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ANNUAL REPORT
Street Department
YEAR i goo
Compliments of ...
Bertrand T. Wheeler,
Superintendent of Streets.
PLEASE EXCHANGE.
BOSTON
Municipal Printing Office
1901
DigitizecUby^tKe IriterneTXrch i ve
in 2010 with funding from
Boston Public Library
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ANNUAL REPORT
Street Department
YEAR 1900
BOSTON
Municipal Printing Office
1901
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CONTENTS,
PART
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS.
PAGE
Appropriations 2
Asphalt pavement:
Trinidad 39
Sicilian Kock 44
All other 46
Summary 46
Under Guarantee, Trini-
dad 47
Sicilian Eock 50
Seyssel 53
Cost of Patching. Trinidad, 55
Sicilian Rock 58
Coal Tar 59
Comparative Table 61
Central Office 63
Contracts .20
Eight-hour Law 8
Employment of Labor 9
Expenditures 2
Recapitulation 4
Comparative Table of ... . 16
Bridge Division Specials. . 17
Blue Hill and other Ave-
nues 19
Ferry Division Specials. . . 17
Laying-Out and Construc-
tion of Highways 19
Laying-Out and Construc-
tion of Highways (Dis-
tricts) 19
PAGE
Paving Division Specials . 17
Recapitulation 20
Sanitary and Street Clean-
ing Divisions Special. . . 19
Sewer Division Specials. . 19
South Union Station 19
Street Improvements 18
Financial Statement, Street
Department (Mainte-
nance) 15
Income 63
Organization 1
Pavement, Areas of 62
Property in East Boston 8
Smoke Nuisance 9
Street Department Dis-
tricts 5
Street Mileage 61
Summary of Work Per-
formed :
Bridge Division 12
Ferry Division 13
Paving Division 13
Sanitary Division 14
Sewer Division 14
Street Cleaning Division. . 14
Street Watering Division. 14
Surety Bonds 5
West End Yard and Stables, 8
IV
Contents.
PART II.
APPENDIX A.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
BRIDGE DIVISION. (Page 3.)
PAGE
Cable Houses and Boxes. . . 31
Drawtenders' Reports 37
Drawtenders' Reports (5
years) 38
Expenditures:
Inland Bridges 15
Recapitulation 22
Maintenance, North and
South Yards 23
Public Landing Places. . . 13
Special Appropriations . . 24 -
Tide-water Bridges 7
Recapitulation 14
Financial Statement 6
Force Employed 5
List of Bridges:
Wholly Maintained by
Boston 25
Of which Boston Main-
tains the Part within
its Limits 27
Of Which Boston Pays a
Part of the Cost of
Maintenance 28
In Charge of Commission-
ers of Boston and Cam-
bridge Bridges • 28
Wholly Maintained by
Railroad Corporations . 30
Recapitulation 30
List of Small Bridges 33
Objects of Expenditures ... 5
Property in Charge of Divi-
sion 32
Public Landing Places 30
Recommendations 4
Tide-water Bridges (Operat-
ing Power) 3
Width of Bridges 34
Width of Draw Openings ... 35
Work Performed 4
APPENDIX B.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
FERRY DIVISION. (Page 39.)
PAGE
Actual Standing 48
Appropriations 44
Cash Statement 46
Cash Statement ( 1870-1901) . 47
Coal Elevator 39
Expenditures (1857-1870) .. 48
Expenditures (1900) 44
Ferry Travel 51
Cause of Decrease During
1900 40
Contents.
Difference of, Between
Ferries 50
Financial Statement 42
Income 45
Objects of Expenditure 42
Propeller Ferry-boat "Gen-
eral Sumner " 39
Propeller Ferry-boat " Gov-
ernor Russell " 39
Property in Charge of Divi-
sion 40
Receipts at each Ferry 45
Sale of the Ferry-boat " Win-
throp" 39
Special Appropriations .... 42
Statement of Receipts 47
Ticket Statement 51
Work Performed 40
APPENDIX C.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
PAVING DIVISION. (Page 53)
PAGE
Asphalt Pavement 55
Assessment Streets 55
Assessment Streets, Details, 58
Condition of Streets in the
Down-Town District 54
Crushing Plant 57
Engineering Corps 56
Expenditures :
Abolishment of Grade
Crossings 75
Charlestown Bridge 75
Maiden Bridge 75
South Union Station 75
Street Improvements 75
Summary Ill
Under Special Appropria-
tions 71
Blue Hill and other Ave-
nues 118
Summary 118
Laying-out and Construc-
tion of Highways 118
Summary 126
Laying-out and Construc-
tion of Highways, Brigh-
ton 128
Summary 128
Laying-out and Construc-
tion of Highways, Dor-
chester 129
Summary 133
Laying-out and Construc-
tion of Highways, East
Boston 127
Summary 127
Laying-out and Construc-
tion of Highways, Rox-
bury and West Roxbury, 134
Summary 138
Total Expenditures 66
Financial Statement 66
General Work 56
Income 67
New Brick Sidewalks 142
New Edgestones 139
Objects of Expenditures ... 68
Schedule A. Miscellane-
ous Work 69
Schedule B. In Excess of
Special Appropriations . 70
Schedule C. New Work . 71
Output of Stone from City
Crushers 147
Paving and Regulating, De-
tails 62
Permit Office:
Permits for Street Open-
ings 151
Permits, Miscellaneous. . . 152
Inspection 153
Work Performed 152
Street Numbering . , 153
VI
Contents.
PAGE
Property in Charge of Divi-
sion 149
Reconstruction Work 54
Snowfall and Rainfall 146
Steam Roller and Tools 58
Street Construction:
New Work 145
General Repairs 146
PAGE
Streets Laid Out, Extended,
etc 148
Streets made Public by De-
cree of Court 148
Street Names Changed 149
Work in Charge of Division, 53
Yard and Wharf room 58
APPENDIX D.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
SANITARY DIVISION. (Page 154.)
Amount expended for Col-
lecting and Removing
House Dirt, Ashes, Waste,
Offal, etc 163
Carts and Wagons Employed
by Divisions 164
Construction, Repair and
Horseshoeing Shops 168
Contracts 165
Contract System .,. . . 155
Cost per Load for Towing
Material to Sea 167
Cost of Horseshoeing 169
Dumping Boats 155
Dumping Places 154
Financial Statement 156
Hay, Grain and Straw Ac-
count 166
Horses 156
Income 158
Items of Expenditure and
Revenue 159
Maintenance of Fort Hill
Wharf and Dumping
Boats 167
Material Collected by Dis-
tricts 162
Material Collected by Dis-
tricts (six years) 162
Material Collected, Final
Disposition of 163
Material Sold by Contract. . 165
Property in Charge of Divi-
sion 171
Removal of House Dirt,
Ashes, Wastes and Rub-
bish 161
Removal of Offal 162
Revenue 158
Rolling Stock 156
Shops 155
Signs 169
Stables and Sheds 156
Third Separation 155
Work Performed for other
Divisions 171
Workings of the Eight-Hour
Law 154
Contents.
APPENDIX E.
Vll
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
SEWER DIVISION. (Page 174.)
PAGE
Assessments 194
Catch-basins Built 200
Entrance Fees 194
Financial Statement 197
General Remarks 195
Objects of Expenditures. . . . 198
Permits 194
Property in Charge of Divi-
sion 201
Schedule of Sewers Built to
Date 200
Sludge Account 201
Summary of Sewer Con-
struction 199
Summary of Sewer Con-
struction (five years) 200
Work in Charge of Divi-
sion 174
Work Performed and Rec-
ommendations :
South Boston 174
East Boston 182
Charlestown 186
Brighton 183
West Roxbury 184
Dorchester 178
Roxbury 176
City Proper 187
Main Drainage 189
Main and Intercepting
Sewers 189
Moon Island 192
Pumping Station, Calf
Pasture 191
Pumping Station, Lyons
Street 192
Stony Brook 193
APPENDIX F.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
STREET CLEANING DIVISION. (Page 202.)
Care of Public Alleys
Cost per Mile for Machine
Sweeping, Exclusive of Su-
pervision
Cost Per Mile for Machine
Sweeping, Including Su-
pervision
Dumping Places
East Boston Force
Eight-hour Law
Financial Statement
General Recapitulation
Income
PAGE
204
210
211
204
204
202
206
210
210
PAGE
Loads of Street Dirt Re-
moved 211
Objects of Expenditure 206
Property in Charge of Di-
vision 212
Repair Shops 202
Stable Facilities 205
Street Litter 203
Summary of Work Per-
formed 212
Sweeping in the Business
Section 202
Vlll
Contents.
APPENDIX G.
REPC5RT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
STREET WATERING DIVISION. (Page 213.)
PAGE
Abolishment of Assessments, 213
Assessments Levied 216
Assessment Districts 213
Complaints 214
Distribution of Carts 217
Estimated Income 216
Financial Statement 214
Force Employed 214
Length of Season 214
PAGE
Location of Water Posts. . . . 217
Miles of Streets Watered ... 216
Objects of Expenditures. . . . 215
Objects of Expenditures (By
Districts) 215
Standpipes. .'. 214
Street Watering Districts . . . 215
Work Performed 214
APPENDIX H.
REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR THE BOSTON
AND CAMBRIDGE BRIDGES. (Page 218.)
PAGE
Bridges Under Control of:
Cambridge street 220
Canal or Craigie's 218
Essex street 221
Harvard 218
North Harvard street 221
Prison Point 220
Western avenue 221
3TAGE
West Boston (Temporary
Bridge) 220
Classification of Expenses. . 223
In General 221
Number of Draw Openings,
etc 224
Revenue 224
APPENDIX
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER ON SPECIAL WORK.
(Page 225-)
PAGE
Work Performed, Kind and
Quantity 225
Assessment Streets (Con-
struction) 225
Assessment Streets (Plans,
etc) 232
PAGE
Dover Street Bridge 231
Ferry Division 231
Grading Street Railway
Tracks 234
Mt. Washington Avenue
Bridge 232
Contents.
IX
PAGE
Miscellaneous 234
Repaying Streets (Plans,
etc) 233
PAGE
South Union Station 232
Winthrop Bridge 232
APPENDIX J.
REPORT OF THE CHIEF SMOKE INSPECTOR. ( Page 237.)
PAGE
Boiler Applications 240
Causes of Smoke Nuisance . 237
Coal Importations 239
Co-operation of Owners and
Others 238
PAGE
Instructions for Firing
Boilers with Bituminous
Coal 237
Special Reports 240
Work Performed 239
Summary 241
APPENDIX K.
REPORT OF THE CIVIL SERVICE CLERK. (Page 242.)
PAGE
Applications 246
Comparative Table of Em-
ployees 245
Employment of Labor 242
PAGE
Grade and Number of Em-
ployees 243
Transfers 246
APPENDIX L.
FORMER SUPERINTENDENTS AND DOCUMENT NUM-
BERS OF ANNUAL REPORTS. (Page 248.)
x List op Illustrations.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PART I.
Double Screw Propeller Ferry-boat " General Sumner " 10
Street Department Yard, East Boston 8
PART II.
Adams Street Culvert for Davenport Brook, near Minot street 178
Commonwealth Avenue, North of Wallingford Road, Showing
Upper and Lower Roadways and Reserved Space for Electric
Cars 52
Crusher, Ifrley road 56
Diagram Showing Relative Increase in Miles of Sewers Maintained
and Amount of Appropriation Therefor 194
Ferry-boat " General Sumner," Showing Cabin 38
Maiden Bridge, Showing Temporary Bridge on the Right. 224
St. Joseph Street Sewer, Showing Method of Lowering the Level
of Ground Water During Construction 184
Sewer in Private Land, Formerly Blake Street, Showing Brick
Sewer Built Inside of Old Stone Sewer 174
Stony Brook, Junction of Main and Supplementary Channels, at
Boylston Avenue 192
Hon. Thomas N. Hart,
Mayor of the City of Boston :
Sir, — In compliance with the Revised Ordinances, the
annual report of the operations and expenses of the Street
Department for the year 1900 is herewith respectfully sub-
mitted.
Organization.
The work of the Department during the past year ha.s been
carried on under the same organization that was effected
when the consolidated Department was created in.1891, and
as amended in^l.895, the several Divisions of the Department
being as follows :
Central Office.
Boston and Cambridge
Bridges.
Bridge Division.
Ferry Division.
Paving Division.
Sanitary Division.
Sewer Division.
Street-Cleaning Division.
Street- Watering Division.
Each of the above Divisions, with the exception of the
Central Office and the Boston and Cambridge Bridges, is in
charge of a Deputy Superintendent.
2 City Document No. 38.
The Boston and Cambridge Bridges are managed by two
commissioners, the Superintendent of Streets being the
commissioner for the City of Boston, the other commissioner
being appointed by the Mayor of the Cit}^ of Cambridge.
Appropriations.
The money assigned for Street Department work for the
past year was made available under the following appro-
priations :
First. — Maintenance : From income of the City raised by
taxes. At the commencement of the financial year, Febru-
ary 1, the Department estimates of the amounts necessary for
the proper maintenance of the various Divisions are submitted
to His Honor the Mayor, who makes such recommendation
as he may deem proper to the City Council. The mainte-
nance appropriations, as passed by the City Council, were as
follows :
Central Office .
Bridge Division .
Cambridge and Boston Bridges
Ferry Division .
Paving Division
Sanitary Division
Sewer Division .
Street-Cleaning Division .
Street-Watering Division .
Total.
$20,000 00
173,000 00
18,500 00
237,000 00
780,000 00
600,000 00
350,000 00
330,000 00
175,000 00
1*2,683,500 00
Second. — Work done under appropriations for permanent
improvements : There was made available by the City Coun-
cil from income of the City raised by taxes 11,031,200 for
general new or reconstruction work, and for special items,
as follows :
Bridge Division $18,000 00
Paving Division 388,200 00
Street Improvements ($25,000 to each ward) 625,000 00
Total ...... $1,031,200 00
Third. — Work done under appropriations for permanent
improvements : There was made available by the City
Council from money within the debt limit $96,300 for new
work as follows :
Street Department. 3
Bridge Division 16,300 00
Paving Division 15,000 00
Sanitary and Street Cleaning Divisions . . 75,000 00
Total . . . . . . . $96,300 00
Fourth. - — In 1891 an Act was passed by the Legislature,
and amended in 1897, entitled, "An Act Relating to the
Location, Laying-Out and Construction of Highways in the
City of Boston." (Chap. 323, Acts of 1891.) Loans under
this Act are outside the debt limit. From this fund new
streets assessable on the abutting property are built. The
amount expended the past year was :
Streets 884,497 31
Fifth. — In 1899 an Act was passed by the Legislature
entitled, "An Act relative to Laying-Out and Construction
of Highways in the City of Boston." (Chap. 443.) Loans
under this Act are outside the debt iimit. The amounts
expended for street construction last year in each district
were as follows :
District.
Brighton $11,800 23
Dorchester 112,872 71
East Boston 62,934 32
Roxbury and West Roxbury . . . 70,337 07
Total : ' . $257,944 33
Sixth. — In 1895 an Act was passed by the Legislature,
and amended in 1898, entitled, " An Act to provide for the
Laying-Out and Construction of Certain Highways in the
City of Boston " (commonly known as the Boulevard Act).
(Chap. 334 of 1895 ; chap. 236 of 1898.) Loans under this
Act are outside the debt limit. The amount expended this
year was as follows :
Streets . $58,677 26
Seventh. — In 1899 an Act was passed by the Legislature,
entitled, " An Act relative to Stony Brook in the City of
Boston." (Chap. 397.) Under this Act the loan is out-
side the debt limit. The amount expended this year was
$198,481.35.
Fighth. — In. 1895 an Act was passed by the Legislature,
entitled, "An Act relative to the establishment of a New
Ferry Landing in the City of Boston." (Chap. 435.)
4 City Document No. 38.
Under this Act the loan is outside the debt limit. The
amount expended this year was $96,191.74.
In 1898 the City of Boston sold to the United States
Government the ferry-boats " Governor Russell " and the
"East Boston " for the sum of $71,000 and $57,500, respect-
ively, making a total of $128,500, which, under an order
of the City Council, was transferred to an appropriation for
" New Ferry-boats." The amount expended this year was
$8,781.81.
Ninth. — In 1896 an Act was passed by the Legislature,
entitled, " An Act to provide for a Union Station for Passen-
gers on Railroads Entering the Southerly part of the City of
Boston." (Chap. 516.) Loans under this Act are outside the
debt limit. The amount expended this year was as follows :
Streets $28,556 98
Tenth. — In 1897 an Act was passed by the Legislature,
entitled, " An Act Relative to the Sewerage Works of the
City of Boston." (Chap. 426.) Under this Act the loan
is outside the debt limit. From this fund all " Sewerage
Works " are built.
The amount expended the past year was . $921,140 48
Eleventh. - — In 1900 an Act was passed by the Legislature
and accepted by the City Council entitled, " An Act Relative
to Laying Out and Constructing Highways in the City of
Boston." (Chap. 478.) Under this Act the loan is inside
the debt limit. From this appropriation all street and sew-
erage works construction in highways laid out previous
to July 17, .1900, may be built. On account of the date of
its acceptance by the City Council (December 29, 1900) no
expenditures were incurred in 1900. The amount appro-
priated under this Act was $1,300,001.
Thus the expenditures under the several appropriations of
the year 1899 were as follows :
From Income of the City Raised by Taxes.
Maintenance . $2,681,843 71
Street Improvements, by wards . . . 436,962 80
Bridge, specials . . . . . 6,468 37
Paving, specials . . . . . 248,465 37
From Loans Inside the Debt Limit.
Bridge, specials ...... 2 00
Paving, specials 23,225 73
Street Improvements, by wards . . . 17,421 73
Carried forward $3,414,389 71
11,800
23
112,872
71
62,934
32
70,337
07
58,677
26
198,481
35
96,191
74
8,781
81
28,556
98
921,140
48
15,068,660
97
Street Department. 5
Brought forward .... $3,414,389 71
From Loans Outside the Debt Limit.
[Repaid in part to City Treasury by assessment for benefits.]
Laying-Out and Construction of Highways, 84,497 31
Laying-Out and Construction of Highways,
by Districts :
Brighton ......
Dorchester ......
East Boston ......
Roxbury and West Roxbury .
Blue Hill and other Avenues (Boulevard
Act)
Stony Brook Improvement (Chap. 397,
Acts of 1899)
New Ferry Landing
New Ferry-boats
South Union Station
Sewerage Works
Total
From the moneys provided, as shown in the preceding
schedule, the maintenance force of the Department has been
permanently and constantly employed during the year, and
large amounts of work have been performed by contract, as
required by the provisions of many of the Acts providing
loans for expenditure by this Department.
Specific features of the work are referred to under the
headings which follow, and the work of the Divisions is fully
shown in the Appendices attached to this report.
Surety Bonds.
Much difficulty has in the past been experienced by the
Law Department in protecting the City against loss, which
it has sustained at the hands of those holding permits from
this Department, guaranteed by personal sureties, for doing
work in, or occupying the streets. Sureties were found to
have disposed of property of which they were possessed when
offering themselves as guarantees upon these bonds ; and,
because of this oft occurring condition, the Department
decided to refuse all personal sureties and to accept only the
guarantee of the surety companies authorized to do business
in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, fourteen in number.
The Street Department Districts.
Early in the year the ten districts into which the City is
6 City Document No. 38.
divided for the purpose of this Department, were re-estab-
lished as follows :
CITY OF BOSTON — STREET DEPARTMENT.
Description of Districts.
1900.
The City of Boston is hereby divided into Street Department
Districts, ten in number, described and bounded as follows :
District No. i, /South Boston. — Bounded southerly upon
District No. 6, Dorchester, namely, from a point on the N. Y.,
N. H. & H. R.R., Midland Division, north of Massachusetts
avenue, in the line of extension of Willow court, thence by and
including Willow court and Mt. Vernon street, to the N. Y.,
N. H. & H. R.R., Plymouth Division, thence by the line of
Carson street extended to the harbor.
District No. 2, East Boston and Breeds Island.
District No. 3, Charlestown.
Distinct No. 4, Brighton. — Bounded easterly upon District
No. 9, Back Bay, namely, from the Charles river by and includ-
ing St. Mary's street.
District No. 5, West Boxbury. — Bounded northerly upon
District No. 7, Roxbury, namely, from Brookline line by and in-
cluding Chestnut street to Perkins, Perkins street to Centre,
Centre street to Paul Gore, Paul Gore street to Lamartine,
Lamartine street to Boylston, Boylston street to Washington,
Washington street to Seaver, Seaver- street to Blue Hill avenue ;
bounded easterly upon District No. 6, Dorchester, namely, by
and not including Blue Hill avenue to Canterbury street, Canter-
bury street to Morton, Morton street to Harvard, Harvard street,
to Hyde Park Line.
District No. 6, Dorchester. — Bounded westerly upon Districts
Nos. 5 and 7, West Roxbury and Roxbury, namely, from Hyde
Park line by and including Harvard street to Morton, Morton
street to Canterbury, Canterbury street to Blue Hill avenue, Blue
Hill avenue to Brookford, Brookford street to Hartford, Hart-
ford street to Robin Hood, Robin Hood street to Magnolia, Mag-
nolia street to Dudley, by and not including Dudley street
to N. Y., N. H. & H. R.R., Midland Division, N. Y., N. H.
& H. R.R., Midland Division to South Bay, north of
Massachusetts avenue; thence bounded northerly by District
No. 1, South Boston, namely, by and not including Willow
court and Mt. Vernon street to the N. Y., N. H. & H. R.R.,
Plymouth Division, thence by the line of Carson street extended
tc harbor.
District No. 7, Boxbury. — Bounded southerly upon District
No. 5, West Roxbury, namely, from the Brookline line by and
not including Chestnut street to Perkins, Perkins street to Centre,
Centre street to Paul Gore, Paul Gore street to Lamartine,
Street Department. 7
Lamartine street to Boylston, Boylston street to Washington,
Washington street to Seaver, Seaver street to Blue Hill avenue ;
bounded easterly by District No. 6, Dorchester, namely, by and
not including Blue Hill avenue to Brookford street, Brookford
street to Hartford, Hartford street to Robin Hood, Robin Hood
street to Magnolia, Magnolia street to Dudley, by and
including Dudley street to N. Y., N. H. & H. R.R., Midland
Division, N. Y., N. H. & H. R.R., Midland Division, to Norfolk
avenue; bounded northerly by District No. 8, South End,
namely, by and not including Norfolk avenue to Hampden street,
Hampden street to line of East Lenox produced by this line and
not including East Lenox street to Lenox, Lenox street to
Tremont, Tremont street to Camden, Camden street to N. Y.,
N. H., & H. R.R., Providence Division, bounded northerly and
westerly by District No. 9, Back Bay, namely, from N. Y., N. H,
& H. R.R., Providence Division, by and not including Grains-
borough street to Huntington avenue, Huntington avenue to the
Brookline line.
District No. 8, South End. — Bounded southerly by District
No. 7, Roxbury, namely, from N. Y., N. H. & H. R.R., Midland
Division, by and including Norfolk avenue to Hampden street,
Hampden street to line of East Lenox produced, East Lenox
street to Lenox, Lenox street to Tremont, Tremont street to
Camden, Camden street to N. Y., N. H. & H. R.R., Providence
Division, bounded westerly by District No. 9, Back Bay, namely,
by N. Y., N. H. & H. R.R., Providence Division, to Church
street, by and including Church street to Boylston ; bounded
northerly by District No. 10, West End and North End, namely,
by and including Boylston street to Tremont, Tremont street to
Winter, Winter street to Summer, Summer street to Devonshire,
Devonshire street to Franklin, by and not including Franklin
street to Oliver, Oliver street to Fort Point channel.
District No. 9, Bach Bay. — Bounded southerly upon Dis-
trict No. 7, Roxbury, namely, from the Brookline line by and
including Huntington avenue, to Gainsborough street, Gains-
borough street to N. Y., N. H. & H. R.R., Providence Division,
bounded easterly by District No. 8, South End, namely, by the
N. Y., N. H. & H. R.R., Providence Division, to Church street,
by and not including Church street to Boylston ; bounded north-
erly by District No. 10, West End and North End, namely, by
and including Boylston street to Arlington, Arlington street to
Beacon, Beacon street to Otter, Otter street to Charles riveV;
bounded westerly by District No. 4, Brighton, namely, from
Charles river by and not including St. Mary's street to the
Brookline line.
District No. 10, West End and North End. — Bounded
southerly by Districts Nos. 9 and 8, Back Bay and South End,
namely, from Charles river by and not including Otter street to
Beacon, Beacon street to Arlington, Arlington street to Boyl-
ston, Boylston street to Tremont, Tremont street to Winter,
Winter street to Summer, Summer street to Devonshire, Devon-
8 City Document No. 38.
shire street to Franklin, by and including Franklin street to
Oliver, Oliver street to Fort Point channel.
B. T. Wheeler,
Superintendent of Streets.
The Eight-Hour Law.
The eight-hour law went into operation a few weeks only-
previous to the present financial year, and has been strictly
complied with. The classes of labor included within the
law, not working upon an eight-hour basis at the beginning
of the year, have been so established.
The operation of the law has no doubt been a benefit to
the employees of the Department, but the theory that as
much work would be performed by the laborer in eight hours
under the present system as was formerly done in nine has
been exploded* The sum necessary to accomplish the. work
performed by this Department has been increased, because
of the requirements of the law, bv an amount estimated at
$168,000 for the year.
Property in East Boston.
A purchase of a lot of land on Chelsea street, East
Boston, was made previous to my incumbency of this office,
and a stable designed to be placed upon it.
While this property was upon the . water front it had no
wharf facilities and no opportunity for any, without the
expenditure of large sums of money, the land, except for a
small filled area at its front, being an expanse of tidal flats.
This property has been abandoned by the Department,
and a wharf property, having deep water frontage and dock-
ing facilities, situated much nearer the central portion of the
district, has been leased for a term of years, together with a
large stable thereon ; and on this property the Department
has constructed sheds and offices. It now has excellent
facilities thereon for the Paving, Sewer, Sanitary, and Street
Cleaning Divisions.
West End Yard and Stables.
An urgent need of the Department is the construction of
new stables at the North Grove-street Yard. The Board of
Health and the Sanitary, Sewer and Street Cleaning Divi-
sions of this Department occupy old brick buildings, wooden
sheds, leantos and cabins, scattered over the yard, none of
them fit for the purposes for which they are used. Notwith-
standing the fact that there are more horses kept in this yard
than in any other, the stable facilities are entirely inadequate,
Stebet Department. 9
and we lose much horse service annually, from the fact that
the stables are ill-constructed, ill-lighted, ill-ventilated and
generally unsanitary. To provide proper storage, office-room,
stable room and other facilities for the use of this Department
as well as the Board of Health, a suitable building for the
use of- all should be erected, and I believe there is no greater
need in the public service in the City to-day. This has been
previously recommended by me, and an item of $160,000 was
last year placed in a loan bill for this purpose, but failed of
passage.
Smoke Nuisance.
Much difficulty is encountered in effectively suppressing the
smoke nuisance in the City, because of the inadequacy of the
provisions of the present law, which now allows the emission
of dark smoke for five minutes continuously. An enforcement
of the law does not suppress the nuisance, but it has been at-
tempted to confine it within the limits of the law as far as
possible.
Employment of LaboPw
The report of the Civil Service Clerk, showing the classi-
fication of the employees of the Department and the transfers
and requisitions made for the several Divisions of the Depart-
ment, will be found in Appendix K.
BRIDGE DIVISION.
Expenditures.
Maintenance. Specials.
$138,580.56. $6,470.37.
The Bridge Division has made more than usually exten-
sive repairs to the floors and decks of the bridges in its care.
Especial attention has been given to scraping and painting
the iron-work underneath those bridges spanning railroad
tracks, which have been long neglected, and where the gases
from locomotives bring about rapid deterioration.
Financial provision was made at the request of this
Department for repairs to the piers and structures of several
tide-water bridges, but much of this work has been prevented,
owing to the attitude of the Harbor and Land Commissioners,
as they refused to issue permits in Fort Point channel, pend-
ing action on the widening of the water-ways.
Plans are in preparation for the construction of a stable
and headquarters for the South District, upon the lot acquired
by exchange with the N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad Company
on Broadway and Dorchester avenue, South Boston.
10 City Document No. 38.
FERRY DIVISION.
Expenditures. Receipts.
Maintenance. $166,830.88.
8236,999.91. Traffic.
Specials. 12,243,877 foot passengers.
$104,973.55. 931,853 teams.
The Ferry Division has added to its service two new propel-
ler boats, thus enabling it to keep one additional boat in com-
mission during the year, and dispose of the old side wheeler
boat " Winthrop," which has been in service since 1873.
Plans have been prepared for a new head-house and coal
elpvator at the South Ferry, East Boston side. The contract
has been awarded, and work is under way on the coal-pocket,
and the head-house will be constructed as soon as this is com-
pleted. This has been arranged without the purchase of
additional land.
Extensive repairs have been made upon boats, engines,
landings and buildings.
PAVING DIVISION.
Expenditures.
Maintenance. Specials.
$782,700.72 $1,155,631.11
The Paving Division work has been rearranged ; an en-
gineering corps has been established in the Division, anala-
go.us to that in the Sewer Division, and all street construc-
tion and repair is now directly under the control of the
Division.
Money is no longer provided from a loan inside the debt
limit, in the reconstruction of streets, but additional appro-
priation from the tax levy is made for such renewals and
repairs. From the amount so provided the cost of all down-
town paving and Back Bay asphalting has been paid.
The maintenance appropriation has been largely expended
in. an effort to bring the macadam streets, which constitute
so large a portion of our street mileage, into a more satis-
factory condition, and the work of construction of new
streets laid out under Chapter 323 of the Acts of 1891 and
the amendments thereto has rapidly progressed. Money is
at hand and plans prepared for the practical completion of
all streets now so laid out and ordered constructed during
the coming year.
The Division has charge of the maintenance and construc-
tion of about 492 miles of streets.
Stkeet Department. 11
SANITARY DIVISION.
Expenditures.
$609,664.67
The Sanitary Division has increased the efficiency of its
construction and repair-shops where most of the horse-
shoeing and construction and repair of the vehicles and har-
nesses of the Department is done.
One new Barney dumping boat, costing $17,500 has been
purchased and paid for from the maintenance appropriation.
A loan has been provided for the establishment of a sani-
tary and street cleaning yard in Dorchester, which will
enable the Division to make the collection in this district in
a much more satisfactory manner than under the present
contract system.
SEWER DIVISION.
Expenditures.
Maintenance. Sewerage Works. Stony Brook Improvement.
$362,060.24 $921,140.48 $198,481.35
The Sewer Division has expended a large portion of the
one million dollars, annually provided for sewer construction,
upon large and important works, principally surface drains
and in the construction of the necessary house and surface
drainage required by law, in the "323" streets so called,
under construction.
The reservoirs of Moon Island have been practically com-
pleted, the Dorchester Bay Pumping Station repairs and
alterations to engines and boilers have been completed, and
payments approximating $100,000, have been made upon the
new engine No. 5 for this plant now in course of construction
at Philadelphia.
Stony brook conduit has been extended 1,018 running
feet, and a supplementary channel constructed in Boylston
avenue to Green street.
Especial attention has been given to the care and cleaning
of catch-basins, large numbers of which had been long
neglected.
STREET CLEANING DIVISION.
Expenditures.
$339,747.23
The Street Cleaning Division has changed its methods, and
furnished better results than formerly.
12 City Document No. 38.
The patrol system has been increased, and an attempt has
been made to keep otherwise clean streets free from paper
litter, by the establishment of a system of paper teams.
The establishment of the Sanitary and Street Cleaning
headquarters in Dorchester, before referred to, will enable
the Division to give this district the increased service it has
so long required.
STREET WATERING DIVISION.
Expenditures.
$174,742.45
The Street Watering Division has endeavored to water all
of the public streets during the year, an increase of 36i miles
over the amount formerly watered.
This work has been assessed under authority of Chapter
366 of the Acts of 1899, but, during the coming year, in
accordance with Your Honor's recommendation and the sub-
sequent action of the City Government, the cost of street
watering will be paid from the tax levy without assessment
upon the abutter.
BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE BRIDGES.
Expenditures.
' "$17,353.27
Upon the Cambridge Commissioner, Mr. William J. Mar-
vin, the responsibility for the Boston and Cambridge bridges
has largely fallen, and to him should be accorded the credit
for the excellent and economical manner in which they have
been maintained.
SUMMARY OF WORK DONE.
Bridge Division.
Overhauled and thoroughly repaired the following bridges,
viz.:
Allston, Blakemore street, Chelsea (north), Dover street,
Massachusetts avenue (over the B. & A. R.R.), Mattapan,
Swett street (east of the N. Y., N. H. & H. R.R.), Warren
and Winthrop.
Scraped and painted ironwork on the following, viz. :
Albany street, Athens street, Brookline avenue, Dart-
mouth street, Gold street, and Neponset.
Stkeet Department.
13
Rebuilt sidewalks on Beacon street (over waterway),
Dartmouth street, Federal street, West Fourth street, Mil-
ton and Maiden bridges.
Repaved roadway on Congress-street bridge.
Built two shelter houses on Summer-street bridge.
Ferry Division.
One propeller ferry-boat, " General Sumner," was built and
put into commission during the year. Six ferry-boats have
been running on full time during the entire year.
The engines of the ferry-boats " Governor Russell," "Nod-
dle Island," and " Revere " have been thoroughly overhauled,
and are now in good working order.
The canopies, gates, and drops on both sides of the North
Ferry and the head-house, on the Boston side, have +>een
painted, and the piers at three of the landings have been re-
paired, and are now in good condition.
The North Ferry head-house, Boston side, has been wired,
and lighted with incandescent lights.
Paving Division.
Granite block paving, laid as follows :
On concrete base, with grout joints
" " " " pitch joints
" " u " gravel joints
On gravel base, with grout joints
" " " " pitch joints
" " " " gravel joints
Granite block paving relaid ,
Gutter paving laid .
Wooden block paving laid on con
crete base (gravel joints)
Edgestones, set or reset .
Sidewalks built as follows :
Artificial stone
Brick, laid or relaid
Coal tar concrete
Crushed stone
Flagging crosswalks laid .
Asphalt pavement, laid and relaid
Macadam surface (new) .
Telford base (new)
Macadam resurfacing
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Work has progressed on forty-six (46) streets and two
(2) public alleys laid out and ordered constructed under
Chapter 323 of the Acts of 1891, and amendments, and
thirty-two (32) streets, and two (2) public alleys have been
completed.
Sanitary Division.
Collected and removed three hundred forty-four thousand,
six hundred and eight-two (344,682) loads of house dirt and
ashes, eighteen thousand, four hundred and sixty (18,460)
loads of waste and rubbish and sixty-two thousand, nine
hundred and seventy-five (62,975) loads of house offal.
Purchased one (1) new Barney dumping boat and
equipped the repair-shops with new machinery and electric
powe^r.
Sewer Division.
Built seventeen and nine-tenths (17.9) miles of sewers.
and 377 catch-basins, flushed one hundred and ninety-nine
(199) miles of sewers, removed eighteen hundred and sixty-
eight (1,868) cubic yards of deposit from sewers, and
thirteen thousand two hundred and forty-two (13,242) cubic
yards from the pumping station ; cleaned eleven thousand
one hundred and forty (11,140) catch-basins removing thirty
thousand seven hundred and seventy-three (30,773) cubic
yards of deposit.
Street-Cleaning Division.
Cleaned seventeen thousand five hundred and sixty-one
(17,561) miles of paved streets and gutters, removed two
hundred forty-four thousand six hundred and ninety-three
(244,693) loads of street sweepings, etc., and emptied fifteen
thousand seven hundred and eighty-two (15,782) public
waste barrels.
Street- Watering Division.
Watered four hundred and fifty (450) miles of streets.
Street Department.
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Bridge Division Specials.
Object of Appropriation.
Appropria-
tions, Balances
and
Transfers.
Expended
from Feb. 1,
1900, to Jan.
31, 1901.
Balances on
hand
Jan. 31, 1901.
Congress-street bridge, reconstruction,
" " " repairs
Dover-street bridge, tearing out old
work
Harvard-street bridge, reconstruction,
Alt. Washington avenue bridge, repairs,
New Charlestown bridge, public land-
ing
Rosseter-street steel footbridge
Warren bridge, redeeming old piers —
Winthrop bridge
Totals
$3,699 25
5,000 00
2,000 00
2,045 76
5,000 00
1,000 00
6,300 00
4,000 00
1,000 00
$2,324 37
84 00
2 00
4,000 00
60 00
See Note C 1 )
$5,000 00
1,916 00
See Note ( 2 )
5,000 00
1,000 00
6,300 00
940 00
$30,045 01
3,470 37
$20,156 00
Note:
1 Transferred to Street Improvements, Ward 7.
2 ■< « .. « « 24.
.$1,374 88
. 2,043 76
Ferry Division Specials.
Object of Appropriation.
Appropria-
tions, Balances
and
Transfers.
Expended
from Feb. 1,
1900, to Jan.
31, 1901.
Balances on
hand
Jan. 31, 1901.
New ferry-boats
New ferry landing (chap. 435, Acts of
1895)
Totals
$13,182 60
148,819 61
$8,781 SI
96,191 74
See Note
$52,627 87
$162,002 21 $104,973 55 $52,627 87
Note. —Transferred to New Ferry Landing, chap. 435, Acts of 1895. ..$4,400 79
Paving Division Specials.
Object of Appropriation.
Appropria-
tions, Balances
and
Transfers.
Expended
from Feb. 1,
1900, to Jan.
31, 1901
Balances on
hand
Jan. 31, 1901.
Abolishment of Grade Crossings
Atlantic avenue
Beacon street
Boylston street
Buildings, Chelsea street ...
Charlestown bridge
Commercial street, Fleet street to
Clinton street
Carrried forward.
$476 00
92,800 00
44,300 00
14,400 00
14,636 10
3,806 74
30,300 00
$476 00
67,420 38
2S.962 34
14,154 87
9,108 74
3,806 74
92 38
$25,379 62
15,337 66
245 13
5,527 36
30,207 62
$200,718 84
$124,021 45
$76,697 39
18
City Document No. 38.
Paving Division Specials. — Concluded.
Object of Appropriation.
Appropria-
tions, Balances
and
Transfers.
Expended
from Feb. 1,
1900, to Jan.
81, 1901.
Balances on
hand
Jan. 31, 1901.
Brought forward
Commercial street, Prince street,
across Eastern avenue
Charles street
Commonwealth avenue, construction.
Congress street
Devonshire street
Freeport street
Harrison avenue
Maiden bridge
Mead street
Neponset avenue
Oliver street
Retaining wall, Marcella and Centre
streets
Summer street
Talbot avenue
Temple place
Temple street, tunnel
Tremont street
Totals
$200,718 84
64,600 00
892 88
4,105 54
5,800 25
6,500 00
5,000 00
2,600 00
1,881 65
1,780 96
25,500 00
23,200 00
2,492 40
20,616 58
12,214 89
6,800 00
15,000 00
70,000 00
$469,703 99
$124,021 45
2S,776 20
318 80
4,105 54
273 72
6,500 00
4,223 72
12 16
1,881 65
371 99
23,200 00
2,492 40
17,851 16
1,093 37
5,222 83
51,346 11
$271,691 10
$76,697 39
35,823 80
See Note (1)
See Note (2)
776 28
2,587 84
See Note (3)
25,128 01
2,765 42
See Note (4)
1,577 17
15,000 00
18,653 89
$179,009 80
Note 1. Transferred to Street Improvements, Ward 8 $574 08
"2. " " " " "7 5,526 53
"3. " " " " "4 1,780 96
" 4. " " " " " 20 6,12152
" 4. " " Freeport street, Retaining Wall 5,000 00
(5) Total Transfers $19,003 09
Street Improvements.
Appropria-
Expended
Balances on
hand
Jan. 31, 1901.
Object or Appropriation.
tions, Balances
and
Transfers.
from Feb. 1,
1900, to Jan.
31, 1901.
Street Improvements,
$25,000 00
$21,005 55
$3,994 45
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25,000 00
8,784 15
16,215 85
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6,120 40
18,879 60
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26,780 96
3,262 61
23,518 35
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25,000 00
9,039 05
15,960 95
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10,518 12
14,481 88
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31,901 41
13,193 21
18,708 20
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25,574 08
6,951 78
18,622 30
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25,000 00
14,352 85
10,647 15
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25,000 00
25,000 00
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25,000 00
25,000 00
1 II
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25,000 00
25,000 00
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25,000 00
6,598 26
18,401 74
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22,484 19
2,515 81
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25,000 00
16,530 48
8,469 52
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25,000 00
25,000 00
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25,000 00
25,000 00
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25,000 00
25,000 00
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25,000 00
25,000 00
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31,121 52
28,425 03
2,696 49
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25,000 00
25,000 00
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25,000 00
18,777 22
6,222 78
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25,000 00
25,000 00
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27,043 76
18,341 63
8,702 13
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25,000 00
25,000 00
$642,421 73
$454,384 53
$188,037 20
Street Department.
Sewer Division Specials.
19
Object of Appropriation.
Approria-
tions, Balances
and
Transfers.
Expended
from Feb. 1,
1900, to Jan.
31, 1901.
Balance on
hand
Jan. 31, 1901.
Sewerage Works
Stony Brook Improvement, Chapter 39"
Acts of 1899
$957,533 17
198,481 35
$921,140 48
198,481 35
$36,392 69
Totals .
$1,156,014 52
$1,119,621 83
$36,392 69
Sanitary and Street=Cleaning Divisions Special.
Object of Appropriation.
Appropria-
tion, Balance
and
Transfer.
Expended
from Feb. 1,
1900, to Jan.
31, 1901.
Balances on
hand
Jan. 31,1901.
Band and Buildings, Sanitary and
Street Cleaning Divisions, Dorches-
$75,000 00
$75,000 00
$75,000 00
$75,000 00
Laying=Out and Construction of Highways.
Expenditures.
Street construction, general . . . . $8
" " Ckarlestown street
3,419 21
1,078 10
Total .
Street construction
Street construction
Street construction
Street construction
Brighton.
Dorchester.
East Boston.
Roxbury and West Roxbury.
$84,497 31
$11,800 23
$112,872 71
$62,934 32
$70,337 07
Blue Hill and other Avenues.
Expenditures, Street Construction.
Blue Hill avenue .....
Columbus avenue .....
Commonwealth avenue •
Total
Street construction
South Union Station.
Expenditure.
$2,947 64
174 00
55,555 62
£58,677 26
5,556 98
20
City Document No. 38.
Recapitulation of Expenditures for the Twelve Months Ending
January 31, 1901.
Object of Appropriations.
Current
Expenses.
Special
Appropria-
tions.
Totals.
Street Department :
Central Office
Bridge Division
Boston and Cambridge Bridges.
Ferry Division
Paving Division
Sanitary Division
Sewer Division
Street Cleaning Division
Street Watering Division
Street Improvements
Laying-Out and Construction of
Highways
Laying-Out and Construction of
Highways (Brighton)
Laying-Out and Construction of
Hi '
iighways (Dorchester).
ing-Out and Constrv
ighways (East Boston) .
Laying-Out and Construction of
Hii "
Laying-Out and Construction of
Highways (Roxbury and West
Roxbury )
Blue Hill and other Avenues.
South Union Station
$19,994 66
138,580 56
17,353 27
236,999 91
782,700 72
609,664 67
362,060 24
339,747 23
174,742 45
:,470 37
104,973 55
271,691 10
1,119,621 83
454,384 53
84,497 31
11,800 23
112,872 71
62,934 32
70,337 07
58,677 26
28,556 98
$19,994 66
145,050 93
17,353 27-
341,973 46
1,054,391 82
609,664 67
1,481,682 07
339,747 23
174,742 45
454,384 53
84,497 31
11,800 23
112,872 71
62,934 32
70,337 07
58,677 26
28,556 98
Totals.
$2,681,843 71
$2,SS6,817 26
$5,068,660 97
List of Contracts from February 1, 1900, to January 31, 1901,
made by the Street Department.
Paving Blocks.
Contract.
Awarded to
Dated
Price per
M. deliv-
ered on
wharves.
Large paving-blocks, 500,000 —
Philadelphia paving-b locks,
500 000
Rockport Granite Co. . .
Rockport Granite Co...
Feb. 28, 1900. . . .
Feb. 28,1900....
$59 60
56 90
Street Department.
Bank Gravel and Sand.
21
District.
Awarded to
Dated
Price,
Double Load of
40 Cubic Feet.
Gravel.
Sand.
Old Colony Sand
Old Colony Sand
and Brick Co —
P. O'Rlorden
John O'Brien and
Son
Feb. 21,1900....
Feb. 21, 1900. . . .
Feb. 21, 1900....
Feb. 21, 1900....
Feb. 21, 1900....
Feb. 21,1900...,
Feb. 21, 1900....
Feb. 21, 1900....
Feb. 21,1900....
$1 50
1 75
1 40
1 43
1 10
1 45
1 35
1 35
1 30
$1 36
1 75
1 10
1 58
John A. Whitte-
Old Colony Sand
Old Colony Sand
and Brick Co —
Charles J. Jacobs..
P. O'Riorden
1 00
1 50
1 45
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1 35
District 10 )
1 10
Note. — Single loads to cost one-half of the foregoing prices.
Crosswalk Flagging,
Contract.
Awarded to
Dated
Price per Square
Foot.
On Wharves
On Streets
S. & J. R. Lombard
Feb. 28, 1900....
Feb. 28, 1900....
$0 29J
2SJ
$0 31£
31J
Spruce Lumber.
District. { Awarded to
Dated
Price per
M. ft. B. M.
rough.
Feb. 19, 1900....
Feb. 19,1900....
Feb. 19, 1900....
Feb. 19, 1900....
Feb. 19, 1900....
Feb. 19, 1900. . . .
Feb. 19, 1900....
Feb. 19, 1900....
$18 00
18 00
17 50
18 50
19 00
18 50
18 50
17 50
Note. — For each 1,000 feet of planed lumber the sum often (10) % additional to
above prices.
22
City Document No.
Beach Gravel.
DISTKICT.
Awarded to
Dated
Price per
ton, deliv-
ered on
wharves.
James F. Mcintosh —
Feb. 21, 1900. . . .
$0 59
Iron Castings.
Contract.
Awarded to Dated ^olbs?*
The Sessions Foundry
Company Feb. 8, 1900 | $1 55
Coal.
Contract.
Awarded to
Dated
Price per ton,
2,240 lbs.
2,000 tons, Ferry Wharves
1,500 tons, Pumping Station,
Dorchester
John Morrison.
John Morrison.
1,500 tons, Ferry Wharves .
Garfield and Proc-
tor Coal Co
1,200 tons, Pumping Station,
Dorchester
7,000 tons, Ferry Wharves
1,500 tons, Pumping Station
Dorchester
John Morrison.
John Morrison.
1,000 tons, Pumping Station,
Dorchester
Garfield and Proc
tor Coal Co
200 tons, Anthracite, Pumping
Station, Lyons st
1,000 tons, Pumping Station,
Dorchester
John Morrison
Marston Coal Co. .
Garfield and Proc
tor Coal Co
March 8, 1900. .
March 15, 1900.
May 11,1900...
May 16,1900...
July 19,1900..
July 30, 1900...
Dec. 22, 1900..
Dec. 28,1900..
Dec. 29,1900..
$3 50
3 80
3 45
3 30
3 35
3 33
3 50
3 45
Leasing Ledge Lots.
Contract.
Awarded to
Dated
Price per ton
for stone re-
moved.
Lease of ledge on Iffley and
W. A. Mosman
Joseph H. Eowe —
James W. Kenney.
April 2, 1900..
April 20, 1900.
June 9, 1900 ..
Nov. 17, 1900..
$0 12*
Lease of ledge on Centre st., be-
tween Allandale and Walter
18
Lease of ledge on Kenney St.,
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Lease of ledge on Iffley and
Montebello Roads and Wash-
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List of Streets Paved with Trinidad Asphalt, Feb. 1, 1901.
City Proper.
Name.
Location.
Length.
Area.
Year
Laid.
80 ft. north of Broadway, across
105
450
216
426
230
134
150
870
1,744
218
1,019
180
192
656
281
845
1,087
105
397
2,700
312
1,267
427
186
466
3,800
9,277
1,183
5,391
350
426
3,869
670
1,737
3,300
467
427
100
869
1,061
604
51
1,804
636
594
614
15,000
5,418
1899
E. Concord st. to E. Springfield st.. .
1884
1899
1883-93
1887
1894
Batterymarch at
1896
Dartmouth st. to within 150 ft. of
150 ft., from westerly line of Glouces-
ter st. to 68 ft. beyond westerly line
1891
1892
1898
68 feet west of Gloucester st. to Mas-
1893
90 ft. west of Harrison ave. to 162
1887
1895
East side of Berkeley St., across
1897
1888
1892
1895
Albany to 105 ft. west of Albany st..
1899
1899
Columbus ave. to 45 ft. south of Co-
45
313
460
272
1899
1887
1894
1895
1899
Easterly side of Fruit st., across
706
318
334
319
3,505
903
1899
1894
Washington st. to Shwmut ave
1892
1892
Boston and Albany Kailroad bridge,
1884-87-
Massachusetts ave. to 301 ft. south
88-91-99
1896
Carried forward,
16,083
63,403
40
City Document No. 38.
List of Streets Paved with Trinidad Asphalt. — Continued.
City Proper.
Name.
Location.
Length.
Area.
Year
Laid.
Brought forward
Corning st
Congress sq
Cooper st ,
Cooper st
Court st
Court sq
Dartmouth st ,
Dartmouth st
Davis st ,
Devonshire st
Doane st
Edinboro' st
Endicott st
Exchange pi
Ferdinand st
Groton st
Hanover ave
Harrison ave
Harrison ave
Harrison ave
Hay ward pi....' —
Hollis st
Hudson st
Kilby st
Laconia st
LaGrange st
Lincoln pi
Malcolm st
Mason st
Massachusetts ave,
Massachusetts ave,
Carried forward,
Washington st. to Shawmut ave
From Congress sq. to Congress st. . .
N. Margin st., across Endicott st
Endicott st. to Charlestown st
Washington st. to Court sq
Court st. to Court st
Buckingham st. to B. and A. Rail-
road bridge
Boylston st. to Newbury st
Washington st. to Harrison ave
Milk st. to Water st
Kilby st. to Broad st
Essex st. to Beach st
Cooper, across Thacher st
Congress st. to Kilby st
At Castle sq
Washington st. to Shawmut ave
Hanover st. to North st
22 ft. south of Kneeland st. to 22 ft.
north of Harvard st.
E. Newton st. to E. Springfield st —
E. Springfield st. to 90 ft. southerly,
Harrison ave. to Washington st
Tremont St., towards Washington st
Beach st. to 90 ft. north of Curve st.
(minus Kneeland st. and Harvard
st. intersections)
State st. to Milk st. (including Lib-
erty sq.)
Washington st. to Harrison ave
Tremont St., towards Washington st
Worcester st. to Springfield at
Mt. Vernon st. to Chestnut st
Tremont St., 75 ft. easterly
Columbus ave. to Tremont st. (south-
erly roadway)
Tremont st. to Shawmut ave. (south-
erly roadway)
16,083
338
209
194
205
231
665
127
266
323
262
812
470
318
244
37
335
307
249
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260
276
1,407
640
330
181
217
261
75
267
470
63,403
734
400
597
604
642
1,883
580
2,058
646
786
624
924
1,078
678
107
558
266
885
2,681
130
578
521
3,938
4,059
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355
313
290
206
1,621
2,934
26,487
95,806
1883-96
1883-
1900
1887
1887-97
1891
1881-94
1899
1894
1892
1899
1881
1895
1884-99
1887
1899
1892
1892
1899
1888-95
1888
1898
1891
1891
1881-88-
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1896
1897
1897
1892
1900
1892
1892
Street Department.
