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[Document 24 — 1953.]
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1952.
Boston*, January 2, 1953.
Hon. John B. Hynes,
Mayor of Boston.
Dear Mr. Mayor:
In compliance with the provisions of section 24 of
chapter 3 of the Revised Ordinances of 1947, I respect-
fully submit the annual report of the Public Works
Department for the year ending December 31, 1952.
Fiscal.
The total expenditures of the department for the
year were $20,641,886.07, of which $1,636,681.88 rep-
resents water assessments levied by the Metropolitan
District Commission, and $574,358.81 represents Metro-
politan District Commission sewer assessments.
The receipts of the Water Division totaled $4,796,-
064.52, and the revenue derived from the operation of the
Sumner Tunnel reached a record high of $1,932,619.83.
The surplus resulting from the sale of water amounted
to $346,336.56, and the operation of the Sumner Tunnel
resulted in a record-breaking surplus of $696,200.59.
The East Boston Ferry, as has been the case over the
past years, operated at an annual deficit which — for
this its final year of operation— amounted to $299,508.03.
2 City Document No. 24.
Loan Orders.
On April 29, 1952, a City Council order was approved
by your Honor which provided, under the provisions of
section 7 of chapter 44 of the General Laws, that the
sum of $2,000,000 be appropriated for the construction
of pubHc ways, and on August 26, 1952, that the sum
of $1,000,000 be appropriated for the construction of
bridges.
Street Construction Work.
State-Aid Program.
Last year we completed the largest amount of street
reconstruction ever undertaken by this city, under the
Chapter 90 State- Aid Highway Reconstruction Program.
The following important main highways were con-
structed during the year under this program :
Bennington street, from Central square to Walley street.
Cambridge street, from North Anderson street to Scollay
square.
Hyde Park avenue, from Pingree street to Wolcott square.
Massachusetts avenue, from Albany street to Columbus
avenue.
Brookline avenue, from the Riverway to Pilgrim road.
South Huntington avenue, from Huntington avenue to
Centre street.
Belgrade avenue, from Robert street to Centre street.
Spring street, from Centre street to Route 1.
Cambridge street, from Union square to Washington
street.
Washington street, from Cambridge street to the Newton
line.
The total cost of the Chapter 90 Construction Program
in Boston for the year 1952 was $1,018,437.59, of which
the State Department of Public Works, under the
provisions of section 34 of chapter 90 of the General
Laws, paid 48 per cent, thereby presenting a substantial
saving to the taxpayers. It is planned to again conduct
an extensive program of construction under this chapter
in 1953.
JVon-Staie-Aid Program.
We also completed a major street reconstruction
program, comprising extensive construction and recon-
struction, in every section of the cit3\ In addition to
Public Woeks Department. 3
work done on downtown streets, the department re-
surfaced several important traffic arteries, listed as
follows :
Broadway, from Tremont street to bridge over Boston &
Albany Railroad.
Centre street, from Columbus avenue to John Eliot square.
Congress street, from Atlantic avenue to bridge over Fort
Point Channel.
Dorchester avenue, from Congress street to Summer
street.
Dorchester street, from East First street to Broadway.
Harvard street, from Blue Hill avenue to Morton street.
Tremont street, from Scollay square to Boylston street.
In continuation of our policy of replacing brick side-
walks with cement concrete in the older sections of the
city, contracts during the year, totaUng approximately
$79,000, w^re awarded for this work.
The following is a summarized financial statement of
the expenditures made in 1952 for highway improve-
ments :
Budgetary Item.
Public Ways, Construction of (Loan Account) . . . $2,536,633 80
Public Waj^s, Construction of (Revenue Account) . . 157,500 00
Reconstruction of Streets (including sidewalks) . . . 94,639 75
Sidewalks, Construction and Reconstruction of . . . 78,944 69
Total $2,867,718 24
The following is a summarized record of the highwaj^
improvement work done by the department in 1952:
Number of Streets Constructed or Reconstructed, 162.
Includes 32 new streets ordered laid out and constructed by
the Board of Street Commissioners under the provisions of
chapter 393 of the Acts of 1906.
Miles of Streets Improved, 29.69.
Includes 10.61 miles of so-called Chapter 90 state-aid high-
way improvements.
Miles of Sidewalks Improved, 6.01 .
In addition to sidewalk improvements included in above-
noted street improvements.
We also completed, during the year, the removal
of 950 gas lamps, which were replaced with an equal
number of 1,000-lumen electric lamps. It is our in-
tention to continue with this program during 1953.
4 City Document No. 24.
Snow Removal.
We were fortunate during the past yeav in that
no snowstorms of major proportions occurred, and
we experienced no difficulty in keeping the streets
properly plowed and sanded throughout the winter
months.
At the present time there are over 727 miles of public
streets that have to be plowed and maintained during
the winter months. The department owns fourteen
(14) Walter snow fighters which are used to plow,
sand, and salt the streets of the downtown area. Most
of the plowing work in the rest of the city was done
by 245 trucks rented on an hourly basis from con-
tractors.
The cost of snow removal work for 1952 totaled
$476,360.80.
Meridian Street Bridge.
Progress on constructing the substructure for the
new bridge by the Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corpo-
ration, under the supervision of the Department of
Public Works of the Commonwealth, was about 91
per cent completed at the end of the year.
Bids for the construction of the superstructure
were opened on June 20, 1952, and the contract was
awarded to the American Bridge Company in the
amount of $2,939,976. Very little progress was made
under this contract this year, pending the arrival of
steel due for delivery sometime in 1953.
South Ferry.
Because of the continuous annual deficit resulting
from the operation of this ferry, your Honor ordered
on November 14, 1952, that the Ferry Service be
terminated at the close of business on December 31,
1952. Arrangements have been made for the transfer
of personnel to other services and tentative plans
made for disposal of the ferryboats and appurtenances
by public sale.
Refuse Disposal and Incineration.
A preliminary report on the proposed Southampton
Street incinerator was submitted by the consulting
engineering firm of IVIetcalf & Eddy in April of 1952.
Public Works Department. 5
This report recommended the construction of a 750-
ton per 24-hour incinerator at an estimated construction
cost of $2,700,000. No further progress has been
made on the design of this plant, pending the acquisi-
tion of a site for the proposed incinerator.
Legislation, enacted under chapter 559 of the Acts
of 1952, provided for the construction and operation
by the MetropoHtan District Commission of refuse
disposal incinerators. Provisions were made for the
issuance of bonds in an amount not to exceed S7, 000,000
to provide for the construction of five (5) incinerators
to dispose of the refuse from the City of Boston and
sixteen (16) of the adjacent metropolitan communities.
It is proposed to erect these incinerators in the vicinity
of Southampton street, Boston; in the vicinity of the
Mystic Valley Parkway, Medford; near Grove street,
in Watertown; in the marsh between Revere and
Saugus; and at the Neponset River, off Granite avenue,
in Milton. Boston has a vital interest in all five of
these incinerators, as the refuse to be burnt at the
Southampton Street plant would come entirelj^ from
Boston; the incinerator in Medford would dispose
of the refuse from Charlestown; the incinerator in
Watertown would receive the Brighton refuse; the
incinerator in Revere-Saugus would receive the refuse
from East Boston; and the proposed incinerator at
Milton would receive the refuse from the South Dor-
chester and, possibly, Hyde Park districts. Accordingly,
your Honor approved on March 16, 1953, an order
voted by the City Council at your request to accept
this permissive legislation. To date, the other com-
munities have failed to enter into an agreement to
take part in this program. While this metropolitan
incineration program, on the whole, appears to be of
considerable benefit to the city, I am of the opinion
that it is in the best interests of the city that the pro-
posed incinerator in the vicinity of Southampton street
be constructed and operated by the City of Boston.
Purchase of Equipment.
New equipment purchased during the year included
three (3) Baughman sand spreader bodies; two (2)
Trojan bucket loaders; nine (9) Ford dump trucks;
three (3) Ford emergency trucks; three (3) Elgin
6 City Document No. 24.
street sweepers; one (1) 10-ton Gallon tandem roller;
one (1) Ford sedan, and one (1) Chevrolet carryall.
Personnel.
There were 2,340 employees in the department as
of December 31, as compared with 2,372 employees
on January 1, 1952.
Detailed Reports.
Appended hereto are reports submitted by the divi-
sion engineers relative to the activities of their divisions
in 1952.
Respectfully submitted,
George G. Hyland,
Commissioner of Public Works.
Public Works Department. 7
The records of the department show that there are
now 2,340 persons eligible for employment in the several
divisions, and of that number 2,310 were upon the
January, 1953, payrolls.
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173
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138
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Total Eligihle Force.
January 1, 1952.
January 1, 1953.
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454
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429
423
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MAINTENANCE APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES.
Division or Service.
Total Appropriations,
Including
Transfers and Amounts
Carried over from 1951.
Expenditures.
Unexpended
Balance.
Central Office
Automotive Division
Bridge Service
Ferry Service
Tunnel Service
Lighting Service .
Paving Service
Sanitary Division
Sewer Division
Water Division
$62,003 29
733,369 12
804,611 17
333,047 71
582,588 30
1,322,329 03
1,478,936 03
5,281,627 25
861,935 88
2,735,405 95
$59,649 32
721,650 30
797,492 81
321,110 60
566,384 75
1,313,983 19
1,472,439 90
5,270,095 60
806,795 57
2.679,419 48
$2,353 97
11,718 82
7,118 36
11,937 11
16,203 55
8,345 84
6,496 13
11,531 65
55,140 31
55,986 47
Totals ....
$14,195,853 73
$14,009,021 52
$186,832 21
LOANS AND SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS.
Title,
Total Amount
Available.
Expenditures.
Unexpended
Balance.
Bridges, Construction of (revenue)
Bridges, Construction of (non-revenue)
Bridges, Repairs, etc. (revenue)
Reconstruction of Streets (revenue)
Sidewalks, Construction and Reconstruction of
(revenue)
Street Signs (revenue)
Public Ways, Construction of (revenue)
Public Ways, Construction of (non-revenue)
Snow Removal (revenue)
Sewerage Works (revenue)
Sewerage Works (non-revenue)
Construction of Buildings and Original Equipment and
Furnishings Thereof (non-revenue)
Incinerator Building, Construction and Equipping
(non-revenue) *
Totals
$161,536 59
1.191,946 93
501,549 86
146,064 01
126,912 49
22,826 28
157,500 00
3.844,972 71
477,836 48
30,559 66
1,169.004 76
44,906 85
35,000 00
$98,090 52
312,333 51
94.639 75
78,944 69
8,455 87
157,500 00
2,536,633 80
476,360 80
29,114 36
561.744 15
33.006 41
35,000 00
$161,536 59
1,093,856 41
189,216 35
51,424 26
47,967 80
14,370 41
1,308,338 91
1,475 68
1,445 30
607,260 61
11,900 44
$7,910,616 62
$4,421,823 86
$3,488,792 76
* Execution of Court charged to Loan authorized but not issued.
Public Works Department.
11
REVENUE.
On Account of Public Works Department.
Central Office:
Charges for plans and specifications . $1,134 00
Automotive Division :
Sale of junk
$762 66
Bridge Service:
Rents
$4,487 50
Damage to property ....
3,506 19
City of Revere, Chelsea North Bridge
5,000 00
Refund on drums
48 00
Ferry Service:
Tolls
$21,140 65
Rents
85 00
Cleaning telephone booths .
22 00
Commission on telephones .
12 99
Refunds
166 82
Sale of junk
118 15
Sumner Tunnel :
Tolls
$1,932,490 00
Miscellaneous
129 83
Lighting Service :
Sale of junk
$692 27
1,134 00
762 66
13,041 69
21,545 61
1,932,619 83
692 27
Paving Service:
From assessments (added to taxes)
on abutters for cost of laying side-
walks in front of their premises . $1,098 23
Permits 26,366 96
Rents 950 00
Sale of materials 144 12
Contributions from Commonwealth of
Massachusetts under chapter 90 of
General Laws for construction of
public ways 488,084 04
Miscellaneous 6,469 62
523,112 97
Sanitary Division:
Sale of junk $58 79
Sale of garbage 33,000 00
33,058 79
Sewer Division:
Disposal of sewage .... $19,233 00
Entrance fees 6,997 22
Sale of junk 350 71
Rents 120 00
Refunds 39 00
Cleaning drains 75 00
26,814 93
Carried forward $2,552,782 75
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Water Division:
Water rates
$4,400,790 83
Water rates added to taxes
253,780 48
Service pipes for new takers,
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tending, repairing, etc. .
9,534 53
Fees on overdue rates .
28 40
Sale of junk
2,715 04
Damage to propert}^ .
1,764 86
Labor and materials
7,423 67
Deposit account ....
88,878 37
Elevator and fire pipe counectious
1,074 29
Miscellaneous income .
1,879 05
Grand total ....
$2,552,782 75
4,767,869 52
$7,320,652 27
PART II.
APPENDICES.
(13)
14 City Document No. 24.
APPENDIX A.
REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF
THE AUTOMOTIVE DIVISION.
BosTOx, January 2, 1953,
To the Commissioner of Public Works.
Dear Sir:
I am submitting herewith the annual report of the
Automotive Division of the PubUc Works Depart-
ment for the year 1952. This report covers the
activities of the four garages and offices of the Auto-
motive Division, a report on the close cooperation of
the Automotive Division with the Mayor's Automotive
Advisory Committee, and the activities of the mobile
patrol and the newly established dispatcher's office
controUing the vehicles in the Motor Pool.
