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ANNUAL REPORT
PUBLIC WORKS DEPAETMENT
FOR THE YEAR 1936
[DocnMENT 24—19371
MAR 30 J944
CONTENTS.
Part T.
REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF
PUBLIC WORKS.
Page
Appropriations 6
Employees 14
Expenditures 6
Expenditures, by items, seg-
regated budget 8
Page
General review 2
Maintenance, comparative
table 6
Organization 1
Revenue 12
Part IL — Appendix A.
REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF THE
BRIDGE AND FERRY 8ERVICE.
(Bridge Service.)
(Page 20.)
Page
Appropriations, special 33
Appropriations, special sum-
mary of 33
Bridge openings 40
Bridges, work done on :
Allston Bridge 21
Chelsea Bridge North .... 21
Chelsea Street Bridge .... 21
Meridian Street Bridge ... 22
Milton Street Bridge
(Hyde Park) 22
Northern Avenue Bridge. . 23
Albany Street Garbage
Dump Station (for
Sanitary Division) 24
Page
Federal Emergency Relief
Administration 20
Day labor force 23
Granite Avenue Bridge .. . 41
Bridge Miscellaneous 24
Expenditures 33
Expenditures, special ap-
propriations 39
Expenditures, special ap-
propriations, summary
of 33
Repairs on bridges 21
Work done 20
IV
Table of Contents.
(Ferry Service.)
(Page 24.)
Page
Appropriations 42
Appropriations, amount paid
from 42
Balance sheet 43
Expenditures 44
Expenditures and receipts
since 1858 45
Page
Ferryboats 24
Financial statements 42
Motor vehicle traffic 47
Receipts at South Ferry. ... 46
Travel on ferry 47
Traffic rates 47
Work done 24
(Sumner Tunnel.)
(Page 26.)
Appendix B.
REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF THE
HIGHWAY DIVISION.
General Review.
(Page 49.)
Federal Public Works Administration
(Lighting Service.)
(Page 56.)
Expenditures
Financial statement .
Page
49
49
Work done.
(Paving Service.)
(Page 49.)
Page
Expenditures, objects of . . . . 57
Expenditures, detail of 57
General review 57
Permits 58
Permits, revenue from 58
Page
53
Street openings
Work done
By contract, summary of.
By day labor, summary of,
Page
49
Page
58
49
51
56
Table of Contents.
Appendix C.
REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF THE
SANITARY DIVISION.
(Sanitary Service.)
(Page 59.)
Page
Appropriations 59
Complaints 62
Financial statement 59
Income 59
Maintenance 59
Cost of collecting and dis-
posing of refuse by day
labor 65
Page
Materials :
Collected by districts 63
Cost of collecting and
disposing of refuse by
contract 64
Work done 59
(Street Cleaning and Oiling Service.)
(Page 67.)
Page
Expenditures, distribution
of 67
Expenditures, items of 67
Financial statement 67
Macadam streets, cost of
oiling
Work done
Page
67
67
Appendix D.
REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF THE
SEWER DIVISION.
(Page 68.)
Page
Expenditures:
Maintenance 70
Maintenance, detail of . . . . 70
Maintenance, detail of,
recapitulation of 70
Financial statement .
Pumping sewerage, average
cost per million foot
gallons
69
85
Pumping station. Calf Pas-
ture, work done
Pumps, Calf Pasture, aver-
age lift and duty
Refuse, removing same from
gatehouse
Summary of sewer construc-
tion (twelve months). . .
Work done
Work in charge of division.
Page
84
84
85
82
72
72
VI
Table of Contents.
Appendix E,
REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF THE
WATER DIVISION.
(Water Service.)
(Page 87.)
Page
Construction, cost of 91
Expenditures 91
Expenditures, detail of 91
Financial statement 91
High pressure fire service ... 93
Hydrants, total number of,
December 31, 1936 94
Hydrants, total number and
kind of, established and
abandoned 94
Page
Revenue 91
Service pipes:
Total number of lengths
of 92
Water pipes, total length of, 92
Work done 87
Work done, detail of 87
Appendix F.
REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF THE
WATER INCOME DIVISION.
(Page 105.)
Financial statement
Shutting off and turning on
water
Meter branch
Meter in service
Meter repairs 112
Page
106
107
109
110
Meters:
Changed
Applied
Discontinued.
Reset
Page
113
114
115
111
Appendix G.
REPORT OF THE BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE
BRIDGE COMMISSION.
(Page 116.)
Page
Bridges in charge of com-
mission
116
Work done . . .
Expenditures.
Page
116
117
[Document 24 — 1937.]
ANNUAL REPORT
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1936.
Boston, January 2, 1937.
Hon. Frederick W. Mansfield,
Mayor of Boston.
Dear Sir, — In compliance with the Revised Ordi-
nances, the annual report of the operations and expenses
of the Public Works Department for the year ending
December 31, 1936, is respectfully submitted. The
Public Works Department created by Ordinances, 1910,
chapter 9, now chapter 27 of the Revised Ordinances
of 1925, was formed by consolidating the Engineering,
•Water and Street Departments.
Organization.
The department is composed of six main divisions,
viz.:
Bridge and Ferry Division. — This division, under a
division engineer, has the charge and care of all bridges
used as highways which are, in whole or in part, under
the control of the city; and the care and management
of the ferries owned by the city, including boats, slips,
drops and buildings, and the maintenance and opera-
tion of the Sumner Tunnel.
2 City Document No. 24.
Note.— The Boston and Cambridge Bridges Division,
so called, is not, strictly speaking, a division of the
Public Works Department, as this work is in charge
of a commission of two, one member appointed by the
Mayor of Boston and one by the Mayor of Cambridge,
under the provisions of chapter 467 of the Acts of 1898;
but because of the fact that the present Commissioner
of Public Works is the Boston member of this commis-
sion, and also because one half of the expense of the
commission is defrayed by the Bridge Service, it is
in this report treated as a division of the department.
Highway Division. — This division, under a division
engineer, has charge of the construction, reconstruc-
tion and maintenance of roadways and sidewalks, and
the care of lamps and lighting of streets, parks and
alleys.
Sanitary Division.— This division, under a division
engineer, has charge of the collection and removal of
ashes, garbage and refuse, street cleaning, and the oiling
and flushing of streets.
Sewer Division. — - This division, under a division
engineer, has charge of the construction and mainte-
nance of sewers, catch-basins and waterways.
Water Division. — This division, under a division
engineer, has the care of all water pipes in the water
system, the laying and relaying of water mains and the
care of the high pressure fire system.
Water Income Division. — This division, under a divi-
sion engineer, has charge of financial operations in
connection with the sale of water, reading of water
meter registrations, making out quarterly water bills
for all consumers, forwarding said bills to City Collector's
office, installation and maintenance of water meters
and enforcement of payment of water bills.
Bridge and Ferry Division.
Considerable progress has been made on the con-
struction of the new steel and concrete bridge at Chelsea
Public Works Department. 3
street, over Chelsea Creek, between East Boston and
Chelsea. This bridge is being built under Federal
Emergency Administration of Public Works Project,
Mass. Docket 1086-R, and is in a new location parallel
with the old structure. It will be completed and open
for use next year.
With the approval of the Department of Public
Utilities the reduced toll rates of the Sumner Tunnel,
which became effective on January 14, 1935, were
continued in force during the present year. Following
is a schedule of the reduced rates :
A. Passenger car $0.15
B. Tractor without trailer .15
C. Trailer not in excess of 2 tons capacity . . .15
D. Trailer over 2 tons up to 5 tons capacity . . .25
E. Trailer over 5 tons up to 10 tons capacity . . .35
F. Trailer over 10 tons up to 15 tons capacity 1 . 00
G. Trailer in excess of 15 tons capacity . . 1.25
H. Trucks not in excess of 2 tons capacity . . .15
I. Trucks over 2 tons up to 5 tons capacity . . .25
J. Trucks over 5 tons up to 10 tons capacity . . .35
K. Trucks over 10 tons up to 15 tons capacity 1 . 00
L. Trucks over 15 tons capacity . . 1 . 50
M. Bus with or without passengers : . . . .25
N. Motorcycles .10
O. Gas supplied to stalled vehicles in tunnel, per
gallon 1.00
Removal of Mechanically Stalled Vehicles from Timnel.
P. Passenger cars or tractors $0 . 50
Q, Trailer or truck not in excess of 2 tons capacity, . 50
R. Trailer or truck over 2 tons up to 5 tons capac-
ity 70
S. Trailer or truck over 5 tons up to 10 tons capac-
ity . . 1.00
T. Trailer or truck over 10 tons up to 15 tons capac-
ity 2.00
U. Trailer or truck in excess of 15 tons capacity . 2. 50
V. Bus 1.50
4 City Document No. 24.
Highway Division.
On March 31, 1936, your Honor approved contracts
with the Boston ConsoHdated Gas Company for furnish-
ing illuminating gas and for the equipment, lighting
and extinguishing of gas street lamps during the period
of five years beginning with said date. As required
by the City Charter these contracts were also approved
by the City Council.
This year, following the recommendation of the
Committee on Snow Removal appointed by your
Honor, a large amount of equipment consisting of
trucks, tractors, snow loaders, plows, etc., has been pur-
chased, and the number of districts in which snow will
be removed by contract has been reduced to four.
Sanitary Division.
In order that better service may be given in the Elm
Hill section of Roxbury it is considered advisable that
the collections of ashes and garbage in this section be
carried on by contract, and arrangements are now being
made for the establishment of this additional contract
district. Men and equipment now working in this
section can be concentrated in the Roxbury and other
day labor districts.
Sewer Division.
The usual activities of this division were carried on
during the year. A start has been made on the con-
struction of sewerage works in the Government Housing
Project in South Boston known as Old Harbor Village.
Water Division.
This division, during the year 1936, has carried on its
policy of replacing with larger sizes the mains which
have been in service for years and which had outlived
their usefulness. Much of this work was done by
W. P. A. forces.
Public Works Department. 5
Statements showing appropriations, expenditures and
revenue received during the year, together with tabula-
tions indicating the grade and number of employees,
changes in personnel, etc., in the Public Works Depart-
ment are attached.
Reports from the division engineers in charge of the
various divisions are respectfully submitted.
Respectfully yours,
C. J. Carven,
Commissioner of Public Works.
6
City Document No. 24.
Appropriations.
The money assigned for the maintenance work of
the PubUc Works Department for the year 1936 was
derived from the income of the city raised by taxation.
In December, 1935, the department estimates were
submitted to the Mayor in segregated form. His
Honor the Mayor made such allowances as he consid-
ered necessary and submitted them to the City Council.
The total maintenance appropriations as passed by the
City Council and approved by the Mayor are shown
below :
Central Office
Bridge Service
Ferry Service
Lighting Service
Paving Service
Sanitary Service .
Sewer Service
Sumner Traffic Tunnel
Water Division
Water Income Division
Total
$37,405 41
409,389 81
346,817 83
982,462 79
1,357,856 56
2,290,472 57
554,335 00
254,350 38
1,192,229 72
284,569 15
$7,709,889 22
The expenditures under the several appropriations
for the different services for the year 1936 were as
follows :
Divisions and Services
Central Office
Bridge Service
Ferry Service
Lighting Service .
Paving Service
Sanitary Service
Sewer Service
Sumner Traffic Tunnel
Water Division
Water Income Division
Total . . . .
Current Expenses.
$36,885 23
398,852 88
334,250 45
977,117 00
1,486,533 80
2,220,761 01
550,129 82
237,025 00
1,044,980 08
257,088 89
$7,543,624 16
Special Appropriations, Etc.
Water Division:
Metropolitan Assessment, Interest on
Debt, Serial Loans, etc. . . . $3,224,822 99
Public Works Program, chapter 464,
Acts of 1935 381,791 11
Bridges, repairs, etc. .... 36,283 58
Carried forward
J,642,897 68 $7,543,624 16
Public Works Department. 7
Brought forward .... $3,642,897 68 $7,543,624 16
Chelsea North Bridge, repairs and
strengthening 56,961 65
East Boston Ferry, two additional boats
and other permanent improvements, 13,707 52
Granolithic sidewalks . . . . 117 70
Reconstruction of streets . . . 53,256 92
Sewerage works 501,891 20
Snow removal 798,734 45
Chelsea Street and Eastern Avenue
Bridge 478,962 23
Northern Avenue Bridge, reconstruc-
tion and repair 45,357 86
Reconstruction of streets, chapter 366,
Acts of 1933, as amended by chap-
ter 21, Acts of 1934 .... 75,527 50
Construction, reconstruction and re-
placement of sewers and covering of
open water courses .... 116,592 89
Chelsea North Bridge, water pipe
trestle, reconstruction of . . 24,377 19
Replacement of the Brookline avenue
water main from the Brookline line
to Beacon street .... 49,281 47
Water main construction . . . 47,847 30
Total 5,905,513 56
Grand total $13,449,137 72
City Document No. 24.
Expenditures Under the Maintenance Appropriation of the
From January 1, 1936,
Group and Item.
Central.
Bridge.
Ferry.
Personal Service as per Schedule A . .
