,828 52

5,000 00

46,628 83

—

502 94

—

181,270 41

2,575 00

65,678 75

—

710 31

500 00

2,194 50

—

275 00

—

60,397 93

P. D. 54

Location and Character of Work

Rock Harbor, Orleans, timber bulkhead platform
and dredging ......

Rockport Harbor, Rockport, dredging, and re-
moving rocks ......

Roughans Point, Revere .....

Sagamore Beach, Bourne, stone jetties, and riprap

Salem Harbor, Salem, survey .

Salisbury Beach, survey .....

Salisbury, Black Water Creek ....

Salt Pond River, Eastham, survey

Salters Point, Dartmouth, breakwater

Sand Hills, Scituate — see Scituate

Sandwich Harbor, Sandwich, dredging channel,
riprap and jetties .....

Saugus River, Lynn and Saugus, survey and
dredging ......

Scituate, shore protection

Beach Street, Scituate, wall and breakwater
Cedar Point, Scituate, wall and breakwater
First and Second Cliffs, Scituate wall and riprap
Glades, North Scituate, filling and riprap
Humarock Beach, Scituate, survey wall and
jetties ......

North Scituate, Surf side, seawall jetties and
riprap ......

Sand Hills, Scituate, survey, wall, and jetties
Third Cliff, Scituate, riprap and survey .
General Surveys at Scituate .
Shore Acres, Scituate, riprap
Sand Hills to Shore Acres, seawall, jetties, and
riprap ......

Scituate Harbor, dredging and surveys

Scorton Harbor, Sandwich, jetty and dredging

Seapuit River, Barnstable, dredging .

Sengekontacket Pond, Oak Bluffs, survey .

Sesuit Harbor, Dennis, jetty

Shirley Gut, Winthrop, survey

Singing Beach, Manchester, survey and riprap

Sippican Harbor, Marion, survey

Smiths Cove, Gloucester, survey and dredging

South Harwich, stone jetties and riprap

South Hyannis, Barnstable, survey, seawall and
jetties ......

South River, Marshfield and Scituate, survey

South River, Salem, dredging .

South Watuppa Pond, Fall River, fenders and
excavation ......

South Yarmouth Beach, Yarmouth, jetties .

Stage Harbor, Chatham, dikes and survey

Stream Gauging — see Conservation of Waters

Swampscott, survey ....

Swan Pond River, Dennis — see Dennis

Taunton-Brockton, waterway investigation

Taunton River, survey and dredging

Taunton River, Boston Harbor Canal, survey

Taunton River, Massachusetts Bay Canal, survey

Tidewater Structures, Outside Boston Harbor,
inspection .......

Ill

Contribution by
Municipality Total
or Others Expenditure

11,400 00

4,750 00

42,500 00

5,000 00

4,500 00

2,000 00
75,000 00
17,333 52
21,446 64

2,797 92
13,250 78

37,816 38

2,194 68

6,011 26

75,193 10

53,300 00

500 00

13,000 00

1,500 00

7,562 50

3,875 00
2,500 00

7,987 34

3,000 00

9,000 00

42,500 00

40,973 93

32,945 41
1,219 35

10,591 83
1,509 92
5,051 52

13,820 14
210 11

42,939 57

80,579 84

21,638 76

34,782 50
41,298 70
19,553 12
40,164 61

83,583 74

34,704 89

38,170 07

139,384 98

543 73

20,488 98

33,490 52

229,942 61

17,774 34

25,110 95

329 28
24,555 10

201 06
12,732 92

615 66

52,752 34

5,351 97

15,591 65

1,005 96

13,462 66

203 42
10,153 12
14,901 80

103 46

5,278 18
31,800 66

9,932 75
11,786 71

1,213 89

112

Location and Character of Work

Truro Beach, survey .....

Truro, Pilgrim Beach, jetties ....

Vineyard Haven Harbor, Tisbury, breakwater
and dredging ......

Vineyard Haven Harbor, repairing seawalls

Waquoit Bay, Falmouth, breakwater, wall, bulk-
head and dredging .....

Wareham River, Wareham, survey and dredging.

Warrens Cove, Plymouth, sea wall and survey .

Watch Hill, Chatham, survey and riprap .

Water Conservation — see Conservation of Waters

Wellfleet Harbor, Wellfleet, survey and dredging .

West Bay, Barnstable and Osterville, dredging,
jetties and riprap ......

West Chop, Tisbury, stone jetties

West Dennis Beach — see Dennis

West Falmouth Harbor, Falmouth, surveys,
dredging and breakwater ....

West Harwich Beach, Harwich, shore protection

Western Avenue Seawall, Gloucester — see
Gloucester

Westfield River, Westfield, survey and jetties .

Westport Harbor, Westport, jetty extension and
repairs .......

Westport River, Westport ....

Wild Harbor, Falmouth, jetty and dredging

Winthrop Shore, Winthrop, seawalls and protec-
tion . . .

Wychmere Harbor, Harwich, jetties and dredging

Woods Hole, Great Harbor, Falmouth, dredging

Wrecks, removal from tide water

Yarmouthport Harbor, survey and dredging

Contribution by

Municipality

or Others

2,000 00

1,000 00
2,380 50

27,500 00

5,000 00

15,213 98

1,500 00

17,216 35
6,500 00

24,520 75
6,400 00

P. D. 54

Total
Expenditure
71 74
3,902 15

45,518 25
11,945 01

109,531 19
42,567 93
38,412 87
14,968 75

17,600 29

120,337 08
13,182 28

81,253 37
27,242 50

6,037 29

15,000 00

81,500 00

5 8,000 00

1,500 00

7,000 00

21,928 88

476 70

55,158 66

341,698 89

72,611 10

6,968 86

21,803 04

95,977 37

$1,904,601 47

$9,580,608 05

Federal Appropriations and Expenditures

Federal appropriations and expenditures for improvement of rivers and harbors
in Massachusetts from the establishment of the government to the close of the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, are shown in the following tables furnished by
the Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army: —

Table No. 1 — Localities at Present Under Improvement

Locality
Gloucester Harbor and Annisquam River
Lynn Harbor .....
Boston Harbor ....

Plymouth Harbor ....
Cape Cod Canal ....
Operating and Care, Cape Cod Canal
Pollock Rip Shoals, Nantucket Sound
Cross Rip Shoals, Nantucket Sound .
New Bedford and Fairhaven Harbor
Fall River Harbor ....
Taunton River ....
Newburyport Harbor

1 Exclusive of $108,400 contributed funds.

Expenditures

$559,237 45

814,750 77

14,938,270 43

511,253 36

22,944,516 44

1,878,842 83

1,507,693 53

48,837 20

1,812,363 00

790,149 49

383,838 10

513,807 22

Appropriations

$591,671 55

814,750 77

15,829,709 34

511,881 35i

28,076,797 80

1,878,842 83

1,527,029 26

48,837 20

1,836,847 42

790,149 49

383,838 10

671,708 13

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Locality
Mystic River ....
Weymouth Fore River
Harbor of Refuge at Nantucket

Total . . . .

Expenditures
530,474 94
641,150 00
733,636 52

113

Appropriations
781,684 84
915,150 00 2
809,082 83

$48,608,821 28 $55,467,980 91

2 Exclusive of $100,000 contributed funds.

Table No. 2 — Localities in Which Work is Not Now in Progress

Locality
Merrimack River ....
Maiden River ....

Sandy Bay, Cape Ann, Harbor of Refuge
Bass River .....
Buzzards Bay Harbor (Weepecket Rock)
Canapitset Channel
Chatham Harbor ....
Cohasset Harbor ....
Duxbury Harbor ....
East Dennis Breakwater (Barnstable Bay)
Edgartown Harbor (Martha's Vineyard)
Essex River .
Hingham Harbor
Hyannis Harbor
Ipswich River
Kingston Harbor
Little Harbor, Woods Hole
Manchester Harbor
Marblehead Harbor
Powow River .
Rockport Harbor
Town River .
Vineyard Haven Harbor .
Wareham Harbor .
Wellfleet Harbor .
Westport Harbor and River
Winthrop Harbor .
Woods Hole Channel
Beverly Harbor
Salem Harbor

Dorchester Bay and Neponset River
Weymouth Back River
Scituate Harbor
Provincetown Harbor

Total ....

1 Exclusive of $62,000 contributed funds.

2 Project abandoned in 1930.

3 Project abandoned in 1905.

4 Exclusive of $100,000 contributed funds.

Expenditures

$404,466 72

149,950 00

1,941,478 00

20,150 41

2,500 00

9,112 54

12,171 36

10,000 00

37,000 00

7 57

30,000 00

38,316 58

221,787 75

5,617 91

8,940 09

18,000 00

23,985 57

833 42

50,940 72

91,229 25

37,577 41

55,387 35

95,997 30

11,365 57

3,000 00

9,000 00

343,599 92

246,690 41

107,956 57

128,176 44

27,000 00

126,590 98

348,062 72

Appropriations

$404,466 72

149,950 00 i

1,941,478 00

20,150 41 2

2,500 00

9,800 00

13,732 79

10,000 00

37,000 00

1,500 00

30,000 00

38,316 58

221,267 07

5,617 91

10,000 00

18,000 00

23,985 57

1,900 00

51,000 00 s

91,229 25

37,577 41

55,387 35

96,236 00

16,000 00

3,000 00

9,000 00

344,000 00

246,690 41 «

107,956 57

128,176 44

27,000 00

126,590 98

348,062 72

$4,646,892 56 $4,657,572 18

Recapitulation

Total of Table No. 1
Total of Table No. 2

Total

Expenditures Appropriations

$48,608,821 28 $55,467,980 91

4,646,892 56 4,657,572 18

$53,255,713 84 $60,125,553 09

114

P. D. 54
Contracts Made by the Department of Public Works

Con-
tract
No.

Work

Contractor

Date

Falmouth Inner Harbor and West Falmouth Har-
bor, —dredging.

Aliens Harbor and Herring River, Harwich, —
dredging.

Plymouth State Pier, — building a pile and timber
pier, timber bulkhead and dredging.

Barnstable, — sea wall and jetties at South Hyannis.

Blackwater Creek, Salisbury, — dike

Squaw Island Road, Barnstable, — stone jetties

Onset Bay, Wareham, — dredging

Plymouth Harbor, — dredging
Smith's Cove, Gloucester, — dredging
Manchester Harbor, — dredging .
Scituate Harbor, — dredging

Menamsha Creek, Chilmark and Gay Head, —
dredging.

Commonwealth Pier 5, — reconstruction of plat-
forms.
Commonwealth Pier 5, — dredging approach .

Boston Harbor, — dredging area between Cunard
Docks and Main Ship Channel

Hither Creek, Nantucket, — dredging channel and
basin.

Lake Anthony, Oak Bluffs, — dredging channel and
basin.

Weymouth Fore River, Quincy and Weymouth, —
dredging.

Commonwealth Pier 5, South Boston reconstruc-
tion of platforms and pile protection at Head
House.

Provincetown Harbor, — dredging

Cotuit Harbor, East Bay, Lewis Bay, Barnstable, —
dredging.

Houghs Neck, Quincy, — dredging

Popponesset Bay, Barnstable, — dredging channel
and basin.

Waquoit Bay, Falmouth, — stone jetty.

Winthrop, — dredging basin at Pleasant Park Yacht
Club and channel and basin at Cottage Park
Yacht Club.

Herbert T. Gerrish

Lee Construction Co.,
Inc.

Harry L. Jones

A. A. Hersey & Son Co.
Frederick V. Lawrence .

Herbert T. Gerrish

Bay State Dredging and
Contracting Co.

J. S. Packard Dredging
Co.

Bay State Dredging and
Contracting Co.

Merritt- Chapman & Scott

Corp.
J. S. Packard Dredging

Co.

Bay State Dredging and
Contracting Co.

Herbert T. Gerrish

J. S. Packard Dredging
Co.

Bay State Dredging and
Contracting Co.

Bay State Dredging and

Contracting Co.
Bay State Dredging and

Contrasting Co.

Bay State Dredging and
Contracting Co.

Herbert T. Gerrish

Frederick V. Lawrence .

Bay State Dredging and
Contracting Co.

May 21, 1935

June 18, 1935
July 16, 1935
Sept. 3, 1935

Apr. 1, 1936
Sept. 4, 1935

Oct. 4, 1935

Oct.
Oct.
Oct.
Oct.
Oct.

Dec.

Mar.

Feb.
Apr.
Apr.

4, 1935
4, 1935
4, 1935
4, 1935
4, 1935

13, 1935
3, 1936

25, 1936

1, 1936

Apr. 7, 1936

July 14, 1936

Tune 2, 1936

July 1, 1936

June 19, 1936

July 21, 1936

Oct. 27, 1936

July 21, 1936

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and in Force During the Year Ending November 30, 1936

115

Condition

Work

Contract Price

Completed
June 1, 1936

Completed
July 1, 1936

Completed
Jan. 30, 1936

Completed
June 16, 1936

Completed
Sept. 30, 1936
Completed
Dec. 21, 1935
Completed
Apr. 16, 1936

Completed
Dec. 11, 1935

Completed
Dec. 23, 1935

Completed
Dec. 28, 1935

Completed
Dec. 19, 1935

Completed
Dec. 13, 1935

In progress

Completed
May 18, 1936

Completed
June 26, 1936

In progress

Completed
Nov. 10, 1936

Completed
July 31, 1936

In progress

Completed
July 25, 1936
In progress

Completed
July 23, 1936

In progress

Completed
Sept. 11, 1936

For removing and disposing of all boulders, $20 per cubic yard.

For dredging and disposing of excavated material on land, flats or at sea, 43 cents for
each cubic yard measured in place.

For removing and disposing of all boulders, $20 for each cubic yard.

For dredging 60 cents per cubic yard measured in place.

For removal of boulders $5 per cubic yard.

For building pier and bulkhead, — unit prices.

For furnishing material and constructing concrete sea wall, including all excavation,
back filling, removing old walls, crib work, steps, drains and cess-pools and all in-
cidental work, $9.90 for each cubic yard of concrete measured in the completed work.

For furnishing and placing stone riprap and granite chips in the jetties $3 for each ton
of 2,000 pounds.

Unit prices.

For furnishing and placing granite stone riprap and chips in the jetties, $2.84 for each
ton of 2,000 pounds.

For removing and disposing of boulders, $20 per cubic yard.

For dredging and disposing of dredged material 54.5 cents per cubic yard, scow meas-
urement.

For removing and disposing of boulders, $20 per cubic yard.

For dredging and disposing of the dredged material 54 cents per cubic yard, scow meas-
urement.

For removing and disposing of boulders, $25 per cubic yard.

For dredging and disposing of the dredged material 49.8 cents per cubic yard, scow
measurement.

For removing and disposing of boulders, $20 per cubic yard.

For dredging and disposing of the dredged material, 56.3 cents per cubic yard, scow
measurement.

For removing and disposing of boulders $20 per cubic yard.

For removing and disposing of boulders, $20 per cubic yard.

Unit prices.

For dredging and disposing of dredged material 49.75 cents per cubic yard, scow meas-
urement.

For removing and disposing of boulders $20 per cubic yard.

For dredging and disposing of dredged material, 48.5 cents per cubic yard, scow meas-
urement.

For removing and disposing of boulders, $20 per cubic yard.

For dredging and disposing of the excavated material on marsh and flats by the hy-
draulic process, including the construction of the necessary dikes, and sluices or
other barriers, 55 cents for each cubic yard of material measured in place.

For dredging and disposing of the excavated material back of the new bulkhead or on
marsh or flats by the hydraulic process, including the construction of the necessary
dikes and sluices or other barriers, 50 cents for each cubic yard of material measured
in place.

For removing and disposing of all boulders, $20 for each cubic yard.

For dredging and disposing of the dredged material 46 cents for each cubic yard, scow
measurement.

For removing and disposing of boulders, $20 per cubic yard.

For removing existing platform, including piling and other structures, including all
incidental work, the lump sum of $4,500.

Unit prices.

For dredging and disposing of the dredged material 64 cents for each cubic yard,
measured in scows.

For dredging and disposing of dredged material 81 cents per cubic yard, scow meas-
urement.

For removing and disposing of boulders $20 per cubic yard.

For dredging and disposing of dredged material 49.5 cents per cubic yard, scow meas-
urement.

For removing and disposing of boulders $20 per cubic yard.

For dredging and disposing of excavated material on marsh and flats by the hydraulic
process, including the construction of the necessary dikes and sluices or other barriers,
52 cents for each cubic yard of material measured in place.

For removing and disposing of all boulders $20 for each cubic yard.

For each ton of heavy stone riprap and stone chips furnished in place in the completed
work, $3.24.

For dredging and disposing of dredged material at Ingleside Park, Winthrop, by the
hydraulic process, including the construction of necessary dikes and sluices or other
barriers, 68.5 cents for each cubic yard, measured in place.

For removing and disposing of boulders, $20 for each cubic yard.

116

P. D. 54
Contracts Made by the Department of Public Works

Con-
tract
No.

Work

Contractor

Date

470

Manchester Harbor, — dredging ....

J. S. Packard Dredging
Co.

Sept. 8, 1936

471

Plymouth State Pier, — approach

John F. Shea Co., Inc. .

Aug. 11, 1936

472

Oak Bluffs, — riprap and filling at bulkhead at High-
lands.

Frederick V. Lawrence .

Aug. 11, 1936

473

Pilgrim Beach, Truro, — stone jetties

George M. Bryne .

Aug. 26, 1936

474

Harwichport, — shore protection ....

H. & J. Construction Co.

Sept. 8, 1936

475

Megansett Harbor, Falmouth, — stone breakwater .

George M. Bryne .

Sept. 8, 1936

476

Dennisport Shore, — stone jetties ....

H. & J. Construction Co.

Sept. 22, 1936

477

South Yarmouth Beach, — stone riprap

J. W. Nickerson

Oct. 6, 1936

478

Falmouth Shore protection, — opposite Shore Street

Turner & Breivogel

Oct. 6, 1936

479

Roughan's Point, Revere, — sea wall

M. F. Gaddis, Inc.

Nov. 17, 1936

482

Harwichport, — stone jetties ....

Frederick V. Lawrence .

Nov. 17, 1936

483

West Chop, Tisbury, — shore protection

Frederick V. Lawrence .

Nov. 25, 1936

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and in Force During the Year Ending Novembe 30, 1937

117

Condition

Work

Contract Price

In progress

Completed
Sept. 11, 1936

Completed
Oct. 28, 1936

Completed
Nov. 11, 1936
In progress

In progress
Infprogress
In progress
In progress

In progress

In progress
In progress

For dredging and disposing of dredged material 55 cents per cubic yard, scow measure-
ment.
For removing and disposing of boulders $20 per cubic yard.
For furnishing material and filling back of bulkhead and depressions in the approach,

including all necessary grading, excavation and incidental work, $1 for each cubic

yard of filling measured in place in the completed work.
For resetting granite curbing, furnishing and setting new granite curbing, including all

materials, excavation, back fill, loam and all incidental work, the lump sum of $140.
For furnishing, splicing, bolting, fastening with drift pins, blocking and constructing

timber cap, completed in place, the lump sum of $240.
For furnishing all materials, equipment and incidental work in placing bituminous

concrete surface in approach completed in place $1 for each square yard of bitumi-
nous concrete surface in place.
For each ton of heavy stone riprap furnished in place in the completed work, including

all incidental work, $5.23.
For furnishing material and filling bank in back of bulkhead, including all incidental

work, 90c for each cubic yard of fill measured in place in completed work.
For furnishing and placing granite stone riprap and granite chips in jetties, including

all incidental work, $4.73 for each ton of 2,000 pounds in the completed work.
For furnishing and placing granite stone riprap and chips in the jetties, $3.90 for each

ton of 2,000 pounds.
For furnishing crane, operator, two men and all incidental work in rebuilding two

jetties, $10 per hour for crane, operator and two men.
For each ton of heavy stone riprap furnished in place in completed work, $3.45 for

each ton of 2,000 pounds.
For furnishing and placing granite stone riprap and chips in the jetties, including all

incidental work, $3.75 for each ton of 2,000 pounds.
For each ton of stone riprap and stone chips furnished and placed in completed work,

$2.99 for each ton of 2,000 pounds.
For steel sheet piling furnished and driven in completed work, $74.01 for each ton of

steel sheet piling.
For all reinforcing steel furnished and placed in concrete cap 7.8 cents for each pound.
For furnishing material and constructing concrete cap, including all incidental work,

$17.29 for each cubic yard of concrete measured in place in the completed work.
For furnishing and driving steel sheet piling, $80 for each ton in completed work.
For furnishing materials for constructing concrete sea wall and stair wells including

forms, tie rods, steel reinforcement, excavation and all incidental work, $15 for each

cubic yard of concrete.
For furnishing and placing granite stone riprap and chips against sea side of sea wall,

$2.20 for each ton of 2,000 pounds in place in completed work.
For furnishing materials for filling in place back of sea wall, including all incidental

work, 60 cents for each cubic yard measured in place in completed work.
For furnishing and setting each granite stone step in place, including all incidental

work, $18 for each step in place in completed work.
For furnishing and placing granite stone riprap and chips in the jetties, $3.15 for each

ton of 2,000 pounds.
For each ton of 2,000 pounds of stone riprap or chips furnished in place in the completed

work, $5.10.

118

P. D. 54

INDEX

General
Appropriations ........

Financial Statements .......

Expenditures .......

Summary of Income ......

General Activities of Department .....

Organization under Chapter 16, General Laws, as amended
Personnel .........

Recommendations for Legislation .....

Special Reports by Department of Public Works

Relating lo Highways
Advertising Signs and Devices within the Public View
Bond Issue, Chapter 464, Acts of 1935 ....
Bridges . . . . . .

Alterations, Repairs, and Extensions

Built or Contracted for ......

Contemplated Bridges and Structures

Examinations, Reports, Estimates, etc.

Temporary Bridges across Connecticut River

Maintenance of — See State Highways

Permanent Bridges across Connecticut River and Merrimack River
Deerfield-Sunderland
Gill-Montague ....
Hadley-Noi thampton
Lowell, Central Bridge
Contracts, signed during the year .
Co-operative Work, Supervision of Certain Expenditures by Cities, Towns
Emergency Puhlic Works Construction .
Expenditures, Summary for the Year
Farm-to-Market Roads
Federal Aid in Constructing Highways .

Allotments to Massachusetts ......

Mileage . . . . . •

Statement of Road Projects ......

Federal Funds .........

Works Program Grade Crossing Abolitions

Works Program Highways . . .

Gas Tax, transfer of proceeds under Chapter 431, Acts of 1936 .
General Statement as to Surveys, Plans, Estimates and other Work d
Grade Crossing Abolitions .......

Hayden-Cartwright Act .......

Highway Fund .........

Highway Improvements authorized by Special Acts .

Petitions, Meetings and Hearings . . .

Public Ways, exclusive of State Highways, in certain Towns

Allotments or Contributions by the State and Towns

Expenditures in Various Counties and Towns

Towns where work has been contracted for
State Highways .........

Construction and Reconstruction .....
Contracts entered into for work in various Municipalities
Expenditures in various Counties and Municipalities .

Maintenance and Repair ......

Expenditures in various Counties and Municipalities
Ordinary and Special Maintenance ....

Maintenance and Operation of Draw Bridges
Fall River-Somerset, — over Taunton River
Newburyport-Salisbury, — over Merrimack River
New Bedford-Fairhaven, — over Acushnet River .
Quincy- Weymouth, — over Weymouth Fore River

Maintenance of other Bridges as State Highways

Petitions received during the year .....

Reconstruction and Repair of State Highways damaged by floods

Removal of Snow and Ice from State Highways

Resurfacing and Widening ......

Roadside Maintenance and Development, Nursery at Sudbury

Sidewalk Construction along State Highways
Town and County Ways (Chapter 90, General Laws)

Allotments or contributions by the State, Towns and Counties

Expenditures in various Counties and Towns

Towns where work has been contracted for

Type of Road and Length contracted for ....
Works Program Highways and Grade Crossing Abolitions
Works Progress Administration

Sidewalk Construction

Farm-to-Market Roads .

Roadside Beautification .
Traffic on Highways ....

Signs, Direction, Route, Warning, etc.

Traffic Control Signals and Regulations

Uniform Traffic Signs, Lights, Markings, etc

and Cc

the year

4
14
15
14

1
1
1
2

P. D. 54 119

Relating to Registry of Motor Vehicles

Accident Prevention .............. 74

Accident Report Letters ............. 80

Aircraft ................ 76

Analysis of Court Abstracts received ........... 82

Branch Offices ............... 75

Comparative Statement showing Ratio of Yearly Registrations to Death and Injuries; and Suspen-
sions, etc. .............. 80

Conference of Motor Vehicle Administrators .......... 83

Examinations for licenses ............. 74

Expenditures, Analysis of, for 1936 ........... 84

Head Lamps and Rear Lamps ............ 79

Insurance, Motor Vehicle Liability ........... 75

Investigations and Prosecutions by Inspectors .......... 80

Motor Vehicle Deaths, Injuries. Collisions .......... 79

Number of Children killed and injured .......... 79

Number of collisions ........ r , .79

Number of Persons killed and injured .......... 79

Motor Vehicle Equipment, Inspection of .......... 77

Brakes, Lights and Overloads ............ 78

School Bus Inspection ............. 78

Property Damage .............. 76

Registrations, Licenses, Fees ............. 74

Expenses of the Registry of Motor Vehicles . . . . . . . . .84

Court Fines received by the Treasurer and Receiver General ...... 84

Motor Vehicle Fees Rebated ............ 84

Passenger Cars, Commercial Vehicles and Motor Cycles ....... 74

Receipts, Analysis of ............. 83

Total Receipts, credited Highway Fund, 1936 84

Revocations and Suspensions ............ 80

Safety Work 85

Used-Car Section 82

Motor Vehicle Identification ............ 82

Engine Numbers assigned ........... 83

Motor Vehicles Stolen 83

Reports ............... 83

Relating to Waterways and Public Lands

Aliens Harbor, Harwich .............. 90

' Barnstable Dredging .............. 90

Cotuit Harbor, East Bay and Lewis Bay .......... 90

Barnstable Shore Protection ............. 90

South Hyannis and West Beach ........... 90

Benson's Pond, Middleborough ............ 101

Boston Harbor ............... 85

Commonwealth Flats at East Boston .......... 87

Aircraft Landing Field — Boston Airport ......... 87

Commonwealth Pier No. 1 ........... 87

Reclamation of Flats ............ 87

Commonwealth Flats at South Boston .......... 85

Boston Army Base ............. 87

Commonwealth Pier No. 5 .......... 85

Development of Land South of Summer Street ........ 86

East Boston, Cunard Docks, ............ 87

Expenditures for Development and Improvement in Boston Harbor 1859 to 1936, inclusive . 104
Expenditures and Contributions for Improvement of Small Harbors and Channels within.

Boston Harbor 1893 to 1936, inclusive 105

Houghs Neck, Quincy ............. 88

Dredging .............. 88

Sea Wall 88

Marine Borers .............. 89

Sea Walls 89

Surveys 89

Weymouth Fore River, Quincy and Weymouth ........ 88

Winthrop Dredging ............. 88

Cottage Park Yacht Club 88

Pleasant Park Yacht Club . • 88

Cape Cod Canal Landing Pier at Bourne .......... 90

Connecticut River .............. 91

Flood Control •..-.-. 91

Works Progress Administration Projects .......... 91

Conserving and Equalizing the Flow of Waters in Rivers and Streams ..... 102

Contracts made and in force during year ending Nov. 30, 1936 . . . . . . .114

Dennis Shore Protection ............. 91

Ellisville Harbor, Plymouth 92

Expenditures and Contributions for River and Harbor Work from 1S93 to Nov. 30, 1936, excepting

Boston Harbor ............. 107

Expenditures and Contributions for River and Harbor Work from Dec. 1, 1935 to Nov. 30, 1936 . 105

Falmouth Inner Harbor ............. 92

Falmouth Shore Protection 92

Federal Appropriations and Expenditures in Massachusetts Rivers and Harbors to June 30, 1936 . 112

Gloucester Fish Pier " 92

Great Ponds 101

White Pond, Chatham 101

Three Mile Pond or Brush Hill Pond, Sheffield 101

Surveys ............... 101

120

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Harwich Shore Protection

Herring River, Harwich

Hither Creek, Nantucket

Housatonic River, Pittsfield

Income, Statement of

Lake Anthony, Oak Bluffs

Licenses and Permits

Manchester Harbor, Manchester

Megansett Harbor, Falmouth

Menamsha Creek, Chilmark and Gay Head

New Bedford State Pier

Oak Bluffs Shore Protection .

Onset Bay, Wareham ....

Plymouth, Commonwealth Property

Plymouth Harbor, Plymouth

Popponesset Bay, Barnstable

Province Lands .....

Provincetown Harbor, Provincetown

Provincetown Tercentenary Commission

Rivers, Harbors, Tide Waters and Foreshores outside of Boston

Rock Harbor, Orleans .

Roughan's Point, Revere

Salisbury Dike

Saugus Rivei-, Revere

Scituate Harbor, Scituate

Scituate Sea Walls

Smith's Cove, Gloucester

State Boundary Lines .

Town Boundary Lines .

Triangular Stations

Truro Shore Protection .

Pilgrim Beach
Vineyard Haven Harbor, Tisbury
Waquoit Bay, Falmouth
West Chop, Tisbury
West Falmouth Harbor, Falmouth
Witchmere Harbor, Harwich .
Yarmouth Shore Protection .

Harbor

103

102

100

102

103

100

101

Public Document No. 54

GTfje Commontoeaitf) of Ma$$&tl)ugtttsi

ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

Department of Public Works

For the Year Ending November 30, 1937

Publication op this Document Approved by the Commission on Administration and Financm.
750. 2-'39. Order 6319.

5Hj? Ol0mm0«tupalti| cf fEaaaachuaetta

EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS

Year Ending November 30, 1937

To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:

In accordance with the provisions of law, I have the honor, as Com-
missioner of Public Works, to submit the eighteenth annual report of the
Department of Public Works for the year ending November 30, 1937.

The organization of the Department, as defined in Chapter 16, General
Laws, Tercentenary Edition, was as follows:

Commissioner of Public Works — William F. Callahan

Associate Commissioner — Richard K. Hale

Associate Commissioner — Frank E. Lyman to December 9, 1936;

— Frank L. Kane beginning December 9, 1936.

Highway construction during the past year has been governed by what
is believed to be sound methods of construction and correct principles of
design.

The important trend in road design today has been dictated by con-
sideration of the safety factor and this has involved the study of align-
ment, grades, curves, profiles and intersections. The elimination of
sharp curvatures, the clearance between vehicles and the opportunity to
pass overtaken vehicles, are items considered to aid in the elimination of
hazards.

Road design for important routes provides for multiple lane highways,
with wide traffic lanes, with wide center reservations separating opposing
streams of traffic, grade separations at important intersections, long
sight-distances and other safety factors and appropriate planting of road-
sides. Refinements in road design have included improvements in road
materials and methods of construction and workmanship, carefully se-
lected subgrade materials, adequate pavement thickness, shoulder and
slope finish — which are exemplified by recent construction.

It has been the aim of the Department to make improvements in the
highway system deemed most urgent, and to insure that all such improve-
ments shall be the result of definite lines of procedure. The endeavor has
been made to coordinate all the phases of the Department's work, includ-
ing right-of-way, the collection of adequate preliminary data for design
as the basis for economic construction and the careful analysis of all
conditions and the elimination of confusion in any part of the work for
the purpose of avoiding changes in contracts after work has been started.

A survey of present roadbuilding materials indicates wide-spread de-
velopments and new methods of application and definite improvement in
variety and quality. Laboratory and field experimentation has been con-
ducted by the Department continuously on all construction and mainten-
ance activities. The adaptability of local materials in combination with
other products has been of importance in this state.

The task of modernizing the highway transport system necessitates the
careful study of road service, materials, design and construction. It is
also the aim to meet the requirements of tomorrow and to avoid the risk
of early road obsolescence.

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The trend in Massachusetts has been toward the construction of the
higher type of road surface to meet the volumes and weight of traffic
which results from the growing traffic demands.

During the fiscal year 1937 State highway construction and reconstruc-
tion included many important projects.

Work was completed on a link in the route connecting the Newburyport
Turnpike with the Sumner Tunnel in Boston. The section constructed
extends from the traffic circle at the intersection of Squire Road and
Broadway in Revere to the Newburyport Turnpike in Saugus at its inter-
section with Felton Street. The design includes two 30-ft. roadways
with the raised type of reservation in the center, and sidewalks on both
sides. The project includes two traffic circles, a bridge over the Saugus
Branch of the Boston & Maine Railroad, and a bridge and ramps at Lynn
Street, Revere. The length of this project is 2% miles, and the cost
approximately $960,000.

From the northerly end of this project, the reconstruction of the New-
buryport Turnpike in Saugus and Lynnfield, U. S. Route No. 1, was com-
pleted to a point just north of South Lynnfield Square for a distance of
4.8 miles at a cost of approximately $1,700,000. The design provides for
a divided highway with a 20-foot raised center reservation, on each side
of which are three driving lanes totalling 34 feet, a 10-foot parking lane
and a 12% -foot sidewalk area consisting of 4 feet of pavement and the
remainder a grass plot. Four feet of the sidewalk area was paved for
pedestrian use and the balance is loamed and seeded for grass. At four
important intersections grade separations were constructed with connect-
ing roadway ramps to connect with local roads. This is one of the most
modern types of highway in the country.

From the northerly terminus of this Newburyport Turnpike project a
section of the proposed Northern Circumferential Highway, the future
replacement of the present Route 128, was completed to Andover Street
in Peabody, a distance of about four miles, including bridge construction
at its intersection with Lowell Street in Peabody to provide for traffic
separation, at a total cost of approximately $980,000.

The design is similiar to that described for the Turnpike project. It
includes two 23-foot pavements, separated by a 16-foot center plot, with
graded areas nine feet in width on each side to provide for future widen-
ing. Sidewalks have been provided on either one or both sides, as deemed
necessary.

South of the Cape Cod Canal, construction and reconstruction of the
State highway in Bourne and in Eastham-Orleans, has been completed.
In the former town a direct connection has been made between the traffic
circle at the southerly end of the Bourne Bridge over the canal and a
point further south, on Route 28. In Eastham and Orleans approximately
three miles of Route 6, extending easterly from the junction of this route
with Route 28, was reconstructed and widened.

In the southern section of the State, on Route 6, at the Dartmouth-
Westport line, a long-needed alignment correction has been completed.

In the Connecticut Valley approximately four miles of U. S. Route 5,
in Holyoke, has been widened and resurfaced. A sidewalk was constructed
for the entire length on one side.

In central Massachusetts another section of the Worcester-Providence
Turnpike has been completed for a distance of approximately two miles
in the towns of Millbury and Sutton. The design is of the divided road-
way type and consists of two 30-foot lanes. Traffic separation was afforded
at the only important intersection encountered, by means of bridge and
ramp construction.

Work is now under way on the proposed Concord-to-Westminster route,
which will be the future Route 2. Approximately 2% miles in the cities
of Leominster and Fitchburg are being graded under the present contract.

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In western Massachusetts about two miles of Route 9 on Dalton Avenue
in Pittsfield has been widened and resurfaced. The design includes separ-
ate roadways for opposite bound traffic, with a raised separating plot in
the center. Sidewalks have been provided on one or both sides as con-
sidered necessary.

By means of Federal Works Program funds, certain town highways
have been constructed on secondary routes. The Marshfield-Pembroke
project provides a long-needed connection between Routes 3 and 3A, about
five miles having been, completed, with a surface of bituminous concrete
40 feet in width. The Attleboro-North Attleborough-Plainville project
provided a long-needed direct connection between the city of Attleboro
and Route 1 for Boston and northbound traffic. The length completed was
4x/2 miles, with the pavement 40 feet in width, with sidewalk construction
on one side.

With the aid of the same funds a municipal highway approximately
l1/^ miles was built on Springfield Street in the City of Holyoke.

Construction of railroad grade crossing eliminations was completed as
follows :

Canton On the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Dedham Street

Sharon South Main Street

Sharon Depot Street

Mansfield Elm Street

Mansfield School Street

Work is now under way at Union Street, Braintree and Cocasset Street,
Foxborough. In Attleboro, on Route 1, replacement of an inadequate
structure was made by the construction of a new steel stringer bridge
with the necessary approaches.

On the Fitchburg Division of the Boston & Maine Railroad, work was
completed on the elimination of grade crossings on Route 20 in Waltham,
on West Main Street in Ayer and on Leominster Road in Lunenburg.

In Ashburnham, on Route 12, near the South Ashburnham station of
the Boston & Maine Railroad, a crossing has been eliminated.

On the main line of the Boston & Albany Railroad in the vicinity of
Old Flanders Road near the Hopkinton-Westborough line, and on Shrews-
bury Street in Shrewsbury near the Grafton-Shrewsbury line, crossings
have been eliminated. At Shrewsbury Street, in addition to the new
bridge and approaches, a pedestrian underpass was provided. In Hunting-
ton, at the crossing of this railroad with Route 112, the construction now
underway includes a multiple span steel bridge, which not only spans the
railroad but the adjacent Westfield River.

On the Milford branch of the Boston & Albany Railroad at its junction
with Route 109, further elimination has been accomplished.

In the city of Worcester, at the so-called Barbers Crossing, on Routes
110 and 12, elimination necessitated extensive relocation of the highway,
construction of a steel bridge and a pedestrian underpass.

On Route 1, in Newbury, at the crossing with the tracks of the Boston
&n Maine Railroad, elimination has been accomplished with the construc-
tion of a steel and concrete bridge, with the necessary approaches.

Further elimination has been made in Sheffield on U. S. Route 7, where
this route crosses the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, also
in the town of Monson on Route 132, at its intersection with the Central
Vermont Railroad.

Bridge construction has been one of the important activities during
the past year. The program has included seventy-eight (78) new struc-
tures built or contracted for, including sixty-six (66) bridges over
waterways, seven (7) grade separations at railroad crossings.

The cost of this work has been provided in part from Federal funds
and partly from flood relief funds provided by the Commonwealth.

Construction of important bridges with Federal cooperation was begun
during the year as follows : the Hadley-Northampton Bridge and the Gill-

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Montague Bridge over the Connecticut River; the Central Bridge, Lowell,
over the Merrimac River; the Grade Crossing Elimination Projects in
Braintree, Huntington and Mjlford; the reconstruction of the Slades
Ferry Bridge over the Taunton River, under the provisions of Chapter
488, Acts of 1935.

Under the provisions of Chapter 90, General Laws, 166 miles of city
or town highways were constructed and maintenance was provided on
1117 miles of such roads, involving a total expenditure of about
$4,300,000.

Under the provisions of Chapter 429, Acts of 1936, a total of 115 city
and town bridges, destroyed by the floods of 1936, were reconstructed on
the force account basis at an estimated cost of $897,000.

The installation of traffic signals where necessary and the maintenance
of those already installed on State highways have contributed to the
safety in motor vehicle operation on the highways.

The necessity for approval by the Department of installations by local
communities of traffic control matters results in uniformity.

Traffic studies conducted by the Department have been of particular
value as indicating the necessity for improvements in the highway system
and also in the matter of accident analysis, which in many cases reveal
road conditions which may be improved to eliminate hazards. At present
a comprehensive highway survey is being conducted to determine further
data regarding all phases of highways and the service they render to the
communities throughout the Commonwealth, which will be the basis for
future designing of highways, and the Department has the cooperation
of the Federal Government in this undertaking.

One of the most important services rendered has been the winter main-
tenance of highways. About 2000 miles of State highways and other
important roads are included in the program of winter maintenance, in-
volving the plowing of snow and ice control on these highways.

The Department also maintains about 9012 miles of town ways under
the provisions of Section 26, Chapter 81, General Laws.

The Department has had supervision of highway work involving the
expenditure of about $18,000,000, including Federal funds, State appro-
priations and city and town contributions.

The Department has worked in cooperation with the Federal Road
Authorities in the endeavor to carry forward practical highway science,
as the most satisfactory way to secure adequate highway transport.

Harbor improvements have included dredging the channel in Wey-
mouth-Fore River Bridge, above Weymouth-Fore River Bridge, dredging
in Maiden River and other minor channels in Boston Harbor.

Outside of Boston Harbor dredging in numerous small harbors along
the coast and shore protection has been completed at many locations.

Of particular interest is the construction of the new Gloucester Fish
Pier, which is being constructed on the P.W.A. basis in cooperation with
the Federal Government, which has allotted $540,000 for this project to
be used with the State's $600,000 appropriated by the General Court.
Upon completion, this pier and the buildings erected thereon will be
leased for a term of years to the fish industry.

It is believed that the Department has achieved definite improvement
in the methods of contract control, including improvement in specifica-
tions, and has advanced its knowledge of materials and methods of con-
struction and maintenance gained through research and it has thereby
advanced the science of roadbuilding, so that the Commonwealth will be
assured of a high character of roadbuilding activities.

The engineering and clerical staff of the Department was as follows:

Chief Engineer, George H. Delano
Highway Engineer, (Projects), Franklin C. Pillsbury1
Highway Engineer, (Construction, State Highways)
Raymond W. Coburn

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Highway Engineer, (Construction, Chapter 90 roads)

William F. Donovan
Highway Engineer, (Maintenance), James E. Lawrence
Highway Engineer, (Traffic), Edgar F. Copell
Bridge Engineer, George E. Harkness
District Highway Engineers: —

District No. 1, George A. Curtis— Berkshire County and the towns of
Worthington, Middlefield and Huntington in Hampshire County, and
the towns of Chester, Montgomery, Russell, Blandford and Tolland
in Hampden County.
District No. 2, H. D. Phillips2 W. G. Burns3: — Franklin, Hampshire
and Hampden Counties, with the following exceptions; three towns
in Hampshire County included in District No. 1, and ten towns in
Hampden County included in Districts Nos. 1 and 3.
District No. 3, John A. Johnston4 M. J. Dalton5 — Worcester County
and the towns of Brimfield, Holland, Monson, Palmer and Wales in
Hampden County.
District No. 4, F. D. Sabin — Middlesex County.
District No. 5, Joseph A. McCarthy — Essex and Suffolk Counties.
District No. 6, H. 0. Parker — Norfolk and Bristol Counties.
District No. 7, John E. Troy — Plymouth, Barnstable, Dukes and Nan-
tucket Counties.
District Waterways Engineer, for Boston Harbor — John N. Ferguson.
District Waterways Engineer, for harbors and waterways outside Boston

Harbor — Francis L. Sellew.
Secretary, Mary A. Riley.
Department Business Agent, Fred Fair

Registry of Motor' Vehicles
Registrar, Frank A. Goodwin.
Deputy Registrar, Anthony A. Bonzagni

Assistant to the Registrar of Motor Vehicles,, Alfred W. Devine.
Chief Administrative Clerk, Charles R. Gilley.
Chief Inspector of Motor Vehicles, Albert S. Olsson.

A detailed report of the activities of the Department for the year is
presented herewith.

WILLIAM F. CALLAHAN,

Commissioner of Public Works.
December 1, 1937.

SPECIAL REPORTS TO THE LEGISLATURE

The Department was authorized and directed by the Legislature to
make certain investigations, and the reports thereon were made as
follows :

Improving^ Harbor and Terminal facilities in the city of Fall River.
Report made Dec. 2, 1936, by the Department of Public Works under
Chapter 15, Resolves of 1936 (H 228 of 1937).

Construction of a breakwater and making other improvements for
protection of the shore at Truro. Report made Dec. 2, 1936, by the
Department of Public Works under Chapter 54, Resolves of 1936
(H 229 of 1937).

Relative to a State Highway over the route of the old Middlesex
Turnpike so called from Maple St. in Lexington to North Chelmsford,
including estimates of cost. Report made Dec. 2, 1936, by the De-
partment of Public Works under Chapter 71, Resolves of 1936 (Sen.
35 of 1937).

1 Died May 15, 1937 * Until June 30, 1937

2 Until June 30, 1937 B Appointed July 1, 1937

3 Appointed July 1, 1937

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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LEGISLATION

The Commissioner of Public Works presented to the State Secretary
on December 1, 1937, as required by law, that part of the current annual
report which contains recommendations or suggestions for legislative
action as follows:

1. In order to avoid confusion in the matter of liens on contracts for
Public Works it has become evident that the provisions of law relating to
liens on State Public Works contracts, as incorporated in Section 39,
Chapter 30, General Laws, should likewise be made applicable to county
or municipal public works contracts. It is, therefore, recommended that
an amendment be made to Section 29, Chapter 149, General Laws, to pro-
vide for this, so that rental of vehicles, tools, and other appliances may
become a lienable item on county and municipal contracts as well as on
State Public Works contracts.

In order to expedite the work of the Department including the con-
struction, reconstruction and maintenance of state highways and im-
provement of town and county ways under the provisions of Chapters 81
and 90, General Laws, with funds appropriated annually, it is respectfully
suggested that such appropriations for the work of this Department be
made at an early date in the legislative session in order to take advantage
of the construction season and to complete as much as possible of the
contract work within the fiscal years for which funds are appropriated.
This would also facilitate the early allotment of funds for work under
Chapter 90.

Also, the early passage of appropriations for Waterways projects,
including river and harbor work would make possible conduct of such
work, particularly at locations which are at summer resorts, prior to the
yachting season, so that communities may derive the benefits from such
expenditures during the year in which they are made.

2. The Department believes that authorization should be given the
Department to cooperate with the United States Geological Survey in
making a survey of the geological resources of the Commonwealth. Such
data would be of great value to the Department in locating deposits of
sand, gravel and other road-building materials, as well as of frequent use
for other State departments. It is recommended that an annual appro-
priation of $10,000 be made in connection with the making of a geological
map which is now in progress.

3. The Department is contemplating the extension and ultimate con-
struction of many main thoroughfares, such as the Concord-Westminster
road, Boston-Connecticut, Worcester Turnpike, Lowell Turnpike, Beverly-
Gloucester, and others. It becomes increasingly evident as our work pro-
gresses that the indiscriminate access from abutting property to and
from state highways is increasing the danger to travel on these important
through routes. Many states are enacting laws which provide that the
thoroughfare so laid out shall be in a special class so that the abutting
property shall have no rights of access to or from the thoroughfare.
Such a right has been conferred upon railroads in constructing their
lines across country and also on many of our park departments in their
taking of reservations and in the construction of roads therein.

It is recommended that careful consideration be given to this problem.

4. The repair of the Slades Ferry bridge, so called, over the Taunton
River, between the city of Fall River and the town of Somerset, provided
for by Chapter 488, Acts of 1935, and carried out to date, indicates that
certain necessary other work must be done to make the bridge safe and
adequate for public travel and use for highway purposes than is possible
with the amount of funds ($225,000) authorized by this act. It is esti-
mated that an additional amount of $20,000 is required for the purpose
of providing automatic machinery for operating the traffic gates, for the
installation of traffic lights and roadway lighting equipment and for the
cleaning and painting of the old part of the structure.

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5. The regulation and control of billboards, signs and other advertis-
ing devices is provided for at the present time by Rules and Regulations
adopted by the Department on January 24, 1924, under the provisions of
Section 29, Chapter 93, Gneral Laws. However, under a recent Supreme
Court decision in various suits brought for the purpose of controlling
Accessory Use Signs, it appears that at the present time there is no
jurisdiction over these Accessory Use Signs, which are clearly exempted
under Section 30, Chapter 93 of the present advertising laws.

The Supreme Court in a decision declared that although the present law
allowed evasions, it was the duty of the legislature and not the courts to
determine what additions to the statute would best remedy the situation.

It is recommended that legislation be passed to provide under Section
21, Chapter 40, General Laws, for the regulation of the size, number, and
location of billboards, signs, and other advertising devices which are
located on the establishments wherein the business is conducted, as well
as those signs which advertise the property itself, or any part thereof,
as "For Sale" or "To Let".

Although different cities and towns would have different ideas concern-
ing the extent to which they wish to exercise jurisdiction over signs, this
legislation would enable a particular town, if it wished, to control the
problem which is reaching large proportions in many cases.

APPROPRIATIONS

Chapter 234, Acts of 1937, making appropriations for the maintenance
of departments, boards, commissions, institutions and certain activities of
the Commonwealth, etc., is, in part, as follows: —

Requirements for Extinguishing the State Debt.

225. For sinking fund requirements and for certain serial

bonds maturing during the present year, the sum
of five million four hundred two thousand seven
hundred twenty-two dollars and eighty-three cents,
payable from the following accounts and funds
in the following amounts: — from the Highway
Fund, five million sixty-eight thousand three, hun-
dred eighty-nine dollars and fifty cents; and the
remainder from the General Fund . $5,402,722 83

Interest on the Public Debt.