During 1952 the Mayor's Automotive Advisory
Committee acting on the recommendation of the
Boston Municipal Research Bureau established a school
for drivers known as '^Driver Training and Driver
Education Institute." I, as chairman, recommended
to the committee that the drivers of the Public Works
Department be enrolled in the first class inasmuch
as this department has the greatest number of such
employees, exclusive of the Police and Fire Depart-
ments. This course meets the requirements established
by the Registrar of Motor Vehicles, Rudolph F. King,
and he is one of the signers of the certificates presented
drivers after the successful completion of the course.
The other signers of this certificate award are his
Honor the Mayor, and Theodore J. Hoppe, director
of the course. The course covers a period of 14 classes,
each class being in session a minimum of two hours.
In order to expedite the training program the em-
ployees of the Public Works Department, in conjunction
with those of the Park Department, met in two groups
Public Works Department. 15
on alternate days, Group A meeting on Mondays
and Wednesdays, and Group B on Tuesdays and
Thursdays. On successful completion of the course
by the employees the certificates for Public Works
Department employees were presented by the Public
Works Commissioner, George G. Hyland, and the
certificates for the Park Department employees by
Park Commissioner Frank Kelley. With the advent
of the winter season further classes for Public Works
Department employees were discontinued and the
classes will reopen after the snow removal season
has passed. The full details of the school requirements
are contained in the first annual report of the committee
submitted to you as a member of the Review Board.
The employees of the Automotive Division were
reclassified by the State Civil Service Department
in 1952, and this reclassification resulted in salarj^
increases for most of the employees and a clearer
definition of their duties. Under the direction of the
Division Engineer the 99 employees of the Automotive
Division are engaged in the following duties: Repair
work, 40 employees; maintenance of buildings, gasoline
and oil dispensing, cleaning and watchman duties,
and motor vehicle operation, 41 employees; stockroom,
5 employees; wrecker operators, 3 emploj^ees; office
work, 9 emplo3'ees; dispatcher, 1 emplo\'ee. The
Automotive Division Engineer also has supervision
of the 40 employees of the mobile patrol, namely,
one supervisor, two sergeants, fourteen mobile guards,
twenty-two watchmen-laborers, and one clerk. The
Mobile Patrol covers two shifts, from 4 p.m. to mid-
night, and from midnight to 8 a.m. on weekdays, and
three shifts on Saturday, Sunday, and holidays. The
Mobile Patrol protects the property and equipment
of the Public Works Department. The supervisor
supervises the assignment of routes, checks all written
and oral reports, and Detex clock dials, and reports
to the Division Engineer at frequent intervals. The
clerk is responsible for routine business, records, time
sheets, etc. The sergeants supervise the activities
of the three Mobile Patrol routes on which the guards
are operating while protecting the property of the
Public Works Department. It is their duty to see
that the mobile guards operate intelligently and punc-
tually, and to ascertain that all yards are properly-
inspected and covered during the eight-hour shift
16 City Document No. 24.
of which the sergeant is in charge. He receives and
issues reports by telephone from the mobile guards
in the field, and makes formal written reports of any
irregularity or damage which he deems of sufficient
importance. He has charge of the routine time, mileage
and work reports. The mobile guard is a uniformed
guard responsible for the protection of all Public Works
Department property and equipment that are assigned
to his patrol route. He records the presence of watch-
men at selected yards, rings watch clocks, inspects
the heating facilities, checks on city-owned vehicles,
etc. He makes a written report at the end of his tour
of duty, which report is submitted to the sergeant.
The watchmen are on dutj^ at the larger yards to
prevent vandahsm. Other duties of the mobile patrol
are the collection of mail from the City Collector's
office, forwarding of absentee reports to City Hall,
the care of motor vehicles assigned to the patrol, etc.
It is contemplated that within a few months the per-
sonnel of this section will be trained as qualified radio
operators in order that they may be available in con-
junction with the Civil Defense program.
The Automotive Division has supervision of the
newly created Motor Pool to which is assigned a dis-
patcher. The primary duty of the Motor Pool is to
provide transportation — consisting of a car and a
chauffeur — to those city officials or departments who
are authorized by the Commissioner of Pubhc AVorks
to call upon the pool for this service. In order to
carry on this work, the service is provided with 12
city-owned cars and nine chauffeurs.
In the ordinary course of a day's work, these chauffeurs
report at a designated hour in the morning to the
individuals to whom they are assigned, usually division
engineers, and after having transported their superiors
about the various city yards, or work under con-
struction, they report to the Motor Pool. This is
usually about 11 a.m., and from then on the chauffeurs
are assigned various tasks, such as inspection of damaged
gas lamps, etc. In the meantime requests for cars and
chauffeurs are constantly received, and as soon as a
car and chauffeur are available they are dispatched to
the individual or department requesting this service.
The Motor Pool is called upon to meet and transport
visiting celebrities who are to be the guests of the City
of Boston, in order to assist the Director of Public
Public Works Department. 17
Celebrations in making the stay of the guest as pleasant
and hospitable as possible.
The Automotive Division performed approximately
6,000 repair jobs, both major and minor work. The
only major work sent to an outside repair shop was for
work on eight of our fourteen snow fighters which were
overhauled at a cost of approximately $10,000. This
work was sent out to a specialist, due to our lack of
facilities and personnel to do this work. Other work
sent out consisted of glass work, spring work, radiator
repairs, and other work of a specialized nature. A
large part of the fleet is now five to six years old and
increasingly in need of repairs. As evidence, we in-
stalled sixty reconditioned motors and clutches in 1952.
The annual inventory taken in December, 1952,
showed a stock-on-hand amounting to 138,681.48.
This compares with $44,876 in 1950 and $43,705 in
1951. Part of the drop in inventory can be attributed
to a smaller stock of tire chains. Two men are assigned
during the winter months to repairing chains, and thus
it is not necessary'- to carry a large quantity of chains in
stock.
The office maintained by the Automotive Division at
City Hall processed 2,311 orders in 1952, of which 1,260
were purchases and 1,051 were service orders. In past
years approximately'' 2,000 purchase orders were issued
each year, but it is now the policy to make all purchases
under $3 from petty cash. These petty cash purchases,
approximately 100 a month, cut down the labor and
paper work of the Supply Department, Auditor's office,
and Treasurer's office. The City Hall office reports the
following expenditures for 1952. Personal services,
$398,567.13; telephone service, $3,014.58; electric and
gas service, $4,669.82; repair and maintenance of build-
ings, $3,130.36; repair of automotive equipment by
outside repair shops, $58,081.55; and miscellaneous
contractual services, such as cleaning, express charges,
inspection of oil burners, etc., $939. Purchase of
automotive supplies amounted to $136,381.94, of which
$62,000 was for gasoline, $6,000 for motor oil, $12,500
for tires, $3,000 for batteries, and the remainder for
automotive repair parts and accessories. Building
supplies amounted to $1,249.14 and fuel for heating
amounted to $9,000.26. Janitor supplies amounted to
$1,480.66, first aid supplies, $24.60, and office supplies,
$2,233.74. Fire extinguishers cost $59.70, and general
18 City Document No. 24.
operating supplies, such as tools, waste, wiping rags,
hose, coveralls, uniforms, etc., amounted to $7,030.81.
Current charges for 1952 were $7 for subscription to
City Record and trade magazine; $1,182 for motor vehicle
registration; and $7,522.97 for garage rentals.
Purchase of new equipment came to $85,083.90.
New equipment added to the fleet in 1952 consisted of
three Baughman sanding bodies, $4,826.25, and two
Trojan loaders, $13,618.08, purchased from Snow Re-
moval funds. Nine dump trucks capable of snowplow-
ing cost $30,163.23 and three emergency trucks for the
Sewer Division, $10,659.55. Three street sweepers for
the Sanitary Division cost $25,328.10, and one 10-ton
tandem road roller cost $5,850. One Ford sedan, $1,362,
one Chevrolet carryall, $1,930, and miscellaneous equip-
ment, such as a portable power charger, battery charger,
large floor jacks, asphalt tool heater, orange peel bucket,
drive wrench and pumps, completed the additions.
Two trucks and one carryall were delivered in 1952
from 1951 funds carried over to 1952. The Sumner
Traffic Tunnel purchased a new wrecker for $5,050.00.
Under Repair and Maintenance of Buildings, cost
$3,130.36, we made the following repairs: Highland
Street Garage, new roof and interior carpentry work in
the welding shop; floodhghts at Albany street to
light sand and salt j^ard; Hancock Street Garage, new
sliding door; Albany Street Garage, boiler room floor
rebuilt; Dana Avenue Garage, roof repaired; new
gas pumps (electric) and recorders installed at Brighton
and Charlestown. If sufficient funds are available in
1953, it is hoped to install an exhaust eliminating
system at the Highland Street Garage, and an oil heat-
ing system in the welding shop.
The fleet now consists of the following equipment
(474 pieces, 424 registered) :
138 dump trucks, l|-2-ton
3 Sanders, 5-ton
2 dump trucks, 5-ton
11 truck-mounted compres-
2 lumber trucks
sors
6 wreckers
2 compressor trailers
1 large transport trailer
2 semitrailers
1 tractor truck
4 derrick trucks
81 pickup trucks
2 platform trucks
1 aerial truck
1 service truck
2 emergency gate closing
16 emergency trucks
trucks
6 toolbox trailers
5 catch-basin cleaners
2 electric welder trailers
Public Works Department.
19
1 chlorinator trailer
6 street flushers
14 snow fighters
2 Diesel crawler tractors
15 bucket loaders
5 small street sweepers
20 large street sweepers
11 carryalls
4 jeeps
1 crane
46 sedans
1 sand loader
3 snow loaders
16 sand spreaders
1 salt spreader
12 gasoline road rollers
1 grader
1 Ackers core drill
2 flexible power bucket ma-
3 portable generators
chines
4 power lawn mowers
1 concrete mixer
2 portable heaters
3 portable lighting plants
2 steam cleaners
1 paint sprayer
1 homemade trailer
4 asphalt heating trailers
3 Dempster-Dumpsters, 5-
ton
Respectfully
submitted,
J. Leo McGrath,
Division Engineer,
20 City Document No. 24.
APPENDIX B.
REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF
THE BRIDGE AND HIGHWAY DIVISION.
Boston, January 2, 1953.
To the Commissioner of Public Works.
Dear Sir:
I submit the following report of the income, ex-
penditures, and operation of the Bridge and Highway
Division for the j^ear ending December 31, 1952, in
two sections. The Bridge Section report covers the
Bridge, Ferry and Tunnel Services and the Highway
Section report covers the Paving and Street Lighting
Services.
Respectfully submitted,
John DeMeulenaer,
Division Engineer.
I — BRIDGE SECTION
Summary of Budget Appropriations.
Bridge Service, Regular.
Regular appropriation, 1952 $756,611 17
Transfers to 48,000 00
Total credits $804,611 17
Expenditures, 1952 $797,492 81
Unexpended balance, December 31, 1952 . $7,118 36
Bridges, Repairs, etc.
Balance from 1951 $191,849 86
Appropriation, 1952 310,000 00
Total credits $501,849 86
Transfer from • . . 300 00
$501,549 86
Expenditures, 1952 312,333 51
Unexpended balance December 31, 1952 . $189,216 35
Public Works Department. 21
Bridges, Construction oj — Revenue.
Balance from 1951 $161,236 59
Transfers to 1952 300 00
Appropriation, 1952 0 00
Expenditures, 1952 0 00
Unexpended Balance, December 31, 1952 . $161,536 59
Bridges, Construction oJ — Non-revenue.
Balance from 1951 $2,231,946 93
Appropriation, 1952 1,000,000 00
Total credits $3,231,946 93
Expenditures, 1952 98,090 52
Unexpended balance, December 31, 1952 . $3,133,856 41
Ferry Service.
Balance from 1951 $32,953 12
Regular appropriation, 1952 325,844 59
Transfers to 1952 3,000 00
Total credits $361,797 71
Expenditures, 1952 321,110 60
$40,687 11
Transfers from 28,750 00
Unexpended balance, December 31, 1952 . $11,937 11
Brought forward as Special Fund . . $11,937 11
Tunnel Service.
Regular appropriations, 1952 .... $570,406 16
Balance from previous year 13,135 89
$583,542 05
Less transfer by City Auditor to Code 71-21 . 953 75
Total credits $582,588 30
Expenditures, 1952 $541,705 30
Balance to next year 24,679 45
Total debits $566,384 75
Unexpended balance, December 31, 1952 . $16,203 55
22 City Document No. 24.
The foregoing does not include certain expenditures
for construction work by other divisions, which work
was supervised by the engineers of this division.
In an order from the Department of Pubhc Utihties,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, schedules of tolls and
charges for the use of the Sumner Tunnel, between
Boston Proper and East Boston, were approved, cover-
ing the year 1952.
Throughout the year 1952 the city still operated one
ferry, the so-called "South Ferry," with the Boston
terminus at Eastern avenue, and the East Boston
terminus at Lewis street.
Because of the continuously increasing deficit re-
sulting from the operation of this service, the City
Council, Avith the Mayor's approval, increased the toll
rates, effective May 1, 1952, as indicated later in this
report.