41
List of Streets Paved with Trinidad Asphalt. — Continued.
City Proper.
Name.
Location.
Length.
Area.
Year.
Laid.
Brought forward
Massschusetts ave.,
26,487
180
182
552
515
430
241
279
271
419
1,188
270
350
358
355
115
575
580
580
312
631
631
521
447
16
95,806
994
384
920
1,154
735
550
764
723
597
2,442
400
362
374
370
102
511
515
516
277
561
561
611
908
22
Shawmut ave. to Washington st.
1892
1891
1883
1895
1895
N. Anderson st. across Blossom St..
1898
1893
Washington st. to Harrison ave
1895
1896
1887 92
Public alley 301
1897
Between Huntington ave. and St.
Botolph st., from Irvington st. to
1899
Between Huntington ave. and St.
Botolph st., from Garrison st. to
1899
Public alley 403
Between Huntingdon ave. and St.
Botolph st., from W. Newton st.
1899
Between Beacon and Marlborough
sts., from Exeter st. towards Fair-
field st
Public alley 419,., ,
Between Beacon and Marlborough
sts., from Dartmouth st. to Claren-
1899
Between Beacon and Marlborough
sts., from Clarendon st. to Berke-
Public alley 423
Between Commonwealth ave. and
Marlborough st., from Berkeley
Public alley 431
Between Commonwealth ave. and
Newbury st., from Hereford st. to
Between Commonwealth ave. and
Newbury st., from Berkeley st. to
Arlington st
1899
1898
Public alley 438
Public alley 701,
Between Newbury and Boylston sts.,
from Arlington st. to Berkeley st..
Between Union Park and Upton St.,
from 130 ft. east of Tremont st. to
1899
1895
Lincoln pi. towards Shawmut ave.. .
1897
Carried forward .
36,485
111,159
42
City Document No. 38.
List of Streets Paved with Trinidad Asphalt. — Continued.
City Proper.
Name.
Location.
Length.
Area.
Year
Laid.
Brought forward,
Stillman st
Stoddard st
Sun Court st
Temple pi
Thacher st
Tileston st
Endicott st. across N. Margin st.
Howard st. to Court st
North st. to Moon st
Washington st. to Tremont st
Charlestown st. to Endicott st. . .
155 ft. west of Hanover st. across
Unity st
Tileston st.
Tremont st.
Tremont st.
Unity st. to Salem st
Scollay sq. to 23 ft. north of Beacon
st
21 ft. south of Beacon st. to Boyls
ton st
Tremont st
Trinity pi
Trinity pi
Unity st
Warrenton st.
Warren ton st.
Water st
Water st
Wiggin st
Wiget st
West st
Winter st
At Castle sq
St. James st. across Stuart st
Stuart st. across Stanhope 6t
Charter st. to Tileston st
Eliot st. to Tremont st
Shawmut ave. to Washington st.
Congress st. to Kilby st
Liberty sq. to Broad st
N. Margin st. to Tileston st
Salem st. to N. Margin st
At Tremont st
At Tremont st
36,485
170
135
151
503
203
254
163
460
2,317
60
391
262
330
670
468
255
252
107
259
111,159
453
150
218
1,621
562
346
124
1,586
8,784
771
1,130
757
500
1,587
910
694
682
119
240
64
38
43,895
132,495
1892
1892
1891
1900
1892
1887
1895
1900
1900
1899
1899
1900
1897
1884-91
1891
1889
1896
1887
1897
1900
1900
Charlestown.
156
451
150
533
276
243
390
284
415
670
1891
At Tufts st
1897
Charlestown bridge
60
124
81
130
128
141
165
1899
124 ft. north of Moulton st. to Moul-
1897
Easterly side of Corey st. to Vine st.,
1897
1897
1897
Tufts st
Bunker Hill st., 141 ft. northerly
Bunker Hill st., across Moulton st.. .
1897
1897
985
3,412
Street Department.
43
List of Streets Paved with Trinidad Asphalt. — Concluded.
South Boston.
Name.
Location.
Length.
Area.
Year
Laid.
D st
W. Fifth st. to Gold st
126
111
360
91
185
448
410
480
305
769
1889
E st
W. Third st. to Bolton st
1892
1891
W. Sixth st
153 ft. west of E St., across E st —
1897
"W. Third st
1892
873
2,412
Roxbury.
1,236
723
484
2,640
534
100
3,571
2,988
1,390
15,840
533
89
300
1891
Easterly side of Ruggles st. to Ver-
1892
Easterly side of Vernon st. to Lin-
1897
301 ft. south of Camden St., across
1896
Public alley 404
Public alley 405
Between Huntington ave. and St.
Botolph st., from 66 ft. south of
Cumberland st. to Public alley 405,
94 ft. east of Huntington ave. to 62
ft. west of St. Botolph st., rear
northeast side of Massachusetts
1899
1899
1898
5,717
24,711
44
City Document No. 38.
List of Streets Paved with Sicilian Rock Asphalt, Feb. 1, 1901.
City Proper.
Name.
Limits.
Length.
Area.
Tear
Laid.
Easterly side of Stoughton st. across
259
352
1896
285
1,710
1897
220
360
391
275
1895
1897
1,241
427
600
6,681
723
1,270
1900
1895
1897
East side Arlington st. to Berkeley st.
681
3,827
1,041
1900
Cobb st
347
1897
Washington st. to Harrison ave
370
781
1892
716
2,075
387
1893
170
1897
421
318
615
560
1895
Fay at
1894
315
383
934
597
1896
1896
Huntington ave
1,591
8,840
1896
Kingston st
492
1,859
1899
From a point 213 ft. south of West
231
470
1894
Massachusetts ave..
Washington st. to Harrison ave.
344
2,030
2,121
1894
Massachusetts ave..
Harrison ave. to Albany st. (south-
318
1894
251
307
332
418
437
516
1897
1896
1892-99
204
226
1896
East Dedham st. to East Canton st..
215
335
1896
East Canton st. to East Brookline st.
216
337
1896
205
518
1897
221
339
1896
Washington st. to Shawmut ave
343
277
1896
Front of Suffolk County Court-house,
323
1,365
1894
293
213
327
654
487
945
1895
Salem st., 220 ft. towards Hanover st.
132 ft. south of Castle st. across
1900
1898
Carried forward,
13,539
44,393
Street Department.
45
List of Streets Paved with Sicilian Rock Asphalt. — Continued.
City Proper.
Name.
Limits.
Length.
Area.
Tear
Laid.
Brought forward,
13,539
196
249
44,393
274
445
Dwight st. to Milf ord st
1896
1895
13,984
45,112
East Boston.
Meridian st.
Trenton st. to Eutaw st.
235
600
Charlestown.
Warren st.
Winthrop st. to Soley st.
127
1895
South Boston.
Athens st
Athens st
E. Broadway..
K st
W. Broadway.
W. Broadway.
W. Broadway.
W. Broadway.
W. Broadway.
West Second st. to A st.
Bst. toC st
Front of Lincoln School
East Sixth st. to East Eighth.
From 196 ft. east of easterly line of
Dorchester ave. to A st
Gardner pi. to 150 ft. easterly
New England Bridge to E st. (4-ft.
gutters)
150 ft. west of F st. to 267 ft. east of
F st
267 ft. east of F st. to 44 ft. west of
Dorchester st
617
515
180
566
360
150
448
410
3,246
916
746
1,000
1,083
1,440
648
1,487
1,544
1,818
10,682
1895
1892
1897
1896
1892
1893
1897
1897
1898
Roxbury.
Terry st. to within 61 ft. north of
884
747
587
5,304
4,150
3,372
1896
Easterly side of Cumberland st. to
1896
Huntington ave —
Massachusetts ave. to Gainsborough
st
1896
2,218
12,826
Brighton.
Cottage Farm
bridge
Over Boston & Albany Railroad.
1,556
1896
46
City Document No. 38.
List of Streets Paved with Seyssel Rock Asphalt, Feb. 1, 1901.
City Proper.
Name.
Limits.
Length.
Area.
Year
Laid.
505
123
308
506
133
320
1S2
222
116
316
276
1,122
265
274
1,068
236
693
184
222
103
544
456
1899
444 It. south of West St. to Avery St.,
1899
1899
1899
1897
23 ft. south of Marshall st. to Creek sq.
Worcester st. to W. Springfield st. . .
Between Newland st. and Public
alley 702
1897
Public alley 702
Public alley 703
1899
1899
1899
Washington st. to Shawmut ave
1897
1897-99
3,007
5,167
Other Asphalt Streets.
Name.
Location.
Length.
A Year
Area - Laid.
Hanover st. to North st. (coal tar,
294
267
. 70
580
272
425
1,622
62
516
1,027
Massachusetts ave..
Public alley 422
Public alley 436
I st., South Boston..
Columbus ave. to Tremont st., north-
Between Commonwealth ave. and
Marlborough st., from Arlington
St. 70 ft. westerly (tar concrete)
Between Commonwealth ave. and
Newbury St., from Berkeley St. to
Clarendon st. (tar concrete)
East Broadway to East Fourth st.
1897
1,483
3,672
Summary.
Trinidad asphalt 51,210 feet, or 9.70 miles, or 162,452 sq. yds.
Sicilian rock asphalt 19,950 " " 3.77 " " 71,141" "
Seyssel rock asphalt 3,007 " " 0.57 " " 5,167 " "
Other asphalts 1,743 " " 0.33 " " 4,230" "
Total sheet asphalts 75,910 " "14.37 " "242,990" "
Asphalt blocks 2,124 " " 0.40 " " 4,173" "
Total 78,034 " "14.77 " "247,163" "
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Comparative Cost, for the Year 1900, of Patching Asphalt Pave-
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Pavement Laid.
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4.21 miles of public alleys, chap. 298, Acts of 1898, included in this table.
Total length of public streets, 491.85 miles.
There have been laid out and accepted by the Street Com-
missioners during the year 1.59 linear miles of public streets ;
corrections to previous measurements on account of revision
and other causes show an increase of .71 miles, making a
total net increase of 2.30 miles.
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1859 111.50 miles.
1871 201.32 "
1872 207.40 "
1873 209.24 "
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1876 327.50 "
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1889 397.84
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1891 409.60
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1894 447.65
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1897 459.12
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Income.
Statement showing the amount of bills and cash deposited
with City Collector, less bills withdrawn, for the year ending
January 31, 1901, by the several divisions of the Street
Department :
Bridge Division
Boston and Cambridge Bridges
Ferry Division
Paving Division .
Sanitary Division
Sewer Division
Street-Cleaning Division
Street-Watering .
$519 17
392 35
164,241 49
10,088 81
10,708 84
80,312 92
2,264 38
186,583 94
$455,111 90
Statement showing the amount paid into the City Treasury
during the same period on account of the several Divisions of
the Street Department:
Bridge Division
Boston and Cambridge Bridges
Ferry Division
Paving Division .
Sanitary Division
Sewer Division ;
Street-Cleaning Division
Street-Watering . . .
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CENTRAL OFFICE DIVISION.
expenses op the centeal ofpice.
For the current expenses of the Central Office the City
Council appropriated the sum of twenty thousand ($20,000)
dollars, which was expended as follows :
Salaries $17,235 01
General office expenditures . . 2,759 65
Total $19,994 66
leaving a balance of five dollars and thirty-four cents ($5.34),
which was transferred to the City Treasury.
Respectfully submitted,
B. T. Wheeler,
Superintendent of Streets.
PART II.
APPENDICES.
PAGES 1 TO 254.
APPENDIX A.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT
OF THE BRIDGE DIVISION.
927 and 928 Tremont Building,
Boston, February 1, 1901.
Mr. B. T. Wheeler,
Superintendent of Streets :
Dear Sir, — I respectfully submit my annual report of
the expenditures, income, and operations of the Bridge
Division of the Street Department for the financial year end-
ing January 31, 1901.
Embodied in this report will be found a detailed statement
of the expenditures, a description of the work done on each
bridge, also a tabulated account of the bridges supported
wholly or in part by the City of Boston, widths of bridges
and of draw openings, widths of roadways and sidewalks,
character of pavements, number of openings made for navi-
gation, etc.
The total number of bridges in Boston is 155, not includ-
ing culverts. Eight of these bridges, namely, Harvard,
Canal, Prison Point, West Boston, Essex street, Cambridge
street, Western avenue to Cambridge, and North Harvard
street, all connecting Boston and Cambridge, are under the
care of two commissioners, one of whom is appointed by
the Mayor of the City of Boston, the other by the Mayor
of the City of Cambridge.
One hundred and fifteen bridges are supported wholly or
in part by the City of Boston, 28 of which are tide-water
bridges, provided with a draw, and 40 are wholly supported
by railroad corporations.
Of the tide-water bridges there are 13 of great importance,
namely, Maiden and Mt. Washington avenue, operated by
hand-power; the new Charlestown bridge, Summer street,
Meridian street, Chelsea [North], Federal street, Dover street,
all operated by electricity; Warren, Broadway, Congress
street, L street, and Chelsea [South] , operated by steam-power.
4 City Document No. 38.
Work necessitating new floor beams, new deck, and
sheathing, has been performed on Allston, Blakemore street,
Massachusetts avenue, Mattapan, and Swett-street bridges.
New sidewalks on Massachusetts avenue, Mattapan, West
Fourth street, Dover street, Federal street, Beacon street,
Milton, Maiden and Dartmouth-street bridges.
Ironwork has been scraped and painted on Allston, Blake-
more street, 'Massachusetts avenue, Chelsea [North] , Athens
street, Gold street, Dartmouth street, Albany street, Brook-
line avenue, and Neponset bridges.
Bulkheads have been strengthened on Swett street, Linden
Park street, and Williams-street bridges.
Piers have been rebuilt, new floor laid in boiler-room, fences
repaired and painted, machinery repaired, sidewalks redecked
and concreted on Warren bridge.
Draw has been widened, new piers, new wheel-guards, and
new machinery, on Chelsea [North] bridge.
Two shelter-houses have been erected on Summer-street
bridge.
Roadway has been repaved on Congress-street bridge.
Summer street extension is now open to travel to South
Boston, the bridges having been completed.
Extensive repairs have been made on Winthrop bridge.
Piers have been rebuilt, and the foundation of the old draw
removed from Dover-street bridge.
The bridge over Ipswich street, in the parkway, has been
completed.
The new Maiden bridge, between Charlestown and
Everett, is being constructed, and will be completed before
the close of the present year.
If the proposed new Broadway bridge, now under consid-
eration, is not constructed early in the coming year a special
appropriation must be made to put the bridge in good condi-
tion, and to rebuild the piers.
Congress street and Mt. Washington-avenue bridges
should be rebuilt. I would recommend that early action be
taken, especially on Congress street.
The machinery, piers, fender-guards, and water-ways of
Meridian-street bridge, Chelsea [South] and Neponset bridges,
are in need of extensive repairs.
Many of the bridges are old, and require much reconstruc-
tion, and as a large per cent, of the maintenance appropriation
is required for the actual operation of the bridges, payment
of draw-tenders, etc., I would recommend that where exten-
sive repairs are needed, special appropriations should be
made for that purpose.
Stkeet Department — Bridge Division. 5
The headquarters now occupied by this Division at South
Boston have been acquired by the New York, New Haven
& Hartford Railroad Company, and I would recommend
that a building, to be used as a stable and storehouse, be
erected on the lot owned by the City of Boston, on Broadway,
near the corner of Dorchester avenue.
Particular attention has been given to the painting of the
ironwork under the floor of the different bridges..
The force employed on the tide-water bridges has been so
assigned that there is now on duty at all times either the
draw-tender or his first assistant. The work performed by
the men in charge of these bridges has been generally satis-
factory ; they have kept the piers and premises in good con-
dition, and no accident has been reported that could have
been attributed to their carelessness or negligence.
The inland bridges have all been carefully looked after,
and thoroughly swept each week.
Care has been exercised in keeping on hand duplicate parts
of gearing and machinery, and by so doing, due precautions
have been taken against inconvenience to public travel and
navigation.
Respectfully yours,
Walter Reed,
Deputy Superintendent.
OBJECT OF EXPENDITURES.
Administration.
Office expenses :
Printing and stationery . . . $704 35
Sundry office expenses . . . 220 67
$925 02
Salaries of Deputy Superintendent and clerical
force 6,860 08
Salaries of Supervisor and Foreman . . . 3,313 91
Board of Deputy Superintendent's horse and extra
horse 613 69
Paid expert on real estate ..... 250 00
Telephone at Deputy Superintendent's house . 34 93
Amount expended, administration . . $11,997 63
Maintenance Expenditures.
Administration . . . . . . . $11,997 63
On tide- water bridges . . . . . . 92,78857
Carried forward ...... $104,786 20
City Document No. 38.
Brought forward
On inland bridges
North yard and stable
South yard and stable
Total .
$104,786 20
20,143 14
4,931 70
8,719 52
$138,580 56
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Maintenance Appropriation.
Appropriation 1900-1 $173,000 00
Received from Boston & Albany Railroad Company
for work done in 1900 115 41
Received from New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad Company for work done in 1899 . . 90 04
Total $173,205 45
Amount of expenditures from February 1, 1900,
to January 31, 1901 $138,580 56
Transferred to Sanitary Division . . . . 4,238 30
Transferred to Street Cleaning Division . . 9,747 23
Unexpended balance (transferred to City Treasury
January 31, 1901) 20,639 36
Total . . $173,205 45
Special Appropriations in Charge of Bridge Division.
Name of Appropriation.
Appropria-
tions and
Balances.
Expended
Feb. 1, 1900,
to Jan. 31, 1901,
and Transfers.
Balances on
hand
Jan. 31, 1901.
Congress-street bridge, reconstruction,
Dover-street bridge, tearing out old
work
Harvard-street bridge, reconstruction..
Warren bridge, redecking old piers —
Winthrop bridge
Totals
$3,699 25
2,000 00
2,045 76
4,000 00
1,000 00
$12,745 01
$3,699 25
84 00
2,045 76
4,000 00
60 00
3,889 01
$1,916 00
940 00
$2,856 00
Amount of expenditures February 1, 1900 to
January 31, 1901 . . . ' . . . $9,889 01
Balances unexpended 2,85600
Amount of appropriations .... $12,745 01
Street Department — Bridge Division.
Amounts Charged to Special Appropriations in Charge
of other Divisions.
Name of Appropriation. Amount expended.
Chelsea bridge, widening opening, north draw . $304 61
Reserve fund, settlement of claims . . . 338 00
Total $642 61
Amount expended and charged to maintenance
appropriation ....... $138,580 56
Amount expended and charged to Bridge Division
specials 9,889 01
Amount expended and charged to appropriations
in charge of other Divisions .... 642 61
Grand total of expenditures February 1, 1900, to
January 31, 1901 $149,112 18
A detailed statement of expenditures and description of work
performed follows ; also a list of those bridges maintained wholly
or .in part by the City of Boston ; statement of the public landing
places ; list of cable-houses and boxes ; also buildings on bridges
in charge of this Division ; number of draw openings made for
navigation ; width of draw openings, and table showing widths of
bridges and kind of roadway and sidewalks.
TIDE- WATER BRIDGES.
Broadway bridge (over Fort Point channel).
Patched deck, repaired sheathing under nine dif-
ferent orders, repaired engine, machinery, fence,
pier, and sidewalk :
Labor . ... . $680 50
Material . . . . 891 14
$1,571 64
Regular expenses :
Salaries $5,422 29
Supplies .... 379 35
5,801 64
Charlestown bridge (from Boston to Charles-
town) .
Repaired sheathing in various places, electrical ap-
paratus and concrete sidewalk, also reset buoys.
Labor .... $674 61
Material .... 950 10
$1,624 71
r ,373 28
Carried forward . . . .$1,624 71 $7,373 28
8 City Document No. 38.
Brought forward . . . $1,624 71 $7,373 28
Regular expenses :
Salaries .... $7,077 60 -
Supplies . . . . 219 99
7,297 59
Chelsea bridge [North] (over North channel,
Mystic river) .
Patched sheathing, repaired foundation under
sprocket wheel, iron fence, and machinery, reset
buoy, and painted new draw :
Labor .... $725 86
Material . . . . 748 02
$1,473 88
Regular expenses :
Salaries . . . . $4,849 73
Supplies . . . . 214 46
5,064 19
Chelsea bridge [South] (over South channel,
Mystic river) .
Patched sheathing, repaired sidewalk, engine,
machinery and water-pipes, and painted draw-
house.
Labor .... $393 75
Material » . . . 478 71
$872 46
Regular expenses :
Salaries .... $4,667 48
Supplies . . . . 289 57
4,957 05
Chelsea-street bridge (from East Boston to
Chelsea).
Sheathed draw, made general repairs, and painted
rail on draw.
8,922 30
6,538 07
5,829 51
Labor
Material
$69 25
153 07
$222 32
324 60
Regular expenses :
Salary
Supplies
. $299 00
25 60
546 92
Carried forward .
$29,210 08
Steeet Depaetment — Beidge Division. 9
Brought forward .... $29,210 08
Commercial Point or Tenean bridge (Dor-
chester).
Sheathed draw, patched, sheathing, put on new
flaps, and painted draw.
Labor . . . . $93 75
Material . . . . 51 97
$145 72
Regular expenses :
Salary .... 50 00
Congress=street bridge (over Fort Point
channel).
Sheathed the draw three times, patched the same
various times, made general repairs, repaired
machinery, engines, and built shelter houses and
painted same.
Labor .... $1,485 44
Material . . . . 1,711 22
Regular expenses :
Salaries .... $5,452 98
Supplies .... 722 55
(,196 66
6,175 53
Dover=street bridge (over Fort Point channel) .
Sheathed the draw, patched same, new sidewalk
on draw, put in oak headers, repaired machinery
and electrical apparatus, reset buoy, and painted
ironwork .
Labor .... $912 36
Material . . . . 833 76
$1,746 12
Regular expenses :
Salaries . . . . $5,279 57
Supplies . . . . 58 03
5,337 60
Federal-street bridge (over Fort Point
channel) .
Repaired water-way, sheathed draw twice, new side-
walk, repaired cap on pier, gear wheel, water-
pipes and machinery, and reset buoy.
Labor .... $362 74
Material . . . . 651 69
$1,014 43
195 72
9,372 19
7,083 72
Carried forward .... $1,014 43 $45,861 71
10 City Document No. 38.
Brought forward . . . $1,014 43 $45,861 71
Regular expenses :
Salaries .... $4,703 50
Supplies . . . . 112 46
4,815 96
Granite bridge (from Dorchester to Milton).
Repaired and painted fence.
Labor . . . $45 50
Material . . . . 5 57
$51 07
Regular expenses :
Salary 239 20
L=street bridge (over reserved channel at junc-
tion of Congress and L streets).
Patched sheathing, sheathed the draw, put in oak
headers, repaired fence, boat, engine and ma-
chinery, reset buoy, and painted draw- house.
Labor . . . . $291 06
Material . . . . 416 75
$707 81
Regular expenses :
Salaries . . . . $4,203 86
Supplies . . . 406 68
4,610 54
flalden bridge (from Charlestown to Everett) .
Patched sheathing several times and built new side-
walk.
Labor .... $390 12
Material . . . . 58 04
$448 16
Regular expenses :
Salaries . . . . $3,648 21
Supplies . . . . 63 40
3,711 61
Meridian=street bridge (from East Boston to
Chelsea) .
Patched deck and sheathing on draw and deck on
pier, calked deck over motor, repaired electrical
apparatus and machinery, and reset buoys.
Labor .... $539 11
Material .... 1,151 10
$1,690 21
5,830 39
290 27
5,318 35
4,159 77
Carried forward .... $1,690 21 $61,460 49
Brought forward
Regular expenses :
Salaries
Supplies
. $1,690 21
. $3,784 07
291 15
\ 07*i °°
Street Department- — Bridge Division. 11
$61,460 49
5,765 43
Mt. Washington-avenue bridge (over Fort
Point channel) .
Patched deck and sheathing several times, re-
paired water-way, latch, wheel-guard, machinery,
and built new chimney in draw-house.
Labor $570 90
Material . . . . 354 64
$925 54
Regular expenses :
Salaries . . . . $3,758 17
Supplies . . . . 168 69
3,926 86
4,852 40
Neponset bridge (from Dorchester to Quincy).
Sheathed draw, put in new headers, repaired box-
cover, boat, wheel-guard, and painted fence and
iron girder on draw.
Labor .... $259 00
Material .... 224 04
$483 04
Regular expenses :
Salary . . . . $398 84
Supplies . . . . 1 19
400 03
North Beacon=street bridge (from Brighton
to Watertown).
Patched deck and sheathing three times.
Labor . . . . $35 00
Material . . . . 75 44
$110 44
Regular expenses :
Salary 99 84
Summer=street bridge (over Fort Point chan-
nel).
Patched sheathing, repaired latch, track, cap on
pier, machinery, iron fence, cable and chimney,
and built two shelter houses.
Labor .... $330 26
Material .... 1,294 30
. $1,624 56
883 07
210 28
Carried forward .... $1,624 56 $73,171 67
12 City Document No. 38.
Brought forward
. $1,624 56
Regular expenses :
Salaries
. $4,534 85
Supplies
651 19
5,186 04
Warren bridge (from Boston to Charlestown) .
Sheathed draw twice, patched sheathing, repaired
stable, fence, float, sidewalk, engines, machinery,
trucks and water-pipes, and painted fence.
Labor . . . . $1,906 61
Material . . . .2,125 10
$4,031 71
Regular expenses :
Salaries .... $5,299 57
Supplies . . . . 740 16
6,039 73
Western =a venue bridge (from Brighton to
Watertown) .
Patched sheathing and sidewalk, new bunter, re-
paired boat and latches.
Labor . . . . $60 25
Material . . . . 46 02
$106 27
Regular expenses :
Salary .... $167 84
Supplies . . . 6 44
174 28
Winthrop bridge (from Breed's Island to Win-
throp) .
Sheathed bridge, and repaired sidewalk and sheath-
ing.
Labor .... $138 50
Material . . . 371 84
$510 34
Regular expenses ;
Salary .... $150 00
Supplies . . . . 2 50
152 50
Sundry Expenditures on tide-water bridges.
Oak lumber for headers and other ma-
terial $585 99
6,810 60
10,071 44
280 55
662 84
Carried foricard . . . . $585 99 $90,997 10
Street Department — Bridge Division. 13
),997 10
1,200 47
Brought forward
Regular expenses :
Salary
Supplies .
$78
535
89
59
$585
614
99
48
Public Landings.
East Boston :
Regular expenses :
Rent ....
. $250
00
Care ....
25
00
$275
00
Jeffries Point :
Labor
. . $16
00
Regular expenses :
Rent . . . _
300
00
316
00
591 00
Total expended on tide-water bridges . . $92,788 57
14
City Document No. 38.
RECAPITULATION .
Table showing Expenditures on the Tide-water Bridges,
February 1, 1900, to January 31, 1901.
Name of Bridge.
Repairs, Labor,
Lumber, Iron-
work, and
Painting.
Regular Ex-
penses, Salaries,
Fuel, and
Supplies.
Total.
Broadway '..
Charlestown
Chelsea (North)
Chelsea (South)
Chelsea street
Commercial Point
Congress street
Dover street
Federal street
Granite
L street
Maiden
Meridian street
Mt. Washington avenue
Neponset
North Beacon street
Summer street
Warren
Western avenue to Watertown
Winthrop
Sundry expenditures
Public landings
Totals
$1,571 64
1,624 71
1,473 88
872 46
222 32
145 72
3,196 66
1,746 12
1,014 43
51 07
707 81
448 16
1,690 21
925 54
483 04
110 44
1,624 56
4,031 71
106 27
510 34
585 99
16 00
$5,801 64
7,297 59
5,064 19
4,957 05
324 60
50 00
6,175 53
5,337 60
4,815 96
239 20
4,610 54
3,711 61
4,075 22
3,926 86
400 03
99 84
5,186 04
6,039 73
174 28
152 50
614 48
575 00
$7,373 28
8,922 30
6,538 07
5.829 51
546 92
195 72
9,372 19
7,083 72
5.830 39
290 27
5,318 35
4,159 77
5,765 43
4,852 40
883 07
210 28
6,810 60
10,071 44
280 55
662 84
1,200 47
591 00
$23,159 08
$69,629 49
$92,788 57
7
Street Department — Bridge Division. 15
INLAND BRIDGES.
Albany-street bridge (over Boston & Albany
Railroad) .
Sheathed twice, patched sheathing and sidewalk,
and painted top and underside of bridge.
Labor $599 75
Material 414 31
$1,014 06
Allston bridge (over Boston & Albany Railroad
at Cambridge street) .
New deck and new sheathing laid, patched sheath-
ing, and painted beams.
Labor $1,849 50
Material . . .-...". . 1,394 88
Ashland=street bridge (over New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad, Providence Divi-
sion).
Repaired and painted fence.
Labor $91 25
Material 18 32
Ashmont bridge (over New York, New Haven
& Hartford Railroad, Shawmut Branch, Plym-
outh Division) .
Patched sheathing.
Labor . . . . . $7 50
Material 63
Athens=street bridge (over New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad, Midland Divi-
sion) .
Patched sheathing and sidewalk.
Labor $39 00
Material 3 25
Beacon=street bridge (over Boston & Albany
Railroad).
Sheathed and patched sheathing.
Labor . '■ . . . . . . $73 50
Material 292 56
3,244 38
109 57
8 13
42 25
366 06
Carried forward . . . . . $4,784 45
16 City Document No. 38.
Brought forward ..... $4,784 45
Beacorustreet bridge (over water-way).
Sheathed and patched sidewalk.
Labor . . . . . $43 50
Material 140 16
183 66
Beech=street culvert (at Central Station, "West
Roxbury) .
Patched deck and sheathing.
Labor $21 75
Material 1 81
Berkeley-street bridge (over Boston & Albany
Railroad).
Patched deck and sheathing three times, and painted
ironwork on top.
Labor $142 25
Material . .. . . . 66 38
Berkeley=street bridge (over New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad, Providence Divi-
sion, old location).
Patched deck and sheathing and repaired concrete
walk.
Labor $109 50
Material 162 62
Blakemore=street bridge (over New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Providence
Division) .
New deck, sheathed entire, and painted iron beams
and top.
Labor $423 75
Material 426 69
Boylston-street bridge (over Boston & Albany
Railroad).
Sheathed, new sidewalk, cleaned and painted iron
beams.
Labor $387 00
Material 641 96
Broadway =b ridge (over Boston & Albany Rail-
road).
Put in deck, sheathed and repaired fence.
Labor $122 25
Material 10 19
23 56
208 63
272 12
850 44
1,028 96
132 44
Carried forward . . . . . . $7,48426
Street Department — Bridge Division. 17
Brought forward . . . . . $7,484 26
Brookline=avenue bridge (over Boston &
Albany Railroad).
Repaired fence and painted ironwork.
Labor . . . . . . $151 00
Material 116 41
267 41
Byron=street bridge (over Boston, Revere
Beach & Lynn Railroad).
Sheathed the bridge.
Labor $18 00
Material .... . . 92 04
Columbus=avenue bridge (over Boston &
Albany Railroad).
Sheathed and painted ends of girders.
Labor $41 25
Material 110 63
Cornwall=street bridge (over Stony brook).
New sidewalk.
Labor $12 50
Material 60 14
Cottage Farm bridge (over Boston & Albany
Railroad at Commonwealth avenue) .
Painted iron fence.
Labor $55 00
Material 7 00
Cottage-street [foot] bridge (over flats East
Boston).
Bridge tender $728 00
Supplies 28 96
Dartmouth-street bridge (over Boston &
Albany Railroad).
Put in new floor timbers, patched deck, sheathed,
new sidewalk in part, cleaned and painted entire
bridge.
Labor $1,058 75
Material . . .... 650 68
110 04
151
72 64
62 00
756 96
1,709 43
Carried forward ...... $10,614 62
18 City Document No. 38.
Brought forward $10,614 62
Dorchester-street bridge (over New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Plymouth
Division ) .
Patched sheathing.
Labor • 12 50
Material 61 78
Everett=street bridge (over Boston & Albany
Railroad, Brighton) .
Patched sheathing twice.
Labor $45 50
Material 136 28
Ferdinand-street bridge (over Boston &
Albany Railroad).
Patched sheathing, repaired sidewalk and fence,
painted fence and sheathed.
Labor $71 00
Material 8 96
Florence-street bridge (over Stony brook).
Repaired sheathing.
Labor . . • • • $15 25
Material 60 04
Qold=street bridge (over New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad, Midland Divi-
sion).
Sheathed the bridge.
Labor $114 00
Material 29 71
Huntington-avenue bridge (over Boston &
Albany Railroad).
Sheathed, also patched sheathing.
Labor ...... $58 25
Material 378 27
Irvington-street [foot] bridge (over New
York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Provi-
dence Division).
Patched platform.
Labor $8 00
Material 76
64 28
181 78
79 96
75 29
143 71
436 52
8 76
Carried forward . . . • • .$11, 6 04 92
Street Department — Bridge Division. 19
Brought forward $11,604 92
Keyes-street bridge (over Stony brook) .
Repaired fence.
Labor . 1 25
Lehigh-street fence (under Broadway bridge;.
Repaired fence four times.
Labor $43 75
Material 19 15
62 90
Linden Park-street bridge (over Stony brook) .
Sheathed, repaired supports, and patched sheathing.
Labor $67 75
Material . . . ... 55 50
riassachusetts=avenue bridge (over Boston
& Albany Railroad) .
New deck in part, sheathed the bridge entire,
patched deck and sheathing, scraped and
painted iron beams and fence.
Labor $476 25
Material 532 87
Massachusetts-avenue bridge (over New
York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Provi-
dence Division) .
Sheathed the bridge entire, and built new sidewalk
on north-easterly side.
Labor $138 25
Material 230 81
Mattapan bridge (from Dorchester to Milton).
New stringers, deck, sheathing, and sidewalk.
Labor $245 75
Material 523 93
Note. — One-half of this amount was paid by Metro-
politan Park Commission, they paying as an offset, bill
for lumber used on Swett street.
Milton bridge (from Dorchester to Milton).
New sidewalk, old one repaired twice.
Labor $59 25
Material . . . . . . 25 66
123 25
1,009 12
369 06
769 68
84 91
Carried forward . . . . . . $14,025 09
20 City Document No. 38.
Brought forward $14,025 09
Shawmut=avenue bridge (over Boston &
Albany and New York, New Haven & Hart-
ford Railroad, Providence Division) .
Sheathed and repaired old sheathing.
Labor $52 00
Material 104 45
Swett=street bridge (east of New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad, Midland Division).
Patched sheathing, put in new deck, sheathed,
repaired foundations, and painted fence.
Labor $1,028 00
Material 803 70
Note. — Lumber to the amount of $388.50 used, not
included in the above, was paid for by Metropolitan
Park Commission as an offset to work done on Mattapan
bridge.
West Fourth=street bridge (over New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Plymouth
Division) .
Patched deck and sheathing under nine different
orders, sheathed and put in new sidewalk in part.
Labor $767 38
Material • 1,674 75
West Newton=street bridge (over New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Providence
Division) .
Patched deck and sheathing three times, sheathed
north-easterly roadway, and painted fence.
Labor . . . • • • 78 50
Material 7-2 07
West Rutland-square [foot] bridge (over
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad,
Providence Division) .
Built new sand-box.
Labor $11 50
Material 1 09
Williams=street bridge (over Stony brook),
and culvert at the brook.
Patched deck and sheathing on both.
Labor $42 25
Material 204 67
156 45
1,831 70
2,442 13
150 57
12 59
246 92
Carried forward ...... 818,865 45
Street Department — Bridge Division. 21
Brought forward ..... $18,865 45
Sundry expenditures on inland bridges.
Cleaning, removing snow, and small repairs.
Labor $963 88
Material 313 81
1,277 69
Total expended on inland bridges . . $20,143 14
22
City Document No. 38.
RECAPITULATION .
Table shovring Expenditures
February 1, 1900,
on the Inland Bridges,
to January 31, 1901.
from
Name of Bridge.
Repairs, Labor,
Lumber, Ironwork,
and Painting.
Albany street
Allston
•
$1,014 06
3,244 38
Ashland street .
.
109 57
Ashmont
.
8 13
Athens street
42 25
Beacon street (over B. & A. Railroad) .
366 06
Beacon street (over water-way) .
183 66
Beech street (culvert)
Berkeley street (over B. & A. Railroad)
Berkeley street (over N. Y.,N. H. & H.
Providence Division, old location)
R.R.
23 56
208 63
272 12
Blakemore street .
850 44
Boylston street (over B. & A. Railroad)
1,028 96
Broadway (over B. & A. Railroad)
Brookline avenue
132 44
. 267 41
Byron street
Columbus avenue
110 04
151 88
Cornwall street .
• . .
72 64
Cottage Farm
,
62 00
Cottage street
756 96
Dartmouth street
.
1,709 43
Dorchester street
.
64 28
Everett street
.
181 78
Ferdinand street
.
79 96
Florence street .
.
75 29
Gold street
.
143 71
Huntington avenue
436 52
Irvington street .
8 76
Keyes street
Lehigh street (fence)
■
1 25
62 90
Linden Park street
123 25
Massachusetts avenue (over B. & A. Railro£
id)
1,009 12
Massachusetts avenue (over N. Y., N. H.
& H
R.R., Providence Di
Mattapan
Milton
vision
)
369 06
769 68
84 91
Shawmut avenue
156 45
Swett street (east)
1,831 70
West Fourth street
2,442 13
West Newton street
150 57
West Rutland square
12 59
Williams street .
246 92
Sundry expenditures
1,277 69
Total
•
. $20,143 14
Street Department — Bridge Division. 23
MAINTENANCE EXPENSES AT NORTH AND SOUTH
YARDS.
North
Yard,
District
No. 1
Warren Bridge,
Messenger
Tools .
Supplies
Repairing
and watchmen
building
•
$2,130
90
177
181
51
93
99
38
Stable, District No. 1.
Warren Bridge.
Teamster and hostler . . . .$1,73200
Harness, feed, and supplies . . . 618 89
£3,230
29
270
75
180
42
292
44
Stable, District No. 2.
323 West Fourth Street.
Teamster and driver . . . .$1,55613
Board of horses ..... 1,610 18
Repairing vehicles, horse-shoeing, feed,
harness, and supplies . . . 1,579 31
1,580 81
2,350 89
Total expended, North Yard and Stable . . $4,931 70
South Yard, District No. 2.
No. 43 Foundry Street.
Messenger, watchmen, and yardman
Labor in yard ....
Tools . ...
Supplies . . . . .
(,973 90
4,745 62
Total expended, South Yard and Stable . . $8,719 52
24 City Document No. 38.
SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS.
In Charge of Bridge Division.
Congress=street bridge, reconstruction (over
Fort Point channel) .
Repairing pier and resetting spurshores, $825 00
Repairing machinery, and ironwork . 345 89
Lumber and hardware for draw and
shelter-houses ..... 483 48
Paving roadway ..... 380 00
Labor on shelter-house No. 1 . . 290 00
Amount expended January 31, 1901 . . $2,324 37
Transferred to Street Improvements, Ward 7 . 1,374 88
Appropriation on hand February 1, 1900 was, $3,699 25
Dover=street bridge, tearing out old work
(over Fort Point channel).
Inspector . . . . . " . $84 00
Amount expended January 31, 1901 . . $84 00
Balance . . . " . . . . 1,916 00
Appropriation . . . . . . $2,000 00
Harvard=street bridge, reconstruction (over
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad,
Midland Division).
Rent for new sidewalks . . . $2 00
Transferred to Street Improvements,
Ward 24 2,043 76
Appropriation on hand February 1, 1900, was $2,045 76
Warren bridge, redecking old piers (Boston
to Charlestown) .
Labor $1,059 42
Material 2,940 58
Amount of appropriation .... $4,000 00
Winthrop bridge (from Breed's Island to Win-
throp) .
Inspector $60 00
Amount expended January 3 1 , 1901 . . $60 00
Balance . . . " . . . . 940 00
Appropriation . . . . . $1,000 00
Street Department — Bridge Division. 25
Amounts Charged to Special Appropriations in Charge of
other Divisions.
Chelsea bridge [North] (over North channel,
Mystic river) .
Salary of extra draw-tender .... $304 61
[Charged to Chelsea bridge, widening opening,
North draw.]
Awards of Committee on Claims.
N. P. Doane, damage to tug " N. P.
Doane" . ' $213 00
Tug "Jennie" and others, damage . 75 00
Anthony Q. Martin, personal injuries, 50 00
$338 00
[Charged to Reserve Fund.]
LIST OF BOSTON BRIDGES.
I. — Bridges wholly Maintained by Boston.
[In the list those marked with an asterisk (*) are over navigable
waters, and are each provided with a draw.]
In Charge of Bridge Division.
Allston, over Boston & Albany Railroad at Cambridge street,
Brighton.
Ashland street, over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, Providence
Division, West Roxbury.
Athens street, over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, Midland
Division.
Baker street, at Brook farm, West Roxbury.
Beacon street, over outlet to Back Bay Fens.
Beacon street, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Berkeley street, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Berkeley street over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad. (Old loca-
tion.)
Berwick park (foot-bridge), over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad,
Providence Division.
Blakemore street, over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, Providence
Division.
Bolton street, over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, Midland
Division.
Boylston avenue, over Stony brook, West Roxbury.
Boylston street, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
* Broadway, over Fort Point channel.
26
City Document No.
Broadway, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Brookline avenue, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Byron street, over Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad.
* Charlestown, 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, Dorchester.
* Congress street, over Fort Point channel.
Cornwall street, over Stony brook, West Roxbury.
Cottage Farm, over Boston & Albany Railroad, at Common-
wealth avenue.
Cottage street (foot-bridge) , over flats, East Boston.
Dartmouth street, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
* Dover street, over Fort Point channel.
Elmwood street (private way), over Stony brook, Roxbury.
* Federal street, over Fort Point channel.
Ferdinand street, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Florence street, over Stony brook, West Roxbury.
Gold street (foot-bridge), over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad,
Midland Division.
Huntington avenue, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Hyde Park avenue, over Stony brook, West Roxbury.
Irvington street (foot-bridge), over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad,
Providence Division.
Keyes street, over Stony brook, West Roxbury.
* L street, over reserved channel at junction of Congress and L
streets.
Leyden street, over Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad.
Linden Park street, over Stony brook, Roxbury.
* Maiden, from Charlestown to Everett.
Massachusetts avenue, over Boston & Albany Railroad
Massachusetts avenue, over N. Y., N. H. & H.
Providence Division.
* Meridian street, from East Boston to Chelsea.
* Mount Washington avenue, over Fort Point channel.
Shawmut avenue, over Boston & Albany and N. Y., N. H. & H
Railroad, Providence Division.
Silver street, over N. Y., N. H. & H
Division.
Summer street, over A street.
Summer street, over B street.
Summer street, over C street.
* Summer street, over Fort Point channel
Swett street, east of N. Y., N. H. &
Division.
Swett street, west of N. Y., N. H. &
Division.
Texas street, over Stony brook, Roxbury
* Warren, from Boston to Charlestown.
Railroad,
Railroad, Midland
H.
H.
Railroad, Midland
Railroad, Midland
Street Department — Bridge Division. 27
West Newton street, over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, Provi-
dence Division.
West Rutland square (foot-bridge), over N. Y., N. H. & H.
Railroad, Providence Division.
Williams street, over Stony brook, West Roxbury.
Winthrop, from Breed's Island to Winthrop.
In Charge of Park Department.
Agassiz, in Back Bay Fens.
Arborway, over Stony brook.
Arborway, Railroad viaduct.
Audubon road, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Boylston street, in Back Bay Fens.
Bridle path, in the Riverway, over Muddy river.
* Castle Island (foot-bridge) from Marine park, South Boston,
to Castle Island.
Chapel Arch, foot-bridge in the Riverway.
Charlesgate, Back Bay Fens, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Charlesgate [West], over Ipswich street.
Circuit drive, over Scarboro' pond, in Franklin park.
Commonwealth avenue, in Back Bay Fens.
Ellicott arch, in Franklin park.
Fen, Back Bay Fens.
Forest Hills entrance, in Franklin park.
Ipswich street, over Waterway in Fens.
Leverett pond (foot-bridge), in Leverett park.
Neptune road, over Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad.
Overlook Arch, Franklin park.
Scarboro' pond (foot-bridge), in Franklin park.
Stony brook, Back Bay Fens.
Wood Island Park (foot-bridge) , over Boston, Revere Beach &
Lynn Railroad.
In Charge of Public Grounds Department.
Public Garden (foot-bridge).
II. — Bridges of which Boston Maintains the Part Within
its Limits.
In Charge of Bridge Division.
Central avenue, from Dorchester to Milton.
* Chelsea [North], from Charlestown to Chelsea.
* Granite, from Dorchester to Milton.
Mattapan, from Dorchester to Milton.
Milton, from Dorchester to Milton.
* Neponset, from Dorchester to Quincy.
* North Beacon street, from Brighton to Watertown.
Spring street, from West Roxbury to Dedham.
* Western avenue, from Brighton to Watertown.
28 City Document No. 38.
In Charge of Park Department.
Bellevue street, in the Riverway, over Muddy river.
Brookline avenue, in the Riverway, over Muddy river.
Chapel, in the Riverway, over Muddy river.
Longwood avenue, from Roxbury to Brookline.
Tremont street, in the Riverway, over Muddy river.
III. — Bridges op which Boston Pays a Part of the Cost
of Maintenance.
In Charge of Bridge Division.
Albany street, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Ashmont, junction Dorchester avenue and Talbot avenue, over
N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, Plymouth Division.
Boston street, over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, Plymouth
Division.
Chelsea bridge, over Boston & Maine Railroad.
Dorchester avenue, over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, Plymouth
Division.
Dorchester street, over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, Plymouth
Division .
Everett street, over Boston & Albany Railroad, Brighton.
Harvard street, over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, Midland
Division.
Summer street, over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, Midland Divi-
sion.
Swett street, over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, Plymouth Divi-
sion.
West Fourth street, over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, Plymouth
Division.
In Charge of Commissioners of Cambridge Bridges.
* Cambridge street, from Brighton to Cambridge.
* Canal, from Boston to Cambridge.
* Essex street, from Brighton to Cambridge.
* Harvard, from Boston to Cambridge.
* North Harvard street, from Brighton to Cambridge.
* Prison Point, from Charlestown to Cambridge.
* West Boston, from Boston to Cambridge.
* Western avenue, from Brighton to Cambridge.
IV. — Bridges Maintained by Railroad Corporations.
1st. — Boston & Albany Railroad.
Harrison avenue.
Market street, Brighton.
Tremont street.
Washington street.
Street Department — Bridge Division. 29
2d. — Boston <# Maine Railroad, Eastern Division.
Main street.
Mystic avenue.
3d. — Boston & Maine Railroad, Western Division.
Main street.
Mystic avenue.
4th. — Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad.
Everett street.
5th. — New York, New Haven & Hartford, Railroad, Midland
Division.
Dorchester avenue.
Morton street, Dorchester.
Norfolk street, Dorchester [North],
Norfolk street, Dorchester [South],
"Washington street, Dorchester.
West Broadway.
West Fifth street.
West Fourth street.
West Second street.
West Sixth street.
West Third street.
6th. — New York, Nevj Haven & Hartford Railroad,
Plymouth Division.
Adams street.
Freeport street.
Savin Hill avenue.
7th. — New York, New Haven <£• Hartford Railroad, Provi-
dence Division.
Albany street (new part) .
Beech street, West Roxbury.
Bellevue street, West Roxbury.
Berkeley street (new part).
Broadway (new part).
Canterbury street, West Roxbury.
Castle street.
Centre and Mt. Vernon streets, West Roxbury.
Chandler street.
Columbus avenue (new part) .
Dartmouth street (new part).
Dudley avenue, West Roxbury.
Ferdinand street (new part).
30 City Document No. 38.
Harrison avenue (new part).
Park street, "West Roxbury.
Tremont street (new park).
Washington street (new part) .
Recapitulation of Bridges.
I. Number wholly maintained by Boston :
In charge of Bridge Division ... 59
In charge of Park Department . . . 22
In charge of Public Grounds Department . 1
II. Number of which Boston maintains the part
within its limits :
III. Number of which Boston pays a part of the
cost of maintenance :
— 82
In charge of Bridge Division ... 9
In charge of Park Department . . . 5
— 14
In charge of Bridge Division . . . 11
In charge of Commissioners of Boston and
Cambridge Bridges .... 8
— 19
IV. Number maintained by railroad corporations :
1. Boston & Albany .... 4
2. Boston & Maine, Eastern Division . 2
3. Boston & Maine, Western Division . 2
4. Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn . . 1
5. New York, New Haven & Hartford,
Midland Division . . . . 11
6. New York, New Haven & Hartford,
Plymouth Division . . . . 3
7. New York, New Haven & Hartford,
Providence Division . . . . 17
— 40
Total number ...... 155
Public Landing-Places.
The following public landing-places have been built by the
City, and are maintained and controlled by the Street Depart-
ment :
Charles-river Avenue [Boston side]. — Size, 40x30. Built
in 1901. Moored from City's property.
East Boston^ Public Landing. — Size, 18 x 30. Built in
1893. Moored at dock of East Boston Dry Dock Company.
Dock and flats leased at $250 per year.
Steeet Department — Bridge Division. 31
Federal-street bridge. — Size 20x30. Built by M. F. Sulli-
van, October 26, 1892. Moored from City's property.
Jeffries' Point, East Boston. — Size, 20 x 50. Moored from
Fitzpatrick 's Wharf; $300 per year.
Cable-Houses and Boxes.
The following is a list of cable-houses and boxes on bridges in
charge of this Division :
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company :
Chelsea [South] bridge, 1 house.
Congress-street bridge, 2 houses.
Dover-street bridge, 2 houses or boxes.
Chelsea [North] bridge, 1 box.
Chelsea-street bridge, 1 box.
Maiden bridge, 4 boxes.
Meridian- street bridge, 2 boxes.
Neponset bridge, 2 boxes on poles.
Warren bridge, 2 boxes.
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Federal-street bridge, 1 house.
Mt. Washington-avenue bridge, 2 boxes.
Neponset bridge, 1 box on pole.
Summer-street bridge, 1 box.
Merchants' Telegraph Company :
Congress-street bridge, 2 boxes.
Postal Telegraph Cable Company :
Congress-street bridge, 2 houses.
Maiden bridge, 2 boxes.
Warren bridge, 2 boxes.
Boston Electric Light Company :
Congress-street bridge, 2 boxes.
Lynn & Boston Railroad Company :
Chelsea [North] bridge, 4 boxes.
Chelsea [South] bridge, 8 boxes.
Boston Elevated Railway Company :
Cambridge-street bridge, 1 house.
Dover-street bridge, 1 house, 1 box.
Federal-street bridge, 2 houses.
Maiden bridge, 2 houses.
Warren bridge, 2 houses.
Boston Police Department :
Chelsea [South] bridge, 1 box.
Maiden bridge, 2 boxes.
Boston Fire Department :
Chelsea [North] bridge, 1 box.
Dover-street bridge, 1 house, 1 box.
Meridian-street bridge, 2 boxes.
Warren bridge, 2 boxes.
32 City Document No. 38.
Land and Buildings, in Charge of Bridge Division.
Broadioay Bridge. — Draw-house, engine-room and storehouse.
Land, Broadway and Dorchester avenue, containing 5,516 feet.
Charlestoion Bridge. — Draw-house, electrical power-room, and
6 store-houses.
Chelsea \_N~orth] Bridge. — Draw-house, storehouse and tool-
house.
Chelsea [South'] Bridge. — Draw-house, engine-house and tool-
house.
Chelsea-street Bridge. — Tool-house.