226. For the payment of interest on the direct debt of the

commonwealth, a sum not exceeding eight hun-
dred sixty-eight thousand two hundred thirty-two
dollars, of which sum five hundred sixty thou-
sand six hundred sixty-six dollars and twenty-five
cents shall be paid from the Highway Fund . 868,232 00

Service of the Department of Banking and Insurance.
Division of Insurance:
314. For other personal services of the division, includ-
ing expenses of the board of appeal and certain
other costs of supervising motor vehicle liability
insurance, a sum not exceeding two hundred
thirty-six thousand dollars, of which sum not more
than thirty-five thousand dollars may be charged
to the Highway Fund 236,000 00

Service of the Department of Corporations and Taxation.
Corporations and Tax Divisions :
320. For the salaries of certain positions filled by the com-
missioner, with the approval of the governor and
council, and for additional clerical and other as-
sistance, a sum not exceeding two hundred forty-
nine thousand dollars, of which sum not more

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Item

than fifty thousand dollars may be charged to the
Highway Fund to cover the estimated cost of col-
lection of the gasoline tax, so called, and not more
than fifty thousand dollars may be payable from
fees collected under section twenty-seven of chap-
ter one hundred and thirty-eight of the General
Laws, as amended, to cover the estimated cost of
collection of alcoholic beverages taxes, so called $249,000 00

Service of the Department of Mental Diseases.

Division of Mental Hygiene:
For the maintenance of and for certain improve-
ments at the following institutions under the
control of the Department of Mental Diseases :
518. For the construction of roads within the property of
the Monson state hospital, a sum not exceeding
fifteen thousand dollars, the same to be in addi-
tion to any amount heretofore appropriated for
the purpose, and the letting of the contract and
the work of construction to be done under the
supervision of the state department of public
works 15,000 00

Service of the Department of Public Safety.

Division of State Police:

644. For the salaries of officers, including detectives, a
sum not exceeding five hundred forty-nine thou-
sand dollars, of which sum not more than two
hundred thousand dollars may be charged to the
Highway Fund 549,000 00

646. For other necessary expenses of the uniformed divi-
sion, including traveling expenses of detectives, a
sum not exceeding four hundred sixteen thousand
dollars, of which sum not more than one hundred
fifty thousand dollars may be charged to the High-
way Fund 416,000 00

Service of the Department of Public Works.

The appropriations made in the following four
items are to be paid three quarters from the
Highway Fund and one quarter from the Port
of Boston receipts :

663. For the salaries of the commissioner and the asso-

ciate commissioners, a sum not exceeding nineteen

thousand five hundred dollars ... 19,500 00

664. For personal services and clerks and assistants to the

commissioner, a sum not exceeding eleven thou-
sand one hundred dollars ... 11,100 00

665. For traveling expenses of the commissioners, a sum

not exceeding two thousand dollars 2,000 00

666. For telephone service in the public works building,

a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars 30,000 00

Functions of the department relating to highways
(the following appropriations, except as other-
wise provided, are made from the Highway
Fund) :

667. For the maintenance and operation of the public

works building, a sum not exceeding one hundred

thirty thousand dollars 130,000 00

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Item

668. For the salaries of guards for the public works build-

ing, a sum not exceeding thirty-five thousand dol-
lars m $35,000 00

669. For personal services of the chief engineer, engineers

and office assistants, including certain clerks and
stenographers, a sum not exceeding ninety-seven
thousand dollars ... 97,00000

670. 'For services other than personal, including printing
pamphlet of laws and the annual report, and neces-
sary office supplies and equipment, and for the
expense of membership of the department in the
American Association of State Highway Officials,
a sum not exceeding seventeen thousand dollars . 17,000 00

671. For the suppression of gypsy and brown tail moths

on state highways, a sum not exceeding twelve

thousand five hundred dollars .... 12,500 00

672. For the construction and repair of town and county

ways, a sum not exceeding two million five hun-
dred thousand dollars, the same to be in addition
to any amount heretofore appropriated for the
purpose 2,500,000 00

673. For aiding towns in the repair and improvement of

public ways, a sum not exceeding one million four

hundred fifty thousand dollars . 1,450,000 00

674. For the maintenance and repair of state highways,

including care of snow on highways, expenses of
traffic signs and lights; for payment of damages
caused by defects in state highways, with the ap-
proval of the attorney general ; for care and repair
of road-building machinery; and for the mainte-
nance of a nursery for roadside planting, a sum
not exceeding two million eight hundred thousand
dollars, the same to be in addition to any amount
heretofore appropriated for the purpose 2,800,000 00

675. For the purpose of enabling the department of pub-

lic works to secure federal aid for the construction
and reconstruction of highways, including bridges,
a sum not exceeding two million three hundred
thousand dollars, the same to be in addition to any
amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose : 2,300,000 00

676. For administering the law relative to advertising

signs near highways, a sum not exceeding twenty-
one thousand dollars, to be paid from the General
Fund 21,000 00

677. For expenses of a topographical survey and map of

the commonwealth, in addition to funds received
from federal appropriations or private subscrip-
tions, a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars 50,000 00

Registration of Motor Vehicles:

678. For personal services, a sum not exceeding one mil-

lion eighty thousand dollars, of which sum fifteen
thousand dollars may be charged to the General
Fund, and the remainder shall be paid from the
Highway Fund 1,080,000 00

679. For services other than personal, including traveling

expenses, purchase of necessary supplies and ma-
terials, including cartage and storage of the same
and for work incidental to the registration and li-
censing of owners and operators of motor vehicles,

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Item

a sum not exceeding four hundred eighty thou-
sand dollars, to be paid from the Highway Fund . $480,000 00

680. For printing and other expenses necessary in con-
nection with publicity for certain safety work, a
sum not exceeding one thousand dollars 1,000 00

Functions of the department relating to water-
ways and public lands:

6S1. For personal services of the chief engineer and assist-
ants, a sum not exceeding fifty-eight thousand
dollars ... .... 58,000 00

682. For services other than personal, including printing

pamphlet of laws and the annual report, and for
necessary office and engineering supplies and equip-
ment, a sum not exceeding sixteen hundred dollars 1,600 00

683. For the care and maintenance of the province lands

and of the lands acquired and structures erected by
the Provincetown tercentenary commission, a sum
not exceeding five thousand dollars . 5,000 00

684. For the maintenance of structures, and for repair-

ing damages along the coast line or river banks of
the commonwealth, and for the removal of wrecks
and other obstructions from tide waters and great
ponds, a sum not exceeding twenty-two thousand
five hundred dollars . .... 22,500 00

685. For the improvement, development and protection

of rivers and harbors, tide waters and foreshores
within the commonwealth, as authorized by sec-
tion eleven of chapter ninety-one of the General
Laws, as appearing in the Tercentenary Edition
thereof, and of great ponds, a sum not exceeding
one hundred thousand dollars, and any unex-
pended balance of the appropriation remaining at
the end of the current fiscal year may be expended
in the succeeding fiscal year for the same purposes;
provided, that all expenditures made for the pro-
tection of shores shall be upon condition that at
least fifty per cent of the cost is covered by con-
tributions from municipalities or other organiza-
tions and individuals, and that in the case of
dredging channels for harbor improvements at
least twenty-five per cent of the cost shall be so
covered 100,000 00

686. For re-establishing and permanently marking certain

triangulation points and sections, as required by
order of the land court in accordance with section
thirty-three of chapter ninety-one of the General
Laws, as appearing in the Tercentenary Edition
thereof, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars 1,000 00

687. For expenses of surveying certain town boundaries,

by the department of public works, a sum not ex-
ceeding five hundred dollars .... 500 00

688. For the operation and maintenance of the New Bed-

ford state pier, a sum not exceeding twelve thou-
sand dollars .... 12,000 00

689. For the compensation of dumping inspectors, a sum

not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars 1,500 00

690. For continuing the work in gauging the flow of water

in the streams of the commonwealth, a sum not

exceeding five thousand dollars .... 5,000 00

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Item

691. For the maintenance and repair of certain property

in the town of Plymouth, a sum not exceeding

thirty-five hundred dollars $3,500 00

692. For the operation and maintenance of the Cape Cod

Canal pier, a sum not exceeding forty-five hundred

dollars 4,500.00

694. For certain expenditures on account of the recon-

struction of a pier at Plymouth, the sum of four-
teen hundred sixty-six dollars and twenty-seven
cents, the same to be in addition to any amount
heretofore appropriated for the purpose 1,466 27

Functions of the department relating to Port of
Boston (the following items are to be paid from
the Port of Boston receipts) :

695. For the construction of railroads and piers and for

the development of certain land, a sum not exceed-
ing nine thousand dollars ..... ,9,000 00

696. For the supervision and operation of commonwealth

pier five, including the salaries or other compen-
sation of employees, and for the repair and replace-
ment of equipment and other property, a sum not
exceeding one hundred eleven thousand one hun-
dred dollars 111,100 00

697. For the maintenance of pier one, at East Boston, a

sum not exceeling four thousand dollars 4,000 00

698. For the maintenance and improvement of common-

wealth property under the control of the depart-
ment in connection with its functions relating to
waterways and public lands, a sum not exceeding
ninety thousand dollars 90,000 00

699. For dredging channels and filling flats, a sum not

exceeding ninety thousand dollars, the same to be
in addition to any unexpended balance of the ap-
propriation made for the purpose in the previous
year 90,000 00

Miscellaneous
The following items are to be paid from the High-
way Fund, with the approval of the metropoli-
tan district commission :

722. For maintenance of boulevards and parkways, a sum

not exceeding six hundred ninety-eight thousand

eight hundred and twenty dollars 698,820 00

723. For resurfacing of boulevards and parkways, a sum

not exceeding two hundred seventy-five thousand

dollars 275,000 00

724. For expense of supplies and services necessary for

procuring Works Progress Administration funds,
a sum not exceeding eight thousand dollars, the
same to be in addition to any amount heretofore
appropriated for the purpose ... 8,000 00

725. For the cost of installations necessary for additional

street lighting, a sum not exceeding thirty-two

thousand dollars 32,000 00

726. For maintenance of Wellington bridge, a sum not

exceeding thirty-four hundred dollars . 3,400 00

Unclassified Accounts and Claims
For certain other aid:
732. For the compensation of certain public employees
for injuries sustained in the course of their em-

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Item

ployment, for present and previous years, as pro-
vided by section sixty-nine of chapter one hundred
and fifty-two of the General Laws, as amended,
a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars,
of which sum not more than fifty-five thousand
dollars may be charged to the highway Fund $100,000.00

Deficiencies.

For deficiencies in certain appropriations of previ-
ous years, in certain items, as follows :

Service of the Department of Public Works.

For services other than personal, including printing
pamphlet of laws and the annual report, and neces-
sary office supplies and equipment, the sum of
eighty-six dollars and thirty-five cents, to be paid
from the Highway Fund . ... 86 35

For the maintenance and repair of state highways,
including care of snow on highways, expenses of
traffic signs and lights; for payment of damages
caused by defects in state highways, with the
approval of the attorney general; for care and
repair of road-building machinery; and for the
maintenance of a nursery for roadside planting,
the sum of nine thousand thirty-four dollars and
ninety cents, to be paid from the Highway Fund . 9,034 90

Section 3. No liabilities in excess of appropriations provided for
under this act shall be incurred by any department or institution, except
in case of emergency, and then only upon the prior written approval of
the governor and council. The state comptroller is hereby directed to
send a copy of this section to each departmental, divisional and institu-
tional head immediately following the passage of this act, together with
a copy of suitable regulations relative to applications for transfers from
the appropriation for extraordinary expenses as provided by section
eight of chapter six of the General Laws.

Section 5. No payment shall be made or obligation incurred under
authority of any special appropriation made by this act for construction
of public buildings or other improvements at state institutions until plans
and specifications have been approved by the governor, unless otherwise
provided by such rules and regulations as the governor may make.

Section 6. No expenses incurred for mid-day meals by state em-
ployees, other than those who receive as part of their compensation a non-
cash allowance in the form of full or complete boarding and housing, and
those employees who are stationed beyond commuting distance from their
homes for a period of more than twenty-four hours, shall be allowed by
the commonwealth.

Supplementary Appropriations

Chapter 434, Acts of 1937, in addition to the general appropriation act
making appropriations to supplement certain items contained therein,
and for certain new activities and projects, is, in part, as follows: —

Section 1. To provide for supplementing certain items in the general
appropriation act, and for certain new activities and projects, the sums
set forth in section two, for the particular purposes and subject to the
conditions stated therein, are hereby appropriated from the general fund
or ordinary revenue of the commonwealth, unless some other source of
revenue is expressed, subject to the provisions of law regulating the dis-
bursement of public funds and the approval thereof.

P.D. 54 13

Section 2.

Service of the Department of Public Works.
Functions of the department relating to highways
(the following appropriations, except as other-
wise provided, are made from the Highway
Fund) :

667. For the maintenance and operation of the public
works building, a sum not exceeding thirty-five
hundred dollars, the same to be in addition to any
amount heretofore appropriated for the purpose $3,500 00

672. For the construction and repair of town and county
ways, a sum not exceeding two hundred thousand
dollars, the same to be in addition to any amount
heretofore appropriated therefor 200,000 00

674. For the maintenance and repair of state highways,

including care of snow on highways, expenses of
traffic signs and lights; for payment of damages
caused by defects in state highways, with the ap-
proval of the attorney general ; for care and repair
of road-building machinery; and for the main-
tenance of a nursery for roadside planting, a sum
not exceeding three hundred and fifty thousand
dollars, the same to be in addition to any amount
heretofore appropriated for the purpose 350,000 00

675. For the purpose of enabling the department of pub-

lic works to secure federal aid for the construction
and reconstruction of highways, including bridges,
a sum not exceeding three hundred and fifty thou-
sand dollars, the same to be in addition to any
amount heretofore appropriated therefor 350,000 00

676. For administering the law relative to advertising

signs near highways, a sum not exceeding four
thousand dollars, to be paid from the General
Fund and to b.e in addition to any amount hereto-
fore appropriated for the purpose . 4,000 00
Registration of Motor Vehicles :

679. For services other than personal, including traveling
expenses, purchase of necessary supplies and ma-
terials, including cartage and storage of the same,
and for work incidental to the registration and
licensing of owners and operators of motor vehi-
cles, a sum not exceeding thirteen thousand dol-
lars, to be paid from the Highway Fund and to
be in addition to any amount heretofore appro-
priated for the purpose ..... 13,000 00
Functions of the department relating to water-
ways and public lands :

693a. For dredging at or near the public town wharf at
Provincetown, a sum not exceeding four thousand
dollars .... 4,000 00

Functions of the department relating to Port of
Boston, the following items are to be paid from
the Port of Boston receipts) :

696. For the supervision and operation of commonwealth
pier five, including the salaries or other compen-
sation of employees, and for the repair and re-
placement of equipment and other property, a
sum not exceeding three thousand dollars, the
same to be in addition to any amount heretofore
appropriated for the purpose .... 3,000 00

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Item

697. For the maintenance of pier one, at East Boston, a
sum not exceeding two thousand dollars, the same
to be in addition to any amount heretofore ap-
propriated for the purpose. .... $2,000 00

700. For the cost of inspection of structures in tidewater
within Boston harbor, a sum not to exceed three
thousand dollars, the same to be in addition to
any amount heretofore appropriated therefor . 3,000 00

Miscellaneous.
The following items are to be paid from the High-
way Fund, with the approval of the metropoli-
tan district commission:

722. For maintenance of boulevards and parkways, a sum
not exceeding fourteen thousand three hundred
and ninety-five dollars, the same to be in addition
to any amount heretofore appropriated for the
purpose 14,395 00

724. For expenses of supplies and services necessary for
procuring Works Progress Administration funds,
a sum not exceeding sixteen thousand dollars, the
same to be in addition to any amount heretofore
appropriated for the purpose .... 16,000 00

726a. For the purchase and erection of tablets for certain
bridges, a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred
dollars 1,500 00

Other Appropriations
36c. For an investigation relative to the improvement of
conditions at Musquashiat pond in the town of
Scituate, as authorized by chapter thirteen of the
resolves of the present year, a sum not exceeding
three thousand dollars .... 3,000 00

Deficiencies.
For deficiencies in certain appropriations of previ-
ous years, in certain items, as follows:

Service of the Department of Public Works.

For the maintenance and repair of state highways,
including care of snow on highways, expenses of
traffic signs and lights; for payment of damages
caused by defects in state highways with the ap-
proval of the attorney general ; for care and repair
of road-building machinery; and for the mainte-
nance of a nursery for roadside planting, the sum
of forty-five dollars and sixteen cents, to be paid
from the Highway Fund ..... 45 16

For the supervision and operation of commonwealth
pier five, including the salaries or other compen-
sation of employees, and for the repair and re-
placement of equipment and other property, the
sum of eighty-eight dollars and fifty-nine cents . 88 59

Section 3. The following amendments and transfers are hereby
authorized in appropriations previously made :

Department of Public Works.
The appropriation made by Item 677 of chapter two hundred and
thirty-four of the acts of the present year, for expenses of a topo-
graphical survey and map of the commonwealth, is hereby made in
addition to the unexpended balance of any appropriation hereto-
fore made for the purpose.

P.D. 54 15

The unexpended balance of the appropriation made by Item 666e of
chapter four hundred and ninety-seven of the acts of nineteen hun-
dred and thirty-five, for expenditures for flood control of the
Housatonic river, is hereby reappropriated.
The unexpended balance of the appropriation made by Item 638 of
chapter two hundred and forty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred
and thirty-one, as most recently reappropriated by chapter two
hundred and forty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-
five, for certain work in the Taunton river authorized by chapter
four hundred and five of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty,
is hereby again reappropriated.
Chapter four hundred and twenty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred
and thirty-six, providing for repair or reconstruction of certain
bridges damaged by recent floods, is hereby amended by adding at
the end the following new section: — Section 8. The comptroller
is hereby authorized to certify for payment liabilities incurred by
the department in anticipation of the receipt of the assessments
to be made in nineteen hundred and thirty-eight on certain cities,
towns and counties, as authorized by this act.

Further Supplementary Appropriations
Chapter 445, Acts of 1937, in addition to the general appropriation act
making appropriations to supplement certain items contained therein,
and for certain new activities and projects, is in part, as follows: —

Section 1. To provide further for supplementing certain items in the
general appropriation act, and for certain new activities and projects, the
sums set forth in section two, for the particular purposes and subject to
the conditions stated therein, are hereby appropriated from the general
fund or ordinary revenue of the commonwealth, unless some other source
of revenue is expressed, subject to the provisions of law regulating the
disbursement of public funds and the approval thereof.

Section 2.

Item

36t. For an investigation relative to certain harbor im-
provements in the commonwealth, as authorized
by chapter sixty-nine of the resolves of the present
year, a sum not exceeding twenty-five hundred
dollars ... ... $2,50000

677a. For the meeting of payrolls and other compensation
and expenses incurred by the department of public
works as the agency of the commonwealth for the
acquisition of lands, easements and rights of way
and other duties, as provided in chapters three
hundred and ninety-seven and four hundred and
twenty-three of the acts of the present year, as
amended, for flood control purposes in the Con-
necticut river valley and the Merrimack river
valley, a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars,
to be charged against receipts from the treasurers
of the interstate compact commissions under the
provisions of said chapters.

190a. For the compensation and incidental expenses of
the members appointed to represent the common-
wealth on the interestate compact commission
relative to flood control of the Merrimack river,
as authorized by chapter four hundred and twenty-
three of the acts of the present year, as amended,
a sum not exceeding four thousand dollars . 4,000 00

190b. For the compensation and incidental expenses of the
members appointed to represent the common-

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Item

wealth on the interstate compact commission
relative to flood control of the Connecticut river,
as authorized by chapter three hundred and
ninety-seven of the acts of the present year, as
amended, a sum not exceeding four thousand dol-
lars . ..... $4,00000

726b. For the reconstruction of a bridge and its approaches
over the Mystic river in the city of Medford and
the town of Arlington by the metropolitan district
commission, as authorized by chapter four hun-
dred and thirty-two of the acts of the present year,
a sum not exceeding fifty-two thousand five hun-
dred dollars, to be paid from the Highway Fund . 52,500 00

Highway Fund Diversion
Chapter 443, Acts of 1937, provided for the transfer of the proceeds of
the gasoline tax from the Highway Fund to the General Fund, as follows:
Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat
its purpose, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law,
necessary for the immediate preservation of the public convenience.
The state treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to transfer
the sum of six million six hundred thousand dollars from the High-
way Fund to the General Fund.

P.D. 54

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Summary of Income, Year Ending November 30, 1937

Highway Fund
(Section 34, Chapter 90, General Laws, as amended)
(See Chapter 288, Acts of 1925)
Fees (for registration of motor vehicles, licenses to oper-
ate etc.) and fines (penalties, Sundry Courts) net

receipts . $6,842,163.87

Gasoline Tax, net 19,820,398.39

Contributions for highways and assessments (G. L. Ch. 81) 37,629.39

Appropriation balances of previous years reverting . 97,557.89

Contributions and refunds ...... 26,233.66

Sale of old materials and buildings .... 7,498.65

Reimbursement for repairs to guard rail and other property 7,720.69

Rent of property (Nursery) .... . 194.00

Rental of space, Public Works Building . 52,242.88

Slot Machine Receipts ....... 231.15

$26,891,870.57

Port of Boston Fund
(Chapter 91, General Laws)

Rents (leases and permits) $153,986.86

Reimbursement for services (inspection of dumping

dredged material in Boston Harbor) .... 42.08

Use of Comlth Pier No. 5 (wharfage, dockage, rentals, etc.) 143,625.36

Use of Comlth Pier No. 1 (rentals, etc.) . . 4,381.50
Revenue from permits for dumping dredged material at

receiving basins ....... 105.42

License charges ........ 17,124.58

Telephone Pay Station receipts ..... 339.83

Sales of land 38,465.00

Refunds 8,719.48

Appropriation balances of previous years reverting . 4,482.28

Hayward Creek (Rental $1,875.00, sale of land $78,550.00) 80,425.00

$451,697.39

Department Income
(Ordinary Revenue)
Sales (specifications and plans for contracts $3,994)
License charges .....
Certifying copying charges .
Sales of Atlas sheets and miscellaneous plans
Use of Province Lands (S. 25, C. 91, G. L.)
Permits for advertising signs
Use of New Bedford State Pier
Use of Cape Cod Canal State Pier .
Use of Plymouth State Pier .

$4,094.50

2,254.38

80.00

1,234.02

353.00

11,756.60

29,509.72

4,795.55

33.00

$54,110.77

Improvement of Rivers and Harbors Trust
(Sections 11, 29, Chapter 91, General Laws)
Contributions from towns, individuals or others

$59,790.00

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Highway Trust

(Section 30, Chapter 81, G. L.)

Federal Aid (reimbursement from United States Govern-
ment) 6,529,183.64

Contribution from City of Revere (Chapter 375-1934 and

487-1935) 92,990.06

Funds Contributed for Special P. W. A. Bank Account

Projects

PWA 136 ID— Central Bridge Lowell

Federal aid (reimbursement from U. S.

Government) $66,500.00

City of Lowell 60,993.00

County of Middlesex .... 60,993.00

188,486.00

PWA 1286D — Anchorage Basin, Hull

Federal aid (reimbursement from U. S.

Government) 36,610.00

Town of Hull 5,000.00

41,610.00

PWA 1301D—Comm. Pier No. 5

Federal aid (reimbursement from U. S.

Government) ...... 166,645.49

PWA 1308D — Vineyard Haven Harbor
Federal aid (reimbursement from U. S.

Government) ....... 7,455.51

Total $34,483,839.43

EXPENDITURES

The expenditures by the Department under the provisions of General
Laws and other acts and the appropriation acts, chapter 234, 434 and
445, Acts of 1937, during the fiscal year ending November 30, 1937 were
as follows:

Administrative

Commissioners, Associate Commissioners,
Personal services of clerks, stenographers,
and Commissioners' travel $29,801.30

Public Works Building, operation and main-
tenance 133,333.70

Public Works Building, telephone services 26,261.01

Public Works Building, Salaries of Guards 32,515.98

Total $221,911.99

Relating to Highways

Personal Services — Chief Engineer, Clerks

and Stenographers $95,911.24

State Highways (Chapter 81, G. L.)

General contract work .... $1,666,703.87
Engineering, salaries and miscellaneous . 648,059.54
Highway testing laboratory . . 10,381.86
Investigation of Worcester Pike 360.64
Inspection of bituminous concrete pave-
ment (Technical services) . 3,175.74
Consultant's services .... 1,544.92
Planning survey ..... 4,538.16

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Fore River Bridge

Substructure . . $116,670.42

Superstructure . . . 100,000.00

216,670.42

Maintenance and Repair of State Highways
(Chapter 81, G. L.)

Reconstruction of State Highways

General contract work .... $23,798.51

Engineering, salaries and miscellaneous . 46,275.98

Ordinary Maintenance

General Maintenance .... 1,223,422.35
Engineering, salaries and miscellaneous . 382,381.49
Highway testing laboratory . 23,679.02
Care and repair of road building machinery 397,269.20
Removal of snow on highways . . 699,022.92
Road planting and development 72,950.92
Traffic engineering, signs and traffic count 199,243.61
Paint manufacture .... 23,551.52
Newburyport Bridge, Salisbury-Newbury-
port, over Merrimack River, mainte-
nance and operation .... 7,399.23
Brightman St. Bridge, Fall River-Somer-
set, maintenance and operation . 15,550.42
New Bedford-Fairhaven Bridge, Acushnet

River, maintenance and operation 20,182.01
Quincy-Weymouth Bridge, maintenance

and operation ..... 18,291.86

Detour and route maps .... 1,827.87

Geodetic survey 3,124.45

Tractor repairs 7,891.03

Inspection of bituminous concrete pave-
ment (Technical service) 1,690.38

Construction of Toivn and County Ways
(Sec. 34\ Chapter 90, G. L.)
State's expenditures for work contracted

for in cities and towns . $2,016,517.67
Engineering and expense (supervision) . 571,917.77
Inspection of bituminous concrete pave-
ment (Technical services) . . 14,924.62
Slade's Ferry Bridge .... 20,863.25
Hull 84,212.28

2,551,435.15

70,074.49

3,097,478.28

$2,708,435.59

Aiding Towns in the Repair and Improvement
of Public Ways (Sec. 26, Chap. 81, G.L.)
State's expenditures for work contracted

for in cities and towns . $1,289,193.07

Engineering and expense (supervision) 98,256.60

1,387,449.67

Emergency Public Works Construction .... 84,297.62

Special Acts
Incidentals (printing, postage, supplies, etc.) . . 16,832.22

Advertising signs, regulation of personal

services and expenses ...... 27,252.06

Highways in Metropolitan District (Chap.
420, Acts of 1930 as amended by Chap.
450, Acts of 1931)
Section 1, Canton, Dedham, Welesley, etc. 20.00

Section 2, Canterbury St., Boston .
Section 3, Land Taking — Neponset River,

Milton

Section 4, West Roxbury-Brookline Park-
way .......

Abolition of Grade Crossings (Chapter 417,

Acts of 1930) ...
Alewife Brook Parkway Extension (Chapter

302, Acts of 1932) ....
Traffic Circle Neponset River (Chapter 341,

Acts of 1934)
Reconstruction of Ocean Ave., Revere

(Chapter 375, Acts of 1934)
Central Bridge, Lowell (Chap. 433, Acts of

1937) ....

Suppression of Gypsy and Brown-tail Moths

on State Highways in cities and towns
Topographical survey and Maps
Chap. 464 — Acts of 1935 — Bond Issue

Class 2, Construction of sidewalks .

Class 3, Hayden-Cartwright Act

Class 4, Grade Crossing, etc

Chap. 186, Acts of 1936 — State Highway
Flood Damage ....

Chap. U29, Acts of 1936 — Construction of

Certain Bridges ....

Total Expenditures for Highways

10.00

7,769.48

36,850.00

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44,649.48

4,707.50

8,401.89

40.00

51,785.86

131,488.73

12,238.90.
35,428.60

$83,589.34
2,383,908.46
4,528,542.34

$6,996,040.14

87,399.07

1,220,379.45
$18,631,725.94

Summary of Expenditures Relating to Waterways
Fiscal Year Ending November 30, 1937

General Expenses ........

Boston Harbor:
Development of Rivers and Harbors Chap. 464, Acts of

1935, Class 5)

Dredging and Filling

Maintenance and Operation Commonwealth Pier 5, South

Boston ... ....

Maintenance and Operation Commonwealth Pier 1, East

Boston ........

Maintenance of Property .....

Streets, Piers and Railroads ...

Structures in tide water, Boston Harbor, inspection of

Outside Boston Harbor:
Cape Cod Canal Pier, operation and maintenance
Compensation of Dumping Inspectors
Development of Rivers and Harbors (Chap. 464, Acts of

1935, Class 5)

Gloucester Fish Pier, construction ....

Harbor improvements, study relative to .

Improvement of Rivers and Harbors

Nantucket Sound (Chap. 374, Acts of 1935) .

New Bedford Pier, operation and maintenance

Plymouth Property, expenses of

Plymouth Pier, reconstruction (Chap. 429, Acts of 1935)

Province lands, expenses of .

Repairing Damage to shores .....

Roughans Point, Revere (Chap. 358, Acts of 1936) .

Salisbury Beach, improvement of (Chap. 399, Acts of 1934)

Stream Gauging ........

$54,334.80

282,662.42
87,859.63

114,885.73

7,025.23
79,797.62
10,450.84
10,083.78

4,470.91
152.85

2,109.41

349,056.27

2,497.71

207,535.80

24,635.91

8,064.87

3,117.53

6,716.25

4,917.37

6,841.12

140,498.60

104.00

5,000.00

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Structures in Tide Water, outside Boston Harbor . 3,772.03

Topographical Survey ....... 810.07

Town Boundaries, surveying 290.71
W.P.A. Grants, expenses in connection with (Chap. 432,

Acts of 1936) 23,970.45

Total $1,441,661.91

Expenditures Relating to the Registry of Motor Vehicles

Cost of Running the Registry of Motor Vehicles . . $1,577,788.09
Safety Work, Publicity 407.90

Total ..- $1,578,195.99

Summary of Expenditures by Department
for Year Ending November 30, 1937

Administrative $221,911.99

Relating to Highways 18,631,725.94

Registry of Motor Vehicles 1,578,195.99

Relating to Waterways 1,441,661.91

Total $21,873,495.83

Co-operative Work — Supervision of Expenditures
The Department has supervised the expenditures during the year by
cities, towns and counties, under Chapter 81, General Laws, as amended,
of approximately $3,009,386.54 for co-operative work, in repairing, main-
taining and improving certain public ways, and for other road work for
which the towns and cities made contributions. All such work was carried
out in conformity with contracts, specifications and plans approved by
the Department.

Financial statement verified.

Approved Geo. E. Murphy, Comptroller.

RELATING TO HIGHWAYS
General Statement

State Highways. — During the year ending November 30, 1937, the
Department laid out new State Highways amounting to 10.75 miles in
7 cities and towns. Under Chapter 81, General Laws, as amended by
Chapter 427, Acts of 1931, 3.45 miles of State Highways were discon-
tinued or abandoned. The total length of State Highways at the end of
the year was 1894.45 miles.

Highways Constructed in 1937. — Construction has been completed on
13.814 miles of State Highway, 166.245 miles of highway under the Pro-
visions of Section 34, Chapter 90, General Laws as amended, and 5.947
miles of highway under the Provisions of Special Acts, making a total
of 186.006 miles completed during the year.

Of the above highways completed this year, the classification according
to type of pavement is as follows:

0.099 Mile of Dual (Reinf. Cone, and Bit. Macadam)
33.138 Miles of Bituminous Macadam
55.885 Miles of Bituminous Concrete
44.580 Miles of Bituminous Concrete (Mixed in Place)
17.122 Miles of Gravel with Bituminous Treatment
14.766 Miles of Gravel
20.416 Miles of Penolithic
Resurfacing, Reconstruction and Widening of Highways. — During the
year 4.401 miles of highway were widened but not resurfaced, and

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16.984 miles of State Highway were resurfaced or reconstructed and
widened. In addition to this work on which the surfacing has been com-
pleted, there are several miles of road in various stages of completion
which are scheduled to be finished next year.

The Resurfacing or Reconstruction of State Highways in 1937 was
divided into types as follows:

1.301 Miles of Reinforced Cement Concrete
0.151 Miles of Bituminous Macadam
12.723 Miles of Bituminous Concrete
2.809 Miles of Penolithic
Surveys, Plans and Estimates. — During the year ending November
30, 1937, preliminary surveys, plans and estimates were made as follows:
For State Highway Construction. — Reconnaissance surveys and plans
in 2 cities and 7 towns, 25.9 miles; reconnaissance estimates in 21 towns,
79.82 miles; preliminary surveys in 6 cities and 9 towns, 12.146 miles;
plans in 6 cities and 9 towns, 15.883 miles; preliminary estimates in 5
cities and 7 towns, 13.560 miles; lines and grades in 5 cities and 7 towns,
13.560 miles ; and final surveys in 2 cities and 5 towns, 5.682 miles.

For State Highway Reconstruction. — Reconnaissance surveys and
plans in 1 town, 0.5 mile; reconnaissance estimates in 1 city and 2 towns,
4.8 miles; preliminary surveys in 4 cities and 14 towns, 25.575 miles;
plans in 4 cities and 13 towns, 24.782 miles; preliminary estimates in 2
cities and 2 towns, 3.789 miles ; lines and grades in 2 cities and 2 towns,
3.789 miles; and final surveys in 3 cities and 4 towns, 10.591 miles.

For State Highway Maintenance. — Preliminary surveys in 2 cities and
2 towns, 2.396 miles; plans in 2 cities and 3 towns, 1.591 miles; prelim-
inary estimate in 1 city, 0.199 miles; lines and grades in 1 city; 0.199
miles; and final surveys in- 3 towns, 0.252 mites.

Under Section 3k, Chapter 90, General Laws, as Amended. — Recon-
naissance surveys and plans in 1 city and 11 towns, 12.7 miles; re-
connaissance estimates in 1 city, 0.208 miles; preliminary surveys in 27
cities and 137 towns, 153.452 miles; plans in 26 cities and 168 towns,
157.392 miles; preliminary estimates in 27 cities and 251 towns, 299.061
miles; lines and grades in 28 cities and 252 towns,, 318.689 miles; and
final surveys in 9 cities and 45 towns, 36.263 miles.

Under the Provisions of Various Acts and Resolves. — Surveys, plans,
estimates, lines and grades, and final surveys were made as follows:

Chapter 24, Resolves of 1937: 0.568 mile of estimate in one city.
Chapter 60. Resolves of 1937: 48 miles of estimates in 4 cities
and 11 towns.

Chapter 429, Acts of 1936: 4.530 miles of preliminary surveys in
2 cities and 18 towns ; 4.294 miles of plans in 2 cities and 13 towns ;
4.986 miles of preliminary estimates in 2 cities and 33 towns; 4.986
miles of lines and grades in 2 cities and 33 towns; and 2.074 miles of
final surveys in 1 city and 11 towns.

Chapter 433, Acts of 1936: 0.265 mile of preliminary surveys in 1
city; 0.227 mile of plans in 1 city; 0.104 mile of preliminary estimate
in 1 city ; and 0.104 mile of lines and grades in 1 city.

Chapter 464, Acts of 1935: 0.227 mile of preliminary sui'veys in 1
town; 0.227 mile of plans in 1 town; 0.194 mile of preliminary
estimates in 1 city and 1 town; 0.194 mile of lines and grades in 1
city and 1 town; and 11.943 miles of final surveys in 3 cities and 9
towns.

Chapter 488, Acts of 1935: 0.189 mile of preliminary survey and
plan in 1 town.
During the year the Massachusetts Geodetic Survey, which is a Works
Progress Administration Project sponsored by the Massachusetts De-
partment of Public Works, has made level, traverse, and triangulation
surveys, and has established bench marks, traverse and triangulation
stations as follows :

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345 miles of second order leveling, including 334 bench marks, in

56 cities and towns.
427 miles of first order leveling, including 660 bench marks, in 74

cities and towns.
2672.3 miles of triangulation, including 100 permanent triangulation

stations, in 85 cities and towns.
392 miles of traverses, including 338 permanent traverse stations, in
106 cities and towns.
103 new town and city maps were drawn and 110 town and city maps
were redrawn.

Permits. — There were 808 permits issued during the year for opening
or occupying State Highways for various purposes.

Engineering Advice to Other Departments. — Advice to Department of
Mental Diseases; preliminary surveys in 1 town, 1.136 miles; plans in
1 town, 0.157 mile; preliminary estimates in 1 town, 0.150 mile; lines and
grades in 1 town, 0.150 mile; and final surveys in 1 town, 0.568 mile.

Engineering Advice to Municipal Authorities. — The Department fur-
nished engineering advice without charge to 13 cities and towns in
accordance with the provisions of Section 1, Chapter 81, General Laws.
Approval of Specifications. — The Department approved during the year
under the provisions of Section 7, Chapter 44, General Laws, as amended,
specifications for the construction of roads in 10 cities and towns.

Planting of Trees on State Highways. — During the past year 803 trees
were planted along roadsides making a total of 76,956 trees thus set out
in the past thirty-three years. In addition there were planted throughout
the State 2444 shrubs.

Petitions. Meetings and Hearings
In addition to the regular weekly meetings of the Department through-
out the year, numerous hearings and conferences have been held, includ-
ing the annual hearings in the several counties in the Commonwealth for
the open discussion of questions relating to the public ways, as required
by section 1, chapter 81, General Laws; appeals from the action taken
by the Registrar of Motor Vehicles in the suspension or revocation of
certain licenses to operate motor vehicles in 220 cases; on the matter of
outdoor advertising in several towns and cities ; on the matter of special
regulations for motor vehicles in Melrose and Wellesley; on the matter
of laying out a State highway in the towns of Petersham and New Salem
under the provisions of Chapter 218 of the Acts of 1937; and on the
matter of the elimination of grade crossings in Gardner, Worcester, North
Adams and Milford.

Petitions were received and contracts signed during the year as follows :

Petitions Contracts
State Highways ....... 4 3

Work under section 34, chapter 90, General Laws — 552

Work under section 26, chapter 81, General Laws 177 177

Work under Special Acts ..... — 59

Elimination of Grade Crossings .... — 6

Miscellaneous ....... — 11

Total 181 808

State Highways
Petitions for State Highways

General Laws, chapter 81, section 4 (Tercentenary Edition), provides
that —

"If county commissioners, aldermen or selectmen adjudge that public
necessity and convenience require that the Commonwealth lay out and
take charge of a new or existing way as a highway in whole or in part,
in their county, city or town, they may apply, by a written petition,' to

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the department, requesting that said way be laid out and taken charge
of by the commonwealth."

Petitions under the aforesaid section have been received during the
year as follows : —

Selectmen of Agawam : — Road extending from the bridge at the Aga-
wam-West Springfield line westerly to the dividing line between the
towns of Agawam and Southwick (known as Auto Route 57). Re-
ceived January 19, 1937.

Selectmen of Lynnfield: — Road locally known as Locust Street, ex-
tending from Salem Street to the dividing line between the town
of Lynnfield and the city of Peabody. Received May 13, 1937.

Selectmen of Clinton: — Road locally known as High Street, Water
Street, Main Street and the West Boylston Road, extending from
the dividing line between the towns of Lancaster and Clinton to the
dividing line between the towns of Clinton and Sterling. Received
July 12, 1937.

Selectmen of Andover: — Road locally known as Lowell Street, extend-
ing from Shawsheen Village to the dividing line between the towns
of Andover and Tewksbury. Received September 10, 1937.

Construction of State Highways
(Chapter 81, General Laws, as amended)

The following contracts were entered into during the year for the con-
struction of State highways, and work incidental thereto, in various
municipalities : —

Dartmouth and Westport

December 15, 1936, contract made with J. A. Singarella Construction
Corp.. of Boston, for constructing about 1,750 feet of State highway on
State Road in Dartmouth, and about 450 feet of State highway on the
same road in Westport, and constructing a dam and appurtenant struc-
tures in Dartmouth at Westport Factory, the surface of the highway con-
sisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to $113,399.75.
Work completed September 18, 1937. Expenditure during 1937, $111,-
586.61.

Fitchburg -Leominster

July 27, 1937, contract made with A. G. Tomasello & Son, Inc., of
Boston, for constructing about 8,665 feet of State highway on new loca-
tion in Leominster, about 2,800 feet on new location and 2,080 feet on
5th Massachusetts Turnpike in Fitchburg. The proposal amounted to
$345,111.58. Work about two-thirds completed. Expenditure during
1937, $237,439.05.

Sheffield

July 21, 1937, contract made with B. A. Gardetto, Inc., of Boston, for
constructing about 418 feet of State highway on Ashley Falls Road in
Sheffield, the surface consisting of bituminous macadam. The proposal
amounted to $6,611.65. Work about one-fourth completed. Expenditure
during 1937, $1,748.53.

Expenditures for Construction of State Highways
The expenditures for the construction of State highways in various
Counties during the year were : —

Barnstable

Berkshire

Essex

Franklin

Hampden

Hampshire,

$372,680.63 Middlesex

7,151.90 Norfolk

192,312.98 Plymouth

10,325.73 Suffolk

4,771.98 Worcester
49,613.75

$447,950.73

84,065.71

1,061.86

782,912.20

381,917.26

Total $2,334,764.73

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Details of the foregoing expenditures follow: —

Barnstable County. — Bourne, $33,176.72; Eastham, $279,432.79; Fal-
mouth, $64.44; Orleans, $60,006.68.

Berkshire County.— Cheshire, $231.22; North Adams, $76.22; Otis,
$77.09; Pittsfield, $6,767.37.

Essex County. — Essex, $562.11; Gloucester, $562.09; Lynn, $268.38;
Peabody, $14,008.28; Saugus, $176,802.20; Swampscott, $109.92.

Franklin County. — Charlemont, $284.42; Greenfield, $1,001.59; Monta-
gue, $9,039.72.

Hampden County.— Brimfield, $28.02 ; Holyoke, $4,743.96.

Hampshire County. — Easthampton, $28.02; Hadley, $24,168.59; Hunt-
ington, $328.41; Northampton, $24,168.60; So. Hadley, $920.13.

Middlesex County.— Billerica, $1,711.00; Chelmsford, $1,711.00; Con-
cord, $1,032.01; Dracut, $106.46; Framingham, $289.99; Maiden, $432,-
513.30; Newton, $3,221.90; Tewksbury, $3,378.80; Wayland, $3,636.06;
Woburn, $350.21.

Norfolk County.— Braintree, $41.77; Brookline, $6,286.30; Cohasset,
$2,720.75; Dedham, $39,903.50; Milton, $969.64; Quincy, $14,022.37;
Wellesley, $6,099.01; Weymouth, $14,022.37.

Plymouth County. — Duxbury, $7.00; Scituate, $385.22; Wareham,
$669.64.

Suffolk County.— Boston, $146,349.34; Revere, $636,562.86.

Worcester County.— Athol, $1,365.81; Fitchburg, $177,430.59; Leo-
minster, $172,649.87; Millbury, $28,994.70; Sutton, $5.42; Webster,
$1,120.66; West Boylston, $350.21.

Highway Improvements Authorized by Special Acts

Flood Bridges

Chapter U29, Acts of 1936

The reconstruction of Massachusetts bridges which were damaged dur-
ing the flood of 1935 was financed partly by federal funds and partly by
funds contributed by the state, counties, cities and towns.

The federal funds were authorized under the Emergency Relief Appro-
priation Act of 1936, approved June 22, 1936. These funds were appor-
tioned to the states by the Department of Agriculture acting through
the Bureau of Public Roads. In the majority of cases federal funds
provided for 75% of the cost of a project.

The remainder of the cost was borne by the state, counties, cities and
towns. The non-federal funds for those projects which were on state
highways were financed under the provisions of Chapter 186 of the Acts
of 1936. The greater part of the projects however were not on state
highways and these projects were financed under the provisions of
Chapter 429 of the Acts of 1936.

In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 429 of the Acts of 1936,
providing for the repair or reconstruction of certain bridges damaged by
recent floods, the following contracts were entered into: —

Pepperell
Dec. 30, 1936, contract made with Coleman Bros. Corporation, of Bos-
ton, for constructing a steel stringer bridge of four spans with a con-
crete deck at Station 10 on Main Street, over the Nashua River, and the
approaches thereto, the surface on the approaches consisting of bitumin-
ous macadam, and the surface over the bridge consisting of bituminous
concrete. The proposal amounted to $69,544.90. Work completed Nov.
24, 1937. Expenditure .during 1937, $72,636.82.

Leominster

Feb. 2, 1937, contract made with G. Bonazzoli & Sons, of Bolton, for

constructing a steel stringer bridge of three spans with a concrete deck

at Mechanic Street, over the Nashua River, and the approaches thereto,

the surface on the approaches consisting of gravel and tar mixed in place,

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and the surface on the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The
proposal amounted to $49,226.90. Work completed Nov. 24, 1937. Ex-
penditure during 1937, $40,496.58.

Erving -Montague

Feb. 9, 1937, contract made with Charles I. Hosmer, Inc., of Greenfield,
for constructing a steel truss bridge with concrete deck at Station
4+85.50, over Millers River, and the approaches thereto, the surface on
the approaches consistig of bituminnus macadam, and the surface on the
bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to
$50,142.00. Work completed Sept. 1, 1937. Expenditure during 1937.
$32,760.49.

Lancaster

March 9, 1937, contract made with Richard White Sons, Inc., of West
Newton, for constructing a steel stringer bridge of two spans with con-
crete deck on Center Bridge Road over Nashua River, and the approaches
thereto, the surface on the approaches consisting of bituminous macadam,
and the surface on the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The
proposal amounted to $43,960.30. Work completed Aug. 13, 1937. Ex-
penditure during 1937, $46,457.14.

Ludlow-Wilbraham

March 11, 1937, contract made with Mario Pandolf Company, Inc., of
Needham. for constructing a two span continuous steel stringer bridge
with a concrete deck between Ludlow and Wilbraham over the Chicopee
River, and the approaches thereto, the surface on the approaches con-
sisting of gravel and tar mixed in place. The proposal amounted to
$64,950.15. Work about three-fourths completed. Expenditure during
1937, $45,953.55.

Barre

March 30, 1937, contract made with E. Whitehead, Inc., of Worcester,
for constructing a steel truss bridge with a concrete floor at South Barre
over the Ware River, and the approaches thereto, the surface on the
approaches consisting of broken stone and tar mixed in place, and the
surface on the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal
amounted to $27,311.35. Work completed Nov. 26, 1937. Expenditure
during 1937, $23,649.80.

Dudley-Webster

April 20, 1937, contract made with G. Bonazzoli & Sons, of Hudson, for
constructing a steel stringer bridge with concrete deck at Perryville over
the Manexit River, and the approaches thereto, the surface on the ap-
proachs consisting of broken stone and tar mixed in place, and the sur-
face on the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal
amounted to $18,853.50. Work completed Oct. 27, 1937. Expenditure dur-
ing 1937, $15,533.81.

Royalston

April 20, 1937, contract made with Marshall M. Day, of Athol, for
constructing two steel pony truss bridges, one at King Street and the
other at Baldwinville Road, over Millers River, and the approaches there-
to, the surface on the approaches consisting of broken stone and tar mixed
in place, and the surfaces on the bridges consisting of bituminous con-
crete. The proposal amounted to $60,010.00. Work about one-fifth com-
pleted. Expenditure during 1937, $12,545.68.

Bolton
April 20, 1937, contract made with Rendle Contracting Company, of
Boston, for constructing a steel stringer bridge with concrete deck and
precast concrete pile bents on Seven Bridge Road over Still River, and
the approaches thereto, the surface on the approaches consisting of
bituminous macadam, and the surface on the bridge consisting of bitum-

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inous concrete. The proposal amounted to $23,443.00. Work about four-
fifths completed. Expenditure during 1937, $19,414.72.

Gardner- Templeton

April 20, 1937, contract made with Antonio Pandiscio, of Fitchburg,
for constructing a steel stringer bridge with concrete floor on Templeton
Road over Otter River, and the approaches thereto, the surface on the
bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to
$8,936.50. Work completed Oct. 18, 1937. Expenditure during 1937,
$6,439.51.

Lunenburg

April 21, 1937, contract made with John Moran, Inc., of Fitchburg, for
constructing a steel stringer bridge with concrete deck on Townsend
Harbor Road over Mulpus Brook, and the approaches thereto, the sur-
face of the approaches consisting of bituminous treated gravel, and the
surface of the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal
amounted to $10,728.30. Work completed September 22, 1937. Expendi-
ture during 1937, $8,987.31.

Athol-Orange

May 18, 1937, contract made with John Iafolla Construction Co., of
Dedham, for constructing a steel stringer bridge with a concrete deck at
Pinedale over Lawrence Brook, and the approaches thereto, the surface
of the approaches consisting of broken stone and tar mixed in place, and
the surface of the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The pro-
posal amounted to $23,712.00. Work about four-fifths completed. Ex-
penditure during 1937, $19,624.45.

Sterling

May 18, 1937, contract made with Sebastiano Cali, of Fitchburg, for
constructing a concrete slab bridge on Bridge Road over East Wachusett
Brook, and the approaches thereto, the surface of the approaches con-
sisting of broken stone and tar mixed in place, and the surface of the
bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to
$11,836.05. Work completed October 16, 1937. Expenditure during
1937, $10,652.65.

Ware

May 19, 1937, contract made with H. P. Cummings Construction Com-
pany, of Ware, for constructing a steel stringer bridge with a concrete
deck at Gibbs Crossing over Ware River, and the approaches thereto,
the surface of the approaches consisting of a penolithic type of pavement,
and the surface of the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The
proposal amounted to $49,684.70. Work about three-fifths completed.
Expenditure during 1937, $30,836.52.

