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ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

PUBLIC WOEKS DEPARTMENT

FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1957.

Boston, January 2, 1958.

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 and the Public Improvement Commission
for the year ending December 31, 1957.

Fiscal

The total expenditures of the department for the
year were $25,357,692.66, of which $3,328,696.68 rep-
resents water assessments levied by the Metropolitan
District Commission and $874,165.17 represents Metro-
politan District Commission sewer assessments. The
water assessments are $37,901.24 greater than those
levied in 1956, and the sewer assessments show an
increase of $179,709.03 in excess of those levied in 1956.
The sewer assessments will continue to rise due to the
large expenditures being made by the Metropolitan
District Commission in providing for sewage treatment
plants and deep rock tunnels to convey sewage to Deer
Island and Nut Island, and also because of the policy
(now curtailed to some extent) of admitting relatively

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remote communities to the Metropolitan District Com-
mission sewer system with Boston paying an unreason-
ably large share of the cost of the connection. The full
impact of the Metropolitan District Commission pro-
gram will not be felt for four or five years, but even
beyond that period the sewer assessments unquestion-
ably will continue to increase. The present rate of $80
per million gallons charged by the Metropolitan Dis-
trict Commission for water will also probably have to
be increased to $100 or $120 within the next five years.
Under the circumstances, Boston can look for no finan-
cial relief in the foreseeable future, insofar as Metropoli-
tan District Commission assessments are concerned.

The receipts of the Water Division totaled $6,274,-
964.54, and the revenue derived from the Sumner
Tunnel reached a record high to $2,581,503. The
operation of the Sumner Tunnel resulted in a record-
breaking surplus of $1,194,586.30 and the surplus
resulting from the sale of water amounted to $97,607.45.

Loan Orders

On July 26, 1957, 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 $3,000,000 be appropriated for the construction
of public ways. Ordinarily loan orders for street con-
struction and reconstruction work provide for an
amount of $2,000,000, but we requested the above-
referenced larger sum in order that it would be un-
necessary to request an additional loan order this year,
which would automatically have added 10 cents to the
1958 tax rate.

Legislation

Under the provisions of chapter 718 of the Acts of
1956, the City of Boston was allocated the sum of
$2,530,208.82 for the reconstruction of highways. This
allocation — which was paid from the proceeds of the
Highway Fund — was expended under the direction
and in accordance with regulations estabhshed by the
State Department of Public Works. It was of tre-
mendous benefit in carrying out the department's
highway program in 1957 and it was a factor in making
it unnecessary to issue a loan order in 1958 for the con-
struction and reconstruction of highways.

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Of the above-referenced amount, the sum of $250,000
was earmarked for the installation of traffic signals
under the direction of the Traffic Commission.

Street Construction Work

State- Aid Program

The Chapter 90 Highway Program was continued
at the same tempo that has characterized this program
since 1951. In my opinion, our Chapter 90 Program
for the improvement of main highways is second to
none in the state. Since 1951, the cost of Chapter 90
projects has averaged approximately $800,000 each
year; of which from fifty to sixty per cent has been paid
out of the State Highway Fund. I don't believe that a
comparable program for highway improvements has
ever been carried out in the history of the department.
Incidentally, it would never have been possible to carry
out such a program without the enthusiastic and whole-
hearted support of the officials and engineers of the
State Department of Public Works, both past and
present. Their cooperation has been outstanding.

Our Chapter 90 Program provides for the complete
modernization of main highways with emphasis on
safety features to protect pedestrians and motorists.
Our Chapter 90 highways are well-hghted by means
of mercury vapor luminaries and, where possible, a
center divisional island of a minimum width of five feet
is provided. The latter acts as a haven for pedestrians,
separates vehicular traffic going in opposite directions,
and unquestionably tends to reduce vehicular speed and
prevents motorists from driving on the wrong side of
the traveled way. A good example of modern urban
highway reconstruction may be observed on Common-
wealth avenue, from Brighton avenue to Warren street,
and on Blue Hill avenue, from Columbia road to Matta-
pan square. Both of these highways were reconstructed
in 1957 as Chapter 90 projects, and they are concrete
examples of the type of improvement that we have
been able to effect under the Chapter 90 Program
with the cooperation of the State Department of Public
Works.

I submit herewith a schedule of the Chapter 90
activities in 1957 and those proposed in 1958:

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Projects started in 1956 and completed in 1957

Final Contract
Project Contractor Bid Price Payment

Blue Hill avenue, Dorchester:

Reconstructed from (and includ-
ing) Mattapan square to southerly

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and
River street, Dorchester:

Reconstructed from Mattapan
square to approximately 500 feet
northerly.

Bunker Hill street, Charlestown :

Reconstructed from Chelsea street
to Main street and including side
9 treets and approaches . . . Dooley Brothers, Inc. 123,401 00 140,793 12

New bridge over Belle Island Inlet

between East Boston and Win- Eastern Roads Com-

throp pany 132,987 00 150,000 00

Total $345,890 75 $390,915 15

Projects started and completed in 1957

Final Contract
Project Contractor Bid Price Payment

Centre street. West Roxbury:

Reconstructed from Spring street
to Grove street J. A. Susi & Sons, Inc. $158,881 80 $161,277 15

and
Baker street. West Roxbury:

Reconstructed from Veterans of
Foreign Wars Parkway to Newton
line.

Summer street. South Boston:

Reconstructed from viaduct to
East Second street (excluding draw-
bridge and approaches of bridge
over Reserved Channel) . . . Dooley Brothers, Inc. 118,206 00 125,321 73

and
L street. South Boston:

Reconstructed from East Second
street to East Fourth street.

Washington street, Roxbury:

Reconstructed from Northampton
street to Eustis street . . . Dooley Brothers, Inc. 54,391 75 70,154 60

Total $331,479 55 $356,753 48

Public Works Department

Projects started in

Project

Blue Hill avenue, Dorchester:

Reconstruction from Columbine
street to Columbia road

Blue Hill avenue, Dorchester:

Reconstruction from Woodhaven
s treet to Columbine street

Commonwealth avenue, Brighton:
Reconstruction from Brighton
avenue to Warren street

East Broadway, South Boston:

Reconstruction from Dorchester
street to L street ....

Tremont street, Brighton:

Reconstruction from Oak square
to Newton line ....

Summer Street Drawbridge over
Reserved Channel:
Repairing and strengthening of
approaches and drawspan

1957 — to be completed in 1958.

Per Cent
Contractor Bid Price Complete

1957

A. Singarella & Sons,

Inc. $294,597 00 99%

Manning Construction
Company, Inc. 248,102 00 36%

Rufo Construction

Company 238,663 72 73%

Baker & Co., Inc.

Chesterbrook Con-
struction Company

Ralph Richard Con-
struction Company

Total

100,721 50 8%
45,100 00 0%

234,326 00 0%

[,161,510 22

Additional Chapter 90 Projects Scheduled for

Project
Seaver street, Roxbury:

Reconstruction from Blue Hill avenue to Walnut avenue
Columbus avenue, Roxbury:

Reconstruction from Walnut avenue to Egleston square
Baker street. West Roxbury:

Reconstruction from Centre street to Veterans of Foreign W

way

Dorchester avenue, South Boston:

Reconstruction from West Fourth street to Andrew square
River street, Dorchester and Hyde Park:

Reconstruction from Edgewater Drive to Wood avenue .
Main street, Charlestown :

Reconstruction from City square to Sullivan square
Commonwealth avenue, Brighton:

Reconstruction from Warren street to Lake street .
Columbus avenue, Roxbury:

Reconstruction from Roxbury street to Centre street
West Broadway, South Boston:

Reconstruction from Dorchester avenue to Dorchester street
American Legion Highway, West Roxbury:

Reconstruction from Blue Hill avenue to Cummins Highway

Total

1958

Park

Length
4,130 feet
1,240 feet

6,700 feet
4,350 feet
4,000 feet
5,100 feet
9,450 feet
2,600 feet
4,120 feet
11,030 feet

52,720 feet
or 10.0 miles.

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Street Construction Work

Exclusive of Chapter 90 Projects

We also completed a major street reconstruction
program comprising extensive construction and recon-
struction in every section of the city. Several important
traffic arteries resurfaced by the department during
the year are listed as follows :

Arlington street, City Proper, from Boylston street to
Beacon street.

Beech street, West Roxbury, from Kittredge street to
Poplar street.

Berkeley street. City Proper, from Boylston street to
Beacon street.

Boylston street, City Proper, from Tremont street to
Charles street and from Arlington street to Berkeley street.

Centre street, West Roxbury, from Eliot street to Prince
street.

Clarendon street. City Proper, from Boylston street to
Beacon street.

Day Square, East Boston.

Jackson square and vicinity, Roxbury, including parts of
Centre street, Columbus avenue and Ritchie street.

Massachusetts avenue, City Proper and Roxbury, from
Huntington avenue to Columbus avenue.

Metropolitan avenue, Hyde Park, from Beacon street to
Milton Hne.

North Harvard street, Brighton, from Hooker street to
Western avenue.

Parker Hill avenue, Roxbury, from Parker street to Sunset
street.

Perkins street, West Roxbury, from Prince street to
Francis Parkman Drive.

Ruggles street, Roxbury, from Columbus avenue to
Leon street.

Roxbury Crossing, Roxbury, from Tremont street to
Roxbury street.

In continuation of our policy of replacing brick
sidewalks with cement concrete in the older sections
of the city, contracts during the year, totaling approxi-
mately $153,500, were awarded for this work.

The following is a summarized financial state-
ment of the expenditures made in 1957 for highway
improvements :

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Public Ways, Construction of (Loan Account) . . . $1,785,406 98

Public Ways, Construction of (Revenue Account) . . 84,147 12

Reconstruction of Streets (including sidewalks) . . . 19,069 46

Sidewalks, Construction and Reconstruction of . . . 165,711 01

Expended under provisions of chapter 718, Acts of 1956 1,484,467 59

Total $3,538,802 16

The following is a summarized record of the highway
improvement work done by the department in 1957:

Number of Streets Constructed or Reconstructed, 220.

Includes 50 new streets ordered laid out and con-
structed as public ways under the provisions of chapter
393, Acts of 1906.

Streets Improved, 37.66 miles.

Includes 6.8 miles reconstructed as chapter 90
projects.

Sidewalks Improved, 6.35 miles.

This item does not include sidewalks improved in the
above-noted street improvements.

Street Lights

During the year, we removed 1,704 gas lamps which
were replaced with electric lights of a 2,500 lumen
intensity. It is our intention to continue this program
in 1958 and, if possible, remove all of the remaining
gas street lights located in Boston. As of December 31,
there were only 710 gas lamps remaining. In the past
eight years, we have removed 6,263 gas lamps and
replaced them with modern street lights. Incidentally,
for the past forty or fifty years, the city has had a
contract for the servicing and maintaining of all gas
lamps throughout the city. This contract service was
terminated at midnight on December 31, as the con-
tractor, the American Service Company, did not wish
to continue the contract, in view of the small number
of gas lamps remaining. Therefore, as of January 1,
1958, we took over the maintenance and servicing of
the remaining gas lamps, and we are employing — for a
temporary period — three former employees of the
American Service Company. Up to date, the servicing
work being done by the department has proved very
satisfactory.

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Snow Removal

While we did not encounter any major snow storms
during the year; that is, those in excess of eight inches,
we did encounter a series of small storms which neces-
sitated extensive plowing, sanding, and salting opera-
tions. Our sanding and salting program has been
greatly accelerated over the past six years due to the
necessity of eliminating hazardous driving conditions
during the winter months. The number of vehicles now
on the road makes it absolutely necessary to continue
with an extensive sanding and salting program even
when only light snowfalls are encountered.

The plowing, sanding and salting operations are
expensive as they involve the rental of contractors'
equipment, overtime payment to department em-
ployees, and the purchase of large volumes of sand and
salt. The salt item alone is a major item as we now use
from six to eight thousand tons a year, and it costs
approximately $15.60 a ton. It is not unusual to use
400 tons of salt in a single night to eliminate hazardous
driving conditions caused by sleet or light snowfalls.

The cost of snow removalworkin 1957 was $449. 797. 64.*

* Not available.

Bridges

During the year, work continued on the major con-
tract for rebuilding and repairing the Charlestown
Bridge, which probably is the most important draw-
bridge in the city as it is used by approximately 20,000
motorists and M. T. A. passengers daily. The drawspan
was closed to the passage of all marine traffic from
May 1 to December 31, due to the necessity of effecting
major repairs. We have had some difficulty in making
the necessary adjustments for operating the draw,
but we hope that we will be able to re-open the draw for
marine traffic some time early in 1958.

South Bay Incinerator

During the year, the contract for the driving of
foundation piles was completed by the J. F. White Con-
tracting Company. This contract was awarded in 1956,
and the final payment to the contractor totaled
$419,000.

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A contract was awarded to Coleman Brothers Corp.
in June for the construction of the refuse storage bin.
The bid price was $423,000 and the work was sub-
stantially completed by the end of the year.

Under date of November 25, a contract for the con-
struction of the building was awarded in the amount of
$2,693,793 to the Bowen Company. This contract has
not started as yet, but it is expected to start verv early
in 1958.

Personnel

There were 1,948 employees in the Department as of
December 31, as compared with 1,990 employees on the
rolls on January 1, 1957.

Our Plans for 1958

1. First — and of utmost importance — we will
make every reasonable effort to reduce expenditures to a
minimum consistent with the rendering of proper service
to the public. We fully realize the necessity of observing
an austerity program, and will be guided accordingly in
connection with our expenditures.

2. Every effort will be made to reduce personnel
another 5 per cent, although we are scraping bottom in
certain areas insofar as a future reduction in personnel is
concerned. This is due, in part, to the fact that we have
been carrying out a ''no hire — no fire" program for the
past eight years as evidenced by the fact that the De-
partment now has 582 employees less than we had on
January 1, 1950. This reduction takes into consideration
the transfer of 65 employees from the Street Laying-Out
Department to this department on May 1, 1954.

3. W^e intend to continue our accelerated Chapter 90
Program for the improvement of main highways.

4. We intend to place Boston's first incinerator in
operation some time in 1958.

5. We intend to complete our gas lamp elimination
program.

6. We are going to make an effort to close the
Charlestown Drawbridge to marine traffic, thereby
effecting a minimum saving of $70,000 a year to Boston's
taxpayers. We are now required to maintain a three-
man crew around the clock, seven days a week, to
operate this drawspan for the benefit of scows and
barges hauHng sand and oil upstream to plants located

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in Cambridge. The maintaining of a drawspan at the
Charlestown Bridge places an unreasonable burden on
Boston's taxpayers, particularly in view of the fact
that we receive no benefit as the vessels are hauling
material to and from plants located in Cambridge.

In addition to the excessive cost of operating this
span, the motorists and M. T. A. passengers are sub-
jected to an unreasonable inconvenience every time that
the draw is opened for the passage of a boat. An aver-
age of 20,000 motorists a day use this structure, as well
as 80,000 M. T. A. passengers. Since May 1, 1957, the
drawspan has been closed to all marine traffic in order
to permit the repairing of the draw at a cost of approxi-
mately $600,000.00. It seems reasonable to assume
that if marine traffic got along without the opening of
the draw for eight months, it might be able to get along
permanently without a drawspan, thereby resulting in a
substantial reduction in cost to the city and eliminating
the inconvenience now caused to approximately 120,000
people. Therefore, it is our intention to petition the
U. S. Army Engineers to permit the closing of the draw-
span and maintain the bridge structure as a fixed span.
Incidentally, there is a vertical clearance of 23 feet
under the drawspan at high water, thereby permitting
scows, small tugs, small barges and pleasure-craft to
pass through the channel without opening the draw.
The only vessels requiring the operation of the draw-
span are the large oil barges and large towboats. In
view of the expense assumed by the city in maintaining
and operating the draw, it does not appear unreasonable
to require the owners of oil barges to use only the small-
sized barges when making deliveries of oil upstream
of the bridge to plants located in Cambridge. In any
event, I feel that the entire matter should be thrashed
out at a pubhc hearing before the Army Engineers, and
I intend to petition for the closing of the drawspan as
soon as we have prepared sufficient material to substan-
tiate our opinion that the city should not be required
to maintain the Charlestown High Bridge as a draw-
bridge.

7. We are going to make every reasonable effort to
eliminate the contract which provides for the hauling
of refuse material from the Fort Hill Wharf to Spectacle
Island. This service, which costs the Department
approximately $400,000.00 per year, will be eliminated
when the incinerator is placed in operation. The present

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contract expires on March 31, and we can effect a
substantial saving for the remaining nine months of
1958 or until the incinerator is placed in service, if we
can find other suitable areas in which to dump the refuse
now hauled by scows to Spectacle Island.

I was unsuccessful in my efforts in 1957 to eliminate
this operation, but am hopeful that I will be more suc-
cessful this year, particularly in view of the fact that
the construction of the incinerator is well under way.
It appears reasonable to assume that it should be in
operation before the end of the current year. We must
make a determined effort to eliminate the costly scow
operation for the last nine months of 1958 to offset an
anticipated increase in the cost of the refuse collection
contracts. These contracts are bound to increase in
cost in 1958 as the agreement with the Union provides
for a 15-cent-an-hour wage increase to all employees
engaged in refuse collection work, effective next April 1.
We estimate that a 10-cent-an-hour increase to such
employees will increase the cost of the contracts approxi-
mately $75,000, and this cost normally is passed along
to the city by the contractors. Therefore, we are faced*
with an increased cost of refuse collection of approxi-
mately $110,000, but this can be offset to some extent
if we are successful in our efforts to terminate the
Spectacle Island operation.

Incidentally, the total cost of the refuse collection
and disposal contracts in 1957 was $2,608,681. This
compares favorably with the 1956 cost of $2,571,813
when you consider that the hourly rate for the contrac-
tors' employees in 1956 was $2 and in 1957 $2.15. The
cost of these services in 1950 was $2,730,019 or $129,338
in excess of our 1957 cost despite the fact that the hourly
wage rate in 1950 was only $1.38. However, I am at
my wits' end as to how to reduce the cost of refuse col-
lection and disposal any further unless we are successful
in eliminating the scow operation on April 1, 1958. We
are working on a plan to accomplish such an objective,
but I am not confident that we will be successful.

8. We intend to continue with our program of en-
closing hazardous open brooks with concrete conduits
similar to the work done in Stony Brook in the past
three years. The open Stony Brook has been entirely
replaced with a concrete conduit, and a conduit has
also replaced a section of the open Canterbury Branch
of Stony Brook in Roslindale adjacent to American

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Legion Highway. We intend to further enclose the
Canterbury Branch between the terminus of the present
conduit, which was installed in 1957, and Walk Hill
street. This type of project is worth-while as open
brooks are a hazard to children and act as a deterrent
to the development of adjacent areas. They generally
overflow during spring freshets or following heavy rains,
causing flooding of cellars.

Recommendations

1. We should press for the passage of a law to per-
mit the Massachusetts Port Authority to function.
With said Authorit}^ in business, we will get a minimum
of $7,619,380 for the Sumner Tunnel, and we might
never obtain anything for it if we permit this oppor-
tunity to pass. We can, of course, recover the $2,619,380
paid out of real estate taxes to make up tunnel deficits
for the period from 1935 to 1944. However, under the
provisions of Chapter 297 of the Acts of 1929, the City
can never derive a profit from the operation of the
'tunnel. Section 12 of the Acts provides, in substance,
that after the tunnel is debt free, a schedule of tolls
shall be established sufficient to meet operating costs
only. The tunnel revenue cannot be transferred to the
General Fund of the city, nor can it be used to finance
another tunnel or a bridge to span the harbor. If
Boston retains ownership of the tunnel, it is faced with
the prospect of operating the present inadequate tube
for the foreseeable future without being able to apply a
single penny of tunnel revenue to reduce the tax rate.
The advantages that will accrue to Boston for the sale
of the tunnel to the Port Authority are obvious.

2. Transfer of vehicular roads from the jurisdiction
of the Parks and Recreation Department to the Public
Works Department. We are responsible for the con-
struction, reconstruction, and maintenance of 750 miles
of public highways, and I believe that there are approxi-
mately 25 miles of public roads under the Park Depart-
ment's jurisdiction. It makes sense to me to have all the
highway work under the jurisdiction of one department
from a point of view of efficiency and also economy.
However, if the park roads are transferred to us, all
personnel, plant, and equipment related to the mainte-
nance and construction of the roads should also be
transferred.

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3. As pointed out by Chief Engineer Haley in his
report on the activities of the Survey Division, our in-
abihty to attract engineers has reached the acute stage.
This problem not only affects the Survey Division, but
all divisions of the department, and all departments of
the city. Many years ago, the city abandoned all hope
of attracting college men to enter the municipal engineer-
ing field, but we are now in the position of not being able
to attract high school graduates. In 1957, conditions
reached such a state that we reached into the labor ranks
of the department and temporarily promoted four motor
equipment operators to the position of senior engineering
aids. We have been instructing them in the duties of
transitmen.

This is a problem that should be met head on in order
to solve it. I think that a sitdown with the school
officials might be of some help. As a springboard to
further discussion, I suggest the following:

Hire no rodmen during the summer months unless they
are at least 16 years old, enrolled in a technical high school
in Boston, and intend to follow the civil engineering field
upon graduation from high school.

This policy will give young men, who do not intend
to go to college, an opportunity to become interested in
the municipal engineering field and practically assure
them of passing the civil service examination for
rodmen on their graduation. We still have a wage
differential to overcome to compete with the State
Department of Public Works, but that matter can be
adjusted if we find enough high school students interested
enough in the program. The municipal engineering
field has many attractions, and I am reasonably certain
that we can get enough young men interested in such a
career if we give them the opportunity to try it out.

