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ANNUAL REPORT
STREET DEPARTMENT
CITY OF BOSTON.
1891
BOSTON:
ROCKWELL AND ClIUECHILL, CITY PRINTEllS.
1892.
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CONTENTS
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS.
PAGE
Area of Pavement in Boston. 53
Barney Dumping-Scow 88
Boston and Cambridge Bridges
Division 47
Brick Sidewalks (ten years), 68
Brick Tests 60-62
Bridge Division 46, 47
Bridge Division Specials 16
Brighton (Sewers) 103-106
Canal or Craigie's Bridge ... 48
Central Office Division 3
Charlestown (Sewers) 93
City Proper and Back Bay
(Sewers) 93-98
Civil Service Tables 35-42
Classification of Expenses... 49
Complaints 45
Conclusion . 135
Condition of Appropriation . . 49
Contracts 19-33
Contract Work (Summary,
Street-Watering) 73
Cost of Street-Cleaning 131-133
Culverts ... 109, 110
Day-Work (Street-Watering), 72
Difficulties encountered
(Street-Cleaning) 128-130
Distribution of Carts (Street-
Watering) ... 74
Distribution of Pavements . 54-56
Districts (Street-Cleaning) . . 121, 122
Dorchester (Sewers) 100
Draw-Openings 50
East Boston (Sewers) 92
Employment of Labor 34
Engineering Work. 115, 116
Estimated Cost of Work in
Boston (Street-Watering) . 84
PAGE
Expenses of Central Office. . .45, 46
Finance 4
Future Needs of the Division
(Street-Cleaning) 130
Future Work of the Division
(Sewers) 106-109
General Statement of Appro-
priations 6, 7
Grade and Number of Em-
ployees.. 43, 44
High Level Intercepting Sew-
ers 112
High Level Relief Sewers 112
Hired Teams (Sanitary) 90
Introduction 1
Lengths of Streets 52
Macadamized Streets ....... 56
Main Drainage Works 112, 115
Money Expended 1891 (Street-
Watering) 75
Monthly Exhibit Sheet(Street-
Watering) 77
New Edgestones (ten years) . . 67
Night-Work (Street-Clean-
ing) 124
Ordinance for Street- Water-
ing 81, 82
Organization 136
Paved Areas by Districts
(Street-Cleaning) 122, 123
Paving Division 52
Paving Division Specials 8-14
Prison-Point Bridge 48
Property Schedule (Bridges), 50, 51-
Push-Cart Patrol 125-128
Recapitulation (Street-Water-
ing) 76
Recapitulation of Expenditures 17
IV
CONTENTS.
PAGE
Refuse Materials (Sanitary
Division) 91
Removal of Ashes 8'.), 90
Removal of Offal 85-88
Roxbury (Sewers) 99
Sanitary Division 85
Sewer Diagram 117, 119
Sewer Division 91
Sewer Division Specials 15, 16
South Boston (Sewers) 98
Special Features in this Year's
AV^ork in Paving 62, 65
Statement of Income 17
Statement of TrafBc over
Bridges 51
St. Louis (Street- Watering) . . 82-84
Stony Brook 110, 111
PAGE
Street-Cleaning Division 119
Street-Watering 69
Transportation of Prisoners . . 90
Violation of the City Ordi-
nance 134
Water-Posts 85
Watering in front of Engine-
houses 79
Watering in front of Police-
Stations 80
Watering in front of School-
houses 78, 79
West Boston Bridge 47, 48
West Roxbury (Sewers) 102
Work done on Edgestone
and Sidewalks, etc. (three
years) &6, 67
APPENDIX A.
REPORT OF DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF BRIDGE
DIVISION.
PAGE
Appropriations and Expendi-
tures 139, 140
Bridges of which Boston pays
a Part of the Cost of Main-
tenance 163
Bridges of which Boston sup-
ports the Part within its
Limits 162
Bridges supported by Railroad
Corporations 163
Bridges wholly supported by
Boston 161
Income 140
Inland Bridges 152, 156
Recapitulation (Tide-Water
Bridges) 151
Recapitulation (Inland
Bridges) 157
Recapitulation 164
Regular Maintenance Ex-
penses, North and South
Yards 158, 159
PAGE
Reportof the Deputy Superin-
tendent of Bridge Division, 137
Special Appropriations 159-161
Special Works 138
Tide-Water Bridges 140, 150
Appendix Al (Drawtenders'
Reports) 166, 167
Appendix A2 (Widths of
Openings) 168, 169
Appendix A3 (Width of Tide-
Water Bridges) 170
Appendix A4 (Culver'ts) 171-175
Appendix A4 Supplement (Cul-
verts built in 1891) 176
Appendix A5 (Traffic, 6.30
A.M. to 8 A.M.) 177
Appendix A6 (Traffic, 12 M.
to 1 P.M.) 177
Appendix A7 (Traffic, 5.30
P.M. to 7 P.M.) 178
Appendix AlO (Vessels pass-
thro ugh drawbridges).. 178
CONTENTS.
APPENDIX B.
REPORT OF DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
PAVING DIVISION.
PAGE
Detail of Work and Expenses,
238-293
Executions of Court 194
Expenditures 194
Expenditures under Special
Appropriations . 234-237
Financial Statement 191
Grade Damages 195
Income 192
New Brick Sidewalks 296
New Edgestone 293-296
Official Duties 181
Permits 184
Property 298
Removal of Snow 233
Schedule of Maintenance Ex-
penses 196-226
Sprinkling Streets 227-233
Streets Discontinued 189
Streets Laid Out 186
Streets Relocated 189
Streets Widened 189
Table of Expenses Classified . . 193
Tools, Horses, Carts, etc. ..300, 301
Yearly Expenditures 179
APPENDIX C.
REPORT OF DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF
SANITARY DIVISION.
Cost of Blacksmithing, Carts,
etc 307
Conveyance of Prisoners .... 309
Distribution of Hay and Grain,
310-312
Dumping-Boats 308
Hired Teams 308
Horse Account 313
House-Dirt and Ashes
House-Offal
Material collected, and Dispo-
sition of same
Material collected in 10 Years,
Schedule of City Property. . .
Total Cost for Removal of
House-Dirt, etc
PAGE
318
312
806
309
314
305
APPENDIX D.
REPORT OF DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SEWER
DIVISION.
PAGE
Decision of Supreme Court . . 316
Fall of Rain and Snow 351
Financial Statement 320-325
General Matter 315-319
Property 354
Pumping-Station Record..... 353
Schedule of Sewers built to Date, 350
PAGE
Schedule of Tools and Stock. 352
Sewers and Culverts built
(Classified by Districts) . .326-349
Sludge removed 354
Specials 355-368
Summary of Sewer Construc-
tion 350
VI
CONTENTS.
APPENDIX E.
REPORT OF DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF STREET-
CLEANING . DIVISION.
Cleaning Gutters, Crossings,
and Sidewalks (Cost by Dis-
tricts) 370, 871
Cleaning Streets (Cost by Dis-
tricts) 370
Complaints 375
Cost of maintaining Dumps . . 371
Cost of Removal of Snow. ... 371
Financial Statement 369-374
PAGE
Force employed . 375
General Recapitulation 373, 374
Income 375
Inventory of Property 376
Patrol System 372
Recapitulation of Expenses . . 372
Stable and Yard Expenses. .372, 373
Stock Account 373
Table of Cost per Mile . ...374,375
APPENDIX F.
REPORT OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.
PAGE
Bennington-St. Culvert 386
Berkeley-St. Bridge over the
B. & A. R.R 382
Chelsea Bridge, North, Fender-
Guard 383
Chelsea Bridge, North, Steam-
Power 383
Contract Work 377
Cornwall- St. Bridge over
Stony Brook Channel 383
Details by Streets 378-381
PAGE
384
384
Hill-St. Retaining- Wall
Irvington-St. Footbridge. . .
Irvington and Yarmouth Sts.
Retaining-Walls 384
L-St. Abutment and Bulk-
head * 385
Roxbury Canal and Sea-Wall . 385
Report of Engineering Depart-
ment 377-386
Stony Brook Improvement . . . 385
APPENDIX G.
FORMER SUPERINTENDENTS AND DOCUMENT
NUMBERS OF ANNUAL REPORTS.
Bridge Department before
1891 387
Commissioners of Cambridge
Bridges before 1891 391
Health Department before
1891 390
Paving Department before
1891 387, 388
Sewer Department before
1891 389
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE
Fort Hill Dumping- Wharf 84
Dumping-Scow Loaded, going to Sea , . 86
Dumping-Scow Unloading 88
Chart of Dumping-Stations , 90
Dorchester Brook Sewer 98
Roslindale Main Sewer — Excavating-Machine 102
Oakland-Street Culvert (as rebuilt) , Brighton 108
Faneuil-Street Sewer Culvert (to be built) , Brighton 108
Stony Brook Gate-House (exterior) 110
" " " (interior) 110
Sewer Diagram 118
Push-Cart Patrol Service 126
Stony Brook Improvement (Roslindale) 384
Street Department, City Hall,
Boston, Feb. 1, 1892.
Hon. Nathan Matthews, Jr.,
Mayor of the City of Boston :
Sir : In compliance with the Revised Ordinances, the
first annual report of the operations and expenses of the
Street Department for the year 1891 is herewith respectfully
submitted.
In accordance with a recommendation made by you in
your inaugural address, Jan. 5, 1891, in regard to the con-
solidation of certain of the departments having to do with
work directly connected with the streets of the city, an
ordinance to amend Chapter 18 of the Revised Ordinances
of 1890 was passed by the Board of Aldermen on March 2,
1891. The ordinance provided that " the Street Department
shall be under the charge of the Superintendent of Streets,
who shall construct all highways and sewers ; shall have
charge of and keep the highways, the pumping-station, and
reservoirs of the improved sewerage system, all sewers under
the control of the city, and the catch-basins in the streets
connected with the sewers, clean and in good condition and
repair ; shall remove all ashes accumulated from the burning
of materials for heating buildings and for domestic purposes,
all house dirt, house otfal, and all noxious and refuse sub-
stances from the yards and areas, where so placed as to be
easily removed ; shall have the care of the city teams and city
stables, and of all property acquired for carrying out said
purposes, and shall keep the same in good condition and
repair ; shall purchase all fuel and other supplies required
for said purposes, and shall within the appropriation for
officers and subordinates appoint all necessary deputy super-
intendents, chiefs of divisions, and other subordinates, said
deputies and chiefs to be approved by the Mayor ; shall have
the care and management of all bridges which are used as
highways and are in whole or in part under the charge of the
city, and of so much of Harvard bridge and of Prison-point
bridge as are under the charge of the Board of Aldermen ;
shall be the commissioner to act with another couunissioner
for the city of Cambridge, and shall have and exercise all the
powers in relation to West Boston and Craigie's bridges con-
ferred by Chapter 302 of the Acts of the year 1870; shall
2 City Docu:ment No. 3 (5.
ninke all repairs aHectins the strength of bridires, and keep
the rails and planks in good order, and all dirt, snow, and
ice removed from the sidewalk, and keep all bridges, draws,
and wharves thereof clean and in good condition and rei)air,
and shall appoint all draw-tenders ; shall place and maintain
all street signs and number all buildings ; shall issue all
permits to open, occupy, or obstruct streets for various pur-
])oses ; permits to licensed drain-la3^ers to enter particular
drains into the i)ub!ic sewers ; permits to open, occupy, and
use portions of the street for coal-holes and vaults ; permits
to raise and lower goods and safes ; permits to building-
movers ; permits to open and occupy portions of the street
for the purpose of laying wires, railway tracks, pipes or
conduits ; and permits to place and maintain poles for the
snpi)ort of wires."
In general, the Superintendent of Streets is charged with
seeino; that all statutes, ordinances, and res^ulations relating:
to the care and use of streets, bridges, and sewers are fully
observed, and with carrying out all lawful orders of the
Board of Aldermen relating to streets, bridges, and sewers.
The ordinance relating to the duties of the Superintendent
of Streets was still further amended on Dec. 15, 1891, by a
clause obliging him to keep the streets properly watered.
The before-mentioned duties were, previous to the pas-
sage of this ordinance, performed by the Superintendent of
Streets, the Superintendent of Sewers, the Superintendent
of Sanitary Police, the Superintendent of Bridges, and the
Commissioner of Cambridge Bridges, all of which offices
were abolished in the ordinance, and the departments under
their control consolidated into the Street Department.
In order to systematize the work of the Street Depart-
ment, the following divisions have been made :
Central Office.
Paving Division.
Sewer Division.
Sanitary Division.
Street-cleanino^ Division.
Bridge Division.
Cambrid2:e Bridc^es Division.
Each of these divisions, with the exception of the Central
Office and the Cambridge Bridges Divisions, is in charge of
a deputy superintendent.
Street Department,
Central Office Division.
The Central Office Division takes charge of all work of
a general nature, such as correspondence, purchasing of
supplies, attending to complaints, execution of contracts,
keeping the records returned from the various divisions, and
all financial accounts, monthly returns of force accounts,
monthly statements of accumulated expenses for reports to
the Mayor, and all legal transactions affecting the depart-
ment, giving due notice of the same to parties affected
thereby ; and, in general, acts as headquarters from which
the operations of the various divisions can be directed.
To this office the various deputies in charge of the
divisions report daily, so that the work in all divisions shall
move along harmoniously, and without duplication of labor
and expense.
The supplies of the department are all obtained through a
purchasing agent, instead of through the head clerks of the
different divisions, as was formerly the case before the de-
partments were consolidated.
Uniformity in quality of materials and the lowest market
rates are thus obtained.
Blank forms are furnished to the foremen in the different
yards, on which are entered by them memoranda of
materials needed and the object thereof, and this form is
returned to the chief clerk of the division, who enters the
same in a warrant book, the stubs of which are numbered
consecutively.
This warrant, approved by the deputy superintendent of
the division, is then sent direct to the purchasing agent,
who issues in return the requisition on the parties with
whom he holds contracts for furnishing materials.
The numbers of Avarrants and requisitions are made to
correspond, so that upon the return of the bills, certified as
to quantity and quality (delivered by the foreman receiving
the same), they are easily identified and vouched for by the
purchasing agent before being entered upon the schedule for
payment.
This complete system of warrants and requisitions for
supplies allows the purchasing agent to have a check on
their price and delivery, and also on the purchase of an ex-
cessive amount of stock at a given time.
Specifications have been prepared for the purchasing of
all large supplies which are bought by contract after public
advertisement.
During the year the Corporation Counsel has rendered 77
4 City Document No. 36.
legal opinions, of which number 37 relate to matters per-
taining to the Paving Division, 32 to the Sewer Division,
3 to the Bridge Division, and 5 to miscellaneous matters.
Finance.
Books are kept at the Central Office which show the
objects and amounts of the various appropriations and
balances from month to month. The following detailed
statement shows the various appropriations and amount ex-
pended for maintenance for four months ending May 1, 1891,
and for the nine months ending Jan. 31, 1892.
This division of the financial accounts is made necessary
by the change in the financial year.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
STREET DEPARTMEIN^T APPROPRIATION
JANUARY 1, 1891, TO JANUARY 31, 1892,
INCLUSIVE.
CiTv Docujnient No. 36.
Appkopriations.
Street Department, now Pacing
Division
Sewer Department, now Sewer
Division
Sanitary Police Department, now
Sanitary Division
Bridge Department, now Bridge
Division
Cambridge Bridge Department,
now Cambridge Bridges Di-
vision
Balance on
hand
Jan. 1, 1892.
$45,211 81
S4,748 24
151,562 44
23,572 99
E 1,543 48
Revenue
and
Loans.
1 $179,124 27
2 40,892 05
s 27,212 16
< 1,201 10
Total
Credits.
$224,336 08
75,640 29
178,774 60
24,774
1,543 48
Expendi-
tures for the
four months
ending
April 30,
1891.
$224,336 08
75,397 41
178,774 60
24,774 09
1,543 48
$242 88
Total $256,638 96 $248,429 58 $505,068 54 $504,825 66 $242 88
1 Transferred from Causeway street $3,000 00
Loan 183,000 00
Transferred from Cambridge Bridges 5,494 30
Transferred to Commonwealth avenue
" " Sewer Division
" " Sanitary "
" *' Bridge "
$44 93
8,411 84
2,712 16
1,201 10
* Loan
Revenue
Transferred from Street De-
partment
$191,494 30
12,370 03
$179,124 27
32,000 00 * Transferred from Street De-
480 21 partment $1,20110
8,411 84
$40,892 05
SLoan $24,500 00
Transferred from Street De-
partment 2,712 16
$27,212 16
' Original balance
Transferred to Street Depart-
ment '
$7,037 78
5,494 30
$1,543 48
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Paving Division Specials.
Object op Appropriation.
A St., Broadway to First st
Albany st
Aldie 8t
Allandale st
Ashfiild st
Ashmont st., Dorchester ave. to Washington st.
Atlantic ave
Austin st...
Atl.intic St., Thomas Park to Fourth st
Baker st
Baldwin St., Ward 4
Ballard st , .
Battery march st
Bi-acon St., -west from Charles st
Beacon St., West Chester Tark to Arlington st
Bedford St., Chauncy to Columbia st
Board alley
Boat-landing, Commercial wharf
Bolton street. Second to D st
Boylston St., Church to Arlington st
Bristol st
Brookline St., Shawmut ave. to Treraont st,. . . .
Bunker Hill St., Elm to Sackville st.
Bushnell st
Button wood st
Cabot st
Caldwell si
Cambridge st.. Wards 9 and 10
Camden st., Tremont st. to O. C. R.R
Canton st., Shawmut ave. to Tremont st
Centre St., Pynchon to New Heath st
Centre St., Ward 23
Chambers St., Charlestown
Charles st
Chestnut ave.. Ward 9, paving
Carried forward
Appropri-
ations.
Expended
Jan. 1,1891, to
Jan. 31,1892.
$12,000 00
21,107 49
1,000 00
6,000 00
1,000 00
5,400 00
3,492 76
8,700 00
1,543 02
2,500 00
3,307 26
1,000 00
3,200 00
35,350 00
6,000 00
4,100 00
469 50
1,000 00
1,767 00
8,000 00
2,579 71
531 10
4,C00 00
2,917 00
3,500 00
16,000 00
1,568 52
23,775 29
7,500 00
1,000 00
3,000 00
1,261 14
634 35
28,224 71
660 00
$12,000 00
21,107 49
1,000 00
4,729 41
1,000 00
5,400 00
3,492 76
8,700 00
1,543 02
2,500 00
1,000 00
3,200 00
35,350 00
4,825 38
4,100 00
469 50
64 50
49 00
531 10
4,000 00
2,917 00
2,013 30
16,000 00
1,568 52
23,775 29
7,500 00
1,000 00
3,000 00
634 35
16,578 66
$224,078 85 $190,049 28 $34,029 57
Balance on
hand Jan.
31, 1892.
$1,270 59
3,307 26
1,174 62
,<X)0 00
,767 00
,935 50
,530 71
1,261 14
,646 05
650 00
Street Department.
Paving" Division Specials. — Continved.
Object of Appropriation.
Appropria-
tions.
Expended
Jan. 1,1891, to
Jan. 31, 1892.
Balance on
hand Jan.
31, 1892.
Brought forward.
Childs 8t
Cleveland pi
Cliff St
Columbus ave
Commonwealth ave., "West Chester park to
Arlington st
Concord sq
Cool: St.
Cornell st
Cornwall St., laying out and constructing
Call St., laying out and constructing
D St., First to Third st
Dartmouth st., Tremont st. to Columbus ave.
Dearborn st., Eustis to Dudley st
Dorchester st., Eighth st. to Dorchester ave.. .
Dorset St., Dorchester ave. to Boston st
Dover St., Harrison ave. to Albany st
Dudley St., to Norfolk House
Dudley St., "Washington to "Vine st
Dudley st.. Blue Hill ave. to Shirley st
Dupont st
Eagle sq
East Fifth st., L to N st
East First St., H to K st
E St., Third to Bolton st. and Third St., 160 ft.
Ellery St., "Ward 15
East Concord St., Harrison ave. to Albany st. .
East Newton St., Harrison ave. to Albany st..
Edgeworth st
EUwood st
Emerson St., U to I st
Emerald st
Exeter st
First St., "West
First St., "Ward 14
Carried forward $410,229 56 $345,793 27 $64,436 29
$224,078 85
2,500 00
1,000 00
2,169 72
39,000 00
2,000 00
72 40
700 00
4,300 00
6,405 86
3,096 45
5,000 00
568 10
2,066 91
22,000 00
5,000 no
6,715 00
5,000 00
33,899 36
7,600 64
524 00
1,000 00
3,244 91
1,C00 00
3,000 00
1,780 39
4,500 00
3,554 36
400 00
1,251 06
5,000 00
1,574 98
316 50
5,200 00
4,710 07
$190,049 28
1,000 00
2,169 72
39,000 00
603 90
72 40
700 00
4,300 00
5,405 86
3,096^45
568 10
21,613 91
5,000 00
6,715 00
5,000 00
33,177 75
...524 00
1,000 00
1,000 00
3,000 00
4,500 00
3,554 36
400 00
1,251 06
5,000 00
1,574 98
316 50
5,200 00
$34,029 57
2,500 00
1,396 10
1,000 00
5,000 00
2,066 91
386 09
721 61
7,600 64
3,244 91
1,780 39
4,710 07
10
City Docuiment No. 36.
Paving' Division Specials. — Continued.
Object or Appropriation.
Brought forward
First St., E toF St ...
First St., D to F St
First St.. N. Y. & N. E. R.R. to F st
Falcon st
Fourtli St., G to H st
Forbes st
Fulda st
Fulton St., Richmond to Lewis st
Genesee st
Geneva ave
Goldsmith st
Granite ave
Green St., Charlestown
Gustin st
Hampshire st
Harrison ave., Canton to Sharon st
Harrison ave., E. Concord to E. Chester park
Harrison ave., E. Lenox to Northami^ton st. ..
Harrison ave., Kneeland to Bennett st
Han'ard St., Washington to Albany st
Harvest st., Boston st. to Dorchester ave
Haskins st
Haviland st
Heath St., widening, etc
Henley st
High St., Winthrop to Walker st.
Hill st
Hobart st
Hollis st
Howland st
Hudson st _
Humboldt ave., grading
Hunneman st
Horace and Homer sts
Humboldt ave., grade damages
Appropria-
tions.
E.xpended
Jan. 1,1891,10
Jan. 31, 1892.
Carried forward
$410,229 56
4,000 00
2,289 93
25,000 00
5,667 00
1,104 35
2,020 75
830 28
7,230 42
3,500 00
13,000 00
1,000 00
10,000 00
460 46
1,700 00
1,000 00
4,000 00
- 1,500 00
3,000 00
3,900 00
10,000 00
4,000 00
2,809 79
541 98
17,167 00
3,847 52
2,125 13
4,138 07
2,000 00
3,087 02
4,000 00
21,000 00
16,025 27
14,000 00
1,169 26
1,815 00
$345,793 27
4,000 00
2,289 93
25,000 00
3,380 40
1,104 35
2,020 75
324 75
7,230 42
3,500 00
6,249 79
1,000 00
10,000 00
460 46
1,700 00
1,000 00
4,000 00
1,500 00
3,000 00
Balance on
hand Jan.
31, 1892.
$64,436 29
2,286 60
77 78
4,000 00
2,809 79
2,768 33
3,847 52
2,125 13
4,138 07
2,000 00
3,087 02
4,000 00
20,113 68
16,025 27
82 SO
,158 79 $488,629 61 $120,529 28
6,750 21
3,900 00
9,922 22
541 98
14,398 67
13,917 20
1,169 26
1,815 00
Street Department.
n
Paving- Division Specials. — Continued.
Object of Appeopbiation.
Appropria-
tions.
Expended
Jan. 1,1891. to
Jan. 31, 1892
Balance on
hand Jan.
31, 1892.
Carried forward
Island St
Jeffries and Marginal sts
K St., Broadway to First st
K St., Fourth to Eighth sts
Kingston st.. Summer to Essex sts
Lake st
L st
Lenox st
Lincoln st
Longwood ave., Parker to Huntington ave. . .
Lucas st
Lynde st
Magazine St., E. Chester park to Norfolk ave.
Magnolia st
Maiden st
Matthews st
Maynard st .-. . .
Medford St., Lexington to Chelsea st
Mercer St., Dorchester to Eighth st
Minot st
Monument court ,
Monument st
Moon st
Moreland st., from Fairland st ,
Mt. Vernon St., Ward 25
Murdock st.
National st
Neponset ave
Newman st., Mercer to Dorchester st
Ninth St., Old Harbor to N st
Oakst
Ocean st
Oneida st
Oswego st
Park st
Carried forward
$609,158 79
25 tJO
5,000 00
2,000 00
678 34
7,715 00
12,000 00
30,440 00
5,474 41
2,300 00
23,000 00
308 22
2,000 00
2,500 00
4,000 00
6,000 00
4,560 25
2,000 00
28,200 00
2,000 00
10,000 00
497 48
1,866 87
3,519 34
2,000 00
2,125 00
2,000 00
1,500 00
12,000 00
1,198 26
12,654 37
1,000 00
10,100 00
3,300 00
3,668 67
2,115 43
$488,629 51
25 60
5,000 00
678 34
7,715 00
12,000 00
21,098 97
5,474 41
2,300 00
22,592 12
308 22
1,603 79
925 80
4,000 00
6,000 00
4,560 25
2,000 00
21,505 36
1,054 98
8,440 37
497 48
1,866 87
3,519 34
2,000 00
2,125 00
1,006 06
1,500 00
12,000 00
1,198 26
6,117 66
1,000 00
10,100 00
3,300 00
3,668 67
2,115 43
$818,906 03 $667,927 49 $150,978 54
$120,529 28
2,000 00
9,341 03
396 21
1,574 20
6,694 64
945 02
1,559 63
6,536 71
12
City Document No. 36.
Paving Division Specials.
Continued.
Object of Appropriation.
Appropria-
tione.
Expended
Jan. 1,1891, to
Jan. 31, 1892.
Balance on
hand Jan.
.31, 1892.
Brought fomcard
Parker st
Parker st., Huntington ave. to Westland ave
Parkman st., Ward 9
Pan 1 st
Pemberton sq
Preble st., Dorchester ave. to Vinton st
Prentiss st
Prospect ave
Q st
Randolph st
Resurfacing streets, Wards 17 and 18 ,
Richmond st
Rochester st
Rogers st., Dorchester st. to Preble st
Rutherford ave., macadamizing
Rutherford ave., paving
Rutland square
Salem st., Charlestown
Savin Hill ave
Scotia, Cambria, and Bothnia sts
Second at., K to M st
Second st., E to Dorchester st
Second at.. Granite St., easterly
Second St., grading, etc
Seneca st
Seventh st., D to B st
Sheds, Medford-st. Tard
Shirley st
Short St., Charlestown
Short St., West Roxbury
Silver St., A to D st
Sixth St., B to Cat
Sixth St., H to I st
Soley st
Stillman st
Carried forward
$818,906 03
35,000 00
1,000 00
453 80
844 38
1,584 57
5,800 00
4,000 00
500 00
399 85
6,000 00
5,777 31
1,400 00
4,360 64
1,000 00
100 00
13,538 23
114 10
1,000 00
3,500 00
10,000 00
1,422 21
20,000 00
15,000 00
1,034 36
3,241 33
9,000 00
2,000 00
6,750 00
700 00
3,500 00
1,500 00
3,200 00
1,621 54
810 35
1,500 00
$667,927 49
35,000 00
420 00
453 80
844 38
1,584 57
5,800 00
4,000 00
500 00
399 85
$150,978 54
580 00
5,777 31
1,400 00
4,360 64
1,000 00
100 00
7,841 50
114 10
1,000 00
3,500 00'
10,000 00
1,422 21
20,000 00
15,000 00
1,034 36
3,241 33
9.000 00
4,042 66
700 00
96 60
1,090 66
3,200 00
1,621 64
810 35
6,000 eo
2,000 00
2,707 34
3,403 40
409 34
1,500 00
,203 78 $815,230 13 $173,973 65
Street Department.
13
Paving- Division Specials. — Coniinued.
Object of Appropriations.
Brought forward
Story at
Stoughton St., Harrison ave. to Albany et
Bun-court Bt
Sycamore and Kidge sts
Symmes st
Stanhope st..
Smith Bt
Terrace pi
Terrace st..
Texas st
Third st .
Tremont st., Roxbury crossing to Parker st.. . .
Tremont st., Roxbury crossing to Huntington ave. .
Tremont St., Scollay sq. to Boylston st
Troy st
Village St.
Vinton st
Waltham et
Ward st
"Warebam st.
Warren ave
Warren st., granite blocks.
Warren st. and Blue Hill ave
Warrenton st.
Washburn st.
Washington St., Charlesto wn
Washington et., Hawes ave. to N. Y. & N. E. R.R
Washington st., etc., Ward 23
Water at., Charlestown
Watson st
Waumbeck st ,
Way st
Wellst
Wendell st
West Chester park
Appropria-
tions.
$989,203 78
2,645 08
3,000 00
1,388 32
3,700 00
1,000 00
1,683 50
639 60
850 00
25,695 54
2,000 00
2,000 00
10 50
2,304 46
52,000 00
8,100 00
2,200 00
1,000 00
500 00
675 72
13,024 62
254 40
20,000 00
5,000 00
6,871 64
3,043 89
2,000 00
500 00
11,953 19
540 70
1,498 65
2,000 00
8,179 80
1,800 00
2,520 06
15,647 63
Expended
Jan. 1,1891, to
Jan. 31, 1892.
$815,230 13
1,946 78
3,000 00
1,388 32
3,700 00
1,000 00
Balance ou
hand Jan.
1, 1892.
639 60
850 00
25,218 34
2,000 00
2,000 00
10 50
6,621 08
3,043 89
2,000 00
600 00
11,953 19
540 70
1,498 65
2,000 00
1,800 00
2.520 06
$173,973 65
698 30
1,683 50
477 20
2,304 46
1,000 00
2,918 25
6,000 00
250 66
8,179 80
15,647 63
Carried forward $1,195,354 02
$983,918 97 $211,436 05
14
City Document No. 36.
Paving Division Specials. — Concluded.
Ob.tect of ApPROPI!IATI0N.
Brought forward
West Chester park and square
■^Vest Dedham st
West Newton et., Tremont st. to Columbus ave.. .
West ]S"ewton st., Tremont st. to Shawmut ave. . .
West Second st
Wharf st
Total
Appropria-
tions.
$1,195,354 02
2,563 02
4,500 00
12,000 00
6,000 00
135 49
1,861 03
$1,219,850 54
Expended
Jan. 1,1891, to
Jan. 31, 1892.
$983,918 97
2,568 02
4,500 00
12,000 00
6,000 00
135 49
1,861 03
$1,008,415 40
Balance on
hand Jan.
1, 1892.
$211,435 05
$211,435 05
Stueet Departmknt.
15
Sewer Division Specials.
Object of Appropriation.
Arlington st
Border st
Burnett et
Beacon st. and Commonwealth ave
Brighton
Byron st
" " outlet
Brookline ave., improved sewerage connection
Cambridge st
Catch-basins, Huntington ave
" " Wards 19 and 22
" " Stanhope st
Charlestown sewers, repairing
Cleveland pi •
Crawford st., Humboldt ave. to Walnut ave. . .
Culverts, Ward 24
Commonwealth ave
Cottage St., outlet extension
D St., outlet
Dike, Winthrop Junction
Dunstable st • . • ■
Dustin st
Dorchester brook, rebuilding
East Boston
Eleventh aldermanic district
Falcon st.
Florence st
Harcourt st
Hillside st
Harvard and Kilton sts
Homer st
Lawrence ave., Quincy and Magnolia eta
Milton st
New st
Oak st
Orient Heights
Appropria-
tions.
Expended
Jan. 1,1891, to
Jan. 31, 1892.
Carried forward.
$2,107 69
1,108 91
715 55
18,800 00
10,400 00
934 19
1,211 83
4,665 50
1,500 00
472 95
190 21
227 05
11,000 00
157 00
5,000 00
5,000 00
1,000 00
160 50
10,000 00
2,350 00
373 55
6,000 00
20,366 02
5,200 00
1,046 97
1,000 00
1,306 60
432.00
579 19
12,000 00
1,250 00
6,000 00
865 31
450 00
3,600 00
29,650 00
$1,970 06
1,108 91
715 55
10,387 82
3,673 30
934 19
1,208 19
131 55
1,500 00
454 34
190 21
Balance on
hand Jan.
31, 1892.
8,968 71
157 00
2,030 80
5,000 00
1,000 00
160 50
3,976 17
373 55
6,000 00
20,366 02
2,925 70
1,000 00
1,306 60
432 00
679 19
12,000 00
1,250 00
4,143 12
865 31
15 29
3,500 00
29,585 04
$167,021 02 $127,909 12 $39,111 90
$137 63
8,412 18
6,726 70
3 64
4,633 95
227 05
2,031 29
2,969 20
6,023 83
2,350 00
2,274 30
1.046 97
434 71
64 96
16
City Docuivient No. 36.
Sewer Division Specials. — Concluded.
Object of Appropriation.
Appropria-
tions.
Expended
Jan. 1,1891, to
Jan. 31, 1892.
Balance on
hand Jan.
31, 1S92.
Brought forward
Peter Parley road
Parker Hill st
Porter st
Rockwell and Armandine sts
Russell st
Roxbury
Roslindale and West Roxbury
Savin Hill district
South Boston
Stable and sheds, Brighton
Summer and Orleans sts
Stony-brook improvement
Tyler st
Walkhill st ■
Welles ave
Washington St., etc., Ward 23 '.
Westville, Freeman, and Charles sts
Whitmore st
Total
$167,021 02
395 19
1,024 00
12,000 00
15,000 00
324 13
10,220 81
55,321 26
21,962 26
4,000 00
4,500 00
13,000 00
23,082 44
7,000 00
1,500 00
750 00
2,000 00
8,000 00
700 00
$127,909 12
370 92
1,024 00
12,000 00
8,800 93
324 13
361 38
47,184 96
21,678 70
231 11
13,000 00
22,997 30
7,000 00
1,500 00
750 00
2,000 00
4,003 36
$39,111 90
24 27
6,199 07
9,859 43
8,136 30
283 56
3,768 89
4,500 00
3,996 6-t
700 00
$347,801 11
$271,135 91
$76,665 20
Bridgre Division Specials.
Object of Appropriation.
Berkeley-st. bridge, rebuilding.
Chelsea bridge, steam apparatus
Ferdinand-st. bridge
Irvington-et. bridge
Milton bridge, repairs
Savin-Hill ave. bridge, -widening
Total
Appropria-
tions.
$18,000 00
12,000 00
17,427 87
7,000 00
2,500 00
5,000 00
$61,927 87
Expended
Jan. 1,1 891, to
Jan. 31, 1892.
$8,496 18
7,768 45
15,552 90
7,000 00
2,500 00
$41,317 53
Balance
on hand
Jan. 31, 1892.
$9,503 82
4,231 55
1,874 97
5,000 00
$20,610 34
Street Department.
17
RECAPITULATION OF EXPENDITURES
FOR THE
Thirteen Months ending Jan. 31, 1892.
Current Expenses.
Special Ap-
propriations.
Object of Appropriation.
For the
four months
ending April
30, 1891.
For the
nine months
ending Jan.
31, 1892.
Total.
Street Department :
Central Office
$16,050 00
752,863 94
370,825 28
330,567 64
215,464 92
98,236 54
10,322 94
464 41
$16,050 00
1,985,615 51
$22i,336 08
75,397 41
178,774 60
$1,008,415 49
271,135 91
509,342 24
215 464 92
24,774 09
1,543 48
41,317 53
164,3-:8 16
11,866 42
464 41
Cambridge Bridges Division . .
Street Police
Total
$504,825 66
$1,794,795 67
$1,320,868 93
$3,620,490 26
Statement showing the Income of the Department for
the Year ending January 31, 1892.
Paving Division
Sewer Division .
Sanitary Division
Bridge Division
Street-cleaninof Division
133,777 85
^24,197 53
43,148 51
1,183 40
941 00
$103,248 29
iln addition to the sum of $24,197.53 (the amount of the bills for sewer assessments and
entrance fees deposited with the City Collector) there remains on the books of the Sewer
Division the sum of $57,415.46, assessed for the construction of sewers, but not yet deposited
with the City Collector or collected under the new law, which sum will be drawing interest
at ofo until paid.
LIST OF CONTEACTS
APEIL 1, 1891, TO FEBRUAEY 1, 1892,
MADE BY THE
STREET DEPARTMENT.
20
City Document No. 36.
Paving- Blocks.
Size.
Where Delivered.
Contractor.
Date of
Bid.
Price per M.
200,000 Large, Boston wharves .
300,000
500.000
300,000
200,000
100,000
300,000
300,000
Small,
S. &R. J. Lomhard, April 7,1891,
" " ..Cape Ann Granite
Co
Dorchester or So.
Boston wharves,! S. &R. J. Lombard,
Large, j Charlestown.. ..
Boston whai-ves
Boston , B iirnham's
wharf
Boston wharves . . .
H. Gore& Co
Cape Ann Granite
Co
ilay 8, "
May 18, "
May 18, "
May 26, "
May 21, "
Cape Ann Granite
Co ! June 27, "
Rockport Granite
Co
Rockport Granite
Co
July 27, "
S60.00 ISr.End.
72.00 S. End.
$72 95
48 GO
78 00
72 95
72 95
72 95
73 65
Paving" Brick.
Amoukt. Where Delivered.
200,000
200,000
Contractor.
Boston streets Oliver S. Foster
Boston streets
New England Steam Brick
Co
Date of
Bid.
June 15, 1891,
July 17, "
Price per M.
$11 50
12 50
North-River Flag-ging-.
AVhere Delivered.
Contractor.
Date of Bid.
Price per Sq. Ft.
(Jity
J.J Cuddihy
April 6,1891 ..
$0 52i $0 571
on wharf, on street.
Eflg^estone.
Amount.
Where Delivered.
Contractor.
Date of Bid.
Price
per Lin. Ft.
10,000 lin. ft.
Boston wharves
Perkins & White . .
Julys, 1891 ...
$0 73
Street Departjient.
21
Spruce Lumber.
Where Delivered.
Contractor.
Date of Bid.
Price
per M.
Price
for
Planing.
Paving District 1, South Boston..
" 2, East Boston...
" 3, Charleatown . .
" 4, Brighton
" 5, WestRoxbury.
" 6, Dorchester... .
" 7, Roxbnry
•• 8,9, and 10, City..
A.M. Stetson &Co.
John W. Letherbee.
*< ((
G. Fuller & Son ....
Curtis & Pope
Otis Eddy
Curtis & Pope
A. M. Stetson & Co.
April 7, 1891
$15 38
18 00
17 75
17 00
17 50
16 90
16 40
15 38
$1 00
1 00
1 00
2 25
1 75
1 50
1 75
1 00
Bank Gravel and Sand.
"Wheke Delivered.
Paving District 1, South Boston..
" 2, East Boston .. .
" 3, Charlestown...
" 4, Brighton
" 5, West Roxbury
" 6, Dorchester ...
" 7, Roxbury
" 8,9, and 10, City.
Contractor.
Frank Hannon
No bid
P. O'Riordan.
Wm. Scollans
Thos. Minton.
Owen Nawn..
Date of Bid.
Gravel.
Sand.
April 6,1891.
$1 58
1 87
1 39
1 40
1 50
1 40
1 60
Loads.
1 87
1 96
1 35
1 80
1 60
1 70
Beach Gravel.
Where Delivered.
Contractor.
Date of Bid.
Price per Ton.
City
Perkins & White
April 6, 1891 .
$0.71
Coal.
Where Delivered.
Contractor.
Date of Bid.
Price per
2,240 Lbs.
Pumping-station, Dorchester.
H. G.Jordan & Co
J. A. Bradford &Co....
April 6, 1891 . .
Sept. 25, 1891..
$3 71
3 73
22
City Document No. 36.
Eng-lne and Boiler, 6 Inch x 12 Inch.
Where Delivered.
Contractor.
Date of Bid.
Price.
Miller & Shaw
$745 00
660 00
Wire Rope, Angle, Sliieve, etc.
Where Delivered.
Chelsea, South Draw
" North "
Contractor.
Miller & Shaw
Date of Bid.
Price.
$689 00
1,192 00
Furnishing Stone to City Crushers.
Where Deliv'd.
Crusher.
Contractor.
Date of Bid.
Price.
Paving District 5,
West Roxbury ..
Paving District 7,
Roxbury
Paving District 6,
Washington st...
Dimock st
Bird Bt
James Doonan
H. P. Nawn
April 22, 1891..
" 22, " ..
May 7, " ..
" 9, " ..
$0.80 double
load.
.87 per ton.
.90 "
James P. Davern ....
Wm. L. O'Connell . .
Paving District 6,
Dorchester.
Codman st
.68 "
Street Department.
23
Excavating and Removing' Material from Roadway.
Locality.
Lenox st
Harrlsou aye
West Dedham si
Wareham st
Emerson st
Sixth St., B St. to C st
Kochester st
Magazine st
Seventh st
Cambridge st
West Newton St., Shawmutave.
to Tremont st
Wigglesworth and Worthing-
tou sts
Parker st
Maiden st
Warren st.
Rutherford ave
Prentiss st
West Newton St., Tremont st.
to Columbus ave
Contractor.
John McCarthy
J. J. Sullivan .
M. Donnellan .
John McCarthy
Wm. T. Davis.
M. Donnellan..
8. & R. J. Lombard
J. J.Sullivan.
Wm. T. Davis
Edward A. Janse..
J. J. Sullivan
John McCarthy. . . .
S.&R. J. Lombard
Edward A. Janse. .
John Casey
Date of Bid.
May 6, ISM
" 23, "
June 10, "
" 20, "
" 4, "
" 23, "
" 23, "
" 30, "
July 7, "
" 15, "
" 18, "
Aug. 1, "
" 8, "
" 15, "
Sept. 1, •'
" 14, "
Oct. 23, "
Price.
Per cu. yds.
Earth.
Per sq. yds.
Paving
removed.
$0 STJ
231
Cioj
55
26
19|
23^
151
49
25
55
23i
19
15
27
24
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Employment of Labor.
AVith but few exceptions till grades of labor employed in
the Street Department come under the regulations of the
civil service, and the names of men employed by the depart-
ment must be certitied by the Commissioners before employ-
ment can be given. On the organization of the central office,
the hiring of labor formerly employed by the several depart-
ments was taken charge of by the central office, and the duty
of applying to the Civil Service Commission for men was
assigned to the correspondence and complaint clerk. Books
are kept at the central office by means of which the record
of any one of the 2,200 employees of the department can be
looked up, and his standing in the civil service and his char-
acter for industry be investigated.
The annexed table shows that 142 applications have been
made on the Civil Service Commission for 419 men for
various kinds of work. Of the 712 names submitted by the
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o"
M
M
N c?i
0~ 00 rn"
^0 rH
_2
o
Street Department.
43
Grade and Xumber of Employees in the Street
Department.
(^Showing the average force employed during the summer.')
Divisions.
Title.
Central
Office.
Paving.
Sewer.
Sani-
tary.
Street-
Clean-
ing.
Bridge.
Total.
1
1
2
2
1
Deputy superinteadents
1
1
1
1
1
5
1
Purchasing agent and assistant,
Clerks
2
5
11
23
6
6
8
13
22
3
5
3
5
17
4
4
10
1
11
12
1
3
4
19
37
62
28
3
1
6
3
5
17
Aid
1
5
1
15
1
17
21
17
2
2
2
1
23
25
1
1
Carpenters and assistants
21
6
4
22
49
4
20
32
20
32
1
1
12
5
11
17
14
15
40
4
4
5
3
5
3
2
2
4
Carried forward
7
1 99
158
44
30
98
436
44 City Document No. 36.
Grade and Number of Employees, etc.— Concluded.
Divisions.
Total.
Title.
Central
Office.
Paving.
Sewer.
Sani-
tary.
Street-
Clean-
ing.
Bridge.
7
99
158
44
190
4
SO
54
98
1
436
244
4
2
2
361
4
1
34
6
3
2
447
157
2
967
4
1
34
6
3
5
3
2
2
7
2
2
4
17
7
93
93
2
10
12
1
2
1
2
3
3
2
1
^
2
1
10
12
9
19
12
1 ■
3
1
16
1
12
1
15
18
1
63
159
57
2
297
1
8
4
5
2
8
5
4
29
4
1
2
6
2
7
4
1
18
, 9
777
620
424
301
121
2,252
Street Department. 45
Complaints.
Complaints received by telephone, or by mail, are put in
the hands of a complaint-clerk, who gives to them his per-
sonal attention, in the following manner:
A record of each comphiint is made in a book kept for
such purposes, the system of keeping the same and rectify-
ing complaints, as far as practicable, being as follows :
First, on the receipt of letter or notice, an abstract is
made of the same in the complaint book, and a copy on a
form adopted for such purposes is sent to either of the
divisions for investigation. The district foreman to whom
the complaint was referred investigates the cause and recom-
mends the adoption of certain improvements or immediately
rectifies the cause. He then makes an endorsement on the
back of notice and returns it to the central office. The
recommendations or improvements are also recorded in the
complaint book, and if of enough importance the complainant
is notified of the recommendations and intentions of the de-
partment.
The number of such complaints received at this office
since May 1, 1891, to January 1, 1892, was 251, of which
145 related to the Paving Division.
25 " " Sewer "
45 " " Sanitary "
27 *' " Street-cleaninof Division.
9 " *' Street-watering "
Complaints, to receive proper attention, should be sent to
the central office and not to some local foreman.
All complaints should be signed with full name and ad-
dress, as anonymous communications receive no attention.
Expenses of Central Office.
For the current expenses of the central office the City
Council appropriated the sum of fifteen thousand dollars
($15,000), to which was added by transfer the sum of one
thousand and fifty dollars ($1,050), making a total of six-
teen thousand and fifty dollars ($16,050) for the nine (9)
months ending Jan. 1, 1892. The same was expended as
follows :
Salaries $13,155 10
Stationery, printing, postage, etc. . . 1,144 09
Atlases, books, etc 343 10
46 City Docuinient No. 3o.
Rubber stamps, etc. ..... $48 80
Board of horse, shoeing, clothing, etc. . . 536 00
Telephones ....... 165 48
Travelling exj^enses, etc. .... 601 10
Miscellaneous office-supplies, etc. . . . 56 33
$16,050 00
BRIDGE DIVISION.
Previous to May 1, 1891, the entire force of mechanics
employed in the Bridge Division, consisting of carpenters,
painters, laborers, etc, were under the charge of one fore-
man, with headquarters at the Foundry-street yard. The
territory covered by this force reached from Winthrop to
Charlestown on one side of the Charles river, and from the
City Proper to Milton on the other side. Bridge repairs,
especially such as are required on the tide-water bridges, re-
quire immediate attention, and as all tools, gearing, block-
ins:, :in<l stock were stored at one yard, and as much time
was lost by the transfer of the men from one remote district
to another when any exigency for their services arose, it was
deemed better to divide the territory into two di^^tricts.
The Northern District, with headquarters on Charles-river
bridge, includes all bridges north and west of th§ Charles
river.
The Southern District, with headquarters at Foundry
street, includes all bridges south of the Charles river.
This division of territory equalizes, as nearly as possible,
the care of the most important tide-water bridges, and places
within easy access all necessary ap[)lianees for doing such
w^ork as may be required in each district. The headquarters
of both of these districts have telephone connections, and,
if necessary, the whole repair-force of the division can be
concentrated at any point, in case of immediate repairs being
required on any important bridge.
The al)Ove system of dividing the work into two districts
has worked satiisfactorily, and has resulted in economy and
efficiency.
Previous to May 1, 1891, all draw-tenders reported
directly to the Superintendent's office, and on the most
trivial matters left their Juidges without the services of a
draw-tender. In order to allow the draw-tenders to put in
their whole time on their bridges, the office of Chief Draw-
Street Department. 47
tender was creiited, and an old employee of the dcpiirtment
selected for the position. All daily bridge-reports of draw-
tenders arc now made to the Chief Draw-tender, who also
makes provision for all needed supplies, and, in general,
under the direction of the Deputy Superintendent, super-
vises the entire force employed on the drawbridges.
The report of the Deputy Superintendent, Appendix A,
gives the detailed report of expenditures, and amount of
work done on each bridije, together with much other in-
formation of a useful nature.
BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE BRIDGES DIVISION.
By the provisions of the acts of the Legislature of 1870,
the care of the West Boston, Canal, and Prison-point
bridges is placed in the hands of two Commissioners, one of
whom is appointed by the City of Cambridge, the other by
the City of Boston. By the terms of the ordinances, the
Superintendent of Streets is Commissioner for the City of
Boston.
The following report shows the present condition of the
bridges, the work that has been done during the year, and
the work proposed to be done during the coming year.
West Boston Bridge.
The repairs of the westerly bulkhead, sidewalk, and adja-
cent roadway, alluded to as necessary in the last report,
have been made.
Substantially the same plan has been adopted as the one
used in rebuilding the down-stream side in 1886.
The bridge has been relieved of a large amount of gravel
and mud, all decayed timber has been removed, and a new
sidewalk of hard-pine timber and kyanized spruce-plank has
been built, and upon it a brick sidewalk has been laid.
The old edgestoues have been reset. The roadway plank
wherever uncovered has been protected by a layer of salt
mud, and the entire space between the curbstone and nearest
railroad track has beeu repaved, using the old paving-blocks.
A new hard-pine fence has been built for the entire length
of bridge repaired. The part of the bridge repaired as above
described includes all the up-stream sidewalk between the
draw and the Cambridge abutment, and about one hundred
feet in length on the same side of the bridge next the Boston
abutment.
48 City Document No. 36.
The rei)airs luive been made by eontract by Josiah Shaw,
who was the lowest bidder. Total cost, 15,250.25.
A new boiler for the engine has been provided, and the
turning-apparatus put in good order.
The up-stream end of the draw-pier is in bad condition,
and will require repairs and strengthening next season. The
plank sides of the waterway are in bad condition and re-
quire attention. The paving of the roadway and sidewalk
from the draw to Boston end will require attention next
year, and the bulkheads next the Charles-river embankment
should be repaired.
With the exceptions above noted, the bridge is in as good
condition as it is practicable to put so old and narrow a struct-
ure, and the need of a new, wider, and more commodious
bridge becomes more urgent year by year.
Canal or Craigie's Bridge.
The foundation to the engine-house on the draw-pier has
been put in good condition. The roadway paving laid last
year has done good service, and the remaining surface should
be repaved.' The fender on the up-stream side is in bad
condition. The hard bottom prevents the driving of piles in
the usual manner, and a different plan nmst be adopted to
protect the bridge from vessels. The sides of the waterway
need new planking. The wooden draw shows signs of age,
and piling under the Boston end will soon require attention.
The bridge as a whole is in fairly good and safe condition.
Prison-point Bridge.
The draw-pier has been replanked, and ordinary repairs
made to the roadway and machinery for moving the draw.
In General.
The usual statement is appended, of the number of draw-
openings and the number of vessels passed through.
The amount of revenue receivpd for dockage, sale of old
material, etc., during the year has been $633.40, one-half of
Avhich has been paid over to City of Cambridge ; also the
sum of $1,515.27 paid by Park Department for building
taken on West Boston bridge for the Charles-river embank-
ment, and a like sum paid to City of Cambridge.
The following is a statement of the payments made by the
City of Boston on account of the West Boston, Canal, and
Prison-point bridges from Januar}^ 1, 1891, to January 1,
1892 :
Street Department.
49
Amount expended from appropriation for
1890-91 $1,543 48
Amount expended from appropriation for
1891-92 10,322 94
Total amount expended . . . . $11,866 42
Condition of Appropriation.
Amount of appropriation for financial year
1891-92
Amount expended to Feb. 1,1892.
Unexpended balance ....
$12,000 00
10,322 94
f
$1,677 06
Classification nf Expense's.
1891.
General
Account.
Canal
Bridge.
Prison-
poiut
Bridge.
West Bos-
ton Bridge.
Total.
$395 00
43 28
26 72
$395 no
43 28
Travelling expenses ...
26 72
$1,095 00
308 11
354 05
61 15
390 00
108 40
53 56
98 80
41 96
11 77
77 50
200 00
14 40
$215 94
211 25
221 68
77 60
$900 09
213 76
46 50
158 16
585 00
86 70
32 07
92 95
3 82
1 57
200 00
200 00
9 00
22 56
5,250 25
2 211 03
733 12
622 23
296 91
975 00
Fuel
4 15
50
9 82
89 78
192 ''5
55 60
13 34
37 50
315 00
400 00
4 95
''9 ''S
oo 5g
5 '■'50 25
Totals
$465 00
$2,814 70
$783 39
$7,803 33
$11,866 42
50
City Document No. 3G.
Nninber of Times the DraAvs in West Boston, Canal, an. I
Prison-l*oint Briilji'os have been opened, aiul tlie Num-
ber of Vessels Avhich have passed dnrinj? tlie Y'ear
ending- Jan. 31, 1892.
Date.
West Boston.
Canal or
Craigie's.
Prison
-piiiiu.
Jan.l, 1891, to Feb. 1,1892.
1.1
^ 'a
a s
"3 .
*^ P
P So
1-
Q
3.5
1^
> p
|i
52
i5^
"3
^ -.J
9 ,
26
36
148
222
246
229
2.32
207
122
166
107
40
14
46
57
222
378
383
371
332
334
201
279
193
60
96
97
147
383
456
352
431
427
384
297.
377
298
131
82
121
185
392
482
371
561
452
512
369
284
315
111
21
14
11
18
29
61
26
29
21
26
27
64
57
35
February
19
U
;>i
May
35
100
July
35
42
25
October • ...
34
38
297
2-18
Totals
1,790
2,870
3,876
4,237
404
933
Canal Bridge Property-schedule.
* Three street-hoes, * 3 snow-scrapers, 1 coal-scoop, 2 long
pokers, 3 corn-brooms, 2 cold-chisels, 1 crowbar, 1 hammer,
1 sledge, * 1 snow-plough, 1 saw, 6 wrenches, 4 oil-cans,
2 ice-chisels, 4 hand-lanterns, * 16 street-lanterns, 2 earth -
picks, 1 United States flag, 30 fathoms rope, 1 lamp, 1 iron
block, 1 wheelbarrow.
Prisox-point Bridge Property-schedule.
One hundred feet woven hose, 1 iron shovel, 1 pickaxe,
* 1 adze, 1 axe, 1 brace with 3 bits, * 2 chisels, 1 hammer, 2
Yale padlocks, 1 snow-shovel, 1 broom, 1 street- hoe.
* In poor condition.
Street Department.
51
West Boston Bridge Property-schedule.
Two wheelbarrows, 1 United States flag, 200 feet rojie,
2 snatch-blocks, 1 ladder, 3 lanterns, 2 bushel baskets, <'^
oil-cans, 1 long poker, 1 tube-cleaner, 2 brooms, 1 table, 1
monkey-wrench, 1 auger, 1 vice, 1 Stillson wrench, 2 ham-
mers, 1 saw, 1 mallet, 1 ice-saw, 2 pails, 1 adze, 1 top-
maul, 1 iron bar, 5 hoes, 3 ice-chisels, 1 axe, 2 files, * 10
iron shovels, *3 wooden shovels, * 175 feet hose.
Statement of Traffic over Bridg-es.
6S
ii
«2
us
•c2
lz;a.
?2
«<i
a 2
«<i
1891.
a to
o
"no -*"
^ to
a „
^§^
a _r
n > .
r-
Teams to Boston
1,322
2,940
1,9041 2.
647
2,657
235
3,990
C3
Foot-passengers to Boston
r
2,276J 1
1,297
3,555
225
626
1,939
3,550
* In poor condition.
52
City Document No. 36.
PAVING DIVISION.
The following tables show the length of accepted streets
and the character and areas of pavements Feb. 1, 1892 :
Leng"th in Miles.
J3
<
o
o
5
,a
o
O
52
6
"3
-a
2
O
"a
O
1890 Report.
3.2
64.9
6.5
174.6
160.9
. . . .
409.7
1892.
City Proper, Feb. 1 .
*4.07
39.67
0.36
4 41
31.33
0.78
0.07
80.69
Charlestown
0.03
7.68
0.29
14.46
0.03
0.05
22.54
East Boston
. 3.50
....
0.48
2.09
20.30
0.18
26.55
South Boston ....
0.33
10.24
0.75
23.33
1.82
5.71
42.18
Roxbury
0.23
6.3S
0.01
52.24
16.06
0.70
75.02
0.09
24.67
47.29
0 67
72.72
1.73
40.01
16.43
36.59
16.61
1.47
1.45
79 80
34.49
Total
4.66
69.29
0.36
5.94
204.56
139.48
10.30
4-34.59
* Of this amount 0.48 miles = asphalt blocks.
There have been laid out and accepted by the Street Com-
missioners during the year 7.87 linear miles, .12 miles have
been discontinued, making a total increase of mileage of
7.75 miles. The discrepancy between 434.59 miles and
417.45 miles (obtained by adding the increased mileage to
the 1890 report) is owing to a rcmeasurement having been
made this year of the street mileage, and an error of seven^
teen miles having been discovered in the previous reports.
The rapid increase in this mileage, from year to year, is
shown by the following table :
Street Department.
53
1859.
1871.
1872.
1873.
1874.
1875.
1876.
1877.
1878.
1879.
1880.
1881.
.111.50 Miles.
.201.32
.207.4
.209.24
.313.90
.318.58
327.50
.333.2
.340.39
.345.19
.350 54
.355.5
1882.
1883 .
1884.
1885,
1886.
1887.
1888.
1889.
1890.
1891.
1892
.359.85 Miles.
.307.99
.374.10
.379.60
.383.55
.390.30
.392.72
.397.84
.404.6
.409.6
.434.59
The following table .shows tlie area of pavement in the city
of Boston, in square yards :
Asphalt
Block.
Brick.
Cobble.
Telford
and
Macadam.
Gravel.
Not
Graded.
Totals.
Feb.l, 1891.
.54,070
1,429,620
109,890
Feb. 1, 1892.
City Proper,
Chailest'n .
E. Bo.ston .
S. Boston .
Roxbury .
W. Roxb'v,
*65,6do
421
4,271
3,559
860,853
178,060
83,286
218,076
139,776
2,067
39,444
3,638
52,156
2,936
9,621
14,959
717
606,675
219,471
39,536
405,661
932,270
433,826
718,302
399 365
13,207
161
389,142
38,173
263,319
739,700
613,177
254,749
1,204
762
3,555
118,371
9,530
10,492
31,050
26,977
1,603,388
401,811
525,140
799,511
1,349,171
1,186,085
1,401,973
681,091
Dorchester.
Total . .
73,906
1,521,562
3,638
80,389
3,755,106
2,311,628
201,941
7,948,170
* Of this amount. 8,501 gq yds. =: asphalt blocks.
Total public htreets, 434.59 miles.
Note. — The city is subdivided on former boundary lines.
In order to compare the character of the pavements in the
city of Boston with the other cities of the country, the follow-
ing table is presented :
54
City Document No. 36.
Disti'ibiitioii of Kinds of Pavements. Public and Im-
proved Streets.
a
3
1^1
S o a
O 111
-too
pa c-i
_C3
S
2 53
C Pi
o^ S
Sheet asphalt . .
Coal-tar ....
Asphalt block .
Block etoue . .
AVood
Cobble
26.07
23.06
5.19
14.18
0.18
6.94
0.94
29.07
1.25
0.76
0.62
3.45
61.27
30.49
3.44
3.23
2.47
15.69
49.21
2.60
15.16
0.96
0 11
40.45
67.61
00.70
15.94
1.37
Vitrified brick .
0.02
00 08
liubble
*Telfoid ....
4.34
64.40
33.90
0.29
28.75
10.00
♦Macadam. . . .
4.83
19.55
5.10
23.15
11.64
37.07
34.47
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
1 00.00
Mileage ....
165.70
421.97
669.64
34T.75
475.16
762.20
434.59
* Not usually separated in the reports of the various cities.
An inspection of the foregoing tables shows that >n Boston
only 15.9^ of the total mileage is paved with granite blocks ;
1.07% paved with asphalt; .08% paved with brick ; 1.4%
]iaved with cobble; the remainder, 81%, being either
macadamized or gravelled.
This percentage of macadam and gravelled streets is larger
than most of the other cities in the country, St. Louis,
which compares the nearest with Boston, having 64%, while
Buffalo has but 30% macadamized, and over 70% of its
streets well paved. This large percentage of macadamized
streets accounts largely for the expense of maintaining the
department, compared with other cities.
The inferior condition of most of the paved streets of
Boston is apparent to ever^'^ one. Several causes have oper-
ated to bring this condition al)out.
In the first place, the quality of the stone blocks with
M'hich the pavement Avas originally laid was poor ; these
blocks, in most instances, were roughl}' cut, of irregular
<limensions, and laid without proper care, so that, in some
cases, even where the original pavement has never been dis-
Street Department. 55
turl)ecl, it has worn unequally and has settled in such a
manner as to pre'^ent a very uneven surface.
The numerous structures under the pavement, consisting
of gas-pipes, vvater-pi[)es, tele[)hone conduits, steam- heating
jiipes, electric-wire conduits, and sewers with their connec-
tions, necessitate a constant tearing up of the pavements to
make connections and remedy breaks and defects.
There is also the tearing up and replacing of railroad
tracks which is continually going on.
This continual disturbance of the pavement and the im-
possibility of replacing it over an excavation in such a
manner as to leave the pavement in its original condition
has resulted in the present uneven appearance of many of
our stiTets, making them uncomfortable to travel over and
difficult to clean.
It will be impossible to construct and maintain first-class
pavements in our commercial and business thoroughfares,
as long as private corporations are allowed legislative fran-
chises to not only cover the greater part of the surface with
lailroads, drip-boxes, manholes, gate-boxes, and covers of all
sizes and kinds, but also to undermine the same with a per-
fect network of contrivances, some seething with steam,
some flowing the most volatile, gas-producing and inflamma-
ble hydrocarbons, and some conducting the electric current —
all being liable to get out of repair and requiring excavations
and disturbanceof the street-surface to keep them in condition.
The spirit of self-interest and the desire to realize large
dividends tend toward the greatest economy on the part of
corporations in replacing the disturbed portions of street and
pavement ; thus leaving to the city a great deal of work to
finally adjust and regulate at the expense of the [)ublic
funds.
The only complete remedy for these evils is to build a
large brick subway beneath the sidewalk or roadwaj capable
of containing every wire or pipe needed for all purposes,
with only its manholes appearing at the surface.
Until such time as an underground conduit of a size
sufiicient to contain all gas, water, and other pipes and wires
is laid, it will be impossible to prevent the tearing up of the
])avements, and dependence must be placed on the power of
the dei)artment to grant or refuse permits and to have all
openings repaved in as good a manner as possible under the
circumstances. The amendment to the ordinance made this
year, whereby the parties who make openings are obliged to
keep the pavements in repair for six months, and, on their
failure to do so, to be ol)liged to pay the cost of the city's
doing the work, will tend to lessen these evils. •
5(5 City Document Xo. 30.
The following list shows the fom[)anies and corporntions
in the city which, from the nature of their business, have
occasion to disturh the street-surface most frequently :
Albany Street Freight Railroad Company.
Boston Electric Light Company.
Boston & Albany Railroad Company.
Boston & jSIaine Railroad Comi)any.
Boston, Revere Beach, & Lynn Railroad Company.
Boston Gaslight Company.
Brookline Gaslight Company.
Charlestown Gaslight Company.
Dorchester Gaslight Company.
East Boston Gaslight Company.
Edison Electric Illuminating Company.
Fitchburg Railroad Company.
Jamaica Pond Aqueduct Company.
Jamaica Plain Gaslight Company.
Xew England Telephone & Telegraph Company.
New York & New England Railroad Company.
Old Colony Railroad Company.
Roxbury Gaslight Company.
South Boston Gaslight Company.
West End Railroad Company,
Western Union Telegraph Company.
Eleven thousand three hundred and twenty permits were
granted during the past year to open streets. The excava-
tions made under these permits aggregate 110.7' miles in
length, and show the proportions to which this nuisance has
grown.
One thousand nine hundred and sixteen openings were
made under "emergenc}^ permits " for breaks in water and
gas pipes requiring immediate attention.
Macadamized Streets.
Boston has a larger proportion of macadamized streets
than any large city in this country.
While streets of this description can be constructed
cheaply, the rapid deterioration of the surface requires an
immense outlay to keep thera in repair.
With constant attention in the way of resurfacing and
watering, these streets are convenient for travel, l)ut with-
out this care, holes are soon w(n-n in the surface. Macadam-
ized streets are always muddy in wet weather, and are not
suited to stand the travel of our thoroughfares leading to the
suburbs. •
Street Depaktment. 57
All the macadamized streets of the City Proper, exce[)t
those whose grade is more than G per 100, and all tlie main
macadamized avenues which radiate to the suburbs, should
be paved with granite blocks or asphalt, as rapid I3' as the
finances of the city will permit.
In determining the chtiracter of the pavement to be used on a
street, regard must be paid to several considerations, among
which are its life, first cost, cost of maintenance, conven-
ience, appearance, and adaptability to the traffic it may be
exi)ected to undergo during its life.
The pavement laid this year has been laid in accordance
with the best modern practice, and in accordance with what
seemed for the best interests of the community.
The business streets in exclusively commercial sections
subjected to the heaviest travel have been paved with granite
blocks.
Where all water, gas, sewer, telephone, and other pipes
are already laid, and where there is reasonable cause to
believe that the pavement will not be constantly torn up, the
blocks have been laid on a concrete base of hydraulic
cement, and the joints filled with pebbles and road-pitch.
A concrete base is especially applicable in loose soil where
there is liable to be trouble from sub-soil water.
The streets subjected to heavy travel in which the various
pipes have not as yet been laid, have been paved with granite
blocks on a gravel base in the ordinary manner; more atten-
tion, however, has been paid to rolling and preparing the
foundation- bed than was the practice in fin-mer years, with the
result of securing a more even pavement.
The residence streets, where sufficient appropriation ex-
isted, have been paved with sheet asphalt, asphalt blocks,
or brick, as seemed most suited to the case in hand.
Brick paving has only obtained on a few cross-streets, wnth
a view of putting it to a thorough test. It can be used to
advantage on streets of comparatively light traffic, where a
less expensive form is desired than asphalt.
It is believed that the above kinds of pavement include all
the varieties necessary to pave our streets in a first-class
manner. Wood pavements, which are extensively used in
Western cities and in cities abroad, are not adapted to this
city. The difficulty of keeping them clean, owing to the
tenacity with which filthy matter of all kinds adheres to
them, and the exhalations which arise from their absorption
of fluids, render them an unsanitary pavement. They are
short-lived and require frequent repairs.
The granite-block pavement laid on a face of hydraulic-
cement concrete is believed to be the pavement best adapted
58 City Document No. 36.
to our business streets, especiiilh'^ where all water, gns, tele-
jihone, and electric pipes have been Liid and connections
made. This pavement possesses the advantao'e of the longest
life, is easily cleaned, gives a good foothold for horses, and
requires but little expenditure for repairs. Its chief dis-
advantage is its noise. The average cost of this pavement,
including all labor and materials, is $4.70 per square
yard. This pavement has been laid on Tremont street,
between Cornhill and Boylston street, and a comparison
of the paving between the railroad tracks with the rest
of the street shows what can be done with first-class granite
l)locks properly laid.
A number of streets have been paved with granite blocks
laid on the ordinary gravel foundation. This st3de of paving
has obtained on such streets as were not entirely built up
with business blocks, and where a subsequent change in the
character of the buildings will involve numerous excava-
tions to connect with water, gas, electric, and other pipes.
'I'he quality of the stone blocks used has been first-class,
however, and when the street has arrived at its ultimate
development (provided it does so during the life of the stone
bl(jcks), the street can be repaved with the same blocks set
on a concrete base.
A large amount of asphalt pavement has been laid this
year on different streets, among which may be mentioned :
Beacon street from Charles street to Arlington, Cabot street,
Columbus avenue, Hudson street, Austin street, Kilby
street. Court street, etc. This pavement is particularly
suited to residence streets, and such business streets as are
free from horse-car tracks and are lined with buildings
occupied mostly by ofiices, where the noise of a granite-
block pavement could not be borne. This pavement, when
made of genuine asphalt and prepared and laid in the best
manner, gives a very satisfactory result. Such of these
l)avements in Boston as have given out have done so by
neglect to prom[)tly repair them, or else by the opening of
trenches through the street for the various gas, water, or
other pipes. The life of the pavement is not so long as that
of a granite-block pavement, but with reasonable care the
])avement is good for many years. All the asphalt pave-
ments laid are kept in repair at the expense of the con-
tractors for five years. The asphalt pavement is easily
cleaned, and presents a pleasing appearance to the eye.
Much has been said and written about the slipperiness of this
pavement. If the pavement is kept clean and free from the
thin coating of mud which is apt to accumulate, and is sanded
in case of sleet fallimr on the surface, it ijives a better foot-
Street Department. 59
ing than a stone pavement. Statistics prove that more
horses fall on a mile of stone pavement than on a mile of
asphalt pavement. The cost of the asphalt pavement laid
this 3'ear has averaged about $3.50 per square yard.
Several streets have been paved during the year with an
asphalt-block pavement. This pavement, while not so dur-
able as the sheet asphalt, has the advantage of being easily
replaced in case of excavation being made through its
surface for gas or water pijoes. It presents a very hand-
some appearance when well laid, and is well suited for light
travel. The city of Baltimore has miles of streets paved with
this material, which have been in good repair for eight years.
The use of brick for a street pavement has been attracting
the attention of municipal authorities for the last few years.
It is extensively used in several Western and Southern
cities, and has lately been tried in some of the large cities,
among which are Cleveland, Columbus, Chicago, Philadel-
phia, Indianapolis, Omaha, Peoria, Baltimore, AVashington,
Harrisburg, Wheeling, Johnstown, Clinton. The claims
made for this pavement are its low cost, combined with its
durability and appearance.
There are now four streets paved in this city.
Hamilton place (a private way) was paved in 1888 by the
abutters, and is now in good condition. It is subjected to
light travel only, so that conclusions cannot be drawn from
this street alone concerning the durability of the pavement.