1. Permanent employees
2. Temporary employees
3. Unassigned
Service Other than Personal
1. Printing and binding
3. Advertising and posting
4. Transportation of persons
5. Cartage and freight
6. Hire of teams and auto trucks
8. Light , heat and power
10. Rent, taxes and water
12. Bond and insurance premiums
13. Communication
14. Motor vehicle repairs and care
15. Motorless vehicle repairs
16. Care of animals
18. Cleaning
19. Removal of ashes, dirt and garbage.
20. Disposal of ashes, dirt and garbage .
28. Expert
29. Stenographic, copying, listing, etc . .
35. Fees, service of venires, etc
37. Photographic and blueprinting
39. General plant
42. Miscellaneous
Equipment
2. Machinery
3. Electrical
4. Motor vehicles
5. Motorless vehicles
6. Stable
7. Furniture and fittings
9. Office
10. Library
11. Marine
$35,399 31
35,399 31
658 73
47 80
10 00
2 00
107 74
38 40
$343,434 43
329,703 50
13,730 93
30,683 55
13 80
633 92
8,607 46
357 75
317 15
2,372 17
15 00
10 00
21 37
17,361 06
973 87
1,592 26
6 40
32 00
67 65
8 00
59 25
307 13
$232,581 73
226,233 07
6,321 16
27 50
50,833 17
195 00
26 25
263 60
1 89
2,826 00
8,960 04
110 00
316 92
42 00
37,802 68
288 79
1,196 44
2 00
15 50
225 30
Public Works Department.
Several Services by Items of the Segregated Budget,
to December 31, 1936.
Paving.
Sanitary.
Sewer.
Water.
Water
Income.
Tunnel.
Total
Expenditures.
$972,986 89
$1,351,933 60
$386,283 69
$654,144 68
$217,650 26
$150,800 23
$4,352,925 61
947,588 65
1,333,818 22
386.102 70
641,097 95
197,483 01
145,977 98
4,251,115 18
25,398 24
18,115 38
12,845 93
20,167 25
4,822 25
101 401 14
180 99
110,814 70
200 80
153,135 93
409 29
51,351 62
729,379 52
10,022 67
60,622 86
2,165,468 71
40 50
186 80
99 25
274 10
50 00
58 25
937 00
248 40
360 00
1,194 80
86 25
1.623 60
270 00
369 90
1,395 25
155 62
5,706 99
4 00
1 70
20,583 80
4 35
26 16
3 52
17 90
33 36
1,554 37
24,990 33
1,085 50
3,506 68
48,796 20
4,999 49
99 83
40,705 62
1,076,570 33
5,193 73
1,985 00
40 00
1,619 60
1,389 23
5 00
840 96
608 63
9,534 34
26 41
100 00
38 35
374 00
342 .58
665 41
2,495 28
1,886 04
7,856 88
23,276 03
48,674 10
3,133 15
2,823 80
217 60
269,304 00
13,317 77
164 60
126 25
33,472 16
14.639 10
1,390 72
748 41
105,025 59
3,297 75
401 45
904 50
83 26
4,256 00
1,742 51
35 572 53
269,304 00
360,000 00
47 25
360 047 25
406 00
365 50
50 00
821 50
17 25
302 00
;
403 00
28 15
16,092 79
162 50
153 50
6,580 00
10 00
7,625 00
49 52
10,142 10
9,195 59
79. .383 22
166 60
14,607 30
184,862 08
6,460 35
2,251 94
48,372 33
1,508 92
67,767 80
16,545 65
33,015 88
10,498 86
20,400 93
16,310 80
9,924 83
110,777 60
426 25
2,759 00
916 26
107 20
4,208 71
4,572 34
88 00
3,988 47
43 07
9,846 85
25 00
1,649 83
955 00
9,828 65
3,461 27
2,638 30
1,409 02
29,361 12
40 53
9 50
191 10
15 25
40 53
8 40
118 00
182 10
738 32
70 63
46 80
41 70
202 32
51 82
797 92
277 62
759 25
927 32
1,.334 75
2,412 37
79 25
31 00
45 00
40 00
31 00
15 50
348 50
532 43
10
City Document No. 24.
Expenditures Under the Maintenance Appropriation of the
From January 1, 1936,
Group and Item.
C. Equipment.
12. Medical, surgical, laboratory.
13. Tools and instruments
14. Live stock
15. Tires, tubes and accessories. .
16. Wearing apparel
17. General plant
D. Supplies
1. Office
2. Food and ice
3. Fuel
4. Forage and animal
5. Medical, surgical, laboratory.
8. Laundry, cleaning, toilet ....
11. Motor vehicle
13. Chemicals and disinfectants .
16. General plant
E. Matekials
1. Building
2. Highway
5. Sewer
9. Machinery
10. Electrical
13. General plant
F. Speci.\l Items
2. Damages
7. Pensions and annuities
11. Workmen's compensation . . .
Central.
Bridge.
Ferry.
H. Miscellaneous Emergency Relief
Projects
Grand totals .
$788 79
633 15
$36,885 23
$773 94
272 11
48 57
55 61
5,966 65
1,474 61
24 00
2, .342 90
5 26
85 64
828 32
50 70
1,155 22
15,566 99
14,636 85
655 72
274 42
1,609 00
1,600 00
9 00
$398,852 88
$756 23
197 41
38,850 42
.525 31
36,591 34
72 88
222 02
139 32
1,299 55
5,092 64
3,601 28
867 94
623 42
5,696 05
5,696 05
$334,250 45
Public Works Department.
11
Several Services by Items of the Segregated Budget. — Concluded.
to December 31, 1936.
Paving.
Sanitary.
.Sewer.
Water.
Water
Income.
Tunnel.
Total
Expenditures.
$7 54
$7 54
7,893 36
57,594 12
3,500 00
$3,429 68
.?3,817 25
$13,439 92
$999 98
38,704 48
3,500 00
20,092 13
3,886 04
10,210 85
1,282 97
4,133 85
96 11
210 20
7 80
30 50
371 13
169 00
1,022 89
432 62
1,649 89
3,622 52
199,597 38
286 89
477 49
679 87
245 08
32,894 39
63,551 38
33,516 89
14,908 43
3,980 13
4,953 60
4,588 12
2,864 75
1,728 23
2,739 63
3,142 10
1,495 64
19,276 44
24 75
8 75
1,102 47
57 50
77,600 49
23,860 31
jog Qo
10,015 24
2,795 35
23,282 00
1 471 19
677 68
22,414 57
48 15
201 04
25 02
567 02
65
7 92
42 00
62 16
255 44
131 74
86 96
148 .58
843 40
15,526 05
32,705 88
5,429 09
7,301 49
629 46
884 42
63,781 14
46 69
377 33
830 89
55 69
5 44
415 99
1,922 05
1,945 78
2,089 91
1,996 34
3,045 77
203 13
495 78
12,234 51
59,727 40
31,421 79
4,631 70
108,286 24
9,050 03
10,228 56
244,005 35
1,027 46
1,660 82
819 95
204 36
1 15
2,406 53
24,358 40
54,202 58
9,440 27
63,642 85
113,672 19
380 54
1,433 59
103,570 59
8,668 01
8 20
128 82
343 10
189 .50
404 08
54 02
326 69
117 03
305 89
7,486 64
10, .507 09
4,372 13
19,848 78
1,784 58
4,130 58
74 98
335 39
31,444 28
12,261 43
10,814 57
4,029 02
8,699 77
1,192 95
75 00
75 00
244 12
43,428 96
1,267 95
34,537 60
9,049 00
7,624 23
3,169 00
7,399 32
3,212 43
3,190 34
860 02
107 50
244 12
7,623 41
340,766 42
644 27
3.54 96
85,404 10
250 80
427,420 55
$1,486,533 80
$2,220,761 01
$550,129 82
81,044,908 08
$257,088 89
$237,025 00
$7,543,624 16
12
City Document No. 24.
Revenues, 1936.
On Account of the Public Works Department, as Per
Auditor's Statement.
Central Office:
Sale of plans, etc $690 00
Bridge Service:
Chelsea North Bridge $11,833 15
Meridian Street Bridge .... 3,166 85
Clerical services 250 00
Rent 200 00
Albany Street Bridge 137 58
L Street Bridge 11 25
Charlestown Bridge:
Rents $1,250 00
Damage to property . . 225 03
1,475 03
Chelsea North Bridge:
Repair and strengthening, share of costs
(Commonwealth and city of Chelsea) 45,796 41
Chelsea Street and Eastern Avenue Bridge:
Federal grant 22,680 00
Northern Avenue Bridge:
Reconstruction and repair. Federal grant, 25,884 67
Ferry Service:
Tolls $31,881 22
Rent 264 00
Commission on telephones . . . . 68 01
Cleaning telephone booths .... 52 00
Concessions 10 00
Junk 5 00
Refund 2 00
Lighting Service:
Damage to posts
Paving Service:
From assessments on abutters for cost
of laying sidewalks in front of their
premises, including material for the
same.
Assessments added to taxes
Assessments paid in advance
Assessments unapportioned
Permits .
Sale of material
Rent
Repairing signs
Refunds . .
Labor and materials furnished, etc.
Reconstruction of streets (chapter
Acts of
grant .
366,
1933, as amended), Federal
Sanitary Service:
Collection of commercial waste
Sale of manure
$26,588 30
1,080 09
901 84
11,701 69
521 62
272 77
148 35
33 42
6 25
?,274 46
$21,853 81
890 56
111,434 94
32,282 23
100 00
129,528 79
Carried forward
$22,744 37 $274,035 96
Public Works Department.
13
Brought forward
Sale of garbage
Sale of junk, etc.
Sewer Service:
Pumping sewage, amount
received from Common-
wealth ....
Entrance fees
Labor and materials fur-
nished
Sewerage Works:
Assessment, under chapter
450, Acts of 1899
Added to taxes:
Paid in advance
Unapportioned
Rent
Services of inspector
$17,857 00
2,999 67
1,324 72
$54,988 33
4,156 12
1,288 38
260 00
84 16
Construction, reconstruction and replace-
ment of sewers and covering of open
water courses:
Federal grant
Water Service:
Water rates due:
For the year 1936 and prior .
Water added to taxes ....
Water liens
Service pipes for new water takers, extend
ing, repairing, etc
Elevator and fire pipe connections
Fees on overdue rates ....
Relocating hydrants ....
Sale of junk, etc
Labor and materials ....
Board of horse
Damage to hydrants ....
Testing meters
Weighing fees, etc. ....
Rent of land
Water main construction :
Federal grant . $39,593 80
Refund 3,147 00
Replacement of the Brookline avenue
water main from the Brookline line to
Beacon street:
Federal grant $15,581 19
Refund 3,147 00
Chelsea North Bridge:
Water Pipe Trestle,
Federal grant
Reconstruction of.
$22,744 37 $274,035 96
155 96
302 00
23,562 33
$22,181 39
60,776 99
46,977 71
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110,601 95
46,566 12
20,007 37
15,373 92
11,772 57
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423 07
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265 76
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18,728 19
10,843 70
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Tolls, etc .
$788,329 72
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The records of the department show that there are
now 2,507 persons eUgible for employment in the several
divisions, and of that number 2,473 were upon the
January, 1937 pay rolls.
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PART II.
APPENDICES.
(19)
20 City Document No. 24.
APPENDIX A.
REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF
THE BRIDGE AND FERRY DIVISION.
Boston, January 2, 1937.
To the Commissioner of Public Works.
Dear Sir, — I respectfully submit the following
report of the income, expenditures and operation of the
Bridge and Ferry Division for the year ending December
31, 1936. The expenditures of the division in the
regular maintenance appropriations of the department
were $970,128.33. Under a number of special appro-
priations $631,272.84 was expended, making the total
expenditures for the year $1,601,401.17. This does not
include certain expenditures for construction work for
other departments, which work was supervised by the
engineers of this division.
Under orders of the Department of Public Utilities,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a new schedule of
tolls and charges for the use of the Sumner Traffic
Tunnel, between Boston proper and East Boston, was
approved, covering this year (1936).
Under the provisions of House Bill No. 1625, pro-
viding for the repair and strengthening of Chelsea
Bridge North, over the Mystic river, by the City of
Boston, this bridge was closed to traffic at midnight,
January 13, 1935. A contract was awarded to Cole-
man Brothers, Inc., for repairing and strengthening
this bridge and work was started January 22, 1935.
The bridge was opened to travel December 23, 1935.
The entire work was completed July 15, 1936, at a total
cost of $264,982.18. A detailed statement of this work
appears further on in this report.
A contract was awarded to T. Stuart & Son Company,
Watertown, Mass., approved January 15, 1936, for
Rebuilding Chelsea Street Bridge, over Chelsea Creek,
at a contract price of $629,446.50. This is a Federal
Emergency Administration of Public Works Project,
Mass. Docket 1086-R. The cost of this rebuilding will
be paid for as follows:
Public Works Department. 21
55 per cent by the City of Boston.
45 per cent by the Federal Emergency Administration of PubHc
AVorks.
It is expected that work will be completed about June
1, 1937. A detailed statement appears further on in
this report.
This division had no Federal Relief Projects outside
of the rebuilding of Chelsea Street Bridge.
The more important works undertaken during the
past year in the Bridge Service were the repairs, altera-
tion and painting of AUston Bridge; the rebuilding of
Chelsea Street Bridge, over Chelsea Creek; repairing
foundations of Alericlian Street Bridge; repairs to floor-
ing of Milton Street Bridge, and repairing the draw
span of Northern Avenue Bridge.
Bridge Service.
AUston Bridge. — A contract with the John F. Shea
Company, Inc., was approved by the Mayor on Novem-
ber 4, 1936, to clean, paint, repair steel members, install
blast guards and do certain other incidental work to
the deck system. Before the close of year only a small
part of the work was completed.
Chelsea Bridge North.