The increased toll rates had no important effect on
either traffic volume or income, and on November 14,
1952, the Mayor ordered the Ferry Service to be termi-
nated at the close of business on December 31, 1952.
Arrangements were made for the transfer of Ferry
Service employees to other services, and tentative plans
made for disposing of the ferryboats, bridge drops, etc.,
by public auction sale.
The more important w^orks undertaken during the
past year in the Bridge Service, were:
Redecking Babson Street and Dana Avenue Bridg-
es; construction of concrete deck, etc., on Broadway
Bridge, over Fort Point Channel; strengthening Piers
4, 5, and 6 of the Charlestown Bridge; strengthening
the piers of the Charlestown Bridge; steel repairs,
etc., at the Charlestown Bridge storehouses; Charles-
town Bridge storehouses, bituminous concrete pave-
ment; repairing end lifts, etc., of the Northern Ave-
nue Bridge over Fort Point Channel; alterations and
repairs to roadway railings on drawspan of Summer
Street Bridge, over Fort Point Channel; repairs to
drawspan of Summer Street Bridge, over Reserved
Channel; emergency repairs to approaches of Summer
Street Bridge, over Reserved Channel; constructing
high curbs and guard rails on various bridges; re-
pairing the pile bracing of the Charlestown approach
of Warren Bridge, over the Charles River; repairing
West Fourth Street Bridge, over the New York,
Public Works Department. 23
New Haven & Hartford Railroad (Old Colony Divi-
sion), and Broadway Bridge, over the Boston &
Albany Railroad ; repairing two bridges on the Boston
Side and the approach platform on the East Boston
Side of the South Ferry; removing ashes, cinders,
clinkers and refuse from the ferryboats; repairs to
ferryboat '^ Charles C. Donoghue"; renewing certain
electric wiring, conduits, etc., on four bridge drops
at the South Ferry; and at the Sumner Tunnel,
cleaning exhaust duct, exhaust fan rooms and fresh
air ducts; repairing the pavement; emergency repairs
to the pavement; repairing, cleaning and painting
ventilating equipment; miscellaneous cleaning, paint-
ing and minor repair work at the Administration
Building; miscellaneous cleaning, painting and minor
repair work at the London Street garage; repairs to
the louvers at the East Boston Ventilation Building;
cleaning exhaust duct and exhaust fan rooms; clean-
ing and painting the 6-inch discharge pipes, hangers,
etc., cleaning the surface drainage system, ancl
furnishing and instaUing new illuminated signs, etc.
Other work included snow removal operations in
conjunction with other divisions.
Bridge Service.
Bedecking Babson Street and Dana Avenue Bridges ^
over the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad.
A contract was entered into with the Martin J.
Kelly Company, Inc., for renewing the roadway surface,
underdecking and sidewalk planking. Extensive steel
and stringer repairs were made by the railroad. Due
to delay in obtaining lumber no work was done this
year. Work is expected to be completed in the spring
of 1953 at an estimated cost of $17,458.
Construction of Concrete Deck, etc., on Broadway Bridge,
over Fort Point Channel.
A contract was entered into with the Martin J.
Kelly Company, Inc., for removing the entire roadway
and sidewalk decking down to the steelwork; making
extensive repairs and renewals to the main steelwork;
constructing a new reinforced concrete deck with an
asphalt wearing surface, including special steel expan-
sion joints on both approaches to the drawspan; repair-
ing sidewalk railings throughout, including replacing
the present cast iron fence posts with steel "H" beams.
24 City Document No. 24.
On the drawspan the work includes removing tlie
entire wooden deck and sidewalks and replacing with
steel mesh pavement; the sidewalk steel pavement to
be concrete filled; the roadway steel pavement to be
open except at the ends and center machinery areas.
Bids were received September 4, 1952, the low bid
amounting to $517,540. No work has commenced as
the city has postponed the starting date until early
next spring to allow for the completion of the repairs
to the West Fourth Street Bridge.
Strengthening Piers 4, 5, and 6 of the Charlestown Bridge.
Under a contract entered into with the Crandall
Engineering Company for enclosing the bases of these
piers with steel cofferdams, filled with concrete, work
was commenced July 9, 1951, and was completed
August 14, 1952, at a 'cost of $250,443.62.
Strengthe^iing the Piers of the Charlestown Bridge.
The work of strengthening the Charlestown Bridge
piers was continued under a contract entered into with
the Crandall Engineering Company for fully enclosing
Piers 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8, which work includes extending
the present steel sheeting at Pier 2 to the downstream
end and at Pier 9 enclosing the upstream end and
portions of the sides. Work commenced September 24,
1952, and will be completed late in the summer of 1953,
at an estimated cost of $321,960.
Steel Repairs, etc., at the Charlestown Bridge Storehouses.
Under a contract entered into with A. Orlando, Inc., for
steel repairs to the columns and stringers, painting and
replacing the old doors with overhead type doors, etc.,
work was commenced August 11, 1952, and was com-
pleted October 30, 1952, at a cost of $21,662.95.
Charlestown Bridge Storehouses — Bituminous Concrete
Pavement, Charles River Avenue — Sheet Asphalt
Pavement and Such Additional Locations, If Any^
in Ward 2,
Under a contract entered into by the Paving Section
with John McCourt Company for the above-named
work, provisions were made for leveling off the earth
floors of the storehouses, filling with gravel fill and
stonedust and placing a two-course bituminous concrete
Public Works Department. 25
wearing surface. This work was completed December 9,
1952. Although this work was in full charge of the
Highway Section the Bridge Section will pay $6,352.90
as its proportionate part.
Repairing End Lifts, etc., of the Northern Avenue Bridge,
over Fort Point Channel.
In order to correct excessive wear on the moving
parts of the end lifts and also to provide the city with
one complete spare set of end lift units for the two
types required on the bridge, a contract was entered
into with the General Ship and Engine Works, Inc., to
overhaul and repair one lift at a time, keeping the bridge
in constant use except for Saturdays and Sundays.
Work commenced July 8, 1952, and will be completed
early in 1953, at an estimated cost of $31,961.
Alterations and Repairs to Roadway Railings on Draw-
Span of Sumfner Street Bridge, over Fort Point
Channel.
Due to frequent repairs made necessary by traffic
damages to the Boston type fences at the center of the
drawspan, a contract was entered into with the Industrial
Welding Company for replacing the present cast-iron
posts with steel ''H" beams and as a safety precaution
to weld in place steel channel bumpers for the full
length of each draw at the center raiUngs. W^ork com-
menced June 4, 1952, and was completed June 25,
1952, at a cost of $1,928.
Repairs to Drawspan of Summer Street Bridge, over
Reserved Channel.
Under a contract entered into with the Eastern
Roads Company, Inc., for removing and replacing the
steel decking, repairs, etc., work was commenced
August 1, 1951, and was completed April 24, 1952, at
a cost of $45,191.81.
Emergency Repairs to Approaches of Summer Street
Bridge, over Reserved Channel.
Under an emergency contract entered into with the
Eastern Roads Company, Inc., for strengthening the
pile bents by posting and bracing, work was commenced
October 24, 1951, and was completed January 10, 1952,
at a cost of $7,104.14.
26 QiTY Document No. 24.
Constructing High Curbs and Guard Rails on Various
Bridges.
A contract was entered into with the Martin J. Kelly
Company, Inc., for renewing existing wood curbs,
raising existing low concrete curbs, placing new high
concrete curbs, on various bridges throughout the city.
The work also included erecting steel guard rails at
Congress Street Bridge and Northern Avenue Bridge.
Work commenced October 28, 1952, and will be com-
pleted early in 1953, at an estimated cost of $16,362.50.
Repairing the Pile Bracing of the Charlestown Approach
of Warren Bridge, over the Charles River.
Under a contract entered into with the Eastern
Roads Company, Inc., for bracing pile bents, work
was commenced September 24, 1951, and was com-
pleted April 12, 1952, at a cost of $4,756.35.
Repairing West Fourth Street Bridge, over the New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad (0. C. Division),
and Broadway Bridge, over the Boston & Albany
Railroad.
A contract was entered into with the Martin J. Kelly
Company, Inc., for repairing the roadway decking and
sidewalk planking and replacing the roadway surface
with new bituminous concrete at Broadway Bridge;
and at West Fourth Street Bridge resurfacing with
4-inch T. & G. spruce.
At Broadway Bridge the double pipe rail fences at
the three trusses were replaced with a single pipe rail
fence, using portions of the present fences. The entire
bridge was cleaned and painted. Work commenced
June 23, 1952, and was completed November 17, 1952,
at a cost of $81,091.86.
Yard Forces.
The yard forces made repairs on 47 bridges, the
work varying in extent from minor repairs to such
operations as renewing or rebuilding areas of wooden
roadway decks, entire sidewalks, aprons, etc.
Typical work included patch planking on roadways,
sidewalks, pier platforms, stairways, etc., repairing,
cleaning and painting girder bridges, drawhouses, con-
troller houses, machinery housings, fences, roadway
Public Works Department.
27
gates, etc., regulating bascule bridge counterweights
as required, repairing floats, sandboxes and coalbins.
The maintenance force also cleaned sidewalks and
stairways of the intown area during the year, removing
snow, refuse, etc.
Ordinary electrical and machinery maintenance work
was done by the electrician and machinists.
Ferry Service.
The following ferryboats were in commission :
Name.
When
Built.
Length.
Gross
Tons.
Charles C. Donoghue
Daniel A. MacCormack
1926
1926
174 feet, 4 inches
174 feet, 4 inches
756.77
756.77
These are steel boats of the propeller type.
The work of this service for the year consisted of the
following :
Repairing Two Bridges on the Boston Side and the Ap-
proach Platform on the East Boston Side of the
South Ferry.
Under a contract entered into with A. Orlando, Inc.,
for making necessary steel and deck repairs, work was
commenced December 19, 1951, and was completed
June 13, 1952, at a cost of $30,347.18.
Removing Ashes, Cinders, Clinkers and Refuse from the
Ferryboats.
A contract was entered into with John J. Colbert for
removing ashes, etc., from the ferryboats, for a one-
year period, commencing April 1, 1952, at an estimated
cost of $1,700. During the current year the city has
paid a total of $1,343 under this contract.
Repairs to Ferryboat "Charles C. Donoghue.^'
A contract was entered into with the General Ship
and Engine Works, Inc., for necessary repairs to the
main engines, boilers, piping, equipment, etc. Work
commenced May 12, 1952, and was completed July 30,
1952, at a cost of $12,476.37.
28 City Document No. 24.
Renewing Certain Electric Wiri7ig, Conduits, etc., on
Four Bridge Drops at the South Ferry.
A contract was entered into with the Kay Electric
Company for necessary repairs and renewals of the elec-
tric systems. Work commenced August 25, 1952, and
was completed October 10, 1952, at a cost of $3,120.
Department Force.
During the year machinists, carpenters, painters,
riggers and other mechanics who are included in the
personnel of the Ferry Service, made such repairs to
the plant as the extent of materials and equipment at
their disposal would permit. This work consisted mainly
of minor repairs to the machinery on the boats, repairs
to ferry bridge machinery, ferry bridge roadways and
headhouse repairs in general.
Sumner Tunnel Service.
Cleaning Exhaust Duct, Exhaust Fan Rooms, and Fresh
Air Ducts at the Sumner Tunnel.
Under a contract entered into with James A. Freaney ,
Inc., for a periodic maintenance cleaning, work was
commenced December 5, 1951, and due to weather
conditions, which caused an accumulation of ice, work
was delayed and was completed June 6, 1952, at a cost
of $2,860.
Repairing the Pavement of the Sumner Tunnel.
Under a contract entered into with the Rufo Con-
struction Company for repairing the pavement, work
commenced November 13, 1951, and was completed
February 6, 1952, at a cost of $15,218.36.
Emergency Repairs to the Pavement of the Sumner Tunnel.
At completion of pavement repairs under a previous
contract, it was found that there were several small
areas requiring patching, and a contract was entered
into with the Rufo Construction Company, Inc., for
removal of approximately 400 square yards of old
Ultimite paving block and replacing the same with 200
square yards of new granite block and the remaining
200 square yards with the best of the old Ultimite
block. Work commenced March 26, 1952, and was
completed April 12, 1952, at a cost of $4,756.35.
Public AA^okks Department. 29
Repairing^ Cleaning and Painting Ventilating Equip-
ment at the Sumner Tunnel Ventilation Buildings.
A contract was entered into with Patrick J. Sullivan
for a periodic cleaning and painting of the ventilating
equipment. Work commenced April 7, 1952, and was
completed November 6, 1952, at a cost of $6,500.
Miscellaneous Cleaning, Painting and Minor Repair
Work at the Sumner Tunnel Administration Building.
A contract was entered into with John W, Egan Com-
pany for repairing and painting the Administration
Building. Work commenced April 7, 1952, and was
completed HnXy 3, 1952, at a cost of $1,929.
Miscellaneous Cleaning, Painting and Minor Repair Work
at the London Street Garage of the Sumner Tunnel.
A contract was entered into with M. Solimando for
making incidental repairs and renewals in connection
with the roofing, gutters, cornice, leaders, glazing and
painting. Work commenced August 20, 1952, and was
completed November 2, 1952, at a cost of $2,385.
Repairs to the Louvers at the Sumner Tunnel, East Boston
Ventila t ion B uild ing.
A contract was entered into with the Martin J.