Genesee, Seneca, and Oswego streets have been paved
with brick this year ; the first two streets with a Keramite
brick, at a cost of $2.75 per square yard; the last-named
street with a brick manufactured in Rhode Island, at a cost
of $2.40 per square yard.
The following method was observed in paving these
streets. The macadam was excavated to the depth of seven
inches and the road-bed then rolled with a horse-roller. A
two-inch layer of gravel was then spread and rolled and the
bricks laid on a thin sand bed. After being rammed
in place, the surface was flooded with water and the bricks
again rammed to a true surface, after which the joints were
grouted with Portland cement mortar, mixed 1 to 1.
These streets have only been paved six months, so that no
judgment can be passed upon them.
There are various methods of laying a brick pavement,
and it is proposed during the coming ^ear to lay the bricks
on a concrete base as well as by other methods, so that a
comparison may be obtained. Great care has to be taken in
the selection of the brick to be used, and before trying
GO City Document No. 36.
this style of pavement, the department made a series of
tests of different bricks submitted.
The bricks should have toughness, elasticity, homogeneity,
and impermeal)ility, and this condition should obtain in each
and every layer throughout the kiln.
The common tests that are applied are :
1. Absorption test by volume or by weight.
2. Test for compressive strength.
3. Test for transverse strength.
4. Test for abrasion.
Under the first test, measurements by weight usually show
a less power of absorption than by volume, but, as the
specific gravity of a brick or paving stone has no bearing on
its wearing qualities, the volume test seems more proper.
Likewise, the transverse strength is of ftir greater value
than the compressive strength. The test for abrasion, or
the "rattler test," is made by placing the bricks to be tested
in a revolving cylinder together with one or two hundred
weight of "foundry shot," or nuggets broken off of iron
castings. The per cent, of abrasion is obtained from the
lo6S by weight at the end of stated periods of time.
The following table shows the results obtained by the
tests made by the department :
Street Department.
61
Resistance of Paving- Bricic, Stone, and Asphalt to
Abrasion and Impact. Mechanical Tests made with a
Foundry " Rattler."
d
0)
Loss in per cents of the original
weight during
Total
loss.
Absorptive power in per cents
of the volume of the
1st half
hour.
2d half
hour.
3d half
hour.
dry brick.
Granite and Asphalt.
1. . .
0.88
0.46
0..37
1.71
0.8
2. . .
3.63
2.57
2.42
8.62
Paving Brick.
3. . .
1.43
0.96
0.48
2.87
•
4. . .
2.83
1.15
0.99
4.97
5 . . .
1.51
0.71
0.55
2.77
2.2
6. . .
0.84
0.30
0.30
1.44
7 . . .
0.68
0.49
0.37
1.54
1.5
8. . .
0.62
0.49
0.37
1.48
2.0
9. . .
0.62
0.56
0.49
1.67
1.0
10 . . .
2.81
1.76
1.22
5.79
3.0
U . . .
1.98
1.86
1.68
5.52
6.0
12 . . .
1.03
0.54
0.36
1.93
13. . .
0.90
0.41
0.25
1.56
6.0
14. . .
4.32
3.66
4.24
12.22
23.3
15. . .
1.60
0.97
0.62
3.19
10.0
16. . .
2.19
1.83
1.60
5.62
14.0
17. . .
1.72
1.00
0.55
3.27
18. . .
1.66
0.90
0.67
3.23
Addenda.
Absorptive power in per cents
of the weight of the
dry brick.
0.17
0.19
Three samples of the brick, numbered 7, 8, [), were tested
at the VVaterlown Arsenal, as to their transverse strength,
with the followino; results :
()2
City Document Xo. 3i).
Modulus of rupture in lbs.
per square inch.
A. . .
1925
B . . .
C . . .
2072
1700
The foregoing tests show conclusively that there is a great
variation in the toughness of the so-called paving bricks, and
that the variation exists in bricks from the same yard.
A range from 1.44% to 12.22% loss by abrasion is cer-
tainly very great, and in absorption a range from 1.5% to
23.3% is enough to put the materials into a doubtful class ;
all of which goes to show that in the selection of brick for
pavement great care must be taken to secure a uniformity as
to vitrification and composition, if we expect to find "life"
in this comparatively new form of pavement.
The special features of the year's work in paving are the
increase in asphalt roadway-paving, — both the sheet paving
and the asphalt blocks, — the use of brick paving, and the
use of a concrete base for the ordinary well-known and
thoroughly tried granite blocks.
Asphalt paving is used in large cities in almost all parts
of the civilized world, and when used in streets which are
suited for it, and not taking the question of cost into account,
is undoubtedly the most desirable pavement which has come
into common use. The streets upon which it can be used
are limited. It is unsuitable for steep grades, for streets
subjected to unusually heavy traffic, or for narrow streets
with railway tracks. It is costly to put down in the first in-
stance, and costly to maintain, but for city streets used for
residences it is unsurpassed, both for the comfort of the oc-
cupants of the houses, and also for those who use the streets.
From a sanitary point of view it stands at the head of the
list of varieties of paving, as it is perfectly smooth and ab-
solutely impervious to moisture.
Its first cost is about ten per cent, greater than that of a
first-class granite-block paving on gravel, and the cost of
maintenance for a term of years is much greater, but just
how much greater the limited experience of this city does not
satisfiictorily answer.
The addition of a concrete base to the ordinary granite-
block paving is no new experiment, but it has been em-
ployed to only a limited extent heretofore in Boston. Its
advantages are marked, and its use for streets with the
Street Department. HS
heaviest traffic is to be commended. It consists of a solid
foundation-layer or sheet of cement concrete, from six to
eijiht inches in thickness, and covering the entire area to be
[)aved ; upon this the blocks are set in the usual manner, on
a layer of sand about two inches in thickness. The paving
may then be finished in the usual manner, by filling the inter-
stices between the blocks with coarse sand or fine screened
gravel, or they may be filled with heated pebbles and mehed
pitch, as Avas done on Tremont street. The pitch-joints have
no necessary connection with the concrete base, and either
one is used without the other.
The advantages of the concrete base are those of a good
foundation, which is indispensable for all good work. The
concrete foundation is superior to gravel, however well com-
pacted ; and it serves the same good purpose in block paving
that it does in asphalt paving.
As a preliminary to all paving, the various pipes and
structures in the street must be put in order, and more or
less trenches or other excavations made. The concrete base
practically overcomes uneven settling, by bridging over the
trenches and distributing the weight of travel over larger
areas. Again, the paving-blocks are set in two inches of
sand on a concrete base, and on six inches of gravel in or-
dinary paving. The settlement in the two inches, due to un-
even depths of stone, is much less than in the paving on
gravel, giving a smoother surface, and additional settling of
each block independently of others is entirely prevented.
The disadvantages of the method are, first, the extra cost.
This will not exceed one dollar per square yard for ordinary
street-paving ; second, difficulty of excavation for repairs,
etc., of pipes in the street, and extra cost of replacing the
pavement properly. It must be conceded by all that the
primary and principal use of streets is for highways, and
their use for pipes and structures is secondary and incidental.
This is fully recognized in the authority over the streets
given to the Superintendent, who controls their opening,
— under the proper legal limitations, — for any [)urpose
whatever ; moreover, the difficulty of making excavations
will obviously lead to the moie careful construction of
buried structures, and to the invention of methods of using
them without removing the paving. As an instance, note
that until within a very few years it was necessary to make
an excavation in the street every time the city water was
turned on or ofi'a customer's premises.
The thii-d objection to the concrete foundation is that it
makes a water-tight layer, covering the street, and graded
so as to turn all the water that penetrates the layer of paving-
64 City Document Xo. 36.
block to the gutters. In streets luiving areas under the
sidewalks, this is liable to make trouble from the water leak-
ing through the wall and showing itself in the area. Care
has been taken to make a water-tight joint in such cases.
The filling of the joints of the paving-stones with heated
pebbles and pitch has been successful, and has done away
with leaving a layer of gravel on the stones to be ground
up by teams, and to become a nuisance to the public. The
method of filling the joints promptly and effectually with
pebbles and pitch avoids the long and dirty process of
grinding up gravel by teams, and allows the street to be
cleaned at once. Paving has been injured by the removal of
gravel before the joints were filled, and also by water-carts
sprinkling the layer of gravel. The sprinkling seems to pre-
vent the gromid-up gravel from penetrating the joints by
caking in the upper part of the joint. All gravel used for
covering off paving, as it is termed, should be thoroughly dry
when applied, either naturally or artificially.
Better work can be dt)ne in the hot, dry weather of sum-
mer than in the shorter and cooler days of the fall. This is
especially true of all pitch joint- work. It cannot be properly
done when the stones are wet, or so cold as to chill the pitch
at once to so low a temperature that it loses its waxy con-
sistency. It would probably be an improvement to use more
fiuid pitch than has been done heretofore.
About two-thirds of the cost of paving is in the granite
blocks, and the aggregate cost for the year is very large.
In cases where it is practicable, say for Quincy stone deliv-
ered on the ground, stone might be bought by the square
yard of finished paving, instead of by the tedious and un-
satisfactory method of counting. Paving-stones bought by
contract vary in size so that the cost to the city for two con-
secutive areas of paving will frequently vary from six to
twelve per cent. This has been showai by actual count of
sections laid from day to day.
The asphalt pavement which has been laid has all been
done by the Barber As[)halt Paving Company.
The i)ractice of rolling the road-bed before placing gravel
on streets to be paved gives satisfactory results.
The printed specifications for paving, while more rigid in
many points than the former practice of the Paving Division,
on the whole are very satisfactory, and l)ut few changes in
the subject-matter will be necessitated.
In commencing the work of street-paving, a force of engi-
neers was organized, consisting of two field-parties and an
office assistant — twelve men in all during the busy season.
Plans and profiles of streets to I)e i)aved were made, quan-
Street Department. 65
titles estimated, general specifications previously prepared
were tilled out for letting the work by public competition.
The large amount of work to be done, together with its
character, necessitated the letting of the paving of a number
of streets by contract.
The city furnished all raatei-ials except paving-gravel,
which was furnished by the contractor, and the price included
in the bid. In most cases material furnished by the city
was delivered to the contractor on wharves or at city yards.
In some cases, paving-blocks were delivered on or in the
vicinity of the work under existing contracts, old material
removed was delivered by the contractor at some convenient
point where the city had use for it ; if of no use to the city,
it was given to the contractor.
Seventeen contracts were let, covering 4.35 miles of street,
and costino;, exclusive of material furnished by the city,
$169,161.02.
Fifty-three thousand four hundred and forty-four square
yards block paving on gravel were laid ; average cost, |1.155.
Nine thousand two hundred and ninety-four square yards
block paving on concrete base with pitched joints were laid;
average cost, $2,727.
Fifteen thousand one hundred and eighty-nine square
3^ards of asphalt paving were laid ; average cost, with con-
crete base, $3,635 (when old base was used, $2.25).
Thirty-one thousand six hundred and forty-six linear feet
of edgestone set; cost on average, $0,329.
Twenty-two thousand four hundred and seventeen square
yards of sidewalk relaid ; average cost, $0,836.
Three thousand and seventy-eight square yards flagging
cross-walk; average cost, $1,184.
The number of blocks used cannot be exactly given, as
they were taken from stock in most cases. Counts of small
areas proved very unsatisfactory ; averaging the largest quan-
tities where exact figures are obtainable gives about twenty-
five large and about thirty-eight small blocks to the square
yard. The cost of blocks, including culling and wharfage,
is about five cents for small blocks and seven and one-half cents
for a large one, making the cost per yard $1.90 in each case.
The small blocks come from Quincy, and are used on inland
work, and are delivered on the work. The large blocks
come mostly from Cape Ann, and are delivered on wharves.
The average cost of block paving on gravel, per yard, is
$3.05 ; this, under somewhat severe specifications, requiring
the removal of thirteen inches of old material, grading and
rolling the road-bed, and furnishing six inches of new gravel.
Details of the work done are to be found in the appendix.
{j6
City Document No. 36.
The ptist year has been one of the busiest ever known in
the history of the Street Department.
The following table shows the amount of work done on
paving, edgestones, sidewalks, etc., in 1889, 1890, and 1891 ;
Granite blocks laid and relaid :
Regular appropriation . . .
Special appropriation . . .
Edgestone set and reset :
Regular appropriation . . .
Special appropriation . . .
Brick walks laid and relaid ;
Regular appropriation ...
Special appropriation . . . .
Flagging set and reset :
Regular appropriation . . . ,
Siiecial apjoropriation . . . ,
Asphalt:
Regular appropriation . . . ,
Special appropriation . . . ,
Hill gravel :
Regular appropriation . . . .
Special appropriation . . . .
Hill sand :
Regular appropriation . . . .
Special appropriation . . . .
Filling :
Regular appropriation . . . .
Special appropriation . . . .
Stone :
Regular appropriation . . . .
Special appropriation . . . .
Beach gravel :
Regular appropriation . . . .
Special appropriation . . . .
Grade damage, etc
Watering streets
General repairs
18SO.
55,922 sq. yds.
43,673 sq. yds.
60,275 lin. ft.
38,077 lin. ft.
19,368 sq. yds.
16,512 sq. yds.
10,879 ft.
2,716 ft.
3,806 sq. yds.
2,892 sq. yds.
$46,866 01
18,197 78
3,572 83
3,516 09
8,623 55
6,176 67
29,139 20
5,157 53
7,168 95
1,208 95
19,065 21
47,586 58
234,585 91
49,630.8 sq. yds
21,332.8 8q.yd».
42,437 lin. ft.
8,567 lin. ft.
15,448 sq. yds.
6,758 sq. yds.
15,640 ft.
2,759 ft.
1,369 sq. yds.
2,317.6 sq. yds.
$32,205 34
9,727 95
6,024 85
475 46
2,110 36
27,926 03
21,097 34
2,747 44
5,160 87
1,133 01
23,383 11
57,967 34
200,079 07
43,951 sq. yds.
153,639 sq. yds.
46,237 lin.lt.
147,215 lin ft.
29,239 sq. yds.
73,336 sq. yds.
21,134 ft.
16,940 ft.
1,731 sq. jds.
39,955 sq. yds.
$53,443 87
39,707 51
8,875 1
2,528 28
2,333 60
9,231 25
72,938 04
35,926 87
9,460 61
7,134 20
25,633 65
104,203 62
249,845 70
SxiiEET DePxVRTMEXT.
1889.
1890.
Expended from Jan. 1,1889. to Dec. .31,
1889 and 1890, and expended from Jan.
1, 1891, to Jan. 31, 1892:
Regular appropriation
Special appropriation
Pay-rolls Jan. 1, 1889, to Dec. 31, 1889 and
1890; Jan. 1, 1891, to Jan. 31, 1892:
Regular appropriation
Special appropriation
Balance, Jan. 1, 1889-1890; Feb. 1,1892:
Regular appropriation
Special appropriation
$760,388 61
291,071 57
330,.'i99 97
97,634 30
8,265 11
3,118 98
$806,995 21
254,727 19
349,789 36
123,554 96
36,291 97
205,105 73
$977,2(0 02
1,014,321 26
396,282 98
171,769 05
483 71
206,622 18
As a matter of interest to the residents in the different
sections of the city, the foHowing tables are presented, show-
ing the amount of work done on edgestones and sidewalks
in the different districts, one-half the cost of which is a.s-
sessable on the abutters :
New Edgestone. (Lin. ft. set.)
Year.
o
o
U
O
O
O
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o
02
a
o
o
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<D
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o
o
O
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o
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a
o
a
a
&
o
S
a
.a
O
o
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
6,294
3,-398
2,763
4,691
5,291
5,790
3,222
4,359
2,946
2,781
8,236
8,328
10,930
7,306
9,733
4,644
8,978
10,192
5,191
13,224
11,475
22,693
6,304
4,190
4,660
6,189
2,538
2,463
4,269
4,531
2,139
4,946
11,724
443
2,119
98
2,450
1,333
349
436
971
1,419
981
4,131
13,112
8,235
2,467
18,310
4,976
11,051
5,229
5,051
6,794
9,882
18,1.38
1,314
5,454
4,381
4,610
1,952
2,451
2,726
580
10,404
3,288
4,617
263
5,543
1,895
106
303
737
2,055
867
1,845
3,042
2,032
794
1,595
696
546
174
223
573
988
2,227
36,852
41,464
23,570
46,785
21,583
31,993
28,352
21,550
39,344
37,383
73,798
Total . . .
49,771
112,694
53,953
14,730
103,245
41,777
18,688
7,816
402,674
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City Document No. 3G.
Brick Sidewalks. (Sq. yds. set.)
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o
ca
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O
a
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o
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a
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1881
1882
1883
1881
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889 .....
1890
1891
5,207
5,905
4,392
4,870
4,756
5,273
5,970
2,540
4,835
4,913
3,881
11,491
7,510
7,675
7,279
3,896
5,285
7,693
6,910
10,489
7,651
9,098
3,961
4,984
4,794
4,437
1,473
2,112
3,768
3,164
1,942
1,915
3,628
893
1,658
1,095
1,616
722
1,002
1,500
1,110
1,362
1,9-17
2,176
337
179
2,795
4,902
892
2,843
1,348
614
638
1,155
1,478
1,096
1,834
3,354
954
479
643
346
124
274
967
381
117
46
58
188
900
377
159
887
177
739
342
527
56
75
791
120
23,525
23,074
24,282
24,797
12,606
17.100
20,978
14,759
19,528
19,546
21,725
Total . . .
52,543
84,977
36,178
15,081
17,181
10,071
2,017
3,873
221,920
The cost to the city of Boston of laying the edgestones and
l)iMck sidewalks, shown in the foregoing table, has been
$581,230.21.
Of this amount the sum of $269,677.56 has been'assessed
on the abutters when the edgestone and sidewalk have been
laid.
Of this sum of $269,677.56, the sum of $10,810.48 was
abated by order of the Board of Aldermen, $218,942.62 has
been collected, and $39,924.46 is still uncollected.
StEEET-W ATERING .
The most unsatisfactory work which the Street Depai-t-
ment had to do during the year was that of street- watering.
This arises from the fact that there has never been any
system in regard to this work. Until Dec. 13, 1891, the
duty of watering was not a part of the w^ork of the Street
Department, as the subject was not mentioned in the ordi-
nances. Eecognizing, however, the importance of watering
streets, both for the preservation of their surface and the
preservation of the pulilic health, it has been the practice of
every superintendent of the department to devote as much
money to this work as possible. As this money was not
Street Depaktmext.
C9
especially appropriated by the City Government for this
purpose, but was taken out of the regular maintenance ap-
propriation of the department, the sum expended and the
amount of work done varied largely from year to year.
The following table shows the amount expended in street-
watering by the city for the last fifteen years :
1877 . •
. $17,593 Q2
1885 .
. $43,854 68
1878 .
23,595 02
1886 .
. 44,940 35
1879 .
26,747 18
1887 .
. 51,365 73
1880 .
33,306 95
1888 .
. 40,586 58
1881 .
36,178 24
1889 .
. 47,837 46
1882 .
45,797 00
1890 .
. 57,967 34
1883 .
53,502 29
1891 .
. 104,263 62
1884 .
34,518 47
As the cost of watering all the streets of the city was
largely in excess of the amount which the Street Depart-
ment was able to devote to the purpose, and of necessity
a large number of streets were entirely neglected, the
custom arose of the department's expending the money for
street-watering on important macadamized thoroughfares
and a few other streets which it was deemed of special im-
portance to water, leaving it to private parties who were
willing to pay, to obtain from contractors the watering of
the streets in front of their residences.
This method has caused a great deal of complaint from
residents who were obliged to pay for street- watering, as
frequently an adjacent street was watered at the city's ex-
pense.
Another source of complaint was the exorbitant rate
charged by the contractors where the work was done at the
expense of the abutters. As it was impossible to ascertain
what proportion of people subscribed for watering on a
given street, the contractor set a price which would allow
for the expense being borne by such people as were liberally
inclined. This price, in some instances, is known to be
about seven times the actual cost of watering ; yet the con-
tractor claimed that the sum he demanded was made neces-
sary by the fact that a great many people would not
subscribe for the work ; that frequently those who sub-
scribed failed to pay, and that the total amount collected
by him barely returned a fair profit on the capital and plant
employed.
The growing discontent concerning this system made
itself manifest in the press in the spring of 1891, and several
articles were published concerning the exorbitant rates
70 City Document No. 36.
■svliich people were obliged to pay to street- watering- con-
tractors. This agitation resulted in bringing the matter to
the attention of the authorities, and led to an examination
of the subject.
It is found that in all the large cities outside of Boston,
the idea of local benefit as to street-watering largel}'- i)re-
vails, and in most cases the abutters are expected to pay
the expense thereof in front of their several estates. Sev-
eral considerations have gradually taken the subject from
the category of private enterprise and established it under
municipal control.
1st. The importance of keeping the street-surface in
good sanitary condition.
2d. The importance of having the amount of water used
on the street, under control.
3d. The question of general accommodation to public
traffic as far as ease and comfort are concerned.
4th. The impossibility of contractors procuring complete
and uniform subscriptions on a given route where the water-
ing is done at the expense of the abutters.
These, together with numerous other considerations, have
led to the enactment by the Legislature of a State law
whereby any city is authorized to water its streets, and to
levy a tax or assessment for the expense thereof against the
abutters, in the same manner as for building sewers or laying
edgestones and sidewalks ; or to do the whole of the work
at its own expense, including it in the tax rate.
Chapter 179 of the Acts and Resolves of 1891,- which was
passed late in the spring, reads as follows :
"Section 1. Any city, the population of which exceeds
thirty thousand, . . . may annually appropriate money
to water all or any of the pul:)lic streets within its limits, or
it may determine that such streets shall be watered in whole
or in part at the expense of the abutters thereon.
" Sect. 2. If a city shall determine that the streets within
its limits, or certain streets or portions of streets therein,
shall be watered in whole or in part at the expense of the
al)utters, the expense of such watering shall be assessed upon
the estates abutting on such street or poition of such street
in proportion to the number of linear feet of each estate
upon such street or portion thereof so watered."
No advantage was taken of this law last year, for the fol-
lowing reasons :
1st. Under the |9 tax limit, it was impossible to devote
from the amount raised by the tax levy the large sum re-
(juired to water the streets.
2d. The lateness of the season prevented any plan l)eing
Street Department. 71
formed whereby the cost of waterinij should be assessed on
the abutters. The delays that would have occurred in form-
ing such a plan would have postponed street- watering for
some time, and brought great inconvenience upon the resi-
dents of the city.
The City Government recognizing the importance of the
subject, appropriated the sum of $50,000 for the purpose of
street- watering ; which, taken in connection with the sum of
$54,000 which could be spared from the regular maintenance
appropriation of the department, gave a much larger sum
than ever was before devoted to this purpose.
This sum, although a large amount for the city to appro-
priate, was entirely inadequate to do all the street- watering
required, and the practice of former years had to be contin-
ued, of the city's refusing to water paved streets and those
streets which were thickly settled and on which the residents
were amply able to pay for the work themselves. The sum
of $104,000 was therefore largely expended in the suburbs
and on the main thoroughfares leading to them.
As no systematic method had ever been followed out in
doing this work, and no data existed to show on what l^asis
the work had previously been paid, for, the labor of looking
into the numerous watering contracts, with a view of equal-
izing the prices, was very great. All prices paid for new
work and former prices paid for old work were adjusted on
the basis that a water-cart should cover from 27,000 to
30,000 linear feet of single spread per day. In laying out
new street- watering routes and adjusting old ones, the leng-th
and width of streets to be covered were carefully determined,
and the number of spreads necessary to cover from curb to
curb were taken into account in regulating the price to be
paid.
72
CiiY Document No. 36.
The following table gives a summary of the work done by-
teams hired by the day and teams owned by the city, classi-
fied by districts, with the number of miles covered in each
district :
1891.
Summary of Day Work.
Districts.
Number of teams
hired by the day.
K umber of teams
owned by the city.
Number miles
covered.
1. South Boston
6
3
3
10
8
10
7
3
4
1
20.42
2. East Boston
3. Charlestown
6.74
5.99
4. Brighton
2
2
2
''1 74
5. AVest Roxbury
6. Dorchester
7. Eoxbury
30.7/
34.38
17.47
8. South yard
9. Back Bay
10. North End
G.16
5.57
2.62
Totals
55
6
151.86
The summary shows that fifty-five carts hired by the day
and six carts ow^ned by the city have watered 151.86 miles
of streets during the year.
The following table, classified by districts, shows the
length in miles, and the square j^ards of surface, watered by
the various street-watering contractors during the year.
The expense of this work was borne entirely by the city
in some districts, in others entirely by the abutters, and in
the remainder partly by the city and partly by the abutters.
Street Department.
73
1891.
Summary of Contract Wor^ .
District.
Contractor.
Miles.
Square yards.
City Proper
Daniel Clark ...
4.55
19.34
12.70
4.73
10.83
8.04
3.00
3.20
3.32
3.14
1.54
21.47
5.64
.80
3.36
3.70
1.48
3.80
3.29
2.27
10.87
87,268
(<
0. Nute & Son
495,910
(1
Proctor Bros. & Billings,
A. J. Tuttle & Co
J. L. & H. K. Potter ....
Philip Sowden, Jr
Wm. H. Quigley
E. Devine.
P. J. Calnan.
263,641
West End
91,272
South End
235,254
East Boston
160,811
68,325
((
60,834
ti
55,644
Dorchester
(C
William Hannon
Ashmont Improvement Co.
A. A. Hall
M. E. Nawn
60,229
26,575
Dorchester, South Bos-
ton, and Roxbury . . .
Roxbury
418,7;)5
101,769
<c
Bancroft
26,633
((
T. W. Manning
69,700
((
William Finneran
E. A. Janse
87,487
<(
31,700
West Roxbury
Patrick Ward ......
Thomas Minton ........
John S. Kelly
58,383
66,699
((
34,762
<(
Thomas O'Leary . . . .
189,408
Totals
131.07
2,691,099
City Document No. 36.
Distribution of Carts.
No.
Districts.
City carts.
Hired carts.
Contractors'
carts.
Total.
Miles.
1
Soiitli Boston. .
6
3
3
10
9
10
7'
7
3
5
6
9
8
9
12
18
17
21
58
24.92
2
Eiist Boston ....
14.78
3
Charlestown . . .
15.51
4
Brighton
West Eoxbury..
Dorchester
Roxbury . . ....
City Proper ....
2
2
2
21.74
5
6
7
8
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7
5
14
51
51.00
43.33
45.15
66.50
6
55
91
152
282.93
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City Docuiment No. 36.
1891.
No.
Districts.
1
Miles, day work.
Miles, contract woik.
Totiil.
1
South Boston. . .
20.42
4.5
24.9-'
2
East Boston
6.74
8.04
14.78
3
Charlestown
.5.99
9.52
15.51
4
Brighton
"West Roxbury. .
21 74
21.74
5
30.77
20.23
51.00
6
Dorchester
34.38
8.95
43.33
7
Roxbury
17.47
27.68
45.15
8
South yard
6.161
1
9
Back Bay
5.57 i-
1
52.15
66.50
10
North yard
2.62 J
151.86
131.07
282.93
or
or
2,000,000 sq. yds.
2,692,000 sq. yds.
Cost of city and day work, exclusive of
supervision $332 00 per mile
Cost of contract work, exclusive of super-
vision 312 44 "
Entire cost of city and day work per 1,000 sq. yds. ^
$23.17 per season, exclusive of water.
Cost to city of contract work, which was paid for also by
the abutters, per 1,000 sq. yds. = $16.38 per season, exclu-
sive of water.
In comparing the cost of the " contract work " with the
cost of the day work done by the city, it must be borne in
mind that the cost of the contract work as stated is the
amount which the city has paid the contractors, and that an
unknown amount has been paid several contractors by the
abutters on the streets. Of the 91 contract carts, the city
pays for only about 48 carts, while the other 43 collect
entirely from the abutters.
Street Department.
77
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6
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$1,097 33
1,753
$140 24
$1,237 57
East Boston .
5
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3
450 00
1,000 00
7931
63 46
1,063 46
Charlestown .
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3
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1,150 00
8671
69 41
1,219 41
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1 200 00
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300 00
1,800 00
2,575 89
4,051
3,088
324 08
247 04
2,124 08
M'est Roxbury,
7
1,075 89
2,822 93
l^orchester . .
5
1,082 50
10
1,500 00
2
300 00
2,882 50
3,234
258 76
3,141 26
Roxbury . .
14
1,901 67
7
1,030 00
2,951 67
2,133
170 69
3,122 36
City Proper .
51
1,786 44
7
1,050 00
6
2,836 44
3,247
259 77
3,096 21
Total . . .
91
$7,293 83
54
$8,100 00
$900 00
$16,293 83
19,168
$1,533 45
$17,827 28
The summary of the method pursued this year shows the
following classes of work :
1st. Work done by city carts.
2d. Work done by hired carts at city's expense.
3d. Work done by contractors' carts, under contract, at
city's expense.
4th. Work done by contractors' carts with partial com-
pensation from the city.
5th. Work done by contractors at the expense of the
abutters.
The work in City Proper was almost entirely of the fifth
class.
The summary of the results for this year shows that 6
city carts and 55 carts hired by the day were used, and
that contracts were held with 22 different parties, who re-
quired 91 watering-carts for the routes which they covered.
This makes a total number of carts 152, and as some of
these carts held from 1,000 to 1,500 gallons, they were
equivalent to 165 carts of 600 gallons each.
The number of miles watered by city and day work is
151.86.
The number of miles watered by contract is 131.07.
With this plant the total numl^er of miles watered has
been 282.93. The total expenditure for this work has been
78
City Document No. oC^.
$104, 203. 02, jind the streets have been Avatercd in dry
weather from two to four times per day; of this sum, the
amount of the AA^ater bill for two years has been included,
as the bill for 18U0 was paid out of the appro})riation for
18i)l.
As the Street Department was at the expense of watering
in front of a large number of public buildings, it seemed
just that the department having control of them should pay
for the watering of the streets in front of this property.
An arrangement was therefore made with the Superinten-
dent of Public Buildings, whereby the streets in front of
several school-houses were watered, at the foUoAving rates :
Name. Rate per month.
Name. Rate
per month.
Allston
$3
35
Gaston .
$10 00
Adams .
5
15
George street
3 60
Atherton
1
85
George Putnam
2 15
Adams street
3
00
Green street .
1 10
Andrews
1
25
Haverhill street
3 85
Austin .
1
15
Howard Grammar .
3 65
Agassiz
4
25
Howe .
1 75
Bowdoin
3
10
High and Latin
22 00
Bennett
3
75
Hyde .
3 75
Benjamin Pope
- 5
50
High (Charles-
Bunker Hill Gram-
. town)
3 45
mar .
4
60
Harvard hill .
2 20
Bunker Hill Pri-
Hancock
50
mary
1
60
Hillside
4 50
Cyrus Alger .
4
10
High (Elm street,
Chapman
3
10
W. K.)
4 25
Charles Sumner
2
90
High (Dorchester
Canterbury street
4
40
avenue)
8 15
Common street
65
Harris .
i) 60
Cushman
2
25
Howard avenue
1 65
Chestnut avenue
1
20
Harvard
2 50
Clinch .
6
10
Hugh O'Brien
7 90
Capen .
4
25
Heath street .
3 CO
Dudley .
7
40
Joshua Bates
3 25
Dorchester-Everett
, 1
50
Lawrence
5 00
D wight Primary
1
60
Lyman .
6 25
Drake .
4
10
Lewis .
5 00
Everett .
6
10
Lowell .
7 10
Eustis .
3
20
Lucretia Crocker .
5 00
Florence
5
15
M i n 0 1 Grammar
Francis street
1
50
(new)
2 75
Frothingham .
4
00
Maitin .
y 35
Glen road
2
75
Moulton street
85
Street Department.
Name. Rate
Mead street .
Mt. Pleasant ave-
nue .
Mt. Vernon
Norcross
Noble .
Oak square
Old High (Dor
Chester avenue)
Old Minot .
Prescott
Phillips street
Polk street
Poplar street
Quincy street
Rice Grammar
Roxbury street
Shurtl eff Grammar
Sherwin
Stoughton
Smith street .
per month.
$90
75
2 00
4 00
7 00
18 35
9 75
1 90
15
40
20
90
05
35
25
90
6 55
3 00
3 50
Name. Rate
Savin Hill avenue .
Thos. N. Hart
Tileston
Ticknor
Thomas street
Vernon street
Wells
Warren
Webster street
Winchell
Washington street
(near Glen road) .
Washington street
(near Forest Hills
station)
Way street .
W ashington street
(Germantown) .
Yeoman street
per month.
$2 (>5
2 25
5 15
3 00
1 25
75
3 15
4 50
75
2 90
1 80
3 50
60
90
15
Total
. $362 10
An arrangement was also made with the Fire Department
to water in front of the various eno-ine and hook-and-ladder
houses, at the following rates :
Number.
13
16
18
19
20
28
29
30
33
6
10
15
16
Engine-Houses .
Hook and Ladder.
Rate per month.
. $3 75
3 00
1 00
1 25
1 25
2 50
3 50
2 25
4 10
. 3 00
. 2 50
4 25
3 25
Total
15 P-^
80
City Document No. 36.
An arrangement was made with the Police Department to
water in front of the various police stations, at the following
rates ;
Police Stations.
Xiimbcr.
8
10
11
12
13
U
15
16
Walnut-street Police Station, Neponset .
Centre-street Police Station, West Roxbury
Mattapan Police Station, River street
Washington street, Ward 24
Total
Rate per month.
. $1 00
. 3
50
. 4
75
. 2
75
. 3
25
. 1
50
1
75
1
75
. 3
50
. 2
00
75
75
. 2
00
. 5
00
. $34 25
An ordinance relating to the duties of the Superintendent
of Streets became a law on December 13, 1891, and reads
as follows :
'^Be it_ ordained, etc. :
" Chapter 18 of the Revised Ordinances of the year 1890,
as amended by chapter 1 of the ordinances of the year
1891, is hereby amended in the first section by inserting be-
tween the words 'repair ' and 'shall' in the seventh line the
words 'shall keep the streets properly watered.' "
The Superintendent was accordingly requested to include
in his annual estimates a sum necessary for this purpose, and
the sum of $250,000 has been reported as meeting the sub-
stantial requirements for street-watering for the coming
year.
The cost of watering the streets comes strictly under the
head of the current expenses of the Street Department, and
it is therefore impracticable to l)orrow money outside of the
del)t limit for this purpose. Taking into account the great
demands for money to be expended on new works of per-
manent improvement and importance, it is also inadvisable
to pay for street-watering by means of a special loan.
Street Department. 81
The demands of the various city departments always ex-
ceed by several million dollars the amount Avhich can be
raised under the $9 tax limit, and there is therefore no hope
of obtaining the large additional sum necessary for the ex-
pense of street-watering from the money raised in the tax
levy.
The question then becomes, How to do away with the
present unjust method of paying for street- watering, and at
the same time, in view of the financial condition of the city,
take the matter entirely under municipal control.
The only solution of this problem is believed to be by a
method of local assessment, an ordinance for the authoriza-
tion of which has been submitted by the department to the
City Council, and is now under consideration.
The ordinance as submitted reads as follows :
" An Ordinance to provide for Watering the Public
Streets of the City of Boston, made under Au-
thority OF THE Legislature, Chapter 179 of the
Acts of 1891.
" Be it ordained hy the City Council of Boston, as follows:
"Article 1. Chapter 18 of the revised ordinances
of 1890, as amended March 2, 1891, is hereby still further
amended and extended to read as follows :
" Section 23. The superintendent of streets is hereby
authorized to keep the public streets properly watered, and
is directed to do, by contract or otherwise, the work of said
watering, in accordance with the following plan : The city
is to be divided into such sprinkling districts as the said
superintendent shall determine, in each of which shall be
specified the streets and parts thereof to be watered, together
with the estimated total lengths of streets sprinkled, ex-
pressed in miles, and the approximate area between curbs
in square yards.
" k5ECT. 24. To enable the superintendent to carry out
the provisions of this ordinance, he is hereb}^ authorized to
organize a new division to be known as the Street- Watering
Division, and to appoint a deputy superintendent thereof,
subject to the approval of the mayor, and to employ the in-
spectors and extra clerical force necessary to carry out the
work of the division.
"Sect. 25. The cost of the foregoing work shall be paid
as follows : The cost of administration shall be wholly
borne by the city ; all other expenses for watering, actually
incurred in a given district, shall be assessed as a special tax
in favor of the city by the superintendent of streets on the
82 City Document Xo. 3(3.
adjoinino; property fronlinir on the streets, ])nl)lic ])l:ice.s,
jiiul purtts thereof so watered in said district, in the ])r()j)or-
tion that the a})i)roximate frontage of each lot watered in
said district (borderino- on the street or public ])lace) hears
to the total numl)er of linear feet of all property so Avatered
in the district under consideration. Said special tax-hills
shall be made out and certified to the auditor by the super-
intendent of streets, and by the auditor delivered to the
collector of the city of Boston on or before the first day of
Oetober in each year, or as soon thereafter as practicable ;
said special tax shall be and become a lien on the propeity
charged therewith from the said first day of October of the
year in which they are issued, and may be collected of the
owner of the land in the name of and by the city of Boston
like any other claim, in any court of competent jurisdiction,
with interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum from the
first day of November in each 3"ear, and seven per cent. Der
annum from the first day of November in each year, if unpaid
on the first day of Januar}^ of the following year. If not
paid by the first day of April, they shall be transmitted to
the corporation counsel for collection by suit or otherwise.
"Sect. 26. All money received by the city from the
proceeds of the special tax-bills aforesaid shall be placed to
the credit of the street department, for the purpose of de-
fraying the expense of street watering.
"Article 2. Any other ordinance relating to street
watering in conflict herewith is hereby repealed."
This system would return to the city treasury a consider-
able portion of the sum expended.
In support of the ordinance assessing the cost of street-
watering on abutters, the following data is submitted :
Street-watering in most of the large cities of this country
is paid for entirely by the abutters, and is treated as a
private enterprise.
In others, there is a system of local assessment, the work
being done by the city. In order to show the practical
working of this system, the following city is cited :
St. Louis.
The sj^stem of street-watering now in vogue in the city
of St. Louis is on the local-assessment plan under municipal
control, the water being furnished for this purpose free of
expense, and each abutter paying a fixed rate per front foot
of estate.
There are within th<? city limits about 272 miles of
macadamized streets and 70 miles of paved streets, distrib-
Street Depart^ient. 83
uted as follows : Of Telford, 18.32 miles ; wooden block
on concrete base, 5. 26 miles; granite block, 41.35 miles;
asphalt, 3.95 miles; limestone block and old Nicholson wocd
block, 1.11 miles.
There are also 80 miles of paved alleys. Total, 422 miles
of streets and alleys.
Of this total mileage 364 miles are properly sprinkled for
the season, for a period of 8| months.
The city is divided into 43 sprinkling districts of from
7 to 0 miles each, and the work is let out by contract.
The average length of each district is a little over 8
miles. Average amount paid for each district is $3,224.
The street-sprinkling superintendent has charge of the
work at a salary of $2,500 per annum, and is assisted by 16
inspectors at a salary of $1,000 per annum each, with $20
per month allowance for a horse and buggy.
The total amount of the contracts for
1890 $138,621.20
The average cost per mile for the season . 336.93
The average cost per front foot . . .0353
The city recovered by assessment . . 122,546.62
The paved streets are sprinkled four times daily, and the
unimproved and macadamized streets three times daily,
Sundays included.
The rate of special tax per front foot for sprinkling has
been decreasino; each year, it having been as hioh as $.0589
in 1888, and $.0482 iii 1889, while for 1890 it is only $.0353.
This reduction may be attributed to more careful supe i -
tendence and systematic laying out of work.
The assessment plan involves a large amount of clerical
work, covering a space of about three months, during which
time it is found necessary to employ temporary clerks,
involving an expenditure of about $2,500, whose duty it i-^
to perform the computations and to issue about 61,000
assessment bills.
All expense of administration is paid by the city, but the
actual amount of each sprinkling contract is assessed
on the abutting property in proportion that its linear
feet front bears to the total linear feet of assessable frontage
of the whole district in which the contract is made. The
rates in the different sprinkling districts only varied in 1889
from $0.0371 to $0.0630 per linear foot, averaging $0.0482.
Paved streets are sprinkled twice a day during the
months of March, April, and November, and three times a
day during the months of May and October, and four times
a day during June, July, August, and September.
84 City DoctraiENT No. 36.
TJie unjjaved streets are sprinkled twice a day during
March, April, May, October, and November, and three times
a day during June, July, August, and September.
One sprinkling only is required on Sunday, except the
Lindell avenue, the principal driveway to the park.
The street commissioner determines whether rain has ob-
viatied the necessity of sprinkling, also whether the con-
tractor has given the requisite number of sprinklings and the
proper quantity of water, and he can change and regulate
the time, if found necessary.
The work in this city has proved more satisfactory and
more economical year by year as the system has been per-
fected.
Estimated Cost qf Work in Boston.
In calculating the cost of street- watering in this city, it is
necessary to figure on a watering season of eight months, as
it is well known that in previous years the watering has
been delayed until long after the time when it was needed.
Of our 434 miles of streets, it is estimated that —
1. 47^% are 40 feet wide or less.
2. 47 J % are more than 40 and less than QQ> feet wide.
3. 5% are more than (^Q feet wide.
Thus making 206 miles of 1.
206 " " 2.-
22 " " 3.
Of the first class it is thought that there are about Q^
miles that will not need watering in any event, on account of
their isolation, shade, and other considerations, leaving —
1. 140 miles requiring a single spread.
2. 206 " " a double spread.
3. 22 " " three or more spreads.
65 carts will provide for street requiring a single spread.
130 carts will provide for street requiring a double spread.
25 carts will provide for street requiring three spreads.
220 carts will provide all that is necessary, which, at
$1,050 each year, will cost $231,000, and if we add for
supervision and assessment expense . . $12,000
Water 7,000
The total cost will be 250,000
Tills is the least sum with which the work should be un-
dertaken the first year. In subsequent years the expense
per mile would undoubtedly be reduced, owing to more per-
fect orgaiiizjition and the lower prices to be obtained by
competition junong contractors.
Street Department. 85
Water-posts.
As the amount of work that a water-cart can cover in a
day is largely influenced l)y the distribution of water-posts,
the sul>ject was investig-ated early in the spring and a map
made showing the location of all water-posts in existence at
that time, and a requisition made on the Water Department
to establish new ones at selected points, which was complied
with, to the better accomplishment of street-sprinkling.
The whole number in existence May 19, 1891 . . 228
The number abandoned during 1891 .... 2
The number changed in location during 1891 . . 2
The number established during 1891 .... 45
The whole number now in use . . . . .271
A large number of new posts will have to be established
during the coming season in order to economically cover the
territory desired.
SANITAEY DIVISION.
In order to obtain more efiioiency in the work of cleaning
the streets, the Sanitary Police Department, when the con-
solidation of the departments took place, was divided into
the Street-Cleaning Division and the Sanitary Division.
The Sanitary Division attends to the removal of house-oft'al
and the removal of house and store dirt.
Removal of Offal.
The oflal of the city is collected by 81 offal-carts (66 of
which are owned by the city) and 179 men. Such of the
offal as is fresh is taken by the teams to the different yards
of the department, and disposed of to farmers, who remove it
daily. The offal of Charlestown is taken to the yard at
Maiden bridge ; the offal of East Boston is collected and dis-
posed of by contract ; the offal of the City Proper, South
Boston, and Dorchester is conveyed to the yard at the South
End ; the offal of Roxbury and West Roxbury is conveyed
to the yard on Highland street ; and the offal of Brighton is
disposed of by contract. Such of the offal as is decayed is
removed to the dump-scow and is towed to sea ; the decayed
oflal thus removed amounts to about three per cent, of the
total amount collected.
The subject of the disposal of offal has been considerably
discussed during the last year. Complaint was made both
8() City Documeis't Xo. 36.
of the method of disposal, bv towing the decayed offal to
sea, and also of the method of sellino: the fresh ofl'al to
farmers. Complaint concerning the method of dumping it
at sea came from neighboring towns on the seashore, wdiere
it was alleged that it was deposited on the beaches, to the
great inconvenience of the residents. On investigation, it
was proved that these complaints were well-founded, as the
refuse picked up on the beaches in Swampscott and vicinity
undoubtedly came from the city of Boston's dumping-scow.
Tlie location of the dumping-place w^as therefore changed ;
and instead of using a single dump, as had been the custom
in former years, a number of dumps were arranged so that
advantage might be taken of the wind to keep the refuse
from floating ashore. The accompanying chart shows the
(lifierent dumping-stations and the manner of using them.
Since this change has been made, no complaint from any
source has been received, as it is possible to choose a sta-
tion from which the garbage cannot be blown ashore.
The practice of selling offal to farmers has been criticised
during the year on the ground that the swine fed on this
material became unhealthy, and that the meat produced and
sold in this city must have a bad effect on the health of the
c(mmiunity. The city now derives the sum of $30,000 per
year from the sale of this offal ; and as there seems to be no
other cheap method of disposing of it, and as it is not yet
satisfactorily demonstrated that this offal wdien fresh is unfit
to be fed to swine, no other method of disposaj has been
seriously considered.
The cremation of offal, w-hich has been adopted by some
cities, has in almost every case proved a failure. Not only
is the method very expensive, costing, as it does, from
thirty to sixty cents per ton, but a very serious nuisance is
created. This nuisance arises from the fact that it is almost
impossible to entirely consume the offjil, even at the most
intense heat ; the foul odors given off during the process of
combustion also create an intolerable nuisance in the vicinity
of the crematory. Should the time come when the country
towns around Boston prohibit the bringing in of offal into
their Ihnits, and the city's market for it is thus cut off, re-
course can be had to one of two methods, either of wdiich
would be entirely satisfactory.
First. Towing all offal out to sea and dumping it. The
expense of this method of disposal would be about ten cents
[)er ton ; and provided that care is taken in selecting proper
dumping-stations, so that by no possibility could the offal
float ashore, this method would be as satisfactory and eco-
nomical as any.
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Second. By treatins: the oftal chemically. The city of
Providence has adopted a chemical method of treating- offal,
by which the material, after being collected and removed to
the works, is subjected to the action of naphtha. The
grease is extracted and sold, and the residue, which comes
out of the extractors perfectly drj^ and odorless, is ground up
for a fertilizer. This process is patented, and the inventor
offered to erect a plant at the expense of his company in
Boston, and treat the offal for the sum of two and one-half
cents per head of population, provided he could be assured
of a contract for a long term of years. The process, as
carried on at Providence, creates no nuisance, and is well
adapted to all cities situated where it is impossible to dis-
pose of the garbage at sea.
The abandonment of our present method, and the adop-
tion of either of the above-described methods, means a
difference of $42,000 to the city, as a revenue of $30,000
per year vv^ould be given up, and an increased expenditure of
$12,000 would be necessitated.
Complaints are frequently received concerning the failure
of this division promptly to remove ashes or offal. On in-
vestigation, it is usually shown that the parties making the
complaint are at fault. The regulations of the division
require that the ashes and offal must be kept separate, put
in suitable receptacles, and so placed as to be convenient of
access to the employees of the division. If any of these
conditions are violated, the employees have orders to refuse
to remove the ashes or offal, until the city regulations are
complied with.
The rapid growth of the city has resulted in a greatly in-
creased amount of work done Iby this division. The follow-
ing table shows the amount of offal removed for the last ten
years :
Year.
1882 .
1883 .
1884 .
1885 .
1886 .
1887 .
1888 .
1889 .
1890 .
1891^ .
Each load of offal is equivalent to fifty-seven cubic feet.
Number of loads
28,385
. 27,408
. 28,520
. 31,206
. 33,170
. 36,724
. 37,709
. 40,183
. 40,525
. 46,742
1 From Jan. ], 189 1, to Feb. 1 1892.
88 City Document No. 36.
The steady increase of the amount of work to be done
will require ceitain additions to the plant of the division,
some of which are extremely important, and should be done
at once. A new wharf (estimated expense |()0,000) must
soon be purchased at the North End, where another dumpino-
stiition can be located. A new depot for the disposal of ofial
must be established in Dorchester, in order to do away with
the present long haul to the South End depot.
If any further argument were needed for the establishment
of a new dumping-wharf at the North End, the report of the
Deputy Superintendent, wherein it is shown that the expense
of teaming the ashes and house-dirt to the various dumps on
waste land in the vicinity of the city is 60 cents per load,
whereas the expense of disposing of the material by towing
to sea is only 30 cents per load, should be conclusive.
Fifteen thousand loads of ashes and house and store dirt now
hauled to Cambridge could be disposed of in this way at an
annual saving of $4,500.
Baeney Dumping— Scow.
The offal and refuse now towed to sea is removed in the
patent Barney dumping-scows. These scows dump their
load in a compact mass, and are the best scows yet devised
for the purpose. The load is discharged into the water six
feet below the sea level instead of being scattered on the
surface, and being thoroughly saturated through absorption,
is prepared to sink at once. The city now owns one scow,
for which the sum of $12,000 and a yearly royalty pf $1,500
was paid, and rents another scow at a yearly rental of
$5,475. It would be much more economical to buy the
scow we now rent. Two new scows should be purchased, to
use in connection with the new dumping-wharf at the North
End, the establishment of which was previously recom-
mended.
By obtaining competition this year on the towing of the
dumping-scows to sea, a much more favorable rate has l)een
detained. The former price for towing to the dumping-
station was $29, with an additional allowance of $6 for night
and Sunday work. The rate obtained by the division this
year is $23, with no allowance for night or Sunday work.
In this connection it is recommended that the new tow-
boat required for use by the Sewer Division be Imilt at
once. This boat, the estimated cost of which is $20,000,
would, in addition to doing the regular work for the Sewer
Division, be able to do all towing for the Sanitarj^ Division,
and save an annual expenditure of about $7,500, now })aid
to the various tow-boat companies.
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Eemoval of Ashes.
The following table shows the amount of ashes and house
and store dirt collected during the last ten years :
Year.
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
18911
Number of loads.
. 159,197
. 169,610
. 182,642
. 193,734
. 209,129
. 220,186
. 233,514
. 227,325
. 245,730
. 313,464
Each load of ashes is equivalent to 43 cubic feet.
Comparative statement of number of loads of ashes col-
lected clurino- 16 weeks in winter and 16 weeks in summer :
1889. Nov. 29 to Dec. 27, inclusive .
Dec. 28 to Jan. 24, 1890 .
Jan. 25 to Feb. 21, 1890, inclusive .
Feb. 22 to March 22, 1^90, inclusive
Total number of loads . . . .
1890. May 3 to May 30, inclusive
May 31 to June 27, inclusive .
June 28 to July 25, inclusive .
July 26 to Aug. 22, inclusive .
Total number of loads
Winter
Summer
Difference for winter
/Summavi/.
19,975
20,685
21,193
21,013
82,866
19,741
16,765
15,083
13,650
65,239
82,866
65,239
17,627
The above table shows that a steady increase of the num-
ber of loads of ashes removed has taken place, owing to the
growth of the city. The cost of the removal of ashes is con-
stantly increasing, owing to the filling up of convenient
1 From Jan. 1, 1891, to Feb. 1, 1892.
90 City DocmiEXT No. 36.
dumpina-oTouncls, and the extra expense of teamino; tlie
ashes to the remote location of those now in use. The pro-
posed new dnmjiing-wharf at the North End, from whence
the ashes of that part of the city could be towed to sea,
would reduce the cost of disposing of this material very
considerably. The nine-hour hnv passed in 1891 has largely
increased the cost of running the Sanitary Division, as each
team loses one trip per day from the number of trips made
under the ten-hour law. When the number of trips that a
team can make is only five or six, it is seen that the per-
centage of work lost is a large one.
Suggestions have l)een made that the ashes and garbage
be removed during the night. Considering the fact that the
receptacles for both ashes and garbage are kept by house-
holders in locations not accessible to the employees of the
division at night, and also taking into account the inadvisa-
bility of ol:)liging householders to put the receptacles on the
sidewalk, it is difficult to arrange a plan whereby removal at
night can be adopted.
Transport ATiox of Prisoners.
As the Sanitary Division was yearly put to a large ex-
pense in the transportation of prisoners from the various
city lock-ups to the Court-House, and was obliged to main-
tain prison vans and horses for this purpose, the matter was
looked into, as this duty seemed to be somewhat foreign to
the collection of ashes and offal. The practice dated back to
the time when the only city department that OAvned teams
was the Health Department, and for that reason the trans-
portation of prisoners had been saddled on to it. A com-
munication from the Corporation Counsel, in answer to an
inquiry from this department, showed that this expense
should be borne by the County of Suffolk, and arrangements
have now been made, whereby the expense of this work is
borne by the county.
price paid by the Sanitary Police Department in for-
?ars to contractors for single teams was $5.50 per day,
Hired Teams.
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which price included an extra man. The department fur-
nished an ash or swill cart, as the case might be, and the
contractor furnished two men and a horse to run the cart.
As the rate in the other divisions was $;).00 per day for a
teamster, horse, and cart (cart being furnished by the con-
tractor), and as extra labor could be hired for $2.00 per day,
the price of $5.50 was reduced to $5.00, to correspond with
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the other divisions. A saving of several thousand dollars
has resulted from this operation.
Eefuse Material .
■ The value of the refuse collected by the Sanitary Division
and deposited at the different dumps is very considerable.
In New York, the privilege of "trimming the scows," or
sorting over this refuse, is let by contract for the sum of
about $1,600 per week, thus affording the city a consider-
able revenue. The city of Boston has never derived any
revenue from this source. The explanation that has always
l)een made to account for this fact is, that the residents of
New York are more wasteful, and that material which is
there thrown into ash-barrels is here saved by the house-
holders and sold by them.
The department this year has investigated this matter
more closely, with the result of obtaining an offer of $200
per week for the privilege of sorting over the dumps. This
would not only result in an income of $10,400 per year
(which would probably largely increase as soon as the
system was established and competition could be obtained) ,
but would also effect a saving of about $10,000 on the wages
of men now employed by the department on the dumps.
The only argument to be advanced against the letting of
such a contract is that a number of poor people who now
make a living by sorting over this refuse, would be deprived
of this method of getting a livelihood. This matter has been
referred to the City Council for settlement.
The report of the Deputy Superintendent gives tables
showing the cost of the removal of ashes, house and store
dirt, and offal, together with the amount of work done.
Tables showing the cost of horse-shoeing, cost of feedino;
horses, and other matters of interest, are also annexed.
SEWER DIVISION.
The Sewer Division has charge of the following work :
1. The maintenance and construction of all common
sewers and catch-basins.
2. The maintenance of the Main Drainage Works.
3. The maintenance of Stony brook.
4. The maintenance and construction of all street cul-
"erts.
92 City Document No. 3().
5. The preparation of plans, and the eng-ineering and
supervision required on the construction and maintenance of
all work connected with the division.
6. The granting of permits for all connections to l)e m;\de
with the common sewers, and the custody of bonds tiled by
drain-layers authorized to make such connections.
7. The levying of assessments on estates benelited by the
construction of sewers.
The present condition of the common sewers, together
with a brief statement of the work done this year and the
work to be done in the near future, in order that the effi-
ciency of the sewers may be improved, is shown in the fol-
lowing statement :
East Boston.
Most of the old wooden sewers by which this section was
formerly sewered have been replaced by good brick sewers,
on a gravel foundation, the mud which formed the foundation
of the old sewers having been removed to hardpan and re-
placed with gravel. The remainder of the defective sewers
should be rebuilt as rapidly as appropriations will permit.
A number of outlets need to be enlarged and extended, and
steps to that end have been taken. The portion of the
Orient Heights system, for which an appropriation was made
last year, has been more than half completed ; the remainder,
which should be built the coming season, consists of 850
feet of brick and 2,000 feet of pipe sewer in Saratoga, Ford,
Breed, Gladstone, and Leyden streets.
Work done during 1891.
Thirteen thousand one hundred and twenty-two linear feet
of sewers were built in East Boston during the past year.
The amount is about equally divided between brick and pipe
sewers. In Bremen, Orleans, Sumner, and Porter streets,
3,369 linear feet of brick sewer were built to replace de-
fective sewers that had been built on a poor foundation. In
order to secure a suitable foundation, it was necessary to
excavate a considerable depth of mud, and replace the exca-
vation with gravel; 3,329 linear feet of brick and pipe
scM'er were built in Bennington, AYalley, Leyden, and Glad-
stone streets. These sewers form a part of the Orient
Heights S3\stem, and will l)e connected with the jNIetropoli-
tan system when the latter is completed. The other sewers
built in this district were mostly small branch sewers, and
require no special mention.
Street Department. 93
ClIARLESTOWN.
The Bunker Hill and Vine-street sewer, begun in 1887,
has been completed, and a lai-ge territory which formerly
drained through Polk and Monument streets into Medford
street has been diverted down Bunker Hill street so as to
relieve the Medford-street sewer. In the vicinity of Ar-
lington avenue and Beacham street, the sewerage is unsatis-
factory. Here a separate system of house sewers may be
built to connect with the Metropolitan sewer which will be
located probably in Alford street. The old sewer can then be
connected with surface drains. The sewers in Charlestown,
generally, are very defective. A large proportion of the
old sewers are the old-fashioned square affairs, with earth
])ottom, brick sides, laid without mortar, and tops com-
posed of flat stones. They are liable to hold together for
years or to break down at any moment ; so that it is difii-
cult to say what may or may not be required ; but it would
be good policy to rebuild them as fast as the money is
available. It is next to impossible to clean or flush them,
and when they become obstructed, the streets have to be
o[)ened to clear them.
Work done during 1891.
Two thousand and seventy linear feet of sewers were built
in Charlestown during the past year. They consist mostly
of small branch sewers, and require no special mention.
City Proper and Back Bay.
Many of the old wooden sewers in the city proper are in very
bad condition, and are nearly ready to fall in ; notably those
in Beverly, Billerica, and Commercial streets. The sewer in
Fayette street is badly broken, and should be rebuilt imme-
diately. The district drained by Canal street, and bounded
approximately by Causeway, Beverly, Endicott, Hanover,
Portland, and Merrimac streets, is in as bad condition, from
a sanitary point of view, as can be imagined. Before the
intercepting sewers were built there was a continuous low-
grade sewer across the city, running through Canal street,
Haymarket square, Blackstone, Clinton, Commercial, and
Central streets, with a summit near Hanover street, from
which the sewage flowed both ways, east and west. The
east-side intercepting sewer was low enough to pass under
the outlet sewer and intercept the sewage without obstruct-
ing it, but the west-side intercepting sewer was so much
higher that it dammed up the Canal-street sewer about
94 City Document Xo. 3G.
three and one-half feet. A\] that portion of tlie system
west of Hanover street, extendino- to the boundaries named,
has been partly or wholly filled with water and accunmlated
sewaii'c since 1883. Near the boundaries named, the sewers
rise high enough to be partly above the level of the dam
formed by the intercepting sewer, but in the centre and at
the outlet of the system the sewers are entirely full at all
times, so that they cannot be entered, nor can any appliance
be used to clean them short of pumping out the entire
system. To remedy this trouble, either of two schemes
may be followed in dealing with the districts. The first is
to rebuild all the sewers at a higher grade, high enough to
drain into the intercepting sewer. Each branch sewer
would then have to be followed back and rebuilt until a
point was reached where the old sewer was higher than the
intercepting sewer. It would be of no use to rebuild the
main sewer at the higher level, leaving the branch sewers down
at the old grade ; they would be dammed up just as badly as
before. The sewers would all be raised varying amounts,
from a few inches to three and one-half feet ; therefore
most of the house connections would have to be raised also.
The whole system would have to be rebuilt at once ; if any
portion were left, its condition would be just as bad as ever.
The surface of the streets would be dug up lengthways by
the main sewer, and crossways by the house connections.
It would be difficult to estimate the cost of such a jol), and
the result would be that the whole sewer system would be
left several feet higher than it is now, which mighty prove
a poor policy in a business district where cellars are con-
tinually l)eing carried deeper. The other scheme is to build
a new main sewer across the city from the east-side inter-
cepting sewer, which is about four feet lower than the west-
side sewer at opposite points. One advantage of this plan
is, that as soon as the proposed new intercepting sewer was
built, the branch sewers would immediately drain out into
it, and would not have to be rebuilt. Although the branch
sewers are built of wood, they have been completely sub-
merged, and are probably sound. They could be relniilt as
the need became apparent, and the money became available.
By this latter plan the new sewers would be at about the
same grade as the old ones, and the house connections
would, therefore, not have to be disturl)ed.
The total cost of the latter scheme, including rebuilding
all the branch sewers, is greater than the former, but the first
cost of the latter scheme, inasmuch as it is only necessary to
rebuild the main at present, is aliout $10,000 less than the
former scheme. The line selected for the intercepting sewer
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in the latter scheme is lonoer than is absolutely necessary,
but has been selected on account of the bad condition of the
sewers in Custom-House square, Central and Comnieicial
streets. These are old wooden sewers, running up and
down hill without regular pitch , and holding continually fio u
one to three feet of sewage and mud. The solids of the
sewage lodge in the depressions, and remain until a sewer
storm moves them along. These sewers should be replaced
by smooth, self-cleaning brick sewers. This is all the more
necessary for the reason that these sewers receive the sewage
of the markets, containing large quantities of animal refuse.
A branch could be extended to Dock square, from the main
sewer of this scheme, to relieve that locality from floods;
450 feet built in North street, from Blackstone street, would
accomplish this. The drainage of the Faneuil Hall markets is,
and has always been, in an unsatisfactory and unsanitary
condition. The stalls, sinks, refrigerators, etc., drain down
into cesspools, where the refuse of meat, fish, and poultry
accumulates until the tank is full, when a plug is withdrawn
and the whole mass flushed out into the sewers, which are
the old wooden ones just described, where it remains decom-
posing for an indefinite time, until swept away by a heavy
rain-storm. The tanks not being large enough for the pres-
ent requirements of the markets, overflow, tilling the space
beneath the floor of the basement, and giving notice of the
state of things by coming up through the floor. Inasmuch
as these basements are much below the level of high tide,
they cannot be drained when the sewer system is ill led by
a rain occurring simultaneously with a high tide. Therefore
space must be provided to stow the sewage during a few
hours of high tide, until the level of the water in the sewers
falls below that of the basement and allows of discharge.
An ample storage-chamber, well ventilated and easily acces-
sible, should be built in South Market street, and both
markets drained into it by means of a pipe running down the
centre of the basement. The present tanks could then be
done away with. The storage-chamber should be drained
into a self-cleansing sewer in which there is a constant flow,
so that the animal refuse may be quickly carried to the Moon
Island outlet. If the intercepting sewer across the city be
built, as recommended above, it would aflTord a satisfactory
outlet ; if not, a pipe sewer should be extended through South
Market street to the intercepting sewer in Atlantic avenue.
This class of refuse material should not be thrown into such
a defective sewer as now exists in Commercial street.
The description of the wooden sewers in the foregoing
paragraphs applies to most of the old wooden sewers of the
Of) City DoctnviENT No. 3G.
North End and South Cove districts : they are practicall}'
elongated cesspools. A properly constructed sewer carries
sewage out of the inhabited portion of a city before decom-
iiosition has time to take place. These old sewers fail to
do this, but retain the sewage indefinitely. In addition to
their defects as carriers of sewage, they have settled and
their joints have opened, letting in the water from the tide,
whicli still follows up old stone and pile wharves, which
abound all through the tilled land of these localities. This
water all goes to the intercepting sewers, increasing the
burden upon the pumps. The time has come when these
sewers should be replaced by tight self-cleansing sewers.
In 1888-9 a large sewer was built in Essex and Federal
streets and Mt. Washington avenue. The object was to
intercept the great amount of sewage and drainage which
flowed through Kingston and Beach streets ; carry it to tide-
water by a new route, so as to isolate the Beach street
district from the rest of the sewer system and connect it
directly with the intercepting sewer. By this method the
district would receive the benefit of the pumps of the
Main Drainage Works in the same manner as do the Dover
and Dedham street districts. This scheme involved shifting
the district regulator from Dover street to a point near
Beach street, and building small regulatcn's at the Oswego
street and Harvard street connections. The scheme was
completed except the building of these three I'egulators.
In order to have the scheme work as designed, these regu-
lators should be built.
Attention has been called in a former report of this
department to a sewer in Falmouth and Caledonia streets
that is in a dangerous condition. It is a brick sewer built
in 1881. Proper precautions were not taken to procure a
foundation, and subsequent filling, to raise the grade of the
street, caused a settlement of two feet or more in the sewer.
Quite a large territory is dependent upon it for drainage,
and about 360 feet of it should be rebuilt immediately, before
it falls to pieces and causes trouble in the vicinity.
The tract of land just laid out by the Board of Survey
bounded by the Back Bay Fens and the B. & A. Iv.K.,
also that lying between Charlesgate West and Brookline
avenue, the B. & A. K.Il. and Charles river, and also the
new Commonwealth avenue and vicinity, from the "fork in
the roads" to the l)ridge at Cottage Farm sttition, are ptirtic-
ularly adapted to a separate system of sewerage. The prox-
imity of the Charles Kiver, together >vith the watercourses
through the Fens and the covered channel of Muddy Kiver,
afford chances for short, cheap lines of surface drainage, and
Street Department. 97
the probability that these districts will be covered with the
finest buildings in the city, renders it necessary that they
should be ensured as far as is possible against the flooding
of their cellars. This can be done by a system of house
sewers (separate from the surfiice drains) , taking nothing
but the house sewage and as much of the roof water as can-
not be otherwise disposed of, and large enough to afford
storage room for an hour or two. This system should be
connected with the Metropolitan sewer, and guarded against
the engorgement of that sewer by having regulators at every
connection.
The unusual width of these avenues has led to the pro-
posed adoption of the plan of building a sewer on each
side of the street instead of one in the middle. Two sewers,
while increasing the first cost, will not double it, and will be
a saving to the citj' in preserving a good paved or macad-
amized surface for a number of years, as well as benefit the
abutters by reducing the length of their drain connections.
In the area bounded by St. Mary's street and two branches
of the B. & A. R.R. the same system is desirable. A be-
ginning of a sewer system has been built here on the old
plan of the sewer in the middle of the street ; but it would
not cost much to change to the other system, if the change
were determined upon now. The Villa street district, so
called, bounded by Huntington and Brookline avenues,
Francis street and the park, can be served in the same way,
with a double system of separate sewers. This plan of
double sewers, one on each side of the street, will have to be
followed extensively in the future on the new, wide main
avenue, if there are to be any restrictions made as to open-
ing the streets.
Work done during 1891.
Six thousand eight hundred and twenty-two linear feet of
sewers were built in City Proper and Back Bay during the
past year. Sewers were built in portions of Oak, Tyler,
and Kingston streets to replace old and defective ones.
On account of an insufiicient appropriation the rebuilding
in Oak street could not be carried beyond Hudson street.
That poii^ion of the old sewer between Hudson and Curve
streets is in very bad condition, and should be rebuilt the
coming season. There has been a long-felt need of improve-
ment in the surface drainage of the lower part of Tremont
.street. The fact of there being no sewer in that portion of
the street opposite the Common, explains why the trouble
was not sooner lemedied. Prior to laying the new pave-
ment in Tremont street last fall, the necessary catch-basins.
98 City Document No. 36.
with 625 linear feet of surface drain for outlets, were bviilt.
The improvement in the condition of the street during a
heavy rain is very marked. Six hundred and fifty-two
linear feet of surface drain has been laid in State street, be-
tween Atlantic avenue and Commercial street, aftbrding
great relief from surface water in this locality.
The sewers built in Commonwealth avenue, Beacon and
Eawley streets, the past season, are a part of a separate
system for this vicinity. They connect with the sewer in
Brookline avenue, which, at the present time, is being con-
nected with the Charles River Yalley Metropolitan Sewer.
The other sewers built in these districts require no special
mention.
South Bostox.
There are many wooden sewers in South Boston, some of
which are on the point of caving in. These sewers have
rotted rapidly since tide-water was excluded from them by
the building of tide-gates, etc., necessitated by their con-
nection with the Main Drainage Works, and should be reliuilt
without further delay. The districts about First and D
streets which suffered from floods due to insufficient outlets
for storm water will be provided for by the large storm
overflow now building on the extension of D street. The
outlets for the sewer system at B and Seventh streets, and
also at D street and Dorchester avenue, on the west side
of the peninsula, are in a bad condition, being of insufiicient
size, and choked up by the filling constantly going on around
the South Bay. The D street sewer from Dorchester avenue
to Ninth street, though built only a few years ago, is badly
settled and should be rebuilt. A comprehensive plan has
been prepared for uniting the two outlets named above,
into one at B and Seventh streets, through the O. C. E..K.
freight yard. This sewer is to be built on the same line
as the old one, which is too small and is badly broken and
settled. This plan also includes rebuilding the D street
sewer, and provides for sewering the depressed portion of D
street under the O. C. R.R., where there has been so much
trouble in past years. If this plan were carried out it
would put the sewer system of that part of South Boston in
very good condition. Much of the complaint from that
section is due, not to any defect in the sewer where the
trouble manifests itself, but to the sewage being dammed up
by insufficient outlets.
The South Boston system of intercepting sewers is now
completed, but is not as yet provided with a suitable over-
flow. One has been projected on the side of the old Kemp
DORCHESTER BROOK SEWER.
FEBRUARY 1892.
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SCALE OF FEELT.
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street sewer, which is now not in use. This should be
rebuilt large enough at the same time to afford an outlet for
the storm water from the district bounded by Preble and
Mt. Vernon streets, Dorchester avenue and the water-front.
This district could then be sewered with a separate
system.
Work done during 1891.
Two thousand six hundred and forty-eight linear feet of
sewers were built in South Boston during the past year.
They consist of small branch sewers, with the exception of
the D and Anchor streets overflow, which is an extension of
the D and First streets overflow, necessitated by the fill-
ing in of the " flats."
EOXBURY.
Most of the sewer building in Roxbury will consist of
simple extensions of the old system, where new streets are
laid out, and the rebuilding of some defective sewers. The
exceptions to the above are in a few localities where peculiar
systems are called for. One of these is the section adjacent
to the Back Bay, which will be considered under that head.
The sewers in Hallock and Ward streets are in very bad
condition and should be rebuilt. The Harrison avenue
sewer, from Northampton street to Eustis street, is so much
settled that it cannot be cleaned ; it also should be rebuilt.
