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[Document 18—1960]

ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

PUBLIC AVORKS DEPAETMENT

FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1959

BosTox, Deceml)er 31, 1959.

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 Pubhc Works
Department and the Public Improvement Commission
for the year ending December 31, 1959.

Fiscal

The total expenditures of the department for the
3^ear were $22,887,290.99 of which $3,239,311.04 rep-
resents water assessments levied by the Metropolitan
District Commission and $984,758.04 represents Metro-
pohtan District Commission sewer assessments. The
water assessments are $43,906.64 less than those levied
in 1958 and the sewer assessments are $86,491.38
more than those levied in 1958.

The water assessment reduction is a reflection of the
colder and wetter conditions prevailing in 1958 which
lowered the water usage and consequently lowered our
assessment payable in 1959. Under normal conditions
both the water and sewer assessments tend to increase
and must be anticipated.

City Document No. 18

The receipts of the Water Division totaled
$6,270,735.76 and the surplus resulting from the sale
of water was $54,043.89.

Loan Orders

Since the department refrained from a loan order
in 1958, it was necessary to request a loan order for
the construction of public ways in the amount of
$2,000,000.00.

Street Constrttction Work
St ate- Aid Program

I submit below a schedule of Chapter 90 projects
which were under construction in 1959 and a hst of
Chapter 90 projects which we have earmarked for
1960 consideration.

PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN 1959

Project
Columbus avenue, Seaver street,
Blue Hill avenue, Roxburj^
and Dorchester:
Reconstruction from Egleston
square to Columbia road
(started in 1958 and com-
pleted in 1959)

Dorchester avenue. South Boston:

Reconstruction from West

Fourth street to Andrew

square (started in 1959 and

completed in 1959)

Baker street, West Roxbury:
Reconstruction from Centre
street to V.F.W. Parkway
(excluding between Spring
street and Cutter road)
(started in 1959 and com-
pleted in 1959)

Columbus Avenue, Roxbury:
Reconstruction from Roxbury
street to Centre street
(started in 1959 and com-
pleted in 1959)

Albany street, Massachusetts
avenue, Southampton street
(miscellaneous traffic islands
and widenings at intersection)
(started in 1959 and com-
pleted in 1959)

Contractor

John McCourt
Company

J. J. Botti Co., Inc.

Doolev Bros., Inc.

John McCourt
Company

Final Contract
Bid Price Payment

$215,642 50 $231,685 60

$115,555 30 $135,317 07

$94,983 45 $96,413 50

.$86,365 95 $92,594 84

$34,979 75 $39,029 14

Note: 70 per cent paid by state, 30 per cent paid by city

Public Works Department

ADDITIONAL CHAPTER 90 PROJECTS SCHEDULED

Project
Baker street, West Roxbury:

(Excluding bridge over railroad)
Reconstruction from Spring street to Cutter road .

FOR

Commonwealth avenue, Brighton:

Reconstruction from Warren street to Chestimt Hill avenue .

West Broadway, South Boston:

Reconstruction from Dorchester avenue to Dorchester street

American Legion Highway, West Roxbury:

Reconstruction from Blue Hill avenue to Cummins Highway

Cambridge street, Charlestown:

Reconstruction from Sullivan square to Somerville Line

River street, Hyde Park:

Reconstruction from Wood avenue to Fairmount avenue

Fairmount avenue, Hyde Park:

Reconstruction from River street to Truman Highway .

Dorchester avenue. South Boston and Dorchester:

Reconstruction from Andrew square to Columbia road .

Columbia road, Dorchester:

Reconstruction from Edward Everett square to Southeast Expressway

Centre street, West Roxbury:

Reconstruction from Grove street to Dedham Line

Beacon street, Boston Proper:

Reconstruction from Kenmore square to Park Drive ....

Bennington street. East Boston:

Reconstruction from bridge over MTA at Walley street to Revere Line

Atlantic avenue, Boston Proper:

Reconstruction from Kneeland street to over Summer street

Atlantic avenue, Boston Proper:
Reconstruction from Storer street to Commercial street .

Commercial street, Boston Proper:
Reconstruction from Atlantic avenue to Prince street

Causeway street, Boston Proper:

Reconstruction from Prince street to Medford street

Harvard street, Dorchester:

Reconstruction from Washington street to Blue Hill avenue

Amory street, Roxbury and West Roxbury:

Reconstruction from Atherton street to Green street

La Grange street. West Roxbury:

Reconstruction from Washington street to Newton Line

Total 73,092 feet

1960

Length

2,000 feet
5,700 feet
4,120 feet

10,934 feet
2,000 feet
4,050 feet
1,400 feet
3,300 feet
2,800 feet
4,000 feet
1,930 feet
2,320 feet
1,244 feet
2,344 feet

3,02S feet

682 feet

4,780 feet

3,380 feet

13,080 feet

4 City Document No. 18

Street Construction Work

Exclusive of Chapter 90 Projects

The report of the Division Engineer of the Highwa}'-
Division lists in detail the varied highway constructions
and reconstructions accomplished throughout the city
along with some of the more important roadways.

The following is a summarized financial statement of
the expenditures made in 1959 for highway improve-
ments :

Public Ways, Construction of (Loan Account) . . $1,827,863 11

Public Ways, Construction of (Revenue Account) . . 58,125 67

Reconstruction of Streets (including sidewalks) . . 26,315 78

Sidewalks, Construction and reconstruction of . 72,700 66

Total $1,985,005 22

The following is a summarized record of the highway
improvement work done by the department in 1959:

N timber of Streets Constructed or Beconstructed, 168

This total includes 28 new streets laid out and con-
structed as public ways under the provisions of Chapter
393, Acts of 1906.

Streets Improved, 20.7 Miles

This includes 4.0 miles reconstructed as Chapter 90
projects.

Sidewalks Improved, 1.6 Miles

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

Street Lighting

We have continued our polic}^ of replacing inefficient
gas lamps with modern electric illumination. During
the 3'ear we replaced just under 97 gas lamps, leaving
only about 203 out of a total of approximately 7,000 gas
lamps that were in operation nine years ago. We hope
to complete the gas lamp changeover during the coming
year.

A detailed list of lighting installations and improve-
ments is included in the report of the Lighting Section
of the Highway Division. This listing, plus a compila-
tion of the total amount of modernization accomplished
by relighting with modern mercury vapor lights of at

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least 20,000 lumens, highlights the accelerated pace of
our very important street lighting modernization pro-
gram.

Recommendations

Grade Damage Claims and the Public Improvement
Commission

When 393 streets are constructed, the cit}- awards
damages to abutters who suffer grade damages. A sub-
stantial amount of the time of the Public Improvement
Commission is spent adjusting such claims, and a large
amount of paper work is involved, much of which could
be avoided if the contract for the construction of the
street carried the necessary items to repair the damage.
A careful survey would have to be made to determine
what work would be required, in each case, and this
should be shown on the contract plan with the necessary
items in the proposal covering the work.

Before the work is done, a damage claim release
should be signed by the property owner, which release
should contain a description of the work to be done.

Highway and Sewer Loans

All highway construction and reconstruction, and all
sewer construction is paid for from separate loan ac-
counts. The highway loan for two million dollars is
authorized annually, the sewer loan for one million
dollars either annually or every other year. The loans
originate bj^ the Mayor's requesting the City Council
to pass orders authorizing the loans, which consist of
two parts; namely, the ''down payment" of about
$150,000 for each loan, which sum is derived from
taxes, and the loan proper.

Normally, the loans do not become available for use
until June of the year in which they are authorized.
Consequently, the awarding of construction contracts is
delayed, so that they cannot be completed in the year
that they are awarded. This could, to a large extent,
be avoided if the Mayor and the City Council acted in
regard to the loans as soon after January 1 as possible.

Where a loan is authorized annually, if the amount
of the loan were increased to provide funds needed for a
two-year period, this would result during the second year
of a ten cent saving in the tax rate, with no additional
interest charges, because only the amount of loan re-
quired in the first year would be issued in that year.

6 City Document No. 18

Ce7itralize Labor Force Activities
For the purpose of promoting economy and efficiency,
it is recommended that a study be made as to the advis-
abihty of centraHzing all activities of the labor forces of
all divisions of the Pubhc Works Department in one
location rather than, for example, maintaining the
twelve district yards of the Highway Division, which —
to a large extent — is a relic of the pre-motor vehicle
era. This study should also include the determination
of the size of the labor force and the number and type of
motor vehicles and other mechanical equipment re-
quired to furnish the quahty of service to \\hich the
public is entitled, keeping in mind the number and type
of trucks needed for spreading sand during the winter
months.

If this centralization is implemented, it would require
the construction of suitable buildings to house the
activities which probably would be located on the city-
owned land on Albany street, and would entail the
demoUtion of the present buildings which are old and
unsuitable, with the exception of the garage building
which is in need of complete renovation and extension.

A study may reveal that it is inadvisable to abandon
modern Public Works Department buildings located
at Western Avenue, Brighton and at Forest Hills,
Jamaica Plain, but it is my opinion that all sections
of the City, with the possible exception of Brighton,
can be efficiently serviced from one central location
and that such a plan would result in substantial econo-
mies, particularly if a pool were established for the
use of motor trucks by all divisions of the department.

Minor Repairs
In 1958, a policy was adopted to make minor repairs
by advertised contract to defective edgestone and
sidewalks that could cause pedestrian accidents. There
is a large amount of similar work yet to be done. The
program proved to be successful and very much worth-
while. It is recommended that it be continued.

Roxbury Canal
In 1959, a Special Commission was appointed by
the Legislature to make a study of the advisabiUty
of filling in the Roxbury Canal from Dorchester Avenue
to Massachusetts Avenue. This is a natural surface
water outlet for about 1,200 acres of contiguous area

Public W ores Department 7

and has several sewer overflow outlets that discharge
into it. The need for constructing a suitable storm
water conduit and filling in the canal has been recom-
mended for a great many years, as it constitutes an
open cesspool that emanates foul odors, this condition
being made substantially worse by the construction
of the Southeast Expressway. This is explained in some
detail in the letter of transmittal contained in the
report. The work was to be built and paid for by
the state.

The Committee on Metropolitan Affairs reported
the bill out favorably, but the Ways and Means Com-
mittee recommend further study by a Legislative
Committee.

Every effort should be made to have this committee's
report favorable to the project, and to urge the enact-
ment of legislation that will result in the construction
of this most needed project.

Construction of 393 Streets

In 1958, the Public Improvement Commission adopted
a policy that all new streets shall be first-class con-
struction, that is, have granite edgestone and artificial
stone sidewalks; whereas, formerly, petitioners had a
choice of a somewhat lower cost construction which
omitted the granite edgestone and artificial stone
sidewalk and substituted various forms of bituminous
concrete sidewalks.

This policy was adopted because the use of granite
edgestone and artificial stone sidewalk produces a
finished street with long- wearing qualities, which re-
duces maintenance cost to a minimum; whereas, a
bituminous sidewalk, especially without edgestone, has
a relatively short life, and, consequently, a high main-
tenance cost. It is recommended that this policy be
continued.

1. Legislation: The city should press for early
action in the next legislative session on the following
items which have already been filed :

A. Filling in of the upper Fort Point Channel,
from Massachusetts avenue to Dorchester avenue.

B. Acquisition of "water rights'' in the Lower
Fort Point Channel, from Dorchester avenue to
Northern avenue, by the state, preparatory to closing
the channel to navigation.

8 City Document No. IS

C. In the interest of an early replacement of the
Summer Street Bridge, the city should seek Federal
permission for converting this bridge to a ''fixed
span" as soon as the American Sugar Refinery
ceases operations at its present plant, expected in
1960. This would at least eliminate the necessity
of manning and operating the drawspan which is
in deplorable condition.

D. Transfer of boundary bridges (connecting the
City of Boston with another city or town) to the
state.

2. Proposed Legislation:, A bill (already submitted
to the Law Department for filing) asking the state's
approval for the closing of the Charlestown Bridge
drawspan to navigation; state approval being necessary
as well as Federal permission. It is hoped that federal
approval will be given in 1960 on the basis of a petition
and hearing previously held.

The city should explore the possibility of converting
the bridge at Reserved Channel to a fixed span, thereby
allowing the replacement of the draw span with a pile
trestle span or girder span; and eliminating the expense
of operating the draw.

3. Railroad Bridges: The city should consider a
program of studies and conferences with the various
railroads and other agencies, including the Massa-
chusetts Turnpike Authority and Massachusetts De-
partment of Public Works, to determine the best line
of action and programming of repairing and rebuilding
of the many bridges now owned and maintained by
the railroads or by the railroads and the city jointly.
The present status of the railroads in Boston indicates
that some form of governmental action may be required
to insure that these bridges will not be allowed to
deteriorate and that the city's interest will be protected.

State and/or federal aid possibilities should be
explored thoroughly.

Public Works Depart.mext 9

sucli positions now, and it is expected that there will
be less in another year, this is not an unreasonable
request. Furthermore, considering the responsibility
and quaHfications required, the position of Drawtender
is underpaid.

Commissioner of Public Works

The responsibilities of the Commissioner of Public
Works are to direct the functions of the Public W^orks
Department, which fall into three main classifications,
namely. Administrative, Engineering, and Operational.
In addition, he is a member of the PubUc Improvement
Commission, and usually the Chairman, The Traffic
Commission, the Government Center Commission having
to do with the building of the new City Hall and the
Urban Redevelopment Co-ordinating Committee.

The Administrative duties, aside from routine duties
relating to general correspondence and answering com-
plaints which takes too much of his time and actually
should never reach the Commissioner but which must
be satisfactorily resolved in order to promote good
public relations, consist primarily of keeping informed
of the activities of the seven divisions of the Depart-
ment. This requires daily consultations with the
Division Engineers to discuss their problems and the
making of decisions regarding same.

The engineering duties consist of reviewing and
approving plans and specifications relating to contract
construction work. In addition, engineering studies
are required relating to proposed bridge, highway,
sewer, and incinerator design.

Operational duties relate to maintenance work by
the labor forces of the department, including the
operation of motor vehicles, refuse incinerator, sewerage
pumping stations, water distribution, snow plowing,
sanding and removal.

As a member of the Public Improvement Commission,
the Commissioner must spend the best part of one day
a week and to do the right kind of a job, especially, as
chairman, he should devote more time to it. As a
member of the Traffic Commission, he must spend
about one half a day a week, and while at present the
meetings of the Government Center Commission are
infrequent, the Commissioner will have to devote a
substantial amount of time to this important Com-
mission, starting in the year 1960.

10 City Document No. 18

For the Commissioner to devote as much time as
possible to all of the above activities, leaves no time
for constructive thinking and planning required to
formulate policies that will promote increased economy
and efficiency of the Public Works Department.

There is only one way that this situation can be
changed, and that is to provide the Commissioner with
two Engineering Assistants — one to be his First Assist-
ant and have the title of Chief Engineer to take charge of
all engineering activities of the department, including
studies and investigations relating to same, including
the approval of all plans and specifications relating to
contract construction work, the preliminary study and
planning for a new incinerator which the city must
build. He would also organize and direct snow plowing
and removal work. This position should be filled by a
career employee, at Grade 42, with a maximum salary
of S210.75 per week.

The Second Assistant should have the title of As-
sistant Chief Engineer and be in charge of operational
activities, that is, maintenance work done by the yard
forces to the extent of formulating programs, introduc-
ing new methods, and to measure progress and to keep
the Commissioner informed accordingly. It is recom-
mended that the present Associate Engineer who is
now an Assistant to the Commissioner and an ex-
ceptionally loyal and competent employee, be appointed
Assistant Chief Engineer with a grade of 40, and a
maximum salary of $198.75 per week.

The salary of the Commissioner of Pubhc Works
should be increased to $15,000.00 per year.

Personnel

There were 1,788 employees in the department as of
December 31 as compared with 1,885 employees on the
rolls on January 1, 1959.

I attach reports from the Division Engineers relative
to the activities of their divisions in 1959, together with
a report of the Public Improvement Commission
covering its work during the year.

Respectfully submitted,

Robert P. Shea,
Commissioner of Public Works.

Public Works Department

MAINTENANCE APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES

Total Appropriations,

Division or Service

Including
Transfers and Amounts
Carried Over from 1958

E.xpenditures

Unexpended
Balance

Central Office

$70,749 00

$67,391 17

$3,357 83

Automotive Division .

767,297 39

735,389 72

31,907 67

Bridge Division .

755,565 80

741,392 09

14,173 71

Highway Division

1,620,695 49

1,432,122 24

188,573 25

Highway Program, Chapter

718, Acts of 195G .

1,825,572 20

1,820,437 62

5,134 58

Lighting Service

5,098,200 00

4,936,951 72

161,248 28

Sanitary Service

815,010 90

779,429 52

35,581 38

Sewer Division .

—

Sumner Tunnel .

Survey Division

104,550 00

103,294 54

1,255 49

Water Division .

2,736,525 81

2,454,164 34

282,361 47

Totals ....

$13,974,898 89

$13,170,177 61

$804,721 28

LOANS AND SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS

■I'lTLfc

Total Amount
Available

E.xpenditures

Unexpended
Balance

Bridges Construction of (Non-Revenue)

■11,030,100 4.5

8,001 09

2,459,811 21
4,001,814 52
155,634 34
001,143 15
417,071 13
41,008 25

98,058 03
10,550 27

$413,177 92

3,240 00

2,268,120 40
1,827,863 11
58,125 67
426,495 97
382,388 82
20,315 78

72,700 GO
8,016 47

$022 938 .53

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

5 421 09

Incinerator Building, Construction and Equipping

191,690 81

2 173 951 41

Public Ways Construction of (Revenue) .

97 508 67

174,647 18

Snow Removal (Revenue)

35 282 31

14,692 47

Sidewalks, Construction and Reconstruction of (Reve-

25,357 00

Street Signs (Revenue)

1 933 80

Totals . .

$8,830,408 44

$5,487,044 30

$3 343 423 27

City Document No. 18

The records of the department show that there are
now 1,945 persons eUgible for employment in the several
divisions, and of that number 1,788 were upon the
January 2, 1960, payrolls.

GRADE AND NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES

Services

Title

s
•a

>
1

Division engineers

Superintendents and assistants. . . . .

2
13
2

7
4

13
6
8

19
3
3

4
1
2

11
6

Principal senior and assistant civil engi-

Junior civil engineers

Senior public relations representative

Automotive, principal and senior electrical

Assistant electrical engineers

Pumping station engineers and stationary

General foreman

4
3

5
3

Other foremen ... . .

Chief inspectors

104

Legal assistant

E.xecutive secretary and assistants

112

100

Public Works Department 13

GRADE AND NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES — Continued

Services

Title

go
u

i
1

1
1

5?
t
5

3
2

112

100

Executive secretary, P. W. D

Senior personnel officer and assistant

Head clerks

1
1

Principal clerks, stenographers, account
clerks, etc

■■

9
1
31
17
3
1
1

3
1

3r>

Senior clerks, typists, stenographers, etc.. .