Kelly Company, Inc., for replacing about 750 glass
louvers with Johns Manville transite panels. Work
commenced September 15, 1952, and was completed
October 3, 1952, at a cost of $2,478.
Cleaning Exhaust Duct and Exhaust Fan Rooms at the
Sumner Tunnel.
A contract was entered into with the Chemical Fire
and Rust Proofing Company, Inc., for a periodic
cleaning of the ducts and fan rooms. Work commenced
November 17, 1952, and was completed December 2,
1952, at a cost of $1,250.
Cleaning and Painting the 6-Inch Discharge Pipe,
Hangers, etc., at the Sumner Tunnel.
A contract was entered into with the M. & R. Con-
struction Company for cleaning and painting the
discharge pipe, etc. Work commenced November 17,
1952, and was completed December 1, 1952. at a cost
of $1,873.
30 City Document No. 24.
Cleaning the Surface Drainage System of the
Sumner Tunnel.
A contract was entered into with the James A.
Freaney Company, Inc., for a periodic cleaning of the
drainage system. Work was commenced November 18,
1952, and was completed December 10, 1952, at a
cost of $1,941.
Furnishing and Installing New Illuminated Signs, etc.,
at the Sum7ier Tunnel.
A contract was entered into with the Donnelly
Electric and Manufacturing Company for erecting a
new illuminated sign on the roof of the toll booths
at the East Boston Plaza. Work commenced December
22, 1952, and will be completed early in 1953, at an
estimated cost of $4,505.
Summary of Operations During 1952.
1. Vehicular Traffic.
1948 1949 1950 1951 1952
Total 8,754,645 9,162,266 9,283.700 9,466,660 9,583,972
Monthly average 729.545 763.622 773,641 788,883 798,664
Weekly average 168,356 176,197 178,045 182,051 184,307
Daily average 23,968 25,171 25,435 25,936 26,186
2. Power.
1948 1949 1950 1951 1952
Total Kilowatts 5,173,596 4,403,936 4,331,103 4,196,904 4,582,488
Number of Vehicles.. . 8,754,545 9,162,266 9,283,700 9,466,660 9,583,972
The Boston Edison Company supplies the electric power at
13,800 volts. This voltage is transformed to 2,300 volts, 460
volts and 115 volts for the operation of fans, pumps, heat,
lighting, etc.
3. Garaae Service.
1948 1949 1950 1951 1952
Tow Jobs 358 242 285 464 681
4. Booth Red Signal.
1948 1949 1950 1951 1952
Booth Red On 21 16 11 11 15
Total Duration
(Minutes) 146 83 150 108 217
5. Fires.
During the year there were no fires in the Tunnel.
Public Works Department. 31
6. Motors, Fans, Dampers, and Controllers.
All of the 28 fan motors and damper motors are in good
working condition. All of these motors are under routine
daily inspection.
Adjustments and repairs have been made to contacts and
relays of fan controllers as required.
New lubricating grease and oil for fans and motors have been
changed as per maintenance schedule. All bearings are in good
condition.
7. Circuit Breakers, Transformers, and Relays.
All circuit breakers and relays have been tested, overhauled
and reset for correct operating voltage. All transformers are
under constant inspection. Oil tests have been made and new
oil added to transformers as required.
8. Carbon Monoxide Equipment.
The four carbon monoxide analyzers and the Micro-Max
recorders are in daily operation. New chemicals have been
added as per operating schedule. Adjustments and calibra-
tions have been made as required in order to insure as efficient
operation as possible.
Due to the fact that these units have become obsolete, it
was becoming increasingly difficult to replace parts and main-
tain efficient operation. Accordingly, after funds were made
available, new analyzers were ordered in 1952, and it is expected
that the new units will be furnished and installed in 1953.
9. Telephoiu System.
Insulation and Megger tests of all telephone cables have
been made at various times during the year. The results of
these tests indicate that all telephone cables are in good
condition.
New hand sets, cords, relays, jacks, etc., have been installed
where defective equipment had to be replaced. The main
switchboard is in good working condition and working properly.
10. Storage Batteries.
Monthly voltmeter and hydrometer readings are taken as
per schedule and these tests indicate that all batteries are in
first class condition. Water has been added to the electrolyte
as required and all batteries are fully charged.
11. Motor Generators.
The four motor generators, including all panels and controls,
are under a routine maintenance schedule. Adjustments to
controls and brushes have been made to insure efficient
operation.
32 City Document No. 24.
12. Pumps.
All pumps in the harbor and portal pump rooms are in
working order. All foot valves and floats have been adjusted.
All defective valves and piping have been replaced.
13. Toll Equipment.
All toll registers, key boxes, and treadles are under daily
inspection and are in good condition and working properly.
Defective relays, counters and contacts, etc., have been re-
placed cr repaired as needed. Routine insulation and Megger
tests of cables and treadles have been made. All defective
treadles were removed and replaced with new ones or returned
to the manufacturer for repairs.
14. Traffic Signals.
All broken glass and lenses have been replaced as required.
All defective push buttons, broken relays, contacts, etc., have
been repaired or replaced at the signal cabinets as required.
15. Tunnel, General.
Two new treadles were purchased during the past year to
replace old and defective treadles that had become obsolete.
All dust and dirt was removed from the exhaust air duct and
exhaust fan rooms.
Drop inlets, catch basins, harbor pump room sump and
portal pump rooms were cleaned.
New uniform overcoats, hats and shirts were issued to the
sergeants and tollman-guards.
The Porter Street approaches to the East Boston Plaza
were redesigned by the State Public Works Department in
order to conform to the plans for the new East Boston Express-
way and it was necessary to remove three lighting standards
from the area. This expressway was opened to the public on
September 1, 1952.
Public Works Department. 33
Work For Other Divisions.
Sanitary Division.
Construction of a New Building for the Sanitary Division
at 17 U West Second Street, South Boston.
Plans and specifications were prepared by this division
in 1951 for a new Administration Building to be built
at an estimated cost of $40,000. Work was commenced
in November, 1951, and was completed June 25, 1952,
at a total cost of 139,781.50.
Miscellaneous.
Snow Removal.
Another duty of the Bridge Section of this division
during the winter months was the supervising and in-
specting of snow loading and removal in common with
other divisions of the department. This work was
done under contract with the C. & R. Construction
Companj^, in area No. 12, at a cost of $3,701.87, and
with the Atlantic Roads Company, in area No. 13, at
a cost of $2,418.42.
34 City Document No. 24.
Bridge Service.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR 1952.
Total Expenditures.
From Maintenance Appropriation . . $797,492 81
From Special Appropriation .... 410,424 03
Expenditures on the Boston Bridges.
Administration.
Division engineer $3,923 59
Engineers, inspectors, clerks . . . 92,361 63
Supervisor, deputy supervisor . . . 8,831 54
Office.
Printing, postage, stationery . . . $2,682 57
Engineers' instruments, new and repaired 197 00
Typewriter and adding machine servicfe . 276 17
Blue print room 141 00
Binding 24 60
Yard and Stockroom.
Yard.
Clerks, yardmen $15,894 38
Chauffeurs 10,096 75
Holiday, sick leave and vacations . . 12,754 79
Traveling expenses 415 93
Tools, new and repaired .... 5,955 43
Telephone 769 50
Repairs in j'ard 461 22
Fuel 798 81
Light 275 52
Supplies and miscellaneous . . . 2,573 83
$1,207,916 84
$105,116 76
3,321 34
$108,438 10
$49,996 16
Public Works Department.
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Tidewater Bridges, 1952.
Bridges.
Drawtenders'
Salaries.
Mechanics'
Wages.
Material.
Repair
Bills.
Supplies.
Total.
Broadway
Charlestown
Chelsea South
i Chelsea Street . . .
Congress Street . .
Dover Street
*L Street
Maiden
Northern Avenue
Summer Street. . .
Warren
Totals
$38,100 98
63,646 48
33,028 85
49,677 08
45,796 56
39,015 80
42,828 44
45,513 56
48,309 10
42,042 66
44.791 02
$3,463 81
8,547 85
1,006 50
3,348 86
5,302 20
3,991 21
3,587 01
3,381 76
12,626 74
7,745 34
9,111 83
$296 34
3,005 91
517 88
663 31
1,472 59
828 30
496 04
1,106 68
4,189 15
3,105 96
1,071 05
$1,014 35
3,465 93
1,076 66
958 75
1,024 31
1,040 17
372 05
554 05
3,075 45
3,020 68
3,263 49
$275 90
702 29
77 76
330 75
296 71
248 44
223 42
174 33
591 88
151 99
307 49
$43,150 88
79,368 46
35,707 65
54,978 75
53,892 37
45,123 92
47,506 96
50,730 38
68,792 32
56,066 63
58,544 88
$492,750 53
$62,112 61
$16,753 21
$18,865 89
$3,380 96
$593,863 20
* Now Summer Street, over Reserved Channel.
Repairs on Inland Bridges, 1952.
Bridges.
Labor
and
Material.
Allston
$364 87
1,014 62
354 98
1,070 01
2,881 36
669 60
681 83
588 12
797 68
370 57
523 88
848 81
279 54
300 00
835 68
530 81
Everett Street
3,222 31
$15,334 72
36 City Document No. 24.
Repairs on Inland Bridges, 1952. — Concluded.
BRirGES.
Labor
and
Material.
Brought forward
Everett Street (East Boston)
Follen Street
Glenwood Avenue
Irvington Street
Jones Avenue
Massachusetts Avenue (over New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad) .
Mt. Washington Avenue
Neptune Road
Perkins Street
Redfield Street
Reservation Road
Reservoir Road
Southampton Street
Sprague Street
Summer Street, over A Street
Summer Street, over B Street
Summer Street, over C Street
ToUgate Way
West Fourth Street
Winthrop
Snow and sanding
Cleaning bridges
Other services
$15,334 72
407 29
586 74
479 14
1 20
534 36
481 94
107 38
304 67
480 18
1,014 56
631 95
540 82
715 48
914 46
260 72
2,746 11
2,265 31
803 63
2,906 06
832 09
4,337 58
6,272 50
3,811 34
Total .
$46,770 23
SUMMARY.
Administration .
Yard and stockroom
Tidewater bridges
Inland bridges .
Total
Stock purchased
Stock used
Decrease in stock
Net total .
$22,423 85
23,998 73
$108,438 10
49,996 16
593,863 20
46,770 23
$799,067 69
1,574 88
$797,492 81
Public Works Department.
37
SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS.
Bridges, Repairs, Etc.
Broadway Bridge — Emergency repaii-s to steelwork —
Industrial Welding Company
Charlestown Bridge Storehouses — steel repairs, etc. — A. Or-
lando, Inc
Charlestown Bridge — strengthening Piers 4, 5, and 6 —
Crandall Engineering Company
Norfolk Street Bridge — New York, New Haven & Hart-
ford Railroad Companj' — city's proportionate cost of
repairs
Summer Street Bridge, over Reserved Channel — repairs to
drawspan. Eastern Roads Company, Inc.
Summer Street Bridge, over Reserved Channel — emergency
repairs to approaches, Eastern Roads Company, Inc.
Summer Street Bridge, over Fort Point Channel — alter-
ations and repairs to roadway railings. Industrial Weld-
ing Company
Warren Bridge, over Charles River — repairing pile bracing,
Eastern Roads Company, Inc
West Fourth Street Bridge, over New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad, and Broadway Bridge, over Boston
& Albany Railroad — repairs, Martin J. Kelly Com-
pany, Inc
City Record — Advertising various contracts ....
Thompson Lichtner Company, Inc. — tests ....
$2,998 85
21,662
95
64,906 56
8,838 84
26,383
15
1,199
29
1,928 00
15,193
88
68,927
49
289
50
5
00
Total $312,333 51
Bridges, Construction of.
Charlestown Bridge, over the Charles River — strengthening $40,698 13
Meridian Street Bridge — engineering services, Maguu-e
Associates
57,392 39
$98,090 52
SUMMARY.
Expenditures from Special Appropriations, 1952.
Balances
from
1951.
Total Credits,
Including
Balances
Carried Over
and Transfers.
Expended
During Year
1952.
Unexpended
Balances
December 31,
1952.
Bridges, Repairs, etc ... .
Bridges, construction of —
(Revenue)
Bridges, construction of —
(Non-Revenue)
$191,849 86
161,236 59
2,231,946 93
$501,549 86
161,536 59
3,231,946 93
$312,333 51
98,090 52
$189,216 35
161,536 59
3,133,856 41
Totals
$2,585,033 38
$3,895,033 38
$410,424 03
$3,484,609 35
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FERRY SERVICE.
Financial Statement for Year Ending December 31, 1952.
Total cash receipts for Ferry Service during the
year $21,193 09
Cash in hands of tollmen at Ijeginning of year . 60 00
Petty cash held by cashier 50 00
$21,303 09
Cash paid to City Collector $21,303 09
Breakdown of Toll Receipts.
From foot passengers $3,186 59
From vehicles 18,006 50
Total receipts $21,193 09
From Foot From
Passengers. Vehicles.
Boston Side $1,607 04 $8,699 10
East Boston Side .... 1,579 55 9,307 40
Totals $3,186 59 $18,006 50
Additional Income Received by Ferry Service, 1952.