There are other districts in which, although the sewers are
in a fair condition, they are not low enough to afford
proper drainage to the cellars. The best plan in these
oases, where an intercepting sewer is within reach, is to
devote the old system of sewers to surface drainage, and
build a new system of separate sewers at a lower grade to
drain the cellars, and connect with the interceptor. Such
a scheme has been devised for the district between Ham-
mond and Lenox streets, and the money for it has been pro-
vided in the last loan. Another district where a similar
scheme should be carried out, is that bounded by Camden,
Tremont, and Culvert streets and the Providence E.R.
Provision has been made in the Loan Order for this object,
but the scheme can best be worked up in connection with
the extension of Columbus avenue.
Provision has been made in the Loan Order for continu-
ing the work on Dorchester Brook sewer. This will be
pushed during the coming year, as the sewerage of the
district around Shirley street and Norfolk avenue, for which
there is a great demand, depends upon its completion. The
area bounded by Gerard, Swett, and Magazine streets and
100 City Document No. 36.
Norfolk avenue is also in a bad sanitary condition, and
ATould be a favorable location for a separate system of
sewerage. If a sum could be obtained sufficient to sewer
the whole of the territory at once, some such scheme could
be carried out ; otherwise the sewers will probably be an ex-
tension of the ordinary combined system.
Work done during 1891,
Six thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven linear feet of
sewers were built in Roxbury during the past year. They
were simple extensions or small branches. Work on the
laro-e Dorchester Brook sewer, near East Chester Park, was
stopped during the summer on account of .the exhaustion of
the loan made for that purpose. The sewer was built far
enough, however, to intercept the Clapp street sewer, so
that even in its present condition it affords more relief to
that district than it has ever before received. Work will be
started here as early as possible in the spring. There is a
large section needing sewers in this vicinity that is dependent
on this sewer for an outlet.
Dorchester.
Dorchester, like West Eoxbury, may be divided into two
sections, — the northern half, in which the sewer building-
consists merely of small extensions of a system already well
developed, and the southern half, in which mains are to be
extended into new territory or entire new systems are to
be built. The division line would run about through Har-
vard station. The first district in importance requiring
sewerage south of this line would be, no doubt, the village of
Lower Mills. The drainage of this place should be divided,
part going into the Dorchester Lower Mills Intercepting
sewer, and part into the Neponset Valley Intercepting sewer.
In the first part the system of combined sewers and storm
overflows can be followed, but in the second part the condi-
tions are different.
Here there is already quite a system of surface drains
built, running into the Neponset, and this system can be
easily extended. A separate system of house sewers can be
built connecting with the Neponset Valley Intercepting
sewer.
There is another district in Dorchester, building up rapidly
and demandino- drainao'e. It is in the neighborhood of
Dorchester and Forest avenue stations, including such
streets as Lauriat, Jones, Ballon, and Chapman avenues,
Nelson, Corbett, Evans, Maxwell, Selden, and Capen
Street Department. 101
streets. The existino- 8e\yer in Norfolk street is built
at such a high grade that it cannot be extended to reach
any more territory. A little more can be done by a
new sewer to Talbot avenue, near Bernard street, by
way of Lyons street. But a scheme to provide for the
whole district will require a new outlet either to Dorchester
Bay or the Neponset River, including in either case a tunnel
through the ridge which forms the divide line of the Stony
Brook basin, within which a large part of this territory lies.
Many schemes could be proposed ; the problem is intimately
connected with that of deepening the Canterbury branch of
Stony Brook and draining the meadows west of Dorchester
station, and might be solved at the same time (by the pro-
posed Stony Brook tunnel to the Neponset, for instance,
recommended in 1886 by the Stony Brook Commission as a
remedy for the floods on Stony Brook), but the demand for
sewers will probably be so many years in advance of that
for the brook improvements, that it will have to be solved
separately.
A careful study of the territory will have to be made, and
plans of difterent lines prepared, before the subject can be
properly discussed.
Work done during 1891.
Twenty-eight thousand five hundred and seventy-six linear
feet of sewers, and four hundred and forty-two linear feet of
culverts, have been built in Dorchester during the past year.
This represents the largest amount built in any one district,
also the greatest variety of work. Special mention of some
of these sewers should be made. Work on the system at
Savin Hill, which was commenced in 1890 under special
loan, has progressed rapidly the past season. The separate
system was adopted here, as the location was particularly
adapted to it. The house sewage goes to the Dorchester
Intercepting sewer, while the storm water empties into
Savin Hill Bay, This work was shut down only when the
appropriation was exhausted, late in the fall. A new appro-
priation is now at hand, and the work will be started as soon
as the weather is suitable.
The sewer in Westville street is in process of construc-
tion the present time. It is one of several sewers that are
"to be constructed in this and adjacent streets the coming
season to aflbrd much-needed relief to that locality, which is
building up very rapidly. These sewers will empty into
the sewer in Geneva avenue extension. The territory is
low and has needed drainage very much for some time. In
oonnection with this sewer a surface drain is being built in
102 City Document No. 3(5,
Westville street and Geneva avenue extension to relieve the
territory between Westville and Bowdoin streets. The build-
ing of Geneva avenue extension at this point has obliterated
a brook that took the drainage of quite a large area. The
sewer in Kilton street, from Talbot avenue to Harvard street,
is about completed. It affords an outlet to a large territory
between Kilton and Washington streets. An extension of
it has also been built through Harvard and School streets to
Washington street. Construction on the Dorchester Lower
Mills Trunk sewer was started in the spring, without a
special appropiiation, and continued until a lack of funds
necessitated a shut-down in the fall. An appropriation is
now at hand with which to continue construction the coming
season.
In Dorchester we have a forcible illustration of the value
attached to sewers by the people, even in a suburban dis-^
trict. There were 10,729 linear feet of sewers built by
private parties, and released to the city, in this district the
past year. It shows that the people of this vicinity require
sewers, and if the city cannot build them, owing to lack of
appropriation, they take the expense upon themselves.
West Roxbury.
This part of the city may be divided into tAvo parts, as far
as future sewer buildins: is concerned. In and near Jamaica
Plain there will be nothing but ordinary extensions of the
existing system. In the remaining part of the district, main
sewers are now beino- built, and the buildino; of tTie laterals
for each street will soon follow. These mains are only
large enough to carry the house sewage and a small amount
of rain water from the street surfaces when the district shall
have become well settled. The extensions will have to be
on the same scale, and the means of relief in time of rain,
that of overflowing the storm water into the brooks.
Near Forest Hills station, the Anson and Mark streets dis-
trict will have to be provided with an outlet to Washington
street very soon.
In the district near Sycamore, Florence, Brooks, and Ash-
land streets there are many houses being built which cannot
be sewered by extending the existing sewers in those streets.
An outlet from the extreme north-westerly point of Florence
street to the northerly of the two intersections of South and
Washington streets will meet this want for the present.
In regard to the Roslindale main sewer, it would seem to
be the best policy to extend it to Highland station before
many laterals are built ; for although there is a considerable
Street Depaetment. 103
l)opu]ation, and apparent need for sewers, in the neighborhood
of Bellevue and Central avenues, there is not such an urgent
demand for them as there is on such streets as Mount
Vernon, Bellevue, Corey, Park, and Centre streets and other
streets near Highland station. The whole appropriation for
this district should therefore be devoted to extending the
main sewer.
Work done during 1891.
Eight thousand five hundred and seventy linear feet of
sewers, and one hundred and ninety linear feet of culverts,
were l^uilt in West Roxbury during the past year.
The Roslindale and West Roxbury trunk sewer was the
only work of any magnitude in the district. This sewer, as-
projected, is to extend from Washington street, Roslindale,.
to Highland station, following as near as practicable,
through streets and private land, the course of a tributary of
Stony Brook ; 4,346 linear feet had been completed the past
season, when the appropriation was exhausted and the work
stopped. A new appropriation is now available, and the
work has been started. It is advisable to reach Highland
station with the sewer as soon as practicable, for the reasons
above stated.
BrIGHTOjS^
In this section of the city, which is developing rapidly ,
and in which there were no sewers prior to 1878, there will
be a continually increasing demand for sewers for some time
to come.
Immediate steps should be taken to straighten out the
question of natural watercourses, and to relieve some of the
exitsing sewers that are overburdened with surface water
which ought to have been excluded from the sewers and
allowed to flow in the old watercourses. In that portion of
the district lying between North Harvard and Franklin
streets, the B. & A. R.R. , and the river, there will probably be
considerable demand for sewer building, now that the Metro-
politan sewer is completed. This is a favorable locality for
building a separate system of surface drains to run to the
river, and to the brook, which is the natural drain of that
part of Brighton. Two large tracts of land in this local-
ity have been subdivided during the past year, streets
laid out, and sewers liuilt by private parties, under the
city's directions, and released to the city when completed.
This shows that the locality will probably build up rapidly ;
and, as the land has but a slight elevation above tide-
water, the building of sewers nuist keep up with its growth.
104 City Document No. 36.
The separate system of sewers in this part of Brighton
coukl be very easily and cheaply carried out, if it were not
for the fact that the brook in the vicinity presents one of the
worst cases of the abuse of natural watercourses in the city.
The brook has been taken into the sewers at Union street,
Washington street near Caml)ridge street, Noi-tli Beacon
street near Arthur street, and at Everett street, thus over-
charo-inir the sewers, and causing floodino- of cellars.
Land-owners have taken prompt advantage of this fact,
and have filled in and obliterated the channel of the brook
in many places. At the corner of Everett and Braintree
streets houses have been built over the old watercourse,
and the remnant of the brook is carried in a pipe through
the cellars. This connection of the brook into the sewer
s^'^stem should be stopped at once, the sewer restricted to the
service for which it was built, and the great flood of surface
water returned to the channel of the brook. Unless these
brook channels are restored, the city must build a large
surface drain in Everett and Braintree streets to con-
nect with the old channel through the railroad yards, which
has been preserved. It is hardlj^ necessary to say that
this would cost a large sum of mone,y. It is earnestly
recommended that the brook be restored at once, and pri-
vate parties who have filled it in be notified to remove the
obstructions, and to define its course by takings, as in a few
years it will be practically impossible.
In building sewers in this region draining directly in the
Metropolitan sewer, particular care should be paid to mak-
ing them water-tight. Water-tight sewers should 'be built
everywhere ; but it is more important in the lowland, because
all this water will always have to be pumped, whereas, in the
highlands, after the high-level intercepting sewers are built,
it will run to the outfall by gravity.
There is another brook, sometimes called Smelt Brook, re-
duiring attention. It follows approximately the course of
Commonwealth avenue. In building this fine avenue, little or
no attention seems to have been paid to the question of pro-
viding channels for the surface water across the location of the
avenue. No culverts were built where it crossed hollows,
which has resulted in the formation of marshy ponds. In one
place, an existing culvert was stopped up by filling over one
«nd of it. This last piece of negligence blocked off a consid-
erable branch of the brook and resulted in having to turn it
into the Redesdale street sewer, rather than disturb the newly
surfaced avenue by rebuilding the culvert. The Redesdale
street sewer is now gorged with this brook water at every
storm. Near Allston street the same thing has been done.
Street Department. 105
and a larii'e area which formerly drained down into the
brook channel in the vicinity of Holmes avenne is now forced
to drain along the north-western side of Commonwealth
avenue, and goes to aggravate the trouble atRedesdale street.
This last culvert should be rebuilt at present, even at the
sacriiice of the surface of the avenue. The others might wait
until the teaming, sewer building, etc., incident to the com-
pletion of the avenue destroys the surface.
West of Foster and Parsons streets there are no sewers in
Brighton, Avith the exception of a short pipe sewer near
Faneuil. The existing system of sewers has been extended
westward from Parsons street as far as possible, and no more
sewers can be built until a new outlet is provided. There
are not many houses now in this part of Brighton, but there
are quite a number of petitions for sewers several years old,
and the subdivision of the land into house-lots is in progress.
With an outlet provided to accommodate lateral sewers, this
territory undoubtedly would build up rapidly. In this
valley flows a large brook. If the city had the right to use
this brook for sewer overflows, a system of sewers could be
built at a comparatively small expense for this section , as the
sewers required to take the house sewage and the flrst wash
of the streets would not be large. If the city does not ac-
quire this right, it will be many years before money enough
oan be raised to build sewers on the ' ordinary combined
principle .
Work done during 1891.
Eleven thousand six hundred and ninety-seven linear feet
of sewers, and two hundred and eis^ht linear feet of culverts,
were built in Brighton during the past year.
While there were no sewers of special magnitude built in
this district during the season, there is one noticeable fact
regarding the amount constructed, namely, the number of
linear feet built by private parties under the city's direction
is nearly double that built by the city. The cause in this
<}ase is the development for building purposes of two
tracts of land in Allston.
It is getting to be a custom in some of the suburban
districts for parties having land they wish to put on the
market, to subdivide it, lay out and construct the streets
and build the sewers, under the direction of the proper
authorities, before building the houses. It has been demon-
strated that this method gives the quickest returns for the
money expended, and that land which would otherwise lay
idle for years can be readily disposed of.
10») City Document No. 36.
FUTUKE WOKK or THE DIVISION.
'I'he })ulk of the work of the department in the future will
consist of sewering the suburlian districts, and the most im-
portant question for this department to settle is that of the
best policy to be })ursued, in view of what has already been
done, and of what will be required.
Large areas are already paitially sewered, upon the com-
bined system, with sewers which are rapidly l)econiing inad-
equate to })erform the double duty imposed upon them, that
of carrying both sewage and surface water ; and the problem
which confronts the division is twofokl, — to devise a remedy
for these inadequate servers, and to settle upon a policy ta
be pursued in building the extensions into new territory,,
which must necessarily be connected Avith the present system.
Before proceeding further, it may be well to call attention to
the great variations in the amount of surfoce water which the
same district will yield under different conditions of surface.
Thus, with a certain rainfall, 100 acres of land, with few
roads and scattered houses, might yield a flow of 188 gallons^
per second; the same land, well developed, cut up inta
small house-lots occupied by dwellings, and with good mac-
adamized roads, would give twice that flow, — 37.") gallons per
second. With the streets paved and dwellings replaced by
business blocks, the yield would be 4.50 gallons per second ^
240 per cent, of the flrst. In view of this fact, it is not diffi-
cult to see how the present inadequate sj^stem came to be
built ; indeed, it is difficult to see how it could well have
been otherwise, considering the manner in whicvli a city
grows. All land when flrst developed into house-lots (where
sewers are now usually called for) is in the condition flrst
described, gradually changing into the second condition, and
perhaps into the third. The engineer called upon to design
the sewers does not feel justifled in designing them large
enough to meet the requirements of a fully developed dis-
trict, unless he can he assured, not only that such develop-
ment will take place, but that it will take place within a
reasonable period of time. If such development were cer-
tain to take place flnally, but not likely to occur within, say,
twenty-flve years, it would still be better flnancial policy ta
build a sewer of small size, fully understanding that, having-
served its purpose, it would be abandoned, and rebuilt larger
at a later date, than to sink the capital required to build
the large-size sewer in the flrst place.
Then the very fact of the existence of a large system of
small sewers ensures the extension of the same system ort
the same scale, for it is folly to build a new sewer larger
Street Department. 107
than the one through which it discharges, unless there is a
probability of being able to rebuild the outlet sewer in the
near future. There is also another cause operating power-
fully and often, to bring about the liuilding of sewers known
at the time of building to be inadequate, and that is the
necessity, under our methods of raising money, of reaching
districts imperatively needing sewers with a limited amount
of money. Under these circumstances, the public health
being threatened, the division does not feel that it has the
right to refuse relief, because it does not have money enough
to build the proper theoretical size. All these causes con-
spire to produce the same effect, namely, the building of
sewers which subsequently prove inadequate.
It is not necessary to allege incompetence in our predeces-
sors to account for the existing inadequate system ; natural
causes are sufficient to account for it, and the same causes
will continue to operate and to produce the same results.
We have then on our hands this large system of suburban
sewers, which is now proving insufficient in size to carry all
the sewage and surface water now admitted to it, and the
first part of our double problem is to provide relief. Any
plan for relief should include utilizing the present system to
the greatest extent practicable. To rebuild the whole of it
is out of the question. There are left only two alternative
courses : first, to build a system of large intercepting relief
sewers, of sufficient capacity to carry all sewage as well as
storm water ; second, to utilize the natural watercourses for the
conveyance of storm water. The first course, although not
out of the question, is excessively costly ; the second is not,
and, although presenting some difficulties, is entirely prac-
ticable, and is the one which is recommended. The project
of utilizing the watercourses is, for surface drainage, not
only cheaper in first cost, but the burden of the cost is in-
comparably easier to be borne by the city, from the manner
in which it will be imposed. The cost of a relief sewer
must be borne all at once. When built, it must be built as
large as will ever be required, because its capacity cannot
be expanded to meet the constantly increasing requirements
of the district. The watercourse or brook channel, on the
other hand, does admit of such expansion. The development
of the brook into a relief sewer could be made to keep pace
with the development of the district, first by a deepening and
widening, then a further deepening and walling, next pav-
ing, and last the covering in. The conversion of the brook
into a storm sewer is then complete, without any large sum
of money having been expended years in advance of the
needs of the district.
108 City Document No. 36.
Money for drainage of an^- kind is always granted unwill-
ingly, never until absolutely necessary ; the difficulty of
obtaining it increases with the amount asked for ; hence it fol-
lows that a district needing an expensive relief sewer would
sutler long and severely, before the large lump-sum required
could be obtained, whereas the comparatively small sums
needed at any one time for increasing the efficiency of the
brook channel could be much more readily obtained. The
application of this method of relief in districts already
sewered will present but few difficulties. In many cases an
overflow can be constructed direct from the sewer into the
brook where the two cross ; but in many other cases the
sewer crosses under the brook, and in such cases either one
of two methods may be adopted. If there is considerable
pitch to the brook, a few hundred feet of its length may be
lowered ; that is, a part of the ultimate deepening may be
<ione at present ; or, if that is not feasible, a short length of
storm sewer can be constructed from the brook to a point
where the common sewer is higher than the brook, and the
overflow efiected there. The last plan can be followed
wherever desired, as the brook is always in the lowest thread
of the valley. All catch-basins near natural watercourses
or storm sewers should be turned into them, instead of into
the common sewers, and it is hardly necessary to say that
where brooks have been taken into sewers, they should be
restored to their old channels, and that, too, before the terri-
tory adjacent becomes any further developed. In regard to
the second part of our problem, that which relates to the
policy to be pursued in sewering new territory, the circum-
stances in each case should be taken into account. In some
favorable localities an entirely separate system of house
sewers and storm sewers may and should be built. In such
<?.ases both sewers should be built at the same time, for the
average citizen will not take the pains to understand the dis-
tinctions between them, and is exasperated if he cannot have
a catch-basin to drain any water which may accumulate on
the street, into the sewer as soon as it is built.
But in those places where new sewers must be an exten-
sion of the old system, there would be no advantage in a
separate system. The most practical system, generally, will
be a combined system, consisting largely of 12-in. pipes,
nnitino; into mains laro;e enoui2:h to carry the combined
sewage and storm water from each little district, to where it
crosses the first watercourse where a relief overflow would
"be established, and the size of the sewer reduced to one just
large enough to carry the sewage and a small amount of
surface water from the streets, the first and foulest washings.
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The main would then be gradually increased in size as it
passed though the next small district, until it reached the
next watercourse, when it would be reduced as before, and
so on. The first cost of this system, since the brooks would
not have to be deepened for some time, would be less than
that of the separate system, if in the latter both kinds of
sewers were constructed at once, and would be little greater
than the cost of the house sewers alone of that system ;
because the only economy in laying a small pipe rather than
a large one is in the extra cost of the pipe itself, the trench
costing practically the same, and the latter item in all cases
comprises the largest part of the whole cost of the sewer.
The system recommended above would be practically an
extension of the old system, and requiring and admitting of
the same means of relief in the future, by means of the
natural watercourses. The old sewers are, in the main,
large enough to carry the house sewage and a small rainfall
upon the street surfaces, and that is all that it is desirable that
they should do, provided the city is assured oi the right to con-
trol and use the natural watercourses. It is this assurance
that is lacking now, and which, if obtained, would render it
possible to economize largely on future designs. The brooks
should be seized at once by the city and the damages, if any,
settled. The takinos should be defined, and in doing this
the wishes of the land-owners should be considered, and
such divisions made as will leave the land in good shape for
cutting up into house-lots.
The engineer would then know certainly at what points he
could economize safely on designs for sewers. The depart-
ment could then adopt and adhere to the policy as outlined
above. It is the best adapted to the existing sewer system ;
it requires no wholesale destruction and reconstruction of
sewers ; it is the most convenient for the people ; it is the
cheapest in first cost, and superior, from a financial point of
view, in the manner and times of requiring the investment
of capital ; it is the natural method of evolving, out of an
old and ill-adapted system, the new system well adapted to
the present and future requirements.
Culverts.
More attention has been paid to the natural watercourses
this year than ever before. The constantly increasing-
floods (due to the development and change in the nature of
the surface of the ground) have called the attention of every
one to the inadequate size of the old culverts across the
streets. These, up to the present time, seem to have been
110 City Document No. 36.
built as they arc in countn' towns, without the least regard
to the size of the territory to be drained through them. In
other countries, building a road is considered an engineering-
enterprise, and one of the problems connected with it is the
determination of the location and size of the culverts for
draining the vallej^s which are crossed. But in this city it
bas been left to the judgment of a street foreman, who, of
course, had no means of calculating the proper size. These
culverts have been inadequate for years, creating nuisances
during every storm. Man}'" of the worst have been rebuilt
this year, and many more remain to be rebuilt. The re-
building of one culvert of the proper size simply shifts the
nuisance to the next culvert down stream, and calls for its
rebuilding, and the process of enlargement will have to be
followed down to tide-water. In all the culverts which have
been built this year, ample provision has been made for the
largest rainfalls likely to occur, and the culvert has been so
designed as to accommodate itself to future deepening of the
watercourse. In some cases the culvert under the street
joins on to a culvert or some form of covered channel
through private land. In these cases, the department has
confined itself to rebuilding the culvert between the street
lines only, leaving the channel through private land as
before. This course cle-ars the city from the legal respon-
sibility of maintaining a nuisance , but does not remedy the
liability of damage by floods, as the water is still held back
by the small channel through the private land.
In this connection, it would be well to call attention to the
lack of supervision in the matter of building private
streets, which the city is afterward asked to accept. The
location of such streets is now supervised by the city. There
should be some engineering supervision over the size of
culverts under them. The builder of a private street can-
not be expected to know what size of culvert is required ;
be should not be required to rebuild it at greatly increased
expense before the city is willing to accept the street ; nor
should the city be expected to repair the result of his
ignorant action. He should be notified in the beginning
what sized culvert will be required, and compelled to build
it in a manner satisfactory to the city.
Stony Brook.
Stony Brook, the largest of the city's watercourses, is
now provided with an ample outlet, and gives little trouble.
The effect of the development of its water-shed can be seen,
however, in the increasing rapidity and height to which it
Street Department. Ill
rises now at every rain, compared to what it did eight years
ago, although now its outlet is ample in size, and then it was
not. There has been a movement already to have the new
channel, recommended by the commission of 1886, extended
from the inlet chamber on Pynchon street to Green street.
When this is done, provision must be made for continuing
the supply of brook-water to the Boston Belting Company.
There are considerable areas of land near the brook which
are too low to be drained by the existing Stony Brook
Valley sewer system. Since the brook improvement of
1880-84, this land has been available for building. When the
new channel is extended above the inlet chamber, it would
be comparatively easy to design its sections, so as to carry
upon its haunch a sewer for these districts ; it would not be
large, being for house sewerage only. From the inlet
chamber down to the Roxbury crossing, there is a twenty-
foot channel occupied only by the stream, ^\hich flows through
a six-ibot opening; a sewer could be built cheaply here.
From the Roxbury crossing to the intercepting sewer in
Hampshire street, corner of Linden Park street, there is a
channel already built — the overflow channel — which would
do with very slight alteration. If the new channel is built
without providing this low-grade sewer, it will be clifiicult to
ever properly sewer the low districts along the brook. The
Grade Crossing Commission and the Rapid Transit Com-
mission both have under consideration the project of raising
the Providence Railroad. If the extension of the large con-
duit above the inlet chamber be made on the lines of the
Commission of 1886, it will be directly alongside the rail-
road for a distance of 2,000 feet to Old Heath street, then
again from near Amory street to a point 400 feet above
Boylston street, 2,400 feet more ; a total of 4,400 feet. The
brook is from ten to fifteen feet below the railroad. The plan
is to raise the railroad about fifteen or sixteen feet ; the
commissioners' plan would lower the brook twelve feet. If
the railroad were raised before the brook was lowered, it
would require a retaining- wall of 26 to 30 feet high. It
would be very difiicult and expensive to go down a depth of
twelve feet alongside such a wall, carrying a four-track rail-
road, and build the covered channel recommended. If an
open channel instead were built, the retaining-wall on that
side would be 38 to 42 feet high. If the railroad is to be
raised, the proposed extension of the brook channel must be
built first, at least as far as Boylston Station.
112 City Document No. 36.
High-Level Intercepting Sewers.
An essential part of the scheme of intercepting sewers for
Boston is to carry the sewage from the highlands above grade
40, directly to the outlet by gravity, and thus avoid pumping.
To do this, a system of intercepting sewers was projected in
Dorchester, Roxbury, and Brighton, to intercept the sew^age
from all land above grade 40. It is time that this system
was begun, now that the State is about to pour into our
system the sewage from the Charles River valley.
High-Level Relief Sewers.
There are some districts of the City Proper, consisting
partl}^ of high and partly of low land, in which the water
from the highland fills up the sewers in the lowland at
every rain. A system of relief sewers has been proposed
for these districts, to tap the common sewers at a point
above the level of the tide, and run the storm water from the
highlands directly overboard, without connection with the
sewers in the lowland portion of the district. The volume
of the wdiole sewer system in the lowland district would
then be available to store the storm water falling on the
lowland alone until the ebb tide should allow it to escape,
thus to a great extent preventing the flooding of cellars.
Incidentally it would afford another means of relieving the
pumps of the intercepting sewer system, and should be
begun for the same reasons mentioned in the previous
paragraph.
Main Drainage Works.
Special attention is called to this important branch of the
Sewer Division.
During the eight years that it has been in operation the
general working of this system has been very satisfactory.
Many points have been developed that furnish valuable in-
formation for the construction of such a plant as this. One
of the most impoi-tant of these is the action of sewage and
its gases on metals. It was expected that the sewage would
have a decided action on the ironwork, but without definite
knowledge of its extent, it was not deemed expedient to
substitute other metals at a greatly increased cost. The
sequel has proved that on certain parts of the pumps and
gates, especially where sul)jected to friction, the substi-
tution of other metals Avould have been expedient. The
iron valve-seats on the pumps are worn away to such an
extent that all of them Avill have to be renewed ; this work
is in progress now. The gate-seats in the sewers at Moon
Street Department. 113
Island are in the same condition, and are being treated in the
same way. The method adopted to prevent a recurrence-
of the trouble, is to face the seats where the wear comes-
with a hard composition. Before commencing these renew-
als, tests were made with the metals combined and placed
under similar conditions, to see if any galvanic action would
result from the combination. None, however, has taken
place. The boiler-feed and flue-heaters will have to be re-
newed, the old ones having burned out.
A certain style of heater is under consideration at present
which will be much more efficient and lasting than the origi-
nal one, at about one-half the cost.
Repeated mention has previously been made of the urgent
necessity of keeping storm and soil water out of the sewers
as far as practicable. The force of those recommendations
is nowhere more apparent than at the pumping-station.
The continual addition to the sewer system of new sewers,
with catch-basins connected with them, brings a rapidly in-
creasing amount of the storm water to the pumps. To this
is added the leakage of soil water into the system, through
the old and defective sewers that should have been rebuilt
long ago. The result is that the pumps are often taxed to
their uttermost capacity, and with water alone, not sewage.
The following figures will give an idea of the amount of
this excess of water. The average daily consumption of
water in this section drained by the Main Drainage Works,
for 1891, was 35,686,900 gallons. The daily average amount
pumped at the pumping-station (pump measurement), for
1891, was 62,582,683 gallons, allowing a liberal percentage
for " slip " in the pump measurement due to the worn con-
dition of the valve-seats. There still remains an amount in
excess of the water consumption, or sewage proper, that
shows conclusively the value of the above recommendation.
The building of the Charles River branch of the Metro-
politan Sewer system the past season is going to further
tax the pumps by the immediate addition of the sewage of
Brookline and Brighton. In view of these facts it is evident
that immediate steps must be taken to increase the capacity
of the pumping plant by the addition of one or more pumps.
It will take two years, at least, before this work can be fin-
ished, if action is taken immediately. On account of the
increase in the amount of sewage, and the necessity of the
occasional shutting down of the high-duty pumps for repairs,
it has been and will be necessary to run the low-duty pumps
much more than heretofore. As it takes more coal to do
the same work with the latter pumps, it is recommended
that a high-duty attachment be added to these pumps im-
114 City Document No. 36.
mediately, as ])y so doing a savino- of twenty per cent, in
fuel can he made whenever these pumps are in use. This
saving would pay the interest on the mone}^ invested twice
•over, even Avith the amount that these pumps are run at
present.
The need of completing certain portions of this system,
and the risk attending the delay of such action, has been
pointed out to the City Government each successive year
since the starting of the works. The need is more urgent at
the present time than ever before, and unless the machinery
designed for pumping out the Dorchester Bay tunnel, which
was purchased in 1884, is placed in position at the east
shaft, and the permanent conduit in the embankment
between Squantum and Moon Island is pushed to complete-
tion, a stoppage of the present system of discharging may
be looked for in the near future. The trouble feared in the
former case is that the iron guides on the sides of the shaft
are in danger of dropping into the tunnel, in which case the
sewage would have to discharge into Dorchester Bay at
the pumping-station. Should this occur, the delay and ex-
pense involved in pumping out the tunnel, with the means
at hand, would l)e very great. The guides are held in posi-
tion by being liolted to iron beams built into the masonry.
The condition of the bolts is not known except at the sur-
face, where it is shown that they are badly eaten away by
the action of the sewage. They have been submerged for
over eight years, and from the indications at the surface, and
the knowledo-e of the action of the sewao-e on the iron on
other portions of the works, it would indicate that there was
danger of their dropping down the shaft at any time, even
if some of them have not already. AVhile there is some un-
certainty in the above case, there is no uncertainty in the
trouble to be expected in case the conduit betw^een Squan-
tum and Moon Island is not completed as quickly as possi-
ble. The w^ooden flume, which at the present time carries
the sewage from the tunnel to the reservoir at Moon Island,
is in very bad condition, despite the repairs that have been
made upon it for the last four years. It was built for a
temporary structure to be used until such time as the per-
manent conduit could be built. It has been in use longer
than it was expected would be necessary, and is now in
such condition that it is sure to go to pieces if any
unusual strain is put upon it either internally or ex-
ternally. Quite extensive repairs are at present being
made upon it, which are only in view of keeping it in
position. Many of the piles that support it are so eaten
away that they are not five inches in diameter. It is not
Street Department. 115
only a menace in itself, but its condition is so weak that
no proper test can be made of the tunnel, to discover its con-
dition as regards deposits. If the flume should give way, the
sewage would have to l:>e discharged continually on the flats
off Squantum, or in Dorchester Bay at the pum ping-station,
and not at Moon Island outlet, on the ebb tide alone.
Engineering Work.
During the past year the engineering force of the Sewer
Division has been busily engaged on the routine work of the
division.
This work comprises the preparation of plans for new
work on sewers, surface drains, and culverts, the making of
record plans of work accomplished during the year, and the
engineering supervision of the construction of sewers, drains,
and culverts.
In addition to the above work, the force has been eno;ao;ed
in preparing topographical plans of the various sewerage
districts, and in carrying out a S3^stem of accurate levels
through the whole city.
In 1887 the department experienced much difficulty in
carrying on its work on account of the lack of an accurate
system of levels.
No attempt had ever been made to establish such a system,
the elevation of different points having been borrowed from
other departments, and long lines of levels run from them.
These were necessarily inconsistent one with another, and
errors had crept in which could not be located, owing to
the absence of any thorough system of checking from one
line of levels to another.
Discrepancies of over a foot were found, and the depart-
ment possessed no reliable system of its own.
The Superintendent of Sewers at that time set about
remedying this state of afiairs ; the engineering force was
increased, and a portion of it employed exclusively in level-
ling, establishing benches all over the city, and levelling to
the manholes, the elevations of hundreds of which were un-
known and could not be indicated on the sectional plans of
the office.
An accurate, consistent system of levels was carried all
over the City Proper, Charlestown, South Boston, Roxbury,
East Boston as far as Eagle square, Brighton to Oak square,
Dorchester to Neponset and Dorchester station, and a single
line of levels carried through West Roxbury to within one-
half mile of the Dedhani line.
A total of 374 benches and 2,262 manholes were levelled
to.
116 City Document No. 36.
It was also found that there was much inaccuracy in the
plans of the city, which, although veiy accurate in places,
were not geodeticaUy correct, not having been based upon.
any comprehensive survey.
The topographical plans (the very basis of all sewer calcu-
lations) were very incomplete.
It was determined to supply both these deficiencies at
once. A party was organized, and for the first time the
city was triangulated, and upon this triangulation a stadia
topographical survey was based.
This triangulation was developed from three difierent
base lines of the United States Survey on the northerly side
of the city, and a check obtained by connection with United
States stations and State points on the southerly side of the
city.
The most difficult part of such an undertaking is to select
the points and make the observations for the first system of
large triangles, which required sights sometimes ten miles
long.
This system of triangles was established and developed
into smaller triangles, whose sides varied from 3,000 to
6,000 feet in leng-th, and the latitude and longitude of all
observed points, some sixty in number, calculated.
This whole system of triangulation made by the engineers
of the Sewer Division has been adopted and further used by
the Board of Survey in its work of mapping out the city.
The stadia survey was completed in Brighton, and a fine
map, accurate geodetically and topographically, was plotted.
This map has been traced in six sectional sheets during
the year past, and blue-printed in a new style, the streets
being rendered in white, so that the sj^stem of sewers may
be drawn upon them, and the constant additions that are
being built can be plotted, and the plans thus kept up to
date.
These blue-prints are equally available for showing water-
pipes, gas-pipes, etc.
The sketched topographical plans of the other parts of the
city, which, although not stiictly accurate, are valuable as
showing the general features of the ground, have also been
traced and blue-printed in the same manner, and can be re-
produced to any extent desired. They are especially valua-
ble, on account of their age, in preserving a record of the
natural watercourses.
There is much work of this same sort remaining to be
done. The stadia topographical survey should be carried over
the remainder of the city, particularly Dorchester, West
Eoxbury, and Roxbury.
Street Department. 117
The bench-levelling should be extended into new districts
where sewers will soon be built, and there are about 1,000
manholes now to be levelled to.
Two parties are devoted to this work now, while a third
is employed in preparing alternative plans for sewering the
region to the west of Dorchester and Forest avenue stations,
where some comprehensive plan must be adopted to provide
a new outlet to tide-water.
Sewer Diagram.
A " sewer diagram " is appended which shows the method
by which the sizes of sewers are calculated in this city.
The object of this diagram is to enable the person using
it to arrive at a tolerably correct idea of the size of sewer
required in any particular case as soon as he knows the prin-
<3ipal facts concerning it, viz. :
First, the size and character of the district to be drained ;
and, second, the fall which is available for the sewer. To
accomplish this, two sets of curves are plotted with the same
vertical and horizontal scales.
The first set, those springing from the lower left-hand
corner and going toward the right upper corner, are designed
to give the flow that ma}^ be expected from any given area.
The ordinates of these curves are cubic feet per second ;
the abscissas written along the top are the number of acres
drained.
There are five of these curves corresponding to that number
of degrees of steepness of surface, namely :
One for flat districts, the general inclination of which is 5
feet per 7,000, and others for steeper slopes, up to 100 per
1,000.
The curves are plotted according to the interpretation of
the Biirkli-Zeigler formula found in Gray's Providence
Report of 1884, using the table of coefiicients which he gives
there, and giving the value 1 to the factor r, the rate in
inches of rainfall per hour ; or, in short, the curves give the
ilow which may be expected from any given area, from a
rainfall of one inch per hour, falling at a uniform rate.
For example : 100 acres, the general pitch of the surface
of which is 5 feet per 1,000, yield 30 cubic feet per second ;
if its slope is 20 per 1,000, 42 cubic feet; if 100 per 1,000,
^2 cubic feet.
The second set of curves, those going from the left down-
ward toward the right, represent the capacities of sewers of
"varying sizes at various inclinations.
They refer to the same vertical scale of cubic feet per
118 City Document No. 36.
second ; and the horizontal scale is in terms of the horizontal
component of the angle of inclination, or the number of feet
horizontally in which the sewer falls one foot vertically, or
the ordinary terms in which the pitch of a sewer is described
as 1: 500, 1 : 1,000, etc.
For example : A 4-foot circular sewer, running 3 feet
deep, at a pitch of 1 : 150 carries 105 cubic feet per second.
If the sewer is running under a head, the slope of the-
hydraulic gradient, of course, must be taken, not the actual
pitch at which the sewer is built.
The whole operation, then, is as follows : Suppose we have
to drain 200 acres lying at a general slope of 20 feet per 1 ,000,.
and our outlet sewer can be given a fall of 1 : 500 ; then we-
find that 200 acres, at a slope of 20 per 1 ,000, yields 70 cubic
feet per second ; and looking on the sewer curves, we find
that at 1 : 500, a 4-foot 6-inch circular sewer running 3.25
feet deep carries 74 cubic feet per second. This, then, is the
size indicated by the diagram.
The angles in the curves are due to changes in scale, both
horizontal and vertical. It is not practicable to plot them on
any one scale without making them either illegible at one
end, or stretching them out to an unmanageable length at the
other end.
If plotted on any one scale, the curves would, of course, be
smooth sweeps. It will be noticed that the scale of acres
drained at the top, and the scale at the bottom showing the
pitch of the sewers, are made to correspond, as, for example,
the same vertical line indicates 500 acres on the drainage-
area curves, and a fall of 1 : 500 on the curves of capacities
of sewers. This is done to avoid mistakes in the use of the
diagram. Although the scales at the top and bottom indi-
cate difierent things, and refer to different sets of curves, it
does not make any difference which is used. The note in the
corner states that these drainage-area curves are calculated
for suburban districts ; if the district is closely built upon
and paved, an allowance of 20 per cent, should be added ;
if in a rural state, 30 to 50 per cent, should be subtracted.
The diagram is particularly convenient in discussing-
schemes of sewerage ; the sizes of sewers required b}^ differ-
ent plans can be compared, and the results of proposed
changes or modifications can be seen in a moment without
going through tiresome calculations.
Another application is to show about what a sewer carried
under some unusual conditions when completely sul)merged,
for instance, and discharging under a very small head.
The sewer curves are plotted from Clark's tables. The
quantities agree very closely with the Kutter formula (taking-
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7? as .013) for medium-size sewers; for the smallest sewers
they are 10 or 12 per cent, larger, and for the largest sewers
they are 10 or 12 per cent, smaller, than Kutter's formula
would give. A line is also plotted following the general
direction of the set of curves first described, and representing
a discharge of one-half cubic foot per second per acre. This
line is given for reference, as it represents the allowance
which was formerly made for the quantity of water a dis-
trict might be expected to yield. A few approximate
velocity curves are also plotted.
STREET-CLEANING DIVISION.
Several years ago Boston was noted for the appearance of
its streets, which were referred to throughout the country as
models of cleanliness. A o-radual change for the worse in
their condition has been taking place, until in the fall of
1890 their condition was such as to call out a protest
addressed to the Mayor, setting forth the " outrageous and
unwarrantable dirty condition of the principal streets of our
great city," and stating that " if our streets were kept clean,
as are the principal streets of New York City, — Broadway
and Fifth avenue, — the amount of dirt now brought into our
stores would be avoided, and property saved from great loss
by the damage done our merchandise by dust and dirt, and
the general health of our people would be protected."
This protest, signed as it was by a large number of influ-
ential citizens, carried great weight, and a public hearing
was held. At this hearing the official in charge of the
street-cleanino; stated that the streets were as clean as it was
possible to keep them, and that no change for the better
could be made, even if $1,000,000 was spent in their care.
The matter was then dropped until the beginning of the next
municipal administration, when, on January 17, 1891, the
duty of cleaning the streets was taken from the hands of the
Superintendent of Sanitary Police, where it had always
rested, and placed in the hands of the Acting Superintendent
of Streets. Pending the organization of a se[)arate division
of street-cleaning, which could only be elaborated after care-
ful study, steps were at once taken to clean up the city, and
the combined forces of the Paving Department and such force
as (!Ould be spared from the Department of Sanitary Police
were set to work. Patrol wagons, to collect the litter which
had been allowed to lie in the gutters undisturbed for months.
120 City Document No. 3(5.
were sent round ; and in genenii an effort was made to clean
up the city. The hibors of this force soon produced an effect,
as indicated by the change in tone of the press and the com-
ment made by the public on the improved condition of the
streets. Meanwhile a study was being made of the reason
why the condition of the streets had been so unsatisfactory
in the past, and a plan was elaborated for their better care in
the future.
The reason why the streets had grown more filthy from
year to year was easily discovered. The system of cleaning
in vogue, while it answered for twenty years ago, had been
entirely outgrown. Notwithstanding the enormous growth
of the city, the system had never been changed to keep pace
with this growth. The organization of the street-sweeping
force was divided up into two large double gangs and one
small single gang. One large double gang, with headquar-
ters at the West End stable, attended to the streets in the
North End, East Bdston, Charlestown, and the Back Bay.
The other large double gang covered the streets from State
street to Washington park at the Highlands and the streets
of South Boston and Dorchester. A small gang, with head-
quarters at the Highlands, attended to streets in that vicinity.
The double gangs mentioned above worked in two divis-
ions without any well-defined limits of area, and in such a
manner that a s^reat deal of time was wasted in o-oino; to and
from their work. The failure to distinctly separate the work
of the divisions resulted in one division travelling over the same
ground just covered by another division, in order^ to reach
the territory in which it was to work. The transportation of
sweeping-machines and men to remote localities, such as
Charlestown, East Boston, or South Boston, in itself wasted
a valuable amount of time which should have been expended
in actual sweeping-work. The areas laid out for these gangs
were entirely too large. Nothing but a printed list of
streets to be swept on certain days of the week was in exist-
ence as a guide to the foreman in his work. This list had
grown obsolete, owing to the impossibility of covering the
entire area laid out, and the work was largely done by gen-
eral orders to work where the dirt was the greatest.
But little attention was paid to Brighton, West Roxbury,
or the other remote suburbs. Two or three times a year,
when the streets in the main portion of the city were sup-
posed to be in fairly respectable condition, the entire force
was transferred to the suburbs, and a spasmodic attempt
made to clean the gutters.
In winter, the larger part of the force was transferred to
the work of collecting ashes, and the work of cleaning the
Street Department. 121
streets almost entirely neglected. The dirt which accumu-
lated by this method was frequently an inch deep over the
surface of the street. During; the time that snow remained
on the street, or while the temperature was below freezing,
this neglect did not involve much discomfort to pedestrians ;
but on the occurrence of a thaw, the streets became almost
impassable.
Immediately on the consolidation of the departments being
effected, a new division was formed, known as the Street-
Cleaning Division, whose duty was to devote its attention
solely to the cleaning of the streets, independent of the re-
moval of ashes and oarbaoe. Inasmuch as the cleanliness of
the streets holds such a close and vital relation to the health
and comfort of all citizens, it was thought important enough
to demand continuous work of a force assigned for that im-
portant purpose throughout the year.
A tabulated list of the streets of the city having been
prepared, classified according to districts and according to
the style of paving, showing the length, width, and area of
each street, enabled the total amount of paving to be swept
to be determined. A table was also prepared showing the
miles of macadamized roads the gutters of which were to be
scraped and cleaned at proper intervals. These paved streets
were marked on a city map, and then by successive approx-
imations the division lines of the proposed sweeping-districts
were so determined that each foreman of a district would
liave a stipulated number of square yards of paved area to
take care of; this amount was determined by the number of
square yards known to be covered by the average work of
sweeping-machines.
A study of this map, together with the data concerning the
number of square yards to be swept, showed that it was
advisable to divide the city into nine sweeping-districts.
These districts being much smaller in extent than the sweep-
ing districts into which the city had formerly been divided,
enabled a better supervision to be exercised over the clean-
liness of the city in general.
The following districts have been established :
jSTo. 1. West End.
This district is bounded by Washington, School, and Beacon
streets and Charles River to Charles River bridge.
iVb. 2. North End.
This district is bounded by Charles River from Charles
River bridge to Central wharf, and by Central, Milk, Wash-
ington, and Causeway streets.
122 City Document No. 36.
JSfo. 3. South End,
This district is bounded by Central, Milk, Washington^
Kneeland, Lincohi, Harvard, and Utica streets and Fort
Point channel to Central wharf.
No. 4. South End.
This district is bounded by Utica, Kneeland, Washington^
School, Beacon, and Dartmouth streets, Columbus avenue,
Berkeley and Dover streets, and Fort Point channel to
Federal street bridge.
JSTo. 5. Boston Neck and. Back Bay.
This district is bounded by Dover and Berkeley streets,.
Columbus avenue, Dartmouth street, Charles River, West
Chester park, Falmouth, Gainsborough, Hammond, Ball,
Hunneman, Fellows, Northampton, and Albany streets, and
Roxbury Canal, South Bay, to Dover street bridge.
Note. — Harvard bridge is swept in this district.
No. 6. South Boston and Dorchester.
No. 7. Roxbury and West Roxlmry.
No. 8. Brighton.
No. 9. East Boston and Charlestoivn.^
In laying out the sweeping-districts, the amount of pave-
ment was carefully measured, and the boundary lines of
each district were so fixed that each foreman would have an
equal amount of work to superintend.
The first five districts are made up as follows :
District No.
1
2
3
4
5
1 . Paving cleaned 3 times per week
Gutter " once '
Total " " " . . 584, 08^
Paving, sq. yds.
Gutter, sq. yds.
183,094
34,800
194,710
1,800
195,330
1,900
193,186
16,200
227,630
129,140
Sq. yds.
reek .
549, 28^
((
34,800
Street Department.
123
District No.
2. Paving cleaned 3 times per week
Gutter " 2
Total
3. Paving
Gutter
Total
4. Paving
Gutter
Total
5. Paving
Gutter
Total
3 "
once
2 "
once
Sq. yds.
584,130
3,600
587,730
585,990
3,800
589,790
579,558
16,200
595,758
455,260
129,140
584,400
In districts 6, 7, 8, and 9 the amount of work to be done
was not computed, as it was not possible to assign men
enough to these districts so that they could be cleaned as
often as the business section.
The amount of pavement in each of those districts is aa
follows :
District Xo.
6 .
7
9
Sq. yds.
238,635
123,680
125,000 +
269,645
In the above arrangement of work, two sweeping-ma-
chines are assigned to each of the first five districts, which
allows for 100,000 square yards per day, or 600,000 square
yards per week, as a double sweeping-machine can cover,
on an average, 50,000 square yards in a day in actual
practice.
As will be seen by the above table, the first four districts
are covered every two days. In these districts the follow-
ing streets are covered every day :
Green street, Bowdoin street. Court street. Court square,
Tremont street, Hanover street (from Court street to Black-
stone street), Adams square, New Washington street, Port-
land street, Friend street (west of Washington street). Hay-
124 City Document No. 36.
market square, Haverhill street, Travers street, Causeway
street, Union street, Dock square, Washington street (from
Cornhill street to Dover street). School street, New Devon-
shire street, Kilby street. Liberty square, Exchange place,
Central street, India street, Doane street, Faneuil Hall square,
North and South Market streets, Clinton street, Blackstone
street. North street (Union street to Blackstone street) , Knee-
land street, Bedford street, Chauncy street, Avon place. Sum-
mer street. Federal street (from Summer street to Beach
street) , Bromfield street. Winter street, Temple place, West
street) .
In South Boston, there are a large number of paved
streets. The force assigned to this district cleans the streets
on which there is heavy traffic twice a week ; it also spends
two days per week in Dorchester.
East Boston and Charlestown are taken care of by one
gang, whose headquarters are located in Charlestown.
Eventually, a separate gang will have to be allotted to each
of these districts ; but such an arrangement will not inter-
fere, in a general way, with the organization of the rest of
the force. A separate gang was not provided in East Boston
this year, owing to the lack of stable accommodations.
In Brighton, a small gang is organized under the super-
vision of the district foreman of the Paving Division.
There are no paved streets in this district, and the force is
employed in cleaning gutters and crossings, and scraping
macadamized streets.
Each swee[)ing-gang consists of a foreman, two »sub-fore-
men, six helpers, sixteen sweepers, one dumper, one water-
cart driver, six teamsters, and two sweeping-machine drivers.
Each gang takes care of 200,000 square yards of paved
:area ; and the amount of gutter work that is added to the
labor of sweeping is so adjusted that the total amount of
work under each foreman is equalized as nearly as possible.
The assignment of work for each day is so made that the
a,rea covered each week amounts to about 590,000 square
yards.
Night Work.
Owing to the early hour at which traffic commences in
Sweeping District No. 2 (which includes the principal mar-
kets), and the consequent hindrance to the working of the
sweeping-machines on account of the blockading of the
streets with market-wagons, caravans, etc., the experiment
was tried of sweeping this district at night. This system
was inaugurated on June 10 and continued until November
14. A decided improvement of the appearance of this dis-
Street Department.
125
trict was immediately noticed ; and it is intended to introduce
night-sweeping in District No. 3 during the coming year.
It is impracticable to carry on night-sweeping after cold
weather sets in, for the reason that the force must be availa-
ble in the daytime for the work of keeping crossings and
sidewalks clean if a fall of snow occurs. It is practicable,
however, to employ this method from April 1 to November
1 , and such will be the practice of the division in Districts^
No. 2 and No. 3 during the coming year.
The maximum force of the division is shown in the fol-
lowing table :
Average No. of
District. Men employed.
Office 4
1 .
37
2 .
39
3 .
32
4 .
34
5 .
35
6 .
36
7 .
,
3a
8 .
10
9 .
27
Yard and stable
11
Push-cart patr
ol
37
Total
332
The above-mentioned force use in carrying out the work
of the division the following plant :
16 double sweeping-machines.
15 single sweeping-machines.
12 water-carts.
70 street-carts.
72 horses (owned by the department).
The push-cart patrol use :
37 push-carts.
74 barrels.
5 street-carts (steel).
5 horses.
Push-cart Patrol.
The fact that the hourly accumulation in a business
thoroughfare is due to street traffic, and to the large number
of pedestrians throwing away fruit-skins, paper-bags, news-
papers, and odds and ends of all kinds, led to the introduc-
tion of the push-cai't jpatrol.
12(3 City Document No. 36.
The push-cart consists of a two-wheeled truck, on which is
siispended an oak barrel. The iron framework, including
the axle, is made of curved iron to conform to the contour
of the barrel, by means of a couple of hooks on each side,
which tit into I'ings on the truck.
Each truck is furnished with two barrels, one of which,
when full, is left at a stated point to be emptied by the
patrol-cart, which makes a periodical trip through the dis-
trict.
By this arrangement, the sweeper always has a compara-
tively empty barrel at his disposal, and can therefore con-
tinuously gather up the piles of refuse as fast as they appear,
instead of sweeping them into piles, as in the old-style
method, only to be blown about by the wind, and scattered
about by passing teams before the dump-cart arrives. These
push-carts are provided with proper supports for broom and
shovel, and, if Avanted, a sprinkling-pot.
In every case where they have been properly tried, tliey
liave proved a valuable acquisition to the service, and have
occasioned favorable comment from all who desire a cleanly
thoroughfare.
The introduction of the push-cart patrol as a necessary
adjunct of the work of the division was made contempo-
raneously with its adoption in New York City, where it was a
matter of experiment. The advisory committee appointed
in New York to make a report on street-cleaning recom-
mended that the entire city be swept by hand, and that 1,700
of these carts should be used. This method, however, is
very expensive, as it costs two and one-half times as much as
machine-sweeping ; and it has been introduced into this cit}'"
merely to supplement the regular work of the sweeping-
machines.
The territory covered by this service includes the follow-
ing streets :
Arch street, Avon place, Beach street (Washington street to
South street). Beacon street (Arlington street to Charles
street), Bedford street, Blackstone street (Hanover street to
Cross street), Boylston street (Washington street to Park
square) , Bowdoin square, Brattle street, Brattle square, Brom-
field street, Bulfinch street (Howard street to Bowdoin
square) , Causeway street (Merrimac street to Beverly street) ,
Central street, Chardon street, Chauncy street, Columbus
avenue (Park square to West Chester park), Congress
street (Milk street to State street). Congress square. Corn-
hill, Court street, Devonshire street, Doane street, Eliot
street. Elm street, Essex street (Washington street to South
street). Exchange place, Federal street (Summer street to
Street Department. 127
Milk street), Franklin street (Washington street to Federal
street), Friend street, Hanover street (Scollay square to
Blackstone street) , Harrison avenue (Bedford street to
Kneeland street), Hawkins street, Hawley street, Hayniarket
square. Harvard street, Kilby street, Kingston street. Knee-
land street. La Grange street, Lincoln street. Mason street,
Merrimac street. Milk street (Washington street to Broad
street), Otis street. Park square, Portland street, Post-ofBce
square, School street. South street, State street (Washington
street to Broad street) , Sudbury street. Summer street, Temple
place, Travers street (Merrimac street to Beverly street),
Tremont street (Eliot street to Court street), Tremont row.
Union street (Hanover street to Haymarket square), Wash-
ington street (Kneeland street to Haymarket square), Water
street. West street, Winter street, Winthrop square.
That this service is an important adjunct to the general
work in the depot and trading districts cannot be denied.
Even if these streets are swept perfectly clean in the early
part of the day or during the night, the hourly accumulations
are so great that the gutters and crossings soon become lit-
tered and an eyesore to pedestrians.
The contents of the barrels collected by the push-cart
patrol are removed at regular intervals by an odorless iron
dumping-cart. This cart does not leak, is easily dumped,
and has proved a valuable adjunct of the work of collecting
the contents of the barrels.
The refuse collected by the patrol is taken to the dumping-
scow and towed to sea. The refuse has considerable value
as manure, but the extra cost of teaming it to the railroad
stations, where it could be sold to farmers, prevents the
division from disposing of it in this manner.
The following table shows the number of loads of street-
sweepings removed each year during the last ten years :
Year. No. of Cart-loads.
1882 52,381
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
1891
58,272
62,222
61,455
59,875
68,990
68,010
70,476
70,449
187,113
2 91,425
1 Jan. 1, 1890, to Jan. 1, 1891.
2 Jan. 1, 1890, to Feb. 1, 1892 (date made necessary by the change in the financial year).
•Of this amount 4,290 loads were collected by the push-cart patrol.
128 City Document No. 36.
Difficulties encountered by the Division in keeping
THE Streets clean.
The following quotations, taken from the report of the
Committee on Street-Cleaning, appointed to investigate the
subject in New York, apply to the city of Boston, and show
that the inhabitants of a city are largely responsible for its
condition as regards cleanliness ;
If the existing laws and ordinances regulating the conduct of house-
holders and citizens with respect to cleanliness were faithfully observed
and duly enforced, the task of the Street-Cleaning Department would be
greatly lightened.
The law against throwing litter and rubbish of any kind into the
gutters and streets is daily and hourly violated in the best sections of the
city, and that by people who have not the excuse of ignorance of the
law.
We have seen prominent business-houses on Fifth avenue engaged in
unpacking large cases upon the sidewalk, the operation involving the
throwing into the streets of paper, straw, and litter of all descriptions.
We have seen well-dressed men, on their way down town, deliber-
ately toss into the public highway the eight-page newspaper which they
had just finished reading. We have seen the same class of people dis-
embarrass themselves of handfuls of paper and scraps by the same easy
process.
We have seen men engaged in repairing the Sidewalks, where the
material taken up was decayed wood, throw the debris into the public
streets, and leave it there in piles.
We have seen in front of a Avell-known and reputable establishment
on Union square the remains of a large awning partially desti'oyed by
fire cast deliberately into the gutter.
It is a matter of daily habit with many storekeepers upon the lines of
the great lateral avenues to commence the day by sweeping out all the
refuse litter of their stores into the streets.
It is useless to multiply these instances ; every one will recognize the
fact of their daily and hourly occurrence. It is a hopeless task to keep
the streets of this citj' clean so long as the j^eople themselves are de-
termined to keep them dirty.
So thoroughly convinced are we of the absolute necessity of the en-
forcement of these laws and ordinances, if it is really desired to keep
the city clean, that, as a most essential part of the remedy we have been
called upon to suggest, we urge upon the Mayor, as the chief executive
officer of New York, to exercise all the authority he can command to
bring all the depai-tments charged with the execution of these laws and
ordinances into cordial harmony and cooperation for their vigorous
enforcement.
Realizing that the enforcement of such ordinances as were
in force in this city would have a marked effect upon the
appearance of the streets, the department issued the follow-
ing circular, and distributed it throughout the retail district
of the city :
Street Department. 129
Office of Scjperintexdent of Streets,
City Hall, Boston, April 4, 1891.
Notice to Occupants.
Your attention is hereby called to the following section of the Revised
Ordinances in relation to throwing or sweeping dirt of any kind into
the public streets :
Chapter 49.
" Sect. 39. No person shall throw or sweep into, or place, or drop
and suffer to remain, in any street, any hoops, boards, or other wood
with nails, or nails of any kind which may be dangerous to horses' feet,
any earth, dirt, gravel, sand, sweejjings, sawdust, soot, ashes, cinders,
shavings, hair, manui-e, oyster, claiu, or lobster shells, rubbish or filth
of any kind, or any noxious or refuse liquid or solid matter, or
substance."
Sweeping store-dirt to the sidewalks, and thence to the gutters, is in
violation of the above ordinance. You are therefore notified to provide
other measures for the removal of all such sweej^ings and litter, as the
above ordinance will be enforced.
(Signed) H. H. Carter,
Superintendent of Streets.
Following the issue of this circular, several parties were
arrested and fined from $10 to $20.
There is no doubt that storekeepers still take advantage
of the distinction between sweeping off the sidewalk and
sweeping store-dirt across the sidewalk, as it is often
noticed that they manage to get rid of the trouble of taking
up a good deal of their refuse and putting it into barrels, by
sweeping it into the gutters. The gutters in front of large
wholesale and retail stores are frequently defaced with litter
due to its being set out for the ashmen in broken boxes and
barrels after the street itself has been swept up clean. A
little painstaking on the part of store employees would help
the matter considerably.
The ordinance Avill be even more rigidly enforced the com-
ing year.
One of the greatest nuisances is caused by the distribu-
tion of handbills, which in most instances are thrown directly
into the street- without being read. An attempt was made
by the department to get an ordinance passed by the gov-
ernment this year, to i)revent this distribution ; but, owing
to the opposition of printers, the ordinance was not passed.
Boston is now the only large city in the country which tol-
erates this nuisance.^
The constant tearing up of our streets also causes a large
amount of dirt to accumulate. In replacing the pavements,
it is necessary to cover them Avith a layer of gravel, which
eventually works into the joints. As this gravel is not
' Since the dale of the publication of this report, the City Council has passed an
ordinance prohibiting the distribution of handbills.
130 CiTv Document No. 36.
permitted to be swept up, it becomes ground to powder,
forming ti mud which is distributed over the surface of the
streets in the vicinity. This nuisance is obviated by hiving
the pavement with gravel and tar joints, such as were used
this year on Tremont street ; but the employment of this
metliod where ordinary repairs have been made is impracti-
cable.
The following circular was sent to the different corpora-
tions that have frequent occasion to open the streets, in
order that this nuisance should be remedied as far as pos-
sible :
Street Department,
City Hall, Boston, Oct. 2, 1891.
You are hereby notified that in future all new paving done by your
company is to be covered off with beach gravel instead of the dirty hill-
gravul that you have been accustomed to use. This hill-gravel works
into mud immediately, and I find it impossible to keep streets clean
where it is used. Youi's truly,
(Signed) H. H. Carter,
Superintendent of Streets.
In addition to the above-mentioned causes for an unclean
appearance of the streets, we have in this city to contend
with bad and uneven pavements of long standing that are
extremely hard to keep clean.
The duties of the Street-Cleaning Division are not entirely
confined to the actual work of keeping the streets clean. In
winter, the sidewalks around the Common and all pul)lic
squares and burying- grounds, and around many of the public
buildings, are kept free from snow by the employees of this
division. The snow is also removed from Harvard bridge,
and the street-crossings kept free from snow and ice, and the
gutters are opened up, so that on the occurrence of a thaw
the water may find its way to the catch-basins and thence to
the sewers.
Future Needs of the Division.
The growth of the city will soon demand the organization
of separate gangs for the care of East Boston, Dorchester, and
West Roxbury. In order that time may not be wasted in the
transfer of men and machines to the location of their work,
it will be necessary to provide suitable stables and offices in
each of these districts.
A new dumping- wharf (which can also be used by the
Sanitary Division) must be provided at the North End.
All the ashes and street-sweei)ings now teauied over to
Caml)ridge from the City Proper should be dumped aboard a
scow at the North End and towed to sea, as the saving of
expense on teaming would be very great.
Street Department. 131
Cost of Street-cleaning.
In the report of the Citizens' Association for 1890, reference
is made to the cost of street-cleaning and the removal of ashes
and garbage in Boston, and a comparison is made with the
cost in other cities, much to the disadvantage of tiie city of
Boston.
The conditions which govern the expense of street-cleaning
in diiferent cities vary so much that it is almost impossible
to make an intelligent comparison. The mere fact that a city
has more miles of streets than the city of Boston, and spends
less money on street-cleaning and the removal of ashes and
garbage, does not necessarily show that the work is conducted
more economically, as the question as to the thoroughness
and method of carrying out the work is entirely omitted in
such a comparison.
A comparison showing that it costs one city a certain num-
ber of dollars per mile to sweep the streets, and a certain
number of cents per load to dispose of its street-dirt and
ashes and garbage, does not necessarily show that the street-
cleaning department in that city is either better organized or
more economically managed than that of another city where
the cost is shown to be greater. Certain local conditions and
customs have a great bearing on the subject.
A city having well -paved streets, with a large number of
accessible places suited for dumping refuse (so that the cost
of teaming is reduced to a minimum), with no law established
by the State Legislature limiting the hours of work to nine per
day, and with a rate of wages for day-labor from fifty to seventy-
five cents per day less than the rate established by the City
Council of Boston, can undoubtedly show that it costs less to
clean streets and remove ashes and garbage than it does the
city of Boston.
In New York, ashes and garbage are not separated, but are
put together in one receptacle, and are put in the space be-
tween the stoop and the house line, wdiere they are easily
accessible to the employees of the department. This method
of obliging householders to put out their ashes and garbage,
if adopted in Boston, would alone effect a saving of several
thousand dollars per year, which the Sanitary Division ex-
pends for extra helpers who go into the houses and yards and
carry out the ashes and garbage.
The report of the Citizens' Association cites Philadelphia
and New York, and gives figures showing the amount of
work done in comparison with the amount of money ex-
pended. The following table is taken from the reports of
the Bureau of Street-cleaning in Philadelphia, where the
work is all done by contract :
132
City Document No. 36.
Year.
18S8.
1SS9.
1890.
1891.
No. Miles
cleaned.
30,340
44,870
53,600
No. Loads No. Loads
Street-dirt Ashes
removed, removed.
306,722
256,572
266,831
499,479
413,631
458,000
No. Loads
Garbage
removed.
88,660
59,593
64,934
Total No.
Loads
removed.
894,861
729,796
789,765
Amount
expended,
$460,000
425,042
432,037
1551,998
Com-
plaints
rec'd of
inefficient
Service.
2,501
1,381
1,592
1 Amount recommended. Supervision not included.
If these figures are correct, it cannot be denied that the
work of cleanins; streets and colkctins: ashes and garbage in
c ceo
Boston costs much more than the same work in Philadelphia.
The work in Philadelphia is done by contract, and the total
force employed on the supervision is one chief of bureau,
five inspectors, one clerk, and one messenger, at an annual
expense of $9,176. It might be asked how this force is
enabled to keep the correct accounts of 900,000 loads of
material collected and disposed of at difl^'erent dumps. An
inspection of the table reveals the remarkable fact that the
offal of the city, which in 1^88 amounted to 88,660 loads,
fell oif in 1890 to 64,934 loads. As the population increased
during this time, and as the amount of offal should be a
constant ratio to the population, this is a very iemarkal)le
showing, and tends to discredit the figures given in the report.
In 1890, although 23,260 more miles of street weVe swept
than in 1888, the amount of sweepings removed fell oft' 39,891
loads. As the average amount of dirt collected is generally
about 6 loads per mile, there should have been a correspond-
ing increase of 120,000 loads.
In view of the above facts, the generalizations by the
Citizens' Association on the cost per load of dirt removed,
which are based on these returns, must be accepted with
caution. The sudden increase recommended for 1891, to-
gether with the fact that several hundreil complaints are re-
ceived during the year, leads to the conclusion that the work
is not entirely satisfactory to the citizens, notwithstanding the
extreme economy which is shown by the return.
New York is cited by the Citizens' Association to show the
economical way in which street-cleaning is conducted, and
also to show the advantages of the contract system. Since
the rei)ort of the Citizens' Association, a report has been made
by a committee appointed to examine the subject of street-
cleaning in New York. This committee was api)ointed
Street Department. 133
by the Mayor to inquire into the tilthy condition of the city,
and has recommended the entire abolishment of" the contract
system, and that the sum of $1,259,000 appropriated for street-
cleaning in 1888 (which was cited in the report of the
Citizens' Association) be increased to $1,797,870 for tlie
year 1892.
The cost of street-cleaning and the remov^al of ashes and
garbage must necessarily vary in each city. A degree of
cleanliness wdiich would be entirely satisfactory to the resi-
dents of one city would be unsatisfactory to the residents of
another. It is believed that the residents of Boston are more
particular in this respect than the residents of most of the
other large cities in the country, and that a degree of clean-
liness is demanded here which is not deemed necessary in
other cities.
The detailed report of the Deputy Superintendent of the
Street-Cleaning Division gives tables showing the numl)er of
miles swept, cost of cleaning per mile, number of loads of
street-dirt removed, and cost of same, together with othen"
data relating to the division.
From the personal observations of officials connected with
the department and from the comments made l)y visiting offi-
cials from other cities, it may be safely said that during the
past year the condition of the streets of Boston as I'egards
cleanliness has not been surpassed by those of any other city
in this country.
A comparison of the condition of the streets of this city
with those of European cities is frequently made by people
who have returned from abroad. The following o|)ini()n,
quoted from the ex-Commissioner of Street-cleaning of New
York, fully explains the reason why European cities are
cleaner than the cities in this country :
" When superior cleanliness is observed in the princi[)!d
cities of Western and Central Europe as compared with the
condition of the streets in this city, it is not due to better
methods of work or to the use of better apparatus, but is to be
attributed to the existence of better pavement, the rigid en-
forcement of the municipal and sanitary ordinances relating to
street-cleaning, the employment of at least double the amount
of labor on the same mileage of streets, and the cooperation
of the citizens with the officials in their task of securing and
maintaining order and cleanliness."
To this it might be added that European cities noted for
cleanliness spend enormous sums of money on this work ;
that men, women, and children are employed, who work
twelve hours per day for a fraction of the sum paid laborers
in this country who work only nine hours per day.
134 City Document No. 36.
Violation of City Ordinances.
A laro-e amount of correspondence has taken place between
this department and the Board of Police during the year con-
cerning the enforcement of the ordinances. In general, the
Board has been willing to prosecute parties when specially
requested, and when the evidence of the violation of the
ordinance was to be furnished by the department, but in
some instances have assumed that it was the duty of this
department to make the prosecutions.
The department has taken the ground, conformably to an
opinion of Mr. J. B. Richardson, formerly corporation coun-
sel, that it is the duty of the police to prosecute violations
of the ordinances, and has contented itself with notifying the
Board of Police of such violations as were brought to its
attention.
The following correspondence shows tlie attitude of the
police authorities in the matter of prosecuting violations of
the city ordinances :
* Form No. 66.
Police Department of the City of Boston,
Nov. 4, 1891.
To Capt. Cyrus Smale, Superintendent of Police:
I hereby report that Conrad Zeigler, No. 50 George street, has a steam-
pipe entering the eateh-basin in front of his dye-house, and the steam
frightens liorses as they pass.
(Signed) Geo. A. Walker,
Commanding Div. No. 9.
Eeferred to the Superintendent of Streets. ^
Respectfully forwarded,
(Signed) Cyrus Small,
Superintendent of Police.
Office Superintendent of Police, Boston, Nov. 5, 1891.
Street Department, City Hall,
Boston, Nov. 6, 1891.
Board of Police, No. 7 Pemberton square :
Gentlemen: I have received j'our "Form No. 66," addressed to
Capt. Cyrus Small, and signed by Geo. A. Walker, commanding Div.
No. 9, to the effect that Conrad Zeigler, 50 George street, has a steam-
pipe entering tlie catch-basin in front of his dye-house, and that the
steam frightens horses as they pass.
For some reason, this report has been referred to the Superintend-
ent of Streets. As a catch-basin can be held to be part of the sewer,
and as the emptying of steam into the sewer violates a city ordinance, it
would seem that you have the remedy in your own hands ; unless j'ou
consider it a part of the duty of the Superintendent of Streets to prose-
cute people who are violating the city ordinances.
Yours respectfully,
(Signed) II. II. Carter,
Superintendent of Streets.
Street Department. 135
The following letter was addressed to the Board of Police,
in the hope that some cooperation could be ol)tained from
the police officers in the task of keeping the streets clean :
Street Department,
City Hall, Boston, Aug. 6, 1891.
Board of Police, 7 Pemberton square :
Gentlemen : It is continually brought to my attention that the ordi-
nance in rehxtion to sweeping store-dirt into the streets is being violated.
In fact, it is the regular pi'actice of storekeepers to sweep out their
dirt into the street at any time of day they see fit; and your policemen
witness these violations and pay no attention whatever to them. These
storekeepers should be compelled to sweep up their dirt and put it into
barrels.