4. All proposed legislation concerning the M. D. C.
should be carefully scrutinized and examined to make
certain that its passage would have no detrimental
effect on Boston. I know of several instances of laws
being passed concerning the M. D. C. and which ap-
peared to be innocuous, but which actually will cost the
City of Boston many hundreds of thousands of dollars;
and this statement is no exaggeration. The laws were
passed before I got interested in studying such matters

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folloT^ing a study that I made of the effect that the
admitting of Randolph and Westwood into the ]\1. D. C.
sewer system would have on Boston.

I also view ^ith alarm the many strictly local improve-
ments that the AI. D. C. has been undertaking over the
past three or four years. These improvements not only
have been effected in the other cities and towns of the
metropoHtan area, but also in Boston. Regardless of
where they are constructed, improvements strictly for
the benefit of individual communities are contrary to
the concept of metropolitan government and should be
undertaken and paid for by the communities benefiting
by them. The cost should not be spread over the entire
!M. D. C. area unless the benefits or improvements are
metropolitan in character. The trend (probably pro-
moted by political pressure) to have the M. D. C.
construct improvements of a local nature, should be
stopped, and any legislation pertaining to them should
be vigorously opposed by Boston and all other com-
munities interested in restricting the ]\1. D. C. to
projects or improvements that are metropolitan in
character. In any event, I wish to emphasize the
necessity of carefully studjdng any proposed law
affecting the yi. D. C, in order to make certain that
Boston is being fairly treated.

5. As you well know, chapter 407 of the Acts of
1957 provided for the alternate parking of vehicles on
public wa\'s on alternate sides of the streets on alternate
nights. In accordance with the provisions of this act,
the Traffic Commission passed a vote under date of
November 27 of 1957, implementing the law. A con-
certed effort should be made to inform the public of the
provisions of this law because if motorists are properly
informed, I am certain that they will comply with it.
The law was passed in the public interest and to increase
safety and proxide for clean streets throughout the year
and properly plowed streets during the winter months.
Up to now, the law has been followed in the breach
rather than in the observance, and I feel that the prin-
cipal reason is due to the fact that people do not under-
stand the precise provisions of the regulation. I feel
that a card informing the motorists of the law should
be placed under the windshield wiper of every vehicle
parked in the public streets during the nighttime. It
would be more effective if the Police Department
placed these cards, but apparently said department is

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not desirous of undertaking such an assignment. There-
fore, it is my intention to have some cards printed and
have them so placed by P. W. D. employees. There
probably are from 30,000 to 50,000 cars illegally parked
ever}' night, so that we have a tremendous problem,
but I think that we should make a start on it. Con-
ditions have reached the point where we cannot properly
plow residential streets, and we cannot keep them
clean, due to the continuous occupation of curb space
by parked cars during the nighttime.

Appended are reports submitted by the di^-ision heads
relative to the acti\'ities of their divisions in 1957, and
also report of the Pubhc Improvement Commission for
the same year.

Respectfully submitted,

George G. Hylaxd,
Co77i?7iissioner of Public Works.

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MAINTENANCE APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES.

Total Appropriations,

Division or Service.

Including
Transfers and Amounts
Carried Over from 1956.

Expenditures.

Unexpended
Balance.

Central Office

.$74,055 00

$71,488 84

.S2,.566 16

Automotive Division .

832.609 00

812,185 00

20,424 00

Bridge Division .

980,682 02

906,420 26

74,261 76

Highway Division

1,840,286 63

1,600,040 04

240,246 59

Highway Program, Chapter

718, Acts of 1956 .

2,280,208 82

1,484,467 59

795,741 23

Lighting Service .

1,609,191 06

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Sanitary Division

4,993,418 75

4,959,038 85

34,379 90

Sewer Division .

799,552 08

786,871 90

12,680 18

Sumner Tunnel .

650,260 81

629,284 79

20,976 02

Survey Division .

113,900 00

113,727 57

172 43

Water Division .

2,711,529 46

2,472,526 21

239,003 25

Totals ....

$16,885,693 63

$15,445,242 11

$1,440,451 52

LOANS AND SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS.

Title.

Total Amount
Available.

Expenditures.

Unexpended
Balance.

Bridges, Construction of (Non-Revenue)

Construction of Buildings and Original Equipment and
Furnishings Thereof (Non-Revenue)

Incinerator Building, Construction and Equipping
(Non-Revenue)

Public Ways, Construction of (Non-Revenue)

Public Ways, Construction of (Revenue)

Sewerage Works (Non-Revenue)

Snow Removal (Revenue)

Reconstruction of Streets (Revenue) ,

Sidewalks, Construction and Reconstruction of (Reve-
nue)

Street Signs (Revenue)

Totals

$4,114,577 79

8,661 09

2,391,867 95
5,160,141 16

158,338 04
1,176,989 81

475,000 00
45,572 34

291,215 72
14,035 53

$1,403,879 06

973,175 39
1,785,406 98

84,147 12
815,389 44
449,797 64

19,069 46

165,711 01
13,012 60

$2,710,698 73

8,661 09

1,418,692 56

3,374,734 18

74,190 92

361,600 37

25,202 36

26,502 88

125,504 71
1,022 93

$13,836,399 43

55,709,588 70

$8,126,810 73

Public Works Department

REVENUE
On Account of Public Works Department

Central Office:

Charges for plans and specifications $1,360 00

Automotive Division :

Sale of junk 411 63

Bridge Division:

Rents $1,170 00

Miscellaneous 13,858 03

15,028 03

Sumner Tunnel:

Tolls 2,589,725 00

Lighting Service:

Sale of junk 1,247 02

Highway Division:

From assessments (added to taxes) on
abutters for cost of laying sidewalks

in front of their premises $8,743 22

Permits and Driveways 73,261 46

Sale of materials, etc 375 19

Rents 10,054 50

Licenses 21,855 00

Signs 87,620 78

Contributions from Commonwealth of
Massachusetts under Chapter 90 of
General Laws for construction of
public wavs, including one bridge
amounting' to $47,192.07 629,934 07

831,844 22

Sanitary Division:

Sale of garbage and miscellaneous 5,566 68

Sewer Division:

Disposal of sewage $19,233,00

Entrance fees 14,457 70

Rents 849 00

Refunds, etc 438 00

34,977 70

Water Division:

Water rates $5,648,388 11

Water rates added to taxes 510,722 08

Service Pipes for new takers, extending,

repairing, etc 1,925 59

Fees on overdue rates 16 40

Damage to property 2,789 59

Labor and materials 2,757 74

Deposit account 78,337 67

Elevator and fire pipe connections 123 59

Miscellaneous income 1,369 32

6,246,430 09

Grand Total $9,726,590 37

City Document No. 18

The records of the department show that there are
now 1,985 persons ehgible for employment in the
several divisions, and of that number 1,945 were upon
the January 2, 1958 payrolls.

Grade and Number of Employees.

Services.

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Principal senior and assistant civil

Senior public relations representative

Automotive and senior electrical

Assistant electrical engineers

Pumping station engineers and sta-

District foremen

1
63

7
3

2
16

5
3

Other foremen

''1

171

Legal assistant

Chief electrician

1
11

117

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399

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Services.

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Executive secretary, P. W. D

Senior personnel officer and assistant . .

1
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Principal clerk and secretary

Principal clerks, stenographers, ac-

1
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8
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32
9

Senior clerks, typists, stenographers.

6
1

Clerk-stenographers, clerks, typists. . .

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1
3

Principal storekeepers

Senior storekeeper and storekeepers . .

1
1

Chief water meter reader

Supervisor and special water meter

Water meter readers and clerks

Sergeant tollmen guards

Tollmen guards

1
3
9

Sergeants, mobile guard

Mobile guards

Drawtenders and assistants

111

Analytical chemist

Chief and senior investigators

Estimators and investigators

Dispatcher

Plumbers

1
33

Head photostat operator

154

Carried forward

136

145

107

777

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Services.

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145

107

154

33
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777

Principal duplicating machine oper-

5
2

1
3

Repairmen and maintenancemen ....

77
1

124
1

Maintenance mechanics and helpers,

2
39

4
7
2

18
1

4
13
9

1
25

Heavy motor equipment operators. . .

18
40

61
109

113
205

19
5

1
8

96
1

303

36
3

467

Totals

110

165

352

631

175

102

364

1945

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Number of Employees Actually Employed January 1, 1957, and
January I, 1958.

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January 1, 1958

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102

12
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168
165

383
364

361
352

614
631

184
175

131
110

1,985
1,945

Total Eligible Force.

112

183

422

394

658

210

145

109

181

423

396

663

205

128

2,181
2,161

Appointments, Transfers, Resignations, Retirements, Deaths,
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Automotive

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110
165
352

1
3
7

1
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7
13

Highway

615

Sanitary

632

2
2

185
36

175
35

1
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2
2

1
11

2
12

99
384

Tunnel

Water

102
365

1
1

1,993

Totals

1,947

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APPENDIX A

REPORT OF THE AUTOMOTIVE DIVISION
FOR THE YEAR 1957

Boston, January 2, 1958.

To the Commissioner of Public Works.
Dear Sir:

I am submitting herewith the annual report of the
Automotive Division of the PubHc Works Department
for the year ending December 31, 1957. This report
covers the activities of the five garages, the Mobile
Guard Section and the Motor Pool.

The quota of employees assigned to the Automotive
Division for 1957 was 143, but due to transfers and
vacancies the number of employees dropped to an
average of 115. These employees were assigned to the
following duties: One chief automotive engineer in
charge of the division, 9 employees assigned to office
work, one dispatcher in charge of Motor Pool, four
employees assigned to stockroom, three employees
assigned to wreckers, 40 employees assigned to repair
work, 38 employees assigned to maintenance of build-
ings, gasoline and oil dispensing, cleaning, watchmen's
duties, and motor vehicle operation, and 19 employees
assigned to the Mobile Guard Section which maintains
a watch over Public Works Department property and
equipment between the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m.
weekdays, and all day Saturday, Sunday, and holidays.

The office maintained by the division at City Hall
processed 1,758 requisitions in 1957, of which 1,077
were service orders, and 687 were purchase orders.
A petty cash fund of $300 was used to make about 100
purchases a month, usually under $3 each. The City
Hall office reports the following expenditures from the
1957 appropriation.

Personal services .
Contractual services
Materials and supplies
Rents and registration fees .
Purchase of new equipment

$452,301 00
64,601 00

181,070 00
11,281 00

102,932 00

$812,185 00

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The following equipment was purchased in 1957 from
budget appropriations and equipment loan:

For Sanitary Division :
Two street sweepers
Two front bucket loaders
Three 3-ton dump trucks
Three Tarco salt spreaders

For Highway Division:
Two tractor shovels
One core drill

For Sewer Division :
One sedan

For Water Division:
One derrick truck
Four 2-ton dump trucks
One 2-ton platform truck
Six express trucks
Four sedans

For Automotive Division (Mobile Guard Section) :
Three l§-ton pick-up trucks

The department's fleet of 493 units of automotive
equipment, under the supervision of this division,
consists of 82 sedans and other vehicles used for trans-
portation purposes, and 278 trucks of various sizes,
including 36 snowfighters, ten compressors, four catch-
basin cleaners, 35 pick-up trucks, 131 dump trucks,
six wreckers, six flushers, three derrick trucks, two lumber
trucks, one rack truck with crane, three platform
trucks, 32 emergency trucks and nine miscellaneous
trucks. There are 28 street sweepers, 11 gasoline road
rollers, seven snow and bucket loaders, 19 front bucket
loaders, two tractor shovels, four crawler tractors,
one grader, and three trailer compressors, and 58 pieces
of miscellaneous equipment ; 440 of these units are regis-
tered under the motor vehicle law of the Commonwealth.

The repair shop at the Highland street garage per-
formed approximately 12,000 repair jobs, including tire
repairs and lubrication check-ups. Six thousand repair
work orders were made out by the motor equipment
repairmen. Contracts in the amount of $10,000, and
$6,000 were issued for the respective repair of Walter
Snowfighters and F.W.D. trucks.

24 City Document No. 18

The Mobile Guard and the Motor Pool operated in a
satisfactory manner during 1957. The laborer-watch-
men in the Mobile Guard were transferred from the
Automotive Division to the Sanitary and Highway
Divisions. The Motor Pool consists of one dispatcher
and seven drivers (one from the Automotive Division).
The dispatcher makes all assignments to the drivers,
and also has charge of the short-wave radio. Within
the Public Works Department are 44 cars equipped with
two-way radios. The Motor Pool assignments outside
the Public Works Department consist of the following:

Institutions Department — Conveying patients to Tewks-
bury, Long Island, and Nazareth.

Purchasing Department — Conveying inspectors to sources
of supplies.

Public Library — Checking district libraries.

Election Department — Conveying voting machine in-
spectors, and work on election days.

Assessing Department, Printing Department, Public Cele-
brations, and Mayor's Office — Various assignments.

Real Estate Division — Conveying city auctioneer to loca-
tions where city-owned property is to be auctioned.

The Mobile Guard Section, with 19 men and three
vehicles, patrolled the city, protecting Public Works
property. The guards inspect all yards and at each
location punch a Detex time clock. Watchmen are
permanently stationed on locations where experience
has shown that it is advisable to have a man present at
all times to protect city property.

Several improvements to the buildings and equip-
ment were made in 1957. A new hoist with lubrication
equipment was installed at the Forest Hills garage to
take care of snow fighting equipment. New overhead
doors were installed at the Albany street, and Hyde
Park garages. The lubrication lift at the Highland
street garage was remodeled to handle the latest models
of passenger cars. A complete new Alemite system was
installed at Highland street to replace the worn out
system.

If sufficient funds are available from Equipment
Loans in 1958, considerable new equipment to replace
worn out and outmoded automotive equipment will be
purchased.

Public Works Department

NUMBER OF EACH TYPE OF AUTOMOTIVE EQUIPMENT
IN PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT

Passenger cars

Trucks, half-ton .

Trucks, 1 to 1^ ton

Trucks, 2 to 3 ton

133

Trucks, 5 to 8 ton

Wreckers

Compressors .

Trailer compressors

Crawler tractors .

Tractor shovels

Front bucket loaders

Grader .

Street flushers

Street sweepers

Road and sidewalk rollers

Snow fighters

Snow and bucket loaders

Miscellaneous equipment

Total ....

493

Registered

440

Respectfully submitted,

James H. Stewart,
Chief Automotive Engineer.

26 City Document No. 18

APPENDIX B

REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF
THE BRIDGE DIVISION

Boston, January 2, 1958.

To the Commissioner of Public Works.

Dear Sir:

Submitted herewith is the annual report of the Bridge
Division, covering the income, expenditures and opera-
tion of the Bridge Service and the Sumner Tunnel for
the year ending December 31, 1957.

Respectfully,

John J. McCall,

Division Engineer,
Bridge Division.

Public Works Department

I. BRIDGE SERVICE.

Summary of Budget Appropriations and Expenditures

Regular
Appropria-
tion

Bridges,
Repairs, etc.

Bridges, Construction op

Revenue

Non -Revenue

Balance from 1956

1957 Appropriation ....

$699,786 00

$61,570 37
70,000 00

$149,325 65

$4,067,385 72
47,192 07

Total Credits

$699,786 00
9,639 00

$131,570 37

$149,325 65

$4,114,577 79

Transfers from

Encumbrances

Total Debits

$676,659 51
686,298 51

$71,368 36
71,368 36

$148,753 39
148,753 39

$549,938 71
853,940 35

Unencumbered

Balances

$13,487 49

$60,202 01

$572 26

$2,710,698 73

Details of Expenditures on Tidewater Bridges

TIDEWATER BRIDGES— 1957

Bridge

Draw-
tenders'
Salaries

Mechanics'
Wages

Material

T, . Supplies,

Repair utUities,

Bi^ Etc.

Total

*Broadway

$15,290 15
50,789 36
58,194 42
43,704 76

41,893 99
57,870 36
56,701 30
60,535 18
46,812 74

$1,092 10
1,924 81
3,736 64
2,404 58
3,465 34
6,152 56
2,295 76
2,650 71
8,179 56

18,957 53

$28 58
16 40

201 97
87 68

565 03

472 77
68 63
73 80

770 75
13.551 85

$192 20

1,943 61

328 16

785 08

176 40

940 33

1,022 69

2,420 64

4,443 18

2,852 06

$339 28

1,271 55

682 94

658 24

601 26

870 46

2,223 42

2,485 27

691 67

$16,942 31
55,945 73
63,144 13
47,640 34
4,206 77
50,060 91
62,127 90
64,069 87
76,413 94
82,865 85

Charlestown

Chelsea Street

Congress Street

♦Dover Street

L Street

Maiden

Andrew P. McArdle.. . .

Northern Avenue

Summer Street

Totals

$431,792 26

$50,859 59

$15,837 46

$15,104 35

$9,824 09

$523,417 75

* Not operating as drawbridge but kept in operable condition
Fitzgerald Expressway in Fort Point Channel area.

for possible use during construction of

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At the beginning of 1957, the Bridge Division main-
tained eleven (11) drawbridges, three of which were not
operated as such; Broadway, Dover Street, and Warren
Bridge.

The status and conditions of the various drawbridges
are summarized as follows:

Fort Point Channel
Dover Street and Broadway Bridges

These bridges were not operated during the year but
were maintained in operable condition in the event that
the construction of the Fitzgerald Expressway would
require the use of waterborne equipment using the
channelway. To date, this has not been necessary.

In connection with the Dover Street Bridge, it has
been decided to replace this structure with a solid fill
causeway having culvert facilities to accommodate the
tidal flow of the channel; and the Massachusetts Depart-
ment of Public Works has agreed to execute the project
under the provisions of Section 34, Chapter 90, of the
General Laws, on condition that the City will contribute
$350,000 which represents 50 per cent of the estimated
cost of the project.

This decision was based on an engineering study and
report made for this department by William A. Fisher
Company, Inc., consulting engineers.

At the present time, the Massachusetts Department
of Public Works are having plans and specifications
drawn for the project; and it is expected that these will
be completed and the work commenced within the next
few months; more or less in conjunction with the con-
struction of the Fitzgerald Expressway facilities at
Dover and Albany streets.

It is hoped that the replacement of Dover Street
Bridge with a solid fill causeway will accelerate the
filling-in of the channel at least to its upper end at
Massachusetts avenue.

Summer Street, Congress Street, and Northern Avenue

Bridges

These bridges are still fully operating.

The rebuilding of the Summer Street Bridge is being
deferred until the American Sugar Refinery has re-
located in the Charlestown area; at which time it is

30 City Document No. 18

fully expected that the Fort Point Channel will be en-
tirely closed to navigation, thereby permitting the
replacement of the Summer Street Bridge with a fixed
span.

The Congress Street Bridge is in good condition.

The Northern Avenue Bridge is operating satis-
factorily but requires constant maintenance. Struc-
turally, the bridge is of an age, type and condition that
warrants replacement; and this project should be
scheduled as soon as feasible, consistent with the ex-
pected closing of the channel to navigation.

Reserved Channel
Summer Street Bridge (Formerly L Street Bridge)

This bridge is scheduled for major repairs to the ap-
proaches in the coming year. Under a Chapter 90
project, with the City assuming 40 per cent of the cost
and the Commonwealth 60 per cent, the South Boston
approach is to be entirely rebuilt and the Boston ap-
proach pilework repaired throughout. On the basis of
bids received on December 10, 1957, the estimated cost
is $234,326.

The work to be done under this project is based on the
findings of a professional inspection of the pilework
and timberwork made by the Carnes Company, Inc.,
who were engaged by this department for the purpose.
The inspection was made early in the year and com-
pleted with a report on March 28, 1957.

The drawspan of this bridge is not included in the
work to be done. The draw is in good operating con-
dition; and although the deck and superstructure will
probably need repairs in the near future, it is hoped
that the channelway can possibly be closed to navi-
gation in the reasonably near future, thereby making it
possible to build a fixed span to replace the draw span.

Charles River

Warren Bridge

This bridge has been deactivated since November of
1954; with the movable draw spans pulled back to leave
the waterway unobstructed. Although the bridge was
closed to highway traffic and the drawbridge out of
operation, it was maintained in operable condition for

Public Works Department 31

emergency use until such time as the Charlestown
Bridge reconstruction had progressed sufficiently to rule
out the further need of Warren Bridge.

In September, 1957, Warren Bridge was officially dis-
continued as a public way from the pierhead line on the
Charlestown end to the line of the Fitzgerald Express-
way at the Boston end.

Accordingly, the drawspan structures were dismantled
and removed under contract late in 1957, at a cost of
$1,497.

It is hoped that the remaining pile trestle approaches
can be removed in the reasonably near future under the
provisions of Chapter 91, of the General Laws, with the
Commonwealth and the City each paying 50 percent
of the cost.

Charlestown Bridge

The drawspan of this bridge has been closed to navi-
gation since May 1, 1957, in order to permit the removal
of the old mechanical and electrical operating equipment
and installation of the new system.

This work is now near completion; and the drawspan
will be restored to operation early in 1958.

Otherwise, the reconstruction of this bridge is in its
final stage. At the present time, the bridge is still
carrying 2- way vehicular traffic on one roadway; and
sometime in February, 1958, should be fully opened to
traffic with all work completed.

Chelsea River
Chelsea Street and Andrew P. McArdle Bridges

The two drawbridges spanning the Chelsea River at
Meridian street and Chelsea street are in good condition
and fully operating.

At the Chelsea Street Bridge, it is intended to alter
the fender pier construction to comply with an order of
the Corps of Engineers, United States Army, to widen
the navigable waterway under the bridge to 96 feet. It
now varies from 70 feet at the upstream side to about
98 feet at the downstream side. The alteration is made
necessary because of the proposed permanent removal of
the New York Central Railroad bridge immediately
upstream of the City bridge.