New England Telephone & Telegraph Company,
cleaning of telephone booth $24 00
Mills Automatic Merchandising Company, concession 85 00
Tide Water Associated Oil Company, refund on oil
drums 25 00
Esso Standard Oil Company, refund on oil driuns . 141 82
Boston Junk Company, sale of junk . . . . 118 15
New England Telephone & Telegraph Company,
telephone commissions 15 51
Total $409 48
Travel on the South Ferry from January 1, 1952, to
April 30, 1952.
Foot passengers 93,786 (Ic)
Pushcarts 425 (5c)
One- and two-horse t^am with driver . . 740 (5c)
Passenger auto with driver and passengers . 29,979 (10c)
Truck, six tons or less 5,106 (15c)
Truck, over six tons 4,450 (20c)
40
City Document No. 24.
May 1, 1952, to December 31, 1952 — Under New Rate
Schedule.
Foot passengers
Pushcarts
One- and two-horse vehicle
Passenger auto
Truck, under two tons
Tractor under two tons
Truck, two to five tons
Tractor, two to five tons
Truck, five to ten tons
Tractor, five to ten tons
Truck, over ten tons
Bus
Tractor, over ten tons .
Motorcycles .
224,873
(Ic)
2,322
(5c)
3,022
(10c)
63,742
(15c)
3,914
(20c)
184
(20c)
3,459
(25c)
50
(25c)
1,129
(35c)
33
(35c)
19
(70c)
36
(70c)
1,152
($1)
208
(10c)
Sumner Tunnel Service.
Annual Traffic by Classification for the Year 1952.
No. of
Class. Toll. Descriptiox. Vehicles.
1. $0 20 Truck not in excess of 2 tons capacity.
Tractor without trailer 509,751
2. 0 20 Passenger car 8,838,492
3. 0 20 Motorcycle 3,096
4. 0 25 Truck over 2 tons and up to 5 tons capacity.
Tractor with trailer over 2 tons and up to
5 tons capacity 49,505
5. 0 20 Passenger car with trailer 11,357
6. 0 35 Truck over 5 tons and up to 10 tons capacity.
Tractor with trailer over 5 tons and up to
10 tons capacity 15,584
7. 0 20 Tractor with trailer not in excess of 2 tons
capacity 1,383
8. 1 00 Truck over 10 tons capacity. Tractor with
trailer over 10 tons capacit}' .... 5,460
9. 0 35 Bus with or without passengers .... 430
* City-owned tl48,914
Total traffic 9,583,972
* MTA and Eastern Massachusetts Railway included in this classification.
t 695 MTA and 72,611 Eastern Massachusetts Railway buses at 35 cents included in
this total.
Comparative Annual Traffic Count.
1948
1949 1950
1951
1952
8,754,545
9,162,266
9,283,700
9,466,660
9,583,972
Public Works Department.
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11— HIGHWAY SECTION.
Paving Service.
Summary of Budget Appropriations.
Balance
Appropriation. Total Credits. E.xpeuditures. Unexpended.
Paving Service $1,478,936 03 $1,472,439 90 $6,496 13
Reconstruction of Streets 146,064 01 94,639 75 51,424 26
Public Ways, Construction
of (Revenue) 157,500 00 157,500 00 None
Public Waj^s, Construction
of (Non-revenue). . .... 3,844,972 71 2,536,633 80 $1,308,338 91
Sidewalks, Construction
and Reconstruction of.. 126,912 49 78,944 69 47,967 80
Street Signs 22,826 28 8,455 87 14,370 41
Snow Removal 477,836 48 476,360 80 1,475 68
The amount of money taken in through the Permit
Office was $61,365.16; of this amount $23,177.56 was
deposited with the City Collector for fees received,
$35,161.60 was deposited with the City Collector for
the Street Openings Account, and $3,026 was billed to
the Public Service Corporations. There are now on
file 2,278 bonds protecting the City of Boston against
claims that may be made on account of the permits
issued.
The regular forces of the Paving Service were em-
ployed as usual in the maintenance of public streets,
resurfacing and patching macadam pavements, patching
permanent pavements such as asphalt and granite
block, and maintaining gravel, brick, and artificial stone
sidewalks.
In the snow removal season, division forces were em-
ployed in spreading rock salt and sand on icy streets
and also supervised plowing work done throughout the
city by 245 contractors' hired plows after six snow-
storms. All snow removal bills for plowing, hauling,
force account work, cubic yard removal, etc., were
processed through the Paving Service office.
The following work was done in placing new street
signs and replacing and repairing existing street signs:
156 New street sign posts erected with frames and signs
21 New Hero sign posts erected with signs
817 Street sign name plates installed
133 Bent or broken sign posts repaired
Public Works Department. 43
62 Hero signs replaced
2,295 Street sign posts painted
218 Street sign frames repaired
4,075 Street sign frames painted
310 Street sign frames, collars, and brackets erected on
light poles
Contracts were awarded for the construction and
reconstruction of 146 streets during the year, and 113
of these were completed. Work was also completed on
39 streets which were unfinished from 1951. Contracts
were awarded for the construction of artificial stone
sidewalks in 43 streets, and 35 of these were completed.
Some of the more important thoroughfares recon-
structed by contract during 1952 were:
Belgrade avenue. West Roxbury, Robert street to Centre
street.
Bennington street. East Boston, Central square to Walley
street.
Broadway, City Proper, Tremont street to bridge over
Boston & Albany Railroad.
Brookline avenue, Roxbury, southwest of Riverway to
Pilgrim road.
Cambridge street, Brighton, Union square to Washington
street.
Cambridge street. City Proper, North Anderson street to
Scollay square.
Centre street, Roxbury, Columbus avenue to John Eliot
square.
Congress street, City Proper, Atlantic avenue to bridge
over Fort Point Channel.
Dorchester avenue, City Proper, Congress street to
Summer street.
Dorchester street. South Boston, East First street to
East Broadway.
Harvard street, Dorchester, Blue Hill avenue to Morton
street.
Hyde Park avenue, Hyde Park, Pingree street to Wolcott
street.
Massachusetts avenue, Roxbury, East Cottage street to
Albany street.
Massachusetts avenue, Roxbury, Albany street to Colum-
bus avenue.
Saratoga street, East Boston, bridge over MTA tracks to
bridge over Belle Isle inlet.
South Huntington avenue, Roxbury and West Roxbury,
Huntington avenue to Centre street.
Spring street, West Roxbury, northeast of Centre street to
southwest of Route 1.
44 City Document No. 24.
Tremont street, City Proper, Scollay square to Boylston
street.
Washington street, Brighton, Cambridge street to Newton
line.
The following is a list of streets constructed or recon-
structed in the various wards throughout the city in
the year 1952:
Ward 1 — Saratoga street (chapter 90), Antrim street,
Marion street, Monmouth street, Bennington street
(chapter 90), Waldemar avenue, Saratoga street (sidewalks),
Shelby street (sidewalks), White street (sidewalks), Princeton
street, London street (sidewalks). Total cost, $318,506.99.
Ward 2 — Adams street. Common street. Park street.
Total cost, $8,727.94.
Ward 3 — Broadway, Aver}^ street, Bedford street,
Church Green, East street, Edinboro street. South street,
Tremont street, Utica street, West street, Public Alley
No. 101, Atlantic avenue (fence). Curve street, Harrison
avenue (B-E), Cambridge street (chapter 90), Dorchester
avenue. Congress street. Total cost, $200,413.06.
Ward 4 — Huntington avenue (fence), Huntington ave-
nue (sidewalks), Public Alley No. 901, Brookline avenue
(chapter 90). Total cost, $87,000.95.
Ward 5 — Berkeley street (sidewalks), Jersey street,
Melrose street, Public Alley No. 432, Public Alley No. 435,
Stuart street (sidewalks), Broadway, Tremont street, Apple-
ton street, Jefferson street, Beacon street (sidewalks). Park
street. Total tost, $45,331.02.
Ward 6 — K street, I street, Dorchester street. East
Third street, Emerson street, P street (sidewalks), East
Third street (sidewalks), East Seventh street (sidewalks),
Baldwin street, Baxter street, Richards street, Swallow
street. West Fourth street. Total cost, $56,983.17.
Ward 7 — K street, I street. Marine Road, Massachusetts
avenue (Chapter 90), East Seventh street (sidewalks),
Thomas park (sidewalks). Old Harbor street (sidewalks),
Hatch street (sidewalks). Viking street, Boston street,
Massachusetts avenue. Total cost, $92,510.46.
Ward 8 — Massachusetts avenue (chapter 90), Dover
street, Harrison avenue (M — EB), Maiden street. Total
cost, $111,261.18.
Ward 9 — Centre street, Dorr street, Lambert avenue,
Roxbury street, Station street, Washington street (W— R).
Total cost, $108,793.65.
Ward 10 — South Huntington avenue (chapter 90) . Total
cost, $103,790.31.
Public Works Department. 45
AVard U — West Walnut park, Centre street, Ritchie
street. Dorr street, Lambert avenue, Highland street (side-
walks), Stonley road, School street (sidewalks). Total cost,
$54,942.18.
Ward 12 — Ottawa street (sidewalks), Rockland street
(sidewalks), Sherman street (sidewalks), Rock street (side-
walks). Total cost, $12,970.
Ward 13— Do^^^ley court. Total cost, .$3,147.80.
Ward 14 — Harvard street. Abbot street, Lyford street,
Nightingale street, Wales street, Fenelon street, Harvard
avenue, Magnolia street, Mallon road, Merrill street, Old
road, Evelyn street. Total cost, $110,496.36.
Ward 15 — None.
Ward 16 — Tilman street. Souther road, Edwin street,
Helena road, King street, Hallet street. Total cost,
$41,760.08.
Ward 17 — Burt street, Colonial avenue, New England
avenue, Harvard park. Pleasant Hill terrace, Mother Julia
road, Bloomfield street, Gaylord street, Herbert street,
Geneva avenue (sidewalks). Total cost, $63,678.40.
Ward 18 — Beacon street, Riverside square, Canterbury
street. Badger road, Littledale street, Manchester street.
Crown street, Suncrest road, Marcy road, Hyde Park
avenue, and Milton street (chapter 90), Monponset street.
Total cost, $284,451.61.
Ward 19 — Boylston street, Lamartine street, Archdale
road, Brookway road, Centre street (widening). Arboretum
road, Fowle street, Harris avenue, Neillian Crescent (side-
walks), Pond street. Total cost, $93,287.65.
Ward 20 — Belgrade avenue (chapter 90), DeSoto road
(sidewalks), Spring street (chapter 90), Clement avenue,
Farmington road, Baker place, Cedrus avenue, Jacqueline
road, Carlson Circle, Johnson street, Vincent road, Avalon
road (sidewalks), Garnet road (sidewalks), Maple street
(sidewalks), Rickerhill road (sidewalks), Westover street
(sidewalks), Willow street (sidewalks), Bellevue street, De-
Soto road, Shaw street, Tennyson street, Anawan avenue,
Allenwood street. Beech street, Westmount avenue, Man-
thorne road (sidewalks), Sherbrook street (sidewalks),
Chilton road (sidewalks), Albano street, Manthorne road,
Sanborn avenue. Total cost, $504,291.85.
Ward 21 — Colborne Path, Sidlaw road. Total cost,
$8,075.41.
Ward 22 — Nonantum street. North Crescent Circuit,
Sparhawk street, Cambridge and Washington streets (chap-
ter 90), Bigelow Circle, Burton street, Eric road, Weitz
street, Brayton road, Glenley terrace. Total cost,
$273,297.76.
46
City Document No. 24.
WORK DONE BY CONTRACT IN 1952.
Earth and services excavation .
Rock and wall excavation .
Bank gravel, placed
Crushed stone, placed .
Existing base removed
Existing pavement removed
Straight edgestone, set
Circular edgestone, set
2 foot corners, set ....
Edgestone reset ....
Edgestone hauled to city yards .
Macadam base, placed
OA asphalt, placed
Concrete base, placed .
Concrete for backing up sidewalks
placed
Bituminous concrete base (roadway)
placed
Bituminous concrete top (roadway)
placed
Bituminous concrete base (sidewalk)
placed
Bituminous concrete top (sidewalk)
placed
Sheet asphalt top, placed
Artificial stone sidewalks, laid
Artificial stone driveways, laid .
Loam spaces, placed
Covers reset
Bradley heads reset
Brick courses, laid
Catch basins or manholes rebuilt
Catch basins or drop inlets built
Sign posts set or reset .
Parking meters reset
Stone bounds, placed .
63,242
1,821
59,127
12,457
7,451
52,164
32,659
2,784
1,033
58,065
4,613
2,573
25,496
4,096
cubic yards
cubic yards
tons
tons
square yards
square yards
linear feet
linear feet
linear feet
linear feet
tons
gallons
cubic yards
34 cubic yards
41,862 tons
20,838 tons
1,864 tons
1,537 tons
6,263 tons
730,925 square feet
62,746 square feet
2,066 square yards
2,783
36
5,033
90
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Table Showing Length
AND Area of Paving on Accepted Streets,
Corrected to
January 1
, 1953.
Length in Miles.
Area in Square Yards.
Sheet
Asphalt.
Asphalt
Concrete.
Granite
Block.
Wood
Block.
Plank
Bridges.
Brick.
Con-
crete.
Macadam,
Gravel.
Not
Graded.
Totals.
Sheet
Asphalt.
Asphalt
Concrete.
Granite
Block.
Wood
Block.
Plank
Bridges.
Brick.
Concrete.