Northfield

May 19, 1937, contract made with Charles I. Hosmer, Inc., of Green-
field, for constructing a steel stringer bridge with concrete deck on Burn-
ham Road over Mill Brook, and the approaches thereto, the surface on
the approaches consisting of broken stone and tar mixed in place, and
the surface on the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The pro-
posal amounted to $23,021.70. Work completed Nov. 6, 1937. Expenditure
during 1937, $18,079.67.

Petersham

May 19, 1937, contract made with Basilio Petricca, of Pittsfield, for
constructing a steel stringer bridge with concrete deck at Station
66+68.17, over Swift River (East Branch), and the approaches thereto,
the surface on the approaches consisting of bituminous macadam, and
the surface on the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The pro-
posal amounted to $27,606.00. Work completed Oct. 19, 1937. Expendi-
ture during 1937, $23,290.22.

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Barre
May 19, 1937, contract made with John A. Gaffey & Son, of Medford,
for constructing a steel stringer bridge with concrete deck on New
Braintree Road over the Ware River, known as Powder Mill Bridge, and
the approaches thereto, the surface on the approaches consisting of gravel
and tar mixed in place, and the surface on the bridge consisting of bitum-
inous concrete. The proposal amounted to $30,048.30. Work about one-
half completed. Expenditure during 1937, $16,641.72.

Hadley
June 1, 1937, contract made with Kelleher Corporation, of Montague,
for constructing a concrete slab bridge on Main Street over Mill River,
and the approaches thereto, the surface course on both bridge and
approaches consisting of bituminous macadam. The proposal amounted
to $27,649.40. Work completed Nov. 2, 1937. Expenditure during 1937,
$24,864.23.

Ashfield
June 1, 1937, contract made with Kelleher Corporation, of Montague,
for constructing a steel stringer bridge with concrete deck at Spruce
Corner over Swift River, and the approaches thereto, the surface on the
approaches consisting of bituminous treated gravel, and the surface on
the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to
$17,741.00. Work completed September 25, 1937. Expenditure during
1937, $15,103.45.

Palmer
June 1, 1937, contract made with B. A. Gardetto, Inc., of Boston, for
constructing a concrete beam bridge on Main Street, and one on Church
Street, both over the Ware River, and approaches thereto, the surface
courses for the approaches to both bridges consisting of standard bitum-
inous macadam, and the surface on both bridges consisting of bituminous
concrete. The proposal amounted to $76,227.10. Work about six-sevenths
completed. Expenditure during 1937, $63,260.32.

Ware
June 8, 1937, contract made with H. P. Cummings Construction Com-
pany of Ware, for constructing a steel stringer bridge with a concrete
deck on Church Street over the Ware River, and approaches thereto, the
surface on the approaches consisting of broken stone and tar mixed in
place, and the surface on the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete.
The proposal amounted to $44,291.20. Work about three-fourths com-
pleted. Expenditure during 1937, $32,243.94.

Princeton-Sterling
June 15, 1937, contract made with Wachusett Engineering Co., of
Fitchburg, for constructing a concrete slab bridge on Redemption Rock
Trail over Keyes Brook between the towns of Princeton and Sterling, and
approaches thereto, the surface on the approaches consisting of bitumin-
ous treated gravel, and the surface on the bridge consisting of bitumin-
ous concrete. The proposal amounted to $11,840.00. Work about five-
sixths completed. Expenditure during 1937, $10,064.08.

Hatfield
June 30, 1937, contract made with Kelleher Corporation, of Montague,
for constructing a steel stringer bridge with concrete deck at station
5+54 on Bridge Street over Mill River, and approaches thereto, the sur-
face on the approaches consisting of gravel and tar mixed in place, and
the surface on the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The pro-
posal amounted to $40,118.00. Work about three-fourths completed. Ex-
penditure during 1937, $31,394.32.

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Belcher town-Palmer
June 30, 1937, contract made with Frank T. Wescott, of North Attle-
borough, for constructing a steel stringer bridge of three spans, with a
concrete deck, on Depot Street over Swift River, and approaches thereto,
the surface on the approaches consisting of bituminous macadam, and the
surface on the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal
amounted to $54,312.25. Work about three-fifths completed. Expendi-
ture during 1937, $33,584.99.

Adams

June 30, 1937, contract made with Hubert W. Flaherty, of Adams,
for constructing a steel stringer bridge with a concrete deck on Lime
Street over the Hoosac River, and approaches thereto, the surface on the
approaches consisting of gravel and tar mixed in place, and the surface
on the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The propsal amounted
to $29,810.75. Work about one-half completed. Expenditure during 1937,
$16,097.72.

Colrain

June 30, 1937, contract made with Charles I. Hosmer, Inc., of Green-
field, for constructing three bridges as follows, and approaches thereto,
the surface on the approaches consisting of gravel and tar mixed in place:
a concrete rigid frame bridge at the site of the Frank Herzig Bridge over
West Branch of North River, a concrete beam bridge over an overflow at
the site of the Frank Herzig Bridge and a concrete rigid frame bridge
at the site of the Robert Hillman Bridge over the West Branch of the
North River. The proposal amounted to $46,360.40. Work about ten-
elevenths completed. Expenditure during 1937, 40,354.25.

Orange
July 6, 1937, contract made with Charles I. Hosmer, Inc., of Greenfield,
for constructing a steel stringer bridge, dam, sluice gates and pen-stock
extension at Orcutt Brook on Warwick Road, and approaches, the surface
on the approaches consisting of broken stone and tar mixed in place, and
the surface on the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal
amounted to $25,498.50. Work about four-fifths completed. Expenditure
during 1937, $20,043.85.

Uxbridge
July 6, 1937, contract made with Richard White Sons, Inc., of Newton,
for constructing a steel stringer bridge with concrete deck on Mendon
Street over the Blackstone River, and approaches thereto, the surface on
both the bridge and approaches consisting of bituminous concrete. The
proposal amounted to $51,527.30. Work about four-fifths completed.
Expenditure during 1937, $39,892.07.

Princeton
July 6, 1937, contract made with R. H. Newell Company, of Uxbridge,
for constructing a steel stringer bridge with concrete deck on Roper's
Saw Mill Road over Ware River, and approaches thereto, the surface on
the approaches consisting of gravel and tar mixed in place, and the sur-
face on the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal
amounted to $10,358.00. Work completed October 30, 1937. Expendi-
ture during 1937, $8,312.56.

Holden
July 6, 1937. contract made with Charles A. E. LaRose, of Ware, for
constructing a concrete beam and slab bridge on River Street over Quina-
poxet River, and approaches thereto, the surface on the approaches con-
sisting of gravel and tar mixed in place. Th proposal amounted to $15,-
584.10. Work completed November 20, 1937. Expenditure during 1937,
$12,669.46.

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Charlemont-Shelburne-Cofrain

July 7, 1937, contract made with Charles I. Hosmer, Inc., of Greenfield,
for constructing two steel arch bridges with concrete decks, as follow,
and approaches thereto, the surface on the approaches to the Charlemont-
Shelburne bridge consisting of broken stone and tar mixed in place, the
surface on the westerly approach to the Colrain bridge consisting of
bituminous treated gravel and the surface on the easterly approach to the
Colrain bridge consisting of bituminous macadam: one bridge known as
Four Mile Square Bridge is to be constructed over the North River in
Charlemont and Shelburne, and one bridge is to be constructed on Adams-
ville Road over the North River, in the town of Colrain, the surface on
the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to
$99,591.50. Work about one-twelfth completed. Expenditure during
1937, $8,927.55

Sutton

July 7, 1937, contract made with A. Grande, of Boston, for constructing
a steel stringer bridge with concrete deck on Stevens Street over Mum-
ford River, and approaches thereto, the surface on the approaches
consisting of broken stone and tar mixed in place, and the surface over
the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to
$25,967.00. Work about two-fifths completed. Expenditure during 1937,
$17,440.68.

Berlin

July 7, 1937, contract made with John Moran, Inc., of Fitchburg, for
constructing a steel stringer bridge with concrete deck on Bridge Road
over Assabet River, and approaches thereto, the surface on the approaches
consisting of gravel and tar mixed in place, and the surface on the bridge
consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to $22,998.50.
Work about nine-elevenths completed. Expenditure during 1937, $18,-
824.31.

Orange

July 7, 1937, contract made with Louis Balboni, Inc., of Boston, for
costructing a steel stringer bridge with concrete deck on Holtshire Street
over Millers River, and approaches thereto, the surface on the approaches
consisting of gravel and tar mixed in place, and the surface on the bridge
consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to $33,630.50.
Work about one-half completed. Expenditure during 1937, $14,169.50.

Athol-Orange

July 7, 1937, contract made with Louis Balboni, Inc., of Boston, for
constructing a steel stringer bridge with concrete deck at Fryeville over
Lawrence Brook, and approaches thereto, the surface on the approaches
consisting of broken stone and tar mixed in place, and the surface on the
bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to
$17,040. 80. _Work about two-thirds completed. Expenditure during 1937,
$11,409.16.

Winchendon
July 7, 1937, contract made with G. Bonazzoli & Sons, of Hudson, for
constructing a steel stringer bridge with concrete deck on High Street
over Millers River, and approaches thereto, the surface on the approaches
consisting of gravel and tar mixed in place, and the surface on the bridge
consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal' amounted to $24,310.75.
Work about five-sixths completed. Expenditure during 1937, $19,737.85.

Athol

July 7, 1937, contract made with Charles I. Hosmer, Inc., of Greenfield,

for constructing a steel stringer bridge with concrete deck on Crescent

Street over Millers River, and approaches thereto, the surface on the

approaches and on the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The

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proposal amounted to $33,507.00. Work about one-half completed. Ex-
penditure during 1937, $16,407.55.

Dudley
July 7, 1937, contract made with A. Grande, of Boston, for construct-
ing a steel stringer bridge with a concrete deck on Brandon Road over
French River, and approaches thereto, the surface on the approaches
consisting of gravel and tar mixed in place, and the surface on the
bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to
$21,020.50. Work about six-sevenths completed. Expenditure during
1937, $17,530.20.

Pepperell
June 22, 1937, contract made with Coleman Bros. Corporation, of
Boston, for constructing a concrete rigid frame bridge on Mill Street over
Nissitisett River, and approaches thereto, the surface on the approaches
consisting of gravel and tar mixed in place, and the surface on the bridge
consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to $26,147.50.
Work about five-sixths completed. Expenditure during 1937, $22,222.77.

Fitchburg
July 14, 1937, contract made with Wachusett Engineering Co., Inc., of
Fitchburg, for constructing a steel stringer bridge with concrete deck on
Circle Street over the Nashua River, and approaches thereto, the surface
on the easterly approach to the bridge and the surface on the bridge
consisting of bituminous concrete, and the surface on the westerly
approach to the bridge consisting of granite blocks. The proposal
amounted to $33,654.50. Work about nine-elevenths completed. Expendi-
ture during 1937, $27,140.53.

Northfield
July 19, 1937, contract made with Warnard Constructors Inc., of North-
field, for constructing a concrete box culvert and steel penstock on Mount
Hermon Road at the outlet to Nelson Pond, and approaches thereto, the
surface on the approaches consisting of gravel and tar mixed in place.
The proposal amounted to $10,432.00. Work about seven-tenths com-
pleted. Expenditure during 1937, $7,980.65.

Toivnsend
Aug. 24, 1937, contract made with Antonio Pandiscio, of Fitchburg,
for constructing a steel through plate girder bridge with a concrete deck
on South Street over Squannacook River, and approaches thereto, the
surface on the approaches consisting of gravel and tar mixed in place.
The proposal amounted to $17,834.10. Work about five-ninths completed.
Expenditure during 1937, $9,813.25.

Pepperell

Aug. 25, 1937, contract' made with Romano Cement Construction Com-
pany of Fitchburg, for furnishing and placing new supports, removing
existing walls and constructing a new wall under the mill office and
restaurant building of the Nashua Paper Company located on Main
Street, over the Nashua River. The proposal amounted to $3,810.25.
Work completed Nov. 13, 1937. Expenditure during 1937, $3,215.04.

Orange

Aug. 31, 1937, contract made with Charles I. Hosmer, Inc., of Green-
field, for constructing a steel stringer bridge with concrete deck on
South Main Street over Millers River, and approaches thereto, the sur-
face on the approaches and on the bridge consisting of bituminous con-
crete. The proposal amounted to $71,435.10. Work about one-ninth com-
pleted. Expenditure during 1937, $8,583.30.

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Lowell
Nov. 16, 1937, contract made with Frederick W. Byron, of Cambridge,
for repairing the Moody Street Bridge over the Merrimack River. The
proposal amounted to $8,602.50. Work not yet started. No expenditure
during 1937.

The expenditures during the year under Chapter 429 (Acts of 1936)
for the construction of certain bridges in various counties were as
follows :

Berkshire .

$ 19,765.15

Franklin

. 221,858.63

Hampden .

. 159,082.61

Total

Berkshire Co.

Project

Town

WPFR-1

Adams

H.B. 5-2

Cheshire

H.B. 18-1

North Adams

H.B. 30-2

Sandisfield

H.B. 39-2

Windsor

Franklin Co.

WPFR-24

Ashfield

H.B. 2-2

Charlemont .

H.B. 2-12

Colrain

H.B. 2-7

Colrain

WPFR-8

Colrain

WPFR5

Colrain

WPFR12.

Colrain

WPFR6

Colrain

H.B. 2-8

Conway

WPFR 136

Conway

WPFR 10

Erving

H.B. 2-1

Montague

H.B. 2-9

Montague

WPFR 10

Montague

H.B. 2-10

Northfield

WPFR-17

Northfield

WPFR 14

Northfield

WPFR 22

Orange

WPFR 18

Orange

WPFR 21

Orange

WPFR 19

Orange

WPFR 20

Orange

H.B. 2-4

Warwick

H.B. 2-3

Wendell

Hampden Co.

WPFR 36

Belchertown-Palmer

H.B. 4-18

Blandford

H.B. 4-2

Blandford

Hampshire
Middlesex .
Worcester

Sub-total

. $131,505.32
. 135,499.20
. 533,449.26

$1,201,160.17

Total

$18,899.35

148.23

36.40

578.99

102.18

$19,765.15

$2,670.34
1,556.30

32,542.10
5,509.39

12,946.24

11,017.75

143.80
244.98

346.90
2,613.21

9,074.28

2,057.48

20,896.08

9,524.69

22,003.65
10,317.87
16,229.28
6,903.96
10,260.01

17,255.19
630.45

64.61
174.50

66,242.12

388.78
26,764.11

12,034.39

32,478.25

65,714.77
127.93
222.64

$221,858.63

36,231.70

239.11

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H.B. 3-38

Brimfield

H.B. 3-39

Brimfield

H.B. 6-2

Chester

H.B. 2-5

Easthampton

WPFR-33

Ludlow

WPFR 34

Palmer

WPFR 35

Palmer

WPFR 33

Wilbraham

Hampshire Co.

Project

Town

WPFR-29

Hadley

WPFR 30

Hatfield

H.B. 2-11

Hatfield

H.B. 2-13

Hatfield

H.B. 2-6

Ware

WPFR 32

Ware

WPFR 31

Ware

Middlesex Co.

H.B. 4-25

Acton .

H.B. 4-15

Dracut

H.B. 4-9

Framingham

H.B. 4-24

Hudson

WPFR-39

Lowell .

H.B. 4-19

Lowell .

H.B. 4-12

Lowell .

245.56
197.09

H.B. 4-23 Maynard
WPFR-42 Pepperell

WPFR 43 No.l Pepperell
WPFR 43 No.2 Pepperell
H.B. 4-6 Pepperell

H.B.

4-4

Shirley

H.B.

4-5

Shirley

H.B.

4-22

Shirley

WPFR-45

Townsend

H.B.

4-11

Townsend

H.B.

4-20

Townsend

Worcester Co.

H.B.

3-35

Ashburnham

H.B.

3-60

Ashburnham

H.B.

3-66

Ashburnham

H.B.

3-95

Ashburnham

H.B.

3-67

Ashburnham

H.B.

3-86

Ashburnham

H.B.

3-78

Ashburnham

H.B.

3-36

Ashburnham

H.B.

3-80

Ashburnham

37,855.71
33,837.06

Sub-total

34,591.90

786.80

25.00

1,834.39
34,570.45
32,668.13

606.24

2,528.53

96.00

25,642.66

76,830.27

3,589.97

1,006.49

453.67

481.80

2,705.63

11,214.38

554.80

3,774.69

422.71

369.29

1,930.55

1,069.05

50.00

403.12

923.85

160.05

2,250.22

442.65

80.90

280.13

25,468.62

71,692.77
24,646.73

$159,082.61

Total
$27,028.65

35,403.70

69,072.97

$131,505.32

1,879.02

337.53

3.75

78.75

3,230.77
3,715.02

107,069.39

3,641.10

15,543.87
$135,499.20

7,578.84

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H.B. 3-15

Athol .

260.81

H.B. 3-97

Athol .

1,350.45

H.B. 3-70

Athol .

1,250.58

H.B. 3-64

Athol .

453.81

WPFR 53

Athol .

. 17,277.11

WPFR 19

Athol .

6,694.55

WPFR 20

Athol .

. 11,222.43

38,509.74

WPFR 58

Barre

. 18,676.08

WPFR 59

Barre

. 25,530.47

H.B. 3-100

Barre

2,321.13

46,527.68

H.B. 3-22

Berlin .

268.78

WPFR 60

Berlin .

19,541.94

19,810.72

H.B. 3-28

Blackstone

507.57

WPFR-61

Bolton .

21,302.28

H.B. 3-58

Charlton

417.22

H.B. 3-55

Charlton

498.36

H.B. 3-84

Charlton

923.54

H.B. 3-17

Charlton

144.25

1,983.37

H.B. 3-77

Clinton

2,429.18

H.B. 3-34

Dana

12.60

H.B. 3-33

Dana

330.97

343.57

WPFR 66

Dudley

. 18,865.39

H.B. 3-16

Dudley

250.03

WPFR 67

Dudley

8,772.71

27,888.13

H.B. 3-46

E. Brookfield

21.60

H.B. 3-43

Fitchburg

1,951.36

WPFR 69

Fitchburg

. 29,399.81

31,351.17

WPFR 106

Gardner

4,110.75

H.B. 3-41

Grafton

438.04

H.B. 3-32

Hardwick

33.87

H.B. 3-37

Hardwick

14.17

H.B. 3-14

Hardwick

3.20

51.24

H.B. 3-94

Holden

2,208.52

H.B. 3-72

Hoi den

1,618.57

WPFR 71

Holden

. 14,029.54

17,856.63

H.B. 3-29

Hubbardston

64.42

H.B. 3-19

Hubbardston

25.96

H.B. 3-57

Hubbardston

45.75

136.13
49,620.13

WPFR 76

Lancaster
Leicester

187.86

H.B. 3-2

H.B. 53-3 &

Leicester

525.31

13-12

H.B. 3-40

Leicester

20.63

H.B. 3-4

Leicester

20.63

754.43

H.B. 3-11

Leominster

118.76

WPFR 77

Leominster

. 43,538.36

43,657.12

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WPFR 78

Lunenburg

H.B. 3-5

Lunenburg

H.B. 3-62

Lunenburg

H.B. 3-20

Mendon

H.B. 3-82

Millbury

H.B. 3-47

Oxford

H.B. 3-83

Oxford

H.B. 3-7

Oxford

WPFR 82

Oxford

H.B. 3-30

Petersham

H.B. 3-56

Petersham

H.B. 3-81

Petersham

WPFR 86

Petersham

H.B. 3-51

Phillipston

H.B. 3-96

Princeton

H.B. 3-71

Princeton

H.B. 3-21

Princeton

WPFR 87

Princeton

WPFR 90

Princeton

WPFR 91

Royalston

WPFR 133

Royalston

H.B. 3-61

Royalston

H.B. 3-50

Royalston

H.B. 3-69

Royalston

H.B. 3-49

Royalston

H.B. 3-98

Rutland

H.B. 3-99

Rutland

H.B. 3-59

Southbridge .

H.B. 3-13

Spencer

H.B. 3-91

Spencer

H.B. 3-89

Spencer

H.B. 3-68

Spencer

H.B. 3-87

Spencer

WPFR 90

Sterling

WPFR 104

Sterling

H.B. 3-25

Sterling

H.B. 3-23

Sterling

H.B. 3-26

Sterling

H.B. 3-24

Sterling

WPFR 105

Sutton

WPFR 3-73

Templeton

WPFR 106

Templeton

H.B. 3-74

Upton .

H.B. 3-90

Upton .

H.B. 3-54

Upton .

H.B. 3-63

Uxbridge

H.B. 3-9

Uxbridge

WPFR 112

Uxbridge

10,316.16

145.26

2,224.13

146.96
618.24
346.19
784.31

66.99

701.57

2,509.90

24,592.64

10.00

2,279.05

48.56

9,185.87
5,839.08

3,662.51

12,421.65

2,050.22

340.38
1,042.38

359.38

2,055.63

738.82

345.94
1,277.42

937.35
70.00
50.00

5,839.09

12,130.59

778.67

1,171.07
468.13
712.19

2,211.03
3,843.48

1,581.70
911.19
484.69

993.75

463.60

41,764.99

12,685.55

276.97

1,363.87

1,895.70

27,871.10
16.07

17,362.56

19,876.52

$2,794.45
1,197.78

2,680.71

21,099.74
19,387.00

6,054.51

2,977.58

43,222.34

H.B.

3-79

Warren

WPFR 67

Webster

H.B.

3-27

Westborough

H.B.

3-1

W. Boylston

H.B.

3-45

W. Brookfield

H.B.

3-48

W. Brookfield

H.B.

3-65

Westminster

H.B.

3-75

Winchendon

H.B.

3-76

Winchendon

H.B.

3-88

Winchendon

H.B.

3-93

Winchendon

H.B.

3-92

Winchendon

H.B.

3-85

Winchendon

WPFR 122

Winchendon

WPFR 124

Winchendon

WPFR 126

Winchendon

H.B.

3-42

Worcester

17.55
17.55

30.75

1,086.09

100.00

90.00

40.00

544.55

655.41

21,257.59

70.37

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1,820.76

8,248.45
244.29
707.67

35.10
1,821.81

23,874.76
1,055.65

$533,449.26

Reconstruction and Repair of State Highways Damaged by Floods

In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 186 of the Acts of 1936,
an Act making an emergency appropriation for the reconstruction and
repair of State Highways damaged by floods, the following contracts
were entered into: —

Sutton

January 25, 1937, contract made with Leo J. Nawn, Inc., of Boston, for
constructing a steel stringer bridge with concrete deck at station
29+24.42 on Manchaug Street over Mumford River, and approaches
thereto, the surface on the approaches consisting of bituminous macadam,
and the surface on the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The
proposal amounted to $20,482.90. Work completed Oct. 2, 1937. Expendi-
ture during 1937, $18,997.03.

Fitchburg

March 24, 1937, contract made with David Pellecchia & Co., of Leo-
minster, for constructing a concrete box bridge at station 15+91.5 over
Baker Brook, and approaches thereto, the surface on the approaches
consisting of bituminous macadam. The proposal amounted to $13,339.45.
Work completed October 30, 1937. Expenditure during 1937, $12,236.65.

Winchendon
April 20, 1937, contract made with B. A. Gardetto, Inc., of Boston, for
constructing a concrete slab bridge of two spans at station 76+36.13 on
Maple Street over Millers River, and a steel stringer bridge with concrete
deck at station 8+71.95 on Ashburnham Road over Millers River, and
approaches thereto, the surface on the approaches consisting of bitumin-
ous macadam, and the surface on the bridges consisting of bituminous
concrete. The proposal amounted to $30,129.50. Work completed Oct. 22,
1937. Expenditure during 1937, $25,040.84.

Sutton
July 19, 1937, contract made with Middlesex Construction Company,
of Framingham, for constructing a concrete retaining wall at about
station 28+90 connecting with the southeasterly wing wall of the pro-
posed State Highway Bridge over Mumford River, together with a
gravel driveway and incidental work. The proposal amounted to $2,274.50.
Work completed Oct. 16, 1937. Expenditure during 1937, $1,985.48.

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Bridges over Connecticut River and Merrimack River
In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 433 of the Acts of 1936,
an Act providing for the construction or reconstruction of three bridges
over the Connecticut River and one bridge over the Merrimack River, the
following contracts were entered into: —

Lowell

Jan. 26, 1937, contract made with Coleman Bros. Corporation, of Bos-
ton, for constructing a temporary foot bridge of the suspension type over
the Merrimack River southerly of Central Bridge, together with) a light-
ing system, and approaches thereto. The proposal amounted to $34,-
980.00. Work completed June 30, 1937. Expenditure during 1937,
$34,358.08.

Gill-Montague

May 10, 1937, contract made with Daniel O'Connell's Sons, Inc., of
Holyoke, for constructing a deck steel bridge of six spans with a concrete
deck at Turners Falls, over the Connecticut River, a canal and a spur
track of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, and
approaches thereto, the surface course on the approaches and ramps
consisting of bituminous macadam, and the surface on the bridge con-
sisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to $860,567.89.
Work about one-third completed. Expenditure during 1937, $328,487.92.

Lowell
May 19, 1937, contract made with Coleman Bros. Corporation of Bos-
ton, for constructing a three span steel bridge of the cantilever through
truss type, to be known as Central Bridge, on Bridge Street over the
Merrimack River, the surface on the bridge consisting of bituminous
concrete. The proposal amounted to $318,909.00. Work about one-fifth
completed. Expenditure during 1937, $64,092.15.

Deerfield-Sunderland
July 7, 1937, contract made with F. & M. Sand & Gravel Corporation
of Woburn, for constructing about 1,937 feet of approaches to the Con-
necticut River Bridge in Deerfield and Sunderland, the surface course
consisting of bituminous macadam. The proposal amounted to $57,161.60.
Work about three-fifths completed. Expenditure during 1937, $34,510.07.

Lowell
Oct. 8, 1937, contract made with Coleman Bros. Corporation of Boston,
for constructing a steel stringer bridge with concrete deck on Bridge
Street over Eastern Canal, and approaches thereto, the surface on the
approaches consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to
$22,850.75. Work not yet commenced. No expenditure during 1937.

Hadley-Northampton
Nov. 2, 1937, contract made with T. Stuart & Son Company, of Water-
town, for constructing a five span steel deck truss bridge with concrete
floor, to be known as the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Bridge, over the
Connecticut River between Hadley and Northampton, and approaches
and ramps thereto, the surface on the approaches and ramps consisting
of standard bituminous macadam, and the surface over the bridge con-
sisting of 'v bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to $1,193,230.95.
Work just commenced. Expenditure during 1937, $1,496.00.

Repair of Slades Ferry Bridge
In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 488 of the Acts of 1935,
an Act reallocating the cost of the repair of the Slades Ferry Bridge, so
called, over the Taunton River, the following contract was entered into : —

Fall River-Somerset
August 11, 1937, contract made with Coleman Bros. Corporation, of
Boston, for reconstructing as a single deck bridge the existing double

38 P.D. 54

deck bridge over the Taunton River known as Slades Ferry Bridge. The
proposal amounted to $224,490.00. Work iust commenced. Expenditure
during 1937, $16,188.67.

Huntington Avenue Overpass

In accordance"1 with the provisions of Chapter 380 of the Acts of 1934,
an Act authorizing the construction of an overpass over Huntington
Avenue at or near its intersection with Riverway and Jamaicaway in
Boston and Brookline, as amended by Chapter 368 of the Acts of 1935,
the following contract was entered into: —

Boston
July 14, 1937, contract made with Edward M. Matz, Inc., of Boston,
for constructing a steel pile and concrete viaduct on the southerly ap-
proach to the bridge over Huntington Avenue at Riverway-Jamaicaway
and miscellaneous work, the surface of the viaduct consisting of bitumin-
ous concrete. The "proposal amounted to $91,184.60. Work about two-
thirds completed. Expenditure during 1937, $59,188.88.

Sidewalk, George Washington Highway, Hingham

In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 464 of the Acts of 1935,
an Act providing a public works program for the purpose of alleviating
existing conditions resulting from unemployment, the following contract
was entered into: —

Hingham

Aug. 3, 1937, contract made with Edward M. Matz, Inc., of Boston, for
constructing a granolithic walk, a gravel shoulder and a loam area in
front of the County Court House in Hingham, on the George Washing-
ton Highway. The proposal amounted to $1,529.75. Work completed
Sept. 18, 1937. Expenditure during 1937, $1,405.77.

Driveway, Monson State Hospital

In accordance with the provisions of Item 498, Chapter 304 of the
Acts of 1936, an Act making appropriations for the maintenance of De-
partments, Boards, Commissions, Institutions, etc., the following contract
was entered into by the Department, for the Department of Mental
Diseases : —

Monson

April 20, 1937, contract made with S. Rotondi & Sons, of Stoneham, for
constructing a driveway at the Monson State Hospital, at about station
0+00 on the southerly side of the Dining Room and Kitchen and extend-
ing around the easterly side of the hospital building to about station
3+60 on the Main Drive, the surface consisting of a penolithic type of
surfacing. The proposal amounted to $12,092.30. Work completed Nov.
24. 1937. Expenditure during 1937, $10,703.20.

Abolition of Grade Crossings

(General Laws, Section 70, Chapter 159, as amended by
Section 1, Chapter 357 of the Acts of 198A)

The following contracts were entered into for the elimination of grade
crossings : —

Attleboro-Pawtucket

Feb. 2, 1937, contract made with Arute Bros., Incorporated, of Bridge-
water, for constructing a steel stringer bridge of three spans with a
concrete deck on Washington Street in Attleboro, at station 268+82.71,
over the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, and approach
thereto, the surface on the approach consisting of two lanes of cement
concrete and three lanes of bituminous macadam, and the surface on the

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bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to
$80,210.73. Work completed Aug. 24, 1937. Expenditure during 1937,
$66,562.02.

Huntington
May 26, 1937, contract made with Arute Bros., Incorporated, of
Bridgewater, for constructing a multiple span bridge at Main Street
over Westfield River, over the tracks of the Boston and Albany Railroad
and over a proposed roadway, together with a ramp, stairways and other
structures, and approaches thereto, the surface on the approaches con-
sisting of bituminous macadam, and the surface on the bridge consisting
of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to $289,824.65. Work
about one-half completed. Expenditure during 1937, $139,077.26.

Milford

June 8, 1937, contract made with M. DeMatteo Co., of Roslindale, for
constructing a three span steel stringer bridge with concrete deck at
station 10+96.68 on Medway Street, over the Boston and Albany Rail-
road (Milford Branch), and approaches thereto, the surface course for
the approaches consisting of bituminous macadam, and the surface on
the bridge consisting of bituminous concrete. The proposal amounted to
$103,307.65. Work about one-half completed. Expenditure during 1937,
$54,468.48.

Braintree

June 22, 1937, contract made with M. F. Gaddis, Inc., of Boston, for
constructing a steel plate girder bridge to carry the tracks of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad over Union Street in Braintree,
0.36 miles north of South Braintree Station, and about 1,600 feet of high-
way on new location, the surface consisting of bituminous macadam. The
proposal amounted to $155,339.55. Work about one-third completed.
Expenditure during 1937, $57,834.62.

The following contracts were entered into in connection with the elim-
ination of grade crossings: —

Quincy
August 25, 1937, contract made with Chandler Construction Company,
Inc., of Boston, for constructing canopies, shelter shed, lighting system
and miscellaneous work at the site of the bridge on Water Street over
the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. The proposal
amounted to $19,739.00. Work completed November 30, 1937. Expendi-
ture during 1937, $16,377.38.

Sharon
Nov. 16, 1937, contract made with Walter L. Ritchie, of Somerville, for
constructing canopies, shelter shed, lighting system, intertrack fence and
miscellaneous work at the site of the bridge on Depot Street over the
New York. New Haven and Hartford Railroad. The proposal amounted
to $9,789.00. Work not yet commenced. No expenditure during 1937.

Reconstruction or Repair of City and Town Bridges
Damaged by the 1936 Floods

Work done by force account under provisions of Chapter 4,29,
Acts of 1936

The work done under Chapter 429, Acts of 1936, for the reconstruction
of city and town bridges was done by force account and as W.P.A. pro-
jects. A total of 115 such projects were approved, 55 bridges being rebuilt
to replace those that had been destroyed, and repairs were made to 60
bridges damaged by the flood.

55 Bridges Replaced with New Structures
Acton — River Street over Fort Pond Brook, new multi-plate arch
bridge, stone faced, one 23 foot span, two 9 foot spans.

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Ashburnham — Fitchburg Road over an outlet of Billy Ward Pond, new
standard 19 x 6 box type bridge, one 19 foot span.

Ashburnham — Lake Road over Watatic Club Brook, new rigid frame
box type bridge, one 15 foot span.

Ashburnham — Main Street, Auto route 12, over Phillips Brook, new
reinforced concrete slab on gravity abutments with rubble masonry walls,
one 15 foot span.

Ashburnham — Sherbert Road (23-A) over Naumkeag Brook, new rein-
forced concrete deck on steel stringers on gravity abutments, one 20
foot span.

Ashburnham — Sherbert Road (23-B) over Millers River, new rein-
forced concrete deck on steel stringers on concrete abutments, one 17
foot span.

Ashburnham — Williams Street over Town Farm Brook, new concrete
slab on gravity abutments, one 8 foot span.

Athol — New Salem Road, Auto Route 21 over Oliver Brook, new rigid
frame box type bridge, one 11 foot span.

Athol — Washington Avenue over Oliver Brook, new concrete slab on
steel stringers on gravity abutments, one 26 foot span.

Barre — Mechanic Street over Prince River, new multiple metal arch
on concrete abutments with rubble stone masonry wing walls, one 19
foot span.

Blandford — School House Hill over Freeland Brook, new corrugated
multi-plate arch bridge, one 15 foot span.

Charlemont — Warner Bridge over Mill Brook, new plank floor on steel
I beams on cement rubble masonry abutments with cement rubble mas-
onry wing walls, one 18 foot span.

Charlton — Grover Road over Little River, new wooden superstructure
of plank floor on 6" x 14" stringers on cement rubble masonry abutments,
one 20 foot span.

Charlton — Oxford Road over Little River, rubble masonry arch bridge
removed and rebuilt, new rubble masonry walls, one 19 foot span.

Clinton — Brook Road over Counterpane Brook, new rigid frame box
type bridge, one 11 foot span.

Colrain — Adamsville Bridge over Sanders Brook, new reinforced con-
crete slab bridge with rubble concrete abutments and wing walls, one
17.83 foot span.

Colrain — Starkey Bridge over West Branch River tributary, new rein-
forced concrete slab bridge with rubble concrete abutments and wing
walls, one 20 foot span.

Fitchburg — Townsend Street over Bakers Brook, new reinforced con-
crete slab deck on steel stringers on stone masonry abutments, one 32
foot span.

Hatfield — Chestnut Street over overflow for Mill River, four 48" cor-
rugated metal pipes protected by rip rap.

Holden — Mill Ctreet over Quinapoxet River, new reinforced concrete
deck on steel stringers over 30 foot center span, reinforced concrete
slab over two 10.5 foot end spans, on plain concrete abutments and
cement rubble masonry piers.

Holden — Princeton Road over Quinapoxet River, new corrugated metal
arch on concrete abutments with rubble masonry wing walls, one 23 foot
span.

Leicester — Cross Street over Stream not named, a 20" pipe culvert was
replaced by a 48" C.C.M. pipe culvert with rubble stone masonry ends.

Leicester — Mulberry Street over Kettle Brook, new standard 14 foot
by 6 foot reinforced concrete box type bridge, one 6 foot span.

Leicester — Pine Street over Twin Meadow Brook, new standard 14
foot by 6 foot box type bridge, one 14 foot span.

Lunenburg — Cross Street over Mulpus Brook, new wooden king post
truss with wooden floor beams and plank floor on rubble stone masonry
abutments, one 20 foot span.

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Lunenburg — Young Road over Baker Brook, new concrete deck on steel
stringers on cement rubble masonry abutments, one 26 foot span.

Maynard — Mill Street over Assabet River, new three span multi-plate
arch bridge on two piers and two abutments of cement rubble masonry
with concrete caps, two 20 foot spans, one 22 foot span.

Mendon — George Street over Muddy Brook, new standard 14 foot by 6
foot box type bridge, one 10 foot span.

Montague — Central Street over Saw Mill River, new reinforced con-
crete deck on steel I beams on rubble concrete abutments, one 30 foot
span.

Northfield — Warwick Road over Mill Brook, new reinforced concrete
deck on steel I beams on rubble concrete abutments, one 25 foot span.

Oxford — Texas Road over French River, new 5 foot by 5 foot box
culvert added to increase capacity of adjacent bridge, cement rubble
masonry abutments and wing walls, one 5 foot span.

Pepperell — Shirley Street over branch of Nashua River, new twin five
foot metal culverts encased in concrete with rubble concrete end walls,
two five foot spans.

Petersham — Glen Valley Road over East Branch of Swift River, new
rigid frame bridge on one new abutment (West) of cement rubble mason-
ry, existing East abutment raised to grade, one 30 foot span.

Phillipston — Royalston Road over Stream not named, new twin 60"
C.C.M. pipe culverts with cement rubble masonry end walls.

Princeton — East Princeton Road, auto Route 62 over East Wachusett
Brook, new reinforced concrete deck on concrete gravity abutments, one
15 foot span.

Royalston — N. E. Fitzwilliam Road over Lawrence Brook, new concrete
slab deck on steel stringers on cement rubble masonry abutments, one 25
foot span.

Royalston — Winchendon Road over Priest Brook, new reinforced con-
crete deck on steel stringers on cement rubble masonry abutments, one
30 foot span.

Rutland — Intervale Road over Ware River, new three span bridge of
reinforced concrete slabs on steel stringers, two concrete piers, two con-
crete gravity abutments, two 18.7 foot spans, one 27.5 foot span.

Rutland — Lower Intervale Road over Ware River, new concrete abut-
ments and wooden plank floor on steel stringers, one 50 foot span.

Sandisfield — West New Boston Road over Clam River, new 7" rein-
forced concrete floor over steel I beams on concrete abutments and wing
walls, one 50 foot span.

Southbridge — Cisco Street over Cohasse Brook, new reinforced con-
crete slab on concrete gravity abutments, one 12 foot span.

Spencer — Cooney Road over Seven Mill Brook, new reinforced concrete
deck over steel stringers on concrete gravity abutments, one 20 foot span.

Spencer — Dewey Street over Meadow Brook, new standard 6 foot by
6 foot box culvert, one 6 foot span.

Sterling — Greenland Road over Connolly Brook, new standard 10 foot
by 6 foot box type bridge, one 10 foot span.

Sterling — Pratt Junction Road over Wekepeke Brook, new reinforced
concrete slab on concrete gravity walls, one 10 foot span.

Tovjnsend — Meadow Road over Willard Brook, new cement rubble mas-
onry T)ier, wooden stringers and wood decks, existing abutments chinked,
one 16.5 foot span, one 20 foot span.

Townsend — Turnpike Road over Squannacook River, one abutment re-
placed with pier, new abutment built, new 21.5 foot span of reinforced
concrete slab on steel girders built, existing slab over steel girders on
36 foot span removed and replaced, existing abutment repaired.

Upton — West Street over West River, new reinforced concrete slab
over steel stringers on concrete abutments, one 23 foot slab.

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Uxbridge — Elm Street over Rivulet Brook, new reinforced concrete
rigid frame box type bridge, two 9 foot spans.

Warren — Bliss Road over Tufts Brook, new reinforced concrete deck
over steel stringers on concrete gravity abutments, one 18.5 foot span.

West Boylston—hee Street over Maiden Brook, new twin 54" rein-
forced concrete pipe culverts with rubble masonry head walls.

Westminster — Whitmanville Bridge on North Common Road over
Branch of Whitman River, new reinforced concrete slab deck over steel
stringers on gravity abutments, one 27 foot span.

Winchendon — Rindge Road, Auto Route 202, over Millers River, re-
inforced concrete slab on concrete abutments and concrete center pier,
two 16.5 foot spans.

Windsor — Main Street over Housatonic River, new 7" reinforced con-
crete floor over steel I beams on new West abutment of rubble concrete
and widened and repaired East abutment, new wing walls for West abut-
ment, wing walls of East abutment repaired and lengthened, one 19.5 foot
span.

60 Bridges Repaired

Ashburnham- — Dunn Road over Branch of Miller River, North abut-
ment built of plain cement concrete, South abutment and footing re-
paired, one 19.5 foot span.

Ashburnham — Whitney Hill Road over Phillips Brook, new stone West
abutment, East stone abutment repaired, new wooden superstructure of
6" x 10" stringers and plank floor, one 18 foot span.

Ashby— Valley Road over.Willard Brook, stone abutments^ and copings
repaired, one 18 foot span.

Athol — New Sherborn Road over Oliver Brook, concrete arch and wing
walls repaired, one 18 foot span.

Athol — White Pond Road over White's Brook, South abutment of plain
concrete replaced, stone masonry wing walls pointed, concrete toe placed
under North abutment, one 11 foot span.

Berlin— Town Road over North Brook, northwest wing wall and West
section of North abutment removed and replaced with plain concrete, one
17 foot span.

Blacksione — Lincoln Street over Fox Brook, cement rubble masonry
West abutment and wing wall rebuilt, sections of stone slab replaced, one
9 foot span.

Blandford — Hiram Blair Road over Pond Brook, stone abutments and
wing walls repaired and faced, new wooden plank floor placed on existing
steel I beams, one 20 foot span.

Brimfield — Holland Road over Mill Brook, footing of plain concrete
placed under East abutment which was also built up to level grade, one
20 foot span.

Charlton — Blood Road over Blood Brook, concrete toe placed on abut-
ments, northeast section of cement rubble masonry arch rebuilt, new
footing of plain concrete for this same arch, one 16 foot span.

Charlton — Turner Road over Little River, northeast section of cement
rubble masonry arch rebuilt, one 17 foot span.

Cheshire — Windsor Road over South Brook, 7" reinforced concrete
floor built over existing steel I beams. West abutment removed and re-
built of concrete with concrete wing walls, one 19.5 foot span.

Chester — Herring Road over East Branch of Westfield River, North
abutment removed and replaced with new concrete abutment and wing
walls, one 53.3 foot span.

Dana — Dana Center Road over Fever Brook, plain concrete toe placed
on existing abutments, channel cleared and riprapped, one 20.5 foot span.

Dana — New Salem Road over East Branch of Swift River, cement
rubble masonry abutments repaired, necessary wood plank replaced, one
31 foot span.

Dracut — Navy Yard Bridge, auto route 113, over Beaver Brook,

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spandrel walls reset and faced, masonry arches cradled in cement con-
crete, new B. M. A. surface, one 25 foot span and one 26 foot span.

Dudley — West Dudley Road over Quinapoxet River, existing southeast
wing wall of cement rubble masonry repaired with plain concrete, north-
west wing repaired and faced with plain concrete, steel stringers painted,
East half of wood planking replaced, one 90 foot span.

East Brookfield — Cove Street over Mill Brook, stone abutments re-
paired and pointed, wooden truss members repaired, wooden floor beams
and planking replaced, one 44.5 foot span.

Easthampton — At Southampton line, Glendale Village Bridge over
North Branch of Manhan River, existing footings and abutments faced
with plain concrete, wing walls faced and extended, one 46 foot span.

Framingham — Framingham Stone Bridge over Sudbury River. Work
on this dry stone masonry arch bridge had just started when work was
stopped by W.P.A. as not being flood damage, four 10 foot spans.

Grafton — Depot Street over Blackstone Canal, after work was started
on this project, it was found that the damage was beyond scope of pro-
posal. Project submitted as a contract project but was rejected, later
reivsed and submitted as a force account project but was rejected, one
18' span.

Hard'wiok — Hell Huddle Road over Swift River, new cement rubble
masonry abutment (South) new wooden king post truss with wooden
floor beams and plank from new abutment to center pier only, center pier
repaired, no work done to North span, two 28 foot spans.

Hardwick — Southworth Mills Road over East Branch of Swift River,
North abutment and pier rebuilt with dry rubble masonry, timber bent
built on site of South abutment, new two span wooden king post truss,
stringers, and floor plank, one 16 foot span, one 23 foot span, one 25 foot
span.

Hardwick — Taylor Hill Road over Moose Brook, stone abutments re-
paired and pointed, wooden floor replaced with reinforced concrete slab,
one 16 foot span.

Hubbardston — Lombard Road over outlet of Ropers Reservoir, North
abutment rebuilt of dry rubble masonry, South abutment faced, new
superstructure of wooden stringers and plank, one 15 foot span.

Hubbardston — New Road over outlet of Brigham's Pond, existing
abutments faced with concrete, new king post truss with wooden floor
beams and floor plank, one 20 foot span.

Hubbardston — Ragged Hill Road over Templeton Brook, existing dry
rubble masonry abutments and wing walls repaired, one 10 foot span.

Hudson — Washington Street over Assabet River, dry rubble mason-
ry arch repaired, three 20 foot spans.

Leicester — Auburn Street over Kettle Brook, stone masonry arch and
wing walls repaired with cement rubble masonry, one 18.2 foot span.

Leominster — Lancaster Street over Fall Brook, stone masonry abut-
ments pointed and repaired with cement rubble masonry, new reinforced
concrete slab to replace stone slab, one 10 foot span.

Lowell — 'East Merrimac Street, Auto route 38 over Concord River,
superstructure of existing structure cleaned and painted, two 60 foot
spans.

Lowell — Lawrence Street, Auto route 138 over Concord River, exist-
ing abutments patched with cement mortar, surface replaced, six 30
foot spans.

Millbury — Cemetery Road over Blackstone River, new concrete pier
to replace damaged South abutment, new South abutment of plain con-
crete, North abutment faced, new South span (22) of reinforced con-
crete over steel stringers, one 22 foot span, one 46.5 foot span.

Montague — Chestnut Street over Saw Mill Brook, existing N. E. and
S. E. wing walls extended with rubble concrete, existing abutments and
S. W. and N. W. wing walls of dry rubble masonry faced with reinforced
concrete one foot thick, one 27.5 foot span.

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North Adams — Brown Street over Hoosac River, steel sheeting driven
along the front of existing South abutment, concrete cap placed between
abutment and sheeting, two 44 foot spans.

Oxford — Old Webster Road over Little River, washed out portion of
North arch replaced with reinforced concrete, parapet walls replaced with
cement rubble masonry, two 13 foot spans.

Palmer — At Brimfield line, Palmer-Brimfield Road over Quaboag River,
existing stone masonry piers and abutments pointed with cement mortar,
rubble masonry toe built on both abutments, weakened wooden truss
members replaced, one 25 foot span, one 27 foot span.

Petersham — Quaker Drive over Moccasin Brook, existing stone abute-
ments repaired and pointed new superstructure of wooden stringers and
plank floor, one 12 foot span.

Petersham — Quaker Drive over Swift River, west abutment rebuilt
with cement rubble masonry, East abutment pointed, one 26 foot span.

Princeton — Hubbardston Road, auto route 62 over Branch of Ware
River, replace washed out gravel and riprap, one 32 foot span.

Royalston — North Fitzwilliam Road over Lawrence Brook, existing
South abutment repaired with cement rubble masonry, new North abut-
ment built with cement rubble masonry, new wooden superstructure of
wooden stringers and plank floor, one 25 foot span.

Royalston — North Fitzwilliam Road over Lawrence Brook, existing
dry rubble abutments repaired and raised with cement rubble masonry,
new wooden superstructure of wood stringers and plank floor, one 18
foot span.

Shirley— Longley Road over Mulpus Brook, footings replaced with
plain concrete, existing abutments repaired, one 16.5 foot span.

Shirley — At Groton line, Lunenburg Road, Auto Route 25, over Squan-
nacook River, existing abutments and wing walls repaired with rein-
forced concrete, new reinforced concrete abutment and wing walls added
to make additional 22.5 foot span, reinforced concrete slab over new span,
new B.M.A. surface and approaches to replace washed out roadway, one
25 foot span, one 22.5 foot span.

Shirley — Townsend Road over Mulpus Brook, washed out footings re-
placed with plain concrete, existing abutments repaired, one 20 foot span.

Spencer — Lower Wire Village over Turkey Hill Brook, existing abut-
ments repaired with cement rubble masonry, new reinforced concrete
slab built encasing existing steel I beams, one 20 foot span.

Sterling — Princeton Road, Auto route 62 over Stillwater River, dam-
aged West abutment replaced with plain concrete abutment and wing
walls, one 30 foot span.

Templeton — Depot Street over Otter River, North abutment replaced
with plain concrete, foundation of South abutment repaired with plain
concrete, damaged pipe culvert on side road replaced with 48" pipe with
new ends, one 23 foot span.

Townsend — Ashby Road over Willard Brook, existing abutments re-
paired with cement rubble masonry and pointed with cement mortar, one
34 foot span.

Upton- — Pleasant Street over West River, existing wooden superstruc-
ture replaced on two new concrete abutments and two rubble stone mason-
ry piers, one 18 foot span, two 12.3 foot spans.

Upton — Williams Street over West River, northwest portion of arch
and northwest wing wall of existing structure repaired and rebuilt with
cement rubble masonry, one 20 foot span.

Uxbridge — Hartford Avenue over Blackstone River, existing stone
arch bridge abutments faced with plain concrete, replaced portion of
bridge floor with reinforced concrete, one 38 foot span.