Congress-street Bridge. — Draw-house, storehouse, tool-house,
and 2 shelter-houses.
Dover-street Bridge. — Draw-house, and store-room.
Federal-street Bridge. — Draw-house, tool-house, 2 motor-houses,
1 controller-house.
L-street Bridge. — Draw-house, engine-house.
Maiden Bridge. — Draw-house and tool-house.
Meridian- street Bridge. — Draw-house, tool-house and store-
house.
Mt. Washington-avenue Bridge. — Draw-house and tool-house.
Neponset Bridge. — Tool-house.
Summer-street Bridge. —Draw-house, controller-house, 2 shelter-
houses.
Warren Bridge. — Stable, draw-house, engine-house, boiler-
house, tool-house.
Western-avenue Bridge to Watertown. — Tool-house.
Street Department — Bridge Division.
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City Document No. 38.
Table showing Width of Bridges, kind of Roadways, Sidewalks,
etc., on Tide= water Bridges, 1900.
Name of Bridge.
Roadway.
Kind of
Roadway.
Sidewalks.
Kind of Walks.
Broadway
Cambridge-street
Canal
Charlestown
Chelsea, North
" South
" street
Commercial point
Congress street
Dover st. (over water)
Essex street
Federal street
Granite
Harvard
L street
Maiden
Meridian street
Mt. Washington ave. . .
Neponset
North Beacon street . .
North Harvard street
Prison Point
Summer street
Warren
Western avenue to
Cambridge
Western avenue to
Watertown
Winthrop
West Boston
Ft. In,
60
40
64
100
49
50 3
30
about
34
60
60
31
69
30 2
69 4
60
40
50
61
30
31
28 2
50
100
80
33 2
33
24 2
50
Ft. In.
40
32 9
48
1 27 9
1 22
1 27 9
41 2
23 2
about
27
44
40
22 8
49
24 4
51
44
32
36
39 6
23 10
25 2
26 7
36
76
60
26 3
24 2
19 10
36
Plank
Paved ,
Plank
Paved
Plank
Paved
Plank
Paved
Plank
( Plank part
( Paved part
" entire
Paved
Plank
Paved
Ft. In.
10
6
8
10
8
6
8
10
7 6.
10
5
9 2
8
7
7
10 9
5 5
5
12
10
8
3 7
7
Coal-tar concrete.
Plank.
Brick.
Asphalt.
Coal-tar concrete
and plank.
Plank.
Coal-tar concrete.
Asphalt.
Plank.
Asphalt.
Plank.
Asphalt.
Coal-tar concrete.
Plank.
Coal-tar concrete.
Asphalt.
Coal-tar concrete.
Plank.
Brick.
Street Department — Bridge Division.
35
Table showing the Widths of Openings for Vessels in all Bridges
provided with Draws in the City of Boston, 1900.
Name of Bridge.
Location.
<o a
30
Width.
Boston & Maine R.K., Eastern
Boston to Charlestown —
Over Miller's river
Boston to Charlestown
Boston to East Cambridge,
Boston to Charlestown
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
2
1
1
1
]
1
1
1
2
1
39 f
35
36
36
40
39
39
35
43
36
36
50
50
38
60
36
36
24
43
43
37
35
41
35
49
36
36
36
40
Boston & Maine R.R., Eastern
" 6 "
Boston & Maine R.R., Fitchburg
11 11
Boston & Maine R.R., Fitchburg
Division (for teaming freight) ,
Boston & Maine R.R. (freight),
Boston & Maine R.R. (passen-
Boston & Maine R.R., Western
" "
" 2 "
" 7 "
" 7 "
Boston & Maine R.R., Western
" 10 "
Over Fort Point channel . .
Brighton to Cambridge
Boston to East Cambridge,
Boston to Charlestown
Charlestown to Chelsea
East Boston to Chelsea
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.• 4 11
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Charlestown (main channel)
Charlestown (north channel)
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Chelsea street (East Boston side),
Commercial Point (or Tenean) . . .
Congress street (Boston side) —
Congress st. (South Boston side) ,
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Over Fort Point channel..
Brighton to Cambridge
Over Fort Point channel. .
Brighton to Cambridge
East Boston to Chelsea
Boston to Cambridge
Over Reserved channel,
South Boston
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ii 9 11
11 10 «
" 9 "
11 6 11
■■ 11
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Harvard (Cambridge side)
11 10 ii
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36 City Document No. 38.
Table showing Width of Openings, etc. — Concluded.
Name of Bridge.
"Location.
SO
tz5
Width.
Maiden
Meridian st. (East Boston side) . . .
" (Chelsea side)
Mt. Washington avenue (Boston
side)
Mt. Washington avenue (South
Boston side)
Neponset
New York, New Haven & Hart-
ford R.R
New York, New Haven & Hart-
ford R.R., Y connection
New York, New Haven & Hart-
ford R.R
New York, New Haven & Hart-
ford R.R
North Beacon street
North Harvard street
Prison Point
Summer street
Warren
West Boston
Western avenue
Charlestown to Everett —
East Boston to Chelsea
Over Fort Point channel...
Dorchester to Quincy.
Over South bay
Over Fort Point channel.
Over Fort Point channel.
Dorchester to Quincy
Brighton to Watertown. .
Brighton to Cambridge. .
Charlestown to Cambridj
Over Fort Point channel.
Boston to Charlestown.. .
Boston to Cambridge —
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Street Department — Ferry Division. 39
APPENDIX B.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF
THE FERRY DIVISION.
North Ferry, East Boston, February 1, 1901.
Mr. B. T. Wheeler,
Superintendent of Streets :
Dear Sir, — I respectfully submit the annual report of
the expenditures, income and operation of the Ferry Division,
for the financial year ending January 31, 1901, and the
amount of property and the condition of the same.
One new propeller boat, the " General Sumner," was built
and put into commission September 4, 1900, the total cost of
which was $95,300.
The ferry-boat " Winthrop," having been in service for
twenty-seven years, was sold at public auction, October 25,
1900, for $1,199.50 net.
The propeller ferry-boat " Gov. Russell," which was re-
purchased from the United States Government and refitted
for ferry purposes, did not go into service until January 3,
1900, so that two new propeller boats have been in commis-
sion this year. Three propeller boats run on the North
Ferry, three side-wheel boats at the South Ferry ; a total of
six boats in commission during the year. For eleven months
of last year there were only five boats running, four side-
wheel and one propeller.
The increased cost of maintenance, caused by running one
additional propeller boat and one propeller in place of a side-
wheeler, withdrawn from the service, was about $9,500, not
including the expense for coal, which was increased about
$7,000.
At the beginning of the year $2,000 was paid for a new
shaft to replace one broken in December, 1899, and two more
have since been replaced, one on the " D. D. Kelly," the other
on the " Revere," a total cost of nearly $6,000.
A new and modern coal-pocket is being erected at the
South Ferry, East Boston side. Plans have been made for a
40 City Document No. 38.
new head-house at this place, and as soon as the coal-pocket
is completed work upon it will be commenced. ' These im-
provements have been needed for many years, and it is hoped
that before the end of the current year this landing will have
as good facilities as the others. With this exception the
buildings, boats, piers and drops are in good condition.
Extraordinary repairs were found to be needed to the
engines of the " Noddle Island," " Gov. Russell," and
" Revere." These have been made at a cost of nearly
$2,500.
The water-closets and sinks at Boston side, South Ferry,
have been connected with the sewer. This necessitated the
building of nine new closets, at a cost of about $900.
A new office has been built for the use of the Deputy
Superintendent, at East Boston side, North Ferry, at a cost
of about $1,000.
Ice-water tanks have been placed in head-houses at both
sides of North Ferry.
The canopies, gates and drops on both sides of the North
Ferry and the head-house on Boston side, have been painted
for the first time in several years.
The head-house on Boston side, North Ferry, has been
wired and lighted with incandescent lights.
The piers at three of the landings have been repaired and
put in good condition, at a cost of over $2,000.
By reference to the financial statement it will be seen that
the receipts fell off $5,194.25, of which amount $1,185.50
was the difference between the sale of the " Ben Franklin "
in 1899, and the "Winthrop" this year; the balance was
decrease in foot and team travel. This decrease was occa-
sioned by the blocking up of the South Ferry, East Boston
entrance, by tunnel construction, and the fact that during a
greater part of the year the large steamers were not running
here, being engaged in carrying troops to South Africa.
Land and Property of the Ferry Division.
South Ferry, East Boston Side. — Located at the termina-
tion of Lewis street, and covers an area of 58,725 square
feet of land and water. On these premises are one head-
house, with canopies, one work-shop for carpenters, machin-
ists and blacksmith, one gate-room and oil-room ; all in a
poor condition : three piers, which form the two slips, two
drops and tanks, and one dock, where boats are laid when
not in use, or while undergoing repairs.
Street Department — Ferry Division. 41
South Ferry, Boston Side. — Located at the termination of
Eastern avenue, and covers an area of 38,135 square feet
of land and water, upon which are one head-house, with
canopies, one gate-room, three piers, which form the two slips
and two drops and tanks.
North Ferry, Boston Side. — Located at the termination of
Battery street, and 'covers an area of 45,000 square feet of
land and water, upon which are one head-house, with cano-
pies, one gate-room, three piers, which form the two slips, and
two drops and tanks.
North Ferry, East Boston Side. — Located at the termina-
tion of Border street, and covers an area of 62,138 square
feet of land and water, upon which are one head-house, with
canopies, one boiler and oil-room, one stable, and one coal
shed, three piers, which form the two slips, and two drops
and tanks.
The wharf property adjoining the premises at Boston side,
South Ferry, was leased by the East Boston Ferry Company
for 999 years, at an annual rental of $4,000, which lease was
assigned to the Ferry Department. The whole of it is sub-
let to the Penal Institutions Department for $2,000 per
year. This makes a net loss to this Division of $2,000 a
year, and, in my opinion, the Penal Institutions Department
should pay the whole rental.
The following steam ferry-boats are in commission :
Name. When built. Kind. Length.
Revere 1875. Side-wheel 148 ft.
D.D.Kelly 1879. " " 148 "
Hugh O'Brien 1883. " " 163 "
General Hancock 1887. " " 148 "
Noddle Island 1899. Propeller 164 ft. 3 in.
Gov. Russell 1900. " 164 " 3 "
General Sumner ...1900. " 164 " 3 "
Respectfully yours,
Jos. J. Dennison,
Deputy Superintendent.
42
City Document No. 38.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Regular Annual and Special Appropriations of Street De-
partment, Ferry Division, for the year ending January
31, 1901.
Appropriation for year ending January 31, 1901,
Amount of expenditures . . $236,99991
Transferred to City Treasury . 09
Objects of Expenditure.
Salaries and wages for maintenance
Salaries and wages for repairs
Current expenses .
Fuel
Supplies for maintenance
Supplies for repairs
Repairs on boats
Repairs on buildings, piers and drops
Tools and fixtures .
Incidental expenses
Transferred to City Treasury
$237,000 00
237,000
00
$134,411
10
17,972
42
14,172
48
46,378
66
6,366
29
5,606
61
8,759
89
2,875
68
265
78
191
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$236,999 91
09
$237,000 00
Special Appropriations.
Appropriation authorized and issued for new ferry
landings, head-house, new boats, slips, and
drops . . . . . ...
Amount transferred by City Grovernment January
14, 1901, approved by the Mayor, January 19,
1901, unexpended balance of appropriation for
new ferry-boats
Amount expended to February 1,
1899 ' $143,393 49
Amount transferred to Sewer Di-
vision, Street Department, by
order of Mayor, authorized by
Acts of Legislature, chap. 450,
sect. 14, 1899 .... 200,000 00
Carried forward .■ . . $343,393 49
$500,000 00
4,400 79
$504,400 79
Street Department — Ferry Division.
. $343,393 49
43
Brought forward .
Amount expended from February,
1899, to February 1, 1900
Amount paid on account of new
ferry-boat, head-house, coal ele-
vator and pier from February 1,
1900, to February 1, 1901 ' .
Unexpended balance of appropria-
tion January 31, 1901
12,187 69
96,191 74
c51,772 92
52,627 87
$504,400 79
Objects of Expenditure. New Ferry Landing Appropriation.
New Propeller Ferry Steamer "General Sumner," $95,300 02
William McKie, contract
for building boat, $85,500 00
Additional approved ex-
penses . . . 32 00
R. F. Keough, for plans, etc., and
superintending construction
Knowles Steam Pump Works, con
tract for pumps
Hawks Electric Company, electric
light plant
Charles- Cory & Son, transmitters
B. F. Sturtevant Co., 30-inch
blower ....
C. W. Trainer Manufacturing Com-
pany, asbestos covering .
Sundry bills for material
$85,532 00
3,373 91
1,570 00
3,520 00
220 88
187 00
595 00
301 23
Amount paid on account of new head-house,
South Ferry, East Boston ....
Amount paid on account of new coal elevator,
South Ferry, East Boston ....
Amount paid on new pier, North Ferry, East
Boston ........
Total expenditure of year ending January 31,
1901
$95,300 02
49 12
16 00
826 60
$96,191 74
Special Appropriation for New Ferry-boats.
Amount apportioned for the repurchase and re-
fitting of ferry-boat "Gov. Russell"
$57,500 00
44 City Document No. 38.
Amount expended previous to Jan-
uary 31, 1900, as per last report, $44,317 40
Amount expended from January
31, 1900, to January 31, 1901, 8,781 81
Total cost of refitting . . $53,099 21
Unexpended balance of appropria-
tion transferred by order of City
Government to New Ferry Land-
ing appropriation . . . 4,400 79
Total Appropriations.
Annual appropriation for mainte-
nance $237,000 00
New Ferry Landing-
appropriation . $500,000 00
Less previously ex-
pended . . 355,581 18
144,418 82
Appropriation for new
ferry-boats . $128,500 00
Less previously ex-
pended . . 115,317 40
13,182 60
Total Expenditures.
Annual appropriation for mainte-
nance $236,999 91
New Ferry Landing appropriation, 96,191 74
Appropriation for new ferry-boats, 8,781 81
Balances Unexpended.
Annual appropriation for mainte-
nance . $0 09
New Ferry Landing appropria-
tion . . . ' . . 48,227 08
Appropriation for new ferry-boats,
transferred to New Ferry Land-
ing appropriation . . . 4,400 79
17,500 00
$394,601 42
341,973 46
$52,627 96
>2,627 96
Street Department — Ferry Division.
45
Income.
Cash receipts from February 1, 1900, to February 1, 1901.
From Tollmen :
For 11,817,257 foot-passengers, at 1 cent . . $118,172 57
sales of strip team-tickets . . . 25,521 00
From Gatemen :
For 272,546 foot-passengers, at 1 cent . . 2,725 46
cash fares for teams ..... 14,263 96
At office of City Collector :
From sale of ferry-boat " Winthrop" $1,210 00
Less net expenses of sale . . 10 50
From sales of foot-passers by requisitions .
sales of strip team-tickets by requisitions
rents ......
National Automatic Machine Company
At office of Ferry Division :
From sales of foot-passes
sales of strip team-tickets
sales of old material
« boat privileges to boot-blacks .
Total receipts of the year
Statement showing Receipts at each Ferry.
North Ferry.
1,199
50
391
60
56
00
2,578
34
200
00
110
62
1,259
58
176
75
175
50
$166,830 88
From Tollman.
Foot Passengers.
Team-tickets.
Total.
No. 2
$12,432 23
12,293 95
12,448 34
12,261 78
12,172 80
12,504 08
12,232 50
$2,000 50
1,925 00
2,142 00
2,314 50
2,026 50
1,873 50
2,377 50
$14,432 73
14,218 95
14,590 34
14,576 28
5
" 6
" 9
14,199 30
" 10
14,377 58
" 13
14,610 00
$86,345 68
$14,659 50
$101,005 18
From Tollmen
$101,005 18
From Gateman :
For 183,046 foot-passengers, at 1 c. $1,830 46
cash fares for teams . . 7,950 33
Total at North Ferry
9,780 79
.10,785 97
46
City Document No. 38.
South Ferry.
From Tollman.
Foot-Passengers.
Team -Tickets.
Total.
No. 1.
$7,407 50
7,374 23
7,738 01
7,217 94
978 65
1,110 56
$2,550 00
2,586 50
2,798 50
2,756 00
81 50
89 00
$9,957 50
9,960 73
10,536 51
9,973 94
1,060 15
1,199 56
" 4
" 7
" 8
" 11
" 12
$31,826 89
$10,861 50
$42,688 39
From Tollmen . . . . .
From Gratemen :
For 89,500 foot-passengers, at 1 cent $895 00
Cash fares for teams . . . 6,313 63
Total at South Ferry
$42,688 39
7,208 63
:9',897 02
North and South Ferries as above . . . $160,682 99
Tickets paid for at office of City Collector . . 447 60
Tickets paid for at office of Ferry Division . . 1,370 20
Total ferriage receipts .... $162,500 79
Sale of ferry-boat " Winthrop " . . . . 1,199 50
Rents, head-house and bootblack privileges . 2,953 84
Sales of old material . . . . . . 176 75
Total cash receipts as above . . . $166,830 88
Cash Statement.
From February i, 1900, to February 1, 1901.
Dr.
To cash received from all sources . . . $166,830 88
Cr.
By amount paid City Collector. . 166,820 33
Amount of rejected coin . . 10 55
$166,830 88
Street Department — Ferry Division. 47
Statement of Receipts.
From April 1, 1870, to February 1, 1901.
Cash received for tolls from April
1, 1870, to February 1, 1897 . $4,411,901 68
Cash received for tolls from Feb-
ruary 1, 1897, to February 1,
1898 168,083 88
Cash received for tolls from Feb-
ruary 1, 1898, to February 1,
1899 162,078 87
Cash received for tolls from Feb-
ruary 1, 1899, to February 1,
1900 166,572 31
Cash received for tolls from Feb-
ruary 1, 1900, to February 1,
1901 . . . . ' . 162,500 79
>, 071, 137 53
Cash received for rent . . . $52,752 96
Cash received for old boats . . 76,331 21
Cash received for one new boat . 71,000 00
Cash received from all other
sources 11,166 76
211,250 93
Total receipts in 30 years and 10 months . $5,282,388 46
Cash Statement.
From April 1, 1870 (date of purchase by the City of Boston
of the East Boston Ferries), to February 1, 1901.
Br.
To receipts from all sources in 30 years 10
months . $5,282,388 46
Cr.
By amount paid to City Collector, $5,281,716 72
By cash with tollmen as capital . 575 00
By counterfeit and rejected money
in 30 years 10 months . . 96 74
i, 282, 388 46
48 City Document No. 38.
Expenditures .
From March 4, 1857, to April 1, 1870.
Amount charged to the East Boston Ferries by Auditor previous
to purchase :
For avenues . . $250,000 00
For repairs . . 65,815 68
: $315,815 68
For ferry property purchased
April 1, 1870 .... 276,375 00
$592,190 68
Amount of expenditure from April
1, 1870, to February 1, 1897 . $6,151,147 67
Amount of expenditure from Feb-
ruary 1, 1897, to February 1,
1898 . ' . . . . 270,026 45
Amount of expenditure from Feb-
ruary 1, 1898, to February 1,
1899 342,908 06
Amount of expenditure from Feb-
ruary 1, 1899, to February 1,
1900 289,469 56
Amount of expenditure from Feb-
ruary 1, 1900, to February 1,
1901 341,973 46
7,395,525 20
$7,987,715 88
Deduct.
Amount paid to City Treasury .... 5,281,716 72
Net cost of ferries to City to date, not including
interest on loans $2,705,999 16
Statement showing the Actual Standing of Ferry Division,
Street Department, with the City of Boston, February
1, 1901.
Dr.
Amount paid previous to April 1, 1870 . . $592,190 68
Amount paid from April 1, 1870, to February 1,
1901, as follows :
Seven ferry steamers ...... 618,070 58
New buildings, piers, and drops . . . 443,103 94
Fuel 1,052,858 01
Repairs of all kinds 707,309 73
Carried forward $3,413,532 94
Street Department — Ferry Division.
49
Brought forward
Salaries and wages
Tools and fixtures
Land from Lincoln's Wharf in 1887
Land from Battery Wharf in 1893
All other expenses
Or.
By amount paid the City for income .
amount charged to ferry property for avenues
that were laid out as streets, August, 1880,
and which should be credited to this Division,
rents prior to 1881
paving avenues . . .
estimated value of six ferry
steamers ... . . $172,438 91
" Gov. Russell," added January
1, 1900 .... 53,099 21
"General Sumner," added Sep-
tember 4, 1900 . . . 95,300 02
less 13 months' dis-
count at 6 per
cent, per annum
on "Gov. Russell"
less five months' dis-
count on " Gen-
eral Sumner"
less twelve months'
discount on other
boats .
,838 14
;,451 44
2,382 50
10,346 53
deduct sale of ferry-boat ' ' Win-
throp " ....
estimated value of real estate
and franchise as per last re-
port .....
added during the past year
16,180 27
,657 87
1,199 50
$710,800 00
900 00
amount not yet charged to new buildings
amount paid for awning, North Ferry, East
Boston .......
£3,413,532 94
3,532,'288 46
14,529 08
5,562 52
10,000 00
1,011,802 88
£7,987,715 88
;, 281, 726 81
250,000 00
60,277 56
11,530 84
303,458 37
711,700 00
11 33
742 94
Carried forward
1,619,447 85
50
City Document No. 38.
Brought forward .....
By amount paid for new clock, South Ferry, Bos-
ton ........
land from Lincoln's Wharf ....
land from Battery Wharf ....
amount expended on Eastern-avenue Wharf
estimated value of tools and fixtures
estimated value of fuel on hand
estimated value of supplies on hand
cash with tollmen as capital ....
amount charged to new head-house, South
Ferry, East Boston .....
amount charged to new coal elevator, South
Ferry, East Boston .....
profit and loss in 30 years and 10 months
$6,619,447 85
474 79
5,562 52
10,000 00
1,499 46
6,000 00
8,15*7 25
2,712 80
575 00
49 12
16 00
1,333,221. 09
$7,987,715 88
Statement showing the Difference of Travel on the Ferries
from February 1, 1900, to February 1, 1901.
North Ferry.
South Ferry.
Foot-passengers, at 1 cent each .
. 8,817,614
3,272,189
Foot-passengers, by ticket .
. 104,941
49,133
Foot-passengers, free
pleasure
60,502
5,304
Total foot-passengers
. 8,983,057
3,326,626
One-horse teams and
car-
riages
. 413,570
266,176
Two-horse teams
. 103,625
106,765
Three-horse teams
.
4,631
3,755
Four-horse teams
6,219
6,125
Two-horse pleasure
carriages
and
hacks
10,656
4,734
Hand-carts, etc.
,
4,020
1,527
Drag wheels
35
25
Free teams
•
5,210
1,379
Street Department — Ferry Division.
51
Total Travel on both Ferries from February 1, 1896, to
February 1, 1901.
From Feb.
1, 1896, to
Feb. 1,
1S97.
From Feb.
1, 1897, to
Feb. 1,
1898.
From Feb.
1, 1S98, to
Feb. 1,
1899.
From Feb.
1, 1899, to
Feb. 1,
1900.
From Feb.
1, 1900, to
Feb. 1,
1901.
733,478
219,306
9,290
14,902
16,299
8,321
76
12,034,300
738,514
240,434
7,716
14,961
14,659
8,819
75
12,466,272
685,422
207,402
9,474
15,311
13,582
6,850
99
12,1S2,842
689,754
230,100
10,355
15,360
14,764
6,076
66
12,453,163
679 746
210,390
8,376
12 344
Two-horse carriages and
Two-cent tolls for hand-
5,547
60
12,243,877
Ticket Statement.
Foot-passes outstanding February 1, 1900
Sold during the year . . . . .
Delivered on requisition
Eeceived and destroyed .....
Outstanding February 1 , 1901 .
One-horse team-tickets outstanding February 1,
1900
Sold during the year ......
Delivered on requisitions .....
Received and destroyed
Outstanding February 1, 1901 ....
Two-horse team-tickets outstanding February 1,
1900
Sold during the year ......
Delivered on requisitions .....
Received and destroyed .....
Outstanding February 1, 1901 ....
202,759
110,620
44,110
357,489
154,074
203,415
66,810
329,456
1,328
397,594
345,218
52,376
34,869
189,392
672
224,933
189,724
35,209
52
City Document No. 38.
Three-horse team-tickets outstanding February 1,
1900
Sold during the year .....
Received and destroyed . .
Outstanding February 1,1901
Four-horse team-tickets outstanding February 1
1900 •
Sold during the year .....
Received and destroyed ....
Outstanding February 1, 1901
One-horse carriage-tickets outstanding February 1
1900
Sold during the year .
Delivered on requisitions ....
Received and destroyed ....
Outstanding February 1, 1901
Two-horse carriage-tickets outstanding February 1
1900 . . . ' .
Sold during the year .....
Received and destroyed ....
Outstanding February 1, 1901
2,350
8,190
10,540
7,308
3,232
5,161
11,400
16,561
11,341
5,220
19,068
39,860
100
59,028
39,769
19,259
3,047
7,900
10,947
7,683
3,264
Street Department — Paving Division. 53
APPENDIX C.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT
OF THE PAVING DIVISION.
Room 44, City Hall, Boston, February 1, 1901.
Mr. B. T. Wheeler, Superintendent of Streets :
Dear Sir, — I respectfully submit the annual report of
the expenditures and income of the Paving Division of the
Street Department for the financial year ending January 31,
1901, showing the nature of the work, the number and
variety of permits issued, and the details of expenditures
involved in paving, macadamizing, regulating, and construct-
ing various streets.
The Paving Division has charge of the following work :
The maintenance and rebuilding of street surfaces and
sidewalks.
The placing of street signs.
The numbering of buildings.
The issuing of permits to open or occupy the streets, or for
such other purpose as may be required under the ordinances.
The removal of snow and ice from the streets, gutters and
plank walks.
The cleaning of streets in the outlying sections of the City
not covered by the Street Cleaning Division.
The Division is in charge of a Deputy Superintendent, with
a clerical force under the direction of a chief clerk and an
engineering force under the direction of a chief engineer.
The past year has been one of unusual activity in the
Paving Division, and the amount of work accomplished has
resulted in a material improvement in the condition and
appearance of the streets throughout the entire City. Owing
to the uncertainty attending the outcome of the legislation
relating to the tax limit, and the consequent delay in the ap-
propriations, little new construction was begun until late in
the season ; notwithstanding this fact, however, a large num-
ber of streets have been constructed in the outlying districts,
54 City Document No. 38.
and material progress has been made in the reconstruction of
streets in the business section of the City. The condition of
the down-town streets, so called, has been a constant source
of complaint for years ; the pavement of many of these streets
has been laid for from twenty to thirty years, and the constant
wear and tear of heavy teaming, together with the digging
up of the pavement by corporations occupjang the streets
has rendered, their condition worse from year to year, until
at the present time many of the streets are entirely unfit for
the travel to which they are subjected.
Reconstruction.
The business interests of the City demand that proper
facilities be provided for the transportation of goods, and the
immense amount of teaming required for this purpose ren-
ders it imperative that the streets be paved with a perma-
nent pavement laid in the most substantial manner. A com-
prehensive scheme for the renovation of the streets in the
business section of the City has been inaugurated, the bene-
ficial effects of which are already apparent in the improved
facilities for teaming and travel on the streets reconstructed
in the past year. Atlantic avenue and Commercial street
furnish notable examples of both the old and new conditions.
These streets, which together form a broad avenue covering
the entire water front of the lower end of the City, and which
are almost wholly given up to heavy teaming, have been a
constant source of complaint on account of the deplorable
condition of the road-bed and pavement, which rendered
teaming both difficult and dangerous. To remedy these
conditions and provide a pavement which would meet the
requirements of the heavy traffic to which these streets are
subjected, provision was made for repaving these streets with
large granite blocks with cement grout joints laid on a con-
crete base.
Contracts have been let covering the entire water front on
these streets, and a large portion of the work has already
been completed. The work will be resumed and finished
the coming season, and the streets when completed will fur-
nish an avenue for heavy teaming without an equal. The
following-named streets have also been reconstructed in a
substantial manner as stated, viz., Devonshire street, from
State street to Water street, and Oliver street, from Milk
street to Atlantic avenue, were repaved with large granite
blocks laid on a six-inch concrete base with pitch and pebble
joints ; Prince, Court, and Bos worth streets were repaved with
Street Department — Paving Division. 55
granite blocks with pitch and pebble joints on a gravel base ;
and Boylston street, from Washington street to Tremont street,
repaved with granite blocks on a gravel bed. The repaving
of Summer street, from Washington street to Federal street,
has also been completed with large granite blocks laid on a
six-inch concrete base with cement grout joints.
Asphalt Pavement.
There has been an increased demand for asphalt pavements
on the part of the public, particularly in the residential dis-
tricts and in the sections of the City occupied by business
offices, on account of the noiseless character of the pavement
and its cleanly appearance.
In compliance with this demand, asphalt pavements have
been laid in the following streets, viz. : Tremont street,
from Scollay square to Boylston street; Beacon street, from
Arlington street to Clarendon street ; Boylston street, from
Arlington street to Berkeley street; Temple place; Mason
street ; Trinity place, from Stuart street to Stanhope street ;
and Prince street, between Hanover street and Salem street,
in the City Proper, and in Meridian street, from Trenton
street to Eutaw street, in East Boston. The asphalt in all
of these streets was laid under a 10-year guarantee.
A portion of Tremont street was paved with a new style
of wooden block laid on a 6-inch concrete base as an experi-
ment for the purpose of determining the comparative dura-
bility of this form of pavement. The blocks used were
furnished and laid by the United States Wood Preserving
Company. These blocks have been treated by a new process
which, it is claimed, renders them impervious to moisture
and more durable than the old style of wooden block. This
portion of the work was also laid under a 10-year guarantee,
and the practical result of the experiment is awaited with
a great deal of interest. The widening of the sidewalks on
this street now meets with universal approval on account
of additional accommodation for foot travel and the improve-
ment in the appearance of the street.
Assessment Streets.
Under the provisions of Chapter 323 of the Acts of 1891,
and Acts in amendment thereof or in addition thereto,
thirty-two new streets and two public alleys have been con-
structed and sixteen streets partially constructed. Work on
the widening and construction of Cambridge street, Ward
25, from Brighton avenue to Washington street, which was
56 City Document No. 38.
begun and suspended under the last administration, has
been resumed, and the work will be completed the coming
season. The work of widening Tremont street, Ward 25,
from Washington street to the Newton line, a much-needed
improvement, has also been begun, and good progress made
thereon. The work is now suspended, but will be resumed
and finished in the spring. The construction of the " 323 "
streets, so called, and all new street construction, is now under
the direct supervision of the Paving Division. The large
amount of engineering incidental to street construction re-
quires the constant employment of a large force of engineers,
who have heretofore been detailed from another Department.
These men, although paid by the Street Department, were
still under the control of the Department to which they
belonged.
Experience has demonstrated that to secure the best re-
sults this force should be under the direct control of and
answerable to the Superintendent of Streets alone. This has
been accomplished by the creation of an engineering corps
of the Paving Division, corresponding to the engineering
corps of the Sewer Division, to take charge of the details of
construction, prepare plans, and to consider and report on all
matters requiring the services of an engineer.
General Work.
The regular force of the Division has been constantly
employed during the year in improving the general condition
of the streets throughout the City.
About forty-two (42) miles of macadam streets, with an
area of 551,869 square yards, have been resurfaced.
Two hundred and sixty-five thousand linear feet of edge-
stones have been set or reset, 222,000 square yards of paving
relaid, and about 145,000 square yards of brick sidewalks
laid outside of the work done under contract for street con-
struction. Many of the macadam streets in the outlying sec-
tions of the City are in a disgraceful condition, and the con-
dition of many of the paved streets affords just ground for
complaint.
The work of the past year has resulted in a marked im-
provement in the appearance of the streets, but much still
remains to be done to make their condition satisfactory.
Extensive repairs have also been made on the asphalt
streets throughout the City, under the supervision of this
Division, and their condition has been materially improved.
The condition of some of the older pavements on which the
Street Department — Paving Division. 57
guarantee has expired is such that it would be economy in
many cases to resurface the entire street as the expense of
patching increases with each successive year, and no amount
of patching will put or keep the pavement in proper condi-
tion.
A large portion of the road-bed of Commonwealth avenue,
in Ward 25, has been entirely reconstructed, and the construc-
tion of the avenue is now complete, with the exception of a
portion of the loam space.
The bridge over Columbia road, at Richfield street, Ward
20, is now in process of construction, under an agreement
between the City of Boston and the New York, New Haven
& Hartford Railroad Company. The completion of this
bridge will do away with the awkward and dangerous condi-
tion heretofore existing at this point, and will enable the City
to complete the construction of Columbia road, and make
suitable connections with the intersecting streets.
The abandonment of the Park Square Station as a railroad
terminal has opened the way for a change in the construction
of Berkele}^ street, between Boylston street and Columbus
avenue, which will be of material benefit to the public. Ad-
vantage has been taken of the opportunity afforded to revise
the grade of the street and do away with the bridge over the
railroad. Plans have been made, and a contract let for re-
moving the bridge and filling the street over the railroad
location. By the revised grade the present rise in the street
will be removed, and a practically level grade established for
the street, which will give better facilities for travel.
Crushing Plant.
Important and much-needed changes in and additions to
the crushing plant of the Department have been made during
the year. A new crusher, with an output of 300 tons per
day, has been erected between Iffley road and Montebello
road, in the West Roxbury District. This crusher is fitted
with all the modern appliances and is built in the most
thorough and substantial manner ; it is conceded to be one
of the finest in the country. The crusher formerly standing
on the Bleiler ledge, in the Roxbury District, has been
removed to the Kenney ledge and thoroughly overhauled and
repaired.
Extensive repairs have also been made on the other
crushers belonging to the Department, and the entire crush-
ing plant is now in first-class working order. The crusher
at Rosseter street, in the Dorchester District, will serve its
58 City Document No. 38.
purpose in its present location through the winter, but its
condition is such that its removal to another location would
not be feasible.
Yard and Wharf Room.
The facilities for receipt and storage of material for con-
struction, and for the proper care, of the stock and property
of the City, have been entirely inadequate to the needs of
the Department. Much has been done during the year to
meet the wants of the Department in this respect, and as a
result the conditions have been materially improved.
By the conversion of the old swill wharf and buildings on
Albany street to this Division, additional and much-needed
room for the receipt and storage of construction material for
use in the City Proper has been secured.
Additional wharf and yard room in the North End district
has also been secured by the lease of the adjoining premises,
which, with the contemplated change in and addition to the
present buildings will provide ample room for the receipt and
storage of the stock and property of the City in this section.
In the East Boston district a model yard for the use of
the several Divisions of the Street Department has been pro-
vided by the lease of a portion of the property of the Glendon
Company. Stables, sheds, and an office building have been
erected and ample facilities provided for the proper care of
the stock and property of the several Divisions.
The excellent wharf privileges connected with this yard
and ease of access render it a most desirable acquisition to
the Department.
Steam Rollers and Tools.
The steam rollers belonging in the Department (six in
number) have been thoroughly overhauled and repaired at a
considerable expense, and, with a slight outlay for minor re-
pairs, will be in good shape for the coming season.
The stock of tools belonging to the Division has been
thoroughly gone over and repairs and additions made to the
same. The wagons and other appliances in use have also
been repaired, and everything put in good condition for use.
Assessment Streets.
The following streets were constructed under Chapter 823,
of the Acts of 1891, and the Acts in amendment thereof, or
in addition thereto :
Street Department — Paving Division. 59
Ashley street, from Breed street to Walley street, is about
650 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of this
street was awarded to Philip Doherty, September 21, 1900.
Work under this contract was begun October 1, 1900, and sus-
pended December 17, 1900.
Barry street, between Hamilton street and Quincy street,
" ledge excavation." The contract for excavating the ledge on
this street was awarded to the F. E. McCarthy Company, June 6,
1900, and was completed October 1, 1900. Amount of exca-
vation, 2,812 cubic yards.
Callender street, from Tucker street across Don street, is
about 2,229 feet long. The contract for constructing the sur-
face of this street was awarded to John F. Cullen November 13,
1899. Work was begun on this contract March 29, 1900, and
suspended April 27, 1900; resumed August 21, 1900, and com-
pleted November 21, 1900. It is a 6-inch macadam roadway,
with crushed stone sidewalks. The crushed stone, gutter blocks,
and edgestones were furnished by the City, and hauled by the
contractor to the site of the work. The flagging for the cross-
walks was furnished by the contractor.
Cambridge street, Brighton avenue to Washington street,
is about 3,642 feet long. The contract for constructing the sur-
face of this street was awarded to J. L. Bryne & Co. Work
under this contract was begun October 26, 1899, and suspended
December 23, 1899. The work was subsequently abandoned by
the contractors, who surrendered their contract. The contract for
finishing the street was awarded to J. H. Sullivan, October 30,
1900. Work was begun under this contract November 6, 1900,
and is still in progress.
Cardington street, from Cobden street across Fenner
street, is about 226 feet long. The contract for constructing the
surface of this street was awarded to Philip Doherty, August
29, 1900. Work was begun September 5, 1900, and suspended
October 15, 1900.
Corinth street, between Washington street and Brandon
street, is about 614 feet long. The contract for constructing the
street was awarded to Collins & Ham, October 19, 1900. The
work of removing the buildings within the line of widening was
begun- October 26, 1900, and is still in progress. No work has
been done on the street.
Dunford street, between Cobden street and Fenner street,
is about 198 feet long. The contract for constructing the sur-
face of this street was awarded to James Doherty, August 2,
1900. Work under this contract was begun August 13, 1900,
and completed September 10, 1900. It is a 6-inch macadam
roadway with brick sidewalks. The crushed stone, gutter blocks,
and edgestones were furnished by the City and hauled by the con-
tractor to the site of the work. Brick for the sidewalks was de-
livered on the line of the work by tbe City. Flagging for the
crosswalks was furnished by the contractor.
60 City Document No. 38.
Echo street, from Columbus avenue to Centre street, is
about 175 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface
of this street was awarded to James Doherty, August 2, 1900.
Work under this contract was begun August 13, 1900, and com-
pleted September 10, 1900. It is a 6-inch macadam roadway
with brick sidewalks. The crushed stone, gutter blocks, and
edgestones were furnished by the City and hauled by the con-
tractor to the site of the work. Bricks for the sidewalks were
delivered by the City on the line of the work. Flagging for
crosswalks was furnished by the contractor.
Fowler street, between Glenway street and McLellan street,
is about 353 feet long. The contract for constructing the sur-
face of this street was awarded to Booth & Co., August 2, 1900.
Work under this contract was begun August 30, 1900, and com-
pleted October 15, 1900. It is a 6-inch macadam roadway with
crushed stone sidewalks. Crushed stone, gutter blocks and edge-
stones were furnished by the City and hauled by the contractor to
the site of the work. Flagging for crosswalks was furnished by
the contractor.
Homes avenue, from Bowdoin street to Topliff street, is about
880 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of this
street was awarded to Thomas F. Welch, August 2, 1900. Work
was begun on this contract August 9, 1900, and completed Octo-
ber 12, 1900. It is a 6-inch macadam roadway with crushed
stone sidewalks, with the exception of portion between Bowdoin
street and Geneva avenue, where the sidewalks were laid with
artificial stone 4£ feet wide, with a loam space 2 feet wide
inside of the edgestones. The crushed stone, gutter blocks and
edgestones were furnished by the City and hauled by the con-
tractor to the site of the work. Flagging for the crosswalks
was furnished by the contractor.
Lauriat avenue, Ballou avenue to Norfolk street, is about
769 feet long. Artificial stone sidewalks. The contract for lay-
ing artificial stone sidewalks on this street was awarded to W.
A. Murtfeldt Company, September 21, 1900, and the work com-
pleted December 6, 1900.
Montague street, between Ashmont street and Roslin street,
is about 345 feet long. The contract for constructing the sur-
face of this street was awarded to Collins & Ham, August 28,
1900. Work was begun under this contract September 4, 1900,
and completed October 12, 1900. It is a 6-inch macadam road-
way. Crushed stone and edgestones were furnished by the City,
and were hauled by the contractors to the site of the work. The
gutter blocks were furnished by the City on the line of work.
Flagging for crosswalks was furnished by the contractors.
Montague street, between Ashmont street and Roslin street.
Artificial stone sidewalks, about 345 feet long. The contract for
laying the sidewalks was awarded to Simpson Brothers Corpora-
tion, October 15, 1900, and the work was completed November
14, 1900.
Street Department — Paving Divison. 61
Nottingham street, between Bullard street and Bowdoin ave-
nue, is 626 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface
of this street was awarded August 2, 1900, to D. F. O'Connell.
Work was begun under this contract September 4, 1900, and
completed October 27, 1900. It is a 6-inch macadam roadway.
Crushed stone, gutter blocks and eclgestones were furnished by
the City, and hauled by the contractor to the line of the work.
Flagging for crosswalks was furnished by the contractor.
Nottingham street, between Bullard street and Bowdoin
avenue. Artificial stone sidewalks, about 626 feet long. The
contract for laying the walks was awarded to W. A. Murtfeldt
Company, October 5, 1900. The work was suspended December
8, 1900.
Public Alley 432, between Commonwealth avenue and New-
bury street, from Fairfield street to Gloucester street, is about
520 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of this
street was awai'ded to E. S. Fogerty, October 24, 1900. Work
was begun under this contract November 8, 1900, and completed
November 24, 1900. This alley is paved with blocks on a gravel
base, with Portland cement grout joints, and brick sidewalks.
The granite blocks for the roadway and the bricks for the side-
walks were delivered on the line of the work by the City. The
excavating was done by the contractor.
Public Alley 439, between Boylston street and Newbury street,
from Clarendon street to Dartmouth street, is about 575 feet long.
The contract for constructing the surface of this street was awarded
to E. S. Fogerty, November 12, 1900. Work under this contract
was begun November 16, 1900, and completed December 7, 1900.
The roadway is paved with vitrified brick, and the sidewalks with
paving brick. The bricks for the roadway and sidewalks were
delivered on the line of the work by the City. The excavating
was done by the contractor.
Rockford street, between Dudley street and Clifton street, is
about 605 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface
of this street was awarded to D. F. O'Connell, August 2, 1900.
The work under this contract was begun September 24, 1900, and
completed December 8, 1900. It is a 6-inch macadam roadway
with brick sidewalks. Crushed stone, gutter blocks and edge-
stone were furnished by the City and hauled by the contractor to
the line of the work. Flagging for crosswalks was furnished by
the contractor.
Seaborn street, between Centre street and Kenwood street,
is about 438 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface
of this street was awarded to James Doherty, August 28, 1900.
Work under this contract was begun September 7, 1900, and com-
pleted October 12, 1900. It is a 6-inch macadam roadway, with
crushed stone sidewalks. Crushed stone and edgestones were
furnished by the City, and hauled by the contractor to the site
of the work. The gutter blocks were furnished by the City on
the line of the work. Flagging for the crosswalks was furnished
by the contractor.
62 City Document No. 38.
Stratford street, between Anawan and Clement avenues, is
about 975 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface
of this street was awarded to Philip Doherty, November 23, 1900.
Work under this contract was begun December 3, 1900, and
suspended January 14, 1901.
Stratford street, between Anawan and Clement avenues, is
975 feet long. Artificial stone sidewalks. The contract for lay-
ing these sidewalks was awarded to William L. Cahalan, June 21,
1900. Work was begun under this contract September 12, 1900,
and suspended November 13, 1900.
Tremont street, between Washington street and the Newton
line, is about 1,827 feet long. The contract for constructing the
surface of this street was awarded to William Scollans, November
6, 1900. Work was begun under this contract November 12,
1900, and suspended January 12, 1901.
Trinity place, between Stuart and Stanhope streets. The con-
tract for constructing sidewalks, fences, and sub-grading the street
was awarded to Frank Bachelder, November 2, 1900-. Work was
begun November 12, 1900, and completed December 5, 1900.
Trinity place, between Stuart and Stanhope streets, is about
262 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of this
street was awarded to the Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
September 29, 1900. Work under this contract was begun
November 17, 1900, and completed December 1, 1900. The
street is paved with Trinidad Lake asphalt, with a wearing sur-
face one and one-half (1£) inches thick, laid on a one and one-
half (1£) inch asphaltic cement concrete binder on a six (6)
inch American cement concrete base ; under a ten year guarantee.
Woodcliff street, from Howard avenue easterly, is about
275 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of this
street was awarded to Philip Doherty, August 2, 1900. Work
was begun under this contract August 7, 1900, and completed
October 5, 1900. It is a six (6) inch macadam roadway, with
crushed stone sidewalks. Crushed stone, gutter blocks and edge-
stones were furnished by the City, and hauled by the contractor
to the site of the work. Flagging for the crosswalks was fur-
nished by the contractor.
Province court, from Province street about 165 feet easterly,
was laid with granite blocks on a gravel base with pitch and pebble
joints. The paving and regulating was done under contract by
Jones & Meehan. The old pavement was removed by the con-
tractor. Former pavement, old blocks on gravel base.
Washington street, from Morton street to Tower street, is
about 550 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface
of this street was awarded to Jones & Meehan, October 17,
1900. Work was begun under this contract November 20, 1900,
and suspended December 15, L900.
Paving.
Granite block pavement on a concrete base ; laid with pitch
and pebble joints, 6,138 square yards.
Street Department — Paving Division. 63
Granite block pavement on a gravel base ; laid with pitch and
pebble joints, 1,079 square yards.
Granite block pavement on a concrete base ; laid with Portland
cement grout joints, 22,996 square yards.
Granite block pavement on gravel base ; laid with gravel joints,
4,312 square yards.
Granite block pavement, on a gravel base, laid with Portland
cement grout joints, 453 square yards.
Vitrified brick pavement, on a gravel base, laid with Portland
cement joints, 299 square yards.
Wood block paving, on concrete base, laid with gravel joints,
1,367 square yards.
Trinidad lake asphalt, with a binder course of asphaltic
cement concrete, laid on American Portland cement concrete base,
under a ten year guarantee, 11,483 square yards, at $3.25 per
square yard, exclusive of the cost of preparing the road-bed for
the concrete base; 10,562 square yards were laid in Tremont
street, Boylston street to Scollay square, and 757 square yards
were laid in Trinity place.
Trinidad land asphalt, with a binder course of asphaltic
cement concrete, laid on American cement concrete base, under
a ten year guarantee, 1,495 square yards were laid in Temple
place, at a cost of $3.05 per square yard, exclusive of the cost
of preparing the road-bed for the concrete base.
Sicilian rock asphalt, on an American cement concrete base
11,520 square yards — 3,844 square yards in Boylston street,
Arlingtons treet to Berkeley street, at a cost of $3.25 per square
yard; 6,681 square yards in Beacon street, Arlington street to
Clarendon street, at a cost of $3.25 per square yard ; Prince
street, towards Hanover street, 464 square yards, at a cost of
$3.25 per square yard; Meridian street, between Trenton and
Eutaw streets, 540 square yards, at a cost of $3.25 per square
yard, exclusive of the cost of preparing the road-bed. All as-
phalt pavement laid during the season of 1900 was laid with a
maintenance guarantee for ten (10) years.
Atlantic avenue, from Oliver street across India square,
was paved with large blocks on a six (6) inch American cement
concrete base, with Portland cement grout joints. Within the
tracks of the Boston Elevated Railway Company and the Union
Freight Company, Philadelphia size blocks were used on the
concrete base, with grout joints. The old pavement was removed
and the roadway excavated by the Street Department. The
paving and regulating was done under contract by Jones &
Meehan. The Boston Elevated Railway Company and Union
Freight Railroad Company, by agreement, paid for the portion
between their tracks. Former pavement, granite blocks, with
gravel joints on gravel base.
Atlantic avenue, from India square to Eastern avenue. In
this portion of Atlantic avenue the roadway was widened on
the west side, by reducing the width of the sidewalk two (2) feet.
64 City Document No. 38.
The work within these limits was only partially completed. The
west roadway was paved with large blocks on a sis (6) inch
American cement concrete base, with Portland cement grout
joints. The old pavement was removed and the roadway exca-
vated by the Street Department. The old three (3) feet corners
have been taken up and replaced by circular edgestones, cut on
longer radii. This section of the avenue will be completed early
this coming season. Former pavement, granite blocks with
gravel joints on gravel base.
Commercial street, west side, from Hull street to Hanover
street, was paved with large blocks on a six (6) inch Amer-
ican cement concrete base, with Portland cement grout joints.
The east side will be completed early this coming season. The
old pavement was removed and the roadway excavated by the
contractors, A. A. Libby & Co. Former pavement, granite
blocks on gravel base, with gravel joints.
Boylston street, from easterly side of Arlington street, to
Berkeley street, was paved with two (2) inches of Sicilian rock
asphalt, on a six (6)inch American cement concrete base, by the
Boston Asphalt Company. The old pavement was removed and
the roadway excavated by the Street Department. Former pave-
ment was macadam.
Beacon street, between Arlington street and Clarendon street
was paved with two (2) inches of Sicilian rock asphalt, on
a six (6) inch American cement concrete base, by the Boston
Asphalt Company. The old pavement was removed and the
roadway excavated by the Street Department. The edgestones
were reset and the brick sidewalks relaid by H. Gore & Co.
Former pavement, macadam.
Hayward place, from Washington street to Harrison avenue,
was paved in November, 1898, with two and one-half (2|-) inches
of asphaltina (a patented coal-tar production), on a six (6) inch
American Portland cement concrete base, by the Boston Paving
Company, under a five-year guarantee. This street was resur-
faced in October, 1900, with Trinidad land asphalt.
Mason street, from Tremont street, about ninety-five feet
easterly, was paved with one and one-half (l£) inches of Trin-
idad Lake asphalt wearing surface, with one and one-half (1|-)
inches of asphaltic cement concrete binder on a six (6) inch
American Portland cement concrete base, by the Barber Asphalt
Paving Company. The old pavement was removed and the road-
way excavated for the concrete base by the Street Department.
Former pavement, old blocks on gravel bed.
Meridian street, from Trenton street to Eutaw street, was
paved with two (2) inches of Sicilian rock asphalt on a six
(6) inch American cement concrete base, except the portion oc-
cupied by the Boston Elevated -Railway Company. The brows
for eighteen (18) inches outside the tracks were paved with gran-
ite blocks on a concrete base, with pitch and pebble joints. The
work was done under contract by Jones & Meehan. The edge-
Street Department — Paving Division. 65
stones were reset and brick sidewalks relaid by the contractors.
The old pavement was removed and the roadway excavated by
the Street Department. Former pavement, macadam.
Oliver street, from Atlantic avenue to Milk street, was
paved with granite blocks on six (6) inch American cement con-
crete base, with pitch and pebble joints. The paving and regu-
lating was done under contract by James Doherty. The old
pavement was removed, and the roadway excavated by the con-
tractor. Former pavement, old blocks on gravel base with
gravel joints.
Summer street, from Washington street to Federal street,
was paved on the south side with large granite blocks on a six
(6) inch American cement concrete base, with Portland cement
grout points. Within the tracks of the Boston Elevated Railway
Company, Philadelphia size blocks were used on a concrete base,
with grout joints. The paving and regulating was done under con-
tract by Joseph B. O'Rourke. The old pavement was removed,
and the roadway excavated by the contractor. Former pave-
ment, granite blocks on a gravel base.
Tremont street, from Boylston street to Scollay square, was
paved with asphalt, by the Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
except the west half of the street between Temple place and Park
street, which was paved with wooden blocks. The portion paved
with asphalt has a wearing surface of one and one-half (1^)
inches Trinidad Lake asphalt with one and one-half (1£) inches
Asphaltic cement concrete binder on an American Portland
cement concrete base, with a ten-year guarantee. The west half
of the roadway, from Temple place to Park street, was paved
with wooden blocks and gravel joints on a concrete base, by the
United States Wood Preserving Company, and the paving guar-
anteed for ten years. The old pavement was removed, and the
roadway excavated by the Street Department. Former pave-
ment, old blocks on gravel base.