The work called for under a contract entered into
with the Coleman Brothers Corporation, of Boston,
approved on January 21, 1934, was not completed
until July 15, 1936. The extension of time necessary
to complete the work was caused by severe weather
and the loss in transit by fire of about one-third of the
piles required to do the work. The total cost of the
work under this contract was $264,982.18,
To repair damage done to the fascia, fence and side-
walk of the draw, due to fouling by the M. S. "Cali-
fornia, " a contract with the Progressive Iron Works
was approved by the Mayor on May 13, 1936. This
work was completed on May 21, at a cost of $1,085.
Chelsea Street Bridge.
On January 15, 1936, the Mayor approved a contract
with the T. Stuart & Son Company for the rebuilding
of this bridge. This work is a Federal Emergency
Administration of Public Works Project, Mass. Docket
1086-R, and calls for an entirely new bridge, paralleling
22 City Document No. 24.
approximately the present wooden structure. The
new bridge will be a steel and concrete structure, the
spans supported on masonry piers and the draw cross-
ing a 100-foot waterway, will be a heel trunnion type,
built under Strauss patents.
At the close of the year the piers and fixed spans
exclusive of the surfacing were completed and the draw
leaf, which is being erected in the raised position, was
about 50 per cent completed.
Due to the great area over which materials and
equipment were supplied for this contract, proper
inspection by the regular personnel in the employ of
the city would have been too expensive. For this
reason a contract was entered into with the Robert W.
Hunt Company of New York, to conduct such tests
and inspections as will be required.
Meridian Street Bridge.
The normal aging and disintegrating of the landing
piers and foundations of the draw of this bridge pro-
gressed to such a degree that on September 3, 1936,
the Mayor approved a contract with W. H. Ellis & Son
Compan}^ to make such renewals and repairs to pile
and timber work as were necessary to keep the draw
in commission. At the same time the concrete base of
the draw foundation was repaired by freeing the old
forms from the sides adjacent to the waterways which
were left in place originally to protect the concrete,
clearing loose and disintegrated concrete from the base,
building new side forms the same as the originals in all
details and pouring a rich concrete to replace all that
had been removed from the original.
Work was completed on November 20, 1936, at a cost
of $4,211.26.
Milton Street Bridge (Hyde Park).
On July 23, 1936, a contract with M. Solimando of
Boston was approved by the Mayor to renew the deck-
ing entirely. The new deck is of 4-inch yellow pine;
on this deck there was laid a 2-inch bituminous concrete.
Type E surface on the westerly span and on the easterly
span a wearing surface of 2-inch spruce was laid.
Work under this contract was completed on August
19, 1936, at a cost of $5,528.72.
Public Works Department. 23
Northern Avenue Bridge.
Owing to a fouling of two end lifts and two pedestals
during an opening of the draw on February 7, 1936,
emergency repairs were necessary to get the draw in
commission again in the shortest time. The Boston
Bridge Works were called in to reset two pedestals,
overhaul two air cylinders and end lift elements, make
two new piston rods for the cylinders, make repairs and
renewals to end of chord of outside truss and make
incidental adjustments to the diagonals and counters
of the trusses.
Work completed on February 19, 1936, at a cost of
Sl,786.46.
Day Labor Force.
The Day Labor Force patched and replaced deck
sheathing, headers and sidewalk planking on various
bridges; repaired platforms, refastened treads, repaired
draw headers, cleaned and painted draw houses and
shelter houses; made repairs to draw houses and con-
troller houses, added to counterweights, repaired steps;
removed snow and ice from bridges and sanded same;
repaired piers, painted fences and gates, did general
carpenter work and painting and made mechanical
repairs, etc., patched sidewalks and roadways of follow-
ing bridges: Babson Street, Blue Hill Avenue, Broad-
way, Boylston Street, Broadway Extension, Dorchester
Avenue (over railroad), Dorchester avenue (over Fort
Point Channel), Dover Street, L Street, Norfolk Street,
Walworth Street, W^ebster Street, Byron Street, Charles-
town, Glenwood avenue. Maiden, Meridian Street, Mil-
ton Street, Summer Street, Boston Street, Metropolitan
Avenue, Albany Street, Cambridge Street, Congress
Street, Hyde Park Avenue, West Fourth Street, Win-
throp. Baker Street, Milton Lower Mills, Huntington
Avenue, Southampton Street. Also repaired wood block
paving, patched headers, fences, steps, platforms, etc.,
at Dover Street, L Street, Webster Street, Jones Avenue,
Milton Street, Irvington Street, Metropolitan Avenue,
Chelsea South, Congress Street, Hyde Park Avenue,
Perkins Street, Gainsborough Street, Toll Gate Way,
Fairmount Avenue and other bridges. Placed new sub-
marine cable across channel and repaired draw house at
Chelsea North Bridge and built two shelter houses at
this bridge; repaired headers on Blue Hill Avenue
24 City Document No. 24.
Bridge, Boston Street Bridge, Charlestown Bridge, Chel-
sea North Bridge, and L Street Bridge; burned off hang-
ing rods under ceihng of Boylston Street Bridge, re-
paired water box, placed and painted new fence posts at
Dorchester Avenue Bridge, repaired walings at North-
ern Avenue Bridge, placed new fence posts and stringers
at Jones Avenue Footbridge, painted fence at Summer
Street Bridge, removed or refastened loose traffic treads
at Boylston Street Bridge, repaired pier at Charlestown
Bridge, patched headers under draw and patched pier
at Warren Bridge, removed slag from ceiling of Allston
Bridge, painted Brookline Avenue Bridge, rem.oved and
refastened traffic treads at Albany Street Bridge, etc.
Made miscellaneous small repairs at various bridges.
Miscellaneous.
Aside from the purely divisional activities there was
an appreciable amount of time and effort spent in other
departmental work and work outside of the depart-
ment itself. It should be noted in every case that
work was deemed by the Commissioner to be of an
emergency nature that required immediate attention of
the personnel of this division.
Sanitary Division.
Albany Street Garbage Dump Station.
A contract was approved January 29, 1936, with the
Bay State Dredging and Contracting Company, for
dredging dock at Albany Street Garbage Dump Sta-
tion. The work was completed February 27, 1936,
at a cost of $1,850.
Ferry Service.
The following ferryboats are in commission :
Name. When Built. Length. Gross Tons.
Lieutenant Flaherty 1921 174 ft. 755
Charles C. Donoghue 1926 174 " 4 in. 756 . 77
Daniel A. MacCormack 1926 174 " 4 in. 756 . 77
Ralph J. Palumbo 1930 174 " 4 in. 779
All these boats are of the propeller type and are all
steel boats.
The work of this service for the year consisted of the
following :
Ferryboat ^^ Charles C. Donoghue.''
On May 13, 1936, the Mayor approved a contract
with the Quincy Dry Dock and Yacht Corporation, to
Public Works Department. 25
make annual repairs. Besides the routine cleaning
and painting of the hull and superstructure and mis-
cellaneous repairs, the crank and shaft of the main
engines was lined up with all necessary rebabbitting of
main bearings, all cjdinders of the main engines rebored,
the high pressure piston valves were renewed, the inter-
mediate wheel guards of the main deck remodelled, four
crank pin boxes were rebabbitted, and foin- new main
engine valve steams were renewed. All w^ork was
completed on July 3, 1936, at a cost of $8,138.01.
Ferryboat "Lieutenant Flaherty. '^
Due to the age and natural deterioration of the ma-
terials of the hull and superstructure, considerable
renewals were required to put the vessel in acceptable
condition to the United States Steamboat Inspection
Service when papers of this ship expired. On September
3, 1936, the Mayor approved a contract with the Beth-
lehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Limited, to do the
necessary annual cleaning, painting and repairs. Other
work than regular repairs included rebabbitting and
machining of the horse-shoe thrust bearings of the main
engines, the renewing of the wooden staving at the ends
of the main deck, and the removal of never used emer-
gency exits, toilets, and locker closets in the cabins;
these last in no degree ever justified their original
installation. Work under this contract was completed
October 21, 1936, at a cost of $13,849.77.
Ferryboat "Daniel A. MacCormack.'^
The annual repairs to the hull, etc., incidental to the
United States Steamboat Inspection Service, which
were started last December, were completed on March
20, 1936. Included in the repairs and renewals was
the reboring of the four cylinders of the main engines,
rebabbitting of four main bearings and three crank
pin boxes, fitting of two new high pressure piston valves,
and the remodelling of the intermediate wheel guards
on the main deck. The total cost of w^ork under this
contract was $9,618.36.
Ferryboat "Ralph J. Palumho.'^
A contract with the Quincy Dry Dock and Yacht
Corporation was approved by the Maj^or for the annual
overhauling and repairs on this ship. At the close
of the year work had not been completed.
26 City Document No, 24.
Department Force.
During the year machinists, carpenters, painters,
riggers and electricians, who make up the personnel of
the Ferry Service, made all repairs possible to the plant
to the extent of equipment at their disposal. This
work was made up mainly of minor repairs to the
machinery on the boats, repairs to ferry bridge machin-
ery, ferry bridge roadways and headhouse repairs in
general.
Sumner Tunnel.
Summary of Work During 1936.
In January of 1936, a rotating schedule for mainte-
nance work was put into effect. In this plan, the various
items of work was divided into a number of groups and
as each man finished his shift of work as operator and
inspector on the operation of the tunnel he was assigned
to one of these groups for a given period. For the next
maintenance period, the man was shifted to a different
group so that over a period of about a year all the men
would work on all the different types of equipment.
The object of this schedule was primarily for the pur-
pose of performing "preventative maintenance," that
is to check equipment and make adjustments and repairs
before trouble developed and thus avoid shutting down
of any equipment for trouble.
During the year, in addition to the general main-
tenance of equipment, there was considerable work
done of a special nature which really amounted to addi-
tions, changes and new construction. A summary of
these main items is given.
1. Toll Indicators. — Sidewalk toll indicators were
installed on all the traffic lanes at the booths on each
end. The traffic signals were relocated on the front
side of the booths and the toll indicators were located
on the pedestal of the traffic signals. When the col-
lector registers the fare a bell rings and the indicator
lights up the section, which shows the fare registered.
The section remains lighted for about four seconds and
then automatically goes out. This gives the driver of
the car sufficient opportunity to read the amount
registered.
2. Traffic Signal Systern. — Traffic signal indicators
have been located on the outside of the toll booth doors
Public Works Department. 27
so that the indicators are visible to the collectors at
all times. The traffic signal control equipment has been
tested regularly. Signal units have been cleaned and
repaired as needed.
The bells on the Booth-Red alarm at the toll booths
have been replaced by a horn. A relay has been in-
stalled which starts the horn blowing immediately
after the button is pushed, and then the relay causes
the horn to blow intermittently with a time interval of
about 1-2 seconds ON and about 3-4 seconds OFF.
The Booth-Red alarm is tested regularly to make sure
that it is operating properly. Even after the horn
stops blowing and the red signal light goes off, the toll
collectors are not permitted to start traffic into the
tunnel until the operator calls the booths and gives
the OK.
3. Telephone System. — Telephones were relocated in
the toil booths so that the collectors can answer the
telephone and continue collecting fares. This change
in location will reduce the breakage of handsets.
Additional telephones were installed; one in each
ventilation shaft near the exhaust air regulator door;
one in each 13.8 KV. switch room; and one in the base-
ment of the Boston ventilation building.
During the year, 2,020 feet of 16-pair, 1,500 feet of
11-pair and 750 feet of 5-pair of Anhydrex rubber-
jacketed telephone cables were pulled in to replace the
old lead-covered telephone cables. This completes the
work started in 1935, so that now all telephone cables
in the tunnel to the east of the Boston ventilation shaft
have been replaced, and all connections to telephone
stations have been completed. All telephone stations
in the tunnel have been overhauled and rubber cords
installed on the handsets. Connections have been
arranged so that the jack circuits can be thrown on the
telephone switchboard. This makes it possible to use
handsets with plugs instead of portable telephone sets.
4. Static Eliminators. — There has been considerable
trouble and many complaints from shocks received by
persons when paying the fare due to the discharge of
the static potential on the car to the collector. A
study was made of this trouble and a device has been
installed on all lanes for eliminating this static. This
device consists of a spring steel leaf mounted on a rubber
28 City Document No. 24.
flapper and with the steel leaf grounded to the anchor
bolt. This device is mounted in the roadway just
before the car reaches the door of the toll booth. The
striking of this spring leaf by any part of the car dis-
charges the static potential of the car.
5. Tunnel Fire Line. — To replace the old 6-inch
water line that froze and broke during the winter of
1934-35, a 4-inch water line has been installed on the
curb on the south side of the tunnel. This line was
installed between the two portal pumps rooms, with
the connections made through the portal pump rooms
to the city water mains under Richmond street and
INIeridian street. Main cut-off valves and check valves
were installed in the portal pump rooms. Unit type
electric heaters with thermostat control have been in-
stalled in the portal pump rooms so that all danger of
freezing has been eliminated. Connections were brought
up from this 4-inch water line to hose outlets in the
original hose niches along the south wall of the tunnel.
All doors have been removed from these hose niches,
the inside of the niches have been painted and labelled,
''B. F. D." or ''T. F. D." There are nineteen 2i-inch
hose connections for the Boston Fire Department and
thirty-six l|-inch hose connections for first-aid hose of
the Sumner Tunnel.