There is no reason, at least in the retail business section of the city,
why this ordinance should not be strictly enforced ; and I should like to
have your officers warn the storekeepers whom they find violating this
ordinance that on the repetition of the ofi^ence they will be prosecuted.
Yours very truly,
(Signed) H. H. Carter,
Superintendent of Streets.
Conclusion.
In carr3nng out the work of the department, the several
divisions have worked in entire harmony throughout
the year. The advantage is manifest of being able to
carry on all work pertaining to the streets in such a manner
that the work of the different divisions should be directed by
one official, and therefore proceed with a system. There
has been no useless duplication of work during the past
year, and the work on sewers and paving has been carried
along jointly, at a great saving of expense.
Appendices are submitted giving the reports of the differ-
ent deputy superintendents, and, in accordance with the
recommendation of the Citizens' Association, more attention
has been given this year to introducing a new system of
book-keeping ascertaining the cost of the various classes
of work. Owino; to the o-reat number of streets on which
improvements have been made, it is impossible to state,
without taking up a great deal of space, the exact amount of
work done on each street, although the expenditures are
shown in all cases. When the cost of a sewer has ex-
ceeded $2,000, and when the cost of the paving or construc-
tion of a street has exceeded $3,000, the amount of work
done is shown in detail. The several deputies have attended
faithfully to their duties, and have endeavored to harmoni-
ously work for the benefit of the whole department.
Respectfully submitted,
Henry H. Carter,
Superintendent of Streets.
STREET DEPARTMENT.
ORGANIZATION, 1891.
Central Office .... Room 47, City Hall.
HENRY H. CARTER, Supermtendent of Streets.
JOHN W. McDonald, Purchasing Agent.
HENRY B. WOOD, Secretary and Executive Engineer.
M. J. MURRAY, Clerh.
PAVI^^G DIVISION.
Room 41, City Hall.
CHARLES R. CUTTER, Deputy Superintendent.
BENJAMIN B. TREMERE, Chief Clerk.
SEWER DIVISION.
Room 44, City Hall.
HENRY W. SANBORN, Deputy Superintendent {ex officio, Enghieer
Improved Sewerage^.
FRANK H. RICE, Chief Cleric.
Engineer's Office, 12 Beacon Street.
E. S. DORR, Engineer in Charge.
SANITARY DIVISION.
12 Beacon Street.
GEO. W. EORRISTALL, Deputy Superintendent.
WILLIAM G. DAVIES, Chief Cleric.
STREET-CLEANING DIVISION.
14 Beacon Street.
PHILIP A. JACKSON, Deputy Superintendent.
THOMAS Mclaughlin, chief Clerlc.
BRIDGE DIVISION.
14 Beacon Street.
JOHN A. McLaughlin, Deputy Superintendent.
FREDERICK H. SPRING, Chief Clerlc.
CAMBRIDGE AND BOSTON BRIDGES.
HENRY II. CARTER, Commissioner for Boston {ex officio).
WILLIAM J. MARVIN, Commissioner for Cambridge.
136
Stkekt Department. 137
APPENDIX A.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT
OF THE BRIDGE DIVISION.
H. H. Carter, Esq., Superintendent of Streets:
Dear Sir : In conipliaiice with your desires I herewith
respectfully submit the following report of the acts and
doings of the Bridge Department and Division from January
1, 1891, to January 31, 1892, inclusive.
There was on hand to the credit of the Bridge Department,
January 1, 1891, a balance of $23,572.99 to complete the
year ending April 30, 1891. This sum was found to be
insufficient to the amount of $1,201.10.
On May 1, 1891, the sum of $100,000 was allotted to
the Bridge Division, for care, maintenance, etc., of the
bridges to February 1, 1892, and of this sum there were
expended by this division $98,236.54.
The report contains a tabulated statement of the expendi-
tures, and a description of the work performed on each
bridge, together with tables conveying necessary and useful
information, such as bridges supported wholly or in part by
the city of Boston, etc. ; widths of draw-openings; widths
of bridges, roadways, and sidewalks ; kind of pavement
used ; number of draw-openings made for navigation ; census
of traffic taken on some of the most important bridges ; and
an inventory of tools, veliicles, and horses on hand.
The total number of bridges in Boston, not including cul-
verts, is one hundred and four ; of this number, sixty-nine
are supported wholly or in part by Boston, and include
twenty-one tide-water bridges provided with draws. These,
of all others, require constant care, and cover a territory
from one extreme end of the city to the other. Previous to
May 1, 1891, all the mechanics, etc., employed in the de-
partment were grouped in one body, having their only head-
quarters at Foundry street. South Boston, where tools, rig-
ging, stock, and everything necessary for the work was kept.
After careful consideration, it was decided that the efficiency
of the mechanics employed could be increased by dividing
the care and work on the most important bridges and estab-
138 City Document No. 36.
lishing" two districts, allotting to each district a certain num-
ber of men. On May 1, 1891, the reorganization went
into effect, and was as follows : " North district," head-
quarters, Charles-river bridge, eml)racing all bridges from
"Winthrop to Brighton. " South district," headquarters at
Foundry street, embracing all bridges from South Boston to
Milton. The results obtained have been entirely satisfac-
tory, and much more work has been accomplished than it
was possible to do under the old system. Both forces can
be concentrated in a very short time wherever their services
are demanded.
^Yith the exception of Charles-river, Chelsea-street, and
Maiden, the general condition of the bridges is good.
The lumber furnished during the year by the several
firms having the contracts has been of excellent quality,
and I take pleasure in saying that in no single case were we
delayed because of a failure to promptly deliver the mate-
rial ordered. At all times care was taken in ordering lum-
ber to specify such lengths as would admit of the least
waste.
The operatives of the tide- water bridges have performed
their duties in a faithful and careful manner. All these
bridges are furnished with a duplicate set of gearing, so that
in case of a break the public will suffer but little delay and
inconvenience. All patterns owned by the city, and known
to be in the possession of outside concerns, have been re-
claimed and placed in the care of the draw-tender of the
bridge to which they belonged.
The inland bridges have been kept in a clean and safe con-
dition, were thoroughly swept each week, chords cleaned
and scuppers kept open.
Special Work.
The report contains also the expenditures up to date on
bridges built, or in process of construction, where special
appropriations were provided. On all these Imdges, since
May 1, 1891, the woodwork, where any was called for, — viz.,
Cornwall street, over Stony brook, Milton; Berkeley street,
over Boston & Albany liailroad ; and Chelsea steam-appa-
ratus, — has been performed by the men employed in this
division, under the supervision of the City Engineer, and by
plans furnished by him. This work was formei-ly done by
contract, but I firmly believe the best results can be obtained
by allowing those men to build who are to keep it in repair.
The difference in the cost, if any, under such conditions,
would be trifling, comi)ared with the advantages derived
from a thorough knowledge of the work.
Street Department. 139
We have endeavored to perform all work of this kind to
the satisfaction of the City Engineer.
During the past year, Federal-street bridge has been com-
pleted, and an electric motor placed there to furnish the
power necessary for opening and closing the draws. It has
now been in operation for several months, and, so far, has
proven satisfactory. The work of substituting steam for
horse power at both the Chelsea draws is about complete,
and the new method will be operated in a short time.
Very respectfully yours,
John A. McLaughlin,
DejDuty Superintendent.
Appropriations and Expenditures for the Four Months
ENDING April 30, 1891.
Balance of appropriatiou, 1890-1, on
hand, Jan. 1, 1891 . . . $23,572 99
By transfer, April 30, 1891 (to make
up deficit) 1,201 10
Total ...... $24,774 09
This amount was expended as follows :
By Bridge Department . . . $13,982 52
" " Division .... 10,791 57
Total $24,774 09
Appropriations and Expenditdres for the Nine Months
ENDING Jan. 31, 1892.
Appropriation available. May 1 .
Transferred to Sanitary Division
$100,000 00
600 00
Total
$99,400 00
Expended to Jan. 31, 1892
•
•
98,236 54
Balance .....
$1,163 46
Expenditures,
Administration
Office expenses :
Advertising ....
Printing . . . . .
$10
224
12
00
Carried forward^ $234 12
140 City Document No. 36.
Brought forivard.
Stationery and postage
Office books
Telephone
Sundries .
Superintendent of Bridges
Salary to April 1, 1891
Board of horse .
Telephone at house .
$234 12
152
94
24
50
121
15
43
95
$625
00
93
78
24
00
$576 66
742 78
Salaries of Deputy Superintendent, clerk, and mes-
senger 4,838 34
Salaries of general foreman and two district fore-
men, 9 months 3,381 00
Board of Deputy Superintendent's horse . . 261 00
Paid to widow of John T. Kilt}', a former employee,
by order of City Council 1,000 00
Paid to Walter Friend & Co., agents for schr. " S. C.
Tr^'on," damages caused by insufficient width of
draws on Charles-river bridges, as award of Com-
mittee on Claims ...... 338 30
Amount expended. Administration . . . . $11,138 08
Expenditures on tide-water bridges . . . $92,892 53
" " inland " ... 8,351 75
" North yard and stable . . . 4,357 90
" South ^' " " ... 6,270 37
" Administration '11,138 08
Total amount expended for the year, including draw-
tenders' and mechanics' rolls for January, 1892 . $123,010 63
Income.
The amount of bills for repairing damage done to
bridges by vessels, work done by the department,
and sale of old iron, etc., deposited with the
City Collector during the year, was . . . $1,183 40
TIDE-WATER BRIDGES.
Broadway bridge (over Fort-Point channel).
Sheathed draw and roadway- general re[)airs on machinery, new
centre put in under draw, boat repaire 1 ami painted, and on
Lehigh-street span put in new deck and painted ironwork un-
derneath two coats.
Steeet Department.
141
Carpenters
$987 72
Painters
121 25
Lumber
1,380 33
Nails and spikes
30 88
Ironwork
99 87
Paint-stock
34 60
Calking
64 35
Hardware
3 05
Boat-stock
12 54
Cement and sand .
12 40
Regular expenses :
Draw- tenders .
$6,370 17
Coal
230 40
Watering
250 00
Gas . . .
28 35
Bedding .
41 50
Water ^ .
22 50
Small supplies
78 99
$2,746 99
7,021 91
Cambridge-street bridge (from Brighton to
Cambridge).
Rebuilt end of pier, new top laid, hard-pine cap-
ing and new iron bands, waterway repaired, ex-
tra gears attached to hoisting-machinery of draw.
Carpenters
$511 01
Lumber .
444 87
Nails and spikes
7 00
Ironwork
242 46
Car-fares
8 90
Teaming
24 00
Driving piles .
75 00
Regulfir expenses :
Draw-tender .
$400 71
Coal
7 52
Small supplies
17 80
$1,313 24
426 03
Charles-river bridge (from Boston to Charles-
town) :
Built shed on pier for storage, put new trucks in
place twice, repaired machinery, put new water-
pipes in stable, and placed the same in box
covering, painted boat, general lepairs on engine,
new smoke-stack, and sheathed draw twice.
Carpenters . . . $1,579 58
Painters ... 22 50
Lumber .... 521 86
1,768 90
1,739 27
Carried forward,
;,123 94
.1,508 17
142
City Docibient No. 36.
Brought fonvard,
$2,123 94
Nails and spikes
7 98
Ironwork
299 02
Paint-stock
3 45
Phuubing
2o0 00
Hardware
12 85
8moke-stack .
14 50
Regular expenses :
Draw-tenders .
$5,387 50
Cual
464 40
Watering
250 00
Gas
30 55
Fnrniture and bedding .
62 35
Cordage .
234 79
Water .
23 50
Oil ...
22 02
Salt
11 00
Small supplies
42 66
.1,508 17
!,711 74
6,528 77
Chelsea bridge [North] (over North channel,
M^'stic river) .
Sheathed draw, repaired waterway, painted top
and underside of bridge one coat, house painted
inside and out, boat repaired and painted, new
sidewalk on draw, new steps from draw to pier,
and reset buoy.
Carpenters
1546 00
Painters
326 00
Lumber .
189 93
Nails and spikes
3 75
Ironwork
69 39
Paint-stock
86 87
Boat-stock
4 60
Setting buoy .
56 00
Regular expenses :
Draw-tenders .
. $3,059 76
Feed
107 36
Coal . .
24 15
Horse-shoeing
19 25
Gas
34 51
Woollen carpet
20 93
Water .
4 50
Veterinar}^ service .
5 00
Repairing harness .
7 90
Small supplies
49 08
,282 54
3,332 44
9,240 51
4,614 98
Carried fonuard,
$25,363 66
Street Department.
Brovghtforivanl,
Chelsea bridge [South] (over South channel,
Mystic I iver) .
Sheatlied draw, new oak headers, reslated draw-
tenders' house, painted top of bridge one coat,
underside two coats, draw-tenders' house, out-
143
$25,363 66
side, one coat, inside p
Carpenters
Painters
Lumber .
Nails and spikes
Ironwork
Paint-stock
Plumbing
Slatina: .
Regular expenses
Draw-tenders .
Feed
Coal
Horse-shoeing
Gas
Bedding
Water .
Repairing harness
Small supplies
ainted and varnished.
$478 07
492 60
245 74
11 25
85
101
5
64
79
00
41 25
. $3,059
76
119
97
19
20
37
50
38
52
15
00
11125
17
40
60
98
.,461 24
3,379 58
4,840 82
Chelsea-street bridge (from East Boston to
Chelsea).
Replanked draw, repaired sheathing on roadway,
and painted top of bridge two coats.
Carpenters
$114 33
Painters
59 00
Lumber .
170 12
Nails and spikes
6 75
Ironwork
6 85
Paint-stock
49 90
Car-fares
10 32
Teaming
2 00
Regular expenses :
Draw-tender .
$327 75
Small supplies
5 55
$419 27
333 30
752 57
Carried forioard,
),957 05
144
City Docuiment No. 36.
Brotight foriuarrl ,
Commercial Point, or Tenean bridge (Dor-
chester) .
Made new flaps for draw, and extensive repairs
made on hoistiuo;-o;ear.
),957 05
Carpenters
.
$46 00
Lumber .
, ,
9 02
Ironwork
. • .
249 69
Car- fares
.
2 50
$307 21
Regular ex
penses :
Draw-tender
•
•
50 00
Congress-street bridge (over Fort-Point chan-
nel) .
Sheathed draw twice, repaired stringers under
draw, repaired machinery, painted buildings and
bridge, general repairs on engine and boilers,
and repaired concrete sidewalk.
Carpenters
$961
90
Painters
595
75
Lum.ber .
575
27
Nails and spikes
9
00
Ironwork
721
85
Paint-stock
119
82
Hardware
11
90
Teaming
18
00
Repairing concrete walk
21
66
Two new pier signs
12
00
$3,047 15
Regular expenses :
Draw- tenders .
. $6,042
16
Coal . . . .
307
80
Watering
125
00
P\irniture and bedding .
27
40
AV^ater . . . .
100
44
Small supplies
87
19
6.689 99
Dover-street bridge (over Fort-Point channel).
Repaired deck, sidewalks, fender-guards, and water-
way, sheathed draws twice, put in tliree new sets
of trucks, repaired road-gates, and put in oak
sleepers under track rails, built new chimney on
house, new plumbing in house and stable.
Carpenters . . . $1,409 01
Painters . . . . 10 00
Lumber .... 269 90
Nails and spikes . . 6 00
Ironwork ... 813 38
357 21
9,737 14
Carried forward,
«2,508 89
$41,051 40
Steeet Department.
Brought forivard,
$2,508 89
Paint-stock
3 44
Plumbing
438 00
Hardware
10 30
iSevv chimney =
31 00
Regular expenses :
Draw- tenders .
$4,917 96
Feed
229 73
Coal
22 45
Horse-shoeing
26 00
Watering
125 00
Gas
32 68
Water .
13 50
Repairing harness .
6 35
Small supplies
103 72
145
.,051 40
^2,991 63
5,477 39
Essex-street bridge (from Brighton to Cam-
bridge).
Sheathed roadway, laid new sidewalk, and repaired
latches^
8,469 02
Carpenters
$283 50
Lumber .
246 37
Nails and spikes .
7 00
Ironwork
12 53
Car-fares
20 40
$569 80
Regular expenses :
Draw-tender .
$721 62
Coal
7 27
Repairs on stove
6 60
Small supplies
1 31
736 80
1,306 60
Federal-street bridge (over Fort-Point chan-
nel).
Adjusted draws and made small repairs.
Carpenters
$234 37
Ironwork
6 46
Hardware
5 98
New signs for road-gates,
10 50
Teaming old iron .
24 00
Regular expenses :
Draw-tenders .
$5,757 07
Feed
17 43
Coal
126 44
Horse-shoeing .
4 00
Watering
125 00
$281 31
Carried forward,
;,029 94 $281 31
),827 02
146
City Document No. 36.
BrovgJit forward.
$6,029 94
Gas ...
9 30
Furniture and bedding
64 12
Cordage .
21 36
Water
44 76
Small supplies
125 10
;l 31 $50,827 02
6,294 58
Granite bridge (from Dorchester to Milton).
Eepaired sheathing and latches on the draw.
Carpenters ... $6 25
Lumber ....
Regular expenses :
Draw-tender .
Small supplies
4 43
$262 20
2 77
$10 68
264 97
Maiden bridge (from Charlestown to Everett) .
Sheathed draw, put in new oak headers, repaired
machiner}-, adjusted draw, located buoy-stone,
and repaired and painted boat.
Carpenters
$322 36
Painters .
7 50
Lumber .
22 75
Ironwork
69 75
Faint-stock
2 00
Car-fares
12 85
Finding buoy-stone .
25 00
Regular expenses :
Draw-tenders .
. $2,336 87
Coal
9 95
Watering
165 00
Gas
7 36
Water .
9 00
Repairs on stove
5 60
Small supplies
20 53
$462 21
2,554 31
Meridian-street bridge (from East Boston to
Chelsea).
Sheathed draw, put in new oak headers, new rack,
and new pinion gear, repaired stable and water-
wa}^ painted top and underside of bridge, also
painted buildings two coats, water-pipes repaired,
duplicate parts of machinery placed on bridge,
and reset buoy.
Carpenters . . . $544 63
Painters . . . . 501 75
Carried forward,
$1,046 38
6,575 89
275 65
3,016 52
),695 08
Street Department.
liro II gJtt forward,
$1,046
38
Lumber . . . .
159
50
Nails and spikes
4
50
Ironwork
•230
04
Paint stock
182
95
Car-fares
56
04
Plumbing
295
86
Resetting buoy
54
65
$2,029 92
Regular expenses :
Draw-tenders .
$2,994
01
Feed
131
00
Coal
30
10
Horse-shoeing
25
75
Gas
27
00
Bedding . . .
11
45
Cordage .
3
48
Water
9
00
New horse for turninc
r
draw . . .
I 250
00
New stove
23
90
Small supplies
55
88
3,561 57
147
$60,695 08
5,591 49
Mt. Washington-avenue bridge (over Fort-
Point channel) .
All woodwork on draw rebuilt, new stringers,
deck, guards, oak centre, sidewalks, fences ;
also deck calked. Added a stor}^ on draw-
tender's house, containing three rooms, put in
new water-closet and new plumbing, repaired
sidewalk on bridge, also waterway, painted under-
side and top of bridge two coats, buildings inside
and out two coats, rep
Carpenters
Painters
Lumber .
Nails and spikes
Lonwork
Paint stock
Plumbing
Calking .
Hardware
Plastering
New chimney
Roofers' bill
Regular expenses :
Draw-tenders .
Coal
lired and painted boat.
$1,997 69
480 75
60
77
07
16
1,459
58
368
98
198
123
23
80
38
56
io
80
16
00
85
20
$4,983 80
$5,393 49
38 00
Carried forward,
$5,431 49 $4,983 80
),286 57
148
City Document No. 36.
Brought forioard.,
Watering
Gas
Furniture and bedding
Water .
Rent of land two years
New stove
Small supplies
$5,431 49
125 00
24 15
70 12
4 50
120 00
21 35
49 18
t,983 80
i,286 57
5,845 79
Nepoiiset Ibridge (from Dorchester to Quincy).
Laid new top on easterly pier, repaired waterway
and hoisting machinery, and rebuilt new side-
walk.
Carpenters
Lumber .
$404 91
307 54
Nails and spikes
18 50
Ironwoi'k
329 60
Car-fares
22 36
Hardware
1 20
$1,084 11
437 19
Regular expenses :
Draw- tender .
North Beacon-street bridge (from Brighton to
Watertown),
Sheathed roadway and draw.
Carpenters . . . $60 50
Lumber . . . . 153 60
Nails and spikes . . 3 20
$217 30
Regular expenses :
Draw-tender ... 82 08
North Harvard-street bridge (from Brighton
to Cambridge).
Repaired waterway and built new house on pier for
draw-tender.
Carpenters
$181 00
Painters
7 50
Lumber .
114 11
Nails and spikes
1 87
Ironwork
77 08
Paint-stock
2 00
Car-fares
3 00
Regular expenses :
Draw-tender .
$400 71
Small supplies
1 75
$386 56
402 46
10,829 59
1,521 30
299 38
Carried fonva.' d,
789 02
$79,725 86
Street Department.
Brought fonvard,
Warren bridge (from Boston to Charlestown).
Sheathed draws three times, placed new iron ladder
in engine-house, repaired machinery and engines,
repaired fender-gnards, road-gates, and fence,
painted nnderside and top of bridge, and all
buildings two coats, and put in new cables.
Western-avenue bridge (from Brighton to
Watertown).
Put in new deck and sheathed roadway and draw.
Carpenters . . . $156 52
Lumber .
Nails and spikes
Ironwork
Car- fares
193 45
11 80
4 00
11 60
$377 37
149
;79,725 86
Carpenters
$929 46
Painters
675
00
Lumber .
340
01
Nails and spikes
6
75
Lonwork
260
18
Paint- stock
18
46
Plumbing
2
15
Wire rope
38
77
$2,270
78
Regular expenses :
Draw-tenders .
. $5,792
34
Coal
577
80
Watering
375
00
Gas
68
81
Bedding
7
50
Water .
45
00
Small supplies
82
21
6,948
66
9,219 44
Western-ayenue
bridge (from B
righton
to
Cambridge).
Repaired sheathing on roadway and draw.
Carpenters
$93 46
].umber .
105
57
Nails and spikes
4
60
Ironwork
8
78
Car-fares
1
40
$213
81
Regular expenses :
Draw-tender .
$400
71
Coal
4
85
Small supplies
1
75
407
31
fi-->1 19
Carried forward,
177 37
,566 42
150 City Document No. 36.
Brought forward^
Regular expenses :
Driiw-tender .
Small supplies
$82 08
1 25
$377 37
83 33
Willtlirop bridge (from Breed's Island to Win-
throp) .
Repaired wheel-guards.
Carpenters . . . $35 00
Ironwork ... 4 80
$39 80
Regular expenses :
Draw-tender . . . $100 00
Small supplies . « 2 50
102 50
Sundry expenditures on tide-water bridges
Building sanitary boxes . $182 10
Sundr}' car-fares
.
202 86
Repairinsf boats
.
60 00
Citv Engineer, horse-hire
for .
.
17 50
City Engineer, use
of
steam-launch
48 00
Regular expenses :
Chief draw-tender
(9
months')
$1,350 00
Messenger (9 months)
.
598 26
Counting traffic
,
62 50
Sundry bridge supplies
•
201 89
$510 46
2,212 65
1,566 42
460 70
142 30
2,723 11
Total expended on tide-water bridges . . $92,892 53
Street Department.
151
Recapitulation.
Table showing Expenditures on the Tide-water Bridges for the Year ending
Feb. 1, 1892.
Namk of Bridge.
Broadway
Cambridge-street
Charles-river
Chelsea (North)
Chelsea (South)
Chelsea-street
Commercial-point
Congress-street
Dover-street
Essex-street
Federal-street
Granite .......
Maiden
Meridian-street
Mt. Washington-avenue
Neponset
North Beacon-street ,
North Harvard-street .
Warren
Western-avenue (to Cambridge) .
Western-avenue (to Watertown) .
Winthrop
Chief draw-tender, and sundry ex-
penditures ,
Totals
Repairs, labor,
lumber,
ironwork, and
painting.
|2,746 99
1,313 24
2,711 74
1,282 54
1,461 24
419 27
307 21
3,047 15
2,991 63
569 80
281 31
10 68
462 21
2,029 92
4,983 80
1,084 11
217 30
386 56
2,270 78
213 81
377 37
39 80
510 46
629,718 92
Regular ex-
penses, salaries,
fuel, and
supplies.
57,021 91
426 03
6,528 77
3,332 44
3,379 58
333 30
50 00
6,689 99
5,477 39
736 80
6,294 58
264 97
2,554 31
3,561 57
5,845 79
437 19
82 08
402 46
6,918 QQ
407 31
83 33
102 50
2,212 65
5,173 61
Total.
$9,768 90
1,739 27
9,240 51
4,614 98
4,840 83
752 57
357 21
9,737 14
8,469 02
1,306 60
6,575 89
275 65
3,016 52
5,591 49
10,829 59
1,521 30
299 38
789 02
9,219 44
621 12
460 70
142 30
2,723 11
>,892 53
152
City Document No. 36.
INLAND BRIDGES.
AlbJiny-street bridge (over Boston & Albany
Eaiiroad).
Sheatlied roadway and painted top of bridge.
Carpenters $128 75
Painters
Lumber
Nails
Paiut-stocli:
Ashland-stl-eet bridge (over Old Colony Rail-
road, Providence Division).
Sheathed roadway.
Carpenters . . . . . S43 12
Lumber 97 92
Nails 2 35
320
50
132
28
3
00
29
70
Baker-street bridge (over brook, near Cow
Island, West Roxbury),
Repaired sheathing on roadway.
Carpenters $16 00
Lumber 21 26
Nails 2 25
Beacon-street bridge (over Boston & Albany
Railroad) .
Sheathed roadwa}'.
Carpenters $97 01
Lumber ...... 159 35
Nails 3 90
Car-fares 10 65
Berkeley-street bridge (over Old Colony Rail-
road, Providence Division).
Sheathed roadway.
Carpenters . . ... . $196 50
Lumber 493 15
Nails 9 00
Boylston-stl'eet bridge (over Boston & Albany
Railroad).
Sheathed westerly roadway in 1890, paid for stock
this year.
Carpenters $4 69
Lumber ...... 136 96
Sand 1 75
$614 23
143 39
39 51
270 91
698 65
143 40
Carried fonuard,
$1,910 09
Street Department. 153
Brovght fnrionrd^ $1,910 09
Broadway bridge (over Boston & Albany Rail-
road) .
Slieathed roadway, and repaired deck where
defective.
Carpenters $58 oO
Lumber ...... 75 69
Nails 2 40
Canterbury- street bridge (over Stony Brook).
Repaired sheathing where defective :
Carpenters $22 50
Lumber ...... 39 83
Nails (from stock).
Central-avenue bridge (from Dorchester to
Milton).
Repaired sheathing, and painted fences on the
bridge.
Carpenters . . . . . $13 75
Painters 28 75
Lumber . . . . . . 9 10
Paint 71 10
"Nails (from stock).
Teaniino; ...... 4 00
Columbus-ayenue bridge (over Boston &
Albany Kailroad).
Sheathed roadway.
Carpenters $46 62
Lumber ...... 85 64
Nails 2 15
Commonwealtli-avenue bridge (over outlet to
Back Bay).
Sheathed roadway.
Carpenters $82 62
Lumber 143 43
Nails 4 60
Car-fares ...... 7 50
Cottage-street (foot) bridge (from Jeffries
Point to Wood Island).
Painted part of bridge fence.
Painters $264 25
Paint-stock . . . . . 44 20
Watchman (permanently employed) . 798 00
136 59
62 33
126 70
133 41
238 15
Carried forivard, $1,106 45 $2,607 27
154
City Document No. 36.
Broug Jit forward,
Coal . . . .
Stove
$1,106 4.0
0 10
7 54
$85
25
398
75
176
.37
6
60
79
63
Dartmouth-street bridge (over Boston &
Albany, and Providence Division of Old Colony
Railroad).
Sheathed roadway and painted top of bridge one
coat.
Carpenters
Painters
Lumber
Nails
Paint-stock
Dorchester-street bridge (over Old Colony
Railroad, Central Division).
Roadway sheathed by Old Colony Railroad Com-
pany, the City paying for its share, one-fifth
Ferdinand-street bridge (over Boston &
Albany Railroad).
Services of watchman to guard the bridge after it
was condemned by the City Kngineer, and before
the rebuilding of the same was commenced
Gardner-street bridge (over brook, near Cow
Island, West Roxbury).
New structure built.
(^arpenters
Lumber
Nails
Gravel
Car-fares
50 88
70 43
2 25
9 50
21 40
Huntington-avenue bridge (over Boston &
Albany Railroad).
Repaired sheathing on roadway.
Carpenters $59 50
Lumber 97 10
Nails 3 15
Hyde Park-avenue bridge (over Stony brook) .
Repaired shealhing on roadway.
Carpenters $11 50
Lumber 31 01
Nails 1 20
;2,607 27
1,119 09
746 60
11 93
255 00
254 46
159 75
43 71
Carried fonvard,
5,197 81
Street Department.
155
Brought forward^
Matt.ipail bridge (from Dorchester to Milton).
Repaired slieatliing.
Carpenters $22 25
Lumber ...... 13 91
Kails (from stock).
^5,197 81
Sliawmut
-avenue bridge (over
Boston
& Al-
bany Railroa
d).
Sheatiied roa
dway and repaired sidei
rt'alk.
Carpenters
.
$76 13
Lumber
.
116 52
Nails
. . . .
3 50
Cement
.
2 75
Smimier-street bridge (near Spring- street sta-
tion, West Roxbury).
New deck laid, sheathed roadwa}', built new side-
walk and fence.
Carpenters ..... $8 75
Lumber 18 41
Nails (from stock).
Swett-street bridge (east of New York & New
England Railroad) .
Sheathed roadway.
Carpenters .^ . . . . $188 52
Lumber . . . . . . 140 95
Nails 4 60
Swett-street bridge (west of New York & New
England Railroad).
Strengthened the entire structure underneath, ac-
cording to plans of City Engineer, and sheathed
roadway.
Carpenters
$550 81
Lumber ....
282 35
Nails and spikes
10 92
Ironwork ....
6 60
Car-fares ....
4 50
Rnbber boots
16 00
Repairs on portable tool-house
7 45
Texas-street bridge (over Stony Brook).
New deck, new stringers where defective, and new
sidewalks.
Carpenters ..... $26 50
Lumber 26 24
Nails 1 25
36 16
198 90
27 16
334 07
878 63
53 99
Carried forward,
),726 72
153 City Docuiment No. 36.
Brought forward^ $6,72G 72
West Chester-park bridge (over Old Colony
railroad, Providence Division).
Sheathed roadwaj'.
Carpenters $38 88
Lumber . . . . . . 76 1)7
Nails 2 60
118 45
West Newton-street bridge (over Old Colony
Railroad, Providence Division).
Sheathed roadway and repaired sidewalks.
Carpenters .....
Lumber ......
Nails
Sundry expenditures on inland bridges :
Labor, removing snow
" bridge cleaner
Sand for slippery- walks
1,394 87
Total 18,351 75
$34
50
75
01
2
20
;979
75
388
49
26
63
111 71
Street Department.
157
Recapitulation.
Table sJiowing Expendihires on the Inland Bridges during the
Year ending Feb. i, 1892.
Name of Bridge.
Albau3--street ....
Ashlaud-street ....
Baker-slreet ....
Beacon-street (over B. & A. R.R.)
Berkeley-street (over Providence Division, O. C
R.R.)
Bo3'lston-street (over B. & A. R.R.)
Broadway (over B. & A. R.R.) .
Canterbury-street
Central-avenne
Columbus-avenue
Common wealth-avenue (over Outlet)
Cottage-street
Dartmouth-street
Dorchester-street
Ferdinand-street
Gardner-street
Huniington-avenue
Hyde Park-avenue
INlattapan
Shawmut-avenue .
Summer-street
Swett-street (East)
Swett-slreet (West)
l^exas-street
West Chester-park (over Providence Div
O. C. RR.)
West Newton-street
Sundry expenditures
Repairs,
labor, lumber, iron-
■work, and painting.
$614
23
143
39
39
51
270
91
698
65
143
40
136
59
62
33
126
70
133
41
238
15
1,119
09
746
60
11
93
255
00
254
46
159
75
43
71
36
16
198
90
27
16
334
07
878
63
53
99
118
45
111
71
1,394
87
Total
i,351 75
158
City Docujment No. 36.
Stable, District No. 1.
Teamster
Hostler
Feed
Re[)airs on buggy
" " wagons
Horse-shoeing
Harness and repair
Supplies
New buggy .
Bay horse
Veterinary services
Horse-clipping
Amount expended North Yard and. Stable,
REGULAR MAINTENANCE EXPENSES AT NORTH
AND SOUTH YARDS.
North Yard, District No. 1.
Charles- River Bridge.
Messenger
Watchman
Repairing buildings
Painting signs
Tools for carpenters
Tools for painters
Bridge flags .
Supplies
Telephone
Stock, lumber, nails, and paint
28
545 00
283 39
9 52
162 28
81 32
96 00
70 04
116 33
80 70
. 1.
. $587
50
296
50
231
43
3
95
]31
70
34
75
91
80
142
41
200
00
325
00
200
00
21
00
3
00
S2,088 86
2,269 04
$4,357 90
South Yard, District No. 2.
Messenger
Yardman
Watchman
Repairing buildings
Making street-horses
Painting signs
Tools for carpenters
Tools for pointers
Bridge flags .
Carried foncard,
Foundry Street.
$644 28
515
75
562
50
97
19
64
97
33
25
268
45
72
49
93
80
$2,352 68
Steeet Department.
lot)
Broiight furivard,
$2,352
68
Supplies ...... 75
97
Telephone 120
00
Stock, lumber, nails, and paint . . 136
94
$2,685 59
Stable, District No. 2.
Teamster ......
$873
12
Hostler
590
00
Feed .
321
50
llepairs on buggy
96
15
" " wagons
144
20
Horse-shoeing
119
25
Harness and repairs
187
50
Supplies
62
23
New buggy .
275
00
" wagon
200
00
Brown horse
325
00
Gray horse .
250
00
Veterinary services
30
00
Horse-clipping
5
00
Use of horse
85
83
" " buggy
20
00
3,584 78
Amount expended South Yard and Stable,
$6,270 37
Total amount expends
'd at
North
and
South Yards,
$10,628 27
SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS.
Berkeley-sti-eet bridge (over Boston & Albany
Railroad) .
Building new iron bridge, parapets and bridge seals.
(work in progress).
Bridge seats and parapets .....
Iron bridge structure ......
Carpenters ........
Painters ........
$2,084 86
4,898 00
998 34
224 00
Inspector ........
Iron bolts ........
170 00
11 88
Advertising and specifications ....
106 10
Hand-siamp ........
3 00
Expended .Tan. 31, 1892
Balance
$8,496 18
9,503 82
Appropriation
$18,000 00
160
City Document No. 36.
Chelsea bridge, steam apparatus. New engines,
boilers, etc., new motive power for the North and
South draws of Chelsea bridge.
(Worli in progress.)
Carpenters .....
Painters .....
Lumber .....
Nails
Paint
Bolts, washers, straps, etc. .
Six iron tanks ....
Hose ......
One double engine and boiler. North draw .
One double engine and boiler. South draw
Angle-irons, wire rope, sheave, etc.. North draw
Groove, steel chain, brackets, etc.. South draw
P^ouudation to engine-house, North draw
Kngineers' rolls ......
Advertising ......
Sand and cement ......
Expended Jan. 31, 1892 ....
Balance .......
Appropriation ......
$1,855
95
187
CO
1,056
53
19
93
19
75
170
89
60
00
14
60
660
00
745
00
589
00
1,192
00
919
70
270
84
4
26
3
00
$7,768
45
4,231
55
$12,000
00
Cornwall street, laving out and constructing.
Cornwall-street bridge (over Stony Brook, Ward
23). Building new wooden bridge (completed).
Carpenters .
Lumber
Nails .
Ironwork
Hardware
Car-fares
Amount expended as per books of this division
$657
50
654
63
5
35
312
99
6
99
10
70
$1,548
16
Irvington-street (foot) bridge (over Provi-
dence Division, Old Colony Kailroad).
Building new iron foot-bridge, new abutment and
painting old one (completed).
Advertising and specifications
Inspector ....
Building new relaiuing-wall .
Paintii]g oM retaining-wall .
Iron foot-bridge complete
Amount expended as per books of this division
$101 34
145 00
3,472 00
50 00
1,773 00
^5,54] 34
Street Department.
IGl
Milton bridge, repairing. Milton bridge (over
Neponset river, from Dorchester to Milton).
Making general repairs (completed).
Carpenters .
$631 35
Painters
87 50
Lumber
1,175 52
Nails .
3 86
Ironwork
20 50
Paint .
4 85
Graving, etc.
75 26
Car-fares
isiou
62 50
Amount expended as per books of this div
$2,061 34
I. — Bridges wholly supported by Boston.
In the list, those marked with an asterisk are over naviga-
ble waters, and are each provided with a draw.
Agassiz, in Back-Bay Fens.
Ashland street, Ward 23, over Old Colony Railroad, Provi-
dence Division.
Athens street, over N. Y. & N. E. Railroad.
Beacon entrance, Back-Bay Fens, over Boston & Albany
Railroad.
Beacon street, over outlet to Back-Bay Fens.
Beacon street, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Berkeley street, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Berkeley street, over Old Colony Railroad, Providence Divi-
sion.
Blakemore street, over Old Colony Railroad, Providence
Division, Ward 23.
Bolton street, over N. Y. & N. E. Railroad.
Boylston street, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Boylston street, over outlet to Back-Bay Fens.
* Broadway, over Fort-Point Channel.
Broadway, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Brookline avenue, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Byron street, over Boston, Revere Beach, & Lynn Railroad.
* Charles River, from Boston to Charlestown.
* Chelsea (South), over South Channel, Mystic River.
* Chelsea street, from East Boston to Chelsea.
Columbus avenue, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
* Commercial Point, or Tenean, Ward 24.
Commonwealth avenue, over outlet to Back-Bay Fens.
* Congress street, over Fort-Point Channel.
Cornwall street, over Stony Brook, Ward 23.
1(32 City Document No. 3G.
Cottage-street foot-bridge, from eTeffries Point to Wood
Island.
Dartmouth street, over Boston & Albany, and Providence
Division of Old Colony Railroad.
* Dover street, over Fort- Point Channel.
* Federal street, over Fort-Point Channel.
Ferdinand street, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Franklin-street foot-bridge, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Gold-street foot-bridge, over N. Y. & N. E. Railroad.
Huntington avenue, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Irvington-street foot-bridge, over Old Colony Railroad,
Providence Division.
Leydeu street, over Boston, Revere Beach, & L\ain Railroad.
Linden Park street, over Stony Brook.
* Maiden, from Charlestown to Everett.
* Meridian street, from East Boston to Chelsea.
* Mt. Washington avenue, over Fort-Point Channel.
Neptune, over Boston, Revere Beach, & Lj'^nn Railroad.
Public Garden foot-bridge.
Shawmut avenue, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Swett street, east of N. Y. & N. E. Railroad.
Swett street, west of N. Y. & N. E. Railroad.
* Warren, from Boston to Charlestown.
West Chester park, over Boston, & Albany Railroad.
West Chester park, over Old Colony Railroad, Providence
Division.
West Newton street, over Old Colony Railroad, Providence
Division.
West Rutland square foot-bridge, over Old Colony Railroad,
Providence Division.
Winthrop, from Breed's Island to Winthrop.
II. — Bridges of which Boston supports the Part
WITHIN its Limits.
* Cambridge street, from Brighton to Cambridge.
Central avenue, from Ward 24 to Milton.
* Chelsea (North), from Charlestown to Chelsea.
* Essex street, from Brighton to Cambridge.
* Granite, froaii Dorchester, Ward 24, to Milton.
Longwood avenue, from Ward 22 to Brookline.
Mattapan, from Ward 24 to Milton.
Milton, from Ward 24 to Milton.
*Neponset, from Ward 24 to Quincy.
* North Beacon street, from Brighton to Watertown.
* North Harvard street, from Brighton to Cambridge.
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Spring street, from West Roxbury to Declham.
* Western avenue 3 from Brighton to Cambridge.
* Western avenue, from Brighton to Watertown.
III. — Bridges of which Boston pays a Part of the
Cost of Maintenance.
Albany street, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Dorchester street, over Old Colony Railroad, Central Divi-
sion.
* Harvard, from Boston to Cambridge.
* Canal, from Boston to Cambridge.
* Prison Point, from Charlestown to Cambridge.
* West Boston, from Boston to Cambridge.
The last three bridges are in the care of two Commis-
sioners, who make an annual report to the City Council.
Harvard bridge is in the care of three Commissioners.
IV. — Bridges supported by Railroad Corporations.
1st. — Boston (& Albany Railroad.
Commonwealth avenue, Brighton.
Harrison avenue.
Market street, Brighton.
Tremont street.
Washington street.
2d. — Boston & Maine Railroad, Eastern Division.
Mystic avenue.
Main street.
3d. — Boston <& Ataine Railroad, Western Division.
Mystic avenue.
Main street.
4th. — Boston, Revere Beach, S Lynn Railroad.
Everett street.
5th. — JSTeiv York & JSfeiv England Railroad.
Dorchester avenue.
Harvard street, Ward 24.
Morton " "
Norfolk " "
Norfolk " "
164 City Document No. 36.
Silver street.
"Washington street, Ward 24.
West Broadway.
West Fifth street.
West Fourth street.
West Second street.
West Sixth street.
West Third street.
6th. — Old Colony Railroad, Central Division.
Adams street.
Ashmont street and Dorchester avenue.
Cedar Grove Cemetery.
Commercial street.
Savin Hill avenue.
7th. — Old Colony Railroad, Providence Division.
Beach street, Ward 23.
Bellevue street, Ward 23.
Canterbury street. Ward 23.
Centre street, or Hog Bridge, Ward 23.
Centre and Mt. Vernon streets, Ward 23.
Dudley avenue. Ward 23.
Park street, Ward 23.
Eecapitulation.
I. Number wholly supported by Boston . . .49
II. Number of which Boston supports the part with-
in its limits ....... 14
III. Number of which Boston pays a part of the cost
of maintenance ...... 6
IV. Number supported by railroad corporations :
1. Boston & Albany ...... 5
2. Boston & Maine, Eastern Div 2
3. " " Western Div. ... 2
4. Boston, Kevere Beach, & Lynn ... I
5. New York & New England . . . .13
6. Old Colony, Central Div 5
7. " " Providence Div 7
Total number 104
The existing regulations for the passage of vessels through
drawbridges have been })osted on the several bridges, as re-
quired by law.
Street Department. 165
The records of the number of" draw-openings, vessels pa;>s-
ing through the bridges, time of passage, kind of vessels,
number laden with cargo, etc., as kept by the draw-tenders
of the several bridges, have been tabulated, and the totals
are given in the summary, which will be found in Appendices
Al and AlO.
A list of widths of openings for vessels in all bridges pro-
vided with draws in the city, measurements being furnished
by the City Engineer, will be found in Appendix A2.
Appendix A3 is a table, also made by the City Engineer,
showing widths of bridges, kind of roadways, sidewalks, etc.
A list of culverts and small bridges will be found in Ap-
pendix A4.
Appendices A5, A6, and A7 contain tabulated statements
of traffic.
Appendix A8 is a list of tools, etc., at North Yard.
Appendix A9 contains a list of tools, etc., at South Yard.
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APPENDIX A2.
Table shoAving the Widths of Openings for Vessels in all Bridges
provided Avith Draws in the City of Boston, February, 1892.
Name of Beidge.
Location.
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Boston & Maine R.E.., Eastern Divi-
Boston to Charlestown .
Over Miller's river . . .
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Boston& Maine R.R., Eastern Divi-
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Boston & Maine R.R. (freig
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Boston to East Cambridge
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Boston to Charlestown .
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Ward 25 to Cambridge .
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Boston to East Cambridge
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Charles River
Boston to Charlestown .
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Chelsea (north channel) . . .
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Street Department.
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Table showing Width of Openings, etc. — Concluded.
Name of Bridge.
Location.
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Width.
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35 feet 7 inches.
East Boston to Chelsea .
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Granite
"Ward 24 to Milton . . .
Boston to Cambridge .
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36 '
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Meridian st. (East Boston side) . .
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New York & New England R.R.
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New York & New England R.R. . .
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"Ward 25 to Cambridge .
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Boston to Cambridge .
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Ward 25 to Cambridge .
Ward 25 to "Watertown .
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City Document No. 36.
APPENDIX A3.
Table showing Width of Bridges, Kind of Roadways, Sidewalks,
etc., on Tide-water Bridges, Jan. 28, 1893.
Name of Bridge.
Broadway
Cambridge street ....
Canal
Charles River
Chelsea, North
" South
" Street
Commercial Point ....
Cono;ress street
Dover street
Essex street
Federal street
Granite
Hai-vard
Maiden
Meridian street
Mt. Washington avenue .
Neponset
North Beacon street . . .
North Harvard street . .
Prison Point
Warren
W. avenue to Cambridge
" " " Watertown
Winthrop
West Boston
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40 0
64 0
50 0
49 0
50 0
30 2
about
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60 0
59 0
31 0
69 0
30 2
69 4
40 0
50 0
61 0
30 0
31 0
28 2
50 0
80 0
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26 10
24 2
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Ft. In.
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33 2
48 0
34 0
40 0
37 0
24 0
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44 0
43 0
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49 0
24 4
51 0
32 0
36 0
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25 2
26 7
36 0
60 0
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26 10
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Brick.
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179
APPE]SrDIX B.
REPORT OF DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF
PAVING DIVISION.
H. H. Carter, Superintendent of Streets:
Dear Sir: In compliance with the order conveyed in
your letter of Dec. 14, 1891, requesting a statement of the
work of the Paving Division, for the year 1891, the follow-
ing report is submitted, showing the expenditures of this
division from Jan. 1, 1891, to Jan. 31, 1892, the nature of
its work under the new organization, the number and variety
of permits issued, and the details of expenditures involved
in paving, macadamizing, and regulating the various streets.
The following list shows the total yearly expenditures of
the Paving Division, according to the report of the Superin-
tendent of Streets, for the last thirty-four years, the expen-
ditures being from January 1 to December 31, inclusive, of
each year, except for 1891, that year extending to elan, 31,
1892, making a period of thirteen months :
1856
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1875
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1857
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1876
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1858
187,160
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1865
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1866
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1891
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1873
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Total
. $27,161,328 93
180 City Document No. 36.
We see by this schedule that the city expended in 1850,
$1S>2,458.48 on a street mileage of one hundred miles (iorly
of which were paved, and sixty unpaved), covering that ])art
of our cit}^ which is now known as the City Proper, East and
South Boston.
The street mileage was increased by the annexation of
Roxbury, ^Tan. 6, 18G8 ; Dorchester, Jan. 3, 1870; Charles-
town, Brighton, and West Roxbury, Jan. 5, 1874; and also
by converting the private ways into public streets, and lay-
ing out new streets, so that by Jan. 1, 1891, the total mile-
age of streets that was under the care of the Superintendent
of Streets was 40i^'.37 miles, with an expenditure of
$1,061,722.40. It can readily be seen by this, that as the
government has increased the mileage of streets, it has not
increased the amount of money to maintain them in propor-
tion, as the Superintendent of to-day has only about the
same average amount of money per mile, with which to
niaintain the streets, as his predecessor did thirty-five years
ago, when our citizens were satisfied with the cobble-stone
pavement, at $1.70 per square yard, against the granite block
paving, on a concrete base, with tar joints, at an expense of
$4.75 per square yard.
Labor at that time was worth only $1.00 per day for ten
hours' work, against $2.00 for nine hours at the present
time, and the cost of teams and materials to do the work
has increased in the same proportion ; also at that time there
was no expense for street-watering, which shows at the
present time an expenditure of $104,263 a year. »
Also, our streets at that time were not continually being
torn up for the purpose of constructing street lailways, and
for laying sewer, water, and gas pipes, and making the neces-
sary connections ; also for laying underground wires.
To what an extent this is done yearly, it may be stated
that last year there were over thirteen thousand permits
granted, covering more than one hundred and ten miles
of trenches ; and every year this business of openmg our
streets increases.
In 1856 th(^ average number of men employed in onr
division was sixty ; at the present time we furnish employ-
ment for seven hundred and fifty men.
By the above statement it can be seen that the Superin-
tendent of to-day has not the means financially for the care of
our public streets, in proportion to the increase of work that
comes under his supervision.
It may also be stated that twenty years ago (1872) the
city of Boston ai)propriated and expended $1,000,000 for
the maintenance of its streets, with a mileaije of 207 miles,
Street Department. 181
and since then has expended on an average $1,000,000 a
year for the same purpose, and at the same time the mileage
has increased from 207 in 1872 to 434.59 miles in 1892 ; so
it can be seen that as the city appropriated about the same
amount for its maintenance, its mileage has doubled.
As the money for the maintenance of this department is
provided for out of the tax levy, it makes it impossible to
increase the amount sufficiently for the maintenance of this
department, and therefore it would seem advisable that some
way be found to build our streets by assessment on the
abutting property, so that large and needed improvements
can be made yearly.
This would enable our citizens, especially in our outlying
wards, to have their streets built and improvements made
without having to wait for some indefinite period to enable
the government to furnish the money from some loan.
Official Duties.
The duties of the ofiSce are defined in the following letter,
which was received on the appointment of the present
deputy :
Boston, March 23, 1891.
C. R. Cutter, Esq., Deputy Siqoerintendent of Paving Division:
Dear Sir : The duties of your division are defined in the ordinance
to amend Chapter 18 of the Revised Ordinances of 1890, relating to the
Street Department, as passed by the Board of Aldermen March 2, 1891,
and approved by the Mayor March 9, 1891, and as more particularly
specified as follows :
1. To take charge of the construction and maintenance of all high-
ways, as provided in Section 1 of said ordinance.
2. To attend to the placing of street-signs and numbering of build-
ings, as provided in Section 4 of said ordinance.
3. To notify all departments, and persons authorized to place struc-
tures in streets, when your division contemplates the construction or re-
surfacing of streets, as provided in Section 7 of said ordinance
4. To issue permits to open, occupy, and obstruct portions of streets
to persons having authority in the premises, and to see that such
permits are carried out in accordance with the jorovisions of Sections 8
to 19, inclusive, of said ordinance.
5. To see that all statutes, ordinances, and regulations relating to the
care and use of streets are fully observed, and to carry out all lawful
orders of the Board of Aldermen relating to streets, as provided in
Section 21.
6. To organize your division with a suitable force of clerks and
assistants, for the purpose of keeping the necessary books and records.
7. To divide construction work of your division into ten districts,
and to employ the necessary force of foremen, sub-foremen, mechanics,
laborers, etc., to properly do the work of your division, and to take
charge of all property formerly belonging to the Street Department.
8. "J'o take chai'ge of all street-sprinkUng that is done by the city.
9. To remove snow and ice from the streets and gutters, and to
shovel snow from all plank sidewalks where the city is liable for any
damages from accidents thereon.
(Signed) H. H. Carter,
Siiperijiiendcnt of Sireeis.
182 City DocumexNt No. 30.
Section 1. Construction and Maintenance. — The greater
pait of (3ur work has been done by the department, but
owino- to the unusually larsje amount of work called for and
the lack t)f proper plant, some of the more important streets
were let out by contract, the supervision of which was
assigned to the City Engineer, Mr. William eTackson.
Section 2. — As to the placing of street-signs and
numbering of buildings, as provided for in Section 4 of the
ordinance, I would state that numerous signs designating the
names of different streets have been placed in the various
distiicts of the city, and the work is being continued as fast
as possible, in the hope that by another year our streets shall
be well defined, for the convenience of visitors from sister
cities, as well as our own.
The signs in use are painted wood, and are not as durable
as could be desired.
Several different patent signs are being tried, but have not
been in use long enough to pass judgment on them.
What is needed is a sign that can be placed at the inter-
section of streets, that can be read at night as well as in the
daytime.
In regard to the numbering of streets, a special clerk
takes charge of this work, whose duty it is to attend to all
applications for estate numbers, drafting a plan of the street,
and numbering each lot consecutively until the proper num-
ber is found.
Numbers have been assigned to estates in the different dis-
tricts as follows :
City proper
Koxbury .
Dorchester
Charlestown
West lloxbur}'- .
East Boston
South Boston
Brighton .
Total .... 170 " ♦'
Section 3. Notification to Abutters. — When the division
contemplates the construction or resurfacing of streets, notice
has been sent to all city departments and persons authorized
to place structures in the streets, and to all the owners of
abutting property that were on record according to the
Assessors' plan of the previous May.
This notice stated that the city was about to commence
40 streets
, and
parts
thereof.
44
25
9
20
9
13
17
Street Department. 183
work thereon, and that no permits would be granted for open-
ings in the street, until one year had elapsed from the time
of the completion of the work.
These notifications were sent by mail, and as it involved
looking up the addresses of owners of estates of some 250
diflerent streets, it can readily be seen that a large amount
of clerical labor was required.
A more satisfactory method, if the ordinance so admitted,
would be to place all such notices in public print at a speci-
fied time, as it would accomplish the desired results in the
end.
This is a matter of courtesy, and not required by law. If
the closino; of the street were extended to a limit of two
years, instead of one, it would be much better for the street.
Where the city has been compelled to grant permits for
openings for the repairs of leaks on streets that were closed,
the parties doing the work have been obliged to fill the
trenches with concrete, to prevent any settling of the street.
Section 4. Issuing Permits. — All persons and corpo-
rations applying for permits to open, occupy, and obstruct
portions of the street, are required to file satisfactory bonds
with the permit clerk, before any permit is issued. Two
inspectors are employed to follow up the permits issued,
to see that all work is properly done. This number of in-
spectors is not considered sufficient to proi)erly look after all
the work that is S'oino; on at anv one o-iven time, as it is im-
portant to be on the ground while the refill is taking place.
By the present method a man applies for and obtains a
permit to make an opening in the street ; he shows it to the
police, to prove that he has authority to make the opening ;
he makes the opening, does the work, fills the trench,
smooths the top of, and returns his permit to the police,
who sends it to the office properly indorsed.
All this work has been done without any supervision or
inspection by the city of the way or manner that the
trench was filled.
After the permit has been returned to the office, the sur-
face of the opening is inspected, which looks smooth and
proper as a general thing. In four or five weeks after the
city has accepted the opening, there comes a heavy rain, and
the trench settles.
The city then has to look up the parties who made the
opening, and to require them to put it into a satisfactory
condition, it being sometimes necessary to send the parties
back four or five times.
No party ought to be allowed to fill a trench except under
supervision.
184
City Document No. 36.
Permits to open the streets for underground work, be-
tween January 1, 1891, and January 31, 1892, have been
issued as follows :
Company.
Barber Asphalt Co.
Boston Electric Light Co.
Boston Gas Light Co.
Boston Water Dept. (E. D.)
Boston Water Dept. (Mystic)
Brookline Gas Light Co.
Charlestown Gas Light Co.
City Engineer Dept. .
Dorchester Gas Light Co.
East Boston Gas Light Co.
Edison Electric 111. Co.
Fire-Alarm Dept.
Improved Sewerage
Jamaica Plain Gas Co.
Jamaica Pond Aqueduct Co
National Construction Co.
N. E. Tel. and Tel. Co.
Postal Tel. Cable Co. .
Quincy Market Cold Storage Co.
Roxbury Gas Light Co.
Sewer Division .
South Boston Gas Light Co
AVest End St. Ry. Co.
Western Union Telegraph Co.
Miscellaneous
11,320 584,365
Or 110.7 miles of trench opened.
The average length of trench opened on a permit is 51.6
feet.
There have been in addition to the above, 1,916 openings
mude on emergency permits, with which the various corpora-
tions and departments are furnished. The average lengths
of openings on these permits are about six feet each. A
record of these is ke[)t in this office.
Oilier permits have been granted as follows :
Moving buildings ...... 94
Coal-holes . ....... 16
Occupying portions of the streets, to repair and
construct buildings ..... 4,808
Permits.
Feet.
24
14,876
166
1,576
963
46,233
3,580
135,378
133
7,738
121
10,972
57
976
1
1,280
414
15,460
108
3,394
595
27,960
20
359
1
1,456
243
23,052
22
1,856
4
105
185
41,437
10
1,336
2
735
391
15,137
302
46,332
175
15,921
279
88,142
26 *
996
3,487
87,175
Carried forward,
4,918
Street Department. 185
Broiight forward, 4,1' 18
Erectino- awnino;s ...... 479
Driving cuttle ....... 34
liaising and lowering safes, machinery, etc. . . 827
Distributing sand ...... 24
Special permits fou various purposes . . . 125
6,407
Total number of permits of all kinds issued . . 17,727
There have been 10,881 notices sent to the various di-
vision foremen to repair in the streets defects reported by
the police.
Also 2,020 to various parties to repair defects in coal-
holes, Hyatt lights, and work that has been done imper-
fectly.
There have also been 5,465 notices sent to abutters on
various streets, to notify them of contemplated improve-
ments.
There have been 526 bonds filed in this office this year,
in accordance with Chap. 18, Rev. Ord., 1891.
Section 5. — Care has been taken to see that all statutes,
ordinances, and regulations relating to the care and use of
streets are fully observed, and to carry out all lawful orders
of the Board of Aldermen relating to streets, as provided for
in Section 21 of the ordinances.
Section 6. Office Fotce. — The force of clerks and
assistants for the purpose of keeping the necessary books
and records is the same as it was uncler the previous Super-
intendent, although the work is more than doubled.
The clerks are faithful and hard working, and a judicious
increase of their salaries would be a recognition of their
work.
Section 7. — The construction work of the division is
divided into ten districts, and necessitates the employment
of a force of foremen, sub-foremen, mechanics, laborers, etc.,
in all about 750 men, to properly do the work and to take
care of all the property formerly belonging to the Street
Superintendent.
The men in this division have done excellent work during;
the past year, and the press and the citizens have much to
say in praise of many changes inaugurated.
Section 8. Street-watering . — The street-watering has
been very costly and unsatisfactory, on account of the way
and manner in which it has been done.
The total expense has been $104,263; $50,000 of whic h
was appropriated directly for the purpose from the reserved
186
City Document No. 36.
fund, and the balance of $54,263 was paid out of the regular
maintenance appropriation of the division.
More satisfactory means should be devised for watering
the city and dividing the cost thereof, and the whole work
systematically mapped out at the very beginning of the year.
Section 9. Removal of Snoio and Ice. — The cit}^ has
been divided up into snow districts, and all the sidewalks
that belong to the city to be kept clear have been thor-
oughly covered, and the snow has been shovelled otf and
carted away as soon as practicable. It has been the custom
to shovel the snow from all plank-walks in order to free them
from danger of accidents, and to remove the snow and ice
from the streets and gutters only where edgestones are set.
The work is so arranged in conjunction with the Street-
Cleaning Division, that a large snow-storm can be easily
handled in a comparatively short space of time.
Streets Laid Out or Extended in 1891.
Date. Street. Length in ft.
Mar. 3. Sewall street, Tremont street to Dell
avenue . . . . . . 314
Mar. 11. Mountford street. Beacon street to Ivy
street ., . . ... . 636
Mar. 26. Gold street, B street to New England
K.R. ...... 150
Mar. 30. Eldora street. Hillside street to Sunset
street . . . . . • 427
Mar. 14. Smith street, Bumstead lane to Hunt-
ington avenue .... 504
April 22. Mt. Vernon street to Foster street . 713
May 7. Call street, Keyes street to Hall street, 505
May 18. Westford street, from Raymond street, 762
May 18. Burke street, Tremont street to Berlin
street 28 L
June 12. Harold street, Crawford street to Har-
rishoff street ..... 1,031
June 18. Granger street, Clayton street to
Duncan street .... 521
June 18. Maxwell street, Milton avenue to Nel-
son street . . . . . 1,610
June 19. Lonormeadow street, Clifton to Batch-
elder street . . . . 287
June 23. Reading street, Kemble street to Svvett
street 1,033
Carried fonvard.
8,774
Street Department. 187
Date. Street. Length in ft.
Brotiglit forivard 8,774
June 23. Homer street, Moore street to Byron
street 600
July 2. Sunset street, Parker Hill avenue to
Hillside street .... 399
July 2. Horace street, Moore street to Byron
street 600
July 14. Hano street, Braintree street to private
way 486
July 14. Blaine street, Braintree street to private
way ...... 404
July 16. Mansur street, Day street to Schiller
street . . . . . . 374
July 16. Schiller street, Heath street to Minden
street 302
July 17. Sylvia street, Washington street to
Forest Hills street . . . 231
July 24. Kenneth street, Farrington street to
Beech street 302
Aug. 12. Cornwall street, Brookside avenue to
Boylston avenue . . . . 317
Aug. 14. Arlington street, Parsons street, west . 399
Aug. 14. Bradbury street, Franklin to Mansfield
street 371
Aug. 14. Buttonwood street, Mt. Vernon to
Locust street . . . . 601
Aug. 17. South wood street. Edge wood to Blue
Hill avenue ..... 546
Aug. 25. Harvest street, Dorchester avenue to
Boston street ..... 950
Aug. 25. Falcon street. Meridian to Putnam
street 1,483
Aug. 28. Moreland street, Blue Hill avenue to
Dennis street .... 342
Aug. 28. Sycamore street, Ashland to Florence
street ...... 1,375
Aug. 28. Peter Parley street. Forest Hills street
to Walnut street .... 1,122
Sept. 11. Goldsmith street. Centre to Custer
street 650
Sept. 10. German street, Washington to Grove
street . . . " . . . 1,060
Sept. 21. No. Margin street, from angle in
street to Still man . . . . 83
Carried forward^ 21,771
188 City Document No. 36.
Date. Street. Length in ft.
Brought for loard, 21,771
Sept. 28. Boyle street, Cordis to Pleasant street, 132
Oct. 3. Ballard street. Centre to Custer street, 557
Oct. 3. Ridge street, Sherwood to Sycamore
street 421
Oct. 3. Toplift' street, Bowdoiu streetto Geneva
avenue ...... 1,353
Oct. 7. Peter Parley street. Forest Hills street
to Washington street . . . 159
Oct. 9. Baldwin street, Main street to Ruther-
ford avenue ..... 247
Oct. 13. Lucas street, Middlesex street to Shaw-
mut avenue . . . . . 98
Oct. 13 Prospect street, Sheldon to Sycamore
street ...... 168
Oct. 13. Gustin street, W. Ninth street to Old
Colony R.R 354
Oct. 16. Church street, AA' inter to High street . 320
Nov. 2. Auckland street, Belfort to Bay street, 1,410
Nov. 2. Bigelow street, Webster to Brooks
street 2,284
Nov. 2. Dundee street, W. Chester park to
Dalton street ..... 723
Nov. 6. Henshaw street. Market to Cambridge
street . ... . . . 979-
Nov. 10. Dacia street, Dalmatia street to Dewey
street ...... 235
Nov. 10. Cherry street to Dalmatia street . *. 112
Nov. 13. Wirt street, Washington to Henshaw
street ...... 258
Nov. 13. Menlo street, Henshaw to Sparhawk
street . . . . . . 443
Nov. 13. Shelton street to Wrenthan street . 353
Nov. 16. Tuttle street, Savin Hill avenue to Hart-
land street . . . . .1,157
Nov. 27. Houghton street. Mill to Pope's Hill
street ...... 1,415
Nov. 30. Wenhani street. Walk Hill to Weldon
street 1,285
Nov. 30. Beale street, Dorchester avenue to Old
Colony R.R 536
Dec. 1. Byron street, Saratoga to Pope street, 931
Dec. 1. Hunneman street, Harrison avenue to
Washington street .... 493
Carried forward, 38,194
Street Department. 181)
Date. Street. Length in ft.
Brought foricar'd, 88,194
Dec. 8. Dalmatia street, Blue Hill Jivenue to
Howard avenue . . . . 724
Dec. 16. Stanho})e street, Berkeley street to
near Columbus avenue . . . 895
Dec. 16. Malcolm street, Mt. Vernon to Chestnut
street 240
Dec. 22. Ley land street. Cottage to Burgess
street ...... 695
Dec. 23. Norway street, Huntington avenue to
Falmouth street .... 225
Dec. 31. Dacia street, Dewey to Brookford
street ...... 610
41,583
or 7.87 miles.
Streets Relocated in 1891.
Date. Street. Sq. feet.
Aug. 17. Harvard street, between Harvard
avenue and Trescott street . . 4,925
Nov. 13. Howard avenue, relocated and grade
changed . . . ." . 2,801
Nov. 27. North square, near and at North street, 92
Dec. 10. Westernavenue, opposite Market street, 1,242
9,060
Streets Discontinued in 1891.
Date. Street. Bq. feot.
Mar. 18. High street, between Hartford and
Oliver streets .... 23
July 11. E. Springfield street, Harrison avenue
to Albany street .... 31,561
Nov. 16. Bigelow street, W. side, near Webster
street 147
Dec. 1(). Walnut avenue, near and north of Cob-
den street ..... 93
31,824
Streets W^idened in 1891.
Date, Street. Sq. feet.
Mar. 18. High street, north-west side, between
Hartford and Olivia ... 13
April 29. Dudley street, Vine to Hampden street, 1,846
Carried forward^ 1,859
190
City Document No. 36.
Bate. Street.
Brought forivai'd,
June 29. Nai'th square, on north-east and south-
west side, near North street
Jul}' 21. Charlestovvn street, on west side, be-
tween Causeway and Medford
Oct. 2. Whitney street, north-west side, near
Smith street .....
Oct. 12. Bhie Hill avenue, west side, near Tiles-
ton avenue .....
Dec. 22. Blue Hill avenue, at Morton street
Dec. 31. Kennard avenue, south-east side, near
Allen street . .
Sq. feet.
1,859
110
926
322
676
950
The record of the Street Commissioners for the year 1891
shows the following results :
Streets laid out or extended
Streets relocated .
Streets discontinued
Streets widened
Increase in niileao:e
41,583 lin. ft.
9,060 sq. ft.
631 lin. ft.
6,289 sq. ft.
41,124 lin. ft.
7.87 miles.
0.12 mile.
7.75 miles.
Table showino- the number of miles in len2:th of streets
laid out bv the Board of Stieet Commissioners :
n 1871
' . 5.72 miles.
In 1883 .
. 6.11 mil
1872
. 2.20
1884 .
. 5.50 "
1873
. 4.66
1885 .
. 3.95 "
1874
. 4.68
1886 .
. 6.75 "
1875
. 8.92
1887 .
. 5.34 "
1876
. 5.52
1888 .
. 5.12 "
1877
. 7.37
1889 .
. 6.22 -
1878
. 4.80
1890 .
. 5.69 "
1879
. 5.35
1891 .
. 7.75 "
1880
. 4.51
1881
. 4.80
Total in 21 yrs.
119.10 "
1882
. 8.14
les.
Street Department. 191
Financial Statement.
Balance on hand elan. 1, 1891 . . . $45,21181
Transferred from Causeway street Jan. 3,
1891 3,000 00
Loan Feb. 2, 1891 183,000 00
$231,211 81
Amount of expenditures charged
to Pavino; Division from Jan.
1, 1891, "to April 30, 1891 . $224,336 08
Used by other divisions . . 6,875 73
,211 81
Appropriation for Pavins; Divi-
sion, 1891-1892 . ". . $700,000 00
From Reserve Fund for Street-
watering, July . . . 50,000 00
Transferred from Cambridge
Bridge. .... 1,677 06
Transferred from Police Division, 3,485 59
Amount of expenditures charged
to Paving Division from May
1, 1891, 'to Jan. 31, 1892 . $752,863 94
Transferred to Humboldt-avenue
grade damages . . . 1,815 00
Kemaining in treasury Feb. 1,
1892 483 71
$755,162 65
$755,162 65
986,374 46 $986,374 46
Total expenditures from rea'ular appropria-
tion ...."... $977,200 02
Total expenditures from special appropria-
tions 1,014,324 26
Grand total (regular and special) . $1,991,524 28
192 City Document No. 36.
IjsCOME.
Statement showing the amount of bills deposited with the
City Collector from' Jan. 1, l«Ol, to Feb. 1, 1892, on ac-
count of the Paving Division :
Edgestone and sidewalk assessments . . $31,037 30
Sale of stone, etc. ..... 985 55
Fort Hill Wharf (rent) .... 625 00
West End R.E,. Co., settlement of accident
claim 1,130 00
,777 85
The amount paid into the city treasury during the same
period on account of the Paving Division :
Edgestone and sidewalk assessments . . $17,299 01
Sale of stone, etc. 482 15
Fort Hill Wharf (rent) .... 625 00
West End R.R., settlement of accident claim, 1,130 00
$19,536 16
Street Department.
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Expenditures.
Advertising in and subscribing for daily papers,
Dorchester ledge, construction of .
Horses, carts, and harnesses (new)
Harrisburg Foundry and Machine Co., steam
roller ....
Aveling & Porter, steam-roller
Plans for office
Printing and stationery
Repairing stables, sheds, etc.
Sundries ....
Street sio;ns and numberino;
Salary of J. Edwin Jones, as Superintendent
of Streets, Jan. 1 to Jan. 17, 1891
Salary of Michael Meehan, as Deputy Super-
intendent of Streets, Jan. 1 to Jan. 17,
1891
Salary of H. H. Carter, as Acting Superinten-
dent cf Streets, Jan. 19 to March 8, 1891 .
Salary of H. H. Carter, as Acting Superinten-
dent of Streets, March 9 to March 31,
1891 . . . . . . .
Salary of C. R. Cutter, as Deputy Superinten-
dent of Streets, March 23, 1891, to Jan
28, 1892
Salary of office clerks ....
Telephone, expenses of . . .
Tools, cost of keeping same in repair, etc.
Executions of Court, etc.
Brown, Mary L., personal injuries
Brackett, J. Albert, injurios to horse .
Bean, B. F., damage to house
Coffey, John J., jaersonal injuries
Clark, Thos. H., damage to carriage .
Carroll, Patrick, personal injuries
CunnifF, Ellen, "
Driscoll, Louisa M., damage to estate
Deegan, Catherine E., Admx., injury to husband (Com
mittee on Claims ....