Tremont street, between Mason street and School street,
"Sidewalks." The sidewalks were widened on the east side,
attaining their greatest width of twenty-five (25) feet at West
street. The widened portion of this sidewalk was laid with
brick or artificial stone. The artificial stone was laid by Simp-
son Brothers Corporation, and the brick by Frank Bachelder.
Centre street, retaining wall and fence. The contract
for constructing the retaining wall and fence on the east side of
Centre street, opposite New Heath street, Roxbury, was awarded
to P. F. Donovan, July 7, 1900. Work under this contact was
begun July 17, 1900, and completed November 3, 1900. It is a
first-class seam-face, rubble wall built of large-sized Roxbury
stone laid solid in cement mortar, and surmounted by a wooden
fence. The rock excavation and work necessary in preparing for
the foundation of the wall was done by the contractor and in-
cluded in the contract price.
Freeport street, retaining wall. The contract for con-
66 City Document No. 38.
structing the retaining wall along Freeport street at the Dor-
chester Yacht Club, was awarded to Collins & Ham, September
15, 1900. Work under this contract was begun September 17,
1900, and completed December 26, 1900. It is a first-class
rubble wall, built of Quincy granite laid solid in cement mortar.
All excavation and work necessary in preparing for the founda-
tion was done by the contractors, and the cost of same included
in the contract price.
Respectfully yours,
D. N. Payson,
Deputy Superintendent.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Regular Appropriation.
Maintenance .... $780,000 00
Amount collected for repairs
made by Paving Division and
inspector's services for dif-
ferent companies, etc. . . 2,700 72
$782,700 72
Expenditures from February 1, 1900, to January
31, 1901 $782,700 72
Special Appropriations, Paving and Street Improvements.
Amount of balances February 1,
1900 ..... $34,786 92
Amount of appropriations, 1900-
1901, revenues and transfers . 1,037,535 22
. $1,072,322 14
Amount of expenditures ..... 710,802 50
Balances unexpended .... $361,519 64
Total Expenditures.
Maintenance appropriation .... $782,700 72
Special appropriations ..... 710,802 50
Laying-Out and Construction of Highways . 83,419 21
Laying-Out and Construction of Highways, East
Boston 62,934 32
Laying-Out and Construction of Highways,
Brighton 11,800 23
Laying-Out and Construction of Highways, Dor-
chester . 112,872 71
Carried forward $1,764,529 69
Street Department — Paving Division.
67
Brought forward ....
Laying-Out and Construction of Highways, Box
bury and West Roxbury
Blue Hill and other avenues
South Union Station
Charlestown bridge .
Charlestown street .
Abolishment of grade crossings
Buildings, Chelsea street .
Maiden bridge . . .
.,764,529 69
70,337 07
58,677 26
28,556 98
3,806 74
1,078 10
416 00
9,048 34
1,881 65
.,938,331 83
Income.
Statement showing the amount of bills deposited with the City
Collector from February 1, 1900, on account of the Paving Di-
vision.
Edgestone and sidewalk assessments
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The amount paid into the City Treasury during the year on ac-
count of the Paving Division is as follows :
Sidewalk construction assessments (law of 1892), $6,201 61
Edgestone and sidewalk assessments (law of
1893) 199 84
5,401 45
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69
SCHEDULE A.
Salaries of Deputy Superintendent and office em
ployees .....
Salaries of Permit Office employees
Salaries of Inspectors
Salaries of Engineers
Smoke inspection
Holidays
Signs and numbers
Furniture .
Repairs to offices, stables, sheds, etc. .
Printing and stationery
Gas . . ...
Messenger service . ...
Wharfage and rent . .
Medical attendance on injured employees
Fuel and oil .....
Taxes ......
Advertising . .
Sundries ......
Expenses of yards and stables, in-
cluding repairs to carts, har-
nesses and stables, and care of
$15,597 27
10,259 90
7,729 53
9,194 73
3,135 52
28,306 19
6,958 96
59 00
3,445 15
6,291 39
379 37
66 07
11,330 54
147 01
2,370 99
1,230 69
378 20
868 75
horses, etc. . . . $
164,519 94
Less amount earned by Division
teams
79,804 75
Q-1 71 K lO
Veterinary services
1,565 48
Telephones ....
2,174 27
Artificial stone sidewalks
6,195 59
Street cleaning, suburban districts
34,328 58
Edgestones and sidewalks, new
14,784 47
Building new fences, etc.
948 89
Crossing repairs ....
9,203 45
Crossings (new)
5,582 45
Executions of court
2,695 95
Subway, Traverse street
1,412 12
Mosman crusher, construction
16,761 75
Engineering supplies .
2,651 56
Kenney crusher, construction
10,779 60
Inspectors' badges
55 50
Boiler insurance . .
150 00
Stock ......
11,245 03
Stone crushers ....
11,405 36
$324,404 50
Less amount earned by steam rollers
3,265 77
$321,138 73
70
City Document No. 38.
SCHEDULE B.
The following schedule shows the expenditure from the main-
tenance appropriation of this Division, in excess of special appro-
priations :
Street Improvements, Ward 10 :
Norway street . . . . ... $464 35
Street Improvements, Ward 11 :
Irving street ....... 1,357 95
Pinckney street . . . s . . . 2,295 66
Street Improvements, Ward 12 :
Montgomery street 1,622 80
Street Improvements, Ward 16 :
Massachusetts avenue, Edward Everett square to
railroad 11,887 75
Quincy street ....... 1,814 62
Street Improvements, Ward 17 :
Massachusetts avenue, Railroad to Swett street, 6,685 34
Swett street 6,938 38
Street Improvements, Ward 18 :
Greenwich street . . . . . . 814 54
Ruggles street 1,589 49
Shawmut avenue ...... 1,599 15
Warwick street ...... 3,063 52
Westminster street 2,298 03
Windsor street 1,866 97
Street Improvements, Ward 19 :
Calumet street 8,897 27
Huntington avenue . . . . . . 6,62234
Parker Hill avenue 2,770 54
Street Improvements, Ward 21 :
Clifford street 1,489 35
Otisfield street 1,195 28
Wabon street 906 28
Washington street . . . . . . 357 80
Street Improvements, Ward 23 :
Park street . 2,722 87
Temple street 3,313 02
Washington street 1,294 29
Street Improvements, Ward 25 :
Dustin street . . . . . . . 371 87
Everett street 479 70
Parsons street . . . . . . 318 72
?5,037 88
Steeet Department — Paving Division. 71
SCHEDULE C.
New Work. — Paid from Maintenance.
Myrtle street, Revere to Joy street, resurfaced and regulated.
Labor, teaming, and materials furnished by the
City $1,526 29
Amount paid to Dennis Kiley, paving . . 681 50
Amount paid to Frank Bachelder, paving . . 315 90
!,523 69
Park street, Beacon to Tremont street, sidewalk removed
on one side and widened on the other.*
Labor, teaming, and materials furnished by the
City $237 60
Amount paid to W. H. Glenn & Co., paving . 3,098 49
53,396 09
DETAIL OF EXPENDITURES UNDER SPECIAL
APPROPRIATIONS.
Atlantic avenue, Oliver to Commercial street, repaved with
large granite blocks on a concrete base with cement grout joints,
and regulated (unfinished) .
Labor, teaming, and materials furnished by the
City $43,337 33
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, paving . . 15,064 41
Amount paid to Dennis Kiley, paving . . . 7,640 10
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 1,378 54
7,420 38
Beacon street, Arlington to Dartmouth street, asphalted and
regulated (unfinished).
Labor, teaming, and materials furnished by the
City $9,848 79
Amount paid to H. Core & Co., paving . . 660 05
Amount paid to Boston Asphalt Company, asphalt-
ing 18,453 50
5,962 34
* Unfinished from 1899.
72 City Document No. 38.
Boylston street, Arlington to Berkeley street, asphalted and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $3,933 62
Amount paid to Boston Asphalt Company, asphalt-
ing . 10,221 25
$14,154 87
Buildings, Chelsea street.
Labor, teaming and materials, furnished by the
City, erecting new buildings on Glendon Wharf,
East Eagle street $9,048 34
Charles street, Fruit across Allen street, asphalted.
Amount retained from Barber Asphalting Paving-
Company for work done in 1899, under contract, $318 80
Commercial street, Fleet to Clinton street (work not stated) .
Labor $92 38
Commercial street, Prince street across Eastern avenue,
repaved with large granite blocks on a concrete base with
cement grout joints and regulated (unfinished).
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving .
Commonwealth avenue.
Amount paid by Executions of Court for labor
claims against the Boston Contracting Company,
Labor ........
Congress street, Atlantic avenue to the bridge.
Labor ........
Amount retained from Jones and Meehan, for
work done in 1899, under contract .
Devonshire street, Water to State street, repaved with large
granite blocks on a concrete base with pitch joints, and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $4,817 85
Amount paid to Joseph B. O'Rourke, paving . 2,121 53
$18,893
9,882
21
99
$28,776
20
13,823
281
72
82
$4,105
54
$40 64
233 08
$273
72
Carried forward . . . . . $6,93938
Street Department — Paving Division. 73
Brought forward . . ' . . . $6,939 38
Amount of appropriation for Devonshire
street . • . . . . $6,500 00
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 6 . . 439 38
$6,939 38
Freeport street, Ward 24, retaining wall (unfinished) .
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $834 77
Amount paid to Collins & Ham, building retaining
wall ' 3,388 95
:,223 72
Harrison avenue, Asylum to Davis street, asphalting (work
not started).
Advertising $6 66
Labor ........ 5 50
112 16
Neponset avenue, Adams to Minot street (work not started).
Labor $366 99
Advertising . . . . . . . 5 00
71 99
Oliver street, Atlantic avenue to Milk street, repaved with large
granite blocks on a concrete base, with pitch joints, and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $9,979 96
Amount paid to James Doherty, paving . . 13,220 04
$23,200 00
Amount of appropriation for Oliver street, Atlantic
avenue to Milk street $23,200 00
Retaining wall, Marcella and Centre streets.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $367 38
Amount paid to P. F. Donovan, building retaining
wall 6,236 69
Amount of appropriation for retaining
wall, Marcella and Centre streets . $2,492 40
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 22 . 4,111 67
$6,604 07
!,604 07
74 City Document No. 38.
Summer street, Washington to Federal street, repaved with
large granite blocks on a concrete base with cement grout
joints, and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $9,631 07
Amount paid to Joseph B. O'Rourke, paving . 8,220 09
.7,851 16
Talbot avenue, Blue Hill avenue to Norfolk street, unfinished
work from 1899.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,093 37
Temple place, Washington to Tremont street, asphalted and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,361 56
Amount paid to United States Paving Company,
asphalting ....... 3,861 27
$5,222 83
Tremont street, Court to Boylston street, roadway asphalted
(wooden blocks laid on concrete base on westerly side between
Temple and Hamilton place, and at the intersection with School
and Beacon streets), sidewalks widened and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $11,593 12
Amount paid to Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
asphalting 35,107 65
Amount paid to United States Wood Preserving
Company, laying wooden blocks . . . 3,143 18
Amount paid to Simpson Brothers Corporation,
artificial stone sidewalks ..... 1,050 56
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 451 60
.1,346 11
Charlestown street, Haymarket square to Causeway street,
unfinished work from 1899.
Teaming and materials furnished by the City . $233 91
Amount retained from Metropolitan Contracting
Company, for work done in 1899, under con-
tract 844 19
$1,078 10
* Five thousand nine hundred sixteen dollars and fifty -eight cents paid by Boston
Elevated Railway Company.
Steeet Department — Paving Division. 75
ABOLISHMENT OF GRADE CROSSINGS.
Boston street and Dorchester avenue, labor . $416 00
CHARLESTOWN BRIDGE.
Paving done on Commercial street, Hull to Prince street and
Causeway street, Prince to Medford street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,792 66
Amount paid to H. Gore & Co., paving . . 1,014 08
$3,806 74
MALDEN BRIDGE.
Temporary roadway on Alford street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,544 20
Amount paid to Boston Contracting Company, pav-
ing 337 45
.,881 65
SOUTH UNION STATION.
Atlantic avenue and Dewey square, paved with large granite
blocks, on a concrete base, with pitch joints, and regulated.
(Unfinished work from 1899.)
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $14,496 64
Amount paid to H. Gore & Co., paving . . 14,060 34
!,556 98
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 1.
Breed street, Gladstone to Leyden street, resurfaced and gut-
ters paved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $201 50
Amount paid to Booth & Co., paving . . . 102 84
Amount paid to C. L. Ward, paving ... 13 60
117 94
Brooks street, West Eagle to Condor street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $290 13
Amount paid to Booth & Co 248 77
$538 90
* Eighteen thousand Ave hundred ninety three dollars and sixty-three cents paid
by Boston Elevated Railway Company.
76 City Document No. 38.
Chelsea street, Eagle square to Curtis street, east side, regu-
lated.
Teaming and materials furnished by the City . $315 50
Amount paid to Booth & Co., paving . . . 331 88
$647 38
Eutaw street, Meridian to Marion street, and Brooks to White
street, macadamized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,283 69
Amount paid to Booth & Co., paving . . . 931 80
!,215 49
Lexington street, Prescott to Shelby street, macadamized and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,086 88
Amount paid to Booth & Co., paving . . . 691 30
!,778 18
Marion street, White to Saratoga street, macadamized and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $4,022 55
Amount paid to Booth & Co., paving . . . 1,121 11
Amount paid toC. L. Ward, paving . . . 281 51
s 425 17
Meridian street, Trenton to Eutaw street, asphalted and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,142 12
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, asphalting . 1,589 63
Amount paid to Booth & Co., paving . . . 120 23
Monmouth street, Meridian to Marion street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to Booth & Co., paving .
Morris Street, near Putnam street, regulated.
Materials furnished by the City
Amount paid to Booth & Co., paving .
$2,851
98
faced and
$430 27
248 77
$679
04
$22
31
25
99
$54
24
Steeet Department — Paving Division. 77
Princeton street, near Marion street, regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to C. L. Ward, paving
Putnam street, "White to Trenton street, near Putnam square,
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to Booth & Co., paving .
Amount paid to C. L. Ward, paving
Saratoga street, at Marion street, north side.
Labor and materials furnished by the City
Amount paid to C. L. Ward, paving-
Trenton street, Meridian to Brooks street, resurfaced and regu-
lated ; from Brooks to Prescott street, macadamized.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $3,144 45
Amount paid to Booth & Co., paving . . . 840 23
$220
85
108
80
$329
65
n square,
$248
12
207
56
301
27
$756
95
$143
40
69
35
$212
75
1,984 68
White street, Putnam to Eutaw street, regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $106 z2
Amount paid to Booth & Co., paving . . . 106 38
113 20
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 2.
Cottage street, Marginal to Maverick street, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $3,143 88
Amount paid to Booth & Co., paving . . . 1,160 39
,304 27
Henry street, Maverick square to Paris street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $212 23
Amount paid to C. L. Ward, paving . . . 197 03
$409 26
78 City Document No. 38.
Liverpool street, near Meridian street, repaved and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $203 43
Amount paid to Booth & Co., paving . . . 305 37
$508 80
Marginal street, repaired.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $139 60
Paris street, Putnam to Brooks and Sumner to Meridian street,
macadamized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,287 93
Amount paid to C. L. Ward, paving . . . 667 80
Amount paid to Booth & Co., paving . . v 145 40
$3,101 13
Ruth street, fence repaired.
Labor • $14 00
Winthrop street, Maverick square to Paris street, resur-
faced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $140 30
Amount paid to C. L. Ward, paving . . . 166 79
$307 09
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 3.
Ferrin street, Jackson to Edgeworth street, repaved and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $320 50
Amount paid to P. Brennan & Co., paving . . 88 76
$409 26
High street, Pleasant to Walker street, resurfaced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,199 90
Amount paid to P. Brennan & Co., paving . 1,051 83
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 3 . $2,671 49
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 5 . 580 24
£3,251 73
5,251 73
Street Department — Paving Division. 79
Mt. Vernon street, entire length, resurfaced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $865 85
Amount paid to P. Brennan & Co. . . . 360 48
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 3
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 5
Pearl street, Medford to Bunker Hill street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,689 58
Amount paid to Boston Contracting Company,
paving ........ 434 16
$1,226 33
654 58
571 75
$1,226 33
52,123 74
Stone street, edgestone set.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $66 33
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 4.
Allston street, Bunker Hill to Meclford street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,245 63
Amount paid to P. Brennan & Co., paving . . 343 11
,588 74
Caldwell street, Main to Perkins street, repaved and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,276 85
Amount paid to Boston Contracting Company,
paving 397 02
.,673 87
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 5.
Chelsea street, City square to Mt. Vernon street, repaved and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $3,326 86
Amount paid to Boston Contracting Company,
paving 1,140 56
Carried forward . . . . . . $4,467 42
80 City Document No. 38.
Brought forward ..... $4,467 42
Amount paid out of appropriation
for Street Improvements, Ward 5, $4,272 42
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 3 195 00
[,4,67 42
Cordis street, regulated.
Amount paid to P. Brennan & Co., paving . . $66 39
Gray street, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,131 39
Park street, Joiner street to City square (west side), repaved
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $269 40
Amount paid to Boston Contracting Company,
paving . . . . . . . . 11317
$382 57
Pleasant street, Main street to Monument square, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,345 08
Amount paid to P. Brennan & Co., paving . . 689 21
1,034 29
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 6.
Blackstone street, unfinished work from 1899.
Amount retained- from P. McGovern for work done
in 1899, under contract $100 79
Central street, Broad to India street, repaved and regulated
(unfinished) .
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $162 94
Charter street, Commercial street to Marshall place, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $696 58
Amount paid to Dennis Kiley, paving . . . 388 91
$1,085 49
Congress square, asphalted.
Amount paid to Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
asphalting $820 93
Street Department — Paving Division. 81
Creek square, Blackstone to Union street, repaved with granite
blocks on a concrete base with pitch joints, and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $299 14
Amount paid to Frank Bachelder, paving . . 693 94
Devonshire street, Milk to Water street.
Amount retained from Barber Asphalt Paving
Company, for work done in 1899, under contract,
Endicott street, Cooper to Thacher street.
Amount retained from Barber Asphalt Paving-
Company, for work done in 1899, under contract,
Friend street, Merrimac to Washington street, repaved and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $786 93
Amount paid to Dennis Kiley, paving . . . 755 49
$993
08
$157
73
$180
87
$1,542 42
Haverhill street, Traverse street to Haymarket square, repaved
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $739 67
Amount paid to Frank Bachelder, paving . . 1,251 20
.,990 87
Merrimac street, Sudbury to Friend street, repaired.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $96 37
Amount paid to Dennis Kiley, paving . . . 211 04
5307 41
Pemberton square, repaired.
Labor $186 50
Prince street, Salem street to 210 feet towards Hanover street,
asphalted and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $128 56
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, asphalting . 1,569 67
$1,698 23
Sudbury street, Merrimac to Portland street, repaved and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $466 16
Amount paid to Dennis Kiley, paving . . . 385 32
$851 48
82 City Document No. 38.
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 7.
Atlantic avenue, Oliver street to Dewey square, unfinished
work from 1899.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $138 21
Amount retained from Jones & Meehan for work
done in 1899, under contract . . . • 250 69
Amount retained from P. McG-overn, for work done
in 1899, under contract ... . . . 285 75
$674 65
Bosworth street, repaved with pitch joints and regulated.
Materials furnished by the City .... $69 66
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 699 35
$769 01
Boylston street, Washington to Tremont street,
repaved with pitch joints and regulated.
Teaming and materials furnished by the City, . $19 00
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 1,616 08
,635 08
Broadway, Washington to Curve street, repaved and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,374 98
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 1,477 22
!,852 20
Devonshire street, near Franklin street, repaved with pitch
joints.
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . $622 70
Federal street, Atlantic avenue to Milk street.
Amount retained from P. McGovern for work clone
in 1899, under contract $501 14
Harrison avenue, Kneeland to Bennet street.
Amount retained from Barber Asphalt Paving Com-
pany, for work done in 1899, under contract
Amount retained from P. McGovern, for work done
in 1899, under contract .....
$166
39
37
38
$205
75
Street Department — Paving Division. 83
Hawley street, Franklin to Summer street, repaved and regu-
lated, unfinished.
Teaming and materials furnished by the City . $68 90
Amount paid to James Doherty, paving . . 280 80
$349 70
$295
106
25
81
$402
06
Hayward place.
Amount retained from Boston Paving Company,
for work done in 1898, under contract . . $83 42
Kingston street, Beach to Essex street.
Amount retained from Boston Asphalt Company,
for work done in 1899, under contract
Amount retained from H. Core & Co., for work
done in 1899, under contract ....
Kneeland street, Atlantic avenue to Albany street, repaved
and regulated, unfinished.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the
City .- $455 29
Mason street, from 450 feet west of West street to about 120
feet westerly.
Amount retained from Jones & Meehan, for work
done in 1899, under contract .... $130 66
Mason street, from Tremont street about 85 feet easterly,
asphalted.
Teaming $50 00
Amount paid to Barber Asphalt Paving Company, 533 00
$583 00
Otis street, near Winthrop square, repaved with pitch joints.
Teaming and materials furnished by the City . $45 85
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 427 50
$473 35
Tremont street, Pleasant street to railroad bridge, repaved
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,668 01
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 1,626 96
$3,294 97
84 City Document No. 38.
Repairing Asphalt Streets.
Amount paid to Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
asphalting $160 23
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 8.
Chambers street, Cambridge to Green street, repaved and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,010 87
Amount paid to Dennis Kiley, paving . . . 924 57
Leverett street, Causeway street to Craigie's bridge.
Amount retained from Jones & Meehan; for work
done in 1899, under contract ....
Milton street, Brighton to Spring street.
Amount retained from Jones & Meehan, for work
done in 1899, under contract ....
Norman street, Merrimac to Green street, repaved and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,378 58
Amount paid to Dennis Kiley, paving . . . 450 13
$1,935
44
$106
8*9
$49
98
^,828 71
Pitts street, Merrimac to Green street, repaved and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,019 81
Amount paid to Dennis Kiley, paving . . . 603 05
$1,622 86
South Margin street, Pitts to Staniford street, repaved and
regulated.
Labor, teaming, and materials furnished by the
City $694 40
Amount paid to Dennis Kiley, paving ... . 713 50
,407 90
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 9.
Compton street, Washington to Tremont street, repaved and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City. $1,465 95
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 2,246 84
$3,712 79
Street Department — Paving Division. 85
Dover street, Albany street to bridge, repaved and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City. $441 39
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 536 12
177 51
Genesee and Oswego streets.
Amount retained from Jones & Meehan, for work
done in 1899, under contract .... $332 21
Lehigh street, repaved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City.
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving .
Rollins street, resurfaced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the
City
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving .
Savoy street, repaved and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City.
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving .
Union Park street, Washington to Tremont street, macad-
amized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City. $5,172 27
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 1,790 21
$171
421
35
62
$592
97
$962
174
62
52
$1,137
14
$245
391
95
80
$637
75
1,962 48
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 10.
Batavia street, St. Stephen toHemenway street, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the
City . . $1,660 61
Amount paid to. E. S. Fogerty, paving . . 955 93
5,616 54
Cazenove street, macadamized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City. $674 99
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 320 43
$995 42
86 City Document No. 38.
Clarendon street, Tremont street to Columbus avenue, macad-
amized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $4,988 34
Amount paid to F. Bachelcler, paving . . . 1,391 07
$6,379 41
Columbus avenue, Boston & Albany Railroad bridge, to
Massachusetts avenue, asphalt repaired.
Amount paid to Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
• asphalting ....... $540 65
Dartmouth street, near Columbus avenue, resurfaced and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving .
Gray street, macadamized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving .
Haviland street, macadamized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, paving-
Lawrence street, macadamized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving .
flassachusetts avenue, Beacon street to New York, New Ha-
ven & Hartford Railroad bridge, macadamized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $8,315 83
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, paving . . 556 04
1 and regu-
$390 22
117 35
$507
57
$1,030
506
38
71
$1,537
09
$1,600
240
40
73
$1,841
13
$2,290
1,091
18
12
$3,381
30
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 10 . $5,419 95
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 11 . 3,451 92
!,871 87
5,871 87
Street Department — Paving Division. 87
Norway street, Massachusetts avenue to Falmouth street, mac-
adamized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $799 83
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, paving . . 578 36
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 10 . $913 84
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 464 35
.,378 19
$1,378 19
St. Stephen street, Massachusetts avenue to Gainsborough
street, westerly side, regulated.
Gravel $135 00
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, paving . . . 250 65
55 65
Stanhope street, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $279 70
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 11.
Anderson street, Cambridge to Pinckney street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,473 98
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 803 21
$2,277 19
Beacon street, Massachusetts avenue to Charlesgate, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, and materials furnished by the city . . $792 93
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, paving . . 1,591 51
$2,384 44
Beacon street, Dartmouth street to Massachusetts avenue, re-
pairing asphalt.
Amount paid to Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
asphalting $720 52
Commonwealth avenue, Beacon to St. Mary's street, resur-
faced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $838 96
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, paving . . 1,493 18
$2,332 14
88 City Document No. 38.
Garden street, Cambridge to Myrtle street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,336 28
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 692 20
!,028 48
Grove street, Cambridge to Myrtle street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,009 07
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 742 88
51,751 95
Irving street, Cambridge to Myrtle street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming aud materials furnished by the City, $1 ,454 87
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving ... . 713 69
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 11
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division ....
Joy street, Cambridge to Beacon street, resurfaced and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,269 19
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 1,512 79
$2,168 56
$810 61
1,357 95
$2,168 56
1,781
Phillips street, W. Cedar to Irving street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,335 13
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving ... . 849 68
1,184 81
Pinckney street, Charles to Joy street, resurfaced and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,874 82
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 1,372 05
Carried forward . . . . . $3,246 87
Street Department — Paving Division. 89
Brought forward^ ..... $3,246 87
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 11 . $951 21
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 2,295 66
$3,246 87
Revere street, Charles to Irving street, resurfaced and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,779 90
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 544 85
$2,324 75
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 12.
Claremont park, Columbus avenue to railroad, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,091 43
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 493 65
$2,585 08
James street, East Brookline to East Concord street, mac-
adamized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,501 94
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 995 65
3,497 59
Massachusetts avenue, Washington to Tremont street (north
side), resurfaced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,720 71
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 1,047 98
1,768 69
•Montgomery street, Tremont to West Canton street, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $3,759 94
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 1,344 07
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 12 . $3,481 21
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .... 1,62280
.,104 01
»,104 01
90 City Document No. 38.
West Newton street, Shawrnut avenue to New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad bridge, macadamized and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $10,714 99
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 689 12
$11,404 11
Repairing Asphalt streets.
Amount paid to Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
asphalting . $263 32
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 13.
Bolton street, D to E street, resurfaced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $809 99
Amount paid to Richard H. Houghton, paving . 218 59
$1,028 58
Broadway, Dorchester avenue towards Foundry street (un-
finished) .
Labor $84 20
Dorchester avenue, Railroad crossing to Andrew square, re-
paved and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,056 50
Amount paid to Barnes, Ruffin Company, paving . 3,428 98
1,485 48
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 14.
Dorchester street, Broadway to Third street, repaved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $427 42
Amount paid to Barnes, Ruffin Company, paving . 536 94
$964 36
East Fourth street, N to P street, repaved and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $984 30
Amount paid to Benj. M. Cram, paving . . $1,816 44
$2,800 74
Street Department — Paving Division. 91
East Third street, Dorchester to Emerson street, repaved
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $220 21
Amount paid to Barnes, Ruffln Company, paving . 650 16
570 37
East Third street, N to street, regulated (unfinished).
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $489 69
Emerson street, K to M street, resurfaced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,166 18
Amount paid to R. C. Brown, paving . . . 516 49
$2,682 67
Emerson street, Dorchester to East Third street, resurfaced
and regulated, and from East Third to H street repaved and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $297 50
Amount paid to Barnes, Ruffln Company, paving . 262 38
$559 88
H street, East Third to East Fifth street, resurfaced and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,394 85
Amount paid to Redmond McDonough, paving . 839 06
!,233 91
I street, East Broadway to East Fourth street, asphalt re-
paired.
Amount paid to Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
asphalting $270 98
L street, East Broadway to East First street, resurfaced and
regulated ; East First street to bridge, repaved and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $3,147 88
Amount paid to Benj. M. Cram, paving . . 2,908 62
1,056 50
M street, East Broadway to East Eighth street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,679 54
Amount paid to Benj. M. Cram, paving . . 1,581 33
$4,260 87
92 City Document No. 38.
N street, East Broadway to East Fifth street, resurfaced and
regulated, unfinished.
Labor $198 20
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 15.
East Fourth street, Dorchester to H street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $3,309 95
Amount paid to R. H. Houghton, paving . . 1,043 18
:,353 13
East Sixth street, G- to H street, macadamized, gutters paved,
edgestone set, brick sidewalks laid (unfinished).
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,540 47
Amount paid to Redmond McDonough, paving . 838 85
Amount paid out of appropriation
for Street Improvements, Ward 15, $2,283 30
Amount paid out of appropriation
for Street Improvements, Ward 14, 1 ,096 02
83,379 32
1,379 32
O street, East Fourth to Story street, resurfaced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by tbe City, $1,890 67
Amount paid to Benj. M. Cram, paving . . 426 34
$2,317 01
Linden street, Thomas park to East Fourth street, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,479 53
Amount paid to R. H. Houghton, paving . . 255 76
;i,735 29
Old Harbor street, Dorchester to East Ninth street, resur-
faced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $3,859 99
Amount paid to R H. Houghton, paving . . 960 73
:,820 72
Pacific street, Thomas park to East Fourth street, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $816 31
Amount paid to Benj. M. Cram, paving . . 204 72
$1,021 03
Street Department — Paving Division. 93
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 16. .
Brookford street, corner Rand street, repaved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,002 96
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 161 42
$1,164 38
Folsom street and Robin Hood street, constructed and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $448 30
Amount paid to T. O'Leary, excavating . . 1,550 00
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 102 81
52,101 11
Howell street, Dorchester avenue to Boston street, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $238 97
Amount paid to R. H. Houghton, paving . . 429 24
$668 21
Julian street, repaired.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $119 00
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . 92 63
ill 63
Magnolia street, Quincy street to Lawrence avenue, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $600 27
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 210 00
$810 27
Massachusetts avenue, Edward Everett square to Swett street,
graded and macadamized, gutters paved, edgestone set, gravel
sidewalks built, and fences built.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $35,303 48
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 894 14
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 977 60
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 16 . $8,563 10
17,175 22
Carried forward . . . $8,563 10 $37,175 22
94 City Document No. 38.
Brought forward . . . $8,563 10 $37,175 22
Amount .paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 17 . 10,039 03
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . : . . . 18,573 09
$37,175 22
Mayfield street, artificial stone sidewalks repaired.
Amount paid to W. A. Murtfeldt Co. . . $471 36
Quincy street, Blue Hill avenue to Columbia road, macadam-
ized, edgestone set, gutters paved, and sidewalks laid.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $12,988 01
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 1,742 15
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 16 . $11,009 94
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 20 . 1,905.60
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .... 1,814 62
$14,730 16
:,730 16
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 17.
Albany street, at Randall street, repaved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $215 88
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 286 82
Batchelder street, corner Burrell street, repaved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving .
Dunmore and Magazine streets, around St. Patrick's Church,
macadamized, edgestone set, gutters paved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $873 13
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 212 08
$502
70
$206
126
86
57
$333 43
,085 21
Northampton street, Albany street to Harrison avenue, re-
paved and regulated (unfinished).
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,276 33
Street Department — Paving Division. 95
Palmer street, Harrison avenue to Eustis street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $884 36
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 1,118 67
$2,003 03
Swett street, Massachusetts avenue to railroad bridge resur-
faced, Massachusetts avenue to Albany street repaved and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $8,182 91
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 2,544 72
Washington street, at Marvin street, repaved.
Materials furnished by the Gity
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving .
Winthrop street, Warren to Greenville street, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,831 26
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 877 86
$10,727
63
$44 60
64 31
$108
91
5,709 12
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 18.
Columbus avenue, Camden street to Roxbury crossing, regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,598 16
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 3,337 31
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 18 . . $3,323 19
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 19 . . 1,313 65
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 22 . . 298 63
1,935 47
i4,935 47
Greenwich street, Westminster to Warwick street, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and material furnished by the City, $1,962 37
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 461 43
Carried forward . . . . . $2, 42 380
96 City Document No. 38.
Brought forward . . . . . $2,423 80
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 18 . $1,609 26
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 814 54
$2,423 80
Hampshire street, Cabot to Whittier street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1 ,034 68
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . 342 42
51,377 10
Marble street, Warwick to Westminster street (south-west
side) regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $551 49
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., 'paving . 299 53
$851 02
Marvin street, Washington street to Shawmut avenue, resur-
faced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $623 05
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . 197 93
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 18 . $542 05
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 17 . 278 93
$820 98
Ruggles street, Washington to Tremont street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $6,671 82
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . 2,041 23
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 18 . $7,123 56
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .... 1,589 49
5,713 05
5,713 05
Shawmut avenue, Ruggles to Roxbury street, repaved and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,925 90
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . 1,893 81
Carried forward , . . . . $3,819 71
Street Department — Paving Division. 97
Brought forward . -. . . . $3,819 71
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 18 . $346 50
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 17 . 1,874 06
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .... 1,599 15
1,819 71
Sussex street, Warwick to Westminster street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $255 80
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . 177 44
$433 24
Warwick street, Ruggles to Hammond street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $4,036 87
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . 1,444 08
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 18 . $2,417 43
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . 3,063 52
i,480 95
.,480 95
Westminster street, Ruggles to Hammond street, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $3,036 53
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . 1,069 81
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 18 . $1,808 31
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .... 2,298 03
$4,106 34
$4,106 34
Weston street, Cabot to Warwick street, resurfaced.
Materials furnished by the City .... $8 07
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . 181 99
$190 06
98 City Document No. 38.
Whittier street, Trernont to Cabot street, resurfaced and reg-
ulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,267 12
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . 653 38
,920 50
Windsor street, Warwick street to Shawmut avenue, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $3,933 42
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . 991 33
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 18 . $3,057 78
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . 1,866 97
L,924 75
:,924 75
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 19.
Brookline avenue, Boston & Albany Railroad bridge to
Boylston street, resurfaced and gutters relaid.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,010 20
Amount paid to E.S. Fogerty, paving . . 630 00
!,640 20
Calumet street, Pequot to St. Alphonsus street, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $8,014 65
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 1,567 62
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 19 . $68500
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 8,897 27
),582 27
9,582 27
Heath street, Huntington to Columbus avenue resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $9,275 57
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 406 93
$9,682 50
Street Department — Paving Division. 99
Huntington avenue, Gainsborough to Francis street, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $9,631 56
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, paving . . . 2,985 56
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 19 . $5,793 03
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . .6,622 34
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 10 . 201 75
!,617 12
.2,617 12
Parker street, Tremont street to Parker Hill avenue, resur-
faced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $3,431 37
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 2,606 27
$6,037 64
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 19 . $4,125 37
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 22 . 1,91227
$6,037 64
Parker Hill avenue, Hillside to Darling and Parker to Calumet
street, resurfaced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, . $2,913 04
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 989 38
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 19 . $314 00
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 22 . 817 88
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .... 2,770 54
1,902 42
3,902 42
Terrace street, repaved.
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . $446 25
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 20.
Blue Hill avenue, Intervale street to Lawrence avenue, paved
with large granite blocks, and regulated. (Unfinished.)
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $5,404 92
100 City Document No. 38.
Chamberlain street, Harvard to Algonquin street, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $134 33
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 353 69
$488 02
Dorchester avenue, Van Winkle to Richmond street, repaved
and regulated.
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . $2,191 27
Glenway street, Blue Hill avenue to Harvard
street, macadamized, edgestone set, gutters
paved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving
Grampian way, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Lawrence avenue, Blue Hill avenue to Mag-
nolia street, resurfaced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving
Park street, Waldeck to Washington street, re-
surfaced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . •
Savin Hill avenue, Dorchester avenue to rail-
road bridge, resurfaced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving
i
Stoughton street, at Cemetery, laying new brick
sidewalks.
Materials furnished by the City ....
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving
$6,028
1,460
06
76
$7,488
82
$168
25
$1,634 66
762 07
$2,396
73
$2,790
400
97
16
$3,191
13
$2,722
1,036
37
96
$3,759
33
$276 00
95 25
$371
25
Street Department — Paving Division. 101
Willis street, from Pleasant street, edgestone set
and sidewalks laid.
Materials furnished by the City . . . . $182 33
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 102 79
$285 12
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 21.
Bartlett street, near Washington street, resurfaced. (Un-
finished.)
Labor and teaming furnished by the City . . $388 10
Blue Hill avenue, at Maywood street, repaved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $179 00
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . 52 46
$231 46
Brunswick street, Warren street to Blue Hill avenue, resur-
faced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,236 13
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . 253 53
$1,489 66
Clifford street, Warren street to Blue Hill avenue, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $5,044 90
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . 1,296 59
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 21 . $4,852 14
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 1,489 35
1,341 49
!,341 49
Crawford street, Humboldt avenue to Elm Hill avenue, resur-
faced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City. $746 26
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 995 07
,742 33
Harold street, near Harrishof street, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $166 40
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 43 22
$209 62
102 ,City Document No. 38.
Harrishof street, near Harold street, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $883 77
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 210 66
,094 43
Hewes street, Rockland to Regent street, resur-
faced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $38 57
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 204 08
$242 65
Hollander street, near Harold street, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $435 67
Howland street, Elm Hill avenue to Humboldt avenue.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $244 11
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 679 07
$923 18
Humboldt avenue, Townsend to Hollander street, rock
blasted and resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $512 60
Amount paid to Thomas O'Leary, blasting . . 1,056 00
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 48 67
,617 27
Otisf ield street, Blue Hill avenue to Gaston street, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $3,333 67
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 375 51
1,709 18
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 21 . $2,513 90
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 1,195 28
$3,709 18
St. James street, Warren to Washington street, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,600 25
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 1,030 08
$2,630 33
Street Department — Paving Division. 103
Sunderland street, near Warren street, edgestones set, gutters
paved.
Materials furnished by the City . . . $125 41
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 144 31
$269 72
Wabon street, Warren to Wabeno street, resurfaced and regu-
lated .
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,359 45
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . 878 33
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 21 . $2,331 50
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . ' . . . 906 28
1,237 78
5,237 78
Washington street, Guild to Dale street, repaved and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,389 88
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 1,921 19
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 21 . $2,953 27
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving- Division . . . . 357 80
1,311 07
(,311 07
Waumbeck street, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $377 03
Waverley street, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $697 74
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 22.
Bickford street, Heath to Centre street, resurfaced and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,646 65
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . 1,093 20
$3,739 85
104 City -Document No. 38.
Cornwall street, Washington street to Brookside avenue, resur-
faced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $424 65
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving . . . 195 60
Lamartine street, Paul Gore to Green street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving
Oakdale street /resurfaced.
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving .
School street, resurfaced, unfinished.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Washington street, Townsend street to Columbus avenue, re-
paved and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $3,945 86
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 1,525 49
$620
25
rfaced and
$605 67
467 92
$1,073
59
$165
75
$21
98
$5,471 35
Westminster avenue, repaved,
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . $210 38
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 23.
Anawan avenue, Beech street to Central station, gutters paved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving .
Beech street, Poplar to Colberg street, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving .
Centre street, Walter street to Green Hill avenue, repaved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $70 15
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving . . 371 20
$441 35
$145
112
27
80
$258
07
$848
24
71
00
$872
71
Street Department — Paving Division. 105
Corey street, Centre to Weld street, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $113 13
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving . . . 277 65
$'390 78
Dale street, Poplar street to Hyde Park line, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, 641 75
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving ... 24 00
Forest Hills street, resurfaced.
Materials furnished by the City
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving-
Green street, resurfaced.
Teaming and materials furnished by the City
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving .
Harvard street, Ashland to Morton street, resurfaced
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Hastings street, resurfaced.
Materials furnished by the City . . . .
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving .
Hyde Park avenue, resurfaced.
Teaming and materials furnished by the City . $55 00
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving ... 28 50
$665
75
$8
327
80
60
$336
40
$15
233
00
88
$248
88
$785
00
46
410
07
00
$456
07
$83 50
LaGrange street, Centre to Pleasant street, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $280 08
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving . . 369 35
$649 43
Park street, Centre to Oriole street, resurfaced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $4,231 79
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving . . . 883 14
Carried forward . . . . . . $5,11493
106 City Document No. 38.
Brought forward . . . . . $5,114 93
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 23 . $2,392 06
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 2,722 87
— $5,114 93
Perkins street, widened and resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials, furnished by the City, $753 87
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving . . . 21 75
75 62
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 23 . $442 00
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 22 . 333 62
$775 62
Prospect avenue, resurfaced.
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving . . . $126 75
St. Rose street, from Jamaica street, macadamized and regu-
lated .
Labor, teaming and materials, furnished by the City, $1,326 13
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving . . . 222 20
$1,548 33
Seaverns avenue, repaved.
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving . . . $899 01
Spring street, Cass to Centre street, resurfaced.
Materials furnished by the City . . . . $211 23
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving . . . 385 20
$596 43
Temple street, Ivory to Mt. Vernon street, macadamized and
regulated.
Labor, teaming, and materials furnished by the City, $8,869 16
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving . . . 876 00
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 23 . $6,432 14
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .... 3,313 02
1,745 16
1,745 16
Street Department — Paving Division. 107
Wachusett street, from Walk Hill street, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $378 82
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving . . . 120 90
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials, furnished by the City,
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving .
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 23
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division ....
Williams street, resurfaced.
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving .
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 24.
Adams street, Neponset avenue to Granite avenue, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $5,580 91
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 3,022 60
$499 72
mlancl street,
resurfaced
y the City,
$5,959 81
2,138 10
$8,097 91
$6,803 62
1,294 29
$8,097 91
$72 00
,603 51
Ashmont street, Adams street to Dorchester avenue, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $347 35
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 731 55
.,078 90
Bailey street, Washington street to Dorchester avenue, resur-
faced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $635 70
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 1,444 14
!,079 84
Bushnell street, Beale to Weyanoke street, resurfaced and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $692 02
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 368 14
$1,060 16
108 City Document No. 38.
Mather street, Dorchester avenue to Allston street, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,903 09
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving 710 20
$2,613 29
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 24 . $1,838 70
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 20 . 774 59
$2,613 29
River street, Washington street to Central avenue, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $678 55
School street, plankwalk laid, unfinished.
Lumber . . $38 17
Washington street, Codman street to Talbot avenue, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,691 23
Wessex street, Weyanoke to Codman street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,200 97
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . 71 60
,272 57
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WARD 25.
Bennett street, from Parsons street, new gutters on one side.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $102 82
Amount paid to James Doherty, paving . 75 00
77 82
Bentley street, Sparhawk to Henshaw street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,044 79
Amount paid to James Doherty, paving . . 181 26
!,226 05
Brooks-street bridge.
Amount retained from Boston & Albany R.R. Co.
from 1899 $5,503 32
Street Department — Paving Division. 109
Chestnut Hill avenue, Beacon street to Commonwealth ave-
nue, gutters relaid.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $103 38
Amount paid to James Doherty, paving . . 142 40
$245 78
Commonwealth avenue, St. Mary's to St. Paul street, regu-
lated
Amount paid to James Doherty, paving . . $995 88
Dunboy street, Faneuil to Bigelow street, resurfaced and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,908 54
Amount paid to James Doherty, paving . . 418 80
$2,327 34
Dustin street, Beacon to Garden street, resurfaced and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to James Doherty, paving-
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 25
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .
Elko street, new dish gutter.
Teaming and materials furnished by the City .
Amount paid to James Doherty, paving
the City,
$968 02
355 60
$1,323 62
$951 75
371 87
$1,323 62
ty.
$41 73
38 80
$80 53
Everett street, North Beacon street to the bridge, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,002 71
Amount paid to James Doherty, paving . . 197 60
Amount paid out of appropriation for
street improvements, Ward 25 . $1,720 61
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .... 479 70
!,200 31
!,200 31
110 City Document No. 38.
Faneuil street, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $34 29
Amount paid to James Doherty, paving . . 5 60
$39 89
Foster street, Washington street to Commonwealth avenue,
edgestone reset, gutters relaid.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $262 83
Amount paid to James Doherty, paving . . 2,047 82
5,310 65
Hardwick street, Dunboy to Bigelow street, macadamized and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,237 66
Harvard avenue, Brighton to Farrington avenue, repaved, one
side.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $35 75
Amount paid to James Doherty, paving . . 108 14
fit. Vernon street, Bockland to Foster street, gutters relaid.
Teaming and materials furnished by the City .
Amount paid to James Doherty, paving
Nonantum street, gutters relaid.
Gravel furnished by the City
Amount paid to James Doherty, paving
Oakland street, Faneuil to Washington street, resurfaced and
regulated .
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $866 31
Amount paid to James Doherty, paving . . 330 80
$1,197 11
$143
89
*s relaid.
$70 92
227 60
$298 52
$60
131
06
20
$191
26
Parsons street, Faneuil to Surrey street, resurfaced and regu-
lated .
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $1,744 00
Amount paid to James Doherty, paving . . 791 62
Carried forward . . . . . $2,535 62
Street Department — Paving Division. Ill
Brought forward . . . . . $2,535 62
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 25 . $2,216 90
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . ■ . . . 318 72
$2,535 62
Raymond street, Everett to Franklin street, resurfaced and
regulated .
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $641 05
Amount paid to James Doherty, paving . . 387 60
$1,028 65
Rockland street, Peaceable street to High-School place, regu-
lated.
Teaming and materials furnished by the City . $84 71
Amount paid to James Doherty, paving . . 543 62
528 33
Union street, Washington street to Howard place, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $235 37
Washington street, Commonwealth avenue to Brookline line,
regulated.
Materials furnished by the City . . . . $32 89
Amount paid to James Doherty, paving . . 209 80
$242 69
SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES UNDER SPE-
CIAL APPROPRIATIONS.
Atlantic avenue, Oliver to Commercial street . $67,420 38
Beacon street, Arlington to Dartmouth street . 28,962 34
Boylston street, Arlington to Berkeley street . 14,154 87
Buildings, Chelsea street 9,048 34
Charles street, Fruit to Allen street . . . 318 80
Commercial street, Fleet to Clinton street . . 92 38
Commercial street, Prince street to Eastern avenue, 28,776 20
Commonwealth avenue • \ • • ■ • 4,105 54
Congress street, Atlantic avenue to bridge . . 273 72
Devonshire street, State to Water street . . 6,939 38
Freeport street, Ward 24, retaining wall . . 4,223 72
Harrison avenue, Asylum to Davis street . . 12 16
Neponset avenue, Adams to Minot street . . 371 99
Oliver street, Atlantic avenue to Milk street . 23,200 00
Carried forward $187,899 82
112
City Document No. 38.
Brought forward
Retaining wall, Marcella and Centre streets
Summer street, Washington to Federal streets
Talbot avenue
Temple place
Tremont street, Court to Boylston street
Abolishment of Grade Crossings
Charlestown bridge
Charlestown street
Maiden bridge ....
South Union Station :
Atlantic avenue and Dewey square
Street Improvements, Ward 1 :
Breed street .
Brooks street .
Chelsea street .
Eutaw street .
Lexington street
Marion street
Meridian street
Monmouth street
Morris street .
Princeton street
Putnam street
Saratoga street
Trenton street
White street .
Street Improvements, Ward
Cottage street .
Henry street
Liverpool street
Marginal street
Paris street
Ruth street
Winthrop street
Street Improvements, Ward
Ferrin street .
High street
Mt. Vernon street
Pearl street
Stone street
Street Improvements, Ward 4 :
Allston street .
Caldwell street
Street Improvements, Ward
Chelsea street .
Cordis street
Gray street
Park street
Pleasant street
Carried forward
$187,899
82
6,604
07
17,851
16
1,093
37
5,222
83
51,846
11
416
00
3,806
74
1,078
10
1,881
65
28,556
98
317
94
538
90
647
38
2,215
49
2,778
18
5,425
17
2,851
98
679
04
54
24
329
65
756
95
212
75
3,984
68
213
20
4,304
27
409
26
508
80
139
60
3,101
13
14
00
307
09
409
26
3,251
73
1,226
33
2,123
74
66
33
1,588
74
1,673
87
4,467
42
66
39
1,131
39
382
57
2,034
29
$353,968
59
Street Department — Paving Division.
113
Brought forward .
Street Improvements, Ward
Blackstone street
Central street .
Charter street .
Congress square
Creek square .
Devonshire street, Milk to
Endicott street
Friend street .
Haverhill street
Merrimac street
Pemberton square
Prince street .
Sudbury street
Street Improvements, Ward
Atlantic avenue'
Bosworth street
Boylston street
Broadway
Devonshire street
Federal street .
Harrison avenue
Hawley street .
Hayward place
Kingston street
Kneeland street
Mason street .
Mason street .
Otis street
Tremont street
Repairing asphalt streets
Street Improvements, Ward
Chambers street
Leverett street
Milton street .
Norman street
Pitts street
South Margin street
Street Improvements, Ward
Compton street
Dover street .
Genesee street
Lehigh street .
Rollins street .
Savoy street
Union Park street
Street Improvements, Ward
Batavia street .
Carried forw ard
$353,968 59
7:
Water street
1)
10
100
79
162
94
1,085
49
820
93
993
08
157
73
180
87
1,542
42
1,990
87
307
41
186
50
1,698
23
851
48
674
65
769
01
1,635
08
2,852
20
622
70
501
14
205
75
349
70
83
42
402
06
455
29
130
66
583
00
473
35
3,294
97
160
23
1,935
44
106
89
49
98
1,828
71
1,622
86
1,407
90
3,712
79
977
51
332
21
592
97
1,137
14
637
75
6,962
48
2",616
54
$401,161
71
114
City Document No. 38.
avenue to Dart
Brought forward
Cazenove street ' .
Clarendon street
Columbus avenue
Dartmouth street
Gray street
Haviland street
Lawrence street
Massachusetts avenue
Norway street
St. Stephen street
Stanhope street
Street Improvements, Ward 11 :
Anderson street
Beacon street, Massachusetts avenue to Charles
gate ....
Beacon street, Massachusetts
mouth street
Commonwealth avenue
Garden street .
G-rove street
Irving street
Joy street
Phillips street .
Pinckney street .
Revere street .
Street Improvements, Ward 12 :
Claremont park
James street .
Massachusetts avenue
Montgomery street .
W. Newton street
Repairing asphalt streets .
Street Improvements, Ward 13 :
Bolton street .
Broadway
Dorchester avenue .
Street Improvements, Ward 14 :
Dorchester street .....
E. Fourth street, N to P street
E. Third street, Dorchester to Emerson street
E. Third street, N to O street .
Emerson street, K to M street .
Emerson street, Dorchester to H street
H street .
I street .
L street .
M street .
N street .
Carried forward
. $401,161
71
995
42
6,379
41
540
65
507
57
1,537
09
1,841
13
3,381
30
8,871
87
1,378
19
385
65
279
70
2,277
19
2,384
44
720
52
2,332
14
2,028
48
1,751
95
2,168
56
3,781
98
2,184
81
3,246
87
2,324
75
2,585
08
3,497
59
3,768
69
5,104
01
11,404
11
263
32
1,028
58
84
20
5,485
48
964
36
2,800
74
870
37
489
69
2,682
67
559
88
2,233
91
270
98
6,056
50
4,260
87
198
20
. $507,070 61
Street Department — Paving Division. 115
Brought forward
Street Improvements, Ward 15 :
E. Fourth street, Dorchester to
E. Sixth street
G street .