Macadam.
Gravel.
Not
Graded.
Totals.
Year 1951 Report
*246.79
34.07
t240.01
33.13
{42.29
3.84
0.40
0.06
0.48
0.07
0.51
0.07
§23.25
3.21
11160.93
22.21
8.55
1.18
1.15
0.18
724.42
100.00
*5.002.048
35.97
t4,515.497
32.47
tl, 126.162
8.10
8,815
0.06
11,690
0.09
11,413
0.08
§439,329
3.30
112,606,712
18.75
129,397
0.93
34,731
0.25
13,903,994
January 1. 1953.
50.53
4.91
4.91
12.33
42.26
41.69
59.00
22.19
9.28
26.53
4.83
10.17
13.40
27.97
59.49
07.30
28.82
13.34
12.14
0.53
4.49
7.65
4.60
2.87
0.78
0.30
0.09
0.08
0.01
0.03
0.10
0.05
0.05
0.06
0.32
0,02
0.02
0.14
0.01
3.04
0.79
0.41
0.52
0.13
4.44
5.40
1.23
0.03
3.21
5.42
9.99
9.33
13.02
40.04
37.70
12.33
18.76
0.32
0,03
0.12
0.13
0.51
2.35
1.78
0.28
4.36
0.01
0.04
0.50
0.20
0.02
0.20
96.28
22.65
36.21
44.01
93.63
131.12
172.90
03.23
46.63
1.122,539
97,677
107,825
263,975
847,599
755,618
1,129,046
497.982
171,328
596.605
79.856
351,774
233,129
310,974
1.081,381
1,233,070
552,213
268,894
259,729
171,008
08.085
222.892
S7.922
102,334
34,653
27,442
6,318
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2,011
325
1,109
47
1,609
186
3.623
1,701
777
1.737
983
770
1,231
702
4.862
393
1,378
4.627
145
94.349
13,488
14,739
22.545
78.870
62.443
86,755
30,443
10,086
48,548
75,302
217.061
153,362
188,062
631,733
583,537
197,475
312,409
2,944
407
2.244
1,713
7,793
36,133
25,149
4,221
68,854
41
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13,754
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8,536
1.737
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939,594
1,725,921
0.00
0.01
0.04
0.04
0.08
0.05
2,679,685
3,098,537
1,311,037
843,283
39.36
5.41
0.28
0,04
0.47
0.06
0.51
0.07
21.61
2.97
149.82
20.68
9.90
1.36
0.97
0.13
727.87
100.00
4,993,589
35.75
4,928,402
33.28
1,010,403
7.23
6,301
0.05
11.324
0.08
11,403
0.08
413,720
2.96
2,411,311
17.27
149,458
1.07
31,493
0.23
13,967,806
33.95
35.43
100.00
Note. — In the above table the city is subdivided substantially on the bo
* Of this amount 0.09 mile or 810 square yards is Biturock.
X Of this amount 0.02 mile or 185 square yards is cobble; and 24.02
square yards is granite block paving on concrete base.
' '~-' ■• ■ 0.06 mile or 405 square yards is Blome granitoid
Total Public Streets 727.87 Miles.
adary lines between the districts as they existed when annexed to Boston. Territory £
t Of this amount 177.82 r
mexed from BrookUne included in City Proper.
■ 729.75G
Crete block.
3,336,076 square yards is asphalt concrete; and 74.55
miles or 1,479.342 square yards is BituUthjc; and 3.61 nules or 58,828 square yards is
Topeka; and 0.06 miles or 920 square yards is Filbertine; and 0.11 miles or 1.533 square
yards is Simasco; and 0.03 miles or 595 square yards is Carey Elastite Asphalt Plank; and
0.06 mile or 518 square yards is Johns-Manville Asphalt Plank; and 1.61 miles or 50,590
square yards is tar concrete.
,452 square yards public alleys included in this table; 7.57 miles or 335,302 square yards public streets in charge of Park Department included in this table; 7.77 miles or 254,939 square yards
pubUc streets in charge of Commonwealth of Massachusetts included in this table. In addition to this table there are 2.25 miles or 1 1,006 square yards of accepted footways.
128.90 miles or 2,099,023 square yards is bituminous macadam.
Public Works Department.
47
REPORT OF WORK DONE BY DEPARTMENT
FORCES FOR 1952.
Brick sidewalks, laid and relaid .
Gravel sidewalks, relaid
Artificial stone sidwalks, laid (new)
Artificial stone sidewalks, relaid (old)
Bituminous concrete sidewalks, laid
Block gutters, laid
Granite block roadway, laid
Artificial stone sidewalks, patched
with black top ....
Edgestone reset (old) .
Macadam roadway patched
Macadam roadway resurfaced .
Street cleaning ....
Snow removal ....
6,868 square yards
1,545 square yards
12,904 square feet
180,223 square feet
13,364 square yards
168 square yards
262 square yards
11,967 square feet
6,214 linear feet
187,258 square yards
14,108 square yards
6,250 cubic yards
73,342 cubic yards
48
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Public Works Department. 49
LIGHTING SERVICE.
Financial Statement.
Total credits for 1952 $1,322,329 03
Expenditures 1,313,983 19
Unexpended S8,345 84
ExpeJiditures:
Electric Lighting:
Boston Edison Company .11,081,293 76
Boston Consolidated Gas
Company .... 103,692 97 $1,184,986 73
Gas Lighting:
American Service Company .
Boston Consolidated Gas
Company ....
Salaries
Construction :
Installing, removing and re-
locating lamps .
Office expense :
Printing
Postage
66,915 32
6,862 23
73,777 55
9,930 16
9,930 16
17,230 31
17,230 31
63 14
36 00
99 14
Miscellaneous:
Globes, domes, mantles, etc. 27,959 30 27,959 30
$1,313,983 19
The following is a statement of work done by the
Lighting Service during 1952.
Electric lamps of 1,500 c.p. (mercury vapor) were in-
stalled on Beacon street (14), City Proper.
Electric lamps of 1,000 c.p. (mercury vapor) were in-
stalled on Brookline avenue (37), City Proper.
Electric lamps of 2,000 c.p. (twin 1,000 c.p.) were in-
stalled on Massachusetts avenue (3), City Proper;
Bennington street (69), East Boston.
Electric lamps of 1,000 c.p. were installed on Cam-
bridge street (2), Commonwealth avenue (6), Market
50 City Document No. 24.
street (5), Washington street (21), Brighton; Berkeley
street (1), Edgerly road (1), Huntington avenue (2),
Massachusetts avenue (14), Mountfort street (2), New-
bury street (3), Park Drive (3), shopping area (30),
Summer street (1), Temple place (1), Worcester street
(2), City Proper; Dorchester avenue (2), Dorchester;
Bennington street (2), East Boston; Warren street (1),
Roxbury; Hyde Park avenue (2), West Roxbury.
Electric lamps of 600 c.p. were installed on North
Harvard street (22), Brighton; Magnolia street (1),
Quincy street (5), Dorchester; Bennington street (1),
East Boston; Walworth street (1), West Roxbury.
Electric street lamps of 400 c.p. were installed on
Keswick street (1), Revere street (1), City Proper; Har-
low street (1), Kingsdale street (2), Howard avenue (1),
MagnoHa street (4), Dorchester; Elm Hill avenue (2),
Schuyler street (1), Mt. Pleasant terrace (1), Yeoman
street (1), Roxbury; East Fourth street (2), Gavin Way
(1), Marine road (6), South Boston; Amory street (1),
Garden terrace (1), West Roxburj'.
Electric lamps of 250 c.p. were installed on Nonantum
street (9), Lincoln street (14), Brighton; Bradford street
(2), City Proper; Esmond street (9), Dorchester; ArHng-
ton street (1), Hyde Park; West Walnut park (3), Rox-
bury; La Grange street (32), Farmington road (5),
Walworth street (1), West Roxbury.
Electric lamps of 11 c.p. were installed on CooUdge
road (1), Hooker street (1), Montfern avenue (1),
Murdock street (1), Bigelow Circle (1), Brighton; Elm
street (1), Livermore street (4), O'Connell road (1),
Maryknoll street (2), Verndale street (1), Granger street
(1), Wolcott street (1), Mountain avenue (1), Mother
JuHa road (1), Minot street (1), Lorenzo street (1),
Brent street (1), Roseclair street (1), Avondale street
(1), Evans street (2), Hazleton street (1), Crowell street
(1), Christopher street (3), Dorchester; Burke's court
(1), Moore street (1), East Boston; Church street (1),
Tractor avenue (1), WiUiams street (1), Huntington
avenue (1), Hyde Park; Walnut park (3), Munroe street
(1), Washington park (13), Roxbury; Cornell street (2),
Colberg avenue (1), Latin road (2), Orange street (2),
Autumn street (1), Bobohnk street (1), Lyall street (2),
Gardner street (1), Rowe street (1), Gould street (1),
Zamora court (1), Newburg street (1), Glade avenue (1),
Canterbury street (1), St. Theresa avenue (1), Rock-
wood street (2), Cass street (1), Vincent street (1),
Public Works Department. 51
Carroll street (1), Hazelmere road (1), Parley Vale (1),
West Roxbury.
During the year 400 lamps of 100 c.p. were installed in
various suburban areas and 950 gas lamps were removed
and replaced by an equal number of electric lamps of
100 c.p.
Electric fire alarm lamps were installed on Chestnut
Hill avenue (1), Sutherland road (1), Nottinghill road
(1), Cambridge street (2), Brighton; Dorchester avenue
(1), Dudley street (1), River street (2), Dorchester;
Chelsea street (1), Prescott street (1), Porter street (1),
Bennington street (1), East Boston; Wj^man street (1),
Hunneman street (1), Dudley street (1), Ferrin street
(1), Roxbury; West Fifth street (1), South Boston;
Washington street (1), Centre street (1), Corey street
(1), West Roxbury.
52
City Document No. 24.
APPENDIX C.
REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER
THE SANITARY DIVISION.
OF
Boston, January 2, 1953.
To the Commissioner of Public Works.
Dear Sir:
Herewith I submit a statement of the expenditures
and activities of the Sanitary Division of the Pubhc
Works Department for the year ending December 31,
1952.
The total cost of operation of the Sanitary Division
for 1952 is as follows:
Budget expenditures .... $5,270,095 60
Motor vehicle cost .... 268,292 76
Total cost
),538,388 36
The cost of operation of this division was obtained
by adding the cost of motor vehicle operation, as sub-
mitted by the Automotive Division, to the budget
expenditures of the Sanitary Division.
The cost, recapitulated and compared with the previ-
ous year (1951), is shown as follows:
Item.
1951.
1952.
Decrease.
Increase.
Waste collection and disposal . .
$.3,128,131 82
2,071.508 14
62,630 77
4,474 76
5 00
83,061,918 96
2,431,926 58
44,542 82
$66,212 86
$360,418 44
Preventive street cleaning
1961 costs paid in 1952
18,087 95
4,474 76
5 00
Totals
$5,266,750 49
$5,538,388 36
5,266.750 49
$88,780 57
$360,418 44
88,780 57
$271,637 87
$271,637 87
The general over-all increase in Sanitary Division
costs amounted to S271,637.87.
However, the reclassification of the employees, retro-
active to April 2, 1952, accounts for $155,587.64 of this
amount, leaving a net increase of $88,223.92 in other
accounts.
Public Works Department. 53
The larger increases were as follows:
(Amounts larger than $2,000) :
Disposal $37,500 00
Public Works supplies . . 41,898 27
Non-automotive parts . . 6,296 40
Automobile equipment . . 14,411 70
Automobile supplies . . . 2,562 16
Electrical and mechanical
equipment .... 6,821 11
The larger decreases were :
Professional services in 1951 . $5,800 00
Waste contract (collection) . 4,479 76
$109,489 64
10,279 76
),209 88
Other items under $2,000 (net decrease) . . 1 10,985 96
$88,223 92
1 . Waste Collection and Disposals. — Although there
was a $37,500 increase in the cost of disposal contract
and a decrease in collection contracts, as well as payroll
increase on account of the reclassification of employees,
there was a net decrease in this account of $66,212.86.
2. Street Cleaning. — The $360,418.44 increase in this
account was almost entirely due to increased pajTolls.
3. Preventive Street Cleaning. — ^The decrease in this
account, amounting to $18,087.95, is due to the decrease
in the number of constables, which dropped from 24
at the end of 1951 to 12 at the end of 1952.
Personnel Changes in Permanent Force During the Year 1952:
Total personnel January 1, 1952 *783
Transfers in (from other departments and divi-
sions) 26
New appointments 26
Reinstatements 3
55
838
Deaths 8
Resignations 8
Retirements 16
Transfers out (to other departments and divisions) 39
Discharged or terminated 13
84
Total personnel January 1, 1953 1 754
* Includes four military leaves. f Includes two military leaves.
Net loss of 29 employees.
54 City Document No. 24.
The Salt Transfer Depot on Southampton street was
torn down to make way for the new market faciHties at
this location. However, the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad Company built a new salt depot, at
an estimated expense to the railroad of $12,000. Thus
the city is still provided with a facihty whereby rock
salt is discharged directly from hopper cars into trucks
below without rehandling.
The reclassification of city employees went into effect
in December, 1952, retroactive to April 2, 1952.
On April 1, 1952, a new contract policy was estab-
lished. Contracts now will run for a 12-month period
beginning April 1 in each year.