Fitzpatrick, John B., personal injuries
Finn, Ellen T., "
Gordan, Charles K., "
Grose, Mercy D., "
i, $647
78
2,084
26
10,993
14
4,000^
00
4,000
00
1,067
70
4,458
34
1,327
94
8,445
69
3,112
83
188 89
141 67
566 66
458 33
2,578 55
' 9,089 27
992 47
14,919 11
569,072 63
1,033
S6
200
00
40
00
50
00
40
00
55
50
100
00
75
00
400 00
200
00
325
12
175
00
200
00
Carried fo7-ward,
>,894 48
Street Department.
195
Brought forward,
Gates, Mary A., personal injuries
Holmes, John S., "
Hutchinson, Margaret A. C, personal injuries
Imre, T. J.,
Kelrey, Chas. E., "
Luehterhand, Sophie K., "
Luchterhand, Fred. W., "
Lynch, William, damage to house
Lannon, Jane C, grade damages
McNamara, Bridget, personal injuries
Madden, Bridget F., et als., grade damages
Mooney, J., grade damages
McCorkle, Sarah J., personal injuries
McLellan, Albert,
Mahern, Esther J., damage to house .
McGonagle, Charles, stone taken from his land
Peters, Richard and Mary, grade damages .
Ruggles, Daniel, personal injuries
Robbins, Elliot D., injuries to horse .
Ryan, Mary E., personal injuries
Sampson, Thomas A., damage to herdic
Thompson, Emma A., personal injuries
Vaughan, Kate, "
Warren, J. Frank, "
Whitcomb, A. F., injuries to horse
12,894 48
1,325 45
400 00
2,099 73
150 OO
131 60
122 37
100 00
50 00
625 32
686 68
675 32
400 00
100 00
64 00
28 00
40 00
125 32
250 00
350 00
450 00
50 00
1,650 45
937 49
400 00
150 00
$14,250
21
Grade Damages, Humboldt Avenue.
Brown, Agnes $471
24
Carpenter, Samuel L. and Lucinda W
200
00
Draper, Charles E. . . .
2,121
24
D'Arcy, Frank P.
421
24
Folsom, Mary F.
1,521
24
Gerry, Samuel L.
400
00
Hunt, Sylvia W.
471
24
Knowles, J. M. ,
900
00
Kittredge, C. F. .
300
00
Leonard, George
400
00
Maguire, Patrick
900
00
Rand, Carrie B. .
571
24
Sawyer, Nellie 0.
300
00
Svdlivan, Michael
1,200
00
Taggard, John H.
500
00
Vail, Emma L. R.
100
00
Woodbury, Louisa
600
00
$11,377
44
11)() City Document No. 36,
The following schedule shows the expenditures from the
maintenance appropriation of this division devoted to the
various streets in the several districts :
SOUTH BOSTON.
A street/ B roadway to First street. In ex-
cess of special appropriation . . . $102 47
Dorchester street/ Eighth street to Dor-
chester avenue. In excess of special appro-
priation ....... 68 90
E street/ Third street to Bolton street. In
excess of special appropriation . . . 470 47
First street/ N. Y. & N. E. li.R. to F street.
In excess of special appropriation . . 1,291 23
Fourth street/ G street to H street. In ex-
cess of special appropriation ... 28 00
Gustin street.^ In excess of special appro-
priation . . 597 14
Harvest street.^ In excess of special appro-
priation ....... 830 74
Newman street.^ In excess of special appro-
priation . . . . . ... 142 88
Kogers street.^ In ex:cess of special appro-
priation ....... 264 88
Seventh street/ D street towards B street.
In excess of special appropriation . . 244 36
Second street/ E street to Dorchester street.
In excess of special appropriation . . 1,243 99
Sixth street,^ O street to Q street;
repaved between O and P streets — paved
between P and Q streets :
Labor $228 14
Teaming . . . . 75 00
Material . . . . 1,246 75
1,549 89
Sixth street,^ H street to I street. In excess
of special appropriation . . . . 108 07
Second street,^ Granite street to A street.
In excess of special appropriation . . 55 74
Ward street.^ In excess of special appropria-
tion _ . . 122 00
Washburn street.^ In excess of special appro-
priation 1,044 92
A:mount carried forward^ $8,165 68
' For detail of tliis work sec special appropriations.
Street Department. 197
Amount brought forioard, $8,165 68
Maintenance of macadamized roadways :
Labor $2,302 98
Teaminjr . . . . 787 50
Crossings, repairs :
Labor .
Material
Crossings, new :
Labor .
Teaming
Material
Edgestone and sidewalks, repairs :
Labor $3,250 18
Teaming .... 2,292 00
Material . . . . 1,281 14
$94 07
613
44
$146
02
24
00
640
25
Edo;estone, sidewalks, and gutters, new :
"Labor . . . . . $1,298 80
Pavers' bills . . . 492 58
Material . . . . 615 27
Fences and plank-walks :
Labor $831 49
Material . . . . 703 17
Repairs :
Labor $3,113 76
Teaming .... 4,054 50
Pavers' bills . . . . 251 59
Material .... 5,810 35
Total
Credit on account of city crusher
3,090 48
707 51
810 27
6,823 32
2,406 65
1,534 QQ
13,230
20
$36,768
787
77
96
$35,980 81
198
City Document No. 36.
EAST BOSTON.
Bennington street, Prescott street to Words-
worth street : Reo-ulatino- and o'radins' :
C ~ C3 O
1,218 ft. edofestone set.
432 sq. yds. gutter paving.
776 sq. yds. brick sidewalks relaid.
3,690 sq. 3^ds. of 3-inch macadam.
3,495 cu. yds. filling (taken from sewer
trenches).
Labor ....
Teaming
Stone and screenings
Roller ....
Edgestone (622 ft., new)
Pavers' bills .
Sand ....
IBeachmont avenue. Ley den street to Revere :
Filling (taken from sewer trenches) :
Labor $868 15
Teamino .... 757 50
. $1,987 58
526 50
737 90
201 00
446 20
158 49
32 00
$4,089 67
Belmont square : Gravelled — Edgestones set
— Gutter paved — Crossings laid :
Labor . . . .. $155 67
Teaming . . . . 72 00
Street-roller . . . 18 00
Material . . . . 485 55
Eagle square, at Chelsea street.^ In excess of
special appropriation ....
Jeffries and Marginal streets. In excess of
special appropriation ....
Lamson street, Sumner street to Webster
street : Gravelled — Edgestone set — Brick
walks laid :
Labor $186 75
Teaming . . . . 66 00
Pavers' ^bills . . . . 106 05
Material . . . . 433 20
1,625 65
731 22
558 40
516 61
792 00
Amouiit carried forward.
!,313 55
' For detail of this work see special appropriation.
Street Department.
199
5501
32
115
50
519
95
516
40
Amount brought fornmrd,
Lewis street : Entire length repaved :
Labor ....
Teaming ....
Pavers' bills
Material ....
Morris street, Marion street to Brooks street :
Gravelled — Edgestone set — Gutters paved
— Brick sidewalk paved :
Labor .... $549 51
Teaming .... 367 50
Street- roller . . . 51 00
Material . . . . 424 65
1,313 55
Porter street, Bremen street to Central square :
Resurfaced :
Labor .... $390 84
Teaming . . . . 108 00
Street-roller ... 33 00
Material . . . . 578 24
Putnam street, Chelsea street to Bennington
street : Resurfaced :
Labor .... $242 77
Teaming . . . . 40 50
Street-roller ... 9 00
Material . . . . 337 03
Sumner street, at Belmont square : Cross-
walks laid :
Labor . . . . $57 60
Teaming .... 24 00
Pavers' bills . * . 42 00
Material . . . . 569 30
Terrace place : Repaved
Sidewalks laid :
Labor
Teaming
Pavers' bills
Edo-estone set —
$571 69
96 00
166 92
Walley street
Labor
Team in si-
Resurfaced
$325 16
217 50
1,653 17
1,392 QQ
1,110 08
629 30
692 90
834 61
542 66
Amount carried forioard.
$15,168 93
200
CiTT Document No. 36.
Amount brought forward,
$15,168
93
Webster street, Cottage str
eet
to Jeffries
street : Resurfaced :
Labor
$597 41
Teaming
151 50
Pavers' bills
134 85
Street- roller
78 00
Material
387 79
1,349
55
Webster street, at Belmont
sqi
lare : Cross-
walks laid :
Labor
$57 60
Teaming
33 00
Pavers' bills
32 25
Material
558 20
681
05
Maintenance of macadamized r
oad^
^vays :
Labor
$1,634 88
Teaming
462 00
2,096
88
Edgestone, sidewalks, and gutters
, repairs :
Labor . . .
$1,769 58
Teaming . ^ .
856 50
Pavers' bills
21 63
Material
638 26
3,285
97
%J 1
Edgestone, sidewalks, and gutters
, new :
Labor ....
$229 67
^
Teaming
12 00
Pavers' 'bills
71 39
Material
1,220 73
1,533
79
Fences and plank-walks :
Labor ....
4
$477 72
Teaming
135 00
Carpenter
378 00
Material
784 73
1,775
45
ttrt/
Repairing streets :
Labor ....
$9,917 45
Teaming
2,326 50
Roller . . . .
145 00
Pavers' bills .
57 35
Material
2,873 06
15,319
36
. •
fj \j
Total ....
$41,210
98
Street Department.
201
CHARLES TOWN.
Austin street.-^ In excess of special appropri-
ation .......
Charles-river avenue : Repavecl roadway :
Labor $279 36
Teaming . . . . 102 00
Pavers'1)ills . . . 419 42
Material . . . . 243 63
Dupont street.^ In excess of special appro-
priation .......
Edge worth street.^ In excess of speciaJ ap-
propriation ......
Parker street : Reset edgestones — Relaid
gutters and sidewalks
hahor .
Teaming
Material
$368 70
84 00
114 17
Maintenance of macadamized roadways :
Labor $1,729 97
Teaming .... 1,485 00
Edgestones, sidewalk, and gutter, repairs :
Labor . . . . . $2,288 91
Teamino- . . . . 997 50
Material .... 1,429 18
Fences and plank-walks
Labor .
Teaming
Carpenter
Material
Repairing streets
Labor .
Teaming
Pavers' bills
Roller .
Material
$415
49
54
00
210
47
167
08
16,230
82
3,618
00
71
02
102
00
2,602
80
$140 43
1,044 41
121 21
37 25
566 87
3,214 97
4,715 59
847 04
12,624 64
Total
,312 41
' For detail of this work see special appropriation.
202
City Document No. 36.
BBIGETON.
Cambridge street, near Gas-house : Eesurfacino;
2,860 sq. yds. 4-in. macadam.
Labor . . . . $573 29
Teaming
Pavers' bills
Edgestone
Gravel and sand
Roller
Stone .
Westford street : Regulating and Gravelling
244 ft. edgestone.
88 sq. yds. gutter paving.
1,820 sq. yds. gravel roadway.
950 sq. yds. gravel sidewalk.
442 18
65 06
28 42
155 96
84 00
771 40
$2,120 31
Labor ....
$743 30
Teaming
297 00
Gravel
. 1,163 43
Pavers' bills
41 56
Edgestones .
209 26
Stone ....
43 70
Western avenue : Regulating an(
\ Resurfacing :
366 ft. edgestone.
123 sq. yds. gutter paving.
5,130 sq. yds. 4-in. macadam.
Labor ....
. $565 07
Teaming
600 50
Edgestone .
104 39
Pavers' bills
30 77
Stone ....
. 1,420 10
Gravel
403 76
Roller ....
145 00
Aldie street.^ In excess of spec
ial appropria-
tion. ....
.
Commonwealth avenue. Enti
re length re-
paired where needed :
Labor . . . .
. $86 40
Teaming . . . .
. 348 00
Material . . . .
1,250 20
2,498 25
3,269 59
247 05
A.mou)U carried forward,
1,684 60
59,819 80
1 For detail of this work see special appropriation.
Street Department. 203
A.mount brought forward ^ $9,819 80
Dunboy street : Grading and Gravelling from
Biglow street, 800 feet south :
Labor |840 96
Teaming .... 463 50
Material . . • . 547 95
1,852 41
Dustin street.^ In excess of special appropri-
ation 1,069 79
Mansfield street : Gradino- — Settins; Edoe-
stones — Gutters :
Labor ..... $453 23
Teaming
Pavers' bills
Street-roller
Material
192 00
239 83
63 00
826 51
1,774 57
Mount Vernon street.' In excess of special
appropriation . . . . . . 568 10
Hobart street.^ In excess of special appro-
priation 2,213 37
Lake street.^ In excess of special appropria-
tion 3,642 91
Oakland street : Grading :
Labor . . ." . . $189 11
Teaming . . . . 79 50
Materiat- . . . . 535 15
803 76
Rockland street. Macadamized ; Chestnut Hill
avenue, south :
Labor $91 39
Teaming .... 60 00
Steam-roller . . . 96 00
Material . . . . 422 80
Washington street : Repairs entire length :
Labor $103 09
Teaming .... 87 00
Street-roller . . . 66 00
Material . . . . 353 27
Winship street : New crossings, new edge-
stones, new sidewalk — Repairs entire length :
Labor $48 00
670 19
609 36
Amounts carried forward, $48 00 $23,024 26
For detail of this work see special appropriation ,
204
City Document No. 36.
A.mo/( n ts hvouyh t forivard,
Teaniinir
Pavers' bills .
Materinl . . .
$48 00
81 86
56 95
702 43
$23,024 26
889 24
Maintenance of macadamized roadwavs :
Labor . . . . . $2,119 35
Teaming . . . . 634 50
Crossings, new :
Labor .
Teaming
Material
$209 82
60 00
2,100 07
Edgestone — Sidewalk and gutters, repaired :
Labor $27 75
Material . . . . 847 05
Edgestone — Sidewalks and gutters, new :
Labor $284 33
Teaming . . . . 148 50
Pavers' bills ... 180 29
Material . . . . 1,835 33
Fences and plank-walks
Labor .
Material
Repairing streets
Labor
Teaming
Material
Pavers' bills
Roller
$673 04
1,409 64
^8,997 50
5,652 00
5,852 45
134 22
84 00
Total ....
Credit on account of city crusher,
2,753 85
2,369 89
874 80
2,448 45
2,082 Q^
20,720 17
$55,163 34
1,181 93
$53.9»1 41
Street Department.
205
WEST EOXBUBY.
Canterbury street, Bine Hill avenue to Aus-
tin street : Resurfacing :
3,300 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
Labor .... $188 30
Teaming .... 636 00
Graver .' . . . 165 20
Roller . . . . 192 00
Stone .... 1,309 10
Centre street. Green to Amory : Resurfac-
ing:
5,500 sq. yds. 4-in. macadam.
Labor . . . . $393 88
Teaming .... 667 50
Stone .... 1,507 13
Gravel . ... 531 10
Roller .... 237 00
Hyde Park avenue, Mt. Hope to Hyde Park
line : Resurfacing :
5,3()0 lin. ft. i)lank-walk.
15,500 sq. yds. 6-m. macadam.
Labor .... $464 78
Teaming .... 870 00
Gravel .... 1,466 90
Roller . . . . 320 00
Stone . . . . 7,690 90
Lumber .... 569 04
Mozart street : Reo;ulating and resurfacing :
2,600 lin. ft. edgestone.
880 sq. yds. block-stone gutter.
257 sq. yds. brick sidewalk.
2,500 sq. yds. 3-in. macadam.
Labor .... $804 50
Teaming .... 316 50
Blocks . . . . 990 22
Gravel . . . . 746 10
Pavers' bills ... 474 34
Edgestone . . . . 1,572 68
Stone .... 498 45
Roller . . . . 175 00
!,490 60
3,336 61
11,381 62
5,577 79
Amount carried forward ,
,786 62
206
City Document No. 3(5.
A.mount brought forward,
Mt. Hope street, Hyde park avenue to Can-
terbury : Resurfacing with gravel :
5,200 sq. yds. gravel roadway.
2,700 sq. yds. gravel sidewalk.
300 sq. yds. gutter relaid.
2,786 62
Labor
$397 QQ
Teaming
225 00
Pavers' bills
77 18
Roller
321 00
Gravel
shington to Wal
1,453 90
School street, Wa
lut avenue :
Regulating and
macadamizing :
2,400 sq. yds. Telford macadam.
Labor
. • ■
1380 25
Teaming
. • •
587 00
Gravel
. . •
261 80
Roller
• . •
130 00
Stone
1,774 60
South street, near Centre : Resurfacing
6,100 sq. yds. 8-in. macadam.
Teaming
102 00
Gravel
, ,
383 60
Stone .
.
. 2,922 20
Roller
t, Paine to Back st
167 00
Walkhill stree
reet : Resur-
facing and regulating :
432 sq. yds.
gutter
paving.
2,500 sq. yds.
4-in. macadam.
Labor
$505 81
Teaming
^
704 50
Roller
^
200 00
Stone
^
671 20
Gravel
•
751 80
Washington street, south of Forest Hills : Re-
surfacing :
4,500 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
Labor .... $833 31
Teaming .... 583 50
2,474 74
3,133 65
3,714 60
2,833 31
Amounts carried forivard, $1,416 81 $34,942 92
Steeet Department. 207
Amounts brought forward, $1,416 81 $34,942 92
Stone .... 1,786 00
EoUer . . . . 224 00
3,426 81
Arnold street, from Weld street to Newton
line : Repaired :
Labor $9 00
Teaming . . . . 118 50
Material .... 549 50
Baker street.^ In excess of special appro-
677
00
priation .......
366
00
Ballard street.^ In excess of special appro-
priation .......
136
80
Berry street, from Canterbury street to
Calvary Cemetery : Resurfaced :
Labor $416 31
Teaming .... 90 00
Roller 145 00
Material . . . . 854 00
1 ^f\f^
qi
Boynton street. South street to Call street :
Labor $34 44
Material . . . . 467 75
502 19
Call-street extension.^ In excess of special
appropriation . . . . . . 599 71
Centre street, near Spring street : Repairs :
Labor $56 25
Teaming . . . . 163 50
Material . • . . 373 10
592 85
Danforth street, Boylston street to Paul Gore
street : Resurfaced :
Labor . . . . . $549 85
Teamino- . . . . 372 00
Paver's^Bills . . . 206 33
Material . . . . 347 10
1,475 28
Forbes street : ^ In excess of special appropria-
tion 2,095 45
German street : Whole length, construction :
Labor $923 85
Teaming . , . . 505 50
1,429 35
Jimount carried forward, $47,749 67
^ For detail of this woi'k see special appropriation.
208 City Document No. 36.
Amount brought forivard, $47,749 67
Goldsmith street.^ In excess of special ap-
propriation ...... 22 88
Hyde Park avenue, near Forest Hills : Re-
surfaced :
Labor $487 55
Teaming . . . . 142 50
Material . . . . 504 00
1,134 05
La Grange street,
Pai
trido-e
street to Martin
street : Resurfaced
Labor .
.
. $228 86
Teaming
,
367 50
Roller .
, .
55 00
Material
•
. 1,041 60
1,692 96
Maynard street.' In excess of special appro-
priation ....... 444 93
Oak street.^ In excess of special appropria-
tion 28 16
Paul Gore street,^ Chestnut avenue to Lamar-
tine street : Resurfaced — New edgestone,
sidewalks, and gutters :
Labor $311, 71
Teaming
Street-roller
Material
Pavers' bills
Peter Parley road.^ In excess of special ap
propriation
Poplar street, Canterbury street to Metropoli-
tan avenue : Repairs :
Labor $335 21
Teaming .... 358 50
PaversMjills . . 232 65
Material . . . 218 40
127 50
146 00
1,191 79
92 07
' 1,869 07
)ecial ap-
.
46 10
Prospect avenue. In excess of special appro-
priation . . ....
Sylvia street.^ In excess of special appropri-
ation .......
Symmes street.^ In excess of special appro-
priation .......
Amount carried- forward^
1 For detail of this work see special appropriation.
1,144
76
33
00
436
25
390
50
$54,992
33
Street Department. 209
Amou7it brought forward^ $54,992 33
Walter street : Kepairs :
Labor $440 83
Teaming . . . . 334 50
Weld street, Baker street to Corey street :
Labor . . . . $123 08
Teaming .... 63 00
Material . . . . 697 90
Maintenance of macadamized roadways :
Labor .... $6,014 95
Teaming .... 3,474 00
Crossings, repairs :
Labor ....
Teaming
Material
Edgestone — Sidewalks and gutter repairs :
Teaming . . . . $96 00
Pavers' bills . . . 687 27
Material . . . . 881 61
$161 89
48
00
909
92
775 33
883 98
Washington, South, and Centre streets.^ In
excess of special appropriation . . . 9,381 79
Wise street : New edgestones, gutters, and
walks :
Labor ...... $52 80
Teaming . . . . 123 00
Pavers'l)ills . . . 94 14
Material . . . . 506 16
776 10
9,488 95
1,119 81
Edgestone — Sidewalk and gutters (new) :
Labor .... $347 45
Teaming .... 115 50
Pavers' bills . . . 544 34
Material . . . . 355 86
1,363
3,026
15
96
Fences and plank-walks :
Labor
Carpenter .
Material
. $1,390 93
45 50
. 1,590 53
Amounl carried forward.
$83,473
28
' For detail of this work see special appropriation.
210
City Document No. 3(j.
Amount brought foriuard,
$83,473
28
Repairing streets :
Labor . . .
. $9,444 77
Teaming
. 17,161
00
Pavers' bills .
200
72
Holler ....
147
00
Material
. 14,577
90
41,531
30
fj \J
Total
$125,004
67
Credit on account of city cru
>hers
•
1,575
91
$123,428
76
DORCHESTER.
Adams street, Dorchester avenue to Park
street : Paving gutters and
macadamizing :
360 sq. yds. block-stone gutt
ers.
3,000 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam :
Labor ....
. $1,099
72
Teaming
181
50
Gravel
159
00
Stone ....
. 1,235
00
Roller ....
49
00
<ll!9 791
99
Blue Hill avenue, Wales to Harvard street :
333 feet edgestone reset.
112 sq. yds. gutter paving.
6-in. macadam. :
6,000 sq. yds
Labor .
Teaming
Gravel
Stone .
Roller .
$863 75
568 74
430 50
2,363 40
196 00
Codman street, Adams to Shawmut Branch
R.R. : Reaulatinor and macadamizino; :
608 feet edgestone.
203 sq. yds. gutters.
163 sq. yds. brick sidewalk.
2,350 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
720 sq. yds. gravel sidewalk.
Labor $558 87
Teaming . . . . 165 00
Pavinff-blocks ... 223 08
4,422 39
Amounts carried forward,
$946 95 $7,146 61
Street Department.
211
mouyits brought fortoard..
$946 95
Kdo:estone .
364 80
Pavers' bills
125 98
Gravel
112 50
Roller ....
84 00
Stone ....
959 00
',146 61
Dracut street : Reo^ulatino; and macadamizino- :
2,332 lin. ft. edgestone.
323 sq. yds. block-stone gutters.
450 sq. yds. round stone gutters.
2,450 sq. yds. 8-in. macadam.
1,600 sq. yds. gravel sidewalk.
Labor .
Teaming
Stone .
Blocks
Pavers' bills
Gravel
Roller .
Washington street, Norfolk to Columbia :
Resurfacing and regulatins :
7,000 sq. yds. 3-in. macadam — Edgestones
$1,983
64
742
67
1,225
00
367
96
386
25
388
50
112
00
reset — Gutters rela
Labor .
Teaming
'Roller .
Stone .
Gravel
Pavers' bills
d:
$338 55
504 50
154 00
1,388 90
331 80
229 37
Abbot street. Blue Hill avenue to Harvard
street : Resurfaced :
Labor . . . . $236 08
Teaming . . . . 174 00
Roller .... 81 00
Material . . . . 405 60
Adams street. King
street : Resurfaced :
Labor
Teaminof
street to Beaumont
$247 08
126 00
2,593 23
5,206 02
2,947 12
896 68
jA-mounts carried forward^
$373 08 $18,789 ^^
212 City Document No. 36.
Amounts brought forward^ $373 08 $18,789 66
Roller . . . . 134 00
Material .... 1,114 60
1,621 68
Asbmont street.^ In excess of special appro-
priation . 679 00
Blue Hill avenue, Quincy street to Grove
Hall : Resurfaced :
Labor . . . . $67 50
Teaming . . . . 258 00
Material . . . . 273 60
599 10
Boston street, Stoughton street to Eastman
street : Resurfaced :
Material . . . . . . 660 80
Bushnell street.^ In excess of special appro-
priation 1,619 51
Carruth street, Beaumont street to New Minot
street: Macadamizing — Resetting edge-
stones — New gutters :
Labor .... $517 27
Teaming .... 90 00
Roller . . . . 21 00
Material . . . . 584 90
1,213 17
Codman street, Dorchester avenue to Wash-
ington street : Macadamizing :
Labor .... $142 98
Teaming . . . . 127 50
Roller .... 98 00
Material . . . . 718 00
Gleason street, Harvard street to White
street : Macadamized :
Labor .... $170 28
Teaming .... 100 92
Material .... 384 56
Roller . . . . 105 00
1,086 48
760 76
Gi-anite avenue.^ In excess of special appro-
priation 3,204 21
Amount carried forward ^ $30,234 37
' For detail of this work see special appropriation.
Street DeparTxMent.
213
A^nount brotight forward^
Hancock street : Widening at Upham's Corner
$30,234 37
Labor
Teaming
Excavating
Pavers' bills
Roller
Material
$512 28
165 00
57 50
^b 90
42 00
360 50
In excess of special appro-
In excess of special appro-
Magnolia street.^
priation
Neponset avenue.^
priation .......
Pleasant street, Stoughton street to Victoria
street : Resurfaced :
Labor
Teaming
Material
$61 80
120 00
358 86
Sturbridore
street
Labor
Materia
street, River street to Sanford
Filling
$108 37
453 85
Victoria street, from Pleasant street, east,
towards Dorchester avenue : Repairing
concrete sidewalk — Resetting edsestone
and gutters :
Labor . . . . $87 29
Teaming .... 27 00
Pavers' bills ... ^^'o 64
Material . . . . 469 38
Maintenance of macadamized roadways :
Labor .... $3,218 38
Teaming . . . . 1,209 00
Edgestone — Sidewalk and gutter, repairs :
Labor . . . . $1,044 64
Teaming .... 675 00
Pavers' bills . . . 45 97
Material . . . . 822 49
A.mount carried forward ,
1,223 18
304 08
5,161 26
540 66
562 22
650 31
4,427 38
2,588 10
$45,691 56
^ For detail of this work sec special appropriation.
214
City Document No. 36.
Amotint hrouglit forward.
Sidewalks and o'utters
Edgostone
Labor
Teaming
Pavers' bills
Material
Fences and plank-walks :
Labor
Teaming
Carpenter
Material
Repairs :
Labor
Teaming
Roller
Pavers' bills
Material
Excavating
Total
Credit on account of city crushers
(new) :
$137 50
451 61
669 84
3,797 26
$1,667 50
6 00
42 00
2,049 10
$8,578 81
8,707 50
350 13
95 63
13,978 87
325 00
$45,691 56
5,056 21
3,764 60
32,035
94
$86,548 31
2,363 87
$84,184
44
BOXBTJRY.
Blue Hill avenue, Quincy to Warr
ulating and resurfacing :
386 ft. edgestone.
127 sq. yds. block-stone gutters.
353 sq. yds. brick sidewalk.
1,900 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
Labor .
Teaming
Edojestone .
Pavers' bills
Sand .
Gravel
Stone .
Rollers
Blocks
Amount carried forward,
en : Reg-
$568 61
259 84
325 68
118 01
107 20
302 40
758 80
90 00
86 71
$2,617 25
!,617 25
Stkeet Department.
Eegulating — Grading and mac-
jionount brought forward.
Bower street
adaniizing
1,280 ft. edgestone reset.
467 sq. yds. block-stone gutters.
264 sq. yds. brick sidewalk.
1,700 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
Labor .
Teaminsc
Sand .
Gravel
Stone .
Brick .
Edgestone .
Pavers' bills
Roller
461
41
166
14
94
40
327
60
672
70
19
50
82
56
271
57
98
00
Harold street : Re^ulatino; and macadam izinsf .-
662 ft. edgestone.
208 sq. yds. block-stone gutters.
217 sq. yds. brick sidewalk.
1,400 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
Labor $179 49
Teaming . . . . 161 37
Edgestone . . . . 585 70
Pavers' bills . . . 143 87
Gravel . . . . 291 20
Roller . . . . 140 00
Stone 569 62
Flagging . . . . 124 80
Kendall street : Regulatinoj and resurfacino-
2, .164 tt. edgestone reset.
772 sq. yds. gutter repaved.
1,324 sq. yds. brick sidewalk relaid.
2,300 sq, yds. 3-in. macadam.
Labor .
Teaming
Sand .
Gravel
Rollers
Stone .
Pavers' bills
Brick .
Amount carried forward.
215
!,617 25
2,193 88
2,196 05
$916 47
500 14
90 10
247 09
174 50
1,035 34
616 18
232 06
3,811 88
$10,819 06
216
City Docu3Ient No. 36.
jimount brought forward ,
Eoxhury fctreet, Hisfhlnnd to Tremont : Reg-
ulating and resurfiicing :
5,900 sq. yds. 3-iu. macadam.
Labor .
Team ins:
Gravel
Stone .
Roller
Block
$10,819 06
Fl a edging
Calumet street
Labor
Teaming:
Gradino-
$88 77
106 00
253 40
1,141 27
144 00
100 38
182 40
2,016 22
$560 22
•
225 00
785 22
special
appropri-
1,792 94
at] on
Cheney street, Blue Hill avenue to Hartvvell
street : itesuriaced — Jiidgestone
— (jrutters
— Sidewalks :
Labor ....
$109 77
Teaming . . • .
66 36
Pavers' Ijills
29 26
Roller ....
35 00
Material . . .
498 58
, 738
97
Cliff street.^ In excess of special
appropria-
tion ......
.
314
61
Centre street. In excess of special
appropria-
tion ......
,
1,639
77
Dunmore street: Macadamized — '
S"ew edge-
stone — Sidewalk and gutters :
Labor ....
$539 09
Teaming ....
255 00
Pavers' bills
123 28
Roller ....
46 00
Material ....
538 QQ
1,502
03
\_/t/
Dudley street, at Norfolk House. I
n excess of
special appropriation .
1,258
74
Amomit carried forward.
$20,867
56
1 For detail of this work see special appropriation.
Street Department. 217
jimourd brought forward , $20,867 56
East Lenox street, Washington street to
Fellows street : Edgestones and sidewalks
(new) :
Labor . . . . $124 41
Teaming . . . . 15 00
Pavers' bills ... 246 43
Material .... 120 96
506 80
Elmore street, Mayfair street to Washington
street ; Edgestones — Gutters — Sidewalks
— Resurfaced :
Labor .... $405 63
Teamino- .... 165 02
Pavers'bills ... 136 19
Material .... 698 80
Elmwood street, Roxbury street to King
street : Macadamized — Edgestone — Side-
walks — Gutters :
Pavers' bills ... $59 58
Street-roller ... 54 00
Material .... 388 08
Guild row : Widened — Repaved — Edgestone
reset :
Labor .... $644 13
Material .... 818 24
1,405 64
501 m
1,462 37
Hampshire street.^ In excess of special ap-
propriation ..... . 694 80
Rowland street.* In excess of special appro-
priation ....... 1,827 78
Humboldt avenue. Li excess of special appro-
priation 15,999 61
Humboldt avenue, Walnut avenue to Craw-
ford street : Resurfaced — Edgestone — Side-
walk — Gutter :
Labor . . . . $161 34
Teaming 1 . . . 90 00
Pavers'bills . . , 166 10
Material . . . . 632 34
1,049 78
Amount carried forward , $44,316 00
^ For detail of this work see special appropriation.
218 City Document No. 3(5.
Ajnount hrougJit forward, $44,316 00
Kensington street: Eclgestone — Sidewalk —
Gutters :
Labor .... $145 71
Teaming . . . . 72 00
PaversM)ills . . . 91 11
Material . . . . 328 98
637 80
Laurel street, at Humboldt avenue : Resur-
faced— Edgestone — Sidewalks — Gutters :
Labor $183 16
Teaming . . . . 91 35
Pavers'^bills . . . . 73 32
Eoller . . . . . 14 00
Material . . . . 375 75
Parker street.^ In excess of special appropria-
tion ......
Ruggles street, Washington street to Tre-
mont street : Resurfaced :
Labor $81 48
Teaming . . . . 44 74
Roller 120 00
Material 398 00
737 58
Lenox street. ^ In excess of special appropria-
tion 3,097 69
Moreland street. ^ In excess of special appro-
priation . . . . . . . 40 21
Monroe street : Hazelwood street to 500 feet
west, Humboldt avenue: Resurfaced —
Edffestone :
Labor . . . . . $670 64
Teaming
Pavers' bills
Roller .
Material
312 00
41 11
7 00
92 40 '
1,123 15
4,483 48
)ropria-
644 22
Shirley street. ^ In excess of special appro-
priation 254 86
Amount carried forward, $55,334 99
' For detail oi this work see special appropriation.
Street Depaktment. 219
Amount brought forward, $55,334 99
Sterling street, VA'iishlngton street to Shaw-
iiiut avenue : Macadamized — Edgestone —
Sidewalks :
Labor $70 12
Teaming
Pavers' bills
Koller .
Material
29 88
265 22
22 50
288 91
Townsend street, Walnut avenue to Hum-
boldt avenue : Macadamized — Edgestone
— Sidewalks and gutters :
Labor .
$44 05
Teaming
31 35
Pavers' bills
130 52
Roller
28 00
Material
414 80
Tremont street, Huntington avenue to Brook-
line line : Resurfaced :
Labor $122 23
Teaming . . . . 156 00
Roller 266 00
Material . . . . 720 17
Washington street, Cedar street to Circuit
street : Repaved :
Pavers' bills . . . $495 11
Material . . . . 217 00
Westminster street : Resurfaced — New edge-
stone and gutters — Reset edgestones :
Labor $65 89
Teaming .... 15 00
Pavers' bills ... 185 42
676 63
648 72
1,264 40
712 11
Waumbeck street.^ In excess of special ap-
propriation . . . . . . 3,91921
Walden street : Macadamized — Edgestone —
Sidewalk :
Pavers' bills . . . $12 50
Material . . . . 747 87
— 760 37
Amounts carried forward, $266 31 $63,316 43
^ For detail of this work see special appropriation.
220
City Document No. 36.
Amounts broil ght forward , $260 31
Roller 37 50
Material . . . . 738 00
Williams street : Resurfaced from Westminster
to Washington — Edgestone and gutters :
Labor .
Teaming
Pavers' bills
Roller
Material
$311 QQ
217 50
33 52
90 00
688 99
Maintenance of macadamized roadways :
Labor ... . ... $4,544 20
Teaming .... 2,923 50
Crossings (new) :
Labor .
Teaming
Material
Edgestone, sidewalks, gutters, repaired :
Labor $3,116 29
Teamins: . • . . 3,066 00
Pavers'' bills . . . 115 34
Material . . . . 2,559 43
$52
78
13
50
743
16
Edgestone, sidewalks, gutters (new) :
Labor .... $1,050 02
Teaming . . . .1,107 00
Pavers' bills . . . 4,357 13
Material . . . . 5,550 43
Fences and plank-walks :
Labor .... $1,129 05
Material . . . . 1,471 12
Repairs on streets :
Labor .... $7,453 03
Teaming .... 14,857 17
Pavers' bills . . . 362 65
Roller . . . . 168 00
Material .... 24,762 49
Total ....
Credit on account of city crushers
Total ....
$63,316 43
1,041 81
1,341 67
7,467 70
809 44
8,857 06
12,064 58
2,600 17
47,603 34
$145,102 20
2,757 85
$142,344 35
Street Department.
221
CITY PROPER.
Commonwealth avenue, W. Chester park to
Cross-roads : Eeo;uIatino; and resurfacino- ;
640 ft. edgestone.
236 sq. yds. block-stone gutter.
2,200 sq. yds. Telford macadam :
Labor
Teaming
Pavers' bills
Screenings
Gravel
Flao-o-ino;
Stone .
Roller
Blocks
Exeter street : Resfulatins^ and resurfacing :
640 ft. edgestone.
369 sq. yds. stone gutter.
113 sq. yds. brick sidewalk.
1,800 sq. 3^ds. Telford macadam :
Labor .... $218 25
Teaming . . . . 312 00
Pavers'' bills ... 292 64
Gravel . . . . 254 40
Stone .... 1,490 60
Roller . . . . 170 00
$391
84
273
00
107
00
220
50
44
80
58
56
. 1,725
12
214
00
425
55
Albany street. In excess of special appropria-
tion ..... . .
Atlantic avenue, Clinton street to Central
wharf: Repaving :
Teaming . " . . . $24 00
Pavers'^bills ... 534 18
Atlantic avenue.^ In excess of special appro-
priation .......
Batterymarch street.^ In excess of special ap-
propriation ......
Bedford street.^ In excess of special appro-
priation .......
Beacon street.^ In excess of special appropria-
tion ........
Amount carried forward ,
,460 37
2,737 89
165 90
558 18
97 36
136 00
1,139 bQ
4,727 87
$13,023 13
^ For detail of this work see special appropriation.
222 City Document No. 36.
Amount brought forward, $13,023 13
Blno-den street : Eesurfaced :
"Labor . . . . $77 37
Teaming .... 108 00
Material . . . . 634 60
819 97
Camden street,^ In excess of special appro-
priation ..... . . 1,871 41
Columbia street.^ In excess of special appro-
priation 942 84
Charles-river avenue : Repaving :
Labor .... 187 08
Teaming .... 40 50
Pavers' bills . . . 132 55
Material . . . . 256 34
516 47
Cleveland place. ^ In excess of special appro-
priation . . . . . . • 86 77
Court street, Washington street to Court
square : Asphalting :
Labor $258 77
Teaming
Asphalting .
Pavers' bills
Removino stone
Material
Dalton and Dundee streets : Macadamizing
— New edgestones — Sidewalk — Gutters :
Labor $303 57
Teaming . . . . 240 00
Pavers' l)ills . . . 43 40
Material . . . . 170 30
84
00
,052
50
93
72
135
50
44
21
1,668 70
757 27
East Concord street.^ In excess of special
appropriation ...... 1,339 19
Emerald street.^ In excess of special appro-
priation _ • 126 81
East Newton street.^ In excess of special
appropriation ...... 224 00
Friend street, Washington to Sudbury st. :
Repaving :
Labor $396 76
Amounts carried forioard, $396 76 $21,376 56
^ For detail of this work see special appropriation.
Street Department. 223
Amounts brought fortoard , $396 76 $21,376 56
Teaming . ' . . . 96 00
Material . . . . 160 35
653 11
Hanover street, Cross to Clark : Repaying por-
tions :
Labor $374 80
Teaming .... 366 00
Material .... 905 74
1,646 54
Hollis street.^ In excess of special appropria-
tion 103 57
Hudson street.^ In excess of special appropria-
tion 665 34
Huntington avenue, E.R. to Dartmouth street :
Resurfaced — New edgestones and sidewalks :
Labor . ." . . $220 50
Teamino; . . . . 118 50
PaversMoills . . . 202 17
Material . . . . 591 14
1,132 31
Kilby street, State to Milk street: Asphalting, 1,835 60
Kingston street. ^ In excess of special appro-
priation ....... 1,548 64
Knapp street : Regulating and repairing :
Labor . . . . $^272 40
Teaming . . . . 283 50
Pavers' bills ... 225 02
Material . . . . 243 54
1,024 46
Maiden street/ In excess of special appro-
priation ....... 503 99
Matthews street.^ In excess of special appro-
priation 280 41
Moon street/ In excess of special appropria-
tion 239 03
Newbury street. West Chester park to
Charlesgate East : Resurfaced ;
Labor $116 16
Teaming . . . . 287 28
Roller . . . . 189 00
Material .... 1,348 31
1,940 75
Amount carried forward, 1^32,950 31
^ For detail of this work see special appropriation.
224
City Docuiment No. 3(3.
Amount brought forward, $32,950 31
Oneida street.^ In excess of special appro-
priation 201 11
Parkmtui street.^ In excess of special appro-
priation 144 00
Parnell street : New edgestones : — Sidewalks
and gutters :
Labor $368 81
Teaming .... 150 00
Material . . . . 334 11
852 92
605 20
956 97
715 73
176 60
369 Q>Q
254 60
Peniberton square.^ In excess of
special ap-
propriation
.
Pincknev street : Resurfaced :
Labor . . . . .
$253 65
Teaming . . . .
283 50
Material ....
419 82
Kichmond street.^ In excess of special appro-
priation .......
Rochester street/ In excess of special appro-
priation .......
Scotia, Cambria, and Bothnia streets. In ex-
cess of special appropriation
Seneca street.^ In excess of special appro-
priation . . . . .
Somerset street, at new Court House : Mac-
adamized — Edgestones set — Sidewalks laid
— Gutters paved — Edgestones and brick
furnished by Court House Commissioners :
Labor . . . . $175 13
Teaming
Roller
Pavers' bills
Material
St. Botolph street, at College of Pharmacy.
Owner furnished brick :
Labor $231 86
Teaming
Pavers' bills
Material
Roller .
Amount carried forward,
'For detail of this work see special appropriation.
338
00
14
00
81
18
339
16
947 47
51 00
277 65
952 53
30 00
1 "il^ 04
$39,717 61
Street Department. 225
Amount brought forioard, $39,717 61
Stanifoi'd street, Causeway street to Green
street :
Labor $177 92
Teaming . . . . 117 00
Material . . . . 251 00
545 92
Stoughton street.^ In excess of special appro-
prtation 1,274 24
Treraoiit street.^ In excess of special appro-
priation ....... 1,725 34
Troy street.^ In excess of special appropria-
tion 429 37
Warrenton street.^ In excess of special ap-
propriation ...... 184 60
Waltham street,^ In excess of special appro-
priation ....... 1,025 97
West Chester park.^ In excess of special ap-
propriation ...... 593 60
West Chester park, Huntington avenue to
Beacon street : Repaired :
Labor $17 20
Teaming . . . . 12 00
Material .... 1,539 38
1,568 58
West Newton street.^ In excess of special
appropriation ...... 673 30
Well street.^ In excess of special appropria-
tion 312 75
Repairing asphalt- paved streets :
Labor $20 37
Teaming .... 1 50
Material > i n^ a nc\
.,,,.> . . . I,bl4 79
Asphaltmg 3
Maintenance of macadamized roadways :
Labor $7,191 19
Teaming .... 4,836 50
Crossino; repairs :
Labor $3,076 28
Teaming .... 388 50
Material .... 5,853 20
1,636 66
12,027 69
9,317 98
Amount cari'iecl forward , $71,033 61
' For detail of this work see special appropriation.
226
City Document No. 36.
A.monnt brought forivard,
$71,033 61
Crossings (new) :
Labor ....
. $173
18
Teaming
82
50
Material
. 1,145
61
1,401 29
Edgestone, sidewalk, and gutter repaired :
Labor ....
. $8,894 39
Teaming
. 6,109
50
Pavers' bills
. 2,008
50
Material
. 8,435
69
25,448 08
Edgestone, sidewalks, gutters
(new) :
Labor ....
$753
60
Teaming
405
00
Pavers' bills
. 1,355
83
Material
. 2,842
^Q,
5,357 09
Fences and plank-walks :
Labor ....
. $1,796 82
Teaming
37
50
Material
. 2,672
87
4,507 19
Repairs on streets : -
Labor ....
. $25,445
89
Teaming
. 12,524
76
Pavers' bills
. 2,992
68
Material
. 26,730
33
Roller ....
87
00
66,780 QQ
'Total
$174,527 92
Credit on account material .
•
3,151 82
$171,376 10
Street Department.
227
S PEINE LING STB SETS.
South Boston.
Labor .....
Water-carts
Cochitiiate Water-Works
Boston street (by contract) .
Dorchester avenue (by contract)
Dorchester street (by contract)
Svvett street (by contract)
First street (by contract)
East Boston.
Labor .......
Water-carts .....
Cochituate Water- Works
Sumner street ; Orleans street ; Cottage
street ; Maverick street ; Everett street
Saratoga street ; Bennington street ; Mar
ion street ; Paris street ; Havre street
London street; Falcon street; White
street ; Eutaw street ; Monmouth street
Brook street ; Prescott street ; Border
street ; Marion street ; Decatur street
Bremen
tract)
street; Chelsea street (by coo-
Charlestown.
Labor ........
Water-carts ......
Mystic Water-Works
Rutherford avenue and Alfred street (macad-
amized portion ) — by contract .
Lincoln street; Walker street; High street;
Russell street; Middlesex street; Lyncle-
boro street (by contractor)
Main street (Walker to Baldwin) ; Mystic av-
enue ; Dorrance street ; Arlington avenue ;
Cambridge street ; Haverhill street ; Kings-
ton street ; Sever street ; Gardiner street
(by contract) ......
$899 58
3,5()7 75
309 28
443 74
173 34
416 00
277 34
75 00
^6,162 03
$5 06
2,115 00
553 88
3,379 33
^6,053 27
$325 48
2,143 50
485 24
928 67
197 16
801 00
A.mount carried fortoard,
.,881 05
228 City Document No. 36.
Amount brought forward, $4,881 05
Winthrop street; Sullivan street; Russell
street; Pearl street ; Bartlett street ; Jenner
street ; Rutherford avenue (Devens to Chap-
man) ; Rutherford avenue (Devens to
Union) — by contract .... 477 50
Bartlett street ; Monument square ; Elm
street (High to Bunker Hill street) ; Green
street (High to Bunker Hill street) ; Chest-
nut street (Monument square to Chelsea
street) ; Cordis street (Warren street to
High street) ; Sunmier street (Elm street
to Pearl street) — by contract . . . 462 50
Main street (Miller street to City square);
Rutherford avenue (So. Eden to Chapman
street) ; Chapman street (Main street to
Austin street) ; Washington street (Bow
street to Austin street) ; Union street ;
Austin street ; Cordis street (by con-
tract) 410 50
Essex street ; Mill street ; Harvard street ;
Prescott street ; Lawrence street ; Miller
street; Henley street (Harvard square to
Main street) ; Winthrop street (Warren
streets to Common street) ; Lynde street ;
Harvard square ; Devens street ; Bow
street ; Charles River and Warren avenues :
Mason street ; Benedict street ; Soley
street ; Arrow street ; Short street ; '
Washington street ; Stacy street ; Park
street (City square to Warren street) — by
contract 752 68
Brighton.
Labor $311 84
Water-carts .... 10,167 50
Cochituate Water- Works . . 3,416 03
1,984 23
,895 37
West Roxbury.
Labor $434 36
W^ater-carts 7,497 00
Cochituate W^ater-Works . . . . 2,591 69
Amount carried forward, $10,523 05
Street Department.
229
Amount brought forward,
Walk Hill street, Hyde Park avenue (Forest
Hills to \^'alk Hill street) — by contract .
Mount Hope street ; Berry street ; Hyde Park
avenue ; (Walk Hill street to Hyde Park
line) — by contract . . . . .
Mozart street ; Burr street ; Clive street ; Roys
street ; Hoffman street ; Laniartine street ; St.
John street ; Spring park avenue ; Paul Gore
street; Sheridan street; Wyman street;
Day street ; Chestnut avenue ; Wise street ;
Rockview street; Bell street; Oakdale
street; Armstrong street; Ashley street;
Danforth street ; Custer street ; Centre
street (Pond street to the bridge) ; Boylston
street (Centre street to the R.R,.) — by con-
tract .......
Weld avenue ; Cornwall street ; Robeson
street ; Sigourney street ; Glen road ;
Brookside avenue ; Woodside avenue ; For-
est Hills street ; Williams street ; Egleston
street ; Copley street ; Green street (R.R.
to Forest Hills) — by contract .
Washington street (Green street to
Hills depot) ; Forest Hills depot
(by contract) ......
Morton street (Washington street to Forest
Hills Cemetery) — by contract .
Boylston avenue ; Armory street
street ; Boylston street ; Jess street ; Por-
ter street (by contract) ....
Beethoven street ; Atherton street ; Walnut
avenue ; Arcadia street ; Seaver street (by
contract) .......
Prince street ; Perkins street ; Carolina avenue ;
Pond street (Centre street to Brookline
line) ; Centre street (May street to Arbore-
tum) ; Chestnut street, near Perkins street
(by contract) *.....
Forest
square
School
$10,523 05
784 S8
1,021 68
1,549 16
563 34
29 06
574 07
531 90
577 87
963 00
Dorchester.
Labor .
Water-carts
$17,118 01
1674 54
7,162 25
Amount carried forward,
',^36 79
230 City Document No. 36.
Amount bt'ought foi'irard, $7,836 79
Cochituate Water- Works .... 2,756 U9
Bowdoin avenue; Trenilett street; Mather
street; Nixon street; Allston street; Mel-
ville avenue ; Washington street (Bowdoin
to Centre) ; Hooper street ; Wheatland ave-
nue ; Dorchester avenue (Field's Corner to
Mather street) — by contract . . . 1,172 50
Hancock street (Columbia to Eaton square) ;
Eaton square ; Bowdoin street ; Columbia
street (Bridge to Quincy street) ; Wash-
ington street (Grove Hall to Bowdoin
street) — by contract . . . . 2,249 07
Dorchester avenue (Field's Corner to Mount
Vernon street) — by contract . . . 370 50
Pleasant street ; Commercial street (Hancock
street to Dorchester avenue) ; Commercial
street (R.R. to Mill street) ; Park street
(R.R. to Adams street) ; Savin Hill avenue
(R.R. to Pleasant street) ; Dudley street
(Dorchester avenue to Upham's Corner) ;
Stoughton street ; Thornley street ; Han-
cock street (Upham's Corner to Columbia
street) ; Boston street (Upham's Corner
to Mount Vernon street) ; Cottage street ;
Humphreys street ; Sumner street ; Adams
street (Field's Corner to Meeting-House
Hill)— by contract ^1,118 00
$15,503 85
ROXBURY.
Labor . $1,058 73
Water-carts 5,112 80
Cochituate Water- Works .... 1,720 63
Tremont street (Parker street to Brookline
line) ; Huntington avenue (West Chester
Park to Tremont street) ; Longwood avenue
(Brookline avenue to Parker street) — by
contract 1,987 44
Francis street and Brookline avenue (b}' con-
tract) 1,056 90
Crawford street ; Elm Hill avenue ; Maple
street; Waumbeck street (by contract) . 603 80
A.mou7it cat'ried Joj'ivard, $11,540 30
Street Department. 231
Amount brought forward, $11,540 30
Bellevue street ; Wigglesworth street ; Worth-
ington street (by coiitmct) . . . 213 17
Albany street (Northampton street to Eustis
street) ; Warren street (Dudley street to
Blue Hill avenue) ; Dudley street (Eliot
square to Brook avenue) ; Blue Hill avenue
(Dudley to Columbia street) — by contract, 2,007 99
Centre street (Cedar street to Highland street) ;
Cedar street ( Centre street to Washington
street) ; Dudley street (Highland street to
Warren street) ; Dale street ( Walnut avenue
to Warren street); Hammond street; Ball
street ; Highland street (Cedar to Eliot
square) ; Ruggles street (Warwick street to
VVashington street) ; Roxbury street (Eliot
square to Washington street) ; Shawmut ave-
nue (Roxbury street to Ball street) ; Sterling
street; Townsend street (Walnut avenue to
Warren street) ; Vernon street (Cabot street
to Washington street) ; Walnut avenue
( Warren street to Seaver street) ; Warwick
street; Williams street; Circuit street
(Walnut avenue to Regent street) ; Rock-
land street (Walnut avenue to Warren
street) — by contract .... 1,248 33
$15,009 79
City Proper.
Labor .... $1,729 82
Water-carts . . . 6,388 00
Cochituate Water- Works . 1,917 30
Sundries . . . . 661 38
$10,696 50
Swett street (bridge to Albany street) ; East
Chester Park 2,209 99
Charles street (Cambridge street to Leverett
street) ; Allen street (Charles street to Cam-
bridge street) ; Cambridge street (North
Russell street to Harbor) ; Poplar street ;
Lowell street (Brighton street to Causeway) ;
Chambers street (Cambridge street to Green
street) ; Derne street (Blossom street
to Nashua street) ; Somerset street ; Allston
Amount carried forward, $12,906 49
232 City Docu:\ient No. 36.
Amoitnt brought forward, $12,906 49
street ; Green street (Charles street to Bovv-
doin street) ; Bowdoin street (Allston street
to Ashburton place) ; Bulfinch street (How-
ard street to Myrtle street) ; Atlantic ave-
nue (Foster's wharf to Hanover street) ;
Hanover street (Battery street to Eastern
avenue) ; Pa rmenter street ; Hancock street ;
Temple street ; Bowdoin street ; Staniford
street 2,400 29
Rochester street ; Genesee street ; Oneida
street ; Seneca street ; Oswego street ; Troy
street; Waltham street (Washington street
to Union park) ; Maiden street (Albany
street to Washington street) ; Broadway ex-
tension (bridge to Harrison avenue) ;
East Dedham street (Washington street to
Harrison avenue) ; Union park (Washing-
ton street to Harrison avenue) ; Berkeley
street (Chandler street to St. James ave-
nue)— by contract ..... 1,095 84
East Concord street (Harrison avenue to
Albany street) ; West Chester park
(Huntington avenue to Beacon street) ;
Dartmouth street (Boylston street to rail-
road) ; Harrison avenue (Union Park street
to Northampton street) ; Shawmut avenue
(Dedham street to Arnold street) ; Wash-
ington street (Union Park street to Arnold »
street) ; Tremont street (Waltham street to
Hammond street) ; Warren avenue (Dart-
mouth street to Columbus square) ; West
Canton street ; Wellington street ; West Rut-
land scjuare (Columbus avenue to railroad) ;
Yarmouth street ; Harwich street ; Canton
street (Albany street to Appleton street) ;
West Brookline street (Tremont street to
Albany street) ; Pembroke street (Tremont
street to Shawmut avenue) ; Newton street
(James street to All^any street) ; Concord
street (Shawmut avenue to Harrison ave-
nue) ; Worcester street (Shawmut avenue to
Washington street) ; Worcester street (Co-
lumbus avenue to Tremont street) ; West
Springfield street (Harrison avenue to Wash-
.Amount carried forivard, $16,402 62
StKEET DEPAr^TMENT. 233
Amount hr ought forward, $10,402 62
ington street) ; VYest Springfield street (Tre-
niont street to Columbus avenue) ; North-
am})ton street (Albany street to railroad) ;
Sawyer street ; Kendall street; Buckingham
street; Pelham street; Union park (Har-
rison avenue to Albany street) ; Columbus
avenue (by contract) . . . . 6,861 45
Albany street (Dover street to Beach street) ;
Tyler street (by contract) . . . . 273 00
23,537 07
Street Watering.
Recapitulation.
South Boston $6,162 03
East Boston 6,053 27
Charlestown 6,984 23
Brighton 13,895 37
We^t Roxbury 17,118 01
Dorchester ....... 15,503 85
Eoxbury . 15,009 79
City Proper 23,537 07
Total . , . .... $104,263 62
South Boston
East Boston
Charlestown
Brighton
West Roxbury
Dorchester .
Roxbury
City Proper
REMOVAL OF SNOW.-
$9,378 43
5,446 59
6,121 26
4,986 63
7,093 74
6,261 19
10,035 33
• « « • •
53,087 69
$102,410 86
234
City Document No. 36.
EXPENDITURES UNDER SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS.
Total amount expended :
A street, Broadway to First street
Albany street, Hampden to Eustis street
Aldie street .
Allandale street
Ash fie Id street
Ashmont street
Atlantic avenue
Atlantic street
Austin street .
Baker street .
Ballard street
Batterj'mai'ch street
Beacon street. West from Charles street, and
Beacon street, W. Chester park to Ai'lington
street
Bedford street, Chamiey to Columbia street, and
Kingston street, Sumner to Essex street .
Board alley .......
Boylston street, Church to Arlington .
Bristol street .
Brookline street, Shawmut avenue to Tremont
street .......
Bunker Hill street, Elm to Sackville street
Bushnell street ......
Buttonwood street ......
Cabot street .......
Caldwell street . . . . .
Call-street extension
Cambridge street . . . .
Camden street, Tremont street to R-R.
Canton street, Shawmut avenue to Tremont street
Centre street, Pynchon to New Heath street
Chamber street, Charlestown
Charles street
Cleveland place
Cliff street
Columbus avenue ......
Commonwealth avenue. West Chester park
Arlington street
Concord square ......
Cook street
Cornell street
Cornwall street
Dartmouth street, Tremont street to Columbu
avenue
Dorchester street. Eighth sti-eet to Dorchester
avenue
Dorset street .......
Dover street, Harrison avenue to Albany street
Dudley street, Washington street to jSTorfoll
House .
Dudley street, Washington to Hampden street
Dupont street ......
Eagle square
Amount carried forward,
to
$12,102 47
21,273 39
1,247 05
4,729 41
1,000 00
6,079 00
3,590 12
1,543 02
8,840 43
2,866 00
1,136 80
3,336 00
44,903 25
14,503 20
469 60
64 50
49 00
531 10
4,000 00
4,536 51
2,013 SO
17,792 94
1,568 52
3,696 16
23.775 29
9,371 41
1,435 65
4,639 77
634 35
16,578 66
1,086 77
2,484 33
39,034 20
603 90
72 40
700 00
4,300 00
5,405 86
1,056 40
21,682 89
5,000 00
6,715 00
6,258 74
33,177 75
645 21
1,000 00
$347,530 25
Street Department.
235
F sti-eet
street
Amount brought forward.
East First street, H to K street
E street, Third to Bolton street, and
Third street, from E street,westerly
East Concord street
East Newton street
Edgevvorth street
Ellwood street
Emerson street
Emerald street
Exeter street .
Falcon street .
> Ferdinand-street bridge
First street, N.Y. & N.E. R.K. to
Forbes street .
Fom'th street, G to H street .
Fulda street .....
Fulton street, Richmond to Lewis
Genesee street
Geneva avenue
Goldsmith street .
Granite avenue
Green street, Charlestown
Gustin street ....
Hampshire street .
Harrison avenue, Canton to Sharon street
Harrison avenue, E. Concord street to E. Chester
park .
Harrison avenue. East Lenox to Northampton
street .
Harvard street, Washington to Albany
Harvest street
Haskins street
Heath street ....
Henley street
High street ....
Hill street ....
Hobart street
Hollis street ....
Howland street
Hudson street
Humboldt avenue (grading)
Hunneman street .
Island street
Jeffries and Marginal streets
K street. Fourth to Eighth street
Lake street .
L street
Lenox street
Lincoln street, Charlestown
Longwood avenue, Parker street
avenue
Lucas street .
Lynde street
Magazine street
Magnolia street
Amount carried forward.
street
to Huntin
ofton
$347,530 25
1,000 00
8,470 47
5,839 14
3;554 36
437 25
1,251 06
5,000 00
1,701 79
316 50
3,380 40
5,908 77
37,781 16
3,976 33
1,132 35
324 75
7,230 42
3,865 m
6,249 79
1,022 88
13,204 21
460 46
2,297 14
1,694 80
4,000 00
1,500 00
3,000 00
77 78
4,830 74
2,809 79
2,768 33
3,847 52
2,125 13
4,138 07
4,213 37
3,190 59
5,827 78
20,779 02
32,024 88
82 80
25 60
5,516 61
678 34
15,642 91
21,098 97
8,572 10
2,300 00
22,592 12
308 22
1,603 79
925 80
4,222 74
$637,332 94
^ The amount of $5,908.77 was paid oat of the appropriatiou for Ferdinand-street
bridge, for work done on approaches to said bridge.
236
City Document No. 36.
Amojinf broiight forward, $637,332 94
Maldon street and Wareham street . . . 19,528 61
JNIatthews street and Leather square . . . 4,911 85
Mavnard street 2,444 93
INIedford street 21,505 36
Mercer street 1,054 98
Minot street . . . . . . . 8,440 37
Monument court 497 48
Monument street 1,866 87
Moon street 3,758 37
Moreland street 2,040 21
Mount Vernon street 2,693 10
Murdock street 1,006 06
National street 1,500 00
Nejionset avenue 17,161 26
Newman street ....... 1,311 14
Ninth street 6,117 66
Oak street 1,000 00
Ocean street 10,100 00
Oneida street 3,501 11
Oswego street 3,668 67
Park street 2,115 43
Parker street 39,483 48
Parker street, Huntington avenue to Westland
avenue 420 00
Parkman street 597 80
Paul street 844 38
Pemberton square 2,189 77
Preble street 5,800 00
Prentiss street 4,000 00
Prospect avenue . . . . . . . 533 00
Q street 399 85
Resurfacing streets, Wards 17 and 18 . . . 5,777 31
Richmond street . . . . . . . 2,115 73
Rochester street 4,537 24
Rogers street 1,264 88
Rutherford avenue (macadamizing) . . *. 100 00
Rutherford avenue (paving) .... 7,841 50
Rutland square 1 14 10
Salem street 1,000 00
Savin Hill avenue 3,826 68
Scotia, Cambria, and Bothnia streets . . . 10,369 66
Second street (grading, etc.) .... 1,034 36
Second street, K to M 1,422 21
Second street, E to Dorchester street . . . 21,243 99
Second street, easterly from Granite, and ) ^j q.- -,
Third street, A to Second ) * '
Seneca street 3,495 93
Seventh street, D to B . . . . . . 9,244 36
Shirley street 4,042 66
Short street, Charlestown 700 00
Short street, AVest lloxbury .... 96 60
Silver street, A to D 1,090 66
Sixth street, B to C 3.200 00
Sixth street, H to I 1,729 61
Smith-street extension ....... 639 60
Soley street 810 35
Story street 1,946 78
Amount carried forward,
) 12,554 63
Street Department.
237
Amotmt brought forward ,
Stoiighton street .
Sun-Court street .
Sycamcn-e and Ridge streets
Symmes street
Terrace place, East Boston
Terrace street
Texas street .
Tremont street, from Roxbur}' Crossing
Tremont street, Scollay square to Boylston
Troy street ,
Village street
Waltham street
Ward street .
Warren avenue
Warren street
Warrenton street
Washburn street
Washington street, Charlestown .
Washington street, Dorchester
Washington, South and Centi'e streets
Water street, Charlestown
Watson street ....
Waumbeck street ....
Well street
Wendell street ....
West Chester park and square
West Dedham street
West Newton street, Tremont street to Columbus
avenue
West Newton street, Tremont street to Shawmut
avenue
West Second street
Wharf street
Total
Less amount paid out of Appropriation for
Paving
Total
$912,554 63
4,274 24
1,888 32
3,700 00
1,390 50
1,684 61
25,218 34
2,000 00
10 50
53,725 34
8,529 37
2,200 00
1,525 97
797 72
254 40
17,081 75
6,805 68
4,088 81
2,000 00
500 00
21,334 98
540 70
l,4f8 65
5,919 21
2,112 75
2,520 06
3,161 62
4,500 00
12,000 00
6,673 30
135 49
1,861 03
$1,111,987 97
97,663 71
$1,014,324 26
'2S8
City Document No. 36.
DETAILED SCHEDULE OF EXPENDITURES MADE UNDER
SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS, TOGETHER WITH STATE-
MENTS OF THE AMOUNT OF WORK DONE THE COST
OF WHICH EXCEEDED $3,000.
A street, Broadwaj' to First street, repaying.
Labor, including engineering and inspection
Teaming ......
64,806 granite paving-blocks
AViiarfage on paving-blocks
1 1 U feet of edgestone
29,450 paving-brick ....
823 lin. feet of flagging
Sundries
$689 67
153 75
4,743 20
240 80
62 35
338 67
883 05
231 00
Amount paid to Collins & Ham, for leaving, as
per contract :
2,542 sq. yds. block paving laid, at $] .05
1,362 lin. feet edgestone set, at 55 cts.
1,124 sq. 3'ds. brick paving laid, at 91 cts
175 sq. yds. cross-walks laid, at $1.15
6 days' labor stone-cutting, at $4.60 .
Amount jDaid for the construction 2 new catch-basins and
2 new manholes by the Sewer Division
ing'
as
$2,669
10
749
10
1,022
84
201
25
27
60
r,342 49
Amount charged to L street, filling .
Amount I'etained from Collins & Ham
$251 50
25 00
4,669 89
366 59
$12,378 97
276 50
$12,102 47
Amount of special appropriation . . . . . 12,000 00
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $102 47
Albany street, Hampden to Enstis street, paving.
Labor . . . .' . . . . $3,881 70
Teaming . 2,938 50
145,979 granite paving-blocks .... 10,569 64
176 It. of edgestone, 5 corners . . . " . 117 31
1.444.73 ft. flagging 1,516 97
Hill gravel • . . 1,534 40
Beach gravel . . . . . . . 383 40
11,200 paving-brick 134 40
Sand 31 50
$21,107 82
Amount paid for building 1 new catch-basin by the
Sewer Division 165 57
Amount of special apjDi'opriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropi-iation
2,604 ft. of edgestone reset.
5.320 sq. yds. block paving laid.
1.117 sq. yds. brick paving laid.
160 cu. vds. earth-cutting.
$21,273 39
21,107 49
$165 90
Street Department. 239
Aldie street, gravelled.
Ltibor " . . . $201 70
Teaming 190 50
Gravel 854 85
$1,247 05
Amount of special appropriation 1,000 00
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $217 05
AUandale street, grading. """"""
Labor $2,129 80
Teaming 1,851 00
$3,980 80
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
culvert (80 ft. stone pipe culvert) and 159 ft. 18-in. i^ipe, 748 61
$4,729 41
Aslifleld street, grading. "
Labor $691 00
Teaming . . 309 00
$1.000 00
Aslimont street, Dorchester avenue to Washington street,
regulating and macadamizing.
Labor $2,376 22
Teaming . . . . . . . . . . 216 00
Edgestone, 1,810 ft. and 5 corners . . . . . 1,338 80
Gravel . . 543 75
Stone 890 14
2,471 granite paving-blocks 177 54
1,810 ft. edgestone set, 8 cts $144 80
727 sq. yds. block paving laid, 25 cts. . . 181 75
326 55
Roller 210 00
$6,079 00
Amount of special appropi'iation . . . . . 5,400 00
Amount paid from Paving Division appropriation . . $679 00
2,500 sq. 3^ds. 6-in. macadam. '
1,300 sq. yds. gravel sidewalk.
Atlantic avenue, paving.
Labor $685 14
Teaming 759 00
323 ft. of flagging 372 45
Beach gravel ......... 716 11
400.4 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . . $32 03
3,797.6 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . 949 40
245.8 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . . 44 24
1,025 67
1,000 paving- brick 12 50
Beach sand 18 00
Crossing-blocks 1 25
$3,590 12
Amount of special appropriation 3,492 76
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $97 36
240
City Document No. 36.
Atlantic street, regulating and macadamizing.
814 sq. yds. 3-iu. macadam.
Labor ...........
Teaming
Stone
Roller
Gravel
Sand
7,000 paving-brick
076 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . . $54 08
16.3 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . . 4 08
308.4 sq. yds. romid paving laid, at 25 cts, . . 77 10
558.1 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . . 100 46
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
1 new manhole . . . '
Amount of special appropriation
Austin street, paving.
Labor, including engineering and inspection
Teatning .....
22 li feet of edgestone and 2 corners
115i feet of flagging .
11,000 paving-brick .
36,175 granite paving-blocks
400 sq. yds. asphalt, including bed
Sundries .....
Amount paid for paving, as per
Turner & Co. :
1,318 sq. yds. block paving, at $1.30
1,115 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 35 cents
700 sq. yds. block paving, at $1
76 sq. yds. cross-walks laid, at $1.50
7|- days' labor stone-cutting, at $4.60
contract with John
$1,713 40
390 25
700 00
114 00
34 25
Amount of special appropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
Baker street, widening and grading.
Labor
Teaming .
Gravel
Sundries
Amount of special appropri
ation
$557 32
100 50
162 80
70 00
204 62
64 75
84 00
235 72
$1,479 71
63 31
$1,543 02
1.543 02
$605 91
39 00
179 77
96 81
126 50
2,740 89
2,026 05
73 60
2,951 90
^8,840 43
8,700 00
$140 43
$892 20
1,203 00
725 20
45 60
$2,866 00
.
2,500 00
Amount paid out of Paving Division appi'opriation
$366 00
Street Department.
241
Ballard street, grading.
Labor ......
Teamino-
Gravel
Crushed stone
Amount of special a]3proprlation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
Batterymarcli street, paving.
Labor, including engineering and insiDCCtion
Teaming
Gravel ......
114.6 feet of flagging
Sundries ......
$405 60
252 00
456 40
22 80
$1,136 80
1,000 00
$136 80
24,232 granite paving-blocks
281 liu. feet edgestone set, at 8
cents ......
1,003 sq. yds. block paving laid, at
25 cents ......
137.4 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18
cents ......
1,
91
466 50
228 80
131 79
32 04
672 00
12 48
250 75
24 73
297 96
^3,336 00
3.200 00
$136 00
Amount of special aj^propriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appi'opriation
Beacon street, west from Charles street, and between W. Chester
park and Arlington street, asphalting and macadamizing.
9,000 yds. Telford macadam.
Labor, including engineering and inspection
Teaming ....
Hill g-ravel ....
Sand
Beach gravel
Crushed stone
1073^\ feet of edgestone
29,247 paving-brick
10,601 granite paving-blocks
Rolling ....
Sundries ....
Amount paid for paving, as per contract with Barber
Asphalt Paving Co. :
115^ sq. yds. gutters paved on a concrete founda-
tion, at $2.00 $231 00
3,633 sq. yds. paving with Trinidad asphalt
on concrete foundation, at $3.60 . . . 13,078 80
237^ sq. yds. cross-walks laid, at $1.05 . . 249 38
Amount paid for paving to J. Dohei'ty & Co. :
468 lin. feet edgestones set, at 8 cts.
2,023 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts.
5,59.5 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts.
1371 lin. feet edgestone set, at 15 cts.
1,045 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 40 cts.
38,007 lin. feet edgestone set, at 18 cts.