Linden street .
Old Harbor street
Pacific street .
Street Improvements, Ward 16
Brookford street
Folsom street .
Howell street .
Julian street
Magnolia street
Massachusetts avenue
May field street
Quincy street .
Street Improvements, Ward 17
Albany street .
Batchelder street
Dunmore street
Northampton street
Palmer street .
Swett street
Washington street
Winthrop street
Street Improvements, Ward 18
Columbus avenue
G-reenwich street
Hampshire street
Marble street .
Marvin street .
Ruggles street .
Shawmut avenue
Sussex street .
Warwick street
Westminster street
Weston street .
Whittier street
Windsor street
Street Improvements, Ward 19
Brookline avenue
Calumet street
Heath street .
Huntington avenue
Parker street .
Parker Hill avenue
Terrace street .
Carried forward .
H sh-
eet
507,070
61
4,353
13
3,379
32
2,317
01
1,735
29
4,820
72
1,021
03
1,164
38
2,101
11
668
21
211
63
810
27
37,175
22
471
36
14,730
16
502
70
333
43
1,085
21
1,276
33
2,003
03
10,727
63
108
91
3,709
12
4,935
47
2,423
80
1,377
10
851
02
820
98
8,713
05
3,819
71
433
24
5,480
95
4,106
34
190
06
1,920
50
4,924
75
2,640
20
9,582
27
9,682
50
12,617
12
6,037
64
3,902
42
446
25
,681 18
116
City Document No. 38.
Brought forward
Street Improvements, Ward 20
Blue Hill avenue
Chamberlain street
Dorchester avenue
Grlenway street
Grampian way
Lawrence avenue
Park street
Savin Hill avenue
Stoughton street
Willis street
Street Improvements, Ward 21
Bartlett street
Blue Hill avenue
Brunswick street
Clifford street .
Crawford street
Harold street .
Harrishof street
Hewes street .
Hollander street
Howland street
Humboldt avenue
Otisfield street
St. James street
Sunderland street
Wabon street .
Washington street
Waumbeck street
Waverley street
Street Improvements, Ward 22
Bickford street
Cornwall street
Lamartine street
Oakdale street
School street .
Washington street
Westminster avenue
Street Improvements, Ward 23
Anawan avenue
Beech street
Centre street .
Corey street
Dale street
Forest Hills street
Green street
Harvard street
Hastings street
Carried forward .
,681 18
5,404
92
488
02
2,191
27
7,488
82
168
25
2,396
73
3,191
13
3,759
33
371
25
285
12
388
10
231
46
1,489
66
6,341
49
1,742
33
209
62
1,094
43
242
65
435
67
923
18
1,617
27
3,709
18
2,630
33
269
72
3,237
78
3,311
07
377
03
697
74
3,739
85
620
25
1,073
59
165
75
21
98
5,471
35
210
38
258
07
872
71
441
35
390
78
665
75
336
40
248
88
785
00
456
07
$757,132
89
Street Department — Paving Division.
117
Brought forward
Hyde Park avenue
LaGrange street
Park street
Perkins street .
Prospect avenue
St. Rose street
Seaverns avenue
Spring street .
Temple street .
Wachusett street
Washington street
Williams street
Street Improvements, Ward 24
Adams street .
Ashmont street
Bailey street .
Bushnell street
Mather street .
River street
School street .
Washington street
Wessex street .
Street Improvements, Ward 25
Bennett street .
Bentley street .
Brooks street bridge
Chestnut Hill avenue
Commonwealth avenue
Dunboy street
Dustin street
Elko street
Everett street
Faneuil street
Foster street
Hardwick street
Harvard avenue
Mt. Vernon street
Nonantum street
Oakland street
Parsons street .
Raymond street
Rockland street
Union street .
Washington street
Less amount paid out of appropriation for Pavim
Division .......
757,132 89
83 50
649 43
5,114 93
775 62
126 75
1,548 33
899 01
596 43
9,745 16
499 72
8,097 91
72 00
8,603 51
1.078 90
2.079 84
1,060 16
2,613 29
678 55
.38 17
1,691 23
1,272 57
177 82
2,226 05
5,503 32
245 78
995 88
2,327 34
1,323 62
80 53
2,200 31
39 89
2,310 65
2,237 66
143 89
298 52
191 26
1,197 11
2,535 62
1,028 65
628 33
235 37
242 69
530,628 19
75,037 88
'55,590 31
118 City Document No. 38.
BLUE HILL AND OTHER AVENUES.
Blue Hill avenue, Walk Hill to River street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,947 64
Columbus avenue.
Sand $66 60
Amount retained from D. E. Lynch for work done,
under contract . . . . . . 107 40
.74 00
Commonwealth avenue.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $54,686 87
Amount paid to James Doherty, paving . . 769 66
Amount paid to Barnes, Ruffin Company, paving . 99 09
$55,555 62
SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES FOR BLUE
HILL AND OTHER AVENUES.
Blue Hill avenue $2,947 64
Columbus avenue . . . . . . 174 00
Commonwealth avenue ..... 55,555 62
$58,677 26
LA TING- OUT AND CONSTRUCTION OF
HIGHWA YS.
Aberdeen street, Beacon street to Brookline Branch, Boston &
Albany Railroad.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to J. O'Brien & Son, construction
work ........
Amount paid to Taylor, Carr & Andrews, artifi-
cial stone sidewalks .....
Alford street, Mystic river to Everett line.
Labor ......
Angell street, Blue Hill avenue to Canterbury street.
Labor ........
Amount retained from James Doherty for work
done in 1899, under contract ....
$2,184
14
1,811
84
710
55
4,706
53
$97
50
$7
13
208
64
$215
77
Street Department — Paving Division. 119
Astor street, Massachusetts avenue to Parker street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $46 67
Amount retained from P. McGovern for work done
in 1899, under contract . . . . 199 08
$245 75
B street, from line of original low water to Congress street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $334 86
Belvidere street, Dalton to West Newton street.
Amount retained from Collins & Ham for work
• done in 1899, under contract .... $80 98
Berkeley street, Boylston street to Columbus avenue.
Labor $17 75
Blandford street, Commonwealth avenue to Boston and Albany
Railroad.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $484 81
Amount retained from Boston and Albany Railroad
Company for work done in 1899, under contract . 4,680 00
i,164 81
Board man street, Saratoga street to Boston & Maine Rail-
road.
Labor . $31 25
Burt street, Washington to Ashmont street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $88 77
Amount retained from Collins & Ham for work
done in 1899 under contract . . . . 505 22
$593 99
Chester street, Commonwealth avenue to Brighton avenue.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $15 05
Amount retained from James Doherty & Co. for
work clone in 1899 under contract . . . 57 93
$72 98
Chiswick road, Englewood avenue to Chestnut Hill avenue.
Labor $35 25
Amount paid to Collins & Ham .... 1,272 48
$1,307 73
120 City Document No. 38.
Columbia road.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $4,927 63
Amount paid to Simon J. Donovan, filling . . 15,402 49
Amount paid to J. C. Coleman & Son, construc-
tion work 1,090 50
Amount paid toH. P. Nawn, construction work . 702 20
Cummington street, Bland ford to Avon street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City
Amount paid to Boston & Albany Railroad Com-
pany, filling . . . . . . , .
Devon street, Blue Hill avenue to Columbia road.
Labor and materials furnished by the City .
Amount retained from John Connors for work
done in 1899 under contract ....
Dixfield street, Old Harbor to Covington street.
Labor .......
Forest Hills street, Washington street to Glen road
Labor . . . .
Fowler street, G-lenway to Greenwood street.
Labor ........
Amount retained from Collins & Ham for work
done in 1899 under contract ....
Francis street, Huntington to Brookline avenue.
Labor and materials furnished by the City
Amount paid to James Doherty
Hamilton street, Bowdoin street to Homes avenue.
Labor and materials furnished by the City
Harold street, Munroe street to Walnut avenue.
Stone . . . . . . .
Amount retained from P. McGovern for work done
in 1899 under contract .....
$22,122
82
$996
19,481
24
40.
$20,477
64
$71
188
05
74
$259
79
$26
25
I.
$55
00
$4
70
87
52
$75
39
$23
201
01
99
$225
00
$43
96
$204 58
81 41
$285
99
Street Department — Paving Division. 121
Hewins street, Columbia road to Erie street.
Stone ........
Amount retained from P. Doherty for work done
in 1899 under contract .....
Idaho street, from River street, 870 feet northerly.
Labor and materials furnished by the City
Amount retained from James McGovern for work
done in 1899 under contract ....
Ipswich street, Boylston road to Boylston street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $710 19
Amount paid to D. H. Andrews, building bridge
fence . . . . . . . . 2,625 00
Amount paid to Collins & Ham, construction work, 874 32
$15
54
71
60
$87
14
$12
76
102
94
$115
70
L,209 51
Leeds street, Woodward street to Dorchester avenue.
Labor $18 50
Maryland street, Savin Hill avenue to Bay street.
Amount retained from Philip Doherty for work
done in 1899 under contract .... $64 53
Middleton street, Norfolk street, about 600 feet northerly.
Stone 3 47
Amount retained from Philip Doherty for work
done in 1899 under contract . . . . 75 11
$78 58
North Harvard street, Western avenue to Charles river.
Labor $27 75
Amount retained from George H. Wentworth &
Co. for work done in 1899 under contract . . 384 60
$412 35
Orkney road, Sutherland road to Strathmore road.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $59 53
Amount retained from Daniel E. Lynch for work
done in 1899 under contract .... 1,182 09
$1,241 62
122 City Document No. 38.
Peterborough street, Audubon road to Fairhaven street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $9 69
Amount retained from James Doherty & Co. for
work done in 1899 under contract . . . 236 72
Peverell street, Sawyer avenue to Salcombe street.
Labor ........
Amount retained from Collins & Ham for work
done in 1899 under contract ....
Province court, from Province street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan construction work
St. Stephen street, from Bryant street 800 feet towards Gains-
borough street.
Stone ........
Amount retained from James Doherty & Co. for
work done in 1899 under contract
Shirley street, Massachusetts to Norfolk avenue.
Labor and materials furnished by the City
Amount returned from John F. Cullen for work
done in 1899 under contract ....
Spencer street, Wheatland to Talbot avenue.
Amount retained from James McGovern for work
done in 1899, under contract .... $79 06
Spencer street, Athelwold to Park street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $21 02
Amount retained from James McGovern for work
done in 1899 under contract .... 41 40
$246
41
$32
00
120
00
$152
00
$259
38
603
51
$862
89
Is Gai
ns-
$6
76
93
96
$100
72
$197
04
566
17
$763
21
52 42
Spring street, Centre to Gardner street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $827 07
Street Department — Paving Division. 123
Stanley street, Quincy to Bellevue street.
Amount retained from James Doherty & Co. for
work done in 1899 under contract . . . $63 03
Trinity place, Stuart to Stanhope street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City
Amount paid to Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
asphalting .......
Amount paid to Frank Bachelder, paving, etc.
\
Wensley street, Heath street, 720 feet westerly.
Labor and materials furnished by the City .
Amount retained from Collins & Ham for work
done in 1899 under contract ....
West Selden street, Morton to Manchester street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City
Amount paid to James McG-overn, construction
work ........
Woodlawn street, Hyde Park avenue to Forest
Hills Cemetery.
Labor . . . . .
Amount retained from Thomas A. Dolan, for work
done in 1899 under contract ....
Swett street, Massachusetts to Dorchester avenue.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,095 83
Amount paid to N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad Com-
pany, construction work ..... 2,192 41
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, construction
work 1,740 60
1,028 84
Thane street, Athelwold to Park street.
Amount retained from P. Doherty for work done
in 1899 under contract $27 64
2,458
95
921
28
$3,800
07
$91
46
416
13
$507
59
$1,191
22
694
11
$1,885
33
$8
76
114
75
$123
51
124 City Document No. 38.
Worthington street, Long-wood avenue to Back
Bay Fens.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $66 66
Amount retained from J. C. Coleman & Son for
work done in 1899 under contract . . . 3,027 93
$3,094 59
Public alley 102, Marshall street to Creek square.
Labor $5 50
Advertising . . . . . . . 3 50
$9 00
(Between Beacon and Marlborough Streets.)
Public alley 414, Massachusetts avenue to Hereford street.
Labor $4 50
Public alley 415, Hereford to Gloucester street.
Labor $4 50
Public alley 416, Gloucester to Fairfield street.
Labor $16 63
Public alley 417, Fairfield to Exeter street.
Labor $57 12
(Between Commonwealth Avenue and Marlborough Street.)
Public alley 421, Berkeley to Arlington street.
Labor $47 50
Public alley 422, Arlington to Berkeley street.
Signs $3 64
Public alley 423, Berkeley to Clarendon street.
Signs $3 64
Public alley 424, Clarendon to Dartmouth street.
Signs $3 64
Public alley 426, Exeter to Fairfield street.
Signs $3 64
Public alley 427, Fairfield to Gloucester street.
Signs $3 64
Public alley 428, Gloucester to Hereford street.
Signs $3 64
Public alley 429, Hereford street to Massachusetts avenue.
Signs $3 64
Street Department — Paving Division. 125
(Between Commonwealth Avenue and Newbury Street.)
Public alley 430, Massachusetts avenue to Hereford street.
Labor $9 00
Advertising; . . . ... . . 2 33
Public alley 432, Gloucester to Fairfield street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, construction work,
Public alley 433, Fairfield to Exeter street.
Labor ......
Advertising .....
Public alley 434, Exeter to Dartmouth street.
Labor .......
Advertising- ......
Public alley 435, Dartmouth to Clarendon street.
Labor ........
Advertising .......
Public alley 436, Clarendon to Berkeley street.
Labor ........
Advertising .......
(Between Newbury and Boylston Streets.)
Public alley 438, Arlington to Berkeley street.
Advertising ........
Public alley 439, Clarendon to Dartmouth street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, construction work
Public alley 440, Dartmouth to Exeter street.
Advertising .......
Public alley 441, Exeter to Fairfield street.
Avertising . . .
$11
33
$185
841
21
35
$1,026
56
$9
2
00
08
$11
08
$9
2
00
08
$11
08
$9
2
00
07
$11
07
$9
2
00
07
$11
07
$2
07
$147
718
32
32
$865
64
$2
07
$2 07
126
City Document No. 38.
Public alley 442, Fairfield to G-loucester street.
Advertising .......
Public alley 443, Gloucester to Hereford street.
Advertising .......
$2 07
$2 06
Public alley 444, Hereford street to Massachusetts avenue.
Advertising ........ $2 06
SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES.
LAYING-OUT AND CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAYS.
Total Amount Expended.
Aberdeen street
Alford street
Angel 1 street
Astor street
B street
Belvidere street
Berkeley street
Blandford street
Boardman street
Burt street
Chester street .
Chiswick road
Columbia road .
Cummington street
Devon street
Dixfield street .
Forest Hills street
Fowler street
Francis street
Hamilton street . ,
Harold street
Hewins street
Idaho street
Ipswich street
Leeds street
Maryland street
Middleton street
N. Harvard street
Orkney road
Peterborough street
Peverell street .
Province court .
St. Stephen street
Carried forward
$4,706 53
97 50
215 77
245 75
334 86
80 98
17 75
5,164 81
31 25
593 99
72 98
1,307 73
22,122 82
20,477 64
259 79
26 25
55 00
75 39
225 00
43 96
285 99
87 14
115 70
4,209 51
18 50
64 53
78 58
412 35
1,241 62
246 41
152 00
862 89
100 72
$64,031 69
Street Department — Paving Division. 127
JBrough t forward
Shirley street
Spencer street, Wheatland to Talbot avenue
Spencer street, Athelwold to Park street
Spring street
Stanley street
Swett street
Thane street
Trinity place
Wensley street
West Selden street
Woodlawn street
Worthington street
Public alley 102
Public alley 414
Public alley 415
Public alley 416
Public alley 417
Public alley 421
Public alley 422
Public alley 423
Public alley 424
Public alley 426
Public alley 427
Public alley 428
Public alley 429
Public alley 430
Public alley 432
Public alley 433
Public alley 434
Pnblic alley 435
Public alley 436
Public alley 438
Public alley 439
Public alley 440
Publci alley 441
Public alley 442
Public alley 443
Public alley 444
$64,031 69
763 21
79 06
62 42
827 07
63 03
6,028 84
27 64
3,800 07
507 59
1,885 33
123 51
3,094 59
9 00
4
4
50
50
16 63
57 12
47 50
3 64
64
64
64
64
64
64
3
3
3
3
3
3
11 53
1,026 56
11 08
11 08
11 07
11 07
2 07
865 64
2 07
2 07
2 07
2 06
2 06
53,419 21
LAYING-OUT AND CONSTRUCTION OF HIGH-
WAYS, EAST BOSTON.
Ashley street, Breed to Walley street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $3,244 98
Amount paid to H. & D. Burnett, filling . . 2,342 91
Amount paid to Philip Doherty, construction work, 697 00
!,284 89
128 City Document No. 38.
Bennington street, Chelsea street to Belle Isle Inlet.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $8,194 16
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, filling . . 48,383 15
Wordsworth street, Saratoga to Pope street.
Labor .• .
Advertising ......
SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES.
LAYING-OUT AND CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAYS,
EAST BOSTON.
Total Amount Expended.
Ashley street $6,284 89
Bennington street . . . • . . . 56,577 31
Wordsworth street ...... 72 12
$56,577
31
$69
2
87
25
$72
12
$62,934 32
LAYING-OUT AND CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAYS,
BRIGHTON.
Cambridge street, Brighton avenue to Washington street.
Labor and materials furnished by the city . . $3,221 14
Amount paid to J. L. Bryne & Co., construction
work • . 2,907 00
Amount paid to J. H. Sullivan, construction work, 2,030 99
5,159 13
Tremont street, Washington street to Newton line.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $2,095 80
Amount paid to William Scollans, construction
work 1,545 30
1,641 10
SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES.
LAYING-OUT AND CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAYS,
BRIGHTON.
Total Amount Expended.
Cambridge street ...... $8,159 13
Tremont street 3,641 10
$11,800 23
Street Department — Paving Division. 129
LAYING-OUT AND CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAYS,
DORCHESTER.
Alexander street, southwardly over Oleander street.
Labor and materials, furnished by the City .
Amount paid to J. McGovern, construction work
Annabel street, Columbia road to Sumner street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City
Amount paid to J. McGovern, construction work .
Atherstone street, Fuller to Bailey street.
Advertising . . ,
Amount retained from Philip Doherty for work
done in 1899 under contract ....
Barry street, Quincy to Richfield street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to F. E. McCarthy Co., rock exca-
vation ........
Bird street, Columbia road to Hancock street.
Labor . .
Boston street, Mt. Vernon street to to Columbia road.
Labor .......
Advertising ......
Cal lender street, Tucker to Don street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City
Amount paid to John F. Cullen, construction work,
Conrad street, from Sumner street.
Labor . .
Advertising ....
$191
307
76
35
$499
11
$2,033
950
49
11
$2,983
60
$3
35
38
10
$38
48
$6,552
5,061
16
60
$11,613
76
$26 50
»ad.
$83 50
2 45
$85
95
$8,682
3,861
39
33
$12,543
72
$26
2
25
45
$28
70
130 City Document No. 38.
Draper street, Robinson to Bowdoin street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,045 26
Edison Green, Dorchester avenue to Pond street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to James McGovern, construction
work . .
Edwin street, Dorchester avenue to Shawmut Park
Labor and materials furnished by the City .
Amount retained from Philip Doherty for work
done in 1899 under contract ....
Amount paid to Patrick Lyons, artificial stone side-
walks ........
Esmond street, Blue Hill avenue to Harvard street
Labor and materials furnished by the City .
Amount paid to T. F. Bradley, construction work .
Amount paid to Warren Bros. Co., artificial stone
sidewalks .......
Florida street, King to Templeton street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City
Amount paid to Philip Doherty, construction work,
Amount paid to Warren Bros. Co., artificial stone
sidewalks .......
Amount paid to Taylor, Carr & Andrews, artificial
stone sidewalks . . . . • ■
Fowler street, Glenway to McLellan street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City .
Amount paid to Booth & Co., construction work
Gibson street, Dorchester avenue to Adams street.
Labor ........
Hancock street, Columbia road to Winter street.
Labor .........
$7,311
07
2,990
30
$10,301
37
$147
07
221
09
787
62
$1,155
78
$6,502
3,011
83
59
2,581
84
$12,096
26
$1,668 50
2,641 73
757
79
322
35
$5,390
37
$1,749
890.
23
50
$2,639
73
$62
13
$255
45
Street Department — Paving Division. 131
Homes avenue, Bowcloiu to Topliff street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $4,053 22
Amount paid to Thomas F. "Welch, construction
work 2,106 06
5,159 28
Lauriat avenue, Ballou avenue to Norfolk street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $3,420 57
Amount paid to T. F. Bradley, construction work . 2,422 04
Amount paid to W. A. Murtfeldt Co., artificial
stone sidewalks ...... 1,452 89
$7,295 50
Leonard street, Duncan to Adams street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $249 10
Millet street, Park to Athelwold street.
Labor $12 00
Advertising . . . . . . . 2 45
114 45
Montague street, Ashmont to Roslin street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $1,105 05
Amount paid to Collins & Ham, construction work, 797 15
Amount paid to Simpson Bros. Corporation, arti-
ficial stone sidewalks ..... 759 94
!,662 14
Moseley street, Crescent avenue to Columbia road.
Labor . ... . ... . . $68 98
Advertising ....... 2 45
$71 43
Normandy street, from Lawrence avenue.
Labor $19 00
Nottingham street, Bullard street to Bowdoin avenue.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $2,797 09
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, construction
work 1,453 58
Amount paid to W. A. Murtfeldt Co., artificial
stone sidewalks ...... 861 90
$5,112 57
132 City Document No. 38.
Rockford street, Dudley to Clifton street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $1,279 06
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, construction
work 844 34
!,123 40
Rozella street, Adams to Muzzy street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $708 70
Amount paid to T. F. Bradley, construction work, 750 66
$1,459 36
Seaborn street, Centre to Kenwood street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $1,897 09
Amount paid to James Doherty, construction work, 1,126 30
$3,023 39
Shatter street, "Waterlow to Faxon street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $3,042 86
Amount paid to Philip Doherty, construction work, 1,190 56
$4,233 42
Shepton street, Dorchester avenue to Florida street.
Labor, teaming and materials fnrnished by the City, $800 44
Spencer street, Athelwold to Harvard street.
Labor $12 00
Advertising ....... 2 46
$14 46
Templeton street, Dorchester avenue to Adams street.
Labor • • • $58 25
Advertising . ' • • • • • 2 46
71
Thane street, Athelwold to School street.
Labor . . . • ■ • • • $23 25
Advertising ....... 2 46
$25 71
Street Department — Paving Division. 133
Van Winkle street, Dorchester avenue to Shawrnut Branch
Railroad.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $3,559 18
Amount paid to Booth & Co., construction work . 1,679 32
Amount paid to Simpson Bros. Corporation, artificial
stone sidewalks ...... 1,158 79
1,397 -29
Wainwright street, Centre street to Welles avenue.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $111 15
Waldeck street, Melville avenue to Tonawanda street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $1,031 25
Amount retained from John F. Cullen, for work
done in 1899, under contract .... 483 48
Amount paid to Taylor, Carr & Andrews, artificial
stone sidewalks ...... 509 75
!,024 48
Warner street, Harvard to Park street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $3,777 27
Amount paid to T. F. Bradley, construction work, 1,926 58
Amount paid to Warren Bros. Company, artificial
stone sidewalks . . . . . . 1,110 46
1,814 31
Woodcliff street, eastwardly from Howard avenue.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $1,205 33
Amount paid to Philip Doherty, construction work, 1,229 62
$2,434 95
SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES .
LAYING-OUT AND CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAYS,
DORCHESTER.
Total Amount Expended.
Alexander street .......
Annabel street .......
Atherstone street ......
$499 11
2,983 60
38 48
Carried forward . . . . . . . $3,521 19
134
Clty Document No. 38.
Brought forward
Barry street
Bird street .
Boston street
Callender street
Conrad street
Draper street
Edison Green
Edwin street
Esmond street
Florida street
Fowler street
Gibson street
Hancock street
Homes avenue
Lauriat avenue
Leonard street
Millet street
Montague street
Moseley street
Normandy street
Nottingham street
Rockford street
Rozella street
Seaborn street
Shafter street
Shepton street
Spencer street
Templeton street
Thane street
Van Winkle street
Wainwright street
Waldeck street .
Warner street
Woodcliff street .
$3,521 19
11,613 76
26 50
85 95
12,543 72
28 70
2,045 26
10,301 37
1,155 78
12,096 26
5,390 37
2,639
62
255
6,159
7,295
249
14
2,662
71
19
5,112
2,123
1,459
3,023
4,233 42
800 44
14
60
25
6,397
111
2,024 48
6,814 31
2,434 95
112,872 71
73
13
45
28
50
10
45
14
43
00
57
40
36
39
46
71
71
29
15
LAYING-OUT AND CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAYS,
ROXBURY AND WEST ROXBURY.
Amory street, School to Bragdon street.
Stone $5 39
Amount retained from Patrick McGovern, for work
done in 1899, under contract . . . . 110 52
.5 91
Street Department — Paving Division. 135
Bragdon street, Columbus avenue to Arnory street.
Stone $3 96
Amount retained from Thomas A. Dolan, for work
clone in 1899, 'under contract . . . . 93 89
• 7 85
Brookline avenue, Longwood avenue, entrance to Back Bay
Feus to the River way.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,590 20
Cardington street, from Cobden street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $841 28
Amount paid to Philip Doherty, construction work, 350 03
$1,191 81
Carlow street, Albany to Chadwick street.
Labor . . $24 75
Congreve street, South to Centre street
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $3,603 97
Amount paid to William Finneran, construction work 1,750 74
»,354 71
Corinth street, Washington to Brandon street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $822 77
Amount paid to Collins & Ham, construction work 425 00
.,247 77
Custer street, Woodman street to Arnold Arboretum.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . 82,057 93
Amount paid to Philip Doherty, construction work, 1,011 33
1,069 26
Dresden street, Boylston street to Spring Park
avenue.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $1,425 29
Amount paid to Thomas Minton, construction work, 500 59
$1,925 88
136 City Document No. 38.
Dunford street, Cobden to Fenner street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $888 55
Amount paid to Philip Doherty, construction work, 534 79
$1,423 34
Echo street, Columbus avenue to Centre street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $774 77
Amount paid to James Doherty, construction work, 538 26
$1,313 03
Gainsborough street, St. Stephen to Hemenway street.
Labor $11 75
Advertising . . . . ... 5 24
$16 99
Hubbard street, Chestnut avenue to Lamartine street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $43 77
Amount retained from Thomas Minton for work
done in 1899 under contract . . . . 172 63
$240 16
Newburg street, Beech street to Belgrade avenue.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $6,029 60
Amount paid to James Doherty & Co., construction
work 5,593 46
1,623 06
Oak view terrace, from Centre street.
Labor and materials furnished by the City . . $4,892 77
Amount paid to Collins & Ham, construction work, 2,267 72
Amount paid to Patrick J. Lyons, artificial stone
sidewalks 1,724 53
$5 02
Perkins street, Centre street to Jamaicaway.
Labor $114 12
Advertising . . . . . . . 5 03
19 15
Pontiac street, Hillside to Tremont street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $24,140 77
Street Department — Paving Division.
137
Queensberry street.
Teaming and materials furnished by the City
Railroad street, Corey to Willow street.
Labor .......
Advertisino- ......
Rowe street, Ashland to Seymour street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to Philip Doherty, construction work
Seymour street, Canterbury street to Brown avenue
Labor and materials furnished by the City
Amount paid to T. F. Welch, construction work
South street, Jamaica street to Arborway.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, •
Stratford street, Anawan to Clement avenue.
Labor and materials furnished by the City
Amount paid to William L. Cahalan, artificial stone
sidewalks .......
Washington street, Morton to Tower street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City,
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, construction work,
Westbourne street, Cornell to Beech street.
Labor .......
Public alley 901, Hemenway street to Fenway.
Labor . . . . . . .
Advertising ......"
171 98
$27
5
75
02
$32
77
$1,3-28
278
95
63
$1,607
58
' $924
438
18
04
$1,362
22
$160
27
$819
1,220
16
54
$2,039
70
$834
503
03
03
$1,337
06
$23
13
$31
5
25
23
$36
48
138
City Document No. 38.
Public alley 905, west from Massachusetts avenue, between
Commonwealth avenue and Marlborough street, and to Marl-
borough street.
Labor
Advertising
$5 25
5 23
$10 48
SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES.
LAYING-OUT AND CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAYS,
ROXBURY AND WEST ROXBURY.
Total Amount Expended.
Amory street
Bragdon street
Brookline avenue
Cardington street
Carlow street
Congreve street .
Corinth street
Custer street
Dresden street .
Dunford street
Echo street
Gainsborough street
Hubbard street .
Newburg street .
Oakview terrace .
Perkins street
Pontiac street
Queensberry street
Railroad street
Rowe street
Seymour street .
South street
Stratford street .
Washington street
Westbourne street
Public alley 901 .
Public alley 905 .
$115 91
97 85
2,590 20
1,191 31
24 75
5,354 71
1,247 77
3,069 26
1,925 88
1,423 34
1,313 03
16 99
216 40
11,623 06
8,885 02
119 15
24,140 77
371 98
32 77
1,607 58
1,362 22
160 27
2,039 70
1,337 06
23 13
36 48
10 48
),337 07
Street Department — Paving Division. 139
NE W ED GES TONE.
The following tables show the amount of new edgestones set
during the year, not including " 323 " streets :
City Proper.
Wards 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 17 and 18, in whole or in part.
(Pay-
ing Districts 8, 9 and 10.)
Lin, feet.
Bay State road ......
407
Belvidere street .
145
Endicott street
123
Federal and High streets
144
Massachusetts avenue
126
St. Germain street
115
St. Cecilia street
137
Hemenway street
136
Sundry streets in small quantities
209
1,544
ROXBURY.
Wards 16, 17, 18, 19, 21 and 22, in whole or in part. {Paving
District No. 7.)
Lin. feet.
Batchelder and Burrell streets .... 141
Calumet street . . . . . . . 2,112
Crawford street . . . . . . 119
Cunard street ....... 134
Gore street ....... 100
Humboldt avenue . . . . . . 120
Harold street . 201
Halleck street ....... 236
Homestead street ...... 130
Harrishof street . . . . . . . 366
Howland street . . . . . . . 238
Kingsbury street . . . . . 100
Munroe street 387
Massachusetts avenue ..... 345
Otisfielcl street 947
Buggies street ....... 137
Roxbury street . . . . . . . 102
Ruthven street 297
Sunderland street ...... 203
Swett street 1,349
Tremont street • 209
Waumbeck street . . . . . . 197
Sundry streets in small quantities . . . 712
8,882
140
City Document No. 38.
East Boston.
Wards 1 and 2. (Paving District JVb. 2.)
Condor street .......
Falcon street .......
Sundry streets in small quantities
Lin. feet.
418
108
90
616
(Paving District
Dorchester.
Wards 16, 20 and 24, in whole or in part.
JVo. 6.)
Blue Hill avenue
(Hushing avenue and Jerome street
Dewey street
Euclid street
Erie and McLellan streets .
Folsom and Robin Hood street
Massachusetts avenue
Newport street
Park street
Quincy street
Stanwood street .
Seaver street
Washington street
Welles avenue
Willis street
Sundry streets in small quantities
West Roxbury.
Wards 22 and 23, in tohole or in part. (Paving District
Alveston street .......
Glen road ........
Maple street
Seymour street .......
South Boston.
Wards 13, 14, 15 and 16, in whole or in part.
East Sixth -street . . . .
East Third street . . . . ...
Sundry streets in small quantities
Lin. feet.
182
211
127
135
191
359
180
291
714
4,947
189
406
170
340
343
848
9,633
No. 5.)
Lin. feet.
192
156
166
100
614
Lin. feet.
375
156
198
729
Street Department — Paving Division. 141
Charlestown.
Wards 3, 4. and 5. (Paving District No. 3.)
Sundry streets in small quantities
Lin. feet.
100
Recapitulation .
City Proper
Roxbury
South Boston
East Boston
Dorchester
West Roxbury
Charlestown
Lin. feet.
1,544
8,882
729
616
9,633
614
100
22,118
New Edgestones. (Not including " 323 ' ' streets.)
First setting. Linear feet.
Year.
ti
y
K
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
Totals
8,236
9,222
1,118
1,916
2,990
1,697
5,097
1,281
1,410
1,544
34,511
22,693
' 25,506
14,979
39,324
17,053
20,111
14,241
13,252
8,134
11,724
9,631
4,372
521
2,097
3,855
2,311
1,259
308
729
4,131
11,238
1,969
816
1,146
807
1,691
918
2,715
616
184,175
36,807
26,047
18,138
36,859
10,587
6,544
15,205
21,367
37,205
50,124
6,818
9,633
4,617
9,970
4,795
1,568
8,319
2,498
5,228
2,185
2,265
614
212,480
42, 059
2,032
9,001
3,981
1,323
4,191
8,507
1,086
5,909
439
2,227
694
668
791
111
100
36,469
7,395
41,91'
73,798
114,231
41,801
52,706
51,669
101,550
66,859
74,928
22,200
22,118
41,917
621,860
142
City Document No. 38.
NEW BRICK SIDEWALKS.
The following tables show the number of square yards of brick
sidewalks laid during the year, not including " 323 " streets :
City Pkoper.
Wards 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, and 18, in whole or in part.
(Paving Districts Nos. 8, 9, and 10.)
Atlantic avenue .
Bay State road .
Boylston street .
Bosworth street .
Beacon street
Dartmouth street
Falmouth street .
Gainsborough street
Massachusetts avenue
Savoy street
Turner street
St. Germain street
Sundry streets in small quantities
Sq. yds.
309
122
167.
90
273
145
' 102
209
238
200
308
215
480
2,858
Wards 16, 17,
PvOXBURY.
18, 19, 21, and 22, in whole or in part
{Paving District, No. 7.)
Alleghany and Oscar streets
Albany street
Burrell and Batchelder streets
Calumet street .
Columbus avenue
Cunard street .
Halleck street .
Huntington avenue
Hewes street
Heath street
Howland street .
Marble street
Ruthven street .
Buggies street .
Parker street
Sussex street
Walnut avenue .
Washington street
Sundry streets in small quantities
Sq. yds.
93
124
101
750
272
218
157
142
143
254
88
435
87
181
223
214
141
236
1,140
4,999
Street Department — Paving Division.
143
Dorchester
Wards 16, 20, and 24, in whole or in part.
{Paving
District, No. 6.)
Sq. yds.
Ashmont street .... . .
385
Brookford and Rand streets
102
Dorchester avenue
248
Howard avenue .
234
Quincy street
89
Savin Hill avenue
1,534
Stoughton street
381
Walnut street
150
Sundry streets in small quantities
910
4,033
Brighton.
Ward 25. {Paving District No. 5.)
Sq. yds.
Oakland street .
545
Nonantuni street
.
328
South Boston.
Wards 13, 14, 15 and 16, in whole or in part.
A street .....
Bolton street ....
East Broadway ....
Old Harbor street
Sundry streets in small quantities
West Roxbury.
Wards 22 and 23, in whole or in part.
No. 5.)
873
Sq. yds.
97
379
243
90
260
1,069
{Paving District
Sq. yds.
Alfred street
.
Chestnut avenue
.
194
Glen road .
116
Greenough avenue
.
191
Seaverns avenue
186
School street
.
277
Walk Hill street
108
Sundry streets in small
quantities
380
1,583
144
City Document No. 38.
East Boston.
Wards 1 and 2. {Paving District No. 2.)
Condor street
Cottage street
Marion street
Meridian street
Paris street
Putnam street
Sundry streets in small quantities
Chaelestown.
Wards 3, 4 and 5. (Paving District No. 3.)
Pearl street .......
Green street .......
Warren avenue .......
Sundry streets in small quantities
RECAPITULATION.
City Proper
Roxbury .
South Boston
East Boston
Dorchester
Brighton
West Roxbury
Charlestown
Sq. yds-
180
250
143
140
178
125
460
1,476
Sq. yds.
150
133
104
90
477
Sq. yds.
2,858
4,999
1,069
1,476
4,033
1,583
873
477
17,368
New Brick Sidewalks. (Not including " 323 " streets.
First laying. Square yards.
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1891
3,881
10,423
964
1,537
4,103
1,044
17,287
10,121
5,424
2,858
9,098
20,231
5,912
11,533
6,246
15,897
21,596
13,783
8,316
4,999
3,628
4,484
751
2,706
1,946
2,314
13,460
4,487
4,084
1,069
2,176
12,847
2,197
2,115
1,151
681
16,125
6,453
3,503
1,476
1.478
10;462
2,412
453
2,146
2,616
2,995
4,723
2,610
4,033
967
2,905
350
834
1,734
542
1,855
1,225
1,448
1,583
377
1,068
2,908
2,128
216
120
3,451
175
437
408
288
14,454
4,653
5,073
21,725
1892
65,871
1893
12,761
1894
19,615
1895
20,632
1896
1897
28,155
89,900
1898
45,661
1899
25,385
17,368
1900
873
477
Totals
57,642
117,611
38,919
48,724
33,928
13,443
7,570
24,463
5,073
347,073
Street Department — -Paving Division. 145
STREET CONSTRUCTION.
Number of new " 323 " streets constructed .
Number of new " 323 " streets partially constructed
Number of public alleys constructed .
32
16
2
Paving.
Details of New Work.
Granite blocks on concrete base, pitch joints
Granite blocks on concrete base, grout joints
Granite blocks on gravel base, pitch joints .
Granite blocks on gravel base, grout joints .
Granite blocks on gravel base, gravel joints
Total
Trinidad asphalt
Sicilian rock asphalt
Wooden blocks on concrete base .
Sq. yds.
6,138
22,996
1,079
453
4,302
34,968
Sq. yds.
12,978
11,525
24,503
Sq. yds.
1,367
Macadam.
Area of surface laid
Sq. yds.
16,478
Edgestone.
Lin. ft.
38,545
Area of gutters laid .
Gutters.
Sq. yds.
7J49
Brick sidewalks laid
Crushed stone laid
Coal tar concrete laid
SideivalJcs.
Sq. yds.
14,925
4,650
489
Total
20,062
146
City Document No. 38.
Artificial stone sidewalks laid
Sq.it.
195,934
Crosswalks.
Area of flagging laid
Sq. yds.
2,816
General Repairs.
* Summary of Work Done Tinder District Foremen.
Number of streets repaired .
Length of streets repaired .
Area of macadam streets resurfaced
Area of paving relaid .
Length of edgestones set and reset
Area of brick sidewalks laid
Asphalt pavement repaired .
162
42 miles.
551,869 sq. yds.
222,784 "
264,982 lin. ft.
147,863 sq. yds.
3,790 "
Snowfall and Rainfall.
The following table showing the snowfall and rainfall since the
present organization of the Department is of interest :
Snowfall (inches).
Month.
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05
3.0
2.0
14.6
35.3
4.5
7.9
0.4
18.5
15.0
21.6
8.5
6.7
13.5
13.9
8.8
3.8
0.5
5.2
9.5
9.5
14.5
0.2
2.2
8.6
18.2
10.9
3.3
8.1
7.8
16.3
11.5
6.0
2.2
17.8
7.7
6.1
30.7
9.3
.1
8.3
.1
14.5
14.7
13.7
16.2
12.0
11.5
20.0
.8
7.8
8.8
i
59.1
43.5
67.3
64.0
47.2
38.9
43.2
51.9
71.6
8.4
17.5
Snow
Account.
1891-92 .
$102,410 86
1896-97 .
$68,741 07
1892-93 .
60,190 20
1897-98 .
116,224 20
1893-94 .
151,943 33
1898-99 .
172,963 48
1894-95 .
78,381 71
1899-1900
154,625 18
1895-96 .
84,809 08
1900-1901
29,138 38
Av
erage for ten 3
rears, $101,94
2.75
*The quantities given in this schedule are in addition to and are not included in the
foregoing tables.
Street Department — Paving Division. 147
Rainfall (inches).
January..
February .
March —
April
May
June
July
August
September
October . . .
November
December
Totals...
3.40
2.53
2.70
1.68
1.56
3.06
3.73
3.87
2.29
5.56
2.20
3.50
3.85
.36
1.68
.93
5.15
3.05
2.56
4.87
1.90
2.31
2.94
.87
36.08 30.47
2.26
4.82
2.80
3.13
5.23
2.20
1.72
6.46
1.59
2.94
1.83
5.16
40.14
3.01
3.79
3.15
1.11
1.01
2.72
3.78
3.65
4.12
2.71
.80
1.73
3.01
2.98
3.03
3.24
2.14
1.53
5.11
6.19
3.10
8.07
4.28
2.45
36.54
40.17
2.25
3.94
5.41
1.56
1.68
2.71
2.90
2.15
6.40
3.15
3.70
1.70
3.16
2.12
2.79
3.17
4.00
4.46
4.22
3.95
2.38
.41
6.19
3.92
3.50
4.81
1.82
6.31
4.33
1.60
4.42
6.38
1.93
7.17
5.32
2.19
4.19
3.03
5.95
1.29
.81
2.86
2.52
2.52
5.09
2.40
2.51
1.52
37.55
40.77
■19.'
34.69
4.20
6.83
4.60
1.90
5.07
1.85
2.69
2.46
4.62
3.41
•4.17
2.25
44.05
In this rainfall is included the precipitation during the winter
months, which equals .1 of an inch to 1 inch of snowfall.
Crushed Stone, Ballast and Telford.
Output of Stone from City Crushers.
Crushed Stone.
Tons.
Telford.
Tons.
Bleiler's ledge
Centre street crusher
Chestnut Hill avenue crusher. .
Codman street crusher
Commonwealth avenue crusher
Dimock street crusher
Kenney street crusher
Mosman crusher
Rosseter street crusher
Totals
2,521
17,027
4,616
13,975
8,283
26,204
6,177
33,132
17,073
734
734
The records of the Street Commissioners for the year 1900
show the following results :
Streets laid out or extended
Streets widened and relocated
Streets discontinued
Increase in mileage • • .
8,415.23 feet
56,078 square feet
11 square feet
1.593 miles
148
City Document No. 38.
Streets Laid Out, Extended, Widened or Relocated and Ordered
to be Constructed.
Date.
Street.
Location.
Length
Lin. ft.
Jan 22,1901..
From Commonwealth ave. to Bay State
jBay State road. .
Robinwood ave.
*Walk Hill st, . . .
297.57
Jan. 22 1901
1,415.35
2,540.00
255.44
Dec. 27, 190
Dec. 31,190
Jan. 23, 190
0..
0..
0..
ft
From Boylston st. to Columbus ave
Formerly Chelsea ave., from Saratoga
st. to B. & M. R. R
From Common wealth ave. to Bay State
Dec. 31 190
1,783.12
259.68
June 8 1901
Jan. 26, 190
0..
From South st. to Washington st
9,481.00
Streets Laid Out, Extended, Widened or Relocated.
Date.
Street.
Location.
Length.
Lin. ft.
Dec. 8,1900..
July 24,1900..
July 13,1900..
Aug. 7,1900..
May 31,1900..
Jan. 22,1901..
May 22,1900..
Jan. 5,1901..
May 31,1900..
*Beacon st
Congress sq. ..
Denny st
*Genesee st
Hale st
Hutchings st. .
*Portland st....
^Portland st
*Washington st
From Chestnut Hill ave. to Reservoir
lane
South and East from the part connect-
ing Devonshire st. with Congress st...
From Savin Hill ave
South side, near Albany st
Formerly Crescent pi., from Green st...
From Humboldt ave. to Elm Hill ave. ..
At Sudbury st
Opposite Market st
Near Milton boundary line ,
5,750.00
186.50
278.81
40.00
294.00
1,104.76
11.00
26.00
174.00
STREETS MADE PUBLIC HIGHWAYS BY DE-
CREE OF COURT.
Albert street .......
C street, Fargo to Congress street
Columbia avenue (laid out but not built)
D street, Fargo to Summer street ....
Dorchester avenue, Congress to Summer street
Fargo street, C to D street .....
Kemp street .......
Melcher street, A to Summer street
Power street .......
Summer street, Dorchester avenue to L-street bridge
Lin. ft.
305
386
6,523
294
301
550
495
652
399
4,954
* Square feet taken.
t Built by private parties.
Stkeet Department — Paving Division. 149
NAMES OF STREETS CHANGED.
February 21, 1900. — Dove street, now Dresser street, South
Boston.
February 2.1, 1900. — Peter Parley street, now Peter Parley
road, West Roxbury.
February 26, 1900. — Bothnia street, now St. Cecilia street,
City proper.
February 26, 1900. — Brandon street, now Robert street, West
Roxbury.
February 26,1900. — Shamrock street, now Kimball street,
Dorchester.
OPEN SPACES OR SQUARES NAMED.
May 4, 1900. — Junction of Talbot avenue, Washington, Nor-
folk and Centre streets, Dorchester, now Codman square.
June 21, 1900. — Junction of Washington street, Columbus
avenue and Atherton street, Roxbury, now Egleston square.
January 5, 1901. — Junction of Prescott, Chelsea and Benning-
ton streets, East Boston, now Day square.
PROPERTY IN CHARGE OF THE DEPUTY
SUPERINTENDENT OF PAVING DIVISION.
Buildings and wharf on Albany street, 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 storage, 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. The greater part of said wharf is occupied by the Sanitary
Division as a garbage dump, and the building thereon is leased to
a tenant.
Ledge lot on Washington street, corner Dimock street, Rox-
bury, containing 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 brick
stable, erected in 1873, and occupied by the Sanitary and Paving
Divisions ; also a brick building used as a blacksmith's shop, and
a shed for the storage 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.
150 City Document No. 38.
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, con-
taining 81,068 square feet. This lot was purchased by the town
of Dorchester in 1867.
Downer avenue lot, Dorchester, containing 35,300 square
feet.
On Child street, West Roxhury, a lot of land containing 43,024
square feet, upon which are a stable and shed, blacksmith's shop,
and tool-house.
Gravel lot in the town of Milton, on Brush Hill road, contain-
ing 64,523 square feet, leased May 13, 1843, by the town of
Dorchester for 999 years ; also lot of land adjoining, containing
about 30,000 square feet, owned by the City of Boston.
Gravel lot on Morton street, Ward 23, containing about one-
third of an acre, purchased by the town of West Roxbury in
1870, used for storage purposes.
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.
Ledge lot on Chestnut Hill avenue, Brighton, containing about
thirteen acres, upon which are an office, engine-house, stable and
crusher plant.
On Medford street, Charlestown, a wharf lot, foot of Elm
street, containing 8,000 feet, upon which are sheds, office,
stable, etc.
In South Boston, corner of H and Ninth streets, stable, car-
riage-house, shed, tool-house and office on leased land.
On Hereford street, a yard with shed, tool-house and office.
Wharf, known as Atkin's Wharf, 521 Commercial street, pur-
chased in 1887 for $24,000, containing 22,553 square feet, having
on it an office and stable, also Slate wharf adjoining on lease.
On Centre street, West Roxbury, buildings containing engines,
stone-crushers, tools, etc., on leased land.
On Rosseter street, Dorchester, buildings containing engines,
stone-crushers, tools, etc., on leased land.
On Revere street, wharf for storing paving blocks, etc.
Wharf on Chelsea street, East Boston, containing 61,000
square feet, with buildings purchased in 1897 for 115,000.
Wharf on East Eagle street, East Boston, known as Glendon
wharf, used jointly with Sanitary, Sewer and Street Cleaning
Divisions. Upon this lot are sheds, stable and offices on leased
land.
On Montebello and Iffley roads, West Roxbury, buildings con-
taining engines, stone-crushers, tools, etc., on leased land.
On Kenney street, Roxbury, buildings containing engines,
stone-crushers, tools, etc., on leased land.
Permits have been issued from this office during the year
ending January 31, 1901, as follows :
Street Department — Paving Division. 151
Stkeet Openings.
Permits.
Feet.
American Telegraph and Telephone Company,
Automatic Fire Alarm Company
Boston Cemetery Department
Boston Engineering Department
Boston Fire Department
Boston Lamp Department
Boston Park Department
Boston Police Department
Boston Public Building Department .....
Boston Public Grounds Department
Boston Street Department (Sewer Division). .
Boston Water Department
Boston Water Department (Income Division) .
Boston & Albany Railroad Company
Boston & Maine Railroad Company
Boston Electric Light Company
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Boston Gas Light Company
Boston Low Tension Wire Association
Brookline Gas Light Company
Charlestown Gas and Electric Company
Church Green Light and Power Company ....
Dorchester Gas Light Company
Edison Electric Illuminating Company
Eastern Cold Storage Company
East Boston Gas Company
Jamaica Plain Gas Company
Lynn & Boston Railroad Company
Massachusetts Pipe Line Company
Metropolitan Water Commission
Metropolitan Sewerage Commission
Metropolitan Contracting Company
Massachusetts Telephone and Telegraph Com-
pany
New England Telephone and Telegraph Com-
pany
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Company
Postal Telegraph Cable Company
Quincy & Boston Street Railway Company .
Quincy Market Cold Storage Company
Roxbury Gas Light Company
South Boston Gas Light Company
Simpson Bros. Corporation
Standard Oil Company
Suburban Light and Power Company
Town of Brookline
Union Freight Railroad Company
West Roxbury & Roslindale Street Railway
Company
Western Union Telegraph Company
Miscellaneous
Emergency Permits Class A
Emergency Permits returned 1,423; estimated
length in feet
12
2
1
3
56
567
2
34
1
27
781
2,767
47
2
27
336
411
559
10
346
55
1
332
510
5
83
115
11
6
3
4
25
78
477
11
32
1
31
331
177
71
14
1
1
11
15
11
3,179
1,878
10S
880
50
250
5,665
7,131
90
4,740
100
175
51,710
130,746
649
100
897
29,962
183,590
52,740
1,605
41,684
3,920
8
32,972
43,395
106
3,661
5,442
3,080
6,830
215
410
27,210
11,378
99,601
1,520
1,515
100
923
27,892
7,986
19,038
145
10
20
1,775
608
1,715
198,447
8,538
Total.
13,460
1,021,332
Making a total length of openings of about 193^ miles.
152 City Document No. 38.
Permits other than for street openings have been granted
as follows :
Advertising by man wearing hat and coat ..... 9
Cleaning snow from roofs ........ 85
Dumping snow in public alleys 212
Driving cattle 41
Erecting, removing and repairing awnings . ... . 4,420
Erecting and repairing buildings 6.976
Feeding horses on the street . 416
Moving buildings 44
Loading and unloading goods ....... 514
Pedlers, two classes 1,471
Placing signs flat on buildings 2,405
Painting signs or notices on obstruction fences . . . . 21
Kaising and lowering safes, machinery, etc 556
Selling from areas 82
Selling from doors and windows ....... 157
Special permits for various purposes 117
Selling from farmers 1 wagon-stands 625
Special permits for June 17 and July 4 125
Extension of permits ......... 600
Emergency permits, class B 225
Permits to Project Electric Lamps and Signs as Follows:
Boston Electric Light Company ....... 72
Edison Electric Illuminating Company 60
E. Howard Clock Company 1
Kitson Hydro Carbon Light and Heating Company ... 94
Suburban Light and Power Company 18
Washington Incandescent Company 18
Total 19,364
Total number of permits for street openings .... 13,460
Total number of permits for all other purposes . . . . 19,364
Grand total of permits issued 32,824
At the close of business on June 14 last all bonds with per-
sonal sureties were retired, and applicants for permits were noti-
fied that future bonds must be guaranteed by some one of the
surety companies authorized to do business in the State of
Massachusetts.