Ware — East Street, Auto Route 9 over Ware River, North spandrel
wall of cut stone arch bridge relaid with cement rubble masonry, washed
out surface replaced with B.M.A. surfacing, one 60 foot span.

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Warwick — Hockinum Road over Wilson Brook, existing dry rubble
masonry abutments pointed and repaired, new reinforced concrete slab
deck, one 11.5 foot span.

Wendell — Wendell Depot Road over Osgood Brook, new North abut-
ment built of cement rubble masonry, new reinforced concrete slab deck,
one 10 foot span.

Westborough — Fisher Street over Assabet River, existing abutments
repaired, new reinforced concrete deck, one 14.2 foot span.

West Brookfield — Foster Hill Road over Tannery Brook, existing West
abutment repaired, East abutment rebuilt with cement rubble masonry,
new wooden superstructure of king post truss, floor beams, and plank
floor, one 20 foot span.

West Brookfield — Long Hill Road over Quaboag River, existing North
abutment pointed, South abutment rebuilt with cement rubble masonry,
lumber planking replaced where necessary over floor of existing two
span steel truss highway bridge, two 53 foot spans.

Winchendon — South Royalston Road over Priest Brook, existing abut-
ments faced with plain concrete, new reinforced concrete deck over new
steel stringers, one 17 foot span.

Worcester — Park Avenue, Auto Route 12, over outlet of Coes Reser-
voir, West side of existing arch culvert rebuilt with cement rubble mason-
ry, concrete fence built along West side, concrete toe built along whole
length of inside of arch, one 17 foot span.

Expenditures for Emergency Public Works Construction

(Chapter 365 Acts of 1933)

(An Act enabling the Commonwealth to secure certain benefits

provided by the National Industrial Recovery Act)

Project
R-1
R-16
R-29-2
R-33
R-51
R-54

City or Town
Lynn-Revere .....
Revere (North Shore Road)
Concord By-Pass ....
Fitchburg-Ashby ....
Braintree-Randolph
Dennis-Yarmouth ....

Total

Amount

. $50,000.00

400.00

.40

100.00

31,597.22

2,200.00

. $84,297.62

Bond Issue Projects
(Chapter 464 — Acts of 1935)

(An act providing a Public Works program for the purpose of alleviating existing
conditions resulting from unemployment. )

Class 1 Projects — None
Class 2 Projects — Construction of Sidewalks

The expenditures during the year in various counties were : —

Barnstable .

. $2,693.24

Hampshire

$40.93

Berkshire

119.64

Middlesex

9,415.12

Bristol

923.31

Norfolk

710.11

Dukes

6.62

Plymouth

1,762.64

Essex

. 28,582.50

Suffolk

822.04

Hampden

63.58

Worcester

7,437.72

$52,577.45

Engineering

. 31,011.89

Total

. $83,589.34

Details of the foregoing expenditures follow : —
Barnstable County — Harwich, $2,693.24.

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Berkshire County — Adams, $22.00 ; Becket, $4.34 ; Dalton, $36.08 ; Lee,
$4.20; Pittsfield, $53.02.

Bristol County — Acushnet, $657.41 ; Attleboro, $18.43 ; Easton, $90.97 ;
Mansfield, $28.69; No. Attleborough, $11.25; Norton, $14.56; Raynham,
$16.68; Somerset, $47.44; Swansea, $23.60; Taunton, $14.28.

Dukes County — Oak Bluffs, $6.62.

Essex County — Gloucester, $28,582.50.

Hampden County — Agawam, $3.67; East Longmeadow, $1.11; Palmer,
$58.80.

Hampshire County — Easthampton, $1.73; Huntington, $39.20.

Middlesex County — Acton, $35.79; Arlington, $49.72; Bedford, $82.76;
Billerica, $658.17; Burlington, $26.48; Chelmsford, $2,517.69; Concord,
$18.85; Framingham, $142.68; Holliston, $7.00; Hudson, $42.80; Lex-
ington, $444.35 ; Littleton, $49.56 ; Lowell, $456.98 ; Marlborough, $617.35 ;
Medford, $29.05; Natick, $32.92; North Reading, $71.40; Reading,
$117.20; Somerville, $32.52; Sudbury, $740.71; Tewksbury, $270.65;
Townsend, $82.75; Tyngsborough, $694.32; Waltham, $14.40; Wayland,
$1,323.47; Weston, $67.50; Wilmington, $289.60; Winchester, $7.84;
Woburn, $490.61.

Norfolk County — Avon, $10.04; Bellingham, $36.85; Braintree, $84.47;
Canton, $79.55; Dedham, $77.63; Milton, $12.53; Needham, $9.11; Nor-
wood, $14.63; Quincy, $17.50; Randolph, $60.; Stoughton, $160.26; Wey-
mouth, $147.54.

Plymouth County — Abington, $439.74; Brockton, $22.19; Hingham,
$1,172.07; Norwell, $25.19; Rockland, $28.89; Wareham, $6.72; West
Bridgewater, $67.84.

Suffolk County — Boston, $822.04.

Worcester County — Athol, $130.98; Auburn, $1,474.82; Barre, $53.03;
Blackstone, $1,121.00; Brookfield, $660.27; Dudley, $879.55; East Brook-
field, $132.50; Fitchburg, $1.90; Gardner, $182.70; Grafton, $172.55;
Leicester, $91.81; Milford, $4:39; Millbury, $73.75; Northborough, $2.25;
Northbridge, $518.66; Paxton, $7.50; Southborough, $81.99; South-
bridge, $3.75; Sterling, $76.24; Sturbridge, $528.95; Templeton, $4.90;
Uxbridge, $15,27; Webster, $990.87; West Brookfield, $215.88; Winchen-
don, $4.70; Worcester, $7.51.

Class 3 Projects — Highway projects under the Hayden-
Cartwright Act

The expenditures during the year in various counties were: —

Barnstable . $46,662.35 Middlesex $3,369.13

Berkshire 133,204.28 Norfolk . 13,301.15

Essex . 1,271,181.45 Plymouth 12,777.70

Hampden . . 484,783.31 Worcester 418,629.09

Total $2,383,908.46

Details of the foregoing expenditures follow: —

Barnstable County — Bourne, $46,662.35.

Berkshire County— Pittsfield, $133,204.28.

Essex County— Gloucester, $2,391.68; Lynnfield, $202,830.00; Saugus,
$1,065,959.77.

Hampden County — Holyoke, $484,783.31.

Middlesex County — Arlington, $2,508.99; Belmont, $556.58; Cam-
bridge, $303.56.

Norfolk County— Cohasset, $10,018.28; Foxborough, $469.12; Nor-
wood, $702.21; Plainville, $600.77; Sharon, $287.57; Walpole, $528.87;
Westwood; $254.42; Wrentham, $439.91.

Plymouth County — Hingham, $9,777.61 ; Scituate, $3,000.09.

Worcester County— Millbury, $259,089.54; Sutton, $159,539.55.

P.D. 54

Class U Projects — Grade crossing eliminations, highway projects,
maintenance of State highways

The expenditures during the year in the various counties were: —

Barnstable

$9,039.06

Hampshire

. $170,487.28

Berkshire

45,813.00

Middlesex

132,872.35

Bristol

428,805.68

Norfolk

543,272.38

Essex

1,081,262.08

Plymouth

281,196.72

Fi'anklin

855,685.88

Worcester

749,245.18

Hampden

154,699.08

Total

. $4,452,378.69

Maintenance

65,866.42

Planning survey

10,297.23

$4,528,542.34

Details of the foregoing expenditures follow: —

Barnstable County— Bourne, $7,408.77; Falmouth, $1,630.29;

Berkshire County — Cheshire, $14,187.23; Lanesborough, $3,885.68;
Pittsfield, $531.28; Sheffield, $27,208.81.

Bristol County — Attleboro, $97,070.58; Dartmouth, $127,004.71; Mans-
field, $76,756.45; North Attleborough, $119,863.93; Westport, $8,110.01.

Essex County — Gloucester, $54.60; Lawrence, $24,184.95; Lynn, $12,-
218.61; Lynnfield, $228,906.62; Methuen, $19.75; Newbury, $124,331.24;
Peabody, $486,774.54; Saugus, $204,763.79; Swampscott, $7.98.

Franklin County— Deerfield, $296,230.52; Gill, $97,411.93; Greenfield,
$503.00; Montague, $248,511.11; Sunderland, $213,029.32.

Hampden County — Holyoke, $69,991.92; Monson, $84,707.16.

Hampshire County — Amherst, $20,838.60 ; Huntington, $149,648.68.

Middlesex County — Ayer, $35,878.66; Cambridge, $1,147.69; Hopkin-
ton, $22,464.83; Lowell, $18,051.53; Waltham, $55,329.64.

Norfolk County — Braintree, $68,737.99 ; Canton, $53,977.22 ; Cohasset,
$62.30; Foxborough, $97,839.50; Norwood, $2,213.38; Plainville, $70,-
482.33; Quincy, $113,292.03; Sharon, $114,353.53; Westwood, $7,229.94;
Weymouth, $15,084.16.

Plymouth County— Hingham, $149.41; Marshfield, $131,099.88; Mid-
dleborough, $1,100.03; Pembroke, $130,733.32; West Bridgewater,
$18,114.08.

Worcester County — Ashburnham, $97,419.60; Clinton, $73,825.78;
Grafton, $128,395.73; Lunenburg, $32,634.26; Milford, $57,236.05; Mill-
bury, $14,028.25; Shrewsbury, $1,166.06; Sterling, $5,382.57; West
Boylston, $2,061.51 ; Westborough, $50,901.71 ; Worcester, $286,193.66.

Class 5 Projects — Development of Rivers and Harbors
Expenditures during the year 1937 were as follows :
Boston Harbor:

Commonwealth Pier No. 5 $271,858.53

Dredging 10,803.89

Outside Boston Harbor:

Lake Anthony, Oak Bluffs
Onset Bay, Wareham

Total

$1,844.85
264.56

$282,662.42

2,109.41

$284,771.83

Reconstruction and Repair of State Highways Damaged by Floods
(Chapter 186, Acts of 1936)
Uncompleted flood repair and betterment projects which were necessi-
tated by the flood of March 1936 were completed early in the year. Most
of this work was completed during the previous year.

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The State expenditures for work on State highways which was author-
ized by special act of the Legislature under Chapter 186 of the Acts of
1936 amounted to *$3,245.77 for force account projects and *$5,009.88
for Works Progress Administration repair and betterment projects. The
Works Progress Administration has expended a total amount of about
$470,000.00 for this work since these projects were started, of which
amount about $16,000.00 was expended during the fiscal year 1937.

Expenditures for Construction and Repair of State Highways

Damaged by Floods

(Chapter 186, Acts of 1936)

The expenditures during 1937 in various Counties were: —

Berkshire . $177.90 Hampshire . $110.42

Essex . . . 696.88 Middlesex . 3,321.09

Franklin . 9,340.35 Worcester . . 71,014.58

Hampden 2,737.85

Total $87,399.07

Details of the foregoing expenditures follow: —

Berkshire County — Adams, $177.90.

Essex County — Methuen, $153.92; Middleton, $271.48; No. Andover,
$271,48.

Franklin County — Buckland, $181.21; Charlemont, $181.20; Erving,
$4,488.97; Gill, $4,488.97.

Hampden County— Chester, $31.30; Palmer, $2,706.55.

Hampshire County — Huntington $110.42.

Middlesex County— Ashland, $153.91; Dracut, $1,095.08; Tewksbury,
$380.35; Tyngsborough, $1,284.82; Wayland, $406.93.

Worcester County— Athol, $36.65; Fitchburg, $14,268.68; Gardner,
$192.89; Holden, $59.07; Millbury, $583.24; Princeton, $59.44; Sutton,
$25,735.22; Upton, $264.00; Westminster, $11.27; Winchendon, $29,-
804.12.

Maintenance and Repair of State Highways
(Section 13, Chapter 81, General Laws)
The expenditures during the year in various counties were: —

Barnstable

$94,749.88

Hampshire

. $89,203.99

Berkshire

166,734.75

Middlesex

. 389,084.08

Bristol

156,207.83

Nantucket

297.64

Dukes

13,389.82

Norfolk

368,506.47

Essex

294,103.79

Plymouth .

. 111,868.57

Franklin

79,372.18

Suffolk

75,255.81

Hampden .

73,224.83

Worcester

281,329.35

Total

$2,193,328.99

Details of the foregoing expenditures follow : —

Barnstable— Barnstable, $27,018.52; Bourne, $13,741.46; Brewster,
$1,965.35; Chatham, $2,726.92; Dennis, $4,038.55; Eastham, $1,499.95
Falmouth, $10,894.80; Harwich, $3,535.75; Mashpee, $3,864.01; Orleans,
$3,360.35; Provincetown, $3,129.44; Sandwich, $5,554.43; Truro, $5,-
944.40; Wellfleet, $3,002.23; Yarmouth, $4,473.72.

Berkshire County— Adams, $1,490.90; Becket, $11,031.61; Cheshire,
$4,589.17; Clarksburg, $6,512.91; Dalton, $8,471.69; Egremont, $2,621.47;
Florida, $8,530.71; Gt. Barrington, $13,449.74; Hancock, $2,227.87;
Hinsdale, $6,709.33; Lanesborough, $3,858.50; Lee, $11,107.47; Lenox,
$4,604.12; New Ashford, $1,434.68; New Marlborough, $28.49; No.
Adams, $6,394.95; Otis, $14,442.32; Pittsfield, $7,294.31; Richmond,

* Note : These amounts are for maintenance projects only and do not include any expendi-
tures for bridges, etc.

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$2,356.18; Sandisfield, $1,645.79; Savoy, $6,367.17; Sheffield, $11,485.35;
Stockbridge, $2,808.16; Washington, $3,271.56; West Stockbridge,
$418.98; Williamstown, $20,275.38; Windsor, $3,305.94.

Bristol, County— Acushnet, $3,267.92; Attleboro, $3,903.09; Berkley,
$1,015.45; Dartmouth, $6,281.57; Dighton, $8,794.62; Easton, $9,647.38;
Fairhaven, $7,126.21; Fall River, $7.39; Freetown, $3,612.43; Mansfield,
$3,833.26; Norton, $8,367.64; No. Attleborough, $3,304.78; Raynham,
$11,009.32; Rehoboth, $4,959.88; Seekonk, $8,534.57; Somerset, $34,-
057.77; Swansea, $17,599.10; Taunton, $12,597.19; Westport, $8,288.26.

Dukes County — Chilmark, $5,135.66 ; Edgartown, $2,397.01 ; Gay Head,
$1,816.67; Oak Bluffs, $630.61; Tisbury, $755.27; West Tisbury, $2,654.60.

Essex County — Amesbury, $5,566.29; Andover, $21,915.90; Beverly,
$12,428.52; Danvers, $7,975.48; Essex, $3,075.24; Gloucester, $29,939.30;
Groveland, $2,811.56; Hamilton, $6,238.96; Haverhill, $7,074.53; Ipswich,
$12,623.16; Lawrence, $2,798.21; Lynn, $5,860.20 ;» Lynnfield, $2,860.67;
Merrimac, $2,602.40; Methuen, $17,072.52; Middleton, $22,205.06; New-
bury, $11,130.75; Newburyport, $7,740.64; No. Andover, $23,310.52;
Peabody, $5,794.47; Rockport, $1,087.17; Rowley, $7,847.07; Salem,
$19,130.61; Salisbury, $13,042.51; Saugus, $15,897.89; Swampscott,
$10,603.67; Topsfield, $7,213; Wenham, $3,239.92; West Newbury,
$5,017.57.

Franklin County— Ashfield, $3,177.28; Bernardston, $3,207.80; Buck-
land, $1,897.35; Charlemont, $7,989.95; Colrain, $1,955.11; Conway,
$1,195.67; Deerfield, $6,486.05; Erving, $5,426.80; Gill, $1,798.84; Green-
field, $9,238.08; Montague, $5,062.97; New Salem, $2,730.76; Northfield,
$8,742.98; Orange, $3,027.45; Shelburne, $5,848.20; Shutesbury, $2,-
615.32; Sunderland, $4,773.95; Whately, $4,377.62.

Hampden County — Agawam, $9,590.09; Blandford, $2,762.52; Brim-
field, $6,116.51; Chester, $8,020.59; Chicopee, $8,787.42; East Long-
meadow, $1,428.23; Hampden, $213.49; Holland, $116.60; Holyoke,
$854.74; Monson, $2,221.80; Palmer, $7,373.82; Russell, $5,324.01;
Southwick, $3,159.77; Tolland, $157.35; Wales, $4,998.31; W. Springfield,
$2,871.15; Westfield, $5,022.14; Wilbraham, $4,206.30.

Hampshire County — Amherst, $5,741.31; Belchertown, $5,969.54; Cum-
mington; $7,393.03; Easthampton, $4,645.39; Goshen, $6,599.84; Granby,
$4,686.05; Hadley, $4,501.93; Hatfield, $2,069.28; Huntington, $9,354.01;
Enfield, $35.88; Northampton, $7,808.24; Pelham, $1,678.31; Southamp-
ton, $7,032.18; So. Hadley, $8,446.55; Ware, $8,304.67; Williamsburg,
$3,701.33; Worthington, $1,236.45.

Middlesex County— Acton, $7,752.69; Arlington, $16,279.96; Ashby,
$8,794.26; Ashland, $4,980.17; Ayer, $2,623.47; Bedford, $1,408.25;
Belmont, $3,620.90; Billerica, $10,188.15; Boxborough, $4,040.68; Burl-
ington, $3,627.88; Cambridge, $3,350.07; Carlisle, $8.79; Chelmsford,
$17,561.69; Concord, $14,648.63; Dracut, $5,273.45; Framingham,
$24,198.65; Groton, $1,981.39; Holliston, $6,052.84; Hudson, $6,631.82;
Lexington, $24,233.59; Lincoln. $11,301.31; Littleton, $8,636.28; Lowell,
$3,944.68; Maiden, $81.44; Marlborough, $10,898.63; Medford, $4,949.47;
Melrose, $907.02; Natick, $16,219.32; Newton, $19,191.06; No. Reading,
$6,453.68; Pepperell, $1,417.83; Reading, $18,829.41; Shirley, $3,370.92;
Somerville, $4,430.96; Stoneham, $3,610.57; Sudbury, $10,504.71; Tewks-
bury, $15,470.54; Townsend, $7,718.68; Tyngsborough, $11,764.54; Wal-
tham, $3,031.62; Watertown, $1,881.04; Wayland, $17,320.47; Westford,
$6,119.45; Weston, $10,669.19; Wilmington, $6,281.17; Winchester,
$2,520.83; Woburn, $14,301.93.

Nantucket County — Nantucket, $297.64.

Norfolk County— Avon, $3,126.15; Bellingham, $3,401.83; Braintree,
$28,065.01; Brookline, $12,292.43; Canton, $39,691.31; Cohasset, $2,-
835.62; Dedham, $29,693.15; Dover, $2,902.19; Foxborough, $8,929.89;
Franklin, $1,584.84; Holbrook, $5,970.11; Milton, $30,008.12; Needham,
$13,262.53; Norfolk, $291.45; Norwood, $24,228.78; Plainville, $4,181.96;

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Quincy, $11,340.63; Randolph, $12,232.99; Sharon, $4,867.28; Stoughton,
$11,734.88; Walpole, $18,734.67; Wellesley, $22,618.89; Westwood,
$21,629.99; Weymouth, $42,086.87; Wrentham, $12,794.90.

Plymouth County — Abington $8,162.84; Bridgewater, $3,416.31;
Brockton, $6,928.78; Duxbury, $3,531.78; E. Bridgewater, $2,826.34;
Hanover, $2,898.69; Hingham, $8,735.06; Hull, $543.68; Kingston,
$3,752.11; Lakeville, $7,895.99; Marion, $2,599.97; Marshfield, $5,562.17;
Mattapoisett, $3,812.71; Middleborough, $10,105.17; Norwell, $994.42;
Pembroke, $1,763.55; Plymouth, $13,220.60; Plympton, $23.21; Roch-
ester; $1,817.48; Rockland, $4,439.52; Scituate, $5,144.11; Wareham,
$8,204.81; W. Bridgewater, 82,034.99; Whitman, $3,454.28.

Suffolk County — Boston, $22,941.65; Chelsea, $1,775.02; Revere,
$50,539.14.

Worcester County — Ashburnham, $4,011.51; Athol, $3,791.26; Auburn,
$10,276.64; Barre, $6,028.08; Blackstone, $6,608.44; Boylston, $75.53;
Brookfield, $2,169.95; Charlton, $6,070.15; Douglas, $1,044.86; Dudley,
$4,428.83; E. Brookfield, $5,570.28; Fitchburg, $1,343.83; Gardner,
$4,934.43; Grafton, $8,864.29; Hardwick, $326.93; Harvard, $3,301.53;
Holden, $6,514.56; Hopedale, $1,566.17; Hubbardston, $14.06; Lancaster,
$3,429.36; Leicester, $3,070.44; Leominster, $1,279.17; Lunenburg,
$7,203.47; Mendon, $1,236.64; Milford, $4,014.73; Millbury, $17,795.40;
Millville, $591.83; New Braintree, $299.75; No. Brookfield, $3,859.08;
Northborough, $5,447.00; Northbridge, $4,891.56; Oakham, $10,502.54;
Oxford, $3749.70; Paxton, $2,996.28; Petersham, $6,768.15; Phillipston,
$1,178.74; Princeton, $2,411.18; Royalston, $3.16; Rutland, $18,748.94;
Shrewsbury, $9,613.10; Southboro, $6,618.02; Southbridge, $1,466.95;
Spencer, $4,034.91; Sterling, $12,185.92; Sturbridge, $8,566.62; Sutton,
$13,326.26; Templeton, $5,140.44; Upton, $2,228.51; Uxbridge, $2,547.57;
Warren, $5,209.42; Webster, $3,682.97; West Boylston, $3,494.43; West
Brookfield, $5,329.07; Westborough, $8,074.33; Westminster, $4,953.55;
Winchendon, $3,152.75; Worcester, $6,296.08.

Miscellaneous expenditures for maintenance of highways are as fol-
lows : —

Snow Removal
Equipment and Repairs

Repairs and parts ....

Labor ......

New equipment .....

Plowing and Sanding

Materials (sand, gas, oil, calcium chloride)
Labor .......

Truck hire .

Traffic

Route markers
Direction signs
Warning signs
Regulatory signs
Control signals
Surface markings
Curb markings
Traffic survey
Salaries
Chap. 357 .
Traffic census
Art project

$102,826.38
49,316.26

52,478.25

183,324.89

218,428.02

92,649.12

15,916.84

14,582.63

32,386.00

6,947.58

45,702.53

26,729.89

190.87

6,503.66

44,031.49

358.58

5,534.45

56.73

$204,620.89

494,402.03
$699,022.92

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W. P. A 17.40

Tercentenary signs ..... 284.96

Bridges
Somerset Bridge ....

Newburyport Bridge
New Bedford-Fairhaven Bridge .
Quincy-Weymouth Bridge

Geodetic survey .....
Detour bulletins .....
Inspection of bituminous concrete pavement

services) .....
Tractor repairs .....

15,550.42

7,399.23

20,182.01

18,291.86

(Technical

199,243.61

61,423.52
3,124.45

1,827.87

1,690.38
7,891.03

Total miscellaneous expenditures .... $974,223.78

Summary of Maintenance Expenditures

Maintenance and repair of State Highways . . $2,193,328.99

Miscellaneous expenditures ...... 974,223.78

Total $3,167,552.77

Ordinary and Special Maintenance

The work of repairing road surfaces, maintaining shoulders and slopes,
cleaning drainage ditches and conduits, and miscellaneous work on the
right-of-way including repairing fences, trimming trees, clearing road-
sides and improvement of the appearance of State highways was per-
formed under the ordinary maintenance allotment. Cost of this work
compares favorably with that of other years.

Betterment work by maintenance forces was restricted this year on
account of limited funds, so that it was possible to do only a few of the
more essential projects. The major portion of funds spent for better-
ments was for widenings on roads too narrow to carry the traffic, and at
locations where a serious condition was caused by the washing out of
gravel between the edge of the old surface and the recently installed side-
walk curbing. Resurfacing was done where the old surface had become
warped and uneven due to settlement in swampy areas. The total length
widened was 1.6 miles and the length resurfaced was 0.5 miles.

Modern guard rail was installed on 7.7 miles of State highway, con-
sisting mostly of replacing old wooden guard rail.

Other betterments included 0.3 miles of shoulder hardenings, improve-
ment of drainage by the installation of culverts, ditches, manholes, catch-
basins, etc. and miscellaneous projects.

Removal of Snow and Ice from State Highways and Certain

Town Roads

The program of snow and ice removal was continued under authority of
Section 19, Chapter 81, General Laws (Ter. Ed.), amended by Chapter
187 of the Acts of 1933, governing the removal of snow and ice on State
highways, and under Chapter 84, Section 11 of the General Laws (Ter.
Ed.), governing State cooperation on the plowing of town highways.

This program included a total of 1967.21 miles, of which 1763.42 miles
were State highways and 203.79 miles were town roads plowed on a
cooperative basis.

Much of the quipment used is owned and operated by the Department,
supplemented by hired trucks and equipment owned by cities and towns.

The amount of snow during the winter was less than average, which
reduced the cost of plowing, but much sanding was required due to ice
storms and freezing rain. Sanding was required on 54 days and fre-
quently it was necessary to keep men and equipment working 24 hours.

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An amount of $699,022.92 was expended by the Department during the
fiscal year for plowing and sanding, erection of snow fence, cleaning of
waterways, maintenance and repair of equipment, and the purchase of
materials, such as sand, calcium chlorde and sodium chloride.

Repairing Department Equipment

The following contracts were entered into for repairing equipment.

Boston — September 29, 1937, contract made with J. J. Callahan of Bos-
ton, for repairing Department snow removal units and machinery. The
proposal amounted to $68,750. Work about one-fifth completed. Expendi-
ture during 1937, $13,278.04.

Boston — November 30, 1937, contract made with J. E. Black of Ded-
ham, for repairing Department tractors. The proposal amounted to
$8,590. There were no expenditures during 1937.

Bridge Maintenance and Operation

Draw Bridge over the Merrimac River
Between Newburyport and Salisbury

This bridge was placed in charge of the Massachusetts Highway Com-
mission and made a State highway by the provisions of Chapter 716,
Acts of 1912, which also provided that the expense of keeping the bridge
in good repair for travel, of operating the draw and of maintaining the
structure shall be paid by the Commonwealth.

The number of draw openings during the year ending November 30,
1937, was 201. In 1936 the number of such openings was 168 ; in 1935 the
number was 178; in 1934 the number was 110; in 1933 the number was
153; and in 1932 the number was 220.

The total expenditure during the year was $7,399.23.

The total expenditure from 1912 to November 30, 1937, inclusive, was
$211,621.44.

Draw Bridge over Taunton River Between Fall River and Somerset

This bridge was placed in charge of the Massachusetts Highway Com-
mission and made a State highway by the provisions of Chapter 717, Acts
of 1912, which also provided that the expense of keeping the bridge in
good repair for travel, and for operating the draw and maintaining the
structure, shall be paid by the Commonwealth.

The number of draw openings during the year ending November 30,
1937, was 1,385. In 1936 the number of such openings was 1,591; in 1935
the number was 1,492; in 1934 the number was 2,118; in 1933 the num-
ber was 1,602; and in 1932 the number was 1,662.

The total expenditure during the year was $15,550.42.

The total expenditure from 1912 to November 30, 1937, inclusive, was
$436,202.49.

Draw Bridge over Acushnet River between City of New Bedford
and the Town of Fairhaven

This bridge, which was placed in charge of the Department of Public
Works and made a State highway by the provisions of Chapter 406,
Acts of 1930, which also provided that the expense of keeping the bridge
in good repair for travel, operating the draw and of maintaining the
structure, shall be paid by the Commonwealth, was taken over by the
Department on June 27, 1930.

The number of draw openings while in charge of the Department be-
ginning June 27, 1930, and ending November 30, 1932, was 1,069. In
1933, the number of such openings was 1,867; in 1934 the number was
1,434; in 1935 the number was 1,318; in 1936 the number was 1,434; in
1935 the number was 1,318; in 1936 the number was 1,381; and in 1937
the number was 1,064.

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The total expenditure during the year was $20,182.01.
The total expenditure while in charge of the Department has been
$159,612.30.

Draw Bridge over Weymouth Fore River between the City of
Quincy and the Town of Weymouth

The jurisdiction of the Department of Public Works over this bridge
is provided for by Chapter 348, Acts of 1933.

The new drawbridge was put in service May 23, 1936. From May 23,
1936, to November 30, 1936, the number of openings was 479.

The total expenditure during the year was $18,291.86.

The total expenditure since construction for the maintenance and op-
eration of both the temporary and new bridges was $31,779.26.

Roadside Maintenance and Development

Roadside maintenance has been one of the duties of this Department
for many years. However, its scope has broadened so that it now is a
part of both construction and maintenance of highways.

During the year supervision and inspection was given to work totaling
approximately $1,800,000 in value in addition to the planting of 803
trees and 2444 shrubs and vines.

As in the past the removal and trimming of trees, shrubs and undesir-
able growth has been carried on under the supervision of competent ex-
perienced employees. Much trimming has been done by public utilities
companies for new and old pole lines. Inspectors have been employed to
inspect this work, and prevent too extensive cutting of trees.

There were during the year 1937, 150 individual W.P.A. Roadside
Beautification projects in operation, mostly in the eastern part of the
State. Each was carried on under the direction of a department engineer.
Particularly, attention was given to work along the Concord Turnpike,
the Providence Turnpike, and the Worcester-Fitchburg road. Under the
W.P.A. two projects for prevention of soil erosion were completed. The
first project on Route 20 in Palmer was completed in June. This slope had
caused considerable trouble when masses of earth and rock slipped down
the slope, sometimes covering the road. The condition was corrected at
a cost of about $5,000.

The other slope on Route 1 in Wrentham was completed in September.
This slope also caused difficulty each spring, but the trouble was cor-
rected by lowering the ground water level and sodding the slope surface.
Work was completed at a cost of $2,000 to the Department.

By use of Federal money secured through the Hayden-Cartwright Act
and WPGH funds, plans and estimates were prepared for nine roadside
improvement projects. The following table shows the town, route, and
cost of each:

Town Route Cost

Middleborough

$ 924.30

Cheshire-Lanesborough

19,885.50

Sterling .

5,668.34

Worcester-West Boylston ....

3,289.91

Foxborough, Norwood, Sharon, Walpole,

Wrentham, Plainville, Westwood, Dedham

3,688.00

Hingham-Cohasset-Scituate

3-A

17,978.55

Gloucester . .

121

2,285.01

Arlington-Belmont-Cambridge .

3,983.68

Hingham ......

6,520.34

Total

$64,223.63

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Roadside Improvement

The Department entered into the following contracts for roadside im-
provement : —

Arlington-Belmont-Cambridge
Dec. 23, 1936, contract made with William P. Herlihy, of Cambridge,
for furnishing and planting trees, shrubs, vines and plants complete with
necessary fertilizer, tree stakes where necessary along Automobile Route
2, beginning in Cambridge at the traffic circle on the Alewife Brook Park-
way and continuing through the towns of Arlington and Belmont (includ-
ing the grade separation at Pleasant Street) to the Lexington town line.
The proposal amounted to $3,983.68. Work completed May 25, 1937.
Expenditure during 1937, $3,369.13.

Gloucester
March 24, 1937, contract made with Louis A. Reardon, of North Ab-
ington, for furnishing and planting trees, shrubs, vines and plants, com-
plete with necessary fertilizer and tree stakes where necessary, at desig-
nated locations along Automobile Route 121, beginning at the Essex Town
Line and extending to about the intersection with Bond Street. The pro-
posal amounted $2,285.01. Work completed May 15, 1937. Expenditure
during 1937, $2,285.01.

Middleborough
March 24, 1937, contract made with Littlefield Wyman Nurseries, of
North Abington, for furnishing and planting trees, shrubs and plants
complete with necessary fertilizer and tree stakes where necessary, at
designated locations along Automobile Route 28 beginning at the Bridge-
water Town Line and continuing along Route 28, including the traffic
circle at the intersection with Route 101, to the Rochester Town Line.
The proposal amounted to $924.30. Work completed May 18, 1937. Ex-
penditure during 1937, $924.30.

Hingham-Cohasset-Scituate
May 10, 1937, contract made with Tree-Land Inc., of Cambridge, for
furnishing and planting trees, shrubs and vines, complete with necessary
fertilizer and tree stakes where necessary, at designated locations along
Automobile Route 3-A, beginning at the traffic circle at the junction of
Summer Street and extending thence through Hingham, Cohasset and
Scituate for about 8.9 miles to the junction with the old State Highway.
The proposal amounted to $17,978.55. Work about five-sixths completed.
Expenditure during 1937, $14,920.00.

Dedham-Foxborough-Norwood, — etc.
May 19, 1937, contract made with Louis A. Byrne Nurseries, Inc., of
Dennisport, for furnishing and planting trees, complete with necessary
fertilizer and tree stakes where necessary, at designated locations along
Automobile Route 1, beginning at the North Attleborough Town Line and
extending thence along Route 1 through the towns of Plainville, Wren-
tham, Foxborough, Sharon, Walpole, Norwood, Westwood and for about
5,400 feet into Dedham. The proposal amounted to $3,688.00. Work com-
pleted Nov. 10, 1937. Expenditure during 1937, $3,134.80.

Cheshire-Lanesborough
June 8, 1937, contract made with Louis A. Reardon, of North Abington,
for furnishing and planting trees, shrubs and vines, complete with neces-
sary fertilizer and tree stakes where necessary, at designated locations
along Automobile Route 8, beginning at the Pittsfield City Line and ex-
tending thence along Route 8 through the towns of Lanesborough and
Cheshire to the Adams Town Line. The proposal amounted to $19,885.50.
Work about nine-tenths completed. Expenditure during 1937, $17,044.34.

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Hingham

June 30, 1937, contract made with Martin J. Kelly, of Boston, for
rough grading, rounding and sodding highway slopes and doing miscel-
laneous incidental work, at designated locations along Automobile Route
3, beginning at about the Weymouth Town Line and extending thence
along Route 3 to about the Norwell Town Line. The proposal amounted to
$6,520.34. Work completed August 21, 1937. Expenditure during 1937,
$7,084.88.

Worcester-W. Boylston

July 21, 1937, contract made with William P. Herlihy, of Cambridge,
for rough grading, rounding and sodding highway slopes and doing mis-
cellaneous work, at designated locations along Automobile Route 12, be-
ginning at about the trestle crossing over, the Boston & Maine Railroad
at Maiden Street in Worcester and extending thence along Route 12 in
Worcester and in West Boylston to about the intersection of Sterling
Road with Lancaster Street. The proposal amounted to $3,289.91. Work
completed September 18, 1937. Expenditure during 1937, $3,183.95.

Sterling
Aug. 18, 1937, contract made with Martin J. Kelly, of Boston, for rough
grading, rounding and sodding highway slopes and doing miscellaneous
incidental work, at designated locations along Automobile Route 12,
beginning at about the intersection of Route 12 (Main Street) with
Princeton Road and extending thence along Automobile Route 12 in Ster-
ling to about at Pratts Junction. The proposal amounted to $5,668.34.
Work completed Oct. 15, 1937. Expenditure during 1937, $5,075.77.

Sidewalks Along State Highways
State Bond Issue and Federal W.P.A. Allotments

Sidewalk construction continued during the fiscal year 1937 with funds
from the Bond Issue of 1935, Chapter 464, Section 2, and an allotment
from the Works Progress Administration. This work consisted of placing
surfacing on graded areas, completing installation of curbing, drainage,
and guard rail, and fine grading, loaming and seeding slopes and grass
plots.

A total of 207 projects were in operation during the fiscal year and 276
miles of sidewalks were completed. An amount of $83,589.34 was ex-
pended from the Bond Issue and $1,588,855.54 was expended from Fed-
eral funds of the Works Progress Administration, a total of $1,672,444.88.

The number of pedestrian accidents on state highways where sidewalks
have been constructed has been materially reduced. A survey discloses
that there was a reduction of 30% in both injuries and fatalities in 1937
as compared to 1934, which marked the beginning of the sidewalk con-
struction program.

Farm to Market Projects

Improvement of "Farm to Market" roads, which was started by the
Department of Public Works in the fall of 1935, in co-operation with the
cities and towns and the Works Progress Administration, continued dur-
ing the fiscal year 1937, although there were fewer projects operating
under sponsorship of the Department and an increase in responsibility
on the cities and towns.

Late in the Spring of 1937, the Works Progress Administration re-
quested larger contributions from local authorities making it necessary
to revise and resubmit the projects.

The Department agreed to act as co-sponsor pending approval of these
revised projects in order to eliminate the possibility of protracted cur-
tailments. This agreement allowed the projects to continue operation,
with expenditures charged to statewide allotments granted for projects
sponsored by the Department.

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During the past year there were 332 miles of "Farm to Market" roads
improved, an expenditure of $2,000,228.80 divided as follows: Works
Progress Administration $1,563,332.12; Cities and Towns $420,066.47;
State $16,830.21. The majority of these improvements consisted of cor-
recting alignment, widening and providing better visibility at curves and
intersections, installation of drainage, excavation of unsuitable material
and replacement with a gravel sub-base and wearing surface.

This work has materially reduced welfare costs in many towns and
should be considered of substantial value in addition to improvement of
roads. The towns realized this and were therefore willing to make larger
contributions for equipment and material when so requested by the Works
Progress Administration.

Widening and. Resurfacing Projects on State Highways

Projects started the past year under the Widening and Resurfacing
Program of the Works Progress Administration continued until the pro-
jects were completed or to a point where they could be safely suspended.
Due to a curtailment of the Works Progress Administration funds these
projects were then closed.

In September 1936, Widening and Resurfacing Project Proposals,
amounting to $10,512,870. were submitted to the Works Progress Admin-
istration for approval on the basis of 100% Federal contribution, the only
state expenditures being for engineering and supervision. Approval was
received with the restriction that 50% of the total asked for on each pro-
ject could be spent. Many of these projects were not permitted to start
because of completed labor quotas in districts where they were located.

Projects were started under approved allotments, totalling $2,883,303,
in the fall of 1936 and continued until winter weather. Because of re-
duced quotas in men and further curtailment of Federal funds, few pro-
jects were started again in the spring and these were all closed by
June 30, 1937.

Total funds expended by the Works Progress Administration for this
work amounted to $196,650, of which $161,570 was spent the current year.

Some of the projects started under this program were completed later
with Ordinary Maintenance funds and others will be considered for com-
pletion at an early date, probably as Reconstruction projects.

Reconstruction of 4.0 miles of road was started and partly completed
under this program. Widening projects were completed on 6.7 miles of
highways. 1822 cubic yards of rip-rap was placed along the banks of the
Merrimack River in Dracut.

Materials Testing Larobatory

The Materials Testing Laboratory occupies the east end of the base-
ment in the Public Works Department Building, Boston. Established in
1921, it has grown in personnel and equipment to the present up to date
plant for testing all materials proposed for use in construction and main-
tenance of highways and bridges.

The Laboratory is equipped with standard apparatus for testing
structural materials. During the past year, over seven thousand analyses
were made of one hundred and twelve different types of highway con-
struction and maintenance materials. Many analyses were made in con-
nection with some fifteen research and special investigation projects con-
ducted by the Laboratory.

Laboratory procedure is supplemented by work of a field organization
under direction of the several District Highway Engineers. In each of
the seven highway districts, is a Materials Engineer equipped with a
portable field laboratory. The Materials Engineer works in cooperation
with the Laboratory sampling and testing materials, and in his field
laboratory, he tests and keeps a check on sand and stone aggregate used
in cement concrete mixes for masonry and road surfaces.

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The Laboratory takes part in cooperative research performed by other
materials testing laboratories. In this way, results of work of all par-
ticipating laboratories is available.

Traffic
Traffic Signs, Lights, Markings, Signal Systems and Regulations

Under the provisions of chapters 85 and 89, General Laws, as amended,
certain duties are placed upon the Department in order to secure uni-
formity in highway traffic signs, signals, markings, devices and regula-
tions.

The Department is required to erect on all numbered routes such signs,
etc., as it may deem necessary for promoting the public safety and
convenience.
Traffic Signs, Signals, etc., Erected by Department

Accordingly, the Department has, during the past year, erected those
signs, etc.

1937
Traffic signals ........ 4

Traffic beacons ........ 14

Traffic signs 9,346

Traffic markings (in miles) ..... 783

The erection or designation of the foregoing was based upon accident
analyses, traffic counts and speed checks. It is only through a close study
of these that the need for warning or control can be accurately gauged.
Directional Signs and Route Markers Erected by Department

Still other signs have been erected under the provisions of the first-
named chapter. These are known as directional signs. Posted at or with-
in intersections, these serve to direct the motorist to adjacent, contiguous
and even remote towns.

Travel has been further facilitated by the opening of new routes and
the marking of these with button signs which notify the motorist upon
which route he is traveling.

The fabricating and painting of these signs are done at the Depart-
ment's traffic shop.
Traffic Control Signals, Signs and Regulations Approved by Department

The provisions of the several chapters already referred to also make
the validity of regulations made, or signs, etc., erected by cities and towns
upon ways within their control, dependent upon the written approval of
the Department of Public Works.

As a means of aiding the municipalities in this respect, the Department
assigns its engineers to make studies, and to give advice to those cities
and towns which desire to control vehicular traffic through the medium of
regulations and signs.

This resulted Iduring the past year in the Department's approving the
following traffic control features:

1937
Traffic signals 50

Traffic beacons .
Traffic Sign Permits .
Traffic Marking Permits
Traffic rules and regulations
Isolated stop signs
Safety zones

14
50
13
181
390
11

Federal Aid in Constructing Highways

Statements as to the Acts of Congress and of the Massachusetts Legis-
lature in respect to cooperation between the United States and the State
of Massachusetts in the construction of highways, including the Federal
Highway Act, approved Nov. 9, 1921, may be found in the annual reports
of the Department of Public Works for the years 1920 to date.

58 P.D. 54

A detailed statement of the Federal Aid Allotments and projects for
Massachusetts appears in the Department Report for the fiscal year 1933.
Additions and alterations for the fiscal years, 1934, 1935, 1936 and 1937
and a summary of the allotments appears as follows :

Regular Federal Aid from June 30, 1916 to June 30, 1933 . $18,523,440

1931 Federal Emergency Advance Funds .... 1,141,460

Federal Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932 . 1,716,612

1934 National Recovery Funds (Appropriated under the

National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933) 6,597,100

1935 National Recovery Funds (Appropriated under the
Hayden-Cartwright Act approved June 18, 1934) 3,350,474

1936 Regular Federal Aid Funds (Authorized under the
Hayden-Cartwright Act Approved June 18, 1934) . 1,741,877

1937 Regular Federal Aid Funds (Authorized under the
Hayden-Cartwright Act Approved June 18, 1934) . 1,743,487

Works Program Funds— Highways 3,262,885

Works Program Funds — Grade Crossings (Appropriated

under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935) 4,210,833

WPA Funds Used in Conjunction with Works Program
Funds (Appropriated under the Emergency Relief
Appropriation Act of 1935 — Transferred from WPA to
the Bureau of Public Roads for Federal Aid Purposes) .

Funds for Flood Replacement Projects (Authorized under
the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936, ap-
proved June 22, 1936)

1938 Regular Federal Aid Funds (Authorized under the
Hayden-Cartwright Act approved June 16, 1936)

Regular Federal Aid ... . $1,769,936
Secondary or Feeder Roads 353,987

Grade Crossings 1,047,500

958,133
1,533,850

3,171,423

Total Federal Funds Authorized to Nov. 30, 1937 . $47,951,574

There were 64 projects prepared in addition to those shown on the
Annual Report of the Department of Public Works for 1936. The length
of Federal Aid highway ad bridge projects in this State from the com-
mencement of work of this type to November 30, 1937 inclusive is
1,137,389 miles, an increase of 10.018 miles over 1936.

In addition to these highway and bridge projects there were 21 road-
side improvement projects under 8 contracts totaling about 61.846 miles.
These were all on old Federal Aid projects.

The total length of Federal Aid projects (1,137.389 miles) divided
according to the various counties is as follows:

Barnstable
Berkshire
Bristol
Dukes .
Essex .
Franklin
Hampden
Total

108.387
136.036
92.254
3.117
97.786
57.596
71.968

Hampshire

Middlesex

Norfolk

Plymouth

Suffolk

Worcester

Statement of Federal Aid Funds

1931 Federal Emergency Advance Funds
(See Department Report for 1933)

1932 Federal Emergency Relief Funds
(See Department Report for 1935)

1934 National Recovery Funds

56.148
109.442

92.997

114.464

5.839

191.355

1,137.389
Miles

$1,141,460.00
1,716,612.00
6,597,100.00

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Allotted as follows:

Amesbury

NRH 243-A

$21,836.51

Arlington-Belmont-

Cambridge

NRM 242-A

617,355.22

Ashby-Townsend

NRH 188-F

117,531.69

Auburn

NRM 130-B

103,571.29

Boston . . .

NRM 244-A

37,926.57

Brookline-Newton .

NRM 235-B

210,478.94

Burlington

NRH 78

22,671.06

Charlton

NRH 184-A

34,775.70

Charlton-Oxford

NRH 184-C

34,347.72

Chester

NRH 138-B

46,792.64

Conway-Deerfield

NRS 246

234,689.75

Easton .

NRH 89-A

38,908.87

Easton .

NRH 89-C

40,017.36

East Boston -Revere

NRM 241-A

698,939.51

Fairhaven

NRH 143-B

64,430.41

Huntington

NRS 245-A

141,633.69

Lanesborough

NRH 173-C

9,983.98

Mattapoisett .

NRH 189-E

80,642.31

Newbury

NRH 199-C

46,975.44

Newburyport

NRM 126-A

547,399.77

North Adams

NRM 248-A

176,360.52

Otis

NRS 247

106,186.86

Pittsfield

NRM 173-D

30,896.49

Quincy-Weymouth .

NRM 170-C

1,976,400.49

Revere .

NRM 241-B

248,063.57

Scituate-Marshfield

NRH 174-B

146,402.02

Springfield

NRM 131-C

207,487.36

Sterling-West Boylston

NRH 172-B

124,037.32

Stoughton

NRH 56

117,194.77

Templeton

NRH 194-B

41,226.36

Wareham

NRH 189-F

32,224.03

West Boylston

NRH 240-B

7,263.08

Winchester

NRH 57(2)

12,746.42

Winchester

NRH 57(B)

18,170.72

Woburn

NRM 57(1)

14,140.19

Worcester

NRM 249
nd Bridge Projec

102,389.39

Total for Roadway a

ts 6,512,098.02

Landscape Projects Financed from these Funds
(See 1935 Report)
Amount Allotted .... $39,752.76
Amount Reverted .... 1,073.14

38,679.62

. $6,550,777.64
6,597,100.00

$46,322.36

The above projects are all completed and final payment received except
Quincy-Weymouth NRM 170-C. There is a balance still due on this pro-
ject, which will be received when the final voucher is submitted and
approved.

The following projects also include traffic signals:

Net Amount

Total Amount Under Agreement
Total Allotment .

Agreement Pending

NRM 126-A
NRM 130-B
NRH 172-B

Newburyport
Auburn
Sterling-West Boylston

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NRM 241-B Revere

NRM 242-A Arlington-Belmont-Cambridge

1935 National Recovery Funds :
Allotted as follows :
Andover
Athol-Orange*
Billerica-Chelmsford
Blandford
Boston-Brookline*
Boston-Dedham
Bourne

Bourne-Wareham*
Cheshire

Dracut-Methuen*
Dedham-Boston
Framinghamf
Framinghamf
Haverhill
Lenoxf .
Lenoxf .
Lowell
Millbury*
Montague*
Natickf
Northboroughf
Otis-Blandford
Pittsfield*
Rutland
Sheffieldf
Sheffieldf
Southwick
Wayland
Westfield

Total Under Agreement
Amount Available

Agreement Pending
The following projects also include sidewalks
NRM 91 Lowell

NRS 255

$189,449.00

NRS 254

156,859.56

NRS 253

107,146.04

NRS 252

53,368.79

NRM 235-E .

492,880.00

NRM 251-B

128,471.56

NRH 176-B

77,811.54

NRH 125-C

146,040.32

NRH 173-E

149,590.82

NRH 250

285,253.51

NRH 251-A

229,244.00

NRH 211-B

1,741.00

NRH 211-F

2,678.64

NRM 69-B

42,203.56

NRH 114

7,056.32

NRH 147-A

673.44

NRM 91

59,022.86

NRH 256-A

403,122.92

NRS 257

313,699.92

NRH 211-C

5,483.00

NRH 211-A

11,317.53

NRS 247-B

67,036.95

NRM 21-C

30,035.83

NRH 134-E

19,155.95

NRH 98

330.72

NRH 137-C

2,110.40

NRH 73

133,561.79

NRH 124-D

12,400.00

NRM 155-C

54,312.55

. $3,182,028.52

3,350,474.00

$168,445.48

NRH 250
NRH 251-A
NRM 251-B
NRS 255

Dracut-Methuen
Dedham
Boston
Andover

The following projects also include traffic signals
NRH 256-A . . Millbury

NRH 251-A . . Dedham

NRM 251-B . Boston

Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935
Works Program — Highways
Allotted as follows:

Attleboro-North Attle-

borough-Plainville
Cheshire* f
Cheshire*

WPSO 290
WPH 173-A
WPH 173-E

* Balance due on these projects, to be received when final voucher is approved.

finished and final payment has been received.
t Landscape Projects.