32 City Document No. 18

Mystic River

Maiden Bridge {Alford Street)

This bridge is fully operating but is in very poor con-
dition structurally, requiring constant maintenance.

This bridge should be replaced by a new structure as
soon as possible; and it is expected that this project will
be undertaken by the Massachusetts Department of
Public Works as soon as Federal Aid funds are available,
around July 1, 1958.

Inland Bridges

This department is involved in the maintenance of
80 inland bridges as follows:

Maintained entirely by this department
Maintained jointly with New Haven RR
Maintained jointly with Boston & Albany RR
Maintained jointly with Boston & Maine RR
Maintained jointly with M.TA. .
Maintained jointly with Town of Winthrop
Maintained jointly with Town of Milton
Maintained jointly with Town of Watertown

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2
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During 1957, two major improvements were completed
in the rebuilding of the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge
over the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad,
and the Winthrop Bridge over Belle Isle Inlet. These
projects are described in detail hereinafter.

The Boylston Street Bridge over the Boston and
Albany Railroad is in serious need of a new steel floor
system and deck. It was intended to prosecute such
work in 1957, but because of the uncertainty of final
plans involving the use of the railroad right of way for
an extension of the Massachusetts Turnpike as far as
the proposed new Prudential Center, and the possibility
that the present bridge may have to be rebuilt, the re-
decking work has been deferred.

The Broadway Bridge over the Boston & Albany
Railroad is in poor condition, and the city has peti-
tioned the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities
on the matter of rebuilding. A hearing on the matter
was held before the Department of Public Utilities on
October 7, 1957, and was postponed to permit of further
inspections and reports on the existing structure.

Public Works Department 33

The city engaged the services of the Charles A.
Magiiire and Associates to furnish such inspection and
report.

Any action relating to this bridge may possibly be
deferred until such time as it is decided whether the
Massachusetts Turnpike will be extended to the South
Station.

The same is true of the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge
over the Boston and Albany Railroad, which should be
scheduled for major repairs or rebuilding within the next
few years.

In general, otherwise, the fixed bridges throughout the
city are in good condition, although several should be
rebuilt to provide modern structures to accommodate
present day traffic conditions.

Among these are the bridges located over the railroads
at Tremont street (Arlington square), Southampton
street, Boston street, Dorchester avenue, and Ben-
nington street. East Boston.

Major Construction Work and Repairs
Reconstruction of Charlestown Bridge

At the close of 1957, this project was nearing comple-
tion under separate contracts covering the drawspan
and the approach spans. The work has been fully
described in previous reports, having started late in
1955.

The work should be entirely completed early in 1958,
at an estimated cost of $615,000 for the drawspan; and
1925,000 for the approach spans. The original esti-
mated cost based on the bid of the contractor. Builders
Iron Works, was $606,204 for the drawspan and
$931,965.50 for the approach spans.

Reconstruction of the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge
Over the New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail-
road

A contract for this work was awarded to the low
bidder. Builders Iron Works, in the amount of
$143,854.75.

Work was commenced on April 8, 1957, and com-
pleted on November 15, 1957, at a final cost of
$144,978.36.

This work was carried on without interfering with
traffic by rebuilding the bridge one third at a ti

34 City Document No. 18

This work has resulted in a major improvement by
replacing the old through girders with a deck type beam
span thereby eliminating a dangerous traffic hazard
and restriction.

Rebuilding the Winthrop Bridge over Belle Isle Inlet

Under the provision of Chapter 90, Section 34 of the
General Laws, this bridge was rebuilt at a final cost of
$148,942.05; which cost was apportioned as follows:

Commonwealth (60%) .... $89,365 23
City of Boston (24%) .... 35,746 09
Town of Winthrop (16%) . . . 23,830 73

The new bridge was built one half at a time in order
to maintain traffic; and consists of a pile trestle founda-
tion carrying a reinforced concrete deck and sidewalks.
The new bridge is 10 feet wider than the old bridge
which was of pile trestle construction with an all- wooden
deck and sidewalks. The approaches were widened
and improved to meet the new conditions.

Under a contract awarded to the low bidder. Eastern
Roads Company, Inc., work commenced on March 27,
1957 and was completed on December 31, 1957.

Reconstructing Span No. 3 of the Northern Avenue
Bridge over Fort Point Channel

Because of the badly deteriorated condition of some
of the main steelwork in this span it was necessary to
make a major improvement. Inasmuch as the defective
condition of the steelwork was brought about mainly
by the Union Freight Railroad traffic, the railroad
company was asked to participate in the cost of repairs,
to which they agreed.

Accordingly, it was arranged for the city to remove
the old decking, allowing the railroad to repair the steel-
work, after which the city would construct a new deck.

This work was commenced under a contract awarded
to Frederick W. Byron for the city's portion of the
work, on June 24, 1957.

The railroad engaged the Groisser & Shlager Iron
Works to make the necessary steel repairs and renewals.

Public Works Department 35

At this writing the work is two thirds completed and
the final third is expected to be completed early in 1958.
The final portion of work was of necessity postponed
because of winter conditions.

The total estimated cost to the city for this work is
approximately $27,000,

The railroad's cost is estimated to be approximately
$20,000.

Emergency Repairs to the Operating Machinery of the
Congress Street Bridge over Fort Point Channel

On April 10, 1957, a very serious defect was dis-
covered in the gears of the operating machinery of the
drawspan of this bridge, which made it extremely
dangerous to attempt further openings of the draw.

Accordingly, an emergency contract was awarded to
the General Ship & Engine Works of East Boston for
making the necessary repairs. This was necessary in
order to make all possible speed in restoring the bridge
to operation so that the important sugar cargo boats
could be allowed to pass.

Repair work was commenced on April 11, 1957, and
finished on May 1, 1957, at a final cost to the city of
$12,000.

On the thirteenth of April, temporary repairs were
made to permit one opening for a sugar cargo vessel
which otherwise would have been held up for more than
two weeks.

Demolition and Removal of the Warren Bridge Draw-
span

Warren Bridge was closed permanently to highway
traffic on November 26, 1954, and the two drawspan
units drawn back to permit an unobstructed waterway.
The bridge was kept operable until such time as the
Charlestown Bridge reconstruction project was sub-
stantially completed.

In September, 1957, Warren Bridge was officially dis-
continued as a highway under a contract awarded
to James G. Grant Co., low bidder, for the removal and
disposal of the two movable drawspan superstructures.

The work was commenced on November 12, 1957,
and completed on December 29, 1957, at a cost of
$1,497.

City Document No. 18

other Work Accomplished Under Contract By the Bridge Division

During 1957

Work Cost Contractor

Resurfacing, etc.

Arlington street over Boston and Al- „„, ,„ .1. ^ /^ r-. r
bany Railroad $4,224 48 Albert C. Graglia

Furnishing field inspection, services, etc. ^ , ^^ ^^ „ ^^

Charlestown Bridge .... 3,150 00 Carnes Co.

Repairing the Fender System.

^Thr„fr" ''"''' °"' ""' ' 8.081 28 W. H. Ellis & Son Co.
Demolition and removal of buildings,

SouSVerT" '"'"'""*' • • • 3.730 00 Lawrence Buildmg Wrecking Co.

n'JriSfsSdgS'' ''■'''"''"'■. . . 5.173 00 J. J. Finn Electrical Service

Inspection of Piling — Boston Approach
and Dravirspan Foundation.
Summer Street Bridge over Reserve

Channel 1>700 00 Carnes Co.

Yard Forces

The maintenance force of the Bridge Service is utihzed
in the various repair operations of both emergency and
routine nature in repairs to bridge roadway deckmg,
sidewalks, fender piers, retractile bridge tracks, stair-
ways, raihng and pertinent facilities.

Other work included placing barricades and trattic
control signs necessary during the periods of pouring
concrete deck slabs and the testing of mechanical and
electrical facihties of bridges being repaired; and clean-
ing bridge sidewalks and stairways of ice and snow.

II. SUMNER TUNNEL
1957 Budget Summary

Credits:

Appropriation Credits, 1957
Pensions ....

Total Credits
Debits:

Expenditures, 1957
Unliquidated Encumbrances
Pensions ....

Total Debits .
Unencumbered Balance

$650,260 81
45,639 63

$695,900 44

$629,284 79

374 00

45,639 63

$675,298 42
$20,602 02

Public Works Department

SUMMARY OF 1957 TRAFFIC BY CLASSIFICATIONS

Class Toll Description

1. $0 20 Truck not in excess of 2 tons capacit3\

Tractor without trailer

2. 0 20 Passenger car

3. 0 20 Motorcycle .

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

5. 0 20 Passenger car with trailer

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

7. 0 20 Tractor with trailer not in excess of 2 tons capacity

8. 1 00 Truck over 10 tons capacity

9. 0 35 Bus with or without passengers ....
* Reserved Lane

No. of
Vehicles

400,893

12,199,300

3,807

61,668
19,740

19,460

2,810

1,837

4,755

182,454

Total Traffic 12,896,724

* M. T. A. and Eastern Massachusetts Railway buses included in this classification.
7,156 M. T. A. and 75,962 Eastern Massachusetts Railway buses at $0.35 included in
this total.

COMPARATIVE 5=YEAR SUMMARY OF OPERATION, FROM
1953 TO 1957, INCLUSIVE

1953

1954

1955

1956

1957

hicular Traffic:

Total number vehicles

10,835,674

902,973

208,378

29,686

11,080,966

923,414

212,513

30,359

12,094,107

1,007,842

231,945

33,135

12,736,726

1,061,394

244,552

34,800

12,896,724

1,074,727

248,014

35 333

Weekly average

Daily average

wer Consumption:

4,966,604

4,527,315

5,236,214

5,614,061

6,079,026

tiancial Results:

Dperating expenditure

Balance to next year

nterest requirements

$591,327 09

16,591 87

687,494 39

440 60

$595,127 07

3,925 18

740,213 05

122 85

$585,650 61

6,188 73

760,100 00

98 60

$649,869 99

28,924 02

743,991 37

$674,924 42

374 00

748,762 50

1 80

Total Expenses

$1,295,853 95

$1,339,388 15

$1,395,093 63

$1,422,785 38

$1,424,062 72

$2,172,410 00
24,679 45

$2,224,195 00
16,591 87

$2,413,231 59
3,925 18

$2,550,125 00
6,188 73

$2,589,725 00
28,924 02

Jalance from previous year

Total Receipts

$2,197,089 45

$2,240,786 87

$2,417,156 77

$2,556,313 73

$2,618,649 02

Net Result

$901,235 50
(Excess)

$901,398 72
(Excess)

$1,022,063 14
(Excess)

$1 133 528 35

$1,194,586 30
(Excess)

(Excess)

38 City Document No. 18.

SUMNER TUNNEL

The Sumner Tunnel is a vehicular crossing between
Boston proper and East Boston, and was opened for
public use on June 30, 1934, and has been in continuous
operation up to the present time.

The total traffic for the past year of 1957, which has
been the highest in its history; amounted to 12,896,724
vehicles, an increase of 159,998 cars over the previous
year of 1956.

All of the electrical and mechanical machinery and
equipment used in connection with the ventilating and
operation of the tunnel is in good condition and operat-
ing satisfactorily.

The Toll Collecting equipment including all treadles,
key boxes and toll registers are under constant supervi-
sion and are recording and totalizing properly as per
traffic requirements. All adjustments and repairs are
made as may be required.

On December 20, 1957 a hearing was held by the
Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities relative
to toll rates for the coming year, 1958. It was agreed
that the present rates be continued without change.

To date, the Massachusetts Port Authority which was
created to consolidate several facilities, including the
Sumner Tunnel, under one agency has not begun to
function. Consequently, the operation, care and con-
trol of the Sumner Tunnel remains with the City of
Boston.

Contracts Awarded in 1957

1. Drainage System

A contract was aw^arded to the Mercer Marine Com-
pany after being properly advertised, for the sum of
$1,910 to clean and remove all mud and dirt from all
catch basins, 72 drop inlets, all sand traps, sumps, etc.,
of the tunnel drainage system. All of the work had to
be performed between the hours of 12.30 a.m. and
5.30 A.M.

2. Oil Burner

Invitation bids were sent to eight (8) of the larger
oil companies for furnishing and installing a new oil
burner in the Boston Ventilation Building, to replace
the original burner that had been in continuous service
since 1934. This contract was awarded to the Esso Oil
Burner Company for the amount of $456.

Public Works Department 39

3. Boston and East Boston Ventilation Buildings

Specifications were written and a contract awarded
after advertising, to the Bond Painting Company for
the sum of §14,321 to paint all of the steel and structures
of these two buildings, including all glazing, and the
removal of all existing glass louvers, and replacing them
with Transite panels, all in accordance with the contract.

4- Cleaning Exhaust Air Duct and Fan Rooms

Bids were received after public advertisement for the
''cleaning of exhaust air duct and fan rooms" and a
contract awarded to the Mercer Marine Company for
the cleaning and removal of all dust and dirt from the
exhaust air duct and from 14 exhaust fan rooms. The
total bid for this work amounted to $1,195.

6. Cleaning and Painting Ventilation Equipment at
Ventilation Buildings

Specifications were WTitten and advertised, and a
contract awarded to Joseph and Nicholas Bello, in the
amount of $7,941 for the cleaning and painting of ventila-
tion equipment at the Sumner Tunnel Ventilation
Buildings. This work called for the cleaning and paint-
ing of 28 ventilating fans, fan motors, dampers, damper
operating mechanisms, fan housings, inside and outside,
controllers, etc.

6. Control Cable

During the past year a contract was advertised and
awarded to the Minot Construction Company for the
sum of $5,691 to install 4,292 feet of new 259 conductor
No. 19 A.W.G. control cable furnished by the City of
Boston. All work performed as per contract and
specifications.

7. Splicing Chamber Cover Plates

Bids were received after public advertisement and a
contract awarded to the Albany Contracting Company
for the sum of $1,830 to clean and paint all south wall
chamber frames and cover plates. All work was per-
formed as per specification and with no interference to
vehicular traffic, all work between the hours of 12.30
A.M. and 5.30 a.m.

40 City Document No. 18

APPENDIX C

REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF
THE HIGHWAY DIVISION

BcsTON, January 2, 1958.

To the Commissioner of Public Works.

Dear Sir:

The following report of the income, expenditures, and
operation of the Highway Division of the Public Works
Department is hereby submitted for the year ending
December 31, 1957.

Respectfully submitted,

RUTHFORD J. KeLLEY,

Division Engineer, Highway Division.

Public Works Department

HIGHWAY DIVISION

Paving Service
Summary of Budget Appropriations

Appropriation.

Total Credits. Expenditures

Balance
Unexpended.

Paving Service .

Reconstruction of
Streets

Public Ways, Construc-
tion of (Revenue). . . .

Public Ways, Construc-
tion of (Non-Revenue)

Sidewalks, Construction
and Reconstruction of

Street Signs

Snow Reomoval

Chapter 718 — Acts of
1956

$1,840,286 63

45,572 34

158,338 04

5,160,141 16

291,215 72

14,035 53

475,000 00

2,280,208 82

$1,600,040 04

19,069 46

84,147 12

1,785,406 98

166,711 01

13,012 60

449,797 64

1,484,467 59

$240,246 59
26,502 88
74,190 92

3,374,734 18

125,504 71

1,022 93

25,202 36

795,741 23

In the Permit Office, the permits issued and monies
received for 1957 are as follows:

Permits Issued

Signs

Occupation permits .
Sidewalk licenses
Driveway applications
Special permits .
Department permits (free)
Street opening permits

7,361
7,444
330
316
392
1,253
505

Total permits 17,601

42 City Document No. 18

Cash Received

Occupation permits $72,631 46

Signs 87,620 78

Sidewalk license 21,855 00

Plans and miscellaneous 16 75

Driveway applications 630 00

Notifications 110 00

Rents 10,054 50

Total income less street openings . . . $192,918 49
Street openings 73,354 72

Total income $266,273 21

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 throughout the City
by 250 contractors' hired plows after snowstorms. 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 :

Erected 217 4-inch street signposts.

Erected 8 new hero signs for dedication.

Replaced 186 hereo square signs.

Installed 752 new street signs.

Removed 384 old hand-painted signs, damaged baked
enameled signs and obliterated signs.

Repaired and straightened 168 bent or broken street sign
posts (4-inch type).

Repaired 276 broken street sign frames and welded 59
4-inch street sign posts in blacksmith shop.

Repaired 598 street sign frames, collars, and brackets on
4-inch street sign posts and light poles on location.

Removed 132 pieces of rope, wire, old tires, etc. from 4-inch
street sign posts and light poles.

Installed 588 street sign frames.

Installed 367 street sign collars on 4-inch street sign posts
and light poles.

Installed 57 adapters on wooden poles.

Installed 201 4-inch acorns on 4-inch street sign posts.

Public Works Department 43

Installed 110 "Private Way" signs on 4-inch street sign
posts and light poles.

Removed 53 "Private Way" signs from 4-inch posts and
light poles because of the making of public ways.

Painted 602 4-inch street sign posts.

Painted 898 street sign frames.

Painted 397 4-inch acorns on 4-inch street sign posts.

Painted 649 street sign collars on street sign posts and light
poles.

Installed 12 directional signs on 4-inch posts.

Washed and cleaned 376 street sign name plates.

Painted 293 blanks for temporary name platea.

There were 220 streets constructed or reconstructed
during the year. There were approximately 6| miles of
sidewalks improved during the year 1957.

Some of the more important thoroughfares on which
reconstruction work was completed in 1957 are as
follows :

Commonwealth avenue, from Brighton avenue to Warren
street (Chapter 90).

Blue Hill avenue, from Columbia road to Mattapan square
(Chapter 90).

Centre street, West Poxbury, from Spring street to Grove
street (Chapter 90).

Baker street, West Roxbury, from Veterans of Foreign
Wars Parkway to Newton line (Chapter 90).

Summer street, South Boston, from viaduct to East
Second street, excluding drawbridge and approaches of bridge
over reserved channel (Chapter 90).

L street, South Boston, from East Second street to East
Fourth street (Chapter 90).

Washington street, Roxbury, from Northampton street
to Eustis street (Chapter 90) .

Arlington street. City Proper, from Boylston street to
Beacon street.

Beech street. West Roxbury, from Kittredge street to
Poplar street.

Berkeley street. City Proper, from Boylston street to
Beacon street.

Boylston street, City Proper, from Tremont street to
Charles street, and from Arlington street to Berkeley street.

Centre street. West Roxbury, from Eliot street to Prince
street.

Clarendon street, City Proper, from Boylston street to
Beacon street.

Day square. East Boston.

Jackson square and vicinity, Roxbury, including parts of
Centre street, Columbus avenue, and Ritchie street.

44 City Document No. 18

Massachusetts avenue, City Proper and Roxbury, from
Huntington avenue to Columbus avenue.

Metropolitan avenue, Hyde Park, from Beacon street to
Milton line.

North Harvard street, Brighton, from Hooker street to
Western avenue.

Parker Hill avenue, Roxbury, from Parker street to
Sunset street.

Perkins street, West Roxbury, from Prince street to Francis
Parkman Drive.

Ruggles street, Roxbury, from Columbus avenue to Leon
street.

Roxbury Crossing, Roxbury, from Tremont street to
Roxbury street.

The following is a list of streets constructed and
reconstructed and sidewalk work done by contract in
the various wards of the City in 1957.

Ward 1 — Chelsea street, Orleans street, Shelby street,
Eagle square. East Eagle street, Boardman street, Prescott
street, Sea View avenue, Trenton street, Walley street.
Day square, Ashley street, Leyden street.

Ward 2 — Bunker Hill street (Chapter 90), Chelsea street
(Chapter 90), Hunter street (Chapter 90), Moulton street
(Chapter 90), Vine street (Chapter 90).

Ward 3 — Bulfinch street (sidewalks), Tileston street
(sidewalks), Bulfinch place (sidewalks), Wiggin street (side-
walks). Commercial street (sidewalks), Bowker street,
Chardon street, Devonshire street, Foster street, Hawkins
street, Henchman street, Pitts street. Court street, Merrimac
street, Tremont street. Green street, Hayward place, Har-
rison avenue. Arch street, Franklin street, Tremont street,
Washington street, High street, Matthews street. Leather
square. North Bennett street.

Ward 4 — Huntington avenue (sidewalks). Saint Cecilia
street (sidewalks), Saint Stephen street (sidewalks), Stuart
street (sidewalks), Gainsborough street (sidewalks), Hemen-
way street (sidewalks). Saint Botolph street (sidewalks,
Forsyth street, Dalton street (sidewalks), Falmouth street
(sidewalks), Carleton street, Forsyth street (roadway
widening), Ruggles street, Clarendon street, Massachusetts
avenue (H — C), Saint James avenue, Massachusetts
avenue (W — B).

Ward 5 — Brookline avenue. Beacon street (sidewalks),
Marlborough street (sidewalks), Hereford street (sidewalks),
Newbury street (sidewalks), Berkeley street, Boylston
street, Clarendon street. Public Alley No. 439, Arlington
street. Beacon street, Dartmouth street, Exeter street,
Hereford street, Boylston street, Eliot street, Stuart street,

Public Works Department 45

Tremont street, Beacon street (MA — CE), Pinckney
street, Peterborough street (sidewalks), Dartmouth street
(sidewalks).

Ward 6 — East Fifth street, Northern avenue, Columbia
road, East Fourth street, M street. West Fourth street. East
Sixth street, L street and Summer street (Chapter 90),
B street, Fargo street.

Ward 7 — Dr. Michael Gavin Way (sidewalks), General
Lawrence J. Logan Way (sidewalks). General William H.
Devine Way (sidewalks), Kemp street (sidewalks), Major
Michael J. O'Connor Way (sidewalks), Monsignor Dennis F.
O'Callaghan Way (sidewalks), Mayhew street (sidewalks,
Columbia road, Dudley terrace.