There are now on file 988 bonds, which are so guaranteed, and
the result has been very satisfactory.
Under the old system, in many cases when it has been neces-
sary to call upon the personal sureties to assume liability for dam-
ages caused by parties holding permits, it has been found that the
sureties were woi^thless, as property which they possessed when
signing such bonds had been transferred, and could not be held.
Over two hundred letters have been sent to storekeepers and
house-holders in connection with selling fruit, etc., from door-
ways, windows and areas, and special care has been used in grant-
ing permits relating to that class of business.
There have been 14,037 notices sent to the various foremen
during the year, directing them to repair defects in the public
Street Department — Paving. Division.
153
streets which had been reported by the police and others ; also,
3,581 letters and notices to private parties, departments and
corporations to repair the streets where they had received
permits for openings, and the resurfacing had been improperly
done, and to owners of estates where coal-holes or sidewalk
lights were defective.
Notices have been sent to Departments, corporations, and
owners of abutting estates on streets where improvements were
about to be made in 2,265 instances.
Four hundred and forty-two notices have been sent to Depart-
ments and corporations at the request of the Chief Engineer of
the Paving Division, calling for various changes on account of
street improvements.
Inspectors.
Inspectors connected with this office have been engaged in
inspecting locations where permits had been granted for street
openings or occupancy, and, where defects were found, the
parties so opening or occupying have been notified and required
to place the street complained of in satisfactory condition.
Inspectors have been detailed to serve with the various corpo-
rations at all times while their work has been in progress, and a
report has been regulary received from them, in writing, giving
the particulars of the work and its condition.
Street Numbering.
During the year 106 whole streets were numbered or renum-
bered, 984 parts of streets were numbered, and 6,741 metallic
figures were supplied.
The following table explains the work done by districts, and
in addition gives the number of estates numbered, and the num-
ber of changes made necessary by renumbering or other cause.
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APPENDIX D.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT
OF THE SANITARY DIVISION.
Rooms 917-920 Tremont Building,
Boston, February 1, 1901.
B. T. Wheeler, Esq.,
Superintendent of Streets :
Dear Sir, — I respectfully submit the annual report of
the expenditures, income and operation of the Sanitary Divi-
sion of the Street Department during the financial year
ending January 31, 1901.
The work of this Division consists principally in the
removal of house offal, waste and rubbish, ashes made in the
process of heating and cooking, and engine or power ashes.
The serious problem that confronted this Division at the
opening of the year was the economical adaptation of its
working force to meet the requirements of the eight-hour
law, passed by the citizens at the election in December, 1899.
The loss of labor caused by the operation of this law on
the basis of the number of men employed is approximately
equal to 20,000 days' work.
In order to adjust the teaming labor so as to occasion the
least waste of time and the most efficient prosecution of the
work, an increase was made in the force of hostlers at the West
yard. Teamsters were entirely relieved of the care of their
horses and harnesses while at the stables, thus enabling
them to give a full day to the work of collection.
The success of this experiment warranted its extension,
and it was adopted at the Roxbury yard with the same sat-
isfactory results. The further extension of the plan through-
out the Division is now contemplated.
The securing of suitable dumping-places presents a prob-
lem difficult of solution, to which attention has been
called in former reports. In all the more thickly settled
sections of the City, the dumping-places are so remote from
points of collection that the expense of hauling is vastly
Street Department — Sanitary Division. 155
increased, and this becomes equally true in the rapidly grow-
ing outlying districts. This is particularly applicable to the
Charlestown District, where it is imperative that some relief
be given, and it is therefore recommended that a scow be
located near Charles River avenue to receive material col-
lected in Charlestown and portions of the North and West
Ends.
The objection of householders to gathering paper and other
light waste into a separate receptacle, or to the so-called
" third separation," has gradually diminished as the public
has become acquainted with the plan and purpose.
The success of this separation is shown by the great in-
crease in the quantity delivered to the City Refuse Utiliza-
tion Company's plant, as compared with the previous year.
The average weight per load in 1899 was 796 pounds; the
average weight per load in 1900 was 1,045 ; increase per
load, 249 pounds. The aggregate removal in 1899 was
6,669 tons, and in 1900, 8,581 tons — an increase of 1,912
tons.
The contract system now in operation in some of the
suburban districts is unsatisfactory to the residents, and a
continued source of annoyance to the Division ; the substitu-
tion of labor under direct control of the Division is desirable,
and is strongly recommended.
The extreme age of one of the Barney dumping boats
necessitated the purchase of a new boat, the cost of which,
117,500, was paid from the maintenance appropriation for
the year. All three boats are now seaworthy and in excellent
repair. The docks have been dredged to a depth sufficient
to allow them to enter and depart at all tides.
Considerable expense has been incurred the past year in
the employment of outside tow-boats, the Department boat
not being always available.
The repair-shops at the Albany street yard have been
improved, and they are now second to none of their kind.
Early in the year the repair-shops of the Street Cleaning
Division were merged into those of this Division, and many
radical changes were made.
Both the blacksmith and wheelwright shops were sup-
plied with all necessary modern machinery, and operated by
an electric motor of fifteen horse-power. At the same time
the nine forges of the blacksmith and horseshoeing shops
were connected with a Sturtevant electric motor and fan.
In short, the shops have been modernized, and are now
thoroughly equipped for the work of repairing and construct-
ing the rolling stock of the Street Department.
156 City Document No. 38.
Commodious and convenient quarters on East Eagle street,
East Boston, have replaced the location at Chelsea street,
temporarily provided upon the substitution of Department
force for contract labor in the collection of ashes in this
section.
The stables and sheds on North Grove street are wholly
inadequate to the increasing demands of the West District.
Most of the carts and wagons are without covering, and
shelter for many horses has of necessity been provided in
old, unsanitary sheds, remote from the stable, while the stable
walls are so bulged in places as to raise a question concern-
ing their safety.
Apart from this, the several stables and sheds in charge of
the Division have been kept in good repair.
The rolling stock has been put in excellent condition.
Several large paper wagons have been added for conveying
paper from points remote from the place of deposit.
Many horses are required to replace those nearly or quite
unfit for service. Sixteen have been added during the year.
Respectfully yours,
C. A. Young,
Deputy Superintendent.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Amount of appropriation ..... $600,000 00
Transferred from Bridge Division . . . 4,238 30
Transferred from outside Divisions and Department
appropriations . . . . . • • 5,149 70
Returned on Dorchester contract . . . . 276 67
Total amount of appropriation . . . $609,664 67
The total expenditures of the Division, including
work done for other Divisions and Departments,
and paid for by them was .... $649,74559
Less amounts repaid ...... 45,230 62
t,514 97
Transferred from other Divisions and Departments
appropriations ...... 5,149 70
Net cost of maintenance Sanitary Division . . $609,664 67
Street Department — Sanitary Division. 157
Total Cost of Removal of House Dirt, Ashes, Waste,
Rubbish and House Offal.
Salaries, Deputy Superintendent, Clerks and Fore-
men $17,505 50
Office supplies and expenses . .... 4,866 86
Ashes, Waste and Rubbish Account.
Expended for labor, as per pay-rolls, $178,160 36
Expended for hired teams, per pay-
rolls 53,142 50
Expended for disposition of ashes . 16,702 02
Expended for disposition of waste
and rubbish .... 13,171 53
Expended for stock, as per ledger
accounts 56,432 04
Expended on contract, part of West
Roxbury . . . ... 2,450 00
Expended on contracts, Dorchester . 9,802 90
329,861 35
House Offal Account.
Expended for labor, as per pay-rolls, $104,048 31
Expended for hired teams as per
pay-rolls . . . . . 5,465 00
Expended for disposition of offal, 56,610 10
Expended for stock, etc., as per
ledger . . . . . 34,023 22
Expended on contract, East Boston, 8,000 00
Expended on contract, Brighton . 3,000 00
Expended on contract, part of West
Roxbury . . . . . 1,800 00
Expended on contract, Dorchester . 6,323 60
219,270 23
Construction, Hepair and Horseshoeing /Shops
Account.
Foreman 1,338 66
Expended for labor . . . $30,893 07
Expended for stock . . . 21,946 28
52,839 35
Allowed time for holidays . . $23,451 14
Carried forward . . . $23,451 14 $625,681 95
158 City Document No. 38.
Brought forward . . . $23,451 14 $625,681 95
Medical attendance and allowed time
for injured men . . . . 612 50
24,063 64
Total expenditures of the Sanitary Division, for
year ending January 31, 1901 .... $649,745 59
Average- price per cart load to remove and dispose
of waste material, $1.39.
Revenue Received from Outside Divisions and
Departments for Board and Care of
Horses, Rent, Use of Dumping Boats,
Shoeing, and for Repairing Vehicles, etc.
Paving Division . . . . $12,67621
Sewer Division .... 5,738 04
Street Cleaning Division . . 22,930 13
Street Watering Division . . 714 68
Bridge Division .... 780 06
Public Buildings Department, Repairs
Division . . . . . 15 25
County of Suffolk . . . . 2,363 25
Board of Health .... 13 00
45,230 62
,514 97
Transferred from Outside Division and Department
appropriations. ...... 5,149 70
Net cost of Sanitary Division from February 1,
1900, to February 1, 1901 $609,664 67
Income.
Amounts of moneys deposited and bills presented to the City
Collector for collection for material sold and work performed by
the Sanitary Division of the Street Department during the year
ending January 31, 1901.
Moneys Deposited with City Collector.
From letting of scow privileges .... $1,906 35
Bills Deposited with City Collector.
For the removal of engine ashes . $11,499 74
For the sale of manure . . . 523 72
For dumping refuse . . . 13 65
For renting portion of Fort Hill
Wharf 1,341 66
$13,378 77
Street Department — Sanitary Division. 159
Items of Expenditures and Revenue.
Total Amount
Expended.
Amount Paid
by other
Divisions.
Amount Charged
to Sanitary
Division.
Salaries of Deputy Superin-
tendent and clerks
Salaries of foremen
For labor in removing house-
dirt and ashes
For labor, sub-foremen and
inspectors, collecting house-
dirt and ashes
For extra teams, collecting
house-dirt and ashes
For collecting house-dirt and
ashes in West Roxbury,
Dorchester, north of Park,
School and Harvard sts.,
and Dorchester, south of
Park, School and Harvard
sts
For disposition of ashes . . .
For ash stock, consisting of
shovels, cart covers, etc . .
For labor, removing waste and
rubbish
For labor, sub-foremen and
inspectors on waste and
rubbish
For hired teams on waste and
rubbish
For disposition of waste and
rubbish
For waste and rubbish stock
For labor, removing house
offal
For labor, sub-foremen and
inspectors, removing house
offal
For extra teams, removing
house offal
For removing house offal in
East Boston, Brighton, West
Roxbury and Dorchester . .
For offal stock, consisting of
wagons, buckets, etc
For disposition of offal
For labor of men employed in
stables and yards
For allowed time, holidays . . .
For grain :
For hay and straw
For medical attendance and
allowed time on account of
injured men
Carried forward.
$9,761 53
9,082 63
125,639 35
15,258 58
52,565 00
12,252 90
16,702 02
369 85
21,114 50
2,324 50
577 50
13,171 53
14 20
77,531 29
8,969 42
5,465 00
19,123 60
799 30
56,610 10
28,436 29
23,451 14
18,449 23
16,250 92
612 50
590 10
14,889 05
1,447 49
1,156
3,479 33
265 50
9,242 05
479 28
34 12
2,853 71
3,211 43
1,637 42
788 64
6 00
$534,532 88
$40,080 92
.$9,761 53
8,492 53
110,750 30
13,811 09
52,565 00
12,252 90
15,545 22
369 85
17,635 17
2,059 00
577 50
13,171 53
14 20
68,289 24
8,490 14
5,465 00
19,123 60
799 30
56,575 98
25,582 58
20,239 71
16,811 81
15,462 28
606 50
$494,451 96
160
City Document No. 38.
Items of Expenditures.
Concluded.
Total Amount
Expended.
Amount Paid
by other
Divisions.
Amount Charged
to Sanitary
Division.
Brought forward
For horses
For veterinary services . and
medicines
For stable and yard furnish-
ings, consisting of curry-
combs, sponges, brushes,
etc
For outside board and care of
horses
For outside horseshoeing,
blacksmith work, wheel-
wright work, harness work
and painting
For labor, stock and tools,
blacksmith shop
For labor, stock, etc., wheel-
wright shop
For labor, stock, etc., paint
shop
For labor, stock, etc., harness
shop
For labor, stock, etc., plumb-
ing and gasfitting
For labor, stock, etc., horse-
shoeing shop, South Yard . .
For labor, stock, etc., horse-
shoeing shop, West Yard . .
For dumping boats, labor,
stock, etc
For repairs on stables and
sheds
For fuel
For gas
For electric light
For printing
For stationery
For advertising
For rents
For tolls and fares
For telephones
For office items and- expenses
For damages caused by City
teams
For incidentals
Transfers from outside Divi-
sion and Department appro-
priations for work per-
formed for them
$534,532 88
5,225 00
2,215 12
1,660 26
797 86
2,710 59
15,838 09
14,444 76
8,412 84
7,575 98
119 44
3,532 86
2,915 42
38,045 58
1,728 14
780 73
772 32
564 44
1,746 69
853 01
395 15
1,412 47
200 00
923 92
426 93
73 89
1,841 22
,745 59
$40,080 92
$494,451 96
5,225 00
2,215 12
1,660 26
797 86
2,710 59
15,838 09
14,444 76
8,412 84
7,575 98
119 44
3,532 86
2,915 42
38,045 58
1,728 14
780 73
772 32
564 44
1,746 69
853 01
395 15
1,412 47
200 00
923 92
426 93
73 89
1,841 22
$40,080 92
5,149 70
$609,664 67
$45,230 62
Street Department — Sanitary Division. 161
Removal of House Dirt, Ashes, Waste and Rubbish, and
House Offal.
This work shows a constant increase from year to year, as will
be seen in the following tables, and is an indication of the actual
growth of the City.
Previous to the year 1897, each load of ashes was equivalent
to 44 cubic feet. During 1897 sideboards were attached to ash
carts, increasing capacity of cart to 54 cubic feet.
Prior to 1899, waste and rubbish were not separated from the
ashes. About 150,000 barrels of engine ashes, the residuum
of coal used for power, were collected and removed.
On offal, each load is equivalent to 56 cubic feet; weight
approximately 1|- tons on an average.
Many small dead animals — dogs, cats, etc., were removed,
and a constant increase in this branch of the service is shown.
Force Employed on House Dirt, Ashes and Waste and Rubbish.
No.
Hired
Teams .
Contractors' Teams.
City Force.
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131
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4
2
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171
180
26
Totals
308
73
10
7 5
403
Amount of House Dirt and Ashes Removed.
Year.
No. of loads of
44 cubic feet.
1896
House dirt and ashes, including waste and rubbish. . .
" " " " exclusive of • " " "
363,975
1897
389,098
394,937
329,096
344,682
1898
1899
1900
Amount of Waste and Rubbish Removed.
Number of Loads.
Ash Cart.
Paper Cart.
Market
Wagon.
1899
1,892
1,514
14,903
11,452
3,020
1900
5,494
162
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Force Employed on House Offal.
No.
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61
63
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1
3
8
3
4
6
6
4
4
9
17
3
3
86
97
4
1
Totals
139
7
12
9
26
6
199
Amount of House Offal Removed.
Year.
No. of Loads.
1896.
1897.
1898.
1899.
1900.
56,402
56,783
57,764
59,956
62,975
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28,284
17,055
18,613
13,864
22,485
30,721
65,855
77,843
69,962
344,682
Waste and
383
62
202
1,076
9,54S
10,145
21,102
6,592
10,829
18,460
62,975
House offal,
4,063
3,726
2,887
1,563
3,084
6,173
Totals ....
32,730
20,843
21,702
15,427
25,569
36,894
76,479
109,090
87,383
426,117
Number of Loads of Material Collected from January 31, 1895, t.o
February 1, 1901.
Years.
Waste and Rubbish.
Ashes.
Offal.
Total .Loads.
1896
363,975
389,098
394,937
329,096
i 344,682
56,402
56,783
57,764
59,956
2 62,975
420,377
445,881
452,701
1897
1898
1899
19,815
* 18,460
408,867
426,117
1900
* Average weight of load of waste and rubbish in 1899, 796 lbs. ; 1900, 249 lbs. — aggre-
gating a difference of 1,912 tons more removed in 1900.
1 Collected by West Roxbury Contractor 8,495 loads of ashes.
" " No. Dorchester " 19,071 " "
" " So. Dorchester " 11,637 " "
Total 39,203
2 " " East Boston " 3,726 loads of offal.
" "Brighton " 1,563 " "
" "West Roxbury " 1,040 " "
" "Dorchester " 6,173 " "
Total 12,502
Street Department — Sanitary Division. 163
Final Disposition of all Waste Material by the Sanitary Division, Collected
from February 1, 1900, to February 1, 1901, for this and other Divisions.
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18,460
62,975
35,534
2,916
220,948
1,734
84,531
303
23
35,534
2,916
39,203
344,682
18,460
62,975
35,534
2,916
Waste and rub-
16,423
House offal
50,450
12,502
Street sweepings,
Cesspool dirt
Totals
464,567
222,682
123,307
50,450
16,423
51,705
464,567
Amount Expended for the Collection of House Dirt, Ashes, Waste and Rubbish
and House Offal, Labor, Hired Teams and Contracts, and Disposition of
same, Deducting Foreman, Yard and Stable Labor, Stock, etc.
Districts.
Waste and
Rubbish.
Expended for Collecting.
Ashes.
Offal.
1. South Boston
2. East Boston
3. Charlestown
4. Brighton
5. West Roxbury
6. Dorchester
7. Roxbury
8-9. South End and Back Bay.
10. West and North Ends
11. Dumping Boats
$423 50
20 00
178 00
Totals .
1,411 00
14,683 00
7,301 00
13,171 53
$37,188 03
$16,994 25
9,868 OS
13,940 03
9,333 25
12,931 00
10,273 15
44,392 38
62,398 01
42,171 00
3,016 70
$225,317 85
$9,114 75
8,354 42
6,704 00
3,502 25
6,627 75
6,793 85
21,991 25
34,121 22
14,895 00
55,694 92
$167,799 41
164
City Document No. 38.
Number of Carts and Wagons Collecting House Dirt and Ashes, Waste, Rub=
bish and Offal.
Iron.
Wooden.
Total.
33
77
6
6
12
3
178
3
15
110
6
6
12
3
196
13
38
51
158
Total
542
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Maintenance op Fort Hill Wharf and Dumping Boats.
Amount Expended.
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For rents ......
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For dredging .....
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Number of trips to sea by hired tow-
boats ...... 68
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Cost per Load, Including Rents, etc., of Tow-
ing to Sea Waste Material Belonging to
this and to other divisions.
The number of loads of waste material
carried to sea .... 125,307
The cost per cart load of waste material
carried to sea . . . . .21.3 cents
The cost per boat load of waste material
carried to sea ..... $79 83
If to the above is added the cost of
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ber, amounting to . . . . . . 17,500 00
The entire cost would be $43,764 92
And cost of each boat load would be increased to . $133 02
And each cart load to . . . . . . 35i cents
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Division Construction, Repairs and Horseshoeing Shops.
An extensive plant is located at the South Yard, 650 Albany
street, opposite East Newton street. At these shops all the
construction of and repairs on Street and other Departments
carriages, carts, wagons, etc., are made, together with the paint-
ing of the same. All harnesses are repaired and many made,
horseshoeing done and all street signs are painted for the Paving
Division.
For work done and materials furnished for outside Divisions
and Departments there was received in the different shops as
follows :
Wheelwright shop
Blacksmith shop
Paint shop
Harness shop
Horseshoeing shop, South End
Horseshoeing shop, West End
£5,383 60
8,704 26
5,195 57
1,904 29
1,699 05
1,617 55
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Sanitary Division there was expended in the dif-
ferent shops as follows :
Wheelwright shop . . . . $9,061 16
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Paint shop ....
Harness shop
Horseshoeing shop, South End
Horseshoeing shop, West End
7,125 83
3,335 97
5,671 69
1,833 81
1,306 57
Total amount paid out, stock and labor, all Divi-
sions and Departments .....
Foreman in charge .... $1,338 66
Allowed time 2,500 00
$24,504 32
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Detailed Account of Amounts paid for Work done by the
Sanitary Division for other Divisions of the Street
Department and other Departments.
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For use of dumping boats .....
For hay, grain, and straw, board and care of horses,
For feeders, watchmen, and stablemen .
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Land and Buildings in Charge of the Sanitary Division.
South Boston Stable. (Leased.)
Stable and sheds, with accommodations for 16 horses, are
located at corner of East Ninth and Vale streets, South Boston,
and are occupied jointly by the Sanitary and Street Cleaning Divi-
sions.
East Boston Stable. (Leased.)
Stable and sheds, with accommodations for 15 horses, are
located at 324 East Eagle street, and are occupied jointly by
Paving, Sewer, Street Cleaning, and Sanitary Divisions.
Charlestown Stable.
With accommodations for 25 horses, is situated on Rutherford
avenue; lot contains 17,300 square feet of land; stable built in
1875, cost, $5,083.07; sheds and outbuildings built in 1879.
Brighton .
Accommodation is provided by the Sewer Division at their
stable on Western avenue for five horses of the Sanitary Division.
Highland Stable.
With accommodations for 72 horses., on the old Almshouse lot,
Highland street, containing 81,082 square feet. A part of this
stable and adjoining lot is used by the Paving Division. There is
on this lot a brick stable built in 1873, which cost $88,594. 13-
On this lot is an offal-shed, erected in 1875 at a cost of
$1,160.12.
172 City Document No. 38.
The offal-shed was abandoned April 1, 1897, and in 1900 part
of it was remodelled and is now used as a carriage-house and a
wash-room.
South City Stables, Shops, and Sheds.
Situated on Albany street, opposite Newton street. The lot
belonged to the City before being used for this purpose, and con-
tains 90,780 feet.
The stable and buildings connected therewith are of brick.
There are also on the premises five wooden sheds, used for stor-
ing wagons, etc. The stable is two stories high, with French roof,
and has accommodations for 100 horses. Twenty- three horses are
kept in sheds. Total original cost, exclusive of land, $79,089.23.
In 1899 a Veterinary Hospital was built and equipped for the
purpose of caring for sick and disabled horses.
Connected with stables are blacksmith, wheelwright, paint, and
harness-makers' shops, in which the wagons, carts, harnesses,
etc., used by this and other Departments are constructed and kept
in repair ; also a horseshoeing shop for shoeing the horses of the
Department located in this section of the City.
West Stables and Sheds.
The stable is a brick building, a story and a half high, 128 feet
by 50, located on North Grove street, built in 1860, with out-
buildings attached to the same. It has accommodations for 90
horses in stables and sheds. The lot contains about 45,152
square feet. On May 11, 1896, a horseshoeing shop was estab-
lished for the purpose of shoeing the horses of the Department
stabled in this section of the City.
Fort Hill Wharf.
Containing 21,054 square feet, placed in charge of the Sanitary
Division ; used as a dumping-station for the City's garbage and
refuse, and as a mooring-place for dumping boats and scows
which convey this material to sea and to the plant of the New
England Sanitary Product Company ; cost of constructing plat-
form and dredging dock, $6,219.33. There are three Barney
dumping-boats, one of which was purchased during the past year,
and these are in continual use, and are towed to sea by the
Street Department tug-boat " Cormorant."
A portion of this wharf is used by the Street Cleaning Division
as a locker for patrol push carts, etc., and a part is in use by the
Paving Division.
.Packard's Wharf. {Leased.)
Situated at 464 Atlantic avenue, used as a berth for dumping-
boats in connection with Fort Hill Wharf. Leased from the
widow and heirs of Henry C. Snow.
Street Department — Sanitary Division. 173
Jlechfs Wharf. {Leased.)
Situated at 466 to 470 Atlantic avenue, containing ' about
35,460 square feet; leased from Jacob H. Hecht, March 1, 1898,
for a period of ten (10) years. This wharf adjoins Fort Hill
Wharf, and is occupied in part by the New England Sanitary
Product Company as a berth for their scows and also by the
buildings of the City Refuse Utilization Company for the disposal
of waste and rubbish.
New England Sanitary Product Company Plant.
Situated on City Land, Pumping Station lot, Cow Pasture,
Old Harbor Point, Dorchester.
174 City Document No. 38.
APPENDIX E.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT
OF THE SEWER DIVISION.
30 Tkemont street,
Boston, February 1, 1901.
Me. B. T. Wheeler,
Superintendent of Streets :
Dear Sir, — I respectfully submit report of the expendi-
tures, income and operation of the Sewer Division for the
financial year ending January 31, 1901.
The work of the Sewer Division is as follows :
The preparation of plans for sewerage -works, the con-
struction and maintenance of all drainage works, including
the investigation of complaints in regard to defective drain-
age, the granting of permits for sewer connections and the
preparation of plans for the assessment of the cost of sewer
construction; also the examination of the plans of other
corporations proposing to construct works in public streets,
with reference to their probable interference with sewerage
works.
A general statement of the most important work done by
the Division during the year, classified according to districts,
is given in the succeeding pages.
South Boston.
There have been built in this district during the past year
1,207.31 linear feet of pipe sewers, 3,073.42 linear feet of brick
sewers and 12 feet wooden sewer — making a total of 4,292.73
linear feet or 0.813 miles, besides extensive repairs.
The principal sewerage works completed are :
The " A " street overflow connection with Russell's dock.
This work has relieved the sewers in the vicinity of A street
and Congress street, which were greatly overcrowded in time
of storm.
E street, from West First street to Summer street and in
Summer-street extension. This work has provided an outlet
Street Department — Sewer Division. 175
for sewers already built in Summer street, and others de-
signed but not yet built in the lands of the Commonwealth.
Private land, formerly Blake street. This sewer was
made necessary by the new location of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad crossing this street, the old sewer
not being strong enough to carry the heavy traffic which will
run over this road. The new brick sewer was built inside the
old stone sewer without disturbing the surface of the ground.
Rebuilding the B and Seventh streets overflow. This was
made necessary by the heavy filling which will be placed
over it, to carry the new location of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad.
The sewer in Silver street between B and D streets,
together with brick outlet in B street, has been rebuilt.
A new sewer has been built in Bell court.
Numerous minor repairs have been made in the district
during the year.
So far as can be determined the following will be the prin-
cipal works built in this district during the ensuing year:
Sewerage works in Leeds and Dixfield streets, laid out
under chapter 323 of the Acts of 1891.
A portion at least of the sewers in the Strandway may be
built.
The following sewers are in very bad condition, and should
be either rebuilt or repaired as is found necessary at as early
a date as possible.
D street, from Dorchester avenue to Eighth street, is very
badly settled. It should have had a pile foundation, but was
built without it. The rebuilding has been delayed owing to
the uncertainty in regard to whether the depression in D
street at the railroad bridge would be done away with or not.
As long as this depression remained it complicated the
design for the sewer, but it seems safe now to assume that it
will be filled up to meet the grade of the new street, which
will be built upon the old location of the railroad when this
is abandoned by the railroad company.
The D street sewer, between West Second street and
Broadway, East Ninth and Dunham streets sewers, and the
sewer in Mercer street, with its outlet in Vale street.
Gold street, West Fourth street, West Fifth street, West
Sixth street, West Seventh street and West Eighth street
sewer, all lying between E and B streets.
K street overflow outlet should be extended and finished
off in a manner similar to that at N street.
The outlets at H, M, and P streets should be extended
through the Strandway to low-water mark in a manner simi-
176 City Document No. 38.
lar to that adopted at N street, and a new outlet should be
built for the overflow of the Q street sewer at First street.
ROXBUKY.
There have been built in this district during the past year,
291.18 feet of brick sewers, 5,057.44 feet of pipe sewers, and
2,364.86 feet of surface drains, making a total of 7,713.48 feet,
or 1.46 mile.
Sewerage works have been built during the year in
Dunford street and Cardington street.
Chickamauga park.
Fort avenue.
Humboldt avenue, Waumbeck street to Hollander
street.
Massachusetts avenue, Swett street to Dorchester brook
sewer.
Gainsborough street.
Aberdeen street.
Kempton street.
Bay State road.
Faxon street.
Medfied street.
Roseland street.
Board of Survey street, No. 295.
Gainsborough street, between St. Botolph street and pas-
sageway.
Alleghany street.
Sachem street.
Ritchie street, between Columbus avenue and Marcella
street, is in progress. This sewer is a continuation of the old
brick sewer through the Marcella-street Home property, built
about 30 years ago, and is a very important piece of work,
as, when completed, it will relieve a large territory in the
vicinity of Washington street and Kingsbury street. The
sewers in this vicinity being so small, serious flooding results
after every heavy storm.
The district which most needs immediate attention in Rox-
bury is the Ruggles street district, the principal streets of
which are : Ruggles, Hammond, Warwick, Westminster and
Cabot.
These sewers are all too high to properly drain the cellars,
are badly out of line and grade, and are much too small to
carry the " combined " flow.
The Bower and Sherman streets district, like the above,
Street Department — Sewer Division. 177
has an old and dilapidated system, and a start should be made
to rebuild it in the near future.
The Swett street district, so called, is now prominently
brought to our attention by the proposed action of the Street
Commissioners in laying out Atkinson street under chapter
3.23 of the Acts of 1891.
The George-street sewer, from Rockford street to Clarence
street, is too small and high to drain the cellars. It should
be rebuilt of a larger size and at a greater depth.
Owing to the rapid development of the territory in the
vicinity of Humboldt avenue, Ruthven and Hutchings streets,
the old sewers have become entirely inadequate. Many of the
finest dwellings in this vicinity have been troubled by the
backing up of sewage into the cellars, and the street and
lawns have been flooded, causing considerable damage. A
start should be made on a system of surface drainage during
the next year.
Vila street district. The sewerage works necessary for
Brookline avenue, between Longwood entrance and the
Riverway will be built as soon as the plans and specifications
can be completed. This will commence the work on the out-
let for the Vila street district, the lower end of which is in
Brookline avenue.
This district is at present discharging both house sewage
and storm water into the Metropolitan sewer, and as soon
as the portion of the surface drain in Brookline avenue
is completed it should be carried at least as far as Vila
street; and if the surface drainage system is not carried over
the district this outlet should be converted into a temporary
overflow for the system.
Fenway lands. — The surface drainage of this district, or
as much of it as is built, is still discharging on to the surface
of the marsh. The present outlets are in Kilmarnock street
at Boylston street and Ipswich street, near Lansdowne street.
The main surface drain of the district will be in Jersey street.
It is recommended that when the Jersey street drain. is
built the existing surface drains be extended to it, as the
discharge of this water on to private land must soon cause a
nuisance.
Smith Street District. — This district suffers severely in
storms which are not of the severest; something should be
done as early as possible.
A large surface drain in Smith street, from Stony brook
channel in Parker street to Whitney street, would probably
effect enough relief to silence a majority of the complaints
from the residents of this district. Plans and estimates
178 City Document No. 38.
have been prepared, and work will begin as soon as the work
of the Metropolitan Sewerage Commission in this district
will allow.
The wooden outlet for Muddy river in Brookline is in
very bad condition, and will have to be extensively repaired
and a portion rebuilt during the coming year.
Plans are in preparation for the proposed by-pass channel
the Back Bay Fens for the foul water flow of Stony
brook, and the work may be begun during the coming year.
On the Muddy river parkway, or Jamaicaway (so called),
between the gate-house on Brookline avenue and Morss
avenue in Brookline a similar problem exists to the Stony
brook foul water channel, namely, the problem of providing
a channel or channels for conveying away the flow of Muddy
river, when the same is too foul for the open channel. A
design has been prepared for this purpose, and the cost esti-
mated at $316,000. • The town of Brookline discharges
more foul water into the Muddy river channel by far than
the City of Boston, and should join in building this channel,
or else should be advised to take care of pollution on its
own side.
Of the above-named price, if the two municipalities join,
32 per cent., or $101,120, should be borne by the City of
Boston, and 68 per cent., or $214,880, by the town of Brook-
line ; these proportions being based upon the respective
areas of each municipality located in the watershed.
Dorchester.
There have been built in this district during the past year
24 feet of brick sewers, 17,746.93 feet of pipe sewers,
4,907.31 feet of brick surface drains, 11,841.96 feet pipe
surface drains, 60.24 feet stone surface drains, 199.20 feet
wood surface drains, making a total of 34,779.67 feet, or
6.59 miles.
The following work has been built during the year:
J^The 5-foot conduit, and house sewer on each side of the
same, in Ceylon street, from Quincy street to Columbia road,
has been completed. This drains the low portion of Colum-
bia road near the railroad bridge and adjacent territory
between Washington and Glendale streets and the low
ground in the vicinity of Richfield street.
Massachusetts avenue, from Swett street to Edward
Everett square, has been provided with house sewers from
the railroad crossing to Edward Everett square and with
catch-basins and surface drains for the entire length.
Street Department — Sewer Division. 179
The Magazine street sewer which had an outlet into the
South Bay at Massachusetts avenue has been connected
with the intercepter, doing away with the outlet which had
become a nuisance.
The repairing of the Dorchester intercepter at Freeport
street has been begun.
Sewerage works in Boston, Draper, Barry, Conrad and
Annabel streets have been completed, and have been begun
in Hancock street.
A considerable amount of surface drainage work has been
built in Dorchester during the past year. On the Canter-
bury branch of Stony brook the 10-foot circular brick conduit
has been extended through Lyons street from Callender
street nearly to Franklin field. A 7-foot circular brick
conduit has been built on this brook between Bernard street
and "Franklin field. The Oakland Garden fork of this
branch has been extended up Millet street to the culvert
crossing this street near Wheatland avenue.
A pipe conduit is being constructed in Norfolk street,
between Bernard street and Wentworth street, for a tribu-
tary of this brook, which comes from the south, and is
known as the Wentworth street fork. This conduit should
be extended through Wentworth street to the land of Har-
vard College. A 24-inch pipe surface drain, which is also a
part of this system, has been carried from West Park street,
through Kilton street, to and across the N. Y., N. H. & H.
R.R., at Harvard street station, and obviates the flooding
which regularly occurred at this point after every heavy rain-
storm.
On Tenean creek, the structure on the south branch has
been completed between Gibson and Dix streets, thereby
making the structure complete from tidewater to Dorchester
avenue, .at Rosemont road.
The Ashmont street fork has been completed to Templeton
street, and one branch continued to Wrentham street, near
Bruce street.
On the north branch the conduit has been completed as
far as Westville street, and now provides an excellent outlet
for surface water for an area of about 350 acres of well-built-
up territory, from Mt. Bowdoin to Park street and Dorches-
ter avenue.
Davenport Brook. — A culvert has been built for this brook
on Adams street, near Minot street, the Adams street sewer
being lowered by siphoning in order to provide waterway for
the culvert.
A brick conduit has been built for the brook in Magdala
180 City Document No. 38.
and Van Winkle streets, and private land adjacent. Be-
tween Bailey and Burt streets the brook has also been
enclosed in a brick conduit.
In addition to the above-mentioned work, house sewers or
surface drains have been built in Cottage Park, Corbet, Max-
well, Codman, Norfolk, Millet, Burt, Florida, Shepton, Callen-
der, Templeton, Chase, Fenton, Glen, Wooison, Hosmer,
Harlem, Samoset, Gately, Beaumont, River, Adams, Wash-
ington, Mascot, Van Winkle, Montague, Shepton, Seaborn,
and Florida streets, and in Neponset and Dorchester avenues;
and are now in progress in Moseley street and Spencer street,
between Athelwold and Harvard streets.
The principal work in Dorchester is, and will continue to
be, the extension of the existing sewerage systems.
The sewerage system in Blue Hill avenue, between Matta-
pan square and Walk Hill street, is in an unfinished condi-
tion and should be completed. A part of the house sewer
on the east side has been built in connection with the Mat-
pan brook conduit, but remains without an outlet.
At the Columbia road crossing of the Midland Division of
the N. Y., N. H. & H. R.R. the sewerage system is in a com-
plicated condition, a number of temporary expedients having
been adopted pending the completion of the new railroad
bridge. As soon as the abutments have been constructed
the sewer system at this point will be completed in perma-
nent shape.
The old pipe sewers in Vinson and Spring Garden streets
need rebuilding.
In order to improve the conditions under which the Tal-
bot avenue sewer is operated a complete separation of the
house sewer and storm water systems throughout the Tal-
bot avenue and Harvard street district should be effected.
This work will consist principally in building surface drains
to take the flow of the catch-basins out of the existing sewers.
In Dorchester a large amount of surface drainage work
is called for, of which the following items may be men-
tioned :
Oakland Brook Culvert, across River Street, near the Hyde
Park Line. — This culvert is in a dilapidated condition and
unable to carry the brook when in flood, the water going
over River street at this point. The brook at River street is
the outlet for a drainage area of about 700 acres, partly in
Hyde Park and mostly unimproved land. This culvert
ought to be rebuilt at once, and takings made for the outlet
down to some convenient point where an outlet can be ob-
tained into the main brook or the Neponset river.
Street Department — Sewer Division. 181
Mattapan Brook. — On this brook the conduit which has
been built from the river to Fremont street should be ex-
tended far enough to cross the railroad track at least, and
this work should be completed before work is begun on the
abolition of the Blue Hill avenue grade crossing. The
building of surface drains and culverts in West Selden
street on this system may necessitate some clearing out and
ditching of the watercourse between the points last named
and West Selden street, but will hardly require the building
of any masonry structures.
Davenport Brook. — This brook should be deepened at the
lower end, below the culvert recently built at Adams street,
enough to drain off the stagnant water standing under the
culvert. A covered culvert should also be built between
Van Winkle and Bailey streets, and between Burt and
Ashmont streets. The pipe culvert under the car-house op-
posite Armandine street should be extended to connect with
the lower Armandine street culvert and thence to the upper
Armandine street culvert. There should also be a pipe
conduit laid between the Rockwell and Stockton street
culverts.
Tenean Creek. — The south fork of the brook should during
the coming year be extended through Rosemont, Samoset,
Centre and Gorham streets, and through private land, Brent,
Wainwright and Lithgoe streets to the culvert across Centre
street into which the Seaborn street system of surface drain-
age now discharges. The Ashmont street fork of this brook
has been built as far as Templeton street, and one tributary
continued as far as Wrentham street near Bruce street.
Both tributaries should be continued up to Ashmont street
during the coming year.
Freeport Street Brook. — The improvement of this brook be-
tween Columbia road and Hancock street near Winter street
which has been forced by the widening and improvement of
Hancock street will necessitate the improvement of the
lower reaches of the brook, and it should be built during the
coming year from tidewater to Hancock street, partly in pri-
vate land and partly in the public streets. The Crescent ave-
nue surface drain should be built across the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad and through Shoreham street
before the new road-bed is put in use, and in order to allow
the completion of Columbia road where Shoreham street
crosses it. If possible it should also be extended up Carson
street and Crescent avenue and relief overflows established
from the existing sewer system into it in order to relieve the
flooding which frequently takes place in this vicinity.
182 City Document No. 38.
Dorchester Brook Sewer. — This sewer, system is built
throughout most of its extent on the combined system, but
there are some parts where separate sewers have been put in.
The separation of this sewerage system is one of the prob-
lems of the future, and the sooner it is undertaken the less
expensive it will prove.
Canterbury Branch of Stony Brook. — On account of the
development of the territory in the vicinity of Blue Hill
avenue and Franklin field, this branch of the brook should
be enclosed in a covered conduit from Don street to and
across Blue Hill avenue and thence to Harvard street.
Westerly from this point it may be improved by ditching for
a long distance, no permanent structure seeming to be
required until some time in the future.
A covered conduit should also be built from Lyons street
northerly and westerly across Franklin field, gathering in
all the branches coming from the east and connecting with
the Franklin park brook (so called) near the corner of
Talbot avenue and Blue Hill avenue. This last water
course should also be improved and covered from Frank-
lin field to the culvert across Blue Hill avenue near Angell
street.
The Oakland Garden fork of this branch is now enclosed
in a covered conduit all the way from Franklin field to
the old site of the Oakland garden, except a short piece in
Millet street and Wheatland avenue, where it flows through
private land. This portion should be completed.
East Boston.
There have been built in this district during the past year
93.39 feet of brick sewers, 2,049.75 feet of pipe sewers,
48.70 feet of brick surface drains, 278.60 feet of pipe surface
drains, making a total of 2,470.44 feet, or .46 mile.
The most important work done in this district during the
past year has been the building of house drains, catch-basin
drains and catch-basins in Wordsworth street, between Sara-
toga and Pope streets ; building ventilating shafts for the
Chelsea, Pope and- Curtis street sewers, and cleaning and
coating inside with Portland cement the sewer in Chelsea
street, from Chelsea bridge to Curtis street. This work is
now in progress, and is for the purpose of preventing the
petroleum with which the ground is saturated from percolat-
ing into the sewer through the brick work. This oil evi-
dently leaks from the tanks of the oil works on the north-
westerly side of Chelsea street.
Street Department — Sewer Division. 183
Sewers have also been built in Ashley street, Bennington
street boulevard, Chelsea street, Eagle street, and private
land, and Sumner street.
The most important work in the East Boston district for
the ensuing year will probably be the building of the sewer-
age works necessitated by the laying out of the Bennington-
street boulevard, although it is hoped that the Division may
be able to make a start on at least one of the three intercept-
ing sewers, which are very badly needed in this district,
namely, the Breeds Island low level intercepting sewer ; the
North side intercepting sewer and the Moore street district
intercepted
It is also desirable to build a system of sewers for the East
Boston parkway, so called, and to rebuild the Bennington
and Chelsea street sewers from Eagle square to Sumner
street.
Brighton.
There have been built in this district during the past year
12,538.13 feet of pipe sewers, 2,746.01 feet of brick surface
drains, 3,373.24 feet of pipe surface drains ; making a total
of 18,657.38. feet, or 3.52 miles.
The most important work in the past year has been in the
line of surface drainage.
Sewers and small surface drains have been built in
Tremont street, between Oak square and the Newton line ;
and in Cambridge street, between Union square and Wash-
ington street.
A covered brick conduit for the Faneuil Valley brook
has been built in private land and Fairbanks street, from a
point near Faneuil street to the culvert on Lake street, near
Washington street, and a small pipe surface drain has been
built in Washington street, between Cambridge street and
Dighton place.
Sewers or surface drains have also been built in the follow-
ing streets :
Adams street, Cummings road,
Both well road, Donneybrook road,
Brooksdale street, Idlewild street,
Corri-ne road, Maple avenue.
Private land north and south sides of Commonwealth
avenue to Harvard avenue.
Private land and Madison avenue, Riverview road,
Newcastle road, Wallingford road.
Raneleigh road,
184 City Document No. 38.
The most important work of this Division in Brighton
for several years will be. in the line of surface drainage.
There are a number of sewers which are too small to carry
the floods of surface water, from which complaints are fre-
quently received. They require relief by the building of
surface drains.
Salt Creek brook conduit should be extended from its
present terminus, near Gardner street, to Charles river.
The longer this work is delayed the greater will be the cost,
as it will be necessary to pass under the tracks of the
B. & A. R.R., and the railroad people are constantly increas-
ing the number of tracks at the point the conduit must pass'
under, they having freight yards at this place.
A beginning should be made on the conduits for the Shep-
ard street brook, and also for the large outlet conduit from
the Wool pond to Charles river, which will form the outlet
both for Shepard street brook and the Faneuil Valley brook.
The improvements in the upper waters of the Faneuil Valley
brook, recently made, will force the City to do something on
the outlet in the near future.
The outlet of the Everett street overflow should be ex-
tended to the Charles river at an early date, on account of
floodings which occur during heavy rains. This outlet for-
merly emptied into a tidal creek which was filled up by
building of the Speedway by the Metropolitan Park Com-
mission. This Commission should bear a large portion, if
not the entire, expense of extending this outlet.
Surface drains should be built throughout the Aberdeen
district, as the sewers in this district are on the separate
system, draining into the town of Brookline system, and
no catch-basins can be connected with them.
Requests have been received for house sewers in Summit
avenue, Mackin street, Allston terrace, and Hichborn street,
all meritorious cases.
West Roxbury.
There have been built in this district during the past year
1,018 feet of brick sewers, 9,537.44 feet of pipe sewers,
3,038.86 feet of brick surface drains, 2,867.70 feet of pipe
surface drains ; making a total of 19,267.77 feet, or 3.65 miles.
The most important work done in West Roxbury has been
the building of Goldsmith brook conduit in South and St. Joseph
streets; and the building of a house sewer in Gardner street,
between the Metropolitan sewer and Baker street, both
quicksand jobs.
FINE SAND
APPROXIMATE
VERY FINE SAND
COARSE SAND-
SAND &. GRAVEL
-COARSE SAND
LEVEL /
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VERY FINE SAND
VERY FINE SAND
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VERY FINE SAND
♦COARSE SAND
ST. JOSEPH STREET SEWER, SHOWING METHOD OF LOWERING THE LEVEL OF
GROUND WATER DURING CONSTRUCTION.
Street Department — Sewer Division. 185
In the case of Goldsmith brook conduit, a bed of quick-
sand was encountered sixty feet deep below the grade of the
conduit, and borings showed no stratum of gravel through
which water could be pumped in order to dry out the quick-
sand, and a novel expedient was resorted to ; that is, the
sinking of tubular wells twenty to twenty-five feet below
grade, surrounded by gravel, through which the water from
the quicksand filtered to the well. The method adopted to
accomplish this was first, to sink a 10-inch pipe by means of a
water jet, then to place inside of it a 2i-inch pipe, perforated
for about five feet at the bottom. This smaller pipe extended
down to the bottom of the large pipe, the space between was
then filled with coarse sand and the large exterior pi£e with-
drawn, leaving the perforated pipe surrounded with coarse
sand. The water which . filtered through was then pumped
from the 2i-inch pipe by means of a steam ejector pump,
placed at the bottom of the well, connected with a still smaller
pipe in the interior of the 2£-inch pipe.
This scheme proved successful, and the quicksand was
dried out enough to enable the work to proceed.
A complete sewerage system has been built in Perkins street
and in LaGrange street, with an outlet in Pleasant street.
Sewers or surface drains were also built in Bellevue ave-
nue, Ashland and Rowe streets, and private land, Beech
street, Belgrade avenue and Lorraine street, Colberg avenue,
Congreve street, Corey and Park streets, Corinth, Dale,
Eastbourne, Westbourne, Cornell and Forest Hills streets,
Grosvenor road, Knoll street, Oakview terrace, Selwyn
street, Stratford avenue, and Washington street.
Surface drains should be built throughout the Mount Hope
district, to relieve the congested condition of the sewers in
times of storms. These sewers will outlet in the Roslindale
branch of Stony brook, near its junction with the main
brook. The Hewlett street branch of the Roslindale branch
should be taken into a covered conduit from the South
street culvert,, near the new playground, to Walter street,
and a covered conduit should also be built from Clarendon
avenue across Poplar street to the Sycamore street branch of
Stony brook to take care of the watercourse which floods
Poplar street, near Heathcote street.
In order to provide the surface drainage for Rowe and
Seymour streets a pipe surface drain should be built from the
Neponset avenue branch of Stony brook, to and across the
railroad location and longitudinally along the same "and
thence to and through Seymour street.
186 City Document No. 38.
The Kirk street brook should be enclosed in a covered
conduit from Kirk street to Centre street, and surface drains
built in Farquhar, Fletcher, Congreve, Hewlett, Selwyn,
Mozart, Walter and Mendum streets.
In addition to the surface drainage work required in West
Roxbury, the most important house sewers required at pres-
ent are the following, which will probably be built during the
ensuing year :
Mendum street and outlet, Spring street, between Gard-
ner and Centre streets, and outlet in Gardner street to Baker
street, Elgin and Lorette streets, house sewers and surface
drains, Montclair avenue and outlet, Sigourney street and
Selwyn street.
Charlestown.
There have been built in this district during the past year
870.84 linear feet of pipe sewers and 1,410.63 linear feet of
brick sewers, making a total of 2,281.47 linear feet, or .43
mile, besides extensive repairs.
A supplementary, 3 feet 6 inches circular sewer, has been
built in Cambridge street, between Sever and Craft streets.
This work was necessitated on account of the raising of the
grade on Cambridge street in order to abolish the grade cross-
ing, and increases the capacity of the existing sewer between
these points, which is too small to carry the storm flow.
This sewer should be extended to Rutherford avenue, thence
through Rutherford avenue and Mishawum street to the
Beach street outlet, about 1,200 feet.
Sewers have also been built in Arlington avenue and
Beacham street, and are in progress on Alford street, on the
Everett side of Mystic river.
The Rutherford avenue sewer should be rebuilt from Cam-
bridge street to the outlet near Dunstable street.
The building of the sewers in the Beacham street district
should also be carried on, including Beacham, Dorrance,
Hamblen, Ford, West, George, Gilbert and Temple streets,
and a connection should be made with the Metropolitan
sewer in Arlington avenue.
The sewers in Tibbetts Town way and in Tufts street are
in poor condition and should be rebuilt.
There is also needed a sewer in Concord street, from
Monument square to Bunker Hill street.
The Warren avenue connection with the Metropolitan
sewer should be completed. Part of this was built some
two years ago, but, as at that time the Charles River avenue
bridge was blockaded as far as traffic was concerned, it was
Street Department — Sewer Division. 187
absolutely necessary to leave the Warren avenue bridge open
and as unobstructed as possible.
At the present time the new Charlestown bridge having
been completed and open to traffic, it will cause compara-
tively little inconvenience to people, travelling to and from
this part of Charlestown, to close Warren avenue while put-
ting in this connection, which probably would not occupy
over a month.
City Proper.
There have been built in this district the past year
2,936.08 linear feet of pipe sewers and 1,295.21 linear feet
of brick sewers, making a total of 4,231.29 linear feet, or .80
mile, besides extensive repairs.
The Canal street relief sewer is now completed. Its end
is at the junction of Canal street and Traverse street. When
this sewer was first designed, it was the intention to rebuild
the Canal street sewer, between Traverse street and Cause-
way street, and when this is done an improved connection
will be established between the west side and east side
intercepting sewers.
The sewer in Beverly street, which is in much worse con-
dition than the others in the district, is being rebuilt between
Charlestown and Causeway streets, and will therefore fur-
nish a second connection between the west side and east
side intercepting sewers.
The sewer in Haverhill street has recently been rebuilt.
The material in which this sewer was rebuilt is of doubtful
character, not soft enough to require piles, and yet not hard
enough to build without the assistance of some artificial foun-
dation. It was therefore decided to build into the side walls
6-inch I beams, one over the other, with broken joints.
In Commercial street, at Clark street, there is a wooden
sewer which was in some way connected with tide-water.
A great deal of salt water was let into the intercepting
sewer. To remedy this difficulty the wooden sewer was cut
off and abandoned as a sewer, although it can still be used
as a catch-basin drain, a by-pass having been built around
the tide*gate manhole to the overflow sewer. The houses
which were connected with this sewer have been connected
with the intercepting sewer, this being a departure from the
customary rules of the Division and allowed; first, because
this section of the intercepter is above the district regulator,
and second, because if a new sewer were built to take the
place of the old one it would have to lay alongside of, and
almost against, the intercepting sewer and eventually dis-
188 City Document No. 38.
charge directly into it. For these reasons it was thought
better to make the exception, and a new tide-gate was built
to take the place of the old leaky one on the overflow.
Oak Street. — The old sewer between Hudson and Albany
streets, which was badly settled, has been rebuilt.
Stillman Street. — The old sewer between Endicott and
North Margin streets, which was badly settled, has been
rebuilt.