Property on Gardner street, West Roxbury, was ac-
quired for a sanitary fill method of waste disposal.
There is ample area available as well as suitable covering
material and gravel for Public Works Department use.
Permission was granted by the Massachusetts Depart-
ment of Public Works to deposit refuse in the ''turning
basin" in the South Bay off Atkinson street, as well as
in abandoned slips nearby.
The Port of Boston Authority gave permission to
deposit refuse on flats at the sewage pumping station,
under restrictions relating to the area used and the
proper cover of the material.
Negotiations were initiated toward acquiring land
from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts upon which
to construct a 750-ton incinerator.
The South Boston District Building was completed,
and now provides modern facilities for Sanitary, Street
Cleaning, Motor Pool, Mobile Patrol activities and
operations.
The contract with Kennedy Brothers for sale of gar-
bage at $3,000 monthly continued for the second year
of its duration.
The following-listed new equipment was acquired
during the year 1952:
3 Mechanical sweepers 5 Dump trucks
1 Passenger car
Respectfully submitted,
Adolph J. Post,
Division Engineer.
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APPENDIX D.
REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF
THE SEWER DIVISION
Boston, January 2, 1953.
To the Commissioner of Public Works.
Dear Sir:
I submit herewith statement of the activities and
and expenditures of the Sewer Division for the year
ending December 31, 1952.
Expenditures During 1952. — The activities of the
Sew^er Division during the year consisted of sewer con-
struction at a contract cost of $620,714.64, as shown on
attached schedule of the work done, and the maintenance
and operation of the sewer system at a cost of
$806,795.57.
Contract Work.- — Contract work consisted of the
extension of the sewer system to provide drainage for
new buildings and street construction and to eliminate
cesspools, the locations and cost of which are attached.
Maintenance Work.- — Maintenance work consisted of
the cleaning of 1,876 catch basins by contract and 3,969
by yard forces, the freeing of stopped sewers and catch
basins, and the repair of sewers, manholes, and catch
basins by the yard forces and the operation of the pump-
ing station and disposal works, the cost of which is
attached.
Special Work. — Special work consisted of completely
overhauhng the sewage screen at the Union Park Street
Pumping Station by yard forces. Also, the yard forces
installed seven top-hung metal Calco tide gates to
replace side-hung wooden tide gates. A contract was
let for the installation at the Calf Pasture Pumping
Station of two 36-inch diameter motor-operated pump
discharge gates, which work started May 29, 1951, and
was completed October 15, 1952, at a cost of $9,625.
Covering in Open Brooks. — During the year 1952,
Shepard Brook, Brighton, Colorado Street Brook, Dor-
chester, and part of Spring Street Brook, West Roxbury,
were enclosed in conduits.
Public Works Department. 59
Shepard Brook from Western avenue through private
land, for a distance of 1,058 linear feet was enclosed in a
36-inch diameter reinforced concrete conduit at a cost
of $20,453.88.
Colorado Street Brook was relocated in a 48-inch
diameter reinforced concrete pipe in Colorado Street,
between Monterey avenue and Currier street, for a
distance of 564 feet. In connection with this w^ork a
pipe surface drain was constructed in Currier street,
between Colorado street and Alabama street. The
work also included the construction of 11 catch basins
in Colorado street, Almont street. Rosewood street and
Talbot avenue. The entire cost of work was $24,846.62.
Spring Street Brook was enclosed in an 84-inch
diameter reinforced concrete pipe in Gould street for a
distance of 218 linear feet and in Prospect street, from
Gould street to Baker street, a distance of 1,143 linear
feet, including 1,046 hnear feet of 10-inch clay pipe
sewer at a cost of $112,000.81.
Pro-posed Construction Work. — The work of extending
the sewer system to provide drainage for new street
construction, new building construction, and the elimi-
nation of cesspools will continue for many years in the
future, and probably at the same rate as in the past.
In addition, a long-range sewerage works program pro-
vides for the extension of main line surface drain con-
duits and the rebuilding of several miles of very old
sewers that have settled or outlived their economic
usefulness. Details of the long-range program are con-
tained in a report on file in the Sewer Division.
During 1953, it is proposed, in addition to regular
extension of the sewer systems as required to provide
for new building and street construction, to cover in and
relocate a section of Stony Brook from the end of the
existing conduit at the former Hyde Park line to the
existing culvert across the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad at Providence street, consisting of
about 4,200 hnear feet of 84-inch and 72-inch diameter
reinforced concrete pipe ; also a tunnel across Hyde Park
avenue and the railroad, at an estimated cost of $434,000.
The above work is in keeping with our policy of gradually
covering in all open brooks to improve surface drainage
and eliminate hazards.
Special Problems. — The 1951 report referred to the
need of renewing the main entrance sluice gates at the
Calf Pasture Pumping Station and called attention to
60 City Document No. 24.
the difficulties that would be encountered in construct-
ing bulkheads to isolate the gates. A scheme is being
considered that will eliminate the need of bulkheads,
and it is anticipated that the work will be advertised
during the coming year. The estimated cost of the
work is $25,000.
Considerable work has been done on adjusting and
renewing tide gates but this work has not resulted
in any substantial reduction in the quantity of tide-
water entering the main drainage system. It appears
that all that can be hoped for is to prevent the situation
from getting any worse until such time as the cit}"
or the M.D.C. rebuild old wooden overflows, which
probably is the chief source of tidewater entering
the interceptor sewers.
Sewer Cleaning. — The 1951 report contained the
following: "Sewer cleaning remains the major main-
tenance problem of the Sewer Division. As stated
in previous reports, sewer cleaning has been neglected
for the past 25 years or more. The small crew of 11
men and a foreman specifically assigned to this work
are hardly able to do the cleaning which is more or
less of an emergency nature. To attack the problem
in the manner it deserves requires much additional
man power, equipment, and proper supervision." The
situation has not changed to any material extent.
The solution remains the same, namely a much larger
force of young men properly directed.
The Sewer Division Labor Force consists of the
following: 24 laborers, 1 working foreman carpenter,
2 carpenters, 29 motor equipment operators and laborers,
9 catch-basin machine operators, 4 tide gate repairmen,
6 working foremen sewer cleaners, 21 sewer cleaners,
5 bricklayers, 2 working foremen-motor equipment
operators, 4 yardmen, 1 heavy motor equipment
operator, 7 sewer district foremen, and 1 main drainage
foreman. This makes a total of 117 men assigned to
answering complaints, cleaning catch basins, cleaning
sewers, repairing manholes and catch basins, repairing
broken sewers, and other related work.
Length of Sewers Built. — During the fiscal year
1952 there were built by contractors and day labor
6.68 miles of common sewers and surface drains through-
out the city. After deducting 0.79 miles of sewers
and surface drains rebuilt or abandoned, the net increase
for 1952 is 5.89 miles, which, added to the existing
Public Works Department. 61
1,259.15 miles of common sewers and surface drains
and 30.93 miles of intercepting sewers, makes a grand
total of 1,295.97 miles of all sewers belonging to the
City of Boston, and under the care of the Sewer Division
on January 1, 1953.
There were 283 catch Ijasins built or rebuilt and
21 abandoned or removed during the year, making
a net gain of 262 catch basins and a grand total of
23,666 catch basins under the care of the Sewer Division
on January 1, 1953.
Permit Office Report. — Entrance fees to the amount
of $6,996.32 have been deposited with the City Collector
for collection from estates upon which no sewer assess-
ments were ever paid, in accordance with Ordinances
of 1945, chapter 27, section 10.
There have been 878 permits issued, viz., 217 to
district foremen and contractors and 661 to drainlayers
for repairing or laying new house drains. Inspectors
from this office have personally inspected the work
done under these drainlayers' permits.
Two thousand three hundred and seven complaints
have been investigated, and inspectors are instructed
to report in writing in each case.
One thousand four hundred and ninety-two catcli
basin complaints were received.
Reported in writing on 2,500 municipal liens to
the City Collector, in accordance with chapter 60,
section 25, of the General Laws. Reported orally
on about 2,500 requests for information on municipal
liens.
Notices have been mailed to abutters in conformity
with the Ordinances of 1925, chapter 27, section 8,
apprising them of the construction of new sewers or
repairs to old sewers.
Respectfully,
Robert P. Shea,
Division Engineer.
62
City Document No. 24.
Summary of Sewer Construction for Twelve Months Ending
December 31, 1952.
Districts.
Built by the
City Either by
Contract or
Day Labor.
Built by
Private
Parties.
Total Lengths Built.
Linear Feet,
Linear Feel.
3,368 00
1,965 00
None
11.074 00
77 50
Linear Feet.
3,368.00
2,261.80
None
11,074.00
77.50
1,378.06
6,763. 56
2,500.60
7,842.40
Miles.
0.6379
296 80
None
0.4283
None
2.0973
0.0147
1,378 00
6,763 56
2,500 60
7,842 40
0.2609
WestRoxbury
1.2809
0.4736
Hyde Park
1.4853
Totals
18,781 42
16,484.50
35,265.92
6.6789
Summary of Sewer Construction for Five Years Previous to
January 1, 1953.
1948.
1949.
1950.
19SI.
1952.
Built by city by con-
tract or day labor. . .
Built by private parties
or other city depart-
Linear
Feet.
29,754 60
8,969 68
Linear
Feet.
39,590 88
Linear
Feet.
31,208 93
3,938 00
Linear
Feet.
22,4.50 07
Linear
Feet.
18,781 42
10,484 50
Totals
38,724 28
39,596 88
35,146 93
22,456 07
35,265 92
Public Works Department.
63
Total Length of Sewers.
Districts.
City Proper . . .
Roxbury
South Boston . .
East Boston . . .
Charlestown . . .
Brighton
West Roxbury .
Dorchester ....
Hyde Park
Total
Lengths
Built
During
Twelve
Months
Ending
December
31, 1952.
Linear Feet.
3,368.00
2,261.80
None
11,074.00
77.50
1,378.06
6,763.56
2,500.60
7,842.40
Lengths
Removed or
Abandoned
During
Twelve
Months
Ending
December
31. 1952.
Linear Feet.
3,386.00
199.80
None
5.57.00
Additional Lengths
for the
Twelve Months Ending
December 31, 1952.
Linear Feet.
—18.00
2,062.00
None
11,074.00
—479.50
1,378.06
6,763.56
2,500.60
7,842.40
Miles.
—0.0034
0.3905
None
2.0973
—0.0908
0.2609
1.2809
0.4736
1.4853
Totals.
35,265.92
4,142.80
31,620.62
5.8943
Common sewers and surface drains built previous to
January 1, 1952
Common sewers and surface drains built between
January 1 and December 31, 1952
Common sewers and surface drains built ending
December 31, 1952
City of Boston intercepting sewers connecting with
metropolitan sewers to December 31, 1952 .
City of Boston main drainage intercepting sewers
to December 31, 1952
Grand total of common and intercepting sewers to
December 31, 1952
Total mileage of streets containing sewerage works
to January 1, 1953
Miles.
1,259.15
5.89
1,265.04
*6.81
*24.12
1,295.97
703.30
* No additional lengths built during 1952.
64
City Document No. 24.
Catch Basins in Charge of Sewer Division.
Districts.
City Proper . . .
Roxbury ,
South Boston .
East Boston . .
Charlestown..
Brighton
West Roxbury
Dorchester. . .
Hyde Park. ..
Totals...
Catch Basins for Twelve Months
Ending December 31, 1952.
283
Number
Built or
Rebuilt.
Number
Abandoned
or Removed
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Net
Increase.
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70
19
23
262
Total for Whole Crxr
IN Charge of Sewer
Di\asioN.
Previous
Report to
January 1,
1952.
3,637
3,383
1,462
1,114
843
2,055
4,158
5,595
1,157
23,404
Grand Total
to
January 1,
1953.
3,657
3,405
1,466
1,204
846
2.066
4.228
5,614
1,180
23,666
Calf Pasture Pumping Station.
Fuel Oil Used.
Month.
No. 2.
No. 5.
Cost.
209.1
100.2
200
114.7
8,020
4,010
S676.12
337.62
20.20
4pril
12,1.35
998.23
173.3
4,045
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iiiiir ....
1.50
8,031
7,972
11,090
632.70
612.10
183.1
871.63
Totals
1,130.4
55,309
$4,494.92
Public Works Department.
Electricity Used.
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Month.
Kilowatt
Hours.
Cost.
January. . .
February. .
March. ...
April
May
June
July
August. . . .
September.
October. . .
November.
December.
619.140
619,220
611,660
613,500
588,980
597,060
540,000
622,000
478,000
496,000
498,020
500.080
$7,305 31
7,312 44
7,277 85
7,274 04
6,801 66
6,952 45
6,547 64
7,162 59
6,097 21
6,217 90
6,190 71
6,293 64
Totals .
6,783,660
$81,433 44
Cost Per Year.
Labor
Electricitj' ....
Fuel oil ... .
Supplies and miscellaneous
Service orders and contracts
Total .
Cost per million gallons of sewage pumped
Sewage Record.
$121,090 34
81,433 44
4,494 92
4,159 29
27,304 30
$238,488 29
$5 95
Month,
Total Gallons
Pumped.
Average Gallons
Pumped Daily.
January . . .
February . .
March. . . .
April
May
June
July
August . . .
September .
October. . .
November.
December .