Near the center of the tunnel at the lowest point in
the tunnel, a l|-inch drain line connects to a motor-
operated valve located in the harbor pump room. The
control for this drain valve has been temporarily located
on the sidewalk at Station No. 31. It is planned to
have motor-operated valves on the supply end in each
pump room and these valves will be interlocked with the
control of the drain valve, and all these valves will be
operated from the control room. Only the drain valve
has been installed as motor-operated.
This water line will be kept dry during the winter
months to prevent any freezing. During the summer
months the line will be kept filled with water but not
under pressure. The main valves at each end will be
kept closed to prevent flooding the tunnel in case of
an accident which breaks the pipe line in the tunnel.
6. Harbor Pump Room. — New, larger and heavier
foot valves have been installed in the pumps. Lights
have been installed over the foot-valves. A unit type
Public Works Department. 29
electric heater with thermostat control has been in-
stalled in the pump room. This heater prevents any
freezing in the winter and also reduces the moisture
condensation in the pump room and thereby reduces
corrosion and rust on the equipment.
7. Tunnel — General. — All covers of splicing cham-
bers have been painted. Drains have been cut in
various niches in the tunnel to prevent water standing
in the niches. The catch-basins and sumps have been
cleaned as needed, and the roadway repaired as required.
Tunnel lighting fixtures have been cleaned regularly
and repaired. The exhaust air duct above the tunnel
roadway was cleaned in the spring and again in the fall
by a vacuum cleaner. A door was installed in the
bulkhead in the exhaust air duct at the center of the
tunnel so that the vacuum cleaner can be taken through
from one section of the tunnel to the other section.
All cable manholes were pumped twice during the
year.
8. Ventilation Buildings. — General. — Considerable
trouble has been caused by persons (mainly children)
climbing over the fence at the Boston ventilation build-
ing, so barb wires were installed on top of the iron paling
fence. The floors in both ventilation buildings were
painted during the year. The exhaust fan rooms were
cleaned regularly. The 14-blower fans were painted
and also the 28-fan motor controllers.
9. Ventilation Buildings. — Ventilation Equipment. —
All ventilation fan motors were thoroughly overhauled,
cleaned and sprayed with insulating varnish. Grease
fittings and drain plugs were installed on the motor
bearings and a felt-retaining ring was installed in the
bearings. The control equipment for the fan motors
was regularly cleaned, adjusted and repaired. Faults
occurred in tachometer cables on fans E20 and W20.
The lead cables on the tachometers were replaced by
rubber- jacketed cables. Metal housings were installed
over the blower damper motors to protect these motors
from the weather. The damper on fan E12 is the verti-
cal sliding type and much trouble has been experienced
with this damper failing to open. Alterations were made
on this damper to overcome the trouble.
10. Ventilation Buildings. — • Elevators. — Alterations
were made on the various door switches of the elevators.
30 City Document No. 24.
The elevators and the control equipment were checked
regularly, adjusted and repaired. The annual load test
and inspection was made by the Portland Elevator
Company.
11. Ventilation Buildings. — Switching Equipment. —
At specified regular intervals all switches and oil circuit
breakers have been tested for operation. Adjustments
and repairs were made to keep all equipment in proper
operating condition. For the first time since the tunnel
opened, the oil was tested and the contacts and operat-
ing mechanism was checked for the 10-13,800 volt and
the 8-2,300 volt oil circuit breakers.
12. Ventilation Buildings. — • Miscellaneous Equip-
ment.— The oil level on all the transformers was checked
and oil was added as required. The oil in all the trans-
formers was tested for dielectric strength and acidity.
The oil in transformer ET2 had a low^ dielectric strength
and the oil was changed. All induction regulators were
regularly tested and adjusted.
All the graphic voltmeter ground detectors were
checked, adjusted and repaired.
In order to maintain proper ventilation and to prevent
drawing in of smoke from adjacent chimneys, the ope-
rator must know the direction of the wind. For this
purpose, a weather vane was made and installed on the
roof of the Boston ventilation building, with a remote
indicator in the control room. A light also indicates
when the temperature drops to freezing.
Very careful maintenance has been given to the
carbon monoxide recording equipment to keep this
apparatus in perfect operating condition. The equip-
ment has been checked and calibrated at regular inter-
vals. The alarm on the carbon monoxide recorders has
been changed from 3.0 to 2.5 parts of CO in 10,000 parts
of air, and the operators have been instructed to keep
the dilution of the air below 1.5 parts during certain
periods of heavy traffic. In order to further better the
air conditions in the tunnel, experimental work is now
being done on a smoke detector and indication equip-
ment. It is possible for the carbon monoxide content
to be low^, and still there may be smoke in the tunnel.
This apparatus will indicate to the operator the presence
of smoke in the tunnel and the ventilation can be changed
to remove the smoke. Since carbon monoxide is color-
less, the presence of smoke in the tunnel does not indicate
Public Works Department. 31
carbon monoxide, but smoke is unpleasant to users of
the tunnel. Thus, the indication of smoke in the tunnel
and the proper change in ventilation to remove the
smoke will make for better air conditions in the tunnel
and more satisfied users.
Tests were made on the metering cable which trans-
fers meter readings from the East Boston ventilation
building to the Boston ventilation building. Trouble
was experienced by the Edison Electric Illuminating
Company in the failure to record the totalized demand
readings from East Boston. Changes were made in the
power for these readings from 36 volts D. C. to 110
volts A. C. to prevent continued discharge on the storage
batteries. Forty-three of the seventy-six conductors in
the cable were tested and only six conductors were
found to be in good condition. It is planned to
replace this cable with an Anhydrex rubber-jacketed
cable in 1937.
13. Poiver Consumption. — Electrical power is sup-
plied by the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, at
13,800 volts by two cables to each ventilation building.
This power is used not only for ventilation but all
lighting of the tunnel and buildings and also electric
heating.
Total kilowatt hours
Total cost
Total vehicles ....
Average cost power per month
Average cost power per day
Average cost power kilowatt hour
Average cost power vehicle
Average kilowatt hour per vehicle
2,698,852
;38,472.28
5,187,531
$3,206.02
.$105,116
SO. 01425
SO. 00742
0.52
14. Booth-Red. — In case of a fire, wreck, or any
other serious trouble in the tunnel, the guards on duty
push an emergency button which sets the "red" traffic
lights and starts a horn to blowing at each entrance to
the tunnel. All traffic is stopped from entering the
tunnel. During the year, the booth-red was put on
17 times for an average duration of 6.3 minutes.
(In 1935, the booth-red was put on 38 times for an
average time duration of 8.7 minutes.) Of the 17 times
the BOOTH-RED was put on, 12 times it was put on by
mistake. Thus the booth-red was put on only 5
times for some trouble for a total time duration of 76
minutes.
32 City Document No. 24.
15. Toiv Jobs. — During 1936 there were 268 tow
jobs reported as compared to 456 tow jobs in 1935.
There were 96 trucks and buses and 172 passenger cars
towed out of the tunnel.
16. Miscellaneous. — On July 17, between 1.30 and
4.30 a. m., 68 trucks and 16 cars for a circus passed
through the tunnel.
On June 8, at 10.50 p. m. the fire alarm was pulled
for a fire on the third floor of the Administration Build-
ing, which floor is occupied by the Traffic Commission.
Tunnel Administration Building — Repairs.
A contract with the Codman Hill Construction Com-
pany was approved by the Mayor on June 24, 1936, to
repair damage caused by fire at the tunnel Adminis-
tration Building. The fire caused extensive damage
and necessitated removing the old ceiling of the entire
third floor and replacing with new metal lathing and
three-coat plaster.
New glass partitions, doors, hardware, window frames,
glass, electrical fixtures and some new flooring and all
new painting and finishing were required.
It was necessary that the work be carried on at night
and on Sundays and holidays, so as not to interfere
with the activities of the Traffic Division, which occupies
the floor.
Work under this contract was completed July 28,
1936, at a cost of $5,350.
Yours respectfully,
Thomas H. Sexton,
Division E^igineer.
Public Works Department.
33
BRIDGE SERVICE
Financial Statement, 1936.
Expenditures from Maintenance Appropriation.
Boston bridges $393,783 60
Boston and Cambridge bridges . 5,069 28
$398,852 88
Total Expenditures.
From maintenance appropriation . $398,852 88
From special appropriation . . 617,565 32
$1,016,418 20
Expenditures on Boston Bridges.
:lministration :
Salaries :
Division engineer
$3,000 00
Engineers and draughtsm
en . 29,903 25
Clerks ....
5,200 00
Blueprinters
2,800 00
Inspectors .
4,951 82
Foreman
2,500 00
Veterans' pensions
1,600 00
Holidays
5,804 72
Vacations .
1,201 76
Injured employees
9 00
$56,970 55
Printing, postage and st£
ition-
ery .
$1,341 21
Traveling expenses .
288 75
Telephone .
24 35
Engineers' supplies and ir
istru-
ments (new and repaire
d) . ' 127 27
Typewriter inspection
13 50
Photographs
27 37
Supplies and miscellaneou
s . 220 44
2,052 89
$59,023 44
34
City Document No. 24.
ard and Stockroom :
Yard:
Clerk and watchmen
S7,817 15
Traveling expenses .
345 17
Tools, new and repaired .
1,109 10
Telephone ....
289 95
Repairs in yard .
745 50
SuppKes ....
621 44
Expense of autos, trucks and
compressors (3 autos,
2
trucks, 2 compressors) .
6,629 22
Stockroom :
Stock purchased
. $14,880 07
Stock used ....
9,881 43
Increase in stock
7,557 53
4,998 64
,556 17
Tidewater Bridges.
Bridges.
Drawtenders'
Salaries.
Mechanics'
Wages.
Material.
Repair
Bills.
Supplies.
Total.
S16,146 42
21,821 60
17,661 16
18,060 41
16,190 12
16,600 73
16,157 61
16,245 90
16,190 12
16,371 25
16,342 90
18,496 14
16,400 35
16,377 96
$649 43
3,344 55
2,. 503 77
1,026 62
1,224 01
397 66
2,509 77
761 93
819 18
741 36
3,808 18
1,877 81
1,442 08
3,279 21
$288 79
800 02
269 53
328 88
342 36
144 79
670 15
169 78
436 68
394 54
606 91
269 99
609 51
1,187 38
$174 41
1,189 78
2,098 53
739 75
1,610 72
678 06
1,467 46
477 61
411 85
311 98
2,201 16
2,859 18
242 78
1,487 70
$243 03
054 82
1,129 07
034 51
412 61
450 84
205 80
199 36
350 53
540 44
304 10
2,884 47
306 34
286 65
$17,502 08
27,811 37
Chelsea North
23,662 06
Chelsea South
21,396 17
19,779 82
18,272 08
Dorchester Avenue
Dover Street
21,010 79
17,854 58
L Street*
18,208 36
Maiden
18,359 57
Meridian Street
Northern Avenue
Summer Street
Warren
23,203 25
20,387 59
19,001 06
22,018 96
$239,068 67
$24,985 56
$6,519 91
$15,951 03
$8,602 57
$295,127 74
* Now Summer Street, over Reserved channel.
Public Works Department.
Repairs on Inland Bridges.
35
Bridges.
Labor
and
Materials.
Albany Street
Arlington Street
Austin Street-Prison Point
Babson Street
Baker Street
Beacon Street,' over Boston & Albany Railroad
Berkeley Street
Blue Hill Avenue
Boston Street
Boylston Street
Broadway, over Boston & Albany Railroad
Brookline Avenue
Byron Street
Cambridge Street, over Boston & Albany Railroad
Cambridge Street, over Boston & Maine Railroad
Camden Street-Gainsborough Street
Central Avenue
Cummins Highway
Dana Avenue
Dartmouth Street (rent, $300)
Dorchester Avenue, over New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad.. .
Durham Street (Foot)
Everett Street
Fairmount Avenue
Glenwood Avenue
Granite Avenue
Huntington Avenue
Hyde Park Avenue
Irvington Street-Yarmouth Street (Foot)
Jones Avenue (Foot)
Longfellow
Massachusetts Avenue, over New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad.
Metropolitan Avenue
Milton Street
Milton Lower Mills
Mystic Avenue
Carried forward .
$233 44
22 16
11 12
199 03
107 47
390 73
124 31
497 03
190 44
2.604 93
470 14
485 35
107 33
310 50
174 16
15 80
151 96
53 00
761 62
323 50
360 35
12 00
39 97
375 97
433 40
17 50
29 67
25 19
19 27
279 27
13 41
23 40
229 71
520 80
69 48
12 94
),696 35
36
City Document No. 24.
Repairs on Inland Bridges. — Concluded.
Bridges.
Labor
and
Materials.
$9,696 35
334
71
138 91
54
45
13
40
65
00
134
89
20
83
72
47
69
97
89
95
234
39
73
92
706 26
2,573
00
2,797
75
Brought forward
Norfolk Street
Perkins Street (Foot)
River Street
Shawmut Avenue
Spring Street
Southampton Street
Summer Street, over B Street
Toll Gate Way
Tremont Street
Walworth Street
Webster Street (Foot)
West Fourth Street
Winthrop
Cleaning bridges
Snow removal and sanding bridges
Total,
17,076 25
Summary.
Administration
Yard and stockroom
Tidewater bridges
Inland bridges
Total
$59,023 44
22,566 17
295,127 74
17,076 25
$393,783 60
Public Works Department. 37
SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS.
BRIDGES, REPAIRS, ETC.
Beacon Street Bridge, Over Bostox & Albany Railroad.
Remove loose material $967 10
Repairing sidewalk 269 20
Painting 400 50
$1,636 80
Broadway Bridge, Over New York, New Haven &
• Hartford Railroad.