TJtiea Street, between Kneeland and Beach Streets. — The
old sewer was in very bad condition and needed rebuild-
ing for a number of years. This has finally been done, and
is one of the most difficult jobs of its kind that has been
encountered for some time. The sewer in Kneeland street
was too high to form an outlet for this sewer if laid low
enough to drain the house drains, which had probably settled
with the old sewer. It was therefore decided to build a
length of the Kneeland street low level house sewer between
South street and Utica street. For temporary purposes this
has been connected with the Kneeland and South streets
sewer, which is on the " combined system," but should be
continued to the end of the sewer which connected with
the intercepting sewer in the railroad yard, the end referred
to being on the line of Atlantic avenue.
Boylston Street, between Carver and Tremont Streets. — The
building of the new theatre made it necessary to construct
a new sewer in this street. This sewer is about 20 feet
deep.
Albany Street, at Osivego Street. — The regulator on the
Oswego street sewer at this point and the connection with
the intercepting sewer have been built. This is one of the
last pieces of work necessary to complete what is known as
" changing the South Cove system."
East BrooMine Street, between Harrison Avenue and James
Street. — The sewer in this street was in very bad condition.
It has been rebuilt. This sewer furnishes an outlet to a
private drain from the Conservatory of Music, the poor out-
let of which caused much annoyance.
Pleasant Street, at Porter Street. — Where the elevated rail-
way structure crosses Pleasant street at Porter street* the rail-
road construction made it necessary to place a siphon in the
sewer. As at some future time it is intended to carry the
Kneeland street low-level house sewer into the Church street
district, through Pleasant street, it was decided to lay the
new pipes, which now form a siphon, at such a grade that the
pipe which is to form the house sewer will be drained by the
Kneeland street sewer, while the surface drain, which will find
Street Department — Sewer Division. 189
its outlet through the Church street district, will always
remain as a siphon.
Sewers have also been built in Eastern avenue, Poplar,
Congress, Newland and Commercial streets, and Trinity
place.
The principal work of the Division in the City Proper for
the ensuing year will be the repairs and reconstruction of old
sewers, which on account of settlement or decay have become
unfitted for their purpose. There are a large number of sewers
in the North End district which are in such condition as
to -offer practically a free entrance of tide-water into the
sewerage system, and these should be replaced with sewers
of modern design at as rapid a rate as possible, in order to
relieve the intercepting sewers and the pumping station from
this amount of leakage as well as from a sanitary standpoint.
Main Drainage Works.
The principal innovation in the organization of the force,
charged with the maintenance of this most important branch
of our public works, has been in the combination of the dis-
tricts including the Moon Island Reservoir with its appurte-
nances, Dorchester B&j Pumping Station, and the main and
intercepting sewers and the maintenance of the channels of
Stony brook under a single superintendent, responsible to the
deputy superintendent of the Division ; these various works,
of necessity depending one upon the other for their efficient
operation, w 7 ere formerly each under independent supervision,
and the placing of responsibility for any lack of co-operation
was impossible. This change has greatly increased the
efficiency of these branches of the service.
This work at present consists of the care and maintenance
of the main and intercepting sewers throughout the City,
pumping station and deposit sewers at Calf Pasture, Dor-
chester, and the reservoir and outfall and discharge sewers at
Moon Island, Pumping Station at Lyons street, Dorchester,
and the maintenance of the channels of Stony brook.
Main and Intercepting Sewers.
The work of the main and intercepting sewer force consists
of the building, repairing and cleaning of all tide-gates, regu-
lators, sumps and overflows connecting with the Metropolitan
sewers in Brighton, Charlestown, East Boston and Dorches-
ter, as well as the similar connections with the main drainage
works in the City Proper, Roxbury and South Boston, and
190 City Document No. 38.
the cleaning of the main and intercepting sewers belonging
to the City, and care of manholes on same.
The following shows the number of gates, regulators,
sumps and overflows that have to be inspected after every
storm or heavy rise of sewage in the main sewer, and cleaned
when necessary.
Gates. Regulators. Sumps. Overflows.
Brighton ... 40 16 17 20
Charlestown ... 24 9 11 11
East Boston ... 32 15 16 17
288 61 111 144
The length of sewers to be inspected and attended to by
this force in the City is twenty-four (24) miles.
The following is an account of the work done from Febru-
ary 1, 1900, to January 31, 1901 :
Main and Intercepting Sewers.
Length of sewers cleaned,
about 5 miles
Number of connections built,
6
" " new tide-gates built,
9
" " vapor gates "
17
" " regulators "
1
" " " repaired,
30
" " tide-gates "
133
" " flushing-gates repaired,
8
'• " gates cleaned,
2,000
" " regulators cleaned,
1,200
" " sumps cleaned,
3,800
" " overflows cleaned,
40
" " manholes repaired,
47
An automatic sewer gauge has been set up at the yard on
Massachusetts avenue, to record the height of the sewage in
the main sewer.
Eight other automatic gauges have been built, and they will
be installed during the ensuing year in different places upon
the branch intercepting sewers tributary to the main drainage
system. The installing of these gauges will greatly facilitate
the work of the Division in locating the source of any undue
flow of water in the sewers.
Self registering tide-gauges will be installed at Moon
Island, and at some point in the Charles river basin.
Street Department — Sewer Division. 191
Pumping Station, Calf Pasture.
The extensive repairs and alterations on the high duty
pumps, and other work which has been going on for two
years, are nearly completed, and it will now be possible,
except in times of storm, to handle the sewage without run-
ning the low duty pumps. This will make a marked saving
in coal consumption.
It will be necessary to start without delay the construction
of the addition to the main building for the accommodation
of the new 72,000,000-gallon pump that is under construc-
tion. New quarters for the machine shop will have to be
provided, and the shop should be in operation before a start
is made in setting up the new pump.
The deposit sewers are more nearly free from sludge than
at any time since the system has been in operation. A day
force only is required at present to keep them in such con-
dition.
On February 1, 1900, there was in the deposit sewers
3,627 cubic yards of sludge ; during the year there has
been removed 13,242 cubic yards, and there is at present
only 290 cubic yards in the sewers.
Other methods for handling this sludge will have to be
adopted in the near future in order that the deposit sewers
and the reservoirs at Moon Island may be utilized to their
fullest capacity. Studies of such a system and plans for
necessary apparatus have been made, and a beginning will be
made during the ensuing year on necessary changes.
The following principal repairs and alterations have been
made during the year :
Completion of Contract " F " covering extensive altera-
tions on Leavitt engines, increasing their daily pumping
capacity 16,000,000 gallons each.
New reheaters and new oiling gallery on Leavitt engines.
New valve chests and rods on Worthington engines and
general repairs.
New circulating pump for supplying salt water to conden-
sers of Worthington and Leavitt engines.
General repairs on piping.
New heating apparatus installed for engine-room and
repairs to engine deck plates.
New jacket piping and returns to boilers from No. 3 and
No. 4 engines.
New blow-off pipes and side and bottom manholes to
boilers.
Rebuilding crematory for filth hoist screenings.
192 City Document No. 38.
Many minor repairs have been made, and the plant is now
in a fair condition of efficiency, but many other minor repairs
will be necessary to put it in first-class condition.
The usual table showing the work done by the Pumping
Station plant has been omitted from this report, as it seems
to me that the methods used in determining the results given
during previous years have been too crude to be reliable, and
that the amount of sewage pumped by the plant has been
largely overestimated. Reservoir measurements at Moon
Island seem to show that the present dry weather flow
through the Pumping Station does not greatly exceed
75,000,000 gallons per day of 24 hours.
Lyons-Street Pumping Station.
At this station, besides the regular maintenance, the fol-
lowing work has been done :
Boilers and steam piping insulated ; one new driving belt
put in, and old one repaired ; general repairs on inspirator,
and feed-piping and gas-piping installed. Building has been
ventilated and structures on the premises painted.
Moon Island.
Besides the regular maintenance of these works, which
Consists of the storing and discharging the sewage of the
City, twice daily, and the ordinary repairs incidental thereto,
the following work has been done :
Completion of original contract for extension of reservoir.
Setting up of four gates and rams on flushing sewer.
Installation of air compressor, tank, shafting, etc.
Extension of gate-house for machine shop.
Paving of slope on south-westerly side of island.
Grading, sloping and loaming of surface west of reservoir.
Filling of cove, slope paving, and grading near easterly
corner of reservoir.
Awarding of contract for four gate-houses on flushing
sewer.
The following new construction or renewals should be
attended to as far as possible the coming season :
New stable and storehouse.
Electric wiring and piping.
Fencing around reservoir.
Relaying and extension of salt-water main for washing
res ervoir*w alls.
Filling for protection of portion of sea-wall and grading of
high slope at Moon Island head.
Street Department — Sewer Division. 193
Sea-wall from gate-house to wharf.
Extension of wharf and dredging front of same.
Relaying original riprap for at least 1,000 feet on north
side of discharge sewer.
Stony Brook.
During the current year the following lengths of conduit
have been built for the accommodation of Stony brook
channels :
1,018 linear feet of 15£ by 17 feet brick, main channel, end-
ing at Cornwall street.
1,225 linear feet 9 by 9% feet brick, supplementary chan-
nel in Boylston avenue and Green street.
1,018 linear feet of 2 by 3 i feet brick, West Roxbury
low-level sewer.
The 9 by 9£ feet supplementary channel of Stony brook is
now connected with the old channel at Green street and will
take the entire dry weather flow. As this is the portion of the
flow of Stony brook which causes annoyance, we have gained
by the building of this supplementary channel the practical
advantages of extending the main channel to Green street.
The appropriation for this work is exhausted.
The work on the maintenance of Stony brook consists of
the cleaning of the covered main channel of the brook, from
the Back Bay Fens to Cornwall street, with the repairs of
all manholes and manhole coverings on this section ; the
cleaning of the open channel from Cornwall street to the
Hyde Park line, and repairing all walls, banks, and fences ;
the cleaning of the old overflow channel, from the premises
of the Boston Belting Company to the Back Bay Fens, and
the care of all overflows on above channels, making total of
6? miles of watercourse to be cared for.
The old Stony brook channel from the gate-house in the
Fenway opposite Bryant street to the premises of the Boston
Belting Company, on Elmwood street, is built of rubble
stone ; part of the distance the construction being a double
arch of dry rubble and part a double channel of square sec-
tion, the sidewalks being loose rubble and the covering
stone granite slabs. Both of these sections are in very
precarious condition, the rubble arches being so loose that
stones can be pulled out by hand from the inside. One
or two cave-ins have occurred on this section, and when the
Huntington avenue boulevard was built across it it was lined
inside with brick masonry because it was unsafe to construct
the street surface of the new boulevard over it. On the
194 City Document No. 38.
square section the granite covering stones are continually
breaking in the middle, and have been replaced in many
places with timber. In other places the stones have been
shored up with timber bracing. It is feared that either one
of these sections may collapse at any time, and cause serious
and expensive accidents. This channel should be rebuilt
throughout its entire length in order to be safe, and . at the
time of rebuilding pipe sewers should be built on each side
to take the drainage of abutting estates which are too low
to drain into the existing sewers. Pollution unavoidably
finds its way into this channel from these estates and will
continue to do so until they are provided with proper
sewerage.
The estimated cost of rebuilding channel, together with
pipe sewers, is $302,000.
There are a number of places along the line of the brook
where repairs are necessary to the walls and fences. This
work should be done' as soon as possible after the frost
leaves the ground in the spring. The need of these repairs,
generally, is caused by the abutters raising the grade of their
lots by filling.
Entrance Fees, Permits, and Assessments.
Entrance fees to the amount of $5,712.86 have been col-
lected from estates upon which no sewer assessment was ever
paid, in accordance with Chapter 38, Section 10, of the Re-
vised Ordinances of 1898.
Bills for sewer assessments, amounting to $617.36, have
been deposited for collection, representing those estates
assessed under Chapter 456 of the Acts of 1889, and amend-
ments thereto, which have been connected during the year
with the sewers for which they were assessed.
Two thousand one hundred and seventy-six (2,176) per-
mits have been issued to licensed drain-layers to make con-
nections with the public sewers, and the work done under
these permits has been inspected, and a record of the same
made on the plans of this Division, in accordance with the
provisions of Chapter 38, Sections 6 and 10, of the Revised
Ordinances of 1898.
Eight hundred and nine (809) permits have been issued
to District Foremen and Contractors for construction and
repairs of sewers and catch-basins.
Plans for the assessment of estates benefited by sewer
construction have been furnished the Street Commissioners,
representing 62,093 feet of sewers, costing $264,074.
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General Remarks.
The appropriation for the maintenance of the Sewer
Division for the year was $350,000. This appropriation has
had no substantial increase during the past ten (10) years,
and during the present year the amount of work which
could be completed for this sum has been substantially
reduced by the passage of the eight-hour law, although in
that time the amount of sewerage works to be maintained
has been nearly doubled. If the present state of efficiency is
to be maintained, the appropriation must, of necessity, be
increased in the near future.
During the year especial attention has been given to the
cleaning of sewers and catch-basins, many of which were so
filled as to seriously impair their usefulness. The result of
such cleanings has already been made apparent by the decrease
in the number of complaints received by the Division, as well
as by the amount of sludge received in the deposit sewers
at the Pumping-station. Improvements are still possible in
this line, and the work should be continued during the next
year.
It will be seen that the amount of sewerage works built
during the year as expressed in linear feet is somewhat
smaller than for the last few years. The shortage is due to
the following principal reasons:
First. The excessive amount of large-size brick sewers
and surface drains built. The rapid development of certain
suburban districts, and the connection of the surface drainage
with the house sewers, has overcrowded the sewers, with the
result that many districts are flooded during every rainstorm.
Such sewer systems should be relieved by the building of
drains for surface water. The same effect is caused in old
natural watercourses, and it has been the policy of the
Division to apply as large an amount of the appropriations as
possible to the construction of work for the relief of such
cases.
By reason of the liberal appropriation of $1,000,000 each
year for sewers, a large proportion of the meritorious peti-
tions for house sewers has been granted, and the sewers
built, and in the future an increasing proportion of the
annual amount will be available for the building of surface
drainage structures, and the intercepting sewers necessary
for connection with the various Metropolitan systems.
The more meritorious cases have already been referred to
in the district reports.
Second. It is estimated that for the year the introduction
196 City Document No. 38.
of the eight-hour law has reduced the amount of linear feet
of sewers which would have been built if the force had been
on an nine-hour basis by about 6,200 linear feet, and that
the amount of other structures has been reduced in the same
proportion. The effect of the eight-hour law has been to
reduce the value of the work done under the appropriation
of the Sewer Division by an amount which is estimated to be
approximately $18,000.
Third. The largely increased expenditures for land tak-
ings, construction work at Moon Island, and payments on
pumping machinery now under contract, have greatly reduced
the appropriation available for building sewers the present
year.
The Metropolitan Sewerage Commission is now actively
engaged in building a high-level sewer to accommodate por-
tions of Roxbury, West Roxbury, Dorchester, and Brighton.
When this is done and put in operation, the City of Boston
will be assessed its portion of the cost (the assessment being
based upon the territory which is figured as tributary to the
high-level sewer). Before this territory can be drained into
the high-level sewer a large amount of work must be done
in building the necessary branch intercepting sewers, and,
properly, these sewers should be completed and ready to be
put into operation at the same time as the Metropolitan
Sewer, otherwise the City will pay for service which it does
not receive, as was the case in regard to East Boston and
Charlestown, where the City had to pay its assessment for a
number of years while receiving no benefit from the North
Metropolitan Sewer, and is at present paying for connections
for sewers which are not yet built, the fault being the City's
own in not completing its connections. Work should be
begun on these tributary high-level intercepters the coming
year. There will be required 67,500 feet, being 12.8 miles
of sewers, ranging in size from twelve inches to five feet in
diameter.
A rough estimate of the cost of construction of this
system of sewers is $1,484,500, or in round numbers
$1,500,000, exclusive of land damages.
Respectfully yours,
Guy C. Emerson,
Deputy Superintendent.
Street Department — Sewer Division.
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OBJECTS OF EXPENDITURES.
Street Department, Sewer Division.
Improved Sewerage Maintenance.
Pumping Station and Moon Island, $121,788 08
Tow-boat . $13,800 72
Less paid by Sani-
tary Division . 6,710 74
7,089 98
$128,878 06
Pumping Station, Forest-avenue Section,
Dorchester.
Maintenance
7,543 12
Stony Brooh.
Maintenance
5,265 38
Miscellaneous Maintenance Charges.
Office and engineering force, salaries and ex-
penses . . . . . . .
Current expenses of yards,
lockers, stables, etc. . . $83,418 98
Less amount earned by Depart-
ment teams . . . . 32,130 50
Repairing and cleaning catch-basins, sewers and
general repairs ......
House connections, work for other Departments,
incidental expenses, etc.
Hardware, tools, rubber goods, etc
Telephones not included elsewhere
Stable, Eagle street, East Boston
Freeport street intercepter
In excess of Sewerage Works Appropriation
Increase in stock at yards
Transferred to City Treasury
15,156 27
51,288 48
100,898 81
20,805 56
9,119 59
1,414 27
1,853 23
1,672 80
$343,895 57
15,454 67
2,651 39
58 61
Total maintenance
$362,060 24
Street Department — Sewer Division.
199
Sewerage Works.
Improved Sewerage Construction.
Pumping Station and Moon Island
South Boston ,
East Boston
Charlestown
Brighton .
West Roxbury
Dorchester
Roxbury
City Proper
Sewer Construction.
$74,660 92
32,227 62
21,523 71
65,076 76
109,143 66
231,812 20
18,172 11
98,312 24
Miscellaneous Construction Charges.
Office and engineering force, salaries and ex-
penses . . . . . ...
Hardware, tools, rubber goods, etc. .
New manholes .......
Less amount paid from Sewer Division
Total .
Stony Brook Improvement.
Construction and engineering . . .
Recapitulation .
Street Department, Sewer Division .
Sewerage Works ......
Stony Brook Improvement, Chapter 397, Acts
of 1899
Total
$157,835 82
650,929 22
101,277 82
24,274 94
2,277 35
8936,595 15
15,454 67
11,140 48
$198,481 35
$362,060 24
921,140 48
198,481 35
1,481,682 07
Summary of Sewer Construction for the Twelve flonths ending January
31, 1901.
District.
Built by the
City bv
Contract or
Day Labor.
Built by
Private
Parties.
Total length
built
during the
12 months
ending
Jan. 31, 1901.
City Proper. . .
East Boston...
Charlestown ..
South Boston.
Roxbury
West Roxbury
Dorchester
Brighton
Totals
3,963.29
2,470.44
2,281.47
4,292.73
4,056.64
17,450.04
31,320.59
12,420.72
268.00
3,656.84
1,817.73
3,459.05
6,236.66
4,231.29
2,470.44
2,281.47
4,292.73
7,713.48
19,267.77
34,779.64
18,657.38
78,255.92
15,438.28
93,694.20
200
City Document No. 38.
Summary of Sewer Construction for five years previous to February 1, 1901.
1896.
1897.
1898.
1899.
1900.
Built by the City by con-
Built by private parties. ..
116,008.25
37,825.92
134,324.93
38,969.14
203,139.68
9,325.99
99,772.15
17,955.05
78,255.92
15,438.28
Total number of feet built
153,834.17
173,294.07
212,465.67
117,727.20
93,694.20
Schedule of Sewers Built to Date in the City of Boston, February 1, 1901.
District.
Total length
built during
the 12 months
ending
Jan. 31, 1901.
Length rebuilt
and aban-
doned during
the 12 months
ending
Jan. 31,1901.
Additional length for
12 months ending
Jan. 31, 1901.
City Proper
East Boston
Charlestown . . .
South Boston...
Roxbury
West Roxbury.
Dorchester
Brighton
Totals .
Feet.
4,231.29
2,470.44
2,281.47
4,292.73
7,713.48
19,267.77
34,779.64
18,657.38
93,694.20
Feet.
2,141.00
724.17
55.00
514 92
12.42
3,447.51
Feet.
2,090.29
2,470.44
2,281.47
3,568.56
7,658.48
19,267.77
34,264.72
18,644.96
90,246.69
Length built previous to January 31, 1900
Total
Length of intercepting sewer
Total
Total mileage of streets containing sewerage works.
Miles.
0.40
0.47
0.43
0.68
1.45
3.65
6.49
3.53
17.09
510.66
527.75
24.12
551.87
408.2
Catch-basins Built February 1, 1900, to January 31, 1901.
Number.
43
72
101
66
42
16
29
8
1,051,176 linear feet of sewers flushed.
1,868 cubic yards material removed
from sewers.
11,140 catcb-basins cleaned; 30,773
cubic yards removed.
1,524 of these catch-basins were
cleaned by contract at an average
cost of $3.92 per basin.
377
Street Department — Sewer Division.
201
Report of Sludge Received in and Removed from the Deposit Sewer for Twelve
Months Ending January 31, 1901.
1900.
Received.
Removed.
February. .
March
April
May
June
July
August —
September.
October . . .
November.
December .
1901.
January. . .
707 cubic yards
435
721
1,042
814
1,014
1,212
801
1,365
760
447
587
765 cubic yards
1,190
1,190
1,065
1,184
1,328
1,426
1,075
1,180
1,081
833
925
Sludge in sewers Feb.
1, 1900, 3,627 cubic
Sludge in sewers Feb.
1, 1901, 290 cubic
yards.
9,905 cubic yards
13,242 cubic yards
Real Estate in Charge of the Sewer Division.
Assessed Valuation.
Owned by City.
Sewer yard, 678 Albany street, South End
Sewer yard, Columbus avenue, Roxbury
Sewer yard, Rutherford avenue, Charlestown
Sewer yard, Massachusetts avenue, near Albany
street, South End
Sewer yard, Western avenue, Brighton
Pumping station, Old Harbor Point, Dorchester. ..
Land, buildings and reservoirs at Moon Island and
Squantum
Sewer yard, North Grove street, "West End. (Oc-
cupied in common with other Divisions of the
Street Department)
Sewer yard, Child and South streets, West Rox-
bury. (Occupied in common with Paving Di
vision)
Leased.
Sewer yard, Revere street, West End. (Occupied
in common with Paving Division. Leased from
J. J. Costello)
Sewer yard. Eagle street, East Boston. (Occupied
in common with other Divisions. Leased from
trustees of Glendon Company)
Sewer yard, Old Harbor street and Columbia road,
South Boston. (Office building owned by Sewer
Division. Leased from estate of Choate Burn
ham)
Sewer yard, Gibson street, Dorchester. (Buildings
erected by Sewer Division. Leased from trustees
of Gibson School Fund)
202 City Document No. 38.
APPENDIX F.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT
OF THE STREET CLEANING DIVISION.
921, 922, 923 Tkemont Building,
Boston, February 1, 1901.
Mr. B. T. Wheeler,
Superintendent of Streets :
Dear Sir, — I respectfully submit the annual report of
the expenditures, income, and operation of the Street Clean-
ing Division of the Street Department for the financial year
ending January 31, 1901.
Consideration should be given to the fact that the en-
forcement of the eight-hour law during the year has entailed
an additional expense of about $27,000 on the Division;
there has been employed on full time throughout the year,
nevertheless, an average force of about three hundred and
fifty men whose combined salaries and wages represent about
70% of the total amount of money expended during that
period for all purposes. The result of this additional ex-
pense is shown to some extent by the tables which follow.
In March last the repair-shops at the South End yard
were abolished ; the shops of the Sanitary Division, adjacent,
having been increased in capacity by the installation of
electric power and introduction of many improvements, now
perform all the work formerly done by both Divisions at this
point at a considerable saving to the City.
The method of sweeping the business sections at night
prevailed for some years after the establishment of this
Division and was satisfactory in its operation, but for some
unknown reason machine sweeping was discontinued in the
West and North Ends in September, 1898, and the system
of night sweeping, instead of being extended, as its merits
would warrant, was practically abandoned. Convinced, after
studying this feature of the work, that this method gave the
best results, and caused the least inconvenience to the public,
it has been substituted for day work and for hand-sweeping,
Street Department — Street Cleaning Division. 203
except by a patrol system, which is established to augment
its efficiency. Streets throughout the entire street-cleaning
territory are now machine swept by night, except under
extraordinary conditions of temperature and weather. Patrol
districts in consequence have been somewhat enlarged,
since the patrolman finds his street clean for him in the
morning, and it is only necessary that he bend his energy to
keeping it in that condition during the day. With the ex-
tension of the patrol system during the coming year, as
intended, the most satisfactory results for the amount of
money expended will be obtained.
While there was some complaint made upon the establish-
ment of this system by those whose conservatism remon-
strates against what they are pleased to call a novelty and
innovation, such complaints have now entirely ceased, and
the public is, I think, satisfied that the method employed is
for the greatest good of the greatest number.
Among the many problems which vex this Division there
is none, perhaps, more difficult of solution than the preven-
tion of the nuisance of paper-littered streets. No matter
how well machines or push-cart men may broom a street sur-
face and clean it of all that which is unsanitary, it presents
an unsightly appearance if papers or rubbish of a similar
character be thrown upon it. While it is apparently im-
possible for the police force to prevent the violation of the
ordinances by the sweeping of house litter into the street, it
is especially annoying to note the average citizen throwing
his newspaper, empty boxes, and fruit peelings upon its
surface, and this too in the presence of, or, at least, within the
knowledge of, those whose duty it is to see that the City
Ordinances are respected. There certainly is sufficient law
to prevent this annoyance, and the remedy is in the hands of
the Board of Police to apply ; the duty of this Department,
then, is to minimize as far as possible this annoyance, and to
this end the paper patrol system has been organized and ex-
tended. A marked improvement at once followed its in-
troduction, and although the cost of teaming thereby caused
is in excess of that of previous years, the results have been
commensurate, and the system should be still further ex-
tended.
In this connection, permit me to remind you of the
ordinance you suggested for consideration to the City
Council last October. To quote your language : " The
Street Cleaning Division of this Department suffers expense
and great annoyance because of the paper blown from open
barrels upon its newly clean surfaces. I would suggest " (you
204 City Document No. 38.
wrote) "that the Law Department prepare an ordinance which
shall enable us to enforce the following rule : ' All papers,
light waste, and other general refuse, must be placed in
covered receptacles, separate from those used for the ashes
and offal, or, if too bulky, must be tied in bundles, to prevent
their being scattered, and must be protected from the weather
until collected.' " The ordinance was drafted and the mat-
ter referred to the Committee on Public Improvements,
where I trust it does not lie buried. If so, I hope it will be
resurrected ; for it is indisputable that much of the litter
that fouls our streets comes from the barrels that are placed
upon the sidewalks by storekeepers.
The force, which was established in East Boston immedi-
ately before I took charge of the Division has been slightly
increased, and employed on full time during the year. This
district was formerly visited twice a week by the Charles-
town gang. It now receives similar care to other sections of
the City, at a cost of about $12,000. A new stable has just
been opened, which accommodates the Sanitary, Paving, Sewer
and Street Cleaning Divisions, and under this improved con-
dition of things better results for the ensuing year are
anticipated.
The work of the patrol, or push-cart men, has been already
alluded to, and recommendation is made that this branch of
the service, whose merits have long ago been fitly recognized,
should be extended. There have been considerable additions
to this force during the year and, in nearly every instance
the men employed were all young and active.
It will soon become a question where the City may deposit
its street sweepings. Many of the extensive low lands have
been filled in; and in the suburban districts dependence is
largely placed upon the owners of private property. The
Charlestown dump will soon cease to be available, and the
dumping scow at Fort Hill Wharf is not always able now to
take all refuse carted to it; the teams have frequently
had to leave the wharf and resume their haul, sometimes to a
distant dump, and at increased expense.
Much misunderstanding between this Division and abut-
ters on public alleys, regarding their care, developed during
the early part of the year. The Public Alley Act of 1898
provided for the construction of these alleys by the Superin-
tendent of Streets, and assessment of the cost thereof upon the
abutters, but especially provided that —
" Chap. 298, Sect. 2. Said city shall not be liable for any
defect or want of repair in any public alley, nor be required
to keep the same free from snow, but shall be required to
Street Department — Street Cleaning Division. 205
keep the same free from any substance which is liable to
cause sickness or a nuisance.
" Sect. 3. Whoever drops or places and suffers to remain
in any public alley, any snow or ice, or any rubbish or
obstruction of any kind, shall be fined not exceeding fifty
dollars for each offence."
Abutters seemed to be of the opinion that, notwithstanding
the provisions of this Act, above quoted, they were at liberty
to throw into the alley all kinds of house and store refuse,
and that it was the duty of this Division to remove the same.
The Act does not even place the duty of removing substances
liable to cause sickness or a nuisance upon this Division, but
by arrangement with the Board of Health this Division
assumed the performance of this work.
The public alley does not have the same standing in law
as the public highway, and the duties of this Department
toward it are not the same. It is now, after construction, to
all intents and purposes a private way, repairs to which, and
removal of snow and ice from which, the City does not
assume, but agrees only to keep it in a healthful condition.
There is imperative need of more and better stable facil-
ities in the West End and Roxbury districts, which can only
be obtained, in the West End particularly, by the construc-
tion of new City stables upon a comprehensive plan, occupy-
ing to advantage the land which is now covered with small
stables, barns and sheds.
The property of this Division, rolling stock especially, is
in excellent condition.
Respectfully yours,
Frank H. Haynes,
Deputy Superintendent.
206
City Document No. 38.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Appropriation, 1900-1901 .
Transferred from Bridge Division
Total amount of appropriation
Total amount of expenditures
$330,000 00
9,747 23
),747 23
$339,747 23
Objects of Expenditures
Superintendence.
Salary of Superintendent
Office pay-rolls .....
Stationery ......
Printing ......
Board of horses, not mentioned elsewhere
Telephone service ....
S3, 000 00
4,244 88
313 66
1,153 62
708 23
470 91
£9,891 30
Machine Sweeping of Paved Streets.
This includes cost of sweeping, loading and removal of street
dirt.
District 1, South Boston
District 2, East Boston
District 3, Charlestown
District 7, Roxbury
District 8, South End :
Up-town gang .
Down-town gang-
District 9, Back Bay .
* District 10, West End and
District 10, West End .
District 10, North End
North End
Hand Sweeping.
District 10. West End and North End.
Bag-carriers, push-carts, teaming, etc. .
Snow-work, not mentioned elsewhere .
Superintendence .....
Discontinued April 8, 1900.
$16,470 67
6,723 31
13,313 09
16,856 60
15,007 77
38,855 50
7,289 22
4,521 06
15,298 22
15,323 76
$149,659 20
i,479 73
988 68
382 50
1,850 91
* April 8, 1900, hand sweeping (see above) was discontinued and sweeping by
machines substituted in the West and North Ends. The cost of sweeping in these two
sections of District 10 is kept separate.
Steeet Department — Street Cleaning Division. 207
Cleaning Gutters.
This includes cost of sweeping,
loading and removal of street dirt
District 1, South Boston
$1,835 98
District 2, East Boston
4,094 62
District 3, Charlestown
3,178 87
District 7, Roxbury
5,828 55
District 8, South End :
Up- town gang .
4,113 01
Down-town gang
111 23
District 9, Back Bay .
6,206 69
District 10, West End and North End ... —
$25,368 95
Total length of gutters cleaned 3,282.72 miles.
Average cost per mile (including pro rata cost of dump) , $7
95.
Cost of Maintaining Dumps.
District 1, South Boston ....
$542 75
District 2, East Boston ....
104 37
District 3, Charlestown ....
579 60
District 7, Roxbury .....
668 05
District 8, South End :
Up-town gang . . . .
557 03
Down-town gang .....
562 29
District 9, Back Bay .....
559 65
District 10, West End and North End .
113 75
District 10, West End . . . . ' .
218 40
District 10, North End ....
235 20
t,141 09'
Removing Snow.
This includes labor on crossings, in str
District 1, South Boston
District 2, East Boston
District 3, Charlestown
District 7, Roxbury
District 8, South End :
Up-town gang .
Down-town gang
District 9, Back Bay .
District 10, West End and North End
District 10, West End .
District 10, North End
See Patrol System and Hand Sweeping.
eets, carting of
snow, etc.
$580 99
399
04
491
80
1,097
10
529
54
3,462
76
1,141
17
1,013
36
642
53
695
40
$10,053 69
208
City Document No. 38.
Miscellaneous.
This shows the cost of such work as may not be characterized
the same in all districts.
District 1, South Boston . . . .
$54 02
District 2, East Boston ....
48 31
District 3, Charlestown ....
116 20
District 7, Roxbury .....
334 29
District 8, South End :
Up-town gang ......
79 76
Down-town gang .....
21 30
District 9, Back Bay .....
80 85
District 10, West End and North End .
23 81
District 10, West End
152 07
District 10, North End ....
—
$910 61
Patrolling by Districts.
This includes the cost of picking up and the removal of refuse
papers, etc., from the streets.
District 1, South Boston $879 23
District 2, East Boston 764 84
District 3, Charlestown 798 00
District 7, Roxbury ...... 1,551
District 8, South End :
Up-town gang .......
Down-town gang . .
District 9, Back Bay . . . . . -.' .
District 10, West End and North End .
See Patrol System.
Labor and teaming
Public Alleys.
3*
49
74
30
78
3
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71
03
$4,148
00
$139 97
Push- Cart Patrol System.
Superintendence, inspection, etc. . .
Push-carts — labor, teaming, etc.
$3,574 10
41,336 15
Paper-patrolling .....
Stock
1,919 50
1,452 21
Snow-work ......
1,985 43
Holidays ......
Repairs at Station, 95 Columbus avenue
2,255 32
94 63
Sundries — repairs, etc. ....
2,113 17
$54,730 51
Street Department — Street Cleaning Division. 209
Stable and Yard Expenses.
This includes the cost of the South End, "West End, Roxbury,
South Boston, Charlestown and East Boston stables, as follows :
Superintendence of stables .
Labor, including the cost of feeders, hostlers,
broom-makers, watchmen, yardmen, messenger,
etc.
Cart and carriage repairs
Harness repairs .
Horseshoeing
Sweeping machine repairs
Stable and shed repairs
Street-car tickets
Tool repairs
Veterinary services and medicine
Board and care of horses, not mentioned elsewhere
Hay and grain in stock and paid for
$1,396 20
24,335 28
4,202 17
1,156 19
3,070 41
4,154 47
384 17
550 00
59 10
1,107 79
136 91
198 59
See Patrol System.
,751 28
Stock Account.
Broom stock purchased
Harnesses and horse furnishings purchased
*Horses purchased ....
Tools purchased .....
Sweeping machine purchased
Baa-carriers . . .
$6,866 84
595 40
5,151 83
639 35
1,100 00
20 25
$14,373 67
Miscellaneous.
Holidays ........
Scow (cost of disposal at sea of 35,534 loads of
street dirt)
Sundries ....
Royalty on sweeping machines
Annuity ....
Ellis reward
$11,890 91
8,284 14
1,162 33
588 33
300 00
500 00
$22,725 71
* See Patrol System.
210
City Document No. 38.
General Recapitulation of Expenses.
Superintendence .
Machine sweeping of paved streets
Hand- sweeping .
Cleaning gutters .
Maintaining dumps
Removal of snow and ice
Miscellaneous work
Paper-patrolling .
Cleaning public alleys
Patrol system, push-carts
Stable and yard expenses
Stock account
Miscellaneous
$9,891 30
149,659 20
6,850 91
25,368 95
4,141 09
10,053 69
910 61
4,148 00
139 97
54,730 51
40,751 28
14,373 67
22,725 71
$343,744 89
Of the above amount, the sum of $3,997.66 was paid by other
Departments and Divisions for work done, thus making the net
expenses of this Division, as shown in the financial statement,
$339,747.23.
Income.
Amount of bills deposited with the City Collector during the
financial year ending January 31, 1901, $4,188.35.
Table showing the Cost per Mile of Machine Sweeping, etc., of
Paved Streets in each District, Exclusive of Supervision
and other Expenses.
Districts.
Miles.
Cost of
Cleaning.
Pro Rata
Cost of
Dump.
Total Cost.
Cost per
Mile.
1
1,193.05
572.77
1,041.81
889.46
1,294.75
4,829.39
611.45
398.26
1,940.24
1,507.35
$16,470 67
6,723 31
13,313 09
16,856 60
15,007 77
38,855 50
7,289 22
4,521 06
15,298 22
15,323 76
$488 40
64 85
467 87
495 65
437 20
560 68
302 26
113 75
218 40
235 20
$16,959 07
6,788 16
13,780 96
17,352 25
15,444 97
39,416 18
7,591 48
4,634 81
15,516 62
15,558 96
$14 21
2
11 85
3
13 22
19 50
8 Do\vn-town
9
11 92
8 16
12 41
10 West and North
11 13
10 West End
10 North End
7 99
10 32
14,278.53
$149,659 20
$3,384 26
$153,043 46
Average cost per mile of cleaning streets in districts, exclusive of supervision,
$10.71.
Street Department — Street Cleaning Division. 211
Table showing the Cost per Mile of Machine Sweeping, etc.,
of Paved Streets in each District, Including Supervision,
Labor, Yard and Stable Expenses.
Districts.
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1,193.05
572.77
1,041.81
889.46
1,294.75
4,829.39
611.45
398.26
1,940.24
1,507.35
$16,959 07
6,788 16
13,780 96
17,352 25
15,444 97
39,416 18
7,591 48
4,634 81
15,516 62
15,558 96
$646 68
258 85
525 50
661 68
588 95
1,503 02
289 48
176 73
591 68
593 29
$3,280 41
1,313 05
2,665 67
3,356 48
2,987 55
7,624 34
1,468 43
896 52
3,001 41
3,009 60
$20,886 16
8,360 06
16,972 13
21,370 41
19,021 47
48,543 54
9,349 39
5,708 06
19,109 71
19,161 85
$17 51
14 59
2
3
16 29
7
24 02
8 Uptown.. .
8 Down-town,
9
14 61
10 05
15 28
10 West and
North Ends,
10 West End..
10 North End..
14 33
9 84
12 71
14,278.53
$153,043 46
$5,835 86
$29,603 46
$188,482 78
Average cost per mile of cleaning the streets in districts, including supervision ,
etc., $13.20.
Table showing the Number of Loads of Street Dirt Removed.
Districts.
Number of
loads of dirt
removed.
Cost per load of
cleaning streets
and removing
to dumps, in-
cluding fore-
man's superin-
tendence.
1
2
3
7
o ( Up-town Gang
| Down-town Gang
9
( West End and North End
10 1 West End
( North End
22,101
6,446
9,519
11,985
9,873
19,137
6,961
2,156
7,410
7,843
50 82
1 67
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93
03
93
09
06
95
Removed by hand-sweeping force np to
April 8, 1900
Removed by push-cart, patrol system
Removed by district push-carts
Removed by paper patrol
103,431
1,298
6,806
2,486
Barrel and Bag
Loads.
3,793
108,213
18,666
Totals .
114,021
130,672
Total number of cart loads removed
Total number of barrel and basr loads removed .
114,021
130,672
212
City Document No. 38.
Thirty-five thousand, five hundred and thirty-four (35,534)
loads of these street sweepings (or 31 per cent, were delivered
at the dumping scow at Fort Hill Wharf, the towing of which to
sea cost twenty -three (23) cents per load.
Public Waste-barrels.
Total number of waste-barrels emptied
Total number of subway barrels emptied
14,241
1,541
15,782
Summary.
Miles of paved streets cleaned
Miles of gutters cleaned
Loads of street dirt removed
Loads of paper and refuse removed
Push-cart barrels emptied
"Waste-barrels emptied
Subway barrels emptied
14,278.53
3,282.72
111,535
2,486
130,672
14,241
1,541
Property Occupied by the Street Cleaning Division.
South Boston. Lease of stable, corner of Vale and Burnham
streets.
East Boston. Part of stable, on East Eagle street. Leased.
Charlestown. " " " " Rutherford avenue. City stable.
Roxbury. " " " " Highland street. " "
South End. " " " " 650 Albany street " "
West End. " " " " North Grove street " "
Back Bay. Lease of building, 95 Columbus avenue.
Street Department — Street Watering Division. 213
APPENDIX G.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT
OF THE STREET WATERING DIVISION.
904^905 Tremont Building,
Boston, February 1, 1901.
Mr. B. T. Wheeler,
Superintendent of Streets :
Dear Sir, — I respectfully submit the annual report of
the Street Watering Division of the Street Department for
the financial year ending January 31, 1901.
Public streets have been watered during the past year
under authority given in the Legislative Acts of 1897, chap-
ter 419.
The work of the year has but one precedent for com-
parison, 1899, the only other year in which all public streets
were watered under the assessment law by districts. The
assessments, as made in 1899, were found to be inequitable
in the division of the districts, and in the rates charged.
Changes were made accordingly in district lines, and the
rate of assessment was increased in the City Proper, Back
Bay, and South End, and decreased in all other sections of
the City. The results have shown that the assessment by
the districts of the past year is as nearly equitable as it
seems possible to make such a system of taxation.
The special tax for street watering is justly unpopular,
because of the inherent difficulty in the just apportionment of
such a tax. Admittedly street watering is a necessary pub-
lic service for the health and comfort of the people. It is
also good municipal economy, in that it preserves the road-
beds of the streets. The expense should be paid, however,
from the general tax levy, and the fact that the Board of
Aldermen has adopted the recommendation of the Mayor
and ordered the watering of the streets at the public expense
shows general agreement in this view of the question, and
makes further reference to the subject of assessment for this
service unnecessary.
The season of 1900 opened early, and was very dry until
the middle of September. Carts were employed in the Back
Bay on March 9, and in all parts of the city April 1. The
regular season did not close until November 15, and some
214 City Document No. 38.
carts were worked in the Back Bay and South End until
December 9. Cold weather prevented regular service after
that date, but occasional watering was done until January 9,
1901.
The total miles of streets watered was 450, and the num-
ber of carts employed in the work was 234. This was an
increase of 36^ miles in streets, and an increase of three in
the number of carts over last year. The hours of labor were
reduced from nine to eight, as compared with the working
day of 1899.
The work was supervised by 23 tallymen, who received
then instructions from the Deputy Superintendent each
morning before working the carts ; their earnest and efficient
work was appreciated, and it would seem to warrant the claim
that the bicycle-tallyman service is the best method yet
adopted for the supervision of street watering.
There are in use about 500 standpipes, located at con-
venient distances, and maintained by this Division. From
them water is taken also by the Paving Division, the Street
Cleaning Division, and the Park Department. The estimated
amount of water used for street watering during the past
year was 483,337,300 gallons. The standpipes were kept in
excellent condition. In addition to painting them, the cart
stand at 130 of them was paved this year, and in the City
Proper, most of the posts were fitted with a swivel joint, so
that the arm may be swung parallel to the curb when not
in use. Many arms have been broken by high loaded teams,
and this improvement was designed to prevent such occur-
rences. It has been the endeavor to make the standpipes as
unobjectionable as possible to abutters, by keeping them in
good condition.
Very few complaints were received during the season,
which leads to the belief that the work was generally satis-
factory, and that the Division is in efficient working order.
Respectfully yours,
Frederick Hammond,
Deputy Superintendent.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Appropriation (authorized to expend in anticipa-
tion of, and to be met by, assessments) . . $175,000 00
Expenditures 174,742 45
Balance $257 55
Street Department — Street Watering Division. 215
Orjects of Expenditures
Salaries and labor
Teaming ....
Water-posts, repairs, etc.
Paving Division .
Board of horses
Shoeing ....
Veterinary services and medicine
Harness and supplies .
Telephones
Bicycles, repairs, etc. .
Printing ....
Stationery ....
Carts, repairs, etc.
Horse hire ....
Assessments, expense of levying
General supplies .
Total ....
$14,734 31
142,222 25
4,088 97
3,500 00
664 24
93 00
39 39
90 96
180 53
799 26
629 49
141 58
754 43
39 00
6,424 99
340 05
5174,742 45
Objects of Expenditures, Classified by Districts, from February
1, 1900, to January 31, 1901.
Assessment Districts.
Teaming.
Labor.
Maintenance.
Totals.
$42,534 50
76,145 01
23,542 74
$2,949 58
5,056 44
1,685 48
$6,341 31
12,487 49
3,999 90
$51,825 39
93,688 94
29,228 12
Totals
$142,222 25
$9,691 50
$22,828 70
$174,742 45
Assessment Divisions.
The Street Watering Districts of 1899 were altered and the
rate of assessment changed on lines suggested by experience as
follows :
Street Watering Districts.
r Back Bay, ")
District One ) South End, > .
I City proper, )
' South Boston,
East Boston,
Charlestown,
District Two \ Brighton,
West Roxbury, portions of,
Dorchester, " "
[ Roxbury,
f West Roxbury, portions of,
^ Dorchester, " »
Rate of Assessment
per Linear Foot
of Frontage.
8 cents
4 cents
3 cents
216
City Document No. 38.
Estimated Income by Districts.
District One
District Two
District Three
Total .
Amount.
£62,482 16
98,723 76
27,761 49
!,967 41
Assessments.
Deposits, abatements, and collections for the year ending
January 31, 1901 :
C 1900 $189,163 94
Deposited with City Collector, \ 1899 31 76
(l898 9 87
,205 57
L,652 03
Abatements to Jan. 31, 1901,
(1900
\ 1899
(1898
$2,695 00
1,589 73
367 30
1900 $148,176 31
Collections to Jan. 31, 1901, \ 1899 40,911 74
1898 2,259 89
( 1900 $38,292 63
Uncollected January 31, 1901, \ 1899 900 30
( 1898 198 36
11,347 94
1,391 29
Miles of Streets Watered.
The distance in miles of streets watered during the past year is
as follows :
Miles.
Frontages as assessed . . . . . . 395.50
3.50
20.00
20.50
4.50
2.50
3.50
Watered by special contract
Intersections of streets (no income)
Public property (no income)
Cemeteries (no income) .
Bridges (no income)
Railroad locations (no income)
Total ....
450.
This is an increase in mileage since 1899 of 36^- miles.
Street Department — Street Watering Division. 217
Distribution of Carts showing Entire Amount of Work Done.
District.
Hired
Carts.
Total
Carts.
Number
Miles
Covered.
Average
per Cart.
f Back Bay...
One I South End..
[ City Proper
South Boston .
East Boston
Charlestown .
Two { Brighton.
West Roxbury.
Dorchester .
. Boxbury.
( West Roxbury.
Three....
( Dorchester.
20
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28
20
13
11
20
5
22
37
26
15
65
98.85
1.37
2.41
Totals.
234
450.00
1.94
Location of Water Posts by Districts.
District .
Year.
Electric
1891.
1897.
1898.
1899.
1900.
Hydrants.
23
16
19
25
50
61
53
24
28
34
20
44
67
83
68
53
35
41
20
47
75
88
76
69
38
42
21
50
86
99
80
74
39
42
22
48
81
100
73
68
5
Totals
271
397
451
490
473
5
Note. — Seventeen standpipes were transferred to the Park Department when it
assumed care of such public ways as Commonwealth avenue. They were carried in
the above table until this year. A census of the posts was taken during the year, and
several errors in the list, as reported formerly, have been corrected. The tabulation
for 1900 is accurate. During the past year 8 posts were relocated, 3 posts abandoned,
and 17 new posts erected.
The Division is indebted to Mr. J. W. Smith, Local Forecast
official, for daily weather reports.
218 City Document No. 38.
APPENDIX H.
REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR THE
BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE BRIDGES.
Canal or Craigie's Bridge.
New timbers were placed the whole length of the outer
side of the draw, and a new sidewalk of two-inch plank laid
on both sides of the draw for the entire length. Hard pine
timbers were placed on draw pier, and the surface was covered
with two-inch plank.
The end of the draw on the Boston side was in bad con-
dition, and iron plates were placed under the bearing of the
wheels and new timber put in where necessary. The draw
and its timber support will have to be rebuilt in a few years.
It requires a close inspection at all times to keep it in place
and to avoid accidents. The travel over this bridge by
teams is increasing, some carrying very heavy loads ; there
are about ten thousand a day. The draw being so very
narrow, cars and teams cannot pass over it together, and at
times a blockade is thus created, especially after the draw
is opened.
The timber and flooring on the pier at the rear of the draw-
tender's house is so much decayed that it will have to be re-
placed next summer.
Next year part of the roadway at each end of the bridge
will have to be repaired, and the draw and fences will need
painting. The drawtender and assistants keep the draw
and draw pier free from ice and snow, sweep the sidewalks
and make all ordinary repairs on machinery, etc.
Harvard Bridge.
In April and May of this year the roadway for the entire
length of the bridge and draw was newly sheathed with two-
inch spruce plank, planed on one side to an even thickness.
While doing this work the Boston Elevated Railway Com-
Boston and Cambridge Bridges. 219
pany laid new rails, of a better kind than the old ones, the
whole length of the bridge, and sheathed between the tracks
and in the tracks. The work was done at night so as not to
interrupt travel ; there was very little blockade and no acci-
dents. The work of the company was very satisfactory and
was quickly done.
The four-inch planking of the deck under the sheathing
on the roadway of the bridge was decayed in many places,
and had to be renewed with new four-inch plank. This
will have to be done yearly to keep it safe. Cost of sheath-
ing the roadway was $3,187, Boston paying one-half.
While doing the work the best of the old plank we saved,
and stored on the pier to be used this winter for patching.
Teams carrying heavy loads passing over the draw broke
some of the timbers in the roadway ; these were replaced
with new ones.
A gale of wind that passed over the bridge, July 18, raised
the asphalt sidewalk on the up-stream side of the bridge
almost the whole length. It looked as if it would have to
be taken up and a new sidewalk put in its place, which
would cost over three thousand dollars ; it was afterwards
decided to replace it, and fill the cracks and joints with
cement. This was done by the drawtenders employed on
the bridge. With care, it will last some years, or till such
time as the flooring under it will have to be renewed.
The sidewalks on the draw, and some of the timbers to
support the same, were so much decayed that it was necessary
to replace them with new material. New sidewalks were
laid with hard pine plank, two inches thick, planed one side.
Parts of the capping on the piers connected with the draw
were renewed with hard pine timber.
All the ironwork from the Boston end of the bridge to
the draw has been scraped and thoroughly painted. It is
now in good condition, and will last some years. The zinc
cap and woodwork, outside of the fence the entire length of
the bridge, has been painted.
The traffic is increasing so fast, and so much heavy team-
ing passes over the bridge, that it is necessary to clean it
twice a week now instead of once. This bridge is of un-
usual benefit to the cities of Boston and Cambridge, as it is
in a beautiful location, and is much used in summer as a
promenade.
The drawtender and assistants do all ordinary repairs,
look after the machinery to run the draw, clean the globes
on the electric lights, clean the sidewalks and piers from snow
and ice, and make all necessary repairs.
220 City Document No. 38.
Prison Point Bridge.
A house, 12 by 14 feet, one story high, fitted up with
bunks, etc., was built for the drawtenders to occupy. Four-
inch plank were put on bridge and draw and it was sheathed
over all with 2-inch plank; painted house inside and outside
by labor of the drawtenders.
This bridge and draw is in such poor condition that it is a
constant care to keep it safe for travel. There are a great
many vehicles passing over it. It was feared at one time
that it would have to be closed up ; to do so would be a great
hardship to the teamsters, as they would have to go a mile or
two out of their way to get to Charlestown. The Boston
& Maine Railroad Company was notified last summer that
the Cities of Boston and Cambridge would not be responsible
for any accident that might occur because of its condition.
The Boston & Maine Railroad Company is expected to
commence work this summer on the overhead street and
bridge, running from Bridge street, Cambridge, to Charles-
town, to abolish the grade crossings. Before commencing
work on the street the company will build a temporary bridge
and draw further up stream.
The drawtenders keep the bridge free from snow and ice
in winter, at other times they sweep the bridge weekly and
make all ordinary repairs.
Temporary West Boston Bridge.