Amounts carried forward, $1,311 46
2,044 61
2,973 00
225 60
210 80
107 21
7,187 24
601 11
442 29
909 62
336 53
476 78
$37 44
50
58
100
71
20
60
418
00
684
13
13,559 18
),073 97
242 City Document No. 36.
Amounts brought foricard, $1,31146 $39,073 97
1,655.8 sq. yds. block jjaving laid, at 35 cts. . 579 54
5,280.3 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 28 cts. . 1,478 48
306 sq. yds. patch paving, at 35 cts. . . . 107 10
6961 sq. yds. block paving laid (tar joints), at
$1.37 817 55
lOJ.J sq. yds. block paving laid (grave joint) , at
65 cts 67 92
4,362 05
Amount j^aid for leaving to E. McLaughlin :
120.3 lin. leet edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . $9 62
51.2 sq. yds. I'ound paving laid, at 25 cts. . . 12 80
105.5 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . 18 99
Amount paid for leaving to H. Gore & Co. :
663.5 lin. feet edgestone set, at 15 cts. . . $99 53
295 sq. yds. brick leaving laid, at 43 cts. . . 126 85
Teaming 96 00
Sand 32 00
Gravel 36 00
15 days' labor stone-cutting . . . . 67 50
Sundries 37 25
41 41
495 13
$43,972 56
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Re-
IDairing 7 catch-basins and 2 manholes ..... 930 69
$44,903 25
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . 4,727 87
$40,175 38
Amount of special appropriation 41,350 00
Balance unexpended $1,174 62
Bedford Stl'eet, Chauncy to Columbia street, and Kingston
street, Summer street to Essex street, paving.
Labor, including insjjection and engineering . . . $1,011 92
63,322 granite paving-blocks ....... 4,742 39
AVharfage on paving-blocks 214 19
9,056 paving-brick 114 21
674.7 It. flagging 804 64
333.7 ft. of edgestone 187 36
Sundries 65 94
Amount paid for paving, as per contract with H. Gore
& Co. :
2,1861 sq. yds. block paving laid, at $2.66 . $5,816 53
629 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 30 cts. ... 188 70
462i sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 91 cts. . . 420 88
134 i sq. yds. cross-walks laid, at $2,34 . . 314 73
Exti'a work, as ordered 231 21
6,972 05
$14,112 70
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building 3
new catch-basins ........ 390 50
Amount carried forward, $14,503 20
Street Department. 243
$14,503
4,100
20
00
$10,403 20
7,715 00
$2,688 20
$135
42
17
95
00
04
Amount brouglit forivard.
Amount of special appropriation for Bedford street
Amount of special appropriation for Kingston street
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation ,
Board alley, paving.
Labor .
Teaming
Beach gravel ........
Amount paid for paving by H. Gore & Co. :
20.7 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . . $3 73
2.3 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 8 cts. ... 18
i)8.4 sq. 3^ds. brick jDaving on edge, grouted
with cement, at $2.75 270 60
274 51
$469 50
Boylston street, Church street to Arlington street, paving.
Labor $64 50
Bristol street.
Labor $49 00
Brookline street, Washington to Tremont, resurfacing.
Labor $153 60
Teaming 195 00
Stone 107 50
Roller 75 00
$531 10
Bunker Hill street, Elm street to Sackville street, paving.
Labor $826 94
Teaming 268 50
Hill gravel 87 89
Beach gravel 64 61
35,513 granite paving-blocks . . . , . . 2,71731
2,500 paving-brick 28 75
Sundries 6 00'
193.3 ft. of edgestone I'eset.
1,271 sq. yds. block paving.
130.3 sq. yds. brick paving.
$4,000 00
Bushnell street, regulating and macadamizing.
1,550 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
900 sq. yds. gravel sidewalk.
Labor $601 88
Teaming . 1.53 00
(iravel 332 25
Sand 32 40
Amount carried forward, $1,119 53
244
City Document No. 36.
Amount brought forward.
Stone
2;i,643 granite paving-blocks
Edgestone — 1,494 ft. and carting
6 large and 2 small corners
Roller
1,839 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 8 cts
642 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts.
191 sq. yds. brick paving laitl, at 18 cts.
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division
4 new catch-basins and repairing 4 manholes
$147 12
160 60
34 38
Buildino-
n.no 53
626 89
656 08
1,202 94
41 10
63 00
342 00
484 97
$4,536 51
2,917 00
$1,619 51
Amount of special appropriation ....
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
ButtoilWOOd street, Mt. Vernon street to Locust street, grading.
Labor $268 50
Filling 1,992 cu. yds., at 65 cts 1,294 80
Grade damages 450 00
Ciibot street, paving.
Labor, including engineering and inspection
Teaming ........
178.3 ft. of edgestone and 5 corners .
529.8 ft. of flagging ... . . .
60,000 paving- brick
Sundries , .
Amount paid to H. Gore & Co. for paving :
74 lin. ft. of edgestone set, at 8 cts.
23 cu. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts.
37.6 cu. yds. block paving laid, at $1.05 .
Amount paid for asphalting, as jter conti'act with
Barber Asphalt Co. :
3,567 sq. yds. asphalt paving, at $3.60
2,385 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 40 cts.
1,724 sq. yds. brick paving, at 85 cts.
227 yds. cross-walks laid, at $1.05
36 days' labor stone-cutting
>,013 30
$472 01
18 00
139 43
573 19
580 00
31 70
61 15
$12,841 20
954 00
1,465 40
238 35
176 94
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
1 new catch-basin and repairing 10 catch-basins
Amount of special appropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
Caldwell street, macadamiziug.
]./abor .........
Teamins:
15,675 89
$17,641 37
251 67
$17,792 94
16,000 00
$1,792 94
$196 60
232 60
Amount carried forward,
$429 10
Street Department.
245
Amount brought forward,
Crushed stone .....
Gravel ......
618.6 feet of edgestone atid two coi'ners
643.25 liii. feet edgestone set, at 8 cts.
Cainlbridge street, Wards 9 and 19, paving
935 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
Labor
Teaming
Beach gravel
Beach sand
Hill sand
8-1:5^ feet of edgestone
45,140 paving-brick
240 feet flagging .
115,730 granite paving-blocks
Wharfage on paving-blocks
2,744 sq. yds. paving removed
Sundries ....
Amount paid to H. Gore & Co
2,900.8 lin. feet of edgestone set, at 8 cts
4,216.5 sq. yds. block paving laid (tar joints)
at 97 cts. ......
2,299 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. .
$429 10
424 09
223 65
440 22
61 46
1,568 52
and regulating.
for
paving ;
$232 06
4,083 22
413 82
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : 22 catch-
basins repaired . .......
Call-street extension, grading.
1,250 sq. yds. 6-in macadam.
Labor .....
Filling .....
Crushed stone ....
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
56,948 feet 15 and 18 in. sewer . . . .
Balance from Street Commissioners .
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
Camden street, Tremout street to O.C. R.R., macadamizing.
3,000 sq. yds. Telford macadam. :
Labor ..........
Teaming .........
Crushed stone
Hill gravel . . . . . . . . .
Beach ofravel ........
^3,443 27
2,379 00
1,039 50
70 20
57 00
481 67
551 90
263 20
8,514 51
300 00
1,344 56
80 36
4,729 10
$23,254 27
521 02
$23,775 29
$1,468 99
675 25
503 21
$2,647 45
1,048 71
$3,696 16
3,096 45
71
$2,167
53
1,063
50
2,717
22
896
00
51
83
Amount carried forward.
$6,896 08
24 G City Document No. 36.
Amotmt brought forward, $6,896 08
111.8 feet of flagging 117 39
l,3o5 feet of edgestone (new) 934 .50
16 corners 60 00
Steam-roller 300 00
Sundries 22 60
Amount paid to J. Doherty & Co. for paving :
1,568 lin. feet of edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . $125 44
701 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . . 175 25
83.4 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . . 15 01
848.8 lin. feet of edgestone set, at IS cts. . . 152 78
605.1 sq. yds. block'paving laid, at 35 cts. . 211 79
680 27
$9,010 74
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
2 new catch-basins 360 67
$9,371 41
Amount of special apiDropriation , . . . . 7,500 00
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $1,871 41
Canton street, Shawmut avenue toTremont street, macadamizing.
1,090 sq. yds. 6-in macadam.
Labor . . . . $875 00
Stone 435 65
Steam-roller 125 00
$1,435 65
Amount of special appropriation 1,000 00
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $435 65
Centre street, Pynchon to New Heath street, macadamizing.
2,040 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam. *
Labor $359 54
Teaming 217 50
Gravel 730 80
Sand 136 00
Crushed stone • . . . 809 19
2,000 granite paving-blocks 94 00
27,950 paving-brick 335 40
1,190 feet of edgestone . 868 70
5 corners .......... 28 75
117.8 feet of flagging 123 69
Amount paid for paving to A. A. Libby & Co. :
1,187.8 lin. feet of edgestone set, at 20 cts. . $237 56
917.5 sq. yds. of block paving laid, at 50 cts. . 458 75
660.6 sq. yds. of brick paving laid, at 35 cts. . 231 39
927 70
$4,631 27
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Repairing
2 manholes 8 50
$4,6;i9 77
Amount of special approj^riation 3000 00
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $1,639 77
Street Department.
247
Chambers street, Cliarlestown, resurfacing.
700 sq. yds. 3-in. macadam.
Labor ...........
Teaming
Gravel
Sand
Cruslied stone .........
4,5U0 paving-brick ........
Amount paid for paving to P. Brennan & Co. :
390.1 lin. feet of edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . $31 21
143.4 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25
cts 35 85
163.7 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . 29 46
;182 03
120 00
40 00
13 09
130 90
51 75
96 52
Charles street, paving
Labor .
Teaming
Beach gravel
Beach sand .
Hill sand
71 feet of edgeslone
125 feet of flagging
35,000 paving- brick
Wharfage .
Sund ries
Amount paid for paving to Payson & Co. :
1,354 lin. feet of edgestone set, at 15 cts. .
1,946 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 28 cts. .
3,640 sq. yds. block paving laid (tar joints)
at $1.12
83 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts.
Labor, trimming stone ....
Amount paid for paving to James Grant & Co,
3,080 sq. yds. block paving laid (tar joints), at
$1.12
1,370 lin. feet edgestone set, at 16 cts.
2,472 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 28 cts.
59.6 lin. feet edgestone set, at 8 cts. .
678 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. .
33 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts.
Labor, trimming stone ....
$203 10
544 88
4,076 80
21 25
62 00
?3,449 60
205 50
692 16
4 77
160 50
5 94
69 00
$634 35
12,611 52
2,455 .50
651 84
91 20
137 75
39 76
143 75
420 00
■ 200 00
24 58
4,908 03
4,-596 47
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
2 new catch-basins and repairing 1 catch-basin
$16,280 40
298 26
5,578 66
248 City Document No. 36.
Cleyeland place, asphalting.
Labor $110 25
Teaming 54 00
Amount paid for paving to H. Gore & Co. :
11.7 lin. feet of edgestone set, at 18 cts. . . $2 11
4.6 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 35 ets. . . 1 61
314.8 sq. 3^ds. asplialt briclv paving laid, at $2.25 775 80
779 52
$943 77
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
28.12 ft. 12-in. pipe sewer 143 00
$1,086 77
Amount of special appropriation 1,000 00
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . 86 77
Cliff street, resurfacing.
1,500 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam. :
Labor $938 00
Teaming 229 50
Koller 140 00
Gravel 277 20
Sand 38 40
Crushed stone 574 26
215 feet edgestone 150 50
Amount paid for paving to A. A. Libby & Co.
231.8 lin. feet of edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . $46 36
114.9 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 50 cts. . 57 45
93.3 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 35 cts. . .32 66
136 47
$2,484 33
Amount of special appropriation 2,169 72
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . *. $314 61
Columbus avenue, resurfacing.
Labor $3,088 63
Teaming 592 50
Gravel ' . . . 71 00
50,121 granite paving-blocks 3,697 46
28.5 feet of flagging 34 20
Sundries 91 05
Amount paid for asphalting, as per contract with Barber
Asplialt Paving Co. :
10,468 sq. yds. surface relaid, at $2.25 . $23,553 00
1,088^ sq. yds. concrete surface relaid, at $3.75, 4,081 25
475.7 cu. yds. concrete base relaid, at $8.50 . 4,038 71
$31,672 96
Deduct 30 loads old asphalt, at $2.00 . . 60 00
31,612 96
$39,187 80
Amovint paid for work done by Sewer Division : Repairing
8 catch-basins 33 17
Amount carried forward, $39,220 97
Street Department.
241)
Amount brought forward.
Amount of special appropriation
Amount paid out of appropriation for resurfacing streets
Amount paid out of Paving Division a]3i3ropriation
^39,220 97
39,000 00
$220 97
J86 77
$34 20
Commonwealth avenue, West Chester park to Arlington street,
resurfacing.
500 sc]. yds. 6-in. macadam.
Labor
Teaming .........
Eoller
Stone
Concord square, resurfacing.
Labor ......
TeaminD- . . .
Cook street, macadamizing, 600 sq. yds. 3-m. macadam
Labor ,
Teaming
Roller .
Gravel
Crushed stone
Cornell street, grading and gravelling.
Labor ........
Teaming .......
Gravel .......
Sundries
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
41 feet stone culvert .......
Cornwall street, grading and gravelling and erecting bridge
across Stony Brook.
Labor ..........
Teaming
Gravel .........
Filling
Grade damag^es
Amount paid for work done by Bridge Division
$156 00
140
80
106
00
201
10
$603 90
$52
90
19
50
$72
40
$276
55
192
00
42
00
54
96
134
49
$700 00
$2,046
18
876
00
783
30
87
71
$3,793 19
506
81
$4,300 00
g brid
ge
$232 10
147
00
250
60
628
00
2,600
00
$3,857
70
1,548
16
$5,405 86
250
City Document No. 36.
Dartmouth street, Tremoiit street to Columbus avenue, macad-
amizing.
1,000 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
Labor $383 60
Teaming 184 50
Stone 488 30
Amount of si^ecial appropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division approijriation
Dorchester street, Eighth street to Dorchester
Labor, including inspection and engineering
14.5.8 ft. edgestone and 4 corners
492 ft. flagging .
6,000 paving-bricks .
118,394 granite paving-blocks
"Wharfage on paving-blocks
Sundries ....
Amount paid for paving, as per co
Ham :
4,75"2 sq. yds. block paving laid, at $1.35
3,157 lin. feet edgestone set, at 24 cts.
2,639 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 83 cts.
207 sq. yds. cross-walks laid, at $1.35
Extra work, as ordered
$1,056 40
568 10
$488 30
avenue,
paving.
;1,461 94
102 62
522 75
547 50
8,619 71
481 65
75 26
Qtract with Collins &
6,415 20
757 68
2,190 37
279 45
294 63
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
5 new catch-basins . . . ...
9,937 33
^21,748 76
837 50
$22,586 26
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropri-
ation $68 98.
Amount charged to Washburn street, filling . 374 25
Amount charged to Preble street, filling . . 32 25
475 48
$22,110 78
Amount of special appropriation 22,000 00
$110 78
Amount retained from Collins & Ham, $196.87; of this
amount $110.78 will be paid from Paving Division.
Dorset street, Dorchester avenue to Boston, regulating and mac-
adamizing.
2,100 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
Labor $1,769 35
'J'eaming 420 00
Stone 820 80
Roller 112 00
Gravel 112 67
Sand 30 63
Edgestone, 1,618 feet 1,127 07
Sundries 37 00
Amou7it carried forivarcL $1,429 52
Street Department.
251
$4,429 52
315 90
181 68
72 90
570 48
$5,000 00
•
5,000 00
Amount brought forward,
1,620 ft. edgestone set, at 19 cts.
559 sq. yds. gutters paved, at 32 cts.
405 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts.
Amount for special appropriation
Dover street, Harrison avenue to Albany street, regulating and
paving.
1,017 lin. ft. edgestone reset.
1,816 sq. yds. block stone paving.
828 sq. yds. brick sidewalk relaid.
Labor .......
Teaming ......
56,175 granite paving-blocks
Gravel ......
Sundries
Work done by Sewer Division : Repairing 2 catch- basins
Amount of siDccial appropriation
$2,003 01
538 50
3,972 09
125 59
50 05
25 76
$6,715 00
6,715 00
Dudley street, Washington street to Norfolk House, regulating
and macadamizing.
2,700 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
Labor $1,105 50
Teaming 867 00
Crushed stone 1,175 26
Gravel 981 40
Sand . 72 00
Paving-brick, 18,000 212 00
Edgestone, 302 ft 180 78
Sundiies .......... 31 50
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Repair-
ing 9 manholes ........ 45 41
Amount paid to Payson & Co., for paving :
2,140.2 lin. ft. edgestones set, at 18 cts. . . $385 24
1,185.6 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 35 cts. . 414 96
1,512.9 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 28 cts. . 423 61
25.7 sq. yds. concrete paving laid, at 75 cts. . 19 27
58 sq. j'ds. brick paving laid, at 46 cts. . 26 68
781.7 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . 62 54
620 sq. yds. bldck paving laid, at 2o cts. . 155 00
439.7 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . 79 14
59.6 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 36 cts. . 21 45
Amount of special appropriation ....
Amount paid out of Paving Department ajapropriation
1,587 89
^6,258 74
5,000 00
.258 74
252
City Document No. 36.
Dudley street, Washingtou to Vine street, etc., paving.
l^abor, inchuling inspection and engineering
1,815.8 ft. of flagging .
260,019 granite paving-blocks
329.2 ft. of edgestone and 2 corners
65,633 paving-bricks . .
Sand
Gravel
Sundries .....
Amount paid for paving, as per contract with James
Grant & Co. :
9,106 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 95 cts.
5,600 lin. ft. of edgestone set, at 28 cts.
4,124 sq. yds. brick paving, at 79 cts.
542 sq. yds. ci'oss-walks laid, at $1.42
Extra work, as ordered
8,650 70
1,568 00
3,257 96
769 64
635 98
$2,059 94
1,921 70
13,662 06
191 84
776 00
5 00
15 00
121 10
Amount paid for work done by Sevver Division : Repairing
10 catcii-basins and buildino; 1 new catch-basin
14,882 28
^33,634 98
264 38
Amount of special appropriation
$721.61 of this amount retained from Grant & Co.
Dupont street, edgestone.
230 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
Labor . . . .
Teaming . . . . . . . . .
Gravel
Stone . .
232^^2 ft. of edgestone and 4 corners . . . , •
Amount paid to P. Brennan & Co. for paving:
266 ft. of edgestone set, at 8 cts. . , ." $21 28
137.3 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . 34 33
Amount of special appropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
Eagle square, cross-walks, etc.
Labor
Teaming
Gravel
Sand
4,062 granite paving-blocks ....
253 5 ft. of flao;ging
Amount jmid to Roger Devlin for i)aving :
110.2 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. .
g3S,899 36.
33,899 36
$113 00
142 50
54 23
102 60
177 27
55 61
$645 21
524
00
$121
21
$284
55
99
00
199
75
12
00
93
43
291
43
19
84
$1,000 00
Street Department. 253
E street, Third to Bolton street, etc., asphalling.
Labor, including engineering and inspection . . . $238 GO
Teaming J8 00
Sundries 10 00
Amount paid for asphalting, as per contract with New
England Paving Co. :
1,020.4 sq. yds. asphalt laid, at $2.75
45G.4 sq. yds. brick leaving laid, at 45 cts.
172.5 sq. yds. cross-walks laid, at 60 cts. .
630.1 lin. ft. of edgestone set, at 18 cts.
Extra work, as ordered ....
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
1 new catch-basin and repairing 1 manhole . . . 182 43
205 38
103 50
113 42
74 46
3,302 86
$3, .569 46
Amount charged for filling to L street . . $120 00
Amount retained from New England Paving' Co. 161 42
5,751
281 42
$3,470 47
Amount of special appropriation 3,000 00
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $170 47
East. First street, H to K, edgestones aiKl glitters.
600 ft. edgestone $360 00
200 sq. yds. gutter paving, at 25 cts 50 00
600 ft. edgestone setting, at 8 cts 48 00
Labor 240 00
Teaming 170 00
Gravel 132 Oo
$1,000 00
Amount of special appi'opriation 1,000 00
East Concord street, Harrison avenue to Albany, regulating
and macadamizing.
1,890 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
Labor $1,383 64
Teaming 1,047 75
Stone 742 95
Roller 140 00
Flagging 147 00
Gravel 444 37
Sand 178 20
Edgestone, 644 ft 360 78
Amount paid for work done by Sew^er Division : Repairing
2 catch-basins and 2 manholes 55 31
Amount paid for paving to Daniel Sullivan :
2,097.1 lin. ft. edgestones set, at 8 cts. . . $167 76
3.208.1 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . 802 02
1.286.2 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . 227 91
1,415 sq. yds. digging, at 10 cts. . . . 14150
1,339 14
Amount carried forivard, $5,839 14
254 City Docibient No. 36.
Amonnt bi^ought foricard, $5,839 14
Amount of sjjecial appropriation 4,500 00
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $1,339 14
East Newtou street, Harrison avenue to Albany, regulating and
macadamizing.
2,200 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
Labor . ^ $1,306 91
Teamino; 144 00
(travel 216 10
Stone 898 70
Roller 140 00
Edgestone, 691 ft 386 96
Sundries _ • 164 50
Amount paid for worli done by Sewer Division : Repairing
2 manlioles ......... 9 79
Amount paid to Roger Devlin for paving :
1,068.7 lin. ft. edgestones set, at 8 cts. . . $85 50
451.6 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . 112 89
494.5 sq. yds. brick pavino; laid, at 18 cts. . . 89 01
~ 287 40
$3,554 36
Amount of special appropi'iation 3,554 36
Edgeworth street, repaying.
Labor $137 35
Teaming ...:...... 141 00
Gravel 70 00
Crushed stone 88 90
$437 25
Amount of special appropriation 400 00
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $37 25
EUwOOd street, regulating and macadamizing.
186 sq yds., 6-in. macadam.
Labor $607 67
Teaming 173 98
Roller 50 00
Stone . . . . 74 40
Gravel 76 67
Edgestone, 375 ft 262 34
Sundries • • 6 00
$1.251 06
Emerald street, paving.
Laljor $374 60
Teaming 181 50
Gravel ^1 69
Sand 11 70
Sundries 135 36
Amount carried forioard^ $794 85
Street Department.
255
Amount brought forward.
Amount jmid to J. Dohertj^ & Co. for paving:
405.6 lin. ft. edgestones set, at 8 cts.
374.6 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 28 cts.
100 lin. ft. edgestones set, at IS cts. .
760 sq. yds. block paving laid (tar joints), at 97
cts. ........
144 sq. yds. digging, at 10 cts
$32
45
104 89
18
00
737
20
14
40
$794 85
906 94
$1,701 79
Amount of special appropriation 1,574 98
Amount paid out of Paving Division appro J) riation , . $126 81
Emerson street, H to I, paving.
Labor . $429 60
Teaming 782 34
32,720 granite paving-blocks 2,386 92
Wharfage on paving-blocks ...... 45 00
5,800 paving-bricks 66 70
Gravel 331 80
Sand . . . 31 50
Sundries 3 72
Amount i^aid for excavating to M. Donnellan . . . 412 70
Amount paid to H. Gore & Co. for paAdng:
791.3 lin. ft. edgestones set, at 8 cts. . . $63 30
1,176.6 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . i94 12
497.3 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . 89 51
446 93
$4,937 21
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
1 new manhole 62 79
$5,000 00
Exeter street, repairing.
Teaming , . $140 00
Labor 176 50
Falcon street, grading and gravelling.
Labor .......
Teaming
Gravel
^316 50
1,693 90
727 50
959 00
5,380 40
First street, N. Y. & N. E. R.R. to F street, paving.
Labor, including engineering and insijection
Teaminof ......
1,5993^2 it- edgestone and 22 corners
1,465.4 ft. flagging
50,247 paving-bricks .
235,047 granite paving-blocks
Amount carried forward.
$1,553 74
106 50
1,076 58
1,538 67
615 63
17,085 42
$21,976 54
250
City Document No. 36.
Amount brought forward, $21,976 54
"Wharfage on 2:)aviiig-blocks ...... 621 88
Sundries .......... 71 Ql
Amount paid for paving as per contract with Collins &
Ham :
9,400 sq. yds. block paving laid, at $1.18 . $11,092 00
4,434 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 55 cts. . . 2,438 70
1,897 sq. yds. bricls paving laid, at 91 cts. . 1,726 27
337 sq. yds. cross-walks laid, at $1.15 . . 387 55
Extra work, as ordered. 491 72
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
6 new catch-basins ........
Amount charged to L street, filling
Amount of special appropriation
Amount retained from Collins & Ham to be
paid out of the appropriation for First street, $806 81
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropria-
tion 1,291 23
Forbes street, grading and macadamizing,
3,500 sq. yds. 4-in. macadam.
2,000 sq. yds. gravel sidewalk.
Labor ...
Teaming ..........
Stone
Gravel
Roller
Sundries
Paid from special appropriation . * . . .
Amount paid from Paving Division appropriation
Fourth street, G street to H street, resurfacing.
Labor
Teaming .
Gravel
Rolling
Sundries
Work done by Sewer Division : Building 1 neW manhole .
Amount of special appropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
16,136 24
$38,811 73
652 49
$39,464 22
876 25
$38,587 97
36,489 93
$2,098 04
$2,098 04
$595
37
694
50
794
20
1,607
55
140
00
144
71
^3,976
33
2,020
75
,955 58
$440 70
432 00
75 05
78 00
1 80
n,027 55
104 80
n,132 35
1,104 35
$28 00
Street Department.
257
Fulda street, repairs.
Teaming . . .
Labor ...........
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
2 new catcli-basins
$9 00
7 69
$16 69
308 06
B32-t 75
Nay
Fulton street, Richmond street to Lewis street, paving.
Labor, including engineering and inspection
47,677 granite paving-blocks
15,500 paving-brick
28^*2 ^t. of edgestone .
45^85 It. of flagging
Sundries ....
Amount paid for paving, as per contract with B. F.
& Co. :
1,829 sq. yds. block paving laid, at $1.03 . . $1,883 87
955 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 21 cts. .
621 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 63 cts.
141 sq. yds. cross-walks laid, at 55 cts.
Extra work, as ordered
Amount paid for woi'k done by Sewer Division
new catch-basins .....
200
55
391
23
7
98
.846
15
Buildin
g2
Genesee street, paving.
Labor, including inspection and engineering
Teaming .-
7,000 paving-brick
36 ft. of edgestone ........
350 granite paving-blocks . . . . . .
Amount paid for paving, as per contract with H. Gore &
Co.:
1,091 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at $2.75 . . $3,000 25
1,005 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 15 cts. . . 150 75
479 sq. yds. brick paving iaid, at 43 cts. . . 205 97
28 sq. yds. cross-walks laid, at 55 cts. . . 15 40
Amount of special appropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
Geneva avenue, grading.
Labor .........
Rubble and filling . . .
Gravel
Sundries
Amount carried forward,
$400 09
3,483 88
178 25
16 10
48 20
29 89
2,829
78
$6,986 19
244 23
$7,230
42
356 40
3 00
87 50
20 84
25 55
^3,372 37
$3,865
66
3,500
00
$365 66
$923 55
1,160
10
420
00
5
00
$2,508 65
258
City Document No. 36.
Amoimt b r ought fo nva rd ,
Amount paid to A. A. Hall, for excavating:
680 en. yds. earth excavated, at 60 cts.
92 cu. yds. rock excavated, at $1.00 .
$108 00
92 00
Amount paid to Wm. T, Davis, for excavating:
334 cu. yds. earth cutting, at 40 cts. . . . $133 60
189 cu. yds. borrowed filling at 85 cts. . . 160 65
12 cu. yds. bowlders blasted, at $2.50 . . 30 00
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
517.5 ft. 4 ft. 6 in.X3 ft. 6 in. circular sewer .
Goldsmith street, grading and gravelling.
Labor .
Teaming
Gravel
Sundries . . . . .
Amount of special ajjpropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
$2,508 65
500 00
324
25
$3,332
2,916
90
89
$6,249
79
$335
1.50
494
42
80
00
20
88
$1,022 88
1,000 00
$22 88
Granite arenue, macadamizing.
6,500 sq. yds. 15-in. Telford macadam.
1 ,800 sq. yds. gravel sidewalk.
Labor .....
Teaming ....
Roller .....
Stone .....
Gravel ....
93 sq. yds. block paving, at 25 cts.
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
6 new catch-basins and 44 feet 12-in. pipe sewer
Amount of special appropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
Green street, Charlestown, macadamizing.
400 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
Labor .........
Teaming .
Gravel ........
Roller
Crushed stone .......
$3,602 39
1,443 00
287 00
6,600 49
452 25
23 25
B12,408 38
795 83
$13,204 21
J 0,000 00
$3,204 21
$103 05
100
60
52
50
24
00
180
41
$460 46
Street Department. 259
Glistin street, sewer and macadamizing.
280 sq. yds. Telford macadam.
Labor $394 22
Teaming 336 00
Gravel 29 20
Filling 86 6o
Stone 240 68
640 feet edgestone and 13 coi'ners 458 74
950 granite paving-blocks , 69 35
Amount paid for paving to H. Gore & Co. :
646.5 lin. It. edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . . $51 72
218.7 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . 54 68
106 40
L,721 24
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
347.13 ft. 12-in. pipe sewer 575 90
$2,297 14
Amount of special appropriation 1,700 00
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $597 14
Hampshire street, regulating.
Labor . $208 67
Teaming 414 00
Sand 354 20
Crushed stone 22 88
Gravel 49 60
38 feet of edgestone and 6 corners 49 10
Amount paid for paving to Jas. Dohertj' & Co. :
1,451 6 lin. ft. of edgestone set, at 18 cts. . . $261 29
683.3 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 35 cts. . 239 16
342.5 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 28 cts. . 95 90
596 35
$1,694 80
Amount of siiecial appropriation 1,000 00
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $694 80
Harrison avenue, Canton street to Sharon street.
Labor $2,232 65
Teaming 121 50
Gravel .......... 312 00
Sand 39 10
512.6 feet of flagging 516 75
Amount paid for paving to H. Gore & Co. :
910.1 lin. ft. of edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . $72 81
1,750.9 sq. yds. block paving, at 25 cts. . . 437 72
910.4 sq. yds. brick paving, at 18 cts. . . 163 87
674 40
$3,926 40
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Repairing
8 catch- basins 73 60
$4,000 00
2(30
City Document No. 36.
Harrisou ayeuiie, E. Coucord to E. Chester park.
Labor .
Teaming
Beach gravel
Hill gravel .
Sand .
81.5 ft. flagging
596.8 sq. yds. of block paving
$1,019 53
97 50
29 82
40 00
18 70
85 57
208 88
$1,500 00
Harrison avenue, E. Lenox street to Northampton street.
Labor $1,464 11
Teaming 265 50
Gravel - 305 60
Sand 10 20
38 ft. circular edgestone 42 90
81.5 ft. flagging 85 58
Amount paid to J. McCarthy for excavating :
469 sq. yds. old paving carted away, at 23i cts., $110 22
317 cu. yds. earth and gravel excavated, at
69i cts 220 32
Amount paid for paving to Payson & Co. :
944.3 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . . $75 54
1,367.9 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . 341 97
249.9 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . . 44 98
Amount paid for work done by ScAver Division : Repairing
2 manholes . . . . . .
330 54
462 49
$2,966 92
33 08
.$3,000 00
Haryartl street, Washington to Albany street, sewer' and paving.
Paving . ......... $77 78
Harvest street, Boston street to Dorchester avenue, regulating
and macadamizing.
200 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam, 900 sq. yds. gravel sidewalk.
Labor $971 75
Teaming 537 00
Sand 7 20
Stone 742 26
1,915 feet edgestone and 18 corners 1,457 98
7,365 granite paving-blocks . . . . . . 204 38
Sundries 88 48
Amount paid lor paving to J. Grant & Co. :
2,122 feet of edgestone set, at 15 cts. . . $318 30
679 so. yds. block paving laid, at 40 cts. . . 27160
•^ 589 90
$4,598 95
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
2 new catch-basins . . 231 79
Amount carried forward, $4,830 74
Street Depaktment.
261
Amount brought forward.
Amount of special appropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
$4,830 74
4,000 00
$830 74
Haskins street, edgestones and macadamizing.
900 sq. yds. 4-in. macadam, 700 sq. yds. gravel sidewalk.
Labor ...........
Teaming ..........
Gravel ..........
Crushed stone
1,211 feet edgestone and 4 corners . . . . .
Amount paid for paving to Payson & Co. :
1,189.3 lin feet edgestone set, at 27 cts. . $321 11
416.9 sq. yds. block paving laid, at Qb cts. . 270 98
2.3 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 28 cts. . . 64
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Repairing
2 catch-basins and 4 manholes .....
Heath street, widening, etc
Labor .....
Teaming ....
Gravel ....
Sand .....
3,700 paving-brick
16 corners ....
Sundries ....
Amount paid for paving to J. Doherty &
592.5 sq. j-ds. brick paving, at 18 cts.
412. 3 sq. yds. block paving, at 25 cts.
1,419.8 lin. feet edgestone set, at 8 cts
Co.
$106 65
103 08
113 b%
Henley street, paving.
Labor
Teaming . . . . . . . . . .
Gravel ..........
29,650 granite paving-blocks ......
7,500 paving-brick ........
56 =[^2 ^^"^t edgestone
Amount paid for paving to J. Tui"ner & Co. :
668 lin. feet of edgestone set, at 15 cts. . . $100 20
1,351.7 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 48 cts. . 648 82
347.1 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 43 cts. . 149 25
74
231 00
]90 40
257 57
802 15
592
$2,763
59
46
20
$2,809
79
$1,065 80
879
50
710
60
158
40
44
40
60
00
26
32
323 31
$2,768 33
$184 00
39 00
287 98
2.312 70
86 25
39 32
898 27
^3,847 52
262 City Document No. 36.
High street, Winthrop street to Walker street, resurfacing.
1,900 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
Labor $.o58 90
Teaming , . . . 435 00
Gravel 350 00
Stone , . . . 781 23
$2,125 13
Hill street, construction.
Labor $800 40
Teaming Ill 00
Hill gravel 30 00
Beach gravel 56 80
Stone 306 17
489.1 feet edgestone and 2 corners . . . . . 349 57
Sundries . , 6 50
Amount paid to Donovan & Brock, as per contract :
Building retaining-wall $1,475 00
Extra work, as ordered 22 44
1,497 44
Amount paid for paving to P. Brennan & Co. :
489.4 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . . $39 15
178.8 sq. yds. block paving, at 25 cts. . . 44 70
83 85
$3,241 73
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : 239 ft.
12-in. pipe sewer built 896 34
$4.138 07
Hobart Stl'eet, grading and gravelling roadway and sidewalks,
building culvert and fencing.
950 feet fence.
4,120 sq. yds. gravel roadway.
2,060 sq. yds. gravel sidewalk.
Labor $1,180 94
Teaming . . . . . . . . . . 415 50
Gravel 2,017 48
Edgestone, 25i feet ' . . . 15 30
Constructing culvert 475 81
Sundries 78 34
$4,213 37
Paid by special aiDpropriation 2,000 00
Paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . . $2,213 37
Hollis street, asphalting and repaviug.
Labor $1,611 88
Teaming 67 50
85 feet flagging 97 75
1,419 granite paving-blocks ...... 103 57
Gravel 29 11
Sundries 14 00
477.7 sq. yds. asphalt 955 40
Amount carried foriv(ird, $2. ■'^79 21
Street Department.
Amotmt brought forward.
Amount paid for paving to Payson & Co. :
270 lin. ft. of edgestone set, at 8 cts.
268.2 sq. yds. block paving laid (tar joints), at
97 cts
164.6 sq. yds. brick pav^ing laid, at 18 cts.
$21 60
260 15
29 63
Amount of special appropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
Howland street, resurfacing and regulating.
4,000 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
Labor ...........
Teaming ..........
Gravel .
Sand
Stone .
4,000 paving-brick
159 feet flagging
62 feet circular edgestone .......
Sundries ..........
Amount paid for paving to A. A. Libby & Co. :
971 lin. feet edgestone set. at 15 cts. . . . $145 65
587 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 35 cts. . . 187 95
942 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 28 cts. . . 263 76
438 lin. feet edgestone set, at 20 cts. . . . 87-60
tl43 sq. yds. block paving, at 50 cts. . . . 71 50
3,043 sq. yds. brick paving, at 35 cts. . . . 106 51
Amount paid for work done by the Sewer Division : Build-
ino- 3 new catch-basins .......
Amount of special ap^jropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
263
$2,879 21
311 .38
$3,190 59
3,087 02
$103 57
SI, 176 40
417 00
596 40
257 60
1,736 47
50 00
166 95
81 38
18 00
862 97
$5,363 17
464-61
$5,827 78
4,000 00
$1,827 78
Hudson street, asphalting and regulating.
Labor, including inspection and engineering . . . $1,029 00
Teaming 60 00
liaising sidewalk ........ 150 00
Mason-work , . . 406 00
Gravel 26 98
620.7 ft. edgestone and 2 corners 454 57
3,859 granite paving-blocks 281 70
47,600 paving-brick 571 20
Sundries .......... 31 47
Amount paid for asphalting, as per contract with Bar-
ber Asphalt Paving Co. :
3,961 sq yds. asphalt laid, at $3.50 . . $13,863 50
3,300.5 lin. feet edgestone set. at 42 cts. . . 1,386 21
2,533 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 90 cts. . . 2,279 70
Amounts carriedforward, $17,529 41 $3,010 92
2(U
City Document No. 36.
Amounts brotight forward,
187.6 sq. yds. cross-walks laid, at $1.05
Extra work, as ordered
$17,529 41
196 98
629 12
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Repairing
13 catch-basins and 7 manholes
Amount of special appropriation . . • .
Amount j)aid out of Paving Division appropriation
$886.32 retained from Barber Asphalt Paving Co. under the
terms of the contract.
Humboldt avenue, grading, regulating, and macadamizing
15,000 sq. yds. 15-in. Telford macadam.
Labor .
5,010 92
18,355 51
$21,366 43
298 91
$21,665 34
21,000 00
$665 M
Teaming
Gravel
Sand .
Crushed stone
Steam-roller
1,630 leet of edgestone and 4 corners
3,300 paving-brick (face)
Sundries .....
Amount paid for paving to A. A. Libby & Co
1,034.8 lin. feet edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . $82 78
365.2 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . . 91 38
1,807.5 lin. feet edgestone set, at 20 cts. . . 361 50
742 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 50 cts. . . 371 00
211 sq. 3'ds. brick paving laid, at 35 cts. . . 73 89
59.5 feet fence curbing, at $2.00 . . . . 119 00
Amount of special appropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
Hunneman street, grading and constructing.
Labor
$7,338 00
2.760 00
2,737
00
57
60
15,790
18
84 00
1,690 45
56
10
412
00
Island street.
Labor .
1,099
55
$32,024
16,025
88
27
$15,999
61
$82 80
$25
60
Jeffries aud Marginal streets, regulating and macadamizing
2.200 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam
Labor .
Teamins:
Gravel .
Sand .
Crushed stone
1,580 ft. edgestone and 18 corner
Amount carried forward.
$1,260 30
613 50
1,056 14
16 00
899 36
1,181 60
$5,026 90
Street Department. 265
Amount brotcght forward, $5,026 90
Amount paid for paving to Roger Devlin :
1,956.4 lin. ft. of edgestone set, at 8 cts. . , $156 51
1,090.7 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . 272 67
134.1 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . . 24 13
453 31
$5,480 21
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Repairing
2 catch-basins and 1 manhole 36 40
$5,516 61
Amount of special appropriation 6,000 00
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $516 61
K street, Fourth street to Eighth street, resurfacing.
Labor ........... $465 00
Teaming 177 00
Gravel 36 34
$678 34
Kingston street, Summer street to Essex street, paving (see
Bedford and Kingston streets).
Lake street, grading and macadamizing, building culvert, fences,
plank-walks and cross-walks aud retainiug-wall.
1,300 lin. ft. plank- walk.
1,400 ft. fence.
450 ft. board fence.
130 perches retaining-wall.
5,600 sq. yds. Telford macadam road.
1,500 sq. yds. gravel sidewalk.
Labor $4,349 18
Teaming 1,936 82
Gravel . 1,644 40
Stone . 4,423 86
Flagging, 402 ft., at 80 cts 322 00
Sundries 261 11
Constructing culverts by Sewer Division ; 4 new catch-
basins and 83.85 ft. stone culvert (double) . . . 2,705 54
$15,642 91
Paid by special appropriation 12,000 00
Amount paid out of Paving Division ajopropriation . . $3,642 91
L street, grading, constructing, and filling bulkhead.
Labor $2,204 89
Teaming 130 00
Stone ballast 5,296 15
Pilling 3,307 20
Sundries 144 03
Amount paid for building bulkhead, as per contract with
F. G. Whiteorab 7,210 00
Amount paid for abutment for bridge .... 2,806 70
$21,098 97
2G6
City Document No. 36.
Lenox street, paving and regulating
Labor
Teaming ....
Gravel
Sand
462.4 ft. flagging
7,600 paving-brick
37,087 granite paving-blocks
Amonnt paid to J. McCarthy & Co.
1,878 sq. yds stone paving carted, at 37 cts
660 en. yds. earth excavated, at 59 cts
for excavatino-:
. $'704 %
. 389 40
771 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 8 cts.
4,348.6 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts.
471.7 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. .
$61 68
1,087 15
84 91
Amount of special appropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
$892 72
628 50
1,249 60
42 50
554 88
94 99
2,781 52
1,093 65
1,233 74
^8,572 10
5,474 41
13,097 69
Lincoln street, Charlestown, regulating and macadamizing.
900 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
Labor ....
Teaming
Sand ....
Gravel
Crushed stone
1,000 paving-brick
Amount i^aid for paving to J. Turner & (
1.127.7 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 8 cts. .
394.4 sq. yds. block ^^aving laid, at 25 cts.
737.1 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts.
$90 22
98 60
132 67
27 25
390 00
69 19
211 31
360 76
120 00
321 49
$2,300 00
LongWOOd avenue, Parker street to Huntington avenue,
Labcn-, including inspection and engineering
I'eaming ....
200,777 granite paving-blocks
62,755 paving-bi'ick
39.1 feet edo:estone
819.2 fee
Sundries
Amount i:>aid for paving, as per contract with J. Doherty
&Co. :
5,313 sq. yds. block paving laid, at $1.22 . . $6,481 86
2.796 lin. feet edgestone set, at 15 cts. . . 419 40
1,774 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 66 cts. . 1,170 84
206 sq. yds. cross-walks laid, at 27 cts. . . 55 62
Extra work, as ordered 29 90
paving.
3,149 34
294 00
9,637 29
730 14
28 95
871 24
117 33
8,157 62
Aniounl carried forward.
^22,985 91
Strket Department. 267
Amount brought forward, $22,985 91
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Repairing
1 catcli-basin . . . . . . . . . 14 09
$23,000 00
Amount of special appropriation $2;:5,000 00
$407 88 of this amount retained from J. Doherty & Co.
Lucas street, paving with asphalt blocks.
Teaming $72 00
76.2 sq. yds. asphalt block paving laid, at $3.10 . . 236 22
22
Lynde street, macadamizing.
Labor . $653 20
Teaming 240 00
Gravel 127 50
Crushed stone 583 09
$1,603 79
Magazine street, grading.
Labor $117 30
Stone screenings 808 50
Magnolia street, regulating.
Labor $642 46
Teaming 742 50
Gravel 732 20
Crushed stone 81 34
Sand 41 60
1,565.7 feet edgestone 1,103 47
Amount paid for paving to A. A. Libby & Co. :
721 7 lin. feet edgestone set, at 20 cts. . . $144 34
289 4 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 50 cts. . 144 70
426.8 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 35 cts. . 149 38
438 42
Amount paid for paving to J. Doherty & Co. :
1.585 lin. feet edgestone set, at 15 cts. . . $237 75
580 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 35 cts. . . 203 00
440 75
$4,222 74
Amount of special appropriation 4,000 00
Amount paid out of Paving Division ajipropriation . . $222 74
Maiden street, and junction of Wareham street, and Wareham
street, Harrison avenue to Albany street, paving and regu-
lating.
Labor $4,254 98
Teaming . 1,551 00
A)iiount carried forward, $5,805 98
268 City Document No. 36.
Amount brought forward, $5,805 98
Gravel . . ". 1,368 58
95,6^0 granite uaving-blocks 7,083 63
43.8 feet edgestone 24 74
142 feet flagging 150 03
Sundries io »/
Amount paid for excavating to J. J. Sullivan :
4,469 sq. j'ds. round stone removed, at 55 cts. . §2,457 95
300 sq. yds. round stone removed, at 35 cts. . 105 00
2,562 95
Amoun paid for paving to J. Turner & Co. :
2,617 lin. feet edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . $209 36
4,517.1 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . 1,129 27
740.5 sq. yds. block paving laid (tar joints),
at97cts 718 29
732.3 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . 131 81
2,188 73
$19,201 51
Amount paid for Avork done by Sewer Division : Building
2 new catch-basins and repairing 2 others . . . 327 10
$19,528 61
Amount of appropriation for ]\Ialden street . $6,000 00
Amount of appropriation for Wareham street . 13,024 62
19,024 62
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $.503 99
Matthews street, including Leather square, paving.
Labor • . . . . $1,271 90
Teaming „ 279 00
41,072 o-ranite paving-blocks 3,009 35
Gravel 316 18
8 feet edgestone » 4 80
2,450 paving-brick . 30 62
$4,911 85
Amount of special appropiiation 4,560 25
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $351 60
Maynard street, grading.
Labor $832 90
Teaming 1,059 00
Gravel ■ . • 407 40
36.6 feet edgestone 47 65
Sundries . . . 9 H
$2,356 06
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
65 feet 15-in. pipe culvert 88 87
$2,444 93
Amount of special appropriation 2,000 00
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $144 93
Street Department. 269
Medfortl street, Lexington street to Chelsea street, paving and
regulating.
Labor $3,050 05
Teaming 1,162 50
Hill gravel 519 86
Beach gravel 941 46
145,582 granite paving-blocks 11,355 40
150 feet flagging 172 60
31,500 paving-brick 376 25
87^*2 feet edgestone 65 88
Sundries 127 26
Amount paid for paving to P. Brennan & Co. :
2.013.5 lin. feet edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . $161 08
3.910.6 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . 975 15
1,429 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . 257 22
1,393 45
Amount paid for paving to J. Turner & Co. :
2,260.2 lin. feet edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . $212 82
5,043.2 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . 1,260 80
2,405.2 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . 432 94
1,906 56
$21 ,071 17
Amount paid for woi'k done by Sewer Division : Building
2 new catch- basins and repairing 6 others . . . 434 19
$21,505 36
Mercer street, Dorchester street to Eighth street, resurfacing and
regulating.
Labor $434 70
Teaming 348 00
Gravel 78 21
800 paving-brick 9 60
61 feet flagging 64 05
Sundries . . 10 17
$944 73
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
1 new catch-basin . 110 25
Minot street, grading, edgestones, and gutters.
Labor ..........
Teaming .........
4,081.3 feet edgestone, and carting ....
Gravel
Sundries
64,774 granite paving-blocks
Amount paid for paving to C. J. Coates :
3,829 lin. feet edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . $306 32
1,277 sq. yds. block jDaving laid, at 25 cts. . 319 25
625 57
$8,116 53
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
3 new catch-basins and repairing 1 manhole . . . 323 84
$8,440 37
$1,054
98
$2,102
80
391
50
2,995
36
740
25
1
25
1,259
80
$161 62
87
00
140
02
30
61
42
00
7
48
28
75
$497 48
$303 30
195
50
803
72
70
00
232
50
$1,605 02
261
85
$1,866 87
270 City Document No. 36.
Monument court, regulatiug and macadamizing.
350 sq. yds. 6-in. iiiaeadam.
Labor ..........
Teaming .........
Crushed stone "
Gravel .........
Roller
Sand
2,500 paving-brick
Monument street, regulating and macadamizing.
Labor ..........
Teaming
Crushed stone
Roller
Gravel .........
Amovint paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
2 new catch-basins and repairing 1 manhole .
Moon street, paving.
Labor $666 27
Teaming 114 00
Gravel 239 03
34.3 ft. edgestone ........ . 19 18
41,780 granite paving-blocks 1,963 64
1,000 paving- brick . . . . ■ . . . . 11 50
331 sq. yds. Barber asphalt, at $2.25 744 75
$3,758 37
Amount of special appropriation .,..». 3,519 34
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $239 03
Moreland street, Fairland street to Blue Hill avenue, resurfacing.
1,800 sq. yds. 3-in. macadam.
Labor $845 50
Teaming 363 00
Gravel 278 60
Crushed stone . 363 12
180.4 ft. flagging 189 39
$2,040 21
Amount of special appropriation . . . . . 2,000 00
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $40 21
Mount Ternon street. Ward 25, grading and regulating.
1,200 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
800 sq. yds. gravel sidewalk.
Labor $1,371 60
Teaming 250 50
Gravel 436 46
Amount carried forward, $2,058 56
Street DeparTxMext.
271
Amount brought forward,
Sand
Stone
Amount of special appropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
^2,058 56
1 96
632 58
B2,693 10
2,125 UO
$568 10
Murdock street, grading and gravelling.
Labor
$221 50
Teaming .........
45 00
Gi"avel
412 83
Sand
49 00
Sundries .........
29 23
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
2 new catch-basins ........
National street, macadamizing, gutters, etc.
750 sq. yds. 3-in. macadam.
Labor
Teaming . . . . . . . . . .
Stone ...........
Gravel
Sand
Roller
10,000 paving-brick ........
Sundries
Amount jDaid for paving to H. Gore & Co. :
1,120.6 lin. feet edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . $89 65
466.4 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . 116 61
607.7 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . . 91 39
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
1 new manhole ........
5757 56
248 50
,006 06
H70 26
168 00
152 80
106 40
66 51
60 00
115 00
1 74
297 Qa
$1,438 36
61 64
$1,.500 00
Neponset avenue, Tileston place to Minot street, regulating and
macadamizing.
9,600 sq. yds. 8-in. macadam.
4,500 sq. yds. gravel sidewalk.
Labor
Teaming
Gravel
Crushed stone
2,955 ft. edgestone
412 ft. flagging .
3,130 paving-brick
Building retaining-wall
Sundries
Amount carried forward,
$4,773
57
1,675
50
1,614
00
4,790
03
2,349
03
432
60
71
99
659
75
75
93
$16,442 40
272 City Document No. 36.
Amonnl brought forward, $16,442 40
Amount paid fov paving to C. J. Coates :
8.257 lin. ft. edgestoue set, at 8 cts. . . $260 56
1,801 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . 458 30
$718 86
$17,161 26
Amount of special appropriation 12,000 00
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $5,161 26
Newman street, Mercer street to Dorchester street, resurfacing.
1,700 sq. yds. o-in. macadam.
Labor $634 00
Roller 70 00
Teaming 232 60
Hill gi-avel 36 34
Beach gravel • • • • 21 30
Crushed stone 340 00
Sundries 7 00
$1,341 14
Amount of special appropriation 1,198 26
Amount paid out of Paving Division approj)riation . . $142 88
Mlltll street, Old Harbor street to N street, regulating and
grading.
Labor $2,140 25
Teaming 1,449 00
Hill gravel . . . ' . . . . ■ . . 439 24
Beach gravel 40 47
Sand . . . 49 00
1,608 ft. edgestone and 17 corners 979 42
4,000 paving-brick 48 00
Amount paid for paving to H. Gore & Co. :
94.5 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 18 cts. . . . $17 01*
40.6 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 35 cts. . 14 21
68.8 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 28 cts. . 19 26
Amount paid for paving to P. AV. Hernan :
2,600.3 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . $208 02
1,095.1 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . 273 77
473.7 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . 85 27
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
3 new catch-basins and repairing 1 catch-basin and 1 man-
hole
Oak street, grading and gravelling.
Labor
Teaming
Gravel ......
Sundries
50 48
567 06
^5,762 92
354 74
$6,117 66
$315 50
240 00
363 84
80 66
$1,000 00
Street Department.
273
Ocean street, regulating and macadamizing.
3,000 sq. yils. 'i'elford macadam.
1,800 sq. yds. o-ravel sidewalk.
Labor $2,069 .59
Teaming 282 00
Gravel 391 50
Stone 2,680 00
Roller . • 210 00
34,864 granite paving-blocks 967 47
Edgestone, 2,448 ft 1,438 12
Sundries 31 25
Amount paid for woi'k done by Sewer Division : Building
2 new cateli-basins ....... 218 26
Amount paid for paving to C. J. Coates :
988 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 72 cts. . . $654 49
2,704 It. edgestone set, at 33 cts. . . . 892 32
630 cu. yds. earth, excavated, at 50 cts. . . 265 00
1,811 81
$10,100 00
Oneida street, paving and regulating.
Labor $1,035 04
Teaming 207 00
Gravel 235 91
113.1 lin. feet edgestone 67 86
21,070 paving-brick 263 37
300 paving-blocks . 12 90
Amount paid for paving to H. Gore & Co. :
1,020 lin. feet edgestone set, at 15 cts. . . $153 00
1,070 sq. yds. block-paving laid (tar joints), at
$1.22 1,305 40
29 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 55 cts. . . 15 96
476 sq. yds. brick pavino^ laid, at 43 cts. . . 204 68
Amount of special appropriation .....
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation .
O.^wegO street, paving and regulating with brick.
Labor ..........
Teaming . . . . . . . . . .
172 feet edgestone
Sundries ..........
Amount paid for paving to H. Gore «& Co. :
1,021.8 lin. feet edgestone set, at 16 cts. . . $153 27
22.1 sq. yds. cross-walks laid, at 55 cts. . . 12 16
1,025.7 sq. yds. brick paving laid on edge, at
$2.40 2,461 68
618.8 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 43 cts. . . 223 08
$3,501
11
3,300 00
$201
11
$1,117
53
6
00
96
32
26
16
2,850 19
Amount of special appropriation
Amount retained from H. Gore & Co. under the terms of
the contract .........
$4,096 20
3,668 67
$427 53
274
City Docibient No. 36.
Park street, macadainiziug.
9oO sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
Ltiboi- $1,371 7-t
Teaming 9G 00
Roller 112 UO
Stone 443 12
Sundries 11 35
Amount paid for paving to Wm. McEleney :
89.8 lin. feet edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . . $7 18
233.7 sq. yds. blocli paving laid, at 25 cts. . 68 43
86.7 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . . 16 61
81 22
Parker street, paving, edgestones, aud macadamizing.
4,200 sq. yds. 12-in. macadam.
Labor ......
T. Davis
Teaming .....
Gravel . . . . .
Roller
Sand
Stone
186,453 granite paving-blocks
2,000 paving-brick
«b3.4 feet flagging
3,442 feet edgestone and 24 corners
Sundries .....
Amount paid for excavating to Wm.
780 cu. yds. earth excavated, at 85 cts,
Amount paid for excavating to E. A. Janse :
2,060 cu. yds. eai'th excavated, at 72 cts. .
458 sq. yds. paving removed, at 25 cts.
Amount paid for paving to A. A. Libby & Co
4,046 lin. feet edgestone set, at 8 cts.
654 lin. feet edgestone set, at 18 cts.
208.5 lin. feet edgestone set, at 20 cts.
6,634.5 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts.
395.7 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 35 cts.
64.9 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 50 cts. '
122.6 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts.
609 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 28 cts. .
226 sq. yds. brick 23aving laid, at 35 cts. •
20 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 50 cts.
1,483 20
114 60
$323-68
117 72
41 70
1,658 63
138 50
32 45
22 07
159 72
79 10
10 00
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
18 new catcli-basins and 170 feet retainino;-wall .
Amount of special apjiropriation ....
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
^2,115 43
$3,718 70
2,619 00
4,386 20
210 00
176 00
3,405 82
13,999 73
24 00
928 63
2,284 19
66 51
663 00
1,597 70
2,583 57
$36,663 05
2,820 43
$39,483 48
35,000 00
1,483 48
Parker street, Huntington avenue to Westland avenue.
Building iron fence . $120 00
Street Department.
275
Parkman street, Ward 9, paving.
Labor
1'eaming , . . . . .
Stone .......
Amount of special appropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appx'opriation
$210 03
144 00
243 77
$597 80
453 80
$144 00
Paul street, paving.
Labor . . . .
Teaming ..........
Amount paid for paving to E. McLaughlin :
249.3 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 15 cts. ....
Amount jmid for paving to H. Gore & Co. :
249.3 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 18 cts. . . $44 87
216.6 sq. yds. brick paving, laid on edge, at
$2.75 '. . .
95.8 sq. yds. brick paving laid ....
Pemberton square, macadamizing and regulating
850 sq. yds. 12-in. macadam.
Labor ........
Gravel
363 granite paving-blocks ....
Stone ........
100 ft. iiagging
Rolling
Sundries .......
Amount paid for paving to Wm. McEleney :
218 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . . $17 44
561 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . . 140 25
57 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . . 10 26
Amount of special appropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
$119 27
6 00
37 40
595 65
41 19
681 71
$844 38
ting.
$696 22
28 40
256 70
680 00
120 00
229 50
12 00
167 95
^2,189 77
1,584 57
$605 20
Preble street, Dorchester avenue to Vinton street, macadamizing,
sewers, etc.
Labor $699 53
Teaming
Hill gravel .
Stone .
Beach gravel
Holier .
Sand .
Filling
1,183 ft. edgestone and 13 corners
372
00
230 68
600
00
9
94
72
00
14 00
32
25
859
41
Amount carried fonvard,
81
276
City Document No. 36.
Amount of special appropriatian , ► . , .
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
Q street, flagging crossing.
Labor ...........
Gravel
180 feet flagging
Resurfacing street*;. Wards 17 aud 18.
l^abor
Teaming ,...,.....
Crushed stone .........
Amount paid for paving done on W.Newton street, to Metro-
])()litaii Consti"uction Company .....
Amount paid f<jr asphalting on Columbus avenue, to Barber
Asphalt Paving Company ......
Amormt brought fonrard.
$2,8S9 81
Amount paid for paving to Roger Devlin :
1,244 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 18 cts.
$223 92
97.7 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 8 cts. .
7 82
407.9 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 35 cts.
142 76
65.3 sq. vds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. ,
16 32
197.4 sq. yds. brick leaving laid, at 28 cts.
55 27
63.8 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. .
9 68
455 77
$3,345 58
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division
: Building
5 new eatch-basins and 840.36 ft. 10-in. sewei
•-pipe
2,454 42
Amount of special appropriation
.
$5,800 00
Prentiss street, paving.
Labor ........
$328 84
Teaming
366 00
Gravel .......
445 2)
62 feet flagging
65 10
80,702 granite paving-blocks
2,252 74
Amount paid for excavating to E. A. Janse :
812 sq. yds. gutters removed, at 15 cts.
$46 80
279 cu. yds. material excavated, at 60 cts.
167 40
. .
214 20
Amount paid for paving to J. Doherty & Co. :
713 lin. feet edgestone set, at 8 cts. .
$57 04
1,020 sq. vds. block paving laid, at 25 cts.
255 00
116 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. .
, 20 88
332 92
$4,000 00
Prospect avenne, grading and gravelling.
Labor ........
, ,
$283 20
Teaming
. . •
72 00
Gravel
.
177 80
$583 00
600 00
$33 00
$191
18
189
89
96
00
$399 85
$751
304
317
19
50
21
4,217
64
186
77
$5,777
31
Street Department. 277
Bichmond street, paving.
Labor $437 76
Teaming 498 00
Gravel 85 41
Sand 45 00
79 feet flagging . 94 aO
8,550 granite paving-bloelvS 619 52
Amount paid for paving to J. Grant & Co. :
400 lin. feet edgestone set, at 8 ets. . . . $32 00
1,038 sq. 3-ds. block paving laid, at 25 ets. . 259 50
243 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 ets. . . 43 74
■^ 335 24
Amount of special appropriation.
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation .
Rochester street, paving.
Labor
22^ ft. edgestone
38 ft. flagging ..*.......
Sundries ..........
Amount paid for paving to J. McCarthy :
436 sq. yds. block paving excavated, at 23-^ ets., $102 46
3(i3 cu. yds. earth excavated, at 95^ ets. . . 289 37
3 days' teaming 18 00
^2,115 73
1,400 00
$715
73
$526 30
12 64
39 90
13 75
409 83
Amount paid for paving to Metropolitan Construction Co. :
996.1 lin. feet edgestone set, at 15 ets. . . $149 42
20.2 sq. yds. cross-walks laid, at 55 ets. . . 1111
462.9 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 43 ets. . 199 05
1,095.4 sq. yds. asphalt block paving laid, at
$2.85 3,121 89
Extra work done, as ordered .... 50 60
3,532 07
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Repairing
2 catch-basins
l:,537 24
Amount of special appropriation 4,360 64
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $176 60
Rogers street, Dorchester street to Preble street, asphalting.
Gravel $14 22
900 paving brick 10 80
Sundries 8 67
Amount jjaid for paving to Payson & Co. :
650 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 15 ets. ... $97 50
112.2 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 35 ets. . 39 26
175.8 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 28 ets. . 49 22
185 98
Amount carried forward, $219 67
278 City Document No. 3(3.
Amount brought f on vard, $219 67
Amount paid for asphalting to Barber Asphalt Paving Co. :
464.3 sq. yds. asphalt laid, at $2.25 . . . $l,04i 68
2.1 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . . 53
1,045 21
$1,264 88
Amount of special appropriation 1,000 00
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $264 88
Rutherford avenue, macadamizing.
Labor $100 00
Rutherford avenue, paving.
Labor . $906 20
Teaming 294 00
Gravel 600 27
110.5 feet edgestone ........ 77 35
67,423 granite paving-blocks 4,478 99
Amount paid for excavating to S. & R. J. Lombard :
121 sq. yds. gutters removed, at 19 cts. . . $22 99
350 eu. yds. earth excavated, at 98 cts. . . 343 00
365 99
Amount paid for paving to P. Brennan & Co. :
461 1 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . . $36 89
1,243.2 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . 310 80
347 69
Amount paid for paving to J. Turner & Co. :
295 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . . $23 60
627.3 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . 156 83
180 43
$7,250 92
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division: BuiMing
3 new catch-basins and repairing 1 catch-basin . . 590 58
$7,841 50
Rutland square, repairs.
Labor $73 60
Teaming 40 50
$114 10
Salem street, Charlestowa, regulating and macadamizing.
730 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
Labor $388 34
Teaming 184 50
Gravel 51 12
Roller 60 00
Crushed stone 298 79
1,500 paving-brick 17 25
Amount of special appropriation $1,000 00
Street Department. 279
Sayin Hill ayenue, paving.
Labor $593 47
Teaming 289 60
Gravel 526 50
Sand 25 20
38,155 granite paving-blocks 1,980 34
2,500 paving-brick 30 00
Sundries 3 20
Amount paid for paving to C. J. Coates :
697 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . . $55 76
1,041 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . 260 25
347 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . . 62 46
378 47
$3,826 68
Amount of special appropriation ..... 3,500 00
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropiiation . . $326 68
Scotia, Cambria, and Bothnia streets, macadamizing.
3,000 sq. yds. 12-in. macadam.
Labor $3,903 88
Teaming 874 60
Gravel 254 40
Sand 146 20
Stone 2,400 00
Roller 210 00
1,271 ft. edgestone . . 740 72
16,500 paving-brick 272 25
Sundries 31 23
Amount paid for paving to J. Doherty & Co. :
1.967.4 lin ft. edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . $157 40
508 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 18 cts. ... 91 44
1.069.5 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . 267 39
175.6 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 35 cts. . 61 46
717.3 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . 129 12
684 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 28 cts. . . 191 52
898 33
$9,731 51
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building 3
new catch-basins, repairing 2 manholes, and building 85
ft. 12-in. sewer
Amount of special appropriation ....
$10,369 66
10,000 00
Amount paid out of Paving Division apj)ropriation .
Second street, grading, etc.
1,000 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
Labor .......'...
Teaming
Gravel
Roller
Crushed stone
$369 66
$399 65
130 50
33 21
60 00
411 00
$1,034 36
280
City Document No. 86.
Second street, K to M, macadamizing.
1,000 sq. yds. 3-in. macadam.
Labor ...........
Teaming
Rollev
Gravel
Crushed stone .
41U ft- edgestone
Amount paid for paving to H. Gore & Co. :
498.3 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 8 ets. . . . $39 86
168.3 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . 42 08
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division: Building
1 new catch-basin
Second street, E street to Dorchester street, repaying
Labor .....
784.8 ft. flagging
62,039 paving-brick
125,025 granite jjaving-bloeks
Wharfage on paving-blocks
Sundries ....
Amount paid for paving as per contract with J. Dohei'ty
&Co.:
5,022 sq. yds. block pavinglaid, at $1.25 . . $6,277 50
2,651 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 23 cts. . . 609 73
2,128 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 78 cts. . 1,659 84
172 sq. yds. cross-walks laid, at $1.00 . . 172 00
Extra work, as ordered 850 20
$310 90
124 50
60 00
187 73
234 25
287 94
81 94
»1,287 26
134 95
;l,422 21
$952 20
824 04
775 49
9,083 78
317 24
66 91
9,069
27
$21,088 93
249 50
$20,839 43
404 56
$21,243 99
20,000 00
$1,243
99
Amount charged to L street for filling
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
2 new catch-basins
Amount of special appropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
Second street, easterly from Granite street, repaying, and Third
street, A street to Second street, repaying.
Labor .....
78,791 granite paving-blocks
Wharfage on paving-blocks
38,104 paving-brick
516 feet flagging .
134 feet edgestone and 12 corners
Sundries .....
Amount carried forward.
$867
53
7,6.54
59
390
00
476
31
541
88
127
74
40
60
$10,098 65
Street Department.
28L
Amount brought fonvard,
Amount jjaid for isaving, as per contract with Collins &
Ham :
3,899 sq. yds. block paving laid, at $1.17 . . $4,561 83
$10,098 Qb
1,906 lin. feet edgestone set, at 33 cts.
1,518 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 91 cts.
122 sq. yds. cross-walks laid, at $1.35
Extra work, as ordered
628 98
1,381 38
164 70
245 20
Amount retained from Collins & Ham
Amount of sj^ecial appropriation for Second street
Amount of special appropriation for Third street
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
6,982 09
$17,080 74
25 00
$17,055 74
15,000 00
$2,055 74
2,000 00
$55 74
Seneca street, paving (brick) .
Labor i^514 79
Teaming 37 50
21 feet of edgestone 11 81
29.4 feet flagging 30 87
9,800 paving-brick 122 50
Sundries 57 95
Amount paid for paving, as per contract with H. Gore &
Co.:
816.4 sq. yds. keramite paving laid, at $2.75 . $2,245 10
1,008.5 lin. feet edgestone set, at 15 cts. . . 151 28
19.2 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 55 cts. . . 10 56
14.6 sq. yds. round paving laid, at 55 cts. . . 8 03
459 9 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 43 cts. . 197 75
Extra woi'k, as ordered 29 32
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Repairing
2 catch-basins and buildino; 1 manhole ....
Amount of special appropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
2,642 04
^3,417 46
78 47
53,495 93
3,241 33
$254 60
Seventh street, D street towards B street, paving.
Labor ..........
Teaming .........
Hill gravel .........
Beach gravel ........
Sand ..........
50,563 granite paving-blocks . . . . .
Wharfage on paving-blocks .....
9,000 paving-brick
Amount carried forward.
$921
45
858
00
184
03
838
51
119
01
3,663
97
119
50
109
00
6,813 47
282
City Docuivient No. 3i3.
Amount brought forward.
Amount jjaid for excavating to M. Donnellan :
967.3 sq. yds. block paving removed, at 15i
cts. .........
841 cu. yds. earth removed, at 94i cts.
Amount paid for paving to H. Gore & Co. :
1,724.2 lin. feet edgestone set, at 8 cts.
2,541.8 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts.
439.4 sq. yds. block paving laid (tar joints), at
97 cts
1,592.2 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts.
Amount of special appropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
Shirley street, grading.
Labor ........
Crushed stone
Filling . . . .
Sundries
Amount paid for excavating to W. T. Davis :
2,615 cu. yds., and labor excavating earth and delivering
on Shirley street .
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division: Building
40 ft. stone culvert
5,813 47
$149 94
794 75
944 69
$137 94
635 45
426 22
286 59
1,486 20
.
$9,244 36
9,000 00
n .
$244 36
. •
$113 78
601 60
1,127 00
41 98
Short street, Charlestown.
400 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam. :
Labor
Teaming
Crushed stone
Roller
Gravel
1,810 95
$3,695
21
347
45
$4,042 66
$270 86
159 00
162 14
48 00
60 00
Short street, West Roxbury, grading.
Labor
Silver street, A to D street, macadamizing
Labor .
Teamino;
Gravel .
4,300 paving-brick
Sundries
Amount paid for paving, to D. Sullivan :
1,352.6 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 8 cts.
442 7 sq yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. .
514.3 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. .
$108 21
110 67
92 57
$700 00
$96 60
"~
$331
20
279
00
109
34
51
60
8
07
311 45
$1,090 66
Street DeparTxMent.
283
Sixth street, B and C street,
paving.
Labor
$442 46
Teaming ....
337 50
Gravel .....
341 51
Sand
50 75
45 ft edgestone .
28 70
4,500 paving-brick
51 75
18,000 granite paving-blocks
1,313 10
Wharfage on paving-blocks
35 00
Amount paid for excavating to M. Donnellan :
233.4 cu. yds. stone removed, at 19^ cts. .
$45 51
229
5'i
275 03
Amount paid for paving to H. Gore & Co. :
547.7 lin. ft. edgestones set, at 8 cts. .
$43 82
815 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts.
203
It
425.7 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. .
76
6£
324 20
$3,200 00
Sixth street, H to I street, macadamizing.
1,000 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
Labor
$643 04
Teaming
358 50
Roller
70 00
Gravel
146 10
167 ft. edgestone and 2 corners ....
102 47
Crushed stone .......
400 00
Sundries
9 50
$1,729 61
Amount of special appropriation
1,621 54
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
$108 07
Smith street, extension and grading.
Labor . .
,
$357 60
Teaming
•
282 00
$639 60
Soley street, macadamizing.
800 sq. yds. 3-in. macadam.