Ward 8 — Washington street (Chapter 90), Eustis street
(Chapter 90).

Ward 9 — Greenwich court, Columbus avenue, Simmons
street, Massachusetts avenue, Tremont street, Washington
street (Chapter 90).

Ward 10 — Alleghany street, Calumet street, Fisher
avenue, Iroquois street, Parker street, Parker Hill avenue,
Pontiac street. Saint Alphonsus street. Darling street,
Walden street.

Ward 11 — Fort avenue (safety barrier), Glen road.
Forest Hills street, Cemetery road, McBride street (side-
walks), Jamaica street, Columbus avenue.

Ward 12 — Forest Hills street, Cemetery road, Crest-
wood park, Lorimer place, Park View street. Blue Hill
avenue (Chapter 90).

Ward 13 — Mount Vernon street (sidewalks), Dalin
place, Howard place.

Ward 14 — Brunswick street. Blue Hill avenue (Chap-
ter 90).

Ward 15 — Homes avenue (sidewalks).

Ward 16 — King street (sidewalks), Whitten street,
Daytona terrace, Hutchinson street, Glide street (sidewalks).

Ward 17 — Barna road. Range road.

Ward 18 — Chapel road, Meadowview road. Millstone
road. Beech street, Canterbury street. Deforest street,
Rosa street, Harmon street, Richmere road, Loring street
(sidewalks), Tyler street (sidewalks), Blue Hill avenue
(Chapter 90), River street (Chapter 90), Brainard street,
Cliftondale street, Harvard avenue. Metropolitan avenue,
Prospect street, Radcliffe road, Rosemont street, Ruskin-
dale road, Taunton avenue, Tileston street, Gordon avenue
(sidewalks). Hale street (sidewalks), Daniel court, Dietz
court, Dietz road. Dodge road, Eastmont road, Kardon
road, Kristin court, Leighton road, Senders court, Susanna
court, Wharton court, Belnap road. Greenwood avenue.
Metropolitan avenue, Gordon avenue, Derry road, Green-

City Document No. 18

wood Circle, Huntington avenue, Melba Way, Safford street,
Barry street, Chestnut street, Byrd avenue, DeStefano
road, Rosecliff terrace.

Ward 19 — Louder's Lane, Wachusett street, Alveston
street. Centre street, Dunster road, Granfield avenue. Moss
Hill road, Patten street, Roanoke avenue, Elm street,
Cummins Highway (sidewalks), Agassiz park, Cheshire
Street Extension, Driftwood road, Mossdale road, Meyer
street, Pershing road, Perkins street.

Ward 20 — Eastbourne street, Edgemere road, Glen-
burnie road, Keith street, Landseer street, Mendum street,
Pelton street, Redgate road, Rockland street, Schiller road,
Anawan terrace, Albright street, Libbey street. Maple
Street Extension, Maple Street Footway, Carey street
(sidewalks), Woodard Road (sidewalks), Alaric street (side-
walks), Gretter road (sidewalks). Centre street and Baker
street (Chapter 90), Gardner street, Rivermoor street,
Charles Park road. Autumn street, Cohasset street, Dunwell
street, Francesca street, Heldun street, Joyce Kilmer road,
Lasell street, Manthorne road, Montview street, Peak Hill
road, Perham street, Powell street. Saint Theresa avenue,
Gretter road, Schirmer road, Grayfield avenue, Crockers
Lane, Hackensack road, Marlin road, Sherbrook street,
Spinney street, Welton road, Corey street. Church street,
Jacqueline road, Willowdean avenue, Courtney road, Willow
terrace.

Ward 21 — Brookline avenue. Overland street, Englewood
avenue. Beacon street (sidewalks), Commonwealth avenue
(sidewalks), Colborne road, Hinsdale street, Keswick street,
Medfield street, Blenford road.

Ward 22 — Kenrick street (sidewalks), Athol street,
Everett street, Holton street. North Harvard street. Lake
Shore road, Eatonia street, West Sorrento street.

Work Done by Contract in 1957

Item

Quantity

Earth excavation ....

60,799 cubic yards

Rock excavation ....

3,251 cubic yards

Bank gravel

57,527 tons

Crushed stone for edgestone

2,816 tons

Base removed ....

9,773 square yards

Pavement removed

51,712 square yards

Straight edgestone

32,388 lineal feet

Circular edgestone

7,825 lineal feet

Corners

1,154 each

Edgestone reset or relocated

62,823 lineal feet

Edgestone hauled to City yard .

7,300 lineal feet

Macadam base ....

41,013 tons

OA asphalt

229,558 gallons

Table

Showing Length and j

Length in Miles.

Sheet
Aepbalt.

tAsphalt
Concrete.

tOranite
Block.

Wood
Block.

Plank
Bridges.

Brick.

S." "

Year 1956 Report

227 . 57
30.46

337.44
45 17

26.36
3.53

0.15
0.02

0.35

0,05

0,50
0,07

19.77
2.64

Januahv 1, 1958.

49.02
4,31
2.80
11.61
40.14
34.48
.53.85
20.52
7.87

32.12
7.59
23.52
20.57
37,49
95.91
82.01
33.49
28 90

8 39
4.72
2.96
4,91
2,32
0.02
0.48
0.29
O.OII

0,06
0,06

0,00

0,09
0,02
0.02
0,03

0,17
0,02
0,02
0 01

2,87
0,74
1,39
0.32
4.13
2.27
5.17
0,78
0,64

South Boston

West Roxhury

0.03

0.04
0.04
0 08
0 03

Total

Percent

224.66
30-05

301.66
48.37

24,09
3.22

0.15
0.02

0.35
0.05

0.22
0.03

18.31
2.45

-In the above table the

bdivided substantially c

tOf this amount 0.02 iiiilea or 185 square yards is eobbli

square yards is granite block paving on concrete base.

§0f this amount 0.00 miles or 435 square yards if Blorn

II Of this amount 99.01 miles or 1,603.711 square yards i

Area tn Square Yards.

idam.

Gravel.

Not
Graded.

Totals.

Sheet
Aspljalt.

t.^aphalt
Concrete.

tGranite
Block.

Wood
Block.

Plank
Bridges.

Brick.

§Concrete.

II Macadam.

Gravel.

Not
Graded.

Totals.

!4 22
16,63

9.96
1.33

0.77
0.10

747.09 1
100,00

4..573.537
31.62

6,647.373
45.96

611.832
4.23

2.474
0.02

9,244
0 06

8,795
0.06

407,513
2.82

2.003.957
13 85

171.205
1.18

28.317
0,20

14.404.247
100.00

2,46
5.22
7.59
6.21

0.30
0 03
0.22
0.11
0 40
0,55
1.27
0,23
2,54

0 01
0,04
0,50
0,00
0.00
0.03

0.20

95.48
22.70
38.62
44.62
95.31
156.74
176.18
65.76
52.61

1,095.722
84,404
61,764
245,327
823,683
608,002
1,018,646
4,54,207
134,825

733.055
206.362
536,648
431,284
704,089
1,759,809
1,547,329
648,420
553,799

164.747
105,674
60,572
134,984
30.334
3,098
10,157
22,881
45

278
1,503

3,258

1,098

355

892

3.069

321
1,055
1,188

145

93.001
13.395
47,177
18,780
63,041
32.729
83,059
22,131
10.086

37,302
71.866
167.283
102,874
154.959
381.727
511,313
100.928
200.134

6.087
407
3.785
1.230
7.312
8.326

21.257
3,544

40,611

812

15.754

4.000

1.737

4.500

2.137.179
484.810
878.717
952,207

23.47
33.29
10, .37
12,37

338

983

985

1,231

442

2,798,674

3,194,966

1,319,392

944,443

11.79
14.95

5.65
0.76

0.78
0.10

747.66
100.00

4,526,640
31,23

7,120.795
49.13

532,492
3,68

2,140
0.01

9,244
0.06

5,778
0.04

383.999
2.65

1.794.440
12,37

92,565
0,04

26,927
0.19

14,495,023
100.00

Total Public Streets 747.66 Miles.
indarj* lines between the districts as they existed when
i miles or 356,848

lexed to Boston. Territory

nnexed from Brooklir
53.311 square yards

icluded in City Proper.

tOf this amount 60.63 miles or 1,153.311 square yards is bituUthic; and 2.26
or 36,998 square yards is Topeka; and 0.06 miles or 920 square yards is Filbertine
0.03 miles or 595 square yards is Carey Elasute Asphalt Plank; and 0.06 miles c
square vards is Johns-Manville Asphalt Plank; and 0.09 miles or 2.224 square yards i

Asphalt Block; and 1.61 miles or 50,590 square yards is Tar Concrete.
} or 61,291 square yards public streets in charge of Park Department included in this table; 15.90 miles or 533,120 square yards
eluded in tliis table. In addition to this table there are 2.41 miles or 11,740 squa

; yards of accepted footwn

Public Works Department

Concrete base

2,526 cubic yards

Concrete backing up sidewalks .

18 cubic yards

Bituminous concrete base (roadway)

54,770 tons

Bituminous concrete top (roadway) .

38,179 tons

Bituminous concrete base (sidewalk)

4,032 tons

Bituminous concrete top (sidewalk) .

3,797 tons

Sheet asphalt

6,559 tons

Artificial stone sidewalks

1,027,529 square feet

Artificial stone driveways .

95,337 square feet

Loam spaces

4,515 square yards

Loam back of sidewalks

1,462 cubic yards

Covers reset

4,331 each

Catch basins or manholes rebuilt

133 each

Catch basins or drop inlets built

70 each

Sign posts set or reset ....

450 each

Parking meters reset ....

524 each

Stone bounds

154 each

Bituminous concrete pavement .

501,196 square yards

Sheet asphalt pavement

81,698 square yards

Yearly Report of Work Done by Department
Forces for 1957

Brick sidewalks, laid and relaid .

Gravel sidewalks, relaid

Artificial stone sidewalks, laid (new)

Artificial stone sidewalks, relaid (old)

Bituminous concrete sidewalks .

Artificial stone sidewalks, patched
with black top

Edgestone reset (old) ....

Macadam roadway patched

Macadam roadway resurfaced .

Asphalt or bituminous concrete road-
way patched

Asphalt or bituminous concrete road-
way resurfaced

Street cleaning

Snow removal

9,789 square yards

1,631 square yards

18,295 square feet

143,377 square feet

20,147 square yards

9,580 square feet
2,331 hnealfeet
96,228 square yards
5,330 square yards

96,339 square yards

3,267 square yards
10,559 cubic yards
45,952 cubic yards

Paving Service — 1957

Street cleaning

General highway expenditures
Sidewalk and curbing .
Snow and ice removal .
Street signs ....

$35,120 36

615,326 79

252,125 95

67,748 42

29,012 59

$999,334 11

48 City Document No. 18

HIGHWAY DIVISION
Lighting Service
Financial Statement

Total Credits for 1957 $1,609,191 06

Total Expenditures for 1957 .... 1 609 191 75

Deficit

Individual Expenditures
Street and Park Lighting (Electric) :

Boston Edison Company $1,392,808 07

Boston Gas Company, Charles-
town District . . . 64,643 43

Boston Edison (footways) . 3,160 31

Boston Gas Company, Charles-
town (footways) . . . 502 19

Boston Edison Company (sub-
stations) 17,656 10

Boston Gas Company, Charles-
town (substation) . . . 4,958 37

Street Lighting (Gas) :

Boston Gas Company . . $21,687 82
American Service Company . 40,667 44

Police Spotlights :

Boston Edison Company . $1,900 63
Boston Gas Company, Charles-
town 59 01

Construction :

Installation, removal, relocation
and modernization :
Boston Edison Company
Boston Gas Company .
James Scimone, gas post re-
moval

Emergency maintenance

Salaries :

Administrative and engineering
personnel ....

Office supplies ....

Electrical maintenance and re-
placement parts

Advertising

Travel expenses ....

Office equipment ....

Spotlight poles ....

0 69

[,483,728 47

2,355 26

$5,556 55
8,725 97

ripi,yoy D^

11,187 50
2 50

$25,472 52

$25,817 95
$353 24

$5,181 40

$24 50

$3 40

$295 37

$4,000 00

$5,181 40

$24 50

$3 40

$295 37

$4,000 00

Public Works Department

Following is an account of orders issued by the Light-
ing Service of the Highway Division of the Public Works
Department during the year 1957:

Mercury Vapor Lighting Projects

In 1957 orders were issued on the following listed
streets, main thoroughfares and business areas for re-
lighting with modern mercury vapor lighting:

Atlantic Avenue, Boston
Bunker Hill Street, Charlestown
Blue Hill Avenue, Dorchester
Berkeley Street, Boston
Beacon Street, Brighton
Centre Street, Roxbury
Chelsea Street, Charlestown
Centre Street, West Roxbury
Commonwealth Avenue, Brighton
Commonwealth Avenue, Brighton
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Canterbury Street, West Roxbury
Columbus Avenue, Roxbury
Dudley Street, Roxbury
East Broadway, South Boston
Freeport Street, Dorchester
Hunter Street, Charlestown
Hyde Park Avenue, Hyde Park
Eustis Street, Roxbury
Harrison Avenue, Roxbury
Keany Square, Boston
Maverick Square, East Boston
Maverick Square, East Boston
Massachusetts Avenue, Roxbury
Massachusetts Avenue, Boston
Massachusetts Avenue, Boston
Purchase Street, Boston
Purchase Street, Boston
Ritchie Street, Roxbury
Ruggles Street, Roxbury
Roxbury Street, Roxbury
Roxbury Street, Roxbury
Summer and L Streets, South Boston
Summer and L Streets, South Boston
Sumner Street, East Boston
Theodore Glynn Way, Roxbury
Tremont Street, Brighton .
Tremont Street, Roxbury .

Units

15 single

42 single

1 single

4 single

1 single
8 single

32 twin
55 single

2 single
8 single
7 single

17 single

20 single

7 single

1 single
39 single

2 single
2 single

1 single

6 single

5 twin

8 single
12 single

7 twin
10 single

2 twin
1 single
5 single

10 single
1 twin

15 twin
45 single

1 twin
5 single

16 single

21 single

Lumens
Each

15,000

15.000

15,000

10,000

15,000

10,000

15,000

10,000

15,000

City Document No. 18

Vine Street, Charlestown
Washington Street, Boston .
Washington Street, West Roxbury
Washington Street, Roxbury
Whittier Street, Roxbury .
West Broadway, South Boston .
Warren Street, Boston
Warren Street, Roxbury

4 single

15,000

3 single

20,000

84 single

15,000

23 single

15,000

1 single

15,000

1 single

15,000

1 single

15,000

4 single

15,000

Gas Replacement Program

During the year 1957 approximately 1,700 obsolete
gas lamps were replaced with approximately 1,755 new
modern luminaries with 2,500 lumen lamps. These new
lamps, in most instances, are installed on long arms to
diminish interference with trees and to eliminate glare
from homes on residential streets.

Maintenance of Police Spotlights

The maintenance of police spotlights continued during
the year 1957. Program initiated for the installation of
additional spotlights at the locations chosen by the
Police Department.

Incandescent Lighting Projects

In 1957 orders were issued for the installation of new
and the replacement of old lighting units.

Academy Hill Road, Brighton
Brookford Street, Roxbury
Copeland Street, Roxbury
Calumet Street, Roxbury
Fisher Avenue, Roxbury
Iroquois Street, Roxbury
King Street, Dorchester
Liverpool Street, East Boston .
Leighton Road, Hyde Park
Magazine Street, Roxbury .
Newland Street, Boston
Parker Hill Avenue, Roxbury
Poplar Street, West Roxbury
Ronan Park, Dorchester
St. Theresa Avenue, West Roxbury
St. Alphonsus Street, Roxbury .
Wellesley Park, Dorchester
Binney Street, Roxbury

Units

Lumens

Each

5 single

2,500

5 single

2,500

6 single

2,500

17 single

2,500

13 single

2,500

5 single

2,500

5 single

2,500

5 single

2,500

7 single

2,500

11 single

2,500

8 single

2,500

11 single

2,500

18 single

2,500

9 single

2,500

10 single

2,500

6 single

2,500

9 single

2,500

6 single

4,000

Public Works Department

Harvard Street, Dorchester
Parker Hill Avenue, Roxbury
Pembroke Street, Boston
Townsend Street, Roxbury
Waltham Street, Boston
White Street, East Boston
Camden Street, Roxbury
Dwight Street, Boston
Harvard Street, Dorchester
Harrison Avenue, Roxbury
Motte Street, Boston .
Pleasant Street, Dorchester
Perkins Street, West Roxbury
Townsend Street, Roxbury .
Troy Street, Boston
Calumet Street, Roxbury
Canterbury Street, West Roxbury
Franklin Park, Dorchester .
Highland Street, Dorchester
Neptune Road, East Boston
Parker Hill Avenue, Roxbury
Savin Hill Avenue, Dorchester
Terrace Street, Roxbury

13 single

4,000

21 single

4,000

10 single

4,000

6 single

4,000

6 single

4,000

7 single

4,000

16 single

6,000

5 single

6,000

13 single

6,000

8 single

6,000

5 single

6,000

19 single

6,000

5 single

6,000

10 single

6,000

6 single

6,000

1 single

10,000

2 single

10,000

1 single

10,000

1 single

10,000

1 single

10,000

1 single

10,000

1 single

10,000

1 single

10,000

Incandescent Lamps

During 1957 incandescent lamps of 6,000 lumens each
were installed on the following streets:

Asylum street, Boston (2); Circuit street, Roxbury (1);
Claremont Park, Boston (2); Devine Way, South Boston
(1); Forest Hills street, West Roxbury (1); Garrison street,
Boston (1); Hanson street, Boston (4); Lingard street, Rox-
bury (2); Museum road, Roxbury (1); Playstead road,
Roxbury (1); Regent street, Roxbury (1); Ringgold street,
Boston (1) ; To^vn Field, Dorchester (3) ; Union Park, Boston
(2); Way street, Boston (3).

Incandescent lamps of 4,000 lumens each were installed
on the following streets:

Academy Hill road, Brighton (1); Bosworth street, Boston
(1); Brooks street. West Roxbury (4); Crossman street,
Dorchester (1); Calumet street, Roxbury (1); Circuit street,
Roxbury (3); Crown Path, Dorchester (3); Douglas street.
South Boston (1); Frawley street, Roxbury (1); Lamartine
street, Roxbury (1); Magazine street, Roxbury (1); Sachem
street, Roxbury (1); Seymour street. West Roxbury (1);
Union Park street, Boston (2); Vining street, Roxbury (1).

52 City Document No. 18

Orders were issued by the Lighting Service for the
installation of lighting units of 2,500 lumens as follows:

Alleghany street, Roxbury (4); Allston street, Dorchester
(1); Autumn street, Roxbury (3); Bartlett street, Charles-
town (1); Burton street, Roxbury (1); Belnap road, Hyde
Park (2); Barnes avenue. East Boston (1); Bragdon street,
Roxbury (1); Bayside street, Dorchester (1); B street, South
Boston (3); Cross street, Charlestown (3); Clancy road,
Dorchester (3); Chellman street, West Roxbury (2); Cordis
street, Charlestown (3); Chadwick street, Roxbury (3);
Claymount terrace, Dorchester (1); Cumston street, West
Roxbury (1); Cornwall street, West Roxbury (2); Creighton
street, West Roxbury (4); Carolina avenue. West Roxbury
(3); Dodge road, Hyde Park (2); Delle avenue, Roxbury (1);
Daly street, Dorchester (2); Draper's Lane, Boston (2);
Dunmore street, Roxbury (2) ; Everett street. West Roxbury
(2); Emmonsdale street, West Roxbury (1); Fourth street,
South Boston (3); Field street, Roxbury (1); Fremont street,
Dorchester (2); Fallon street. West Roxbury (3); Forest
Hills street. West Roxbury (1); Fabin street, Boston (2);
Frawley street, Roxbury (2) ; Green street, Charlestown (3) ;
Gore street, Roxbury (1); Glen street, Dorchester (2); Gray
street, Boston (4); Goodenough street, Brighton (2); Hazel-
mere road, West Roxbury (1); Henry street. East Boston (1);
Harleston street, Roxbury (2); Horace street. East Boston
(2); Ivanhoe street, Boston (3); Lawn street, Roxbury (1);
Maverick street. East Boston (4); Maryknoll street, Dor-
chester (2) ; Minton street, Jamaica Plain (2) ; Mystic street,
Charleston (4); Messinger street, Dorchester (1); Merola
park, Dorchester (2); M street, South Boston (3); Mission
street, Roxbury (2) ; Nevada street, Dorchester (2) ; Norfolk
avenue, Dorchester (1); Oswald street, Roxbury (1); 0 street,
South Boston (2); Page street, Dorchester (2); Paris street,
East Boston (1); Pleasant street, Charlestown (4); Rowe
street. West Roxbury (3); Renfrew street, Roxbury (1);
Rogers street. South Boston (1) ; Ringgold street, Boston (1) ;
Ruggles street, Roxbury (2); Rawson street, Dorchester (1);
South Hobart street, Brighton (1); Spaulding street, Dor-
chester (3); Standish street, Dorchester (1); Sachem street,
Roxbury (3); St. Charles street, Boston (1); Stockwell
street, Roxbury (2); Savin Hill avenue, Dorchester (1);
Soley street, Charlestown (2); Seymour street. West Rox-
bury (1); Safford street, Hyde Park (4); Tupelo road, Rox-
bury (1); Tuttle street, Dorchester (1); Taylor street,
Boston (1); Trumbull street, Boston (3); Union park, Bos-
ton (4); Wait street, Roxbury (3); Weymouth avenue.
West Roxbury (2); Windsor street, Roxbury (4); Wilming-
ton avenue, Dorchester (1); Wales street, Dorchester (2);
Warner street, Dorchester (1).