The sheathing on this bridge was in such bad condition
that it was necessary to replank the surface the entire length
with 2-inch spruce plank. This will have to be done at least
once each year, because of the narrowness of the bridge and the
heavy teaming passing over it. The traffic over this bridge
is increasing. The machinery for moving the draw is a
great improvement over the power that was used to move the
draw on the old West Boston bridge.
The drawtender and assistants take care of the draw ma-
chinery and keep it in good condition. They also remove
snow and ice from the sidewalk and draw piers, and make all
the necessary repairs.
Cambridge Street Bridge.
New deck planks were put in and the bridge and draw on
Boston side sheathed; new caps were put on piers, piles
spliced near draw, and the fender guard repaired with hard
Boston and Cambridge Bridges. 221
pine timber, and hard pine floors were laid in drawtender's
houses. The houses were painted inside and outside by the
drawtenders. They also sweep the bridge once a week, and
keep the bridge and piers free from snow and ice in winter,
and keep the machinery in good running order, and make all
ordinary repairs.
Essex Street Bridge.
The roadway was sheathed on both sides where necessary
with 2-inch plank ; on the draw pier new caps were placed
and the pier was covered with 2-inch plank.
The drawtenders sweep the bridge once a week, and make
all ordinary repairs.
North Harvard Street Bridge.
A small building, 6 by 6 feet to hold coal, was built, and
the drawtender's house was sheathed inside and shingled ; new
windows and doors were put in and a new floor laid ; the
roof and inside and outside of house was painted ; the bridge
and draw sheathed ; all the fence on bridge and draw
painted ; and the bridge cleaned once a week. This work
was done by the drawtenders on the bridge, who also made
other repairs, without additional expense to the two cities.
Western Avenue Bridge.
New deck plank were put on the bridge and draw where
necessary, and the whole sheathed with two-inch plank. The
draw piers were repaired, and new ringbolts were secured to
the pier for vessels to fasten to. This bridge is cleaned once
a week, and all ordinary repairs are made by the draw-
tenders. The drawtenders employed to take care of this
bridge also have the care of Cambridge-street bridge.
In General.
The usual statement is appended showing the number of
draw openings and the number of vessels which passed
through.
The amount of revenue received for rents, dockage, etc.,
during the year, has been $784.70; one-half of which has
been paid to each city.
Number employees January 31, 1901 — 22.
The following is a statement of the payments made by the
City of Boston on account of the Boston and Cambridge
bridges from February 1, 1900, to January 31, 1901.
222
City Document No. 38.
Amount of appropriation for financial year
1900-1901 $18,500 00
Expended to January 31, 1901 . . . 17,353 27
Unexpended balance February 1, 1901 . $1,146 73
Revenue, February 1, 1900, to January 31, 1901.
Date.
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Cambridge to
Wm. J. Marvin,
Commissioner.
1900.
February 16. . .
August 17
4-432
5-7
5-41
Boston Elevated Railway Co..
$373 70
361 00
50 00
$186 85
180 50
25 00
$186 85
180 50
25 00
Totals
$784 70
$392 35
$392 35
Boston and Cambridge Bridges.
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Street Department — Engineering Division. 225
APPENDIX I.
City of Boston, Engineering Department,
50 City Hall, February 1, 1901.
Mr. B. T. Wheeler,
Superintendent of Streets :
Sir, — I herewith submit the following report of the
work done for the Street Department during the year end-
ing January 31, 1901.
The total quantities of work done and measured are as
follows :
Edgestones set, 23,562 linear feet; gutter paving laid,
7,837 square yards ; brick sidewalks laid, 735 square yards ;
crushed stone sidewalks constructed, 7,776 square yards ;
artificial stone sidewalks laid, 47,698 square feet; coal tar
concrete sidewalks laid, 1,733 square yards; flagging cross-
walks laid, 818 square yards ; macadam surface (6 inches
thick), 28,072 square yards; Telford (8 inches thick), 1,989
square yards ; macadam (4 inches thick), 1,989 square yards.
In addition to the above, measurements were made of
work as follows :
Square yards coal tar concrete walk, 489; square yards
of artificial stone walk, 16,541 ; linear feet of edgestone
set and reset, 264,982; square yards block-stone paving
and crossings laid and relaid, 161,428 ; square yards round-
stone paving relaid, 61,356; square yards brick paving laid
and relaid, 147,863 ; square yards asphalt blocks laid, 2,377.
The following statement gives the details of work done :
Assessment Streets.
The following streets were constructed under Chapter 323 Ox
tne Acts of 1891, and acts in amendment thereof or in addition
thereto :
Aberdeen street, Beacon street to Brookline branch of Bos-
ton & Albany Bailroad, is about 385 feet long. The contract
for constructing the surface of this street and for building retain-
ing wall, board fence and bulkhead was awarded to J. O'Brien &
Son. "Work under this contract was begun February 8, 1900, and
completed August 21, 1900. Crushed stone, straight edgestones,
and gutter blocks were furnished by the City and hauled to the
226 City Document No. 38.
site of the work by the contractor; circular edgestones were
furnished on the work by the City, and flagging for crosswalks
by the contractor. A contract for laying the artificial stone side-
walks was awarded to Taylor, Carr & Andrews. Work under
this contract was begun July 9, 1900, and completed August 21,
1900.
Alexander street, from Alexander street, southerly, about
611 feet. The contract for constructing the surface of this
street was awarded to James McGovern. Work under this con-
tract was begun October 25, 1899, and substantially completed
November 25, 1899 (a small amount of work required to finish
roadway and sidewalks was done during season of 1900). It
is a 6-inch macadam road, with brick and crushed stone sidewalks.
Crushed stone, gutter blocks and straight edgestones were fur-
nished by the City, and hauled to the site of the work by the con-
tractor ; circular edgestones and bricks were furnished on the work
by the City, and flagging for crosswalks by the contractor.
Annabel street, Columbia road to Sumner street, is about 429
feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of this
street was awarded to James McG-overn. Work under this con-
tract was begun November 14, 1899, and completed May 8, 1900.
It is a 6-inch macadam road with crushed stone sidewalks.
Crushed stone, gutter blocks and straight edgestones were fur-
nished by the City, and hauled to the site of the work by the con-
tractor ; and circular edgestones were furnished on the work by
the City, and flagging for crosswalks by the contractor.
Ashley street, Breed street to Walley street, is about 641 feet
long. A contract for filling this street to sub-grade was made
with H. & D. Burnett on November 20, 1899, at the rate of 44
cents per cubic yard, measured in place. Work under this con-
tract was begun December 4, 1899, and completed March 24,
1900. Total amount of filling deposited was 7,825 cubic yards.
Bennington street, Chelsea street to Belle Isle Inlet, is
about 10,621 feet long. A contract for depositing about 82,000
cubic yards of filling in this street was awarded to Jones &
Meehan, November 20, 1899 at the rate of 53 cents per cubic
yard, measured in place. Work under this contract was begun
January 16, 1900, and is still in progress; 100,400 cubic yards
of filling were deposited before February 1, 1901.
Plans and specifications have been prepared for extending the
abutments of the bridge (formerly Leyden street bridge) over
the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad so as to widen the
existing bridge. Plans have also been made for a wooden bulk-
head on the northerly line of the railroad for supporting the filling
of the street.
Blandford street, Commonwealth avenue to the Boston &
Albany Railroad, is about 399 feet long. A contract for depos-
iting about 15,000 cubic yards of filling in this street was
awarded to the Boston & Albany Railroad Company, December
27, 1899, at the rate of 45 cents per cubic yard, measured in the
bank. Work under this contract was begun January 3, 1900,
Street Department — Engineering Division. 227
and completed May 9, 1900. Total amount of filling deposited
was 10,400 cubic yards.
Chiswick road, Chestnut Hill avenue to Englewood avenue, is
about 2,046 feet long. The contract for constructing the sur-
face of this street was awarded to Collins & Ham. Work under
this contract was begun September 10, 1899, and substantially
completed December 28, 1899 (a slight amount of surfacing being
required to finish roadway and sidewalks during season of 1900)..
It is a 6-inch macadam road with crushed stone sidewalks, without
edgestones and with "hip" gutters. Crushed stone and gutter
blocks were furnished by the City, and hauled to the site of the
work by the contractor, and flagging for crosswalks was furnished
by the contractor.
Columbia road. During the year, under the contract with
Simon J. Donovan, dated October 25, 1898, for grading that
portion of Columbia road between Atlantic and I streets, there
have been deposited 110,078 cubic yard of filling. The work is
not yet completed.
Congreve street, South street to Centre street, is about 1,409
feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of this
street was awarded to William Finneran. Work under this con-
tract was begun November 4, 1899, and completed July 7, 1900.
It is a 6-inch macadam road with crushed stone sidewalks.
Crushed stone, gutter blocks and straight edgestones were fur-
nished by the City, and hauled to the site of the work by the con-
tractor ; circular edgestones were furnished on the work by the
City, and flagging for crosswalks by the contractor.
Cummington street, Blandford street to Avon street, is
about 1,186 feet long. A contract for depositing about 54,000
cubic yards of filling in this street was awarded to the Boston &
Albany Railroad Company, December 27, 1899, at a rate of 45
cents per cubic yard, measured in the bank. Work under this
contract was begun January 3, 1900, and completed May 9,
1900. Total amount of rilling deposited was 43,292 cubic
yards.
Custer street, Woodman street to Arnold Arboretum is about
509 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of this
street was awarded to Philip Doherty. Work under this contract
was begun May 14, 1900, and completed June 6, 1900. It is a
6-inch macadam road with crushed stone sidewalks. Crushed
stone, gutter blocks and straight edgestones were furnished by the
City, and hauled to the site of the work by the contractor ; circular
edgestones were furnished on the work by the City, and flagging
for crosswalks by the contractor.
Dresden street, Boylston street to Spring Park avenue, is
about 393 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface
of this street was awarded to Thomas Minton. Work under this
contract was begun April 11, 1900, and completed May 18, 1900.
It is a 6 -inch macadam road with crushed stone sidewalks.
Crushed stone, gutter blocks and straight edgestones were fur-
nished by the City and hauled to the site of the work by the
228 City Document No. 38.
contractor ; circular cdgestones were furnished on the work by
the City, and flagging for crosswalks by the contractor.
Edison Green, Dorchester avenue to Pond street, is about
1,344 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of
this street was awarded to James McG-overn . Work under this
contract was begun April 16, 1900, and completed July 9, 1900
(including setting about 420 linear feet of park curb and grading
and seeding a centre planting space about 10,241 square feet in
area) . It is a 6-inch macadam road with crushed stone sidewalks.
Crushed stone, gutter blocks and straight edgestones were fur-
nished by the City and hauled to the site of the work by the con-
tractor ; circular edgestones and park curb were furnished on
the work by the City, and flagging for crosswalks by the con-
tractor.
Edwin street, Dorchester avenue to Florida street (see
report of Superintendent of Streets for 1899, page 272). A
contract for laying the artificial stone sidewalks was awarded to
Patrick Lyons. Work under this contract was begun October
30, 1899, and completed June 9, 1900.
Esmond street, Blue Hill avenue to Harvard street, is about
1,518 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of
this street was awarded to T. F. Bradley. Work was begun May
8, 1900, and completed August 30, 1900. It is a 6-inch macadam
road with artificial stone sidewalks. Crushed stone, gutter blocks
and straight edgestones were furnished by the City and hauled to
the site of the work by the contractor ; circular edgestones were
furnished on the work by the City, and flagging for crosswalks by
the contractor. A contract for laying the artificial stone side-
walks was awarded to Warren Bros. Company. Work under this
contract was begun July 5, 1900, and completed August 25, 1900.
Florida street, King street to Templeton street, is about 1,133
feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of this street
was awarded to Philip Doherty. Work under this contract was
begun October 30, 1899, and completed August 30, 1900 (in-
cluding grading and seeding a centre planting space about
14,619 square feet in area and loaming and sodding a sidewalk
planting space about 5,442 square feet in area). This street is
50 feet wide, and was built in the following manner : Two side-
walks each 8 feet wide, 4.5 feet of the 8 feet being either coal tar
concrete or artificial stone, the rest of the sidewalk being grass,
bounded by granite edgestones ; two 6-inch macadam roadways,
each 9.5 feet wide without block gutters, and a centre planting
space with trees, 15 feet wide. Crushed stone and straight edge-
stones were furnished by the City and hauled to the site of the
work by the contractor ; circular edgestones were furnished on
the work by the City, and flagging for crosswalks by the con-
tractor. A contract for resurfacing old and laying new tar con-
crete walks on that portion of the street between King and Lons-
dale streets was awarded to Taylor, Carr & Andrews. Work
under this contract was begun June 20, 1900, and completed
June 26, 1900. A contract for laying artificial stoue sidewalks on
Street Department — Engineering Division. 229
that portion of the street between Lonsdale and Teinpleton
streets was awarded to Warren Bros. Company. Work under
this contract was begun June 27, 1900, and completed July 9,
1900. Fourteen maple trees were planted in the centre planting
space in addition to those already there.
Hubbard street, Chestnut avenue to Lamartine street, is
about 449 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface
of this street was awarded to Thomas Minton. Work under this
contract was begun November 20, 1899, and substantially com-
pleted December 27, 1899 (a small amount of work being required
to finish the surface of the roadway and sidewalks during the
season of 1900). It is a 6-inch macadam road with crushed stone
sidewalks ; crushed stone, edgestones and gutter blocks were fur-
nished by the City and hauled to the site of the work by the
contractor, and flagging for crosswalks was furnished by the con-
tractor.
Ipswich street, Boylston road to Boylston street, is about
2,366 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of
this street was awarded to Collins & Ham. Work was begun
under this contract August 16, 1899, and substantially completed
December 8, 1899 (a small amount of work being required in sur-
facing roadway and sidewalks during season of 1900). It is a
6-inch macadam road with crushed stone sidewalks ; crushed
stone, straight edgestones and gutter blocks were furnished by
%he City and hauled to the site of the work by the contractor ;
circular edgestones were furnished on the work by the City, and
flagging for crosswalks by the contractor. Another contract was
made with Collins & Ham for building fence on northerly side of
street along location of the Boston & Albany Railroad.
The Parkway bridge was unfinished, but temporary wooden
fences and floor had been constructed so that it was open to
travel. The ornamental iron fences have been completed, and the
roadway has been paved with asphalt and the sidewalks with arti-
ficial stone. The fences should be painted to correspond in
color with the fences on the adjoining bridge over the railroad.
Lauriat avenue, Ballou avenue to Norfolk street, is about
769 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of this
street was awarded to Timothy F. Bradley. Work under this
contract was begun August 22, 1899, and completed August
21, 1900. It is a Telford (8 inches) macadam (4 inches) road.
Telford stone, crushed stone, gutter blocks and straight edge-
stones were furnished by the City and hauled to the site of the
work by the contractor ; circular edgestones were furnished on
the work by the City, and flagging for crosswalks by the con-
tractor. Under this contract the sidewalks wei*e omitted, but
artificial stone sidewalks have since been constructed under the
supervision of the Street Department.
Newburg street, Beech street to Belgrade avenue, is about
1,980 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of this
street was awarded to James Doherty & Co. Work under this
contract was begun November 14, 1899, and completed May 22,
230 City Document No. 38.
1900. It is a 6-inch macadam road with crushed stone sidewalks.
Crushed stone, gutter blocks and straight eclgestones were fur-
nished by the City and hauled to the site of the work by the con-
tractor ; circular edgestones were furnished on the work by the
City, and flagging for crosswalks by the contractor.
Oakview terrace, from Centre street about 861 feet south-
easterly. The contract for constructing the surface of this street
was awarded to Collins & Ham. Work under this contract was
begun November 9, 1899, and completed July 13, 1900, not
including artificial stone sidewalks. It is a 6-inch macadam road
with artificial stone sidewalks and sidewalk planting spaces 2 feet
wide on a portion of the street, together with an oval planting
space near the upper end about 5,200 square feet in area. Crushed
stone, straight edgestone and gutter blocks were furnished by the
City and hauled to the site of the work by the contractor ; cir-
cular edgestones were furnished on the work by the City,, and
flagging for crosswalks by the contractor. A contract for laying
the artificial stone sidewalks was awarded to Patrick Lyons.
Work under this contract was begun May 21, 1900, and com-
pleted June 30, 1900.
Orkney road, Strathmore road to Sutherland road, is about
841 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of this
street was awarded to Daniel E. Lynch. Work under this con-
tract was begun May 2, 1899, and substantially completed Sep-
tember 12, 1899 (a small amount of work being done in sur-
facing the roadway and sidewalks during season of 1900). It is
a 6-inch macadam road with crushed stone sidewalks ; crushed
stone, gutter blocks and straight edgestones were furnished by the
City and hauled to the site of the work by the contractor ; cir-
cular eclgestones were furnished on the work by the City, and
flagging for crosswalks by the contractor.
Rowe street, Ashland street to Seymour street, is about 475
feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of this
street was awarded to Philip Doherty. Work under this contract
was begun December 7, 1899, and suspended December 23, 1899.
This contract was cancelled by letter of Superintendent of Streets,
dated May 26, 1900.
Rozella street, Adams street to Muzzy street, is about 322
feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of this
street and for rebuilding a retaining wall at the Mary Hemen-
way School was awarded to Timothy F. Bradley. Work under
this contract was begun November 27, 1899, and completed
June 14, 1900. It is a 6-inch macadam road with crushed stone
sidewalks ; crushed stone, gutter blocks and straight edgestones
were furnished by the City and hauled to the site of the work by
the contractor ; circular edgestones were delivered on the work by
the City, and flagging for crosswalks by the contractor.
Seymour street, Canterbury street to Brown avenue, is about
1,150 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of this
street was awarded to T. F. Welch. Work under this contract
was begun December 5, 1899, and suspended December 21, 1899.
Street Department — Engineering Division. 231
This contract was cancelled by letter of Superintendent of Streets,
dated May 26, 1900.
Shatter street, Waterlow street to Faxon street, is about 744
feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of this street
was awarded to Philip Doherty. Work under this contract was
begun April 4, 1900, and completed May 23, 1900. It is a 6-inch
macadam road with brick sidewalks ; crushed stone, straight edge-
stones and gutter blocks were furnished by the City and hauled
to the site of the work by the contractor ; circular edgestones and
bricks for sidewalks were furnished on the work by the City, and
flagging for crosswalks by the contractor.
Warner street, Harvard street to Park street, is about 830
feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of this
street was awarded to Timothy F. Bradley. Work under this
contract was begun April 12, 1900, and completed July 17, 1900,
not including the artificial stone sidewalks and sidewalk planting
spaces.. It is a 6-inch macadam road with artificial stone side-
walks ; crushed stone, straight edgestones and gutter blocks were
furnished by the City and hauled to the site of the work by the
contractor ; circular edgestones were furnished on the work by the
City, and flagging for crosswalks by the contractor. A contract
for laying artificial stone sidewalks was awarded to Warren
Bros. Company. Work under this contract was begun June 14,
1900, and was completed July 3, 1900. The sidewalk planting
spaces were finished by Timothy F. Bradley July 17, 1900.
Dover Street Bridge.
Plans and specifications were made for repairing the piers
and removing part of the old draw foundation, and recover-
ing the remaining part. A contract was made with William
J. Lawler, November 30, for doing the work, which is now
nearly completed.
East Boston- Ferries.
Repairs of Piers. — Specifications were made early in the
year for the renewal of a few piles in the pier heads at the
East Boston landing of the North Ferry. The work was done
by W. H. Ellis & Co.
Specifications were made in March for repairing the north
pier of the North Ferry, East Boston side. The work was
done by Ross & Fowler at a cost of $826.60.
Specifications were made in April for repairing the middle
pier of the South Ferry, Boston side. The work was done by
George Hayes & Co. at a cost of $643.
Specifications were made in December for rebuilding 29
feet of the northerly pier of the North Ferry, Boston land-
232 City Document No. 38.
ing, and making other small repairs on the same piers. The
work was done by Wm. J. Lawler at a cost of $472.89.
Mount Washington Avenue Bridge.
A plan and specifications were made for making general
repairs on this bridge, but as the plan failed of approval by
the Harbor and Land Commissioners no work has been done.
South Union Station.
Early in April, 1900, the work of repaying Atlantic avenue
with granite blocks on a concrete base with pitch and pebble
joints was resumed under the contract with H. Gore & Co.,
dated Nov. 6, 1899, and the entire work completed July 30,
1900.
The area paved included the portion of the street east of
the street car tracks between Summer street and Kneeland
street and a small area at the intersection of Beach street,
where the work had been postponed on account of the delay
in setting the special track-work at that point. Two small
areas in Dewey square were alsorepaved with granite blocks,
thus completing the entire pavement in the square on a con-
crete base with pitch and pebble joints.
Beach street, between Atlantic avenue and South street,
was regraded, the edgestone set, sidewalk relaid with brick,
and the street repaved with granite blocks on a gravel base.
Winthrop Bridge.
Plans and specifications were made for renewing some of
the piles of this bridge which had been badly eaten by the
"limnoria," and for making general repairs. A contract was
made November 30 with William L. Miller for doing the work,
which is now under way.
Assessment Streets.
Working plans, specifications, and forms of contract were
prepared and forwarded to the Street Department for the
following assessment streets :
Ashby street, Commonwealth avenue to Bay State road.
Ashley street, Breed street to Walley street.
Bay State road, Granby street to Chilmark street.
Cardington street, Cobden street across Fenner street.
Chilmark street, Commonwealth avenue to Bay State road.
Corinth street, Washington street to Brandon street.
Dunford street, Cobden street to Fenner street.
Echo street, Columbus avenue to Centre street.
Street Department — Engineering Division. 233
Fowler street, Glenway street to McLellan street.
Homes avenue, Bowdoin street to Topliff street.
Montague street, Asbrnont street to Roslin street.
Nottingham street, Ballard street to Bowdoin avenue.
Province court, Province street easterly.
Public alley, No. 432, between Commonwealth avenue and
Newbury street, from Fairfield street to Gloucester street.
Rockford street, Dudley street to Clifton street.
Seaborn street, Centre street to Kenwood street.
Stratford street, Anawan avenue to Clement avenue.
Tremont street, Washington street to Newton line.
Trinity place, Stuart street to Stanbope street.
Van Winkle street, Dorcbester avenue to Shawmut Branch
Railroad.
Washington street, Morton street to Tower street.
Woodcliff street, Howard avenue easterly.
Wordsworth street, Saratoga street to Pope street.
Plans and Specifications for Repaving Streets.
Preliminary surveys were made and working plans, speci-
fications, and forms of contract were prepared and forwarded
to the Street Department for repaving the following streets :
Atlantic avenue, Oliver street across India square.
Atlantic avenue, India square across Clinton street.
Atlantic avenue, Clinton street to Eastern avenue.
Beacon street, Arlington street to Dartmouth street.
Boylston street, Arlington street to Berkeley street.
Commercial street, Eastern avenue across Hanover street.
Commercial street, Hanover street across Hull street.
Commercial street, Fleet street across Clinton street.
Devonshire street, State street across Water street.
Harrison avenue, Davis street to Asylum street.
Mason street, Tremont street easterly.
Meridian street, Trenton street to Eutaw sti'eet.
Neponset avenue, Adams street to Minot street.
Oliver street, Atlantic avenue to Milk street.
Summer street (southerly side), Washington street to Fed-
eral street.
Temple place, Washington street to Tremont street.
Tremont street, Scollay square to Boylston street.
Plans for Repaving Streets.
Preliminary surveys were made and working plans were
prepared and forwarded to the Street Department for repav-
ing the following streets :
Blue Hill avenue, Intervale street to Dewey street.
Broadway extension, Washington street to Harrison avenue.
234 City Document No. 38.
Dover street, Washington street to Tremont street.
Northampton street, Harrison avenue to Albany street.
Prince street, Salem street 210 feet toward Hanover street.
Tremont street, Dover street to Boston & Albany Railroad
Bridge.
Miscellaneous.
Preliminary surveys have been made and plans have been
prepared of the following Assessment streets and Public
alleys, preliminary to construction :
B street, West First street to Congress street.
Berkeley street, Boylston street to Columbus avenue.
Bird street, Columbia road to Hancock street.
Boardman street, Saratoga street to Boston & Maine Rail-
road.
Brookline avenue, Longwood entrance to the Riverway.
Carlow street, Albany street to Chadwick street.
Conrad street, Sumner street, 224 feet westerly.
Dixfield street, Old Harbor street to Covington street.
Gainsborough street, St. Stephen street to Hemenway street.
Gibson street, Dorchester avenue to Adams street.
Hancock street, Columbia road to Winter street.
Leonard street, Duncan street to Adams street.
Moseley street, Crescent avenue to Columbia road.
Normandy street, Lawrence avenue across Grove street.
Perkins street, Centre street to Jamaicaway.
Public alley, No. 414, between Beacon and Marlborough
streets, from Hereford street to Massachusetts avenue.
Public alley, No. 415, between Beacon and Marlborough
streets, from Gloucester street to Hereford street.
Public alley, No. 416, between Beacon and Marlborough
streets, from Fairfield street to Gloucester street.
Public alley, No. 417, between Beacon and Marlborough
streets, from Exeter street to Fairfield street.
Public alley, No. 421, between Beacon and Marlborough
streets, from Arlington street to Berkeley street.
Public alley, No. 430, between Commonwealth avenue and
Newbury street, from Massachusetts avenue to Hereford street.
Railroad street, Corey street to Willow street.
Shepton street, Dorchester avenue to Florida street.
Spencer street, Athelwold street to Harvard street.
Templeton street, Dorchester avenue to Adams street.
Thane street, Athelwold street to Harvard street.
Westbourne street, Cornell street to Beech street.
Grading Street Railway Tracks.
The grades for tracks in the following streets have been
determined and the necessary surveys made for determining
Street Department — Engineering Division. 235
the same, except that the Boston Elevated Railway Com-
pany made the surveys for Adams and Webster streets.
Boston Elevated Railivay Company.
Adams street, Neponset avenue to Minot street.
Atlantic avenue, Oliver street to Commercial street.
Beach street, Atlantic avenue to South street.
Blue Hill avenue, Intervale street to Dewey street.
Broadway extension, Harrison avenue to Washington street.
Brookline avenue, Longwood entrance to the Riverway.
Causeway street, Nashua street to Haverhill street.
Columbia road, at Stoughton street.
Commercial street, Atlantic avenue to Hull street.
Dover street, Tremont street to Washington street.
Green street, Bowdoin square to Chambers street.
Harrison avenue, Davis street to Asylum street.
Longwood avenue, Huntington avenue to Brookline avenue.
Massachusetts avenue, Swett street to Edward Everett
square.
Neponset avenue, Adams street to Minot street.
Northampton street, Albany street to Harrison avenue.
Pleasant street, Tremont street to Shawmut avenue.
Swett street, Albany street to Massachusetts avenue.
Tremont street, Dover street to Boston & Albany Railroad
Bridge.
Tremont street (Brighton), Washington street to Newton
line.
Webster street, Orleans street to Sumner street.
Western avenue, at Market street.
West Roxbury and Roslindale Street Railway Company .
Washington street, Adams street to Neponset river.
Union Freight Railroad Company.
Atlantic avenue, Oliver street to Commercial street.
Commercial street, Atlantic avenue to Hull street.
Total length of single track grades 17.2 miles.
Miscellaneous Plans, Specifications, etc.
The following plans have been prepared and the prelim-
inary surveys necessary for the same have been made.
Alford street, Mystic river to Everett line, plan of cross-
section for construction ; plan of solid filling and riprap.
Bay State road, Granby street to Chilmark street, plan of
cross-section for construction ; plan, cross-section and specifi-
cation for cap-stone' for sea-wall ; plan and specifications for arch
and sea-wall opposite Ashby street.
236 City Document No. 38.
Bennington street, Chelsea street to Revere line, cross-sec-
tion of street as approved for construction.
Beacon street, Arlington street to Dartmouth street, cross-
section.
Brookline avenue, Longwood entrance to the Riverway,
cross-section of construction ; plan of proposed change in line
and grade near Longwood entrance.
Cambridge street, between Warren street and Washington
street, plan and section of ground water drains.
Centre street, opposite New Heath street, plan and specifi-
cations for retaining wall.
Devonshire street, State street to Water street, plan of
templet for concrete base.
Echo street, Columbus avenue to Centre street, cross-section
for construction.
Edison Green, Dorchester avenue to Pond street, plan and
specifications for park curb for planting space.
Florida street, King street to Lonsdale street, plan and
specifications for tar concrete sidewalks.
Freeport street, At Dorchester Yacht Club property, plan,
sections and specifications for extending retaining wall.
Harrison avenue, Davis street to Asylum street, plan of
templet for concrete base.
Macadam street, 20 feet wide, cross-sections for construc-
tion.
Mason street, from Tremont street, plan of templet for con-
crete base.
Meridian street, Trenton street to Eutaw street, plan of
templet for concrete base.
Moseley street, at Columbia road, proposed change of
grade.
New burg street, Beech street to beyond Cornell street, plan
for ground water drains.
Pontiac street, Tremont street to Hillside street, plan and
specifications for retaining walls and fences.
Stratford street, Anawan avenue to Clement avenue, plan
and section of artificial stone sidewalks.
Tremont street, easterly side, from School street to Mason
street, plan for widening sidewalk.
Trinity place, Stuart street to Stanhope street, plan and speci-
fication for wall and fences.
Van Winkle street, Dorchester avenue to Shawmut Branch
Railroad, cross-section for construction.
Waldeck street, Park street to near Tonawanda street, plan
for tar concrete sidewalks.
Respectfully submitted,
William Jackson,
City Engineer.
Street Department — Smoke Inspection.. 237
APPENDIX J.
REPORT OF THE CHIEF SMOKE INSPECTOR.
64 Pembeeton Square, Boston, February 1, 1901.
Mr. B. T. Wheeler,
Superintendent of Streets:
Dear Sir, — I herewith submit a report of the work per-
formed under chapter 389, Acts of 1895, section 116 ; chapter
175, Acts of 1897 ; and section 99, chapter 47, Revised
Ordinances, 1898, relative to the smoke nuisance in this City.
The emission of dark or thick gray smoke for more than
five minutes continuously, constituting what is technically
called the smoke nuisance, causes great inconvenience to
modern city dwellers. The causes of this nuisance are few
and the remedies comparatively simple. The chief cause is
ignorance, — either in the construction of the building or
plant, or in the purchase of the proper coal for fuel, or, as is
most frequently the case,, on the part of stokers or firemen in
charge of the plant. Very few persons wilfully or intention-
ally violate the law, and in the majority of cases it is only
necessary to bring the matter properly before them to have
the remedy applied. The chief value of this Department in
the City of Boston is as an instructor, in pointing out defects
existing in any plant and suggesting the proper method for
relief. Nearly all the owners of large plants called upon
during the past year have shown a decided willingness to
assist in correcting all defects and in issuing instructions to
their engineers in charge.
The following instructions for firing, prepared by this
Department, have been largely distributed and proved of
value.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR FIRING BOILERS WITH BITU-
MINOUS COAL.
1. All large coal should be broken up so that the largest
pieces are no greater than a man's fist.
2. Begin to charge the furnace at the bridge end, and keep
firing to within a few incbes of the dead plate.
238 City Document No. 38.
3. Never allow the fire to burn so low, before a fresh charge
is thrown in, that there shall not be at least three to four inches
depth of clean incandescent fuel on the bars, and equally spread
over the whole grate.
4. Keep the bars constantly covered, particularly at the sides
and bridge end where the fuel burns away most rapidly.
5. If the fire burns unequally, or in holes, the vacant spaces
must be filled up.
6. Under ordinary conditions the thickness of fire will vary
from four to eight inches for different amounts of draught and rate
of combustion. The best thickness to carry must be determined
for each case, bearing in mind, however, that a very thick fire is
conducive to smoke production.
7. The greatest preventive of smoke is frequent firing of
small quantities on alternate sides of the furnace.
8. With a battery of boilers, one boiler must be fired at a
time on one side of the furnace only, then the next boiler in the
same manner, and so on to the end ; then beginning again with
the first boiler, fire the other side of the furnace, and so on down
through the battery.
9. If there is no other means of admitting air than through
the grate and at the fire door, the register in the fire door should
be left open after firing, and if the boilers are forced it should be
left open all the time.
10. With a shallow ash-pit the ashes should be removed fre-
quently to allow free inlet for air and to prevent burning the
grates .
In addition to complaints of smoke from buildings, several
have been received of violation of the law from portable
boilers used by contractors in building construction. This
was caused by the use of soft coal for fuel, and in all cases a
change to hard coal brought immediate relief.
Several unusually large plants, either recently established
or in process of construction, have been inspected, notably
the Back Bay Station of the New York, New Haven & Hart-
ford Railroad Company at Dartmouth street, and the Edison
Electric Illuminating Company on Atlantic avenue, both of
which are not only equipped with all modern appliances for
furnishing power, but also for the relief of smoke nuisance.
It is perhaps well to state in this connection, that in large
plants of this character complaint is often received of viola-
tion of the smoke law. This is not due to wilfulness or
ignorance, but to an endeavor on the part of managers to
obtain the best as well as the most economical methods of
construction and operation. In no other way except by
experiment can this be demonstrated. Many appliances are
tried and found defective, and it is the change from one
Street Department — Smoke Inspection. 239
method to another, either of construction or operation, which
occasions the variation in the amount of smoke.
During the year, 285 short observations, of two or three
hours, have been taken by the inspectors in the several dis-
tricts. Twelve observations, of from five to eight hours,
were taken in the business section of the City ; four of these
not as the result of complaints, but at the request of the
owners of the property; two of whom, the R. H. White
Company and the Oliver Ditson Company, have, as the
result of the examinations, equipped their boilers with smoke
consumers.
The Back Bay district has received special attention. All
of the large hotels and the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology, Boston Public Library and other buildings operating
large steam plants have been thoroughly inspected. Many of
them, notably the Public Library, were equipped with smoke-
consuming devices. Where these were lacking they have
either been supplied or are still subjects of investigation.
As the result of my observations throughout the city, I
believe the laws governing and regulating the smoke nuisance
should be made more stringent, and more nearly in accord
with those in force in other cities, particularly by reducing
the five-minute limit to two minutes.
Nova Scotia Coal.
Importations of Coal from Nova Scotia at this Port during the
Year ending January 31, 1901.
Month.
Tons.
Value.
February, 190C
March
April
May
June
July
August .
September
October .
November
December
January, 1901
.
59,896
45,702
48,041
31,732
41,516
35,995
44,254
45,029
50,382
56,059
49,298
45,125
$70,895
45,702
48,041
31,732
44,435
45,009
55,421
56,287
62,979
71,717
61,432
56,743
Total .
553,029
$650,393
240
City Document No. 38.
Nova Scotia coal recorded at the Collector's office (Custom
House), ending January 31, 1901, shows 553,029 tons as
against 240,543 tons for the year ending January 31, 1900.
Boiler Applications.
During the past year 343 applications have been received
from the Building Department for boiler permits, and were
disposed of as follows :
Signed to use hard coal .
New consumers adopted
Gas and oil engines
Applications withdrawn .
Relocations .
Duplicates
Unsigned
265
29
35
2
3
3
6
343
Special Reports.
February 28. Report on boiler plant of the R. H. White
Company, 518 Washington st.
March 20. Report on complaint against the Post Office build-
ing.
April 9. Report on complaint against plant of the Quaker
building, Milton place and Federal court.
April 17. Report on complaint against the Westminster
Chambers and the- Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
June 10. Report on complaint against the Boston Globe
Newspaper Company building.
July 3. Report on complaint against smoke from street hoist-
ing engines, Massachusetts avenue.
July 17. Report on complaint against the Warren building,
2 Park square.
August 13. Report with observations on plant of estate 1260
Washington street, Merello's Bakery.
September 11. Report, with short observations, on complaint
against estate 81 Devonshire street.
September 18. Report on complaint against plant of the
Boston Elevated Railway Company, Freeport street, Dorchester.
October 17. Report on plant at the Back Bay Station, Dart-
mouth street, of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail-
road Company.
October 30. Report, with observations, on plant of the R. H.
White Company, newly equipped with the Boston Smoke Con-
sumer.
January 11, 1901. Report on complaint against the Winter-
place Hotel plant.
January 18. Report, with observations, on plants of Hotel
Brunswick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Public
Street Department — Smoke Inspection. 241
Library, Westminster Chambers, Nottingham, Victoria and Cop-
ley Square hotels.
Summary.
I submit a brief summary of work for the year ending Jan-
uary 31, 1901 :
Number of applications for boiler permits received . . 343
Number of smoke consumers adopted . . . . 29
Number of objection notices sent out . . . . 97
Number agreeing to burn hard coal . . . .265
Number of short observations taken .... 285
Number of observations from 5 to 8 hours . . . 12
Number of special reports . . . . . . 15
Number of complaints received . . . . 9
Number of special requests for observations received . 4
Respectfully submitted,
Sumner Appleton,
Chief Inspector.
242 City Document No. 38.
APPENDIX K.
REPORT OF THE CIVIL SERVICE CLERK.
Boston, February 1, 1901.
Mr. B. T. Wheeler,
Superintendent of Streets :
Dear Sir, — I submit herewith a report of the work per-
formed in connection with the Civil Service Commission,
together with a statement of the force employed and eligible
for employment for the year ending January 31, 1901.
Two hundred and seventy-five applications were made upon
the Commission for 2,012 men of various grades, and of this
number 9 were for promotion and 7 for reinstatement.
Three thousand one hundred seventy-five names were sub-
mitted, from which 478 were selected and appointed, 50 of
whom were veterans, and 38 were appointed provisionally
under Civil Service Rule 36.
Of the 9 applications for promotions all were granted.
One hundred and six transfers were made from other City
and State Departments, with the approval of the Civil Ser-
vice Commission, as follows :
One was from the Bath Department, 54 from Park Depart-
ment, 15 from the Department of Public Grounds, 12 from
the Engineering Department, 10 from the Public Buildings
Department, 9 from Water Department, 2 from Transit
Commission, 2 from Metropolitan Park Commission, and 1
from the Pauper Institutions Department.
Notices of the discharge of 160 men were forwarded to
the Civil Service Commission.
The records of the Department show that there are now
3,196 persons eligible for employment in the several divisions,
and of that number 3,008 were upon the January, 1901, pay-
rolls.
Street Department — Civil Service.
243
Grade and Number of Employees.
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Clerks
1
14
9
1
13
1
7
6
1
13
16
11
44
4
5
2
3
2
2
3
1
1
33
27
2
26
17
11
12
56
1
2
1
17
8
2
32
11
12
1
4
4
1
32
2
32
10
18
1
19
24
7
9
1
10
20
89
3
1
2
42
61
2
14
2
1
39
1
24
7
24
4
11
1
1
1
10
2
11
19
11
1
8
19
51
1
8
1
1
5
5
Supervisors of draws and bridges,
1
1
1
1
2
5
172
226
69
39
22
29
6
568
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1
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471
199
211
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2
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2
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1
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40
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1
1
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7
16
30
2
30
7
1
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8
1
10
3
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pilots
11
3
2
2
5
751
881
319
260
127
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6
2,460
Street Department — Civil Service. 245
Grade and Number of Employees. — Concluded.
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32
1
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13
62
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189
10
67
48
11
1
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1
327
11
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6
10
12
1
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9
1
1
6
1
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Total
6
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920
561
341
155
119
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3,008
Comparative Table showing the Number of Employees
February 1, 1900, and February 1, 1901.
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6
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1,036
540
369
178
122
9
3,235
3,008
February 1, 1901
6
900
920
561
341
155
119
6
246
City Document No. 38.
Table showing Transfers made from various City and State
Departments to the Several Divisions of the Street De=
partment.
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106
Table showing the number of Applications for Various Grades
of Men made upon the Civil Service Commission for the Year
ending January 31, 1901.
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included in four
previous columns.
83
55
64
19
33
14
5
2
609
398
564
146
172
85
36
2
997
674
736
230
329
138
70
1
141
84
95
47
51
27
29
4
16
8
4
7
2
1
2
4
16
7
Sanitary
Street Cleaning.
7
1
4
5
Bridge
8
Street watering,
Central Office...
3
Total
275
2,012
3,175
478
38
7
50
Street Department — Civil Service. 247
The above table includes nine persons that were promoted ;
also fifty veterans that were appointed, five as Inspectors,
eight as Foremen, four as Sub-foremen, two as Gatemen,
fifteen as Laborers, two as Steam Engineers, seven as Clerks,
two as Messengers, four as Mechanics, and one as Tallyman.
Seven requisitions were made for reinstating seven dis-
charged employees.
Respectfully submitted,
Amos B. M. Klngsley.
Civil Service Clerk.
248
City Document No. 38.
APPENDIX L.
FORMER SUPERINTENDENTS AND DOCUMENT
NUMBERS OF ANNUAL REPORTS.
Bridge Department before 1891.
Previous to 1886, under charge of City Engineer.
Name.
Year.
Bartholomew M. Young
James H. Nugent
1886 to 1889
1889 to 1891
Bridge Department before 1891.
Name of Document.
For
Year.
Pub.
Year.
No. of
Doc.
1886
1887
29
it u
1887
1S88
26
u u
1888
1889
29
It u
1889
1890
22
ti tt
1890
1891
*
* Published in annual report, Executive Department, Part I., City Document
No. 1, 1891.
Paving Department before 1891.
Name.
Year.
Enoch Patterson, Superintendent Streets and Drains .
1825 to 1831
Zephaniah Sampson, " " " "
1831 to 1846
Thomas Hunting, Superintendent .....
1846 to 1853
Alfred T. Turner,
1853 to 1864
Charles Harris, "
1864 to 1883
Nehemiah T. Merritt, "
1883
James J. Flynn, "
1883
Charles Harris, "
1884
Michael Meehan, "
1884 to 1886
John W. McDonald, "
1886 to 1889
J. Edwin Jones, "
1889 to 1891
Street Department.
249
Paving Department before 1891,
Name of Document.
Tor
Year.
Pub.
Year.
No. of
Doc.
Quarterly report
1851
6
U It
1851
29
Annual report .
1851
.1852
2
1852
1853
6
1853
1854
6
1854
1855
5
1855
1856
3
1856
1857
3
1857
1858
3
1858
1859
5
1859
1860
6
1860
1861
5
1861
1862
4
1862
1863
3
1863
1864
3
1864
1865
7
1865
1866
3
1866
1867
6
1867
1868
9
1868
1869
14
1869
1870
13
1870
1871
12
1871
1872
16
1872
1873
21
1873
1874
25
1874
1875
27
1875
1876
30
1876
1877
38
1877
1878
29
1878
1879
24
1879
1880
24
1880
1881
48
1881
1882
51
1882
1883
47
1883
1884
46
1884
1885
97
1885
1886
30
1886
1887
16
1887
1888
23
1888
1889
30
1889
1890
19
1890
1891
*
* Published in annual report, Executive Department, Part II., City Document
No. 1, 1891.
250
City Document No. 38.
Sewer Department before 1891,
Name.
Year.
Enoch Patterson, Superintendent
Zephaniah Sampson,
Charles B. Wells,
Simeon B. Smith,
William H. Bradley,
Horace A. Moses,
Thomas J. Young,
Seth Perkins,
Charles Morton,
1825 to
1831 to
1837 to
1856 to
1863 to
1883 to
1885 to
1887 to
1889 to
1831
1837
1856
1863
1883
1885
1887
1889
1891
Sewer Department before 1891,
Name of Document.
For Year.
Pub.
Year.
No.
Doc.
Annual
report
1859
1861
11
u
<(
1860
1861
12
u
n
1861
1862
12
u
u
1862
1863
13
It
11
1863
1864
11
u
u
tl
U
1864
1865
1865
1866
5
6
u
u
1866
1867
8
u
u
u
1867
1868
1869
1868
1869
1870
13
11
3
u
l(
1870
1871
11
it
u
it
u
1871
1872
1873
1872
1873
1874
10
13
12
11
((
1874
1875
17
11
tl
1875
1876
11
(1
u
11
u
1876
1877
1878
1S77
1878
1879
13
15
11
u
11
1879
1880
16
((
((
1880
1881
19
u
(1
1881
1882
18
11
u
11
.1882
1883
1883
1884 I
16
43
u
u
1884
1885 S
(I
u
1885
1886
58
11
(I
u
1 1
1886
1887
1888
1889
1887
18S8
1889
1890
69
81
-129
14
u
u
1890
1891
*
* Published in annual report, Executive Department, Part II., City Document
No. 1, 1891.
Street Department.
251
Health Department before 1891.
Sanitary.
Name.
Year.
Ezra Forristall, Superintendent
Joseph W. Cob urn, "
Ezra Forristall, "
George W. Forristall, "
1853 to 1854
1854 to 1855
1855 to 1869
1869 to 1890
Health Department before 1891.
Sanitary.
Name of Document.
Year.
Pub.
Year.
No. of
Doc.
Annual report
Annual report from 1873 to 1884, inclu-
sive ; the Superintendent's report was
embodied in the report of the Board of
Health .
Annual report
1853
1854
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868
1869
1870
1871
1872
1885
1886
1887
1S89
1890
1854
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868
1869
1870
1871
1872
1873
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
12
4
10
17
40
45
22
16
23
21
♦Published in annual report, Exesutive Department, Part II., City Document
No. 1, 1891.
252
City Document No. 38.
Commissioners of Cambridge Bridges before 1891.
( West Boston, Canal, and Prison Point. )
Name.
Year.
Frederick W. Lincoln, Commissioner for Boston,
Ezra Parmenter, Commissioner for Cambridge,
William J. Marvin, Commissioner for Cambridge, <
May 22, 1871, to
March, 1891.
June 14, 1871, to
Jan. 31, 1883.
March 28, 1883, to
present time.
Note. — Harvard Bridge added in 1892. Essex street, Cambridge street, North
Harvard street, and Western avenue bridges to Cambridge were transferred from
Street Department, July 1, 1898.
Commissioners of Cambridge Bridges before 1891.
( West Boston, Canal, and Prison Point. )
For
Pub.
No. of
Name of Document.
Year.
Year.
Doc.
Annual report . . . . ...
1871
1872
19
It u
1872
1873
12
It It
1873
1874
16
u tt
1874
1875
23
tt tt
1875
1876
20
tt tt
tt tt
tt tt
1876
1877
1878
1877
1878
1879
12
10
8
tt tt
tt tt
tt tt
1879
1880
1881
1882
1880
1881
1882
1883
12
8
15
15
tt tt
tt It
tt 1 1
tt tt
tt tt
tt tt
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
19
8
12
19
25
22
20
*
* Published in annual report, Executive Department, Part I., City Document
No. 1, 1891.
Ferry Department before 1895.
Name.
Year.
Board of Ferry Directors
William J. Burke, Superintendent
Thomas Kellough ....
1870
1891
May 1, 1895
1891
May 1, 1895
July 1, 1895
Street Department.
Ferry Department before 1895.
253
Name of Document.
Tor
Year.
Pub.
Year.
No. of
Doc.
Annual report
1870
1871
41
1 u
I U
1 it
£ It
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
55
81
42
65
51
I ((
1876
1877
1877
1878
53
49
I U
t (I
1878
1879
1880
1881
1879
1880
1881
1882
60
74
77
72
( u
I It
I ll
I (t
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
93
76
72
28
12
10
c tt
1888
1889
1889
1890
3
4
( (4
( tt
1890
1891
1891
1892
*
12
I ((
1892
1893
11
1 tt
1893
1894
11
1 11
1894
1895
11
*Published in annual report, Executive Department, Part I., City Document
No. 1, 1891.
Street Department since 1891.
Superintendent.
Henry H. Carter, Member of American Society Civil Engineers.
Mesigned December 8, 1894.
Charles E. Cutter, Acting Superintendent from December 8, 1894, to January 14, 1895.
Member of the Boston Society Civil Engineers.
Bertrand T. Wheeler, Superintendent from January 14, 1895, to February 4, 1896.
Member of the Boston Society Civil Engineers.
Benjamin W. Wells, Superintendent from February 4, 1896, to February 1, 1900.
Bertrand T. Wheeler, Superintendent from February 2, 1900, to the present time.
Member of the Boston Society Civil Engineers.
Bridge Division. — John A. McLaughlin, Deputy Superintendent until June 1,
1895.
Bridge Division. — John P. Wise, Deputy Superintendent from June 1, 1895, to
February 14, 1896.
Bridge Division. — William H. Carberry, Deputy Superintendent from February
14, 1896, to February 3, 1900.
Bridge Division. — Walter Reed, Deputy Superintendent from February 5, 1900,
to the present time.
Ferry Division. — Thomas Kellough, Deputy Superintendent from July 1, 1895,
to February 14, 1896.
Ferry Division. — William F. McClellan, Deputy Superintendent from February
14, 1896, to February 3, 1900.
254
City Document No. 38.
Ferry Division. — Joseph J. Dennison, Deputy Superintendent from February
5, 1900, to the present time.
Paving Division. — Charles R. Cutter, Deputy Superintendent until January 24,
1895.
Paving Division. — Darius N. Paysoti, Deputy Superintendent from January 24,
1895, to March 1, 1896.
Paving Division. — John L. Kelly, Deputy Sxiperintendent from March 1, 1896,
to February 3, 1900.
Paving Division.— Darius N. Payson, Deputy Superintendent from February 5,
1900, to the present time.
Sanitary Division. — George W. Forristall, * Deputy Superintendent.
Sanitary Division. — Philip A. Jackson, Acting Deputy Superintendent from Jan
uary 16, 1894, to February 1, 1895.
Sanitary Division. — Charles A. Young, Deputy Superintendent from February,
1895, to March 1, 1896.
Sanitary Division. —Patrick O'Shea, Deputy Superintendent from March 1, 1896,
to February 3, 1900.
Sanitary Division.— Charles A. Young, Deputy Superintendent from February 5,
1900, to the present time.
Sewer Division. — Henry W. Sanborn, Deputy Superintendent until July 10, 1896.
Member Philadelphia Society Civil Engineers.
Sewer Division. — Charles R. Cutter, Deputy Superintendent from July 10, 1896,
to February 3, 1900.
Member of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers.
Sewer Division. — Guy C. Emerson, Deputy Superintendent from February 5, 1900,
to the present time.
Street Cleaning Division. — Philip A. Jackson, Deputy Superintendent until
March 22, 1895.
Street Cleaning Division. — Benjamin M. Cram, Deputy Superintendent from
March 22, 1895, to March 1, 1896.
Street Cleaning Division. — Joshua Atwood, 3d, Deputy Superintendent from
March 1, 1896, to February 3, 1900.
Member of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers.
Street Cleaning Division. — Frank H. Haynes, Deputy Superintendent from
February 5, 1900, to the present time.
Street Watering Division. — M. Edward Eibby, Deputy Superintendent from
March <6, 1895, to March 1, 1896.
Street Watering Division. — Thomas J. Finneran, Deputy Superintendent from
March 1, 1896, to February 3, 1900.
Street Watering Division. — Frederick Hammond, Deputy Superintendent from
February 5, 1900, to the present time.
Boston and Cambridge Bridges. — Henry H. Carter, ex-officio, Commissioner for
Boston, until December 8, 1894.
Charles R. Cutter, Acting from December 8,
1894, to January 14, 1895.
Bertrand T. Wheeler, from January 14, 1895,
to February 4, 1896.
Benjamin W. Wells, from February 4, 1896,
to February 1, 1900.
Bertrand T. Wheeler, from February 2, 1900,
to the present time.
William J. Marvin, Commissioner for Cam-
bridge.
Street Department.
Name of Document.
For
Year.
Pub.
Tear.
No. of
Doc.
Annual report, Executive Dept. Part II.
1891
1892
36
4 44 L
4 44
1892
1893
' 34
' l ' '
4 44
1893
1894
34
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1894
1895
34
4 44 4
i 44
1895
1896
29
( 44 4
4 44
1896
1897
29
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1897
1898
34
4 44 1
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1898
1899
35
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1899
1900
38
44 U 44 4
4 44
1900
1901
38
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