Labor .........
$237 20
Teaming
195 00
Hill gravel
82 50
Roller
48 00
Beach gravel
52 54
Crushed stone
164 61
30^ ft. flagging
30 50
$810 35
Story street, grading.
.
nellan, at $2.45 ......
,
. $1,939 18
Teaming ........
J
7 60
$1,946 78
284
City Docuivient No. 36.
Stougllton street, Harrison avenue to Albany street.
2,000 sq. yds. 8-in. macadam. :
Labor ....
Teaming
Gi'avel ....
Roller ....
Sand ....
Crushed stone
405 granite paving-blocks
812.8 ft. edgestone and 2 corners
Amount paid for paving to Daniel SuUiv
1,3-44.6 lin. ft. edgestones set, at 8 cts. . . $107 56
637.7 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . 159 42
244.3 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . 43 97
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
290 ft. 15-in. pipe sewer .......
Amount of siiecial appropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation .
Sun-Court street, asphalt.
Labor ...........
Teaming ..........
Gravel
2,000 paving-brick . . . . . .
225.3 sq. yds. Barber asphalt pavement laid, at $2.25
Amount jiaid for paving to P. Bi'ennan :
809 lin. ft. edgestones set, at 8 cts. . . . $64 72
1,462.7 sq. yds. block paving laid, at -25 cts. . 365 67
387.3 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . . 69 71
$962 94
216 00
173 76
84 00
8 10
1,007 00
29 58
470 14
310 95
^3,262 47
1,011 77
M,274 24
3,000 00
a, 274 24
$266 90
63 00
28 40
23 00
506 92
$500 10
$1,388 32
Sycamore and Ridge streets, grading and coustructiug culverts.
Labor $942 82
Teaming 516 00
Gravel 312 90
Filling . 213 55
$1,985 27
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
73 tt. stone culvert 1,714 73
$3,700 00
Amount of special appi'opriation 3,700 00
Symmes street, grading and gravelling.
Labor $664 00
Teaming 376 50
Gravel 350 00
Amount carried forward, $1,390 50
Street Department.
285
Amount broiiglit forward.
Amount of special appvopdation . .
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
Terrace place, East Boston, regulating.
Labor
Teaming ........
Gravel .
Amount paid for paving to Roger Devlin .
529.9 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 8 cts. .
357.9 sq. jAs,. block paving laid, at 25 cts.
194.8 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. .
$42 39
89 47
35 06
Amount paid for woi^k done by Sewer Division : Building
45.2 ft. 12-in. pipe sewer
Amount of special appropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division aj)propriation
Terrace street, paving.
Labor ......
Teaming .....
227,007 granite i3aving-blocks
53,376 paving-brick
238 ft. flagging ....
2,501 ft. edgestone and 17 corners
Sundries .....
Amount paid for paving, as per contract with A. A. Libby
& Co. :
5,995 sq. yds. block paving laid, at $1.05 . . $6,294 75
3,778 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 32| cts. . . 1,227 85
1,720 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 75 cts. . 1,290 00
113 sq. yds. cross-walks laid, at $L30 . . 146 90
844 sq. yds. block paving (tar joints) . . 607 68
Extra work as ordered ..... 584 48
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
1 new catch-basin ........
Amount retained from A. A. Libby & Co. .
Amount of special appropriation ....
Texas street, regulating and constructing sewers.
Labor ..........
Teaming .........
Sand ..........
Gravel . . . . . . . . .
314^ ft. edgestone and 7 corners ....
3,934 granite paving-blocks
Amount carried forward,
^,390 ,50
1,000 00
$390 50
,085 44
128 00
203 43
166 92
>1,.583 79
100 82
!1,684 61
850 00
$834 61
$1,660 11
30 00
10,896 33
651 38
249 90
1,706 91
92 98
10,151 QQ
$25,439 27
256 27
$25,695 54
477 20
$25,218 34
$142 60
81 00
22 40
112 00
250 28
282 68
$890 96
286
City Document No. 36.
Amniinl hroKghi forward,
Amount paid for paving to Jas. Doherty & Co. :
o4G lin. ft. edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . . $27 68
loO.o sq. }'ds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . 32 63
87.5 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . . 15 75
$890 96
76 06
$967 02
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
201.8 ft. 10-in. jDipe sewer, including rebuilding of
Stonj-'brook culvert $1,032 98
Amount of special appi'opriation . . . . ,
Tremont street, Roxbury crossing to Parker street.
Labor ..........
$2,000 00
2,000 00
$10 50
Third street, A to Second street. (See Second and Third
streets.)
Tremout street, Scollay square to Boylston street, paving.
Labor, including engineering and superintendence
Teaming .....
Gravel .....
55, 100 paving-brick
3,108.5 ft. flagging . . .
1,079 ft. edgestone and 4 coi-ners
210,925 granite paving-blocks .
AVharfage on paving-blocks
Sundries .....
Amount i^aid for paving, as per contract with H. Gore
& Co. :
6,992 sq. yds. block paving on concrete, at
$2.76 $19,297 92
1,616 sq. yds. block paving on gravel, at $1.19 . 1,923 04
2,117 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 39 cts.
2,ii37 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 90 cts.
670 sq. yds. cross-walks laid, at $2.74
Extra work, as ordered
$3,350 13
824 85
8 76
661 20
3,313 01
703 29
15,490 80
800 00
148 12
825 63
1,833 30
1,835 80
946 11
— 26,661 80
Amount retained from H. Gore & Co.
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
7 new catch-basins and reijairing 1 catch-basin
Amount of special appropriation ....
Amount paid out of appropriation for Paving Division
Troy street, paving and regulating.
Labor .........
202.5 ft. flagging
143.8 ft. edgestone
$51,961 96
150 00
$51,811 96
1,913 38
$53,725
34
62,0U0
00
$1,725
34
$365
79
212
63
80
45
Amount carried forward,
$658 87
Strf:et Department. 287
Amount brought fonoard, $658 87
17,2JU paving-brick 210 40
43,064 granite paving-blocks 3,141 51
Sundries 72 29
Amount paid for paving as per contract witli Jas. Grant
&Co. :
1,952 sq. yds. block paving laid, at $1.52 . . $2,967 04
1,009 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 35 cts. . . 353 15
627.5 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at $1.32 . . 828 30
72.5 sq. yds. cross-walks laid, at $1.98 . . 143 65
Extra work as ordered ..... 87 40
4,379 44
$8,462 51
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Repairing
8 catch-basins and 2 manholes ..... 66 86
$8,529 37
Amount of special appropriation 8,100 00
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $429 37
Village street, paviug.
Labor $665 12
Teaming 222 00
Gravel 193 01
Amount paid for paving to D. Sullivan :
642 lin. ft. edgestone set,' at 18 cts. . . . $115 56
320 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 28 cts. . . 89 60
943 sq. yds. block paving laid (tar joints), at 97
cts 914 71
1,119 87
$2,200 00
Amount of special appropriation 2,200 00
Waltham street, Shawmut avenue to Tremont street.
1,300 sq. 3'ds. 4-in. macadam.
Labor $243 60
Teaming - 259 50
Roller 60 00
Gravel 125 56
Sand 18 00
Stone 361 00
255 granite paving-blocks 18 62
5,100 paving-brick 63 75
Amount paid for paving to D. Sullivan :
1,121 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . $89 68
551.5 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . 138 12
823 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . . 148 14
375 94
$1,625 97
Amount of special appropriation . . . , . 600 00
Amount paid out of Paving Division appi-opriation . . $1,025 97
288
City Docuivient No. 36.
Ward street, Dorchester avenue to Preble street, resurfacing.
700 sq. yds. o-iu. imacadaiii.
Labor $249 20
Teaming 217 50
Roller . 30 00
Gravel 64 12
Stone 132 02
1(30.8 ft. edgestone 93 23
950 paving-briek . . . . . . . . . 11 65
$797 72
Amount of spedal ai^propriation 675 72
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $122 00
Warren ayeuue, repairs.
Labor
Teaming: ....
$179 40
75 00
$254 40
Warren street, paving.
1,500 sq. yds. block-stone paving done bytlie city; balance
laid, as per contract, with A. A. Libby & Co.
Labor .....
Teaming . . .
Gravel ....
Sand
4,000 paving-brick
134,948 granite paving-blocks
319 ft. edgestone and 2 corners
Sundries ....
Amount joaid for excavating to J. McCarthy :
1,076 sq. yds. paving carted away, at 23^ cts. . $252 86
801 cu. yds. material excavated, at 69J cts. . 476 60
7 cu. yds. stone carted away, at $1.00 . . 7 00
Amount paid for paving to A. A. Libby :
595.4 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 20 cts. . . $119 08
462.3 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 75 cts. . 346 73
199.7 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 50 cts. . 100 10
465.1 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 35 cts. . 162 80
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
1 new catch-basin . . . . . . .
^2,444 95
1,066 50
1,864 80
99 20
50 00
9,696 60
230 80
33 71
736 46
728 71
516,951 73
130 02
$17,081 75
Warrenton street, asphalting from Wasliington street.
Labor
Teaming .....
Gravel .....
11,525 paving-brick
115.1 ft. edgestone and 4 corners
Amount carried forward,
$712
43
96
00
4
38
156
66
78
54
$1,047
91
Street Depaetment.
289
Amount brought forward.
Amount paid for paving to J. Turner & Co. :
1,613 lin. it. edgestone set, at 15 cts. . . $2-4195
432.2 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 60 cts. . 259 32
830.2 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 40 cts. . . 332 07
Amount paid for asphalting to Barber Asphalt Paving
Co.:
969.6 sq. yds. asphalt laid, at $3.25 . . . $3,151 20
916 sq. yds. asphalt laid, at $2 . . . . 1,832 00
65.5 sq. yds. asphalt laid, at $2.50 . ... 16375
26.7 sq. yds. cross-walks laid, at $1.05 . . 28 04
L,047 91
833 34
5,174 99
$7,056 24
Amount of special appropriation ..... 6,871 64
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $184 60
$250.56 retained from Barber Asphalt Paving Co.
Washburn street, Dorchester avenue to Boston street, regulating
and macadamizing.
1,000 sq. yds. 12-in. macadam.
Labor $1,017 12
Teaming . . . . . . . . . . 369 00
Stone 805 60
Filling . 442 25
Gravel 204 26
Sand 6 00
Rolling 49 00
1,055 ft. edgestone 770 15
Sundries 15 90
Amount paid for paving to D. Sullivan :
1,055 lin. ft. edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . . $84 40
407.9 sq. yds. block paving laid . . . 101 97
186 37
22.6 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 28 cts. .... 6 33
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
2 new catch-basins .......
Amount of special appropriations
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
$3,871 98
216 83
$4,088 81
3,043 89
$1,044 92
Washington street, Charlestown, regulating and macadamizing.
2,000 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
Labor .
$399 79
Teaming
34.-) 00
Roller .
120 00
Gravel
297 34
Stone .
823 87
Sundries
. . . 14 00
$2,000 00
Amount of
special appropriation
2,000 00
290 City Document No. 36.
Washington street, Dorchester, Hawes avenue to N. Y. & N, E.
R.R., regulating.
Labor $128 80
12,729 granite gutter paving-blocks 292 77
Sundries 78 43
$500 00
Amount of special appropriation ..... 500 00
Washington street, South and Centre Streets, Ward 23,
14,000 sq. yds. 12-in. macadam.
Labor $6,183 28
Teaming 1,897 50
Roller 200 00
Gravel 1,392 10
Stone 11,037 00
Rolling 448 00
Sundries 177 10
$21,334 98
Amount of special appropriation 11,953 19
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $9,381 79
Water street, Charlestown, repaving.
Labor $370 30
Teaming 108 00
Gravel . 36 92
531 granite paving-blocks -. . . . . , . . 25 48
Amount of special appropriation . . . . . $540 70
Watson street, regulating and macadamizing.
925 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
Labor '. $495 50
Teaming 30 00
Roller 49 00
Crushed stone . . 361 50
Gravel 76 6.8
444 feet edgestone and 2 corners . . . . . 322 30
Amount paid for paving to J. Doherty & Co. :
872 lin. feet edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . . $69 76
266.9 sq. yds. block j)aving laid, at 25 cts. . . 66 73
151 sq. vds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . . 27 18
163 67
Amount of special appropriation . . . . . $1,498 65
Waunibeck street, resurfacing.
2,800 sq. yds. 12-in. macadam.
Lalwr $542 25
Teaming 650 90
Gravel 609 00
Roller 140 00
Sand 208 00
Crushed stone 2,172 40
Amount carried forward, $4,322 65
Street IXepartment.
201
Amount brought forivard,
1.216 feet edgestone and 4 corners
5,U0() paving-brick . . . . .
56 feet flagging
Sundries .......
Amount paid for paving to A. A. Libby :
93.8 lin. feet edgestone set, at 20 cts .
31.2 sq. yds. block paving laidd at 50 cts. .
Amount paid for paving to Payson &, Co.
2, .582. 2 lin. feet edgestone set, at 8 cts.
1,014.1 sq. 3'ds. block paving laid, at 25 cts.
1,221.9 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts.
$18 76
15 60
57
253 52
219 94
$4,322 ,55
748 47
61 50
58 80
13 50
34 36
680 03
Amount of special appropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation .
Well street, paving.
Labor ...........
Teaming . . .
(iravel. ..........
Sand ■ .
185 feet edgestone
98 feet flagging
7,500 granite paving-blocks
4,800 paving-brick ........
Sundries ..........
Amount paid for paving to J. Uolierty & Co. :
534.7 lin. feet edgestone 'set, at 8 cts. . . $42 78
571.3 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. . 142 83
199.1 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . 35 84
?5,919 21
2,000 00
!3,919 21
$523 42
387 00
108 00
18 00
111 00
117 60
538 88
58 00
29 40
221 45
Amount of special appropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
Wendell street, paving.
Labor .....
Teaming ....
Gravel ....
100 feet edgestone
7,900 granite paving-blocks
2,500 jDaving-brick
Amount paid for paving to Jas. Grant & Co.
352 lin. ft edgestone set, at 8 cts. .
683 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 25 cts. .
162 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts.
$28 16
170 75
29 16
Amount paid for work done by Sewer Division : Building
1 new catch-basin . .......
^2,112 75
1,800 00
$312 75
$786 67
613 50
56 80
56 00
576 31
28 75
228 07
$2,376 10
143 96
Amount of special appropriation
$2,520 06
2,520 06
292 City Document No. 36.
West Chester park and square, Columbus avenue to bridge.
2,o50 sq. yds. 6-in. macadam.
J.abor $1,181 60
Teaming . 858 00
Stone 976 89
Roller 70 00
Sundries ' . j, . . . . 75 13
$3,161 62
Amount of special approiniation ..... 2,568 02
Amount jiaid out of Paving Division appropriation . . $593 60
West Dedliam street, Shawmut avenue to Washington street,
paving (tar joints).
Labor ' $565 27
Teaming 117 00
Gravel 260 80
Sand 74 80
27.977 o:ranite paving-blocks ...... 2,040 92
160.6 feet ed^estone 89 88
Amount paid for excavating to J. McCarthy :
301 cu. yds. earth excavated and carted away,
at 95 cts $285 95
284 sq. yds. round stone gutters removed, at 33
cts 95 14
381 09
Amount paid for paving, to A. A. Libby »fe Co. :
564.8 lin. feet edgestone set, at 8 cts. . . $45 18
1,124.5 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 75 cts. . 843 81
454.2 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. . 81 75
970 24
$4,500 00
Amount of special appropriation 4,500 00
West Newton street, Tremont street to Columbus avenue,
asphalt blocks.
Labor $677 38
Teaming 178 50
Amount paid for excavating to John Casey :
831 sq. yds. paving carted away, at 27 cts. . $224 37
785 cu. yds. material removed, at 65 cts. . . 510 25
Amount paid for paving, as per conti'aet with Metropolitan
Construction Co. :
3,118 sq. yds. Hastings asphalt block, at $3.10 $9,665 80
1,521 lin. feet edgestone set, at 15 cts. . . 228 15
7 sq. yds. block paving laid, at 55 cts. . . 3 85
1,190 sq. yds. brick jjaving laid, at 43 cts, . 511 70
734 62
10,409 50
$12,000 00
Amount of special appropriation 12,000 00
Street Department.
293
West Newton street, Tremoni street to Sliawmnt avenue, asphalt
blocks.
Labor
Teaming ..........
Gvavel ..........
Stone
Amount paid fov excavating to J. J. Sullivan :
763 sq. yds. round stone gutters removed, at 29
cts $221 27
709 cu. yds. macadam removed, at 75 cts. . 531 75
Amount paid for paving, as per contract with Metropoli-
tan Construction Co. :
1.442.6 lin. feet edgestone set, at 15 cts. . . $216 39
41.9 sq. yds. cross-walks laid, at 55 cts. . . 28 04
1.119.7 sq. yds. biick paving laid, at 43 cts. . 481 47
2,738.5 sq. yds. asphalt paving laid, at $3.10 . 8,489 85
9,210 25
$634 20
75 00
5 68
212 79
753 02
Amount paid out of resurfacing streets appropriation
Amount of special appropriation
Amount paid out of Paving Division appropriation
West Second street, repairs.
Labor . . . . . . . . .
Wharf street, paving.
Labor ....
Teaming
Gravel
100 feet edgestone
4,000 paving-brick
11,010 granite paving-blocks
Amount paid for paving to D. N. Payson :
425 lin. feet edgestone set, at 8 cts. .
478 sq. yds. block paving hiid, at 25 cts. .
194 sq. yds. brick paving laid, at 18 cts. .
$10,890 94
4,217 64
$6,673 30
6,L00 00
$673 30
$135 49
$34 00
119 50
34 92
H95 63
250 50
21 30
56 00
46 00
803 18
188 42
Amount of special appropriation
$1,861 03
1,861 03
NEW EDGESTONE.
The following tables show the amount of new edgestone set during
the past year :
City Proper.
(Districts 8, 9, 10, including a portion of Roxbury.)
Lin. ft.
Bay State road 102
Beividere street 440
Beacon street . . . . . . . . . . Ill
Boylston street 167
Cambria street . . . . . . . . . . 612
Camden street . . . . . . . .' . . 1,403
Commonwealth avenue . . . . . . . . 151
294
City Document No. 36.
Dalton and Dundee streets
East Concord street
East Newton street
Exeter street
Garrison street .
Huntington avenue
Harcourt street .
Scotia street
Stoughton street
Watson street
AVest Chester pai'k
Sundry streets in small quantities
7,
{District No
Albany street
Bird street
Blue Hill avenue
Crawford street
Centre street
Cheney street
Dunreath street
Dunmore street
Ellis and Fulda streets
Elmore street
Gaston street
Hampshire street
Harold street
Highland street
Haskins street
Humboldt avenue
Holborn street
Homestead street
Howland street
Kensington street
Kingsbury street
Longwood avenue
Magazine street
Magnolia street .
Monroe street
Parker street
Band street
Ruthven street .
Shirley street
Sterling street .
Terrace street
Texas street
Town send street
Tremont street .
Wigglesworth street
Westminster avenue
Walden sti-eet
Waumbeck street
Wabeno street .
Wayland street .
Sundry streets in small quantities
ROXBURY.
including a portion of Dorchester.')
Lin. ft.
153
657
832
426
177
485
169
538
1,049
430
139
195
8,236
291
182
688
302
878
356
126
392
240
472
173
224
1,058
169
1,380
2,100
188
247
426
3«9
199
192
113
1,487
362
2,476
179
183
511
149
1,713
350
655
160
225
104
1,210
1.009
118
303
714
22.693
Street Department.
295
South Boston.
(^District No. 1, including a portion of Dorchester.)
Boston street
Dorset street
East First street .
East Second street
East Third street
East Sixth street
East Nintli street
Gustin street
Harvest street
Monks street
Preble street
Washburn street
Sundry streets in small quantities
Lin. ft.
260
1,GU
2,109
31.5
205
243
1,797
oM
1,806
171
1,290
1,027
351
11,724
East Boston. — ^^
{District No. 2.)
Bennington street ......... 1,216
Jeffries street 1,297
Lamson street .......... 169
Marginal street 535
Morris street .......... 565
Paris street 100
Sundry streets 249
4,131
Charlestown. -hb*
(District No. 3.)
Caldwell street 1,161
Dupont street 236
Elhvood street .......... 351
Hill street 479
2,227
Brighton. ^^
(District No. 4.)
Ashford street 211
Franklin street .......... 234
Mansfield street 1,272
Pratt street 315
2,032
West Roxbury. -—
(District No. 5.)
Childs street 145
Centre street . . . 304
Danforth street .......... 857
Grove street .......... 123
Harris avenue .......... 105
Mozart street 2,129
Paul Gore street . . . . . . . . . . 468
Koys and Wise sti'eets 486
4.617
29(3
City Document No. 36.
Dorchester.
{District No. 6.)
Lin. ft.
Ashmont street 1,682
Buslinell street 1,514
Blue Hill avenue . . . . . . . . . 333
Belfort street 118
Codman and Carruth streets 480
Draeut street 1,255
Hancock street and Gushing avenue 313
]\Iill street . 114
Mount Everett street 311
Minot street 4,065
Neponset avenue 2,891
Ocean street 2,649
Roslin and Harlej'- streets 298
Stanley street 152
Victoria street 362
Washington street 1,187
Sundry streets in small quantities 414
18.138
Eecapitulation.
City Proper 8,236
Roxbury 22,693
South Boston 11,724
East Boston 4,131
Charlestown 2,227
West Roxbury .......... 4,617
Brighton 2,032
Dorchester ' 18,138
73,798
NEW BBICK SIDEWALKS.
The following tables show the number of square yards of new brick
sidewalks laid during the past year :
City Proper.
{Districts Nos. 8, 9, and 10, including a portion of Roxbury.')
Bay State road
Beacon street
Belvidere, Scotia, and Bothnia streets
Boylston street .....
Dalton and Dundee streets
East Concord and East Newton streets
Harcourt street .....
Huntington avenue ....
St. Botolph street ....
Tro}' street .....
^V'est Chester park ....
Sundry sti'cets in small quantities
Sq. yds.
130
331
428
187
109
841
133
973
193
157
285
114
3,881
Street DKrAiiTMENT.
297
ROXHURY.
(^District No. 7, including a portion of Dorchester.')
Bower street and Walnut avenue
Blue Hill avenue
Centre and Highland streets
Crawford street .
Cottage street
Dudley street
Edgewood street
Elmore street
Gaston street
Hoi born street .
Humboldt avenue, Homestead and Plarold streets
Hampshire street
Howard avenue and Hartford street
Huntington avenue .
Kingsbury street
Kensington street
Mill street ....
Munroe street
Magnolia and Wayland streets
Rand street
Rockland avenue
Ruthven street .
Shii'ley street
Texas street
Townsend street
Tremont street .
Vernon street
Warren street
Waumbeck street
Walden and Minden streets
Sundry streets in small quantities
South Boston.
{District No. 1, including a portion of Dot^chester.)
Boston street
Congress street .
Dorset street
Dorchester avenue
East Second street
East Third street
East Fourth street
Harvest street
M street
Ninth street
Preble street
West Second street
Sundry streets in small quantities
East Boston.
(District No. 2.)
Bennington street .....
C(^ttage street ......
Jeffries street
Sq. yds.
3C2
574
435
312
179
226
185
354
145
127
1,031
144
192
125
143
219
176
121
850
280
260
109
258
572
123
308
167
158
351
672
540
9,098
365
125
404
332
467
354
171
191
100
200
130
118
671
3,628
518
189
125
298
City Document No. 36.
Lam son street
^lorris street
Marion sli'eet
Moore street
Paris street
Putnam street
West Eag-le street
Sundiy streets in small quantities
Charlestown".
{District No. 3.)
Sundry streets in small quantities
Brighton.
{District No. 4.)
Western avenue .....
Sundry streets ......
West Roxbury.
{District No. o.)
Burroughs street
Centi'e street ....
Sundry streets in small quantities
Dorchester.
{District No. 6.)
Codman and Carrutli streets
Gushing avenue and Hancock street .
Dorchester avenue and Thornley street
Stanley street .....
Washington sti'eet ....
Sundry streets in small quantities
Sq. yds.
152
190
258
164
150
167
108
155
2,176
120
186
191
377
625
176
266
967
818
404
148
250
258
100
1,478
Recapitulation.
City Proper 3,881
Roxbury 9,098
South Boston 3,628
East Boston 2,176
Charlestown . . . . ; 120
Brighton 377
West Roxbury 967
Dorchester 1,478
21,725
PROPERTY IN CHARGE OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTEN-
DENT OF PAVING DIVISION.
Buildings and wharf on Albany sti'eet, opposite Sharon street. The
building is of brick and wood and covers some 8,000 square feet of
land, and is divided into a shed for breaking stone for macadamizing.
Street Department. 299
blacksmith's and carpenter's shops, tool-room, and stable. The total
contents of the lot. including wharf and building, are 63.180 square feet.
Fort Hill Wharf, containing 21,054 square feet, placed in charge of the
Paving Department May 18, 1874, to be used for the landing and storage
of paving-blocks and gravel until such time as said wharf shall be wanted
for the extension of Oliver street. A part of this wharf is occupied by
a tenant-at-will, at $500 per annum, part by Sanitary Division.
Lot on Chelsea, Marion, and Paris streets East Boston, containing
4S,550 square feet. Part of this lot used by the Sewer Division.
Ledge lot on Washington street, corner Dimock street, Roxbury, con-
taining 134,671 square feet. Upon this lot are buildings containing a
steam-engine and stone-crusher.
Highland-street Stable lot. Upon this lot is a large bri(;k stable
erected in 1873, and occupied by the Sanitary and Paving Divisions; ali^o
a brick building used as a blacksmith's shoj), and a shed for the stoi'age
of tools, etc.
Ledge lot, on Codman street, Dorchester, containing 299,000 square
feet, was purchased in 1870. Upon this lot is a shed containing a steam-
engine and stone-crusher, also a stable and tool-house.
On the Almshouse lot, Hancock street, Dorchester, there are two
stables, also a shed and tool-house.
Ledge lot, on Magnolia street and Bird place, Dorchester, containing
81,068 square feet. This lot was purchased by the town of Dorchester
in 1867. Upon this lot are a blacksmith's shop and large shed.
Downer-avenue lot, Dorchester, containing 35,800 square feet.
West Roxbury. — On Child street, a lot of land containing 14,457
square feet, upon which are a stable and shed, blacksmith's shop and
tool-house.
Gravel lots. — On the corner of Forest Hills avenue and Norfolk street,
a lot containing 47,798 square feet, purchased by the town of Dorchester,
in town of Milton, on Brush Hill road, containing- 64,523 square feet,
hired by the town of Dorchester for nine hundred and ninety-nine
years. Morton street. Ward 23, containing about one-third of an acre,
purchased by town of West Roxbury in 1890, used for storage purposes.
Tenean street, purchased for $21,360 in 1874.
Ledge and gravel lot, rear of Union street, containing about 37,000
square feet, purchased by the town of Brighton. This lot is at present
leased.
Gravel and stones on lot on Market street, Ward 25, purchased by
town of Brighton.
On Rockland street. Ward 25, adjacent to engine-house, a brick
building, containing a shed and tool-house.
Ledge lot, on Chestnut-hill avenue, Brighton, containing about 13
acres, upon which is an office, engine-house, stable, and crusher plant.
On Medford street, Charlestown, a wharf lot, foot of Elm street, con-
taining 8,000 feet, upon which are sheds, office, stable, etc.
Property belonging to the Paving Division, consisting of 90 horses,
65 carts, 16 water-carts, 13 wagons, 6 steam-rollers, 8 stone-crushers,
and 6 engines.
In South Boston, corner of H and Ninth streets, a lot of land contain-
ing about 12,000 square feet, upon which have been erected a stable,
carriage-house, shed, tool-house, and office. Rent of same, including
use of wharf and flats opposite, $650 per annum, with taxes.
On Hereford street, a yard with shed, tool-house, and office.
Wharf, known as Atkins' Wharf, 521 Commercial street, purchased
in 1887 for $24,000, containing 22,553 square feet, having on it an office
and stable.
300
City Document No. 36.
Tools, Horses, Carts, etc.
District.
1
3
3
4
7
1
2
23
15
5
6
T
8
9
10
Total.
Axes
Blocks and ropes, sets
2
1
1
6
55
3
1
1
2
15
1
'l2
35
7
1
3
28
26
5
6
1
5
3
2
11
6
1
133
2
1
2
1
1
'76
8
13
12
84
75
2
2
50
11
7
4
30
14
1
1
44
2
109
119
5
2
13
20
15
■ 12
11
10
'2
2
1
4
1
1
6
8
59
100
25
4
1
4
2
1
23
20
1
"2
12
3
2
10
4
1
233
3
2
2
1
'25
18
9
46
195
75
1
1
250
12
13
4
"18
1
1
105
' 97
100
3
1
11
12
5
17
5
3
2
3
'5
2
2
8
8
126
125
5
8
1
4
10
' 11
3
4
3
2
1
11
43
1
8
4
8
2
'20
2
430
9
1
"2
1
'50
16
6
46
90
45
1
7
8
2
33
11
3
1
120
11
201
130
2
1
6
4
8
6
9
2
2
1
3
2
1
3
5
216
190
8
'4
1
'22
2
1
7
2
11
60
1
13
' 10
16
'12
2
"1
1
1
1
20
8
' '3
25
125
1
2
1
1
80
S
8
2
82
11
2
1
90
3
22(7
111
13
1
14
7
12
5
"13
11
1
1
3
2
114
150
5
1
10
1
'32
1
2
'3
22
4
2
1
' 23
1
1
43
3
'20
300
50
1
1
100
3
"3
25
2
'50
2
98
100
1
6
1
1
3
6
'3
4
1
'3
1
2
1
50
86
2
2
2
1
' 26
'2
6
2
2
'10
75
1
4
1
6
12
'2
100
'3
15
50
50
1
1
110
4
4
1
12
5
1
' 60
2
180
210
1
6
2
'2
8
12
1
"1
1
'36
110
1
1
' 30
1
37
13
11
129
Crowbars . .
366
9
2
2
1
5
4
3
4
35
g
Carts, single
3
6
55
10
3
1
1
1
16
37
34
2
6
49
6
Drills
11
7
150
2
1
976
16
1
1
1
g
3
1
2
'20
4
6
20
20
50
1
1
9
2
30
16
1
1
50
250
50
1
1
4
9
20
6
15
6
1
36
3
9
72
50
1
1
50
3
1
58
"35
2
75
25
1
50
3
5
2
21
7
5
50
14
6
11
18
100
1
1
2
216
3
3
3
39
6
455
" fade and hand
" striking
71
46
181-
929
645
7
" stone ........
3
6
16
Hose, feet of
896
56
" wagon and buggy . . .
Hoes, street and grub
24
330
90
9
1
24
2
131
94
'39
140
90
6
70
2
225
95
(^'ri
24
1,658
1,099
25
6
2
4
6
6
3
1
2
5
5
2
3
4
74
61
62
73
70
10
Rammers, iron ...
" wooden
Robes, sleigh, and buggy
Btreet-rollers, stone
3
4
2
1
3
1
4
2
1
1
2
4
3
1
1
3
1
1
1
2
1
"4
']
6
6
94
60
10
4
]
41
44
14
5
31
G
1
Snow-levellers
Scythes
1
H
25
28
Shovels, gravel
" snow
" long-handled
Street-sweeping machines
Screens, gravel
Sleigbs
75
8
5
4
1
50
56
2
70
85
1
1
890
970
60
3
40
9
Sleds
4
Street horses, wood
15
3
15
1
4
5
2
1
1
15
1
12
6
1
2
21
4
8
2
3
188
11
Spoons, drilling
40
14
20
Street DeparTxVient.
Tools, Horses, Carts, etc. — Concluded.
301
BiSTUICT.
1
2
3
4
5
6
T
8
9
lO
Total.
Tools for stone-cutters, sets ....
•* carpenters, sets
** pavers, sets
2
1
3
1
2
2
1
2
2
3
5
8
40
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
' n
IT
2
2
2
1
']
1
2
5
8
2
2
1
1
2
6
3
1
10
12
26
1
2
5
2
8
2
7
3
11
27
2
1
]
11
1
2
*3
1
3
8
1
1
4
1
6
1
6
2
4
12
1
28
9
30
10
6
2
3
1
3
10
1
2
34
Trucks
8
4
20
5
2
1
1
4
11
4
5
60
118
92
Wrenches, hydrant
15
10
13
Respectfully submitted,
C. R. Cutter,
Deputy Superintendent.
302
City Document No. 36.
APPEIS^DIX C.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERIN-
TENDENT OF THE SANITARY DIVISION.
Street Department, Sanitary Division,
Boston, Feb. 1, 181)2.
H. H. Carter, Esq., Superintendent of Streets:
Sir : I herewith submit my Report of Acts and Expen-
ditures of the Sanitary Division from Jan. 1, 1891, to Feb. 1,
1892 :
ITEMS OF EXPENDITURES.
For labor in sweeping streets and crossings, and
removal of snow from public walks, yards, and
squares ,
For labor in collection and removal of house-dirt
and ashes
For labor in collection of house- olf'al
For labor of mechanics, foremen, watchmen,
feeder, and prison-carriage drivers
For labor of men employed in the stables and
yards
Official pay-roll salary of deputy superintendent
and clerks in office
Grain used at city stables
Hay and straw at city stables
For collection of aslies in East Boston
For the purchase of new horses
For stock and tools purchased for blacksmitli
shop
For stock and tools purchased for wheelwright's
shop
For stock and tools in harness shop
For stock and tools in jjaint shop
Extra team-work in collecting ashes
Repairs on stables and sheds
Fui'l, gas, and electric lights
]\ledical attendance on horses, medicine
ISIujeing horses (outside shops)
Prmting, stationery, and advertising
Broom stock for sweeping streets
Contracts for the collection and removal of house-
oflPal in East Boston and Brighton
Water-rates
Oflal stock, consisting of buckets, etc
A.-l) stock, consisting of cart-covers, baskets, etc.
Street stock, consisting of shovels, hoes, etc
Expended
from Jan. 1,
1891, to May 1,
1891.
A ru ounis car ried fo r wa rd .
$28,163 18
5.3,010 72
30,198 37
9,815 55
1,906 00
8.920 56
2,989 19
2,563 40
783 41
943 Qb
A'>1 88
131 3
16,043 99
259 06
."iO-l 17
118 97
176 73
240 22
70 35
1,750 00
1,025 23
155 50
95 26
606 51
Expended
from May 1,
1891, to Feb. 1,
1892.
^102,433 62
76,027 22
21,301 27
8,870 06
6,792 70
17,952 21
8,971 18
7,635 86
5,785 00
2,682 57
1,334 06
1,166 72
414 31
45,505 50
.o46 44
1,305 06
364 44
393 57
355 84
5,250 00
102 20
162 42
565 91
$161,059 27' $315,918 16
Street Department.
303
ITEMS OF EXPENDITURES.
Amovnts hrovght forv>ard
Stable stock, consisting of curry-combs, brushes,
sponge, soap, blankets, manure-forks, etc
Dumping-boat, rental, royalty, towage, rent of
wharf, repairs, labor, etc
Amount expended on account of Street-Cleaning
Division
Incidental expenses as follows
Telephone rental and repairs . .
Stabling horses, East Boston,
Dorchester, and West Kox-
bury
Claims for personal injuries,
damages to fences and car-
riages
Travelling expenses
Boston directories
Newspapers for office use , . . .
Repairing safe in office
Watering front, No. 12 Beacon
street
^40 50
148 24
655 20
3 05
7 50
)54 49
$424 10
277 47
17 87
22 45
22 00
6 00
7 50
5 00
$782 39
Expended
from Jau, 1,
1891, to May 1,
1891.
161,059 27
118 12
5,092 73
11,549 99
954 49
$178,774 60
Expended
from May 1,
1891, to Feb. 1,
1892.
515,918 16
664 38
16,405 71
r82 39
$333,770 64
Income.
Amount paid inco the city treasury and credited the Sanitary Division for
material sold during the year 1891 :
Sale of ashes
" " manure
" " offal
" " old material
" " street dirt
Removal of ashes
Conveying prisoners
Use of driveway, Snow's Wharf
$45,485 29
304
City Document No. 36.
Amount JExpended for the Collection of Iloiise-dirt, House-offal,
and Cleaning Streets. Labor and Contracts.
Districts.
City Proper. . .
Soutli Boston .
Enst Boston . .
Charlestown . .
Koxbury
West Koxbury
Dorchester . . .
Briuhton
Totals
Labor.
Expended for
Sweeping the
Streets from
Jan. 1, 1891, to
May 1, 1891.
f 26. 060 81
597 60
360 40
428 56
701 SI
8 50
i,I63 18
Labor.
Expended for
UoUectiou of
Ashes from
Jan. 1, 1891, to
May 1,1891.
54,834 69
l,it94 08
2,623 37'
3.432 70
8,262 41
1,844 10
2,144 11
1,038 66
B56,174 12
Labor.
Expended for
Ki-moval of
Hou.seoffal
from Jan. 1,
1891, to May
1, 1891.
,175 50
338 00
,375 00-
,298 00
997 87
,200 00
,189 00
375 003
,948 37
1 East Boston contract included.
2 East Boston contract.
' Brighton contract.
Districts.
City Proper. . .
South Boston
East Boston . . .
Charlestown . .
Roxbury
West Koxbury.
Dorchester . . .
Briffhton. .. . .
Totals
From May 1,
1891, to Feb.
1, 1892.
From May 1,
1891, to Feb.
1, 1892.
^63,009 41
4,156 06
7,635 86>
7,852 16
15,656 76
4,132 44
5,575 35
2,051 44
.$110,069 48
From May 1,
1891, to Feb.
1, 1892.
.$39,5S5 23
5.878 80
4,125 00»
5,445 29
11,763 05
3,782 80
9,572 05
1,125 00'
!1,277 22
^ Contract work.
Street DepXrtment.
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City Document No. 36.
Material Collected by Districts.
From Jan. 1, 1891, to May 1, 1891.
South
Teams.
45,388
5,886
10,301
West
Teams.
26,388
4,678
31,066
Roxbury
Teams.
20,455
2,925
23,380
Chs'n
Teams.
E.Bost.
Teams.
Brigh'n
Teams.
Total
Loads.
Ashes
5,936
995
4,157
" " *960
1,722
"'l23
104,046
Street-dirt
House-ofFal . .
10,564
15,304
61,575
6,931
5,117
1,845
129,914
From Mat 1, 1891, to Jan. 28, 1892.
Ashes
84,958
23,974
57,139
42,399
7,346
12,704
1,201
9,176
2,160
3,042
277
209,418
House-offal
34,958
From Jan. 1, 1891,
to Feb. 1, 1892. .
108,932
57,139
49,745
13,905
9,176
3,120
3,042
400
241,939
3,520
Disposition of Blaterial Collected.
Where Dumped.
From Jan. 1, 1891,, to
May 1, 1891.
From Mat 1, 1891, to Jan. 28,
1892.
Loads
Ashes.
Loads
Offal.
275
2
Total
Loads.
17,193
11,116
46,260
2,732
13,917
2,920
8,994
1,191
104,323
Loads
Ashes.
Loads
Rot.
Loads
Offal.
Total
Loads.
At sea by scows ....
16,918
11,116
46,260
2,732
13,917
2,918
8,994
1,191
50,449
19,805
78,115
1,106
27,908
8,128
17,846
6,061
1,383
1,371
53,203
19,805
Vacant lots
N Y. & N. E. R.R. .
78,115
1,106
27,908
Mill Pond (Chs'n;...
Ward street (Rox.) .
481
8,609
17,846
6,061
104,046
277
209,418
1,383
1,852
212,653
Street Department.
307
Cost for Carting Material to Dumps.
From Jan. 1, 1891, to Mat 1,
1891.
From Mat 1, 1891, to Jan. 28,
1892.
Loads.
Cost
per
Load.
Total Cost.
Loads.
Cost
pel-
Load.
Total Cost.
Sent to sea . . .
To all other
dumps
17,193
87,130
$0 29
60
$5,092 73
53,610 72
53,203
159,450
$ 030
64
$16,405 91
102,433 62
104,323
S58,703 45
212,653
$118,839 53
Cost of Blacksmithing and Horse-shoeing.
HORSE-SHOEING.
Jan. 1, 1891, to May 1, 1891, stock and labor . $1,453 90
May 1, 1891, to Fub. 1, 1892, " " " . 3,717 74
Total amount expended thirteen months . $5,171 64
BLACKSMITHS.
Jan. 1, 1891, to May 1, 1891, stock and labor . $2,732 51
May 1, 1891, to Feb. 1, 1892, " " " . 4,890 33
Total amount expended, thirteen months . $7,622 84
Number of shoes put on. Sanitary Division, Jan. 1 to May 1
" " " " " May 1 to Feb. 1
" " " Street-Cleaning Division, May 1 to
Feb. 1
Total number of shoes, thirteen months . .
Cost per shoe, about thirty-eight cents.
Number of Carts.
Offal-wagons owned by Sanitary Division ....
Ash-carts " " "
" employed by hired horses .....
Contracts, carts owned by P. Morrison, East Boston
Offal-wagons in use by Thomas Mulligan, East Boston
" " " Allen Clark, Brighton .
Outside Shops.
$176 73
393 57
$570 30
44
Total
4,533
6,501
2,511
13,545
79
162
5
5
2
253
Year.
1884. Ash-carts
1886. "
1888.
1891.
Cost of Carts.
$148 00
142 00
'107 00
133 00
1 Light carts, for Roxbury.
308
City Document No. 36.
Hired Teams.
From Jan. 1, 1891, to May 1, 1891.
South
Yard.
West
Yard.
Roxbury
Yard.
667
Charles-
town
Yard.
Total.
Day's work
2,799
584
641
4,050
No. loads collected by
teams
22,989
3,894
3,397
30,921
Amount expended
$16,043 99
From Mat 1, 1891, to Jan. 1, 1892.
Day's work
5,352
33,730
1,135^
7,882i
1,672^
11,174
2,882
No. loads
55,668
Amount expended
$45,505 50
Dumping-boats.
Jan. 1, 1891,
to
May 1, 1891.
May 1, 1891,
to
Jan. 1, 1892.
Total
Amount.
Amount expende
d for royalty ...
rental
towing
wharfage ....
repairs
labor
dredging. . . .
$1,665 '6o
1,922 50
531 25
698 98
375 00
$1,500 00
3,540 00
4,379 50
1,500 00
1,819 59
3,068 60
240 00
150 00
208 22
$1,500 00
5,205 00
6,302 00
2,031 25
2,418 57
3,443 60
240 00
150 00
insurance . . .
incidentals . .
'>08 "^2
to sea
$5,092 73
$16,405 91
$21,498 64
Number of trips
65
153
218
Street Department.
309
Account of the Number of Loads of Material Collected from 1882 to
Feb. 1, 1892.
Year.
Ashes.
Offal.
Street-
sweepiugs.
Cesspool
Matter.
Total Loads.
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
188^
159,197
169,610
182.642
193,734
209,129
220,186
233,514
227,325
245,730
313,4642
28,385
27,408
28,520
31,206
33,170
36,724
37,709
40,183
40,525
46,742
52,381
68,272
62,222
G 1,455
59,875
68,990
68,019
70,476
70,449
10,5643
10,051
8,801
12,578
13,151
11,392
14,333
5,644i
250,014
264,091
285,962
299,546
313,566
340,233
344,886
337,984
1890
356,704
1891
370,164
2,154,531
350,572
582,703
75,950
3,163,150
• July 1, 1888, the Sewer Department commenced cleaning cesspools.
2 Ashes from Jan. 1, 1891, to May 1,1891. 104,046
Ashea from May 1, 1891, to Feb. 1, 1892 209,418
3 Street-cleaning transferred May 1, 1891, to Street-Cleaning Division.
■ 313,464
During the past year there have been conveyed from the several police-
stations to the city prison, under tlse court house, 8,514 prisoners, for which
the Board of Police have paid 25 cents per head.
There have been conveyed during the past year, without charge, county
prisoners as follows :
From court house to jail ....
" jail to court house ....
" court house to liouse of correction .
" " to steamer " J. P. Bradlee "
" Bast Boston to " "
" " to jail ....
" jail to East Boston ....
" East Boston to house of correction .
" court house to Boston & Albany R.R.
" South Boston to boat
" " to jail ....
*' jail to South Boston
" South Boston to house of correction
Total
2,055
894
420
5,652
8
5
5
3
80
617
198
5»
17
10,012
Since Nov. 1, 1891, the work of conveying prisoners from the several
station-liouses to court house has been done by the Board of Police. One
horse and one van have been sold to said Board. Two horses and two vans
have been transferred to the County of Suffolk for conveying county pris-
oners.
310
City Document No. 36.
Distribution of Hay and Grain.
Account of Bay, Straw, and Grain fed out and ttsed for Norses of the Street
Dept., Sanitary Div., from Jan. 1, 1S91.
South Yard. — Erom Jan. 1, 1891, to Mat 1, 1891.
Sanitary Horses, 14,760.
Hay ..
Meal . .
Oats . .
Shorts
Corn . .
Carrots
Straw .
Bales,
720
112
Bushels.
1,610
4,142^^
668
Lbs.
136,653
80,700
132,560
12,600
37,408
2,500
29,106
431,527
Amount.
$1,048 22
1,142 50
2,368 75
158 88
504 48
20 00
276 56
),519 39
Cost
per Horse
per Day.
•^'147 6 0
07x092.0
.163^1^
.01-U-iJa
.036iJLa
.00^^^
Lbs.
per Horse
per Day.
09-25-13-
•"^1 47(i0
.Oo-aa-QA
.OS-LAAAH
.001-2£J1
_Q078a8
.00^^^
,0lJ-434S
0Q_b4_al_
•'^''I476t)
From May 1, 1891, to Jan. 1, 1892.
Sanitary Horses, 18,228; Street-cleaning Horses, 6,543.
Hay
1,205
"' 1,524
10,240
293,113
76,463
327,680
18,000
70,655
86,912
6,215
200
$2,458 66
1,125 16
5,261 38
205 50
646 99
1,201 62
40 93
15 00
002^422
•'^•'24827
_04J.iJ2im
.00^^^^^
09ii'>0 4S
.0420££A
".00^^-^
.OOa'Wr
iijUL&xe.
.03iii-a2
Oats
.131i2i
Shorts
00 1 fi " 0 f
Straw
277
"1,452
09-^flO'
.03JJ-A^i
.00^15.
Eno". ^Q<T. Food .
Ibbl.
.OO^iJ^
879,238
$10,955 24
•*^24827
q4JLL43X
•0*24827
West Yard. — From Jan. 1, 1891, to May 1, 1891.
120 Days, 9,912 Horses.
Hay
1,011
992
3 098
187,677
49,600
99,136
12,S00
27,030
1,680
$1,283 04
684 20
1,787 53
160 90
244 59
25 80
190360
••'-no"i 2
_0fi8!UH
.18'''"
_0lfil7S
_02AJ^''^
1 QPJlSlI
Meal
.05''"
Oats
10'"
Shorts
012888
Straw
105
'36
09liilS
Corn
.OOiSf^
Carrots
Peat iTioss
23
1.800
379,723
11 25
•ooiiff
49:! 4 27,
.OO^S-an
$4,197 31
•38b-^J
Street Department.
311
From May 1, 1891, to Jan. 1, 1892.
Sanitary Jlorses, 12,221; Street- cleaning Horses, 7,077.
Bales.
Bushels.
Lbs.
Amount.
Cost per
Horse
per Day.
Lbs. per
Horse
per D.ay.
Hay
1,356
520
7,375
286
242,712
26,241
235,900
11,950
58,409
15,976
6,085
1,200
f2,169 73
465 14
3,816 33
141 06
541 76
228 30
40 07
90 00
1 i-4jia5_
•^'19298
.02^-Li'
'Oo-Li^l-^
Qoi .'j.Tsn
.013532
.00^^
.oo^^*^
•38lf-|9^
1 911-1.3 &
Meal
010943
Oats
\2*?i3J.
Shorts
242
00 1 4 1 0 6
Straw
Corn
Q9) fi.'JSil
01^5.1^
Carrots
00* "°7
Eng. Veg. Food. . . .
6 bbls.
001200
598,473
$7,492 39
■oo-Mi-h
Highland Yard. — From Jan. 1, 1891, to May 1, 1891.
Sanitary Horses, 5,928.
Hay
337
296
2,430
87,766
14,800
77,768
4,900
8,070
10,080
$685 20
204 88
1,448 73
58 75
73 64
134 00
1 1 3 312
•^'.'5928
.032704
. 24.?-^-5-i..
.OOi^ii
.OlLiajl
091 544
■mm
092 944
Meal
Oats
13704
Shorts
00^-^"
Straw
35
180
012142
Corn ...
014153.
203,384
$2,605 20
•43|iM
•^*5928
From May 1, 1891, to Jan. 1, 1892.
Sanitary Horses, 10,769 ; Street-cleaning Horses, 980.
Hay ..
Meal . .
Oats .
Shorts
Straw .
Corn . .
Carrots
867
78
420
3,984
355
172,433
21,044
127,488
9,700
21,070
19,880
5,720
377,335
• '*1 1 749
.Oiiuia.5
.lO^'i-S-^
.OOAMU
.012.3.21
.Ol&liii
.00^1^
59_13ii.7_
•^-1 1749
Charlestown Yard. — From Jan. 1, 1891, to May 1, 1891.
Horses, 2,135.
Hay
Meal
149
210
720
30,136
10,500
24,040
2,910
4,939
$201 .30
147 93
401 80
35 25
44 44
oq ii> Ai
•"•^ 2 13 5
.06 ^-aa
.18^^^
OiiSflU
.021^*
•H-A¥5-
.041-aia.
Oats
.]]5.aA
Shorts
.01^-5^
Straw
19
.02^^^
72,525
$830 72
0,Q 2 (La 2.
•^02135
a'-i2ivrj)
■^•'2135
312
City Document No. 36.
From Mat 1, 1891, to Jan. 1, 1892.
Sanitary Horses, 3,702; Street-cleaning Horses, 1,057 ; Total, 4,762.
Bales.
Bushels.
Lbs.
Amount.
Cost per
UorFe
per Day.
Lbs. per
Horse
per Day.
Hay
390
220
1,906
78.148
11,000
60,992
4,028
10,76]
4,760
1,820
$642 42
158 30
984 81
45 58
96 74
64 8D
11 38
•'04782
.20^^-^^
•' '^'4 7(12
02 ^^^
;oiii2x
.00JLi3£
4 9-iilS-
164 #55
Meal
.02-1-iii
Oats
]23848
Shorts
.OO'ID^S
Straw
49
85
021337
Corn
.004l#9
Carrots
.001S2.0
171,509
$2,004 12
■36tH2
Brighton Yard.
•From Jan. 1, 1891, to May 1, 1891.
Horses, 240.
Hav
17
117
3,427
3.744
787
7,958
$27 42
68 6(»
7 24
$103 26
• ' ' 2 4 (1
,9fji4_e.
!03A
14-,^/^
Oats
•■■^24(1
Straw
3
03^^
■^Hh
.33-23,^
From Mat 1, 1891, to Feb. 1, 1892.
- 1
Hay I
Oats [- Included in the account of the South Yard.
Straw I
J
HoUSE-OFFAL.
There are employed in removing house-offal 150 men and 79
wagons. The offal is removed from dwelling-houses tln'ee times
a week during the summer months, and twice a week during the
winter; from hotels, markets, and restaurants it is removed
daily. There are 62 routes. The men are required to enter the
yards, coUcct the offal, and empty the same into wagons ; then to
drive to one of the depots owned by the city. There are three
offal depots, loc.nted as follows: one on Albany- street, one on
Highland street, Roxbury, and one at the Almsliouse, Cliarles-
town. The offal is sold to farmers of adjoining towns, who pur-
chase a ticket of the offal clerk for the quantity tliey want; the
ticket is tlien taken to the clerk in charge of tiie dump, and he
measures out the quantity the ticket calls for; the ticket is
punched and returned at night to the clerk it was purchased of,
who makes out his daily account from the tickets sold.
Street Department.
313
House-dirt and Ashes.
There are employed in the collection and removal of house-
dirt and ashes 195 men and 162 carts, with two men to each
team. This material is removed from hotels, tenement-honses,
and stores daily ; from dwelling-houses once a week. There are
82 regular routes. The ordinance requires that house-dirt and
ashes shall be kept in an easy place for removal. The men are
required to enter the yards and remove the vessels of ashes,
place them upon the sidewalks ; the teams follow and are loaded ;
the empty vessels are returned to their original position in the
yard. There are employed 8 sub- foremen and 12 dumpers.
The ashes are sold and used for filling purposes.
Foremen, Mechanics, Watchmen, etc.
There are 4 district foremen ; 15 mechanics who are employed in
painting and manufacturing and repairing carts, wagons, sleds,
and harnesses, and shoeing horses ; 5 watchmen and 4 feeders.
Horse Account.
1891.
Dr.
1891.
Cr.
Jan. ].
On
hand
274
Feb.
Killed
1
Apr. 3.
Pu
rchased
2
Mar. 12.
Died
1
Apr. 7.
4
Mar. 25.
"
1
Nov. 27.
2
Mar. 25.
Killed
4
Dec. 3.
2
Mar. 31.
"
1
Dec. 10.
2
May 1.
Transferred to Street-
Dec. U.
2
Cleanina: Division
67
Dec. 21.
2
May 11.
May 16.
July 15.
Aug. 19.
Aug. 28.
Dec. 23.
1892.
Exch'd W. K. Porter
Killed
Died
Exch'd W. K. Porter
6
2
1
1
1
5
290
Jan. 1.
On hand
199
Total
Total
290
314 City Document No. 36.
Schedule of City Property at the South, West, Rox-
BURY, AND ChARLESTOWN StABLES.
199 Horses.
196 Harnesses, double and single.
196 Woollen blankets.
32 Car',)et blankets.
6 Buffalo robes.
Stock and tools in harness shop .S270 00 worth.
Tools in blacksmith shop 400 00
Blacksmith stock, iron and steel 3,000 00
Tools in wheelwright shop 115 00
Stock in wheelwright shop 5,175 00
Stock and tools in paint shop 261 75
Hay, straw, corn, oats, etc 2,083 00
162 Carts for collecting ashes.
79 One-horse wagons for collecting house-offal.
4 One-horse cesspool wagons.
5 Express wagons.
8 Old open wagons.
6 Top biaggies.
2 Two-seated wagons (new).
3 Vehicles for conveying prisoners.
1 Hay-rigging.
5 Market wagons.
215 Sleds for conveying ashes and offal.
8 Sleighs.
4 Pungs.
122 Snow-drags.
1 Demerritt cart.
1 Dumping-barge.
219 Cart-covers.
Respectfully submitted,
George W. Forristall,
Deputy /SupeKi7itendent.
Street Department. 315
APPENDIX D.
EEPOET OF DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF
SEWER DIVISION.
Mr. H. H. Carter, Superintendent of Streets of the City
of Boston :
Sir : The following report of the expenses, income, and
business of the Street Department, Sewer Division, from
Jan. 1, 1891, to Feb. 1, 1892, together with a few sugges-
tions on subjects which should receive attention, is respect-
fully submitted :
A large amount of work was done, in sewer construction,
in this division the past year ; but it comprises but a small
part of the present needs of the city in this direction.
These needs can only be satisfied by liberal appropriations,
which would unquestionably be sanctioned by the citizens
generally, if they could be made thoroughly conversant with
the subject. No subject is of greater importance to a large
and densely populated city than that of sewerage. The old
and imperfect sewers, mostly in the older and more thickly
settled districts, are in many cases nothing more than
elongated cesspools, and are such a menace to the health of
the public that they should be rebuilt without delay. In
the rapidly growing districts there is a great demand for
new sewers, which should be heeded, as it is shown re-
peatedly that the failure to build sewers petitioned for
has greatly delayed the development of these localities, and
consequently prevented the great increase in valuation
which would have resulted. The policy advocated by this
department, to be pursued in sewering the suburban dis-
tricts, differs from that of our predecessors in respect to the
right and policy of using the natural watercourses for pur-
pose of sewer overflows instead of for surface drainage only
as a part of a separate system. The reason for the present
policy is as follows : By the method now advocated the
brooks would escape the worst of the street-washings, which
would be carried off by the sewers before they would beo^in
to overflow, but would receive a slight contamination from
sewage ; slight, because the volume of sewage is ex-
316 City Document No. 3ij.
tremcl y sm:ill compared to the volume of storm-water. The
brooks are hound to carry dirty water in either case, as soon
as the district is built up ; there does not seem to be much
choice, certainly not enough to warrant the expense and
inconvenience of a double system of sewers.
Though a choice of evils, the evil in either case is small,
for this reason, that, whether it be foul street-wash or dilute
sewage which the brook receives, it is received at the
beginning of the storm and followed by a flood of clear
water which will sweep it away.
Whatever may be the result of such method, I firml}-
believe that it is the only thing for the city to adopt, and so
far as the city may be liable for damage, it seems to me that
the case of Merrifield v. Worcester, 110 Mass. Reports,
page 216, shows that the city would not necessarily be so
liable. In that case, the plaintiff sued for an alleged viola-
tion of his rights as riparian proprietor, upon a small natural
stream running through the city of Worcester, near its
centre. The injury complained of was that of polluting its
waters so as to render it unfit for mechanical and other pur-
poses, to which the plaintiff' had been accustomed to apply it.
He alleged generally that "the defendant in 1861, and on
divers days and times after that time, had cast, and caused to
be cast, carried, and deposited into said brook above the
plaintiff's works, great quantities of filth, dirt, gravel, refuse
and material matters discharged from sewers, privies, water-
closets, stables, sinks, and streets, and divers other noxious
materials and ingredients."
The Court in this case say :
"The case, then, presents the question upon what grounds
and to what extent a city is responsible in damages for such
effects produced by its system of drainage, or by the man-
ner in which its drains are used and managed. The right,
of which the plaintiff alleges a violation, is not that of ac-
quired property in possession. It is not an absolute right,
but a natural one, qualified and limited, like all natural
rights, by the existence of like rights in others. It is inci-
dent merely to his ownership of land through which the
stream has its course. As such owner, he has the right to
enjoy the continued flow of the stream, to use its force, and
to make limited and temporary appropriation of its waters.
These rights are held in common with all others having land
bordering upon the same stream ; but his enjoyment nmst
necessarily be according to his opportunity, prior to those
below him, subsequent to those above. It follows that all
such rights are liable to be modified and abridged in the en-
joyment, by the exercise by others of their own rights ; and,
Street Department. 317
so far as they are thus abridged, the loss is damnum absque
injuria. The only limit that can be set to this abridgment
through the exercise by others of their natural rights, is in
the standard or measure of reasonable use.
" So the natural right of the plaintiff to have the water
descend to him in its pure state, fit to be used for the various
purposes to which he may have occasion to apply to it,
must yield to the equal right in those who happen to be
above him. Their use of the stream for mill purposes, for
irrigation, watering cattle, and the manifold purposes for
which they may lawfully use it, will tend to render the
water more or less impure. Cultivating and fertilizing tlie
lands bordering on the stream, and in which are its sources,
their occupation by farm-houses and other erections, will
unavoidably cause impurities to be carried into the stream.
As the lands are subdivided and their occupation and use
become multifarious, these causes will be rendered more
operative, and their effects more perceptible. The water
may thus be rendered unfit for many uses for which it had
been before suitable ; but so far as that condition results
only from reasonable use of the stream in accordance with
the common right, the lower riparian proprietor has no
remedy.
"When the population becomes dense, and towns or villages
gather along its banks, the stream naturally and necessarily
suffers still greater deterioration. Roads and streets cross-
ing it, or running by its side, with their gutters and sluices
discharging into it their surface-water collected from large
spaces, and carrying with it in suspension the loose and
light material that is thus swept off, are abundant sources
of impurity, against which the law affords no redress by
action."
The foregoing is the language of the Supreme Court of
this State. I claim that such use of the brooks as is now
recommended could be shown to be only " reasonable use "
within the meaning of the Court, and that altogether too
much weight has been given to the fact that a smaTl quantity
of sewage would be unavoidably carried into the brooks by
the first overflow. It is not necessary to be able to assert
that there is absolutely no sewage in the overflow from the
sewer ; it will be sufficient to show that the brooks are not
unreasonably defiled, more than they would be by the
naturally dirty water from a settled district ; that there is no
permanent sewage contamination. Certainly this technical
point about a mere trifle of sewage ought not to be held to
be of sufficient importance to force the city into buildino- a
complete separate system.
318 City Document No. 36.
Parties continue to violate the ordinance whicli proliibits
the exhausting of steam into the sewers. To secure com-
pliance with the ordinance it is necessary first to identify
the offenders, usually the most difficult part of the under-
taking. In many cases the steam has been traced to its
source, notice served upon the parties offending, and the
nuisance abated ; many more cases will follow.
Another vexed question is that of proper disposal of roof-
water.
Section 101 of Chapter 374 of the Acts of 1885 requires
that " all water shall be conducted from a building or from
land to the street, gutter, or sewer, in such a manner as not
to flow upon the sidewalk." It is impracticable to convey
this water to the street or gutter without its flowing over
the sidewalk on account of its freezing in winter and filling
up its channel with ice, whether that channel is open or
covered. When the law is enforced, the usual and only
practicable expedient, where there is a sewer, is to connect
the leaders with the house-drain. Unless a trap is inter-
posed between this point of connection and the sewer, this
method is objectionable, for the reason that the leaders will
conduct the gases from the sewer to the upper windows of
the houses. It is also objectionable in those low districts
where separate systems of sewers have to be built large
enough to store the sewage during periods when the height
of tide prevents discharge, as the volume of roof-water is
about twelve times that of the sewage proper. Whenever
there is a catch-basin near by, the leaders can be connected
with it, and this is a very satisfactory arrangement. But
catch-basins are several hundred feet apart, and can serve
but few houses in this way. These considerations naturally
lead to the suggestion that a pipe might be laid under the
gutter to connect the catch-basin and furnish a continuous
channel into which the leaders from the roofs could dis-
charge, and if this pipe were laid deep enough to prevent
freezing no further trouble ^vould ensue. In districts where
the sewers are built on the combined principle, taking storm-
water from the streets as well as sewage, these pipes could
be small ; in those districts where a separate system of sewers
is built to take house sewage only, these pipes could be larger,
and could be developed into the system of surface-drains,
which is the necessary complement of a separate system.
The only objection to this proposition is on account of the
cost ; but the city cannot wholly escape expense in dealing
with this roof-water problem, — it is sued every year for
large sums for personal injuries from icy sidewalks.
Sewer assessments, covering the period from»Ian. 1, 1891,
Street Department. 319
to Feb. 1, 1892, to the amount of $59,104.06, have been
made and determined by the Deputy Superintendent of the
Sewer Division, in accordance with the Acts and Resolves of
the Legishiture.
Bills for sewer assessments amounting to $21,025.53 have
been sent to the City Collector for collection.
Entrance fees to the amount of $3,072.00 have been col-
lected (from estates upon which no assessment was ever
levied) in accordance with the ordinances of the city of
Boston. Twenty-four hundred and eighty-six permits have
been granted to drain-layers to connect house-drains with
the sewers, or to repair old drains; and the work done under
these permits has been duly inspected.
Following are tables showing the financial exhibit of the
division, the detailed record of sewers built, the rainfall as
gauged at the Albany-street yard, schedule of property,
report of pumping done during the year, etc.
320
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Improved Sewerage Maintenance.
Office expenses
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Engines and boilers
Main and intercepting sewers
Moon Island
Tow-boat . . . .
11,067 96
43,0.58 86
16,583 50
6,813 82
10.575 59
10,611 61
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Damages and claims
Koslindale channels
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20,347 30
$23,429 74
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superintendent, clerks, and draughtsmen
stationery, drawing materials, etc.
Engineering expenses, including salaries of
engineers, instruments, etc.
Current expenses of eight yards and lockers
Current expenses of seven stables, including
cost of horses, vehicles, harnesses, etc.
Repairing sewers .....
Cleaning and flushing sewers
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Repairing streets .....
Building and repairing culverts and surftice
drains ......
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Maintenance Stony brook
AVork for departments and others .
House fonnections ....
Water-rates ......
Drainage privileges ....
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Holidays ......
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21,282 11
22,110 72
27,656 16
7,268 53
16,884 42
39,593 28
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18,846 73
3.031 95
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Balances on old contracts
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yards .....
Hardware, blacksmithing, and tools
Rubber goods ....
Engines and boilers
Stock and supplies not included elsewhere
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163 31
2,527 22
12,001 77
1,380 70
826 36
4,444 49
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East Boston .
South Boston
Dorchester
Roxbury
West Roxbury
Sewers.
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9,946 22
13,873 32
78,188 41
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Charlestown .
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Brio;hton
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East Boston .
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South Boston
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Dorchester
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Roxbury
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Stony- brook Improvement
Miscellaneous
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23,859 70
93,430 34
23,429 74
266,214 25
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City Proper.
Surface Drains built between Jan. 1, 1891, and Feb. 1, 1892, by the City.
Locality.
Length in
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Dimensions
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Between.
and material.
Huntiiiiiton ave.
State stT
Tremont st
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Garrison st. and VV. Newton st. . .
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r2-in., pipe.
10-iu., pipe.
10-in., pipe.
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The cost of this work is included in the -expenditure on account of building catch-
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Work Done for an
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Sewees.
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Built.
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Charles street
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Lono'wood avenue.
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79 " repaired.
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19 manholes repaired.
409.02 feet of sewers built.
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Ctdverts built between Jan. 1, 1891, and Feb. i, 1892, by the City, either
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Locality.
Length in
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Material.
Built in
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Near N. Beacon street .
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Hobart street . . .
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Lake street ....
Near Washington street.
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Lake street ....
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Oakland street . .
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The cost of this work is included in the amount expended for building culverts, etc.
Work done for and Paid by Paving Division, Brighton.
street.
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Culverts.
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Repaired.
Lake street
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Murdock street
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6 catch-basins built.
83.85 feet of culverts built.
338
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Dorchester street.
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Washburn street. .
Gustin street
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Summary.
28 catch- basins built.
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7 manholes built.
4 " repaired.
1,187.49 feet of sewers built.
340
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Dorchester.
Sewers built between Jan. 1, 1S91, and Feb. 1, 1S92, by Private Parties.
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244.85
1,454.42
469.00
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513.75
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371.95
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Material.
1.5-in., pipe.
12-in., pipe.
15-in., pipe.
r2-in., pipe.
15-in., pipe.
12-iu., pipe.
12-in., pipe.
12-in., pipe.
10-in.,pipe.
12-in., pipe.
12-in., pipe.
12-in., pipe.
12 in., pipe.
15-in., pipe.
12-in., pipe.
10- in., pipe.
15-in., pipe.
12-in., pipe.
12-in., pipe.
12-in., pipe.
12-in., pipe.
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r2-in., pipe.
8-in., pipe.
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Remarks.
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Street Department.
343
Dorchester.
Surface Drains and Culverts built betiveen Jan. I, 1891, a?id Feb. 1, 1892,
by the City, either by Contract or Day Labor.
Locality.
Built in
Between
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Dimensions and
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Bailey st., near Hill-
side terrace . . .
Bay St., private land ]
Spi inodale st. and >
Bath ave. ... J
Blue Hill ave. anil
Norfolk st
Blue Hill ave., near
Harvard st. ...
Carrutli st., near Cod-
man st
Centre st., near Sea-
born st
Dorchester ave., near
Van Winkle st.
Dorchester ave., near
Kinjr st
Fuller St., near Hill-
side terrace ....
Midland st. and Savin Hill
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40.00
128. or
614.33
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30-in. .circular iron pipe.
30-in., circular, brick.
25.00ll0-in., pipe.
Geneva ave. and
Westville st. . . .
Harvard St., near Blue
Hill ave
Private land ....
Bowdoin and Ditson sts.
Private land.
Crusher yard and Rossetter
st
River st. and Neponset ave.
85.00
72.00
40.00
60.00
60.00
40.00
f 325 00
I 530.00
45.00
162.80
J 195.00
I 12.00
2,434.13
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5 ft. X 5 ft., stone.
3 ft, X 3 ft. 5 in., stone.
4 ft. X 3 ft. 5 in., stone.
4 ft. 6 in. X 4 ft. 11 in.,
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40 ft. or4 ft. X 3 ft. 5 in.,
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24-in., pipe.
18-in., pipe.
5 ft. X 4 ft. 5 in., stone.
12-in., pipe.
18-in , pipe.
20-in., iron pipe.
The cost of this work is included in the amount expended for building culverts, etc
Work done for and Paid by Paving^ Division, Dorchester.
Street.
Catch-Basins.
Manholes.
Surface Drains and
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Basin.
Repaired.
Built.
Repaired.
Length
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Size.
Ocean street
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Minot street . ...
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Buslinell street.
Boston and Har-
vest streets
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1 3 ft. 6 in.
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[^Circular.
Summary.
17 catch-basins built.
5 manholes repaired.
561.5 feet of sewers, surface drains, etc., built.
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Roxlmry.
Sewers built between Jan. 1, 1891, and Feb. 1, 1892, by Private Parties,
Locality.
Leng^th
in feet.
Dimensions and
Built in
Between
Material.
Avon place . .
Caleilouia st. . .
Dimock st. . . .
Galena st. ...
Gayland ave. . .
Howland st. . . .
Extension of old sewer ....
Parker st. and W. Chester park .
Amory st. and Brunswick ave. .
Gaston st. and Holborn st. . . .
Judson st. and W. Cottage st. .
Extension
70.00
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277.45
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195.20
293.00
210.35
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15-in., pipe.
12-in., pipe.
15-in., pipe.
12-in., pipe.
10-in., pipe.
12-in., pipe.
12-in., pipe.
12-in., pipe.
12-in., pipe.
12-in., pipe.
Julian ave. . . .
Jiidsou St. ...
Mt. Pleasant ave.
Private st. ...
Dor. Brook sewer and Rand sq.,
Julian ave. and Gayland ave. . .
End oi old sewer and Vine st. .
Blue Hill ave. and Gaston st. . .
2,586.45
Work Done for and Paid by Paving Division, Roxbury.
Street.
Catch-Basins.
Retaining
Wall.
Manholes
Repaired.
Sewers.
Built.
Repaired .
Length
in Feet.
Size.