Public Works Department 53

Orders were issued by the Lighting Service during
1957 for the installation of 1,000 lumen lamps as follows:

Appian Place, East Boston (1) ; At will road, West Roxbury
(1); Armstrong street, West Roxbury (1); Arborfield road,
West Roxbury (4); Bickford street, Roxbury (1); Boswell
Lane, Charlestown (2); Bayswater street, East Boston (1);
Concord avenue, Charlestown (4); Calumet street, Roxbury
(1); Canterbury street, West Roxbury; (1) Damrell street,
South Boston (5) ; Desmond road, Dorchester (2) ; Filomena
road, West Roxbury (1); Gordon avenue, Hyde Park (1);
Gardenside street, West Roxbury (1) ; Garth road, Boston (2) ;
Heron street. West Roxbury (1); Lexington avenue, Charles-
toAvn (2); Maryknoll terrace, Dorchester (1); Meadowview
road, Hyde Park (3); Maple Street Extension, West Rox-
bury (1); Prospect park, Hyde Park (1); Stanwood street,
Dorchester (2) ; Wilmot street, West Roxbury (2) ; Wedmore
street, Dorchester (1); Willow terrace. West Roxbury (1);
Whitby terrace, Dorchester (1).

54 City Document No. 18

APPENDIX D

REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF
THE SANITARY DIVISION

Boston, January 2, 1958.

To the Commissioner of Public Works:
Dear Sir:

I submit herewith a statement of the activities of the
Sanitary Division of the PubUc Works Department
for the year ending December 31, 1957:

Refuse Collection and Disposal

Contracts for the collection of refuse, awarded in
March, require that all the districts of the City now be
provided with totally enclosed steel bodies on the col-
lection trucks, which is an improvement in sanitation
that has been a goal of the division for many years.

Disposal contracts for the so-called contract area,
for the first time, split the work between two con-
tractors, the DeMatteo Construction Company to
continue the scow-towing and Spectacle Island dump
operation, and the Coleman Disposal Company to
operate the Calf Pasture dump for a one-year period
from April 1, 1957 to March 31, 1958.

The total cost of refuse collection and disposal for
1957 was approximately $2,600,000, which is more
than $200,000 under the cost of the same service in
1949.

This holding the line in costs is remarkable in view
of the increase in the wage rate for collectors from $1.30
an hour in 1949 to $2.15 an hour in 1957, and the fact
that fully enclosed packer-type truck bodies are now
used in place of the open body trucks furnished pre-
viously. The resultant savings to the City were made
possible by acquiring control of the refuse dumping
sites and the institution of authentic competitive bidding
on the refuse collection and disposal contracts over the
past seven years.

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Other disposal facilities have been maintained during
the year by —

(a) Renewal of the Daggett contract for disposal of the
East Boston refuse at the Saugus dump.

(6) Continuing the sale of garbage delivered at the
Victory Road Receiving Station to a hog farmer in Sterling,
providing an income of $4,615 per year.

(c) Repairs to the roof of the Victory Road Station were
done by J. F. Shea Company at a cost of Sl,475, and the
interior steel work cleaned and painted by the C. A. Foley
Company, at a cost of $2,549.

(d) At the Gardner street dump, improvement was made
by demolition of the old Brookline Water Works structures
by Dooley Brothers, Inc., at a cost of $4,300. The excellent
dumping operation conducted at this site demonstrates the
sound judgment exercised in acquiring the ninety-seven
acres purchased by the department during the past few
years, commencing in 1951.

Street Cleaning and Snow Removal

Mechanization of the street cleaning function pro-
ceeded with the acquiring of two new mechanical pick-up
sweepers complete with cabs for the operators, and two
new front-end bucket loaders.

An appropriation of $200,000 was made for a new
sweeper garage and office building at 650 Albany street.
Borings were taken by the Carr Construction Corp.,
and preliminary architectural studies are in progress.
Construction of this building may be commenced in
1958.

The division's street cleaning force removed snow from
the streets in the down-town retail stores district follow-
ing storms in excess of two inches, which occurred during
the months of January, February and March. No snow
fell during the fall months.

The entire division was mobilized for the Spring
Clean-Up Campaign, conducted from March 25 to
April 20. At the end of this period, every section of the
city was in a clean condition, and the winter's accumula-
tion of sand in the gutters had been removed.

Incinerator Construction

Construction of the South Bay Incinerator proceeded
without delay this year. The J. F. White Contracting
Company completed driving 62,000 feet, or almost
twelve miles, of concrete-filled twelve-inch steel pipe

56 City Document No. 18

piles, averaging a depth of 160 feet below the ground sur-
face, at a cost of $419,000. A revision of the contract
with George Allen Company was made on April 24,
providing for furnishing six instead of four incinerator
furnaces and appurtenances, thereby increasing the
plant capacity from 600 tons to 900 tons per twenty-four
hours. The cost was $462,264, the same price bid by
the Allen Company sixteen months earlier, which
brought the total amount of this equipment contract to
$1,426,131. This contract was later assigned to the
Tynan Incinerator Company.

A contract for construction of the Refuse Storage Bin
was awarded on June 3 to the low bidder, Coleman
Brothers Corp., at a bid price of $423,000. Due to diffi-
cult sub-soil and high ground water conditions, the bin
was constructed in a cofferdam of steel sheeting. Work
was approximately 95 per cent completed on this con-
tract on December 31st.

The plans and specifications for the incinerator build-
ing were completed by the consulting engineers, Metcalf
& Eddy, in September, and a contract was awarded on
November 25 to the low bidder, the John Bowen Co.,
Inc., in the amount of $2,693,793. The Bowen Company
plans to commence work early in 1958, as soon as the
Coleman Brothers Corporation leaves the site, and is
expected to complete the building within twelve months.

The only remaining incinerator work not contracted
for is the steam main for transmitting steam, to be
generated by burning refuse at the incenerator, to the
Boston City Hospital. Plans and specifications for this
work will be completed early in 1958. Utilization of
the waste heat of incineration will provide a saving of
over $150,000 annually in fuel oil costs at the hospital.
Additional revenue may be derived from the sale of
surplus steam to the Boston Edison Company which
has expressed an interest in this commodity.

The undersigned was promoted to the position of Di-
vision Engineer of the Sanitary Division on August 6,
1957, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Division
Engineer, Adolph J. Post, in February, 1956. The
Acting Division Engineer in the interim was General
Superintendent Timothy J. O'Leary.

Respectfully submitted,

John F. Flaherty, Division Engineer,

Sanitary Division, P. W. D.

Public Works Department

SANITARY DIVISION — 1957
Payments to Refuse Collection Contractors

District

Contractor

Monthly

Contract

Price

Total
Payments

1 South Boston.

2 East Boston.

3 Charlestown.

4 Brighton .

5 A West Roxbury.
5B Jamaica Plain .

6 A Dorchester — North.

6B Dorchester — South.

7A Elm Hill.

7B Dudley.

7C Mission Hill.

7D Roxbury.

9 South End.

9 A Back Bay.

9B Stuart.

10 North and West Ends.

11 Hyde Park.

Anthony J. Ryan, Jr.
(First 3 months) . .
(Last 9 months). . .

Milano Brothers, Inc.

Milano Brothers, Inc

(First 3 months)
Jeffries Disposal Corporation.
(Last 9 months)

Anthony J. Ryan, Inc

(First 3 months)
Frank J. Cavaliere Company, Inc.

(Last 9 months)

Frank J. Cavaliere Company, Inc.

J. J. Moore Company, Inc.

(First 3 months)

(Last 9 months)

Coleman Brothers Corporation.

(First 3 months)

(Last 9 months)

Coleman Brothers Corporation.

(First 3 months)

(Last 9 months)

William J. Banfield.
(First 3 months) .
(Last 9 months). .

United Contracting Company.

(First 3 months)

(Last 9 months)

Marinucci Brothers, Inc

(First 3 months)
Frank J. Cavaliere Company, Inc.

(Last 9 months)

L^nited Contracting Company.

(First 3 months)
James A. Freaney, Inc

(Last 9 months)

James A. Freaney, Inc.
(First 3 months) . . . .
(Last 9 months)

Dooley Brothers, Inc.
(First 3 months) . . .
(Last 9 months). . .

James A. Freaney, Inc.
(First 3 months) . . . .
(Last 9 months)

Ward General Contracting Company .

(First 3 months)

(Last 9 months)

Dooley Brothers, Inc.
(P'irst 3 montlis) . .
(Last 9 months). . .

$10,400
12,607

7,328 +
3,953

4,832

13,400
14,420

10,350 +

9,615
11,100

25,900
27,370

29,100
30,570

5,310
5,420

6,729
6,929

8,140

7,960

9,980
9,480

7,170
6,940

3,690
2,990

3,560
2,910

14,300
13,650

6,390
6,390+

Total .

$144,663

90,856
55,347

169,980

127,550
128,745
324,030
362,430
64,710
82,548
96,060

115,260

83,970

37,980

36,870

165,750

77,542
S2,164,29I

City Document No. 18

Payments to Refuse Disposal Contractors

Districts

Contractor

Monthly

Contract

Price

Total
Payments

3 9 9A 9B and 10

M. DeMatteo Construction Company

$39,090
30,980

2,100

$396,090

1,7A, 7B, 7C, andTD

18,900

(Last 9 months)

Total

$414,990

Payments for Rental of Dumps

Dump
Location

Contractor

Monthly

Contract

Price

Total
Payments

Dewey E. Daggett

$900

200
2,000

$10,800

Boston Gas Company

18,600

$29,400

Total Payments to Contractors for Refuse Collection and Disposal $2,608,681

Expenditures in 1957

Payments to Refuse Collection Contractors .

Payments to Refuse Disposal Contractors . .

Payroll totals were as follows:
Administrative and General

Services S55,062 88

Shops and Storehouse 201,270 40

Collection and Disposal 292,767 95

$2,164,291 00
.444,390 00

$2,608,681 00

Total Sanitary
Street Cleaning . .

Total Sanitary and Street Cleaning

$549,101 23
1,632,314 15

12,181,415 38

Overtime Payrolls were as follows:

Shops and Storehouse $4,246 46

Collection and Disposal 5,691 05

Street Cleaning 47,355 69

Total Overtime .

57,293 20

Total Payroll $2,238,708 58

Public Works Department 59

Payments on other Contracts $59,861 93

Supplies and Materials 47,652 72

Miscellaneous 4, 134 62

Grand Total $4,959,038 85

Equipment Acquired During 1957

1 Wayne Sweeper $11,650 00

1 Elgin Sweeper 12,000 00

2 Trojan Front-End Loaders 15,800 00

3 G. M. C. 3-Ton (4-yard) Dump Trucks. . . 13,500 00

Total $52,950 00

Personnel Changes in Permanent Force During the
Year 1957

Total Personnel, January 1, 1957 *616

Transfers In (from other Departments and T)'w\-

sions) 24

Reinstatements 3

Appointments 35 62

678

Deaths 9

Resignations 9

Retirements 21

Transfers Out (to other Departments and Divi-
sions) 6

Discharges 3 48

Total Personnel, January 1, 1958 .... t630

* Including 1 Military Leave of Absence,
t Total net gain of 14 employees.

60 City Document No. 18

APPENDIX E

REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF
THE SEWER DIVISION

Boston, January 2, 1958.
To the Commissioner of Public Works.
Dear Sir:

I submit herewith statement of the activities and ex-
penditures of the Sewer Division for the year ending
December 31, 1957.

Expenditures During 1957 — The activities of the
Sewer Division during the year consisted of advertising
for sewer construction at a contract bid price of $141,-
520.80, and the maintenance and operation of the sewer
system at a cost of $786,871.90.

Contract Work — Contract work consisted of the ex-
tension of the sewer system to provide drainage for new
buildings and street construction and to ehminate cess-
pools, the locations and cost of which are attached.

Maintenance Work — Maintenance work consisted of
the cleaning of 10,882 catch basins by contract and
1,894 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
pumping station and disposal works, the cost of which is
attached.

Major Accomplishments — Completion of enclosing
Section 18 of Stony Brook, Hyde Park, in a conduit from
Willow Street to Bald Knob Road, a distance of 4,678.45
linear feet. The contract was awarded to Pacella
Brothers, it was started October 3, 1955, and completed
September 28, 1957. The total and final amount paid
under the contract was $490,263.02.

Completion of the enclosing of the Canterbury
Branch of Stony Brook, West Roxbury, in a conduit
from the main line of Stony Brook Conduit to beyond
Canterbury Street, a distance of 1,321 linear feet. The
contract was awarded to Civitarese-Piatelli Corporation,
the work started November 5, 1956, and was completed
June 28, 1957. The total final payment under the con-
tract was $207,184.45.

Public Works Department 61

A contract was awarded to P. J. Riley & Co. at an
estimated cost of $20,318, to furnish and install one main
sluice gate at Calf Pasture Pumping Station. The work
will start in 1958.

The emergencj^ repair of sewers by advertised con-
tract at a total cost of $25,453.52.

The maintenance of about 1,200 miles of sewers and
surface drains, the emergency cleaning of catch basins,
the repair of broken sewers and catch basins, the answer-
ing of house drain complaints, the operation of pumping
stations and storage basins for the disposal of sewage by
division forces.

The keeping of records, the issuance of permits for and
the inspection of the construction of house drains.

Engineering, clerical and inspectional work in con-
nection with the construction of sewerage works done
by advertised contract.

Proposed Work to he Done hy Advertised Contract Dur-
ing 1958 is as Follows —

Emergency repairs of sewers, estimated cost, $30,000.

Cleaning of catch basins, estimated cost, $60,000.

Extension of sewer system to provide drainage for
new buildings and new street construction. Estimated
cost, $300,000.

The covering in of that part of open Bussej' Brook for a
distance of about 1,400 linear feet, from the Dedham
branch railroad to South street. Estimated cost,
$110,000.

The covering in that part of open Canterbury Branch
of Stony Brook from Canterbury street to Walk Hill
street, estimated cost, $130,000.

The Sewer Division Labor Force consists of the following
— 15 laborers, 1 carpenter, 30 motor equipment oper-
ators and laborers, 9 catch basin machine operators,
3 tide gate repairmen and 1 working foreman tide gate
repairman, 8 working foremen sewer cleaners, 14 sewer
cleaners, 4 bricklayers, 2 yardmen, 1 heavy motor
equipment operator, 5 sewer district foremen, and 1
main drainage foreman. This makes a total of 94 men
assigned to answering complaints, cleaning catch basins,
cleaning sewers, repairs to manholes and catch basins,
repairing broken sewers, and other related work.

Length of Sewers Built — During the fiscal 3^ear 1957
there were built by contractors and day labor 4.06 miles
of common sewers and surface drains throughout the

62 City Document No. 18

city. After deducting 0.05 miles of sewers and surface
drains, rebuilt or abandoned, the net increase for 1957
is 4.01 miles, which added to the existing 1,291.30 miles
of common sewers and surface drains and 30.93 miles of
intercepting sewers, makes a grand total of 1,326.24
miles of all sewers belonging to the City of Boston, and
under the care of the Sewer Division on January 1, 1958.

There were 218 catch basins built or rebuilt and 42
abandoned or removed during the year, making a net
gain of 176 catch basins and a grand total of 24,698
catch basins under the care of the Sewer Division on
January 1, 1958.

Permit Office Report — Entrance fees to the amount
of $14,457.70 have been deposited with the City Col-
lector for collection from estates upon which no sewer
assessments were ever paid, in accordance with Ordi-
nances of 1945, Chapter 27, Section 10.

Seven hundred and seventy-five permits have been
issued, viz.: 112 to district foremen and contractors and
663 to drain layers for repairing or laying new house
drains. Inspectors from this office have personally
inspected the work done under these drain-layers'
permits.

Two thousand and one complaints have been in-
vestigated and inspectors are instructed to report in
writing in each case.

Two thousand and sixty -four catch basin complaints
were received.

Reported in writing on 2,761 municipal liens to the
City Collector, in accordance with Chapter 60, Section
25, of the General Laws. Reported orally on about
2,200 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, Sewer Division.

Public Works Department

Summary of Sewer Construction for Twelve Months Ending
December 31, 1957.

Districts.

Built by the

City Either by

Contract or

Day Labor.

Built by
Private
Parties.

Total Lengths Built.

Linear Feel.

216.70
463.70

Linear Feet.
2,195.00

Linear Feet.

2,411.70
463.70

Jl/i7es.
0.4567

0.0878

382.00
9,019.00
1,553.87
5,497.97

308.00
964.00
438.60
372.80

690.00
9,983.00
1,992,47
5,870.77

0.1307

West Roxbury

1.8907
0.3773

Hyde Park

1.1U9

Totals

17,133.24

4,278.40

21,411.64

4.0551

Summary of Sewer Construction for Five Years Previous to
January 1, 1958.

1953

1954

1955

1956

1957

Built by city by con-
tract or day labor . . .

Built by private parties
or other city depart-

Linear Feet.
27,469.81
11,482.00

Linear Feet.
33,316.89
10,459.00

Linear Feet.

33,237.48

1,695.15

Linear Feet.

25,559.88

3,487.39

Linear Feet.

17,133.24

4.278.40

Totals

38,951.81

43,775.89

34,932.63

29,047.27

21,411.64

City Document No. 18

Total Length of Sewers.

Districts.

Total
Lengths

Built
During
Twelve
Months
Ending
December
31, 1957.

Lengths

Removed or

Abandoned

During

Twelve

Months

Ending

December

31, 1957.

Additional Lengths

for the

Twelve Months Ending

December 31, 1957.

Linear Feet.
2,411.70
463.70

Linear Feet.
216.70
33.60

Linear Feet.
2,195.00
430.10

Miles.
0.4157

Roxbury

0.0814

G90.00
9,983.00
1,992,47
5,870.77

690.00
9,983.00

1,992.47
5,870.77

0.1307

West Roxbury

1.8907

0.3773

Hyde Park

1.1119

Totals

21,411.64

250.30

21,161.34

4.0077

Common sewers and surface drains built previous
to January 1, 1957

Common sewers and surface drains built between
January 1 and December 31, 1957

Common sewers and surface drains built ending
December 31, 1957

City of Boston intercepting sewers connecting
with Metropolitan sewers to December 31, 1957

City of Boston main drainage intercepting sewers
to December 31, 1957

Miles.
1,291.30
4.01

1,295.31

6.81*
24.12*

Grand total of common and intercepting sewers to

December 31, 1957 ... . . . 1,326.24

Total mileage of streets containing sewerage works

to January 1, 1958 714.94

* No additional lengths built during 1957.

Public Works Department.

Catch Basins in Charge of Sewer Division.

Districts.

Catch Basins for Twelv
Ending December 31

E Months
, 1957.

Total for Whole City

IN Charge of Seweb

Division.

Number
Built or
Rebuilt.

Number
Abandoned
or Removed.

Net
Increase.

Report to

January 1,

1957.

Grand Total

January 1,

1958.

0
0
0
0
0
5
5
32
0

3,800
3,481
1,477
1,223
870
2,106
4,518
5,699
1,348

3,801

3,494

1,477

1,223

870

hton

2,142

4,591

Chester

5.709

ie Park. . . .

1,391

Totals

218

176

24,522

24,698

66 City Document No. 18

Calf Pasture Pumping Station, 1957

Total millions of gallons pumped (annually) . . . 39,996,699,000

Average cost per million gallons (annually) ... $5 08

Costs

Annual Total Operating Costs, 1957

Labor $106,777 69

Edison Power 83,894 29

Fuel Oil No. 5 5,348 92

Fuel Oil No. 2 107 92

Bottled Gas Ill 10

Supplies 3,101 28

Miscellaneous Oil 219 02

Service Orders 3,575 04

2. Contractual Services

21. Communications $3,139 64

22. Light, heat and power . ... 90,073 80

26. Repairs and maintenance of buildings

and structures 104,102 63

27. Repairs and servicing of equipment . 3,979 45

28. Transportation of persons . . . 1,189 39

29. Miscellaneous contractual services . 808 25

3. Supplies and Materials

32. Food supplies $14 85

33. Heating supplies and materials . . 7,798 95

34. Household supplies and materials . . 408 88

35. Medical, dental and hospital supplies

and materials 29 15

36. Office supplies and materials . . 2,281 30
39. Miscellaneous supplies and materials . 7,697 27

Total $203,135 26

SEWER DIVISION
Budget Expenditures, 1957

1. Personal Services

10. Permanent employees .... $550,019 61

11. Temporary employees .... 1,153 75

12. Overtime 12,671 31

$563,844 67

203,293 16

18,230 40

4. Current Charges and Obligations
49. Miscellaneous current charges and obli-
gations $1,155 22 1,155 22

5. Equipment
5 9. Miscellaneous equipment . . . $348 45 348 45

Grand total $786,871 90

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APPENDIX F.

REPORT OF THE
SURVEY DIVISION

Boston, January 2, 1958.

To the Commissioner of Public Works:

Dear Sir:

I respectfully submit the following report of the
activities of the Survey Division for the year ending
December 31, 1957.

This Division performs engineering services for other
divisions of the Public Works Department and other
city departments, boards and commissions. It also
performs administrative and engineering duties required
by the Public Improvement Commission for its operation.

The principal engineering duties include:

(a) the making of plans, surveys, estimates and reports
relating to the laying out, widening, construction and design
of public highways:

(b) the taking of easements for sewerage works;

(d) the making of property surveys of land to be acquired
by the City of Boston by eminent domain ;

(e) the making of plans and surveys of city-owned land
for purposes of sale, interdepartmental transfer or new
development ;

(/) the making of various engineering surveys and plans
required by other city departments.