$252,640.00
7,300.00
9,780.00

All others are

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Clinton

Dartmouth- Westport

Deerfield-Sunderlandf

Gill-Montague

Grafton-Shrewsbury

Greenfield

Holyoke

Lanesboro* f

Lynn

Lynnfield

Mansfield

Marshfield-Pembroke

Middleboro* .

Peabody

Sterling*

West Boylston*

West Bridgewater

Worcester

Worcester*

Total under Agreement
Amount Available

Agreemnt Pending .

WPSO 291
WPH 152-D .
WPH R 308-A
WPH R 308-B
WPSO R 307
WPSO 288-A
WPH 222-B .
WPMH 284-A
WPH 173-B .
WPH 173-C .
WPMS 267 .
WPH 272-A .
WPSO 285-B
WPSO 278-A
WPSO 292
WPH 149-A
WPH 207-A
WPMH 272-B
WPH 172-C
WPH 240-A
WPH 240-B
WPH 240-C
WPSO 304
WPMH 293-A
WPMH 240-A
WPMH 240-D

86,170.00

130,110.00

**389,770.00

**47,070.00

**521,293.00

8,670.00

67,272.64

163,530.00

3,870.00

920.00

63,650.00

271,940.00

3,710.00

4,710.00

312,580.00

720.00

288.00

717,080.00

6,230.00

910.00

700.00

460.00

85,860.00

27,520.00

639.00

900.00

$3,186,292.64
3,262,885.00

$76,592.36

There are balances due on all of the above projects. These are payable when the final
vouchers are submitted and approved.

* Landscape Projects.
** 50% of Cost. See page ? for Remainder.

t These projects still under construction. All others completed.

Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935
Works Program — Grade Crossings
Allotted as follows:

Amherst

WPGM

280-A

$ 73,600.00

Ashburnham

WPGH

164-C

116,380.00

Attleboro

WPGM

274-A

92,560.00

Ayer

WPGS

263 .

117,333.04

Braintree

WPGS

287 .

9,541.00

Braintree*

WPGS

265 .

197,690.00

Canton-Norwood-

Westwood

WPGS

269 .

106,800.00

Foxborough*

WPGS

270 .

131,510.00

Foxborough-Mansfield

WPGS

271 .

22,791.76

Grafton-Shrewsbury

WPGS

288-B

120,440.00

Hopkinton-Westborough

WPGS

289 .

91,990.00

Huntington* .

WPGS

283 .

323,690.00

Lawrence

WPGM

275 .

82,660.00

Lunenburg

WPGS

276 .

78,851.19

Mansfield

WPGS

278-B

91,930.00

Mansfield

WPGS

285-A

90,050.00

Milford*

WPGS

305 .

117,850.00

Monson

WPGS

279 .

119,230.00

Newbury

WPGH

75-A

14,814.69

Newbury-New

bury port

. WPGH

75-B

297,156.46

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383,727.00
151,133.23
65,060.00
111,494.62
7,250.00
207,519.98
107,379.69
348,260.00

$3,678,692.66
63,160.00

$3,741,852.66
4,210,833.00

$468,980.34

* These projects still under construction. All others completed.

Balances are due on all of the above projects. These will be payable when the final vouchers
are submitted and approved.

WPA Funds Used For Federal Aid Purposes
The following amount, $958,133 was appropriated under the Emergency

Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 and was transferred from the WPA to

the Bureau of Public Roads.

This amount was apportioned to the following projects, each amount

representing 50% of the estimated cost of the work. The remaining 50%

was financed by regular Works Program Highway Funds.

Quincy ....

WPGM

260 .

Sharon*

WPGS

262 .

Sharon

WPGS

277 .

Sheffield

WPGH

137-D

Shefield- ( Canaan ) *

WPGH

310 .

Waltham

WPGM

208-C

Weymouth

WPGH

121-C

Worcester

WPGM

293-B

Total

Planning Survey

Total Under Agreement

Amount Available

Agreement Pending .

Deerfield-Sunderland
Deerfield-Sunderland
Gill-Montague

Total

WPH R 308-A
WPH R 308-B
WPSO R 307

$389,770.00

47,070.00

521,293.00

$958,133.00

1936 Regular Federal Aid Funds (Hayden-Cartwright)
Apportioned as follows :

Arlington-Belmont-

Cambridge*

. 242-A .

1,180.00

Arlington-Belmont*

242-B .

1,010.00

Bourne

.258

166,967.55

Cohasset-Hingham* f

170-A .

3,235.00

Cohasset-Scituate* f

. 170-B

6,649.00

Dedham-Norwood-

Westwood*

. 231-B

325.00

Foxborough-Plainville-

Wrentham*

.220

665.00

Foxborough-Sharon-

Walpole*

.227

499.00

Gloucester*

600.00

Gloucester*

. 119-B

653.00

Hingham*

.15

3,585.00

Holyoke

. 127-A .

269,500.00

Lynnfield** .

146,720.00

Millbury-Sutton

. 256-B .

268,900.00

Norwood-Sharon-

Walpole*

. 231-A .

533.00

Pittsfield** .

. 259-A .

136,485.00

Saugus**

128,375.45

Saugus**

579,675.00

Total

. $1,715,557.00

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Planning Survey

Total Under Agreement
Amount Available

Agreement Pending .

63
26,125.00

$1,741,682.00
1,741,877.00

$195.00

* Landscape Projects.

f Under construction. All others completed.
There are balances due on all of the above projects.
** Additional funds for these projects to come from 1937 Hayden-Cartwright Funds
=n« " ?» uthe ^°Ye amo,}ntsL representing 50% of the cost of the projects. The' remaining
50% will be paid for by the State.

1937 Regular Federal Aid Funds (Hayden-Cartwright)
Apportioned as follows:
Bourne

Eastham- (Orleans)
Fitchburg-Leominsterf
Lynnfield

Malden-Revere-Saugus
Orleans- (Eastham)
Pittsfield
Saugus
Saugus

Total
Planning Survey

Total Under Agreement
Amount Available

Agreement Pending

. 106-A .

$48,475.00

36-A

103,155.00

. 273-A .

194,283.00

17 (1936)

*5,285.00

261

457,420.00

175-B

25,895.00

. 259-A (1936)

*2,825.00

3 (1936)

*7,434.55

9 (1936)

8,500.00

$853,272.55

26,150.00

it ...

$879,422.55

1,743,487.00

$864,064.45

The remaining 50% will be

* Balance.

t Under Construction. All others completed.

Balance Due on All of these Projects.

The above amounts represent 50% of the cost of the projects
paid for by the State.

Bridges

During the year the Department has built or contracted for 77 new
bridges and structures, of which 54 were structures to replace those
destroyed by the flood in 1936; has built or contracted for alterations,
repairs or widening for 6 bridges, of which one was damaged by the
flood; has examined and reported on 12 bridges at the request of the local
public authorities ; has examined and reported on 8 bridges at the request
of Department authorities; has examined plans for 7 bridges under the
provisions of Section 35, Chapter 85, General Laws (Tercentenary Edi-
tion) ; and has made preliminary studies, estimates or plans for 88 struc-
tures contemplated in the near future.

The various cities and towns, the localities therein, and the character
of the work is given in detail as follows :

Bridges Built or Contracted for, to Replace Bridges
Destroyed by Flood
Adams — Lime Street over Hoosic River, steel stringer bridge one
47-foot span and one 49-foot span. '

Ash field— Spruce Corner over Swit River, steel stringer bridge one
40-foot span. 6 '

Athol— Crecsent Street over Millers River, steel stringer bridge one
75-foot span. 6 '

Athol— At -Orange line, Pinedale Road over Lawrence Brook, steel
stringer bridge, one 52-foot span.

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Athol — At Orange line, Fryeville Bridge over Tully River, steel stringer
bridge, one 47-foot span.

Barre — South Barre Road over Ware River, steel truss bridge, one
85-foot span.

Barre — Powder Mill Bridge over Ware River, steel stringer bridge, two
36-foot spans and one 60-foot span.

Belchertown — At Palmer line, Depot Street over Swift River, steel
stringer bridge, three 34-foot spans.

Berlin — Marlborough Road over Assabet River, steel stringer bridge,
one 63-foot span.

Bolton — Seven Bridge Road over Still River, steel stringer bridge, two
30-foot spans and one 40-foot span.

Charlemont — At Shelburne line, Four Mile Square Road over Still
River, steel arch bridge, one 122-foot span.

Colrain — Adamsville Road over North River, steel arch bridge, one
122-foot span.

Colrain — Frank Herzig Bridge over West Branch of North River, con-
crete rigid frame bridge, one 82-foot span.

Colrain — Robert Hillman Bridge over West Branch of North River,
concrete rigid frame bridge, one 70-foot span.

Colrain — Overflow at Frank Herzig Bridge over West Branch of North
River, concrete beam and slab bridge, one 20-foot span.

Dudley — At Webster line, Perryville Road over French River, Steel
stringer bridge, one 52-foot span.

Dudley — Brandon Road over French River, steel stringer bridge, one
52-foot span.

Erving — At Montague line, Paper Mill Bridge over Millers River, steel
through truss bridge, one 154-foot span.

Fitchburg — Circle Street over Nashua River, steel stringer bridge, one
75-foot span.

Fitchburg — Lunenburg Street over Baker Brook Overflow, concrete
slab bridge, one 13-foot span.

Gardner — At Templeton line, Shoddy Mill Road over Otter River, steel
stringer bridge, one 28-foot span.

Hadley — Scott's Bridge over Mill River, concrete rigid frame bridge,
one 32-foot span.

Hatfield — Bridge Street over Mill River, steel stringer bridge, three
36-foot spans.

Holden — River Street over Quinapoxet River, concrete beam and slab
bridge, two 23-foot spans and one 52-foot span.

Lancaster — Center Bridge Road over Nashua River, steel stringer
bridge, two 80-foot spans.

Leominster — Mechanic Street over Nashua River, steel stringer bridge,
two 40-foot spans and one 76-foot span.

Ludlow — At Wilbraham, line, Red Bridge over Chicopee River, steel
stringer bridge, two 83-foot spans.

Lunenburg — Townsend Harbor Road over Mulpus Brook, steel stringer
bridge, one 23-foot span.

Northfield — Mt. Hermon Road over Nelson Pond, 8-foot by 8-foot con-
crete box culvert and extension to existing penstock.

Northfield — Burnham Road over Mill Brook, steel stringer bridge, one
63-foot span.

Orange — South Main Street over Millers River, steel stringer bridge,
two 66-foot spans.

Orange — Holtshire Street over Millers River, steel stringer bridge,
three 61-foot spans.

Orange — Warwick Road over Orcutt Brook, steel stringer bridge and
concrete dam, one 30-foot span for bridge.

Palmer — Main Street over Ware River, concrete beam and slab bridge,
two 29-foot spans and one 38-foot span.

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Palmer — Church Street over Ware River, concrete beam and slab
bridge, one 31-foot span, one 30-foot span, and one 48-foot span.

PeppereU — Main Street over Nashua River, steel stringer bridge, four
66-foot spans; and new supports for building at bridge site.

PeppereU — Mill Street over Nissitisset River, concrete rigid frame
bridge, one 62-foot span.

Petersham — Choate's Pond Bridge over Swift River, steel stringer
bridge, one 43-foot span.

Princeton — At Sterling line, Pottery Mill Bridge over Keyes Brook,
concrete slab bridge, one 20-foot span.

Princeton — Ropers Mill Bridge over Ware River, steel stringer bridge,
one 33-foot span.

Royalston — King Street over Millers River, steel pony truss bridge, one
85-foot span.

Royalston — South Royalston Road over Millers River, steel pony truss
bridge, one 90-foot span.

Sterling — Bridge Road over East Wachusett Brook, concrete slab
bridge, one 20-foot span.

Sutton — Stevens Road over Mumford River, steel stringer bridge, one
43-foot span.

Sutton — State highway over Mumford River, one 45-foot span steel
stringer bridge and concrete retaining wall.

Townsend — Warren Road over Squannacook River, through plate girder
bridge, one 86-foot span.

Uxbridge — Mendon Street over Blackstone River, steel stringer bridge,
one 77-foot span.

Ware — Church Street over Ware River, steel stringer bridge, two 33-
foot spans and one 84-foot span.

Ware — Gibbs Crossing over Ware River, steel stringer bridge, two
33-foot spans and one 84-foot span.

Winchendon — State highway route 202 over Millers River, concrete
slab bridge, two 21-foot spans.

Winchendon — High Street over Millers River, steel stringer bridge,
two 33-foot spans and one 60-foot span.

Winchendon — State highway route 12 over Millers River, steel stringer
bridge, one 33-foot span.

Other Bridges Built or Contracted for

Adams — Center Street over Hoosic River, steel stringer bridge one 53-
foot span.

Alford — West Street over Seekonk Brook, steel stringer bridge one
35-foot span.

Attleboro — Washington Street over N. Y., N. H., & H. R. R., steel
stringer bridge, two 25-foot spans and one 40-foot span

Barre — School Street over Prince River, concrete slab bridge, one 21-
foot span.

Blandford — Russell Road over Freeland Brook, concrete slab bridge,
one 15-foot span.

Boston — Jamaicaway over Huntington Avenue, relieving platform at
approach to bridge.

Braintree — Union Street under N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R., steel girder
bridge, one 50-foot span.,

Easthampton — Glendale Street over Manhan River, steel stringer
bridge, two 24-foot spans and one 62-foot span.

Fitchburg — Concord to Westminster cut-off over Monoosnock Brook,
one 35-foot concrete beam and slab and one 25-foot concrete arch.

Gill — At Montague line over Connecticut River, Canal and New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad at Turners Falls; one 48-foot steel
stringer span over railroad; one 211-foot steel deck truss span over
canal ; one 150-foot span, two 400-foot spans and one 450-foot span steel

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deck trusses over river; total length about 2100 feet, including the wing
walls.

Hadley — At Northampton line, Calvin Coolidge Memorial Bridge over
Connecticut River, steel deck trusses, two 203-foot spans, two 260-foot
spans, and one 296-foot span; total length 1441 feet, including wing walls.

Holden — River Street over Wachusett Brook, steel stringer bridge, one
52-foot span.

Huntington — Cut-off over Westfield River and Boston and Albany Rail-
road with ramp from bridge to railroad station; one 36-foot span steel
stringer; one 83-foot span steel rigid frame over railroad; two 40-foot
spans and two 44-foot spans steel stringers and one 185-foot span steel
arch over river ; and four 42-foot spans steel stringers for the ramp ; total
length of bridge 615 feet.

Lee — Columbia Street over Coddings Brook, 12-foot by 8-foot concrete
box culvert.

Lowell — Central Bridge over Merrimack River: One 473-foot span
suspension bridge for temporary foot travel ; through steel truss bridge,
two 138-foot spans and one 198-foot span.

Lowell — Canal at approaches to Central Bridge, steel stringer bridge,
one 49-foot span.

Milford — Medway Street over Boston & Albany Railroad, steel stringer
bridge, two 49-foot spans and one 64-foot span.

Pittsfield — South Street over Housatonic River, steel stringer bridge,
one 61-foot span.

Quincy — At Water Street; canopies, shelters and platform lighting
built in connection with bridge construction.

Sharon — At Sharon Station; canopies, shelter shed and lights.

Southbridge — North Woodstock Road over New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad, steel stringer bridge, one 49-foot span.

Swampscott — Paradise Road under Boston & Maine Railroad, steel
girder bridge with timber floor, one 81-foot span.

Alterations, Repairs or Widening Made or Contracted for

Berkley — At Dighton line, Bridge Street over Taunton River, repairs
made to floor and draw operating parts.

Fall River — At Somerset line, Slades Ferry Bridge over Taunton River,
existing bridge altered by building new draw span, new floor and making
general repairs.

Hamilton — At Ipswich line, Highland Street over Ipswich River, exist-
ing bridge widened.

Hanson — Main Street over Poor Meadow Brook, existing concrete arch
widened.

Lee — Columbia Street over Washington Mountain Brook, existing
bridge widened.

Lowell — Moody Street over Merrimack River, existing deck truss
bridge repaired after damage by flood.

Examinations, Reports, Estimates, etc., at Request of
Local Authorities

Adams — Pleasant Street over Hoosic River, report made on improve-
ment of waterway.

Bridgewater — At Halifax line, Cherry Street over Taunton River, ex-
amination and report on existing bridge.

Essex — Pond Street over Essex River, examination and report on exist-
ing bridge.

Falmouth — Nashawena Street over Nashawena Creek, examination and
report on existing bridge.

Framingham — Central Street at Saxonville Village, examination and
report on condition of retaining wall.

Greenfield — Shelburne Street over Green River, examination and re-
port on existing bridge.

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Monroe — At Rowe line over Deerfield River, examination and report
on existing bridge.

Newbury — White's Bridge on Newman Road over Little River, exam-
ination and report on existing bridge.

Newbury — Plum Island Turnpike over Plum Island Creek, examina-
tion and report on existing bridge.

Oxford — Rochdale Street over French River, examination and report
on existing bridge.

Palmer — Dutton's Bridge over Ware River, examination and report on
existing bridge and proposed bridge.

Saugus — Ballard Street over Tidal Creek, examination and report on
existing bridge.

Examinations, Reports, Estimates, etc., at Request of
Department Authorities

Agawam — At Springfield line, South End Bridge over Connecticut
River, estimate for new bridge.

Arlington — River Street over Mystic River, review of prices paid for
stone work on bridge.

Greenfield — At Montague line, Montague City Bridge over Connecticut
River, examination and report on existing bridge.

Norfolk — At Walpole line, Winter Street over Stop River, examination
and report on existing bridge.

Northampton — South Street over Mill River and New York, New Hav-
en & Hartford Railroad and South Street over Clark Street, estimate for
reconstruction of the bridges.

Oxford — At Degnam Bridge, report on responsibility for damage due
to flood of 1936.

Townsend — Muddy Road Bridge, examination and report on existing
bridge.

Plans Examined Under the Provisions of Section 35,
Chapter 85, General Laws (Ter. Ed.)
Brockton — East Ashland Street over Trout Brook.
New Braintree — Hardwick Road over Winnamusett Brook.
Saugus — Elm. Street over a culvert.

Springfield — State Street Bridge over Roosevelt Avenue, and Water
Shop Bridge.

Westminster — Whitmanville Bridge over Whitman River.
Worcester — Grove Street Bridge over Mill Brook.

Contemplated Structures for which Preliminary Studies,
Estimates, or Plans Have Been Made

Ashland — Main and Cheery Streets over Boston & Albany Railroad.

Ashland — Pedestrian underpass on Main Street under Boston & Albany
Railroad.

Athol — Main Street over Boston & Maine Railroad.

Belchertown — Granby Road over Boston & Maine Railroad.

Bellingham- — Mendon Street over New York, New Haven, & Hartford
Railroad.

Bernardston — Hale's Crossing over Boston & Maine Railroad.

Beverly — Paradise Crossing over Boston & Maine Railroad.

Boston — At Cambridge line, traffic circle at end of Prison Point Bridge.

Boston — At Milton line, over Neponset River on a proposed new route.

Boston — At Milton line, near Paul's Bridge over Neponset River.

Boston — Porter Street over Boston & Albany Railroad ; Prescott Street
over Tunnel Road; Bennington and Neptune Streets over Tunnel Road;
and Saratoga Street over Tunnel Road.

Boston — East Milton Street over Mattapan connecting highway.

Brimfield — Sturbridge Road over Mill Brook.

Brookline— At Brookline Village and at Cypress Street at junction with
Worcester Turnpike.

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Cambridge — Alterations at approach to Cottage Farm Bridge.

Charlemont — Depot Street over Deerfield River.

Cheshire — Auto route 8 over Boston & Albany Railroad.

Chesterfield — First Bridge and Second Bridge over Stevens Brook.

Chicopee — Elimination of grade crossing, Plainfield Street at Boston &
Maine Railroad.

Danvers — Salem Turnpike under Boston and Maine Railroad.

Danvers — Andover Street over Newburyport Turnpike.

Falmouth — Silver Beach Road over Herring River and over New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad.

Fitctiburg — Concord to Westminster cut-off over Woodbury Mill Pond.

Florida — At Savoy line, Mohawk Trail over Cold River.

Gardner — Mechanic Street highway bridge and pedestrian overpass
over Boston & Maine Railroad.

Gloucester — Essex Avenue under Boston & Maine Railroad.

Grafton — Depot Street over Blackstone Canal.

Hatfield — West Street over Mill River, widening of bridge.

Haverhill — River Street over Bradley Brook, widening of bridge.

Haverhill — At Methuen line, Bradley Avenue over Hawkes Brook, wid-
ening of bridge.

Holliston — Washington Street over Boston & Albany R. R.

Ipswich — Separation of grades at Newburyport Turnpike and Line-
brook Road.

Lawrence — Winthrop Avenue over Shawsheen River, Widening of
bridge.

Lee — Auto route 20 over Housatonic River.

Leominster — Concord to Westminster cut-off under New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad, and under North Main Street.

Lincoln — South Great Road over Boston & Maine Railroad.

Manchester — Proposed road over Manchester Harbor.

Mansfield — Pedestrian underpass at Elm Street under New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad.

Marblehead — Village Street over Boston & Maine Railroad.

Medfield — At Millis line, Dwight Street over Charles River.

Milton — Proposed road over New York, New Haven, and Hartford
Railroad.

Monroe — Valley Road over Dunbar Brook, widening existing bridge.

Montague — Main Street over Central Vermont Railway.

Newburyport — High Street over Boston & Maine Railroad.

Newton — At Weston line, Northern Circumferential Highway over
Charles River.

North Adams — Williamstown Road over a brook, widening existing
bridge.

North Andover — Boxford Road over Mosquito Brook.

Northbridge — Mendon Road over West River.

Palmer — Dutton's Bridge over Ware River.

Peabody — Lowell Street over Newburyport Turnpike.
. Peabody — Andover Street over Circumferential Highway.

Pittsfield — South Street over New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail-
road.

Randolph — North Street over New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail-
road.

Rowley — Haverhill Street over Newburyport Turnpike.

Salisbury — Elm Street over Boston & Maine Railroad.

Sharon — Garden Street over New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail-
road, pedestrian overpass.

Shrewsbury — Southwest Connection over Flint Pond, over Lake Quin-
sigamond and over Grafton Street.

Southwick — College Highway over Uncle Oliver's Brook.

Southwick — State Highway over Webb Brook.

Sudbury — Boston Post Road over Parmenters Mill Pond.

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Sudbury — Worcester Road over New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad.

Sutton — Worcester Road over Wilkinsonville Road.

Sutton — Worcester to Providence Road over Central Turnpike.

Tewksbury — Wamesit Crossing over Boston & Maine Railroad.

Topsfield — Ipswich Road over Newburyport Turnpike.

West Bridgewater — West Centre Street over Hockamuck River.

West Springfield — Dike wall on Riverdale Road at North End Bridge.

Weston — Circumferential Highway over South Avenue and over West-
on' Aqueduct.

Williams town — North Adams Road over Green River.

Winchendon — New Boston Road over Boston & Maine Railroad.

Winchendon — Pequoig Crossing, Ashburnham Road over Boston &
Maine Railroad.

Winchester — Main Street over outlet of Wedge Pond.

Windsor — Worthington Road over two brooks.

Windsor — Savoy Road over Westfield River.

Construction of Town and County Ways
(Section 34, Chapter 90, General Laws, Ter. Ed.)
During the year the Department has contracted for work to be done in
the towns and cities named in the following table, which also shows the
typer of road or nature of work, the length contracted for, and the allot-
ments or contributions by the State, towns, cities, and counties :

Counties and Towns

Barnstable County
Barnstable

Barnstable

Bourne

Brewster

Falmouth

Harwich

Orleans

Wellfleet

Berkshire County
Adams
Alford

Alford
Alford
Becket

Becket

Cheshire

Clarksburg

Dalton

Egremont

Florida

Great Barrington

Hancock

Hinsdale

Hinsdale
Hinsdale
Lanesborough

Lanesborough
Lanesborough
Lee

Contributions
State Town

County

$3,500.00 $2,500.00 $2,500.00

1,049.69

185.31

300.00

9,265.00

15,200.00

3,500.00

7,000.00

7,700.00

4,200.00

$12,000.00
1,000.00

500.00
3,750.00
2,800.00

1,000.00
2,200.00
1,400.00

400.00
7,000.00
1,000.00

400.00
2,500.00
2,200.00
2,800.00
7,000.00
1,200.00
7,000.00
5,182.00

1,500.00
1,027.00
3,500.00

1,400.00
3,500.00
9,300.00

3.500.00

750.15

132.35

150.00

6,717.50

7,600.00

3,500.00
3,500.00
5,500.00
3,000.00

$6,000.00
500.00

250.00
1,875.00
1,400.00

500.00
1,100.00

700.00

400.00
3,500.00
1,500.00

400.00
1,250.00
1,100.00
2,000.00
3,500.00
1,200.00

500.00
79.00

500.00

187.00

1,750.00

1,000.00

5,000.00

2,500.00

750.15
132.35
150.00
6,717.50
7,600.00
3,500.00
3,500.00
3,500.00
5,500.00
3,000.00

$6,000.00
500.00
250.00

1,875.00
1,400.00

500.00
1,100.00

700.00

400.00
3,500.00
1,000.00

400.00
1,250.00
1,100.00
1.400.00
3,500.00
1,200.00
1,800.00

500.00

650.00

2,100.00
3,500.00
4.650.00

1,750.00

Length Con-
Type op Road or tracted for
Nature of Work (Feet)

Gravel and tar mixed in
place 6,362

Repairs 515

Riprap —

Bituminous concrete . 2,931

Bituminous concrete 3,390

Bituminous concrete 1,850

Bituminous concrete 2,990

Bituminous concrete 6,700

Bituminous concrete . 3,418

Clay hardening . . . 6,050

Bridge and approaches . —

Gravel 900

Oiling .... 2,000

Gravel and tar . . 700

Bridge —

Gravel 1,275

Oiling 1,800

Gravel 650

Gravel .... 1,650

Gravel and calcium chloride 900

Repairs and oiling . 13,025

Bituminous concrete 2,272

Bituminous concrete . 525

Repairs 1,850

Stone retread 4,700

Gravel 1,250

Gravel 700

Bituminous concrete 2,700

Maintenance .... 24,469

Bituminous macadam . 1,900

Maintenance .... 7,271
Gravel and tar and stone

retread 1,000

Maintenance .... 13,200

Oiling and stone retread . 2,850

Gravel .... 600

Oiling and stone retread . 3,663

Gravel 2,300

Bridge .

Bridge extension

Bituminous concrete . 1,846

Grading and drainage 1,388

Stone retread 1,600

Grading and drainage 2,450

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Length Con-

Contributions

Type of Road or tracted for

Counties and Towns State

Town

County

Nature of Work (Feet)

Lenox

5,600.00

2,500.00

2,800.00

Bituminous concrete

1,157

Monterey

2,100.00

1,050.00

Gravel ....
Oiling ....

1,250
1,975

Mount Washingto

l. 1,500.00

500.00

1,000.00

Gravel ....

1,550

New Ashford

800.00

400.00

Gravel ....

700

New Ashford

500.00

250.00

Gravel ....

600

New Marlborough

4,200.00

2,100.00

Gravel

Oiling and stone retread

2,150
2,000

North Adams .

15,000.00

9,000.00

7,500.00

Bituminous concrete

2,893

North Adams

3,500.00

■ — •

3,500.00

Gravel ....

1,950

Otis

3,200.00

2,250.00

1,600.00

Gravel ....

2,750
1,600

Peru

1,703.00

52.00

—

Maintenance

18,200

Peru

1,423.00

43.00

—

Maintenance

15,300

Pittsfield

42,000.00

30,000.00

40,000.00

Bridge

Reinforced cement concrete 240

Bituminous concrete

6,927

Richmond

1,800.00

900.00

Gravel ....

1,300

Richmond

800.00

Maintenance

18,480

Sandisfield .

2,800.00

2.000.00

1,400.00

Gravel ....

1,950
1,750

Savoy .

1,500.00

500.00

1,500.00

1,200

Sheffield

1,400.00

1,000.00

700.00

Gravel ....

900

Sheffield

1,400.00

1,000.00

700.00

1,075

Stockbridge

5,300.00

3,750.00

2,650.00

Bituminous concrete

2,050

Stockbridge

700.00

Maintenance

15,165

Tyringham

2,800.00

1,400.00

Oiling ....
Gravel ....

2,950
3.250

Washington

9,000.00

1,500.00

9,000.00

Gravel and tar

7,285

West Stockbridge

2,500.00

1,750.00

1,250.00

1,100

West Stockbridge

1,800.00

1,250.00

900.00

Gravel and tar

1 250
1,650

Williamstown

3,500.00

1,750.00

Oiling, gravel and stone re
tread

9,133

Windsor

1,400.00

700.00

Gravel ....

1,000

Bristol County

Acushnet

$3,500.00

$2,500.00

Bituminous macadam .

1,350

Attleboro

9,000.00

4,500.00

Bituminous macadam .

2,620

Berkley

1,000.00

Maintenance

46,936

Berkley

1,200.00

600.00

Bridge repairs

—

Dighton

2,000.00

1,400.00

Bridge repairs

—

Dartmouth

9,100.00

4,550.00

Bituminous concrete

3,600

Easton

7,000.00

3,500.00

Bituminous concrete

1,950

Fairhaven

1,000.00

Maintenance

28,195

Freetown

1,000.00

Maintenance

62,527

North Attleboroug

h 4,900.00

2,450.00

Bituminous concrete

1,250

Norton

500.00

Maintenance

23,194

Raynham

500.00

Maintenance

16,080

Rehoboth

4,000.00

2,500.00

Gravel and tar

1,800

Rehoboth

800.00

Maintenance

53,887

Seekonk

7,000.00

5,000.00

5.000.00

Bituminous concrete

2,330

Taunton

7,000.00

3,500.00

Bituminous concrete

1,090

Dukes County

Edgartown

$1,900.00

$950.00

Maintenance

15,534

Tisbury

1,500.00

750.00

Maintenance

7,707

Tisbury

1,400.00

700.00

Maintenance

6,972

West Tisbury .

500.00

250.00

Maintenance

4,150

Essex County

Amesbury

$5,600.00

$2,800.00

Grave] and tar

4,200

Amesbury

1,000.00

—

Maintenance

15,200

Andover

8,400.00

4,200.00

Penolithic pavement

3,520

Beverly

6,300.00

3,150.00

Bituminous concrete

3.568

Beverly

2,500.00

1,250.00

Bituminous concrete

1,150

Beverly

5,200.00

2,600.00

Bituminous concrete

1,650

Boxford

2,100.00

1,050.00

Broken stone mixed in place
with asphalt emulsion

1,500

Boxford

3,500.00

1,750.00

Grading and drainage

3,985

Boxford

1,000.00

—

Maintenance

7,300

Danvers

8,400.00

4,200.00

Bituminous macadam .

2,200

Essex

1,000.00

—

Maintenance

23,750

Georgetown

1,000.00

—

Maintenance

6,800

Gloucester

2,710.20

—

Bituminous macadam .

1,200

Gloucester

789.80

—

Broken stone surfacing

1,200

Groveland .

500.00

—

Maintenance

12.626

Hamilton

5,900.00

4,300.00

2,950.00

Bituminous concrete

3,382

Hamilton

500.00

—

Maintenance

30.807

Hamilton

2,500.00

1,250.00

1.250.00

Bituminous macadam .

2,932

Haverhill

23,000.00

11,500.00

27,500.00

Bituminous macadam .

4,311

Haverhill

5,000.00

—

Bituminous concrete

1,210

Hamilton

3,000.00

1,500.00

Roadway slab with sidewal

k —

Ipswich

3,500.00

1,750.00

extension on stone arch

Ipswich

4,500.00

2,250.00

bridge
Bituminous concrete

1,200

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Contributions

Length Con-
Type of Road or tracted for

Counties and Towns State

Town

County

Nature of Work (Feet)

Ipswich

4,200.00

2,100.00

Broken stone mixed in place

with cut-back asphalt 3,400

Lawrence .

5,000.00

2,500.00

Reinforced cement concrete

(widening) . . 2,264

Lawrence .

6,300.00

.3,150.00

3,150.00

Bituminous concrete 2,370

Lynnfield .

3,500.00

1,750.00

Bituminous concrete . . 623

Lynnfield

4,200.00

2,100.00

Broken stone mixed in place

with cut-back asphalt 2,300

Lynnfield

500.00

—

Maintenance .... 18,950

Marblehead

14,000.00

7,000.00

Bituminous concrete . 3,125

Merrimac .

1,500.00

—

Maintenance .... 10,500

Methuen

14,000.00

7,000.00

Bituminous concrete 2,747

Middleton .

12,300.00

1,900.00

4,700.00

Bituminous concrete . 2,300

Middleton

1,000.00

—

Maintenance .... 14,414

Newbury

1,500.00

—

Maintenance .... 10,000

North Andover

4,900.00

2,450.00

Broken stone mixed in place
with cut-back asphalt . 3,100

Peabody

9,100.00

4,550.00

Bituminous macadam . 2,044

Rockport

2,100.00

1,050.00

Broken stone mixed in place

with asphalt . 2,050

Rockport

2,100.00

1,050.00

Broken stone mixed in place

with asphalt . . 650

Rockport

500.00

—

Maintenance .... 3,000

Rowley

1,400.00

700.00

Gravel and tar 2,400

Salisbury

2,100.00

1,050.00

Grading 1,950

Salisbury

1,400.00

700.00

Gravel mixed in place with

tar 1,250

Saugus

2,800.00

2,000.00

1,400.00

Penolithic pavement 918

Saugus

4,200.00

3,000.00

2,100.00

Penolithic pavement (wid-
ening) 4,000

Swampscott

2,100.00

1,050.00

Bituminous macadam . . 400

Topsfield

9,100.00

1,400.00

3,500.00

Bituminous concrete 2,544

Topsfield

1,000.00

—

Maintenance .... 21,400

Wenham

9,100.00

1,400.00

3,500.00

Bituminous concrete . 1,972

Wenham

Bituminous concrete . 800

West Newbury

3,500.00

1,750.00

Grading and drainage 2,050

Franklin Coun

Ashfield

$1,000.00

$500.00

Gravel and tar . ... 2,700

Ashfield

1,344.00

96.00

—

Maintenance .... 12,672

Ashfield

1,000.00

500.00

Gravel mixed in place with
tar .... 2,400

Buckland

1,400.00

700.00

Broken stone mixed in place

with cut-back asphalt 2,500

Charlemont

1,400.00

700.00

Grading 1,800

Colrain

1,400.00

700.00

Grading and drainage . 900

Conway

2,100.00

1,400.00

700.00

Gravel 750

Deerfield

1,400.00

700.00

Bituminous macadam . 685

Erving

1,400.00

700.00

Gravel 900

Gill

1,400.00

700.00

Gravel mixed in place with
tar 700

Gill

2,448.00

352.00

—

Maintenance .... 14,784

Greenfield

3,500.00

2,800.00

700.00

Bituminous macadam . 4,050

Hawley

1,400.00

350.00

Gravel 800

Hawley

1,400.00

350.00

Gravel 400

Heath .

1,400.00

700.00

Gravel 600

Leverett

1,400.00

700.00

Gravel mixed in place with
tar 1,800

Leyden

2,800.00

700.00

Grading 1,550

Monroe

1,400.00

700.00

Gravel 600

Montague

6,300.00

5,600.00

700.00

Bituminous macadam . 2,807

New Salem

2,100.00

1,400.00

700.00

Gravel mixed in place with
tar 8,400

New Salem

900.00

600.00

300.00

Grading 600

Northfield .

1,400.00

700.00

Gravel mixed in place with

tar 3,000

Orange

7,500.00

6,500.00

1,000.00

Bituminous concrete . . 2,649

Orange

560.00

280.00

—

Maintenance .... 7,392

Orange

1,500.00

—

Maintenance .... 22,570

Rowe

2,100.00

1,050.00

700.00

Gravel 1,625

Shelburne .

1,400.00

700.00

Bituminous macadam . 1,600

Shutesbury

1,400.00

700.00

Gravel 750

Sunderland

7,700.00

3,000.00

700.00

Bituminous macadam . 5,258

Warwick

1,400.00

700.00

Gravel 600

Warwick

3,365.00

55.00

—

Maintenance .... 30,624

Wendell

2,100.00

1,400.00

700.00

Gravel 2,250

Wendell

1,250.00

—

Maintenance .... 25,872

Whately

1,400.00

700.00

Bituminous macadam . 1,050

Hampden Coun

Agawam

$7,700.00

$3,850.00

Bituminous macadam . 2,825

Agawam

1,200.00

600.00

Repairs and oiling . 19,008

Elandford .

4,500.00

2,000.00

2,500.00

Bridge and approaches —

Oiling 2,200

Gravel mixed in place with

Brimfield

2,800.00

1,400.00

tar 1,750

Brimfield

1,000.00

Maintenance .... 36,532

Contributions

Counties and Towns State

Town

County

Chester

600.00

Chester

2,800.00

7OC.00

1,400.00

Chester

2,800.00

700.00

1,400.00

Chicopee

17,900.00

3,950.00

8,950.00

East Longmeadow

7,000.00

3,500.00

East Longmeadow

400.00

East Longmeadow

800.00

400.00

East Longmeadow

1,400.00

700.00

Granville

4,200.00

2,100.00

Hampdtn

2,100.00

S00.00

1,300.00

Hampden

400.00

Holland

2,800.00

700.00

2,100.00

Holland

500.00

Holland

250.00

Longmeadow

6,000.00

3,000.00

Ludlow

3,400.00

1,700.00

Ludlow

2,500.00

1,250.00

Ludlow

1,500.00

750.00

Monson

3,500.00

2,500.00

1,750.00

Monson

3,500.00

2,500.00

1,750.00

Monson

500.00

Montgomery

3,500.00

700.00

1,800.00

Montgomery

300.00

Palmer

7,000.00

5,000.00

3,500.00

Palmer

1,000.00

• 1,000.00

1,000.00

Russell

750.00

375.00

Russell

150.00

Southwick .

3,500.00

1,400.00

2,100.00

Southwick .

2,260.00

740.00

—

Southwick .

700.00

Springfield

29,800.00

14,900.00

Tolland

3,500.00

1,400.00

2.100.00

Wales .

2,100.00

1,050.00

Wales .

300.00

West Springfield

11,600.00

5,800.00

Westfield

2,100.00

1,050.00

Westfield .

4,200.00

2,100.00

2.100.00

Westfield

1,000.00

Wilbraham

2,800.00

1,400.00

1.400.00

Wilbraham

1,000.00

500.00

Wilbraham

350.00

Hampshire Count

Amherst

$8,400.00

$5,600.00

$2,800.00

Belchertown

5,300.00

2,650.00

Belchertown

1,288.00

92.00

—

Chesterfield

1,000.00

500.00

Chesterfield

1,000.00

500.00

Chesterfield

1,000.00

500.00

Chesterfield

250.00

Chesterfield

3,450.00

150.00

—

Cummington

1,800.00

900.00

200.00

Cummington

400.00

200.00

Cummington

250.00

Cummington

863.00

37.00

—

Easthampton

13,000.00

6,500.00

Easthampton

3,200.00

1,800.00

1,400.00

Enfield

500.00

Goshen

1,400.00

700.00

Goshen

1,035.00

45.00

—

Granby

2,800.00

1,400.00

Greenwich

1.000.00

500.00

Hadley

3,600.00

1,800.00

Hadley

400.00

Huntington

2,800.00

1,400.00

Middlefield

1,400.00

700.00

Middlefield

1.000.00

500.00

Middlefield

3,294.00

506.00

500.00

Northampton

2,100.00

1,050.00

Northampton

1,400.00

700.00

Northampton

4,200.00

2,100.00

2.100.00

Northampton

5,000.00

2,500.00

Pelham

18,250.00

2,000.00

6,750.00

P.D. 54

Length Con-
tracted for
(Feet)
. 14,150

with
with

with

Type of Road or

Nature of Work

Maintenance

Stone retread

Oiling

Gravel

Bituminous concrete

Bituminous macadam

Maintenance

Gravel mixed in place

tar
Gravel mixed in place

tar
Bituminous macadam
Gravel mixed in place

tar
Maintenance
Gravel mixed in place

tar
Maintenance
Maintenance
Gravel mixed in place

cut-back asphalt
Bituminous macadam
Bituminous macadam
Bituminous macadam
Gravel mixed in place

asphaltic oil
Bituminous concrete
Maintenance
Stone retread

Gravel
Maintenance
Bituminous concrete
Maintenance
Retaining wall
Repairs

Bituminous macadam
Maintenance
Maintenance
Bituminous concrete
Stone retread
Gravel
Gravel mixed in place

tar
Maintenance
Bituminous concrete
Bituminous macadam
Gravel stone mixed in place

with tar
Maintenance
Bituminous macadam
Bituminous macadam
Maintenance

Bituminous macadam .

Bituminous concrete

Maintenance

Gravel ....

Gravel and tar

Gravel ....

Maintenance

Gravel ....

Maintenance

Bridge ....

Bituminous concrete

Maintenance .

Gravel ....

Maintenance

Bituminous macadam .

Repairs and oiling

Gravel and asphaltic oil

Bituminous macadam .

Maintenance

Gravel and tar

Gravel ....

Oiling and stone retread

Gravel ....

Stone\ retread

Bituminous macadam .

Gravel mixed in place with

tar ....

Bituminous macadam .
Bituminous concrete
Bituminous concrete

4,700
6,500
1,170
7,598
3,300
8,750

2,250

2,123
1,200

2,000
12,600

3,575
25,600
20.750

6,471

1,600

1,100

700

2,300
1,220

12,050
2,500
2,150
7,250
2,294

18,700

1,900

13,728

16,368

9,100

4,150

650

1,700

13,000

1,252

2,270

5,000
18,565
1,700
1,800
9,350

2,700

3,200

12,144

500

542

600

5,280

31,680

1,100

400

2,500

7,920

1,800
13,200

900

9,504

1,100

19.536

2.050

725

10.650

5,000

685
1.800

550
2,200
1,390

2,700
2,050
1,350
4,950

P.D. 54

Length Con-

Contributions

Type or Road or tracted for

Counties and Towns State

Town

County

Nature of Work (Feet)

Plainfield . . . 1,400.00

700.00

Gravel and tar

900

Plainfield

300.00

Maintenance .

7,000

Plainfield

1,463.00

37.00

Maintenance

10,560

South Hadley

6,200.00

3,100.00

Bituminous concrete

3,538

South Hadley

1,400.00

700.00

Repairs and drainage .

8,000

Southampton

1,000.00

• 500.00

500.00

Stone retread

1,475

Ware .

3,500.00

1,750.00

Bituminous concrete (wid

3,444

Westhampton

1,400.00

700.00

1,000

Westhampton

500.00

Maintenance

10,000

Williamsburg

1,800.00

900.00

Bridge and approaches

—

Williamsburg

250.00

Maintenance .

5,280

Worthington

2,000.00

1,000.00

1,500

Worthington

1,400.00

1,000.00

754

Worthington

593.00

34.00

—

Maintenance

7,198

Worthington

2,960.00

135.00

—

Maintenance

28,700

Middlesex County

Acton . . . $3,500.00

$2,500.00

Bituminous concrete

1,200

Acton

1,400.00

2,000.00

Maintenance

102,432

Acton

1,400.00

1,000.00

1,600.00

Gravel and tar

420

Arlington

4,200.00

3,000.00

Bituminous concrete

780

Ashby .

500.00

1,000.00

Maintenance

19,536

Ashby .

1,000.00

500.00

1,000.00

Gravel and tar

1,500

Ashland

1,500.00

Maintenance

31,680

Ashland

1,000.00

500.00

1,000.00

Gravel and tar

1,550

Ayer

4,900.00

3,500.00

Bituminous concrete

1,950

Ayer

1,400.00

2,000.00

Maintenance

50,054

Bedford

1,400.00

2,000.00

Maintenance

46,464

Bedford

1,800.00

1,000.00

Bituminous macadam .

1,000

Bedford

3,500.00

2,000.00

Bituminous concrete

1,500

Belmont

4,500.00

Bituminous concrete

1,950

Billerica

2,100.00

3,000.00

Maintenance

99,422

Billerica

4,200.00

3,000.00

Bituminous macadam .

1,900

Billerica

4,200.00

3,000.00

Bituminous concrete

1,550

Boxborough

700.00

800.00

Maintenance

44,035

Boxborough

500.00

250.00

Gravel and tar

1,400

Burlington

2,100.00

3,000.00

Maintenance

85,536

Burlington

2,200.00

2,000.00

Bituminous macadam (wid
ening)

2,800

Burlington

2,800.00

2,000.00

Gravel (widening)

4,500

Cambridge

16,000.00

—

Bituminous concrete

4,212

Cambridge

29,000.00

—

Bituminous concrete

4,893

Carlisle

1,500.00

Maintenance

64,944

Chelmsford

2,100.00

3,000.00

Maintenance

83,952

Chelmsford

4,200.00

3,500.00

Bituminous concrete

1,650

Concord

1,500.00

Maintenance

99,739

Concord

4,000.00

4,405.00

4,000.00

Bituminous macadam .

1,635

Concord

7,200.00

6,000.00

4,800.00

Bituminous concrete

1,960

Dracut

2,100.00

3,000.00

Maintenance

56,232

Dracut

4,200.00

3,000.00

3.000.00

Bituminous concrete

1,500

Dunstable

1,500.00

1,500:00

Maintenance

50,160

Dunstable

1,400.00

1,000.00

Gravel (widening)

2,000

Everett

35,000.00

—

Bituminous concrete

6,813

Framingham

9,200.00

8,400.00

Penolithic pavement

4,026

Framingham

5,500.00

5,900.00

Bituminous concrete

1.750

Framingham

1,400.00

2,000.00

Maintenance

85,483

Groton

2.500.00

3,500.00

Maintenance

58,186

Groton

4,200.00

3,000.00

Gravel and tar .

3,350

Holliston

1,500.00

Maintenance

53,328

Holliston

4.200.00

1,000.00

4,000.00

Bituminous concrete

1,650

Hopkinton

1,400.00

2,000.00

Maintenance

70,224

Hopkinton

2,800.00

3,000.00

3.000.00

Bituminous macadam .

1,775

Hudson

1,400.00

2,000.00

Maintenance

42,134

Hudson

3,800.00

2,700.00

Penolithic pavement

1,360

Hudson

8.800.00

8,500.00

6.000.00

Bituminous concrete

2,290

Lexington

2.100.00

3.000.00

Maintenance

61,829

Lexington

1.400.00

1.000.00

Penolithic pavement

250

Lexington

6.600.00

4,000.00

Penolithic pavement

1,810

Lincoln

1.000.00

1,000.00

Maintenance

36,960

Lincoln

2.100.00

1.500.00

1,500.00

Gravel and tar

1,900

Littleton

1,400.00

2,100.00

Maintenance

67,742

Littleton

2.100.00

1,500.00

Gravel and tar

2,500

Lowell

21.000.00

14,000.00

7.000.00

Bituminous concrete

5.900

Maiden

15.550.00

7.775.00

Bituminous concrete

. 2.155

Maiden

12,450.00

6,225.00

6.225.00

Bituminous concrete

2,360

Marlborough

2,800.00

2,000.00

2.000.00

Bituminous macadam .

675

Marlborough

8,400.00

6,000.00

6.000.00

Bituminous concrete

2,125

Maynard

1,500.00

1.500.00

Maintenance

36,274

Maynard

8,400.00

8,000.00

7,000.00

Bituminous concrete

3,250

Medford

25.000.00

22,500.00

20,000.00

Bituminous concrete

. 4,113

Natick

1,500.00

1.500.00

1,500.00

Maintenance

. 59,822

Natick

1,400.00

700.00

Drainage

—

Natick

10,500.00

8,000.00

7,500.00

Bituminous concrete

. 2,510

Newton

♦8,000.00

12,000.00

*4,000.00

Grading and drainage

. 1,562

* Transferred from 1936 contract.

P.D. 54

Length Con-

Contributions

Type of Road or tracted for

Counties and Towns State

Town

County

Nature of Work (Feet)

North Reading 1,400.00

2,000.00

Maintenance

52,272

North Reading

4,200.00

3,000.00

Bituminous concrete

2,600

Pepperell

2,800.00

4,000.00

Maintenance

83,424

Reading

1,000.00

Maintenance

33,634

Reading

5,600.00

4,000.00

Penolithic pavement .

1,650

Reading

5,600.00

4,000.00

Bituminous concrete

1,625

Sherborn

1,800.00

2,250.00

Maintenance

74,448

Shirley

1,400.00

2,000.00

Maintenance

51,216

Shirley

2,141.00

1,529.50

Gravel and tar

2,568

Shirley

3,459.00

2,470.50

Gravel and cut-back asphal

t 4,000

Stoneham

13,100.00

9,333.00

7,000.00

Penolithic pavement .