3,687,164,000
3,792,267,000
3,745,414,000
3,604,439,000
3,478,649,000
3,608,098,000
3,185,078,000
3,369,058,000
3,157,322,000
2,908,799,000
2,664,823,000
2,865,889,000
118,940,800
130,767,700
120,819,800
120,147,960
112.214,500
120,269,930
102,744,450
108,679,300
105,244,060
93,832,230
88,827,430
92,125,450
Totals
Daily Average .
40,067,000,000
109,772,630
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serve 2,213 38
Carfares 1,804 53
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Telephone 544 30
Sun.lry 100 ^2
Teleplione calls 1 ,927 45
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Gloves 130 65
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APPENDIX E.
REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF
THE WATER DIVISION.
Boston, January 2, 1953.
To the Commissioner of Public Works.
Dear Sir:
I respectfully submit the following report of the
activities of the Water Division, operations and ex-
penditures for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1952.
The shortage of critical materials having been less-
ened, and new meters made available, the work of
laying and relaying water mains and the replacement
of obsolete meters, etc., was resumed.
A total of 27,376.5 linear feet of main pipe were either
laid or relaid, varying in sizes from 8-inch to 30-inch,
inclusive, as follows:
Laid. Relaid.
District. Linear Feet. Linear Feet.
East Boston 3,071.5 1,968.2
Charlestown 2,490.0 829.5
City Proper 2,317.0 425.0
South Boston 0 0
Roxbury 371.0 814.0
Dorchester 2,941.3 2,272.5
Hyde Park 7,082.5 98.0
West Roxbury 2,444.0 252.0
Briojhton 0 0
The particular streets in which the above work was
performed are shown on the accompanying tables, IV and
V.
Engineering Office.
There is an insufficient number of capable employees
on the engineering staff. This shortage of engineering
personnel is getting worse instead of getting better, due
Public Works Department. 79
in the main to the small amount of pay that has been
offered to the engineers on the civil service list in all
grades.
Under the provisions of chapter 4 of the Ordinance
of 1952 which deals with capital improvements, the
Water Division submitted a capital improvement pro-
gram which program has not been followed, due to the
lack of necessary funds to carry out the program
appropriated under the budget items.
The office force maintained its usual service to the
public with information in relation to the Water Divi-
sion, estimates on new service pipes, making out con-
tracts, assisting the yard forces on Water Division
matters, compiling official data, bringing the record
plans to date, supervision of all construction and snow
removal in Areas Nos. 7 and 11.
The CentriHne Corporation of New York cleaned and
Hned 4,223 linear feet of 12-inch pipe and various con-
nections on Mt. Vernon street, from the Pumping
Station to railroad crossing on Mt. Vernon street, under
the supervision of the engineering force.
A 16-inch Venturi Meter connection was made on
Cummins Highway at American Legion Highway from
the M.D.C. 24-inch supply main to alleviate volume
and pressure conditions in the WeUington Hill area,
Dorchester, and in preparation for extensions of main
pipes in the Hyde Park area.
The various agencies (municipal, state, and federal)
were assisted in the design and supervision of construc-
tion of water mains on the following projects:
Central Artery — City square, Haymarket square to Fort
Hill square
Forest Hills — Overpass
Housing Authority — 11 housing projects listed below:
Beech Street at Washington Street Project
Archdale Road at Washington Street Project
Bromley Park Housing Project
Whittier Street Project Extension
East Boston — Orient Heights Section
Mission Hill Housing Project Extension
Franklin Hill Avenue Project
South and Child Street Project
Franklin Field Project
Wood Memorial Project
Columbia Point Project
so
City Document No. 24.
Distribution Branch.
Due to the increased volume of work caused by ap-
plications for service pipes, etc., the department has
enj^aged the services of contractors during the year.
The regular work of the branch, consisting of installa-
tion of new services and fire pipes, repairing of leaks,
caring for complaints, shutting off and letting on water,
freeing of stoppages in pipes, etc., was performed in
such a manner and at such periods as to cause minimum
delay and inconvenience to applicants for water, water
takers, and the general public.
Service pipes rcpain^d
New service pipes installed ....
Hydrants changed
Hydrant's inspected, painted, lubricated, and gate;
marked
Main pipe rc^pairs
Other miscellaneous work ....
2,939
569
223
18,765
117
10,235
The machine shop and plumbing shop were forced to
handle all the drilling and connecting of services in
addition to the regular work carried on in these shops,
such as the machining and assembling of gates, valves,
and hydrants, and the department assisted the other
branches of the Pu))li{' Works Department in performing
special jobs.
Business Office.
In order to enforce the payment of outstanding water
bills, customers in arrears are notified that the flow of
water will be reduced, but yet enough water is left on
the piemises to provide a minimum for health and
sanitary requirements. As a result, the Water Division
ended the year 1952 with a surplus of $346,336.56, this
surplus being due mainly to the collection of bills due
and payabl(3.
Main pipe petitions received
Domestic service applications
Fire pipe applications
Special meter tests .
Hydrant permits issued .
Repair deposits received
Miscellaneous dejiosits .
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46
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Public Works Department. 81
Appropriations, Expenditures, and Revenue.
Budget appropriation . . $2,735,405 95
Amount expended . . . 2,079,419 48
Unencumbered balance . $55,986 47
Amount of money collected during the year . $4,796,004 52
Amount expended from all sources . . 4,449,727 96
Balance $346,336 56
The metropolitan assessment for 1952 amomited to
$1,636,959.98, at the rate of $40 per million gallons, a
decrease of $14,085.25 under the assessment for 1951.
Total amount billed in 1952 . . . . $4,694,243 45
Total amount collected for 1952 bills, as of
December 31, 1952 $3,768,474 38
Total amount abated for 1952 bills, as of
December 31, 1952 $13,909 37
Total amount collected in 1952 on bills rendered
prior to 1952 $899,007 39
This department contacts the water consumers very
frequently throughout the year, and the conduct of the
office has been such that I believe a spirit of good will
between the customers and the employees has been
brought about, which is beneficial to the consumers and
the city.
The issuance of statements of outstanding water bills
to the consumers before placing of liens on premises
has been continued. The appreciation of the customers
is shown by the fact that the number of liens placed
on premises this year has been reduced.
Respectfully submitted,
Daniel M. Sullivan,
Division Engineer,
82
City Document No. 24.
Financial Transactions, Water Service, 1952
Cash balance from 1951
,017 24
Receipts :
Water rates and services
Tax titles — water .
Expenditures from revenue:
Pensions and annuities .
Current expenses and extensions
Collecting Department .
Auditing Department
Refunded water rates
Refunded water collections
Refunded water tax titles
Metropolitan assessments
Transfer of 1951 surplus to redemp-
tion of citv loans . . . .
$4,767,869 52
28,195 00
$55,726 68
2,554,995 29
192,781 91
614 00
1,636,959 98
$4,441,077 86
453,823 29
Expenditure from debt account :
Boston water debt .... $36,000 00
Interest on loans .... 3,487 50
Cash balance, December 31, 1952
Cash forwarded to 1953
Loan account:
Balance outstanding, January 1,
1952 $120,000 00
1952 payment on Boston water
debt 36,000 00
Balance outstanding, December 31,
1952
Construction account:
Extensions of mains (from revenue)
Cost of construction, December 31,
1952 .$24,622,149 66
Cost of construction, December 31,
1951 24,610,402 89
Increase in plant cost during 1952 ....
4,796,064 52
55,404,681 7(1
4,894,901 15
$509,780 01
39,487 50
$470,293 11
123,956 55
$346,330 50
$84,000 00
$11,740 77
Public Works Department. 83
Cost of existing works, December 31, 1952:
Pipe yards and buildings
Engineering expense
Distribution system f
Hj^de Park water works .
$84,332 16
57,873 58
24,222,478 36
175,000 00
$24,539,684 10
High pressure fire system J 2,293,316 75
$26,833,000 85
* $10,500 deducted on account of abolishment of Charlestown yard.
t Includes $155,023.89 expended on high pressure fire system in 1925, 1926, 1931,
1932, 1933.
t $33,850.96 deducted from cost of high pressure fire system on account of abandon-
ment of pumping station, Battery street.
Shutting Off and Turning On Water in 1952.
Number of shutoffs for repairs 6,532
Number of premises turned on after repairs . . 6,078
Number of shutoffs for vacancy 767
Number of premises turned on for occupancy . . 490
Number of premises shut off for nonpayment of water
rates 25
Number of premises turned on again after being shut
off for nonpayment 5
Number of premises shut off on account of waste . 66
Number of premises turned on again after being shut
off for waste 26
Number of new service pipes turned on for the first
time 555
Total number of times water was shut oft* or
turned on 14,544
84
City Document No. 24.
Water Statistics for the Fiscal Year Ending Decem-
ber 31, 1952.
Mains.
Kind of pipe: cast-iron, Avrought-iron, steel
Size, 2-inch to 48-inch
Extended miles, 3.514
Size, Enlarged miles
Total miles now in use, 1,013.073
Public hydrants added, 40
Public hydrants now in use, 12,434
Stop gates added, 52
Stop gates now in use, 16,282
Stop gates smaller than 4-inch, 36
Number of blowoffs, 861
Range of pressure on mains, 30 to 90 pounds
Service.
Kind of pipe and size: lead and lead-lined, f-inch, cast iron,
2-inch to 16-inch; wrought-iron and cement-lined, f-inch
to 2-inch; brass and copper, |-inch to 2|-inch. Service
taps added.
Total service taps now in use as per metered services.
Table No. I. Statement of Work Done During the Year 1952.
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Federal
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456
51
508
792
185
23
39
1
1
1
1
1,043
3,390
1,956
228
284
17
16
6
2
3
1
2
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5,478
427
5,905
8,868
2,383
228
284
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16
6
2
3
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2
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659
152
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1,236
466
1,703
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43
154
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251
309
16
14
4
1
674
1
1
2,184
Public Works Department. 85
Table No. 2. Meters in Service December 31, 1952.
Diameter in Inches.
Total.
Make.
Vi
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1
VA
2
3
4
6 8
10
12
66,705
2,133
10,632
97
1,293
100
3
11
8
4,257
6
398
9
13
2,380
3
556
1,249
6
687
855
8
393
348
237
358
126
35
20
10
76,343
2,163
82
1
12,985
107
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16
12
1
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3
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King
21
31
102
Federal
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1
1
2
1
2
3
2
5
1
21
18
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1
10
9
11
Lambert
16
14
2
1
64
1
3
3
4
46
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1
5
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1
2
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3
4
6
8
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C P's
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28
14
3
14
13
9
72
13
148
2
43
19
1
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2
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1,658
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345
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17
27
81
161
45
19
7
2
13
2,003
86 City Document No. 24.
Table No. 3. Meters in Shop December SI, 19S2.
Maks.
Diameter in Inches.
%
H
1
IH
2
3
4
6
8
10
X
12
Total.
New
Heraey Disc
800
922
110
20
30
4
3
2
8
1,888
11
Hersey H. C. T
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5
6
1
12
Totals
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922
110
20
30
7
10
5
6
1
1,911
Old
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1,000
200
80
20
15
2
2
1,319
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Heraey Detector
1
1
Watch Dog
807
75
20
10
5
4
921
Totals
1.807
275
100
30
20
6
2
1
1
2,242
Table No. 4. Meters Repaired in Shop in I9S2.
Make.
DiAMETEB IN INCHES.
Total.
%
H
1
IH
2
3
4
6
8
Heraey Disc
946
74
49
104
46
8
5
2
1,232
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Hersey H. C. T
Hersey Detector
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Watch Dog
257
55
56
42
29
23
4
1
466
Trident
1
Totab
1.203
129
105
146
75
31
12
2
1,703
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Meters Repaired and Rebuilt at Factory in
1952.
AIake.
Diameter in Inches.
Vs
H
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Total.
Heraey
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25
150
75
2,225
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Watch Dog
Total
2.025
150
75
2 250
Public Works Department. 87
Table No. 5A. Meters Purchased New in 1952.
Diameter in Inches.
ToUl.
Make.
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IH
2
3
4
8
1,000
30
61
6
15
1,097
Hersey H. C. T
28
6
43
6
Totals
1.000
30
61
21
28
6
1,146
Table No. 6. Meters Reset in 1952.
Make.
Diameter in Inches.
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3
4
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23
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9
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596
36
631
Watch Dog
43
Totals
600
48
16
2
3
2
3
42
632
674
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Make.
Diameter in Inches.
Total.
H
H
1
IH
2
3
4
6
8
Hersey
2,941
1.753
221
283
13
14
3
202
47
3
120
72
1
65
41
2
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5,228
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194
114
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26
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Table No. 7B. Meters Changed in 1952. Meters Put In.
Make.
Diameter in Inches.
Total.
%
V*
1
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2
3
4
6
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239
518
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427
Totals
4,888
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207
117
72
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Table No. 8. Meters Repaired in Service in 1952.
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154
424
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103
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Table No. 9. Aleters Applied in 1952.
Make.
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Total.
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185
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1
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Totals
833
82
54
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517
90
1.043
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311
3.947
78
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158
78
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5,905
90
City Document No. 24,
Table No. 12. Meters Junked in 1952.
Make.
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2
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140
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243
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394
Total hydrants in service, December 31, 1951
Total hj'drants established during 1952
Total hydrants abandoned during 1952
Total hydrants added during 1952
Total hydrants in service, December 31, 1952
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173
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