Paving repairs 429 39
Brookline Avenue Bridge.
Sidewalk repairs 480 00
Charlestown Bridge.
Boston Bridge Works, Inc $1,042 67
Paving repairs 1,224 55
2,267 22
Chelsea North Bridge.
Progressive Iron Works, Inc.
New cable installed
Paving repairs
Repairs to landing blocks ....
Removal of wreckage on account of accident
Advertising
$1,085 00
1,098 69
910 90
463 55
817 90
30 50
4,406 54
Congress Street Bridge.
Paving repairs 202 85
Cambridge Street Bridge Over Boston & Albany
Railroad.
Flagman services $12 58
Advertising 30 05
42 63
Dana Avenue Bridge.
Repairs to deck 970 00
Dorchester Avenue Bridge.
Sidewalk repairs 1,026 00
Dover Street Bridge.
Repair chimney and roof 399 97
Jones Avenue Bridge.
Painting 330 00
Malden Bridge.
Renew gates $920 00
Repair paving 501 05
1,421 05
Carried forward $17,612 45
38
City Document No. 24.
Brought forward $17,612 45
Meridian Street Bridge.
W. H. Ellis & Son Company .... .$2,468 49
Remove obstruction in channel ....
Advertising
M. Salimando
Inspection of lumber
Advertising
Milton Street Bridge.
480
10
54
75
$5,528
62
30
72
82
00
2,959 78
5,621 54
Northern Avenue Bridge.
Boston Bridge Works, Inc $1,786 46
Advertising 14 35
Summer Street Bridge, Over Reserved Channel.
John F. Shea Company $7,093 00
Advertising 112 50
Engineering 242 61
New fence
Sidewalk repairs
Paving repairs
Repairs on foundation
Drainage and water pipes
Toll Gate Way Bridge.
Walworth Street Bridge.
Warren Bridge.
1,800 81
7,448 11
985 00
251 50
Yard.
,313 52
609 85
2,923 37
681 02
$36,283 58
Chelsea North Bridge.
Repair and Strengthening.
Coleman Brothers, Inc $55,529 97
Inspection of piles 1,431 68
Chapter 366, Acts 1933,
T. Stuart & Son Company
Fay, Spofiford & Thorndike
Strauss & Paine, Inc. .
Robert W. Hunt Company
Land ....
Legal services
Services of diver
Printing serial bonds
Advertising
Inspection of lumber
Inspection of rivets
Testing concrete cylinders
Supplies and miscellaneous
Engineering .
N Avenue Bridge
as Amended.
. .$416,334 50
16,170 02
15.857 75
150 00
7,500 00
245 00
282 50
132 00
187 28
229 86
250 00
245 00
140 15
21,238 17
$56,961 65
.$478,962 23
I
Public Works Department,
39
Northern Avenue Bridge, Reconstruction.
Chapter 366, Acts 1933, as Amended.
M. F. Gaddis
J. R. Worcester & Co
Electric meter and wiring . . . .
Engineers' instruments, new and repaired
Cloth prints
Redemption of debt
^29,044 31
2,070 07
66 07
155 65
21 76
14,000 00
$45,357 86
SUMMARY.
Expenditures from Special Appropriations, 1936.
Balances
From
1935.
Total Credits,
Including
Balances
Carried Over
and Transfers.
Expended
During Year
1936.
Balances
Unexpended
December 31,
1936.
Bridges, repairs, etc.*
Chelsea North Bridge, repair
and strengthening
Chelsea Street and Eastern
Avenue Bridge, chapter
36 6, Acts 193 3, as
$42,457 38
11,7.54 20
$82,4.57 38
57,550 61
672,680 00
79,556 27
$36,283 58
56,961 65
478,962 23
45,3.57 86
$46,173 80
588 96
193,717 77
Northern Avenue Bridge, re-
construction, chapter 366,
Acts 1933, as amended . . .
53,671 60
34,198 41
Totals
$107,883 18
$892,244 26
$617,565 32
$274,678 94
* $10,000 transferred to Sewerage Works.
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FERRY SERVICE.
Financial Statement for the Year Ending
December 31, 1936.
1. Receipts.
Total cash receipts during the year . . $32,222 23
Cash in hands of tolhnen at beginning of 3'ear . 200 00
Cash paid over to City Collector *
Cash in hands of tollmen December 31, 1936
2. Appropriations and Expenditures.
Received from annual appropriations for Ferry
Service
Unexpended balances from special appropriations,
January 1, 1936
Expenditures
Unexpended balances of special appropriations,
December 31, 1936
3. Results of Operation for the Year.
Receipts for the year (net income)
Ordinary expenses (maintenance
appropriations) .... $334,250 45
Interest paid on ferry debt . . 15,450 00
Depreciations on ferryboats . 64,048 93
Decrease in value of machinery and
tools 236 31
$32,422 23
$32,282 23
140 00
$32,422 23
$334,250 45
$41,146 91
13,707 52
$27,439 39
$32,282 23
$413,985 69
Increase in value of supplies on
hand 3,731 00
Net outgo for year $410,254 69
Net loss for the year t $377,972 46
* Includes $60 deposited with City Collector, withdrawn from cash in hands of tollman,
t Does not include expenditures for special appropriations.
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Balance Sheet for Year 1936.
Assets.
Cash, tollmen's capital ....
Rents receivable
Supplies in stock
City Treasurer (balance of appropriation)
Ferryboats (less depreciation)
Machinery and tools ....
Real estate, land and buildings (assessors' valuation)
Damages receivable
Cost of avenues, etc., East Boston (previous to 1871)
Deficiency of assets (loss)
Totals
Liabilities.
Capital invested by City of Boston to date
Appropriations account (credit balances)
$140 00
2,622 87
16,318 00
27,439 39
604,524 16
2,126 80
610,100 00
325 00
$1,263,596 22
1315,815 68
16,239,097 07
$17,818,508 97
$17,791,069 58
27,439 39
Total Habilities $17,818,508 97
Details of Capital Invested by the City of Boston.
Total expenditures to date per ferry books
Interest of debt for the year (per City Auditor's reports),
Interest previous years, etc. (net debits, per City Auditor's
reports)
Total expenditures
Deduct total receipts paid to City Collector
$26,304,546 20
15,450 00
350,948 85
$26,670,945 05
8,879,875 47
Excess expenditures, capital $17,791,069 58
Comparison of Receipts, Appropriations .\nd Expenditures.
Receipts.
From foot passengers (tollman) $10,555 64
From foot passengers (office sales)
From team tickets (office sales)
From strip team tickets (tollman)
From cash for teams (gatemen)
From gatemen's refunds .
Total from rates
From rents ....
From other sources .
Ordinary receipts
Office:
Division engineers' salary (part)
Clerk — assistant cashier
Clerk (part time) .
Carried forward .
Expenditures {Ordinary).
52 70
2 1,831 20
5,494 80
3 13,617 51
269 37
$31,821 22
124 00
277 01
$32,222 23
$1,500 00
1,700 00
1,700 00
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$4,900 00
' Included in deficiency of assets in Balance sheet.
2 Includes $6 coupons sold in 1935, paid for in 1936.
3 Includes cash fares from extra passengers on teams (gatemen).
Public Works Department.
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Bronglit forward
Retired veterans' pensions
Retired employees' pensions
Stationery
Printing .
Telephones
Advertising
Car fares
Postage .
Premiums, surety companies
$4,900 00
4,976 05
720 00
124 46
610 35
316 92
26 25
263 60
3 00
110 00
Total office expenses
$12,050 63
jrrvboats and Landings:
Employees (wages) $227,681 73
Fuel
36,558 21
Teaming, weighing coal, etc.
2,826 00
Supplies
7,354 11
Gas
46 39
Oil
1,034 93
Electric light
2,659 16
Electric power ....
1,051 57
Repairs of boats ....
35,233 08
Repairs of buildings, drops and piers
2,219 04
Furnishings
42 00
Other expenditures
5,493 60
Total
$334,250 45
Receipts, Appropriations and Expenditures.
Expenditures from Special Appropriations.
East Boston Ferry, two additional boats and other perma-
nent improvements $13,707 52
Total expenditures, regular and special . . $347,957 97
Balance in treasury unexpended $27,439 39
Appropriations.
Regular annual appropriations $346,817 83
Total Expenditures upon Ferries Since 1858.
Expenditures for avenues, paving, interest, etc., previous
to the purchase of the ferries by the city . . $444,101 30
Purchase of the ferries, April, 1870 276,375 00
Expendituresfor ferryboats since April 1, 1870 . . 2,530,009 51
Expenditures for new buildings, piers, drops, etc. 1,491,468 89
Expenditures for tools and fixtures (prior to 1910) . 14,752 46
Expenditures for land for Lincoln's Wharf in 1887 . 5,562 52
Expenditures for land for Battery Wharf in 1893 . . 10,000 00
Total expenditures on capital account
Expenditures for repairs of all kinds
Expenditures for fuel ....
Expenditures for salaries and wages
Expenditures for all other purposes
$4,772,269 68
2,980,833 86
3,122,719 73
12,411,394 54
3,383,727 24
$26,670,945 05
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City Document No. 24.
Total Receipts from Ferries Since 1858=59
Pteceipts from rents, etc., previous to purchase of ferries
Receipts from ferry tolls since purchase of ferries
Receipts from rents since purchase of ferries
Receipts from sale of ferryboats
Receipts from all other sources, per ferry books
Receipts from all other sources, per City Auditor
Total receipts from all sources ....
Less amount with tollmen as capital
Total receipts. Auditor's report ....
$29,588 56
8,541,010 63
73,390 40
168,004 57
37,286 46
30,734 85
$8,880,015 47
140 00
$8,879,875 47
Regular Annual (Ordinary) and Special Appropriations (Extraor-
dinary) of the Ferry Service for the Year Ending December
31, 1936.
Appropriations (regular) for the year ending December
31, 1936
Amount of expenditures (regular) for the year
Transferred to City Treasurer
$346,817 83
334,250 45
$12,567 38
Special Appropriations.
East Boston Ferry, two additional boats and other per-
manent improvements :
Unexpended balance January 1, 1936 .... $32,772 33
Expenditures for year 1936 13,707 52
Unexpended balance December 31, 1936 . . . $19,064 81
Expenditures for year made up as follows:
Amount paid to William H. Ellis & Son Company.
Reconstructing and improving Ferry Piers, South
Ferry, Boston $12,338 15
Amount paid to Grinnell Company, Inc. :
Furnishing and installing sprinkler system on ferrj'-
boats 1,369 37
$13,707 52
Ferry Improvements:
Unexpended balance January 1, 1936 .... $8,37458
Unexpended balance December 31, 1936 . . . $8,374 58
Receipts of South Ferry.
From Tollm.\n.
From Foot
Passengers.
From
Tickets.
Totals.
Boston side
$5,347 03
5,208 61
$4,062 40
1,432 40
$9,409 43
East Boston side
6,641 01
Totals
$10,555 64
$5,494 80
$16,050 44
Public Works Department.
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From tollman
From gateman :
Cash for teams
Total at South Ferry
Tickets paid for at ferry office
Tickets sold in 1935 and paid for through the City
Collector's office ....
Total in 1936 from rates .
Rents for the year
Headhouse privileges .
Care of public telephone .
Commission on public telephones
Old material sold
Refund from state industries .
Total receipts for the year
Travel on the South Ferry from January 1, 1936,
TO December 31, 1936, Inclusive.
Foot passengers at 1 cent each .... $1,055,564 00
South Ferry.
Handcart, or wheelbarrow and man .... 5 cents']
Horse and rider 5 cents |
Horse and cattle, each with attendant .... 5 cents [■ 42,023
One or two horse vehicle with driver .... 5 cents!
iNIotorcycle with driver 5 cents J
Trailer 10 cents]
Three or four horse vehicle with driver . . . . 10 cents [ 93,103
Passenger automobile with driver and one passenger, 10 centsj
Passenger automobile with driver and more than
one passenger 15 cents \
Motor truck, six tons or less, with driver ... 15 cents/
Motor truck over six tons with driver . . .20 cents\
Auto bus with driver 20 cents/
Auto bus with driver and passengers .... 30 cents
$16,050 44
. ' 13,886 88
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Changes in rates of tolls on city ferryboats were
made during the year 1930. The first rate, effective
January 1, was superseded on April 1, 1930, by the
rates which are now effective, and are as follows:
Passengers.
On and after April 1, 1930, the tolls on the East Boston
Ferries will be as follows:
Foot passengers 1 cent.
' Includes gatemen's refund.
^ Includes 1 cent cash fares from foot passengers for year.
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City Document No. 24.
Vehicles.
One or two horse vehicle with driver ... 5 cents.
Motorcycle with driver 5 cents.
Trailer 10 cents.
Three or four horse vehicle with driver . . .10 cents.
Passenger aiitombile with driver and one passenger, 10 cents.
Passenger automobile with driver and more than one
passenger 15 cents.
Motor truck, six tons or less, with driver . 15 cents.
Motor truck, over six tons, with driver ... 20 cents.
Au to bus with driver 20 cents.
Auto bus with driver and passengers ... 30 cents.
Miscellaneous.
Handcart, or wheelbarrow and man ... 5 cents.
Horse and rider 5 cents.
Horse and cattle, each with attendant ... 5 cents.
Tickets for Vehicles.
Tickets in books of ten to be sold at a reduction of
20 per cent.
Funeral Processions.
Funeral processions pass free of tolls.
Sumner Traffic Tunnel.