3,170

Stoneham

1,000.00

Maintenance

35,587

Stow

1,400.00

2,000.00

Maintenance

41,184

Sudbury

1,400.00

2,000.00

Maintenance

81,840

Sudbury

2,800.00

2,000.00

Gravel and tar

3,300

Tewksbury

1,400.00

2,500.00

Maintenance

55,440

Tewksbury

1,400.00

1,000.00

Gravel and tar

1,500

Tewksbury

3,500.00

2,500.00

Gravel and tar

3,600

Tewksbury

700.00

425.00

Gravel

400

Tewksbury

700.00

400.00

Gravel and tar

700

Townsend

1,400.00

2,000.00

Maintenance

41,554

Townsend

1,400.00

1,000.00

Gravel and tar

2,000

Townsend

1,400.00

1,000.00

Gravel and tar

1,800

Tyngsborough

1,800.00

2,500.00

Maintenance

86,592

Tyngsborough

1,400.00

1,000.00

1,400.00

Gravel and tar

2,000

Tyngsborough

1,400.00

1,000.00

1,400.00

Gravel and tar

1,300

Wakefield .

1,400.00

1,700.00

2,000.00

Maintenance

42,504

Wakefield

8,900.00

6,675.00

4,450.00

Bituminous concrete

3,500

Wakefield

2,300.00

1,150.00

Bituminous concrete

525

Waltham

5,600.00

4,000.00

Bituminous macadam

3,450

Waltham

12,600.00

8,400.00

6,000.00

Bituminous concrete

3,745

Watertown

5,309.75

3,792.13

Bituminous concrete

2,090

Watertown

6,991.21

•8,307.39

5,307.39

Bituminous concrete

1,860

Wayland

6,300.00

6,000.00

Bituminous concrete
Gravel and tar

1,320
3,273

Wayland

1,800.00

2,500.00

2.500.00

Maintenance

52,800

Westford

2,100.00

3,000.00

Maintenance

143,088

Westford

1,400.00

1,000.00

Gravel and tar (widening

3,000

Wilmington

1,200.00

Maintenance

40,762

Wilmington

2,800.00

2,000.00

Gravel and tar

1,900

Winchester

3,500.00

3,000.00

Bituminous concrete

860

Winchester

10,500.00

7.000.00

5,000.00

Bituminous concrete

3,260

Woburn

14,000.00

7,000.00

Bituminous concrete

3,800

Woburn

21,000.00

10,500.00

Bituminous concrete

4,650

Nantucket County

Nantucket . $1,000.00

$2,000.00

—

Maintenance

10,800

Norfolk County

Avon .... $1,300.00

$1,300.00

Maintenance

29,198

Bellingham

1,400.00

500.00

1,000.00

Maintenance

62,040

Bellingham

1.400.00

2.000.00

— .

Grading and drainage

2,650

Braintree

13,000.00

. — .

Grading and drainage

2,489

Brookline

3,500.00

—

Bituminous concrete

2,118

Canton

1,000.00

—

Maintenance

38,174

Dedham

7,000.00

10,000.00

—

Bituminous concrete

2,185

Dedham

1,000.00

1.000.00

Maintenance

5,174

Dover

600.00

Maintenance

2,700

Foxborough

3,500.00

—

Gravel and tar

3,400

Foxborough

1,000.00

Maintenance

5,000

Franklin

4.600.00

6.500.00

—

Gravel and tar

4,540

Franklin

1,500.00

r,500.oo

1,500.00

Maintenance

98,261

Holbrook

500.00

Maintenance

29,462

Medway

1,500.00

Maintenance

61,618

Medway

1,800.00

2,500.00

—

Gravel and tar

. 2,400

Millis .

1,000.00

Maintenance

66,739

Milton

500.00

Maintenance .

500

Needham

500.00

Maintenance

42,768

Norfolk

1,500.00

Maintenance

63,571

Norwood

24,500.00

—

Bituminous concrete

3,200

Norwood

300.00

600.00

300.00

Repairs ....

185

Plainville

500.00

Maintenance

12,672

Quincy

21,000.00

— .

Bituminous concrete

4.900

Randolph

1,500.00

1.500.00

Maintenance

27,456

Sharon

1,000.00

Maintenance

46,464

Sharon

3,500.00

5,000.00

—

Bituminous concrete

2.080

Stoughton

1,000.00

1.000.00

Maintenance

29,146

Wa'pole

1.000.00

1,000.00

Maintenance

53,750

Walpole

7,200.00

—

Bituminous concrete

2.950

Walpole

3,500.00

—

Penolithic pavement

1,000

Wellesley

5,500.00

—

Bituminous concrete

5,000

,q. yds.

21.331

Westwood

1,500.00

Maintenance

Westwood

10,500.00

—

Bituminous macadam .

3.800

Westwood

300.00

600.00

300.00

Repairs ....

165

Weymouth

14,000.00

—

Bituminous concrete

2,882

P.D. 54

Counties and Towns

Contributions
State Town

County

Wrentham
Wrentham
Wrentham

1,000.00
1,000.00
2,800.00

1,000.00

Plymouth County
Abington
Brockton
Brockton
Carver

$7,000.00
6,300.00

21,500.00
2,800.00

$4,500.00
6,300.00

21,500.00
1,400.00

$3,500.00
1,400.00

Halifax

Hanover

Hanson

1,700.00
4,200.00
7,000.00

850.00
2,100.00
3,500.00

Kingston

5,600.00

2,800.00

Lakeville

1,400.00

700.00

Marion
Marshfield
Mattapoisett
Pembroke

3,000.00
7,000.00
3,500.00
3,500.00

1,500.00
3,500.00
1,750.00
1,750.00

Pembroke .

1,000.00

750.00

500.00

Plymouth

5,300.00

2,650.00

Plympton

7,000.00

350.00

3,150.00

Rochester
Rochester

2,800.00
1,500.00

1,400.00
750.00

Rockland

Wareham

West Bridgewater .

Whitman

7,000.00
5,600.00
1,400.00
3,500.00
14,000.00
6,000.00

3,500.00
2,800.00
700.00
1,750.00
7,000.00

3,500.00
2,800.00
700.00
1,750.00
7,000.00
3,000.00

Worcester County
Ashburnham

$1,400.00

$1,000.00

$2,000.00

Ashburnham
Athol ....
Athol ....
Athol ....

1,500.00
1,500.00
8,400.00
2,800.00

1,000.00
1,500.00
6,000.00
2,000.00

1,750.00
1,500.00
6,000.00
2,000.00

Auburn
Auburn

300.00
7,000.00

300.00
5,000.00

Barre ....
Barre

1,000.00
7,000.00

1,000.00
5,000.00

Berlin
Berlin

1,800.00
1,400.00

1,000.00
1,000.00

2,500.00
1,000.00

Blackstone
Blackstone
Blackstone

1,000.00
2,800.00
4,200.00

1,000.00
2,000.00
3,000.00

1,000.00

500.00

3,000.00

Bolton

Boylston

Brookfield

1,500.00
2,100.00
1,400.00
1,400.00
1,500.00
1,400.00

1,000.00

1,050.00

700.00

750.00

1,000.00

1,500.00
1,050.00
1,400.00
1,400.00
750.00
1,000.00

Charlton
Charlton

1,500.00
2,300.00

800.00
1,500.00

1.600.00
1.800.00

Charlton

Clinton

Dana ....

Douglas

1,600.00
300.00
8,400.00
1,800.00
1,500.00
500.00
5,000.00

1,000.00
300.00

6,000.00

1,000.00
500.00
500.00

2,500.00

1,300.00
300.00
6.000.00
2.500.00
1,500.00
500.00
2,500.00

Dudley
Dudley

300.00
4,200.00

300.00
2,100.00

Type of Road or
Nature of Work
Maintenance
Gravel and tar
Gravel and tar

Length Con-
tracted for
(Feet)
. 24,974
550
. 1,700

Bituminous concrete
Bituminous macadam .
Bituminous macadam .
Gravel mixed in place with

tar ....

Gravel and tar
Gravel and tar
Concrete extensions to stone

arch bridge
Bituminous concrete
Gravel mixed in place with

tar ....

Gravel mixed in place with

emulsion
Penolithic pavement
Bituminous macadam .
Bituminous concrete
Gravel mixed in place with

tar ....

Gravel mixed in place with

tar
Gravel mixed in place with

tar ....

Gravel mixed in place with

tar ....

Gravel and tar
Gravel mixed in place with

cut-back asphalt
Bituminous concrete
Drainage
Gravel and tar
Bituminous concrete
Bituminous concrete
Bituminous concrete

Gravel mixed in place with

tar
Maintenance .
Maintenance
Bituminous concrete
Gravel mixed in place with

tar
Maintenance
Broken stone mixed in place

with cut-back asphalt
Maintenance
Bridge and approaches
Gravel mixed in place with

tar
Maintenance
Gravel mixed in place with

tar
Maintenance
Grading and drainage
Trap rock mixed in place

with tar
Maintenance
Grading
Maintenance
Maintenance
Repairs
Gravel mixed in place

tar
Bituminous concrete
Bituminous macadam
Maintenance
Gravel mixed in place with

tar

Grading ....

Maintenance

Bituminous macadam

Maintenance

Gravel and tar

Maintenance

Gravel mixed in placgj

asphalt
Grading
Maintenance
Gravel mixed in place with

asphalt ....

with

3,000

P.D. 54

Length Con-

Contributions

Type of Road or tracted for

Counties and Towns State

Town

County

Nature of Work (Feet)

Dudley

1,400.00

Gravel mixed in place with

tar 200

East Brookfield

600.00

Maintenance . 24,935

East Brookfield

2,100.00

1,400.00

Gravel mixed in place with

tar 2,200

East Brookfield

1,800.00

1,250.00

Bridge and approaches —

Fitchburg

17,500.00

12,500.00

Bituminous macadam . 2,595

Gardner

400.00

Maintenance .... 13,250

Gardner

7,000.00

3,500.00

Bituminous macadam . 3,150

Grafton

2,800.00

3,000.00

2,000.00

Broken stone and asphalt

emulsion .... 1,300

Grafton

1,300.00

€50.00

650.00

Bituminous macadam . 183

Hardwick

1,000.00

1,300.00

1,000.00

Maintenance .... 52,910

Harvard

1,000.00

Maintenance .... 46,800

Harvard

5,000.00

1,100.00

4,000.00

Grading and drainage 2,500

Holden

1,000.00

Maintenance .... 48,998

Holden

5,700.00

2,850.00

Bridge and approaches —

Holden

3,500.00

2,500.00

Gravel mixed in place with
tar 2,300

Hubbardston

1,700.00

1,200.00

2,400.00

Maintenance .... 66,220

Hubbardston

2,800.00

1,000.00

4,000.00

Gravel mixed in place with

tar 2,246

Leicester

900.00

1,200.00

1.200.00

Maintenance .... 49,700

Leicester

4,900.00

5,000.00

Broken stone mixed in

place with asphalt . 2,350

Lunenburg

1,500.00

Maintenance .... 51,060

Lunenburg

2,100.00

1,500.00

Gravel mixed in place with

tar 1,550

Mendon

1,000.00

Maintenance . 39,684

Men don

1,600.00

1,100.00

Gravel mixed in place with

tar . . 1,710
Gravel mixed in place with

Mendon

1,400.00

1,000.00

tar 2,400

Milford

500.00

Maintenance .... 22,940

Milford

10,500.00

8,250.00

Bituminous concrete 3,725

Millbury

600.00

Maintenance .... 29,729

Millbury

6,423.48

4,588.26

Bituminous concrete 1,600

Millbury

576.52

1,411.74

1.411.74

Grading 1,750

Millville

1,500.00

—

1,500.00

Maintenance .... 16,211

New Braintree

1,000.00

500.00

1,000.00

Maintenance . 51,063

New Braintree

1,400.00

1,000.00

Gravel mixed in place with

tar ... 450

North Brookfield

4,600.00

2,900.00

Gravel mixed in place with

tar 2,650

North Brookfield

500.00

Maintenance .... 30,815

Northborough

300.00

Maintenance .... 18,152

Northbridge

500.00

Maintenance . 35,535

Northbridge

3,500.00

2,500.00

Gravel mixed in place with

asphaltic oil 2,050
Grading 1,050

Oakham

1.300.00

1,100.00

1.300.00

Maintenance 44,450

Oakham

3,500.00

2,000.00

Gravel mixed in place with
asphalt .... 2,400

Oxford

1,000.00

Repairs and oiling . 12,713

Oxford

1,500.00

500.00

Bridge repairs ... —

Paxton

1.500.00

800.00

1.600.00

Maintenance .... 41,100

Paxton

3,200.00

1,500.00

3,000.00

Gravel mixed in place with
tar 3,400

Petersham

1,500.00

1.500.00

Maintenance .... 39.813

Phillipston

1,500.00

1.000.00

1,500.00

Maintenance . . 49,154

Phillipston

2,100.00

1,000.00

2.000.00

Gravell mixed in place with
tar 1,450

Princeton

1,600.00

1,500.00

2,250.00

Maintenance .... 95,120

Princeton

2,800.00

1,400.00

1.400.00

Gravel mixed in place with
tar 1,750

Princeton

2,800.00

1,400.00

Gravel mixed in place with

tar 2,900

Oiling 850

Royalston .

1,900.00

1,300.00

2.300.00

Maintenance .... 53.000

Royalston .

1,250.00

500.00

750.00

Gravel and tar 1.650
Oiling 1,300

Royalston .

1,250.00

500.00

750.00

Repairs and drainage . . 21.200

Rutland

1.500.00

1.600.00

2.200.00

Maintenance 60.300

Rutland

2,100.00

1,500.00

1.500.00

Gravel mixed in place with

tar . . 1,750

Rutland

2,100.00

1,500.00

1.500.00

Gravel mixed in place with

tar 2.100

Shrewsbury

1.500.00

1,500.00

1.500.00

Maintenance .... 35.594

Southborough

600.00

Maintenance .... 25,460

Southborough

2,100.00

1,000.00

2,000.00

Broken stone and asphalt

emulsion .... 1.009

Southbridge

750.00

Maintenance .... 27,400

Southbridge

20,000.00

10,000.00

Spencer

1,000.00

1.000.00

Maintenance .... 44.000

Spencer

3,500.00

2,500.00

2.500.00

Bituminous macadam . 730

Sterling

2,000.00

2,900.00

Maintenance .... 93,661

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Contributions

Length Con-
Type of Road or tracted For

Counties and Towns State

Town

County

Nature op Work (Feet)

Sterling

1,900.00

1,000.00

1,750.00

Gravel mixed in place with
asphaltic oil 1,450

Sterling

3,900.00

2,000.00

Broken stone mixed in place

with asphalt . . 1,300
Gravel and asphalt . . 770

Sturbridge

350.00

Maintenance .... 18,150

Sturbridge

2,500.00

1,200.00

2,400.00

Gravel mixed in place with

tar 2,300

Sutton

1,000.00

Maintenance .... 50,892

Sutton

2,800.00

2,000.00

Gravel mixed in place with

asphalt . 1,600

Sutton

2,800.00

2,000.00

Gravel mixed in place with

asphalt .... 3,750

Templeton

1,500.00

Maintenance ... 45,460

Templeton .

4,200.00

3,000.00

Gravel mixed in place with

asphalt .... 4,200

Upton

700.00

Maintenance .... 25,450

Upton

2,800.00

2,000.00

Gravel mixed in place with
tar 1,450

Uxbridge .

1,000.00

Maintenance .... 45,510

Uxbridge .

5,600.00

4,000.00

Broken stone mixed in

place with asphalt . 2,800

Uxbridge

5,600.00

4,000.00

Bituminous concrete . 3,700

Warren ;

500.00

Maintenance . . . . 17,100

Webster

4,900.00

3,500.00

Bituminous macadam . 2,600

West Boylston .

1,050.00

840.00

1,500.00

Maintenance . . . . 51,400

West Boylston .

1,980.00

1,120.00

1,300.00

Bituminous macadam . 2,000

West Boylston .

1,800.00

1,000.00

1,500.00

Gravel mixed in place with

tar 1,150

West Brookfield

1,000.00

Maintenance .... 74,205

West Brookfield

7,000.00

2,000.00

8,000.00

Bituminous concrete 2,449

Westborough

900.00

Maintenance .... 51,700

Westborough

8,900.00

5,950.00

Bituminous macadam . 4,030

Westminster

1,400.00

1,000.00

2,000.00

Maintenance .... 66,474

Westminster

3,500.00

2,000.00

3,000.00

Gravel mixed in place with

asphalt .... 1,900

Winchendon

500.00

Maintenance .... 19,528

Worcester

32,000.00

16,000.00

Bituminous concrete 5,985

Worcester

23,000.00

19,000.00

Bituminous concrete . 3,813

Expenditures for Construction of Town and County Ways
(Section 34, Chapter 90, General Laws, Ter Ed.)

The expenditures during- the year in various Counties were :

Barnstable

Berkshire

Bristol

Dukes

Essex

Franklin .

Total

$140,377.56
190,838.69
132,894.97
7,715.58
325,582.64
165,007.34

Hampden

Hampshire

Middlesex

Norfolk

Plymouth

Worcester

198,904.62
135,364.20
562,351.88
89,960.30
247,483.63
511,954.18

$2,708,435.59

Details of the foregoing expenditures follow :

Barnstable County. — Barnstable, $16,684.15; Bourne, $1,059.32; Brew-
ster, $2,129.45; Chatham, $11,354.74; Falmouth, $96,636.93; Harwich
$3,612.15; Orleans, $1,312.90; Wellfleet, $4,715.57; Yarmouth, $2,872.36

Berkshire County.— Adams, $6,527.09; Alford, $1,073.76; Becket
$6,323.46; Cheshire, $2,808.53; Clarksburg, $1,659.46; Dalton, $15,788.65
Egremont, $1,765.39; Florida, $3,571.12; Gt. Barrington, $9,317.51; Han-
cock, $4,059.79; Hinsdale, $1,711.31; Lanesborough, $10,048.99; Lee
$17,982.55; Lenox, $8,228.96; Monterey, $5,943.39; Mt. Washington
$3,201.06; New Ashford, $2,106.40; New Marlborough, $5,463.87; No
Adams, $13,516.67; Otis, $5,575.72; Peru; $1,790.32; Pittsfield, $18,-
227.05; Richmond, $2,229.36; Sandisfield, $4,020.32; Savoy, $1,914.91
Sheffield, $5,350.33; Stockbridge, $2,589.34; Tyringham, $4,302.26; Wash
ington, $6,288.76; W. Stockbridge, $6,412.23; Williamstown, $9,252.91
Windsor, $1,787.22.

Bristol County. — Acushnet, $8,222.53; Attleboro, $28,766.69; Berkley
$3,421.92; Dighton, $4,716.29; Easton, $4,742.00; Fairhaven, $989.37

78 P.D. 54

Fall River, $26,634.12; Freetown, $893.62; Mansfield, $971.62; No. Attle-
borough, $5,936.21; Norton, $638.30; Raynham, $638.30; Rehoboth,
$8,325.08; Taunton, $16,186.16; Westport, $21,812.76.

Dukes County. — Edgartown, $2,419.59; Tisbury, $3,700.23; W. Tis-
bury. $1,595.76.

Essex County — Amesbury, $1,276.27; Andover, $13,150.28; Beverly,
$8,387.29; Boxford, $14,744.78; Danvers, $13,074.35; Essex, $1,276.60;
Georgetown, $1,276.60; Gloucester, $7,310.80; Groveland, $510.64; Ham-
ilton, $10,637.35; Haverhill, $54,519.27; Ipswich, $2,170.23; Law-
rence, $13,038.35; Lynn, $20,652.15; Lynnfield, $10,317.52; Manchester,
$6,351.11; Marblehead, $21,357.64; Merrimac, $1,914.88; Methuen,
$8,546.49; Middleton, $43,987.45; Newbury, $3,180.10; No. Andover,
$6,445.79; Peabody, $13,609.17; Rockport, $2,508.53; Rowley, $3,702.16;
Salisbury, $7,895.65; Saugus, $8,890.90; Swampscott, $2,382.12; Tops-
field, $7,865.40; Wenham, $8,655.07; W. Newbury, $5,947.00.

Franklin County.— Ashfield, $4,268.94; Buckland, $6,893.66; Conway,
$2,680.86; Erving, $1,787.25; Gill, $3,444.28; Hawley, $3,574.49; Heath
$1,787.25; Leverett, $1,787.25; Leyden, $3,574.49; Monroe, $1,787.25
Montague, $6,441.67; New Salem, $96,157.75; Northfield, $989.37
Orange, $1,353.20; Rowe, $5,553.23; Shelburne, $1,787.25; Sunderland,
$9,343.33; Warwick, $6,083.02; Wendell, $5,712.80.

Hampden County. — Agawam, $15,652.51; Blandford, $6,023.30; Brim-
field, $5,003.73; Chester, $10,261.66; Chicopee, $14,871.59; E. Long-
meadow, $10,117.09; Granville, $5,968.12; Hampden, $4,212.80; Holland,
$3,162.12; Longmeadow, $1,150.97; Ludlow, $5,339.95; Monson, $5,402.60;
Montgomery, $6,373.97; Palmer, $16,731.17; Russell, $900.31; South-
wick, $5,361.74; Springfield, $27,631.39; Tolland, $3,115.31; Wales,
$4,625.29; W. Springfield, $23,978.73; Westfield, $15,063.94; Wilbraham,
$7,956.28.

Hampshire County — Amherst, $9,109.28; Belchertown, $14,289.87;
Chesterfield, $23,201.92; Cummington, $4,228.82; Easthampton, $4,695.80;
Enfield, $633.09; Goshen, $3,108.53; Granby, $3,574.47; Greenwich,
$1,276.60; Hadley, $2,427.22; Huntington, $6,861.75; Middlefield; $15,-
842.34; Northampton, $10,927.34; Pelham, $13,383.73; Plainfield, $4,-
037.72; South Hadley, $6,462.78; Southampton, $1,276.60; Ware,
$4,468.11; Westhampton, $638.30; Williamsburg, $315.41; Worthington,
$4,604.52.

Middlesex County — Acton, $5,439.22; Arlington; $4,205.65; Ashby,
$2,023.39; Ashland, $3,510.57; Ayer, $3,702.00; Bedford, $12,320.36;
Belmont, $5,412.67; Billerica, $21,383.42; Boxborough, $1,973.55; Bur-
lington, $12,981.48; Cambridge, $43,451.75; Carlisle, $4,531.95; Chelms-
ford, $4,361.97; Concord, $3,585.13; Dracut, $8,179.47; Dunstable,
$4,928.18; Framingham, $21,350.76; Groton, $15,497.08; Holliston,
$10,997.85; Hopkinton^ $5,067.32; Hudson, $8,650.93; Lexington, $8,-
203.85; Lincoln, $4,884.95; Littleton, $8,981.50; Maiden, $37,031.39;
Marlborough, $10,036.67; Maynard, $7,230.97; Medford, $16,921.28;
Natick, $19,828.10; Newton, $28,685.53; No. Reading, $12,660.70; Pep-
perell, $4,326.22; Reading, $14,038.54; Sherborn, $4,209.53; Shirley,
$14,819.05; Stoneham, $8,457.23; Stow, $3,403.10; Sudbury, $6,459.15;
Tewksbury, $7,457.44; Townsend, $6,774.71; Tyngsborough, $8,136.26;
Wakefield, $18,448.27; Waltham, $11,870.25; Watertown, $15,771.06;
Wayland, $11,010.54; Westford, $8,285.30; Wilmington, $5,360.86; Win-
chester, $12,075.24; Woburn, $43,411.49.

Norfolk County.— Avon, $1,404.27; Bellingham, $4,663.08; Brookline,
$7,291.58; Canton, $370.22; Dedham, $3,524.63; Dover, $765.96; Foxbor-
ough, $3,383.00; Franklin, $10,327.34; Medway, $5,234.07; Millis, $2,-
042.57; Milton, $351.07; Norfolk, $1,914.78; Norwood, $1,827.41; Plain-
ville, $553.19; Randolph, $991.15; Sharon, $1,148.94; Stoughton, $201.48;
Walpole, $2,454.04; Wellesley, $4,468.11; Westwood, $4,395.73; Wey-
mouth, $21,222.07; Wrentham, $11,425.61.

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Plymouth County — Abington, $10,687.92; Bridgewater, $2,872.36;
Brockton, $11,586.88; Carver, $3,574.39; Halifax, $2,074.48; Hanover,
$3,829.82; Hanson, $4,876.76; Hull, $107,505.78; Kingston, $5,276.38;
Lakeville, $1,787.25; Marion, $3,995.98; Marshfield, $12,725.49; Mattapoi-
sett, $6,300.38; Pembroke, $4,212.79; Plymouth, $6,383.02; Plympton, $8,-
501.70; Rochester, $4,595.78; Rockland, $8,018.92; W. Bridgewater,
$3,106.68; Whitman, $35,561.87.

Worcester County — Ashburnham, $901,70; Athol, $9,842.78; Auburn,
$10,143.18; Barre, $8,940.56; Berlin, $6,456.40; Blackstone, $11,564.96;
Bolton, $5,626.52; Boylston, $3,446.83; Brookfield, $9,646.72; Charlton,
$5,331.88; Clinton, $18,162.02; Dana, $4,307.63; Douglas, $1,876.20; Dud-
ley, $9,856.68; E. Brookfield, $13,617.23; Fitchburg, $14,530.72; Gard-
ner, $4,319.93; Grafton, $6,439.36; Hardwick, $6,223.19; Harvard, $10,-
173.40; Holden, $3,806.09; Hubbardston, $4,684.09; Leicester, $2,713.21;
Leominster, $4,739.58; Lunenburg, $3,015.17; Mendon, $7,118.67; Mil-
ford, $28,927.69; Millbury, $9,564.93; New Braintree, $2,322.10; No.
Brookfield, $12,948.91; Northborough, $287.07; Northbridge, $11,169.28;
Oakham, $2,999.88; Paxton, $5,043.79; Petersham, $34,610.87; Phillips-
ton, $580.75; Princeton, $10,576.41; Royalston, $5,816.45; Rutland,
$8,379.65; Shrewsbury, $1,037.88; Southborough, $3,045.62; Southbridge,
$17,568.71; Spencer, $12,135.91; Sterling, $7,687.75; Sturbridge, $3,-
948.54; Sutton, $12,300.52; Templeton, $9,585.53; Upton, $3,906.40; Ux-
bridge, $14,245.32; Warren, $471.51; Webster, $10,485.49; W. Boylston,
$10,834.11; W. Brookfield, $10,769.21; Westborough, $765.90; Westmin-
ster, $10,280.68; Winchendon, $861.71; Worcester, $61,310.37.

Repair and Improvement of Public Ways, Exclusive of State
Highways, in Certain Towns

(Sections 26 to 29 and 31 of Chapter 81 of the General Laws, (Ter. Ed.),

as amended with reference to Section 26 by Chapter 366 of the

Acts of 1934)

During the year the Department contracted for work to be done in

the towns named in the following table, which also shows the road mileage

in the towns and the allotments or contributions by the State and towns : —

Miles
of Allotment

Counties and Towns Road State Town

Barnstable County
Brewster
Dennis
Eastham
Mashpee
Sandwich
Truro
Wellfleet

Berkshire County
Alford
Becket
Cheshire
Clarksburg
Egremont
Florida
Hancock
Hinsdale
Lanesborough
Monterey
Mt. Washington
New Ashford

$6,000 00

$5,000 00

11,700 00

7,800 00

6,300 00

3,150 00

4,050 00

2,025 00

10,050 00

6,700 00

4,500 00

3,750 00

5,400 00

4,500 00

$2,850 00

$760 00

8,700 00

2,320 00

6,300 00

3,150 00

2,100 00

4,800 00

2,400 00

6,450 00

3,225 00

4,500 00

1,200 00

5,250 00

2,625 00

6,450 00

3,225 00

7,650 00

2,040 00

3,000 00

500 00

1,650 00

275 00

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Counties and Towns

New Marlborough

Otis .

Peru' .

Richmond

Sandisfield

Savoy .

Sheffield

Tyringham

Washington

West Stockbridge

Windsor

Bristol County
Berkley
Freetown
Norton
Raynham
Rehoboth
Swansea

Dukes County
Chilmark
West Tisbury

Essex County
Boxford
Georgetown
Groveland
Merrimac
Middleton
Newbury
Rowley
West Newbury

Franklin County
Ashfield
Bernardston
Buckland
Charlemoht
Colrain
Conway
Deerfield
Gill

Hawley
Heath
Leverett
Leyden
Monroe
New Salem
Northfield
Rowe .
Shelburne
Shutesbury
Sunderland
Warwick
Wendell
Whately

Miles

Allotment

Road

State

Town

12,750 00

3,400 00

6,150 00

1,640 00

5,550 00

555 00

4,800 00

2,400 00

11,850 00

1,185 00

8,400 00

840 00

11,700 00

3,900 00

3,750 00

1,250 00

7,650 00

765 00

5,400 00

3,600 00

9,750 00

975 00

$6,300 00

$2,100 00

7,050 00

3,525 00

8,550 00

5,700 00

6,750 00

4,500 00

109

16,350 00

8,175 00

9,105 00

9,150 00

$2,100 00

$1,750 00

1,950 00

$7,950 00

3,975 00

5,250 00

4,375 00

4,500 00

4,650 00

3,875 00

4,500 00

5,700 00

4,750 00

4,650 00

3,875 00

5,550 00

3,700 00

$12,000 00

$3,200 00

6,000 00

3,000 00

6,750 00

7,350 00

3,675 00

12,750 00

4,250 00

10,800 00

2,880 00

11,250 00

9,375 00

5,100 00

2,550 00

7,350 00

735 00

7,950 00

795 00

5,700 00

1,520 00

5,850 00

585 00

2,700 00

9,750 00

975 00

9,900 00

4,950 00

6,000 00

1,600 00

7,350 00

6,125 00

5,700 00

950 00

5,100 00

2,550 00

8,400 00

840 00

7,200 00

2,400 00

6,000 00

3,000 00

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Counties and Towns
Hampden County
Blandford
Brimfield
Chester
Granville
Hampden
Holland
Monson
Montgomery
Southwick
Tolland
Wales
Wilbraham .

Hampshire County
Belchertown
Chesterfield
Cummington
Enfield
Goshen
Granby
Greenwich
Hadley
Hatfield
Huntington
Middlefield
Pelham
Plainfield
Prescott
Southampton
Westhampton
Williamsburg
Worthington

Middlesex County
Acton
Ashby
Ashland
Bedford
Boxborough
Burlington .
Carlisle
Dracut
Dunstable
Holliston
Hopkinton
Littleton
North Reading
Pepperell
Sherborn
Shirley
Stow .
Sudbury
Tewksbury .
Townsend
Tyngsborough
Westford

Miles
of

Allotment

Road

State

Town

$11,250 00

$1,875 00

9,000 00

2,400 00

10,200 00

3,400 00

10,950 00

5,475 00

5,100 00

2,550 00

4,800 00

480 00

101

15,150 00

10,100 00

4,050 00

675 00

7,500 00

5,000 00

6,000 00

600 00

3,750 00

1,000 00

6,600 00

109

$16,350 00

$4,360 00

8,850 00

1,475 00

7,350 00

1,225 00

5,250 00

1,400 00

4,350 00

725 00

7,200 00

2,400 00

5,850 00

1,560 00

8,700 00

7,250 00

6,900 00

5,750 00

6,150 00

3,075 00

6,150 00

615 00

4,650 00

2,325 00

7,350 00

735 00

5,850 00

585 00

8,400 00

2,240 00

7,500 00

750 00

6,600 00

3,300 00

10,200 00

1,700 00

$8,850 00

8,850 00

8,400 00

2,800 00

5,700 00

5,400 00

3,450 00

920 00

5,700 00

6,300 00

3,150 00

9,450 00

5,550 00

925 00

7,500 00

9,900 00

6,600 00

6,300 00

5,250 00

10,350 00

6,900 00

6,450 00

5,375 00

6,900 00

4,600 00

6,450 00

3,225 00

9,600 00

6,400 00

9,000 00

10,500 00

7,000 00

6,150 00

4,100 00

12,750 00

10,625 00

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Miles

Allotment

Counties and Towns Road

State

Town

Norfolk County

Bellingham ... 44

$6,600 00

Medfield

6,150 00

Medway

6,750 00

Millis .

6,300 00

Norfolk

6,300 00

4,200 00

Plainville

4,800 00

4,000 00

Plymouth County

Carver . . 67

$10,050 00

$6,700 00

Halifax

5,100 00

3,400 00

Hanson

5,400 00

Lakeville

6,450 00

3,225 00

Norwell

7,050 00

4,700 00

Pembroke

7,350 00

6,125 00

Plymptpm

4,500 00

2,250 00

Rochester

7,500 00

3,750 00

Worcester County

Ashburnham 75

$11,250 00

$5,625 00

Barre .

110

16,500 00

8,250 00

Berlin

5,850 00

2,925 00

Bolton

7,950 00

2,650 00

Boylston

6,000 00

3,000 00

Brookfield

5,550 00

3,700 00

Charlton

110

16,500 00

4,400 00

Dana .

6,450 00

1,075 00

Douglas

10,500 00

5,250 00

Dudley

9,450 00

7,875 00

East Brookfield

2,850 00

2,375 00

Grafton

10,200 00

Hardwick

14,400 00

4,800 00

Harvard

8,400 00

5,600 00

Holden

11,550 00

7,700 00

Hubbardston

11,250 00

1,875 00

Lancaster

8,700 00

7,250 00

Leicester

9,900 00

8,250 00

Lunenburg .

9,900 00

4,950 00

Mendon

5,400 00

3,600 00

Millville

2,400 00

New Braintree

7,350 00

1,225 00

North Brookfield

10,350 00

6,900 00

Northborough

7,050 00

5,875 00

Oakham

6,750 00

1,125 00

Oxford

9,900 00

8,250 00

Paxton

4,350 00

2,175 00

Petersham

10,500 00

3,500 00

Phillipston .

6,150 00

1,025 00

Princeton

10,950 00

2,920 00

Royalston

10,050 00

1,675 00

Rutland

10,200 00

3,400 00

Southborough

6,900 00

Spencer

101

15,150 00

12,625 00

Sterling

10,950 00

5,475 00

Sturbridge .

10,500 00

3,500 00

Sutton

12,600 00

4,200 00

Templeton

9,450 00

7,875 00

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Miles
of

Allotment

Counties and Towns

Road

State

Town

Upton

9,000 00

4,500 00

Warren

10,650 00

7,100 00

West Boylston

. . 37

5,550 00

West Brookfield

7,950 00

3,975 00

Westborough

9,300 00

Westminster

11,700 00

3,900 00

Expenditures for Repair and Improvement of Public Ways
The expenditures during the year in various counties were: —

Barnstable

$51,722.70

Hampden

. $100,179.29

Berkshire

158,362.43

Hampshire

142,551.89

Bristol

32,582.06

Middlesex

165,347.77

Dukes

4,380.20

Norfolk .

23,486.58

Essex

40,639.86

Plymouth

60,722.24

Franklin

179,189.74

Worcester

428,284.91

Total

. $1,387,449.67

Details of the foregoing expenditures follow: —

Barnstable County, — Brewster, $6,651.01; Dennis, $12,268.86; East-
ham, $6,681.15; Masboee. $4,427.55; Sandwich, $11,397.12; Truro, $4,-
840.58; Weiifieet, $5,456.43.

Berkshire County — Alford, $3,221.77; Becket, $9,446.40; Cheshire,
$7,260.37: Clarksburg, $1,857.59; Egremont, $5,324.58; Florida, $6,-
065.72; Hancock, $5,279.53; Hinsdale, $4,179.30; Lanesborough, $7,-
406.01; Monterey, $9,344.27: Mt. Washington, $3,456.59; New Ashford,
$1,896.42; New Marlborough, $12,625.62; Otis, $7,337.15; Peru, $5,635.02;
Richmond, $5,258.49; Sandisfield, $11,362.47; Savoy, $9,085.41; Sheffield,
$12,407.75; Tyringham, $3,629.00; Washington, $9,643.32; West Stock-
bridge, $5,818.02; Windsor, $10,821.63.

Bristol County— Berkley, $2,528.03; Freetown, $5,048.16; Norton,
$9,201.64: Raynham. S3.238.33; Rehoboth, $9,373.84; Swansea, $3,192.06.

Dukes County— Ch.Wm&r'k, $2,227.77; West Tisbury, $2,152.43.

Essex County— Boxford, $8,167.87; Georgetown, $4,609.09; Groveland,
$3,306.79; Merrimac, $2,889.97; Middleton, $4,765.19; Newbury, $6,-
775.08; Rowiey, $4,318.25: West Newbury, $5,807.62.

Franklin County — Ashfield, $12,995.30; Bernardston, $6,376.58; Buck-
land, $7,425.87; Charlemont, $7,937.09; Colrain, $13,694.84; Conway,
$11,246.45; Deerfield, $11,246.45; Gill, $5,569.42; Hawley, $7,883.28;
Heath, $7,721.85; Leverett, $6,376.58; Leyden, $6,295.86; Monroe, $2,-
556.01; New Salem, $10,842.87; Northfield, $10,250.87; Rowe, $6,457.29;
Shelburne, $7,937.09; Shutesbury, $6,161.29; Sunderland, $6,457.29;
Warwick, $9,659.04; Wendell, $7,641.13; Whately, $6,457.29.

Hampden County— Blandford, $12,543.94; Brimfield, $9,830.83; Ches-
ter, $11,917.74; Granville, $11,327.17; Hampden, $5,381.08; Holland,
$5,103.25; Monson, $15,794.91; Montgomery, $4,697.68; Southwick,
$7,775.66; Tolland, $5,135.06; Wales, $3,999.43; Wilbraham, $6,672.54.

Hampshire County — Belchertown, $17,488.50; Chesterfield, $9,524.51;
Cummington, $7,425.89: Enfield, $5,165.83; Goshen, $4,547.01; Granby,
$7,694.94; Greenwich, $5,677.04; Hadley, $9,040.21; Hatfield, $6,134.43;
Huntington, $7,175.44; Middlefield, $7,410.55; Pelham, $5,084.93; Plain-
field, $8,286.86; Prescott, $6,349.67; Southampton, $9,282.36;. Westhamp-
ton, $7,452.79; Williamsburg, $7,049.21; Worthington, $11,761.72.

Middlesex County— Acton, $8,986.40; Ashby, $7,318.27; Ashland, $5,-
219.65; Bedford, $5,434.89; Boxborough, $3,371.63; Burlington, $5,757.75;
Carlisle, $6,668.95; Dracut, $9,963.60; Dunstable, $5,906.58; Holliston,
$7,587.32; Hopkinton, $10,541.53; Littleton, $6,320.56; No. Reading,

84 P.D. 54

$5,058.21; Pepperell, $9,255.45; Sherborn, $5,919.19; Shirley, $7,183.35;
Stow, $5,703.95; Sudbury, $10,070.15; Tewksbury, $8,986.40; Townsend,
$10,008.81; Tyngsborough, $6,581.27; Westford, $13,503.86.

Norfolk County— Bellingham, $4,390.96; Medfield, $3,872.76; Medway,
$4,448.00; Millis, $2,811.08; Norfolk, $4,092.63; Plainville, $3,871.15.

Plymouth County— Carver, $12,511.76; Halifax, $5,338.00; Hanson,
$5,811.92; Lakeville, $6,668.77; Norwell, $8,569.60; Pembroke, $9,206.41;
Plymptom, $4,622.51; Rochester, $7,993.27.

Worcester County — Ashburnham, $12,225.83; Barre, $14,850.15; Ber-
lin, $5,652.72; Bolton, $8,555.91; Boylston, $6,497.52; Brookfield, $5,-
828.26; Charlton, $20,165.22; Dana, $6,941.59; Douglas, $11,074.26;
Dudley, $10,170.24; E. Brookfield, $3,010.15; Grafton, $7,869.36; Har-
vard, $9,040.21; Hardwick, $15,554.05; Holden, $12,029.92; Hubbardston,
$10,876.37; Lancaster, $8,406.48; Leicester, $9,821.54; Lunenburg, $11,-
087.40; Mendon, $5,932.42; New Braintree, $7,831.55; No. Brookfield,
$10,784.10; Northborough, $8,201.56; Oakham, $7,264.46; Oxford, $10,-
338.41; Paxton, $4,769.93; Petersham, $9,890.62; Phillipston, $6,425.66;
Princeton, $12,214.79; Royalston, $10,715.87; Rutland, $9,694.29; South-
borough, $7,645.53; Spencer ,$14,876.32; Sterling, $10,954.38; Sturbridge,
$11,872.09; Sutton, $13,642.92; Templeton, $11,825.47; Upton, $9,715.04;
Warren, $11,286.15; West Boylston, $6,712.87; W. Brookfield, $9,481.87;
Westborough, $10,008.80; Westminster, $13,925.41; Millville, $2,617.22.

The Regulation of Advertising Signs and Devices Within the

Public View

(Sections 29-33, Chapter 93, General Laws as amended)

In accordance with the provisions of sections 29 to 33 inclusive, Chapter
93, General Laws (Ter. Ed.), providing for the control of billboards and
other advertising devices on public ways or in private property within
public view of any highway, public park or reservation, the Department
adopted on January 24, 1924, certain new rules and regulations, super-
seding all former issues; and these have continued in force during the
present year.

Applications, Licenses and Permits — Licenses were granted to 21 indi-
viduals and others to engage in the business of advertising in the Com-
monwealth by the use of outdoor signs.

Of 1,008 applications received for permits for the erection of advertis-
ing signs, 400 permits were granted for the year, while 2,600 applications,
mostly injunction ones, are being held for definite action by this Depart-
ment. In addition, over 230 individual advertisers were granted permits
mainly consisting of a sole application. The greater part of these indi-
vidual applications were obtained at the information desk maintained in
the office of this Division for the purposes of educating and explaining
the various provisions of the Law.

Of 3,634 renewal applications sent to those whose permits were to ex-
pire June 30, 1938, 3,351 were returned to the Department requesting
renewal; and on account of the advertisers failing to renew, 283 permits
were cancelled. The total number of permits in force November 30,
1937 was 3,751.

Receipts and Expenditures — The total receipts for the year ending No-
vember 30, 1937 were $11,756.60 and the expenditures were $27,252.06.

The Removal of Signs — The "Sign Patrol" consisting of small trucks
completely equipped for the work, have removed 75,000 signs during the
year in addition to 8,000 removed by other agents of the Department,
under authority of Section 30A, Chapter 93, General Laws (Ter. Ed.),
from within the highways and from private property.

Hearings — Hearing were given to officials of Barnstable County, Mel-
rose, Somerville, and Mrs. Eleanor Barry of Cambridge.

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REGISTRY OP MOTOR VEHICLES

The 1937 statistics show a small increase in the various classes of appli-
cations handled, as compared with the figures for 1936. As was the case
in 1936, the reissues, each representing usually the registration of a new
car in place of one previously registered, account for nearly 50% of the
total increase in registrations.

Highway safety was accorded the usual important place in the activi-
ties of the Registrar, and, together with the motor vehicle inspectors, the
police, both state and local, and the continued cooperation of the safety
committees, the campaign for safer driving was vigorously enforced. The
value of this work and other efforts having to do with highway safety was
borne out by the fact that Massachusetts, as a state, was given the grand
award in the 1937 National Traffic Safety Contest as being the safest
state in the Union, so far as motor vehicle traffic was concerned. This
activity is an annual contest sponsored by the National Safety Council.

Aside from enforcement work, equally important in contributing to the
enviable safety record, is the. policy of the Department of Public Works,
in which the Registry serves, in the matter of highway construction. The
policy of the department, under the present Commissioner, has been not
only to build roads of the proper material, but to provide for sidewalks
and curbs and roads with definite reservations in the center, separating
the lines of traffic; the use of non-skid surfaces, installation of drainage
facilities to quickly clear the highway of water, construction of grade
separations at intersections and particularly highway and railroad inter-
sections, the elimination of sharp corners, construction of hardened
shoulders, installation of warning and traffic signals, painting of white
lines, efficient snow removal, sanding icy surfaces during the winter
months, and many other details which help the motorist trying to oper-
ate safely and without accidents.

The system of requiring persons 65 years of age or over to pass a test
showing their ability to drive an automobile before their licenses were
renewed, which was started on September 21, 1936, was abandoned on
May 7, 1937, in anticipation of a law passed by the Legislature which
barred this type of examination as being discriminatory. During the time
this plan was in operation approximately 11,000 persons passed the test,
200 failed to pass the test, and 5,700 persons did not attempt to renew
their licenses, presumably because of the required test.

The clerical work of the Registry was especially heavy in 1937 because
again this year, for the second time, it became necessary to prepare new
renewal license cards for about 30% of the operators renewing their
licenses, due to the systejn in which these records are kept on a semi-
permanent 12-year basis. A card in the license file for each operator pro-
vides for the posting to the renewal license record any suspensions of his
license, changes of address, etc., over a 12-year period, at the end of which
time a transcript of this record is transferred to a new card.

A few of the outstanding figures for the year as compared with those
of the previous year are as follows :

Motor vehicle certificates of registration
issued .......

Compulsory insurance cancellation notices
received ......

Licenses to operate issued

Examinations of applicants for licenses

Licenses and registrations revoked and sus-
pended ......

Licenses revoked for driving under influence
of liquor ......

1936

1937

1,034,803

1,085,869

69,126

1,128,516

98,997

67,811

1,177,924

109,729

52,705

58,358

6,486

6,829

Approximate total number

handled
Gross receipts from fees .

of applications

2,253,405
>,765,751.86

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2,354,600
$6,945,602.30

Registrations of Passenger Cars, Commercial Vehicles and

Motor Cycles

The following registration figures show a 5.45% increase in passenger
registrations and a 1.06% increase in commercial registrations over the
previous year, while the motor cycle registrations showed a decrease of
10.6% for the same period.

1924

1904

1914

1934

1936

1937

Passenger

cars

3,772

77,246

580,489

831,853

915,010

964,956

Commercial

vehicles

—

91,826

112,260

118,477

119,737

Motor cycles

489

8,161

10,778

1,375

1,316

1,176

Totals . 4,261 85,407 683,093 945,488 1,034,803 1,085,869
Examinations for Licenses

The appointment system of examining new operators was continued
during the year 1937. The following figures show that there was a gen-
eral increase in the number of persons examined, comparable with the
increase in registrations, at the 55 examining points in the State.

Operators passed . .

Operators unfit
Restriction removal, passed .
Restriction removal, unfit
"Competency", passed .
"Competency", unfit
"Competency", (age 65) passed
"Competency", (age 65) unfit

1936

1937

86,334

96,760

7,621

6,583

848

541

119

544

422

4,731

6,288

106

Total examinations

100,342

110,755

Branch Offices

No new branch offices of the Registry were established, nor was the
teletype machine installation extended to any of the branches not form-
erly so equipped.

The following figures give an approximate idea of the distribution of
the volume of applications presented by the public.

Approximate Distribution of Registrations, Licenses, etc.

Regis-

First

License

Miscel-

trations

Licenses

Renewals

laneous

Totals

Boston :

Counter

194,000

—

174,000

95,000

463,000

Mail .

168,000

—

401,000

11,700

580,700

Examination

22,000

—

1,500

23,500

Pittsfield

25,000

3,900

22,000

9,600

60,500

Springfield

51,000

7,800

57,400

23,500

139,700

Greenfield

12,500

1,900

11,600

5,400

31,400

Northampton

10,400

1,300

10,800

3,800

26,300

Worcester

56,000

8,200

56,100

26,000

146,300

Fitchburg

22,000

3,400

19,500

9,100

54,000

Framingham

22,600

3,600

18,500

9,500

54,200

Lawrence

22,000

3,800

27,400

7,500

60,700

Lowell

22,000

4,000

24,400

7,800

58,200

Fall River

24,600

5,700

25,100

9,700

65,100

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New Bedford

23,600

3,700

29,100

9,600

66,000

Lynn

45,500

7,500

48,600

19,500

121,100

Quincy

34,500

7,700

40,200

14,900

97,300

Brockton

40,000

4,100

35,700

17,800

97,600

Hyannis*

13,000

2,200

8,300

4,800

28,300

Haverhill

13,800

2,300

14,400

5,500

36,000

Holyoke

11,500

1,600

11,100

4,600

28,800

Maiden .

26,000

3,600

20,300

9,400

59,300

Waltham

23,500

5,100

19,500

8,500

56,600

861,500 2

103,400

1,075,000

314,700 x

2,354,600

* Includes Oak Bluffs and Nantucket.

1 This figure includes approximately 222,000 number plate reissues.
2 Does not include reissues (see Miscellaneous).

Compulsory Motor Vehicle Liability Insurance
The following figures show the volume of papers received and notices
mailed in connection with the carrying out of the law regarding com-
pulsory motor vehicle liability insurance.

1936 1937

Causes for Cancellation of Policies:

For non-payment of premiums ....
For other reasons ......

Total

Origin of requests for Cancellation of Policies :
Insurance companies . . . .

Finance companies ......

Total

Disposition of applications for cancellation:

Replacement certificates, adjusting cancellations
Reinstatements, adjusting cancellations
Sets of plates returned before effective date of
cancellation ......

Revocations .......

Total

Return of Plates :

Returned promptly after revocation .

By Police .......

Not returned .......