4
1

3
1

47
19

1
2

Senior storekeeper and storekeepers

3->

1
3
8

Sergeants, mobile guard. . .

Mobile guards

Chief and senior investigators

Dispatcher. .

1
1

Head photostat operator

•■>

Carried forward

11.5

140

113

169

698

City Document No. 18

GRADE AND NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES — Concluded

Services

Title

CO
O

.1
S

115

140

113

169

698

Working foremen

9
1
9

•

8
G

1
18

125

Crane operator ....

Maintenance mechanics and helpers, etc.. .

Welders. .

1
38

Blacksmiths and helpers. ...

4
9
9

3
4

19
33

07
94
18

17
26

107

185

Incinerator stokers

Garage attendants

15
4

308
5

437

Constables

Totals .

103

140

320

658

161

361

1788

Public Works Department

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES ACTUALLY EMPLOYED
JANUARY I, 1959, AND JANUARY I, I960

«?f

...

100

148

374

34 ■>

607

165

105

1,885

January 1, 1960

140

361

320

658

161

103

1,788

Total Eligible Force

January 1
January 1

, 1959. .

39
39

108

156
156

393
393

353
353

621
711

171
171

110
111

1,962

, I960

1,945

APPOINTMENTS, TRANSFERS, RESIGNATIONS, RETIRE-
MENTS, DEATHS, ETC., OF EMPLOYEES

a m

?si

■g

Services

•a

1959-1960

1
a
■53

Central Office

105

Automotive

103

148

Bridge

140

342

Higliway

320

607

Sanitary

658

3
8

165
33
374

161
35
361

Water.

:>8

1,785

1,788

110

16 City Document No. 18

APPENDIX A

REPORT OF THE AUTOMOTIVE DIVISION

Boston, December 31, 1959.

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, 1959. This report
covers the activities of the four garages, the Mobile
Guard and the Motor Pool.

The four garages are located at 624 Albany street,
Boston, a two-story building with a floor area of 22,000
square feet used for garaging cars; 280 Highland street,
Roxbury, a one-story building with a floor area of 8,200
square feet used for repair work; 162 Hancock street,
Dorchester, a one-story building with a floor area of
8,800 square feet used for garaging cars; 327 Forest
Hills street, Jamaica Plain, a one-story building with a
floor area of 8,400 square feet used for repair work.
The above garages also dispense gasoline and oil. There
are five other gas and oil stations located in district
yards.

The Motor Pool and Mobile Guard are located at
174 West Second street, South Boston, where we have
a two-way radio base station. Forty-eight of our
vehicles are equipped as mobile stations.

The Automotive Division is primarily concerned with
the repair and maintenance of the automotive equipment
of the Public Works Department which consists of:

81 Passenger cars, including carryalls, etc.
31 34-Ton pickup trucks
118 134- to 15-ton dump trucks
28 1-Ton utility trucks
5 2-Ton derrick and lumber trucks

4 2-Ton trucks Avith catch basin cleaners

3 5-Ton trucks with Dempster Dumpster Units

5 l3/2-Ton 7-man cab emergencj^ trucks
3 2-Ton to 10-ton wreckers

2 3-Ton gate closing trucks

3 ly^- to 3-ton platform trucks

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9 13^-Ton trucks with compressors
9 Miscellaneous trucks

2 Gutter vacuum cleaners
25 Street sweepers

5 Street flushers

40 Snow fighters

3 Snow loaders

4 Rear bucket loaders
22 Front bucket loaders

3 Crawler tractors
3 Compressor trailers
11 Gasoline road rollers

1 Road grader
65 Items of miscellaneous equipment, portable
crane, tool box trailers, lighting plants, lawn
mowers, etc.

Four hundred thirtj^-two of these units are registered
under the motor vehicle law of the Commonwealth.

The one-hundred and two employees of this division
are engaged in the following duties:

The Director of Transportation in charge of the
division, eight employees assigned to office work, 38
employees assigned to repair work, 30 employees
assigned to maintenance of buildings, gasoline and oil
dispensing and watchman duties. Five employees
assigned to the stockroom, three employees assigned to
operation of wreckers, one dispatcher, one Inspector of
Driver Training, and fifteen employees assigned to the
Mobile Patrol which maintains a w'atch over Public
Works Department Property and equipment between
the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. on weekdays and
all day on Saturda}', Sunday, and holidays.

The City Hall Office of the Automotive Division
processed 1,713 requisitions in 1959 of wdiich 540 w-ere
purchase and 1,173 were service orders. Approximately
100 purchases a month usually under $5.00 each are
made from petty cash funds.

The expenditures for 1959 are as follows:
1. Personal services .... $432,169 GO

2. Contractual services

3. Supplies and materials

4. Current charges

5. Equipment

65,263 03

144,315.28

10,131 97

83,510 13

$735,389 72

18 City Document No. 18

New equipment added to our fleet in 1959 consisted
of the following :

Sanitary Division:

Two Tarco gutter vacuum cleaners mounted on Willys
13^-ton trucks

One Chevrolet sedan

Three White trucks, 15-ton, for incinerator

One International tractor caterpillar for incinerator

One Willys jeep for incinerator
Highway Division:

One Michigan front end loader

One International carryall

One Chevrolet carryall

Two Root weed cutters
Sewer Division :

Two Ford emergency trucks with 7 man cabs
Automotive Division:

One Chevrolet sedan
Bridge Division:

One Chevrolet sedan
Water Division:

Three Ford express trucks

Two Ford F-250 chassis and cab for compressor

Two Ford sedans

One Buick 2 door Sedan

The Automotive Division recommends that the
following projects be done in 1960:

A survey of the Albany Street Garage was made in
1958 by the Thompson and Lichtner Engineering
Company and they recommend major repairs to the
building including a new roof. Thev estimated a sum
of $60,000.00 be spent.

The easterh^ wall of the Dana Avenue Garage should
be repointed at an estimate of $2,000.00.

At the Highland Street Garage, a water hydrant
should be located to provide for the washing of vehicles
and the yard should be smooth surfaced with hot top,
total costs, $2,000.00. Provision has been made in the
division budget for 1960 for replacement of equipment
over seven years old or beyond repair.

Timothy J. O'Leary
Director of Transportation.

Public Works Department 19

APPENDIX B

REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF
THE BRIDGE DIVISION

Boston, December 31, 1959.

To the Commissioner of Public Works.
Dear Sir:

Submitted herewith is the annual report of the
Bridge Division, covering the income, expenditures, and
operation of the Bridge Service and the Sumner Tunnel
for the year ending December 31, 1959.

Respectfully,

John J. McCall,

Division Engineer,
Bridge Division.

20 City Document No. 18

During the year 1959, the Bridge Division operated
8 drawbridges, i. e.:

Summer street over Fort Point Channel
Congress street over Fort Point Channel
Northern avenue over Fort Point Channel
Summer street over Reserved Channel
Charlestown Bridge over Charles River
Maiden Bridge over Mystic River
McArdle Bridge over Chelsea River
Chelsea street over Chelsea River

The former Dover Street Bridge over Fort Point
Channel has been removed; and its replacement by
solid fill is in progress as a Chapter 90 project, with the
city and state sharing equally in the cost, estimated to
be approximately $600,000.

The Broadway Bridge over Fort Point Channel has
been permanently closed as a drawbridge. During the
past year, the operating machinerj^ has been removed,
ends fixed, the drawtenders' house and fender platform
removed, and the open steel deck of the draw roadway
filled solid and paved with bituminous concrete.

Following is a description of the conditions, planning
and status relating to the 8 operating drawbridges:

1. Fort Point Channel

Summer Street Bridge: This bridge is in extremely
poor condition; and its replacement is being deferred
until the American Sugar Refinery has relocated its
plant in Charlestown, approximately one year from now.
It has been decided that at such time the present bridge
will be replaced with a solid fill roadway facility (similar
to that now building at Dover street) ; and to that end,
an engineering contract has been awarded to W. A.
Fisher Company, Consulting Engineers, for furnishing
plans and specifications.

It is assumed that with the closing of the sugar
refiner}^ it will be possible to close the present bridge to
navigation and to proceed with its replacement.

Congress Street Bridge: This drawbridge is in good
condition.

It is expected that, with the closing of the sugar
refinery, this bridge also may be closed to navigation.

Northern Avenue Bridge: Northern Avenue Bridge,
although operating satisfactorily, should be scheduled

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for rebuilding; or replacement by solid fill as soon as
practicable. The choice hinges on when the entire
channel may be closed to navigation.

With the elimination of the disposal scow movements
through this draw, and the anticipated closing of the
American Sugar Refinery in South Boston, the Northern
Avenue Bridge will be operating for the sole benefit of one
commercial user of the waterway.

Accordingly, it seems logical to assume that this
bridge, in addition to Congress Street and Summer
Street Bridges, may be eliminated as a drawbridge in the
near future.

Legislation has been sought l\y the city to accomplish
full closure of Fort Point Channel, thereby permitting
the improvements referred to above.

2. Reserved Channel

Summer Street Bridge {Formerly L Street) : The South
Boston approach trestle of this bridge has been com-
pletely rebuilt; and the Boston approach pile work has
been repaired, and a new pavement laid.

The drawspan, although in relatively poor condition,
has been purposely excluded from a major repair pro-
gram because of the possibility that the movable draw-
span could be ehminated in the near future.

At present, only one commercial unit uses the water-
way for transporting minor cargoes of fuel oil by barge.

Accordingly, it is hoped that by the time the draw-
span requires replacement, the inner channel can be
closed to navigation and the drawspan replaced by a
fixed span or trestle at considerable saving to the city.

3. Charles River

Charlestown Bridge: At the present time, this bridge
is in very good condition; having been reconstructed
and repaired throughout, in 1957-58.

The city still hopes to have this drawspan fully closed
to navigation on the basis presented in a petition to the
United States Engineers at a hearing held on April 16,
1959. As a partial concession, the Engineers have per-
mitted restricted operation, confined to the hours 11.00
P.M. to 6.00 A.M. Inasmuch as there is only one com-
mercial user of the waterway requiring openings, at a
decreasing rate, there is every reason to believe that full
closure of this drawspan can be realized soon.

22 City Document No. 18

4. Mystic River

Maiden Bridge: This bridge is in very poor condition
and is scheduled for complete rebuilding. The project
has been delayed pending a definite decision of the
United States Engineers regarding the width of water-
way to be constructed in the new bridge.

The rebuilding is to be executed by the state at no
expense to the cit3\

The new bridge will be turned over to the city for
operation and maintenance.

5. Chelsea Ri,ver

McArdle and Chelsea Street Bridges: Both of these
drawbridges are in good operating order and structural
condition.

From the standpoint of waterborne traffic these are
the busiest and most important of our drawbridges,
inasmuch as they accommodate the movement of fuel
oil cargo vessels (on a major basis) servicing the oil
storage farms in Chelsea, Revere and East Boston.

However, since oil is almost exclusively the only
type cargo invoh^ed, it seems advisable to explore the
feasibility of pipe fines in the Chelsea River, to minimize
the need of these drawbridges.

6. Inland Bridges

At the present time, this department is involved in
the maintenance of 80 inland bridges as follows:

Maintained entirely by this department ... 49
Maintained jointly with New Haven Railroad . .15

Maintained jointly with Boston & Albany Railroad . 10

Maintained jointly with Boston & Maine Railroad . 1

Maintained jointly with MTA 1

Maintained jointly with Town of Winthrop . . 1

Maintained jointly with Town of Milton ... 2

Maintained jointly with Town of Watertown . . 1

Total 80

It should be noted, in connection with the inland
bridges over railroads, that there is room for much
improvement on these structures, many of which should
be rebuilt in order to provide modern bridges of ample
capacit}^ with clear roadways (without center girders
or trusses) to accommodate present day traffic safely.

Public Works Department 23

However, such a program is necessarily being deferred
for the following reasons: — ■

In the case of the bridges over the Boston & Albany
Railroad, the possibility of the Massachusetts Turnpike
being extended to Boston over this right-of-way makes
it inadvisable to proceed with anj^ program other than
emergency or necessary repairs until the Turnpike
Extension is either abandoned or a reality.

Concerning most of the bridges over the New Haven
Railroad, the city has little control except for main-
taining wearing surfaces and underdecks; and inasmuch
as most of these are still of wooden construction, it
becomes by far the most expensive part of the main-
tenance of these bridges.

For many years the railroads have been pleading
lack of funds as the main reason for not rebuilding such
bridges.

In connection with the anticipated elimination of
Summer Street Bridge as a drawbridge, an engineering-
contract has been awarded to Wm. A. Fisher Co.,
consulting engineers, (in an amount not to exceed
$45,000) for engineering and designing (including
furnishing plans and specifications) for a sohd fill
bridge replacement with culvert facilities to accom-
modate tidal flow.

To furnish necessary preliminary information, this
division is engaged in making a survey and soundings,
and has contracted with the Carr Construction Corp.
for making borings and taking sub-soil samples.

With the commencement of w^ork on the Prudential
Center and the proposed Civic Auditorium to be built
by the city, it becomes necessary to construct a new
bridge at Dalton street (extended) to span the Boston
& Albany Railroad property and connect with Boylston
street, adjacent to the proposed new Auditorium.

Accordingly, an engineering contract (in an amount
not to exceed $36,750) has been awarded to Metcalf &
Eddy for the design of the new bridge, including fur-
nishing plans and specifications.

This division is making the necessary survey and has
contracted with Carr Construction Corp. for making
the necessary borings.

The solid fill replacement of Dover Street Bridge
is being accomplished under a Chapter 90 contract

City Document No. 18

awarded by the state. The city will bear one-half
the cost, estimated at this time to be approximately
$300,000.

The necessity of relocating various utilities, including
water mains, electric cables, etc., required construction
of a trestle upstream of the solid fill project. The
trestle was completed in January, 1959. The city's
share of the cost of this trestle amounted to $60,000.00.

7. 1959 Contract Work

The more important contract work executed during
1959, is as follows:

Description

Contractor

Cost

Starting
Date

Completion

Boylston St. Bridge, over B. &
A. R.R., deck repairs. . .

M.J. Kelly Co., Inc....

John J. Botti Co., Inc.. .

General Ship & Engine
Works, Inc.

Foley Corporation

H. Piken Co., Inc

Frederick W. Byron ....
Carr Construction Corp.

«33,975 00
10,734 00
3,248 00

17,050 00

5,450 00*
8,440 00
3,073 70
3,363 80

Mar. 2, 1959
May 18, 1959
June 7, 1959

July 16, 1959

Aug. 0, 1959
Oct. 20, 1959
Oct. 5, 1959
Nov. 5, 1959

May 8, 1959
Aug. 4, 1959
June 30, 1959

Massachusetts Ave., underpass.

Northern Ave. Bridge, repairs
to end lifts and compressor. . . .

Broadway Bridge over Ft. Pt.
Channel, removing drawhouse,
fenders, machinery, etc. and

Temple St. Underpass, W. Rox.
and River St. Bridge, H. P.,
concrete repairs and painting.

Various bridges, cleaning and

Oct. 20, 1959
Dec. 26, 1959
Nov. 22 1959
Dec. 15, 1959

Maiden Bridge, repairs to steel
grid roadway of drawspan

Summer St. Bridge over Ft. Pt.
Ch. and Dalton St., borings. . .

* Reimbursable by Railroad $2,100.

8. Proposed Work — 1960
Proposed new bridge construction which has been
scheduled for 1960, as part of the City-State Chapter
90 program includes a new bridge superstructure at
Bennington street, East Boston, over the M.T.A.

The estimated cost of this improvement is as follows:

Location
Bennington St.

State

$75,000

City

Share Total

$75,000 $150,000

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Other work which this division expects to undertake
in 1960, involves an alteration of the fender system
of the Chelsea Street Bridge, to provide a channelway
96 feet wide, to conform to an order of the United
States Engineers, expected to be issued soon.

The need for this change arises from the collapse
and abandonment of the Boston & Albany Railroad
bridge adjacent to the city's highway bridge. The
railroad bridge defined a waterway only 70 feet wide,
which hmited the size and type of oil cargo vessels
passing through.

Although the estimated cost of the proposed altera-
tion (including removal of the old railroad bridge
piers, etc.) approximates $240,000, the work relating
directly to city-owned facilities amount to approxi-
mately $100,000; and of that figure, all but $8,000 is
reimbursable from Federal funds, under the provisions
of the Truman-Hobbs Act as amended.

9. Maintenance Force

Work done by the bridge maintenance force during
the year included regular routine operations such as
renewing bridge floor planking; sidewalk planking;
repairing defective areas of bridge pavements; cleaning
and painting bridge gates, fences, guard rails, etc.

Other work includes cleaning, checking, testing and
making minor repairs and renewals to bridge operating
machinery.

As required, the maintenance force assists in emer-
gency contract work, demolition and clean-up work,
snow removal, etc.

10. Work Done With Other Agencies

The Bridge Division drew up the preliminary plans
and specifications covering the demolition and removal
of the old North End Park Piers; and the work was
executed as a Chapter 91 contract, with the city and
state equally sharing the cost. The work was done by
C. Ray Norris Co. at a final cost of $20,900, and was
completed April 18, 1959.

The Bridge Division also made the preliminary plans,
specifications and cost estimates covering the demoHtion
and removal of the old subway entrance "hump" in

26 City Document No. 18

Maverick square, East Boston. On the basis of these
plans, the MTA contracted for the work and the City
agreed to assume one-half the cost. The work was
clone b}'^ Rich Construction Co., Inc. at a final cost of
$35,436, and was completed on September 8, 1959.

11. Recommendations

Incidental to the foregoing report, it is urged that the
city take action as far as may be possible in relation to
the following recommendations:

1. Legislation: The city should press for early
action in the next legislative session on the following
items which have already been filed:

A. Filling in of the upper Fort Point Channel,
from Massachusetts avenue to Dorchester avenue.

B. Acquisition of "water rights" in the lower Fort
Point Channel, from Dorchester avenue to Northern
avenue, by the state, preparatory to closing the
channel to navigation.

D. Transfer of boundary bridges (connecting the
City of Boston with another city or town) to the
state.

2. Proposed Legislation: A bill (already submitted
to the Law Department for fihng) asking the State's
approval for the closing of the Charlestown Bridge
drawspan to navigation; State approval being necessary
as well as federal permission. It is hoped that federal
approval will be given in 1960 on the basis of a petition
and hearing previously held.

The city should explore the possibihty of converting
the bridge at Reserved Channel to a fixed span, thereby
allowing the replacement of the draw span with a pile
trestle span or girder span; and eliminating the expense
of operating the draw.

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3. Railroad Bridges: The city should consider a
program of studies and conferences with the various
raih-oads and other agencies, including the Massa-
chusetts Turnpike Authority and Massachusetts De-
partment of Public Works, to determine the best line
of action and programming of repairing and rebuilding
of the many bridges now owned and maintained by the
railroads or by the railroads and the city jointly. The
present status of the railroads in Boston indicates that
some form of governmental action may be required to
insure that these bridges will not be allowed to de-
teriorate and that the city's interest will be protected.