Financial Statement for the Year Ending December 31,
1936.
Cash paid over to City Collector $788,329 72
Appropriations and Expenditures.
Received from annual appropriations for Sumner Traffic
Tunnel
Ordinary expenditures (Maintenance)
Unexpended balance December 31, 1936 ....
$254,350 38
237,025 00
$17,325 38
Public Works Department. 49
APPENDIX B.
REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF
THE HIGHWAY DIVISION.
January 2, 1937.
To the Comrnissioner of Public Works.
Dear Sir, — I submit the following report of the
operations and expenditures of the Street Lighting
and Paving Services of the Highway Division for the
year ending December 31, 1936.
The maintenance expenditures of the division for
the year are as follows:
Lighting Service $977,117 00
Paving Service 1,486,533 80
Total $2,463,650 80
Paving Service.
Under the Public Works Program, chapter 464 of
the Acts of 1935, the sum of $381,342.49 was expended.
This work consisted of the resurfacing of fifty-five
streets with "Type E" pavement in the various dis-
tricts of the city.
From the "Highways, Making of," loans there was
expended $36,592.03. The work done under this ap-
propriation consisted of the construction of three
streets built by contract.
In addition to the regular work of the Paving Service
in connection with construction and maintenance of
the public streets throughout the city a very consider-
able amount of work was done by the Works Progress
Administration.
The work undertaken, completed and now under way
by the Works Progress Administration Forces covers
street surfacing, the designing and construction of
retaining walls, city lot grading, the grading of two
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hundred and twenty-four streets, and the laying of
macadam penetration in these streets, paving of public
alleys, the grading of sidewalks, and a protection for
the sidewalks by laying a so-called hip gutter at the
curb.
A field survey of the city is still under way whereby
the private ways of the city are to be located, de-
scribed and listed for charting and marking, and the
erection of private way street signs has been done by
the Federal Forces.
In connection with the Federal Work, projects have
been carried out for the care and sharpening of tools,
and the maintenance of yards for storage and distribu-
tion of materials.
For snow removal during the season of 1936 the sum.
of $798,734.45 was expended.
Lighting Service.
On Bennington street. East Boston, forty-three 1,000
candle power lamps were installed, and on Huntington
Avenue Overpass in Roxbury twenty-two 1,000 candle
power lamps were installed. All posts on both these
installations were of the concrete type.
A total of twenty-three arc and 1,500 candle power
lamps were installed throughout the various sections
of the city.
The following installation of smaller types of lamps
was made in addition to the above :
Fifteen 600 candle power lamps.
Fifteen 250 candle power lamps.
Thirty-three 80 candle power lamps.
Respectfully,
Joshua Atwood,
Division Engineer.
Public Works Department.
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Street Openings.
Under Classes 1 and 2 of the schedule of permit fees
permits were issued for openings in public ways, as follows :
Sewer and Water Service
Edison Company ....
Miscellaneous ....
Boston Consolidated Gas Company
Emergency permits
Number of Permits.
3,893
1,057
1,320
603
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New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
Boston Elevated Railway
Dedham and Hyde Park Gas and Electric Company
Total
Permits for other than street openings
have been issued as follows :
Painting and minor repairs ....
Placing signs flat on buildings
Special permits
Erecting and repairing buildings
Erecting and repairing awnings .
Emergency permits for raising and lowering
Moving buildings in streets
Cleaning snow from roofs ....
Feeding horses in streets ....
Driving cattle through streets .
Total
Grand total 12,961
471
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4,545
The fees received from these permits amounted to
$12,092; of this amount $9,130.50 was deposited with
the City Collector and $2,961.50 was billed to pubUc
service corporations.
Bonds.
There are now on file 2,594 surety bonds, in the
amount of one, three, four and twenty thousand dollars,
covering the city against claims for damages, etc.,
through the use of permits.
Table Showing Length and Area of Paving on Accepted Streets, Correct to January 1, 1937.
Length in Miles.
Sheet Asphalt
Asphalt. Concrete.
Year 1935 report
Percent
January 1, 1937.
City Proper
Charlestown
East Boston
South Boston
Roxbury
West Roxbury
Dorchester
Brighton
Hyde Park
Totals
Per Cent
140.48
20.30
33.15
0.69
3.86
7.86
25.80
24.93
32.56
11.39
0.65
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20.22
130.44
18.84
22.79
2.26
4.03
5.46
13.84
31.52
33.03
22.64
5.26
t 140.83
20.21
31.59
10.29
6.03
14.22
14.63
3.44
7.12
0.65
0.05
t 88.02
12.63
2.32
0.34
1.31
0.08
0.61
0.10
0.01
0.11
2.31
0.33
Plank
Bridges.
0.79
0.11
0.16
0.07
0.06
0.19
0.04
0.07
0.07
0.08
0.05
0.79
0.11
0.97
0.14
9.78
1.41
0.04
0.12
0.14
0.97
0.14
0.78
0.44
0.12
0.76
2.32
1.81
2.27
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289.95
41.89
21.03
16.08
38.27
69.32
82.35
21.84
20.78
1285.46
40.96
26.49
3.83
0.82
0.33
1.34
3.00
4.70
2.88
11.55
24.94
3.58
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0.32
0.34
2.94
0.42
692.16
100.00
97.29
23.39
36.35
46.99
94.92
134.93
162.36
61.75
38.96
696.94
100.00
Area in Square Yards.
Sheet
Asphalt.
2,704,424
20.47
660,200
10,218
86,376
150,286
463,669
455,569
610,145
260,359
15,411
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20.40
2,679,176
20.28
525,197
36,293
90,714
120,398
272,943
619,610
618,425
452,960
108,205
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21.40
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17.85
767,511
246,052
138,622
353,809
375,141
156,575
211,895
75,537
9,360
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17.56
51,191
0.39
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2,011
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1,488
50,852
0.38
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0.13
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0.17
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1.35
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1,999
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3,004
1,022
3,387
1,447
1,346
5,493
1,231
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22,431
0.13
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18,751
22,253
3,642
16,767
33,102
30,615
45,316
7,056
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1.39
4,733,720
35.83
408,214
3.09
57,646
0.44
102,460
133,659
439,748
288,184
568,795
1,087,878
1,324,691
365,437
359,638
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35.11
16,512
6,025
17,464
48,758
73,569
41,436
178,919
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46,244
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6,570
2,870
7,965
385,502
2.90
74,926
0.56
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100.00
2,108,676
448,983
796,715
986,789
1,721,027
2,413,500
2,885,604
1,246,153
688,789
13,296,236
100.00
Total Public Streets
i.94 Miles.
Note. — In the above table the city is subdivided substantially on the boundary lines betwet
* Of this amount 0.10 mile or 834 square yards is Biturock; and 0.08 mile or 1,323
square yards is Kyrock; and 0.02 mile or 470 square yards in Unionite.
t Of this amount 0.06 mile or 924 square yards is Blome granitoid concrete block.
X Of this amount 0.02 mile or 175 square yards is cobble; and 57.63 miles or 1,767,654
square yards is granite block paving on concrete base.
§ Of this amount 0.02 mile or 667 square yards is Amiesite; and 22.32 miles or 400,585
square yards is asphalt concrete; and 106.15 miles or 2,196,880 square yards is bitulithic;
the districts as they existed when annexed to Boston. Territory annexed from Brookline is included in city proper,
and 0.00 mile or 4,139 square yards is Colprovia; and 0.06 mile or 959 square yards is
Filbertine; and 0.00 mile or 4,000 square yards is Hepburnite; and 0.00 mile or 3,903 square
yards is Laykold; and 0.00 mile or 4,167 square yards is Macasphalt; and 0.24 mile or
5,751 square yards is Simasco; and 11.65 mile or 211,679 square yards is Topeka; and 0.00
mile or 4, 153 square yards is Warcolite; and 0.18 mile or 3,474 square yards is Carey Elastite
asphalt plank; and 0.16 mile or 3,347 square yards is Flintkote asphalt plank; and 0.05
mile or 1,041 square yards is Johns-Manville asphalt plank.
II Of this amount 182.04 miles or 3,089,363 square yards is bituminous macadam.
).98 miles or 37,035 square yards public alleys included in this table; 7.55 miles or 332,474 square yards public streets in charge of Park Department included in this table; 3.42 miles or 97,457 square yards public
streets in charge of Commonwealth of Massachusetts included in this table. In addition to this table there are 1.75 miles or 8,729 square yards of accepted footways.
Public Works Department. 59
APPENDIX C.
REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF
THE SANITARY DIVISION.
Boston, January 2, 1937.
To the Commissioner of Public Works.
Dear Sir, — I submit herewith a statement of the
activities and expenditures of the Sanitary Division for
the year ending December 31, 1936:
Maintenance expenditures
$2,220,761
01
Distributed as follows:
I, Waste collection and disposal
1,507,345
84
(a) By contract (Table II)
' $355,992 39
(b) Bv day labor (Table III)
. 1,151,353 45
II. Street Cleaning (table VI)
673,219
55
III. Not directly chargeable to 1936 operation
40,195
62
(a) For other services
$12,577 00
(b) Pensions and annuities
7,624 23
(c) Injured roll
3,190 34
(d) W. P. A. .
1,008 64
(e) Unused stock
15,795 41
Personnel changes in permanent force:
Total personnel January 1, 1936
840
Transfers from other departments and divisions
15
New appointments ....
8
Reinstatements
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569
Deaths
. 19
Resignation
1
Retirements
. 24
Transferred out
. 24
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801
Personnel January 1, 1937, being a net loss of thirty-nine men.
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Man Power.
The graph shows the decrease in the number of
city laborers employed in the Sanitary Division,
which fell during the year 1936 from 519 to 483.
We are still trying to operate with the assistance of
Welfare men, but as can be seen from the chart the
year 1936 shows no improvement.
At the beginning of the year these men averaged 800
per week but by the middle of the year the number
had fallen to about 500 per week. Then by requiring
an extra day's work from these men the figure rose to
about 775. It fell to an all-time low in November of
470, rising to 540 at the end of the year.
This shortage of man power, unless augmented by a
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together with a considerable increase in the number of
Welfare laborers furnished, will result in street con-
ditions becoming steadily worse.
On account of the widely fluctuating man power
comparisons of performance as well as of costs continue
to be without value.
The 1936 expenditures show a decrease from 1935 of
$114,788.61 ; S21,660 of this decrease is due to lower prices
of the contracts.
The pay rolls on account of loss in personnel show a
drop of about $56,000.
The remainder of this decrease is due to miscellaneous
savings.
Respectfully submitted,
Adolph J. Post,
Division Engineer.
62
City Document No. 24.
Complaints.
There were 3,372 complaints during the year as
compared with 5,481 in 1935.
To ehminate distortion in comparisons by reason of
complaints due to snow conditions, the number of
complaints in the first three months have been deducted
from each year as follows:
1935.
1936.
Total .
5,481
3,309
3,372
Less January, February, March
1,474
Nine Months
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1,898
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TABLE IV.
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Collection.
Total Cost.
Cubic Yards.
1935.
Cubic Yards.
1936.
Day Labor Districts.
1935.
1936.
1935.
$0.5435
Disposal.
1936.
$0.4908
Disposal.
1 . South Boston
$1 20
1 3772
$0 8785
0 9898
$1 7437
1 9207
$1 3679
1 4800
87,188
36,874
94,865
44,045
3. Charlestown
7. Roxbury
1 1769
1 036
1 7204
1 5269
267,127
270,226
8 and 9 South End and Back
Bay
1 4053
1 0483
1 9489
1 5435
175,909
220,324
1 0. North and West Ends ....
1 161
1 004
1 7049
1 4948
125,116
136,101
Average
$1 245
$1 0117
$1 7885
$1 5039
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765,561
$862,329 62
$774,550 83
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Contract Districts.
Cost per C
UBic Yard.
Cubic Yards.
1935.
Cubic Yards.
1935.
1936.
1936.
2. East Boston
$0 4869
0 557
0 6423
0 7306
0 635
$0 4965
0 5445
0 5038
0 7943
0 7077
76,877
89,675
62,059
328,016
27.112
78,624
4. Brighton
85,901
86,823
245,045
11. Hyde Park
20,433
Totals . . .
583,739
516,826
Average
$0 658
$0 6888
Public Works Department.
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TABLE V.
Street Cleaning and Oiling Service, 1936.
Distribution of Expenditures.
Removing snow
Brooming
Pushcart patrolling
Flushing streets
Horse-drawn sweeping.
Motor sweeping
Team patrol .
Refuse box collection
Sanding streets
Removal old autos
Underpass
Cleaning lots .
Public alleys .
Totals
Oiling and watering of public streets and ways
Totals
$97,885 63
242,541 63
110,602 32
9,028 81
105,974 50
45,811 70
3,594 56
23,848 57
5,401 22
160 14
1,892 19
442 03
1,837 81
$648,921 11
24,298 44
$673,219 55
68 City Document No. 24.
APPENDIX D.
REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF
THE SEWER DIVISION.
Boston, January 2, 1937.
To the Commissioner of Public Works.
Dear Sir, — I submit herewith statement of the
activities and expenditures of the Sewer Division for
the year ending December 31, 1936.
There were built by contract, day labor, private
parties and by the city under P. W. A. and W. P. A.
supervision, 4.93 miles of common sewers and surface
drains throughout the city.
After deducting 0.23 mile of sewers and surface drains,
rebuilt or abandoned, the net increase for 1936 is 4.70
miles, which, added to the existing 1,172.17 miles of
common sewers and surface drains and 30.93 miles of
intercepting sewers, makes a grand total of 1,207.80 miles
of common and intercepting sewers (and surface drains)
belonging to the City of Boston and under the care of
the Sewer Division on January 1, 1937.