For the Public Improvement Commission, the ad-
ministrative functions include the processing of petitions,
arranging public hearings, preparing estimates and
orders relating to land damages and street and sewer
betterments, preparing orders for the laying out of
streets and the construction of streets and sewers,
preparing orders for eminent domain land takings,
preparing orders for the granting of permits for use
of public highways, erection of poles, etc., and the
maintenance of all records in the charge of the Public
Improvement Commission.

74 City Document No. 18

Personnel — On December 31, 1957, there were
thirty-five permanent and five temporary employees as
listed below in this Division.

Name Title

Kenneth L. Benkart Sr. Engineering Aide

Charles E. Brewer Assistant Civil Engineer

Arthur J. Brickley Assistant Civil Engineer

Oliver C. Brown Sr. Engineering Aide

George F. Buckley Jr. Civil Engineer

John A. Bulliner Sr. Engineering Aide

Carmine D. Buono Sr. Engineering Aide (Prov.)

Joyce E. Campbell Sr. Clerk & Stenographer

Michael J. Corrao Assistant Executive Secretary

George J. Creney. Photostat Operator

John J. Curley, Jr Jr. Civil Engineer

Saverio A. DeFronzo Sr. Clerk and Typist

Salvatore C. Diliberto Assistant Civil Engineer

William F. Duggan Principal Clerk and Stenog-
rapher

Harry M. Fletcher Assistant Civil Engineer

Thomas 0. Flood Senior Clerk

George H. Gilboy Sr. Engineering Aide

John F. Gilmore, Jr Assistant Civil Engineer

James W. Haley Chief Engineer

Bernard Harrington Jr. Engineering Aide (Prov.)

Leo B. Hughes Sr. Engineering Aide

Roland A. Hull Assistant Civil Engineer

Angelo J. laluna Assistant Civil Engineer

James J. Kelly Sr. Engineering Aide (Prov.)

Frank S. Lane Jr. Civil Engineer

Walter R. Luby Principal Civil Engineer

Thomas McCusker Executive Secretary

Francis McHugh Jr. Civil Engineer

Robert P. Mehegan Head Clerk

Frederick J. Milliken, Jr Sr. Engineering Aide

A. Albert Minichiello Assistant Civil Engineer

Philip A. Moynahan Sr. Engineering Aide

John Murphy Sr. Engineering Aide (Prov.)

William P. Norris Principal Duplicating Ma-
chine Operator

Thomas E. Rafferty Assistant Civil Engineer

Rose K. Reynolds Clerk-Stenographer

Albert J. Rodriguez Jr. Civil Engineer

John J. Ryan Principal Civil Engineer

Robert J. Sheehan Sr. Engineering Aide (Prov.)

Redmond L. Walsh Head Photostat Operator

The personnel allowance of this division has been
dropping steadily from 73 in 1935 to 57 in 1945 to 45

Public Works Department

this year. Of the 45 positions, 10 are now permanent
vacancies because of our inability to secure quaUfied
personnel through Civil Service in competition with
higher salaries offered by the State and other pubHc and
private agencies. Obviously, this situation which has
continued now for over 10 years, is a serious handicap
to the division.

Division Expenditures, January 1, 1957 to December 31, 1957,

Inclusive.

Survey
Budget

Highway
Loan

Sewer
Loan

Personnel

Pensions

Contractual Services

Supplies and Materials

Current Charges and Obligations .
Equipment

$103,300.00

$65,924.95

21,281.28

—

2,300.00

9,025.31

7,000.00

31.50

—

76,872.21

500.00

—

$134,381.28

$151,853.97

$907.95

Totals.

$907.95

Total Expenditures $287,143.20

During the period covered by this report, the Survey
Division completed one hundred eighteen (118) surveys
and plans for the improving of existing highways, laying
out of new ones and discontinuances, totaling 11.95
miles. Eleven (11) surveys and plans for .57 miles of
sewerage easements were also made. Sixteen (16)
surveys and plans of city-owned land or land to be
taken for municipal purposes were also made.

Field engineering work included the staking out of
eighty (80) streets for the Paving Service of the Highway
Division, twenty-seven (27) for the Sewer Division,
and miscellaneous services for other City departments.
Regular routine work included the resurveying of street
lines for private engineers wherever existing records
were inadequate or obsolete, marking Hues and grades
for private construction abutting public streets, exam-
ining land court plans for the Law Department, prepar-
ing land damage reports for the PubHc Improvement
Commission.

Listed below are the major engineering surveys and
plans completed during the period of this report.

76 City Document No. 18

For the Public Improvement Commission:

Fifty-four (54) surveys and plans were made for the
laying out of 4.73 miles of public highways, as follows:

District Length

in Feet
Boston Proper

Kilby place 68

Brighton

Argus place 240

Baldwin place 210

Nottingham Path 210

Dorchester

Belvoir road 215

Blair road 200

Brandon avenue 746

Cassnet street 160

Constitution road 231

Crossman street 553

Dania street 755

Hallet street 1,075

Hebron street 395

Jamestown terrace 134

Messinger street 250

Monticello avenue 3,145

Montpelier road 870

Orlando street 800

Savannah avenue 247

Viking street 185

Willow court 740

Hyde Park

Belnap road 365

Daniel court 180

Dietz court 170

Dodge road 480

Farwell avenue 225

Joan road 750

Kristin court 155

Leighton road 1,350

Radcliffe road 77

Rosemont street 278

Susanna court 200

Westminster street 1,193

Wharton court 180

Woodland road 840

Public Works Department

Roxbury

Alleghany street .
Darling street
Parker Hill terrace
Alley No. 822
South Bay avenue
Topeka street
Waymount street .

West Roxbury
Celia road
Claron street .
Glencliff road
Grandview street
Hackensack court
Hautevale street
June street
Leland road .
Paulman Circle
Pleasantdale road
Rivermoor street
Willow terrace

692
65
180
100
930
567
110

206
290
580
450
340
209
430
630
270
800
565
232

Twenty-two (22) surveys and plans were made for the
widening and relocation of 1.68 miles of public highways
as follows:

District

Boston Proper

Clinton street
Troy street

Charlestown

Lowney Way
Park street

Dorchester

Hill Top street
Rosselerin road
Willow court .

Hyde Park

Brainard street
Radcliffe road
River street .

Roxbury

Darling street
Sachem street
St. Botolph street
Seaver street .
Norfolk avenue

Length
in Feet

220
94

157
38

32
415
800

48
43

72
128

3,665

143

City Document No. 18

South Boston
D street

West Roxhury

Anawan avenue 24

Baker street 2,641

Firth road 21

Joyce Kilmer road 24

South street 319

Woodard road 36

Eighteen (18) surveys and plans were made for the
discontinuance of .54 miles of public highways as
follows :

District

Boston Proper

Blackstone street
Cambridge street
Central street
Fulton street .
Genesee street
John street
Lovering street
Public Alley No.
Pubhc Alley No.
Oneida street .
Oswego street
Warren Bridge

Brighton

Ryder Hill road

Hyde Park

Chapel road .
Saiford street

702
703

Length
in Feet

122
43

214

146

291

205

192

783

87
238

Roxhury

Public Alley No. 821

West Roxhury

Brook Farm road 30

Maple street 190

Twenty-four (24) surveys and plans were made for the
alteration (specific repair) of 5.00 miles of pubHc high-
ways as follows:

District Length

in Feet
Boston Proper

Berkeley street 265

Clarendon street 245

Public Works Department 79

Columbus avenue at Stuart street .... 55

Commonwealth avenue at St. Mary's street . . 37
Massachusetts avenue between Columbus and

Huntington 990

Washington street at Hayward place ... 35

Brighton

Beacon street at Ayr road 75

Beacon street at Cleveland Circle .... 747

Commonwealth avenue 5,090

Dorchester and Roxhury

Blue Hill avenue 2,349

Roxhury

Columbus avenue — Washington street to Walnut

avenue

Columbus avenue at Ruggles street
Elm Hill avenue at Cra^vford street
Ruggles street at Columbus avenue
Seaver street

1,205
35
98
12

4,065

South Boston

East Broadway 2,714

Dorchester avenue — West Fourth street to Andrew

Square 4,250

West Roxhury

Baker street — Spring street to Veterans of Foreign

Wars Parkway 4,402

Brewer street at Thomas street 13

Brewer street at Eliot street 15

Centre street at South Huntington avenue . . 14

Hagar street at Thomas street 10

Hager street at Eliot street 15

Walworth street 27

Washington street at South 10

Four (4) survej^s and plans were made for the revision
of grade of .33 miles of public highways as follows :

District Length

in Feet
Bost&n Proper

Castle street 530

Hyde Park

Safford street 350

West Roxhury

Burley street 280

Brook Farm road 731

80 City Document No. 18

Two (2) surveys and plans were made for the taking
of eminent domain of 26,129 square feet of land for
municipal purposes, as follows:

Location Area Department

700 Tremont street, Boston Proper . . . 2,881 Fire

42-56 Worcester street, Boston Proper . 23,248 School

Eleven (11) surveys and plans were made for the tak-
ing of .57 miles of easements for sewerage purposes as
follows :

District Length

in Feet
Hyde Park

Arborfield road 925

Beech street 318

Mansur street 960

Millstone road (private land) 30

West street (private land) 100

Roxbury

Kenway terrace 12

West Roxbury

Centre street (private land at Dedham Line)

Dow road

Grandview street

Hackensack court

Maria Lane

70
36
455
89
15

For the Public Works Department (Central Office),
a plan was prepared for exchange of land at Gardner
street, West Roxbury. Study plans were made of the
following: Parker Hill avenue. Sachem street, Way-
mount street, Roxbury; land bounded by Southampton,
Bradston streets and Southeast Expressway; Metro-
politan avenue and railroad location in Hyde Park.

For the Public Works Department (Highway Divi-
sion), eighty (80) highways were staked out for con-
struction.

For the PubHc Works Department (Sewer Division),
eighty-three (83) catch basins were staked out. Also,
thirty-four (34) drainage surveys and reports were made.

For the Pubhc Works Department (Sanitary Divi-
sion), locations of test piles at incinerator site, South
Bay avenue, Roxbury, were checked periodically. Top-
ographical plan of land adjacent to incinerator site was
made.

Public Works Department 81

For the Real Property Department, surveys and plans
were made of city lands on Battery street, Boston
Proper; Sumner street, East Boston; Lewis street. East
Boston; Eastern avenue, Boston Proper; Medford street,
Charlestown, and Ritchie street, Roxbury. A plan was
prepared showing the relocation of Fitzgerald Express-
way at Fort Hill square.

For the Law Department, a survey was made for
encroachment on Harrison avenue at East Newton
street. Accident plans were made for the following loca-
tions: Arhngton street, Boston Proper at Chandler
street; Boylston street, Boston Proper at Hemenway
street; 1245 Columbus avenue, Roxbury and North Ben-
net street, Boston Proper at North Bennet Street place.
Lines were marked at 58 L street, South Boston, Ballard
street and Custer street. West Roxbury. A survey and
plan was made of boundary line between Boston and
Winthrop. A plan of sewer easement in Wave avenue,
Dorchester, was prepared.

For the Building Department, property Unes were
checked at 10 Grove street. West Roxbury, 38 Prospect
street and 1 Mt. Vernon street, Charlestown; 41-51
Hanover street, Boston Proper. A topographical plan
of area adjacent to Lodgehill road and Beech street,
Hyde Park, was made.

For the Hospital Department, a plan was made
showing the location of inflammables at City Hospital.

For the Fire Department, a survey and taking plan
and topographical and utihties plan was made of Tre-
mont street and West Concord street, Boston Proper.

For the School Buildings Department, a survey and
plan of land on Worcester street, Boston Proper, for
addition to Dwight School. Plans were prepared of
Dorchester High School lot and EngHsh High School lot.
A sketch plan was prepared of Greenwood School on
Metropolitan avenue, Hyde Park. Line and grade
was furnished for new school on Warren avenue, Boston
Proper.

Stone Bounds — In accordance with a policy estab-
hshed in 1950, stone bounds were set and drilled on the
following newly constructed streets:

Number of
Street District Bounds

Ackley place West Roxbury 3

Ayles road Hyde Park 3

Barna road Dorchester 1

82 City Document No. 18

Number of
Street District Bounds

Brockton street Dorchester 3

Brush Hill terrace Hyde Park 4

Edwardson street Hyde Park 3

Ellard road Hyde Park 2

Farwell avenue Hyde Park 1

Frazer street Hyde Park 2

Granada park West Iloxbury 2

Harrow street Dorchester 4

Howard place Dorchester 4

Lewiston street Hyde Park 3

Maple street West Roxbury 3

Meadowview road Hyde Park 6

Millstone road Hyde Park 2

New Bedford street Hyde Park 1

Range road Dorchester 3

Rocky Nook terrace Dorchester 3

Tanglewood road Dorchester 1

Alvarado avenue Hyde Park 1

Ansonia road West Roxbury 7

Hillis road Hyde Park , 1

Reynold road Hyde Park 1

Solaris road Hyde Park 1

Vallaro road Hyde Park 2

Engineering Information Services

The preservation of street line locations is one of the
most important responsibilities of this division. As
brought out in recent annual reports, we have been
losing ground steadily in maintaining adequate records
of these street line locations, due primarily to lack of
personnel. To establish an adequate program for this
work, it will be necessary to increase the engineering
force by employing twelve additional competent engi-
neering aides at a cost of S45,000 per year. With these
additional men, we could establish four new survey
parties to work exclusively on street line surveys.

Atlases

Second only to the street line problem is our need
for new up-to-date atlases or maps of the city. The
ages of our best atlases are as follows:

Hyde Park 46 years

South Boston 39 years

East Boston-Charlestown . . . .36 years

West Roxbury 34 years

Brighton 33 years

Public Works Department 83

Roxbury 27 years

Dorchester 25 years

Boston Proper 20 years

The need for new atlases is obvious, not only for our
needs, but all city departments and many other public
and private agencies.

"Boston's Streets" (Street Book)

On April 30, 1957, this division issued for the first
time a Street Book "Supplement" showing all changes
in street records occurring since the 1955 edition of the
Street Book. The supplement was well received and it
is proposed that each year a new supplement be issued
with a new street book edition being published only once
every five or six years.

Preparation of the following private ways for public
travel, as provided for in Chapter 393, Acts of 1906, as
amended, was approved by the PubHc Improvement
Commission to be done under the general supervision
of engineers of this division.

Altacrest road, West Roxbury

Arborfield road. West Roxbury and Hyde Park

Beech street, Hyde Park, between Sherrin street and
Asheville road

Corcoran road, Dorchester

Desmond road, Dorchester

Dow road. West Roxbury

Gould street. West Roxbury, from Belle avenue to North-
dale road

Itasca street, Dorchester, northeast and southwest of
Messinger street

Kiernan road, West Roxbury

Lodgehill road, Hyde Park, from Beech street to Goff
street

Manchester street, Dorchester, extension to Temple
street

Mansur street, West Roxbury and Hyde Park

Merola park, JDorchester

Messinger street, Dorchester, from Colorado street to
Savannah avenue

Northdale road, West Roxbury

Surreyhill road, West Roxbury

Reproduction Work

On January 1, 1957, a new poHcy requiring signed
requisitions for all reproduction work was put into

84 City Document No. 18

effect. Also, a charge to the pubHc of $1 per copy was
begun in accordance with a revised schedule of fees
established by the City Council, December 1, 1957.

As expected, the total amount of work fell off con-
siderably. One exception was ozalid printing which
increased slightly. This increase was caused by one
particular job, the South Bay Avenue Incinerator, of
which over 8,000 prints were made.

The new fee schedule brought an income of $623 to
this division from the sale of copies of its plans and
records. Other departments and divisions likewise
received substantial new revenues from the sale of
copies produced by our reproduction service.

Following is the report of reproduction work of the
division for the year 1957.

Department PHSTS BPS OZS APS

Administrative Services 1,288 226

Assessing 770 2,094

Auditing 546

Building Department 906 20 934

City Clerk 708 98

City Council 2,104 352

Civil Defense 574 116

Compensation Review Board 286

Finance Commission 142

Fire Department 466 107

Health Department 598 39

Registry Division 920

Boston Housing Authority 16 16

Law Department 616 186

Mayor's Office 3,244 212

Park Department 62

Penal Institutions 16 12

Planning Board 966 633

Public Works:

Central Office 662 28

Bridge Division 286 559

Highway Division 624 97 1,969 126

Sanitary Division 148 8,054

Sewer Division 926 116 455

Survey Division 3,130 1,926 6,929 22

Water Division 338 7 453

Public Works (Commonwealth of

Massachusetts) 237

Real Property 1,432 26 1,050

Registry (Court House) 114

Retirement Board 72

School Buildings 230 87

School Committee 52

Traffic Commission 234 95 752

Treasurer's Office 126

Collecting Division 22

Veterans Services 418 12

White Fund 508 35

Election Department 16

Public Buildings 52 66

Public Works Lighting Service 64 384

Public Works Department 85

Totals:

Photostats '. 23,668

Ozalids 26,179

Blueprinting 2,287

Autopositives 148

52,282

Photographic Service — In carrying out a policy intro-
duced in 1956, we have established a Photographic
Service for the Public Works Department and other
city departments. As a part of this program we now
take photographs of the location of all new highway
layouts and proposed improvements, and lands taken
for municipal purposes. The following is a summary
of this work during the year 1957:

Photo- 4x5 8 X 10

Public Works Department graphs Prints Prints

Sanitary Division 342 342 32

Survey Division 380 380 20

Sewer Division 150 150

Bridge Division 178 176 56

Highway Division 140 140

Water Division 40 40

Automotive Division 18 18

Central Office 52 56

Public Improvement Commission 160 160

Totals 1,460 1,108 462

Land Damages — -During 1957, 67 land damage reports
recommending awards totaling $24,500 were submitted
to the Public Improvement Commission.

Assessments — During the period reported on, esti-
mates of benefit for assessment purposes were prepared
amounting to $241,503.01. These estimates are in-
cluded in orders for street and sewer improvements.
Also, final assessments were prepared amounting to
$286,936.04.

Respectfully submitted,

James W. Haley,

Chief Engineer.

City Document No. 18

APPENDIX G.

REPORT OF DIVISION ENGINEER OF THE
WATER DIVISION

Boston, January 2, 1958.

To the Commissioner of Public Works:

Dear Sir:

I respectfully submit the following report of the
activities of the Water Division, operations and expen-
ditures for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1957.

During the year a total of 22,282.6 hnear feet, or
4.22 miles, of main pipe was laid or relaid, varjdng in
size from 4 inches to 24 inches and 720 appHcations
were received for installation of new service pipes,
enlarged service pipes and fire pipes, etc., into new or
remodeled buildings.

There were 13 petitions received for the extension of
water mains. The particular streets in which the above
work was performed are shown on the accompanying
tables.

The districts in which the main pipe was laid and
relaid are as follows:

District

Laid

Linear Feet

Relaid

Linear Feet

City Proper .
East Boston .
South Boston
Dorchester
Hyde Park .
West Roxbury

7,271.0
80.0
323.0
3,809.0
6,604.7
2,326.0

1,656.4
0
0
0
0
212.0

Under the provisions of Chapter 4 of the Ordinances
of 1952, which deals with capital improvements, the
W^ater Division submitted a capital improvement pro-
gram, which program was not followed to any great
extent due to the fact that all available funds were
needed to extend water mains to provide water into
residential areas.

Public Works Department 87

Engineering Office

The office force assisted the pubUc in ascertaining
official information in relation to water mains and
service pipe locations, making studies and estimates
on new mains and services and other assistance relating
to water matters. The record plans, pressure charts
and other official records were brought up to date.
The office drew up plans and contracts for laying new
and relaying old mains, supervised construction, and
had supervision of snow removal in contract areas 4
and 10.

The engineering office assisted in design and super-
vision of construction of water mains and appurtenances
for the following major projects; their status being
as follows:

Central Artery.

Fort Hill Square to South street, completed.
South street to Dover street, one third complete.

Southeast Expressway

Dover street to Boston street, plans completed.
Boston street to Columbia road, 90 per cent complete.
Savin Hill Section, 90 per cent complete.
William T. Morrissey Boulevard to beyond Neponset
avenue, complete.

Soldiers Field Road

Eliot Bridge to Cambridge street, completed.

Reinforced Faulkner Hospital Area, completed by connec-
tion to new 36-inch M.D.C.H.H.S. Mam at Weld
street and West Roxbury Parkway.

Reinforced Hyde Park with 16-inch main on Providence
street, completed.

New York Street Area, completed.

Temporary pump installation during summer months to
raise pressure in Stony Brook Village, Hyde Park.

Codman Hill Section of Dorchester reinforced by M.D.C.
installation of 12-inch Det. Meter Gallivan Boulevard
at Morton street.

Projects Under Study
(o) Reinforce southern section of West Roxbury.
(6) Reinforce Stony Brook section of Hyde Park with
H.H.S.

88 City Document No. 18

(c) Reinforce Low Service, Roxbury and South Boston, by
cleaning and lining 30-inch-24-inch main Roxbury Crossing
to Andrew Square.

(d) Storage building for water works supplies in Albany
Street Yard.

Hydrants
There were 24 new hydrants established, 136 hy-
drants changed and 35 hydrants abandoned, a decrease
of 11 hydrants.

Summation
System relaid .35 miles, extended 3.87 miles, aban-
doned 2.95 miles, 24 new hydrants estabhshed and 35
hydrants abandoned; an increase of .92 miles and a
decrease of 11 hydrants.

The Distribution Branch
The Distribution Branch consisting of the main
yard at 710 Albany street (with a small subyard in
Charlestown) and three district yards are responsible
for the repair and maintenance of main pipes, service
and fire pipes, hydrants, gates, and providing emergency
and general service to the public. The main yard main-
tains emergency crews around the clock for any
water service that might be required in any section of
the city.