State and/or federal aid possibilities should be
explored thoroughly.

4. Drawbridge Operation: It is recommended that
the position of "Drawtender" be reclassified to a
higher grade, permitting a salary increase of at least
$10 per week. The fact that this position currently
pays onh^ $6 more per week than the First Assistant
Drawtender makes it increasingly difficult to interest
assistants in taking the Drawtender position when a
vacancy occurs. Inasmuch as there are only eight
such positions now — and it is expected that there will
be less in another year — this is not an unreasonable
request. Furthermore, considering the responsibihty
and quahfications required, the position of Drawtender
is underpaid.

Sumner Tunnel

In accordance with the terms of chapter 598, Acts
of 1958, the Sumner Tunnel was transferred to the
Massachusetts Turnpike Authority for ownership, op-
eration and maintenance.

In the office of Mayor Hynes, on April 29, 1959,
the City of Boston officially transferred title of the
quarter-centurj^-old Sumner Tunnel to the Massa-
chusetts Turnpike Authority. The consideration was
a check for $10,850,062.60. A second payment of
$1,548,722.22 to the city's sinking fund was made
by the purchaser to clear the books of all outstanding
Sumner Tunnel bonds. The city, in turn, made a pay-
ment of approximately $300,000 to the Turnpike
Authority, representing tunnel toll revenues since the
first of the year.

^ City Document No. 18

As a result of the transaction, 98 permanent employees
of the City of Boston became employees of the Massa-
chusetts Turnpike Authority, with all their civil service
and state-city retirement rights full}' protected. The
personnel involved in the transfer were the super-
intendent of the tunnel, 49 tollmen-guards (officers
and men), 43 maintenance personnel, and 6 clerical
employees.

At this time it should be noted that since the day
of its opening, June 30, 1934, the operation and main-
tenance of the Sumner Tunnel has been under the
direct charge of Superintendent Thomas B. Ryan,
who is to be commended for the efficient manner in
which he has kept the tunnel operating under in-
creasingly severe traffic conditions.

Public Works Department 29

BRIDGE DIVISION
Budget Expenditures, 1959

1. Personal Services

10 Permanent employees $581,(525 57

11 Temporary employees .... 5,000 00

12 Overtime 33,170 05

$619,801 62

2. Contractual Services

21 Communications $1,216 54

22 Light, heat, and power .... 8,583 99

26 Repairs and maintenance of buildings

and structures 8,776 46

27 Repairs and servicing of equipment . . 454 34

28 Transportation of persons .... 179 70

29 Other contractual services .... 293 13

3. Supplies and Materials

33 Heating supplies and materials . . . $3,193 08

34 Household supplies and materials . . 297 62

35 Medical, dental, and hospital supplies and

materials 48 71

36 Office supplies and materials . . . 1,419 30
39 Other supplies and materials . . . 10,970 35

4. Curre.nt Charges and Obligations
49 Other current charges and obligations. . $373 34

5. Equipment
59 Other efjuipment $252 89

7. Structures and Improvements
71 Other structures and improvements . . $3,335 33
(711 bridges, construction)
(712 bridges, repairs) structures and im-
provements 76,132 69

(714 bridges, repairs) resurfacing, paint-
ing, deck repairs, etc 6,063 00

$19,504 16

$15,929 06

$373 34

$252 89

$85,531 02

6-53-11 Loan Account (Non-Revenue)

( Unencumbered ) ( Unencumbered )

1958 1959 Balance to

Balance Expenditure 1960

Bridges, construction of $2,201,375 09 $413,177 92 $2,277,771 65

City Document No. 18

Details of Expenditures on Tidewater Bridges

TIDEWATER BRIDGES — 1959

Bridge

Draw-
tenders'
Salaries

Mechanics'
Wages

Material

Repair
BiUs

Supplies,

Utilities,

Etc.*

Total

$8,978 30
30,330 41
63,846 59
41,219 65
62,541 72
64,783 76
60,629 43
49,090 18
44,663 06

$1,530 26
2,224 80
3,731 59
2,787 59
3,528 88
3,053 84
6,439 47

11,255 40
4,461 73

$36 00
246 15
108 02
153 36
151 98
80 06
408 34
3,027 02
384 45

$75 70

737 53

215 55

468 66

1,380 51

1,850 13

1,677 80

2,505 70

506 02

$232 24

2,058 51

763 55

619 20

974 81

2,298 81

3,066 24

841 03

522 44

35 597 40

Chelsea Street

Congress Street

Maiden . .

08.665 30
45,248 46
08,577 90

72.666 00
72,221 28
07,319 99
50,537 70

Andrew P. McArdle....

Northern Avenue

Summer Street (Ft. Pt.)
Summer Street (L St.). .

Totals

$426,083 10

.$39,619 62

$5,195 98

$9,417 66

$11,376 83

$491,693 19

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APPENDIX C

REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF
THE HIGHWAY DIVISION

Boston, January 4, 1960.

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, 1959.

Respectfully submitted,

RUTHFORD J. KeLLEY,

Division Engineer, Highway Division.

Public Works Department 33

HIGHWAY DIVISION

Paving Service

SUMMARY OF BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriation

Total Credits

Expenditures

Balance
Unexpended

$1,620,695 49
41,008 25
155,634 34

$1,432,122 24
26,315 78

$188,573 25

Reconstruction of
Streets

14,692 47

Public Ways, Construc-
tion of (Revenue)

58,125 67

97,508 67

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

4,001,814 52

1,827,863 11

2,173,951 41

Sidewalks, Construction
and Reconstruction of

98,058 03

72,700 66

25,357 37

Street Signs

10,550 27
417,671 13

8,616 47
382,477 02

1,933 80

35,194 11

In the Permit Office, the permits issued and monies
received for 1959 are as follows:

PERMITS ISSUED

Signs . . 8,065

Occupation permits 6,566

Sidewalk licenses 291

Driveway applications 281

Special permits 325

Department permits (free) 1,277

Street opening deposits 541

Total 17,346

CASH RECEIVED

Occupation permits $66,399 86

Signs 85,868 00

Sidewalk licenses 22,299 25

Plans and miscellaneous 35

Driveway applications 570 00

Notifications 110 00

Rents 10,467 00

Total income less street openings $185,714 46

Street openings 95,880 7 1

Total income $281,595 17

34 City Document No. IS

The regular forces of the Paving Service were em-
ployed as usual in the maintenance of pubhc streets,
resurfacing and patching macadam pavements, patching
permanent pavements, such as asphalt and granite
block, and maintaining gravel, brick, and artificiai
stone sidewalks.

During the snow season, division forces were em-
ployed in spreading salt and sand on ic}' streets, plowing
snow throughout the City, and removing snow in the
business areas.

The following work was done in placing new street
signs and replacing and repairing existing street signs:

Erected 94 4-inch street signposts.

Erected 11 new hero square signs for dedication.

Replaced 138 hero square signs.

Installed 532 baked enamel street signs.

Installed 97 hand-painted metal street signs.

Removed 271 old hand-painted signs, damaged baked
enamel and obliterated signs.

Repaired or straightened 126 bent or broken street sign
posts (4-inch type).

Repaired, in blacksmith shop, 242 broken street sign
frames and welded 36 4-inch street signposts.

Repaired 158 street sign frames, collars, and brackets on
4-inch street signposts and light poles.

Removed 207 pieces of rope, wire, old tires from signs on
4-inch posts and light poles.

Installed 416 street sign frames.

Installed 193 street sign collars.

Installed 54 pairs of adapters on wooden poles.

Installed HI acorns on top of 4-inch street signposts.

Installed 182 "Private Way" signs on 4-inch street sign
posts and light poles.

Removed 54 "Private Way" signs because of making
public ways.

Painted 425 street signposts.

Painted 662 street sign frames on 4-inch posts and light
poles.

Painted 554 street sign collars on 4-inch posts and light
poles.

Painted 413 acorns on 4-inch posts.

Washed and cleaned 265 street sign name plates.

Painted 200 metal blanks for temporary street sign plates.

There were 168 streets constructed or reconstructed
during the year.

Public Works Department 35

Some of the more important thoroughfares on which
reconstruction work was completed in 1959 are as
follows :

Warren street, at Park street.

Atlantic avenue, from Richmond street to Clinton street
on westerly side.

Doane street, from Kilby street to Broad street.

Franklin street, from Broad street to Pearl street.

Oliver street, from Milk street to Purchase street.

Summer street, Atlantic avenue to bridge over Fort
Point Channel.

Beach street, from Atlantic avenue to Harrison avenue.

Exeter place, from Harrison avenue to Chauncy street.

High street, from Congress street to Summer street, and
Oliver street to Pearl street.

Lincoln street, from John F. Fitzgerald Expressway to
Summer street.

Milk street, from Broad street to Batterymarch street.

Pearl street, from High street to Purchase street.

Summer street, from Chauncj^ street to John F. Fitz-
gerald Expressway.

Thomas Whalen Circle, at junction of Kilby street, Milk
street, and 01i\'er street.

Utica street, from Kneeland street to Beach street.

Summer street, from Chauncy street to Washington street.

Atlantic avenue (easterly side) from State street approxi-
mately 600 feet south.

Curve street, from Hudson street to approximately 75
feet easterly.

Harrison avenue, from Broadway to Oak street.

Hudson street, from Curve street to Kneeland street.

Kneeland street, from Washington street to Atlantic
avenue.

Tyler street, from Broadway to Oak street, and Harvard
street to Kneeland street.

Canal street, westerly side of Traverse street to Hay-
market square.

Post Office square, from Water street to across Milk
street.

Milk street, from Congress street to Pearl street.

Castle street, from Harrison avenue to Albany street.

Stuart street, from Clarendon street to Trinity place.

Wales street, from Blue Hill avenue to Harvard street.

Boyd street, Westville street to Dakota street.

Freeport Avay, from Freeport street to approximately 440
feet easterly.

Ditson street, from Charles street to Westville street.

Hamilton street, from Bowdoin street to Homes avenue.

Norton street, from Bowdoin street to Richfield street.

36 City Document No. 18

Welles avenue, from Talbot avenue to Dorchester avenue.

River street, at Old Morton street.

Ellison avenue, from Gallivan Boulevard to Morton street.

Pine Ridge road, from Gallivan Boulevard to Morton
street.

Allston street, from Centre street to Melville avenue.

Lyndhurst street, from Washington street to Allston
street.

Dunlap street, from Washington street to Whitfield street.

Kenberma road, from Washington street to Elwyn road.

West Tremlett street, from Washington street to Whit-
field street.

Glencliff road, from Poplar street to approximately 580
feet southeasterly.

Business street, from River street to River street.

Tyler street, from Truman Highway to Loring street.

Ellis street, from River street to Hillis road.

Franklin street, from Sunnyside street to Thompson street.

Prescott street, from Wolcott square to Millstone road.

Summer street, from Gordon avenue to Parrott street.

Sprague street, from Sprague Street place to New York,
New Haven & Hartford property line.

Belnap road, from Eastmont road to Leighton road.

Dodge road, from Leighton road to approximately 480
feet northwesterly.

Joan road, from Leighton road to Dodge road.

Leighton road, from northerly end of Eastmont road to
southerly end of Eastmont road.

Constitution road, from Faunce road to approximately
280 feet southeasterly.

Dania street, from Faunce road to Cookson terrace.

Dania terrace, from Dania street to approximately 110
feet northwesterly.

Faunce road, from West Selden street to Cookson terrace.

Jamestown terrace, from Dania street to approximately
130 feet southeasterly.

Viking terrace, from Dania street to Linvale terrace.

Sierra road, from Neponset Valley Parkway to approxi-
matel}'- 200 feet northeasterly.

Montgomery street, from Clarendon street to West
Canton street.

Massachusetts avenue, from Newbury street to and
including bridge over railroad.

Cedar Lane way, from Chestnut street to Pinckney
street.

Chestnut street, from Walnut street to Charles street.

Spruce street, from Beacon street to Chestnut street.

WilloAV street, from Chestnut street to Mount Vernon
street.

Public Works Department 37

Dorchester avenue, from Andrew square to West Fourth
street (chapter 90).

Newhill place, from East Third street to approximately
150 feet southerly.
Hampden street, from Albany street to Eustis street.
Magazine street, at Norfolk avenue.

Albany street, construction of traffic islands (chapter 90).
Massachusetts avenue, construction of traffic islands
(chapter 90).

Southampton street, construction of traffic islands (chapter
90).

Fairland street, from Mount Pleasant avenue to Moreland
street.

Elmwood street, from King street to Roxbury street.
Haskins street, from Ruggles street to Vernon street.
Oakland street, from Washington street to Thornton
street.

Sachem street, at Parker Hill avenue.
Westerly street, from Centre street to Sunnyside street.
Columbus avenue, from Jackson square to Roxbury
Crossing.

Custer street, from South street to Arborway.
Atherton street, from Washington street to Amory street.
Bainbridge street, from Walnut avenue to Dale street.
Cedar street, from Centre street to Columbus avenue.
Kingsbury street, from Bainbridge street to Washington
street.

Oakland street, from Washington street to Thornton
street.

Seaver street, from Walnut avenue to Blue Hill avenue.
Homestead street, from Elm Hill avenue to Walnut
avenue.

Copeland park, from Copeland street to approximately
130 feet southeasterly.

Howland street, from Elm Hill avenue to approximately
231 feet west of Humboldt avenue.

Paulding street, from Dale street to Bainbridge street.
Woodbine street, from Blue Hill avenue to Warren street.
Blue Hill avenue, from Columbia road to Seaver street.
Seaver street, from Columbia road to Erie street.
Tracton avenue, from Tileston street to approximately
130 feet westerly.

Westminster street, from Huntington avenue to Wood
avenue.

Child street, from Gordon avenue to Chestnut street.
Lodgehill road, from Ruffing street to Goff street.
Magee street, from Austin street to Lodgehill road.
Ruffing street, from Sherrin street to Lodgehill road.
Sherrin street, from Magee street to Beech street.

38 City Document No. 18

Metropolitan avenue, from Washington street to Kit-
tredge street.

Moraine street, from Centre street to Jamaicaway.

Wren street, from Woodard road to Robin street.

INIartin street, from Belle viie street to Park street.

Celia road, from Belle vue street to approximately 210
feet northeasterly.

Paulman Circle, from Church street to approximately
270 feet northeasterly.

Pleasantdale road, from Stimson street to approximately
870 feet southerly.

New Haven street, from about 125 feet south of the
southerly line of Ascent street to about 370 feet northerly.

Ascent street, from Keystone street to Glenellen road.

At will road, from Rich wood street approximately 240
feet southwesterly.

Bobolink street, from La Grange street to Pheasant street.

Glenellen road, from Northdale road to Ascent street.

Pheasant street, from approximately 30 feet northeast of
Swan street to approximately 330 feet northwesterly.

Vogel street, from Ascent street to Stimson street.

Baker street, from \TW parkway to Centre street (chapter
90).

Altacrest road, from Ansonia road to approximately 285
feet southwesterly.

Gilmore terrace, from Park street to approximately 200
feet southwesterly.

Colberg avenue, from Beech street to West Roxbury
parkway.

The following is a list of streets constructed and
reconstructed and sidewalk work done by contract
in the various wards of the city in 1959.

Ward 3 — Atlantic avenue, Doane street, Franklin street,
Oliver street, Summer street. Beach street, Exeter place.
High street, from Congress street, Summer street, and Oliver
street to Pearl street, Lincoln street. Milk street. Pearl
street, Summer street, from Chauncy street to John F.
Fitzgerald Expressway, Thomas Whalen Circle, Utica street.
Summer street, from Chauncy street to Washington street,
Atlantic avenue, Curve street, Harrison avenue, Hudson
street, Kneeland street, Tyler street. Canal street, Post
Office square. Milk street. Cooper street (sidewalks), Friend
street (sidewalks), Haymarket square (sidewalks), Sudbury
street (sidewalks), Lynn street (sidewalks), Thacher street,
(sidewalks). High street (sidewalks). Congress street (side-
walks). Castle street, from Harrison avenue to Albany
street, Albany street (sidewalks), Harrison avenue, Troy
street (sidewalks), Harrison avenue (sidewalks).
Ward 4 — Stuart street, Montgomer^^ street.

Public Works Department 39

Ward 5 — Massachusetts avenue, Arlington street (side-
walks), Bay State road (sidewalks), Boylston street (south
side), from Hereford street to and including 925 (sidewalks),
Hereford street (sidewalks), Providence street (sidewalks),
Sherborn street (sidewalks), Boylston street, from Fairfield
street to Gloucester street (sidewalks), Boylston street
(south side), from Arlington street to Hadassah Way (side-
Avalks), Fairfield street (sidewalks), Cedar Lane Way, Chest-
nut street. Spruce street, Willow street.

Ward 6 — I street (sidewalks). South Bay avenue, Dor-
chester avenue (part in ward 7), Newhill place.

Ward 7 — Massachusetts avenue (sidewalks), Dorchester
avenue (part in ward 6).

Ward 8 — Hampden street. Magazine street, Albany
street, Massachusetts avenue, Southampton street, Dearborn
square (sidewalks), Fairland street (part in ward 12).

Ward 9 — Elmwood street, Haskins street, Oakland
street (part in ward 11).

Ward 10 — Sachem street, Westerly street.

Ward 11 — Columbus avenue, Custer street (part in
ward 19), Atherton street, Bainbridge street (part in ward
12), Cedar street, Kingsbury street, Oakland street (part
in ward 9).

Ward 12 — Seaver street, from Walnut avenue to Blue
Hill avenue. Homestead street, Kearsarge avenue (sidewalks),
Warren street (sidewalks), Copeland park, Bainbridge
street (part in ward 11), Fairland street (part in ward 8),
Howland street, Paulding street, Woodbine street.

Ward 14 — Blue Hill avenue, from Columbia road to
Seaver street, Seaver street, Wales street.

Ward 15 — Boyd street, Freeport way, Ditson street,
Hamilton street, Norton street.

Ward 16 — Welles avenue, from Talbot avenue to Dor-
chester avenue.

Ward 17 — River street, Ellison avenue, Pine Ridge road,
AUston street, Lyndhurst street, Dunlap street, Kenberma
road, West Tremlett street.

Ward 18 — Glencliff road, Business street, Ellis street,
Franklin street, Prescott street, Summer street, Tyler street,
Rosewood street (sidewalks), Sprague street, Belnap road,
Dodge road, Joan road, Leighton road, Constitution road,
Dania street, Dania terrace, Faunce road, Jamestown ter-
race. Viking terrace. Sierra road, Tracton avenue, West-
minster street, Child street, Lodgehill road, Magee street.
Ruffing street, Sherrin street, Kittredge street, Metropolitan
avenue, Hollingsworth street (sidewalks).