There were 280 catch-basins built or rebuilt and 54
abandoned or removed during the year, making a net
gain of 226 catch-basins and a grand total of 21,484
catch-basins under the care of the Sewer Division on
January 1, 1937.
The sewerage works built during 1936 are listed in
detail on the subsequent pages of this report.
Respectfully,
George W. Dakin,
Division Engineer, Sewer Division.
Public Works Department.
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182,520 40
24,842 27
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116,592 89
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Jan. 1, 1936.
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94,457 45
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MAINTENANCE EXPENDITURES JANUARY 1
TO DECEMBER 31, 1936.
Sewer Division.
Improved Sewerage.
Pumping Station, Calf Pasture, inside
Pumping Station, Calf Pasture, outside .
Pumping Station, Calf Pasture, engines .
Pumping Station, Calf Pasture, boilers
Pumping Station, Union Park street
Pumping Station, Summer street
Moon Island
Main and intercepting sewer
New floor for west shaft house, f g ju u^
Calf Pasture Pumping Sta-I^j^^ Marine
1936 '''"*'''''* '^""^^"^ ^'^""^ ^^'1 Company.
^Tr.i° "i'ijr^f.^f f SteSump
599,402 55
12,063 97
44,612 33
18,904 48
10,416 56
2,544 11
23,650 43
18,366 61
1,158 75
Pasture Pumping Station,! Comoanv \ 1 223 40
contract dated September 29,1 incorporated
1936.
$232,343 19
Maintenance — - Regular.
Automobiles .
Cleaning catch-basin;
Cleaning sewers
Employed at yards
Fuel and oil .
Hardware and tools
House connections
Horses, carts, harness, etc.
Maintenance, Stony brook
Office expense
Office salaries
Stock ....
Yard and locker
Eastwood circuit and Dent street brook, clean-
ing brooks, Eastwood circuit, 4,500 feet;
Dent street brook, 5,500 feet, work done by
W. P. A
Maintenance — Repa
Repairing department buildings
Repairing catch-basins, South Boston
Repairing catch-basins. East Boston
Repairing catch-basins, Charlestown
Repairing catch-basins, Brighton
Repairing catch-basins, West Roxbury
Repairing catch-basins, Dorchester .
Repairing catch-basins, Hyde Park .
Repairing catch-basins, Roxbury
Repairing catch-basins. City Proper .
Repairing sewers, South Boston
Repairing sewers. East Boston .
Repairing sewers, Charlestown .
Repairing sewers, Brighton
155,144 44
98,647 70
51,961 62
31,535 63
1,008 18
7,740 41
6,703 56
1,871 85
99 46
1,885 08
44,314 14
5,432 92
3,400 00
354 96
Carried forward
310,099 95
$2,487 78
2,108 75
453 11
84 07
1,313 66
1,510 62
4,488 56
368 92
5,272 67
5,652 39
1,092 02
265 44
509 74
584 82
$26,192 55
$542,443 14
Public Works Department.
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Brought forward
Repairing sewers, West Roxbury
Repairing sewers, Dorchester
Repairing sewers, Hyde Park
Repairing sewers, Roxbury
Repairing sewers. City Proper .
Maintenance — Miscellaneous.
Miscellaneous
Back Bay Fens
Telephones
Rubber goods
Pensions and annuities
Less cost of stock and autos used on jobs .
Less stock and autos transferred to construction,
$26,192 55
$542,443 14
1,509 39
5,323 64
479 08
1,557 28
2,931 26
37,993 20
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350 50
678 39
391 29
3,169 00
43,804 82
$624,241 16
$65,776 50
8,334 84
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Net Increase in Length of Sewers Built Between January 1, 1936,
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Districts.
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1936.
Length of
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Net Increase for
Twelve Months Ended
December 31, 1936.
City Proper . . .
Roxbury
South Boston . .
East Boston . . .
Charlestown . . .
Brighton
West Roxbury .
Dorchester. . . .
Hyde Park
Linear Feet.
1,105.22
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149.00
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4,800.69
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24,810.63
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Total Lengths of Se wers.
Common sewers and surface drains built previous to January 1, 1936
Net increase of common sewers and surface drains between January 1, 1936,
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Total common sewers and surface drains to December 31, 1936 .
Total City intercepting sewers connecting with Metropolitan sewers
to December 31, 1936
Total Boston main drainage intercepting sewers to December 31, 1936.
Miles.
1,172.17
4.70
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Grand total of common and intercepting sewers to December 31, 1936,
Total mileage of streets containing sewerage works to December 31, 1936,
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670.60
* No additional lengths built during year 1936.
Summary of Sewer Construction for Five Years Previous to
December 31, 1936.
1932.
1933.
1934.
1935.
1936.
Built by city by contract
Linear
Feet.
96,452.48
Linear
Feet.
93,4.34.36
Linear
Feet.
16,637.61
29,167.46
610.00
Linear
Feet.
8,530.08
24,981.43
160.00
Linear
Feet.
7,166.08
Built by city under
United States .Gov-
17,726.55
Built by private parties,
6,155.52
972.00
1,145.00
Totals
102,608.00
94,406.36
46,415.07
33,671.51
26,037.63
84
City Document No. 24.
Catch-Basins in Charge of the Sewer Division.
Districts.
Catch-basin Data for Twelve
Months Ended December 31, 1936.
Number
Built or
Rebuilt.
Number
Abandoned
or Removed.
Net
Increase.
Total for Whole City
IN Charge of Sewer
Division.
Previous
Report to
January 1,
1936.
Grand Total
to
January 1,
1937.
City Proper . .
Roxbury
South Boston.
East Boston . .
Charlestown . .
Brighton
West Roxbury
Dorchester. . .
Hyde Park . . .
Totals . . .
22
42
16
39
22
16
49
61
13
13
21
12
2
0
1
2
3
0
54
21
4
37
22
15
47
58
13
3,605
3,356
1,397
1,020
818
1,883
3,509
5,007
663
21,258
3,614
3,337
1,401
1,057
840
1,898
3,556
5,065
676
21,484
Table of Approximate Quantities, Lifts and Duties at Calf Pasture Pumping
Station from January 1, 1936, to December 31, 1936, Inclusive.
Month.
Total
Gallons
Pumped.
Average
per Day
Gallons.
Minimum
per Day
Gallons.
Maximum
per Day
Gallons.
Average
Lift.
(Feet.)
January. . .
February . .
March ....
April
May
June
July
August. . . .
September.
October . . .
November .
December .
3,288,756,183
3.076 ,.344 ,999
3,552,187,928
3,372,452,500
3,131,624,605
3,065,753,516
3,070,800,793
3,392,584,715
3,203,111,273
3,424,019,951
2,922,294,293
3,779,330,009
106
106
114
112
100
102
99
109
106
110
97
121
088,909
080,862
,586,707
415,083
697,568
,191,784
,058,090
,438,217
,770,376
452,2.57
409,809
,913,871
82,895,125
80,695,018
93,004,701
64,680,000
77,252,319
91,520,322
82,462,450
91,799,194
87,891,106
91,947.859
86,002,642
84,310,997
143,028,200
156,462,011
158,886,381
144,835,000
146,930,000
174,518,320
, 103,424,248
144,573,952
168,878,612
145,112,700
136,772,202
179,756,596
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39.2
39.2
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39.2
39.2
39.2
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39.2
39.2
39.2
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Total . . .
Average.
39,279,260,765
3,273,271,730
107,320,385
39.2
Notes. — 12,929,700,765 gallons pumped by oil; 658,316 gallons of fuel oil used.
26,349,560,000 gallons pumped by electric power; 4,476,470 kilowatt hours used.
Quantities are based on plunger displacement and pump ratings, no allowance having been made
for slip or condition of pump.
Running Time of Pumps. — No. 1-A, 5,895 hours, 40 minutes; No. 2-A, 1,976 hours, 10 minutes; No. 2-11.
1.843 hours. 55 minutes; No. 3, 3,392 hours, 45 minutes; No. 4. 4.631 hours; No. 5. 7.324 hours. 31 minutes.
Public Works Department.
85
Total gallons pumped in 1936
Daily average gallons pumped
Average dynamic head
Foot gallons, total
Foot pounds, total
39,279,260,765
107,320,385
39 2
1,539,747,021,988
12,886,142,827,008
Cost of Pumping for 1936
Cost.
Cost per
Million Foot
Gallons.
Labor
Fuel oil
Edison power
Oils and waste
Rubber valves and packing
Miscellaneous renewals and supplies
Totals
Labor at screens
Cleaning pump wells
Cleaning oil tanks
Grand totals
$96,959 60
21,518 02
45,014 16
1,144 08
371 09
3,129 95
$168,136 90
10,859 15
825 00
400 00
$0.06298
0.01397
0.02923
0.00074
0.00024
0.00203
$0.10919
0.00705
0.00054
0.00026
$180,221 05
). 11704
Amount of Refuse Removed from Filth Hoist.
Month.
Pounds.
Cheeses average 241 pounds.
86
City Document No. 24.
North
Sewer.
South
Sewer.
Total.
Cubic yards sludge in deposit sewers, January 1 , 1936
Deposited during 1936
Sludge removed during 1936
In sewers January 1, 1937
1,817
384
926
667
2,743
1,051
2,201
129
1,593
197
2,072
1,396
3,794
326
Public Works Department.
87
APPENDIX E.
REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF
THE WATER DIVISION.
Boston, January 2, 1937.
To the Commissioner of Public Works:
I respectfully submit the following report of the
activities of the Water Division, operations and expend-
itures, for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1936:
The Engineering Branch of the division was engaged
in the extension and improvement of the distribution
system, most of the work being
W. P. A. forces under the general
division's regular engineering and
Pipe was purchased mainly with money supplied by the
Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the funds
of the Water Division were used to supply cast-iron
specials, gates, hydrants, lead, boxes, etc. A total of
49,938 feet of pipe were either laid or relaid, of which
the W. P. A. forces performed 44,700 feet of pipe laying
varying in size from 6-inch to 24-inch, inclusive, the
remainder being performed by the department forces
or private contractors engaged by the Water Division.
In district the extension of water mains laid were:
performed by the
supervision of the
inspection forces.
City Proper .
0 feet.
East Boston .
191 feet.
Dorchester
4,308 feet.
West Roxbury
16,313 feet.
South Boston
127 feet.
Roxbury
0 feet.
Brighton
134 feet.
Hyde Park
836 feet.
Total, 2
1,90
9 fee
: or
4.15
miles
5.
Of the above work, 19,200 feet, or 3.64 miles, were laid
by W. P. A. forces.
Some of the longer lengths were:
88
City Document No. 24.
Dorchester.
Old Colony Parkway, Mt. Vernon street to Savin
Hill avenue, 3,600 feet.
This provides a second supply line to that
section of Savin Hill avenue east of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad which was
dependent upon only one 12-inch feed.
Long Island.
Boston Harbor, 600 feet.
West Roxbury.
Veteran of Foreign Wars Parkway, Bussey and South
streets to Baker street, 6,700 feet.
The above provides an additional circumferential
feed to the West Roxbury district from the 24-inch
main in Bussey street.
Centre and Stimson streets, from Spring to Washing-
ton street, 20-inch pipe, 7,500 feet.
The above improves the system in the West
Roxbury area by extending the terminus of the
20-inch feeder main from the junction of Centre
and Spring streets to Washington and Stimson
streets.
Other extensions in the West Roxbury area were
occasioned by petitions for new building construction,
as follows :
Hazelmere road, 8-inch pipe
Havelock street, 8-inch pipe
Morey road, 12-inch pipe
West Roxbury Parkway, 8-inch pipe .
West Roxbury Parkway, 12-inch pipe
George street, 8-inch pipe .
Portina road, 8-inch pipe
Pine Lodge road, 8-inch pipe
Farmington road. Maple street, Rcndall road and
Cranston street, 8-inch and 12-inch pipe
129 feet
349 feet
132 feet
42 feet
241 feet
155 feet
197 feet
327 feet
767 feet.
In continuation of the policy of replacing older and
smaller water mains with larger sizes for the improve-
Public Works Department.
89
ment of fire protection in the more densely populated
section of the city, 28,029 feet, or 5.30 miles, of 4-inch,
6-inch and 8-inch pipes laid fifty years or more ago,
were replaced with 8-inch and r2-inch pipes. Of this
relay work, 25,500 feet, or 4.83 miles, were performed
by the W. P. A. forces.
In districts the older and smaller size mains were
relaid with new and larger size mains, as follows:
City Proper
South Boston
East Boston
628 feet
3,480 feet
170 feet
Charlestown
Roxbury
Dorchester .
Brighton
West Roxbury
Hyde Park .
6,328 feet
583 feet
1,204 feet
6,230 feet
Ofeet
9,406 feet
Total
28,029 feet.
The following streets were relaid :
Mercantile street. City Proper, 200 feet 6-inch pipe with 8-inch
pipe.
Union Wharf, City Proper, 245 feet 6-inch pipe with 6-inch pipe.
Pemberton square. City Proper, 90 feet 4-inch pipe with 6-inch
pipe.
Tavern road, Roxbury, 583 feet 6-inch pipe with 8-inch pipe.
Wales street, Dorchester, 1,204 feet 6-inch pipe with 12-inch
pipe.
E street. South Boston, 2,250 feet 6-inch pipe with 12-inch pipe.