The main yard and three district yards were assisted
by three contracting firms, one in each yard with one
contractor having two districts. The contractual
work consisted of excavation and backfilling to allow
the water division employees to repair leaks, lay or
relay water services, change hydrants and repair or
replace defective water appurtenances. This contrac-
tual work was performed in a satisfactory manner and
proved its value by giving service to the public.

During the year the main yard was cleaned up on the
northern side by removing the old sheds, placing an
asphalt pavement over the area and erecting a mod-
ern chain link fence from Albany street to the channel.

District Yards

The three district yard forces (West Roxbury, Dor-
chester and Brighton) were utilized in general assistance
to the public repairing leaks, installing new services,
meter changes, hydrant changes, off and on calls, etc.

A new combination garage and shelter of prefab steel

Public Works Department 89

was constructed in the Dorchester District Yard, re-
placing the old wooden stable and garage, and chain
link fence was installed on Gibson street, replacing
the old wooden fence.

The Machine Shop
The machine shop and plumbing shop handled all
drilling of services in the main yard and assisted in case
of emergency in the district yards. The machine shop
continues to machine and assemble all new gates up to
and including 12 inches, tapping gates up to 6 inches.
Gates 16 inches and larger are now purchased under
contract made under Specifications of New York Pat-
tern, M. D. C. Type. They machine and assemble all
hydrants, repair defective hydrants, repair in the ground
if possible defective gates and rebuild gates both cor-
poration, tapping and high pressure. Along with this
work they, both the plumbing and machine shop, are
called on to assist other branches of the Public Works
Department in many special jobs.

The Meter Branch
The meter shop handled a total of 17,981 meters,
divided as follows:

Meters applied on new services .... 626

Meters discontinued 1,683

Meters Changed Out 5,562

Meters Changed In 5,440

Meters tested in shop 6,809

Meters repaired in service 570

Meters repaired in shop 753

Meters reset 733

Meters junked 1,367

Total 23,543

Business Office

This office performs all the work related to the
processing of bills to property owners for water used
and the maintenance of water meters.

These operations include receiving applications for new
services and fire pipes; reading 95,000 meters quar-
terly; computing and preparing 382,000 bills amounting
to $6,223,229.77; keeping account of paid and unpaid
bills; testing, repairing, installing, and removing water
meters and receiving complaints from the water-
consuming public.

City Document No. 18

It is unfortunate that for many years the surplus of
the Water Division was not allowed to accumulate a
reserve fund which would have been available when
water receipts failed to meet expenditures.

1957

Main pipe petitions received 13

Domestic service applications 659

Fire pipe applications 61

Special meter tests 34

Hydrant permits issued 13

Repair deposits received 84

Miscellaneous deposits 30

APPROPRIATIONS, EXPENDITURES, AND REVENUE

Budget appropriation, 1957
Amount expended

52,465,718 00
2,472,526 00

Amount of money collected from all sources during the

year 1957

Amount expended from all sources

Surplus

R6,274,964 54
6,177,357 09

$97,607 46

The Metropohtan assessment for 1957 amounted to
$3,328,696.68 at the rate of $80 per milUon gallons, an
increase of $37,901.24 over the assessment of 1956,
based on the $80 per milhon gallon rate.

Total amount billed for 1957 .... $6,232,598 76

Total amount collected for 1957 bills, as of

December 31, 1957 $4,825,825 43

Total amount abated for 1957 bills, as of

December 31, 1957 $21,124 18

Total amount collected in 1957 on bills ren-
dered prior to 1957 $822,762 68

By chapter 487, Acts of 1954, entitled "An Act Rela-
tive to Liens for Water Rates and Charges" effective
January 1, 1955, the law was changed so that hens for
water rates take effect by operation of law without
the necessity of recording a hen statement at the Regis-
try of Deeds.

The issuance of statements of outstanding water bills
to the consumers at the end of the year has been con-
tinued as a courtesy to the customer.

Respectfully submitted,

D. M. Sullivan,
Division Engineer.

Public Works Department

Balances from 1956
Water Service Receipts
Water Service .

Receipts

Water Rates and Services
Tax Titles, Water .

Expenditures

Pensions and Annuities .
Water Division

Refunds

Metropolitan Water Assessment
Collecting — • Water .
Automotive — Water

Water Service 1957

$271,990 01
245,811 46

5,223,229 77
51,734 77

$225,333 58

2,472,526 21

2,275 90

3,328,696 68

137,282 00

125,191 00

Transfer of 1956 Surplus

Carried forward to 1958 Water Division .

Surplus

1957
Summary of Water Division
Collections and Expenditures

Total Amount Collected

Expenditures

Pensions and Annuities . . . $225,333 58

Water Division (Budget) . . 2,472,526 21

Refunds 2,275 90

Collecting — Water . . . 137,282 00

Automotive — Water . . . 125,191 00

M.D.C. Water Assessment

Less cash forwarded 1956 to 1957

Plus cash forwarded 1957 to 1958

$2,962,608 69

3,328,696 68

$6,291,305 37

245,811 46

$6,045,493 91

131,863 18

$517,801 47

6,274,964 54
56,792,766 01

6,291,305 37

$501,460 64
271,990 01

$229,470 63
131,863 18

$97,607 45

j,274,964 54

6,177,357 09

Surplus

$97,607 45

92 City Document No. 18

Water Division 1957

Construction Account

Extension of mains (from revenue)

Cost of construction Dec. 31, 1957 $25,439,829 36

Cost of construction Dec. 31, 1956 25,357,313 14

Increase in plant cost during 1957 .... $82,516 22

Cost of existing worlcs Dec. 31, 1957

Pipe yards and buildings . . $84,332 16

Distribution system .... 25,439,829 36
Hyde Park water works . . . 175,000 00

$25,699,161 52
High pressure 2,448,340 64

$28,147,502 16

Water Statistics for the Fiscal Year Ending

December 31, 1957

Mains

Kind of pipe : cast iron, wrought iron, steel.

Size, 2-inch to 48-inch.
Extended miles — 3.87.
Size enlarged miles, 0.35.
Total miles now in use, 1,030.8.
Public hydrants added, 24.
Public hydrants now in use, 12,543.
Stop gates added, 45.
Stop gates now in use, 16,553.
Number of blowoffs, 857.
Range of pressure on mains, 30 to 90 pounds.

Services
Kind of pipe and size :

5/8 inch to 2 inches in diameter of lead or copper.
4 inches and 6 inches in diameter of cast iron.

Shutting Off and Turning On Water in 1957

Number of shut-offs for repairs 5,089

Number of premises turned on after repairs 4,475

Number of shut-offs for vacancy 768

Number of premises turned on for occupancy .... 187
Number of premises shut off for nonpayment of water rates . 13
Number of premises turned on again after being shut off for non-
payment 2

Number of premises shut off on account of waste .... 37
Number of premises turned on again after being shut off for

waste 0

Number of new service pipes turned on for the first time . . 360

Total number of times water was shut off or turned on . . 10,931

Public Works Department

Table No. 1. Statement of Work Done During the Year 1957.

Make.

a
o
u .

Q§

— a

Meters
Changed.

.2
b >

a
So.

•3
1

Out.

In.

600
14

1,353

281

4,584

837

1
7.

5,300
135

5,738

925

461
104

653
90

731
2

367

797

121

19,787

3,185

184

294

Nash

10
1

Trident

Pitt

Totals

626

1,683

5,562

5,440

6,809

570

753

733

1,367

23,543

94 City Document No. 18

Table No. 2. Meters in Service, December 31, 1957.

Diameter in Inches.

Make.

V4.

IVi

Total.

Hersey

Watch Dog

71,069

7,878

474

1,196

48
47

5,044
261

7
6

2,464

393

1,421

757

1,012

410

349

228

425
66

123

81,962
9,993

King

496

1,214

1
1

....

Nash

8
3

1
16
23

7
9

Trident

1
2

Total

80,727

5,321

2,861

2,206

1,450

620

510

129

93,880

Diameter in Inches

Total

Make

IV2

No
Size

2,377

177
3

29
165

17
66

4
26

4
1

2,692

City of Boston, Connec-

428

Total

2,419

180

102

194

3,120

Public Works Department 95

Table No. 3. Meters in Shop, December 31, 1957.

Diameter in Inches.

Totall

Make.

1 1>^

New

390

Hersey H. C. T

Hersey Detector

Watch Dog

Total

390

391

Old
Hersey Disc

170

8
7
1

4
5

252

Hersey Detector

Hersey H. C. T

Total

170

266

Table No. 4. Meters Repaired in Shop in 1957.

Make.

Diameter in Inches.

Total.

Hersey Disc

321

129

1
7

1
4

642

Hersey H.C.T

Hersey Detector

Watch Dog

Hersey F. M

Arctic

Pitt

Trident

Total

321

129

135

753

Note: Approximately 1,400 meters are awaiting examination to determine whether they are repairable
or not.

96 City Document Xo. 18

Table No. 5. Meters Repaired and Rebuilt at Factory in 1957.

Make.

Diameter in Inches.

ToUl.

404

Total

404

Table No. 5A. Meters Purchased New in 1957.

Diameter in Inches.

Make.

Total.

2.440

100

4.5

2,695
23

Hereey H. C. T

Total

2,440

100

2,718

Table No. 6. Meters Reset in 1957.

Make.

Diameter in Inches.

ToUl.

Hersey Disc

663
2

751

Watch Dog

Total

665

753

Public Works Department 97

Table No. 7A. Meters Changed in 1957. Meters Taken Out.

Make

Diameter in Inches

Total

ersey

3,829

637

393
38

160
54

93
57

. . 1

65
36

15
11

16
4

4,584
837

'atch Dog

ing

''orthington

merican

sderal

rctic

1
1

rident

rown

marling

Total

4,592

431

214

155

105

5,562

Table No. 7B. Meters Changed in 1957. Meters Put In.

Make

Diameter in Inches

Total

Jrsey

4,506
3

291

190
5

142

103

29
5

32
3

5,300
135

atch Dog

ctic

Total

4,509

292

195

229

139

5,440

98 City Document No. 18

Table No. 8. Meters Repaired in Service in 1957.

Make.

•3
3

a
'3

ai
O

a
'3

a
■ft

171

226

461

Watch Dog

104

Total

209

290

570

Table No. 9. Meters Applied in 1957.

Diameter in Inches.

Total

Make.

Hersey

486

30
6

26
6
2
3

591

Watch Dog

Total

486

617

Meters applied on old service 9

Meters applied on new service 607

Connection pieces applied on new services 10

Total 626

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170

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107

268

1,218

161

3,336

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1,114

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APPENDIX H.

REPORT OF THE
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT COMMISSION

Boston, January 2, 1958.
Hon. John B. Hynes,

Mayor of Boston.
Through the Commissioner of Public Works.
Dear Mr. Mayor:

In accordance with the provisions of section 24,
chapter 3 of the Revised City Ordinances of 1947, the
following report of the Public Improvement Commis-
sion for the year ending December 31, 1957, is respect-
fully submitted.

The Public Improvement Commission was established
May 1, 1954, by the provisions of section 57, chapter 2
of the 1954 Ordinances. This Commission, consisting
of the Commissioner of Public Works, the Commissioner
of Real Property, and the Chairman of the Boston
Traffic Commission, was assigned all of the powers
and duties of the former Board of Street Commissioners,
except :

(a) Those relating to the storage and sale of inflammables,
filling stations, and parking lots which were transferred
to the Committee on Licenses in the Public Safety
Commission ;

(6) Those relating to the planting and removal of trees in
public ways, the use of public ways for any temporary
obstruction in, under, or over the same, the use of
public ways for the storage and sale of merchandise,
and the designating of coasting streets, which were
transferred to the Commissioner of Public Works; and

Functions of the Board of Street Commissioners
transferred to this Commission include the authority
to lay out, widen, relocate, alter, discontinue, or rename
public highways, and to order the making of specific
repairs therein; to order the construction of sanitary
sewers and storm drains; to take land by eminent

108 City Document No. 18

domain for municipal purposes (except housing and
off-street parking) ; to permit the opening of private
ways for public travel; to levy assessments for street,
sidewalk, and sewer betterments; and to issue permits
for the location of wire-carrying poles, conduits, pipes,
tracks, and similar uses of the public ways.

STREET PROGRAM

During the period covered by this report, eighty-three
(83) highway improvements, including the laying out of
thirty-nine (39) new highways, the widening and reloca-
tion of seventeen (17) public ways, and the making of
specific repairs in twenty-seven (27) existing streets,
were ordered by the Public Improvement Commission.
Of particular interest in these groups are the following
projects:

The improvement of Commonwealth avenue, Brighton, from
Brighton avenue to Warren avenue, at an estimated cost of
$270,000. With the volume of traffic on this main artery into
Boston from the west greatly increased since the opening of the
Massachusetts Turnpike, this Board has ordered the recon-
struction of a particularly dangerous section between Brighton
avenue and Warren avenue with the new construction to
include a four-lane divided highway for through traffic and the
service roads on either side altered to allow much additional
parking area at the local business districts.

The improvement of Blue Hill avenue, Seaver street, Colum-
bus avenue, from Columbia road to Egleston square, at an
estimated cost of $250,000. In 1956 we began at Mattapan
square on the Milton boundary line ordering major improve-
ments, most of which are now constructed, of Blue Hill avenue
to Columbia road. In our current year, we have continued the
improvement of this major route into the heart of the city
from the south by ordering the construction of a wide divided
highway throughout the length of Seaver street, using the
abandoned street car reservation for a new road.

The improvement of East Broadway, South Boston, from
West Broadway to L street, at an estimated cost of $105,000.
This improvement, consisting of the reduction in width of
existing sidewalks, will widen the newly reconstructed road so
as to allow ten feet additional for highway travel.

The improvement of Massachusetts avenue, Boston Proper,
from Columbus avenue to Huntington avenue, by installing a
highway divisional island at an estimated cost of $13,000.

The improvement of Cleveland Circle, Brighton, at an esti-
mated cost of $50,000, by removing the existing circular
traffic island and installing channelizing islands which will
eliminate the rotary traffic movement and permit a well-
controlled traffic intersection.

Public Works Department 109

The improvement of Baker street, West Roxbury, at an
estimated cost of $100,000, will include the widening of the
existing roadway to thirty feet throughout most of the length
with an additional widening being made at the proposed site
of the Central Catholic High School at the corner of Gardner
street. Baker street is one of the principal thoroughfares
across West Roxbury from the Newton boundary line to
Dedham.

The following streets were ordered laid out as Public
Ways during 1957:

Alleghany street, Roxbury, from Parker street approxi-
mately 692 feet northwesterly. Length, 690 feet; estimated
cost, $18,431; estimated benefit, $5,261.75.

Asheville road, Hyde Park, from Deforest street approxi-
mately 477 feet easterly. Length, 477 feet; estimated cost,
$12,105; estimated benefit, $5,111.26.

Belnap road, Hyde Park, from Eastmont road to Leighton
road. Length, 341 feet; estimated cost, $11,375; estimated
benefit, $3,784.

Celia road. West Roxbury, from Bellevue street approxi-
mately 210 feet northeasterly. Length, 210 feet; estimated
cost, $6,323; estimated benefit, $3,252.

Claron street. West Roxbury, between Beech street and
Hautevale street. Length, 291 feet; estimated cost, $9,311;
estimated benefit, $4,330.

Coffey street, Dorchester, from Newhall street approxi-
mately 375 feet easterly. Length, 279 feet; estimated cost,
$9,249; estimated benefit, $5,239.

Daniel court, Hyde Park, from Dietz road approximately
180 feet easterly. Length, 180 feet; estimated cost, $5,924;
estimated benefit, $2,516.

Dietz court, Hyde Park (formerly Perry court), from Dietz
road approximately 170 feet easterly. Length, 170 feet; esti-
mated cost, $6,012; estimated benefit, $2,090.

Dodge road, Hyde Park, from Leighton road approximately
480 feet northwesterly. Length, 480 feet; estimated cost,
$16,000; estimated benefit, $6,444.50.

Farwell avenue, Hyde Park, extended from a point ap-
proximately 450 feet southeast of Summit street to Milton
avenue. Length, 385 feet; estimated cost, $13,475; estimated
benefit, $4,329.

Furbush road. West Roxbury, from La Grange street ap-
proximately 402 feet northeasterly. Length, 402 feet; esti-
mated cost, $10,386; estimated benefit, $5,387.50.

Graham terrace. West Roxbury, from Maple street ap-
proximately 200 feet southwesterly. Length, 200 feet; esti-
mated cost, $6,060; estimated benefit, $1,492.

110 City Document No. 18

Grandview street, West Roxbury, from Beech street ap-
proximately 450 feet southwesterly. Length, 450 feet; esti-
mated cost, $10,260; estimated benefit, $5,405.75.

Greenwood Circle, Hyde Park, from Greenwood avenue
approximately 270 feet southwesterly and westerly. Length,
270 feet; estimated cost, $5,878; estimated benefit, $2,650.

Hautevale street. West Roxbury, from Claron street ap-
proximately 209 feet northwesterly. Length, 209 feet; esti-
mated cost, $7,654; estimated benefit, $3,101.

Joan road, Hyde Park, from Leighton road to Dodge road.
Length, 782 feet; estimated cost, $26,075; estimated benefit,
$8,943.

June street. West Roxbury (formerly Granville street),
from Beech street approximately 430 feet southwesterly.
Length, 430 feet; estimated cost, $10,505; estimated benefit,
$5,401.25.

Kilby place, Boston Proper, from Kilby street approximately
63 feet northeasterly. Length, 63 feet; estimated cost, $1,600;
estimated benefit, none.

Kristin court, Hyde Park, from Dodge road approximately
155 feet southwesterly. Length, 155 feet; estimated cost,
$5,175; estimated benefit, $2,020.

Larch place. West Roxbury, from Hyde Park avenue ap-
proximately 185 feet westerly. Length, 185 feet; estimated
cost, $4,804; estimated benefit, $2,405.

Leighton road, Hyde Park, from the northerly end of East-
mont road to the southerly end of Eastmont road. Length,
1,300 feet; estimated cost, $43,350; estimated benefit, $16,809.

Liberty place. South Boston, from Preble street approxi-
mately 130 feet southerly. Length, 130 feet; estimated cost,
$2,449; estimated benefit, $1,150.

Melba Way, Hyde Park, between Tacoma street and Safford
street. Length, 354 feet; estimated cost, $12,668; estimated
benefit, $5,395.

Messinger street, Dorchester, between Orlando street and
Savannah avenue. Length, 270 feet; estimated cost, $6,060;
estimated benefit, $1,492.

Meyer street, West Roxbury, from Catherine street ap-
proximately 220 feet northerly. Length, 220 feet; estimated
cost, $5,043; estimated benefit, $2,600.

Newfield street. West Roxbury, between Veterans of Foreign
Wars Parkway and Fur bush road. Length, 433 feet; estimated
cost, $15,406; estimated benefit, $6,262.50.

Orlando street, Dorchester, from Messinger street approxi-
mately 130 feet southwesterly and 134 feet northeasterly.
Length, 264 feet; estimated cost, $9,290; estimated benefit,
$3,951.

Parker Hill terrace, Roxbury, from Parker Hill avenue
approximately 175 feet westerly. Length, 175 feet; estimated
cost, $4,375; estimated benefit, $1,170.

Public Woeks Department 111

Paulman Circle, West Roxbury, from Church street ap-
proximately 270 feet northeasterly. Length, 270 feet; esti-
mated cost, $9,643; estimated benefit, $4,731.

Radcliffe road, Dorchester, extended from former boundary
line between Hyde Park and Dorchester to Greenfield road.
Length, 77 feet; estimated cost, $2,200; estimated benefit, none.

Rosemont street, Dorchester, extended from approximately
430 feet northeast of Tileston street to Taunton avenue.
Length, 277 feet; estimated cost, $7,500; estimated benefit,
$2,200.

Rushmore street, Brighton, from Academy Hill road ap-
proximately 420 feet northwesterly. Length, 420 feet; esti-
mated cost, $8,704; estimated benefit, $4,108.25.

Savannah avenue, Dorchester, from a point approximately
166 feet northeast of Newcastle street to Messinger street, and
from Messinger street approximately 124 feet northeasterly.
Length, 290 feet; estimated cost, $9,564; estimated benefit,
$5,139.

Senders Court, Hyde Park, from Dietz road approximately
170 feet easterly. Length, 170 feet; estimated cost, $11,745;
estimated benefit, $6,332.50.

South Bay avenue, Roxbury, between Atkinson street and
Moore street. Length, 907 feet; estimated cost, $45,000;
estimated benefit, $6,561.

Susanna court, Hyde Park, from Dietz road approximately
200 feet northwesterly. Length, 200 feet; estimated cost,
$6,650; estimated benefit, $3,197.

Topeka street, Roxbury, between Southampton street and
South Bay avenue. (Formerly Burnham street). Length,
832 feet; estimated cost, $27,644; estimated benefit, $12,837.

Wharton court, Hyde Park, from Dietz road approximately
450 feet southeasterly and southwesterly. Length, 450 feet;
estimated cost, $6,425; estimated benefit, $2,132.

Willow terrace, West Roxbury, from Willow street ap-
proximately 240 feet southwesterly. Length, 240 feet; esti-
mated cost, $5,135; estimated benefit, $1,350.

Widened Or Relocated

Anawan avenue. West Roxbury, at the northeasterly corner
of Park street.

Baker street, West Roxbury, between Centre street and
Johnson street.

Baker street. West Roxbury, between Spring street and
Cutter road, and between Park Lane Drive and Veterans of
Foreign Wars Parkway.

Brainard street, Hyde Park, at Cleveland street.

Darling street, Roxbury, at the southeasterly corner of Calu-
met street.