Ward 19 — South street. May street, Moraine street,
Custer street (part in Ward 11).

Ward 20 — Wren street, from Woodard road to Robin
street, Martin street, Celia road, Paulman circle, Pleasant-

City Document No. 18

dale road, New Haven street, Ascent street, from Keystone
street to Glenellen road, Atwill road. Bobolink street,
Glenellen road, Pheasant street, Vogel street, Baker street,
Altacrest road, Gilmore terrace, Colberg avenue. Park
street, Walworth street.

Ward 22 — Commonwealth avenue (north side), from
No. 2005 to South street (sidewalks), Letitia way (sidewalks).

WORK DONE BY CONTRACT IN 1959

Item

Earth and services excavation .
Rock and wall excavation .

Bank gravel

Crushed stone for edgestone
Base removed ....
Pavement removed
Straight edgestone
Circular edgestone

Corners

Edgestone reset and relocated .
Edgestone hauled ....
Macadam base ....

OA asphalt

Concrete base ....
Concrete backing up sidewalk
Bituminous concrete base, roadway
Bituminous concrete top, roadway
Bituminous concrete top, sidewalk
Bituminous concrete base, sidewalk
Sheet asphalt ....

Artificial stone sidewalks
Artificial stone driveways .

Loam spaces

Loam for back of sidewalks

Covers

Catch basins or drop inlets rebuilt
Catch basins or drop inlets built

Sign posts

Parking meters ....
Stone bounds ....

Total length

Total area of bituminous concrete
Total area of sheet asphalt .

38,709

1,017

50,178

1,708

6,647

21,597

19,843

4,633

832

47,477

5,324

17,930

172,572

2,296

23,512

21,735

946

1,215

1,286

656,768

79,820

2,518

543

2,342

117

266

100

107

96,700

277,129

19,422

Quantity
cubic yards
cubic yards
tons
tons

square yards
square yards
lineal feet
lineal feet
each

lineal feet
lineal feet
tons
gallons
cubic yards
cubic yards
tons
tons
tons
tons
tons

square feet
square feet
square yards
cubic yards
each
each
each
each
each
each

lineal feet
square yards
square yards

YEARLY REPORT OF WORK DONE BY DEPARTMENT
FORCES FOR 1959

Brick sidewalks, laid and relaid .
Gravel sidewalks, relaid
Artificial stone sidewalks, laid (new)
Artificial stone sidewalks, relaid (old)

2,350 square yards

1,137 square yards

15,600 square feet

118,286 square feet

TABLE SHOWING LENGTH AND AREA OF PAVING ON ACCEPTED STREETS, CORRECTED TO JANUARY 1, I960

LenOTH in MlLEB.

Area in Sohabe Yards.

Sheet tAsphalt
Asphalt. Concrete.

JGranite
Block.

Wood
Block.

Plank
BriTges.

Brick.

5Con-
crete.

IMacadam.

Gravel.

Not
Graded.

Totals.

Sheet
Asphalt.

tAaphalt
Concrete.

tGranite
Block.

Wood
Block.

Plank
Bridges.

Brick.

IConcrete.

IIMacadam.

Gravel.

Not
Graded.

ToUls.

Year 1959 Report

220.48
29.25

379.44
50.33

22.91
3.04

0.15
0.02

0.34
0.04

0.20
0.03

17.56
2.33

103.97
13.79

8.05
1.07

0.77
0.10

753.87
100.00

4,428,101
30.26

7,502,205
51.27

497,633
3.40

2,119
0.02

9,068
0.06

5,452
0.04

370,016
2.53

1,059,999
11.35

130,807

26.927
0.18

14,632,327
100.00

January 1. 1960

46.43
4.31
2.88
10.60
37.81
32.00
52.48
19.99
7.83

34.17

2 5.. 59
23.12
41.06
103.68
91.66
36.35
33.77

4.72

4.83
2.29
0.02
0.48
0.29
0.00

0.01
0.06

0.09
0.02
0.02
0.03

0.16

0.02
0.01

2.86
0.74
1.39
0.32
3.93
1.78
5.12
0.78
0.24

2.19

5.16
6.73
5.00
9.39
20.85
29.33
8.44
10.88

0.39
0.03
0.19
0.09
0.35
1.97
1.66
0.22
3.43

0.01
0.04
0.50
0.07
0.00
0.02

0.12

92.51
22.64
39.17
44.49
95.52
160.34
180.83
66.15
56.29

1,053,178
84,424
61,241
220,863
771,259
564,175
993,833
423,701
134,015

780,704
206,452
575,622
494,934
808,654
1,912,586
1,725.759
738,046
036,082

128.127

105.674

48,427

129,123

25,715

997

8,952

15,949

3,258
1.098
317
892

3,025

1,055
1,183

145

91,413
13,395
47,177
18,780
60,517
25,854
82,171
19,204
3,898

33,252
70,954
150,794
79,224
132,834
338,170
450,569
134,233
174,879

7,023
407
3,270
1,024
6,749
34,368
27,395
3,417
.M,714

812
15,754
1,825
4,000
3,337
50
3.408

2,100,020

887,560
961,649
1 808 736

South Boston

West Roxbury

Dorchester

0.03

0.04
0.04
0.08
0.02

338

985
1,231
304*

2,881,133
3,293,484

Brighton

1,335,831

214.33
28.28

397.59
52.46

21.17
2.79

0.10
0.01

0.34
0.04

0.19
0.03

17.16
2.26

97.97
12.93

8.33
1.10

0.76
0.10

757.94
100.00

4,306,689
29.18

7.879,339
53.38

462,990
3.13

1,881
0.01

9.068
0.06

5,408
0.04

362,409
2.46

1,564,909
10.60

138,367
0.94

29,227
0.20

Percent

100.00

above table the city 'S subdivided aubstantially on the boundary lini
! yards is cobble; and 10.88 miles or J

',243 square yards i

this table; 1.89 i

BLic Streets 757.94 Miles.

I the districts as they existed when annexed to Boston.

nnexed from Brookline included in City Proper.

Block,

54.79 miles or 1 ,020,918 square yards is bitulithio; and 2.02 miles or
I Topeka; and 0.0(1 miles or 920 square yards is Filbertine; and O.Oli
yards is Cary-Elaetite Asr'halt Plank; and 0-06 miles or 518 square

Manville Asphalt Plank;
charge of Park Department included ii

■ 2.224 square yards is Asphalt
I miles or 551,303 square yards

Public Works Department

Bituminous concrete sidewalks

Block gutters

Artificial stone sidewalks, patched

with black top ....
Edgestone set (new)
Edgestone reset (old) .
Macadam roadway patched
JMacadam roadway resurfaced .
Asphalt or bituminous concrete road

wa}^ patched ....
Asphalt or bituminous concrete road

way resurfaced ....
Street cleaning ....
Snow removal ....

PAVING SERVICE

Street cleaning

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

10,385 square yards
10 square yards

32,456 square feet
284 lineal feet

1,883 lineal feet
79,581 square yards

3,945 square yards

93,378 square yards

3,601 square yards
1,152 cubic yards
15,907 cubic yards

1959

$12,961 27

657,035 62

237,184 98

48,364 29

17,052 97

$972,599 13

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HIGHWAY DIVISION
Lighting Service

FINANCIAL STATEMENT

Total Credits for 1959 $1,825,572 20

Total Expenditures for 1959 1,82-1,643 20

Individual Expenditures
Street and Park Lighting (Electric):

Boston Edison Co $1,633,043 07

Boston Gas Co. (Charlestown District)
Boston Edison Co. (footways) .
Boston Gas Co. (Charlestown footways)
Boston Edison Co. (substations)
Boston Gas Co. (substations) .

70,110 74
3,907 04
578 04

18,064 77
4,309 70

1,730,013 36

Street Lighting (gas lamps) :

Boston Gas Co $3,540 99 3,540 99

Police Spotlights:

Boston Edison Co 2,849 48

Boston Gas Co. (Charlestown District) . 19 03 2,868 51

Construction and Maintenance:

Installations, removals, relocation and modernization

Boston Edison Co $16,982 36

Boston Gas Co 3,580 39

- abandoned gas post removal contract:
Robert Menz- carried forward to 1960 . 4,215 58

- expended in 1959 4,991 75

29,770 08

Salaries:

Administrative, engineering and mainte-
nance personnel $42,515 86 42,515 86

Office Supplies: 302 03 302 03

Maintenance Supplies:

Replacement parts and fixtures for electric

and gas lamps. Poles for spotlights 8,803 48 8,803 48

Advertising 28 00 28 00

Travel Expenses 141 19 141 19

Rental 1,418 75 1,418 75

Office Equipment 296 95 296 95

Mercury Vapor Lighting Projects

In 1959 orders were issued for relighting with modern
mercury vapor Ughting units on the following listed
streets, main thoroughfares and business areas:

Units Lumens
Each

Albany street, Boston 26 single 20,000

Blue Hill Avenue Bridge, Dorchester . 2 single 20,000

Beach street, Boston 12 single 20,000

Curve street, Boston 3 single 20,000

Public Works Department

Castle street, Boston .
Cambridge street, Brighton
East Concord street, Boston
High street, Boston
Harrison avenue, Boston
Broadway Bridge, Boston .
Beacon street, Brighton (Cleveland
Belgrade avenue. West Roxbury
Custom House street, Boston
Commonwealth avenue, Brighton
Dover street, Boston .
Dorchester avenue, Dorchester
D street. South Boston
Glenway street, Dorchester
Hudson street, Boston .
Harrison avenue, Boston
Kneeland street, Boston
Kilby street, Boston
Lincoln street, Boston .
Louis Prang street, Roxbury
Milk street, Boston
Massachusetts avenue, Roxbury
Meridian street. East Boston
Newbury street, Boston
Old road, Dorchester .
Pearl street, Boston
River street, Hyde Park
Shawmut avenue, Boston .
South street, Boston
Summer street, Boston
Stuart street, Boston
Tyler street, Boston
West Broadway, South Boston
Washington street, West Roxbury
Whittier street, Roxbury

Circle)

12 single

20,000

26 single

20,000

9 single

20,000

13 single

20,000

10 single

20,000

2 single

20,000

9 single

20,000

10 single

20,000

1 single

20,000

1 25 single

20,000

17 single

20,000

16 single

20,000

1 single

20,000

1 single

20,000

11 single

20,000

11 single

20,000

15 single

20,000

2 single

20,000

8 single

20,000

4 single

20,000

3 single

20,000

15 single

20,000

17 single

20,000

3 single

20,000

4 single

20,000

3 single

20,000

24 single

20,000

13 single

20,000

1 single

20,000

6 single

20,000

3 single

20,000

12 single

20,000

31 single

20,000

1 single

20,000

2 single

20,000

Incandescent Lighting Projects

In 1959 orders were issued for the installation of new
and the replacement of old lighting units as f ollo\vs :

Addison street, East Boston
Addison street, East Boston
Allston street, Dorchester .
Abbot street, Dorchester
Browning avenue, Dorchester
Centre street, Dorchester .
Carruth street, Dorchester .
East Eagle street. East Boston
Ellington street, Dorchester
Concord square, Boston

1 single

4,000

6 single

2,500

5 single

4,000

5 single

2,500

7 single

2,500

4 single

2,500

8 single

4,000

4 single

4,000

10 single

2,500

6 single

6,000

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East Eagle street, East Boston

Erie street, Dorchester

East Springfield street, Boston

Emmonsdale road, West Roxbury

Elmer road, Dorchester

Elmwood street, Roxbury .

Hewins street, Dorchester .

Highland street, Roxbury .

Stanwood street, Roxbury .

Seaver street, Dorchester .

Asheville road, Hyde Park .

Alicia road, Dorchester

Bristol street, Boston .

Cabot street, Roxbury

Cushing avenue, Dorchester

Dunlap street, Dorchester .

East Brookline street, Boston

Burnett street, West Roxbury

Evelyn street, Dorchester .

Fuller street, Dorchester

Greenwood street, Dorchester

Greaton road. West Roxbury

Haskins street, Roxbury

Harvard street, Charlestown

Howland street, Roxbury .

Greenwood street, Dorchester

Jacob street, Dorchester

Kittredge street, West Roxbury

Lithgow street, Dorchester .

Lovell street. East Boston .

Montgomery street, Boston

McLellan street, Dorchester

Millet street, Dorchester

Moraine street, West Roxbury (JP)

Metropolitan avenue, Hyde Park

Norwell street, Dorchester .

New England avenue, Dorchester

Nightingale street, Dorchester

Public Alley No. 705, Boston

Patterson way. South Boston

Pedestrian Walkway, Sydney street to

Columbia road, Dorchester
Rosseter street, Dorchester
Ripley road, Dorchester
Ruthven street, Roxbury
Redlands road, West Roxbury
Rita road, Dorchester .
Spencer street, Dorchester .
School street, Dorchester

Units Lumens

Each

6 single

6,000

6 single

6,000

5 single

6,000

4 single

2,500

11 single

2,500

4 single

2,500

5 single

2,500

14 single

2,500

5 single

4,000

6 single

2,500

6 single

2,500

6 single

2,500

4 single

6,000

4 single

6,000

6 single

4,000

5 single

2,500

5 single

6,000

4 single

4,000

5 single

2,500

18 single

2,500

4 single

6,000

11 single

2,500

4 single

2,500

4 single

2,500

9 single

2,500

14 single

4,000

6 single

2,500

4 single

4,000

4 single

2,500

4 single

4,000

8 single

6,000

5 single

4,000

6 single

2,500

10 single

2,500

9 single

4,000

20 single

4,000

5 single

2,500

5 single

2,500

6 single

2,500

7 single

4,000

5 single

6,000

9 single

2,500

4 single

4,000

9 single

2,500

13 single

2,500

4 single

2,500

11 single

4,000

4 single

2,500

Public Works Department

Sydney Street extension, Dorchester
Sanborn avenue, West Roxbury
Sedalia road, Dorchester
Sydney street, Dorchester .
Spruce street, Boston .
Selwjai street. West Roxbury
Spring Park avenue, West Roxbury .
Selwyn street. West Roxbury
Undine road, Brighton
Vernon street, Roxbury
Vogel street. West Roxbury
Vale street, Roxburj^ .
Wildwood street, Dorchester
Wood avenue, Hyde Park .
Winston road, Dorchester .
Wachusett street, Hyde Park
Warner street, Dorchester .
Wolcott street, Dorchester .
Westville street, Dorchester
Westcott street, Dorchester
West Springfield street, Boston
Wheatland avenue, Dorchester
Waldeck street, Dorchester

ester

6 single

6,000

12 single

2,500

4 single

2,500

5 single

6,000

4 single

2,500

4 single

2,500

ury .

9 single

2,500

4 single

4,000

11 single

2,500

14 single

6,000

5 single

2,500

5 single

2,500

6 single

2,500

10 single

4,000

6 single

2,500

5 single

2,500

4 single

2,500

5 single

2,500

6 single

2,500

6 single

2,500

9 single

6,000

5 single

2,500

5 single

4,000

Incandescent Lamps

During 1959 incandescent lamps of 6,000 lumens each
were installed on the following streets:

Brent street, Dorchester (2) ; Cobb street, Boston (3) ;
Claremont street, Boston (1); Highland street, Roxbury (1);
Harvard avenue, Dorchester (2) ; Atherton street, Boston
(1); Dickens street, Dorchester (3); Ball street, Roxbury (3);
Bradford street, Boston (3) ; Frankfort street. East Boston
(1); Glenway street, Dorchester (1); Garland street and
place, Boston (2); Greenwich park, Boston (3); Jenner
street, Charlestown (1); Kingsdale street, Dorchester (1);
London street. East Boston (3) ; London street, vie. Tunnel,
East Boston (1); Magnolia street, Dorchester (2); Marginal
street. East Boston (1); Mount Pleasant avenue, Roxbury
(1); Nightingale street, Dorchester (2); Old Harbor street,
South Boston (3); Russett road. West Roxbury (1); St.
Francis DeSales street, Roxbury (2); Sydney street, Dor-
chester (2); Standard street, Dorchester (1); St. Brendan
road, Dorchester (1); Thomas park, South Boston (1);
Wilkes street, Boston (1).

Incandescent lamps of 4,000 lumens each were in-
stalled on the following streets :

Aspinwall road, Dorchester (1); Bernard street, Dor-
chester (3); Buzzard street, Dorchester (1); Call street.

46 City DocUxMent No. 18

West Roxbury (Jamaica Plain) (1); Cedar street, Roxbury
(1); Carruth street, Dorchester (1); Eldon street, Dorchester
(1); Standish street, Dorchester (3); Anawaii avenue, West
Roxbury (1); Devon street, Dorchester (1); Deforest
street, Hyde Park (1); Ernest street, Hyde Park (2); Fuller
street, Dorchester (2) ; Greenbrier street, Dorchester (3) ; G
street (near Eighth st.), South Boston (2); Greenwood st.,
Dorchester (1); Iroquois street, Roxbury (2); Joseph street,
Dorchester (1); Kingsdale street, Dorchester (1); London
street. East Boston (2); Mt. Bowdoin terrace, I3orchester
(1); New England avenue, Dorchester (3); Nightingale
street, Dorchester (1); North Bennet street, Boston (1);
Ronald street, Dorchester (1); Ripley road, Dorchester (2);
School street, Dorchester (2) ; St. Francis DeSales street,
Roxbury (1); St. Marks road, Dorchester (1); Undine road,
Brighton (1); Woodmont street, Brighton (1); Whitby street.
East Boston (1); Wainwright street, Dorchester (2); West-
ville street, Dorchester (2) ; Whitfield street, Dorchester (2) ;
Wheatland avenue, Dorchester (2); West Fifth street,
South Boston (3).