F street. South Boston, 1,230 feet 6-inch pipe with 8-inch pipe.
Under Shirley Gut to Deer Island, 170 feet 12-inch relaid with
12-inch pipe.
Medford street Charlestown, 5,800 feet 20-inch relaid with
24-inch pipe; 520 feet 30-inch relaid with 30-inch pipe.
Fairmount avenue. Summit avenue and Milton avenue, Hyde
Park, 3,200 feet 14-inch relaid with 12-inch pipe.
Warren avenue. Spring Hill road. Pleasant street, Albion street
and New Bedford street, Hyde Park, 3,595 feet 4 and 6-inch
relaid with 8-inch pipe.
Loring street, Mt. Pleasant street. Summit street and Foster
street, Hyde Park, 2,068 feet, 4 and 6-inch relaid with 8-inch
and 12-inch pipe.
Henshaw street, Menlo street and Sparhawk street, Brighton,
2,236 feet 6-inch relaid with 8-inch and 12-inch pipe.
Saunders street, Barstow street, Gilford street, Pomeroy street
and Gordon street, Brighton, 2,297 feet 6-inch relaid with
8-inch and 12-inch pipe.
90 City Document No. 24.
Larch street, Brighton, 417 feet 12-inch relaid with 12-inch pipe.
Academy Hill road, Hobart street and Parsons street, Brighton,
1,085 feet 6-inch relaid with 12-inch pipe.
The regular work of the Distribution Branch, con-
sisting of installation of new services and fire pipes,
repairing of leaks, caring for complaints, shutting off
and letting on of water, freeing of stoppages in service
pipes, etc., was performed in such a manner and at
such periods as to cause minimum delay and incon-
venience to applicants for water, water takers and the
general public.
A tremendous increase in the amount of the work
performed was occasioned by the laying out of new
streets with the resultant regulating of gate boxes,
shut-off frames and covers, hydrants, services and the
installation of new services on the relaying work by
the W. P. A. forces. The machine shop and plumbing
shop were forced to handle all the drilling and connect-
ing of service pipes occasioned by the above-mentioned
forces in addition to the regular work carried on in
these shops, such as the assembling and machining of
gates, valves and hydrants.
Respectfully submitted,
D. M. Sullivan,
Division Engineer.
Public Works Department. 91
1936 — Financial Transactions — Water Division.
Balance after deducting expenditures of Water Income
Division $4,269,723 10
Expenditures from Revenue :
Current expenses and extensions . $1,044,980 08
^Metropolitan Water Assessment 3,142,714 27
Expenditures on Debt Account:
Payments on Boston water debt . $34,000 00
Payments on Hyde Park water debt, 16,000 00
Payments on interest on water loans, 32,028 75
Loan Account:
Balance outstanding January 1, 1936, $1,012,000 00
Incurred during year . . . 20,000 00
Total loans $1,032,000 00
Paid during year .... 89,000 00
4,187,694 35
$82,028 75
82,028 75
$00,000 00
Balance outstanding December 31, 1936 . . . $943,000 00
Construction Account:
Extension of mains from revenue . $206,076 09
P. W. A. Project No. 4214, Brook-
line avenue. Federal loan . 36,281 47
P. W. A. Project No. 7223, Water
Main Construction, Federal loan, 21,847 30
P. W. A. Project No. 1123R, Chelsea
North Bridge, Federal loan 24,377 19
Total construction 1936 $288,582 05
Cost of construction December 31,
1936 $23,776,486 33
Cost of construction December 31,
1935 23,487,904 28
Increase in plant cost during 1936, .... $288,582 05
Cost of existing works December 31,
1936
Pipe yards and buildings . $94,832 16
Engineering expenses . . 57,873 58
Distribution system (additions
during 1936, $288,582.05) . . * 23,448,780 59
Hyde Park water works . . 175,000 00
$23,776,486 33
High Pressure Fire Service 1 2,293,316 75
Total cost $26,069,803 08
♦Includes $155,023.89 expended for High Pressure Fire Service in 1925, 1926, 1931,
1932, 1933.
t $33,850.96 deducted from cost of High Pressure Fire Service, on account of abandon-
ment of Pumping Station, Battery street.
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Table No. 11.
High Pressure Fire Service.
Showing Length of Water Pipes, Connections, Hydrants and Valves in Same,
December 31, 1936.
20-Inch.
16-Inch.
12-Inch.
8-Inch.
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46,953
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46,953
201
31,756
144
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31, 1936
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Waterworks Statistics, City of Boston.
For the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1936.
Distribution.
Mains.
Kind of pipe: Cast-iron, wrought iron, steel.
Size: 2-inch to 48-inch.
Extended, miles, 4.173.
Size enlarged, miles, 3.289.
Total miles now in use, 975.94.
Public hydrants added, 13.
Public hydrants now in use, 11,218.
Stop gates added, 47.
Stop gates now in use, 15,678.
Stop gates smaller than 4-inch, 34.
Number of blow-offs, 868.
Range of pressure on mains, 30 to 90 pounds.
Service.
Kind of pipe and size: Lead and lead lined, ^-inch to 2-inch; cast-ii'on,
2-inch to 16-inch; wrought iron and cement hned, f-inch to 2-inch,
brass and copper, |-inch to 25-inch.
Total service taps now in use as per metered services, 101,608.
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APPENDIX F.
REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF
THE WATER INCOME DIVISION.
Boston, January 2, 1937.
To the C ommissio7ier of Public Works.
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activities of the Water Income Division for the year
ending December 31, 1936.
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James A. McMurry,
Division Engineer.
106
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Shutting Off and Turning On of Water in 1936.
Number of shut-offs for repairs 4,566
Number of premises turned on after repairs . . 4,216
Number of shut-offs for vacancy .... 1,449
Number of premises turned on for occupancy . . 1,247
Number of shut-offs for nonpayment of water rates, 327
Number of premises turned on again after being
shut off for nonpayment 281
Number of premises shut off on account of waste . 28
Number of premises turned on again after being
shut off for waste 14
Number of new service pipes turned on for first time, 202
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108
City Document No. 24.
Statement of Each Year's Water Rates, 1912 to 1936, Inclusive,
as of December 31, 1936.
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1912
1913.
1914.
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1918.
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1920.
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1923.
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1925.
1926.
1927.
1928.
1929.
1930.
1931.
1932.
1933.
1934.
1935.
1936.
$3,001,771 87
3,004,331 52
3,034,885 83
2,960,797 45
3,130,590 53
3,120,878 86
3.359.714 95
3,210,147 91
3,503,677 88
3,615,663 51
3.612.715 51
3,817,642 72
3,832,531 26
3,875,434 21
3,910,119 54
3,979,153 63
4,418,039 84
5,018,524 39
4,864,180 27
4,749,546 18
4,611,460 09
4,572,539 96
4,703,851 58
4,630,082 58
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2,970,232 82
2,903,015 36
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3,043,525 11
3,197,299 43
3,114,-335 15
3,380,167 98
3,524,717 28
3,522,262 24
3,740,193 70
3,783,363 20
3,829,117 89
3,858,293 66
3,916,844 97
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4,799,707 79
4,672,789 34
4,525,109 21
4,429,707 95
4,435,074 31
4,108,748 01
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7,130 94
18,136 24
9,029 06
15,004 16
20,352 26
31,047 41
49,093 76
108,653 72
219,966 38
483,318 16
1,808,083 08
Total outstanding water rates January 1, 1937.
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109
Meter Branch.
Table No. 1. Statement of Work Done During the Year 1936.
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Table No. 2. Meters in Service December 31, 1936.
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330
148
3,673
32
986
175
1,789
32
1,061
11
952
11
725
20
387
50
425
13
160
14
339
116
30
1
59 930
Woithington disc
7,931
25,849
2 743
Watch dog
78
King
Federal
721
American
277
84
315
3
239
142
1,011
385
Lambert
55
54
6
136
66
1
102
7
25
13
86
12
184
3
18
23
10
53
2
26
11
21
Crown
6
1
15
783
Trident
2
188
Hersey rotary
1,080
300
Keystone
Arctic
21
10
74
Empire
19
112
19
Nash
244
23
5
6
390
4
1
48
11
61
13
35
26
5
179
25
88,016
6,170
3,167
1,914
1,197
625
323
126
37
28
5
101,608
Table No. 3. Meters in Shop December 31, 1936.
Make.
Diameter in Inches.
3 4 6
1,250
50
50
30
8
1,388
Trident
20
5
5
1
1
1
26
Hersey detector
1,571
521
21
9
37
2
1,596
Watch dog
530
American
37
Crown
1
1
1
2
3
Totals
3,342
117
50
30
8
24
11
4
3,586
Public Works Department.
Ill
Table No. 4. Meters Purchased in 1936.
Diameter in Inches.
Totals.
Make.
1
J
1
n
2
3
4
6
1,250
50
50
30
8
1,388
Trident
20
5
25
14
12
4
30
5
2
7
Totals
1,250
50
64
42
12
20
10
2
1,450
Table No. 5. Meters Reset.
Make.
Diameter in Inches.
3
o
0.
3
o
o
3
e
3
1
U
2
3
4
350
36
133
1
18
8
9
6
1
392
36
161
1
1
20
1
78
9
30
6
314
Worthington disc
27
Watch dog
9
11
3
4
1
131
King
1
Federal
1
1
American
17
3
1
14
Arctic
1
Totals
537
30
20
13
10
1
1
612
123
489
112
City Document No. 24.
Table No. 6. Meters Repaired in Service.
Make.
Hersey disc
Worthington disc.
Watch dog
King
Federal
American
Lambert
Crown
Trident
Hersey rotary. . . .
Arctic
Nash
Hersey detector. .
Totals
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M
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^
J
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3
o
-a
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3
O
0
5
M
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36
15
5
7
28
422
27
88
161
11
14
7
124
734
580
17
56
12
1
8
7
15
4
17
1
9
727
13
1,179
53
209
235
12
59
23
25
14
26
8
14
135
1,992
Public Works Department.
113
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595
2,045
14
3
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4,297
592
1,716
14
3
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114
City Document No. 24.
Table
No.
8. Causes
for Meter Chan
ges.
Make.
1
3
'5
«
o
Q
S
o
a
■q,
tp
"5.
3
o
O
o
CO
-a
02
Q
■3
0
H
Hersey disc
Worthington disc
209
34
15
11
1,271
4.56
1,029
118
30
63
11
4
7
9
11
3
2
19
30
17
2
17
3
2
1
1,611
276
387
284
3
32
6
515
8
356
16
4
5
2
7
2
2
1
2
318
76
114
79
2
9
1
1
87
44
33
8
2
2
4,067
915
1,937
519
41
King
Federal
American
9
1
112
Lambert
2
1
21
Crown
1
2
2
12
2
27
Trident
13
Hersey rotary
1
12
1
13
5
Empire
2
Nash
2
1
2
9
33
Totals
283
3,033
52
24
2,599
922
593
11
200
7,717
Table No. 9. Meters Applied in 1936.
Make.
Diameter in Inches.
Totals.
5
3
1
U
2
3
4
6
112
18
70
8
9
10
7
6
1
1
153
19
Watch dog
3
7
2
8
2
3
3
94
King
4
3
1
4
1
1
1
3
3
2
4
Totals
203
12
18
21
11
7
10
2
284
1
Meters applied on new
Meters applied on old
Total applied
pipes
pipes
276
8
284
Public Works Department.
115
Table No. 10. Meters Discontinued in 1936.
Make.
Diameter in Inches.
"3
i
c
o
<u
§
>
T3
3
1
f
3
1
U
2
3
4
6
s
445
71
148
24
6
10
1
1
1
43
22
15
1
10
8
1
1
1
536
72
184
24
6
11
2
5
1
1
1
200
32
82
8
3
4
1
1
1
176
21
56
7
2
2
1
2
160
19
11
8
6
1
46
9
Federal
1
1
1
1
5
1
1
1
Trident
1
1
1
Totals
707
58
31
27
15
2
1
2
843
334
267
242
116 City Document No. 24.
APPENDIX G.
REPORT OF THE BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE
BRIDGES COMMISSION.
Boston, January 2, 1937.
To the Honorable the Mayor.
Sir, — As Commissioner for the City of Boston, I
respectfully submit herewith the annual report of the
Boston and Cambridge Bridges Commission for the
year ending December 31, 1936.
The commission is composed of two members, one
appointed by the Mayor of the City of Boston and the
other by the Mayor of the City of Cambridge, under
provisions of chapter 467, Acts of 1898.
The commission has charge of the maintenance of the
following named bridges between Boston and Cambridge :
Cottage Farm, Longfellow and Prison Point.
As there is no separate appropriation made for the
City of Boston's portion of the expenses of this com-
mission, the same is taken from the appropriation for
the Bridge and Ferry Division, Bridge Service. The
amount expended during the fiscal year ending December
31, 1936, was $5,069.28.
Respectfully submitted,
C. J. Carven,
Commissioner for the City of Boston.
Public Works Department.
117
Boston and Cambridge Bridges. Expenditures for the Year Ending
December 31, 1936.
Being the Portion Paid by the City of Boston, Which is One Half of the Total Expenditure.
Salaries
Inspection
Light
Repairs
Supplies
Printing and stationery.
Totals
$50 00
$50 00
$164 00
940 27
42 09
10 50
$1,162
$1,570 00
218 00
1,756 32
35 42
52 68
$3,632 42
$224 00
$224 00
$1,620 00
606 00
2,702 59
77 51
63 18
$5,069 28
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