Joyce Kilmer road, West Roxbury, at Glenhaven road.

112 City Document No. 18

Lowney Way, Charlestown, on the northwesterly side be-
tween Bunker Hill street and Tremont street.

Park street, Charlestown, at the northwesterly corner of
Warren street.

Radcliffe road, Hyde Park, at Tileston street.

Rosselerin road, Dorchester, on the southerly side between
Train street and Daly street.

Saratoga street, East Boston, from a point approximately 133
feet east of Shawsheen road approximately 1,172 feet easterly.

Saratoga street. East Boston, from a point approximately 195
feet east of Annavoy street to the Boston- Winthrop boundary
line.

Seaver street, Roxbury, on the southwesterly side adjacent to
Franklin park between Walnut avenue and Blue Hill avenue.

South street, West Roxbury, at the northeasterly corner of
Edgemont street.

Troy street, Boston Proper, at the northerly and southerly
corners of Albany street.

Wachusett street, Hyde Park, at the easterly corner of River
street.

Woodard road. West Roxbury, at the northwesterly corner of
Park street.

Specific Repairs

Baker street. West Roxbury, between Spring street and
Veterans of Foreign Wars Parkway, consisting of the reduction
in width of existing sidewalks.

Baker street. West Roxbury, from Spring street to the north-
easterly portion of Johnson street, consisting of the reduction
in width of the existing sidewalks.

Beacon street, Brighton, at Ayr road, consisting of the widen-
ing of the existing street car reservation crossover.

Beacon street, Brighton, at Cleveland Circle, consisting of
the removal of the existing traffic circle, the installation of new
traffic divisional islands, and the reduction in width of sidewalks
on the southerly side from Chestnut Hill avenue to the Brook-
line boundary line.

Berkeley street, Boston Proper, from Beacon street to Marl-
borough street, consisting of the reduction in width of the
existing sidewalks.

Blue Hill avenue, Roxbury, between Franklin Park road and
Seaver street, consisting of the reduction in width of the
westerly sidewalk.

Blue Hill avenue, Dorchester, on the easterly side between
Landor road and Stratton street, consisting of the reduction in
width of the existing sidewalks.

Brewer street. West Roxbury, at the southwesterly corner of
Thomas street and the southeasterly corner of Eliot street, con-
sisting of increasing the curb radii.

Public Works Department 113

Centre street, West Roxbury, at the intersection of South
Huntington avenue, consisting of the installation of a traffic
island.

Columbia road, Dorchester, at the northwesterly and south-
westerly corners of Hamlet street, consisting of increasing the
curb radii.

Columbus avenue, Roxbury, consisting of the reduction in
length of the existing traffic divisional island north of Ruggles
street.

Columbus avenue, Boston Proper, at the northwesterly corner
of Stuart street, consisting of the installation of a traffic island
and the extension of the existing traffic island at the intersection
of Arlington street.

Columbus avenue, Roxbury, between Washington street and
Walnut avenue, consisting of the reduction in width of existing
sidewalks and the installation of traffic divisional islands.

Commonwealth avenue, Brighton, between Brighton avenue
and Warren street, consisting of the reduction in width of
existing sidewalks at various locations, reduction in width of
existing planting reservation, and the installation of a traffic
divisional island in the main roadway.

Commonwealth avenue, Brighton, on the southerly side be-
tween Fordham road and Reedsdale street, consisting of the
reduction in width of the existing sidewalk and the reduction
in width of the existing planting reservation.

Commonwealth avenue, Boston Proper, consisting of in-
creasing the curb radii at the southeasterly and southwesterly
corners of St. Mary's street.

East Broadway, South Boston District, from Dorchester
street at the intersection of West Broadway to L street, con-
sisting of the reduction in width of existing sidewalks.

Elm Hill avenue, Roxbury, at the northeast corner of
Crawford street, consisting of the reduction in width of the
existing sidewalk.

Hagar street. West Roxbury, consisting of increasing the
curb radii at the southwesterly corner of Thomas street and
the southeasterly corner of Eliot street.

Massachusetts avenue, Boston Proper, between Columbus
avenue and Huntington avenue, consisting of the reduction in
width of the existing sidewalks and the installation of a traffic
divisional island.

River street, Hyde Park, consisting of the installation of a
traffic divisional island at the intersection of Wachusett street.

Ruggles street, Roxbury, at the intersection of Columbus
avenue, consisting of the installation of a traffic divisional
island.

Seaver street, Roxbury, between Walnut avenue and Blue
Hill avenue, consisting of the removal of the existing street
car reservation, the reduction in width of the existing sidewalk,
and the installation of traffic divisional islands.

114 City Document No. 18

Walworth street, West Roxbury, at the northeasterly
corner of Belgrade avenue, consisting of increasing the curb
radius.

Washington street, Boston Proper, at the southeasterly
corner of Hayward place, consisting of increasing the curb
radius.

Washington street. West Roxbury, at the intersection of
South street, opposite Firth road, consisting of the installation
of a traffic island.

Woodard road. West Roxbury, at Wren street, consisting of
the reduction in size of the existing island.

Grades Revised

Brook Farm road, West Roxbury, between Lyall street and
Banks street.

Burley street, West Roxbury, from Metropolitan avenue
approximately 150 feet southerly.

Castle street, Boston Proper, between Harrison avenue and
Albany street.

Safford street, Hyde Park, between Huntington avenue and
Manion road.

Discontinuances

Brook Farm road, West Roxbury, at the northeasterly
corner of Banks street.

Cambridge street, Boston Proper, between Lindall place and
West Cedar street.

Central street, Boston Proper, from Kilby street approxi-
mately 215 feet northeasterly.

Chapel road, Hyde Park, on the easterly side between
Tacoma street and Farrar avenue.

Genesee street, Boston Proper, from a point approximately
412 feet southeast of Harrison avenue to Albany street.

Lovering street, Boston Proper, between Washington street
and Harrison avenue.

Maple street, West Roxbury, on the southeasterly side
between Corey street and Chilton road.

Motte street, Boston Proper, between Harrison avenue and
Washington street.

Oneida street, Boston Proper, from a point approximately

431 feet southeast of Harrison avenue to Albany street.
Oswego street, Boston Proper, from a point approximately

432 feet southeast of Harrison avenue to Albany street.
Public Alley No. 702, Boston Proper, between Worcester

street and West Springfield street.

Public Alley No. 703, Boston Proper, between Newland
street and Public Alley No. 702.

Public Works Department 115

Ryder Hill road, Brighton, from a point approximately 176
feet south of Bray ton road approximately 15 feet southerly.
Warren Bridge, Boston Proper and Charlestown.

Slope Easement

Hunneman street, Roxbury, discontinuance of slope ease-
ments between Washington street and Albany street.

Eminent Domain Land Takings

During the period of this report, land takings were
made for municipal purposes as follows:

Fire Department

1, The taking of approximately eleven thousand
seven hundred sixty-three (11,763) square feet of land
on Tremont street, Boston Proper District, under an
order of this Commission and Mayor dated January 4,
1957, and recorded in the Suffolk Registry of Deeds on
February 4, 1957.

2. The taking of approximately two thousand three
hundred eighty-six (2,386) square feet of land on
Tremont street, Boston Proper District, under an
order of this Commission and Mayor dated November
20, 1957, and recorded in the Suffolk Registry of Deeds
on November 26, 1957.

School Department

1. The taking of approximately twenty-three thou-
sand two hundred forty-nine (23,249) square feet of
land on Worcester street, Boston Proper District,
under an order of this Commission and Mayor dated
August 28, 1957, and recorded in the Suffolk Registry
of Deeds on September 18, 1957.

Sewer Program

During the year 1957, the construction of .65 miles of
sanitary sewer; .85 miles of storm sewer; 216 catch
basins; and 94 drop inlets was ordered at a total
estimated cost of $178,858.

Estimated benefit to private property for the con-
struction of the .58 miles of sanitary sewer amounted to
$24,923.75.

Sewerage works ordered were as follows:

116

City Document No. 18

Street

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Boston Proper

$1,950 00
1,000 00
1,700 00
1,250 GO
5,500 ,00

800 00
4,550 00

350 00
2,500 00

900 00
1,600 00
5,000 00

600 00
400 00

2,000 00
2,000 00
4,800 00
1,200 00
2,600 00
3,400 00

2,000 00

3,200 00

1,700 00

300 00

150 00

600 00

3,800 00

1.200 00

None

3
3

3
1

None

11
4

None

181

None

1
5

5
5
3

14
3

5
9

2
1

None

Brighton

None

400

None

Charlestown

None

Dorchester

Blue Hill avenue . . .

None

340

319

$2,040 00

None

265

$1,950 00

6
8
3

None

East Boston

None

Hyde Park

Asheville road

100

102.5
370

$600 00

None

2
1
4
2
2
8

None

205

$1,600 00

None

590

10.000 00

None

* Easements taken

Public Works Department

117

Street

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Hyde Park (Continued)
Huntington avenue

135

81,900 00
1,200 00
2,000 00

1,700 00
1,200 00

750 00

$1,425 00
None

40
115

♦Millstone road

Melba Way

None

Taunton avenue

•S562 50

(Relocation of existing
brook)

Roxbury

3
3

10
1

3,000 00
550 00

3,000 00
350 00

1,250 00
500 00
500 00

6,408 00

1,150 00

2,500 00

14,850 00

2,300 00

600 00

350 00
900 00
300 00

400 00

3,000 00
1,200 00
1.200 00

Blue Hill avenue . .

None

1
3
1

None

7
3

Forsyth street

South Bay avenue

321

$3,600 00

1
1

South Boston

Hill place

East Third street

West Roxbury

Ana wan avenue

6
2
2

Arborfield road and
Metropolitan avenue at

* Easements taken

118

City Document No. 18

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West Roxbury (Continued)
♦Centre street

Charles Park road

Claron street

Dow road

Furbush road

Graham terrace

♦Grandview street

*Hackensack court

Hautevale street

Joyce Kilmer road

June street

Mansur street

Maria Lane

Marlin road

Myer street

Moreland street

Newfield street

Partridge street

Pleasantdale road

Perkins street

Shandon road

Williams street

Woodard road

660
80

440

400

100
120

325
80

450

405

670

$1,500 00

3,000 00

300 00

1,800 00

1,000 00

500 00

800 00

11,800 00

1,300 00

100 00

300 00

1,200 00

11,400 00

1,000 00

1,250 00

500 00

4,800 00

1,000 00

900 00

1,800 00

8,000 00

1,000 00

700 00

350 00

300 00

* Easements taken

Public Works Department

119

Assessments

During the year 1957, the Highway Division of the
Pubhc Works Department sent notice of completion of
forty-nine (49) streets at a total cost of $679,705.24.
On this work the Public Improvement Commission
levied assessments in the amount of $241,402.54.

During the same period, the Sewer Division of the
Public Works Department reported the completion of
construction of sanitary sewerage in twenty-five (25)
streets at a cost of $101,331.71, on which the Pubhc
Improvement Commission levied assessments in the
amount of $41,459.

The completion of new sidewalks in two (2) streets at
a cost of $8,840.08, authorized by the Boston City
Council, was also reported by the Highway Division.
On these, the Pubhc Improvement Commission levied
assessments totahng $4,074.50.

Street Assessments

Street

District

Cost

Assessment

Ackley place

Agassiz park

Alleghany street. .

Ayles road

Barna road

Brockton street . . .
Brownson terrace. .
Brush Hill terrace .

Caltha road

Chapel road

Cheshire street. . . .
Driftwood road. . . .

Drumlin road

Edwardson street. .

Ellard road

Farwell avenue. . . .

Frazer street

Granada park

Guest street

Hampstead Lane. .

West Ro.xbury
West Roxbury
Roxbury
Hyde Park
Dorchester
Dorchester
West Roxbury
Hyde Park
Brighton
Hyde Park
West Roxbury
West Roxbury
East Boston
Hyde Park
Hyde Park
Hyde Park
Hyde Park
West Roxbury
Brighton
West Roxbury

S5,598 69
5,583 76

17.867 57

32.868 95
9,902 50
6,473 36

15,894 98
14,381 40
12,169 85

7,309 73

3,021 01
15,006 75
17,340 56

5,983 77
13,246 92
15,201 59
25,474 74

9,993 96
31,313 43

6,056 61

S2,599 30
2,328 94
5,261 75
12,470 36
5,426 27
2,619 18
6,894 06
5,721 38
2,269 24
2,274 60
1,498 91
6,140 80
1,893 52
2,181 47
2,021 16
4,831 91
9,492 67
4,741 6&
10.152 51
3,871 99i

Carried forward..

$41,427 21

120

City Document No. 18

Street Assessments. — Concluded.

Street

District

Cost

Assessment

Brought forward.

Harmony street

Harrow street

Howard place

Itasca street

Joslin road

Langford park

Laurie avenue

Lewiston street

Lorimer place

Maple street

Marion place

Marlin road

Mary knoll street

Maryknoll terrace

Meadowview road

Messinger street

Mildred avenue

Millstone road

Mossdale road

New Bedford street

New England avenue. . .

O'Donnell terrace

Range road

Rocky Nook terrace. . . .

Savannah avenue

Tanglewood road

Welton road

West Howell street

Wichita terrace

East Boston

Dorchester

Roxbury

West Roxbury

Hyde Park

Roxbury

West Roxbury

East Boston

West Roxbury

Dorchester

Hyde Park

Dorchester

Hyde Park

West Roxbury

Hyde Park

Dorchester

West Roxbury

Dorchester

West Roxbury

Dorchester

8,323 20
10,418 25

4,945 75
17,779 86
11,398 39

6,379 15
35,106 85

9,014 75

5,769 91
19,723 51

5,095 12
11,572 13
57,055 59

7,039 56
24,095 18

3,595 00

9,954 04

6,797 55
42,138 06
16,883 22

9,672 90

8,544 54
16,147 70

8,625 82
16,552 34

3,467 79

7,383 37
23,482 60

6,052 98

J41,427 21
712 50
3,075 76
1,869 00
6,586 40
2,031 80
2,793 30

14,793 37
3,982 25
2,092 17
3,410 88
1,694 10
4,253 50

14,039 59
3,146 85

11,368 30
1,500 00
4,000 00
2,203 56

22,299 06
6,487 64
4,326 24
3,850 50
6,914 30
3,249 01
5,612 68
1,540 72
3,280 79
3,082 50
2,514 06

Totals.

$679,705 24

$241,402 54

Public Works Department

Sewer Assessments

121

Street

Arborfield road.

Brook Farm road. . .

Coleman street

Davison street

Furbush road

Gladstone street. . . .
Hackensack terrace.

Keenan road

La Grange street . . .

Merola park

Moreland street . . . ,
Partridge street . . . ,
Partridge street . . . ,

Prairie street

Ransom road

Riley road

Rivermoor street . . .

Ryan road

RufBng street

Safford street

Sherrin street

West Howell street .

Wilmot street

Winchester terrace.
Woodland road

District

Cost

Assessment

West Roxbury
and Hyde Park

West Roxbury

Hyde Park

West Roxbury

East Boston

West Roxbury

Brighton

West Roxbury

Dorchester

West Roxbury

Dorchester

Dorchester and
Hyde Park

Hyde Park

West Roxbury

Brighton

Hyde Park

Dorchester

West Roxbury

Hyde Park

$12,017 00
4,932 00
2,256 00
2,500 00
2,450 00
1,196 00
3,191 00
2,358 70
8,992 00
2,708 00
2,830 00
1,777 00
350 00
1,160 00

820 00

4,487 44

19,000 00

2,660 10

5,100 00

800 00
2,900 00
6,916 00
2,274 00
2,602 47
5,054 GO

$6,364 80

3,360 00

1,350 00

870 00

480 00

650 00

2,150 00

1,400 00

2,721 40

2,200 00

911 25

990 00

210 00

360 00

360 00
1,860 00
4,440 00
1,600 00
2,639 91

600 00
1,306 64
1,095 00

792 00
1,518 00
1,230 00

Totals.

$101,331 71

$41,459 00

Sidewalk Assessrnents

Street

District

Cost

Assessment

West Roxbury
Brighton

$2,076 01
6,764 07

$1,007 50

3,067 00

Totals

$8,840 08

$4,074 50

122

City Document No. 18

Street Name Changes
The names of the following public streets were
changed :

Daytona Terrace, Dorchester District, from Centre Street
approximately 230 feet northeasterly; new name: O'Donnell
Terrace.

Harrison Avenue, Boston Proper District, between Essex
Street and Bedford Street; new name: Harrison Avenue Ex-
tension.

Main Street, Charlestown District, between Gardner Street
and the SomerVille boundary line (southerly roadway only);
new name: Maffa Way. (To be effective March 1, 1958).

The names of the following private streets were
changed :

Chelsea Place, East Boston District, from Chelsea Street
approximately 166 feet northwesterly; new name: Anthony J.
Grieco Terrace.

Hackensack Square, West Roxbury District, from Hacken-
sack Road approximately 310 feet southerly; new name:
Hackensack Terrace.

Land Damages

On new street construction, 95 claims were filed for
damage to property resulting from land takings or
changes in grade. On these claims, this Commission
awarded damages in the amount of $22,310.18.

During the period of this report, 374 petitions from
public utilities were approved for the placing and main-
taining of poles for the support of wires.

Also, 66 petitions were approved for miscellaneous
installations or uses of the public highways of the City
of Boston as follows:

Street

Petitioner

Nature of Petition

Ansonia road, West Roxbury

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Beacon street, Boston Proper

Boston Edison Company

Underground conduit

Bennington street. East Boston

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Blue Hill avenue, Dorchester

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Bosworth street, Boston Proper

Old Colony Trust Company, et al

Underground steam main

Brainard street, Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Brook Farm road. West Roxbury

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Bunker Hill street, Charlestown

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Cedar Grove street, Dorchester

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Public Works Department

123

Street

Petitioner

Nature of Petition

Clare avenue, Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Clarendon street, Boston Proper

Boston Edison Company

Underground conduit

Cleveland street, Hyde Park, Child
street and Beaver street

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Columbia road, Dorchester

Jenney Manufacturing Company

Underground fill pipe

Crown street, Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Curtis street. East Boston

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Dale street, West Roxbury, at Burley
street

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Dale street. West Roxbury, at May-
nard street

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Duxbury road, Dorchester

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

E street, South Boston

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

East First street. South Boston

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Edgemere road. West Roxbury

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Farragut street. West Roxbury

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Hackensack road, West Roxbury

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Hallowell street, Dorchester

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Harrison avenue, Boston Proper,
northeast of Hayward pi

Boston Edison Company

Underground conduit

Harrison avenue, Boston Proper,
southwest of Norfolk pi

Boston Edison Company

Underground conduit

Huntington avenue, Hyde Park, op-
posite No. 339

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Huntington avenue, Hyde Park, near
No. 260

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Jackson street, Charlestown

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Kelton street, Brighton

Governor Apartments

Underground conduits

Kneeland street, Boston Proper

Boston Edison Company

Underground conduits

Lyall street. West Roxbury

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Lynn street, Boston Proper

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

MaryknoU street, Dorchester

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Massasoit street, Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Massachusetts Avenue Bridge, Bos-
ton Proper

Boston Gas Company

Relocate steel pipe

Massachusetts avenue and Clearway
street, Boston Proper

Boston Edison Company

Underground conduit

Massasoit street, Hyde Park, from
River street

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Mattakeeset street, Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Milk street, Boston Proper

Boston Edison Company

Underground conduit

Metropohtan avenue. West Roxbury

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Monponset street, Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Mossdale road. West Roxbury

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

124

City Document No. 18

Street

Petitioner

Nature of Petition

Norton street, Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Norway street, Boston Proper

First Church of Christ

Pipe tunnels

Pierce street, Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Porter street, East Boston

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Province street, Boston Proper

Brook Realty Company, Inc.

Projection

Providence street, Boston Proper

Boston Edison Company

Underground conduit

Readville street, Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

River street, Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground governor pit

River street, Dorchester

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Saratoga street. East Boston, 4,019
feet of 12-inch

Boston Gas Company

Underground steel pipe

Saratoga street, East Boston, 3,825
feet of 12-inch

Boston Gas Company

Underground steel pipe

South Waverly street, Brighton

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Southampton street. South Boston

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Stuart street, Boston Proper

Boston Edison Company

Underground conduit

Summer street. South Boston

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Summer street, Boston Proper

Boston Edison Company

Underground conduit

Tileston street, Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Vine street, Charlestown

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Wachusett street, Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

West Broadway, South Boston

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

West Cedar street, Boston Proper

Potter-Horn, Inc.

Wood cornice

Western avenue, Brighton

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Wyola place Dorchester

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

During the year 1957, permission was given to prepare
for public travel the following private ways:

Gorman road, Dorchester, from 350 feet north of Cummins
Highway approximately 680 feet northeasterly.

Desmond road, Dorchester.

Gould street. West Roxbury, from Belle avenue to Northdale
road.

Itasca street, Dorchester, from Messinger street approxi-
mately 120 feet northeasterly.

Kiernan road, West Roxbury.

Mansur street, West Roxbury and Hyde Park, from Metro-
politan avenue to Grew avenue.

Messinger street, Dorchester, from Savannah avenue to
Colorado street.

Public Works Department 125

Northdale road, West Roxbury, from Gould street approxi-
mately 295 feet southerly.

Surreyhill road, West Roxbury, between Moss Hill Road and
Slocum road.

During the year 1957, permission was given to open
for public travel the following private ways:

Arborfield road, Hyde Park.
Emelia road, West Roxbury.
Garth road. West Roxbury.
Keenan road, Brighton.
Ryan road, Brighton.
Wilmot street. West Roxbury.

Respectfully submitted,

George C. Hyland, Chairman.
Herman Carp, Vice-Chair man.
Timothy J. O'Connor, Member.

Crry op Boston

Administrative Services Department

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