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

Argyle street, Dorchester (2) ; Atherton street, Dorchester
(1); Brent street, Dorchester (2); Brenton street, Dorchester
(2); Bradshaw street, Dorchester (2); Boyd street, Dor-
chester (2); Braxton street, West Roxbury (1); BuUard
street, Dorchester (1); Carruth street, Dorchester (1);
Croftland avenue, Dorchester (3); Church street. West
Roxbury (1); Cedar street, Roxbury (2); Cliftondale street.
West Roxbury (1); Darling street, Roxbury (2); Drummond
street, Dorchester (2) ; East Eagle street. East Boston (2) ;
Eldora street, Roxbury (3); East Second street, South
Boston (2); Eldon street, Dorchester (1); Ellsworth street.
West Roxbury (1); Havelock street, Dorchester (3); Harlem
street, Dorchester (2); Harvard park, Dorchester (1);
Powelton road, Dorchester (2); Samoset street, Dorchester
(2); Sharp street, Dorchester (1); Alpha road, Dorchester
(1); Anawan avenue. West Roxbury (1); Atwill road. West
Roxbury (2) ; Beech street, Hyde Park (1) ; Birchland terrace.
West Roxbury (1); Blackwell street, Dorchester (1); Ban-
field avenue, Dorchester (2); Clifton place, Roxbury (2),
Centre place. West Roxbury (1); Devens street, Charles-
town (1); Doris street, Dorchester (1); Donald road, Dor-
chester (3); Dromey street, Dorchester (1); Dungarven
road. West Roxbury (1); East Third street. South Boston
(3); Eliot terrace, Roxbury (1); Eldora street, Roxbur}^ (1);
Ellard street, Hyde Park (1); Evergreen street, Roxbury

Public Works Department 47

(1); Fenelon street, Dorchester (2); Frankfort street, East
Boston (1); Fredonia street, Dorchester (1); Freeport
Way, Dorchester (1); Glenarm street, Dorchester (1);
Gould street, AVest Roxbury (1); Henley street, Charlestown
(1); Harvard square, Charlestown (3); HoUis place, Brighton
(1); Highfield terrace. West Roxbury (1); Hartland street,
Dorchester (2); Hackensack terrace. West Roxbury (1);
Jenner street, Charlestown (1); Kingman road, Dorchester
(2); Kingsdale street, Dorchester (1); Kittredge street,
West Roxbury (1); Lucerne street, Dorchester (2); Linden
street, Roxbury (3); Lodgehill road, Hyde Park (2); Lawton
street, Hyde Park (2); Matignon street, Dorchester (1);
Manor street, Dorchester (2); Mercier avenue, Dorchester
(2); Marion street, Hyde Park (1); Morse street, Dor-
chester (2); Merrill street, Dorchester (3); Melbourne
street, Dorchester (3); Mt. Bowdoin terrace, Dorchester
(2); Mattapan street, Dorchester (2); Manchester street,
Roxbury and Dorchester (3); Merola park, Dorchester (1);
Metropolitan avenue, Hyde Park (2); Maple street exten-
sion. West Roxbury (3); Xorth Mead street, Charlestown
(3); Northdale road extension. West Roxbury (3); Normandy
street, Dorchester (1); Newbern street, West Roxbury (2);
Orchardale street, Dorchester (1); Olnej^ street, Dorchester
(3); Orlando street, Dorchester (1); Parker Hill terrace,
Roxbury (1); Priscilla road, Brighton (2); Paulding street,
Roxbury (3); Prescott street, Charlestown (2); Parmelee
street, Boston (2); Poydras street, Hyde Park (2); Paul
Gore street, West Roxbury (1); Roxton street, Dorchester
(2); Rosedale street, Dorchester (2); Robken road. West
Roxbury (1); Riverview street, West Roxbury (2); Raven
street, Dorchester (1); Rita road, Dorchester (4); Ruggles
Place, Dorchester (3); Rosselerin road, Dorchester (1);
River street, Hyde Park (3); Riverdale road, Dorchester
(1) Rockway street, Dorchester (1); Surreyhill road. West
Roxbury (2); Sachem street, Roxburj^ (1); Shanley street,
Brighton (2); St. Brendan road, Dorchester (3); Slocum
road. West Roxbury (3); Tread way road, Dorchester (1);
Victory road, Dorchester (2); Westminster street, Hyde
Park (1), Willow street, Boston (3); Westville terrace,
Dorchester (1); Wales street, Dorchester (2); West Park
street, Dorchester (2); Waterlow street, Dorchester (1);
Weymouth avenue. West Roxbury (1); Washington street,
Charlestown (2); Wildwood street, Dorchester (3).

Gas Light Replacement Program
During the ^ear of 1959 approximately 97 obsolete
gas lamps were replaced with approximately 115 modern
electric luminaires of 2,500 lumens.

48 City DocuxMent No. 18

Maintenance of Police Spotlights

The maintenance of the police spothghts continued
for the year 1959. During the year there were forty-
three (43) additional spotlights installed in locations
approved by the Police Department. Many other
locations have received the approval of the Pohce
Department and await only favorable weather to
commence installation.

Public Works Department 49

APPENDIX D

REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF
THE SANITARY DIVISION.

Boston, December 31, 1959.

To the Commissioner of Public Works:
Dear Sir:

I submit herewith a statement of the activities of the
Sanitary Division of the Public Works Department for
the year ending December 31, 1959:

Refuse Collection and Disposal

Contracts were awarded in fifteen of the seventeen
refuse collection contract districts in March to ten
contractors, all being for a period of one year from
April 1, 1959 to March 31, 1960. Of the two remaining
districts, Hyde Park is being serviced under a two-year
contract awarded the previous year, and in West
Roxbury the city elected to exercise its option to renew
the contract in that district for a second year.

A disposal contract for the so-called ten-year contract
area with the M. DeMatteo Construction Company
for conducting disposal operations at Spectacle Island
and the Calf Pasture was extended for the period
April 1, 1959 to September 30, 1959 at the same price
as the previous 3'ear, except that the city paid for the
increased labor cost due to a raise in wage rates granted
the Contractors' employees on April 1, 1959. When
the South Bay Incinerator was placed in full operation
on October 1, 1959, this contract was terminated and
the refuse disposal facilities at the Fort Hill Receiving
Station and at Spectacle Island were abandoned. The
Calf Pasture dump was then operated by this division's
labor force to dispose of the incinerator residue and
non-combustible materials.

The total cost of refuse collection and disposal
contracts for 1959 was approximately $2,446,000.

50 City Document No. 18

Incinerator Construction and Operation

The South Bay Incinerator building was accepted
as being substantially complete on June 25, 1959 in
order to obtain use of the trolley cranes for training
the crane operators and for instalhng the furnace
charging gates and hoppers. A dedication ceremony
officially opening the incinerator on August 13, 1959
was attended by Mayor Hynes, members of the City
Council, the Commissioner of Public Works and various
other city officials.

Acceptance tests were conducted and satisfactorily
completed on September 16, 17, and 18. All ten (10)
districts to be served by the incinerator were deUvering
refuse to the plant by October 1, and on that date,
the disposal contract with its scows and dumps was
abandoned.

Considerable difficulty has been encountered with
the trolley cranes, the controls not operating satis-
factorily, and on October 30 and on November 5,
rotors on 60-horsepower hoisting motors burned out.
The Westinghouse Corporation agreed to rewind all
eight crane motors without cost to the city.

On October 21, Clair Ray Desjardin, a crane oper-
ator, fell from a staging, fractured his skull, and died
at the City Hospital eight hours later. He was one of
the best of the Division's employees, and his loss was
felt keenly by the undersigned and his fellow employees.

The total cost of the incinerator, not including land,
was approximately $5,635,900, broken down as follows:

Engineering — Metcalf & Eddy
Borings — Corrosion Survey, etc.
Pile Foundation — ,J. F. White
Storage Bin — Coleman Bros. .
Building — .John Bowen Co.
Furnaces, etc. — Tynan Co.
Equipment — Trucks, B.D., etc.
Steam Main — DeMatteo

$283,280

40,000

418,890

412,660

2,785,390

1,448,760

79,160

167,760

Approximate Total — less land cost . $5,635,900

Steam Main Construction

A contract for construction of a twelve (12) inch
diameter steam main encased in a twenty-one (21)
inch Ric-Wil conduit was awarded to M. DeMatteo
Construction Co., Inc., on May 21, 1959. This main
is 1,995 feet in length, and will be used to transmit

Public Works Department 51

steam at 250 p.s.i. and 450°F. from the incinerator
to the Boston City Hospital boiler room. Steam gen-
erated from the combustion of refuse will be used at
the hospital for heating, cooking, launch'}^, sterilization,
etc. This work was 99 per cent completed at the end
of the year, at a cost of $167,755.

Street Cleaxintg and Snow Removal

The street-cleaning program was conducted as in
prior years. On the whole, the results of our efforts
were unsatisfactory due to the shortage of available
mechanized sweepers. Of 26 of these machines, only
10 to 12 are in service at any one time. Much of this
equipment is over ten years old, and breakdowns are
frequent. An adequate program for equipment procure-
ment should be provided.

Two Gutter- Vacs were purchased from the Tarrant
Manufacturing Company, mounted on 4-wheel drive
Willys Jeeps, at a total cost of $10,300. These giant
vacuum cleaners are intended to supplement the work
of the hokey-men downtown, and have been operated
on an evening shift to get the going-home and after-
theatre litter. Some refinements in design are necessary
before we purchase more of these units.

An Anti-Litter Campaign was instituted in con-
junction with the annual Spring Clean-Up Campaign.
A committee was formed of members from several of
the city's civic organizations. Considerable newspaper,
radio, and TV publicity was hoped for, but, except for
radio, the results were very disappointing. No appre-
ciable cooperation in regard to a reduction in littering
was observed. One hundred new, open-mesh litter
baskets were placed in the downtown shopping area
and these proved to be satisfactory. An additional
250 litter baskets were purchased late this year to be
set out in new locations in the City Proper next spring.

The number of Welfare recipients provided by the
Welfare Department and employed in cleaning city-
owned vacant lots in Lower Roxbury and the South
End dwindled to one or two by the year's end. Obtain-
ing laboring assistance from this source does not appear
to be promising.

Respectfully submitted,

John F. Flaherty, Division Engineer,

Sanitary Division, P. W. D.

City Document No. 18

PAYMENTS TO REFUSE COLLECTION CONTRACTORS

District

Contractor

Monthly

Contract

Price

Total
PaymentB

$12,600
12,090
11,990

9,608
9,800

4,832
5,000
5,500

14,620
14,499
11,990

11,400
11,369

25,630
24,630

28,430
27,430

5,320
4,998

7,429

7,680
7,500

7,500

7,390
7,300

8,098
7,460

6,719

6,610
6,550

3,290
4,200

2,385
2,940

12,500
12,000
12,200

6,690
6,690+

(First 3 months) ....

(6 months)

2 East Boston .

117,024 00

3 Charlestown

Jeffries Disposal Corp

(6 months)

60,996 00

4 Brighton ....

(First 3 months)

(Last 9 months)

174 351 00

5A West Roxbury

5B Jamaica Plain

Marinucci Brothers Company, Inc

143,880 00

(Last 9 months) . .

136 521 00

(First 3 months)

6B Dorchester (South)

Dooley Brothers Inc . .

332,160 00

7A Elm Hill

(First 3 months)

W. J. Banfield

(Last 9 months)

60 942 00

7B Dudley .

LTnited Contracting Company of Boston..

(First 3 months)

Carriere Construction Company

(Last 3 months) . . . .

90 867 00

7C Mission Hill .

United Contracting Company of Boston. .

88,740 00

7D Roxbury

United Contracting Company of Boston. .

91,434 00

(First 3 months)

United Contracting Company of Boston..

79,467 00

9A Back Bay

47,670 00

9B Stuart

(Last 9 months)

33,615 00

10 North* West Ends....

Ward General Contracting Company. . . .

(6 months)

(Last 3 months). . . .

146,100 00

1 1 Hyde Park

(First 3 months)

(Last 9 months)

60 971 43

Total

$2 109,608 43

Public Works Depautment 53

PAYMENTS TO DISPOSAL CONTRACTORS

District

Contractor

Monthly

Contract

Price

Total
Payments

M. DeMatteo Construction Company. . . .
(First 3 months)

$30,980
30,980 +

Total

$281,647 67

PAYMENTS FOR RENTAL OF DUMPS

Saugus.

Dewey E. Daggett .
(First 3 months) .
(Last 9 months).

Boston Gas Company

(First 3 months)

Coleman Brothers Corporation.

(3 months)

Total Disposal

Total Payments to Contractors for Refuse Collection and Disposal .

$1,916 50
2,000 00

2,000 00
2,000 00

23,749 50

$317,397 17
$2,427,005 60

Expenditures in 1959

Payments to Refuse Collection Contractors $2,109,608 43

Payments to Refuse Disposal Contractors 317,397 17

Total Payments to Collection and Disposal Contractors $2,427,005 60

Payroll Totals were as follows:

Administrative and General Services. . . . $57,445 20

Shops and Storehouse 194,632 49

Collection and Disposal 297,759 67

Total Sanitary 549,837 36

Street Cleaning 1,783,503 55

Total Sanitary and Street Cleaning $2,333,340 91

Overtime Payrolls were as follows:

Shops and Storehouse

Collection and Disposal

Street Cleaning

$2,588 08
11,920 07
52,899 93

Total Overtime .

67.408 08

Total Payroll $2,400,748 99

Payments on other Contracts .

Supplies and Materials

Miscellaneous

39,387 86
56,426 72
13,382 55

Grand Total $4,936,951 72

54 City Document No. 18

Equipment Acquired During 1959

2 Gutter Vacuum Machines $10,300 00

Personnel Changes in Permanent Force During the Year 1959:

Total Personnel January 1, 1959 *606

Transfers in (from other Departments and Divisions) 8

Reinstatements 7

Appointments 20 35

641

Deaths 10

Resignations 7

Retirements 24

Transfers Out (to other Departments and Divisions) 4

Terminated or Discharged 2 47

Total Personnel (Sanitary Service) January 1, 1960 594

Total Net Loss (Sanitary) of 12 Employees

Total Personnel (Incinei-ator) January 1, 1960 80

Total Personnel (Incmerator and Sanitary) January 1, 1960 . . 674

* Including 1 Military Leave of Absence.

Public Works Department
APPENDIX E

REPORT OF THE DIVISION ENGINEER OF
THE SEWER DIVISION

Boston, December 31, 1959.

To the Commissioner of Public Works.
Dear Sir:

I submit herewith statement of the activities and
expenditures of the Sewer Division for the year ending
December 31, 1959.

Expenditures During 1959: The activities of the
Sewer Division during the year consisted of advertising
for sewer construction at a contract bid price of
$456,861.38, and the maintenance and operation of the
sewer system at a cost of $779,429.52.

Contract Work: Contract work consisted of the
extension of the sewer system to provide drainage for
new buildings and street construction and to eliminate
cesspools, the locations and cost of which are attached.

Maintenance Work: Maintenance work consisted of
the cleaning of 1,327 catch basins by contract and 1,923
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.

The Sewer Division is responsible for the main-
tenance of about 1,302.01 miles of sewers and surface
drains, and 30.93 miles of intercepting sewer, the
emergency cleaning of catch basins, the repair of broken
sewers and catch basins, the answering 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.

56 City Document No. 18

An advertised contract was awarded to the lowest
bidders for the cleaning of catch basins in the sum of
$16,900.

An advertised contract was awarded to the lowest
bidder for emergencv repairs of sewers in the sum of
$16,825.

Proposed Work to Be Done by Advertised Contract
During 1960 Is As Follows:

Emergency repairs of sewers, estimated cost $14,000.

Cleaning of catch basins, estimated cost $20,000.

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

Covering In Open Brooks: In keeping with the poHcy
of covering in brooks throughout the city, the Sewer
Division proposes that the following natural outlets
for surface water from contiguous areas be enclosed:

(1) Davenport Brook, between Southeast Expressway and
Hallet street, Dorchester.

449 lineal feet of 12-foot by 10-foot reinforced concrete
box conduit.
Estimated cost, $92,000.

(2) Canterbury Branch of Stony Brook, between Canterbury
street and Walk Hill street, West Roxbury.

890 lineal feet of 9-foot diameter reinforced concrete pipe.
Estimated cost, $152,000.

(3) Spring Street Brook, West Roxbury.

1,600 lineal feet of 84-inch concrete pipe.
Estimated cost, $200,000.

(4) Bussey Brook, private land, West Roxbury.

1,400 lineal feet of 60-inch and 72-inch reinforced
concrete pipe.
Estimated cost, $111,000.

(5) Elmwood Street Brook, New Haven street and private
land. West Roxbury.

700 lineal feet of 8-foot reinforced concrete pipe.
Estimated cost, $86,000.

The order of priority for these projects is not neces-
sarily the same as given above. We have asked for
State aid under Chapter 91 for the construction of the
first three brook projects.

Lengths of Sewers Built: During the fiscal year 1959
there were built by contractors and day labor 4.45
miles of common sewers and surface drains throughout

Public Works Department 57

the city. After deducting 0.28 miles of sewers and
surface drains, rebuilt or abandoned, the net increase
for 1959 is 4.17 miles, which added to the existing
1,297.84 miles of common sewers and surface drains and
30.93 miles of intercepting sewers, makes a grand
total of 1,332.94 miles of all sewers belonging to the
City of Boston, and under the care of the Sewer Division
on January 1, 1960.

There were 197 catch basins built or rebuilt and
none were abandoned or removed during the year,
making a net gain of 197 catch basins and a grand
total of 25,015 catch basins under the care of the Sewer
Division on January 1, 1960.

Permit Office Report: Entrance fees to the amount of
$7,361.01 have been deposited with the City Collector
for collection from estates upon which no sewer assess-
ments were ever paid, in accordance with Ordinances of
1945, chapter 27, section 10.

Seven hundred fifteen permits have been issued,
viz.: 156 to district foremen and contractors and 559
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.

One thousand nine hundred ninety complaints have
been investigated and inspectors are instructed to
report in writing in each case.

Two thousand catch basin complaints were received.

Reported in writing on 4,186 municipal liens to the
City Collector, in accordance with Chapter 60, Section
25, of the General Laws. Reported orally on about
2,160 requests for information on municipal liens.

Respectfully,

Edward G. A. Powers,

Division Engineer, Sewer Division.

58 City Document No. IS

SEWER BUDGET EXPENDITURES FOR 1959

1. Personal Services
Code

10. Permanent employees .... $563,823 89

11. Temporary . .' 2,417 25

12. Overtime 15,391 72

Total Personal Services $581,632 86

2. Contractual Services

21. Commmiications $3,201 21

22. Light, heat, and power . . . 96,642 25

26. Repairs and maintenance of buildings

and structures 19,247 45

27. Repairs and servicing of equipment . 4,451 57

28. Transportation of persons . . . 1,136 40

29. Miscellaneous contractual services . 466 30

Total Contractual Services 125,145 18

3. Supplies and Materials

32. Food supplies $17 55

33. Heating supplies and materials . . 5,344 73

34. Household supplies and materials . . 391 83

35. Medical, dental, and hospital supplies

and materials 20 96

36. Office supplies and materials . . 2,015 25

37. Miscellaneous supplies and materials . 8,217 41

Total Supplies and Materials 16,007 73

4. Current Charges and Obligations
49. Other current charges and obligations . $1,140 52

Total Current Charges and Obligations . . . 1,140 52

5. Equipment
59. Miscellaneous equipment . . . $1,088 60

Total Equipment 1,088 60

7. Structures and Improvements
71. Other structures and improvements . $54,414 63

Total Structures and Improvements . . . . 54,414 63

Grand Total $779,429 52

REPORT OF CALF PASTURE PUMPING STATION, 1959

Total gallons pumped 41,543,045,000

Total millions of gallons pumped (annually) . . . 41,543.045

Average cost per million gallons (annually) ... $4 80

Public Works Department

ANNUAL TOTAL OPERATING COSTS, 1959

Labor $105,930 17

Edison Power

Fuel Oil No. 5

Bottled Gas

Supplies

Miscellaneous Oil

Service Orders

83,779 74
2,835 77

121 20
2,256 09

110 33
4,290 52

Total .