Total revocations 19,994 19,699

Property Damage

Under the provisions of Section 22A of Chapter 90, General Laws, the
Registrar may, upon receipt of evidence satisfactory to Jiim, suspend the
license of any operator who has failed to satisfy a judgment rendered
against him after sixty days in any case in which such operator is the
defendant in an action brought to recover damages for injuries to prop-
erty arising out of the use, operation or maintenance on the ways of the
Commonwealth of a motor vehicle or trailer.

The following figures indicate the number of cases in which successful
plaintiffs availed themselves of the additional facilities provided in the
law for recovering damages and the action taken thereon:

1936 1937

Complaints received ....... 600 582

Releases received, no action being necessary . 158 158

Licenses or right to operate suspended . . 442 424

Licenses or right to operate reinstated after suspension 255 235

55,978
13,148

52,466
15,345

69,126

67,811

46,660
22,466

45,779
22,032

69,126

67,811

5,803
38,834

6,500
37,464

4,495
19,994

4,148
19,699

69,126

67,811

11,164
4,950
3,880

11,184
4,940
3,575

Aircraft

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The following; figures summarize the work of the Aviation Section for
the fiscal year of 1937. In comparing them with the previous year, it will
be noted that there is a considerable increase in the pilots and aircraft
registered in the Commonwealth.

A definite decrease has been accomplished in the airplane accidents,
which is very encouraging. This is contributed to very strict enforcement
of the existing aviation statute.

Very favorable comments have been made on the airmarkers through-
out the State and there is no doubt that they will be a great factor in
preventing accidents.

Close co-operation has been maintained with the Federal Government
and the aeronautical authorities of other states.

The following figures summarize the work of the Aviation Section :

Pilots registered ....

Aircraft registered .

Duplicates issued

Suspensions of pilots' and aircraft rights

Aircraft grounded .

Reinstatements of rights and groundings

Regulations promulgated .

Surveys of fields

Plans of buildings drawn for airmarking

Airmarkers completed under State promotion

Reports made by aircraft inspectors .

Airplane accidents ....

Fatal accidents ....
Personal injury accidents
No injury accidents
Persons killed in airplane accidents
Persons injured in airplane accidents
Ground accidents ....
Personal injury accidents
No injury accidents
Unknown accidents
Persons injured in ground accidents

37 airport plans have been furnished Federal Relief Agencies ;
22 airport plans have been furnished the Department of Commerce ;
5 special surveys have been made for the W.P.A.

Periodic Inspection of Motor Vehicle Equipment

In accordance with the provisions of General Laws, Chapter 90, Section
7A, the safety equipment of all motor vehicles registered in Massachu-
setts was inspected twice during the year, in the months of May and Sep-
tember. These were the tenth and eleventh inspections conducted under
the periodic inspection law and the third year of semi-annual inspections.
Semi-annual inspections have been found far more effective in securing
safe vehicles on the highway than the single annual inspection.

As formerly, inspections were conducted at Official Inspection Stations
designated by the Registrar. There was a noticeable improvement in the
efficiency and honesty in which the work was done as evidenced by the
very few complaints received from motorists, and the small number of
stations which it was found necessary to cancel or suspend.

Approximately 850,000 pleasure cars, trucks, trailers and buses were
inspected during each period. The results in per cent may be summarized
as follows :

1936

1937

938

1,260

216

304

167

178

176

2,086

2,550

1936

193r

(

)

(

)

(

)

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May September

Per Cent Per Cent

0. K.

44 17*

Foot Brake

Defective

14 16

Emergency Brake

10 10

Lights

42 79

Horn

2 1.4

Muffler

1 1.2

Steering Gear .

2 2.3

Windshield Cleaner

2 2

Number Plates

.4 .6

* Method of headlight adjustment changed, accounting for relatively small percentage of cars
O. K., and large percentage with "defective" lights.

School Bus Inspections

Chapter 271 of the Acts of 1932 require the inspection of all school
buses operated in Massachusetts under contract with cities or towns, or
owned by cities or towns. These inspections were conducted under the
supervision of the Equipment Section five times during the year, during
the first weeks of January, March, May, September and November. In
each month, about 937 vehicles were submitted for inspection at Official
Inspection Stations throughout the state. It is worthy of note that since
the School Bus Act first became effective in September, 1932, not one
serious school bus accident has occurred. This is undoubtedly due in large
measure to the application of the provisions of the Act, which removed
from the highway many antiquated, poorly conditioned buses and other
vehicles which had previously been used for the transportation of school
children.

Brakes, Lights and Miscellaneous

Approximately 50 men were regularly assigned to law enforcement on
the road. Their efforts were directed principally to apprehending
speeders, and testing brakes and other equipment. The activities of
these inspectors, in conjunction with the two regular equipment inspec-
tions during the year, were undoubtedly reflected in the improvement of
the accident situation throughout the state, which showed a decrease of
4% in fatalities despite a 5% increase in registration and a 7% increase
in vehicle-miles operated. A summary of the work of these equipment and
enforcement inspectors is as follows :

Reports of defective equipment .
Reports of vehicles not inspected
Reports of improper operation .
Light tags issued
Brake tags issued

10,308

6,626

3,144

57,689

22,706

Three thousand, eight hundred and fifty-six registrations were sus-
pended because of defective equipment as follows:

Defective brakes

Defective lights

Miscellaneous defective equipment

2,382
671
803

In addition to handling the office work in connection with the above
activities, the Equipment Office force handled 48,306 light tags issued by
State and local police departments, and sent out notices to report, or
warning notices, in 4,839 other cases of defective equipment, of which
1,094 were for defective windshields; 848 reports from inspectors for
reference to the Registrar's Office ; and 9,802 special reports of brake tests
were made by inspectors and handled through the Equipment Office.

90 P.D. 54

Headlamps, Tail Lamps and Reflex Reflectors
During the year, no new headlamps were approved, but approval was
granted to 15 tail lamps and 5 reflex reflectors.

Directional Signals

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in a decision rendered on
October 15, 1937 held that rules and regulations of the Department of
Public Works, made under date of April 13, 1936, and purporting to
require electrical or mechanical directional signal devices on certain com-
mercial vehicles operated over state highways, were beyond the authority
of the Department granted by statute and that the regulations were,
therefore, void and unenforceable.

Motor Vehicle Deaths,, Injuries, Collisions

Deaths in connection with the operation of motor vehicles, in the year
1937 numbered 784 as compared with 817 in the year before, or 33 less,
a 4.0% reduction. A comparative table of classified fatalities, injuries
and collisions in the years 1936 and 1937 follows :

Motor Vehicle Accidents to Persons

Persons Killed

(including children)

1936 1937

Persons Injured

(including children)

1936 1937

Pedestrians by autos
Pedestrians by motorcycles •
Pedestrians near street cars
Occupants of autos .
Occupants of autos at R.

crossings
Occupants of motorcycles .
Bicycle Riders

Occupants horse-drawn vehicles
Coasters on sleds
Coasters on wheels

Totals

Boys
Girls

. 462

436

12,165

12,299

302

31,196

35,751

180

157

1,098

1,311

104

540

4
784

118

164

. 817

45,462

49,854

Children Killed

Children Injure

1936

1937

1936

1937

5,585

5,388

3,090

3,206

Totals

. 127 115

Types of Collisions

8,675 8,594

1936

1937

Coll
Coll
Coll
Coll
Coll
Coll
Coll
Non
Coll
Coll
Coll

sion with pedestrian

sion with automobile

sion with horse-drawn vehicle

sion with railroad train .

sion with street car

sion with fixed object

sion with bicycle

-Collision (overturn)

sion with motorcycle

sion with sled

sion with animal

Coaster on wheels
Totals .

13,511

14,019

20,215

22,986

153

131

279

275

1,860

2,140

1,350

1,628

650

714

199

195

553

137

183

39,010 42,407

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In the daytime

After dark

Totals .

23,533
15,477

23,876
18,531

39,010 42,407

Accident Report Letters

As provided in Section 26, Chapter 90, General Laws, every operator
of a motor vehicle in any manner involved in an accident in which any
person is killed or injured is required to report in writing to the Regis-
trar. The number of these formal accident renorts received from oper-
ators in 1937 was 44,839 as compared with 41,605 received in 1936. Under
the requirements of Section 29, Chapter 90, General Laws, 17,847 similar
reports of accidents were received from police departments throughout
the State in 1937 as against 17,498 received in 1936. In addition, in
connection with this reporting of accidents by operators during the year
1937, there were received 8,730 letters and complaints reporting faulty
operating as compared with 9,189 such letters in 1936.

Comparative Statement of Yearly Registrations, Licenses, Deaths,
Injuries, Revocations and Suspensions

Total sus-

For operat-

Motor

Number

pensions

ing Under

Automobiles

Cycles

Total Reg-

of Persons

of Persons Licenses

and Revo'

■ Influence

Year

Registered Registered

istrations

Killed

Injured

issued

cations

of Liquor

1910

31,360

3,358

34,718

963

41,259

283

1911

38,907

3,658

42,565

110

1,248

51,950

360

1912

50,132

5,034

55,166

142

1.962

66,645

546

1913

62,660

7,127

69,787

188

2,923

81,034

608

1914

77,246

8,161

85,407

229

4,010

99,532

858

131

1915

102,633

9,520

112,153

294

6,197

133,935

1,153

202

1916

136,809

10,713

147,522

315

9,131

171,596

1,396

320

1917

174,274

11,065

185,339

438

7.282

214,229

1,831

485

1918

193,497

12,862

206,359

499

8,598

235,140

2,343

553

1919

247,183

13,698

260,881

582

3 6,287

297,968

2,156

554

1920

304,538

15.142

319,680

481

21,182

261,539

2,944

888

1921

360,731

12,058

372,790

544

11,487

380,519

4,899

1,508

1922

449,838

11,675

461,513

522

15,277

444,173

8,369

2,460

1923

566,150

11,733

577,883

578

16,217

536,819

11,613

3,333

1924

672,315

10,778

683,093

709

39,579

620,439

14,154

4,395

1925

764,338

10,333

774,671

755

25,736

698,378

16,249

4,654

1926

826,224

9,215

835,439

705

25.351

763,951

18,705

4,863

1927

819,703

7,245

826,948

693

31,721

814,094

31,252

4,983

1928

883,595

6,656

890,251

715

42,201

870,160

40,814

5,071

1929

1,018.904

6,168

1,025,072

777

46,111

944,338

53,133

5,381

1930

1,008,476

4,642

1,013,118

795

44.279

982,795

52.954

5,052

1931

1,006,808

3,068

1,009,876

793

48,837

1,024,304

63,841

5,535

1932

921,909

1,661

923,570

768

47,658

1,014,635

73,511

4,824

1933

930,493

1,023

931,516

769

48,249

1.022,662

56,691

4,274

1934

944,113

1,375

745,488

921

53,055

1,053,527

52,505

5,717

1935

967,178

1,375

968,553

795

48,421

1,077,880

52,317

6,264

1936

1,033,487

1,316

1,034,803

817

45,462

1,128,516

52,705

6,486

1937

1,084,693

1,176

1,085,869

784

49,854

1,177,924

58,358

6,829

Investigations and Prosecutions by Inspectors

Investigations were made under the direction of the Chief Inspector
relative to fatal and nonfatal accidents, violations of the laws concerning
brakes and headlights, inspection of garages, miscellaneous complaints.
and the prosecution of motorists in court. The table below shows the wide
range of these activities of the inspectors.

Classification of Reports

Accidents, fatal .
Accidental, nonfatal
General reputation
Miscellaneous

Total .

1936

1937

782

790

1,525

1,284

1,598

1,612

6,389

6,885

10,294

10,571

Complaints filed .
Garages inspected
Headlights, brakes, etc.
Prosecutions
Amount of fines .

Revocations and Suspensions

Licenses suspended

Licenses revoked

Rights suspended

Certificates suspended

Certificates revoked

Certificates and licenses suspended

Certificates and licenses revoked .

Certificates revoked and right suspended

Rights in Massachusetts suspended

Totals ....

Resulting from investigations
Resulting from court convictions .
Resulting from police complaints .
Resulting from judges' complaints
Resulting from state police complaints
Resulting from insurance cancellations

Totals

Character of Offenses

Reckless and endangering life

Liquor convictions

Going away after accidents

Without authority

Racing

Improper person

Improper person, liquor

Improper operating

Two overspeeds .

Three overspeeds

Insurance cancellations

Insurance convictions .

Improper equipment, miscellaneous

Improper equipment, lights

Improper equipment, brakes

Failure to display stickers

Fatal accidents

Property damage cases

Other offenses

Parking violations

Overloading trucks

Sixty milers

Fifty milers

Forty-five milers

Several minor complaints

Failure to slow for pedestrian

Totals

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28,649

36,798

8,274

13,280

93,290

93,101

778

921

$25,687

31,001

1936

1937

15,314

20,756

3,707

5,433

5,788

6,718

5,660

4,645

20,126

19,806

1,369

330

602

608

52,705

58,358

14,498

14,092

12. -K>.

14,855

3,033

3,539

2,333

6,169

19,986

19,699

52,705

1936

58,358

1937

1,590

1,935

4,648

5,004

500

581

545

554

5,181

5,137

1,838

1,825

4,028

3,621

531

19,986

19,699

380

411

594

803

603

671

3,662

2,382

781

752

442

399

3,717

5,455

959

—

2,413

8,519

—

291

186

119

52,705

58,358

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Court recommendations adopted: —
Reckless and endangering
Going away after accidents
Operating under influence of liquor
Allowing improper person to operate
Insurance convictions

Totals

Persons whose licenses were suspended or revoked
and who had to pass examination in order to have
them returned ......

Registrations revoked on liquor convictions .

5,086

5,124
1,476

* No figures available. Until September 24, 1936, both license and registration were revoked
together on liquor convictions, and figures were not recorded separately. Acts of 1936, Chapter
434, effective on this date, required that hearing be given before registration could be revoked.

Analysis of Court, Abstracts Received

1936
95
54,311
35,575

Number of courts forwarding abstracts
Total abstracts received
Abstracts recording convictions

Offenses
(Analysis of convictions, not including appeals)

1936
Overspeeding ....
Reckless driving

Operating under influence of liquor
Using auto without authority
Endangering lives
Not stopping after causing injury
Without license ....
Without registration certificate
Unregistered vehicle .
Improper display or no register number
Refusing to stop on signal .
Unlighted lamps*
Not signalling ....
Dazzling lights* ....
Operating within 8 feet of street car
Violation of Metropolitan Park rules
Operating after suspension or revocation of license
Larceny
Manslaughter
Miscellaneous
Lenses not approved .
No reflector* .
Racing

Operating after registration
No rear light*
Not displaying lights*
Passing Red Light
Improper lights
Brakes not as required by law
Violation of insurance law .

certificate

revoked

1937

50,355

36,967

1937

1,470

11,896

4,314

4,533

753

828

2,381

2,762

842

969

2,555

2,644

475

543

481

496

123

127

259

410

287

112

596

619

108

160

1,347

1,279

510

597

267

198

164

484

578

* Figures relative to Unlighted lamps. Dazzling lights, No reflector. No rear light, and Not
displaying lights for the year 1937 are here all included under "Improper Lights".

Not slowing down approaching pedestrian

Not slowing down at intersecting way .

Violation of law of road

Perjury — Making false statements on license appli

cation, falsely impersonating or conspiring t<

obtain a license
Loaning license to another
Allowing intoxicated person to operate
No windshield cleaner
Attempted larceny
Allowing improper person to operate

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6,593

6,508

1,198

1,158

Totals

35,575

36,967

Used Car Section

(Motor Vehicle Identification)

The following is a resume of the work accomplished by the Used Car
Section which indexes, under engine numbers, all motor vehicles registered
and reported stolen, and checks reports of sales of used cars against the
stolen-vehicle records. Dealers' and repairmen's plates and registration
certificates are issued by this section.

The work of the section is summarized in the following tables: —

Dealers

Total number of first class dealers reporting
Total number of second and third class dealers
porting .......

re-

1936

1937

1,225

1,351

615

628

1,840

1,979

Total number making reports to this office

Reports

Approximate number of notices of intended sales

received daily ......

Approximate number of dealers' reports received

daily ........

Motor Vehicles Stolen

Number stolen in Boston ...

Number stolen in Massachusetts (including Boston)

Number reported stolen from various sources
throughout the country, including Massachusetts

Number of motor vehicles recovered through infor-
mation furnished by this office ....

Engine and Serial Numbers

Engine numbers assigned to cars .

Certificates issued authorizing the replacement of

engine numbers ....

Certificates issued authorizing the replacement of

serial numbers .....

Certificates issued authorizing the replacement of

both engine and serial numbers ....
Total number of authorization certificates issued

Eastern Conference of Motor Vehicle Administrators

The department was represented at meetings of the Conference held at
Asbury Park, N. J., May 25 and 26, and Providence, R. I., November 18
and 19, 1937.

Many matters of common interest to the motor vehicle administrators
of the member states were studied and discussed, including programs for

280

333

1,382

1,821

3,297
7,191

2,885
7,726

21,179

20,679

290

330

338

315

191

6
535

7
421

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highway safety campaigns, methods for procuring uniform enforcement
of motor vehicle laws, methods for controlling the speed of motor vehicles,
instruction in high schools on motor vehicle operation, physical and
mental examination of motor vehicle operators, curbing motor vehicle
thefts, the problem of the drunken operator, and the procedure in suspen-
sion and revocation of operators' licenses.

The meetings resultedjn beneficial gains of knowledge concerning the
constantly increasing duties and problems of the administrators, and
served to renew a strong spirit of cordial and helpful cooperation.

Analysis of Receipts

The fees received for the year 1937 together with the number of certifi-
cates of registration issued in each classification and the number of
licenses granted, etc., are shown in the following table:
Certificates of Registration :

Passenger cars (including taxicabs)
Commercial cars
Buses .....
Trailers .....
Motor Cycles ....
Manufacturers or Dealer (including repairers)
Manufacturers or Dealers additional cars (in-
cluding repairers) .....

Licenses to operate:

Original licenses

Renewal licenses ....
Examinations 84,250 $168,500

Re-examinations . . 25,479 25,479

960,029

119,737

4,927

11,333

1,176

3,446

20,710

103,703
1,074,221

$2,689,087.06

1,410,459.00

131,135.40

23,138.00

1,597.75

10,338.00

62,129.00

207,406.00
2,148,264.00

39,884
9,214

193,979.00

39,883.50

9,214.00

18,971.59

$6,945,602.30
68,891.65

Net fees $6,876,710.65

Court fines received by the Treasurer and Receiver-General* 5,948.55

Total examinations 109,729

Copies of certificates and licenses furnished
Duplicate number plates furnished
Miscellaneous receipts, process fees, etc.

Total amount of fees
Motor Vehicle fees rebated (deducted) .

Total receipts not including gasoline tax**) credited
Highway Fund Account, 1937, ....

$6,882,659.20

* Fines imposed under the provisions of- Chapter 90 are payable to the treasury of the county
^wherein the offence was committed, effective October 1, 1935 (Acts of 1935, Chapter 303).
** Receipts from the gasoline tax, credited to the Highway Fund, are collected through the office
of the Commissioneo of Corporations and Taxation.

Expenses of the Registry of Motor Vehicles

The cost of running the Registry of Motor Vehicles for the fiscal year
1937 was $1,578,195.99, which was 22.9%; of the net fees collected. This
cost, deducted from the receipts for the year, left the sum of $5,304,463.21
available for legislative appropriation for highway work.

Analysis of Expenditures for the Fiscal Year 1937

Personal Services:

Regular employees payroll $1,033,461.53

Temporary employees payroll . . 41,030.05

Overtime payroll .... 5,505.35

$1,079,996.93

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Supplies :

Books, maps, etc. .

$820.04

News clippings

268.70

Carbon .

641.58

Typewriter supplies

1,038.34

Adding machine supplies

24.65

Other supplies

8,497.80

Envelopes

7,931.76

Guide cards, folders

1,786.87

Paper

1,123.01

Pens, pencils, etc

977.33

Miscellaneous

1,099.26

Typewriter repairs

346.90

Other repairs

1,878.97

«OC AOK Ol

9^Q,fOO.bl

Equipment and Furniture:

Typewriter machines

$7,138.79

Adding machines

488.00

Other machines

5,328.71

Desks ....

937.00

Bookcases, tables, etc

521.45

Filing cabinets

6,975.49

Chairs, settees, etc.

531.12

Dictograph system . . .

62.79

Headlight and brake testing equipment 1,600.06

Uniforms

3,027.41

Counters, safes etc. (inc. Branch off.) 286.09

Hold-up protection .

448.60

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tpi- i r*jc-to.oi

Travel :

Officials ....

$385.50

Employees

11,011.13

Mileage — Private cars

103,254.77

Auto Maintenance —

Garage rent

620.90

Gas and oil

1,148.85

Miscellaneous

294.45

Repairs and supplies 347.28

Automobiles purchased

1,133.00

Aviation Expenses —

Employees

826.55

Mileage (Private cars) 990.54

Garage rent

199.27

Gas and oil

642.24

Miscellaneous

29.00

Repairs and supplies 232.60

Telephone

79.07

Miscellaneous

40.00

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Other Services and Expenses:

Expressage

$2,734.85

Postage ....

95,447.72

Printing —

Paper for printing

10,003.56

Other reports

1,830.52

Other printing

11,784.88

Telephone, telegraph and telety

pe 15,090.59

Premium on Bonds

530.66

Rent (inc. cleaning and h

ibor)

915.00

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Labor 1,627.01

Number plates

129,326.38

Police lists

8,250.00

Sundries

272.35

Air-marking project

2,205.08

$280,018.60

Branch Office Expenses:

Rent $23,024.34

Telephone

7,699.12

Lighting

2,040.23

Cleaning and Janitor Service

4,746.83

Express Service to Bank

1,090.00

Labor

1,131.97

Towels, Ice and Water

704.85

Travel ....

170.00

Miscellaneous

1,316.79

Remodelling Office .

832.56

$42,756.69

$497,791.16

Publicity for Safety Work

Printing .........

$407.90

Summary

Payrolls .........

$1,079,996.93

Expenses

497,791.16

Publicity for Safety Work ......

407.90

$1,578,195.99

RELATING TO WATERWAYS AND PUBLIC LANDS
BOSTON HARBOR

The Commonwealth Flats at South Boston

Commonwealth Pier 5

The minor work necessary for the effective operation of the pier has
been continued during the year. Repairs have been made to the gang-
ways, floating fenders, sprinkler system, elevators, elevator machinery,
Ogden doors and to the heating plant.

The repair and reconstruction of platforms at this pier, approved as
Public Works Administration Project No. Mass. 1301 was completed late
in May, 1937. This work was done under two contracts, one with the
Merritt-Chapman and Scott Corporation, the other with the Bay State
Dredging and Contracting Company.

Under contract of December 13, 1935, with the Merritt-Chapman and
Scott Corporation the pile and timber platforms on the outer portions of
the pier surrounding the pier sheds were removed, and a new concrete
platform built consisting of a reinforced concrete deck slab on a frame
work of girders and steel beams supported on caisson and steel pile
foundations with the steel piles driven to rock bearing or to hard under-
lyin strata. This work was completed May 26, 1937.

Under contract of July 14, 1936, with the Bay State Dredging and
Contracting Company repairs were made to the foundations of the Head
House at the inshore end of the pier. On account of the difficulty of
supporting this structure to allow the removal of the wooden piles, it was
decided to enclose the foundations with a steel sheet pile bulkhead and to
protect the wooden piles with light weight concrete. This work was
completed March 1, 1937.

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The total contract cost of the work under these two contracts was
$780,450.60, for which a grant of $386,526 was made by the Public Works
Administration.

To facilitate the examination of passengers from the Canadian Na-
tional Steamships a request was made by the United States Customs
Officials for the erection of a fence in the room at Commonwealth Pier
used for this purpose. A contract was made on July 13, 1937, with P. J.
Dinn and Company for the building of a wire fabric fence 8 feet high
and about 199 feet 4 inches long in the Examination Room at the pier
at a contract price of $686. The work was completed August 4, 1937.

Increasing complaints were received this year from steamship agents
and stevedores as to certain difficulties in moving cargo because of the
settlement of the pavement on the first floor of the pier. As repairs to
other floors at the pier had become necessary a contract with the Warren
Brothers Roads Company was made on November 2, 1937, for resurfacing
with bituminous concrete on a Portland cement concrete base portions of
the first floor and second floor at the pier. This work is now in progress.

A summary of freight and passengers using the pier in 1937 follows:

Number of Tons Freight and Passengers Handled at Commonwealth
Pier 5 During Fiscal Year Ending November 30, 1937

Steamship Line

Num-
ber of

Ships

Inward Freight Tons

Outward Freight Tons

Passengers

R.R.

Truck

Total

R.R.

Truck

Total

Out

Total

Amer.-Haw. S.S. Co. . .
Luekenbacn S.S. Co. . .
Norton, Lilly & Co. . .
Int'l Mercantile Marine
Can. Nat. S.S. Co. . . .

Holland Amer. Line . .

28,429

8,533

1,393

1,939

188

85,070

58,513

13,315

6,872

1,295

146

113,499

67,046

14,708

8,811

1,483

146

14,440

8,585

88
290

28,323
17,420

416
100

42,763
26,005

504
390

4,113

187
441

133

3,308

2,696

572

206

133

7,421

2,696

759

647

TOTALS

237

40,482

165,211

205,693

23,403

46,259

69,662

4,741

6,915

11,656

In the early summer large shipments of wool arriving at the pier could
not be moved readily on account of the strike of the wool handlers and
accumulated to such an extent as to cause a considerable congestion of
cargo. This condition resulted in a demand for additional pier facilities
in Boston Harbor.

In response to this demand the Department has during the year made
studies and investigations as to feasibility and comparative costs of build-
ing a new pier easterly of the Fish Pier at South Boston, of rebuilding
and enlarging Commonwealth Pier 1 at East Boston, and of constructing
piers at other sites in Boston Harbor.

Development of Land South of Summer Street

The seven sections of Storehouse No. 1 on E Street have been occupied
during the year by the Wiggin Terminals, Inc. Repairs to the Storehouse
needed this year have been carrid out for the most part by employees of
the Department.

Railroad Yards of the Commonwealth

Under an agreement dated November 23, 1937, the Commonwealth
granted to the Trustees of the property of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad Company the continued use to October 31, 1941, of the
surplus capacity of the Commonwealth Railroad Yard at a rental of
$10,500 per year. This yard has been used for some years by the railroad
company under agreements of November 15, 1916 and March 16, 1928.
The present agreement provides that the use of this yard by the Company

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"shall in all cases be subordinate to the use of said railroad yard in
connection with said Commonwealth Pier 5 and other properties of
the Commonwealth north of Summer Street in South Boston and
subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as may from time
to time be prescribed by the Commonwealth or such board or boards
as may exercise its powers, and the use by the Contractor shall be
without material interference with such use."

The Commonwealth under date of November 23, 1937, made an agree-
ment with the Trustees of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail-
road Company for the continuance by the Company to December 31,
1941, of its use of the surplus capacity of the railroad yard built by the
Federal Government and released to the Commonwealth by the Secretary
of War on May 14, 1926, and two tracks northerly of and connecting with
the tracks of the Commonwealth railroad yard, at a rental of $29,250 per
year. This yard has been used for some years by the railroad company
under an agreement dated March 16, 1928. The present agreement pro-
vides :

"The use of said Federal railroad yard and of said two tracks which
said Contractor may make hereunder shall in all cases be subordin-
ate to the use of said Federal railroad yard and tracks, which the
Commonwealth may at any time have occasion to make and shall be
subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as may from time
to time be prescribed by the Commonwealth or such board or boards
as may exercise its powers, and the use by the Contractor shall be
without material interference with such use; provided that the Con-
tractor shall maintain and at all reasonable times make available for
service two tracks lying within and through said Federal Railroad
yard for use of delivery of cars to and from the United States Army
Base, in accordance with the terms of an agreement between said
Commonwealth and the United States of America dated May 14,
1926, the conditions of which as applied to said two tracks are hereby
referred to and made a part of this agreement during the continu-
ance thereof."

The Commonwealth Flats at East Boston

Aircraft Landing Field Boston Airport

The greater part of the area reclaimed by the Commonwealth at East
Boston continues to be occupied by the city of Boston as an airport. On
August 10, 1928, under authority of Chapter 64 of the Resolves of that
year, the Department leased to the city approximately 5,717,000 square
feet of land for this purpose. The use of an additional area of 4,210,760
square feet was authorized by a lease executed July 14, 1930, in accord-
ance with the provisions of Chapter 53 of the Resolves of 1930. The
matter of the lease to the city of two additional parcels, one northeasterly
of the area leased in 1928 and 1930, the other southeasterly of the parcel
leased in 1930, is still pending.

The use of these areas by the city is subject to certain rights of occu-
pancy and use granted by lease of June 30, 1922 to the War Department,
with an option of annual renewals to June 30, 1937, by a supplementary
agreement of December 27, 1926.

During the year studies have been made and estimates of cost of en-
larging the airport to provide additional area and increased length of
runways.

Reclamation of Flats

The work of dredging and filling at East Boston under contracts made
by the Department for the purpose of reclaiming flats has been in abey-
ance since 1923. Between that year and November 30, 1937, approxi-
mately 3,186,510 cubic yards of material dredged from various locations

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in the harbor have been deposited in the receiving basin. In the year
ending November 30, 1937, about 106,700 cubic yards were dumped upon
flats northerly of Governors Island. The Commonwealth has reclaimed
approximately 150 acres of land at East Boston.

Under licenses granted for building bulkheads, dredging and filling, the
city has reclaimed for the extension of the airport about 140 acres.

Commonwealth Pier 1, East Boston

Work under letter contract of November 25, 1936, with the Flynn
Roofing and Sheet Metal Works for installing skylights at the pier was
completed December 30, 1936, at a contract cost of $1,601.18. This con-
tractor in March made repairs to the roof of the pier in accordance with
letter contract of March 1, 1937, at a contract cost of $278.26.

During the year six vessels have docked at this pier, discharging a
total cargo of 7,027 tons.

East Boston - - Cunard Docks

The dredging to a depth of 40 feet at mean low water of an area be-
tween the Cunard Docks and the Main Ship Channel in Boston Harbor,
under letter contract of August 4, 1936, with the Bay State Dredging and
Contracting Company was completed December 30, 1936, at a contract
cost of $12,876.27.

Anchorage Basin

On January 21, 1937, a letter contract was made with the M and R
Construction Company for repairs to the dolphins marking the northerly
edge of the Anchorage Basin at East Boston. This work was completed
February 2, 1937, at a contract cost of $345.

Dorchester Bay

Hearing was held May 5, 1937, on petition of members of the Savin
Hill Yacht Club for the dredging of an area adjacent to the basin used
by the boats of the club in Dorchester Bay near the club house.

On June 7, 1937, a contract was made with the Bay State Dredging and
Contracting Company to dredge a basin in Dorchester Bay at the Savin
Hill Yacht Club to a depth of 8 feet at mean low water at the following
contract prices: for dredging and disposing of the dredged material 45
cents per cubic yard, scow measurement; for removing and disposing of
boulders $20 per cubic yard. The work was completed July 3, 1937, at a
contract cost of $14,606.55. Toward this cost a contribution of $3,000 was
made by the Metropolitan District Commission.

Malden River

A contract was made on July 13, 1937, with Herbert T. Gerrish to
dredge to a depth of 6 feet at mean low water a channel about 2200 feet
long and 100 feet wide in Maiden River, Everett, Maiden and Medford, at
the following contract prices : for dredging and disposing of the dredged
material on shore, 44 cents per cubic yard, measured in situ ; for remov-
ing and disposing of boulders $20 for each cubic yard. This work was
completed October 21, 1937, at a contract cost of $19,498.60. Toward this
cost a contribution of $3,000 was made by The Barrett Company.

On October 26, 1937, a contract was made with the North Atlantic
Dredging Company to dredge in Maiden River a channel about 1200 feet
long and 60 feet wide on the bottom to a depth of 6 feet at mean low
water below the Medford Street Bridge, and a channel 50 feet wide on
the bottom to a depth of 5 feet at mean low water through said bridge
and for a distance of about 150 feet above it. The contract prices for this
work were: for dredging and disposing of the dredged material on shore
45 cents per cubic yard, measured in situ ; for removing and disposing of
all boulders $20 for each cubic yard. This dredging is now in progress.

P.D. 54 101

Toward the cost of the work a contribution of $1,000 was made by the
Morton Oil Company.

Wollaston Dredging

Hearing was held January 27, 1937, on petition of the Wollaston and
Squantum Yacht Clubs for dredging the channel and basins at Wollaston
serving the two clubs.

On June 7, 1937, a contract was made with the J. S. Packard Dredging
Company to dredge to a depth of 6 feet at mean low water a channel and
b'asin at the Wollaston and Squantum Yacht Clubs in Quincy, at the fol-
lowing contract prices: for dredging and disposing of the dredged ma-
terial 47 cents per cubic yard, scow measurement; for removing and
disposing of boulders $25 per cubio yard. This work was completed July
16, 1937, at a contract cost of $22,808.63. Toward this cost a contribution
of $3,500 was made by the city of Quincy.

Point Pemberton Sea Wall, Hull

On March 26, 1937, a contract was made with Karl M. Fredrickson to
place about 140 linear feet of concrete footing under the toe of the exist-
ing sea wall, to make patch repairs to the present wall, including filling
of the construction joints, to place about 1000 tons of stone riprap
including chips, and to rehandle existing riprap that may interfere with
the construction of the proposed footing. The contract prices for this
work were: for furnishing all labor and materials and constructing the
concrete footing under and in front of the present wall, including all
excavation, back filling and incidental work, $12 for each cubic yard of
concrete placed in the completed work; for furnishing labor, materials,
tools and equipment and doing all work necessary to patch existing sea
wall and fill the construction joints, the lump sum of $100; for each ton
of new stone riprap or chips furnished in place in the completed work,
$1.44 for each ton of 2000 pounds; for rehandling existing riprap and
replacing the same within the new work, including all incidental expense
the lump sum of $15. This work was completed May 4, 1937, at a contract
cost of $2,182.84.

Weymouth Fore River, Quincy and Weymouth

The dredging in Weymouth Fore River in co-operation with the project
of the Federal Government has been continued this' year.

The work under letter contract of November 19, 1936, with the J. S.
Packard Dredging Company was completed March 31, 1937, at a contract
cost of $5,958.28.

On May 17, 1937, a letter contract was made with the J. S. Packard
Dredging Company for dredging approximately 8000 cubic yards of
material from an area in the channel above the Weymouth Fore River
Bridge to a depth of 27 feet at mean low water, at a contract price of 46
cents per cubic yard, scow measurement, for dredging and disposing of
the dredged material. This work was completed May 20, 1937, at a con-
tract cost of $3,712.20.

A further contract with the J. S. Packard Dredging Company was
made on June 7, 1937, for the removal of shoals in the channel from the
uostream side of the Quincy-Weymouth Bridge for a distance of about
2800 feet in Weymouth Fore River to a depth of 27 feet at mean low
water, at the following contract prices: for dredging and disposing of
dredged material 58 cents per cubic yard, scow measurement; for remov-
ing and disposing of boulders, $25 per cubic yard. This work was com-
pleted August 30, 1937, at a contract cost of $12,005.42.

The dredging carried out under these contracts completes the work
required by the Federal Government in connection with its recent project
for the improvement of Weymouth Fore River.

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Hayward's Creek

Early in the fiscal year the Department with the assent of the Governor
and Council executed a deed and agreements to allow further develop-
ment of land at Hayward's Creek.

By deed dated December 29, 1936, the Commonwealth conveyed to the
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Ltd., two parcels of land in Quincy
and Braintree, containing a total area of 14.71 acres at a price of $73,550.

By agreement of December 29, 1936, the Fore River Railroad Corpora-
tion granted to the Commonwealth certain rights to cross over and under
the railroad operated over a strip of land conveyed to the Company in
1920 and separating parcels of land belonging to the Commonwealth.
The execution of this agreement allows convenient access from each of
these parcels to the other.

An agreement was also made on December 29, 1936, with Matthew P.
Scullin for his purchase of five parcels of land of the Commonwealth in
Quincy and Braintree, containing 33.49 acres. The purchaser is to pay
$100,000 in 20 equal annual payments and, in addition, a rental of $1,875
per year until the payments are completed.

Marine Borers

The Department has continued this year its co-operation with the New
England Committee on Marine Piling Investigation by maintaining four
test boards in Boston Harbor at the following locations: Commonwealth
Pier 1, East Boston; Commonwealth Pier 5, South Boston; Weymouth
Fore River Bridge at Quincy Point, and at the wharf owned by the Com-
monwealth in South Bay, Roxbury.

Sample blocks removed each month from the test boards are sent to
the Committee for examination and comparison with similar blocks from
other stations on the New England coast. The results of these examina-
tions are published by the Committee.

Inspection of Structures in Tide Water

In 1936 and 1937 the appropriations made by the Legislature for the
inspection of structures in tide water have enabled the Department to
continue the work in Boston Harbor during these two years.

Above mean low water 193 structures have been inspected; 26 struc-
tures have been examined by a diver below mean low water ; and 3 special
reports with plans and photographs have been made relative to structures
not now being maintained in accordance with the provisions of the
licenses granted for the work and the plans accompanying the licenses.

Surveys

Surveys have been made during the year in connection with the main-
tenance and operation of property of the Commonwealth. Hydrographic
surveys have been carried on for the purpose of providing data for
projects for the improvement of navigation, in Mystic River, Maiden
River, at Jeffries Point, in Weymouth Fore River, Neponset River, Dor-
chester Bay, Quincy Bay, Hingham Bay at Houghs Neck, Hingham
Harbor at Crow Point, Weir River and Hull Bay.

RIVERS, HARRORS, TIDE WATERS ANT) FORESHORES
OUTSIDE OF BOSTON HARROR

For the improvement of rivers, harbors, tide waters and foreshores
outside of Boston Harbor, in accordance with the provisions of section 11,
Chapter 91, General Laws, an appropriation of $100,000 was made dur-
ing 1937, with the following condition :

"provided, that all expenditures made for the protection of shores
shall be upon condition that at least fifty per cent of the cost is

P.D. 54 103

covered by contributions from municipalities or other organizations
and individuals, and that in the case of dredging channels for harbor
improvements at least twenty-five per cent of the cost shall be so
covered."

An appropriation of $22,50.0 was also available during the year for the
maintenance of structures, and for repairing damages along the coast line
or river banks of the Commonwealth, and for the removal of wrecks and
other obstructions from tide waters and great ponds.

Petitions were filed with the Department this year for surveys and im-
provements in the following localities: Barnstable shore, Barnstable;
Bass River, Dennis and Yarmouth; Brewster Shore; Chatham Shore;
Cotuit Shore, Barnstable ; Dennis Shore ; Falmouth Shore ; Harbor Cove,
Gloucester; Harwich Shore; Herring River, Harwich; Lagoon Pond, Oak
Bluffs and Tisbury; Lewis Bay, Barnstable; Lewis Bay, Yarmouth; Little
Harbor, Marblehead; Lobster Cove, Gloucester; Lynn Harbor, Lynn;
Megansett Harbor, Falmouth; Newburyport Shore; Oak Bluffs Shore;
Pilgrim Beach, Truro; Provincetown Shore; Silver Beach and Wild Har-
bor, Falmouth; Vineyard Haven Harbor; Wellfleet Shore; West Bay,
Barnstable.

Public hearings have been held and estimates of cost made, but no work
has been undertaken to carry out improvements petitioned for at Bass
River, Dennis and Yarmouth; Little Harbor, Marblehead; Lynn Harbor,
Lynn ; Megansett Harbor, Falmouth ; Newburyport Shore ; Provincetown
Shore.

Information as to work previously done in rivers and harbors of the
Commonwealth may be found in the annual reports of the Board of Har-
bot and Land Commissioners, the Commission on Waterways and Public
Lands, the Division of Waterways and Public Lands of the Department
of Public Works and the Department of Public Works.

An account of work done during 1937 for the improvement of rivers,
harbors, tide waters and foreshores outside of Boston Harbor follows.

Barnstable Dredging
Cotuit Harbor, East Bay and Lewis Bay

Work,under contract of July 1, 1936, with the Bay State Dredging and
Contracting Company for dredging the entrance channels to Cotuit Har-
bor, East Bay and Lewis Bay, was completed May 6, 1937, at a contract
cost of $20,565. Toward this cost a contribution of $9,000 was made by
the town of Barnstable.. ,

Hyannis Harbor

Hearing was held January 27, 1937, on a petition of Horatio S. Bond
and others for dredging an anchorage basin in Hyannis Harbor, — some-
times known as Inner Lewis Bay.

On July 14, 1937, a contract was made with Herbert T. Gerrish to
dredge by the hydraulic method an anchorage basin 6 feet deep at mean
low water in Hyannis Harbor at the following contract prices : for dredg-
ing and disposing of the dredged material within the disposal area or on
marsh or flats, 53 cents per cubic yard measured in place; for removing
and disposing of boulders $20 per cubic yard. This work was completed
November 30, 1937, at a contract cost of $13,137.64. Toward this cost a
contribution of $5,000 was made by the town of Barnstable.

Popponesset Bay

The work of dredging a channel and basin in Popponesset Bay under
contract of July 21, 1936, with Herbert T. Gerrish was completed June 9,
1937, at a contract cost of $11,028.16. Toward this cost a contribution
of $4,000, was made by the town of Barnstable and contributions amount-
ing to $1,600 by individuals interested.

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West Bay

Hearing was held January 27, 1937, on petition of the Selectmen for
widening and deepening the channel at the entrance to West Bay.

On June 7, 1937, a contract was made with the Bay State Dredging and
Cotracting Company for dredging a channel at the entrance and into
West Bay to a depth of 6 feet at mean low water and a width of 100 feet
on the bottom, at the following contract prices: for dredging and dis-
posing of the dredged material 65 cents per cubic yard, scow measure-
ment; for removing and disposing of boulders $20 per cubic yard. This
work was completed July 29, 1937, at a contract cost of $7,176. Toward
this cost a contribution of $3,750 was made by the town of Barnstable.

Barnstable Shore Protection
Cotuit
Hearing was held November 10, 1937, on petition of the Selectmen for
protective work at the town landing and bathing beach on Ocean Avenue
at Cotuit.

Proposals for building about 225 linear feet of concrete sea wall and a
stone jetty about 100 feet long opposite Ocean View Avenue were re-
ceived November 30, 1937.

West Beach - - Squaw Island Road

Hearing was held January 27, 1937, on petition of the Selectmen for
additional jetties to protect the shore at West Beach.

On October 13, 1937, a contract was made with Frederick V. Lawrence
for building three stone jetties with riprap returns along and easterly
of Squaw Island Road at Hyannisport, at a contract price of $2.70 for
each ton of 2000 pounds of granite stone riprap and chips placed in the
completed work. Under this contract work is now in progress.

South Hyannis

A contract was made on October 27, 1937, with George M. Bryne for
building a stone jetty and placing stone riprap for the protection of a
part of the shore at South Hyannis, at a contract price of $2.47 per ton of
2000 pounds for granite stone riprap and granite stone chips furnished
and placed in the completed work. The stone jetty and the placing of
riprap were completed November 15, 1937, at a contract cost of $1,521.30.
Toward this cost a contribution of $400 was made by the County and an
equal amount was contributed by the owner of the property particularly
benefited by the protection.

Brewster Shore Protection

Hearing was held January 27, 1937, on a petition of the Selectmen for
jetty construction on the northerly shore of Brewster at Ellis Landing
and on a petition of Eleanor Gleason for the building of a jetty to protect
her property.

On August 25, 1937, a contract was made with George M. Bryne to
place riprap upon the shore at the bank in front of the Gleason property
and at Ellis Landing, at a contract price of $3.08 for each ton of 2000
pounds of heavy granite stone riprap and stone chips furnished and
placed in the completed work. The placing of riprap was completed
October 12, 1937, at a contract cost of $1,855.05. Toward this cost con-
tributions of $500 each were made by the town and the county.

Cape Cod Canal Landing Pier, Bourne

The Cape Cod Canal pier authorized by Chapter 414 of the Acts of
1931, and completed in 1934, is built of solid fill construction about 600
feet long, providing a depth of 25 feet in the dock at mean low water and
a light timber extension about 400 feet long as a tie up for vessels along
the easterly side of the turning basin. A superstructure 36 feet wide

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and 200 feet long has been built of brick, steel and timber upon the pier.
No work except minor repairs has been needed during the year.

Connecticut River
WPA Work

During the year 1937 the Department in co-operation with the Works
Progress Administration continued the work of placing riprap and build-
ing dikes and concrete walls at various points along the Connecticut River
to repair damage caused by flood and protect certain towns from future
damage due to excessive high water.

Work was carried on this year in the following towns and cities:
Northfield, Montague, Deerfield, Whately, Hatfield, Hadley, Northampton,
Easthampton, South Hadley, Chicopee, Holyoke and West Springfield.

The Department in 1937 has expended State funds amounting to
$23,970.45 for this work as its share of the total expenditure of
$242,996.19.

Dennis Shore Protection

Dennisport

The work of building two stone jetties under the terms of the contract

of September 22, 1936, with the H. and J. Construction Company was

completed January 8, 1937, at a contract cost of $2,250. Toward this cost

contributions of $600 each were made by the town and the county.

Dennisport and Sesuit

Hearing was held January 27, 1937, on petition of the Selectmen for
three stone jetties on the southerly shore of Dennis at Dennisport.

A contract was made on August 25, 1937, with George M. Bryne to
build four stone jetties on the shore at Dennisport and one stone jetty on
the shore at Sesuit, at the following contract prices: for furnishing and
placing heavy granite stone riprap and granite stone chips in the jetties,
$3.08 for each ton of 2000 pounds of stone in the completed work. These
jetties were completed November 6, 1937, at a contract cost of $5,658.18.
Toward this cost contributions of $1,500 each were made by the town
and the county.

East Bay, Barnstable

On October 27, 1937, a contract was made with Harry L. Jones to build
a timber fence about 150 feet long westerly of the west jetty at the
entrance to East Bay, at a contract price of $494.76 for building the
fence, including all material, the furnishing of all plant, tools, labor and
equipment and incidental work. This construction is now in progress.

Falmorth Shore Protection
Falmouth Heights and Menauhant

Hearing was held on January 27, 1937, on petitions of the Selectmen
and others for stone jetties at Falmouth Heights and Menauhant.

A contract with Frederick V. Lawrence was made on July 14, 1937,
for building a stone jetty about 190 feet long at Falmouth Heights and
a stone jetty about 200 feet long at Menauhant, at a contract price of
$3.24 per ton of 2000 pounds of granite stone riprap and chips furnished
and placed in the jetties. This work was completed September 9, 1937, at
a contract cost of $10,983.60. Toward this cost contributions of $2,750
each were made by the town and the county.

Shore Street

Work under contract of October 6, 1936, with Turner and Breivogel
for building a steel sheet pile bulkhead and reinforced concrete cap
opposite Shore Street was completed December 9, 1936, at a contract
cost of $2,189.93.

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On December 18, 1936, a letter contract was made with S. W. Lawrence
to furnish and place about 100 tons of stone riprap and chips at a contract
price of $3 per ton to protect the westerly end of the steel and concrete
bulkhead built under the contract of October 6, 1936. This work was com-
pleted February 1, 1937, at a contract cost of $335.64.

Toward the cost of the protective work provided under these two con-
tracts, contributions of $750 each were made by the town and the county.

Gloucester Fish Pier

After the refusal in November, 1936, of the Federal Public Works Ad-
ministration to aid in financing the building of the Gloucester Fish Pier
unless the lease required by the provisions of Chapter 303 of the Acts of
1936, was executed with a non-profit sharing organization, the citizens of
Gloucester organized the Gloucester Community Pier Association, Inc., in
compliance with the ruling of the Federal authorities in this matter.

On March 1, 1937, the Mayor of Gloucester submitted to the Depart-
ment the Order of the City Council under date of February 26, 1937,
authorizing the taking of land for the site of the proposed pier, the Order
of taking of the same date, an order of the City Council made February
26, 1937, authorizing the Mayor to sign an agreement with the Depart-
ment to construct a public way from the main highway over Parker Street
to said pier, and the agreement executed by the Mayor in accordance with
the Order. A deed dated March 1, 1937, from the city to the Common-
wealth of the land needed for the building of the pier was also delivered
to the Department.

An agreement under date of March 1, 1937, between the Department
and the Gloucester Community Pier Association, Inc., for the leasing of
the pier was executed and an indenture of lease under the same date was
signed. The agreement and lease were approved by the Governor and
Council and the terms accepted by the Federal Government.

On April 6, 1937, a contract was made with the Bay State Dredging
and Contracting Company for the construction of a fish pier at Five
Pound Island. Gloucester, and for dredging approaches to the pier, at unit
prices amounting to a contract cost of $331,672.20. This work is now in
progress.

A contract was made on August 3, 1937, with the Frick Company, Inc.,
to furnish and install in complete working order the equipment specified
in the Stores Building and the Cold Storage Building at this pier, for
the lump sum of $207,186.