Dudley st
Cabot St. .
Haskins st
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201.80
Fulda st
2
3
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Terrace st
Warren st
Shirley st
Howland st
Albany st
Centre st
Texas st
10-in., pipe
Parker st
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170 ft.
Summary.
30 calch-basins built.
22 " repaired.
170 feet retaining-wall.
15 manholes repaii-ed.
201.80 feet of sewers built.
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Surface Drains and Culverts built between Jan. 1, 1891, and Feb. 1,
1892, by the City, either by Contract or Day Labor.
L OCALITT.
Length in
leet.
Dimensions and
Built in
Between
Material.
Allandale street near
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40 00
194.00
40,00
65.00
41.00
40.00
436.00
350.00
73.00
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Allandale st., lower
brook
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18-in., pipe.
3 ft. 6 in, X 3 ft., stone.
15-in., pipe.
4 ft X 3 ft. 5 in. stone
Dale street ....
Maj'nard street . . .
Cornell street, near
Wash in "'ton . . .
Linnet street ....
4 ft. X 3 ft 6 in stone
South street ....
Sprinf^ street ....
Hall St., southwesterly
15-in-, pipe.
12 in., pipe.
4 It. X 3 ft 11 in stone
Sycamore and Flor-
ence streets . . .
1,279.00
The cost of this work is included in the amount expended for building culverts, etc.
Work done for and Paid by Paving Division, West
Roxbury.
Street.
Culverts.
Sewbk.
Length in
Feet.
Size.
Cornell street
S3'camore & Eidge \
streets J
Allandale street. . -j
Shirley street
Maynard street
Call street
41 ft. 3 ft. 6 in. X 3 ft. 11 in., stone.
73 ft., 4 ft. X 3 ft. 11 in., stone.
199ft., 18 in., pipe.
40ft.,3ft. 6in.X3ft. 11 in., stone.
40 ft., 2 ft. 6 in. X 2 ft. Bin., stone.
65 ft., 15 in., pipe.
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306.95
262.53
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I
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Summary.
299 feet of culverts built.
569.48 feet of sewers built.
350
City Document No. 36.
Suitiniary of Sewer Construction for the Thirteen Months
endinjf Jan. 31, 1892.
District.
City
Charlestown . .
East Bositon . .
Briijliton ....
South Boston .
Dorcliester . .
Koxburj'
West Roxbury
Total
Built by the
Cily by Con-
tract or
Day Labor.
Feet.
4,166.07
2,070.38
13,028.01
4,393.04
2.648.39
17,956.87
.6,352.33
8,635.09
69,250.18
Built by
Private Parties.
Feet.
9390
7,304.32
10,729.57
2,586.45
20,714.24
Total
Length Built
during the 13
Months ending
Jan. 31, 18i:2.
Peet.
4,166.07
2,070.38
13,121.91
11,697.36
2,648.39
28,686.44
8,938.78
8,635.09
79,964.42
9,698 catch-basins cleansed.
1,078.16 feet of culverts built.
710 feet of culverts repaired.
There are now 330 miles of sewers in charo^e of the Sewer
Division.
The amount expended by this division during the thirteen
months ending Jan. 31, 1892, including the amount spent
under special appropriations, was $717,358.60.
The items of expenditure are shown in the financial state-
ment.
Schedule of Sewers huilt to Date in the City of Boston.
Wards.
Feet.
Wards.
Feet.
Wards.
Feet.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
74,431
40,937
30.510
40,523
38,850
45,254
36,779
18,532
27,119
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for'd,
10
11....
12....
13....
14....
15....
16....
17....
352.935
38,382
74.399
41,817
51,353
75,097
46,329
31,626
41,428
753,366
BroH
for^d,
18....
19....
20....
21....
22
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24....
25 ... .
753,366
59,573
45,850
97,606
124,409
86,152
137,777
244,748
87,932
1,637,413
or 310.1 miles.
352,935
Intercopting sewers
Total
21.5 miles.
331.6
Street Department.
351
Fall of Rain and Siioiv in Inches at South Yard, Albany
Street, in thirteen months, ending Jan. 31, 1892.
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Totals.
6.63
5.24
4.03
2.65
2.01
3.21
3.20
3.51
2.99
6.67
2.14
3.78
6.58
Total for thirteen months 52.64 inches.
352 City Document No. 36.
Schedule of Tools, etc., owned by Sewer Division.
9 boats, 3 boring-tools, 3 boring-machines, 8 buggies, 1 brick-furnace,
1 cement testing-machine, 13 cleaning-wagons, 129 catch-buckets, 1
Cornish engine, 7 Concord wagons, 21 cesspool wagons, 1,685 ft. cleaning-
rods, 1 caravan, 1 drill-pump, 25 derricks, 1 diagram-machine, 2 demo-
crat wagons, 1 elevator engine, 1 electric engine, 12 express wagons,
6 engineer's levels, 5 engineer's transits, 1 furnace, 1 liather planer,
2 flushing wagons, 3,550 feet fire-hose, 7 farmers kettles, 11 flushing-
machines, 18 fire-hose nozzles, 17 hydrant goosenecks, 20 hydrant-
chucks, 9 hand-carts, 2,800 feet hand-hose, 12 hand-hose nozzles, 3 horse
scrapei's, 1 iron planer and set tools, 2 lathes, complete, 1 marine glass,
18 measuring-rods, 1 Paine engine, 9 regulator floats, 622 feet suc-
tion-hose, 2 sewer-boats, 4 sewer-trucks, 4 self-reading rods, 1 sludge-
machine engine, 1 steam-drill, 2 pontoon and 2 jumbo scrapers, 8
sleighs, 1 steam-launch, 32 shanties, 1 two-wheel truck, 11 tiiD-carts,
1 tow-boat, 5 Knowles pumps. No. 11 ; 1 Knowlespump, 1^-in. ; 1 Blake
pump. No. 9 ; 1 Blake pump, 10- in., suspension ; 5 Andrews pumps, 6-in. ;
1 Andrews j^ump, 4-in. ; 1 rotary pump, 6-in., submerged ; 1 Granger
pump, 2i-in. ; 1 Granger pump, 8-in. ; 1 Granger pump, 4-in. ; 1 Granger
pump, 6-in. ; 1 Weber pump, 6-in. ; 1 Douglass jDump, IJ-in. ; 22 Edson
pumps, 8-in. ; 3 siphon pumps, 4-in. ; 2 siphon pumps, 3-in. ; 2 tin hand-
pumps, 1 common pump, 3 Hoadley engines on wheels, 1 Hoadley en-
gine on platform, 2 hoisting-engines, and other miscellaneous tools
necessary to do the work of the division.
Catch-Basin, Manhole, and Pipe Stock.
37 stone frames, 147 catch-basin covers, iron; 111 catch-basin grates,
82 catch-basin traps, 152 catch-basin hooks, 57 catch-basin heads, 99
catch-basin gutters, 1 gutter mouth, 3 stone curbs, 170 catch-basin
covers, wooden ; 5,000 feet oak stock for wooden covers, 116 manhole
frames, 411 manhole covers, 550 manhole steps, 14 lamp-hole frames,
16 lamp-hole covers, 14 lamp-hole grates, 12 sump-chains, 11 bridle-
chains, 3 inlet pipes, 80 inlet-pipe connections, 6 inlet-pipe nozzles,
14 feet of 24-inch pipe, including branches, curves, bends, etc. 24 feet
of 20-inch pipe, including branches, curves, bends, etc. ;, 666.5 feet of
18-inch pipe, including branches, curves, bends, etc. ; 4,781.5 feet of
15-inch pipe, including branches, curves, bends, etc. ; 7,190 feet of
12-inch pipe, including branches, curves, bends, etc. ; 3,645 feet of
10-inch pipe, in'^luding branches, curves, bends, etc. ; 2 feet of 9-inch
pipe, including branches, curves, bends, etc, ; 1 ,820 feet of 8-inch pipe,
including branches, curves, bends, etc. ; 2,669 feet of 6-inch pipe, in-
cluding branches, curves, bends, etc. ; 12 feet of 5-inch pipe, including
branches, curves, bends, etc. ; 271 feet of 4-inch pipe, including
branches, curves, iDends, etc. ; 11 feet of 2-inch pipe, including branches,
curves, bends, etc.
Street DepaRtjment.
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354
City Document No. 36.
The following
is
a record of sli
ndge 1
•eceived in
and re-
moved from deposit-
-sewers for IS
months ending
Jan. 31,
1892:
Received.
Removed.
January, 1891
.
. 331 cubic
yards.
388
cubic yards.
February, "
,
. 245
(
237
March,
,
. 888
(
237
April,
.
. 206
(
318
May, "
. 661
628
June, *'
. 650
629
July,
, 212
545
August, " .
. 833
624
Se})temher, "
. 59
550
October, " .
. 457
476
November, "
. 584
476
December, "
. 382
397
January, 1892 .
. 342
558
5,850
6,063
Propeety in Charge of the Sewer Division.
Sewer yard, with buildings, at 678 Albany street.
Sewer yard, with building, on North Grove st.
Sewer yard, on Gibson street, Dorchester, with buildings.
This is Gibson School-fund land. The buildings were
erected by the Sew^er Department.
Sewer yard, with shed, on Boylston street, Jamaica Plain,
Small lot of land on Stony brook, corner of Centre street.
Ward 21.
Gate-house on Stonv brook, Pynchoa street, built in
1889.
Lot of land on Chestnot-Hill avenue, transferred from
the Street Department and not yet in use by the Sewer De-
partment.
Sewer yard, with buildings, on Rutherford avenue, Charles-
town.
Sewer yard, with buildings, cor. Paris and Marion streets.
Sewer yard, with buildings, on East Chester park, near
Albany street.
A small shed on Cypress street, Ward 9, on land hired
by the city.
Street Department.
355
Summary of Sewer Construction for Five Years.
1887.
1888.
1889.
1890.
1891.
Feet.
Feet.
Feet.
Feet.
Feet.
Built by City by Contract or Day
Labor . . ."
Built by Private Parties
63,062.79
8,932.23
34,633.81
44,368.47
49,002 28
30,003.03
13,191.45
24,200.25
17,218.10
59,250.18
20,714.24
Total number of feet built . . •
71,995.02
43,194.48
41,418.3£
79,964.42
Oak and Tyler Streets.
Labor ....
144 double loads gravel
26 tons coal .
Teaminor
Boring
4 manhole frames and covers
Trench-mach i ne
96,400 brick
Engine-hire .
189 double loads screenings
68^ double loads sand
3 tons sand
500^ barrels cement
17,503 feet lumber
767 feet pipe
Branches, bends, etc. .
Sundry supplies and repairs
Size and Length of Sewer.
868.98 ft., 2 ft. X 3 ft., brick.
Special appropriation . . . .
Furnished from current expenses. Sewer Divi-
sion .......
Vine Street.
Labor .....
120 barrels cement
49,500 brick
Atnount carried forward.,
6,348
92
281
50
120
90
1,975
50
l47
88
47
00
331
67
964
00
162
50
378
00
140
60
575
39
264
26
153
88
42
17
121
62
$12,055 79
$10,500 00
1,555 79
112,055 79
$4,399 31
141 60
383 ^=1
t,924 53
356
City Document No. 36.
Amount brought forward.
$4,924 53
Teaming ....... 275
50
3,347 feet lumber
43
12
31^ double loads gravel
58
95
21 1 doable loads sand .
40
50
1 manhole frame and cover
11
75
20s feet pipe
53
03
Branches and bends
21
92
Fuel and sundries
13
88
$5,443
18
Size and Length of Sewer.
U7.75 ft., 3 ft. 3 in. X 3 ft. 5 in., brick.
Special appropriation.
Sewer Outlet, D and Anchor Streets.
Built by Contract.
1,950 cu. yds. earth excavation and refilling,
at 90 cents ......
350 lin. ft., 4 ft. X 5 ft., wooden box sewer,
at $7.78
Less amount retained
Inspecting .
Miscellaneous
Special appropriation.
Orient-Heights Sewer. Section 1.
J3uilt by Contract.
357.20 lin. ft. earth excavation and refilling,
at $3.30
1,580.63 lin. ft. earth excavation and refillinof,
at $2.97
1.82 cu. yds. rock excavation, at $5
630 cu. yds. brick masonry, American cement,
at $4.75
586.06 cu. yds. concrete in place, at $3.50
$1,755 00
2,723 00
$4,478 00
800 00
$3,678 00
240 00
58 17
$3,976 17
n,178 76
4,694 47
9 10
2,992 50
2,051 21
Amount carried forward.
$10,926 04
Street Department.
357
Amo2i7it brought forward,
343.42 cu. yds. earth excavation below grade,
at 80 cents ......
343.42 cu. yds. gravel refilling, at 50 cents .
2.956 M ft. B.M. spruce lumber left in place,
at $12
1,319 lin. ft. 8-in. under-drain laid, at 15 cents,
154 house-connections, at 10 cents
Less amount retained
406,025 brick
1,499 bbls. cement
1,200 ft. pipe
8 manhole frames, covers, etc.
Bends, slants, etc.
Inspecting, etc. .
Miscellaneous
Size and Length of Sewer
357.21 ft., 4 ft. 6 in. X 4 ft. 9 in., brick.
1,580.63 ft., 4 ft. X 4 ft. 3 in., brick.
Special appropriation.
$10,926 04
274
74
171
71
35
47
197
85
15
40
$11,621
21
• ■ "
800
00
$10,821
21
4,060
50
.
1,873
70
243
00
165
84
40
69
1,115
00
246
16
$18,566
10
Orient-Heights Sewer. Section 2.
Built by Contract.
558.17 lin. ft. earth excavation and refilling,
at $2.50
498.40 lin. ft. 15-in. pipe laid, at $1.30 .
2,244.65 lin. ft. 12-in. pipe laid, at $1.60
99.71 cu. yds. rock excavation, at $5.00
191.21 cu. yds. brick masonry, American
cement, at $5.25
48 lin. ft. 8-in. under-drain, at 20 cents
43 house-connections, at 10 cents .
260 lin. ft. pipe laid as chimneys, at 10 cents,
Less 5% retained .
Amount carried forward.
1,395
42
647
92
3,591
44
498
55
1,003
85
9
60
4
30
26
00
,177 08
358 85
1,818 23
358
City Document No. 36.
A.mount brought forwar
d.
$6,818 23
128,500 brick
1,285 00
260 bbls. cement .
325 00
2,558 ft. pipe
969 61
Branches
427 89
Inspecting .
395 50
Manhole frames, etc.
211 10
Bends, etc. .
49 44
Miscellaneous
74 10
$10,555 87
8ize and Length of Sewer.
558.17 ft., 2 ft. X 3 ft., brick.
498.40 ft., 15 in., pipe.
2,244.65 ft., 12 in., pipe.
Special appropriation.
Bennington Street (at Saratoga Street).
Labor .....
$3,066 73
60,000 bricks . . .
600 00
355 barrels cement
436 40
58 double loads sand
99 00
609.5 double loads gravel
1,219 00
11,830 feet lumber
250 26
2 manhole frames and covers
' 23 50
16 manhole steps .
8 80
Engine and pump hire .
57 00
Coal
24 25
Teaming .....
165 00
Miscellaneous ....
97 77
$6,047 71
Size and Length of Sewer.
241 ft., 4 ft. 6 in. X 4 ft. 9 in., brick.
12 ft., 24 in., pipe.
Furnished from current expenses. Sewer
Division .... . . .
Special appropriation .....
$4,413 95
1,603 76
$6,047 71
Street Department.
359
Sumner and Orleans Streets
Labor .....
203,100 brick . . .
939 barrels cement
172.5 tons sand
1,188 doable loads gravel
1,364 feet pipe
Branches, bends, etc. .
12,874 feet lumber
33 tons coal ....
5 iron manhole frames and covers
18 iron manhole steps .
Trench machine and engine-hire
Teaming ....
Miscellaneous
$5,520 86
2,031 00
1,108 02
301 87
2,376 00
225 92
26 88
232 78
138 93
58 75
9 90
600 00
919 50
61 23
Size and Length of Sewer.
$13,611 64
484 ft., 4 ft. X 4 ft. 3 in., brick.
713.90 ft., 2 ft. 2 in. X 3 ft. 3 in., brick.
Special appropriation ..... $13,000 00
Furnished from current expenses, Sewer
Division ......
611 64
$13,611 64
Bremen Street.
'
Labor .......
$2,794 99
117,250 brick
622 barrels cement
1,172 50
733 96
85 tons sand
148 75
1,759 loads gravel
3 manhole frames and covers
1,759 00
35 25
Teaming ....
623 25
11,313 feet lumber
702 feet pipe ....
Branches, bends, etc. .
210 32
95 99
11 61
21 tons coal ....
98 -22
Carson machine ....
164 50
Engine-hire .....
92 00
Miscellaneous ....
13 05
$7,953 39
Size and Length of Sewer
687.02 ft., 3 ft. 8 in. X 5 ft. 4 in., brick.
Paid from current expenses, Sewer Division.
360
City Document No. 36.
Porter Street.
Labor $5,171 19
210,425 brick
2,104 25
1,067 bbls. cement
1,259. 06
2,591 loads gravel
2,591 00
1861 tons sand
a25 94
Teaming
915 00
9,459 ft. lumber .
172 86
1,524 ft. pipe
285 76
Branches, slants, etc. .
17 71
Coal ....
196 97
Trench machine .
296 00
Engine and pump
420 00
Manhole rings, etc.
29 00
Miscellaneous
74 31
$13,859 05
Size and Length of Sewer.
560.17 feet, 3 ft. 8 in. x 5 ft. 4 in., brick.
756.35 feet, 2 ft. 10 in. X 4 ft. 3 in., brick.
168.00 feet, 2 ft. X 3 ft., brick.
Special appropriation ..... $12,000 00
Furnished from current expenses Sewer Di-
vision 1,859 05
-$13,859 05
Rockwell and Armandine Streets.
Labor ........
$5,488 09
122,350 brick
1,284 66
1,009 ft. pipe
135 02
Branches, bends, etc. .
26 68
Carpentry ....
13 75
250 bbls. cement .
304 00
54|- double loads sand .
98 10
2 double loads screenings
3 00
Powder
72 69
Blacksmithing
206 90
«,652 ft. lumber .
193 09
14 double loads gravel .
21 00
3 manhole frames and covers
35 25
Teaming ....
222 00
$8,104 23
Street Department.
361
Size and Length of Sewer.
300 ft., 2 ft. 4 in. x 3 ft. 6 in., brick.
850 ft., 2 ft. X 3 ft., brick.
Special appropriation.
Mas:nolia Street.
Labor .......
$3,714 16
Teaming .......
218 25
2| tons sand . . . .
4 51
3,520 brick ......
36 96
11 bbls. cement .....
13 46
150 lbs. powder .....
54 00
2,033 ft. spruce .....
34 36
2 manhole frames and covers
23 50
18 manhole steps . . . .
9 90
681 feet pipe .....
225 80
Branches, bends, etc. ....
46 84
Blacksmithing .....
57 58
$4,439 32
Size and Length of Sewer.
408 ft., 12 in., pipe.
Special appropriation.
Adams, Codman, and Hutchinson Streets.
Labor .
$4,771 36
198,980 brick
2,089 28
388 bbls. cement
457 84
49 double loads sand
93 20
795 feet drain-pipe
160 21
Branches, bends, etc.
12 49
412 feet lumber .
6 96
Coal .
95 69
3 manhole frames and covers
35 25
Trench machine and engine-hire
489 05
Teaming ....
349 50
Miscellaneous
45
18,561 28
Size and Length of Sewer.
987 feet, 2 ft. 6 in. X 3 ft., brick.
Paid from current expenses, Sewer Division.
3G2
City Document No. 36.
Labor .
361,650 brick
832 bbls. cement .
43 double loads sand
536 " " gravel
5,791 feet drain-pipe
Branches, bends, etc.
31,750 feet lumber
35 manhole frames and
Coal .
Teaminsj
Piling
Miscellaneous
Size and Length of Sewer.
721.88 ft., 2 ft. 4 in. x 3 ft. 6 in., brick.
452.72 ft., 1 ft. 8 in. x 2 ft. 6 in., brick.
2,699.30 ft., 15 in., pipe.
1,495.15 ft., 12 in., pipe.
Special appropriation.
OXjli, X
LXTittC
XiUll
LI, \D\)\J
m
• • . •
$8,913 03
3,794 82
983 86
83 60
971 75
2,395 04
448 18
559 56
cover.
411 25
14 92
407 12
533 00
361 52
$19,877 65
Harvard and Kilton Streets.
Labor .......
$6,806 26
Coal
97 65
13,480 feet lumber ....
257 00
Carson trench machine and engine-hire .
705 94
Carpentry . . . . ...
57 50
Powder, etc.
70 12
9 manhole rings and covers .
105 75
Blacksmithing ......
262 15
147,300 brick
1,546 QQ
2,416 pipe .......
1,007 47
Branches, bends, etc. ....
208 22
55 double loads and 23 tons sand .
122 00
287 bbls. cement ....
345 16
10 double loads gravel . . . .
15 00
Supplies, repairs, etc. ....
3 75
Teaming ......
289 50
Inspector ......
150 50
$12,050 63
Street Department.
363
Size and Length of Sewer.
995 ft., 2 ft. X 3 ft., brick.
900 ft., 18 in., pipe.
478 ft., 15 in., pipe.
Special appropriation ....
lurnished from current expenses. Sewer
Division .......
$12,000 00
50 63
$12,050 63
Sewer in Adams, Beaumont, and Burgoyne Streets.
Built hy Contract.
231.03 linear feet 18-incli pipe sewer, at
$1.50 _ .
798.83 linear feet excavating and refilling
above grade of 2 ft. X 3 ft., brick sewer, at
$2.20
211.41 cubic yards brick masonry, at $5.40 .
35 feet 6-inch slants, at 10 cents .
724 linear feet 6-inch under-drain, at 20 cents,
6.39 cubic yards rock excavation, at $5.00
Less 5% retained
Inspecting .
121,100 brick
320 barrels cement
911 feet pipe
Branches, etc.
Manhole rings and covers
Miscellaneous
Size and Length of Sewer.
798.16 feet, 2 feet X 3 feet, brick.
Paid from current expenses, Sewer Division.
Westville Street.
Labor .
Teamino-
$346 55
1,757
43
1,141
61
3
50
144
80
31
95
$3,425 84
171
29
$3,254 55
410
00
1,271
55
380
33
257
20
. •. 30
71
58
75
. . . 60
69
$5,723
78
,975 77
172 50
jimount carried forward,
$3,148 27
364
City Document No. 36.
Amount brought forward,
1,354 feet pipe
Branches, bends, etc. .
$3,148 27
321 20
77 36
4,406 feet lumber
22 double loads sand
74 46
39 60
Black smithing
65 00
56,500 brick
131 barrels cement
593 25
154 58
4 manhole rings and covers
47 00
2 pieces C. B. curving .
7 50
14,528 22
Size and Length of Sewer.
700 feet of 12-inch pipe.
211 " "4 feet 6 inch, circular.
158 *' " 3 " 6 "
248 " «« 3 " t'
Special appropriation . . . . .
Furnished from current expenses, Sewer Divi-
sion ........
Size and Length of Seiver
1,290.48 feet, 2 feet X 3 feet, brick.
4«.B1 " 2 " X 3 " "
72.03 " 18 '^ pipe.
Special appropriation .
:,003 36
524 86
$4,528 22
Commonwealth Avenue.
Labor $7,349 19
52,050 brick ....
535 05
208 barrels cement
242 22
46j double loads sand .
93 OU
36^ " " gravel
63 00
28 " " screenings .
55 50
12,621 feet lumber
206 22
5 manhole frames and covers
58 75
690 feet pipe
75 60
Branches, etc. ...
10 06
Teaming . . . .
729 00
Trench machine
96 80
Engine-hire ....
65 00
Salt hay ....
75 00
Fuel
63 90
Miscellaneous supplies .
131 93
$9,850 22
Street Department.
365
Calumet Street.
Built by Contract.
145.47 cubic yards brick masonry, at $13.00
174.31 " " concrete, " 4.65
1,440.50" " rock excavated, " 4.00
155.1 linear feet 12-in. pipe laid, " .50
Previous payments . . .
Inspecting
Branches, bends, etc. .
Coal ....
Manhole frames and covers
$1,891 11
810 54
5,762 00
77 55
$8,541
20
3,687
60
$4,853
60
758
50
17
37
2
55
35
25
$5,667
27
Size and Length of Sewer.
472.62 feet, 2 ft. x 3 ft., brick.
Paid from current expenses. Sewer Division.
Bacon and Raleigh Streets.
Labor ....
26,433 feet of lumber
Teaming
Coal ....
Boring ....
439^ bbls. cement .
84 double loads sand
787 feet pipe
Branches, bends, etc.
Engine-hire .
Trench machine
88,000 brick .
144 double loads screenings
101 " " gravel .
5 manhole frames and covers
Iron pipe
Supplies, blacksmithing, etc.
$4,751 82
430 85
1,148 50
65 10
90 50
524 30
154 80
189 36
40 49
132 50
207 36
886 80
243 75
169 65
58 75
40 54
66 45
1,201 52
363
City Document No. 36.
Size and Length of Sewer.
562.12 feet, 2 ft. x 3 ft., brick.
193.30 " 15 in., pipe.
36.33 " 12 in., "
Paid from current expenses. Sewer Division.
Holland Streets.
Crawford and
Labor ....
46,400 brick .
231 bbls. cement .
42 double loads sand .
42.5 " " gravel .
74 feet drain-pipe .
Branches, bends, etc.
21,750 feet lumber
Manhole frames and covers
" steps
Teaming
Piling ....
Miscellaneous
Size and- Length of Sewer,
570.07 feet, 1 ft. 8 in. X 2 ft. 6 in., brick.
Paid from current expenses, Sewer Division.
Rebuilding Dorchester
Labor .....
Coal .....
Derrick, engine, etc., hire of
),257 18
467 50
273 00
74 80
60 00
20 84
11 91
358 99
51 72
22 00
308 25
205 80
37 22
',149 21
Miscellaneous supplies, rep
Iron pipe, bolts, etc.
1,521 barrels cement
84 feet drain-pipe
342,225 brick
67,988 feet lumber
332 double loads screenings
458^ " " sand .
4( 2I " " gravel
Teaming
• • • 1
Furnishing and driving piles
7 manhole steps .
Carpentry .
175 perches stone
au^mo;
Brook Sewer.
,
. $n,079 36
351 15
917 11
tools
, etc.
485 83
964 49
1,920 02
18 93
3,422 25
1,203 36
498 00
806 20
603 75
802 00
1,572 78
3 85
7 50
437 46
$25,094 04
Str
EET I
)epar
TMEN
r.
367
Special appropriation
....
. $20,366 02
Furnished from current expenses, Sewer
Division .
4,728
02
$25,094 04
Dustin Street.
Labor .
• • . .
$4,156
65
84,675 brick
846
75
240 barrels cement
296
50
17 loads sand
16
66
1,213 feet pipe
517
91
Branches, slants, etc.
130
50
2,000 feet lumber
34
00
Teaming
27
00
Manhole frames, etc.
94
00
Miscellaneous
33
36
$6,153
33
Size and Length of Sewer.
429.60 ft., 24 in. x 36 in., brick.
359.80 ft., 20 in. x 26 in., brick.
641.66 ft., 18-in. pipe.
Special appropriation . . . . ,
Furnished from current expenses. Sewer Di-
vision .......
;,ooo 00
153 33
Labor ....
711,150 brick
2,129 barrels cement
502.5 double loads sand
545 " " gravel
3,377 feet drain-pipe
Branches, bends, etc.
44,912 feet lumber
20 manhole frames and covers
Coal ....
Teaming .
Miscellaneous
^ohasset Streets,
$6,153
33
etc.
. $25,834
46
8,243
80
2,596
37
773
40
702
80
456
20
70
49
793
04
239
50
101
57
622
40
3,111
03
$43,545
06
368 City Docibient No. 36.
Size and Length of Sewer.
1,988.80 ft., 2 ft. 4 in. x 3 ft. 6 in., brick.
750.25 ft., 2 ft. 2 in. X 3 ft. 3 in., brick.
1,607.65 ft., 2 ft. X 3 ft., brick.
Special appropriation.
Respectfully submitted,
H. W. Sanborn,
Deputy Superintendent.
Street Department. 369
APPENDIX E.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERIN-
TENDENT OF THE STREET-CLEANING DI-
VISION OF THE STREET DEPARTMENT.
Boston, Feb. 1, 1892.
H. H. Carter, Esq., Superintendent of Streets:
Dear Sir: In reply to your circular of Dec. 14, 1891, in
regard to the annual report, I beg leave to ofl'er the follow-
ing statement of the expenditures, income, and business of
this division, together with a schedule of the appreciable
property on hand, for the nine months ending Jan, 31, 1892.
When I assumed charge of the Street-Cleanino- Division, I
found the work being prosecuted under the direction of
G. W. Forristall, of the Sanitary Division, and it was
mutually understood that he was to continue keeping the
record of the work done, and an account of the manner in
which the money was expended, until the close of the fiscal
year ending April 30, 1891.
My report, consequently, which is herein submitted, covers
the period of nine (9) months ending Jan. 31, 1892.
Financial Statement.
Amount of appropriation .... $250,000 00
Total expenditures . . $215,464 92
Transferred to Sewer Division, 20,000 00
235,464 92
Unexpended $14,535 08
Street Police Division.
Amount of appropriation .... $5,000 00
Total expenditures . . $464 41
Transferred to Central Office, 1,050 00
Transferred to Paving Division, 3,485 59
$5,000 00
370
City Document No. 36.
Objects of Expenditure.
Superintendence.
Salary of Deputy Superintendent
Office pay-rolls, including pay
drauohtsraan, and messengers
Advertising, etc.
Board of horse
Use of carriages
Maps, plans, etc.
Printing
Stationery .
Telephone service, etc,
Total cost of superintendence
of
lerks,
52,333 34
3,516 62
51 00
230 81
21 00
258 35
398 07
462 05
79 73
;7,350 97
Cleaning Streets,
Including the Cost of Sweeping, Loading, and Removal of
Street-dirt.
District 1.
West End
. $15,101 67
District 2.
North End ...
17,412 22
District 3.
South End
16,502 09
District 4.
South End
15,943 24
District 5.
Back Bay
15,205 72
District 6.
South Boston and Dorchester
17,239 87
District 7.
Roxbury and West Roxbury
,11,995 63
District 8.
Briohton ....
*
District 9.
Charlestown and East Boston
il cost of cleaning streets
12,008 52
Tots
$121,408 96
Cleaning Gutters, Crossings, and Sidewalks,
Including Oost of Scraping, Loading, and Removal of Street-
dirt.
District 1.
District 2.
District 3.
West End
North End
South End
$2,015 56
102 88
126 17
Amount carried forward,
!,244 61
*InBriahton, there was no sweeping except of crossinsjs, and the street-cleaning was
confined wholly to scraping macadamized roads and gutters. The expense is given under
Guitur Work.
Street Department.
371
Amount brought forward,
District 4. South End
District 5. Back Bay ....
District 6. South Boston and Dorchester
District 7. Roxbury and West Roxbury
District 8. Brighton ....
District 9. Charlestown and East Boston
Total cost of cleaning gutters, etc.
$2,244 61
782 23
2,048 19
2.(108 12
1,713 61
3,738 25
1,944 75
$14,479 76
Cost of Maintaining Dumps.
District 1.
West End
$445 03
District 2.
North End
388 15
District 3.
South End 1
5 20
District 4.
South End ^ . . .
95 17
District 5.
Back Bay ....
378 36
District 6.
South Boston and Dorchester
405 12
District 7.
Roxbury and West Roxbury
.
District 8.
Brighton ....
District 9.
Charlestown and East Boston
il cost of dumps . . . .
331 00
Tot^
$2,048 03
Cost or Removal of Snow,
District 1.
West End ....
$976 96
District 2.
North End
854 QH
District 3.
South End
741 39
District 4.
South End
880 10
District 5.
Back Bay . . ...
995 30
District 6.
South Boston and Dorchester
930 82
District 7.
Roxbury and West Roxbury
890 85
District 8.
Briohton .
246 00
District 9.
East Boston and Charlestown
il cost of removing snow
645 98
Toti
$7,162 08
1 District 3 used Districts 1 and 2 dumps rejjularly.
^ District 4 used Districts 1, 2, and 5 dumps regularly.
372
City Document No. 36.
Patrol System.
Push-carts, including labor, teaming, etc.
Paper patrol, labor and teaming
Snow .......
Superintendence .....
Total
$14,582 29
3,696 50
679 89
943 41
.9,902 09
Recapitulation or Expenses, exclusive or Superin-
tendence, Stable and Yard Expenses, Stock Ac-
count, AND Miscellaneous.
District.
Cost of Clean-
ing Streets.
Cost of Cloan-
ing Gutters,
Crossings, and
Sidewalks.
Cost of
Dumps.
Cost of
Removing
Snow.
Cost of
Patrol
System.
Total.
No. 1 . .
No.2 . .
No. 3 . .
No.4 . .
No. 5 . .
No. 6 . .
No. 7 . .
No. S . .
$15,101 67
17,412 22
16,502 09
15,943 24
15,205 72
17,239 87
11,995 63
$2,015 66
102 88
126 17
782 23
2,048 19
2,008 12
1,713 61
3,738 25
1,944 75
$445 03
388 15
5 201
95 172,
378 36
405 12
331 00
$976 96
854 68
741 39
880 10
995 30
930 82
890 85
246 00
645 98
$18,539 22
18,757 93
17,374 85
17,700 74
18,627 5T
20,583 93
14,600 09
3,984 25
No.9 . .
12,008 52
14,930 25
Patrol S
$19,902 09
$19,902 09
Total . . $121,408 96
$14,479 76
$2,048 03
$'7,162 08
$19,902 09
$165,000 92
1 District 3 used the Districts 1 and 2 dumps regularly.
2 District 4 used Districts 1, 2, and 5 dumps regularly.
Stable and Yard Expenses,
Including the Cost of the South End, West End, Roxhury,
and Ohmiestoivn Stables, as folloivs :
Superintendence ...... $1,357 59
Lal)or, including cost of feeders, hostlers,
l)r()om-maker8, blacksmiths, carpenters,
watchmen, etc. ..... 3,964 93
Aonount carried forward.
.,322 hi
Street Department.
873
Amount broughi forward,
Cart and carriage repairs
Carts, use of . . .
Coal
Harness repairs
Horse- shoeing
Repairs on lockers
Repairs on sweeping-machines
Ferry-passes, car-tickets
Tool repairs
Veterinary services and medicines
Total stable and yard expenses
$5,322 52
1,918 71
120 00
14 55
214 Oi)
1,675 53
292 46
940 77
219 18
16 41
156 U
$10,890 30
Stock Account.
Broom-stock purchased
Carts, carriages, etc., purchased
Harnesses, horse furnishings, purchased
Horses purchased . . . .
Push-carts purchased . . . .
Sleigh purchased . . . ,
Sweeping-machines purchased
Tools
Total ......
^5,870 16
6,323 50
3,376 78
3,200 00
1,117 50
95 00
1,125 00
781 58
}1,889 52
Miscellaneous.
Holidays
Sand .
Sundries
Total
$9,543 00
76 50
963 71
$10,583 21
General Recapitulation of Expenses.
For Nine Months ending Jan. 31, 1892.
Superintendence ...
Cleaning of streets ....
Cleaning gutters, crossings, and sidewalks
Maintaining dumps ....
Removal of snow and ice
Amount carried forward ,
$7,350
97
. 121,408
96
14,479
76
2,048
03
7,162
08
$152,449
80
374
City Documknt No. 8().
Amov.Dt hrouglit forward ,
Cost of patrol system
Stsil)le and yard expenses
Stock account
Miscellaneous
Total ....
$152,449 80
19,902 09
10,890 30
21,889 52'
10,583 21
^$215,714 92
Table slioAving the Cost per Mile of Cleaning the Streets in each
District, exclusive of Supervision and other Expenses.
District.
No. of
Miles
Cleaned.
Cost of
Cleaning.
Cost of
Dump.
Total Cost.
Cost per
Mile.
No. 1
1,136.34
1,541.20
1,218.41
1,281.51
539.86
679.25
307.15
$15,101 67
17,412 22
16,502 09
15,943 24
15,205 72
17,239 87
11,995 63
$396 07
345 45
4 63
84 70
386 74
360 56
$15,497 74
17,757 67
16,606 72
16,027 94
15,542 46
17,600 -^3
11,995 63
$13 63+
11 52+
13 54+
12 50+
28 78+
25 91+
39 05+
No. 2
No. 3
No. 4
No. 5
No. 6
No. 7
No. 8
No. 9
569.52
12,008 52
294 59
12,303 11
21 60+
Total
7,273.24
$121,408 96
$1,822 74
$123,231 70
Average cost per mile of cleaning streets in eight (8)
districts, exclusive of supervision, etc., $16.94.
Districts 5, 6, 7, and 9 are made up partly of paved
streets and partly of macadamized streets, and as the cost of
scraping a macadamized street and gutter is largely in ex-
cess of cleaning a paved street, the rates per mile in these
districts exceed those of Districts 1, 2, 3, and 4, which are
within the paved area.
* One liuiidred twenty dollnvs of this ainoiint offset by sale of three horses, in exchange.
One hundred thirty doHars of thi.-f amount offset hy sweepiniis dumped al L street, maliing^
the net e.\pen8es of this division, as shown in financial statement, $:ild,464.92.
Street Department.
175
Table showing the Cost per Mile of Cleaning the Streets in each
District, including Supervision, Labor, Yard, and Stable Expenses.
5
1,136.34
^ 02
o a
•gn
^3
CO ^
6
'a a
-X »
£. =^
Total
per Mile.
No. 1 . .
$684
11
$15,497
74
$1,150 44
$17,332
29
$15 25
No. 2 ..
I,n41.f0
783
87
17,757
67
1,318 21
19,859
75
12 88
No. 3 . .
1,218.41
728
65
16,506
72
1,225 34
18,460
71
15 15
No. 4 ..
1,281.51
707
50
16,027
94
1,189 80
17,925
24
13 98
No. 5*..
539.86
686
08
15,542
46
1,153 76
17,382
30
32 19
No. 6* . .
679.25
776
92
17,600
43
1,306 53
19,683
88
28 97
No. 7*..
307.15
529
51
11,995
63
890 47
13.415
61
43 67
No. 8 ..
No. 9* . .
569.52
543
08
12,303
11
913 30
13,759
49
24 15
Total . . .
7,273.24
$5>439
72
$123,231
70
$9,147 85
$137,819
27
*Includes the cost of cleaning the macadamized streets in these districts.
Average cost per mile of cleanino; the streets in eight (8)
districts, including supervision, etc., $18.94.
Income.
Bills deposited with the City Collector from May
5, 1891, to Jan. 30, 1892, on which payment is
expected $941 00
Amount credited to this division by City Collector
up to date, on account of above bills • . 497 00
Complaints.
Made by police ......
1
Made by Paving Division ....
1
In form of a petition .....
1
By telephone .......
2
Anonymous .......
4
Individuals, personally and by letter
26
Through Central Office
36
Total number of complaints
Force Employed.
Deputy Superintendent .
Chief Clerk
Messengers .....
Employees .....
Entire force ....
71
1
1
2
328
332
376
CiTr Document No. 36.
Charge of this Division.
horses, driving.
hydrants.
machine, boring.
machine brooms.
machine for cutting bass.
market wagons.
oil horse-covers.
scrapers, asphalt.
shovels, scoops, etc.
sleigh.
squeegees.
steam- box and boiler.
surcingles.
sweeping-machines, double.
sweeping-machines, single.
In addition to the above, there is an amount of stock
whose quantity is constantly varying, such as broom-stock,
rattan, bass, machine-oil, cart-oil, soap, medicine, flax,
broom-cord, pitch, broom-handles, coal, etc.
Respectfully submitted,
Philip A. Jackson,
Deputy Superintendent.
Inventory of Property
IN
Cl
74 barrels for push-carts.
3
76 blankets, stable.
7
34 blankets, street.
1
191 brushes, horse.
15
2 buggies, Concord.
1
1 buggy, Goddard.
2
37 carts, push.
74
9 carts, iron.
8
5 carts, McDonald, Pate
it steel.
589
12 carts, water.
1
61 carts, wooden.
12
67 harnesses, cart.
1
5 harnesses, driving.
72
9 harnesses, double.
IH
1 harness, express.
15
70 horses, cart.
Street Department. 377
APPENDIX F.
City of Boston, Engineering Department,
50 City Hall, Feb. 1, 1892.
Mr. H. H. Carter, Superintendent of Streets:
Sir : I herewith submit the followino^ report of the work
done under my direction for your department.
Plans and profiles of streets to be paved were made, quan-
tities estimated, and specifications prepared.
The work done is shown in the accompany in^^ tables ; the
city furnished all material except paving-gravel, and gener-
ally the materials were delivered to the contractor from
wharves or from city yards. In some cases the paving-
blocks were delivered by the city on or in the vicinity of the
work. Such of the old materials as the city could use were
delivered by the contractor.
It will thus be seen that the prices contained in the tables
have no comparative value, since the conditions differed on
each street, some being paved, others macadamized or grav-
elled ; also the length of haul for new supplies and for dis-
posing of old material, and the relative quantity of each, was
far from uniform.
Under seventeen contracts, 4.35 miles of street were
paved at a cost, exclusive of material furnished by the city,
of $169,161.02.
The following is a brief summary of the items :
52,744 sq. yds. block paving on gravel furnished were
laid at an average cost of $1,155 per sq. yd.
9,294 sq. yds. block paving on a cement concrete base,
with pitched joints, were laid at an average cost of $2,727
per sq. yd.
15,189 sq. yds. of asphalt paving were laid ; average cost,
with cement concrete base, $3,635 per sq. yd. ; when the
old base was used, the cost was $2,025 per sq. yd.
31,509 linear feet of edgestones were set at an average
cost of $0,329 per linear ft^
21,372 sq. yds. sidewalk were relaid at an average cost
of $0,836 per sq. yd.
3,079 sq. yds. of flagging cross-walks were laid at an av-
erage cost of $1,184 per sq. yd.
The specifications of one contract provided that the city
378 City Document No. 3().
should furnish the gravel and remove the old materials. The
quantities of work done under that contract have been in-
cluded in the totals of work done in the above statements,
but they have not l)een used in determining the average
costs. Counts of paving-blocks used in small areas actually
laid are found to be variable. The average of the largest
areas where exact number of blocks used is obtainable is
about 25 large and about 38 small blocks to the square
yard. The cost of blocks, including culling and wharfage, is
about five cents per small block, and seven and one-half
cents per large block, making the cost for blocks per yard
$1.90 in each case. The small blocks came from Quincy,
Mass., and were used for suburban streets; they were de-
livered on the work. The large blocks came mostly from
Ca])e Ann, and were delivered on wharves.
The average cost of block paving on a gravel foundation
was $1.1 5 X $1.90 = $3.05 per sq. yd.
The work was done under somewhat severe specifications,
requiring the removal of 13 inches of old material, the grad-
ing and rolling the road-bed, and the furnishing of 6 inches
of new gravel. The cost of supervision and inspection is
not included in the above. Details of the wc-rk done are as
follows :
A Street, South Boston, from Broadway to First
street, was paved with granite blocks on a gravel founda-
tion, by Collins & Ham. The old surface was of cobble
paving. The old cobbles were hauled to the crusher at
Broadway bridge, the surplus earth to L- street extension ;
the new paving-blocks were hauled from the New York
& New Enoland R.R. wharf, and the edo-estones and flao-oino-
from the Albany-street paving yard.
First Street, from New York & New England R.R. to
F street, was paved with granite blocks on a gravel
foundation, by Collins & Ham. The old surface was gen-
erally of gravel, with concrete patches, and one block from
E street to F street was paved with cobbles. The
old cobbles were hauled to the Broadway-bridge crusher,
the surplus earth to the L-street dump. The new granite
blocks were hauled from the New York & New England
R.R. wharf and from the Bay State wharf, the edgestones
and the flagging from the South End yard ; the edgestones
were delivered to the contractor on the street.
Troy street, from Harrison avenue to Albany street, was
paved with granite blocks on a gravel foundation, by James
Grant & Co. The old surface was of macadam, and was
very hard. The cobble-stones in the gutter were hauled to
the Broadwav-bridii'e crusher, the earth and macadam to
Street Department. 379
East Chester park, between Swett street and New York &
New England R.R. ; the new granite blocks, and all other
new materials furnished by the city, were delivered from the
Albany-street yard.
Longiuood avenue^ from Huntington avenue to Parker
street, was paved with granite blocks on a gravel foundation,
by James Doherty & Co. The old surface was of macadam ;
the surplus earth was hauled to Parker street, near Hunting-
ton avenue ; the cobble-stones from the gutters to the
Tremont-street crusher ; the Quincy paving-blocks were
delivered on the street, and all other materials furnished by
the city were hauled from the Albany-street yard.
Austin street, Charlestoivn, from Main street to Ruther-
ford avenue, was paved with granite blocks on a gravel
foundation, by John Turner & Co. The old surface was of
macadam. The surplus material was the property of the
contractor, and the cobble gutter-stones were purchased by
him from the city ; the granite paving-blocks and the cross-
walks were delivered to the contractor on the street, and the
other materials came from the Charlestown paving yard, on
Medford street.
A short section of the street in front of a church
was paved wdth asphalt by the Barber Asphalt Paving
Company.
Fulton street, from Richmond street to Lewis street, was
paved with granite blocks on a gravel foundation, by B. F.
Nay & Co. The old surface was paved with cobble-stones,
which were hauled to the Broadway-bridge crusher; the
surplus earth was disposed of by the contractor; the granite
paving-blocks and all paving materials were delivered from
the North End paving yard, on Commercial street.
Columbus avenue, from the railioad bridge to West
Chester park, w^as nearly all resurfaced l)y the Barber
Asphalt Paving Company. The concrete base where de-
fective was patched, and if not found at proper grade was
brought to grade, the new concrete furnished being paid for
by the cubic yard. A portion of the street was patched by
the company at its own expense, under a five-year guarantee
given in 1887 ; a small portion of the old surface was
patched. A plan has been jirepared and filed with the con-
tract showino; the areas under o-uarantee, and the time of
expiration of the saine. The old material was wasted and
used for filling on Parker street. The new work is to be
kept in order by the company for five years under the
contract.
Bedford street, from Chauncy to Columbia street, and
Kingston street, from Summer to Bedford street, were
380 City Document No. 36.
paved with granite blocks, with pitched joints on a Rosen-
dale cement base, by H. Gore & Co.
The surface was paved, and a portion of the old blocks
were used in the new work ; the culls were hauled to Scotia
street on the Back Bay ; the surplus earth was hauled to
Parker street ; the new granite blocks were hauled from Wales
wharf; and the other new material from the Albany-street
yard.
Dudley street, from Washington street to Blue Hill
avenue, was repaved by James Grant & Co. The old sur-
face was partly of macadam and partly paved with granite
block paving. The old blocks of suitable quality were used
in repaving, and the culls were delivered to the Bird-street
yard ; the surplus filling was delivered on Marshlield and
Shirley streets ; the new Quincy granite blocks and the side-
walk bricks were delivered to the contractor on the street,
and the other new material was hauled from the Albany-
street yard.
Terrace street, from Tremont to New Heath street, was
paved by A. A. Libby & Co. The old surface was of
macadam, and the old material was used for surfacing
several streets within a radius of one mile from Terrace
street. The new Quincy blocks, the edgestones, and the
sidewalk bricks were delivered on the street. The new
flagging was hauled from the Albany-street yard. The
joints of the paving opposite the school- house, next Tremont
street, were pitched at an extra expense of seventy-three
cents per square yard.
Second street, from B street to Granite street, and
Third street, from A street to Second street. South
Boston, were paved with granite blocks on a gravel founda-
tion, by Collins & Ham. The old surface was cobble-stone
paving, the old stones were hauled to the Broadway crusher,
and the surplus excavation was hauled to the L-street
extension. The new granite blocks were hauled from the
New York & New England wharf, the sidewalk bricks were
delivered on the street, and the flaaoino- vvas hauled from
the Albany-street yard.
Tremont street, from Scollay square to Boylston street,
was paved with granite blocks on a Rosendale cement con-
crete base, by H. Gore & Co. The work was let in two
sections, with Temple place as the point of division. The
old granite blocks were delivered by the contractor on
sundry streets, within one and a half miles' haul, and the
surplus earth was the property of the contractor. The new
granite blocks were hauled from Burnham's wharf, the
paving-bricks were delivered on the street, and the flagging
.Street Department. 381
in part was delivered from the Albany-street yard, and in
part delivered on the street. The joints of the new paving
were filled with hot screened pebl)les and hot paving-pitch.
Second street, from Dorchester to E street, South Boston,
was paved with granite blocks on a gravel foundation, by J.
Doherty & Co. The old surface was of cobble paving. The
old cobbles were delivered on Ninth street, opposite H street ;
the surplus excavation was delivered on the L-street exten-
sion. The new granite blocks were hauled from the Bay
Stale wharf, Hie paving-bricks were delivered on the street,
and the flagging hauled from the Albany-street yard.
Dorchester street, from Dorchester avenue to Ninth street.
South Boston, was paved with granite blocks on a gravel
foundation, by Collins & Ham. The old surface was partly
paved with granite blocks and partly macadamized. The
old granite blocks in good condition were used in the new
work, and the culls and surplus earth were delivered by the
contractor on sundry streets within half a mile, mostly on
Washburn street ; the old cobble gutter-stones were hauled to
the Broadway crusher ; the new paving-blocks were hauled
from the Thompson & Baker coal wharf on Ninth street ; the
paving-bricks were delivered on the street, and the flagging
was hauled from the Albany-street yard. The paving in
front of the school-house was laid with pitched joints.
Beacon street, from Arlington street to Charles street, was
paved from the street-railroad track to the northerly edge-
stone with asphalt on a Portland cement concrete base, by
the Barber Asphalt Paving Company. The gutters and
toothing strip next the railroad track were paved with granite
blocks, partly delivered from Burnham's wharf and partly
delivered on the street ; the surplus excavation was hauled to
Scotia street. The remainder of the street between the
same points was repaved with the old granite blocks, b}'^ J.
Doherty & Co. This portion was the narrow strip under
the trees, adjoining the Public Garden. The joints in the
paving were tilled with hot pebbles and pitch.
Tables showing the length of accepted streets in Boston,
the area of roadway in each, and the area of each kind of pav-
ing or roadway construction, have been prepared for the use of
the Street Department, and will be found on pp. 52, 53, and
54 of this report. These tables are an entirely new computa-
tion from the best obtainable original sources. The meas-
urements have been principallj^ made from careful surveys
of the Surveying Department, and when information could
not be obtained from original surveys, the streets have been
measured. They have also been examined to determine the
character of the paving, and as it is impossible to determine
382 City Document Xo. 36.
at this season of the 3'eau whether a street is macad-
amized or simply gravelled, the tables have been checked by
the district foreman and by the Deputy Superintendent of
Streets. In giving lengths and areas, care has been taken to
include intersections of streets but once, and the detail tables
show the streets from which the intersections have been
deducted. The general rule has been to include intersec-
tions as part of the principal street.
^The engineering force has done considerable work of a
miscellaneous character, and numerous estimates for new
work have also been made.
A summary of the detailed tables, showing total lengths
and areas of paving, is appended.
Berkeley-Street Bridge, over the B. & A. R.R.
A contract was made with John Cavanagh & Co., dated
October 9, 1891, for taking down the parapets and bridge
seats of Berkeley-street bridge and rebuilding the same
with granite masonry laid solid in cement mortar, of the
dimensions required to receive the new bridge. This work
is now complete, with the exception of one parapet stone
which cannot be placed until the truss used for a temporary
support of the telephone wires is removed.
The contract price for the work is $2,290.
An agreement was made with the Boston Brido;e Works,
October 7, 1891, for removing the old bridge, for the sum of
$350. The work called for under this agreement has been
completed, with the exception of the sidewalk truss'carrying
the telephone wires, which was moved sufficiently to allow
the new bridge to be placed. As soon as the wires are in
place on the bridge, this truss will be removed.
The new superstructure is a through plate girder bridge,
consisting of six lines of plate girders, dividing the street into
two roadways ; two sidewalks and a centre walk is also used
for two lines of water-pipes. The bridge is seventy-one feet
long and seventy-eight feet six inches wide between centres
of sidewalk girders. The four roadway girders have curved
upper flanges five feet six inches deep at centres, and four
feet six inches deep at ends. The two sidewalk girders are
four feet six inches deep, with straight upper flanges, and are
to have hand-rails on top. The floor-beams for the roadway
are built beams, and for the walks are 9-inch steel I beams.
The roadway and sidewalk stringers are of hard-pine, the
roadway flooring-plank is of spruce, the under course being
four inches thick and the upper course two inches thick. The
sidewalk is planked with 2-inch hard-pine.
Street Department. 383
The contractor for the ironwork was the Boston Brido;e
Works, and the contract price was $4,898.
The wooden floorino- and the paintino- of the bridge have
been done by the Bridge Division.
Chelsea Bridge, North, Steam-power.
Machinery for moving both the north and south draws of
Chelsea bridge by steam-power has been erected and is now
ready for use. On the pier of the south draw, there is an en-
gine-house 15X20 feet, in which is placed a double 6X12
inch engine and boiler. An endless chain passes around
the turntable drum of the draw, and the power is transmitted
from the engine by bevel gearing, a horizontal shaft, and
sprocket wheel.
At the north draw an addition 26 X 32 feet has been
made to the draw-pier on which the engine-house is placed.
This draw^ is to be moved by means of wire ropes attached to
the draw and to a 36-inch drum in the engine-house. A re-
versing-engine with two 6 X 12 inch cylinders will fur-
nish the power.
At each draw a winch-head has been placed for working
vessels through the draw by steam-power.
The machinery has been furnished and set up by Miller
& Shaw, and the engine-houses and other woodwork was
done by the Bridge Division.
Chelsea Bridge, North, Fender-guard.
Plans and specifications for building a fender-guard 173
et Ic
made.
feet long at the north draw of Chelsea brids^e have been
Cornwall-Street Bridge, over Stony-Brook Channel.
A plan and bill of material for a new bridge on Cornwall
street were furnished, and the structure has been built by
the Bridge Division.
The bridge has a single span, 32 feet long over all,
and a total width of 40 feet, divided into a roadway of
26 feet and two sidewalks of 7 feet each. The span con-
sists of 12 lines of trussed beams, each made of two 6 X 12
inch hard-pine sticks, trussed by a l-|-inch diameter rod.
The roadway planking is of spruce, the under course being
4 inches thick and the upper, or sheathing course, being 2
inches thick. The sidewalk is planked with 3-inch planed
hard-pine.
384 City Document No. 3o.
The end supports of the bridge are timber bulkheads,
each having nine 10 inch X 10 inch hard-pine posts, with a 6
inch X 10 inch hard-pine sill, sunk about 9 feet into the
ground, and capped with a 12 inch x 12 inch hard-pine stick.
Hill-Street Retaining-wall.
A contract was made with Donovan & Brock, Boston,
dated October 6, 1891, for building a retaining- wall at the
easterly end of Hill street, on the line of Sackville street.
The wall is of granite, laid solid in cement mortar, and
rests on a concrete foundation. The wall is capped with a
granite coping, and has on top a close board fence 5 feet
high.
Total amount paid contractor, $1,485.
Irvington-Street and Yarmouth-Street Retaining-
WALLS.
These walls are located one on each side of the Prov-
idence Division of the Old Colony Railroad, at the ends of
Irvington and Yarmouth streets, the streets being in line
with each other.
A contract was made with R. D. Shanahan, dated June
15, 1891, for building a retaining-vvaU at the end of
Irvington street, and for adding buttresses to the retaining-
wall at the end of Yarmouth street.
The wall is of granite laid solid in cement mortar, and
rests upon a pile foundation with concrete cap. Granite
buttresses Avere built at the back of the wall to afford a suf-
ficient foundation for the piers of an iron foot-bridge. At
the back of the wall on Yarmouth street, similar buttresses
were built of concrete, with granite coping-stones.
The total cost of the work, including the repointing of
the wall on Yarmouth street, was $3,537,
Irvington-Street Foot-bridge, over Providence
Division, Old Colony Railroad.
An iron foot-bridge has been built over the tracks of the
Providence Division of the Old Colony Railroad, on the line
of Irvington and Yarmouth streets. The bridge is a through
bridge of the riveted bowstring type, resting upon wrought-
iron piers. The tops of the piers are on a level with the
floor of the bridge, and are reached by stairways from the
sidewalks of ea'ch street. The stairways are of wrought
iron with hard-pine treads. The bridge was built by the
R. F. Hawkins Iron Works, of Si)ringtield, Mass., under
contract dated Sept. 16, 1891, at a total cost of $1,773.
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L-Street Abutment.
The contract for building tlie south abutment of L-street
bridf!:e was let to Perkins & White, of Boston, under date
of Oct. 28, 1891, for |5,925, and calls for the completion of
the work on or before June 15, 1892. At this date the i)iles
have been driven and capped for the foundation, and the
larger portion of the ballast and riprap placed.
L-Street Bulkhead, South Boston.
Plans and specifications were made in 1890 for extending
L-street bulkhead northerly from the bulkhead built in
1889 ; the length of bulkhead to be built being 727 feet, en-
closing 328^ feet of street extension.
The contract for building the bulkhead was awarded to F.
G. Whitcomb for $7,200 ; the work was begun April 23 and
completed July 27, 1891, at a total cost of $7,210.
Roxbury-Canal Sea-wall.
Plans and specifications were made for building a sea-wall
on Roxbury canal and adjacent dock at the Paving wharf of
the Street Department.
No work has yet been done on the wall.
Stony-Brook Improvement.
Roslinddle Branches.
This improvement contemplates a channel sufficiently large
to carry the rainfall from a tributary water-shed of about
1,000 acres, and will, when this improvement is completed,
prevent the flooding in this vicinity during heavy rains ; but
until the channel has been farther extended up-stream about
300 feet, there will still be danger of occasional floods.
The work done during the past season embraced both the
main branch of Stony brook at Roslindale and also a small
brook flowino; into it. The larg-er channel extends from a
point on the old brook channel about 160 feet below Poplar
street, through private land, and in Poplar and Washington
streets, a distance of 665 feet. It is partly open and partly
covered. The open portion below Poplar street is 12 feet
wide, with side- walls of rubble masonry nowhere less than
6.8 feet high. It is laid on a grade of 1 foot in 100;
the covered channel varies in size from 11 feet 6 inches wide
X 6 feet 6 inches high to 9 feet wide X 8 feet 6 inches high.
Both side-walls and the arch are of rubble masonry ; the
386 City Document No. 36.
inclinations are 1 foot in 100 feet and 1 foot in 56 feet; 22
feet of open channel, 9 feet wide, was built at the up-stream
end ; the bottom is paved throughout with stone or brick, and
a concrete foundation extends under both walls and under
the paved bottom. The smaller brook channel extends from
Birch street through private lands, across Cohasset street,
and again through private lands to its junction with the
larger channel on the north-west side of Washington street ;
a total distance of 507 feet This channel is a stone culvert
4 feet 6 inches high and 5 feet wide ; it is laid on an inclina-
tion of 1 foot in 125 feet ; the side-walls are of rubble with
granite coverino-stones ; the paving is of stone ; a concrete
foundation extends under the side-walls and under the
paved bottom.
Bids for the construction of the work were received July
20, and the contract was awarded to H. P. Nawn, the
loAvest bidder.
In connection with the brook channels, and during their
construction, 340 feet of pipe sewer was built, with the
necessary branches, manholes, etc. This sewer was neces-
sary in order to aflbrd drainage to houses on the westerly
side of Washington street, which were cut off from the
common sewer in that street by the low grade of the new
channel ; this work was done to much better advantage
during the construction of the brook channel than would
have been possible after the completion of the work. The
sewer is of 10-inch Akron pipe, surrounded by concrete ;
it is located for a distance of 185 feet immediately outside of
the walls of the brook channel, and for the remaining 155
feet, until it enters the common sewer on Washington street,
is laid under the new channel, immediately beneath the
concrete foundation.
Bennington-Street Culvert.
Plans and estimates were made for a wooden culvert
across Bennington street, between Saratoga street and Wads-
worth street.
Respectfully submitted,
William Jackson,
City Engineer,
City of Boston, Engineering Department. — TaUt; showing Details of Contract Street Paving, SeaKon of 1891.
Granite lilocks on concrete.
Item A.
Granite blocks on gravel.
Item B.
Trinidad aepbalt on concrete.
Item C.
For set
ing edgestone.
Item E.
For laying
brick sidewalk.
Item F.
For laying crosswalk.
Item G.
Extra work.
ItemH.
Bid.
Final estimate.
Bid.
Final estimate.
Bid.
Pinal estimate.
Bid.
Final estimate.
Bid.
Final estimate.
Bid.
Final estimate.
Final estimate
estimate.
$1 06
2,542 sq. yds.
§0 55
1,362 lin. ft.
§74!) 10
4,434 lin. ft.
.§2,438 70
1,009 lin. ft.
.§353 15
2,796 lin. ft.
§419 40
1,115 lin. ft.
§390 25
955 lin. ft.
§200 65
§0 91
0 91
i'32'
1,124 sq. yds.
§1,022 84
1,897 sq. yds.
§1,726 27
627.5 sq. yds.
§828 .30
1,774 sq. yds.
■91,170 84
700 sq. yds.
§760 00
621 sq. yds.
§391 23
§1 15
175 sq. yds.
§201 25
337 sq. yds.
§387 55
72.5 sq. yds.
§143 55
206 sq. yds.
§55 62
76 sq. yds.
§114 dO
14.5 sq. yds.
§7 98
■
Collins & Ham
§2,669 10
9,400 sq. yds.
§11,092 00
1,952 sq. yds.
§2,967 04
5,313 sq. yds.
§6,481 86
1,318 sq. yds.
§1,713 40
1,829 sq. yds.
§1.883 87
827 60
First street
1 18
1 52
0 55
0 35
1 15
""i'98
Collins & Ham
491 72
16,136 24
Grant & Co
87 40
4,379 44
1 22
0 15
6 66
0 27
.T DohertT & Co
29 90
8, 157 62
1 30
0 35
1 00
1 60
34 25
2,951 90
1 03
6 21
0 63
0 65
B. F.Nay&Co
346 13
2,829 78
§3 75
1,088J sq. yds.
§4,081 25
4,081 25
§2 66
2, 1861 sq. yds.
§5,816 53
0 30
629 lin. ft.
§188 70
3,600 lin. ft.
§1,368 (10
3,778 lin. ft.
§1,227 85
0 91
4624 sq. yds.
§420 88
4,124 sq. yds
§3,257 96
1,720 sq. yds.
§1,290 00
2 34
134,5, sq. yds.
'§314 73
H. Gore & Co
231 21
6,972 05
6 95
1 05
9,106 sq. yds.
§8,650 70
5,995 sq. yds.
§6,294 75
6 28
0 79
0 75
i 42
§769 64
113 sq. yds.
§146 90
237.5 sq. yds.
§249 38
122sq. yds.
S164 70
276 sq. yds.
§717 24
394 sq. yds.
§1,079 56
172 sq. yds.
§172 00
207 sq. yds.
§279 45
185 97
14,432 27
0 .324
1 30
Albert A. Libby & Co
584 48
9,343 98
2 00
115.5 sq. yds.
$231 00
3 00
1 05
§13,078 80
13,559 18
1 17
3,899 sq. yds.
§4,561 83
574 sq. yds.
§683 06
1,042 sq. yds.
§1,23!) 98
5,022 sq. yds.
§6,277 50
0 33
1,906 lin. ft.
§628 98
791 lin. ft.
§308 49
1,326 lin. ft.
§517 14
2,651 lin. ft.
§609 73
3,157 lin. ft.
§757 68
0 91
1,318 sq. Yds.
§1,381 38
937 sq. yds.
§843 30
1,100 sq. yds.
.§990 00
2,128 sq. yds.
§1,659 84
2,639 sq. yds.
§2,190 37
1 35
""2'74'
"2 74'
Collins & Ham
245 20
6,982 09
H. Gore & Co
2 76
3,592 sq. yds.
§9,913 92
3,400 sq. yds.
§9,384 00
1 19
0 39
0 90
0 90
393 29
1' 859 30
Tremont street — Temple place to ScoUay square.
H. Gore & Co
2 76
1 19
0 39
591 82
13.802 50
1 25
0 23
0 78
1 00
J. Doherty & Co
291 35
294 63
9,010 42
1 35
0 24
0 83
1 35
Collins & Ham
§6,415 20
9,937 3S
§2. .54 5
9,294.2 sq. yds.
81.188
52,744 sq. yds.
§3.675
4,721 sq. yds.
0.332
31,509 sq. yds.
§0.871
21,372 sq. yds.
§1.173
3,079 sq. yds.
Average by final estimate. Total costs
§2.727
§25,345 45
§1.155
§60,930 29
§3.635
§17,160 06
0.329
§10,357 72
§0.836
§17,873 21
§1.184
§4,803 55
§3,834 97
§140.305 24
28,855 78
8169,161 02
Note. — The averages for cross-walks do not include those in Bedford and Kingston streets and Tremont street.
Thirty;nine dollars was deducted from Item " G " on Tremont street (Boylston to Temjile place), as per liual estimate.
Also the following quantities were not included in the above table, on account of their not coming under the regular items; but they I
eluded in total i
of all work.jis per labl
Beacon street, J. Doherty :
5963 sq. yds granite blocks on gravel, at «1.37 *^il j5
104i " " ■ " " $0.65 61 9*J
137! lin. ft. setting edgestone, at $0.15 20 60
I,(l45sq. yds. laying brick sidewalk, at *0.40 "° '"'
10,468 sq. yds asphalt on old concrete, at $2.25 *^S? 1',°
47,i 1-7 cu. yds. Portland concrete, at $8.50 ^'0^ '^
$27,591 71
30 loads olil asphalt bought from city °° °°
Steket Department.
387
APPEN^DIX G.
FORMER SUPERINTENDENTS AND DOCUMENT
NUMBERS OF ANNUAL REPORTS.
Bridge Department before 1891.
Previous to 1SS6 under Charge of City Engineer.
Name.
Bartholomew M. Young
James H. Nugent
Year.
1886 to 1889
1889 to 1891
Name of Document.
Annual Report.
For
Pub.
Year.
Year.
1886
1887
1887
1888
1888
1889
1889
1890
1890
1891
No. of
Doc.
29
26
29
22
* Published in Annual Report, Executive Department, Vol. 1.
Paving Department before 1891.
Name.
Enoch Patterson, Supt. Streets and Drains
Zephaniah Sampson, " " " "
Thomas Hunting, Superintendent
Alfred T. Turner, "
Charles Harris, "
Nehemiah T. Merritt, "
James J. Flynn, "
Charles Harris, "
Michael Meehan, "
John W McDonald, " ........
J. Edwin Jones, "
1827 to 1831
1831 to 1846
1846 to 1853
1853 to 1864
1864 to 1883
1883
1883
1884
1884 to 1886
1886 to 1889
1889 to 1891
388
City Document No. 36.
Paving Department before 1891.
N"amb of Document.
For
Year.
Pub.
Year.
No. of
Doc.
1851
1851
1852
1853
1854
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868
1869
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
188i
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
6
1851
1852
1853
1854
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868
1869
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
29
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16
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21
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25
11 11
27
11 11
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* Published in Annual Report, Executive Department, Vol. 1.
Street Department.
389
Sewer Department before 1891.
Name.
Enoch Patterson, Superintendent
Zephaniah Sampson, "
Charles B. Wells,
Simeon B. Smith, "
William H. Bradley, "
Horace H. Moses, "
Thomas J. Young, "
Seth Perkins, "
Charles Morton, "
Tear.
1827 to 1831
1831 to 1837
1837 to 1856
1856 to 1863
1863 to 1883
1883 to 1885
1885 to 1887
1887 to 1889
1889 to 1891
Sewer Department before 1891.
Name of Document.
Annual Report
For Tear.
Pub.
Tear.
1859
1860
1860
1861
1861
1862
1862
1863
1863
1864
1864
1865
1865
1866
1866
1867
1867
1868
1868
1869
1869
1870
1870
1871
1871
1872
1872
1873
1873
1874
1874
1875
1875
1876
1876
1877
1877
1878
1878
1879
1879
1880
1880
1881
1881
1882
1882
1883
1883
1884)
1885 5
1884
1885
1886
1886
1887
1887
1888
1888
1889
1889
1890
1890
1891
No. of
Doc.
11
12
12
13
11
5
6
8
13
11
3
11
10
13
12
17
11
13
15
11
16
19
18
16
43
58
69
81
129
14
Published in Annual Report, Executive Department, Vol. 1.
390
City Document No. 36.
Health Department before 1891.
Sanitary.
Name.
Tear.
Ezra Forristall, Superintendent
Joseph W. Coburn, "
Ezra Forristall, "
George W. Forristall, "
1853 to 1854
1854 to 1855
1855 to 1869
1869 to 1890
Health Department before 1891.
Sanitary.
Name of Docxtment.
Annual Report.
Annual report from 1873 to 1884 inclusive; the
Superintendent's report was embodied in the
report of the Board of Health
Annual Report
Year.
Pub.
Year.
1858
1854
1854
1855
1855
1856
1856
1857
1857
1858
1858
1859
1859
I860
1860
1861
1861
1862
1862
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1865
1865
1866
1866
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1887
1887
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1888
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1890
1891
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17
40
45
22
16
23
21
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Street Department.
391
Commissioners of Cambridge Bridges before 1891.
(West Boston, Canal, and Prison-Point.)
Name.
Frederic W. Lincoln, Commissioner for Boston.
{
Ezra Parmenter, Commissioner for Cambridge. .
••\
William J. Marvin, Commissioner for Cambridge . , . . ?
Year.
May 22, 1871, to
March, 1891.
June 14, 1871, to
Jan. 31, 1883.
March 28, 1883, to
present time.
Commissioners of Cambridge Bridges before 1891.
(West Boston, Canal, and Prison-Point.)
Name or Document.
Annual Report.
For Year.
Pub.
Year.
1871
1872
1872
1873
1873
1874
1874
1875
1875
1876
1876
1877
1877
1878
1878
1879
1879
1880
1880
1881
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1883
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1884
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