$199,323 82

SUMMARY OF SEWER CONSTRUCTION FOR TWELVE
MONTHS ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1959

Districts

Built by the

City Either by

Contract or

Day Labor

Built by
Private
Parties

Total Lengths Built

Linear Feet

884.00

2,320.20

450.00

Linear Feet
252.00

Linear Feet

1,136.00

2,320.20

450.00

Miles

4394

South Boston

0852

Charles town

20.00

0038

Brighton

West Roxbury

Dorchester .

4,718.60
1.043.65
11,048.19

1,647.89

245.90

1,140.23

6,366.49
1.289.55
12,188.42

1.2058
2442

Hyde Park

2 3084

Totals

20.464.64

3,306.02

23,770.66

4.5120

SUMMARY OF SEWER CONSTRUCTION FOR FIVE YEARS
PREVIOUS TO JANUARY I, 1960

19SS

1956

1957

1958

1959

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

Built by private parties
or other city depart-
ments

Linear Feet

33,237.48

1,695.15

Linear Feet
25,559.88
3,482.39

Linear Feet
17,133.24
4.278.40

Linear Feet
8,269.26
5,969.21

Linear Feet
20.464.64
3,306 02

Totals

34.932.63

29.047.27

21,411.64

14.238.47

City Document No. 18

TOTAL LENGTH OF SEWERS

Total

Lengths

Removed or

Built

Abandoned

Dunng

During

Additional Lengths

DISTBICT8.

Twelve

for the

Months

Twelve Months Ending

Ending

December 31, 1959.

December

31, 1959.

Linear Feet

884.00

2,320.20

450.00

20.00

Linear Feet
426.00
1,050.00

Linear Feet

458.00

1,270.20

450.00

20.00

Miles
0.0867

Roxbury ....

2406

0852

East Boston

0038

West Roxbury

6,366.49
1,289.55
12,188.42

6,366.49
1,289.55
12,168.42

1 2058

2442

Hyde Park

20.00

2.3046

23,518.66

1,496.00

22,022.66

4.1712

Common sewers and surface drains built previous
to January 1, 1959

Common sewers and surface drains built between
January 1 and December 31, 1959

Miles.

1,297.84
4.17

Common sewers and surface drains built ending-
December 31, 1959

City of Boston intercepting sewers connecting
with Metropolitan sewers to December 31, 1959

City of Boston main drainage intercepting sewers
to December 31, 1959

Grand total of common and intercepting sewers
to December 31, 1959

Total mileage of streets containing sewerage works
to January 1, 1960

* No additional lengths built during 1959.

1,302.01

6.8r

24.12*

1,332.94
720.29

Public Works Department

CATCH BASINS IN CHARGE OF SEWER DIVISION

Catch Basins for Twelve Months
Ending December 31, 1959

Totals tor Whole City

IN Charge of Sewer

Division

Number
Built or
Rebuilt

Number
Abandoned
or Removed

Net
Increase

Report to

January 1,

1959

January
1960

City Proper. .

Roxbury

South Boston.
East Boston..
Charlestown. .

Brighton

West Roxbury
Dorchester. . .
Hyde Park ...

Totals . . . .

.3,801
3,521
1,488
1,227
870
2.145
4,637
5,727
1,402

3,801
3,560
1,521
1,227
871
2,145
4,659
5,745
1,486

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APPENDIX F

REPORT OF THE
SURVEY DIVISION

Boston, December 31 , 1959.

To the Commissioner of Public Works.
Dear Sir:

I respectfully submit the following report of the ac-
tivities of the Survey Division for the year ending
December 31, 1959.

This division performs engineering services for other
divisions of the PubHc Works Department and other
city departments, boards, and commissions. It also
performs administrative and engineering duties re-
quired by the Public Improvement Commission for its
operations.

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 de-
velopment ;

(/) 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 street and sewers, pre-
paring orders for eminent domain land takings, prepar-
ing orders for the granting of permits for use of pubhc
highways, erection of poles, etc., and the maintenance of

Public Works Department

all records in the charge of the Public Improvement
Commission.

Personnel: On December 31, 1959, there were thirty-
five permanent and four temporary employees as
listed below in this division.

Name:
Charles R. Beale .

Kenneth L. Benkart
Charles E. Brewer
Arthur J. Brickley
Oliver C. Brown .
George F. Buckley
John A. BuUiner
Carmine D. Buono

Joyce E. Campbell
William T. Chaput
Michael J. Corrao

George J. Creney .
John J. Curley, Jr.
Salvatore Dihberto
William F. Duggan
Harry M. Fletcher
Thomas O. Flood .
George H. Gilboy .
John F. Gilmore, Jr.
James W. Haley .
Bernard Harrington

Leo B. Hughes
Roland A. Hull
Angelo J. lauluna .
James J. Kelly

Virginia A. Ksypka
James P. Lapsley .
Walter R. Luby .
Francis McHugh .
Robert P. Mehegan
A. Albert Minichiello
Philip A. Moynahan
William P. Norris .
Thomas E. Rafferty
Albert J. Rodriguez
John J. Ryan
John M. Sheehan .
Robert J. Sheehan
Redmond L. Walsh

Title:
Senior Engineering Aid (Pro-
visional)

Junior Civil Engineer

Assistant Civil Engineer

Senior Engineering Aid

Junior Civil Engineer

Senior Engineering Aid

Senior Engineering Aid (Pro-
visional)

Principal Clerk-Typist

Junior Engineering Aid

Executive Secretary — Survey
Division

Photostat Operator

Junior Civil Engineer

Assistant Civil Engineer

Principal Clerk-Stenographer

Assistant Civil Engineer

Principal Clerk

Junior Civil Engineer

Assistant Civil Engineer

Division Engineer

Junior Engineering Aid (Pro-
visional)

Senior Engineering Aid

Assistant Ci^jil Engineer

Assistant Civil Engineer

Senior Engineering Aid (Pro-
visional)

Senior Clerk-Stenographer

Senior Engineering Aid

Principal Civil Engineer

Junior Civil Engineer

Assistant Executive Secretary

Assistant Civil Engineer

Senior Engineering Aid

Photographer

Assistant Civil Engineer

Junior Civil Engineer

Principal Civil Engineer

Senior Engineering Aid

Head Photostat Operator

City Document No. 18

DIVISION EXPENDITURES, JANUARY 1, 1959, TO DECEMBER
31, 1959, INCLUSIVE

Survey
Budget

Highway
Loan

Sewer
Loan

$93,968 26
21,287 28
2,678 13
6,425 88

765 70

$98,738 37
5,214 78
64,217 11

Pensions . . .

$1,597 00

Supplies and Materials . .

Current Charges and Obligations

$125,025 25

$168,170 26

$1,597 00

ToTAi, Expenditures $294,792 51

During the period covered by this report, the Survey
Division completed one hundred and seventeen (117)
surveys and plans for the improvement of existing
highway, laying out of new ones and discontinuances
totalling 7.57 miles. Seventeen (17) surveys and plans
for 1.31 miles of sewerage easements were also made.

Field engineering work included the staking out of
twenty-seven (27) streets for the Paving Service of the
Highway Division, forty-seven (47) for the Sewer
Division and miscellaneous services for other city
departments. Regular routine work included the re-
surveying of street lines for private engineers wherever
existing records were inadequate or obsolete, marking
lines and grades for private construction abutting
pubhc streets, examining Land Court plans for the
Law Department, preparing land damage reports for
the Public Improvement Commission.

Listed below are the major engineering surveys and
plans completed during the period of this report.
For the Public Improvement Commission:

Thirty-three (33) surveys and plans were made for
the laying out of three miles of pubUc highways, as
follows :

Length
in Feet

District
Dorchester

Ames street 1,077

Balina place 184

Caryll street 833

Public Works Department 71

Length
District in Feet

Franklin Hill avenue 785

Hallet-Davis street 230

Hoyt street 620

Lorna road 718

Itasca street 625

Murray terrace 119

Stratton street 206

St. Clare road 177

Westview street 1,089

East Boston

Shandon road 814

Hyde Park

Beaver street —

LaAvton street 597

Myopia road 525

Ransom road 565

Summer street 731

Walter street 345

ROXBURY

Ambrose street 445

Orchard street 338

Parker Street Extension 973

West Roxbury

Appleton court 179

Bartlett avenue —

Cutter road 218

Dow road 669

Florian street 581

Harvvood street 708

Meyer court 150

Pleasant dale road 221

Quarley Street Extension 266

Rambler road 472

Tobin Road Extension 329

Fifteen (15) surveys and plans were made for the
widening and relocation of .42 miles of public highways
as follows:

District Length

Boston Proper in Feet

Dalton street 296

Belvidere street 600

72 City Document No. 18

District
Brighton

Length
in Feet

Farrington avenue at Highgate street
Washington street at Matchett street

41
. . 53

Dorchester

Clapp street at Massachusetts avenue

Grossman street

Norton street

49
29
26

East Boston

Bennington street 831

Hyde Park

West street 28

West Roxbury

Bellevue street 68

63
15

28
41

Bogandale road ....
Landseer street at La Grange street
Potomac street at Jennett avenue
Redlands road at Alameda road .
Walter street

Thirty-three (33) surveys and plans were made for
the discontinuance of 2.5 miles of pubhc highways as
follows :

District Length

Boston Proper in Feet

Ashland street 195

Auburn street 605

Barton caurt 125

Barton street 386

Brighton street 798

Gausewaj^ street 301

Ghambers street 1,794

Gotting street 250

Eaton street 174

Fruit street —

Green street 309

Hammond avenue 124

Kennard avenue 212

Leverett street 1,477

Lyman street 158

McLean court 297

McLean street 295

Milton street 295

Minot street 287

Public Works Department 73

Length
District in Feet

North Russell street 437

Poplar street 1,159

Prospect street 294

Public Alley No. 12 70.91

Public Alley No. 13 60

Public Alley No. 14 467

Public Alley No. 15 78

South Margin street 36

Spring street 621

Stoughton street 221

Wall street 650

Willard street 240

ROXBURY

Wigglesworth street 451

Worthington street 203

One (1) survey and plans was made for the dis-
continuance of the following sewer easement :

District Length

Boston Proper: in Feet

Huntington avenue and Boylston street . . 847

Twenty-five (25) surveys and plans were made for
the alteration (specific repair) of 1.94 miles of public
highway as follows:

District Length

Boston Proper: in Feet

Stuart street (Clarendon to Dartmouth) . . . 500

Harrison avenue island

Brighton:

Commonwealth avenue 6,000

Commonwealth avenue at Chestnut Hill avenue . 480

Foster street island

Matchett street curb cutback

Parsons street curb cutback

Charlestown:

Alford street island

Cambridge street island

Rutherford avenue island

Dorchester:

Bowdoin street curb cutback

Columbia road (from Eastman to Massachusetts
avenue) 1^180

74 City Document No. IS

Length

District in Feet

Massachusetts avenue at Clapp street . . . 650

Norfolk street curb cutback

East Boston:

Bennington street . 830

Hyde Park:

Fairmount avenue (River street to N. Y., N. H. &

H. R. R.) 600

River street island

West Milton street island

ROXBURY :

Columbus avenue island

Massachusetts avenue at Albany street . . . island
Massachusetts avenue at Southampton street . island

Tremont street (Benton to Camden) . . . 650

West Roxbury:

Centre street curb cutback

Poplar street curb cutback

Temple street curb cutback

Walk Hill street curb cutback

Seventeen (17) surveys and plans were made for the
taking of 1.31 miles of easements for sewerage purposes
as follows:

District Length

Dorchester: in Feet

Itasca street 595

Hyde Park:

Goff street 200

Greenbrook road 540

Leseur road 176

Prospect park 325

Windham road 1,502

Roxbury :

Alley No. 933

West Roxbury:

Baker street 380

Banfield avenue 324

Birchland terrace 426

Macullar road 423

Maplewood street 389

Public Works Department 75

Length
District in Feet

Meyer court 250

Meyer street 150

Powell street and Miami terrace .... 367

Vogel street 380

Salman street (sewer assessment plan) . . . 535

For the Public Works Department (Highway Divi-
sion) twenty-seven (27) highways were staked out for
construction.

For the proposed government center in the Scollay
square area 9.15 miles of land was hned, graded and
marked.

For the School Department survej's and plans were
made for school taking purposes as follows: Bigelow
School, South Boston; High and Summer streets,
Charlestown; Bolster and Mozart streets, Roxbury.

For the Public Works Department (Sewer Division)
136 catch basins were staked out. Also six (6) survey
reports were made.

For the Real Property Department a survey and
plan was made of Freeport street, Dorchester.

For the Fire Department a topographical survey
and plan of the proposed road from Long Island Bridge
was made also designing grades on roads and buildings.

For the Institutions Department, Long Island Hospi-
tal Chapel, a survey and plan and staking out of line
and grade was made.

Approximately thirty-three (33) requests for lines
and grade by miscellaneous private engineers and
other departments were complied with.

Stone Bounds: In accordance with a policy established
in 1950, stone bounds were set and drilled on the follow-
ing newly constructed streets :

Number of
Street and District Bounds

Brighton

Margo road 5

Rushmore street 6

Selkirk road 1

Dorchester

Cassnet street 2

Coffey street 4

Favre street 2

76 City Document No. 18

Hutchinson street 2

Messinger street 2

O'Donnell terrace 2

Orlando street 1

Rosselerin road 4

Savannah avenue 2

East Boston

Beachview road 2

Drumhn road 2

Hyde Park

Belnap road 2

Daniel court 2

Dietz court 2

Dietz road 9

Dodge road 4

Eastmont road 2

Joan road 6

Kardon road 2

Leighton road 10

Senders court 3

Susanna court 1

Wharton court 1

ROXBURY

Deaconess road 2

Joslin road 2

Parker Hill terrace 1

Topeka street 3

West Roxbury

Agassiz park 2

Berkeley street 4

Capital street 1

Crockers Lane 3

Fairlane road 3

Furbush road 4

Graham terrace 2

Hampstead Lane 3

Hebron street 1

Larch place 1

Newfield street 4

Robken road 2

Selwyn street 1

Re-production Work: On January 1, 1957, a new
policy requiring signed requisitions for all reproduction

Public Works Department 77

work was put into 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, Decem-
ber 1, 1957.

The new fee schedule brought an income of $432 to
this division from the sale of copies of its plans and
records. Other departments and divisions likewise
received substantial new revenue from the sale of
copies produced by our reproduction service.

Following is the report of reproduction work of the
division for the year 1959:

Department PHSTS BPS OZS APS

Administrative Services 840 1,117

Assessing 684 1,927 2S

Auditing 266

Building Department 984 1,455

City Clerk 520 728

City Council 1,636 668

Civil Defense 104

Collector's Office 148

Election Department 68

Finance Commission 46

Fire Department 212 198

Law Department 604 195

Mayor's Office 1,848 464

Park Department 43

Penal 164 433

Planning Board 1,140 1,477

Public Buildings 48 45

Public Works:

Bridge Division 214 731

Central Office 226 175

Highway Division 428 2,147 35

Permit Division 42 125

Sanitary Division 196 411

Sewer Division 1,104 513

Street Lighting 132 433

Survey Division 3,412 1,087 9,977 487

Water Division 224 485

Real Property 1,246 1,531

Registry 612

School Buildings 178

School Committee 46

Traffic Commission 288 166

Treasury 172

Veterans' Services 1,726

White Fund 384 168

Totals 19,942 1,087 25,612 550

Photographic Service: In carrying out a policy in-
troduced 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 land taken

78 City Document No. 18

for municipal purposes. The following is a summary
of this work during the year 1959:

Nega- 4x5 8 x 10

Department tivea Prints Prints

Building Department 36 36

Public Works:

Automotive Division 78 78

Bridge Division 204 190 46

Central Office 260 260

Highvva}^ Division 318 318 52

Sanitary Division 296 296 140

Sewer Division 146 146 32

Survey Division 1,800 1,800 110

Real Property Department 120 40 120

Miscellaneous 140 140 80

Totals 3,498 2,966 918

Preparation of the following private ways open for
pubUc travel as provided for in Chapter 393, Acts of
1906, as amended, was approved by the PubUc Im-
provement Commission to be done under the general
supervision of engineers of this division:

Banfield avenue Dorchester

Birchland terrace West Roxbury

Delhi street Dorchester

Greenbrook road Hyde Park

Lodgehill road Hyde Park

Maplewood street West Roxbury

Meyer court West Roxbury

Miami terrace West Roxbury

Vogel street West Roxbury

Wachusett street Hyde Park

Damages: During 1959, 131 land damage reports
recommending awards totalling $64,217.11 were sub-
mitted to the Public Improvement Commission.

Assessments: During the period reported on, estimates
of benefit of assessment purposes were prepared amount-
ing to $325,700.89. These estimates are included in
orders for street, sidewalk and sewer improvements.
Also, final assessments were prepared amounting to
$170,537.33.

Respectfully submitted,

James W. Haley,

Division Engineer.

Public Works Department 79

APPENDIX G

REPORT OF DIVISION ENGINEER OF
THE WATER DIVISION

Boston, December 31, 1959.

To the Cominissioner of Public Works.
Dear Sir:

I respectfully submit the following report of the ac-
tivities of the Water Division, operations and expendi-
tures for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1959.

During the j'ear a total of 11,801 Hnear feet, or 2.24
miles of main pipe was laid or re laid, varying in size
from 4 inches to 48 inches and 615 applications were
received for installation of new service pipes, enlarged
service pipes and fire pipes, etc. into new or remodeled
buildings.

There were 12 petitions received for the extension of
water mains. The particular district in which the above
work was performed is shown on the accompanying
table.

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

Laid Relaid

District Linear Feet Linear Feet

Brighton

City Proper 950.0 902.0

Dorchester 739.0

East Boston

Hyde Park 3,341.0 1,654.0

Roxbury 1,673.0

South Boston ....

West Roxbury .... 1,803.0 739.0

Under the provisions of Chapter 4 of the Ordinances
of 1952, which deals with capital improvements, the
Water Division submitted a capital improvement pro-
gram, which program w^as 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.

80 City Document No. 18

Engineering Office

The office force assisted the pubhc in ascertaining
official information in relation to water mains and serv-
ice pipe locations, making studies and estimates on
new mains and service 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 areas Nos. 4 and 10.

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

Central Artery

South street to Dover street completed.

Southeast Expressway

Boston street to Milton completed.

Extension of M.T.A. Highland Division from Beacon
street at Maitland street
Connection at Beacon street completed.

New East Boston Vehicular Tunnel

Plans completed and construction started.

Projects Under Study

(a) Reinforce southern section of West Roxbury by
utilizing abandoned Brookline water mains.

(6) Reinforce Stony Brook section of Hyde Park with
H.H.S.

(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.

(e) The relocation of the 20-inch L.S. and 16-inch H.S.
to allow the demolition of the Warren Bridge has been post-
poned until a final decision has been reached by the U. S.
Army Engineers.