On October 5. 1937, a contract was made with the H. L. Hauser Build-
ing Company, Inc., for the construction of the Stores Building and Cold
Storage Building at the Gloucester Fish Pier at the following contract
prices : for furnishing materials and erecting complete in place the Stores
Building above the piles and the Cold Storage Building above elevation 8,
with appurtenant structures and equipment, the lump sum of $439,704;
for excavation, foundations, steel concrete piles, etc., at unit prices, a
sum estimated at $38,850. This work is now in progress.

Harbor Cove, Gloucester
Hearing was held January 27, 1937, on petition of the Mayor of Glou-
cester for dredging in Harbor Cove to provide access to the city landing.
On July 22, 1937; a letter contract was made with the Bay State Dredg-
ing and Contracting Company to excavate 1200 cubic yards of material
from an area near the city landing at a contract price of 40 cents per
cubic yard, scow measurement. This work was completed August 5, 1937,
at a contract cost of $480. Toward this cost a contribution of $240 was
made by the city of Gloucester.

Harwich Shore Protection
Harwichport
The work of building four stone jetties and reconstructing two jetties

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at Harwichport under contract of September 8, 1936, with the H and J
Construction Company was completed December 8, 1936, at a contract
cost of $4,505.40. Toward this cost contributions of $1,000 each were
made by the town and the county.

The building of four additional jetties at Harwichport under contract
of November 17, 1936, with Frederick V. Lawrence was completed Decem-
ber 4, 1936, at a contract cost of $3,827.25. The town and the county con-
tributed $1,200 each toward the cost of these jetties.

South Shore

Hearing was held January 27, 1937, on petition of the Selectmen for
the building of jetties along the south shore of Harwich between the
Dennis and Chatham boundary lines.

On September 14, 1937, a contract was made with Frederick V. Law-
rence for building a stone jetty near Horse Grass Hill, extending two
jetties, repairing four jetties and rebuilding one jetty, along the Har-
wich shore on Nantucket Sound. The contract prices for this work were :
for furnishing and placing granite stone riprap and stone chips in the
new jetty, the extension of two jetties and the repairs to the other jetties,
the sum of $3 for each ton of 2000 pounds ; for furnishing crane, operator,
two men, and for all incidental work in rebuilding one jetty, the sum of
$7 for each hour for crane, operator and two men. The work was com-
pleted November 9, 1937, at a contract cost of $3,682.63. Toward this cost
contributions of $1,000 each were made by the town and by the county.

Herring River and Witchmere Harbor, Harwich

In October an inspection of the jetties at the entrance to Herring River
and to Witchmere Harbor showed considerable sand moving through the
structures and causing shoaling in the harbors. Repairs to these jetties
seemed imperative.

A contract was made on October, 1937, with Louis A. Byrne for repair-
ing the westerly stone jetties at Witchmere Harbor and Herring River by
placing crushed stone to fill openings in the existing stone work, at the
following contract prices : for furnishing and placing broken stone in the
jetties, $3.70 for each ton of 2000 pounds in the completed work; for
material excavated and placed as back filling in the completed work, 80
cents for each cubic yard. Thesd repairs are not yet completed. Toward
the cost of the work a contribution of $1,500 has been made by the town.

Katama Bay, Edgartown

Hearing was held two years ago upon a petition of the Selectmen for
the reopening of a channel through the beach from Katama Bay to the
Atlantic Ocean, as the channel excavated in 1921 had shoaled and shifted
to the eastward.

On August 3, 1937, a contract was made with Turner and Breivogel to
excavate a channel through Katama Beach from Katama Bay to the
ocean at a contract price of $1,745 for the completed work, providing a
channel 50 feet wide on the bottom, with side slopes of 2 on 1, about 300
feet long and excavated to the depth of mean low water in Katama Bay.
This work was completed August 30, 1937, at a contract cost of $1,745.

Lagoon Pond, Oak Bluffs and Tisbury

On February 10, 1937, a letter contract was made with Herbert T.
Gerrish to excavate about 1000 cubic yards of material from a shoal lying
inside the new Lagoon Pond Bridge between Oak Bluffs and Tisbury, to
a depth of 6 feet at mean low water and a width of approximately 40 feet,
at a lump sum price of $935, including the disposal of excavated material
on marsh land near by. The dredging was completed February 20, 1937,
at a contract cost of $935. Toward this cost a contribution of $500 was
made by the county.

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Lake Anthony, Oak Bluffs

Although the dredging of the entrance channel and basin at Lake
Anthony under contract of April 1, 1936, with Herbert T. Gerrish ended
November 10, 1936, certain shoal areas remained which could not be
removed by the hydraulic dredge used for the greater part of the work.

To complete the dredging a letter contract with the Bay State Dredg-
ing and Contracting Company was made on March 29, 1937, for removal
of the shoal areas to a depth of 6 feet at mean low water, at a contract
price of 95 cents per cubic yard, scow measurement. This work was com-
pleted April 12, 1937, at a contract cost of $1,376.55. The cost of this
dredging was paid from funds available under the provisions of Chapter
464 of the Acts of 1935.

Lewis Bay, Yarmouth

Hearing was held January 27, 1937, on petitions of the Selectmen and
of the Lewis Bay Yacht Club for dredging in Lewis Bay.

On June 7, 1937, a, contract was made with the Bay State Dredging and
Contracting Company to dredge a channel 100 feet wide -on the bottom
and 7 feet deep at mean low water, and a basin 6 feet deep at mean low
water in Lewis Bay at West Yarmouth, at the following contract prices :
for dredging and disposing of the dredged material 51 cents per cubic
yard, scow measurement; for removing and disposing of boulders $20 per
cubic yard. This work was completed July 10, 1937, at a contract cost of
$8,835.75. Toward this cost the town made a contribution of $5,000.

Lobster Cove, Gloucester

Hearing was held January 27, 1937, on petitions of Brant M. Dexter
and others for dredging in Lobster Cove.

A contract was made on July 14, 1937, with the Bay State Dredging
and Contracting Company for dredging to a depth of 8 feet at mean low
water a shoal area on Babson's Flats in Lobster Cove, at the following
contract prices: for dredging and disposing of the dredged material 56
cents per cubic yard, scow measurement; for removing and disposing of
boulders $20 per cubic yard. The work was completed August 3, 1937,
at a contract cost of $4,928. Toward this cost a contribution of $2,500 was
made by the city.

Manchester Harbor, Manchester

The dredging of an anchorage basin and channel in Manchester Harbor
under contract of September 8, 1936, with the J. S. Packard Dredging
Company was completed April 29, 1937, at a contract cost of $38,197.28.
Toward this cost a contribution of $20,000 was made by the town.

Megansett Harbor, Falmouth

The building of a stone breakwater at Megansett Harbor under con-
tract of September 8, 1936, with George M. Bryne was completed Febru-
ary 10, 1937, at a contract cost of $23,267.84. Toward this cost a contri-
bution of $12,000 was made by the town.

New Bedford State Pier

On August 19, 1937, the Lamport Manufacturing Supply Company,
Inc., ended its occupancy of a part of the State Pier at New Bedford.
After the completion of the necessary repairs the whole pier will be avail-
able again for water borne commerce.

A contract with Maurice M. Devine, Inc., was made October 27, 1937,
to repair and reconstruct certain portions of the cement plaster walls at
the steel shed and to furnish and replace five window sash, at the follow-
ing contract prices: for removing existing plaster and applying gunite
to specified portions of the wall, the lump sum of $1,100; for removing
plaster and applying gunite to certain other portions of the wall, 40 cents

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per square foot of wall surface; for applying a flash coat of gunite to
certain other portions of the wall, 30 cents per square foot of surface;
for removing five old window sash and furnishing and installing five new
window sash, the lump sum of $275. This work is now in progress.

On October 27, 1937, a contract was made with John F. Shea Company,
Inc., for repairing and waterproofing the roof of the two-story steel shed
at the following contract prices: for 5-ply tar and gravel roofing fur-
nished and placed 11 cents for each square foot; for replacing old planks
with new, including all labor, material and fastenings, 10 cents per square
foot; for copper furnished and placed 50 cents per square foot. This work
is now in progress.

A letter contract with Frank C. Taylor was made November 29, 1937,
for furnishing, fitting and securing floating fender logs at the State
Pier. This work is now in progress.

To provide for the use of this pier to its full capacity the Department
is asking for an additional appropriation for movable drops upon the
south side and for building unloading platforms on the second floor of the
steel shed to allow the discharge of cargo directly to this floor, and for
heavy floating fenders on the south side of the pier. No funds are yet
available for this work.

Three steamship lines in coastwise traffic now make weekly stops at the
pier and a load of lumber is occasionally received from the West Coast.

Oak Bluffs Shore Protection

Hearing was held January 27, 1937, on petition of the Selectmen for
protection of the shore at Oak Bluffs.

On August 3, 1937, a contract was made with Turner and Breivogel to
build a stone jetty northerly of Nantucket Avenue in Nantucket Sound at
Oak Bluffs, at a contract price of $4.95 per ton of 2000 pounds of heavy
stone riprap and stone chips furnished and placed in the completed work.
Tihis jetty was completed September 20, 1937, at a contract cost of
$1,983.66. Toward this cost a contribution of $1,000 was made by the
town.

A letter contract was made with Turner and Breivogel on September
23, 1937, for placing additional riprap in front of the bulkhead at the
Highlands, at a contract price of $4.50 per ton. This work was completed
October 5, 1937, at a contract price of $1,579.41.

On October 25, 1937, a letter contract was made with Turner and
Breivogel for repairs to certain of the timber jetties extending from the
sea wall along the water front at Oak Bluffs. The repairs are to be made
by the use of creosoted yellow pine timber and piles at a contract price
not exceeding a total cost of $1,859.16. This work has not yet begun.

Commonwealth Property at Plymouth

An appropriation of $3,500 was made this year by the Legislature for
expenses of the property at Plymouth acquired by the Pilgrim Tercenten-
ary Commission and placed under the jurisdiction of the Department
by vote of the Governor and Council on July 17, 1924. The usual care of
the grounds and pier and the necessary minor repairs have been carried
on during the year.

A letter contract with Arthur K. Finney was made on June 16, 1937,
for placing about 80 cubic yards of gravel filling in the approach to the
State Pier. This work was completed June 29, 1937, at a contract cost
of $44.

Provincetown Harbor, Provincetown

By item 693a, Chapter 434 of the Acts of 1937, an appropriation of
$4,000 was made available for dredging at or near the public town wharf
at Provincetown.

Proposals for this work, invited by public advertisement, were received

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July 13, 1937. As all the bids exceeded the amount of the appropriation
no further action has been taken.

Provincetown Tercentenary Commission

During the year the land at Provincetown acquired by the Province-
town Tercentenary Commission and placed under the control of the
Department June 23, 1926, has been cared for from funds appropriated
for this area and the Province Lands. An employee has been kept at work
during the summer to maintain the park in proper condition.

Roughan's Point, Revere

The work of building a concrete and steel sea wall, granite steps, solid
filling and the placing of riprap at Roughan's Point, under contract of
November 17, 1936, with M. F. Gaddis, Inc., was completed July 29, 1937,
at a contract cost of $137,254.49.

This project was carried out under the provisions of Chapter 358 of the
Acts of 1936. In accordance with the terms of the statute the city of
Revere made a contribution of $42,500 toward the cost of the work.

Scituate Shore Protection

Under a letter contract of November 24, 1936, with Frank H. Barry
certain minor repairs were made to sea walls at Scituate. The work was
completed January 19, 1937, at a contract cost of $1,799.53.

Sengekontacket Pond, Oak Bluffs

Chapter 374 of the Acts of 1935, authorized the Department of Public
Works to construct a channel 30 feet wide from Nantucket Sound to
Sengekontacket Pond in Oak Bluffs, to build a bridge and approaches to
carry the existing State highway between Oak Bluffs and Edgartown
across said channel, and to build jetties on each side of the entrance of
said channel in Nantucket Sound. The act provided for an appropriation
of not more than $12,500 by the State and required that no work be begun
until the town of Oak Bluffs contributed and paid into the Treasury of
the Commonwealth the sum of $12,500.

The required contribution was paid by the town on December 5, 1936.

A contract was made on December 8, 1936, with Turner and Breivogel
for excavating a channel from Nantucket Sound to Sengekontacket Pond,
for constructing two stone jetties, for placing riprap on the channel slopes
and for building a highway bridge and approaches in Oak Bluffs. The
contract prices for this work were: for material excavated in proposed
channel and disposed of within disposal areas, 45 cents per cubic yard;
for removing and disposing of boulders, $3.50 per cubic yard; for each
ton of heavy stone riprap and stone chips furnished in place in the com-
pleted work $4.50 per ton; for constructing by-pass, including all ma-
terials, plant, equipment, lights and incidental work $285; for building
bridge and approaches, unit prices. This work was completed July 24,
1937, at a contract cost of $24,078.17.

Truro Shore Protection
Pilgrim Beach

Hearing was held January 27, 1937, on petition of the Selectmen for
the building of additional stone jetties at Pilgrim Beach.

On August 3, 1937, a contract was made with Louis A. Byrne for the
construction of three stone jetties on the shore of this beach, at a contract
price of $4.15 for each ton of 2000 pounds of granite stone riprap and
granite chips furnished and placed in the jetties. This work was com-
pleted September 21, 1937, at a contract cost of $3,787.08. Toward this
cost a contribution of $1,000 each was made by the town and county.

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Vineyard Haven Harbor, Tisbury

The dredging in Vineyard Haven Harbor requested by the Selectmen in
the petition filed in 1936, was adopted as a PWA project toward the cost
of which the Federal Government agreed to make a contribution of 45
per cent.

On December 8, 1936, a contract was made with the Bay State Dredg-
ing and Contracting Company to dredge an anchorage basin about 1400
feet long, 300 feet wide and 6 feet deep at mean low water, at the fol-
lowing contract prices: for dredging and disposing of the dredged ma-
terial 26.7 cents per cubic yard, scow measurement; for removing and
disposing of boulders $20 per cubic yard. This work was completed April
8, 1937, at a contract cost of $16,302.76.

Waquoit Bay, Falmouth and Mashpee

The building of a stone jetty on the westerly side of the entrance to
Waquoit Bay in Falmouth, under contract of October 27, 1936, with Fred-
erick V. Lawrence, was completed March 9, 1937, at a contract cost of
$19,102.17. Toward this cost a contribution of $10,000 was made by the
town of Falmouth.

Hearing was held in January 1936, upon a petition of the Selectmen
of Mashpee for dredging in Waquoit Bay to provide a channel into
Hamblen Pond.

On December 18, 1936, a letter contract was made with George H.
Boyd and Edward R. Jones to dredge a channel at Dr. Warren's Point, so
called, on the Mashpee side of Waquoit Bay, to a depth of 3 feet at mean
low water and a width of 20 feet on the bottom, at a contract price of 50
cents per cubic yard. Toward the cost of the dredging contributions have
been made of $350 by the town of Mashpee and of $150 by individuals,
but the dredging has not been completed.

Wellfleet Shore Protection

Hearing was held January 27, 1937, on petition of the Selectmen for the
building of jetties to check erosion along the Wellfleet shore.

On June 29, 1937, a contract was made with Louis A. Byrne for build-
ing eight stone jetties on the shore at Wellfleet Harbor, at a contract
price of $3.37 for each ton of 2000 pounds of granite stone riprap and
granite chips furnished and placed in the jetties. This work was com-
pleted September 14, 1937, at a contract cost of $5,230.88. Toward this
cost a contribution of $1,500 each was made by the town and by the
county.

West Chop, Tisbury

Work under contract of November 25, 1936, with Frederick V. Law-
rence for the placing of riprap at the base of the bank at West Chop, was
completed February 13, 1937, at a contract cost of $5,719.14. Toward this
cost a contribution amounting to $2,000 was made by property owners
and a contribution of $1,000 by the town.

Wild Harbor, Falmouth

Hearing was held January 27, 1937, on petition of the Selectmen for
dredging at Wild Harbor and for the building of a bulkhead at New
Silver Beach.

On August 3, 1937, a contract was made with Herbert T. Gerrish to
dredge a channel and shoals in Wild Harbor, — the channel to a depth of
8 feet at mean low water, 110 feet wide on the bottom at the outer end
and 65 feet wide on the bottom from the jetty into the harbor. Certain
shoals within the basin are to be removed to a depth of 6 feet at mean
low water. The contract prices for the work are: for dredging and dis-
posing of the dredged material on marsh or flats by the hydraulic process,
70 cents per cubic yard, measured in place; for removing and disposing

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of boulders $20 per cubic yard. This work was completed October 5, 1937,
at a contract cost of $4,886.70. Toward this cost a contribution of $2,500
was made by the town.

Yarmouth Shore Protection

The work of placing heavy stone riprap and stone chips along the shore
at South Yarmouth Beach, under contract of October 6, 1936, with J. W.
Nickerson was completed January 6, 1937, at a contract cost of $6,881.57.
Toward this_cost contributions of $2,000 each were made by the town
and by the county.

Miscellaneous

Great Ponds

Jurisdiction over great ponds belonging to the Commonwealth was con-
ferred upon the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners by Chapter
318 of the Acts of 1888. This act applies to ponds containing in their
natural state ten or more acres of land. Authority 'to sell and convey or
lease, subject to the approval of the Governor and Council, any of the
islands owned by the State in great ponds was later given by Chapter
379, Acts of 1904, now section 2, Chapter 91, General Laws.

During the year the Department has considered matters relating to:
Alum Pond, Sturbridge; Bartlett Pond, Plymouth; Benton Pond, Otis;
Big Pond, Otis; Congamond Lake, Southwick; Crossmans Pond, King-
ston; Foster's Pond, Andover; Great Pond, Otis; Lake George, Wales;
Lead Mine Pond or Quassac Lake, Sturbridge; Lower Naumbeag Pond,
Ashburnham; Manchaug Lake, Douglas; Mary's Pond, Marion and
Rochester; Musquashiat Pond, Scituate; Neck Pond, Kingston; Onota
Lake, Pittsfield; Oyster Pond, Edgartown; Three Mile Pond or Brush
Hill Pond, Sturbridge; Wenham Pond, Carver; Whalom Lake, Leomin-
ster; White Pond, Chatham; White Pond, Concord.

Surveys were made this year of the following great ponds:

Three Mile Pond, Sheffield

Area at time of survey ..... 18.02 acres

Natural pond area ...... 18.02 acres

Maximum depth ...... 14.2 feet

White Pond, Concord

Area at time of survey ..... 40.81 acres

Natural pond area 40.81 acres

Maximum depth ...... 69.0 feet

Crossman's Pond, Kingston

Area at time of survey ..... 19.81 acres

Natural pond area 12.93 acres

Maximum depth ...... 9.8 feet

Billings Pond or Lake Wolomolopoog, Sharon
Area at time of survey ..... 14.78 acres

Natural pond area 14.78 acres

Maximum depth 19.8 feet

Access to Great Ponds
Petitions have been pending this year signed by ten or more citizens of
the Commonwealth requesting the establishment of a right of way for
public access to Three Mile Pond or Brush Hill Pond in the town of
Sheffield, White Pond in the town of Chatham and White Pond in the town
of Concord. Hearing upon these petitions has been delayed to allow sur-
veys to be made of these ponds. The surveys are now completed and pub-
lic hearing is to be held early in December.

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Province Lands

By Chapter 470 -of the Acts of 1893 the Board of Harbor and Land
Commissioners was given general care and supervision of an area con-
taining about 3,810 acres known as the Province Lands at Provincetown.
At that time the area was stripped of trees, denuded of vegetation and the
loose sand carried by the wind was filling ponds and menacing the harbor.

The work of reclaiming these lands was begun in 1894 and has been
carried on ever since under the direction of the Board of Harbor and
Land Commissioners and the successors to its powers and duties. A sup-
erintendent at Provincetown is in immediate charge of the work.

At present the first method followed is to check the movement of sand
by covering the dune with brush which provides enough protection for the
natural re-seeding of the beach grass. This work is followed by the trans-
planting of shrubs of which bayberry has been found very valuable for
holding the sand particularly along the slopes of the dunes. After this
preparation is completed the transplanting of trees begins and the refor-
esting of the area. In this way about 1,200 acres of these lands have been
reclaimed.

During the year the work has been continued in accordance with these
methods. Brush secured by clearing dead trees and brush from old for-
ested areas has been spread over five acres of sand dunes. Five hundred
bayberry shrubs have been transplanted, 10,000 pitch pines taken from
the nursery to the dunes and 15,000 native pitch pine seedlings removed
from the forest to the nursery to increase their fibrous root growth before
planting them upon the dunes. Seedling Scotch broom has been used for
roadside planting and native seed of sand peas, sumach and broom has
been sown broadcast over the dunes.

The destruction of gypsy moth egg clusters and brown tail moth nests
has been continued during the year.

The dike at Race Run has been repaired, parking areas and roadsides
kept in condition and an additional mile of combination fire stop and truck
trail built with sand piles for fire protection.

The sum of $102.50 has been paid into the State Treasury this year
from licenses issued for cultivating and picking cranberries on the bogs,
for mowing meadows, and from permits for occupying areas on these
lands.

State Boundary Lines

This year bound No. 42, Attleboro-Pawtucket "F" on the Massachu-
setts-Rhode Island State line, was moved westerly, and bound No. 43,
Attleboro-Pawtucket "F" was moved easterly because of new highway
construction.

For a similar reason bound No. 187 on the Connecticut-Massachusetts
State line was moved 40.46' westerly.

Town Boundary Lines

During the year a new bound was set on the Needham-Wellesley town
line to take the place of Needham-Wellesley 1 witness mark removed be-
cause of highway construction.

The Brewster-Orleans town line was redetermined and bounds reset in
conformity with Chapter 356 of the Acts of 1935.

Conserving and Equalizing the Flow of Water
in Rivers and Streams

By Chapter 359, Acts of 1909, Chapter 564, Acts of 1912, and Chapter
84, Resolves of 1917, co-operation was established between the Common-
wealth and the Water Resources Branch of the United States Geological
Survey, so that results of work relating to the gauging of streams within
the Commonwealth and other work of a similar character carried on by
said survey have been obtained for use by the Department and are avail-

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able for other Departments of the Commonwealth. Toward the cost of this
work the Department has paid during the year $5,000.

Re-establishment of Certain Triangulation Stations

By section 33, Chapter 91 of the General Laws, the Department is
authorized to make such surveys and to do such other work as may be
required by any order of the Land Court, to re-establish and permanently
mark certain triangulation points and stations previously established in
connection with the topographical survey of the Commonwealth, and the
town boundary survey, which have been lost or destroyed and to obtain
the geographical position of such new points and stations as may be re-
quired from time to time by the Court.

During the year the appropriation for this purpose has been used in
conjunction with WPA funds to re-determine and mark triangulation
stations in the southeastern part of the State.

Marine Borer Investigation

The Department has this year continued its co-operation with the New
England Committee on Marine Piling investigation and has maintained
test boards in tide water at various locations in the State to determine
the extent of the activities of the marine worms.

Examinations have been made by engineers of the Department of all
pile and timber structures in tide water in the cities of New Bedford and
Fall River. The investigation showed considerable damage to many of
these structures. Conditions at one wharf in New Bedford were so seri-
ous that repairs were ordered and the use of the pier curtailed until the
work was completed. In a few instances wharves were found in such un-
safe condition from the depredations of the marine borers that owners
were no longer using the structures.

Licenses and Permits

During the year 83 licenses were granted for work to be done in tide
waters, great ponds, Connecticut River and Merrimack River, and 126
permits for miscellaneous purposes. The Department also approved 104
permits granted by cities and towns for the construction and maintenance
of fish weirs in tide water.

Federal Appropriations and Expenditures

Federal appropriations and expenditures for the improvement of rivers
and harbors in Massachusetts from the establishment of the Government
to the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, are shown in the
following tables furnished by the Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army : —

Table No. 1 — Localities at which ivork was done during Fiscal Year 1937

Locality Expenditures Appropriations

Newburyport Harbor .... $595,788.30 $692,708.13
Gloucester Harbor and Annisquam River 593,147.44 593,147.44

Mystic River ....

Boston Harbor ....
Weymouth Fore River .
Cape Cod Canal ...
Pollock Rip Shoals, Nantucket Sound
Chatham Harbor ....
Harbor of Refuge at Nantucket
Hyannis Harbor ....
Vineyard Haven Harbor

812,213.00 816,684.84

15,806,123.51 15,834,058.72

865,403.23 904,650.00 l

29,542.790.33 30,319,202.51

1,526,776.34 1,527,029.26

31,571.36 31,571.36

773,965.53 773,965.53

224,450.36 224,450.36

82,573.47 82,573.47

Total $50,854,802.87 $51,800,041.62

1 Exclusive of $100,000 contributed funds.

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Table No. 2-

115

-Localities at which work is not now in progress

Locality
Lynn Harbor ....

Plymouth Harbor

Cross Rip Shoals, Nantucket Sound
New Bedford and Fairhaven Harbors
Fall River Harbor
Taunton River
Merrimack River .
Maiden River
Sandy Bay, Cape Ann, Harbor of Refuge
Bass River .
Buzzards Bay Harbor (Weepecket Rock)
Canapitset Channel
Cohasset Harbor .
Duxbury Harbor .
Edgartown Harbor (Marthas Vineyard)
Essex River
Hingham Harbor
Ipswich River
Kingston Harbor .
Little Harbor, Woods Hole
Manchester Harbor
Marblehead Harbor
Powow River
Rockport Harbor .
Town River .
Wareham Harbor
Wellfleet Harbor .
Westport Harbor and River
Winthrop Harbor .
Woods Hole Channel
Beverly Harbor
Salem Harbor

Dorchester Bay and Neponset River
Weymouth Back River .
Scituate Harbor .
Provincetown Harbor .

Expenditures

$814,750.77

511,253.36

48,837.20

1,812,385.05

790,149.49

383,838.10

404,466.72

149,950.00

1,941,478.00

20,150.41

2,500.00

9,112.54

10,000.00

37,000.00

30,000.00

38,316.58

5,617.91

8,940.09

18,000.00

23,985.57

584.00

50,940.72

91,229.25

37,577.41

95,997.30

11,365.57

3,000.00

9,000.00

343,599.92

246,690.41

107,956.57

128,176.44

27,000.00

126,590.98

348,062.72

Appropriations

$814,750.77

511,253.36 x

48,837.20

1,812,385.05

790,149.49

383,838.10

404,466.72

149,950.00 2

1,941,478.00

20,150.41

2,500.00

9,112.54

10,000.00

37,000.00

30,000.00

38,316.58

5,617.91

8,940.09

18,000.00

23,985.57

584.00

50,940.72

91,229.25

37,577.41

95,997.30

11,365.57

3,000.00

9,000.00

343,599.92

246,690.41 3

107,956.57

128,176.44

27,000.00

126,590.98

348,062.72

Total ....

1 Exclusive of $108,400 contributed funds.

2 Exclusive of $ 62,000 contributed funds.
8 Exclusive of $100,000 contributed funds.

$8,718,503.08 $8,718,503.08

Recapitulation

Total of Table No. 1
Total of Table No. 2

Total

Expenditures Appropriations
$50,854,802.87 $51,800,041.62
8,718,503.08 8,718,503.08

$59,573,305.95 $60,518,544.70

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P.D. 54

Contracts Made by the Department of Public Works

Contractor

Date

Commonwealth Pier 5, South Boston — recon-
struction of platforms .

Commonwealth Pier 5, South Boston — recon-
struction of platforms and pile protection at
Head House ...

Cotuit Harbor, East Bay, Lewis Bay, Barn-
stable— dredging ......

Popponesset Bay, Barnstable, dredging channel
and basin .......

Waquoit Bay, Falmouth — stone jetty
Manchester Harbor — dredging

Megansett Harbor, Falmouth — stone break-
water ........

Dennisport Shore — stone jetties

South Yarmouth Beach — stone riprap

Falmouth Shore protection — opposite Shore
Street

Roufchan's Point, Revere — sea wall

Merritt-Chapman & Scott
Corp. . . . .

Bay State Dredging
Contracting Co. .

Herbert T. Gerrish

Frederick V. Lawrence

J. S. Packard Dredging
Co

George M. Bryne .
H. & J. Construction Co
J. W. Nickerson
Turner & Breivogel

M. F. Gaddis, Inc.

Vineyard Haven Harbor, Tisbury — dredging

Sengekontacket Pond, Oak Bluffs — dredging
channel, building jetties, and bridge. .

Harwichport — stone jetties

West Chop, Tisbury — shore protection

Gloucester Fish Pier — construction and dredg-
ing of approaches ...

Pemberton Point Sea Wall, Hull — repairs

West Bay, Barnstable — dredging
Lewis Bay, West Yarmouth — Dredging

Bay State Dredging &
Contracting Co. .

Turner and Breivogel

Frederick V. Lawrence

Bay State Dredging &
Contracting Co. .

Karl M. Fredrickson

Dec. 13, 1935

July 14, 1936

July 1. 1936

July 21. 1936

Oct. 27, 1936
Sept. 8, 1936

Sept. 8, 1936

Sept. 22, 1936

Oct. 6, 1936

Nov. 17, 1936

Dec. 8, 1936
Dec. 8, 1936

Nov. 17, 1936
Nov. 25, 1936
Apr. 6, 1937

Mar. 26, 1937

Bay State Dredging
Contracting Co. .

June 7, 1937

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and in Force During The Year Ending November 30, 1937

Condition

Work

Contract Price

Completed
May 26, 1937

Completed
March 1, 1937

Completed
May 6, 1937

Completed
June 9, 1937

Completed
March 9, 1937
Completed
Apr. 29, 1937

Completed
Feb. 10, 1937
Completed
Jan. 8, 1937
Completed
Jan. 6. 1937
Completed
Dec. 9. 1936

Completed
July 29, 1937

Completed
Apr. 8, 1937

Completed
July 24, 1937

Completed
Dec. 4, 1936
Completed
Feb. 13, 1937
In progress

Completed
May 4, 1937

Completed
July 29, 1937

Completed
July 10, 1937

Unit prices.

For removing existing platform, including piling and other structures, including

all incidental work, the lump sum of $4500.
Unit prices.
For dredging and disposing of dredged material 81 cents per cubic yard, scow

measurement.
For removing and disposing of boulders $20 per cubic yard
For dredging and disposing of excavated material on marsh and flats by the

hydraulic process, including the construction of the necessary dikes and sluices

or other barriers, 52 cents for each cubic yard of material measured in place.
For removing and disposing of all boulders $20 for each cubic yard.
For each ton of heavy stone riprap and stone chips furnished in place in the

completed work, $3.24.
For dredging and disposing of dredged material, 55 cents per cubic1 yard, scow

measurement.
For removing and disposing of boulders $20 per cubic yard.

For each ton of heavy stone riprap furnished in place in completed work, $3.45
for each ton of 2,000 pounds.

For furnishing and placing granite stone riprap and chips in the jetties, includ-
ing all incidental work, $3.75 for each ton of 2,000 pounds.

For each ton of stone riprap and stone chips furnished and placed in completed
work, $2.99 for each ton of 2,000 pounds.

For steel sheet piling furnished and driven in completed work, $74.01 for each
ton of steel sheet piling.

For all reinforcing steel furnished and placed in concrete cap 7.8 cents for each
pound.

For furnishing material and constructing concrete cap, including all incidental
work, $17.29 for each cubic yard of concrete measured in place in the com-
pleted work.

For furnishing and driving steel sheet piling $80 for each ton in completed work.

For furnishing materials for constructing concrete sea wall and stair wells in-
cluding forms, tie rods, steel reinforcement, excavation and all incidental work,
$15 for each cubic yard of concrete measured in place in completed work.

For furnishing and placing granite stone riprap and chips against sea side of
sea wall, $2.20 for each ton of 2,000 pounds in place in completed work.

For furnishing materials for filling in place back of sea wall, including all inci-
dental work, $.60 for each cubic yard measured in place in completed work.

For furnishing and' setting each granite stone step in place, including all inci-
dental work, $18 for each step in place in completed work.

For dredging and disposing of dredged material 26.7 cents per cubic yard, scow
measurement.

For removing and disposing of boulders, $20 per cubic yard.

For material excavated in channel and disposed of within disposal areas, 45 cents
per cubic yard.

For removing and disposing of all boulders, $3.50 per cubic yard.

For each ton of heavy stone riprap and chips furnished in place in completed

work, $4.50 per ton.

For constructing by-pass, including all materials, plant, equipment, lights, etc.
$285.

For building bridge and approaches — unit prices.

For furnishing and placing granite stone riprap and chips in the jetties, $3.15
for each ton of 2,000 pounds.

For each ton of 2,000 pounds of stone riprap or chips furnished in place in the
completed work, $5.10.

For removal and disposal of existing structures, the lump sum of $9,500.

For dredging and disposing of material outside site of work, 28 cents per cubic
yard, scow measurement.

For dredging and disposing of material in areas to be filled, 20 cents per cu. yd.
scow measurement.

For removing boulders, $5 per cubic yard.

For removing ledge, $35 per cubic yard, place measurement.

For building pier — unit prices.

For furnishing all labor and materials and building concrete footing under and
in front of existing wall, including all excavation, back filling and incidental
work, $12 for each cubic yard of concrete placed in completed work.

For furnishing all labor, materials, tools and equipment and doing all work
necessary to patch the existing sea wall and fill the construction joints, the
lump sum of $100.

For each ton of new stone riprap or chips furnished in place in the completed
work, $1.44 per ton of 2,000 pounds.

For rehandling existing riprap and replacing it within the new work, including
all incidental expense, the lump sum of $15.00.

For dredging and disposing of dredged material, 65 cents per cubic yard, scow
measurement.

For removing and disposing of boulders, $20 per cubic yard.

For dredging and disposing of the dredged material 51 cents per cubic yard,
scow measurement.

iFor removing and disposing of boulders, $20 per cubic' yard.

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P.D. 54

Contracts Made by the Department of Public Works

Contractor

Date

Wollaston Dredging

Dorchester Bay — dredging at Savin Hill Yacht
Club

Weymouth Fore River — Quincy and Wey-
mouth— dredging . . . .

East Bay, Barnstable — timber fence westerly
of west jetty ......

Wellfleet Shore Protection — stone jetties

Gloucester Fish Pier — furnishing and install-
ing equipment in the Stores Building and
the Cold Storage Building ....

Commonwealth Pier 5 — fence in examination
room .......

Hyannis Harbor, Barnstable — dredging anchor-
age basin .......

Maiden River — Dredging

Lobster Cove, Gloucester, — dredging

Falmouth Heights & Menauhant Shore, Fal

mouth — stone jetties ....
Oak Bluffs — stone jetty near Nantucket Avenue

Pilgrim Beach, Truro — stone jetties

Katama Bay, Edgartown — excavation of chan-
nel ........

Wild Harbor, Falmouth — dredging .

Brewster Shore — riprap

Dennis Shore — stone jetties at Dennisport and
Sesuit ........

Harwich Shore — building stone jetty, repair
ing and extension of other jetties

Gloucester Fish Pier — Stores building and Cold
Storage building .....

Barnstable — stone jetties at Squaw Island Road

South Hyannis, Barnstable — stone jetty and
riprap ......

Maiden River, Maiden — dredging channel

New Bedford State Pier — repairs to walk and
windows ......

514 New Bedford State Pier — repairs to roof of
steel shed. ......

Witchmere Harbor and Herring River, Har
wich — repairs to stone jetties

Commonwealth Pier 5 — resurfacing portions
of floors . . ... •

J. S. Packard Dredging
Co

Bay State Dredging &
Contracting Co. .

J. S. Packard Dredging

Harry L. Jones

Louis A. Byrne
Frick Company

P. J. Dinn & Co. .
Herbert T. Gerrish

Herbert T. Gerrish

Bay State Dredging &
Contracting Co. .

Frederick V. Lawrence

Turner & Breivogel

Louis A. Byrne

Turner & Breivogel

Herbert T. Gerrish

George M. Bryne

George M. Bryne .
Frederick V. Lawrence

H. L. Hauser Buildin:
Co., Inc.

Frederick V. Lawrence

George M. Bryne .

North Atlantic Dredging
Co

Maurice M. Devine, Inc.

June 7, 1937

June 7, 1937
Oct. 27, 1937

June 29, 1937
Aug. 3, 1937

July 13, 1937
July 14, 1937

July 13, 1937

July 14, 1937

July 14, 1937
Aug. 3, 1937
Aug. 3, 1937
Aug. 3, 1937

Aug. 3, 1937

Aug. 25, 1937

Aug. 25, 1937
Sept. 14, 1937

Oct. 5, 1937

Oct. 13, 1937

Oct. 27, 1937
Oct. 2G, 1937

Oct. 27, 1937

John F. Shea Company,
Inc.

Louis A. Byrne

Warren Bros. Roads Co.

Oct. 27, 1937

Nov. 2, 1937

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and in Force During tiTe Year Ending November 30, 1937

119

Condition

Work

Contract Price

Completed
July 16, 1937

Completed
July 3, 1937

Completed
Aug. 30, 1937

In progress

Completed
Sept. 14, 1937

In progress

Completed
Aug. 4, 1937

Completed
Nov. 30, 1937

Completed
Oct. 21, 1937

Completed
Aug. 3, 1937

Completed
Sept. 9, 1937
Completed
Sept. 20, 1937
Completed
Sept. 21, 1937
Completed
Aug. 30, 1937

Completed
Oct. 5, 1937

Completed
Oct. 12, 1937

Completed
Nov. 6, 1937
Completed
Nov. 9, 1937

In progress

Completed
Nov. 15, 1937
In progress

In progress

For dredging and disposing of dredged material 47 cents per cubic yard, scow

measurement.
For removing and disposing of boulders $25 per cubic yard.
For dredging and disposing of dredged material 45 cents per cubic yard, scow

measurement.
For removing and disposing of boulders $20 per cubic yard.
For dredging and disposing of dredged material 58 cents per cubic yard, scow

measurement.
For removing and disposing of boulders $25 per cubic yard.
For building timber fence 150 feet long, including all material, the furnishing

of all plant, tools, labor and equipment and incidental work, the lump sum of

$494.76.
For furnishing and placing granite stone riprap and granite chips in the jetties,

including all incidental work, $3.37 for each ton of 2000 pounds in completed

work.
For furnishing and installing in complete working order, in the Stores Building,

and the Cold Storage Building at the Gloucester Fish Pier, the entire equip-
ment required by specifications and plans, including all incidental work, the

lump sum of $207,186.00.
For furnishing all labor, materials, tools and equipment and performing all work

necessary to construct and install complete a wire fabric fence in examination

room, the lump sum of $686.
For dredging and disposing of dredged material within disposal area or on

marsh or flats by hydraulic process, including construction of necessary dikes

and sluices or other barriers, 53 cents per cubic yard measured in place.
For removing and disposing of boulders, $20 per cubic yard.
For dredging and disposing of the dredged material on shore 44 cents per cubic

yard measured in situ.
For removing and disposing of boulders $20 per cubic yard.
For dredging and disposing of dredged material 56 cents per cubic yard, scow

measurement.
For removing and disposing of boulders $20 per cubic yard.
For furnishing and placing granite stone riprap and chips in the jetties, $3.24

for each ton of 2000 pounds.
For each ton of heavy stone riprap and stone chips furnished in place in com-
pleted work, $4.95 for each ton of 2000 pounds.
For furnishing and placing granite stone riprap and granite chips in jetties,

$4.15 for each ton of 2000 pounds.
For excavating channel, including disposition of all material, furnishing of all

plant, tools, equipment and incidental work, the lump sum of- $1,745 for the

completed work.
For dredging and disposing of excavated material on marsh or flats by hydraulic

process, including construction of necessary dikes and sluices or other barriers,

70 cents per cubic yard of material measured in place.
For removing and disposing of boulders $20 per cubic yard.
For furnishing and placing heavy granite stone riprap and granite stone chips

in the completed work, including all incidental work, $3.08 for each ton of

2000 pounds.
For furnishing and placing heavy granite stone riprap and granite stone chips

in the jetties, including all incidental work, $3.08 for each ton of 2000 pounds.
For furnishing and placing granite stone riprap and chips in jetty, extension of

two jetties and repairs to other jetties, $3 for each ton of 2000 pounds.
For furnishing crane, operator, two men and all incidental work in rebuilding

one jetty, $7 for each hour for crane, operator and two men.
For furnishing materials and erecting complete in place the Stores Building

above the piles and the Cold Storage Building above Elevation 8, with appur-
tenant structures and equipment, the lump sum of $439,704 ; for excavation,

foundations, steel concrete piles, etc., unit prices.
For furnishing and placing granite stone riprap and chips in jetties and returns,

including all incidental work, $2.70 for each ton of 2000 pounds in the com-
pleted work.
For each ton of 2000 pounds of granite stone riprap and granite stone chips

placed in the completed work, $2.47.
For dredging and disposing of dredged material on shore 45 cents for each cubic

yard measured in situ.
For removing and disposing of boulders $20 for each cubic yard.
For removing existing plaster and applying gunite, the lump sum of $1,100.
For removing existing plaster and applying gunite to certain portions of wall

as directed by Engineer, 40 cents per square foot of wall surface.
For applying flash coat of gunite to other portions of wall, 30 cents per square

foot of surface.
For removing five old window sash and furnishing and installing five new

window sash, the lump sum of $275.
For each square foot of 5-ply tar and gravel roofing furnished and placed, in-
cluding all labor, materials and incidental work, 11 cents per square foot.
For replacing old planks with new, including all labor, material and fastenings,

10 cents per square foot.
For each square foot of copper furnished and placed, 50 cents per1 square foot.
For furnishing and placing broken stone in the jetties, including all incidental

work, $3.70 for each ton of 2000 pounds in the completed work.
For each cubic yard of material excavated and back filled in the completed work,

including all incidental work, 80 cents per cubic yard.
Unit prices.

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INDEX

: • General

Appropriations
Financial Statements .
Expenditures
Summary of Income .....

General Activities of Department

Organization under Chapter 16, General Laws, as amended

Personnel ......

Recommendations for Legislation

Special Reports by Department of Public Works

7
17
18

17
1

1
4

Expenditures by Cities, Towns

Relating to Highways
Advertising Signs and Devices within the Public View
Bond Issue, Chapter 464, Acts of 1935, Projects
Rridges ......

Alterations, Repairs and Extensions
Bridges to replace bridges destroyed by flood
Built or Contracted for ....

Contemplated Bridges and Structures
Examinations, Reports, Estimates, etc.
Maintenance of — See State Highways .
Permanent Bridges acress Connecticut River and Merrimack River
Deerfield-Sunderlar.d
Gill-Montague
Hadley-Northamp ton
Lowell, Central Bridge and others
Slades Ferry Bridge
Contracts, signed during the year
Co-operative Work, Supervision of Certain
Emergency Public Works Construction
Expenditures, Summary for the Year
Farm-to-Market Roads
Federal Aid in Constructing Highways
Allotments to Massachusetts
Mileage ...

Statement of Road Projects
Federal Funds .....

Works Program Grade Crossing Abolitions
Works Program Highways .
Gas Tax, transfer of proceeds under Chapter 431, Acts of 1936
General Statement as to Surveys, Plans, Estimates and Other Work
Grade Crossing Abolitions .....

Hayden-Cartwright Act .....

Highway Fund .......

Highway Improvements authorized by Special Acts
Materials Testing Laboratory ...

Monson State Hospital, Driveway
Petitions, Meetings and Hearings

Public Ways, Exclusive of State Highways, in certain Towns
Allotments or Contributions by the State and Towns .
Expenditures in Various Counties and Towns
Towns where work has, been contracted for . -

State Highways ........

Construction

Contracts entered into for work in various Municipalities
Expenditures in Various Counties and Municipalities
Maintenance and Repair ......

Expenditures in various Counties and Municipalities
Ordinary and Special Maintenance
Maintenance and Operation of Draw Bridges
Fall River-Somerset, — over Taunton River
Newburyport-Salisbury, — over Merrimack River
New Bedford-Fairhaven, — over Acushnet River
Quincy-Weymouth, — over Weymouth Fore River .
Petitions received during the year ....

Reconstruction and Repair of State Highways damaged by floods
Removal of Snow and Ice from State Highways .
Resurfacing and Widening .......

Roadside Maintenance and Development, Nursery at Sudbury
Sidewalk Construction along State Highways
Town and County Ways (Chapter 90, General Laws)

Allotments or contributions by the State, Towns and Counties

Expenditures in various Counties and Towns .

Towns where work has been contracted for

Type of Road and Length contracted for ....

City and Town bridges, damaged by flood, reconstructed or repaired
Works Program Highways and Grade Crossing Abolitions .

during the year

and

Counties

84
45
63
66
39 & 63
63
67
66
52
37
37
37
37
37
37
23
21
45
18
55
57
58
58
58
58
61
58
16
21
47
46
17
25
56
38
23
79
79
83
79
23

24
24
48
48
51
52
52
52
52
53
23
36
51
21 &56
53
55
69
69
77
69
69
39
61

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Works Progress Administration

Sidewalk Construction

Farm-to-Market Roads

Roadside Beautification
Traffic on Highways .

Signs, Direction, Route, Warning, etc.

Traffic Control Signals and Regulations

Uniform Traffic Signs, Lights, Markings, etc.

121

55
55
55
53
57
57
57
57

Relating to Registry of Motor Vehicles

Accident Prevention .......

Accident Report Letters ......

Aircraft .........

Analysis of Court Abstracts received ....

Branch Offices .....

Comparative Statement showing Ratio of Yearly Registrations to Death and Injuries
Suspensions, etc. ......

Eastern Conference of Motor Vehicle Administrators .
Examinations for licenses ...
Expenditures, Analysis of, for the' Fiscal Year 1937 .
Head Lamps, Tail Lamps and Reflectors .
Insurance, Compulsory, Motor Vehicle Liability
Investigations and Prosecutions by Inspectors .
Motor Vehicle Deaths, Injuries, Collisions

Motor Vehicle Accidents to Persons

Types of Collisions ......

Number of Persons Killed and Injured
Motor Vehicle Equipment, Periodic Inspection of

Brakes, Lights and Miscellaneous

School Bus Inspections .....

Property Damage .....

Registrations, Licenses, Fees ...

Expenses of the Registry of Motor Vehicles

Court Fines received by the Treasurer and Receiver

Motor Vehicle Fees Rebated ....

Passenger Cars, Commercial Vehicles and Motor Cycl

Receipts, Analysis of

Total Receipts, credited Highway Fund, 1936 .
Revocations and Suspensions .....

Safety Work, Publicity for

Used-Car Section .......

Motor Vehicle Identification ....

Engine and Serial Numbers ....

Motor Vehicles Stolen .....

Reports .......

Dealers ........

Relating to Waterways and Public Lands

Barnstable Dredging ....

Cotuit Harbor, East Bay and Lewis Bay

Hyannis Harbor

Popponesset Bay

West Bay
Barnstable Shore Protection

Cotuit ....

South Hyannis

West Beach — Squaw Island Road .
Boston Harbor .....

Commonwealth Flats at East Boston

Aircraft Landing Field — Boston Airport
Commonwealth Pier 1
Reclamation of Flats

Commonwealth Flats at South Boston
Commonwealth Pier 5

Development of Land South of Summer Street
Railroad Yards of the Commonwealth

Anchorage Basin

Dorchester Bay

East Boston — Cunard Docks

Hayward's Creek

Inspection of Structures in Tide Water

Maiden River

Marine Borers

Point Pemberton Sea Wall

Surveys

Weymouth Fore River

Wollaston Dredging
Brewster Shore Protection
Cape Cod Canal Landing Pier, Bourne
Connecticut River

Flood Control

Works Progress Administration Projects
Conserving and Equalizing the Flow of Water in Rivers and Streams
Contracts made and in force during year ending Nov. 30, 1937 .

Sharon

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Dennis Shore Protection ....

Dennisport ......

Sesuit .......

East Bay, Barnstable .....

Falmouth Shore Protection

Falmouth Heights ....

Menauhant ......

Shore Street .....

Federal Appropriations and Expenditures In Massachusetts Rivers and

June 30, 1937 ....

Gloucester Fish Pier .....
Great Ponds ......

Access to :

Crossman's Pond, Kingston .

Billings Pond, or Lake Wolomolopoog,

White Pond, Concord

Three Mile Pond or Brush Hill Pond, Sheffield

Surveys ....

Harbor Cove, Gloucester
Harwich Shore Protection .

Harwichport ....

South Shore
Herring River and Witchmere Harbor, Harwich
Income, Statement of
Katama Bay, Edgartown
Lagoon Pond, Oak Bluffs and Tisbury
Lake Anthony, Oak Bluffs
Lewis Bay, Yarmouth
Licenses and Permits
Lobster Cove, Gloucester
Manchester Harbor, Manchester
Marine Borers Investigation
Megansett Harbor, Falmouth
New Bedford State Pier
Oak Bluffs Shore Protection
Plymouth, Commonwealth Property
Provincetown Harbor, Provincetown
Province Lands .....
Provincetown Tercentenary Commission

Rivers, Harbors, Tide Waters and Foreshores outside of Boston Harbor
Roughan's Point, Revere
Scituate Shore Protection
Sengekontacket Pond, Oak Bluffs
State Boundary Lines
Town Boundary Lines
Triangulation Stations
Truro Shore Protection

Pilgrim Beach .....
Vineyard Haven Harbor, Tisbury
Waquoit Bay, Falmouth and Mashpee
Wellfleet Shore Protection .
West Chop, Tisbury ....
Wild Harbor, Falmouth . .

Yarmouth Shore Protection

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