(/) A study of all 6-inch water mains laid prior to 1890
shows that they should be replaced with new and larger
water mains to provide adequate water for domestic purposes
and fire protection.

Public Works Department 81

Hydrants
There were 12 new hydrants estabhshed, 62 hydrants
changed and 4 hydrants abandoned, an increase of 8
hydrants.

Summation
System relaid 0.95 miles, extended 1.29 miles, aban-
doned .10 miles, 12 new hydrants established and 4
hydrants abandoned; an increase of 1.19 miles and an
increase of 8 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 may 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 water
division employees to repair leaks, lay or relay water
services, change hydrants and repair or replace defective
appurtenances. This contractual work was performed
in a satisfactory- manner and proved its value by giving
service to the public.

District Yards

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

A new office building of prefab steel was constructed
in the Dorchester District yard, replacing the old
wooden storage and office building.

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 corporation
and tapping gates up to 6 inches. Gates 8 inches and

82 City Document No. 18

larger are now purchased under contract made under
specifications of New York Pattern, M.D.C. Type.
They repair defective hydrants, repair in the ground if
possible defective gates and rebuild gates both corpora-
tion, tapping and high pressure. Along with this work
they, both plumbing and machine shop, are called on to
assist other branches of the Public Works Department
in many special jobs.

The machine shop has discontinued the practice of
machining and assembling B & F hydrants which have
been the standard hydrants since 1919. New hydrants
are now purchased under advertised contracts and
hmited to three manufacturers: Mueller Co., A. P.
Smith Manufacturing Co., and DarUng Valve and
Manufacturing Co.

The Meter Branch
The meter shop handled a total of 13,390 meters,
divided as follows:

Meters applied on new services 615

Meters discontinued 1,235

Meters changed out 6,180

Meters changed in 6,525

Meters tested in shop 945

Meters repaired in service 530

Meters reset 1,000

Meters repaired in shop 1,080

Meters junked 1,460

Total 13,390

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 approximately
93,000 meters quarterly'; computing and preparing
385,000 bills amounting to $6,200,000; keeping account
of paid and unpaid bills; testing, repairing, installing
and removing water meters, and receiving complaints
from the water consuming public.

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.

Public Works Department 83

1959

Main pipe petitions received 12

Domestic service applications 545

Fire pipe applications 70

Special meter tests 31

Hydrant permits issued 13

Repair deposits received 83

Miscellaneous deposits 13

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 liens for
water rates take effect by operation of law without the
necessity- of recording a lien statement at the Registry
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.

84 City Document No. 18

WATER STATISTICS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING
DECEMBER SI, 1959

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

Size, 2-inch to 48-inch.
Extended, miles, 1.29.
Size enlarged, miles, .7.
Total miles now in use, 1,034.3.
Public hydrants added, 8.
Public hydrants now in use, 12,536.
Stop gates added, 19.
Stop gates now in use, 16,599.
Number of blowoffs, 857.
Range of pressure on mains, 30 to 90 pounds.

Services
Kind of pipe and size :

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

1959

Domestic service applications 545

Fire pipe applications 70

SHUTTING OFF AND TURNING ON WATER IN 1959

Number of shut-oft's for repairs 6,040

Number of premises turned on after repairs .5,194

Number of shut-offs for vacancy 512

Number of premises turned on for occupancy . . . . 153

Number of premises shut off for nonpayment of water rates . 5
Number of premises turned on again after being shut off for

nonpayment 5

Number of premises shut off on account of waste .... 59

Number of premises turned on again after being shut off for waste 2

Number of new service pipes turned on for the first time . . 213

Total number of times water was shut off or turned on . 12,183

WATER SERVICE REPORT, 1959

Balances from 1958:

Receipts $78,924 81

Appropriations 66,566 81

Receipts:

Water Rates and Services . . $6,204,138 41
Tax Titles, Water .... 66,597 35

$145,491 G-2

6,270,735 76
$6,416,227 38

Public Works Department

Expenditures :

Pensions and Annuities .
Water Division

Refunds

Metropolitan Water Assessment
Collecting, Water
Automotive, Water .

Transfer of 1958 Surplus

$251,087 91

2,454,164 34

506 11

3,239,311 04

166,999 00

99,872 00

Carried Forward to 1960 Water Division
Surplus, December 31, 1959

$6,211,940 40

$204,286 98

78,924 81

$125,362 17
71,318 28

$54,043 89

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1,106

155

5,343

876

5,980
108

798
107

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798
107

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854

833

Totals.

599

1,276

7,255

6,924

906

783

906

968

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City Document No. 18

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Total

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6,589

291

859

5,394

204

2,434

309

1,490

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357
238

426

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83,779

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875

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6
2

1
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19

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1
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5,614

2,746

2,784

1,451

630

506

129

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City Document No. 18
APPENDIX H

REPORT OF THE
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT COMMISSION

Boston, December 31, 1959.

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 Com-
mission for the year ending December 31, 1959, is
respectfully 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 trans-
ferred 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,
which were transferred to the Commissioner of Public
Works ;

Functions of the Board of Street Commissioners
transferred to this Commission include the authority
to lay out, widen, relocate, alter, discontinue, or rename

Public Works Department 99

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
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, 153 high-
way improvements, including the laying out of 51 new
highways, the wiclening and relocation of 22 public
ways, the making of specific repairs in 31 existing
streets, the revision of grade of 2 streets, the discontinu-
ance of 44 streets, the abandonment of 1 order, the
taking of an easement for water purposes, and the taking
of an easement for sloping purposes, were ordered by
the Pubhc Improvement Commission.

Layouts with Construction
The following streets were ordered laid out and
constructed as Public Ways during 1959:

Bradlee street, Hyde Park, extended from Thatcher street
to CoHins street. Length, 1,510 feet ; estimated cost, $41,089.00;
estimated benefit, $20,544.46.

Braeburn road, Hyde Park (formerly Beaver street), from
Beaver street approximately 140 feet beyond Chestnut street.
Length, 140 feet; estimated cost, $l(), 470.30; estimated benefit,
$8,226.19.

Bryant road. West Roxbury, from Stimson street approxi-
mately 210 feet northeasterlv. Length, 210 feet; estimated
cost, $11,902.00; estimated beWfit, $5,950.98.

Colorado street, Dorchester, extended between Almont
street and Mattapan street. Length, 340 feet; estimated
cost, $13,695.00; estimated benefit, $6,847.50.

Cutter road, West Roxbury, from Baker street to Dow
road. Length, 235 feet; estimated cost, $7,057.00; estimated
benefit, $2,353.36.

Dow road. West Roxbury, from a point approximately
65 feet southeast of Cutter road approximately 750 feet north-
westerly. Length, 750 feet; estimated cost, $22,080.00;
estimated benefit, $11,029.30.

Enterprise street, Dorchester, approximately 230 feet
southwesterly to Clapp street. Length, 230 feet; estimated
cost, $14,587.00; estimated benefit, $1,778.52.

100 City Document No. 18

Fairlane road, West Roxbury (formerly Ascent street)*
from Centre street to Glenellen road. Length, 235 feet;
estimated cost, $8,041.00; estimated benefit, $1,648.91.

Florian street, West Roxbury, extended from Wyvern
street to Hyde Park avenue. Length, 660 feet; estimated
cost, $17,433.00; estimated benefit, $8,716.51.

Glenellen road. West Roxbury (formerly Riverview street),
from Fairlane road to Stimson street. Length, 1,030 feet;
estimated cost, $26,607.00; estimated benefit, $18,545.47.

Hallet-Davis street, Dorchester, from Milton street to
Hill Top street. Length, 240 feet; estimated cost, $6,854.00;
estimated benefit, $2,440.50.

Kingsland road, West Roxbury (formerly Harwood street),
from Veterans of Foreign Wars Parkway to Lasell street,
Length, 595 feet; estimated cost, $18,544.00; estimated benefit,
$9,271.99.

Lawton street, Hyde Park, from Colchester street approxi-
matelj^ 612 feet easterly. Length, 612 feet; estimated cost,
$18,615.00; estimated benefit, $9,307.51.

Lorna road, Dorchester, extended from Lena terrace approxi-
mately 750 feet southwesterly. Length, 750 feet; estimated
cost, $27,289.00; estimated benefit, $13,643.52.

Marist road, Dorchester (formerly Caryll street), from
Morton street to Maryknoll street. Length, 800 feet; estimated
cost, $23,173.00; estimated benefit, $11,586.50.

Meadow road, Hyde Park, from Neponset Valley Park-
way approximately 1,800 feet southwesterly. Length, 1,800
feet; estimated cost, $80,516.00; estimated benefit, $40,258.00.
Metropolitan avenue, Hyde Park, from Edith street to
Truman Highway. Length,^ 300 feet; estimated cost, $12,540;
estimated benefit, $7,926.20.

Meyer court. West Roxbury, from Meyer street approxi-
mately 140 feet southwesterly. Length, 140 feet; estimated
cost, $5,962.00; estimated benefit, $2,981.01.

Milton street, Dorchester, from Hallet-Davis street approxi-
mately 245 feet westerl^^ Length, 245 feet; estimated cost,
$11,547.50; estimated benefit, $5,773.75.

Myopia road, Hyde Park, extended from Braeburn road to
West street. Length, 810 feet; estimated cost, $24,688.00;
estimated benefit, $12,344.10.

Norris road, Hyde Park, from Metropolitan avenue approxi-
mately 396 feet southwesterly. Length, 396 feet; estimated
cost, $12,648.00; estimated benefit, $4,936.33.

Oakcrest road, Hyde Park (formerly Woodland road),
from River street to Ralston road. Length, 830 feet; estimated
cost, $24,022.00; estimated benefit, $12,011.00.

Patterson street, Dorchester (formerly Murray Terrace),
extended from Brookvale street approximately 220 feet south-
easterly. Length, 220 feet ; estimated cost, $7, 140.00 ; estimated
benefit, $3,570.00.

Public Works Department 101

Pleasantdale road, West Roxbuiy, extended from Tobiii
road to Centre street. Length, 255 feet; estimated cost,
$9,062.00; estimated benefit, $4,531.00.

Quarley road, West Roxbury, extended from a point approxi-
mately 274 feet northeast of Wyvern street approximately 30
feet northeasterly. Length, 30 feet; estimated cost, $1,695.00;
estimated benefit, $510.00.

St. Clare road, Dorchester, from Boutwell street approxi-
mately 190 feet northerly. Length, 190 feet; estimated cost,
$6,620.00; estimated benefit, $3,310.00.

Salman street. West Roxbury, from Fairlane road to Stimson
street. Length, 1,180 feet; estimated cost, $36,426.00; esti-
mated benefit, $21,184.98.

Stimson street. West Roxbury, from Centre street to Cross-
town avenue. Length, 970 feet; estimated cost, $40,000.00;
estimated benefit, $17,905.97.

Summer street, Hyde Park, extended from a point approxi-
mately 551 feet north of Parrott street approximately 780 feet
northerly to West street. Length, 780 feet; estimated cost,
$20,309.00; estimated benefit, $10,154.50.

Swift street, East Boston, from Frankfort street approxi-
mately 200 feet southeasterly. Length, 200 feet; estimated
cost, $7,228.00; estimated benefit, $3,071.90.

Swift terrace. East Boston, from Swift street approximately
250 feet southwesterly. Length, 250 feet; estimated cost,
$7,517.00; estimated benefit, $3,194.73.

Wilna court, West Roxbury (formerly Willow court), from.
Willow street approximately 193 feet southeasterly. Length,
193 feet; estimated cost, $5,489.00; estimated benefit, $2,744.50.

Layouts Without Construction
The follow'ing streets were ordered laid out as public
ways during 1959:

Ames street, Dorchester, from West view street approximately
970 feet southeasterly. Length, 970 feet.

Cambridge Street avenue, Boston Proper, from Cambridge
street, approximately 50 feet northerly. Length, 50 feet.

Dover street, Boston Proper, from the southeasterly line of
the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway approximately 350 feet
southeasterly. Length, 350 feet.

Fay wood avenue. East Boston, from Vallar road to Orient
avenue. Length, 1,350 feet.

Fermoy Heights avenue. West Roxbury, from Franklin Hill
avenue to Shandon road. Length, 380 feet.

Fidelis Way, Brighton, from Washington street to Common-
wealth avenue. Length, 1,670 feet.

Orient avenue. East Boston, from a point approximately 187
feet west of Montmorenci avenue approximately 103 feet
westerly to Faywood avenue. Length, 103 feet.

102 City Document No. 18

Parker street, Roxbiiry, from Heath street to Bickford street •
Length, 930 feet.

Patterson Way, South Boston, from Old Colony Avenue to
East Eighth street. Length, 870 feet.

Shandon road. West Roxbury, from Franklin Hill avenue to
Fermoy Heights avenue. Length, 765 feet.

Standard street, Dorchester, from approximately 250 feet
south of Woodgate street to Woodbole avenue. Length, 1,055
feet.

Stratton street, Dorchester, extended from Lyford street
approximately 286 feet easterly. Length, 286 feet.

Vallar road. East Boston, from Fay wood avenue approxi-
mately 1,200 feet westerly. Length, 1,200 feet.

Westview street, Dorchester, extended from Blue Hill avenue
approximately 1,244 feet easterlJ^ Length, 1,250 feet.

Woodbole avenue, Dorchester, from Woodgate street to
Standard street. Length, 2,000 feet.

Woodgate street, Dorchester, from Morton street to Standard
street. Length, 930 feet.

Woodmere street, Dorchester, from Morton street to Wood-
bole avenue. Length, 200 feet.

Woodruff Way, Dorchester, from Woodbole avenue approxi-
mately 1,600 feet southerly. Length, 1,600 feet.

Construction

The following street w'as ordered constructed in 1959:

Meyer street, West Roxbury, from a point approximately 290
feet southwest of Catherine street approximately 355 feet
southwesterly and northeasterly to Organ Park street. (Note:
Ordered laid out November 5, 1958.) Length, 355 feet; esti-
mated cost, $10,503.00; estimated benefit, $5,251.49.

Widenings and Relocations

Albany street, Roxbury, between Massachusetts avenue and
Southampton street.

Bellevue street. West Roxbury, at the northeasterly corner
of Robin street.

Belvidere street, Boston Proper, from Dalton street to Hunt-
ington avenue.

Bennington street. East Boston, at the northeasterly corner
of Walley street, and on the southerly side between Leyden
street and Walley street.

Bogandale road, West Roxbury, on the northeasterly side
approximately 800 feet southeast of Centre street.

Ceylon street, Dorchester, at the southeasterly and north-
easterly corners of Quincy street.

Clapp street, Dorchester, at the northeasterly corner of
Massachusetts avenue.

Public Works Department 103

Grossman street, Dorchester, at the southeasterly corner of
Babson street.

Dalton street, Boston Proper, from Belvidere street to
Boylston street.

Farrington avenue, Brighton, at the northwesterly corner of
Linden street.

Highgate street, Brighton, at the northeasterly and north-
westerly corners of Farrington avenue.

Landseer street. West Roxbury, at the southwesterly corner
of La Grange street .

Matchett street, Brighton, at the southeasterly corner of
Perthshire road.

Norton street, Dorchester, at the northeasterly corner of
Richfield street.

Orchard Park street, Roxbury, from a point approximately
180 feet south of Ambrose street to Eustis street.

Potomac street. West Roxbury, at the southwesterly corner
of Jennett avenue.

Redlands road, West Roxbury, at the northeasterly and
southeasterly corners of Alameda road.

Southampton street, Roxbury, on the southwesterly side at
Massachusetts avenue.

Walk Hill street. West Roxbury, at the northeasterly corner
of Harvard street.

Walter street, Hj-de Park, at the southwesterly corner of
Pierce street.

Washington street, Brighton, at the northeasterly and south-
easterly corners of Matchett street.

West street, Hyde Park, at the northeasterly corner of
River street.

Specific Repairs

Bennington street. East Boston, from Leyden street ap-
proximatelj'' 700 feet northeasterly, consisting of the relocation
of the existing roadway and the construction of a divisional
island ; the construction of a traffic divisional island at the south-
westerly intersection of Leyden street and the intersection of
Austin avenue.

Bowdoin street, Dorchester, at the northeasterly and north-
westerly corners of Norton street, consisting of increasing the
curb radii.

Brighton avenue, Brighton, at both corners of Reedsdale
street, consisting of increasing the curb radii.

Gentre street, West Roxbury, at both corners of Landseer
street, consisting of increasing the curb radii.

Columbia road, Dorchester, from East Gottage street ap-
proximately 500 feet southwesterly and between Massachu-
setts avenue and Elder street, consisting of the reduction in
width of the southeasterly sidewalk and the reduction in width
of the existing traffic di\'isional island.

104 City Document No. 18

Commonwealth avenue, Brighton, at both corners of Foster
street, consisting of increasing the curb radii.

Commonwealth avenue, Brighton, from Washington street
approximately 300 feet southwesterly, consisting of the reduc-
tion in width of the southeasterly sidewalk.

Commonwealth avenue, Brighton, on the northeasterly side
from Chestnut Hill avenue to Chestnut Hill drive, consisting
of the reduction in width of the existing sidewalk.

Fairmount avenue, Hyde Park, from River street to the
Midland Division of the New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad, consisting of the reduction in width of the existing
sidewalks.

Foster street, Brighton, at both corners of Mt. Vernon
street, consisting of increasing the curb radii.

Foster street, Brighton, at both corners of Rose Garden
Circle, consisting of increasing the curb radii.

Foster street, Brighton, at Washington street, consisting of
the relocation of the existing traffic island.

Harrison avenue, Boston Proper, between Castle street and
Troy street, consisting of the construction of loamed spaces in
the existing divisional island.

Ivory street, West Roxbury, at both corners of Temple
street, consisting of increasing the curb radii.

Massachusetts avenue, Dorchester, from approximately
150 feet southeast of Clapp street for a distance of approxi-
mately 300 feet northwesterly, consisting of the reduction in
width of the northeasterly sidewalk.

Massachusetts avenue, Roxbury, at the intersection of
Southampton street, consisting of the installation of a traffic
divisional island.

Massachusetts avenue, Roxbury, on the northeasterly side
from a point approximately 80 feet east of Bradston street
approximately 300 feet westerly, consisting of the reduction in
width of the existing sidewalk.

Matchett street, Brighton, at four (corners of Hunnewell
avenue, consisting of increasing the curb radii.

Matchett street, Brighton, from Perthshire road, consisting
of the extension of the northerly sidewalk on Perthshire road
to the westerly side of Matchett street.

Norfolk street, Dorchester, at the intersection of Babson
street, consisting of the installation of traffic divisional islands.

Parsons street, Brighton, at the northeasterly and north-
westerly corners of Bennett street, consisting of increasing the
curb radii.

River street, Hyde Park, at the northwesterly corner of
Central avenue, consisting of increasing the curb radii.

River street, Hyde Park, at Fairmount Avenue, consisting of
the installation of traffic islands.

Southampton street, Roxbury, on the northeasterly side from
a point approximately 80 feet east of Bradston street ap-

Public AVorks Department 105

proximately 300 feet westerly, consisting of the reduction in
width of the existing sidewalk.

Southampton street, Roxbury, at the intersection of Mas-
sachusetts avenue, consisting of the installation of a traffic
divisional island.

Stuart street, Boston Proper, between Clarendon street and
Dartmouth street, consisting of the reduction in width of the
existing sidewalks.

Temple street. West Roxbury, at the northerly, southerly,
easterly, and westerly corners of Keith street, consisting of
increasing the curb radii.

Temple street, West Roxbury, at the northerly, easterly,
southerly, and westerly corners of Vermont street, consisting
of increasing the curb radii.

Tremont street, Roxbury and Boston Proper, between
Camden street and Cabot street, consisting of the reduction in
width of the existing sidewalks and the installation of a traffic
divisional island.

Walk Hill street. West Roxbury, at the northwesterly corner
of Harvard street, consisting of the relocation of the existing
curb line.

West Milton street, Hyde Park, at the intersection of Milton
street, consisting of the installation of traffic islands.

Grade Revisions

Court street, Boston Proper, on the northerly side, from a
point approximately 96 feet west of Washington street ap-
proximately 104 feet westerly.

Meadow road, Hyde Park, from Neponset Valley Parkway
approximately 1,800 feet southwesterly.

Discontinuances

Ambrose street, Roxbury, at the intersection of Orchard Park
street.

Ashland street, Boston Proper, from Leverett street to
Chambers street.

Auburn street, Boston Proper, from Poplar street to Charles
street.

Bartlett street, Charlestown, between Pearl street and
School street.

Barton court, Boston Proper, from Brighton street to
Barton street.

Barton street, Boston Proper, from Milton street to the
John F. Fitzgerald Expressway.

Belvidere street, Boston Proper, at the intersection of Fal-
mouth street and West Newton street.

Brighton street, Boston Proper, from Allen street to the John
F. Fitzgerald Expressway.

106 City Document No. 18

Causeway street, Boston Proper, from Leverett street to
Lowell street.

Chambers street, Boston Proper, from Allen street to Charles
street.

Chambers street, Boston Proper, from Cambridge street to
Eaton street.

Cotting street, Boston Proper, from Leverett street to
Lowell street.

Eaton street, Boston Proper, from Chambers street to North
Russell street.

Falmouth street, Boston Proper, at the intersection of Belvi-
dere street and West Newton street.

Green street, Boston Proper, from Staniford street to Cham-
bers street.

Hammond avenue, Boston Proper, from Chambers street to
Leverett street.

Hartford street, Boston Proper, from Purchase street to
High street.

Kennard avenue, Boston Proper, from Allen street to Poplar
street.

Leverett street, Boston Proper, from Green street to the
John F. Fitzgerald Expressway.

Lyman street, Boston Proper, from Staniford street to
Leverett street.

Lynde street, Boston Proper, from Green street approxi-
mately 340 feet southerly.

McLean court, Boston Proper, from McLean street ap-
proximately 260 feet southerly.

McLean street, Boston Proper, from Chambers street to
Blossom street.

Milton street, Boston Proper, from Spring street to Brighton
street.

Minot street, Boston Proper, from Leverett street to the
John F. Fitzgerald Expressway.

North Russell street, Boston Proper, from Cambridge street
to Eaton street.

Orchard Park street, Roxbury, at the intersection of Am-
brose street.

Orchard Park street, Roxbury, on the easterly side ap-
proximately 180 feet south of Ambrose street.

Parkman street, Boston Proper, from North Russell street
to Blossom street.

Poplar street, Boston Proper, from Chambers street to
Charles street.

Prospect street, Boston Proper, from Merrimac street to
Lyman street.

Public Alley No. 12, Boston Proper, from Poplar street to
Public Alley No. 14.

Public Alley No. 13, Boston Proper, from Poplar street to
Public Alley No. 14.

Public Works Department 107

Public Alley No. 14, Boston Proper, from Public Alley No.
15 approximately 440 feet easterly.

Public Alley No. 15, Boston Proper, from Poplar street to
Public Alley No. 14.

South Margin street, Boston Proper, from Staniford street
to Prospect street.

Spring street, Boston Proper, from Leverett street to Allen
street.

Stoughton street, Boston Proper, from Harrison avenue ap-
proximately 226 feet southeasterly.

Summer street, Charlestown, between Pearl street and
School street.

Wall street, Boston Proper, from Minot street to Causeway
street.

West Newton street, Boston Proper, at the intersection of
Falmouth street and Belvidere street.

Wigglesworth street, Roxbury, from Huntington avenue to
Long wood avenue.

Willard street, Boston Proper, from Leverett street to the
John F. Fitzgerald Expressway.

Worthington street, Roxbury, from Huntington avenue to
Longwood avenue.

Abandonment of Order

Quincy place, Roxbury, from Quincy street approximately
130 feet southwesterly.

Water Easement

Dover street, Boston Proper, from Dover street approxi-
mately 590 feet southeasterly and northeasterly.

Slope Easement

Fay wood avenue. East Boston, discontinuance of slope ease-
ments on the southerly side from a point approximately 416
feet west of Tower street approximately 80 feet westerly.

Eminent DoxMAin Land Takings

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

School Buildings Department

1. The taking of approximately forty-eight thousand
five hundred forty-four (48,544) square feet of land
bounded by High street, Pearl street, and School
street, Charlestown District, under an Order of this
Commission and Mayor dated July 8, 1959, and recorded
in the Suffolk Registry of Deeds on July 24, 1959.

108

City Document No. 18

2. The taking of approximately three thousand
nine hundred eighty (3,980) square feet of land in West
Fourth street, South Boston District, under an Order of
this Commission and Mayor dated October 14, 1959, and
recorded in the Suffolk Registry of Deeds on October
21, 1959.

Sewer Program

During the year 1959 the construction of 1.24 miles
of sanitary sewer, 2.11 miles of storm sewer, 132 catch
basins, and 22 drop inlets were ordered at a total
estimated cost of $442,215.

Estimated benefit to private property for the con-
struction of the 1.24 miles of sanitary sewer amounted
to $28,905.94.

The following sewer easement was ordered dis-
continued:

Private land, Boston Proper, between Boylston
street at Fairfield street and Huntington avenue oppo-
site Garrison street.

Sewerage works were ordered as follows:

SEWERAGE WORKS ORDERED

Street

Sanitary Sewer
(Linear Feet)

.1
1

1
a

1
1
1

Boston Proper

*Alley No. 933

$1,000 00

5,000 00

600 00

225,000 00
1,200 00

350 00

4,000 00

750 00

6,000 00

None

Beaver place .

170

None

Kilby street

None

Private land between
Boylston street at
Fairfield street and
Huntington avenue op-

880

Stuart street.

6
1

None

Charlestown

Chelsea street

None

Dorchester

210

215

$1,828 00

None

♦Itasca street

580

None

Easements taken

Public Works Department

109

5-5

Id I

■■Sn

Dorchester (Continued)
Massachusetts avenue..

400

Kast Boston

Bennington street

1,350

*Glad3tone street, from
700 feet west of Breed
street approximately
150 feet westerly

Gladstone street, oppo-

Swift street 1

From Frankfort street
approximately 450 feet
southeasterly and south-
westerly.

Swift terrace

Hyde Park

750

Braeburn road . . .

540

*GofT street

135

*Greenbrook road

540

347

Lodgehill road

M eadow road ....

190

Metropolitan avenue, ap-
proximately 837 feet
north of Thatcher
street

Metropolitan avenue,
from Edith street to

Oakcrest road, formerly

275

Sherrin street ...

678

Westminster street .

145

1,465

S400 00
2,000 00
6,200 00

500 00
1,500 00

None

$1,950 00

•S500 00

None

1,500 00

None

4,000 00

None

8,000 00

None

1,620 00

$810 00

3,930 00

None

2.400 00

None

500 00

None

9,000 00

None

1,200 00

None

1,800 00

None

1,200 00

None

2,500 00

None

2,000 00

None

1,100 00

None

8,000 00

None

8,100 00

None

26,975 00

•19,888 00

* Easements taken

110

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SEWERAGE WORKS ORDERED — Concluded.

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Roxbury

Bickford street. . .
South Boston

Broadway

West Roxbury

Aldwin road

AUandale street . .
*Baker street

Baker street

*Birchland terrace .

Birchland terrace.

Bryant road

Canterbury street .

Glenellen road . . .

Macullarroad.. . .

Magee street

Maplewood street .
♦Mapiewood street .
*Meyer court

Meyer street, from
Catherine street, ap-
proximately 290 feet
southeasterly

Meyer street, from Organ
Park street, approxi-
mately 300 feet south-
westerly

*Powell street 1
Miami terrace/'

^Private land, between
Meyer street and Stony
Brook

♦Salman street .

Salman street .

Stimson street.
*Vogel street. . .

Vogel street.. .

435
135

S19,000 00

900 00

500 00

1,000 00

600 00

1,000 00

500 00

400 00

7,000 00

3,900 00

800 00

9,200 00

1,400 00

2,520 00

2,400 00

1,720 00

7,400 00

3,000 00

2,300 00

6,190 00

800 00

' Easements taken

Public Works Department

111

Assessments

During the year 1959 the Highway Division of the
Pubhc Works Department sent notice of completion of
twenty-one (21) streets at a total cost of $314,834.73.
On this work the Public Improvement Commission
levied assessments in the amount of $152,070.22.

During the same period the Sewer Division of the
Public Works Department reported the completion of
construction of sanitary sewerage in sixteen (16) streets
at a cost of $42,038.07, on which the Public Improve-
ment Commission levied assessments in the amount of
$27,700.81.

The completion of new sidewalks in one (1) street at
a cost of $5,664.64, authorized by the Boston City
Council, was reported by the Highway Division. On
this the PubUc Improvement Commission levied an
assessment of $2,832.60.

STREET ASSESSMENTS

Street

District

Cost

Assessment

West Roxbury

Hyde Park

West Roxbury

Dorchester

West Roxbury

Hyde Park

West Roxbury

Hyde Park

West Roxbury

Dorchester and
Hyde Park

Dorchester

Brighton

Roxbury

West Roxbury

$12,186 69

5,298 17

6,396 61

14.506 48

4,705 00

6,105 38

9,746 46

17,586 13

23,739 57

15,973 88

11.990 71

31,136 48

19.372 63

25,954 95

11,112 32

9,246 56

7,895 48
12,431 40
10,337 00
22,872 04
36,240 79

$4,419 50

Atwiil road

2 500 00

Belnap road

3,784 00

5,730 00

Cassnet street. . ...

1 179 00

2,890 92

Dodge road

6 438 00

Glenellen road • .

12 958 00

4.842 50
8.943 50

7.725 00
11 904 30

New Haven street

4,731 OO

Pheasant street

4 302 00

2,360 00
3,640 50

Selkirk road .

3 162 00

12,837 00
21 458 00

Vogel street. . .

Totals

$314,834 73

$152,070 22

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SEWER ASSESSMENTS

Street

District

Cost

Assessment

West Roxbury
Hyde Park
West Roxbury
West Roxbury
Dorchester
Hyde Park
West Roxbury
West Roxbury
West Roxbury
Hyde Park
Dorchester
Dorchester
Hyde Park
West Roxbury
West Roxbury
Hyde Park

$1,000 00
1,134 00
3,952 03
6,162 00
8,000 00
1,954 00
2,131 00
2,150 00
2,235 00
628 00
4,898 00
2,000 00
3,042 00
8.647 04
1,754 00
2,663 00

$700 00

225 00

3,000 00

Florian Way .

2,209 52

3,000 00

Goff street

810 00

Hackensack court

850 00

997 50

1,350 00

Magee street

360 00

3,672 00

St. Clare road

1,500 00

1,800 00

V. F. W. Parkway

4,916 79

Weld street

510 00

1,800 00

$52,350 07

$27,700 81

SIDEWALK ASSESSMENT

Street

District

Cost

Assessment

Dorchester

$5,664 64

$2,832 60

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

Ascent street, West Roxbury District, from New Haven
street to Glenellen road; new name: Fairlane road.

Asylum street, Boston Proper District, between Washington
street and Harrison avenue; new name: William E. Mullins
Way.

Castle street, Boston Proper District, from Tremont street
to Albany street; new name: Herald street.

Willow court, Dorchester District, from Boston street to
Pield's court; new name: Enterprise street.

Public Works Department

113

Street Names
The following names were designated for unnamed
ways :

Sydney street, Dorchester District, between Crescent avenue
and Moseley street.

Von Hillern street, Dorchester District,
Chester avenue and Mt. Vernon street.

between Dor-

Land Damages

On new street construction 133 claims were filed for
damage to property resulting from land takings or
changes in grades. On these claims, this Commission
awarded damages in the amount of $49,311.61.

During the period of this report 264 petitions from
pubhc utilities were approved for the placing and main-
taining of poles for the support of wires.

Also, 63 petitions w^ere approved for miscellaneous
installations or uses of the public highways of the
City of Boston, as follows:

Street

Petitioner

Nature of Petition

Adams street, etc., Dorchester

Joan R. Dixon

Canopy

Albany street, Roxbury, on the north-
westerly side

Boston City Hospital

Underground conduit

Albany street, Roxbury, Massacliu-
setts avenue to East Concord

Boston City Hospital

Underground conduit

Batterymarch street, Boston

Boston Edison Company

Underground conduit

Bolton street. South Boston

Gillette Safety Razor Company

Fuel tank

Bowditch road. West Roxbury

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Boylston street, Boston Proper

Boston Edison Company

Underground conduit

Brooks street. East Boston

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Brucewood street, West Roxbury

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Central street, etc., Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Centre street, West Roxbury

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Chelsea street. East Boston

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Cross street, Boston Proper

Quincy Market Cold Storage

Brine main

Crossman street, Dorchester

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Custer street. West Roxbury

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Davison street, Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Dorchester street. South Boston

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Eastwood Circuit, West Roxbury

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Fairmount avenue, Hyde Park, Da-
vison to Pierce

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

114

City Document No. 18

Street

Petitioner

Nature of Petition

Fairmount avenue, Hyde Park, at
Highland street

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Fenwood road, Roxbury

Department of Mental Health

Underground conduit

Geneva avenue, Dorchester

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Gladstone street, etc., East Boston

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Glencliff road. West Roxbury

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Hayward place, Boston Proper

Washington Essex Trust

Fuel tank

Huntington avenue, Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Hyde Park avenue, Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Laurie avenue, West Roxbury

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Massachusetts avenue, Roxbury, on
the northerly side

Boston City Hospital

Underground conduit

Massachusetts avenue, Roxbury, Al-
bany to Harrison avenue, E-2

Boston City Hospital

Underground conduit

:Mas8achu8etts avenue, Roxbury, Al-
bany to Harrison avenue, E-3

Boston City Hospital

Underground conduit

Mattapan street, Dorchester

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Maverick street. East Boston

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Metropolitan avenue, Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Navarre street, etc., Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

North square, Boston Proper

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Pleasantdale road, West Roxbury

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Porter street. East Boston

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Prospect street, Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Public Alley No. 4.39, Boston

Boydar Realty Company

Oil tank

Public Alley No. 442, Boston

Boston Edison Company

Underground conduit

Savannah avenue, Dorchester

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Sheridan street, etc., Roxbury and
West Roxbury

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Stoughton street, Boston

Boston University

Underground steam main

Stuart street, Boston Proper, 160 feet
northeast of Berkeley

Boston Edison Company

Underground conduit

Stuart street, Boston Proper, 140 feet
northeast of Berkeley

Boston Edison Company

Underground conduit

Stuart street, Boston Proper, at Trin-
ity place

Boston Edison Company

Underground conduit

Summer street, Boston Proper

Boston Edison Company

Underground conduit

Thatcher street, Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Governor pit

Victory road, Dorchester

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Walk Hill street. West Ro.xbury

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Washington street, Boston

S. S. Kresge Company

Projection

Water street, Dorchester

Boston Gas Company

Control regulator

West Newton street, etc., Boston

Boston Edison Company

Underground conduit

Public Works Department

115

Street

Petitioner

Nature of Petition

Webster street, East Boston

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Webster street, Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Weld street, West Roxbury

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

West street, etc., Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Westminster street, Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Weybosset street, Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Windom street, Brighton

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Wolcott court, Hyde Park

Worcester Gas Light Company

Underground gas main

Wyvern street. West Roxbury

Boston Gas Company

Underground gas main

Private Ways
During the year 1959, permission was given to prepare
for public travel the following private ways:

Banfield avenue, Dorchester, from Wooddale avenue 400
feet northeasterly.

Birchland terrace, West Roxburj^, from Ashland avenue.

Delhi street, Dorchester, from Wooddale avenue 325 feet
northeasterly.

Greenbrook road, Hyde Park, from Chestnut street to Austin
street.

Itasca street, Dorchester, from Monterej' avenue to a point
approximately 115 feet southwest of Messinger street.

Leseur road, Hyde Park, from Fairmount avenue approxi-
mately 175 feet southwesterly.

Lodgehill road, Hyde Park, from Goff street to Beach street.

Manchester street, Dorchester, from Temple street 270 feet
westerly.

Maplewood street. West Roxburj', from Petrel street to
Eagle street.

Meyer Court, West Roxbury, from Meyer street 130 feet
southwesterly.

Miami terrace. West Roxburj-, from Miami avenue 190 feet
northwesterly.

Prospect Park, Hyde Park, from Warren avenue 325 feet
northeasterly.

Ring road, Boston Proper, from Belvidere street 480 feet
easterly.

Ring road, Boston Proper, from Dalton street 900 feet
easterly.

Slocum road, West Roxbury, from a point approximately 73
feet northeast of Surrey hill road approximately 157 feet
northeasterly.

Vogel street. West Roxbury, from Stimson street to Cross-
town avenue.

116 City Document No. 18

Wachusett street, Hyde Park, from Neponset River Reser-
vation 270 feet northwesterly.

Winham road, West Roxbury and Hyde Park, from Sherrin
street to Dale street.

During the same period, permission was given to
open for public travel the following private ways:

Itasca street, Dorchester, from Messinger street approxi-
mately 115 feet northeasterly.

Manchester street, Dorchester, from Temple street approxi-
mately 570 feet westerly.

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

Mattapan street, Dorchester, from Colorado street approxi-
mately 170 feet northwesterly.

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

Messinger street, Dorchester, from Orlando street to Savan-
nah avenue.

Orlando street, Dorchester, from Messinger street approxi-
mately 145 feet northeasterly.

Wachusett street, Hyde Park, from Neponset River Reserva-
tion approximately 270 feet northwesterl3^

Respectfully submitted,

Robert P. Shea, Chairman,
William T. Doyle, V ice-Chairman,
David Lasker, Member.

City of Boston-
Administrative Services Department
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